Bad Idea... I don't think google or any search engine should index things that aren't public. I think its retarded the way the search engine will point you to something you can't see or use w/o signing up. Really I wish google didn't index expert sex change. Its just more noise in the results.
Its funny the only thing I see saving Microsoft from its downward spiral is splitting into separat companies. You mention "competing companies" I fail to see how any of the companies spawned from MS break up would be competing though. You would end up with an OS provider, office tools provider, developer tools provider and and entertainment company. I suppose the office tools and developer tools companies could offer competing solutions in a roundabout way.
Aren't most antibacterial hand cleaners etc alcohol based?
If bacteria was going to evolve to become alcohol resistant wouldn't it have happened millenia ago? and the war between yeast and bacteria would have had a clear victor?
I suppose it might be akin to expecting bullet immune people to evolve as gun deaths rise. I don't think its going to happen.
Do everyone a favor don't become a Software Engineer if you don't enjoy the work. If you enjoy coding/programming/design or being a Software Engineer you'll get promoted as high as you care to (possibly CTO, or CIO which could still possibly lead to a CEO position at some point if that is *really* what you wanted). As for 2 and 3... any one with a brain clearly realizes Software developement is NOT free, but once its developed well you can produce as many copies as you want. Why is this so hard to grasp?
The developers where I work used to be about 50/50 Idea and Eclipse, now there is only one developer still using Idea. He seems to think its the best thing in the world. He'll always say something like but can you do this in eclipse? and invariable someone responds "um yeah."
You call eclipse god-awful slow and clunky, well Idea is pretty clunky and slow too, so is MS's Visual Studio. All IDE's with code completion, constant compilation error checking and the multitude of other little functions are going to be and the more plugins you throw into it the worse its going to be. If you found eclipse particularly cumbersome, I'd suggest you fiddle with the options and the plugins.
Microsoft corporate delivers pinata to Asus rep. Microsoft's OS is then available as a SKU worldwide ~1-3 years after Asus's product launch. 1 to 3 years after? really when was the first Asus EEE pc available with Windows XP? I mean the original EEE pc has been out for what a year now? and an XP version has been available for how long?
If only MS was that complacent...
The only hope (IMHO) for Microsoft is to split into several different companies one Offering an OS, one offering Development Tools/solutions, one for Entertainment, one for Business software. Companies that have no ties implicit or explicit as I think it is these ties between the various business units that is killing them.
Newsletter, where is it so I may subscribe to it?
Seriously, what you're doing is my longterm goal. I've bounced around through a few companies first as a full time employee for gov contractor, then as a full time employee of a consulting company working for Fortune 500 companies, and now I'm a just a full time employee.
So do you know where one can go to get started? Not finding the work so much as learning the specifics of 1099, setting up an S-Corp and all the "business" work behind it?
I fail to see how
if(startDate enteredDate && enteredDate endDate){...} Is any more readable than
if(AllowedRange.contains(enteredDate){...}
If you rewrite both using Domain specific variable names that have some meaning like:
if(birthDate enteredDate && deathDate endDate){...}
if(LifeTime.contains(enteredDate){...}
My baby figured out how to use her hands and eyes all on her own
Nonsense, your baby was born with bios otherwise it would come out of the womb unable to breathe. All sorts of programming is stored in human dna. Your baby wasn't formed spontaneously in vacuum.
"Full Professors w/o fellowships, etc: $60-150k/year"
Ok, well that is going to cost anywhere from $120-300k/year as a rough ball park estimate. I think the typical "ballpark" estimate for employee cost is usually twice their salary. I could imagine it would be more for a Scientist than a typical office employee, due equipment costs not to mention insurance/liability etc.
So if I use a fancy digital camcorder to record some very "private" vacation movies with the girlfriend or wife. Then TSA has a right to not only watch it, but keep a copy?
Seriously wtf? This is not right on so many levels.
Still is not the case according to their own FAQ.
"Yes, you may bundle JBoss with your software and hardware applications without compromising your commercial licenses. JBoss, Inc. wants to promote the adoption of JBoss, and this is precisely why we chose the LGPL."
