With the switch to x86, games will easily be ported to the mac and
This concept actually has a precedent. OS/2 was an alternative operating system for the same hardware that windows targetted. IBM made sure you could run nearly all win32 and most 16 bit DOS and windows software, as well as OS/2 software. I fully expect Apple to do the same with their x86 Macs.
Now the not entirely unexpected result was that all 3rd party software companies targetted the win32 API, and droppped support for OS/2. After all, their win32 software would run on both platforms anyway, so supporting only the biggest of the two made good business sense.
I'm not saying that OS/2 could have been a success if it had been unable to run windows software, but clearly being compatible with the big masses did not make it a success, or even save it.
Steve Jobs wants to move to x86 so he can directly compete with Dell. That's a very interesting idea in theory, but in practice none of the other PC companies appear to be able to compete with Dell, so I don't see how yet another PC company that stands out only with their unfamiliar OS interface and their far higher prices is going to be able to do it.
That's roughly what I make (with about 4 years of experience) depending on the exchange rate of the dollar to the euro.
I can't believe the standard of living in the US. Wages are incredibly high, and prices are incredibly low.
For the price of a two bedroom appartment in a poor neighbourhood here, you could buy a family home with a nice big yard and a car in the US. Food and clothes cost about twice as much here, and gasoline about the equivalent of 5 or 6 dollars per gallon, depending on the exchange rate.
The confusion is probably in the fact that software, in its early days, was al almost exclusively American affair, while engineering was an international thing for a long time before that. Americans don't use the metric system, while most of the rest of the world has adopted it since the days of Napoleon.
FORTRAN only reserves the first 6 columns for comments. This
is much worse (and also far more widely used)
I wouldn't be surprised if a previous job in that caused your coworker's brain damage
This is a very interesting thing you say here. Visual studio is not as suited for large projects as Emacs?
I kind of envy windows programmers for the fantastic developmen tools they have at their disposal. They have visual studio, we have big dinosaur IDE's so slow and cumbersome that most seem to revert to good old simple text editors.
I guess the grass on the other side of the fence is always greener.
IBM has invested a lot of money in websphere based thingies to make their Big Iron less tied to dumb terminals, only to make it more tied to Wintel PC clients running internet explorer, because it just won't work with other browsers.
Rather than fix their middleware, I'm betting they want to try and fix firefox to work with deliberately IE-only websites.
Money to pay lawyers is not what I mean. It could be argued that something released under GPL is actually in the public domain, and represents no (monetary) value, because no attempt is made to stop people obtaining, copying or using the source, and the author is not selling the product.
Hope this goes to court
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It would be an interesting test case to see if the GPL can hold up in court. My guess is that it wouldn't in the real world (money vs. no-money), but the evidence seems to be pretty hard to sweep aside in this particular case.
From my experience in the workplace (100% tech savvy people, it's a software company): On the servers that force users to change their passwords every 90 days, most users use their regular password plus a number, adding exactly nothing to the security.
There may be many things wrong with old fashioned languages like COBOL, but it being slow is not one of them. An extremely rigid programming language without any dynamic memory allocation actually turns out code that can be optimized better by the compiler than something as flexible as C or C++
As I understand it from the article, these hate mongering forums on Orkut are invitation only private thingies where people express their private hate mongering expressions to their fellow hate mongers. What exactly is the problem here?
Now if they were to barge in on other forums and express those opinions, it could be considered harassment, and that really is a problem, and probably also illegal is your country, but as far as I know expressing unpleasant opinions in private is considered legal.
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With the switch to x86, games will easily be ported to the mac and This concept actually has a precedent. OS/2 was an alternative operating system for the same hardware that windows targetted. IBM made sure you could run nearly all win32 and most 16 bit DOS and windows software, as well as OS/2 software. I fully expect Apple to do the same with their x86 Macs.
Now the not entirely unexpected result was that all 3rd party software companies targetted the win32 API, and droppped support for OS/2. After all, their win32 software would run on both platforms anyway, so supporting only the biggest of the two made good business sense.
