Luckily there is a rise in the number of contracts wanting big-beast, coloured-text screens and the associated batch, DB2 lifting. Programming in IBMRPG is like building a Georgian House, the code certainly seems to stick one in the eye of Chronos.
OO is great (for GUI work, especially), but not so great that it will lead to massive demolition of existing stone structures. We saw this happen to the high-street in 1960s Left-wing, trendy progressiveness - a catastrophe that we have had to live with for a long time afterwards.
I would like to see IBMRPG fork or hybridise, with one branch keeping Java for those who are religiously fundamental and the other dropping it like a hot stone in favour of gaining Python-esqe abilities for the few others that take an interest in evolution.
But I am economically inactive (nearly 8 million of us in the UK under Blair and the trend is up).
Here in the UK.net is taking over the current Human Resources Sheep Bleat, also "between 4/5 years experience"
ie. "Please be under 30 and willing to dig trenches with a bendy spoon before we offshore your project."
Two years ago I would have heartily recommended using an IBM Midrange server : iSeries with traditional tools. The internet exterior can be undertaken with an open source toolset as it is newer technology.
The commercial problems you mention are vast and complex but well understood by blue chip IBM customers, and have taken continuous, steady evolution since the 60s to address : payroll, accounting, tax, CRM, total cost of ownership, reliability, scaleability (not just disk/memory capacity but system management tools).
The internet interface/order capture part of the equation is probably the least important aspect about setting up a reliable, secure, cost-effective data-processing operation.
On the plus side, everyone without a knighthood gets a promotion!
I could be wrong, instead of strenuously avoiding the MS monopoly taxes, I should have paid them. A large proportion of the money collected was going to a charitable foundation. It should say this on the boxes:
Microsoft Windows : the Charitable Choice. Every pound spent on Microsoft products will help improve the planet.
Smaller CEOs that recognise that outsourcing is a long term investment probably will never do it. It will take at least a decade to produce the expertise that some of the over-optimistic hope to replace. Outsourcing infotech in that sense is a fad.
And though it feels like I have had my livelihood stolen, all that has happened is that good will has been run down for short term gains. When I get back to business, my rate is going to be much more punishing, I feel.
There is no doubt about the need for quality infotech delivery, so why does industry try and cheat? Excellent return on their investment can already be made in the West by those with a clue - and a personnel rather than a human resource department. There is understandable hysteria concerning the subject of offshoring by IT professionals in the West, but I think that things should settle down soon and allow the phenomenon to be seen in it's true perspective : as a way of separating and lowering fixed labour costs.
The problem looks worse currently, because there seems to be a blanket resolve by industry not to release development budgets. I would say that there has been a record level of under-investment in infotech for a variety of reasons.
Perhaps clients hoped to create a frosty climate that would kill off some of the more frivolous infotech players. If so, they have now bitten down to the bone and the lack of investment must be starting to hurt by now.
Having got SPAM nicely under control with Mail.app which lets you train the spam recogniser very easily. After a week or so, it works reliably 98% figure agrees with my experience.
I have set up a rule to mark the spam as already-read and not to make any in-coming sound when it arrives. So it has faded nicely into the background.
Another plus is the ability to easily bounce unsolicited mail back to the sender, (if the reply-to is valid).
Human Resources believe that people are merely equivalent to capital-intensive equipment.
Tech jobs in the UK are rarely advertised with a requirement for more than 4 years experience - this is purely to reduce cost, because the value of experience is difficult to quantify (and older workers may come with 'overheads' that make them hungrier for more pay such as family commitments and maybe dependants, god forbid.)
You have to wonder where the race to the bottom for cost reduction is taking corporations next.
I think payroll employees will disappear altogether to be replaced with temporary project teams supervised by stake-holders utilising super scalar Project Life-cycle Management packages PLMs.) think auto-text message to your mobile that tells you:
"Profit Centre XY, project AB222 thanks you for your contribution. We will be in touch for any future requirements."
...If you haven't played this new game yet :
I think one of the best things about the game is having two to a racing car and tackling the game in 'cooperative' mode. Sure you will enjoy.
I was gutted when Rare was taken over. Felt physically sick I am sad to report to you;-)
There are lots of games to review. But when a reviewer is examining a Nintendo offering, then it is not a good idea to cut corners IMO.
I have played lots of racing games, Diddy Kong Racing was an underrated classic - far better than MarioKart64 to an Englishman, anyway. I think this is because of RareWare's trademark awesome music, rigourous 3D-models and "natural driving control", all of which I am only now beginning to appreciate must be ball breakingly hard to pull off.
If Rare was not owned by the Borg and still developed for the Cube, then I would expect them to have made a beautiful game like this - they were at their best Anglicising Nintendo's creative works with superlative engineering.
Double Dash is not overly Japanese, and having two players to a cart (a first as far as I know) is one of those changes that gradually reveals the Nintendo genius, yet again. I am not in the habit of gushing, but it is games like this that stimulate the Industry as a whole.
