According to Johnathan Schwartz of Sun ".. Java runs on more devices than Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, Symbian and the Mac combined. Nearly 4 billion devices at this point, from smart cards to consumer devices, DVD players to set top boxes, medical equipment, all the way up into the majority of the world's transactional systems and 8 out of every 10 cellphones sold." http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/fueling_the_ne twork_effect
I suggested going to a job advert site and doing a little research. If you do that you will find there is no "used to be" about the availability of VB jobs. Try making informed comments.
Go to your job web site of choice and key in the names of your favorite programming language. Notice that there are a huge number of jobs for Java skills (usually more than any other language but always a very close run match). Then ask yourself, if it is such a toy why are so many people prepared to pay good money to advertise for these skills?
I was born and raised in the UK. The first time I had to swear allegiance to the Queen ws when I became an Australian citizen about ten years ago. They may have fixed that since.
No the information in the post wasn't an exaggeration it was just wrong. Commenting on some slightly similar information that might be true, doesn't make the original information any less wrong.
Fairly important to be aware that Moodle is GPL, written in PHP and mainly uses PHP but also can use Postgresql. I have used both Blackboard and Moodle and even discounting the significant price difference (grins), I much much prefer Moodle.
"basically the whole tech industry, excepting Microsoft, is now at least partly in the AMP camp"
Go to any job site of your choice.
Do searches on apache mysql perl or PHP
Then do searches on Oracle Java
Allowing that most Java development is on the server side, try to draw a conclusion. Are these people spending good money advertising these jobs because they are using the technologies?. Is the whole tech industry, except Microsoft at least partly in the AMP camp or just the tiny bit that you are familiar with?
"4) Customers have to contend with lack of VBA and lack of automation compatibility. You'd be surprised how many applications and corporations are wedded to Office because of this. Try exporting from Crystal Reports into a spreadsheet, many corporate DBs, etc."
You can read about some interesting developments in terms of OpenOffice.org VBA support at
"Unfortunately, every feature they currently offer can be coded internally rather easily"
Every feature of a commercial VLE can be coded rather easily?. So putting together competing free products was easy? Why not post that suggestion on the forums of Moodle or Sakai and see if they agree?
About 60% of eligable voters took part in the last UK general election. That is slightly more than nobody. Prior to 92 it was closer to 70%. Participation has fallen off since 92 because the UK population is deliriously happy with the government and sees no need to vote (or something)
Yes the UK struggles along with the worlds 6th largest GDP, it's hell here in the second tier.
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Yes is it only the 450 strong Luxembourg army and their enormous firepower that stops Belgium, France or Germany from relieving them of their soverignty (pick other examples to suit).
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He said it about a year ago and I have read everything I possibly can on the subject and I have not seen anyone contradict him.
According to Johnathan Schwartz of Sune twork_effect
".. Java runs on more devices than Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, Symbian and the Mac combined. Nearly 4 billion devices at this point, from smart cards to consumer devices, DVD players to set top boxes, medical equipment, all the way up into the majority of the world's transactional systems and 8 out of every 10 cellphones sold."
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/fueling_the_n
"Ever see how many VB jobs there used to be"
I suggested going to a job advert site and doing a little research. If you do that you will find there is no "used to be" about the availability of VB jobs. Try making informed comments.
Yes, you are probably right its the rest of the world that is out of step, not you.
Go to your job web site of choice and key in the names of your favorite programming language. Notice that there are a huge number of jobs for Java skills (usually more than any other language but always a very close run match). Then ask yourself, if it is such a toy why are so many people prepared to pay good money to advertise for these skills?
By that logic the existence of any military anywhere means that someone/everyone is being "protected" by the military.
I was born and raised in the UK. The first time I had to swear allegiance to the Queen ws when I became an Australian citizen about ten years ago. They may have fixed that since.
No the information in the post wasn't an exaggeration it was just wrong. Commenting on some slightly similar information that might be true, doesn't make the original information any less wrong.
And of course there was never any rioting or murder in these nations before the arrival of Muslims
Indeed both people who voted for the UKIP have the political establishment very concerned.
"The US is not a country"
Wow, I will now have to entirely revise my view of the USA and world politics.
"There are perhaps 100 real political refugees in the world"
How do you define "real"
Are you suggesting that Novell is parasitic in the Linux space?
Fairly important to be aware that Moodle is GPL, written in PHP and mainly uses PHP but also can use Postgresql. I have used both Blackboard and Moodle and even discounting the significant price difference (grins), I much much prefer Moodle.
"Database contents are easily moved to another DB if needed and translating the stored procedures is trivial"
Sounds to me like your entire database requirements are trivial. For the rest of the world, these are serious issues.
The UK does not have a particularly high alcohol by comparison with other European countries.
"basically the whole tech industry, excepting Microsoft, is now at least partly in the AMP camp"
Go to any job site of your choice.
Do searches on
apache
mysql
perl or PHP
Then do searches on
Oracle
Java
Allowing that most Java development is on the server side, try to draw a conclusion. Are these people spending good money advertising these jobs because they are using the technologies?. Is the whole tech industry, except Microsoft at least partly in the AMP camp or just the tiny bit that you are familiar with?
"4) Customers have to contend with lack of VBA and lack of automation compatibility.
You'd be surprised how many applications and corporations are wedded to Office because of this.
Try exporting from Crystal Reports into a spreadsheet, many corporate DBs, etc."
You can read about some interesting developments in terms of OpenOffice.org VBA support at
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/sun_and_novel
Are you saying the Nazis would have killed all French people?
"and software being American"
Wow, I didn't know software was American
"Unfortunately, every feature they currently offer can be coded internally rather easily"
Every feature of a commercial VLE can be coded rather easily?. So putting together competing free products was easy? Why not post that suggestion on the forums of Moodle or Sakai and see if they agree?
About 60% of eligable voters took part in the last UK general election. That is slightly more than nobody. Prior to 92 it was closer to 70%. Participation has fallen off since 92 because the UK population is deliriously happy with the government and sees no need to vote (or something)
"Postgres, the only other threat on the first point, was nullified with Oracle's acquisition of the only backend to it with atomic commits"
No, it was the innodb for MySQL that Oracle acquired, this has nothing to do with PostGresQL. Unlike MySQL PostgresQL has always had attomic commits.
Yes the UK struggles along with the worlds 6th largest GDP, it's hell here in the second tier.
Yes is it only the 450 strong Luxembourg army and their enormous firepower that stops Belgium, France or Germany from relieving them of their soverignty (pick other examples to suit).