Also interesting is the use of Eclipse as the preferred learning platform as opposed to Netbeans.
Wow, so they teach what people actually use? What a concept!
Kidding (sort of)... NetBeans may be wonderful. But I don't think I've talked to anyone that's used it on a regular basis since 2002, It's about 90% Eclipse and 9.9% IDEA, with the occasional hard-core VI guy.
You know, when was growing up, I never thought of Luthor as rich. But I guess he was, since he never lacked money to build his super-weapons to try out on Superman.
But, in those days, he never even made a token appearance at the office, like Bruce Wayne did. No, he just always hung out in the latest underground lair (which Supes never seemed to discover him in the process of building, despite the whole telescopic vision/super-hearing stuff), wearing horrendous purple-and-green spandex outfits with high collars.
And his parents weren't rich. They were just another middle-class Smallville family, albeit one with a super-genius son. Superboy (yes, Smallville fans, back then Clark put on the blue suit somewhere around puberty) happened to fly by one day when one of young Lex's experiments started a fire in his bedroom. Superboy blew it out with his super-breath, but that blew gasses from the experiment around the room. That's what caused his hair to fall out... and I mean immediately, by the time Supes landed Lex was bald. From then on, Luthor hated Superboy/Superman. It was also implied that the gas had increased his intelligence even more, but drove him slightly insane.
AFAIK, Luthor didn't really show up as a corporate mogul until the 'restructuring' of Superman in the eighties.
Amen to that. I had one crash several years ago. Then I read several people say they'd improved, so I bought another one last year. Blew up a month out of warranty. Never again.
Not to mention the Google factor... a made-up name ensures anyone looking for you will find you without a bunch of irrelevant hits.
Garg
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Sorry if that sounded harsher than I meant.
But the old saw I alluded to - "the cobbler's son has no shoes" - points out our tendency to focus in on something so much we ignore the obvious. Heck, I've done it... most of us have. But first impressions are important. ("I wouldn't go to that cobbler, his kids have no shoes." ) Something you might want to point out to him.
So now I will overcome my bias, fire up IE and see what he has to say...
Garg
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ummm... so he's an expert on quality, but can't be bothered to make his Web page conform to standards?
Good thing he's not a cobbler, or you'd be barefoot.
ummm... Flash has supported accessibility for disabled users since version 6. Not that it's widely used, of course, but you could say the same thing about section 508 usability for most regular HTML sites too.
As far as converting XML to Flash, you can use something like Flex (expensive, but nice tools and data binding) or Laszlo (free and open source).
these digital life forms also once avoided scientists attempts at "killing" them, by playing dead.
Cool! A new excuse... next time someone calls me at 3AM and says one of my programs has died, I'll just tell them it's playing dead and call me in the morning.
In 1994, I was working for a hospital trying to deploy OS/2. We'd had some success (most notably with the medical library), but we had challenges too.
In particular, there was a DOS-based package that we needed the workstations to access. OS/2 supposedly ran DOS apps as well as Windows, but this one froze up randomly. It was written in dBase or FoxPro, one of those database/language platforms.
The vendor (basically, the guy who wrote the code with a few people as a support staff) practically bent over backward trying to get it to work. He offered to give IBM the source code, if they would only sign a non-disclosure agreement. Remember, at this time nobody showed source for a commercial product; it was like giving away the crown jewels.
And IBM wouldn't do it.
That was the straw that broke the camel's back. OS/2 hung on for a while there, but the day the IBM rep called me and said they would make no further effort to get the package to work, its fate was sealed.
The problem was, while IBM promoted OS/2 publicly, there were all sorts of people there who knew Windows, liked Windows, and undercut OS/2 at every opportunity (in typical passive-aggressive fashion). Maybe they were Windows experts and didn't want to learn new things. Maybe they thought Windows looked better on their resume. Maybe they used OS/2 1.0 and never got over their initial negative reaction. But whatever the reason, corporate fiat couldn't win the hearts and minds of a lot of their employees. The same thing may be happening here. (They only support IE? WTF?!!)
