If you still have to ask the question of what to do with the PC business despite being the market leader globally in PC sales, then get out now and sell the division to someone who cares.
Yeah, if the global market leader isn't sure about the business, then they really should sell it to someone who actually cares about the business and will grow it. Indecisive waffling is not good for any business.
HP hardware is not what it used to be anyhow. Noisiest freakn' servers on the planet. You'd swear they go out of their way to find extra-noisy turbo-whine fans for their rack mount hardware.
If your C++ code has the same layout as your C# code, you're not architecting your code to take advantage of multiple inheritance and missing out on the whole point of using C++ instead of C# or Java.
C# is a nice language, but I'm not interested in locking myself to the Microsoft environment. And the runtime leaves a lot to be desired. For example, the default behaviour is to open a file with a lock on it, even if you only read the file. While file locking semantics are very useful for programming, they should not be the default. At very least, the default should be either a read lock or a write lock based on your file opening flags.
And don't get me started about Mono. Great idea, lousy implementation. Completely and utterly USELESS for multi-threaded programming in a server environment where you expect more than a half dozen or so threads.
Ever hear of this amazing technology called a "filter"? It lets you program your email client to do the filing automatically.
Every email client I've used lets you search all your folders at once, so there is no difference in the amount of time it takes to search with either approach to email management.
I suspect Oracle is trying for another cash grab. Port the parts of DTrace that have to be in the kernel and open source them, then sell an add-on package (perhaps only for their Linux) with the rest of the functionality. Let's face it -- Oracle is much more focused and effective at monetizing technology than Sun ever was.
Very true. I have an email account at Yahoo (had it for years), but other than that I've never knowingly used any of their services since Google beat them at the search game. They're a good news aggregator, but if they disappeared there would still be hundreds of sites filling that niche. In fact, the only reason I end up reading their news is that I get taken to the page when I log out of my email account.
But I wouldn't say they're "unfocused" as the summary says, and it's been made clear that the summary is completely wrong about them losing money. Like most web-based companies, they're constantly on the lookout for "the next big thing." Their big problem is they've never really found "the next big thing", though they've developed and deployed a lot of "me too" services.
Despite that, they're a far more recognizable brand than "Bing", and unlike Bing, their search results seem to be on-topic (just checked a couple queries.) Apparently Yahoo still has a few tricks in their search engine that they could teach Microsoft.
Coding is a game. It's a great big puzzle of interlocking pieces and shifting requirements that make a Rubik's Cube look like the primitive toy it is.
I enjoy what I do. Programming is far more challenging and fun than any artificial gaming environment I've ever encountered (despite many years of FPS gaming.)
That said, I've no interest in actual puzzle games. They have all the frustration of a debug session without the satisfaction of delivery to the users.
The marginal performance improvements you get by tweaking kernel settings will not make one whit of difference to the average user unless there is a glaring performance issue like the power drain currently being discussed.
Grandma isn't going to install Linux on her laptop -- you are. And as the technically knowledgeable person, you should be doing any such tweaking. Other systems have the benefit of the OEM doing the tweaking and tuning, but it does get done by somebody. Don't blame Linux for not doing something automagically that other systems don't do, either.
"...most linux development is primarily focused on servers..."
I don't believe that's true. While server tweaks get the press, there is a lot of effort put into the desktop experience as well. You're just far more likely to hear about kernel tweaks that are useful for desktop performance from the "real time systems" people.
Yeah, when I read that, my first thought was that I'm caught in a time warp and got sent back to April 1.
The Cry engines are already pretty much the most resource-intensive things out there, though they do look great. But I can't imagine how or why anyone with a functioning brain cell would want to "port" such an engine to something so woefully underpowered and feature-limited as Flash.
While a smaller company with close interpersonal relationships might hold on to you a little longer during a downturn, there is no escaping economic reality. No friendship can override "No money."
Asperger's is a mild form of autism. One of it's characteristics is that the people who have it focus very intently on what they're doing for extended periods of time. As a result, they make excellent programmers and testers because they'll put in hours without even realizing the time has gone by.
In a sense, Asperger's is almost the reverse of ADD.
Absolutely true. He really did not have to give so much attention to the fans, and could have retired completely years ago. He certainly didn't need to keep working.
Making the design part a real branch of the engineering profession,...
There is nothing special about engineering education that makes it "better" than a computer science degree from another department at a university. In fact, if you shift the courses to engineering, students will end up wasting their time on a lot of physics and math classes required for basic engineering that are completely useless for programming.
The other problem is that engineering is standardized. There are "rules" for how to construct buildings, build in safety tolerances, etc. There are no such rules for programming.
In the segments of computer code that do have "rules" and "templates", the whole process of writing the code can be automated, completely eliminating the human errors that copy-paste-edit coding causes. That's exactly what MSS Code Factory does -- build a rule base for translating application data models to text-based code. It automates the grunt work. Who needs a horde of offshore programmers if a machine can do their job?
