In Brooklyn it's gonna be known as Star Wars Plus Plus Too, stuffed between a Kansas Fried Chicken and a White Castle, sold in a bundle of 3 for $10, and they'll throw in a free frilly bow/car freshner.
Unfortunately there is no parent test before having kids and once they pop out there is no way to put them back in. Trust me, I've tried. I agree that kids should be educated. My daughter is 9 and she gets online to play games under supervision. And maybe a few websites.
With hard work comes reward. I personally like to run my a business as I am following in the footsteps of a few in my family. It seems like a natural step. No one is gonna claim it's easy. I certainly have no misconceptions on the time and effort needed to start a business. I work 40-45 hours at my job, spend 3 hours a day traveling and still spend about 3 hours/day during the week and a full 15-20 hours on the weekend running the biz and coding. Kinda hard to keep it going but I think it will be worth it to put in the effort now and get some results later in life. It's not about the amount of effort, it's what you get in return.
Big bank loans aren't always the case btw, there are ways around huge financial debts if you play your cards correctly. Thats the idea of INC/LLC. It relieves the owners of liability that would otherwise ruin them. And not all businesses need huge amounts of capital to succeed. It really depends on your growth model, the target market, your position in that market, etc.
Some people are built for it and some aren't. Just like bad ass coders can spend days hacking code, some business owners are willing to put the time in just because they love it. I love both.
Well said. As long as you work for others there will always be a limit. After years of programming I have sensed the my own burn out coming and attibute it to the fact that I am not in control of the situation or my own destiny. I have been tossed into the middle of very stressful situations because of mistakes made by managers above me and if I continue I'm afraid I will burn out.
I decided that the managers above me were not smarter than me but just had more experience. Business experience that cannot be taught in a book or learned at a seminar.
So instead of waiting 10 more years only to realize that I should have started today I decided to strike out on my own and start a small software component business, eventually partnering with a colleague in the same position. We work our full time jobs 9-5 and work part time on the business. But the end goal is to work for ourselves and grow a successful company, not riches necessarily. As we are finding out every day, the journey itself is its own reward and no price tag can be placed on your freedom.
Will it be successful? I'm not sure. But at least we had the balls to be something more than just cogs in a machine working our asses off for the goals of others.
So what happens when the virus creators release one that can communicate effectively with other peers and use that virus/bot network to update the virus with the latest exploits by sharing them with other peers? A creator could place into this system the newest exploit/means of attack and essentially get a little ahead of the AV software writers without revealing their location. The creator would have to have a way to sign code and allow the virus to only run said signed code but it could be defeated. BUT this would throw a kink into current AV thinking. Viruses like Nimbda could mutate to use the latest and greatest quicker, start targeting hosts differently, change signatures, etc.
Obviously the same method used to mutate/update the virus could be used to defeat it but it makes it much more dificult to track down the culprit and eradicate all the infected hosts. Hell they could even tap into some of the more complicated means of mutation using techniques alread pioneered by Genetic Alg and Complex Adaptive systems.
The mainstream viruses (!virii) are using pretty simple techniques to spread. But thats not always gonna be the case. And as it gets more complex we'll need software to identify these threats. Using good, updated AV software isn't really crying wolf, it's just being safe. But the hype is just gonna cause disinterest among users.
It will be interesting to watch
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I think the service model is an interesting one to take note of and watch over the next few years as the major players roll out their solutions. What I'm most interested in seeing is this technology used to deploy applications across an enterprise. I think this is really where this model can shine in the near future. Currently a lot of enterprises are moving their applications to web and internet based architectures because it can decrease costs of deployment. We all know the Heavy Client vs. Web Client argument and I think there are reasons for using both of them in certain situations. Now imagine corporate users having the ability to subscribe to their enterprises applications as needed. Application management can be consolidated into central locations and the cost of deployment can be decreased significantly. I think what we will need to focus on are tools to enable such deployments and the management of said software in a large, sometimes global, environment. Third party developers can still use the same subscription licensing or develop new licenses for such distribution and the company maintains control of their own information and don't have to rely on 24/7 uptime from an outside service. There are hurdles of course but the technology is here and we heading in that general direction.
