If your CIO or CEO is one of the people that only hears the "free" part, there's nothing that will convince them to contribute to the community, whether through cash, donations, or sharing their own source code.
If you think you have to warp your head to work with non-traditional languages like Erlang, wait until you have to deal with the next generation of technology.
You do realize that the ARM processors are based on the old Motorola 68000 series of processors which used to be used in the workstations and servers of the day? If I recall correctly, the original Sun workstations were based on 68000-series processors, not SPARC, for example.
Low-wattage high-performance processors are actually critical for the server environments that Xeon currently dominates. Cooling multi-processor boards and densely packed blades is a huge part of data center costs.
After using Bing Translate a while longer, it's become clear it's no better than Google Translate. But it does seem to have more pages that have been manually translated, or at least I've been hitting more of them. The manually translated pages make them look better than they actually are.
Try going to Leonard Nimoy's Facebook page and pasting the Yiddish to Bing Translate. Perfect translation -- obviously done by hand.
I'm giving Bing a try for a while myself. It seems to do a better job of finding Canadian government sites and documents, but Google is better for finding tech references and API documentation.
But what really surprise me is how much more readable the results of Bing Translate are than Google Translate. Bing is lightyears ahead on this one. Score one for Microsoft.
I got horrible marks in my University Economics classes. I grasp the basics, but not the various approaches that are espoused by the "experts" in the field.
But it's pretty intuitive to me that allowing the economy of the world to be impacted by the greed of a few is bad for everyone. Especially when those US economic interests are interfering with the policies, government, and economies of foreign nations.
I'll leave it at that, because otherwise I'll get slammed as an anti-American ranter instead of a proud Canadian who is affected by US policy, but unable to impact it.
In future I'm going to have to copy-paste and blockquote the phrases I'm referring to. The article content has been changed since I read it earlier today..
I understand the idea of shared rendering libraries similar to WebKit or Gecko. While the knee jerk reaction is that they're locking out other browsers, I see the need to provide core libraries. Being HTML-based, Metro has got to have a rendering library.
As long as they don't force you to use IE for browsing and allow you to continue to install 3rd-party browsers, I have no problem with this any more. All of the vendors partner on whose applications and websites are going to be the defaults that most users won't change. Why shouldn't Microsoft default to their own products while allowing you to install or configure alternatives?
Don't forget -- Mozilla does the same thing by partnering to provide a default search engine.
I will no longer feed my OCD-like compulsion to collect media. It's not like I watch what I download, anyhow. I just archive it for later, but later never seems to come.
Government is a business. It's owners are the voters. It's customers are the people.
It has revenue (taxes), no shortage of expenses and employees, and a huge bureaucracy.
Government should not be controlled by companies, but it should be run like a business. The key difference is the mandate of government is to serve the people, not to make money.
If you take the time to read the article, you'll see he's actually talking about how long your skills in customizing a particular release of software are viable, not about how long languages or operating systems remain relevant.
As many companies stick with the same release of software for even longer, I question his numbers, but I don't question the theory. The lifespan of customizable products is much shorter than the tool-related skillsets required to do that customization. Your skills as a programmer don't become obsolete, but the APIs of the software often become obsolete as updates are released.
I'll stop when the companies who try to acquire patents on technology they did not invent stop abusing the patent system, and fanboys stop trying to rewrite history. You don't have to read what I post.
Like I care about the objections of an Anonymous Coward at all.
Slashdot Mirror
If your CIO or CEO is one of the people that only hears the "free" part, there's nothing that will convince them to contribute to the community, whether through cash, donations, or sharing their own source code.
The torrent community calls them "leeches."
And what, precisely, does a stamp for marking building and machine documents have to do with programming?
Obtaining the right to call yourself an engineer in Canada tells you absolutely NOTHING about their programming skills.
How do you program randomness?
If you think you have to warp your head to work with non-traditional languages like Erlang, wait until you have to deal with the next generation of technology.
I'm a programmer. I have been for over 25 years.
I'm not going to jump on the bandwagon of "software engineer". I think it's as ludicrous as "sanitation engineering."
Any employer who thinks "programmer" is a derogatory or lesser term is too blinded by buzzwords for me to be happy working for them anyhow.
