Watch OpenSolaris get pillaged for bits like ZFS and DTrace to GPL and put in Linux and then left in the ditch (though I don't think they'll kill closed-source Solaris).
So what you are saying is that IBM might use this opportunity to make two really major improvements to Linux. Oh how horrible of them.
It's not a good long term solution to this general problem, due to the fact that other software could have dependencies on the 'deprecated' official distro version of firefox.
I'm not saying that anything does actually have dependencies on the official distro version of firefox or that they would rely on the anti-phishing feature but if this was an official package it could happen at some point. Therefore breaking a feature of a distro packaged piece of software and not offering an official distro upgrade RPM could be quite problematic. Maybe the distro should strip the anti-phishing feature if they rely on a 3rd party who might cut it off?
If current trends continue then more and more developers will develop apps to run on a browser instead of directly on the Operating System.
If Apple don't ban a browser like Opera or Chrome, then opera or google could keep adding features to their browsers until any app could be developed to run within the browser thereby bypassing the need to get "permission" to run apps on the phone through the app store.
To ensure they can keep making money from the app store and maintain their agreements with the phone companies apple could always ban the browser later. But if the browser was already very popular people might consider it was unfair or anti-competitive to ban it, therefore it's much easier to ban it up front.
Perhaps the BBC sells the rights to some of their shows to other TV channels and media outlets abroad.
If this is the case I'm not sure these companies would be so keen to pay for the rights to play the content if the BBC was also giving it away free and without any DRM.
If the BBC keeps a 7 day limit on all programs, it's simple for people to remember and it also means they may still be able to license it.
Personally though I hope the media companies end up giving up on DRM.
The amount of money spent on having to give an official response and deal with the PR consequences of the domain lapse would have covered the cost of renewing the domain for another couple of centuries.
People don't expect government websites URLs to lapse every few years and there is not even an industry standard way of updating or notifying all linking sites of the domain change.
A JIT can work out the OS and exact chipset on which it is running and therefore choose to generate different native code optimized specifically for you system.
Even if a static C compiler happens to have been optimized for your exact CPU, cache size and memory a JIT could still collect or access runtime statistics about your application and do optimizations based on this information - this information is not available to a static C compiler.
Perhaps the.NET JIT sucks or always produces code that is slower than compiled C code - I have no idea. But it doesn't take a genius to work out that there are going to be cases where a JIT could produce better optimized code than a static compiler.
I totally agree, we just integrated with paypal uk. My complaints are many. Firstly it isn't 1 system it's actually 3 different systems and depending what you want to do you may need to use multiple systems. Also some systems have multiple APIs, none of this is clearly documented, nor is it clearly documented what Cards do not work with the different systems.
Despite claims that it works with most payment cards, the paypal system we were recommended to use won't accept American Express and will only accept newer Maestro cards if you give them an imaginary start date and pre-convert the currency to GBP (we process in dollars).
It's a total joke.
The support service involves ringing a special business helpline that will only work if you ring from a pre-authorised telphone and pretend to be the person who originally signed up for the service and even then if you press the wrong option the support involves getting read out the contents of an online help page. When you finally do get through to support and you ask them a question, they basically don't even know themselves what will work.
If a large number of people complain that a company is not who it claims to be or a certificate is compromised the CA can potentially blacklist the certificate.
I guess this is a potential advantage of a CA, even though they are generally pretty useless.
Yes, when I saw the feature I was quite impressed because I figured it must introduce quite a lot of programming complexity with little benefit to underlying profits.
I bet they did it to play catch up with netflix and now netflix has realised it's too much hassle to maintain!
I didn't mean to imply that IBM has dropped hardware completely, of course it retains it's interest in high end mainframes where the margins are still big enough.
All that I meant was that it has successfully moved from making most of it's money from hardware to making most of it's money from software/services. And this trend looks to continue into the future.
To quote their CFO: "Software is now the largest provider of I.B.M. profit, and our most stable source of growth,"
It's not always a good idea to stick to your core.
IBM used to sell hardware but as the hardware business turned into a commodity market (driven largely by cheaper IBM compatibles) they shifted into a services/consultancy business and sold off the original hardware side to Lenovo.
