A dotcomm that was dumb enough to get into the high bandwidth consuming game of distributing video streams with revenue coming from banner ads and the like when all around them it has been shown that sites can't even afford to pay for the bandwidth costs of just serving some dynamic HTML doesn't deserve pity but instead a Darwin Award
Wouldn't it have made more sense for Slashdot to wait for the entire 7 day series to be written and link to it all than to link to the first two articles? What's going to happen now, is Slashdot going to provide a link to each installment daily or revisit the story in a week when all 7 articles have been printed?
BEST QUOTE FROM THE ARTICLE "If successful, Microsoft could challenge AOL Time Warner and other media giants for control of the Internet and entirely new industries"
Basically, C|Net is admitting that AOL already practically owns the Internet and Micro$oft is trying to give them a run for their money. I usually don't support Micro$oft but I'd rather there was some competition to AOL's increasingly massive control of how, where and when most people access the 'net and what they see.
Is it just me or is there something rather pathetic about people wanting to sue Blizzard because someone hacked the free servers or there was a bug in the free servers that caused them to lose thier +3 DemonSwords and +5 Bone Shields ?
In the Star Wars films,
George Lucas makes lavish use of computer- generated characters and scenes, but they never overwhelm the intriguing
characters at the center of the saga. He uses animation to imagine worlds, not replace story-telling and acting.
Suddenly, millions of dollars were flying around, and everybody was under pressure to turn it into profits.
What dotcomm was that? The one universal thing all dot-coms I've heard of did was avoid any attempts to make any sort profit whatsoever. Selling stuff at cost(buy.com), delivering stuff to your hone without charging for delivery (kozmo.com), not charging for shipment of computer equipment(outpost.com), delivery costs more than the actual item (pets.com), spending hundreds of millions before launching a website (boo.com), etc.
I disagree, at least in the case of the Vat O' Hearts. If they could take a blood sample, squirt it into some magic machine and produce a cloned heart a week later -- how is that a moral issue?
If that was the technology being discussed there would be no issue but currently since all we can do with regards to cloning is create a genetic equivalent of a twin then using him/her as an organ farm does raise moral issues.
I'll split my post up into my ideas on the features you have now and my suggestions for features I'd like in a programming language. Good luck.:)
Current Features
The current features I didn't mention are the ones I thought were well thought out or didn't really have any issues with.
style insensitive names: These sounds like it will cause more confusion and cause more problems than it will solve (that said, is there actually a problem that it solves or was this just a cool feature you thought of hacking in?).
using keyword: Be careful about Keonig lookup if your language isn't going to dynamically load classes like Java does. Some people think the "using" or "import" style keywords should behave like #include but they usually are more subtle than that.
Features To Consider
Threading library: Multithreaded programming is more efficient than the using multiple processes and has grown increasingly popular. The fact that languages like C++ do not have a standard threading library unlike Java is a bad blow.
Virtual functions: Be consistent with how virtual functions are used. One of the many failings of C++ is that the behavior of virtual functions is completely unintuitive; virtual func s can't be called in a constructor or destructor, lookup for overloaded functions stops at the current class instead of all the way up the inheritance heirarchy, etc. Keep inheritance simple, C++'s private, public vs. protected inheritance is a mess.
Platform independent numeric types: Like byte, int32, int8, int64.
Code based documentation: Something similar to javadoc or perlpod. It is great to be able to get an overview of a whole project simply by reading documentation generated by the code.
Resumable exceptions: The idea that blocks of code in exceptions can be retried is nice but even cooler would be to borrow a leaf from the Smalltalk book and mark exceptions as resumable or not.
There are articles in the Associated Press and the Industry Stanadard that Sun Microsystems (yeah, the guys that brought us Java and Solaris) will be forcing most of its 38,000 employees to take mandatory paid vacation in July. Here's a comment from the article which seems too make the move seem more desperate than cost effective:
Now, if Sun employees take paid vacation, how does the shutdown save any money? "The company will save on payroll expense and facilities maintenance costs," said the Wall Street Journal, though analysts aren't sure whether that's enough to save Sun from layoffs. An HP spokeswoman insisted that such measures "have an impact on the bottom line" but wouldn't specify. Does the average employee really drink that much free coffee?
ArsDigita was just another fucked company e-consulting that overpaid their developers and overcharged their clients just like Organic and Razorfish. The primary difference being that at least most of the people at ArsDigita could code.
Anyway ArsDigita University was never really an "Online University that will rival MIT" but instead was part incubator and part training ground for new ArsDigita employees which was obvious from the heavy focus on web programming . Serious CS degree programs do not focues primarily on web scripting and accessing databases. This must have been soon obvious to their funders who rightfully pulled the plug.
