Apple was dieing a horrible death before Jobs came back.
Unlike BSD, Apple really was about to go under and Jobs return was a move of desperation. It had no direction or future.
Many Apple investors were even debating closing Apple down and just selling off its IP. I remember old pcworld articles from even windows die hard journalists raising a campaign to save Apple because the pc industry would be doomed to Microsoft.
Jobs gave Apple a direction. Microsoft came out with Windows95 and almost took Apple under. Many businesses put pressure on Apple's customers to move to Windows for photoshop and MacOS frankly sucked. It had no premptive multitasking, no concept of a kernel, and WindowsNT was about to come into popularity.
Jobs 1.) Killed the clones 2.) Needed a quick competitor to NT which became NextStep errr MacOSX 3.) Differentiated his products and created value by coming out with the imac. Imacs looked awesome and made the name Apple actually mean something. People valued a stylish high end system. 4.) Moved into online music and appliances with the Ipod in an effort to save the company if their pc business flopped. 5.) Prevented hollywood from going to an all microsoft format for media from the sucess of itunes and its expanded userbase
Steve Jobs saved the company and in my opinion Apple simply would not be if he did not come back.
I own an ipod-mini and something called an I-travel. Itravel uses fm/am radio to stream the audio out to my car stereo.
Its a hack and nothing more. Sure I can listen to podcasts ok I suppose.
But the sound quality is very bad. It hisses and its very quiet. The second you turn the volume up on the ipod the sound crackles and the distortion in both bass and trebble appear. Its so bad I want to turn off the ipod and just listen to the radio.
Sure an input jack is a much better option but it too suffers from these sound quality problems.
I wish my ipod did have a digital ouptut. I wonder if icelink has a dc/ac converter to make it digital to the stereo?
I think Objective-c++ which is part of gcc 4.0 will have many more modern features (I doubt it will have garbage collection though )and will make porting c++ apps to macosx easier.... this does assume that Apple develops aqua bindings and official support for objectivec++ in the next release. God I hope they do.
"Is our entire economy a giant Ponzi scheme that will collapse if it stops growing? "
Yes
Other nations will come in and grow if we don't and still cause inflation for many goods.
Populations also increase so if the economy becomes stagnant, which means a loss since more people compete for the same jobs.
America is insanely wealthy due to our service oriented economy. If production goes down and we have trouble feeding people then we can never catch up with services. Services and production have an inverse relationship called a production possibilities curve that economists use.
So in other words the reason why countries remain poor is that they can not leave a production based economy.
This is the old government intervention vs free market arguments.
Many interventions would like to argue that consistancy is needed and many people hired have bills to pay and its not fair for them to be hired at will.
Its the same logic as the feds setting interest rates to make things consistant.
Even for underemployed former IT workers doing call center jobs for 10/hr (like where I work) is considered alot of money.
This isn't 1999 anymore folks. IT is viewed as a cost center and perhaps maintance rather than long term investments if your lucky.
Still it looks good on your resume and if I had more software programing experience I would be jumping over doing google's summer coding. $4500 is still money and my resume will look very very good and its a free advertisement to employers.
She was part of the debate club back in highschool and was more of a political science nerd than a computer one.
I am curious how the qualitive search works vs a quantitive? My guess is the difference deals with some heavy duty mathmatics.
I assume all a database does is link tables and arrays of data together based on sort and index routines. How would the qualitiave work for a site such as okcupid.com?
Microsoft in the past has been known to cripple its own VC++ compiler so that the best executables created will only work the the professional and enterprise editions.
My guess is the frame rates for games will be slowed down in all but the ultimate edition. It will be a classic MS strategy but I will try to be optimistic.
I dont like the fact that vista already criples video output on purpose to force you to be a drm enabled monitor.
I think I will stick with Windows2k which I use now. I do like the new avolon api and docking features. It looks alot like object desktop and the customization looks sweet but this other garbage is a big turn off.
I work for AOL and that reminds me of a call I monitored.
The user claimed he was running Windows56. Nothing right? Well the tech listened more to the users problem and then he claimed everything was upside down.
Turns out he had his monitor upside down and "95" turned into "56"/:-)
Telling them its insecure only encourages them to stick with IE. All the studies are showing this with clueless uers since Microsoft does not like to boast about holes in IE.
I think the point of the moderation of the parent had to due with being offtopic with Drace in order to trash FBSD and cause a flamewar.
I do agree with the parent poster as well since the threading and the code quality has made many old FBSD timers leave and work on Dragonfly. I no longer run FBSD as a result.
But I wold mod the parent down for the that reason. However I would mod him up if it was a general FBSD post about i/o or BSD vs Linux story.
