Ok, here is what I do not understand...
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Cell-Phone Wars
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Hmmm... I actually like having the ability to phone anywhere.
1) Grocery store (I do the groceries) since I often phone up the wife and say, "Hey they are having a special on XYZ, lets say we cook this"
2) Libraries, if the person whispers why do you care? What is the difference between whispering on a phone or to a person beside you?
3) Bookstore, why not? What is the difference between two people talking and one person talking?
4) Coffee shop, ditto again, what is the big deal here?
There was a time here in Europe where people hated people talking on phones. But now that a cell phone is ubiqitous and even kids have them people have grown up and decided it is better to have a cell phone than not. Of course many people now use vibrate mode and talk less loud since the connections are better.
>> Noise pollution should be outlawed
Ok, then lets stop driving cars, using planes, etc. There is noise everywhere and cell phones are a reality of the times.
"Our main focus is the IP [intellectual property] business now," he said.
WTF? Gee instead of actually providing something and furthering the choice of consumers we sue them...
Frankly if the US continues down this path they will only hurts themselves. As when a patent suit is launched US consumers are the ones that pay. I wonder if India and China have these problems....
Do women want to be treated like princesses? Or do women want to be treated like equals?
I think women want to be treated equal. Because when a women is treated like a princess she is treated as a delicate thing that is not entirely capable of thinking herself and has someone to do everything for her...
Ok I am dissecting your words, but think hard. Is treating a women like a princess the same as an equal?
Their group is called Nizza, which is Nice France in German. My guess is that these scum suckers are thinking this is their ticket to the French Riveria. I also think these lawyers are either Germanic's or German background...
Using this thinking as a premise my guess is that this is a lame attempt to hit the jackpot using lawsuits! My oh my how American innovation has progressed!
Funny in many other industries like car's, or other products when the client is willing to pay for it you do it. It is called "easy money".
No I think this is more of an issue, "Oh gee do we really have to do this?". It is an arrogance and not wanting the bother issue. If MS were desparate for business they would do it. Especially if the client is willing to pay for it.
The reason why the 28 countries are exempt is not because they have a special status. It is because those countries have machine readable passports that contains as much information as the fingerprints.
The fingerprints from what I could figure out is to make it difficult to travel into the US using multiple passports. Remember that many of the terrorists traveled on multiple and fake passports. The only way to control that is to use a fingerprint which nails the person down to a single identity. The machine readable passport will indicate what the person should look like and who that person is.
Oddly enough I agree here. I also live in Switzerland and when traveling to the US see products "Swiss made". Then in the same breath the advertisers say how the Swiss use this, etc, etc...
Well often I will look and shake my head and think. "Gee whiz, when?"
There are students that study twenty years... These are called never ending students.
The problem with free education is that people abuse the system. Not a little bit, but a whole lot. The idea should not be free education, but education where you pay a bit. Not so much that it is impossible to attend, but enough to make sure people will treat it with respect. For those that do not have the money to attend the government then kicks in the rest.
Also flawed in Germany is the argument that everybody MUST get a higher education. For example in most places on this planet you get to study if your grades are good enough. I know Germany has this "feature" where regardless of how good your grades are you get a place to study. This is a huge drag on the system as there is no competition and no assurances that the student will spend any effort to study.
Your argument about taxing more is flawed. Why should higher income people be taxed more? Lets take the example of people who apprenticed and make a good income. Or how about entrepeneurs that build businesses did not study, and hire the "higher level educated"? They would be taxed extra so that other people could get an education for free? Or how about those that went to other countries? Remember these days there are many immigrants everywhere!
1) They get their entire education paid for FREE. 2) While studying they get retirement contributions paid for them by the government. 3) They can take their education as long as they would like. For example if it takes a student 20 years then it takes 20 years all the while the German taxpayer is funding the student.
What they are now trying to do is take away the retirement rights and make them pay a small fee. WELL GEE WHIZ welcome to the real world. Oh I forgot the German Students do not know what the real world is. I was born and am a German citzen, but was educated in Canada and the US. Places where you had to actually study and work...
