Seriously though, Apple should take its marbles and go home.
Could it be that RHEL costs more than 2003?
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Granted, going with Scientific Linux or CentOS (or migrating to other gratis distros if you don't need locked-in 3rd party stuff like Oracle) brings the cost back down, but with orgs demanding 'official' support (after expanding enough to get non-hacker managers involved) getting 'legal' with RH can get verrrry pricey...
If you haven't encountered this situation yet in your career, mark my words: you will. If it doesn't directly involve you, then you will know someone else to whom the above applies.
Both have. Luckily it hasn't involved an entire career falling over (like, say, buggy whip manufacture) but I've avoided a lot of turmoil in my field by not being overspecialized in, say, IRIX or OSF/1. I couldn't have told you 15 years ago which unix variant would be in most demand as a sysadmin, I _definitely_ would not have said 'Linux'. But by overcoming, adapting and improvising (and moderate lack of sucking) it's worked out. Of course, I also know tons of web and java developers that ended up in wildly different fields (artists, chefs, writers). Life sucked for all of us for awhile, but we grew up a bit, sucked it up, and got back out there. Like adults. People are not dogs, old ones can learn new tricks.
I wouldn't say there's no place for structures that provide reeducation, job training and placement, but the discussion is usually between proponents of the extreme positions of "throw em out of the plane with cloth napkins and thread, and let 'em sew a parachute" and lifetime employment for buggy-whip makers.
... Democrats will shit all over him. He had the temerity to spend his _own_ money (ewww, successful capitalist!) instead of ingratiating himself with Tammany, and therefore owes no obeisance to any municipal labor union or special interest group. That _REALLY_ pisses 'em off no end.
I <3 Bloomberg, even though I disagree with him regarding concealed carry. And now that I live in the outskirts of Philadelphia, I really appreciate what Giuliani time and Bloomberg have done against crime in NYC. Philly is, regarding crime, where NYC was say 1986 or so. They just need a mayor and police chief who will crack down using computers, screw-the-unions accountability, badass tactics, forgive the occasional plunger, and break the back of violent crime by any means necessary. Then that mayor can leave and a new mayor can apologize for the 'excesses' of the previous administration, and by then the citizens will be grateful for the increased peace and security of their neighborhoods.
If the economy is so great, why are so many former programmers and sysadmin types working at my wife's place of employment (a call center) for $12-15/hour?
Cuz they sucked? Cuz they didn't add enough value over an Indian IIT grad even counting the costs of networking and cultural differences?
To legitimately keep a job, you have to have productivity per invested dollar better than someone else. Lots of factors play into that: your salary, your education, your reliability and effectiveness, but also externalities that you have little control over (such as the tax, legal and infrastructure systems of your locality, state and nation).
I think PaulGraham's articles on starting 'silicon valleys' is pretty spot-on but I think he leaves out the critical issue of taxes..
It's one thing not to have empathy, but quite another to be actively offended by it in others.
Empathy isn't offensive. It's simplistic empathy used as a tool to push an agenda which is. Given how much of that there is in the world today, it's understandable that people can get riled by it.
... This is making more and more sense. Win32/DirectX should be supported environments within XCode, even if the compile target is only Intel, and even if you have to rebuild the GUI in NIBs.
At the very least, DirectX makes sense given games typically run in fullscreen and don't really care about UI widgets anyway..
... My Brother-in-law is in a similar situation, but given the crazy hours he's had to work even when he was working in his area, it's not that much different for them except that my sister doesn't get kept awake by snoring.
Phones and email do a pretty good job of communication during the week, and he's always back for weekends. It's also a temporary situation, I can't imagine anyone putting up with this kind of wear and tear for more than, say, a year.
Seriously though, between this and kowtowing to the red Chinese while simultaneously flipping the bird to the US government, one has to wonder if too much Berserkley has crept into the Google offices...
