I used to live right on the A10 highway into London. I move about 400 yds away and the traffic noise was a distant hum. I know that for some/. readers 400yds is beyond the pale when it comes to walking but around here parking spaces were like gold dust so people walk to the top of the street and take the bus, another 200yds there was the train station. 5 mins on the bus took you to a Tube Station. Many of my neighbours at that time didn't have a car. They didn't need one.
If you think that all 100mil Apple Fans still have all their old iOS devices.
Just look at the numbers of old models that appear on Ebay etc just after a new model is released I know of many families where the older iPads are recycled to other family members.
Disclaimer
I own one iOS device, an ipod Touch 16Gb. 3+ years old and still going strong. My phone is an HTC Sensation.
Seriously, there are far too many lawyers involved in this mess for them to agree to the self destruction of their livelyhoods (and political ambitions..:) )
for granting these silly patents. Whilst the system allows for this sort of shite then companies are DUTY bound to protect the interests of their shareholders over what they see as a perfectly LEGAL asset.
Apple, MicroSoft and a gazillion others are all playing the system. If you want to stop this then
Fix the frigging system.
I'd like to abolish the USPTO and start again but I have no influence as I'm not a US Citizen so what I would like to do is an irrelevance.
Sitting 3K miles away, I do get the impression of Nero fiddling whilst Rome burns as I watch this M.A.D ness going on accross the pond.
There was an interesting documentary on BBC the other night. It was about a cushion manufacturer who was finding making things in China too expensive and was trying to bring back manufacturing to the UK. I would guess that other smaller scale business who have moved their manuafcturing overseas (esp to China) might well be finding the same problem. Also, the Chinese workers are typically employed on a 1year contract. Every Feb they all go walkabout and get new jobs. One chinese worker in the documentary wanted a 50% raise or she would leave.
I picked up 100m or Single Mode fibre and 50M of multi-mode at a bankruptcy auction for $200 about 6 months ago. I wasn't really interested in the Fibre when I went to the auction but got outbid on a couple of 1U DL380's still in their original packaging. I also got a load of f/O wall plates for $20. The auctioneer just wanted to get rid of them at the end of the sale. I laid two Cat6e cables plus two runs of both fibre when I moved my rack out into the garage (detached). At the moment, the F/O is unterminated but when I can pick up a decent F/O switch that is silent I'll start to use it instead of the Cat6.
I've also been looking at fanless servers. There are a good number around these days. I have fandless NAS in my rack with 10Tb of storage. I guess that as I'm getting older, the noise level is becoming more important. I'm willing to sacrifice some performance for peace and quiet.
Sadly that is what the USofA has become these days. Nothing more than a nations of lawyers filing suit against everyone else. I know I exagerate but the plethora of frankly stupid law suits is going to kill what is left of US Business within 3-5 years. The ONLY winners are the Patent Trolls and naturally the lawyers who take the lions share of any spoils awarded by the courts.
and if it takes off in the US i forsee a plethora of LawSuits alledging patent, copyright and anything else the syhsters can think of just to stop this in its tracks. If this becomes really successful I have no shadow of a doubt that the likes of Microsoft will see this as a threat to their business and try by whatever means to stifile if not downright kill it. You really can't have people building a computer now can you? Whatever next? Desiging their own Operating System and giving it away?
On a personal note, this device really takes me back to my Degree project in 1975 where I build a DtoA and AtoD converter board for the NatSemi IMP16 Microcomputer. in the years afterwards I build a number of UniBus devices for the PDP-11. Interfacting 'kit' to computers has gotten a lot easier these days.
I switched to a MacBook nearly 5 years ago. I found (And still find) Windows was just getting in my face. Then there were the AV progs like Norton etc who seemed to slow down my machine at every opportunity.
Moving to OSX (I have a Unix/Linux background) was a breath of fresh air.
I've recently had to start using Windows again in a new Job. Windows 7 and Server 2008 are headbangingly frustrating. I have to admit the Server 2003 is about the best OS to come out of Redmond but everything since then.... Well forget it. They just get in the way. You are not in control of your system. Microsoft is. They define a set of rules that are nigh on impossible to get around. This makes my job harder. Even working with LPARS on zOS is easier than the POS that is Windows. Don't even get me started on Windows 8. They have really lost it. FWIW, Canonical have done the same with Unity so Microsoft are not alone here.