Microsoft fears that the operating system market may eventually be turned into a commodity market (even with all the desperate lock-in attempts so it is looking to hedge it's bets by investing in web technologies.
If margins get too tight sometimes you are just better off selling off the original business and moving into something else.
1) I have never dicked around with eclipse xml files. Although it's true a lot of java projects have XML files, such as hibernate when you aren't using annotations or Spring. But then I presume.NET alternatives like nhibernate can use xml files.
2) I have used tomcat and resin with eclipse, the eclipse compiler makes the change without any block compilation step (compiles changes only in the background) in most cases where it is possible this change is hotswapped into the system running in debug mode. The hotswapping in of changes is not flawless (Sun JVM bug/feature). If VisualStudio has flawless background microcompilation and better hotswapping then I'd be surprised - but there is certainly room for improvement in JVM hotswapping.
3) I can't comment on how it compares but I find the Eclipse Team syncronization on CVS very good. This gives a very good diff view, automatic merging of non conflicting changing, good manual merging options. The only weakness is that it depends on CVS, which has advantages for compatibility but has the usual CVS flaws eg, lack of atomic commit and rollback of change sets and the empty directory quirks.
I see your argument about devs spending time dicking around with build scripts, I've always worked on XP teams where the dev environment is effectively set up by the team and cloned to all dev machines. So new users to the team don't set up their own environment they get one pre-installed and it comes with RunAllTests and DeployApp as options on the pulldown menu so unless they want to dick around with the build scripts you don't have to.
Yes in this respect I guess it's a bit like linux versus windows.
Of course just because something is easier to get into doesn't mean it's better - otherwise we would all be hacking togethor VB apps and creating web pages in Microsoft Word.
For prototyping GUIs or making windows desktop apps I'm sure Visual Studio is great but for developing your average commercial web application within a team I'd rather shoot myself through the head than use Visual Studio. (Ok a bit of an exaggeration maybe...)
I have used Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse, and I have to say that until quite recently Visual Studio SUCKED big time compared to Eclipse. Visual studio had poor refactoring tools, lack of micro compilation, sucky debugger, sucky version control support, poor syncronization and merging support for team projects as well the obvious limitation that it only runs on windows.
Now Microsoft has finally starting including refactoring tools and playing catch up with the Java IDEs I hear that it's not so bad.
However, I talk to many developers using both Eclipse and Visual Studio and they all say Visual Studio is still inferior. Which is surprising because the core parts of the Eclipse JDT haven't even improved much in the last year or two.
Basically Microsoft has been playing catch up with Eclipse (and IntelliJ) for quite some time, I am very surprised they don't provide Visual Studio for free, at least for non commercial usage.
Google's doing this to protect users who get to these sites on accident. I guess it's good for everyone.
Surely the entire "Google for domains" service is primarily used by domain squatters and other people that aren't using the domains for anything worthwhile.
How exactly is a profit sharing system between domain Squatters and Google not evil? - Because if they didn't do it then someone else would?
I am waiting with anticipation for the next 'non-evil' use of adwords, maybe GoogleAds for Zombie Computers so that the russian gangsters can make a few quid popping up ads inbetween running DDOS attacks and spamming.
Without wanting to sound sarcastic you might want to test it in IE 6 straight after Firefox. Otherwise, after it breaks and you find a workaround you will need to re-test it on all the other browsers anyway.
Watermarking only works if people believe that the RIAA could prosecute you for distributing a watermarked file.
If everyone knows that the watermarking is flawed or that the evidence would not stand up in court then the RIAA might ditch watermarking and go back to DRM - so why don't we just let it drop, after all it's a hell of an improvement on DRM.
Slashdot Mirror
Watch OpenSolaris get pillaged for bits like ZFS and DTrace to GPL and put in Linux and then left in the ditch (though I don't think they'll kill closed-source Solaris).
So what you are saying is that IBM might use this opportunity to make two really major improvements to Linux. Oh how horrible of them.
They tried Vista but they got pissed off with the alerts.
Windows need your permission to continue.
If you started this action, continue.
Launch Nuclear missiles.
[Continue] [Cancel]
It's not a good long term solution to this general problem, due to the fact that other software could have dependencies on the 'deprecated' official distro version of firefox.
