10.7 - was the initial release of Lion and was a a paid update for 29.99 on the mac app store.
10.7.1 - was the first "service pack" for Lion and is free.
10.7.2 - was the second update.
10.7.3 - was the third service pack.
If history is any indicator, Apple will deliver a few more service packs for Lion before 10.8 Mountain Lion is released as a paid update for a round 30 dollars.
Critical updates and new printer drivers are delivered by Apple through software update in between 10.x.x "service packs" for free.
The only difference between a service pack on windows and a 10.x.x release on OS X is the frequency that they are released by Apple versus MSFT's releases.
Paid updates from both companies include new API calls whereas service packs and 10.x.x update generally do not.
Hopefully, this will clear up some of the confusion caused by the FUD spread by others on this site and others.
You have a funny idea of "dated". LTE was pretty useless in a lot of countries until recently so having it is really nothing other than a battery drain in regions with no or spotty LTE coverage whereas the 4S supports HSPA+ speeds in more countries and regions that LTE is offered.
The supposedly "faster" CPU in the Nexus is hampered by a combination of unoptimized software and poorer GPU performance. See the following video encoding example.
I never mentioned the nexus in particular. I'm pretty sure that every smartphone manufacturer except Apple has 4g products on the market these days. I said dated because 4g smartphones have been around since at least 2010 (htc evo 4g http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Evo_4G), so that puts apple about 2 years behind. In my opinion, 2 years behind in the tech industry certainly qualifies as "dated".
Ok, but you seem to not understand that LTE is no more "4G" than HSPA+ and the latter is more widespread currently. You also seem to have completely glossed over the fact that the Galaxy Nexus was the top of the line Android phone with a faster clocked CPU than the 4S and yet it gets its arse handed to it in CPU and GPU bound tasks. You can have a fast clock speed but if you don't have fast hardware acceleration of encoding/decoding and optimized software to take advantage of it, then it is all for not.
Total Playbook activations are closer to the 1M mark actually...
The op is obviously being facetious but the number of activations does not necessarily mean current users because hardware failures and returns would not necessarily be counted as decreasing that number of activated devices.
If you can't recognize that the iPhone is a good phone, you're just as bad as Apple "fanboys".
iPhone is an OK phone, but the 4s is quite dated. Any company marketing a flagship cellular device with no 4G support at this stage in the game has missed the boat. That goes double for iphone since the data consumption on the thing is legendary.
You have a funny idea of "dated". LTE was pretty useless in a lot of countries until recently so having it is really nothing other than a battery drain in regions with no or spotty LTE coverage whereas the 4S supports HSPA+ speeds in more countries and regions that LTE is offered.
The supposedly "faster" CPU in the Nexus is hampered by a combination of unoptimized software and poorer GPU performance. See the following video encoding example.
Apple has the most brand loyal customers on the planet
It's just a fad
Just like any other fads, this "Apple frenzy fad" will become stale, people will lose interest in Apple, once a new-kid-in-town with new fangle tricks appears
I've heard that mantra so many times before when the iMac came out, when the iPod came out, when the iPhone came out, when the iPod touch came out and when the iPad 1 came out. Are you seeing a pattern here? I keep on seeing people on slashdot predicting the demise of Apple year after year.
Yes, because its rational for you to passionately love one company (an ad network)
I stopped reading after "ad network" because someone who describes Google as such is either biased against Google or for Apple, which makes your comment no more rational than the first post.
What is their primary source of revenue? How do you think they subsidize Gmail, google earth, Google search, Google Translate and their other "Free" properties? Do you really think there are no strings attached?
Some of you have the gaul to call Apple device users blind fanboys and yet you would blindly cheerlead for a company that views you as their product? Look at their balance sheets and that will tell you what their primary business is.
Can we start a petition to evict Canada from North America? They're giving us a bad name. Mexico is welcome to stay.
So you have no problem with that form the DHS now requires all US citizens to fill out when they "leave" the US for any reason be it business trip or vacation? I don't know of any other country in North America that requires its citizens to report to the government when the "leave".
I have mentioned before that much of what is now known as countries of the "Arab" spring were inhabited by non-arabs who were christian or jewish before but I was modded down for that. The truth that Islam was spread largely by the sword (forced conversion) is not popular around here apparently.
What? Seriously? Where did you learn your history?
