Thumbs down, Yahoo. Use the best tool for the job.
Unfortunately, the job in this case is "Make money." Google has all these ethics things that get in the way of that. Things like not resorting their main search results order to include paid results, always putting advertisements in color. Advertisers don't like that.
It's kind of weird.. The way I look at it is this: Guys always want the virginal girl.. but they don't want her to stay a virgin around them. Advertisers want a search engine just like that. They want a search engine that everyone respects, except they want to underhandedly move their results up to the top.. which loses respect. Google does everything it can to keep the respect. Sure, for a few dollars, it might let you feel it up, but if you go around claiming that you shagged it, it goes and changes its entire rating system and drops your pages to the bottom of its list.
Mod me offtopic if you must, but this is one of my pet peeves..
First of all, MIDI is an acronym and should be capitalized.. but that's not the problem..
MIDI stands for *M*usical *I*nstrument *D*igital *I*nterface. When you say MIDI interface, you are saying Musicial Instrument Digital Interface interface.
That's like saying scuba aperatus. RPMs per minute (yes, I know someone who said that). LCD display. LCD Diode (never heard that one, but you could do it..) CRT tube. MIDI interface.
I guess you could argue that it's a USB interface to a MIDI system.. but then you'd say it was a MIDI USB interface, not a USB MIDI interface.
Here's what appears to be an authoritative definition of submarine patent..
A Submarine Patent is a patent which an "inventor" files on a device or technology that doesn't exist yet, or which has not yet been successfully implemented. Using various procedural mechanisms, the filer intentionally delays issue of the patent, sometimes for years, until a practical implementation of the device/technology appears on the market. At that time, the filer allows the patent to "come to the surface" and demands royalties from the party who did the real work.
If the code can be written overseas, then it should be. I don't want to do code-monkey work. If the work can be described in detail, with full requirements worked out before the coding starts, and there's so little communication needed that you can deal with sending an email and getting a response the next day, then it probably SHOULD be outsourced.
I don't know many projects that work like that.
Where I work, the nontechnical management can't make the medium level technical decisions needed to come up with a full requirements document. They rely on the programmers to come up with ideas and sanity check what comes down to them. When there's a fire to be put out, it needs to be put out immediately.
This kind of work doesn't go overseas because it can't.
If companies outsource the wrong kind of work, they won't last long. They simply won't be able to respond to market conditions.
A friend of mine were driving along when we were seeing a bunch of Mexicans doing road construction. Somehow the topic of illegal immigrants came up and his comment was "let them have the jobs doing road construction and whatnot. If they don't do it, then YOU have to." I thought about that for a second, nodded, and we drove on. That's how I feel about code that can be sent overseas -- I don't want to do it, so by all means, let someone else do it.
There's a lot of tech people out there that just like sucking down tech job $$ and stare at a computer screen and do data-entry level programming. These people should fear for their jobs.
The thing no one seems to have mentioned is that Oracle already does this and has for many years. I can't find any docs on it off-hand, but I know you can just drop a.jar file into Oracle and it will let you do similar stuff. This is nice because it lets you use a common language for doing your stored procedures instead of learning a different language for each database (e.g. Oracle uses PL/SQL).
People who are saying "what's the use of this" or "This is just going to bog down the database" most likely have never worked in the industry. Stored procedures are a very common part of large systems and adding this functionality to MySQL will go a long ways in promoting MySQL use in bigger companies.
Yeah, I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that. That actually kinda bugs me. I mean.. I know/. is a business and needs to make money, but are they going to start selling X11 cameras next? Selling my email address? Personals are only one step away...
Really, I'm just sick of people saying how everything is too high priced. I had a previous post where I compare computer stuff to any other hobby. "That model airplane is too expensive!" "That paintball gun is too expensive" "That steak is too expensive"". If you think it's too expensive, then don't buy it. Obviously there's a market that disagrees with you or those companies wouldn't be in existence. It's not like there's a government subsidy for the making of expensive streaming mp3 players..
