Is it just me or is there some irony in the Michigan AG's name being Mike Cox. Seems like we should also be protecting our children from inapproriate material by leaving his name out of the news reports!
The writer starts out mentioning the 4 areas of tech work that are going to be big this coming year. He goes through the details of the first 3 skills, then abruptly cuts it off. We never see details on the fourth area (help desk) and there's no conclusion.
Does anyone know if there is a way to get to the whole article, or is this possibly just a publishing flub? I'm by no means a professional writer, but it seems a rather odd way to compose an article if that's really how it ends.
To anyone who has yet to try Ruby on Rails but refuses to do so because they think it is for speghetti coders, script kiddies, etc., I just have this one comment to make...
Who do you think the people evangelising RoR are? Do you think they are actually people who have only learned Ruby, so they don't know any better in trying to get other to try it? For some reason, I doubt it... While I don't necessarily have any hard evidence on user profiles, I would suggest such promoters have likely tried more than one programming language and web framework, and are using their own experience to come to the conclusion that RoR is worth at least trying out. Ruby has now been publicly available for 10 years, but there certainly wasn't much widespread excitement about Ruby in general until RoR came along. There has to be some valid reason for that. If it was really just a mob of script kiddies trying to build the momentum, development firms such as 37signals would not be as successful as they have been. Not to mention, the fact that the functionality of the RoR framework has or is being ported to many other languages of late.
I'm not trying to convince you it's the best thing since sliced bread, but I don't see the logic behind swearing Ruby on Rails off before even looking under the hood for yourself...
Well, I certainly won't deny it was Bush bashing, but "idiotic" is definitely a bit harsh. They put the phrase in quotes right in the post, for Pete's sake. That's not idiotic, that's taking advantage of a perfect lay-up.
... of open source projects? I'd like to the think the majority of OSS work was done out of wanting to create something better (defined many ways) than what was already in existence or at least act as an affordable (as in free) alternative to commercial products. Sure, many OSS products don't quite line up with their commercial counterparts, but obviously many do these days. While it's generally taken much longer for them to get into the spotlight, they got there by being reliable pieces of software and didn't made their mark by filling our heads with buzzwords and marketing material. Now that they are on par with the "big boys", the buzzwords suddenly become less (if at all) meaningful, so the game can really begin. From the article, it seems people still feel OSS is too much of a risk, but as adoption increases, that barrier will slowly start to disappear as well.
I don't care much about a 30% "Forbush descrease" in outer space... but I'd sure like to see if solar flares can create a 100% "for Bush decrease" in the U.S.!
Ha! When I went to that page, I got a bunch of old folks in the the header image. I wonder how many of them have any idea what an iPod is, let alone that their church is going to have a videocast for download. What do you think they'd say if they knew what was going on behind closed doors at their quite, little Baptist church? I can see it now...
"That Steve Jobs is the spawn of Satan with his evil little iPods! Burn them all!!"
p.s.- You may have to refresh a few times to get a pic of Methuselah's siblings.
Again, Oracle opts for purchasing a pseudo-competitor instead of innovating on their own. I certainly don't think there is anything wrong with that, it just seems they are finally starting to realize they can't do everything for themselves. Although, database technology itself should be under their grasp already. It's Oracle-grown products like JDeveloper IDE and the OC4J application server that really don't (IMHO) meet the standards already set by OSS projects such as Eclipse and Tomcat. It would be nice to see them admit their shortcomings in those areas and either contribute to the OSS cause or purchase if they feel deem it necessary. Call me old fashioned, but I guess I just don't like to see big companies compete "just because" in spaces where they really aren't experts and are just looking to add 2 more sentences to their marketing material.
Of course, I write all this as I alt+tab away from my Jdev/OC4J/BC4J environment that's been forced upon me, so at least I'm not bitter about it!
I'm thinking this means my chances of getting Google to remove some false but ancient usenet posts containing my name are significatnly dimished. For some reason, I doubt my emails to Google are more effective than phone calls from foreign dignitaries. Then again, maybe Google is ignoring Taiwan because they're not nuclear capable. In that case, I'll just have my wife contact them... she certainly IS nuclear capable!
