(btw, if those people had plans to migrate to Linux, they would not choose.Net in the first place, as the technology is widely known as MS only. It is not as if it was a market standard, it is 6 years old, tops)
If only it were true. Mono is oft-cited as a cross-platform solution that validates the decision to utilize.NET on new projects. "Well, if we have to support UNIX/linux in the next release, we'll just use Mono!" If Mono didn't exist,.NET would be a lot less popular, with even more support probably going to Java's open source efforts. But if Mono had parity with.NET,.NET would also be less popular. So Microsoft has Mono exactly where they want them right now, and they have absolutely no reason to want to change anything.
Mine didn't (I was a DVD early adopter). I tried to route it through my VCR, but that activated the macrovision anti-piracy light/dark fading. I found an adapter, but it wasn't very "plug 'n play" at the time, and I know reviews of the first DVD players at the time all noted the incompatibility and warned buyers to be careful, which tends not to give them the warm fuzzies.
Yup, and Bush's "overwhelming" 51%-to-49% win in 2004 which gave HIM "more votes than any president in history", except that Kerry is now in 2nd place, having earned more votes than Gore or Bush did in 2000, or anyone else in history except Bush. Population increases.
However, the US population has only gone up 10% since DVDs were introduced, and this is 20% faster. Add the fact that a lot fewer people have HD-capable sets today than had DVD-capable sets back then, and the Blu-Ray adoption rate looks unusually good.
The best-run countries don't have a humongous population.
I take it your assertion is that China and India have ineffective, inefficient, badly run governments? Because while I sure don't agree with the means to China's ends, they don't seem to be failing at their goals or wasting their GNP.
People are such a small part of the total takeoff weight of this aircraft that I can't imagine, barring a hugely improbable distribution, that the A380 will ever select a seat based on W&B.
"While I'm flattered at the possibility of Apple even talking to me, the truth of the matter is that the company pretty much ignores TUAW, and most other Apple-related blogs, entirely. Honestly: Fox and I never exchanged so much as a "mwahaha" over email, or any other form of correspondence for that matter. I've never been contacted by anyone from Apple regarding anything besides the fact that one of my older PowerBook's warranties was about to expire, and that AppleCare would be a great way to stay within their graces."
Apple didn't prevail because they'd signed away their rights by not reading the fine print while working with Microsoft, not because Microsoft didn't infringe or copy Apple.
The interesting thing about digital is the manner in which it degrades compared to analog. With analog, I'll bet those guys could play that tape back, but it was scratchy and noisy. They don't know how much or exactly what information was lost, but they can still "mostly" hear it. With digital, it tends to be all-or-nothing.
On the other hand, digital allows one to quantify exactly how many bits can be lost before the signal becomes unreadable. With algorithms like Reed-Solomon, one can specify a percentage of the stream (or area of the disc) for redundant error correcting bits. The more you specify, the better the recoverability. Not only that, but you can mathematically show that you have the original signal back again.
So while analog degrades gracefully, the degradation is neither quantifiable nor recoverable. If CDs (which use a form of Reed-Solomon) had 1/3 of their bits devoted to error correcting, you could probably lose half the disc and still recover all the information. So maybe there should be "archival" forms of CD/DVD/Blu-Rays that pump up the forward error correction at the expense of data.
Java is in no way shape or form an analogy to COBOL. It's a fast, maintainable, highly portable language that's used to write a huge amount of new software today..NET and C# are certainly going to give it a run for its money, but I think C and C++ are going to be the "next COBOL" before Java gets that monicker.
If you look back at RoughlyDrafted, the entire site is dedicated to either stating the obvious or to "debunking" things that are actually true. If anything you read on RoughlyDrafted is valuable to you, it means you're REALLY out of the loop.
Slashdot needs a tag stronger than "informative" or "interesting" to tag people who actually seem to have some experience in what they're talking about so I can modify then +5.
There are very few studios doing HD DVD-only releases-- That's one of the reasons (along with the PS3) that Blu-Ray is probably going to win. So only Universal and Dimension movies would ever have an HD DVD-only release, while Columbia Pictures, MGM, Disney, Lionsgate and 20th Century Fox are all Blu-Ray exclusive (with Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema releasing their movies in both formats).
