this phenomenon has far less to do with education, and far more to do with the destruction of family as a concept.
And which concept is that? The concept of chattel property that defined the family until recently ? The concept of breeding yourself a labour force for your farm ? "Family values" conservatives are incredibly myopic about what's traditionally defined "family".
What we've ultimately lost is the concept that a person can be owned in some capacity by another person, and with that for better or worse goes the concept of the traditional hierarchical family and the definition of marriage as an ownership relationship in favour of a contractual but I believe that it's principally a positive direction.
The trick is to work for a company that's gigantic, and has a workforce all over the place. Then get yourself inserted in to the most international team you can find there. Some team that works on a disproportionately foreign open-source project for instance ( like KDE, or for that matter just Linux ). Then you need to do a bit of extra work to warrant your being sent places ( write papers for conferences, etc )
Technical marketing is another mostly-technical field that involves a lot of international travel ( though you'll find you spend an inordinate amount of time in SFBay ) since you need to keep your ear on the buzz of the industry and make sure your company has a showing at various trade shows.
If international travel is high on your list of job satisfaction goals, you can achieve it. You may need to do extra work or take a bit of a salary cut to get it, but you can do it.
It's about time we make some room for real US citizens. There's nothing special about the foreigners. We can make more.
I'm a foreigner ( or rather, I'm not an American... I'm not a foreigner here because I'm in my home country ), and I have a job working for a US corporation. The plan was to bring me to the US to work, which would mean spending my money in US businesses, paying US taxes, and just generally propping up the US economy.
What actually happened was the hoops were such a pain in the ass, that I work for the same company, the same pay, the same job, except all the ( previously inside America ) money that I make goes to propping up foreign business, paying foreign taxes, etc.
My entire salary is now removed from the USA, and you guys ( Americans ) don't get to see a cent of it back except for the odd purchase I make of a US built or designed product.
No, socialism would be having the government demand that programmers write software for the greater good or be jailed.
No, that's a caricature of Evil Red Communism.
if it's FOSS, that just means it isn't exclusive. That doesn't make it any less capitalistic or free market.
It precisely makes it less capitalist. "From each according to ability to each according to need"
The problem is the knee-jerk reaction to the word "socialism". Nobody wants to accept that maybe some aspects of socialism aren't all that bad. Similarly not all of capitalism is all that bad ( or all that good either ). The most healthy systems employ elements from both
Hobbes had his "nasty, brutish, and short" predictions for mankind in Leviathan
Woah there... as a philosophy geek that's done entire courses on Leviathan alone, I can say definitively that you are way out of left field with that one. Hobbes predicted nothing of the sort no matter how you interpret it. The "nasty, brutish, and short" comment was about man devoid of any form of governance such as the literary scenario he laid out for the condition of man in the past.
A horrible misrepresentation of a text like that'll garner you a C- at best by anyone who has actually read the book
So we always talk about how companies should open source software that is no longer being maintained or sold... then when a company actually does it, we say "who cares".
How are a bunch of dead high genetic risk individuals costly to society?
If one is predisposed to Parkinsons or something, which wouldn't manifest itself until late middle age, a car accident ( as early 20 year olds are prone to ) could make the difference between a successful multi-billion dollar CEO of something that benefits society ( who later dies of parkinsons ) and a bankrupt service sector wage slave ( who later dies of parkinsons )
C++ is a sticking point. GCC doesn't follow the Solaris C++ ABI so either legacy C++ support would have to be dropped (which would be really stupid), or patches would have to be made to GCC to follow the standard, which GCC upstream will reject.
And RedHat just represents *ONE* Linux company. There are many out there. IBM and Oracle both support Linux. Linux has a much larger commercial support base than does Solaris or OpenSolaris.
And if you've ever had the misfortune of hitting up RedHat for that support, you'd understand the value of having one "buck stops here" company like Sun to call rather than your problem being chalked up to "unsupported kernel bugs"
It actually makes you less free, since the modifications you write have to be under the GPL. More free licenses like the mozilla/apache style allow you to both receive the code, but don't force you as a developer to choose a license you may not agree with as a condition of linking against it.
The problem isn't the GPL makes you share the GPL'ed code, that's pretty acceptable; The problem is the GPL makes you share your code too, and not any way you'd like either: your only option is to GPL your code too.
There's a reason FreeBSD has ZFS and not any code from Linux and that's because to even make a module out of Linux code, all of FreeBSD would have to go GPL. Sun's CDDL doesn't make them relicense the whole project. Meanwhile if a closed source OS used ZFS they still have to share the code in question and any modifications on request
Take on some volunteer work at a local charity of some sort as the IT guy, work your way up the volunteer chain until they start paying you for it.
I do have a colleague whose first job was right out of highschool at a local AIDS charity, ended up in the regional office for a while, now he works at some hosting firm for pretty decent money
If it was any sort of priority for Sun, that project would have actually gotten somewhere after three and a half years.
