I think you just offended a lot of people. I certainly did a little soul searching when the startup I worked for got bought out by a large defense contractor, but in the end I can't directly affect whether we go to war or not, but I sure as heck can give our soldiers the tools they need to come home alive. Yes, I tend to vote Democrat and I think the Iraq war was one of the most boneheaded public policy decisions in my lifetime, but I still go to work every day supporting the troops in a very real way (unlike most of those who think supporting the troops means buying yellow magnets and bumper stickers).
How many letters have you written to your congressman advocating that the government build a coal plant on your block? That's the fuel that America has the most of.
I think "retard" is a little strong. Obviously you're not in MobileMe's target market, but there is an integration between Apple's products that makes things easier for those "retards" who don't mind paying money for having things handed to them instead of spending time digging around the internet like you (and I) do.
And any time someone brings something new and interesting to the web, especially something they're willing to open source, it's a positive thing.
Indeed, Google Browser Sync is itself a "poorly maintained 3rd party extension" at this point, so I don't know why that distinction was made between GBS and the other plug-ins that do the same thing.
Or will the military continue to hire defense contractors to utilize their expertise in these matters? (Full disclosure: I work for a defense contractor.) The Air Force, for the most part, doesn't have their officers design aircraft parts, either.
Correction: "Impeached a president because of party-line political motivations". Yes, Bill was impeached, and yes, he was acquitted. (Feel free to look that up, too.)
What you call a "fact", science calls an "observation" or "measurement". It is a recording of events that have taken place, usually with quantizations and error bars. "Facts" certainly exist in our common understanding, and have a place in language. They just don't have anything to do with the scientific method.
No, it'll still just be a theory. A theory that happens to match reality with a large pile of evidence behind it. But in science, there's really no such thing as a "fact", simply theories with greater levels of evidence supporting them.
Gravity is just a theory. The Sun-centered solar system is just a theory. Radio waves are just a theory.
Or better yet, have their own employees and scouts develop the skeleton project themselves. There must be SOMEONE in an organization that claims to be the size they do with some computer skills.
Perhaps they kicked those folks out for disagreeing with their religion.
Besides, the jailbreaks have all depended on buffer overrun bugs in the OS. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Apple paid a LOT of attention to those bugs for the 2.0's firmware. It's probably going to be harder to jailbreak.
It also looks like it will be a lot harder to buy one without signing a contract up-front.
Yes, Apple is really getting evil. First they keep prices at $0.99 per track when the music industry wanted to charge 2x to 3x (or more) that much for popular tracks... and now they're allowing customers to buy whatever they want. Without DRM. The horror!
Remember, Apple's clout is the only thing standing between you and the record labels at this point. Even if you do nothing but buy from Amazon's MP3 store, you're benefiting from Apple iTunes, since the labels would never have given Amazon such a sweet deal if they weren't trying to break Apple's position in the market.
Why do you make such a huge difference between software and physical objects? Any sufficiently non-obvious construct of human invention deserves a patent in exchange for publishing it to the world instead of keeping it secret. I don't see all that huge a difference between software and physical inventions in this respect.
The goal is to encourage investment and sharing. Both benefit the industry and society immensely. Personally, I think the tech industry has done pretty darn well in the couple decades since software patents were explicitly legalized.
Really? You've never heard anyone say "I wish there was a free version of this software?" I've heard that a LOT, especially on SlashDot. And if companies go and spend lots of money to research and develop something, then the open source community goes and takes the best of it, re-codes and gives it away for free, the company is screwed. I think you'd have a better point if more innovation was coming from open source rather than commercial entities.
This is why I consider the Mac OSS community to be a bunch of leeches. They've ported most open source unix applications to OS X but to date have given nothing useful back.
WebKit gave a HUGE amount back to the community. So much so that, while it started as a derivative of KHTML, now KHTML syncs to them instead. Darwin Streaming Server... iCal Sever, one of the first good CalDAV implementations... Bonjour... llvm's clang... And Apple's use of open source software for everything from their print services to shell have certainly fed quality improvements back to many of the projects they use (which is half the point, right?)
or "I proposed funding that was crucial to the creation of the World Wide Web"... I mean seriously, read some of his speeches discussing shopping, paying bills, banking, emailing, etc., becoming commonplace on an "information superhighway". It's there in the Congressional Record from the early 80's. That's back when I was still on my Commodore 128 which I eventually got a 300 baud modem for. So yes, Gore's speeches, bills, and advocacy helped make the internet what it is today.