Even if the manager is technically astute, their job is the manage, not review code. There should be senior developers doing the reviews, but they're too busy writing code. So the sloppy mess produced by the juniors never gets reviewed.
But even without reviews, testing should be revealing the problems caused by that sloppiness. Unfortunately, I've never heard of an offshore coding company that actually does the testing -- that's usually done in-house by the company who hired them. Which only makes sense -- it's the last line of defense against the code that's coming in.
What really doesn't make sense is that these offshore companies keep getting more business even after they develop a reputation for producing shit code, because they're "cheap."
Funny thing is, although the offshore coders get paid dirt wages, the fees charged by their companies aren't usually that much of a discount compared to on-shore or near-shore coding. It completely baffles me the North American businesses still haven't realized that.
Bottom line: You get what you pay for. If you want quality, it's gonna cost you. Shop for the lowest bidder, and you're going to get the lowest quality, too.
But it doesn't matter. Tools like mine will soon make the junior programmer the does nothing but copy-paste-edit code obsolete anyhow.
That said, most politicians do NOT have experience running companies, just working for them. They demonstrate this lack of experience every single day that government runs without a balanced budget.
I really gotta wonder what their executives are thinking. Why not do something to earn the market share like:
Providing more price-competitive packages.
Providing better service.
Upgrading network capacity.
Providing better 4G caps than the competition.
?
Honestly, expecting the sales of iPhone to be the salvation of the company is such naive wishful thinking it's scary. It's a sign of management that has no real ideas about how to be competitive, but only how to be a "me too" provider.
Any URL that takes a noticeable time to negotiate an HTTP or HTTPS connection causes the problem. For whatever reason, this blocking IO hasn't been spun to a seperate thread, causing Firefox to block.
Amen! Lately it's been pissing me off enough that I may finally switch over to Chrome. I held off on Chrome because it didn't have AdBlock Plus at first, but that's been taken care of.
During that connection freeze, Firefox is COMPLETELY unresponsive. It doesn't paint. It doesn't respond to user events. It just locks up, hard.
This was NOT a problem with earlier versions of Firefox.
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Even when it's Google or RIM, an email server being unavailable isn't what I'd call "news".
Yeah, if the global market leader isn't sure about the business, then they really should sell it to someone who actually cares about the business and will grow it. Indecisive waffling is not good for any business.
HP hardware is not what it used to be anyhow. Noisiest freakn' servers on the planet. You'd swear they go out of their way to find extra-noisy turbo-whine fans for their rack mount hardware.
If your C++ code has the same layout as your C# code, you're not architecting your code to take advantage of multiple inheritance and missing out on the whole point of using C++ instead of C# or Java.
C# is a nice language, but I'm not interested in locking myself to the Microsoft environment. And the runtime leaves a lot to be desired. For example, the default behaviour is to open a file with a lock on it, even if you only read the file. While file locking semantics are very useful for programming, they should not be the default. At very least, the default should be either a read lock or a write lock based on your file opening flags.
And don't get me started about Mono. Great idea, lousy implementation. Completely and utterly USELESS for multi-threaded programming in a server environment where you expect more than a half dozen or so threads.
Ever hear of this amazing technology called a "filter"? It lets you program your email client to do the filing automatically.
Every email client I've used lets you search all your folders at once, so there is no difference in the amount of time it takes to search with either approach to email management.
Did Google pay IBM for this "study"?
Remember all the patents that came out 10-15 years ago that were common business practices, but computerized?
Well, now Apple's doing "X with an iPad".
Pathetic.
Then Bing has improved their accuracy considereably since I last used them.
I suspect Oracle is trying for another cash grab. Port the parts of DTrace that have to be in the kernel and open source them, then sell an add-on package (perhaps only for their Linux) with the rest of the functionality. Let's face it -- Oracle is much more focused and effective at monetizing technology than Sun ever was.
Very true. I have an email account at Yahoo (had it for years), but other than that I've never knowingly used any of their services since Google beat them at the search game. They're a good news aggregator, but if they disappeared there would still be hundreds of sites filling that niche. In fact, the only reason I end up reading their news is that I get taken to the page when I log out of my email account.
But I wouldn't say they're "unfocused" as the summary says, and it's been made clear that the summary is completely wrong about them losing money. Like most web-based companies, they're constantly on the lookout for "the next big thing." Their big problem is they've never really found "the next big thing", though they've developed and deployed a lot of "me too" services.
Despite that, they're a far more recognizable brand than "Bing", and unlike Bing, their search results seem to be on-topic (just checked a couple queries.) Apparently Yahoo still has a few tricks in their search engine that they could teach Microsoft.
Coding is a game. It's a great big puzzle of interlocking pieces and shifting requirements that make a Rubik's Cube look like the primitive toy it is.
I enjoy what I do. Programming is far more challenging and fun than any artificial gaming environment I've ever encountered (despite many years of FPS gaming.)
