When the get to the ATM output type of paper phone from the movie UltraViolet....I'm in....until then I just want one I can't leave in the wrong city, state or country.....
They are right about India, the look of the Moto over the Nokia is going to make it a big seller over there.
Free Speech.... It IS worth dying for....good or evil....with out Free Speech the human race CAN NOT evolve. We have only our thoughts and ideas to share it is the sharing of these that will take us forward. Censor any of them and a line towards the future is cut....that line could have been a good one, even if it started with hate.
Given the love/hate most have about NASA....Shuttle Problems, lack of clear direction, etc. I for one think they are doing a great job at getting information out. Podcasts, Mission data, NASA TV......and as a bonus we get real hardcore data about the giant fusion ball on which all of us depend for...well everything. I hope everybody with kids is letting them stay up and watch the lift, with only a 5% chance of a weather delay, she should go. This is some great stuff....dynamic, real-time model of our solar system here we come. (Well ok so maybe we will need a few more cpu cycles to get there but you gotta have goals).
I work for a company that rents lighting,sound,automation and...well a shit load of other entertainment related stuff. All the lighting guys use Mac's, the audio guys are 80/20 in Macs favor and automation guys are 100% Windows...I'm talking development and/or what ever tools the vendors might have supplied. My point: As a developer I want and need as many options as I can get my hands on. This is the first post that showed me some options on the Mac side.. Having one box that allows me to work in and on all of our Lighting/Audio/Automation gear through one Ethernet port is not just great it is FUCKING GREAT (and about damn time).
I would think the only kind of security leak you could have in a voting system would be who voted for whom. If knowledge of the voting machine hardware or software is a threat to the voting processes and it's publication is considered a security leak.....then who is whatching the watchers ?......Could we please set this up so a security leak on voting would mean: "Some physically stole the voting boxes". This is killing me. Is "Keep it Simple and Stupid" really that hard to understand ?
I have to build and design things around a whole crap load of "standards"...UL, IEEE, ASTM, DIN, ISO and so forth. In almost every case I have to pay for an electronic or paper copy of these documents.......and they are almost always HUGE and filled with cross-references.....Want to improve world wide productivity, better understanding and implentation of these "standards" ?...Wiki them. As a bonus this would give us all the ability to help point out conflicting and/or just plain unintelligible parts of these "standards".
Has all proper British subjects drink on a daily basis...this is really just you standard British ploy......within 6 months every easy going regular Bit will have been printed....and then you just go round up all the nut jobs that don't drink....brilliant !
As a Free American I have the Right to vote. I have used that Right, many times. In using my Right to vote I have an obligation to protect the Right's of all Americans. This obligation is not enforcable other than through my own free will. I choose to take this obligation seriously and given the chance I would publish ANY information about the process of voting that I came across, other than any information that would directly release who voted for whom...though the level of threat, in my opion as a Free person, to the voting process could mitigate this. I would and will, given the chance or by breaking any law I choose (I don't do physical damage to people, so some laws I would not break, but only though choice not because of the law itself) inspect, dismantle, suck the software out of...etc. any voting "machine" that I think cannot be shown, in a very simple fashion, exactly how it records votes. Has any system that uses current semi-conductor and/or software technologies CANNOT, by definition, be shown, in a very simple fashion, exactly how it records votes: It CANNOT be used the the voting process. As an American I DO have the Right to break any law I wish and the People's elected representatives have the Right to enforce any law I break...this does not mean I do NOT have the Right to break the law. This is simple...if the method by which the voting "machine" records the vote cannot be shown visually and explained verbally in less than two minutes....forget it. Puchcards might allow for mistakes....but you know exactly how it worked. Hanging "chads" should not be solved by using a CPU, it should be solved by re-designing the card and die so the chance of a missed punch is lowered to demostrable level. You can even measure the die and punch to an insane level...certify them with a hard stamp, show the public what the hard stamp looks like, vote and then throw the die and punch into a furnace.....building a new lot with a new stamp for your next voting cycle. Keep it Simple and Stupid. Write your Senator, etc. and for now get a paper, mail in ballot (still does not met the need but have to start with something). If you come across the source code or any other infomation about any voting "machine"; do the right thing, step up, be Free and set it Free.
