Most economic down turns spawn innovation. People no longer have nice cushy jobs soaking up their days. These people no longer have anything to lose (their job) by trying that great idea to build a better mouse trap. Some of them invent things really cool and successful.
Linux exists because Linus couldn't afford a real unix server, for example.
If the downturn turns into a depression, then no one will have money to pay anyone for services anyway. So the huddled masses will probably be bartering their services and still contribute to open source, because its the cheapest way for them to get the tools they need.
Dude, have you worked with the legal department for a fortune 500 company? Our company policy is that if something is to be recorded, it must be scripted and the script approved by the legal department first.
I don't like political parties. I don't unions. I don't think either organization should have a long life span. They should create, fight for a cause and then disband. Standing unions I think become evil, like many large organizations.
Unions or bar associations would become money sucking parasites on the backs of the workers, as if the workers didn't have enough problems. Having said that, uniting against clueless management seems like a good idea, just don't call it a union, and don't charge dues.
I remember seeing this on "Real People" or "60 Minutes" or some similar show in the 1980's or 1990's. Along with the story that a guy from the mid-east wanted to buy the prototype for six figures cash in a briefcase. They didn't sell for fear it would be used for terrorism.
I would like to point out that you want to run versions that are as close to what you will use in production as possible. I do this in a corporate environment where we got so tired of helping developers remove "c:" from the paths of application to be deployed on unix. We created a VMware version of the web server to run in linux. Makes life much easier!!
What country is this guy in? I can not imagine any high schools around me teaching "Jr. Sysadmin" or similar technology. Maybe its time to go back and visit a school.
I would suggest doing what many college professors do, write your own book. Half my classes were "books" purchased from a local copy shop that they professor had prepared him/her self pulling information from all over in what they thought the course should cover.
Just relying on the internet is bad, although teaching the uses of google is good. The problem is I see many pages written by "so called authoritative" people when barely grasp the concepts they talk about. Sometimes 80% of the page will be right, the other 20% isn't just wrong, its dangerously wrong.
Its easier to blame the language that it is to hold people accountable for writing good code. There are two reasons for this:
1) Business types don't seem to know there is a difference between good code or bad code.
2) It would cost more to hire people to write good code. Better to switch to new language every 5 to 10 years and blame the old one for problems that could be solved with better hiring practices and code development over sight.
Look at the Apollo program and what has come out of it and what has transpired. The ISS, is the lab to learning what we need to know to move on the grand projects you ask about.
Many times what is necessity is the mother of invention, you may not need the technology until a grand plan is presented. But once the technology is developed, creative people find many uses for it beyond what was initially envisioned by the creators. Read the following for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Spinoff
I think the return the US gets for its NASA spending is greatly under calculated. The last space race caused the US to focus on creating engineers and scientists through education. Look around you for the benefits.
Today I sometimes feel we are raising generations of people who will order a "Bud" because they can't read or pronounce Budweiser.
Actually they are... They just are waiting for a cheaper easier to use option that supports something 100% compatible with MS Office. MS power is no longer the OS, but the Office suite. If macs were cheaper on the desktop I think Windows would be a thing of the past.
My fortune 500 company pays about $300 for a desktop and between $500 and $600 for laptops with 2GB, Core Duo processors and 15" screens.
RIAA doesn't care about winning the suit. This is free advertising. Its cheaper to pay lawyers 6 figures to sue, than to buy millions in advertising that the target market probably ignores anyway.
Seriously, while we live far from a legal utopia in the US, the little bits I have learned about banking laws and regulations in Europe make we amazed that those folks don't keep all their Euro's and pounds in their mattresses.
It seems that often Europeans have no recourse against banking mistakes. But on the US side of the pond banks would rather take the losses from robbery than but in "unfriendly looking" security that might make customers feel uncomfortable. Hence they also take the loses on Fraud, identity theft, etc.
And you wondered why your credit card charged 22% interest.
Giving the bizarre sexual practices you can find recorded on line, I find this rather amazing. It just seems that some hard up adolescent cave boy from one species would end up finding some slower running female of the other species more often than that....
Really that doesn't change my opinion. Of course they are getting enough free publicity they don't need to explain the name to folks. But wordscraper or wordscrapper, both seem about something totally different.
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Most economic down turns spawn innovation. People no longer have nice cushy jobs soaking up their days. These people no longer have anything to lose (their job) by trying that great idea to build a better mouse trap. Some of them invent things really cool and successful.
Linux exists because Linus couldn't afford a real unix server, for example.
If the downturn turns into a depression, then no one will have money to pay anyone for services anyway. So the huddled masses will probably be bartering their services and still contribute to open source, because its the cheapest way for them to get the tools they need.
Take some money and buy a clue.