Exactly... I have worked for about decade from home (independent contractor). The way to beat the "blues" is TO interact with the world...
Here is what I do:
1) Slashdot, I kid you not, it is interaction 2) Member of a Linux User Group 3) Ice Hockey Ref 4) Excercise daily (jog, bike, skate, etc) 5) Do something with the wife 6) Do something with the dog 7) Take courses (painting, etc)
You do those sorts of things and you will have plenty of things to do and I asure you that you will not be bored. The key is to interact with society that are not directly related to work.
I think the argument here is not that one OS project copies another. It is more of a relicense issue. JBoss is LGPL and Apache is ASL.
I think here JBoss is concerned with seeing their code embedded into a commercial J2EE implementation.
Have they valid claims? Well, I look at the code and it is VERY similar. Identical? Almost...
Frankly though, it is like driving a car. If a person is on the wrong side of the road any accident will be their fault. However, as we are all taught, we should avoid the accident in the first place. That is sort of how I see this code. Apache should have been smart enough to "rewrite" not "rehash".
The quote is, "Avalon not available on existing versions of Windows: not so good"
ROTFL... Cross reference that with the article http://news.com.com/2009-1016_3-5103226.html?tag=n efd_lede. In that article they have a graphic that only 26% of all computers have upgraded to Windows XP at end of 2002.
So lets put all of this together... In theory when Longhorn comes out overall maybe a year down the road 33% of the computers will be upgraded. The rest will stay. Hmmm, who says that Linux on the desktop will not happen. In fact I wonder if Longhorn will not be that last final push that puts Linux on the desktop...
It will be interesting to see how this plays out...
Yes you are right.NET is much faster than Java OS. However, there is still a price to pay.
Remember the original version of NT? The version where the GDI was a subsystem onto itself? Back then NT was essentially a micro-kernel approach. However, starting in NT 3.51 the GDI was pulled into the kernel and the result is that NT is less stable in theory.
Of course with enough testing it can be made stable. However, now contrast Windows XP with Windows 2000. Windows 2000 is rock solid, whereas XP can be slow and can be buggy. In essence a step backwards.
Now lets tie this together..NET is faster because it is NT 3.51 where the GDI is tied into kernel..NET is faster because many many pieces are hand coded in C. For example SWING is largly coded in Java whereas GDI in.NET is coded in C, and C++.
The end result is that applications will not necessarily more stable. In fact instead of being more stable there could be consistent big bad bugs due to bugs in the.NET runtime. The key is in their drive to add more features will it make the.NET runtime more stable or less stable. My current thinking is that if they can break past habits then indeed.NET will be stable.
Ahh.... Forgetting the main thing...
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Death of the PDA?
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Everybody is forgetting the main cost... AIRTIME!
The cost of acquiring the beast is not that much. What costs is airtime. I have been looking at both a smart phone and a PDA. Conclusion is that a smart phone is not the device for me. Everybody may be going goo goo ga ga, but they are missing the point that smart phones tend to have very little RAM, tend to use the networks all the time, etc. A PDA can use 802.11x and can have oodles of RAM. And a smart phone will always have a small screen. Ok the Ericsson is not bad, but the device is a beast.
No, I see this as yet another attempt by the device makers to jump start a flagging market.
Pay per view is sucking wind... People do not subscribe to it. What people subscribe to is pay TV like movie channels. (As I do as well). Well, based on these movie channels every now and then I record the movie on my VCR for later viewing.
As a result I have the flexibility of Pay per view, but pay only a MUCH lower monthly fee. Adding this "Do not record" bit the broadcasters are forcing people to get pay per view, since PPV can be anytime.
Will it work? Not a chance as I will be taking those little cables that come out of the back and using it to record my VCR.
There is another reason why this happens. There are too many actors who get paid too much and too few of spreading of the wealth. Not to say that actore should not be paid, but there are limits...
I just realized you worked at the Air Force. Ok the Air Force may have to refer to some "interesting" battle pictures. So ok there is an "exception"
What I was more referring to is a while back somebody sent me footage in the Afghanistan war about a Taliban soldier being blown apart by a bomb.
