When I say trend, don't misinterpret that as the equivalent of "fashion."
I.e, don't listen to the analysts who can piss on a stock and make it go down 15% in two days. Fucking stupid analysts and their "opinions". No, I'm not bitter.
I doubt you'll be making as much money as me in a decade or two.
There are a couple of categories among professional software developers. There are those who really can do it, these are the rare superstars who make 90+% of the advancements behind what we use every day. Then, there are the salespeople, who know just barely enough that coating it with charisma will land them the contract. They make tons of money with much less effort than the superstars, because customers are stupid but have money to burn.
Perhaps you were already conformed and you didn't know it. Peers in school see very subtle things about people and are quick to judge. Perhaps, even by chance, you sent the right signals to avoid complete alienation? School is a truly brutal place to kids who aren't so lucky.
I'm not anti-intellectual, I just think the idealism that drives people is often unfounded. What is "success", anyway? Ask a person at the Department of Education. Ask a Bhuddist. Do their answers agree?
But taxpayers still foot the bill. I still doubt that a fire company could go straight-to-consumer and make a profit, unless they get enough customers to charge a monthly "fire protection" fee. This might work in dense urban areas, but fire equipment is expensive enough that covering rural areas would definitely be a challenge. Even cell phones, DSL, cable TV, etc. don't extend to many rural areas. Population density is definitely a key factor in this.
it's quite likely that those fruit-of-the-loom whitey-tighties from walmart, while in a similar package, will be of lower quality than at other stores
Not really. Underwear is a commodity, and Wal-Mart sells them for less than $3/shirt. But I still prefer to shop elsewhere for other clothing. I've never been satisfied with Wal-Mart's shoes section, for example, though my wife can occasionally find something there. I'd also buy electronics elsewhere. Retail will never be a one-size-fits-all market, and that's why I don't fear Wal-Mart.
The meek shall inherit the earth, and then the Klingons will laugh at the cowards and crush them. That's the translation the Church didn't want us to see!
I'm only slightly facetious here; the question really is serious.
There are private police forces, they just can't be law enforcement. There are private armies, the just can't commit treason. Also, I doubt there is any business model that can support a fire department.
Wal-Mart has competition. Wal-Mart leaves a lot to be desired about lots of things. I've also found that smaller grocery chains are finding ways to compete (one even has its own gas station, now). The local hardware store is the only place to get the driveway salt I like. And so forth. Walmart changes the landscape, but they dont totally destroy it.
I won't mention specifics, the resulting flame war would overwhelm the noon-day sun. Vaguely, most of the "hard" things, the things that really require Ph.D. level work but no one wants to admit it, are what OSS is doing really poorly at, now. The things that require Ph.D. level work but people acknowledge it, those things do okay (like PostgreSQL).
She said she had StarOffice a long time about and hated it. She now uses a Win 98 laptop with Office 2000.
Well, it could actually say a good thing about Sun management for them to accomodate your GF's cousin. But how long ago was the party, as the other replies mention SunRays on every desk?
Even Sun provides quarterly Solaris updates and more frequent patch clusters, but they at least provide long enough support timelines that customers aren't pressured to upgrade when and where Sun says. Solaris 8 is still probably the most popular version of Solaris in use, yet it is over four years old and has seen well over a dozen updates.
As long as you are happy with MySQL/PostgreSQL, Apache, and PHP/Perl/Python/Tomcat, for example, Gentoo and Debian are very good, but these "corporate" distros are for capturing Oracle customers, BEA customers, etc.
With Sun JDS/JES, RedHat Fedora/ES, Mac OS X desktop/server, this Mandrake desktop/server, and others (Linspire/Debian, etc.), is the UNIX market reaching saturation for number of vendors, again, or is it just taking off?
Dunno 'bout you, but I'm going to start stockin' up on canned food and shotgun shells.
Do it properly by first coating your cans in wax, boxing them up into crates, and burying them 10 feet down in your back yard with metal mixed into the fill dirt to confuse treasure hunters. Bury the shovel you used on the cans elsewhere with more metal in the fill dirt. Also, learn how to live in a nice tree. The looters will find you in your house. Oh, and don't forget your copy of Klingon dictionary. You will be needing it...I can't say any more.
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Studio decks that record at 15 inches-per-second have response clear out to 40kHz and beyond. A CD has response to only 22.05kHz...
Does this mean all studio analog to CD conversions suffer from aliasing? Is this audible?
(please, elitest self-appointed audiophiles need not reply)
Another form of resolution is "bitness", where 24-bits can resolve ~16 million colors, for example.
A good grad school is a world of hurt. Too many people end up there out of fear of the professional world and end up burned by it.
Does 4.0+ mean spoiled kid with a strong sense of entitlement?
When I say trend, don't misinterpret that as the equivalent of "fashion."