I'm not saying that OS/2 could have been a success if it had been unable to run windows software, but clearly being compatible with the big masses did not make it a success, or even save it.
Steve Jobs wants to move to x86 so he can directly compete with Dell. That's a very interesting idea in theory, but in practice none of the other PC companies appear to be able to compete with Dell, so I don't see how yet another PC company that stands out only with their unfamiliar OS interface and their far higher prices is going to be able to do it.
That's roughly what I make (with about 4 years of experience) depending on the exchange rate of the dollar to the euro.
I can't believe the standard of living in the US. Wages are incredibly high, and prices are incredibly low.
For the price of a two bedroom appartment in a poor neighbourhood here, you could buy a family home with a nice big yard and a car in the US. Food and clothes cost about twice as much here, and gasoline about the equivalent of 5 or 6 dollars per gallon, depending on the exchange rate.
I can confirm that Pepsi is at least as good as Coke, possibly better, at ruining keyboards.
The confusion is probably in the fact that software, in its early days, was al almost exclusively American affair, while engineering was an international thing for a long time before that. Americans don't use the metric system, while most of the rest of the world has adopted it since the days of Napoleon.
but applets are currently used on far too many web pages.
Where do you find these many webpages using applets? I got the impression that applets were dead.
Other than its geographic proximity the UK has nothing to do with europe
Worse is, a couple of years of work experience in RPG programming do not count as work experience in ICT.
It will look about as good on your resume as a couple of years of doing accounting.
At work, we are not allowed to use comments in the code.
Allowing comments would "encourage coders to use clever tricks" according to the technical director.
FORTRAN only reserves the first 6 columns for comments. This is much worse (and also far more widely used)
I wouldn't be surprised if a previous job in that caused your coworker's brain damage
This is a very interesting thing you say here. Visual studio is not as suited for large projects as Emacs?
I kind of envy windows programmers for the fantastic developmen tools they have at their disposal. They have visual studio, we have big dinosaur IDE's so slow and cumbersome that most seem to revert to good old simple text editors.
I guess the grass on the other side of the fence is always greener.
With all their beady little eyes
And flappin' heads so full of lies !
IBM has invested a lot of money in websphere based thingies to make their Big Iron less tied to dumb terminals, only to make it more tied to Wintel PC clients running internet explorer, because it just won't work with other browsers.
Rather than fix their middleware, I'm betting they want to try and fix firefox to work with deliberately IE-only websites.
Is a business with a turnover of about $200 million really considered a small business in the US?
Money to pay lawyers is not what I mean. It could be argued that something released under GPL is actually in the public domain, and represents no (monetary) value, because no attempt is made to stop people obtaining, copying or using the source, and the author is not selling the product.
It would be an interesting test case to see if the GPL can hold up in court. My guess is that it wouldn't in the real world (money vs. no-money), but the evidence seems to be pretty hard to sweep aside in this particular case.
Slashdot just makes them annoying by posting about a dozen such stories on one page every year
bleh
By the way, moderators, why do you waste moderator points on an off topic discussion about shoes?
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The data on such business servers is usually not really top secret, what you want to protect it from is some unauthorized person changing it.
From my experience in the workplace (100% tech savvy people, it's a software company): On the servers that force users to change their passwords every 90 days, most users use their regular password plus a number, adding exactly nothing to the security.
People with low slashdot uid's are nerds!
This is off topic, but still:
There may be many things wrong with old fashioned languages like COBOL, but it being slow is not one of them. An extremely rigid programming language without any dynamic memory allocation actually turns out code that can be optimized better by the compiler than something as flexible as C or C++
fair point
As I understand it from the article, these hate mongering forums on Orkut are invitation only private thingies where people express their private hate mongering expressions to their fellow hate mongers. What exactly is the problem here?
Now if they were to barge in on other forums and express those opinions, it could be considered harassment, and that really is a problem, and probably also illegal is your country, but as far as I know expressing unpleasant opinions in private is considered legal.
There's a xeon server on a plugin card in the machine.