No doubt, MM is a marketing driven company. And one of the rare profitable ones in the pure software business. And Macromedias Flash IDE sucks. It's near unusable for professional large scale developement of flash apps. Like almost every IDE they offer. But nevertheless Flash is the most widespread professional rich media plattform. And it's a good one too. The recent release of flash's PL ActionScript (V 2) has even has stepped on to a professional level with solid oop and error handling very simular to Java. There are even serious OSS projects developing on it. Xical comes to mind as one. So quit the flash bashing. There are flash sites that suck a lot. That's because every Idiot can grab a ripped Flash IDE and start clicking some crap together. Ok, I get that. But that doesn't mean Flash is bad. Just like bad Java apps won't make a bad java platform. Keep that in mind before you start ranting on what you don't know whoot about.
My current slant in taste is somewhat fitting: Two years ago I started listening to modern coffee house and contemporary easy listening music. I got completely hooked and spent a small fortune on various Cafe del Mar, Cafe Abstrait and Ministry of Sound Chillout compilations. Lounge and Chillout are extremely good for backdropping serious IT work (serious == Linux, OSS and real programming). Interesting enough to keep you going and lighten you up, but unobstrusive enough so it won't go on your nerves. I even got my friends hooked to the style. Now that I have a lounge/chillout collection of considerable size I'm about to rip them, to save a years worth of presents for all my buddies.:-) That style of contemporary music is my tip for anyone looking for a nice way to color up his coding sessions.
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1.).Net was and imho still is - to a large extent - a joke. What MS did was rename the.obj files from all their developement stuff to.net and start a big marketing boohey. Those laughing the most about.Net weren't the OSS people, it was the veteran MS developers, noticing all the vaporware about it. MS added a nice and neat VM, which in parts is so close to the Windows lowlevel stuff that it's hardly a VM and they 'invented' C#, pronounced C-Hash or Cash (=$$$) for short, a nice PL that rids some downsides of Java and C in one stroke. Well big fat hairy deal. The OSS community invents neat and inovative PLs every other week. Nothing new here, move on.
2) A group of OSS people saw some nice things to the whole 'plattform' and started programming it themselves. More power to them. I would've considered their time more worthwhile spend on a proper Font system for X or a layer that leverages Motif, QT and GTK into one big engine as to rid the Toolkit bloat of OSS, but it was their decision.
3) Mono is 'finished' into a solid 1.0. Great. People say it sports some cool stuff. That's nice. Thanks for the great work. I'm going to look at it sometime. NOT because it is a redoo of MS stuff. I for one don't give a doo-doo about Mickeysofts software products anymore since... well a very long time. But I do like new tech-frontier OSS software so I'll probably support it. Looking at the way things are going just now it could very well be that.Net disapears to were it came from and Mono becomes the one-size-fits-all technology for future OSS products. Who knows? I wouldn't be suprised. Just as I wouldn't be suprised if the Mono project at one time decides for themselves that they can do things better than MS (which they evidently can) and screw.Net compatability alltogether. After all,.Net was and still is mostly just a marketing gag anyway.
I do a lot of professional web and internet developement, but never thought of PHP being the cream of software technologies. Mostly due to the fact that it is 'just' a SSI language which mangles content and code to much for my taste. And for SSI stuff, Zope's TAL extension still is the most interessting imho.
Yet me, and everyone else in the field allways has been well aware of the fact that PHP is the 400 lb. Gorilla of SSI technologies and web developement platforms. And one of those OSS technologies that lead the field in their league. Feature and library laden, performant, well documented and with something like a bazillion active Inet and www related projects using it as primary PL.
What is begining to show now is that the libs and features are growing more and more dense and specialized for tasks that are known to be the most common way of doing things right. Such as extensive use of XML for content, object orientedness in developement and optimized acceleration for the languages primary field of use. PHP is more and more becoming a one-size-fits-all primary choice for web related stuff, finaly completely dismissing ASP.NET, JSP and Cold Fusion as mere also-ran candidates. Even for those who initially consider using them.
