My best advice is: Stop worrying about the tress. They change. Focus on the forest
You've named a lot of high-level and low level technologies together (i.e. Visual Basic, AJAX). What you need to do is learn the basics, a good language to start with is Java, as well as read design patterns, OO design, algorithms, ect.
The technologies you just named today will seem very old on your resume just two years from now. You'll find that once you pick a field, your list of things to learn will be very different.
You need to worry about all the trees after you pick what forest appeals to you.
Finally, Avoid tech ego; do your best; Always think in concepts, not code; always think of the use case; never forget they count on you to tell them what is best, like you count on a doctor. That's a real responsibility. Lives have been ruined and millions wasted because people didn't think they had the responsibility in IT they do.
It was just "re-committed" with an automated process. So, they basically adopted the OSS strategy of not allowing blind commits to the CVS tree without bug testing. Revolutionary I tell ya!
The same code is still there, and the same "start menu" philosophy. This wasn't a philosophical and technology change, it was an administrative one.
I'm glad they have good Quality Control now... maybe they'll apply for the ISO 9000 designation? Regardless, I don't think this points to a new thinking or revitilization in the company as the title and article seem to suggest.
They have the stink of death on them. To only live off quick-grab patents and lock down your monitor with DRM and make your profits in the courts, not in the marketplace, shows how out of touch you are.
Who willfully uses their software anymore?
I'd love to be a large company in the internet age
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Google's X Files Vanish
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· Score: 5, Funny
Steve Jobs: What is on the agenda today?
Secretary: Well sir, while you were sleeping a Google employee wrote 9 lines of JavaScript and made a blog entry, which because everytime Google farts the world sniffs.., spead around the world through other blogs as world changing. However, because it linked to an external site Google took it down without explination cause they are all "mysterious" and better than other companies, and then someone said you did it on Slashdot and now we have a mob with pitch forks and torches outside 1 Inifinite Loop.
Steve Jobs: Pitch forks already? I haven't had my coffee yet!
I just wanted to say I agree with you, you never know what will scare a child, especially the un-expected.
For instance, when I was like 7 HBO was on (this was back when getting old movies like Ghostbusters and Bluesbrothers was a big deal.. to watch them on TV for the first time in your living room) and during the "fly-over" sequence before the umm.. HBO deathstar explosion... they had the bluesbrothers pop up from the top of the screen.. to be funny.. it was the first time it came on TV..
It scared the shit out of me. I didn't sleep for a week. I ran away and my Mom didn't know why... and I even cried I think.. it's not the gore and the violence but the shocks that freak a kid out.
If you download the PDF and save it as a JPG or GIF and try to load it in Photoshop you will get the following text:
"This application does not support the unauthorized processing of banknote images
For more information, select the information button below for Internet-Based information for restrictions on copying or distributing banknote images or go to www.rulesforuse.org"
However, Apple's image preview software opens it fine, as does it's PDF viewer (same software, called "Preview")
Very disturbing to play with and see how your use of your computer has been taken over by government secret methods that large corporations have agreed to.
Very 1984... you don't know your software has been compromised until it's already too late.
Microsoft since 2000 has always had Group Policy definitions to restrict CD burning and Floppy use on certain PCs, why is this such a big deal? Because it has the word "iPod" in the article?
It's not like every IT department is going to start locking down USB keys.. it takes one employee complaining to their manager they can't take their uber-important files home to work on at night to get things like this reversed anyway.
Nail biters don't bother.. it's just a slow news day for Slashdot:-)
"Brodie figured out that a document is really just a collection of pieces of text"
Brilliant
Hey guys, here's a hint: The internet is just a collection of data packets.. now fix the bugs in Internet Explorer please.
Those who are use to wit understand it to be along the lines of Garrison Kellior. I wonder if anyone would ever have discovered him had he not written a stepping stone lanuage like Perl.
Best Quote:
Can you begin to see why I have a special mental relationship with these screensavers? Maybe I'm a little bit crazy, but I can't decide if it's psychotic or neurotic. You know the difference, don't you? A psychotic thinks that 2 + 2 = 5. A neurotic knows that 2 + 2 = 4, but it makes him nervous.
He is valuable, but he's more Salon.com instead of Perl.com, ya know what I mean?
I hope I don't get flamed or modded down, but this is real.
I have paid for RealOne since 2001. I love CNN and ABC News on-demand, and also BBC. I am willing to pay for content understanding that it cost money to produce, and it is the same reason I purchase iTunes songs.
I have to use the RealOne player to watch CNN and ABC on their website.. It is a closed licensing deal. I understood it was a closed system using Real's interface and I was ok with that. I cannot copy CNN newsfeeds and put them on my PocketPC, I can't watch RealOne content in Quicktime. That is their right.
