I was just thinking about VRML a few months ago and want to relearn it. I think VRML is being abandonded for a more modern standard. I wonder if its possible to integrate it with ajax for some cool 3d games and applets online?
Java is being continued and development is quite exciting. Unlike Cobol it has a very rich library and performance has been improved drastically with java5 and now java6. However like C its not really appropriate as a n applet language.
Also java 6 has native GTK and Windows icons and fonts.
Ms canceled support for java in IE and of course IE is the golden standard. ITs wrong for webmasters to direct users to download software. If you do then they wont use your site and go elsewhere. Infact I know one Mac user who needs WMV support and will not do quicktime because users will go to another site if they have to use a pluggin.
Also early in it had obscene system requirements. Why in 1996 with a system with 32 megs of ram would I want to run a bloated java app vs a nice activeX control?
Awt is double buffered because it had to be in order to be compatible with many platforms. Java is difficult to program in for newbies with no object oriented programming experience. I really had to learn C and C++ in order to understand the syntax. Many programmers back then found it difficult to use.
Those 3 things killed it on the client side. If IE was not so domminant it may have a rebirth
Appearently you have not had a CIO who believes everything should be run from one company to save on integration and support costs with an MS ecosystem
I work help desk and I am getting a ton of calls for intel graphics issues for our games. Nvidia has them too but the most recent driver can cure the issue. The most recent from Intel does not.
"f all the wireless card manufacturers got together and agreed on a interoperable adapter interface to their cards, it would mean that the OS developers would just need to write one other side for ever driver of every wireless card to work."
I am in favor or a kernel api or driver api to help hardware makers write drivers but the FOSS zealots are preventing this for political reasons. They are killing the FOSS movement by insisting everything has to be opensource. I know this sounds flamebaitish by many reading this but, fact of the matter is by law wifi must stay closed source due to FCC regulations. Also I may point out that many companies have to license patents for their hardware and are required to keep the drivers closed so they wont be sued.
Call centers are not supposed to have managers talk to their customers. They have more important things to do unless its a legality issue. At least that was the case with my last 2 jobs at one.
I have and they told me I agreed on the EULA that I would not install it on more than one computer and I could shove it up my ass if I didn't like. (not those exact words)
So I agreed and installed Ubuntu Linux.
BUt seriously you do not own that copy of Windows and you only own a right to a copy of windows that is at Redmond and owned at Microsoft under a very limited set of rules under the EULA. So you own a copy of a another product and its licensed in legal speak and not owned. ( as strange as it sounds)
Emachines loves this as it forces you to might as well buy a new computer due to the expense. Microsoft loves this as they are guaranteed to get paid whether you use Widows or not and it cuts down on piracy. After all not everyone who upgrades is using a real paid license. So this means everyone but you wins.
Its very unethical but Microsoft has lobbied politicians to do whatever the hell it wants and has a monopoly if you need win32 applications.
"What's pegging your CPU at 30% is the rendering of the clock gadget. Sounds silly, but try turning it off (only the round clock gadget, not the whole gadget sidebar) and see the difference. Looks like it has something to do with IE7 rotating the clock hands images each second."
Wow did that remind me of the unix haters manual. Particually about X and Xclock using the ram of 1024 commodores just to display the time.:-) Appearently the authors have not yet ran Vista as it probably uses more ram than 1024 xclocks running back to back.
My god the more I read about Vista the less I want it and the more happy I am with ubuntu on my laptop.
As another poster pointed is that car mechanics do it too.
The real question is if they act like an ass in front of the customer. If so then they should not work in customer service anymore. Most of IT is support to help people do their jobs and if they insult customer or other co workers then they provide no value and need to be fired.
In any industry where its support (carpenters, mechanics, fast food) its really no different. Fact of the matter not everyone is meant for that kind of work.
PS I do phone technical support and rarely do I have people treat me rudely. If I listen to them and help them then all is good %90 of the time. If fights happen often it usually is the quality of the work the tech provides.
Easy I live in California and houses in 1999 that cost $110k now cost over $400k. FUel has trippled in price and wages have been cut in half thanks to illegal immigration.
