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In Favor of Homegrown IT Solutions 265

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the insufficient-buzzword-compliance dept.
snydeq writes "Today's IT organizations turn too readily to vendors, eschewing homegrown solutions to their detriment, writes Deep End's Paul Venezia. 'Back when IT was "simple," several good programmers and support staff could run the whole show. Nowadays, [companies] buy hefty support contracts and shift the burden of maintaining and troubleshooting large parts of their IT infrastructure on to the vendors who may know their own product well, but have a hard time dealing with issues that may crop up during integration with other vendors' gear. ... Relying solely on support contracts and generic solutions is a good way to self-limit the agility and performance of any business. In short, more gurus equals less hand-wringing and stress all around.'"
HP

HP's Strange Obsession With WebOS For Printers 226

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the watch-movies-on-your-laserjet dept.
ryzvonusef writes "VentureBeat's (typically unnamed) sources identifies Intel and Qualcomm as being involved in talks for acquiring the Palm asset portfolio. However, citing sources intimate with HP's negotiations, it reports that the company wants to be able to license webOS back for use in printers; it wants it so much, in fact, that the issue has become 'a crucial part' of discussions. Maybe there's something about webOS and printers that HP knows and the rest of the world doesn't."

Comment On linux wifi support (Score 1) 708

by Barret7SC (#37827142) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: GNU/Linux Laptops?

As someone who writes automated tests for wireless routers that stress the hell out of the linux wifi stack, I would highly reccomend going with an Intel based wifi card.

The Centrino 6300N is a beautiful 3x3 card with 5ghz support and has been rock solid especially compared to broadcom or ralink chipsets.

I would love to see this chipset in a desktop package but sadly, there isn't a real good solution.
Programming

Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Learn New Programming Languages? 772

Posted by Soulskill from the sorry-i-will-get-off-your-lawn dept.
ProgramadorPerdido writes "I have been a developer for 25 years. I learned Basic, VB, C, FoxPro, Cobol, and Assembler, but the languages I used the most were Pascal and Delphi. I then concentrated on a now-non-mainstream language for 11 years, as it was used at work. One day I had the chance to move into Project Management and so I did for the last 2 years. Now, at almost 40 years old, I'm at a crossroad. On one side I realized developing is the thing I like best, while on the other side, the languages I'm most proficient with are not that hot on the market. So I came here looking for any advice on how to advance my career. Should I try to learn web development (html, xhtml, css, php, python, ruby)? Should I learn Java and/or C#? Or am I too old to learn and work a new language? Should I go back to PM work even if I do not like it that much? Any similar experiences?"

Comment Re:Platforms that run only .NET bytecode (Score 1) 224

by Barret7SC (#35183558) Attached to: Why the Arduino Won and Why It's Here To Stay

But...why would you do such a thing? Nevermind the fact that Java is broken in so many ways.

I don't *hate* java, I use it every day in my work, but why can't they just say "We're breaking the JVM for this release so we can implement proper generics without the type erasure hack"

I suppose it wouldn't be so bad if the compiler handled them properly, but ArrayList != ArrayList, I don't care what happens during compilation.
Programming

New Contestants On the Turing Test 630

Posted by CmdrTaco from the game-on dept.
vitamine73 writes "At 9 a.m. next Sunday, six computer programs — 'artificial conversational entities' — will answer questions posed by human volunteers at the University of Reading in a bid to become the first recognized 'thinking' machine. If any program succeeds, it is likely to be hailed as the most significant breakthrough in artificial intelligence since the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. It could also raise profound questions about whether a computer has the potential to be 'conscious' — and if humans should have the 'right' to switch it off."

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