Even though PHP isn't by far the cleanest of modern PL's - I would even say it's somewhat ugly compared to, let's say, Python - I'm begining to expect it to become an all time classic like C or C++.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! BWUAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! *GASP!* *wipes tears from eyes*...UAHAHAHAHA! (etc.)
I'll buy into the Linux isn't the heaven of security thing and also that we'll have some stuff heading our way once Unix desktops (Mac OS X and Linux) are mainstream and that there'll be some stuff to get sorted out. One being the ridance of the allmighty root. But good heavens, what a load of bullcrap this article is. Give me a break. Windows XP is evidently the most insecure OS on the Inet ever! You can probably even root the damn thing through it's media player using a pipe organ emulating modem tones. Every Idiot on this entire planet can write a Outlook-compatible VBScript twoliner that formats your HD, blows your UPC, floods the Net with "Bigger Dick NOW!" E-Mails and Sasser rippoffs and shuts down the power grid on your entire block.
And now these silly f*ckers through about with statistics listing the amount of security warnings and using them to rate the secureness of an OS? Give me a f*ckin' break, man. These people probably just got some Mickeysoft gold partner contract shoved up their behind and now wanna play nice with the dark side.
What a truckload of nonsense. I can't believe this makes it onto a IT webzine nowadays.
What a lot of bullcrap. Who gives a doo-doo if both are monolithic. The world has yet to see a working and usefull modular OS that fits the theory model. Windows isn't documented and open, you can't compile it yourself, therefore it's a GUI-Kernel chunckthat can't be seperated. You can't even get a server Windows without a GUI. The MS Shell is a bad joke and the whole OS has crappiness built into it so they have something to fix in the next release. In fact the whole point of windows is building a software that has the capability of becoming obsolete when the need arives.
Linux, on the other hand, has a completely different goal: technical excellence from the get go. x86 crappines aside - which actually does make Linux and Windows somewhat simular - they both are as far apart as operating systems and working enviroments can be. Except maybe for KDE aping windows crappines in usability in the default setup. That's a differen't story. I'll give them that. The rest is plain and utter bull.
But one question I have is this: What market is currently being targetted by the OS X Servers?
The zero-fuss-open-source-aware,-non-x86-crappiness, fully-unix-compliant all-top-notch-reference-grade-quality open-source-goodies-preinstalled and operational out-of-the-box-with-two-mouseclicks-maximum market.
Gues how long it takes me to have phpCMS or Typo running on Mac OS X? Or any other MySQL/PHP/Apache Webapp? Something between 30 seconds and a minute. Try that with any other Computer. Now they come with a jabber server and a java based oss blogger and a ton of other features that makes everyone who knows what these features mean drool.
I'd say the market for OS X Servers is pretty healthy and in for some steep and steady growth. All I can say is I'm sold. If there is any project due that requires me to deliver a server, Apple is going to be the first place I'm going to look.
I know some people who do in some cases, but I wouldn't exactly call that a standard procedure. Or call those people DB designers for that matter. 'Cause that is NOT database design. You design a DB best with a pen and a large sheet of paper. Or some drawing tool your extremely good at. SQL is the language you feed you results into the box so it builds a more or less representative imprint of the abstract reality you've designed. Which can be as relational as you want it to - as long as it meets the physical constraints of non-abstract reality. As soon as you put it onto a computer, you'll have to cut corners. That's the difference between a database _model_ and a database _implementation_. That takes stuff into account like DB load, DB Server Features and data types.
Types for instance - somewhat relevant when dealing with DB Servers and SQL - are a thing you don't want to touch with a ten-foot pole when designing a _model_.
I'm suprised a supposedly db expert guy get's all worked up about this and doesn't seem to be able to keep apples and pears apart.
Anyone initially designing a non-trivial DB with SQL and - on top of that - bitchering about this DB language not being rational deserves a clobbering. My 2 cents.
