Seriously, MS would never adopt RMI though, and RMI has it's own problems that makes it not viable for large-scale internet/P2P connectivity. I know.NET has their own non-HTTP protocol called "remoting" that you can use to bundle web services together without using HTTP but I don't know how viable it is for wide-scale communications on the Internet, it's recommended for LAN use. But MS may try to extend.NET remoting as the next-gen protocol.
But I have to agree that everybody building P2P applications on top of web services will soon run into a wall due to HTTP's stateless nature.
At Ubero we built our own wire protocol, DCTP (distributed computing transport protocol) that suits our needs very well and allows us to extend it as we need to.
I just want to say I've been using it for a few months and it's great. Getting and sending back DVDs via the mail are great. And they pay the postage. It's a little pricey but in my business time is money and I can't afford the extraneous trips to Blockbuster to plead with some zit-faced teenager not to charge me the late fees since I turned it back in 5 minutes late.
An LLC gives you the benefits and protection (you're not personally liable for damages, your LLC is) of a corporation but you don't have to hire yourself nor pay payroll taxes, the income can pass right through to you as personal income, no double taxation. This is like an S-Corp.
The advantage of an LLC over an S-Corp is that it's less paperwork to manage (don't have to have quarterly board meetings, no need to submit bylaws, etc.).
In California LLCs and Corps pay $800/year for business tax, that sucks.
Check out this link from BizFilings, a site where you can incorporate.
I'm in Orange County too and I've got a Cox@Home and CoxNet express business circuit for hosting stugg. The CoxNet is much more expensive but it's a dedicated circuit (no sharing with the neighbors) and you can host your own servers. It's like a fractional T1 circuit.
Slashdot = birthday announcement site
on
Five Years of KDE
·
· Score: 1
I have, in a P2P fashion, where people could host arenas on their PCs and bots get submitted in the network, battle in others areans, and then move to other areans on the network once they are beaten or dethroned. The owner gets incremental reports on how their roaming robot is doing, either getting the crap beat out of it left and right or is king of the arena and unbeatable at 167.89.45.19.
In 7th grade Comp Sci class (only in San Jose, CA!) we used Robot Wars on Apple ]['s that did similar things. Robots would be in a 2-dimensional plane, had a motor, radar and a cannon. You could control these things with code. Your bots would fight each other on the screen. By the way, I had the best bot in the class! I even beat the bots built by the teacher's sons, who were CS students at San Jose State and he always bragged about them.
Anyways, I've been craving a modern version of this for some time now and haven't been able to find anything. I've thought of building one but I'll have to check this one out.
I love the Aeron chairs. I do believe that over 60% of dot.com VC money went to extravagent furniture like the Aeron, frivolous marketing or radical parties (where I used to work we had a private fireworks show off the coast at the Ritz Carlton and the B-52s played a private concert for us). I wish I could get an Aeron from a dot.com fire sale and save some money.
I've had good experiences with Toshibas and Dells. Not sure about others like Compaqs or Gateways. I've had bad experiences with Sony and would stay away from them.
Sun (mainly Bill Joy) is too busy creating JINI and JXTA instead of spending time enhancing SPARC and creating other business solutions their customers need and will pay for. Sell your SUNW stock as fast as you can. I love Java but, other than licensing fees and the JavaOne conference, how has it been additive to their revenues?
It'll be part of Hailstorm, integrated into their instant messenger. I think Napster's trying to squeeze $ out of Microsoft for committing to.NET/Hailstorm technologies. It would be a big win for.NET. Microsoft is looking for big Internet players to commit to.NET. They've already got eBay and buy.com for commerce.
You can use distributed computing as a simple parallel computing model by using distributed computing. It works through a firewall, across heterogeneous hardware and operating systems on any computer around the world.
Ubero will be releasing some software soon that does just this using a simple set of Java APIs.
If they lied, yes, damn them and shame on them. However, SQL 7 was built for NT, SQL 2000 was built for Windows 2000 and is their newer product anyway.
Also, it depends on how they had their Win2k box set up. Active Directory is a mess and could be slowing it down along with a bunch of other services that come with it by default that weren't part of NT.
One of the benefits of Access it that the entire database can be deployed (on a windows box at least) with just one file! There is no need to install an RDBMS.
This is especially usefull when dealing with $19.95/mo ISPs who want to charge extra for adding database capabilities. With Access you just FTP the.MDB file to your ISP and, using ASP or other ODBC-capable scripting languages, you can connect directly to the Access file and SQL against it like any other RDBMS.
I worked for buy.com, their stock IPO-ed above $30/share and my position was, on paper, worth over $2 million. Then the market tanked, buy.com continued losing money, B2C became out of fashion with investors, and by the time I was allowed to actually sell some stock 6 months later I was under water...$2million to $0 in less than 6 months. Thank heavens I never lived like a millionaire like some other employees who took out huge loans hoping that they could pay them back once they could cash out their stocks.
Blowing each other to bits with Quake 3 Arena
on
Cube Farm Ordnance?
·
· Score: 1
We play weekly (used to be daily) Quake 3 deathmatches in the office and have set up our own publicly-addressable Quake server so we can blow each other to bits from home on off hours and weekends.