However, now they are wanting to preserve that right they have with their content providers yet seek to access other closed systems through inflammatory websites that only quote people that agree with them.. it's not even a feedback or debate site but a propaganda website in it's purest form..
I cannot give my money to a company that would use my money to be so low and dispicable. This isn't a battle for fair-use, this is a business bully taking their desire for marketshare to the consumer thinking they'll buy that it's "just about consumer choice"
I guess I have to get cable now...
Messenger should never have been exposed as a default running service on Windows XP, 2000, & NT computers.. with no authentication and no option to turn it off without going deep in to a services menu.
This proves that software developers in general were caught flat-footed by the internet, and that they failed us as customers by claiming that their computers were now "internet ready" and only meant by that that they gave us integrated no-choice branded browsers and instant messengers to save their market share, they didn't even think about us, just themselves.
Bottom feeders like Square D exist and will always exist. The real failure are software developers, and they should take the blame for the decisions they made from 96 - 01 (when XP was released with Messenger ON) and do better.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to run a virus scan and delete my tracking cookies.
I don't know, but the proverbial shit is already hitting the fan.
I agree too... I think it's wrong to get pissed and cry Monopoly at Microsoft when they integrate ZIP technology, anti-virus, and photo software in to their software but let Apple get a free pass when they take something so obviously Konfabulator down to the JavaScript and bankrupt a company of their own.
Innovation never sleeps? Neither does the grabbing from smaller third party apps, I would seem.
Deep down inside, I think this is a vaporware thing.. something that will disappear in 10.4. I didn't see anything that great in 10.4, and I think a lot of neat things are still being worked on.. this was a smoke screen...
I do like the BSD kernel update and all, and Xcode is what made me jump out of my seat! Full scale object modeling! Holy Shit! Only pay-players like IBM's Websphere Studio (VisualAge) and JBuilder do that!
And it'll be free (relatively)
That I want now:-)
But they aren't. Lets not forget the Xserver G5's and the 4th largest super-computer on the planet built out of them. IBM is the driving force behind the G5 and the upcoming G6 chips, and from all media reports IBM has the advantage on the amount of transistors in the waher.
Also, their Mac OSX server is gaining marketshare, and the RAID they have is the cheapest you can find for the $/per megabit. And since you don't sound like you know what your talking about, I'll add they are certified for Windows and UNIX systems.
I don't think anyone can cling to their dual 64-bit G5 processors and say they are faster than Pentium 4's wrongly. They are, in fact, much faster than the P4, but then again so are the AMD 64-bit chips.
From the website "he Apple sales team will be happy to help you with the purchase of your Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioniformatics."
It's not a bunch of stuff Apple put together just for the give-away. It's a packaged product, and Slashdot has helped sell it. Haloed by thou marketing company's name.
I love this company.... I love this company, but some things are just crazy.
sold more chips than Intel during a two week period (52% to 47%). I wonder if Intel is finally feeling the heat from AMD? Maybe Dell (who only sells Intel) is pushing on them too.
from the DOD and other areas because they have modernized their websites and bid / awards area. Most likely this is because of the money they receive from the government, but running a small scientific firm I know that I get at least four mailings about how to apply for DOD grants for scientific research while I get none from any other government agency. I have appled for grants through NSA and others so they have our company information.
I think science in general in the public sector is poor. The whole thing, from NASA to NSA to their websites looks like it was developed with the 1960's in mind. Beyond medical and geographic reasearch, public scientific information and research is very limited.
Why mod it down as flamebait? I think the comment about Apple keeping the open source binaries up to date better than other distros of *nixes is relevant.
I'm sure the apple website has something. Soo much nicer than d/l rpms on my linux box for OpenSSL and cups. Better load up2date and wait for the package to error out.. when new RPMs are released... *a month from now*
I hate Linux, Mac OSX is the best *nix on the planet right now because it has Apple behind it.
Insert your Cable Line into the Mickey Mouse Broadband modem... can we see a standing Mickey Mouse wirless lan? Perhaps another Goofy phone only this time it'll be a VOIP phone.
This move is just to make cool retro phones.
I agree, that is what we use. We run Mac OSX on the client side and run Sun and Linux on the backend. It's a great solution since you can x-pop windows and basically talk *NIX to *NIX
* sigh *
I said lost coolness, and Linux for widespread use. Don't get me wrong, I imagine with wit as biting as yours you pre-mature ejacultae your insults happens often.
To refute the 70+ CPU on one system issue, and even if it is necessary, would be pointless, because all you really wanted do was talk about skinny 14 year old asses with no experience.
Is this a slashdot posting or your ad on Match.com?
Slashdot Mirror
You've named a lot of high-level and low level technologies together (i.e. Visual Basic, AJAX). What you need to do is learn the basics, a good language to start with is Java, as well as read design patterns, OO design, algorithms, ect.
