Speaking as an artist: Full time jobs cut into your ability to create good art.
Then, based on the amount of "good art" available, I'm thinking that a large percentage of artists DO have full time jobs.
It's not an ideal situation.
Yeah, I hear ya... for me, a full time job doesn't so much get in the way of my ability to create good art as it is getting in the way of me getting hammered and laid on a regular basis... once again, not an ideal situation.
Your saying you don't want a spaceship to crash land in your backyard? Dude you would be the coolest geek in the state if you had a burnt spaceship in your backyard!
I wonder if you could claim salvage rights, and then eBay the sucker?
"Oh, you want your craft back, well, bid like the rest of them! Unless, of course, you want to give me a ride? Preferably later on in the program, when it's NOT crashing into peoples' back yard."
My dad's a woodworker, and he's looked into buying some of the wood for it's overall quality, and some of its VERY unique graining and colouring.
The higher end wood was priced at over $1,000 per board foot (CDN), with the "cheap" high-end stuff being around $200 per board foot. When you consider that a single log (on average) has thousands of board feet in them, the profits are WAY more than $1 per tree!
I wish I could find the pics of some of the finished products, but if you go here you can see some of the graining of the recovered logs.
There was one 35 foot long board-room table I saw that was $120,000, and it LOOKED like it was worth every penny. It was incredible.
A lot of the local governments are starting to jump in and try and get ownership of the underwater resources, like in Michigan. There's SERIOUS money in it.
In my newly formed office, where there are developers/sales/finance people working out of their home offices in Toronto, Boston, Vancouver, NY, and LA, we opted to go for the Telco features as it's a truly virtual system. We have a North American toll-free number that people can call, and it gives you the usual "welcome to our company... sales press 1, tech support press 2, company directory press 3", etc.
At that point, it will hunt down an individual or series of individuals (if the first in the hunt group is unavailalbe). This will follow on and try their cel phone, home office number, etc. automatically. If they're not there, VM is left for the individual or the company, and it's them emailed as an attachment to the appropriate individual or list.
This is very handy where we don't have the option of putting in more than one line at a location for a real office, and our PBX is truly virtual, as it doesn't really demarc anywhere. It also gives us LOTS of available lines should our product take off, and 100 people all call at once to place their order... no busy signals.
While it may be kind of expensive for the initial setup ($2k), the monthly charge is REALLY cheap, and it gives us the truly distributed virtual phone system we were looking for.
I know this isn't an Open Source solution, but it did help us immensely for our virtual office.
What you don't seem to realize is that this is really the NEXT GENERATION OF SPAM, whereby they subconsciously submit you to spam content via other outlets, like screenshots in "reviews".
IMO, the most influential component to going "Postal" is, well, the mail. Better stop that mail thing, as it's going to get everyone killed eventually!
I'm so sick and tired of "concerned individuals" blaming violent video games, that evil rock music, and pornography for all the problems in today's society.
It's interesting... I'm in Canada, and my Dad was born/raised on a farm, and yet I'd never even heard of the concept, never mind the actual implementation of this.
I've actually found it to be one of the more interesting articles on./ in a while.
Can you hear the things from where you are? Do they have much of an impact/annoyance-factor for people living in the surrounding areas?
I'm not saying that there isn't lock-in with Cocoa on Apple; it's the same as.NET on MS.
As to.NET apps on Mono, that may be fine for my own stuff that I hack together, but there's no way in Hell that it'll be officially supported in that config, and therefore will never be a reccommendation by me or my company to a client. Besides, right from the Mono FAQ:
Mono is an implementation of the development framework, but not an implementation of anything else related to the.NET Initiative, such as Passport or software-as-a-service.
I can also run Oracle's DB on my OSX box, but that doesn't mean that it's a viable alternative because it's not supported.
Well you could just choose to not develop on.NET. I've written java apps on my work machine (windows) and ported them to my server (linux) and they run just fine. perl works just about the same everywhere as well.
I agree. That's why I specifically said MS development and deployment, not Java or Perl. That's when you have lock-in.
If you're doing Java dev on a Windoze box, the Win32 machine becomes a tool, just like Apple/OSX.
In my opinion, the choice of the tool that you use in dev is a preference, and not a lock-in when working on code that is vendor agnostic. (Except for reliances on proprietary tools, etc.).
At the end of the day, "vendor lock-in" depends on the context.
Why is vender lock in for Apple ok when it's considered bad for anyone else?
I don't see this as being "Vendor Lock-in" because at the end of the day, I'm writing software that I can use anywhere.
The Apple component (in this case a TiBook) is nothing more than a tool. All the output of my efforts (Java, Perl, etc.), can be moved to Linux, Solaris, BSD, Win32, etc., and it's not a big deal.
