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Android developers saw a 6% salary increase, but it was only a 1% hike for iOS developers, survey finds. "Get the money, dollar, dollar bill y'all"
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Sure there were a lot of broad statements and platitudes. But reading between the lines of the memo divulges a great deal about where he plans to take the company he has led since February. The future is Cloudy
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Companies like Microsoft, Cisco and Salesforce are creating new open source projects mainly as a means of promoting their existing products and services. How dare for-profit companies leverage open source to make a profit! For SHAME!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How dare for-profit companies leverage open source to make a profit! For SHAME!
Indeed. The whole open source model is only viable if there's something that can be monetized, whether it's support, extra features, plugins, whatever.
Marc
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Do you go to a coffee shop and ask for free coffee or to a salon and ask for free haircut?
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Don't you? Sometimes it works, always worth a try.
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Actually, I get a free coffee once a day, so yes.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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You expected a free lunch?
Of course, they want to make money. And they need to make profit to run their comapnies.
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Well, on the other side of the coin, you do get to tell the company running the project what you want in the product and how it should work more directly than you can with a "comment card".
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No sh*t!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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In other shock news, a bear was seen wandering into the woods this morning ready to "do a poo"
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The new plans start at $5 and go up from there to remain competitive in the market and keep downward pressure on Google and its suite of productivity applications. The new plans will be offered from October 1, 2014 and onwards and will work for companies who have 1-250 employees. Without a serious outage for over two weeks!
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What does it offer though that 2010 (or heck even 2007) doesn't?
2010 is elephanting perfect as far as Office Suites go, and I have a license, and if I need to share documents with other people we have network drives, and dropbox.
Completely sincere question, why would I want to start paying a monthly fee for 365? I see no benefit, for anybody with a 2010 license!
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When they finally break down and replace Visual Basic for Applications with .Net, I might consider buying a new copy of Office.
I'm never going to 'subscribe' to software because I have enough monthly bloodsuckers in my life already.
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I subscribed to Office 365 because it was an overall more cost effective greenfields choice for me.
I had no existing office license to use, so I needed to either buy a license ($200 or so) or go Office 365 ($15 or so). I also also wanted hosted mail, and I was originally going to go for Google Apps (because it was familiar) for $5 a month, but then needed a license for office.
So I decided to go for Office 365 because I got Outlook as my online mail clients (its pretty nice) and desktop installations of Office as well. So I'm ahead for the first 2-3 years, at which point I would have likely upgraded again anyway.
Also, I have found the animating UI elements in Office 2013 to be the big surprise feature for me. It sounds silly, but when you edit chart data in excel, or chart ranges, all the chart smoothly animates to the new state, giving some nice feedback on how things changed.
Oh, SkyDrive for Business is just the worst. Never ever use it. Ever. And the way it integrates with the desktop applications - ugh. With a poor or missing network connection you sit staring at a busy cursor for 15 seconds.
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When a patent is put up for sale, members of the LOT Network are still protected from whatever "troll to which the patent was sold." "For he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,"
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IBM will pour $3 billion into computing and chip materials research over the next five years, as it rethinks computer design and looks to a future that may not involve silicon chips. Dang, I thought they were going to announce the AS/400 was coming back
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IBM System/360, 370, and maybe now the 380!
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While OpenStreetMap offers great mapping data, its community-driven approach may not be enough to unseat Google Maps. "No stop signs, speed limit. Nobody's gonna slow me down"
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I'm considering using Open Street Map with OpenLayers[^] for a project...I want to be able to host the map data myself...Google and Microsoft have serious privacy concerns.
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It is surely true that OpenStreetMap is not well organized and does not offer an integrated product like Google. Actually, "everything" you may want could be found somewhere in OSM land, somewhere, and you may not be able to find out where... There are many web sites displaying "the map" - differently. Do you want to see English names in foreign countries or the local names (in e.g. Khmer which you cannot read)? If you want to use it on your smartphone, there are many options. If you want to use it on your Garmin device, again there are many different maps for download, or you can create your own. And if you succeeded with e.g. creating your own Garmin map, that likely won't help you when you want to create a web site with your own map style...
Difficult, disrupted, disintegrated, or how you might call it.
Despite of that, I use it frequently: I can create my own maps for car, bicycle, skiing etc. and can load them onto a mobile device for offline use - no expensive internet connection required when I need the data a few thousand miles from home in a tropical forest.
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The second technology preview of latest Microsoft IDE update adds features such as custom layouts and VC++
Another day, another Visual Studio CTP.
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There are certain constants in life, and one of them is a never-ending spate of predictions that Linux is dead on the desktop. It's inevitable that we see these kinds of article popping up every once in a while. CIO has one of the latest examples of this as it tries to make the case that Linux is dead on the desktop.
Linux is dead. Long live Linux.
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Just saw this was posted yesterday! My bad!
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