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Father of Java, James Gosling Unloads
javab0y writes "The folks over at basementcoders did a podcast with James Gosling, The Father of Java, last week at a coffee shop in San Francisco during the JavaOne conference. In a raw and no-holds-barred interview, James let loose on Oracle, the Google Lawsuit, and his experience with IBM. You know its going to be good when he starts out saying, 'I eventually graduated in '83. Went to work for IBM which is, you know, is within the top 10 of my stupidest career decisions I've made.' The podcast was fully transcribed."
Yeah, Sun bought Dakota Scientific Software back in the 90's to get their high speed math libraries. They take number crunching pretty seriously there.
I'll answer my own question: http://media.techtarget.com/TheServerSideCOM/downloads/James_Gosling_Interview.mp3
I was having a very animated conversation with him about testing at an OOPSLA a few years ago. I'd never seen a picture of him, and just thought he was another generic attendee. I heard someone walking by say something like "OMG it's James Gosling", and I got completely flustered. Stupid, but it happened. It shouldn't; he was very friendly and approachable. I have a lot of respect for him letting people know why he thinks he was dicked around by Oracle.
He's full of shit. Microsoft paid Sun because MS had their own Java implementation, not (from anywhere I can find) because Microsoft's CLR infringed any Java technology patents.
In 2004 Microsoft and Sun settled an anti-trust and patent suit: Microsoft will pay Sun $700 million to resolve antitrust issues and $900 million to resolve patent issues, the companies said. The companies will pay royalties to use each other's technology; Microsoft is paying $350 million now...
http://news.cnet.com/Sun-settles-with-Microsoft,-announces-layoffs/2100-1014_3-5183848.html
It's actually called 'crema': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crema_%28coffee%29#crema
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/apr04/04-02sunagreementpr.mspx
I mean, yeah, what the fuck would James Gosling know, compared to you, eh?
You got your wires crossed. He's talking about MS licensing Java technology that they copied for .NET.
Nothing to do with MS's java implementation.
"Microsoft .NET just smears over a huge pile of Sun patents. When they did the .NET design, they basically cut and pasted from the Java spec. "
Yeah, it's like the time my GF asked if her dress made her look fat. I gave an honest answer, "No dear, it doesn't". I saw no point in saying that the dress had nothing to do with it.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
it's a process. First your mics may be out of phase depending on how close they were when you recorded. align the wave forms then try reversing the phase (polarity) of one wave form to hear if it reinforces Mr.G's voice. Focus on the one that picks up a "hotter" signal and is clearer, then use equalisation to reduce the back ground noise and improve Mr.G (think 'I'm taking noise away'). repeat on the second channel. pan one left and the other right but not all the way (aim for about .7 l&r) so it translates ok to mono. improve the gain on the weaker channel. use a gate to further reduce the back ground noise. compress the signal tastefully (AtART). a little more equalisation and you should be done.
There is no tricks when it comes to mixing sound, but thats the process I would use to do it (ahh - forgot to mention I've recorded and Produced a few cd's now). And there is something better than Garage Band, Audacity and the rest of the offerings called Ardour. It just keeps getting better and it's Open Source. Use that for your good work.
Hope this helps
My ism, it's full of beliefs.