Next March 7th with four years into this absurd scam, and scox has not even proven that they own the code to begin with. In fact, all evidence indicates that scox does not own the code.
It would be like me putting my own toll-booth on the Brooklyn Bridge, and suing New York City because I don't like what they've done to my property aka "Central Park."
Yet, all these federal judges are taking scox's ridiculous claims seriously. And those judges are punishing ibm, novell, redhat, and the entire foss community; all based on nothing but the purely baseless accusations of known liars. Absolutely no credible evidence has been presented, in spite of the fact that the courts have demanded such evidence many times.
And still, the Lindon kangaroo courts allow scox to play their games.
I tried that. I took a graduate level class in PM, and got a graduate level certification. Then I got a Project+ cert also. I also have a degree in business to go with my degree in math with comp sci concentration.
All worthless. Take a look at the job boards. When it comes to hiring PMs, there is one - and only one - thing that matters: recent, verifiable, experience as a PM, and managing exactly the technologies in whatever the employer happens to need.
Today, the IT job market is just too saturated to start in something where you don't have experience. Employers are cherry picking.
Of course there are always exceptions: if you know somebody, or if you are a good liar, or just get very lucky. I don't know if I would count on any of those things.
Yes, in an ideal world, it would be all about skill. In the real world it's about X years in Y technology. With 5 years being the sweet-spot.
What really sucks is that only languages (or whatever) are considered. Things like structured methodology, or understanding algorithms, are entirely overlooked.
The old formats are known. OpenOffice and AbiWord can read the old formats - as can older versions of ms-office. With this OOXML cr@p it's right back to square one.
In one of scox's hearings, Scox's law team, BSF, openly defied a judge's orders just minutes after the ruling. The judge just ignored. Actually, that has happend a few times during the scox trials.
>>In such a male dominated field women feel like they have to get qualifications in order to be seen as competent by any potential employers. Whereas men are just assumed to be competent
That statement is simply not true. I have worked in IT for 27 years. I have eight years of college, degrees in math, comp sci, and business admin, and half a dozen certs. And even with that and all of my experience, I have, at times, been out of work for several months at a time. Nobody just assumes I'm competent for any particular job. Nor have I ever seen any case where men are just assumed to be competent.
According to what I have read, the harassment portrayed in that movie "North Country" was for real. Construction, mining, and some other fields really hate women working in their fields, and they actively work on keeping women out.
I have never seen that in IT. In fact, I have seen just the opposite. If anything, guys in IT are overly polite to women, and wish their were more women in IT.
As such, I don't see any justification for any special program. Women just don't want to work IT. Why force the issue?
>>These arguments are EXACTLY the arguments used with every major innovation in the past. gui interface at the least.
windows 3.1 to windows 95 -> TCP/IP
nt 4.0 -> windows 2000 -> active directory, increased stability
Those are substantial, measurable, improvements. Those can be considered compelling reasons to upgrade. What is the compelling reason to "upgrade" from office-2003 to office-2007?
The character Dr. House acts all rough and tough, but he will risk his medical license, and even his freedom, for the good of his patients. He is exceptional smart, and he is always right.
Pure crap, in the real world. Real doctors are interested in their investments, and covering their asses. Very often, lay-people are better at diagnosing medical problems. Real doctors see themselves as too busy, and too important, to worry about the problems of bothersome nobodies (you and me). The one area where House is like a real doctor is arrogance - only with House, the arrogance is justified.
Same deal with TV lawyers. Real lawyers don't give a damn about their clients. And real lawyers are usually not very smart.
Jackson may be a good director, but it's not as if he's the only one. And LoTR may have been a good trillogy, but it's not as if that is entirely due to Jackson.
As long as they get a top drawer director for "The Hobbit" why give a rat's azz whether is Jackson or not?
I think Jackson may be a good director, but I don't worship the guy.
Use both for a while, but understand we may never be completely rid of the imperial system. Both systems will be with us for some time.
For example, gas stations could advertise the cost of gas (petrol) in both gallons and liters. Speedometers could give speed in both mph and kph. And speed signs could use both mph and kph. And do the same with other everyday things.
Eventually, we steer away from the imperial system, on post speed limits in kph and so on.