That said, I've no interest in actual puzzle games. They have all the frustration of a debug session without the satisfaction of delivery to the users.
The marginal performance improvements you get by tweaking kernel settings will not make one whit of difference to the average user unless there is a glaring performance issue like the power drain currently being discussed.
Grandma isn't going to install Linux on her laptop -- you are. And as the technically knowledgeable person, you should be doing any such tweaking. Other systems have the benefit of the OEM doing the tweaking and tuning, but it does get done by somebody. Don't blame Linux for not doing something automagically that other systems don't do, either.
I don't believe that's true. While server tweaks get the press, there is a lot of effort put into the desktop experience as well. You're just far more likely to hear about kernel tweaks that are useful for desktop performance from the "real time systems" people.
People aren't afraid of patents.
They're afraid of protracted, expensive lawsuits to defend against the patents, no matter how valid or invalid the patents may be.
I just saw the Unreal engine demo using the new Flash 11 accelerated APIs. Guess it is possible.
Still sounds crazy to me.
Yeah, when I read that, my first thought was that I'm caught in a time warp and got sent back to April 1.
The Cry engines are already pretty much the most resource-intensive things out there, though they do look great. But I can't imagine how or why anyone with a functioning brain cell would want to "port" such an engine to something so woefully underpowered and feature-limited as Flash.
While a smaller company with close interpersonal relationships might hold on to you a little longer during a downturn, there is no escaping economic reality. No friendship can override "No money."
Asperger's is a mild form of autism. One of it's characteristics is that the people who have it focus very intently on what they're doing for extended periods of time. As a result, they make excellent programmers and testers because they'll put in hours without even realizing the time has gone by.
In a sense, Asperger's is almost the reverse of ADD.
Italian politicians pop up in the scandals pretty often. I guess they're tired of seeing themselves all over the 'net.
Absolutely true. He really did not have to give so much attention to the fans, and could have retired completely years ago. He certainly didn't need to keep working.
I hope he enjoys his remaining years thoroughly.
There is nothing special about engineering education that makes it "better" than a computer science degree from another department at a university. In fact, if you shift the courses to engineering, students will end up wasting their time on a lot of physics and math classes required for basic engineering that are completely useless for programming.
The other problem is that engineering is standardized. There are "rules" for how to construct buildings, build in safety tolerances, etc. There are no such rules for programming.
In the segments of computer code that do have "rules" and "templates", the whole process of writing the code can be automated, completely eliminating the human errors that copy-paste-edit coding causes. That's exactly what MSS Code Factory does -- build a rule base for translating application data models to text-based code. It automates the grunt work. Who needs a horde of offshore programmers if a machine can do their job?
You're kidding, right? Management review code?
Even if the manager is technically astute, their job is the manage, not review code. There should be senior developers doing the reviews, but they're too busy writing code. So the sloppy mess produced by the juniors never gets reviewed.
But even without reviews, testing should be revealing the problems caused by that sloppiness. Unfortunately, I've never heard of an offshore coding company that actually does the testing -- that's usually done in-house by the company who hired them. Which only makes sense -- it's the last line of defense against the code that's coming in.
What really doesn't make sense is that these offshore companies keep getting more business even after they develop a reputation for producing shit code, because they're "cheap."
Funny thing is, although the offshore coders get paid dirt wages, the fees charged by their companies aren't usually that much of a discount compared to on-shore or near-shore coding. It completely baffles me the North American businesses still haven't realized that.
Bottom line: You get what you pay for. If you want quality, it's gonna cost you. Shop for the lowest bidder, and you're going to get the lowest quality, too.
But it doesn't matter. Tools like mine will soon make the junior programmer the does nothing but copy-paste-edit code obsolete anyhow.
That said, most politicians do NOT have experience running companies, just working for them. They demonstrate this lack of experience every single day that government runs without a balanced budget.
I didn't find any information about the patents themselves, just that they'd been acquired from Broadcom.
How can we properly rant about "obvious" and "prior art" if we don't know what the patents entail?
I really gotta wonder what their executives are thinking. Why not do something to earn the market share like:
Honestly, expecting the sales of iPhone to be the salvation of the company is such naive wishful thinking it's scary. It's a sign of management that has no real ideas about how to be competitive, but only how to be a "me too" provider.
It depends ENTIRELY on how responsive the server is at the time. If you want to force it, point to 127.0.0.1 with an unallocated port.
AC pissant.
Any URL that takes a noticeable time to negotiate an HTTP or HTTPS connection causes the problem. For whatever reason, this blocking IO hasn't been spun to a seperate thread, causing Firefox to block.
Amen! Lately it's been pissing me off enough that I may finally switch over to Chrome. I held off on Chrome because it didn't have AdBlock Plus at first, but that's been taken care of.
During that connection freeze, Firefox is COMPLETELY unresponsive. It doesn't paint. It doesn't respond to user events. It just locks up, hard.
This was NOT a problem with earlier versions of Firefox.