It is here today. GnuStep is a great environment based on OpenStep standard. Too bad that Linux communities got sucked into Genome/KDE to pay enough attention to it. Maybe the popularity of Mac OS X can help GnuStep to gain some attention.
Please list this under Business instead of Right. Chinese government only control 1% of the game distribution. The other 99% is illegal pirate which government has no control over. If you look at the titles banned in the list:
EA: FIFA 2005, Sim 2, Battlefield Vietnam,
Microsoft: Age of Mythology
I am sure must of the reminding games are from major publishers. China use the ban as a leverage with the foreigner companies. It happened before that cnn.com, abc.com and other US medias are banned in China. Ban on CNN.com is left after they agree to carry CCTV contents in the US.
It's business, stupid!
1984 just comes 20 years late! Wait! Apple is using PowerPC?!? We are DOOMED!
Seriously, IBM has disguised itself nicely in the past couple years as friends of open source: adapting Linux, push Sun to open Java, and Eclipse. IBM has changed its image from the Evil Big Brother to the Benevolent Giant. However, deep down inside, IBM is still the evil big brother in disguise.
I am interested to see the reaction from Open Source Communities, a lot of which are against software patent all together. I suspect most would likely to hail this decision rather then speak against it since IBM is such a friend of open source. However, in long term, the projects using IBM's patents are going to effectively become IBM's weapon against its commercial competitors as IBM would be the only one qualified to including these projects in its commercial offering.
Software patent is bad, bad, bad!!!
Where can I find those Chinese programmers you mentioned here? I have been in China for more then 2 years and I haven't really seen these types of programmers who are passionately about programming. They may be "passionately" about using Internet since that's the best place to pick up chicks in China!:)
This is the engineering centric management style of Sony that gave rise of Sony in the 20th century and will be the cause of its downfall in the 21st century. As you said, Sony has been creating a lot of failures and out of the failures, two big successes: Walkman and PS. Sony allows its diverse groups of engineering to compete among themselves to come up with the best products and it creates the engineering powerness of Sony which leaded to its brand in the past.
In the 80s/90s, consumer electronics were more about whether it COULD BE DONE and we paid primium for companies who could DO IT. However, we are in the 21st century, a century is likely to be remembered as Wal-Mart century. We shopped for VALUE: products that give us the best VALUE: good functionalities at reasonable price.
Sony has become too big to pay such a risk game. PS was created in related low budget but look at the stake Sony is throwing at PS3. We are looking at Billions of dollars investments. It's really too big an investment to be put in the hand of engineers who just want to create neat things!
Seriously, iPod already took the title of 21 century walkman. Sony is too late to the party. Sony is a company really going downhill. It's so late to the flat panel TV market, it had to ask Samsung to OEM flat panel TV with Sony's logo on.
What Sony has proven in the 80s/90s is a Asian company with good engineering can do well in the global market and this is a strategy closely followed by Samsung and soon a couple Chinese brands. Samsung is now branded itself as "Sony quality at reasonable price."
If Sony doesn't pull itself out of its engineering centric management style and adapt a brand management style, it will screw itself over and Sony is likely to become RCA of the 21st century.
That's as likely as a world where Microsoft drops Windows and adapt Linux. Actually, Microsoft may be more likely to adapt Linux then Sony to adapt industrial standards.
Apple's WWDC took place at almost the same time as JavaOne. Observing the news coverage after the two shows, it's interesting to see that Steve Jobs has so successfully pulling the fight back to the OS level, despite the 3% market share of Apple. Now 'Tiger' is being mentioned everywhere Longhorn is mentioned. Apple is once again THE company against Microsoft, a position was taken by Sun with Java and RedHat with Linux for a while after the fall of Apple in the early 90s.
Sun is losing the spotlight and left to play with version number. One thing for sure, version number isn't important. Apple 10.3->10.4 jump would get more coverage them the 1.4 ~ 5.0 jump of Java.
We are here again speaking of multiplayers like we were speaking of Internet 8 years ago. "Internet is COMING; big guys pay attention! ADAPT NOW OR DIE!" The fact is 8 years later, Internet is truly becoming mainstream and guess what, big guys are still standing and strong over the dead bodies of counteless early adaptors of Internet, a.k.a the dot.com era stars.
What's the problem with Internet dot.com? Putting everything on Internet without much real innovation that benefit the end customers.
