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X. You ARE cool, you drive a 530 BMW and live in a 4000 + sq. ft house with swimming pool, jacuzzi, outdoor barbecue and plasma displays everywhere. You've been a Unix user for 20 years and are sick of all the Linux distros with crappy interfaces and kids that think KDE is really kewl.
The only Windows you have are floor to ceiling.
...and you get fired and an H1 visa dude takes your place. Then you go and do what?
Microsoft has a cash hoard of billions, surely they an afford to pay US engineers 100k+ with no issue whatsoever.
That's not the point, skippy.
The point is it should come with at least a single 1GB chip in the first fuckin' place.
To call something a work station and give it 512mb of RAM standard is a joke.
All Powermacs should come w/ 2GB (1gbx2) standard.
Java is just crap and is not the future of anything.
Any time I see a jsp webpage I just know there's some slow ass J2EE DTO's, DAO's, and all types of beans and shit going through a zillion layers just to get my bank balance from some Oracle db.
Could you imagine Google in Java and J2EE? hehe, they would have developed iTunes music downloading as their on-hold music while you wait for your search results.
Just speed up the GUI for christ's sake...
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...that's all they need to do. Screw spotlight.
What good is finding something fast if the damn thing won't even scroll right?
Tiger is ok, nothing stellar. Spotlight will be cool, Dashboard is crap...who wants a bunch of shit all over the screen, new video codec is good, core image is good only if it speeds up the GUI. I've heard all kinds of crap about Quartz but GUI is slow as hell.
Apple needs to fix the GUI performance, expand Cocoa APIs to cover things like Quicktime and Web Objects and then we'll talk.
The bug in iTunes / iMix section is so slow the damn thing barely scrolls on a dual G5 2.5 ghz.
-Nazz
...we have enough in South Florida. They are rude and speak with those really annoying New York accents.
You'll be in a restaurant and her some guy actually say "Shut up ma!"
If something hits the wing this time and the shuttle is in orbit, do a spacewalk and take a freakin' look.
If that's too dangerous to do, then stay on the ground and stop wasting our money.
The space shuttle is old and busted, time for the new hotness.
Linux or OSX can ship with whatever they want but Europe is bitching about Windows Media Player bundled with Windows?
Gimme a break. Typical governments. As soon as you pile up the cash, they come running trying to steal it from you.
This is just straight up extortion.
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That's complete nonsense. You cannot be independent and perform well on all databases.
You've obviously not dealt w/ databases in the Terabyte range.
Each and every database has a different optimizer and processes queries and retrieves data in a different manner. Knowing how a specific optimizer works and taking advantage of that is how you get kick ass performance.
Besides, when you buy something like Oracle and do not use any of it's features or even optimize for it, you are seriously losing out on ROI.
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The notion that you can just go back and hack in some optimization is nonsense. You can no more go back and hack in optimizations than you can go back and write something securely.
The premature optimization is evil crowd is the same crowd that writes buggy, crappy enterprise software in the first place. It's an excuse used by totally ignorant developers who have no idea how to optimize in the first place. It takes the same amount of time to optimize something as not too.
If you don't really need to optimize because you will never be at a high data volume or performance, then that's perfectly fine and makes sense.
If you are at that kiddie level though, then you don't need to support multiple database vendors in the first place. Stick to your mysql...hehe...lame ass.
...when you say you want to make an application "database independent" it makes any senior database architect like myself cringe. This is the first indicator that your software is crap.
What this usually means is that you get an applications that sucks on all platforms since you are optimizing for none.
This is fine for kids level stuff, but when you play in the Terabyte range, you'd better be designing and optimizing for the specific platform you use or you are toast.
The problem is that it takes way too much effort to design and code websites for all situations.
If you don't think so, then you either are at HTML 1.0 or you haven't really designed a site for all different browsers.
You have to make sure it works for all browsers on all operating systems. Just because your website looks good on IE, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera on windows doesn't mean that it will on IE, Mozilla, Netscape, Safari or Camino on a Mac. Then you have to do the same for all the Linux browsers.
Now you have to worry about 3 zillion mobile platforms too.
You're pretty much limited to a search box and a GO button or a few links with item names and prices or 1 paragraph news stories.
