It's partly a comment on society, not the article in question. It seems every 5th article on/. is how the government wants to get involved in yet another area of life. Most recently is SOPA which is more related to CES than other examples. This article is another example of people introducing a non-problem as a problem.
It's also general sarcastic comment as to the newsworthiness of this article, which I did read, BTW. Of all the CES happenings, we this this?
Quick! Call your congress-critter! This sort of behavior needs to be outlawed for the safety of the children! (Or environment, or pick something else.) Clearly people can't make good decisions without government involvement.
Seriously, who cares who goes? I'm sure it's crowded, but really, this is news?
It looks like an Internal Server Error? I would have thought it would be more interesting than that. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
I think that's one of the points of the article: memorization as a learning strategy is doomed to fail.
Just because one professor at a prestigious learning institution cannot teach in a way that fosters theoretical understanding doesn't mean we should throw out lectures. I found lectures helpful because I learn well in them, when backed up by other classwork.) I felt I had to be there regularly to learn. I suspect that many people who focus on memorization miss a lot of lectures. Plus, I don't think I'd like small groups. Sounds too new touchy-feely.
I use Java as my language of choice (because I know it and there are tons of libraries available.)
For web sites that are use by people, I use Apache Tapestry 5 as the web framework. It's very easy to use, integrates with Hibernate, is very fast and makes me very productive. I find that I can write nice looking pages that work well in a very short amount of time. I end up writing very little actual code, so maintenance is easy. Live class reloading is a major plus, I just edit my page or Java class, hit save and the changes are ready to be used in my browser.
However, there are many other Java web frameworks to chose from based on what you like best. Java is a bit bloated, but it's pretty fast and stable. And there are libraries for almost anything. (I generate PDFs, for example, using iText and everything works very well together.)
I use Eclipse for my IDE, which while it could be faster and less bloated, seems to work pretty well.
If you want to focus entirely on web services (e.g. SOAP or REST), then there are easier solutions for that in the Java world. (I use JAXB annotations with Jersey for REST services.) For SOAP I'd use Apache CXF based on what I've read. You can integrate both of these with Tapestry and Hibernate to create a cohesive web platform.
We cant have students memorizing formulas and heuristics.
One way to do this, which is what my school did, was to test based on the theory. Teach the specifics and write the exam such that you are pretty much required to use the theory to solve the problems. It takes more work than the simple recite the formula tests that professors like since they don't have to think much to create them. We quickly weeded out the people who memorized things. Personally, I do much better learning the theory and applying it than memorization.
Many corporations and government organizations have stringent security requirements. Everything must be tested and approved. Security plans must be written the spell out everything on the network. This work is very time consuming and expensive to upgrade all computers. Thus I'd expect slow adoption and inertia. One could argue that updating to the latest will result in better security, but not always and bureaucracy is rarely logical.
It always amazes me that some people still believe Microsoft is just chock full o' amazing ideas that would overwhelm the world - if ONLY their corporate culture didn't get in the way.
There's simply no evidence for this. Microsoft has done very little innovation - most of their successful products have resulted form iterative fine-tuning on ideas that originated elsewhere (e.g. Windows, Office). They've done this very well at times... but it's not innovative in the least.
I think people are referring to the fact that a company of the size of Microsoft with that much cash flowing in, should be able to produce fantastic products. The fact that their company structure is set up to produce boring products is what is interesting.
He is pretty spot on. I've long complained that theaters are becoming a place where you'd want to do anything but see a movie. The annoying people, the high prices ($12 for a movie where I live), overpriced snacks that also suck (I can make better popcorn in the microwave than my local theater) and increasingly poor theater quality. It's to the point now that I can get better surround sound an a picture almost as good at home (and I didn't even spend all that much, although I do have a good subwoofer.) Plus, I can pause to take a bathroom break or snack break. And I can buy the movie on Bluray for the price of two tickets and a drink. Sure I have to wait, but really. who cares? There is nothing that I must see NOW. Avatar may have been the exception, since the 3D was well done and I don't have a 3D TV. (And that's the ONLY movie I'd recommend seeing in 3D, except maybe a Pixar one.)
The other day my wife wanted to see a movie in the theater for the experience. We literally couldn't find a single movie we wanted to see. So we watched something on Netflix instead. (Don't get me started at how poor their streaming selection is, though.)
From what I've heard, so little of the ticket price goes to the theater, it's no wonder they suck. The greed of the large movie houses is backfiring on them. Heck, I rarely even buy movies anymore for lack of anything I'd want to see more than once. Music is getting to be the same way.