Today, online play may be the hot topics but it's certainly a small market comparing to the overall size of game business. If you look at this from the point of view of the boss of Nintendo, it's definitely not important yet.
Changhong is one of the largest TV maker and it's goverment own. To be precise, owned by Sichun government. Sichun government has been very actively attracting foreigner investor to the province and the province has a population over 100 millions. Intel has spent $400 millions building a packaging factory there and has recently announce to launch WiMax network in Chengdu (second largest city in Sichun).
What are we looking at is a possible backdoor for Microsoft to introducing XBox2 into China walking the gray area of the Chinese regulation. Changhong's future relying on flat TV, HDTV sales and nothing is better then an attractive graphics of a game console to attract customers. Remember, most people in China have not seen a game console in their life. The graphics from XBox2 on a HDTV will like to blow their mind away.
Development of Sichun is one of the major plan of China's "Go West" policy. If Microsoft can help, the government is very likely to make a exception of its no game console policy for Microsoft.
With Microsoft's Xbox2 launch date setting in 2005, the timing is just perfect. Sony/Nintendo will not be able to react to this. Sony TV is a competitor to Changhong or any other TV makers in China so PS2 can't go the same direction. Nintendo may be able to do such thing but they are too stubborn to go with this route.
Most of online games distributed in China are via online download. Piracy of games is around 95% in China and most companies are not likely to even recover the cost of packaging/shipping/logistic/warehouse cost of packaged software. Plus, online games depends on subscription revenue instead of package sales. In fact, China's vast piracy network actually does a favor for the online game distribution by selling the online game's disc for about 80 cents for those who are too lazy to download the games.
Of course that Chinese can't do this without the help and lobbying of monopolistic American corporations like Intel or IBM. These 8,600 cafes are shutdown to make way for bigger, larger cafes spec by Intel and bank roll by IBM. See this story China's Internet Cafes Ignite Thriving Gaming Industry.
Seriously, what's wrong with people in L.A., the same city that ask the system vendor to remove the "master/slave" from the manual? The air of political correctness is so thick in L.A. these days makes the smog 20 years ago like fresh air!
I was not saying marketing isn't necessary. I am an engineer in marketing suit these days. I totally understand what you are saying.
However, my point of the story about Gosling is that as with all marketing guy's talk, we need to take it with a grand of salt. He's not speaking as an engineer. In this particular topic about open source of Java, he's definitely speaking as a marketing guy.
Plus, the speech I mentioned is in UCLA and is supposed to be a academic discussion. If an engineer can't even speak the truth in such a talk, what can you expect from him in a marketing talk or his blog?!?
I used to have high respect for Gosling until I attended one of his talk in UCLA in 97 or 98, right around the time Java 1.2 was about to be released with much hyped Hotspot at that time. During the Q&A session, someone asking about Hotspot and its speed boost. Gosling started by saying "the speed boost could potentially be hundreds of times and Sun acquired the technology from a research group in Stanford." The followed up question raised by another person asking him if the research group was SELF, a language research group in Stanford. Gosling stalled a while, and said basically yes, and the speed boost was 2 to 3 times at best.
I checked out the SELF group in Stanford and the hundreds times speed up is a on special case which should never occured in real program. Basically, SELF reorganized the codes in branching and eliminated unnecessary condition. The test program has hundreds of if statement which would either always be true or false. SELF optimization applied to this particular case would gives hundreds fold speed up but it's meaningless.
Ever since then, I take whatever Gosling has to say with a ton of salt. He's pretty a marketing guy in techie mask.
Actually, with the popularity of online game like EverQuest and the tiresome level treadmill, some companies have made good business out of outsourcing level training of EverQuest characters to place like China. You can pay $10/month to have your character training in games for 24 hours a day by the EQ sweatshop in China!
You can't be serious! JavaSpaces is NOT a general distributed system middlewware. The concept of Space is developed for LINDA in 1982! and it's intended to be a synchronization machinism for distributed system. JINI is a service discovery framework. It doesn't specify the object in the system.
Why do people keep thinking about Java and related technologies as innovation? Do you think the entire IT industries and reasearches only started after Java was invented in 1994?
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Everyday low price with Chinese labors? ;)
It is here today. GnuStep is a great environment based on OpenStep standard. Too bad that Linux communities got sucked into Genome/KDE to pay enough attention to it. Maybe the popularity of Mac OS X can help GnuStep to gain some attention.
