For large organizations, that obviously makes it easy to set up horizontal-scaling Samba installs for anything that needs more hardware than it does software. With commercial software, that ends up far too expensive, so the time the unix sysadmins will be spending on setting this up will be worthwhile (and easily pushed to thousands of machines if needed, at no additional cost beyond the hardware and maintenance...which is most of the money, but still a significant saving).
For small and medium size companies, there's still a blooming bit of industry that this type of event enable: appliance style computers. This makes it possible to have a commercial, AD-like appliance in a router-style form factor, without the OEM needing to add the Windows premium. Thats how high end routers work, and this makes it easier than ever to do it for a domain. It existed already, but this will just push it further into the mainstream.
If everyone shared the same common sense, there wouldn't be a need for the legal system at all in the first place, except maybe for complex corporate matters.
But not only do most people not have any kind of common sense, those that do don't agree with each other. Whats obvious to you and I, is perfectly normal and acceptable to your neighbor.
So society makes an half assed attempt at a middle ground between the fucking idiots, and the people with different opinions, and thats called "the law". Unfortunately, it doesn't always work:)
I feel the problem is more than just how much the teachers are paid. Especially if you want to have classes on critical thinking. Even if the job paid 3 times what it pays now, there's just not enough smart people interested in teaching to fill every slots with a bright, interesting, intelligent teacher. Even universities that are raking in the cash and paying hundreds of thousands (and more in some cases) for teachers, still need to fill most of the slots with TAs.
This question is just silly. Concurrency in applications is a solved problem, and douzens of thousands of pages have been written about concurrency mechanism (both at the user interface level and at the code level) in disconnected environments.
I guess its what happens when people think the theory behind computers is the ONLY thing that matters. They miss out on the basics of software development. Whats next? "What are my options to do long running processes in a disconnected environment"? "How do I handle transactional processes in SOA"? Oh oh oh, my favorite!! "I do I make a process automatically retry if it fails at specific parts of it"?
As a general rule, they're expecting to find devices that on scanner look like a cellphone, and may visually look like a cellphone, but is not a cellphone. Or lap-top. Or whatever.
Don't confuse liberal with democrat. A liberal would say "if you're not breaking the law, have fun". And while this is a major loophole in the law, they're still not breaking it outright.
As you said, if they start screwing Microsoft over just to help people make a quick buck or a million(helllo European Union? I'm looking at you!), Microsoft will just move, and then they can kiss goodbye to the income task (which is most likely VERY significant)
Honestly, in the end, if your company needs to fire people for any reason, sooner or later, nothing you can do will prevent it 100%.
The company I work for now had cuts during the recession. A member of our team, a "star" developer (actually, probably easily among the top developers in the world). Quite well known, could do the job of 10, amazing management capabilities, deep insights in the business, etc. Not a small company either, douzens of thousands of developers.
He had abilities no one else had, and without him things would have gone sour, because there was no one in the -world- good enough to replace him. But management saw fit to get rid of him anyway, since obviously he was rather expensive (cost effective though, but they only looked at the absolute numbers).
After he left, it took an -army- to replace him, and even then, outages occured, some data was lost, and to this day, still, he hadn't truly been "replaced" and things aren't going so well. Now obviously thats a problem with the company to depend so much on someone, and thats a big bad thing, but point is: he was irreplaceable, everyone loved him, clients knew him by name (well, technically, a big chunk of the world does), and poof he went anyway.
I'd be curious about the garbage collection stuff though. Its ahead-of-time compiled, there's no runtime, and you usually need a runtime for the garbage collection, unless the compiler includes a pseudo-runtime to run the app or something. I'd assume it works the same as Java native compilers...how do those work, i never looked?
The problem I think is the extreme popularity of 13 inch macbook, which make laptop makers drool over that market.
The "netbook" that interested me the most is the Sony Vaio Serie P, because of how small it is, but its overpowered for what I need it for, and the price follows. If other manufacturers made something like that with less juice and a smaller price tag, I'd be quite interested.
So now you're not only tied to one brand for the OS like you are with Windows, but you're tied to one brand for hardware too? Oh yeah, the purchasing department is going to love the wiggle room that gives them for negotiation...
While i agree with the rest of your point, Microsoft DEFINATELY has a -significantly- broader range of product than Apple. I'm not familiar with 100% of Apple's offering, so I'm sure you'll be able to prove me wrong on some of these (in which case I'd want to know, since having more products to compare is always a good thign), but what is Apple's equivalent product in the following category?
Content Management Intranet/portal Robotics development Bare metal hypervisor, as well as desktop virtual machines Game Console Game publishing POS, customer relation Database Server Antivirus for enterprise servers Search engine Business intelligence platform (ok, that one Microsoft just canned recently, but still) End to end project management
Thats just the stuff thats on top of my head, represent completly distinct products, and it only includes Microsoft's major product lines, not the more obscure stuff they make (of which the list is impressively long. Have you ever heard of Microsoft Solver Foundation? Neither did I until very recently.)