I agree it is war and the Armed Forces need their footage. What disturbed is that the guy who had nothing to do with the Armed Forces said things like "Cool, watch him blow apart, Amazing".
I think the original poster said nothing about Kiddie Porn, but about Porn in general. However, you now switched it to Kiddie Porn. Granted I agree with the blocking of Kiddie Porn.
Now about not letting people surf porn, and publically humiliating them, well why not have a good old public flogging? Why in England floggings were events to watch, etc, etc.
What gets me overall in this is that PORN = BAD argument is the double standards. I wonder if the same agencies looked at human body bits being blown up and shown in explicit details will the filters be triggered? Will there be comments like, "You sick pervert?"
Seriously, I have heard Steve Forbs himself talk on CNBC Sqawk Box. What an idiot. All he sees is "American Capitalism" and how much better it is than everything else.
He is one of the most ignorant and narrow minded person's that I have ever heard. I remember Steve Forbs talking about Genetic Manipulated Foods and how it was no problem and that people were being silly and dumb.
The worst part about Steve Forbs is that he pretends to represent "American Capitalism" when in fact he is nothing more than a fringe lunatic... So reading this article does not surprise me as he is not interested in real business journalism...
I actually agree with you on this. I would extend this and not just say the US, but Western Society (North America and Europe) in general has to change.
The problem we face is that India and China have so much capacity in terms of human resources that there is NOW WAY whatsoever to compete against them. Lets be very real here. Combined India and China has 2.75 billion people. Western Society has maybe 750 million? Sorry, but we do not stand a chance here.
Our best solution is to get gripes with it and move on....
Did you know that partial different equations attempt to solve a problem (like fluid dynamics), which can be potentially solved simpler by Wolfram's Programmatic Mathematics.
Are you saying WTF? Well, congratulations, not everybody wants to know that level of detail in a particular subject.
The results are a bunch of numbers that for some people are totally non-comprehensible because they do not understand that level of detail.
Some folks would rather know why a particular file system is better than another using a couple of words... It has nothing to do with being an MTV generation kid!
Let me give you one crystal clear example of how Sun is its own worst enemy...
J2EE certification....
JBoss which is one of the only Open Source J2EE providers still cannot call themselves a J2EE provider. (Maybe recently solved).
Why is this?
Well, it lies because Sun made it that to become a J2EE member you have to oodles of money, and then you have pay more oodles of money to part of the official "J2EE" club.
Sun has this elitist attitude that says, "Oh, this will cost you because it is meant to be good". And NO WAY THAT WE WILL HAVE OPEN SOURCE cheapen the J2EE products. It reminds me of a Ferrari dealer telling me a Ferrari is better than any other vehicle...
Well, lad-di-da, I just want a car to go from point a to b, maybe carry the kids, dogs, and wife. Sure these "simple" cars are not as glamerous, but at least there is a business.
Now before somebody correct me on how well Ferrari is doing, let me remind them that their parent (Fiat) is dying and Ferrari is only doing better because they bought Maserrati. Maserrati sells for a fraction of a Ferrari, about the same as a high end BMW. Which again proves the point, that businesses grow when things are affordable... This is something that Sun just does not want to learn!
>> the Windows GUI system is a very limited toy compared to X because it was designed for single computer use... to not be used by 5 people or more at once.
As I write this, I am logged on a Linux box, accessing either a Windows Server or Windows XP box using "terminal services".
In the "ol" days this might have been the case, but these days it definitely is not the case. For example when I run across the Internet using Terminal Services, my devices ACTUALLY respond. Eg, try to develop with pop context senstive list boxes. X simply is not cut out for the job.
My question is why not chuck X? Seriously, as Linus and crew has multiple times rewritten the core of Linux, why must X remain X? Why not rewrite X to be "modern"?
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Hmmm... I actually like having the ability to phone anywhere.
1) Grocery store (I do the groceries) since I often phone up the wife and say, "Hey they are having a special on XYZ, lets say we cook this"
2) Libraries, if the person whispers why do you care? What is the difference between whispering on a phone or to a person beside you?
3) Bookstore, why not? What is the difference between two people talking and one person talking?
