With OS X came a bundling of MySQL, and CTOs (Chief Technology Officers) across the country [...] PostreSQL
WTF.... Apple is bundling CTOs with OSX! That has to be far more counterproductive than just IE. I know my CTO has crashed more puters than all of redmond.
Who the hell is "Monty"? If you're gonna name drop, at least drop a name of somebody famous. And, what exactly is in this miraculous email that's not in the article?
If your going to insult someone for dropping meaningless names on an issue, perhaps you should know the issue.
That said, I will inform you as though you had politely asked. Monty Widenius is (not sure which) either THE creator of MySql or ONE OF the creators of MySql. That would be Monty.
Actually, I think a lot of people are mad *because* we intervene too much. We do political jiggering in the Middle East (keeping non-Democratic governments in power in the process) just so we can have oil.
This is a very common American mindset,"If we are not isolationists, then we must be interventionists". We need to realize that their is more than a right and a left there is a middle ground. As someone who lived in foreign countries I will tell you that yes intervention was scorned but aid was not. Aid can influence when it is not forced to, Also, there are other forms of involvement. Were we "just minding our business" by not attending any of the major environmental treaties of late? Would the world have seen us as "intervening too much" to sign on in Tokyo? We need to take a role in stewardship of the international environment (seas, polar landscapes etc....) and stop only influencing what directly influences Wall Street. That is really partly what your point was, I just wanted to add mine to it.
I choose Maximum Liberty. Please draw the line there.
As a former paratrooper I thank you kindly. Many americans (military and civilian) traded their safety and even their lives for our continued freedom. The war on terrorism promotes the heroism of cowardice "I boldly tell the FBI what my neighbor says in confidence....because I am scared of the roughly couple dozen Al Qaeda reps that the President says MIGHT be in our country." That is a sad, sad statement.
Ie the rest of the world is unsafe and the USA has liberty.
Isolationism will bring even less security. We begin to ignore what other countries are doing etc.... They have a larger excuse for their hatred and a larger window of opportunity to plan things unnnoticed.
Despite the rhetoric from both sides, liberty and security are not mutually exclusive.
Realistically, no you can't. If someone else is free to do things about which you have no knowledge, the government has no control etc.... Then you are not truly safe. If someone else can not do that you are not really free. Either way the terrorists have us for the momen.
But there won't be any environmentally safe process anytime in the near future.
That's not hardly fair. We have a newly structured govt. in the US that is pushing hard for greener processes. They will cut taxes for big industry, relax emission standards etc...all so our children can have a greener environment to grow up in. Of course green is the color of more than grass.
Developer
A non-manager. In this survey, a disjoint category from "IT Pro'. Therefore, it probably means anybody with a technical clue.
Anyone who refers to a developer as 'someone who has a clue' couldn't possibly work for a software company, therefore the document must be fake:-)
I am sure this will lead to more sales, because everyone knows when you spit in the customers eye and take away their ability to do that which they did before, they always reward you for it.
In the case of entertainment and technology, the sarcasm of your comment is lost to the truth of your comment. How many times have we seen Microsoft TELL their customers how to modify their buying habits. 90% of the technology consumer crowd are led like lambs to the slaughter. Unifrtunately, those of us in the know tend to post our objections in rooms full of people also in the know leaving those 90% to support the thugs we protest.:-(
This is immoral. You can't just rent-a-law because your overpriced technology is being smashed by a preferrable alternative.
I can not decide if my answer is ontopic or not as it is political. However, the reason "rent a laws" happen (in this country at least)is that big industry makes big contributions to political parties and candidates. When this is regulated things will be different. For example, if it were capped at 1,000 dollar contribution then the sierra club would be as influential as Exxon. So, if you think it is immoral to have rent a law going on, then you need to think about that issue as you VOTE!
The preceeding applies to all parties and is not meant as a partisan post.
Or alternately, "Aren't you third-world-ish enough already without this kind of crap?"
Right now the world is experimenting with VoIP because POTS is too expensive. What happens to Panama when the experiment is over and the US etc...have fancy servers converting VoIP to POTS signals to talk to these people (while levying huge surcharges)?
Accelerating this way, Howe's vessel could reach a speed of 260,000 mph
Faster than light!
Probably redundant by now, but no. Go back to your physical science teacher or first grade teacher as it seems maybe you are confusing hours and seconds (there's a difference, trust me)
Remember Windows? You know, there are a lot of slashdotters that simply aren't old enough to remember the C-64. Around here you might as well say "Remember the PDP-7?" I mean, geez, you could at least use an example people can relate to!
Well, if you mention windows or Linux you have stuck yourself in one group and joined an ideological argument as far as most are concerned. Also, fwiw, I have never met any serious computer enthusiast who did not know what C 64 was.
The current Linux programming wisdom comes from Richard Stevens, a know-nothing hack who spends more time talking about the out-dated concept of filesystem permissions and socket programming than he spends on GUI design! I mean, for crying out loud, Dick, this is the Aughts! We "aught" to be optimizing for the user experience, not ivory tower "engineering principles"!
