Son to dad: what does regret mean? Dad: well son, the funny thing about regret is that it is better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you have not done. And if you see your mom this weekend tell her..
I actually never understood why actors are sharing profits. How did this ever happen? It's not that the actors are investing a large sum of money.
Even actors in a commercial is getting a bonus every time a commercial is shown! It's not that they did not get paid initially.
I can even take it to the recent writers strike. When I write code for a software company, should I get a recurring income on every copy of the software sold?
So we see these unions are very powerful. Anybody up to start the Software Programmers Union and squeeze some profits for 'our people'?
This is only a sales pitch that tries to sell a software tool.
I would have tested my software before the competition deadline. A heapdump would have shown their issue. You don't have to buy tools for that. Maybe they should buy a book.
And yes, the same problem would have happened when they used java, or any other software language.
Seems it's official: MySpace is joining Google OpenSocial . This is a huge boost for OpenSocial API.
I'm looking forward to see all the great 3rd party applications from Facebook also on MySpace. Obviously there is a huge incentive for these application providers to embrace the OpenSocial API: Millions of MySpace users are joining in!
It might not be too complicated. It depends what the benefits are for the writer to connect it's journal entry to a standardized vocabulary.
The good news is that over the years vocabularies for particular domains have been developed. Probably the vocabulary definitions of Doug Lenat's Cycorp would be of most interest. He has hired many linguistics to define a common vocabulary for every day use. There is an open source version available at http://www.cyc.com/cyc/opencycOpenCyc.
I can imagine that a semantic web of 'open knowledge' can be created, similar how wikipedia has created a free encyclopedia. Secondly search engines will become much better in finding what you are looking for, if it is able to traverse a semantic web. Just the distance between words on a page might become less effective the more content becomes available.
An author that writes reviews about 'Anthrax' might find it off his interest to attach the word to the music vocabulary entry, if he was writing about the music band.
Related to proofing the correctness of software design, is the research field that focus on one particular area: Rule Verification. It is similar to the SAT solvers; however the focus is on the conditions in a rule and its inferred actions.
Verification examines the technical aspects of an expert system (a.k.a. rule based system) in order to determine whether the expert system is built correctly. Verifying the expert system involves examining consistency, completeness and correctness of the knowledge by detecting errors such as redundancy, contradiction and circularity.
Acumen Business has developed a tool to detect these rule-anomalies. At the moment it supports Microsoft Biztalk XML rule documents and Computer Associates, Aion rule documents. Rule policies can be imported by the tool and analyzed on contradictions, redundancies, circular reasoning etc.
The tool (Policy Verificator, free after registration) ships with 2 example rule policies (no need for Biztalk of Aion), and you can see the generated rule conflict networks. The networks can be generated as images or as Scalable Vector Graph (SVG). Firefox users can open these files directly
Have a look at some screenshots, documentation, etc.
I hope you don't get scared away from the registration request in order to download the product. The registration is just in place so I can assist these early adaptors of the tool better. I'm still working on good examples and updating the help files.
What is 100% functional is when the rules are using terms from Xml documents, Vocabulary Terms, or Database. For.NET components it's a bit more complicated, because the assembly must be loaded by the verification algorithm. But still all possible.
I hope anybody find it useful. I love to hear feedback
Regards,
Marco Ensing
Disclaimer: As you probably can tell, I am Acumen Business.
We are not comparing C++ with Java but we are comparing (.NET) C# with Java! Actually it's just your favourite language on the CLR against Java on the JVM.
On the favourite lanugage list is C#, C++ (for old time gurus), Visual Basic (?), Python, and even Java (limited edition)
Versus just Java.
Java Swing is beautifully overdesigned and makes it a pain for good IDE support. Compare that with the ease of Visual Studio.NET
7 years ago I always hoped that Sun would come out with some good Java GUI. Good as in: high performance, tightly integrated with the native OS. Seems that only an IBM effort with the SWT was an attempt to solve this.
It was all too late. Sun is searching to get Java into a niche market (Phones, embedded software, server side) before all is gone.
Interestingly today there on./ there was also a posting on MONO. And it is getting as much attention as the Java article.
The new new thing has won. The Java coffee is cold.
What is the percentage of the end-users (not just the geeks population) who have a JetDirect Network?
It's about handling the 80/20 case. Make it damn easy for the 80%, and the last 20% are o.k. to read a manual or webPage to figure things out. It's just that in the geek world the target population is not a regular user. "Those are to dumb(?) to use Linux, and we don't want to have them in the protected Linux geek world, let them suffer(?) with Windows." But wait it's just so much easier to use Windows. Initially I thought that Linux desktop would catch up with it. But everytime when I have to configure something simple on my linux boxes, I'm surprised that I can't find a simple GUI tool! I keep on checking with Red-Carpet what's out there.
