...on slash dot if it was written in perl on the linux platform. This is just an oppurtunity for someone to read part of a story, make a snappy title that bashes Microsoft based on the misunderstanding of the technology in an article.
This is not a c# memory leak, it was a memory leak written in c#. The developers used a commerical tool to find there problem, a trail version even. So how about a title "Commercial Code Profiler Saves the Day For DARPA team"?
Oh because then it would never be a slash dot article, ugh.
How come when applictions don't work with the latest release of windows, or windows service pack it's always: LOOK MS SUCKS!!!!
And when applications don't work with the latest linux distro, it's like: hey give the application dev some time.
If anything since the number of applications for windows probably exceeds the number of linux apps it should be the other way around. That, plus the fact that linux and any OSS has a theoretical pool of dev's to tap where MS only has their handfull of hired guns.
...but than again I got a fat resume. I also had a lucky break about 7 years ago to get my foot in the door.
In the past few years I actually interviewed people and screened resumes for development positions. And I can only tell you what I know:
A light resume and no-school gets passed. Post-grad's from any school get phone screened. Undergrads from any school get phone screened. The only people that usually bypass the phone screen, are post-grads from great schools with heavy resumes.
Any college and a well written resume will get you a phone screen, and a good phone screen will get you and interview, and a good interview will get you the job.
The three things I look for in an interviewee are:
1) Enthusiasm about getting to work and developing. 2) Did they ask questions? 3) Did they act like want the job? (asking for it is a plus)
plus the usual, not an idiot and someone I'd want to work with.
When a bad review happens, it is an opinionated peice of flame bait. Any good review is an insightful peice of journalism.
That behavior is very similiar to an ill-tempered 4 year old. Other (more successfull organizations) look at bad reviews and say, "Hey, this is a problem, what can I do to fix this."
Praise benifits image, where as critism SHOULD benefit the product.
Actually the "API lib" is free. It just only runs on the windows platform.
The funny thing is MS has released a portion of the framework for the BSD platform, it's called ROTOR: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyId=3A1C93FA-7462-47D0-8E56-8DD34C6292F0&displa ylang=en
It's called trade secrets, and has nothing to do with antitrust. If I invent a widget that only I know how to build, there are laws that protect me from a) People making money off my widget by building a knock-off b)People reverse engineering my widget and c)Having to release the manufacturing process of my widget.
Just because everyone uses my widget I am not oblidged by the law to release to the public how I manufacture my widget.
Why are you not seeing my point? Yes, Microsoft has an embedded OS. It's pricey, and the licensing blows, it is not Windows, it's in the windows family. But Let's not split hairs.
Let me break it down into kindergarten terms so maybe you will understand the point.
Product A works and is Free.
Product B works and costs a bunch of money, and requires licencing.
Which product do you use? Unless Product B has functionality that the client requests that Product A does not have, you always go with product A. Not because its better, but because its FREE!
I used to do embedded systems for industrial controls.
I think I know why.
Really? It was because the manufacturing market pays squat. Because there cocerns are deliverying a products that works, will be low maintenance, meets there customer needs, and does so FOR THE LOWEST COST.
I am talking embedded systems. Windows is not an Embedded OS. I am talking about embedded OS's that companies like WindRiver and Radisys and a lot more.
I used to do embedded systems for industrial controls. If I went to my boss and said I could save him all software licensing fees, and I didn't have to right everything from scartch he would have me do it. Unless a client requested a particular OS, or needed an RTOS.
My point is that these "Victories" are not victories against the big evil MS. They don't prove Linux is the best. They are actually stealing money from companies that produce "maybe" a better product. And that Linux is free.
Ah, I don't work for microsoft, sorry. Plus, I didn't say it was a bad thing. I only meant it was not a reason to celebrate. All these embedded Linux announcements just sound like celebrating the fact that it's free, not that it's good, or better.
FREE != Better. Right tool for the right job at the right price.
BTW RedHat Linux Server OS Standard Price($1500) > MS 2003 Server Standard($940). And the support is just as readily avaiable for each. I know you can grab a version of Linux for free, but you don't get the suppurt, ease of installation, and enterprise tools.
Why is it that all the linux geeks Woop and Holler when Linux is used in a consumer product. I got news for them. It is not because its open source, it's not because its politically correct, it's not because its the best OS.
It's because it's FREE! The time and money to develop an embedded OS, or licensing fees for using a pre-existing one used to be a very expensive undertaking. Now with Linux it's free with minimal R&D.
Celebrating price only reflects one thing, price. It has nothing to do with stability, or politics.
As far as the customer is concerned there are three elements that concern them. Time, Quality, and Money.
On any product they can't have all three. Example: If they want it quick (time) and the want it cheap (money), it will be lacking in quantity. Or If they want it cheap, and they want qulity, the delivery time will be long.
Saying "No" is not always the answer. But if you explain how their request will affect the one of the three elements (time, money, quality) they will either:
A) Give you more money.
B) Give you more time.
C) Expect less at delivery(cut-corners)
D) Withdraw their request.
