A good area to get into if you are looking to avoid the whole outsourcing issue is customization, or some form of middleware. At the company I work at, a lot of the application stuff has been outsourced to developers in India. However, they still need someone to glue the different apps and systems together. That is where my role comes in. And this type of job will always been needed because no two companies have the same setup, so there always has to be someone to do that work to customize the systems to work together.
Actually, when Erik the Red was exiled, it is believed he called the area "Greenland" to try and attract more settlers from his home land, although it was definitely not green (except the southern part). Remember, the Vikings were around in the late 900s. Greenland didn't get covered completely in ice in under 1100 years. That would have taken an ice age.
Well I know a lot of people are thinking about this from one end, but what do you think about the possibilities of Microsoft releasing Office for SUSE Linux. It would take much to port it from OSX and that would make SUSE a very viable alternative to Windows. I know it seems counter productive because it would be taking sales away from Windows, but if it allows for an income stream to Office, then why not.
I think this perspective is a major issue for the push for Linux going forward. A lot of people assume that if it run ON Linux that it must be open source. I am not sure how far that runs into the corporate world, but if the common assumption is that you must open source your code for it to run as an app on top of a Linux based OS, then developers are going to shy away. So what if it is not open source, there is plenty of enterprise packages from SUSE and RedHat that are not open source either. I think that until the Linux crowd changes there mindset that every app MUST be open source that we will continue to be viewed as a small techie subset of society. Instead, let's embrace the power of open source, including Linux, and allow companies to build proprietary apps to run on top of the OS in order to give an overall better user experience, therefore allowing Linux into the mainstream.
Cheap and accurate gene sequencing in the hands of corporations encourages said corporations to discriminate in their hiring practices on the basis of genetic predispositions to everything from coronary disease to psychological problems.
I hope there isn't a gene that says "I probably will only stay here for 6 months."
"Extroverts seem to rule the world or, at least, the USA, which hasn't elected an introverted president for three decades, since Jimmy Carter."
They have only elected 4 presidents since then. So let me get this straight, since the last 4 presidents are extroverted, then extroverts rule the world. I want to live where they do causation like that!!
Well, there is one problem here that everyone is not putting into the equation...STOCKS. No matter how much money MS looses on each XBOX, if they sell 200 billion systems, even without games, the stock is going to go through the roof, thus giving MS profit.
So stop with all of this "let's bankrupt MS" until you consider the ramifications of such an action.
speaking of a lot of different distros and some of the unique names they have, i think you may have come up with a new one.
Blame Linux, available now at ftp://www.blamelinux.com
Your source for the most innovative Linux distro to hit the market in years.
Or maybe they can rename Longhorn...
I bought stock in Novell about a month ago and since then, I have seen about 12% ROI in less than a month. Not a lot of my other stocks have been doing that....Look at the last two days alone...
If a President of the US coined a word, then you have to give it due credit.
Warren G. Harding won the election of 1920 by a landslide on the promise of a "return to normalcy"--which, for Republicans in the 1920s, meant a return to big business.
or was it...
It was not (contrary to popular opinion)coined by President Warren G Harding. It is a British English word of considerable antiquity.
I went to the movie theater to watch the 2nd Matrix movie the day it came out (so that tells you about the time it was)
and there was a guy running Longhorn on his laptop. Me and an ECE friend of mine went over to ask him about it. He was raving how great it was and blah blah blah. My friend asked him, "So what's different about it, beside the GUI?" And this guy was like, "Um...it is just neat, and you don't have it." Cause it was without the new file system (which won't be on longhorn anyway) and without a ton of stuff. But it did look pretty...pretty confusing. Stuff was everyone. The desktop looked like a dumping ground. Taskbar at the bottom. Some kind of toolbar on the side, similar to Mac's toolbar at the bottom, and then some other media toolbar. Just cluttered. And so we asked him to show us some stuff. There was nothing. So I was thinking about it. All it really didn't have was the newest Media Player and the new file system. Well now you can download the newest media player and they aren't adding the new file system, so I guess in 2006, they will release basically the same version that guy had back two years ago. LOL!!