Of course, that would only assume that you have the ressources within your walls to keep a 5 nine uptime on all your application.
Its not like local outages never happen...and it can take more than a few hours to fix severe ones for shops of a few hundred employees and a handful of IT guys.
Thats very true actually, I didn't even think about that. The person texting is in full control of their head when they do so, while the drunk may have started drinking swearing they wouldn't take on the wheels, but did anyway because they were too wasted...
The amount of time I almost get hit by a BlackBerry driver is seriously crazy. And they honk at me to boot.
If I shoot a gun in the general direction of a group of people, being careful to avoid hitting any of them (ignoring the small risk of someone running in the gun's path), and don't hit anybody, is it ok?
people who work for companies like Goldman, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and others are -heavily- audited and regulated, from the trader right down to the IT guys, to avoid any form of abusing or insider trading. Of course, Im sure they miss some, but its very, very strict.
Once you don't work for them anymore and aren't part of the audit procedures, you become a lot more dangerous.
Prince of Persia Epilogue: Not available at all for PC. Overlord's Raising Hell: came out on PC months late, through a very crappy channel Overlord 2's DLC I dont think its even available for PC yet?
It depends on the game type. FPSs and stuff tend to be much more popular on PC, but DLC for other game types is often console exclusive, or at least tends to favor consoles by a lot.
While its probably one of the factors... Java and C# are very heavily used in business environments. So if you're trying to expand your horizon by learning something new, you're not going to be looking at stuff you do day to day.
So I'd assume anything people would do during business hours would take a drop on weekends, in favor of things they -don't- do at work, regardless of what it is... It just makes sense.
If people served their sentence and are thought to be safe to be released, then they're done, save for the stuff taken away by being a felon. Either they're free again, or they are not. There are some conditions and whatsnot, probation, whatever, but this is really exagerating.
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For large organizations, that obviously makes it easy to set up horizontal-scaling Samba installs for anything that needs more hardware than it does software. With commercial software, that ends up far too expensive, so the time the unix sysadmins will be spending on setting this up will be worthwhile (and easily pushed to thousands of machines if needed, at no additional cost beyond the hardware and maintenance...which is most of the money, but still a significant saving).
For small and medium size companies, there's still a blooming bit of industry that this type of event enable: appliance style computers. This makes it possible to have a commercial, AD-like appliance in a router-style form factor, without the OEM needing to add the Windows premium. Thats how high end routers work, and this makes it easier than ever to do it for a domain. It existed already, but this will just push it further into the mainstream.
You were not aware of this because its bullshit. There's no minimum RAM requirement for 64 bit (beyond the requirement of the OS itself)
If everyone shared the same common sense, there wouldn't be a need for the legal system at all in the first place, except maybe for complex corporate matters.
But not only do most people not have any kind of common sense, those that do don't agree with each other. Whats obvious to you and I, is perfectly normal and acceptable to your neighbor.
So society makes an half assed attempt at a middle ground between the fucking idiots, and the people with different opinions, and thats called "the law". Unfortunately, it doesn't always work :)
I feel the problem is more than just how much the teachers are paid. Especially if you want to have classes on critical thinking. Even if the job paid 3 times what it pays now, there's just not enough smart people interested in teaching to fill every slots with a bright, interesting, intelligent teacher. Even universities that are raking in the cash and paying hundreds of thousands (and more in some cases) for teachers, still need to fill most of the slots with TAs.
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/05/_watching_the_google_io.html
This.
This question is just silly. Concurrency in applications is a solved problem, and douzens of thousands of pages have been written about concurrency mechanism (both at the user interface level and at the code level) in disconnected environments.
I guess its what happens when people think the theory behind computers is the ONLY thing that matters. They miss out on the basics of software development. Whats next? "What are my options to do long running processes in a disconnected environment"? "How do I handle transactional processes in SOA"? Oh oh oh, my favorite!! "I do I make a process automatically retry if it fails at specific parts of it"?
As a general rule, they're expecting to find devices that on scanner look like a cellphone, and may visually look like a cellphone, but is not a cellphone. Or lap-top. Or whatever.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1378413&cid=29511019
Whoops. That kind of puts a big dent in my argument now, doesn't it?
Well, thats embarassing, but thats what I get for not doing my research.
Don't confuse liberal with democrat. A liberal would say "if you're not breaking the law, have fun". And while this is a major loophole in the law, they're still not breaking it outright.