If you really want to get paranoid, you won't be using computers at all. You can't trust the software, even open source unless you've personally reviewed it all including the compiler. Even then you can't trust it unless you've reviewed the OS, BIOS and verified the design of all hardware in your system (including input devices down to the chip level.) Even then, you'll need monitor every byte of traffic on your network link (since even open software has vulnerabilities you likely didn't find in your review.) Still safe? No, because there could be listening and/or other devices anywhere, even inside the concrete blocks that make up your house. (e.g. a filter outside the street that modifies your network traffic.) Heck, even if you are Microsoft you can't trust your OWN software because there are too many cooks in the kitchen, as it were. None of whom were fully vetted.
Basically, guaranteed trust is a myth. You have to trust some one and some things or you are basically useless to society and will die of starvation (trust your food and water?) This article is either the start of a scare tactic against US companies and/or a poor attempt at bringing some rational thought to congress. Even if the US isn't doing crazy things behind the scenes, I'm sure China and most other large countries are.
My wife had an old Windows Mobile phone and hated it. She had to replace it once, and it required a lot of tech support from Verizon. The Verizon rep said they hated Windows phones because they have such a high return rate (as did Palm OS phones) and required a lot of support. Granted this was a few years ago, but I suspect Verizon has been burned by Microsoft for too long and want to let other carriers test the waters more fully.
When it takes until version 7 to get a usable phone, you've likely burned a few bridges.
What exactly is the core audience for Windows Phone, and what are the traits that they value? I can't really think of anyone for whom Windows Phone would make more sense than either iOS or Android.
The other category: people who get talked into buying one by a sales person, by even they won't push them.
I never boot the netbook except for patching, since I hate reopening everything after a boot, instead I put it in hibernate. The big PC gets shut off nightly most of the time. What OS/distro are you running? What sites are bogging it down like that? Yahoo News only took one page to bring IE 6 down on the work computer, and IE7 gives me maybe 3 pages of that site, but it gives me no trouble on my home computers with FF.
This is with the latest FF under Windows 7. Same thing happened with all previous version of FF I tried going back to XP. I browse a variety of sites, here, google reader, facebook, etc. Again, Flash is disabled. Happens all the time and after googling for this, I see many, many others have the same problem.
IBM's market cap has bounced back. Surprisingly they're worth more than Microsoft again. Companies to look at for "Failure to adapt" might include RIM, Nokia, HP.
And Microsoft. They've been running on the same two products since their heyday. Their only real innovation (a graphical office suite) was developed for the Macintosh. Everything is "me too" crap, which worked for a while.
Apple is a good example of a company that was near death and transformed itself like Kodak will never be able to do. Then there are transformations like Westinghouse that went from dong just about everything to selling their name to the highest bidder to make crappy TVs.
I agree with you that Konqueror sucks, but I don't see what's wrong with Firefox. Everything renders well, it's plenty fast, etc.
Other than it gets bogged down the longer you use it. After a few days of use, it uses 1.5 GB of RAM for 5 pages and pegs the CPU every 10 seconds for like 5 seconds. You can't even type while it's doing whatever it's going. Basically, the developers of FF care only about shiny new features and care nothing about making a stable and decent browser. (And yes, I run without Flash.) FF is a bloated piece of crap. Safari crashes under Windows every other day. Chrome is really the only decent free browser available under Windows.
Well said. I was thinking the exact same thing. The banks will actually MAKE money of this stupid attempt at activism. I think this proves that smart people aren't smart in every area. This ranks right up there with PETA's recent activities, well, they are actually getting attention and this is so dumb on many levels it leads one to believe anonymous is a 12-year old script-kiddie.
The app in question has already been pulled from the App Store. And I'm quite sure the flaw that allows executing code via some hole in Safari will be fixed very soon. iOS 5 supports delta updates now, so Apple can (and will) come with small updates much more often than in the past.
Unless he's figured out how to sign apps such that the OS thinks they are from Apple, and aren't. Then Apple would have to revamp their code signing system.
Your business would be ruined if you declare bankruptcy.. however your education can not be taken away.
I think they were noting that a greedy contractor can take your money, ruin your house and then "pay" himself from the company's assets. He then has the company declare bankruptcy and repeats. There really isn't much to stop this sort of behavior and it happens all the time.
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It's partly a comment on society, not the article in question. It seems every 5th article on /. is how the government wants to get involved in yet another area of life. Most recently is SOPA which is more related to CES than other examples. This article is another example of people introducing a non-problem as a problem.
It's also general sarcastic comment as to the newsworthiness of this article, which I did read, BTW. Of all the CES happenings, we this this?
Quick! Call your congress-critter! This sort of behavior needs to be outlawed for the safety of the children! (Or environment, or pick something else.) Clearly people can't make good decisions without government involvement.
