Late is the hour of my post. However I do not see anyone else making this point, so I feel I must try.
"As more video shifts to the Web, the cable operators will inevitably align their pricing models," Moffett said. "With the right usage-based pricing plan, they can embrace the transition instead of resisting it."
This completely ignores the fact that a great many of us can get Internet access somewhere besides the cable company. Right now, I admit, I have access through one of the large cable companies. However the telephone company will sell me 7Mbit DSL (enough for solid streaming, in my experience) for $20 a month for five years and no contract. The same phone company also called me to let me know that they are pulling fiber to my house and early next year I can subscribe to 40Mbit/10MBit for $40 a month. That means, next year, I could send the cable company packing and have the same download speed with twice the upload speed and save $50 a month.
The consumer in worries, "How will this impact performance?"
Did you have the same worries when MS put a firewall in XP with Service Pack 2 in 2004?
If I am being honest. I had the same concern about XP SP2 and it very much came to fruition and worse (had to replace incompatible hardware). While I doubt the problem was the firewall components, as a consumer I did not really care.
My biggest issue is trying to find a router can that run DD-WRT/Tomato/etc, is trying to find a router that can handle 400mpbs+ of WAN LAN Performance.
Are there any high performance routers that support open source?
I certainly do not know of a commercial one, however you can build one.
The pilot, who both the TSA and US Airways declined to identify, was a member of the Federal Flight Deck Officer program, an initiative put in place after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The initiative allows authorized members of cockpit crews to carry weapons on board.
I BUY A COPY which I'm free to use as I see fit within the limits of copyright law (which in essence means: no public showings, no redistribution without permission).
So I worked at a place that shipped content (specially licensed for showing to groups) to our members. As streaming came along, we started to loose members. I suggested we start streaming what we have to one member at a time. I was then told, "That has been deemed broadcasting and we do not have the rights to broadcast." So if my employer had a clue, you cannot broadcast your own music to yourself.
Platform fragmentation from the hardware side isn't the huge issue it's made to be. Anyone who has developed desktop software shouldn't have a huge issue having to target a variety of devices!
Having done both, I have first hand experience with the pain...
On the desktop you assume you have a certain minimum working area, and make all you windows fit within those constraints and you are done.
With mobile you are writing full screen applications. So you not only have portrait and landscape to contend with (as you pointed out), but each different screen size has the potential for rendering your application awkward at best and unusable at the worst. I am amazed at the variation of (physical) screen sizes I see on android devices, from the hipsters with the smallest android phone they could find to the executives who now bring their bigger than a netbook tablet to meetings. On top of that, there are many currently deployed versions of Android. Now there are libraries that help, but this variety creates an untenable number of possibilities to test for smaller shops. I have read of more than one small shop abandoning the platform and have spoken to others that have decided not to support it at all.
I had a former customer (I no longer run my own shop) approach me about porting my mobile application to his new phone. If it had been an iPhone I could have recompiled it and tested in for three different screen sizes and sold it for ever iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Meaning: I could do it quickly, charge the client something he could pay, still be able to sell it to other people and in doing so hope to make some money. However, he bought an Android phone. Requiring: I completely rewrite the application, support a myriad of highly varied devices, and enter an environment of rampant piracy in order to sell more than one copy. In the end I simply had to say, "No."
Why are they not giving people an option to buy physical media? Because the Hackintosh community is running around tell people that it is alright to install that license of OS X they payed for on their computer, even if it is not a Macintosh. If they are legally in the right or not, this significantly weakens their argument. We go from the user saying, "I purchased this box of software and now you think you can tell me what computer I may install it on." To Apple saying, "You agreed to the iTunes store terms (or those presented at time of purchase) before you licensed Lion from us. You clearly cannot claim that you are now allowed to install it on a generic PC when you already agreed you would not."
Thank goodness I only run OS X on Apple branded hardware.