I personally think it's pretty inevitable that one of these formats is going to "win", in that even when your $79.95 player will play all three formats and there's no reason not to buy any disc, one of the Blu-Ray or HD DVD groups are going to be getting royalties on the HD discs and studios will probably release whatever's easier to produce. The goal of the two groups is to get established as the de-facto standard before that happens.
Not only do they want to sell parts of the spectrum, other parts are key to the new first responder communications gear that is going to come out. It will be nice to know that in another 9/11 scenario everyone will be able to talk to each other. Less than a billion dollars to get everyone off analog TV is definitely worth it. It would probably cost that much dealing with the legal and political aftermath of trying to take away the analog spectrum by force, which would be the only other option.
Open source licenses are more permissive than those for proprietary software in all respects that I can think of, including distribution. But no, you can't simply modify it and sell it as your own under a more restrictive (e.g., closed source) license. But that's about it.
Replace the word "modify" with "include", and replace "sell it as" with "sell it with", and you're closer to the truth.
I wish I could use and contribute to some of the open source projects out there on company time, but the GPL-- which is getting a whole lot more restrictive with v3-- really restricts what you're able to do. If people would at least use LGPL everywhere it would help a lot, and I'd be able to integrate the projects and thus be able to contribute to those projects on company time. I suspect you'll see restrictive licenses like GPLv3 slowly die while the freer licenses like LGPL get more and more popular, and those projects get higher and higher quality.
For example, my company's primary product includes a Java GUI. It would be nice if I could include some GPL Java web browser on top of it. I don't even want to modify the browser, just use it. And in this case, my application is acting more or less like an OS layer for the browser. But legal is unsure whether the mere act of allowing it to run in our workspace would force the entire codebase into GPL. So I can't use it, can't contribute bugfixes on company time, and can't improve it. I really wish they were getting freer with GPLv3 instead of more restrictive.
Methane and CO2 emissions have spiked to levels not seen for millions of years on Earth, and the curve exactly matches the industrialization of the human race. Methane, and to a lesser extent CO2, are extremely potent greenhouse gasses. Their atmospheric concentration has tracked the last several hot and cold cycles on Earth, and appears to be doing the same now. Thus, it's pretty obvious that humanity is having a significant effect.
It's kind of sad that you need someone to hold your hand here instead of just going out and looking into this yourself. It's not like the civilized world is at stake.
You do have to worry about your Win32-only custom and vendor apps
In a lot of corporate environments these have been transitioning to the web over the past several years. At my (large defense contractor) company, we no longer have any required Windows-specific client software. Even most of the web apps are Java or JavaScript instead of ActiveX. We've even gotten permission to buy MacBooks for some folks as of late. If the Army wasn't so hell-bent on moving to Vista as quickly as possible the platform wars would be looking pretty rosy our way. (It's ironic that the Army's "Future Combat Systems" initiative is on a linux architecture, but in the "real world" of Army software they're paying big bucks to port things off of Unix on to Windows.)
Although it's not required, dependency on Exchange and the Exchange version of MSN are the only stumbling blocks for Macs. Office for the Mac works okay with Exchange but not great, and there is no IM solution for MSN connecting to an internal Exchange server. Fortunately XMPP (Jabber) is getting strong momentum lately on the IM side. Now if someone would PLEASE challenge Microsoft on the Enterprise email front...
Methane and CO2 levels are way, way up since the industrial revolution.
Basically, it's pretty irrefutable that mankind is having a significant effect on global warming. The fact that the sun is also warming doesn't mean, as the summary implies, that global warming is "not a human-induced" phenomenon, just that it also has other contributing factors. This should, if anything, spur humanity to greater levels of effort to reduce emissions.
Interestingly, the US Army's Program Management office for Battle Command seems adamant that everyone move to Vista as quickly as humanly possible. Fun times.
Hm, I haven't heard anyone say they love Apple lately, ESPECIALLY on Slashdot where they get accused of single-handedly bringing the wrath of DRM into the garden of freedom.
I've heard plenty of people talking about loving iPods, loving Macs, loving the ads, etc. Which is completely different than loving a corporation.
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(btw, if those people had plans to migrate to Linux, they would not choose .Net in the first place, as the technology is widely known as MS only. It is not as if it was a market standard, it is 6 years old, tops)
.NET on new projects. "Well, if we have to support UNIX/linux in the next release, we'll just use Mono!" If Mono didn't exist, .NET would be a lot less popular, with even more support probably going to Java's open source efforts. But if Mono had parity with .NET, .NET would also be less popular. So Microsoft has Mono exactly where they want them right now, and they have absolutely no reason to want to change anything.