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't this the same thing as Mira which Bill Gates debuted at CES in January?
You can download the Java SDK for free. You can also use NetBeans which is a nice, open-source IDE.
Also, try these
127.0.0.1 ads.x10.com
127.0.0.1 ads.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 us.a1.yimg.com
Seriously, MS would never adopt RMI though, and RMI has it's own problems that makes it not viable for large-scale internet/P2P connectivity. I know .NET has their own non-HTTP protocol called "remoting" that you can use to bundle web services together without using HTTP but I don't know how viable it is for wide-scale communications on the Internet, it's recommended for LAN use. But MS may try to extend .NET remoting as the next-gen protocol.
But I have to agree that everybody building P2P applications on top of web services will soon run into a wall due to HTTP's stateless nature.
At Ubero we built our own wire protocol, DCTP (distributed computing transport protocol) that suits our needs very well and allows us to extend it as we need to.
I just want to say I've been using it for a few months and it's great. Getting and sending back DVDs via the mail are great. And they pay the postage. It's a little pricey but in my business time is money and I can't afford the extraneous trips to Blockbuster to plead with some zit-faced teenager not to charge me the late fees since I turned it back in 5 minutes late.
Anybody working on a C# plug-in for Eclipse? Could Ximian's work be incorporated in here?
An LLC gives you the benefits and protection (you're not personally liable for damages, your LLC is) of a corporation but you don't have to hire yourself nor pay payroll taxes, the income can pass right through to you as personal income, no double taxation. This is like an S-Corp.
The advantage of an LLC over an S-Corp is that it's less paperwork to manage (don't have to have quarterly board meetings, no need to submit bylaws, etc.).
In California LLCs and Corps pay $800/year for business tax, that sucks.
Check out this link from BizFilings, a site where you can incorporate.
http://www.bizfilings.com/learning/llcfaq.htm
I'm in Orange County too and I've got a Cox@Home and CoxNet express business circuit for hosting stugg. The CoxNet is much more expensive but it's a dedicated circuit (no sharing with the neighbors) and you can host your own servers. It's like a fractional T1 circuit.
E-mail is 30!
KDE is 5!
StarOffice is 1!
I have, in a P2P fashion, where people could host arenas on their PCs and bots get submitted in the network, battle in others areans, and then move to other areans on the network once they are beaten or dethroned. The owner gets incremental reports on how their roaming robot is doing, either getting the crap beat out of it left and right or is king of the arena and unbeatable at 167.89.45.19.
http://www.ubero.com/
In 7th grade Comp Sci class (only in San Jose, CA!) we used Robot Wars on Apple ]['s that did similar things. Robots would be in a 2-dimensional plane, had a motor, radar and a cannon. You could control these things with code. Your bots would fight each other on the screen. By the way, I had the best bot in the class! I even beat the bots built by the teacher's sons, who were CS students at San Jose State and he always bragged about them.
Anyways, I've been craving a modern version of this for some time now and haven't been able to find anything. I've thought of building one but I'll have to check this one out.
I love the Aeron chairs. I do believe that over 60% of dot.com VC money went to extravagent furniture like the Aeron, frivolous marketing or radical parties (where I used to work we had a private fireworks show off the coast at the Ritz Carlton and the B-52s played a private concert for us). I wish I could get an Aeron from a dot.com fire sale and save some money.
I've had good experiences with Toshibas and Dells. Not sure about others like Compaqs or Gateways. I've had bad experiences with Sony and would stay away from them.
To find out more visit the Donations page.
Sun (mainly Bill Joy) is too busy creating JINI and JXTA instead of spending time enhancing SPARC and creating other business solutions their customers need and will pay for. Sell your SUNW stock as fast as you can. I love Java but, other than licensing fees and the JavaOne conference, how has it been additive to their revenues?
It'll be part of Hailstorm, integrated into their instant messenger. I think Napster's trying to squeeze $ out of Microsoft for committing to .NET/Hailstorm technologies. It would be a big win for .NET. Microsoft is looking for big Internet players to commit to .NET. They've already got eBay and buy.com for commerce.
Microsoft invented advertising too.
Ubero will be releasing some software soon that does just this using a simple set of Java APIs.
http://www.ubero.net
That's the most disgusting thing I've ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, it depends on how they had their Win2k box set up. Active Directory is a mess and could be slowing it down along with a bunch of other services that come with it by default that weren't part of NT.
This is especially usefull when dealing with $19.95/mo ISPs who want to charge extra for adding database capabilities. With Access you just FTP the .MDB file to your ISP and, using ASP or other ODBC-capable scripting languages, you can connect directly to the Access file and SQL against it like any other RDBMS.
Can the same be accomplished with MySQL?
I worked for buy.com, their stock IPO-ed above $30/share and my position was, on paper, worth over $2 million. Then the market tanked, buy.com continued losing money, B2C became out of fashion with investors, and by the time I was allowed to actually sell some stock 6 months later I was under water...$2million to $0 in less than 6 months. Thank heavens I never lived like a millionaire like some other employees who took out huge loans hoping that they could pay them back once they could cash out their stocks.
We play weekly (used to be daily) Quake 3 deathmatches in the office and have set up our own publicly-addressable Quake server so we can blow each other to bits from home on off hours and weekends.