Now for a raft of downvoting even though I've been writing software for 40 years this month.
That might be true for the 2011 Boards. A good number of them do seem to have 8 RAM Slots
I think what the OP was talking about was the MB makers releasing MB's with only 2 RAM Slots. Then Intel has in the past released a cheapo chipset that was deliberately restricted in the amound of RAM that it supported. Remember the MicroSoft Netbook Spec? Many makers implemented the RAM restrictions by using a low end chipset.
These bozos are stark staring mad. There are many signs that the melting of the Polar Ice is going to have a drastic effect on the climate. Maybe not for these guys but for a large proportion of the European Population if the Gulf Stream will lower our temps by some 15-20C (Avarage). Look at the latitute of London and then look at that of the southern edge of Hudson Bay. We are kept warm by the Gulf Stream. As is part of the east coast of the North America (from Mass northwards)
I really would like this lot of jokers to explain what is going to happen to the European Climate when the Gulf Stream stops flowing?
Your experience is spot on. I've had exactly the same.
spider code. Only doing what they've been told and not filling in the missing bits. Code that does not work etc etc etc
But....
The bean counters only look at the bottom line. India is cheaper. End of. Once the 'management' has taken that decision, it is a job ending case if they have to reverse it. The 'team' that made the decision will fight tooth and nail to hide all the issues from senior management.
That's the downside. There are so many of them being trained(on the job and paid for by the client) in every decent bit of software out there. I've seen this starting to get to critical mass already. There are so many projects going on, a few failures are inevitable. If you find one that knows their subject and is good, they won't last long in your org. They'll be moved on to another problem client and so on. This way they can be seen to be 'fixing' the issues as one site while another site heads towards armageddon. Once they get sufficient numbers of good people out there their success rate will climb and the bad experiences will reduce. They think the long term. Not the next 90days and Wall St/FTSE Analysists forecasts. Their aim is to become indespensible to your company. So intertwined into your org that it would be impossible to get rid of them even if they mess up badly. you are caught, hook line and sinker. Then they move everything (or 90% approx) offshore. You save of expensive office space and they rent another swatshop in Bangalore, rip out the sewing machines and install banks of PC's. Job done. You are impossible addicted to Indian Software Compaines for your whole business.
Ok?
Oh, and the beancounters who approved this are not the CFO or even CEO of the company. Short of going bankrupt or being taken over there is no way the 'Indian' companies are going to get the elbow.
I'm just glad that I'm retiring next year. I really feel sorry for young people trying to get into coding. You just need to visit places like Chennai, Bangalore etc and see them at work. I've seen one 'office' where at least 10,000 coders work in a double shift arrangmemt. The code for all manner of western companies. Just look at the operations of companies like Wipro, Tata etc. They are going after ALL OUR JOBS on a massive scale.
Most of them are what I call 'rote coders'. Tell them in detail to do something and they will do it. At the moment, they don't have a critical level of Architects and Designers. What do you think all those Indian Students attending Western Universities doing? They are training to be the Architects and Designers of the future.
Because they will work at rates half ours then Coders in the West are IMHO an endangered species.
Ok. That shows how much I know from the RH side of the Atlantic. What I was trying to say, other parts of Spain, for example Galicia, Catalonia, Andalucia etc are all far greater contributors to the Spanish Economy than Extramadura.
It is a wild and truly beautiful part of Spain. The variety of Birds that you can see there is... fantastic especially the raptors. Pretty sparsely populated as well.
In the grand scheme of things and in particular, the Spanish Financial woes, it is about as significant to the Spanish Economy as North Dakota is to the US Economy.
Their output is (IMHO) aimed pretty well 100% at the 18-25 age group. They want lots of Flash Bang Wallop and a bit of rumpy-pumpy on the side.
Where are the gutsy films that they used to make? Would many of the classic films of the past ever get a penny of funding these days? Films like Cat on a Hot Tim Roof? There are many more but seriously would that ever get made these days? There used to be a lot of 'gritty' and thought provoking films coming out of hollywood. These days? Nah.