What exactly does MS SQL Server and Oracle's RDBMS have to do with J2EE 5 and Oracle's Application server? You may or may not be right about SQL Server eventually supplanting Oracle as the big name RDBMS, but regardless, that's not what's being discussed here. The application server is completely separate from the DB server.
You are absoultly right. Please pardon my mixing... I just see the RDBMS and J2EE5 as having a conection in the eyes of the "CTO" types, and that if Oracle doesn't come along they are at (even more) risk of Microsoft moving in on both fronts....I may have skewed the topic a bit here....again pardon my skew.
Hardly; JBoss and BEA (producers of WebLogic) have already released compliant servers. Given that I've only heard bad things about WebSphere (or indeed much of IBM's technology stack), I'm really not too concerned.
My point here is that I don't see JBoss and BEA being able to keep Sun on track...by this I am again mostly speaking of the need for the JBoss, BEA, Oracle, Sun and IBM keeping on some common track. MS will divide and kill...maybe I'm just looking ahead too far.
What tends to happen in my experience is that they get it more or less good enough for their own use, then move on to the next thing that captures their imagination. That's all well and good, but someone needs to put in the remaining, tedious 80% of the effort to do all the boring tidying up, polishing, documentation, possibly accreditation, etc.
You have an excellent definition of "geek" here...I was using the term as it applies to Sun as a company..They geek out and without the other players keeping them on track; I just don't see who has the geek power and geek control to replace them......I'm probably just looking too far down the wrong line here again.
Your comments have been well taken...I'm hip...Thanks.
If it fits in a backpack that I can take on a a plane and is not crazy expensive, I'll take it...I looked at the XPS when my last laptop past it's 3 year life span. I am lucky in that my company allows me to replace my laptop every three years and my workstaion every five years....without question. I am also not a typical laptop user....I don't use them on planes, trains, buses or at my desk, but I have always had to have one. I picked a Dell M90 laptop.....up till then: I HATED LAPTOPS. They are either small and slow with pixels the size of eraser heads...or they cost an arm and a leg, and the big ones you could only get from a no name, HP or Sony...and they needed wheels on them....the XPS needed wheels. On my production workstation (two big hi-res flats, ram to burn..etc),I work in AutoDesk Inventor, AutoCAD, Altium Designer 6 (PCB design), VS2005, Code Warrior, programming software for 6 to 10 types of PLCs and the regular bloat of SDKs, et.all, that come with all this stuff. Then I end up needing to travel around the planet with all this "stuff" for commisioning Control Systems, fixing problems, re-designs of mechanical, electrical and software systems....on a moments notice. We build all kinds of crazy machines and systems....and the prototype IS the final product...so no being able to go on site with all the tools ready for anything is just not an option. Packing up a workstation for what could be a one day or one year (you don't know how bad it is gonna be till you get there) is, well just crazy talk. So I always had to make do with the best laptop I could get and suffer thru the limited vision into what ever software I needed at the time. The M90 is great...big but not a table top...and if things get real crazy I can always tag a second monitor on it. Does it replace my workstation ? No. Is it a real tool ? Yes. (I'm sure while writing this the penis posts have started...so as not to be left out...my wife thinks the 17" is good on size and when used properly is just as yummy as the 20"er).
Microsoft gets to chip away until 2008, as IBM does it again, and again.......nothing, until the time is past. When was the last time these guys stepped up ? Then there is Oracle...gads..when Microsoft finally gets SQLServer up to speed (and they will...they have a 20 year history of turning crap into gold)...Oracle is going to be standing out in the weeds wondering what the hell happened, let us just hope they are just keeping cards close. I'm not much of a Java fan...love the design...but having to trust IBM and Oracle to keep up is a major problem, without them showing REAL plans: I am left with Sun driving the bus ?...Sun ? Sun is like most hard-core geeks, Gods of design and creative thinking, but no social skills, none, don't have 'em, never will. Without IBM and Oracle covering Sun on the front side......well we all know what can happen when you let geeks (and I am one) run free, then don't execute on what they make....the other guy's geeks get their stuff out first.
I mean really...STEP UP MORONS.
Be Bold and Mighty Forces shall come to your aid. Clue Bus.