Napster users aren't taking someone else's music and then selling it back to them. Whereas the CDDB is taking the result of other people's labor -- a database rather than music tracks -- and selling it back to them. And now, also using it against the people and the activity that created that database in the first place.
So if CDDB allows Napster to use their database for free, you'll no longer have any complaints? The arguments of the pro-Napster clique on Slashdot are so inconsistent it gives me a headache trying to keep up.
Does this mean they are out of business?
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Linuxgruven.com hasn't been slowed by the market downturn
The year 2000 was a bad one for many young technology companies -- but not for Linuxgruven.com Inc. of Clayton.
Since it was founded last February, the Linux training and service company has grown to 106 employees from just two, said Linuxgruven.com chief executive Matthew Porter.
From the article
Linuxgruven.com lays off 100 employees
Does anyone think that had 106 employees spread out over 7 cities still plans to be in business after firing over 90 per cent of their work force?
Nowhere is there mention of music being free in the future, but rather that musicians will actually get paid for what they do. The reality is that only the extremely successful musicians ever make any real money, the rest either eke out an existence or end up owing the record label a fortune for advertising, recording etc.
How does getting music for free on Napster help to change any of this? It looks like your argument is that since the record labels are ripping off the artists you can as well.
The fact is that right now the record labels risk nothing and in return make an absolute fortune. Hell at least the drug syndicates take risks for their profits.
Hmmm. So spending money on marketing, production time, videos, etc only to have the do poorly is taking no risk? Before you bother countering with the fact that the artists is supposed to pay those costs out of pocket if they are successful, when the artist isn't they usually fail to recover the money since the artist can't afford it.
...that Australian law makers definitely do not use the Internet. I only have two questions for them:
How do they plan to enforce this when the original mailer or forwader is not Australian? Do they plan to push this forward as an international law or is it only valid when both the original mailer and forwarder are Australian?
What happens if a mail is forwarded to me which has been forwarded several times (e.g. the Claire Swire letter) and the copyright notice allowing it to be distributed has been placed by the person who forwarded it to me but I notice that all the other forwarders have not attached any such notice. Am I violating the copyright of the gazillion people who have forwarded the chain letter who didn't place copyright notices or am I in the clear since the person who forwarded it to me gave me permission to forward it?
Damn, I feel dumber just having to ask such ridiculous questions. Yet they are valid if Digital Agenda Act is enforced to the letter of the law.
The biggest difference I can see between Gnome & KDE currently is: One is an open source project that accepts donations of programmers and hardware, the other is an
opensource project coded mainly by companies with a large commercial interest."
This is a true statment. Its fact.
It is also true that up until a few months ago GNOME was released under a more liberal license than KDE. In fact the KDE license was so proprietary, Debian refused to include it as part of their basic free package and declared it non-free.
Your post is simply a pointless attempt at hate mongering. The bottom line is GNOME is GPLed. Just like Linux, Emacs, and Mozilla iareGPLed. Secondly, Miguel De icacza works full time on GPLed software and is attempting to make money off the fruits of his labor, if you don't like it start your own GNOME distro or start selling GNOME support instead of casting empty aspersions about on Slashdot.
Ignorant jealous rantings like yours were the reason I started reading at +3 in the first place. At least the foolish anti-Redhat posts have stopped now that their stock price is in the toilet. It's surprising that there aren't more people making similarly ignorant comments about Mozilla and AOL.
Honestly, there is nothing in my post to warrent such a childish responce, intellgent debate maybe but not that rant and lame and plain incorrect personal attacks.
When you've written as much Free Software as Miguel, maybe I'll consider not thinking you are just another jealous l4m3r. But from what I've seen, you're just another Slashdot blowhard who can't wait to throw aspersions at people (GNOME developers) for whatever juvenile reasons you have.
The biggest difference I can see between Gnome & KDE currently is: One is an open source project that accepts donations of programmers and hardware, the other is an opensource project coded mainly by companies with a large commercial interest.
I'll put it another way; Ximian's core product will either be Ximian Gnome or very dependant on it. Ximian are a company and are out to make money, they will be making profit off other developers work. Is Gnome destined to become another Mozilla?
This is probably the most ignorant piece of flamebait I've ever seen on Slashdot. This is the same kind of garbage that used to be posted about RedHat shortly after their IPO because armchair coders like you were jealous of the fact that not only were these people contributing to open source but they were making money as well.
Just in case you've lived under a rock for the past few years, here's a clue... GNOME is GPLed.
Anyone can package it and sell it, just like Linux. Miguel De Icacza founded GNOME and started a company just so he could afford to give away GNOME, and instead people like you who haven't even contributed a 100 line Perl script to open source have the balls to question his motives for trying to make money of a project that is primarily his.
