You are thinking like a customer and not like a company. From the company's point of view, if a customer wants the software bad enough, the customer will do what is needed to run the software. Kind of like why gamers upgrade the systems every few months to handle the demands of the latest games.
I understand this might be convenient/safe for the company, but for the customer it's rather annoying ... It's both Linux! Give me my software! ... So at least make it available for all distro's, and let the user choose
Um, no. It may be both linux, but I have the freedom to choose what I support. If I choose to only provide one package type, that is my choice. If you don't like it, so be it.
If you want to use my product. You should not have any problem with switching distros or just adding a machine that is the proper distro. They are all Linux, right? Shouldn't be too hard, right?
So, over the next two years or so, Nintendo will develop a successor for the Wii, using technology that has been proven in the XBox and PS3. If they are REALLY smart, they will continue to research different ways to interact with the console.
I have an interesting idea for that, so if they want to contact me, I will be glad to make a deal with them.
55 articles is not a statistically significant sample size. One article, even two articles, each is not enough to develop a valid opinion.
A better way would be to have the 55 people read 5 articles on subjects they are familiar with and 5 articles on subjects they are unfamiliar with, then have the people rate the subjective veracity of the articles, then have them look up the same 10 subjects in 2 different conventional sources, and finaly have them re-rate the wikipedia articles for veracity.
This article is effectively useless as it mearly give the opinions of 55 people and nothing more.
But, how much of it is actually worth watching? That is the real question. IMNSHO, only a tiny percentage of the video on youTube and Google Video are worth watching. Why would I want to waste the space? Especially with those itty bitty screens?
Your first example is actually a need for a smarter person, not a smarter O/S.
The anonymous coward did the exact thing you showed using a small shell script that could be cranked out in about 10 seconds. I have actually hardcoded something similar into a number of scripts. Just because you don't know HOW to do it easier, it does not follow that you can not do it easier.
Many shortcomings of http for web apps are being addressed, xul, xmlhttprequest
In other words, more, bigger, uglier kludges are being done on HTTP to get it to do something it was not and is not designed to do.
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It's FreeGeek's fault! They should have had better security!
If it works for breaking into a computer system and stealing credit card numbers, it should work for breaking into a building and stealing computer systems.
With the PERL job, you will be limiting your future, but maybe not by much as you already have the MS.NET experience.
No one can make the decision for you, but maybe I can help you quantify the decision:
First, list the qualities of the positions. Work environment, hours worked, pay, working in a perl/linux shop, having a continuous career arc, company size, and anything else you can think of between these two jobs.
Then, set your priorities by rating the qualities on a scale of 1 - 10.
Next, for each job, assign each quality a score of 1 - 10.
Now, for each priority and job multiply the quality score times the priority score. This will give you a weighted score for each quality for each job.
Add up the qualities for each job. The one with the higher number is the one you should probably take.
Are these trends a contrivance by corporations to get more 'value' from IT professionals by bundling responsibilities of higher paid jobs into lesser roles and to evade competitive salary by creating titles that have no analogue on pay-scale indexes?
Yes. The idea is to marginalize the IT staff so pay can be cut. Also, such tactics can be used to support outsourcing roles to overseas locations and to support H1B visas.
Has there ever been a proposed standard for information technology position titles (or at least some form of translation guide)?
To the best of my knowledge, no. I would love to see one though. After all, how many people would consider themselves "junior" anything with 8 years experience? (Yes, I saw an ad for a Junior Programmer that required a minimum of 8 years experience with C.) Part of the problem is who would right such a guide and how to require business to use those job titles?
How do Slashdot job searchers contend with these wildly varying, and increasingly vague titles that seem to have saturated the industry, or worse, when they've been festooned with an inaccurate or absurd job title?
Very carefully. What kills me is when companies advertise for a position and use the ever-present "and other assigned duties" to change the job AFTER one is hired. Such as hiring a "Desktop Support Technician" and then assigning server admin and DBA duties to the person.
Actually, the Electoral College amplifies the vote of individuals. One's vote has a better chance of effecting the selection of Electoral voter than it does of effecting the direct election of the President.
I was listening to some lawyers on the radio discussing the case. Seems that the legal argument presented was that because the company have real locations, the law applies to the company as whole, including their web presence.
It is the fact that the company has a meatspace store that allows the ADA to apply. No meatspace store, no ADA.
Yep. That is why Mother Teresa was prevented from building a men's shelter in the Bronx. Seems that under the ADA she would have had to put in an elevator. It cost to much, so no men's shelter.
It is a bad law when it hurts the majority of people. Take public restrooms in NYC. NYC wanted to use the self cleaning restrooms that are in use in Europe. But, those restrooms were not wheelchair accessable. So, the wheelchair bound sued under the ADA. The wheelchair accessable version was not self-cleaning and required an attendant.
The city offered to pass a law requiring all places of business to allow people in wheelchairs free access to their restrooms, but that wasn't good enough. In the end, the city had to do it's feasablity study with a normal and a wheelchair-accessable version at each location. The plan was abandoned because it would cost too much money to pay the attendants for the wheelchair accessable restrooms, which were barely used.
water is wet, the sky is blue, and gravity is still in effect.
This really can't be a surprise. And, to everyone who says Linux is not ready for the world, it is kind of the same thing. The biggest difference is that the world is not going to change.
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You are thinking like a customer and not like a company. From the company's point of view, if a customer wants the software bad enough, the customer will do what is needed to run the software. Kind of like why gamers upgrade the systems every few months to handle the demands of the latest games.
