Maybe for gaming and some smart TV shenanigans I don't even know, but for the research/development world it's been the greatest thing ever. All that's changed is that MS went, "Why are we producing two versions of the same thing?" And then said, "Oh, in that case we'll just produce one version, then make an adapter."
In other words, MS made an excellent business move that saves the money and doesn't cost anyone anything.
Yeah MS is evil and nothing they do is ever good..NET? More like FailNET. Why don't you just use Java? Java has uhh... It's uhhh better because you can use it on like 10% of the computer market-share, or something! Yeah portability!
Plus what's up with Windows? Why can't everyone just learn Bash or something and use Linux (but only [insert favorite distro]). GUIs are dumb! I went to programming school so like, everyone else should know what I know about computers, sheesh stupid morons.
And why not just open source everything, no strings attached? They don't need to make money! Also *grumble grumble* my job doesn't pay me enough *grumble*.
So what time is the book burning? I've got a whole library to go through. We'll have to hunt down that cloud so we can stab it with pitchforks, though.
I agree. This demonstrates there needs to be a law holding the business or its new owner accountable for promises they've made, voiding any agreements the consumer may have made.
Which means if it's a subscription model, then being required to fulfill the subscription or refund the amount paid for the subscription. If you pay someone $120 to do something for twelve months and they only do it for half a month, they're legally obligated (already) to repay you half the money. It breaks down when you have hidden legal agreements that work out of this.
Maybe there is a law out there that does protect people from this. A criminal one against fraud or something, who knows. It just feels wrong than Sony can say, "Well you're boned," and then make off with all the money that people paid to them.
What matter is that it's a piece of paper that other people think means something. The same way a twenty dollar bill is just a piece of paper. Hey it could be counterfeit even. And that's where the analogy ends.
At the end of the day it's just something that gets you past the screening process of interviews. Speaking about software developers specifically, there's little chance you'd even make it to an interview without a CS degree or previous experience working as one. Even if you attach some stellar projects to your resume they're not likely going to look through them. They're going to go, "Welp no degree into the discard pile." Hell, even if you make it you have to be way better than the junior developers they would hire who have degrees just because you don't have one. It's not the best system but that's how it works because it's the easiest and people are lazy. Hence the term of "degree mills".
So in the end you're competing against people who went through the same process as you, getting their freshly minted degree and finally ready to start being productive members of society. Now is when you insert the thousands upon thousands of horror stories about junior developers and how they're utterly worthless. Not all of them, but I'm sure there's not much good to say about the majority, since I happen to know a CS student or two who are A+ programmers. But both of them do projects on their own time and have gone far beyond their curriculum. In short, a degree is not a ticket to a job; it's a ticket to a job interview. And that's all it's really worth.
You're not paying for some unique skill set, everything you learn you can get through OCW or textbooks. Anything you can't get through there is likely to be run down low quality. Of course there is always an exception, most people have one or two great professors who make a huge impact on them throughout their four (or five, who's counting!). But is it really worth the tens of thousands of dollars a year? Don't think so. College isn't the Marines, and you can't expect everyone that comes out of it to proficient with the M16 rifle.
I suppose you have a point about what OS actually means.
From my perspective they're being generous and it may have just been overlooked that they weren't actually being true to it. It just seems asinine to demand more from MS.
.NET will run most places now (except mobile platforms), the TIOBE index puts C# above Python, the number of libraries don't matter; it's quality that does, and C# runs on Linux.
Yeah, MS spent a copious amount of dollars developing a clean, efficient, and practical framework. They're being generous by not only continuing to develop it with all sorts of modules and internal testing, but expand it to other platforms.
And here you are whining that they won't let you butcher the code they wrote and reuse it for your own purposes like it was your own stuff?
You need to get your head out of your ass. Seriously, I've never heard anything so self-entitled in my life.
Razer's keyboards have their own custom switches. The only real difference between them and Cherry MX Brown switches is that Razer's have a shorter actuation distance.
The attitude of TFA is what investors felt for some time, until their latest conference call, when they put everyone's fears at ease and said, "Hey there is a method to this and this is it right here."
Apple is wrecking any other company in the industry. $18B quarter earnings with a goldmine in sight is the sign of business genius. Most everything they come out with translates into money raining down from the sky.
So yes, they're really a genius. Ballmer was incompetent, but Apple is a powerhouse in the tech industry.
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You mean the factory workers over in some country that doesn't have adequate minimum wage laws and worker protection?
I weep for the poor factory owners who can no longer make gobs of money off of MS's patronage on the backs of their fellow humans.
Failure? What failure?
Maybe for gaming and some smart TV shenanigans I don't even know, but for the research/development world it's been the greatest thing ever. All that's changed is that MS went, "Why are we producing two versions of the same thing?" And then said, "Oh, in that case we'll just produce one version, then make an adapter."
In other words, MS made an excellent business move that saves the money and doesn't cost anyone anything.
Whoa dude C++? FORTRAN is the REAL language. Get your fancy high level crap out of here.
I like my languages like I like my coffee: without synaptic sugar.