4) Coffee shop, ditto again, what is the big deal here?
There was a time here in Europe where people hated people talking on phones. But now that a cell phone is ubiqitous and even kids have them people have grown up and decided it is better to have a cell phone than not. Of course many people now use vibrate mode and talk less loud since the connections are better.
>> Noise pollution should be outlawed
Ok, then lets stop driving cars, using planes, etc. There is noise everywhere and cell phones are a reality of the times.
Read the last line of the article:
"Our main focus is the IP [intellectual property] business now," he said.
WTF? Gee instead of actually providing something and furthering the choice of consumers we sue them...
Frankly if the US continues down this path they will only hurts themselves. As when a patent suit is launched US consumers are the ones that pay. I wonder if India and China have these problems....
Do women want to be treated like princesses? Or do women want to be treated like equals?
I think women want to be treated equal. Because when a women is treated like a princess she is treated as a delicate thing that is not entirely capable of thinking herself and has someone to do everything for her...
Ok I am dissecting your words, but think hard. Is treating a women like a princess the same as an equal?
Well here is a twist on the entire thing....
Their group is called Nizza, which is Nice France in German. My guess is that these scum suckers are thinking this is their ticket to the French Riveria. I also think these lawyers are either Germanic's or German background...
Using this thinking as a premise my guess is that this is a lame attempt to hit the jackpot using lawsuits! My oh my how American innovation has progressed!
Funny in many other industries like car's, or other products when the client is willing to pay for it you do it. It is called "easy money".
No I think this is more of an issue, "Oh gee do we really have to do this?". It is an arrogance and not wanting the bother issue. If MS were desparate for business they would do it. Especially if the client is willing to pay for it.
The reason why the 28 countries are exempt is not because they have a special status. It is because those countries have machine readable passports that contains as much information as the fingerprints.
The fingerprints from what I could figure out is to make it difficult to travel into the US using multiple passports. Remember that many of the terrorists traveled on multiple and fake passports. The only way to control that is to use a fingerprint which nails the person down to a single identity. The machine readable passport will indicate what the person should look like and who that person is.
Oddly enough I agree here. I also live in Switzerland and when traveling to the US see products "Swiss made". Then in the same breath the advertisers say how the Swiss use this, etc, etc...
Well often I will look and shake my head and think. "Gee whiz, when?"
While they might know their basics, are they doing anything with that?
u ssions/comp-ed.html. BTW This is a German website who wrote this.
Consider the following URL: http://www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/publications/Disc
Scroll down to the bottom and look at how Germany manages its education. Not pretty and clearly designed to be abused...
For example catch the statement people enter higher level schooling at 19-20 and leave at 25-30. Geewhiz what are they doing for all that time?
There are students that study twenty years... These are called never ending students.
The problem with free education is that people abuse the system. Not a little bit, but a whole lot. The idea should not be free education, but education where you pay a bit. Not so much that it is impossible to attend, but enough to make sure people will treat it with respect. For those that do not have the money to attend the government then kicks in the rest.
Also flawed in Germany is the argument that everybody MUST get a higher education. For example in most places on this planet you get to study if your grades are good enough. I know Germany has this "feature" where regardless of how good your grades are you get a place to study. This is a huge drag on the system as there is no competition and no assurances that the student will spend any effort to study.
Your argument about taxing more is flawed. Why should higher income people be taxed more? Lets take the example of people who apprenticed and make a good income. Or how about entrepeneurs that build businesses did not study, and hire the "higher level educated"? They would be taxed extra so that other people could get an education for free? Or how about those that went to other countries? Remember these days there are many immigrants everywhere!
Students in Germany are ridiculous...
1) They get their entire education paid for FREE.
2) While studying they get retirement contributions paid for them by the government.
3) They can take their education as long as they would like. For example if it takes a student 20 years then it takes 20 years all the while the German taxpayer is funding the student.
What they are now trying to do is take away the retirement rights and make them pay a small fee. WELL GEE WHIZ welcome to the real world. Oh I forgot the German Students do not know what the real world is. I was born and am a German citzen, but was educated in Canada and the US. Places where you had to actually study and work...
