Lies! Linux isn't and will never be POSIX compliant - because POSIX is a big bag of stuff - and take POSIX MEMORY MANAGEMENT - specifically shared memory mapped files - and you will find nothing in Linux. Last time I looked, it was so evil that stubs existed for posix memory calls, but you didn't find out they were stubs until you 1) tried to run your app or 2) looked at the man pages for the call.
So... OpenSolaris is posix compliant. Linux is not.
Agree; Wolfram is not god, Mathematica wasn't revolutionary, and most everything he says isn't original.
That said, KSI is pretty much dead in computer science, because we've moved from trying to figure out algorithmic learning to modelling systems that we think are trainable. The biggest advantage of multicore isn't new compilers or languages that take advantage of them; because we already have languages that support multithreading. We think in linear ways, and we write programs in linear ways, and what n-cores really gives us is the capability to reassign multiple serial tasks (or threads) to a core so traditional multitasking play nice isn't so important anymore.
Look at what we got in our Xbox 360. Renderer, sound system, and input all are delegated.
FUD my ass. You're obviously not a lawyer. Few if any inventors (software companies) know how to apply prior art per 35 USC 102 and 103, or other statutes. American Inventors Protection Act of 1999, limit prior use is a highly debateable section. For example, it assumes that the USPTO staff is capable of browsing the hundred thousand abstracts - they need help from the person/company FILING THE PATENT. IN 2004 HALF OF ALL APPLICATIONS DID NOT CITE PRIOR USE, AND MANY WERE GRANTED THEIR PATENTS. So it comes down to litigation. Why the hell are Sun, Microsoft, IBM, and so many others still giving huge spiffs to developers filing patents?
Actually, there is nothing illegal about it, and you can use "international" patents as a basis for argument. The USPTO does not consider patents of other nations valid, so you could invent and patent something in Canada, and along comes a US competitor that applies for a patent in the US and can claim first use. Prior art is meaningless. And it all comes down to litigation... and which point all you have to do is say you did a US patent search and found nothing.
Most? I disagree. Its unusual at a f500 the CEO was there long enough to get free trading, voting stock. And when they are there, they often get restricted shares that they can't do much with until they leave because the FTC would crap all over them. As a director, you're considered an insider, so any attempt at buying stock needs paperwork delivered to the FTC...
Speaking as a CTO that moved into a COO role (not of a fortune 500 company)...
CIO/CTO roles are often staffed with technical people. CEO/CFO positions are often staffed with "business" people, more to the point, business people that have affluence. Now affluence is a tricky thing. More often than not, it means you come from money, you are connected with money, you went to an Ivy League school, and participate in organizations to where affluence festers.
I was specifically told by a CFO (CMA in background) that shareholders would never accept me as CEO because I came from a technical school; regardless of how well I knew the business. In a public company, after all, it is the shareholders that elect officers that the previous management/boards put forward. Typically the majority shareholders, the ones that count, are big financial institutions and/or trusts (comprised of that festering pot of affluent people.)
Making money is not a precursor to being CEO. "Proven track record" usually means being in a similar (or slightly lesser ie Pres,VicePres) position. There are many CEOs in place in 500 companies that have NO record of consistant increases in shareholder value. In fact, I bet you would find a majority of them in the opposite position.
Not everyone on a board is affluent and connected. Many boards the CIO position is stocked with the senior IT guy as company transitioned from small to large. Once in the CIO position, pretty much your connections become other CIOs and marketing/research thunk tanks.
It is arguable to get CIO you need a lot of charisma because the rest of a board doesn't allow introverted tech weenies into the circle. Affuence is everything.
According to Mossberg's tests... Vista needs a "hefty machine" to support the "best Windows ever." Now, I have it on good authority the nature of the tests...
1) Mossberg turned on the computer. 2) Mossberg opened a window. 3) Mossberg dragged the window about the desktop until his arm got really tired 4) Mossberg concluded that because the speed of dragging diminshed over time, that Vista has serious resource requirements.
C'mon. "According to my tests" really means "I played with it a bit." Why mince words.
Microsoft hires smart people. In fact, people with a bit of prestige or flamboyance get sucked in regularily (remember Blake Stone.) The good news is; after the Offer you Cannot refuse, those people fade away into total obscurity. But Microsoft KNOWS that some people have followers, so when Microsoft seconds someone, often they count on getting all those minions. And... only those people are in the Microsoft fold, the blinders are on and the stagnation begins. The festering pot of has-been good ideas not invented at Redmond that calls itself the Microsoft campus.
This reads as typical fanboy fud! Now that you're upset... Were any of them power users? People who build applications on top of office? Did you try any plug ins? Scripts? Mail merge? Anything?
Sorry for the fanboy remark, but when I sat down in front of it, I said... What the hell is this? It ain't office.
