I have to agree. Journalists seem to be experts in, well, nothing.
The worst are those writing about "Hi-Tech" (their term, not mine) as if they completely understand it. These guys were a pain in the butt both before and after Y2K. First they hyped it out of proportion and then, when all of our work paid off, they tried to deride the entire thing.
Maybe a computer professional should be writing this stuff
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Don't wait for any Open Source stuff from Corel in the near future. They have enough problems just staying afloat.
Of the three main Ottawa, Canada vendors, only Cognos seems to be getting by. The other company is Nortel and it seems to be a shadow of it's pre-1998 self.
On the non-compete thing, in the Canadian Pubic Service, you have to sign-off your rights to the stuff you write as a software developer - to the Receiver General Of Canada. We also have lots of clauses related to conflict-of-interest.
Glad no one has done this to the US Fed. IT people (yet). Your right about the lower pay.
Hi,
There was a lot of hype before the Phantom Menance movie - it was supposed to be the killer movie of that year. It brought in alot of money *because* everyone expected to be blown away.
I'm not against Star Wars per se; just observing that the positive hype for the Spiderman movie might be seen to diminish potential boxoffice sales for the "Clones" SW movie and how timely it is to release a "Clones" article just before the release of both movies
It is interesting this is posted about 2 weeks before the next Star Wars movie. I guess it is to remind us about it. Most people - scf-fi fans and otherwise - are looking forward to the Spiderman movie (recent trailer had him swooping just over a bunch of yellow cabs in NY; very good.) Besides Spiderman, most people interested in ci-Fi are waiting for the second Lord of The Rings movie. I grew up with Star Wars (was 12 when the first movie came out.) but I don't see the interest anymore. I think more people are waiting for the next X-Men movie than a SW movie in which we know that Anakin gets involved with Queen whats-her-name and starts becoming Darth Vader. Lucus probably went with his alledged last 3 movies of the series set 100-200 years after ROTJ. Right now, he has no room to move.
So, I can turn my brain off and everytime something happens that I don't understand, there is always going to be an egg-head able to tell me which way is up?
The last thing I need is to have more of these wannabe programmers with their 9 month courses who all think it is so easy and insist on telling me how to do my job.
No Problem.
Keep with your Microsoft stuff if it works for your shop.
What do you mean when you say "it had uptimes that were as poor as slashdots"? Do you have trouble accessing Slashdot? Personally, Slashdot is one of the few websites I can always access because they already know how to handle alot of traffic. I've learned that the "slashdot effect" is when a news article is posted here and everyone tries to read it via the link in the article. If Slashdot was as flaky as you imply, there would not be such an effect on other, more robust, websites.
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I have to agree. Journalists seem to be experts in, well, nothing.
The worst are those writing about "Hi-Tech" (their term, not mine) as if they completely understand it. These guys were a pain in the butt both before and after Y2K. First they hyped it out of proportion and then, when all of our work paid off, they tried to deride the entire thing.
Maybe a computer professional should be writing this stuff
Don't wait for any Open Source stuff from Corel in the near future. They have enough problems just staying afloat.
Of the three main Ottawa, Canada vendors, only Cognos seems to be getting by. The other company is Nortel and it seems to be a shadow of it's pre-1998 self.
On the non-compete thing, in the Canadian Pubic Service, you have to sign-off your rights to the stuff you write as a software developer - to the Receiver General Of Canada. We also have lots of clauses related to conflict-of-interest.
Glad no one has done this to the US Fed. IT people (yet). Your right about the lower pay.
Hi, There was a lot of hype before the Phantom Menance movie - it was supposed to be the killer movie of that year. It brought in alot of money *because* everyone expected to be blown away. I'm not against Star Wars per se; just observing that the positive hype for the Spiderman movie might be seen to diminish potential boxoffice sales for the "Clones" SW movie and how timely it is to release a "Clones" article just before the release of both movies
...hmmm. maybe version 3? I'll see, maybe it will be supported by someone by then.
...I think I'll wait for Version 2. I've had troubles with V1.0 stuff
It is interesting this is posted about 2 weeks before the next Star Wars movie. I guess it is to remind us about it. Most people - scf-fi fans and otherwise - are looking forward to the Spiderman movie (recent trailer had him swooping just over a bunch of yellow cabs in NY; very good.) Besides Spiderman, most people interested in ci-Fi are waiting for the second Lord of The Rings movie. I grew up with Star Wars (was 12 when the first movie came out.) but I don't see the interest anymore. I think more people are waiting for the next X-Men movie than a SW movie in which we know that Anakin gets involved with Queen whats-her-name and starts becoming Darth Vader. Lucus probably went with his alledged last 3 movies of the series set 100-200 years after ROTJ. Right now, he has no room to move.
Are we talking about no links to their "special" site or some sort of licencing scheme to add such a link.
Sounds like someone wants to make some money.
So, I can turn my brain off and everytime something happens that I don't understand, there is always going to be an egg-head able to tell me which way is up? The last thing I need is to have more of these wannabe programmers with their 9 month courses who all think it is so easy and insist on telling me how to do my job.
No Problem.
Keep with your Microsoft stuff if it works for your shop.
What do you mean when you say "it had uptimes that were as poor as slashdots"? Do you have trouble accessing Slashdot? Personally, Slashdot is one of the few websites I can always access because they already know how to handle alot of traffic. I've learned that the "slashdot effect" is when a news article is posted here and everyone tries to read it via the link in the article. If Slashdot was as flaky as you imply, there would not be such an effect on other, more robust, websites.
Then again, maybe your just a troll.