Humbug! I'm as good at COBOL as I ever was; it's racism and ageism and back in my day we didn't want no injeens in our jobs.
Now I might not know about all the nooks and crannies of c++ with its objects and its inheritencies.. but thats all a bunch of indian positive discrimination designed to keep my useless talents at ridiculous prices out of the market.
Replace 20s with 40s, and "old enough to be their dad" with "young enough to be their son" and you have my personal experience:
Especially since a lot of IT managers in their 40s are usually the ones who arn't so great at producing actual software so are slowly moving sideways into project management before they get found out and don't like being picked up on stupid technical decisions by someone young enough to be their son. I speak from personal experience.
On top of this, they're making large cuts in the police. So when the riots came, the police retreated to just protecting the stations: they didn't have the resources to deal "properly" with riots.
The cuts to the police force haven't come into effect yet..
What kind of crazy madman believes in something they can't see? Dark matter is invisible, and if science has taught us anything repeatedly it is that nothing is invisible: End of story, case closed, dark matter sucks.
"Look, my equations don't work out in every situation. EUREKA! If I just make some shit up like say, invisible matter that doesn't interact with other matter except through gravity, I can make my equations work!"
It's a little more complicated than that..
It's hard for a theory to get an overwhelming majority of scientific opinion without it being pretty solid, and it's much easier to say you think something is wrong than to substitute it for something better.
("The models imply matter we can't observe directly, but that can't be! EUREKA! I'll just change the model so that it behaves as if the invisible matter was there even though it actually isn't! How non-kludgy and elegant!")
I got the impression that the problem with Lion was the lack of GUI tools for doing server administration tasks. If you're comfortable with Linux administration that wouldn't be a problem for you anyway, so you would stay with Lion, and if you need GUI tools for administration and Apple doesn't provide it Windows is probably going to be the second choice.
(I say this as an enthusiastic user of both Linux and Windows on the server)
So US companies sell the US government arms which the US government pays US citizens to use in other countries, and this is somehow keeping the US from going broke?
(But I will admin Halliburton makes some damn fine weaponry. I hear Halliburton, Exxon-Mobil, and BP are partnering up to make the next generation of super-sonic fighters)
Yeah! The US has no interests in Pakistan or Afghanistan, and should leave them to their own devices and only return if / when they collapse and become a safe-haven for terrorists! Why has no-one thought of this before?!
Yeah! Damn the US, addicted to all the huge profits it makes selling weapons to Afghanistan and Pakistan! If the US wasn't fighting a war in Afghanistan and Pakistan they would be broke so fast.
I think they're only there for the oil, frankly. If the Afghan / Pakistan areas weren't so rich in oil and lucrative weapons contracts the world would be a much safer place.
Yeah! The US should start sending aid to Pakistan and Afghanistan, and help get them on back their feet so they can take care of themselves! Why has no-one thought of this before?!
How do you determine your needs in an organization where the managers don't want to be involved in the move to SAP, the processes vary quite a bit across the business, no-one really understands what SAP can do (and they don't want to learn), and the current processes depend on individual Excel/Access/etc apps which can't be stamped out if people don't buy into SAP?
Can you give me a typical success story for a large, complex, diverse, IP driven enterprise?
And we get huge amounts from the core each day too (enough to pull the entire sea bed along the ocean floor, cause volcanoes, power Iceland, destroy Japanese nuclear reactors and who knows what else). That doesn't matter if it's buried too far under the earth to use..
Same goes for the sun; yes it's hugely powerful and we get x W/m^2 on the surface on a sunny day in California. Unfortunately when you factor in clouds, nights, seas, PV generation, farms, etc, etc, etc, it becomes a lot less practical than multiplying the sun-facing area of the earth by the watts per square meter.
I'm as fed up as anyone with the hype surrounding "the cloud", and wish that energy was directed at more long-sighted initiatives like getting universal IPv6 support (which would make much of the need for "the cloud" unnecessary).
However software not improving much in responsiveness even while the technology gets much faster is due to increased security layers, increased hardware abstraction layers, more things going on at once, software development environments which put the priority on dev time rather than computer time, and not least vastly increased functionality.
If Windows 95 was so responsive and great go use it!
As someone who has invested time into learning Silverlight I'm not worried at all, and don't really understand all this stuff.
Obviously just because MS didn't mention Silverlight at a Win 8 demo they aren't abandoning the whole.NET framework, but even concluding they are abandoning Silverlight is crazy when they're right in the middle of bringing out a major new release of it (XAML binding debugging, speed increases, better video and sound control playback control, support for rendering WPF stuff in a browser outside of a Silverlight frame, etc).
