Safe? I'll say. My employer is looking to expand by hiring another 200+ C/C++ developers over the next 18-24 months. I don't think the language is going any where.
That said, managed languages are wonderful for developing UI apps and basic server code because they're faster to develop with and help to prevent memory issues. I personally work a lot with C# and it has made my life easier for the things it's good at. I'm happy to have more tools, because I wouldn't use a hammer to turn a screw even though I suppose I could.
Just because the movie is sponsored by SCO, Microsoft and NVidia does NOT mean that it is prejudice. Honest, gov. How in heck did NVidia make into that sentence? MSFT and SCO I can see... but NVidia? Do they not make a Linux driver, or an OpenGL driver or something I'm not aware of?
I work for a fairly large hardware/software company. MSFT is killing XP in another way as well... they've stopped shipping the crash reports that the OS collects. They still ship Vista crash reports of course. Meaning drivers and hardware compatibility/support will only get worse for XP as time progresses. Internal QA is good, but those crash reports gave info on every conceivable hardware combination imaginable (and some unimaginable).
This is speaking from personal experience as a manager/CTO type that has worked on small and large scale web based projects in several cities in the US. Learn what resources you have in your area before choosing a platform/language.
I've found the north east and north west have an abundance of Microsoft platform people, Silicon Valley has a lot of Java and PHP people, Chicago has a good mix of MS Platform and PHP, and the southern end of California has a lot of Java but PHP devs seemed impossible to find.
Doesn't seem to matter where I go, PERL people are nigh impossible to find, but I know they're out there (in a basement somewhere?).
Hate to point this out but Microsoft's average user is stupid. They need to make that assumption. They didn't get where they are assuming the user was smart, or cared. Hey, maybe that's Linux's problem - we assume the user has half a brain.
Ooh, ooh! If software patched are delivered by torrent, Comcast can't say that blocking torrent traffic is justified. Thanks Microsoft (crap, did I just say that?)
An increased cost of energy after a certain usage point will fix this problem by itself, but it'd be too unpopular for any elected official to implement they way things currently are. Also, there's the issue that light bounces, so shine a light down and it'll still reflect back up. The only way to prevent that is to absorb it, which just transform it into heat waste (which is worse). Most lights that point up do so for a reason, such as guiding airplanes - I don't think you're suggesting that we do away with those. Although, no planes would mean more trains and a more efficient means of travel. Who am I kidding? Americans would just drive cross country in their SUVs instead.
I hope the developers make the system smart enough to know that adverts for Cialis and Viagra are too late once counter starts getting some "unintended" uses.:-)
I don't even want to think of the nightmare of what'll happen when my daughter or nephew sit on it.:-? So yeah... not buying one of those.
My first reaction was "what an idiot" and "how could local area networks every go away?", but then I started to think about IPv6 and the gradual lack of need for NAT. Eventually, (nearly) every networked machine will have it's own IP and NAT won't be needed; meaning they're all part of a WAN. Sure, whole chucks of the WAN will be in secured space behind a firewall but they're still part of the WAN. Which will probably just be thought of as the Global Network or just The Network at some point.
In short eventually we'll end up with one massive global network with sections of secured off.
Of course there's still good reason to have privately connected machines that have absolutely no access to the Internet. For this reason alone, LANs will cease to exist. However, I do think they'll be come specialized and much, much less common than they are today.
Did a quick Google lookup and it looks as though these people were actually legally exempt, they just didn't like it - so IBM lowered them to the non-exempt pay range. http://www.bingham.com/Media.aspx?MediaID=6120">California Software Exemption - *perhaps I missed something like they're not in CA, or they're not software engineers.
I'd go so far as to say that it's common knowledge that 'Big Pharma' doesn't want to give you a cure - just something for the symptoms. Curing a problems makes is go away, reducing the symptoms of an incurable disease is money in the bank. Sycophants.
Yeah... I for one won't mind seeing 'Big Pharma' in bankruptcy right next to the **AA.
No, the cure to the next plague will come from an independently funded research group or non-profit. The plague will probably come from Monsanto.
Gates is right, we need to figure out a way for capitalism to inspire humans to help humans, and the planet in general. Capitlism makes use of our natural greed to create productivity and it's been a wonderful invention - but now it's time to upgrade. Capitalism Vista? Oh, wait - I said "upgrade".
