Whatever the language you are using to develop large software, true scalability can easily be achieved by using either COM/CORBA or another similar component architecture.
These components offer a great scalability and abstraction. With those technologies you can easily code in whatever language suits your needs and reuse objects/components that were developped in any language. When used adequatly they are terrific tools/development methods.
Those are IMHO the way to go and will be for many years due to the exstensibility of these technologies...
We are seeing more and more GPL incompatibilities these days. Now I am not sure but here might be some reasons why :
1) People defending the GPL are becoming more and more fanatic about it because they feel "threatened" by all these incompatible licenses
2) Maybe the GPL is just a bit too strict and should be loosened to help people develop under some other license withouth having to bother thinking too much about pissing off other developpers
3) People are writing other licenses not caring about the GPL and it's compatibilities and only realise later when they are threatened to not be distributed that they have to modify it??
Whatever the reason I definitly think something should be done quckly... After all the goal of open source is to develop good software working all together in the same way and not against each other...
Humm... I wonder if RMS will ask them to beg for forgivness?? It's funny how some people in the open source community select their reaction depending on the targets. KDE moves to the GPL and they get flamed, now Pyhton is not compatible with the GPL and people try to work a way to make them fit in.
By the way, this was not flamebait this was just sad irony...
The West Coast median salary for experienced software engineers was $71,100 in 1999, up only 10 percent (in constant dollars) from 1990. This pay growth of about 1 percent a year suggests no labor shortage.
I don't think that suggest that there are not much "imported" workers. I mean, lets face it, I live in Canada and I am making MUCH less money than that. And that's withouth counting that I actually make Canadian $$ as opposed to US$$.
That's how the US based company can bring outsiders working for them. So I don't think that this argument stands.
Anybody ever tried this?? You run Linux on which you run VMWare on which you run Linux on which you run VMWare on which you run Linux on which you run VMWare on which... you got the point:o)
I actually played that game a lot. Even for the non-rpers, the main book is a really interesting read. White Wolf has created a really rich and interesting setting around that game, bringing interesting ideas and views of magic making the main book of that roleplaying game as interesting to read as many novels I have read.
At the forefront of that game is the conflict between technology and freedom, imagination and 9 to 5 boring lives, between fantasy and modern life.
I would definitly recommend that book to everyone, roleplayer of not. And to roleplayer I really recommend that game as it is IMHO one of the best RPG even...
You could also check out Ars Magicka which was the first game of white wolf (now published by another company I can't remember which one) which is kind of the basics for mage : the ascension bringing you among the middle ages magi.
Actually if this is done right it could be a good thing. We could finally be seeing some efforts to create new business models where part of the profit from the tools you buy to listen/copy/share the material you want are distributed among the material creators. Now the only problem is that it is not presented as an alternative or a new way to do things but rather as an additional taxe.
I'd rather pay a little more for a device but be able to share the music/movies I buy for less with others than to pay what I pay now and being threatened to be sued each time I try to share stuff. If only they could do this right it could become the first step towards the new way to do it...
I always thought it kinda childish to insist that much about calling Linux "GNU\Linux".
We all know it's GNU\Linux just as we all know it's MS Windows, but when I just say Windows nobody thinks I'm talking about anything else but MS Windows so why should it be different about Linux? Of course the "official" name mght be GNU\Linux and I am fine with that... but can't we just leave that implicit in our conversations?
To say the thruth I always wondered why they used an actor for R2D2 anyway. Do you remember those nifty remote guided robots radioshack used to sell? WOuldn't that have done the job?? Seriously the only way Mr Baker is acting when playing R2D2 is by his movements which could have easily been reproduced by a guided robot. Anyway... just my opinion...
The problem at hand here is not being logged when we visit webpages. You could be logged just by opening an innocent looking Word document. BEsides with a webpage you can always look at the source and see there's a webbug...
Who knows, maybe you even read some Word documents infested with those webbugs already.
Sphere (formerly called TUS formerly called greyworld), Ultima Online Experiment (UOEX) and a bunch of others have done a great job of surviving until now, I don't see why Everquests emulators would not bee able to.
