Did you read the article? The article seemed to say that realnetworks is giving away 25 free songs a month.
For all I care, realnetwords can sell songs at whatever they see fit. But, I will thank realnetworks to stop the misleading advertisements, disguised as news.
So it's a somewhat more bloated XP with the utilities shifted around, and a new search deal? No wonder it took so long. Not that it matters, XP has been barly began to catch on. I think XP only over-took Win98 about a year ago.
I must be missing something. What's going to have people dumping the XP boxes and running to their local computer store to buy a new PC?
I bet those guys will have more business than they can handle for the for the forseeable future. BSF has made $31MM on the scox, and BSF hasn't done a damn thing. Easiest money in the world.
I can think of three right away. I know one with with a CS degree, who was something of big shot for some time; now he is driving a truck. I know another who was an experienced java programmer, who went back to school to be an auto mechanic. Then there's me, I'm hanging in there with my "consulting practice" (ie temp work) but it sucks.
>>open source projects>develop your own applications and sell them, you have the power as a developer.
If you can afford to hire a full time legal staff to fight off patent lawsuits and the like (it may not be that bad yet, but it's getting there). Don't forget marketing costs. And don't forget that it's an insanely glutted field - virtually any kind of software that you want is already out there, often for free. Individual programmers still exist, but they are a dying breed.
I've worked in IT for 25 years. I've held several jobs, and I've worked as a consultant. I look though the job boards and newspapers all the time.
From what I have seen, most IT jobs don't require a degree of any kind. Those that do will gladly accept a BSEE as fast as a BSCS. Usually, even when they ask for a degree, they will usually say "or equivilent experience."
What employers really want is about five years of professional, recent, verifiable experience, in whatever technologies they happen to be using. And they want to pay about $15/hour.
As for the chicken and egg, how do you get experience until you have experience question: in this economy, you can't. Oh sure, there are always exceptions, but for the most part, the IT field is too glutted for new commers.
The article is saying that there is no money in open source, so the developers could walk away at any time and leave you stranded with an unsupported product.
For those who didn't know redhat just posted record profits, and the share price just jumped about 12%.
There is certainly money being made in open-source. The difference is: open-source will not die without money.
Scoxe was fairly quite for a long time, but recently they have been on a rampage.
Lemma see, McBride gives an interview (rare these days), O'Gara tries to start a rumor that sunw will buy scoxe, scoxe has a PR piece about openserver 6 being released eventually, scoxe releases another PR piece about their 5-star rating from VARBusiness (totally bogus btw, you buy those ratings), then we have AdTI back at it.
All that hot air in about two week? Also during the same week scoxe shares takes a price hit, and volume dries up?
Don't get me wrong, I like Linux, I'm using Linux right now. But Linux could stand some improvement. In fact, there are some fairly serious issues that have been around for years.
If I were to make a linux wish list, transparent windows would be nowhere near the top of that list.
I have a 1.6ghz system, 512 RAM, and 128MB NVida card. I use a lightweight WM - IceWM. I dual boot Linux and Windows.
Video performance on the linux side lags badly compared to the windows side. If I grab a window and shake it on the windows side - it's no problem. On the linux side, I get tracing and blurring. Linux GUI feels sluggish compared to Windows.
IMO: transparent windows are beyond useless. The text in one window or menu gets mixed with the other text, and I have to strain to see what's what.
Also IMO: this demonstrates a major problem with linux development. Developers do what they feel like doing, it doesn't matter what users actually want.
Yep, and you if read some of the trascripts where they let Hatch's kid actually speak during a hearing; it will be immediately obvious that hatch's kid wasn't hired for his lawyering ability.
And anyway, scoxe has already hired the famous Boise law firm, for some $31MM, so why would scoxe need a third rate lawyer like hatch's kid?
Don't forget senator hatch is also on the judicial commitee - he chaired it until very recently. That means that the Utah judges trying the case can't get promoted without senator hatch saying so.
I wouldn't trust Sun with anything other than Solaris running on Sun hardware. And maybe not even that.
Sun has a long history of ambivilance towards anything "not invented here." Solaris supported x86, then it didn't, now it does again. Sun supported linux, then tried to kill linux (as we know it) by supporting scoxe and claiming that Sun had the only legal version of Linux.
Sun management leaves a lot to be desired, an awful lot. When Sun ran into to trouble, the solution of Sun management was to run around like chickens with their heads cut off; changing the company's direction, and their positions, on important matters about every two months.
