For my cable provider, it would be friggin rocket science.
We have Comcast Digital Cable. While the regular channels are ok, the menu and OnDemand features keep going down. When I call, they say they've been having problems throughout their network and have shut all of the advanced stuff down.
"That's fine," I say. But then, it starts happening every week-or-so. I can't get to the "Guide", I can't watch my free OnDemand Anime, and I can't check automated instant-weather report (instead having to go to the Weather channel).
While this may sound spoiled, I think the cable companies really need to get their act together. They keep messing something up in our area, one thing after the other.
Well, while that much money on developing a pen is rediculous, I think it was a good idea.
Pencils shed A LOT of graphite (more than most people think. I read a study on it once). Imagine a group of scientists recording a bunch of calculations of a week or longer; the shuttle would a) be very dusty or b) it would make a heavier load on the filters, and could conceivable start getting into some of the mechanics/electronics.
As for the killing of more astronauts than any other country, ummm, how many countries actually send people into space. As far as I know, we send (by far) the MOST manned missions up there, and the only other contender is Russia (who is more financially screwed than the US).
However, I think the world could use a new infusion of blood. I hope some other countries start sending up manned missions, and think that commercial solutions would probably do a better job for cheaper.
But people forget, NASA has essentially opened it's past research and designs. Meaning they will have supplied a foudnation for other orgs to use as a baseline. Somehow, I don't think China will be as open with their space program.
For one, I don't mind coding for Windows; I'm rather sklled at it and comfortable with it. I just hope that the bottom doesn't fall out of Windows-based systems any time soon. But I am willing to migrate if/when necessary.
As for jobs, 3 of my friends were let go last early last year. They were really bright, and good programmers (2 of which had good Java skills). 2 of them are still out of work. I (personally) would have to be pretty miserable to want to leave without another job waiting for me.
You, my friend, are rather lucky, and I envy you. You stick by your ideals and turn down jobs because you believe MS sucks. But I'm willing to "sell out" if it pays the rent.
Not all of use have your luxury. At my job, we program for the Windows environment alone. Don't get me wrong, we use Linux and Solaris for backend stuff, but all front-end is Windows. We're recently starting to write some projects using.Net (mostly C#). Now, this is delegated to us from up-above. If we say ".Net blows, Java should be used" then they'd say "alright Chris, you're fired; Ernie, you're on the project now."
In today's job market, most of us will learn/use what is marketable. Right now, MS products have a MAJOR majority holding over the IT departments of the country. I try to keep my options open; I'm beefing up my Java AND C# and.Net skills.
I hear a lot of MS bashing, constantly sayign all MS products suck. And, for a while, I would agree that Borland products were FAR more superior to MS products.
We're using Borland JBuilder 9 Developer at work. We're also use Visual Studio.Net 2003 for C# development.
To be honest, I like VS.Net 2003 a lot more than JBuilder. Don't get me wrong, JBuilder is nice, but not AS nice. Also, JB is a hog. A 2 GHz machine can crawl when going into design mode with a complex frame and sometimes when performing auto-complete. VS.Net 2003 is really speedy getting to design mode. And in C#, it builds the forms based on strict code, much like JB, only putting it a seperate file.
Personally, I'm trying to learn both platforms. They're similar enough to make the learning curve rather easy.
I've been to that site before. But I think it's merely comparing your salary to the world average.
THAT'S MISSING AN IMPORTANT POINT... While people around the globe might make substantially less than you, the cost of living is probably a hell of a lot less than where you live (in my case, the US).
I don't care about the actual number of dollars/euros I make. I just care about how comfortably I can live off of it. Heck, in Boston rent is like 1,600 a month for a one-bedroom. It doesn't get too much cheaper until you're about an hour away. After you take all of that away, does 40,000 (before taking away taxes) seem like an ass-load?
There are 2 things wrong with what you said though.
First, he claims that he doesn't own a computer. Granted, that could be total BS, but I believe him.
Second, you can download files from Kazaa WITHOUT sharing anything. Simply set the download directory to a directory you are not sharing, and make sure that you are not share ANY directories.
My understanding is that Wine is not an emulator. Instead, they rewrote the Win32 API as a layer that called a set of X API functions to mimic the Win32 call.