The reality is that Muslim controlled Andalucia was extremely tolerant compared to Christian governments at the time. Granada was a melting pot of Jews, Christians, and Muslims living in peace, to take only a single example. Sure, the Jews and Christians were social minorities, but they were unmolested and had relatively equal rights. Christians were even known to be included in civic and other governmental positions.
During this time period, it's far more accurate to view the Christian Crusaders as ignorant barbarians, as compared to Islamic factions in Southern Europe, and in the Holy Land for that matter.
They taxed the hell out of no-muslims and then there was the whole massacre of Toledo and other atrocities. Yeah, they were really nice if you co-operated/collaborated.
Wow dude, so you find anything that is not consistent with your prudish anglo-saxon culture to be homo-erotic? Really? That speaks more about you than anything else. I don't give a shit if you gay but don't insist on painting all things to be somehow gay related because they do not fit in with the narrow uptight persona of an english man.
What I find ironic about all of this is that it was the english who were into pantomime, wearing tights and wigs whereas the less uptight part of europe just had men wearing "normal" clothes and working with the "hands" for honest labour.
Whoa, that's a pretty broad brush you are painting with there. Let's not forget the millions of Muslim people who do not support terrorism and are as peaceful and law-abiding as most of the Christians in the world. And even Christians had their crusades.
About the only two groups who haven't waged wars for their religion (or lack of one) are atheists and Buddhists, but the rest of the world's religions have all had their fringe elements, and those fringe elements are by definition not representative of the whole.
You seem to conveniently forget that the Crusades were a response to 400 years of aggression which included the unprovoked invasion of Spain and Portugal. Show me any modern society that would wait a year let alone centuries to counter attack. The crusades were not only a counter attack against the invasion of the holy land by the muslims and killing of peasants on a pilgrimage to the holy land but it also served to weaken the forces in Spain allowing the eventual reconquest of Spain and portugal by christian kings. Without the crusades, france and eventually the rest of europe might have fallen and been ruled under sharia law.
The freedom to be an asshole and attack religion exists in part to the crusades halting the advance of muslim armies in southern and eastern europe.
Yes. You are correct. The Inquisition was much more evil.
Check out the torture implements the Christian priests came up with for that one. Will make your skin crawl.
Religion IS evil. Get over it.
People are evil if they are left to their own devices. Get over it. Chinese water torture, water boarding, electrocution and injection of "truth" drugs are all examples of what modern civil governments employ in interrogation.
You seem to be under the impression that your ideas and thinking are something new. The dark ages were caused by people like you running the Roman Empire who were so preoccupied with partying and other self-indulges that they no longer had any clue what was going on. You are most likely a city dweller like me but I used to live on a farm so I could grow my own food and live of the land whereas you would be completely helpless much like the Romans who depended on foreign mercenaries.
Again your example of compression is pretty much irrelevant to someone working in a business environment. Nobody is going to waste time optimizing the size of a PDF document even if they had access to alter the structure of the file in code. If PDF document sizes are a problem then they would likely look for a third party solution for it or look for a way to organize the data in such a way for the printout to be of a smaller size.
Your niche that you are describing is vanishingly small. What people are interested in is the overall efficiency of your software, how usable it is and ensuring that it delivers on the promised functionality.
I have seen some examples of inefficiency which were coded by people with a PHD or Masters in computer science because they simply never "tested" their code with scenarios similar to what you would have in production and failed to leverage the power of the RDMS in providing paged data to the client. They instead chose to load more data than what could be displayed on screen and paged on the client instead of using a generic paging pattern leveraging the power of the RDMS.
Such a scheme requires fetching the record count from the criteria first and then using that count to determine the number of pages of a given size in records and then fetching the records by page number for that same query criteria and bracketing the results with the row count and partitioning methods of your RDMS.
Not only are you returning a lot less data but you are also taking advantage of the DB engine's caching mechanism of subsequent queries with the same criteria.
Are either unemployed people who are bitter about being fired for not being willing to learn new ways of doing things or work on a team in a silo with no dependencies on other teams.
We find our meetings to be invaluable as we can discover if someone was away for a day and is still working on a dead initiative or voice any road blocks created by changes by other teams. The latter is often brought up by one of our QA engineers if they discover a problem while doing integration testing.
It really depends on the team size. You just cannot afford to have a daily stand up meeting, if 20+ people need to report updates everyday. On the other hand, if your team size is small, you are doing it wrong.
If your team is larger than 10 then you are doing it wrong.