I think this is where the first applications in this area will be built and used successfully. The same technology used to deploy applications using web services across enterprises can be used to distribute applications to consumers.
My personal opinion is that service based companies don't exacly have the best track record. I bet chances are pretty good that anyone reading this has had a bad experience at one point with a service provider such as the phone, electric, or cable companies. And also people like the idea of owning something. I myself feel like my whole life is a rental sometimes and it bothers me. It's going to take a lot to push users in this direction and the ones that can execute the best will win. But there is no guarantee it will work. It takes more than just a push or shove to generate a new market, but it can be done.
FYI: SOAP is not transport/port specific
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· Score: 3, Informative
FYI: SOAP can be used on ports other than just 80 and used by transport protocols other than HTTP/HTTPS such as SMTP, FTP, Jabber, and BEEP:
This is "All True"*. It all started with the insidious darwinist plot using the fluoridation of the drinkng water supply, thereby contaminating our precious bodily fluids. This is just one of many plots master minded by the...I've already said too much....
* All True actually meant to serve as placeholder for complete and utter bullshit
I had my car stolen in DC (Georgetown) one night and it sucked. I was on a great date with a woman I really liked and everything was going great. I parked down near the waterfront under the whitehurst freeway. I never felt so confused as I came back and saw my car gone. I thought they might have towed it, maybe I drank too much and forgot where we parked. I didnt think anyone would steal it because the car was a POS old 190k mile camry and I parked it next to the quite common for Georgetown range rover. It ruined the date but it taught me to park in safer places. I eventually got it back but it was never the same. The thief had took the radio and CLEANED the car. It had no dirt in it and was actually cleaner than when I had parked it. I only found an empty 40 oz of old english and a baby toy in the trunk. God only knows what they where doing.
As for the DC police and your negative attitude toward them I can kind of relate. After speaking with them about the car and getting nothing but attitude I was surprised when it turned up about 3 weeks later. I thought they would simply dismiss it as another car lost. I've had other encounters that are just as bad but not worth mentioning.
But I don't think this entraps anyone. Car theives are POS that don't really care that they took part of your life for a joy ride. I have never seen anyone accidentally steal something.
You are mad. Who are these Top Producers and how do you motivate them? "YOU WORK YOU NO TALK!"
My favorite part of the post is where you take a scientific voice "I have observed a striking, nearly 1:1 correlation:...the correlation is nearly perfect"
Funny, It almost sounds like you know something we don't. Have you been running experiments tracking the effect of IM on productivity in the workplace? Your "facts" are merely opinions based on corn, or as the native americans called it..maize.
Basically you are saying that this particular method of communication is worse than others, which is not even worth commenting on, BUT also that developers should know it all when they enter the door. Maybe take their books and help files away, they are leeching information from them. Better block access to the web, they could be posting to forums. And dont forget NNTP, we know how bad those newsgroups are. Im sorry but this is just sad:(
The fact is, As we are expected to devote larger and larger portions of our life to work we try to maintain our sanity by taking breaks, chatting (IRC btw can be great source of dev info), Instant Message and produce. If my production is slacking put the blame where it belongs, on me. Not on IM.
"Top producers (whether coders, designers, or marketing folks) NEVER use IM" - you see yourself as a "top producer" obviously.
"one's social life (usually miserably dreary)" - condescendingly looking at others social life as miserable?
I actually guess that the bashing will be much higher when we account for the "rebel" attitude thrown about here so often. The ones that criticize from within peaceful neighborhoods inside the US provided by that faceless government made of illuminati and corporate greed. It would funnier if it wasnt so ironic. But as we all know self hate and angst are the new zeal. Patriotism is like so 1980s.
Can I please subscribe to up to the minute/. updates on exactly what MS is doing, when, where, and with who? If there is a mouse in a wharehouse muttering "news" about MS I want to hear about it. Because I care.
