My experience with IS majors is that they are uncomfortable with anything less than 4GL.
Though I wouldn't want to start.advocacy, Java, though cleaner of syntax than C++, is still sufficiently heavy to require "heavy lifting" to be written well. When it comes to use in universities however, more elegant languages like Java are preferred over more baroque languages like C++ just because it has less language constructs to teach / shoot yourself in the foot with. The touted advantages of C++ - efficiency etc - are not the prime concern of universities, nor should they be.
I don't think there are any major programs that are written in java ther most average people use everyday (staple apps) that are actually java based on linux distributions. For that matter most of the things I use on windows platforms are not java based either.
Interesting that the entire universe is Win or Linux. Java is in serious use on enterprise class servers as of today. When all the major database vendors bend over themselves to include support for a technology in their platform, it's a little more important than animation.
Though tying it to a company is interesting that would punish innovators as you say. What I meant was the duration of patents is dependent on the number of patents not just submitted, but accepted as patents, by everyone.
This would have a similar effect of "floating" the duration of patents much like currencies were floated a few decades ago. It becomes a measure of both the quality of patents granted and the amount of innovation about. In economic and R&D lulls, the length of patents for everyone would increase, encouraging innovation; in booms the length would decrease, encouraging competition and driving technological change.
Alternatively and talking without any legal or legislative experience, you could introduce a feedback mechanism.
Patents were historically introduced to encourage inventors to share their works rather than hide them in the back shed, and so promote the works of innovation and a technological society. As the pace of technology increases, this becomes less important, and in fact allows organisations to strangle access to particular technologies, stifling innovation. The length of patents should be modified accordingly and automatically.
I don't see the people at the patent office getting a clue about innovation anytime soon. The incremental stripping away and smoothing of features is very much a part of technological improvement. Also, massive innovations are sometimes recognised only in retrospect. Determining the difference between genuine innovation and technological "smoothing" leaves the patent office open to all sorts of problems with inconsistency.
Length of patents could be determined by some constant divided by the number of patents issued over the previous year (not from Jan, from the date of submission). Alternatively some more sophisticated exponential based formula could be used. This would give a boost to innovators in slow periods and the acceptance of lots of spurious patents would quite appreciably devalue the value of other patents submitted.
Problems with this approach? It's complicated and confusing, but in patent law, compared to what?:)
but they they locked them down claiming some crap about a L&F lawsuit.
In case you haven't noticed, desktop vendors can be a touch tetchy about UI design, Apple particularly. What about lawsuits about Aqua, or the design of the iMac? A sure way to kill the beleagured Java on the client would have been to (further) alienate the two major desktops.
On Linux you can use the default, Metal L&F or the Motif L&F. And if you miss Windows that much, you could write your own Win-like L&F and use that.
Yes we could use these new-fangled "automobiles" to replace horses, but the question is, do we want to?
Really now, tampering with transportational systems which have withstood thousands of years of use may destroy large sections of our world. It's no joke - imagine if they "auto"-mated such tasks as laundry or cooking! Womenfolk could become idle and scholarly. With learning comes a desire to alter existing social structures. Enough disagreement and our fine society could collapse into anarchy.
How many "good ideas" are out there by well-intentioned people? How about we feed everybody good rich food and make humans with fast reflexes, strong muscles, and longevity? Sure.. that'll only spawn a deep chasm between the diet haves and the have-nots and might very well spark a war.
There are very serious and very dire decisions to be made with such technology. I hardly think such decisions belong in the hands of people making these decisions. We simply are not at the point socially or otherwise to start tinkering with human transportation. Understanding is one thing, modification is quite another!
I'm on an MS campus right now, and it's an odd hearing about this from/. I just got the strangest vision of Bill, having a bit more time on his hands, browsing/. and reading all the grand plans for his future ("Gates will do this"), and smiling.
Other people in this thread have pointed out Mr Katz meant pornography in a negative sense started with the Victorians. Though prurience reached a peak in the late 19th century I'm uneasy about saying it started then. The West has a long history of getting hung up on naughty pictures. The most obvious mark of this is the historical record. Simply, where's all the porn? We have to deal with a much older repressive beast than just a hundred years or so.
IME in English speaking nations the comment is usually "Only in America" and it can denote anything from noting of general kookiness to wonder at schoolchildren blowing each other away.
The bacteria eats the toxic compounds such as mercury compounds produced by radioactive processes, not the radioactive stuff itself. Its virtue is great resistance to radioactivity.
There's an excellent technological analogue to wearable computers, and that's wearable clothes. What a brilliant solution it is; allowing people to work more flexibly and reliably in a number of environments. I'm sure the original shirt/robe prototype looked rather clunky and useless too...
Absolutely we want a computer to dial phone numbers for us. Automate everything that is automatable and give me a scripting tool for linking it all together so I can automate everything that doesn't interest me... hmmm... I want to schedule my haircut with cron...
"There is infinite hope, but not for man." -- Franz Kafka
20% of the population isn't abnormal, 20% of America is abnormal. I must say it doesn't surprise me.. all that money and caffeine had to have an effect sometime....
Seriously, the pervasive extroversion of American culture as advertised on TV disturbs me. It seems to hard to socially acceptably take time for yourself. But I'm not sure what else to expect from a nation of cowboys, statesman and preachers.
Religious texts (at least in the Judeo-Christian faith/s) were annotated over time until ~3rd? century AD when the Bible was set to its current rather odd mix. There were a few attempts to add things since but they never really got through, which is a shame, as its useful for society to realign its moral compass at times.