There's a 42" LCD for $1999 that does 1080p. That's significantly larger than the 32" analog 4x3 set I have now and given how much wall space I have to put a set against I doubt I could fit anything larger than 50" anyway.
Also, I would hold out for a set that can receive 1080p via digital inputs, and display it at 1080p. The first generation of 1080p is quite tricky (some receive only up to 1080i and internally convert to 1080p, check AVSForums) but I don't think there will be a better home theater video standard than 1080p for quite some time.. At least until home fiber is ubiquitous..
(and for all the 1080p hatas, 1080p24 utilizing proper 3:2 pulldown should be sUPER hAWT for movie watching... And if I wanted p60, I'd boot up my HTPC...)
... in order to load your shiny custom cross-compiled apps on it, this could be hella-sweet. If only so I can have an IMAP and SMTP over SSL, it'd be almost worth getting an unlimited rate plan.
I'd still prefer a Treo 650 keypad if it doesn't have SonyEricsson P800-level print recognizer though.
.. That's what I do. There's no reason a bank or CC company is sending me mail that isn't paper that I care about.
Until there's some sort of crypto trust built into email (I'd prefer some form of added/retasked fields to provide domain public keys within trusted DNS) the safest thing to do is ignore such mails until you get phone or paper spam.
I think the guy did a service to Desktop Linux quite frankly. It is not ready for prime time, an audience including Mom (not Dilbert's Mom) and Joe Schmoe. Nor will it be if far more effort is devoted to usability, compatibility and ease-of-use. I would bet that a company like Apple has something like a 4-1 ratio of usability people to kernel developers. That may be what is necessary, or at least an army of testers and folks who are willing and happy to accept user abuse.
Or perhaps appealing to the lowest-common-denominator user is not of interest to you. That's a legitimate opinion. However, it's mutually-exclusive of the goal of World Domination(tm). You can't dominate the world without the desktop, and you can't pwn the desktop unless you have at _least_ the same level of compatibility and usability of Windows.
I've whinged it before and I'll whinge it again: the Desktop needs to pick a winner (my choice: KDE) and go with it, it needs a Steve Jobs to be a usability fascist whose word is law when it comes to aesthetics and design, and that person needs to have the authority to block releases for usability and aesthetic reasons. Maybe just vote on a UI despot for every major release or something. But the 'system' in place right now will not gain converts beyond cannibalizing Unix folks and locked-down client situations (corporate desktops, net cafes, schools, government).
That's because there are too many people going after too few decently paying jobs.
So then what? Deport or kill the deltas? Or have the government come up with make work and print more fiat money to pay those salaries? Worked GREAT for the Soviets ISTR.. Oh wait.
The law only prohibits abusive firing to protect employees from scumbag employers who think everything goes because it's their company.
So employers are scumbags? Nice attitude, no wonder entrepreneurism is so stunted in the continent that coined the word. Private companies are owned by their shareholders (whether private LLC/partnership shares or public), and they have every right to hire lots of people or liquidate themselves, whichever returns the best.
The US (and UK for example) has better rates because they encourage the creation of miserable, barely-allows-to-survive crap part-time jobs so as to have the maximum amount of people counted as 'employed'.
That's pretty fucking condescending. I assume you're still in University then.
Anyway, would it be better to have those jobs unfilled (like, say, tourguides and guards in the Louvre, which can't open all its exhibits because they're understaffed in a 10+% unemployment country) or use funny fiat money to pay them grand salaries beyond what the market would charge so inflation goes up and everyone elses salaries would have to rise to be just in your mindset so then you have 50,60,100,1000%+ inflation like Zimbabwe? Great place to live from what I hear. Meddling has consequences, spend some time in the real world outside university and figure it out.
It evens out as well in the end. Less hiring but also less mistakes needing firing afterwards. They still hire as fast as possible when they really need to though. One could see it very well during the dot-com boom in Europe. And if they want to get rid of you, don't worry, they have their way of making you go on your own, don't worry about that.
