Secondly, the real advantage of.NET is that you can write in whatever language you want to and use...
Has no one written a compiler to compile other languages to the Java VM? If not, why not? It's a virtual machien with a virtual instruction set. Surely there are some things in that machien that favor Java, but that doesn't mean they couldn't help, much less, prevent, another language from being compiled to it.
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Microsoft is a called a monopoly, yet still there are other OS's, other browsers and other Office Suites.
Now, how many are STANDARDS based?
There is a standard? IMUnified was supposed to create one, but there site seems to not have been updated in some time (I e-mailed their contact to learn why). The IETF had a task force or something to hammer one out, too, but I've not heard a peep from them either.
And remember, it atkes more than a 'better' product to move market share. VHS won out over beta but beta was technically superior.
Everytime something has come out that interoperates with AIM, I've tried it -- as have many others. I've done this because I saw it as a better mouse trap (because, again, I think AOL's AIM client SUCKS!!!) But we always have to drop it because AOL starts to block it. I can't get my "buddies" to switch off AIM because their buddies won't. So, if I want to chat with them, I have to use AIM too.
You're right about fearing the DMCA. I would have a hard time seeing our blocking access would be 'copy protection' (since that's what the DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent). Then again, since CSS was deemed a 'copy protection' device instead of an 'access control' device, I wouldn't put it past AOL to twist it in such a way.
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Because if AOL rejected email, none of their users would stick around, would they?
This is exactly my point. AOL doesn't have a monopoly on e-mail users, so they allow interoperability. Its adds value to their service, so their users have good reason to stick around.
If AOL *didn't* have a monopoly on IM users, they would have their own service interoperating with the monopolistic ones (provided those hypotheitical monopolists would permit it). But AOL *does* have a monopoly on IM users (AIM and ICQ combined are HUGE), so they're going to be stubborn and lock out the competition.
Maybe not in the legal dictionary, but in my dictionary, this is *anti-competitive* and I want to see something done about it. I just hope someone with more legal knowledge than I can find the proper legal support to put this fight upon.
I stand corrected. Even at the time of the stipulation, though, it was realized that this wasn't enough (form the article):
Critics of the agency ruling say that the conditions surrounding the Instant Messaging application are essentially toothless and amount to a free pass for AOL-TW to continue dominating the market. No conditions were set on the current operation of Instant Messaging, applying only to the rollout of advanced capabilities, which AOL has no current plans to implement.
2. The FCC ordered them to demonstrate iteroperability. They chose their victim.. I mean, partner, to be some dot-com that is now bankrupt and defunct (nice loop-hole spotting, AOL!). I'm trying to find links on this to back this up, and I'll post them here when I find them (just couldn't let this go unanswered).
Here's a PCWorld article about the condition of the merger that required AIM to be exposed a little.
Hey, I'll put up with the advertisements. I'm mentally trained to ignore them, so its no big deal. My problem is their client lacks useful features and is bloated with uesless features. I'll use an AOL client as long as they can make a better offering!
Re:Why the moaning?
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Because...
1. They added an overlay protocol, TIC-TOC, to allow interoperability (although, very limited, and not kept up-to-date).
2. The FCC ordered them to demonstrate iteroperability. They chose their victim.. I mean, partner, to be some dot-com that is now bankrupt and defunct (nice loop-hole spotting, AOL!). I'm trying to find links on this to back this up, and I'll post them here when I find them (just couldn't let this go unanswered).
3. AOL accepts e-mail from non-AOL SMTP servers. These e-mails traverse the AOL network, tying up their resources, and ultimately being converted into some AOL format for display in AOL. Why don't they block that? Oh, because it adds value to AOL by allowing its users to interoperate with the rest of the world. The difference with IM is that AOL owns 90% of that world (ICQ & AOL), so they don't see any value added.
Well, then, truly, this isn't a DVD. It's a video file optimized for playback on a PocketPC. There are such tools for my Sony Clie, too. If I rip a DVD, reformat the video content for my Clie, and then stick it on my MemoryStick, I can use gMovie to play it.
