I am sure some nice rebates and a few government lobbyists paid for special information sessions on learning the joys of Microsoft products of course. Maybe these including some nice resorts, dinners, and tickets for sporting events for these lovely educational lessons.
The upgradability convinced me to get an Asus desktop with Windows 7 and Linux instead. I figured for the same expensive price I can upgrade the pc many times and therefore it would last longer justifying the purchase.
Ipad? What a joke. If it breaks you throw it out and buy a new one for the poster above who mentioned his Ipad.
This is why people are paying up to $1500 a month for insurance and other countries are going bankrupt trying to insure its citizens. If everyone had no insurance then I would agree the market would change this.
The problem is everyone gets xrays and that raises the cost for the uninsured and this is what we have today.
Sun bought Netbeans up a while back. They tried to make a commercial version of it called ForteCE or something dumb like that before trying to rebundle it as a SunOne stack. I download Netbeans from Oracle's website today.
The link is here and was mentioned on slashdot 7 or 8 years ago. I played with it on Gentoo as it gave me the option to use the one from Sun or IBM. I found the IBM to use less ram than the Sun one on my system when running early versions of eclipse.
Unfortunately, it looks like it is Unix only right now unless you have an iBM server lying around that runs Windows.
Long story short, Oracle mentioned they wont go after IBM. It is safe because they have a licensing agreement with IBM from SUN protecting them from any liabilities. If you want to be oracle free and you run Linux you can run eclipse with the IBM sdk. It was free when I used it last but that was awhile back.
You do know that if your 14 your old daughter decides to show her boyfriend her tittles for all fun and games on a web cam that she can go to jail for manufacturing and distributing child pornography and be labelled a sex offender for life! That counts for 2 crimes and the cops are asses and do not care.
I think that is ridiculous but I work for a school district and heard some of these presentations. To me the idea of my kid going to jail for something nearly all teens do now is disturbing. Having a talk or not they are teens and if I own the computers I have a right to keylog. Nearly a third of teenagers get stalked by sexual predators on the net. I have seen men wacking off in cars in front of elementary schools and others following innocent children. It is more common than you think and some parents want to monitor for good reasons.
I prefer to be honest as my kids are not at that age where I have to worry yet. However, I am not opposed to a parent keylogging their kid. Heck people keylog their spouses and so do your employers.
Eclipse is owned by IBM. They have their own Java development environment including compilers free of Oracle. If I owned a java shop I would rather switch to them than to use Oracle and my guess is Oracle is trying to act like IBM.
Netbeans is what I use and it is unfortunately owned by Oracle.:-( I want to gradually free myself from it soon if I make time to learn Eclipse. Both Eclipse and Netbeans are great for php, C++, and even python. You do not have to use them to develop Java software.
A modern cpu will just translate the x86 instructions into risc internally. If you program under assembly you never touch the hardware directly. WIth that, x86 is not a problem like it once was.
1/3 of Americans opposed it surprisingly. That is not taught in our elementary school history books but many people including Benjamin Franklin's own son violently opposed it and even led British attacks on many rebel cities. Franklin Township New Jersey is named after the loyalist as many thought Thomas Pain and Thomas Jefferson were nuts! ' 1/3 supported independence from England. The rest of the 1/3 looked at both sides and supported either way.
I wonder if this is why the US constitution has the 2/3 majority on constitutional amendments and presidential vetos? Maybe the founding American forefathers knew this number as well from experience.
I am sticking with my oldschool desktop. I predicted the phone would make the pc into the next mainframe, but with these very high contract rates, restricted usage, drm, and other problems this is equilivent of a mainframe being cheaper than a pc to run.
Until the mega telecoms die a horrible death I refuse to pay that much for a phone. That is $4800 over 2 years! I can buy a nice workstation for that price.
For those who think I am exerating the cost. How much texting, web browsing, and other functions could I get for $60 a month? Now imagine a family? The pc becomes a whole lot cheaper. $180 a month will be needed not to go over on text and bandwith and to use your phones full abilities and bandwith.
By supporting h.264 you are denying html5 and any high definition video.
The reason is that IE has less than 75% of the market. Firefox and Chrome own the rest. You think webmasters are going to support h.264 and Html5 and ban these users? Oh wait it is Mozilla's fault for being communist right?
You live in America where patent law is king. Mozilla can not include it and the MPAA probably wont grant them a licence unless they close source their browser and include DRM and other bs. If it is patented it can't be included.
Therefore, you are denying your choices altogether by supporting it. A new codec is needed not based on ideals but patents and legal issues. You can claim I am full of it and the MPAA are really nice citizens all you want but see how far you make it by releasing software that uses their patents? You will be served papers within a matter of days and huge amounts of legal fees.
