Because if you have a Windows domain fully configured in a large corporation, integrating IIS with all that is a snap. Actually, it most likely -already- is: Reporting Services, Sharepoint, Exchange, they all use it.
So my question is: Why use 2 web servers when you can use only one, especially one thats already installed and locked down?
Yes, I know what you're talking about: like I said, I -have- seen lap-tops with them. Just never with someone owning them (and I had jobs where I would see hundreds of lap-tops per day). Firewire devices are so rare, I'm not suprirsed only a few lap-tops have them. (my desktop PC has a firewire port which I wish I could use, being short on USB ports even with all the USB hubs I have laying around), but aside for external harddrives if you look well enough, very few mainstream (read: not professional stuff) useful things use em...
Most lap-tops have firewires? Err? I mean, maybe where you are, as an anecdotal evidence...but aside advertised in stores or something, I've personally never seen anyone who owned one. USB2? Yes. Firewire? Nope.
If Windows 7 comes out next year (thats a big if), it will be 3 years apart (a bit less depending on the date Windows 7 comes out...if it comes out at the very end, it will be about exactly 3 years).
Thats consistant with the pre-Vista fuck up day (and Vista's original intent), even if we don't count NT. 95, 98, ME/2000, XP, Vista's original schedule... all 2-3 years apart, give or take. And back then, a few months after a windows launch, the next one was hyped. Heck, its that way in the Linux world too, you hear about the next version of Ubuntu almost in sync with the latest version hitting the servers.
Really... I guess people liked the impossibly slow launch schedule...considering how quickly they forgot the fast paced one of old.
Yup. I currently work from home, and thus have no commute whatsoever, and I live alone (the fiancee's out of the country for the time being for work). I always wake up before work starts, and go to bed when I'm sleepy (since that gives me like 10 hours of sleep, which i definately don't need).
My weight stayed stable, even though I eat WAY more and move WAY less now... Though in general (but not with my last job, thus why I can compare), I refuse to do 40+ hours week if I have more than 45 minutes each way to travel... makes me wake up too early, and force me to go to bed too late. 37.5 hours weeks max in that case, which allow me to get the sleep I need. Its simply too important. Life > Work. (I realise not everyone has the chance of being hat picky).
And Mandriva runs flawlessly, why wil Linux work flawlwssly with a bad memory chip but not Windows?
Thats common, both ways. I don't know about now (haven't used Linux in a while), but back then you could tell your harddrives were going bad just by putting Linux on em. Linux would throw a total tantrum, kernel panicks and so on, while Windows would happily go along with it (for better or worse).
It depends what you do, too... as another example, a lot of people find out about bad hardware when they go and play with Gentoo, since compiling an entire system stresses hardware so much. I guess Windows along gets your hardware stressed out:)
Anyway...just saying its possible, but I don't think thats what it is. There's a lot of shitty software on Windows... iTune, most anti-virus, etc... any of those would slowly crap out your machine (as they would any OS if such shitty software was made for it).
That being said, you're seriously overdoing it. Windows pre-SP1 is vulnerable to ONE worm by just being there doing nothing, and just having it behind a NAT will make sure you can patch it up. If you have a later copy, even that isn't an issue. And even if i twas....you sure sound like you do have a NAT...its not like someone can go and own your box if it can't even tell it exists while you're patching... And then you can happily activate it over the internet (which you have a freagin month to do).
Transparent in this context has nothing to do with IT people vs Money people or whatever. Its just the context. In this context, it means "being upfront and well documented".
it makes sense on an economy of scale... people who make 50 cents an hour can't buy a 300$ OS. The thing thats unfair, is that its not completly why those price drops are there. It feels like its rewarding piracy to me.
How can you then blame people for pirating software, when you show them that if they keep doing it, they'll get a 80% discount on legit copies?
Apple ain't big enough to a buse a monopoly, and when MS started doing that, they weren't yet a total monopoly either. (and not convicted of it, either).
Jobs' wet dream is to be Microsoft. He does the same things, use the same strategies, comfy with the idea that as long as he doesnt reach his goal, he can't be sued for it.
