Sorry, but stop trying to force your ideas of what a work week should be on me.
I've worked for some of the best paying companies in the bay area -- companies that provide incredible benefits. I can come in whenever I want and leave whenever I want. All anyone really cares about is that I get my work done on time.
Making employees punch time clocks just results in all of us being stuck working 9-5, slaves to some magical goal that simply CAN'T exist in an industry like this. We have deadlines, not quotas.
Yes, some weeks I put in 50 or 60 hours. Other weeks I put in less than 30. I'm not terribly concerned about the extra time I occasionally put in because I know I've got plenty of leeway when I need more time off later; aside from that, I actually enjoy what I do for a living.
Everyone who thinks overtime is a good idea for this industry has no idea what they're really asking for. They think they'll just be earning more money, but in reality they'll be further reducing themselves to hourly factory slaves with no real ability to advance or do anything meaningful with their careers.
It's perfectly possible to write code that works in the "LAMP" model using MS technologies. Most obviously you could use ASP.Net. Less obviously, you would simply have your application exist as a multi-threaded HTTP server (written in C#), not unlike Apache.
People write Apache modules in C, it's not a stretch to see people writing HTTP servers in C# that scale just as well as Apache.
After the founders have died or left the company, the people who wind up running the show are usually worthless leaches who only get the position by looking good to shareholders and bending over for the banks that really run the company.
You're getting what you paid for. For a PC:
- High performance
- Low Price
- High Quality
Pick 2.
Those $400 pieces of shit are so cheap because they use the cheapest parts they can find and slap it together as cheaply as possible. Best Buy makes 0 profit off of the unit (but they're either contractually obligated to sell it, or because they know what a piece of shit is and they'll just make money off of upgrades and repair costs).
These are the same jackasses that try to sell you gold plated digital cables and service plans for video game discs -- why does anyone trust them anyway?
It's not "just" density -- it's the combination of density and total size.
The only countries that are a fair comparison to the U.S. are Russia, Canada, China, and India.
Canada is slightly ahead of the U.S., and they're a bigger country, but almost 80% of Canada is unpopulated, so it's not really a fair comparison there either.
Russia, China, and India are all significantly worse off than we are.
On the other hand, considering that we had the Internet first, you would think that we'd be at least competitive with say, western europe, and we really aren't. Big cities aren't so bad (I live in the bay area and my connection averages about 8mbps down and 1.5 up), but we could certainly use improvement. My family back in Ohio tells me that they can't get anything better than 1 or 2 mbps, and even that's only in short bursts.
Wait everyone, a company that sells networking equipment is telling us that the Internet will BLOW UP if we don't buy more networking equipment!
Also, everyone should buy bottled water because tap water is made out of poison.
The forbes wealth list is calculated based almost entirely on what's available under the public record (stock holdings, income, etc.)
Based on that, you can assume a few things:
- Most of the people on that list (especially the less than reputable ones) have a lot more money than forbes is reporting.
- There are many people who have no "public" income who are on that list (not just criminals, either -- there are probably many people who simply sit on top of a lot of cash, gold, and other valuables. Perhaps they have a giant money bin to swim around in).
When I was in high school, smart kids stopped taking the "Gifted" programs because the material was more busy work (not more challenging), and you got graded on the same scale. Nobody wanted to take the class and get a B if they could take the easier version of the class and get an A.
Making kids write 20 page essays instead of 10 does not make them "smarter". It makes them learn that true genius is not appreciated by society, and that most people who claim to be able to asses and educate genius are, in fact, stupid.
Of course, most "gifted" kids really aren't all that gifted anyway. By the time they hit their mid 20s, so-called "gifted" kids usually aren't doing any better in life, aren't contributing any more to society, and aren't really all that impressive.
I'd be willing to bet large sums of money that most of the people who contribute the most to the world (the researchers, inventors, and other smart people who actually achieve something meaningful) had pretty ordinary childhoods. They probably were above average in school and didn't have a difficult time with the work, and they probably didn't skip more than a grade or two (if at all).
Oracle software has worked fine on Linux for over a decade. Most Oracle products these days are built with Linux as the assumed primary installation target.
Oracle is getting into the Linux support business because it's a way to make money. This has little to nothing to do with the excellent Oracle DB or oracle's crappy applications.
Most likely Oracle will try to bundle OEL with oracle database licenses and will claim that OEL is better for running their products (or let people assume that it will be just because both have Oracle branding).
Is hardly a viable strategy. Even with the best SSL accelerators, you're lucky to get 30-40% of the performance that plain HTTP gives you.