Linux programs are by and large written in c and c++. These require very little UNIX knowledge as Linux is built for portability. The "current Linux programming wisdom" comes from a variety of places not from one place. I learned C on my one and what I know of OS design I learned from Tanenbaum. "Engineering principles" can be used while designing for user experience, if they are not the end result is an OS that crashes when a program errors out (remember Commodore 64?).
I hope it'll wean me off my years of windows programming and step up into the majors...
I'll bite, so why do you feel that years of Windows programming has left you in the minor leagues? I would think your league is somewhat indicated by pay check and years of windows development should pay nicely.
PHP is to immature. Basic has been around forever. So I offer the first line of code:
10 rem *** Basic Linux kernel Implementation ***
Forseeable problems are many but the biggest is:
A) Basic needs an interpreter
B) Interpreter needs an OS
C) OS written on Basic might be tricky
I hate how uninformed people (I'm not saying you are, but you are certainly propagating the myth) always say something to the effect that PHP is "web only". This is downright false. I've written complex shell scripts with PHP, and tend to do so most of the time over sh or Perl.
When you are done hating that, grep through my post for the word only...I said it is a perl alternative made for the web. Obviously a perl alternative has to do more than webwork, but PHPs origins are that it was made for the web. Yes, it does more but before you slam someone for saying that it doesn't check to see if they said that or not.
You've never heard of ColdFusion? Or do you think ColdFusion isn't a "real" language, because it isn't hard to learn?
Actually, I learn what I am paid to learn. My employer never cared about cold fusion so I never learned it. I know often people comment about everything, but I stick to what I know and what I know is the languages which can easily gain me employment.
engineer:this is a rare opportunity
phb: hmm?.... engineer: PHP is not yet a buzz word...we can set the market, indicators would rise, indexes improve, shareholder confidence would surge! phb: WOW! I want PHP! Jr. Engineer: What did all that stuff you said mean? (clever)engineer: With Y having nearly 11M lines of code to rewrite in a new language....it means job security (and we still don't have to wear a suit)
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With OS X came a bundling of MySQL, and CTOs (Chief Technology Officers) across the country [...] PostreSQL
WTF.... Apple is bundling CTOs with OSX! That has to be far more counterproductive than just IE. I know my CTO has crashed more puters than all of redmond.
Who the hell is "Monty"? If you're gonna name drop, at least drop a name of somebody famous. And, what exactly is in this miraculous email that's not in the article?
If your going to insult someone for dropping meaningless names on an issue, perhaps you should know the issue.
That said, I will inform you as though you had politely asked. Monty Widenius is (not sure which) either THE creator of MySql or ONE OF the creators of MySql. That would be Monty.
Actually, I think a lot of people are mad *because* we intervene too much. We do political jiggering in the Middle East (keeping non-Democratic governments in power in the process) just so we can have oil.
This is a very common American mindset,"If we are not isolationists, then we must be interventionists". We need to realize that their is more than a right and a left there is a middle ground. As someone who lived in foreign countries I will tell you that yes intervention was scorned but aid was not. Aid can influence when it is not forced to, Also, there are other forms of involvement. Were we "just minding our business" by not attending any of the major environmental treaties of late? Would the world have seen us as "intervening too much" to sign on in Tokyo? We need to take a role in stewardship of the international environment (seas, polar landscapes etc....) and stop only influencing what directly influences Wall Street. That is really partly what your point was, I just wanted to add mine to it.
I choose Maximum Liberty. Please draw the line there.
As a former paratrooper I thank you kindly. Many americans (military and civilian) traded their safety and even their lives for our continued freedom. The war on terrorism promotes the heroism of cowardice "I boldly tell the FBI what my neighbor says in confidence....because I am scared of the roughly couple dozen Al Qaeda reps that the President says MIGHT be in our country." That is a sad, sad statement.
Ie the rest of the world is unsafe and the USA has liberty.
Isolationism will bring even less security. We begin to ignore what other countries are doing etc.... They have a larger excuse for their hatred and a larger window of opportunity to plan things unnnoticed.
Despite the rhetoric from both sides, liberty and security are not mutually exclusive.
Realistically, no you can't. If someone else is free to do things about which you have no knowledge, the government has no control etc.... Then you are not truly safe. If someone else can not do that you are not really free. Either way the terrorists have us for the momen.
but there is no better way to make microchips yet, or is there?
Fuel cells?
But there won't be any environmentally safe process anytime in the near future.
That's not hardly fair. We have a newly structured govt. in the US that is pushing hard for greener processes. They will cut taxes for big industry, relax emission standards etc...all so our children can have a greener environment to grow up in. Of course green is the color of more than grass.
Developer :-)
A non-manager. In this survey, a disjoint category from "IT Pro'. Therefore, it probably means anybody with a technical clue.
