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You have a lot of solid points,especially the one about RMS. And no one can deny the importance of a strategy. However, my point is that we can't say project X is doomed because they started with the implementation and not the goal. Google's pagerank algorithm started before "To enable searching the world's information". Same for a lot of other things. There are many ways a project can succeed:
goal->plan->implementation cycle( a shorthand for your dream/vision thingie)
or implementation->opportunity->goal cycle
or a thousand other ways:)
Re:starting from the bottom
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With all respect to the importance of strategic management, it is only one way to achieve success. Many of the great organizations of today didn't have a vision when they started and made it up as they went along.
Linux began as just for fun, Bill Gates' vision when starting Microsoft was "join the bandwagon as fast as you can before you miss the oppurtunity", and Perl itself started as a replacement for awk.
IMO, you can go either way- top down or bottom up- as long as you're competent enough to see oppurtunity and smart enough to know good decisions from bad.
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Thanks for the info, I'm downloading it now and will play with it for a while. BTW, it will be a free download for only a year then will be sold for a price.. to the 4 remaining developers who still haven't heard of the offer:D
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To be fair, I mentioned Delphi.net in my post but I forgot C# builder. You got a point,.net has more tool support than my post gave it credit for. Still not as java IMO. And does anyone use eclipse for.net development? what benefit would that bring?
Re:I haven't worked with both, but....
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Well, I wasn't saying Java web apps are better than asp.net, merely saying there is more choice available (and I'm a.net developer,but I develop desktop apps).
If I want a.net IDE I have to buy VS.net or Delphi, or download the open source sharpDevelop. If I want to develop for Java, I have a much broader choice: netbeans, eclipse, IDEA, JBuilder and complete product families from IBM,Oracle or BEA.
Same for running the apps: I can either choose from IIS or Apache/mod_mono for.net, but Java has a dozen or so platforms to run on, which vary in power and cost.
As for my comment on "good luck if there's a missing function in the mono implementation" , it wasn't anti MS zealotry but a practical remark: whenever I check the mono status I get a chart which says "class so and so is implemented and function so isn't". It really worries a developer when he sees that the project is incomplete to the level of functions in the libraries he'll be developing with[1]. My point has nothing to do with Microsoft, but a simple remark that mono isn't mature enough yet.
I haven't worked with both, but....
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I think Java would be a more 'safe' choice. Java Server apps can run on multiple operating systems, multiple servers, and in the extreme case of Sun not supporting it anymore ( or not adding a feature you want) you've got tons of big companies pushing it, like IBM and others, in addition to open source implementations like GNU classpath. Not to mention that you can implement 100% of your solution without paying anything.
ASP.net, on the other hand, is a Microsoft solution, and you depend on the whims of MS for everything. It runs on little more than Windows/IIS, and the only serious IDE for it would be Visual Studio.net, and good luck trying to run it under mono if you favorite class or function is incomplete or has a bug in its mono implementation ( or the MS implementation for that matter).
I think that the Java and.net solutions are somewhat similar in the quality of their solutions, and that any marginal difference in quality, if they exist, would have no impact compared to the freedom of choice Java provides.
indeed, but it's a privilidge that favors the plaintiff. If I was an innocent person ( or a person who, say, uploaded a movie only once). I'd be afraid to defend my position in court and try to settle because I'd fear paying $100,000 if I lost. Making it easy for the person who sued to get his right should be accompanied by making it equally easy for a defendant to defend himself.
I didn't know what statutory damage was so I looked it up, thanks for mentioning the subject. For what it's worth, I think it's a bad concept. The punishment should not exceed the 'crime'. And if the damage can't be calculated accurately, it's better to err on the side of the defendants , even it it means some real infringers will walk away.
why do movie/music companies use the naive method of mutiplying the cose of the dvd times the # of movies uploaded? there are thousands of variables that go into the calculated 'loss'.
- would all the downloaders actually buy the dvd? - would the dvd stay on sale until all those would be customers buy it? - would the dvd price stay the same?
more importantly, why does the law accept take their word on it?
yeah, but both the original poster and the JBoss site speak like it's already here. The JBoss site even calls it 'JBoss transactions' and talks about how they provide training and support for it like it's been available for ages:(
Pardon me if this is a newbie question, but what does it mean when there is transaction support in the application server? what's it's difference from using transactions in the underlying DBMS?
Here in Egypt, intellectual property is being seriously enforced by the government if you're a business. If your company is raided and you're found pirating software, you can be fined, imprisoned or both.
Worse, most average computer users know only about MS software, I've met people who think that there are no word processors except Word , no spreadsheets except Excel and that Microsoft actually invented those software categories.
Yet Linux is making big inroads here. Egyptian companies are starting to save hundreds of thousands of pounds by using Linux instead of windows licences, we have an active OSS developer community and since the majority of Egyptian home computer users are teenagers, many are learning Linux to become 'hackers':) I except that when this generation becomes the base for the Egyptian tech industry, Linux will have a huge mind and market share.
