No, it won't send a message to any of the big DB players. The reason is that Interbase is a totally different marketshare from the big four database vendors main products. ASE from Sybase, Oracle, SQL Server from MS, and Informix's offerings are all in a league far beyond Interbase. However, it will make jabs towards some of the smaller databases (smaller footprint) -- for example another offering from Sybase, Adaptive Server Anywhere.
I'm taking two classes at UMUC right now -- they are working out well. One thing to keep in mind is this: In the end, the benefit you receive is proportional to the effort you put into it. You can easily squeeze through some of these classes putting very little real effort in, but if you truly want to learn, the environment is a good one.
Also, there are a wide variety of students in the program. When I started I assumed most people would be "local" (In the D.C. Area) however about 50% of people are far outside the area, including people from Russia, Sweden, Kansas and even Oklahoma .
Don't blame Amazon for this. They are protecting themselves, because we all know someone else would have tried to patent it if amazon didn't.
Blame the patent office for granting it, and stop jumping on the "boycott Amazon" bandwagon until you see them try to exercise their patent. (They never will, because everyone knows it's utter silliness -- including Amazon.)
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Once you get more experience in the industry, you'll realize that these "fakes" and "frauds" are a fact of life and they will always be around. Nonetheless you've still got a job to do -- and chances are good that if you're managing a team, you'll have a few morons to manage. Driving them out of town won't bring your project in on time, but helping them out and giving them a chance will.
It doesn't necssarily. I think in most server setups you choose what the default host is, and that is the one that the IP will map to. In practice it's not a big problem, since most people don't go typing or linking IP addy's in their web pages.
We're a small software shop doing 99% Windows based work and most of the developers would probably prefer to use Visual SourceSafe instead of CVS, however I've recently decided that we will be switching to a linux-based solution, only partially because of the high costs involved in maintaining our VSS licenses.
Some of my team are looking for problems w/CVS because they're scared of what they don't know. For example, one of them latched onto the fact that CVS doesn't have exclusive checkouts like VSS and he claims it will make it impossible to work as a team if we can't know exactly who has a file checked out at any given time. Also, I have some concerns about how the automatic three-way merging will work with binary form files (can't do a diff/merge then) which our Oracle work uses. I can't do anything about the tools we use, because it is dictated by the client we are doing the work for.
Any solutions out there other than CVS? How does RCS compare for a small team of developers (4)? The only requirement that I have is that a version control system run on linux and run over TCP/IP. Thanks for any help.
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Most MP3 encoders use constant bitrate, but the MP3 spec allows for bitrates to change midfile. Xing's newer encoder has VBR, and winamp and sonique will read these VBR files. Any linux players support VBR? Does Empeg?
What about having 28GB of my own CD's encoded and ready to play in my car? That's something completely new and exciting that MP3/Empeg offers. I'm not breaking any laws by encoding my own CD's.
Are they going to charge for the real version
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i doubt the fastest JVM will be anywhere near as expensive as the fastest production machine.
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Dynamic Optimization rulz, should be used compiled
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I agree that dynamic optimization is a very exciting concept and a lot of compiler research is going to go in that direction. However, if it gives Java an advantage over C/C++, it will only be because more resources are being spent improving the Java JVMs and compilers than are being spent improving the C/C++ compilers.
Ya, C++ vendors have only had 15 years to optimize their compilers, Java vendors have had all of 2 years to provide fast JVM's. More effort is *currently* being put towards Java runtime speeds but a bit more C++ optimization's been done in total.
If you *need* the speed on the server-side apps, you probably can afford to pay for the software.
There are plenty of completely FREE JVM's available (many are very fast) -- I don't see why Sun can't charge for something they've sunk so much money into, especially since they said they were going to charge for it from the start.
sun plans to make money off of this with royaltied distribution costs (free developer SDK is a great way to hook people in) and flat-fee source licensing.
The Java VM is the perfect place to spend time optimizing and tweaking. Those optimizations are automatically grandfathered into a huge base of precompiled bytecode.
hotspot is not free. go to the press release and read it, I don't think they've announced pricing but since it's deployable on serverside only I expect some hefty price tags.
