Web Services is basically describing the kind of services run over http. Excessive services result in http request saturation and thus people has to find some ways to circumvene the performance problems.
The reason why people nowaday mostly rely on http is the laziness of admins in handling corporate security. Services like RPC calls multiply the complexity of administration and it'd be easier if we all target the request on a single channel - http, which most enterprise has already opened it for normal web servers. Web Services beat CORBA in term of convenience in depolyment, not in term of its technical merit. (for more information, see this comparison)
The article and the links followed are insufficient to tell what's inside this research. If he could really find a solution to http saturation problem, that solution can absolutely be applied to everything else. I'm pretty skeptic on it.:)
if MS is making an interoperative framework what more can you complain? Corps like IBM and Oracle when talking about interoperative issues they mean it - if you can't get Oracle work on AIX you can yell at both parties and they'll get it work. To them interoperable means profit. They hardly insist on one-platform solution when customers has their own business needs.
Frankly I don't see MS has that in their mind in the past when dealing with same issue..NET, if it's done well, can bring MS' business to a new level, because low-cost(put down your torches please:), interoperable enterprise solutions is highly demanded. However, instances as such will well shattered our hope and MS is still having their own way in dealing with interoperability.
I wonder if anyone would have read this post but I can tell you what's going on with these subtitles.
The guy has actually gotten a copy of pirated LoTR II. I actually have simliar one of LoTR I. Honestly I didn't realize it was a pirated copy(someone else bought it for me) - it was so well-made that it has all the feature you could find in an original one - features, screenplays, musics and 5.1 sound system.
Even the subtitles are perfect - EXCEPT a fatal mistake in the subtitles - they used 'Hobbies' instead of 'Hobbits'. That's something that wouldn't go wrong if it's being published by the original publisher.
Then I asked and found out that this is actually a remake version in China. The 'pirates' actually got a perfect copy of LoTR but without the subtitles - not even the English one. They've to remake them all over. However, the quality of the movie is so high that you cannot tell the difference.
This is definitely not a shoddy 'tape-copy' pirated version. Someone has their way to get a DVD-grade quality copy and remake them.
However, the copy I've has very good English subtitles except they made some mistakes on specific terms like 'Hobbits'. That LoTR II version is totally hysteric I must say.:)
The software license fee saved can be well used on Labor and Hardware to provide better quality of both. That's what we do in dealing with Government(non-US) tender - we provide better hardware and services for the same cost. Of course that's not without problem, we need to spend great deal of time to change their impression on free software because we don't usually have corporate service assurance provided by the organization which provides the software we sell, but that's getting easier and easier recently.
Office Automation: Microsoft comes to your office!
Now
Warship Automation: Micosoft comes to your Warship!
Luckly my office machine wouldn't get towed back to port after it crashed.:)
(I'm aware that USS Navy official confirmed that the 'Smart Ship' was crashed due to human error, not Microsoft after thorough investigation. All pro-MS please put down your torches. I really don't want to debate with pro-MS AC anymore. Thanks.:)
Right you are but this account is to be used not only in alphaworks, but all other areas that allows free reg access. Apparently they've unified the registration database. Yeah, it's annoying.:)
It's one of the site worth giving your email address to. The biggest spam you'd get from them is just a (bi?)weekly IBM DeveloperWorks newsletter which you can easily unsubscribe.
I'm by no mean associate with IBM, in case you wonder.:)
The link requires (free)registration. It has a guide for Debian installation too. For Gentoo users, you may also look at gentoo's guide on User-Mode Linux.
a perfect lie detector. I involved in a research which used mild electric shock when the lie detector returned confidence level below a certain theshold. We found that mild electric shock could really improve the accuracy.
Later I found that if I inverse-proportioned the intensity of electric shock to the confidence reading of the lie detector the accuracy would sky-rocket.
Unfortunately, my research was called to stop when a prof. used an obvious lie on my prototype. The confidence level reach 0 and the detector output maximum electric shock which knocked the prof. 10 feets away from the desk.
