I'm looking to hire someone who will put in the effort to grow our business and boost our stock price.
Programmers do not grow stock price, they write code to meet business requirements that grow stock price. If these business requirements are met the stock price might grow. Stock price is driven by profit, not code.
I bought Star Office 6. It was awful. It was of less practical use that 5.1, (still better that SO 6 and OO). I was never able to find any patches for the bugs on Sun's site, and eventually went back to 5.1. It's going to take a lot to convince me to invest in SO again.
Are you kidding? Oracle moving away from Windows is potentially a good thing for Microsoft. That gives them more ammo to shove SQL Server licenses down people's throats.
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COBOL has similar maintainability benefits to Python.
That's applets, not apps. as in applications. Applets are supposed to run in you're web browser's "sandbox" and not have access outside the browser to any system other than the one that it originated from. Applets can be signed and granted greater access.
Applets are under no such restrictions and can do what they want.
I think Yahoo sucked when was #1, and that it will continue to suck. The only reason that it was number one was people bought into the hype.
From my perspective Yahoo was allways second rate. Early on Webcrawler kicked much ass, then AOL bought it. After Webcrawler there was Altavista, (I could actually find stuff on Altavista). Now there is Google.
Someone will invent something to beat Google. I doubt gonna be Yahoo or Microsoft. Both of these companies have too much invested in their current business model to throw it out and risk it on something innovative and therefore untested.
Obviously you do no know what the hell you are talking about.
A P.E. is note required to carry a bond. a PE is required to have specific form of education. The education varies a little, but involves having an engineering degree from an acredited program, or a physics degree. And several years of work experience in the field as an Engineer Intern (E.I.) under an licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.), again depending degree and acredition process. Also there is a test before you can legaly call yourself and E.I and another test before you can call yourself and Engineer. There are also included things like Letters of Reccomendation. But last I checked you can't buy yourself into the prefession by simply purchasing a bond. Just like doctors and lawyers cant buy their license to practice.
If you want to know the reality of things instead the bullshit here on/. . You can check the basic requirementsTexas Board of Professional Engineers But is boils down to the fact that unless you are working as a E.I. under a P.E. you will never be a real Engineer.
Want to know how easy that is? try and find a P.E. doing software.
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Why do I like XML?
Reverse engineering a file parser is much easier . If my current document were some reasonable XML file I would not be spending the hours staring at hex code trying to delimit variable formatted recored.
I'm a little lazy, and tired after doing 1 above and I don't want to write my own parsers.
And when in the 1990's did the Amiga get a 256 color Workbench?
Until the AGA Amigas, 1200, and RTG GRX cards the Amiga's desktop was crap, unless you like bleeding eyes from interlaced NTSC/PAL video.
Also Rember that when PC were shipping with 25 Mhz 386s as standard, and 486s were hitting the market, Commodore released things like the 16 Mhz Amiga 600, with the 12 or 16Mhz 020. And when the 486 were standard CBM finally put out the 4000, 1200, and CDTV. And due to the funky case shape very little of the hardware was backwards compatible until the 4000T. The Amiga Ruled the 80s, but died due to incompetence.
And yes I still have my Amiga 3000T, and yes I still use it on occasion.
There are reasons why JBOSS might fail the compliance test. However these reasons are beacuse the spec is idotic, such as unnecessary ro even crippeling of synchronization in certain functions. So failing might be a good thing in some areas.
Bull shit. commercial email is already legal, except in the case of forged message headers. This bill would make MS exempt. I had to dump my Hotmail account because Microsoft was lowering the quote and was sending me so much spam it was useless.
And BTW, I was a Hotmail user before Microsoft bought it.
(1) Faster development: The persistent classes from your application design become the database design. You don't have to write code that does the object-relational mapping. Less DB interface code means less opportunities for error injection. And less time to finish your program.
Faster really? What is the learning curve on the object database? Where am I going to find experienced personel to run it?
(2) Performance
Perhaps, but when up upgrade your version of Java say 1.3 to 1.4, or your C++ g++ 2.9 to 3.0 where is the guarentee that things will be backward compatible? And if things are backwards compatible will your application take a performance hit?
(3) Which situation leaves you in a better position: Being an influential customer of a small company, or being a faceless customer of a huge company?
Where are Object Store, Versant, and Poet going to be in 5 years? I would rather be a faceless company that's going to be around in 5 years, Oracle, IBM, than the only customer of a dot com.
Whatever get's the job done in the fastest and most convenient way should be used for the job.
You left out things like maintainability and vendor support. What about 3rd party tools and connectivity?
Why would I want ot give up my time tested, vendor supported database for a piece of propriatary technology from a company that might not be around next week?
IANAL but according to the email these statements are being made under oath. Also according to the apology:
Appearantly our system detects the OpenOffice files as MS Office programs and alarms me, which in turn sends the notices. I failed my part by not
reassuring clearly enough which property was infringed...
BSA represents that the information in this notification is accurate
She freely admits that she was notified about the discovery of the software.
She also admits that she did not verify the information.
She purgered herself by when she declarce the info was correct without validating it.
otherwise law abiding citizens will sway towards mediums that are easier to pirate on
Otherwise law abiding citizens will use the path of lease resistance. Joe sixpack want's to trade MP3s. Joe Sixpack tries using Linux because his geek friend tell him, "no problem". But the first time Joe Sixpack drops in his new RIAA sponsored CD of Bruce Springsting or Rolling Stones, and it comes up with the message, "You must be using a DRM equiped PC to listen to this CD." Which do you think he's gonna give up, the music he's been listneing to for the past 25 years, or his Linux box?
The sponsor should have to pay at least $50,000/year for every H-1B visa.
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Abortion protesters have had to deal with this for some time. They are called "buffer zones."
