I think the easiest way to find the answer to this question is to go to some of the Job sites like Monster.com. From here you can narrow down your search to the fields that you have experience in and get an idea of the number of jobs available for each of these fields. I would expect the ones with the most job openings would be the "hottest" jobs.
Of course you can also take a look at some of the analyst reports who survey IT Managers to see what areas they will be focusing on over the next few years.
I guess the main problem with any of these are that they are somewhat short term outlooks. Although I don't think you are ever going to be able to predict what is going to be hot long term.
I would argue they already have become the evil empire. I mean just take a look at the iPhone. Locking it out from 3rd party application development? Come on, if Microsoft tried that the whole/. community would be freaking on them.
A friend of mine has a similar rule. He has an email folder labeled TFTKITA (Thanks for the kick in the A$$). As soon as it gets to 10 in one year he quits.
Although I also like Waterloo (and I do live there) I think Ottawa has a lot to offer that Waterloo does not. For example, Ottawa has access to lakes, real skiing and cottages whereas Waterloo is at least a 90 minute drive from the closest lake and (real) ski hill. Try comparing the transit system and Ottawa wins hands down. Ottawa also has great museums whereas Waterloo does not. To top it off you can't even find a good Mexican restaurant in Waterloo:-). Granted the price of homes is higher in Ottawa but I don't see why you feel Waterloo is so much better than Ottawa?
Rather than always "dimissing the impact", just once I would like to hear a report where a CEO/President/VP actually comments with what they are really thinking.... "Holy @$%$, they did what????"
"the mined diamond suppliers have a very tight grip on the supply channel and synthetic diamonds are not available in large enough quantities for any large gem buyer to risk losing his place as a De Beers sightholder"
I expect that the simple answer to this is to start selling the diamonds online. People could either buy the diamonds and take them to a local jeweler to have them prepared, or alternatively have the online store do the complete preparation. I would imagine that this type of thing could get large pretty quickly. At that point they would be able to give De Beers a run for their money.
"In Linux, said user will never in a million years open up a terminal, type man somecrypticallynamedconf.conf, find the appropriate boolean, integer, or string value in the man page, su to root, fire up an editor and point it to/etc/rxcgsd.d/init/conf/somecrypticallynamedconf.c onf, make the appropriate edits, and restart the service."
To be fair, I do agree that there are some cryptic files that need to be edited, but for the most part it is just a matter of copying and pasting the appropriate command lines from helpful websites such as http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_dapper
This is really interesting to me because for the longest time I have wondered why there are no (to my knowldege) accredited online universities. I mean there are 100's of online courses now, so to me the next logical step is to create a complete online university where you can actually get a real degree just by doing everything online. My thinking is that a university like this can heavily discount tuitions by paying professors a one time fee for creating the online course and then just pay undergraduates to mark and grade the tests.
From my research (in which I am a Prof of Stats), I have found that although it is pretty easy to come up with odds for virtually every possible scenario, believe it or not, the odds will work best on experienced players. The reason for this is that experienced players will typically play mostly by the book. The new players (or players just looking for some fun in Vegas) will be more apt to bet either just to stay in the game or because they don't know any better. Interestingly enough, this completely throws off any odds calculations that you may have. As a result, I typically end up losing more against new players then I would against more experienced ones.
Sounds like a great idea in theory, but I expect there are a few 1000 people in Waterloo that would disagree with you when they lose their jobs. US is a HUGE market to RIM and there is no way the board would approve such a thing.
SQL Server Express IMO is really not a database that any serious company should be looking at. If you really need a free database then like most people on this site would agree, MySQL is a good alternative.
Now we all know that SSE has upper limits to it and the obvious reason MS would do this is to upsell you to the full SQL Server. Most people will logically think that those limits are fine based on their application. I really don't think that is the problem with SSE. The real problem is that MS constantly changes what you can and can not do with SSE from version to version. For example, with MSDE (the previous version of SSE), you were able to replicate to a central MSDE database. Now with SSE, you are no longer able to do that. You have to replicate to an expensive SQL Server database (and purchase a Client Access License). There are a number of other fundamental changes that MS made to SSE from the previous version that could have a huge impact on user applications.