Damn. it was that tyrannic dictatorship destroyed a great research like that!:)
I'm glad that I finally meet with a calm and insightful reply. Nice to meet you.:)
I must admit that I was wrong about Win2k, but still it enters non-support phase in 2004, not 2003. 2005 is the license availability date, for customers who need to purchase licenses for extended support period. Thank you for pointing this out.
Do you think you'll still be using (insert current Linux distro) in seven years?
Hmm, I really can't be very sorry of it, admittedly the oldest Linux servers we have is only about 5 years(running kernel 2.0.x), but I'm sure it'll last longer than any commercial(avoid continue bashing MS:) servers as long as it works.
Companies cannot support a particular product forever, simply because they created it. I, for one, am glad that Microsoft does this.
7-8 years look long enough, but most companies don't adopt the product right out of the release. Usually for servers we will put it into use 2-3 years after it first releases, taking into account software development and testing.
Frankly we don't complain commercial until they discontinue their products. I, and the others, just tells from the experience we always leave with no choice when it happens, and when we only start to get used to the products.
Of course there are some people that say, "I'm still using Red Hat 2.1, and you'll never make me change!"
THEY ARE STILL SU-PPORT-ING N-T 8 YEARS AFTER IT WAS RELEASED
(You've to make you point with bold because you are a native speaker?) Then this must be a misprint.
Where do I get support for redhat 5? Kernel version 1.1? Anywhere? Bueller?
It's funny when you brought this up. The 8-year support in NT is across different versions which has problem compatible with each other, while you can run apps on older linux and new linux distro.
NT 4.0 is supported through the end of 2004. That makes a grand total of 8 years since it was introduced. Windows 2000 is through 2007.
These are 'Extended support' period for Premium customers. Can you tell the difference or you've problem understanding the lengthy document?:)
So you think you can enjoy that extended period? Are you are premium customers? Do you know what qualify you as a 'premium' customer in term of service support? Look like you know very well about Microsoft products so I can skip this here.:)
Why people like you like to post as AC? I don't usually reply to the like of it but I hate you misleading others and blame it on my fault.
Basically, the idea is that by running "ancient" versions of software products, the script kiddies are completely thrown for a loop--their collections of 'sploits only work on more recent versions of code.
It doesn't work, at least not for Microsoft's products. You and grandparent post forgot the Microsoft Support Life Cycle, say Windows 98 and NT 4.x will be entering "Non-supported phase" after June this year, Windows 2K even earlier, March.
Granted, SQL server 7.0 is still under the coverage of normal support til March, 2004, and if you happened to be a premium customer, they the period can be extended to 2006.
However, do not forget when a product is desupported, Microsoft will not take care of new problem found in it. No service patch, no enquiry. No MS reseller would dare take up the maintenance. They'd only offer you one option thereafter: upgrade.
Keep using the desupported products? Sure you can, but can you bet your career on a desupported product? You're welcome to do so as they can have a convenient target to blame when shit happens.:)
It's basically a win/win situation, we need a.NET implementation for running Windows apps in future, and if we can use it for writing good apps ourselves then so much the better.
I've been thinking about it. It's a trend that Microsoft will gradually migrate their products to.NET platform. If Mono suceeded in running.NET close to 100% compatibility, then it's pretty much like making Windows applications run on Linux.
In this regard, I think we all should wholeheartedly support Icaza. The problem is: is that what Microsoft wants? Would that touch Bill Gates' heart when he see Wine could run 100% Windows Apps? Ummm.....hope so.:)
Part of the skepticism comes from fear Microsoft will co-opt the technology. Icaza acknowledges some think he's sold out.
But he denies Microsoft is funding the project, and says there is no 'official' relationship.
In a gesture of refusal, Icaza rotates his head 360 degree to the left.
outlined four "classes of works" that should be exempt, including copy-protected CDs, region-coded DVDs, DVDs with unskippable promotional material, and public domain works that are only available on DVD.
and materials adopting silly encryption that insults the intelligence of citizens.
