>Why is everyone expecting businesses to risk
>their livelyhood for an operating system they
>hardly know?
For the same reason that everyone jumped from a large corporation that rented applications (IBM) to a small, unproven technological upstart that cost a whole lot less, but wasnt as "mature".
Just remember - no one ever got fired for choosing IBM - until they did get fired for choosing IBM's insane price structure.
Thats you're argument - no one ever got fired for using microsoft?
we use new materials, new techniques, new requirements, but the basics are still the same.
what you are talking about is exactly the problem that i'm trying to expose. You THINK that every time you sit down to a computer that what you're doing has no relation to anything that anyone has ever done before, so you make up a new technique to get it done, instead of standing on the shoulders of the really smart (tm) people before you.
one of the biggest problems in commercial software development is the idea that your group is the first ones to come across this particular problem, and that you have to weave your solution out of whole cloth.
the programming field has left its "arts" phase a long time ago - as in - everything is new, so everything is a work of art. This is when most software people were graduating with Computer Arts degrees.
It is currently at the end of its "scientific" phase, computer science degrees are the norm. This basically means that we are able to repeat what we're doing, and are beginning to make processes out of it, and to make some solid foundations.
The next phase will be an engineering phase, where we refine the scientific techniques to be finely, highly efficient production processes.
when i was at sungard, they were making large gestures to-location. i distictly remember people bitching about exds' multiple and how sds should be well above it.
the facilities to do data recovery and warehousing are not that much different than to do colocation.
the subsidiary i was working at started push an ASP model, which sds proper will love to co-locate once its big enough.
not only was it full of nasty monsters, but where the nasty mosters were, you couldnt see what you were running into because it was in the deep forests.
when i ran into those damn dragons i nearly pissed my pants.
i also remember being able to steal massive amounts of crap from dawn because of the "AI" (and i use that term REALLY loosely) of the guards in Dawn.
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USE ONE LANGUAGE!!! we are all idiots who can only learn one language, and we MUST use it for every single project, on matter how inapplicable it is.
Informix 4GL doesnt have file access? who cares, make a temporary database table!!!
VB isnt known for its alogorithm capabilities, screw that, write a schedulign algorithm in it...
BUT whatever you do, dont use something that works, everything is a nail, and we've got this golden hammer.
no thanks, been there, done that. you end up with code that is written in languages ill-suited for the purpose.
thats why single-use appliances will take off instead of the current model of "its a computer, it can do ANYTHING you want".
>Most people choose Pop music
no, most people choose what they hear on the radio, or on MTV.
American consumerism has shown that people will buy ANYTHING no matter the value if marketed enough.
>their livelyhood for an operating system they
>hardly know?
For the same reason that everyone jumped from a large corporation that rented applications (IBM) to a small, unproven technological upstart that cost a whole lot less, but wasnt as "mature".
Just remember - no one ever got fired for choosing IBM - until they did get fired for choosing IBM's insane price structure.
Thats you're argument - no one ever got fired for using microsoft?
you really think that lying about a blow-job ranks up there with other "high-crimes and misdemeanors" like treason, eh?
...
the president has explicit immunity from most laws
yeh... its a crime against hte united states to get a hummer...
come on...
Its a good thing to be president of the united states.
Its a good thing to get a hummer in your office by an young intern...
how does combining the two make it a bad thing?
/me grins.
wow... you cant get much more bare-knuckled than theo, either, can ya?
... 2.... 1....
and here come the BSD flying monkeys in 3
they may change details.
look - take bridges as an example.
we use new materials, new techniques, new requirements, but the basics are still the same.
what you are talking about is exactly the problem that i'm trying to expose. You THINK that every time you sit down to a computer that what you're doing has no relation to anything that anyone has ever done before, so you make up a new technique to get it done, instead of standing on the shoulders of the really smart (tm) people before you.
you're project, isnt different, it isnt new.
one of the biggest problems in commercial software development is the idea that your group is the first ones to come across this particular problem, and that you have to weave your solution out of whole cloth.
the programming field has left its "arts" phase a long time ago - as in - everything is new, so everything is a work of art. This is when most software people were graduating with Computer Arts degrees.
It is currently at the end of its "scientific" phase, computer science degrees are the norm. This basically means that we are able to repeat what we're doing, and are beginning to make processes out of it, and to make some solid foundations.
The next phase will be an engineering phase, where we refine the scientific techniques to be finely, highly efficient production processes.
at least, i think...
how about a niftier version of wasteland?
... the last one that i REALLY likes was Torment...
i wish we could get better thought out RPG's
1) Users are used to ms-windows. they are all old dogs and refuse to learn new tricks.
2) Linux based companies cant make money. nope. never.
i thought we've heard this before?
dwarves and elves would never cross-breed...
geez...
what kindof fantasy world was you DM living in?
when i was at sungard, they were making large gestures to-location. i distictly remember people bitching about exds' multiple and how sds should be well above it.
the facilities to do data recovery and warehousing are not that much different than to do colocation.
the subsidiary i was working at started push an ASP model, which sds proper will love to co-locate once its big enough.
and make sure that the documentation should reside in the "non-fiction" section of the library, please.
/kindof/ applies to what your trynig to do.
all too often, you get documentation that
well.. sungard is this really large, old company with an insane amount of cash and no debt.
they LOVE recurring revenue streams.
specialty is data recovery and data warehousing... they could take over exodus's customers without skipping a beat...
damn... sungard is going to pick up all the business that these guys have...
he's going to get 10% of sales of vim, thats why he's pushing it.
how boring.
of course there's a "best" text-editor...
jsut like there are "best" operating systems... and "best" donuts... and "best" #2 pencils...
who made you all zen-like?
the bigger problem here, is ... whats advice?
teaching someone how to disassemble a program?
teaching assembly language?
using a non-MS product?
that will only work if stallman is wearing a dress and has red high-heels on
what did you do to get the 0's, or was this before nothing was discovered?
not only was it full of nasty monsters, but where the nasty mosters were, you couldnt see what you were running into because it was in the deep forests.
when i ran into those damn dragons i nearly pissed my pants.
i also remember being able to steal massive amounts of crap from dawn because of the "AI" (and i use that term REALLY loosely) of the guards in Dawn.
then i'd run out, rinse, repeat.