All I've been hearing about in TechEd e-mails recently has been Windows Phone 7 this and Silverlight 4 that, so all this commossion on/. about Silverlight (and.NET!) being abandoned is more puzzling than concerning.
There are XBAPs if you want ADO.NET and full WPF in a browser, but of course that requires a full, massive framework. Silverlight is designed to run off the.NET compact framework, and that isn't good enough for ADO.NET and full WPF.
ADO.NET, as a data-source abstraction layer, makes little sense if you can't only reach out of the sandbox via isolated storage, web requests, and WCF.
Is it really a mystery why there's no right mouse button and you can't have blocking I/O? How would a right mouse button work on a tablet, how would blocking I/O work within a single-threaded web browser or get called from JS (which is non-blocking itself)?
There are still drop-downs, you just need to make it compatible with touch-screens using the more portable conventions. Also using non-blocking I/O for calling a web-service is just common sense. (And do you really want dumber devs developing apps for your handheld, where there's less battery life etc?)
Frankly I'd rather they had the ADO.NET entity framework than Datasets, and more sophisticated binding in WPF (e.g. better two-way binding, more complete type system) than right mouse button events, but there are always going to be people unhappy when you need to make cuts to something which contains stuff most people like.
I also think JS has lots of great stuff that it doesn't get enough credit for, and can be great if done right. However C# also has closures, and will be able to compile and execute strings in the next version ("compiler as a service", it's called, though there's no reason to think it's any more advisable than eval() in JS).
But in addition to that it doesn't have the huge number of nasty things to avoid that JS has:
Its iterators work as expected without needing a framework
Properties are well supported (no getBlah() setBlah() pattern)
You don't need to construct your own model of inheritance or use closures to get basic stuff like information hiding
There are namespaces, a decent multi-threading model, the update cycle is faster, etc, etc
No defaulting to the global namespace
And that doesn't even count non-language things like the.NET framework.
Although JS' functional nature lets it be a much better language than it would otherwise be, and makes up for a whole load of design mistakes, choosing it as a language which interacts with a Windows API would be crazy.
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Humbug! I'm as good at COBOL as I ever was; it's racism and ageism and back in my day we didn't want no injeens in our jobs.
Now I might not know about all the nooks and crannies of c++ with its objects and its inheritencies.. but thats all a bunch of indian positive discrimination designed to keep my useless talents at ridiculous prices out of the market.
Especially since a lot of IT managers in their 40s are usually the ones who arn't so great at producing actual software so are slowly moving sideways into project management before they get found out and don't like being picked up on stupid technical decisions by someone young enough to be their son. I speak from personal experience.
*Must try not to think what this comment actually means.. Must move on quickly..*
I think I would kill myself if I was a Sony engineer reading this /. discussion ..
"The mainframe stays, I stay.." How much for the movie rights?
On top of this, they're making large cuts in the police. So when the riots came, the police retreated to just protecting the stations: they didn't have the resources to deal "properly" with riots.
The cuts to the police force haven't come into effect yet ..
And we like to call ghouls "neutrinos".
Pssh.. modern scientists eh?
What kind of crazy madman believes in something they can't see? Dark matter is invisible, and if science has taught us anything repeatedly it is that nothing is invisible: End of story, case closed, dark matter sucks.
"Look, my equations don't work out in every situation. EUREKA! If I just make some shit up like say, invisible matter that doesn't interact with other matter except through gravity, I can make my equations work!"
It's a little more complicated than that..
It's hard for a theory to get an overwhelming majority of scientific opinion without it being pretty solid, and it's much easier to say you think something is wrong than to substitute it for something better.
("The models imply matter we can't observe directly, but that can't be! EUREKA! I'll just change the model so that it behaves as if the invisible matter was there even though it actually isn't! How non-kludgy and elegant!")
I got the impression that the problem with Lion was the lack of GUI tools for doing server administration tasks. If you're comfortable with Linux administration that wouldn't be a problem for you anyway, so you would stay with Lion, and if you need GUI tools for administration and Apple doesn't provide it Windows is probably going to be the second choice.
(I say this as an enthusiastic user of both Linux and Windows on the server)
Taking a USB stick that doesn't belong to you isn't theft?
I stopped reading at "bet".
.. and yes, I did. I just didn't have time for those last two words. I have stuff to do. Important stuff.
