The food reference, I'll bite
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The Art of SQL
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If you are going to go with the cooking/food reference then I do not think SQL is like cooking. SQL is like ordering at a restuarant, where the restuarant is your DBMS. It's like programming in prolog. You don't tell prolog what to do; you tell it what you want. Just a thought.
Here is what it says in their installation brochure:
"DC Power Jack for wall-mounted power supply, when no PoE is available and the device is to be powered externally"
They probably added this because the brochure shows how the Jack can be installed into furniture(desks), floors, or walls. It does seem funny at first glance though. Especially if you imagine patching together an outlet and a Jack that are next to eachother.
Their complaint is not about the document specification, it is about the fact that the major software that supports the OpenDocument formats does not have adequate accessibility. If major markets, like state governments, are going to switch to a certain format then disabled people have every right to voice their complaints.
I find it funny that many people seem to be pointing at the fact that Microsoft Office will have an ODF plugin and that those disabled people should just use that. This only affirms the fact that Microsoft Office is a superior product to all of its competitors, or at least the open source ones supporting OpenDocument. I am sure all the/.ers will be bashing on Microsoft again for their supposed lack of innovation and good products by the end of the day.
I have to know. Were you able to deobfuscate the Google Maps js code? I looked at that before and it looked like they turn every line into a new function with cryptic names.
I think that being happy with your work is very important. There are some people, you might be one of them, who really do not care what they do as long as they make good money doing it because that is something that makes them happy. Each of these is a valid viewpoint. I am not saying everybody is going to get what they want in a job, I am not naive. But, given free time to pursue other subjects I believe that it is important to do something you enjoy. If possible find something you enjoy that is also a marketable skill.
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Head Rush Ajax
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If Ajax does not seem enjoyable to you, don't try to learn it as a career skill. If somebody hires you because you know Ajax then you might get stuck doing something that you don't enjoy. I do not have a large interest in web apps, but I do have interest in digital audio. So I do digital audio and MIDI stuff on my spare programming time and hope to make a career out of it some day. Follow your interests.
Microsoft is not just a software vendor, they are a platform provider. It seems completely logical that they would default to their platform, local or web. They can't leave the search box useless by making the user manually configure it and I am sure they want to reduce the number of first-run choices. Let's not kid ourselves, this is business. As a business owner would you rather have your product promote a competitors product or your own firm's product? Nobody should be surprised that MSN Search is the default search box.
I would have to say that I prefer the official BitTorrent client from Bram Cohen. It is a simple, elegant solution. I do notice that every time I look at a peer list it is filled with Azureus, but only a handful of the official client. Azureus is just too large of a program for the purpose of jumping on to a swarm and downloading. And now they want to add more to it. BitTorrent is really good for a few things like minimizing bandwidth for content distributors, but people want to bend it to be a general purpose p2p network.
I think what the comment means is that they are not trying to match or one-up whatever MS and Sony do. Of course they are watching what their competitors are doing. Nintendo wants to isolate a bigger market that Sony and MS, in their one-ups-manship war, are starting to neglect. Honestly, who is going to buy 10 year old Johnny a $400+ system with $60 games? They want MS and Sony to battle eachother for the male 16-30 demographic, they will be more than happy to take the rest of the market.
I remember watching a webcast of a Bill Gates keynote in which he demo'ed an HD-DVD of "The Bourne Supremacy". Whether that was a real HD-DVD or just some pre rendered demo, I don't know. It seemed pretty cool. Instead of just turning on audio director commentary the director could appear on the screen and point to things in the movie while it was playing.
With these new system calls Linux software is going to have requirements like OS X software. Must have 10.3 or newer, sorry 10.2 folks it's time to upgrade. Now, "only works with Linux 2.6.16 or newer, time to recompile!" Every time I see requirements for OS X software I am glad that I don't have an Apple. Sure it's nice, but sometimes a little too bleeding edge, moving target, for me.
Here is the contrast of design 2 choices made for the DS and PSP:
1.Controller
PSP:Slim down what people are now used to(i.e. no analog stick)
DS:Innovate by adding a touchscreen 2.Media
PSP:Spinning UMD discs, cause high loading time
DS:Solid state cartridges, fast loading and highly durable
Basically Sony did not think things through and did not used sensible moderation. They thought if they made it look cooler with a much nicer screen and better graphics than the competitor, everybody would want one. I think the only thing that has been keeping the PSP afloat is its music and video capabilities, but is it really competing in the handheld gaming market anymore?
Java was an experience in bad naming. The Java name was given to the framework, language, and security model. Really anybody could write a language to target the JVM, but Sun did not target that style as much as Microsoft did with.Net by targeting C++, C#, JavaScript(JScript), J#, and of course VB.
This sounds great. Hopefully they will open up, at least make free(beer), some of their more advanced tools. The Perl dev tools are really good. Only time will tell.
