I personally, would never work/live in Utah for precisely this reason. But of course, I would'nt work in any other highly religious area. I don't care how good the job is. If I can't go out after work or on the weekend with my honey to grab a few drinks, then it's not worth living there.
No. A career to me is just a way to make money. I'm a professional programmer, but the only reason I do it is because it pays well. I generally don't like other programmers, because most are about as interesting as a wet sock. My career is not my life.
But there is no more 'fact' behind the Bible, then there is behind Stephen King's latest book. It's a book. It's a fictional story of what was supposed to have happened thousands of years ago. Just because somebody tells you something in a book, doesn't make it a fact. I read Stephen King's 'Christine', but I know that there was probably never a '68 Plymouth Fury that came to life and killed people. Why in the world would any more weight be given to the Bible?
I can't explain what a 'fact' is. That's just a given. But comparing scientific evidence to what is essentially believing in an invisible man who lives in the sky (Christianity) is just ridiculous. There is no comparison. Either you look at genetics, and examples of evolution and genetic lineage, or you believe in fairly tales.
It's not a troll. It's a fact. That's the problem with Creationists. They can't tell the difference between fact and fiction. I had a long talk with a very religious friend of mine, and he told me that science was all made up and the Bible was 'fact'. How can you argue with that? I've since given up, and I let those people live in their own, little, delusional worlds. There's no getting through to some people.
That won't help. So, the Apache project, concerned that people are bundling their code into proprietary apps, will hire a spy in every software development firm in the country? No, that's pretty far-fetched. A few violations may come out by accident, but by and large, if companies want to use open source code in proprietary apps, they will, and they'll get away with it.
Creationists, by definition, ignore scientific facts. They believe in fairy tales because they want to. Intelligent people already understand evolution. This discovery won't change the minds of ignorant Christians.
How would this appeal to businesses? I mean, that's great that maybe you can sue somebody if need be, but most businesses do their best NOT to get involved in legal action. It's very expensive. The keys to attracting tech business are:
Low taxes
A well-educated workforce (universities)
A strong infrastructure
All of this was done just about 20 years ago in RTP, NC, and it was very successful. That's also what happened in Boston, Dallas, and all of the other tech centers in the US. "cyber-courts" are not going to bring in business.
If Open Source code is used in a closed, proprietary app, how would anybody know? By definition, nobody outside of the developers can see the actual source of a typical closed all (without using tools like BlackIce), so how could this ever be enforced? For all we know, Open Source code is being used in many closed source products already.
Usenet is wide open. It's public. Deja doesn't own anything that's particularly unique. There are probably other, more complete, Usenet archives out there. Google is just using a copy of already available public information. There's nothing stopping anybody else from also archiving Usenet. If there's a need for it, somebody else will continue to do what Deja has done for years (if somebody else hasn't been doing it already).
I've been a professional contract programmer for years, and I've never seen a company who'll let an employee take time to figure out the elegant way of solving a problem. It's just not realistic. Generally, if it works, it works. It's just not a luxury that most companies can give their employees (whether contract or 'permanent'). Gov't agencies and universities are good about this, but most programming projects that I've worked on focus on getting the project out of the door, ASAP. If I were to take an extended amount of time to solve a problem, generally, I'd be out the door.
Most professional programmers that I know of have never taken a single computer class. Most good professional programmers are good because they work hard, learn what they need to know, and make the programs work.
In addition, many professional programmers have no time to write 'good' code. Taking time to write something elegant or pretty is simply not an option if you want to stay employed, in many cases. In many professional projects, there's barely time to make code that works, never mind code that's 'great'. That's just a fact of life. Most college computer science kids never get this. That's why you don't see too many comp sci people making the big bucks as professionals. Being a successful programmer isn't about great code. It's about pragmatism.
And I hope it's totally different from any thing we've ever seen. That way, the Creationists will finally shut the hell up.
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I don't get it. Is this a futuristic sci-fi fiction, or is it non-fiction? I didn't know that "the Microsoft Era" was over. Is Jon Katz living in the future? Is he living on some kind of alternate plane of reality where Microsoft is not a powerful company anymore?