Linux is so flexible and extensible that you can't see the trees through the forrest.
Is there any better way of Code Review by 'leaking' the source to the outside world. Seems MS likes this open-source model, but they need a back door to get to these benefits.
It would be a bit hard to admit: "uhh, yes we do embrace open-source, but our business model is to protect our intelectual property", "recently our business model has been adapted to incorporate also the intelectual property of 3rd parties, also known as hackers", "the only way to do this legally is to put the FBI out on those folks what ensures that the code review can be reworded as 'theft' and will face the highest criminal punishment", "you know it's all terrorism and that kind of stuff", "It's terrorism on the American Capitalistic Marketing Model", "And we're going to nuke those hackers", Probably without the approval of the United Nation
Note the accademic approach to address the signal strength:
After rebooting, the problem was resolved and signal strength and quality was restored. We then were able to FTP the MP3 file and have net meeting conversation.
Seems just a bigger hassle to me to have multiple Windows Xp running. Every system has to have the security patches applied. Getting my productivity to a near zero.
But on the other hand that might generate more jobs.
With the JDK 1.0 and 1.1, hardly anybody (and gladly they did not) used java language for software production development. It took quite a few years before that got accepted by management/corporations. Even with the Jdk 1.2 release, I had difficulties to convince management of using Java.
The.NET framework, has a much shorter acceptance time. Just showing some Windows GUI (with XP look-and-feel) and management is confinced for 95%. I know this is only a little part of the actual coding, but it opens the door easily to start a development project.
Our team is full-time developing components in C# and this happens in other divisions of the same company as well.
Technological wise Java and C# really don't differ that much. But the effort it takes to write a good looking Java GUI compared to a C# GUI, it is clear that C# is much more productive.
So compare the initial 3 years of Java with the initial 3 years of.NET, and I clearly see a difference in favor or.NET
I wish I did not spent my moderation credits on other posts. Because you're post is definitly overrated.
Your company tries to give you work for 8 hours, if they pay you for 8 hours. If you think you can do it in 7, then that is not an excuse to start downloading child porno, and jerk off on that. I don't care about that last part. It's a free world. It's the part that children are exploited for this. Forced (or make believe that it is really good). It's a damn sick concept. Zero tolerations from my side.
I think you should be proud that you work so efficiently that you only needed 7 hours. Maybe you could spent the extra hour on some quality, or teach other people how you did your work so efficient.
Control the GUI front-end is what MS has done (pretty succesfull) for a long time. A next generation of advanced user interface will obviously happen on the front-end, and they need lower level access to the hardware support. Will a 3D view of an explorer get out of the research labs and make it to the desktop?
I wonder if mono can keep up with this. The lack of a good GUI support with C# mono might become a real obstacle. To move closer to the desktop a lot of good high performing GUI code is necessary. I know there is the GTK# mapping and the WINE struggle. But what about a directX equivalent on the free unix os?
Let's not get too academic. Let's not have the corba failure (too complicated, overdesigned). Will OpenGL do the trick or is this also too complicated.
Change Mono to Stereo and get some dolby filter in there.
Not too long ago in Wired magazine there was a story that they actually loose money on clients who recieve more the 5 shipments! Their business model really has to change for those customers. But I think they are more focussed on growth at the moment.
I also had a few time that DVD's were temporarily missing. But this has always been resolved. It happened a few times in a short period. Makes you think.
Anyway I still really like their service. Have been a member for a long time. I just hate commercial interuptions on TV. And I hate late-fees at block buster. This is my perfect system.
Not too long ago there was a link that long time behind a CRT is bad for your health. But the real message was that long time sitting behind a monitor is bad for your health.
Only a few rooms seem to have some sensible ergonomic setup. Look at the location of monitors, the very poor quality of chairs and the limited movement space around the desk.
Twisting part of you spine (in the upper neck or lower back) in a static manner will have major consequences on the long term for your physical health. Maybe this is something where geeks are not concerned about, or is not that cool to consider. But keep in mind you only have one back spine. And till so far the medical advances in swapping out an old spine and upgrade with a new one has been limited.
Wishing you all the best in health and geek wisdom,
I'm a bit confused about the name.
They are mentioning that they make a webservice broker that can handle C# code. Or more general CLR compliant code. And also Java.
So in my understanding it's just a webservice broker. Where you have the freedom to use Java or CR compliant web service code.
So why stress the dot/i?
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Son to dad: what does regret mean? ..
Dad: well son, the funny thing about regret is that it is better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you have not done.
And if you see your mom this weekend tell her
Buthole Surfers.
I actually never understood why actors are sharing profits. How did this ever happen? It's not that the actors are investing a large sum of money.
Even actors in a commercial is getting a bonus every time a commercial is shown! It's not that they did not get paid initially.
I can even take it to the recent writers strike. When I write code for a software company, should I get a recurring income on every copy of the software sold?