Yes it is patented. It can't be included... stated again for the millionth time.
As a result h.264 and html5 can never be adopted until the patent expires. Apple and Microsoft make closed source browsers and have big pockets so they can license it. This is another issue too. Even if Mozilla got a license to use h.264 they probably couldn't release the source code as the MPAA would surely not approve.
No this is not a limitation imposed by Mozilla. It is a limitation imposed by patent law in the United States. It can't be done unless you want to be sued out of existence.
H.264 is not free. It is owned and it is stealing to include code that uses it as the very process of decoding the code and displaying it on the computer is treated as a physical property by the court of law.
Perhaps in 3rd world countries like India they can enjoy a full html5 experience with h.264 but here in America you simply will be denied.
This is why we are angry and want to shoot whoever came up with basing a standard of a known litigator was a dumb move.
They have their own java VMs' but of course they are tied to DB2. They can have parts ready and a well trained but expensive staff to help I.T. run them. Websphere is cool if you are a java shop too.
The key is activeX and not WindowsXP. If IE 9 supports activeX which can be turned on by IT only for intranets then businesses can switch to Windows 7.
Yes, Microsoft prefers sharepoint but it can not do everything that activeX can and companies like Oracle refuse to support it and still use activeX.
ActiveX is a plague but it looks like businesses are not going to leave their shitty activeX software anytime soon. One of our clients is a hospital and they use signature pads that is activeX based. This can not be simply moved to sharepoint as some software has to be run on the desktop unlike many ERP programs which could be upgraded to sharepoint technology instead.
The market is certainly not willing in Ireland, Greece, or Italy. Bernanke agree's.
Now, this truly scares the hell out of me. Basically the graph shows 95% of all currency we have is made up out of thin air by invisible debt and it really does not even exist.
We will have another financial crises with government spending similar to Weinmar Germany if we do not cut spending drastically. I think it is economically dangerous to spend on anything other than basics right now. Printing money and charging it back to the treasury again does not make any sense. China is the only one really buying the bonds so they can control us in case world war 3 breaks out in Korea. I do not like that either.
I briefly worked for AOL. I was thinking OH NO when I saw the article and cringed.
Many older grandmas and/.ers mothers depend on sticking something in and crossing their fingers that they can figure out what to do next. Yes these older users exist and the baby boomers double the generation Xers in size.
People who bash SQL usually are mysql users who have never used a real database and they bash all that is sql because of one bad imitation. Then they go to one that is even less. lol
PostgreSQL is good if you know how to use triggers and foreign keys. It can speed up your ques if you know what you are doing and can scale.
I hate outsourcing as the next guy but if he does not do this job someone else will. It will get done and high paying jobs are going away whether we like it or not. It is just what we have to live with today.
Think about the customers and the shareholders? They do not want to pay more and you are doing a great service to them by lowering costs. The customer is king right? Grandmas and retiring old men need their 401ks up so they can retire. They too benefit and deserve a good return on their investment.
Unless we have a president who is opposed to NAFTA what can we do? Just except you will be broke and yes you need to compete with people paying $150 a month for rent for the same jobs.
Your family comes first and you need to look out for yourself first. It is not illegal nor is it immoral when everyone else does it. I will probably be flamed to death here but when you have a wife and kids who are hungry your opinion changes. Myself included
That has to do in the event of a cyber attack from Russia, Al Quada, or China on our nation's infrastructure. It is not a tool to censor but rather a way to stop something from spreading. If the rumors are true that half our traffic got routed to China so they could snoop up and monitor traffic then this proposed legislation is enacted to stop just that.
90% of it is work and working smarter. Very few are rich because they inherited money or won the lottery.
Bill Gates worked hard and smart and was first to develop software for the microcomputer. Many saw the potential but only he acted on it, thus he is worth his 20 billion dollars.
If you stop mocking the rich you might become one some day. Take risks and start a business and lead. Donald Trump works his butt off and many of you reading this prefer to browse slashdot instead so you get paid what you are worth.
However, I will say I think investment bankers are croonies who deserve to be in jail but that is a different matter.
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I am sure some nice rebates and a few government lobbyists paid for special information sessions on learning the joys of Microsoft products of course. Maybe these including some nice resorts, dinners, and tickets for sporting events for these lovely educational lessons.
Last October I wanted to buy a mac.
The upgradability convinced me to get an Asus desktop with Windows 7 and Linux instead. I figured for the same expensive price I can upgrade the pc many times and therefore it would last longer justifying the purchase.
Ipad? What a joke. If it breaks you throw it out and buy a new one for the poster above who mentioned his Ipad.
