I'm not an academic but I've become really interested in Complex Adaptive Systems research recently (I was interested in this before I knew what it was but that's another story). One of the books I came accross was "The Complexity of Cooperation" by Robert Axelrod. In it he discusses much of the research that led them to Tit-for-Tat and many other strategies for the Iterated Prisoners Delima. Very good read, check it out.
Hahahah, you obviously don't work in *real* E&P (Exploration & Production). There is so much oil out there it is sick. Every 20 years someone says we will be out of oil in the next 40 and they're never right. I love to read old earth science text books and giggle. See, the problem is:
A) contrary to popular opinon, man has not set foot on every square inch of earth (most likely a fraction of it), thus we are no where near *exploring* (for production purposes) it all. B) Some resivours refill (from where? well that's another story). C) The technology for finding and exploiting resevoirs keeps getting better at a pace that would amaze most people from Silicon Valley.
I still cannot emphasize enough the point that the earth is FUCKING MASSIVE and there is SHIT LOADS of oil out there. Just think of China and Russia. Two of the biggest countries on earth yet because of their lack of E&P technology they have no idea of the amount of oil that exists there but everyday someone tells me of a new massive field somebody found just by playing darts with a map.
The EFF is not a lobbying group, and yes we need one. We've needed one for a long time. How do you think these special interests (RIAA) are getting all these laws passed? Lobbists. Necessity makes for strange bedfellows.
Am I the only one failing to grasp the importance of Web Services?
Yes...
I'm really perplexed as to what the great benefit of those is supposed to be? Isn't all that web services crap just a hyped up way of designing a typical dotcom shopping cart?
No. You obviously don't write serious business software all day every day, and been doing it for years. Sun's API standards are nothing short of a godsend. It's not about building a fscking shopping cart, you can do that in PHP. As the author said (and im paraphrasing), Web Servers have been commoditized, what matters now is Web Services.. or better yet, e-business platforms. That means alot more than shopping carts. That means robust infrastructures for moving your entire business online, moving everything (including your partners). There is immense complexity in taking all of your in-house (in-enterprise) business systems and moving them to a web or internet (think Workflow-enabled and P2P) model. I'm sorry but you can't do that in PHP on Apache. Well, in truth, if you had a good platform Apache and PHP could factor into that but only as a small component of a much bigger picture. In-house business software is moving away from what it was in '98 -'00 and back to what it's always been: integration, integration, integration. The problems facing businesses today however are much more complex because you don't only have to integrate your "shopping-cart" with your ERP, you have to integrate it with your suppliers' MRP/ERP systems, your customers' purchase systems, and your partners' services. That's hard to do in any simple language/platform alone.
Microsoft has enough high paid strategist to know that much of server software is being commoditized, what they are trying to do is sell web services built on an infrastructure that you'll use,... their infrastructure. J2EE,on the other hand, is less the Java language and more the API's for an e-business infrastructure. With that in mind, what the author says makes a whole lot more sense. To the most principled (or bigoted) of us, the situation looks like a choice between two evils. So be it, just make sure you choose the right one. IBM has certainly chosen J2EE and they seem to be good at choosing bedfellows lately (i.e. Linux).
dear god, Cringely's article is down right fscking scarry!
I can only imagine that if the strategy he describes was implemented, there would be a hacker uprising that would basically bring MS down, but then again, some people think I'm an idealist.
At first I thought Mono was going to be really cool. I mean, the *concepts* behind.Net are very neat. It would be nice to have a good implementation on Linux.
Then it dawned on me, take a look at any Open Source project that has tried to keep up with MS. Say... Samba? Even look at Java, MS basically made sure that certain basic function calls behaved slightly differently, or didnt work at all. There were small things they added to the syntax. Just little tiny things, not really breaking from the Java standard, but if you were to try to go in and implement something and have it run the same on any non-MS vm WORA just didn't exist.
I don't ever want to see an O'Reilly book on the shelves named ".Net Implementation Annoyances".
