Being a programmer myself, this subject is close to my heart. I happen to have some friends that are pretty high up the IT scale in several companies and have contacts in others, and what all of them are begning to realize is "you get what you pay for". Sure, we can outsource this project to India, and it will come back and not work, if it works, it won't work with YOUR system. The reason they can hire these people for 1/2 the cost is THEY SUCK. Now granted, there are some talented coders over there, but by and large they blow.
Because our past history of drug addicted elected politicians are all so fit to be holding office, right??
Just because someone doesn't have experience in an area doesn't mean they won't be better than the current people in that area.
Alright.
here's a nice link for univeristy rankings
http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm
here is another interesting article
http://www.auap.com/classu.html
And there you are wrong. The US univeristy system is the best in the world. It is not as in some ways as it once was, but by and large it is still the best there is. Lets for instance take a look at the medical field. What are the top med schools in the world? Where are these schools located. Now let's take a look at the hard sciences. Which schools are top there?
The reason there are lots of foreign students doing the "ground breaking" work at US schools is two fold. 1)The average US student is not interested in doing this kind of work, while the average foreign student is in hopes of GETTING A JOB in the US when they are done with school, instead of going back to whatever country they are from. 2)The foreign students that actually get into the prestigious US schools are amoung the smartest in the world. They HAVE to be because of the skewed admission standards, so of course they make quite a contribution. It's the fact that they best and brightest students around the world WANT to go to US univeristies that makes it self-evident that they are the best.
They can't keep him from doing CAD work period. They can only keep him from doing CAD work for one of their direct competitors, and generally (not always) the non-compete also specifies "in the area they worked in for [insert the company name here]".
I had to sign one for my current job, and I read it *very* carefully before putting my pen to paper. If you aren't willing to work for a company that requires one, then find a different job.
The nerve agents are currently being burned in at least one place. The Anniston Army Depot's (in Alabama) weapons incenerator went online either earlier this year or late last year (can't remember which). I also seem to remember there being another incenerator somewhere in the midwest that is opertaional.
The sub base to which you are referring is actually out near Port Orchard (fairly close to Seattle), and they only are home base for about 1/2 of the boomers (ballistic missle subs). The other 1/2 are based out of King's Bay, GA. Also hundreds of warheads is a bit of an overstatement
And just how do you think most other types of power generation work?? Coal/Oil/Natural Gas all use the same method. Heat water that moves turbines. The design detmines how many exchanges you have. As far as the efficiency is concerned you can park a nuclear sub off of New York (city, not state) and hook it up and power the entire city. Now what other type of power generation fits in such a small package. Oh yeah, and you only have to refuel it once every 20 years or so (less for commerical reactors because of difference in fuel).
Breeder reactors are not nearly as efficient as normal pressure reactors are, ergo not what you want for comerical use. They also produce weapons grade plutonium, which we really don't need anymore of.
I didn't get that he was trying to label OSS "communistic", he was simply saying that not every argument you hear for OSS is a good argument, and was pointing out the flaws in the most common ones.
One thing he didn't talk about was the fact that if you do a *good* job programming your app, you will still most likely make money off of it. Assuming, of course, you don't share the source code and some kid in a basement takes it whole cloth and sells it for less.
No, those idiots have never read the consitituion. If they had they would have realized that all these wonderful laws they've been putting into effect for years are illegal. Much like the IRS.
I'm not saying that they are leaving a windows system (although it happens), simply that MS is losing programers to no MS developement tools (such as Java which can be developed in windows or in Linux).
I'm also not saying that MS is losing market share in the OS deparment (or at least not much). Windows is very easy to use, esp when compared to something like UNIX, and I really don't see the vasy majority of people taking the time to run a UNIX box instead of a Windows box.
And yes, large corps do indeed run windows on most desktops, but they also use Java apps (for the most part) which don't have to be run on a MS OS.
MS made a play for enterprise level development with their.Net series (it was developed to compete head to head with Java), but sadly lags far behind.
The proof that MS is loosing developers is implicit in my statement, since I am a MS developer planning on leaving MS development.
As far as coding non internet-apps, I'll have to agree with you that VB and C are definatly the way to go. The problem arises when coding internet apps. I have not been impressed, for various reasons, with the web development that microsoft tries to push through.
As far as functionality is concered, there are some things that SQL Server does well, but many that it fail misserably at (such as very large database management). If you're just wanting to write some quick apps then SQL Server and VB work really well for this (esp with.Net's integrated development tools), but for enterprise level apps, you definatly don't want to take that route. As far as using triggers is concerned I'd be just as happy if those were taken out of all databases, as usually they are not documented and the programmer never has any idea they are there until something wonky happens.
For personal programming and anything that I need RAD for I'll take VB, but for truely large enterprise level applications, esp ones that are web centric, MS just doesn't cut it. After all, how many large corporations do you know that use MS for their enterprise level apps?
I personally develop with MS products everyday, and for the most part hate them. There are some things about them that I do enjoy, and like, but the thing that really pissed me off is Microsoft's.Net 2002 and.Net 2003 move. I'm even certified in SQL Development (which I don't hate quite as much as.Net). I'm also looking to make a switch from MS to Java, just don't have the time yet to invest in learning a new language. As far as Microsoft being worried, I would have to say that they are. In a recent survey I took for them (it was sent to a random sampling of MCPs) they asked what certs I was planning on getting in the future and had spaces check boxes for many non-MS certs. They also asked how happy we were with MS as a company. I think they are finally getting the idea that a large protion of the people that use their developement tools hate the company and the tools.
Ok, time to expose my ignorance. Being a programmer (and gerenally simply told "This is how the DB is, deal with it), all I ever really need to know is what the first 3 normal forms are, but I'm curious. What are the other normal forms?
