See, now you are still "locked in". Now its because all your data is stored in a non-standard way. You are locked in to that particular project. What happens when a new, better project comes along? You can't just throw out your old application and move to the new one without either throwibg away all your data, or hiring a programmer to write a program to migrate all your data. Almost every large commercial application is customizable. Open source typically doesn't buy you a whole lot in that area except for at the very low end where often you CAN buy the source code to the closed source app if you need/want it.
Your not mentioning file formats is the problem. THAT is how you solve lock in, not whether the program is open source or not. By using apps that use a standard file format you can throw the entire app out and replace it with a lot less pain.
open source solution means that multiple companies can compete
and I corrected you. Being open source has nothing at all to do with competing, however, using open/interchangeable file formats can make competition easier as any application can be replaced with a competing application easier.
The worst part of living in a {x} world to my mind is that they've produced a legion of intellectually crippled sysadmins, who view competing products like {y} with either derision or fear, often times not realizing how inferior {x} is in some areas.
No, not everything converts, just most. You can still open the same documents, you edit them the same way, just the menu/ribbon changes.
That is easier than opening a word document in OoO and it totally messes up the entire document your client gave you and you have no idea what it says, and the client doesn't know why you are having such a problem, your competitor never did.
Sure, but typically the costs aren't quite the same. Realize that hiring an employee for $75k, typically costs an employer nearly $150k in benefits, taxes, training, hiring, replacing, etc etc. Also, to implement something like that you don't just need a programmer, you need a programmer that can manage a network, troubleshoot issues (hardware, application, operating system, network), recommend hardware, do hardware maintenance/upgrades, do the system administration, apply patches to both the application and operating system (during off hours), perform backups, verify the backups actually work, do backup rotation, possibly (securely) do off site backup rotations (without leaving unencrypted backup tapes in the backseat of their car that gets subsequently stolen), etc etc. And of course if you need 100%-ish uptime, then you need a programmer that understands clusters, how to correctly take systems out of the cluster and put them back in, and do rolling maintenance/upgrades.
For most companies, that's not just 1 "programmer", that's a system admin, network admin, a programmer, and a support desk guy and a host of other 3rd party solutions.
No, open source doesn't mean they are using interchangeable file formats at all. You can have closed source applications that use standard file formats, and you can have open source applications that use proprietary and/or closed file formats (although it's tough to keep them closed).
Actually, in the two companies in which I stayed for multiple years, I knew the salaries of every employee working there (One of which had over 12,000 employees). Mostly, the salaries were close to what I had expected, with just a few outliers. Usually those were people that were connected significantly to another employee, and both of their salaries were similar even if one of the job positions didn't usually command that much.
That said, I have renegotiated my salary before, quite successfully even. During the.COM bubble, I renegotiated my salary, increasing it 30% one year, then 50% then next. Then again, I had never received less than a 10% salary increase there. The larger of the two companies offered me a 4% increase, and while that was the largest given in the division, that was when I decided I was better suited to switching back to a smaller company, consulting, or an independent/autonomous division of a larger company. Larger companies just have too many rules, pay schedules, etc that make it near impossible to break out of. The difference in salaries in them between an incompetent employee and it's brightest star is nearly insignificant.
Here, just so that everyone can implement "AutoSpaceLikeWord95", here's a simple description of how to implement it so that ANYONE that is knowledgeable enough to write a word processor can do it:
This element specifies adjustments (detailed below) which should be applied to the spacing between adjoining regions of non-ideographic and ideographic text when the autoSpaceDE (Part 1, 17.3.1.2) and autoSpaceDN (Part 1, 17.3.1.3) elements have a value of true (or equivalent). This algorithm typically results in the following:
*
An increase in the inter-character spacing added between non-ideographic and/or number characters and certain full-width characters
*
No inter-character spacing between non-ideographic and/or number characters and certain half-width characters
Typically, applications apply additional spacing between ideographic and non-ideographic characters/numeric characters when the autoSpaceDE / autoSpaceDN properties are applied. This element, when present with a val attribute value of true (or equivalent), specifies that applications shall apply the following adjustments to this logic:
*
Characters in the following Unicode ranges should be treated as ideographic, even though those characters are full-width forms of non-ideographic text: U+FF10–U+FF19, U+FF21–U+FF3A, and U+FF41–U+FF5A. [Note: This results in the unnecessary addition of space. end note]
*
Characters in the following Unicode ranges should be treated as non-ideographic, even though those characters are ideographic: U+FF66–U+FF9F. [Note: This results in the omission of the intended additional space. end note]
The myth was that RISC would outperform CISC. Never happened.