I'd say more: There isn't enough food, so the bigger mammoths starve to death, while the smaller ones (at first) -barely- make it on the food rations. From generation to generation, from food withdrawals, the babies get smaller, and the ones that are well adapt to this lack of food and room end up outliving their cousins and reproducing better/faster/more efficiently and effectively.
It really seems simple to me. Of course Darwin's theory is incomplete, even he knew that, but I dont think this was a good example.
Not be apologist, but reading those emails, seems like some people at MS were fairly pissed off about it, and its just some select few overly powerful individuals that did this in their back.
Also: not "every single one of their users". Just the lower end ones.
Its still shitty, and I agree with you, don't get me wrong. But its not a generalised thing either.
I'm not knowledgeable about it, but Flexbuilder lets you make applications for AIR? I thought Flex and AIR were mostly unrelated... I figured to develop AIR apps you just developed a conforming web app (using a few special action script APIs for integration) and ran it through some compiler tool. Or something along those ideas. Seeing in the showcases how many existing web apps were ported in a few days to AIR, what exactly is Flexbuilder's role in that?
Thats an honest question btw, not a sarcastic jab (since its Slashdot, I have to precise that I guess).
I agree that it can be a sad state, but one thing is indeed true: a lot of times, people disagree with these theories because they don't understand them. Example: if you go in religious communities online, you'll see a lot of people use the argument that protons stay close to each other, even though they're the same charge, and then quote a part of the bible saying how God keeps things together that shouldn't be, as proof of his influence (mostly because they've never even HEARD, much less analysed, of the researches that can explain this...for examples, that there are things beyond protons, neutrons and electrons, which are the only things the average joe heard of). Or point out flaws in carbon dating techniques to "prove" that the earth is only 10000 years old (because carbon dating is the only technique you hear about on TV).
It IS true you need to know at least a bit beyond the basics of a theory before you can shoot it down. Else its just ignorance. It is NOT different from the fact that you cannot say the Bible is retarded unless you've read at least semi-significant portions of it. Else you're just going by what others said. I will openly say that the bible is one of the stupidest documents to beleive in, but I've also read the entire thing (by force, not by choice though, and i don't think one needs to read anywhere close to the whole thing, either).
Now, this is just an example of science vs religion, because its an easy one to make, but this principle has little to do with religion: its just that to shoot down anything, you need to either know something about the content, or have reasons to think that the source is not reliable. Random PhD in Physics is a little bit more reliable than Joe Random Highschool Student, even if they can be out of wack and unreliable.
To -beleive- (or not) the theories, you don't need to really know them. Its your right, doesn't affect anyone or anything, and its just you. But to -shoot them down-, you need to know where they come from.
I may be missing something, but the examples you gave are still survival of the fittest. The changes to accomodate the land allowed for more individuals to live...
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It must be great to live in such a simple world:)
Really though. If you have a bunch of people who discover a process in a lab to, let say, make a type of semi-conductor that would allow processors to be 10 times faster...well, you may not exactly have the facilities to make CPUs... so the only people allowed to research them (and make money from it) is Intel, AMD and co?
What do master pages have to do with URLs anyway? And for URLs, ASP.NET has URL mapping built in if you want "pretty" ones. And if the URL mapping features don't do the trick (let say you wanted a complicated scheme), 6 lines of code in an http handler will do it.
Also, C# is probably as close to straight C as Python is to Smalltalk: not very (aside maybe for the brackets)
A) If there were programming superstars around, the only way to connect to them is by, well, connections. The friend of one of your current employe is good, and through that one you get in touch with the superstar.
B) There aren't any (or almost). In the current market, where everyone comes out of CS school as an applied math major with "Computer" written somewhere on the diploma, there's virtually no one qualified to fill in software architect and project manager jobs and, to a lesser extent, functional analysts. So a lot of "superstar" programmer are quickly promoted to these jobs, the "top" QA with an associate degree who knows a little PHP is promoted to programmer, and quickly enough, you end up with zero superstar programmer, just superstar "monkey team leaders".
Even the big shot companies like IBM, Google, MS, or the fast growing ones like Endeca, work like that. A bunch of monkeys lead by 2-3 former top dog programmers.
Shit. So now the universe is copyrighted by Disney. Freagin great. They'll probably start working on getting copyright extended to billion of years now, so they can milk this for all its worth.