Alternate assessment, Sun may not legally be able to rewrite them, depending on the terms of whatever licensing agreement keeps those bits closed
I wouldn't be surprised to see Sun try to sue people for distributing the binary bits later on down the road if they ever reach a point of financial desperation
Immediately and rapidly accelerating the pace at which the binary bits are rewritten.
When I worked for a chain coffee joint, We arrived to our shift, punched in, and we were paid. If we opened, we got there at 4:30am and started getting paid, even though we opened at 5 and the first 10 or 15 mins of the shift involved dumping hot water out of urns and staring in to space trying to figure out where we were and why the clock had such a low number on it. Closing, we kicked everyone out at 11, and locked the doors. Then we cleaned until 11:45 when we stopped getting paid. If anything was left to be done, we left a note, and went home.
This ought to be pretty typical even ( especially ) of shitty low-wage jobs. Now I work salary so I roll in when I feel like it, go home when I feel like it, if I feel like working a 4 day x 9 hour week I can, and so long as my assigned tasks get done I continue to get paid.
If your situation resembles neither of these either you're on the dole, or you're getting screwed by your employer and should file a complaint or unionize.
Don't let your boss fuck you, that's anti-capitalist. Fuck back.
"4) eh... well, just about the same reason why I don't have any Windows applications running on Linux? Just seems senseless to run 32 bit apps in a 64 bit environment!"
why waste the ram and memory bandwidth on a 64 bit app if you don't need it?
"5) 64 Bit applications also run faster as they can depend on thinks like SSE to be implemented on ALL 64 bit processors."
They can also be slower because you have to push twice as much info across the bus. 64-bit on x86 is occasionally faster. On other architectures it's almost always slower.
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I dread the day when the immigrants realise they don't need to speak English any more
So learn another language and get a leg-up on the competition. Life is capitalism in slow motion, if you can't compete you fail.
this phenomenon has far less to do with education, and far more to do with the destruction of family as a concept.
And which concept is that? The concept of chattel property that defined the family until recently ? The concept of breeding yourself a labour force for your farm ? "Family values" conservatives are incredibly myopic about what's traditionally defined "family".
What we've ultimately lost is the concept that a person can be owned in some capacity by another person, and with that for better or worse goes the concept of the traditional hierarchical family and the definition of marriage as an ownership relationship in favour of a contractual but I believe that it's principally a positive direction.
I get sent internationally once a year or so.
The trick is to work for a company that's gigantic, and has a workforce all over the place. Then get yourself inserted in to the most international team you can find there. Some team that works on a disproportionately foreign open-source project for instance ( like KDE, or for that matter just Linux ). Then you need to do a bit of extra work to warrant your being sent places ( write papers for conferences, etc )
Technical marketing is another mostly-technical field that involves a lot of international travel ( though you'll find you spend an inordinate amount of time in SFBay ) since you need to keep your ear on the buzz of the industry and make sure your company has a showing at various trade shows.
If international travel is high on your list of job satisfaction goals, you can achieve it. You may need to do extra work or take a bit of a salary cut to get it, but you can do it.
It's about time we make some room for real US citizens. There's nothing special about the foreigners. We can make more.
I'm a foreigner ( or rather, I'm not an American... I'm not a foreigner here because I'm in my home country ), and I have a job working for a US corporation. The plan was to bring me to the US to work, which would mean spending my money in US businesses, paying US taxes, and just generally propping up the US economy.
What actually happened was the hoops were such a pain in the ass, that I work for the same company, the same pay, the same job, except all the ( previously inside America ) money that I make goes to propping up foreign business, paying foreign taxes, etc.
My entire salary is now removed from the USA, and you guys ( Americans ) don't get to see a cent of it back except for the odd purchase I make of a US built or designed product.
No, socialism would be having the government demand that programmers write software for the greater good or be jailed.
No, that's a caricature of Evil Red Communism.
if it's FOSS, that just means it isn't exclusive. That doesn't make it any less capitalistic or free market.
It precisely makes it less capitalist. "From each according to ability to each according to need"
The problem is the knee-jerk reaction to the word "socialism". Nobody wants to accept that maybe some aspects of socialism aren't all that bad. Similarly not all of capitalism is all that bad ( or all that good either ). The most healthy systems employ elements from both
Hobbes had his "nasty, brutish, and short" predictions for mankind in Leviathan
Woah there... as a philosophy geek that's done entire courses on Leviathan alone, I can say definitively that you are way out of left field with that one. Hobbes predicted nothing of the sort no matter how you interpret it. The "nasty, brutish, and short" comment was about man devoid of any form of governance such as the literary scenario he laid out for the condition of man in the past.
A horrible misrepresentation of a text like that'll garner you a C- at best by anyone who has actually read the book
So we always talk about how companies should open source software that is no longer being maintained or sold... then when a company actually does it, we say "who cares".
