I do use linux, since that doesn't have GPU accelerated flash, I am clearly not all that bothered by it. Oh and I do get performance bonus after all with this.
And will it be all that hard for browsers to pull the same trick as flash did?
I have little sympathy for a voter who for 50 years voted for the lowest taxes, then when he needs government support, it should all be paid by the people working.
It is the heart of socialism, to vote now for what might happen to you in the future. Vote for unemployment benefits because it might be you on the dole in the future. Vote for hearing aids on healthcare, because it might be your hearing that is going to give out.
Quit blaming those in power when you are the one who put them in power.
People have died enmass in a fire right beside a fire exit because nobody before them had opened it. People, you and me, ain't smart when the shit hits the fan. The parachute was not invented by a guy while falling from an aircraft. It took someone sitting very quietly behind a desk drinking a cup of tea to come up with that one. People have burned rather then take risk a broken bones jumping from away from a fire.
In a way, it has to do with training. We are trained not to use the fire exit and not to jump down and not to put the car in neutral while driving. Why, I heard rumors that if you do that, the transmission explodes and you spin violently out of control (or was that going into reverse) (tested on myth busters) and so people lock down in a crisis. They really just stop thinking. We all do it. I can make you freeze just by asking you to say something in a microphone. 99% chance you freez or become a blittering idiot.
Why do you think there are slip-courses? So you know what to do and have a remote chance that training takes over from thinking.
It is very easy to say "I would do X" when you are sitting behind a desk.
You mention it almost in passing but never actually examine what you believed your country to stand for.
And that is what is wrong with these people as well. They claim to be Christians because they go to church without ever asking what Jesus Christ stood for. There is nothing in the actions of modern churches that has anything to do with the actions, as recorded in the new testament, of this mythical figure they nonetheless claim to follow. Modern Christianity is like an american wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt made in a sweatshop and sold for 90 dollars in a designer store or a white suburban guy dressing like a gangster or a hippy raging against the man while living on his dads money made by working in the weapons industry.
Really, you can check any Christian by asking "when have you last washed the feet of a hooker". Oh, never. Never broke bread with the poor? So what makes you a Christian. "Well I go to church where I do business deals".
Oh yeah, I do think there is a bit about that in the bible... I don't think it ends the way you think it does.
I have to be careful here, because I might accidently mention that Santa Claus does not exist and that would shatter your child like view of the world... oops.
This might not be such a bad thing if it leads students to learn more. For example, in going over materials regarding the Panthers, they might learn that group exercised 2nd ammendment rights. It was the fear of Blacks with guns that led to some of the first (the first?) gun control measures in California. The law was, IIRC, signed into law by... Ronald Reagan!
You really believe this? You really believe that this is the viewpoint that the republicans want to show? Somehow I doubt it, and that any lynchins and show trials in republican areas would quite by accident not be mentioned at all.
No, I think you need a bit more growing up young one. A bit more exposure to how people with an agenda think and speak.
Those are the secret weapons of Apple. When I buy an iPod I can get any number of gadgets for it, not so with other MP3 players that themselves might be more capable and cheaper but don't have this critical mass that makes it worthwhile for others to produce products for it.
We have yet to see if the Android app market matches up the iPhone one. Probably not. Oh, I get it myself that having a truly open product allows you to install all the real applications you want and that 99% of the apps are toys, but I am a geek, the majority is not.
There will be a docking station for the iPad for your car so you can hook it to the seat as an entertainment hub for the kids in the back. Not so with any of the competitors. And that will sell the iPad (assuming this won't be one of Apples turds, they have had them you know).
A linux pad/tablet/whatever will need to be a whole lot more then an iPad to be considered equal.
China is not all that huge. Sure it has a big population, but Google is an American company and it is making Chinese profits over there. Simply put, the "huge" profits in China are not as big when written down in the American accounting books. As MMO's have shown, 100.000 Chinese accounts does NOT mean 1.495.000 in income. The chinese do not pay the same amount as they do in the west. Google ad fees will not be the same in China as they are in the west. Of course, the cost of doing business may be somewhat cheaper as well but enough?
The few figures released so far show that the Chinese operations deliver an insignificant percentage of Google's earnings.
Business leaders seem to get stuck with dogma. China is a huge market therefor that must mean huge profits... how does this work? Africa is bigger, and India is roughly the same size. Nobody falls over themselves to cater to these markets?
