It has been discredited everywhere except in reality. [POWER5/POWER6 info snipped]
While your argument is technically correct, you've made an assumption that isn't safe: that the next PPC CPU IBM would produce would also be based on the POWER server offerings. As you suggest, it isn't a good fit.
However, there are other candidates for starting points. POWER technology runs the gamut of scale. If I were designing, I'd probably start with the POWER core from one of the game consoles and work from there.
Apple's claim that Intel won on watts has been thoroughly discredited in the press and in the blogosphere. This just adds more fuel to that fire.
If Apple wanted to stick with PowerPC chips, it would have been able to do so. IBM has a roadmap that would meet Apple's performance and power consumption needs across devices.
My suspicion is that Apple wasn't willing to make the level of committment that IBM or Freescale needed to continue development of the CPUs Apple would use in desktop/server Macs.
That is why there are tools out there (like Java Studio Creator 2) to make it easier to deal with the complexity, or hide the complexity altogether.
I think this is the hole in Tate's thesis: the supposition that the next great shift will require a new language. There are innovations going on outside of Java (Ruby on Rails is a great example), but that doesn't mean that Java is incapable. Syntactical brevity or lines of code comparisons are less meaningful when the output isn't hand-coded.
I looked at the symfony site. Once I got to the HTML templates with embedded PHP, I closed the window. If I want to combine code with HTML, I'll use JSP or ASP - the component model and syntax are cleaner.
They say they're looking for idealogues on either side of the perspective, but the likelihood of finding a coservative at UCLA makes this look like the Massachussetts health care law. Yeah, it covers everything, but it's intended to cover only one thing.
"IBM's chips are power hungry and generate a lot of heat, and are therefore not suitable for notebook computers."
This is a selective interpretation of the truth. The portion of the Power family that is used in Apple products generates a lot of heat because it's based on older Power4 technology. IBM's processor roadmaps include smaller-footprint chips just like Intel's do.
It is unlikely that Apple's move is simply about the roadmap due to power consumption. Power architecture is used in everything from cell phones to big honkin' servers. No, it's more likely that IBM's roadmap simple doesn't hit the same performance and power consumption points that Apple wants to hit.
Evolution explains the mechanism for how things got to the way they are, but not the why. The why is left as a question of philosophy.
Intelligent Design accounts for the why but not the how. The how question is left as a matter of faith.
One thing I find interesting is the notion that Evolution is mutually exclusive of religion. It's not the case. Many religious people believe that God would either a) design all species to not need to adapt, or b) give species the means to adapt to changing environments through mutation, with the course of mutation either guided by God or left to run according to its own rules.
To put it more simply: science seeks to explain the rules. Religion seeks to explain how the rules came into being. The concepts are not mutually exclusive.
I don't think it's a passing fancy. There have been some form of desktop widgets out there for almost as long as there have been GUIs. The key to longevity will be whether anyone can actually come up with a set of useful widgets, and I think that's entirely possible.
The pace of "exciting" Java development has slowed down, so they've moved on to technologies where they can get that feeling of new and exciting again. I don't begrudge them. They have that right....but their departure doesn't automatically make what they're working on any better than current technology.
Moreover, they're making comparisons that don't make any sense. RoR vs. "Java" is comparing apples to oranges. One is a framework for creating web applications. The other is a general purpose programming language and environment. Are you comparing RoR to Do-It-Yourself Servlets? Struts? WebWork? Spring? RIFE? Such is the way once a technology enters maturity. If RoR is the Next Big Thing and takes off, we'll be having these same discussions in 5-10 years about some other technology.
It is not exclusive of intelligent design. Most right-thinking individuals realize that an *INTELLIGENT* Creator would either a) include genetic adaptation in the set of biological rules that govern life or b) create an environment in which there is no need for adaptation.
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Even if scripting languages take hold, the fact that Java has a large and useful class library is going to give it a foothold. There is a JSR to standardize the interface between Java and scripting languages -- so that the scripting languages can be used for the web UI (where they excel) and Java can be used for interfacing to business logic, as well as business logic itself.
WebSphere grew 14% last quarter. No one's waking up to the fact that it sucks....actually, that isn't even a true fact anymore. It hasn't sucked since 5.0 (borderline) or 5.1 (definitely non-sucky).
...regulation will probably become a necessary evil.
Their VP recently said that they should have the right to, for example, offer Yahoo! a paid service which allows BellSouth's customers to access Yahoo! more quickly than Google. If they're allowed to have monopoly access to infrastructure, they shouldn't be allowed to do this. Philosophically, the consumers would wind up footing the bill through higher costs.
If you'll notice the licensing on the specification, it's the Creative Commons Share-alike license. For a corporation that hates the GPL, this seems odd.
The issue is not that the CD installs software. The issue is that the CD doesn't inform the consumer of its actions and give them the chance to eject the CD. Sony should be fine with it if I'd rather not play the CD on my computer at all than have it install software.
The Ewoks weren't in space. Note that I based what I said on the space parts of the movies. If it were a "Best Movies That Had Something Space In Them" then my #1 is a toss-up between Apollo 13 and ESB.
Each economic model has a dark side. Capitalism's dark side is a tendency to stray into monopolism when competition is viewed as a privilege, not a right.
