Many teachers are computer illiterate. They don't like being shown up by their students who are mostly not computer jocks because they've grown up with them!
That may be true, but it has nothing to do with the story. If you read the article, it was one of those knuckle-dragging teachers who applied for and won the grant to get the new computers. The school may have to turn down the computers because of a school board policy. If you honestly believe that the teachers at this high school are the ones blocking this donation, you are out of your mind.
I still have one question that I haven't seen answered, yet, though.
Exactly how much did Sun have to payM-DelM-DelM-DelM-Deldid they expect to make as independent consultants - the splintering JBoss group?
Heh, +1 Funny. To fill in the blanks for anyone who's still reading this thread, 4of12 is referring to the longstanding feud between Sun Microsystems and the JBoss Group over whether JBoss can claim to be J2EE certified. It does seem clear, however, that JBoss is a problem that Sun would like to see go away. But for the full story, just google for "jboss j2ee certification".
Who? what? when? why? how? If someone could answer those five basic questions about this story, many of us would appreciate it.
I will try.
JBoss is a very popular, open-source application server for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). And although the JBoss software is free, there is a commercial consulting firm, the JBoss Group LLC, which provides support, etc. for JBoss users. The Marc Fleury referred to in the Inquirer article is the founder and CEO of the JBoss Group.
Dain Sundstrom (the "Dain" from the Inquirer article) is one of the core JBoss developers. He was also working as a consultant for the JBoss Group. He and several other consultants for the JBoss Group have jumped ship to start their own consulting firm, providing support for JBoss as well as other enterprise open source Java software.
The story is a big deal to JBoss users for a number of reasons. For one, a lot of commercial companies are use the commercial support provided by the JBoss Group as justification for going with an open source software solution (as opposed to one of the much more expensive commercial application servers). This was a relatively large loss of personnel for the JBoss Group and it thus raises questions about the reliability or stability of commercial JBoss support. Another important question is how this defection will affect these core developers' standing in the JBoss development group. Obviously, it won't be pretty, but will be they be kicked out altogether?
As for the background (the why), I don't have an answer for you. I don't know if grievances have been publically aired leading up to this, and I wouldn't have been paying attention if they had been. So I'm interested to see what details, if any, emerge over the next few days.
Another strategy, that I'll be using myself shortly, is to join the Apple Developer Connection (for about $100) as a student and then use their hardware seeding program, which gives you about 10-20% off your first hardware purchase with them.
Oh, man. Wish I had some mod points for you right now.
I was aware of the ADC program, but didn't realize they had a student membership. After reading your post I starting doing some research on that. Ended up at the ADC Student Hardware Purchase Program page, which further directed me to the U. S. Purchase Program page, and eventually back to a page at the Apple Store where the discounted price for the 15" SuperDrive PowerBook is only $2,079 (versus the $2,599 regular price). This change of circumstances makes it a lot harder for me to wait for whatever it is that Apple's going to announce at the WWDC;)
Since I haven't been following this story, I'll take your word for it that the settlement had to do with the MP3s collection.
But the transcript's contents (which I read a couple of times) do leave it unclear what he was charged with. Bill Hemmer's lead says that "... individuals are paying damages... over accusations of music downloading". So that would point to the stash of MP3s. But when Hemmer later asks Jesse what the RIAA came after him for, Jesse replies "They said I'm guilty of contributory copyright infringement, which would mean that I assist people in downloading copyrighted material and direct infringement". Which points to his search engine.
As the market for the Porsche 911 is filled with short, pudgy, balding men, it seemed only natural that the designers of the 911 also produce a product that caters to the short, pudgy, balding men of the IT market.
Because of design by contract the code is pretty much self documenting.
I got the impression from the review that this book addresses the problem of assembling different forms of end-user documentation from a single source. While I agree that DBC is an excellent tool for documenting the code's internal interfaces and implementation, that's not going to be very useful to the non-programmers in your audience.
... Mandrake Club members get their own set of mirrors, as well as being eligible for extras like the voting process that selected the packages for the 9.1 release.
This reminds me of something I've wondered about in the past; how does Red Hat go about selecting new packages for inclusion in their distribution? I don't mean updated versions of stuff that's already there, but new software that's never been in a previous release. Is there any way for Red Hat users and customers to influence that process?
The last time I spent any time working with Tcl -- about five years ago -- I got frustrated by some of the same problems that it sounds like they're still facing (e.g. no standard methods for defining modules or objects). Based on the interviewees' responses to the "What are you working on now?" question(s), it doesn't sound like these issues are high priority, either (e.g. it sounds like most of Jeff's time at ActiveState is devoted to working on Tcl development tools).
