Competition rules! It's the only way to learn, and the only way anything gets done. Teach your children to be competitive. Teach your hamster to be competitive!
Java 3D uses Open GL, Is fast after the initial loading, and can also be run in a browser after an initial setup. I've been experimenting with 3D applets that blow the lid off of any VRML or Flash environment in use today--and they're portable.
Stealing web-layouts and javascript and images and even web-apps is very much easier and quicker than making them your-self. I am a web developer and I find myself looking at the source of other sites to find out how they did this and that. But a person who blatantly copies the whole design, basically "cutting and pasting" someone else's idea does not love what he's doing and has no respect for those who do. That's the bottom line--I know I just opened a idealistic and ancient can of worms when I try to relate integrity and respect to the computer industry. 95% of us buy operating systems and applications from a company that has diluted the meaning of these words so far that most IT people don't understand how they apply to source code and ideas.
People ask if this is legal or not, and the general consensus is to do whatever you can and bend the law as far as you can to get what you want as quickly as possible. The issue here is not legality--stealing code and copying sites SHOULD be legal, and the marketplace itself should be arranged so that the programmers who do cut and paste SHOULDN'T be able to find or keep work very long. A web developer who cuts and pastes shouldn't be a web developer, obviously doesn't like to actually DEVELOP, and stealing from someone else's bread and butter should be the fundamental wrong of the industry. It seems less wrong if what you're stealing has already been stolen 100 times, but think about it: that's 100 times the programmer who origonated the idea didn't get credit for it, and you'd be making it 101.
I worked for M$ for a while, and I believe it. I know that hotmail servers run on some flavor of Unix. I was lowly in the Tech Support department, but that was common knowledge. Their tech-support call tracking system was a win16 client port from Unix, one of the slowest I ever used in my support career. The server was a port of the unix server to NT. It crashed all the time--they ported the XWindows client and unix server to win16 and NT server, and it was slow as hell and crashed three times a day at minimum.
M$ historically does not come up with things on their own. In fact, I can't think of a single thing they came up with the origonal idea for, without reverse engineering somehow and ending up with kite string and bubble gum. I was not a disgruntled M$ employee--I *NEVER* respected microsoft and my respect went downhill for the 8 or so months I worked there. How hard would it have been to WRITE a decent call tracking system from the ground up in their lovely VB? Even for that they chose to reverse engineer--it's in their blood, and most of the employees are brain-washed into thinking that because they work for the richest technology company in the world and for the richest man in the world that they are making something more than mediocrity--like REAL technology. But all you have to do is walk in the door and look around to know that their first priority is not R&D and technology... What percentage of their profit does M$ spend on R&D as opposed to Sun or IBM (formerly big brother, but they break their own record every year for the most PATENTS contributed from one source).
How does this new Internet 2 add bandwidth? Seems like faster routers add connections add bandwidth, the internet 2 is simply the proposal to move from 4 byte IPs to 6 byte IPs--how does that make anything faster? It is necessary, we are running out of address space, but seem like more bits per address means more bits for the routers to AND and slightly slower routing... Does anyone know how IPV6 or internet 2 delivers additional BANDWIDTH?
The internet was created in America. I see no problem with the "digital world" existing in any language, it's up to the speakers of that language to implement it and make it work. This talk of the digital world being "flawed" because twice as many people speak Mandarin over English seems very socialistic. Everyone has equal opportunity to develop the digital world, and no one is going to stop anybody. I don't assume that english is going to be the default language of the digital world, but I don't look at the demographics and say: "Oh, no! Twice as many people speak Mandarin and we need 2/3 of the web pages on our server to be in Mandarin." Perhaps I should, perhaps if I did my web pages would be useful to a larger audience--but *"HOLDING ME ACCOUNTABLE"* for doing that, as the article states, is a socialistic standard and infringes on my rights to publish what I want to publish. I would be happy if every language group was represented, but that is not necessarily my RESPONSIBILITY, and this speech seems to preach that it should be.
BRAVO! Java is a development platform. Some developers who write in other platforms may find Java too structured and limiting in some ways. Or they may be uncomfortable in the thought that their code will be used on third party JVMs on which it wasn't tested.
On the other hand, C and C++ has always made me uncomfortable with the way it handles pointers. It seems like every large project I've ever worked on took forever to debug because of some pointer arithmetic or misassignment that was nearly impossible to track down. Java nearly eliminates those problems.
Anyway, we are not so limited that we don't have our platforms of choice. Make any choice and you will find something to work on. All this arguing over which is the fastest or the best reminds me of that line in Pirates of Silicon Valley "When did this stop being a business and start being a religion?" I halfway doubt that the people who are so ardently defending or attacking one platform or another have ever written so much as a line of code in the platform they hate so much.
Yeah, Java is slower than C on the Linux box, but Java applications (not applets) consistently out-perform Visual Basic and Visual C++ apps on Win32 benchmarks. It seems ignorant that the people who associate Java with slowness are often the same people who are coding in VB, hehe. Even if Java got IDENTICAL performance to VB, even if it WASN'T faster, it would still be a far more stable and intuitive development platform. In Java, a program will not COMPILE if an error can reach the top of the stack without being handled in some way. Name another development platform that does a better job of promoting that level of stability...
One of the first things they teach you in flight school is that interference caused by cell-phones can cause navigational radio instruments such as the VOR and ADF to go haywire or be a little off...
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Most of the ones that made me smile were not on the list ;o)
Hehe--rock on!
