Will they be the binary distributions? Or just links to download? So while MS's update system is integrated into OS, they might be bundling an old, insecure version of Firefox. (It took *how* long for 3.5 to be shown as vulnerable?)
And is it *only* the big players - IE, FF, Safari, Chrome, Opera? This seems blatantly against the spirit of competition. Shouldn't they also include accessible browsers as well?
Say somebody starts up an incubator company with a couple of million dollars. They start 200 companies, $10,000 seed capital each. Each company is really just a sole proprietorship: a halfway decent college CS student. Each company is tasked with writing a browser, using various HTML renderers (Trident, Gecko, WebKit, etc). Each of these 200 companies would have a legitimate claim to be included in the ballot screen.
They're stuck in an old paradigm: plan it, build it, test it, deliver it, you're done. This may still be true for certain types of applications (think an accounting system), However, today's giant web applications written in ColdFusion, PHP, or the like are as much a system as the traditional ones. Moreover, many companies' web applications *are* their business. Therefore they have to make adjustments on the fly, or lose business. No different than other businesses - if you run a restaurant, and your competition is smokin with a new dish, you better get it on your menu. Fast. If your chefs say they can't do it, then you either get new ones or embrace the idea that you don't have the competency, at least in that area, to compete. Unfortunately this reality of online businesses tends to screw up Gantt charts and whatnot. In addition, these books assume giant teams - how many applications that drive entire companies are architected, built, and maintained by teams of less than 5? Heck, my bread and butter is building big apps, primarily in ColdFusion, where I generally am the sole developer, either building from the ground up or coming on after the application was built by a team and supposedly "finished".
Dude, have you seen the photo? It's actually out of context (if you see the actual video), but hilarious. If it was Bush, everyone would be hamming it up. Obama's the president, and with that comes our right as Americans to poke fun at him on a regular basis. There's nothing unique about him that exempts him from that. Also, your comment indicates presumptuousness - how to you know syousef is conservative? Also, what's up with being Anonymous Coward? Are you that ashamed of your political ideals?
Carmack revealed that the added resources of the new company will enable him to prevent repeats of the company's biggest flops, In other words, he can now keep overhyped wrestlers from ever being associated with id game titles.
Simple. The working poor get to participate in free economy and choose the best care they can pay for, and in theory, there's no limit on their income. Prisoners cannot, nor can they choose medical providers.
Socializing medicine is great, so long as the entire process is socialized. We need to socialize the education for medical professionals. Instead, we expect doctors to go through 10+ years of schooling, during which part they are working ridiculous hours for fairly little pay. They then have at least $100000+ debt. We need to socialize malpractice insurance. Instead, we expect our doctors to pay thousands every month on malpractice insurance, and if one makes a mistake, we sure them out the wazoo. (Imagine the outcry on Slashdot if the floodgates were opened for programmers to have to carry such insurance, even though poor code does more damage every day than all the doctors put together.....) Let's socialize the payout system. A typical doctor may have to wait several months sometimes for his income, based on insurance or Medicare backlog. Not to mention how they penalize doctors for any issues with claims forms. (You're a programmer, you write "80 hrs" instead of "80 hours", and HR tells you, "Sorry. That's wrong. Refill out your timesheet, and we'll process your paycheck the next time.") Also remember that insurance and Medicare pay out what they think a procedure should cost, regardless of what doctor charges. Doctors are willing to go through this because of the promise of adequate income to justify the risks. (Consider, however, that many medical procedures pay out as much as they did 20 years ago.. no other industry deals with this lack ofinflation.) Proponents of socializing medicine see doctors as these evil money-grubbing bastards, without considering how much they shell out every month just to have a practice.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones, we've been able to isolate the genetic material, and we see two possibilities. One will likely be very intelligent, but will prefer spending time alone on a computer to social interaction. The other will be physically fit, to the point of being a star football player. He won't be very intelligent, but he'll be very outgoing and should easily fit into all the popular crowds. Which one would you choose?
By the way, I have cystic fibrosis, and while it does suck, it's who I am. I like being a geek; I don't know what would have happened had a been a healthy strapping young lad.
