does this not bother anyone else? Why is our government so powerful that it can involve itself in development of a commercial product by a private company? Do we not realize that by endorsing this, we are inviting government to get involved in more an more areas of out lives. Why not regulating what types of products you can build as a developer? This is insane. I cannot believe that my fellow slashdotters think this is ok. Government has gone too far.
It is my understanding that all of core java would be based on the OpenJDK going forward. Basically OpenJDK is SunJDK6.999 beta. SunJDK 7 will be the openJDK and SunJDK >= version 7 will all be open(gpl?).
As a software engineer, I understand the importance of adhering to and enforcing a software license, however these constant lawsuits are eventually going to cripple the free software movement. Before I am tared and feathered, let me explain. Many companies are adopting OSS as a means of rolling out custom products faster. It is easier to use something that already exists rather than rebuilding it themselves. The problem is that as we all know, many OSS projects tend to be buggy or lacking in some obscure feature. What invariably happens is that along the way, is that some engineer decides to make a modification to a package in order to make it fit their unique needs (usually without authorization from the legal dept). Next thing you know you have a product that is heavily dependent on some customized OSS package that was never supposed to be used in such a capacity. Now the company is forced to turn over software that they invested in and are exposed to risk of litigation because of a breakdown in the dev process. Now I am not saying that companies should be able to rape OSS projects for free development work but there has to be a balance. I think the FSF and the Gnu people should work out some sort of process where corporate customizations can be evaluated for context and value of the original package. And maybe have a source review process where the OSS developer can review what was added without exposing trade secrets of the corporations trying to use the OSS. I think it is insane to treat corporations as the enemy. OSS developers should be working with Corporations not suing them. This is the sole reason I release all my code under BSD license. I want people to use my products not sit and wonder about whether I have released my software as a trap for a future lawsuit. This whole OSS litigation process reminds me so much of patent trolling it is scary.
I'd like to get my wife comfortable with threesome-with-hot-younger-sister package. Every time she tries to emerge it, she gets root # emerge -pv threesome-with-hot-younger-sister These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies...done! [blocks B ] sys-marriage/crazy-jealous-bitch-who-never-learned-to-share-1.0.0-r1 (is [cock]blocking apps-entertainment/threesome-with-hot-younger-sister-0.9-beta)
According to article 4 the geneva convention, you must be a member of militia (uniformed and following the laws of the geneva convention yourself) before you can clam protection under the geneva convention.
Please read article 5 as it explicitly defines that terrorists spies and saboteurs are specifically not protected by the Geneva convention.
I am a contractor who does programming out of my home. I used sit at desk in my office and write my code on real PC. About 2 years back I bought a laptop with a really big screen (17"). I coded at my desk a while longer until I realized that now I am mobile. Now when I get home from work as a programmer, I sit down in my Super over sized plush reclining easy chair in the living room in front of the 42 in LCD tv. I do all my coding right there in my living room and now my family and I are all together even if I am working. The only think I can recommend is make sure the arms are really stuffed full and that the char is deep enough that when relaxed, the elbow hits the arm of the chair and the hand falls just a few inches shy of the end of super stuffed arm rest. This will allow him to use the arms of the chair as a mousepad!!!!!
Since when was it Apple's responsibility to raise the standard of living around the world? The whole reason huge corporations move manufacturing to the third world is because it is so much cheaper. If it weren't so much cheaper, these Corporations would go somewhere else to manufacture their devices. Then where would the poor Darfurians be?
I can comment on the "fiasco". I bought my mac a couple months ago because I heard about boot camp. Now I have gentoo running on my mac book pro but the wireless card doesn't work!!!! I mean WTF. How do you release a tool to make dual booting easy but then you use hardware that does not have drivers for every imaginable OS? I mean what gives!!!! Btw everything else works (including isight) and I love my mac. Now if I only knew how to use OSx...
I would like to point out that unless the government is moderating the forum, then it is not censorship. It is simply a private entity moderating the site which he owns. Good for him.
