My guess is Intel is feeling pressure not from Microsoft but from Apple. They locked their phones down and they want to lock their macs down next and turn them into appliances. My guess is Intel is helping Apple do this, so MACOSX you can count on supporting it. Multimedia creators prefer macs.
So how long will it be before employers require this testing to screen applicants out for learning disabilities, probabilities of alcoholism/addiction, and probability of getting cancer?
We have a long way to go before experiencing hyperinflation and a depressionary currency as the Germans did during the Wienmar era. The Germans were printing money and would leave work early to buy milk before it rose in price by evening. They started burning money because it was cheaper than buying wood.
Flash is important for the web and Java is a MAJOR standard in learning programming and developing web and applications on Linux.
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I have never admin-ed SGI machines with XFS admittedly, but from what I was told XFS can never be stable on x86 architecture.
During a power loss a normal machine will have corrupted ram contents before turning completely off. There are protections built into the filesystem like exts or UFS journaling that undue partial transactions. XFS is much faster because it is in real time and doess less integrity work. SGI have power capicitators to correctly finish a write during a powerless. They are very nice machines and XFS was built around nice controllers with expensive hardware that can do the things like I mentioned. Unless x86 hardware does the same sorts of things it will always be less reliable when running XFS.
Can't Microsoft ever make something original. Why do they have to stop or feel threatened by any product out on the digital market? Look, Zune and WindowsCE lost. They just wont give up.
Windows Vista is simply not tuned and is very sluggish on the same machines as windows 7. Windows 7 search is just that it works. No constant spinning of the hard drives every few minutes as Vista tries to re-index my documents again. Windows 7 is incremental and snappy. It makes a big difference.
The reasons are under the hood for the I.T. department..NET 3.5 and soon.NET 4.0, sharepoint, and many others. New applications taking advantages of these wont run on WindowsXP.
You can run much better intranet applications and client/server applications. You do not see it now because those who run XP are preventing application makers from using these technologies. It is a chicken and egg scenario.
For the average user still using old Office 2003 the search when you hit the windows button where you type in something like "sales forecasts 2009" is very sweet when you have many documents. In school this was a life saver in Vista as I have 2,000 documents I have created over the years and I need to look something up.
Sure Windows XP boots so why upgrade is not the whole picture. The use of intranet enabled applications make a big difference in the corporate world.
Well his salary is a cost. If he spends 35% of his time fixing previous bugs then y x.35 is the cost that could be saved right there or better put to use developing software instead of fixing it.
No QA?? Sadly, I see many slashdotters in similar situations. How unprofessional and arrogant have the bean counters become? I have been out of I.T. full time for many years but times were different earlier last decade. Any manager who refused to check the quality of the work used to be fired. Are you really managing if you wont even do basic QA?
Even fast food restaurant managers do QA and have district managers nail them on satisfaction and statistics of food ingredient use and statistical sampling.
Time to update your resume. From what you described it sounds like a cheap work environment if they have college interns writing critical software. Quality is free and any good manager knows this which saves money. Six sigma started out in software design before being a big hit on the factory floor.
Walmart already knows when you buy a product how old you are, marriage classification, gender, sexual preference, criminal background, and what food and or products you stastically will buy the next 3 to 6 months and offers coupons based on them. They get this data from the credit card companies and sharing data with other suppliers.
This is a marketers dream and the wave of the future. Statistically analysis is why Oracle and DB2 are still huge despite mysql. It is because the database and their apis support these functions and you can help beat the competition by being statistically significant in all you do and knowing trends. Forecasting is another big one based on datamining errr memory analytic
I.T. is called information technology for a reason. Using it to produce and predict rather than look up makes it much more useful.
Thats the problem with performance based metrics. When organizations use these the results are terrible. If you have assemblymen performance based on the number of screws they put it per house then all hell will break lose when an engineer discovers they can save money by making the widget with less screws. All of the sudden their job is on the line for something the engineer thought of. People piss in each others area and undermine the company as a whole. There are many examples of this.
Teachers cheat by the way if your job is on the line with grades. Lawyers and accountants may love metrics but not the whole.
