Text to Speach is not so bad these days, sure it was there on the spectrum 1982, the Amiga (as part of the OS) 1987, now it is even usable in the fast as lightening, but fairly portable, Java arena...
Now if only there was TEXT on the web worth listening to.
Hopefully there are open source tools that I can get to know that will shift my computing skills up into a more profitable segment of the market, or maybe one that will be to the greater good.
I found a list of software used in http://bioinformatics.org/softwaremap/?form_cat=2 but I really need some insight from someone in the know what the top ten programs I can learn and be of use to more leaned users, such as writing scripts to get the damn things to work together fo example.
You need people with 10 years experience and you need people with 2 years experience. What seems to happen at the moment is that there are no new hires and the people at the bottom do not have promotion prospects because everyone is holding on to their job (or not....), basically low moral all around.
Software is a comunity thing, not an individual thing. Communism is not optional but required:)...
I think there should be a code search engine set up so that javadocs can be enriched by seeing where the methods are called in code. How much can I take from studing GPL or BSD license code, or am I tainted by looking at it. And then there is ideas from magazines (and) web sites. If I actually did get around to doing coding it would be a quagmire.:)
Why not ensure against data loss, security laps and downtime, let the insurance company work out the odds based on your own best practices, and the programs involved. Say cheap insurance for apache, and FreeBSD, and higher insurance costs for linux , jboss and IIS.
Everyones a winner, it gives an objective measure of the liability of running open source or indeed any computer system.
It may even go full circle where the insurance company pays to improve the software to reduce its pay outs. Most likely end up as more greased palms of lawyers.
Just wondering if java has got its ugly head in somewhere in the kernel development release, maybe someone uses jedit perhaps, or even a JSP or servlet web site.
Maybe real kernel hackers do not use something that is half the speed of C but maybe the odd exception likes java.lang.Exceptions.
Offtopic but I just like to know where a 5 year java programmer might fit in besides maybe jakarta from apache.
There are free versions of smalltalk, maybe we all should be writing smalltalk libraries to mimic the best of the Java libraries, maybe even including the hateful Swing, and follow the one true smalltalk (www.squeak.org maybe).
I never did get around to learning smalltalk, only know it by its reputation, but it does not seem to have a commercial reputation.
Anyway what else can make a come back after reinvention every 20 years? Well there is GNU/Linux/unix, flared trousers and even LISP for starters.
Python vs Smalltalk vs Java(unfree) in a cat fight. Java wins every time, more commercial developers is the killer measure.
Give the information to Google to improve searches before microsoft uses the contents of our microsoft windows PC (email and web browser) to beat google in the search game, see Stuff I've Seen .
1/Get into the marketing side of medicine and try to transfer from medical marketing (the more snake oil based the better) into the IT marketing game. Communication skills and low ethics are what are required.
or 2/Use medical domain knowledge to specify or introduce new computer systems.
Good luck, I did pre-med, Engineering degree and a Computer Science Masters, but that was when the market was on the up and up, 5-10 years ago. I am now working in a shrinking R&D sector.
Considering the daemons of globalisation: English, microsoft windows, linux, broadband and Chinese, my niche in Eastern Europe would be Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), as my programming skills become impaired with age, current technology trends will reach me sooner or later. DMCA may not. Ironic almost that English was forced on the Irish, that I may see fit to force it on some other johney foreigner.
In Belarus one must work or one gets reported to the authorities!
Transition is a pretty permanent mode of operation, if work is being sucked in one direction, and more work being created as more jobs become viable, maybe one can live on the plughole enabling work to be moved in either direction and having a solidarity between Indian, American and Irish programmers and not see individuals as a threat, and so be able to economically appraise what can, and should, be done in different places, and facilitate this flow.
Globalisation is fascilitated by: English, Chinese, windows, linux and broadband. These things are all world wide forces for commoditisation of information and software.
Maybe I have just married someone from Eastern Europe, so I can sell my expensive house and live comfortably off the proceeds elsewhere.
Saying there is one choice or another, can you not do both? Modify your skills wherever you go.
Another Mr. T who works 5 feet away and so could hammer out some more details before feeding/commiting to the on line machine. Though I ended up giving a seemingly off the cuff bunch of unstructured dialog.
I suppose there are many American neutrals who are doing work that used to be done in Silicon Valley, but work in fear of their jobs being pushed away from them geographically.
Is globalisation just decentralisation from an ideal that could never be trapped in one place, nomatter how people spouted on about network effects of proximity, as information/software becomes an online commodity?
Why not open your pc to being fixed by white hat viruses. Anti virus viruses seem to be held back by legal concerns, but these would deminish if the user explicitly invited anti virus virusus onto the system. Typically the system would be a single pc connected to the internet.
Let the white hat black hat battle rage on the net, like a bigger version of that simulated core wars game.
With java -There are mo buffer over runs or memory allocation issues, but then -There may be bugs in the java implementation. -Cleartext passwords would still be a problem if the app is not written with security in mind.
Deep problems do not go away, but java solves/automates the solution to many shallow problems.
