I don't disagree- advancement do seem to come from petri dishes unfettered by compliance restraints. However once certain stable plateaus of functionality are reached, it seems that shifting to a fairly static model would benefit everyone. For example, 120 VAC 60 Hz is a fairly workable standard for the delivery of a commodity in the US. I'm sure in the beginning there was a window of experimentation. Now though, there's no need to be looking to innovate that & in fact doing so would come at an enormous cost to the entire user base. I believe "productivity applications" have reached a similar point in their evolution.
Amen.
I strongly believe you're right. I would add though that sometimes there's a legitimate subconscious aversion based on experience. That's no excuse though- it should be raised to the surface and discussed openly in lieu of foot stomping.
I was going to read the article but I didn't because I'm too afraid that there's going to be pictures of what good programmers look like. Let's face it, we're not the chic-est demographic on the planet.
For what it's worth my relevant advice to somebody planning to migrate from student to employee status would be:
With great compensation comes great responsibility.
(to paraphrase Spiderman, Pres. Kennedy & Pres. Lincoln)
In my experience the biggest disconnect between an employer and a fresh out of school developer is that they expect high compensation but often aren't open to taking what an employer bundles with that (ownership, initiative, responsibility, etc). As far as specific topical areas? I think that depends on what kind of developer you want to be. Opportunities seem to exist no matter which environments you choose to familiarize your self with; as long as you have the theory down and aren't looking for a joy ride, you'll can make your way along a variety of paths.
Yeah, I feel the same way. I think what would be more valuable information than "IT is Dead" is where the companies Mr. Carr surveyed (assuming he's not just airing baseless theories) get their employees. I don't see many users like he's referring to. Most of the one's I've run into are closer to the drunken monkey end of the spectrum.
I hope all my employer's competitors heed Mr. Carr's guidance.
Isn't it cool when somebody tries to shrink wrap rules for CxO's about IT? Perhaps this same technique could be used to really cleanup at the Bingo Hall? I wish I could find more useful patterns in the chaotic evolution of IT over the last twenty years, my paradigm shift shoes are getting rather weather worn.
Nevil Shute's "SlideRule" is a good historical/engineering novel about the early days of airship research in England. Read it last year and recommend it.
MS moves one step closer to being in the brick selling business. Nothing wrong with the brick business- it's been around along time and it can certainly put food on the table. Eventually thought market pressures may cause a dramatic price adjustment.
I believe this announcement should be taken as a wake up call by the Duke Nukem Forever developers. I'm standing by to place my order while the cosmos collapses around me.
Perhaps the civilization of these early internet denizens collapsed because they spent all their time looking at online pictures of female lobsters with surgically augmented claws in provocative poses.
In the mid 90's I picked up an old Vax 725 at auction for pocket change because it was filled to the gills with serial ports and was a cheap way to get a bunch of modem's on a T-1 (at the time we were experimenting with a local ISP business). When I moved out of the house, I left the Vax in the basement 'cause it was so heavy and no longer of any use to me. The house was torn down as soon as I moved out. Over the time I lived in the house I had annual lobster bakes; stoned filled pit in the ground, etc. Each year the pit was dug somewhere else in my yard, used and then covered over after the consumed lobster carcasses were tossed in.
I can't help but wonder what some archeologist, 10,000 years from now, will think should they uncover the mass burial of probably close to 1,000 lobsters (20 yrs, ~50/yr) on a 1/4 acre plot, 100 miles inland from the ocean, all arranged around a mishmash of old hardware, including the Vax. If I did not know the details I would find it very puzzling. Did the lobster operate a small NOC? Was it some sort of pilgrimage for them? Was ritual crustacean sacrifice common in the early stages of the internet?
I tend to forget that the "Known Universe" is a subset of the Universe & it's "laws." This materials work, and things like electron tunneling, hypersonic fluid dynamics, etc., serve as an effective reminder.
I was saddened to hear this. What better way to expedite the industry switching to a kindler, gentler OS than for the market leader to start turning off their own user base en masse?