If you are a parent with little back seat passengers, or females that don't normally play games. Don't miss it. If you haven't got a cube, then buy the bundle just for this masterpiece.
COBOL's success on the mainframes goes to show how the emphasis on Business Computing is on Business and its unique requirements, and not on small-scale programming languages that are unproven with large accounts and currently restricts platform choice to WIntel.
Unless I have missed something MS specialise in the Micro. And Micro means well, Not Very Big.
Someone tell me who the latest large corporate customers are likely to be - excluding mere Office Productivity users?
My guess is that, since the PS2 is the lowest common denominator CPU performance-wise and has the largest market share, and that software is now easy to port to every format; then there will be a small evolutionary change to clearly emphasise the value of choosing Nintendo, and to raise profit margin by offering the new unit at a higher price.
Sound support should be improved to dolby digital sound, from pro-logic II. Various wire-free options could be incorporated also. The WaveBird (wireless controller), and the broadband adapter and game-boy player could be integrated into a similar (backwardly compatible) unit, with the expectation that many more multi-player on-line games will be ready soon and since we are all wireless hungry. A wire-free option of the GameBoy and wire-free link to the new console would also be neat.
Here (UK) it seems you are considered past it at 30! All IBM iSeries(AS400) jobs advertised on the Big Board - www.jobserve.com are for people with specific package experience or foreign language skills. The clients seem to believe technical competence is not important. But at least 12 months using their particular installation is. Why ? Maybe because when the job fails to get a "suitable" candidate. It's inter-company transfer time (India). It is easy to hoodwink governments with this "skills" shortage crap. And being cynical, I expect the guy brought in to do the work eventually, will most likely become familiar with the package on the job like I used to do in my 20s, when I had no family to support.
i reckon you should have stuck with apple, and maybe given Mac OS X and Ruby with Cocoa a try. But I guess it is too late.
You could still do the Ruby thing, maybe I don't know. It is like Python I think, only less porky with ego unix, greasy-hair smell.
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Not much going on. Maybe one job every other day.
Luckily there is a rise in the number of contracts wanting big-beast, coloured-text screens and the associated batch, DB2 lifting. Programming in IBMRPG is like building a Georgian House, the code certainly seems to stick one in the eye of Chronos.
OO is great (for GUI work, especially), but not so great that it will lead to massive demolition of existing stone structures.
We saw this happen to the high-street in 1960s Left-wing, trendy progressiveness - a catastrophe that we have had to live with for a long time afterwards.
I would like to see IBMRPG fork or hybridise, with one branch keeping Java for those who are religiously fundamental and the other dropping it like a hot stone in favour of gaining Python-esqe abilities for the few others that take an interest in evolution.
But I am economically inactive (nearly 8 million of us in the UK under Blair and the trend is up).
So nobody should care what I want!
Here in the UK .net is taking over the current Human Resources Sheep Bleat, also "between 4/5 years experience"
ie. "Please be under 30 and willing to dig trenches with a bendy spoon before we offshore your project."
There are a billion humans living in India.
:
That is it. (puts feet up on desk)
I will employ 5 guys to do 5 jobs for me while I take the commission
Now I don't need to be an accountant, lawyer, programmer, architect, customer service operator.
Just an employment agent 'further up the value chain'.
Two years ago I would have heartily recommended using an IBM Midrange server : iSeries with traditional tools. The internet exterior can be undertaken with an open source toolset as it is newer technology.
The commercial problems you mention are vast and complex but well understood by blue chip IBM customers, and have taken continuous, steady evolution since the 60s to address : payroll, accounting, tax, CRM, total cost of ownership, reliability, scaleability (not just disk/memory capacity but system management tools).
The internet interface/order capture part of the equation is probably the least important aspect about setting up a reliable, secure, cost-effective data-processing operation.
I feel for her majesty on such a day.
:
On the plus side, everyone without a knighthood gets a promotion!
I could be wrong, instead of strenuously avoiding the MS monopoly taxes, I should have paid them. A large proportion of the money collected was going to a charitable foundation. It should say this on the boxes
Microsoft Windows : the Charitable Choice. Every pound spent on Microsoft products will help improve the planet.
Smaller CEOs that recognise that outsourcing is a long term investment probably will never do it.
It will take at least a decade to produce the expertise that some of the over-optimistic hope to replace.
Outsourcing infotech in that sense is a fad.
And though it feels like I have had my livelihood stolen, all that has happened is that good will has been run down for short term gains. When I get back to business, my rate is going to be much more punishing, I feel.
There is no doubt about the need for quality infotech delivery, so why does industry try and cheat?
Excellent return on their investment can already be made in the West by those with a clue - and a personnel rather than a human resource department.
