agreed. That's exactly what I thought the gov't agency I used to contract for was heading towards the same thing to unify there diverse development houses. It had nothing to do with renting software.
It's interesting that there is a new class of products (both hardware and software) emerging over this "service oriented architecture". For instance what if you are handling all your data interchange via SOAP and have to have certain credentials to access certain rows of data? In other words, the app functions exactly the same, but certain users get to see more records?
Well, you can put that in the app.. but if you have a unversal single sign on system implemented and your web services/soap layer is integrated and sending the authentication anyway, there are sofwtare "routers" for SOAP that will just say "oh, this guy doesn't get THESE rows" and strip them out. REally, really, slick,. Or you set up a rule "oh, this SOAP message destination is the DMZ box so it's the public web site, and, by definition, all data of this class (i.e., with this xml/soap attribute) is private, so strip this data"
yeah, it uses an activeX control. As they note, you can use a different browser and just download the updates. Actually, the microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer is a far superior way to stay up to date anyway. It's what I use.
It is ineed, truly horrible to behold. It's not the worst movie/show I've ever seen. That would be the new yugio movie I was forced to take my son to. I played a stupid game on my cell phone for most of it. It's the most blatant piece of marketing EVER. The movie is them playing this stupid card game. Period. Oh, there's some crap about a crossover from these ancient evil pharoah (sp?) dudes, but it's mainly just them playing their card games (so you can buy the cards) using there stupid "duel disks" (A plastic, dorky looking peice of plastic to hold your cards --- $29.99 at WalMart).
Now I actually sat and watched the show with him the other day and it's pretty much the same thing.
Now you start to see why VB was so popular. So much of business programming was client-server desktop db applications. And VB was simply unmatched in that area for cranking them out. Belive me, if you think netbeans and java is a nice environment, it's primitive compared to Visual Studio and Vb. Of course, not cross-platform, but for 99.5% of the business world, that doesn't matter.
Hey, I got the Microsoft multimedia keyboard as a gift at home (I said I wanted an split ergonomic keyboard) and it freaking rocks. All the keys are customizable. I don't use the messenger key (I already have trillian pro), so I switched it to luanch my poker program. Web? Fires up my default browser, Firefox, just fine. Volume controls and cd next/previous track and pause? Freaking rocks. I'm telling you, I thought it was gay when I first got it and now it has become a "must have" for me.
I tend to agree with you. I'm not really a HEAVY office user, but i use outlook and excel quite a bit. Anyway, at my new job I got Office 2003. Before I was using 2000. That means I completely skipped Office XP. I've seen nothing so far other than the outlook interface is a little nicer.
you've obvioulsy never been a contractor at a federal facility with U.S. Governemtn empoloyees... Their job is bitching about benefits, vicious backbiting politics, making personal phone calls, wrangling over budgets and going to meetings.
Eclipse is great, i love it... on my work machine with 2gb of ram. On my home machine, it's pretty much unuseable. This is an 1800 athlon with 256 mb of ram that is prefectly responsive for every other thing I do with it (web, email, wordprocessing, gaming, ok, not doom3, but still).
Hey, I think the Microsoft basher crowd needs to give it up to Microsoft for allowing this update without checking for pirated copies. As a business decision... hmmm.. it's interesting. It would be trivial to have a list of "bad" corporate keys like they did for sp1. But I guess they have decided the bad press from secuirty is worth a few pirated copies. Anyway, I too, think it is a good decision.
right, I recently got exposed to some figures from our PM for our contract. Here's how they figure: take an employee's salary and add 50%. That's the cost for the year with benefits, etc. Now, If I can get access to a much deeper.NET labor pool, and hire, on average, a programmer for about 1/3 less than a J2EE programmer (and that's the number he gave me for this market), that couple thousand for an enterprise 2k3 server license is downright cheap, cheap, cheap.
