I'd rather pay a fee to Google and know that it will be there in the future, than see it go the way of Infoseek et al. Is Google's immediate future secure and do you see a subscription model on the horizon, either through necessity or profit ?
... does your boss have pointy hair ? Obviously your project will benefit from being 100% buzzword compatible.
How many projects are you planning to use this language for ? Typically there's one major project, so fit the IDE/language to the problem at hand. I would suggest Java then C++ in that order.
Oh, and make sure you drop an email to Scott Adams...
... I lived in Wellington for a number of years up until a few months ago (it's a terrific place BTW, wifey and I will be breeding there:)... the main problem has been the pipe out of NZ. I had XADSL about 300 metres from a city centre exchange and had an 8Mbit connection to the 'net (wow!). Trouble was, I could still only get about 30-35K per sec from anywhere outside of NZ because of latency and pipe-size problems. This made watching streaming movies etc. impossible - unless they were on a local server (in NZ), when I could get 300K/sec speeds.
I understand that this has eased with the introduction of the Southern Cross, which is the new fibre optic channel connecting us to Australia. I'm looking forward to going home soon to see the improvements.
Unfortunately, TelecomNZ charge by volume. Even though I could get 300K/sec, I was only allowed 600MB per month before hitting excess per MB charges. I looked just a few days ago and that's still the situation, I don't know if this is because they're greedy (what, a telco, surely not...) or because they're trying to limit the Southern Cross usage by retail customers.
Slashdot Mirror
...can he build a lego page counter than can keep up with the hits from /. ? :)
Wow, a cool fridge !! (I'll just get my coat...)
I'd rather pay a fee to Google and know that it will be there in the future, than see it go the way of Infoseek et al. Is Google's immediate future secure and do you see a subscription model on the horizon, either through necessity or profit ?
I've just started using PowerQuest DriveImage. It lets me backup a non-system drive across a network, unattended. Could be worth a look.
A: Fuck off Micro$oft luser. The day I use M$ technology is the day I get laid.
ROFLMAO
> single user at a time with a CPU that is typically 99% idle Clearly not a seti@home user then :)
I went to www.cowboyneal.org looking for a poll with "slashdot" as an option.
... does your boss have pointy hair ? Obviously your project will benefit from being 100% buzzword compatible. How many projects are you planning to use this language for ? Typically there's one major project, so fit the IDE/language to the problem at hand. I would suggest Java then C++ in that order. Oh, and make sure you drop an email to Scott Adams...
... is bad. Don't be looking for a contract here anytime soon....
... I lived in Wellington for a number of years up until a few months ago (it's a terrific place BTW, wifey and I will be breeding there :) ... the main problem has been the pipe out of NZ. I had XADSL about 300 metres from a city centre exchange and had an 8Mbit connection to the 'net (wow!). Trouble was, I could still only get about 30-35K per sec from anywhere outside of NZ because of latency and pipe-size problems. This made watching streaming movies etc. impossible - unless they were on a local server (in NZ), when I could get 300K/sec speeds.
I understand that this has eased with the introduction of the Southern Cross, which is the new fibre optic channel connecting us to Australia. I'm looking forward to going home soon to see the improvements.
Unfortunately, TelecomNZ charge by volume. Even though I could get 300K/sec, I was only allowed 600MB per month before hitting excess per MB charges. I looked just a few days ago and that's still the situation, I don't know if this is because they're greedy (what, a telco, surely not...) or because they're trying to limit the Southern Cross usage by retail customers.
Ian