I agree with the above poster. I fail to see how Open Source does anything to cause a loss of jobs in America. For the most part, companies will not just sit on their saved cash, the will spend it somewhere. R&D, more hardware, *gasp* more employees -- there are all sorts of places to use money that has been saved by not having to pay a ton for the base software items a company needs to run its business.
Re:Whats wrong with Proprietary Everything
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Microsoft has nothing to do with motivating open source.
That's a pretty naive statement. Sure GNU and free software was around, but how many people and companies now support OSS because of their disdain toward MS? The new licensing scheme released by MS is pushing even more people into the OSS camp and thus motivating them.
I believe it is a yin and yang type of thing. Without the single big closed source company driving people away, OSS may never have gotten the critical mass of users that it has today.
Makes absolutely no sense. If you walk up to a cop and hand him the evidence he did not need a search warrant. The cops can then take said evidence and analyze it as long as they want.
Looks like going with an Athlon will save you ~$40. The athlon 64 3000 is going for ~$210 with the P4 3.06 going for ~$250.
I'm not seeing where the Intel CPUs are twice that of AMDs. The CPU price is only a small part of building a system anymore anyways. The graphics card, monitor, and RAM is where most of your money will (and should) go.
DB rocks. I went to one while on vacation once. At the time they had many of the sit in video games(driving, flying, meching) and after having a few drinks it was great watching others try to play:)
Getting half an hour excercise per day can be hard.
So from the time you get up in the morning to the time you go to bed at night you don't have a spare 30 minutes to an hour 3 days a week? Not having the time to and not having the motivation to are to vastly different things.
I also think that the reason that so much of the US is overweight, despite the obsession with a trim appearance, is because the people care about it for the wrong reason.
I totally agree with the above statement. I watch people around me go on diet after diet trying to get that trim appearance, but never exercise. I wish people would look at being trim as a side effect of being healthy and not as a goal in of itself.
Same here. Growing up I had a room above the garage with my own window AC unit. When I moved out I was cutting my computers off at night to save electricity, but could not fall asleep. Didn't take long to figure out that dead quiet was not good for me to sleep. A little fan noise is all I needed:)
There needs to be ever raising profit for the stock to grow.
Exactly. Stock prices represent possible future earnings. Growth is key. We all know that Google is a great search engine, but what are they going to do to continue to grow earnings 1/5/10 years from now?
I've been trying to figure out the same thing. Recently my state instituted the "Education Lottery", and is giving out all kinds of money to people who go to college in-state and had a B average in high school. Pisses me off that I missed out on the stupidity of others to pay my way through school.:p
1) build it simple, 2) build it quickly, 3) refactor
I agree fully with this. You should get requirements and then work out short timeframes to releases. At each release evaulate what requirements are left, then add/remove as needed and go again. Many people fail to see though that this type of development requires a strong leader and a good bit of planning to decide which feature is going be in which release, etc...
though you appear to be an anti-XP zealot
I can see why many people are like this because developers use "I'm doing XP programming" as an excuse for everything under the sun. No documentation, design, project plan, etc... are all things I have gotten the XP excuse about.
Maybe the original poster wasn't talking about patterns, but *Java* patterns. Patterns are generally supposed to be implementation independent. Personally, I would be much quicker to read a book called Distributed Architecture Patterns than J2EE patterns. In my mind all the patterns in the J2EE book should be subsets of the larger concepts presented in a Distributed Architecture book.
Re:Still Not Real Clear on Design Patterns...
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Chances are if you can understand how/why, then you didn't need the book to begin with.
I beg to differ. Design patterns are not just about showing problems and solutions. They are also to help for a common vocabulary among the people who use them. Instead of me having to explain that I used a pool of small objects with intrinsic and extrinsic state to solve this problem I can just say Flyweight.
Design patterns should be taught in school as exercises for the common problems they'll run into, not really a place to start when trying to solve a problem.
Design patterns are the perfect place to start solving a problem. As you break a problem down into smaller parts you can start solving pieces just by applying a pattern. If everyone on the team is knowledgable of patterns the "simple" parts of the architecture can be dealt with quickly. This leaves more time to work on the complex architecture issues.