. None of those scale. As complexity increases each of those techniques reaches a point where they fail, badly.
traditional Dijkstra implementation : O(edgesCount+vertexesCount*ln(vertexesCount)) how does that does not scale ?
I assumed that you meant elements count when you wrote complexity, if not please specify what kind of complexity are you talking about. You might have might accidental complexities, but those are slowly being taken away by our tooling's.
You might have meant business domain complexity but if you meant that, it is related, as if you can translate a problem into a path finding problem in a weighted graph, you then have a solution with a relatively low O bound.
So please specify what did you meant by complexity ?
Well, it is somewhat useful if you are trying to find the shortest route on a map or network topology but that is a pretty niche requirement and chances are that someone has already solved those problems a million times already. In the "real world", most developers don't have the time or desire to resolve problems that already have cheap solutions.
Dijkstra's algorithm is a good litmus test of somebody's programming and software development knowledge and experience.
BZZZT. Wrong. It is a litmus test to see how recent of a graduate you are of a computer science course and whether your training focused on memorizing search algorithms or honing your problems solving skills.
Anyone with any formal computer science, computer engineering, or software engineering education will know it inside out. Even many people who studied mathematics or physics will be familiar with it. It's a relatively simple algorithm that's easy to explain quickly, but it also touches on a variety of important concepts, and is quite applicable in the so-called "Real World".
Sorry, but computer science does not alway prepare you to be a proficient software developer as the course material can vary considerably from institution to institution.
Many software development professionals see it as a not-so-secret secret handshake, so to speak. If you know what you're doing, you'll find explaining it trivial. If you don't know what you're doing, you won't be able to. It's a fast way to separate those who can do from those who just talk the talk.
Sorry but you don't seem to have a clue about how modern software development functions and how it differs from pure computer science.
To be a scrum master, you should have at least this minimum level of knowledge of the field. That's where the connection comes in. Seeing if somebody knows Dijkstra's algorithm is one of the most basic and effective ways of seeing if somebody is qualified to be involved with software development.
Sorry but you do not understand what the function of the scrum master is. The main function of the scrum master is management of the team's velocity in an iteration. The contents of an iteration is determined by a combination of end user priority, estimation points on the stories which were candidates for consideration and the estimated potential velocity/throughput of the team involved. In essence, a scrum master is an imbedded team lead/manager/product architect.
Knowledge of how to implement a search algorithm is pretty much useless in most real world applications in businesses especially when most people would just leverage what is already present in a framework like.NET's linq or use the power of a RDMS to sift through data. There is often no need to "reinvent" the wheel and even if there was such a need, chances are, someone on the team would have already written a generic common library function for the most efficient search algorithm if you happen to be using a framework poor language such as C/C++.
How is it greedy or evil if the authoring tool is "free" and that you are not required to sell the book for a price? The tool is offered "FREE" with certain terms and conditions and if you don't like it then don't use it.
I get the distinct impression that you have never written software for money because addition features like exporting to other formats costs money to develop and to test and maintain that code over time.
yes colour us tickled pink, they used slow ass serial ports and a software patch to eventually introduce a proprietary network that no one outside of the apple world even cared about, and in blissful ignorance supported it up until the 21st century
clap clap
Right and the windows world was a bed of roses with NetBEUI (aka buttsniffing protocol) with NT or how uninstalling some software on and NT 4.0 domain controller could bring down domain browsing or should we forget that Windows 3.11 did not even ship with a native TCP/IP stack and you had to install trumpet winsock?
What about IPX/SPX with Netware? That was proprietary as hell. Mac OS supported TCP/IP natively long before native support arrived on windows.
I was a Netware certified Administrator back in the day and I setup linux boxes on an NT 4.x network a few years back.
"Stop thinking of software as an asset, and start thinking of it as you think about paper and pens," White said. Astonishingly, he then added, "It may require huge changes in your accounting procedures."
So you think because a few million people run Apps that the entire corporate infrastructure, the existing mainframe, unix, windows, and linux systems, and EVERYTHING ELSE is going to change to make ROOM for Apple in the enterprise?
Sir, you SERIOUSLY underestimate your importance to North American enterprises. Even Microsoft isn't that ignorant of their REAL place in the IT industry.
Do you actually work in the IT industry? I do and I can tell you that most enterprise software is licensed on a yearly basis which means that you have to renew your license or stop using the software. You don't actually own software like Exchange and SQL server but are just "renting" it as part of an enterprise software license agreement. The only software that could be considered an "asset" would be software licensed per copy rather than per year and any in-house developed software although the former depreciates in value if you don't upgrade it and you can rarely resell your copy these days.