If there is no US debt, implying no need for Treasury bonds, that means there's nothing for people to invest in?
Man, I've heard some absurd statements before, but this one takes the cake!
*sigh* I hate being wrong, but I love being corrected. It's the only way to learn.
As eccentric or pedantic as some of his demands might be, his vision and specification of the GPL is still worthy.
Some of the greatest inventions came from people who were labelled as crackpots in their day.
You do realize that the ARM processors are based on the old Motorola 68000 series of processors which used to be used in the workstations and servers of the day? If I recall correctly, the original Sun workstations were based on 68000-series processors, not SPARC, for example.
Low-wattage high-performance processors are actually critical for the server environments that Xeon currently dominates. Cooling multi-processor boards and densely packed blades is a huge part of data center costs.
After using Bing Translate a while longer, it's become clear it's no better than Google Translate. But it does seem to have more pages that have been manually translated, or at least I've been hitting more of them. The manually translated pages make them look better than they actually are.
Try going to Leonard Nimoy's Facebook page and pasting the Yiddish to Bing Translate. Perfect translation -- obviously done by hand.
Celebrate.
I'd think it'd be pretty hard to accurately aim a laser pointer at a moving aircraft. I'm surprised it's such an issue.
Gotta have something on the table to scare the people with. They're not believing the terrorist tales any more.
I'm giving Bing a try for a while myself. It seems to do a better job of finding Canadian government sites and documents, but Google is better for finding tech references and API documentation.
But what really surprise me is how much more readable the results of Bing Translate are than Google Translate. Bing is lightyears ahead on this one. Score one for Microsoft.
I got horrible marks in my University Economics classes. I grasp the basics, but not the various approaches that are espoused by the "experts" in the field.
But it's pretty intuitive to me that allowing the economy of the world to be impacted by the greed of a few is bad for everyone. Especially when those US economic interests are interfering with the policies, government, and economies of foreign nations.
I'll leave it at that, because otherwise I'll get slammed as an anti-American ranter instead of a proud Canadian who is affected by US policy, but unable to impact it.
Not that this is anything nefarious. Web sites get edited all the time to clarify positions.
In future I'm going to have to copy-paste and blockquote the phrases I'm referring to. The article content has been changed since I read it earlier today..
Diabetics suffer blood circulation problems later in life regardless of their weight. It is not caused by a self-imposed obesity problem.
I understand the idea of shared rendering libraries similar to WebKit or Gecko. While the knee jerk reaction is that they're locking out other browsers, I see the need to provide core libraries. Being HTML-based, Metro has got to have a rendering library.
As long as they don't force you to use IE for browsing and allow you to continue to install 3rd-party browsers, I have no problem with this any more. All of the vendors partner on whose applications and websites are going to be the defaults that most users won't change. Why shouldn't Microsoft default to their own products while allowing you to install or configure alternatives?
Don't forget -- Mozilla does the same thing by partnering to provide a default search engine.
Torrent site links deleted.
I will no longer feed my OCD-like compulsion to collect media. It's not like I watch what I download, anyhow. I just archive it for later, but later never seems to come.
It's kind of hypocritical to preach about copyrights providing the teeth to software licensing, while ignoring the demands of other copyright holders.
Government is a business. It's owners are the voters. It's customers are the people.
It has revenue (taxes), no shortage of expenses and employees, and a huge bureaucracy.
Government should not be controlled by companies, but it should be run like a business. The key difference is the mandate of government is to serve the people, not to make money.
If you take the time to read the article, you'll see he's actually talking about how long your skills in customizing a particular release of software are viable, not about how long languages or operating systems remain relevant.
As many companies stick with the same release of software for even longer, I question his numbers, but I don't question the theory. The lifespan of customizable products is much shorter than the tool-related skillsets required to do that customization. Your skills as a programmer don't become obsolete, but the APIs of the software often become obsolete as updates are released.
To The US Patent Office
I'll stop when the companies who try to acquire patents on technology they did not invent stop abusing the patent system, and fanboys stop trying to rewrite history. You don't have to read what I post.
Like I care about the objections of an Anonymous Coward at all.