OK, I LIKE open source technology. I work in java everyday (not precisely open source, but we use many O.S. projects from Apache, et al). However, I would say this, in the midwest U.S., from a business perspective, if you have an opening for a PHP dude, you are going to get a trickling of resumes, but an ASP/ASP.net dude, you're gonna get a boatful. Now, seperating the wheat from the chaff is kinda tough. But, It's a consideration. Shallow labor pool == expensive labor pool.
The company I used to work at had a tough time getting decent resumes from Java/J2EE people to fill the postion I was leaving.
I'm just saying, it's a real cosideration. Remember, labor costs are the biggie. All those benefits. That said, I think Open Source is gaining ground on the development side.
8 (hours) x 20 (developers -- approx) x $50 (average billng rate per hour) = $8800 of your taxpayer dollars wasted for the sysadmins vanity of "not wanting to be a windows shrug and reboot guy".... could they not fire off a list of processes, save logs etc, and do the root analysis LATER? Instead, they never found it... and this only happened twice in six months but BOTH TIMES they wasted an entire day trying to figure it out.
What I found from the unix admins at my former place of work was they HATED rebooting the Solaris cluster. There were several times where it was the OBVIOUS thing to do, instead they cost developers some down time (this was the dev box) while they figured out what went wrong because their pride wouldn't let them bounce the box. They could do their digging later after getting the developers upa nd running again, but NO. One time was hysterical, they spent all DAY figuring out why a process was chewing up all the cpu, killing it over and over again. Finally, it was fixed the next day and they shepishly admitted they had to reboot it.
I just thought it was funny. Hey, if my choices are:
a: Not having the box available for hours or b: waiting 15 minutes while you do a hardware cycle. Hell, choose b, and blame it on my crappy code, I could give a flip!
on windows 2000 professional, go start help (or just F1 from the desktop, and type in "scriping".. I got lots of stuff about different kinds of script, including a top on Windows Scripting Host. Alos:
./ has become a joke. It saddens me to say this. It really does. It's been taken over by M$ suxxors, Linux r00ls crowd completely. HOW ABOUT ACTUALLY INVESTIGATING A LITTLE BIT before posting. Not just some lame note "I can't verify this?". Are you seriously trying to tell me that slashdot editors haven't gotten a gmail account? I find it hard to believe you haven't gotten an invite. If that's the case, go get a hotmail, and send an invite. This takes two minutes MAX.
This is just pathetic. Because you know what: IT ISN'T TRUE! Period.
have you noticed console games don't need patches? I mean, I think they test a lot better because they KNOW they can't update them. with PC, I think there must be a mentality of "oh, well, we can always make them download a patch".
It's pretty bad, because the very first thing I do when I buy a piece of software is go download the patch. It's so rare I get something that DOESN'T have a patch out already. Even hardware, there is almost always a patch out for the driver never than the one that shipped with it.... and thanks to broadband, I don't even really care that much. I don't even bother saving the download in case I have to reinstall. By the time I need to reinstall, a new version will be out, so why bother? I just run it and delete it.
I've played for several years. Biweekly game we hold tournaments (sometimes two table, sometimes one).
I've played onlin. started at DynamitePoker.com playing freerolls, won afew dollars, built a roll. I cashed several hundred dollars from there. Tried partypoker for a while, now play at pokerstars.com and like it a lot. I'm up/down there, but have been playing on the same $100 buy in for six months.
It's nice. I can play a single table tourney for $5, lasts about an hour, 90 mins. tops (that's if I win). It's fun, but I'm not sure I'd play for big money (too much risk of people colluding/playing as a team with IM).
It has definitely helped me learn the game. In our "live" tournaments, I've done very well (about 3/4 in the money), just because I've played a lot of tourneys.
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Jython is the python/java bridge. Unfortunately, it hasn't had a new version in quite a while.. but it allows the same thing.
agreed. That's exactly what I thought the gov't agency I used to contract for was heading towards the same thing to unify there diverse development houses. It had nothing to do with renting software.