Perhaps that is why some non hollywood films actually make it despite Hollywood and its frankly corrupt accounting practices. Take 'The Kings Speech'. If it got made in Hollywood then they would probably make sure that some Hollywood 'A' lister got the lead instead of casting someone who could actually do the role justice.
I once met Stanley Kubrick at Pinewood. I watched him in action on the set of Eyes Wide Shut. He wanted perfection and frankly 'Sod' Hollywoods pressure to get the film out. His attention to detail was ledgendary. Ken Russell was the same. Want to make a film that has a sex scene between two men? Then he's your man. Visconti's Death in Venice is in the same category IMHO. Unconventional films? Yep. Do they follow the Hollywood Formula? Not a chance. Thought provoking? You bet.
There is a great opportunity to make Hollywood irrellevant. In the light of SOPA and PIPA we should take it.
They will try to keep this under wraps as anything that speeds up video encoding/decoding will be classes as anti Hollywood and a tool for piracy. Standby for a few mysterious disappearances of any public copies of the algorithm.
For those outside the UK, BBC2 broadcast them live at 20:00 for three evenings. The first two were fantastic as the skies were clear. LAstnight was pretty cloudy but the experiment where a whole town went 'dark' was amazing. It really showed how much light polltution there is. Part of the show came from the Uk and another segment came from South Africa. This latter one enabled us to see the milky Way in all its glory.
Real kudos to the Beeb for putting this on at peak times.
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She may have found someone from the other side and agree to be 'paired' with them. Then neither of them vote on the bill.
If I'm not pushing up the daisies, I'll be totally 'off grid' on an island well away from 'stuff'
No mobile Phone. No Computer
Yeah!
{been writing code for 40 years}
I used to live right on the A10 highway into London. I move about 400 yds away and the traffic noise was a distant hum. I know that for some /. readers 400yds is beyond the pale when it comes to walking but around here parking spaces were like gold dust so people walk to the top of the street and take the bus, another 200yds there was the train station. 5 mins on the bus took you to a Tube Station.
Many of my neighbours at that time didn't have a car. They didn't need one.
More fool you for choosing to live where you do.
If you think that all 100mil Apple Fans still have all their old iOS devices.
Just look at the numbers of old models that appear on Ebay etc just after a new model is released
I know of many families where the older iPads are recycled to other family members.
Disclaimer
I own one iOS device, an ipod Touch 16Gb. 3+ years old and still going strong. My phone is an HTC Sensation.
Guess how that is going to turn out then ?
Seriously, there are far too many lawyers involved in this mess for them to agree to the self destruction of their livelyhoods (and political ambitions..:) )
for granting these silly patents.
Whilst the system allows for this sort of shite then companies are DUTY bound to protect the interests of their shareholders over what they see as a perfectly LEGAL asset.
Apple, MicroSoft and a gazillion others are all playing the system. If you want to stop this then
Fix the frigging system.
I'd like to abolish the USPTO and start again but I have no influence as I'm not a US Citizen so what I would like to do is an irrelevance.
Sitting 3K miles away, I do get the impression of Nero fiddling whilst Rome burns as I watch this M.A.D ness going on accross the pond.
Well, I have to disagree with you. I've just done an LVM with Luks install of F16 on a T500. No issues whatsoever.
One name keeps appearing as the primary contact (but with different emails)
Daniel Schindler
TLD Squatters are born perhaps?
It is also interesting that the like of Apple, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft all applied for their TLD's but HP didn't.
That is why any contract worth anything has a clause stipulating which jurisdiction will be used to solve contract disputes.
Mr Honeyball is a known 'Microsoft can do no wrong' journo. So what do you expect.
There was an interesting documentary on BBC the other night.
It was about a cushion manufacturer who was finding making things in China too expensive and was trying to bring back manufacturing to the UK.
I would guess that other smaller scale business who have moved their manuafcturing overseas (esp to China) might well be finding the same problem. Also, the Chinese workers are typically employed on a 1year contract. Every Feb they all go walkabout and get new jobs.
One chinese worker in the documentary wanted a 50% raise or she would leave.