Also, Sun management has a snarky, immature attitude. They don't know when to shutup.
As a company, Sun is in trouble. Deep trouble. Yes, they have some great technology, so does SGI, so did DEC, and many other such companies.
With all the great well supported distros, why on earth would anybody go with Sun? Frankly, it would be my last choice.
Because they were re-treds?
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In 1998, I knew a woman with 22 years experience as a nurse, who wanted to get into IT. Unimaginable now. In 2001, I knew a woman programmer, who got laid off and went back to accounting.
During the boom, virtually anybody could work in IT. After the boom, you had to know your stuff. My guess is, that after the boom the re-treds, both male and female, went back to their old professions. Leaving the field as it was before the boom - predominately male. In fact, often the same males who were there before the boom.
I have bachelors in math, business, and computer science; and 25 experience in IT.
From what I've seen, I'd say that math is only useful if you plan to get a Ph.D and be a mathematician. I suppose actuaries do alright, if you like statistics.
PCs are shipped a few hours after the parts arrive. Practically no inventory sits around very long. No other PC maker can compare. Again, as I understand it.
HP has a very different histroy. HP used to an engineering company, not a consumer product manufacturer.
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Did you read the article? The article seemed to say that realnetworks is giving away 25 free songs a month.
For all I care, realnetwords can sell songs at whatever they see fit. But, I will thank realnetworks to stop the misleading advertisements, disguised as news.
So it's a somewhat more bloated XP with the utilities shifted around, and a new search deal? No wonder it took so long. Not that it matters, XP has been barly began to catch on. I think XP only over-took Win98 about a year ago.
I must be missing something. What's going to have people dumping the XP boxes and running to their local computer store to buy a new PC?
I bet those guys will have more business than they can handle for the for the forseeable future. BSF has made $31MM on the scox, and BSF hasn't done a damn thing. Easiest money in the world.
I can think of three right away. I know one with with a CS degree, who was something of big shot for some time; now he is driving a truck. I know another who was an experienced java programmer, who went back to school to be an auto mechanic. Then there's me, I'm hanging in there with my "consulting practice" (ie temp work) but it sucks.
>>open source projects>develop your own applications and sell them, you have the power as a developer.
If you can afford to hire a full time legal staff to fight off patent lawsuits and the like (it may not be that bad yet, but it's getting there). Don't forget marketing costs. And don't forget that it's an insanely glutted field - virtually any kind of software that you want is already out there, often for free. Individual programmers still exist, but they are a dying breed.
I've worked in IT for 25 years. I've held several jobs, and I've worked as a consultant. I look though the job boards and newspapers all the time.
From what I have seen, most IT jobs don't require a degree of any kind. Those that do will gladly accept a BSEE as fast as a BSCS. Usually, even when they ask for a degree, they will usually say "or equivilent experience."
What employers really want is about five years of professional, recent, verifiable experience, in whatever technologies they happen to be using. And they want to pay about $15/hour.
As for the chicken and egg, how do you get experience until you have experience question: in this economy, you can't. Oh sure, there are always exceptions, but for the most part, the IT field is too glutted for new commers.
Parts of Solaris will be entirely closed. And Solaris will have a very restrictive "open" license.
Besides, Sun has been talking about opening solaris for seven years now. Hard to believe it will ever actually happen.
1) Much of Monty Python is totally slap-stick.
2) Jerry Lewis was amazing popular thoughout Europe.
3) Baywatch was also very popular in Europe.
Also, most American humor, especially sitcoms, are not slap-stick. They are completely lame, but they are not slap-stick.
Frankly, I don't see how TCO studies make any sense. To me, it seems that it's completely situational.
The article is saying that there is no money in open source, so the developers could walk away at any time and leave you stranded with an unsupported product.
For those who didn't know redhat just posted record profits, and the share price just jumped about 12%.
There is certainly money being made in open-source. The difference is: open-source will not die without money.
without the moolah to back it up?
- Krusty the Clown
I kinda feel the same way. Give me half the CEO's money, and you can keep your phoney respect.
I think so anyway.
Back when AdTI posted the first Linux slaming article, posters on the yahoo scoxe message coordianted to track them down.
Seems they are operating from one of those PO Boxes that are made to look like a real address. That and a cell-phone, and a geocities web-site.
I don't think they have what you would call a staff either. It's pretty much all run by Ken Brown.
