Really? You're helping them to stay in business. I think it's more honest to admit you're part of the problem, but you don't care or you have no choice.
Sure. The internet beats Windows hands down as an open platform and on economic and popularity terms. Java is more open for "make any software and sell it to anyone". Linux and OS/2 are more extensible than Windows. Windows' popularity is arguable due to their monopoly practices.
Dan, the company man, felt loyalty to the core. After 16 years of service, and a family to support He actually started to believe the weaponry and chemicals were for national defense. 'Cause Danny had a mortgage, and a boss to answer to. The guilty don't feel guilty, they learn not to.
How can you work for a company without implicitly endorsing their actions or the use of their products? Is working for an anti-competitive monopolist any different than working for an extortion racketeer?
Microsoft didn't make the PC an "open ecosystem". (If I'm interpreting your comment correctly.) IBM's "choice" to make the PC an open platform (and choosing DOS) is the only reason Microsoft exists. (You can probably throw OS/2 and Linux into that statement as well.)
That isn't the same as a monopoly on the whole, personal-computer market. They don't even have a monopoly on the portion that is smartphones and tablets. iOS is Apple's to do with as they please. Microsoft didn't get into trouble for anything they did within the Window's market; it was due to their adverse effects on the whole, personal-computer market.
It was removing just another cog in the machine to streamline the federal cash to corporate pockets process as the Foxes are now instructing the farmer on how to build a hen house.
...and the FOXes are selling support of it to the public.;-)
IT also != administering servers. IT encompasses everything to do with information technology, so it's okay to consider programming within the context of IT.
The rest of your post is spot on; a good developer had better know about requirements analysis, design, test, and technical writing. Of course to get back on topic, colleges don't necessarily teach good software engineering, and the best developers are those who continue learning how to be more productive.
So there you have it. There are big corporations out there making millions of dollars on the backs of computer algorithms, and some of them are willing to pay at least $1.2 million per year to programmers who can code them better than anyone else.
There is no evidence in the article to support this conclusion. It would be just as easy to conclude, "... to programmers who can sell themselves better than anyone else." Of course, the data to support the conclusion probably doesn't exist, because according to Capers Jones in the 3rd edition of Applied Software Measurement, "a majority of software organizations have few measurements of any kind." The majority in this case is ~80%.
"We came home and found our son lying dead on his bed of a gunshot wound. He had his headphones on and there was an Ozzy record on the turntable, so we called our lawyer." from Triumph of the Swill by the Dead Kennedys
"Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain. " from Frank Zappa in testimony before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
"I'm gonna write me a new minivan this afternoon!" (self-clicking +1 button) Of course, the +1 button is just a side-note to the larger social-networking goal, but management mandates of intellectual property are always doomed to produce poor results. If a person or group of people within Google could produce the next Facebook, why would they give it to Google?
The abstraction layers serve a purpose. They exist to speed up development, which is still the limiting factor in computer applications.
If you really want to speed up development, you should program at a higher level of abstraction than what is offered by the set of 3GLs. Building artificial abstraction into a language is going to have a wide variation in the final value; sometimes it speeds up development, sometimes it slows down development, and sometimes it has no effect on development time.
Identify one of the software architecture flaws in Windows that make it insecure and how would you fix it?
... and we can all do this because Microsoft has made the Windows architecture documentation freely available along with the source code to ensure that the architecture documents are actually correct???
I imagine the OP is thinking more along the lines of Obama's continued support for the Patriot Act. Combine that with extensions for the tax cuts for the wealthy and caving to the tea party crowd in other areas concerning the budget, it's easy to extrapolate the OP's position as a possible source of government revenue that won't hurt re-election chances.
The quarterback sees the preprogrammed arrangement via information fed to his visor screen and calls an audible. The linebacker sees the shift via his visor screen and calls a defensive audible. Of course, these audibles are inaudible due to every player having visor screens. There is also no need for a snap cadence, because every player has a visor screen. There is also no more offsides, because the ball is being monitored for movement and the information is fed to every defensive player instantaneously. This allows the nose tackle to beat the snap to the quarterback more often. Of course the quarterback gets a great advantage, because the most open receiver is fed instantaneously with location and best ball placement. The free safety is also able to see this information and move to ensure that the subsequent gain is minimized.
As the Supreme Court decided not to rule on the constitutionality of the phrase, considering it unconstitutional isn't wrong. It can still be challenged.
The Christian god, because it was added to the pledge in 1948 as part of the rampant anti-communism rhetoric. Real patriots should skip this part of the pledge, because it violates the Constitution.
No. It's like a maid hiring maids to clean someone else's house. The "amplify productivity" might apply to the sysadmins (more likely, it's a prelude to being shown the door), but IME the users are left with more delays, loss of access and loss of data.
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Really? You're helping them to stay in business. I think it's more honest to admit you're part of the problem, but you don't care or you have no choice.
Sure. The internet beats Windows hands down as an open platform and on economic and popularity terms. Java is more open for "make any software and sell it to anyone". Linux and OS/2 are more extensible than Windows. Windows' popularity is arguable due to their monopoly practices.