Haven't people been yelling at Microsoft to become more service oriented? Maybe everybody will be happy when Microsoft decides to do and sell everything for free. Everyone except the stockholders. Will the Microsoft haters of/. please decide what they, reasonably, expect from Microsoft, because I am really getting tired of the automatic bashing.
No, they can't. They could however end up regulating all traffic into or out of the United States like some smaller countries do. I hope this does not happen, but that is one possiblitiy. When smaller countries do this, the only ones really affected are the residents of that country. If the US did this that would affect a good deal of the world community due to the amount of Internet services and Internet users centered in the US. The US can't force the world to learn English, but we are doing a pretty good job at it.
I was reading your post as if you were the stupidest person alive until I hit "harsh restrictions of the BSD license" and then I knew this could not be anything but a joke. The final paragraph assured me of that. Very good post. Viva VB/Linux!
I am not trying to discredit your argument, but you might be addressing a different or more specific issue. The numbers you gave about female lawyers are probably affected by the discrimination women face after leaving to have and take care of children and then trying to return. These women are usually never able to compete again with associates, men and younger women or women who have made the choice to not have children, that are still able to put in that 60+ hour work week. This is prominent in the corporate world also. But I think it has less to do with general sexual discrimination towards women and more to do with the highly competitive nature of these areas. Is that unfair? Yes, but ask those people putting in the 60+ hours and gunning for the partner position and they might tell you that it is completely fair. I am sympathetic to both sides, but it might be time to realize that having children and leaving work to take care of them( the women who leave for a month to have a baby and return to work are a different category ) is a life altering choice and one can't expect everyone to stop and wait for them. If a working couple decides to have children, one of them might have to make this choice, but it does not need to be the mother. That last part is what we as a society need to accept if we are to attain a greater gender equality.
I am not trying to discredit your numbers, but take this into note. Most of the hardware they sell probably also generates software revenue, but software can be sold completely separate of hardware.
Screw that overstated "It just works" stuff. I like the truthfulness of their statement, "it works mostly right, most of the time, for most of the people"
Microsoft is a business, not a research institution. Sure every company does research, but you are not going to criticize companies for selling screwdrivers, are you? Because there are plenty of companies doing basically the same thing there. Being a business means remaining competitive which means you either compete in an existing market or you create a new one. Microsoft does both. Just look at the market that they are creating with the newest Xbox live features. If every company limited themselves to only new ideas then there would be a bunch of huge monopolies and many failing businesses.
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If you are going to go with the cooking/food reference then I do not think SQL is like cooking. SQL is like ordering at a restuarant, where the restuarant is your DBMS. It's like programming in prolog. You don't tell prolog what to do; you tell it what you want. Just a thought.
Here is what it says in their installation brochure:
"DC Power Jack for wall-mounted power supply, when no PoE is available and the device is to be powered externally"
They probably added this because the brochure shows how the Jack can be installed into furniture(desks), floors, or walls. It does seem funny at first glance though. Especially if you imagine patching together an outlet and a Jack that are next to eachother.
This one goes to 11.
Their complaint is not about the document specification, it is about the fact that the major software that supports the OpenDocument formats does not have adequate accessibility. If major markets, like state governments, are going to switch to a certain format then disabled people have every right to voice their complaints.
/.ers will be bashing on Microsoft again for their supposed lack of innovation and good products by the end of the day.
I find it funny that many people seem to be pointing at the fact that Microsoft Office will have an ODF plugin and that those disabled people should just use that. This only affirms the fact that Microsoft Office is a superior product to all of its competitors, or at least the open source ones supporting OpenDocument. I am sure all the
I have to know. Were you able to deobfuscate the Google Maps js code? I looked at that before and it looked like they turn every line into a new function with cryptic names.
I think that being happy with your work is very important. There are some people, you might be one of them, who really do not care what they do as long as they make good money doing it because that is something that makes them happy. Each of these is a valid viewpoint. I am not saying everybody is going to get what they want in a job, I am not naive. But, given free time to pursue other subjects I believe that it is important to do something you enjoy. If possible find something you enjoy that is also a marketable skill.
If Ajax does not seem enjoyable to you, don't try to learn it as a career skill. If somebody hires you because you know Ajax then you might get stuck doing something that you don't enjoy. I do not have a large interest in web apps, but I do have interest in digital audio. So I do digital audio and MIDI stuff on my spare programming time and hope to make a career out of it some day. Follow your interests.
Microsoft is not just a software vendor, they are a platform provider. It seems completely logical that they would default to their platform, local or web. They can't leave the search box useless by making the user manually configure it and I am sure they want to reduce the number of first-run choices. Let's not kid ourselves, this is business. As a business owner would you rather have your product promote a competitors product or your own firm's product? Nobody should be surprised that MSN Search is the default search box.
I would have to say that I prefer the official BitTorrent client from Bram Cohen. It is a simple, elegant solution. I do notice that every time I look at a peer list it is filled with Azureus, but only a handful of the official client. Azureus is just too large of a program for the purpose of jumping on to a swarm and downloading. And now they want to add more to it. BitTorrent is really good for a few things like minimizing bandwidth for content distributors, but people want to bend it to be a general purpose p2p network.