Otherwise, next time Adobe would publish ebook with ROL-26 encryption and sue those who merely look at it and don't pay up. (am I going to an extreme? that's just an example to inspire thoughts)
I would guess that the album retail (about $15 per album) is based on a 100% markup
It's way more than 100% markup.
My friend who produces CD for games and music, etc. told me that the cost of producing a CD with packaging material is around US$0.5 each(his factory is in China, but he received a lot of orders from US).
This is the cost of production alone. This doesn't include the cost of producing music, royalty, designing packaging material, agents' commission, bribe to RIAA for price-setting and artists' drugs and legel fees. However, he told me that the combined cost seldom exceed $5 in each CD.
So the rest $10 goes to evil capitalists' pockets? Well may be, but most of the time they are spent on advertising. The money earned from albums is usually spent on advertising for newer signers. Sometime a company might spend more on advertising to promote a new singer; but in this case the signer will have to sign a relatively long-term contract to make up for the initial investment. E.g. most of the profit from concerts and commercials will go to the company within contract period.
Failed the attempts to remove two black lines on all trinitron monitors, Sony finally announces discontinuing of the production line.
"For all these years," said a Sony spokemen, "we thought we could finally fix this problem, the progress were not as expected."
"but we pushed the defective products to the market anyway, and told people these two black lines are a sign of high quality. We're glad we didn't get caught and now it's over!"
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May be the answer is to stay away from http.
:)
Web Services is basically describing the kind of services run over http. Excessive services result in http request saturation and thus people has to find some ways to circumvene the performance problems.
The reason why people nowaday mostly rely on http is the laziness of admins in handling corporate security. Services like RPC calls multiply the complexity of administration and it'd be easier if we all target the request on a single channel - http, which most enterprise has already opened it for normal web servers. Web Services beat CORBA in term of convenience in depolyment, not in term of its technical merit. (for more information, see this comparison)
The article and the links followed are insufficient to tell what's inside this research. If he could really find a solution to http saturation problem, that solution can absolutely be applied to everything else. I'm pretty skeptic on it.
if MS is making an interoperative framework what more can you complain? Corps like IBM and Oracle when talking about interoperative issues they mean it - if you can't get Oracle work on AIX you can yell at both parties and they'll get it work. To them interoperable means profit. They hardly insist on one-platform solution when customers has their own business needs.
.NET, if it's done well, can bring MS' business to a new level, because low-cost(put down your torches please :), interoperable enterprise solutions is highly demanded. However, instances as such will well shattered our hope and MS is still having their own way in dealing with interoperability.
Frankly I don't see MS has that in their mind in the past when dealing with same issue.
I wonder if anyone would have read this post but I can tell you what's going on with these subtitles.
:)
The guy has actually gotten a copy of pirated LoTR II. I actually have simliar one of LoTR I. Honestly I didn't realize it was a pirated copy(someone else bought it for me) - it was so well-made that it has all the feature you could find in an original one - features, screenplays, musics and 5.1 sound system.
Even the subtitles are perfect - EXCEPT a fatal mistake in the subtitles - they used 'Hobbies' instead of 'Hobbits'. That's something that wouldn't go wrong if it's being published by the original publisher.
Then I asked and found out that this is actually a remake version in China. The 'pirates' actually got a perfect copy of LoTR but without the subtitles - not even the English one. They've to remake them all over. However, the quality of the movie is so high that you cannot tell the difference.
This is definitely not a shoddy 'tape-copy' pirated version. Someone has their way to get a DVD-grade quality copy and remake them.
However, the copy I've has very good English subtitles except they made some mistakes on specific terms like 'Hobbits'. That LoTR II version is totally hysteric I must say.
previous patents? I think USPTO should admit their mistake and invalidate them too.
The software license fee saved can be well used on Labor and Hardware to provide better quality of both. That's what we do in dealing with Government(non-US) tender - we provide better hardware and services for the same cost. Of course that's not without problem, we need to spend great deal of time to change their impression on free software because we don't usually have corporate service assurance provided by the organization which provides the software we sell, but that's getting easier and easier recently.
I remember I saw this slogon many years ago:
:)
:)
Office Automation: Microsoft comes to your office!
