2. Server OS: Microsoft will probably retain the 50-50 ratio on the server side...
Microsoft never ever had a 50-50 split on servers. Check Netcrafts top hosts and see what they are running and count how many are Windows. Then keep counting down past the top ten. They have 25% on average! And given the current economic situation, the last trend was to dump Microsoft and switch server to BSD and Linux where possible. You will see this trend continue again now that CEO's and CTO's now know that Linux is a stable and reliable alternative on the server side.
The economic crisis is open sources friend and Microsofts enemy. People who are spending money will be spending on QUALITY (ie Mac for desktop) or not spending at all (ie open source for server); they will see their profits fall tremendously unless they can get a bloated Vista onto a netbook and have it play Warcraft decently.
Bilski sort of invalidates things that are obvious or not tied to hardware. So how do they expect to defend this patent while not getting it overturned?
Um... you claim you are a 'fanboy linux advocate' and yet call Linux advocates 'homos'??? Not very likely that you are a Linux advocate then.
And again, all the examples you give are invalid and haven't been valid for years. I installed Ubuntu on my mom's computer 4 years agao and none of these problems existed then. More likely you are a Microsoft troll... eh Mr Ballmer? *ducks chair*
Contract and telecommute. As long as you get your work done, you work the hours you want. Of course you may get underbid by foreign workers but often companies want someone who works THEIR hours, whom they can call if they need and who may be available beyond the contract for support. I have worked with many companies which have been burned by foreign contractors and will not work with them unless they have a presence their.
Of course, I have also seen employers get burned by domestic contractors but that doesn't stop them from trying to shop around.
Heh. I know of nobody that wasn't already using Linux. Maybe it made some gullible CTO's think that SUSE had special magical connection powers to Windows but these are the same people who probably bought into the whole 'SCO owns Linux' thing too and didn't jump to a Linux distro until their Redmond masters gave them the thumbs up.
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Principles have nothing to do with it... it's a matter of engineering.
Microsoft threatened lawsuits over 200 patents but licensed them to SUSE. Our IT dept (as well as many other IT departments) saw a potential for incompatible licenses after that licensing agreement and made a purchasing decision not to purchase SUSE or other Novell products due to potential incompatibilities in licensing.
It's more than principles... It's engineering and logic, stupid.
Oh I see, you are trying to be clever and say because a company that has a monopoly on desktops should make a deal with a Linux distro, we should also dump all our desktops and be innoperative as a company? Yes, good business sense. You should be running a fortune 500.
So by your logic, if you owe money to the mob and are now in debt for life and you see your brother going for a loan, you should be 'happy'???
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Why is this marked as TROLL?? I know plenty of people who dropped Novell the second this happened. My whole company stopped using Novell the second they went with Microsoft and switched to Debian and Ubuntu. I know some people think this is trolling but alot of people in the Linux world feel this way due to the despicable pratices of Microsoft as a whole and that Novell is now pushing their agenda.
Well I may be giving too much credit to kids, this may be true. But Most simple iPod apps are very basic. If you have played with the SDK at all, it is so simple, that an 8 yr old COULD do it with just a basic intro on Xcode.
Still you are right, it is better safe than sorry. I'd hate to have a kid burn out too early.
There is only so much you can do via a program forensically. And again, it's a case by case by 'computer case' basis. An unexperienced person can't just plug in a flash drive with some programs on them, let them run and get an 'all clean' and expect that to be good or get a false positive from a crappy automated script and expect to haul someone in.
Can you imagine how many people could get hauled in for false positives due to some badly written automated script rather than an intelligent user checking the system? How do you check for child porn, how do you check for drug activity? etc etc. Even if you choose to do very basic things like scan email, which email client are they using; Gmail, Outlook, Evolution, Pine??? Or would you be hacking their SMTP server?
It is all very subjective and differs from system to system, from crime to crime and from user proficiency level to user proficiency level.
Steganography, encryption, log erasing, etc. There is no 'out of the box' solution. Every computer is going to require a computer forensics team to go over it unless the OS manufacturer builds in those tools. And you can guarantee that NO manufacturer wants people to know that anyone can just open up your system via a backdoor at anytime.
Actually NONE of them run OSX; they run Cocoa though. Though Apple states it is OSX, it is not and is a new creation that they are calling OSX just for branding.
But my point was that passion often stirs people to drive themselves to learn more. And by being able to make something they enjoy (like their iPod) run something they made... well, thats exciting for a new developer. And it usually spurs them on to learn more and do more. Not only in that language or platform but in others as well.
Objective C gives them the ability to build applications quickly and easily using GnuStep or Xcode. If they have iPods, this also gives the them ability to develop apps for them as well. The intrigue and excitement in their ability to do that often will get them excited in developing in other languages.