Where are these huge profits when you get down to examing the books? They seem to exist only in the heads of MBA's. And all the time you are loosing goodwill and credibility.
Google's "don't be evil" motto used to be admired, now it is ridiculed as it clearly has no meaning. How much is THAT in dollar value?
Imagine the add campaign Google could have fought with Chrome/Android and its search engine if it was the only one NOT to bow down to China.
Chrome: The browser that is NOT approved by communists.
Google: The search engine the state can not filter.
Android: The OS that is not evil.
Silly? That is however exactly what the Apple ad tried to do with its 1984 rip-off, and most US companies LOVE to wave the flag, as long as it doesn't upset the Chinese.
Leave the MBA rhetoric at home, and stop thinking that every huge market is worth getting into. Start counting the beans.
There is the pure and simple corruption: Here is 10.000 give me the contract.
There is the common american corruption: I donate 10.000 to your election campaign, now how are you going to vote on this bill that is not directly tied to me, but benefits me quite by accident?
And then there is corruption of the mind, the ivory tower. When politicians and those in power become so estranged from the real world that they might as well be on the take.
This last one is actually most insidious, because the above leave a paper trail and can land you in jail. Being incompetent carries no such penalty, if it did, most judges would be in jail. These kind of measures are not introduced out of malice, but out of a sense "something must be done, this is something, therefor it must be done".
the problem is ultimately the voter. Politicians are like women, once they reach a certain age you should replace them with a new model.
You could argue that the UK government is just trying to interfere in how a private non-uk business runs its site, but then again, if you leave it to private industry, actors claiming to be doctors would be telling you that smoking is healthy. Private industry does have a reputation for ignoring the welfare of its customers for the sake of profits.
Just as car makers prefered killing a few customers over the message that cars could be dangerous by installing seatbelts, facebook hardly wants to carry the message that social networking is not all fun and games to strongly.
From what I know of the warning button, it is just a link to a site where you can get advice about how to stay safe. So fairly similar to a "smoking can kill you" sticker. The truly stupid won't read it, but who knows, it might work and what is the harm?
Yeah, yeah, parents should tell their kids. Except a lot of parents don't have a clue about what their kids are up to. They did not grow up with the internet, don't know the capabilities. Kids are incredibly stupid if you let them, but then kids are also famous for not reading warnings anyway.
But why is facebook so opposed to it? Does it have a serious complaint, or is it seatbelts all over again? Yeah the summary says that facebook claims their own warnings are good enough. Right... and why should we take their word for it? They would hardly say "we don't want the button and our own systems suck because we don't give a shit". They got a reason not to want the button, and I need a little bit more then obvious marketing speech to see why. Because I can see a very simple reason why they really don't want it. It might scare people of using their service.
The "problem" is what do you do if you do not have your own library of functions written? Or the company doesn't?
Then you can use a framework to get the basics down. Like for instance database abstration. What you say? That is already part of PHP...
Actually, I get your point entirely. It is the same with smarty... why on earth should you use a template language, in a template language?
I think all of this is partly because people expect it.
PHP is a scripting language, closer to perl then C or Java and people are not really used to such languages. They have always been considered to be to primitive.
And so the "proper" developers have always had a thing against PHP that allowed just anybody to start producing code and working web sites. You can see in a lot of frameworks the attempt to force PHP to become another language.
Do you need a framework? No, unless you come from a background where just raw coding is not how you do things. There is a difference between scripting and "programming". Please don't hang me up on those terms, but you probably get my meaning if I say the average Java developer would choke on Perl and the average Perl developer considers Java to be hopelessly over engineered.
One of my favorite discussions was with a Java developer about PHP's lack of proper garbage collection... he spend several hours trying to explain how important garbage collection is, in a script that runs for a few miliseconds and then is cleared completly from memory. It is like claiming that you absolutely need a parachute, on a kamikaze plane.
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"Real" developers love to hate PHP because it goes against their rules, meanwhile the little language that could is the largest web language around. More site are run on PHP then anything else.
Why? Because it can. All the devs who want standards and a standard framework are the kinda dev's that take six months to produce the first draft of the first requirement pre-meeting agenda action point item. Sure, that is great if you work for the state or the fortune 500, but the new stuff happens with tiny companies started in someone's garage where the code has to be working yesterday.
As soon as other languages become capable of "just producing a site now", then PHP will start to becomes less dominant.
And yeah, this practice does result in thousand of badly written site in urgent need of being cleaned up. That is not a bad thing, if it was left to the ruby crowd, those sites would never have seen the light of day.