I see what the poster is saying. He's saying how does any businesss that SELLS software justify to stoock holders who own the company that they are going to change to an Open Source model?
But a better question to ask from a business perspective is why would they do this? To please a group that will not buy your product? That offers nothing to your survival? What value will it offer? Most people concerned with open source are open source developers and lan janitors with perl toolkits. I personally like some things open source (I have written and ditributed open source code for all the naysayers). But to be honest I cannot find a viable way to sell software while at the same time giving it away. It's been established that the return on investment will be higher if you sell a product as opposed to selling a service (product companies are regularly valued higher than service companies). If the new paradigm of "software as a service" takes off this may change but it has yet to be established. Its gonna take a lot of work to convince people that can't get decent support/service/help from established service companies (cable, telephone, electric) to switch to a model in which you are eternally paying. But I digress.
Its a good question. As an open source advocate and software developer I love the advantages of open source. As a small business owner I cannot find a viable way to give the code away for free and still make a profit. Unfortunately my billers dont take ideals in place of money so I know which way is ahead of me. It's not always the fair or ideal way that wins out, but it's the one Im forced to deal with.
Call me crazy but where does happiness fall into? I try not to base life altering decisions on what has the most predicted market value. I go with what I love to do. Since i love to program so much i don't mind spending the majority of my time programming. The point is, how come no one has mentioned finding something that you like to do and following that path? If a particular path is boring, yet makes a good career move, does it make sense to follow it? No. Just trying to point out happiness.
Actually there is much to be gained in this area. As the development crowd demands more power from their application servers, IIS will move away from being another web server to a full blown application server (Think Java App Server). The whole.Net strategy leads one to believe that this is inevitable. There are obvious elements missing or delegated to older COM technology in the current.Net releases, such as messaging, transaction management, database->object mapping, dynamic discovery, SOAP/Webservice management, remoting, etc. I am not saying that these services cannot be used from within.Net, but past MS history tells us that its not done till it has a GUI and I think IIS, in some form, will be the front end on that GUI. Application servers are a huge market and I doubt MS wants to miss out.
What about me? The sports junkie? I could listen to sports events/talk the entire time I'm in the car. My commute lasts about an hour each way so I love listening to the sports channels. The only problem is there's only one FM sports talk show on and they dont have live coverage. I need to switch to AM for that. All though many on/. would like to think that the world is filled with others like them, the fact is everyone on here is most likely the minority. Some, myself included, would spend $10/month getting live coverage of sports/news events.
Look at it from a developers view point. If I know Java and use Jboss I can develop server solutions for Both Windows and *nix platforms. It s pretty easy using Jboss or similiar app servers. Even if it was true that enterprise organizations use all the same hardware/platforms (laugh), what about the outside developers that create apps for them? It makes more sense (read it makes more money) to develop in Java in these scenarios.
I disagree. All good decision makers solicit input from others. It allows one to get inside other's heads and possible shed some light on something the decision maker missed. Although you may get 500 useless posts (relative to you), you may come across a gem of an idea. I think you are jumping to conclusions on the readers personal issues. The fact that they ask questions, instead of taking the "I know it all and your input doesn't count" approach, shows a good, if not great future decision maker. Leaders are grown/created/molded out of the ideas of others.
In the race to provide the ultimate device:
phone/mp3 player/radio/tv/video/network computer/girlfriend manufacturers are forgetting one thing - I would like to actually make a phone call. Any time, any place. When I pick up my phone at home, surprise! I get a dial tone. I dial the number, then converse. When i turn on my cell phone I get "He'' Wahha.. Muhaa.. Who? So what do you... who?.. hello hello hello?"
f the mp3s, gadgets, good gear. Give us a phone that works and everyone will have one.
Well I guess it depends on how you measure "speed". Do you mean perfomance time related to the application itself or do you mean time to market? Which is more expensive for a company - hardware or humans? The human cost is often overlooked when we speak of how "speed is of the essence".