I thought we were calling these positions Czars. I get so sick of these kinds of announcements. Since when did a single person (who was not a Shareholder) ever truly alter a corporate culture
I consider myself a technical purist. When I see poor code it causes me pain (and usually hours to fix it) and I don't think I need that kind of punishment from microsoft. It is bad enough that I have to use their SloS at work. I prefer not to be subjected to their hideous source code.
I'd like to point out that memory is also extremely important with the use of tabs. When firefox/firebird first came out, I said "tabs are stupid just open another browser window". Nowadays it is not uncommon for me to have eclipse (for dev), tomcat (for testing), outlook (for communication) and firefox (FULL of open tabs) all up at the same time. My eclipse app is loaded with plugins and memory usage is important in all the other apps. Additionally, while researching various tutorials it is not uncommon to have ~100 tabs open at a time (mostly because I don't close anything until I am done working on a particular block of code)
I think this is wrong. I am straight and I can tell when a man is attractive or not. Unfortunately, I am apparently the only attractive man on the planet.
that this was probably a study done by women. There should have been a companion study "Do women confused courtesy/kindness as sexual overtures?" And of course we have all worked with "that woman" that thinks that every man in the office is trying to fondle her in the elevator (even the men who are into other men).
I'd like to point out that this study is pretty much worthless. I like to hate Ms as much as the next guy but this study shows a slippage against other brands *IN OTHER INDUSTRIES*. This is comparing Microsoft and Coke? WTF. Maybe some of these other brands surged in popularity. Or maybe computer industry in general is viewed less favorably. This would be much more useful if it was focused a specific industry.
the question is not "are they popular?". The question is "At what point will apple reach its maximum market saturation?" For me, the biggest thing keeping me from getting an iphone is the inability to use it with anything other than itunes (I'm on linux) without unlocking the phone which apple might turn around and brick in 3 weeks. But for my wife, the biggest thing holding her back (as I suspect is most often the case) is a combination of huge price and leaving our current provider.
10. Lack of professors with RECENT real world experience. Many of the professors I have had have only had real world experience with procedural languages. I found the highest quality professors were those that had real jobs as software engineers outside the classroom. One professor at my university routinely posts news articles about the impending CoBOL comeback. I am still waiting. 9. cookie cutter lessons. None of the lessons taught in class are fresh. In fact, at my university, the lessons have to be "approved" by some department head so once a professor gets one approved, he just reprints the syllabus and assignments from the previous years with new due dates on them. 8. Classes are too long. I spend enormous amounts of time IN CLASS and between 2 jobs and school I have little time for homework, studies and family. Also a semester should be shorter (maybe a month shorter), It seems like each project is only marginally different than the previous. I mean how many different ways do I need to to be able to perform relevance analysis? Once you learn the theory and 1 implementation, move on. It's not that interesting anyways. yes I know this was similar to #1 but my complaint is not that the assignments are repetitive but more that a 4 month semester is too long to spend on a single topic and professors are packing the time with stupid assignments. 7. Hostility to all things open source. My university still refuses to accept that students might not be running Windows (or even OSx). I am routinely assigned projects that require MS SqlServer or Excel or some equally annoying platform dependent technology. When I ask my professors "Does it run on Linux?" they always give me a blank stare for 30 seconds before telling me that there is a Lab on campus will all the software I need.... It's too bad I work 60 hours a week and am lucky just to get to class. I mean Why are they chained to visual studio? How much is MS paying them to use only MS products? 6. lack of interest in new technologies. I know this kinda goes with the above but Jesus people if I hear one more professor rattle on about punch cards or CoBOL I am gonna lose my mind. We get it. You guys programmed by chiseling instructions on stone tablets and the ramming the tablets up a dinosaur's ass and then you waited for the dinosaur to perform your instructions. I don't CARE!!! let's try something new shall we? Quit livin' in the Past.
or who knows, your living room antics might be the next goatse or starwars kid (I love thos vids). Tell you what though, I see the first application for this being 14 year old myspace hookers. If only comcast realized the goldmine this might be.