I still have a choice, in the long run and where it really matters, and if Apple pulls some crap that I don't like, I can still bail without really losing anything but a bit of my time and some cash for new development apps/gear. Even then, most of my apps that I use for development are platform agnostic, and won't need re-licensing.
My end product will still have COMPLETE choice of where it wants to reside.
Now, if I want to do MS development (.NET, etc.), guess what, I'm seriously locked in. I have NO CHOICE on where to run my apps. If I don't like it, tough. For that matter, I'd be locked into the Dev environment for the most part as well.
Which brings up another issue... trust. I have way more faith in the business practices of Apple than MS. I don't believe that Apple will do anything that will piss me off, whereas I'm quite confident that with MS it will only be a matter of time.
I use my powerbook for Java development all the time, as do all of my developers. I've watched our one Linux "holdout" have issue after issue trying to get wireless connectivity and remote printing working in our developer meetings, while the rest of us pop open our PB's and things just start working. He's finally made the switch and has been smiling ever since. The applications and environment are very productive for all of us.
At the end of the day, I don't feel guilty for using the right tool for the job, and after using Win32, Linux, Solaris, BSD, and OSX environments, I find OSX to be the best for our brand of development.
I don't feel guity for using Linux for our Firewall/VPN/email/web/cvs servers. For that matter, most of our "infrastructure" or server-related services are provided by Linux boxes.
I also don't feel guilty for using Windows 2K Server for some Oracle development tasks, because that's the platform that most of the tools we use are written for. Now, we are in the process of developing our own version of some of those tools in Java so that they're platform independent, mostly because we want them for OSX and the app vendor hasn't even heard of OSX, never mind thought about porting stuff over.
I also don't feel guilty for using Sparc/Solaris for our main Oracle database boxes in development.
I'm not sure that I'd want to employ people who went out of their way to use an environment that was unsuitable for the job, just because they "felt guilty". Or not chosing the right tool because other OS's didn't run on it, even though we don't want to use those other OS's. That's like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I'm sure some people will scream that this is "anti-Linux" or "anti-OSX", but I'm not in the business of promoting Linux or OSX. I use them and recommend them as tools to clients, when it's appropriate.
The joys of a mis-spent youth, being able to quote the following from memory, 25 years later:
You don't frighten us, English pig dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called "Arthur King," you and all your silly English K-nig-hts.
but I do feel it's not a valid comparison between an Xserve (NAS) which gives file level access
Ummm... where does it say that it's a NAS? Maybe I'm confused, but it seems to be a "block level" device to me... it connects using an HBA connection, and "looks" like another drive on the box. It's not a Network Attached Storage solution that just appears as a shared drive over the network.
The fact that it's being pushed by Aple to do professional non-linear video editing kind of screams to me that they aren't just NAS devices, and allow "block-level" access.
Am I missing something?
True, it's not a SAN, but it's also nowhere near the price and doesn't offer anywhere near the features. It seems to me that it's just a big whack of relatively fast, redundant drives that attaches to the box.
Now, if you want to run Oracle RAC, which requires shared storage access (via a SAN), then this is for SURE not going to do what you want it to, but it's just fine for running a local developer release of Oracle, or a big honking mySQL server, etc.
Then you need what we used in the Army: '100 mile an hour tape.' Just be careful what you stick it to.
Yeah... it's great stuff. My dad was a bush pilot, water bomber, and aircraft maintenance engineer in the Arctic and northern Canada, which meant that he'd fly and fix things like Twin Otters, Single Otters, Beavers, Bell Jet Rangers, etc.
He's got some hilarious pics and stories about how he'd be flown in to recover a damaged aircraft in the middle of nowhere (like between an airfield and an oil rig in the Northwest Territories), with the original pilot thinking "we're screwed". In a number of cases, as with skin punctures, etc., he would use 100MPH tape to patch the damage and fly it back to the shop for proper repairs.
They really do call it 100MPH tape for a reason... it comes off at 100MPH!
In some cases, the temporary fix would be scary enough that the original pilot would refuse to fly back in the damaged aircraft.
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That's pretty interesting, in that a lot of Oracle's I18N work is also done in Ireland. I wonder what it is that makes Ireland such the I18N hotbed?
Speaking as an artist: Full time jobs cut into your ability to create good art.
Then, based on the amount of "good art" available, I'm thinking that a large percentage of artists DO have full time jobs.
It's not an ideal situation.
Yeah, I hear ya... for me, a full time job doesn't so much get in the way of my ability to create good art as it is getting in the way of me getting hammered and laid on a regular basis... once again, not an ideal situation.
But what can you do, that's life.
I'm such a geek that I remembered that it was OSX's birthday, but TOTALLY forgot that it was also my mother's.