Dude, have you worked with the legal department for a fortune 500 company? Our company policy is that if something is to be recorded, it must be scripted and the script approved by the legal department first.
So how much of that is a safety issue, and how much is a group of people trying to force their personal preference on everyone else?
I think building code has gone from a good idea to the realm of insanity in the last few decades.
Isn't folding at home well into the Petaflop territory now? http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats
I don't like political parties. I don't unions. I don't think either organization should have a long life span. They should create, fight for a cause and then disband. Standing unions I think become evil, like many large organizations.
Unions or bar associations would become money sucking parasites on the backs of the workers, as if the workers didn't have enough problems. Having said that, uniting against clueless management seems like a good idea, just don't call it a union, and don't charge dues.
I remember seeing this on "Real People" or "60 Minutes" or some similar show in the 1980's or 1990's. Along with the story that a guy from the mid-east wanted to buy the prototype for six figures cash in a briefcase. They didn't sell for fear it would be used for terrorism.
I would like to point out that you want to run versions that are as close to what you will use in production as possible. I do this in a corporate environment where we got so tired of helping developers remove "c:" from the paths of application to be deployed on unix. We created a VMware version of the web server to run in linux. Makes life much easier!!
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/#
I wonder how Chrome will compare resource wise. Its a 1 PROCESS per Tab model.
What country is this guy in? I can not imagine any high schools around me teaching "Jr. Sysadmin" or similar technology. Maybe its time to go back and visit a school.
I would suggest doing what many college professors do, write your own book. Half my classes were "books" purchased from a local copy shop that they professor had prepared him/her self pulling information from all over in what they thought the course should cover.
Just relying on the internet is bad, although teaching the uses of google is good. The problem is I see many pages written by "so called authoritative" people when barely grasp the concepts they talk about. Sometimes 80% of the page will be right, the other 20% isn't just wrong, its dangerously wrong.
The book might disappoint. But the review has made me laugh more than anything else all day...
But adding 1600 lbs plus weight of electric motors to the weight of a space craft, seems like a last resort option.
Nothing else worked?
Its easier to blame the language that it is to hold people accountable for writing good code. There are two reasons for this:
1) Business types don't seem to know there is a difference between good code or bad code.
2) It would cost more to hire people to write good code. Better to switch to new language every 5 to 10 years and blame the old one for problems that could be solved with better hiring practices and code development over sight.
Look at the Apollo program and what has come out of it and what has transpired. The ISS, is the lab to learning what we need to know to move on the grand projects you ask about.
Many times what is necessity is the mother of invention, you may not need the technology until a grand plan is presented. But once the technology is developed, creative people find many uses for it beyond what was initially envisioned by the creators. Read the following for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Spinoff
I am reminded of Laslo from Real Genius. Would SCO have more to show if they spent the money in Las Vegas, or on power ball lottery tickets?
I think the return the US gets for its NASA spending is greatly under calculated. The last space race caused the US to focus on creating engineers and scientists through education. Look around you for the benefits.
Today I sometimes feel we are raising generations of people who will order a "Bud" because they can't read or pronounce Budweiser.
Actually they are... They just are waiting for a cheaper easier to use option that supports something 100% compatible with MS Office. MS power is no longer the OS, but the Office suite. If macs were cheaper on the desktop I think Windows would be a thing of the past.
My fortune 500 company pays about $300 for a desktop and between $500 and $600 for laptops with 2GB, Core Duo processors and 15" screens.
Can anyone recommend a country that isn't blithely gamboling towards outright fascism?
China?
Might be communist, but they don't give a *$%&* about IP law.
This kind of stupidity and confusion is the goal of terrorism.
RIAA doesn't care about winning the suit. This is free advertising. Its cheaper to pay lawyers 6 figures to sue, than to buy millions in advertising that the target market probably ignores anyway.
BITE
Seriously, while we live far from a legal utopia in the US, the little bits I have learned about banking laws and regulations in Europe make we amazed that those folks don't keep all their Euro's and pounds in their mattresses.
It seems that often Europeans have no recourse against banking mistakes. But on the US side of the pond banks would rather take the losses from robbery than but in "unfriendly looking" security that might make customers feel uncomfortable. Hence they also take the loses on Fraud, identity theft, etc.
And you wondered why your credit card charged 22% interest.
Giving the bizarre sexual practices you can find recorded on line, I find this rather amazing. It just seems that some hard up adolescent cave boy from one species would end up finding some slower running female of the other species more often than that....
I like the way you think.
If it includes the drugs then it should fall under HIPPA.
Really that doesn't change my opinion. Of course they are getting enough free publicity they don't need to explain the name to folks. But wordscraper or wordscrapper, both seem about something totally different.
I'm not creative, but it seems that either a) Wordulous or b) Wordmaker would be better names than Wordscrapper.