I am taking both macro and micro economics this semester and yes demand is the only thing that gets things done.
We have the whole planet to ourselves not to mention we will never explore space and better ourselves and solve our problems on Earth if we do not take the first steps.
Nasa is doing squat these days and commercial interest such as the Xprize brings innovation.
America was founded for greed too. Land was very sparce in Europe and freely available in what is now North America. Sailors sought out with greed to find a cheaper way to ship tea and spices from India and China and America was born.
If society has a need, private enterprise fullfills it.
But why work if all your salary is absorbed to only exist?
Its not a life and your life does revolve around work. WIthout money you have no real life worth much.
Yes I sound materialistic but what if you find teh woman of your dreams? She eventually wants kids? Now what?
Also with a home you can make equitity loans for things like car repairs, unexpected emergancies, or new cars if your old one dies.
The poor have no recourse and get royally screwed.
For example I put in $1800 into my 91 Civic worth about $700. Why??
Because I can not afford a newer car without the same kind of repair bills (struts, new a/c compressor, timing belt, new tires, etc). I am a college student.
The rich with homes literally pay no interest and can upgrade anything. A home is very nice.
Well if the top parent really is a graduate then yes threaten to leave.
You can cripple the whole IT operation and they would pay you a ton of money back and perhaps realize they need a second or even third employee so they are not vulnerable again.
Only 25 employees work over there. Maybe a tad more if you count the truck drivers. TO me it sounds like he is the only tech because its a medium sized business. So in essence he is own department.
However I feel his boss is the problem. Not himself.
I read stories here about even fortune 500 companies running email servers off of sun desktops in people's cubicles as servers because the bean counters wanted to save money. Its insane whats going on.
In economics you have investments that probe into maintaince and technology to help fuel productivity. Its lost today to the bean counters who were taught that cost centers cost productivity and no longer look at computers as investments.
Part of it also is lack of selling himself. If this tech/coder wants to leave he should. His company would realize the point of failure and pay him more money (maybe hire someone else in addition) and pay for more servers.
Why is it this guys fault that he is servely underbudgted and staffed? He didn't write the budget.
His boss however might be more prone to blame.
It sounds like a small to medium sized business to me so of course they are cash strapped. Its standard today for accountants to run IT who label IT as a cost center and not an investment
In Tampa your lucky to be making up to 25k-30k a year. That is with 5 years experience I may add.
But it beats working at BestBuy anyday.
At my job for a big ISP (shall remain nameless) HR and all the managers like to remind all of us that Indians are and will be more than happy to take our jobs away if we all dont pull together and except their benefits. I make $10 as an A+ tech (I use to make 35k a year before the.com crash)and I think the pay is quite good sadly and I am glad I am can move out of my parents house again (like most outsourced IT people)
Remember its cheaper to host the server and administer it in India so be thankfully you are still employed. Not to be a demotivator but all the software now is written in India so its only a matter of time before whole IT departments get transfered.
Postgresql is a much better database. No doubt about it. I would prefer it if I were writting an application.
However if your a small isp with little to no support staff mysql is the easiest to install and configure for average home users and small business on a server farm. That is all I am saying and why mysql is incredibly popular. Its just what the ISP's love using and including by default.
The same reason Windows and Dos became popular. Its the OS OEM's love to include.
And I forgot to say this is why Microsoft took over since we are comparing mysql to Microsoft.:-)
Sure DOS sucked but hey the tools were for DOS and it was very user friendly since it came on a pc and you could develop quick apps on it. (proprietary though)
The one good thing I have to say about mysql is that its multi-user friendly for hundreds of accounts.
For a mom and pop ISP with only 3 or 4 employees this is significant. Is it feature filled? No
Its just included in the default user account which is difficult if not impossible with posgresql unless you manually install it for each account.
Users on the web dont need something heavy unless they are a commercial website. Also there are a ton of php and perl scripts and tools for users to use.
This is why msql is so popular. Its what ISP's prefer.
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Apple was dieing a horrible death before Jobs came back.
Unlike BSD, Apple really was about to go under and Jobs return was a move of desperation. It had no direction or future.
Many Apple investors were even debating closing Apple down and just selling off its IP. I remember old pcworld articles from even windows die hard journalists raising a campaign to save Apple because the pc industry would be doomed to Microsoft.
Jobs gave Apple a direction. Microsoft came out with Windows95 and almost took Apple under. Many businesses put pressure on Apple's customers to move to Windows for photoshop and MacOS frankly sucked. It had no premptive multitasking, no concept of a kernel, and WindowsNT was about to come into popularity.