A simple procedure of who approved the projects payment processing and tasks should be done by different people in this situation. This is accounting 101 and many large companies that do not have this wall create shell companies and this is very common.
It can happen whenever the person in a corporation approving projects or supplies is the same one in charge of billing and receiving.
You can say CompanyA bought x from MegaCorp. Turns out MegaCorp is owned by someone else in CompanyA and all the paperwork checks out fine.
It shows the needs for controls. Many white collar crimes do these sorts of things as it is much easier not to get caught then insider trading or physically stealing something.
Carter was thrilled Reagan was elected over Bush as he thought he was nuts and could be easily beaten. Look what happened?
The Tea Party folks will be very energized with Palin reminiscent of the libertarians who voted for Reagan. They were not energized with Bush back in 1980 unlike Reagan. The right is very far to the extreme as of recent who are labeling everyone as a RHINO who is not as extreme as they are. This would make the situation much worse.
IBM (yes they are a big patent troll) and Google have a large vested interest in open source software.
I can only imagine the deal with Sun and Oracle has already made IBM very nervous. It would bug me if I worked for them.
The second they start suing and filing injunctions to force us to buy their products you can bet they will fight back. Not to mention Mark Shuttleworth has invested hundreds of millions in Ubuntu and other products which would be killed by such an onslaught. He would probably contribute to such a cause and fight as well. It would be a legal war equivalent to World War I to say the least in the industry.
It would be very ineffective for the big boys to wage. Sure they would convince many fortunate 500 companies for an anti-gnu clauses but many would fight back. The extra revenue for those who are fall to the sight of lawyers will be much smaller than the legal costs to fight IBM, Google, Redhat, Rackspace, and whoever else all combined.
I live in Alaska about 30 minutes from Anchorage. Unfortunately I am in a downtown area of a town and have a nice big and bright Fred Myers parking lot 400 yards away. It is my second year in Alaska and have yet to see them. When I go on vacation in the summer it never gets dark enough to see them. When it does it is freezing and winter outside already.
Why should Sony respond to consumers hacking their own systems to run their own software? Why should we take this cr*p anymore?
I am sorry but we would not tolerate our pc's to be locked in such a way and it is time we as consumers demand everything else to be open. Can you image if Microsoft did this and forcing everyone reading this to run Windows 7 and ban all GNU software? I hate to tell Sony, but they do not own the PS3s after we purchase them. WE DO.
It is a sad day when you try to jailbreak and root your own system. The arrogance of cell phone makers, Apple, and Sony are astounding to say the least. There should be laws against console makers using such abusive practices. They are monopolistic and anti competivie in nature. We could have 3 or 4 more platforms today if it were not for console makers dumping products below cost and then locking them down forcing royalties on software.
10 dim x = 1,000 20 if x= x mod 2 30 sound 30,20.15 40 color 45,20 50 print "I am super GAY!" 60 else 70 sound 40,20,35 80 color 55,15 90 print "No really I am GAY!" 100 goto 10... and make sure you save it under work3.bas or something so it gets mistakenly run. The joys of being immature at highschool. The good old days.
Microcomputers are old and bulky compared to the sweet Ipad and cell phones that are cool. HTML 5 and AJAX will gradually replace legacy programming languages expect on the bulky old pcs used at offices that use Java and.NET. They are the new mainframe and mainframe terminals of old. Your point helped me come to that conclusion.
Seriously Basic is so 1985. It is not cool and elite to own a pc anymore and just because you thought it was cool does not mean a child thinks the same today.
No one writes pc apps anymore.
People want cool multimedia, sounds, and utilities that utilize the internet on portable devices. Google's api's is what I think about. Getting a child excited about old 8 bit color Apple IIs is like getting us excited about typewritters or steam powered trains. They are old and frighteningly laughable and obsolete.
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My guess is Intel is feeling pressure not from Microsoft but from Apple. They locked their phones down and they want to lock their macs down next and turn them into appliances. My guess is Intel is helping Apple do this, so MACOSX you can count on supporting it. Multimedia creators prefer macs.
