The big difference is that all the browser has to do for java is host the runtime. For javascript, the browser has to support the entire instruction set. Java takes longer to start. But once it has started, it gives you much more control.
This clearly falls into the Previous Use category. The usenet, for example, or DEC Notes are all examples where that "technology" was used. Even physical bulletin boards are examples. You've got to ask yourself what's up at the USPTO when they allow patents like this.
Apples are good quality, but so are others. My Packard Bell has worked flawlessly for four years now. Apple is a niche product and doesn't really prepare students what what is used the most. Granted, I wouldn't approve of them forcing MS down their throats either but Apple???
Let's say you've got three kids in school, that works out to $75/month. For a single parent working part time, that can break the bank. Besides, research has shown that kids without the laptops in class at college have better grades. Writing notes actually helps retention.
This requirement will last until the first lawsuit, which I'm sure various lawyers are preparing right now. That's ridiculous to require students to purchase a MAC, especially since it is twice as expensive as other options. Now if they required a basic $300 netbook running linux, it would be more justifiable and more affordable, but basically I don't think they should require anything.
just because your arbitrary deadline has passed does not give you right to aid others in harming others computers.
MS created the bug, not the google researcher. He gave them five days to fix it. Who knows how long this bug has been letting hackers attack your system? Five days is long enough to fix it. MS just didn't take it seriously.
The person who released the vulnerability needs to grow up. Just because he might be a competent security researcher doesn't seem to translate to him being able to act like an adult, and to treat others with respect.
I think he did the responsible thing. People need to know that their OS is insecure. MS has never taken security seriously, or perhaps, better put, they've put their priorities on other things: backward compatibility (especially for drivers) market dominance and making sure competitors products don't run well (eg. "Dos isn't done until Lotus won't run").
Those cheap SATA discs the kids keep suggesting don't come anywhere near that.
I've got to remember that " the kids keep suggesting " phrase. I'm constantly fighting the "what works" battle against the new-fangled, young whipper-snapper stuff that is cool but doesn't get the job done.
Agreed. If you have X$ to spend over time, you'll get more bank for your buck by not buying the latest and greatest. The upper-middle range will cost you half and you can update twice as frequently.
I am in a constant battle with those at work who believe that more expensive is always better. Problem is, one guy comes from the bankrupt company we just bought out. Their server cost, I kid you not, $100,000. We are running both businesses now on a $500 Dell desktop running as a server (plus another $300 box as a backup). The bankrupt company spent so much money on their server 8 years ago or so, that they blew their wad and couldn't afford to upgrade the server, which by today's standards, is incredibly slow.
The fact that it will continue to be a standard ethernet cable connection rather than a specialized modem/router connection to fiber hardware it what is news.
The article confuses Ad Revenue with Search Results. Google is refusing Ad Revenue from Non-Family websites. This is not restricted to cougar related businesses. If you search for "cougars looking for younger men", you'll see plenty of results for Cougar Websites. Google is just refusing to be an advertising source for them.
when you use a swear word as an adjective, you miss the opportunity to use an adjective that would help the listener.
True, but, sometimes, the speaker just wants to express feelings: frustration, dislike, love, etc. Sometimes the F word is effective for that. "She's f'ing gorgeous." or "You f'ing jerk" or probably more effective at that than "She's exceptionally beautiful" or "You inconsiderate person."
The case with the defendent was settled many years ago when the court found that he could not be held liable for doing what any novice would do. And, at that time, it was not trivial for a novice user to know how to set the password or even that the password must be set. The network was not open, but the password was left unchanged and, at that time, the mfg had the same default password on all routers.
However, the case was brought up again as a case of interest to set precedent for future cases where the court found that today a novice user should be able to create a secure network, mostly because, routers are delivered that way by default, with unique passwords for routers and WPA2 Personal as default.
Some times the/. headings are a little misleading.
>embedded programming and the like And it's more and more irrelevant (Moore's law). It's quite often easier to use more expensive embedded system then to pay for more complex development.