Jobs
1.) Killed the clones
2.) Needed a quick competitor to NT which became NextStep errr MacOSX
3.) Differentiated his products and created value by coming out with the imac. Imacs looked awesome and made the name Apple actually mean something. People valued a stylish high end system.
4.) Moved into online music and appliances with the Ipod in an effort to save the company if their pc business flopped.
5.) Prevented hollywood from going to an all microsoft format for media from the sucess of itunes and its expanded userbase
Steve Jobs saved the company and in my opinion Apple simply would not be if he did not come back.
I own an ipod-mini and something called an I-travel. Itravel uses fm/am radio to stream the audio out to my car stereo.
Its a hack and nothing more. Sure I can listen to podcasts ok I suppose.
But the sound quality is very bad. It hisses and its very quiet. The second you turn the volume up on the ipod the sound crackles and the distortion in both bass and trebble appear. Its so bad I want to turn off the ipod and just listen to the radio.
Sure an input jack is a much better option but it too suffers from these sound quality problems.
I wish my ipod did have a digital ouptut. I wonder if icelink has a dc/ac converter to make it digital to the stereo?
Speaking of unix I found this blog by a SUN engineer working on Solaris.
FOr uptime on critical I.T., unix is the only OS that has garanteed uptime and advanced application profiling.
I dont know why Solaris here gets such a bad rap? Its clearly years ahead of Linux.
Because Tivo is liable under the DMCA and fcc laws to implement copyright protection.
I think Objective-c++ which is part of gcc 4.0 will have many more modern features (I doubt it will have garbage collection though )and will make porting c++ apps to macosx easier. ... this does assume that Apple develops aqua bindings and official support for objectivec++ in the next release. God I hope they do.
"Is our entire economy a giant Ponzi scheme that will collapse if it stops growing? "
Yes
Other nations will come in and grow if we don't and still cause inflation for many goods.
Populations also increase so if the economy becomes stagnant, which means a loss since more people compete for the same jobs.
America is insanely wealthy due to our service oriented economy. If production goes down and we have trouble feeding people then we can never catch up with services. Services and production have an inverse relationship called a production possibilities curve that economists use.
So in other words the reason why countries remain poor is that they can not leave a production based economy.
This is the old government intervention vs free market arguments.
Many interventions would like to argue that consistancy is needed and many people hired have bills to pay and its not fair for them to be hired at will.
Its the same logic as the feds setting interest rates to make things consistant.
Gotcha.
I did some scripting when I was a jr admin years ago but have not really played with database programing other than basic sql.
I would be the annoying guy named Tim with the short hair from your junior year at Kingwood High from debate.
I eventually ended up in Florida where I sold my soul to the devil (err got employed at AOL) doing tech support, and take lovely calls such as these.
I am in school currently majoring in economics fulltime and minoring in CIS.
For a college student 9.37/hr is a ton of money.
Even for underemployed former IT workers doing call center jobs for 10/hr (like where I work) is considered alot of money.
This isn't 1999 anymore folks. IT is viewed as a cost center and perhaps maintance rather than long term investments if your lucky.
Still it looks good on your resume and if I had more software programing experience I would be jumping over doing google's summer coding. $4500 is still money and my resume will look very very good and its a free advertisement to employers.
She was part of the debate club back in highschool and was more of a political science nerd than a computer one.
I am curious how the qualitive search works vs a quantitive? My guess is the difference deals with some heavy duty mathmatics.
I assume all a database does is link tables and arrays of data together based on sort and index routines. How would the qualitiave work for a site such as okcupid.com?
Microsoft in the past has been known to cripple its own VC++ compiler so that the best executables created will only work the the professional and enterprise editions.
My guess is the frame rates for games will be slowed down in all but the ultimate edition. It will be a classic MS strategy but I will try to be optimistic.
I dont like the fact that vista already criples video output on purpose to force you to be a drm enabled monitor.
I think I will stick with Windows2k which I use now. I do like the new avolon api and docking features. It looks alot like object desktop and the customization looks sweet but this other garbage is a big turn off.
I work for AOL and that reminds me of a call I monitored.
:-)
The user claimed he was running Windows56. Nothing right? Well the tech listened more to the users problem and then he claimed everything was upside down.
Turns out he had his monitor upside down and "95" turned into "56"/
God AOL users are the best.
Telling them its insecure only encourages them to stick with IE. All the studies are showing this with clueless uers since Microsoft does not like to boast about holes in IE.
I think the point of the moderation of the parent had to due with being offtopic with Drace in order to trash FBSD and cause a flamewar.