Here is a link to a video from MS virtualization developers:
Channel 9: Virtualization
PureVolume, it's MySpace for bands without all of the personal stuff.
I think what the comment means is that they are not trying to match or one-up whatever MS and Sony do. Of course they are watching what their competitors are doing. Nintendo wants to isolate a bigger market that Sony and MS, in their one-ups-manship war, are starting to neglect. Honestly, who is going to buy 10 year old Johnny a $400+ system with $60 games? They want MS and Sony to battle eachother for the male 16-30 demographic, they will be more than happy to take the rest of the market.
I remember watching a webcast of a Bill Gates keynote in which he demo'ed an HD-DVD of "The Bourne Supremacy". Whether that was a real HD-DVD or just some pre rendered demo, I don't know. It seemed pretty cool. Instead of just turning on audio director commentary the director could appear on the screen and point to things in the movie while it was playing.
With these new system calls Linux software is going to have requirements like OS X software. Must have 10.3 or newer, sorry 10.2 folks it's time to upgrade. Now, "only works with Linux 2.6.16 or newer, time to recompile!" Every time I see requirements for OS X software I am glad that I don't have an Apple. Sure it's nice, but sometimes a little too bleeding edge, moving target, for me.
Here is the contrast of design 2 choices made for the DS and PSP:
1.Controller
PSP:Slim down what people are now used to(i.e. no analog stick)
DS:Innovate by adding a touchscreen
2.Media
PSP:Spinning UMD discs, cause high loading time
DS:Solid state cartridges, fast loading and highly durable
Basically Sony did not think things through and did not used sensible moderation. They thought if they made it look cooler with a much nicer screen and better graphics than the competitor, everybody would want one. I think the only thing that has been keeping the PSP afloat is its music and video capabilities, but is it really competing in the handheld gaming market anymore?
Java was an experience in bad naming. The Java name was given to the framework, language, and security model. Really anybody could write a language to target the JVM, but Sun did not target that style as much as Microsoft did with .Net by targeting C++, C#, JavaScript(JScript), J#, and of course VB.
I have always been confused about XUL, is it a language in its own right or is it just a library/package for javascript or some other language?
This sounds great. Hopefully they will open up, at least make free(beer), some of their more advanced tools. The Perl dev tools are really good. Only time will tell.
Haven't people been yelling at Microsoft to become more service oriented? Maybe everybody will be happy when Microsoft decides to do and sell everything for free. Everyone except the stockholders. Will the Microsoft haters of /. please decide what they, reasonably, expect from Microsoft, because I am really getting tired of the automatic bashing.
No, they can't. They could however end up regulating all traffic into or out of the United States like some smaller countries do. I hope this does not happen, but that is one possiblitiy. When smaller countries do this, the only ones really affected are the residents of that country. If the US did this that would affect a good deal of the world community due to the amount of Internet services and Internet users centered in the US. The US can't force the world to learn English, but we are doing a pretty good job at it.
I was reading your post as if you were the stupidest person alive until I hit "harsh restrictions of the BSD license" and then I knew this could not be anything but a joke. The final paragraph assured me of that. Very good post. Viva VB/Linux!
I am not trying to discredit your argument, but you might be addressing a different or more specific issue. The numbers you gave about female lawyers are probably affected by the discrimination women face after leaving to have and take care of children and then trying to return. These women are usually never able to compete again with associates, men and younger women or women who have made the choice to not have children, that are still able to put in that 60+ hour work week. This is prominent in the corporate world also. But I think it has less to do with general sexual discrimination towards women and more to do with the highly competitive nature of these areas. Is that unfair? Yes, but ask those people putting in the 60+ hours and gunning for the partner position and they might tell you that it is completely fair. I am sympathetic to both sides, but it might be time to realize that having children and leaving work to take care of them( the women who leave for a month to have a baby and return to work are a different category ) is a life altering choice and one can't expect everyone to stop and wait for them. If a working couple decides to have children, one of them might have to make this choice, but it does not need to be the mother. That last part is what we as a society need to accept if we are to attain a greater gender equality.
I am not trying to discredit your numbers, but take this into note. Most of the hardware they sell probably also generates software revenue, but software can be sold completely separate of hardware.
Screw that overstated "It just works" stuff. I like the truthfulness of their statement, "it works mostly right, most of the time, for most of the people"
Microsoft is a business, not a research institution. Sure every company does research, but you are not going to criticize companies for selling screwdrivers, are you? Because there are plenty of companies doing basically the same thing there. Being a business means remaining competitive which means you either compete in an existing market or you create a new one. Microsoft does both. Just look at the market that they are creating with the newest Xbox live features. If every company limited themselves to only new ideas then there would be a bunch of huge monopolies and many failing businesses.