So how long will it be before employers require this testing to screen applicants out for learning disabilities, probabilities of alcoholism/addiction, and probability of getting cancer?
We have a long way to go before experiencing hyperinflation and a depressionary currency as the Germans did during the Wienmar era. The Germans were printing money and would leave work early to buy milk before it rose in price by evening. They started burning money because it was cheaper than buying wood.
Come on the guy can get 2 whole free sodas!
How is that!
Flash is important for the web and Java is a MAJOR standard in learning programming and developing web and applications on Linux.
I have never admin-ed SGI machines with XFS admittedly, but from what I was told XFS can never be stable on x86 architecture.
During a power loss a normal machine will have corrupted ram contents before turning completely off. There are protections built into the filesystem like exts or UFS journaling that undue partial transactions. XFS is much faster because it is in real time and doess less integrity work. SGI have power capicitators to correctly finish a write during a powerless. They are very nice machines and XFS was built around nice controllers with expensive hardware that can do the things like I mentioned. Unless x86 hardware does the same sorts of things it will always be less reliable when running XFS.
Sounds like a bad gay porn advertisement to me.
Can't Microsoft ever make something original. Why do they have to stop or feel threatened by any product out on the digital market? Look, Zune and WindowsCE lost. They just wont give up.
Windows Vista is simply not tuned and is very sluggish on the same machines as windows 7. Windows 7 search is just that it works. No constant spinning of the hard drives every few minutes as Vista tries to re-index my documents again. Windows 7 is incremental and snappy. It makes a big difference.
The reasons are under the hood for the I.T. department. .NET 3.5 and soon .NET 4.0, sharepoint, and many others. New applications taking advantages of these wont run on WindowsXP.
You can run much better intranet applications and client/server applications. You do not see it now because those who run XP are preventing application makers from using these technologies. It is a chicken and egg scenario.
For the average user still using old Office 2003 the search when you hit the windows button where you type in something like "sales forecasts 2009" is very sweet when you have many documents. In school this was a life saver in Vista as I have 2,000 documents I have created over the years and I need to look something up.
Sure Windows XP boots so why upgrade is not the whole picture. The use of intranet enabled applications make a big difference in the corporate world.
Mod up.
Bush changed the rules and McDonalds workers are considered manufacturers.
We are the #1 manufacturer corporate headquarters in the world. The products are actually made in China by these American companies.
Well his salary is a cost. If he spends 35% of his time fixing previous bugs then y x .35 is the cost that could be saved right there or better put to use developing software instead of fixing it.
No QA?? Sadly, I see many slashdotters in similar situations. How unprofessional and arrogant have the bean counters become? I have been out of I.T. full time for many years but times were different earlier last decade. Any manager who refused to check the quality of the work used to be fired. Are you really managing if you wont even do basic QA?
Even fast food restaurant managers do QA and have district managers nail them on satisfaction and statistics of food ingredient use and statistical sampling.
Time to update your resume. From what you described it sounds like a cheap work environment if they have college interns writing critical software. Quality is free and any good manager knows this which saves money. Six sigma started out in software design before being a big hit on the factory floor.
Then he could save money by firing him instead.
Yes it is the wave of the ... present not future.
Walmart already knows when you buy a product how old you are, marriage classification, gender, sexual preference, criminal background, and what food and or products you stastically will buy the next 3 to 6 months and offers coupons based on them. They get this data from the credit card companies and sharing data with other suppliers.
This is a marketers dream and the wave of the future. Statistically analysis is why Oracle and DB2 are still huge despite mysql. It is because the database and their apis support these functions and you can help beat the competition by being statistically significant in all you do and knowing trends. Forecasting is another big one based on datamining errr memory analytic
I.T. is called information technology for a reason. Using it to produce and predict rather than look up makes it much more useful.
Thats the problem with performance based metrics. When organizations use these the results are terrible. If you have assemblymen performance based on the number of screws they put it per house then all hell will break lose when an engineer discovers they can save money by making the widget with less screws. All of the sudden their job is on the line for something the engineer thought of. People piss in each others area and undermine the company as a whole. There are many examples of this.
