Part of the reason why their job is mind-numbingly complicated is because they need to support legasy software. A whole lot of 16-bit DOS apps written 15 years ago still run on current versions of Windows. These are not ports, or recompilations, but the same binaries. I doubt the same can be said of Linux or MacOS, especially with the latter so efficient at cutting off support of applications with major release.
Where are countries like Japan, Singapore, South Korea? Where are countries like Iran? Were a lot of these countries left off because adding them in will skew results, showing data that the organisers don't want us to see?
FWIW, a lot of "bike" helmets don't cover the back of your head, and thus leave that part of your head at least moderately unprotected. I'm sure if wearing the kind of helmets skateboarders and rollerbladers wear will result in fewer major head trauma than wearing the traditional "aerodynamic" bike helmets.
No, I dont want to wear them in the hot+muggy eastern seaboard summers either.
It (biking on sidewalks) works out pretty well in Japan---the roads, especially in Tokyo, are dense and covered with parked cars, like NYC, and about as good (bad) for biking as NYC.
And it's just as illegal there as it is here in NYC. The difference, of course, is that it's one of those bits that are "condoned".
I used to commute by bike when I lived in Gotanda and my employer's place was in Shinagawa; cutting across in front of Sony HQ was much quicker than going around saki on the Yamanote line, even if I accounted for crossing the Keiky tracks near Kita Shinagawa, and being on the roads at 8am was harrowing, but there's no way I can bike on the sidewalks at that hour either.
Show me a rack-mounted disk farm you can ship to a remote vault, and I'll grant you tape's days are done. Some of us are in industries that have legal requirements to not only keep backups, but backups of multiple states, so at a later date, an auditor can presumably go through and reconstruct events, etc.
A backup's raison d'être isn't merely for "oh shit, we lost the drive(s)".
First... any IT guy worthy of being even an intern would add disabling of ActiveX if not outright banning the use of IE to his corporate security policy. The number of security issues it presents make it simply not worth the effort or down time of patching. You don't have to shut down other apps or reboot the computer for a firefox update... calulate the man hour savings of JUST that.
It's all about balance, of course. If my intranet app worked with IE, I can do the following with the reasonal expectation that it will work, with minimal cost on my part:
webapp using my ActiveDirectory to authenticate remote users
being able to push IE updates, etc., in a controlled manner, so we can test for incompatibilities with intranet applications, mooting your point w.r.t. requiring machine reboots for updates.
being able to find support for the MS Stack.
While there are probably tools and extensions to work around that, investigating those workarounds and implementing them will merely be additional burden on my organisation. It's also a larger perceived risk of exposing the corner cases that the independent developer has not thought about.
Now... managers... they care about bottom line and cost. Why on earth would you beleive they would not care to listen about the cost savings involved in using php/mysql over activex/mssql? The portability and down time reductions? All of these are things managers care VERY much about.
It's interesting that you bring up costs, yet fail to see the following:
Firefox is another application my staff will have to maintain; not all corporate sites are geared to use it, and when something inevitably fails to work with it, my users will complain.
You're merely stating that there are cost savings by using php+mysql instead of activex+mssql. Just stating such does not make it so. If an organisation already has MS-trained developers, then surely, MS-based solution will be cheaper.
Security does not automatically grant you an unassailable mandate to change things. While needs of security must be taken into account at all times, at the end, it's the business-side requirements that will drive IT. By forcing all aspects of business to be subservient to security needs, we cause the tail to wag the dog.
Lest you think I don't care about security -- my professional experience has been securing applications in a financial environment.
No, a lot of Fortune 500 CEOs get compensation packages that are in the 7-8 figures in cash, as well as stock options. Besides, with the new accounting laws that are put in place, stock options are counted as being much closer to being cash compensation than previously.
That's because batteries have internal resistance it needs to get over as well, and by freezering it, you're lowering that internal resistance. However, chemical activity will decrease, so overall life will be shorter if the batteries have been cold throughout its life.
That's like saying "I see the requirement for maybe one font weighting, but italics, bold and underline seems a bit excessive".
I can't say what my life reading Japanese would be like if certain bits were never developed. That's like asking what my English life would be like without pronouns.
But now the two kana forms have separate uses. To me, a native Japanese speaker, removing the contextual clues found in Kanji, katakana and hiragana, and writing everything in hiragana, makes all but the most simple ideas completely unintelligible.
Wow. You paint with very wide brushes, to the point of oversimplification.
So what you're saying is that you believe a culture created by military and corporate America in the last fifty years is, in fact, superior or at least different than what the West has had for millennia?
Westernization was happening well before 1945. I'm sorry, but modern Japanese culture is not just a product of "Corporate America" and "Military". Yes, the GHQ had a lot to do with education "reform", but to portray that no pre-1945 cultural artifacts remain is extremely inaccurate.
How about this one instead: why don't the Japanese enthusiastically embrace Western culture, including all the conservative angles? Not so enthusiastic there, huh? Relativism, in any form, is the most tyrannical form of an ethical system in existence. Every one is supposedly free under it, but as soon as someone says, "No, I like this form and not that one," then the person/group is labeled as intolerant or perhaps even dangerous and it is dealt with accordingly.