I picked up 100m or Single Mode fibre and 50M of multi-mode at a bankruptcy auction for $200 about 6 months ago. I wasn't really interested in the Fibre when I went to the auction but got outbid on a couple of 1U DL380's still in their original packaging. I also got a load of f/O wall plates for $20. The auctioneer just wanted to get rid of them at the end of the sale.
I laid two Cat6e cables plus two runs of both fibre when I moved my rack out into the garage (detached).
At the moment, the F/O is unterminated but when I can pick up a decent F/O switch that is silent I'll start to use it instead of the Cat6.
I've also been looking at fanless servers. There are a good number around these days. I have fandless NAS in my rack with 10Tb of storage. I guess that as I'm getting older, the noise level is becoming more important. I'm willing to sacrifice some performance for peace and quiet.
Sadly that is what the USofA has become these days.
Nothing more than a nations of lawyers filing suit against everyone else.
I know I exagerate but the plethora of frankly stupid law suits is going to kill what is left of US Business within 3-5 years.
The ONLY winners are the Patent Trolls and naturally the lawyers who take the lions share of any spoils awarded by the courts.
and if it takes off in the US i forsee a plethora of LawSuits alledging patent, copyright and anything else the syhsters can think of just to stop this in its tracks.
If this becomes really successful I have no shadow of a doubt that the likes of Microsoft will see this as a threat to their business and try by whatever means to stifile if not downright kill it.
You really can't have people building a computer now can you? Whatever next? Desiging their own Operating System and giving it away?
On a personal note, this device really takes me back to my Degree project in 1975 where I build a DtoA and AtoD converter board for the NatSemi IMP16 Microcomputer. in the years afterwards I build a number of UniBus devices for the PDP-11.
Interfacting 'kit' to computers has gotten a lot easier these days.
So I'm an idiot then?
I switched to a MacBook nearly 5 years ago. I found (And still find) Windows was just getting in my face. Then there were the AV progs like Norton etc who seemed to slow down my machine at every opportunity.
Moving to OSX (I have a Unix/Linux background) was a breath of fresh air.
I've recently had to start using Windows again in a new Job. Windows 7 and Server 2008 are headbangingly frustrating.
I have to admit the Server 2003 is about the best OS to come out of Redmond but everything since then.... Well forget it. They just get in the way. You are not in control of your system. Microsoft is. They define a set of rules that are nigh on impossible to get around. This makes my job harder. Even working with LPARS on zOS is easier than the POS that is Windows.
Don't even get me started on Windows 8. They have really lost it. FWIW, Canonical have done the same with Unity so Microsoft are not alone here.
Now for a raft of downvoting even though I've been writing software for 40 years this month.
That might be true for the 2011 Boards. A good number of them do seem to have 8 RAM Slots
I think what the OP was talking about was the MB makers releasing MB's with only 2 RAM Slots.
Then Intel has in the past released a cheapo chipset that was deliberately restricted in the amound of RAM that it supported.
Remember the MicroSoft Netbook Spec? Many makers implemented the RAM restrictions by using a low end chipset.
These bozos are stark staring mad.
There are many signs that the melting of the Polar Ice is going to have a drastic effect on the climate. Maybe not for these guys but for a large proportion of the European Population if the Gulf Stream will lower our temps by some 15-20C (Avarage).
Look at the latitute of London and then look at that of the southern edge of Hudson Bay.
We are kept warm by the Gulf Stream. As is part of the east coast of the North America (from Mass northwards)
I really would like this lot of jokers to explain what is going to happen to the European Climate when the Gulf Stream stops flowing?
Your experience is spot on. I've had exactly the same.
spider code.
Only doing what they've been told and not filling in the missing bits.
Code that does not work
etc
etc
etc
But....
The bean counters only look at the bottom line. India is cheaper. End of.
Once the 'management' has taken that decision, it is a job ending case if they have to reverse it.
The 'team' that made the decision will fight tooth and nail to hide all the issues from senior management.
That's the downside.
There are so many of them being trained(on the job and paid for by the client) in every decent bit of software out there.
I've seen this starting to get to critical mass already.