The Mozilla comment is actually appropriate in that just like Mozilla is still mostly written by Netscape employees (meaning it might as well be closed for all AOL cares), GNOME is still mostly written by Ximian employees but the fruits of their labor is available to all.
In fact, there are at least four or five books either available, either in course of printing about KDE programming (mine being one of them, yes, shameless plug). And there is the equivalent number of Gnome books, too. I don't think you can call any of these projects undocumented, even compared to the highest commercial code standards.
User documentation is completely different from developer documentation. There are dozens of books on using Linux but no one claims that the Linux kernel code is well documented. I know, I've looked and I've had friends who've tried writing kernel modules and gotten exasperated at the lack of documentation.
How could they do an article onWeb comics and leave out Sluggy Freelance. That's the funniest and most innovative of the online comics I've seen and I've read most of the ones they listed.
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A dotcomm that was dumb enough to get into the high bandwidth consuming game of distributing video streams with revenue coming from banner ads and the like when all around them it has been shown that sites can't even afford to pay for the bandwidth costs of just serving some dynamic HTML doesn't deserve pity but instead a Darwin Award
i'm buying; civ3, dark ages of camelot, max payne (which i still haven't played),
Max Payne is on the X-Box
Here's the Max Payne trailer (Windows Media Player required).
Instead of posting virulently on Slashdot, did anyone email the author(mlthomas@microsoft.com) of the "Industrial terrorism" article?
This is probably the most tasteless attempt to use the September 11th events to further an agenda I've seen yet.
Wouldn't it have made more sense for Slashdot to wait for the entire 7 day series to be written and link to it all than to link to the first two articles? What's going to happen now, is Slashdot going to provide a link to each installment daily or revisit the story in a week when all 7 articles have been printed?
BEST QUOTE FROM THE ARTICLE "If successful, Microsoft could challenge AOL Time Warner and other media giants for control of the Internet and entirely new industries"
Basically, C|Net is admitting that AOL already practically owns the Internet and Micro$oft is trying to give them a run for their money. I usually don't support Micro$oft but I'd rather there was some competition to AOL's increasingly massive control of how, where and when most people access the 'net and what they see.
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...is being able to read the most insightful comments all in one place.
Curl Instead of Java or JavaScript? posted by michael on Friday April 06, @02:56PM
Re:Java, anyone? (Score:5, Insightful) by Jason Earl (jdearl@yahoo.com)
Some more words... (Score:5, Insightful)by guku on Friday April 06, @03:18PM EST
Commentary (Score:5, Insightful)by Nohea (sd at nohea dot com) on Friday April 06, @03:16PM EST
Curl == Spyware (Score:5, Insightful)by stonewolf on Friday April 06, @03:45PM EST
Is it just me or is there something rather pathetic about people wanting to sue Blizzard because someone hacked the free servers or there was a bug in the free servers that caused them to lose thier +3 DemonSwords and +5 Bone Shields ?
It's informative posts like the above one that keep me coming back to slashdot.
In the Star Wars films, George Lucas makes lavish use of computer- generated characters and scenes, but they never overwhelm the intriguing characters at the center of the saga. He uses animation to imagine worlds, not replace story-telling and acting.
You obviously didn't see Star Wars:Episode I.
How Do Companies Pay for "On-Call" Support?
The above article asked the same question and there were lots of good responses.
Suddenly, millions of dollars were flying around, and everybody was under pressure to turn it into profits.
What dotcomm was that? The one universal thing all dot-coms I've heard of did was avoid any attempts to make any sort profit whatsoever. Selling stuff at cost(buy.com), delivering stuff to your hone without charging for delivery (kozmo.com), not charging for shipment of computer equipment(outpost.com), delivery costs more than the actual item (pets.com), spending hundreds of millions before launching a website (boo.com), etc.
Um.... that post did *not* come from Michael
Unless you are claiming that micheal's account got hacked then that post came from him.
I disagree, at least in the case of the Vat O' Hearts. If they could take a blood sample, squirt it into some magic machine and produce a cloned heart a week later -- how is that a moral issue?
If that was the technology being discussed there would be no issue but currently since all we can do with regards to cloning is create a genetic equivalent of a twin then using him/her as an organ farm does raise moral issues.
Current Features
The current features I didn't mention are the ones I thought were well thought out or didn't really have any issues with.
- style insensitive names: These sounds like it will cause more confusion and cause more problems than it will solve (that said, is there actually a problem that it solves or was this just a cool feature you thought of hacking in?).
- using keyword: Be careful about Keonig lookup if your language isn't going to dynamically load classes like Java does. Some people think the "using" or "import" style keywords should behave like #include but they usually are more subtle than that.
Features To Consider>why did they lose funding for 2001-2002?