Being a crontrols system desiger, I hope some of the goofs of industry look at stuff like this. I am constantly yelling at my vendors that I don't need a super screwed up version of RS232/485/422 etc to network sensors around a machine......binary and ASCII protocols WORK GREAT for stuff like this. KISS (Keep it Simple and Stupid). A few micros some twisted pairs and your basic switcher......bingo big network of fun.....if you need some more bandwidth, throw Ethernet at it. I've been saying this for over 10 years and still all the big players want to sell you a "Field Bus". I hope some of the MIT guys move in with the big guys...and slap some sense into them.....rant off.
I love when lawyers try to make money by blowing smoke up some suits (pick a hole). 1. Taxes are going to go back to reality when Shrub leaves office in 2008. 2. Corperate taxes are going to be one of the first targets....the days of taxing only personal income and not corp profits are numbered. 3. We have a branch of government that makes laws and sets budgets (taxes).....they are not bound by any silly patents floating around. 4. Some time in the next 400 years laws will be in place to prevent lawyers from trying this kinda crap.....and I would think instant qauntum removale from this universe would be the punishment (as allowing governments to murder it's own citizens will finally be a thing of the past).
Uh.....actually the majority of Windows users are not "goofs"....we use Windows as a platform to run software for real work. When we can run Autodesk Inventor, Vault and the 20 or so other programs that all expose a standards based API....like VBA and soon all.Net/C# et all.....then we might look at using it. Face it guys Microsoft did not get here by building crap....they always get better....as Lotus found out when they looked at Excel 2.0 and said "What crap, they will never be better than us". They lost...because they sucked and could not keep up. Bash MS all you like...but they never give up.....not in the last 20 years. I have products, both hardware and software,to design for the real world and the software that gives me the power to do the work of 10 only runs on Windows....not some backwards Unix/Linux old crap with no vendor support. Apple got it right....go to Intel and make hardware that some will buy and run "work software" in Windows on the box, and let the family members that don't know jack about computers boot into OSX. Those of us that use our computers as a tool in everything we do will use Windows....those who surf and email can use what they wish. Flame on.
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When the get to the ATM output type of paper phone from the movie UltraViolet....I'm in....until then I just want one I can't leave in the wrong city, state or country.....
They are right about India, the look of the Moto over the Nokia is going to make it a big seller over there.
Free Speech .... It IS worth dying for....good or evil....with out Free Speech the human race CAN NOT evolve. We have only our thoughts and ideas to share it is the sharing of these that will take us forward. Censor any of them and a line towards the future is cut....that line could have been a good one, even if it started with hate.
Given the love/hate most have about NASA....Shuttle Problems, lack of clear direction, etc. I for one think they are doing a great job at getting information out. Podcasts, Mission data, NASA TV......and as a bonus we get real hardcore data about the giant fusion ball on which all of us depend for...well everything. I hope everybody with kids is letting them stay up and watch the lift, with only a 5% chance of a weather delay, she should go. This is some great stuff....dynamic, real-time model of our solar system here we come. (Well ok so maybe we will need a few more cpu cycles to get there but you gotta have goals).
What want to know is...Why is Canada able to tax media ?...I mean I think they should be treated like any other state in the USA.
I work for a company that rents lighting,sound,automation and ...well a shit load of other entertainment related stuff. All the lighting guys use Mac's, the audio guys are 80/20 in Macs favor and automation guys are 100% Windows...I'm talking development and/or what ever tools the vendors might have supplied. My point: As a developer I want and need as many options as I can get my hands on. This is the first post that showed me some options on the Mac side .. Having one box that allows me to work in and on all of our Lighting/Audio/Automation gear through one Ethernet port is not just great it is FUCKING GREAT (and about damn time).
I would think the only kind of security leak you could have in a voting system would be who voted for whom. If knowledge of the voting machine hardware or software is a threat to the voting processes and it's publication is considered a security leak.....then who is whatching the watchers ?......Could we please set this up so a security leak on voting would mean: "Some physically stole the voting boxes". This is killing me. Is "Keep it Simple and Stupid" really that hard to understand ?