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I believe it's specific to OOP
OOP Design patterns are the only patterns specific to OOP:)
Deisgn patterns were first developed by an architect named Christopher Alexander. In his book A Pattern Language he used them to help present common design problems and solutions to other architects. Patterns are as much as a best practices book as they are a communication tool.
When I went to school I seem to remember having lots of choices. The first one was what school I wanted to attend. Then I could live on or off campus, decide on parking, and *gasp* even pick the classes I wanted to take.
UF going after filesharing for probably a couple of reasons. First is that trading music you don't own is illegal. Second is that all the P2Pers are probably slowing down the network for students trying to use it for uh...SCHOOL.
I dislike the RIAA just as much as anyone else, but if you really want to show them, boycott them completely. Downloading music only gives them creditability when they say P2P is destroyiny their market, instead of the crap they are trying to sell. If everyone for 6-12 months decided that they were not going to listen to any new music(MTV, radio, buy CDs, d/l off Kaaza), it would not take long for things to change.
I tend agree here. In my last job we spent 6 months looking for someone. It wasn't flashy work(ASP, VB, MSSQL, XML, XSL, FOP), but it is a job. When we finally hired someone I gave the OK not because he knew these skills, but because he showed me he was excited about tech and was a smart guy.
I just took another job (~2 months ago) and the first week there I'm doing tech interviews again. Maybe the 150k/year silicon valley market has dried up, but from where I'm sitting I could probably walk into 2 maybe 3 positions tomorrow if I had to.
I agree that while Point Break isn't going to win any awards it is a fun movie to watch whenever it is on. I think peoples backgrounds play a big part in whether or not they like a movie though. Since I surf and have sky-dived before PB seems like a fun flic to watch. Others who may or may not know the joy of those things probably don't understand the motive of the characters in a movie like PB.
how could Smith do that when in M1 it was established that agents could only jump into plugged-in people?
By the time M2 comes around Smith is no longer an agent. Besides that, the whole premise of the movie from 1-3 is that the human brain is a large set of electical impulses that can be manipulated by being plugged in and out of programs. It was never much of a leap(for me at least) to see the Smith program get d/led into a human brain through the same mechanism that the humans were getting up/down linked.
Look at Europe (guns are not "outlawed" but generally it's not quite easy to get a gun owner's license since you have to pass very strict psychological tests), with a lot less guns, and a lot less violence on the street, and no stupid "let's keep guns legal and easy to acquire, so that I can shoot my neighbours and/or my family when I want to" shit.
Facts? Links? Can you point me to a real news site that shows crime rates before and after the gun ban in particular European countries?
Guns will always be easy for criminals to find. It is illegal for a covicted felon to posses a gun now, but they still manage to get them. Outlawing guns for everyone will not change the landscape as far as criminals are concerned.
Well, if the ACLU does not fight this then it would confirm suspicions that they care more about pushing a left-wing agenda than defending the rights of all Americans.
The only way television could compete with that natural phenomenon would be to broadcast better and more attractive programmes, i.e., not just as good as before but actually better.
More attractive programs can help, but TV as a medium is dying. There are more avenues of entertainment competing today than ever before. Just in the TV sector alone, people have 100s of choices of what to watch from sports, news, movies, sitcoms, cartoons, etc... All of these choices dilute ratings. Since no sane person can really check whats on every channel, people find some stuff they like and go about their routine.
Now take a look at all the other forms of entertainment I can have today. Computers(games+inet), cheap communications(cell, IM, etc...), sports(spurred on by a semi-health kick), and the list goes on and on. Commercial TV as we know it today I believe will eventually die. It will be replaced with some sort of on demand pay per view type service. Most people will end up owning TVs to watch things like DVDs, play video games, and catch the occasional news show.
I find the "second run" stations [TNT, WGN, WB, and UPN] to do a much better job at making the good shows available.
I agree. For some reason I really enjoy watching Law and Order, especially the older ones. I know that during the week from 7pm to sometimes 10pm I can turn on TnT and catch an episode(or now NBA, so I consider it a win-win:) ). I don't even know what station the originals air on, and come to think of it I am not even sure if they are still making new ones.
I would think they do until something is done to make them question that trust. This is exactly what happened here and MS acted the way any other company would have acted.