ArsDigita was just another fucked company e-consulting that overpaid their developers and overcharged their clients just like Organic and Razorfish. The primary difference being that at least most of the people at ArsDigita could code.
Anyway ArsDigita University was never really an "Online University that will rival MIT" but instead was part incubator and part training ground for new ArsDigita employees which was obvious from the heavy focus on web programming . Serious CS degree programs do not focues primarily on web scripting and accessing databases. This must have been soon obvious to their funders who rightfully pulled the plug.
Napster users aren't taking someone else's music and then selling it back to them. Whereas the CDDB is taking the result of other people's labor -- a database rather than music tracks -- and selling it back to them. And now, also using it against the people and the activity that created that database in the first place.
So if CDDB allows Napster to use their database for free, you'll no longer have any complaints? The arguments of the pro-Napster clique on Slashdot are so inconsistent it gives me a headache trying to keep up.
Does anyone think that had 106 employees spread out over 7 cities still plans to be in business after firing over 90 per cent of their work force?
Hmmm. So spending money on marketing, production time, videos, etc only to have the do poorly is taking no risk? Before you bother countering with the fact that the artists is supposed to pay those costs out of pocket if they are successful, when the artist isn't they usually fail to recover the money since the artist can't afford it.
Damn, I feel dumber just having to ask such ridiculous questions. Yet they are valid if Digital Agenda Act is enforced to the letter of the law.
Micro$oft's.
The whole purpose of cloning the BIOS was so it could run the same software as IBM's PCs, whose OS was Micro$oft's.
The biggest difference I can see between Gnome & KDE currently is: One is an open source project that accepts donations of programmers and hardware, the other is an opensource project coded mainly by companies with a large commercial interest." This is a true statment. Its fact.
It is also true that up until a few months ago GNOME was released under a more liberal license than KDE. In fact the KDE license was so proprietary, Debian refused to include it as part of their basic free package and declared it non-free.
Your post is simply a pointless attempt at hate mongering. The bottom line is GNOME is GPLed. Just like Linux, Emacs, and Mozilla iareGPLed. Secondly, Miguel De icacza works full time on GPLed software and is attempting to make money off the fruits of his labor, if you don't like it start your own GNOME distro or start selling GNOME support instead of casting empty aspersions about on Slashdot.
Ignorant jealous rantings like yours were the reason I started reading at +3 in the first place. At least the foolish anti-Redhat posts have stopped now that their stock price is in the toilet. It's surprising that there aren't more people making similarly ignorant comments about Mozilla and AOL.
Honestly, there is nothing in my post to warrent such a childish responce, intellgent debate maybe but not that rant and lame and plain incorrect personal attacks.
When you've written as much Free Software as Miguel, maybe I'll consider not thinking you are just another jealous l4m3r. But from what I've seen, you're just another Slashdot blowhard who can't wait to throw aspersions at people (GNOME developers) for whatever juvenile reasons you have.
The biggest difference I can see between Gnome & KDE currently is: One is an open source project that accepts donations of programmers and hardware, the other is an opensource project coded mainly by companies with a large commercial interest.
I'll put it another way; Ximian's core product will either be Ximian Gnome or very dependant on it. Ximian are a company and are out to make money, they will be making profit off other developers work. Is Gnome destined to become another Mozilla?
This is probably the most ignorant piece of flamebait I've ever seen on Slashdot. This is the same kind of garbage that used to be posted about RedHat shortly after their IPO because armchair coders like you were jealous of the fact that not only were these people contributing to open source but they were making money as well.
Just in case you've lived under a rock for the past few years, here's a clue... GNOME is GPLed. Anyone can package it and sell it, just like Linux. Miguel De Icacza founded GNOME and started a company just so he could afford to give away GNOME, and instead people like you who haven't even contributed a 100 line Perl script to open source have the balls to question his motives for trying to make money of a project that is primarily his.
The Mozilla comment is actually appropriate in that just like Mozilla is still mostly written by Netscape employees (meaning it might as well be closed for all AOL cares), GNOME is still mostly written by Ximian employees but the fruits of their labor is available to all.
In fact, there are at least four or five books either available, either in course of printing about KDE programming (mine being one of them, yes, shameless plug). And there is the equivalent number of Gnome books, too. I don't think you can call any of these projects undocumented, even compared to the highest commercial code standards.
User documentation is completely different from developer documentation. There are dozens of books on using Linux but no one claims that the Linux kernel code is well documented. I know, I've looked and I've had friends who've tried writing kernel modules and gotten exasperated at the lack of documentation.
How could they do an article onWeb comics and leave out Sluggy Freelance. That's the funniest and most innovative of the online comics I've seen and I've read most of the ones they listed.