If this was the case, if it was completely a non-technical issue, then shouldn't microsoft distribute a guide of something to outline WHY people get spyware or how to avoid it. I haven't seen anything like that....
What is the deal with MS? They keep doing things to force users to upgrade to the newer OS. As this guy says, ME and 98 have it's place in many schools and residents for people who cannot afford $100 per machine to load an OS when they use the machine to check email or weather.
I know this is a common theme on slashdot, but it is so true. The best I can think of brings me back to the Firestone tire incident a couple of years ago. Firestone tires were having a problem and blowing out causing SUV's to roll over. Imagine what would have happened if instead of making new tires, Firestone gave everyone a tool that would inflate the tire after it exploded. I know this is not the same thing, but how is it a solution to fix a problem you caused instead of fix the root cause. I have been in development only a short time, but i know...bandaids only slow the bleeding, and this application my friends, is a bandaid.
I agree. Even with all of these UI tools that are coming out, even yast, I still just find it much faster and less hassle to use the CLI. The reason: So many distros now a days have different tools to do the same thing. So if i was on a redhat machine, i might have to go to one tool, on a suse machine, another, on a mac, yet another. However, knowing the way to do something at the command line makes it much easier to move from one to the other without having to locate and master the UI tools.
Look, if my programs are still running in the year 10,000, then we have a lot more to worry about besides some date formatting. Why in the world should some routine I wrote in 2004 have use 6000 years later, it's not like I am building the roman empire, it is a freakin' program.
Maybe it is just my naïve viewpoint, but doesn't this appear to be microsoft's clear path into the hardware market?
Imagine the market share that Microsoft could yield with a PC and laptop market, not only designed FOR windows, but designed BY windows people. I definately am not a fan, but the $2 billion price tag seems almost incosequential to the capital possessed by MS.
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A good area to get into if you are looking to avoid the whole outsourcing issue is customization, or some form of middleware. At the company I work at, a lot of the application stuff has been outsourced to developers in India. However, they still need someone to glue the different apps and systems together. That is where my role comes in. And this type of job will always been needed because no two companies have the same setup, so there always has to be someone to do that work to customize the systems to work together.
Actually, when Erik the Red was exiled, it is believed he called the area "Greenland" to try and attract more settlers from his home land, although it was definitely not green (except the southern part). Remember, the Vikings were around in the late 900s. Greenland didn't get covered completely in ice in under 1100 years. That would have taken an ice age.
Well I know a lot of people are thinking about this from one end, but what do you think about the possibilities of Microsoft releasing Office for SUSE Linux. It would take much to port it from OSX and that would make SUSE a very viable alternative to Windows. I know it seems counter productive because it would be taking sales away from Windows, but if it allows for an income stream to Office, then why not.
I think this perspective is a major issue for the push for Linux going forward. A lot of people assume that if it run ON Linux that it must be open source. I am not sure how far that runs into the corporate world, but if the common assumption is that you must open source your code for it to run as an app on top of a Linux based OS, then developers are going to shy away. So what if it is not open source, there is plenty of enterprise packages from SUSE and RedHat that are not open source either. I think that until the Linux crowd changes there mindset that every app MUST be open source that we will continue to be viewed as a small techie subset of society. Instead, let's embrace the power of open source, including Linux, and allow companies to build proprietary apps to run on top of the OS in order to give an overall better user experience, therefore allowing Linux into the mainstream.
supercomputer$> diff myDNA chimpanzeeDNA
supercomputer$>
D'Oh!
Cheap and accurate gene sequencing in the hands of corporations encourages said corporations to discriminate in their hiring practices on the basis of genetic predispositions to everything from coronary disease to psychological problems.
I hope there isn't a gene that says "I probably will only stay here for 6 months."
They have only elected 4 presidents since then. So let me get this straight, since the last 4 presidents are extroverted, then extroverts rule the world. I want to live where they do causation like that!!
