As the general theory of relativty predicted (confirmed by numerous observations), even light is not free from the effects of the curvature of spacetime.
I've had some really good bosses and some so-so bosses. But if you ask them I'm sure they'd say they've had some really good staff and some really bad staff.
From my own experience I would say having a bad employee work for you is worse than working for a bad boss.
I've always thought people complaining about their bosses generally ends up sounding like teenagers complaining about their parents.
Many people's attitude changes onces they've had staff of their own.
Are there any Slashdotters aiming to provide Web services, despite its heavy backing by Microsoft?
If you view web services as the use of XML as a data format over Internet transfer protocols, then it seems largely irrelevant whether Microsoft backs them or not.
There is an awful lot you can do without buying into the whole Microsoft story:
XML itself
W3C XML schemas
SOAP and W3C XML Protocol
WSDL (heavily based on W3C XML schemas)
Sure, Microsoft is involved with all the above. So are a lot of companies. So are a lot of opensource developers.
In direct answer to the question above, though. Yes, I'm planning on providing web services and helping to develop opensource tools to produce and consume them:
jUDDI - an implementation of UDDI (supported by Bowstreet)
Redfoot - a peer-to-peer RDF framework that will use SOAP/XP for its P2P communication (done in my own time)
The second part of the Sun/Adobe prize is for an XSL formatting object to PDF formatter written in Java.
Six months ago I started writing what I still believe to be the only XSL formatting object formatter around and I happened to output as PDF and write in Java.
Due largely to lack of time, I haven't done much in the last few months. I would have accepted $5000 to finish it!
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See the py-gwt project pyworks.org
As the general theory of relativty predicted (confirmed by numerous observations), even light is not free from the effects of the curvature of spacetime.
So this beam weapon can't be "gravity-free"!
I've had some really good bosses and some so-so bosses. But if you ask them I'm sure they'd say they've had some really good staff and some really bad staff.
From my own experience I would say having a bad employee work for you is worse than working for a bad boss.
I've always thought people complaining about their bosses generally ends up sounding like teenagers complaining about their parents.
Many people's attitude changes onces they've had staff of their own.
Are there any Slashdotters aiming to provide Web services, despite its heavy backing by Microsoft?
If you view web services as the use of XML as a data format over Internet transfer protocols, then it seems largely irrelevant whether Microsoft backs them or not.
There is an awful lot you can do without buying into the whole Microsoft story:
Sure, Microsoft is involved with all the above. So are a lot of companies. So are a lot of opensource developers.
In direct answer to the question above, though. Yes, I'm planning on providing web services and helping to develop opensource tools to produce and consume them:
The second part of the Sun/Adobe prize is for an XSL formatting object to PDF formatter written in Java.
Six months ago I started writing what I still believe to be the only XSL formatting object formatter around and I happened to output as PDF and write in Java.
Due largely to lack of time, I haven't done much in the last few months. I would have accepted $5000 to finish it!
I'm going to try and finish it now.
see http://www.jtauber.com/fop/ as well as http://www.xmlsoftware.com/xsl/ for XSL-related software in general.
James