*sigh*
I'll be in the doghouse for a while, I'm sure. Figuratively speaking, of course.
Your saying you don't want a spaceship to crash land in your backyard? Dude you would be the coolest geek in the state if you had a burnt spaceship in your backyard!
I wonder if you could claim salvage rights, and then eBay the sucker?
"Oh, you want your craft back, well, bid like the rest of them! Unless, of course, you want to give me a ride? Preferably later on in the program, when it's NOT crashing into peoples' back yard."
I wonder what the buyers of expect to get per tree?
Look here or here.
My dad's a woodworker, and he's looked into buying some of the wood for it's overall quality, and some of its VERY unique graining and colouring.
The higher end wood was priced at over $1,000 per board foot (CDN), with the "cheap" high-end stuff being around $200 per board foot. When you consider that a single log (on average) has thousands of board feet in them, the profits are WAY more than $1 per tree!
I wish I could find the pics of some of the finished products, but if you go here you can see some of the graining of the recovered logs.
There was one 35 foot long board-room table I saw that was $120,000, and it LOOKED like it was worth every penny. It was incredible.
A lot of the local governments are starting to jump in and try and get ownership of the underwater resources, like in Michigan. There's SERIOUS money in it.
Interesting, and some excellent insight.
In my newly formed office, where there are developers/sales/finance people working out of their home offices in Toronto, Boston, Vancouver, NY, and LA, we opted to go for the Telco features as it's a truly virtual system. We have a North American toll-free number that people can call, and it gives you the usual "welcome to our company... sales press 1, tech support press 2, company directory press 3", etc.
At that point, it will hunt down an individual or series of individuals (if the first in the hunt group is unavailalbe). This will follow on and try their cel phone, home office number, etc. automatically. If they're not there, VM is left for the individual or the company, and it's them emailed as an attachment to the appropriate individual or list.
This is very handy where we don't have the option of putting in more than one line at a location for a real office, and our PBX is truly virtual, as it doesn't really demarc anywhere. It also gives us LOTS of available lines should our product take off, and 100 people all call at once to place their order... no busy signals.
While it may be kind of expensive for the initial setup ($2k), the monthly charge is REALLY cheap, and it gives us the truly distributed virtual phone system we were looking for.
I know this isn't an Open Source solution, but it did help us immensely for our virtual office.
Add to that the fact that I've had nothing but problems with their device drivers, especially with my OSX box, and I'd have to agree with you.
I, too, will never buy another HP product.
That's not R&D, in my opinion, that's marketing.
Except for that cool Billion that he cashed out last December, of course.
What you don't seem to realize is that this is really the NEXT GENERATION OF SPAM, whereby they subconsciously submit you to spam content via other outlets, like screenshots in "reviews".
IMO, the most influential component to going "Postal" is, well, the mail. Better stop that mail thing, as it's going to get everyone killed eventually!
I'm so sick and tired of "concerned individuals" blaming violent video games, that evil rock music, and pornography for all the problems in today's society.
Why is common sense not so common?
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This is NOT a troll... the Skunkworks was the REALLY COOL department of Lockheed Martin that created all of their super-secret, very cool stuff.
Check out this link for some of the books written about them.
Personally, I'd be VERY interested in some of their code.
It's interesting... I'm in Canada, and my Dad was born/raised on a farm, and yet I'd never even heard of the concept, never mind the actual implementation of this.
./ in a while.
I've actually found it to be one of the more interesting articles on
Can you hear the things from where you are? Do they have much of an impact/annoyance-factor for people living in the surrounding areas?
I'm more than willing to pay for a book if I decide that I really like it.
Yep. I did the same thing with Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java.
Downloaded it, read it, loved it, bought it to support the author.
Daryl doesn't seem to be aware that his public comments may impact the trial
;)
He does so! Daryl is perfectly aware of the situation and is acting like any litigiously-aware, sane, comprehending human with a clue should.
Darl, on the other hand...
I'm not saying that there isn't lock-in with Cocoa on Apple; it's the same as
As to
I can also run Oracle's DB on my OSX box, but that doesn't mean that it's a viable alternative because it's not supported.
Well you could just choose to not develop on .NET. I've written java apps on my work machine (windows) and ported them to my server (linux) and they run just fine. perl works just about the same everywhere as well.
I agree. That's why I specifically said MS development and deployment, not Java or Perl. That's when you have lock-in.
If you're doing Java dev on a Windoze box, the Win32 machine becomes a tool, just like Apple/OSX.
In my opinion, the choice of the tool that you use in dev is a preference, and not a lock-in when working on code that is vendor agnostic. (Except for reliances on proprietary tools, etc.).
At the end of the day, "vendor lock-in" depends on the context.
Why is vender lock in for Apple ok when it's considered bad for anyone else?
