Right. Remember that folks that shop at Wal-Mart don't mind having an Emerson brand stereo system. Why should a computer system be any different. That was a real stroke of genius on their part !
There is a pretty good commercial OS out there that does give you the flexiblity to install or de-install what you want and don't want. It's called OS/2. Remember that one ?
That would be Madonna (like a virgin) with two "n"s.
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It's availible and I am using it right now. I am running Xfree86 on top of CYGWIN on an XP box. I am using mozilla via a PII box running linux with a remote Xsession setup on the XP machine using CYGWIN/XFree86.
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Cygwin is an actual emulation layer. It resides as a DLL on your Windows box that provides a unix-like environment with more functionality than just a set of unix-like tools. You can actually run unix-like daemons (inetd, ssd, etc) and set up an Apache server. I use cygwin to run Xfree86 on a windows box that is networked to a linux machine I have. I use the Xserver under cygwin to work with the Xapps on the linux machine while I am working under XP.
Ant is a cross-platform version of make, and by cross platform I mean the your build process can work the same on many evironments with little effort. Sure you can get gmake for windows. But then you'll need to get bash, cp, cat, rm, etc for Windows too.
Not to be trolling or anything but anyone using make would have those tools on his windows box anyway. First thing a true unix geek does on a windows box is install CYGWIN.
I have been programming for some time (Fortran IV was the thing to know when I started) and the planning stage of a program was a half-hearted attempt at creating some kind of flow chart for your logic. This is how programming grew and procedural roots still permeate the primal brains of modern programmers. I am a Java developer now and I have my own bastardized version of UML that I use to design my projects. It does help trmendously but I can tell you it ain't natural. What is natural is getting into the zone and hacking out code. However for OO platforms this is a sure fire way of creating a monster.
Programming in the sense of the creation of an engineered product has more stinkin half-baked pardigms in terms of project management than you can shake a stick of RAM at. It seems to be the only field of engineering where there is more management than actual engineering going on. Development houses are constantly trying to find better, faster and cheaper was of producing the product. The bottom line is: programming is like anything else. You hire the talent. You nuture creativity and you give guidance. You have a realistic project manager. The big problem so many development efforts run into deals primarily with unrealistic goals and timelines. It seems to be a result of creating a product which is not a physical thing or piece of hardware. For some reason if you can't hold it in your hand or touch it then the tendancy is to think you can develop it faster.
Well you have got a little bit of Americium in your house or place of work right now. Every smoke detector has some of the radioisotope in it. I would not be too worried about my laptop or cell phone containing the stuff. I would be more concerned about how all of the nuke powered electronics would be disposed of when they become obsolete. I guess the power sources could be recycled.
I think the conventional wisdom is that OOP is more difficult and takes more planning and design. A true OOP product is really an engineered piece of work and not just some hack. The advantages that I am aware of is not in ease of programming but in the ease of reducing a real world problem into code having objects mimic real world objects. The other advantages come from the reusability, maintainability and extensibilty of the OO code.
The parent post here is correct. You have a big advantage just based on experience base. There is way too much pigeon-holed expertise in the IT industry today and too many people not having broad basic talents which come from a firm engineering or computer science background. I wouldn't get into the trap of trying to sell yourself on a new skill. You would do better to emphasize your experience. Additionally if you were to get a job based on one little thing that you might have learned in the latest craze going around IT it wouldn't be a very good job anyway.
Just go to a garage sale or get on ebay, buy two old 486 boxes for $1.25, download Slackware, install on both manchines and then procede to network the two. Set one up as a server and network your neighbors machine in. Voila -> networking expert in about 24 hours and you never had to go to Borders to buy a book.
This is absolutly the greatest topic I have seen on Slashdot for sometime and I can't really think of a thing to say. I had better go find some women to speak for me.
