Private clouds? With a private cloud you're two steps away from a Mainframe, where with a mainframe you already have all the isolation, security and time sharing issues solved. With a private cloud, you still have years of break/fix patching to get things working similar to existing technology architectures.(security, delegation, etc.) Where is the value ad? (Serious, no troll)
No. Why not have MS do the same thing? Or apple do the same thing for their OS X software? Apple wants control of the iPhone apps for one reason: volume. There are so many little iPhones out there that a $0.99 app could easily translate to tens of millions of dollars in fees for Apple.
Yes it all costs money, and we the TAX payers have paid that money. Thus the works are public domain.
No, you haven't. Taxes don't account for every cent of money that is required to provide every government service. That's what things like fees are for.
The PACER docs are only available at certain locations for a reason, not the least of which the infrastructure on the backend, which costs money, can only handle so much load. By "making more efficient use" this guy broke those flow controls - namely amount of users the system had to serve.
And no, the last time I checked installing programs on someone else's system without authorization is no legal. Just because I leave my front door open does NOT give you the right to walk through it.(Police are another matter)
No, I'm not a troll. It's too bad that the people that modded the post as such think everyone should work for free, regardless how many families need to put food on the table.
No.
Especially in this instance, as the service wasn't rendered. If you pay for Document X, the money doesn't go to the people who did whatever work went into that document, it goes to the reproduction office.
Can you cite this or did you just make it up? All the infrastructure that makes the documents available, scanned them in, store them, bandwidth, power, man-hours, backups, etc. COSTS MONEY. And you know what? They are entitled to it. You don't get to ask people to work for free.
100% agree. He installed a script on a 3rd-party system that funneled info off-site? Is he seriously thinking that's ok? Can anyone here imagine what would happen if they did that where they worked?
And spare me the "it's a public library and the docs are public" - the fact you can only access them from the library means there are controls in place(pricing, etc) for a REASON. YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO CIRCUMVENT THEM. Why not drive around toll-booths on turnpikes then? Hell, there is some grass over there, next to the row of toll booths, I should write a plugin to drive around these damn $1 shacks!!
I don't know, Java, C++ and python all run at fine speeds if you write proper code for the language. C++ is probably the fastest in most cases, but Java is going to be faster written properly and on the right VM.
These types of agreements don't hold up in court. Regardless of what you sign it only means that the company can take you to court - not that they have any rights to what you produce on your own time. And no, not every company makes you sign something that says they own every idea you have. People can technically sue for anything - just don't be afraid to go to court if you have to an win.
Talk to a lawyer - if you do it on your equipment and your time it's yours, not your employers.
The same was said of IBM pretty much throughout the seventies and eighties and nineties and 2000s. Hopefully Ruby and Python will start to make some corporate inroads but I don't see it happening any time soon.
Wal-Mart is who they are not because they are cheap, but because they were able to refine their logistics. All of their distribution is in-house, which is how they were able to move volume, and subsequently able to squeeze vendors on pricing. It's important to note that the vendor squeezing came later, and it was the innovation in the supply chain that made Wal-Mart what it is today. It's cause->effect, not the other way around.
Want ATT to be like Wal-Mart? They need to innovate their internals first before they become a dumb pipe.
Excellent speeds and reception. 9000+ bars all over major cities. Support is slow sometimes, and they need to make the billing portal easier to read so far as billing info goes, but the speeds are great. I get over 1 mbps within 1/4 mile of towers and never less than ~400 kbps everywhere else.
I'm really not getting as bent out of shape about things as I'm coming across. What I take issue with is when people get googley-eyed over things like web-based spreadsheets and ajax webmail. These products and techs have been around, in arguably better incarnations, for a long time.
I really would just like to see some progress, not just retracement of functionality we already have.
And no - if I'm using excel or photoshop I don't "have to bring my files with me" - I have a webdav mount where my files live. Now what value-proposition does google provide?
My underlying point is that Moore's law won't help this because Moore's law assumes we're moving in a single direction: forward. We spent time writing software to build widgets. We made it good and fast, and hardware got faster and the widget software got even faster and more robust. Moore's law help in an ancillary fashion, separate from the progress the software makes.
Now, we're recreating the widget software from scratch and losing all those improvements we built over the years, just because we can. Not only that, the new software is slower on day one because, despite our bleeding-edge hardware, we added many layers of tools(browser, JS runtimes, etc.) that we need to use to get 10% of the functionality. Eventually this iteration of our widget software will improve to the point that people forgot all about that old version, but the reality is the new version, even though it's as fast as the old version and has all its features, and then some, but has large amounts of wasted time invested. I can write a spreedsheet for my PS3 - doesn't make it a good idea. Some people will think it's cool and find a use for it though....
And SMTP? The point was SMTP has things that could be done better, but we don't need to address them: that's not what SMTP is for. SMTP does what it was made for very well, as does RTMP, HTTP, FTP and VNC. Take those protocols, spin some code, and you can screenshare, video/audio conference, send email, chat and share documents. Security? Tunnel the sockets.
And using your automotive example, people don't think that because the store is stocking a new brand of motor oil they invented it, or even that it's the best oil there is.
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Private clouds? With a private cloud you're two steps away from a Mainframe, where with a mainframe you already have all the isolation, security and time sharing issues solved. With a private cloud, you still have years of break/fix patching to get things working similar to existing technology architectures.(security, delegation, etc.) Where is the value ad? (Serious, no troll)
No. Why not have MS do the same thing? Or apple do the same thing for their OS X software? Apple wants control of the iPhone apps for one reason: volume. There are so many little iPhones out there that a $0.99 app could easily translate to tens of millions of dollars in fees for Apple.