My experience has been, that every software system which has taken that approach, was written so inefficiently and was so slow that it frustrated users or was just plane unusable.
Case in point, our mfg software written for slower processors at the time and we didn't fall for the trap of assuming that faster processors would take up the slack in the future. We just took over a company which took a different approach. Their software was so slow in the end that their $100,000 server couldn't keep up. We moved them over to our software which is now running efficiently on a Dell Vostro desktop (running as our server) with an Intel E8400 processor and 4G of memory, which cost about $500.
BYW, the software was written in Java, which, despite rumors, is quite fast now.
So the old Blame Windows standard won't work in this case.
It sounds like the old "Windows has so many holes because it's so popular" excuse has lost credibility so now we are trying to find another scape goat.
Reminds me of a joke I once heard: if you put a mechanical engineer and a mathematician on one wall in a room and put a beautiful woman on the other wall and tell the men they can walk have the distance to the woman, then half the remaining distance, then have that remaining distance and so on. The mathematician will walk away because he knows that you will never actually arrive (there's a calculus formula name in here somewhere which approaches zero but never actually is zero). The engineer will start walking because he knows you can get close enough for all practical purposes.
Typically, a group like that builds a chip or architecture and learns from the experience. Sitting around having a few beers or in the cafeteria they start talking about how they could make the bestest, badest, most energy efficient or highest performance or whatever chip ever, given what they know now. Someone knows someone who works higher up at google and pretty soon they are talking.
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The big difference is that all the browser has to do for java is host the runtime. For javascript, the browser has to support the entire instruction set. Java takes longer to start. But once it has started, it gives you much more control.
This clearly falls into the Previous Use category. The usenet, for example, or DEC Notes are all examples where that "technology" was used. Even physical bulletin boards are examples. You've got to ask yourself what's up at the USPTO when they allow patents like this.
I live in Germany but pay taxes in the US and Germany. I can tell you that the US tax system is significantly more complex than the German tax system.
Apples are good quality, but so are others. My Packard Bell has worked flawlessly for four years now. Apple is a niche product and doesn't really prepare students what what is used the most. Granted, I wouldn't approve of them forcing MS down their throats either but Apple???
Let's say you've got three kids in school, that works out to $75/month. For a single parent working part time, that can break the bank. Besides, research has shown that kids without the laptops in class at college have better grades. Writing notes actually helps retention.
This requirement will last until the first lawsuit, which I'm sure various lawyers are preparing right now. That's ridiculous to require students to purchase a MAC, especially since it is twice as expensive as other options. Now if they required a basic $300 netbook running linux, it would be more justifiable and more affordable, but basically I don't think they should require anything.
just because your arbitrary deadline has passed does not give you right to aid others in harming others computers.
MS created the bug, not the google researcher. He gave them five days to fix it. Who knows how long this bug has been letting hackers attack your system? Five days is long enough to fix it. MS just didn't take it seriously.
The person who released the vulnerability needs to grow up. Just because he might be a competent security researcher doesn't seem to translate to him being able to act like an adult, and to treat others with respect.
I think he did the responsible thing. People need to know that their OS is insecure. MS has never taken security seriously, or perhaps, better put, they've put their priorities on other things: backward compatibility (especially for drivers) market dominance and making sure competitors products don't run well (eg. "Dos isn't done until Lotus won't run").
Those cheap SATA discs the kids keep suggesting don't come anywhere near that.
I've got to remember that " the kids keep suggesting " phrase. I'm constantly fighting the "what works" battle against the new-fangled, young whipper-snapper stuff that is cool but doesn't get the job done.
Patenting software is like patenting math.
It's pretty hard these days to write a complex app that runs faster in C++ than in Java unless it is purely computational.
It's in there now:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&q=I+found+this+post+at+google+before+I+wrote+it.+slashdot&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
the i7-875K offers better performance and power efficiency per dollar than just about any other desktop CPU out there."