So we see these unions are very powerful. Anybody up to start the Software Programmers Union and squeeze some profits for 'our people'?
This is only a sales pitch that tries to sell a software tool.
I would have tested my software before the competition deadline. A heapdump would have shown their issue. You don't have to buy tools for that. Maybe they should buy a book.
And yes, the same problem would have happened when they used java, or any other software language.
2007-11-10 03:13:22 Apeldoorn Asselsestraat 00:1D:25:91:E1:9F Rchl & je kan me reet likken
Translation:
Rchl & you can kiss my ass
This is already getting realistic with Photo Tagging features; allowing users to identify other people on pictures.
Seems it's official: MySpace is joining Google OpenSocial . This is a huge boost for OpenSocial API. I'm looking forward to see all the great 3rd party applications from Facebook also on MySpace. Obviously there is a huge incentive for these application providers to embrace the OpenSocial API: Millions of MySpace users are joining in!
It might not be too complicated. It depends what the benefits are for the writer to connect it's journal entry to a standardized vocabulary.
The good news is that over the years vocabularies for particular domains have been developed. Probably the vocabulary definitions of Doug Lenat's Cycorp would be of most interest. He has hired many linguistics to define a common vocabulary for every day use. There is an open source version available at http://www.cyc.com/cyc/opencycOpenCyc.
I can imagine that a semantic web of 'open knowledge' can be created, similar how wikipedia has created a free encyclopedia. Secondly search engines will become much better in finding what you are looking for, if it is able to traverse a semantic web. Just the distance between words on a page might become less effective the more content becomes available.
An author that writes reviews about 'Anthrax' might find it off his interest to attach the word to the music vocabulary entry, if he was writing about the music band.
Related to proofing the correctness of software design, is the research field that focus on one particular area: Rule Verification. It is similar to the SAT solvers; however the focus is on the conditions in a rule and its inferred actions. Verification examines the technical aspects of an expert system (a.k.a. rule based system) in order to determine whether the expert system is built correctly. Verifying the expert system involves examining consistency, completeness and correctness of the knowledge by detecting errors such as redundancy, contradiction and circularity. Acumen Business has developed a tool to detect these rule-anomalies. At the moment it supports Microsoft Biztalk XML rule documents and Computer Associates, Aion rule documents. Rule policies can be imported by the tool and analyzed on contradictions, redundancies, circular reasoning etc. The tool (Policy Verificator, free after registration) ships with 2 example rule policies (no need for Biztalk of Aion), and you can see the generated rule conflict networks. The networks can be generated as images or as Scalable Vector Graph (SVG). Firefox users can open these files directly Have a look at some screenshots, documentation, etc. I hope you don't get scared away from the registration request in order to download the product. The registration is just in place so I can assist these early adaptors of the tool better. I'm still working on good examples and updating the help files. What is 100% functional is when the rules are using terms from Xml documents, Vocabulary Terms, or Database. For .NET components it's a bit more complicated, because the assembly must be loaded by the verification algorithm. But still all possible.
I hope anybody find it useful. I love to hear feedback
Regards,
Marco Ensing
Disclaimer: As you probably can tell, I am Acumen Business.
Dude,
.NET
./ there was also a posting on MONO. And it is getting as much attention as the Java article.
We are not comparing C++ with Java
but we are comparing (.NET) C# with Java!
Actually it's just your favourite language on the CLR against Java on the JVM.
On the favourite lanugage list is C#, C++ (for old time gurus), Visual Basic (?), Python, and even Java (limited edition)
Versus just Java.
Java Swing is beautifully overdesigned and makes it a pain for good IDE support. Compare that with the ease of Visual Studio
7 years ago I always hoped that Sun would come out with some good Java GUI. Good as in: high performance, tightly integrated with the native OS. Seems that only an IBM effort with the SWT was an attempt to solve this.
It was all too late. Sun is searching to get Java into a niche market (Phones, embedded software, server side) before all is gone.
Interestingly today there on
The new new thing has won. The Java coffee is cold.
Marco
What is the percentage of the end-users (not just the geeks population) who have a JetDirect Network?
It's about handling the 80/20 case. Make it damn easy for the 80%, and the last 20% are o.k. to read a manual or webPage to figure things out. It's just that in the geek world the target population is not a regular user. "Those are to dumb(?) to use Linux, and we don't want to have them in the protected Linux geek world, let them suffer(?) with Windows." But wait it's just so much easier to use Windows. Initially I thought that Linux desktop would catch up with it. But everytime when I have to configure something simple on my linux boxes, I'm surprised that I can't find a simple GUI tool! I keep on checking with Red-Carpet what's out there.
Linux is so flexible and extensible that you can't see the trees through the forrest.