Sure you can quite nice averages but I have seen first hand nice neighborhoods turn to hell as illegal multiple families move into a single home because of the $350,000 price tag for a 1400 square foot home. Hell I have people living in a van next to where I live and my home is worth over $350,000.
I can not imagine ever thinking $250 million is not enough FOR MY OWN back account. It would be different if I owned a company but still that is more money than the GDP of some countries. Good god.
Add to the recent news of the golden parachute of $250 million for the former CEO of home depot when he was fired. He was fired right? I wonder why these people get compensated so much?
If i got fired I think I would get 0 cents and be shown the door like %99.9 of the slashdotters reading this.
Why do we allow our culture to pay people so much money while the minimum wage remains the same for 10 years despite a %400 increase in the cost of living?
I do not blame the studio's and would certainly not want to hire him back again. For 1/10th the cost I could find a top hollywood director which has better talent.
Microsoft does this on purpose to make it as expensive as possible to run a thin client or "network computer". Doing so would cost microsoft more money in lost revenue from the lack of a license from every desktop and lessen the need for Windows as servers from Sun are more powerfull to run application servers. So microsoft raises the cost on purpose and then turns around and shouts "SEE the TCO is lower by running thick clients and paying for ms office per computer".
Thin clients are or I should say were the wave of the future as running it on the server brings down TCO and maintance. I wonder if it still costs 11k per desktop per year like it once did?
Didn't matter as I but ubuntu on my laptop but if I go back to school next summer I may need windows if I do any.net development with any of my classes.
Or install Free or netbsd. Infact Netbsd is highly recomemnd(though I do not use it). They are alot lighter and do not use the bloated glibc.
Also rh6 uses libc which I liked alot better than glibc because it was alot faster and uses alot less ram. The BSD's have not changed much in terms of driver support and code bloat.
My fiancee left her exhusband because all he did was work (... to support his family bla bla). Money is not everything and working for greater finances is only hurting yourself if you have nothing to spend it on.
IT workers including programmers are being exploited like you said thanks to third world countries. How can we compete with someone willing to work for $25,000 a year for a job worth $65,000 a year? They can hire 2 Indians and still make a profit if they are not as good.
Worse any good programmer may still have a job but with the influx of extra unemployeed workers on the market the salary goes down.
To me unions are no different than corporations getting together and putting caps on the price of workers or price fixing. You guys do it all the time but when employees get together to prevent supply you all have a fit and cry boo hoo.
Unions are not great and I am not pro union but employees need to excersize market power to prevent our salaries from declining like they have been. MEanwhile corporate profits are at an all time high while wages have fallen every year since 1999.
This will make them just go after money from lobbiests instead. Oh wait thats a bribe? Hmmm how about that lovely dream executive job when your term ends? Also average joes will less likely run with less salary and instead more business leaders and lawyers with an agenda will run instead to write laws that favor themselves and their former business partners.
Its too bad vista bans running windows on a virtual machine. I imagine this solution will be outdated quick as soon as directx10 games become standard.
I took autocad design at my highschool a decage ago and hated it. It took forever to get anything done with lines and the program was very repetitive. I prefered to use my drafting board and do things by hand as it was alot quicker. At this point it kind of begs to differ why you are doing cad on a computer if no time is saved?
The latest versions of java combined with newer hardware run swing apps quite nicely and responsively. I can write apps with netbeans using swing very quickly and its sweet.
I suppose the Unix administrators are the ones who cringe on supporting a Microsoft based website. Apache has a ton of mods and scripting is lightyears ahead of Windows. Clustering, uptime, security, and patchability still reign king on Solaris and Linux as a second. The powershell using.NET framework is nice and I want to learn it but it still has awhile ago to catch up to unix using pipes and the gnu cli tools.
Development is one aspect and maintance is another. Its true MS has nice development tools and I hate to say it but IE on Windows is required to see what the site looks like since its what everyone uses. MS has an unfair advantage in that all the development tools for MSDN are paid for already so why use anything non microsoft?
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I was just thinking about VRML a few months ago and want to relearn it. I think VRML is being abandonded for a more modern standard. I wonder if its possible to integrate it with ajax for some cool 3d games and applets online?