I do agree with the parent poster as well since the threading and the code quality has made many old FBSD timers leave and work on Dragonfly. I no longer run FBSD as a result.
But I wold mod the parent down for the that reason. However I would mod him up if it was a general FBSD post about i/o or BSD vs Linux story.
So lets rob Earth instead.
I am taking both macro and micro economics this semester and yes demand is the only thing that gets things done.
We have the whole planet to ourselves not to mention we will never explore space and better ourselves and solve our problems on Earth if we do not take the first steps.
Nasa is doing squat these days and commercial interest such as the Xprize brings innovation.
America was founded for greed too. Land was very sparce in Europe and freely available in what is now North America. Sailors sought out with greed to find a cheaper way to ship tea and spices from India and China and America was born.
If society has a need, private enterprise fullfills it.
And PS... I consider myself a socialist.
But why work if all your salary is absorbed to only exist?
Its not a life and your life does revolve around work. WIthout money you have no real life worth much.
Yes I sound materialistic but what if you find teh woman of your dreams? She eventually wants kids? Now what?
Also with a home you can make equitity loans for things like car repairs, unexpected emergancies, or new cars if your old one dies.
The poor have no recourse and get royally screwed.
For example I put in $1800 into my 91 Civic worth about $700. Why??
Because I can not afford a newer car without the same kind of repair bills (struts, new a/c compressor, timing belt, new tires, etc). I am a college student.
The rich with homes literally pay no interest and can upgrade anything. A home is very nice.
Well if the top parent really is a graduate then yes threaten to leave.
You can cripple the whole IT operation and they would pay you a ton of money back and perhaps realize they need a second or even third employee so they are not vulnerable again.
THe power is in your hands. Not your employers.
Only 25 employees work over there. Maybe a tad more if you count the truck drivers. TO me it sounds like he is the only tech because its a medium sized business. So in essence he is own department.
However I feel his boss is the problem. Not himself.
I read stories here about even fortune 500 companies running email servers off of sun desktops in people's cubicles as servers because the bean counters wanted to save money. Its insane whats going on.
In economics you have investments that probe into maintaince and technology to help fuel productivity. Its lost today to the bean counters who were taught that cost centers cost productivity and no longer look at computers as investments.
Part of it also is lack of selling himself. If this tech/coder wants to leave he should. His company would realize the point of failure and pay him more money (maybe hire someone else in addition) and pay for more servers.
Why is it this guys fault that he is servely underbudgted and staffed? He didn't write the budget.
His boss however might be more prone to blame.
It sounds like a small to medium sized business to me so of course they are cash strapped. Its standard today for accountants to run IT who label IT as a cost center and not an investment
You make up to 40k! wow?
.com crash)and I think the pay is quite good sadly and I am glad I am can move out of my parents house again (like most outsourced IT people)
In Tampa your lucky to be making up to 25k-30k a year. That is with 5 years experience I may add.
But it beats working at BestBuy anyday.
At my job for a big ISP (shall remain nameless) HR and all the managers like to remind all of us that Indians are and will be more than happy to take our jobs away if we all dont pull together and except their benefits. I make $10 as an A+ tech (I use to make 35k a year before the
Remember its cheaper to host the server and administer it in India so be thankfully you are still employed. Not to be a demotivator but all the software now is written in India so its only a matter of time before whole IT departments get transfered.
Riigghht
All people with aspergers are real assholes.
Seems to me the moderation points are well deserved.
Postgresql is a much better database. No doubt about it. I would prefer it if I were writting an application.
However if your a small isp with little to no support staff mysql is the easiest to install and configure for average home users and small business on a server farm. That is all I am saying and why mysql is incredibly popular. Its just what the ISP's love using and including by default.
The same reason Windows and Dos became popular. Its the OS OEM's love to include.
And I forgot to say this is why Microsoft took over since we are comparing mysql to Microsoft. :-)
Sure DOS sucked but hey the tools were for DOS and it was very user friendly since it came on a pc and you could develop quick apps on it. (proprietary though)
The one good thing I have to say about mysql is that its multi-user friendly for hundreds of accounts.
For a mom and pop ISP with only 3 or 4 employees this is significant. Is it feature filled? No
Its just included in the default user account which is difficult if not impossible with posgresql unless you manually install it for each account.
Users on the web dont need something heavy unless they are a commercial website. Also there are a ton of php and perl scripts and tools for users to use.
This is why msql is so popular. Its what ISP's prefer.
It would be a great question if newer benchmarks were out and linked in the article.
Who cares about something 6 years old? How about now?
The question can not have an answer if all the data linked is 6 years old.