As for Palm's offerings, we agree that they don't offer a high end, but we disagree on whether they truly should. I'm probably too far gone to get over my bias:-(
I think the ons-sides statements madein this thread can cause fear, uncertainty and doubt by not painting the whole picture.
You got my formula wrong. It's a 2x increase for non-partitioned RAM, and another 2x for overall applications ize. That's 4x overall. This is no scientific study, mind you... just a general idea.
Now, regarding the UI, it's your opinion, as you said. My opinion is that Microsoft thought Palm had a good idea and reduced the complexity of their UI when WinCE turned into PPC. Of course, some Palm users I know agree more with you. They use third-party software to change their UI for a more PPC'ish look-and-feel.
Regarding the display area, HandEra's offer a "virtual graffiti area" which does just that. Furthermore, there are programs that allow custom hand-writing recognition, on-screen recognition, etc. I've used one that actually learns my hand writing and I've become even faster with it.
Regarding the GameGear emulator, the most we have is a GameBoy emulator. However, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find ANYWHERE an emulator of greater hardware running on lesser hardware.
And playing a DVD movie? Are you implying a PPC can play a DVD movie? That IS quite impressive! What model would I have to buy?
Battery usage? Days? I get 3-weeks to 1-month. O fcourse, its rechargable, so I never really have to take it that far.
Palm's hardware doesn't suck when you compare apples to apples. As I said in another reply, PalmOS devices do very well for the tasks they were designed for. If you want something to play DVD movies, emulate the latest game hardware, and completely mimick your desktop, then you could get a PDA (or, for a bit more, a notebook computer). If you want a very powerful, flexible PDA, get a PalmOS device.
Now you're confusing my arguments for PalmOS devices in general with discussions specifically to Palm, Inc.s latest device.
First, I agree that Palm, Inc. has severely lacked hardware innovationf or some time. Evenr when they coem out with something new, they try to hampert it (i.e. Palm Net vs. the Internet).
Second, I'll try to comment on each of your points. But let me declare that fighting FUD with FUD is valid. There is truth underlying both sets of statements.
How bout a system with NO architectural improvements in three years. A $450 device that's still Black and White and runs at what? (It's not mentioned, but I doubt it's more than 33 Mhz. Don't gimmie 'it doesn't NEED more' If it's got more, somebody will USE it.)
My Sony Clie is gray-scale, and there are color ones. Palm has Color ones, and so does HandSpring. My Clie has markedly improved resolution and audio. The processors are twice as fast as the original Palm hardware. Are these not improvements? Perhaps you're referring specifically to the new Palm device.
Having a TON of CRAPPY software is not an improvement. The CE devices have the same amount of QUALITY software as the Palm's do. Name any Palm application, I bet there's a PPC2002 equivalent.
Perhaps what is crap in your opinion isn't crap to others. Also, there are many implementations o fthe same types of programs. All of this adds up to cariety, competition and choice. And as far as quality, I don't think MS is the palce to look for that.
Where's this thing's 802.11 connectivity? Where's it's ability to connect to network drive shares? PPC with 802.11 can _natively_ communicate with a SQL database. What databases do Palm talk to...off the device? What's the quality of it's sound output?
Now you have drawn our the TRUE difference between PalmOS and WinCE/PPC. PalmOS is a PDA. WinCE is a mini-computer. Everything about PalmOS devices and sofwtare is made for handheld versions of the sorts of tasks you need to take with you. That is, the functionality is scaled down to what makes sense. With a PocketPC, the whole desktop paradigm is shrunken, but not really reduced. A lot of people want this. BUt personally, I don't think shrinking a computer into a PDA-size makes it a PDA -- it's just a small computer. Palm has wireless connectivity. Some third party manufacturers make 802.11b add-ons for those who need it. But they don't build it in. Most PalmOS PDAs don't allow mapping of drives because *it doesn't make sense on a PDA -- only on a computer*. There are no "drives" in PalmOS, so how could you possibly "map" one? Instead, I do scaled-down versions of the things I do on my desktop. I enter items in my Quicken check register and thens ync it with my full-features, net-enabled version fo Quicken 2002 Deluxe on my desktop computer.
