My HS physical science teacher would pull out a cylinder of pure Sodium every year and take his classes outside. There he had a 5 gallon bucket of water and a 2x4 with a string tied to it. He'd cut off a slice of the sodium and place it atop the 2x4 which sat atop the 5 gallon bucket. He'd then move everybody a safe distance and drop the sodium into the water by pulling the string. BAM! He'd probably get arrested for doing that today...if not he'd definitely get hauled in for igniting the magnesium inside the classroom.
You said you were a programmer once. What made you leave the field? As a "former" programmer myself I left because of the pressures that came from employers who demanded that a feature in the newly released competitor product A must be implemented in our product by the end of the week or the company would fold. Customers who demanded a feature or functionality they never requested but demand that they did be added or they sheepishly request new features at the end of the project and want it added gratis. Add to that a programming landscape that shifted so frequently it was impossible to stay on top of the language du jour. I used to love to program but after doing it for a living for a few years I find it hard to this day to even look at code without painful memories.
As for the question at hand, If you can't pay $100K or more annually I seriously doubt you will find a programmer versed in multiple high profile languages that isn't already self-employed and doing quite well for themselves. You might want to consider a business partnership where you run the business and project side of things.
The 1st quarter of 2013 is the first time in RIM/BlackBerry history they have ever posted a loss of subscribers (Down to 76 million from 79 million in 4th quarter 2012) Despite the drop they actually posted a profit.
Their market share has shrunk because the market for smartphones has exploded and BlackBerry's growth has remained constant.
No, Telecoms want users to PAY for more data and not use it because it saturates their networks. For someone who works in the industry you seem to know very little about it.
and you still didn't answer my question.
The almost 1 billion people using Android and the nearly equal amount on iOS beg to disagree.
Disagree with what?
I work in the industry
Gold star for you.
as everyone else was touting how amazing the new smart phones were they were touting as a feature how little data their users used as a selling point
Which is what their customers were asking for because data was prohibitively expensive. So much so only businesses and the affluent could afford it. You're talking about something that happened 7 years ago like it happened today.
MS requires a CAL for each user accessing servers running Windows. Or they offer a site/enterprise license that removes the burden for individual CALs. They didn't/don't require a CAL for a box that didn't access the Windows Server.
Correct, however this wasn't CAL licenses. This was for copies of Windows. Microsoft sent in auditors from BSA and they simply counted desktops.
imagine Microsoft started going around to every business running Windows/Exchange, saying, "Hey, we deserve some of your profits. You're using our products to make money, and it's totally unfair that we don't get a cut." That'd be ridiculous,right? Microsoft offered a product, and you bought it according to their terms. If you think they deserve a percentage simply because you use their product to make money, then where does it end? Why can't 3M come after you for a percentage because you use post-its.
Well they did do something analogous to this when they were doing site licensing. I don't know if they still get away with the practice but at one time they charged a per desktop license fee. Not a per installed copy mind you...they quite literally charged per machine on the premises and it did not matter if it was running a MS product or not. If the entire marketing dept. was using Macs they still got charged for a Windows license for every Mac. Engineering group all running on Sun Sparc? doesn't matter they all get charged a license.
If Microsoft had pushed out the OS a couple of years earlier the mobile phone market would likely be a very different place.
Microsoft had a more capable mobile OS in 2001 than they have now with WP8. The hardware has finally reached a point where Windows Mobile could shine but they gave up and bought Danger and trotted out the Kin which they spent over 2 years developing but gave up on in less than 6 mo. They were so desperate to get Windows Phone out the door they left crucial features and backward compatibility out completely. Microsoft is all about bailing the water out of the boat instead of patching the leak.
FPL is still a government regulated utility so their rates are set by the state of Florida. They can't raise or lower their rates without requesting a rate case hearing which takes at least a year to submit and can take as much as two years to get an answer. So it is in their best interest to be as efficient as possible. Full disclosure - I work for Nextera Energy parent company to FPL.
No need to wait. Several companies have already rolled out incentive packages that offer free electricity between certain hours. They couldn't do that without smart meters.
My opinion is like this, but less antagonistic. Developers go to three places as far as APIs are concerned:
#1. Where the money is. Sorry blackberry you missed that train. iOS or android is going to be far better in that regard.