Scoxe was fairly quite for a long time, but recently they have been on a rampage.
Lemma see, McBride gives an interview (rare these days), O'Gara tries to start a rumor that sunw will buy scoxe, scoxe has a PR piece about openserver 6 being released eventually, scoxe releases another PR piece about their 5-star rating from VARBusiness (totally bogus btw, you buy those ratings), then we have AdTI back at it.
All that hot air in about two week? Also during the same week scoxe shares takes a price hit, and volume dries up?
Hmmmmm. . .
It's more a matter of priorities.
Don't get me wrong, I like Linux, I'm using Linux right now. But Linux could stand some improvement. In fact, there are some fairly serious issues that have been around for years.
If I were to make a linux wish list, transparent windows would be nowhere near the top of that list.
I have a 1.6ghz system, 512 RAM, and 128MB NVida card. I use a lightweight WM - IceWM. I dual boot Linux and Windows.
Video performance on the linux side lags badly compared to the windows side. If I grab a window and shake it on the windows side - it's no problem. On the linux side, I get tracing and blurring. Linux GUI feels sluggish compared to Windows.
IMO: transparent windows are beyond useless. The text in one window or menu gets mixed with the other text, and I have to strain to see what's what.
Also IMO: this demonstrates a major problem with linux development. Developers do what they feel like doing, it doesn't matter what users actually want.
I don't have children myself. But, I have friends who have real problems protecting their children from the internet.
For example, they leave AIM up while they are away from their PC, and come back to find all kinds of porn pushed to them.
Utah is going in the wrong direction, but I have to wonder: what is a concerned parent to do? I have heard that "netnanny" kind of stuff is useless.
I think computers in schools have *huge* potential to make education much more efficient.
But, you have to apply the technology correctly. If computers are used as toys, then no, they won't help.
When I was in school, I found many lectures intolerably boring. And many discussions are a pointless waste of time.
Computers can provide an interactive experience that is far supperior to books, lectures, or discussions.
But, as I said, you would have to apply the technology correctly.
Where people will elect their dictator. Sadly, it happens all over the world.
But I somewhat agree with your main point. The USA is voting away it's own freedom.
Yep, and you if read some of the trascripts where they let Hatch's kid actually speak during a hearing; it will be immediately obvious that hatch's kid wasn't hired for his lawyering ability.
And anyway, scoxe has already hired the famous Boise law firm, for some $31MM, so why would scoxe need a third rate lawyer like hatch's kid?
Don't forget senator hatch is also on the judicial commitee - he chaired it until very recently. That means that the Utah judges trying the case can't get promoted without senator hatch saying so.
I wouldn't trust Sun with anything other than Solaris running on Sun hardware. And maybe not even that.
Sun has a long history of ambivilance towards anything "not invented here." Solaris supported x86, then it didn't, now it does again. Sun supported linux, then tried to kill linux (as we know it) by supporting scoxe and claiming that Sun had the only legal version of Linux.
Sun management leaves a lot to be desired, an awful lot. When Sun ran into to trouble, the solution of Sun management was to run around like chickens with their heads cut off; changing the company's direction, and their positions, on important matters about every two months.
Also, Sun management has a snarky, immature attitude. They don't know when to shutup.
As a company, Sun is in trouble. Deep trouble. Yes, they have some great technology, so does SGI, so did DEC, and many other such companies.
With all the great well supported distros, why on earth would anybody go with Sun? Frankly, it would be my last choice.
In 1998, I knew a woman with 22 years experience as a nurse, who wanted to get into IT. Unimaginable now. In 2001, I knew a woman programmer, who got laid off and went back to accounting.
During the boom, virtually anybody could work in IT. After the boom, you had to know your stuff. My guess is, that after the boom the re-treds, both male and female, went back to their old professions. Leaving the field as it was before the boom - predominately male. In fact, often the same males who were there before the boom.
Any big company that's so perfect nobody hates them?
I have bachelors in math, business, and computer science; and 25 experience in IT.
From what I've seen, I'd say that math is only useful if you plan to get a Ph.D and be a mathematician. I suppose actuaries do alright, if you like statistics.
PCs are shipped a few hours after the parts arrive. Practically no inventory sits around very long. No other PC maker can compare. Again, as I understand it.
HP has a very different histroy. HP used to an engineering company, not a consumer product manufacturer.
No Blondie Autoamerica? No Joan Jeat I Love Rock 'N Roll? No BW Stevenson?