Dark fibre is just a technical term, not a pejorative one. When a provider sell dark fiber to a customer, it means that the customer must provide its own opto-electronice equipement to "lit" the fiber; basically the provider only sell you a strand of glass fiber. It's got nothing to do with the fiber being used or not.
It is impossible to run realtime application over Freenet, because Freenet is just not designed for this kind of things. The design of Freenet is similar to the News system, where post are passed around for a while before getting to their destination.
Mail might be a good application to run over Freenet: simple and fast enough. I don't know how they handle the fact that Freenet is an unreliable network by design (basically the documents you insert into Freenet are not supposed to stay forever), but EOF seems like a neat project.
Like if anyone was still doing independant research. If you think of the researcher's world as an utopic perfect world dedicated to Science and ruled by Truth, you're deeply mistaken. Researchers are human, therefore...
So long as they aren't releasing false results to boost the price of the stock (happens from time to time), that's fine with me.
>8) Allows direct memory manipulation
>9) Disallows bad things like pointer manipulation
Direct memory manipulation without pointers? Want do you mean? Manual garbage collecting?
>10) Is assembly language
Duhh ? Why ? I know how a computer works, down to the CPU level, but I can see at all how such low level knowledge it could help me how to program in today's world (Ok IO from RAM is faster than IO from disk)
Seems to me like Java fulfills all your needs (well ok it isn't technically compiled), even if others could too (I'm thinking Python here).
Remember that most software development is bespoke (i.e. it will never get out of the company that wrote, for whatever reason).
And I can tell you that whenever number crunching is not required, Java takes over. Java on the server is really gone rule the business world for the next 10 years (unless.NET...), thanks to Enterprise Java Beans and XML.
As a learning language, I would say that Java being easier to learn, it's easier to teach OO concepts with Java because you don't have to make sense of this huge thing call C++ first.
What if Microsoft insert something in there license like:"It's illegal to use GPL programs with Windows". I can't really see how the could enforce that on the consumer side, but on the business side (servers...) it would be pretty easy. Kind of a "All or nothing" proposition...
Looking at this slashback, I can avoid to think that it makes many *mistakes* in a row... Add this to the fact that some "hot" stories are available on other sites for a few days...
Concerning the AOL vs GPL story, there is a post in the discussion from a developer of Midori Linux stating that AOL is perfectly compliant with the GPL, just open the About box...
Maybe it's time to create a QA departement, don't you think;-)
I remember playing with DuneII and had a lot of fun. It was the first RTS, and it really gets me. (Boy it fit on 2 disks!)
I red the whole Dune saga (plus the sequels by Herbert's which are entertaining but really not as good as the original) and I too think that this is a really good series, far above your common SF saga like [put your own reference here]. I'm quite sure that this saga will stick and that my grand-children will be able to go to the first [insert whatever remplaced the bookstore in 2100 here] and get it.
Concerning the game, there is almost no relation between the saga and the game, apart from the name of the "races" and the general theme, but the game was really pretty good. I hope that this new Dune game will be as good as DuneII was in is time.
In order to optimitize the weight that you can launch with a given rocket, you had to be as close as possible of the equator. Being close to the ocean is a good idea too, just in case your rocket crashes. That's why:
*Americans launch rockets from Florida.
*Europeans lauch rockets from French Guyana (almost on the equator).
*Russians rockets are big, because Baikonour is far away from the Equator.
*SeaLaunch (launching a russian rocket from a platform rig on the Equator) can launch very big satellites.
*This Australian project doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
As a rule, try to avoid anything with 'Administrator' in it: System Administrator, Database Administrator and the like. It might be interesting and well paid, but there's usually no way up. First your employer need YOU, always ready, so promoting you is hard, because you're so useful. Second, there is few places when there is more than a dozen admins, so a managerial position is hard to get.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy tinkering with computers, tuning them and making them run smoothly for everyone. Heck, part of my duties at my last job was to administer the NT network.
But I still think that this is a bad career move.
Try to go into consulting, and apply your administration skills to the actual conception of systems and networks.
Nope. This is a new drive. We get some engineering samples and the case looks like a spider web with a huge number of small holes, because it seems to be running hot a bit. A mod builder' dream.
I worked for a company involved in the DVD business and I've got some hot news: Panasonic will soon release a new DVD/DVD-R/DVD-RAM IDE combo drive, for.... $200! Obviously medias are still expansive and not large enough for a complete DVD, but still.
I don't have a release date yet, because it seems that the Panasonic executives are uncertain: releasing a drive so useful at such a cheap price would cut the market for their own present drives, much more expansive. Plus they'd like to stay friends with their Hollywood buddies.
>1st, France does very well in today's electronics,
Well, kind of... In really precise niche markets like electronic components.
When french companies will pay their engineers more than $30,000 a year (no kidding), maybe...
>2nd, it's not the French government who decides where FTT will invest its money, so THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT.
FT used to be totally under control: FT was directed by the French Government. Now, it's different: theorically they are a private company, but the state owns more than 50% of it, the CEO is designated by the French Government and strategic decisions are always *discussed*... FT is a huge cash cow for the state.