I have no problem with people who say "that's cool but too expensive for me." I don't think less of those people. I have a problem with people who say "It's too expensive." The MP3 player market is quite close to saturation and companies can no longer name their price -- it's heavily driven by the market. This company is successful and obviously has a feature set that, as I mentioned above, some group of people find to be appealing at that price.
If you have both LAME and the oggtools installed, SlimServer will automatically convert Ogg files to raw PCM on the fly for playback.
I mean.. this isn't ideal, but it will play them.. so who cares? In some ways, this is even cooler, as it allows you to play anything can be changed into a PCM stream (some hacking may be requird, but if they already have it set up to do one, I can't see it being that hard to have it do others)..
I think it's cool. And to everyone who says it's too expensive, you need to get a real job. I'm sick of all these high school and college kids saying "ooh, it's too expensive.. why would you spend $400 on a video card?" BECAUSE I CAN. Just like I can spend $300 on a streaming music player. I'm not rich, but I make a good living as a software developer and can afford cool toys. I wouldn't want them to dumb this down to make it $150. I want a $300 player with a sweet interface and a nice remote control.
What I'm saying is I have no responsibility for writing code that you like. That's it. If you don't like it, feel free to join the community, but don't you dare tell me that I'm doing something wrong because you don't like my Free code.
1) Too many developers "scratch the same itch." So what? It's not my responsibility to write code for you. I write code for me, and release it under a license that happens to allow for other people to use it. Don't tell me what code I'm allowed to write and what I'm not.
2) Open Source developers love a good feud. So what? You have no right to tell me how I should be spending my time. Sure it's not the most productive use of it, but again, it's MY time. If you don't like it, go away.
3) Open Source developers often scratch the wrong itch. WTF? Scratch the wrong itch? Maybe I'm not scratching your itch, but see point 1. If you don't like what I'm doing, write your own. That's what I did when I wrote this software that scratches the 'wrong itch'. It scratched mine just fine.
4) In the Open Source Community, you're either "with us or against us" Against us? If you want to point out flaws and the people in the group don't appreciate it, you can take the code and apply your own patches and start up a distribution of that code. If the community agrees with you, then you'll be successful. If you end up being the only one who uses your new version, then maybe you're actually wrong about what you were doing and that entire community against you was actually that you were wrong and too dumb to realize it.
5) The Open Source Community has a huge chip on its shoulder...called Microsoft So? This really is the same point as Point 2. And the arguments are the same. So most of us don't like Microsoft? I don't think there are many that won't admit they do some stuff right, but that doesn't matter. It's my time, and I will do with it as I please. If you want to lead by example and convince people there's a better way, a high road, then please, by all means, do so. But telling people who write software that you can use at no cost and have full access to the source that they need to be doing things differently is about the most egocentric thing you could possibly say.
In closing, go away and write some code. If you can't do that, then just go away.
JBoss has a J2EE implementation that they have licensed out under the LGPL. The Apache foundation has another, competing J2EE implementation, Geronimo, licensed under the Apache license (which is very similar to the BSD license?).
JBoss is accusing Geronimo of taking their code and putting it into Geronimo. This would obviously be a violation because the Apache license isn't LGPL compatible.
So it sounds like Geronimo should be indemnifying their users from legal action, not JBoss. Why would a JBoss customer need legal protection?
Fortunately this isn't another SCO situation where JBoss won't tell what code they think is infringed upon. The rebuttals available seem pretty thorough and it looks like someone at JBoss was poking through the Geronimo code and noticed some similarities and ran to the lawyers. They promptly said "Yep, this is the same. We're sending a letter." Of course, no one thought that there were standards for the naming schemes and capitalization or that possibly code was contributed to both projects by the same people.
Anyways, I'm still confused as to why JBoss customers need legal indemnification when JBoss is the aggressor in this situation.. ???
Apple doesn't make money selling software. They make money selling hardware. They don't want you paying $130 for their software.. that's just a little bonus. They want you dropping $2,000 on a new Apple computer. That's where their money comes from.
If they ported it, they'd lose their primary revenue stream.