Your logic does not flow. In your first paragraph, you claim that Japanese culture is a product of American interests, and now you're saying that we Japanese have not embraced Western Culture?
As for cultural intolerance, pot, please meet kettle. All cultures are xenophobic to a point. This is a defense mechanism built-in to cultures in general. While members of a culture are free to experiment into different parts, they are all expected to remain relatively faithful to their parent culture or risk being ostracised.
Finally, there's this argument: the Japanese, as a nation, are dying. The population continues to age as the birth rate continues to be below replacement. The children often do not return to take care of their elders and many decide to leave the country, presumably for the better quality of life outside.
How is this different from America? The prevalence of covalecent homes primarily the elderly is an institution founded in the West. So it's okay for the West to adopt these, but not for Japan? That's not exactly a realistic thought.
I know far more Japanese upper-middle class families who care for their elderly at their on homes than I do American ones. Conversely, I know far more American families who have made the decision to place their elderly into homes. In both cases, they are well-cared for (these are families with reasonable amounts of economic resources); the only differentiation is being the method of care. Perhaps I should not extend America to mean the West, but that's where my experiences lie.
The education system is cutthroat (resembling something of a caste system), further discouraging potential parents because of the required time and monetary input, especially since it won't pay off (no old-age care from the kids, just the social workers and robots).
Caste-system? How is this different from the Harvard/Yale/MIT mentality of the US?
I also question your "potential parents" being discouraged by the required time and monetary input claim. The discouragement isn't how much it costs to educate their children, but how much it costs to be independent. Honestly, I have yet to meet a family, Japanese or American, who made their decision to have children as a mode of investment for themselves.
During the Sengoku period, during which the separation of Samurai as a class happened, the Ninja were reviled as those who killed without showing their face in battle. They were most certainly not Samurai, but were a class of ashigaru, which were essentially a class below samurai. They were allowed the longsword and surnames, but as a class of footmen, they ranked below the samurai.
Contrary to your belief, everyone was allowed a "weapon", but only the samurai were allowed the long sword. The Chonin (commoners) were only allowed the wakizashi.
There were no kings in Japan. Only the emperor, shogun (when appropriate), and various daimyo. Also, the samurai were not of the police force; those duties were carried out by members recruited from the chonin class, supervised by a machibugyo, who is more of a "civilian" overseer than a member of the forces.
The samurai class were definitely in politics, as they were members of the ruling class, but usually only the highest houses were politically active.
Caveat: I worked with a consulting firm who sent people into various parts of Sony, including SCE, the gaming division of Sony, while working in Tokyo.
The internal scuttlebutt from a couple of years ago (right around their PSX launch) was that SCE is the one bright spot for Sony.
I sincerely doubt Sony will sell their golden goose, unless it's for a very stupidly large sum, and I think Bill Gates and Co. are too savvy to pay that sort of an extortionist fee. In all seriousness, I see Microsoft trying to do what they did to the Netscape Navigator with IE -- take an initial hit, but eventually outcompete with products that have superiour perception of value.
You're right, for 99% of things, EJBs are horrible. However, when you have to write extremely high-performance applications that needs to scale to thousands of users, both EJBs and JMSs become godsends.
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Part of the reason why their job is mind-numbingly complicated is because they need to support legasy software. A whole lot of 16-bit DOS apps written 15 years ago still run on current versions of Windows. These are not ports, or recompilations, but the same binaries. I doubt the same can be said of Linux or MacOS, especially with the latter so efficient at cutting off support of applications with major release.
Where are countries like Japan, Singapore, South Korea? Where are countries like Iran? Were a lot of these countries left off because adding them in will skew results, showing data that the organisers don't want us to see?
FWIW, a lot of "bike" helmets don't cover the back of your head, and thus leave that part of your head at least moderately unprotected. I'm sure if wearing the kind of helmets skateboarders and rollerbladers wear will result in fewer major head trauma than wearing the traditional "aerodynamic" bike helmets.
No, I dont want to wear them in the hot+muggy eastern seaboard summers either.
And it's just as illegal there as it is here in NYC. The difference, of course, is that it's one of those bits that are "condoned".
I used to commute by bike when I lived in Gotanda and my employer's place was in Shinagawa; cutting across in front of Sony HQ was much quicker than going around saki on the Yamanote line, even if I accounted for crossing the Keiky tracks near Kita Shinagawa, and being on the roads at 8am was harrowing, but there's no way I can bike on the sidewalks at that hour either.
Show me a rack-mounted disk farm you can ship to a remote vault, and I'll grant you tape's days are done. Some of us are in industries that have legal requirements to not only keep backups, but backups of multiple states, so at a later date, an auditor can presumably go through and reconstruct events, etc.
A backup's raison d'être isn't merely for "oh shit, we lost the drive(s)".
Your clothes would last a lot longer....
Not in NYC... I'd need to wash them again, as my white shirts would be grey!
Customers want music, yes. Many customers already have mp3. Therefore, those customs want mp3.
GP got the units wrong. Those are not in feet, but in inches....
From betta radiation? Is that like glowing Siamese Fighting Fish?