I.e, don't listen to the analysts who can piss on a stock and make it go down 15% in two days. Fucking stupid analysts and their "opinions". No, I'm not bitter.
I doubt you'll be making as much money as me in a decade or two.
There are a couple of categories among professional software developers. There are those who really can do it, these are the rare superstars who make 90+% of the advancements behind what we use every day. Then, there are the salespeople, who know just barely enough that coating it with charisma will land them the contract. They make tons of money with much less effort than the superstars, because customers are stupid but have money to burn.
I wasnt forced to conform in the slightest..
Perhaps you were already conformed and you didn't know it. Peers in school see very subtle things about people and are quick to judge. Perhaps, even by chance, you sent the right signals to avoid complete alienation? School is a truly brutal place to kids who aren't so lucky.
Yes, I know I spelled Buddhist improperly. Don't reply saying how profoundly stupid I am.
I'm not anti-intellectual, I just think the idealism that drives people is often unfounded. What is "success", anyway? Ask a person at the Department of Education. Ask a Bhuddist. Do their answers agree?
I'm not an opinionated person at all.
But taxpayers still foot the bill. I still doubt that a fire company could go straight-to-consumer and make a profit, unless they get enough customers to charge a monthly "fire protection" fee. This might work in dense urban areas, but fire equipment is expensive enough that covering rural areas would definitely be a challenge. Even cell phones, DSL, cable TV, etc. don't extend to many rural areas. Population density is definitely a key factor in this.
it's quite likely that those fruit-of-the-loom whitey-tighties from walmart, while in a similar package, will be of lower quality than at other stores
Not really. Underwear is a commodity, and Wal-Mart sells them for less than $3/shirt. But I still prefer to shop elsewhere for other clothing. I've never been satisfied with Wal-Mart's shoes section, for example, though my wife can occasionally find something there. I'd also buy electronics elsewhere. Retail will never be a one-size-fits-all market, and that's why I don't fear Wal-Mart.
The meek shall inherit the earth, and then the Klingons will laugh at the cowards and crush them.
That's the translation the Church didn't want us to see!
I think he was talking about coating his cans in wax. I don't recommend that at all.
I'm only slightly facetious here; the question really is serious.
There are private police forces, they just can't be law enforcement. There are private armies, the just can't commit treason. Also, I doubt there is any business model that can support a fire department.
Walmart style.
Wal-Mart has competition. Wal-Mart leaves a lot to be desired about lots of things. I've also found that smaller grocery chains are finding ways to compete (one even has its own gas station, now). The local hardware store is the only place to get the driveway salt I like. And so forth. Walmart changes the landscape, but they dont totally destroy it.
Sounds like Freenet. DOA. Java sucks.
I won't mention specifics, the resulting flame war would overwhelm the noon-day sun. Vaguely, most of the "hard" things, the things that really require Ph.D. level work but no one wants to admit it, are what OSS is doing really poorly at, now. The things that require Ph.D. level work but people acknowledge it, those things do okay (like PostgreSQL).
She said she had StarOffice a long time about and hated it. She now uses a Win 98 laptop with Office 2000.
Well, it could actually say a good thing about Sun management for them to accomodate your GF's cousin. But how long ago was the party, as the other replies mention SunRays on every desk?
What's your preferred browsing platform:
o Internet Explorer
o Mozilla Firefox
o Opera
o CowboyNeal
5 updates in 1 year clearly contradicts that.
Even Sun provides quarterly Solaris updates and more frequent patch clusters, but they at least provide long enough support timelines that customers aren't pressured to upgrade when and where Sun says. Solaris 8 is still probably the most popular version of Solaris in use, yet it is over four years old and has seen well over a dozen updates.
As long as you are happy with MySQL/PostgreSQL, Apache, and PHP/Perl/Python/Tomcat, for example, Gentoo and Debian are very good, but these "corporate" distros are for capturing Oracle customers, BEA customers, etc.
With Sun JDS/JES, RedHat Fedora/ES, Mac OS X desktop/server, this Mandrake desktop/server, and others (Linspire/Debian, etc.), is the UNIX market reaching saturation for number of vendors, again, or is it just taking off?
Dunno 'bout you, but I'm going to start stockin' up on canned food and shotgun shells.
Do it properly by first coating your cans in wax, boxing them up into crates, and burying them 10 feet down in your back yard with metal mixed into the fill dirt to confuse treasure hunters. Bury the shovel you used on the cans elsewhere with more metal in the fill dirt. Also, learn how to live in a nice tree. The looters will find you in your house. Oh, and don't forget your copy of Klingon dictionary. You will be needing it...I can't say any more.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses...
Hmmm...given the trends in housing statistics, we should revise this to read "...prisons, apartments..."
"Section 512(h) of the Act does not authorize subpoenas in such circumstances"
Don't provoke Congress...they'll just come back with Section 512(h) VERSION 2.0.