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I agree with the above poster. I fail to see how Open Source does anything to cause a loss of jobs in America. For the most part, companies will not just sit on their saved cash, the will spend it somewhere. R&D, more hardware, *gasp* more employees -- there are all sorts of places to use money that has been saved by not having to pay a ton for the base software items a company needs to run its business.
Microsoft has nothing to do with motivating open source.
That's a pretty naive statement. Sure GNU and free software was around, but how many people and companies now support OSS because of their disdain toward MS? The new licensing scheme released by MS is pushing even more people into the OSS camp and thus motivating them.
I believe it is a yin and yang type of thing. Without the single big closed source company driving people away, OSS may never have gotten the critical mass of users that it has today.
Makes absolutely no sense. If you walk up to a cop and hand him the evidence he did not need a search warrant. The cops can then take said evidence and analyze it as long as they want.
Looks like going with an Athlon will save you ~$40. The athlon 64 3000 is going for ~$210 with the P4 3.06 going for ~$250.
I'm not seeing where the Intel CPUs are twice that of AMDs. The CPU price is only a small part of building a system anymore anyways. The graphics card, monitor, and RAM is where most of your money will (and should) go.
DB rocks. I went to one while on vacation once. At the time they had many of the sit in video games(driving, flying, meching) and after having a few drinks it was great watching others try to play :)
Getting half an hour excercise per day can be hard.
So from the time you get up in the morning to the time you go to bed at night you don't have a spare 30 minutes to an hour 3 days a week? Not having the time to and not having the motivation to are to vastly different things.
I also think that the reason that so much of the US is overweight, despite the obsession with a trim appearance, is because the people care about it for the wrong reason.
I totally agree with the above statement. I watch people around me go on diet after diet trying to get that trim appearance, but never exercise. I wish people would look at being trim as a side effect of being healthy and not as a goal in of itself.
It frightens me that you were one of the ten people who watched Gigli to know that there were worse movies last year.
Same here. Growing up I had a room above the garage with my own window AC unit. When I moved out I was cutting my computers off at night to save electricity, but could not fall asleep. Didn't take long to figure out that dead quiet was not good for me to sleep. A little fan noise is all I needed :)
There needs to be ever raising profit for the stock to grow.
Exactly. Stock prices represent possible future earnings. Growth is key. We all know that Google is a great search engine, but what are they going to do to continue to grow earnings 1/5/10 years from now?
most people are too fvcking lazy to apply for the damn scholarship
Damn straight. Nothing pisses me off more than some lazy ass complaining that it is someone elses fault why their life sucks.
I've been trying to figure out the same thing. Recently my state instituted the "Education Lottery", and is giving out all kinds of money to people who go to college in-state and had a B average in high school. Pisses me off that I missed out on the stupidity of others to pay my way through school. :p
1) build it simple, 2) build it quickly, 3) refactor
I agree fully with this. You should get requirements and then work out short timeframes to releases. At each release evaulate what requirements are left, then add/remove as needed and go again. Many people fail to see though that this type of development requires a strong leader and a good bit of planning to decide which feature is going be in which release, etc...
though you appear to be an anti-XP zealot
I can see why many people are like this because developers use "I'm doing XP programming" as an excuse for everything under the sun. No documentation, design, project plan, etc... are all things I have gotten the XP excuse about.
C++ patterns.
Maybe the original poster wasn't talking about patterns, but *Java* patterns. Patterns are generally supposed to be implementation independent. Personally, I would be much quicker to read a book called Distributed Architecture Patterns than J2EE patterns. In my mind all the patterns in the J2EE book should be subsets of the larger concepts presented in a Distributed Architecture book.
Chances are if you can understand how/why, then you didn't need the book to begin with.
I beg to differ. Design patterns are not just about showing problems and solutions. They are also to help for a common vocabulary among the people who use them. Instead of me having to explain that I used a pool of small objects with intrinsic and extrinsic state to solve this problem I can just say Flyweight.
Design patterns should be taught in school as exercises for the common problems they'll run into, not really a place to start when trying to solve a problem.
Design patterns are the perfect place to start solving a problem. As you break a problem down into smaller parts you can start solving pieces just by applying a pattern. If everyone on the team is knowledgable of patterns the "simple" parts of the architecture can be dealt with quickly. This leaves more time to work on the complex architecture issues.