Simply "porting" WINE to OSX would mean rewriting the entire thing. Sure, OSX is unix based, but there's a lot of stuff.
Now, if they DID decide to fork a WINE project for Mac OSX, that would be cool. Because, personally, I think they could get better performance using Mac OSX as the bottom layer instead of X
And by the way, I AM in the real world. I'm a full time developer for a large pharmaceutical company.
AND, if you read my post, I SPECIFICALLY mentioned real applications, and not some little tool that can be done in a scripting language. Try writing a full-blown application that is used by a hundred-or-so scientists to monitor compounds, display molecular structures, show reports of disbursals all in a FANCY GUI (because scientists are like pre-madonnas that need to be catered to) in a shell script.
Umm, no. VB sucks donkey balls.
I'm talking about writing REAL applications (not some little tool a 12 year old could do).
Visual C++
Visual C# (not a bad language if your client machines can handle the large footprint).
Even Borland's products (C++ Builder, etc).
Even though VB.Net is closer to a real programming language than it's predecessor, it is still horrible.
I feel VB was created to drive developers crazy.
While I agree with previous posts that Linux is cheaper than Windows in just about every respect, I'm glad that his article touches on something.
With the current development tools available for Windows, as well as all third-party utilities/db drivers/etc, development on Windows goes by much quicker.
I'm not talking about little apps that could be banged out as a perl script in a few minutes, but more robust applications that companies need internally.
However, this is just for the present. If/when more people adopt Linux as desktops then more people will learn how to develop for it and more/better tools will become available. Say what you will about Visual Studio, but the recent incarnations work exceptionally well, and they have a large user base. If we could see 1 or 2 similar development IDE's for linux that are HIGHLY ADOPTED (I know there are some nice ones out there, but the use-rate is still rather low), then things could change.
While I agree Microsoft servers are utter pieces of garbage, and their software is buggy, I personally feel the lack of viruses/worms for *nix stem from the fact that writing a Windows virus would wreak A LOT more havok than a *nix worm.
Think about it. Sure, a *nix virus/worm would mess with all of the servers out there, but that's NOTHING compared to the number of windoze boxen on the network. A virulent program targetting the MS platform would bring the the Internet to its knees.
Also, their's a lot more "literature" and sample code for windows viruses out there. The fact that there are no/few viruses for linux makes it harder for someone to write one. I believe, in time, *nix systems will become just as virus-friendly. This will probably happen once Linux gets more of a desktop acceptance.
"Grand Theft Auto clearly is attempting to replicate the reality of crime sprees, so why not just call it a crime sim?"
If that's your argument, then Half-Life is a simulator for protecting your planet when trans-dimensional aliens attack.
I know some people that have boosted some cars cars. And not 1 of them has ever:
- Started shooting Cops until the National Gaurd came
- Got involved with the mob
- Helped a mob boss's daughter see her lesbian girlfriend
- Have to assasinate another mob boss
- Plant a bomb
- etc
A "crime simulator" would involve teaching you how to watch out for cops, pick out cars that were worth some money AND didn't have low-jack, etc. Maybe which wires to cross when hotwiring a car.
GTA 1-3 is game, plain and simple.
Windows XP Pro doesn't have to reboot very often. I just rebuilt an windoze box the other day, and only had to reboot after applying some of the patches (ok, that sucked), updating office, and antivirus software. I threw A LOT of third party apps on there, as well as commercial software.
Things are a lot different than they used to be, but I will be the first to admit that Linux is a lot better in regards to rebooting.
Similar thing happened to a friend of mine. He built a dual processor windows box with Windows 2000 server. He set up DHCP server on it by mistake, and was screwing with the entire dorm's network access. He left campus for a few days, and while he was gone people found out what was going on. There were huge guys pounding on his door cursing and threatening his life. When he got back, we tgold him what was going on. He quickly ran to his PC and fixed it. Oddly enough, I don't think anyone in tech support caught on.
This led to a problem though. Because on 2 seperate occassions some wise-a$$e$ thought it would be cool to purposely do the same thing, totally screwing up a bunch of network accounts during thesis time.