*runs*
It's all about balance, of course. If my intranet app worked with IE, I can do the following with the reasonal expectation that it will work, with minimal cost on my part:
While there are probably tools and extensions to work around that, investigating those workarounds and implementing them will merely be additional burden on my organisation. It's also a larger perceived risk of exposing the corner cases that the independent developer has not thought about.
It's interesting that you bring up costs, yet fail to see the following:
Lest you think I don't care about security -- my professional experience has been securing applications in a financial environment.
No, a lot of Fortune 500 CEOs get compensation packages that are in the 7-8 figures in cash, as well as stock options. Besides, with the new accounting laws that are put in place, stock options are counted as being much closer to being cash compensation than previously.
That's because batteries have internal resistance it needs to get over as well, and by freezering it, you're lowering that internal resistance. However, chemical activity will decrease, so overall life will be shorter if the batteries have been cold throughout its life.
Thank the gods I live on earth, where it consistently fails to reach absolute zero.
<soccermom> but how else will I get my kid to soccer practice???? </soccermom>
*runs and ducks for cover*
No, I believe I said "at least" a decade. That could be two. Besides, I was a liberal arts major. I don't have to be able to add. :P
Wow, that's so... so... 1980's. Or 1880's. Ritual suicide hasn't been a part of the business culture for at least a decade.
That's like saying "I see the requirement for maybe one font weighting, but italics, bold and underline seems a bit excessive".
I can't say what my life reading Japanese would be like if certain bits were never developed. That's like asking what my English life would be like without pronouns.
But now the two kana forms have separate uses. To me, a native Japanese speaker, removing the contextual clues found in Kanji, katakana and hiragana, and writing everything in hiragana, makes all but the most simple ideas completely unintelligible.
Wow. You paint with very wide brushes, to the point of oversimplification.
Westernization was happening well before 1945. I'm sorry, but modern Japanese culture is not just a product of "Corporate America" and "Military". Yes, the GHQ had a lot to do with education "reform", but to portray that no pre-1945 cultural artifacts remain is extremely inaccurate.
Your logic does not flow. In your first paragraph, you claim that Japanese culture is a product of American interests, and now you're saying that we Japanese have not embraced Western Culture?
As for cultural intolerance, pot, please meet kettle. All cultures are xenophobic to a point. This is a defense mechanism built-in to cultures in general. While members of a culture are free to experiment into different parts, they are all expected to remain relatively faithful to their parent culture or risk being ostracised.
How is this different from America? The prevalence of covalecent homes primarily the elderly is an institution founded in the West. So it's okay for the West to adopt these, but not for Japan? That's not exactly a realistic thought.
I know far more Japanese upper-middle class families who care for their elderly at their on homes than I do American ones. Conversely, I know far more American families who have made the decision to place their elderly into homes. In both cases, they are well-cared for (these are families with reasonable amounts of economic resources); the only differentiation is being the method of care. Perhaps I should not extend America to mean the West, but that's where my experiences lie.
Caste-system? How is this different from the Harvard/Yale/MIT mentality of the US?
I also question your "potential parents" being discouraged by the required time and monetary input claim. The discouragement isn't how much it costs to educate their children, but how much it costs to be independent. Honestly, I have yet to meet a family, Japanese or American, who made their decision to have children as a mode of investment for themselves.
Except Cray has been sold to Tera Computer Company in March, 2000.
Uh, no.
During the Sengoku period, during which the separation of Samurai as a class happened, the Ninja were reviled as those who killed without showing their face in battle. They were most certainly not Samurai, but were a class of ashigaru, which were essentially a class below samurai. They were allowed the longsword and surnames, but as a class of footmen, they ranked below the samurai.
Contrary to your belief, everyone was allowed a "weapon", but only the samurai were allowed the long sword. The Chonin (commoners) were only allowed the wakizashi.
There were no kings in Japan. Only the emperor, shogun (when appropriate), and various daimyo. Also, the samurai were not of the police force; those duties were carried out by members recruited from the chonin class, supervised by a machibugyo, who is more of a "civilian" overseer than a member of the forces.
The samurai class were definitely in politics, as they were members of the ruling class, but usually only the highest houses were politically active.
Sony is an electronics firm, yes, but they also do lots of R&D with NHK, the national broadcaster.
Caveat: I worked with a consulting firm who sent people into various parts of Sony, including SCE, the gaming division of Sony, while working in Tokyo.
The internal scuttlebutt from a couple of years ago (right around their PSX launch) was that SCE is the one bright spot for Sony.
I sincerely doubt Sony will sell their golden goose, unless it's for a very stupidly large sum, and I think Bill Gates and Co. are too savvy to pay that sort of an extortionist fee. In all seriousness, I see Microsoft trying to do what they did to the Netscape Navigator with IE -- take an initial hit, but eventually outcompete with products that have superiour perception of value.
You're right, for 99% of things, EJBs are horrible. However, when you have to write extremely high-performance applications that needs to scale to thousands of users, both EJBs and JMSs become godsends.
:)
Right tool for the right job, and all that
Oh, everybody knows all generalisations are false! :)