The game has to be good or no dice. I'll buy HL2, Doom3, DNF (if it ever comes out) and some other titles regardless of when they come out. I think the kids market is where the money is during x-mass.
I say, If a game can't stand on its own is it worth playing?
I had AT&T Broadband they sold this cable business to Comcast. I'm a Comcast customer so I'm a bit worried because I download a lot of anime and at 3 mb/s I eat that stuff up. I haven't received a letter from Comcast. You really can't get that kind of speed from DSL.
That is not entirely true of Sony. Sony works with IBM, Toshiba, and a whole lot of other companies to produce PS systems. The only difference between Sony and MS is that Sony has partners where as MS has contractors. There are subtle differences between these two. In a partnership everyone works for the good of the product because they have vested interest in its successes. While this might seem true of contract work, look closer and you will have the mess you have with MS and nVidia. MS is a control freak and there is no such thing as partnership with them. You are in essence their minion who is supposed to do what they damn well please or else.
If you get too close to MS you will either get bought out or get burned like Orange/Phone mess.
All I have to say is even with Windows you have dll hell! What works on win98 don't always work on win2k. Windows system is indeed a nightmare when it comes to getting your application to work on all flavors of it.
Huh? Are you talking about compiling or building a distribution package?
You have to use MSI build tool to package your application for windows platform now (safest and best method according to MS) and VS has a crappy packaging tool. And if you have ever used one of the commercial MSI build tools you know it is not easy. I must say though that Wise Installer is one of the best out there but its flexibility leaves much to be desired. Still, it is better than InstallShield but still pain in the ass if you want to do complex stuff.
Hate to tell you but quite a lot of ActiveX applications crash Mozilla. This is one of the main reason why my company doesn't even bother with Mozilla or Netscape.
You should qualify that statement...I have Media Player 7.0 and I'm fine with it. It keeps asking me to upgrade to Media Player 9 and I just keep saying No.
On the current project I'm working on I test on Mozilla 1.5 and then test on IE 5.5. IE has problems rending standard HTML but with minor tweaks the pages appear properly on both browsers.
100 gig was a number I picked because that is the current size of the DB I'm working with. The DB has the potential to grow to tens of terabytes if we sign up more customers.
PostgreSQL? come on man...like the other poster said....you'll be fired in no time if shit hits the fence. if PostgreSQL corrupts our data who get the blame? With Oracle, we'll just call Oracle and have them foot the bill for damage done.
The EE/Hardware market is in a lot worse shape then the CS/Development market. Hardware guys are out of work because everything is now being done is Korea, Taiwan, and the rest of the South East Asia countries.
I happen to know two EE people, one is changing careers and wants to become a dentist and the other is hopelessly looking for work.
Hay, better them then some idiot out of no where right? We all know the open source community can turn on you on a dime and I am sure IBM knows this. IBM will probably put the patent out on public domain and say something like "it's a gift to the open source community."
If Xerox had its way anything and everything that has to do with OCR would be theirs. Ideas and innovation don't appear out of thin air, they come from other ideas and innovations so why should exclusivity be granted?
I'm a software engineer and I'm really contemplating going to Law school to specialize in corporate law (IT sector) or IP law. The only thing that is in my way right now is cost!
If you really think about it, does one really need a M.S. in Computer Science or Software Engineering if you have been in the industry for 5 years?
With modern IDE (the beautiful Eclipse IDE) you don't have any of these problems. What you are referring to will always be caught by the compiler as well.
Time to look for a new job. I mean, if you can't point out flaws and are too scared to for your own job security then the environment your are will eventually collapse under its own weight so you might as well start looking.
It will take a lot of disk space for me to leave my current setup! Google is late to the game and people don't like to switch email addresses. Take AOL people for example...they only reason they stick with AOL is because of their email addresses.
Good luck to them I say, I know I won't be switching!
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Between you and your partners, who won and what weapons did the winner use?
The game has to be good or no dice.
I'll buy HL2, Doom3, DNF (if it ever comes out) and some other titles regardless of when they come out. I think the kids market is where the money is during x-mass.
I say, If a game can't stand on its own is it worth playing?