Yeah MS is evil and nothing they do is ever good. .NET? More like FailNET. Why don't you just use Java? Java has uhh... It's uhhh better because you can use it on like 10% of the computer market-share, or something! Yeah portability!
Plus what's up with Windows? Why can't everyone just learn Bash or something and use Linux (but only [insert favorite distro]). GUIs are dumb! I went to programming school so like, everyone else should know what I know about computers, sheesh stupid morons.
And why not just open source everything, no strings attached? They don't need to make money! Also *grumble grumble* my job doesn't pay me enough *grumble*.
Whoo am I right guys?
So what time is the book burning? I've got a whole library to go through. We'll have to hunt down that cloud so we can stab it with pitchforks, though.
Unless your sport is casual walking it won't.
I agree. This demonstrates there needs to be a law holding the business or its new owner accountable for promises they've made, voiding any agreements the consumer may have made.
Which means if it's a subscription model, then being required to fulfill the subscription or refund the amount paid for the subscription. If you pay someone $120 to do something for twelve months and they only do it for half a month, they're legally obligated (already) to repay you half the money. It breaks down when you have hidden legal agreements that work out of this.
Maybe there is a law out there that does protect people from this. A criminal one against fraud or something, who knows. It just feels wrong than Sony can say, "Well you're boned," and then make off with all the money that people paid to them.
No, it really is a piece of paper.
What matter is that it's a piece of paper that other people think means something. The same way a twenty dollar bill is just a piece of paper. Hey it could be counterfeit even. And that's where the analogy ends.
At the end of the day it's just something that gets you past the screening process of interviews. Speaking about software developers specifically, there's little chance you'd even make it to an interview without a CS degree or previous experience working as one. Even if you attach some stellar projects to your resume they're not likely going to look through them. They're going to go, "Welp no degree into the discard pile." Hell, even if you make it you have to be way better than the junior developers they would hire who have degrees just because you don't have one. It's not the best system but that's how it works because it's the easiest and people are lazy. Hence the term of "degree mills".
So in the end you're competing against people who went through the same process as you, getting their freshly minted degree and finally ready to start being productive members of society. Now is when you insert the thousands upon thousands of horror stories about junior developers and how they're utterly worthless. Not all of them, but I'm sure there's not much good to say about the majority, since I happen to know a CS student or two who are A+ programmers. But both of them do projects on their own time and have gone far beyond their curriculum. In short, a degree is not a ticket to a job; it's a ticket to a job interview. And that's all it's really worth.
You're not paying for some unique skill set, everything you learn you can get through OCW or textbooks. Anything you can't get through there is likely to be run down low quality. Of course there is always an exception, most people have one or two great professors who make a huge impact on them throughout their four (or five, who's counting!). But is it really worth the tens of thousands of dollars a year? Don't think so. College isn't the Marines, and you can't expect everyone that comes out of it to proficient with the M16 rifle.
I suppose Android is terrible for the same reason, then.
I suppose you have a point about what OS actually means.
From my perspective they're being generous and it may have just been overlooked that they weren't actually being true to it. It just seems asinine to demand more from MS.
You won't get sued for using C#. You may get sued for stealing their work and pretending it's yours, though.
.NET will run most places now (except mobile platforms), the TIOBE index puts C# above Python, the number of libraries don't matter; it's quality that does, and C# runs on Linux.
Yeah, MS spent a copious amount of dollars developing a clean, efficient, and practical framework. They're being generous by not only continuing to develop it with all sorts of modules and internal testing, but expand it to other platforms.
And here you are whining that they won't let you butcher the code they wrote and reuse it for your own purposes like it was your own stuff?
You need to get your head out of your ass. Seriously, I've never heard anything so self-entitled in my life.
And Python's advantages over C# and F# are what exactly?
Me too, since the only reason they want you to use their router is in the first place is to price gouge with rental fees.
Razer's keyboards have their own custom switches. The only real difference between them and Cherry MX Brown switches is that Razer's have a shorter actuation distance.
Yeah pretty much. I was using FF since forever. Now I'm like, "FF why are you such crap?"
So I recently switched over to IE, which offers more stability, a better UI, and equivalent or better performance.
Violence is the last resort of the incompetent.
The attitude of TFA is what investors felt for some time, until their latest conference call, when they put everyone's fears at ease and said, "Hey there is a method to this and this is it right here."
So no, Google isn't going anywhere.
Nadella's developer dance was making .NET open source.
You can't blame Microsoft for trying to catch up to the rest of the market and get a foothold.
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Apple is wrecking any other company in the industry. $18B quarter earnings with a goldmine in sight is the sign of business genius. Most everything they come out with translates into money raining down from the sky.
So yes, they're really a genius. Ballmer was incompetent, but Apple is a powerhouse in the tech industry.
Well, they probably couldn't figure out how to Photoshop their way into space.
Well I don't know if that's fast or slow.
I'm an investor not a software security expert.
Google does something and they're called out for not doing that thing?
This isn't making any sense. Are we just getting upset at Google because Google?