Well I was an UO player for long, and yes you are right, the experience of playing on a public shard is much different than that of playing on the company's server. But for my part I had my best UO experiences on smaller shards that are not over crowded, where you still have a chance to make yourself a name and where you know most of the important characters after a couple of weeks. Also small public shard are often "owned" by people modifying the setting where the game takes place, in UO an admin could even customize a lot of things, create new character classes with their own limitations with a scripting language. So I think that those looking for a better roleplaying experience and an home away from overcrowded worlds will quickly flee the official EQ's server and move to smaller, free public servers.
Hypothetical situation...
I write an e-mail to a friend talking to him about the DeCSS. In that e-mail I write the URL which outlook automaticaly turn into an hyperlink my friend can click. Am I in trouble? Or is it Microsoft's fault??
The big point in MS campaign seems to be the ease of portability of PC games toward the XBox. In fact I think that is the exact thing that will hinder the XBox. XBox games will be really easy to port to the PC, but the opposite won't necessarly be true. WHy? Improvement in PC hardware and the use of input devices such as a mouse of keyboard.
The XBox will have a PIII 600 CPU and will come out next year. At that time this might well be the minimum requirement for some PC games... so forget the PC to XBox ports... But games running well on the XBox will run even more smoothly on PCs with juicier CPUs.
Same is true with input devices... As pointed in a post above, lots of games use a huge amount of keys that can barely be handled by a simple gamepad or joystick. And even if MS produces a mouse and keyboard I can use with my xbox, would I really use a mouse sitting on the floor on my living room in front of my TV?
IMHO what MS claims to be the XBox's strength is in fact it's weakness... noone who already owns a good PC will buy the xbox, same is not true with the PlayStation2.
Wow. Congratulations to Tom from Tom's Hardware and Kyle from Hard|OCP. Somehow I have a feeling that this recall is more due to your findings than to "tests in laboratory". At least Intel reacted the good way realising they made a big mistake and did the right thing by recalling. What annoys me is that they had to wait until some chips had been shipped before realizing their CPU still had issues.
I wonder how those who flamed Tom for his negative review feel now...
The problem with the Mac is that by trying to remain as simple as possible, it appeals mostly to people who are not really computer litterate (I know I know there are exceptions... ). This is the market that they target and it is fine. Where it becomes a problem is that the next generation will learn to use computers really young, understand them more than any of us can because they will litterally be raised in an environment filled with computers.
I am just wondering what will be the appeal of the Mac for such a generation and what part of the market it will be able to hold on through the next 30 years of so...
Add to that a couple of mindstorm modules and you could have a desk that detects when you enter your office, then turns on your computer, welcomes you and even follows you throughout your house if you ask him too.
Of course such serums exists! And they are at a much more advanced state than that! I saw it in a documentary called Hollow Man or something like that... seems like it also makes you undestructible even if you get burned, electrocuted, hammered with a crowbar and lots of other things!
I find it quite ironic to show a 2Ghz CPU when you can't even supply our 1Ghz. Has anyone seen a 1Ghz CPU from Intel somewhere lately? They seem to have all vanished from the price lists.
2Ghz is just hype, one more attempt to show people they are ahead in the clock speed race which nobody still follows except them.
Now what would be funny is to see the judge rule that anyone actually linking to Gnutella or any related material is guilty and has to pay xxxxxx$ in fines:o)
First I'd like to tell you not to worry too much about having to make the "good decision" right now. High school teachers seem to put a lot of emphasis on the fact that you should do the "right decision" at that precise moment. I was dumb enough to believe them at that time. Trust me, I changed my mind a lot of time and studied a lot of different things before finally deciding what I wanted to do. I am just saying that so you don't feel pressure from teachers/parents, it's right at that time of your life to make a choice that is not definitive.
To answer your questions I havn't seen anything like that, but in most computer related programs there are some sort of "history of computing" course so I can easily see that there will probably be some opening in that field in the future. If this is what interests you just go ahead and make your way...
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Whatever the language you are using to develop large software, true scalability can easily be achieved by using either COM/CORBA or another similar component architecture.
These components offer a great scalability and abstraction. With those technologies you can easily code in whatever language suits your needs and reuse objects/components that were developped in any language. When used adequatly they are terrific tools/development methods.
