I understand your problem and my advice is to use websites like LinkedIn.com to create a "support network" of friends and co-workers. Then, you may be able to find new opportunities and make new connections.
One of the first applications of Galileo is expected to be road congestion charging/taxation. Car drivers will be charged when they enter the downtown, et cetera.
I recommend Java, it is not M$-centric and is more mature than C#. But no matter what OOP language you learn, I think every programmer must have some basic understanding of C and Assembly (you don't know what you really do when you program a computer unless you have seen C and Assembly in action). Other interesting languages are LISP or Scheme, Perl, PHP, PROLOG, and Python. and, by the way, VB is a RAD, not a programming language. I believe the main working languages for GNU+Linux users should be Perl, PHP, Python, C, C++, Java , with that order (switch PHP for C++ if you do systems programming).
It doesn't support my favourite Web browser, so I guess if I want to play it I will have to wait until they (Google Maps and everyone else who uses AJAX) fix their website.
SuSE founder is an entrepreneur. I would do exactly the same if a big corporation was interested in my small company, id est I would just sell it away and then resign from the big corporation to do something else. Entrepreneurs don't like working as employees, because they want to feel independent. I knew that he was going to leave, and I think he was right doing so. Now he is free to start something new.
There are many uncommercialised amateur music groups out there that produce music licensed under Creative Commons, and very often in the Ogg Vorbis format. Just change your music habits and listen to music produced by artists who prefer to give away their music on the Internet rather than signing up a commercial contract with the recording companies. They are the people who really love their art. There are portable players for Ogg Vorbis files, too, and please avoid MP3 because the patent holder requests money from developers of MP3 encoding/decoding software.
If I were the prime minister I would pay a company to train a group of GNU/Linux and BSD system administrators. Then I would hire them and install Debian GNU/Linux on all client machines and OpenBSD on all servers. I would also consider offering tax cuts for private businesses and individuals using GNU/Linux or BSD, because this would help this country to fight unstable PCs and virii.
I wrote an article covering this news, here (and you can copy it under GNUFDL). Please let me copy-paste some paragraphs:
This means that the software is provided to the users in object code, or binary executable form, which only the computer can understand. Since the source code (which is human-readable) is not given, users of the software will not be free to "tinker" with it, and the utility is not free/libre open-source software (FLOSS). An example of closed-source software is the Microsoft Windows operating system, while a well-known free/open-source operating system is GNU/Linux. A number of people in the free/libre software community feel that software should be free and have no owners. When FLOSS advocates say "free software" they refer to freedom, not price, as explained in Richard Stallman's essay The GNU GPL and the American Way: "The Free Software Movement was founded in 1984, but its inspiration comes from the ideals of 1776: freedom, community, and voluntary cooperation. This is what leads to free enterprise, to free speech, and to free software" (1776 refers to the US Declaration of Independence). In fact many corporations are selling free software and make a profit without denying the user to study, modify, and redistribute the software. Wikipedia uses the GNU Free Documentation Licence (GFDL), a free documentation licence written by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for publishing software manuals and other literary works that readers can copy, modify, and redistribute under the same licence (a concept known as copyleft, also used in licences commonly used for free software, such as GPL). The open content and FLOSS (free/libre open-source software) movements are closely interelated and their philosophy is very similar. Although Answers Corporation has the legal right to not release its source code (given the current laws), one would expect Wikimedia Foundation to show greater support for free software or open source. On 23 July 2005 Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales said in an mailing list email that "we must avoid file formats that can not be used by legal free software". This decision caused Wikipedians to publish their spoken articles in the Ogg Vorbis format, which is free of patents, unlike the MP3 format which is patented by Thomson SA. The free and open formats advocates share the same ideals with the free/libre open-source software and open content movements. One has to wonder why Wikipedia supported free formats but failed to support free software by dealing with a closed-source software producer. The deal has already generated intense discussion in Wikipedia, as well as a long discussion on Slashdot.