Seriously, who cares who goes? I'm sure it's crowded, but really, this is news?
It looks like an Internal Server Error? I would have thought it would be more interesting than that. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
and do this in Antarctica where the weather conditions will be much more harsh than in the desert
Or in Antarctica in suits pressurized to 1.5 to 2 atmospheres like the dwelling should be. That's an even better test.
I think that's one of the points of the article: memorization as a learning strategy is doomed to fail.
Just because one professor at a prestigious learning institution cannot teach in a way that fosters theoretical understanding doesn't mean we should throw out lectures. I found lectures helpful because I learn well in them, when backed up by other classwork.) I felt I had to be there regularly to learn. I suspect that many people who focus on memorization miss a lot of lectures. Plus, I don't think I'd like small groups. Sounds too new touchy-feely.
News at 11, not everyone learns the same. :)
I use Java as my language of choice (because I know it and there are tons of libraries available.)
For web sites that are use by people, I use Apache Tapestry 5 as the web framework. It's very easy to use, integrates with Hibernate, is very fast and makes me very productive. I find that I can write nice looking pages that work well in a very short amount of time. I end up writing very little actual code, so maintenance is easy. Live class reloading is a major plus, I just edit my page or Java class, hit save and the changes are ready to be used in my browser.
However, there are many other Java web frameworks to chose from based on what you like best. Java is a bit bloated, but it's pretty fast and stable. And there are libraries for almost anything. (I generate PDFs, for example, using iText and everything works very well together.)
I use Eclipse for my IDE, which while it could be faster and less bloated, seems to work pretty well.
If you want to focus entirely on web services (e.g. SOAP or REST), then there are easier solutions for that in the Java world. (I use JAXB annotations with Jersey for REST services.) For SOAP I'd use Apache CXF based on what I've read. You can integrate both of these with Tapestry and Hibernate to create a cohesive web platform.
We cant have students memorizing formulas and heuristics.
One way to do this, which is what my school did, was to test based on the theory. Teach the specifics and write the exam such that you are pretty much required to use the theory to solve the problems. It takes more work than the simple recite the formula tests that professors like since they don't have to think much to create them. We quickly weeded out the people who memorized things. Personally, I do much better learning the theory and applying it than memorization.
Many corporations and government organizations have stringent security requirements. Everything must be tested and approved. Security plans must be written the spell out everything on the network. This work is very time consuming and expensive to upgrade all computers. Thus I'd expect slow adoption and inertia. One could argue that updating to the latest will result in better security, but not always and bureaucracy is rarely logical.
It always amazes me that some people still believe Microsoft is just chock full o' amazing ideas that would overwhelm the world - if ONLY their corporate culture didn't get in the way.
There's simply no evidence for this. Microsoft has done very little innovation - most of their successful products have resulted form iterative fine-tuning on ideas that originated elsewhere (e.g. Windows, Office). They've done this very well at times... but it's not innovative in the least.
I think people are referring to the fact that a company of the size of Microsoft with that much cash flowing in, should be able to produce fantastic products. The fact that their company structure is set up to produce boring products is what is interesting.
He is pretty spot on. I've long complained that theaters are becoming a place where you'd want to do anything but see a movie. The annoying people, the high prices ($12 for a movie where I live), overpriced snacks that also suck (I can make better popcorn in the microwave than my local theater) and increasingly poor theater quality. It's to the point now that I can get better surround sound an a picture almost as good at home (and I didn't even spend all that much, although I do have a good subwoofer.) Plus, I can pause to take a bathroom break or snack break. And I can buy the movie on Bluray for the price of two tickets and a drink. Sure I have to wait, but really. who cares? There is nothing that I must see NOW. Avatar may have been the exception, since the 3D was well done and I don't have a 3D TV. (And that's the ONLY movie I'd recommend seeing in 3D, except maybe a Pixar one.)
The other day my wife wanted to see a movie in the theater for the experience. We literally couldn't find a single movie we wanted to see. So we watched something on Netflix instead. (Don't get me started at how poor their streaming selection is, though.)
From what I've heard, so little of the ticket price goes to the theater, it's no wonder they suck. The greed of the large movie houses is backfiring on them. Heck, I rarely even buy movies anymore for lack of anything I'd want to see more than once. Music is getting to be the same way.
China and Russia? Those two are among the major producers of lithium.
And the two counties with the lowest product standards and safety laws.
If you really want to get paranoid, you won't be using computers at all. You can't trust the software, even open source unless you've personally reviewed it all including the compiler. Even then you can't trust it unless you've reviewed the OS, BIOS and verified the design of all hardware in your system (including input devices down to the chip level.) Even then, you'll need monitor every byte of traffic on your network link (since even open software has vulnerabilities you likely didn't find in your review.) Still safe? No, because there could be listening and/or other devices anywhere, even inside the concrete blocks that make up your house. (e.g. a filter outside the street that modifies your network traffic.) Heck, even if you are Microsoft you can't trust your OWN software because there are too many cooks in the kitchen, as it were. None of whom were fully vetted.