The article doesn't tell you anything you don't know. Built-in batteries are cool until they run out and you can't throw in AA's. Hard drive players have the limitations of hard drives. They're expensive. You use Apple software..
Big. Red. Truck.
(that's the punchline from a rather humorous blonde joke about being amazingly dense)
I dunno if you actually played any of those hdtv games for xbox, but I was unimpressed by it.
I bought the kit for pushing component video out of an x-box and took it over to a friend's house who has a 56" Sony HDTV projection screen. I cranked it up to 1080i and pretty much the only thing I saw was that it slowed down. The loading screen with the matrix letters were crisper, but that was it. I noticed no change in-game other than it being slower (noticably chunky in spots that were smooth in standard resolution).
This doesn't really surprise me, though, as all an xbox has is a slightly upgraded geforce3. That card doesn't exactly have an amazing fill rate -- it's 2 generations old. My Radeon 9700, however, pushes 1600x1200 in games quite well. Granted, it cost $200 more than the entire xbox, but that's the price if you want high-res graphics. Just don't be saying that 1080i on an xbox touches my computer.
Everyone whines about cost.. I say get a real job and don't worry about it. Gaming is a hobby. Hobbies take money. Some people work on their car and buy 20" lift kits. Some people fly remote control airplanes. I pimp the hell out of my computer. I buy lights, I buy fans, I drill holes in the case, and I buy damned expensive video cards, and I don't complain about it (well, maybe a little, but I still buy 'em)
I guess it's all about how you want to spend your money. I work hard; I play hard.
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Thumbs down, Yahoo. Use the best tool for the job.
Unfortunately, the job in this case is "Make money." Google has all these ethics things that get in the way of that. Things like not resorting their main search results order to include paid results, always putting advertisements in color. Advertisers don't like that.
It's kind of weird.. The way I look at it is this: Guys always want the virginal girl.. but they don't want her to stay a virgin around them. Advertisers want a search engine just like that. They want a search engine that everyone respects, except they want to underhandedly move their results up to the top.. which loses respect. Google does everything it can to keep the respect. Sure, for a few dollars, it might let you feel it up, but if you go around claiming that you shagged it, it goes and changes its entire rating system and drops your pages to the bottom of its list.
Google frickin' rules.
You can be the first!
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Mod me offtopic if you must, but this is one of my pet peeves..
First of all, MIDI is an acronym and should be capitalized.. but that's not the problem..
MIDI stands for *M*usical *I*nstrument *D*igital *I*nterface. When you say MIDI interface, you are saying Musicial Instrument Digital Interface interface.
That's like saying scuba aperatus. RPMs per minute (yes, I know someone who said that). LCD display. LCD Diode (never heard that one, but you could do it..) CRT tube. MIDI interface.
I guess you could argue that it's a USB interface to a MIDI system.. but then you'd say it was a MIDI USB interface, not a USB MIDI interface.
BIG SIGN GOES HERE.
It says: "Don't feed the trolls"
I think I speak for myself when I say..
sHut uP. pLease.
When it's not /.'d...
*sigh*
Where do I go to pay for a subscription? (rhetorical)
Here's what appears to be an authoritative definition of submarine patent..
A Submarine Patent is a patent which an "inventor" files on a device or technology that doesn't exist yet, or which has not yet been successfully implemented. Using various procedural mechanisms, the filer intentionally delays issue of the patent, sometimes for years, until a practical implementation of the device/technology appears on the market. At that time, the filer allows the patent to "come to the surface" and demands royalties from the party who did the real work.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SubmarinePatent
but I have to agree with what a lot of other people said.
Be *extremely* careful. Even valid and obvious complaints can get you in a lot of trouble.
My advice? Keep your mouth shut.
Get off my kool-aid!
anyone have a copy of what's there?
I'm a programmer in the US and here's my take.
If the code can be written overseas, then it should be. I don't want to do code-monkey work. If the work can be described in detail, with full requirements worked out before the coding starts, and there's so little communication needed that you can deal with sending an email and getting a response the next day, then it probably SHOULD be outsourced.
I don't know many projects that work like that.