I really think people wouldn't realize I was being sarcastic if I didn't make it painfully obvious. (Some can't tell anyway)
So US companies sell the US government arms which the US government pays US citizens to use in other countries, and this is somehow keeping the US from going broke?
(But I will admin Halliburton makes some damn fine weaponry. I hear Halliburton, Exxon-Mobil, and BP are partnering up to make the next generation of super-sonic fighters)
Yeah! The US has no interests in Pakistan or Afghanistan, and should leave them to their own devices and only return if / when they collapse and become a safe-haven for terrorists! Why has no-one thought of this before?!
US aid to Pakistan over the last 10 years: 11.740 billion in military aid, 6.08 billion in economic aid
Yeah! Damn the US, addicted to all the huge profits it makes selling weapons to Afghanistan and Pakistan! If the US wasn't fighting a war in Afghanistan and Pakistan they would be broke so fast.
I think they're only there for the oil, frankly. If the Afghan / Pakistan areas weren't so rich in oil and lucrative weapons contracts the world would be a much safer place.
Yeah! The US should start sending aid to Pakistan and Afghanistan, and help get them on back their feet so they can take care of themselves! Why has no-one thought of this before?!
How do you determine your needs in an organization where the managers don't want to be involved in the move to SAP, the processes vary quite a bit across the business, no-one really understands what SAP can do (and they don't want to learn), and the current processes depend on individual Excel/Access/etc apps which can't be stamped out if people don't buy into SAP?
Can you give me a typical success story for a large, complex, diverse, IP driven enterprise?
And we get huge amounts from the core each day too (enough to pull the entire sea bed along the ocean floor, cause volcanoes, power Iceland, destroy Japanese nuclear reactors and who knows what else). That doesn't matter if it's buried too far under the earth to use..
Same goes for the sun; yes it's hugely powerful and we get x W/m^2 on the surface on a sunny day in California. Unfortunately when you factor in clouds, nights, seas, PV generation, farms, etc, etc, etc, it becomes a lot less practical than multiplying the sun-facing area of the earth by the watts per square meter.
I'm as fed up as anyone with the hype surrounding "the cloud", and wish that energy was directed at more long-sighted initiatives like getting universal IPv6 support (which would make much of the need for "the cloud" unnecessary).
However software not improving much in responsiveness even while the technology gets much faster is due to increased security layers, increased hardware abstraction layers, more things going on at once, software development environments which put the priority on dev time rather than computer time, and not least vastly increased functionality.
If Windows 95 was so responsive and great go use it!
As someone who has invested time into learning Silverlight I'm not worried at all, and don't really understand all this stuff.
.NET framework, but even concluding they are abandoning Silverlight is crazy when they're right in the middle of bringing out a major new release of it (XAML binding debugging, speed increases, better video and sound control playback control, support for rendering WPF stuff in a browser outside of a Silverlight frame, etc).
/. about Silverlight (and .NET!) being abandoned is more puzzling than concerning.
Obviously just because MS didn't mention Silverlight at a Win 8 demo they aren't abandoning the whole
All I've been hearing about in TechEd e-mails recently has been Windows Phone 7 this and Silverlight 4 that, so all this commossion on
There are XBAPs if you want ADO.NET and full WPF in a browser, but of course that requires a full, massive framework. Silverlight is designed to run off the .NET compact framework, and that isn't good enough for ADO.NET and full WPF.
ADO.NET, as a data-source abstraction layer, makes little sense if you can't only reach out of the sandbox via isolated storage, web requests, and WCF.
Is it really a mystery why there's no right mouse button and you can't have blocking I/O? How would a right mouse button work on a tablet, how would blocking I/O work within a single-threaded web browser or get called from JS (which is non-blocking itself)?
There are still drop-downs, you just need to make it compatible with touch-screens using the more portable conventions. Also using non-blocking I/O for calling a web-service is just common sense. (And do you really want dumber devs developing apps for your handheld, where there's less battery life etc?)
Frankly I'd rather they had the ADO.NET entity framework than Datasets, and more sophisticated binding in WPF (e.g. better two-way binding, more complete type system) than right mouse button events, but there are always going to be people unhappy when you need to make cuts to something which contains stuff most people like.
But in addition to that it doesn't have the huge number of nasty things to avoid that JS has:
And that doesn't even count non-language things like the .NET framework.
Although JS' functional nature lets it be a much better language than it would otherwise be, and makes up for a whole load of design mistakes, choosing it as a language which interacts with a Windows API would be crazy.
Why does anyone think that NET users are any less disposable then the GIS users?
Because they're far more valuable to Microsoft, and represent a much bigger investment.