So in other words, instead of treating slackers well and firing them when they can't keep up (and maybe putting a boot in their ass would _help_ them get their shit together) you should keep them on in some kind of passive-aggressive Initech bullshit situation? Oh that's _real_ productive and world-competititve.
BTW, tell those Muslims living in the 'burbs that those low-wage jobs are beneath them, that they're better off sitting with their own kind in mass government housing blocks, tell them that it's better to be indolent than to work for a living. That worked so well in the US before welfare reform, and it's working so great in the banlieues now.
The real problem is the immigrants swarming over here and degrading the quality of life for the locals, the level of salaries due to their desperateness and the lack of scruples of most employers.
Er, they're legals from what I can tell, and the US has been able to absorb legal immigrants (amid the hue and cry from each immigrant generation complaining about the next) pretty well for centuries now. Not too many public transport buses blowing up in Dearborn, or trains in LA, our Muslim problem comes from Europe's own shitty treatment of immigrants (oh, and thanks so much for that, Hamburg, Londonistan and Paris). And did you stop to think that if these folks had jobs (and employers, knowing they could hire and fire at will, would be encouraged to offer lower-wage jobs instead of piling work onto smaller workforces) they'd be less likely to, I don't know, blow themselves up?
I think the proof is in the pudding, and people are still beating down the doors to go to work in the USA, whilst they're beating down the doors to go on the dole in Europe. Good going guys.
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Norwegians have good neighbors...
Seriously though, Apple should take its marbles and go home.
Granted, going with Scientific Linux or CentOS (or migrating to other gratis distros if you don't need locked-in 3rd party stuff like Oracle) brings the cost back down, but with orgs demanding 'official' support (after expanding enough to get non-hacker managers involved) getting 'legal' with RH can get verrrry pricey...
If you haven't encountered this situation yet in your career, mark my words: you will. If it doesn't directly involve you, then you will know someone else to whom the above applies.
Both have. Luckily it hasn't involved an entire career falling over (like, say, buggy whip manufacture) but I've avoided a lot of turmoil in my field by not being overspecialized in, say, IRIX or OSF/1. I couldn't have told you 15 years ago which unix variant would be in most demand as a sysadmin, I _definitely_ would not have said 'Linux'. But by overcoming, adapting and improvising (and moderate lack of sucking) it's worked out. Of course, I also know tons of web and java developers that ended up in wildly different fields (artists, chefs, writers). Life sucked for all of us for awhile, but we grew up a bit, sucked it up, and got back out there. Like adults. People are not dogs, old ones can learn new tricks.
I wouldn't say there's no place for structures that provide reeducation, job training and placement, but the discussion is usually between proponents of the extreme positions of "throw em out of the plane with cloth napkins and thread, and let 'em sew a parachute" and lifetime employment for buggy-whip makers.
In Soviet Russia, Scientists couple computer chips with nerve tissue!
... Democrats will shit all over him. He had the temerity to spend his _own_ money (ewww, successful capitalist!) instead of ingratiating himself with Tammany, and therefore owes no obeisance to any municipal labor union or special interest group. That _REALLY_ pisses 'em off no end.
I <3 Bloomberg, even though I disagree with him regarding concealed carry. And now that I live in the outskirts of Philadelphia, I really appreciate what Giuliani time and Bloomberg have done against crime in NYC. Philly is, regarding crime, where NYC was say 1986 or so. They just need a mayor and police chief who will crack down using computers, screw-the-unions accountability, badass tactics, forgive the occasional plunger, and break the back of violent crime by any means necessary. Then that mayor can leave and a new mayor can apologize for the 'excesses' of the previous administration, and by then the citizens will be grateful for the increased peace and security of their neighborhoods.
....the adventure CHOOSES YOU!!
If the economy is so great, why are so many former programmers and sysadmin types working at my wife's place of employment (a call center) for $12-15/hour?
Cuz they sucked? Cuz they didn't add enough value over an Indian IIT grad even counting the costs of networking and cultural differences?