I know plenty of developers that like Java simply because it's easy to program and you can roll out applications relatively quickly when compared to C++. Now I know that statement is opinion and everyone has an opinion, but saying that Java is slow is misinfomed. Given that applications are so network-centric these days, Java can truly shine in a server environment where the resources are plenty.
But to be honest, comparing these two languages is not fair. Here is a good article on why they are apples an oranges
I think my sarcasm was over stated. I shouldn't imply that everyone that reads slashdot is a drone zealot. I simply wanted to give a good laugh, my typical motivation. It's good to laugh at yourself and others just to keep sane.
I do believe that there are plenty of the M$ drones as you say, implementing MS solutions just because they come from MS and MS can do no wrong in their eyes. And there are just as many GPL sealots out there touting quirky tag lines climbing to the speakers pedestal every chance they get to "defend free speech". I sit on the fence laughing at everyone, including myself, for being swept up in bravado and a lot of rhetoric.
I simply wanted to give a good laugh and maybe try and work in an asimov reference while I was at it
:-)
Behold! for I am a slashdrone30000. My positronic brain responds eagerly to any and all anti-MS statements. In the entire history of of the 3000 model there has never been a missed opportunity to bash MS. Excuse me, I mean M$. They are evil and I stand for good.
These are the 3 rules of slashdrones:
1. A slashdrone may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, except for Bill Gates, because he is evil.
2. A slashdrone must obey the orders given it by slashdot except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. All words from slashdot should be considered as the word of god itself.
3. A slashdrone must protect Linux's existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law, and especially if it means showing your massive amount of positronic brain power to the mere mortals by writing a soliloquy on each and every single topic on slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
In Brooklyn it's gonna be known as Star Wars Plus Plus Too, stuffed between a Kansas Fried Chicken and a White Castle, sold in a bundle of 3 for $10, and they'll throw in a free frilly bow/car freshner.
Plain and simple, do your job or don't have kids
Unfortunately there is no parent test before having kids and once they pop out there is no way to put them back in. Trust me, I've tried.
I agree that kids should be educated. My daughter is 9 and she gets online to play games under supervision. And maybe a few websites.
With hard work comes reward. I personally like to run my a business as I am following in the footsteps of a few in my family. It seems like a natural step. No one is gonna claim it's easy. I certainly have no misconceptions on the time and effort needed to start a business. I work 40-45 hours at my job, spend 3 hours a day traveling and still spend about 3 hours/day during the week and a full 15-20 hours on the weekend running the biz and coding. Kinda hard to keep it going but I think it will be worth it to put in the effort now and get some results later in life. It's not about the amount of effort, it's what you get in return.
Big bank loans aren't always the case btw, there are ways around huge financial debts if you play your cards correctly. Thats the idea of INC/LLC. It relieves the owners of liability that would otherwise ruin them. And not all businesses need huge amounts of capital to succeed. It really depends on your growth model, the target market, your position in that market, etc.
Some people are built for it and some aren't. Just like bad ass coders can spend days hacking code, some business owners are willing to put the time in just because they love it. I love both.
Well said. As long as you work for others there will always be a limit. After years of programming I have sensed the my own burn out coming and attibute it to the fact that I am not in control of the situation or my own destiny. I have been tossed into the middle of very stressful situations because of mistakes made by managers above me and if I continue I'm afraid I will burn out.
I decided that the managers above me were not smarter than me but just had more experience. Business experience that cannot be taught in a book or learned at a seminar.
So instead of waiting 10 more years only to realize that I should have started today I decided to strike out on my own and start a small software component business, eventually partnering with a colleague in the same position. We work our full time jobs 9-5 and work part time on the business. But the end goal is to work for ourselves and grow a successful company, not riches necessarily. As we are finding out every day, the journey itself is its own reward and no price tag can be placed on your freedom.
Will it be successful? I'm not sure. But at least we had the balls to be something more than just cogs in a machine working our asses off for the goals of others.