My fear with using SSE would not be the upper limits but what MS will do with the next version that would limit my application or require me to upgrade to a more expensive database.
As a good friend said to me once "Free is not cheap enough".
Although, I can not comment on osCommerce, I can comment on zen-cart.com (which I belive is built off of osCommerce).
I would definitely consider myself a beginner to php. I personally found that this was not important since the forums at zen-cart.com had specific answers to everything I needed to know to tweak my pages. They spell out the pages you need to modify and specifically which values need to be changed. I mean my grandmother could do that.
Now perhaps osCommerce does not have the community backing to give this type of feedback, and if that is the case then perhaps you should be looking at a different option.
I doubt this means that the telcos are in serious trouble. First of all most telcos are already getting into VOIP so the majority of customers will stick with them. I think you also have to consider the fact that it would be fairly simply for the internet providers to throttle back the bandwidth of non-friendly (i.e. free) VOIP services to the point that it becomes unusable. This would be especially important for businesses. Almost like the mafia, either use our service or your VOIP gets it.;-)
See, I disagree with this. Since Windows Mobile has the potential to run more organizational applications and has a "friendly" development environment, people would be happy to move to this device if:
1) The device could receive emails "truly" pushed to them 2) Could type emails as easily as they could with BlackBerries 3) Had a battery life which came close to that of the BlackBerry (and this means that the device is always connected to the network).
It sounds like MS may have #1 and possibly #2, but I question whether they have #3 covered yet.
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I think the easiest way to find the answer to this question is to go to some of the Job sites like Monster.com. From here you can narrow down your search to the fields that you have experience in and get an idea of the number of jobs available for each of these fields. I would expect the ones with the most job openings would be the "hottest" jobs.
Of course you can also take a look at some of the analyst reports who survey IT Managers to see what areas they will be focusing on over the next few years.
I guess the main problem with any of these are that they are somewhat short term outlooks. Although I don't think you are ever going to be able to predict what is going to be hot long term.
I am pretty sure they use Oracle as most of the Canadian Government has standardized on that DB.
If you use the WayBackMachine there is a picture which might be what this device will likely look like:w ww.flipstart.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20040622161920/http://
I would argue they already have become the evil empire. I mean just take a look at the iPhone. Locking it out from 3rd party application development? Come on, if Microsoft tried that the whole /. community would be freaking on them.
A friend of mine has a similar rule. He has an email folder labeled TFTKITA (Thanks for the kick in the A$$). As soon as it gets to 10 in one year he quits.
Although I also like Waterloo (and I do live there) I think Ottawa has a lot to offer that Waterloo does not. For example, Ottawa has access to lakes, real skiing and cottages whereas Waterloo is at least a 90 minute drive from the closest lake and (real) ski hill. Try comparing the transit system and Ottawa wins hands down. Ottawa also has great museums whereas Waterloo does not. To top it off you can't even find a good Mexican restaurant in Waterloo :-). Granted the price of homes is higher in Ottawa but I don't see why you feel Waterloo is so much better than Ottawa?
Rather than always "dimissing the impact", just once I would like to hear a report where a CEO/President/VP actually comments with what they are really thinking.... "Holy @$%$, they did what????"
there was no cake for the XP team. :-(
"the mined diamond suppliers have a very tight grip on the supply channel and synthetic diamonds are not available in large enough quantities for any large gem buyer to risk losing his place as a De Beers sightholder"
I expect that the simple answer to this is to start selling the diamonds online. People could either buy the diamonds and take them to a local jeweler to have them prepared, or alternatively have the online store do the complete preparation. I would imagine that this type of thing could get large pretty quickly. At that point they would be able to give De Beers a run for their money.
Whoever came up with this has never tried to install DB2 in VMWare. Good luck with that.
"In Linux, said user will never in a million years open up a terminal, type man somecrypticallynamedconf.conf, find the appropriate boolean, integer, or string value in the man page, su to root, fire up an editor and point it to /etc/rxcgsd.d/init/conf/somecrypticallynamedconf.c onf, make the appropriate edits, and restart the service."