I'm confused. I mean, I understand that the bug is radiation-resistant. That's very cool. But, how does it 'reduce' the amount of radioactive Uranium, exactly? Uranium is an element, so I thought that it could neither be created nor destroyed? Even if the bug eats it, won't it still be present in the bug, or won't the bug just pass it on through?
XML is nice and all, but it's definately not a cure-all. Hell, it's not even a language. It's just a way to format data in a universally readable manner. Useful, but not world-altering.
The same thing happened with telphone usage. When people started using modems, they used a lot more time with the same, flat-rate local service. The phone companies adapted. In some cases, by raising prices slightly. And still, we have unlimited local phone usage for a flat rate here in the US. Why can't the cable & DSL providers adapt also?
But the thing is, if you're buying 'average' usage, then they shouldn't be selling DSL or cable or whatever as the highest bandwidth number that you can max out at, because that's just bullshit. They should just sell x amount of bandwidth, at $x/month.
Even in the US, most DSL and cable providers say that you're not allowed to run 'servers' with their bandwidth. Under ANY circumstances, you should be allowed to do whatever you want with the bandwidth as long as it doesn't cause any added liability for the provider. What is really happening is that the DSL provider really doesn't expect to be providing the true bandwidth. Their business model and infrastructure would fall apart if they actually had to provide what they are selling you. In protest, all DSL users should mak out their lines with NON-'server' traffic. Make the providers hold up their end of the deal. We're buying bandwidth, and they had better damn well provide it, instead of hiding behind bogus 'no server' rules.
You don't have to know C# to develop for CE. CE's native language is a stripped down version of VB. A basic CE app can be generated in a half hour or so. I don't think that easy application development will be a draw for Linux based PDAs, when comparing them to CE PDA's. Our company actually chose CE for our PDA product because of it's super rapid development time.
Who says that just because Covad closes up, that a big company will swoop in? Hell, maybe that business model doesn't work for DSL. Maybe we'll be back to the days of mom and pop ISPs? I don't think that any of us would mind having small ISP's again... good service, good prices. Who knows? It may just happen? There's a big hole where Covad was, and there's no telling what could happen.
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I personally, would never work/live in Utah for precisely this reason. But of course, I would'nt work in any other highly religious area. I don't care how good the job is. If I can't go out after work or on the weekend with my honey to grab a few drinks, then it's not worth living there.
No. A career to me is just a way to make money. I'm a professional programmer, but the only reason I do it is because it pays well. I generally don't like other programmers, because most are about as interesting as a wet sock. My career is not my life.
But there is no more 'fact' behind the Bible, then there is behind Stephen King's latest book. It's a book. It's a fictional story of what was supposed to have happened thousands of years ago. Just because somebody tells you something in a book, doesn't make it a fact. I read Stephen King's 'Christine', but I know that there was probably never a '68 Plymouth Fury that came to life and killed people. Why in the world would any more weight be given to the Bible?
I can't explain what a 'fact' is. That's just a given. But comparing scientific evidence to what is essentially believing in an invisible man who lives in the sky (Christianity) is just ridiculous. There is no comparison. Either you look at genetics, and examples of evolution and genetic lineage, or you believe in fairly tales.
It's not a troll. It's a fact. That's the problem with Creationists. They can't tell the difference between fact and fiction. I had a long talk with a very religious friend of mine, and he told me that science was all made up and the Bible was 'fact'. How can you argue with that? I've since given up, and I let those people live in their own, little, delusional worlds. There's no getting through to some people.
That won't help. So, the Apache project, concerned that people are bundling their code into proprietary apps, will hire a spy in every software development firm in the country? No, that's pretty far-fetched. A few violations may come out by accident, but by and large, if companies want to use open source code in proprietary apps, they will, and they'll get away with it.
Creationists, by definition, ignore scientific facts. They believe in fairy tales because they want to. Intelligent people already understand evolution. This discovery won't change the minds of ignorant Christians.
All of this was done just about 20 years ago in RTP, NC, and it was very successful. That's also what happened in Boston, Dallas, and all of the other tech centers in the US. "cyber-courts" are not going to bring in business.
If Open Source code is used in a closed, proprietary app, how would anybody know? By definition, nobody outside of the developers can see the actual source of a typical closed all (without using tools like BlackIce), so how could this ever be enforced? For all we know, Open Source code is being used in many closed source products already.