... can anyone of you fellow slashdotters see any which way Mickeysoft Windoze has an edge over todays Linux/x86 for standard working enviroments and Mac OS X for high end desktop computing experience? Could it just really be that MS has to get it's stuff together or else they're in for some serious business trouble?
Not only have I allways believed (known) that MS will be severely cornered by Linux/OSS, but I'm also starting to believe that they'll have a hard time positioning themselves between Linux and it's zero-fuss alternative Mac OS X.
I've been running Linux as my only OS since 3 years now and just recently got myself an iBook. I didn't change the OS and I have to say that I'm completely sold. Aqua has some quirky downsides compared to a well configured Fluxbox or Windowmaker, but all the rest is just one big consistency orgasm that makes up for it tenfold. The ease of a system that installs your printer by having it plugged into one of it's USB ports combined with a terminal that's two clicks away from running with Z-Shell and two clicks to get Apache running with PHP and MySQL simply is a completely different league than any Windows crap you can think of. So, once again, my question in a different way: How many years before Mickeysoft effectively loses it's monopoly?
I say 3 years. 2007 and they're de-throned. That was my call 2 years ago and I'm getting more and more shure about it by the minute.
Why does everything from Sun look so Über-ugly? Take Java for instance. Did you see the JMF demos? The whole setup was so dull. No wonder nobody noticed it. Same with the Java Desktop which is even crappier than some really haphazard themes I've seen on freshmeat. And now this. This looky extremely crappy by even the most modest standards in design and aestetics. It also work the other way, of course: How come everything from Macromedia looks cool, but has the operatability of some cheapo shareware app? Weird.
Make that little project or two you did in college "experience in database design with various projects". Make the internship where the boss asked your opinion "experience in IT consulting". f you did a good job at the one or other internship, ask for a brief describing your performance. Ask your internship patrons if you may make those '5 months' an effrective year in your resume. As a last resort you can move to the brink of lying. If your good enough you'll have no problem saying "Yeah, I got J2EE project experience" and learning all you need on the fly and in the evenings of your first half year. Don't forget; The HRs asking for 3-5 yrs. of experience were the same ones asking a minimum of 5 years in Java programming when Java was only 3 years old. HR usually doesn't know what they're asking for and will bit if you're not totally stupid and leave an impression that your up to the job, no matter if you have 1 year or 5 of experience.
'To get job security, developers need to position themselves as highly effective business-value generators, working with the rest of the company to solve common goals. If you sit in your cube waiting for a spec to be thrown over the wall, then you may be in for a wait -- that spec might be in an envelope on its way to Bangalore'
The man is so right on. I went freelancer a year ago myself. I have to stick right to the processes and problems in order for my IT stuff to deliver results that count. That's when IT work starts to be fun, actually has a meaning, produces happy customers and - on top of that - brings in the cash. I can only second what he says.
The Apple Wireless Keyboard is a full-size, full-featured keyboard that takes up very little desk space by limiting the footprint to the keys themselves. It works with Bluetooth at up to 10 meters and has a secure 128-bit, over-the-air encryption....And due to it's nifty extra-strong forward slant you can enjoy a full blown RSI even sooner than with usual cheapo keyboards.
Space saving is ok. Wireless with encryption is the only acceptable solution. But the Apple KBs extreme forward slant is nothing but super-crappy ergonomics. Period. That this KB wins a prize goes to show that design juries usually don't know squat about the subject they're ruling on.
As a former american citizen now living in germany I have to say I don't like the attitude the way US people think their 'free-speech' is the only 'free-speech' in the world and that germany and other countries trying to 'limit free speech' are somewhat 'unfree'. While I agree on that it's not an easy issue, it should be taken into account that speech is just about as free in germany and other western countries as it is in the US. Somebody like Kaplan for instance - a large type islam-fundamentalistic asshole - who has cause serious trouble in germany with so-called 'hate speech' and simular things can still walk around rather unhindred in germany, where as in the o-so-free-speech US they would've locked him away already for some dubious one-size-fits-all terrorist threat possibility charges or whatnot. Try to say 'f*ck' 'sh*t' and 'motherf*cker' on TV or even on slashdot and see how far you can get. How's that for free-speech? It's all got quite some US bias, this discussion.