As you said, if they start screwing Microsoft over just to help people make a quick buck or a million(helllo European Union? I'm looking at you!), Microsoft will just move, and then they can kiss goodbye to the income task (which is most likely VERY significant)
Honestly, in the end, if your company needs to fire people for any reason, sooner or later, nothing you can do will prevent it 100%.
The company I work for now had cuts during the recession. A member of our team, a "star" developer (actually, probably easily among the top developers in the world). Quite well known, could do the job of 10, amazing management capabilities, deep insights in the business, etc. Not a small company either, douzens of thousands of developers.
He had abilities no one else had, and without him things would have gone sour, because there was no one in the -world- good enough to replace him. But management saw fit to get rid of him anyway, since obviously he was rather expensive (cost effective though, but they only looked at the absolute numbers).
After he left, it took an -army- to replace him, and even then, outages occured, some data was lost, and to this day, still, he hadn't truly been "replaced" and things aren't going so well. Now obviously thats a problem with the company to depend so much on someone, and thats a big bad thing, but point is: he was irreplaceable, everyone loved him, clients knew him by name (well, technically, a big chunk of the world does), and poof he went anyway.
I'd be curious about the garbage collection stuff though. Its ahead-of-time compiled, there's no runtime, and you usually need a runtime for the garbage collection, unless the compiler includes a pseudo-runtime to run the app or something. I'd assume it works the same as Java native compilers...how do those work, i never looked?
The problem I think is the extreme popularity of 13 inch macbook, which make laptop makers drool over that market.
The "netbook" that interested me the most is the Sony Vaio Serie P, because of how small it is, but its overpowered for what I need it for, and the price follows. If other manufacturers made something like that with less juice and a smaller price tag, I'd be quite interested.
So now you're not only tied to one brand for the OS like you are with Windows, but you're tied to one brand for hardware too? Oh yeah, the purchasing department is going to love the wiggle room that gives them for negotiation...
While i agree with the rest of your point, Microsoft DEFINATELY has a -significantly- broader range of product than Apple. I'm not familiar with 100% of Apple's offering, so I'm sure you'll be able to prove me wrong on some of these (in which case I'd want to know, since having more products to compare is always a good thign), but what is Apple's equivalent product in the following category?
Content Management
Intranet/portal
Robotics development
Bare metal hypervisor, as well as desktop virtual machines
Game Console
Game publishing
POS, customer relation
Database Server
Antivirus for enterprise servers
Search engine
Business intelligence platform (ok, that one Microsoft just canned recently, but still)
End to end project management
Thats just the stuff thats on top of my head, represent completly distinct products, and it only includes Microsoft's major product lines, not the more obscure stuff they make (of which the list is impressively long. Have you ever heard of Microsoft Solver Foundation? Neither did I until very recently.)
Of course, that would only assume that you have the ressources within your walls to keep a 5 nine uptime on all your application.
Its not like local outages never happen...and it can take more than a few hours to fix severe ones for shops of a few hundred employees and a handful of IT guys.
Changing the master image is no big deal. Changing all the HDs of of thousands of PCs in the warehouse is another deal.
Yes: the fact that if nobody notice, you can't be arrested either way, no matter whats the law.
And the fact that if Im AIMING (but not shooting) at a group of people and a cop notices, I'm going to lose a lot more than my license.
Thats very true actually, I didn't even think about that. The person texting is in full control of their head when they do so, while the drunk may have started drinking swearing they wouldn't take on the wheels, but did anyway because they were too wasted...
The amount of time I almost get hit by a BlackBerry driver is seriously crazy. And they honk at me to boot.
If I shoot a gun in the general direction of a group of people, being careful to avoid hitting any of them (ignoring the small risk of someone running in the gun's path), and don't hit anybody, is it ok?
people who work for companies like Goldman, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and others are -heavily- audited and regulated, from the trader right down to the IT guys, to avoid any form of abusing or insider trading. Of course, Im sure they miss some, but its very, very strict.
Once you don't work for them anymore and aren't part of the audit procedures, you become a lot more dangerous.
Defensive patents...
Prince of Persia Epilogue: Not available at all for PC.
Overlord's Raising Hell: came out on PC months late, through a very crappy channel
Overlord 2's DLC I dont think its even available for PC yet?
It depends on the game type. FPSs and stuff tend to be much more popular on PC, but DLC for other game types is often console exclusive, or at least tends to favor consoles by a lot.
While its probably one of the factors... Java and C# are very heavily used in business environments. So if you're trying to expand your horizon by learning something new, you're not going to be looking at stuff you do day to day.
So I'd assume anything people would do during business hours would take a drop on weekends, in favor of things they -don't- do at work, regardless of what it is... It just makes sense.
This.
If people served their sentence and are thought to be safe to be released, then they're done, save for the stuff taken away by being a felon. Either they're free again, or they are not. There are some conditions and whatsnot, probation, whatever, but this is really exagerating.