In any case, hacked versions of 1.6 are available right now, I'm running 1.6 on my G1... Firmware 1.6, Kernel 2.6.29-cm41, Build DCR63. Stable and nice so-far!
This ad from Sybase has information about a "compliance solution" for customers complying with the new USA PATRIOT Act.
From their ad: "It integrates your existing customer and transaction information systems into a consolidated compliance system that detects unusual activity and automates its investigation and resolution in a timely, secure and meticulously documented manner."
I've found Eclipse to be more VAJ-like (VisualAge for Java, another IBM IDE) than I care for. You can't just open the app and start editing files. You have to make a project, then "import" your code to Eclipse, etc, etc. Lots of hoops.
jEdit is the only editor that has been able to get me off of vim for coding. That's saying someting. I've been a vim user for years and years.
I've been using jedit since 4.0, and now use daily CVS builds of the 4.2pre-X series. It's a great editor. Tons of plugins to do all kinds of things, support for lots of languages in the syntax highliting, runs fast (use JDK 1.4.1_02 if you can!!) and is generally a pleasure to use.
So I guess the moral of the story is that Episode 3, which I had hoped would be dark and actually good, with no shouts of "Yippee!" or "Yousa gonna...", will actually suck just like Episodes 1 and 2.
At least we have The Matrix 2 and 3 the look forward to.
It's interesting if ALL.NET software will be obfuscated. Like if the compiler did it for you.
True, Java bytecode *can* be obfuscated. Very little is. This is actually a HUGE bonus if you're trying to, say, maintain an app that depends on a 3rd party app from a company that no longer exists. Don't have the original source? OK, run jode on their code, get the information you need, and fix their bug.
I've actually had to do that a number of times. It's saved my ass in a few projects.
So the implication is that if MS is investigating this technology, they may include it in everything. Fixing bugs in other people's code could become extremely difficult, and that's A BAD THING.
The bonus with obfuscated code is that when some 3rd party library fails, you won't have a chance in hell of fixing it!
Java has the same problem, but thanksfully most vendors choose not to obfuscate their bytecode. I've had to 'hack' 3rd party apps a number of times to fix bugs in their code that would have otherwise killed a few projects.
Obfuscation is bad for business.
-nate
Don't forget about heat and compute density....
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Also, don't forget that SGI is now making the worlds highest density computer. People always say that a beowulf cluster of P4 boxen can smoke a lot of supercomputers for a fraction of the cost. There's two problems with that argument:
2,000 2GHz P4 machines generate a huge amount of heat. A HUGE AMOUNT OF HEAT. That amount of heat production and, obviously, power consumption is NOT cheap in the long run. Clearly these SGI machines will be sucking down huge amounts of power and generating non-trivial amounts of heat, but I would wager that an equivalent Beowulf cluster would require more power.
As a few other people have noted, Beowulf clusters don't just magically run normal applications super-fast. It doesn't work that way. You have to write your code from the ground up to work with Beowulf. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but choice is a good thing. For a lot of applications, writing normal multi-threaded code is a lot easier.
One other thing I'd like to see are some Java benchmarks on a machine like that. I'd like to see a WebLogic or JBoss appserver running on a 64-way box like that. I bet it hauls. JRockit (bought by BEA) has a really kick-ass JVM for IA32 machines, but I wonder if it would get confused in a NUMA setup. The Sun JVM is actually really nice on Linux - I wonder how well it would run on this thing.
2) Tell everyone you're using XML, and since XML is an "open standard" then clearly all XML documents are open, right?
3) Never, ever, ever tell anyone what should go in the XML docs.
4) Change the "standard" often enough that 3rd party companies are never able to read the files.
I think if you replace "XML" with "binary" then you have the current MS plan. Just because they are using XML doesn't mean they are open. In this case, XML is just as open as binary files, since 1s and 0s are an open standard, right?
Personally, I'm waiting for the Nokia 3650 to hit the states.
Symbian 60 platform, Bluetooth, Java, etc, etc... As far as I'm concerned, Nokia is the only company who actually pays attention to the UI on a phone. I tries the Sony/Ericsson T68i and it couldn't even keep up with keystrokes while navigating menus. Sounds like the MS Phone is even worse. Maybe it would run better on a 3GHz P4;-)
-nate
PS - I don't work for Nokia and don't even own their stock... I've just had about 8 of their phones.
