Calling them savages isn't really acurate. That would indicate that they don't have any code of ethics. The problem is that so many of them are taught to believe that these kinds of actions are acceptable, and even desirable.
yes, that's exactly right. The truth is, while an open source C compiler may appeal to C programmers because it's written in C, the people who administer, design, and implement database solutions have more important things to do than look at C source code of their database. A number of them only have enough C like knowledge to do shell scripting in Unix/Linux.
It clearly depends on your definition of what a web designer is. Theatetus needs to realize that some people would rather spend their time concentrating on the asthetics of their presentation on the web page and providing usefull information that's easily navigable instead of worrying about the details of a crude language that attempts to describe page layout.
First of all, while it may have been true that VB6 was hobbled compared to functionality of C++6, it's not fair to say that VB.Net or ASP.Net is useless, to only use C#. The facts are that even Microsoft admits http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/support/faq/defa ult.aspx that they compile to the same MSIL code. Where.Net is very valuable is in web coding. It provides a much cleaner way to keep the HTML coding separate from the.Net coding than PHP, Javascript, or old Asp style code.
I worked for a company that made the decision in 2003 to move towards.Net platform and C#, after evaluating Java / Websphere..Net can give better performance than Java, and the group was able to produce results. In fact, the group that started the.Net initiative at this company ended up having the rest of application development use their model to update their skills and design concepts, even the small group of VAX programmers who were still around saw the potential in this technology and started writing interfaces as web services.
Getting results is what matters, not some purist ideology, marketing hype, or fanboy attitude. After all, programmers and analysts job is to build systems and applications to meet business needs, not a self fulfilling desire.
The issue of viruses and Anti-Virus software is bigger than disallowing overwritting executable files. It is neither necessary or sufficient to say that the need for AV software means an OS is not secure. And no matter what security measures are in place, there's still the temptation that unknowing users have to open those e-mails that have the viruses and trojan horses in them.
The specs for the free version seem high compared to the Express versions offered by MicroSoft and Oracle. I've seen a number of companies run their production databases on simmilar or even lowwer specs than that. (2 dual-core processor, 4GB RAM) I know IBM is moving to the service model, and that they tend to charge an arm and a leg, but I wonder how long these companies will be able to give things away for free. Will there eventually be escalation on what is free from Oracle and MicroSoft too?
I suppose it is easy to make fun of someone without really understanding that person and what they stand for. Bush's energy policy is not about oil, it's about funding for development in new technologies that will solve the polution problems, and incentives to use these new technologies when they do become available. New ways to produce ethanol, research in Hydrogen, new clean burning coal powerplants, tax credits for hybrid vehicles, solar power, etc. None of these things happen magically through the world barter system setup by Koyoto, it requires dedicated people who are willing to invest the time for a better tomorrow.
...should be required to be stored in open formats (not free, necessarily, but open in the sense that anybody can develop software to save, retrieve, view, and edit those records)
Actually that is exactly the situation that voting machine makers should want to avoid! For security purposes, the only thing that should be able to save and edit those records is the voting machine itself, in a format that nothing else could decipher except the vote counting program. The only part of the data that should be publically owned is the subtotals and totals. Any data at a level lowwer than a ward subtotal should be unobtainable. I certainly wouldn't want to use a system where any Joe Hacker or even Smedly "I have Access too" could interface to the voting data. Keep secret ballot data secret!
You've hit it right on the nose. The fact is that CPU performance has outpaced the software performance demand for typical home users and business users. When I help someone buy a new computer, unless it's for really high end stuff, I generally tell them to buy one with a slower processor, and use that extra money to get more memory, better graphics card, etc.
If software for new computers come in a cartridge it would solve many things
Actually, IBM tried this back in the day with the PCjr. It had two slots in the front of it to put program cartridges in. It must not have gotten good feedback from users back then.
Dennis's rant aside, he is right about one thing, the U.S. is not in a desperate situation, nor is it acting out of desperation in its foreign policy. What we are caught in, being a superpower, is a constant string of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenarios. Yes, the U.S. has made mistakes, it still makes them, but so does every other country as well. It's just more trendy to bash the U.S. instead of everybody trying to do their part.
War for oil: The war in Iraq is not a war for oil, that is a gross oversimplification of the last 2 decades of history there. The big mistake the U.S. made in the 80's was in believing the enemy of our enemy (Iran) was our friend. Western Europe also believed so at the time, as Iraq seemed to be emerging as a modern, secular nation. The mistake the U.S. made in the 90's was to let Sadam stay in power after Operation Desert Storm. The mistake the U.S. made this time around was in the way they waged the war, using a number of National Guard troops and Army reservists and such. If all we wanted was oil, it would have been easier and more cost effective to invade and take over Venezuela. Their government's biggest crime though is in believing that Fidel Castro is an alright kind of guy.
War on terror: Again, going back to the cold war, we have the enemy of our enemy situation. We supported rebels in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union, including Bin Laden. Compounded with the Taliban taking over Afghanistan, terror flourished as a means of obtaining and keeping power over people. Clinton's response was mainly treating them like a minor nuisance, after incidents with the attack on the USS Cole and African Embassies. Then September 11th happened, and the U.S. responded.