Well, there is one problem here that everyone is not putting into the equation...STOCKS. No matter how much money MS looses on each XBOX, if they sell 200 billion systems, even without games, the stock is going to go through the roof, thus giving MS profit.
So stop with all of this "let's bankrupt MS" until you consider the ramifications of such an action.
But just think, when they bundle DSL, we really save.....
Although humerous, how is this newsworthy?
speaking of a lot of different distros and some of the unique names they have, i think you may have come up with a new one. Blame Linux, available now at ftp://www.blamelinux.com Your source for the most innovative Linux distro to hit the market in years. Or maybe they can rename Longhorn...
I bought stock in Novell about a month ago and since then, I have seen about 12% ROI in less than a month. Not a lot of my other stocks have been doing that....Look at the last two days alone...
If a President of the US coined a word, then you have to give it due credit.
Warren G. Harding won the election of 1920 by a landslide on the promise of a "return to normalcy"--which, for Republicans in the 1920s, meant a return to big business.
or was it...
It was not (contrary to popular opinion)coined by President Warren G Harding. It is a British English word of considerable antiquity.
Either way...big business = microsoft...
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I went to the movie theater to watch the 2nd Matrix movie the day it came out (so that tells you about the time it was) and there was a guy running Longhorn on his laptop. Me and an ECE friend of mine went over to ask him about it. He was raving how great it was and blah blah blah. My friend asked him, "So what's different about it, beside the GUI?" And this guy was like, "Um...it is just neat, and you don't have it." Cause it was without the new file system (which won't be on longhorn anyway) and without a ton of stuff. But it did look pretty...pretty confusing. Stuff was everyone. The desktop looked like a dumping ground. Taskbar at the bottom. Some kind of toolbar on the side, similar to Mac's toolbar at the bottom, and then some other media toolbar. Just cluttered. And so we asked him to show us some stuff. There was nothing. So I was thinking about it. All it really didn't have was the newest Media Player and the new file system. Well now you can download the newest media player and they aren't adding the new file system, so I guess in 2006, they will release basically the same version that guy had back two years ago. LOL!!
Haha...funny anology...apparently P2P is like crack...pretty soon there will be skinny and pale geeks on the street begging for their P2P...
If this was the case, if it was completely a non-technical issue, then shouldn't microsoft distribute a guide of something to outline WHY people get spyware or how to avoid it. I haven't seen anything like that....
What is the deal with MS? They keep doing things to force users to upgrade to the newer OS. As this guy says, ME and 98 have it's place in many schools and residents for people who cannot afford $100 per machine to load an OS when they use the machine to check email or weather.
I know this is a common theme on slashdot, but it is so true. The best I can think of brings me back to the Firestone tire incident a couple of years ago. Firestone tires were having a problem and blowing out causing SUV's to roll over. Imagine what would have happened if instead of making new tires, Firestone gave everyone a tool that would inflate the tire after it exploded. I know this is not the same thing, but how is it a solution to fix a problem you caused instead of fix the root cause. I have been in development only a short time, but i know...bandaids only slow the bleeding, and this application my friends, is a bandaid.
I agree. Even with all of these UI tools that are coming out, even yast, I still just find it much faster and less hassle to use the CLI. The reason: So many distros now a days have different tools to do the same thing. So if i was on a redhat machine, i might have to go to one tool, on a suse machine, another, on a mac, yet another. However, knowing the way to do something at the command line makes it much easier to move from one to the other without having to locate and master the UI tools.
Look, if my programs are still running in the year 10,000, then we have a lot more to worry about besides some date formatting. Why in the world should some routine I wrote in 2004 have use 6000 years later, it's not like I am building the roman empire, it is a freakin' program.
Oh no....not a Big Blue iPod :(
Imagine the market share that Microsoft could yield with a PC and laptop market, not only designed FOR windows, but designed BY windows people. I definately am not a fan, but the $2 billion price tag seems almost incosequential to the capital possessed by MS.
This is still one of the best. Had a friend show it to me after look at this year's "winners" http://www1.us.ioccc.org/1988/phillipps.c