Some years ago when politicians discovered that Internet users where swapping emails without paying postage, some people discussed the idea that in the future email senders should have to pay something. But information wants to be free, and the Internet Protocol now allows users to make inexpensive phone calls across the planet. Not only politicians failed to tax email, but the power of the Internet bitten back and made phone free too. Information is by its very nature unstoppable, so politicians and business managers should better find other ways to get money and let us enjoy as much information as we want.
Ancient Greeks (I am Greek) had built complete moving planetaria from before 212 BCE. They had the knowledge and the technology to predict and actually show the movements of all planets they knew about. Ancient Greeks also had simple small steam engines and pumps.
Some folks think that all computers ought to be programmable. That's plain wrong. A non-programmable device can be a computer. The Antikethyra mechanism isn't simple and is definitely an ancient Greek computer, probably built in Rhodes island.
The linked Economist article says that ancient Greeks (I am Greek) believed in a universe where Earth was at its centre. I don't agree with that. Geocentrism was the most accepted theory, but not all Greeks believed it. There were Heliocentrists in ancient Greece. Search Google for Greek and Heliocentrism and see what you can find. Learn about Aristarchus of Samos.
Bravo, Richard M Stallman! After GPL3 comes out, I will be the first to include the command "download source code" in my Web-based software, so with GPL3 corporations should never remove this command, and this is a good thing. To the folks that say that GPL is about control and not freedom: GPL is about the freedom of the user, and the user wants to have the source code, even on a Web-based application.
You get what you pay for. If you download your software for free, you get no support and no guarantees, period. If you want support, service-level contract, and guarantees, then pay and you will get those; That's what RedHat does, actually. If you don't know who Bill Thomson is, visit his website where he describes himself as a "technology critic and essayist". He likes to find things to whine about and criticise. However, this time he got too far; He is right that commercial software (i.e. Windows!) should come with quality guarantees (and who cares whether M$ will get bankrupt, anyway?), but he was wrong to criticise Mozilla Firefox. Nobody can expect any kind of quality assurance when we talk about free software. If I was required by law to give guarantees for free software I write, I would stop developing any free software, or I would just release it anonymously. The best I can do is to explain that my software may have security holes, but I can't accept being dragged to the courts for a nightie bug in software I released for free to the world.
You cannot be truly happy and truly free if you work for another person, no matter how much you get paid. You should seek to start your own business, even if this means earning less money than being an employee for another company.
Easy: Release all your research papers under the GNU Free Documentation Licence and post them on Wikipedia. If they delete them as original research, post them to my wiki where we keep everything.
"the combination of an Oracle database, Windows operating system, Unix hardware and an Apache webserver is a bad combination" - what a worthless discovery. If they wanted M$ they should use MS/IIS/MSSQL. If they wanted GNU, they should use Debian, Apache, PostgreSQL.
it's Microsoft's fault that Windows is not compatible with POSIX standards. Windows NT was supposed to be POSIX compliant, but it wasn't, and 2003 still doesn't support POSIX.
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I understand your problem and my advice is to use websites like LinkedIn.com to create a "support network" of friends and co-workers. Then, you may be able to find new opportunities and make new connections.
One of the first applications of Galileo is expected to be road congestion charging/taxation. Car drivers will be charged when they enter the downtown, et cetera.
I recommend Java, it is not M$-centric and is more mature than C#. But no matter what OOP language you learn, I think every programmer must have some basic understanding of C and Assembly (you don't know what you really do when you program a computer unless you have seen C and Assembly in action). Other interesting languages are LISP or Scheme, Perl, PHP, PROLOG, and Python. and, by the way, VB is a RAD, not a programming language. I believe the main working languages for GNU+Linux users should be Perl, PHP, Python, C, C++, Java , with that order (switch PHP for C++ if you do systems programming).
It doesn't support my favourite Web browser, so I guess if I want to play it I will have to wait until they (Google Maps and everyone else who uses AJAX) fix their website.
SuSE founder is an entrepreneur. I would do exactly the same if a big corporation was interested in my small company, id est I would just sell it away and then resign from the big corporation to do something else. Entrepreneurs don't like working as employees, because they want to feel independent. I knew that he was going to leave, and I think he was right doing so. Now he is free to start something new.