Screw that. Just because you're on some little ass phone with a lame ass screen and a shitty connection doesn't mean anyone has to support you.
That's like making a music player that supports.mp3's, cd's, 8-tracks, cassettes and records all in one.
Get a real connection and get a real computer. Phones are for calling, not surfing the web.
Maybe once or twice when it first came out. Seems pretty useless to me.
The 2 billion dollar acquisition is the only thing dumber. That has to be the most worthless thing ever purchased for 2 bilion.
-Nazz
...to purchase your products. Sorry for the inconvenience, please contact your state legislature and bitch to your govenor.
If you violate this, we are not liable.
They have built a massive distributed computer grid that potentially do anything. That platform IS their OS.
There not going to build some crap to install on your computer because they know the desktop is dead.
You can get stock quotes, use a calculator, track flights, search the web, etc. all using Google itself. The best part is that you get your answer faster than it normally takes you to open a Word doc.
It's called maintaining your skillset in something that is valuable.
Tell a Java guy the new tool set is Visual Basic and you see a trail of Java guys walking out the door.
One posts comments that you shouldn't worry about the tools, which is complete bullshit.
If people drilling w/ black & decker drills make more than people drilling w/ some other drill, then stay w/ black & decker.
Same in IT. If Java guys make more, do get suckered in staying at some place switching to VB.
If you're doing Oracle, don't get suckered into doing SQL Server as the dba jobs pay consistently lower for SQL Server jobs in my experience.
...and how do you figure this? The future of the internet will not be in Chinese, that much is certain. So, you can count them out.
As for India, they don't make anything that foreign companies haven't told them to.
When's the last time you bought a piece of Indian developed hardware, software, etc?
I mean fully Indian design, crafted and implemented?
How about games? word processors? many a cool operating system?
If they can do this so cheaply, why don't they?
We are waaay more innovative.
What basic inventions have Indians invented? Electricity? Radio? TV? Satellites? Space Shuttles? Airplanes? Microwaves? Sorry.
If you ever travel to India you'll see that it's such a shithole there's nothing to be worried about. Trust me. We didn't even live that bad in the 17th century.
-Nazz
That's funny because they don't have a monopoly on my 3 macs or my 2 linux boxes, not my Sun Blade either.
The fact is they don't have a monopoly and never did. People are just idiots and could have bought a different computer at any time. Mac? Atari? Amiga? Linux? BeOS?
You're only forced to have a Windows machine because your company is too stupid or doesn't want to switch to Macs or Linux boxes.
There is no monopoly.
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Apple OS X X. You ARE cool, you drive a 530 BMW and live in a 4000 + sq. ft house with swimming pool, jacuzzi, outdoor barbecue and plasma displays everywhere. You've been a Unix user for 20 years and are sick of all the Linux distros with crappy interfaces and kids that think KDE is really kewl. The only Windows you have are floor to ceiling.
That's not the point, skippy. The point is it should come with at least a single 1GB chip in the first fuckin' place. To call something a work station and give it 512mb of RAM standard is a joke. All Powermacs should come w/ 2GB (1gbx2) standard.
Java is just crap and is not the future of anything. Any time I see a jsp webpage I just know there's some slow ass J2EE DTO's, DAO's, and all types of beans and shit going through a zillion layers just to get my bank balance from some Oracle db. Could you imagine Google in Java and J2EE? hehe, they would have developed iTunes music downloading as their on-hold music while you wait for your search results.
In the back of the book segment tonight.... Only retarded liberals need this device, anyone else would just change the channel.
You doubt 58% are actively deleting cookies, but you think the same 58% are doing OS reinstalls? Dude...
If something hits the wing this time and the shuttle is in orbit, do a spacewalk and take a freakin' look. If that's too dangerous to do, then stay on the ground and stop wasting our money. The space shuttle is old and busted, time for the new hotness.
Linux or OSX can ship with whatever they want but Europe is bitching about Windows Media Player bundled with Windows? Gimme a break. Typical governments. As soon as you pile up the cash, they come running trying to steal it from you. This is just straight up extortion.