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I am FAR FROM A comic expert. I had the fewest comics in school compared to everyone else.
But I BELIEVE he was freezing the water molecules in the air. Since air usually has a fair amount of misture (though more in Florida than Arizona).
However, what I could never understand was how it never just fell to the earth. I mean, making a bridge resting on top of to buildings is one thing. But suspending such a slide from an arbitrary point in the sky in another.
I was in attendance between Fall 1998 and Spring 2003 (of which 1 year was spent on my Masters).
Like I said, the school gave out Borland's Turbo C++ ver 4.5 with the computers you could "rent" for $50 a semester, but most professors said it had to run on their Solaris accounts. Then again, that wouldn't stop a kid from writing it in Borland or MS VC++, and then testing it in Solaris to iron out any problems. But the professors were very strict about that.
At least while I was in attendance (98-2003), NJIT's CIS dept was strictly SUN. We learned basic shell commands and what-not, and were encouraged to use pico or vi. All of this was via a console connection (telnet) to connect to our AFS servers.
In fact, if the professor could not run our code in Solaris, we would get a really low grade (possibly fail). Each of my professors tried to steer us away from MS VC++.
However, the school supplied us with a version of Turbo C++ if we "rented" one of their PC's. But none of my professors even wanted us to touch it, let alone learn to use it.
You nkow, I've never heard of anyone EVER getting a speeding ticket for going 1 mile over the speed limit, except in movies (comedies mostly).
The only thing I could think of, is if the cop wanted a "reason" to pull the car over. For example, it was filled with smoke and they suspect pot smokers. Or a more illegal pull-over, such as racial profiling (which I am TOTALLY against and think the cop should get in deep trouble).
But seriously, maybe cops are that bored out west, but on the east coast (and I've driven ALL over), I've never seen or heard of such a hard-a$$ cop.
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I think he means that he didn't have to downlod any special updates or recompile anything to get it to work. He jut had to change one setting.
For my cable provider, it would be friggin rocket science.
We have Comcast Digital Cable. While the regular channels are ok, the menu and OnDemand features keep going down. When I call, they say they've been having problems throughout their network and have shut all of the advanced stuff down.
"That's fine," I say. But then, it starts happening every week-or-so. I can't get to the "Guide", I can't watch my free OnDemand Anime, and I can't check automated instant-weather report (instead having to go to the Weather channel).
While this may sound spoiled, I think the cable companies really need to get their act together. They keep messing something up in our area, one thing after the other.
Well, while that much money on developing a pen is rediculous, I think it was a good idea. Pencils shed A LOT of graphite (more than most people think. I read a study on it once). Imagine a group of scientists recording a bunch of calculations of a week or longer; the shuttle would a) be very dusty or b) it would make a heavier load on the filters, and could conceivable start getting into some of the mechanics/electronics. As for the killing of more astronauts than any other country, ummm, how many countries actually send people into space. As far as I know, we send (by far) the MOST manned missions up there, and the only other contender is Russia (who is more financially screwed than the US). However, I think the world could use a new infusion of blood. I hope some other countries start sending up manned missions, and think that commercial solutions would probably do a better job for cheaper. But people forget, NASA has essentially opened it's past research and designs. Meaning they will have supplied a foudnation for other orgs to use as a baseline. Somehow, I don't think China will be as open with their space program.
For one, I don't mind coding for Windows; I'm rather sklled at it and comfortable with it. I just hope that the bottom doesn't fall out of Windows-based systems any time soon. But I am willing to migrate if/when necessary.
As for jobs, 3 of my friends were let go last early last year. They were really bright, and good programmers (2 of which had good Java skills). 2 of them are still out of work. I (personally) would have to be pretty miserable to want to leave without another job waiting for me.
You, my friend, are rather lucky, and I envy you. You stick by your ideals and turn down jobs because you believe MS sucks. But I'm willing to "sell out" if it pays the rent.
.Net (mostly C#). Now, this is delegated to us from up-above. If we say ".Net blows, Java should be used" then they'd say "alright Chris, you're fired; Ernie, you're on the project now."
.Net skills.