Ever try report a bug to apple? Me. "Hi Apple, this thing is broke and here is why and even how to fix it." Apple. "You need to pay for a support incident." Me. "This isn't me asking for help, this is me reporting a bug and a bug fix." Apple. "You need to pay for a support incident." Me. "Are you freaking insane?" Apple. "You need to pay for a support incident." Me. "Are you reading from a script? You aren't some fancy machine are you? Let me talk to a supervisor or something." Apple. "You need to pay for a support incident."
Suffices to say, I don't use Apple products much anymore.
Which is true; not all IT people are painted with the same brush, but the argument is then over who is the majority. IT people that are "people people" or not.
Absolute true. The "assume its free" and other quotes from the article from the Canadian RIAA are total bullshit. You pay a levy for all blank media that goes to them that is more than the bloody media.
Most people who flock to IT support are technophiles. Technophiles like technology, not people. Dot boom brought many more people into the tech industry - that really had no apptitude but were there for the boom - and these people really don't care but are trapped in IT - so you have misanthropes and people who hate their jobs in IT. Nuff said?
The anonymous coward understood. Any network service used by (not just provided by) a computer can present a risk. Wander over to http://www.sans.org/top20/#m1 and have a snoop.
Another good point. We had a bunch of WebObjects apps that we needed to maintain; all our desktops were Xp; and at that time, you needed to install the WO tools to develop that... didn't run under Xp. We could patch here and there because it was Java, but we could not justify continuing a platform that was for all intents/purposes dead.
There are so many cool Apple/NeXT technologies that went that way on the road to consumer technology. But even before that; so many missed opportunities. HyperCard. Denali. All sorts of cool stuff in OpenDoc (and apps too like CyberDog). The partial implementation of SOM (CORBA). DisplayPostscript. ObjectiveC (though you can still use it; does anyone really?)
Moving something to open source and give it a chance at survival is a lot of work. I tried to move a bunch of my libraries to open source only to discover a total lack of documentation; not just API but architectural. If its put out without polish, its DOA.
Eh?? Take your finger buffer overrun sploit. x86 executable code - written in assembly - a lot more people have that skillset than PPC. I never said processor vunerabilities.
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Lies! Linux isn't and will never be POSIX compliant - because POSIX is a big bag of stuff - and take POSIX MEMORY MANAGEMENT - specifically shared memory mapped files - and you will find nothing in Linux. Last time I looked, it was so evil that stubs existed for posix memory calls, but you didn't find out they were stubs until you 1) tried to run your app or 2) looked at the man pages for the call.
So... OpenSolaris is posix compliant. Linux is not.
Consider it a red flag about the quality of the source.
I'm not surprised iTunes wasn't tested in the lab. On Campus, you'll get stoned for the distinctive white headphones.
Agree; Wolfram is not god, Mathematica wasn't revolutionary, and most everything he says isn't original.
That said, KSI is pretty much dead in computer science, because we've moved from trying to figure out algorithmic learning to modelling systems that we think are trainable. The biggest advantage of multicore isn't new compilers or languages that take advantage of them; because we already have languages that support multithreading. We think in linear ways, and we write programs in linear ways, and what n-cores really gives us is the capability to reassign multiple serial tasks (or threads) to a core so traditional multitasking play nice isn't so important anymore.
Look at what we got in our Xbox 360. Renderer, sound system, and input all are delegated.
FUD my ass. You're obviously not a lawyer. Few if any inventors (software companies) know how to apply prior art per 35 USC 102 and 103, or other statutes. American Inventors Protection Act of 1999, limit prior use is a highly debateable section. For example, it assumes that the USPTO staff is capable of browsing the hundred thousand abstracts - they need help from the person/company FILING THE PATENT. IN 2004 HALF OF ALL APPLICATIONS DID NOT CITE PRIOR USE, AND MANY WERE GRANTED THEIR PATENTS. So it comes down to litigation. Why the hell are Sun, Microsoft, IBM, and so many others still giving huge spiffs to developers filing patents?
Actually, there is nothing illegal about it, and you can use "international" patents as a basis for argument. The USPTO does not consider patents of other nations valid, so you could invent and patent something in Canada, and along comes a US competitor that applies for a patent in the US and can claim first use. Prior art is meaningless. And it all comes down to litigation... and which point all you have to do is say you did a US patent search and found nothing.
Do you mean "your hosed" or "you're hosed"? Some hosed are bigger than others.
Most? I disagree. Its unusual at a f500 the CEO was there long enough to get free trading, voting stock. And when they are there, they often get restricted shares that they can't do much with until they leave because the FTC would crap all over them. As a director, you're considered an insider, so any attempt at buying stock needs paperwork delivered to the FTC...
Speaking as a CTO that moved into a COO role (not of a fortune 500 company)...