Looking at the Expansion tab on the mockup, they've got a dictionary description of innovation. Um. WHAT innovation? Sony's got higher res, more memory and color. The only thing this has over a Palm 7 is a memory slot and constant on- slow- expensive- wireless.
Yes, again, I agree. Palm is being idiotic. They're wasting their resources on these miniscule platform upgrades. I'm still hoping they're just doing this to hold them over until they release the new ARM processors. But I still contest the PalmOS is much better at doing what needs to be done on a PDA. WinCE/PPC is a computer-sized OS running on mini-computers -- which is overkill for PDA activities.
Oh, please, stop with this marketing FUD. That's as bad as saying MHz are the only metric by which to gauge the performance of a CPU. Let's consider some things:
WinCE/PPC requires you to parition your memory between storage and execution (i.e. virtual hard drive and RAM). PalmOS runs programs in place -- thus, there is no concept of storage RAM vs. execution RAM. So, a Palm uses its memory more effectively than a WinCE/PPC device.
PalmOS programs are significantly smaller than WinCE/PPC programs, thus requiring less RAM to begin with.
The PalmOS UI is far simpler than the PPC, thus requiring less memory and executing in fewer clock cycles.
Last I checked, every analyst out there pointed out that PalmOS has far MORE applications than WInCE/PPC.
As I recall from an article I read in a magazine (that my mind won't reveal to me) many years ago...
32-bit CPUs use a 32-bit address space. That's space enough to address 2^32 bytes, or 4GB. With today's 100+GB hard drives and fractional to low GB RAM capacities, each requires its own addressing.
However, with 64-bits of addressing space, you have enough room to memory-map your entire stinking (yes, stinkin) hard drive into virtual RAM address space. This means your virtual address space would represent both RAM and your file system together.
My old 486 had a VLB EIDE hard disk controller, which I swapped in after the last one failed. If my controller failed today, I couldn't do that; I'd either need to buy a new mobo or start replacing chips on the old one (which is just as expensive).
Perhaps your 486 MB was the first of its kind, but modern motherboards with integrated devices have the ability to disable them so that can be replaced by cards in slots.
This all stems from the fact that those 'chips' that are taking ever more responsibility are trashable. I remember watching an old movie in gradeschool about the development of computers (this would've been in the 80s). A man recalled an interview where the reporter kept asking what sort of tiny tools the guy would use to go in and fix a part of the circuit (the reporter's mind was forever stuck with tubes). Eventually, the guy got through to him that the chip wouldn't be repaired, just replaced.
Thus, the chip count may be reduced, implying more complex chips, but they're not necessarily more expensive. On the other hand, they've become so cheap that its more cost-effective to bundle the functions of multiple chips past into a single chip.
But, still , regarding your BUS argument, there have been numerous articles all over the web about newer BUS standards competing to be the future industry standard. Those BUSes will get big right when these chips do.
Yeah, this is offtopic, but maybe there's a common thread...
Do we all have amnesia? Jar Jar Binks sucks, this is true. However, didn't ROTJ (Return of the JEDI) also have Ewoks? Think about it, they were both seemingly innocent but ultimately had a large impact (albeit one was through rutic cleverness while the other was through clumsiness). At the time, I loved the Ewoks (I even ha dthe Ewok village)
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I've developed this ame theory myself. evolution in our capitolistic society has become beared on the direction of cash rather than the ideals we'd hope to evolve with. The two directions are not wholly out of whack, perhaps a few degrees only. Still, over time, this gradual slipping away from the direction we intend may lead us far from where we wish to go. Where that is, I do not know.
I've kept a slight eye on quantum computing for a few years now, but only thought of this question until now. If an electron's spin determines it's magnetic moment (right?), and an electron can have its spin in superposition of up and down, then what does this do to the magnetic moment?
