It can now be covered in a single graduate level mathematics course.
And to that, I would like to posit the Lord Nimon Conjecture: Any concept that requires a graduate degree in mathematics to understand is sufficiently mind boggling as to cause my head to explode.
Why should you cater to the whims of people who refuse to pay you for something you're giving them? Screw 'em, I say! Charge for an account, and anyone who doesn't like it, can go somewhere else.
In the 25 years I've been programming, I've never seen an instance of a "mere coder" being handed a fully designed specification to be implemented. Even when such a spec is written by someone other than the individuals who will do the actual coding, the coding part is often very difficult because the coder needs to understand large parts of the system.
People talk about this "coder" who just types in a spec as if he were a glorified secretary, but I've never seen one. What I have seen are software developers who just aren't that good and need help on a daily basis.
I read an interview with you on the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/business/yourmo ney/07out.html) about outsourcing of jobs to India and China. In the interview, you said:
"Low-skill jobs like coding are moving offshore and what's left in their place are more advanced project management jobs."
Could you please explain to me why you consider coding jobs to be "low-skill"?
In order to be a software developer, one typically needs to have a Bachelor's degree in computer science, which is not an easy field of study. Not only that, but you typically need years of experience to become a decent developer. I work with several recent computer science college graduates, and their abilities are significantly inferior to mine.
Based on your biography on the Dartmouth web site, I seriously doubt you have ever written a piece of software. May I suggest that you pick up a book on beginning programming, and give it a shot. I have a feeling that you would find this "low skill" task extremely difficult to learn.
Makes. The core of the BIOS is still Phoenix, because the code hasn't needed any changes. The DOS INTx interface is the same as it has been for 20 years, so there's no need to touch that code. But stuff like ACPI and USB support was written completely from scratch in-house. Again, this is only on some Dell machines.
Not true, Dell does have an engineering team that makes their own motherboards, and they have a BIOS development team that makes their own BIOS (not for all systems, though). Yes, the BIOS was originally from Phoenix, but that was over 10 years ago. Dell's own employees have made all the changes since then.
Not that I want to defend Quark, but they are hiring programmers at their Denver facility. Also, notice that the linked article was written in April 2002, so this isn't some recent event. Quark opened their India office back in 1998, well before the bubble even started.
I can tell you why they won't support it: they don't want to test it. They figure 16-bit apps aren't worth it, and that customers probably won't complain enough.
A customer is someone who buys something from you. If you download MP3s illegally, you're not buying them from any of the record labels. Therefore, the RIAA is not suing any its (technically, the labels') customers!
Just get VMWare. Switching to another OS without rebooting is only useful for games and other hardware-intensive apps. Accounting software is not in this category, and so it's a great candidate for VMWare.
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And to that, I would like to posit the Lord Nimon Conjecture: Any concept that requires a graduate degree in mathematics to understand is sufficiently mind boggling as to cause my head to explode.
They marry some rich guy, of course. There are plenty of reasonably attractive rich men who'd be happy with her as a trophy wife.
http://www.gravitysucks.org/sounds/WilShat-Canadia n.mp3.
Why should you cater to the whims of people who refuse to pay you for something you're giving them? Screw 'em, I say! Charge for an account, and anyone who doesn't like it, can go somewhere else.
No, you say "pee ess two", but you write it "PS/2".
People talk about this "coder" who just types in a spec as if he were a glorified secretary, but I've never seen one. What I have seen are software developers who just aren't that good and need help on a daily basis.
I read an interview with you on the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/business/yourmo ney/07out.html) about outsourcing of jobs to India and China. In the interview, you said:
"Low-skill jobs like coding are moving offshore and what's left in their place are more advanced project management jobs."
Could you please explain to me why you consider coding jobs to be "low-skill"?
In order to be a software developer, one typically needs to have a Bachelor's degree in computer science, which is not an easy field of study. Not only that, but you typically need years of experience to become a decent developer. I work with several recent computer science college graduates, and their abilities are significantly inferior to mine.
Based on your biography on the Dartmouth web site, I seriously doubt you have ever written a piece of software. May I suggest that you pick up a book on beginning programming, and give it a shot. I have a feeling that you would find this "low skill" task extremely difficult to learn.
Makes. The core of the BIOS is still Phoenix, because the code hasn't needed any changes. The DOS INTx interface is the same as it has been for 20 years, so there's no need to touch that code. But stuff like ACPI and USB support was written completely from scratch in-house. Again, this is only on some Dell machines.
Not true, Dell does have an engineering team that makes their own motherboards, and they have a BIOS development team that makes their own BIOS (not for all systems, though). Yes, the BIOS was originally from Phoenix, but that was over 10 years ago. Dell's own employees have made all the changes since then.
Then what about UTF-7?
Yes. This is a feature of the CPU, which the operating system takes advantage of.
Technically, that technique is probably a valid patent, from the USPO's point-of-view.
Huh? Dude, take off your tin foil hat!
Why don't you just lower the toilet bowl lid before you flush???? Leaving the lid open all the time is just uncouth, anyway.
A lot more!
Not that I want to defend Quark, but they are hiring programmers at their Denver facility. Also, notice that the linked article was written in April 2002, so this isn't some recent event. Quark opened their India office back in 1998, well before the bubble even started.
I can tell you why they won't support it: they don't want to test it. They figure 16-bit apps aren't worth it, and that customers probably won't complain enough.
No, it's not. Someone please mod the above as troll.
Dell is Austin. AMD is in Austin. What's your point?
There is nothing irrational about not wanting GM foods.
Theives are not customers. It's plain and simple.
What cinematic showings? This is news to me.
Just get VMWare. Switching to another OS without rebooting is only useful for games and other hardware-intensive apps. Accounting software is not in this category, and so it's a great candidate for VMWare.
In Soviet Russia, you make the godfather an offer he can't refuse!
I bet you're a lot of fun at parties.