But $7 million is NOTHING for FT, so I guess it's just a move from a senior manager.
This is the most amazing news of the year. France Telecom (FT) is a huge piece of dumb crap. I can't see theses people investing money in anything not being extremely profitable.
Some background: FT is the historic telcos in France. It was a monopoly until 2 years, and there are going very well, thank you (much like the Baby Bells vs the others in the US). And it also seems that they will be the only DSL provider around next year.
I'd like to remind everyone that local phone is still $1/5 min in France. Yeh that's a complete ripoff and that why France is lagging behind the US in terms of Internet Access. Yes they invented the Minitel in the 80s (a dumb terminal) and it was kind of nice and cutting-edge, but right now it's a huge brake to the development of e-commerce in France. The Minitel has a really nice business model: pay as you go, anywhere between $1/10 minutes (public services) and $1/1 minute (professional services and porn). So it's a huge cash cow for everyone involved.
I would like to see Jabber take over the world, but I'm quite sure that FT got a really precise idea about how to make this thing profitable, and it might not be compatible with the open-source philosophy of Jabber. Or maybe they don't have a clue and are buying stuff, well, because the investment fund is not empty yet.
By the way, FT is known to spend the money they collect from there bounded customer in stupid and politically oriented investments...
So wait and see.
I can tell you about the situation in Europe. Most countries (France, England, Germany, Spain...) use a star-shape network, centered on the capital. If at some point one edge is broken, well, too bad. So there is NO REDUNDANCY AT ALL. It's not like in the US where there is several way to get somewhere. In Europe there is usually only one way. So everyone host their server in the capital (or better: somewhere in New York)
Ok let's go:
Programs always use english for the structure (for, if, while and so on). Some academic folks are trying to "translate" a programming langage into their own langage, but, well, nobody uses that.
For other constructs like variables names and commentaries, it depends of the programmer/company. I'm french and usually I use english, because this way I'm pretty sure that everyone can read and understand what I'm doing.
Finally there is this nice features called Locales, present in most programming languages like C, Java and others. It allows you to use an object, and this object will use the user specified locale: write once, display dates, times, even boolean names in English, French, Finnish, you name. So yes compilers (at least the big ones) are designed to handle multiple languages.
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Dark fibre is just a technical term, not a pejorative one. When a provider sell dark fiber to a customer, it means that the customer must provide its own opto-electronice equipement to "lit" the fiber; basically the provider only sell you a strand of glass fiber. It's got nothing to do with the fiber being used or not.
The only applications that will really use the kind of power (oh yeah and Windows XXXP too).
It is impossible to run realtime application over Freenet, because Freenet is just not designed for this kind of things. The design of Freenet is similar to the News system, where post are passed around for a while before getting to their destination.
Mail might be a good application to run over Freenet: simple and fast enough. I don't know how they handle the fact that Freenet is an unreliable network by design (basically the documents you insert into Freenet are not supposed to stay forever), but EOF seems like a neat project.
Like if anyone was still doing independant research. If you think of the researcher's world as an utopic perfect world dedicated to Science and ruled by Truth, you're deeply mistaken. Researchers are human, therefore...
So long as they aren't releasing false results to boost the price of the stock (happens from time to time), that's fine with me.
How much do you bet that it will be based on an existing package?
>8) Allows direct memory manipulation
>9) Disallows bad things like pointer manipulation
Direct memory manipulation without pointers? Want do you mean? Manual garbage collecting?
>10) Is assembly language
Duhh ? Why ? I know how a computer works, down to the CPU level, but I can see at all how such low level knowledge it could help me how to program in today's world (Ok IO from RAM is faster than IO from disk)
Seems to me like Java fulfills all your needs (well ok it isn't technically compiled), even if others could too (I'm thinking Python here).
Free as in Free beer... http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/
This is a real book, not a 15 page tutorial.
Remember that most software development is bespoke (i.e. it will never get out of the company that wrote, for whatever reason).
.NET...), thanks to Enterprise Java Beans and XML.
And I can tell you that whenever number crunching is not required, Java takes over. Java on the server is really gone rule the business world for the next 10 years (unless
As a learning language, I would say that Java being easier to learn, it's easier to teach OO concepts with Java because you don't have to make sense of this huge thing call C++ first.
Check out theses nice ICANN cartoons:
http://www.paradigm.nu/icann/
What if Microsoft insert something in there license like :"It's illegal to use GPL programs with Windows". I can't really see how the could enforce that on the consumer side, but on the business side (servers...) it would be pretty easy. Kind of a "All or nothing" proposition...
The AOL vs GPL post is right here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/05/22/15342 47&cid=78
Looking at this slashback, I can avoid to think that it makes many *mistakes* in a row... Add this to the fact that some "hot" stories are available on other sites for a few days... Concerning the AOL vs GPL story, there is a post in the discussion from a developer of Midori Linux stating that AOL is perfectly compliant with the GPL, just open the About box... Maybe it's time to create a QA departement, don't you think ;-)
I remember playing with DuneII and had a lot of fun. It was the first RTS, and it really gets me. (Boy it fit on 2 disks!)