Not all of use have your luxury. At my job, we program for the Windows environment alone. Don't get me wrong, we use Linux and Solaris for backend stuff, but all front-end is Windows. We're recently starting to write some projects using
In today's job market, most of us will learn/use what is marketable. Right now, MS products have a MAJOR majority holding over the IT departments of the country. I try to keep my options open; I'm beefing up my Java AND C# and
I hear a lot of MS bashing, constantly sayign all MS products suck. And, for a while, I would agree that Borland products were FAR more superior to MS products.
.Net 2003 for C# development.
We're using Borland JBuilder 9 Developer at work. We're also use Visual Studio
To be honest, I like VS.Net 2003 a lot more than JBuilder. Don't get me wrong, JBuilder is nice, but not AS nice. Also, JB is a hog. A 2 GHz machine can crawl when going into design mode with a complex frame and sometimes when performing auto-complete. VS.Net 2003 is really speedy getting to design mode. And in C#, it builds the forms based on strict code, much like JB, only putting it a seperate file.
Personally, I'm trying to learn both platforms. They're similar enough to make the learning curve rather easy.
I've been to that site before. But I think it's merely comparing your salary to the world average. THAT'S MISSING AN IMPORTANT POINT... While people around the globe might make substantially less than you, the cost of living is probably a hell of a lot less than where you live (in my case, the US). I don't care about the actual number of dollars/euros I make. I just care about how comfortably I can live off of it. Heck, in Boston rent is like 1,600 a month for a one-bedroom. It doesn't get too much cheaper until you're about an hour away. After you take all of that away, does 40,000 (before taking away taxes) seem like an ass-load?
There are 2 things wrong with what you said though. First, he claims that he doesn't own a computer. Granted, that could be total BS, but I believe him. Second, you can download files from Kazaa WITHOUT sharing anything. Simply set the download directory to a directory you are not sharing, and make sure that you are not share ANY directories.
Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator)
My understanding is that Wine is not an emulator. Instead, they rewrote the Win32 API as a layer that called a set of X API functions to mimic the Win32 call.
Simply "porting" WINE to OSX would mean rewriting the entire thing. Sure, OSX is unix based, but there's a lot of stuff.
Now, if they DID decide to fork a WINE project for Mac OSX, that would be cool. Because, personally, I think they could get better performance using Mac OSX as the bottom layer instead of X
I believe if a minor is sued, then the parents (or gaurdians) get slapped with the actual bill.
Sorry for the irrate comments. Bad day at work.
And by the way, I AM in the real world. I'm a full time developer for a large pharmaceutical company.
AND, if you read my post, I SPECIFICALLY mentioned real applications, and not some little tool that can be done in a scripting language.
Try writing a full-blown application that is used by a hundred-or-so scientists to monitor compounds, display molecular structures, show reports of disbursals all in a FANCY GUI (because scientists are like pre-madonnas that need to be catered to) in a shell script.
Umm, no. VB sucks donkey balls. I'm talking about writing REAL applications (not some little tool a 12 year old could do). Visual C++ Visual C# (not a bad language if your client machines can handle the large footprint). Even Borland's products (C++ Builder, etc). Even though VB.Net is closer to a real programming language than it's predecessor, it is still horrible. I feel VB was created to drive developers crazy.
While I agree with previous posts that Linux is cheaper than Windows in just about every respect, I'm glad that his article touches on something.
With the current development tools available for Windows, as well as all third-party utilities/db drivers/etc, development on Windows goes by much quicker.
I'm not talking about little apps that could be banged out as a perl script in a few minutes, but more robust applications that companies need internally.
However, this is just for the present. If/when more people adopt Linux as desktops then more people will learn how to develop for it and more/better tools will become available. Say what you will about Visual Studio, but the recent incarnations work exceptionally well, and they have a large user base. If we could see 1 or 2 similar development IDE's for linux that are HIGHLY ADOPTED (I know there are some nice ones out there, but the use-rate is still rather low), then things could change.
While I agree Microsoft servers are utter pieces of garbage, and their software is buggy, I personally feel the lack of viruses/worms for *nix stem from the fact that writing a Windows virus would wreak A LOT more havok than a *nix worm.