Java is being continued and development is quite exciting. Unlike Cobol it has a very rich library and performance has been improved drastically with java5 and now java6. However like C its not really appropriate as a n applet language.
Also java 6 has native GTK and Windows icons and fonts.
Ms canceled support for java in IE and of course IE is the golden standard. ITs wrong for webmasters to direct users to download software. If you do then they wont use your site and go elsewhere. Infact I know one Mac user who needs WMV support and will not do quicktime because users will go to another site if they have to use a pluggin.
Also early in it had obscene system requirements. Why in 1996 with a system with 32 megs of ram would I want to run a bloated java app vs a nice activeX control?
Awt is double buffered because it had to be in order to be compatible with many platforms. Java is difficult to program in for newbies with no object oriented programming experience. I really had to learn C and C++ in order to understand the syntax. Many programmers back then found it difficult to use.
Those 3 things killed it on the client side. If IE was not so domminant it may have a rebirth
Appearently you have not had a CIO who believes everything should be run from one company to save on integration and support costs with an MS ecosystem
I work help desk and I am getting a ton of calls for intel graphics issues for our games. Nvidia has them too but the most recent driver can cure the issue. The most recent from Intel does not.
.. and Michael Dell returned. I guess its to avoid liablity with the rest of the company so the former CEO can be sued instead.
"f all the wireless card manufacturers got together and agreed on a interoperable adapter interface to their cards, it would mean that the OS developers would just need to write one other side for ever driver of every wireless card to work."
I am in favor or a kernel api or driver api to help hardware makers write drivers but the FOSS zealots are preventing this for political reasons. They are killing the FOSS movement by insisting everything has to be opensource. I know this sounds flamebaitish by many reading this but, fact of the matter is by law wifi must stay closed source due to FCC regulations. Also I may point out that many companies have to license patents for their hardware and are required to keep the drivers closed so they wont be sued.
Call centers are not supposed to have managers talk to their customers. They have more important things to do unless its a legality issue. At least that was the case with my last 2 jobs at one.
I have and they told me I agreed on the EULA that I would not install it on more than one computer and I could shove it up my ass if I didn't like. (not those exact words)
So I agreed and installed Ubuntu Linux.
BUt seriously you do not own that copy of Windows and you only own a right to a copy of windows that is at Redmond and owned at Microsoft under a very limited set of rules under the EULA. So you own a copy of a another product and its licensed in legal speak and not owned. ( as strange as it sounds)
Emachines loves this as it forces you to might as well buy a new computer due to the expense. Microsoft loves this as they are guaranteed to get paid whether you use Widows or not and it cuts down on piracy. After all not everyone who upgrades is using a real paid license. So this means everyone but you wins.
Its very unethical but Microsoft has lobbied politicians to do whatever the hell it wants and has a monopoly if you need win32 applications.
"What's pegging your CPU at 30% is the rendering of the clock gadget. Sounds silly, but try turning it off (only the round clock gadget, not the whole gadget sidebar) and see the difference. Looks like it has something to do with IE7 rotating the clock hands images each second."
:-) Appearently the authors have not yet ran Vista as it probably uses more ram than 1024 xclocks running back to back.
Wow did that remind me of the unix haters manual. Particually about X and Xclock using the ram of 1024 commodores just to display the time.
My god the more I read about Vista the less I want it and the more happy I am with ubuntu on my laptop.
Screw that.
As another poster pointed is that car mechanics do it too.
The real question is if they act like an ass in front of the customer. If so then they should not work in customer service anymore. Most of IT is support to help people do their jobs and if they insult customer or other co workers then they provide no value and need to be fired.
In any industry where its support (carpenters, mechanics, fast food) its really no different. Fact of the matter not everyone is meant for that kind of work.
PS I do phone technical support and rarely do I have people treat me rudely. If I listen to them and help them then all is good %90 of the time. If fights happen often it usually is the quality of the work the tech provides.
Easy I live in California and houses in 1999 that cost $110k now cost over $400k. FUel has trippled in price and wages have been cut in half thanks to illegal immigration.
Sure you can quite nice averages but I have seen first hand nice neighborhoods turn to hell as illegal multiple families move into a single home because of the $350,000 price tag for a 1400 square foot home. Hell I have people living in a van next to where I live and my home is worth over $350,000.