but I may as well point this out. I think the reasons Most Americans don't care is because they understand the program beyond what it is being called. 1) The media likes to call it "Domestic Spying" but the truth is that the authority only covers calls where one party is outside the US. In that case, calling it a "Domestic Spy Program" is deceptive. 2) Americans understand (even if the eggheads in the media do not) that the US is at war. And during war time the US policy needs to be nimble enough to combat a faceless enemy. In a world where terrorist cells operate almost completely autonomous, you can't say "Well we can't listen to this conversation because we don't have a warrant. We'll get a warrant for the next one." There may not be a next one. Buildings could just start dropping from the sky. 3) As far as abuses of the patriot act go, you really need to look at this in a historical context. In WW2, Roosevelt interned 120K Japanese-Americans out of fear that they might try to sabotage US efforts against Japan. In June 1942, 8 German saboteurs were caught trying to enter the US to sabotage the US efforts against Germany. By July 8th, All eight were sentenced to death by a military tribunal. By August they all smelled a little too much like burnt toast. Lincoln is famous for his rape of the constitution. After the civil war, 2nd amendment rights in the south were abbreviated, Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus, etc.
So you see, this is the nature of war. I will be more concerned about these programs if they exist long after American boots have left the middle east. In the meantime, I want my uncle and brother to be as safe as possible over there.
I bought a house in 2005 and I didn't like the fat proctologist fingers then either. Just because government has monopoly on the use of force doesn't mean there is a blank check to police every aspect of our lives. I, for one, am sick to death of all the Womb-to-Tomb treatment our government seems to be dishing out. Whatever happened to rugged individualism and the ability to charge whatever you want for your services with the only price control being supply and demand? My dad used to tell this same joke all the time: "Don't worry. I'm from the government. I'm here to help."
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does this not bother anyone else? Why is our government so powerful that it can involve itself in development of a commercial product by a private company? Do we not realize that by endorsing this, we are inviting government to get involved in more an more areas of out lives. Why not regulating what types of products you can build as a developer? This is insane. I cannot believe that my fellow slashdotters think this is ok. Government has gone too far.
It is my understanding that all of core java would be based on the OpenJDK going forward. Basically OpenJDK is SunJDK6.999 beta. SunJDK 7 will be the openJDK and SunJDK >= version 7 will all be open(gpl?).
Someone please correct me if that is wrong.
As a software engineer, I understand the importance of adhering to and enforcing a software license, however these constant lawsuits are eventually going to cripple the free software movement. Before I am tared and feathered, let me explain. Many companies are adopting OSS as a means of rolling out custom products faster. It is easier to use something that already exists rather than rebuilding it themselves. The problem is that as we all know, many OSS projects tend to be buggy or lacking in some obscure feature. What invariably happens is that along the way, is that some engineer decides to make a modification to a package in order to make it fit their unique needs (usually without authorization from the legal dept). Next thing you know you have a product that is heavily dependent on some customized OSS package that was never supposed to be used in such a capacity. Now the company is forced to turn over software that they invested in and are exposed to risk of litigation because of a breakdown in the dev process. Now I am not saying that companies should be able to rape OSS projects for free development work but there has to be a balance. I think the FSF and the Gnu people should work out some sort of process where corporate customizations can be evaluated for context and value of the original package. And maybe have a source review process where the OSS developer can review what was added without exposing trade secrets of the corporations trying to use the OSS. I think it is insane to treat corporations as the enemy. OSS developers should be working with Corporations not suing them. This is the sole reason I release all my code under BSD license. I want people to use my products not sit and wonder about whether I have released my software as a trap for a future lawsuit. This whole OSS litigation process reminds me so much of patent trolling it is scary.
I'd like to get my wife comfortable with threesome-with-hot-younger-sister package. Every time she tries to emerge it, she gets
...done!
root # emerge -pv threesome-with-hot-younger-sister
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies
[blocks B ] sys-marriage/crazy-jealous-bitch-who-never-learned-to-share-1.0.0-r1 (is [cock]blocking apps-entertainment/threesome-with-hot-younger-sister-0.9-beta)
According to article 4 the geneva convention, you must be a member of militia (uniformed and following the laws of the geneva convention yourself) before you can clam protection under the geneva convention.
