I do.NET because that's where the money is. Next question please!
That's exactly why he doesn't want to hire you. Some coders code for love, and some coders code for money. He thinks, and I tend to agree, that.NET programmers almost always are there for the latter.
Does this clown think they should have re-done everything?
This clown answers your question if you RTFA. Since this is/., I'll go ahead and spoiler it for you: no. His argument is that.NET programmers tend to lack the attitude and cross-language analysis skills for problem solving, not that no project should ever be done in.NET
The hardware is more or less useless without software. If he bought a PS3 and NEVER booted it with the standard OS, or clicked through the EULA, it's arguable it's not enforceable. However they have already established that slitting the bottom of the envelope on a CD-ROM so you don't "break this seal" doesn't wash, so it'll probably fall into the same arena.
I'm not arguing whether or not EULA's are a good idea, should be enforceable, or any such thing. I am only saying that SONY isn't coming within 50ft of even raising that argument. in their mind the question is settled: does he have a right? NO. U.S. & International law over the past 20 years favors their position.
That list in not about Indians, it's about Indian Americans. That is a key difference because most of the individuals would've held a work permit and student visas at some point.
I'm not 100% clear on the distinction you're making here. Would these fine individuals have been unable to make their contributions to society without visa programs? Is India a terrible place to do business and or research? If so... why are so many companies setting up or expanding shop there? Again, I'm not advocating eliminating visas. But there's a freaking landlord on that list. Is the United States lacking qualified people to do that job? I don't know about you, but my landlord could literally be replaced by just about anyone capable of fogging a mirror. Not sure that's a talent that needs to be imported.
And don't let your irrational hate of MS get in the way of appreciating Hotmail. Before it was bought by MS, it was the first widespread free webmail company(causing other competitors to rise) and used to run off FreeBSD (before gettign switched to Windows Server/IIS by MS). What's wrong with Hotmail being a good thing?
speaking as a pre-MS acquisition hotmail user, it was never a reliable service. It wasn't as bad prior to the MS buyout but it still was not good. There were widespread free email providers prior to hotmail. Hotmail was just the best marketed one so it got bought.
while what you say is true, it doesn't really apply to the discussion.
Samba is indeed free software. Apple has taken the step of adding a convenient configuration gui and melding it with the free product. They sell you the interface part, and a set of pre-built Samba binaries because most people are not going to go out and build them on their own.
The non-saleability of GPL'd software is not at issue because Apple has been selling it as part of their server bundle.
I don't think that anyone is trying to diminish the contributions of India, or Indians, to the modern business/tech landscape.
I could make a similar list of American contributors to the landscape. Would you want to see what you would lose there? Because that is the argument being made: Americans are choosing other fields because of a lack of opportunity.
Hotmail founder was India born
Is that supposed to be a selling point?
I don't think Visas should be eliminated or any other such thing, however we're facing a jobs crisis so importing talent shouldn't be necessary.
They should focus on the real problem at hand: did he have the right to modify his PS3?
Believe me when I say that is absolutely the LAST problem Sony wants considered by the court. Insofar as they are concerned, their EULA expressly forbids such modification, and by coming within 50 feet of a PS3, he agreed to that. There's enough legal precedent for modification that it's possible such things could be permanently eradicated, and if they inadvertently open that Pandora's Box, Sony would be in hot water with all of the copyright holders' associations as well.
It probably depends on where you live, but I have a number of local banks and credit unions that charge next to nothing with respect to ATM fees and transaction fees. I mostly like that I know where my local bank president lives, so I know where to carry the pitchfork, if necessary.
I think the point is, shop around. BoA is not the best option available for reasons OTHER than being shady welfare recipients.
"Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like."
- Edward Thurlow, often attributed to Andrew Jackson
the creation of financial instruments is not even remotely akin to firefighting or policework. As a society, we would be fine (maybe better off) without CDO's. They were originally created because traditional investment markets were "tapped out" relative to the pool of investment cash. So instead of correctly driving up the value of REAL assets, we distributed that money into, and inflated the value of potential/imaginary assets. That's a big part of what fueled the decline of income requirements on home loans, and basically directly contributed to the economic situation we're in.