I wish IBM well in their Linux effort. Maybe they'll eventually pull it off. But it's gonna take more than a decree from on high.
I don't see the second point as overriding the first. IBM considers open-source strategic in that, in the long run, they will make money from it (mostly by their service arm assembling 'solutions' for clients). Solaris fits neither the short-term (sell software at a profit) nor long-term (sell solutions based on it).
"My OS is becoming irrelevant! Lots more stuff runs on Linux! Save me, IBM!!!"
Seriously, IBM will port their software if they can make more money selling the Solaris versions than it cost to port and support. That's it.
IBM may show largesse toward open source, but that's because they view it as strategic. Solaris isn't strategic for them, no matter how much Schwartz may wish it so.
Most of the info they want is about your hardware, which seems reasonable considering they're wanting to see where problems might occur with their upcoming release. I know it's a 'personal' computer, but don't identify with it so much...:-)
Exactly. I'm talking about the opposing candidate doing it... almost anyone running for public office has certain followers who will do things that the candidate himself doesn't approve of. You think W is proud that the godhatesfags.com guy is for him?
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Also interesting is the use of Eclipse as the preferred learning platform as opposed to Netbeans.
Wow, so they teach what people actually use? What a concept!
Kidding (sort of)... NetBeans may be wonderful. But I don't think I've talked to anyone that's used it on a regular basis since 2002, It's about 90% Eclipse and 9.9% IDEA, with the occasional hard-core VI guy.
A friend of mine had the best quote ever about going into management...
"I don't want to be the boss because I might have someone like me working for me."
(Thanks Dan, wherever you are!)
...I hold a current HIPPA cert.
Wow, you got a cert and you can't even spell HIPAA? And people here talk about MCSE's!
One drone would be launched from, and retrieved by, submarines..
At last! Skydiver!
Now all we need is purple-haired women on Moonbase...
Sounds like the title of a children's book from Hell.
You know, when was growing up, I never thought of Luthor as rich. But I guess he was, since he never lacked money to build his super-weapons to try out on Superman.
But, in those days, he never even made a token appearance at the office, like Bruce Wayne did. No, he just always hung out in the latest underground lair (which Supes never seemed to discover him in the process of building, despite the whole telescopic vision/super-hearing stuff), wearing horrendous purple-and-green spandex outfits with high collars.
And his parents weren't rich. They were just another middle-class Smallville family, albeit one with a super-genius son. Superboy (yes, Smallville fans, back then Clark put on the blue suit somewhere around puberty) happened to fly by one day when one of young Lex's experiments started a fire in his bedroom. Superboy blew it out with his super-breath, but that blew gasses from the experiment around the room. That's what caused his hair to fall out... and I mean immediately, by the time Supes landed Lex was bald. From then on, Luthor hated Superboy/Superman. It was also implied that the gas had increased his intelligence even more, but drove him slightly insane.
AFAIK, Luthor didn't really show up as a corporate mogul until the 'restructuring' of Superman in the eighties.
Amen to that. I had one crash several years ago. Then I read several people say they'd improved, so I bought another one last year. Blew up a month out of warranty. Never again.
We'll be able to see that mirror-image planet over there!
I do really feel sorry for Hormel. Almost as sorry as I feel for the company that used to make Ayds diet candy.
Finally! All the security and stability of Windows combined with the user-friendliness of Linux!
Not to mention the Google factor... a made-up name ensures anyone looking for you will find you without a bunch of irrelevant hits.
Garg
Sorry if that sounded harsher than I meant.
But the old saw I alluded to - "the cobbler's son has no shoes" - points out our tendency to focus in on something so much we ignore the obvious. Heck, I've done it... most of us have. But first impressions are important. ("I wouldn't go to that cobbler, his kids have no shoes." ) Something you might want to point out to him.