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No, it won't send a message to any of the big DB players. The reason is that Interbase is a totally different marketshare from the big four database vendors main products. ASE from Sybase, Oracle, SQL Server from MS, and Informix's offerings are all in a league far beyond Interbase. However, it will make jabs towards some of the smaller databases (smaller footprint) -- for example another offering from Sybase, Adaptive Server Anywhere.
That's Dungeon Keeper II.
Don't blame the antibiotics -- they've saved hundreds of millions of lives. Blame your doctor for prescribing them when you didn't need them.
How about reading the article?
I'm taking two classes at UMUC right now -- they are working out well. One thing to keep in mind is this: In the end, the benefit you receive is proportional to the effort you put into it. You can easily squeeze through some of these classes putting very little real effort in, but if you truly want to learn, the environment is a good one.
Also, there are a wide variety of students in the program. When I started I assumed most people would be "local" (In the D.C. Area) however about 50% of people are far outside the area, including people from Russia, Sweden, Kansas and even Oklahoma .
Don't blame Amazon for this. They are protecting themselves, because we all know someone else would have tried to patent it if amazon didn't.
Blame the patent office for granting it, and stop jumping on the "boycott Amazon" bandwagon until you see them try to exercise their patent. (They never will, because everyone knows it's utter silliness -- including Amazon.)
Once you get more experience in the industry, you'll realize that these "fakes" and "frauds" are a fact of life and they will always be around. Nonetheless you've still got a job to do -- and chances are good that if you're managing a team, you'll have a few morons to manage. Driving them out of town won't bring your project in on time, but helping them out and giving them a chance will.
Reagan's Vice President was George Bush, not Dan Quayle.
There's a reason they've issued some 6-7 draft revisions of HTTP 1.1, so I'm glad they took their time and got it right.
Everyone supports it already anyway, so what's it to you.
It doesn't necssarily. I think in most server setups you choose what the default host is, and that is the one that the IP will map to. In practice it's not a big problem, since most people don't go typing or linking IP addy's in their web pages.
Oh.
Except for the various piracy scenes.
Get out of the 80's.
We hate Microsoft now, not IBM.
His point was that linux _as_ a router is much less efficient and more error prone than a dedicated router.
We're a small software shop doing 99% Windows based work and most of the developers would probably prefer to use Visual SourceSafe instead of CVS, however I've recently decided that we will be switching to a linux-based solution, only partially because of the high costs involved in maintaining our VSS licenses.
Some of my team are looking for problems w/CVS because they're scared of what they don't know. For example, one of them latched onto the fact that CVS doesn't have exclusive checkouts like VSS and he claims it will make it impossible to work as a team if we can't know exactly who has a file checked out at any given time. Also, I have some concerns about how the automatic three-way merging will work with binary form files (can't do a diff/merge then) which our Oracle work uses. I can't do anything about the tools we use, because it is dictated by the client we are doing the work for.
Any solutions out there other than CVS? How does RCS compare for a small team of developers (4)? The only requirement that I have is that a version control system run on linux and run over TCP/IP. Thanks for any help.
Most MP3 encoders use constant bitrate, but the MP3 spec allows for bitrates to change midfile. Xing's newer encoder has VBR, and winamp and sonique will read these VBR files. Any linux players support VBR? Does Empeg?
What about having 28GB of my own CD's encoded and ready to play in my car? That's something completely new and exciting that MP3/Empeg offers. I'm not breaking any laws by encoding my own CD's.
i doubt the fastest JVM will be anywhere near as expensive as the fastest production machine.
:p
If you *need* the speed on the server-side apps, you probably can afford to pay for the software.
There are plenty of completely FREE JVM's available (many are very fast) -- I don't see why Sun can't charge for something they've sunk so much money into, especially since they said they were going to charge for it from the start.
that doesn't make it *free*
sun plans to make money off of this with royaltied distribution costs (free developer SDK is a great way to hook people in) and flat-fee source licensing.
The Java VM is the perfect place to spend time optimizing and tweaking. Those optimizations are automatically grandfathered into a huge base of precompiled bytecode.
hotspot is not free. go to the press release and read it, I don't think they've announced pricing but since it's deployable on serverside only I expect some hefty price tags.
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