The first Apocalypse was published in 2001. It is now 2004 and we are patient but perl 6 is starting to smell like vapor.
Larry, you need to get an alpha out in 2004 (even if all of the Apocalypses have not been published) or I think you are going to see people lose interest in perl 6. In the time between Apocalypse 1 and today, the mono team have basically cranked out an entire development environment of excellent quality.
Signed, an eight year perl programmer and major fan.
The original poster is saying that in many nations you will be unknowingly hosting illegal material. So your response is that if there was no demand for this material, it wouldn't be on his computer. No one is disputing that there are people who demand kiddie porn. What the original poster is saying is that he does not want to inadvertantly be labled as one of thee poeple.
For the internet this will never take off, the disparate sites on the web will never grok it in a unified fashion. In Intranets though there can be goals, policies, centralized design and predetermined semantics. In these environments this type of stuff makes sense - there is a need and a return on investment.
You often need to look at the contributed comments to get even a basic description of the topic at hand. You can tell by the tone of some of the contributed comments in the docs that the authors are astounded they needed to add their annotation.
A great deal of work is taking place to push commonalities up the food chain to Freedesktop.org. Mostly this is X related, but I suspect this will grow over time into a true interoperability effort.
Once we've reached a point where the projects are not duplicating effort needlessly, we can truly say vive la difference with no guilt over wasted efforts.
This is just the first test release so you can assume that the next test release will likely merge with production GNOME, and the release of Core 2 certainly will.
Most buyers of these devices seem to grudgingly admit over time that there is no real need for these devices in their lives and they are simply geek toys.
My advice is to use whatever wireless communications device your company will pay for. In my case it is a Motorola two-way pager with a little keypad and crappy LCD display on it. Its not that cool, but "free" goes a long way.
Its neat to see web pages come up on Palm Treo devices, but the fees are outrageous. You have to think in terms of per year costs in order to grasp how much cash you are forking over for these devices.
The 2.6 install instructions you see posted in many places are often incomplete with regards to modprobe configuration. Only do this on a box you are willing to freshly install when things go awry (they will), or wait for Fedora Core 2 (advised).
This is the ugly truth that is often ignored - this project is largely political, with huge bonuses for Boeing etc and Russian engineers who might otherwise be employed by North Korea.
ISS serves no scientific purpose with its current staff level. ISS serves no functional purpose with its current staff level. The crew has one job - keep it from falling apart. They are in fact custodians.
It doesn't matter that ISS is a failure in the conventional sense - it is a huge plus for Boeing who I am sure is billing the govt 2x or 3x on every billable task, since there is no meaningful competitor. Mars and the Moon projects will similarly sit alongside missile defense as the pet projects to keep military contractors in the black for the next half century.
Exploring Mars is still worthwhile, but forget about living there as a preferential destination to Earth. It makes no sense to leave somewhere you can breathe naked outside for a place you must wear a spacesuit to survive.
Earth rules! It was practically custom designed to meet our every need and take our punishment. Why we are polluting it in favor of colonizing a dead rock is beyond me.
No, you cannot compare cosmic distances to travelling across the oceans. Sorry, in the real universe scale matters.
Also stop taking physics lessons from Star Trek. There is no button you can push that will transport you haflway across the galaxy in two minutes. Nor will there likely ever be one. No, you will likely have to get there the hard way - at some very very high speed that still takes you tens of thousands of years to get anywhere.
The ocean analogy has been brought up before and it continues to demosntrate how ignorant most people are of basic science.
Want to live on Mars? Be my guest. While you are spending 90% of your life in a spacesuit, I will be on the beach in Bora Bora.
Serriously, Earth is the only suitable planet where we can freely exist in the natural environment, and there is nothing even close anywhere near by. Humans will not be leaving Earth in our current form. If the cosmic rays don't get you, the loss of bone mass will...or maybe the insanity imposed by the ten thousand years you would be travelling to get anywhere...if you could live that long.
Schmidt will take it public at some point, that is not in question. Think it is? Ask the VCs who finance the firm. They are in this to get paid kids, not to get you better search results. They get paid on IPO day.
Market conditions are possibly the best they will be through to 2007. The stimulus echo bubble created last year is beginning to fade and the market is already moving back to a sell mentality. It is likely that if Schmidt goes public in 2005 or 2006, he will face a serious bear market in no mood for risk. The end result is that Google will still be public, but will not be walking around with a huge war chest.
I can't believe the VCs behind Google are backing this, they must know that the time to IPO was yesterday.
The tech bubble of 2003 is ending. Schmidt should learn the lesson of other firms like the Motley Fool and worry less about "viability" of their IPO and more about general market conditions. Motley Fool execs were famous for saying conditions weren't right when the NASDAQ was in the 4000 range. Are they better now guys???
Schmidt needs to IPO NOW, this market is already moving into selloff range. Sentiment has changed now that everyone knows the Fed will raise rates in 2004 and the evacuation from stocks has begun.
They own Inktomi (Microsof's search engine on MSN). They own FAST (aka AllTheWeb). They own AltaVista (translate a document lately?). They own Overture (biggest paid results provider).
Yahoo also brings to bear a lot of traffic to any solution it picks on its own site, so watch Inktomi's star to rise again as it takes the 20% of traffic YAhoo was seding to Google.