I red the whole Dune saga (plus the sequels by Herbert's which are entertaining but really not as good as the original) and I too think that this is a really good series, far above your common SF saga like [put your own reference here]. I'm quite sure that this saga will stick and that my grand-children will be able to go to the first [insert whatever remplaced the bookstore in 2100 here] and get it.
Concerning the game, there is almost no relation between the saga and the game, apart from the name of the "races" and the general theme, but the game was really pretty good. I hope that this new Dune game will be as good as DuneII was in is time.
In order to optimitize the weight that you can launch with a given rocket, you had to be as close as possible of the equator. Being close to the ocean is a good idea too, just in case your rocket crashes. That's why:
*Americans launch rockets from Florida.
*Europeans lauch rockets from French Guyana (almost on the equator).
*Russians rockets are big, because Baikonour is far away from the Equator.
*SeaLaunch (launching a russian rocket from a platform rig on the Equator) can launch very big satellites.
*This Australian project doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
As a rule, try to avoid anything with 'Administrator' in it: System Administrator, Database Administrator and the like. It might be interesting and well paid, but there's usually no way up. First your employer need YOU, always ready, so promoting you is hard, because you're so useful. Second, there is few places when there is more than a dozen admins, so a managerial position is hard to get.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy tinkering with computers, tuning them and making them run smoothly for everyone. Heck, part of my duties at my last job was to administer the NT network.
But I still think that this is a bad career move.
Try to go into consulting, and apply your administration skills to the actual conception of systems and networks.
Nope. This is a new drive. We get some engineering samples and the case looks like a spider web with a huge number of small holes, because it seems to be running hot a bit. A mod builder' dream.
I worked for a company involved in the DVD business and I've got some hot news: Panasonic will soon release a new DVD/DVD-R/DVD-RAM IDE combo drive, for .... $200! Obviously medias are still expansive and not large enough for a complete DVD, but still.
I don't have a release date yet, because it seems that the Panasonic executives are uncertain: releasing a drive so useful at such a cheap price would cut the market for their own present drives, much more expansive. Plus they'd like to stay friends with their Hollywood buddies.
Now all I need is an old unused CD player. Geezh, were can I order one ?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/18950.html
Anyway I can resume the article by: "Crooks meet phreakers in Vegas and become life-long friends. Sprint denies."
>1st, France does very well in today's electronics,
Well, kind of... In really precise niche markets like electronic components.
When french companies will pay their engineers more than $30,000 a year (no kidding), maybe...
>2nd, it's not the French government who decides where FTT will invest its money, so THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT.
FT used to be totally under control: FT was directed by the French Government. Now, it's different: theorically they are a private company, but the state owns more than 50% of it, the CEO is designated by the French Government and strategic decisions are always *discussed*... FT is a huge cash cow for the state.
But $7 million is NOTHING for FT, so I guess it's just a move from a senior manager.
This is the most amazing news of the year. France Telecom (FT) is a huge piece of dumb crap. I can't see theses people investing money in anything not being extremely profitable. Some background: FT is the historic telcos in France. It was a monopoly until 2 years, and there are going very well, thank you (much like the Baby Bells vs the others in the US). And it also seems that they will be the only DSL provider around next year. I'd like to remind everyone that local phone is still $1/5 min in France. Yeh that's a complete ripoff and that why France is lagging behind the US in terms of Internet Access. Yes they invented the Minitel in the 80s (a dumb terminal) and it was kind of nice and cutting-edge, but right now it's a huge brake to the development of e-commerce in France. The Minitel has a really nice business model: pay as you go, anywhere between $1/10 minutes (public services) and $1/1 minute (professional services and porn). So it's a huge cash cow for everyone involved. I would like to see Jabber take over the world, but I'm quite sure that FT got a really precise idea about how to make this thing profitable, and it might not be compatible with the open-source philosophy of Jabber. Or maybe they don't have a clue and are buying stuff, well, because the investment fund is not empty yet. By the way, FT is known to spend the money they collect from there bounded customer in stupid and politically oriented investments... So wait and see.
I can tell you about the situation in Europe. Most countries (France, England, Germany, Spain...) use a star-shape network, centered on the capital. If at some point one edge is broken, well, too bad. So there is NO REDUNDANCY AT ALL. It's not like in the US where there is several way to get somewhere. In Europe there is usually only one way. So everyone host their server in the capital (or better: somewhere in New York)
Ok let's go: Programs always use english for the structure (for, if, while and so on). Some academic folks are trying to "translate" a programming langage into their own langage, but, well, nobody uses that. For other constructs like variables names and commentaries, it depends of the programmer/company. I'm french and usually I use english, because this way I'm pretty sure that everyone can read and understand what I'm doing. Finally there is this nice features called Locales, present in most programming languages like C, Java and others. It allows you to use an object, and this object will use the user specified locale: write once, display dates, times, even boolean names in English, French, Finnish, you name. So yes compilers (at least the big ones) are designed to handle multiple languages.