This whole free speech issue is just a problem because some people in the US insist on officially threatening and insulting other people and call 'constitution!' whenever someone wants to get them for it. And even judges limit free speech in the US when it comes so far as what the germans call 'Volksverhetzung'. If I were to stand up and officially ask for the public to storm the white house and take down the goverment or fly some planes into public buildings the US authorities would take me in, free speech or not. Just like they would in germany. And for good reasons to. As you see, the differences aren't that big as one may think.
So to those bias-ridden comentators here: Just quit the rubbish your blowing out of your behind about the 'rest of the world' as opposed to the o-so-free US. It's not all that differenta situation alltogether.
Scientology didn't like that and there was quite some fuss afterwards.
Well, that's how you could put it. One could also say that back then the German Bureau for protection of the constitution ("Verfassungsschutz" - think "German NSA") officially anounced that they were observing COS. Which means that COS was (and still probably is) into some really bad stuff. It's not like he german NSA put organizations under observation every odd month. They usually keep such manners of dealing for Islamistic Extremists or Neo-Nazis. Or for the COS, for that matter. Does indicate what kind off a threat something like COS actually is to a democracy and it's freedom loving people. Therefore german authorities actually are a tad twitchy when it comes to COS. It's nothing less than their duty. I'm actually suprised that COS can go by so unhindred in the USA, home of the free (TM).
I still have a Sharp PC 1403 Pocket Computer. The near same PC 1402 was my first computer ever. I wanted portable over games (as in the ever present C64 back then). I've still got the 1403 on my desk, doing little tax calculations in Basic, printable on this cool little cash register printer. Anyway, it's got tons of special periferals and looks very much like this Sony thing with all the extra stuff and it's brushed brass/metal feeling. But: The Sharp PC 1403 runs 130 hours on two button-cell watch batteries and probably something like a decade when powered by the printers 4 mignon cells. Still have to find a modern portable computer to beat that.
Until then I'll settle for my current 12" iBook, which beats all others in price/performance/usability ratio. Oh, and it's OS doesn't suck either. Can't say that about the U50, can we?
What a silly way to try and display 'objectiveness'. I get the strong feeling some Perl freaks were involved in the evaluation tables design.
Where's readability?
Could it be that readability contradicts with 'programm shortness'? Ever tried to read through the shortest possible Perl solution to a problem? Exchange shortness for readability and Python will porbably 'win' hands down.
And what silly dork drew the line between 'scripting languages' and 'programm languages' ?? With 'Java not being a scripting language' and Python, Perl and Ruby being one. Whatever that's supposed to mean. Why this evaluitation may be objective on some narrow areas, in a whole it's somewhat pointless. I can add some other criteria that will have TCL or bash win in no time.
There will allways be an algorithim or a set of procedurals (wording ??) that will be able to describe any sequence (uncountable or not) of a limited set of glyphs. In the case of standard decimal fraction math that would be a set of ten digits. The question is only how to find the apropriate one. In other words: Encrypt the Bible with the best algorithim you can find and it's just a matter of (very long) time until someone finds an algorithim that decrypts it to a perfect edition of LotR. Random or not random is simply nothing but a question of the point of view taken in a certain case. Which makes me expect books like these to be a waste of time.
'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This SCO is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If 'e hadn't nailed 'tis Linux suit to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-COMPANY!!
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People who do usefull things in Flash?
No doubt, MM is a marketing driven company. And one of the rare profitable ones in the pure software business. And Macromedias Flash IDE sucks. It's near unusable for professional large scale developement of flash apps. Like almost every IDE they offer.
But nevertheless Flash is the most widespread professional rich media plattform. And it's a good one too.