Where I work, the nontechnical management can't make the medium level technical decisions needed to come up with a full requirements document. They rely on the programmers to come up with ideas and sanity check what comes down to them. When there's a fire to be put out, it needs to be put out immediately.
This kind of work doesn't go overseas because it can't.
If companies outsource the wrong kind of work, they won't last long. They simply won't be able to respond to market conditions.
A friend of mine were driving along when we were seeing a bunch of Mexicans doing road construction. Somehow the topic of illegal immigrants came up and his comment was "let them have the jobs doing road construction and whatnot. If they don't do it, then YOU have to." I thought about that for a second, nodded, and we drove on. That's how I feel about code that can be sent overseas -- I don't want to do it, so by all means, let someone else do it.
There's a lot of tech people out there that just like sucking down tech job $$ and stare at a computer screen and do data-entry level programming. These people should fear for their jobs.
The thing no one seems to have mentioned is that Oracle already does this and has for many years. I can't find any docs on it off-hand, but I know you can just drop a .jar file into Oracle and it will let you do similar stuff. This is nice because it lets you use a common language for doing your stored procedures instead of learning a different language for each database (e.g. Oracle uses PL/SQL).
People who are saying "what's the use of this" or "This is just going to bog down the database" most likely have never worked in the industry. Stored procedures are a very common part of large systems and adding this functionality to MySQL will go a long ways in promoting MySQL use in bigger companies.
Yeah, I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that. That actually kinda bugs me. I mean.. I know /. is a business and needs to make money, but are they going to start selling X11 cameras next? Selling my email address? Personals are only one step away...
Really, I'm just sick of people saying how everything is too high priced. I had a previous post where I compare computer stuff to any other hobby. "That model airplane is too expensive!" "That paintball gun is too expensive" "That steak is too expensive"". If you think it's too expensive, then don't buy it. Obviously there's a market that disagrees with you or those companies wouldn't be in existence. It's not like there's a government subsidy for the making of expensive streaming mp3 players..
:)
I have no problem with people who say "that's cool but too expensive for me." I don't think less of those people. I have a problem with people who say "It's too expensive." The MP3 player market is quite close to saturation and companies can no longer name their price -- it's heavily driven by the market. This company is successful and obviously has a feature set that, as I mentioned above, some group of people find to be appealing at that price.
That and I was in a bad mood this morning
heh. that's just old. http://xaxxon.slackworks.com/ is my current URL..
Does Squeezebox support Ogg Vorbis?
If you have both LAME and the oggtools installed, SlimServer will automatically convert Ogg files to raw PCM on the fly for playback.
I mean.. this isn't ideal, but it will play them.. so who cares? In some ways, this is even cooler, as it allows you to play anything can be changed into a PCM stream (some hacking may be requird, but if they already have it set up to do one, I can't see it being that hard to have it do others)..
I think it's cool. And to everyone who says it's too expensive, you need to get a real job. I'm sick of all these high school and college kids saying "ooh, it's too expensive.. why would you spend $400 on a video card?" BECAUSE I CAN. Just like I can spend $300 on a streaming music player. I'm not rich, but I make a good living as a software developer and can afford cool toys. I wouldn't want them to dumb this down to make it $150. I want a $300 player with a sweet interface and a nice remote control.
What I meant to say was...
"feel free to join the open-source community (for this project and make some positive changes that will make the product more useful to you)..."
But I didn't really read it before I hit 'submit'...
What I'm saying is I have no responsibility for writing code that you like. That's it. If you don't like it, feel free to join the community, but don't you dare tell me that I'm doing something wrong because you don't like my Free code.
It's a point/counter-point, so don't forget to read the rebuttal linked at the bottom of the page..
(also linked here)
1) Too many developers "scratch the same itch."
So what? It's not my responsibility to write code for you. I write code for me, and release it under a license that happens to allow for other people to use it. Don't tell me what code I'm allowed to write and what I'm not.
2) Open Source developers love a good feud.
So what? You have no right to tell me how I should be spending my time. Sure it's not the most productive use of it, but again, it's MY time. If you don't like it, go away.