Your flame bait rant aside....Just read the comments from Apple executives. They're enough to make you smash Apple products you own.
The NYT article brings to light conditions and tragedies that many people did not know about. It's hard to ignore these images.
Who the hell modded you interesting? Smash Apple products? Really? Listen pal, if you owned Apple products and no longer wanted to own them then you could "resell" them on ebay. What you suggest would be both environmentally and economically foolish.
Me?!? No, I couldn't care less how much cash Apple sits on. The investment community however believes strongly in CAPM. What Apple is doing is equivalent to an individual putting cash under the mattress. From their point of view there are only two options, a) give it back to investors (dividends) b) invest in something that will improve returns. Holding cash or cash equivalent of this scale, from their point of view, is hurting their investors.
The investment community are a bunch of idiots. They were asleep at the wheel when the meltdown happened. MSFT is a company that pays dividends but their stock price has been flat for over 5 years give or take a few bucks. Dividends are a sign that the company is trying to make their stock look more attractive to "investors" because they are no longer a "growth" company.
The fact of the matter is that we are approaching the end of the Personal computing era where you have to have a "PC" in your home to do computing. In the future, most people will have devices like tablets, smartphones and dumb terminals which connect to the "cloud" to run the more CPU intensive applications. You will still be able to buy a PC/Server for your home to run your own private "cloud" but you will still probably connect to even your local cloud through a portable device or TV rather than sitting at the "console" of your computer.
Most people do not code so they really don't give a rat's arse about open source. They might download "free" software that happens to be GPL'ed but they really don't care about the license as long at the software is "free" as in "beer".
You will still see developers, video editors and gfx artists owning computers but the vast majority of people will play games, manage their photos, music and other files online.
Even in business, nobody will "need" a desktop and will be able to use a dumb terminal connected to a private corporate cloud running citrix xen desktop or something similar. Heck, even a developer of desktop/server software can use a citrix instance to do software development. My development box at work was a VMWare server instance until recently when the server farm died.
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10.7 - was the initial release of Lion and was a a paid update for 29.99 on the mac app store.
10.7.1 - was the first "service pack" for Lion and is free.
10.7.2 - was the second update.
10.7.3 - was the third service pack.
If history is any indicator, Apple will deliver a few more service packs for Lion before 10.8 Mountain Lion is released as a paid update for a round 30 dollars.
Critical updates and new printer drivers are delivered by Apple through software update in between 10.x.x "service packs" for free.
The only difference between a service pack on windows and a 10.x.x release on OS X is the frequency that they are released by Apple versus MSFT's releases.
Paid updates from both companies include new API calls whereas service packs and 10.x.x update generally do not.
Hopefully, this will clear up some of the confusion caused by the FUD spread by others on this site and others.
You have a funny idea of "dated". LTE was pretty useless in a lot of countries until recently so having it is really nothing other than a battery drain in regions with no or spotty LTE coverage whereas the 4S supports HSPA+ speeds in more countries and regions that LTE is offered.
The supposedly "faster" CPU in the Nexus is hampered by a combination of unoptimized software and poorer GPU performance. See the following video encoding example.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhu8zfIVZ40&feature=related
I never mentioned the nexus in particular. I'm pretty sure that every smartphone manufacturer except Apple has 4g products on the market these days. I said dated because 4g smartphones have been around since at least 2010 (htc evo 4g http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Evo_4G), so that puts apple about 2 years behind. In my opinion, 2 years behind in the tech industry certainly qualifies as "dated".
Ok, but you seem to not understand that LTE is no more "4G" than HSPA+ and the latter is more widespread currently. You also seem to have completely glossed over the fact that the Galaxy Nexus was the top of the line Android phone with a faster clocked CPU than the 4S and yet it gets its arse handed to it in CPU and GPU bound tasks. You can have a fast clock speed but if you don't have fast hardware acceleration of encoding/decoding and optimized software to take advantage of it, then it is all for not.
Total Playbook activations are closer to the 1M mark actually...
The op is obviously being facetious but the number of activations does not necessarily mean current users because hardware failures and returns would not necessarily be counted as decreasing that number of activated devices.