I would buy a PRS because it stays in tune and has better tone and sustain and has higher resale value then a Squire.
You are comparing apples (heh) to oranges.
A better analogy would be. You can buy a craftsman cordless drill for like $60. Or you can buy a Milwakee cordless drill for $220. The Milwakee is better balanced and has some really nice well thought out features.
But if all you need to do is drill a couple holes?.... Well then, as I always say:
Right tool for the right job. Something apple seems to overlook. Xservers
"Now another question: Why are Linux computers gaining in popularity with large organizations while Macs, which are based after all on BSD Unix, aren't?"
Because you don't have to buy overpriced hardware. Linux will run on current and less expensive hardware.
Well, the main thing required for a patent to stick is that the technology does not already exist. This keeps people from patenting stuff like forks, and table salt. MS is claming that not only were they working on it before the patent was applied for, but it was already in use by "Viola".
Example I invent a widget that allows people to breath water and apply for a patent on July 4th 2003. But prior to July 4th 2003 you were working on a similar widget and finish it after my patent is approved. If you can prove you were working on it before I applied for the patent then I can not sue you for patent infringement.
The messed up thing here is that the court would not let the jury see that evidence that MS presented that proves they were working on the technology before the patent was applied for. The appeal will go through in favor of MS. It won't help software or any patents.
Heh, I pronounce it like that and I was a Nuke-u-ler reactor operator. I could tell you about the neutron life cycle of Urainium237 under thermal fission. See first you have your non-reactive thermal absorption...
...Anyway, I pronounce it wrong just to mess with people. When they try to correct me I quiz them on nuclear physics, and when I stump them I tell 'em to shut up. heh, I kill me.
I have sores all over my dick. How many other developers out there have sores on their dicks. This could be a huge trend, oh my god, write to all the medical journals, developers have sores on their dicks.
I am, by far, not a PR expert. But there are a few things I do know.
Promotion has to appeal and serve the target audience. So a text only page with a bunch of tech-speak and command line installation instructions will not appeal to the target audience, the policy makers.
If you want to convince some one to make a change, you have to show them that it will either do one of three things.
Save them money.
Make life easier.
or, Help avoid a disaster.
Streaming MP3's is nice, but I can do that with IPv4.
When ever you want to change a standard. The target should be the governing body of that standrad. If no particular body governs a standard, then start lobbying your country's government to push the standard, and remember the two previous items in this list.
Slashdot Mirror
...on slash dot if it was written in perl on the linux platform. This is just an oppurtunity for someone to read part of a story, make a snappy title that bashes Microsoft based on the misunderstanding of the technology in an article.
This is not a c# memory leak, it was a memory leak written in c#. The developers used a commerical tool to find there problem, a trail version even. So how about a title "Commercial Code Profiler Saves the Day For DARPA team"?
Oh because then it would never be a slash dot article, ugh.
Developers making a mistake != c# bug
The IDisposable interface is there for a reason.
How come when applictions don't work with the latest release of windows, or windows service pack it's always: LOOK MS SUCKS!!!!
And when applications don't work with the latest linux distro, it's like: hey give the application dev some time.
If anything since the number of applications for windows probably exceeds the number of linux apps it should be the other way around. That, plus the fact that linux and any OSS has a theoretical pool of dev's to tap where MS only has their handfull of hired guns.
This is a link to an apple centric web-site that talks about a company that benchmarks apple software. Independant yes, unbiased? hrmmmm....
...but than again I got a fat resume. I also had a lucky break about 7 years ago to get my foot in the door.
In the past few years I actually interviewed people and screened resumes for development positions. And I can only tell you what I know:
A light resume and no-school gets passed.
Post-grad's from any school get phone screened.
Undergrads from any school get phone screened.
The only people that usually bypass the phone screen, are post-grads from great schools with heavy resumes.
Any college and a well written resume will get you a phone screen, and a good phone screen will get you and interview, and a good interview will get you the job.
The three things I look for in an interviewee are:
1) Enthusiasm about getting to work and developing.
2) Did they ask questions?
3) Did they act like want the job? (asking for it is a plus)
plus the usual, not an idiot and someone I'd want to work with.
hope that helps
When a bad review happens, it is an opinionated peice of flame bait. Any good review is an insightful peice of journalism.
That behavior is very similiar to an ill-tempered 4 year old. Other (more successfull organizations) look at bad reviews and say, "Hey, this is a problem, what can I do to fix this."
Praise benifits image, where as critism SHOULD benefit the product.
At my peak, I was having 2 quad (for shots of esspresso) cappucino's, 4 large (24once) mugs of drip, and 6-8 cans of diet code red.
starting on the first day, I don't have caffeine after 8pm. After two days, I don't have any after 7pm. And soo on.
This way I taper off it. Plus I always got the headaches in the morning. This way I avoided the morning headaches.
You know if it was, it would be plastered all over this story. So it's safe to say it was not.
Actually the "API lib" is free. It just only runs on the windows platform.