Is there any better way of Code Review by 'leaking' the source to the outside world. Seems MS likes this open-source model, but they need a back door to get to these benefits.
It would be a bit hard to admit:
"uhh, yes we do embrace open-source, but our business model is to protect our intelectual property", "recently our business model has been adapted to incorporate also the intelectual property of 3rd parties, also known as hackers", "the only way to do this legally is to put the FBI out on those folks what ensures that the code review can be reworded as 'theft' and will face the highest criminal punishment", "you know it's all terrorism and that kind of stuff", "It's terrorism on the American Capitalistic Marketing Model", "And we're going to nuke those hackers",
Probably without the approval of the United Nation
Indeed, where does it step.
/. community to find all phonetic like domain names.
Seems that MarcoSoft got away with it.
Or are the microsoft lawyers using the
Marco
After rebooting, the problem was resolved and signal strength and quality was restored. We then were able to FTP the MP3 file and have net meeting conversation.
They truly used off-the-shelf components!
Seems just a bigger hassle to me to have multiple Windows Xp running. Every system has to have the security patches applied. Getting my productivity to a near zero.
But on the other hand that might generate more jobs.
Marco
Let's all register for free, and take those limited seats.
Yes C# is (or in progress) to be ported to Linux.
See http://www.go-mono.com/
With the JDK 1.0 and 1.1, hardly anybody (and gladly they did not) used java language for software production development.
.NET framework, has a much shorter acceptance time. Just showing some Windows GUI (with XP look-and-feel) and management is confinced for 95%. I know this is only a little part of the actual coding, but it opens the door easily to start a development project.
.NET, and I clearly see a difference in favor or .NET
It took quite a few years before that got accepted by management/corporations.
Even with the Jdk 1.2 release, I had difficulties to convince management of using Java.
The
Our team is full-time developing components in C# and this happens in other divisions of the same company as well.
Technological wise Java and C# really don't differ that much. But the effort it takes to write a good looking Java GUI compared to a C# GUI, it is clear that C# is much more productive.
So compare the initial 3 years of Java with the initial 3 years of
I wish I did not spent my moderation credits on other posts. Because you're post is definitly overrated.
Your company tries to give you work for 8 hours, if they pay you for 8 hours. If you think you can do it in 7, then that is not an excuse to start downloading child porno, and jerk off on that.
I don't care about that last part. It's a free world. It's the part that children are exploited for this. Forced (or make believe that it is really good). It's a damn sick concept. Zero tolerations from my side.
I think you should be proud that you work so efficiently that you only needed 7 hours. Maybe you could spent the extra hour on some quality, or teach other people how you did your work so efficient.
There are so many better ways to spent your time.
ME
Control the GUI front-end is what MS has done (pretty succesfull) for a long time. A next generation of advanced user interface will obviously happen on the front-end, and they need lower level access to the hardware support. Will a 3D view of an explorer get out of the research labs and make it to the desktop?
I wonder if mono can keep up with this. The lack of a good GUI support with C# mono might become a real obstacle. To move closer to the desktop a lot of good high performing GUI code is necessary. I know there is the GTK# mapping and the WINE struggle. But what about a directX equivalent on the free unix os?
Let's not get too academic. Let's not have the corba failure (too complicated, overdesigned). Will OpenGL do the trick or is this also too complicated.
Change Mono to Stereo and get some dolby filter in there.
Not too long ago in Wired magazine there was a story that they actually loose money on clients who recieve more the 5 shipments! Their business model really has to change for those customers. But I think they are more focussed on growth at the moment.
I also had a few time that DVD's were temporarily missing. But this has always been resolved. It happened a few times in a short period. Makes you think.
Anyway I still really like their service. Have been a member for a long time. I just hate commercial interuptions on TV. And I hate late-fees at block buster. This is my perfect system.
L.A.Marco
I think you are looking for a Source Control System.
BTW: Ant can easily call you SCC tasks. From CVS but also from Microsoft $ourceSafe
Not too long ago there was a link that long time behind a CRT is bad for your health. But the real message was that long time sitting behind a monitor is bad for your health.
Only a few rooms seem to have some sensible ergonomic setup. Look at the location of monitors, the very poor quality of chairs and the limited movement space around the desk.
Twisting part of you spine (in the upper neck or lower back) in a static manner will have major consequences on the long term for your physical health. Maybe this is something where geeks are not concerned about, or is not that cool to consider. But keep in mind you only have one back spine. And till so far the medical advances in swapping out an old spine and upgrade with a new one has been limited.
Wishing you all the best in health and geek wisdom,
SFMarco
I'm a bit confused about the name. They are mentioning that they make a webservice broker that can handle C# code. Or more general CLR compliant code. And also Java.
So in my understanding it's just a webservice broker. Where you have the freedom to use Java or CR compliant web service code.
So why stress the dot/i?
Sure and SUN has always been very clear?
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