No, but 100% of all those services aren't paid for with tax money. That's why you pay for things with fees.
please MOD PARENT UP. Too many uneducated individuals on this thread to use common sense... THINGS COST MONEY!!!
Yes it all costs money, and we the TAX payers have paid that money. Thus the works are public domain.
No, you haven't. Taxes don't account for every cent of money that is required to provide every government service. That's what things like fees are for.
The PACER docs are only available at certain locations for a reason, not the least of which the infrastructure on the backend, which costs money, can only handle so much load. By "making more efficient use" this guy broke those flow controls - namely amount of users the system had to serve. And no, the last time I checked installing programs on someone else's system without authorization is no legal. Just because I leave my front door open does NOT give you the right to walk through it.(Police are another matter)
No, I'm not a troll. It's too bad that the people that modded the post as such think everyone should work for free, regardless how many families need to put food on the table.
No. Especially in this instance, as the service wasn't rendered. If you pay for Document X, the money doesn't go to the people who did whatever work went into that document, it goes to the reproduction office.
Can you cite this or did you just make it up? All the infrastructure that makes the documents available, scanned them in, store them, bandwidth, power, man-hours, backups, etc. COSTS MONEY. And you know what? They are entitled to it. You don't get to ask people to work for free.
100% agree. He installed a script on a 3rd-party system that funneled info off-site? Is he seriously thinking that's ok? Can anyone here imagine what would happen if they did that where they worked?
And spare me the "it's a public library and the docs are public" - the fact you can only access them from the library means there are controls in place(pricing, etc) for a REASON. YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO CIRCUMVENT THEM. Why not drive around toll-booths on turnpikes then? Hell, there is some grass over there, next to the row of toll booths, I should write a plugin to drive around these damn $1 shacks!!
I don't know, Java, C++ and python all run at fine speeds if you write proper code for the language. C++ is probably the fastest in most cases, but Java is going to be faster written properly and on the right VM.
Fixed that for you.
MOD PARENT UP.
mod parent up
These types of agreements don't hold up in court. Regardless of what you sign it only means that the company can take you to court - not that they have any rights to what you produce on your own time. And no, not every company makes you sign something that says they own every idea you have. People can technically sue for anything - just don't be afraid to go to court if you have to an win. Talk to a lawyer - if you do it on your equipment and your time it's yours, not your employers.
The same was said of IBM pretty much throughout the seventies and eighties and nineties and 2000s. Hopefully Ruby and Python will start to make some corporate inroads but I don't see it happening any time soon.
fixed that for you....
Babylon 5 called...... Sheridan is pissed at you.
parent should be modded insightful, not funny. People need to get a grip on web 2.0 BS.....
Wal-Mart is who they are not because they are cheap, but because they were able to refine their logistics. All of their distribution is in-house, which is how they were able to move volume, and subsequently able to squeeze vendors on pricing. It's important to note that the vendor squeezing came later, and it was the innovation in the supply chain that made Wal-Mart what it is today. It's cause->effect, not the other way around.
Want ATT to be like Wal-Mart? They need to innovate their internals first before they become a dumb pipe.
Excellent speeds and reception. 9000+ bars all over major cities. Support is slow sometimes, and they need to make the billing portal easier to read so far as billing info goes, but the speeds are great. I get over 1 mbps within 1/4 mile of towers and never less than ~400 kbps everywhere else.
"electrical pioneers Thomas Edison and Nicola Tesla"
That should be:
"electrical pioneers Nicola Tesla and Thomas Edison"
This is the issue I see also. People that believe this don't understand, or haven't experienced, things that already exist that are similar.
You can make fun of the Flash guys. If they give you shit, them them this way.... And yes - the LISP guys can still make fun of you.
It will always be less than what's required for a browser, that runs on top of an OS.
I'm really not getting as bent out of shape about things as I'm coming across. What I take issue with is when people get googley-eyed over things like web-based spreadsheets and ajax webmail. These products and techs have been around, in arguably better incarnations, for a long time.
I really would just like to see some progress, not just retracement of functionality we already have.
And no - if I'm using excel or photoshop I don't "have to bring my files with me" - I have a webdav mount where my files live. Now what value-proposition does google provide?
My underlying point is that Moore's law won't help this because Moore's law assumes we're moving in a single direction: forward. We spent time writing software to build widgets. We made it good and fast, and hardware got faster and the widget software got even faster and more robust. Moore's law help in an ancillary fashion, separate from the progress the software makes.
Now, we're recreating the widget software from scratch and losing all those improvements we built over the years, just because we can. Not only that, the new software is slower on day one because, despite our bleeding-edge hardware, we added many layers of tools(browser, JS runtimes, etc.) that we need to use to get 10% of the functionality. Eventually this iteration of our widget software will improve to the point that people forgot all about that old version, but the reality is the new version, even though it's as fast as the old version and has all its features, and then some, but has large amounts of wasted time invested. I can write a spreedsheet for my PS3 - doesn't make it a good idea. Some people will think it's cool and find a use for it though....
And SMTP? The point was SMTP has things that could be done better, but we don't need to address them: that's not what SMTP is for. SMTP does what it was made for very well, as does RTMP, HTTP, FTP and VNC. Take those protocols, spin some code, and you can screenshare, video/audio conference, send email, chat and share documents. Security? Tunnel the sockets.
HTML is foundational - Flash is not
JS is foundational - GWT is not
And using your automotive example, people don't think that because the store is stocking a new brand of motor oil they invented it, or even that it's the best oil there is.