Please read article 5 as it explicitly defines that terrorists spies and saboteurs are specifically not protected by the Geneva convention.
I am a contractor who does programming out of my home. I used sit at desk in my office and write my code on real PC. About 2 years back I bought a laptop with a really big screen (17"). I coded at my desk a while longer until I realized that now I am mobile. Now when I get home from work as a programmer, I sit down in my Super over sized plush reclining easy chair in the living room in front of the 42 in LCD tv. I do all my coding right there in my living room and now my family and I are all together even if I am working. The only think I can recommend is make sure the arms are really stuffed full and that the char is deep enough that when relaxed, the elbow hits the arm of the chair and the hand falls just a few inches shy of the end of super stuffed arm rest. This will allow him to use the arms of the chair as a mousepad!!!!!
are you sure we can't blame this on bush????
it's only a subsidy if you have the ability to buy it from the manufacturer at an unsubsidized price. Otherwise it is just the price.
Since when was it Apple's responsibility to raise the standard of living around the world? The whole reason huge corporations move manufacturing to the third world is because it is so much cheaper. If it weren't so much cheaper, these Corporations would go somewhere else to manufacture their devices. Then where would the poor Darfurians be?
I can comment on the "fiasco". I bought my mac a couple months ago because I heard about boot camp. Now I have gentoo running on my mac book pro but the wireless card doesn't work!!!! I mean WTF. How do you release a tool to make dual booting easy but then you use hardware that does not have drivers for every imaginable OS? I mean what gives!!!! Btw everything else works (including isight) and I love my mac. Now if I only knew how to use OSx...
I use hsql. It has many options: flat file, memory just to name 2.
I have also heard good things about H2 and apache derby. These have been especially valuable for embedded apps
I would like to point out that unless the government is moderating the forum, then it is not censorship. It is simply a private entity moderating the site which he owns. Good for him.
I thought we were calling these positions Czars. I get so sick of these kinds of announcements. Since when did a single person (who was not a Shareholder) ever truly alter a corporate culture
I consider myself a technical purist. When I see poor code it causes me pain (and usually hours to fix it) and I don't think I need that kind of punishment from microsoft. It is bad enough that I have to use their SloS at work. I prefer not to be subjected to their hideous source code.
I'd like to point out that memory is also extremely important with the use of tabs. When firefox /firebird first came out, I said "tabs are stupid just open another browser window". Nowadays it is not uncommon for me to have eclipse (for dev), tomcat (for testing), outlook (for communication) and firefox (FULL of open tabs) all up at the same time. My eclipse app is loaded with plugins and memory usage is important in all the other apps. Additionally, while researching various tutorials it is not uncommon to have ~100 tabs open at a time (mostly because I don't close anything until I am done working on a particular block of code)
I think this is wrong. I am straight and I can tell when a man is attractive or not. Unfortunately, I am apparently the only attractive man on the planet.
that this was probably a study done by women. There should have been a companion study "Do women confused courtesy/kindness as sexual overtures?" And of course we have all worked with "that woman" that thinks that every man in the office is trying to fondle her in the elevator (even the men who are into other men).
I'd like to point out that this study is pretty much worthless. I like to hate Ms as much as the next guy but this study shows a slippage against other brands *IN OTHER INDUSTRIES*. This is comparing Microsoft and Coke? WTF. Maybe some of these other brands surged in popularity. Or maybe computer industry in general is viewed less favorably. This would be much more useful if it was focused a specific industry.
the question is not "are they popular?". The question is "At what point will apple reach its maximum market saturation?" For me, the biggest thing keeping me from getting an iphone is the inability to use it with anything other than itunes (I'm on linux) without unlocking the phone which apple might turn around and brick in 3 weeks. But for my wife, the biggest thing holding her back (as I suspect is most often the case) is a combination of huge price and leaving our current provider.
