Holy crap - I just realized how old I am. I had no idea that there might not be people who know what a PDP-11 was/is. (There are people still running them somewhere I am sure.) I just took it for granted that everyone would know. Oh well. Time moves on
Mainframes are usually more robust, have a more developed architectures and in general are designed around a more stringent set of standards. Most mainframes have 24/7 use in mind. A friend of mine at NORAD talked about a PDP-11 with a 6 year uptime. Granted a PDP isn't a mainframe but those machines are architected with longevity in mind
Mad Mad House costs like a $41.50 per episode to make. Farscape was 1.2 Million - that's why it was cancelled. Over a million bucks an episode for 800,000 viewers (That's how many typically watched a show.) The economics are what cancelled Farscape, nothing else.
1. 900 Million of the award was to resolve patent issues. That's a pretty huge number (in fact it's the highest patent violation settlement I have ever seen.
2."Sun and Microsoft have agreed to pay royalties for use of each other's technology, with Microsoft making an up-front payment of $350 million and Sun making payments when this technology is incorporated into its server products." So MS and Sun have a cross licensing aggreement and SUN will pay them when the technology is incorporated.
The total award is actually 1.6 Billion. The 350 Million mentioned in the article is the first upfront payment. The cross licensing of patents is the important feature of the settlement. The collaboration is less newsworthy as it was mandated by the settlement with the DOJ.
Cause it's true, they are launching a mail service. The April Fools joke from Google is about a job on their new moon base. Here's Google's April Fools Joke
I was really excited until I read that. That release reads like a joke. In fact I know what it is, they are increasing the internal email storage hence the 1,000 beta test users - ALL the Google employees!
Well if it's an April Fools Joke - It's not very funny at all. Usually there is some humor involved. The NYT article doesn't mention 1 GB (News.com does) however NYT states,"...Google, by contrast, is planning a service to be supported by advertising that will permit its users to store very large amounts of mail at no cost." which leads me to believe the 1 GB limit.
Ok then - Don't use the service. How can your privacy be invaded if you don't use the service? It's not as those the Google MediaBot is reading your email. It's simply trying to present contextually relevant ads. Afraid of Google controlling you mind? Don't use the service. Jesus why bitch about a quantum leap in web based email because your "privacy is being invaded." All free email services invade your privacy.
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He also made a ton of money selling his previous company (he cashed out to the tune of several hundred million). So his current company is small because he is in start up mode again.
This is a newsworthy story as the this guy is going to be one of the first to use ISS to test crystal growth (which should have a clear advantage in a ISS's microgravity setting), his company's infrared cameras. It really is a business expense for him. As opposed to the first space tourists which were just that tourists. He's testing ISS as the prototype for a space based manufacturing facility.
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Exactly what presentation problem are you trying to solve? Make it look prettier? The UI is pretty solid. Just wanting to change the presentation layer without understanding what you are trying to achieve for the user is silly.
I had a friend who was being sued by PanIP. His online discount perfume store was nearly forced out of business over these dubious patents. What kills me is that the prior art for selling on the web was out there. Hot Hot Hot launched in 1994 doing most everything covered by that group of patents. Good Riddance.
Trust me. The PR firm wrote the quotes and then was going to run it by the executive. It's done ALL The Time. It saves time and allows your marketing partner to stay on message. I have had quotes presented to my by Netledger for a story appearing in the Wall Street Journal. I looked at the quotes and said, "Fine run with it." to the PR person. Netledger is an Oracle company.
Actually it's a pretty common practice to write place holder quotes (ie quotes they write for you) for the executive and then ask if it's ok to use them. I have done so for Netledger and MyGeek. Most executives don't have time to think of something nice to say about the vendor. In joint marketing efforts this is the norm, usually it also passes through your PR department as well.
Well there goes that use of XP. Given that most legacy applications are poorly documented, it makes sense that you would have a difficult time of it. So really the only important part of XP is acceptance tests.
Our former CTO was in love with XP. Why? Because it freed him from responsibility from things like designing with scalability in mind. XP works best in an institional setting where individuals are duplicating (or refactoring) an existing application or single purpose applications (say in a Fortune 1000 company). I would never use it for a new software product.
We retained a couple aspects of XP (namely unit tests) but chucked many aspects of the methodology. Velocity was one of those concepts used by our CTO to explain why he didn't have to work more than 4 hours per day. Our board of directors got pretty tired of that after a while.
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Ringworld a rip-off of Halo? LOLS! Dude Ringworld was first published in 1977, making it older than Microsoft and the XBoX by a number of years
Holy crap - I just realized how old I am. I had no idea that there might not be people who know what a PDP-11 was/is. (There are people still running them somewhere I am sure.) I just took it for granted that everyone would know. Oh well. Time moves on
That wasn't classified data when he told me about it 3 years ago.