To legitimately keep a job, you have to have productivity per invested dollar better than someone else. Lots of factors play into that: your salary, your education, your reliability and effectiveness, but also externalities that you have little control over (such as the tax, legal and infrastructure systems of your locality, state and nation).
I think Paul Graham's articles on starting 'silicon valleys' is pretty spot-on but I think he leaves out the critical issue of taxes..
It's one thing not to have empathy, but quite another to be actively offended by it in others.
Empathy isn't offensive. It's simplistic empathy used as a tool to push an agenda which is. Given how much of that there is in the world today, it's understandable that people can get riled by it.
Don't forget impatience and hubris...
... This is making more and more sense. Win32/DirectX should be supported environments within XCode, even if the compile target is only Intel, and even if you have to rebuild the GUI in NIBs.
At the very least, DirectX makes sense given games typically run in fullscreen and don't really care about UI widgets anyway..
... My Brother-in-law is in a similar situation, but given the crazy hours he's had to work even when he was working in his area, it's not that much different for them except that my sister doesn't get kept awake by snoring.
Phones and email do a pretty good job of communication during the week, and he's always back for weekends. It's also a temporary situation, I can't imagine anyone putting up with this kind of wear and tear for more than, say, a year.
I was wondering what all those terms meant!
But I thought that GNews was edited by robots...
I guess they're COMMIE ROBOTS!!!
Seriously though, between this and kowtowing to the red Chinese while simultaneously flipping the bird to the US government, one has to wonder if too much Berserkley has crept into the Google offices...
I thought that project was dead but appearently it isn't completely (yet).
No it isn't, it'll be stone dead in a moment...
I FEEL HAPPEEE!! I FEEL HAPPEEE!!!
If I can have Xinerama work with GL acceleration, then this is great.
Otherwise, it's dead to me.
I want flying toasters to fly across multiple screens.
FIRE ME BOY!!!!!!
"Like there's this guy who invented this car that runs on WATER, MAN!! It's got a fiber glass air-cooled engine and it RUNS ON WATER!!!"
MTV doesn't play music recorded over 17 years ago
MTV plays music?? Since when?
(you know you're old when you take MTV, VH1 and all their digital brethren out of your Tivo channel list.)
There's a 42" LCD for $1999 that does 1080p. That's significantly larger than the 32" analog 4x3 set I have now and given how much wall space I have to put a set against I doubt I could fit anything larger than 50" anyway.
Also, I would hold out for a set that can receive 1080p via digital inputs, and display it at 1080p. The first generation of 1080p is quite tricky (some receive only up to 1080i and internally convert to 1080p, check AVSForums) but I don't think there will be a better home theater video standard than 1080p for quite some time.. At least until home fiber is ubiquitous..
(and for all the 1080p hatas, 1080p24 utilizing proper 3:2 pulldown should be sUPER hAWT for movie watching... And if I wanted p60, I'd boot up my HTPC...)
I thought they were Gungans mon...
"Eesa Horda gonna die??"
... in order to load your shiny custom cross-compiled apps on it, this could be hella-sweet. If only so I can have an IMAP and SMTP over SSL, it'd be almost worth getting an unlimited rate plan.
I'd still prefer a Treo 650 keypad if it doesn't have SonyEricsson P800-level print recognizer though.
At least Lenovo is still releasing black systems, though I miss IBM.
And that ghey Dell body side cladding? Cheesier than a Pontiac Grand Am or Aztek...
.. That's what I do. There's no reason a bank or CC company is sending me mail that isn't paper that I care about.
Until there's some sort of crypto trust built into email (I'd prefer some form of added/retasked fields to provide domain public keys within trusted DNS) the safest thing to do is ignore such mails until you get phone or paper spam.
This is pretty unfair.