There are many uncommercialised amateur music groups out there that produce music licensed under Creative Commons, and very often in the Ogg Vorbis format. Just change your music habits and listen to music produced by artists who prefer to give away their music on the Internet rather than signing up a commercial contract with the recording companies. They are the people who really love their art. There are portable players for Ogg Vorbis files, too, and please avoid MP3 because the patent holder requests money from developers of MP3 encoding/decoding software.
regulation sucks, please let the market decide.
If I were the prime minister I would pay a company to train a group of GNU/Linux and BSD system administrators. Then I would hire them and install Debian GNU/Linux on all client machines and OpenBSD on all servers. I would also consider offering tax cuts for private businesses and individuals using GNU/Linux or BSD, because this would help this country to fight unstable PCs and virii.
Konqueror can work in 64bit while using 32bit Flash. That's what I use on my AMD64.
Some years ago when politicians discovered that Internet users where swapping emails without paying postage, some people discussed the idea that in the future email senders should have to pay something. But information wants to be free, and the Internet Protocol now allows users to make inexpensive phone calls across the planet. Not only politicians failed to tax email, but the power of the Internet bitten back and made phone free too. Information is by its very nature unstoppable, so politicians and business managers should better find other ways to get money and let us enjoy as much information as we want.
Greece is in the EU from 1981, joined just after UK. Spain joined in 1986. Sweden and Finland joined in 1995.
Ancient Greeks (I am Greek) had built complete moving planetaria from before 212 BCE. They had the knowledge and the technology to predict and actually show the movements of all planets they knew about. Ancient Greeks also had simple small steam engines and pumps.
Some folks think that all computers ought to be programmable. That's plain wrong. A non-programmable device can be a computer. The Antikethyra mechanism isn't simple and is definitely an ancient Greek computer, probably built in Rhodes island.
The linked Economist article says that ancient Greeks (I am Greek) believed in a universe where Earth was at its centre. I don't agree with that. Geocentrism was the most accepted theory, but not all Greeks believed it. There were Heliocentrists in ancient Greece. Search Google for Greek and Heliocentrism and see what you can find. Learn about Aristarchus of Samos.
If you want to gain technical experience and prestige, work in free/libre open-source software projects.
Bravo, Richard M Stallman! After GPL3 comes out, I will be the first to include the command "download source code" in my Web-based software, so with GPL3 corporations should never remove this command, and this is a good thing. To the folks that say that GPL is about control and not freedom: GPL is about the freedom of the user, and the user wants to have the source code, even on a Web-based application.
You get what you pay for. If you download your software for free, you get no support and no guarantees, period. If you want support, service-level contract, and guarantees, then pay and you will get those; That's what RedHat does, actually. If you don't know who Bill Thomson is, visit his website where he describes himself as a "technology critic and essayist". He likes to find things to whine about and criticise. However, this time he got too far; He is right that commercial software (i.e. Windows!) should come with quality guarantees (and who cares whether M$ will get bankrupt, anyway?), but he was wrong to criticise Mozilla Firefox. Nobody can expect any kind of quality assurance when we talk about free software. If I was required by law to give guarantees for free software I write, I would stop developing any free software, or I would just release it anonymously. The best I can do is to explain that my software may have security holes, but I can't accept being dragged to the courts for a nightie bug in software I released for free to the world.
You cannot be truly happy and truly free if you work for another person, no matter how much you get paid. You should seek to start your own business, even if this means earning less money than being an employee for another company.
here you can find another tutorial, although it's a bit old now.
Easy: Release all your research papers under the GNU Free Documentation Licence and post them on Wikipedia. If they delete them as original research, post them to my wiki where we keep everything.
"the combination of an Oracle database, Windows operating system, Unix hardware and an Apache webserver is a bad combination" - what a worthless discovery. If they wanted M$ they should use MS/IIS/MSSQL. If they wanted GNU, they should use Debian, Apache, PostgreSQL.
it's Microsoft's fault that Windows is not compatible with POSIX standards. Windows NT was supposed to be POSIX compliant, but it wasn't, and 2003 still doesn't support POSIX.
Thanks, I prefer GNU hardware.
"Construction could begin in 2006 if the project finds financing" - this means they haven't found money for this project yet.