Dude, OS X gives you access to great development tools (XCode, Pixelmator, Adobe CS). Plus all the Unix goodies to publish your content (scp, rsync). I develop on OS X, and have a bash script to post the content to a local vm or the production server.
"EU regulators suspect an abuse of a dominant position and illegal tying of IBM's mainframe hardware to its proprietary mainframe operating system z/OS."
"Like Macintosh and OSX?"
"Like the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad and iOS?"
Given the results, I find it hard to see why this is bad.
The quantity of taxes to be paid by the community must be the same in either case; with this advantage--if the provision is to be made by the Union--that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society. Happy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of its own power coincides with a proper distribution of the public burdens and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!
you talk to any of the young, creative designers that are moving things forward, and they will tell you about how all of their designs are being ripped off by mall stores.
If I talked to such people, I'd firat ask which rules they used to prove their desings are completely original and the mall's are rip-offs.
Point taken, however allow me to relay my sister's experience.
She sowed all her life, starting as soon as our mother would let her. She was very bright, successfully combining her last two years of high school and first two years of college. Then off to university to study Fashion Design. Where her intelligence and experience blew away her professors and had the other students coming to her, begging for help.
Then it came time for her and her classmates to exhibit their work. They had always done this for the new students using manikins and tables of drawings / portfolios. Some from the industry showed up and items quickly and quietly disappeared.
The format was abandoned, for actual fashion shows. These have the distinct advantage that the model might scream if someone tries to steal their clothing. Teams of security personal were placed at all entrances where the students' work would be.
Off to New York to finish her education and hopefully land a job. While their, my sister created one piece that sent her instructor literally yelling down the hallway, "Come see what my student has created, you will not believe it." At first the assembled staff was speechless. Then they excitedly started to analyze it and try to figure out how it was made, my sister literally had to step in when the seam-rippers came out.
At this point she had become the darling of two fashion schools. Ahead of her interviews, advice started to pour in from every instructor she had ever had. While one department head tried to get her to stay in academia, to groom her as her replacement, one piece of advice was consistent...
"Do not, under any circumstances, let the interviewer alone with your portfolio."
"Why?"
"They will find a way to copy it and you have just given them their new fall line."
My sister did hold her designs close. After being interviewed by the company she always said she wanted to work for and for a position in the city she wanted, they offered to fly her out to see their facilities. According to her professors, this was a sure sign that a job offer was coming. She declined stating, "This industry is too cutthroat, I don't think I can work in it."
She then went back to school to study Civil Engineering.
First, including a link doesn't make you a programmer.
Second, what are you graduating from (high school, technical college, university)? With what kind of degree?
To directly address your question, most entry level positions require two years experience. You need to figure out how to get that experience!
I graduated right before September 11, 2001 and wound up taking an IT support job where they needed some programing done as well. It was a long haul (almost eight years of more and more development), however I just started my first senior developer position. Everyone has to start somewhere!
1. Break the program into it's component parts.
2. For each component ask, "How long should this take?"
3. Multiply that number by three and record it.
4. Add up all the numbers.
I have used this method successfully for projects lasting only a few hours up to six months.
Slashdot Mirror
Late is the hour of my post. However I do not see anyone else making this point, so I feel I must try.
"As more video shifts to the Web, the cable operators will inevitably align their pricing models," Moffett said. "With the right usage-based pricing plan, they can embrace the transition instead of resisting it."
This completely ignores the fact that a great many of us can get Internet access somewhere besides the cable company. Right now, I admit, I have access through one of the large cable companies. However the telephone company will sell me 7Mbit DSL (enough for solid streaming, in my experience) for $20 a month for five years and no contract. The same phone company also called me to let me know that they are pulling fiber to my house and early next year I can subscribe to 40Mbit/10MBit for $40 a month. That means, next year, I could send the cable company packing and have the same download speed with twice the upload speed and save $50 a month.
Go ahead, make it worth my while to switch.
The capitalist in me screams, "Anti-competitive!"