Those are IMHO the way to go and will be for many years due to the exstensibility of these technologies...
First IANAGE (I Am Not A GPL Expert).
We are seeing more and more GPL incompatibilities these days. Now I am not sure but here might be some reasons why :
1) People defending the GPL are becoming more and more fanatic about it because they feel "threatened" by all these incompatible licenses
2) Maybe the GPL is just a bit too strict and should be loosened to help people develop under some other license withouth having to bother thinking too much about pissing off other developpers
3) People are writing other licenses not caring about the GPL and it's compatibilities and only realise later when they are threatened to not be distributed that they have to modify it??
Whatever the reason I definitly think something should be done quckly... After all the goal of open source is to develop good software working all together in the same way and not against each other...
Humm... I wonder if RMS will ask them to beg for forgivness?? It's funny how some people in the open source community select their reaction depending on the targets. KDE moves to the GPL and they get flamed, now Pyhton is not compatible with the GPL and people try to work a way to make them fit in.
By the way, this was not flamebait this was just sad irony...
The West Coast median salary for experienced software engineers was $71,100 in 1999, up only 10 percent (in constant dollars) from 1990. This pay growth of about 1 percent a year suggests no labor shortage.
I don't think that suggest that there are not much "imported" workers. I mean, lets face it, I live in Canada and I am making MUCH less money than that. And that's withouth counting that I actually make Canadian $$ as opposed to US$$.
That's how the US based company can bring outsiders working for them. So I don't think that this argument stands.
Anybody ever tried this?? You run Linux on which you run VMWare on which you run Linux on which you run VMWare on which you run Linux on which you run VMWare on which... you got the point :o)
I actually played that game a lot. Even for the non-rpers, the main book is a really interesting read. White Wolf has created a really rich and interesting setting around that game, bringing interesting ideas and views of magic making the main book of that roleplaying game as interesting to read as many novels I have read.
At the forefront of that game is the conflict between technology and freedom, imagination and 9 to 5 boring lives, between fantasy and modern life.
I would definitly recommend that book to everyone, roleplayer of not. And to roleplayer I really recommend that game as it is IMHO one of the best RPG even...
You could also check out Ars Magicka which was the first game of white wolf (now published by another company I can't remember which one) which is kind of the basics for mage : the ascension bringing you among the middle ages magi.
Actually if this is done right it could be a good thing. We could finally be seeing some efforts to create new business models where part of the profit from the tools you buy to listen/copy/share the material you want are distributed among the material creators. Now the only problem is that it is not presented as an alternative or a new way to do things but rather as an additional taxe.
I'd rather pay a little more for a device but be able to share the music/movies I buy for less with others than to pay what I pay now and being threatened to be sued each time I try to share stuff. If only they could do this right it could become the first step towards the new way to do it...
I always thought it kinda childish to insist that much about calling Linux "GNU\Linux".
We all know it's GNU\Linux just as we all know it's MS Windows, but when I just say Windows nobody thinks I'm talking about anything else but MS Windows so why should it be different about Linux? Of course the "official" name mght be GNU\Linux and I am fine with that... but can't we just leave that implicit in our conversations?
Could it be just a type? It must be $1M and they forgot the M... I can't believe someone would award so such a compensation.
To say the thruth I always wondered why they used an actor for R2D2 anyway. Do you remember those nifty remote guided robots radioshack used to sell? WOuldn't that have done the job?? Seriously the only way Mr Baker is acting when playing R2D2 is by his movements which could have easily been reproduced by a guided robot. Anyway... just my opinion...
The problem at hand here is not being logged when we visit webpages. You could be logged just by opening an innocent looking Word document. BEsides with a webpage you can always look at the source and see there's a webbug...
Who knows, maybe you even read some Word documents infested with those webbugs already.
The main difference is that it's quite easy to see the source of an HTML document and so to spot the webbug.
Sphere (formerly called TUS formerly called greyworld), Ultima Online Experiment (UOEX) and a bunch of others have done a great job of surviving until now, I don't see why Everquests emulators would not bee able to.