Environment: People complain that the United States should have ratified the Kyoto protocol on curbing greenhouse gasses. What is happening though, is that emissions are merely becoming another commodity of trade for those who are a part if this agreement. The U.S. is supposedly the largest pollutor in the world, yet Kyoto doesn't cover nations like China and India which are doing far more harm to global environment, have more than 3 times our population each, and have hardly any environmental regulations compared to the U.S. Also, Brazil is an example of a nation that gets a credit under Kyoto because of the Amazon rain forests, yet the entire forest region can't even make up for carbon emissions caused by the burning of parts of the forest by farmers. Brazil is a net producer of pollution even before you take industrial emissions into account. Will the Kyoto countries find a way to barter their way to better environmental management, or will the U.S. concept of relying on newer technologies to be developed and replace older more polluting industries pay off in the end? The U.S. approach seems more promising to me.
So what is happening, is that we are constantly trying to tie up loose ends when opportunists try to gain advantages by either our actions or inactions.
Actually Intel did produce a number of whitebox computers but I thought they got out of that product line? I believe they still make motherboards, graphics chips, and network interface cards in addition to their CPUs and chipsets.
OK, if I understand this properly, if each of the 2 cards has 2 GPUs with 512MB each isn't that 2Gig of graphics memory? That's enough for a small workgroup server!
What is more likely to happen in the corporate environment, is to gradually ease into Vista, once they can no longer buy new computers with XP/2003 on them, and can do a boatload of testing on their systems to ensure that they won't break on the new OS.
At my last company, as a developer I begged and pleaded the IS operations people to upgrade a production server from NT 4. They finally rebuilt it as a 2000 system when the antique external disk array crashed big time... in 2004. They also finally upgraded or got rid of their 98 desktops in 2003.
For SQL 2005 Express they removed the workload governor. That used to kick in for SQL 2000 MSDE version when 8 tasks or more where running at the same time. For 2005 Express, they limited the RAM to 1 Gig and to using 1 CPU instead, which can still work quite well in a production environment.
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Calling them savages isn't really acurate. That would indicate that they don't have any code of ethics. The problem is that so many of them are taught to believe that these kinds of actions are acceptable, and even desirable.
yes, that's exactly right. The truth is, while an open source C compiler may appeal to C programmers because it's written in C, the people who administer, design, and implement database solutions have more important things to do than look at C source code of their database. A number of them only have enough C like knowledge to do shell scripting in Unix/Linux.
It clearly depends on your definition of what a web designer is. Theatetus needs to realize that some people would rather spend their time concentrating on the asthetics of their presentation on the web page and providing usefull information that's easily navigable instead of worrying about the details of a crude language that attempts to describe page layout.
First of all, while it may have been true that VB6 was hobbled compared to functionality of C++6, it's not fair to say that VB.Net or ASP.Net is useless, to only use C#. The facts are that even Microsoft admits http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/support/faq/defa ult.aspx that they compile to the same MSIL code. Where .Net is very valuable is in web coding. It provides a much cleaner way to keep the HTML coding separate from the .Net coding than PHP, Javascript, or old Asp style code.
I worked for a company that made the decision in 2003 to move towards .Net platform and C#, after evaluating Java / Websphere. .Net can give better performance than Java, and the group was able to produce results. In fact, the group that started the .Net initiative at this company ended up having the rest of application development use their model to update their skills and design concepts, even the small group of VAX programmers who were still around saw the potential in this technology and started writing interfaces as web services.
Getting results is what matters, not some purist ideology, marketing hype, or fanboy attitude. After all, programmers and analysts job is to build systems and applications to meet business needs, not a self fulfilling desire.
then who protects the congresmen from the people who "engage in revert wars and slanderous or libelous behavior"?
The issue of viruses and Anti-Virus software is bigger than disallowing overwritting executable files. It is neither necessary or sufficient to say that the need for AV software means an OS is not secure. And no matter what security measures are in place, there's still the temptation that unknowing users have to open those e-mails that have the viruses and trojan horses in them.
The specs for the free version seem high compared to the Express versions offered by MicroSoft and Oracle. I've seen a number of companies run their production databases on simmilar or even lowwer specs than that. (2 dual-core processor, 4GB RAM) I know IBM is moving to the service model, and that they tend to charge an arm and a leg, but I wonder how long these companies will be able to give things away for free. Will there eventually be escalation on what is free from Oracle and MicroSoft too?
I suppose it is easy to make fun of someone without really understanding that person and what they stand for. Bush's energy policy is not about oil, it's about funding for development in new technologies that will solve the polution problems, and incentives to use these new technologies when they do become available. New ways to produce ethanol, research in Hydrogen, new clean burning coal powerplants, tax credits for hybrid vehicles, solar power, etc. None of these things happen magically through the world barter system setup by Koyoto, it requires dedicated people who are willing to invest the time for a better tomorrow.