Um, no. It may be both linux, but I have the freedom to choose what I support. If I choose to only provide one package type, that is my choice. If you don't like it, so be it.
If you want to use my product. You should not have any problem with switching distros or just adding a machine that is the proper distro. They are all Linux, right? Shouldn't be too hard, right?
So, over the next two years or so, Nintendo will develop a successor for the Wii, using technology that has been proven in the XBox and PS3. If they are REALLY smart, they will continue to research different ways to interact with the console.
I have an interesting idea for that, so if they want to contact me, I will be glad to make a deal with them.
55 articles is not a statistically significant sample size. One article, even two articles, each is not enough to develop a valid opinion.
A better way would be to have the 55 people read 5 articles on subjects they are familiar with and 5 articles on subjects they are unfamiliar with, then have the people rate the subjective veracity of the articles, then have them look up the same 10 subjects in 2 different conventional sources, and finaly have them re-rate the wikipedia articles for veracity.
This article is effectively useless as it mearly give the opinions of 55 people and nothing more.
But, how much of it is actually worth watching? That is the real question. IMNSHO, only a tiny percentage of the video on youTube and Google Video are worth watching. Why would I want to waste the space? Especially with those itty bitty screens?
But, I can put all the video worth watching on an iPod now and still have room left over.
Your first example is actually a need for a smarter person, not a smarter O/S.
The anonymous coward did the exact thing you showed using a small shell script that could be cranked out in about 10 seconds. I have actually hardcoded something similar into a number of scripts. Just because you don't know HOW to do it easier, it does not follow that you can not do it easier.
I have to agree about the rudeness, but I don't limit it to just kids. Rudeness is epidimic in the U.S.
In other words, more, bigger, uglier kludges are being done on HTTP to get it to do something it was not and is not designed to do.
It's FreeGeek's fault! They should have had better security!
If it works for breaking into a computer system and stealing credit card numbers, it should work for breaking into a building and stealing computer systems.
As if those that would join the boycot actually buy software.
What happened to all that "free as in speech" freedom that is supposed to go with FLOSS, Linux, and the GPL?
We all know the Martians don't like being spied on. We are lucky they don't have anymore p238 space modulators!
No Ramen and no Jolt!
Money does not make the world go around, but it does a good job of greasing the wheels.
With the PERL job, you will be limiting your future, but maybe not by much as you already have the MS .NET experience.
No one can make the decision for you, but maybe I can help you quantify the decision:
First, list the qualities of the positions. Work environment, hours worked, pay, working in a perl/linux shop, having a continuous career arc, company size, and anything else you can think of between these two jobs.
Then, set your priorities by rating the qualities on a scale of 1 - 10.
Next, for each job, assign each quality a score of 1 - 10.
Now, for each priority and job multiply the quality score times the priority score. This will give you a weighted score for each quality for each job.
Add up the qualities for each job. The one with the higher number is the one you should probably take.
Or, you can just go with your gut feeling.
Yes. The idea is to marginalize the IT staff so pay can be cut. Also, such tactics can be used to support outsourcing roles to overseas locations and to support H1B visas.
To the best of my knowledge, no. I would love to see one though. After all, how many people would consider themselves "junior" anything with 8 years experience? (Yes, I saw an ad for a Junior Programmer that required a minimum of 8 years experience with C.) Part of the problem is who would right such a guide and how to require business to use those job titles?
Very carefully. What kills me is when companies advertise for a position and use the ever-present "and other assigned duties" to change the job AFTER one is hired. Such as hiring a "Desktop Support Technician" and then assigning server admin and DBA duties to the person.
Actually, the Electoral College amplifies the vote of individuals. One's vote has a better chance of effecting the selection of Electoral voter than it does of effecting the direct election of the President.
No, I am talking about the book "The Death of Common Sense" by Philip K Howard. ISBN: 051731696X
I was listening to some lawyers on the radio discussing the case. Seems that the legal argument presented was that because the company have real locations, the law applies to the company as whole, including their web presence.
It is the fact that the company has a meatspace store that allows the ADA to apply. No meatspace store, no ADA.
I would recommend you read "The Death of Common Sense". You will see how the ADA has hurt average, everyday working people homeless men in NYC.
The main problem is that it give people a "right" to something as opposed to giving them a right to be free of something. There is a big difference.
Of course, the ADA is not alone in this defect, but it is one of the most notable
Actually, this ruling only applies to brick and mortor stores that have a web presence.
Yep. That is why Mother Teresa was prevented from building a men's shelter in the Bronx. Seems that under the ADA she would have had to put in an elevator. It cost to much, so no men's shelter.
It is a bad law when it hurts the majority of people. Take public restrooms in NYC. NYC wanted to use the self cleaning restrooms that are in use in Europe. But, those restrooms were not wheelchair accessable. So, the wheelchair bound sued under the ADA. The wheelchair accessable version was not self-cleaning and required an attendant.
The city offered to pass a law requiring all places of business to allow people in wheelchairs free access to their restrooms, but that wasn't good enough. In the end, the city had to do it's feasablity study with a normal and a wheelchair-accessable version at each location. The plan was abandoned because it would cost too much money to pay the attendants for the wheelchair accessable restrooms, which were barely used.
That is why it is a bad law.
water is wet, the sky is blue, and gravity is still in effect.
This really can't be a surprise. And, to everyone who says Linux is not ready for the world, it is kind of the same thing. The biggest difference is that the world is not going to change.