That's an interesting point - at what point do video card manufacturers get so far ahead of the software environment that only hard-core gamers are interested in their product? Is that crowd large enough to support their R&D efforts going forward?
This more a symptom of employers concentrating on specific experience more than talented personnel. A fundamental skill that the vast majority of IS professionals have is the ability to LEARN and ADAPT. Unfortunately there's no buzzword that can signify this on a resume, so it gets ignored.
Re:Is this a C# or a .NET problem?
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It sounds like a.NET issue, which makes it more fundamental. So much for that Secure Computing initiative outta Redmond...
I doubt that this will be that great a deal - instead, look for the W3C to become less and less relevant going forward. In the next few years, you'll see more proprietary development, or worse yet, alternative coalitions made up of proprietary vendors who don't care to give their IP away for free...
The point isn't whether a closed or open source solution is necessarily more stable due to the merits of the programmers. Rather, in the closed source realm, corporate demands have emphasized feature rollout ahead of absolute rock-solid 100% stability, and the markets have by and large accepted this. It's a classic market failure, really - the incentive to get product out into the wild is well worth the headache of dealing with support issues on the backside, along with providing room for a "New & Improved" version that can come along in a couple years and keep the revenue stream pumping...
What this has really done is lend some legitamacy to the SCO licensing gambit, raising the probability that the major Linux players will have to shell out as well. Basically, MS just dropped a major FUD bomb on the Linux-in-the-enterprise crowd.
Re:Probably it will always stay...
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And as we move forward, file sizes in general will keep getting bigger, making BT more useful over time. Check back in a couple years, and we'll see how pervasive it becomes...
Another option that people fail to make is public transit. It's just gotten a stigma that it's for the poor, which has developed into a self-fulfilling prophecy. I went without a car in Ann Arbor for a couple years, and there was only one activity for which I relied on a friend's car - going to play hockey in another town. By and large, I didn't miss it.
And don't forget the movie theaters - many are now showing commercials right before the trailers. Worse yet, most are just exact copies of the TV ads, and they look lousy on the big screen.
I second the motion - if anything, the recent attention given to blogs has legitimized a thoroughly uncommercial and decentralized news gathering force. Think of the Baghdad blogger, for example, who by himself provided a viewpoint on the war in Iraq that no monolithic news source could.
Re:Yeah Right...
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The real problem is that too many people look down on people in those jobs. There's absolutely no reason why somebody can't take pride in their work, no matter what they do. Well, maybe not spammers, but otherwise...
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That's an interesting point - at what point do video card manufacturers get so far ahead of the software environment that only hard-core gamers are interested in their product? Is that crowd large enough to support their R&D efforts going forward?
This more a symptom of employers concentrating on specific experience more than talented personnel. A fundamental skill that the vast majority of IS professionals have is the ability to LEARN and ADAPT. Unfortunately there's no buzzword that can signify this on a resume, so it gets ignored.
It sounds like a .NET issue, which makes it more fundamental. So much for that Secure Computing initiative outta Redmond...
I doubt that this will be that great a deal - instead, look for the W3C to become less and less relevant going forward. In the next few years, you'll see more proprietary development, or worse yet, alternative coalitions made up of proprietary vendors who don't care to give their IP away for free...
sure, as long as they get Popular Mechanics or something...
here, here, and here for starters.
Obviously, not everyone who plays violent games is going to go on a rampage. But don't pretend that they have no effect whatsoever...
That runs counter to pretty much all of the academic work done in this area. Do you actually have any evidence for this?
The point isn't whether a closed or open source solution is necessarily more stable due to the merits of the programmers. Rather, in the closed source realm, corporate demands have emphasized feature rollout ahead of absolute rock-solid 100% stability, and the markets have by and large accepted this. It's a classic market failure, really - the incentive to get product out into the wild is well worth the headache of dealing with support issues on the backside, along with providing room for a "New & Improved" version that can come along in a couple years and keep the revenue stream pumping...
Probably some crack-addled junkie who wanted to go for a joy ride, that's all...
Well, I'll never be able to watch this the same way again...
think The Godfather...
I thought his head was found in that producer's bed...
I think I'll download it to my PDA and go deprecate for a while...
Yeah, it's tricky, but you wait until the coocoo goes back inside, and you have to snap it in quickly before the doors shut...
That is hilarious. Gee... if they stop selling to the US, who do they sell to? Oh, I guess they just starve.
I just thought it was a Slashdot web bug...
I prefer Nethack, myself - as the lone IS person at the facility, if anybody did happen to see it they'd have no idea what it is...
More like Crud, if you ask me...
What this has really done is lend some legitamacy to the SCO licensing gambit, raising the probability that the major Linux players will have to shell out as well. Basically, MS just dropped a major FUD bomb on the Linux-in-the-enterprise crowd.
And as we move forward, file sizes in general will keep getting bigger, making BT more useful over time. Check back in a couple years, and we'll see how pervasive it becomes...
Another option that people fail to make is public transit. It's just gotten a stigma that it's for the poor, which has developed into a self-fulfilling prophecy. I went without a car in Ann Arbor for a couple years, and there was only one activity for which I relied on a friend's car - going to play hockey in another town. By and large, I didn't miss it.
And don't forget the movie theaters - many are now showing commercials right before the trailers. Worse yet, most are just exact copies of the TV ads, and they look lousy on the big screen.
Until Azimov's 3 Rules come standard.
I second the motion - if anything, the recent attention given to blogs has legitimized a thoroughly uncommercial and decentralized news gathering force. Think of the Baghdad blogger, for example, who by himself provided a viewpoint on the war in Iraq that no monolithic news source could.
The real problem is that too many people look down on people in those jobs. There's absolutely no reason why somebody can't take pride in their work, no matter what they do. Well, maybe not spammers, but otherwise...