This is unfortunately just wishful thinking, as others have pointed out.
1) The development tool chain simply isn't there for non-x86 developments such as ARM, unless you pay for it.
2) The deployment problems are crippling because all apps have to be targeted. And not just ARM vs. x86, but often ARM 9 vs ARM 7, PIII vs. AMD vs. VIA etc.
PDA users simply can't and won't build apps for themselves. The Linux model breaks down, resulting in a gift to MS because vendors are trying to avoid using Java, the only viable VM currently available.
The depressing thing is that books such as this encourage the myth that Linux is a viable cross-platform solution. Well, it's just about viable now, but woefully inadequate compared to where Dotnet will be next year. Either embedded Linux needs to start embracing Java, or the 101 different alternate VM efforts (Parrot, TCL, Mono, DotGNU...) need to start consolidating.
Tedious, emotional, nationalistic and irrelevant as this rant is, as some goddamned fool has decided that it counts as insight, I might as well trawl through the drivel:
1. The fact that the USA has withdrawn from so many international activities (climate change, international criminal court, land mines) has resulted in it being subject to criticism. I'm glad that the poster regards this as placing the USA in a morally inferior position, but that is entirely his interpretation. To suggest that these initiatives were deliberately developed to embarrass the USA is completely delusional.
Quoting random statistics about Europe internal difficulties, whether real (anti-immigration policies) or imagined (crime rates vs. the USA) have no bearing on the case for action on climate change. One might as well decide to ignore Nelson Mandela given the crime rate in South Africa.
2. Europe will continue to make a number of changes in its economy to keep to the protocol. Whether you view this as changing or not changing its behaviour is irrelevant.
3. Your confident assurance that "Brussells" bureaucrats are not democratically elected will come as something of a surprise to the European Parliament responsible enforcing the Kyoto protocol. Or is democracy outside the US of A not democracy by definition?
4. I'm at a loss as to how to respond to this bit of incoherent blather. It appears to be a recitation of the first point, with a dig at evil US environmentalists thrown in for good measure. Presumably they are also making 'meaningless gestures to enhance their moral standing over the US'?
I'm sure the US is, and always has been, a model society. However, I'm not sure whether a black person would have preferred to have been a slave in the USA or in a British colony.
Don't try and compare the America of today with that of 1941. You weren't there, and nationalists who thought like you were all in favour of staying out of the conflict.
The USA of Roosevelt and Stimson was one that saw the importance of establishing international law. The United Nations was a American idea (Churchill and Stalin didn't care much about it), one intended to replace the principle of 'might is right' with proper justice. As were the Nuremberg trials. The America of Bush and Cheney shares virtually none of these principles and can claim no inheritance or credit for them.
ROFL! An American classic in three paragraphs - delusional, self-aggrandizing, nationalistic, patronizing, aggressive and profoundly ignorant. Where do these guys hide when I'm visiting the States? I suggest you take your assault weapons and head for your bunker in the hills right now - you clearly feel more comfortable waiting for the apocalypse than planning a sustainable future. Good luck!
Are you for real? I love the bit about the road deaths, and the vision of oppressive governments forcing people into tiny cars.
I'm glad to say that there's currently a long US waiting list for the BMW Mini, which is a truly fun car to drive (hint: it doesn't roll over when you go around corners).
To return to matters vaguely relevant to Kyoto, the nihilist "it's hopeless so why bother" argument IS dealt with by the treaty - Kyoto is part of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, not a single set of regulations but a mechanism to establish fair rules as required. The hard part is establishing the level playing field, not playing the game.
The USA is the world's biggest polluter, both in total and, by a huge margin, per capita - it has a responsibility to lead. Do you really think that the US, Europe and Japan would be unable to bring remaining countries into line when necessary?
Yes, XML is overcomplicated and underpowered, but don't blame academia.
I'd argue that it's the unscientific nature of XML standards development, in particular the remarkable failure to learn from prior art such as LISP and database theory, that is responsible for this current mess.
I've never worked in an academic institution, but I know that I'd be scouring the research papers for ideas if I was responsible for an XML-related activity. Academics are quite good at synthesising ideas because they have time to look around. Pragmatics like us will just grab the first thing that works because normally it doesn't matter that much, and only in the worst case will some model be stretched completely beyond its appropriate domain. Unfortunately, this is just what's happened with XML.
IBM must have a particular interest in making Linux apps easily deployable across different hardware platforms (x86, PPC, S/390 etc.) But for many Linux users, downloading an x86 binary is much easier than building the app from scratch.
DotNET will add a major cross-platform capability to Windows apps - there is a risk that this could leave Linux high and dry.
Is there a specific IBM strategy addressing this problem, e.g.