It's interesting that there is a new class of products (both hardware and software) emerging over this "service oriented architecture". For instance what if you are handling all your data interchange via SOAP and have to have certain credentials to access certain rows of data? In other words, the app functions exactly the same, but certain users get to see more records?
Well, you can put that in the app.. but if you have a unversal single sign on system implemented and your web services/soap layer is integrated and sending the authentication anyway, there are sofwtare "routers" for SOAP that will just say "oh, this guy doesn't get THESE rows" and strip them out. REally, really, slick,. Or you set up a rule "oh, this SOAP message destination is the DMZ box so it's the public web site, and, by definition, all data of this class (i.e., with this xml/soap attribute) is private, so strip this data"
bugMeNot is the proverbial shizznit. Anyone I've shown this to has been impressed.
yeah, it uses an activeX control. As they note, you can use a different browser and just download the updates. Actually, the microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer is a far superior way to stay up to date anyway. It's what I use.
It is ineed, truly horrible to behold. It's not the worst movie/show I've ever seen. That would be the new yugio movie I was forced to take my son to. I played a stupid game on my cell phone for most of it. It's the most blatant piece of marketing EVER. The movie is them playing this stupid card game. Period. Oh, there's some crap about a crossover from these ancient evil pharoah (sp?) dudes, but it's mainly just them playing their card games (so you can buy the cards) using there stupid "duel disks" (A plastic, dorky looking peice of plastic to hold your cards --- $29.99 at WalMart).
Now I actually sat and watched the show with him the other day and it's pretty much the same thing.
WORST. MOVIE. EVER.
weenie. Does your immune system suck that bad?
Now you start to see why VB was so popular. So much of business programming was client-server desktop db applications. And VB was simply unmatched in that area for cranking them out. Belive me, if you think netbeans and java is a nice environment, it's primitive compared to Visual Studio and Vb. Of course, not cross-platform, but for 99.5% of the business world, that doesn't matter.
Hey, I got the Microsoft multimedia keyboard as a gift at home (I said I wanted an split ergonomic keyboard) and it freaking rocks. All the keys are customizable. I don't use the messenger key (I already have trillian pro), so I switched it to luanch my poker program. Web? Fires up my default browser, Firefox, just fine. Volume controls and cd next/previous track and pause? Freaking rocks. I'm telling you, I thought it was gay when I first got it and now it has become a "must have" for me.
yep. just got out of the government contracting end, and believe me, it is almost all j2ee.
I tend to agree with you. I'm not really a HEAVY office user, but i use outlook and excel quite a bit. Anyway, at my new job I got Office 2003. Before I was using 2000. That means I completely skipped Office XP. I've seen nothing so far other than the outlook interface is a little nicer.
you've obvioulsy never been a contractor at a federal facility with U.S. Governemtn empoloyees... Their job is bitching about benefits, vicious backbiting politics, making personal phone calls, wrangling over budgets and going to meetings.
.. this was my wife's instant response and it's tough to argue. Never have I seen a movie with so much nudity so unerotic.
Eclipse is great, i love it ... on my work machine with 2gb of ram. On my home machine, it's pretty much unuseable. This is an 1800 athlon with 256 mb of ram that is prefectly responsive for every other thing I do with it (web, email, wordprocessing, gaming, ok, not doom3, but still).
Hey, I think the Microsoft basher crowd needs to give it up to Microsoft for allowing this update without checking for pirated copies. As a business decision... hmmm.. it's interesting. It would be trivial to have a list of "bad" corporate keys like they did for sp1. But I guess they have decided the bad press from secuirty is worth a few pirated copies. Anyway, I too, think it is a good decision.
No crap. What a POS. I had to use that at my last job.
right, I recently got exposed to some figures from our PM for our contract. Here's how they figure: take an employee's salary and add 50%. That's the cost for the year with benefits, etc. Now, If I can get access to a much deeper .NET labor pool, and hire, on average, a programmer for about 1/3 less than a J2EE programmer (and that's the number he gave me for this market), that couple thousand for an enterprise 2k3 server license is downright cheap, cheap, cheap.