This might be a bit above K-5 level, but something through a web browser would seem likely to be more familiar to the majority of kids. If you use a Perl/PHP/Python-type scripting language, you could show them how one little update can make a huge change in the way the "program" operates. You could change a background color or an image and that would probably be enough to pique their interest. Obviously, this can be done with other languages, but it may be more tangible to the kids if it's through a web browser... maybe.
By the way, you do realize these are kindergarten through 5th grade kids, don't you?? And lots of them! May God have mercy on your soul! Good luck!!!
Hey, step off Prince! He's a fellow Minnesotan... Yea, sure ya betcha!!!
Besides, I just saw him at the Golden Globes this past Sunday. Okay, so he looked like a re-animated corpse from the 80s, but he was there nonetheless!
Anyone think the Infineon execs will take this as badly as the CEO of CyberNET (see this article)??
It somewhat still amazes me that these people think because they are supposedly good at business that they are going to be good at breaking the law. At what point does making an amazingly fat paycheck stop a person from wanting more? As incidences like these continue to happen, I get closer and closer to believing it never ends... and that's not even mentioning the big ones like Enron and MCI.
Here's a vote to salary caps in the corporate world!!!
I know why they call it HalfLife. Spend any amount of time playing this thing and you have half the life you did before. In my case, that wasn't very much, but not it's even less...:(
The biggest difference from Firefox, however, is the ability to switch to the Internet Explorer rendering engine from within the browser using an IE ActiveX control.
As always, I love how web standards are never adhered to, necessitating one having multiple browsers installed in order to view different sites properly. Not to mention all the IE specific functionality that something like ASP often requires. Working for an ISP, we make sure our sites can handle all they way back to Netscape 4.7x as most of our customers are still on dial-up so many are likely to also have older browsers/computers. It's a massive headache, but yet we have have to do it. Can't all the browsers just stop fighting and get along for a change???
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Is it just me or is there some irony in the Michigan AG's name being Mike Cox. Seems like we should also be protecting our children from inapproriate material by leaving his name out of the news reports!
The writer starts out mentioning the 4 areas of tech work that are going to be big this coming year. He goes through the details of the first 3 skills, then abruptly cuts it off. We never see details on the fourth area (help desk) and there's no conclusion.
Does anyone know if there is a way to get to the whole article, or is this possibly just a publishing flub? I'm by no means a professional writer, but it seems a rather odd way to compose an article if that's really how it ends.
The Web was actually invented by someone(s)??? Damn, I thought it was always just... you know... there. I'm gonnna have to tell my friends about this.
Thanks for pleading my case before I even made it! :)
To anyone who has yet to try Ruby on Rails but refuses to do so because they think it is for speghetti coders, script kiddies, etc., I just have this one comment to make...
Who do you think the people evangelising RoR are? Do you think they are actually people who have only learned Ruby, so they don't know any better in trying to get other to try it? For some reason, I doubt it... While I don't necessarily have any hard evidence on user profiles, I would suggest such promoters have likely tried more than one programming language and web framework, and are using their own experience to come to the conclusion that RoR is worth at least trying out. Ruby has now been publicly available for 10 years, but there certainly wasn't much widespread excitement about Ruby in general until RoR came along. There has to be some valid reason for that. If it was really just a mob of script kiddies trying to build the momentum, development firms such as 37signals would not be as successful as they have been. Not to mention, the fact that the functionality of the RoR framework has or is being ported to many other languages of late.
I'm not trying to convince you it's the best thing since sliced bread, but I don't see the logic behind swearing Ruby on Rails off before even looking under the hood for yourself...
Well, at least your karma didn't spanked for it like mine did...
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Well, I certainly won't deny it was Bush bashing, but "idiotic" is definitely a bit harsh. They put the phrase in quotes right in the post, for Pete's sake. That's not idiotic, that's taking advantage of a perfect lay-up.
Talk about being kept down by the man. Geesh!
... of open source projects? I'd like to the think the majority of OSS work was done out of wanting to create something better (defined many ways) than what was already in existence or at least act as an affordable (as in free) alternative to commercial products. Sure, many OSS products don't quite line up with their commercial counterparts, but obviously many do these days. While it's generally taken much longer for them to get into the spotlight, they got there by being reliable pieces of software and didn't made their mark by filling our heads with buzzwords and marketing material. Now that they are on par with the "big boys", the buzzwords suddenly become less (if at all) meaningful, so the game can really begin. From the article, it seems people still feel OSS is too much of a risk, but as adoption increases, that barrier will slowly start to disappear as well.