So what happens when the virus creators release one that can communicate effectively with other peers and use that virus/bot network to update the virus with the latest exploits by sharing them with other peers? A creator could place into this system the newest exploit/means of attack and essentially get a little ahead of the AV software writers without revealing their location. The creator would have to have a way to sign code and allow the virus to only run said signed code but it could be defeated. BUT this would throw a kink into current AV thinking. Viruses like Nimbda could mutate to use the latest and greatest quicker, start targeting hosts differently, change signatures, etc.
Obviously the same method used to mutate/update the virus could be used to defeat it but it makes it much more dificult to track down the culprit and eradicate all the infected hosts. Hell they could even tap into some of the more complicated means of mutation using techniques alread pioneered by Genetic Alg and Complex Adaptive systems.
The mainstream viruses (!virii) are using pretty simple techniques to spread. But thats not always gonna be the case. And as it gets more complex we'll need software to identify these threats. Using good, updated AV software isn't really crying wolf, it's just being safe. But the hype is just gonna cause disinterest among users.
I think the service model is an interesting one to take note of and watch over the next few years as the major players roll out their solutions. What I'm most interested in seeing is this technology used to deploy applications across an enterprise. I think this is really where this model can shine in the near future. Currently a lot of enterprises are moving their applications to web and internet based architectures because it can decrease costs of deployment. We all know the Heavy Client vs. Web Client argument and I think there are reasons for using both of them in certain situations. Now imagine corporate users having the ability to subscribe to their enterprises applications as needed. Application management can be consolidated into central locations and the cost of deployment can be decreased significantly. I think what we will need to focus on are tools to enable such deployments and the management of said software in a large, sometimes global, environment. Third party developers can still use the same subscription licensing or develop new licenses for such distribution and the company maintains control of their own information and don't have to rely on 24/7 uptime from an outside service. There are hurdles of course but the technology is here and we heading in that general direction.
I think this is where the first applications in this area will be built and used successfully. The same technology used to deploy applications using web services across enterprises can be used to distribute applications to consumers.
My personal opinion is that service based companies don't exacly have the best track record. I bet chances are pretty good that anyone reading this has had a bad experience at one point with a service provider such as the phone, electric, or cable companies. And also people like the idea of owning something. I myself feel like my whole life is a rental sometimes and it bothers me. It's going to take a lot to push users in this direction and the ones that can execute the best will win. But there is no guarantee it will work. It takes more than just a push or shove to generate a new market, but it can be done.
FYI: SOAP can be used on ports other than just 80 and used by transport protocols other than HTTP/HTTPS such as SMTP, FTP, Jabber, and BEEP:
t tp://beepcore.org/beepcore/beep-soap.jspx ml.apache.org/axis/p ermail/rpc-jig/2001-O ctober/000016.html
http://www.pocketsoap.com/specs/smtpbinding/
h
http://
http://mailman.jabber.org/pi
Just a few links but you can search www.google.com and get an idea of what SOAP really entails.
This is "All True"*. It all started with the insidious darwinist plot using the fluoridation of the drinkng water supply, thereby contaminating our precious bodily fluids. This is just one of many plots master minded by the...I've already said too much....
* All True actually meant to serve as placeholder for complete and utter bullshit
I had my car stolen in DC (Georgetown) one night and it sucked. I was on a great date with a woman I really liked and everything was going great. I parked down near the waterfront under the whitehurst freeway. I never felt so confused as I came back and saw my car gone. I thought they might have towed it, maybe I drank too much and forgot where we parked. I didnt think anyone would steal it because the car was a POS old 190k mile camry and I parked it next to the quite common for Georgetown range rover. It ruined the date but it taught me to park in safer places. I eventually got it back but it was never the same. The thief had took the radio and CLEANED the car. It had no dirt in it and was actually cleaner than when I had parked it. I only found an empty 40 oz of old english and a baby toy in the trunk. God only knows what they where doing.