Not if people are insured buddy.
This is why people are paying up to $1500 a month for insurance and other countries are going bankrupt trying to insure its citizens. If everyone had no insurance then I would agree the market would change this.
The problem is everyone gets xrays and that raises the cost for the uninsured and this is what we have today.
"NetBeans is not owned by Oracle"
Sun bought Netbeans up a while back. They tried to make a commercial version of it called ForteCE or something dumb like that before trying to rebundle it as a SunOne stack. I download Netbeans from Oracle's website today.
I looked into IBM's Java SDK.
The link is here and was mentioned on slashdot 7 or 8 years ago. I played with it on Gentoo as it gave me the option to use the one from Sun or IBM. I found the IBM to use less ram than the Sun one on my system when running early versions of eclipse.
Unfortunately, it looks like it is Unix only right now unless you have an iBM server lying around that runs Windows.
Long story short, Oracle mentioned they wont go after IBM. It is safe because they have a licensing agreement with IBM from SUN protecting them from any liabilities. If you want to be oracle free and you run Linux you can run eclipse with the IBM sdk. It was free when I used it last but that was awhile back.
You do know that if your 14 your old daughter decides to show her boyfriend her tittles for all fun and games on a web cam that she can go to jail for manufacturing and distributing child pornography and be labelled a sex offender for life! That counts for 2 crimes and the cops are asses and do not care.
I think that is ridiculous but I work for a school district and heard some of these presentations. To me the idea of my kid going to jail for something nearly all teens do now is disturbing. Having a talk or not they are teens and if I own the computers I have a right to keylog. Nearly a third of teenagers get stalked by sexual predators on the net. I have seen men wacking off in cars in front of elementary schools and others following innocent children. It is more common than you think and some parents want to monitor for good reasons.
I prefer to be honest as my kids are not at that age where I have to worry yet. However, I am not opposed to a parent keylogging their kid. Heck people keylog their spouses and so do your employers.
Eclipse is owned by IBM. They have their own Java development environment including compilers free of Oracle. If I owned a java shop I would rather switch to them than to use Oracle and my guess is Oracle is trying to act like IBM.
Netbeans is what I use and it is unfortunately owned by Oracle. :-( I want to gradually free myself from it soon if I make time to learn Eclipse. Both Eclipse and Netbeans are great for php, C++, and even python. You do not have to use them to develop Java software.
x86 is dead at the cpu.
A modern cpu will just translate the x86 instructions into risc internally. If you program under assembly you never touch the hardware directly. WIth that, x86 is not a problem like it once was.
You know with all this inappropriate language around children, it is only a matter of time before they tell jokes like this to each other.
Please think of the children!
The American revolution actually started this.
1/3 of Americans opposed it surprisingly. That is not taught in our elementary school history books but many people including Benjamin Franklin's own son violently opposed it and even led British attacks on many rebel cities. Franklin Township New Jersey is named after the loyalist as many thought Thomas Pain and Thomas Jefferson were nuts!
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1/3 supported independence from England. The rest of the 1/3 looked at both sides and supported either way.
I wonder if this is why the US constitution has the 2/3 majority on constitutional amendments and presidential vetos? Maybe the founding American forefathers knew this number as well from experience.
... it is quite a steal. NOT.
I am sticking with my oldschool desktop. I predicted the phone would make the pc into the next mainframe, but with these very high contract rates, restricted usage, drm, and other problems this is equilivent of a mainframe being cheaper than a pc to run.
Until the mega telecoms die a horrible death I refuse to pay that much for a phone. That is $4800 over 2 years! I can buy a nice workstation for that price.
For those who think I am exerating the cost. How much texting, web browsing, and other functions could I get for $60 a month? Now imagine a family? The pc becomes a whole lot cheaper. $180 a month will be needed not to go over on text and bandwith and to use your phones full abilities and bandwith.
By supporting h.264 you are denying html5 and any high definition video.
The reason is that IE has less than 75% of the market. Firefox and Chrome own the rest. You think webmasters are going to support h.264 and Html5 and ban these users? Oh wait it is Mozilla's fault for being communist right?
You live in America where patent law is king. Mozilla can not include it and the MPAA probably wont grant them a licence unless they close source their browser and include DRM and other bs. If it is patented it can't be included.
Therefore, you are denying your choices altogether by supporting it. A new codec is needed not based on ideals but patents and legal issues. You can claim I am full of it and the MPAA are really nice citizens all you want but see how far you make it by releasing software that uses their patents? You will be served papers within a matter of days and huge amounts of legal fees.
Yes it is patented. It can't be included ... stated again for the millionth time.