I have to build and design things around a whole crap load of "standards"...UL, IEEE, ASTM, DIN, ISO and so forth. In almost every case I have to pay for an electronic or paper copy of these documents.......and they are almost always HUGE and filled with cross-references.....Want to improve world wide productivity, better understanding and implentation of these "standards" ?...Wiki them. As a bonus this would give us all the ability to help point out conflicting and/or just plain unintelligible parts of these "standards".
Has all proper British subjects drink on a daily basis...this is really just you standard British ploy......within 6 months every easy going regular Bit will have been printed....and then you just go round up all the nut jobs that don't drink....brilliant !
As a Free American I have the Right to vote. I have used that Right, many times. In using my Right to vote I have an obligation to protect the Right's of all Americans. This obligation is not enforcable other than through my own free will. I choose to take this obligation seriously and given the chance I would publish ANY information about the process of voting that I came across, other than any information that would directly release who voted for whom...though the level of threat, in my opion as a Free person, to the voting process could mitigate this. I would and will, given the chance or by breaking any law I choose (I don't do physical damage to people, so some laws I would not break, but only though choice not because of the law itself) inspect, dismantle, suck the software out of...etc. any voting "machine" that I think cannot be shown, in a very simple fashion, exactly how it records votes. Has any system that uses current semi-conductor and/or software technologies CANNOT, by definition, be shown, in a very simple fashion, exactly how it records votes: It CANNOT be used the the voting process. As an American I DO have the Right to break any law I wish and the People's elected representatives have the Right to enforce any law I break...this does not mean I do NOT have the Right to break the law.
This is simple...if the method by which the voting "machine" records the vote cannot be shown visually and explained verbally in less than two minutes....forget it. Puchcards might allow for mistakes....but you know exactly how it worked. Hanging "chads" should not be solved by using a CPU, it should be solved by re-designing the card and die so the chance of a missed punch is lowered to demostrable level. You can even measure the die and punch to an insane level...certify them with a hard stamp, show the public what the hard stamp looks like, vote and then throw the die and punch into a furnace.....building a new lot with a new stamp for your next voting cycle. Keep it Simple and Stupid. Write your Senator, etc. and for now get a paper, mail in ballot (still does not met the need but have to start with something).
If you come across the source code or any other infomation about any voting "machine"; do the right thing, step up, be Free and set it Free.
What exactly does MS SQL Server and Oracle's RDBMS have to do with J2EE 5 and Oracle's Application server? You may or may not be right about SQL Server eventually supplanting Oracle as the big name RDBMS, but regardless, that's not what's being discussed here. The application server is completely separate from the DB server.
... I just see the RDBMS and J2EE5 as having a conection in the eyes of the "CTO" types, and that if Oracle doesn't come along they are at (even more) risk of Microsoft moving in on both fronts....I may have skewed the topic a bit here....again pardon my skew.
You are absoultly right. Please pardon my mixing
Hardly; JBoss and BEA (producers of WebLogic) have already released compliant servers. Given that I've only heard bad things about WebSphere (or indeed much of IBM's technology stack), I'm really not too concerned.
My point here is that I don't see JBoss and BEA being able to keep Sun on track...by this I am again mostly speaking of the need for the JBoss, BEA, Oracle, Sun and IBM keeping on some common track. MS will divide and kill...maybe I'm just looking ahead too far.
What tends to happen in my experience is that they get it more or less good enough for their own use, then move on to the next thing that captures their imagination. That's all well and good, but someone needs to put in the remaining, tedious 80% of the effort to do all the boring tidying up, polishing, documentation, possibly accreditation, etc.
You have an excellent definition of "geek" here...I was using the term as it applies to Sun as a company..They geek out and without the other players keeping them on track; I just don't see who has the geek power and geek control to replace them......I'm probably just looking too far down the wrong line here again.
Your comments have been well taken...I'm hip...Thanks.