Competition rules! It's the only way to learn, and the only way anything gets done. Teach your children to be competitive. Teach your hamster to be competitive!
I loved that game--i think it was origionally for the TI-99/4A
Java 3D uses Open GL, Is fast after the initial loading, and can also be run in a browser after an initial setup. I've been experimenting with 3D applets that blow the lid off of any VRML or Flash environment in use today--and they're portable.
Stealing web-layouts and javascript and images and even web-apps is very much easier and quicker than making them your-self. I am a web developer and I find myself looking at the source of other sites to find out how they did this and that. But a person who blatantly copies the whole design, basically "cutting and pasting" someone else's idea does not love what he's doing and has no respect for those who do. That's the bottom line--I know I just opened a idealistic and ancient can of worms when I try to relate integrity and respect to the computer industry. 95% of us buy operating systems and applications from a company that has diluted the meaning of these words so far that most IT people don't understand how they apply to source code and ideas. People ask if this is legal or not, and the general consensus is to do whatever you can and bend the law as far as you can to get what you want as quickly as possible. The issue here is not legality--stealing code and copying sites SHOULD be legal, and the marketplace itself should be arranged so that the programmers who do cut and paste SHOULDN'T be able to find or keep work very long. A web developer who cuts and pastes shouldn't be a web developer, obviously doesn't like to actually DEVELOP, and stealing from someone else's bread and butter should be the fundamental wrong of the industry. It seems less wrong if what you're stealing has already been stolen 100 times, but think about it: that's 100 times the programmer who origonated the idea didn't get credit for it, and you'd be making it 101.
I worked for M$ for a while, and I believe it. I know that hotmail servers run on some flavor of Unix. I was lowly in the Tech Support department, but that was common knowledge. Their tech-support call tracking system was a win16 client port from Unix, one of the slowest I ever used in my support career. The server was a port of the unix server to NT. It crashed all the time--they ported the XWindows client and unix server to win16 and NT server, and it was slow as hell and crashed three times a day at minimum. M$ historically does not come up with things on their own. In fact, I can't think of a single thing they came up with the origonal idea for, without reverse engineering somehow and ending up with kite string and bubble gum. I was not a disgruntled M$ employee--I *NEVER* respected microsoft and my respect went downhill for the 8 or so months I worked there. How hard would it have been to WRITE a decent call tracking system from the ground up in their lovely VB? Even for that they chose to reverse engineer--it's in their blood, and most of the employees are brain-washed into thinking that because they work for the richest technology company in the world and for the richest man in the world that they are making something more than mediocrity--like REAL technology. But all you have to do is walk in the door and look around to know that their first priority is not R&D and technology... What percentage of their profit does M$ spend on R&D as opposed to Sun or IBM (formerly big brother, but they break their own record every year for the most PATENTS contributed from one source).
How does this new Internet 2 add bandwidth? Seems like faster routers add connections add bandwidth, the internet 2 is simply the proposal to move from 4 byte IPs to 6 byte IPs--how does that make anything faster? It is necessary, we are running out of address space, but seem like more bits per address means more bits for the routers to AND and slightly slower routing... Does anyone know how IPV6 or internet 2 delivers additional BANDWIDTH?
The internet was created in America. I see no problem with the "digital world" existing in any language, it's up to the speakers of that language to implement it and make it work. This talk of the digital world being "flawed" because twice as many people speak Mandarin over English seems very socialistic. Everyone has equal opportunity to develop the digital world, and no one is going to stop anybody. I don't assume that english is going to be the default language of the digital world, but I don't look at the demographics and say: "Oh, no! Twice as many people speak Mandarin and we need 2/3 of the web pages on our server to be in Mandarin." Perhaps I should, perhaps if I did my web pages would be useful to a larger audience--but *"HOLDING ME ACCOUNTABLE"* for doing that, as the article states, is a socialistic standard and infringes on my rights to publish what I want to publish. I would be happy if every language group was represented, but that is not necessarily my RESPONSIBILITY, and this speech seems to preach that it should be.
BRAVO! Java is a development platform. Some developers who write in other platforms may find Java too structured and limiting in some ways. Or they may be uncomfortable in the thought that their code will be used on third party JVMs on which it wasn't tested. On the other hand, C and C++ has always made me uncomfortable with the way it handles pointers. It seems like every large project I've ever worked on took forever to debug because of some pointer arithmetic or misassignment that was nearly impossible to track down. Java nearly eliminates those problems. Anyway, we are not so limited that we don't have our platforms of choice. Make any choice and you will find something to work on. All this arguing over which is the fastest or the best reminds me of that line in Pirates of Silicon Valley "When did this stop being a business and start being a religion?" I halfway doubt that the people who are so ardently defending or attacking one platform or another have ever written so much as a line of code in the platform they hate so much.
Yeah, Java is slower than C on the Linux box, but Java applications (not applets) consistently out-perform Visual Basic and Visual C++ apps on Win32 benchmarks. It seems ignorant that the people who associate Java with slowness are often the same people who are coding in VB, hehe. Even if Java got IDENTICAL performance to VB, even if it WASN'T faster, it would still be a far more stable and intuitive development platform. In Java, a program will not COMPILE if an error can reach the top of the stack without being handled in some way. Name another development platform that does a better job of promoting that level of stability...
One of the first things they teach you in flight school is that interference caused by cell-phones can cause navigational radio instruments such as the VOR and ADF to go haywire or be a little off...