So now I will overcome my bias, fire up IE and see what he has to say...
Garg
ummm... so he's an expert on quality, but can't be bothered to make his Web page conform to standards?
Good thing he's not a cobbler, or you'd be barefoot.
Garg
ummm... Flash has supported accessibility for disabled users since version 6. Not that it's widely used, of course, but you could say the same thing about section 508 usability for most regular HTML sites too.
As far as converting XML to Flash, you can use something like Flex (expensive, but nice tools and data binding) or Laszlo (free and open source).
Garg
And let's not forget Windows for Workgroups 3.11... the only 'feature' added by that extra '1' on the end was it broke OS/2 for Windows.
Garg
these digital life forms also once avoided scientists attempts at "killing" them, by playing dead.
Cool! A new excuse... next time someone calls me at 3AM and says one of my programs has died, I'll just tell them it's playing dead and call me in the morning.
Garg
License to clone.
Garg
Then of course there are cheap bastards like myself, who want the G5 to come out so I can buy your barely-used G4 cheap on eBay... :-)
Garg
In 1994, I was working for a hospital trying to deploy OS/2. We'd had some success (most notably with the medical library), but we had challenges too.
In particular, there was a DOS-based package that we needed the workstations to access. OS/2 supposedly ran DOS apps as well as Windows, but this one froze up randomly. It was written in dBase or FoxPro, one of those database/language platforms.
The vendor (basically, the guy who wrote the code with a few people as a support staff) practically bent over backward trying to get it to work. He offered to give IBM the source code, if they would only sign a non-disclosure agreement. Remember, at this time nobody showed source for a commercial product; it was like giving away the crown jewels.
And IBM wouldn't do it.
That was the straw that broke the camel's back. OS/2 hung on for a while there, but the day the IBM rep called me and said they would make no further effort to get the package to work, its fate was sealed.
The problem was, while IBM promoted OS/2 publicly, there were all sorts of people there who knew Windows, liked Windows, and undercut OS/2 at every opportunity (in typical passive-aggressive fashion). Maybe they were Windows experts and didn't want to learn new things. Maybe they thought Windows looked better on their resume. Maybe they used OS/2 1.0 and never got over their initial negative reaction. But whatever the reason, corporate fiat couldn't win the hearts and minds of a lot of their employees. The same thing may be happening here. (They only support IE? WTF?!!)
I wish IBM well in their Linux effort. Maybe they'll eventually pull it off. But it's gonna take more than a decree from on high.
Garg
I don't see the second point as overriding the first. IBM considers open-source strategic in that, in the long run, they will make money from it (mostly by their service arm assembling 'solutions' for clients). Solaris fits neither the short-term (sell software at a profit) nor long-term (sell solutions based on it).
Garg
"My OS is becoming irrelevant! Lots more stuff runs on Linux! Save me, IBM!!!"
Seriously, IBM will port their software if they can make more money selling the Solaris versions than it cost to port and support. That's it.
IBM may show largesse toward open source, but that's because they view it as strategic. Solaris isn't strategic for them, no matter how much Schwartz may wish it so.
Garg
It's cops and robbers, and cowboys and Indians.
You start mixing those up and no telling what might happen.
Garg
On Windows, my favorite is still Funduc Software's Search and Replace. It let me do rudimentary refactoring long before the IDE's discovered it.
Maybe it's a programmer-only thing, but I'm surprised none of the others will do replace (at least, if they do I didn't see it in the article).
Garg
Most of the info they want is about your hardware, which seems reasonable considering they're wanting to see where problems might occur with their upcoming release. I know it's a 'personal' computer, but don't identify with it so much... :-)
Garg
Exactly. I'm talking about the opposing candidate doing it... almost anyone running for public office has certain followers who will do things that the candidate himself doesn't approve of. You think W is proud that the godhatesfags.com guy is for him?
Gsrg