Now
Warship Automation: Micosoft comes to your Warship!
Luckly my office machine wouldn't get towed back to port after it crashed.
(I'm aware that USS Navy official confirmed that the 'Smart Ship' was crashed due to human error, not Microsoft after thorough investigation. All pro-MS please put down your torches. I really don't want to debate with pro-MS AC anymore. Thanks.
Right you are but this account is to be used not only in alphaworks, but all other areas that allows free reg access. Apparently they've unified the registration database. Yeah, it's annoying. :)
There's only a worldwide market for, what, 6 machines? No way to make a career out of that.
Those who can tell or understand this joke is eligible to plan for their retirement. XD
Would you feel better if it's submitted by 'CoolSiteCheckThisOut'? :)
/., but I do appreciate timothy honestly tell us who originated the submission.
:)
I'm not defending for
I see your point, if a site(*cough* C/ZNet) do it too far it'd be very annoying.
Well said! In fact, IBM DeveloperWorks has a lot of free tutorials like you can find this one in Linux tutorial.
:)
It's one of the site worth giving your email address to. The biggest spam you'd get from them is just a (bi?)weekly IBM DeveloperWorks newsletter which you can easily unsubscribe.
I'm by no mean associate with IBM, in case you wonder.
The link requires (free)registration. It has a guide for Debian installation too. For Gentoo users, you may also look at gentoo's guide on User-Mode Linux.
a perfect lie detector. I involved in a research which used mild electric shock when the lie detector returned confidence level below a certain theshold. We found that mild electric shock could really improve the accuracy.
:)
Later I found that if I inverse-proportioned the intensity of electric shock to the confidence reading of the lie detector the accuracy would sky-rocket.
Unfortunately, my research was called to stop when a prof. used an obvious lie on my prototype. The confidence level reach 0 and the detector output maximum electric shock which knocked the prof. 10 feets away from the desk.
Damn. it was that tyrannic dictatorship destroyed a great research like that!
I'm glad that I finally meet with a calm and insightful reply. Nice to meet you. :)
:) servers as long as it works.
:D
:)
I must admit that I was wrong about Win2k, but still it enters non-support phase in 2004, not 2003. 2005 is the license availability date, for customers who need to purchase licenses for extended support period. Thank you for pointing this out.
Do you think you'll still be using (insert current Linux distro) in seven years?
Hmm, I really can't be very sorry of it, admittedly the oldest Linux servers we have is only about 5 years(running kernel 2.0.x), but I'm sure it'll last longer than any commercial(avoid continue bashing MS
Companies cannot support a particular product forever, simply because they created it. I, for one, am glad that Microsoft does this.
7-8 years look long enough, but most companies don't adopt the product right out of the release. Usually for servers we will put it into use 2-3 years after it first releases, taking into account software development and testing.
Frankly we don't complain commercial until they discontinue their products. I, and the others, just tells from the experience we always leave with no choice when it happens, and when we only start to get used to the products.
Of course there are some people that say, "I'm still using Red Hat 2.1, and you'll never make me change!"
Don't categorize me into them, they are idiots.
Nice post, let me add you to my friend list.
THEY ARE STILL SU-PPORT-ING N-T 8 YEARS AFTER IT WAS RELEASED
(You've to make you point with bold because you are a native speaker?) Then this must be a misprint.
Where do I get support for redhat 5? Kernel version 1.1? Anywhere? Bueller?
It's funny when you brought this up. The 8-year support in NT is across different versions which has problem compatible with each other, while you can run apps on older linux and new linux distro.
NT 4.0 is supported through the end of 2004. That makes a grand total of 8 years since it was introduced. Windows 2000 is through 2007.
:)
:)
These are 'Extended support' period for Premium customers. Can you tell the difference or you've problem understanding the lengthy document?
So you think you can enjoy that extended period? Are you are premium customers? Do you know what qualify you as a 'premium' customer in term of service support? Look like you know very well about Microsoft products so I can skip this here.
Why people like you like to post as AC? I don't usually reply to the like of it but I hate you misleading others and blame it on my fault.