If only it were true. Mono is oft-cited as a cross-platform solution that validates the decision to utilize
Typing "spinning water hexagon Slashdot" into Google turned up this article
Mine didn't (I was a DVD early adopter). I tried to route it through my VCR, but that activated the macrovision anti-piracy light/dark fading. I found an adapter, but it wasn't very "plug 'n play" at the time, and I know reviews of the first DVD players at the time all noted the incompatibility and warned buyers to be careful, which tends not to give them the warm fuzzies.
Yup, and Bush's "overwhelming" 51%-to-49% win in 2004 which gave HIM "more votes than any president in history", except that Kerry is now in 2nd place, having earned more votes than Gore or Bush did in 2000, or anyone else in history except Bush. Population increases.
However, the US population has only gone up 10% since DVDs were introduced, and this is 20% faster. Add the fact that a lot fewer people have HD-capable sets today than had DVD-capable sets back then, and the Blu-Ray adoption rate looks unusually good.
My guess is that they're going to sell WAY more of these things than Apple will sell iPhones during April and May.
It's funny that a product that won't be on sale for several months is "the one to beat".
The best-run countries don't have a humongous population.
I take it your assertion is that China and India have ineffective, inefficient, badly run governments? Because while I sure don't agree with the means to China's ends, they don't seem to be failing at their goals or wasting their GNP.
Or to buy out/steal from those that do, or even suppress those that invent something contrary to the "predictions" you've bet on.
People are such a small part of the total takeoff weight of this aircraft that I can't imagine, barring a hugely improbable distribution, that the A380 will ever select a seat based on W&B.
From one of the folks accused of conspiring with Apple:
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/03/20/clarification-on-t
"While I'm flattered at the possibility of Apple even talking to me, the truth of the matter is that the company pretty much ignores TUAW, and most other Apple-related blogs, entirely. Honestly: Fox and I never exchanged so much as a "mwahaha" over email, or any other form of correspondence for that matter. I've never been contacted by anyone from Apple regarding anything besides the fact that one of my older PowerBook's warranties was about to expire, and that AppleCare would be a great way to stay within their graces."
Apple didn't prevail because they'd signed away their rights by not reading the fine print while working with Microsoft, not because Microsoft didn't infringe or copy Apple.
The interesting thing about digital is the manner in which it degrades compared to analog. With analog, I'll bet those guys could play that tape back, but it was scratchy and noisy. They don't know how much or exactly what information was lost, but they can still "mostly" hear it. With digital, it tends to be all-or-nothing.
On the other hand, digital allows one to quantify exactly how many bits can be lost before the signal becomes unreadable. With algorithms like Reed-Solomon, one can specify a percentage of the stream (or area of the disc) for redundant error correcting bits. The more you specify, the better the recoverability. Not only that, but you can mathematically show that you have the original signal back again.
So while analog degrades gracefully, the degradation is neither quantifiable nor recoverable. If CDs (which use a form of Reed-Solomon) had 1/3 of their bits devoted to error correcting, you could probably lose half the disc and still recover all the information. So maybe there should be "archival" forms of CD/DVD/Blu-Rays that pump up the forward error correction at the expense of data.
Java is in no way shape or form an analogy to COBOL. It's a fast, maintainable, highly portable language that's used to write a huge amount of new software today. .NET and C# are certainly going to give it a run for its money, but I think C and C++ are going to be the "next COBOL" before Java gets that monicker.
It is possible though just to use an old PC as the router, and a lot more flexible.
As long as you don't mind consuming vastly more electricity than you need to, it is a little more flexible.
If you look back at RoughlyDrafted, the entire site is dedicated to either stating the obvious or to "debunking" things that are actually true. If anything you read on RoughlyDrafted is valuable to you, it means you're REALLY out of the loop.
Slashdot needs a tag stronger than "informative" or "interesting" to tag people who actually seem to have some experience in what they're talking about so I can modify then +5.
There are very few studios doing HD DVD-only releases-- That's one of the reasons (along with the PS3) that Blu-Ray is probably going to win. So only Universal and Dimension movies would ever have an HD DVD-only release, while Columbia Pictures, MGM, Disney, Lionsgate and 20th Century Fox are all Blu-Ray exclusive (with Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema releasing their movies in both formats).