I'm only 25, but I've maintained employment in IT since October 1998. My pipeline is filled through the summer, and I have plenty of prospects. I haven't taken the typical jobs - none of the 60 hour a week crap. I haven't been salaried, ever. I only take contract work. The jobs I do have to work the extra hours for are my private clients - no manager to screw with. I keep my eyes and my mind open - I go where the money is.
I'm primarily a programmer, and I have picked up a number of technologies, since no platform lasts forever, or always has work available. I don't play the "platform politics" game - currently I'm doing.NET development because that's where the work is. Next week it might be PHP, or Perl, or Java. I don't care, I'll do it, regardless of what my personal feelings are. Until ESR or Jobs or Cox or Gates start paying my rent and feeding my family, I show no "professional" allegiance to any one company or principle. I consider software and technology a tool; to me, Windows, Linux,.NET, and Java are just hammers, screwdrivers, and saws. You have your preferences, but you're willing to use any one of them if there's a paycheck on the other end.
I focus on architecture. I focus on networking - I'm on the board of a local user group (DFW ColdFusion Users Group). This keeps my name in the community. I focus on business processes that drive the software I build - so far, I've picked up in-depth knowledge of the airline, health care, and financial markets, among others.
The bottom line - don't sit around letting yourself be influenced by the market; create your own market. Always remember that no how good you can write stored procedures or killer C API's, your just another code monkey - find a way to make yourself more than a coder, and you become a solutions provider that customers keep coming back to.
Most folks are probably thinking browser Applets and mega-apps like Office. These aren't where you'll see Java. Heck, the same is true of.NET. Mostly you'll see these frameworks used for in-house development, to fit a business need. This is where development most matters, (in terms of $$ spent and value gained) but is where you'll find the least exposure.
I don't have a legal right to distribute someone else's intellectual property, so.....
Let's see some sensibility. When someone is busted for selling bootlegs, they are punished by what they have, not by the possibility (or actuality) of their customers re-copying and redistributing.
So we determine actual damage. I don't think that everyone who downloads a song would have bought it, but let's say they do. There are 1 million downloads of Britney's latest crap. Let's say that represents lost revenue of $2.00 per song. $2M in lost revenue. 100 people download from me (of course, maybe I deserve a fiercer penalty for bad taste, but I digress). 100 downloads = 0.01% (1/10000). $2M*.01% = $200. Send me a bill, or meet me in small claims court.
That's great advice, but could it work? Let's say the only broadband available to you is Warner Cable internet - do you give up your broadband? You could even stretch and say that Mozilla puts AOL/Netscape in a position to provide a superior browsing experience - do you boycott Mozilla? If RedHat continues to bundle Netscape, do you boycott RedHat? Do you ignore the Oscars, which are on ABC? Who here will give up their PS2? And when Episode 3 or LOTR3 comes out, how many in here will go, or will we boycott the MPAA?
To add to that, I think it's important to recognize that some people make more money for a reason - their sacrifice, their risk, their value to society, etc. It's not like the "rich" woke up one day and had tons of money, and are automatically inherently evil. I think we need to be careful about how we tax the poor (personally, I'd love to see total abolishment of taxes for the first $20,000), but we shouldn't *unfairly* penalize success. Perhaps we should reward responsibility instead - lower income taxes, but increase luxury taxes. On the same note, I think the "poor" should be reward/penalized for their level of responsibility as well - like $1000+ tax penalty for each drug conviction in a household. It's all a matter of figuring who should be paying the money, without resorting to humanless mathematical equations (flat tax, IRS, etc)
There's no reason why being poor has anything to do with anything. I came from a family where one adult, a grade-school janitor, supported a family of five. If we had a full fridge and heat at the same time, it had to be a full moon. However, rather than do what most poor folk do, and knock someone up (or get knocked up, if I was a girl), my only focus was on school. I didn't break down and get a full-time job. If I had to walk to school in 15 degree, or 105 degree weather, so be it. I went without a car until I was 22. Once I graduated high school, I never had trouble finding student loans, so there wasn't a lack of opportunity. If you want it, it's there. If you'd rather be another "poor chump", that's your right - but it's not because the opportunity isn't there. If your willing to fight and struggle, and know when to sacrifice, the opportunities are in your face. (of course, I say this as a white male - I don't have to deal with the racism and sexism that others have to deal with - but this is a social issue, not a financial one)
All of my sacrifice paid off - I'm a contract programmer, consistently billing out at $50+ an hours, 40+ hours every week. However, if I'd given in, I'd probably be a $15/hour chump somewhere thinking about how good I had it.