Actually CSS isn't consistent in table creation across browsers and across versions. You will get variations from one browser to the next and you end up using twice as much code trying to get cross browser compatibility and getting CSS tables to render the same when HTML tables work just fine. Plus for what you think you are saving in loadtime, you are ending up having to load anyway in a bulky CSS sheet designed specifically for your table design meant to be cross browser compliant (as well as all the tags you end up using in the HTML).
If your layout requires heavy table design, you should design the table as a template and 'include' the sections separately so you don't continually have to rewrite the layout code. Tables work the same in all browsers (if you understand how they work) and can require less code.
Mind you, you should NOT use tables EXCLUSIVELY! You SHOULD try to strip out some of the repetitive elements if you can but most often, those elements are specific to the layout and cannot be stripped out for reuse as they are not reusable and are specific to that bit of code.
For info on that you would have to contact the owner of the project. I only know the two companies I have installed at. Now seek some help for your parents sake so they can have their basement back.
Oh my god make up your mind. This is like arguing with a three year old schizophrenic. It is a language, it isn't a language, it is a language.
So if it's not a programming language (and neither is SQL), why are you comparing it to them? Why would you say that PHPulse also relys on other languages like Perl when you have just stated that SQL and XML are not programming languages? Ruby relys on other languages to scale; PHPulse scales indefinitely on it's own.
Well I would even go beyond that to say that schools should teach basic logic and abstraction of concepts; good development requires the developers to be able to abstract well and I see alot of programmers who still think very linearly.
Well you should also gear your company around the talent pool... and your position your language to draw a larger talent pool. C/C++ developers work on all platforms so can transition and be fought for by any company, the same can be said for Java, PHP, Perl, Python. C## can only be employed by a limited set of employers so if a person is looking for a job but can't find one for C#, they will fall on their other skills like C or C++.
Most companies complaining are the result of relying on limited talent pools with multiple skillsets who can be employed on multiple fronts.
Oh god you are a tard. Two posts ago you stated 'what do you think the L in XML stands for?' and now you try to backpedal??? Total NUBY. Your employers are so lucky to have a highly qualified janitor like you at their disposal.
The need for you to verify my statements when you have yet to accept the reality that many people have ben stating for years now about RUBY means very little to me. Your inability to deal with reality should be your greatest concern and I would suggest counseling and/or medication.
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Microsoft never ever had a 50-50 split on servers. Check Netcrafts top hosts and see what they are running and count how many are Windows. Then keep counting down past the top ten. They have 25% on average! And given the current economic situation, the last trend was to dump Microsoft and switch server to BSD and Linux where possible. You will see this trend continue again now that CEO's and CTO's now know that Linux is a stable and reliable alternative on the server side.
The economic crisis is open sources friend and Microsofts enemy. People who are spending money will be spending on QUALITY (ie Mac for desktop) or not spending at all (ie open source for server); they will see their profits fall tremendously unless they can get a bloated Vista onto a netbook and have it play Warcraft decently.
Bilski sort of invalidates things that are obvious or not tied to hardware. So how do they expect to defend this patent while not getting it overturned?
Um... you claim you are a 'fanboy linux advocate' and yet call Linux advocates 'homos'??? Not very likely that you are a Linux advocate then.
... eh Mr Ballmer? *ducks chair*
And again, all the examples you give are invalid and haven't been valid for years. I installed Ubuntu on my mom's computer 4 years agao and none of these problems existed then. More likely you are a Microsoft troll
Contract and telecommute. As long as you get your work done, you work the hours you want. Of course you may get underbid by foreign workers but often companies want someone who works THEIR hours, whom they can call if they need and who may be available beyond the contract for support. I have worked with many companies which have been burned by foreign contractors and will not work with them unless they have a presence their.
Of course, I have also seen employers get burned by domestic contractors but that doesn't stop them from trying to shop around.
Nuh uh... Nuby is.. er I mean Ruby is.
Heh. I know of nobody that wasn't already using Linux. Maybe it made some gullible CTO's think that SUSE had special magical connection powers to Windows but these are the same people who probably bought into the whole 'SCO owns Linux' thing too and didn't jump to a Linux distro until their Redmond masters gave them the thumbs up.
Hey Ruby, can't make it Scale?
Take a real lang and make it better.
Remember, your bloat is due to your code
Flush it down the commode and it will be better.
Principles have nothing to do with it... it's a matter of engineering.
Microsoft threatened lawsuits over 200 patents but licensed them to SUSE. Our IT dept (as well as many other IT departments) saw a potential for incompatible licenses after that licensing agreement and made a purchasing decision not to purchase SUSE or other Novell products due to potential incompatibilities in licensing.
It's more than principles... It's engineering and logic, stupid.
Oh I see, you are trying to be clever and say because a company that has a monopoly on desktops should make a deal with a Linux distro, we should also dump all our desktops and be innoperative as a company? Yes, good business sense. You should be running a fortune 500.
So by your logic, if you owe money to the mob and are now in debt for life and you see your brother going for a loan, you should be 'happy'???