That depends on how you define RISC and CISC. When that was the debate the industry was much different. In many cases, it could be said that RISC actually did win, and is currently the best performer. Today's x86 chips in many ways are more like a RISC engine (micro-ops) with a translation layer put on top of it for compatibility. Now that may not meet your definition of RISC, but just about everyone will admit that many of the RISC principles are alive and well in todays microprocessors, being either a RISC with a CISC translation layer, or at the very least a RISC/CISC hybrid.
You might think so, but a lot of hardware devices are actually sold for cost, or at a loss. They do that so that they can establish a market for the device, and eventually make money selling updates and/or software for them.
Unfortunately, allowing people to change to OS defeats both of those, and then the manufacturer just loses money on the hardware sale with no way of recouping the loss, and possibly make a profit.
OpenVMS latest release was just 6 months ago. I'd say that's still fully supported.
Yes, all OS's derived from *nix typically have the same basic set of commands. Those OS's that don't derive from *nix typically do not have the same set of commands.
Off the top of my head, Windows 95, XP, ME, 2000, Vista, 7, etc. combined makes up almost the entire PC market (including server) operating systems and out number those based on linux nearly 20:1. All of these support DOS commands (derived from CP/M), and most either come with or can support PowerShell.
The whole point of a PowerShell is it's simplicity and uniformity of how things work from one command to the next, which has a smaller learning curve than *nix. Commands ALWAYS follow verb-noun format, and the commands are case insensitive, so calling them a hack with camel-case is about as appropriate as calling them a hack with ElItE-SpEaKnEsS-CaSe. In practice, most commands additionally have aliases, and you can make your own aliases as well.
Of course commands that have a built in command in *nix will be longer when they don't have an exact equivalent in PowerShell, that's to be expected. But there are a ton of things that would be extremely long, impossible, or prohibitively complex for *nix (without 3rd party/non standard tools) to do that PowerShell does with ease. For example what's the standard way of processing through an XML fragment, iterating through subnodes and executing a program passing the subnode values as parameters using no 3rd party tools in *nix? PowerShell it's trivial. How about about what Physical disk in a remote machine on the network is getting used the most? Again, trivial. What's the screen resolution of a remote machine? What format is the primary partition? What what the longest running SQL query on your database server? What is the average response time of your primary drive? What is the average response time? Anything and everything that is available from the registry, the performance counters, or WMI is accessible easily.
I agree. Please tell the *nix community to adopt the standards set by the OS's that currently have 95% marketshare and we can all be happy.
Still in production: VMS OpenVMS Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows CE Windows Phone 7 Android iOS XBox 360 PS3 Cisco IOS Linksys Embedded OS RealTime OS
None of these can you drop to a command line and "just use" *nix commands. Stream piping and forking isn't "modern" it's archaic. It's been around for nearly 30 years.
It can pretty much be said that any OS other than Windows, comes with the same standard tools.
Well I think that pretty much sums up where the vast majority of your experience comes from. Let's run down a quick list off the top of my head of OS's and let's see if they support these "standard tools":
Windows is not *nix, so yes, it doesn't use the same commands. Then again, why doesn't linux support DOS/CPM commands? While *nix commands are text-stream based, Powershell uses a more modern object oriented approach.