So instead of suggesting that we stop paying firefighters and police, what the parent was saying was more like "quit paying people to set fires and rob liquor stores, and increase research in making fires and crimes less likely to happen in the future"
The Physics Advisory Committee at Fermilab have announced their decision to continue running the Tevatron until 2014. It is easy to see why they want to do that: This years published results have strengthened the case for a light Higgs sector. In the mass range up to 150 GeV the rival Large Hadron Collider does not have such a big advantage and wont make the Tevatron obsolete until around 2014 when it’s higher energy and luminosity will finally trump the Tevatron at all mass scales.
All of the bundled android apps are included in the api, so for instance you can utilize voice search and the google maps app in your own app. So for most intents and purposes there isn't a lot of "from scratch" left to be done on the android platform.
Adobe knows damn well that something like 85% of their users are pirates. But the 15% that aren't are mostly corporate users who are part of volume license agreements and therefore won't be using the app store anyway.
It works out well for Adobe: amateurs pirate the software, learn to use the app well enough to produce professional work, and end up paying retail when they start making money from it. The piracy essentially locks any significant competition out of the marketplace.
BDS is real and amazing exercise in mouth-foaming bigotry and childish petulance coming from people who otherwise claim to be tolerant. There's nothing wrong with disliking President Bush and what he did, even strongly. That's not only your right, but your duty as a concerned citizen if you feel that way.
What amazes me on a daily basis is the sheer level of mindless, childish, unchecked rage expressed at the man. I would imagine the hooded thugs at Klan rallies would just shakes their heads sadly at one of their own acting the way too many people act regarding President Bush (along with Sarah Palin and a few others targeted by the left for derision and scorn.)
Klan rallies? you're comparing people who firebomb churches and hang people for being the wrong color to some people calling for a man's criminal prosecution for war crimes... do I even need to point out how crazy that is?
As strongly as people feel about President Obama, and there is as much _strong_ feelings against him as there ever were for President Bush, I've never heard anyone wish physical harm on him. I've never heard of people in the media fantasizing on the airwaves about his assassination or any of the many other reprehensible things that were directed towards Bush, and seemingly accepted as perfectly reasonable by people I would think are above all that.
Disagreement, dislike, protest, and harsh criticism are all legitimate and honorable actions to take in politics, but the unbridled hatred I've seen directed against President Bush (or any politician, or any _person_ for that matter) has no place in civilized society.
First of all, consider that actual death threats on Obama are up 400% over the previous president. (i'd cite something but it's easy enough to google) People on the airwaves regularly question his nationality, religion, and whether or not he's a "socialist." before the man was even elected someone shouted "kill him" at a mccain rally and NOBODY BLINKED. Yes there is reason to dislike Obama. There's reason to dislike any politician that doesn't go along with what you personally want. But most of the criticism of Obama comes in two flavors: 1) he's "not one of us" and 2) he's spending our country into oblivion. Regan and both bushes did #2 and #1 is just code for "he's black". So when the tea partiers say they're for smaller goverment and fiscal responsibility, and then turn around and vote republican when their dark-horse candidate fails to deliver the voter turnout, I don't think they're crazy, I just think they're willfully ignorant of history.
Ubuntu can of course serve and browse SMB fileshares without issue. Real computers use something called NFS and so there's no need for a user-space network file browsing protocol.
SMB is terrible terrible terrible, for the metadata reasons you mention above and more too numerous to list. Since windows printer shares use SMB, and windows networked printer queues have no sensible failover mechanisms, they're not really an ideal choice in a high-volume environment.
I think that your confusion is based on not having used properly-configured high-traffic multi-user networking protocols.
The question of why is an extremely valid one. Even if creative suite ran well on linux... WHY spend hours installing a new OS to swtich people from a desktop environment they are familiar with to one which will require more hours of retraining? Sure windows isn't super terrific happy time for nerds but it gets the job done for 99% of people.
Sure all three OS's can work fine in one environment. Unfortunately it means using lowest-common-denominator interoperability. Things like windows shares instead of better things like NFS or apple network volumes.
The key to making organizational change like this is to do it incrementally.