It's too easy for MS to yank this out of Ximian's hands. Have we all forgotten who we're dealing with? Is this some kind of "Kinder Gentler" MS? Take a wild guess how they will react when Linux becomes the deployment platform of choice for.Net, take a wild guess what happens when someone starts an "OpenPassport" that is better than Passport. Don't think for a second that MS will have some grand epiphany and join the ranks of Ben & Jerry's and just try to play nice with everyone.
The saddest part is (and I can say this cuz I'm a devoted Gnome user) Gnome needs lots of work. All those man hours fscking with.Net could be spent on Gnome just getting it on par with KDE for cryin out loud.
Where they thinking that this time Microsoft would play nice? Gimme a break, I could see this a mile off, only I didn't think it would happen this soon.
I've found that a PDA works well for storing my private key. I never let it out of my sight and and I only copy it to my workstation when I need it. When I'm done, I delete it (and I usually zero the sectors).
Usually what they mean by enter your premisis is go in the back yard like the meter maid from the power company. Although with this equipment it is usually on roof tops or in attics shooting through the wall so I don't see how they're going to do anything without you there.
Besides, no company wants to get some field tech shot. They will call you first if they have to get to your place to fix a transciever that is fucking up their network.
...and I love it! I think most of the stuff in the terms of services agreement is really to cover their ass. Luckily I didn't have to get the installation agreement signed and so they don't have any right to come into my apartment. And in case you didn't know, you BUY the equipment from them. I own the transceiver, amplifier, and modem.
So far they haven't complained about the stuff I'm running, and I doubt the will. It takes quite a bit of effort to police this stuff.
I was a beta tester for a similar service in Austin, TX from a company called Nobell. Their prices have gone up since they are no longer beta testing but I still would highly recommend them.
Anyway, the Sprint BBD is fast and reliable. The signal is only a couple of watts I would guess judging on the distance to the tower I'm pointing to (I have LOS to a hill in San Bruno). If anyone has questions about the service or you are contemplating getting it, email me and I'll explain wireless broadband to ya.
I don't understand why the WELL is referred to in such a light that it seems the model (or perfect for that matter) online community. The WELL is very tough to build relationships through, though it is a *good* (not great) medium for discussion.
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I'm not an academic but I've become really interested in Complex Adaptive Systems research recently (I was interested in this before I knew what it was but that's another story). One of the books I came accross was "The Complexity of Cooperation" by Robert Axelrod. In it he discusses much of the research that led them to Tit-for-Tat and many other strategies for the Iterated Prisoners Delima. Very good read, check it out.
I think you mean "glorified file system".
Slow news day...
A) contrary to popular opinon, man has not set foot on every square inch of earth (most likely a fraction of it), thus we are no where near *exploring* (for production purposes) it all.
B) Some resivours refill (from where? well that's another story).
C) The technology for finding and exploiting resevoirs keeps getting better at a pace that would amaze most people from Silicon Valley.
I still cannot emphasize enough the point that the earth is FUCKING MASSIVE and there is SHIT LOADS of oil out there. Just think of China and Russia. Two of the biggest countries on earth yet because of their lack of E&P technology they have no idea of the amount of oil that exists there but everyday someone tells me of a new massive field somebody found just by playing darts with a map.
Sounds like gun control...
The EFF is not a lobbying group, and yes we need one. We've needed one for a long time. How do you think these special interests (RIAA) are getting all these laws passed? Lobbists. Necessity makes for strange bedfellows.
... or I'm mistakenly reading Segfault.
</joke>
Yes...
I'm really perplexed as to what the great benefit of those is supposed to be? Isn't all that web services crap just a hyped up way of designing a typical dotcom shopping cart?