I honestly doubt you'd be making your comment on a site called "Slashdot" if Gore had never been born.
I try not to be a Java apologist on Slashdot, but the latest JDK6 (especially in -server mode) and public builds of JDK7 are awfully fast. Considering Objective-C's dynamic lookup overhead and lack of inlining opportunities, is it really much faster? Especially when you're running it on a chip architecture other than the one it was compiled for, such as moving between some of the Atom, Core, AMD, and virtual machines. (Although I suspect the LLVM stuff will bring Objective-C up to Java performance in the latter case.) And, of course, Java runs very fast on chips that have native Java bytecode execution capabilities-- like the one in the iPhone (although Apple refuses to activate it and lets it go to waste.)
Also, as someone else pointed out, the "newer" Java VMs have been re-optimizing commonly executed code for a decade now, so that's not really very new. I think your Java news may be a little out of date.
Finally, I'd like to point out that the language choice also affects the selection of algorithmic efficiency. I think this is where Objective-C really falls down compared to Java. Java's simple syntax and rich standard library lead to a very large algorithmic selection available at many points in coding. Cocoa on the Mac somewhat makes up for this lack in Objective-C, but it's still catching up.
According to the article the Windows version of SquirrelFish aren't as optimized as the Mac and Linux versions because of some API dependencies, although I haven't seen any benchmarks.
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I think you just offended a lot of people. I certainly did a little soul searching when the startup I worked for got bought out by a large defense contractor, but in the end I can't directly affect whether we go to war or not, but I sure as heck can give our soldiers the tools they need to come home alive. Yes, I tend to vote Democrat and I think the Iraq war was one of the most boneheaded public policy decisions in my lifetime, but I still go to work every day supporting the troops in a very real way (unlike most of those who think supporting the troops means buying yellow magnets and bumper stickers).
Not only that, but in Perl those hundreds of thousands of lines of code could have been done in one line of code!
How many letters have you written to your congressman advocating that the government build a coal plant on your block? That's the fuel that America has the most of.
Seeing as no one else did it in the intervening 50 years, I'd not be too quick to call that the easy part.
What's interesting to me is to see if any of this stuff can be submitted as prior art to invalidate as many of the recent web patents as possible.
I think "retard" is a little strong. Obviously you're not in MobileMe's target market, but there is an integration between Apple's products that makes things easier for those "retards" who don't mind paying money for having things handed to them instead of spending time digging around the internet like you (and I) do.
And any time someone brings something new and interesting to the web, especially something they're willing to open source, it's a positive thing.
Indeed, Google Browser Sync is itself a "poorly maintained 3rd party extension" at this point, so I don't know why that distinction was made between GBS and the other plug-ins that do the same thing.
Or will the military continue to hire defense contractors to utilize their expertise in these matters? (Full disclosure: I work for a defense contractor.) The Air Force, for the most part, doesn't have their officers design aircraft parts, either.
Correction: "Impeached a president because of party-line political motivations". Yes, Bill was impeached, and yes, he was acquitted. (Feel free to look that up, too.)
What you call a "fact", science calls an "observation" or "measurement". It is a recording of events that have taken place, usually with quantizations and error bars. "Facts" certainly exist in our common understanding, and have a place in language. They just don't have anything to do with the scientific method.
No, it'll still just be a theory. A theory that happens to match reality with a large pile of evidence behind it. But in science, there's really no such thing as a "fact", simply theories with greater levels of evidence supporting them.
Gravity is just a theory. The Sun-centered solar system is just a theory. Radio waves are just a theory.
Or better yet, have their own employees and scouts develop the skeleton project themselves. There must be SOMEONE in an organization that claims to be the size they do with some computer skills.
Perhaps they kicked those folks out for disagreeing with their religion.
Probably for the best... the summary's description of Copyright usage sounds an awful lot like the GPL...