Now, if your exchange server is due for replacement? You offer two solutions: the MS exchange solution with licensing costs (don't forget to budget the spam filters and other server extensions you may need) and a gmail solution. And don't forget to include in your analysis the difference in administration time. Even the most PH of PHB's can reason that one out, usually.
piece by piece you can make these conversions, but it's difficult if you're fighting another culture that doesn't see a problem with the status quo. And damn near impossible to justify migration of major pieces of IT infrastructure if the current system "ain't broke"
The main problem with gmail as a corporate mail solution is the complete lack of HIPAA compliance. Gmail says right up front they aren't the guys for that, and if your company is large enough to have an HR person that actually knows anything about HR, chances are gmail is off the list for this reason alone.
Yes and no. Market cap doesn't neccesarily reflect earnings, true. But market cap is an important number in representing clout. It's also relevant to note that it reflects the current cash value of the total operation of a publicly-traded company. So for all of MS's higher revenues, if they both cashed out today, Apple's worth more.
Now I'm not going to dispute that a lot of that value is speculative. But a typical iphone costs about $100 to produce and provides well over $2000 in revenue over a 2-year span. Apple takes a big chunk of that as pure profit because of exclusivity agreements and transaction fees. Thats not a bad business model given the relatively explosive growth of smartphones globally.
There might be a lot more windows PC's in the world, but MS takes in on average about $200-$400 in licenses over the life of a machine. the growth in that sector has dropped dramatically over the last decade and is nearing a plateau if it hasn't reached it already.
Microsoft has known for 15 years or more the value of expanding into other markets (1996 gave us expedia, slate, MSN, the AOL browser partnership) but they consistently fail to bring the winning platform to market in these arenas. take for example xbox, zune, the long-slow-death of the windows phone platform: not terribly peforming products but never a game-changer.
it consistently comes back to MS's relentless, myopic focus on the enterprise. Their wagon is eternally hitched to large companies doing well. this is not, in my view (and i do not appear to be alone), a viable long-term strategy anymore.
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I do .NET because that's where the money is. Next question please!
That's exactly why he doesn't want to hire you. Some coders code for love, and some coders code for money. He thinks, and I tend to agree, that .NET programmers almost always are there for the latter.
Does this clown think they should have re-done everything?
This clown answers your question if you RTFA. Since this is /., I'll go ahead and spoiler it for you: no. His argument is that .NET programmers tend to lack the attitude and cross-language analysis skills for problem solving, not that no project should ever be done in .NET
The hardware is more or less useless without software. If he bought a PS3 and NEVER booted it with the standard OS, or clicked through the EULA, it's arguable it's not enforceable. However they have already established that slitting the bottom of the envelope on a CD-ROM so you don't "break this seal" doesn't wash, so it'll probably fall into the same arena.
I'm not arguing whether or not EULA's are a good idea, should be enforceable, or any such thing. I am only saying that SONY isn't coming within 50ft of even raising that argument. in their mind the question is settled: does he have a right? NO. U.S. & International law over the past 20 years favors their position.
That list in not about Indians, it's about Indian Americans. That is a key difference because most of the individuals would've held a work permit and student visas at some point.
I'm not 100% clear on the distinction you're making here. Would these fine individuals have been unable to make their contributions to society without visa programs? Is India a terrible place to do business and or research? If so... why are so many companies setting up or expanding shop there? Again, I'm not advocating eliminating visas. But there's a freaking landlord on that list. Is the United States lacking qualified people to do that job? I don't know about you, but my landlord could literally be replaced by just about anyone capable of fogging a mirror. Not sure that's a talent that needs to be imported.
And don't let your irrational hate of MS get in the way of appreciating Hotmail. Before it was bought by MS, it was the first widespread free webmail company(causing other competitors to rise) and used to run off FreeBSD (before gettign switched to Windows Server/IIS by MS). What's wrong with Hotmail being a good thing?
speaking as a pre-MS acquisition hotmail user, it was never a reliable service. It wasn't as bad prior to the MS buyout but it still was not good. There were widespread free email providers prior to hotmail. Hotmail was just the best marketed one so it got bought.
while what you say is true, it doesn't really apply to the discussion.