From NOFX's the Irrationality of Rationality:
Dan, the company man, felt loyalty to the core.
After 16 years of service, and a family to support
He actually started to believe the weaponry and chemicals were for national defense.
'Cause Danny had a mortgage, and a boss to answer to.
The guilty don't feel guilty, they learn not to.
How can you work for a company without implicitly endorsing their actions or the use of their products? Is working for an anti-competitive monopolist any different than working for an extortion racketeer?
Microsoft didn't make the PC an "open ecosystem". (If I'm interpreting your comment correctly.) IBM's "choice" to make the PC an open platform (and choosing DOS) is the only reason Microsoft exists. (You can probably throw OS/2 and Linux into that statement as well.)
Working in Jesusland is close enough! ;-)
That isn't the same as a monopoly on the whole, personal-computer market. They don't even have a monopoly on the portion that is smartphones and tablets. iOS is Apple's to do with as they please. Microsoft didn't get into trouble for anything they did within the Window's market; it was due to their adverse effects on the whole, personal-computer market.
It was removing just another cog in the machine to streamline the federal cash to corporate pockets process as the Foxes are now instructing the farmer on how to build a hen house.
...and the FOXes are selling support of it to the public. ;-)
IT also != administering servers. IT encompasses everything to do with information technology, so it's okay to consider programming within the context of IT.
The rest of your post is spot on; a good developer had better know about requirements analysis, design, test, and technical writing. Of course to get back on topic, colleges don't necessarily teach good software engineering, and the best developers are those who continue learning how to be more productive.
What's next? "Pigeons from Hell"?
So there you have it. There are big corporations out there making millions of dollars on the backs of computer algorithms, and some of them are willing to pay at least $1.2 million per year to programmers who can code them better than anyone else.
There is no evidence in the article to support this conclusion. It would be just as easy to conclude, "... to programmers who can sell themselves better than anyone else." Of course, the data to support the conclusion probably doesn't exist, because according to Capers Jones in the 3rd edition of Applied Software Measurement, "a majority of software organizations have few measurements of any kind." The majority in this case is ~80%.
As I said in my earlier post,
This is the funniest thing I've read in a while! (If you don't get the joke, look at the quoted poster's user name.)
"We came home and found our son lying dead on his bed of a gunshot wound.
He had his headphones on and there was an Ozzy record on the turntable, so we called our lawyer." from Triumph of the Swill by the Dead Kennedys
"Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain. " from Frank Zappa in testimony before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Are you talking about the movies or the comic books? ;-)
"I'm gonna write me a new minivan this afternoon!" (self-clicking +1 button)
Of course, the +1 button is just a side-note to the larger social-networking goal, but management mandates of intellectual property are always doomed to produce poor results. If a person or group of people within Google could produce the next Facebook, why would they give it to Google?
The abstraction layers serve a purpose. They exist to speed up development, which is still the limiting factor in computer applications.
If you really want to speed up development, you should program at a higher level of abstraction than what is offered by the set of 3GLs. Building artificial abstraction into a language is going to have a wide variation in the final value; sometimes it speeds up development, sometimes it slows down development, and sometimes it has no effect on development time.
Identify one of the software architecture flaws in Windows that make it insecure and how would you fix it?
... and we can all do this because Microsoft has made the Windows architecture documentation freely available along with the source code to ensure that the architecture documents are actually correct???
I imagine the OP is thinking more along the lines of Obama's continued support for the Patriot Act. Combine that with extensions for the tax cuts for the wealthy and caving to the tea party crowd in other areas concerning the budget, it's easy to extrapolate the OP's position as a possible source of government revenue that won't hurt re-election chances.
I'm not sure where to find a list of treaties that the United States has failed to honor
Try reading some Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn.
The quarterback sees the preprogrammed arrangement via information fed to his visor screen and calls an audible. The linebacker sees the shift via his visor screen and calls a defensive audible. Of course, these audibles are inaudible due to every player having visor screens. There is also no need for a snap cadence, because every player has a visor screen. There is also no more offsides, because the ball is being monitored for movement and the information is fed to every defensive player instantaneously. This allows the nose tackle to beat the snap to the quarterback more often. Of course the quarterback gets a great advantage, because the most open receiver is fed instantaneously with location and best ball placement. The free safety is also able to see this information and move to ensure that the subsequent gain is minimized.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
As the Supreme Court decided not to rule on the constitutionality of the phrase, considering it unconstitutional isn't wrong. It can still be challenged.
That pretty well covers everyone who doesn't live in the US - and at least half of the people who do.
Correction needed: over half the people.
Which God?
The Christian god, because it was added to the pledge in 1948 as part of the rampant anti-communism rhetoric. Real patriots should skip this part of the pledge, because it violates the Constitution.
An installed malware is considered "from local", even if it is running from a remote system. A user had to grant the application access.
No. It's like a maid hiring maids to clean someone else's house. The "amplify productivity" might apply to the sysadmins (more likely, it's a prelude to being shown the door), but IME the users are left with more delays, loss of access and loss of data.