And surprisingly you (and most everybody else) would be wrong
#2. Where it's fun. Something about business oriented phone software doesn't call me in that regard.
#3. Where it's really, really, really easy to whip out applications. Maybe, but I doubt it.
If you know C, C++, QT, HTML5, Adobe AIR, or JAVA you can code for BB 10. If you don't want to code for BB 10 specifically but you already publish apps on Android it doesn't get much easier than uploading an APK (yes there are limitations)
I'm thinking an Alix board might be a better solution if you are looking at a R Pi as a possible solution. It costs more sure but it comes with all of the features you need (LAN/WAN port, WiFi) built in.
Not if it isn't enabled on the server it isn't! In our organization it's either BES or ActiveSync (for either Android or iOS). You can access OWA from a web browser but the API is locked down so even Outlook can't use it on the company issued laptop.
yeah, people from cities that were established long before the automobile have a hard time wrapping their heads around just how spread out Houston is. I "half" jokingly tell people that Galveston, San Antonio, and Dallas are all suburbs of Houston.
This photo essay looks like they were all in the same basement except for the kitchen in Hattery.
While terrorism has not been ruled out based on the ammonium nitrate in the fertilizer the plant produced it is suspected the water from the firefighter's hoses is what caused the explosion. The ammonium nitrate is handled in such as way as to keep it inert but the plant suffered a fire and ironically the water used to put out the fire is most likely what caused the ammonium nitrate to react. This video on YouTube is a guy shooting video of the fire when the explosion occurs. For reference the OK City bombing had a small fraction of the amount of ammonium nitrate this plant had stored in the one tank that exploded. Remarkably a second tank did not explode and is preventing emergency personal from approaching the site for rescue and recovery efforts.
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My HS physical science teacher would pull out a cylinder of pure Sodium every year and take his classes outside. There he had a 5 gallon bucket of water and a 2x4 with a string tied to it. He'd cut off a slice of the sodium and place it atop the 2x4 which sat atop the 5 gallon bucket. He'd then move everybody a safe distance and drop the sodium into the water by pulling the string. BAM! He'd probably get arrested for doing that today...if not he'd definitely get hauled in for igniting the magnesium inside the classroom.
So sad.
MySQL will be there equally as long. The question is whether it will grow as technology does or stagnate.
You said you were a programmer once. What made you leave the field? As a "former" programmer myself I left because of the pressures that came from employers who demanded that a feature in the newly released competitor product A must be implemented in our product by the end of the week or the company would fold. Customers who demanded a feature or functionality they never requested but demand that they did be added or they sheepishly request new features at the end of the project and want it added gratis. Add to that a programming landscape that shifted so frequently it was impossible to stay on top of the language du jour. I used to love to program but after doing it for a living for a few years I find it hard to this day to even look at code without painful memories.
As for the question at hand, If you can't pay $100K or more annually I seriously doubt you will find a programmer versed in multiple high profile languages that isn't already self-employed and doing quite well for themselves. You might want to consider a business partnership where you run the business and project side of things.
"why do I need this?"
Why to relive the glory days of /. of course!
That's a nice concept. But I would like to see what Legrand would come up with.
the number of BB users plunged dramatically.
The 1st quarter of 2013 is the first time in RIM/BlackBerry history they have ever posted a loss of subscribers (Down to 76 million from 79 million in 4th quarter 2012) Despite the drop they actually posted a profit.
Their market share has shrunk because the market for smartphones has exploded and BlackBerry's growth has remained constant.
No, Telecoms want users to PAY for more data and not use it because it saturates their networks. For someone who works in the industry you seem to know very little about it.
and you still didn't answer my question.
The almost 1 billion people using Android and the nearly equal amount on iOS beg to disagree.
Disagree with what?
I work in the industry
Gold star for you.
as everyone else was touting how amazing the new smart phones were they were touting as a feature how little data their users used as a selling point
Which is what their customers were asking for because data was prohibitively expensive. So much so only businesses and the affluent could afford it. You're talking about something that happened 7 years ago like it happened today.
The 76 million of us still on BlackBerry are not amused.
MS requires a CAL for each user accessing servers running Windows. Or they offer a site/enterprise license that removes the burden for individual CALs. They didn't/don't require a CAL for a box that didn't access the Windows Server.