Samba is indeed free software. Apple has taken the step of adding a convenient configuration gui and melding it with the free product. They sell you the interface part, and a set of pre-built Samba binaries because most people are not going to go out and build them on their own.
The non-saleability of GPL'd software is not at issue because Apple has been selling it as part of their server bundle.
Apple doesn't want anyone else competing with them on selling apps for the iphone. That is what this is really about.
it has nothing whatsoever to do with competing for apps on the iphone.
I don't think that anyone is trying to diminish the contributions of India, or Indians, to the modern business/tech landscape.
I could make a similar list of American contributors to the landscape. Would you want to see what you would lose there? Because that is the argument being made: Americans are choosing other fields because of a lack of opportunity.
Hotmail founder was India born
Is that supposed to be a selling point?
I don't think Visas should be eliminated or any other such thing, however we're facing a jobs crisis so importing talent shouldn't be necessary.
They should focus on the real problem at hand: did he have the right to modify his PS3?
Believe me when I say that is absolutely the LAST problem Sony wants considered by the court. Insofar as they are concerned, their EULA expressly forbids such modification, and by coming within 50 feet of a PS3, he agreed to that. There's enough legal precedent for modification that it's possible such things could be permanently eradicated, and if they inadvertently open that Pandora's Box, Sony would be in hot water with all of the copyright holders' associations as well.
Perhaps the lesson here is it's better to keep your money in the bank rather than toss it at the open market.
Except of course when the banks turn around and toss that same money at the same open market, which is what they all do.
It probably depends on where you live, but I have a number of local banks and credit unions that charge next to nothing with respect to ATM fees and transaction fees. I mostly like that I know where my local bank president lives, so I know where to carry the pitchfork, if necessary. I think the point is, shop around. BoA is not the best option available for reasons OTHER than being shady welfare recipients.
"Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like." - Edward Thurlow, often attributed to Andrew Jackson
This is in advance of their new town slogan, attempting to capitalize on the vegas "what happens here stays here":
Anniston, AL: So much fun, we're legally prohibited from telling you about it.
Good thing they haven't tied your /. account to your facebook page yet...
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Consider the first two on same preference, approval as second choice and other preferences skipped.
I have no idea what you're saying, but you sure are charming, so I agree!
the creation of financial instruments is not even remotely akin to firefighting or policework. As a society, we would be fine (maybe better off) without CDO's. They were originally created because traditional investment markets were "tapped out" relative to the pool of investment cash. So instead of correctly driving up the value of REAL assets, we distributed that money into, and inflated the value of potential/imaginary assets. That's a big part of what fueled the decline of income requirements on home loans, and basically directly contributed to the economic situation we're in.
So instead of suggesting that we stop paying firefighters and police, what the parent was saying was more like "quit paying people to set fires and rob liquor stores, and increase research in making fires and crimes less likely to happen in the future"
from vixra, in september of last year.
All of the bundled android apps are included in the api, so for instance you can utilize voice search and the google maps app in your own app. So for most intents and purposes there isn't a lot of "from scratch" left to be done on the android platform.
Adobe knows damn well that something like 85% of their users are pirates. But the 15% that aren't are mostly corporate users who are part of volume license agreements and therefore won't be using the app store anyway. It works out well for Adobe: amateurs pirate the software, learn to use the app well enough to produce professional work, and end up paying retail when they start making money from it. The piracy essentially locks any significant competition out of the marketplace.
BDS is real and amazing exercise in mouth-foaming bigotry and childish petulance coming from people who otherwise claim to be tolerant. There's nothing wrong with disliking President Bush and what he did, even strongly. That's not only your right, but your duty as a concerned citizen if you feel that way.
What amazes me on a daily basis is the sheer level of mindless, childish, unchecked rage expressed at the man. I would imagine the hooded thugs at Klan rallies would just shakes their heads sadly at one of their own acting the way too many people act regarding President Bush (along with Sarah Palin and a few others targeted by the left for derision and scorn.)
Klan rallies? you're comparing people who firebomb churches and hang people for being the wrong color to some people calling for a man's criminal prosecution for war crimes... do I even need to point out how crazy that is?