I'm not saying that anything does actually have dependencies on the official distro version of firefox or that they would rely on the anti-phishing feature but if this was an official package it could happen at some point. Therefore breaking a feature of a distro packaged piece of software and not offering an official distro upgrade RPM could be quite problematic. Maybe the distro should strip the anti-phishing feature if they rely on a 3rd party who might cut it off?
A piece of data addressable by a unique key. not unlike a file.
If current trends continue then more and more developers will develop apps to run on a browser instead of directly on the Operating System.
If Apple don't ban a browser like Opera or Chrome, then opera or google could keep adding features to their browsers until any app could be developed to run within the browser thereby bypassing the need to get "permission" to run apps on the phone through the app store.
To ensure they can keep making money from the app store and maintain their agreements with the phone companies apple could always ban the browser later. But if the browser was already very popular people might consider it was unfair or anti-competitive to ban it, therefore it's much easier to ban it up front.
Perhaps the BBC sells the rights to some of their shows to other TV channels and media outlets abroad.
If this is the case I'm not sure these companies would be so keen to pay for the rights to play the content if the BBC was also giving it away free and without any DRM.
If the BBC keeps a 7 day limit on all programs, it's simple for people to remember and it also means they may still be able to license it.
Personally though I hope the media companies end up giving up on DRM.
What a load of rubbish.
The amount of money spent on having to give an official response and deal with the PR consequences of the domain lapse would have covered the cost of renewing the domain for another couple of centuries.
People don't expect government websites URLs to lapse every few years and there is not even an industry standard way of updating or notifying all linking sites of the domain change.
Only problem with this strategy is that the only companies that will employ you are full of numptys that don't know what they are doing.
These places are usually god damn awful places to work.
A JIT can work out the OS and exact chipset on which it is running and therefore choose to generate different native code optimized specifically for you system.
Even if a static C compiler happens to have been optimized for your exact CPU, cache size and memory a JIT could still collect or access runtime statistics about your application and do optimizations based on this information - this information is not available to a static C compiler.
Perhaps the .NET JIT sucks or always produces code that is slower than compiled C code - I have no idea. But it doesn't take a genius to work out that there are going to be cases where a JIT could produce better optimized code than a static compiler.
I totally agree, we just integrated with paypal uk. My complaints are many. Firstly it isn't 1 system it's actually 3 different systems and depending what you want to do you may need to use multiple systems. Also some systems have multiple APIs, none of this is clearly documented, nor is it clearly documented what Cards do not work with the different systems.
Despite claims that it works with most payment cards, the paypal system we were recommended to use won't accept American Express and will only accept newer Maestro cards if you give them an imaginary start date and pre-convert the currency to GBP (we process in dollars).
It's a total joke.
The support service involves ringing a special business helpline that will only work if you ring from a pre-authorised telphone and pretend to be the person who originally signed up for the service and even then if you press the wrong option the support involves getting read out the contents of an online help page.
When you finally do get through to support and you ask them a question, they basically don't even know themselves what will work.
If a large number of people complain that a company is not who it claims to be or a certificate is compromised the CA can potentially blacklist the certificate.
I guess this is a potential advantage of a CA, even though they are generally pretty useless.
Yes, when I saw the feature I was quite impressed because I figured it must introduce quite a lot of programming complexity with little benefit to underlying profits.
I bet they did it to play catch up with netflix and now netflix has realised it's too much hassle to maintain!
The reason Powerpay dropped them wasn't because of the right infringement stuff, or at least that is not what they are claiming.
"Product/services not as represented in application, sales volumes grossly exceeded, (and) no address verification utilized"
So basically this amounts to not filling out the form correctly when signing up and not verifying addresses.
I didn't mean to imply that IBM has dropped hardware completely, of course it retains it's interest in high end mainframes where the margins are still big enough.
All that I meant was that it has successfully moved from making most of it's money from hardware to making most of it's money from software/services. And this trend looks to continue into the future.
To quote their CFO:
"Software is now the largest provider of I.B.M. profit, and our most stable source of growth,"
It's not always a good idea to stick to your core.