Oh wait let me cry my croc tears....
I like your #5 answer... Made me smile...
I know how you feel about hating corporate America... I have a hard time with corporations period...
Exactly... I have worked for about decade from home (independent contractor). The way to beat the "blues" is TO interact with the world...
Here is what I do:
1) Slashdot, I kid you not, it is interaction
2) Member of a Linux User Group
3) Ice Hockey Ref
4) Excercise daily (jog, bike, skate, etc)
5) Do something with the wife
6) Do something with the dog
7) Take courses (painting, etc)
You do those sorts of things and you will have plenty of things to do and I asure you that you will not be bored. The key is to interact with society that are not directly related to work.
I think the argument here is not that one OS project copies another. It is more of a relicense issue. JBoss is LGPL and Apache is ASL.
I think here JBoss is concerned with seeing their code embedded into a commercial J2EE implementation.
Have they valid claims? Well, I look at the code and it is VERY similar. Identical? Almost...
Frankly though, it is like driving a car. If a person is on the wrong side of the road any accident will be their fault. However, as we are all taught, we should avoid the accident in the first place. That is sort of how I see this code. Apache should have been smart enough to "rewrite" not "rehash".
Look at this link
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n efd_lede. In that article they have a graphic that only 26% of all computers have upgraded to Windows XP at end of 2002.
http://www.sellsbrothers.com/spout/#My_First_PD
The quote is, "Avalon not available on existing versions of Windows: not so good"
ROTFL... Cross reference that with the article http://news.com.com/2009-1016_3-5103226.html?tag=
So lets put all of this together... In theory when Longhorn comes out overall maybe a year down the road 33% of the computers will be upgraded. The rest will stay. Hmmm, who says that Linux on the desktop will not happen. In fact I wonder if Longhorn will not be that last final push that puts Linux on the desktop...
It will be interesting to see how this plays out...
Yes you are right .NET is much faster than Java OS. However, there is still a price to pay.
.NET is faster because it is NT 3.51 where the GDI is tied into kernel. .NET is faster because many many pieces are hand coded in C. For example SWING is largly coded in Java whereas GDI in .NET is coded in C, and C++.
.NET runtime. The key is in their drive to add more features will it make the .NET runtime more stable or less stable. My current thinking is that if they can break past habits then indeed .NET will be stable.
Remember the original version of NT? The version where the GDI was a subsystem onto itself? Back then NT was essentially a micro-kernel approach. However, starting in NT 3.51 the GDI was pulled into the kernel and the result is that NT is less stable in theory.
Of course with enough testing it can be made stable. However, now contrast Windows XP with Windows 2000. Windows 2000 is rock solid, whereas XP can be slow and can be buggy. In essence a step backwards.
Now lets tie this together.
The end result is that applications will not necessarily more stable. In fact instead of being more stable there could be consistent big bad bugs due to bugs in the
Everybody is forgetting the main cost... AIRTIME!
The cost of acquiring the beast is not that much. What costs is airtime. I have been looking at both a smart phone and a PDA. Conclusion is that a smart phone is not the device for me. Everybody may be going goo goo ga ga, but they are missing the point that smart phones tend to have very little RAM, tend to use the networks all the time, etc. A PDA can use 802.11x and can have oodles of RAM. And a smart phone will always have a small screen. Ok the Ericsson is not bad, but the device is a beast.
No, I see this as yet another attempt by the device makers to jump start a flagging market.
Pay per view is sucking wind... People do not subscribe to it. What people subscribe to is pay TV like movie channels. (As I do as well). Well, based on these movie channels every now and then I record the movie on my VCR for later viewing.
As a result I have the flexibility of Pay per view, but pay only a MUCH lower monthly fee. Adding this "Do not record" bit the broadcasters are forcing people to get pay per view, since PPV can be anytime.
Will it work? Not a chance as I will be taking those little cables that come out of the back and using it to record my VCR.
There is another reason why this happens. There are too many actors who get paid too much and too few of spreading of the wealth. Not to say that actore should not be paid, but there are limits...