As strongly as people feel about President Obama, and there is as much _strong_ feelings against him as there ever were for President Bush, I've never heard anyone wish physical harm on him. I've never heard of people in the media fantasizing on the airwaves about his assassination or any of the many other reprehensible things that were directed towards Bush, and seemingly accepted as perfectly reasonable by people I would think are above all that.
Disagreement, dislike, protest, and harsh criticism are all legitimate and honorable actions to take in politics, but the unbridled hatred I've seen directed against President Bush (or any politician, or any _person_ for that matter) has no place in civilized society.
First of all, consider that actual death threats on Obama are up 400% over the previous president. (i'd cite something but it's easy enough to google) People on the airwaves regularly question his nationality, religion, and whether or not he's a "socialist." before the man was even elected someone shouted "kill him" at a mccain rally and NOBODY BLINKED. Yes there is reason to dislike Obama. There's reason to dislike any politician that doesn't go along with what you personally want. But most of the criticism of Obama comes in two flavors: 1) he's "not one of us" and 2) he's spending our country into oblivion. Regan and both bushes did #2 and #1 is just code for "he's black". So when the tea partiers say they're for smaller goverment and fiscal responsibility, and then turn around and vote republican when their dark-horse candidate fails to deliver the voter turnout, I don't think they're crazy, I just think they're willfully ignorant of history.
Ubuntu can of course serve and browse SMB fileshares without issue. Real computers use something called NFS and so there's no need for a user-space network file browsing protocol.
SMB is terrible terrible terrible, for the metadata reasons you mention above and more too numerous to list. Since windows printer shares use SMB, and windows networked printer queues have no sensible failover mechanisms, they're not really an ideal choice in a high-volume environment.
I think that your confusion is based on not having used properly-configured high-traffic multi-user networking protocols.
The question of why is an extremely valid one. Even if creative suite ran well on linux... WHY spend hours installing a new OS to swtich people from a desktop environment they are familiar with to one which will require more hours of retraining? Sure windows isn't super terrific happy time for nerds but it gets the job done for 99% of people.
Sure all three OS's can work fine in one environment. Unfortunately it means using lowest-common-denominator interoperability. Things like windows shares instead of better things like NFS or apple network volumes.
The key to making organizational change like this is to do it incrementally.
Now, if your exchange server is due for replacement? You offer two solutions: the MS exchange solution with licensing costs (don't forget to budget the spam filters and other server extensions you may need) and a gmail solution. And don't forget to include in your analysis the difference in administration time. Even the most PH of PHB's can reason that one out, usually.
piece by piece you can make these conversions, but it's difficult if you're fighting another culture that doesn't see a problem with the status quo. And damn near impossible to justify migration of major pieces of IT infrastructure if the current system "ain't broke"
The main problem with gmail as a corporate mail solution is the complete lack of HIPAA compliance. Gmail says right up front they aren't the guys for that, and if your company is large enough to have an HR person that actually knows anything about HR, chances are gmail is off the list for this reason alone.
Yes and no. Market cap doesn't neccesarily reflect earnings, true. But market cap is an important number in representing clout. It's also relevant to note that it reflects the current cash value of the total operation of a publicly-traded company. So for all of MS's higher revenues, if they both cashed out today, Apple's worth more.
Now I'm not going to dispute that a lot of that value is speculative. But a typical iphone costs about $100 to produce and provides well over $2000 in revenue over a 2-year span. Apple takes a big chunk of that as pure profit because of exclusivity agreements and transaction fees. Thats not a bad business model given the relatively explosive growth of smartphones globally.
There might be a lot more windows PC's in the world, but MS takes in on average about $200-$400 in licenses over the life of a machine. the growth in that sector has dropped dramatically over the last decade and is nearing a plateau if it hasn't reached it already. Microsoft has known for 15 years or more the value of expanding into other markets (1996 gave us expedia, slate, MSN, the AOL browser partnership) but they consistently fail to bring the winning platform to market in these arenas. take for example xbox, zune, the long-slow-death of the windows phone platform: not terribly peforming products but never a game-changer.
it consistently comes back to MS's relentless, myopic focus on the enterprise. Their wagon is eternally hitched to large companies doing well. this is not, in my view (and i do not appear to be alone), a viable long-term strategy anymore.