Sorry, TBH I don't think Mono ever developed enough momentum just like Novell really. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Mono or Novell aren't good or competitive or whatever but there's fashionably late and then there's Mono.
That would be a sensible theory wouldn't it, one suspects however that it'll create a tiered system that costs the end user more.
Think about this; would something like slashdot be able to work? Obstensibly/. would pay more to provide a better service or those that use are the type of people who'd pay for a faster connection. Would you then really want a fast site with lots of links to slower sites?
Would you then host all your images and shared web services with a "fast" provider and embed them into your sites hosted on "slow" providers. You'd then have a market for providing lots of "fast" images for embeding into your "slow" personal page. Lot's of technical implications to think about there, smells like someones "wealth creation" plan to me.
As I'm sure others will attest, like most IT workers, in an open plan office it's not always possible to avoid distractions or interruptions from others, particularly when those interruptions may be warranted. As a systems administrator, it doesn't matter how import any development project is, the phrase "The Comm.'s room is flooding from the ground up, burning from the top down and some berk fell over the wires pulling all the cables out the middle." will always, always get immediate priority.
For most the question isn't how do you stop interruptions but what humorously, politically incorrect scale do you use to measure them, I prefer the DEFCON scale myself.
How did that one creep into the language, Shirley a "fold" conveys the implication of division rather than multiplication. I suppose an "N fold increase" explicitly stipulates a growth, but that would make it a double negative and I suppose a "30 uncrease increase" or "30 unfurled increase" doesn't have quite the same ring to it. I blame the bleedin' Septics.
I for one welcome our new Magnetic Overlords! The day of their coming shall be signaled by The Day Of The Great Field Inversion when our Evil Bird Overlords shall fall from the sky in confusion. SO IT IS WRITTEN!
Especially for non-specialists in a technical area , I'm not saying esoteric research rarely has value, in our field it's usually the most valuable. Now the IT field is "mature"(-ish), it's getting a lot more exposure. As developers we need to be presenting simple (not trivial) but elegant little demos to people built on top of whatever the latest great "model" is and then asking for money and contributions. A lot of otherwise promising projects are doing it the other way round... "We/I've got this great framework/design, if I could have £X I could make it do Y"...rather than saying... "Look at Y, it's only small but isn't it neat? It's built on top of this framework/design, but I need £X to make some larger neat things and perfect the framework."..., obvious? Maybe, but people still over look the deeper advantages. If you've got funding for a project that lacks a phyical manifestation the great temptation is to "tweak" the framework a bit more before building that neat thing on top. Whereas with a real product on top it constrains you a bit but does give you something to abate the commercial pressure with. Specifically you're manager/sugar daddy/whatever will be able to distinguish it from bull shit because he's got something to play with. It's so easy, we're developers after all, we've reached a concluesion (if not the end) when a "product" is finished but if people carry on as is we'll risk developing (sorry) a reputation for hype and not a lot else.
Nevertheless, for the masses in their office cubicles RSS feeds are the next "big thing".
Try telling the masses that the next big thing is a new data model for the web, based on semantics, and 99% of them will ask you what "semantic" means, never mind the intangible data model that is the real underlying improvement.
Show them a little program that sits on their desktop and feeds them the latest from CNN, the BBC etc and they understand that.
Web development and IT in general is running a real risk of falling into a litany of problems that similar industries have, without trying to mitigate them or indeed learn anything from them.
As MoonFog points out, we run the risk of doing what AI researchers did. Promising the Silver Bullet was just around the corner... "If the average Joe can't understand a computer then we can make the computer understand them!"...and then being able to deliver that promise in the time frame we promised.
How about mobile telecoms companies such as Nokia or 3? They accidentally invented the bane of good social graces in the 20th century, text messaging, and have forever since been trying to come up with the next great money spinner. Have MMS, 3G, video phones, PTT, mobile gaming etc... ever really produce as much money or been as much of a success as texting?
Finally, the manufacturing industry and mechanical Engineers (esp. in the UK). It may have been Maggie who nailed the coffin shut (and to this day the manufacturing industry in Britain is a bit of a mess, just look at Rover) but it was foreshadowed by a calamitous shifting of project management responsibilities beforehand. Large mechanical engineering projects went from being managed by those who did it but for the love (Isambard Kingdom Brunel right through to Sir Frank Whittle) to "professional" managers who couldn't maintain the level of innovation, back finally to the Engineers themselves who promptly allowed everything to go over budget and over time because nobody had taught them about project management.
Where am I going with all this ()? Is RSS our predictive text, a nice addition but not truly the next big thing? So what is the "next big thing"? Web 2, The Semantic Web? Possibly, but we need to be careful, our management structures are currently in the stage of evolution between leaving those who did it for the love (Hello Linus;^) and Professional Management (and I think we can all link back to "those" discussions) who may not be able to understand the potential and maintain our innovation, leading us down the path of the AI'ers.
If the masses can't tell the difference between the apples and the oranges then the comparison won't bother them, just give them the apple now and work on making the orange even better.
Not if you're the US military, in which case you'll be able to have it a month in advance.
I can just see Clipy now...
It looks like your visiting Iraq, would you like to do the following: <UL> <LI>Invade a neighbouring country?</LI> <LI>Install a new government of your choice?</LI> <LI>Uninstall all natural resources?</LI> <LI>...or activate a trade firewall to inhibit all and any competition?</LI> </UL>
Slashdot Mirror
Nothing until netcraft confirm it.