They could certainly prevent man in the middle attacks, but unless you're on an open wifi network, the chances of being caught in a man in the middle are extremely slim. Use WEP or some other encryption mechanism to your router and you really shouldn't have any problems unless your ISP or some back bone router gets compromised.
SSL is certainly critical at login time (which is why any website worth mentioning uses it), but SSL for all traffic is unnecessary.
The thing that makes me laugh the most is that if all (authenticated) web traffic was done over HTTPS, the people complaining now would be the same ones complaining about how slow the website was.
The problem with this is that corporations will hire all the best researchers because they'll make them all sorts of promises and offer them oodles of money. There's tons of research in the academic field, but a large percentage of academic researchers are the types of people who are only in academic research because companies won't hire them for any position worth taking.
I recently worked with IBM to interop with sametime (their IM network), and my opinion of their engineering practices would probably get me fired for disparaging a partner.
As long as all the tools work fundamentally the same, does it matter? Isn't the whole point of Open Source to have "freedom"? Just like there is more than one open source database, more than one open source window manager, who cares if there are several kernels, each designed with specific goals in mind? As long as they're all conforming to POSIX standards, there really shouldn't be an issue.
"Fast" and "Efficient" usually means "C", not "C/C++". C++ (especially the STL) introduces way too much unnecessary bloat to be productive (not to mention the annoying debugging process). Applications which "need" C++ are usually better handled with Java or C# (depending on your platform). C will be here for a very, very long time, but C++ will probably die sooner rather than later.
The writing has been on the wall for years. Microsoft has little to no interest in continuing to be a company that builds the core platforms in the long term. Over the next several decades, Microsoft will become a company very similar to Google in most ways, though they will still have the Gaming / Media Center business around (the underlying technologies will be mostly open source by then, though).
This is a good thing for everyone, Microsoft included.
You do realize that U.S. taxes have a maximum rate, even for corporations, right?
You also realize that nobody is talking about $100bn in PROFITS, they're talking about $100bn in revenue, which is only double what MS is doing right now, and significantly less than what the biggest companies in the world are doing.
Of course, MS isn't going to make $100bn a year in revenue from China anyway. If they're lucky, China MIGHT account for $5-10bn annually in another decade or two.
Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
The "desktop experience" that you're referring to falls into the hands of organizations that actually make desktop environments, such as KDE or GNOME.
Linux is the Kernel. It is one component of a large eco system that, taken together, make up an "operating system".
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is an operating system.
Ubuntu is an operating system.
"Linux" is not, and never will be, an "operating system", and it certainly won't be a "desktop experience".
If a commercial company wants to make a desktop environment for Linux, more power to them! Apple has already proven that building a desktop environment on top of a high quality open source kernel is an excellent strategy.
Lastly, having actually worked at many major software vendors, the idea that "project managers" are what makes quality software is downright absurd. Project managers make sure that people are kept on task. You could argue that the OS community is in need of more designers and usability "experts", but in practice these people tend to be less clueful than engineers.
Please try installing Ubuntu, then install Windows, and tell me which is a "better" experience.
What prevents a popular OS desktop environment from emerging is simple: support. You need hardware support to make these things really survive. We're starting to see this happening with the Dell / Ubuntu partnership, but it's going to take a hell of a lot of work (and application support) before there's any real hope of competing with OSX, much less Windows.
Try going to work and asking your boss to send you the prototype by sending it to "your myspace".
The only people who use social networks as their primary means of internet communication are ignorant people (most teens fall into this category) and dumb asses.
Statistically speaking, there are very few places in the world that pay more. The bay area has one of the highest median household incomes in the entire world.
The job market here is great, if you've got talent. The only people who are having a hard time finding decent work are the inept.
Comcast provides good connections for the most part (much better than my experience with Cox, and infinitely better than every DSL provider I've ever had to deal with).
Their "installation" process is stupid. You can actually just go to their proxy servers and register your modem through any browser. For some reason though, lately they've stopped giving out the IP address.
The service runs fine once you get it installed.
Why the hell actually uses their ISP's portal as their home page, anyway?
Is it going to make them have less revenue or something? I sincerely doubt that Google ever gave a shit whether or not they were doing well in a metric as meaningless as page views.
How do you propose getting an education so that you can get a decent job? Steal the money? How do you propose that one buy a home? Save up $500,000 over the course of 50 years (while paying rent!), then buy it shortly before they die?