Marvel has brought high profile writers from outside the comic genre before, like Scott Orson Card on Ultimate Iron Man I wonder how DC will respond, if they'll respond at all.
I don't think MS will really withdraw Windows from a whole country, but it would be a cool experiment if it did. Imagine , a country where Windows isn't sold ( and persumably, there's some means to stop people from pirating it). What would they do? Will they switch to Linux? Buy Macs? Have a mix of Operating Systems according to individual requirements? Develop their own OS?
I can install it on multiple PCs for the cost of one CD set...imagine that!
One time I found a bug in the fedora installer. I checked the python scripts,fixed the bug, restarted the installer and it worked And I didn't even know python then!(seriously)
no DRM, no trusted computing, no crap.
it comes with built in programming languages! like my childhood MSX computer, I can program it right after turning it on.
All these points can be summarized in one sentence: While other vendors put restrictions on what you can do with your computer, Linux not only allows you, but encourages you to do more with it.
I agree with you on the evil of excessive use of passive ( and more so on the unreadablity of moderm scientific papers!).There is is no denying that clear,specific writing is very important.
My problem with Word, however, is that it behaves towards writing style like the automaton it is, assuming that every passive voice is evil and marking it for review and so on, so I spend half my time shutting false alarms instead of fixing real problems in the document. Microsoft could have done better if it either: 1) Used some sort of AI to differentiate between bad style and what appears to be bad style. If you put a page of a Charles Dickens novel in Word, it will mark it as full of problems.Software companies can do better than that.
2) Allowed me to correct style problems in a less intrusive way, instead of distracting me with all those green lines. Maybe they could make a 'review' tab with all the grammar errors in the document , grouped by type and sorted by severity.
3) Just stopped checking the styles and let me judge my work or get someone to review it.I know it can be turned off, but my point was why provide it if it wasn't satisfactory in the first place.
I agree with you on the importance of writing style. My problem with Word is that it's supicious of everything I write, even if it's perfectly readable. Fragments are fine for things like newspaper headlines or technical documemtation, which is part of my job. It's bad that whenever I write something like "Unit Statistics" in its own line Word rushes out to correct me. A lot of minor annoyances like this make its grammar checker unusable, IMO.
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You have a lot of solid points,especially the one about RMS. And no one can deny the importance of a strategy.
:)
However, my point is that we can't say project X is doomed because they started with the implementation and not the goal. Google's pagerank algorithm started before "To enable searching the world's information". Same for a lot of other things.
There are many ways a project can succeed:
goal->plan->implementation cycle( a shorthand for your dream/vision thingie)
or
implementation->opportunity->goal cycle
or a thousand other ways
With all respect to the importance of strategic management, it is only one way to achieve success. Many of the great organizations of today didn't have a vision when they started and made it up as they went along.
Linux began as just for fun, Bill Gates' vision when starting Microsoft was "join the bandwagon as fast as you can before you miss the oppurtunity", and Perl itself started as a replacement for awk.
IMO, you can go either way- top down or bottom up- as long as you're competent enough to see oppurtunity and smart enough to know good decisions from bad.
Thanks for the info, I'm downloading it now and will play with it for a while. :D
BTW, it will be a free download for only a year then will be sold for a price.. to the 4 remaining developers who still haven't heard of the offer
To be fair, I mentioned Delphi.net in my post but I forgot C# builder. You got a point, .net has more tool support than my post gave it credit for. Still not as java IMO. .net development? what benefit would that bring?
And does anyone use eclipse for
Well, I wasn't saying Java web apps are better than asp.net, merely saying there is more choice available (and I'm a .net developer,but I develop desktop apps).
.net IDE I have to buy VS.net or Delphi, or download the open source sharpDevelop. If I want to develop for Java, I have a much broader choice: netbeans, eclipse, IDEA, JBuilder and complete product families from IBM,Oracle or BEA.
.net, but Java has a dozen or so platforms to run on, which vary in power and cost.
If I want a
Same for running the apps: I can either choose from IIS or Apache/mod_mono for
As for my comment on "good luck if there's a missing function in the mono implementation" , it wasn't anti MS zealotry but a practical remark: whenever I check the mono status I get a chart which says "class so and so is implemented and function so isn't". It really worries a developer when he sees that the project is incomplete to the level of functions in the libraries he'll be developing with[1]. My point has nothing to do with Microsoft, but a simple remark that mono isn't mature enough yet.
I think Java would be a more 'safe' choice.
.net solutions are somewhat similar in the quality of their solutions, and that any marginal difference in quality, if they exist, would have no impact compared to the freedom of choice Java provides.
Java Server apps can run on multiple operating systems, multiple servers, and in the extreme case of Sun not supporting it anymore ( or not adding a feature you want) you've got tons of big companies pushing it, like IBM and others, in addition to open source implementations like GNU classpath. Not to mention that you can implement 100% of your solution without paying anything.