On a side note: ever notice how even the most ruthless people seem to become 'nicer' when they start getting older and start to see the 'big picture'? I guess it'll even happen to little Billy Gates... speaking of sycophants.
Record companies that support the RIAA and/or DRM I boycott. Have been for a long time now. Last album I purchases was an older Dave Matthews album.
As record companies give up on DRM and stop suing people, I can update my music collection which is ridiculously old. No, I have illegally downloaded any music in the meantime - I've just been willing to go without to stand up for what I believe in.
Sadly, it doesn't matter all that much what ISO has to say, since MS Office is the standard application choice in business. What ever it uses will continue to be the defacto "standard". Therefore Microsoft gets to set the standard for document formats. I'm not happy with this at all, but it's a fact of life I'm learning (aka being forced) to live with.
So I actually read TFA, and it seems that this isn't just a MS thing; in fact it looks to be a standards thing that MS will just happen to be the first to support. Funny how the slashdot crowd automatically makes assumptions and jumps all over MS's case; even when they do something right.
The basic concept is preserving HTML based content for the future despite advancement in rendering software. Sounds like a good idea to me.
I work in a mid-sized company in the IT dept. Pretty much every outside of top management follows fairly good email etiquette. For some reason the top brass like to use large, bold, colored fonts and/or all caps when sending out emails. Additionally, they all seem to use the reply function as an address book so all the emails we get from them have unrelated subject lines.
Originally I thought it was an age thing, but the 60'ish office manager here (CA) doesn't do that - just the top brass in NY. I think it's a power thing, or maybe all the big wigs they deal with on a regular biases do it. Maybe I should do it too, and get a big promotion!
Most countries penalize you for not paying taxes and that's what this would be: a tax. So what? In theory Hillary's system spreads the cost around so that the poor get medical care cheaper or free, and the rich pay more. Honestly, I don't care if the rich pay a little more in taxes.
What kills me is it's the "patriots" out there that bash ideas like this, but then fail to notice that the US is sliding from #1 to last and quickly because we allow corporate greed to run unchecked and even endorsed by the government itself - which by the way is supposed to be by the people and for the people - not by the money and for the money.
As an American living in California I'd like to go on record and say that I've only met these "fundies" when I was visiting the 'Southern' states. Though I've been told they exists in some large numbers in the mid-western states as well. In the north-eastern and western United States (where the bulk of the population lives) you don't seem to see a lot of them.
I felt that needed to be said for all the people who don't actually live in the US. I don't want you thinking the entire country is religious zealots.
Economic strength is reason that the United States it the world super power; military is over-rated and a result of economic strength. American assets are priced in US dollars and as the dollar drops so does the value of the country. Additionally, a huge amount of America's debt is owed in foreign currency and as the dollar drops the debt's value increases proportionally; again making America poorer and therefore weaker. Also, as the dollar's value drops against world currencies (particularly the Euro) foreign reserves are switch from being dollar based to being Euro based; again diminishing the economic might and influence of the United States.
At this point in time the US is so dramically richer than any other state in the world that it doesn't really matter - how ever over the next decade we're likely to see the rise of two new super powers that rival the Unites States: European Union (the confused, sluggish super power) and China (the unified and aggressive super power).
The last time we saw the Unites States challenged it was by the USSR and Japan. The USSR was fundamentally flawed by actually being a totalitarian state which are inherently flawed over the long run. Japan wasn't as flawed, but it inflexible work force (worse than Europe's) has severely limited its ability to compete. In both cases the US system simply out spent and maneuvered them. I don't think the US will be able to do this again unless China's one-child laws begin to damage their economy with the upcoming population drop and Europe's reformist governments get voted out.
As for the article and topic on hand: good. M$ needs to be pushed to be competitive and not just handicapped by overly relying on their OS monopoly. Their censure by the EU will only work to improve the US economy (in the long run) and the EU consumer. Kudos to the EU for having the balls to do this and showing up the US government.