Correct, however this wasn't CAL licenses. This was for copies of Windows. Microsoft sent in auditors from BSA and they simply counted desktops.
imagine Microsoft started going around to every business running Windows/Exchange, saying, "Hey, we deserve some of your profits. You're using our products to make money, and it's totally unfair that we don't get a cut." That'd be ridiculous,right? Microsoft offered a product, and you bought it according to their terms. If you think they deserve a percentage simply because you use their product to make money, then where does it end? Why can't 3M come after you for a percentage because you use post-its.
Well they did do something analogous to this when they were doing site licensing. I don't know if they still get away with the practice but at one time they charged a per desktop license fee. Not a per installed copy mind you...they quite literally charged per machine on the premises and it did not matter if it was running a MS product or not. If the entire marketing dept. was using Macs they still got charged for a Windows license for every Mac. Engineering group all running on Sun Sparc? doesn't matter they all get charged a license.
If Microsoft had pushed out the OS a couple of years earlier the mobile phone market would likely be a very different place.
Microsoft had a more capable mobile OS in 2001 than they have now with WP8. The hardware has finally reached a point where Windows Mobile could shine but they gave up and bought Danger and trotted out the Kin which they spent over 2 years developing but gave up on in less than 6 mo. They were so desperate to get Windows Phone out the door they left crucial features and backward compatibility out completely. Microsoft is all about bailing the water out of the boat instead of patching the leak.
Take a look at what many of today's premiere space vehicles are using as their core CPU.
FPL is still a government regulated utility so their rates are set by the state of Florida. They can't raise or lower their rates without requesting a rate case hearing which takes at least a year to submit and can take as much as two years to get an answer. So it is in their best interest to be as efficient as possible. Full disclosure - I work for Nextera Energy parent company to FPL.
No need to wait. Several companies have already rolled out incentive packages that offer free electricity between certain hours. They couldn't do that without smart meters.
Not only that...It seems copper thieves don't mind digging for copper but climbing for it is less palatable.
Please specify which debacle you are referencing. The Anti-Virus product or the events that transpired in Belize.
I see the future of BYOD being running another OS instance for the work apps, or possibly a separate easily switched profile with encrypted storage.
So...BlackBerry Balance then
My opinion is like this, but less antagonistic. Developers go to three places as far as APIs are concerned:
#1. Where the money is. Sorry blackberry you missed that train. iOS or android is going to be far better in that regard.
And surprisingly you (and most everybody else) would be wrong
#2. Where it's fun. Something about business oriented phone software doesn't call me in that regard.
#3. Where it's really, really, really easy to whip out applications. Maybe, but I doubt it.
If you know C, C++, QT, HTML5, Adobe AIR, or JAVA you can code for BB 10. If you don't want to code for BB 10 specifically but you already publish apps on Android it doesn't get much easier than uploading an APK (yes there are limitations)
I'm thinking an Alix board might be a better solution if you are looking at a R Pi as a possible solution. It costs more sure but it comes with all of the features you need (LAN/WAN port, WiFi) built in.
Android talks to exchange though the OWA web API.
Not if it isn't enabled on the server it isn't! In our organization it's either BES or ActiveSync (for either Android or iOS). You can access OWA from a web browser but the API is locked down so even Outlook can't use it on the company issued laptop.
You can even sell your phone on ebay to try to recoup some of the costs if you don't want it anymore.
And for the tl;dr set T-Mobile will even buy the phone back and credit that to what you owe.
yeah, people from cities that were established long before the automobile have a hard time wrapping their heads around just how spread out Houston is. I "half" jokingly tell people that Galveston, San Antonio, and Dallas are all suburbs of Houston.
This photo essay looks like they were all in the same basement except for the kitchen in Hattery.
You do realize that aside from a physical note the USD is a virtual currency as well right?
While terrorism has not been ruled out based on the ammonium nitrate in the fertilizer the plant produced it is suspected the water from the firefighter's hoses is what caused the explosion. The ammonium nitrate is handled in such as way as to keep it inert but the plant suffered a fire and ironically the water used to put out the fire is most likely what caused the ammonium nitrate to react. This video on YouTube is a guy shooting video of the fire when the explosion occurs. For reference the OK City bombing had a small fraction of the amount of ammonium nitrate this plant had stored in the one tank that exploded. Remarkably a second tank did not explode and is preventing emergency personal from approaching the site for rescue and recovery efforts.