10. Lack of professors with RECENT real world experience. Many of the professors I have had have only had real world experience with procedural languages. I found the highest quality professors were those that had real jobs as software engineers outside the classroom. One professor at my university routinely posts news articles about the impending CoBOL comeback. I am still waiting.
9. cookie cutter lessons. None of the lessons taught in class are fresh. In fact, at my university, the lessons have to be "approved" by some department head so once a professor gets one approved, he just reprints the syllabus and assignments from the previous years with new due dates on them.
8. Classes are too long. I spend enormous amounts of time IN CLASS and between 2 jobs and school I have little time for homework, studies and family. Also a semester should be shorter (maybe a month shorter), It seems like each project is only marginally different than the previous. I mean how many different ways do I need to to be able to perform relevance analysis? Once you learn the theory and 1 implementation, move on. It's not that interesting anyways. yes I know this was similar to #1 but my complaint is not that the assignments are repetitive but more that a 4 month semester is too long to spend on a single topic and professors are packing the time with stupid assignments.
7. Hostility to all things open source. My university still refuses to accept that students might not be running Windows (or even OSx). I am routinely assigned projects that require MS SqlServer or Excel or some equally annoying platform dependent technology. When I ask my professors "Does it run on Linux?" they always give me a blank stare for 30 seconds before telling me that there is a Lab on campus will all the software I need.... It's too bad I work 60 hours a week and am lucky just to get to class. I mean Why are they chained to visual studio? How much is MS paying them to use only MS products?
6. lack of interest in new technologies. I know this kinda goes with the above but Jesus people if I hear one more professor rattle on about punch cards or CoBOL I am gonna lose my mind. We get it. You guys programmed by chiseling instructions on stone tablets and the ramming the tablets up a dinosaur's ass and then you waited for the dinosaur to perform your instructions. I don't CARE!!! let's try something new shall we? Quit livin' in the Past.
or who knows, your living room antics might be the next goatse or starwars kid (I love thos vids). Tell you what though, I see the first application for this being 14 year old myspace hookers. If only comcast realized the goldmine this might be.
but I may as well point this out. I think the reasons Most Americans don't care is because they understand the program beyond what it is being called.
1) The media likes to call it "Domestic Spying" but the truth is that the authority only covers calls where one party is outside the US. In that case, calling it a "Domestic Spy Program" is deceptive.
2) Americans understand (even if the eggheads in the media do not) that the US is at war. And during war time the US policy needs to be nimble enough to combat a faceless enemy. In a world where terrorist cells operate almost completely autonomous, you can't say "Well we can't listen to this conversation because we don't have a warrant. We'll get a warrant for the next one." There may not be a next one. Buildings could just start dropping from the sky.
3) As far as abuses of the patriot act go, you really need to look at this in a historical context. In WW2, Roosevelt interned 120K Japanese-Americans out of fear that they might try to sabotage US efforts against Japan. In June 1942, 8 German saboteurs were caught trying to enter the US to sabotage the US efforts against Germany. By July 8th, All eight were sentenced to death by a military tribunal. By August they all smelled a little too much like burnt toast. Lincoln is famous for his rape of the constitution. After the civil war, 2nd amendment rights in the south were abbreviated, Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus, etc.
So you see, this is the nature of war. I will be more concerned about these programs if they exist long after American boots have left the middle east. In the meantime, I want my uncle and brother to be as safe as possible over there.
I bought a house in 2005 and I didn't like the fat proctologist fingers then either. Just because government has monopoly on the use of force doesn't mean there is a blank check to police every aspect of our lives. I, for one, am sick to death of all the Womb-to-Tomb treatment our government seems to be dishing out. Whatever happened to rugged individualism and the ability to charge whatever you want for your services with the only price control being supply and demand? My dad used to tell this same joke all the time:
"Don't worry. I'm from the government. I'm here to help."
Does it bother anyone else that government is so deeply involved in the dealings with 2 private entities?
I liked cisco from ds9