I would think it would be cancelled out, but can someon give me a more definitive answer?
We recently had a omving company specializing in corporate moves relocate us to a new office. They broke the connectors on our PBX, and lost two hardware license keys amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Eventually, we found one of the two license keys (the more expensive one) in an obscure, unlabelled box but are still reeling from the other damages.
And to think this wa sa comapny who supposedly specialized in moving entire companies.
So let me get this straight. In the R version, you see the happy couple making love with no sheets covering them. In the PG-13, you see them starting to make out, presumably naked, under cover of sheets. In the PG version you just see them smoking cigarettes in bed for no apparent reason?
Honestly, any PG-aged kid I know would either STILL know what's going on, or if not, would be curious enough to ask WHY they are smkoking. What is it we're trying to prevent here? The actual knowledge of the subject, or an example of it?
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I personally use JBuilder, but sdome of my peers use Forte/Netbeans or VisualCafe. Yet others still use plain text editors with syntax highlighting. So, here's some of the points from our fun 'discussions' between the two camps:
Text editors have a much smaller footprint than an IDE
You can extend a text editor with macros
I've never text editor seen a macro for code insight
In an IDE, all of the 'macros' are pre-built, saving you the time of developing them.
IDEs tend to offer you more debugging power than simple log printous.
Code Insight, from JBuilder, and its counterparts in others is extremely powerful. When you type a '.' after a class or variable, you get a popup listing the various methods, properties, innter classes, etc. that you can use. Same thing for packages, parameter names and types, etc. I know it sounds trivial, but here's how it helps... You have to refer to API documentation MUCH MUCH less and type fewer characters. There is no need to lookup what the proper case conversion method is on a String ("toLower" or "toLowerCase"?) because when you type ".toL...", the popup shows you "toLowerCase()". Its subtle, but powerful. Its sort of like the power you gain by having keyboard shortcuts or underline accelerators for those shortcuts.
Debugging:Is another feature I've not seen in text editors. This doesn't mean using System.out.println at strategic points. This is setting breakpoints, breaking on exceptions, inspecting values while a program is pauses, etc. If you've never debugged like this, it is hard to understand its power. But once you have, you'll never go back!
Maybe. But how do you know? They claim Napster would destroy artists because they couldn't make a profit, yet even at Napster's peak, they were raking in record-breaking profits...
OK, I know what you're inferring here, but settle down. If, say, they're profits rose 10% over the previous year, then yes, their profits did rise. However, you imply this happened in spite of Napster making songs available for download, maybe even because of!
Without knowing that that number would have been withoutthe Napster variable, one could also guess that profits would have risen 20% but Napster capped it at 10%.
You're trying to imply that Napster had a neutral or even positive effect with no more evidence than the RIAA saying that Napster has a negative effect.
Sony probably had no choice. If they let this guy slide by under the guise of a fan,a nd them some blackmarket knowckoff comapny from China started distributing their robot and Sony tried to sue...
"So, council, you client chose not to protect its intellectual roperty in one case, but does choose to do so here? Perhaps because the defendant has more money? I'm sorry, but I'm throweing this case out. If you had wanted to protect your client's rights, you shold've done so consistently."
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Can we assume this whole proposal pst is also an open invitiation to the wedding for us all?
Secondly, the real advantage of .NET is that you can write in whatever language you want to and use...
Has no one written a compiler to compile other languages to the Java VM? If not, why not? It's a virtual machien with a virtual instruction set. Surely there are some things in that machien that favor Java, but that doesn't mean they couldn't help, much less, prevent, another language from being compiled to it.
Here's AOL's response to an open IM network:
http://aim.aol.com/openim/
A monopoly? Surely you jest!
Microsoft is a called a monopoly, yet still there are other OS's, other browsers and other Office Suites.
Now, how many are STANDARDS based?