No. You obviously don't write serious business software all day every day, and been doing it for years. Sun's API standards are nothing short of a godsend. It's not about building a fscking shopping cart, you can do that in PHP. As the author said (and im paraphrasing), Web Servers have been commoditized, what matters now is Web Services.. or better yet, e-business platforms. That means alot more than shopping carts. That means robust infrastructures for moving your entire business online, moving everything (including your partners). There is immense complexity in taking all of your in-house (in-enterprise) business systems and moving them to a web or internet (think Workflow-enabled and P2P) model. I'm sorry but you can't do that in PHP on Apache. Well, in truth, if you had a good platform Apache and PHP could factor into that but only as a small component of a much bigger picture. In-house business software is moving away from what it was in '98 -'00 and back to what it's always been: integration, integration, integration. The problems facing businesses today however are much more complex because you don't only have to integrate your "shopping-cart" with your ERP, you have to integrate it with your suppliers' MRP/ERP systems, your customers' purchase systems, and your partners' services. That's hard to do in any simple language/platform alone.
Microsoft has enough high paid strategist to know that much of server software is being commoditized, what they are trying to do is sell web services built on an infrastructure that you'll use,... their infrastructure. J2EE ,on the other hand, is less the Java language and more the API's for an e-business infrastructure. With that in mind, what the author says makes a whole lot more sense. To the most principled (or bigoted) of us, the situation looks like a choice between two evils. So be it, just make sure you choose the right one. IBM has certainly chosen J2EE and they seem to be good at choosing bedfellows lately (i.e. Linux).
This is by far the best post I've ever read on /.
I can only imagine that if the strategy he describes was implemented, there would be a hacker uprising that would basically bring MS down, but then again, some people think I'm an idealist.
for the first time in my life i cant find a (programming) job
Then it dawned on me, take a look at any Open Source project that has tried to keep up with MS. Say... Samba? Even look at Java, MS basically made sure that certain basic function calls behaved slightly differently, or didnt work at all. There were small things they added to the syntax. Just little tiny things, not really breaking from the Java standard, but if you were to try to go in and implement something and have it run the same on any non-MS vm WORA just didn't exist.
I don't ever want to see an O'Reilly book on the shelves named ".Net Implementation Annoyances".
It's too easy for MS to yank this out of Ximian's hands. Have we all forgotten who we're dealing with? Is this some kind of "Kinder Gentler" MS? Take a wild guess how they will react when Linux becomes the deployment platform of choice for .Net, take a wild guess what happens when someone starts an "OpenPassport" that is better than Passport. Don't think for a second that MS will have some grand epiphany and join the ranks of Ben & Jerry's and just try to play nice with everyone.
The saddest part is (and I can say this cuz I'm a devoted Gnome user) Gnome needs lots of work. All those man hours fscking with .Net could be spent on Gnome just getting it on par with KDE for cryin out loud.
Where they thinking that this time Microsoft would play nice? Gimme a break, I could see this a mile off, only I didn't think it would happen this soon.
Forget that, how about 0wNz0r1Ng the plane itself!
Price Watch helps.
it's just Adult DVD's and they've been selling them for a couple of years now.
I've found that a PDA works well for storing my private key. I never let it out of my sight and and I only copy it to my workstation when I need it. When I'm done, I delete it (and I usually zero the sectors).
You suck Rob.
BTW: Just got 2.4 running... schweet! kernel.org.uk was the only place I could find it.
Umm, I've found prior art. I work with a color blind guy.
94132, I live in Parkmerced which is right next door to SFSU and very close to Daly City.
Besides, no company wants to get some field tech shot. They will call you first if they have to get to your place to fix a transciever that is fucking up their network.
So far they haven't complained about the stuff I'm running, and I doubt the will. It takes quite a bit of effort to police this stuff.
I was a beta tester for a similar service in Austin, TX from a company called Nobell. Their prices have gone up since they are no longer beta testing but I still would highly recommend them.
Anyway, the Sprint BBD is fast and reliable. The signal is only a couple of watts I would guess judging on the distance to the tower I'm pointing to (I have LOS to a hill in San Bruno). If anyone has questions about the service or you are contemplating getting it, email me and I'll explain wireless broadband to ya.
I don't understand why the WELL is referred to in such a light that it seems the model (or perfect for that matter) online community. The WELL is very tough to build relationships through, though it is a *good* (not great) medium for discussion.