OK, I LIKE open source technology. I work in java everyday (not precisely open source, but we use many O.S. projects from Apache, et al). However, I would say this, in the midwest U.S., from a business perspective, if you have an opening for a PHP dude, you are going to get a trickling of resumes, but an ASP/ASP.net dude, you're gonna get a boatful. Now, seperating the wheat from the chaff is kinda tough. But, It's a consideration. Shallow labor pool == expensive labor pool.
The company I used to work at had a tough time getting decent resumes from Java/J2EE people to fill the postion I was leaving.
I'm just saying, it's a real cosideration. Remember, labor costs are the biggie. All those benefits. That said, I think Open Source is gaining ground on the development side.
Typical unix admin answer....
Let's do the math:
8 (hours) x 20 (developers -- approx) x $50 (average billng rate per hour) = $8800 of your taxpayer dollars wasted for the sysadmins vanity of "not wanting to be a windows shrug and reboot guy".... could they not fire off a list of processes, save logs etc, and do the root analysis LATER? Instead, they never found it... and this only happened twice in six months but BOTH TIMES they wasted an entire day trying to figure it out.
What I found from the unix admins at my former place of work was they HATED rebooting the Solaris cluster. There were several times where it was the OBVIOUS thing to do, instead they cost developers some down time (this was the dev box) while they figured out what went wrong because their pride wouldn't let them bounce the box. They could do their digging later after getting the developers upa nd running again, but NO. One time was hysterical, they spent all DAY figuring out why a process was chewing up all the cpu, killing it over and over again. Finally, it was fixed the next day and they shepishly admitted they had to reboot it.
I just thought it was funny. Hey, if my choices are:
a: Not having the box available for hours or b: waiting 15 minutes while you do a hardware cycle. Hell, choose b, and blame it on my crappy code, I could give a flip!
on windows 2000 professional, go start help (or just F1 from the desktop, and type in "scriping".. I got lots of stuff about different kinds of script, including a top on Windows Scripting Host. Alos:
www.microsoft.com/scripting
./ has become a joke. It saddens me to say this. It really does. It's been taken over by M$ suxxors, Linux r00ls crowd completely. HOW ABOUT ACTUALLY INVESTIGATING A LITTLE BIT before posting. Not just some lame note "I can't verify this?". Are you seriously trying to tell me that slashdot editors haven't gotten a gmail account? I find it hard to believe you haven't gotten an invite. If that's the case, go get a hotmail, and send an invite. This takes two minutes MAX.
This is just pathetic. Because you know what: IT ISN'T TRUE! Period.
have you noticed console games don't need patches? I mean, I think they test a lot better because they KNOW they can't update them. with PC, I think there must be a mentality of "oh, well, we can always make them download a patch".
... and thanks to broadband, I don't even really care that much. I don't even bother saving the download in case I have to reinstall. By the time I need to reinstall, a new version will be out, so why bother? I just run it and delete it.
It's pretty bad, because the very first thing I do when I buy a piece of software is go download the patch. It's so rare I get something that DOESN'T have a patch out already. Even hardware, there is almost always a patch out for the driver never than the one that shipped with it.
Each ethernet card has a unique MAC id.
which, with some models, can be changed.
I've played for several years. Biweekly game we hold tournaments (sometimes two table, sometimes one).
I've played onlin. started at DynamitePoker.com playing freerolls, won afew dollars, built a roll. I cashed several hundred dollars from there. Tried partypoker for a while, now play at pokerstars.com and like it a lot. I'm up/down there, but have been playing on the same $100 buy in for six months.
It's nice. I can play a single table tourney for $5, lasts about an hour, 90 mins. tops (that's if I win). It's fun, but I'm not sure I'd play for big money (too much risk of people colluding/playing as a team with IM).
It has definitely helped me learn the game. In our "live" tournaments, I've done very well (about 3/4 in the money), just because I've played a lot of tourneys.