If the job you can get pays bad but has a good superiour/senior developer and cool projects in the pipeline - take it. I personally wouldn't want an entry into the field with reasonable to good payment but a team and company that are a pain. Once you've gotten yourself some respect-time, you can allways shift your priorities into a steep career track or - if you're passionate about IT - into a freelance career. The latter is what I did and I must say I really enjoy it. I don't earn more (actually rather less at the moment) but I don't have a sucker for a boss who won't listen to what I say in my field of expertise. I can focus on the things I like to do (Linux / OSS) and the rest of the time I can consider if I'm in a squeeze and need the money or if I can turn down a bad job.
Bottom Line: If the pay is fine for what you need and the job looks interessting: take it. Don't compare to much with others on salary only.
Vendors make more windows drivers than Linux drivers? I am absolutely over-f*cking welmed.
Heavens crickey, man. Get a grip. Are you shure you want to write about computer stuff?
And mentioning Win95 to rave about hardware support is so utterly silly it hurts. It's like showing the Amiga as a good use of grafics. I suggest trying a Mac if you want out-of-the box multimedia support and 100% hardware compliance. Otherwise I'd suggest you don't buy the hardware if the vendor doesn't offer drivers for your choice of OS. This is common sense. And this article displays a tad lack thereof.
Or maybe it's just the usual nowadays user who can't sort the various concepts out. It'll be interessting watching these people entering the Linux field. I recently met a hardware vendor who told me he wouldn't deal with Linux because Microsoft would buy Linux anyway anytime soon. I presume this article was written in a simular perception of things. Not that he was stupid, he just didn't know what he was talking about. Linux advocates or computer savy in general are about to get more of this kind of crap as OSS becomes mainstream. I for my part am practicing in staying calm. Not that I always manage. QED.
My predictions for Linux reaching critical mass in germany haven't changed. Right now it'd be roughly another 12 months for it to happen. And I still _do_ expect germany to be the first. I'm starting to meet more people somehow involved in Linux than I can count. Once Linux is rolling in that direction I also expect things to go very fast. Remember how fast Windows95 gained critical mass when all of us were saying 'Who the heck needs an OS that uses 50 MB of diskspace?' and 'Gee, look at Geos on PTS DOS, this is the future of PC operating systems'.
They are rather related to zero-cost voluntary software developement, no matter if OSS or not. It just happens that currently both are often the same.
I'm currently develpoing OSS and getting paid to do it. Overall consitency goes way over 'cream-code'. My partners don't care about dirty hacks as long as the result is usable and looks good. Thus I'm cutting corners in code-beauty. It's going to be GPLs OSS none the less.
...is Jacob Nielsen. Sorry to say that, but being someone who does web design and web related programming for a living I have to say the guy's a complete moron in anything he claims to be an expert in. The fact that a large bunch of wannabe usability and 'information design' experts hail him as the cream-of-the-web-crop doesn't make things better. Go ahead and mod me down - it just had to be said.
...is a doctor. He has a friend - also a doctor - who has the pasttime of collecting (!) small to medium sized hydro electric plants and steam engines. And this is in germany (Sauerland and the surroundings). Here the rights to use hydroelectricity are bound to the plant itself. I've read here that you need a permit and have to pay lots of money. I suggest you get the local politicians interessted in this and have the county join in on a project - just to save you some hassle with the work and paperwork. Otherwise I'd suggest you find out if a wind generator costs any fee and is feasable or you take solar right from the start. These hydroplants are very difficult to build and require experience and massive building (damming the river, lots of concrete, and all that).
I consider them way ahead of time. And I'm glad to see Zope and one of it's major products, Plone, getting this recognition. I consider Zope vastly superior to any other available Application Server. It's suitable for rapid and large scale developement likewise. If you want to know how the future of databases and high level programming of custom apps will look like, check out Zope.
Just my thoughts. Maybe not dying, but being forced back in line. MS may be a monopoly in software, but software is rapidly turning into raw material that can be plucked of the net at near zero cost. I think eventually MS will catch the drift and finally adjust their businessmodel. If they do a good job they'll might even stay a big player - but a service oriented one. Nobody is going to make a living from selling inhouse software only in 5 years from now. Exept maybe for companys doing very exotic stuff.