For people who understand business, having to rebuild your shop because it has become to small after a year is NOT a sign that you chose the wrong shop. It is a sign you did well. Only developers totally removed from the realities of daily life don't get this.
Oh and if you need conventions in your programming, aren't you really saying someone needs to hold your hand? For me the only quality measurement that works for software in the end is "does it allow the owner to make money". It can be the most horrible spaghetti code you ever saw, but if it allows the company to flourish and grow, then it is good code. I have seen to many "proper" development on very large projects that followed all the conventions and produced steaming piles of crap that were unusable. Look to every single government IT project for examples.
How much of the US economy is supported by illegal mexican immigrants who do the jobs the US economy needs done, but natives can't and won't do? Pot calling kettle, you look a bit black.
Patrick Stewart wants to be taken serious again as an actor, but can't resist performing as captain every time he is called out.
Leonard Nimoy didn't want to do the new series (it was cancelled in favor of Star Trek: The Motion Picture) but again, can't resist the call.
Shatner has always been more relaxed about it, the point about "get a life" was more "be a fan but don't take it so serious". There are trekkies that tend to loose the line between the actor Shatner and the fictional person of Kirk. It was also done as part of a skit, a comedy piece.
For all the trek actors the series has been a mixed blessing. It is probably the biggest earner for any of them in their entire life, yet it also highlights that most actors have only a limited shelf life. There are plenty of actors that only are visible for one film or one series and are then never heard from again. To still get gigs for a series done decades ago, that is not bad, from a financial point of view. From artistic. Well some actors need to be reminded they are acting for a wage. If acting a ham pays the bills, then a ham you are.
And of course he thinks there is money in it, else he wouldn't be trying to start a business with it. The whole point of a business is to make money.
These guys ain't the poor artists that the RIAA likes you to believe exists (and works very hard at trying to create by not actually paying royalties they collect to artists). So i doubt they give a shit. Really, they don't have to go dumpster diving anytime soon.
We are talking IE6 here, it is a decade old by now. Do you still use 10 year old PC's? Do you use 10 year old cars?
Oh, you yourself might not be the problem, the real issue is IT management who keeps trying to cut costs by going for the lowest support contract and guess what costs the least to support? NO.
That is it, the word NO is simplest.
"Can I get an open port to SSH to our external servers?" "NO" Time spend: 0.5 seconds.
"Can I install software X that I do actually need?" "NO" Time spend: 0.5 seconds.
"Can I get a license for virtual window machines so I can test software in a safe environment?" "NO" Time spend: 0.5 seconds.
"Can we upgrade our software at least with in say half a decade of release so we are not completely behind the times?" "NO" Time spend: 0.5 seconds.
The problem is very simple, it is a constant cost factor to keep up-to-date. New versions are released so often after all, nearly every 2-3 years. Who can keep up? And it is oh so tempting to skip an upgrade. Why do all the compatibility testing during the beta and release candidates of a new product when you can let everyone else test it for you? Because sherlock, that doesn't test it for you. And that is the testing you need. So you save some money now, but are building up the future migration costs, till those costs become so high that you can no longer afford them no matter what.
It is all about budgets and promotions, you get promoted for keeping you budget low this year, and by then it is the next guys problem if he inherits the hidden costs.
And all because people have become more interested in management then actually doing their job. Because those incompatibilities between IE versions? Those are your fucking JOB. That is why you are paid system monkey, to sort these things out. What next? A car mechanic explaining why he hasn't replaced the brakes on a vehicle that crashed because it was such a hassle and they were covered in dirt and he just didn't want to get his hands dirty? That is exactly what you are saying. Oh my job is so hard, I can't be blamed for not doing it.
Sadly, big companies seem to attract your kind, who is more interested in their performance rating then actually just doing their fucking job. If I let my servers get so out of date they are hacked, well my customers kick me very very hard. I make sure to keep up with the alpha and beta's so that I know the issues with a new release, know the developers know them and can fix them and then am ready to implement them, so that at least then when a problem hits, I don't first have to upgrade several releases in order to not find every issue with a "solved in version X". And you know what, by staying on the edge, you often beat the bad guys. They after all are aiming for the largest mass, and the largest mass is guys like you who can straight faced give an excuse for running a decade old browser.