If it fits in a backpack that I can take on a a plane and is not crazy expensive, I'll take it...I looked at the XPS when my last laptop past it's 3 year life span. I am lucky in that my company allows me to replace my laptop every three years and my workstaion every five years....without question. I am also not a typical laptop user....I don't use them on planes, trains, buses or at my desk, but I have always had to have one. I picked a Dell M90 laptop.....up till then: I HATED LAPTOPS. They are either small and slow with pixels the size of eraser heads...or they cost an arm and a leg, and the big ones you could only get from a no name, HP or Sony...and they needed wheels on them....the XPS needed wheels. On my production workstation (two big hi-res flats, ram to burn..etc),I work in AutoDesk Inventor, AutoCAD, Altium Designer 6 (PCB design), VS2005, Code Warrior, programming software for 6 to 10 types of PLCs and the regular bloat of SDKs, et.all, that come with all this stuff. Then I end up needing to travel around the planet with all this "stuff" for commisioning Control Systems, fixing problems, re-designs of mechanical, electrical and software systems....on a moments notice. We build all kinds of crazy machines and systems....and the prototype IS the final product...so no being able to go on site with all the tools ready for anything is just not an option. Packing up a workstation for what could be a one day or one year (you don't know how bad it is gonna be till you get there) is, well just crazy talk. So I always had to make do with the best laptop I could get and suffer thru the limited vision into what ever software I needed at the time. The M90 is great...big but not a table top...and if things get real crazy I can always tag a second monitor on it. Does it replace my workstation ? No. Is it a real tool ? Yes. (I'm sure while writing this the penis posts have started...so as not to be left out...my wife thinks the 17" is good on size and when used properly is just as yummy as the 20"er).
Microsoft gets to chip away until 2008, as IBM does it again, and again.......nothing, until the time is past. When was the last time these guys stepped up ? Then there is Oracle...gads..when Microsoft finally gets SQLServer up to speed (and they will...they have a 20 year history of turning crap into gold)...Oracle is going to be standing out in the weeds wondering what the hell happened, let us just hope they are just keeping cards close. I'm not much of a Java fan...love the design...but having to trust IBM and Oracle to keep up is a major problem, without them showing REAL plans: I am left with Sun driving the bus ?...Sun ? Sun is like most hard-core geeks, Gods of design and creative thinking, but no social skills, none, don't have 'em, never will. Without IBM and Oracle covering Sun on the front side......well we all know what can happen when you let geeks (and I am one) run free, then don't execute on what they make....the other guy's geeks get their stuff out first. I mean really...STEP UP MORONS. Be Bold and Mighty Forces shall come to your aid. Clue Bus.
Being a crontrols system desiger, I hope some of the goofs of industry look at stuff like this. I am constantly yelling at my vendors that I don't need a super screwed up version of RS232/485/422 etc to network sensors around a machine......binary and ASCII protocols WORK GREAT for stuff like this. KISS (Keep it Simple and Stupid). A few micros some twisted pairs and your basic switcher......bingo big network of fun.....if you need some more bandwidth, throw Ethernet at it. I've been saying this for over 10 years and still all the big players want to sell you a "Field Bus". I hope some of the MIT guys move in with the big guys...and slap some sense into them.....rant off.
I love when lawyers try to make money by blowing smoke up some suits (pick a hole). 1. Taxes are going to go back to reality when Shrub leaves office in 2008. 2. Corperate taxes are going to be one of the first targets ....the days of taxing only personal income and not corp profits are numbered. 3. We have a branch of government that makes laws and sets budgets (taxes).....they are not bound by any silly patents floating around. 4. Some time in the next 400 years laws will be in place to prevent lawyers from trying this kinda crap.....and I would think instant qauntum removale from this universe would be the punishment (as allowing governments to murder it's own citizens will finally be a thing of the past).
Uh.....actually the majority of Windows users are not "goofs"....we use Windows as a platform to run software for real work. When we can run Autodesk Inventor, Vault and the 20 or so other programs that all expose a standards based API ....like VBA and soon all .Net/C# et all.....then we might look at using it. Face it guys Microsoft did not get here by building crap....they always get better....as Lotus found out when they looked at Excel 2.0 and said "What crap, they will never be better than us". They lost...because they sucked and could not keep up. Bash MS all you like ...but they never give up.....not in the last 20 years. I have products, both hardware and software,to design for the real world and the software that gives me the power to do the work of 10 only runs on Windows....not some backwards Unix/Linux old crap with no vendor support. Apple got it right....go to Intel and make hardware that some will buy and run "work software" in Windows on the box, and let the family members that don't know jack about computers boot into OSX. Those of us that use our computers as a tool in everything we do will use Windows....those who surf and email can use what they wish. Flame on.