Ensure C/C++ builds are available for each platform
Use IBM Java
See if Mono or DotGNU take off and adopt one of them
Joseph Swan's lamp (carbon filament) was demonstrated in February 1879, Edison's in October.
Yhere was a pretty free market in electronic ideas at that time (see also the thermionic valve/tube) so drawing conclusions about the critical nature of a particular individual or team regarding these innovations is problematic, despite what the textbooks would have us believe.
You guys aren't too shabby at a bit of 'propoganda' yourselves.
Far from freeing itself from oppressive monopolies, the framers of the US constitution used the British copyright law as a model. The controlled press to which you make rather hysterical reference in fact lapsed in 1694. It was replaced by the Statute of Anne in 1709, intended to free the press while protecting the rights of authors.
Attempts were made by copyright holders to increase their power, including extending the term from the then 14 year period to permanence, but these were struck down by Parliament in 1774. These issues were therefore much in the mind of the framers, and, as with the Bill of Rights, they made free use of the example set.
Perhaps the UK should have copyrighted the civil law book?
In 15 yrs of corporate computing I've been schmoozed by a lot of fun companies with the notable exception of MS... though they did help organize a couple of trips to Redmond for 'Executive Briefing' and souvenirs from the MS company store.
With other outfits, I've been to Spain, motor racing, yachting (3 times), top restaurants the world over.... this was before the downturn, of course, though I would still definitely factor this into considerations of J2EE vs Dotnet etc.
Because you paid the producer for his product maybe? The BBC and, ISTR A&E and other services provide an uncontaminated feed. I'm sure you value your time - why waste it watching adverts you pay for indirectly anyway?
Do you? Very good. Laughter is a frequently underestimated constituent of a balanced program of therapy. And indeed why should the context of a posting constrain what one wants to say? I look forward to the same message appearing in forthcoming KDE vs. GNOME and Burgundy vs. Zinfandel discussions. Oh, and don't forget to remind any German OpenOffice contributor about their dark Nazi past, they'll really appreciate hearing historical insights direct from someone who has a broad collection of armored vehicle pics. We now conclude this review of all-purpose knee-jerk posts and return to the scheduled program...
As an aside, I just helped organize a little local debate last Thursday on the proposition "American is a Rogue State". This was in Richmond-upon-Thames (west London) which boasts an American University among other institutions.
Rather than have a bunch of aging British lefties whinge about US imperialism, we thought we'd invite some students down from the college and get a more balanced opinion. You can guess the outcome - we couldn't get anyone to present the pro-US case at all, and the students were considerably more critical of US policy than our resident revolutionaries.
Point is that, the war on terror not withstanding, if the US cannot carry mainstream opinion in allied countries for its general foreign policy direction, the effect will be cataclysmic for its interests and the wider world's. No Blair or Berlusconi will be able to hold a line of international support for the US while the US is not seen as supporting international interests.
The Orwellian scenario that this echos is one where the enemy does change but the war-footing does not, justice and liberty remaining permanently out of reach.
"Effect" is a noun too, meaning to make happen. However, my guess is that half of all verb uses are errors. The problem is that "to affect" does mean, roughly, "to have some effect". Nasty. Though I bet non-native English speakers rarely make this mistake since they aren't so distracted by the similar sound.
It sounds like you're rather easily pleased. Perhaps you don't have to make the decisions about which members of staff to cut when the budget runs out?
Most 'peeps' here are perfectly capable of imagining life without the problem of where, when and how to buy their computer programs - they have discovered Linux and/or OpenOffice.
You're right about technical awareness, but way out of line on corruption. A true cynic would say they're so clueless they don't even have the wit to enrich themselves, anyway most of our politicians are of relatively modest means and likely to stay that way. This gives some grounds for hope.
The real problem is that they haven't grasped the fundamentals of information ownership and management, relying instead on MS and its acolytes to tell them what policy should be because "government should learn from business". After all, they are successful and organizations like the CCTA (if they still exist) which are capable of giving an unbiased view have been marginalized.
SuSE is good at sorting your drivers out for you, and 8.0 has just come out with bleeding-edge goodies like KDE 3. I've got a bundle of odd bits of hardware and it makes a good stab at supporting everything known to Linux-land. It used to be better than RH from this point of view, but I don't know if that's still true with RH 7.3.
It also sorts out your partitions very conveniently, so overall there's a good chance you will be up and running quickly.
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This is unfortunately just wishful thinking, as others have pointed out.
1) The development tool chain simply isn't there for non-x86 developments such as ARM, unless you pay for it.
2) The deployment problems are crippling because all apps have to be targeted. And not just ARM vs. x86, but often ARM 9 vs ARM 7, PIII vs. AMD vs. VIA etc.