I think the guy did a service to Desktop Linux quite frankly. It is not ready for prime time, an audience including Mom (not Dilbert's Mom) and Joe Schmoe. Nor will it be if far more effort is devoted to usability, compatibility and ease-of-use. I would bet that a company like Apple has something like a 4-1 ratio of usability people to kernel developers. That may be what is necessary, or at least an army of testers and folks who are willing and happy to accept user abuse.
Or perhaps appealing to the lowest-common-denominator user is not of interest to you. That's a legitimate opinion. However, it's mutually-exclusive of the goal of World Domination(tm). You can't dominate the world without the desktop, and you can't pwn the desktop unless you have at _least_ the same level of compatibility and usability of Windows.
I've whinged it before and I'll whinge it again: the Desktop needs to pick a winner (my choice: KDE) and go with it, it needs a Steve Jobs to be a usability fascist whose word is law when it comes to aesthetics and design, and that person needs to have the authority to block releases for usability and aesthetic reasons. Maybe just vote on a UI despot for every major release or something. But the 'system' in place right now will not gain converts beyond cannibalizing Unix folks and locked-down client situations (corporate desktops, net cafes, schools, government).
That's because there are too many people going after too few decently paying jobs.
So then what? Deport or kill the deltas? Or have the government come up with make work and print more fiat money to pay those salaries? Worked GREAT for the Soviets ISTR.. Oh wait.
The law only prohibits abusive firing to protect employees from scumbag employers who think everything goes because it's their company.
So employers are scumbags? Nice attitude, no wonder entrepreneurism is so stunted in the continent that coined the word. Private companies are owned by their shareholders (whether private LLC/partnership shares or public), and they have every right to hire lots of people or liquidate themselves, whichever returns the best.
The US (and UK for example) has better rates because they encourage the creation of miserable, barely-allows-to-survive crap part-time jobs so as to have the maximum amount of people counted as 'employed'.
That's pretty fucking condescending. I assume you're still in University then.
Anyway, would it be better to have those jobs unfilled (like, say, tourguides and guards in the Louvre, which can't open all its exhibits because they're understaffed in a 10+% unemployment country) or use funny fiat money to pay them grand salaries beyond what the market would charge so inflation goes up and everyone elses salaries would have to rise to be just in your mindset so then you have 50,60,100,1000%+ inflation like Zimbabwe? Great place to live from what I hear. Meddling has consequences, spend some time in the real world outside university and figure it out.
It evens out as well in the end. Less hiring but also less mistakes needing
firing afterwards. They still hire as fast as possible when they really need to though. One could see it very well during the dot-com boom in Europe.
And if they want to get rid of you, don't worry, they have their way of
making you go on your own, don't worry about that.
So in other words, instead of treating slackers well and firing them when they can't keep up (and maybe putting a boot in their ass would _help_ them get their shit together) you should keep them on in some kind of passive-aggressive Initech bullshit situation? Oh that's _real_ productive and world-competititve.
BTW, tell those Muslims living in the 'burbs that those low-wage jobs are beneath them, that they're better off sitting with their own kind in mass government housing blocks, tell them that it's better to be indolent than to work for a living. That worked so well in the US before welfare reform, and it's working so great in the banlieues now.
The real problem is the immigrants swarming over here and degrading the quality of life for the locals, the level of salaries due to their desperateness and the lack of scruples of most employers.
Er, they're legals from what I can tell, and the US has been able to absorb legal immigrants (amid the hue and cry from each immigrant generation complaining about the next) pretty well for centuries now. Not too many public transport buses blowing up in Dearborn, or trains in LA, our Muslim problem comes from Europe's own shitty treatment of immigrants (oh, and thanks so much for that, Hamburg, Londonistan and Paris). And did you stop to think that if these folks had jobs (and employers, knowing they could hire and fire at will, would be encouraged to offer lower-wage jobs instead of piling work onto smaller workforces) they'd be less likely to, I don't know, blow themselves up?
I think the proof is in the pudding, and people are still beating down the doors to go to work in the USA, whilst they're beating down the doors to go on the dole in Europe. Good going guys.