Well I was an UO player for long, and yes you are right, the experience of playing on a public shard is much different than that of playing on the company's server. But for my part I had my best UO experiences on smaller shards that are not over crowded, where you still have a chance to make yourself a name and where you know most of the important characters after a couple of weeks. Also small public shard are often "owned" by people modifying the setting where the game takes place, in UO an admin could even customize a lot of things, create new character classes with their own limitations with a scripting language. So I think that those looking for a better roleplaying experience and an home away from overcrowded worlds will quickly flee the official EQ's server and move to smaller, free public servers.
Hypothetical situation...
I write an e-mail to a friend talking to him about the DeCSS. In that e-mail I write the URL which outlook automaticaly turn into an hyperlink my friend can click. Am I in trouble? Or is it Microsoft's fault??
The big point in MS campaign seems to be the ease of portability of PC games toward the XBox. In fact I think that is the exact thing that will hinder the XBox. XBox games will be really easy to port to the PC, but the opposite won't necessarly be true. WHy? Improvement in PC hardware and the use of input devices such as a mouse of keyboard.
The XBox will have a PIII 600 CPU and will come out next year. At that time this might well be the minimum requirement for some PC games... so forget the PC to XBox ports... But games running well on the XBox will run even more smoothly on PCs with juicier CPUs.
Same is true with input devices... As pointed in a post above, lots of games use a huge amount of keys that can barely be handled by a simple gamepad or joystick. And even if MS produces a mouse and keyboard I can use with my xbox, would I really use a mouse sitting on the floor on my living room in front of my TV?
IMHO what MS claims to be the XBox's strength is in fact it's weakness... noone who already owns a good PC will buy the xbox, same is not true with the PlayStation2.
Wow. Congratulations to Tom from Tom's Hardware and Kyle from Hard|OCP. Somehow I have a feeling that this recall is more due to your findings than to "tests in laboratory". At least Intel reacted the good way realising they made a big mistake and did the right thing by recalling. What annoys me is that they had to wait until some chips had been shipped before realizing their CPU still had issues.
I wonder how those who flamed Tom for his negative review feel now...
The problem with the Mac is that by trying to remain as simple as possible, it appeals mostly to people who are not really computer litterate (I know I know there are exceptions... ). This is the market that they target and it is fine. Where it becomes a problem is that the next generation will learn to use computers really young, understand them more than any of us can because they will litterally be raised in an environment filled with computers.
I am just wondering what will be the appeal of the Mac for such a generation and what part of the market it will be able to hold on through the next 30 years of so...
Add to that a couple of mindstorm modules and you could have a desk that detects when you enter your office, then turns on your computer, welcomes you and even follows you throughout your house if you ask him too.
Wow... I want one
I would be curious to see how many people added the google slashbox to their /. homepage after reading this article. Not that I did it of course...
Of course such serums exists! And they are at a much more advanced state than that! I saw it in a documentary called Hollow Man or something like that... seems like it also makes you undestructible even if you get burned, electrocuted, hammered with a crowbar and lots of other things!
I find it quite ironic to show a 2Ghz CPU when you can't even supply our 1Ghz. Has anyone seen a 1Ghz CPU from Intel somewhere lately? They seem to have all vanished from the price lists.
2Ghz is just hype, one more attempt to show people they are ahead in the clock speed race which nobody still follows except them.
Now what would be funny is to see the judge rule that anyone actually linking to Gnutella or any related material is guilty and has to pay xxxxxx$ in fines :o)
That would be soooo funny.
that is very scary. Imagine what it will be mostly used for... porn
First I'd like to tell you not to worry too much about having to make the "good decision" right now. High school teachers seem to put a lot of emphasis on the fact that you should do the "right decision" at that precise moment. I was dumb enough to believe them at that time. Trust me, I changed my mind a lot of time and studied a lot of different things before finally deciding what I wanted to do. I am just saying that so you don't feel pressure from teachers/parents, it's right at that time of your life to make a choice that is not definitive.
To answer your questions I havn't seen anything like that, but in most computer related programs there are some sort of "history of computing" course so I can easily see that there will probably be some opening in that field in the future. If this is what interests you just go ahead and make your way...