Really, how can you standup and claim your earned your keep when you still haven't managed to retire IE6. Do you still have a punch card reader for that essential piece of accounting software? Still use floppies because you might need one? Have word perfect installed for an old word file? No? You upgrade stuff like that? Then why does the browser, a piece of software that by its nature faces the whole nasty outside world, not get updated?
Yeah yeah, legacy system needs it. No it doesn't because such systems should be upgraded as times change. You aren't still running windows NT 3.5 are you?
Frankly, I see this problem far to often. You get asked to work on a problem and then find the software is several releases out of date and then have to find a way to bill a client for essentially doing what their own admins should have done. Admins are to afraid of having to say to their boss "why yes sir, the system is running perfectly but I still need resources to make sure it keeps doing that in the future" and developers are more interested in chasing glory then keep their past projects maintained.
Why can opensource developers fix issues so quickly when a billion dollar company can't? Why is this code that the developers were paid very good salaries to develop, on which the company made billion of dollars of profit, so insecure that it keeps turning up vulnerability after vulnerability?
Maybe when you car door keeps popping open and therefor people steel your car, it is time to stop blaming the thiefs and start to talk to the car maker.
America does tax the the rich to support its poor, therefor it is a socialist state. Trust me, you don't want to see real capitalism. Places like Hong-Kong used to be it and it ain't pretty. Think American ghetto's are though, imagine people with actual paying jobs living in "housing" that is a shell, with inside a mesh of cages that house entire families. Yes, not dissimilar to how chickens are housed in battery farms.
In a true capitalistic country, there is no restriction on what can be for sale. You would have legal organ harvesting, since money buys anything.
America right now might be bad, but it could be a lot worse.
And you can't really blame the Bill Gates of the world for it either. He got 1 vote. It is the millions of people who are just a paycheck away from complete financial ruin who vote against a system that could give them a proper safety net because they think that next paycheck will have a billion dollar amount on it, and then they would have to pay 50% taxes on it and that 500 million would mean utter ruination of their dream to one day make it rich.
It ain't the rich who worry about taxes, if Bill Gates suddenly had to pay 80% in taxes, what would he loose? Nothing. It is the idiots who live on minimum wage who somehow capping capital gains tax is a good thing for them.
It is the American dream vs gritty reality and reality doesn't stand a chance.
Sweden is the almost complete opposite, there the working and middle class (the majority voter) believe that the best system for themselves is a system where you can take a year off from work, or not work at all and be supported by the state. An alien thought to most Americans, but ultimately the Swedish system can only exist because the majority votes for it.
And the majority of American seem to want the current system.
Reagan is the primary person to blame for the current economy. Basically he sold the world a pyramid scheme. Trickle down economy is EXACTLY what a pyramid scheme is. The idea that anyone who joins the scheme just pours some money into the top of the pyramid and then reaps his rewards as it trickles down to him. And it works, for the first few layers until to many people are needed to join to keep the system flowing and it all collapses.
And just like pyramid schemes continue to be popular, reaganomics continue to be popular, by the same kind of people. The scammers and the ignorant.
A pyramid scheme MUST fail, because the longer it continues, the larger it becomes. It can only work in fictional universes were infinite growth is possible (and for a long time, that is exactly what Reagan fans claimed). For a manufacturing nation as you claim it would in, this would mean that their must be an infinite number of resource to use in manufacturing and an infinite market to take the products. Or to put it in simpler terms, it would mean for Microsoft, that it could half the release cylce of their flagship product Windows each time, and still find a growing market for it. So by now you would be getting a new windows every day, pay 300 bucks for it, and have 6 billion people buying it.
Silly? That is what reaganomics boil down to. Infinite sustained growth.
Like all pyramids scams, we want to believe that it could work, but it doesn't. And it shows the fatal flaw in democracy. People that fall for scams, get to vote.
It seems clear the family were a bunch of gun-nuts. They purposly sought out a realistic looking gun controller for use a by a 3 year old, when all the quality stuff in normal shops is made of white plastic and looks nothing like a real gun.
Then they leave a real gun, with the safety of, loaded through, ready to fire on a table with a kid.
What part of this doesn't shout dysfunctional family to you? But don't worry, the lawyer will blame all this on video games.
And the gun nuts will explain just how safe guns really are, because they ain't as nutty as this guy was. Nope, they are responsible gun nuts.
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I do use linux, since that doesn't have GPU accelerated flash, I am clearly not all that bothered by it. Oh and I do get performance bonus after all with this.
And will it be all that hard for browsers to pull the same trick as flash did?