I believe it's specific to OOP
:)
OOP Design patterns are the only patterns specific to OOP
Deisgn patterns were first developed by an architect named Christopher Alexander. In his book A Pattern Language he used them to help present common design problems and solutions to other architects. Patterns are as much as a best practices book as they are a communication tool.
You have no choice.
When I went to school I seem to remember having lots of choices. The first one was what school I wanted to attend. Then I could live on or off campus, decide on parking, and *gasp* even pick the classes I wanted to take.
UF going after filesharing for probably a couple of reasons. First is that trading music you don't own is illegal. Second is that all the P2Pers are probably slowing down the network for students trying to use it for uh...SCHOOL.
I dislike the RIAA just as much as anyone else, but if you really want to show them, boycott them completely. Downloading music only gives them creditability when they say P2P is destroyiny their market, instead of the crap they are trying to sell. If everyone for 6-12 months decided that they were not going to listen to any new music(MTV, radio, buy CDs, d/l off Kaaza), it would not take long for things to change.
I tend agree here. In my last job we spent 6 months looking for someone. It wasn't flashy work(ASP, VB, MSSQL, XML, XSL, FOP), but it is a job. When we finally hired someone I gave the OK not because he knew these skills, but because he showed me he was excited about tech and was a smart guy.
I just took another job (~2 months ago) and the first week there I'm doing tech interviews again. Maybe the 150k/year silicon valley market has dried up, but from where I'm sitting I could probably walk into 2 maybe 3 positions tomorrow if I had to.
I agree that while Point Break isn't going to win any awards it is a fun movie to watch whenever it is on. I think peoples backgrounds play a big part in whether or not they like a movie though. Since I surf and have sky-dived before PB seems like a fun flic to watch. Others who may or may not know the joy of those things probably don't understand the motive of the characters in a movie like PB.
how could Smith do that when in M1 it was established that agents could only jump into plugged-in people?
By the time M2 comes around Smith is no longer an agent. Besides that, the whole premise of the movie from 1-3 is that the human brain is a large set of electical impulses that can be manipulated by being plugged in and out of programs. It was never much of a leap(for me at least) to see the Smith program get d/led into a human brain through the same mechanism that the humans were getting up/down linked.
Look at Europe (guns are not "outlawed" but generally it's not quite easy to get a gun owner's license since you have to pass very strict psychological tests), with a lot less guns, and a lot less violence on the street, and no stupid "let's keep guns legal and easy to acquire, so that I can shoot my neighbours and/or my family when I want to" shit.
Facts? Links? Can you point me to a real news site that shows crime rates before and after the gun ban in particular European countries?
Guns will always be easy for criminals to find. It is illegal for a covicted felon to posses a gun now, but they still manage to get them. Outlawing guns for everyone will not change the landscape as far as criminals are concerned.
Well, if the ACLU does not fight this then it would confirm suspicions that they care more about pushing a left-wing agenda than defending the rights of all Americans.
I thought this was already a known fact?
The only way television could compete with that natural phenomenon would be to broadcast better and more attractive programmes, i.e., not just as good as before but actually better.
More attractive programs can help, but TV as a medium is dying. There are more avenues of entertainment competing today than ever before. Just in the TV sector alone, people have 100s of choices of what to watch from sports, news, movies, sitcoms, cartoons, etc... All of these choices dilute ratings. Since no sane person can really check whats on every channel, people find some stuff they like and go about their routine.
Now take a look at all the other forms of entertainment I can have today. Computers(games+inet), cheap communications(cell, IM, etc...), sports(spurred on by a semi-health kick), and the list goes on and on. Commercial TV as we know it today I believe will eventually die. It will be replaced with some sort of on demand pay per view type service. Most people will end up owning TVs to watch things like DVDs, play video games, and catch the occasional news show.
I find the "second run" stations [TNT, WGN, WB, and UPN] to do a much better job at making the good shows available.
:) ). I don't even know what station the originals air on, and come to think of it I am not even sure if they are still making new ones.
I agree. For some reason I really enjoy watching Law and Order, especially the older ones. I know that during the week from 7pm to sometimes 10pm I can turn on TnT and catch an episode(or now NBA, so I consider it a win-win
doesn't microsoft have trust in there employees?
I would think they do until something is done to make them question that trust. This is exactly what happened here and MS acted the way any other company would have acted.