If you can't recognize that the iPhone is a good phone, you're just as bad as Apple "fanboys".
iPhone is an OK phone, but the 4s is quite dated. Any company marketing a flagship cellular device with no 4G support at this stage in the game has missed the boat. That goes double for iphone since the data consumption on the thing is legendary.
You have a funny idea of "dated". LTE was pretty useless in a lot of countries until recently so having it is really nothing other than a battery drain in regions with no or spotty LTE coverage whereas the 4S supports HSPA+ speeds in more countries and regions that LTE is offered.
The supposedly "faster" CPU in the Nexus is hampered by a combination of unoptimized software and poorer GPU performance. See the following video encoding example.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhu8zfIVZ40&feature=related
Apple has the most brand loyal customers on the planet
It's just a fad
Just like any other fads, this "Apple frenzy fad" will become stale, people will lose interest in Apple, once a new-kid-in-town with new fangle tricks appears
I've heard that mantra so many times before when the iMac came out, when the iPod came out, when the iPhone came out, when the iPod touch came out and when the iPad 1 came out. Are you seeing a pattern here? I keep on seeing people on slashdot predicting the demise of Apple year after year.
Yes, because its rational for you to passionately love one company (an ad network)
I stopped reading after "ad network" because someone who describes Google as such is either biased against Google or for Apple, which makes your comment no more rational than the first post.
What is their primary source of revenue? How do you think they subsidize Gmail, google earth, Google search, Google Translate and their other "Free" properties? Do you really think there are no strings attached?
Some of you have the gaul to call Apple device users blind fanboys and yet you would blindly cheerlead for a company that views you as their product? Look at their balance sheets and that will tell you what their primary business is.
Can we start a petition to evict Canada from North America? They're giving us a bad name. Mexico is welcome to stay.
So you have no problem with that form the DHS now requires all US citizens to fill out when they "leave" the US for any reason be it business trip or vacation? I don't know of any other country in North America that requires its citizens to report to the government when the "leave".
I have mentioned before that much of what is now known as countries of the "Arab" spring were inhabited by non-arabs who were christian or jewish before but I was modded down for that. The truth that Islam was spread largely by the sword (forced conversion) is not popular around here apparently.
What? Seriously? Where did you learn your history?
The reality is that Muslim controlled Andalucia was extremely tolerant compared to Christian governments at the time. Granada was a melting pot of Jews, Christians, and Muslims living in peace, to take only a single example. Sure, the Jews and Christians were social minorities, but they were unmolested and had relatively equal rights. Christians were even known to be included in civic and other governmental positions.
During this time period, it's far more accurate to view the Christian Crusaders as ignorant barbarians, as compared to Islamic factions in Southern Europe, and in the Holy Land for that matter.
They taxed the hell out of no-muslims and then there was the whole massacre of Toledo and other atrocities. Yeah, they were really nice if you co-operated/collaborated.
Wow dude, so you find anything that is not consistent with your prudish anglo-saxon culture to be homo-erotic? Really? That speaks more about you than anything else. I don't give a shit if you gay but don't insist on painting all things to be somehow gay related because they do not fit in with the narrow uptight persona of an english man.
What I find ironic about all of this is that it was the english who were into pantomime, wearing tights and wigs whereas the less uptight part of europe just had men wearing "normal" clothes and working with the "hands" for honest labour.
Whoa, that's a pretty broad brush you are painting with there. Let's not forget the millions of Muslim people who do not support terrorism and are as peaceful and law-abiding as most of the Christians in the world. And even Christians had their crusades.
About the only two groups who haven't waged wars for their religion (or lack of one) are atheists and Buddhists, but the rest of the world's religions have all had their fringe elements, and those fringe elements are by definition not representative of the whole.
You seem to conveniently forget that the Crusades were a response to 400 years of aggression which included the unprovoked invasion of Spain and Portugal. Show me any modern society that would wait a year let alone centuries to counter attack. The crusades were not only a counter attack against the invasion of the holy land by the muslims and killing of peasants on a pilgrimage to the holy land but it also served to weaken the forces in Spain allowing the eventual reconquest of Spain and portugal by christian kings. Without the crusades, france and eventually the rest of europe might have fallen and been ruled under sharia law.
The freedom to be an asshole and attack religion exists in part to the crusades halting the advance of muslim armies in southern and eastern europe.
Yes. You are correct. The Inquisition was much more evil.
Check out the torture implements the Christian priests came up with for that one. Will make your skin crawl.
Religion IS evil. Get over it.