The IT guy in me exclaims, "It is about time."
The consumer in worries, "How will this impact performance?"
Did you have the same worries when MS put a firewall in XP with Service Pack 2 in 2004?
If I am being honest. I had the same concern about XP SP2 and it very much came to fruition and worse (had to replace incompatible hardware). While I doubt the problem was the firewall components, as a consumer I did not really care.
The capitalist in me screams, "Anti-competitive!"
The IT guy in me exclaims, "It is about time."
The consumer in worries, "How will this impact performance?"
Well if you need AutoCAD, how about using AutoCAD?
Mac-Compatible Products
On the Visio front have you tried OmniGraffle Pro on your Mac? I know it is expensive, hence why I am asking instead of sharing my experience.
OmniGraffle Pro
It is what I want connected to my TV.
My biggest issue is trying to find a router can that run DD-WRT/Tomato/etc, is trying to find a router that can handle 400mpbs+ of WAN LAN Performance.
Are there any high performance routers that support open source?
I certainly do not know of a commercial one, however you can build one.
http://www.pfsense.org/
Please, throw some positive points at this comment!
Especially since as monitors got wider, Microsoft became obsessed with using up more vertical space.
Yep and "they" can already carry guns.
The pilot, who both the TSA and US Airways declined to identify, was a member of the Federal Flight Deck Officer program, an initiative put in place after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The initiative allows authorized members of cockpit crews to carry weapons on board.
If the pilot goes bad, it is going to be bad.
I BUY A COPY which I'm free to use as I see fit within the limits of copyright law (which in essence means: no public showings, no redistribution without permission).
So I worked at a place that shipped content (specially licensed for showing to groups) to our members. As streaming came along, we started to loose members. I suggested we start streaming what we have to one member at a time. I was then told, "That has been deemed broadcasting and we do not have the rights to broadcast." So if my employer had a clue, you cannot broadcast your own music to yourself.
Platform fragmentation from the hardware side isn't the huge issue it's made to be. Anyone who has developed desktop software shouldn't have a huge issue having to target a variety of devices!
Having done both, I have first hand experience with the pain...
On the desktop you assume you have a certain minimum working area, and make all you windows fit within those constraints and you are done.
With mobile you are writing full screen applications. So you not only have portrait and landscape to contend with (as you pointed out), but each different screen size has the potential for rendering your application awkward at best and unusable at the worst. I am amazed at the variation of (physical) screen sizes I see on android devices, from the hipsters with the smallest android phone they could find to the executives who now bring their bigger than a netbook tablet to meetings. On top of that, there are many currently deployed versions of Android. Now there are libraries that help, but this variety creates an untenable number of possibilities to test for smaller shops. I have read of more than one small shop abandoning the platform and have spoken to others that have decided not to support it at all.
I had a former customer (I no longer run my own shop) approach me about porting my mobile application to his new phone. If it had been an iPhone I could have recompiled it and tested in for three different screen sizes and sold it for ever iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Meaning: I could do it quickly, charge the client something he could pay, still be able to sell it to other people and in doing so hope to make some money. However, he bought an Android phone. Requiring: I completely rewrite the application, support a myriad of highly varied devices, and enter an environment of rampant piracy in order to sell more than one copy. In the end I simply had to say, "No."
Why are they not giving people an option to buy physical media? Because the Hackintosh community is running around tell people that it is alright to install that license of OS X they payed for on their computer, even if it is not a Macintosh. If they are legally in the right or not, this significantly weakens their argument. We go from the user saying, "I purchased this box of software and now you think you can tell me what computer I may install it on." To Apple saying, "You agreed to the iTunes store terms (or those presented at time of purchase) before you licensed Lion from us. You clearly cannot claim that you are now allowed to install it on a generic PC when you already agreed you would not."
Thank goodness I only run OS X on Apple branded hardware.