The recent release of flash's PL ActionScript (V 2) has even has stepped on to a professional level with solid oop and error handling very simular to Java.
There are even serious OSS projects developing on it. Xical comes to mind as one.
So quit the flash bashing. There are flash sites that suck a lot. That's because every Idiot can grab a ripped Flash IDE and start clicking some crap together. Ok, I get that. But that doesn't mean Flash is bad. Just like bad Java apps won't make a bad java platform. Keep that in mind before you start ranting on what you don't know whoot about.
My current slant in taste is somewhat fitting: :-)
Two years ago I started listening to modern coffee house and contemporary easy listening music. I got completely hooked and spent a small fortune on various Cafe del Mar, Cafe Abstrait and Ministry of Sound Chillout compilations.
Lounge and Chillout are extremely good for backdropping serious IT work (serious == Linux, OSS and real programming). Interesting enough to keep you going and lighten you up, but unobstrusive enough so it won't go on your nerves. I even got my friends hooked to the style. Now that I have a lounge/chillout collection of considerable size I'm about to rip them, to save a years worth of presents for all my buddies.
That style of contemporary music is my tip for anyone looking for a nice way to color up his coding sessions.
Interogater: Where were you during the night of the 35th to 36th last month?
VoiP: Uuuuuhmmm....
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1.) .Net was and imho still is - to a large extent - a joke. What MS did was rename the .obj files from all their developement stuff to .net and start a big marketing boohey. Those laughing the most about .Net weren't the OSS people, it was the veteran MS developers, noticing all the vaporware about it. MS added a nice and neat VM, which in parts is so close to the Windows lowlevel stuff that it's hardly a VM and they 'invented' C#, pronounced C-Hash or Cash (=$$$) for short, a nice PL that rids some downsides of Java and C in one stroke. Well big fat hairy deal. The OSS community invents neat and inovative PLs every other week. Nothing new here, move on.
.Net disapears to were it came from and Mono becomes the one-size-fits-all technology for future OSS products. Who knows? I wouldn't be suprised. Just as I wouldn't be suprised if the Mono project at one time decides for themselves that they can do things better than MS (which they evidently can) and screw .Net compatability alltogether. After all, .Net was and still is mostly just a marketing gag anyway.
2) A group of OSS people saw some nice things to the whole 'plattform' and started programming it themselves. More power to them. I would've considered their time more worthwhile spend on a proper Font system for X or a layer that leverages Motif, QT and GTK into one big engine as to rid the Toolkit bloat of OSS, but it was their decision.
3) Mono is 'finished' into a solid 1.0. Great. People say it sports some cool stuff. That's nice. Thanks for the great work. I'm going to look at it sometime. NOT because it is a redoo of MS stuff. I for one don't give a doo-doo about Mickeysofts software products anymore since... well a very long time.
But I do like new tech-frontier OSS software so I'll probably support it. Looking at the way things are going just now it could very well be that
I do a lot of professional web and internet developement, but never thought of PHP being the cream of software technologies. Mostly due to the fact that it is 'just' a SSI language which mangles content and code to much for my taste. And for SSI stuff, Zope's TAL extension still is the most interessting imho.
Yet me, and everyone else in the field allways has been well aware of the fact that PHP is the 400 lb. Gorilla of SSI technologies and web developement platforms. And one of those OSS technologies that lead the field in their league. Feature and library laden, performant, well documented and with something like a bazillion active Inet and www related projects using it as primary PL.
What is begining to show now is that the libs and features are growing more and more dense and specialized for tasks that are known to be the most common way of doing things right. Such as extensive use of XML for content, object orientedness in developement and optimized acceleration for the languages primary field of use.
PHP is more and more becoming a one-size-fits-all primary choice for web related stuff, finaly completely dismissing ASP.NET, JSP and Cold Fusion as mere also-ran candidates. Even for those who initially consider using them.