Yep, coming in near the top at .... place 17. http://techreport.com/articles.x/18988/2
The author must be an Intel fan. Almost all the best price/performance numbers are in AMD's offerings.
Agreed. If you have X$ to spend over time, you'll get more bank for your buck by not buying the latest and greatest. The upper-middle range will cost you half and you can update twice as frequently.
I am in a constant battle with those at work who believe that more expensive is always better. Problem is, one guy comes from the bankrupt company we just bought out. Their server cost, I kid you not, $100,000. We are running both businesses now on a $500 Dell desktop running as a server (plus another $300 box as a backup). The bankrupt company spent so much money on their server 8 years ago or so, that they blew their wad and couldn't afford to upgrade the server, which by today's standards, is incredibly slow.
like sex and the Pentium 4, faster isn't always necessarily better...
Thanks, that made my day!
The fact that it will continue to be a standard ethernet cable connection rather than a specialized modem/router connection to fiber hardware it what is news.
Thinking for oneself is passe now that we have iPads.
Is the correllary true, Those who can think for themselves, don't buy an Ipad?
The article confuses Ad Revenue with Search Results. Google is refusing Ad Revenue from Non-Family websites. This is not restricted to cougar related businesses. If you search for "cougars looking for younger men", you'll see plenty of results for Cougar Websites. Google is just refusing to be an advertising source for them.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cougars+looking+for+younger+men
when you use a swear word as an adjective, you miss the opportunity to use an adjective that would help the listener.
True, but, sometimes, the speaker just wants to express feelings: frustration, dislike, love, etc. Sometimes the F word is effective for that. "She's f'ing gorgeous." or "You f'ing jerk" or probably more effective at that than "She's exceptionally beautiful" or "You inconsiderate person."
The case with the defendent was settled many years ago when the court found that he could not be held liable for doing what any novice would do. And, at that time, it was not trivial for a novice user to know how to set the password or even that the password must be set. The network was not open, but the password was left unchanged and, at that time, the mfg had the same default password on all routers.
However, the case was brought up again as a case of interest to set precedent for future cases where the court found that today a novice user should be able to create a secure network, mostly because, routers are delivered that way by default, with unique passwords for routers and WPA2 Personal as default.
Some times the /. headings are a little misleading.
Did they prosecute the friend who gave her the candy for being a distributor?
>embedded programming and the like
And it's more and more irrelevant (Moore's law). It's quite often easier to use more expensive embedded system then to pay for more complex development.
My experience has been, that every software system which has taken that approach, was written so inefficiently and was so slow that it frustrated users or was just plane unusable.
Case in point, our mfg software written for slower processors at the time and we didn't fall for the trap of assuming that faster processors would take up the slack in the future. We just took over a company which took a different approach. Their software was so slow in the end that their $100,000 server couldn't keep up. We moved them over to our software which is now running efficiently on a Dell Vostro desktop (running as our server) with an Intel E8400 processor and 4G of memory, which cost about $500.
BYW, the software was written in Java, which, despite rumors, is quite fast now.
So the old Blame Windows standard won't work in this case.
It sounds like the old "Windows has so many holes because it's so popular" excuse has lost credibility so now we are trying to find another scape goat.
Did you mean this picture?
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cm/popularmechanics/images/wh/wildcatters-5-1209.jpg
Reminds me of a joke I once heard: if you put a mechanical engineer and a mathematician on one wall in a room and put a beautiful woman on the other wall and tell the men they can walk have the distance to the woman, then half the remaining distance, then have that remaining distance and so on. The mathematician will walk away because he knows that you will never actually arrive (there's a calculus formula name in here somewhere which approaches zero but never actually is zero). The engineer will start walking because he knows you can get close enough for all practical purposes.
Typically, a group like that builds a chip or architecture and learns from the experience. Sitting around having a few beers or in the cafeteria they start talking about how they could make the bestest, badest, most energy efficient or highest performance or whatever chip ever, given what they know now. Someone knows someone who works higher up at google and pretty soon they are talking.