..gald about living in the states. I live in germany. We've got the worlds most complex tax law with special laws and rules for every case you can think of. 70% of all worldwide publications dealing with tax-law are for the german tax law. That should give you an impression of paperwork. If you think the US is tough in terms of paperwork, come to germany. I'm a freelancer and have actually got a manual for my upcoming 2003 anual tax decleration lying right next to me now. I keep pushing it in front of me until the very last moment - as usual It's 500 pages thick and doesn't even cover all the stuff I'd really need to know. I'm cutting corners here and there, like declareing purchases from abroad as normal ones. Screw the extra 4% percent I'd get back on income-related VAT (or toll in this case), it's much less work for me and I figure if they ever get pissy with me for not declaring those 50 $ a year properly, they'll notice they'll actually owe me something rather than otherwise. Burocracy is currently the single largest problem in germanys sick economy. If the politicians don't fix it and don't fix it quick, we're going to be back in post-war-land faster than you can say 'Achtung, baby!'.
This is a truely breathtaking impressive hack. By people who've been playing Soul Calibur for more than 3 years every day. The last part would actually ask for some stupid jokes, but as somebody who writes software for a living I must say I'm really impressed by this cool piece of work. And I really don't wanna compete with those guys in Soul Calibur.:-)
Now quality counts. Steven Jobs did 2 years ago what in 5 years from now the rest of the IT corporations will notice as the way to go. Aside from the price/raw performance ratio current Macs kick any other computer up and down the street in terms of conceptual consequence. Windows/x86 just plain sucks and Linux and Co. are a geeky weedy mess that begs serious user initiative, including all the ups and downs, a large portion of them due to general overall x86 suckage.
Macs on the other hand work. You turn them on and they work. It started with the IMac, with which you didn't even have to calibrate the screen. And was emphasized with those fully digital cinema TFT displays.
BTW: On my workstations I'm all Linux since the last 2.5 years. But I'm going to get myself a 12" IBook next week. Best and cheapest subnote available.
No, there is no use denying it: Macs rock, and with a Windows plattform growing crappier on a daily basis (Nazi registration, crappy rich media integration, viruses and all) they're going to be the next plattform for getting the job done hassle free. Yes, it's true: Steve Jobs, the visonary, did the only right thing: taking a reference grade quality Unix and adding a kick-ass GUI. I'm glad it's paying of for him. And since I've heard my wife using the Konqueror ask 'which button shall I click with?' more than twenty times I've even quit the silly 'only one mouse button' jokes. I tell you what: If this company does everything right, between a future economy class workhorse plattform (Linux) and a sleek hightec enduser appliance (Mac), there won't be much room for Microsuck Windows. Mark my word!
Yepp. Just not sold by the RIAA. Or the european equivalent. Here's my special tip from last Winter: http://home.t-online.de/home/ullavandaele n/index.h tm
When I find a CD I like and I've got the money - I buy it.
Unfortunately I found a style of music I got fond of last year: modern cafe house music / lounge and modern easy listening. Nice stuff to relax and tune out. Great soundtracks for coding too.
The downsides: Lot's of compilations out there. Some very good ones in serials. Nothing of that kind on gnutella.
The upsides: You usually get a lot (dual CDs) or very good quality music for your money. And they also have very good re-listening qualities.
... I actually read the article. The investigation team seams to after some very extreme stuff. Anyhow I find it curious that they mentioned something like near-european like tolerance of pornography. What's that supposed to mean? Yes, believe it or not, you can see naked women on billboards advertising skin lotion. You can see naked women (and/or men) on magazines. Open them up and you see: Guess what? Naked women and/or men. Just that. No extreme posing, no sick and somewhat unaestetic pussy tearing or any of that kind of stuff. As prudish as a large portion of US citizens may be, the most extreme (and sick) porn I've ever seen comes from the US. I strongly suspect there's a link there somewhere. I met an american once who noticed the same. He said like 'Yeah, here in germany you keep turning your head for those magazines laid out right next to the newspaper and you're all mixed why no one's irritated. But when you look inside it's cuddly inocent naked girls, much softer porn than what you see in the american editions.' Right on. I'd say it may be time for you across the pond to lighten up a little, no? Ok, so some people say the US may be founded by all the crazy religious fanatics that got chucked out of europe a few centuries ago, but aren't things changing for the better over there? Or are they getting whorse?
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My first projects involved webdesign and heavy SMIL and Real Server developement related work. That's about 5 years ago. Even back then their site was the crappiest I could think of. It was a real bad PITA to reach usable information for _anything_ related to the real player or SMIL developement and it allways has been near to impossible to get a fresh realplayer within any resonable and sane amount of time. Surfing on their site for longer than a minute would cause noticable brain-cell rott and after 90 seconds the latest I allways would get seriously angry over such a piece of crap in navigation and comprehensability. In fact, I'm shure this is one of the reasons why Real isn't that popular anymore. Their site is a prime example for web design that truly sucks snails though straws. I even wrote a rant about that something like 4 years ago where I mentioned Real as a prime example of a site being crappy even with 'professional' use of tabled layout and grafics. If this company doesn't change it's site soon, I'm going to celebrate their death even though their web technologies (including SMIL) and their player aren't half bad. Contrary to what slashdotters usually say.