Linux wasn't around yet when I was 18, but by the time I was 18, I had already mastered 5 or 6 different dialects of basic, pilot, pascal, C, both intel and motorola assembly, DOS and windows inside and out. Outside of class I also leaned unix (Which wasn't part of any classes).
I really don't think it's out of the question to expect a freshman in college going for either IT or CS to know linux and windows basics.
Chicago. Quick look in my email: 2 jobs today, 4 yesterday. Last time I was between contracts, I went on 3 interviews in 3 days and came back with 4 offers (prior client wanted me back as well).
CS jobs is not a problem in Chicago if you know.NET. PHP openings aren't bad here either. Java isn't too far behind, but noticeably so.
Twitter nor any of it's servers were ever in the EU, sorry. The EU citizen sent his data to the US. What happens to it once there is not under EU law, sorry.
And no, it's not like getting abducted by a Somali. It's more like ordering something from another country over the phone, then complaining that the company provided your name to their government for import taxes and claiming it's illegal to do so under EU privacy laws. Sorry, your laws don't apply here.
So which is it? There was already a good codec (h.264) when Microsoft introduced vc1, or was vc1 already around (with more mature tools) when h.264 was getting shoved down everyone's throat? You really can't have it both ways, lol!
Sorry, that is not how the law works. Just because you are accessing a server remotely does not make the owner of that server liable to follow any laws where you are located. Eurotrash gets dumber and bolder everyday. Disconnect your internet if you don't like it.
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See, now you are still "locked in". Now its because all your data is stored in a non-standard way. You are locked in to that particular project. What happens when a new, better project comes along? You can't just throw out your old application and move to the new one without either throwibg away all your data, or hiring a programmer to write a program to migrate all your data. Almost every large commercial application is customizable. Open source typically doesn't buy you a whole lot in that area except for at the very low end where often you CAN buy the source code to the closed source app if you need/want it.
Your not mentioning file formats is the problem. THAT is how you solve lock in, not whether the program is open source or not. By using apps that use a standard file format you can throw the entire app out and replace it with a lot less pain.
Yes, it does, you said:
open source solution means that multiple companies can compete
and I corrected you. Being open source has nothing at all to do with competing, however, using open/interchangeable file formats can make competition easier as any application can be replaced with a competing application easier.
FOSS software often works even worse with another FOSS project than Microsoft, unfortunately.
The worst part of living in a {x} world to my mind is that they've produced a legion of intellectually crippled sysadmins, who view competing products like {y} with either derision or fear, often times not realizing how inferior {x} is in some areas.
Fixed that for you, so it's reusable.
No, not everything converts, just most. You can still open the same documents, you edit them the same way, just the menu/ribbon changes.
That is easier than opening a word document in OoO and it totally messes up the entire document your client gave you and you have no idea what it says, and the client doesn't know why you are having such a problem, your competitor never did.
Sure, but typically the costs aren't quite the same. Realize that hiring an employee for $75k, typically costs an employer nearly $150k in benefits, taxes, training, hiring, replacing, etc etc. Also, to implement something like that you don't just need a programmer, you need a programmer that can manage a network, troubleshoot issues (hardware, application, operating system, network), recommend hardware, do hardware maintenance/upgrades, do the system administration, apply patches to both the application and operating system (during off hours), perform backups, verify the backups actually work, do backup rotation, possibly (securely) do off site backup rotations (without leaving unencrypted backup tapes in the backseat of their car that gets subsequently stolen), etc etc. And of course if you need 100%-ish uptime, then you need a programmer that understands clusters, how to correctly take systems out of the cluster and put them back in, and do rolling maintenance/upgrades.
For most companies, that's not just 1 "programmer", that's a system admin, network admin, a programmer, and a support desk guy and a host of other 3rd party solutions.
No, open source doesn't mean they are using interchangeable file formats at all. You can have closed source applications that use standard file formats, and you can have open source applications that use proprietary and/or closed file formats (although it's tough to keep them closed).