CIO/CTO roles are often staffed with technical people. CEO/CFO positions are often staffed with "business" people, more to the point, business people that have affluence. Now affluence is a tricky thing. More often than not, it means you come from money, you are connected with money, you went to an Ivy League school, and participate in organizations to where affluence festers.
I was specifically told by a CFO (CMA in background) that shareholders would never accept me as CEO because I came from a technical school; regardless of how well I knew the business. In a public company, after all, it is the shareholders that elect officers that the previous management/boards put forward. Typically the majority shareholders, the ones that count, are big financial institutions and/or trusts (comprised of that festering pot of affluent people.)
Making money is not a precursor to being CEO. "Proven track record" usually means being in a similar (or slightly lesser ie Pres,VicePres) position. There are many CEOs in place in 500 companies that have NO record of consistant increases in shareholder value. In fact, I bet you would find a majority of them in the opposite position.
Not everyone on a board is affluent and connected. Many boards the CIO position is stocked with the senior IT guy as company transitioned from small to large. Once in the CIO position, pretty much your connections become other CIOs and marketing/research thunk tanks.
It is arguable to get CIO you need a lot of charisma because the rest of a board doesn't allow introverted tech weenies into the circle. Affuence is everything.
Anyone ever see those evangelical right wing christian comic books strategically left behind on bus seats?
Seems Microsoft is taking a page from the Jack Chick line of - hey - it sounds rational - but you'll burn in hell...
According to Mossberg's tests... Vista needs a "hefty machine" to support the "best Windows ever." Now, I have it on good authority the nature of the tests...
1) Mossberg turned on the computer.
2) Mossberg opened a window.
3) Mossberg dragged the window about the desktop until his arm got really tired
4) Mossberg concluded that because the speed of dragging diminshed over time, that Vista has serious resource requirements.
C'mon. "According to my tests" really means "I played with it a bit." Why mince words.
Hey, if Mossberg is a fanboy of Apple, great, because he's a crappy journalist.
Microsoft hires smart people. In fact, people with a bit of prestige or flamboyance get sucked in regularily (remember Blake Stone.) The good news is; after the Offer you Cannot refuse, those people fade away into total obscurity. But Microsoft KNOWS that some people have followers, so when Microsoft seconds someone, often they count on getting all those minions. And... only those people are in the Microsoft fold, the blinders are on and the stagnation begins. The festering pot of has-been good ideas not invented at Redmond that calls itself the Microsoft campus.
This reads as typical fanboy fud! Now that you're upset... Were any of them power users? People who build applications on top of office? Did you try any plug ins? Scripts? Mail merge? Anything?
Sorry for the fanboy remark, but when I sat down in front of it, I said... What the hell is this? It ain't office.
Ever try report a bug to apple? Me. "Hi Apple, this thing is broke and here is why and even how to fix it." Apple. "You need to pay for a support incident." Me. "This isn't me asking for help, this is me reporting a bug and a bug fix." Apple. "You need to pay for a support incident." Me. "Are you freaking insane?" Apple. "You need to pay for a support incident." Me. "Are you reading from a script? You aren't some fancy machine are you? Let me talk to a supervisor or something." Apple. "You need to pay for a support incident."
Suffices to say, I don't use Apple products much anymore.
Which is true; not all IT people are painted with the same brush, but the argument is then over who is the majority. IT people that are "people people" or not.
Absolute true. The "assume its free" and other quotes from the article from the Canadian RIAA are total bullshit. You pay a levy for all blank media that goes to them that is more than the bloody media.
Most people who flock to IT support are technophiles. Technophiles like technology, not people. Dot boom brought many more people into the tech industry - that really had no apptitude but were there for the boom - and these people really don't care but are trapped in IT - so you have misanthropes and people who hate their jobs in IT. Nuff said?
The anonymous coward understood. Any network service used by (not just provided by) a computer can present a risk. Wander over to http://www.sans.org/top20/#m1 and have a snoop.
Another good point. We had a bunch of WebObjects apps that we needed to maintain; all our desktops were Xp; and at that time, you needed to install the WO tools to develop that... didn't run under Xp. We could patch here and there because it was Java, but we could not justify continuing a platform that was for all intents/purposes dead.
There are so many cool Apple/NeXT technologies that went that way on the road to consumer technology. But even before that; so many missed opportunities. HyperCard. Denali. All sorts of cool stuff in OpenDoc (and apps too like CyberDog). The partial implementation of SOM (CORBA). DisplayPostscript. ObjectiveC (though you can still use it; does anyone really?)
Moving something to open source and give it a chance at survival is a lot of work. I tried to move a bunch of my libraries to open source only to discover a total lack of documentation; not just API but architectural. If its put out without polish, its DOA.
Eh?? Take your finger buffer overrun sploit. x86 executable code - written in assembly - a lot more people have that skillset than PPC. I never said processor vunerabilities.