Sorry, TBH I don't think Mono ever developed enough momentum just like Novell really. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Mono or Novell aren't good or competitive or whatever but there's fashionably late and then there's Mono.
That would be a sensible theory wouldn't it, one suspects however that it'll create a tiered system that costs the end user more.
/. would pay more to provide a better service or those that use are the type of people who'd pay for a faster connection. Would you then really want a fast site with lots of links to slower sites?
Think about this; would something like slashdot be able to work? Obstensibly
Would you then host all your images and shared web services with a "fast" provider and embed them into your sites hosted on "slow" providers. You'd then have a market for providing lots of "fast" images for embeding into your "slow" personal page. Lot's of technical implications to think about there, smells like someones "wealth creation" plan to me.
No, no, "Dev's" by our very definition sit on out arses and read slashdot fule.
As I'm sure others will attest, like most IT workers, in an open plan office it's not always possible to avoid distractions or interruptions from others, particularly when those interruptions may be warranted. As a systems administrator, it doesn't matter how import any development project is, the phrase "The Comm.'s room is flooding from the ground up, burning from the top down and some berk fell over the wires pulling all the cables out the middle." will always, always get immediate priority.
For most the question isn't how do you stop interruptions but what humorously, politically incorrect scale do you use to measure them, I prefer the DEFCON scale myself.
> There are plenty of mobos that have 2 x16 slots, and newegg has one that has three. Got a link? Couldn't find it. Thanks.
Woooo-Whoooo!
Hasn't this idea... been floating around for a while?
How did that one creep into the language, Shirley a "fold" conveys the implication of division rather than multiplication. I suppose an "N fold increase" explicitly stipulates a growth, but that would make it a double negative and I suppose a "30 uncrease increase" or "30 unfurled increase" doesn't have quite the same ring to it. I blame the bleedin' Septics.
I for one welcome our new Magnetic Overlords! The day of their coming shall be signaled by The Day Of The Great Field Inversion when our Evil Bird Overlords shall fall from the sky in confusion. SO IT IS WRITTEN!
Especially for non-specialists in a technical area , I'm not saying esoteric research rarely has value, in our field it's usually the most valuable. ...rather than saying... ..., obvious? Maybe, but people still over look the deeper advantages. If you've got funding for a project that lacks a phyical manifestation the great temptation is to "tweak" the framework a bit more before building that neat thing on top. Whereas with a real product on top it constrains you a bit but does give you something to abate the commercial pressure with. Specifically you're manager/sugar daddy/whatever will be able to distinguish it from bull shit because he's got something to play with.
Now the IT field is "mature"(-ish), it's getting a lot more exposure. As developers we need to be presenting simple (not trivial) but elegant little demos to people built on top of whatever the latest great "model" is and then asking for money and contributions.
A lot of otherwise promising projects are doing it the other way round...
"We/I've got this great framework/design, if I could have £X I could make it do Y"
"Look at Y, it's only small but isn't it neat? It's built on top of this framework/design, but I need £X to make some larger neat things and perfect the framework."
It's so easy, we're developers after all, we've reached a concluesion (if not the end) when a "product" is finished but if people carry on as is we'll risk developing (sorry) a reputation for hype and not a lot else.
Nevertheless, for the masses in their office cubicles RSS feeds are the next "big thing".
...and then being able to deliver that promise in the time frame we promised.
;^) and Professional Management (and I think we can all link back to "those" discussions) who may not be able to understand the potential and maintain our innovation, leading us down the path of the AI'ers.
Try telling the masses that the next big thing is a new data model for the web, based on semantics, and 99% of them will ask you what "semantic" means, never mind the intangible data model that is the real underlying improvement.
Show them a little program that sits on their desktop and feeds them the latest from CNN, the BBC etc and they understand that.
Web development and IT in general is running a real risk of falling into a litany of problems that similar industries have, without trying to mitigate them or indeed learn anything from them.
As MoonFog points out, we run the risk of doing what AI researchers did. Promising the Silver Bullet was just around the corner... "If the average Joe can't understand a computer then we can make the computer understand them!"
How about mobile telecoms companies such as Nokia or 3? They accidentally invented the bane of good social graces in the 20th century, text messaging, and have forever since been trying to come up with the next great money spinner. Have MMS, 3G, video phones, PTT, mobile gaming etc... ever really produce as much money or been as much of a success as texting?
Finally, the manufacturing industry and mechanical Engineers (esp. in the UK). It may have been Maggie who nailed the coffin shut (and to this day the manufacturing industry in Britain is a bit of a mess, just look at Rover) but it was foreshadowed by a calamitous shifting of project management responsibilities beforehand. Large mechanical engineering projects went from being managed by those who did it but for the love (Isambard Kingdom Brunel right through to Sir Frank Whittle) to "professional" managers who couldn't maintain the level of innovation, back finally to the Engineers themselves who promptly allowed everything to go over budget and over time because nobody had taught them about project management.
Where am I going with all this ()? Is RSS our predictive text, a nice addition but not truly the next big thing? So what is the "next big thing"? Web 2, The Semantic Web? Possibly, but we need to be careful, our management structures are currently in the stage of evolution between leaving those who did it for the love (Hello Linus
If the masses can't tell the difference between the apples and the oranges then the comparison won't bother them, just give them the apple now and work on making the orange even better.