Actually, in the two companies in which I stayed for multiple years, I knew the salaries of every employee working there (One of which had over 12,000 employees). Mostly, the salaries were close to what I had expected, with just a few outliers. Usually those were people that were connected significantly to another employee, and both of their salaries were similar even if one of the job positions didn't usually command that much.
That said, I have renegotiated my salary before, quite successfully even. During the .COM bubble, I renegotiated my salary, increasing it 30% one year, then 50% then next. Then again, I had never received less than a 10% salary increase there. The larger of the two companies offered me a 4% increase, and while that was the largest given in the division, that was when I decided I was better suited to switching back to a smaller company, consulting, or an independent/autonomous division of a larger company. Larger companies just have too many rules, pay schedules, etc that make it near impossible to break out of. The difference in salaries in them between an incompetent employee and it's brightest star is nearly insignificant.
Here, just so that everyone can implement "AutoSpaceLikeWord95", here's a simple description of how to implement it so that ANYONE that is knowledgeable enough to write a word processor can do it:
This element specifies adjustments (detailed below) which should be applied to the spacing between adjoining regions of non-ideographic and ideographic text when the autoSpaceDE (Part 1, 17.3.1.2) and autoSpaceDN (Part 1, 17.3.1.3) elements have a value of true (or equivalent). This algorithm typically results in the following:
*
An increase in the inter-character spacing added between non-ideographic and/or number characters and certain full-width characters
*
No inter-character spacing between non-ideographic and/or number characters and certain half-width characters
Typically, applications apply additional spacing between ideographic and non-ideographic characters/numeric characters when the autoSpaceDE / autoSpaceDN properties are applied. This element, when present with a val attribute value of true (or equivalent), specifies that applications shall apply the following adjustments to this logic:
*
Characters in the following Unicode ranges should be treated as ideographic, even though those characters are full-width forms of non-ideographic text: U+FF10–U+FF19, U+FF21–U+FF3A, and U+FF41–U+FF5A. [Note: This results in the unnecessary addition of space. end note]
*
Characters in the following Unicode ranges should be treated as non-ideographic, even though those characters are ideographic: U+FF66–U+FF9F. [Note: This results in the omission of the intended additional space. end note]
The myth was that RISC would outperform CISC. Never happened.
That depends on how you define RISC and CISC. When that was the debate the industry was much different. In many cases, it could be said that RISC actually did win, and is currently the best performer. Today's x86 chips in many ways are more like a RISC engine (micro-ops) with a translation layer put on top of it for compatibility. Now that may not meet your definition of RISC, but just about everyone will admit that many of the RISC principles are alive and well in todays microprocessors, being either a RISC with a CISC translation layer, or at the very least a RISC/CISC hybrid.
You might think so, but a lot of hardware devices are actually sold for cost, or at a loss. They do that so that they can establish a market for the device, and eventually make money selling updates and/or software for them.
Unfortunately, allowing people to change to OS defeats both of those, and then the manufacturer just loses money on the hardware sale with no way of recouping the loss, and possibly make a profit.
OpenVMS latest release was just 6 months ago. I'd say that's still fully supported.
Yes, all OS's derived from *nix typically have the same basic set of commands. Those OS's that don't derive from *nix typically do not have the same set of commands.
Off the top of my head, Windows 95, XP, ME, 2000, Vista, 7, etc. combined makes up almost the entire PC market (including server) operating systems and out number those based on linux nearly 20:1. All of these support DOS commands (derived from CP/M), and most either come with or can support PowerShell.
The whole point of a PowerShell is it's simplicity and uniformity of how things work from one command to the next, which has a smaller learning curve than *nix. Commands ALWAYS follow verb-noun format, and the commands are case insensitive, so calling them a hack with camel-case is about as appropriate as calling them a hack with ElItE-SpEaKnEsS-CaSe. In practice, most commands additionally have aliases, and you can make your own aliases as well.