There are so many projects going on, a few failures are inevitable. If you find one that knows their subject and is good, they won't last long in your org. They'll be moved on to another problem client and so on. This way they can be seen to be 'fixing' the issues as one site while another site heads towards armageddon.
Once they get sufficient numbers of good people out there their success rate will climb and the bad experiences will reduce.
They think the long term. Not the next 90days and Wall St/FTSE Analysists forecasts.
Their aim is to become indespensible to your company. So intertwined into your org that it would be impossible to get rid of them even if they mess up badly.
you are caught, hook line and sinker.
Then they move everything (or 90% approx) offshore. You save of expensive office space and they rent another swatshop in Bangalore, rip out the sewing machines and install banks of PC's. Job done. You are impossible addicted to Indian Software Compaines for your whole business.
Ok?
Oh, and the beancounters who approved this are not the CFO or even CEO of the company. Short of going bankrupt or being taken over there is no way the 'Indian' companies are going to get the elbow.
Competing with the massed ranks of Indian Coders.
you don't stand a chance.
I'm just glad that I'm retiring next year. I really feel sorry for young people trying to get into coding.
You just need to visit places like Chennai, Bangalore etc and see them at work.
I've seen one 'office' where at least 10,000 coders work in a double shift arrangmemt.
The code for all manner of western companies.
Just look at the operations of companies like Wipro, Tata etc.
They are going after ALL OUR JOBS on a massive scale.
Most of them are what I call 'rote coders'. Tell them in detail to do something and they will do it.
At the moment, they don't have a critical level of Architects and Designers. What do you think all those Indian Students attending Western Universities doing? They are training to be the Architects and Designers of the future.
Because they will work at rates half ours then Coders in the West are IMHO an endangered species.
Ok. That shows how much I know from the RH side of the Atlantic.
What I was trying to say, other parts of Spain, for example Galicia, Catalonia, Andalucia etc are all far greater contributors to the Spanish Economy than Extramadura.
Have you any idea where Extramadura is?
It is a wild and truly beautiful part of Spain. The variety of Birds that you can see there is... fantastic especially the raptors.
Pretty sparsely populated as well.
In the grand scheme of things and in particular, the Spanish Financial woes, it is about as significant to the Spanish Economy as North Dakota is to the US Economy.
Their output is (IMHO) aimed pretty well 100% at the 18-25 age group.
They want lots of Flash Bang Wallop and a bit of rumpy-pumpy on the side.
Where are the gutsy films that they used to make?
Would many of the classic films of the past ever get a penny of funding these days?
Films like Cat on a Hot Tim Roof? There are many more but seriously would that ever get made these days?
There used to be a lot of 'gritty' and thought provoking films coming out of hollywood.
These days? Nah.
Perhaps that is why some non hollywood films actually make it despite Hollywood and its frankly corrupt accounting practices.
Take 'The Kings Speech'. If it got made in Hollywood then they would probably make sure that some Hollywood 'A' lister got the lead instead of casting someone who could actually do the role justice.
I once met Stanley Kubrick at Pinewood. I watched him in action on the set of Eyes Wide Shut. He wanted perfection and frankly 'Sod' Hollywoods pressure to get the film out. His attention to detail was ledgendary.
Ken Russell was the same. Want to make a film that has a sex scene between two men? Then he's your man.
Visconti's Death in Venice is in the same category IMHO.
Unconventional films? Yep.
Do they follow the Hollywood Formula? Not a chance.
Thought provoking? You bet.
There is a great opportunity to make Hollywood irrellevant. In the light of SOPA and PIPA we should take it.
that Clouds EVAPOURATE. They are nothing more than unstable non-linear containers of water vapour anyway.
They will try to keep this under wraps as anything that speeds up video encoding/decoding will be classes as anti Hollywood and a tool for piracy.
Standby for a few mysterious disappearances of any public copies of the algorithm.
For those outside the UK, BBC2 broadcast them live at 20:00 for three evenings. The first two were fantastic as the skies were clear. LAstnight was pretty cloudy but the experiment where a whole town went 'dark' was amazing. It really showed how much light polltution there is.
Part of the show came from the Uk and another segment came from South Africa. This latter one enabled us to see the milky Way in all its glory.
Real kudos to the Beeb for putting this on at peak times.