I had AT&T Broadband they sold this cable business to Comcast. I'm a Comcast customer so I'm a bit worried because I download a lot of anime and at 3 mb/s I eat that stuff up. I haven't received a letter from Comcast. You really can't get that kind of speed from DSL.
Yara Yara, this is troubling.
That is not entirely true of Sony. Sony works with IBM, Toshiba, and a whole lot of other companies to produce PS systems. The only difference between Sony and MS is that Sony has partners where as MS has contractors. There are subtle differences between these two. In a partnership everyone works for the good of the product because they have vested interest in its successes. While this might seem true of contract work, look closer and you will have the mess you have with MS and nVidia. MS is a control freak and there is no such thing as partnership with them. You are in essence their minion who is supposed to do what they damn well please or else.
If you get too close to MS you will either get bought out or get burned like Orange/Phone mess.
All I have to say is even with Windows you have dll hell! What works on win98 don't always work on win2k. Windows system is indeed a nightmare when it comes to getting your application to work on all flavors of it.
Huh? Are you talking about compiling or building a distribution package?
You have to use MSI build tool to package your application for windows platform now (safest and best method according to MS) and VS has a crappy packaging tool. And if you have ever used one of the commercial MSI build tools you know it is not easy. I must say though that Wise Installer is one of the best out there but its flexibility leaves much to be desired. Still, it is better than InstallShield but still pain in the ass if you want to do complex stuff.
Hate to tell you but quite a lot of ActiveX applications crash Mozilla. This is one of the main reason why my company doesn't even bother with Mozilla or Netscape.
excellent post....very informative.
You should qualify that statement...I have Media Player 7.0 and I'm fine with it. It keeps asking me to upgrade to Media Player 9 and I just keep saying No.
On the current project I'm working on I test on Mozilla 1.5 and then test on IE 5.5. IE has problems rending standard HTML but with minor tweaks the pages appear properly on both browsers.
This works for me!
100 gig was a number I picked because that is the current size of the DB I'm working with. The DB has the potential to grow to tens of terabytes if we sign up more customers.
PostgreSQL? come on man...like the other poster said....you'll be fired in no time if shit hits the fence. if PostgreSQL corrupts our data who get the blame? With Oracle, we'll just call Oracle and have them foot the bill for damage done.
IDE drives? lol.
500 MB? lol.
How would your setup handel 100 gig of data?
The EE/Hardware market is in a lot worse shape then the CS/Development market. Hardware guys are out of work because everything is now being done is Korea, Taiwan, and the rest of the South East Asia countries.
I happen to know two EE people, one is changing careers and wants to become a dentist and the other is hopelessly looking for work.
It's not a flowchart, it's a pyramid scheme!
Those at the top get most of the money.
Hay, better them then some idiot out of no where right? We all know the open source community can turn on you on a dime and I am sure IBM knows this. IBM will probably put the patent out on public domain and say something like "it's a gift to the open source community."
If Xerox had its way anything and everything that has to do with OCR would be theirs. Ideas and innovation don't appear out of thin air, they come from other ideas and innovations so why should exclusivity be granted?
for real...google is like crack, one wiff/sniff of it and you are hooked. I can't honestly be productive at work without using google.
I'm afraid it is too late Bill...good luck.
I think it is saying if you sue you can't use any patented work in an Apache project.
I'm a software engineer and I'm really contemplating going to Law school to specialize in corporate law (IT sector) or IP law. The only thing that is in my way right now is cost!
If you really think about it, does one really need a M.S. in Computer Science or Software Engineering if you have been in the industry for 5 years?
With modern IDE (the beautiful Eclipse IDE) you don't have any of these problems. What you are referring to will always be caught by the compiler as well.
Case sensitivity helps with naming convention. Static variables are always capitalized. Plus it doesn't hurt having them so why not?
The idea of eliminating case sensitivity seems appealing until you need it.
Clinton and the Definition of sex. Is oral sex really sex?
My OLD VCR has a scroll wheel! So does OLD my stereo.
Time to look for a new job. I mean, if you can't point out flaws and are too scared to for your own job security then the environment your are will eventually collapse under its own weight so you might as well start looking.
It will take a lot of disk space for me to leave my current setup! Google is late to the game and people don't like to switch email addresses. Take AOL people for example...they only reason they stick with AOL is because of their email addresses.
Good luck to them I say, I know I won't be switching!