Of course commands that have a built in command in *nix will be longer when they don't have an exact equivalent in PowerShell, that's to be expected. But there are a ton of things that would be extremely long, impossible, or prohibitively complex for *nix (without 3rd party/non standard tools) to do that PowerShell does with ease. For example what's the standard way of processing through an XML fragment, iterating through subnodes and executing a program passing the subnode values as parameters using no 3rd party tools in *nix? PowerShell it's trivial. How about about what Physical disk in a remote machine on the network is getting used the most? Again, trivial. What's the screen resolution of a remote machine? What format is the primary partition? What what the longest running SQL query on your database server? What is the average response time of your primary drive? What is the average response time? Anything and everything that is available from the registry, the performance counters, or WMI is accessible easily.
I agree. Please tell the *nix community to adopt the standards set by the OS's that currently have 95% marketshare and we can all be happy.
Still in production:
VMS
OpenVMS
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows CE
Windows Phone 7
Android
iOS
XBox 360
PS3
Cisco IOS
Linksys Embedded OS
RealTime OS
None of these can you drop to a command line and "just use" *nix commands. Stream piping and forking isn't "modern" it's archaic. It's been around for nearly 30 years.
It can pretty much be said that any OS other than Windows, comes with the same standard tools.
Well I think that pretty much sums up where the vast majority of your experience comes from. Let's run down a quick list off the top of my head of OS's and let's see if they support these "standard tools":
Windows: No.
Mac OS: No.
BeOS: No.
VMS: No.
OS/2: No.
Morph: No.
Gem: No.
AmigaOS: No.
CPM: No.
DOS: No.
Cisco's IOS: No.
RealTime OS: No.
By "standard tools" I think you meant linux, and similiarly unix.
Windows is not *nix, so yes, it doesn't use the same commands. Then again, why doesn't linux support DOS/CPM commands? While *nix commands are text-stream based, Powershell uses a more modern object oriented approach.
top: Get-Process
top using WMI:Get-WmiObject Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process | `
where-object{ $_.Name -ne "_Total" -and $_.Name -ne "Idle"} | `
Sort-Object PercentProcessorTime -Descending | `
select -First 5 | `
Format-Table Name,IDProcess,PercentProcessorTime -AutoSize
ps: Get-Process
ps: ps
grep: Select-String
sort: Sort-Object
cut: Split
Linux wasn't around yet when I was 18, but by the time I was 18, I had already mastered 5 or 6 different dialects of basic, pilot, pascal, C, both intel and motorola assembly, DOS and windows inside and out. Outside of class I also leaned unix (Which wasn't part of any classes).
I really don't think it's out of the question to expect a freshman in college going for either IT or CS to know linux and windows basics.
You can do all of that in powershell as well. But I expect you are still using windows XP, and wondering why it's acting like a 10 year old OS.
Chicago. Quick look in my email: 2 jobs today, 4 yesterday. Last time I was between contracts, I went on 3 interviews in 3 days and came back with 4 offers (prior client wanted me back as well).
CS jobs is not a problem in Chicago if you know .NET. PHP openings aren't bad here either. Java isn't too far behind, but noticeably so.
Twitter nor any of it's servers were ever in the EU, sorry. The EU citizen sent his data to the US. What happens to it once there is not under EU law, sorry.
And no, it's not like getting abducted by a Somali. It's more like ordering something from another country over the phone, then complaining that the company provided your name to their government for import taxes and claiming it's illegal to do so under EU privacy laws. Sorry, your laws don't apply here.
So which is it? There was already a good codec (h.264) when Microsoft introduced vc1, or was vc1 already around (with more mature tools) when h.264 was getting shoved down everyone's throat? You really can't have it both ways, lol!
Trying to push your laws on the US, lol. Good luck eurotard.
Sorry, that is not how the law works. Just because you are accessing a server remotely does not make the owner of that server liable to follow any laws where you are located. Eurotrash gets dumber and bolder everyday. Disconnect your internet if you don't like it.
ROFLMAO, of all the tanks, you pick the Leopard?
Who said twitter does business there?
Microsoft has offices in the EU, and has subsidiaries in the EU. Twitter has neither.