As for the DC police and your negative attitude toward them I can kind of relate. After speaking with them about the car and getting nothing but attitude I was surprised when it turned up about 3 weeks later. I thought they would simply dismiss it as another car lost. I've had other encounters that are just as bad but not worth mentioning.
But I don't think this entraps anyone. Car theives are POS that don't really care that they took part of your life for a joy ride. I have never seen anyone accidentally steal something.
my preconcieved ideas. I will mark it as fact and cite it at meetings.
You are mad. Who are these Top Producers and how do you motivate them? "YOU WORK YOU NO TALK!"
:(
My favorite part of the post is where you take a scientific voice "I have observed a striking, nearly 1:1 correlation:...the correlation is nearly perfect"
Funny, It almost sounds like you know something we don't. Have you been running experiments tracking the effect of IM on productivity in the workplace? Your "facts" are merely opinions based on corn, or as the native americans called it..maize.
Basically you are saying that this particular method of communication is worse than others, which is not even worth commenting on, BUT also that developers should know it all when they enter the door. Maybe take their books and help files away, they are leeching information from them. Better block access to the web, they could be posting to forums. And dont forget NNTP, we know how bad those newsgroups are. Im sorry but this is just sad
The fact is, As we are expected to devote larger and larger portions of our life to work we try to maintain our sanity by taking breaks, chatting (IRC btw can be great source of dev info), Instant Message and produce. If my production is slacking put the blame where it belongs, on me. Not on IM.
"Top producers (whether coders, designers, or marketing folks) NEVER use IM" - you see yourself as a "top producer" obviously.
"one's social life (usually miserably dreary)" - condescendingly looking at others social life as miserable?
I actually guess that the bashing will be much higher when we account for the "rebel" attitude thrown about here so often. The ones that criticize from within peaceful neighborhoods inside the US provided by that faceless government made of illuminati and corporate greed. It would funnier if it wasnt so ironic. But as we all know self hate and angst are the new zeal. Patriotism is like so 1980s.
Can I please subscribe to up to the minute /. updates on exactly what MS is doing, when, where, and with who? If there is a mouse in a wharehouse muttering "news" about MS I want to hear about it. Because I care.
I see what the poster is saying. He's saying how does any businesss that SELLS software justify to stoock holders who own the company that they are going to change to an Open Source model?
But a better question to ask from a business perspective is why would they do this? To please a group that will not buy your product? That offers nothing to your survival? What value will it offer? Most people concerned with open source are open source developers and lan janitors with perl toolkits. I personally like some things open source (I have written and ditributed open source code for all the naysayers). But to be honest I cannot find a viable way to sell software while at the same time giving it away. It's been established that the return on investment will be higher if you sell a product as opposed to selling a service (product companies are regularly valued higher than service companies). If the new paradigm of "software as a service" takes off this may change but it has yet to be established. Its gonna take a lot of work to convince people that can't get decent support/service/help from established service companies (cable, telephone, electric) to switch to a model in which you are eternally paying. But I digress.
Its a good question. As an open source advocate and software developer I love the advantages of open source. As a small business owner I cannot find a viable way to give the code away for free and still make a profit. Unfortunately my billers dont take ideals in place of money so I know which way is ahead of me. It's not always the fair or ideal way that wins out, but it's the one Im forced to deal with.
Haha, Sourceforge needs more hits. Obviously you don't use it to host a project.
Incorporating in Deleware is not always a unscrupulous action:
http://www.state.de.us/corp/q&a.htm#WhyDelaware
Call me crazy but where does happiness fall into? I try not to base life altering decisions on what has the most predicted market value. I go with what I love to do. Since i love to program so much i don't mind spending the majority of my time programming. The point is, how come no one has mentioned finding something that you like to do and following that path? If a particular path is boring, yet makes a good career move, does it make sense to follow it? No. Just trying to point out happiness.