Even though PHP isn't by far the cleanest of modern PL's - I would even say it's somewhat ugly compared to, let's say, Python - I'm begining to expect it to become an all time classic like C or C++.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!A ! ...UAHAHAHAHA! (etc.)
BWUAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
*GASP!*
*wipes tears from eyes*
I'll buy into the Linux isn't the heaven of security thing and also that we'll have some stuff heading our way once Unix desktops (Mac OS X and Linux) are mainstream and that there'll be some stuff to get sorted out. One being the ridance of the allmighty root.
But good heavens, what a load of bullcrap this article is.
Give me a break. Windows XP is evidently the most insecure OS on the Inet ever! You can probably even root the damn thing through it's media player using a pipe organ emulating modem tones. Every Idiot on this entire planet can write a Outlook-compatible VBScript twoliner that formats your HD, blows your UPC, floods the Net with "Bigger Dick NOW!" E-Mails and Sasser rippoffs and shuts down the power grid on your entire block.
And now these silly f*ckers through about with statistics listing the amount of security warnings and using them to rate the secureness of an OS? Give me a f*ckin' break, man. These people probably just got some Mickeysoft gold partner contract shoved up their behind and now wanna play nice with the dark side.
What a truckload of nonsense. I can't believe this makes it onto a IT webzine nowadays.
Not that long ago. Killed a nice Asus Mobo that way. Now I'm extra carefull doing that and always use a wide enough screwdriver that won't slip.
What a lot of bullcrap.
Who gives a doo-doo if both are monolithic. The world has yet to see a working and usefull modular OS that fits the theory model.
Windows isn't documented and open, you can't compile it yourself, therefore it's a GUI-Kernel chunckthat can't be seperated. You can't even get a server Windows without a GUI. The MS Shell is a bad joke and the whole OS has crappiness built into it so they have something to fix in the next release. In fact the whole point of windows is building a software that has the capability of becoming obsolete when the need arives.
Linux, on the other hand, has a completely different goal: technical excellence from the get go. x86 crappines aside - which actually does make Linux and Windows somewhat simular - they both are as far apart as operating systems and working enviroments can be. Except maybe for KDE aping windows crappines in usability in the default setup. That's a differen't story. I'll give them that.
The rest is plain and utter bull.
But one question I have is this: What market is currently being targetted by the OS X Servers?
The zero-fuss-open-source-aware,-non-x86-crappiness, fully-unix-compliant all-top-notch-reference-grade-quality open-source-goodies-preinstalled and operational out-of-the-box-with-two-mouseclicks-maximum market.
Gues how long it takes me to have phpCMS or Typo running on Mac OS X? Or any other MySQL/PHP/Apache Webapp? Something between 30 seconds and a minute. Try that with any other Computer. Now they come with a jabber server and a java based oss blogger and a ton of other features that makes everyone who knows what these features mean drool.
I'd say the market for OS X Servers is pretty healthy and in for some steep and steady growth.
All I can say is I'm sold. If there is any project due that requires me to deliver a server, Apple is going to be the first place I'm going to look.
I know some people who do in some cases, but I wouldn't exactly call that a standard procedure. Or call those people DB designers for that matter. 'Cause that is NOT database design.
You design a DB best with a pen and a large sheet of paper. Or some drawing tool your extremely good at.
SQL is the language you feed you results into the box so it builds a more or less representative imprint of the abstract reality you've designed. Which can be as relational as you want it to - as long as it meets the physical constraints of non-abstract reality. As soon as you put it onto a computer, you'll have to cut corners. That's the difference between a database _model_ and a database _implementation_. That takes stuff into account like DB load, DB Server Features and data types.
Types for instance - somewhat relevant when dealing with DB Servers and SQL - are a thing you don't want to touch with a ten-foot pole when designing a _model_.
I'm suprised a supposedly db expert guy get's all worked up about this and doesn't seem to be able to keep apples and pears apart.
Anyone initially designing a non-trivial DB with SQL and - on top of that - bitchering about this DB language not being rational deserves a clobbering.
My 2 cents.