Teachers cheat by the way if your job is on the line with grades. Lawyers and accountants may love metrics but not the whole.
A simple procedure of who approved the projects payment processing and tasks should be done by different people in this situation. This is accounting 101 and many large companies that do not have this wall create shell companies and this is very common.
It can happen whenever the person in a corporation approving projects or supplies is the same one in charge of billing and receiving.
You can say CompanyA bought x from MegaCorp. Turns out MegaCorp is owned by someone else in CompanyA and all the paperwork checks out fine.
It shows the needs for controls. Many white collar crimes do these sorts of things as it is much easier not to get caught then insider trading or physically stealing something.
Carter was thrilled Reagan was elected over Bush as he thought he was nuts and could be easily beaten. Look what happened?
The Tea Party folks will be very energized with Palin reminiscent of the libertarians who voted for Reagan. They were not energized with Bush back in 1980 unlike Reagan. The right is very far to the extreme as of recent who are labeling everyone as a RHINO who is not as extreme as they are. This would make the situation much worse.
IBM (yes they are a big patent troll) and Google have a large vested interest in open source software.
I can only imagine the deal with Sun and Oracle has already made IBM very nervous. It would bug me if I worked for them.
The second they start suing and filing injunctions to force us to buy their products you can bet they will fight back. Not to mention Mark Shuttleworth has invested hundreds of millions in Ubuntu and other products which would be killed by such an onslaught. He would probably contribute to such a cause and fight as well. It would be a legal war equivalent to World War I to say the least in the industry.
It would be very ineffective for the big boys to wage. Sure they would convince many fortunate 500 companies for an anti-gnu clauses but many would fight back. The extra revenue for those who are fall to the sight of lawyers will be much smaller than the legal costs to fight IBM, Google, Redhat, Rackspace, and whoever else all combined.
I live in Alaska about 30 minutes from Anchorage. Unfortunately I am in a downtown area of a town and have a nice big and bright Fred Myers parking lot 400 yards away. It is my second year in Alaska and have yet to see them. When I go on vacation in the summer it never gets dark enough to see them. When it does it is freezing and winter outside already.
Why should Sony respond to consumers hacking their own systems to run their own software? Why should we take this cr*p anymore?
I am sorry but we would not tolerate our pc's to be locked in such a way and it is time we as consumers demand everything else to be open. Can you image if Microsoft did this and forcing everyone reading this to run Windows 7 and ban all GNU software? I hate to tell Sony, but they do not own the PS3s after we purchase them. WE DO.
It is a sad day when you try to jailbreak and root your own system. The arrogance of cell phone makers, Apple, and Sony are astounding to say the least. There should be laws against console makers using such abusive practices. They are monopolistic and anti competivie in nature. We could have 3 or 4 more platforms today if it were not for console makers dumping products below cost and then locking them down forcing royalties on software.
My favorite was
10 dim x = 1,000 ... and make sure you save it under work3.bas or something so it gets mistakenly run. The joys of being immature at highschool. The good old days.
20 if x= x mod 2
30 sound 30,20.15
40 color 45,20
50 print "I am super GAY!"
60 else
70 sound 40,20,35
80 color 55,15
90 print "No really I am GAY!"
100 goto 10
Which is why Javascript and html are perfect.
Microcomputers are old and bulky compared to the sweet Ipad and cell phones that are cool. HTML 5 and AJAX will gradually replace legacy programming languages expect on the bulky old pcs used at offices that use Java and .NET. They are the new mainframe and mainframe terminals of old. Your point helped me come to that conclusion.
Seriously Basic is so 1985. It is not cool and elite to own a pc anymore and just because you thought it was cool does not mean a child thinks the same today.
No one writes pc apps anymore.
People want cool multimedia, sounds, and utilities that utilize the internet on portable devices. Google's api's is what I think about. Getting a child excited about old 8 bit color Apple IIs is like getting us excited about typewritters or steam powered trains. They are old and frighteningly laughable and obsolete.
It came with my computer :-)
I thought Windows7 phones already are mostly arm based.
Is Microsoft thinking of using something other than WindowsCE?