To be fair, I do agree that there are some cryptic files that need to be edited, but for the most part it is just a matter of copying and pasting the appropriate command lines from helpful websites such as http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_dapper
This is really interesting to me because for the longest time I have wondered why there are no (to my knowldege) accredited online universities. I mean there are 100's of online courses now, so to me the next logical step is to create a complete online university where you can actually get a real degree just by doing everything online. My thinking is that a university like this can heavily discount tuitions by paying professors a one time fee for creating the online course and then just pay undergraduates to mark and grade the tests.
I don't mean to be an ignorant Canadian, but what is this "door lock" thing you talk about?
From my research (in which I am a Prof of Stats), I have found that although it is pretty easy to come up with odds for virtually every possible scenario, believe it or not, the odds will work best on experienced players. The reason for this is that experienced players will typically play mostly by the book. The new players (or players just looking for some fun in Vegas) will be more apt to bet either just to stay in the game or because they don't know any better. Interestingly enough, this completely throws off any odds calculations that you may have. As a result, I typically end up losing more against new players then I would against more experienced ones.
Sounds like a great idea in theory, but I expect there are a few 1000 people in Waterloo that would disagree with you when they lose their jobs. US is a HUGE market to RIM and there is no way the board would approve such a thing.
You should look at SQL Remote from iAnywhere. Their replication does not require Primary keys and the replication is built right into the database.
SQL Server Express IMO is really not a database that any serious company should be looking at. If you really need a free database then like most people on this site would agree, MySQL is a good alternative.
Now we all know that SSE has upper limits to it and the obvious reason MS would do this is to upsell you to the full SQL Server. Most people will logically think that those limits are fine based on their application. I really don't think that is the problem with SSE. The real problem is that MS constantly changes what you can and can not do with SSE from version to version. For example, with MSDE (the previous version of SSE), you were able to replicate to a central MSDE database. Now with SSE, you are no longer able to do that. You have to replicate to an expensive SQL Server database (and purchase a Client Access License). There are a number of other fundamental changes that MS made to SSE from the previous version that could have a huge impact on user applications.
My fear with using SSE would not be the upper limits but what MS will do with the next version that would limit my application or require me to upgrade to a more expensive database.
As a good friend said to me once "Free is not cheap enough".
Buyer Beware!!!
"We stand on the threshold of rocket mail"
EMail?
Didn't Dean Kamen invent this already as well?
Although, I can not comment on osCommerce, I can comment on zen-cart.com (which I belive is built off of osCommerce).
I would definitely consider myself a beginner to php. I personally found that this was not important since the forums at zen-cart.com had specific answers to everything I needed to know to tweak my pages. They spell out the pages you need to modify and specifically which values need to be changed. I mean my grandmother could do that.
Now perhaps osCommerce does not have the community backing to give this type of feedback, and if that is the case then perhaps you should be looking at a different option.
Shave and a haircut...Two bits
I know, I know, that is not what they meant by a knock code.
Hey yeah, that would be cool if it integrated Google Maps into it.
I doubt this means that the telcos are in serious trouble. First of all most telcos are already getting into VOIP so the majority of customers will stick with them. I think you also have to consider the fact that it would be fairly simply for the internet providers to throttle back the bandwidth of non-friendly (i.e. free) VOIP services to the point that it becomes unusable. This would be especially important for businesses. Almost like the mafia, either use our service or your VOIP gets it. ;-)
I wish I was a moderator for this, because that was an amazing summary. Good work!
See, I disagree with this. Since Windows Mobile has the potential to run more organizational applications and has a "friendly" development environment, people would be happy to move to this device if:
1) The device could receive emails "truly" pushed to them
2) Could type emails as easily as they could with BlackBerries
3) Had a battery life which came close to that of the BlackBerry (and this means that the device is always connected to the network).
It sounds like MS may have #1 and possibly #2, but I question whether they have #3 covered yet.