Think about it. Sure, a *nix virus/worm would mess with all of the servers out there, but that's NOTHING compared to the number of windoze boxen on the network. A virulent program targetting the MS platform would bring the the Internet to its knees.
Also, their's a lot more "literature" and sample code for windows viruses out there. The fact that there are no/few viruses for linux makes it harder for someone to write one. I believe, in time, *nix systems will become just as virus-friendly. This will probably happen once Linux gets more of a desktop acceptance.
"Grand Theft Auto clearly is attempting to replicate the reality of crime sprees, so why not just call it a crime sim?" If that's your argument, then Half-Life is a simulator for protecting your planet when trans-dimensional aliens attack. I know some people that have boosted some cars cars. And not 1 of them has ever: - Started shooting Cops until the National Gaurd came - Got involved with the mob - Helped a mob boss's daughter see her lesbian girlfriend - Have to assasinate another mob boss - Plant a bomb - etc A "crime simulator" would involve teaching you how to watch out for cops, pick out cars that were worth some money AND didn't have low-jack, etc. Maybe which wires to cross when hotwiring a car. GTA 1-3 is game, plain and simple.
I kid you not;
.Net and C# experience".
I one saw a posting saying "7+ years of
I almost laughed my ass off. I applied anyway.
Windows XP Pro doesn't have to reboot very often. I just rebuilt an windoze box the other day, and only had to reboot after applying some of the patches (ok, that sucked), updating office, and antivirus software. I threw A LOT of third party apps on there, as well as commercial software.
Things are a lot different than they used to be, but I will be the first to admit that Linux is a lot better in regards to rebooting.
Similar thing happened to a friend of mine. He built a dual processor windows box with Windows 2000 server. He set up DHCP server on it by mistake, and was screwing with the entire dorm's network access. He left campus for a few days, and while he was gone people found out what was going on. There were huge guys pounding on his door cursing and threatening his life. When he got back, we tgold him what was going on. He quickly ran to his PC and fixed it. Oddly enough, I don't think anyone in tech support caught on. This led to a problem though. Because on 2 seperate occassions some wise-a$$e$ thought it would be cool to purposely do the same thing, totally screwing up a bunch of network accounts during thesis time. END-OF-LINE
I am FAR FROM A comic expert. I had the fewest comics in school compared to everyone else.
But I BELIEVE he was freezing the water molecules in the air. Since air usually has a fair amount of misture (though more in Florida than Arizona).
However, what I could never understand was how it never just fell to the earth. I mean, making a bridge resting on top of to buildings is one thing. But suspending such a slide from an arbitrary point in the sky in another.
Umm, I'm no mac-head, but I'm pretty sure OS X has a CLI now. It's just not the easiest thing to find.
I was in attendance between Fall 1998 and Spring 2003 (of which 1 year was spent on my Masters).
Like I said, the school gave out Borland's Turbo C++ ver 4.5 with the computers you could "rent" for $50 a semester, but most professors said it had to run on their Solaris accounts. Then again, that wouldn't stop a kid from writing it in Borland or MS VC++, and then testing it in Solaris to iron out any problems. But the professors were very strict about that.
BTW, I got my Masters there as well. Hence the extra year.
At least while I was in attendance (98-2003), NJIT's CIS dept was strictly SUN. We learned basic shell commands and what-not, and were encouraged to use pico or vi. All of this was via a console connection (telnet) to connect to our AFS servers. In fact, if the professor could not run our code in Solaris, we would get a really low grade (possibly fail). Each of my professors tried to steer us away from MS VC++. However, the school supplied us with a version of Turbo C++ if we "rented" one of their PC's. But none of my professors even wanted us to touch it, let alone learn to use it.
You nkow, I've never heard of anyone EVER getting a speeding ticket for going 1 mile over the speed limit, except in movies (comedies mostly).
The only thing I could think of, is if the cop wanted a "reason" to pull the car over. For example, it was filled with smoke and they suspect pot smokers. Or a more illegal pull-over, such as racial profiling (which I am TOTALLY against and think the cop should get in deep trouble).
But seriously, maybe cops are that bored out west, but on the east coast (and I've driven ALL over), I've never seen or heard of such a hard-a$$ cop.