There is a standard? IMUnified was supposed to create one, but there site seems to not have been updated in some time (I e-mailed their contact to learn why). The IETF had a task force or something to hammer one out, too, but I've not heard a peep from them either.
And remember, it atkes more than a 'better' product to move market share. VHS won out over beta but beta was technically superior.
Everytime something has come out that interoperates with AIM, I've tried it -- as have many others. I've done this because I saw it as a better mouse trap (because, again, I think AOL's AIM client SUCKS!!!) But we always have to drop it because AOL starts to block it. I can't get my "buddies" to switch off AIM because their buddies won't. So, if I want to chat with them, I have to use AIM too.
You're right about fearing the DMCA. I would have a hard time seeing our blocking access would be 'copy protection' (since that's what the DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent). Then again, since CSS was deemed a 'copy protection' device instead of an 'access control' device, I wouldn't put it past AOL to twist it in such a way.
Because if AOL rejected email, none of their users would stick around, would they?
This is exactly my point. AOL doesn't have a monopoly on e-mail users, so they allow interoperability. Its adds value to their service, so their users have good reason to stick around.
If AOL *didn't* have a monopoly on IM users, they would have their own service interoperating with the monopolistic ones (provided those hypotheitical monopolists would permit it). But AOL *does* have a monopoly on IM users (AIM and ICQ combined are HUGE), so they're going to be stubborn and lock out the competition.
Maybe not in the legal dictionary, but in my dictionary, this is *anti-competitive* and I want to see something done about it. I just hope someone with more legal knowledge than I can find the proper legal support to put this fight upon.
I stand corrected. Even at the time of the stipulation, though, it was realized that this wasn't enough (form the article):
Critics of the agency ruling say that the conditions surrounding the Instant Messaging application are essentially toothless and amount to a free pass for AOL-TW to continue dominating the market. No conditions were set on the current operation of Instant Messaging, applying only to the rollout of advanced capabilities, which AOL has no current plans to implement.
Heh, probably not because AOL owns both AIM and ICQ. They'd be perfectly happy to cannibalize one servcie with the other.
2. The FCC ordered them to demonstrate iteroperability. They chose their victim.. I mean, partner, to be some dot-com that is now bankrupt and defunct (nice loop-hole spotting, AOL!). I'm trying to find links on this to back this up, and I'll post them here when I find them (just couldn't let this go unanswered).
Here's a PCWorld article about the condition of the merger that required AIM to be exposed a little.
Hey, I'll put up with the advertisements. I'm mentally trained to ignore them, so its no big deal. My problem is their client lacks useful features and is bloated with uesless features. I'll use an AOL client as long as they can make a better offering!
1. They added an overlay protocol, TIC-TOC, to allow interoperability (although, very limited, and not kept up-to-date).
2. The FCC ordered them to demonstrate iteroperability. They chose their victim.. I mean, partner, to be some dot-com that is now bankrupt and defunct (nice loop-hole spotting, AOL!). I'm trying to find links on this to back this up, and I'll post them here when I find them (just couldn't let this go unanswered).
3. AOL accepts e-mail from non-AOL SMTP servers. These e-mails traverse the AOL network, tying up their resources, and ultimately being converted into some AOL format for display in AOL. Why don't they block that? Oh, because it adds value to AOL by allowing its users to interoperate with the rest of the world. The difference with IM is that AOL owns 90% of that world (ICQ & AOL), so they don't see any value added.
As for Palm's offerings, we agree that they don't offer a high end, but we disagree on whether they truly should. I'm probably too far gone to get over my bias :-(
You got my formula wrong. It's a 2x increase for non-partitioned RAM, and another 2x for overall applications ize. That's 4x overall. This is no scientific study, mind you... just a general idea.
Now, regarding the UI, it's your opinion, as you said. My opinion is that Microsoft thought Palm had a good idea and reduced the complexity of their UI when WinCE turned into PPC. Of course, some Palm users I know agree more with you. They use third-party software to change their UI for a more PPC'ish look-and-feel.