Dude, OS X gives you access to great development tools (XCode, Pixelmator, Adobe CS). Plus all the Unix goodies to publish your content (scp, rsync). I develop on OS X, and have a bash script to post the content to a local vm or the production server.
How many people choose IE to get at that other 10% of the World Wide Web?
When my wife discovered Netflix streaming I had to switch from Linux to OS-X.
When it comes to accessing information, people will put in some extra time/money/effort.
Theoretically, yes. But why? OS X Server can be virtualized now. If you want to run OS X server to manage your Mac network, run it in a VM.
But if a company is trying to do it right...
permits OS X Server to run in a virtual machine (VM) as long as each VM is stocked with a different license and the physical system is Apple-made
source
"Never memorize what you can look up in books." - Albert Einstein
As quoted in "Recording the Experience" (10 June 2004) at The Library of Congress
Some would say that if your software can utilize 24 cores, it is good.
"EU regulators suspect an abuse of a dominant position and illegal tying of IBM's mainframe hardware to its proprietary mainframe operating system z/OS."
"Like Macintosh and OSX?"
"Like the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad and iOS?"
Given the results, I find it hard to see why this is bad.
I want to play martian cave man.
The quantity of taxes to be paid by the community must be the same in either case; with this advantage--if the provision is to be made by the Union--that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society. Happy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of its own power coincides with a proper distribution of the public burdens and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 36
you talk to any of the young, creative designers that are moving things forward, and they will tell you about how all of their designs are being ripped off by mall stores.
If I talked to such people, I'd firat ask which rules they used to prove their desings are completely original and the mall's are rip-offs.
Point taken, however allow me to relay my sister's experience.
She sowed all her life, starting as soon as our mother would let her. She was very bright, successfully combining her last two years of high school and first two years of college. Then off to university to study Fashion Design. Where her intelligence and experience blew away her professors and had the other students coming to her, begging for help.
Then it came time for her and her classmates to exhibit their work. They had always done this for the new students using manikins and tables of drawings / portfolios. Some from the industry showed up and items quickly and quietly disappeared.
The format was abandoned, for actual fashion shows. These have the distinct advantage that the model might scream if someone tries to steal their clothing. Teams of security personal were placed at all entrances where the students' work would be.
Off to New York to finish her education and hopefully land a job. While their, my sister created one piece that sent her instructor literally yelling down the hallway, "Come see what my student has created, you will not believe it." At first the assembled staff was speechless. Then they excitedly started to analyze it and try to figure out how it was made, my sister literally had to step in when the seam-rippers came out.
At this point she had become the darling of two fashion schools. Ahead of her interviews, advice started to pour in from every instructor she had ever had. While one department head tried to get her to stay in academia, to groom her as her replacement, one piece of advice was consistent...
"Do not, under any circumstances, let the interviewer alone with your portfolio."
"Why?"
"They will find a way to copy it and you have just given them their new fall line."
My sister did hold her designs close. After being interviewed by the company she always said she wanted to work for and for a position in the city she wanted, they offered to fly her out to see their facilities. According to her professors, this was a sure sign that a job offer was coming. She declined stating, "This industry is too cutthroat, I don't think I can work in it."
She then went back to school to study Civil Engineering.
First, including a link doesn't make you a programmer.
Second, what are you graduating from (high school, technical college, university)? With what kind of degree?
To directly address your question, most entry level positions require two years experience. You need to figure out how to get that experience!
I graduated right before September 11, 2001 and wound up taking an IT support job where they needed some programing done as well. It was a long haul (almost eight years of more and more development), however I just started my first senior developer position. Everyone has to start somewhere!
1. Break the program into it's component parts.
2. For each component ask, "How long should this take?"
3. Multiply that number by three and record it.
4. Add up all the numbers.
I have used this method successfully for projects lasting only a few hours up to six months.
"I'm going to be really sad to see STS-133 land."
Challenger breaking up on re-entry hit me very hard. I will be happy to see it land, safely.
I am sure that you can do things with Slackware that I cannot.