To undercut redhat and suse, the labour intensive packaging and testing of linux on a commercial basis for the desktop would have to be based in a low wage economy, and I do not mean Germany.
Red flag linux, http://www.redflag-linux.com/eindex.html , to the rescue of linux on the desktop?
I think the terms investing, donating, product and service need to be investigated.
I make a capital investment for well defined future mostly monitory reward, I make a donation to improve the community, I buy a product or service for the use I get out of that product or service.
Some of these things overlap, but I tend not to buy product I do not need.
Inflating the cost of linux by buying Red hat products does not seem to be the way forward.
My computer at home and on my desk at work are not in the Enterprise class of critical support, and there are other distributions than red hat.
I am being hit by spam with payloads over 150K, which I assume to be viral attachments. The spam companies usually want to conserve bandwidth and have emails of size 3-4 k, could it be that the email list holders are themselves being hit by viruses which are then sending the viruses out to all the email addresses that are on their lists, or just that bandwidth is cheap even to spamers. Am I happy, that the spamers may be hit by viruses, or am I sad, that my email is being full of junk fast? decisions decisions.
Text: Have a 'useful' file for storing anything useful, it ended up largely full of quotes and sigs but is still searchable and 'useful'.
Email: Highlight email sent to me or my work group. Keep it all, acting on the emails requiring action immediately, and copy the best bits into a pending folder or personal which is periodically reviewed and put into 'silver' 'gold' or 'platnum' folders, so at least I review interesting email twice.
Bookmarks: Bookmark everything interesting and then periodicaly review it and put it into 'junk' or 'silver' bookmark folders, keep all bookmarks, do not read many, brose the 'silver' links if bored.
emacs wiki: used to store logs of work in progress and seperate entries prer project for old work progressed.
At least I get to make a decision or two about all the information comming in, there must be a better way though.
Slashdot Mirror
And then use the 101 glories of emacs,
.el files
multiple screens, shell buffers, getris,
web browser, doctor, oh and editing text.
I am not sure what the most worked on emacs extensions are, or where new ones sprout from,
maybe I should just look for new
between releases.
Maybe it is already perfect and complete.
Text to Speach is not so bad these days, sure it was there on the spectrum 1982, the Amiga (as part of the OS) 1987, now it is even usable in the fast as lightening, but fairly portable, Java arena...
Now if only there was TEXT on the web worth listening to.
Hopefully there are open source tools that I can get to know that will shift my computing skills up into a more profitable segment of the market, or maybe one that will be to the greater good.
I found a list of software used in http://bioinformatics.org/softwaremap/?form_cat=2 but I really need some insight from someone in the know what the top ten programs I can learn and be of use to more leaned users, such as writing scripts to get the damn things to work together fo example.
Just my 2 cent.
You need people with 10 years experience and you need people with 2 years experience. What seems to happen at the moment is that there are no new hires and the people at the bottom do not have promotion prospects because everyone is holding on to their job (or not ....), basically low moral all around.
:) ...
Software is a comunity thing, not an individual thing. Communism is not optional but required
I think there should be a code search engine set up so that javadocs can be enriched by seeing where the methods are called in code. How much can I take from studing GPL or BSD license code, or am I tainted by looking at it. And then there is ideas from magazines (and) web sites. If I actually did get around to doing coding it would be a quagmire. :)
Why not ensure against data loss, security laps and downtime, let the insurance company work out the odds based on your own best practices, and the programs involved. Say cheap insurance for apache, and FreeBSD, and higher insurance costs for linux , jboss and IIS.
Everyones a winner, it gives an objective measure of the liability of running open source or indeed any computer system.
It may even go full circle where the insurance company pays to improve the software to reduce its pay outs. Most likely end up as more greased palms of lawyers.
Just wondering if java has got its ugly head in somewhere in the kernel development release, maybe someone uses jedit perhaps, or even a JSP or servlet web site.
Maybe real kernel hackers do not use something that is half the speed of C but maybe the odd exception likes java.lang.Exceptions.
Offtopic but I just like to know where a 5 year java programmer might fit in besides maybe jakarta from apache.
There are free versions of smalltalk, maybe we all should be writing smalltalk libraries to mimic the best of the Java libraries, maybe even including the hateful Swing, and follow the one true smalltalk (www.squeak.org maybe).
I never did get around to learning smalltalk, only know it by its reputation, but it does not seem to have a commercial reputation.
Anyway what else can make a come back after reinvention every 20 years? Well there is GNU/Linux/unix, flared trousers and even LISP for starters.
Python vs Smalltalk vs Java(unfree) in a cat fight. Java wins every time, more commercial developers is the killer measure.
Karma - going down..
Only use the knocking sequence (call it a key) once. So that if someone is watching the network and try to repeat the key, the port will not open.
Give the information to Google to improve searches before microsoft uses the contents of our microsoft windows PC (email and web browser) to beat google in the search game, see Stuff I've Seen .
Or would MIT and apple complain?
How did Microsoft Windows get a trademark on Windows, is it that different to X Windows?
...and harder to move to India.