I can't imagine Intel is even breaking even now on the Itanium on the production costs alone, let alone the outrageous amount of money spent with HP on what is looking to be a huge boondoggle. How much longer will Intel bother producing? What unfortunate quarter will see a writedown for all Itanium development costs?
GNOME probably is further ahead in bindings for practically any major language and they are working hard to make it even easier to implement bindings to arbitrary languages.
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No, coders who are ready to start writing modules, tools etc for perl 6 will simply move on or lose interest.
Larry, you need to get an alpha out in 2004 (even if all of the Apocalypses have not been published) or I think you are going to see people lose interest in perl 6. In the time between Apocalypse 1 and today, the mono team have basically cranked out an entire development environment of excellent quality.
Signed, an eight year perl programmer and major fan.
The original poster is saying that in many nations you will be unknowingly hosting illegal material. So your response is that if there was no demand for this material, it wouldn't be on his computer. No one is disputing that there are people who demand kiddie porn. What the original poster is saying is that he does not want to inadvertantly be labled as one of thee poeple.
For the internet this will never take off, the disparate sites on the web will never grok it in a unified fashion. In Intranets though there can be goals, policies, centralized design and predetermined semantics. In these environments this type of stuff makes sense - there is a need and a return on investment.
And of course its a tempest in a teapot for practically everyone out there in the real world.
They are not going to close it and bring the crew home.
There is too much American pride wrapped up in this thing even if it servers not purpose, and that means it will stay up there no matter what.
Some have theorized that the entire moon/Mars thing is simply a glorified plan to wrap ISS in some purpose people can grasp.
In any case, the Boeing gravy train will continue to orbit for some time.
You often need to look at the contributed comments to get even a basic description of the topic at hand. You can tell by the tone of some of the contributed comments in the docs that the authors are astounded they needed to add their annotation.
Once we've reached a point where the projects are not duplicating effort needlessly, we can truly say vive la difference with no guilt over wasted efforts.
Is Larry still sick?
Where is the Parrot VM?
Perl 6 is vapor.
This is just the first test release so you can assume that the next test release will likely merge with production GNOME, and the release of Core 2 certainly will.
My advice is to use whatever wireless communications device your company will pay for. In my case it is a Motorola two-way pager with a little keypad and crappy LCD display on it. Its not that cool, but "free" goes a long way.
Its neat to see web pages come up on Palm Treo devices, but the fees are outrageous. You have to think in terms of per year costs in order to grasp how much cash you are forking over for these devices.
The 2.6 install instructions you see posted in many places are often incomplete with regards to modprobe configuration. Only do this on a box you are willing to freshly install when things go awry (they will), or wait for Fedora Core 2 (advised).
ISS serves no scientific purpose with its current staff level. ISS serves no functional purpose with its current staff level. The crew has one job - keep it from falling apart. They are in fact custodians.
It doesn't matter that ISS is a failure in the conventional sense - it is a huge plus for Boeing who I am sure is billing the govt 2x or 3x on every billable task, since there is no meaningful competitor. Mars and the Moon projects will similarly sit alongside missile defense as the pet projects to keep military contractors in the black for the next half century.
Earth rules! It was practically custom designed to meet our every need and take our punishment. Why we are polluting it in favor of colonizing a dead rock is beyond me.
Also stop taking physics lessons from Star Trek. There is no button you can push that will transport you haflway across the galaxy in two minutes. Nor will there likely ever be one. No, you will likely have to get there the hard way - at some very very high speed that still takes you tens of thousands of years to get anywhere.
The ocean analogy has been brought up before and it continues to demosntrate how ignorant most people are of basic science.
Serriously, Earth is the only suitable planet where we can freely exist in the natural environment, and there is nothing even close anywhere near by. Humans will not be leaving Earth in our current form. If the cosmic rays don't get you, the loss of bone mass will...or maybe the insanity imposed by the ten thousand years you would be travelling to get anywhere...if you could live that long.
Thats right. Thanks to the spamlords its a cost-center for most firms transmitting and receiving this junk instead of a profit center.
Market conditions are possibly the best they will be through to 2007. The stimulus echo bubble created last year is beginning to fade and the market is already moving back to a sell mentality. It is likely that if Schmidt goes public in 2005 or 2006, he will face a serious bear market in no mood for risk. The end result is that Google will still be public, but will not be walking around with a huge war chest.
I can't believe the VCs behind Google are backing this, they must know that the time to IPO was yesterday.
In their last quarterly conference call, Yahoo CEO announced a move away from Google. The timeline is in the air but the decision is not.
Schmidt needs to IPO NOW, this market is already moving into selloff range. Sentiment has changed now that everyone knows the Fed will raise rates in 2004 and the evacuation from stocks has begun.
Yahoo also brings to bear a lot of traffic to any solution it picks on its own site, so watch Inktomi's star to rise again as it takes the 20% of traffic YAhoo was seding to Google.
I can't imagine Intel is even breaking even now on the Itanium on the production costs alone, let alone the outrageous amount of money spent with HP on what is looking to be a huge boondoggle. How much longer will Intel bother producing? What unfortunate quarter will see a writedown for all Itanium development costs?
GNOME probably is further ahead in bindings for practically any major language and they are working hard to make it even easier to implement bindings to arbitrary languages.
Mercedes is a luxury brand that currently ranks 26th in the world for quality manufacturing (based on defect rate etc).
So Google will go the been-there-done-that route Yahoo has taken of copying any service they can't buy??