Wow, I've never seen so many negative, narrow minded comments ever. Of course this idea may seems far fetched today, but in 5, 10, or 20 years, hopefully this is the way it will be. Look how far we have come with computers in the last 40 years, or even in the last 10. I'm sure people 100 years ago would have thought having a live video conference with someone half-way around the world would be impossible.
Maybe this is all a big stock manipulation/insider trading scam. Every other day new news comes out that makes the stock fluctuate wildly. If you knew when the latest "news" was going to break you could easily take advantage of it.
Mac hardware is more expensive relative PC hardware. I'm sending this email on the low end iMac (800Mhz G4, 256M Memory), price $1300. My other computer is a P4 2.4Ghz, 768M memory that I paid ~$700 (no monitor) a year ago. The P4 is about a billion times faster and less expensive. If I want to import pictures from my digital camera, hook up my camcorder, or burn a dvd iMac is awesome. Most businesses, goverments, developers, and lots of schools IMO will be switching to the cheaper linux hardware (like the article says). Anyway who would pay for a different desktop for OSX when the one it has is already awesome?
I know, sorry I was just being an ass. Really though for user applications it ain't such a bad idea. Lots of normal users have trouble with unzipping files and typing in a command.
Most IT jobs aren't working at companies like MS, they are working for businesses developing applications. And in my experience most of these companies are moving toward open source technologies. I work for a huge utility company that is moving all servers from IIS/ASP/NT to Linux/JSP/Java/Tomcat. Who do you think these companies will want to hire, someone who can use wizards to build a VB app or a Linux kernel hacker?
If you have a java application, it might be useful to have built in browsing capabilities. Like for displaying help, web-mail, web based forums. Your java application would no longer have to be fully client based or fully web-based. I can think of a million uses for this...
I just tried Opera for the first time. After 10 minutes of playing around with it, I'm ready to switch. It's free-as-in-beer, if your willing to look at a half banner ad in the upper right corner. Totally free software is great, but I don't mind closed source if you get what you pay for and the vendor doesn't try to lock you in or obstruct competition.
If you need to take a break at work I think that going for a walk or working out on your lunch hour would be a better break than playing games. Office people do enogh sitting.
It depends on what you like to do. If you just want to program cobol until it finally dies, then you may be better off being a manager. Personally I may be old as far as programmers go (11 years experience.), but I read at least 2 books/month and work hard to keep my skills up. I know that I make almost twice what my 'manager' makes (120K, for the last 4 years:). I'm sure it's easier taking the manager route, but IMO not as rewarding financially or mentally.
instead of moaning about how long it is taking to get mono up and running, you should be helping.
I would love to work on an awesome project like mono if I had the time. Right now I have a full-time job, I've been hacking on my own project for 2+ years, and I'm working on another little side project. Beleive me, it's not like I sit on the couch every night wondering when the mono-team will get their asses in gear:)
Just do what you like to do. If you like what you do then chances are you'll work to be better at it. Then happiness and hopefully earning a decent living will come. I think this is especially true in IT. If you don't enjoy constantly reading computer books in your spare time, you may be quickly left in the dust.
Using Strus/Tiles also allows you to keep navigation/header/footer separate from your content. It also allows you to change the whole layout and/or look of your site just by changing one page. I guess the downside would be that your host needs to support JSP.
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Yea they should have had James Gosling sitting at a keyboard with his belly showing.
Wow, I've never seen so many negative, narrow minded comments ever. Of course this idea may seems far fetched today, but in 5, 10, or 20 years, hopefully this is the way it will be. Look how far we have come with computers in the last 40 years, or even in the last 10. I'm sure people 100 years ago would have thought having a live video conference with someone half-way around the world would be impossible.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -Ghandi
They also worked during the dot-com boom doing HTML for $200/hr.
Maybe this is all a big stock manipulation/insider trading scam. Every other day new news comes out that makes the stock fluctuate wildly. If you knew when the latest "news" was going to break you could easily take advantage of it.
Mac hardware is more expensive relative PC hardware. I'm sending this email on the low end iMac (800Mhz G4, 256M Memory), price $1300. My other computer is a P4 2.4Ghz, 768M memory that I paid ~$700 (no monitor) a year ago. The P4 is about a billion times faster and less expensive. If I want to import pictures from my digital camera, hook up my camcorder, or burn a dvd iMac is awesome. Most businesses, goverments, developers, and lots of schools IMO will be switching to the cheaper linux hardware (like the article says). Anyway who would pay for a different desktop for OSX when the one it has is already awesome?
I know, sorry I was just being an ass. Really though for user applications it ain't such a bad idea. Lots of normal users have trouble with unzipping files and typing in a command.
I like assembler. I don't want some stupid compiler getting between me and the machine.
Sounds difficult, I'd rather just drag/drop to my desktop then just have it run automatically. Maybe have some wizard pop up to configure the thing.
Most IT jobs aren't working at companies like MS, they are working for businesses developing applications. And in my experience most of these companies are moving toward open source technologies. I work for a huge utility company that is moving all servers from IIS/ASP/NT to Linux/JSP/Java/Tomcat. Who do you think these companies will want to hire, someone who can use wizards to build a VB app or a Linux kernel hacker?
unless more companies start licensing SCO's property, he may also sue Linus Torvalds
two days later...
Oh crap, Linus owns the Linux trademark. Oh well, let's sue him anyway.
If you have a java application, it might be useful to have built in browsing capabilities. Like for displaying help, web-mail, web based forums. Your java application would no longer have to be fully client based or fully web-based. I can think of a million uses for this...
Maybe you could work out a trade:)
I just tried Opera for the first time. After 10 minutes of playing around with it, I'm ready to switch. It's free-as-in-beer, if your willing to look at a half banner ad in the upper right corner. Totally free software is great, but I don't mind closed source if you get what you pay for and the vendor doesn't try to lock you in or obstruct competition.
If you need to take a break at work I think that going for a walk or working out on your lunch hour would be a better break than playing games. Office people do enogh sitting.
Will there be special lanes, so SUV drivers won't be running everyone over?
Sure, it's not great if you need to get a lot of work done
So what kind of work are you doing that you can't get done in Linux? Trying to find security holes in the OS or something?
Sounds like you're probably an old cobol programmer making 50K!
Ok I will, thanks for the advice!
It depends on what you like to do. If you just want to program cobol until it finally dies, then you may be better off being a manager. Personally I may be old as far as programmers go (11 years experience.), but I read at least 2 books/month and work hard to keep my skills up. I know that I make almost twice what my 'manager' makes (120K, for the last 4 years:). I'm sure it's easier taking the manager route, but IMO not as rewarding financially or mentally.
How about contributing to a complex, high profile open-source project like Linux, JBoss, etc. then do consulting related to the project.
instead of moaning about how long it is taking to get mono up and running, you should be helping.
I would love to work on an awesome project like mono if I had the time. Right now I have a full-time job, I've been hacking on my own project for 2+ years, and I'm working on another little side project. Beleive me, it's not like I sit on the couch every night wondering when the mono-team will get their asses in gear:)
It's owned/created by Microsoft.
.Net.
Exactly. Once mono is more complete and I'm convinced MS won't try to kill it, then I'll take a look at
Just do what you like to do. If you like what you do then chances are you'll work to be better at it. Then happiness and hopefully earning a decent living will come. I think this is especially true in IT. If you don't enjoy constantly reading computer books in your spare time, you may be quickly left in the dust.
Using Strus/Tiles also allows you to keep navigation/header/footer separate from your content. It also allows you to change the whole layout and/or look of your site just by changing one page. I guess the downside would be that your host needs to support JSP.