And in return, don't expect cabbies to care when IBM outsources every IT job to India, or MS relocates to China.
I have little sympathy for a voter who for 50 years voted for the lowest taxes, then when he needs government support, it should all be paid by the people working.
It is the heart of socialism, to vote now for what might happen to you in the future. Vote for unemployment benefits because it might be you on the dole in the future. Vote for hearing aids on healthcare, because it might be your hearing that is going to give out.
Quit blaming those in power when you are the one who put them in power.
People have died enmass in a fire right beside a fire exit because nobody before them had opened it. People, you and me, ain't smart when the shit hits the fan. The parachute was not invented by a guy while falling from an aircraft. It took someone sitting very quietly behind a desk drinking a cup of tea to come up with that one. People have burned rather then take risk a broken bones jumping from away from a fire.
In a way, it has to do with training. We are trained not to use the fire exit and not to jump down and not to put the car in neutral while driving. Why, I heard rumors that if you do that, the transmission explodes and you spin violently out of control (or was that going into reverse) (tested on myth busters) and so people lock down in a crisis. They really just stop thinking. We all do it. I can make you freeze just by asking you to say something in a microphone. 99% chance you freez or become a blittering idiot.
Why do you think there are slip-courses? So you know what to do and have a remote chance that training takes over from thinking.
It is very easy to say "I would do X" when you are sitting behind a desk.
You mention it almost in passing but never actually examine what you believed your country to stand for.
And that is what is wrong with these people as well. They claim to be Christians because they go to church without ever asking what Jesus Christ stood for. There is nothing in the actions of modern churches that has anything to do with the actions, as recorded in the new testament, of this mythical figure they nonetheless claim to follow. Modern Christianity is like an american wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt made in a sweatshop and sold for 90 dollars in a designer store or a white suburban guy dressing like a gangster or a hippy raging against the man while living on his dads money made by working in the weapons industry.
Really, you can check any Christian by asking "when have you last washed the feet of a hooker". Oh, never. Never broke bread with the poor? So what makes you a Christian. "Well I go to church where I do business deals".
Oh yeah, I do think there is a bit about that in the bible... I don't think it ends the way you think it does.
I have to be careful here, because I might accidently mention that Santa Claus does not exist and that would shatter your child like view of the world... oops.
This might not be such a bad thing if it leads students to learn more. For example, in going over materials regarding the Panthers, they might learn that group exercised 2nd ammendment rights. It was the fear of Blacks with guns that led to some of the first (the first?) gun control measures in California. The law was, IIRC, signed into law by... Ronald Reagan!
You really believe this? You really believe that this is the viewpoint that the republicans want to show? Somehow I doubt it, and that any lynchins and show trials in republican areas would quite by accident not be mentioned at all.
No, I think you need a bit more growing up young one. A bit more exposure to how people with an agenda think and speak.
Let the superior EU mind answer these questions correctly.
Canada is the 52nd state, it doesn't have provinces since it joined the world AKA the USA
Egyptian obviously, all languages can be known by just adding ian to the country name. Dutchian, belgianian, englishian.
And the president of France is the crook, not the fascist.
Those are the secret weapons of Apple. When I buy an iPod I can get any number of gadgets for it, not so with other MP3 players that themselves might be more capable and cheaper but don't have this critical mass that makes it worthwhile for others to produce products for it.
We have yet to see if the Android app market matches up the iPhone one. Probably not. Oh, I get it myself that having a truly open product allows you to install all the real applications you want and that 99% of the apps are toys, but I am a geek, the majority is not.
There will be a docking station for the iPad for your car so you can hook it to the seat as an entertainment hub for the kids in the back. Not so with any of the competitors. And that will sell the iPad (assuming this won't be one of Apples turds, they have had them you know).
A linux pad/tablet/whatever will need to be a whole lot more then an iPad to be considered equal.
You assume, so what does that make you?
China is not all that huge. Sure it has a big population, but Google is an American company and it is making Chinese profits over there. Simply put, the "huge" profits in China are not as big when written down in the American accounting books. As MMO's have shown, 100.000 Chinese accounts does NOT mean 1.495.000 in income. The chinese do not pay the same amount as they do in the west. Google ad fees will not be the same in China as they are in the west. Of course, the cost of doing business may be somewhat cheaper as well but enough?
The few figures released so far show that the Chinese operations deliver an insignificant percentage of Google's earnings.