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Being a programmer myself, this subject is close to my heart. I happen to have some friends that are pretty high up the IT scale in several companies and have contacts in others, and what all of them are begning to realize is "you get what you pay for". Sure, we can outsource this project to India, and it will come back and not work, if it works, it won't work with YOUR system. The reason they can hire these people for 1/2 the cost is THEY SUCK. Now granted, there are some talented coders over there, but by and large they blow.
Because our past history of drug addicted elected politicians are all so fit to be holding office, right?? Just because someone doesn't have experience in an area doesn't mean they won't be better than the current people in that area.
Alright. here's a nice link for univeristy rankings http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm here is another interesting article http://www.auap.com/classu.html
And there you are wrong. The US univeristy system is the best in the world. It is not as in some ways as it once was, but by and large it is still the best there is. Lets for instance take a look at the medical field. What are the top med schools in the world? Where are these schools located. Now let's take a look at the hard sciences. Which schools are top there? The reason there are lots of foreign students doing the "ground breaking" work at US schools is two fold. 1)The average US student is not interested in doing this kind of work, while the average foreign student is in hopes of GETTING A JOB in the US when they are done with school, instead of going back to whatever country they are from. 2)The foreign students that actually get into the prestigious US schools are amoung the smartest in the world. They HAVE to be because of the skewed admission standards, so of course they make quite a contribution. It's the fact that they best and brightest students around the world WANT to go to US univeristies that makes it self-evident that they are the best.
They can't keep him from doing CAD work period. They can only keep him from doing CAD work for one of their direct competitors, and generally (not always) the non-compete also specifies "in the area they worked in for [insert the company name here]". I had to sign one for my current job, and I read it *very* carefully before putting my pen to paper. If you aren't willing to work for a company that requires one, then find a different job.
The nerve agents are currently being burned in at least one place. The Anniston Army Depot's (in Alabama) weapons incenerator went online either earlier this year or late last year (can't remember which). I also seem to remember there being another incenerator somewhere in the midwest that is opertaional. The sub base to which you are referring is actually out near Port Orchard (fairly close to Seattle), and they only are home base for about 1/2 of the boomers (ballistic missle subs). The other 1/2 are based out of King's Bay, GA. Also hundreds of warheads is a bit of an overstatement
And just how do you think most other types of power generation work?? Coal/Oil/Natural Gas all use the same method. Heat water that moves turbines. The design detmines how many exchanges you have. As far as the efficiency is concerned you can park a nuclear sub off of New York (city, not state) and hook it up and power the entire city. Now what other type of power generation fits in such a small package. Oh yeah, and you only have to refuel it once every 20 years or so (less for commerical reactors because of difference in fuel).
Breeder reactors are not nearly as efficient as normal pressure reactors are, ergo not what you want for comerical use. They also produce weapons grade plutonium, which we really don't need anymore of.
I didn't get that he was trying to label OSS "communistic", he was simply saying that not every argument you hear for OSS is a good argument, and was pointing out the flaws in the most common ones. One thing he didn't talk about was the fact that if you do a *good* job programming your app, you will still most likely make money off of it. Assuming, of course, you don't share the source code and some kid in a basement takes it whole cloth and sells it for less.
No, those idiots have never read the consitituion. If they had they would have realized that all these wonderful laws they've been putting into effect for years are illegal. Much like the IRS.
I'm not saying that they are leaving a windows system (although it happens), simply that MS is losing programers to no MS developement tools (such as Java which can be developed in windows or in Linux). I'm also not saying that MS is losing market share in the OS deparment (or at least not much). Windows is very easy to use, esp when compared to something like UNIX, and I really don't see the vasy majority of people taking the time to run a UNIX box instead of a Windows box. And yes, large corps do indeed run windows on most desktops, but they also use Java apps (for the most part) which don't have to be run on a MS OS. MS made a play for enterprise level development with their .Net series (it was developed to compete head to head with Java), but sadly lags far behind.
The proof that MS is loosing developers is implicit in my statement, since I am a MS developer planning on leaving MS development. As far as coding non internet-apps, I'll have to agree with you that VB and C are definatly the way to go. The problem arises when coding internet apps. I have not been impressed, for various reasons, with the web development that microsoft tries to push through. As far as functionality is concered, there are some things that SQL Server does well, but many that it fail misserably at (such as very large database management). If you're just wanting to write some quick apps then SQL Server and VB work really well for this (esp with .Net's integrated development tools), but for enterprise level apps, you definatly don't want to take that route. As far as using triggers is concerned I'd be just as happy if those were taken out of all databases, as usually they are not documented and the programmer never has any idea they are there until something wonky happens.
For personal programming and anything that I need RAD for I'll take VB, but for truely large enterprise level applications, esp ones that are web centric, MS just doesn't cut it. After all, how many large corporations do you know that use MS for their enterprise level apps?
I personally develop with MS products everyday, and for the most part hate them. There are some things about them that I do enjoy, and like, but the thing that really pissed me off is Microsoft's .Net 2002 and .Net 2003 move. I'm even certified in SQL Development (which I don't hate quite as much as .Net). I'm also looking to make a switch from MS to Java, just don't have the time yet to invest in learning a new language. As far as Microsoft being worried, I would have to say that they are. In a recent survey I took for them (it was sent to a random sampling of MCPs) they asked what certs I was planning on getting in the future and had spaces check boxes for many non-MS certs. They also asked how happy we were with MS as a company. I think they are finally getting the idea that a large protion of the people that use their developement tools hate the company and the tools.
Actually there are three more versions of SQL Server that you left off, adn you didn't even begin to tag the NT servers.
Ok, time to expose my ignorance. Being a programmer (and gerenally simply told "This is how the DB is, deal with it), all I ever really need to know is what the first 3 normal forms are, but I'm curious. What are the other normal forms?