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The funny thing is MS has released a portion of the framework for the BSD platform, it's called ROTOR: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?F
only if installing .MAC and iChat on mac OSX.
heh, right tool for the right job. doht. ...or...
Eat your own dogfood.
It's called trade secrets, and has nothing to do with antitrust. If I invent a widget that only I know how to build, there are laws that protect me from a) People making money off my widget by building a knock-off b)People reverse engineering my widget and c)Having to release the manufacturing process of my widget.
Just because everyone uses my widget I am not oblidged by the law to release to the public how I manufacture my widget.
Let me break it down into kindergarten terms so maybe you will understand the point.
- Product A works and is Free.
- Product B works and costs a bunch of money, and requires licencing.
Which product do you use? Unless Product B has functionality that the client requests that Product A does not have, you always go with product A. Not because its better, but because its FREE!I used to do embedded systems for industrial controls. I think I know why. Really? It was because the manufacturing market pays squat. Because there cocerns are deliverying a products that works, will be low maintenance, meets there customer needs, and does so FOR THE LOWEST COST.
I am talking embedded systems. Windows is not an Embedded OS. I am talking about embedded OS's that companies like WindRiver and Radisys and a lot more.
I used to do embedded systems for industrial controls. If I went to my boss and said I could save him all software licensing fees, and I didn't have to right everything from scartch he would have me do it. Unless a client requested a particular OS, or needed an RTOS.
My point is that these "Victories" are not victories against the big evil MS. They don't prove Linux is the best. They are actually stealing money from companies that produce "maybe" a better product. And that Linux is free.
Ah, I don't work for microsoft, sorry. Plus, I didn't say it was a bad thing. I only meant it was not a reason to celebrate. All these embedded Linux announcements just sound like celebrating the fact that it's free, not that it's good, or better.
FREE != Better. Right tool for the right job at the right price.
BTW RedHat Linux Server OS Standard Price($1500) > MS 2003 Server Standard($940). And the support is just as readily avaiable for each. I know you can grab a version of Linux for free, but you don't get the suppurt, ease of installation, and enterprise tools.
Why is it that all the linux geeks Woop and Holler when Linux is used in a consumer product. I got news for them. It is not because its open source, it's not because its politically correct, it's not because its the best OS.
It's because it's FREE! The time and money to develop an embedded OS, or licensing fees for using a pre-existing one used to be a very expensive undertaking. Now with Linux it's free with minimal R&D.
Celebrating price only reflects one thing, price. It has nothing to do with stability, or politics.
As far as the customer is concerned there are three elements that concern them. Time, Quality, and Money.
On any product they can't have all three. Example: If they want it quick (time) and the want it cheap (money), it will be lacking in quantity. Or If they want it cheap, and they want qulity, the delivery time will be long.
Saying "No" is not always the answer. But if you explain how their request will affect the one of the three elements (time, money, quality) they will either:
A) Give you more money.
B) Give you more time.
C) Expect less at delivery(cut-corners)
D) Withdraw their request.
And everyone wins.
um...
I would buy a PRS because it stays in tune and has better tone and sustain and has higher resale value then a Squire.
You are comparing apples (heh) to oranges.
A better analogy would be. You can buy a craftsman cordless drill for like $60. Or you can buy a Milwakee cordless drill for $220. The Milwakee is better balanced and has some really nice well thought out features.
But if all you need to do is drill a couple holes?.... Well then, as I always say:
Right tool for the right job. Something apple seems to overlook. Xservers
Well, the main thing required for a patent to stick is that the technology does not already exist. This keeps people from patenting stuff like forks, and table salt. MS is claming that not only were they working on it before the patent was applied for, but it was already in use by "Viola".
Example I invent a widget that allows people to breath water and apply for a patent on July 4th 2003. But prior to July 4th 2003 you were working on a similar widget and finish it after my patent is approved. If you can prove you were working on it before I applied for the patent then I can not sue you for patent infringement.
The messed up thing here is that the court would not let the jury see that evidence that MS presented that proves they were working on the technology before the patent was applied for. The appeal will go through in favor of MS. It won't help software or any patents.
Heh, I pronounce it like that and I was a Nuke-u-ler reactor operator. I could tell you about the neutron life cycle of Urainium237 under thermal fission. See first you have your non-reactive thermal absorption...
...Anyway, I pronounce it wrong just to mess with people. When they try to correct me I quiz them on nuclear physics, and when I stump them I tell 'em to shut up. heh, I kill me.
a) 'theatre' is the variant spelling of 'theater'. That is unless you spell color, colour.
b) According to Merriam-Webster: theater also means - "a building or area for showing motion pictures"...
...hence the term 'Home Theater'.
If you are going to act smart, at least try to be smart.
I have sores all over my dick. How many other developers out there have sores on their dicks. This could be a huge trend, oh my god, write to all the medical journals, developers have sores on their dicks.
...nothing.
My lord you know what this means?
- Save them money.
- Make life easier.
- or, Help avoid a disaster.
Streaming MP3's is nice, but I can do that with IPv4.