Yea, some colleagues of mine thought that installing a fresh OS on their laptop would "break" it. The software engineering workforce has its range of very good and very bad employees.
That _can_ happen if the newer OS doesn't have the correct drivers available. I'm a "wiper" but I have spent many an hour trying to get simple functionality working again on a fresh install.
I know that we (IT Folks) are all used to the concept of system images which can be used to deploy fresh builds/images to machines that are based on standards. Further we are used to the idea of VMs that run in clusters/clouds etc. and we are used to virtual desktop environments that run as a terminal interface to a VDI backend, finally we are also familiar checking out files for source control etc.
I believe that we are close to being able to 'check-out' a system image that would be downloaded as a VM to a machine (physical machine) where it runs locally as a fully installed OS - but then can be 'checked in' and released once done. A new physical machine comes along and we check out our image.
We can further abstract the user profile data and have it follow the user (there is a company that was recently bought that does this piece... I cant recall the name).
The idea is high-layer virtualization. Where we had virtualized machine, OS, APP and recently infrastructure such as storage - we have virtualized profiles as well. Soon we will have virtual installs.
There is a hybrid model I wrote about some years ago, posted recently to HN as well - which is similar to the Atrix concept. You have all your user profile data on the mobile device and you effectively check-in to a KVM for better screen and input.
I am not sure about the dock of the Atrix, if it has a CPU and GPU for bigger/faster/better -- but this is what I am referring to.
The data profile is tied to the person. Everything else floats - when the use-case calls for better CPU/GPU you check-out the physical device...
Not really. Apparently you ate not aware that paid apps are not available in Poland. Kind of hard to make a great product when you cab only make money off ads.
Seems like all my previous addons that were used to improve firefox UI have been incorporated into 4.0. Very glad that Vimperator works, the main reason I use firefox. I wouldn't have upgraded if it did not.
Ive been looking into the addons and both of them have the same update date, whats the difference? they look the same to me (I havent installed both of them since vimperator works well :P )
Even if a judge is appointed, there could still be public outrage over the perception of low conviction rates. This would cause another judge to be appointed. The same thing goes on with cabinet positions of all levels of government where the public demonstrates outrage.
Do people actually ask this. I can't understand if it should be, "What the the mutable keyboard 'do'". I'm not sure of any mutable keywords by the name of "do". Or did you mean "What does the 'mutable' keyword do". Again, I'm not familiar with any popular programming languages with the keyword mutable. If they are just asking for the definition of mutability, that seems a strange question for a technical interview.
From my experience most of these interviews at these big tech companies have these kind of questions. And they suffer from having inexperienced engineers conducting the interviews. I think this is a big, untalked about problem with regard to why tech companies have such a lack of talent.
The point is when people talking about breaking DRM, they aren't necessarily doing something illegal. There are a lot of legitimate reasons for breaking DRM that don't violate the law. It would be completely ridiculous for stack overflow to ban discussion on this topic altogether.
I'm skeptical about the statement that you quoted. I don't really have the facts to back up my assertion, but I believe we will always have large companies.
If the comment is meant to mean that if everyone had the entrepreneurial drive the whole house of cards would crumble down, I still think that is misguided. The distribution of the success of businesses is somewhat similar to the distribution of programming skill among developers. There are many that are in the low mid range. There are very few that are light years ahead of 90% of the other developers.
Pretty much all recent functional languages deal with oo programming by using multimethods and namespaces. This takes care of the problem you're talking about in a beyer way than most oo languages.