Mainframes are usually more robust, have a more developed architectures and in general are designed around a more stringent set of standards. Most mainframes have 24/7 use in mind. A friend of mine at NORAD talked about a PDP-11 with a 6 year uptime. Granted a PDP isn't a mainframe but those machines are architected with longevity in mind
Mad Mad House costs like a $41.50 per episode to make. Farscape was 1.2 Million - that's why it was cancelled. Over a million bucks an episode for 800,000 viewers (That's how many typically watched a show.) The economics are what cancelled Farscape, nothing else.
Lindows? That's a trademark dispute and one that favors Lindows. MS should have never been awarded Windows as a trademark.
Several things stand out.
1. 900 Million of the award was to resolve patent issues. That's a pretty huge number (in fact it's the highest patent violation settlement I have ever seen.
2."Sun and Microsoft have agreed to pay royalties for use of each other's technology, with Microsoft making an up-front payment of $350 million and Sun making payments when this technology is incorporated into its server products." So MS and Sun have a cross licensing aggreement and SUN will pay them when the technology is incorporated.
The total award is actually 1.6 Billion. The 350 Million mentioned in the article is the first upfront payment. The cross licensing of patents is the important feature of the settlement. The collaboration is less newsworthy as it was mandated by the settlement with the DOJ.
Cause it's true, they are launching a mail service. The April Fools joke from Google is about a job on their new moon base. Here's Google's April Fools Joke
Sorry - It's real. They just put a real TOS and a real FAQ. WOW! That's cool
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I was really excited until I read that. That release reads like a joke. In fact I know what it is, they are increasing the internal email storage hence the 1,000 beta test users - ALL the Google employees!
Well if it's an April Fools Joke - It's not very funny at all. Usually there is some humor involved. The NYT article doesn't mention 1 GB (News.com does) however NYT states," ...Google, by contrast, is planning a service to be supported by advertising that will permit its users to store very large amounts of mail at no cost." which leads me to believe the 1 GB limit.
That's the previous owner. Google bought this domain, they didn't register it.
They bought the domain. I know the previous registrant.
Ok then - Don't use the service. How can your privacy be invaded if you don't use the service? It's not as those the Google MediaBot is reading your email. It's simply trying to present contextually relevant ads. Afraid of Google controlling you mind? Don't use the service. Jesus why bitch about a quantum leap in web based email because your "privacy is being invaded." All free email services invade your privacy.
It's owned by Google alright!
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He also made a ton of money selling his previous company (he cashed out to the tune of several hundred million). So his current company is small because he is in start up mode again.
This is a newsworthy story as the this guy is going to be one of the first to use ISS to test crystal growth (which should have a clear advantage in a ISS's microgravity setting), his company's infrared cameras. It really is a business expense for him. As opposed to the first space tourists which were just that tourists. He's testing ISS as the prototype for a space based manufacturing facility.
Exactly what presentation problem are you trying to solve? Make it look prettier? The UI is pretty solid. Just wanting to change the presentation layer without understanding what you are trying to achieve for the user is silly.
I had a friend who was being sued by PanIP. His online discount perfume store was nearly forced out of business over these dubious patents. What kills me is that the prior art for selling on the web was out there. Hot Hot Hot launched in 1994 doing most everything covered by that group of patents. Good Riddance.
Trust me. The PR firm wrote the quotes and then was going to run it by the executive. It's done ALL The Time. It saves time and allows your marketing partner to stay on message. I have had quotes presented to my by Netledger for a story appearing in the Wall Street Journal. I looked at the quotes and said, "Fine run with it." to the PR person. Netledger is an Oracle company.
Actually it's a pretty common practice to write place holder quotes (ie quotes they write for you) for the executive and then ask if it's ok to use them. I have done so for Netledger and MyGeek. Most executives don't have time to think of something nice to say about the vendor. In joint marketing efforts this is the norm, usually it also passes through your PR department as well.
Good point. Especially if it's running on that server, it doesn't appear to industrial strength.
A pre alpha release really isn't newsworthy. Is this some one's pet project? I wasn't aware Python was broken.
Well there goes that use of XP. Given that most legacy applications are poorly documented, it makes sense that you would have a difficult time of it. So really the only important part of XP is acceptance tests.
Our former CTO was in love with XP. Why? Because it freed him from responsibility from things like designing with scalability in mind. XP works best in an institional setting where individuals are duplicating (or refactoring) an existing application or single purpose applications (say in a Fortune 1000 company). I would never use it for a new software product.
We retained a couple aspects of XP (namely unit tests) but chucked many aspects of the methodology. Velocity was one of those concepts used by our CTO to explain why he didn't have to work more than 4 hours per day. Our board of directors got pretty tired of that after a while.
He no longer works here.