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Safe? I'll say. My employer is looking to expand by hiring another 200+ C/C++ developers over the next 18-24 months. I don't think the language is going any where. That said, managed languages are wonderful for developing UI apps and basic server code because they're faster to develop with and help to prevent memory issues. I personally work a lot with C# and it has made my life easier for the things it's good at. I'm happy to have more tools, because I wouldn't use a hammer to turn a screw even though I suppose I could.
I work for a fairly large hardware/software company. MSFT is killing XP in another way as well... they've stopped shipping the crash reports that the OS collects. They still ship Vista crash reports of course. Meaning drivers and hardware compatibility/support will only get worse for XP as time progresses. Internal QA is good, but those crash reports gave info on every conceivable hardware combination imaginable (and some unimaginable).
Do we work at the same company?
This is speaking from personal experience as a manager/CTO type that has worked on small and large scale web based projects in several cities in the US. Learn what resources you have in your area before choosing a platform/language.
I've found the north east and north west have an abundance of Microsoft platform people, Silicon Valley has a lot of Java and PHP people, Chicago has a good mix of MS Platform and PHP, and the southern end of California has a lot of Java but PHP devs seemed impossible to find.
Doesn't seem to matter where I go, PERL people are nigh impossible to find, but I know they're out there (in a basement somewhere?).
Like the moon?
Hate to point this out but Microsoft's average user is stupid. They need to make that assumption. They didn't get where they are assuming the user was smart, or cared. Hey, maybe that's Linux's problem - we assume the user has half a brain.
Ooh, ooh! If software patched are delivered by torrent, Comcast can't say that blocking torrent traffic is justified. Thanks Microsoft (crap, did I just say that?)
An increased cost of energy after a certain usage point will fix this problem by itself, but it'd be too unpopular for any elected official to implement they way things currently are. Also, there's the issue that light bounces, so shine a light down and it'll still reflect back up. The only way to prevent that is to absorb it, which just transform it into heat waste (which is worse). Most lights that point up do so for a reason, such as guiding airplanes - I don't think you're suggesting that we do away with those. Although, no planes would mean more trains and a more efficient means of travel. Who am I kidding? Americans would just drive cross country in their SUVs instead.
I hope the developers make the system smart enough to know that adverts for Cialis and Viagra are too late once counter starts getting some "unintended" uses. :-)
I don't even want to think of the nightmare of what'll happen when my daughter or nephew sit on it. :-? So yeah... not buying one of those.
Lol, and NBC left iTunes. No Heroes for me... I don't even own a TV anymore.
"Has everyone drunk that much of Steve's acid spiked Kool-Aid?"
<Looks around> Yes.
My first reaction was "what an idiot" and "how could local area networks every go away?", but then I started to think about IPv6 and the gradual lack of need for NAT. Eventually, (nearly) every networked machine will have it's own IP and NAT won't be needed; meaning they're all part of a WAN. Sure, whole chucks of the WAN will be in secured space behind a firewall but they're still part of the WAN. Which will probably just be thought of as the Global Network or just The Network at some point.
In short eventually we'll end up with one massive global network with sections of secured off.
Of course there's still good reason to have privately connected machines that have absolutely no access to the Internet. For this reason alone, LANs will cease to exist. However, I do think they'll be come specialized and much, much less common than they are today.
Did a quick Google lookup and it looks as though these people were actually legally exempt, they just didn't like it - so IBM lowered them to the non-exempt pay range. http://www.bingham.com/Media.aspx?MediaID=6120">California Software Exemption - *perhaps I missed something like they're not in CA, or they're not software engineers.
I'd go so far as to say that it's common knowledge that 'Big Pharma' doesn't want to give you a cure - just something for the symptoms. Curing a problems makes is go away, reducing the symptoms of an incurable disease is money in the bank. Sycophants.
Yeah... I for one won't mind seeing 'Big Pharma' in bankruptcy right next to the **AA.
No, the cure to the next plague will come from an independently funded research group or non-profit. The plague will probably come from Monsanto.
Gates is right, we need to figure out a way for capitalism to inspire humans to help humans, and the planet in general. Capitlism makes use of our natural greed to create productivity and it's been a wonderful invention - but now it's time to upgrade. Capitalism Vista? Oh, wait - I said "upgrade".