I might be a singleton demographic but has anybody else here checked out the Webkins community web site for young children? My 7 year old nephew is an addict and was showing it to me recently. One of his favorite games on the site is an obvious knock off (web enabled) of Frozen Bubble, a game included with many Linux Distributions. There was no attribution I could see and I wondered if it was a potential violation of that game's license.
Sorry; I'm the last one to wax effusive. I just get excited when something does what it's supposed to for a surprisingly low amount of money and also provides some degree of freedom in how it's used.
I should have included a disclaimer: I'm not associated with Ximeta in any way, nor do I profit directly or indirectly through sale or promotion of their products. My previous post was honestly meant as objective testimony.
I've had good luck with the two Ximeta NAS devices I've bought in the last couple of years. They have a proprietary architecture that allows you to put a standard low cost, high capacity drive onto your home network for file sharing via either Cat5 or USB (through a PC). The network connection provides superior performance. I've used these drives in Windows & Linux environments succesfully. I believe you can pick up the external enclosure (that only needs a drive; already contains power supply and interface hardware) at Radio Shack for ~$60 and then put whatever compatible drive you want in it.
Read more at:
http://ximeta.com/
Abstraction is important if you're sending boxes out the door not know what they'll be doing. If you know what they'll be doing (ie. booting a linux kernel, etc), you can optimize them for your selected environment.
They usually mean common (shared) file sharing & authentication service. I'm sure in certain cases this extends to other services but I'm pretty sure these two cover the vast majority of the functionality referred to.
"all the major distributions work equally well"
Your statement above conflicts with what my personal experience has been (which has primarily been limited to many versions of Suse, Redhat, Centos, Yellowdog &Slackware). What I think you're trying to say is that all the major distributions CAN work the same way. As far as what they do out of the box though, ie. without reading how-to's and tweaking alien configuration files (alien that is if you're coming over from the Windows world), that is a different matter. It has been my experience that OpenSuse, out of the box, does work more seamlessly in a heterogeneous Linux/Windows environment.
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I don't disagree- advancement do seem to come from petri dishes unfettered by compliance restraints. However once certain stable plateaus of functionality are reached, it seems that shifting to a fairly static model would benefit everyone. For example, 120 VAC 60 Hz is a fairly workable standard for the delivery of a commodity in the US. I'm sure in the beginning there was a window of experimentation. Now though, there's no need to be looking to innovate that & in fact doing so would come at an enormous cost to the entire user base. I believe "productivity applications" have reached a similar point in their evolution.
Amen. I strongly believe you're right. I would add though that sometimes there's a legitimate subconscious aversion based on experience. That's no excuse though- it should be raised to the surface and discussed openly in lieu of foot stomping.
I was going to read the article but I didn't because I'm too afraid that there's going to be pictures of what good programmers look like. Let's face it, we're not the chic-est demographic on the planet.
For what it's worth my relevant advice to somebody planning to migrate from student to employee status would be: With great compensation comes great responsibility. (to paraphrase Spiderman, Pres. Kennedy & Pres. Lincoln) In my experience the biggest disconnect between an employer and a fresh out of school developer is that they expect high compensation but often aren't open to taking what an employer bundles with that (ownership, initiative, responsibility, etc). As far as specific topical areas? I think that depends on what kind of developer you want to be. Opportunities seem to exist no matter which environments you choose to familiarize your self with; as long as you have the theory down and aren't looking for a joy ride, you'll can make your way along a variety of paths.
Yeah, I feel the same way. I think what would be more valuable information than "IT is Dead" is where the companies Mr. Carr surveyed (assuming he's not just airing baseless theories) get their employees. I don't see many users like he's referring to. Most of the one's I've run into are closer to the drunken monkey end of the spectrum.
I hope all my employer's competitors heed Mr. Carr's guidance. Isn't it cool when somebody tries to shrink wrap rules for CxO's about IT? Perhaps this same technique could be used to really cleanup at the Bingo Hall? I wish I could find more useful patterns in the chaotic evolution of IT over the last twenty years, my paradigm shift shoes are getting rather weather worn.
Nevil Shute's "SlideRule" is a good historical/engineering novel about the early days of airship research in England. Read it last year and recommend it.