IBM used to sell hardware but as the hardware business turned into a commodity market (driven largely by cheaper IBM compatibles) they shifted into a services/consultancy business and sold off the original hardware side to Lenovo.
Microsoft fears that the operating system market may eventually be turned into a commodity market (even with all the desperate lock-in attempts so it is looking to hedge it's bets by investing in web technologies.
If margins get too tight sometimes you are just better off selling off the original business and moving into something else.
To take your points in turn:
.NET alternatives like nhibernate can use xml files.
1) I have never dicked around with eclipse xml files. Although it's true a lot of java projects have XML files, such as hibernate when you aren't using annotations or Spring. But then I presume
2) I have used tomcat and resin with eclipse, the eclipse compiler makes the change without any block compilation step (compiles changes only in the background) in most cases where it is possible this change is hotswapped into the system running in debug mode. The hotswapping in of changes is not flawless (Sun JVM bug/feature). If VisualStudio has flawless background microcompilation and better hotswapping then I'd be surprised - but there is certainly room for improvement in JVM hotswapping.
3) I can't comment on how it compares but I find the Eclipse Team syncronization on CVS very good. This gives a very good diff view, automatic merging of non conflicting changing, good manual merging options. The only weakness is that it depends on CVS, which has advantages for compatibility but has the usual CVS flaws eg, lack of atomic commit and rollback of change sets and the empty directory quirks.
I see your argument about devs spending time dicking around with build scripts, I've always worked on XP teams where the dev environment is effectively set up by the team and cloned to all dev machines. So new users to the team don't set up their own environment they get one pre-installed and it comes with RunAllTests and DeployApp as options on the pulldown menu so unless they want to dick around with the build scripts you don't have to.
Yes in this respect I guess it's a bit like linux versus windows.
Of course just because something is easier to get into doesn't mean it's better - otherwise we would all be hacking togethor VB apps and creating web pages in Microsoft Word.
For prototyping GUIs or making windows desktop apps I'm sure Visual Studio is great but for developing your average commercial web application within a team I'd rather shoot myself through the head than use Visual Studio. (Ok a bit of an exaggeration maybe...)
I have used Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse, and I have to say that until quite recently Visual Studio SUCKED big time compared to Eclipse. Visual studio had poor refactoring tools, lack of micro compilation, sucky debugger, sucky version control support, poor syncronization and merging support for team projects as well the obvious limitation that it only runs on windows.
Now Microsoft has finally starting including refactoring tools and playing catch up with the Java IDEs I hear that it's not so bad.
However, I talk to many developers using both Eclipse and Visual Studio and they all say Visual Studio is still inferior. Which is surprising because the core parts of the Eclipse JDT haven't even improved much in the last year or two.
Basically Microsoft has been playing catch up with Eclipse (and IntelliJ) for quite some time, I am very surprised they don't provide Visual Studio for free, at least for non commercial usage.
Or to put this another way, my girlfriend can now leave two flash adverts open in firefox on her profile before it totally cripples my machine.
Don't worry a lot of the data never actually reaches the incompetent IT service provider since it goes missing before it can get there.
Other cool ideas:
Internet in a book.
Internet on a toilet roll.
Internet in your tea.
I think that Microsoft should pay. However, I doubt anyone will make a fuss for fear Microsoft will take the jobs elsewhere.
Google's doing this to protect users who get to these sites on accident. I guess it's good for everyone.
Surely the entire "Google for domains" service is primarily used by domain squatters and other people that aren't using the domains for anything worthwhile.
How exactly is a profit sharing system between domain Squatters and Google not evil? - Because if they didn't do it then someone else would?
I am waiting with anticipation for the next 'non-evil' use of adwords, maybe GoogleAds for Zombie Computers so that the russian gangsters can make a few quid popping up ads inbetween running DDOS attacks and spamming.
Without wanting to sound sarcastic you might want to test it in IE 6 straight after Firefox. Otherwise, after it breaks and you find a workaround you will need to re-test it on all the other browsers anyway.
Watermarking only works if people believe that the RIAA could prosecute you for distributing a watermarked file.
If everyone knows that the watermarking is flawed or that the evidence would not stand up in court then the RIAA might ditch watermarking and go back to DRM - so why don't we just let it drop, after all it's a hell of an improvement on DRM.