I don't see this as being "Vendor Lock-in" because at the end of the day, I'm writing software that I can use anywhere.
The Apple component (in this case a TiBook) is nothing more than a tool. All the output of my efforts (Java, Perl, etc.), can be moved to Linux, Solaris, BSD, Win32, etc., and it's not a big deal.
I still have a choice, in the long run and where it really matters, and if Apple pulls some crap that I don't like, I can still bail without really losing anything but a bit of my time and some cash for new development apps/gear. Even then, most of my apps that I use for development are platform agnostic, and won't need re-licensing.
My end product will still have COMPLETE choice of where it wants to reside.
Now, if I want to do MS development (.NET, etc.), guess what, I'm seriously locked in. I have NO CHOICE on where to run my apps. If I don't like it, tough. For that matter, I'd be locked into the Dev environment for the most part as well.
Which brings up another issue... trust. I have way more faith in the business practices of Apple than MS. I don't believe that Apple will do anything that will piss me off, whereas I'm quite confident that with MS it will only be a matter of time.
In a word, "no".
I use my powerbook for Java development all the time, as do all of my developers. I've watched our one Linux "holdout" have issue after issue trying to get wireless connectivity and remote printing working in our developer meetings, while the rest of us pop open our PB's and things just start working. He's finally made the switch and has been smiling ever since. The applications and environment are very productive for all of us.
At the end of the day, I don't feel guilty for using the right tool for the job, and after using Win32, Linux, Solaris, BSD, and OSX environments, I find OSX to be the best for our brand of development.
I don't feel guity for using Linux for our Firewall/VPN/email/web/cvs servers. For that matter, most of our "infrastructure" or server-related services are provided by Linux boxes.
I also don't feel guilty for using Windows 2K Server for some Oracle development tasks, because that's the platform that most of the tools we use are written for. Now, we are in the process of developing our own version of some of those tools in Java so that they're platform independent, mostly because we want them for OSX and the app vendor hasn't even heard of OSX, never mind thought about porting stuff over.
I also don't feel guilty for using Sparc/Solaris for our main Oracle database boxes in development.
I'm not sure that I'd want to employ people who went out of their way to use an environment that was unsuitable for the job, just because they "felt guilty". Or not chosing the right tool because other OS's didn't run on it, even though we don't want to use those other OS's. That's like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I'm sure some people will scream that this is "anti-Linux" or "anti-OSX", but I'm not in the business of promoting Linux or OSX. I use them and recommend them as tools to clients, when it's appropriate.
Blah blah blah.
Interesting thought... I wonder what would happen if it was GPL'd and the copyright assigned to the EFF?
The joys of a mis-spent youth, being able to quote the following from memory, 25 years later:
You don't frighten us, English pig dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called "Arthur King," you and all your silly English K-nig-hts.
but I do feel it's not a valid comparison between an Xserve (NAS) which gives file level access
Ummm... where does it say that it's a NAS? Maybe I'm confused, but it seems to be a "block level" device to me... it connects using an HBA connection, and "looks" like another drive on the box. It's not a Network Attached Storage solution that just appears as a shared drive over the network.
The fact that it's being pushed by Aple to do professional non-linear video editing kind of screams to me that they aren't just NAS devices, and allow "block-level" access.
Am I missing something?
True, it's not a SAN, but it's also nowhere near the price and doesn't offer anywhere near the features. It seems to me that it's just a big whack of relatively fast, redundant drives that attaches to the box.
Now, if you want to run Oracle RAC, which requires shared storage access (via a SAN), then this is for SURE not going to do what you want it to, but it's just fine for running a local developer release of Oracle, or a big honking mySQL server, etc.
The gal who was driving it was hot.
All the more reason to embrace LESSER technologies, like pogo sticks.
Or, in the case of MS:
Lesson: If __________________, reboot the thing.
Then you need what we used in the Army: '100 mile an hour tape.' Just be careful what you stick it to.
Yeah... it's great stuff. My dad was a bush pilot, water bomber, and aircraft maintenance engineer in the Arctic and northern Canada, which meant that he'd fly and fix things like Twin Otters, Single Otters, Beavers, Bell Jet Rangers, etc.
He's got some hilarious pics and stories about how he'd be flown in to recover a damaged aircraft in the middle of nowhere (like between an airfield and an oil rig in the Northwest Territories), with the original pilot thinking "we're screwed". In a number of cases, as with skin punctures, etc., he would use 100MPH tape to patch the damage and fly it back to the shop for proper repairs.
They really do call it 100MPH tape for a reason... it comes off at 100MPH!
In some cases, the temporary fix would be scary enough that the original pilot would refuse to fly back in the damaged aircraft.
Ahhh... the Good Old Days....