Please list this under Business instead of Right. Chinese government only control 1% of the game distribution. The other 99% is illegal pirate which government has no control over. If you look at the titles banned in the list:
I am sure must of the reminding games are from major publishers. China use the ban as a leverage with the foreigner companies. It happened before that cnn.com, abc.com and other US medias are banned in China. Ban on CNN.com is left after they agree to carry CCTV contents in the US. It's business, stupid!
1984 just comes 20 years late! Wait! Apple is using PowerPC?!? We are DOOMED! Seriously, IBM has disguised itself nicely in the past couple years as friends of open source: adapting Linux, push Sun to open Java, and Eclipse. IBM has changed its image from the Evil Big Brother to the Benevolent Giant. However, deep down inside, IBM is still the evil big brother in disguise. I am interested to see the reaction from Open Source Communities, a lot of which are against software patent all together. I suspect most would likely to hail this decision rather then speak against it since IBM is such a friend of open source. However, in long term, the projects using IBM's patents are going to effectively become IBM's weapon against its commercial competitors as IBM would be the only one qualified to including these projects in its commercial offering. Software patent is bad, bad, bad!!!
Not any more! Now IBM PC is Chinese owned!!!
Agree. I do miss all the Lighthouse apps!!! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/22/suns_macos _x_suite/
Well, how about DOOM?! It's well known that John Carmack developed the first version of DOOM on NeXTSTEP.
Where can I find those Chinese programmers you mentioned here? I have been in China for more then 2 years and I haven't really seen these types of programmers who are passionately about programming. They may be "passionately" about using Internet since that's the best place to pick up chicks in China! :)
DEM is the work of Bernhard Fastenrath, the poster.
This is the engineering centric management style of Sony that gave rise of Sony in the 20th century and will be the cause of its downfall in the 21st century. As you said, Sony has been creating a lot of failures and out of the failures, two big successes: Walkman and PS. Sony allows its diverse groups of engineering to compete among themselves to come up with the best products and it creates the engineering powerness of Sony which leaded to its brand in the past.
In the 80s/90s, consumer electronics were more about whether it COULD BE DONE and we paid primium for companies who could DO IT. However, we are in the 21st century, a century is likely to be remembered as Wal-Mart century. We shopped for VALUE: products that give us the best VALUE: good functionalities at reasonable price.
Sony has become too big to pay such a risk game. PS was created in related low budget but look at the stake Sony is throwing at PS3. We are looking at Billions of dollars investments. It's really too big an investment to be put in the hand of engineers who just want to create neat things!
Seriously, iPod already took the title of 21 century walkman. Sony is too late to the party. Sony is a company really going downhill. It's so late to the flat panel TV market, it had to ask Samsung to OEM flat panel TV with Sony's logo on.
What Sony has proven in the 80s/90s is a Asian company with good engineering can do well in the global market and this is a strategy closely followed by Samsung and soon a couple Chinese brands. Samsung is now branded itself as "Sony quality at reasonable price."
If Sony doesn't pull itself out of its engineering centric management style and adapt a brand management style, it will screw itself over and Sony is likely to become RCA of the 21st century.
That's as likely as a world where Microsoft drops Windows and adapt Linux. Actually, Microsoft may be more likely to adapt Linux then Sony to adapt industrial standards.
Apple's WWDC took place at almost the same time as JavaOne. Observing the news coverage after the two shows, it's interesting to see that Steve Jobs has so successfully pulling the fight back to the OS level, despite the 3% market share of Apple. Now 'Tiger' is being mentioned everywhere Longhorn is mentioned. Apple is once again THE company against Microsoft, a position was taken by Sun with Java and RedHat with Linux for a while after the fall of Apple in the early 90s.
Sun is losing the spotlight and left to play with version number. One thing for sure, version number isn't important. Apple 10.3->10.4 jump would get more coverage them the 1.4 ~ 5.0 jump of Java.
We are here again speaking of multiplayers like we were speaking of Internet 8 years ago. "Internet is COMING; big guys pay attention! ADAPT NOW OR DIE!" The fact is 8 years later, Internet is truly becoming mainstream and guess what, big guys are still standing and strong over the dead bodies of counteless early adaptors of Internet, a.k.a the dot.com era stars.
What's the problem with Internet dot.com? Putting everything on Internet without much real innovation that benefit the end customers.