How did that happen? As long as the company you work for is willing to provide the source code for all the open source software included inside the box (ie JBoss) and specifically any tweaks/changes that the company made to it, they should be free to distribute their software however they see fit including charging for it in shrink wrapped boxes.
I didn't think you we're being a grammar nazi. I didn't bother to re-read what I wrote before posting. I'm just glad it was decipherable.
Exactlyy. The ability to use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL. Most vendors only barely implement a PostgreSQL interface let alone test using it.
ok now I'm confused. I've never used PostregSql during any development work, I've been meaning to try it at home. Mostly b/c everyone on slahdot is of the opinion its much better than MySql. I try to code in a db agnostic manner, so that any db can be used. So if Postgre will work better I'd like to give it a try. Are you implying that the vendors for Tomcat/Weblogic/WebSphere etc should be supplying the jdbc drivers for postgre? Does postgre not have/offer their own jdbc drivers?
Sorry about the grammar, I'm distracted while work and trying to post while projects build/apps deploy.
To the point at hand:
I've personally seen tomcat work with HSQL, MySql, MS sql, oracle, and db2. I've seen WebSphere work with HSQL, MySql, and DB2. I've seen Weblogic work with oracle, HSQL, and MySql. Sure this means sun has a nice vertical stack to offer people will they push it? Sure but wouldn't you expect them too? The whole stack could be open source and I believe Sun's offerings specifically are open source. Which means anyone can sell support for it.
Maybe I'm confused when you say only give lip service to PostgreSQL but fully support MySQL.
I assumed you meant support as in able to actually use the two together as opposed to offering to give you customer support. I've never needed vendor support from any of the Server vendors to get a db hooked up to it.
Sun owns Java. Sun will soon own MySQL. If you have a Tomcat/J2EE environment running open source, you will soon be having to deal with a single vendor with control over your environment, because most systems only give lip service to PostgreSQL but fully support MySQL. Expect the support bills to go up.
I think you are forgetting a few things or just trolling, but you're somehow modded +5 insightful so I'll assume the former. Sun doesn't own Tomcat (they do offer their own J2EE stack). You won't have a single vendor in control of your system anymore than you do now. Their all multiple JEE servers supported by multiple vendors, and almost all of them allow you to plug in different db's supported by multiple vendors.
I wish I could mod you up more. The issue is not Java any more than it is English. The issue is the education system is going down the toilet. The issue is teaching people what to do to accomplish X and not teaching them how to think about solving X (so that they can go about solving Y).
I'm thankful that my school taught CS and not Java/C#/VB or whatever flavor. We had classes in Java, C++, scheme, lisp, assembly, chip design etc.
I think the answer is obvious. Why don't you let the students decide? Explain the situation, explain the pro's and cons. Then put it up to a vote. Even better make the assignments such that they can be accomplished using either tool set and let individual students decide which one they want to use. Obviously this will take a little more effort on your part and will require the students do a little more learning on their own to become familiar with the specific tool they chose.
After all is said and done you would at least have a better idea which way to go in the next session (or if it works out well you could leave it this way).
Honestly I don't see the difference between the too, because I read them the same way. Any time I read or hear something second hand, I know for a fact that the information is being relayed to me through an unreliable and prejudiced device known as a human.
So maybe to you those headlines mean to different things to me they mean one thing: someone somewhere thinks a cellphone battery killed someone.
I liked it a lot, until I realized it has only 64MB of storage (probably Flash RAM). Not good enough, not bloody good enough.
Also, a big plus would have been using generic AAA batteries, so I can replace them when it finally dies.
Really... 64 megs upgradeable to 2gbs on a standard sd card. How many of those can fit inside the carrying case? Batteries? you want crappy AAA batteries b/c you'll go more than 3 weeks between hooking it back up to your pc to add content?
I want to know why I haven't heard of this before? it looks so simple and clean and the fact it uses a standardized card slot why hasn't this been featured instead of the Kindle?
Really??? are you trolling or do you not understand the purpose of GPLv3? Are you being willfully ignorant? GPLv3 is all about preventing this sort of behavior. It is trying to bring about change by working with in the existing framework (one that the authors of GPLv3 dislike). Turning the existing IP laws against themselves. I'd hardly call that hypocritical, some would call it poetic.
