Actually, companies don't want to spend or wait for training in their specific tool stacks. They want instant plug-in programmers.
If they can select from the entire world, they are more likely to find such. Whether that's realistic or fair or not is another thing: they want what they want and lobby for it because they can.
Amen! Most GUI & CRUD/UI idioms solidified in the late 80's. Yet our browser standards are GUI/CRUD-retarded such that we have to download entire GUI/CRUD rendering engines as JS libraries for every fricken site. That's very poor tool/standards/bandwidth factoring. HTML/DOM/JS is just too long in the tooth. We need a new standard.
Most geeks don't want to fix this because arcane fiddle-heavy UI standards are job security. If GUI-browser standards were done right, a lot of highly paid web-UI tinkerers would be out of a job. Stop being selfish, people! Make the world logical, not arcane.
the problem is that they should have released the entire client and server as software libre under the LGPL a long, _long_ time ago because it just doesn't make them any money, and they just don't have the manpower to keep on fixing the security issues any more.
Do you mean LGPL-ing the video streaming tech, or Flash in general? Adobe makes money off Flash by selling Flash authoring/dev tools. Flash is a loss-leader.
If they LGPL'd the video portion, then it would rid the main reason people use Flash, and websites would gradually stop catering to Flash in general.
If they LGPL'd Flash in general, then more would know how it works under the hood and other orgs would create authoring/dev tools, competing with Adobe's.
It's really difficult to test such in a controlled way. Social factors are very difficult to tease out of the data. You'd practically have to clone nations and watch for several decades. Only God has those kinds of resources.
To be competitive, I'm pretty sure certain nations would allow and/or require adjusting human brain genetics to breed a "super race" with superior intelligence, memory, and/or discipline.
I don't know how long a nation that forbids such could compete. If the super-brain nations become a threat, the hold-outs will be forced to tinker also.
A more relevant question is if a long-term focus is profitable. If MS makes memory management screwy, then they have more control over how it's solved, giving them more control over the market.
Investment theory generally dissuades longer-term thinking (for typical conditions), for good or bad.
It's an interesting idea that has been floated many times, but it may not be practical to implement without greatly increasing the cost of software because it would create layers of "CYA processes".
Users and society don't want to pay that premium so far. Quality software (UI aside) has always been hard sell when weighed against features with consumers. I don't know of a way to change human nature. (Unless, you push The Button and give cockroaches a chance.)
While it's been difficult to confirm Bill actually said that specific phrase (for K), there is strong evidence he was surprised by how fast new software releases and users "used up" the full 640K, and Microsoft was caught off guard. Venders had to invent their own memory management to go beyond that rather than rely on MS-Dos.
I visited a major city in China several years ago, and when I stepped off the plane I looked nearly straight up and saw a copper-red moon. "Oh gee, a lunar eclipse, how cool!"
Many countries undercut our labor rates by having substandard conditions, including pollution. We should tariff such countries until they meet basic standards.
It would encourage them to both clean up, and pay realistic wages, making our products more competitive, thus reducing the trade deficit.
once you live in the bay area, and have something like "Google", "Uber" or "Apple" on your CV, everyone wants you
But how common is that? There's a limit to how many visa workers the big names can hire.
Most probably work for podunk no-name companies, limiting their opportunities because ANOTHER podunk company won't want to bother with the visa paper work to hire somebody with a podunk CV.
I'm not trying to make fun of such companies, they may be great companies, but perception matters when making hiring decisions.
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There was a known dust storm near the area of the landing. Some speculate the winds pulled at the parachute after landing and yanked the probe over.
I don't want to be a juror for that copyright trial
It occurred to me that all those alleged trolls typing in all caps are probably just COBOLers. It's habit.
I jumped through Hadoop and fell on my cluster.
Actually, companies don't want to spend or wait for training in their specific tool stacks. They want instant plug-in programmers.
If they can select from the entire world, they are more likely to find such. Whether that's realistic or fair or not is another thing: they want what they want and lobby for it because they can.
Tell them you worked 80 hours a week; then it adds up.
So, they have to censor the censorship about censoring.
See, bots can't even troll well yet
when the bot can drive my damned flying car.
Amen! Most GUI & CRUD/UI idioms solidified in the late 80's. Yet our browser standards are GUI/CRUD-retarded such that we have to download entire GUI/CRUD rendering engines as JS libraries for every fricken site. That's very poor tool/standards/bandwidth factoring. HTML/DOM/JS is just too long in the tooth. We need a new standard.
Most geeks don't want to fix this because arcane fiddle-heavy UI standards are job security. If GUI-browser standards were done right, a lot of highly paid web-UI tinkerers would be out of a job. Stop being selfish, people! Make the world logical, not arcane.
But my "thing" looks bigger in 2-way Flash than HTML5. I tested.
Do you mean LGPL-ing the video streaming tech, or Flash in general? Adobe makes money off Flash by selling Flash authoring/dev tools. Flash is a loss-leader.
If they LGPL'd the video portion, then it would rid the main reason people use Flash, and websites would gradually stop catering to Flash in general.
If they LGPL'd Flash in general, then more would know how it works under the hood and other orgs would create authoring/dev tools, competing with Adobe's.
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It's really difficult to test such in a controlled way. Social factors are very difficult to tease out of the data. You'd practically have to clone nations and watch for several decades. Only God has those kinds of resources.
To be competitive, I'm pretty sure certain nations would allow and/or require adjusting human brain genetics to breed a "super race" with superior intelligence, memory, and/or discipline.
I don't know how long a nation that forbids such could compete. If the super-brain nations become a threat, the hold-outs will be forced to tinker also.
A more relevant question is if a long-term focus is profitable. If MS makes memory management screwy, then they have more control over how it's solved, giving them more control over the market.
Investment theory generally dissuades longer-term thinking (for typical conditions), for good or bad.
It's an interesting idea that has been floated many times, but it may not be practical to implement without greatly increasing the cost of software because it would create layers of "CYA processes".
Users and society don't want to pay that premium so far. Quality software (UI aside) has always been hard sell when weighed against features with consumers. I don't know of a way to change human nature. (Unless, you push The Button and give cockroaches a chance.)
So you can have lots and lots of active viruses.
While it's been difficult to confirm Bill actually said that specific phrase (for K), there is strong evidence he was surprised by how fast new software releases and users "used up" the full 640K, and Microsoft was caught off guard. Venders had to invent their own memory management to go beyond that rather than rely on MS-Dos.
1) Plugin choice, 2) It's not (quite) corporate-ware like Chrome etc.
Often there is a deadline, perhaps unrealistic, pushing people to take risks. If you want it badly, that's how you'll get it.
I visited a major city in China several years ago, and when I stepped off the plane I looked nearly straight up and saw a copper-red moon. "Oh gee, a lunar eclipse, how cool!"
It was not an eclipse.
Many countries undercut our labor rates by having substandard conditions, including pollution. We should tariff such countries until they meet basic standards.
It would encourage them to both clean up, and pay realistic wages, making our products more competitive, thus reducing the trade deficit.
But how common is that? There's a limit to how many visa workers the big names can hire.
Most probably work for podunk no-name companies, limiting their opportunities because ANOTHER podunk company won't want to bother with the visa paper work to hire somebody with a podunk CV.
I'm not trying to make fun of such companies, they may be great companies, but perception matters when making hiring decisions.
T is a master troll and the system deserves some good ol' fashioned trolling to expose it.