How does greed work?
I can not imagine ever thinking $250 million is not enough FOR MY OWN back account. It would be different if I owned a company but still that is more money than the GDP of some countries. Good god.
Add to the recent news of the golden parachute of $250 million for the former CEO of home depot when he was fired. He was fired right? I wonder why these people get compensated so much?
If i got fired I think I would get 0 cents and be shown the door like %99.9 of the slashdotters reading this.
Why do we allow our culture to pay people so much money while the minimum wage remains the same for 10 years despite a %400 increase in the cost of living?
I do not blame the studio's and would certainly not want to hire him back again. For 1/10th the cost I could find a top hollywood director which has better talent.
Microsoft does this on purpose to make it as expensive as possible to run a thin client or "network computer". Doing so would cost microsoft more money in lost revenue from the lack of a license from every desktop and lessen the need for Windows as servers from Sun are more powerfull to run application servers. So microsoft raises the cost on purpose and then turns around and shouts "SEE the TCO is lower by running thick clients and paying for ms office per computer".
Thin clients are or I should say were the wave of the future as running it on the server brings down TCO and maintance. I wonder if it still costs 11k per desktop per year like it once did?
Same here and no recovery cd.
.net development with any of my classes.
Didn't matter as I but ubuntu on my laptop but if I go back to school next summer I may need windows if I do any
Or install Free or netbsd. Infact Netbsd is highly recomemnd(though I do not use it). They are alot lighter and do not use the bloated glibc.
Also rh6 uses libc which I liked alot better than glibc because it was alot faster and uses alot less ram. The BSD's have not changed much in terms of driver support and code bloat.
I hope he doesn't lose his wife in the process.
... to support his family bla bla). Money is not everything and working for greater finances is only hurting yourself if you have nothing to spend it on.
My fiancee left her exhusband because all he did was work (
IT workers including programmers are being exploited like you said thanks to third world countries. How can we compete with someone willing to work for $25,000 a year for a job worth $65,000 a year? They can hire 2 Indians and still make a profit if they are not as good.
Worse any good programmer may still have a job but with the influx of extra unemployeed workers on the market the salary goes down.
To me unions are no different than corporations getting together and putting caps on the price of workers or price fixing. You guys do it all the time but when employees get together to prevent supply you all have a fit and cry boo hoo.
Unions are not great and I am not pro union but employees need to excersize market power to prevent our salaries from declining like they have been. MEanwhile corporate profits are at an all time high while wages have fallen every year since 1999.
This will make them just go after money from lobbiests instead. Oh wait thats a bribe? Hmmm how about that lovely dream executive job when your term ends? Also average joes will less likely run with less salary and instead more business leaders and lawyers with an agenda will run instead to write laws that favor themselves and their former business partners.
Its too bad vista bans running windows on a virtual machine. I imagine this solution will be outdated quick as soon as directx10 games become standard.
I took autocad design at my highschool a decage ago and hated it. It took forever to get anything done with lines and the program was very repetitive. I prefered to use my drafting board and do things by hand as it was alot quicker. At this point it kind of begs to differ why you are doing cad on a computer if no time is saved?
Do you know if you have to recompile your java apps with java6 for the speed boast or will the new ajvaVM run them faster?
I wonder if Jedit and Eclipse will see a speed gain with a javac recompile?
That is a shame since I am a fan of swing.
The latest versions of java combined with newer hardware run swing apps quite nicely and responsively. I can write apps with netbeans using swing very quickly and its sweet.
I suppose the Unix administrators are the ones who cringe on supporting a Microsoft based website. Apache has a ton of mods and scripting is lightyears ahead of Windows. Clustering, uptime, security, and patchability still reign king on Solaris and Linux as a second. The powershell using .NET framework is nice and I want to learn it but it still has awhile ago to catch up to unix using pipes and the gnu cli tools.
Development is one aspect and maintance is another. Its true MS has nice development tools and I hate to say it but IE on Windows is required to see what the site looks like since its what everyone uses. MS has an unfair advantage in that all the development tools for MSDN are paid for already so why use anything non microsoft?