Indeed. Except MS has been failing to keep its lock-ins more and more lately. If this time isn't it, next time will be. They'll have to change strategy or go bankrupt in the long run... And once they lost all of their locks it will be too late to start working on things like this.
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Because if you have a Windows domain fully configured in a large corporation, integrating IIS with all that is a snap. Actually, it most likely -already- is: Reporting Services, Sharepoint, Exchange, they all use it.
So my question is: Why use 2 web servers when you can use only one, especially one thats already installed and locked down?
Yes, I know what you're talking about: like I said, I -have- seen lap-tops with them. Just never with someone owning them (and I had jobs where I would see hundreds of lap-tops per day). Firewire devices are so rare, I'm not suprirsed only a few lap-tops have them. (my desktop PC has a firewire port which I wish I could use, being short on USB ports even with all the USB hubs I have laying around), but aside for external harddrives if you look well enough, very few mainstream (read: not professional stuff) useful things use em...
Most lap-tops have firewires? Err? I mean, maybe where you are, as an anecdotal evidence...but aside advertised in stores or something, I've personally never seen anyone who owned one. USB2? Yes. Firewire? Nope.
If Windows 7 comes out next year (thats a big if), it will be 3 years apart (a bit less depending on the date Windows 7 comes out...if it comes out at the very end, it will be about exactly 3 years).
Thats consistant with the pre-Vista fuck up day (and Vista's original intent), even if we don't count NT. 95, 98, ME/2000, XP, Vista's original schedule... all 2-3 years apart, give or take. And back then, a few months after a windows launch, the next one was hyped. Heck, its that way in the Linux world too, you hear about the next version of Ubuntu almost in sync with the latest version hitting the servers.
Really... I guess people liked the impossibly slow launch schedule...considering how quickly they forgot the fast paced one of old.
Yup. I currently work from home, and thus have no commute whatsoever, and I live alone (the fiancee's out of the country for the time being for work). I always wake up before work starts, and go to bed when I'm sleepy (since that gives me like 10 hours of sleep, which i definately don't need).
My weight stayed stable, even though I eat WAY more and move WAY less now... Though in general (but not with my last job, thus why I can compare), I refuse to do 40+ hours week if I have more than 45 minutes each way to travel... makes me wake up too early, and force me to go to bed too late. 37.5 hours weeks max in that case, which allow me to get the sleep I need. Its simply too important. Life > Work. (I realise not everyone has the chance of being hat picky).
They're talking about philosophy, not code :)
Transparent in this context has nothing to do with IT people vs Money people or whatever. Its just the context. In this context, it means "being upfront and well documented".
it makes sense on an economy of scale... people who make 50 cents an hour can't buy a 300$ OS. The thing thats unfair, is that its not completly why those price drops are there. It feels like its rewarding piracy to me.
How can you then blame people for pirating software, when you show them that if they keep doing it, they'll get a 80% discount on legit copies?
Apple ain't big enough to a buse a monopoly, and when MS started doing that, they weren't yet a total monopoly either. (and not convicted of it, either).
Jobs' wet dream is to be Microsoft. He does the same things, use the same strategies, comfy with the idea that as long as he doesnt reach his goal, he can't be sued for it.
I'd say more: There isn't enough food, so the bigger mammoths starve to death, while the smaller ones (at first) -barely- make it on the food rations. From generation to generation, from food withdrawals, the babies get smaller, and the ones that are well adapt to this lack of food and room end up outliving their cousins and reproducing better/faster/more efficiently and effectively.
It really seems simple to me. Of course Darwin's theory is incomplete, even he knew that, but I dont think this was a good example.
Not be apologist, but reading those emails, seems like some people at MS were fairly pissed off about it, and its just some select few overly powerful individuals that did this in their back.
Also: not "every single one of their users". Just the lower end ones.
Its still shitty, and I agree with you, don't get me wrong. But its not a generalised thing either.
Indeed. My short term memory had the last few lines of the parent post in mind, which were data quantities instead of rates, thus the mistake :)
LoC per nanofortnight is full of win though.
That makes more sense then. All of the AIR examples I had looked were ExtJS applications (I'm a big ExtJS fan), thus my (wrong) impression.