I know how you do this: Drink enough Sake until you believe that the wood doesn't exist. Then you'll notice that it's not the wood that's bending, but yourself.
A friend of mine who does desktop work on Linux exclusively (lot's of developement) recently compiled himslef a 2.6 kernel and reports a very large, noticable increase in overall speed. I'm using Debian Woody with a Nvidia Patched 2.4 kernel, so I'm reluctant to go through all the backporting and Nvidia recompiling fuss, but I'll guess I'm gonna do it sooner than I initially thought.
...I've just thought twice and read your comments. Youre talking about petabyte data clusters and how near impossible they are and how _Google_ isn't going to delete your mail and all that. I'd say the Google guys really had the rest of the world and even you geeks in for a ride, didn't they? This IS the aftermath of an april fools joke. And really good one I might add. Until I'm actually using a thing called GMail delivered by Google I won't be convinced otherwise. I was laughing because even Deutschlandfunk had the message about GMail in their science radio show on saturday, obviously not having gotten it. But seeing this on/. beats it.:-)
I thought this whole GMail thing was an april fool by Google, supported by a set of other sites, such as the german www.spiegel.de. Since a google search for GMail didn't turn up anything interessting I thought this to be a fact. Can anybody 100% positively confirm that Google is infact going to start this service? It actually does sound like an april fool to me.
I'm one of the lucky few to get one of the last copies of Corel Draw 9 for Linux. It makes up for one of the largest gaps on Linux to date. Professional grafics tools. It's also heavyly base on Wine, but it runs smooth and over the course of the last 2 years I've done some serious work with it. I'd wish Corel would join with Trolltec and start porting their apps to QT, making them copmletely plattform agnostic. A lot of people would be willing to make the switch from Macromedia and Adobe back to a solid Draw and Photo Paint if only they would run on Linux.
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If the job you can get pays bad but has a good superiour/senior developer and cool projects in the pipeline - take it. I personally wouldn't want an entry into the field with reasonable to good payment but a team and company that are a pain.
Once you've gotten yourself some respect-time, you can allways shift your priorities into a steep career track or - if you're passionate about IT - into a freelance career. The latter is what I did and I must say I really enjoy it. I don't earn more (actually rather less at the moment) but I don't have a sucker for a boss who won't listen to what I say in my field of expertise. I can focus on the things I like to do (Linux / OSS) and the rest of the time I can consider if I'm in a squeeze and need the money or if I can turn down a bad job.
Bottom Line: If the pay is fine for what you need and the job looks interessting: take it. Don't compare to much with others on salary only.
Vendors make more windows drivers than Linux drivers? I am absolutely over-f*cking welmed.
Heavens crickey, man. Get a grip. Are you shure you want to write about computer stuff?
And mentioning Win95 to rave about hardware support is so utterly silly it hurts. It's like showing the Amiga as a good use of grafics.
I suggest trying a Mac if you want out-of-the box multimedia support and 100% hardware compliance.
Otherwise I'd suggest you don't buy the hardware if the vendor doesn't offer drivers for your choice of OS. This is common sense. And this article displays a tad lack thereof.
Or maybe it's just the usual nowadays user who can't sort the various concepts out. It'll be interessting watching these people entering the Linux field. I recently met a hardware vendor who told me he wouldn't deal with Linux because Microsoft would buy Linux anyway anytime soon. I presume this article was written in a simular perception of things. Not that he was stupid, he just didn't know what he was talking about.
Linux advocates or computer savy in general are about to get more of this kind of crap as OSS becomes mainstream. I for my part am practicing in staying calm. Not that I always manage. QED.
My predictions for Linux reaching critical mass in germany haven't changed. Right now it'd be roughly another 12 months for it to happen. And I still _do_ expect germany to be the first. I'm starting to meet more people somehow involved in Linux than I can count.
Once Linux is rolling in that direction I also expect things to go very fast. Remember how fast Windows95 gained critical mass when all of us were saying 'Who the heck needs an OS that uses 50 MB of diskspace?' and 'Gee, look at Geos on PTS DOS, this is the future of PC operating systems'.
They are rather related to zero-cost voluntary software developement, no matter if OSS or not. It just happens that currently both are often the same.
I'm currently develpoing OSS and getting paid to do it. Overall consitency goes way over 'cream-code'.