... can anyone of you fellow slashdotters see any which way Mickeysoft Windoze has an edge over todays Linux/x86 for standard working enviroments and Mac OS X for high end desktop computing experience? Could it just really be that MS has to get it's stuff together or else they're in for some serious business trouble?
Not only have I allways believed (known) that MS will be severely cornered by Linux/OSS, but I'm also starting to believe that they'll have a hard time positioning themselves between Linux and it's zero-fuss alternative Mac OS X.
I've been running Linux as my only OS since 3 years now and just recently got myself an iBook. I didn't change the OS and I have to say that I'm completely sold. Aqua has some quirky downsides compared to a well configured Fluxbox or Windowmaker, but all the rest is just one big consistency orgasm that makes up for it tenfold. The ease of a system that installs your printer by having it plugged into one of it's USB ports combined with a terminal that's two clicks away from running with Z-Shell and two clicks to get Apache running with PHP and MySQL simply is a completely different league than any Windows crap you can think of.
So, once again, my question in a different way: How many years before Mickeysoft effectively loses it's monopoly?
I say 3 years. 2007 and they're de-throned. That was my call 2 years ago and I'm getting more and more shure about it by the minute.
Why does everything from Sun look so Über-ugly? Take Java for instance. Did you see the JMF demos? The whole setup was so dull. No wonder nobody noticed it. Same with the Java Desktop which is even crappier than some really haphazard themes I've seen on freshmeat.
And now this. This looky extremely crappy by even the most modest standards in design and aestetics.
It also work the other way, of course: How come everything from Macromedia looks cool, but has the operatability of some cheapo shareware app?
Weird.
Make that little project or two you did in college "experience in database design with various projects". Make the internship where the boss asked your opinion "experience in IT consulting". f you did a good job at the one or other internship, ask for a brief describing your performance. Ask your internship patrons if you may make those '5 months' an effrective year in your resume. As a last resort you can move to the brink of lying. If your good enough you'll have no problem saying "Yeah, I got J2EE project experience" and learning all you need on the fly and in the evenings of your first half year.
Don't forget; The HRs asking for 3-5 yrs. of experience were the same ones asking a minimum of 5 years in Java programming when Java was only 3 years old. HR usually doesn't know what they're asking for and will bit if you're not totally stupid and leave an impression that your up to the job, no matter if you have 1 year or 5 of experience.
'To get job security, developers need to position themselves as highly effective business-value generators, working with the rest of the company to solve common goals. If you sit in your cube waiting for a spec to be thrown over the wall, then you may be in for a wait -- that spec might be in an envelope on its way to Bangalore'
The man is so right on. I went freelancer a year ago myself. I have to stick right to the processes and problems in order for my IT stuff to deliver results that count. That's when IT work starts to be fun, actually has a meaning, produces happy customers and - on top of that - brings in the cash. I can only second what he says.
Right on. Mod parent up. :-)
I had that Idea myself. Maybe we should put together and patent it.
The Apple Wireless Keyboard is a full-size, full-featured keyboard that takes up very little desk space by limiting the footprint to the keys themselves. It works with Bluetooth at up to 10 meters and has a secure 128-bit, over-the-air encryption. ...And due to it's nifty extra-strong forward slant you can enjoy a full blown RSI even sooner than with usual cheapo keyboards.
Space saving is ok. Wireless with encryption is the only acceptable solution. But the Apple KBs extreme forward slant is nothing but super-crappy ergonomics. Period.
That this KB wins a prize goes to show that design juries usually don't know squat about the subject they're ruling on.
As a former american citizen now living in germany I have to say I don't like the attitude the way US people think their 'free-speech' is the only 'free-speech' in the world and that germany and other countries trying to 'limit free speech' are somewhat 'unfree'.