Business leaders seem to get stuck with dogma. China is a huge market therefor that must mean huge profits... how does this work? Africa is bigger, and India is roughly the same size. Nobody falls over themselves to cater to these markets?
Where are these huge profits when you get down to examing the books? They seem to exist only in the heads of MBA's. And all the time you are loosing goodwill and credibility.
Google's "don't be evil" motto used to be admired, now it is ridiculed as it clearly has no meaning. How much is THAT in dollar value?
Imagine the add campaign Google could have fought with Chrome/Android and its search engine if it was the only one NOT to bow down to China.
Chrome: The browser that is NOT approved by communists.
Google: The search engine the state can not filter.
Android: The OS that is not evil.
Silly? That is however exactly what the Apple ad tried to do with its 1984 rip-off, and most US companies LOVE to wave the flag, as long as it doesn't upset the Chinese.
Leave the MBA rhetoric at home, and stop thinking that every huge market is worth getting into. Start counting the beans.
Where have you been man?
Corruption takes three forms:
This last one is actually most insidious, because the above leave a paper trail and can land you in jail. Being incompetent carries no such penalty, if it did, most judges would be in jail. These kind of measures are not introduced out of malice, but out of a sense "something must be done, this is something, therefor it must be done".
the problem is ultimately the voter. Politicians are like women, once they reach a certain age you should replace them with a new model.
Oh, you speak the queens english? That is good enough. Prepare to be liberated! (Also known as kiss your ass goodbye)
You could argue that the UK government is just trying to interfere in how a private non-uk business runs its site, but then again, if you leave it to private industry, actors claiming to be doctors would be telling you that smoking is healthy. Private industry does have a reputation for ignoring the welfare of its customers for the sake of profits.
Just as car makers prefered killing a few customers over the message that cars could be dangerous by installing seatbelts, facebook hardly wants to carry the message that social networking is not all fun and games to strongly.
From what I know of the warning button, it is just a link to a site where you can get advice about how to stay safe. So fairly similar to a "smoking can kill you" sticker. The truly stupid won't read it, but who knows, it might work and what is the harm?
Yeah, yeah, parents should tell their kids. Except a lot of parents don't have a clue about what their kids are up to. They did not grow up with the internet, don't know the capabilities. Kids are incredibly stupid if you let them, but then kids are also famous for not reading warnings anyway.
But why is facebook so opposed to it? Does it have a serious complaint, or is it seatbelts all over again? Yeah the summary says that facebook claims their own warnings are good enough. Right... and why should we take their word for it? They would hardly say "we don't want the button and our own systems suck because we don't give a shit". They got a reason not to want the button, and I need a little bit more then obvious marketing speech to see why. Because I can see a very simple reason why they really don't want it. It might scare people of using their service.
The "problem" is what do you do if you do not have your own library of functions written? Or the company doesn't?
Then you can use a framework to get the basics down. Like for instance database abstration. What you say? That is already part of PHP...
Actually, I get your point entirely. It is the same with smarty... why on earth should you use a template language, in a template language?
I think all of this is partly because people expect it.
PHP is a scripting language, closer to perl then C or Java and people are not really used to such languages. They have always been considered to be to primitive.
And so the "proper" developers have always had a thing against PHP that allowed just anybody to start producing code and working web sites. You can see in a lot of frameworks the attempt to force PHP to become another language.
Do you need a framework? No, unless you come from a background where just raw coding is not how you do things. There is a difference between scripting and "programming". Please don't hang me up on those terms, but you probably get my meaning if I say the average Java developer would choke on Perl and the average Perl developer considers Java to be hopelessly over engineered.
One of my favorite discussions was with a Java developer about PHP's lack of proper garbage collection... he spend several hours trying to explain how important garbage collection is, in a script that runs for a few miliseconds and then is cleared completly from memory. It is like claiming that you absolutely need a parachute, on a kamikaze plane.
"Real" developers love to hate PHP because it goes against their rules, meanwhile the little language that could is the largest web language around. More site are run on PHP then anything else.
Why? Because it can. All the devs who want standards and a standard framework are the kinda dev's that take six months to produce the first draft of the first requirement pre-meeting agenda action point item. Sure, that is great if you work for the state or the fortune 500, but the new stuff happens with tiny companies started in someone's garage where the code has to be working yesterday.
As soon as other languages become capable of "just producing a site now", then PHP will start to becomes less dominant.
And yeah, this practice does result in thousand of badly written site in urgent need of being cleaned up. That is not a bad thing, if it was left to the ruby crowd, those sites would never have seen the light of day.