My partners don't care about dirty hacks as long as the result is usable and looks good. Thus I'm cutting corners in code-beauty. It's going to be GPLs OSS none the less.
...is Jacob Nielsen. Sorry to say that, but being someone who does web design and web related programming for a living I have to say the guy's a complete moron in anything he claims to be an expert in.
The fact that a large bunch of wannabe usability and 'information design' experts hail him as the cream-of-the-web-crop doesn't make things better.
Go ahead and mod me down - it just had to be said.
Because Windows is the OS that couldn't seperate the two concepts.
...is a doctor. He has a friend - also a doctor - who has the pasttime of collecting (!) small to medium sized hydro electric plants and steam engines. And this is in germany (Sauerland and the surroundings).
Here the rights to use hydroelectricity are bound to the plant itself.
I've read here that you need a permit and have to pay lots of money. I suggest you get the local politicians interessted in this and have the county join in on a project - just to save you some hassle with the work and paperwork.
Otherwise I'd suggest you find out if a wind generator costs any fee and is feasable or you take solar right from the start.
These hydroplants are very difficult to build and require experience and massive building (damming the river, lots of concrete, and all that).
I consider them way ahead of time.
And I'm glad to see Zope and one of it's major products, Plone, getting this recognition. I consider Zope vastly superior to any other available Application Server. It's suitable for rapid and large scale developement likewise. If you want to know how the future of databases and high level programming of custom apps will look like, check out Zope.
Just my thoughts. Maybe not dying, but being forced back in line. MS may be a monopoly in software, but software is rapidly turning into raw material that can be plucked of the net at near zero cost. I think eventually MS will catch the drift and finally adjust their businessmodel. If they do a good job they'll might even stay a big player - but a service oriented one. Nobody is going to make a living from selling inhouse software only in 5 years from now. Exept maybe for companys doing very exotic stuff.
..gald about living in the states.
I live in germany. We've got the worlds most complex tax law with special laws and rules for every case you can think of. 70% of all worldwide publications dealing with tax-law are for the german tax law. That should give you an impression of paperwork. If you think the US is tough in terms of paperwork, come to germany.
I'm a freelancer and have actually got a manual for my upcoming 2003 anual tax decleration lying right next to me now. I keep pushing it in front of me until the very last moment - as usual It's 500 pages thick and doesn't even cover all the stuff I'd really need to know. I'm cutting corners here and there, like declareing purchases from abroad as normal ones. Screw the extra 4% percent I'd get back on income-related VAT (or toll in this case), it's much less work for me and I figure if they ever get pissy with me for not declaring those 50 $ a year properly, they'll notice they'll actually owe me something rather than otherwise.
Burocracy is currently the single largest problem in germanys sick economy. If the politicians don't fix it and don't fix it quick, we're going to be back in post-war-land faster than you can say 'Achtung, baby!'.
I'd call it corporate socialisim.
This is a truely breathtaking impressive hack. By people who've been playing Soul Calibur for more than 3 years every day. The last part would actually ask for some stupid jokes, but as somebody who writes software for a living I must say I'm really impressed by this cool piece of work. :-)
And I really don't wanna compete with those guys in Soul Calibur.
Now quality counts.
Steven Jobs did 2 years ago what in 5 years from now the rest of the IT corporations will notice as the way to go. Aside from the price/raw performance ratio current Macs kick any other computer up and down the street in terms of conceptual consequence.
Windows/x86 just plain sucks and Linux and Co. are a geeky weedy mess that begs serious user initiative, including all the ups and downs, a large portion of them due to general overall x86 suckage.
Macs on the other hand work. You turn them on and they work. It started with the IMac, with which you didn't even have to calibrate the screen. And was emphasized with those fully digital cinema TFT displays.
BTW: On my workstations I'm all Linux since the last 2.5 years. But I'm going to get myself a 12" IBook next week. Best and cheapest subnote available.
No, there is no use denying it: Macs rock, and with a Windows plattform growing crappier on a daily basis (Nazi registration, crappy rich media integration, viruses and all) they're going to be the next plattform for getting the job done hassle free.
Yes, it's true: Steve Jobs, the visonary, did the only right thing: taking a reference grade quality Unix and adding a kick-ass GUI. I'm glad it's paying of for him. And since I've heard my wife using the Konqueror ask 'which button shall I click with?' more than twenty times I've even quit the silly 'only one mouse button' jokes.
I tell you what: If this company does everything right, between a future economy class workhorse plattform (Linux) and a sleek hightec enduser appliance (Mac), there won't be much room for Microsuck Windows. Mark my word!