MS moves one step closer to being in the brick selling business. Nothing wrong with the brick business- it's been around along time and it can certainly put food on the table. Eventually thought market pressures may cause a dramatic price adjustment.
I believe this announcement should be taken as a wake up call by the Duke Nukem Forever developers. I'm standing by to place my order while the cosmos collapses around me.
Perhaps the civilization of these early internet denizens collapsed because they spent all their time looking at online pictures of female lobsters with surgically augmented claws in provocative poses.
I think over-medication (non-OTC) is the more likely explanation.
In the mid 90's I picked up an old Vax 725 at auction for pocket change because it was filled to the gills with serial ports and was a cheap way to get a bunch of modem's on a T-1 (at the time we were experimenting with a local ISP business). When I moved out of the house, I left the Vax in the basement 'cause it was so heavy and no longer of any use to me. The house was torn down as soon as I moved out. Over the time I lived in the house I had annual lobster bakes; stoned filled pit in the ground, etc. Each year the pit was dug somewhere else in my yard, used and then covered over after the consumed lobster carcasses were tossed in. I can't help but wonder what some archeologist, 10,000 years from now, will think should they uncover the mass burial of probably close to 1,000 lobsters (20 yrs, ~50 /yr) on a 1/4 acre plot, 100 miles inland from the ocean, all arranged around a mishmash of old hardware, including the Vax. If I did not know the details I would find it very puzzling. Did the lobster operate a small NOC? Was it some sort of pilgrimage for them? Was ritual crustacean sacrifice common in the early stages of the internet?
I tend to forget that the "Known Universe" is a subset of the Universe & it's "laws." This materials work, and things like electron tunneling, hypersonic fluid dynamics, etc., serve as an effective reminder.
I was saddened to hear this. What better way to expedite the industry switching to a kindler, gentler OS than for the market leader to start turning off their own user base en masse?
I might be a singleton demographic but has anybody else here checked out the Webkins community web site for young children? My 7 year old nephew is an addict and was showing it to me recently. One of his favorite games on the site is an obvious knock off (web enabled) of Frozen Bubble, a game included with many Linux Distributions. There was no attribution I could see and I wondered if it was a potential violation of that game's license.
Sorry; I'm the last one to wax effusive. I just get excited when something does what it's supposed to for a surprisingly low amount of money and also provides some degree of freedom in how it's used. I should have included a disclaimer: I'm not associated with Ximeta in any way, nor do I profit directly or indirectly through sale or promotion of their products. My previous post was honestly meant as objective testimony.
I've had good luck with the two Ximeta NAS devices I've bought in the last couple of years. They have a proprietary architecture that allows you to put a standard low cost, high capacity drive onto your home network for file sharing via either Cat5 or USB (through a PC). The network connection provides superior performance. I've used these drives in Windows & Linux environments succesfully. I believe you can pick up the external enclosure (that only needs a drive; already contains power supply and interface hardware) at Radio Shack for ~$60 and then put whatever compatible drive you want in it. Read more at: http://ximeta.com/
The typical clerk at a Barnes and Noble register can not trivially recalculate an alternate ISBN.
Abstraction is important if you're sending boxes out the door not know what they'll be doing. If you know what they'll be doing (ie. booting a linux kernel, etc), you can optimize them for your selected environment.
I think I heard that parts of Indiana were considering not participating in this shift.
Reminds me of the Nicklaus Wirth work years ago when his group was designing 50 W workstations.
Sssh! They might here you.
Sure there is- posting anonymously on /.
They usually mean common (shared) file sharing & authentication service. I'm sure in certain cases this extends to other services but I'm pretty sure these two cover the vast majority of the functionality referred to.
"all the major distributions work equally well" Your statement above conflicts with what my personal experience has been (which has primarily been limited to many versions of Suse, Redhat, Centos, Yellowdog &Slackware). What I think you're trying to say is that all the major distributions CAN work the same way. As far as what they do out of the box though, ie. without reading how-to's and tweaking alien configuration files (alien that is if you're coming over from the Windows world), that is a different matter. It has been my experience that OpenSuse, out of the box, does work more seamlessly in a heterogeneous Linux/Windows environment.