THIS.
How are a bunch of dead high genetic risk individuals costly to society?
If one is predisposed to Parkinsons or something, which wouldn't manifest itself until late middle age, a car accident ( as early 20 year olds are prone to ) could make the difference between a successful multi-billion dollar CEO of something that benefits society ( who later dies of parkinsons ) and a bankrupt service sector wage slave ( who later dies of parkinsons )
For web stuff it's not bad.
Memory hungry, but faster than any of the other web frameworks/languages by a long shot
Why not deploy your app on JRuby, and if there are still performance bottlenecks, write those parts in real Java ?
Doesn't Amazon deal mostly in credit cards ( id est consumer credit ) ?
Doesn't that mean we'll all be fucked when the bills start to roll in and people default on them?
or the difference between kantianism and utilitarianism
s/kantianism/deontology
/philosophy geek
C++ is a sticking point. GCC doesn't follow the Solaris C++ ABI so either legacy C++ support would have to be dropped (which would be really stupid), or patches would have to be made to GCC to follow the standard, which GCC upstream will reject.
And RedHat just represents *ONE* Linux company. There are many out there. IBM and Oracle both support Linux. Linux has a much larger commercial support base than does Solaris or OpenSolaris.
And if you've ever had the misfortune of hitting up RedHat for that support, you'd understand the value of having one "buck stops here" company like Sun to call rather than your problem being chalked up to "unsupported kernel bugs"
FUD.
see: RBAC for security, see: SMP benchmarks for performance. If hardware support is your metric for quality, see: Windows.
It actually makes you less free, since the modifications you write have to be under the GPL. More free licenses like the mozilla/apache style allow you to both receive the code, but don't force you as a developer to choose a license you may not agree with as a condition of linking against it.
The problem isn't the GPL makes you share the GPL'ed code, that's pretty acceptable; The problem is the GPL makes you share your code too, and not any way you'd like either: your only option is to GPL your code too.
There's a reason FreeBSD has ZFS and not any code from Linux and that's because to even make a module out of Linux code, all of FreeBSD would have to go GPL. Sun's CDDL doesn't make them relicense the whole project. Meanwhile if a closed source OS used ZFS they still have to share the code in question and any modifications on request
Take on some volunteer work at a local charity of some sort as the IT guy, work your way up the volunteer chain until they start paying you for it.
I do have a colleague whose first job was right out of highschool at a local AIDS charity, ended up in the regional office for a while, now he works at some hosting firm for pretty decent money
Neither Linus nor Richard are happy.
Sounds like the reason enough to do it. Shut some loudmouths up
If it was any sort of priority for Sun, that project would have actually gotten somewhere after three and a half years.
Alternate assessment, Sun may not legally be able to rewrite them, depending on the terms of whatever licensing agreement keeps those bits closed
I wouldn't be surprised to see Sun try to sue people for distributing the binary bits later on down the road if they ever reach a point of financial desperation
Immediately and rapidly accelerating the pace at which the binary bits are rewritten.
So come help rewrite them.
Thus is the power of open source. If you don't like something, change it
only SPARC 64 is supported, 32 bit SPARC was dropped from any Solaris support with the release of S10.
as for the x86 port, it is both, you don't need a separate distro for 64 bit support because of isaexec and a smart kernel
By pointing out the older versions on Slashdot, odds are good that Apple will demand they purge the pages from the database.
Good job, timothy.
When I worked for a chain coffee joint, We arrived to our shift, punched in, and we were paid. If we opened, we got there at 4:30am and started getting paid, even though we opened at 5 and the first 10 or 15 mins of the shift involved dumping hot water out of urns and staring in to space trying to figure out where we were and why the clock had such a low number on it. Closing, we kicked everyone out at 11, and locked the doors. Then we cleaned until 11:45 when we stopped getting paid. If anything was left to be done, we left a note, and went home.
This ought to be pretty typical even ( especially ) of shitty low-wage jobs. Now I work salary so I roll in when I feel like it, go home when I feel like it, if I feel like working a 4 day x 9 hour week I can, and so long as my assigned tasks get done I continue to get paid.
If your situation resembles neither of these either you're on the dole, or you're getting screwed by your employer and should file a complaint or unionize.
Don't let your boss fuck you, that's anti-capitalist. Fuck back.
"I keep hoping that someone will come up with a better replacement, but CIFS/SMB will continue to work until that day comes."
Like NFS ?
"4) eh... well, just about the same reason why I don't have any Windows applications running on Linux? Just seems senseless to run 32 bit apps in a 64 bit environment!"
why waste the ram and memory bandwidth on a 64 bit app if you don't need it?
"5) 64 Bit applications also run faster as they can depend on thinks like SSE to be implemented on ALL 64 bit processors."
They can also be slower because you have to push twice as much info across the bus. 64-bit on x86 is occasionally faster. On other architectures it's almost always slower.