Regarding the display area, HandEra's offer a "virtual graffiti area" which does just that. Furthermore, there are programs that allow custom hand-writing recognition, on-screen recognition, etc. I've used one that actually learns my hand writing and I've become even faster with it.
Regarding the GameGear emulator, the most we have is a GameBoy emulator. However, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find ANYWHERE an emulator of greater hardware running on lesser hardware.
And playing a DVD movie? Are you implying a PPC can play a DVD movie? That IS quite impressive! What model would I have to buy?
Battery usage? Days? I get 3-weeks to 1-month. O fcourse, its rechargable, so I never really have to take it that far.
Palm's hardware doesn't suck when you compare apples to apples. As I said in another reply, PalmOS devices do very well for the tasks they were designed for. If you want something to play DVD movies, emulate the latest game hardware, and completely mimick your desktop, then you could get a PDA (or, for a bit more, a notebook computer). If you want a very powerful, flexible PDA, get a PalmOS device.
First, I agree that Palm, Inc. has severely lacked hardware innovationf or some time. Evenr when they coem out with something new, they try to hampert it (i.e. Palm Net vs. the Internet).
Second, I'll try to comment on each of your points. But let me declare that fighting FUD with FUD is valid. There is truth underlying both sets of statements.
How bout a system with NO architectural improvements in three years. A $450 device that's still Black and White and runs at what? (It's not mentioned, but I doubt it's more than 33 Mhz. Don't gimmie 'it doesn't NEED more' If it's got more, somebody will USE it.)
My Sony Clie is gray-scale, and there are color ones. Palm has Color ones, and so does HandSpring. My Clie has markedly improved resolution and audio. The processors are twice as fast as the original Palm hardware. Are these not improvements? Perhaps you're referring specifically to the new Palm device.
Having a TON of CRAPPY software is not an improvement. The CE devices have the same amount of QUALITY software as the Palm's do. Name any Palm application, I bet there's a PPC2002 equivalent.
Perhaps what is crap in your opinion isn't crap to others. Also, there are many implementations o fthe same types of programs. All of this adds up to cariety, competition and choice. And as far as quality, I don't think MS is the palce to look for that.
Where's this thing's 802.11 connectivity? Where's it's ability to connect to network drive shares? PPC with 802.11 can _natively_ communicate with a SQL database. What databases do Palm talk to...off the device? What's the quality of it's sound output?
Now you have drawn our the TRUE difference between PalmOS and WinCE/PPC. PalmOS is a PDA. WinCE is a mini-computer. Everything about PalmOS devices and sofwtare is made for handheld versions of the sorts of tasks you need to take with you. That is, the functionality is scaled down to what makes sense. With a PocketPC, the whole desktop paradigm is shrunken, but not really reduced. A lot of people want this. BUt personally, I don't think shrinking a computer into a PDA-size makes it a PDA -- it's just a small computer. Palm has wireless connectivity. Some third party manufacturers make 802.11b add-ons for those who need it. But they don't build it in. Most PalmOS PDAs don't allow mapping of drives because *it doesn't make sense on a PDA -- only on a computer*. There are no "drives" in PalmOS, so how could you possibly "map" one? Instead, I do scaled-down versions of the things I do on my desktop. I enter items in my Quicken check register and thens ync it with my full-features, net-enabled version fo Quicken 2002 Deluxe on my desktop computer.
Looking at the Expansion tab on the mockup, they've got a dictionary description of innovation. Um. WHAT innovation? Sony's got higher res, more memory and color. The only thing this has over a Palm 7 is a memory slot and constant on- slow- expensive- wireless.
Yes, again, I agree. Palm is being idiotic. They're wasting their resources on these miniscule platform upgrades. I'm still hoping they're just doing this to hold them over until they release the new ARM processors. But I still contest the PalmOS is much better at doing what needs to be done on a PDA. WinCE/PPC is a computer-sized OS running on mini-computers -- which is overkill for PDA activities.