I'm not knowledgeable about it, but Flexbuilder lets you make applications for AIR? I thought Flex and AIR were mostly unrelated... I figured to develop AIR apps you just developed a conforming web app (using a few special action script APIs for integration) and ran it through some compiler tool. Or something along those ideas. Seeing in the showcases how many existing web apps were ported in a few days to AIR, what exactly is Flexbuilder's role in that?
Thats an honest question btw, not a sarcastic jab (since its Slashdot, I have to precise that I guess).
Yeah yeah, who cares about all that abstract stuff. How many LIBRAIRIES OF CONGRESS is it?!
I agree that it can be a sad state, but one thing is indeed true: a lot of times, people disagree with these theories because they don't understand them. Example: if you go in religious communities online, you'll see a lot of people use the argument that protons stay close to each other, even though they're the same charge, and then quote a part of the bible saying how God keeps things together that shouldn't be, as proof of his influence (mostly because they've never even HEARD, much less analysed, of the researches that can explain this...for examples, that there are things beyond protons, neutrons and electrons, which are the only things the average joe heard of). Or point out flaws in carbon dating techniques to "prove" that the earth is only 10000 years old (because carbon dating is the only technique you hear about on TV).
It IS true you need to know at least a bit beyond the basics of a theory before you can shoot it down. Else its just ignorance. It is NOT different from the fact that you cannot say the Bible is retarded unless you've read at least semi-significant portions of it. Else you're just going by what others said. I will openly say that the bible is one of the stupidest documents to beleive in, but I've also read the entire thing (by force, not by choice though, and i don't think one needs to read anywhere close to the whole thing, either).
Now, this is just an example of science vs religion, because its an easy one to make, but this principle has little to do with religion: its just that to shoot down anything, you need to either know something about the content, or have reasons to think that the source is not reliable. Random PhD in Physics is a little bit more reliable than Joe Random Highschool Student, even if they can be out of wack and unreliable.
To -beleive- (or not) the theories, you don't need to really know them. Its your right, doesn't affect anyone or anything, and its just you. But to -shoot them down-, you need to know where they come from.
I may be missing something, but the examples you gave are still survival of the fittest. The changes to accomodate the land allowed for more individuals to live...
It must be great to live in such a simple world :)
Really though. If you have a bunch of people who discover a process in a lab to, let say, make a type of semi-conductor that would allow processors to be 10 times faster...well, you may not exactly have the facilities to make CPUs... so the only people allowed to research them (and make money from it) is Intel, AMD and co?
Man you must love your large corporations!
What do master pages have to do with URLs anyway? And for URLs, ASP.NET has URL mapping built in if you want "pretty" ones. And if the URL mapping features don't do the trick (let say you wanted a complicated scheme), 6 lines of code in an http handler will do it.
Also, C# is probably as close to straight C as Python is to Smalltalk: not very (aside maybe for the brackets)
A) If there were programming superstars around, the only way to connect to them is by, well, connections. The friend of one of your current employe is good, and through that one you get in touch with the superstar.
B) There aren't any (or almost). In the current market, where everyone comes out of CS school as an applied math major with "Computer" written somewhere on the diploma, there's virtually no one qualified to fill in software architect and project manager jobs and, to a lesser extent, functional analysts. So a lot of "superstar" programmer are quickly promoted to these jobs, the "top" QA with an associate degree who knows a little PHP is promoted to programmer, and quickly enough, you end up with zero superstar programmer, just superstar "monkey team leaders".
Even the big shot companies like IBM, Google, MS, or the fast growing ones like Endeca, work like that. A bunch of monkeys lead by 2-3 former top dog programmers.
Thats going to get you "Joe Generic CS Major who thinks he's a hotshot", not a programmer superstar.
Shit. So now the universe is copyrighted by Disney. Freagin great. They'll probably start working on getting copyright extended to billion of years now, so they can milk this for all its worth.
Crap. I was going to post that but you beat me to it >.
Indeed. Except MS has been failing to keep its lock-ins more and more lately. If this time isn't it, next time will be. They'll have to change strategy or go bankrupt in the long run... And once they lost all of their locks it will be too late to start working on things like this.