March of 2005, bozo. Try reading the web sites you reference before posting.
:)
:)
This is the license availability date. I thought my reading is bad until I meet you, bozo.
What is a bozo anyway.
Basically, the idea is that by running "ancient" versions of software products, the script kiddies are completely thrown for a loop--their collections of 'sploits only work on more recent versions of code.
:)
It doesn't work, at least not for Microsoft's products. You and grandparent post forgot the Microsoft Support Life Cycle, say Windows 98 and NT 4.x will be entering "Non-supported phase" after June this year, Windows 2K even earlier, March.
Granted, SQL server 7.0 is still under the coverage of normal support til March, 2004, and if you happened to be a premium customer, they the period can be extended to 2006.
However, do not forget when a product is desupported, Microsoft will not take care of new problem found in it. No service patch, no enquiry. No MS reseller would dare take up the maintenance. They'd only offer you one option thereafter: upgrade.
Keep using the desupported products? Sure you can, but can you bet your career on a desupported product? You're welcome to do so as they can have a convenient target to blame when shit happens.
It's basically a win/win situation, we need a .NET implementation for running Windows apps in future, and if we can use it for writing good apps ourselves then so much the better.
.NET platform. If Mono suceeded in running .NET close to 100% compatibility, then it's pretty much like making Windows applications run on Linux.
:)
I've been thinking about it. It's a trend that Microsoft will gradually migrate their products to
In this regard, I think we all should wholeheartedly support Icaza. The problem is: is that what Microsoft wants? Would that touch Bill Gates' heart when he see Wine could run 100% Windows Apps? Ummm.....hope so.
Part of the skepticism comes from fear Microsoft will co-opt the technology. Icaza acknowledges some think he's sold out.
But he denies Microsoft is funding the project, and says there is no 'official' relationship.
In a gesture of refusal, Icaza rotates his head 360 degree to the left.
(Heh just kidding)
outlined four "classes of works" that should be exempt, including copy-protected CDs, region-coded DVDs, DVDs with unskippable promotional material, and public domain works that are only available on DVD.
and materials adopting silly encryption that insults the intelligence of citizens.
Otherwise, next time Adobe would publish ebook with ROL-26 encryption and sue those who merely look at it and don't pay up. (am I going to an extreme? that's just an example to inspire thoughts)
"We are not the enemy. We are not at war with the IT community. We are hoping that (future) meetings will produce amiable results..."
Valenti said, then rotated his head 180 degree, mummered in someone else's voice:
"If you only knew the power of the darkside..."
I would hate to see big bouncing breast volleyball games with medicore ratings instead of a damn good Mario game.
:)
Yeah, I remember I enjoyed that big bouncing brests mahjong game of Sega. Go Sega go!
Bill's XBox will be coming into the second generation
...and it's called XBill! :)
I would guess that the album retail (about $15 per album) is based on a 100% markup
It's way more than 100% markup.
My friend who produces CD for games and music, etc. told me that the cost of producing a CD with packaging material is around US$0.5 each(his factory is in China, but he received a lot of orders from US).
This is the cost of production alone. This doesn't include the cost of producing music, royalty, designing packaging material, agents' commission, bribe to RIAA for price-setting and artists' drugs and legel fees. However, he told me that the combined cost seldom exceed $5 in each CD.
So the rest $10 goes to evil capitalists' pockets? Well may be, but most of the time they are spent on advertising. The money earned from albums is usually spent on advertising for newer signers. Sometime a company might spend more on advertising to promote a new singer; but in this case the signer will have to sign a relatively long-term contract to make up for the initial investment. E.g. most of the profit from concerts and commercials will go to the company within contract period.
Failed the attempts to remove two black lines on all trinitron monitors, Sony finally announces discontinuing of the production line.
:)
"For all these years," said a Sony spokemen, "we thought we could finally fix this problem, the progress were not as expected."
"but we pushed the defective products to the market anyway, and told people these two black lines are a sign of high quality. We're glad we didn't get caught and now it's over!"
(For humor impaired, this is a joke.