People are evil if they are left to their own devices. Get over it. Chinese water torture, water boarding, electrocution and injection of "truth" drugs are all examples of what modern civil governments employ in interrogation.
You seem to be under the impression that your ideas and thinking are something new. The dark ages were caused by people like you running the Roman Empire who were so preoccupied with partying and other self-indulges that they no longer had any clue what was going on. You are most likely a city dweller like me but I used to live on a farm so I could grow my own food and live of the land whereas you would be completely helpless much like the Romans who depended on foreign mercenaries.
Again your example of compression is pretty much irrelevant to someone working in a business environment. Nobody is going to waste time optimizing the size of a PDF document even if they had access to alter the structure of the file in code. If PDF document sizes are a problem then they would likely look for a third party solution for it or look for a way to organize the data in such a way for the printout to be of a smaller size.
Your niche that you are describing is vanishingly small. What people are interested in is the overall efficiency of your software, how usable it is and ensuring that it delivers on the promised functionality.
I have seen some examples of inefficiency which were coded by people with a PHD or Masters in computer science because they simply never "tested" their code with scenarios similar to what you would have in production and failed to leverage the power of the RDMS in providing paged data to the client. They instead chose to load more data than what could be displayed on screen and paged on the client instead of using a generic paging pattern leveraging the power of the RDMS.
Such a scheme requires fetching the record count from the criteria first and then using that count to determine the number of pages of a given size in records and then fetching the records by page number for that same query criteria and bracketing the results with the row count and partitioning methods of your RDMS.
Not only are you returning a lot less data but you are also taking advantage of the DB engine's caching mechanism of subsequent queries with the same criteria.
Are either unemployed people who are bitter about being fired for not being willing to learn new ways of doing things or work on a team in a silo with no dependencies on other teams.
We find our meetings to be invaluable as we can discover if someone was away for a day and is still working on a dead initiative or voice any road blocks created by changes by other teams. The latter is often brought up by one of our QA engineers if they discover a problem while doing integration testing.
It really depends on the team size. You just cannot afford to have a daily stand up meeting, if 20+ people need to report updates everyday. On the other hand, if your team size is small, you are doing it wrong.
If your team is larger than 10 then you are doing it wrong.
. None of those scale. As complexity increases each of those techniques reaches a point where they fail, badly.
traditional Dijkstra implementation : O(edgesCount+vertexesCount*ln(vertexesCount)) how does that does not scale ?
I assumed that you meant elements count when you wrote complexity, if not please specify what kind of complexity are you talking about. You might have might accidental complexities, but those are slowly being taken away by our tooling's.
You might have meant business domain complexity but if you meant that, it is related, as if you can translate a problem into a path finding problem in a weighted graph, you then have a solution with a relatively low O bound.
So please specify what did you meant by complexity ?
Well, it is somewhat useful if you are trying to find the shortest route on a map or network topology but that is a pretty niche requirement and chances are that someone has already solved those problems a million times already. In the "real world", most developers don't have the time or desire to resolve problems that already have cheap solutions.
Dijkstra's algorithm is a good litmus test of somebody's programming and software development knowledge and experience.
BZZZT. Wrong. It is a litmus test to see how recent of a graduate you are of a computer science course and whether your training focused on memorizing search algorithms or honing your problems solving skills.
Anyone with any formal computer science, computer engineering, or software engineering education will know it inside out. Even many people who studied mathematics or physics will be familiar with it. It's a relatively simple algorithm that's easy to explain quickly, but it also touches on a variety of important concepts, and is quite applicable in the so-called "Real World".
Sorry, but computer science does not alway prepare you to be a proficient software developer as the course material can vary considerably from institution to institution.
Many software development professionals see it as a not-so-secret secret handshake, so to speak. If you know what you're doing, you'll find explaining it trivial. If you don't know what you're doing, you won't be able to. It's a fast way to separate those who can do from those who just talk the talk.
Sorry but you don't seem to have a clue about how modern software development functions and how it differs from pure computer science.
To be a scrum master, you should have at least this minimum level of knowledge of the field. That's where the connection comes in. Seeing if somebody knows Dijkstra's algorithm is one of the most basic and effective ways of seeing if somebody is qualified to be involved with software development.
Sorry but you do not understand what the function of the scrum master is. The main function of the scrum master is management of the team's velocity in an iteration. The contents of an iteration is determined by a combination of end user priority, estimation points on the stories which were candidates for consideration and the estimated potential velocity/throughput of the team involved. In essence, a scrum master is an imbedded team lead/manager/product architect.