I just realized you worked at the Air Force. Ok the Air Force may have to refer to some "interesting" battle pictures. So ok there is an "exception"
What I was more referring to is a while back somebody sent me footage in the Afghanistan war about a Taliban soldier being blown apart by a bomb.
I agree it is war and the Armed Forces need their footage. What disturbed is that the guy who had nothing to do with the Armed Forces said things like "Cool, watch him blow apart, Amazing".
IMHO that is disturbing!
I think the original poster said nothing about Kiddie Porn, but about Porn in general. However, you now switched it to Kiddie Porn. Granted I agree with the blocking of Kiddie Porn.
Now about not letting people surf porn, and publically humiliating them, well why not have a good old public flogging? Why in England floggings were events to watch, etc, etc.
What gets me overall in this is that PORN = BAD argument is the double standards. I wonder if the same agencies looked at human body bits being blown up and shown in explicit details will the filters be triggered? Will there be comments like, "You sick pervert?"
Seriously, I have heard Steve Forbs himself talk on CNBC Sqawk Box. What an idiot. All he sees is "American Capitalism" and how much better it is than everything else.
He is one of the most ignorant and narrow minded person's that I have ever heard. I remember Steve Forbs talking about Genetic Manipulated Foods and how it was no problem and that people were being silly and dumb.
The worst part about Steve Forbs is that he pretends to represent "American Capitalism" when in fact he is nothing more than a fringe lunatic... So reading this article does not surprise me as he is not interested in real business journalism...
I actually agree with you on this. I would extend this and not just say the US, but Western Society (North America and Europe) in general has to change.
The problem we face is that India and China have so much capacity in terms of human resources that there is NOW WAY whatsoever to compete against them. Lets be very real here. Combined India and China has 2.75 billion people. Western Society has maybe 750 million? Sorry, but we do not stand a chance here.
Our best solution is to get gripes with it and move on....
Did you know that partial different equations attempt to solve a problem (like fluid dynamics), which can be potentially solved simpler by Wolfram's Programmatic Mathematics.
Are you saying WTF? Well, congratulations, not everybody wants to know that level of detail in a particular subject.
The results are a bunch of numbers that for some people are totally non-comprehensible because they do not understand that level of detail.
Some folks would rather know why a particular file system is better than another using a couple of words... It has nothing to do with being an MTV generation kid!
Let me give you one crystal clear example of how Sun is its own worst enemy...
J2EE certification....
JBoss which is one of the only Open Source J2EE providers still cannot call themselves a J2EE provider. (Maybe recently solved).
Why is this?
Well, it lies because Sun made it that to become a J2EE member you have to oodles of money, and then you have pay more oodles of money to part of the official "J2EE" club.
Sun has this elitist attitude that says, "Oh, this will cost you because it is meant to be good". And NO WAY THAT WE WILL HAVE OPEN SOURCE cheapen the J2EE products. It reminds me of a Ferrari dealer telling me a Ferrari is better than any other vehicle...
Well, lad-di-da, I just want a car to go from point a to b, maybe carry the kids, dogs, and wife. Sure these "simple" cars are not as glamerous, but at least there is a business.
Now before somebody correct me on how well Ferrari is doing, let me remind them that their parent (Fiat) is dying and Ferrari is only doing better because they bought Maserrati. Maserrati sells for a fraction of a Ferrari, about the same as a high end BMW. Which again proves the point, that businesses grow when things are affordable... This is something that Sun just does not want to learn!
I agree on that one...
When he did wrdo, it really slowed down my reading speed...
>> the Windows GUI system is a very limited toy compared to X because it was designed for single computer use... to not be used by 5 people or more at once.
As I write this, I am logged on a Linux box, accessing either a Windows Server or Windows XP box using "terminal services".
In the "ol" days this might have been the case, but these days it definitely is not the case. For example when I run across the Internet using Terminal Services, my devices ACTUALLY respond. Eg, try to develop with pop context senstive list boxes. X simply is not cut out for the job.
My question is why not chuck X? Seriously, as Linus and crew has multiple times rewritten the core of Linux, why must X remain X? Why not rewrite X to be "modern"?