32-bit CPUs use a 32-bit address space. That's space enough to address 2^32 bytes, or 4GB. With today's 100+GB hard drives and fractional to low GB RAM capacities, each requires its own addressing.
However, with 64-bits of addressing space, you have enough room to memory-map your entire stinking (yes, stinkin) hard drive into virtual RAM address space. This means your virtual address space would represent both RAM and your file system together.
Perhaps your 486 MB was the first of its kind, but modern motherboards with integrated devices have the ability to disable them so that can be replaced by cards in slots.
This all stems from the fact that those 'chips' that are taking ever more responsibility are trashable. I remember watching an old movie in gradeschool about the development of computers (this would've been in the 80s). A man recalled an interview where the reporter kept asking what sort of tiny tools the guy would use to go in and fix a part of the circuit (the reporter's mind was forever stuck with tubes). Eventually, the guy got through to him that the chip wouldn't be repaired, just replaced.
Thus, the chip count may be reduced, implying more complex chips, but they're not necessarily more expensive. On the other hand, they've become so cheap that its more cost-effective to bundle the functions of multiple chips past into a single chip.
But, still , regarding your BUS argument, there have been numerous articles all over the web about newer BUS standards competing to be the future industry standard. Those BUSes will get big right when these chips do.
Do we all have amnesia? Jar Jar Binks sucks, this is true. However, didn't ROTJ (Return of the JEDI) also have Ewoks? Think about it, they were both seemingly innocent but ultimately had a large impact (albeit one was through rutic cleverness while the other was through clumsiness). At the time, I loved the Ewoks (I even ha dthe Ewok village)
I've developed this ame theory myself. evolution in our capitolistic society has become beared on the direction of cash rather than the ideals we'd hope to evolve with. The two directions are not wholly out of whack, perhaps a few degrees only. Still, over time, this gradual slipping away from the direction we intend may lead us far from where we wish to go. Where that is, I do not know.
I would think it would be cancelled out, but can someon give me a more definitive answer?
And to think this wa sa comapny who supposedly specialized in moving entire companies.
This was exactly my point. Whether or not you see the act, you know its happening.
Honestly, any PG-aged kid I know would either STILL know what's going on, or if not, would be curious enough to ask WHY they are smkoking. What is it we're trying to prevent here? The actual knowledge of the subject, or an example of it?
Code Insight, from JBuilder, and its counterparts in others is extremely powerful. When you type a '.' after a class or variable, you get a popup listing the various methods, properties, innter classes, etc. that you can use. Same thing for packages, parameter names and types, etc. I know it sounds trivial, but here's how it helps... You have to refer to API documentation MUCH MUCH less and type fewer characters. There is no need to lookup what the proper case conversion method is on a String ("toLower" or "toLowerCase"?) because when you type ".toL...", the popup shows you "toLowerCase()". Its subtle, but powerful. Its sort of like the power you gain by having keyboard shortcuts or underline accelerators for those shortcuts.
Debugging:Is another feature I've not seen in text editors. This doesn't mean using System.out.println at strategic points. This is setting breakpoints, breaking on exceptions, inspecting values while a program is pauses, etc. If you've never debugged like this, it is hard to understand its power. But once you have, you'll never go back!
OK, I know what you're inferring here, but settle down. If, say, they're profits rose 10% over the previous year, then yes, their profits did rise. However, you imply this happened in spite of Napster making songs available for download, maybe even because of!
Without knowing that that number would have been withoutthe Napster variable, one could also guess that profits would have risen 20% but Napster capped it at 10%.
You're trying to imply that Napster had a neutral or even positive effect with no more evidence than the RIAA saying that Napster has a negative effect.
Sony probably had no choice. If they let this guy slide by under the guise of a fan,a nd them some blackmarket knowckoff comapny from China started distributing their robot and Sony tried to sue...
"So, council, you client chose not to protect its intellectual roperty in one case, but does choose to do so here? Perhaps because the defendant has more money? I'm sorry, but I'm throweing this case out. If you had wanted to protect your client's rights, you shold've done so consistently."
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