I wonder if anyone setting out on a new software project even considers Tcl as a scripting language anymore, over (say) Ruby or Python. Has Tcl become the new COBOL, in the sense that its only relevance is for maintenance of legacy code?
It does [have the history of the old file] if you add it (or automate adding it with a simple cvs-rename script).
No. If you use cvs rm to remove the file under its old name, and then re-add it under a new name using cvs add, the new file does not include the revision history of the old file. It starts over at revision 1.
That said, they're still a little slower in terms of work done per second than the fastest Intel has, just not nearly as much so as you may think looking at the clock speeds.
First of all, thanks for (almost) answering my question before I had to post it. Knowing next to zero about the latest Macs (but being awfully curious) I'd like to see some hard numbers about how the G3 and G4 processors match up to the latest Pentiums and Athlons. For example, another post in this thread claims that "... a 1 GHz G4 is about the same as a 4 GHz P4 in speed", which I suspect is a little optimistic;)
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JBoss is a very popular, open-source application server for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). And although the JBoss software is free, there is a commercial consulting firm, the JBoss Group LLC, which provides support, etc. for JBoss users. The Marc Fleury referred to in the Inquirer article is the founder and CEO of the JBoss Group.
Dain Sundstrom (the "Dain" from the Inquirer article) is one of the core JBoss developers. He was also working as a consultant for the JBoss Group. He and several other consultants for the JBoss Group have jumped ship to start their own consulting firm, providing support for JBoss as well as other enterprise open source Java software.
The story is a big deal to JBoss users for a number of reasons. For one, a lot of commercial companies are use the commercial support provided by the JBoss Group as justification for going with an open source software solution (as opposed to one of the much more expensive commercial application servers). This was a relatively large loss of personnel for the JBoss Group and it thus raises questions about the reliability or stability of commercial JBoss support. Another important question is how this defection will affect these core developers' standing in the JBoss development group. Obviously, it won't be pretty, but will be they be kicked out altogether?
As for the background (the why), I don't have an answer for you. I don't know if grievances have been publically aired leading up to this, and I wouldn't have been paying attention if they had been. So I'm interested to see what details, if any, emerge over the next few days.
I did notice that after they announced this price drop on PowerBooks that the refurbished ones are no longer listed...
Oh, man. Wish I had some mod points for you right now.
I was aware of the ADC program, but didn't realize they had a student membership. After reading your post I starting doing some research on that. Ended up at the ADC Student Hardware Purchase Program page, which further directed me to the U. S. Purchase Program page, and eventually back to a page at the Apple Store where the discounted price for the 15" SuperDrive PowerBook is only $2,079 (versus the $2,599 regular price). This change of circumstances makes it a lot harder for me to wait for whatever it is that Apple's going to announce at the WWDC
Since I haven't been following this story, I'll take your word for it that the settlement had to do with the MP3s collection.
... over accusations of music downloading". So that would point to the stash of MP3s. But when Hemmer later asks Jesse what the RIAA came after him for, Jesse replies "They said I'm guilty of contributory copyright infringement, which would mean that I assist people in downloading copyrighted material and direct infringement". Which points to his search engine.
But the transcript's contents (which I read a couple of times) do leave it unclear what he was charged with. Bill Hemmer's lead says that "... individuals are paying damages
The last time I spent any time working with Tcl -- about five years ago -- I got frustrated by some of the same problems that it sounds like they're still facing (e.g. no standard methods for defining modules or objects). Based on the interviewees' responses to the "What are you working on now?" question(s), it doesn't sound like these issues are high priority, either (e.g. it sounds like most of Jeff's time at ActiveState is devoted to working on Tcl development tools).
I wonder if anyone setting out on a new software project even considers Tcl as a scripting language anymore, over (say) Ruby or Python. Has Tcl become the new COBOL, in the sense that its only relevance is for maintenance of legacy code?
... is the Java 2 Performance and Idiom Guide (ISBN:0130142603), by Craig Larman and Rhett Guthrie.
No. If you use cvs rm to remove the file under its old name, and then re-add it under a new name using cvs add, the new file does not include the revision history of the old file. It starts over at revision 1.
Link, please?
First of all, thanks for (almost) answering my question before I had to post it. Knowing next to zero about the latest Macs (but being awfully curious) I'd like to see some hard numbers about how the G3 and G4 processors match up to the latest Pentiums and Athlons. For example, another post in this thread claims that "... a 1 GHz G4 is about the same as a 4 GHz P4 in speed", which I suspect is a little optimistic
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