Maybe programmers in Silicon Valley or NYC are getting those kinds of salaries, not in Denver.
Here in Denver, I have seen two ads looking for HTML developers to work for free - just to get experience. I have seen an ad for a PHP/MySQL developer for $6 an hour.
Where I work, they look for experience systems/security people to start at $30K.
Of course there may be some people here getting those kinds of salaries, but those are the exceptions, not the rule.
>>Now go ahead and apply tariffs. And see how prices of the goods you use everyday begin to climb.>You like inflatonary spirals? As somebody that has lived in a country with 150% inflation rate I can tell you they are a lot of fun, but ultimately devastate your economy
That is caused by the government pumping money into the system. That sort of inflation is absolutely not caused by tariffs.
Using firefox has no effect on what other apps I can run, or what hardware I can run. I don't have to change anything to put firefox on my windows box. Using linux means I have to change everything.
To compare linux/firefox marketshare, and conclude that the FSF must be doing something wrong is idiotic.
It's all about drivers and apps. Windows has them, Linux doesn't.
The difference between legal immigration, and illegal immigration is roughly the same as the difference between shopping and shop-lifting.
Lumping legal immigration with illegal immigration is like lumping shoppers and shop-lifters together and saying we should not prosecute shop-lifters because stores need the business.
As I understand it, it costs about $100 million to set up to make a new chip, then about $1 a chip to manufacture. So if make 100 million CPUs, your total cost is drastically less than if you only make 1 million chips.
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Next March 7th with four years into this absurd scam, and scox has not even proven that they own the code to begin with. In fact, all evidence indicates that scox does not own the code.
It would be like me putting my own toll-booth on the Brooklyn Bridge, and suing New York City because I don't like what they've done to my property aka "Central Park."
Yet, all these federal judges are taking scox's ridiculous claims seriously. And those judges are punishing ibm, novell, redhat, and the entire foss community; all based on nothing but the purely baseless accusations of known liars. Absolutely no credible evidence has been presented, in spite of the fact that the courts have demanded such evidence many times.
And still, the Lindon kangaroo courts allow scox to play their games.
Best $50M msft ever spent.
I tried that. I took a graduate level class in PM, and got a graduate level certification. Then I got a Project+ cert also. I also have a degree in business to go with my degree in math with comp sci concentration.
All worthless. Take a look at the job boards. When it comes to hiring PMs, there is one - and only one - thing that matters: recent, verifiable, experience as a PM, and managing exactly the technologies in whatever the employer happens to need.
Today, the IT job market is just too saturated to start in something where you don't have experience. Employers are cherry picking.
Of course there are always exceptions: if you know somebody, or if you are a good liar, or just get very lucky. I don't know if I would count on any of those things.
JMHO.
I'm doing okay now, but I'm not doing as well now as was in 2001. My ambition didn't change, the job did - suddenly and drastically.
Yes, in an ideal world, it would be all about skill. In the real world it's about X years in Y technology. With 5 years being the sweet-spot.
What really sucks is that only languages (or whatever) are considered. Things like structured methodology, or understanding algorithms, are entirely overlooked.
At least as far as the job market is concerned.
If you want to be a "thinker" you can always do what I did, and get a worthless degree in math.
Or do you mean better for msft?
The old formats are known. OpenOffice and AbiWord can read the old formats - as can older versions of ms-office. With this OOXML cr@p it's right back to square one.
In one of scox's hearings, Scox's law team, BSF, openly defied a judge's orders just minutes after the ruling. The judge just ignored. Actually, that has happend a few times during the scox trials.
>>In such a male dominated field women feel like they have to get qualifications in order to be seen as competent by any potential employers. Whereas men are just assumed to be competent
That statement is simply not true. I have worked in IT for 27 years. I have eight years of college, degrees in math, comp sci, and business admin, and half a dozen certs. And even with that and all of my experience, I have, at times, been out of work for several months at a time. Nobody just assumes I'm competent for any particular job. Nor have I ever seen any case where men are just assumed to be competent.
According to what I have read, the harassment portrayed in that movie "North Country" was for real. Construction, mining, and some other fields really hate women working in their fields, and they actively work on keeping women out.
