Actually I doubt we will have much at all to worry about at that point. I dont believe there is much we can do about a singularity wandering through our backyard, especially at our current level of technology.
Friends, local listings, and university career centers are good place to start. Monster.com usually has a fairly high ratio of people who are actually looking to hire, but you will still probably do better using the first 3 I mentioned.
People in business do not like programming their in house apps with open source practices. Why? Because their software is viewed as an advantage that they do not want competetors to have.
I work in an investment firm. The company has no problems at all *using* open source. We run linux/mysql and program a good deal in Perl. But when it comes to our trading applications - all closed source java/.net apps. The last thing my company wants is our competetors getting the same "edge" we have without having to put forth any significant quantity of work.
In some languages, like perl, the compiler will warn you about dynamically allocating variables if you have the appropriate options turned on. I am not sure if REXX has a similar flag.
The dynamic scope of variables was mostly a feature for people who were just writing shell scripts and what not, where you only had global scope anyway.
I wouldn't really put it as "standing in the way", since I doubt their main goal in this is to prevent the growth of open source software. In all likelyhood, they simply realize that 90%+ of their consumers have windows boxes, and they dont wish to spend the extra time/resources/manhours to produce drivers for the niche linux crowd. Its just a simple cost/benefit thing.
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I just didn't like netbeans because it brought my system to a crawl whenever I used it. It was a few years ago, so I am sure it has improved - but I am an eclipse guy now. They had their chance.
If you want fast load times, get a cube - that thing loads blazingly fast. XBOX is a distant second, and the PS2's loading time is measured in mass extinctions...
Well, in all honesty - they did scramble that whole DS wirelss network thingy together. They aren't actually doing it themselves, as they are just contracting ign/gamespy - and they probably aren't going to set up any wireless hotspots over here in the states - the country is too big, and wifi is percolating into downtown areas of its own accord anyway. I think that the fact that PSP has internet ready games at launch did kind of force them to realize that they need to get their consoles into gear with this whole online thing.
Last I checked that out, it glitched up Mario Golf's graphics to no end. It was alright, and cool to see that it could work - but by no means a good gaming experience.
Well... yeah... I mean that only makes sense. My argument still holds though. You only choose to stick with Nikon because its more convenient for you to do so.
But this only brings about a temporary profit for Nikon, if it is for a profit in the first place. New consumers are always entering the market, and if their product becomes less appetizing to those consumers because of this fact, then they lose business to other, more open, camera companies.
Well the whole competition thing was my point. There is nothing preventing Fuji, or Kodak, or Cannon, or any of their other competetors from not using a proprietary format, and thus possibly having a cheaper camera. If they do this, and it is cheaper, they will get more money than Nikon.
And again, the average consumer misses nothing. They get software with the camera that can read in their pictures, print it out, do some simple manipulations... thats pretty much all they need. I wouldn't be suprised if the software even lets them export it to JPEG or what not. I do not own one of these things myself, so I cannot say.
Consumers rip themselves off. If the cost is so much more with this software package, no one will buy it. Again, simple economics. No matter how ignorant a consumer - if one product is $100 cheaper, and offers the same performance, they will get it.
But in this case it isn't that the consumer isn't well informed, its that the consumer doesn't care - and has no reason to care. Its only the OSS gurus that give a crap about this kind of thing. The consumer is perfectly happy to go about their daily life using this camera and its evil proprietary format. They will lose nothing because of it.
No, not in the slightest. What you are describing is an external entity going and modifying my existing property. What is happening here is that we are buying into something knowingly, and willingly. Its like if we paid you to put padlocks on all our stuff, although you would also have to give us the key, and we couldnt cut them off.
Well you could just do the common sense thing and not buy their camera. Thats the way capitalism is supposed to work, isnt it? You dont like these guys cuz they wont be nice to OS and give away all their code and such. These other guys will do that, so you buy their stuff instead. Other guys get profit. Market self-corrects.
In case you hadn't noticed... Nintendo already has captured some of the console market. Adding Linux as a "feature" would attract very little new capital, I would imagine... and probably just make the thing run slower.
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Actually I doubt we will have much at all to worry about at that point. I dont believe there is much we can do about a singularity wandering through our backyard, especially at our current level of technology.
I dont count the sims as all that innovative either.
*cough*Dogz*cough*
Been done before. Innovative level = minimal.
I wish I had mod points right now. Kudos for the awesome hacker reference.