Yeah, DNS is critical, but PG won't be running DNS - it'll only be the back-end data store for registration info, etc. PG could die, and DNS would keep working. (there just wouldn't be any registrations or updates) So by definition, the job that PG will be doing isn't mission critical. (though it probably would be if you have to change your DNS info *now*)
Also keep in mind that what the registrant does, and what your direct DNS provider does, are completely. All of the root servers could simultaneously explode and the Internet would keep going for a while.
Good analogy - as people typically forget, it's not about who has the better tech, it's about perception and strategy. Or as Microsoft would put it, "Emotion this, beeyotch!" (of course, as sales indicate, people still have the perception of the PS* as the better console - but against Microsoft, you gotta stay on your toes, cause those guys will keep coming at you)
Microsoft has struggled to make the XBox a success, and well, we're talking Microsoft here - a mammoth. Heck, the major consoles are all sold at $100+ LOSS.
Perhaps this new guy isn't looking for a large market. But let's say that Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo all focused 1% of their marketing budget on crushing the newcomer - could they keep up? I doubt it.
Remember that Sega, a long-time powerhouse, bowed out.
Also, you can't ignore the name recognition issue. You can have the best wizzy-chip-it, but if you aren't the name that 15 year-olds discuss in the cafeteria, it's all for not.
In which case someone who kills you for fun can't be prosecuted for murder - the worse that can happen is a fine or misdemeanor for animal cruelty. Not to mention "human rights". When a man steals some bread, he's arrested. When a dog steals some bread, he's shot.
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Will they be the binary distributions? Or just links to download? So while MS's update system is integrated into OS, they might be bundling an old, insecure version of Firefox. (It took *how* long for 3.5 to be shown as vulnerable?)
And is it *only* the big players - IE, FF, Safari, Chrome, Opera? This seems blatantly against the spirit of competition. Shouldn't they also include accessible browsers as well?
Say somebody starts up an incubator company with a couple of million dollars. They start 200 companies, $10,000 seed capital each. Each company is really just a sole proprietorship: a halfway decent college CS student. Each company is tasked with writing a browser, using various HTML renderers (Trident, Gecko, WebKit, etc). Each of these 200 companies would have a legitimate claim to be included in the ballot screen.
They're stuck in an old paradigm: plan it, build it, test it, deliver it, you're done. This may still be true for certain types of applications (think an accounting system), However, today's giant web applications written in ColdFusion, PHP, or the like are as much a system as the traditional ones. Moreover, many companies' web applications *are* their business. Therefore they have to make adjustments on the fly, or lose business. No different than other businesses - if you run a restaurant, and your competition is smokin with a new dish, you better get it on your menu. Fast. If your chefs say they can't do it, then you either get new ones or embrace the idea that you don't have the competency, at least in that area, to compete. Unfortunately this reality of online businesses tends to screw up Gantt charts and whatnot. In addition, these books assume giant teams - how many applications that drive entire companies are architected, built, and maintained by teams of less than 5? Heck, my bread and butter is building big apps, primarily in ColdFusion, where I generally am the sole developer, either building from the ground up or coming on after the application was built by a team and supposedly "finished".
Dude, have you seen the photo? It's actually out of context (if you see the actual video), but hilarious. If it was Bush, everyone would be hamming it up. Obama's the president, and with that comes our right as Americans to poke fun at him on a regular basis. There's nothing unique about him that exempts him from that. Also, your comment indicates presumptuousness - how to you know syousef is conservative? Also, what's up with being Anonymous Coward? Are you that ashamed of your political ideals?
the virus. For being bigoted. Also on the same docket is the sickle cell case.
The coverage Mr. Jackson received in recent years, given his inability to produce anymore quality music, was the true attack on the Internet.
Carmack revealed that the added resources of the new company will enable him to prevent repeats of the company's biggest flops, In other words, he can now keep overhyped wrestlers from ever being associated with id game titles.