While I agree on that it's not an easy issue, it should be taken into account that speech is just about as free in germany and other western countries as it is in the US. Somebody like Kaplan for instance - a large type islam-fundamentalistic asshole - who has cause serious trouble in germany with so-called 'hate speech' and simular things can still walk around rather unhindred in germany, where as in the o-so-free-speech US they would've locked him away already for some dubious one-size-fits-all terrorist threat possibility charges or whatnot. Try to say 'f*ck' 'sh*t' and 'motherf*cker' on TV or even on slashdot and see how far you can get. How's that for free-speech? It's all got quite some US bias, this discussion.
This whole free speech issue is just a problem because some people in the US insist on officially threatening and insulting other people and call 'constitution!' whenever someone wants to get them for it. And even judges limit free speech in the US when it comes so far as what the germans call 'Volksverhetzung'. If I were to stand up and officially ask for the public to storm the white house and take down the goverment or fly some planes into public buildings the US authorities would take me in, free speech or not. Just like they would in germany. And for good reasons to.
As you see, the differences aren't that big as one may think.
So to those bias-ridden comentators here: Just quit the rubbish your blowing out of your behind about the 'rest of the world' as opposed to the o-so-free US. It's not all that differenta situation alltogether.
Scientology didn't like that and there was quite some fuss afterwards.
Well, that's how you could put it.
One could also say that back then the German Bureau for protection of the constitution ("Verfassungsschutz" - think "German NSA") officially anounced that they were observing COS. Which means that COS was (and still probably is) into some really bad stuff. It's not like he german NSA put organizations under observation every odd month. They usually keep such manners of dealing for Islamistic Extremists or Neo-Nazis. Or for the COS, for that matter.
Does indicate what kind off a threat something like COS actually is to a democracy and it's freedom loving people. Therefore german authorities actually are a tad twitchy when it comes to COS. It's nothing less than their duty. I'm actually suprised that COS can go by so unhindred in the USA, home of the free (TM).
I still have a Sharp PC 1403 Pocket Computer. The near same PC 1402 was my first computer ever. I wanted portable over games (as in the ever present C64 back then). I've still got the 1403 on my desk, doing little tax calculations in Basic, printable on this cool little cash register printer.
Anyway, it's got tons of special periferals and looks very much like this Sony thing with all the extra stuff and it's brushed brass/metal feeling.
But: The Sharp PC 1403 runs 130 hours on two button-cell watch batteries and probably something like a decade when powered by the printers 4 mignon cells. Still have to find a modern portable computer to beat that.
Until then I'll settle for my current 12" iBook, which beats all others in price/performance/usability ratio. Oh, and it's OS doesn't suck either. Can't say that about the U50, can we?
What a silly way to try and display 'objectiveness'.
I get the strong feeling some Perl freaks were involved in the evaluation tables design.
Where's readability?
Could it be that readability contradicts with 'programm shortness'?
Ever tried to read through the shortest possible Perl solution to a problem? Exchange shortness for readability and Python will porbably 'win' hands down.
And what silly dork drew the line between 'scripting languages' and 'programm languages' ?? With 'Java not being a scripting language' and Python, Perl and Ruby being one. Whatever that's supposed to mean.
Why this evaluitation may be objective on some narrow areas, in a whole it's somewhat pointless. I can add some other criteria that will have TCL or bash win in no time.
There will allways be an algorithim or a set of procedurals (wording ??) that will be able to describe any sequence (uncountable or not) of a limited set of glyphs. In the case of standard decimal fraction math that would be a set of ten digits.
The question is only how to find the apropriate one.
In other words: Encrypt the Bible with the best algorithim you can find and it's just a matter of (very long) time until someone finds an algorithim that decrypts it to a perfect edition of LotR.
Random or not random is simply nothing but a question of the point of view taken in a certain case.
Which makes me expect books like these to be a waste of time.
'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This SCO is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If 'e hadn't nailed 'tis Linux suit to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-COMPANY!!
"Jetzt gibt's dann auch bei McDonalds wieder das Sparmenü. Das kann man sich dann sparen."
Translates to something like:
"Now McDonalds will have the Save-Menu again. That you can save yourself then."