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Sorry, but stop trying to force your ideas of what a work week should be on me. I've worked for some of the best paying companies in the bay area -- companies that provide incredible benefits. I can come in whenever I want and leave whenever I want. All anyone really cares about is that I get my work done on time. Making employees punch time clocks just results in all of us being stuck working 9-5, slaves to some magical goal that simply CAN'T exist in an industry like this. We have deadlines, not quotas. Yes, some weeks I put in 50 or 60 hours. Other weeks I put in less than 30. I'm not terribly concerned about the extra time I occasionally put in because I know I've got plenty of leeway when I need more time off later; aside from that, I actually enjoy what I do for a living. Everyone who thinks overtime is a good idea for this industry has no idea what they're really asking for. They think they'll just be earning more money, but in reality they'll be further reducing themselves to hourly factory slaves with no real ability to advance or do anything meaningful with their careers.
It's perfectly possible to write code that works in the "LAMP" model using MS technologies. Most obviously you could use ASP.Net. Less obviously, you would simply have your application exist as a multi-threaded HTTP server (written in C#), not unlike Apache. People write Apache modules in C, it's not a stretch to see people writing HTTP servers in C# that scale just as well as Apache.
older music is worth a lot less than new music! After all, old music doesn't have the same resale value as the new stuff.
Women don't go into engineering because they're smarter than us. They go into marketing and product management because it pays better.
After the founders have died or left the company, the people who wind up running the show are usually worthless leaches who only get the position by looking good to shareholders and bending over for the banks that really run the company.
You're getting what you paid for. For a PC: - High performance - Low Price - High Quality Pick 2. Those $400 pieces of shit are so cheap because they use the cheapest parts they can find and slap it together as cheaply as possible. Best Buy makes 0 profit off of the unit (but they're either contractually obligated to sell it, or because they know what a piece of shit is and they'll just make money off of upgrades and repair costs). These are the same jackasses that try to sell you gold plated digital cables and service plans for video game discs -- why does anyone trust them anyway?
It's not "just" density -- it's the combination of density and total size. The only countries that are a fair comparison to the U.S. are Russia, Canada, China, and India. Canada is slightly ahead of the U.S., and they're a bigger country, but almost 80% of Canada is unpopulated, so it's not really a fair comparison there either. Russia, China, and India are all significantly worse off than we are. On the other hand, considering that we had the Internet first, you would think that we'd be at least competitive with say, western europe, and we really aren't. Big cities aren't so bad (I live in the bay area and my connection averages about 8mbps down and 1.5 up), but we could certainly use improvement. My family back in Ohio tells me that they can't get anything better than 1 or 2 mbps, and even that's only in short bursts.
Wait everyone, a company that sells networking equipment is telling us that the Internet will BLOW UP if we don't buy more networking equipment! Also, everyone should buy bottled water because tap water is made out of poison.
The forbes wealth list is calculated based almost entirely on what's available under the public record (stock holdings, income, etc.) Based on that, you can assume a few things: - Most of the people on that list (especially the less than reputable ones) have a lot more money than forbes is reporting. - There are many people who have no "public" income who are on that list (not just criminals, either -- there are probably many people who simply sit on top of a lot of cash, gold, and other valuables. Perhaps they have a giant money bin to swim around in).
When I was in high school, smart kids stopped taking the "Gifted" programs because the material was more busy work (not more challenging), and you got graded on the same scale. Nobody wanted to take the class and get a B if they could take the easier version of the class and get an A. Making kids write 20 page essays instead of 10 does not make them "smarter". It makes them learn that true genius is not appreciated by society, and that most people who claim to be able to asses and educate genius are, in fact, stupid. Of course, most "gifted" kids really aren't all that gifted anyway. By the time they hit their mid 20s, so-called "gifted" kids usually aren't doing any better in life, aren't contributing any more to society, and aren't really all that impressive. I'd be willing to bet large sums of money that most of the people who contribute the most to the world (the researchers, inventors, and other smart people who actually achieve something meaningful) had pretty ordinary childhoods. They probably were above average in school and didn't have a difficult time with the work, and they probably didn't skip more than a grade or two (if at all).
Oracle software has worked fine on Linux for over a decade. Most Oracle products these days are built with Linux as the assumed primary installation target. Oracle is getting into the Linux support business because it's a way to make money. This has little to nothing to do with the excellent Oracle DB or oracle's crappy applications. Most likely Oracle will try to bundle OEL with oracle database licenses and will claim that OEL is better for running their products (or let people assume that it will be just because both have Oracle branding).