ASP.net, on the other hand, is a Microsoft solution, and you depend on the whims of MS for everything. It runs on little more than Windows/IIS, and the only serious IDE for it would be Visual Studio.net, and good luck trying to run it under mono if you favorite class or function is incomplete or has a bug in its mono implementation ( or the MS implementation for that matter).
I think that the Java and
This post neither exists nor not exists until you observe it.
What post?
a desktop search tool that runs on all platforms, but crashes every 5 minutes.
* ducks *
.... and the lab will be evil and not evil in the same time!
indeed, but it's a privilidge that favors the plaintiff. If I was an innocent person ( or a person who, say, uploaded a movie only once). I'd be afraid to defend my position in court and try to settle because I'd fear paying $100,000 if I lost.
Making it easy for the person who sued to get his right should be accompanied by making it equally easy for a defendant to defend himself.
I didn't know what statutory damage was so I looked it up, thanks for mentioning the subject.
For what it's worth, I think it's a bad concept. The punishment should not exceed the 'crime'. And if the damage can't be calculated accurately, it's better to err on the side of the defendants , even it it means some real infringers will walk away.
why do movie/music companies use the naive method of mutiplying the cose of the dvd times the # of movies uploaded?
there are thousands of variables that go into the calculated 'loss'.
- would all the downloaders actually buy the dvd?
- would the dvd stay on sale until all those would be customers buy it?
- would the dvd price stay the same?
more importantly, why does the law accept take their word on it?
they can query their records to find a patented way to solve the problem....oh wait
someone should invent a way to find those top ten ( and then patent it!)
yeah, but both the original poster and the JBoss site speak like it's already here. The JBoss site even calls it 'JBoss transactions' and talks about how they provide training and support for it like it's been available for ages :(
Pardon me if this is a newbie question, but what does it mean when there is transaction support in the application server? what's it's difference from using transactions in the underlying DBMS?
They say in the article that it's by the first quarter of 2006, until they integrate the ArjunaTS software they acquired.
Here in Egypt, intellectual property is being seriously enforced by the government if you're a business. If your company is raided and you're found pirating software, you can be fined, imprisoned or both.
:)
Worse, most average computer users know only about MS software, I've met people who think that there are no word processors except Word , no spreadsheets except Excel and that Microsoft actually invented those software categories.
Yet Linux is making big inroads here. Egyptian companies are starting to save hundreds of thousands of pounds by using Linux instead of windows licences, we have an active OSS developer community and since the majority of Egyptian home computer users are teenagers, many are learning Linux to become 'hackers'
I except that when this generation becomes the base for the Egyptian tech industry, Linux will have a huge mind and market share.
I was allowed to stay at home as long as it takes to become happy before going to work ;)
sorry..I meant Orson Scott Card, I can never remember his name right!
Marvel has brought high profile writers from outside the comic genre before, like Scott Orson Card on Ultimate Iron Man
I wonder how DC will respond, if they'll respond at all.
I don't think MS will really withdraw Windows from a whole country, but it would be a cool experiment if it did.
:)
Imagine , a country where Windows isn't sold ( and persumably, there's some means to stop people from pirating it). What would they do?
Will they switch to Linux?
Buy Macs?
Have a mix of Operating Systems according to individual requirements?
Develop their own OS?
inquiring geek wants to know
All these points can be summarized in one sentence: While other vendors put restrictions on what you can do with your computer, Linux not only allows you, but encourages you to do more with it.
Thanks for the Orwell article, guy is a genius :)
I agree with you on the evil of excessive use of passive ( and more so on the unreadablity of moderm scientific papers!).There is is no denying that clear,specific writing is very important.
My problem with Word, however, is that it behaves towards writing style like the automaton it is, assuming that every passive voice is evil and marking it for review and so on, so I spend half my time shutting false alarms instead of fixing real problems in the document.
Microsoft could have done better if it either:
1) Used some sort of AI to differentiate between bad style and what appears to be bad style. If you put a page of a Charles Dickens novel in Word, it will mark it as full of problems.Software companies can do better than that.
2) Allowed me to correct style problems in a less intrusive way, instead of distracting me with all those green lines. Maybe they could make a 'review' tab with all the grammar errors in the document , grouped by type and sorted by severity.
3) Just stopped checking the styles and let me judge my work or get someone to review it.I know it can be turned off, but my point was why provide it if it wasn't satisfactory in the first place.
I agree with you on the importance of writing style. My problem with Word is that it's supicious of everything I write, even if it's perfectly readable.
Fragments are fine for things like newspaper headlines or technical documemtation, which is part of my job. It's bad that whenever I write something like "Unit Statistics" in its own line Word rushes out to correct me. A lot of minor annoyances like this make its grammar checker unusable, IMO.