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Bad Idea... I don't think google or any search engine should index things that aren't public. I think its retarded the way the search engine will point you to something you can't see or use w/o signing up. Really I wish google didn't index expert sex change. Its just more noise in the results.
Just pay someone to sit around and drink beer all day.
Lobbying congress to fix the patent system, instead of buying patents?
and I'm not an author.
Its funny the only thing I see saving Microsoft from its downward spiral is splitting into separat companies. You mention "competing companies" I fail to see how any of the companies spawned from MS break up would be competing though. You would end up with an OS provider, office tools provider, developer tools provider and and entertainment company. I suppose the office tools and developer tools companies could offer competing solutions in a roundabout way.
Aren't most antibacterial hand cleaners etc alcohol based? If bacteria was going to evolve to become alcohol resistant wouldn't it have happened millenia ago? and the war between yeast and bacteria would have had a clear victor? I suppose it might be akin to expecting bullet immune people to evolve as gun deaths rise. I don't think its going to happen.
Do everyone a favor don't become a Software Engineer if you don't enjoy the work. If you enjoy coding/programming/design or being a Software Engineer you'll get promoted as high as you care to (possibly CTO, or CIO which could still possibly lead to a CEO position at some point if that is *really* what you wanted). As for 2 and 3... any one with a brain clearly realizes Software developement is NOT free, but once its developed well you can produce as many copies as you want. Why is this so hard to grasp?
The developers where I work used to be about 50/50 Idea and Eclipse, now there is only one developer still using Idea. He seems to think its the best thing in the world. He'll always say something like but can you do this in eclipse? and invariable someone responds "um yeah." You call eclipse god-awful slow and clunky, well Idea is pretty clunky and slow too, so is MS's Visual Studio. All IDE's with code completion, constant compilation error checking and the multitude of other little functions are going to be and the more plugins you throw into it the worse its going to be. If you found eclipse particularly cumbersome, I'd suggest you fiddle with the options and the plugins.
The only hope (IMHO) for Microsoft is to split into several different companies one Offering an OS, one offering Development Tools/solutions, one for Entertainment, one for Business software. Companies that have no ties implicit or explicit as I think it is these ties between the various business units that is killing them.
Newsletter, where is it so I may subscribe to it? Seriously, what you're doing is my longterm goal. I've bounced around through a few companies first as a full time employee for gov contractor, then as a full time employee of a consulting company working for Fortune 500 companies, and now I'm a just a full time employee. So do you know where one can go to get started? Not finding the work so much as learning the specifics of 1099, setting up an S-Corp and all the "business" work behind it?
Why is parent modded insightful?
I fail to see how
if(startDate enteredDate && enteredDate endDate){...}
Is any more readable than
if(AllowedRange.contains(enteredDate){...}
If you rewrite both using Domain specific variable names that have some meaning like:
if(birthDate enteredDate && deathDate endDate){...}
if(LifeTime.contains(enteredDate){...}
I think the second one is much more readable.
My baby figured out how to use her hands and eyes all on her own
Nonsense, your baby was born with bios otherwise it would come out of the womb unable to breathe. All sorts of programming is stored in human dna. Your baby wasn't formed spontaneously in vacuum.
"Full Professors w/o fellowships, etc: $60-150k/year" Ok, well that is going to cost anywhere from $120-300k/year as a rough ball park estimate. I think the typical "ballpark" estimate for employee cost is usually twice their salary. I could imagine it would be more for a Scientist than a typical office employee, due equipment costs not to mention insurance/liability etc.
So if I use a fancy digital camcorder to record some very "private" vacation movies with the girlfriend or wife. Then TSA has a right to not only watch it, but keep a copy?
Seriously wtf? This is not right on so many levels.
Still is not the case according to their own FAQ. "Yes, you may bundle JBoss with your software and hardware applications without compromising your commercial licenses. JBoss, Inc. wants to promote the adoption of JBoss, and this is precisely why we chose the LGPL."
How did that happen? As long as the company you work for is willing to provide the source code for all the open source software included inside the box (ie JBoss) and specifically any tweaks/changes that the company made to it, they should be free to distribute their software however they see fit including charging for it in shrink wrapped boxes.
