The software industry is dead: development has become the equivalent of amateur radio, a hobby declining as its participants age and die. Who is going to use this thing?
The next step is a "business xBox", with Office, upgradeable via.NET; license fees paid annually to Microsoft; and no ability whatsoever to allow the installation or use of other applications on the machine. Rather like the dedicated word-processing machines in the 1980s.
Businesses that do not want to give the full power of PCs to employees would welcome that kind of device, if it was cheap enough and if they could be reassured that Microsoft was not accessing their confidential information (that last one is a big if to us, but remember how popular Gates is outside the tech industry).
So, if it's a calculator, why does the story have a PDA icon?
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Who expected any of the dot-coms to fail?
Plenty of us who weren't idiots.
What was not expected was that the dot-com failures would so thoroughly poison the technology marketplace that even producers of real, physical product would have difficulty making sales and getting venture capital funding.
The reality of all this is that the MIS majors were much slower to catch on to software engineering concepts that were pretty much inately intuitive to the CS/CE majors. The MIS people were a little frustrating for the CS people to work with as developers. After the dot com meltdown and a few RIFs, the developers we have left are mostly CS/CE people. We have also since modified our recruiting policies to recruit CS/CE people as developers and MIS people as project lead type people.
And who gets paid more? Developers or project leaders?
This posting would be hilarious if not for the fact that everyone knows the truth about corporate structure - it's the less qualified that make more money and have more power.
At Thanksgiving I was invited to my sister's. No one talked to each other. The only family activity was to watch videos. Three movies, one after another. Then the children went to bed and the rest of us went home.
Today, you can go up to the second floor of the Gates Building and see the empty cubicles, and obsolete computers below the gold letters "Knowledge Systems Lab".
The problem for people who want to really push the idea is that the Tolkien mythos doesn't have any Redeemer, which is the central concept of the Christian mythos.
There is a reference to Christ in "Finrod and Andreth", one of Tolkien's late philosophical works (a dialog on immortality; the speakers are an elf and a woman). It's in "Morgoth's Ring" (History of Middle Earth, volume 10).
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The software industry is dead: development has become the equivalent of amateur radio, a hobby declining as its participants age and die. Who is going to use this thing?
Forget CS. Get a marketing degree. That's the only way to make a living. Remember, sales and marketing types are the ones that are not fired.
people who meet him instinctively dislike him.
I've read his stuff, and I don't have to meet him to dislike him. What an arrogant ass.
Yet another dot com scammer walking away with millions.
I can only begin to imagine what a Ferengi program would be like
Microsoft Office.
Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Please use the term "transparent exterior access devices".
When your house burnt down, the community would come together and help you out.
Today, if your house burns down, not even your family will help you out.
Programmers have so far been insulated from most layoffs and foreign competition. This state of grace will probably erode by 2015.
... the unemployment rate of programmers is higher than that of unskilled laborers.
Sorry, bud, it's ended now
The next step is a "business xBox", with Office, upgradeable via .NET; license fees paid annually to Microsoft; and no ability whatsoever to allow the installation or use of other applications on the machine. Rather like the dedicated word-processing machines in the 1980s.
Businesses that do not want to give the full power of PCs to employees would welcome that kind of device, if it was cheap enough and if they could be reassured that Microsoft was not accessing their confidential information (that last one is a big if to us, but remember how popular Gates is outside the tech industry).
What ever happened to Beatrice, anyway? They're no longer on the NYSE ... change of name? breakup?
Remember the ridicule Jimmy Carter got from the killer rabbit?
At least that was a living creature with teeth!
Yeah, and they let Anders Hejlsberg get away, too; he was more important to Borland's success than Kahn, who was just the public face.
"Flux" (Flipper + Tux)
So, if it's a calculator, why does the story have a PDA icon?
Who expected any of the dot-coms to fail?
Plenty of us who weren't idiots.
What was not expected was that the dot-com failures would so thoroughly poison the technology marketplace that even producers of real, physical product would have difficulty making sales and getting venture capital funding.
The reality of all this is that the MIS majors were much slower to catch on to software engineering concepts that were pretty much inately intuitive to the CS/CE majors. The MIS people were a little frustrating for the CS people to work with as developers. After the dot com meltdown and a few RIFs, the developers we have left are mostly CS/CE people. We have also since modified our recruiting policies to recruit CS/CE people as developers and MIS people as project lead type people.
And who gets paid more? Developers or project leaders?
This posting would be hilarious if not for the fact that everyone knows the truth about corporate structure - it's the less qualified that make more money and have more power.
On the other hand, if they win the students might benefit from it with lower fees/more equipment.
Obviously not a Cornell student.
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I know what that is like.
At Thanksgiving I was invited to my sister's. No one talked to each other. The only family activity was to watch videos. Three movies, one after another. Then the children went to bed and the rest of us went home.
Really sad.
Today, you can go up to the second floor of the Gates Building and see the empty cubicles, and obsolete computers below the gold letters "Knowledge Systems Lab".
What more need be said?
The Chtorr won after the events in book 4. The human race was exterminated. There will be no book 5. :-)
Parallel development. The Silmarillion was not published until 1977, more than fifteen years after the first Elric stories appeared.
I believe Moorcock got his cursed sword theme from Poul Anderson's "Broken Sword"; he certainly got the Law-Chaos conflict from Anderson.
Actually Gandalf was pretty close to an angel. Saruman would be one, too. Sauron again would be a fallen angel.
And Morgoth is Satan.
The problem for people who want to really push the idea is that the Tolkien mythos doesn't have any Redeemer, which is the central concept of the Christian mythos.
There is a reference to Christ in "Finrod and Andreth", one of Tolkien's late philosophical works (a dialog on immortality; the speakers are an elf and a woman). It's in "Morgoth's Ring" (History of Middle Earth, volume 10).
Developers! Developers! Developers!
(ROTFL)
I have heard that the death of Boromir (chapter 1 of book 2) will be the end of the first movie.