PDA users simply can't and won't build apps for themselves. The Linux model breaks down, resulting in a gift to MS because vendors are trying to avoid using Java, the only viable VM currently available.
The depressing thing is that books such as this encourage the myth that Linux is a viable cross-platform solution. Well, it's just about viable now, but woefully inadequate compared to where Dotnet will be next year. Either embedded Linux needs to start embracing Java, or the 101 different alternate VM efforts (Parrot, TCL, Mono, DotGNU...) need to start consolidating.
Tedious, emotional, nationalistic and irrelevant as this rant is, as some goddamned fool has decided that it counts as insight, I might as well trawl through the drivel:
1. The fact that the USA has withdrawn from so many international activities (climate change, international criminal court, land mines) has resulted in it being subject to criticism. I'm glad that the poster regards this as placing the USA in a morally inferior position, but that is entirely his interpretation. To suggest that these initiatives were deliberately developed to embarrass the USA is completely delusional.
Quoting random statistics about Europe internal difficulties, whether real (anti-immigration policies) or imagined (crime rates vs. the USA) have no bearing on the case for action on climate change. One might as well decide to ignore Nelson Mandela given the crime rate in South Africa.
2. Europe will continue to make a number of changes in its economy to keep to the protocol. Whether you view this as changing or not changing its behaviour is irrelevant.
3. Your confident assurance that "Brussells" bureaucrats are not democratically elected will come as something of a surprise to the European Parliament responsible enforcing the Kyoto protocol. Or is democracy outside the US of A not democracy by definition?
4. I'm at a loss as to how to respond to this bit of incoherent blather. It appears to be a recitation of the first point, with a dig at evil US environmentalists thrown in for good measure. Presumably they are also making 'meaningless gestures to enhance their moral standing over the US'?
I'm sure the US is, and always has been, a model society. However, I'm not sure whether a black person would have preferred to have been a slave in the USA or in a British colony.
Why don't you conduct a poll?
Don't try and compare the America of today with that of 1941. You weren't there, and nationalists who thought like you were all in favour of staying out of the conflict.
The USA of Roosevelt and Stimson was one that saw the importance of establishing international law. The United Nations was a American idea (Churchill and Stalin didn't care much about it), one intended to replace the principle of 'might is right' with proper justice. As were the Nuremberg trials. The America of Bush and Cheney shares virtually none of these principles and can claim no inheritance or credit for them.
ROFL! An American classic in three paragraphs - delusional, self-aggrandizing, nationalistic, patronizing, aggressive and profoundly ignorant. Where do these guys hide when I'm visiting the States? I suggest you take your assault weapons and head for your bunker in the hills right now - you clearly feel more comfortable waiting for the apocalypse than planning a sustainable future. Good luck!
Are you for real? I love the bit about the road deaths, and the vision of oppressive governments forcing people into tiny cars.
I'm glad to say that there's currently a long US waiting list for the BMW Mini, which is a truly fun car to drive (hint: it doesn't roll over when you go around corners).
To return to matters vaguely relevant to Kyoto, the nihilist "it's hopeless so why bother" argument IS dealt with by the treaty - Kyoto is part of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, not a single set of regulations but a mechanism to establish fair rules as required. The hard part is establishing the level playing field, not playing the game.
The USA is the world's biggest polluter, both in total and, by a huge margin, per capita - it has a responsibility to lead. Do you really think that the US, Europe and Japan would be unable to bring remaining countries into line when necessary?
Yes, XML is overcomplicated and underpowered, but don't blame academia.
I'd argue that it's the unscientific nature of XML standards development, in particular the remarkable failure to learn from prior art such as LISP and database theory, that is responsible for this current mess.
I've never worked in an academic institution, but I know that I'd be scouring the research papers for ideas if I was responsible for an XML-related activity. Academics are quite good at synthesising ideas because they have time to look around. Pragmatics like us will just grab the first thing that works because normally it doesn't matter that much, and only in the worst case will some model be stretched completely beyond its appropriate domain. Unfortunately, this is just what's happened with XML.
DotNET will add a major cross-platform capability to Windows apps - there is a risk that this could leave Linux high and dry.
Is there a specific IBM strategy addressing this problem, e.g.
Joseph Swan's lamp (carbon filament) was demonstrated in February 1879, Edison's in October.
Yhere was a pretty free market in electronic ideas at that time (see also the thermionic valve/tube) so drawing conclusions about the critical nature of a particular individual or team regarding these innovations is problematic, despite what the textbooks would have us believe.
There's no point in RMI->DCOM->DCOM->RMI, you might as well do RMI->RMI. However, there are plenty of uses for Java->COM and Java->Dotnet.