For people who understand business, having to rebuild your shop because it has become to small after a year is NOT a sign that you chose the wrong shop. It is a sign you did well. Only developers totally removed from the realities of daily life don't get this.
Oh and if you need conventions in your programming, aren't you really saying someone needs to hold your hand? For me the only quality measurement that works for software in the end is "does it allow the owner to make money". It can be the most horrible spaghetti code you ever saw, but if it allows the company to flourish and grow, then it is good code. I have seen to many "proper" development on very large projects that followed all the conventions and produced steaming piles of crap that were unusable. Look to every single government IT project for examples.
How much of the US economy is supported by illegal mexican immigrants who do the jobs the US economy needs done, but natives can't and won't do? Pot calling kettle, you look a bit black.
http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/dan/celebripedia/shatner3.jpg Come on, you know you want to.
Patrick Stewart wants to be taken serious again as an actor, but can't resist performing as captain every time he is called out.
Leonard Nimoy didn't want to do the new series (it was cancelled in favor of Star Trek: The Motion Picture) but again, can't resist the call.
Shatner has always been more relaxed about it, the point about "get a life" was more "be a fan but don't take it so serious". There are trekkies that tend to loose the line between the actor Shatner and the fictional person of Kirk. It was also done as part of a skit, a comedy piece.
For all the trek actors the series has been a mixed blessing. It is probably the biggest earner for any of them in their entire life, yet it also highlights that most actors have only a limited shelf life. There are plenty of actors that only are visible for one film or one series and are then never heard from again. To still get gigs for a series done decades ago, that is not bad, from a financial point of view. From artistic. Well some actors need to be reminded they are acting for a wage. If acting a ham pays the bills, then a ham you are.
And of course he thinks there is money in it, else he wouldn't be trying to start a business with it. The whole point of a business is to make money.
These guys ain't the poor artists that the RIAA likes you to believe exists (and works very hard at trying to create by not actually paying royalties they collect to artists). So i doubt they give a shit. Really, they don't have to go dumpster diving anytime soon.
We are talking IE6 here, it is a decade old by now. Do you still use 10 year old PC's? Do you use 10 year old cars?
Oh, you yourself might not be the problem, the real issue is IT management who keeps trying to cut costs by going for the lowest support contract and guess what costs the least to support? NO.
That is it, the word NO is simplest.
"Can I get an open port to SSH to our external servers?" "NO" Time spend: 0.5 seconds.
"Can I install software X that I do actually need?" "NO" Time spend: 0.5 seconds.
"Can I get a license for virtual window machines so I can test software in a safe environment?" "NO" Time spend: 0.5 seconds.
"Can we upgrade our software at least with in say half a decade of release so we are not completely behind the times?" "NO" Time spend: 0.5 seconds.
The problem is very simple, it is a constant cost factor to keep up-to-date. New versions are released so often after all, nearly every 2-3 years. Who can keep up? And it is oh so tempting to skip an upgrade. Why do all the compatibility testing during the beta and release candidates of a new product when you can let everyone else test it for you? Because sherlock, that doesn't test it for you. And that is the testing you need. So you save some money now, but are building up the future migration costs, till those costs become so high that you can no longer afford them no matter what.
It is all about budgets and promotions, you get promoted for keeping you budget low this year, and by then it is the next guys problem if he inherits the hidden costs.
And all because people have become more interested in management then actually doing their job. Because those incompatibilities between IE versions? Those are your fucking JOB. That is why you are paid system monkey, to sort these things out. What next? A car mechanic explaining why he hasn't replaced the brakes on a vehicle that crashed because it was such a hassle and they were covered in dirt and he just didn't want to get his hands dirty? That is exactly what you are saying. Oh my job is so hard, I can't be blamed for not doing it.
Sadly, big companies seem to attract your kind, who is more interested in their performance rating then actually just doing their fucking job. If I let my servers get so out of date they are hacked, well my customers kick me very very hard. I make sure to keep up with the alpha and beta's so that I know the issues with a new release, know the developers know them and can fix them and then am ready to implement them, so that at least then when a problem hits, I don't first have to upgrade several releases in order to not find every issue with a "solved in version X". And you know what, by staying on the edge, you often beat the bad guys. They after all are aiming for the largest mass, and the largest mass is guys like you who can straight faced give an excuse for running a decade old browser.