The technologies you just named today will seem very old on your resume just two years from now. You'll find that once you pick a field, your list of things to learn will be very different.
Java Enterprise? EJB, IoC, SDO, Ant, Spring, Hibernate, REST, ect.Microsoft? C#, ADO.Net, WinForms, Avalon, ect.
Web: AJAX, JavaScript, CSS, XHTML, PHP, ect.
You need to worry about all the trees after you pick what forest appeals to you.
Finally, Avoid tech ego; do your best; Always think in concepts, not code; always think of the use case; never forget they count on you to tell them what is best, like you count on a doctor. That's a real responsibility. Lives have been ruined and millions wasted because people didn't think they had the responsibility in IT they do.
The same code is still there, and the same "start menu" philosophy. This wasn't a philosophical and technology change, it was an administrative one.
I'm glad they have good Quality Control now... maybe they'll apply for the ISO 9000 designation? Regardless, I don't think this points to a new thinking or revitilization in the company as the title and article seem to suggest.
It's not a new code base, just a new process.
They have the stink of death on them. To only live off quick-grab patents and lock down your monitor with DRM and make your profits in the courts, not in the marketplace, shows how out of touch you are. Who willfully uses their software anymore?
After I saw this movie I knew this was going to happen. I just hope it doesn't suck, I'm damn protective of my transformers I had as a kid.
This is certainly a 1:43am post :-P
Steve Jobs: What is on the agenda today?
Secretary: Well sir, while you were sleeping a Google employee wrote 9 lines of JavaScript and made a blog entry, which because everytime Google farts the world sniffs.., spead around the world through other blogs as world changing. However, because it linked to an external site Google took it down without explination cause they are all "mysterious" and better than other companies, and then someone said you did it on Slashdot and now we have a mob with pitch forks and torches outside 1 Inifinite Loop.
Steve Jobs: Pitch forks already? I haven't had my coffee yet!
Dear Sir, We have already addressed your issues. Buy a Macintosh. Love, The Digital World.
I just wanted to say I agree with you, you never know what will scare a child, especially the un-expected. For instance, when I was like 7 HBO was on (this was back when getting old movies like Ghostbusters and Bluesbrothers was a big deal.. to watch them on TV for the first time in your living room) and during the "fly-over" sequence before the umm.. HBO deathstar explosion... they had the bluesbrothers pop up from the top of the screen.. to be funny.. it was the first time it came on TV.. It scared the shit out of me. I didn't sleep for a week. I ran away and my Mom didn't know why... and I even cried I think.. it's not the gore and the violence but the shocks that freak a kid out.
If you download the PDF and save it as a JPG or GIF and try to load it in Photoshop you will get the following text:
"This application does not support the unauthorized processing of banknote images
For more information, select the information button below for Internet-Based information for restrictions on copying or distributing banknote images or go to www.rulesforuse.org"
However, Apple's image preview software opens it fine, as does it's PDF viewer (same software, called "Preview")
Very disturbing to play with and see how your use of your computer has been taken over by government secret methods that large corporations have agreed to.
Very 1984... you don't know your software has been compromised until it's already too late.
Microsoft since 2000 has always had Group Policy definitions to restrict CD burning and Floppy use on certain PCs, why is this such a big deal? Because it has the word "iPod" in the article?
It's not like every IT department is going to start locking down USB keys.. it takes one employee complaining to their manager they can't take their uber-important files home to work on at night to get things like this reversed anyway.
Nail biters don't bother.. it's just a slow news day for Slashdot
"Brodie figured out that a document is really just a collection of pieces of text"
Brilliant
Hey guys, here's a hint: The internet is just a collection of data packets.. now fix the bugs in Internet Explorer please.
Those who are use to wit understand it to be along the lines of Garrison Kellior. I wonder if anyone would ever have discovered him had he not written a stepping stone lanuage like Perl.
Best Quote:
Can you begin to see why I have a special mental relationship with these screensavers? Maybe I'm a little bit crazy, but I can't decide if it's psychotic or neurotic. You know the difference, don't you? A psychotic thinks that 2 + 2 = 5. A neurotic knows that 2 + 2 = 4, but it makes him nervous.
He is valuable, but he's more Salon.com instead of Perl.com, ya know what I mean?
I hope I don't get flamed or modded down, but this is real.
I have paid for RealOne since 2001. I love CNN and ABC News on-demand, and also BBC. I am willing to pay for content understanding that it cost money to produce, and it is the same reason I purchase iTunes songs.
I have to use the RealOne player to watch CNN and ABC on their website.. It is a closed licensing deal. I understood it was a closed system using Real's interface and I was ok with that. I cannot copy CNN newsfeeds and put them on my PocketPC, I can't watch RealOne content in Quicktime. That is their right.