As a result h.264 and html5 can never be adopted until the patent expires. Apple and Microsoft make closed source browsers and have big pockets so they can license it. This is another issue too. Even if Mozilla got a license to use h.264 they probably couldn't release the source code as the MPAA would surely not approve.
It is not political at all but a legal one.
No this is not a limitation imposed by Mozilla. It is a limitation imposed by patent law in the United States. It can't be done unless you want to be sued out of existence.
H.264 is not free. It is owned and it is stealing to include code that uses it as the very process of decoding the code and displaying it on the computer is treated as a physical property by the court of law.
Perhaps in 3rd world countries like India they can enjoy a full html5 experience with h.264 but here in America you simply will be denied.
This is why we are angry and want to shoot whoever came up with basing a standard of a known litigator was a dumb move.
Compared to WinFS, ZFS, and the upcoming BTFS it looks quite dated. Infact NTFS is really HPFS from OS/2 with a few extra features.
You could try IBM.
They have their own java VMs' but of course they are tied to DB2. They can have parts ready and a well trained but expensive staff to help I.T. run them. Websphere is cool if you are a java shop too.
I do not trust Dell or HP with having the suppor
Yes I do think they want to leave XP
The key is activeX and not WindowsXP. If IE 9 supports activeX which can be turned on by IT only for intranets then businesses can switch to Windows 7.
Yes, Microsoft prefers sharepoint but it can not do everything that activeX can and companies like Oracle refuse to support it and still use activeX.
ActiveX is a plague but it looks like businesses are not going to leave their shitty activeX software anytime soon. One of our clients is a hospital and they use signature pads that is activeX based. This can not be simply moved to sharepoint as some software has to be run on the desktop unlike many ERP programs which could be upgraded to sharepoint technology instead.
IE is the glue that keeps WindowsXP still alive.
Windows 7 will finally be a possibility.
Oh wow.
The market is certainly not willing in Ireland, Greece, or Italy. Bernanke agree's.
Now, this truly scares the hell out of me. Basically the graph shows 95% of all currency we have is made up out of thin air by invisible debt and it really does not even exist.
We will have another financial crises with government spending similar to Weinmar Germany if we do not cut spending drastically. I think it is economically dangerous to spend on anything other than basics right now. Printing money and charging it back to the treasury again does not make any sense. China is the only one really buying the bonds so they can control us in case world war 3 breaks out in Korea. I do not like that either.
You've never worked a helpdesk, have you?>/i>
I briefly worked for AOL. I was thinking OH NO when I saw the article and cringed.
Many older grandmas and /.ers mothers depend on sticking something in and crossing their fingers that they can figure out what to do next. Yes these older users exist and the baby boomers double the generation Xers in size.
I think of this whenever I hear nosql crowd.
People who bash SQL usually are mysql users who have never used a real database and they bash all that is sql because of one bad imitation. Then they go to one that is even less. lol
PostgreSQL is good if you know how to use triggers and foreign keys. It can speed up your ques if you know what you are doing and can scale.
I hate outsourcing as the next guy but if he does not do this job someone else will. It will get done and high paying jobs are going away whether we like it or not. It is just what we have to live with today.
Think about the customers and the shareholders? They do not want to pay more and you are doing a great service to them by lowering costs. The customer is king right? Grandmas and retiring old men need their 401ks up so they can retire. They too benefit and deserve a good return on their investment.
Unless we have a president who is opposed to NAFTA what can we do? Just except you will be broke and yes you need to compete with people paying $150 a month for rent for the same jobs.
Your family comes first and you need to look out for yourself first. It is not illegal nor is it immoral when everyone else does it. I will probably be flamed to death here but when you have a wife and kids who are hungry your opinion changes. Myself included
That has to do in the event of a cyber attack from Russia, Al Quada, or China on our nation's infrastructure. It is not a tool to censor but rather a way to stop something from spreading. If the rumors are true that half our traffic got routed to China so they could snoop up and monitor traffic then this proposed legislation is enacted to stop just that.
Unfortunately, the same thing happened in Iran in 1979 when a bunch of peace loving citizens decided to overthrow the Sha. Look at what happened?
We do not know what the new government of Egypt will look like but lets hope it is not an Islamic Fascist.
Not true.
90% of it is work and working smarter. Very few are rich because they inherited money or won the lottery.
Bill Gates worked hard and smart and was first to develop software for the microcomputer. Many saw the potential but only he acted on it, thus he is worth his 20 billion dollars.
If you stop mocking the rich you might become one some day. Take risks and start a business and lead. Donald Trump works his butt off and many of you reading this prefer to browse slashdot instead so you get paid what you are worth.
However, I will say I think investment bankers are croonies who deserve to be in jail but that is a different matter.