That's complete nonsense. You cannot be independent and perform well on all databases. You've obviously not dealt w/ databases in the Terabyte range. Each and every database has a different optimizer and processes queries and retrieves data in a different manner. Knowing how a specific optimizer works and taking advantage of that is how you get kick ass performance. Besides, when you buy something like Oracle and do not use any of it's features or even optimize for it, you are seriously losing out on ROI.
The notion that you can just go back and hack in some optimization is nonsense. You can no more go back and hack in optimizations than you can go back and write something securely.
The premature optimization is evil crowd is the same crowd that writes buggy, crappy enterprise software in the first place. It's an excuse used by totally ignorant developers who have no idea how to optimize in the first place. It takes the same amount of time to optimize something as not too.
If you don't really need to optimize because you will never be at a high data volume or performance, then that's perfectly fine and makes sense.
If you are at that kiddie level though, then you don't need to support multiple database vendors in the first place. Stick to your mysql...hehe...lame ass.
...when you say you want to make an application "database independent" it makes any senior database architect like myself cringe. This is the first indicator that your software is crap.
What this usually means is that you get an applications that sucks on all platforms since you are optimizing for none.
This is fine for kids level stuff, but when you play in the Terabyte range, you'd better be designing and optimizing for the specific platform you use or you are toast.
The problem is that it takes way too much effort to design and code websites for all situations. If you don't think so, then you either are at HTML 1.0 or you haven't really designed a site for all different browsers. You have to make sure it works for all browsers on all operating systems. Just because your website looks good on IE, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera on windows doesn't mean that it will on IE, Mozilla, Netscape, Safari or Camino on a Mac. Then you have to do the same for all the Linux browsers. Now you have to worry about 3 zillion mobile platforms too. You're pretty much limited to a search box and a GO button or a few links with item names and prices or 1 paragraph news stories. Screw that. Just because you're on some little ass phone with a lame ass screen and a shitty connection doesn't mean anyone has to support you. That's like making a music player that supports .mp3's, cd's, 8-tracks, cassettes and records all in one.
Get a real connection and get a real computer. Phones are for calling, not surfing the web.
Maybe once or twice when it first came out. Seems pretty useless to me. The 2 billion dollar acquisition is the only thing dumber. That has to be the most worthless thing ever purchased for 2 bilion. -Nazz
...to purchase your products. Sorry for the inconvenience, please contact your state legislature and bitch to your govenor. If you violate this, we are not liable.
They have built a massive distributed computer grid that potentially do anything. That platform IS their OS. There not going to build some crap to install on your computer because they know the desktop is dead. You can get stock quotes, use a calculator, track flights, search the web, etc. all using Google itself. The best part is that you get your answer faster than it normally takes you to open a Word doc.
It's called maintaining your skillset in something that is valuable. Tell a Java guy the new tool set is Visual Basic and you see a trail of Java guys walking out the door. One posts comments that you shouldn't worry about the tools, which is complete bullshit. If people drilling w/ black & decker drills make more than people drilling w/ some other drill, then stay w/ black & decker. Same in IT. If Java guys make more, do get suckered in staying at some place switching to VB. If you're doing Oracle, don't get suckered into doing SQL Server as the dba jobs pay consistently lower for SQL Server jobs in my experience.
We are waaay more innovative. What basic inventions have Indians invented? Electricity? Radio? TV? Satellites? Space Shuttles? Airplanes? Microwaves? Sorry. If you ever travel to India you'll see that it's such a shithole there's nothing to be worried about. Trust me. We didn't even live that bad in the 17th century. -Nazz
CMM doesn't mean shit. I currently work with Indian firms where we design the software and they build it.
Let me tell you the quality of code they write is apalling.
It seems that they just cram anyone into a Java class over there.
They're no where close to becoming a knowledge superpower. All they do is what outsourcing companies tell them. There's nothing original in that.
That's funny because they don't have a monopoly on my 3 macs or my 2 linux boxes, not my Sun Blade either. The fact is they don't have a monopoly and never did. People are just idiots and could have bought a different computer at any time. Mac? Atari? Amiga? Linux? BeOS? You're only forced to have a Windows machine because your company is too stupid or doesn't want to switch to Macs or Linux boxes. There is no monopoly.