Yepp. Just not sold by the RIAA. Or the european equivalent.e n/index.h tm
Here's my special tip from last Winter:
http://home.t-online.de/home/ullavandael
Well, the current Nelly Furtado longplay isn't _that_ bad. I actually bought it.
When I find a CD I like and I've got the money - I buy it.
Unfortunately I found a style of music I got fond of last year: modern cafe house music / lounge and modern easy listening. Nice stuff to relax and tune out. Great soundtracks for coding too.
The downsides: Lot's of compilations out there. Some very good ones in serials.
Nothing of that kind on gnutella.
The upsides: You usually get a lot (dual CDs) or very good quality music for your money. And they also have very good re-listening qualities.
... I actually read the article.
The investigation team seams to after some very extreme stuff.
Anyhow I find it curious that they mentioned something like near-european like tolerance of pornography. What's that supposed to mean?
Yes, believe it or not, you can see naked women on billboards advertising skin lotion. You can see naked women (and/or men) on magazines. Open them up and you see: Guess what? Naked women and/or men. Just that. No extreme posing, no sick and somewhat unaestetic pussy tearing or any of that kind of stuff.
As prudish as a large portion of US citizens may be, the most extreme (and sick) porn I've ever seen comes from the US. I strongly suspect there's a link there somewhere.
I met an american once who noticed the same. He said like 'Yeah, here in germany you keep turning your head for those magazines laid out right next to the newspaper and you're all mixed why no one's irritated. But when you look inside it's cuddly inocent naked girls, much softer porn than what you see in the american editions.' Right on.
I'd say it may be time for you across the pond to lighten up a little, no? Ok, so some people say the US may be founded by all the crazy religious fanatics that got chucked out of europe a few centuries ago, but aren't things changing for the better over there? Or are they getting whorse?
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My first projects involved webdesign and heavy SMIL and Real Server developement related work. That's about 5 years ago. Even back then their site was the crappiest I could think of. It was a real bad PITA to reach usable information for _anything_ related to the real player or SMIL developement and it allways has been near to impossible to get a fresh realplayer within any resonable and sane amount of time. Surfing on their site for longer than a minute would cause noticable brain-cell rott and after 90 seconds the latest I allways would get seriously angry over such a piece of crap in navigation and comprehensability.
In fact, I'm shure this is one of the reasons why Real isn't that popular anymore.
Their site is a prime example for web design that truly sucks snails though straws. I even wrote a rant about that something like 4 years ago where I mentioned Real as a prime example of a site being crappy even with 'professional' use of tabled layout and grafics.
If this company doesn't change it's site soon, I'm going to celebrate their death even though their web technologies (including SMIL) and their player aren't half bad. Contrary to what slashdotters usually say.
I know how you do this:
Drink enough Sake until you believe that the wood doesn't exist. Then you'll notice that it's not the wood that's bending, but yourself.
A friend of mine who does desktop work on Linux exclusively (lot's of developement) recently compiled himslef a 2.6 kernel and reports a very large, noticable increase in overall speed.
I'm using Debian Woody with a Nvidia Patched 2.4 kernel, so I'm reluctant to go through all the backporting and Nvidia recompiling fuss, but I'll guess I'm gonna do it sooner than I initially thought.
...I've just thought twice and read your comments. Youre talking about petabyte data clusters and how near impossible they are and how _Google_ isn't going to delete your mail and all that. /. beats it. :-)
I'd say the Google guys really had the rest of the world and even you geeks in for a ride, didn't they?
This IS the aftermath of an april fools joke. And really good one I might add. Until I'm actually using a thing called GMail delivered by Google I won't be convinced otherwise.
I was laughing because even Deutschlandfunk had the message about GMail in their science radio show on saturday, obviously not having gotten it. But seeing this on
I thought this whole GMail thing was an april fool by Google, supported by a set of other sites, such as the german www.spiegel.de. Since a google search for GMail didn't turn up anything interessting I thought this to be a fact.
Can anybody 100% positively confirm that Google is infact going to start this service?
It actually does sound like an april fool to me.
...even I would make nice with Microsoft.
I'm one of the lucky few to get one of the last copies of Corel Draw 9 for Linux.
It makes up for one of the largest gaps on Linux to date. Professional grafics tools.
It's also heavyly base on Wine, but it runs smooth and over the course of the last 2 years I've done some serious work with it.
I'd wish Corel would join with Trolltec and start porting their apps to QT, making them copmletely plattform agnostic. A lot of people would be willing to make the switch from Macromedia and Adobe back to a solid Draw and Photo Paint if only they would run on Linux.