Either
1/Get into the marketing side of medicine and try to transfer from medical marketing (the more snake oil based the better) into the IT marketing game. Communication skills and low ethics are what are required.
or
2/Use medical domain knowledge to specify or introduce new computer systems.
Good luck, I did pre-med, Engineering degree and a Computer Science Masters, but that was when the market was on the up and up, 5-10 years ago. I am now working in a shrinking R&D sector.
PHB could be auto generated. That hits closer to home I think.
Considering the daemons of globalisation: English, microsoft windows, linux, broadband and Chinese, my niche in Eastern Europe would be Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), as my programming skills become impaired with age, current technology trends will reach me sooner or later. DMCA may not. Ironic almost that English was forced on the Irish, that I may see fit to force it on some other johney foreigner.
In Belarus one must work or one gets reported to the authorities!
Transition is a pretty permanent mode of operation, if work is being sucked in one direction, and more work being created as more jobs become viable, maybe one can live on the plughole enabling work to be moved in either direction and having a solidarity between Indian, American and Irish programmers and not see individuals as a threat, and so be able to economically appraise what can, and should, be done in different places, and facilitate this flow.
Globalisation is fascilitated by: English, Chinese, windows, linux and broadband. These things are all world wide forces for commoditisation of information and software.
Maybe I have just married someone from Eastern Europe, so I can sell my expensive house and live comfortably off the proceeds elsewhere.
Saying there is one choice or another, can you not do both? Modify your skills wherever you go.
Another Mr. T who works 5 feet away and so could hammer out some more details before feeding/commiting to the on line machine. Though I ended up giving a seemingly off the cuff bunch of unstructured dialog.
I suppose there are many American neutrals who are doing work that used to be done in Silicon Valley, but work in fear of their jobs being pushed away from them geographically.
Is globalisation just decentralisation from an ideal that could never be trapped in one place, nomatter how people spouted on about network effects of proximity, as information/software becomes an online commodity?
Friend or foe? Call me neutral.
Most of the readers and contributers see Offshore Outsourcing to much lower waged coutries a threat.
The Indian programmers in India are too busy working to read and write to this thread.
I am almost neutral as my job in Ireland relies on globalisation from the United States, but is at risk from the globalisation to India and China.
Why not open your pc to being fixed by white hat viruses. Anti virus viruses seem to be held back by legal concerns, but these would deminish if the user explicitly invited anti virus virusus onto the system. Typically the system would be a single pc connected to the internet.
Let the white hat black hat battle rage on the net, like a bigger version of that simulated core wars game.
I know slashdot is almost a java free zone but:
With java
-There are mo buffer over runs or memory allocation issues, but then
-There may be bugs in the java implementation. -Cleartext passwords would still be a problem if the app is not written with security in mind.
Deep problems do not go away, but java solves/automates the solution to many shallow problems.
To undercut redhat and suse, the labour intensive packaging and testing of linux on a commercial basis for the desktop would have to be based in a low wage economy, and I do not mean Germany.
Red flag linux, http://www.redflag-linux.com/eindex.html , to the rescue of linux on the desktop?
I think the terms investing, donating, product and service need to be investigated.
I make a capital investment for well defined future mostly monitory reward, I make a donation to improve the community, I buy a product or service for the use I get out of that product or service.
Some of these things overlap, but I tend not to buy product I do not need.
Inflating the cost of linux by buying Red hat products does not seem to be the way forward.
My computer at home and on my desk at work are not in the Enterprise class of critical support, and there are other distributions than red hat.
I suppose we should give up on ethical share holding and make modest donations to debian.
Is red flag linux quoted on the Chinese stock exchange? Surely that is where there is volume up side in support and mind share.
I had thought of investing in red hat 6 months ago but never got around to it.
Terrorist is a prejorative term:
'America is the biggest terrorist state or organisation', and I do not mean by size.
This statement while arguably true does not encourage inclusive debate in many circles.
I am being hit by spam with payloads over 150K, which I assume to be viral attachments. The spam companies usually want to conserve bandwidth and have emails of size 3-4 k, could it be that the email list holders are themselves being hit by viruses which are then sending the viruses out to all the email addresses that are on their lists, or just that bandwidth is cheap even to spamers. Am I happy, that the spamers may be hit by viruses, or am I sad, that my email is being full of junk fast? decisions decisions.
Storing Data:
Text: Have a 'useful' file for storing anything useful, it ended up largely full of quotes and sigs but is still searchable and 'useful'.
Email: Highlight email sent to me or my work group. Keep it all, acting on the emails requiring action immediately, and copy the best bits into a pending folder or personal which is periodically reviewed and put into 'silver' 'gold' or 'platnum' folders, so at least I review interesting email twice.
Bookmarks: Bookmark everything interesting and then periodicaly review it and put it into 'junk' or 'silver' bookmark folders, keep all bookmarks, do not read many, brose the 'silver' links if bored.
emacs wiki: used to store logs of work in progress and seperate entries prer project for old work progressed.
At least I get to make a decision or two about all the information comming in, there must be a better way though.