While a little rude, this comment was pretty accurate.
Face it, you're useless web designers without any real skills. Go back to school and get a BFA degree or something. Your company will keep bleeding employees until all of its clients go out of business, switch to inhouse design, or just realize they don't have to pay a bunch of nelly hard-to-manage prima donnas big bucks just to get a web site.
XML may be too tough for self proclaimed "dot com era" web monkeys, but it's an implementation--and simplification--of 30+ year old SGML concepts.
We use XML extensively as file formats; we have good DTD, and almost all the features of XML. I don't know what the big deal is; I could teach it to any experienced Computer Scientist in a few hours.
Maybe the folks who think XML is "too hard" aren't hiring well! You know what you get when you simplify a programming language because your hires are too stupid to understand C++? You get Java, a crippled language that's all hype and no substance.
he dotcom boom created thousands of jobs that were filled by people with 6 months of experience and a "computer degree" from a community college or Devry. Sorry, but those are gone. No more demand. These people should go back to what they were doing before the went into "computers" to make "big bucks".
Absolutly! And employers should be very wary about hiring anyone whose resume is loaded up with phony dotcom jobs and titles.
I see software jobs that move to India as a bigger "threat" to the U.S. economy than the H1-B visa flood.
At least with H1-B visas, the people live and work in the United States, spending their $$$ here. Many become citizens or permanent residents.
But with offshore software development, we all lose. At least, companies that do this (i.e., Adobe Systems) should have to pay a steep import tax on any software developed oversees.
But it doesn't run my favorite application!
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For some reason my favorite application, Partition Magic, doesn't run on it!
You have to be sure the people who get your real email are VERY web savvy!
I do the same thing, and only the most trusted people get my real email. Otherwise, I'll get someone who will send me and 40 of his closest friends his latest rant, and we'll all be CC'd with visible email addresses.
I now have removed my email address from my business cards! This way, a card handed out at a trade show, etc, doesn't result in getting on an email list I can't get off of!
No! Never in writing. The last thing you want when you're trying to beat claims of intentional patent violation is an email that says "does this violate any patents?"
But, while doing Engineering work, there are a lot of tangential legal issues. You may be violating patents (unknowingly). The names/terminology you use may be trademarked.
These issues aren't for engineers to worry about; they're for your company's legal department. Engineer's can't be expected to be patent, copyright, and trademark lawyers.
You can't be an EMPLOYEE of a company, doing engineering work, and be expected to worry about legal situations, too.
Unless they want you to do something criminal (i.e., lie, cook the books, cause harm), it's not your job to worry about Patent, Copyright, Trademark, or Licencing issues. Just do what they asked you to do, and let your Legal Department worry about the legal problems. (You may want to take the time to VERBALLY give legal a heads-up so they can look into it. After that, you're done.)
It would be interesting to know, if cost wasn't an issue, if it would be an environmental plus, after the impact of manufacturing and maintaining batteries is factored in.
If it was an environmental plus to have an electic car + a home PV system, then if we can get people to spend $90K on that instead of $90K on a Hummer SUV, it may be a Good Idea. We'd need to market electic cars and solar systems as "status symbols" to the Los Angeles upscale community, where there's plenty of sun and money.
You're right, but, for about 10K you could install a small "solar system" on your house that could replace (to the grid) the power you use to keep your car charged. (Assuming you only use your electric for around the neighboorhood, or for a short commute to/from work.)
With gas, you don't have this flexibility to be self-sufficient.
At least, Electic is a step in the right direction. The next step is to install small solar PV systems on all new houses. Even if it only generated 25% of needed power, it would effect a HUGE change on our natural resource consumption.
When he came to work at Apple, and did NO WORK other than re-invent Smalltalk, I didn't speak up because Apple had money to burn, and he did little harm.
When he came to work at Disney, and did NO WORK, other then re-invent Smalltalk as "Squeak", I didn't speak up, because Disney had money to burn, and he did little harm
Now, in this awful economy, he's come to HP, and is reinventing Smalltalk, AN THERE'S NOBODY LEFT TO SPEAK UP.
Well, I was trying to be sarcastic. Not against Chr-stians, but against the person who made that software. I appreciate your efforts to bring Jews and Chr-stians together (though your use of Hebrew terminology for J-sus is disturbing, and is frequently a method used by missionaries to get their "foot in the door" with Jews.)
If his faith was pure, he would know that he was always being watched, and wouldn't need his friends to see what he was browsing on the Internet.
His software would help, however, in treating a true addiction to internet Porn.