Apples and oranges. Pro-Lifers assault, bomb and muderer people at abortion clinics. These people are going out and harassing women who are making very tough choices, and interfereing with their PRIVATE lives.
W is just using this a propaganda and to grab more power.
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Programmers do not grow stock price, they write code to meet business requirements that grow stock price. If these business requirements are met the stock price might grow. Stock price is driven by profit, not code.
I bought Star Office 6. It was awful. It was of less practical use that 5.1, (still better that SO 6 and OO). I was never able to find any patches for the bugs on Sun's site, and eventually went back to 5.1. It's going to take a lot to convince me to invest in SO again.
Are you kidding? Oracle moving away from Windows is potentially a good thing for Microsoft. That gives them more ammo to shove SQL Server licenses down people's throats.
COBOL has similar maintainability benefits to Python.
Interesting, I need to start a music company so I can issue my own subpoenas.
IIRC those were last years numbers. It increases at a rate of something like 1 Billion/month.
A Billion dollar fine for MS is something like a heafty traffic ticket to the rest of us.
Was the code in question ever included in a Linux distribution from SCO/Caldera?
If so they just put their stamp of approval on the GPLing of their own stuff.
That's applets, not apps. as in applications. Applets are supposed to run in you're web browser's "sandbox" and not have access outside the browser to any system other than the one that it originated from. Applets can be signed and granted greater access.
Applets are under no such restrictions and can do what they want.
While we're at it why don't we legalize torture as well. It would make it much easier to get extract confessions from suspected terrorists.
I think Yahoo sucked when was #1, and that it will continue to suck. The only reason that it was number one was people bought into the hype.
From my perspective Yahoo was allways second rate. Early on Webcrawler kicked much ass, then AOL bought it. After Webcrawler there was Altavista, (I could actually find stuff on Altavista). Now there is Google.
Someone will invent something to beat Google. I doubt gonna be Yahoo or Microsoft. Both of these companies have too much invested in their current business model to throw it out and risk it on something innovative and therefore untested.
Obviously you do no know what the hell you are talking about.
A P.E. is note required to carry a bond. a PE is required to have specific form of education. The education varies a little, but involves having an engineering degree from an acredited program, or a physics degree. And several years of work experience in the field as an Engineer Intern (E.I.) under an licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.), again depending degree and acredition process. Also there is a test before you can legaly call yourself and E.I and another test before you can call yourself and Engineer. There are also included things like Letters of Reccomendation. But last I checked you can't buy yourself into the prefession by simply purchasing a bond. Just like doctors and lawyers cant buy their license to practice.
If you want to know the reality of things instead the bullshit here on /. . You can check the basic requirements Texas Board of Professional Engineers But is boils down to the fact that unless you are working as a E.I. under a P.E. you will never be a real Engineer.
Want to know how easy that is? try and find a P.E. doing software.
Obviously it did. Otherwise they wouldn't have lost the court case.
And when in the 1990's did the Amiga get a 256 color Workbench?
Until the AGA Amigas, 1200, and RTG GRX cards the Amiga's desktop was crap, unless you like bleeding eyes from interlaced NTSC/PAL video.
Also Rember that when PC were shipping with 25 Mhz 386s as standard, and 486s were hitting the market, Commodore released things like the 16 Mhz Amiga 600, with the 12 or 16Mhz 020. And when the 486 were standard CBM finally put out the 4000, 1200, and CDTV. And due to the funky case shape very little of the hardware was backwards compatible until the 4000T. The Amiga Ruled the 80s, but died due to incompetence.
And yes I still have my Amiga 3000T, and yes I still use it on occasion.
There are reasons why JBOSS might fail the compliance test. However these reasons are beacuse the spec is idotic, such as unnecessary ro even crippeling of synchronization in certain functions. So failing might be a good thing in some areas.
Bull shit. commercial email is already legal, except in the case of forged message headers. This bill would make MS exempt. I had to dump my Hotmail account because Microsoft was lowering the quote and was sending me so much spam it was useless.
And BTW, I was a Hotmail user before Microsoft bought it.
It's good to be a Buddhist.
Faster really? What is the learning curve on the object database? Where am I going to find experienced personel to run it?
Perhaps, but when up upgrade your version of Java say 1.3 to 1.4, or your C++ g++ 2.9 to 3.0 where is the guarentee that things will be backward compatible? And if things are backwards compatible will your application take a performance hit?
Where are Object Store, Versant, and Poet going to be in 5 years? I would rather be a faceless company that's going to be around in 5 years, Oracle, IBM, than the only customer of a dot com.
You left out things like maintainability and vendor support. What about 3rd party tools and connectivity?
You forgot business risks.
Why would I want ot give up my time tested, vendor supported database for a piece of propriatary technology from a company that might not be around next week?
IANAL but according to the email these statements are being made under oath. Also according to the apology:
She purgered herself by when she declarce the info was correct without validating it.
Funny that's what DEC said about the Alpha and look where they are today.
I take these guys about as seriously at people who believe tha the earth is flat, and wear tin-foil hats.
Otherwise law abiding citizens will use the path of lease resistance. Joe sixpack want's to trade MP3s. Joe Sixpack tries using Linux because his geek friend tell him, "no problem". But the first time Joe Sixpack drops in his new RIAA sponsored CD of Bruce Springsting or Rolling Stones, and it comes up with the message, "You must be using a DRM equiped PC to listen to this CD." Which do you think he's gonna give up, the music he's been listneing to for the past 25 years, or his Linux box?
A genuine labor shortage?
The sponsor should have to pay at least $50,000/year for every H-1B visa.
Apples and oranges. Pro-Lifers assault, bomb and muderer people at abortion clinics. These people are going out and harassing women who are making very tough choices, and interfereing with their PRIVATE lives.
W is just using this a propaganda and to grab more power.