Exactly. Last time (7 years ago), Saddam got 99.96% of the vote.500 People were arrested for voting "no" on the ballot. He gets "elected" every 7 years to a new term as president.
I just signed up for AT&T's GSM/GPRS service and got a T68i. Every single time I tried to use the GPRS data feed, the damn thing crashed. Yes, crashed. Whatever CPU they are using is way too slow for that phone, too -- try and type commands fast and it'll get royally confused.
So I traded it for the Nokia 8390. No color screen and no bluetooth, but it doesn't crash either. I'm now more convinced than ever that Nokia is the only company that puts any time into designing cell phone hardware *and* software.
Now if only Nokia sold that new 75xx phone with the camera in the US...
NOTE: I don't work for Nokia and I don't get kickbacks from them... I just like their phones;-)
It's good that someone in Washington is paying attention to all this CD copying garbage.
But is it really necessary? What I mean is, Philips says that "copy protected" CDs are actually "silver discs that looks like CDs, but are not CDs", and they are the people who say who can and can't use the little "compact disc digital audio" logo. Philips has said time and time again that they don't approve of the copy protection.
So, can't we just enforce what it means to be a CD (perfect duplication of audio each time, meaning no copy protection) instead of wasting a bunch of money writing new laws that don't *really* need to exist??
How can they be any more anti-competitive than saying remaks like this:
"Rather than form a federation with Microsoft and work with what we had already created, there was this notion that the world should be offered an alternative."
Of course there should be an alternative... that's what makes market economies work! As if people should just be happy that MS is there to do things for them... how dare they even think of having alternatives to MS technologies!
Think of this: AOL is tons of money. They have tens of millions of people sending them $19.95 a month, and that adds up really quickly.
They could easily afford to dump all kinds of money into making Linux a great desktop OS. What about some kind of "AOL station" for home users that's a cheap PC with AOL/RedHat installed? Could be good for spreading Linux to the masses.
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Just FYI cupcake was 1.5, not 1.6
In any case, hacked versions of 1.6 are available right now, I'm running 1.6 on my G1... Firmware 1.6, Kernel 2.6.29-cm41, Build DCR63. Stable and nice so-far!
When can I get an f77 to IDL compiler so I can watch an atmospheric simulator die on Windows? ;-)
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Looks like most of the wiring jobs I've seen done by students: kasy0core.jpg.
;-)
God forbid they use cable gutters
Other than that, kick ass job guys!
-nate
That's why they replaced her.
Besides, maybe Agent Smith just wanted one of those cookies.
-nate
Uh, forgive me, but there's a technology out there called "Java" that lets you do this right now.
-nate
It should be turned into something like this hello kitty laptop.
-nate
This ad from Sybase has information about a "compliance solution" for customers complying with the new USA PATRIOT Act.
From their ad:
"It integrates your existing customer and transaction information systems into a consolidated compliance system that detects unusual activity and automates its investigation and resolution in a timely, secure and meticulously documented manner."
Yikes.
OK, so Slashdot has no editors. OK, but posting the same story 3 times in one day? What the hell?
I've found Eclipse to be more VAJ-like (VisualAge for Java, another IBM IDE) than I care for. You can't just open the app and start editing files. You have to make a project, then "import" your code to Eclipse, etc, etc. Lots of hoops.
jEdit is the only editor that has been able to get me off of vim for coding. That's saying someting. I've been a vim user for years and years.
I've been using jedit since 4.0, and now use daily CVS builds of the 4.2pre-X series. It's a great editor. Tons of plugins to do all kinds of things, support for lots of languages in the syntax highliting, runs fast (use JDK 1.4.1_02 if you can!!) and is generally a pleasure to use.
-nate
You guys could at least READ the text before posting it... come on!
-nate
So I guess the moral of the story is that Episode 3, which I had hoped would be dark and actually good, with no shouts of "Yippee!" or "Yousa gonna...", will actually suck just like Episodes 1 and 2.
At least we have The Matrix 2 and 3 the look forward to.
