I've been working Java for about 3 months now. It's write once, debug everywhere.
The Java langauge itself is a hell of a lot better than C/C++ (I've been a C/C++ programmer for 15 years). The OO concepts are cleanly implemented, if you can get past that com.name.space.verbosity.
The JVM mess that's out there is horrible. You write your code once and then work around bugs in all the different JVM's you can get your hands on. Ugh! Disgusting. Totally defeats the original motto of Java.
The whole thing flys in the face of OpenSystems. When the printing press was invented, did they figure out how to prevent people from copying books by watermarking?
This P.S. is the most distrubing part of the whole thing.
If a watermarking scheme is required to play music, a free, open source player that had the code to check the watermark could easily be changed to play without the watermark. Then what about all the music out there that doesn't have watermarks. I.E. Don't delete this line of code. Kinda like the old police scanners that were illegal, but you could buy one that didn't work, then open the box and there was a diode (sometimes marked!!!) that you cut out. But then who cares about those silly open source freaks anyway:P
If a watermarking scheme is used to prevent copying. Hah! If it's digital, it's copyable. Like your O.S. going to check on every write and make sure you don't do something you shouldn't. Hah!
About the only use of a "watermark" is to insure downstream somewhere, that a file wasn't tampered with. Very useful.
I think the P.S. here hits the nail on the head. SDMI stands to profit from selling digital snake oil to the music industry. The music industry suffers from the "cure" and drops the idea after funding several SDMI careers.
That Bill I am that Bill I am,
I do not like that Bill I am.
Say, do you like.NET?
I do not like.NET.
I will not in C Sharp, I will not on a lark.
I do not like it so you see.
Try them, try them and you may.
Try them and you may I say.
Hmmmm, ,
Oooh I do so like.NET, I will code in C Sharp, I will do it for a lark.
Now that you've tried it you must pay.
You must pay and pay I say. Upgrades are
on the way. Incompatible upgrades that may break your day.
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I've been working Java for about 3 months now. It's write once, debug everywhere. The Java langauge itself is a hell of a lot better than C/C++ (I've been a C/C++ programmer for 15 years). The OO concepts are cleanly implemented, if you can get past that com.name.space.verbosity. The JVM mess that's out there is horrible. You write your code once and then work around bugs in all the different JVM's you can get your hands on. Ugh! Disgusting. Totally defeats the original motto of Java.
The whole thing flys in the face of OpenSystems. When the printing press was invented, did they figure out how to prevent people from copying books by watermarking?
:P
This P.S. is the most distrubing part of the whole thing.
If a watermarking scheme is required to play music, a free, open source player that had the code to check the watermark could easily be changed to play without the watermark. Then what about all the music out there that doesn't have watermarks. I.E. Don't delete this line of code. Kinda like the old police scanners that were illegal, but you could buy one that didn't work, then open the box and there was a diode (sometimes marked!!!) that you cut out. But then who cares about those silly open source freaks anyway
If a watermarking scheme is used to prevent copying. Hah! If it's digital, it's copyable. Like your O.S. going to check on every write and make sure you don't do something you shouldn't. Hah!
About the only use of a "watermark" is to insure downstream somewhere, that a file wasn't tampered with. Very useful.
I think the P.S. here hits the nail on the head. SDMI stands to profit from selling digital snake oil to the music industry. The music industry suffers from the "cure" and drops the idea after funding several SDMI careers.
That Bill I am that Bill I am, I do not like that Bill I am. Say, do you like .NET?
I do not like .NET.
I will not in C Sharp, I will not on a lark.
I do not like it so you see.
Try them, try them and you may.
Try them and you may I say.
Hmmmm, ,
Oooh I do so like .NET, I will code in C Sharp, I will do it for a lark.
Now that you've tried it you must pay.
You must pay and pay I say. Upgrades are
on the way. Incompatible upgrades that may break your day.