Not only that, but you can also use.NET to almost, but magically avoid changing your new car color to Red before noticing the "no more sex" look on your girlfriend's face.
It's quietly being used by a lot of software development companies, and due to its RAD and straightforward approach to OO, these companies are running circles around their competitors. Read about Delphi 7's features and weep.
Why go as far as starting a union, when we already have good examples set by the legal and medical professions? Programmers need a strong, political, professional guild. Unionizing is anachronistic, and doesn't apply well to intellectual professions.
why are IT workers so damn adamant about not unionizing?
Maybe because corporations have been so good at weeding out the older, more experienced (and yes, less energetic) workers in favor of the young'uns. The young'uns, are, of course, too young, too inexperienced and too much in good health to realize fully how much they're being screwed.
I'm probably one of the oldest, still-working programmers at the geezer age of 36.:) (hmmm...maybe I shouldn't be smiling)
We will look back at the birth of the Internet as the beginnings of the death of privacy, for better or worse. My friends, we have entered the Transparent Age.
We are quickly headed toward a time where economic advantage will be directly proportional to how much privacy is given up. Those who will work the hardest to keep everything in their lives private will become the new underclass.
The organization you're looking for is the Programmers Guild. It's not a union, but rather the first true professional guild for American programmers. Its stated goals are:
Promote the profession of programming
Conduct lobbying on issues that affect members of the programming profession (issues like H-1B, outsourcing to foreign body shops, etc.)
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I hear that another risk factor is if you're a former vice-President of the U.S.
Quayle is featured in current radio spots about DVT. Someone finally trained him to speak clearly without a fumble.
Oh well. I guess it's time to move Stevie Cam up 30,000 ft. The competition is gettin' fierce!
Maybe MS should consider calling what was Palladium "Another Piece of Crappy Shit from Microsoft." That's what the whispers call it anyway.
This is the "socialism of a different kind" that will occur if corporatism takes over the Earth.
Prediction: Microsoft is the next Enron. You heard it here first.
Maybe MS would get more respect for giving their products the "Macroshaft" moniker. They're giving us all the big screw, so why not?
Not only that, but you can also use .NET to almost, but magically avoid changing your new car color to Red before noticing the "no more sex" look on your girlfriend's face.
Not for Kylix it's not. It only includes an IDE for Delphi/Object Pascal under Linux. However, Kylix for C++ is included in the full Kylix 3 product.
It's quietly being used by a lot of software development companies, and due to its RAD and straightforward approach to OO, these companies are running circles around their competitors. Read about Delphi 7's features and weep.
It's strongly typed (not an advantage for evertone, though).
Delphi supports variants.
By the way, Kylix (Delphi-only edition, w/o C++) is *included* in Delphi 7 Professional, Enterprise and Architect.
I feel like I'm watching Gilligan's Island.
Like when Ginger tries to seduce Gilligan, or when Gilligan drops something on the Skipper's feet. Every episode...
No shit? {Sorry for this kind of response, but heck, you asked for it}
Not to mention the shill MVP's in the MS newsgroups...
Why go as far as starting a union, when we already have good examples set by the legal and medical professions? Programmers need a strong, political, professional guild. Unionizing is anachronistic, and doesn't apply well to intellectual professions.
why are IT workers so damn adamant about not unionizing?
Maybe because corporations have been so good at weeding out the older, more experienced (and yes, less energetic) workers in favor of the young'uns. The young'uns, are, of course, too young, too inexperienced and too much in good health to realize fully how much they're being screwed.
I'm probably one of the oldest, still-working programmers at the geezer age of 36. :) (hmmm...maybe I shouldn't be smiling)
Sorry for the simple reply, but A-freegin'MEN!
Also, last time I checked, neither one of those professions were unionized any more than programmers are.
No unions, that's correct. But they have guilds, one called the ABA and the other the AMA. Programmers are working on their own professional guild.
We will look back at the birth of the Internet as the beginnings of the death of privacy, for better or worse. My friends, we have entered the Transparent Age.
We are quickly headed toward a time where economic advantage will be directly proportional to how much privacy is given up. Those who will work the hardest to keep everything in their lives private will become the new underclass.
We've established that it sucks. Now - what can we do about it?
In the guild yet?
In the guild yet?
You see, there *are* consequences to *not* voting, Virginia.
What else is there really to comment on?
The only real solution is to send these folks to the Moon themselves...
Methinks you forgot to add "...without an oxygen supply..."
And the Europeans would be the first to step on the Moon (according to some). Wow! That would be quite an accomplishment! :)