... is to pay George Lucas for use of the term "Imperial Units"
Sorta. Well, they promised to reduce the bullshit, which we can't do, but here's the next best thing...
Simple. The working poor get to participate in free economy and choose the best care they can pay for, and in theory, there's no limit on their income. Prisoners cannot, nor can they choose medical providers.
Socializing medicine is great, so long as the entire process is socialized. We need to socialize the education for medical professionals. Instead, we expect doctors to go through 10+ years of schooling, during which part they are working ridiculous hours for fairly little pay. They then have at least $100000+ debt. We need to socialize malpractice insurance. Instead, we expect our doctors to pay thousands every month on malpractice insurance, and if one makes a mistake, we sure them out the wazoo. (Imagine the outcry on Slashdot if the floodgates were opened for programmers to have to carry such insurance, even though poor code does more damage every day than all the doctors put together .....) Let's socialize the payout system. A typical doctor may have to wait several months sometimes for his income, based on insurance or Medicare backlog. Not to mention how they penalize doctors for any issues with claims forms. (You're a programmer, you write "80 hrs" instead of "80 hours", and HR tells you, "Sorry. That's wrong. Refill out your timesheet, and we'll process your paycheck the next time.") Also remember that insurance and Medicare pay out what they think a procedure should cost, regardless of what doctor charges. Doctors are willing to go through this because of the promise of adequate income to justify the risks. (Consider, however, that many medical procedures pay out as much as they did 20 years ago.. no other industry deals with this lack ofinflation.) Proponents of socializing medicine see doctors as these evil money-grubbing bastards, without considering how much they shell out every month just to have a practice.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones, we've been able to isolate the genetic material, and we see two possibilities. One will likely be very intelligent, but will prefer spending time alone on a computer to social interaction. The other will be physically fit, to the point of being a star football player. He won't be very intelligent, but he'll be very outgoing and should easily fit into all the popular crowds. Which one would you choose?
By the way, I have cystic fibrosis, and while it does suck, it's who I am. I like being a geek; I don't know what would have happened had a been a healthy strapping young lad.
Some caffeine-free Mountain Dew I had up north. Further proof that it is possible to market and sell products with no purpose.
I'm only 25, but I've maintained employment in IT since October 1998. My pipeline is filled through the summer, and I have plenty of prospects. I haven't taken the typical jobs - none of the 60 hour a week crap. I haven't been salaried, ever. I only take contract work. The jobs I do have to work the extra hours for are my private clients - no manager to screw with. I keep my eyes and my mind open - I go where the money is.
.NET development because that's where the work is. Next week it might be PHP, or Perl, or Java. I don't care, I'll do it, regardless of what my personal feelings are. Until ESR or Jobs or Cox or Gates start paying my rent and feeding my family, I show no "professional" allegiance to any one company or principle. I consider software and technology a tool; to me, Windows, Linux, .NET, and Java are just hammers, screwdrivers, and saws. You have your preferences, but you're willing to use any one of them if there's a paycheck on the other end.
I'm primarily a programmer, and I have picked up a number of technologies, since no platform lasts forever, or always has work available. I don't play the "platform politics" game - currently I'm doing
I focus on architecture. I focus on networking - I'm on the board of a local user group (DFW ColdFusion Users Group). This keeps my name in the community. I focus on business processes that drive the software I build - so far, I've picked up in-depth knowledge of the airline, health care, and financial markets, among others.
The bottom line - don't sit around letting yourself be influenced by the market; create your own market. Always remember that no how good you can write stored procedures or killer C API's, your just another code monkey - find a way to make yourself more than a coder, and you become a solutions provider that customers keep coming back to.
Most folks are probably thinking browser Applets and mega-apps like Office. These aren't where you'll see Java. Heck, the same is true of .NET. Mostly you'll see these frameworks used for in-house development, to fit a business need. This is where development most matters, (in terms of $$ spent and value gained) but is where you'll find the least exposure.
I don't have a legal right to distribute someone else's intellectual property, so .....
Let's see some sensibility. When someone is busted for selling bootlegs, they are punished by what they have, not by the possibility (or actuality) of their customers re-copying and redistributing.
