Sometimes the answer is not to target the newest implementation but the one that is used on all platforms in use. For Java this means sometimes going back to the 1.0 API! You lose a lot
of cool functions but it is the only way. Then just make sure it works best on the newest platforms or browsers depending if the program runs on an OS or a web browser. This isn't always an easy thing to find out. We made a web application using Java 1.1 and it turns out that Netscape on the Mac supported it without any of the changes from 1.0 to 1.1 so it didn't work there. But recently I've heard that Netscape may finally be supporting 1.1 for real on the mac and 1.3 with OS X. Cool!!! If only we wrote the program in Java 1.0 there would be no problems (except that it would probably be really clunky).
There's a whole lot of internet in Japan. I use livedoor.com usually which is totally free for 56K modems. (Except for the phone bill which is a local call so its cheap but I have to use NTT for my phone (at least partially) which is also a governemnt monopoly). Because livedoor is free sometimes it goes down and I use one of the other many many internet providers which make you pay is USD 8 dollars a month.
I use Dreamnet as my other ISP, there's also the scary MSN, and some other cool ones like BIG-Globe and Earth-Web and AOL etc etc.
3 years ago I got disconnected all the time here, but now its pretty good, especially because everyone's gone to ISDN, cable and other stuff and only a small number of use still use these antiquated 56k modems.
No censorship that I know of.
Except in big Non-Japanese corporations on their own employees, which is fine.
There is cable and all sorts of faster stuff everywhere. Even Cell Phones do the internet. There are 3 Cell Phone internet providers DoCoMo J-Phone and KDDI. DoCoMo uses i-mode (no WAP, but does do JAVA and is slowly going global), KDDI uses a WAP derivative, and J-Phone uses something else, J-Sky, whatever that is. (Its slow and has some annoying restrictions from experience like a 7k limit on sound files!!!!) (sorry off topic) These services are more expensive per-use than a home computer but actually quite affordable as well.
At work we have PSI-NET which I just heard is doing quite bad on the stock market (oh well).
I started using the internet here in Japan in Kanazawa in 1996. All students (except for us foreigners) had to have laptops! Everyone was wired?!?!? So its been here for awhile already.
I still don't have a laptop:(
I should buy one.
Of course I used the internet before that in the US.
Life is good here.
Its great, they listed under 100 bugs for every OS. I'm work with finding bugs every day and those stats seem riduculous. I can find 10-15 bugs a day in much simpler programs. Less than 100 bugs in an OS, ridiculous. From experience, I know LINUX crashes less than my Windows 95 or 98 box. How can LINUX have less bugs? There's probably just more people that care about LINUX and thats why the bugs get reported. (In fact my box hasn't crashed yet, but I just use it as a server, not a development machine.) He should look at Microsofts own list of bugs for windows. LINUX isn't perfect (no OS is, yet) but that reasoning as to why its the worst OS in history is ridiculous.
Yes it does seem arbitrary that these companies ONLY are being attacked. Either: 1. They want to make the US people feel like we are being protected from internet scams by going after an easy big target. (which of course does not solve the problem) OR 2. These companies that are being sued are being singled out and discriminated by the FTC, in which case the FTC will probably (maybe in 50 years) be counter sued. (which does not solve the problem either) Either way its all hand waving with no substance to it, I agree.
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Sometimes the answer is not to target the newest implementation but the one that is used on all platforms in use. For Java this means sometimes going back to the 1.0 API! You lose a lot
of cool functions but it is the only way. Then just make sure it works best on the newest platforms or browsers depending if the program runs on an OS or a web browser. This isn't always an easy thing to find out. We made a web application using Java 1.1 and it turns out that Netscape on the Mac supported it without any of the changes from 1.0 to 1.1 so it didn't work there. But recently I've heard that Netscape may finally be supporting 1.1 for real on the mac and 1.3 with OS X. Cool!!! If only we wrote the program in Java 1.0 there would be no problems (except that it would probably be really clunky).
There's a whole lot of internet in Japan. I use livedoor.com usually which is totally free for 56K modems. (Except for the phone bill which is a local call so its cheap but I have to use NTT for my phone (at least partially) which is also a governemnt monopoly). Because livedoor is free sometimes it goes down and I use one of the other many many internet providers which make you pay is USD 8 dollars a month. I use Dreamnet as my other ISP, there's also the scary MSN, and some other cool ones like BIG-Globe and Earth-Web and AOL etc etc. 3 years ago I got disconnected all the time here, but now its pretty good, especially because everyone's gone to ISDN, cable and other stuff and only a small number of use still use these antiquated 56k modems. No censorship that I know of. Except in big Non-Japanese corporations on their own employees, which is fine. There is cable and all sorts of faster stuff everywhere. Even Cell Phones do the internet. There are 3 Cell Phone internet providers DoCoMo J-Phone and KDDI. DoCoMo uses i-mode (no WAP, but does do JAVA and is slowly going global), KDDI uses a WAP derivative, and J-Phone uses something else, J-Sky, whatever that is. (Its slow and has some annoying restrictions from experience like a 7k limit on sound files!!!!) (sorry off topic) These services are more expensive per-use than a home computer but actually quite affordable as well. At work we have PSI-NET which I just heard is doing quite bad on the stock market (oh well). I started using the internet here in Japan in Kanazawa in 1996. All students (except for us foreigners) had to have laptops! Everyone was wired?!?!? So its been here for awhile already. I still don't have a laptop :(
I should buy one.
Of course I used the internet before that in the US.
Life is good here.
Its great, they listed under 100 bugs for every OS. I'm work with finding bugs every day and those stats seem riduculous. I can find 10-15 bugs a day in much simpler programs. Less than 100 bugs in an OS, ridiculous. From experience, I know LINUX crashes less than my Windows 95 or 98 box. How can LINUX have less bugs? There's probably just more people that care about LINUX and thats why the bugs get reported. (In fact my box hasn't crashed yet, but I just use it as a server, not a development machine.) He should look at Microsofts own list of bugs for windows. LINUX isn't perfect (no OS is, yet) but that reasoning as to why its the worst OS in history is ridiculous.
Yes it does seem arbitrary that these companies ONLY are being attacked. Either: 1. They want to make the US people feel like we are being protected from internet scams by going after an easy big target. (which of course does not solve the problem) OR 2. These companies that are being sued are being singled out and discriminated by the FTC, in which case the FTC will probably (maybe in 50 years) be counter sued. (which does not solve the problem either) Either way its all hand waving with no substance to it, I agree.