It is an article from the BBC, what else would you expect from it but a left wing slant.
it is just a generation X thing?
Of course if it were using a Pentium 4 processor, it actually could still function as a toaster as well!
nah... stick with Windows 98 SE, don't let those Millenium people scare you into upgrading!
...should be required to be stored in open formats (not free, necessarily, but open in the sense that anybody can develop software to save, retrieve, view, and edit those records)
Actually that is exactly the situation that voting machine makers should want to avoid! For security purposes, the only thing that should be able to save and edit those records is the voting machine itself, in a format that nothing else could decipher except the vote counting program. The only part of the data that should be publically owned is the subtotals and totals. Any data at a level lowwer than a ward subtotal should be unobtainable. I certainly wouldn't want to use a system where any Joe Hacker or even Smedly "I have Access too" could interface to the voting data. Keep secret ballot data secret!
Microsoft would never come up with such a catchy name, they'd call it something stupid and bland like MS Portable Audio
Yes, but how many Bacon Jr. Cheeseburgers is that?
You've hit it right on the nose. The fact is that CPU performance has outpaced the software performance demand for typical home users and business users. When I help someone buy a new computer, unless it's for really high end stuff, I generally tell them to buy one with a slower processor, and use that extra money to get more memory, better graphics card, etc.
If software for new computers come in a cartridge it would solve many things
Actually, IBM tried this back in the day with the PCjr. It had two slots in the front of it to put program cartridges in. It must not have gotten good feedback from users back then.
Dennis's rant aside, he is right about one thing, the U.S. is not in a desperate situation, nor is it acting out of desperation in its foreign policy. What we are caught in, being a superpower, is a constant string of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenarios. Yes, the U.S. has made mistakes, it still makes them, but so does every other country as well. It's just more trendy to bash the U.S. instead of everybody trying to do their part.
War for oil: The war in Iraq is not a war for oil, that is a gross oversimplification of the last 2 decades of history there. The big mistake the U.S. made in the 80's was in believing the enemy of our enemy (Iran) was our friend. Western Europe also believed so at the time, as Iraq seemed to be emerging as a modern, secular nation. The mistake the U.S. made in the 90's was to let Sadam stay in power after Operation Desert Storm. The mistake the U.S. made this time around was in the way they waged the war, using a number of National Guard troops and Army reservists and such. If all we wanted was oil, it would have been easier and more cost effective to invade and take over Venezuela. Their government's biggest crime though is in believing that Fidel Castro is an alright kind of guy.
War on terror: Again, going back to the cold war, we have the enemy of our enemy situation. We supported rebels in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union, including Bin Laden. Compounded with the Taliban taking over Afghanistan, terror flourished as a means of obtaining and keeping power over people. Clinton's response was mainly treating them like a minor nuisance, after incidents with the attack on the USS Cole and African Embassies. Then September 11th happened, and the U.S. responded.
Environment: People complain that the United States should have ratified the Kyoto protocol on curbing greenhouse gasses. What is happening though, is that emissions are merely becoming another commodity of trade for those who are a part if this agreement. The U.S. is supposedly the largest pollutor in the world, yet Kyoto doesn't cover nations like China and India which are doing far more harm to global environment, have more than 3 times our population each, and have hardly any environmental regulations compared to the U.S. Also, Brazil is an example of a nation that gets a credit under Kyoto because of the Amazon rain forests, yet the entire forest region can't even make up for carbon emissions caused by the burning of parts of the forest by farmers. Brazil is a net producer of pollution even before you take industrial emissions into account. Will the Kyoto countries find a way to barter their way to better environmental management, or will the U.S. concept of relying on newer technologies to be developed and replace older more polluting industries pay off in the end? The U.S. approach seems more promising to me.
So what is happening, is that we are constantly trying to tie up loose ends when opportunists try to gain advantages by either our actions or inactions.
but who's going to buy a computer with a processor called the Hexium??? And Septium, Octium, and Ennium sound like some kind of medical instruments.
Actually Intel did produce a number of whitebox computers but I thought they got out of that product line? I believe they still make motherboards, graphics chips, and network interface cards in addition to their CPUs and chipsets.
OK, if I understand this properly, if each of the 2 cards has 2 GPUs with 512MB each isn't that 2Gig of graphics memory? That's enough for a small workgroup server!
well, doesn't it all depend on which direction the intelligent designer was facing when they set off the big bang?
What is more likely to happen in the corporate environment, is to gradually ease into Vista, once they can no longer buy new computers with XP/2003 on them, and can do a boatload of testing on their systems to ensure that they won't break on the new OS. At my last company, as a developer I begged and pleaded the IS operations people to upgrade a production server from NT 4. They finally rebuilt it as a 2000 system when the antique external disk array crashed big time... in 2004. They also finally upgraded or got rid of their 98 desktops in 2003.
For SQL 2005 Express they removed the workload governor. That used to kick in for SQL 2000 MSDE version when 8 tasks or more where running at the same time. For 2005 Express, they limited the RAM to 1 Gig and to using 1 CPU instead, which can still work quite well in a production environment.