Anyone who refers to a developer as 'someone who has a clue' couldn't possibly work for a software company, therefore the document must be fake
I am sure this will lead to more sales, because everyone knows when you spit in the customers eye and take away their ability to do that which they did before, they always reward you for it.
:-(
In the case of entertainment and technology, the sarcasm of your comment is lost to the truth of your comment. How many times have we seen Microsoft TELL their customers how to modify their buying habits. 90% of the technology consumer crowd are led like lambs to the slaughter. Unifrtunately, those of us in the know tend to post our objections in rooms full of people also in the know leaving those 90% to support the thugs we protest.
Proof again that you can get anything passed if it has a snazzy acronym.
That and a president who implies that by challenging him or his cabinet you are voluntarily helping terrorists.
This is immoral. You can't just rent-a-law because your overpriced technology is being smashed by a preferrable alternative.
I can not decide if my answer is ontopic or not as it is political. However, the reason "rent a laws" happen (in this country at least)is that big industry makes big contributions to political parties and candidates. When this is regulated things will be different. For example, if it were capped at 1,000 dollar contribution then the sierra club would be as influential as Exxon. So, if you think it is immoral to have rent a law going on, then you need to think about that issue as you VOTE!
The preceeding applies to all parties and is not meant as a partisan post.
Or alternately, "Aren't you third-world-ish enough already without this kind of crap?"
Right now the world is experimenting with VoIP because POTS is too expensive. What happens to Panama when the experiment is over and the US etc...have fancy servers converting VoIP to POTS signals to talk to these people (while levying huge surcharges)?
Example: a dude sitting on a sled on a frozen pond, with a sackful of bricks. When he throws a brick off the sled
Te ice breaks and he sinks....thus, never posting about his high school physics class again.
Accelerating this way, Howe's vessel could reach a speed of 260,000 mph Faster than light!
Probably redundant by now, but no. Go back to your physical science teacher or first grade teacher as it seems maybe you are confusing hours and seconds (there's a difference, trust me)
A new dot com era starting in school. Guys, let me suggest AT LEAST business 101. This will put you miles ahead of your forerunners.
Remember Windows? You know, there are a lot of slashdotters that simply aren't old enough to remember the C-64. Around here you might as well say "Remember the PDP-7?" I mean, geez, you could at least use an example people can relate to!
Well, if you mention windows or Linux you have stuck yourself in one group and joined an ideological argument as far as most are concerned. Also, fwiw, I have never met any serious computer enthusiast who did not know what C 64 was.
The current Linux programming wisdom comes from Richard Stevens, a know-nothing hack who spends more time talking about the out-dated concept of filesystem permissions and socket programming than he spends on GUI design! I mean, for crying out loud, Dick, this is the Aughts! We "aught" to be optimizing for the user experience, not ivory tower "engineering principles"!
Linux programs are by and large written in c and c++. These require very little UNIX knowledge as Linux is built for portability. The "current Linux programming wisdom" comes from a variety of places not from one place. I learned C on my one and what I know of OS design I learned from Tanenbaum. "Engineering principles" can be used while designing for user experience, if they are not the end result is an OS that crashes when a program errors out (remember Commodore 64?).
I hope it'll wean me off my years of windows programming and step up into the majors...
I'll bite, so why do you feel that years of Windows programming has left you in the minor leagues? I would think your league is somewhat indicated by pay check and years of windows development should pay nicely.
But where is the 'Reading By Example' that tells you how to read this book?
More importantly, I do not understand examples, what about "examples by example".
PHP is to immature. Basic has been around forever. So I offer the first line of code:
10 rem *** Basic Linux kernel Implementation ***
Forseeable problems are many but the biggest is:
A) Basic needs an interpreter
B) Interpreter needs an OS
C) OS written on Basic might be tricky
Fact: Linux is Dying
Wow, thanks for the informed market tro...tip. I will commence to selling all my shares of Linux write away.
I hate how uninformed people (I'm not saying you are, but you are certainly propagating the myth) always say something to the effect that PHP is "web only". This is downright false. I've written complex shell scripts with PHP, and tend to do so most of the time over sh or Perl.
When you are done hating that, grep through my post for the word only...I said it is a perl alternative made for the web. Obviously a perl alternative has to do more than webwork, but PHPs origins are that it was made for the web. Yes, it does more but before you slam someone for saying that it doesn't check to see if they said that or not.
You've never heard of ColdFusion? Or do you think ColdFusion isn't a "real" language, because it isn't hard to learn?
Actually, I learn what I am paid to learn. My employer never cared about cold fusion so I never learned it. I know often people comment about everything, but I stick to what I know and what I know is the languages which can easily gain me employment.
Would the PHB's like it?
engineer:this is a rare opportunity phb: hmm?....
engineer: PHP is not yet a buzz word...we can set the market, indicators would rise, indexes improve, shareholder confidence would surge!
phb: WOW! I want PHP!
Jr. Engineer: What did all that stuff you said mean?
(clever)engineer: With Y having nearly 11M lines of code to rewrite in a new language....it means job security (and we still don't have to wear a suit)