Today, online play may be the hot topics but it's certainly a small market comparing to the overall size of game business. If you look at this from the point of view of the boss of Nintendo, it's definitely not important yet.
Changhong is one of the largest TV maker and it's goverment own. To be precise, owned by Sichun government. Sichun government has been very actively attracting foreigner investor to the province and the province has a population over 100 millions. Intel has spent $400 millions building a packaging factory there and has recently announce to launch WiMax network in Chengdu (second largest city in Sichun).
What are we looking at is a possible backdoor for Microsoft to introducing XBox2 into China walking the gray area of the Chinese regulation. Changhong's future relying on flat TV, HDTV sales and nothing is better then an attractive graphics of a game console to attract customers. Remember, most people in China have not seen a game console in their life. The graphics from XBox2 on a HDTV will like to blow their mind away.
Development of Sichun is one of the major plan of China's "Go West" policy. If Microsoft can help, the government is very likely to make a exception of its no game console policy for Microsoft.
With Microsoft's Xbox2 launch date setting in 2005, the timing is just perfect. Sony/Nintendo will not be able to react to this. Sony TV is a competitor to Changhong or any other TV makers in China so PS2 can't go the same direction. Nintendo may be able to do such thing but they are too stubborn to go with this route.
Most of online games distributed in China are via online download. Piracy of games is around 95% in China and most companies are not likely to even recover the cost of packaging/shipping/logistic/warehouse cost of packaged software. Plus, online games depends on subscription revenue instead of package sales. In fact, China's vast piracy network actually does a favor for the online game distribution by selling the online game's disc for about 80 cents for those who are too lazy to download the games.
Of course that Chinese can't do this without the help and lobbying of monopolistic American corporations like Intel or IBM. These 8,600 cafes are shutdown to make way for bigger, larger cafes spec by Intel and bank roll by IBM. See this story China's Internet Cafes Ignite Thriving Gaming Industry.
Seriously, what's wrong with people in L.A., the same city that ask the system vendor to remove the "master/slave" from the manual? The air of political correctness is so thick in L.A. these days makes the smog 20 years ago like fresh air!
I was not saying marketing isn't necessary. I am an engineer in marketing suit these days. I totally understand what you are saying.
However, my point of the story about Gosling is that as with all marketing guy's talk, we need to take it with a grand of salt. He's not speaking as an engineer. In this particular topic about open source of Java, he's definitely speaking as a marketing guy.
Plus, the speech I mentioned is in UCLA and is supposed to be a academic discussion. If an engineer can't even speak the truth in such a talk, what can you expect from him in a marketing talk or his blog?!?
I used to have high respect for Gosling until I attended one of his talk in UCLA in 97 or 98, right around the time Java 1.2 was about to be released with much hyped Hotspot at that time. During the Q&A session, someone asking about Hotspot and its speed boost. Gosling started by saying "the speed boost could potentially be hundreds of times and Sun acquired the technology from a research group in Stanford." The followed up question raised by another person asking him if the research group was SELF, a language research group in Stanford. Gosling stalled a while, and said basically yes, and the speed boost was 2 to 3 times at best.
I checked out the SELF group in Stanford and the hundreds times speed up is a on special case which should never occured in real program. Basically, SELF reorganized the codes in branching and eliminated unnecessary condition. The test program has hundreds of if statement which would either always be true or false. SELF optimization applied to this particular case would gives hundreds fold speed up but it's meaningless.
Ever since then, I take whatever Gosling has to say with a ton of salt. He's pretty a marketing guy in techie mask.
It is not an OSS meeting. It's a deplomatic and business meeting among the three countries.
Hmm... Now, Microsoft really gets Open Source? The comments above apply to about 90% of projects hosted on Sourceforge!
Actually, with the popularity of online game like EverQuest and the tiresome level treadmill, some companies have made good business out of outsourcing level training of EverQuest characters to place like China. You can pay $10/month to have your character training in games for 24 hours a day by the EQ sweatshop in China!
You can't be serious! JavaSpaces is NOT a general distributed system middlewware. The concept of Space is developed for LINDA in 1982! and it's intended to be a synchronization machinism for distributed system. JINI is a service discovery framework. It doesn't specify the object in the system.
Why do people keep thinking about Java and related technologies as innovation? Do you think the entire IT industries and reasearches only started after Java was invented in 1994?