I personally think it's pretty inevitable that one of these formats is going to "win", in that even when your $79.95 player will play all three formats and there's no reason not to buy any disc, one of the Blu-Ray or HD DVD groups are going to be getting royalties on the HD discs and studios will probably release whatever's easier to produce. The goal of the two groups is to get established as the de-facto standard before that happens.
Not only do they want to sell parts of the spectrum, other parts are key to the new first responder communications gear that is going to come out. It will be nice to know that in another 9/11 scenario everyone will be able to talk to each other. Less than a billion dollars to get everyone off analog TV is definitely worth it. It would probably cost that much dealing with the legal and political aftermath of trying to take away the analog spectrum by force, which would be the only other option.
Open source licenses are more permissive than those for proprietary software in all respects that I can think of, including distribution. But no, you can't simply modify it and sell it as your own under a more restrictive (e.g., closed source) license. But that's about it.
Replace the word "modify" with "include", and replace "sell it as" with "sell it with", and you're closer to the truth.
I wish I could use and contribute to some of the open source projects out there on company time, but the GPL-- which is getting a whole lot more restrictive with v3-- really restricts what you're able to do. If people would at least use LGPL everywhere it would help a lot, and I'd be able to integrate the projects and thus be able to contribute to those projects on company time. I suspect you'll see restrictive licenses like GPLv3 slowly die while the freer licenses like LGPL get more and more popular, and those projects get higher and higher quality.
For example, my company's primary product includes a Java GUI. It would be nice if I could include some GPL Java web browser on top of it. I don't even want to modify the browser, just use it. And in this case, my application is acting more or less like an OS layer for the browser. But legal is unsure whether the mere act of allowing it to run in our workspace would force the entire codebase into GPL. So I can't use it, can't contribute bugfixes on company time, and can't improve it. I really wish they were getting freer with GPLv3 instead of more restrictive.
If it were that simple, we'd have seen the anomaly in the orbits of the outer planets.
Methane and CO2 emissions have spiked to levels not seen for millions of years on Earth, and the curve exactly matches the industrialization of the human race. Methane, and to a lesser extent CO2, are extremely potent greenhouse gasses. Their atmospheric concentration has tracked the last several hot and cold cycles on Earth, and appears to be doing the same now. Thus, it's pretty obvious that humanity is having a significant effect.
It's kind of sad that you need someone to hold your hand here instead of just going out and looking into this yourself. It's not like the civilized world is at stake.
You do have to worry about your Win32-only custom and vendor apps
In a lot of corporate environments these have been transitioning to the web over the past several years. At my (large defense contractor) company, we no longer have any required Windows-specific client software. Even most of the web apps are Java or JavaScript instead of ActiveX. We've even gotten permission to buy MacBooks for some folks as of late. If the Army wasn't so hell-bent on moving to Vista as quickly as possible the platform wars would be looking pretty rosy our way. (It's ironic that the Army's "Future Combat Systems" initiative is on a linux architecture, but in the "real world" of Army software they're paying big bucks to port things off of Unix on to Windows.)
Although it's not required, dependency on Exchange and the Exchange version of MSN are the only stumbling blocks for Macs. Office for the Mac works okay with Exchange but not great, and there is no IM solution for MSN connecting to an internal Exchange server. Fortunately XMPP (Jabber) is getting strong momentum lately on the IM side. Now if someone would PLEASE challenge Microsoft on the Enterprise email front...
Humans produce about 150x the CO2 output by volcanos.
Methane and CO2 levels are way, way up since the industrial revolution.
Basically, it's pretty irrefutable that mankind is having a significant effect on global warming. The fact that the sun is also warming doesn't mean, as the summary implies, that global warming is "not a human-induced" phenomenon, just that it also has other contributing factors. This should, if anything, spur humanity to greater levels of effort to reduce emissions.
Interestingly, the US Army's Program Management office for Battle Command seems adamant that everyone move to Vista as quickly as humanly possible. Fun times.
Even $2 is doubling the price, but yes, I think someone might pay over $4 for a song. People pay more than that for ringtones.
anyone that loves a $bn corporation
Hm, I haven't heard anyone say they love Apple lately, ESPECIALLY on Slashdot where they get accused of single-handedly bringing the wrath of DRM into the garden of freedom.
I've heard plenty of people talking about loving iPods, loving Macs, loving the ads, etc. Which is completely different than loving a corporation.