I have never seen that in IT. In fact, I have seen just the opposite. If anything, guys in IT are overly polite to women, and wish their were more women in IT.
As such, I don't see any justification for any special program. Women just don't want to work IT. Why force the issue?
>>These arguments are EXACTLY the arguments used with every major innovation in the past. gui interface at the least.
windows 3.1 to windows 95 -> TCP/IP
nt 4.0 -> windows 2000 -> active directory, increased stability
Those are substantial, measurable, improvements. Those can be considered compelling reasons to upgrade. What is the compelling reason to "upgrade" from office-2003 to office-2007?
Are you sure you are commenting the right article? Nobody suggested coverting to Linux, or even OpenOffice.
All the article is saying is: "why not just stay with your present version of ms-office" ?
Why does everybody love it? Specifically what feature in Office-2007 ties up your services and simplifies your processes?
The character Dr. House acts all rough and tough, but he will risk his medical license, and even his freedom, for the good of his patients. He is exceptional smart, and he is always right.
Pure crap, in the real world. Real doctors are interested in their investments, and covering their asses. Very often, lay-people are better at diagnosing medical problems. Real doctors see themselves as too busy, and too important, to worry about the problems of bothersome nobodies (you and me). The one area where House is like a real doctor is arrogance - only with House, the arrogance is justified.
Same deal with TV lawyers. Real lawyers don't give a damn about their clients. And real lawyers are usually not very smart.
Jackson may be a good director, but it's not as if he's the only one. And LoTR may have been a good trillogy, but it's not as if that is entirely due to Jackson.
As long as they get a top drawer director for "The Hobbit" why give a rat's azz whether is Jackson or not?
I think Jackson may be a good director, but I don't worship the guy.
Guess we better stop teaching that also.
The only thing that is known fact is good old fashioned Christian faith.
Use both for a while, but understand we may never be completely rid of the imperial system. Both systems will be with us for some time.
For example, gas stations could advertise the cost of gas (petrol) in both gallons and liters. Speedometers could give speed in both mph and kph. And speed signs could use both mph and kph. And do the same with other everyday things.
Eventually, we steer away from the imperial system, on post speed limits in kph and so on.
We also use imperial for everyday.
But, what many here don't seem to realize: we also use metric for science and engineering.
Also, we are taught the metric system in school.
I live in the USA.
The USA also uses imperial system for everyday things. And, like other countries, we use the metric system for science and engineering.
Maybe programmers in Silicon Valley or NYC are getting those kinds of salaries, not in Denver.
Here in Denver, I have seen two ads looking for HTML developers to work for free - just to get experience. I have seen an ad for a PHP/MySQL developer for $6 an hour.
Where I work, they look for experience systems/security people to start at $30K.
Of course there may be some people here getting those kinds of salaries, but those are the exceptions, not the rule.
>>Now go ahead and apply tariffs. And see how prices of the goods you use everyday begin to climb.>You like inflatonary spirals? As somebody that has lived in a country with 150% inflation rate I can tell you they are a lot of fun, but ultimately devastate your economy
That is caused by the government pumping money into the system. That sort of inflation is absolutely not caused by tariffs.
Electronic gizmos always go that way: start out super expensive to sell the gotta-have-it price-is-object types. Then the price drops - hard.
I have worked in IT for 27 years, sys admin and software developer, and I'm looking to get out.
Get a degree in law. In 15 years all Americans will make their living by suing one another.
Using firefox has no effect on what other apps I can run, or what hardware I can run. I don't have to change anything to put firefox on my windows box. Using linux means I have to change everything.
To compare linux/firefox marketshare, and conclude that the FSF must be doing something wrong is idiotic.
It's all about drivers and apps. Windows has them, Linux doesn't.
The difference between legal immigration, and illegal immigration is roughly the same as the difference between shopping and shop-lifting.
Lumping legal immigration with illegal immigration is like lumping shoppers and shop-lifters together and saying we should not prosecute shop-lifters because stores need the business.
As I understand it, it costs about $100 million to set up to make a new chip, then about $1 a chip to manufacture. So if make 100 million CPUs, your total cost is drastically less than if you only make 1 million chips.