Offtopic?? What? Can't anyone on /. take a joke anymore??? Mods, please help! (see above)
I don't care much about a 30% "Forbush descrease" in outer space... but I'd sure like to see if solar flares can create a 100% "for Bush decrease" in the U.S.!
Ha! When I went to that page, I got a bunch of old folks in the the header image. I wonder how many of them have any idea what an iPod is, let alone that their church is going to have a videocast for download. What do you think they'd say if they knew what was going on behind closed doors at their quite, little Baptist church? I can see it now...
p.s.- You may have to refresh a few times to get a pic of Methuselah's siblings.
RIAA Sues All Attendees of DVD Forum Conference 2005
Again, Oracle opts for purchasing a pseudo-competitor instead of innovating on their own. I certainly don't think there is anything wrong with that, it just seems they are finally starting to realize they can't do everything for themselves. Although, database technology itself should be under their grasp already. It's Oracle-grown products like JDeveloper IDE and the OC4J application server that really don't (IMHO) meet the standards already set by OSS projects such as Eclipse and Tomcat. It would be nice to see them admit their shortcomings in those areas and either contribute to the OSS cause or purchase if they feel deem it necessary. Call me old fashioned, but I guess I just don't like to see big companies compete "just because" in spaces where they really aren't experts and are just looking to add 2 more sentences to their marketing material.
Of course, I write all this as I alt+tab away from my Jdev/OC4J/BC4J environment that's been forced upon me, so at least I'm not bitter about it!
I'm thinking this means my chances of getting Google to remove some false but ancient usenet posts containing my name are significatnly dimished. For some reason, I doubt my emails to Google are more effective than phone calls from foreign dignitaries. Then again, maybe Google is ignoring Taiwan because they're not nuclear capable. In that case, I'll just have my wife contact them... she certainly IS nuclear capable!
This might be a bit above K-5 level, but something through a web browser would seem likely to be more familiar to the majority of kids. If you use a Perl/PHP/Python-type scripting language, you could show them how one little update can make a huge change in the way the "program" operates. You could change a background color or an image and that would probably be enough to pique their interest. Obviously, this can be done with other languages, but it may be more tangible to the kids if it's through a web browser... maybe.
By the way, you do realize these are kindergarten through 5th grade kids, don't you?? And lots of them! May God have mercy on your soul! Good luck!!!
Hey, step off Prince! He's a fellow Minnesotan... Yea, sure ya betcha!!!
Besides, I just saw him at the Golden Globes this past Sunday. Okay, so he looked like a re-animated corpse from the 80s, but he was there nonetheless!
My bunker is ready. Is yours???
Thanks to those who at least stuck up for me... I don't post just to get mod-ed up, but I personally thought that one was rather amusing.
Guess my mother-in-law is going to be here for Christmas afterall. :(
Anyone think the Infineon execs will take this as badly as the CEO of CyberNET (see this article)??
It somewhat still amazes me that these people think because they are supposedly good at business that they are going to be good at breaking the law. At what point does making an amazingly fat paycheck stop a person from wanting more? As incidences like these continue to happen, I get closer and closer to believing it never ends... and that's not even mentioning the big ones like Enron and MCI.
Here's a vote to salary caps in the corporate world!!!
"Spend any" implies at least half... just didn't want to sound too sad.
Hey, you had your fun, now let me have mine. Besides, it's rather difficult to steal something that I was not aware of it existing before... :p
I know why they call it HalfLife. Spend any amount of time playing this thing and you have half the life you did before. In my case, that wasn't very much, but not it's even less... :(
And now a message for Mr. Jennings...
What is "you got owned"?
As always, I love how web standards are never adhered to, necessitating one having multiple browsers installed in order to view different sites properly. Not to mention all the IE specific functionality that something like ASP often requires. Working for an ISP, we make sure our sites can handle all they way back to Netscape 4.7x as most of our customers are still on dial-up so many are likely to also have older browsers/computers. It's a massive headache, but yet we have have to do it. Can't all the browsers just stop fighting and get along for a change???