...if he were really religious, he'd know that G-d is watching him at all times.
The fact that he needs his peers to review his web browsing makes me question his faith. However, since he practices a faith that allows you to commit any sin you want, and then say "Oops, Jeezus, I sinned. Forgive me" I don't see what he's worried about.
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...April Fool's articles I've seen in a long time. And it was a great idea to release it a week or so early to catch people off guard!
The inventors of Java are convicted, admitted, sex offenders who prey on little girls.
Coninuting to endorse Java means $$$ go to these people who prey on our children.
Let's hope that Apple can figure out a way to get some more performance so people will have a choice once again.
If it's sun, it will have to be all Java based, which means it'll be s-l-o-w and crashy.
Face it, you're useless web designers without any real skills. Go back to school and get a BFA degree or something. Your company will keep bleeding employees until all of its clients go out of business, switch to inhouse design, or just realize they don't have to pay a bunch of nelly hard-to-manage prima donnas big bucks just to get a web site.
...I'm sure the blimps will run Squeak, and move a lot slower.
It's just because, unlike you, I don't support child pornography, and sex with minors
(One inventor of Java, however, apparently does!)
We use XML extensively as file formats; we have good DTD, and almost all the features of XML. I don't know what the big deal is; I could teach it to any experienced Computer Scientist in a few hours.
Maybe the folks who think XML is "too hard" aren't hiring well! You know what you get when you simplify a programming language because your hires are too stupid to understand C++? You get Java, a crippled language that's all hype and no substance.
(Yes, I know Homer Simpson saw this house at "ELCOT", but it was actually at Disneyland.)
Absolutly! And employers should be very wary about hiring anyone whose resume is loaded up with phony dotcom jobs and titles.
At least with H1-B visas, the people live and work in the United States, spending their $$$ here. Many become citizens or permanent residents.
But with offshore software development, we all lose. At least, companies that do this (i.e., Adobe Systems) should have to pay a steep import tax on any software developed oversees.
I do the same thing, and only the most trusted people get my real email. Otherwise, I'll get someone who will send me and 40 of his closest friends his latest rant, and we'll all be CC'd with visible email addresses.
I now have removed my email address from my business cards! This way, a card handed out at a trade show, etc, doesn't result in getting on an email list I can't get off of!
But, while doing Engineering work, there are a lot of tangential legal issues. You may be violating patents (unknowingly). The names/terminology you use may be trademarked.
These issues aren't for engineers to worry about; they're for your company's legal department. Engineer's can't be expected to be patent, copyright, and trademark lawyers.
Unless they want you to do something criminal (i.e., lie, cook the books, cause harm), it's not your job to worry about Patent, Copyright, Trademark, or Licencing issues. Just do what they asked you to do, and let your Legal Department worry about the legal problems. (You may want to take the time to VERBALLY give legal a heads-up so they can look into it. After that, you're done.)
It would be interesting to know, if cost wasn't an issue, if it would be an environmental plus, after the impact of manufacturing and maintaining batteries is factored in.
If it was an environmental plus to have an electic car + a home PV system, then if we can get people to spend $90K on that instead of $90K on a Hummer SUV, it may be a Good Idea. We'd need to market electic cars and solar systems as "status symbols" to the Los Angeles upscale community, where there's plenty of sun and money.
With gas, you don't have this flexibility to be self-sufficient.
At least, Electic is a step in the right direction. The next step is to install small solar PV systems on all new houses. Even if it only generated 25% of needed power, it would effect a HUGE change on our natural resource consumption.
When he came to work at Apple, and did NO WORK other than re-invent Smalltalk, I didn't speak up because Apple had money to burn, and he did little harm.
When he came to work at Disney, and did NO WORK, other then re-invent Smalltalk as "Squeak", I didn't speak up, because Disney had money to burn, and he did little harm
Now, in this awful economy, he's come to HP, and is reinventing Smalltalk, AN THERE'S NOBODY LEFT TO SPEAK UP.
If his faith was pure, he would know that he was always being watched, and wouldn't need his friends to see what he was browsing on the Internet.
His software would help, however, in treating a true addiction to internet Porn.
...doughnut!
The fact that he needs his peers to review his web browsing makes me question his faith. However, since he practices a faith that allows you to commit any sin you want, and then say "Oops, Jeezus, I sinned. Forgive me" I don't see what he's worried about.
I was kidding.
I went to the link in the /. story. Isn't that a picture of the guy who busted Mitnick?
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on the list of passwords it tries. Guess I don't have to worry about this one.