Also, I kinda have to wonder if what you listed as downsides really matter. In high end computing, people just want the stuff to work. Intel/AMD or Apple(IBM-Moto)/Sun. Are you really gaining any more or less choice? Do corporate customers really care?
You're forgetting that the Pointy Haired Bosses buy into the SCO FUD, and that they like the warm fuzzies associated with giant support contracts from big names (why Big Blue is still around).
A Sun/Apple alliance would be more powerful than you think.
I always wonder what would happen if Sun and Apple decided to join forces. That could be spectacular.
Right now, I would buy XServes over anything Sun makes. But Sun has the corporate customer and of course, Java.
But, let's not forget how JBoss got that market-share. We switched to it because it satisfied our requirements while meeting our budget ($0). I can tell you right now that while we are very grateful for JBoss, the people, the project, etc, we don't feel any special allegiance.
In other words, if another product comes along that is as good or better and falls within the same budget.....I guess what I am trying to say is that the EARs and WARs don't really care much as long as the container is written to the spec.
That's the beauty of Java. You're not really locked into solutions from any given vendor. (Please, let's not get into a "but Sun..." discussion here). If the containers are written to the spec, it should be reasonably trivial to switch implementations--as long as you stay away from container specific things.
I'm not saying JBoss should be shaking, but it's nice to see something that will create competition and drive innovation in the free as in beer J2EE app server market.
"In fact it incorporates a Servlet/Web/JSP container of its own, namely Jetty."
Just for clarification, Jetty was written by Greg Wilkins and is maintained by him and MortBay Consulting. It uses jasper as it's JSP engine, but is otherwise much faster than Tomcat. So to say Jetty is part of the Geronimo project is sort of misleading--as it is it's own entity. But that's the nice thing about good design--these things are modular.
C'mon! -2!!! You guys are killing me. It's funny. Laugh!
I learned my lesson...no more "Soviet Russia" jokes, I promise. Now quite modding me to death. My karma will never recover. That's what I get for drinking too many Vodka martini's yesterday!
Unfortunately, this practice is fairly commmon.
I was at Best Buy the other day, and at their little pavillion/kiosk thingy in the back (by the Geek Squad station), I noticed a poster-sized picture of this strange guy making the "OK" sign around his eye.
I thought...where the hell have I seen that before?
Then it dawned on me:
Mailinator....here's the pic in question
I could have linked to the transcript of the show, but somehow the humor would have been lost. So, don't be a retard. If you can't hear it, then shrug and say "oh, well" and move along your way.
That's a lame argument. Books are made to be read. Notebooks are made to be written in. (like, for taking notes)
When you buy a used anything, you start with the assumption that the original owner used it for its intended purpose--and go from there.
The only reason those defaced books ever made it back into the university store is because: 1, the kids working there could give a shit; 2, there's a captive audience that is forced to buy the books. Try to sell a scratched CD to a used record store and try to sell a defaced book to a private book store.
Sigh....I always hated going to the University book store and spending 20 minutes going through the used pile to find one that hadn't been highlighted to death and defaced with illegible ramblings of someone who can't read and think at the same time.
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"Macs have all the downsides of Suns (proprietary, single-vendor, not-Intel), and none of upsides (scalability, software base)."
Uh...yeah....
Someone hasn't heard of the.Terascale Computing Facility. If that's not Scale, I don't know what is.
Also, I kinda have to wonder if what you listed as downsides really matter. In high end computing, people just want the stuff to work. Intel/AMD or Apple(IBM-Moto)/Sun. Are you really gaining any more or less choice? Do corporate customers really care?
You're forgetting that the Pointy Haired Bosses buy into the SCO FUD, and that they like the warm fuzzies associated with giant support contracts from big names (why Big Blue is still around).
A Sun/Apple alliance would be more powerful than you think.
I always wonder what would happen if Sun and Apple decided to join forces. That could be spectacular. Right now, I would buy XServes over anything Sun makes. But Sun has the corporate customer and of course, Java.
But, let's not forget how JBoss got that market-share.
We switched to it because it satisfied our requirements while meeting our budget ($0).
I can tell you right now that while we are very grateful for JBoss, the people, the project, etc, we don't feel any special allegiance.
In other words, if another product comes along that is as good or better and falls within the same budget.....I guess what I am trying to say is that the EARs and WARs don't really care much as long as the container is written to the spec.
That's the beauty of Java. You're not really locked into solutions from any given vendor. (Please, let's not get into a "but Sun..." discussion here). If the containers are written to the spec, it should be reasonably trivial to switch implementations--as long as you stay away from container specific things.
I'm not saying JBoss should be shaking, but it's nice to see something that will create competition and drive innovation in the free as in beer J2EE app server market.
"In fact it incorporates a Servlet/Web/JSP container of its own, namely Jetty."
Just for clarification, Jetty was written by Greg Wilkins and is maintained by him and MortBay Consulting. It uses jasper as it's JSP engine, but is otherwise much faster than Tomcat. So to say Jetty is part of the Geronimo project is sort of misleading--as it is it's own entity. But that's the nice thing about good design--these things are modular.
C'mon! -2!!! You guys are killing me. It's funny. Laugh!
I learned my lesson...no more "Soviet Russia" jokes, I promise. Now quite modding me to death. My karma will never recover. That's what I get for drinking too many Vodka martini's yesterday!
Why not just invent a better protocol that can't be abused as easily?
It's not "Johnny Number 5".
It's: "the Number Johnny 5" as in "What have you done with the Number Johnny 5?"
Unfortunately, this practice is fairly commmon.
I was at Best Buy the other day, and at their little pavillion/kiosk thingy in the back (by the Geek Squad station), I noticed a poster-sized picture of this strange guy making the "OK" sign around his eye.
I thought...where the hell have I seen that before?
Then it dawned on me: Mailinator....here's the pic in question
I tired PlayFair and it converted a 4 meg file to like 37 meg AIFF.
So, that sounds about right for a loss-less codec.
if(location.equalsIgnoreCase("Soviet Russia")){
SecrtetKey.crack(sessioin.getRemoteUser());
}
In Soviet Russia, porn downloads YOU!!!
Hani, is that you?
Such hostility.....
I could have linked to the transcript of the show, but somehow the humor would have been lost. So, don't be a retard. If you can't hear it, then shrug and say "oh, well" and move along your way.
In Soviet Russia, Security Blimp watching you!
(had to be done...)
That's a lame argument.
Books are made to be read.
Notebooks are made to be written in. (like, for taking notes)
When you buy a used anything, you start with the assumption that the original owner used it for its intended purpose--and go from there.
The only reason those defaced books ever made it back into the university store is because: 1, the kids working there could give a shit; 2, there's a captive audience that is forced to buy the books. Try to sell a scratched CD to a used record store and try to sell a defaced book to a private book store.
Maybe she installed a side-car?
Honestly....she's the only one I would trust to take me anywhere near there.
Ok, you asked for it...
In Soviet Russia, the atom splits YOU!
ooopps....a link would have helped...sorry.
Is she guiding the tours?
Is motorcycle rental included?
Highlighting? Taking Notes? You write in books?
Sigh....I always hated going to the University book store and spending 20 minutes going through the used pile to find one that hadn't been highlighted to death and defaced with illegible ramblings of someone who can't read and think at the same time.
In Soviet Russia, the mods point YOU!
That dang old internet man, I'll tell you what...
I thought we were all in Fifth grade here! You mean you're not?
Paper? What is this Paper?
In Soviet Russia, the paper writes YOU!