Is hardly a viable strategy. Even with the best SSL accelerators, you're lucky to get 30-40% of the performance that plain HTTP gives you. They could certainly prevent man in the middle attacks, but unless you're on an open wifi network, the chances of being caught in a man in the middle are extremely slim. Use WEP or some other encryption mechanism to your router and you really shouldn't have any problems unless your ISP or some back bone router gets compromised. SSL is certainly critical at login time (which is why any website worth mentioning uses it), but SSL for all traffic is unnecessary. The thing that makes me laugh the most is that if all (authenticated) web traffic was done over HTTPS, the people complaining now would be the same ones complaining about how slow the website was.
The problem with this is that corporations will hire all the best researchers because they'll make them all sorts of promises and offer them oodles of money. There's tons of research in the academic field, but a large percentage of academic researchers are the types of people who are only in academic research because companies won't hire them for any position worth taking.
I recently worked with IBM to interop with sametime (their IM network), and my opinion of their engineering practices would probably get me fired for disparaging a partner.
As long as all the tools work fundamentally the same, does it matter? Isn't the whole point of Open Source to have "freedom"? Just like there is more than one open source database, more than one open source window manager, who cares if there are several kernels, each designed with specific goals in mind? As long as they're all conforming to POSIX standards, there really shouldn't be an issue.
"Fast" and "Efficient" usually means "C", not "C/C++". C++ (especially the STL) introduces way too much unnecessary bloat to be productive (not to mention the annoying debugging process). Applications which "need" C++ are usually better handled with Java or C# (depending on your platform). C will be here for a very, very long time, but C++ will probably die sooner rather than later.
The writing has been on the wall for years. Microsoft has little to no interest in continuing to be a company that builds the core platforms in the long term. Over the next several decades, Microsoft will become a company very similar to Google in most ways, though they will still have the Gaming / Media Center business around (the underlying technologies will be mostly open source by then, though). This is a good thing for everyone, Microsoft included.
You do realize that U.S. taxes have a maximum rate, even for corporations, right? You also realize that nobody is talking about $100bn in PROFITS, they're talking about $100bn in revenue, which is only double what MS is doing right now, and significantly less than what the biggest companies in the world are doing. Of course, MS isn't going to make $100bn a year in revenue from China anyway. If they're lucky, China MIGHT account for $5-10bn annually in another decade or two.
In the "corporate world", your employer pays for Office. If the school thinks students need to use Office, then the school needs to pay for it.
Do you have any idea what you're talking about? The "desktop experience" that you're referring to falls into the hands of organizations that actually make desktop environments, such as KDE or GNOME. Linux is the Kernel. It is one component of a large eco system that, taken together, make up an "operating system". Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is an operating system. Ubuntu is an operating system. "Linux" is not, and never will be, an "operating system", and it certainly won't be a "desktop experience". If a commercial company wants to make a desktop environment for Linux, more power to them! Apple has already proven that building a desktop environment on top of a high quality open source kernel is an excellent strategy. Lastly, having actually worked at many major software vendors, the idea that "project managers" are what makes quality software is downright absurd. Project managers make sure that people are kept on task. You could argue that the OS community is in need of more designers and usability "experts", but in practice these people tend to be less clueful than engineers. Please try installing Ubuntu, then install Windows, and tell me which is a "better" experience. What prevents a popular OS desktop environment from emerging is simple: support. You need hardware support to make these things really survive. We're starting to see this happening with the Dell / Ubuntu partnership, but it's going to take a hell of a lot of work (and application support) before there's any real hope of competing with OSX, much less Windows.
Try going to work and asking your boss to send you the prototype by sending it to "your myspace". The only people who use social networks as their primary means of internet communication are ignorant people (most teens fall into this category) and dumb asses.
Statistically speaking, there are very few places in the world that pay more. The bay area has one of the highest median household incomes in the entire world. The job market here is great, if you've got talent. The only people who are having a hard time finding decent work are the inept.
Comcast provides good connections for the most part (much better than my experience with Cox, and infinitely better than every DSL provider I've ever had to deal with). Their "installation" process is stupid. You can actually just go to their proxy servers and register your modem through any browser. For some reason though, lately they've stopped giving out the IP address. The service runs fine once you get it installed. Why the hell actually uses their ISP's portal as their home page, anyway?
Is it going to make them have less revenue or something? I sincerely doubt that Google ever gave a shit whether or not they were doing well in a metric as meaningless as page views.
How do you propose getting an education so that you can get a decent job? Steal the money? How do you propose that one buy a home? Save up $500,000 over the course of 50 years (while paying rent!), then buy it shortly before they die?