There is understandable hysteria concerning the subject of offshoring by IT professionals in the West, but I think that things should settle down soon and allow the phenomenon to be seen in it's true perspective : as a way of separating and lowering fixed labour costs.
The problem looks worse currently, because there seems to be a blanket resolve by industry not to release development budgets. I would say that there has been a record level of under-investment in infotech for a variety of reasons.
Perhaps clients hoped to create a frosty climate that would kill off some of the more frivolous infotech players. If so, they have now bitten down to the bone and the lack of investment must be starting to hurt by now.
The less sensitive you are the less responsible you become.
Hate
Fear
They are as crude as hot and cold.
Hot
Cold
An amoeba can move carefully between the two.
Buy this game! Adjust your protoplasm to sensitivity : low.
Lose in life.
I would second this.
Having got SPAM nicely under control with Mail.app which lets you train the spam recogniser very easily. After a week or so, it works reliably 98% figure agrees with my experience.
I have set up a rule to mark the spam as already-read and not to make any in-coming sound when it arrives. So it has faded nicely into the background.
Another plus is the ability to easily bounce unsolicited mail back to the sender, (if the reply-to is valid).
Human Resources believe that people are merely equivalent to capital-intensive equipment.
:
Tech jobs in the UK are rarely advertised with a requirement for more than 4 years experience - this is purely to reduce cost, because the value of experience is difficult to quantify (and older workers may come with 'overheads' that make them hungrier for more pay such as family commitments and maybe dependants, god forbid.)
You have to wonder where the race to the bottom for cost reduction is taking corporations next.
I think payroll employees will disappear altogether to be replaced with temporary project teams supervised by stake-holders utilising super scalar Project Life-cycle Management packages PLMs.) think auto-text message to your mobile that tells you
"Profit Centre XY, project AB222 thanks you for your contribution. We will be in touch for any future requirements."
...If you haven't played this new game yet : I think one of the best things about the game is having two to a racing car and tackling the game in 'cooperative' mode. Sure you will enjoy. I was gutted when Rare was taken over. Felt physically sick I am sad to report to you ;-)
There are lots of games to review. But when a reviewer is examining a Nintendo offering, then it is not a good idea to cut corners IMO.
I have played lots of racing games, Diddy Kong Racing was an underrated classic - far better than MarioKart64 to an Englishman, anyway. I think this is because of RareWare's trademark awesome music, rigourous 3D-models and "natural driving control", all of which I am only now beginning to appreciate must be ball breakingly hard to pull off.
If Rare was not owned by the Borg and still developed for the Cube, then I would expect them to have made a beautiful game like this - they were at their best Anglicising Nintendo's creative works with superlative engineering.
Double Dash is not overly Japanese, and having two players to a cart (a first as far as I know) is one of those changes that gradually reveals the Nintendo genius, yet again. I am not in the habit of gushing, but it is games like this that stimulate the Industry as a whole.
If you are a parent with little back seat passengers, or females that don't normally play games. Don't miss it.
If you haven't got a cube, then buy the bundle just for this masterpiece.
COBOL's success on the mainframes goes to show how the emphasis on Business Computing is on Business and its unique requirements, and not on small-scale programming languages that are unproven with large accounts and currently restricts platform choice to WIntel.
Unless I have missed something MS specialise in the Micro.
And Micro means well, Not Very Big.
Someone tell me who the latest large corporate customers are likely to be - excluding mere Office Productivity users?
My guess is that, since the PS2 is the lowest common denominator CPU performance-wise and has the largest market share, and that software is now easy to port to every format; then there will be a small evolutionary change to clearly emphasise the value of choosing Nintendo, and to raise profit margin by offering the new unit at a higher price.
Sound support should be improved to dolby digital sound, from pro-logic II. Various wire-free options could be incorporated also. The WaveBird (wireless controller), and the broadband adapter and game-boy player could be integrated into a similar (backwardly compatible) unit, with the expectation that many more multi-player on-line games will be ready soon and since we are all wireless hungry. A wire-free option of the GameBoy and wire-free link to the new console would also be neat.
I iz not very technical but. I think it means faster without a noisy fan or a burnt lap.
Here (UK) it seems you are considered past it at 30! All IBM iSeries(AS400) jobs advertised on the Big Board - www.jobserve.com are for people with specific package experience or foreign language skills. The clients seem to believe technical competence is not important. But at least 12 months using their particular installation is.
Why ? Maybe because when the job fails to get a "suitable" candidate. It's inter-company transfer time (India). It is easy to hoodwink governments with this "skills" shortage crap.
And being cynical, I expect the guy brought in to do the work eventually, will most likely become familiar with the package on the job
like I used to do in my 20s, when I had no family to support.
i reckon you should have stuck with apple, and maybe given Mac OS X and Ruby with Cocoa a try. But I guess it is too late. You could still do the Ruby thing, maybe I don't know. It is like Python I think, only less porky with ego unix, greasy-hair smell.