3) Open Source developers often scratch the wrong itch.
WTF? Scratch the wrong itch? Maybe I'm not scratching your itch, but see point 1. If you don't like what I'm doing, write your own. That's what I did when I wrote this software that scratches the 'wrong itch'. It scratched mine just fine.
4) In the Open Source Community, you're either "with us or against us"
Against us? If you want to point out flaws and the people in the group don't appreciate it, you can take the code and apply your own patches and start up a distribution of that code. If the community agrees with you, then you'll be successful. If you end up being the only one who uses your new version, then maybe you're actually wrong about what you were doing and that entire community against you was actually that you were wrong and too dumb to realize it.
5) The Open Source Community has a huge chip on its shoulder...called Microsoft
So? This really is the same point as Point 2. And the arguments are the same. So most of us don't like Microsoft? I don't think there are many that won't admit they do some stuff right, but that doesn't matter. It's my time, and I will do with it as I please. If you want to lead by example and convince people there's a better way, a high road, then please, by all means, do so. But telling people who write software that you can use at no cost and have full access to the source that they need to be doing things differently is about the most egocentric thing you could possibly say.
In closing, go away and write some code. If you can't do that, then just go away.
I'm really confused.
JBoss has a J2EE implementation that they have licensed out under the LGPL. The Apache foundation has another, competing J2EE implementation, Geronimo, licensed under the Apache license (which is very similar to the BSD license?).
JBoss is accusing Geronimo of taking their code and putting it into Geronimo. This would obviously be a violation because the Apache license isn't LGPL compatible.
So it sounds like Geronimo should be indemnifying their users from legal action, not JBoss. Why would a JBoss customer need legal protection?
Fortunately this isn't another SCO situation where JBoss won't tell what code they think is infringed upon. The rebuttals available seem pretty thorough and it looks like someone at JBoss was poking through the Geronimo code and noticed some similarities and ran to the lawyers. They promptly said "Yep, this is the same. We're sending a letter." Of course, no one thought that there were standards for the naming schemes and capitalization or that possibly code was contributed to both projects by the same people.
Anyways, I'm still confused as to why JBoss customers need legal indemnification when JBoss is the aggressor in this situation.. ???
Okay. I'll post it this round...
Apple doesn't make money selling software. They make money selling hardware. They don't want you paying $130 for their software.. that's just a little bonus. They want you dropping $2,000 on a new Apple computer. That's where their money comes from.
If they ported it, they'd lose their primary revenue stream.
Got it?
The article doesn't tell you anything you don't know. Built-in batteries are cool until they run out and you can't throw in AA's. Hard drive players have the limitations of hard drives. They're expensive. You use Apple software..
Big. Red. Truck.
(that's the punchline from a rather humorous blonde joke about being amazingly dense)
I dunno if you actually played any of those hdtv games for xbox, but I was unimpressed by it.
I bought the kit for pushing component video out of an x-box and took it over to a friend's house who has a 56" Sony HDTV projection screen. I cranked it up to 1080i and pretty much the only thing I saw was that it slowed down. The loading screen with the matrix letters were crisper, but that was it. I noticed no change in-game other than it being slower (noticably chunky in spots that were smooth in standard resolution).
This doesn't really surprise me, though, as all an xbox has is a slightly upgraded geforce3. That card doesn't exactly have an amazing fill rate -- it's 2 generations old. My Radeon 9700, however, pushes 1600x1200 in games quite well. Granted, it cost $200 more than the entire xbox, but that's the price if you want high-res graphics. Just don't be saying that 1080i on an xbox touches my computer.
Everyone whines about cost.. I say get a real job and don't worry about it. Gaming is a hobby. Hobbies take money. Some people work on their car and buy 20" lift kits. Some people fly remote control airplanes. I pimp the hell out of my computer. I buy lights, I buy fans, I drill holes in the case, and I buy damned expensive video cards, and I don't complain about it (well, maybe a little, but I still buy 'em)
I guess it's all about how you want to spend your money. I work hard; I play hard.