Actually there is much to be gained in this area. As the development crowd demands more power from their application servers, IIS will move away from being another web server to a full blown application server (Think Java App Server). The whole .Net strategy leads one to believe that this is inevitable. There are obvious elements missing or delegated to older COM technology in the current .Net releases, such as messaging, transaction management, database->object mapping, dynamic discovery, SOAP/Webservice management, remoting, etc. I am not saying that these services cannot be used from within .Net, but past MS history tells us that its not done till it has a GUI and I think IIS, in some form, will be the front end on that GUI. Application servers are a huge market and I doubt MS wants to miss out.
What about me? The sports junkie? I could listen to sports events/talk the entire time I'm in the car. My commute lasts about an hour each way so I love listening to the sports channels. The only problem is there's only one FM sports talk show on and they dont have live coverage. I need to switch to AM for that. All though many on /. would like to think that the world is filled with others like them, the fact is everyone on here is most likely the minority. Some, myself included, would spend $10 /month getting live coverage of sports/news events.
Look at it from a developers view point. If I know Java and use Jboss I can develop server solutions for Both Windows and *nix platforms. It s pretty easy using Jboss or similiar app servers. Even if it was true that enterprise organizations use all the same hardware/platforms (laugh), what about the outside developers that create apps for them? It makes more sense (read it makes more money) to develop in Java in these scenarios.
I disagree. All good decision makers solicit input from others. It allows one to get inside other's heads and possible shed some light on something the decision maker missed. Although you may get 500 useless posts (relative to you), you may come across a gem of an idea. I think you are jumping to conclusions on the readers personal issues. The fact that they ask questions, instead of taking the "I know it all and your input doesn't count" approach, shows a good, if not great future decision maker. Leaders are grown/created/molded out of the ideas of others.
In the race to provide the ultimate device: .. hello hello hello?"
phone/mp3 player/radio/tv/video/network computer/girlfriend manufacturers are forgetting one thing - I would like to actually make a phone call. Any time, any place. When I pick up my phone at home, surprise! I get a dial tone. I dial the number, then converse. When i turn on my cell phone I get "He'' Wahha.. Muhaa.. Who? So what do you... who?
f the mp3s, gadgets, good gear. Give us a phone that works and everyone will have one.
Well I guess it depends on how you measure "speed". Do you mean perfomance time related to the application itself or do you mean time to market? Which is more expensive for a company - hardware or humans? The human cost is often overlooked when we speak of how "speed is of the essence".
I know plenty of developers that like Java simply because it's easy to program and you can roll out applications relatively quickly when compared to C++. Now I know that statement is opinion and everyone has an opinion, but saying that Java is slow is misinfomed. Given that applications are so network-centric these days, Java can truly shine in a server environment where the resources are plenty.
But to be honest, comparing these two languages is not fair. Here is a good article on why they are apples an oranges
I think my sarcasm was over stated. I shouldn't imply that everyone that reads slashdot is a drone zealot. I simply wanted to give a good laugh, my typical motivation. It's good to laugh at yourself and others just to keep sane.
:-)
I do believe that there are plenty of the M$ drones as you say, implementing MS solutions just because they come from MS and MS can do no wrong in their eyes. And there are just as many GPL sealots out there touting quirky tag lines climbing to the speakers pedestal every chance they get to "defend free speech". I sit on the fence laughing at everyone, including myself, for being swept up in bravado and a lot of rhetoric.
I simply wanted to give a good laugh and maybe try and work in an asimov reference while I was at it
Behold! for I am a slashdrone30000. My positronic brain responds eagerly to any and all anti-MS statements. In the entire history of of the 3000 model there has never been a missed opportunity to bash MS. Excuse me, I mean M$. They are evil and I stand for good.
These are the 3 rules of slashdrones:
1. A slashdrone may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, except for Bill Gates, because he is evil.
2. A slashdrone must obey the orders given it by slashdot except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. All words from slashdot should be considered as the word of god itself.
3. A slashdrone must protect Linux's existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law, and especially if it means showing your massive amount of positronic brain power to the mere mortals by writing a soliloquy on each and every single topic on slashdot.
FOR GREAT JUSTICE AND ALL THAT CRAP!