Basically, guaranteed trust is a myth. You have to trust some one and some things or you are basically useless to society and will die of starvation (trust your food and water?) This article is either the start of a scare tactic against US companies and/or a poor attempt at bringing some rational thought to congress. Even if the US isn't doing crazy things behind the scenes, I'm sure China and most other large countries are.
Or we could just use a lunar calendar instead of a solar one and not have to worry about crap like leap years.
Except August will eventually be winter in the Northern Hemisphere. People like things happening in the same seasons.
My wife had an old Windows Mobile phone and hated it. She had to replace it once, and it required a lot of tech support from Verizon. The Verizon rep said they hated Windows phones because they have such a high return rate (as did Palm OS phones) and required a lot of support. Granted this was a few years ago, but I suspect Verizon has been burned by Microsoft for too long and want to let other carriers test the waters more fully.
When it takes until version 7 to get a usable phone, you've likely burned a few bridges.
What exactly is the core audience for Windows Phone, and what are the traits that they value? I can't really think of anyone for whom Windows Phone would make more sense than either iOS or Android.
The other category: people who get talked into buying one by a sales person, by even they won't push them.
For instance, the latest sends the subtle message that only whipped boyfriends willing to wear yoga tights will use a Windows Phone.
In all fairness, if they could garner half of those, they'd double their market share.
I never boot the netbook except for patching, since I hate reopening everything after a boot, instead I put it in hibernate. The big PC gets shut off nightly most of the time. What OS/distro are you running? What sites are bogging it down like that? Yahoo News only took one page to bring IE 6 down on the work computer, and IE7 gives me maybe 3 pages of that site, but it gives me no trouble on my home computers with FF.
This is with the latest FF under Windows 7. Same thing happened with all previous version of FF I tried going back to XP. I browse a variety of sites, here, google reader, facebook, etc. Again, Flash is disabled. Happens all the time and after googling for this, I see many, many others have the same problem.
IBM's market cap has bounced back. Surprisingly they're worth more than Microsoft again. Companies to look at for "Failure to adapt" might include RIM, Nokia, HP.
And Microsoft. They've been running on the same two products since their heyday. Their only real innovation (a graphical office suite) was developed for the Macintosh. Everything is "me too" crap, which worked for a while.
Apple is a good example of a company that was near death and transformed itself like Kodak will never be able to do. Then there are transformations like Westinghouse that went from dong just about everything to selling their name to the highest bidder to make crappy TVs.
How's Lexmark doing in that corner of the business world these days?
Having had several at my company, I can say their printers are garbage.
I agree with you that Konqueror sucks, but I don't see what's wrong with Firefox. Everything renders well, it's plenty fast, etc.
Other than it gets bogged down the longer you use it. After a few days of use, it uses 1.5 GB of RAM for 5 pages and pegs the CPU every 10 seconds for like 5 seconds. You can't even type while it's doing whatever it's going. Basically, the developers of FF care only about shiny new features and care nothing about making a stable and decent browser. (And yes, I run without Flash.) FF is a bloated piece of crap. Safari crashes under Windows every other day. Chrome is really the only decent free browser available under Windows.
Well said. I was thinking the exact same thing. The banks will actually MAKE money of this stupid attempt at activism. I think this proves that smart people aren't smart in every area. This ranks right up there with PETA's recent activities, well, they are actually getting attention and this is so dumb on many levels it leads one to believe anonymous is a 12-year old script-kiddie.
Well that's breaking encryption in general. That takes down much more than just the app store.
Assuming Apple's algorithms are implemented properly, which is never a guarantee. Look at Sony.
The app in question has already been pulled from the App Store. And I'm quite sure the flaw that allows executing code via some hole in Safari will be fixed very soon. iOS 5 supports delta updates now, so Apple can (and will) come with small updates much more often than in the past.
Unless he's figured out how to sign apps such that the OS thinks they are from Apple, and aren't. Then Apple would have to revamp their code signing system.
Actually they do take Amex, but there you are paying the card fee instead of Costco...
Actually, you can get a free Amex as a Costco member that pays you back 1% of your purchases each year.
Your business would be ruined if you declare bankruptcy.. however your education can not be taken away.
I think they were noting that a greedy contractor can take your money, ruin your house and then "pay" himself from the company's assets. He then has the company declare bankruptcy and repeats. There really isn't much to stop this sort of behavior and it happens all the time.