I so wish I had mod points right now :)
Friends, local listings, and university career centers are good place to start. Monster.com usually has a fairly high ratio of people who are actually looking to hire, but you will still probably do better using the first 3 I mentioned.
Impressive pipe dream dude.
People in business do not like programming their in house apps with open source practices. Why? Because their software is viewed as an advantage that they do not want competetors to have.
I work in an investment firm. The company has no problems at all *using* open source. We run linux/mysql and program a good deal in Perl. But when it comes to our trading applications - all closed source java/.net apps. The last thing my company wants is our competetors getting the same "edge" we have without having to put forth any significant quantity of work.
In some languages, like perl, the compiler will warn you about dynamically allocating variables if you have the appropriate options turned on. I am not sure if REXX has a similar flag. The dynamic scope of variables was mostly a feature for people who were just writing shell scripts and what not, where you only had global scope anyway.
I wouldn't really put it as "standing in the way", since I doubt their main goal in this is to prevent the growth of open source software. In all likelyhood, they simply realize that 90%+ of their consumers have windows boxes, and they dont wish to spend the extra time/resources/manhours to produce drivers for the niche linux crowd. Its just a simple cost/benefit thing.
I just didn't like netbeans because it brought my system to a crawl whenever I used it. It was a few years ago, so I am sure it has improved - but I am an eclipse guy now. They had their chance.
If you want fast load times, get a cube - that thing loads blazingly fast. XBOX is a distant second, and the PS2's loading time is measured in mass extinctions ...
Well, in all honesty - they did scramble that whole DS wirelss network thingy together. They aren't actually doing it themselves, as they are just contracting ign/gamespy - and they probably aren't going to set up any wireless hotspots over here in the states - the country is too big, and wifi is percolating into downtown areas of its own accord anyway. I think that the fact that PSP has internet ready games at launch did kind of force them to realize that they need to get their consoles into gear with this whole online thing.
Last I checked that out, it glitched up Mario Golf's graphics to no end. It was alright, and cool to see that it could work - but by no means a good gaming experience.
Its not ZSNES, thats for sure.
Well ... yeah ... I mean that only makes sense. My argument still holds though. You only choose to stick with Nikon because its more convenient for you to do so.
But this only brings about a temporary profit for Nikon, if it is for a profit in the first place. New consumers are always entering the market, and if their product becomes less appetizing to those consumers because of this fact, then they lose business to other, more open, camera companies.
Well the whole competition thing was my point. There is nothing preventing Fuji, or Kodak, or Cannon, or any of their other competetors from not using a proprietary format, and thus possibly having a cheaper camera. If they do this, and it is cheaper, they will get more money than Nikon.
And again, the average consumer misses nothing. They get software with the camera that can read in their pictures, print it out, do some simple manipulations ... thats pretty much all they need. I wouldn't be suprised if the software even lets them export it to JPEG or what not. I do not own one of these things myself, so I cannot say.
Consumers rip themselves off. If the cost is so much more with this software package, no one will buy it. Again, simple economics. No matter how ignorant a consumer - if one product is $100 cheaper, and offers the same performance, they will get it.
But in this case it isn't that the consumer isn't well informed, its that the consumer doesn't care - and has no reason to care. Its only the OSS gurus that give a crap about this kind of thing. The consumer is perfectly happy to go about their daily life using this camera and its evil proprietary format. They will lose nothing because of it.
No, not in the slightest. What you are describing is an external entity going and modifying my existing property. What is happening here is that we are buying into something knowingly, and willingly. Its like if we paid you to put padlocks on all our stuff, although you would also have to give us the key, and we couldnt cut them off.
Dont like it, dont buy it.
Well you could just do the common sense thing and not buy their camera. Thats the way capitalism is supposed to work, isnt it? You dont like these guys cuz they wont be nice to OS and give away all their code and such. These other guys will do that, so you buy their stuff instead. Other guys get profit. Market self-corrects.
In case you hadn't noticed ... Nintendo already has captured some of the console market. Adding Linux as a "feature" would attract very little new capital, I would imagine ... and probably just make the thing run slower.
Fizzy Lifting Drink, you insensitive clod!
Hm ... it seems to have also flown over the heads of the mods, as they have deemed it insightful.
Im guessing you haven't read the article ...
This particular one is about scientists in a labratory controlling real flies, not creating some new tiny robotic fly armada.
The latest versions of Emacs have one as well.