Knowledge of how to implement a search algorithm is pretty much useless in most real world applications in businesses especially when most people would just leverage what is already present in a framework like .NET's linq or use the power of a RDMS to sift through data. There is often no need to "reinvent" the wheel and even if there was such a need, chances are, someone on the team would have already written a generic common library function for the most efficient search algorithm if you happen to be using a framework poor language such as C/C++.
How is it greedy or evil if the authoring tool is "free" and that you are not required to sell the book for a price? The tool is offered "FREE" with certain terms and conditions and if you don't like it then don't use it.
I get the distinct impression that you have never written software for money because addition features like exporting to other formats costs money to develop and to test and maintain that code over time.
yes colour us tickled pink, they used slow ass serial ports and a software patch to eventually introduce a proprietary network that no one outside of the apple world even cared about, and in blissful ignorance supported it up until the 21st century
clap clap
Right and the windows world was a bed of roses with NetBEUI (aka buttsniffing protocol) with NT or how uninstalling some software on and NT 4.0 domain controller could bring down domain browsing or should we forget that Windows 3.11 did not even ship with a native TCP/IP stack and you had to install trumpet winsock?
What about IPX/SPX with Netware? That was proprietary as hell. Mac OS supported TCP/IP natively long before native support arrived on windows.
I was a Netware certified Administrator back in the day and I setup linux boxes on an NT 4.x network a few years back.
So you think because a few million people run Apps that the entire corporate infrastructure, the existing mainframe, unix, windows, and linux systems, and EVERYTHING ELSE is going to change to make ROOM for Apple in the enterprise?
Sir, you SERIOUSLY underestimate your importance to North American enterprises. Even Microsoft isn't that ignorant of their REAL place in the IT industry.
Do you actually work in the IT industry? I do and I can tell you that most enterprise software is licensed on a yearly basis which means that you have to renew your license or stop using the software. You don't actually own software like Exchange and SQL server but are just "renting" it as part of an enterprise software license agreement. The only software that could be considered an "asset" would be software licensed per copy rather than per year and any in-house developed software although the former depreciates in value if you don't upgrade it and you can rarely resell your copy these days.
Your flame bait rant aside....Just read the comments from Apple executives. They're enough to make you smash Apple products you own.
The NYT article brings to light conditions and tragedies that many people did not know about. It's hard to ignore these images.
Who the hell modded you interesting? Smash Apple products? Really? Listen pal, if you owned Apple products and no longer wanted to own them then you could "resell" them on ebay. What you suggest would be both environmentally and economically foolish.
Me?!? No, I couldn't care less how much cash Apple sits on. The investment community however believes strongly in CAPM. What Apple is doing is equivalent to an individual putting cash under the mattress. From their point of view there are only two options, a) give it back to investors (dividends) b) invest in something that will improve returns. Holding cash or cash equivalent of this scale, from their point of view, is hurting their investors.
The investment community are a bunch of idiots. They were asleep at the wheel when the meltdown happened. MSFT is a company that pays dividends but their stock price has been flat for over 5 years give or take a few bucks. Dividends are a sign that the company is trying to make their stock look more attractive to "investors" because they are no longer a "growth" company.
Who cares?
This isn't news for nerds, it's fodder for fanboys.
You cared enough to bother to sign in and post. If you truly did not care then you would not have "wasted" your time.
The fact of the matter is that we are approaching the end of the Personal computing era where you have to have a "PC" in your home to do computing. In the future, most people will have devices like tablets, smartphones and dumb terminals which connect to the "cloud" to run the more CPU intensive applications. You will still be able to buy a PC/Server for your home to run your own private "cloud" but you will still probably connect to even your local cloud through a portable device or TV rather than sitting at the "console" of your computer.
Most people do not code so they really don't give a rat's arse about open source. They might download "free" software that happens to be GPL'ed but they really don't care about the license as long at the software is "free" as in "beer".
You will still see developers, video editors and gfx artists owning computers but the vast majority of people will play games, manage their photos, music and other files online.
Even in business, nobody will "need" a desktop and will be able to use a dumb terminal connected to a private corporate cloud running citrix xen desktop or something similar. Heck, even a developer of desktop/server software can use a citrix instance to do software development. My development box at work was a VMWare server instance until recently when the server farm died.