The classes are part of the language. The language is not just the syntax, but also the semantics, and the core libraries are tied up in this. For instance all objects inherit from java.lang.Object. I believe all java.* and javax.* classes are part of the language (/platform). This is why the java.lang and java.util packages are described in the Java Language Specification.
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Though I wouldn't want to start .advocacy, Java, though cleaner of syntax than C++, is still sufficiently heavy to require "heavy lifting" to be written well. When it comes to use in universities however, more elegant languages like Java are preferred over more baroque languages like C++ just because it has less language constructs to teach / shoot yourself in the foot with. The touted advantages of C++ - efficiency etc - are not the prime concern of universities, nor should they be.
Interesting that the entire universe is Win or Linux. Java is in serious use on enterprise class servers as of today. When all the major database vendors bend over themselves to include support for a technology in their platform, it's a little more important than animation.
This would have a similar effect of "floating" the duration of patents much like currencies were floated a few decades ago. It becomes a measure of both the quality of patents granted and the amount of innovation about. In economic and R&D lulls, the length of patents for everyone would increase, encouraging innovation; in booms the length would decrease, encouraging competition and driving technological change.
Patents were historically introduced to encourage inventors to share their works rather than hide them in the back shed, and so promote the works of innovation and a technological society. As the pace of technology increases, this becomes less important, and in fact allows organisations to strangle access to particular technologies, stifling innovation. The length of patents should be modified accordingly and automatically.
I don't see the people at the patent office getting a clue about innovation anytime soon. The incremental stripping away and smoothing of features is very much a part of technological improvement. Also, massive innovations are sometimes recognised only in retrospect. Determining the difference between genuine innovation and technological "smoothing" leaves the patent office open to all sorts of problems with inconsistency.
Length of patents could be determined by some constant divided by the number of patents issued over the previous year (not from Jan, from the date of submission). Alternatively some more sophisticated exponential based formula could be used. This would give a boost to innovators in slow periods and the acceptance of lots of spurious patents would quite appreciably devalue the value of other patents submitted.
Problems with this approach? It's complicated and confusing, but in patent law, compared to what? :)
Sir, What's your opinion of the acting ability of Natalie Portman? .... :)
(Widespread use of caffeine explained a lot about the 20th century).
-- Greg Egan
In case you haven't noticed, desktop vendors can be a touch tetchy about UI design, Apple particularly. What about lawsuits about Aqua, or the design of the iMac? A sure way to kill the beleagured Java on the client would have been to (further) alienate the two major desktops.
On Linux you can use the default, Metal L&F or the Motif L&F. And if you miss Windows that much, you could write your own Win-like L&F and use that.
Harry S. Truman was the Democratic candidate and Dewey was the Republican; there's a famous photo of Truman triumphantly brandishing that newspaper.
Really now, tampering with transportational systems which have withstood thousands of years of use may destroy large sections of our world. It's no joke - imagine if they "auto"-mated such tasks as laundry or cooking! Womenfolk could become idle and scholarly. With learning comes a desire to alter existing social structures. Enough disagreement and our fine society could collapse into anarchy.
How many "good ideas" are out there by well-intentioned people? How about we feed everybody good rich food and make humans with fast reflexes, strong muscles, and longevity? Sure.. that'll only spawn a deep chasm between the diet haves and the have-nots and might very well spark a war.
There are very serious and very dire decisions to be made with such technology. I hardly think such decisions belong in the hands of people making these decisions. We simply are not at the point socially or otherwise to start tinkering with human transportation. Understanding is one thing, modification is quite another!
I'm on an MS campus right now, and it's an odd hearing about this from /. I just got the strangest vision of Bill, having a bit more time on his hands, browsing /. and reading all the grand plans for his future ("Gates will do this"), and smiling.
Oh Brave New World! That has such monkeys in it!
Other people in this thread have pointed out Mr Katz meant pornography in a negative sense started with the Victorians. Though prurience reached a peak in the late 19th century I'm uneasy about saying it started then. The West has a long history of getting hung up on naughty pictures. The most obvious mark of this is the historical record. Simply, where's all the porn? We have to deal with a much older repressive beast than just a hundred years or so.
IME in English speaking nations the comment is usually "Only in America" and it can denote anything from noting of general kookiness to wonder at schoolchildren blowing each other away.
The bacteria eats the toxic compounds such as mercury compounds produced by radioactive processes, not the radioactive stuff itself. Its virtue is great resistance to radioactivity.
There's an excellent technological analogue to wearable computers, and that's wearable clothes. What a brilliant solution it is; allowing people to work more flexibly and reliably in a number of environments. I'm sure the original shirt/robe prototype looked rather clunky and useless too ...
"There is infinite hope, but not for man." -- Franz Kafka
Isn't Arnold Schwarzenegger going to be man of the year when he single handedly prevents the Apocalypse in a few days?
And of course he designed and implemented all the protocols, routers etc :)
Seriously, the pervasive extroversion of American culture as advertised on TV disturbs me. It seems to hard to socially acceptably take time for yourself. But I'm not sure what else to expect from a nation of cowboys, statesman and preachers.
Religious texts (at least in the Judeo-Christian faith/s) were annotated over time until ~3rd? century AD when the Bible was set to its current rather odd mix. There were a few attempts to add things since but they never really got through, which is a shame, as its useful for society to realign its moral compass at times.
The classes are part of the language. The language is not just the syntax, but also the semantics, and the core libraries are tied up in this. For instance all objects inherit from java.lang.Object. I believe all java.* and javax.* classes are part of the language (/platform). This is why the java.lang and java.util packages are described in the Java Language Specification.