However, now they are wanting to preserve that right they have with their content providers yet seek to access other closed systems through inflammatory websites that only quote people that agree with them.. it's not even a feedback or debate site but a propaganda website in it's purest form..
I cannot give my money to a company that would use my money to be so low and dispicable. This isn't a battle for fair-use, this is a business bully taking their desire for marketshare to the consumer thinking they'll buy that it's "just about consumer choice"
I guess I have to get cable now...
Messenger should never have been exposed as a default running service on Windows XP, 2000, & NT computers.. with no authentication and no option to turn it off without going deep in to a services menu.
This proves that software developers in general were caught flat-footed by the internet, and that they failed us as customers by claiming that their computers were now "internet ready" and only meant by that that they gave us integrated no-choice branded browsers and instant messengers to save their market share, they didn't even think about us, just themselves.
Bottom feeders like Square D exist and will always exist. The real failure are software developers, and they should take the blame for the decisions they made from 96 - 01 (when XP was released with Messenger ON) and do better.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to run a virus scan and delete my tracking cookies.
I don't know, but the proverbial shit is already hitting the fan. :-)
I agree too... I think it's wrong to get pissed and cry Monopoly at Microsoft when they integrate ZIP technology, anti-virus, and photo software in to their software but let Apple get a free pass when they take something so obviously Konfabulator down to the JavaScript and bankrupt a company of their own.
Innovation never sleeps? Neither does the grabbing from smaller third party apps, I would seem.
Deep down inside, I think this is a vaporware thing.. something that will disappear in 10.4. I didn't see anything that great in 10.4, and I think a lot of neat things are still being worked on.. this was a smoke screen...
I do like the BSD kernel update and all, and Xcode is what made me jump out of my seat! Full scale object modeling! Holy Shit! Only pay-players like IBM's Websphere Studio (VisualAge) and JBuilder do that!
And it'll be free (relatively)
That I want now
But they aren't. Lets not forget the Xserver G5's and the 4th largest super-computer on the planet built out of them. IBM is the driving force behind the G5 and the upcoming G6 chips, and from all media reports IBM has the advantage on the amount of transistors in the waher. Also, their Mac OSX server is gaining marketshare, and the RAID they have is the cheapest you can find for the $/per megabit. And since you don't sound like you know what your talking about, I'll add they are certified for Windows and UNIX systems. I don't think anyone can cling to their dual 64-bit G5 processors and say they are faster than Pentium 4's wrongly. They are, in fact, much faster than the P4, but then again so are the AMD 64-bit chips.
From the website "he Apple sales team will be happy to help you with the purchase of your Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioniformatics." It's not a bunch of stuff Apple put together just for the give-away. It's a packaged product, and Slashdot has helped sell it. Haloed by thou marketing company's name. I love this company.... I love this company, but some things are just crazy.
Shh.... shutup dude.... we'll all get our IT jobs back...
sold more chips than Intel during a two week period (52% to 47%). I wonder if Intel is finally feeling the heat from AMD? Maybe Dell (who only sells Intel) is pushing on them too.
from the DOD and other areas because they have modernized their websites and bid / awards area. Most likely this is because of the money they receive from the government, but running a small scientific firm I know that I get at least four mailings about how to apply for DOD grants for scientific research while I get none from any other government agency. I have appled for grants through NSA and others so they have our company information. I think science in general in the public sector is poor. The whole thing, from NASA to NSA to their websites looks like it was developed with the 1960's in mind. Beyond medical and geographic reasearch, public scientific information and research is very limited.
Why mod it down as flamebait? I think the comment about Apple keeping the open source binaries up to date better than other distros of *nixes is relevant.
I'm sure the apple website has something. Soo much nicer than d/l rpms on my linux box for OpenSSL and cups. Better load up2date and wait for the package to error out.. when new RPMs are released... *a month from now* I hate Linux, Mac OSX is the best *nix on the planet right now because it has Apple behind it.
Insert your Cable Line into the Mickey Mouse Broadband modem... can we see a standing Mickey Mouse wirless lan? Perhaps another Goofy phone only this time it'll be a VOIP phone. This move is just to make cool retro phones.
I agree, that is what we use. We run Mac OSX on the client side and run Sun and Linux on the backend. It's a great solution since you can x-pop windows and basically talk *NIX to *NIX
* sigh * I said lost coolness, and Linux for widespread use. Don't get me wrong, I imagine with wit as biting as yours you pre-mature ejacultae your insults happens often. To refute the 70+ CPU on one system issue, and even if it is necessary, would be pointless, because all you really wanted do was talk about skinny 14 year old asses with no experience. Is this a slashdot posting or your ad on Match.com?