Usenet is wide open. It's public. Deja doesn't own anything that's particularly unique. There are probably other, more complete, Usenet archives out there. Google is just using a copy of already available public information. There's nothing stopping anybody else from also archiving Usenet. If there's a need for it, somebody else will continue to do what Deja has done for years (if somebody else hasn't been doing it already).
I've been a professional contract programmer for years, and I've never seen a company who'll let an employee take time to figure out the elegant way of solving a problem. It's just not realistic. Generally, if it works, it works. It's just not a luxury that most companies can give their employees (whether contract or 'permanent'). Gov't agencies and universities are good about this, but most programming projects that I've worked on focus on getting the project out of the door, ASAP. If I were to take an extended amount of time to solve a problem, generally, I'd be out the door.
Most professional programmers that I know of have never taken a single computer class. Most good professional programmers are good because they work hard, learn what they need to know, and make the programs work.
In addition, many professional programmers have no time to write 'good' code. Taking time to write something elegant or pretty is simply not an option if you want to stay employed, in many cases. In many professional projects, there's barely time to make code that works, never mind code that's 'great'. That's just a fact of life. Most college computer science kids never get this. That's why you don't see too many comp sci people making the big bucks as professionals. Being a successful programmer isn't about great code. It's about pragmatism.
And I hope it's totally different from any thing we've ever seen. That way, the Creationists will finally shut the hell up.
I don't get it. Is this a futuristic sci-fi fiction, or is it non-fiction? I didn't know that "the Microsoft Era" was over. Is Jon Katz living in the future? Is he living on some kind of alternate plane of reality where Microsoft is not a powerful company anymore?
It's simple. This is a CYA from the spin doctors in Redmond. Not too obvious, are they?
I'm confused. I mean, I understand that the bug is radiation-resistant. That's very cool. But, how does it 'reduce' the amount of radioactive Uranium, exactly? Uranium is an element, so I thought that it could neither be created nor destroyed? Even if the bug eats it, won't it still be present in the bug, or won't the bug just pass it on through?
XML is nice and all, but it's definately not a cure-all. Hell, it's not even a language. It's just a way to format data in a universally readable manner. Useful, but not world-altering.
The same thing happened with telphone usage. When people started using modems, they used a lot more time with the same, flat-rate local service. The phone companies adapted. In some cases, by raising prices slightly. And still, we have unlimited local phone usage for a flat rate here in the US. Why can't the cable & DSL providers adapt also?
But the thing is, if you're buying 'average' usage, then they shouldn't be selling DSL or cable or whatever as the highest bandwidth number that you can max out at, because that's just bullshit. They should just sell x amount of bandwidth, at $x/month.
Even in the US, most DSL and cable providers say that you're not allowed to run 'servers' with their bandwidth. Under ANY circumstances, you should be allowed to do whatever you want with the bandwidth as long as it doesn't cause any added liability for the provider. What is really happening is that the DSL provider really doesn't expect to be providing the true bandwidth. Their business model and infrastructure would fall apart if they actually had to provide what they are selling you. In protest, all DSL users should mak out their lines with NON-'server' traffic. Make the providers hold up their end of the deal. We're buying bandwidth, and they had better damn well provide it, instead of hiding behind bogus 'no server' rules.
This box only has 258 MB of RAM? That seems like a serious bottleneck for most applications. Heck, I have that in my desktop right now at work.
Personally, I feel that most 'Christian' web sites are obscene. Somehow I doubt that those will be censored.
You don't have to know C# to develop for CE. CE's native language is a stripped down version of VB. A basic CE app can be generated in a half hour or so. I don't think that easy application development will be a draw for Linux based PDAs, when comparing them to CE PDA's. Our company actually chose CE for our PDA product because of it's super rapid development time.
Who says that just because Covad closes up, that a big company will swoop in? Hell, maybe that business model doesn't work for DSL. Maybe we'll be back to the days of mom and pop ISPs? I don't think that any of us would mind having small ISP's again... good service, good prices. Who knows? It may just happen? There's a big hole where Covad was, and there's no telling what could happen.
Is there a web page where this company shows how to use the same technology to create a realistic looking penguin costume?