Besides, the jailbreaks have all depended on buffer overrun bugs in the OS. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Apple paid a LOT of attention to those bugs for the 2.0's firmware. It's probably going to be harder to jailbreak.
It also looks like it will be a lot harder to buy one without signing a contract up-front.
Yes, Apple is really getting evil. First they keep prices at $0.99 per track when the music industry wanted to charge 2x to 3x (or more) that much for popular tracks... and now they're allowing customers to buy whatever they want. Without DRM. The horror!
Remember, Apple's clout is the only thing standing between you and the record labels at this point. Even if you do nothing but buy from Amazon's MP3 store, you're benefiting from Apple iTunes, since the labels would never have given Amazon such a sweet deal if they weren't trying to break Apple's position in the market.
Everyone should be assumed innocent... by the justice system and the jury. I'm allowed to think whatever I want as a private citizen.
You can't grep paper.
Why do you make such a huge difference between software and physical objects? Any sufficiently non-obvious construct of human invention deserves a patent in exchange for publishing it to the world instead of keeping it secret. I don't see all that huge a difference between software and physical inventions in this respect.
The goal is to encourage investment and sharing. Both benefit the industry and society immensely. Personally, I think the tech industry has done pretty darn well in the couple decades since software patents were explicitly legalized.
This is the big lie
Really? You've never heard anyone say "I wish there was a free version of this software?" I've heard that a LOT, especially on SlashDot. And if companies go and spend lots of money to research and develop something, then the open source community goes and takes the best of it, re-codes and gives it away for free, the company is screwed. I think you'd have a better point if more innovation was coming from open source rather than commercial entities.
This is why I consider the Mac OSS community to be a bunch of leeches. They've ported most open source unix applications to OS X but to date have given nothing useful back.
WebKit gave a HUGE amount back to the community. So much so that, while it started as a derivative of KHTML, now KHTML syncs to them instead. Darwin Streaming Server... iCal Sever, one of the first good CalDAV implementations... Bonjour... llvm's clang... And Apple's use of open source software for everything from their print services to shell have certainly fed quality improvements back to many of the projects they use (which is half the point, right?)
So... I call bullshit.
looking to push Tux on many of their upcoming laptops and netbooks.
That's GNU/Tux to you, freedom hater!
or "I proposed funding that was crucial to the creation of the World Wide Web"... I mean seriously, read some of his speeches discussing shopping, paying bills, banking, emailing, etc., becoming commonplace on an "information superhighway". It's there in the Congressional Record from the early 80's. That's back when I was still on my Commodore 128 which I eventually got a 300 baud modem for. So yes, Gore's speeches, bills, and advocacy helped make the internet what it is today.
I honestly doubt you'd be making your comment on a site called "Slashdot" if Gore had never been born.
No, he did... he just never claimed to have done so.
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I try not to be a Java apologist on Slashdot, but the latest JDK6 (especially in -server mode) and public builds of JDK7 are awfully fast. Considering Objective-C's dynamic lookup overhead and lack of inlining opportunities, is it really much faster? Especially when you're running it on a chip architecture other than the one it was compiled for, such as moving between some of the Atom, Core, AMD, and virtual machines. (Although I suspect the LLVM stuff will bring Objective-C up to Java performance in the latter case.) And, of course, Java runs very fast on chips that have native Java bytecode execution capabilities-- like the one in the iPhone (although Apple refuses to activate it and lets it go to waste.)
Also, as someone else pointed out, the "newer" Java VMs have been re-optimizing commonly executed code for a decade now, so that's not really very new. I think your Java news may be a little out of date.
Finally, I'd like to point out that the language choice also affects the selection of algorithmic efficiency. I think this is where Objective-C really falls down compared to Java. Java's simple syntax and rich standard library lead to a very large algorithmic selection available at many points in coding. Cocoa on the Mac somewhat makes up for this lack in Objective-C, but it's still catching up.
According to the article the Windows version of SquirrelFish aren't as optimized as the Mac and Linux versions because of some API dependencies, although I haven't seen any benchmarks.
I think the KHTML guys just adopted WebKit at this point, but Apple has been extremely good with the OSS community in this respect.
And I think Tamarin uses a fundamentally different approach, so I don't see a merger here. But friendly competition is always good.