So we determine actual damage. I don't think that everyone who downloads a song would have bought it, but let's say they do. There are 1 million downloads of Britney's latest crap. Let's say that represents lost revenue of $2.00 per song. $2M in lost revenue. 100 people download from me (of course, maybe I deserve a fiercer penalty for bad taste, but I digress). 100 downloads = 0.01% (1/10000). $2M*.01% = $200. Send me a bill, or meet me in small claims court.
That's great advice, but could it work? Let's say the only broadband available to you is Warner Cable internet - do you give up your broadband? You could even stretch and say that Mozilla puts AOL/Netscape in a position to provide a superior browsing experience - do you boycott Mozilla? If RedHat continues to bundle Netscape, do you boycott RedHat? Do you ignore the Oscars, which are on ABC? Who here will give up their PS2? And when Episode 3 or LOTR3 comes out, how many in here will go, or will we boycott the MPAA?
ADAPT OR PERISH.
There's a third option - hire/pay off enough lawyers, congress-folk, and judges to defeat products
fp!
To add to that, I think it's important to recognize that some people make more money for a reason - their sacrifice, their risk, their value to society, etc. It's not like the "rich" woke up one day and had tons of money, and are automatically inherently evil. I think we need to be careful about how we tax the poor (personally, I'd love to see total abolishment of taxes for the first $20,000), but we shouldn't *unfairly* penalize success. Perhaps we should reward responsibility instead - lower income taxes, but increase luxury taxes. On the same note, I think the "poor" should be reward/penalized for their level of responsibility as well - like $1000+ tax penalty for each drug conviction in a household. It's all a matter of figuring who should be paying the money, without resorting to humanless mathematical equations (flat tax, IRS, etc)
There's no reason why being poor has anything to do with anything. I came from a family where one adult, a grade-school janitor, supported a family of five. If we had a full fridge and heat at the same time, it had to be a full moon. However, rather than do what most poor folk do, and knock someone up (or get knocked up, if I was a girl), my only focus was on school. I didn't break down and get a full-time job. If I had to walk to school in 15 degree, or 105 degree weather, so be it. I went without a car until I was 22. Once I graduated high school, I never had trouble finding student loans, so there wasn't a lack of opportunity. If you want it, it's there. If you'd rather be another "poor chump", that's your right - but it's not because the opportunity isn't there. If your willing to fight and struggle, and know when to sacrifice, the opportunities are in your face. (of course, I say this as a white male - I don't have to deal with the racism and sexism that others have to deal with - but this is a social issue, not a financial one)
All of my sacrifice paid off - I'm a contract programmer, consistently billing out at $50+ an hours, 40+ hours every week. However, if I'd given in, I'd probably be a $15/hour chump somewhere thinking about how good I had it.
Yeah, DNS is critical, but PG won't be running DNS - it'll only be the back-end data store for registration info, etc. PG could die, and DNS would keep working. (there just wouldn't be any registrations or updates) So by definition, the job that PG will be doing isn't mission critical. (though it probably would be if you have to change your DNS info *now*)
Also keep in mind that what the registrant does, and what your direct DNS provider does, are completely. All of the root servers could simultaneously explode and the Internet would keep going for a while.
Good analogy - as people typically forget, it's not about who has the better tech, it's about perception and strategy. Or as Microsoft would put it, "Emotion this, beeyotch!" (of course, as sales indicate, people still have the perception of the PS* as the better console - but against Microsoft, you gotta stay on your toes, cause those guys will keep coming at you)
Haha.. as if someone running a unpatched Linux box who gets hacked doesn't deserve it. :-)
Microsoft has struggled to make the XBox a success, and well, we're talking Microsoft here - a mammoth. Heck, the major consoles are all sold at $100+ LOSS.
Perhaps this new guy isn't looking for a large market. But let's say that Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo all focused 1% of their marketing budget on crushing the newcomer - could they keep up? I doubt it.
Remember that Sega, a long-time powerhouse, bowed out.
Also, you can't ignore the name recognition issue. You can have the best wizzy-chip-it, but if you aren't the name that 15 year-olds discuss in the cafeteria, it's all for not.
In which case someone who kills you for fun can't be prosecuted for murder - the worse that can happen is a fine or misdemeanor for animal cruelty. Not to mention "human rights". When a man steals some bread, he's arrested. When a dog steals some bread, he's shot.