On a side note: ever notice how even the most ruthless people seem to become 'nicer' when they start getting older and start to see the 'big picture'? I guess it'll even happen to little Billy Gates... speaking of sycophants.
Record companies that support the RIAA and/or DRM I boycott. Have been for a long time now. Last album I purchases was an older Dave Matthews album.
As record companies give up on DRM and stop suing people, I can update my music collection which is ridiculously old. No, I have illegally downloaded any music in the meantime - I've just been willing to go without to stand up for what I believe in.
Sadly, it doesn't matter all that much what ISO has to say, since MS Office is the standard application choice in business. What ever it uses will continue to be the defacto "standard". Therefore Microsoft gets to set the standard for document formats. I'm not happy with this at all, but it's a fact of life I'm learning (aka being forced) to live with.
Is KDE's cross-platform approach going to backfire?
Well, Microsoft's creation of Office and Media Player for Mac hasn't backfired. So no, I think this will help Linux in the long run.
So I actually read TFA, and it seems that this isn't just a MS thing; in fact it looks to be a standards thing that MS will just happen to be the first to support. Funny how the slashdot crowd automatically makes assumptions and jumps all over MS's case; even when they do something right.
The basic concept is preserving HTML based content for the future despite advancement in rendering software. Sounds like a good idea to me.
I work in a mid-sized company in the IT dept. Pretty much every outside of top management follows fairly good email etiquette. For some reason the top brass like to use large, bold, colored fonts and/or all caps when sending out emails. Additionally, they all seem to use the reply function as an address book so all the emails we get from them have unrelated subject lines.
Originally I thought it was an age thing, but the 60'ish office manager here (CA) doesn't do that - just the top brass in NY. I think it's a power thing, or maybe all the big wigs they deal with on a regular biases do it. Maybe I should do it too, and get a big promotion!
Most countries penalize you for not paying taxes and that's what this would be: a tax. So what? In theory Hillary's system spreads the cost around so that the poor get medical care cheaper or free, and the rich pay more. Honestly, I don't care if the rich pay a little more in taxes.
What kills me is it's the "patriots" out there that bash ideas like this, but then fail to notice that the US is sliding from #1 to last and quickly because we allow corporate greed to run unchecked and even endorsed by the government itself - which by the way is supposed to be by the people and for the people - not by the money and for the money.
As an American living in California I'd like to go on record and say that I've only met these "fundies" when I was visiting the 'Southern' states. Though I've been told they exists in some large numbers in the mid-western states as well. In the north-eastern and western United States (where the bulk of the population lives) you don't seem to see a lot of them.
I felt that needed to be said for all the people who don't actually live in the US. I don't want you thinking the entire country is religious zealots.
Economic strength is reason that the United States it the world super power; military is over-rated and a result of economic strength. American assets are priced in US dollars and as the dollar drops so does the value of the country. Additionally, a huge amount of America's debt is owed in foreign currency and as the dollar drops the debt's value increases proportionally; again making America poorer and therefore weaker. Also, as the dollar's value drops against world currencies (particularly the Euro) foreign reserves are switch from being dollar based to being Euro based; again diminishing the economic might and influence of the United States.
At this point in time the US is so dramically richer than any other state in the world that it doesn't really matter - how ever over the next decade we're likely to see the rise of two new super powers that rival the Unites States: European Union (the confused, sluggish super power) and China (the unified and aggressive super power).
The last time we saw the Unites States challenged it was by the USSR and Japan. The USSR was fundamentally flawed by actually being a totalitarian state which are inherently flawed over the long run. Japan wasn't as flawed, but it inflexible work force (worse than Europe's) has severely limited its ability to compete. In both cases the US system simply out spent and maneuvered them. I don't think the US will be able to do this again unless China's one-child laws begin to damage their economy with the upcoming population drop and Europe's reformist governments get voted out.
As for the article and topic on hand: good. M$ needs to be pushed to be competitive and not just handicapped by overly relying on their OS monopoly. Their censure by the EU will only work to improve the US economy (in the long run) and the EU consumer. Kudos to the EU for having the balls to do this and showing up the US government.
Seems perfect for M$ Surface actually.
Because understanding how memory is actually handled is important. And, who said I was hiring a Java Developer? ;-)