For defamation to occur one's reputation must be damanged and you have to prove that it has been damaged. That is not easy to do especially if one is a politician in the first place.
that a protest is going to be violent. How does this kind of thing fit in with the Austrailian Constitution? Must be something in there about a right to assemble. Just more money and job security for the lawyers.
I don't see it. One big hunk of metal should give about the same displacement of another big hunk of metal of roughly the same size. I don't see how one would be more permeable than the other either.
Not much information in the article to conclude any kind of real concern. Use of the term magnetic signature conjures up the idea that every vehicle will have a unique signature that can be identified down to the make, model and last oil change. I don't think so. It is hard enough to extract detailed signature information from radar returns detailed enough to determine distinct vehicle classes (requires fancy imaging and such). I find it hard to believe that the perturbation in some magnetic flux density would reveal a high information content.
The concept of a desktop works well for people that like to sit a neat organized desks and have fun filing documents in nice little labeled folders and have their utilities stored away in the proper places. I am not one of these people. My virtual desktop looks a lot like my physical desktop: stuff scattered all over the place. I feel more productive on my Linux box running fvwm2 and organizing everything from the command line. If I have to do it that way I have more thought put into my organization. Windows, KDE and Gnome tend to force a way of doing things on the user. While it may work well for some, it will not be the best choice for all of us.
You can talk about lack of quality from Sun, Apple, Linux, SGI all day long, but if you believe in free markets, that talk holds no water. Many people pay a lot of money for the above products when it would often be simpler and less expensive to buy an old intel machine a steal a copy of windows. Yet the above companies survive.
IMO Sun, Apple and SGI all have had more check marks in the quality column than Microsoft. This was particularly true in the 90s. Why ? Because the level of technology, expertise and engineering competence at these companies was higher. Microsoft has caught up in the quality level since 2000 but it has been, as you pointed out, due to the efforts of others. WinNT was the first Microsoft product to really represent any kind of impressive technology and Gates had to acquire that level of expertise from DEC. That is when the quality first started to appear and every MS product since has been builty on that technology.
No, I was referring to the IT image that most people see and the perception of many on the outside of industry. Not many things are glitzy if you on working in a support position in the field. However if you listen to a late night advertisement on TV of how enrolling in your local technical college will set your future path on fire many would think you were walking in Hi-tech Hollywood. This image that the masses were perceiving is a lot of what many politicians were hitching their wagons too.
On the contrary IMO it is ! Granted this is my opinion, but it is a bit more than a populistic one (check my bio). The scientific benifits cannot be evaluated using the same metric as say an NIH grant. Sure you are going to spend a lot of money in space and what seems like trivial experiment are the things that you see or hear about in the popular press. The benifit from the technology development alone and spin-off effects are amazing. If you could compute the sum total of all research dollars spent on things that just occupy space on the university library shelves you would see that the cost spent on space is a small fraction of total research spending in general.
Regardless of the cost, maintaining a presence in space is worth the money. Unfortunately we remain stuck in Earth orbit for a third decade from a manned space flight perspective. There are people graduating from college now that were not born when man last walked upon the surface of the moon. This is sad.
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Not to be trolling or anything but anyone using make would have those tools on his windows box anyway. First thing a true unix geek does on a windows box is install CYGWIN.
Just go to a garage sale or get on ebay, buy two old 486 boxes for $1.25, download Slackware, install on both manchines and then procede to network the two. Set one up as a server and network your neighbors machine in. Voila -> networking expert in about 24 hours and you never had to go to Borders to buy a book.
IMO Sun, Apple and SGI all have had more check marks in the quality column than Microsoft. This was particularly true in the 90s. Why ? Because the level of technology, expertise and engineering competence at these companies was higher. Microsoft has caught up in the quality level since 2000 but it has been, as you pointed out, due to the efforts of others. WinNT was the first Microsoft product to really represent any kind of impressive technology and Gates had to acquire that level of expertise from DEC. That is when the quality first started to appear and every MS product since has been builty on that technology.