2 seconds of googling brought this up:
http://www.jboss.org/opensource/lgpl/faq#bundle
Hrm... seems like you are spreading misinformation.
I didn't think you we're being a grammar nazi. I didn't bother to re-read what I wrote before posting. I'm just glad it was decipherable.
Exactlyy. The ability to use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL. Most vendors only barely implement a PostgreSQL interface let alone test using it.
ok now I'm confused. I've never used PostregSql during any development work, I've been meaning to try it at home. Mostly b/c everyone on slahdot is of the opinion its much better than MySql. I try to code in a db agnostic manner, so that any db can be used. So if Postgre will work better I'd like to give it a try. Are you implying that the vendors for Tomcat/Weblogic/WebSphere etc should be supplying the jdbc drivers for postgre? Does postgre not have/offer their own jdbc drivers?
Sorry about the grammar, I'm distracted while work and trying to post while projects build/apps deploy.
To the point at hand:
I've personally seen tomcat work with HSQL, MySql, MS sql, oracle, and db2. I've seen WebSphere work with HSQL, MySql, and DB2. I've seen Weblogic work with oracle, HSQL, and MySql. Sure this means sun has a nice vertical stack to offer people will they push it? Sure but wouldn't you expect them too? The whole stack could be open source and I believe Sun's offerings specifically are open source. Which means anyone can sell support for it.
Maybe I'm confused when you say only give lip service to PostgreSQL but fully support MySQL. I assumed you meant support as in able to actually use the two together as opposed to offering to give you customer support. I've never needed vendor support from any of the Server vendors to get a db hooked up to it.
Sun owns Java. Sun will soon own MySQL. If you have a Tomcat/J2EE environment running open source, you will soon be having to deal with a single vendor with control over your environment, because most systems only give lip service to PostgreSQL but fully support MySQL. Expect the support bills to go up.
I think you are forgetting a few things or just trolling, but you're somehow modded +5 insightful so I'll assume the former. Sun doesn't own Tomcat (they do offer their own J2EE stack). You won't have a single vendor in control of your system anymore than you do now. Their all multiple JEE servers supported by multiple vendors, and almost all of them allow you to plug in different db's supported by multiple vendors.
I wish I could mod you up more. The issue is not Java any more than it is English. The issue is the education system is going down the toilet. The issue is teaching people what to do to accomplish X and not teaching them how to think about solving X (so that they can go about solving Y).
I'm thankful that my school taught CS and not Java/C#/VB or whatever flavor. We had classes in Java, C++, scheme, lisp, assembly, chip design etc.
I think the answer is obvious. Why don't you let the students decide? Explain the situation, explain the pro's and cons. Then put it up to a vote. Even better make the assignments such that they can be accomplished using either tool set and let individual students decide which one they want to use. Obviously this will take a little more effort on your part and will require the students do a little more learning on their own to become familiar with the specific tool they chose.
After all is said and done you would at least have a better idea which way to go in the next session (or if it works out well you could leave it this way).
Honestly I don't see the difference between the too, because I read them the same way. Any time I read or hear something second hand, I know for a fact that the information is being relayed to me through an unreliable and prejudiced device known as a human.
So maybe to you those headlines mean to different things to me they mean one thing: someone somewhere thinks a cellphone battery killed someone.
I'm inclined to think that person is an idiot.
I liked it a lot, until I realized it has only 64MB of storage (probably Flash RAM). Not good enough, not bloody good enough. Also, a big plus would have been using generic AAA batteries, so I can replace them when it finally dies. Really... 64 megs upgradeable to 2gbs on a standard sd card. How many of those can fit inside the carrying case? Batteries? you want crappy AAA batteries b/c you'll go more than 3 weeks between hooking it back up to your pc to add content? I want to know why I haven't heard of this before? it looks so simple and clean and the fact it uses a standardized card slot why hasn't this been featured instead of the Kindle?
Still I can't quite justify the price...
Really??? are you trolling or do you not understand the purpose of GPLv3? Are you being willfully ignorant? GPLv3 is all about preventing this sort of behavior. It is trying to bring about change by working with in the existing framework (one that the authors of GPLv3 dislike). Turning the existing IP laws against themselves. I'd hardly call that hypocritical, some would call it poetic.