-nate
It's interesting if ALL
True, Java bytecode *can* be obfuscated. Very little is. This is actually a HUGE bonus if you're trying to, say, maintain an app that depends on a 3rd party app from a company that no longer exists. Don't have the original source? OK, run jode on their code, get the information you need, and fix their bug.
I've actually had to do that a number of times. It's saved my ass in a few projects.
So the implication is that if MS is investigating this technology, they may include it in everything. Fixing bugs in other people's code could become extremely difficult, and that's A BAD THING.
-nate
The bonus with obfuscated code is that when some 3rd party library fails, you won't have a chance in hell of fixing it!
Java has the same problem, but thanksfully most vendors choose not to obfuscate their bytecode. I've had to 'hack' 3rd party apps a number of times to fix bugs in their code that would have otherwise killed a few projects.
Obfuscation is bad for business.
-nate
One other thing I'd like to see are some Java benchmarks on a machine like that. I'd like to see a WebLogic or JBoss appserver running on a 64-way box like that. I bet it hauls. JRockit (bought by BEA) has a really kick-ass JVM for IA32 machines, but I wonder if it would get confused in a NUMA setup. The Sun JVM is actually really nice on Linux - I wonder how well it would run on this thing.
-nate
this is an excellent point.
I think the MS logic goes something like this:
1) Convert MS file formats to XML.
2) Tell everyone you're using XML, and since XML is an "open standard" then clearly all XML documents are open, right?
3) Never, ever, ever tell anyone what should go in the XML docs.
4) Change the "standard" often enough that 3rd party companies are never able to read the files.
I think if you replace "XML" with "binary" then you have the current MS plan. Just because they are using XML doesn't mean they are open. In this case, XML is just as open as binary files, since 1s and 0s are an open standard, right?
right.
-nate
Symbian 60 platform, Bluetooth, Java, etc, etc... As far as I'm concerned, Nokia is the only company who actually pays attention to the UI on a phone. I tries the Sony/Ericsson T68i and it couldn't even keep up with keystrokes while navigating menus. Sounds like the MS Phone is even worse. Maybe it would run better on a 3GHz P4 ;-)
-nate
PS - I don't work for Nokia and don't even own their stock... I've just had about 8 of their phones.
Given that most of what the vatican "owns" it stole during the crusades and its long, less than compassionate history of pillaging.
Exactly. Last time (7 years ago), Saddam got 99.96% of the vote.500 People were arrested for voting "no" on the ballot. He gets "elected" every 7 years to a new term as president.
-nate
I just signed up for AT&T's GSM/GPRS service and got a T68i. Every single time I tried to use the GPRS data feed, the damn thing crashed. Yes, crashed. Whatever CPU they are using is way too slow for that phone, too -- try and type commands fast and it'll get royally confused.
;-)
So I traded it for the Nokia 8390. No color screen and no bluetooth, but it doesn't crash either. I'm now more convinced than ever that Nokia is the only company that puts any time into designing cell phone hardware *and* software.
Now if only Nokia sold that new 75xx phone with the camera in the US...
NOTE: I don't work for Nokia and I don't get kickbacks from them... I just like their phones
-nate
Maybe they could have cut down on the $10M cost by not needing to pay all those license fees.
-nate
It's good that someone in Washington is paying attention to all this CD copying garbage.
But is it really necessary? What I mean is, Philips says that "copy protected" CDs are actually "silver discs that looks like CDs, but are not CDs", and they are the people who say who can and can't use the little "compact disc digital audio" logo. Philips has said time and time again that they don't approve of the copy protection.
So, can't we just enforce what it means to be a CD (perfect duplication of audio each time, meaning no copy protection) instead of wasting a bunch of money writing new laws that don't *really* need to exist??
-nate
How can they be any more anti-competitive than saying remaks like this:
"Rather than form a federation with Microsoft and work with what we had already created, there was this notion that the world should be offered an alternative."
Of course there should be an alternative... that's what makes market economies work! As if people should just be happy that MS is there to do things for them... how dare they even think of having alternatives to MS technologies!
-nate
They could easily afford to dump all kinds of money into making Linux a great desktop OS. What about some kind of "AOL station" for home users that's a cheap PC with AOL/RedHat installed? Could be good for spreading Linux to the masses.
-nate