Really, how can you standup and claim your earned your keep when you still haven't managed to retire IE6. Do you still have a punch card reader for that essential piece of accounting software? Still use floppies because you might need one? Have word perfect installed for an old word file? No? You upgrade stuff like that? Then why does the browser, a piece of software that by its nature faces the whole nasty outside world, not get updated?
Yeah yeah, legacy system needs it. No it doesn't because such systems should be upgraded as times change. You aren't still running windows NT 3.5 are you?
Frankly, I see this problem far to often. You get asked to work on a problem and then find the software is several releases out of date and then have to find a way to bill a client for essentially doing what their own admins should have done. Admins are to afraid of having to say to their boss "why yes sir, the system is running perfectly but I still need resources to make sure it keeps doing that in the future" and developers are more interested in chasing glory then keep their past projects maintained.
If you are still using IE, then a mere goatse is not going to change your mind.
Why can opensource developers fix issues so quickly when a billion dollar company can't? Why is this code that the developers were paid very good salaries to develop, on which the company made billion of dollars of profit, so insecure that it keeps turning up vulnerability after vulnerability?
Maybe when you car door keeps popping open and therefor people steel your car, it is time to stop blaming the thiefs and start to talk to the car maker.
IE is a joke, so punch the clowns that made it.
America does tax the the rich to support its poor, therefor it is a socialist state. Trust me, you don't want to see real capitalism. Places like Hong-Kong used to be it and it ain't pretty. Think American ghetto's are though, imagine people with actual paying jobs living in "housing" that is a shell, with inside a mesh of cages that house entire families. Yes, not dissimilar to how chickens are housed in battery farms.
In a true capitalistic country, there is no restriction on what can be for sale. You would have legal organ harvesting, since money buys anything.
America right now might be bad, but it could be a lot worse.
And you can't really blame the Bill Gates of the world for it either. He got 1 vote. It is the millions of people who are just a paycheck away from complete financial ruin who vote against a system that could give them a proper safety net because they think that next paycheck will have a billion dollar amount on it, and then they would have to pay 50% taxes on it and that 500 million would mean utter ruination of their dream to one day make it rich.
It ain't the rich who worry about taxes, if Bill Gates suddenly had to pay 80% in taxes, what would he loose? Nothing. It is the idiots who live on minimum wage who somehow capping capital gains tax is a good thing for them.
It is the American dream vs gritty reality and reality doesn't stand a chance.
Sweden is the almost complete opposite, there the working and middle class (the majority voter) believe that the best system for themselves is a system where you can take a year off from work, or not work at all and be supported by the state. An alien thought to most Americans, but ultimately the Swedish system can only exist because the majority votes for it.
And the majority of American seem to want the current system.
Reagan is the primary person to blame for the current economy. Basically he sold the world a pyramid scheme. Trickle down economy is EXACTLY what a pyramid scheme is. The idea that anyone who joins the scheme just pours some money into the top of the pyramid and then reaps his rewards as it trickles down to him. And it works, for the first few layers until to many people are needed to join to keep the system flowing and it all collapses.
And just like pyramid schemes continue to be popular, reaganomics continue to be popular, by the same kind of people. The scammers and the ignorant.
A pyramid scheme MUST fail, because the longer it continues, the larger it becomes. It can only work in fictional universes were infinite growth is possible (and for a long time, that is exactly what Reagan fans claimed). For a manufacturing nation as you claim it would in, this would mean that their must be an infinite number of resource to use in manufacturing and an infinite market to take the products. Or to put it in simpler terms, it would mean for Microsoft, that it could half the release cylce of their flagship product Windows each time, and still find a growing market for it. So by now you would be getting a new windows every day, pay 300 bucks for it, and have 6 billion people buying it.
Silly? That is what reaganomics boil down to. Infinite sustained growth.
Like all pyramids scams, we want to believe that it could work, but it doesn't. And it shows the fatal flaw in democracy. People that fall for scams, get to vote.
It seems clear the family were a bunch of gun-nuts. They purposly sought out a realistic looking gun controller for use a by a 3 year old, when all the quality stuff in normal shops is made of white plastic and looks nothing like a real gun.
Then they leave a real gun, with the safety of, loaded through, ready to fire on a table with a kid.
What part of this doesn't shout dysfunctional family to you? But don't worry, the lawyer will blame all this on video games.
And the gun nuts will explain just how safe guns really are, because they ain't as nutty as this guy was. Nope, they are responsible gun nuts.