You guys aren't too shabby at a bit of 'propoganda' yourselves.
Far from freeing itself from oppressive monopolies, the framers of the US constitution used the British copyright law as a model. The controlled press to which you make rather hysterical reference in fact lapsed in 1694. It was replaced by the Statute of Anne in 1709, intended to free the press while protecting the rights of authors.
Attempts were made by copyright holders to increase their power, including extending the term from the then 14 year period to permanence, but these were struck down by Parliament in 1774. These issues were therefore much in the mind of the framers, and, as with the Bill of Rights, they made free use of the example set.
Perhaps the UK should have copyrighted the civil law book?
Reference: Law Professors Amicus Curiae in DMCA Case
Y'know, there's something in that remark.
In 15 yrs of corporate computing I've been schmoozed by a lot of fun companies with the notable exception of MS... though they did help organize a couple of trips to Redmond for 'Executive Briefing' and souvenirs from the MS company store.
With other outfits, I've been to Spain, motor racing, yachting (3 times), top restaurants the world over.... this was before the downturn, of course, though I would still definitely factor this into considerations of J2EE vs Dotnet etc.
Anybody like to boast of MS freebies received?
Because you paid the producer for his product maybe? The BBC and, ISTR A&E and other services provide an uncontaminated feed. I'm sure you value your time - why waste it watching adverts you pay for indirectly anyway?
Do you? Very good. Laughter is a frequently underestimated constituent of a balanced program of therapy. And indeed why should the context of a posting constrain what one wants to say? I look forward to the same message appearing in forthcoming KDE vs. GNOME and Burgundy vs. Zinfandel discussions. Oh, and don't forget to remind any German OpenOffice contributor about their dark Nazi past, they'll really appreciate hearing historical insights direct from someone who has a broad collection of armored vehicle pics. We now conclude this review of all-purpose knee-jerk posts and return to the scheduled program...
And your evidence for thinking this would be...?
As an aside, I just helped organize a little local debate last Thursday on the proposition "American is a Rogue State". This was in Richmond-upon-Thames (west London) which boasts an American University among other institutions.
Rather than have a bunch of aging British lefties whinge about US imperialism, we thought we'd invite some students down from the college and get a more balanced opinion. You can guess the outcome - we couldn't get anyone to present the pro-US case at all, and the students were considerably more critical of US policy than our resident revolutionaries.
Point is that, the war on terror not withstanding, if the US cannot carry mainstream opinion in allied countries for its general foreign policy direction, the effect will be cataclysmic for its interests and the wider world's. No Blair or Berlusconi will be able to hold a line of international support for the US while the US is not seen as supporting international interests.
I think you are missing something.
The Orwellian scenario that this echos is one where the enemy does change but the war-footing does not, justice and liberty remaining permanently out of reach.
Wow, just think...
All we'd need then is a user interface and maybe a link to a database or two, for those heavy duty Enterprise apps.
Truly the future is being shaped before our eyes.
BTW anyone who says just use Java is a spoilsport.
Nope, they assume that XP Embedded and regular XP are close in functionality.
Next question?
Nonsense.
Nobody is compiled XP Embedded, it's shipped as binaries for the target system.
OEMs are obliged to support Windows Desktop as it is therefore a modular Windows will make precisely zero difference to this relationship.
Any other bits of insight you'd like to share?
"Effect" is a noun too, meaning to make happen.
However, my guess is that half of all verb uses are errors. The problem is that "to affect" does mean, roughly, "to have some effect". Nasty. Though I bet non-native English speakers rarely make this mistake since they aren't so distracted by the similar sound.
It sounds like you're rather easily pleased. Perhaps you don't have to make the decisions about which members of staff to cut when the budget runs out?
Most 'peeps' here are perfectly capable of imagining life without the problem of where, when and how to buy their computer programs - they have discovered Linux and/or OpenOffice.
You're right about technical awareness, but way out of line on corruption. A true cynic would say they're so clueless they don't even have the wit to enrich themselves, anyway most of our politicians are of relatively modest means and likely to stay that way. This gives some grounds for hope.
The real problem is that they haven't grasped the fundamentals of information ownership and management, relying instead on MS and its acolytes to tell them what policy should be because "government should learn from business". After all, they are successful and organizations like the CCTA (if they still exist) which are capable of giving an unbiased view have been marginalized.
SuSE is good at sorting your drivers out for you, and 8.0 has just come out with bleeding-edge goodies like KDE 3. I've got a bundle of odd bits of hardware and it makes a good stab at supporting everything known to Linux-land. It used to be better than RH from this point of view, but I don't know if that's still true with RH 7.3.
It also sorts out your partitions very conveniently, so overall there's a good chance you will be up and running quickly.