Why is this marked as TROLL?? I know plenty of people who dropped Novell the second this happened. My whole company stopped using Novell the second they went with Microsoft and switched to Debian and Ubuntu. I know some people think this is trolling but alot of people in the Linux world feel this way due to the despicable pratices of Microsoft as a whole and that Novell is now pushing their agenda.
I'll believe it when people are testing the final product. Everything until then is hype. Not falling for 'the Vista trick' again.
Well I may be giving too much credit to kids, this may be true. But Most simple iPod apps are very basic. If you have played with the SDK at all, it is so simple, that an 8 yr old COULD do it with just a basic intro on Xcode.
Still you are right, it is better safe than sorry. I'd hate to have a kid burn out too early.
There is only so much you can do via a program forensically. And again, it's a case by case by 'computer case' basis. An unexperienced person can't just plug in a flash drive with some programs on them, let them run and get an 'all clean' and expect that to be good or get a false positive from a crappy automated script and expect to haul someone in.
Can you imagine how many people could get hauled in for false positives due to some badly written automated script rather than an intelligent user checking the system? How do you check for child porn, how do you check for drug activity? etc etc. Even if you choose to do very basic things like scan email, which email client are they using; Gmail, Outlook, Evolution, Pine??? Or would you be hacking their SMTP server?
It is all very subjective and differs from system to system, from crime to crime and from user proficiency level to user proficiency level.
Steganography, encryption, log erasing, etc. There is no 'out of the box' solution. Every computer is going to require a computer forensics team to go over it unless the OS manufacturer builds in those tools. And you can guarantee that NO manufacturer wants people to know that anyone can just open up your system via a backdoor at anytime.
And they best be scared... look at what has already ranked pretty high... http://moderator.change.gov/?embed=http://change.gov/openforquestions#9/e=8&t=open+source
Actually NONE of them run OSX; they run Cocoa though. Though Apple states it is OSX, it is not and is a new creation that they are calling OSX just for branding.
But my point was that passion often stirs people to drive themselves to learn more. And by being able to make something they enjoy (like their iPod) run something they made... well, thats exciting for a new developer. And it usually spurs them on to learn more and do more. Not only in that language or platform but in others as well.
Objective C gives them the ability to build applications quickly and easily using GnuStep or Xcode. If they have iPods, this also gives the them ability to develop apps for them as well. The intrigue and excitement in their ability to do that often will get them excited in developing in other languages.
Looks to me like Groovy outperformed JRuby in many ways. I don't see what you are talking about. And it's still only in BETA!
Actually CSS isn't consistent in table creation across browsers and across versions. You will get variations from one browser to the next and you end up using twice as much code trying to get cross browser compatibility and getting CSS tables to render the same when HTML tables work just fine. Plus for what you think you are saving in loadtime, you are ending up having to load anyway in a bulky CSS sheet designed specifically for your table design meant to be cross browser compliant (as well as all the tags you end up using in the HTML).
If your layout requires heavy table design, you should design the table as a template and 'include' the sections separately so you don't continually have to rewrite the layout code. Tables work the same in all browsers (if you understand how they work) and can require less code.
Mind you, you should NOT use tables EXCLUSIVELY! You SHOULD try to strip out some of the repetitive elements if you can but most often, those elements are specific to the layout and cannot be stripped out for reuse as they are not reusable and are specific to that bit of code.
For info on that you would have to contact the owner of the project. I only know the two companies I have installed at. Now seek some help for your parents sake so they can have their basement back.
Oh my god make up your mind. This is like arguing with a three year old schizophrenic. It is a language, it isn't a language, it is a language.
So if it's not a programming language (and neither is SQL), why are you comparing it to them? Why would you say that PHPulse also relys on other languages like Perl when you have just stated that SQL and XML are not programming languages? Ruby relys on other languages to scale; PHPulse scales indefinitely on it's own.
You logic is flawed much like your brain.
Well I would even go beyond that to say that schools should teach basic logic and abstraction of concepts; good development requires the developers to be able to abstract well and I see alot of programmers who still think very linearly.
Well you should also gear your company around the talent pool... and your position your language to draw a larger talent pool. C/C++ developers work on all platforms so can transition and be fought for by any company, the same can be said for Java, PHP, Perl, Python. C## can only be employed by a limited set of employers so if a person is looking for a job but can't find one for C#, they will fall on their other skills like C or C++.
Most companies complaining are the result of relying on limited talent pools with multiple skillsets who can be employed on multiple fronts.
Oh god you are a tard. Two posts ago you stated 'what do you think the L in XML stands for?' and now you try to backpedal??? Total NUBY. Your employers are so lucky to have a highly qualified janitor like you at their disposal.
The need for you to verify my statements when you have yet to accept the reality that many people have ben stating for years now about RUBY means very little to me. Your inability to deal with reality should be your greatest concern and I would suggest counseling and/or medication.