Both Barabasi's Linked and Duncan Watt's Six Degrees have interesting stories about how small failures can snowball into large failure like this one apparently is.
Of course, here in the midwest I'm sure everthing will be just fi
I wish I had posted sooner, my observations seem a little under-represented.
I find great irony in Egypt being the one to ban The Matrix Reloaded. Many of you are aware of Gnostic themes in the Matrix, what some may not know is that it appears that stories of the Egyptian godman Dionysus factored heavily into Gnosticism.
After Alexander the Great's successes, he decided to create the greatest city in the world as Alexandria in Egypt. After his death, Ptolemy was determined to also make Alexandria the intellectual capital of the world. The Library of Alexandria contained, by some accounts, the sum of the world's knowledge at that point. It held important works by the greek mathematicians; notably the Pythagorean Brotherhood, Diophantus' Arithmetica and Euclid's Elements. It also held many early philosophic and gnostic works.
Of course, first Julius Caeser, then Christians and finally Muslims took turns at destroying the Library, and with it probably nearly a thousand years worth of Math. All in time, coincidentally, for the Dark Ages.
Yeah pretty boring stuff. I'd rather see Carrie Anne Moss in Latex, huh. Regardless of why you like the Matrix, or what you believe, when seen through a historical context, there is irony to this story.
The logical next step is to make the move from coding to architecture. It takes nearly a decade to go from being able to code in a computer language to being able to fully understand and accurately model business processes in a computer language.
Modeling in an open way using tools like UML and ORM are important. Also, the choice between when to use a component and when to roll your own. When to loosely-couple, when to not.
As web services come together, new opportunities in choreography and workflow are going to be big. Messaging will continue to be important. Finally, keeping up with the 'buzz', reading up on AOP and SOA.
My point of all this is that outsourcing doesn't have to mean lost jobs. It means adapting to the new global market. Of course, if you're thinking that architecture is boring and what you really want to do is code, then that's fine too. Just know that you are going to be competing in a very price sensitive world.
I decided to heap a couple things together to consolidate the abuse.
Command Line: I'm not stupid enough to try to sell Windows as modular. However, I've worked with XP Embedded before and the entire OS is broken up into 10,000 components that can be used to build a custom configuration. Albeit a sizable portion of those components are drivers, and you do find dependancies that are counterintuitive. The point being that Windows does not have to have the bloated Explorer shell, Outlook Express and MSN Explorer. WinPE, used by OEMs and large corps for deployment, etc.. ships without a graphical shell. Of course they could ship a command line only version. The only question is would they, that I don't know.
Crashing - BSOD My Windows 95 machine use to crash - plenty. My Windows 2000 Server machine does not. News at 11.
Also in news: This is nitpicking but the two security issues linked are not related to Windows 2003 Server. They are for clients produced by Microsoft yes, but I think the intent was to join security issues with the new Windows OS by inference.
I have no way of knowing if you really know what you are talking about, but the process that you are describing sounds an awful lot like the MSA EDC Automated Purposing Framework, found here.
This process uses WinPE (Windows Preinstallation Environment). A bootable 32-bit subset of Windows XP to aid in enterprise deployments. WinCE is not the same as WinPE.
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It's difficult to advise without details of intended use, but generally I think it through like this:
Both Barabasi's Linked and Duncan Watt's Six Degrees have interesting stories about how small failures can snowball into large failure like this one apparently is.
Of course, here in the midwest I'm sure everthing will be just fi
His story is told in one of the Animatrix shorts. The DVD is worth checking out.
I wish I had posted sooner, my observations seem a little under-represented.
I find great irony in Egypt being the one to ban The Matrix Reloaded. Many of you are aware of Gnostic themes in the Matrix, what some may not know is that it appears that stories of the Egyptian godman Dionysus factored heavily into Gnosticism.
After Alexander the Great's successes, he decided to create the greatest city in the world as Alexandria in Egypt. After his death, Ptolemy was determined to also make Alexandria the intellectual capital of the world. The Library of Alexandria contained, by some accounts, the sum of the world's knowledge at that point. It held important works by the greek mathematicians; notably the Pythagorean Brotherhood, Diophantus' Arithmetica and Euclid's Elements. It also held many early philosophic and gnostic works.
Of course, first Julius Caeser, then Christians and finally Muslims took turns at destroying the Library, and with it probably nearly a thousand years worth of Math. All in time, coincidentally, for the Dark Ages.
Yeah pretty boring stuff. I'd rather see Carrie Anne Moss in Latex, huh. Regardless of why you like the Matrix, or what you believe, when seen through a historical context, there is irony to this story.
The logical next step is to make the move from coding to architecture. It takes nearly a decade to go from being able to code in a computer language to being able to fully understand and accurately model business processes in a computer language.
Modeling in an open way using tools like UML and ORM are important. Also, the choice between when to use a component and when to roll your own. When to loosely-couple, when to not.
As web services come together, new opportunities in choreography and workflow are going to be big. Messaging will continue to be important. Finally, keeping up with the 'buzz', reading up on AOP and SOA.
My point of all this is that outsourcing doesn't have to mean lost jobs. It means adapting to the new global market. Of course, if you're thinking that architecture is boring and what you really want to do is code, then that's fine too. Just know that you are going to be competing in a very price sensitive world.
The systems involve a digital video camera and reusable hard drives which police officers will take with them on their shifts
Where can I get one of these new-fangled reusable hard drives? Image a Beowulf...
I decided to heap a couple things together to consolidate the abuse.
Command Line: I'm not stupid enough to try to sell Windows as modular. However, I've worked with XP Embedded before and the entire OS is broken up into 10,000 components that can be used to build a custom configuration. Albeit a sizable portion of those components are drivers, and you do find dependancies that are counterintuitive. The point being that Windows does not have to have the bloated Explorer shell, Outlook Express and MSN Explorer. WinPE, used by OEMs and large corps for deployment, etc.. ships without a graphical shell. Of course they could ship a command line only version. The only question is would they, that I don't know.
Crashing - BSOD My Windows 95 machine use to crash - plenty. My Windows 2000 Server machine does not. News at 11.
Also in news: This is nitpicking but the two security issues linked are not related to Windows 2003 Server. They are for clients produced by Microsoft yes, but I think the intent was to join security issues with the new Windows OS by inference.
I have no way of knowing if you really know what you are talking about, but the process that you are describing sounds an awful lot like the MSA EDC Automated Purposing Framework, found here.
This process uses WinPE (Windows Preinstallation Environment). A bootable 32-bit subset of Windows XP to aid in enterprise deployments. WinCE is not the same as WinPE.