Also note that the rankings are still changing. #1 is Apollo 13 (which definitely deserves to be there - it is a masterpiece). #2 is 2001, and #3 is Star Wars IV (which, as previously mentioned, I think should be SW VI)
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It has been discredited everywhere except in reality. [POWER5/POWER6 info snipped]
While your argument is technically correct, you've made an assumption that isn't safe: that the next PPC CPU IBM would produce would also be based on the POWER server offerings. As you suggest, it isn't a good fit.
However, there are other candidates for starting points. POWER technology runs the gamut of scale. If I were designing, I'd probably start with the POWER core from one of the game consoles and work from there.
Apple's claim that Intel won on watts has been thoroughly discredited in the press and in the blogosphere. This just adds more fuel to that fire.
If Apple wanted to stick with PowerPC chips, it would have been able to do so. IBM has a roadmap that would meet Apple's performance and power consumption needs across devices.
My suspicion is that Apple wasn't willing to make the level of committment that IBM or Freescale needed to continue development of the CPUs Apple would use in desktop/server Macs.
That is why there are tools out there (like Java Studio Creator 2) to make it easier to deal with the complexity, or hide the complexity altogether.
I think this is the hole in Tate's thesis: the supposition that the next great shift will require a new language. There are innovations going on outside of Java (Ruby on Rails is a great example), but that doesn't mean that Java is incapable. Syntactical brevity or lines of code comparisons are less meaningful when the output isn't hand-coded.
PHP requires no such thing.
Mixing program code with HTML is retarded, no matter what the language. Even JavaScript should be kept compartmentalized.
I looked at the symfony site. Once I got to the HTML templates with embedded PHP, I closed the window. If I want to combine code with HTML, I'll use JSP or ASP - the component model and syntax are cleaner.
They say they're looking for idealogues on either side of the perspective, but the likelihood of finding a coservative at UCLA makes this look like the Massachussetts health care law. Yeah, it covers everything, but it's intended to cover only one thing.
PCWorld reported on IBM's new 970 chips.
"IBM's chips are power hungry and generate a lot of heat, and are therefore not suitable for notebook computers."
This is a selective interpretation of the truth. The portion of the Power family that is used in Apple products generates a lot of heat because it's based on older Power4 technology. IBM's processor roadmaps include smaller-footprint chips just like Intel's do.
It is unlikely that Apple's move is simply about the roadmap due to power consumption. Power architecture is used in everything from cell phones to big honkin' servers. No, it's more likely that IBM's roadmap simple doesn't hit the same performance and power consumption points that Apple wants to hit.
Evolution explains the mechanism for how things got to the way they are, but not the why. The why is left as a question of philosophy.
Intelligent Design accounts for the why but not the how. The how question is left as a matter of faith.
One thing I find interesting is the notion that Evolution is mutually exclusive of religion. It's not the case. Many religious people believe that God would either a) design all species to not need to adapt, or b) give species the means to adapt to changing environments through mutation, with the course of mutation either guided by God or left to run according to its own rules.
To put it more simply: science seeks to explain the rules. Religion seeks to explain how the rules came into being. The concepts are not mutually exclusive.
I don't think it's a passing fancy. There have been some form of desktop widgets out there for almost as long as there have been GUIs. The key to longevity will be whether anyone can actually come up with a set of useful widgets, and I think that's entirely possible.
The pace of "exciting" Java development has slowed down, so they've moved on to technologies where they can get that feeling of new and exciting again. I don't begrudge them. They have that right....but their departure doesn't automatically make what they're working on any better than current technology.
Moreover, they're making comparisons that don't make any sense. RoR vs. "Java" is comparing apples to oranges. One is a framework for creating web applications. The other is a general purpose programming language and environment. Are you comparing RoR to Do-It-Yourself Servlets? Struts? WebWork? Spring? RIFE? Such is the way once a technology enters maturity. If RoR is the Next Big Thing and takes off, we'll be having these same discussions in 5-10 years about some other technology.
It is not exclusive of intelligent design. Most right-thinking individuals realize that an *INTELLIGENT* Creator would either a) include genetic adaptation in the set of biological rules that govern life or b) create an environment in which there is no need for adaptation.
Anyone want to bet how long it takes PriceGrabber personnel to take the loot and run for the hills?
Sheesh, it's like the 90s all over again.
What I've found with WAS 6 and EL/JSP is that it is intolerant of code that's not compliant to the J2EE 1.4 spec.
R VER}/whatever.log
Log files: ${WAS_INSTALL_ROOT}/profiles/${PROFILE}/logs/${SE
Redeploying requires running the 6-step wizard, or a one-step Ant, Jacl, or Jython script. I've never had to redefine resource bindings on an update.
As far as other J2EE containers, they're great. But WebSphere is not terrible.
Define "incomplete".
Even if scripting languages take hold, the fact that Java has a large and useful class library is going to give it a foothold. There is a JSR to standardize the interface between Java and scripting languages -- so that the scripting languages can be used for the web UI (where they excel) and Java can be used for interfacing to business logic, as well as business logic itself.
WebSphere grew 14% last quarter. No one's waking up to the fact that it sucks....actually, that isn't even a true fact anymore. It hasn't sucked since 5.0 (borderline) or 5.1 (definitely non-sucky).
...regulation will probably become a necessary evil.
Their VP recently said that they should have the right to, for example, offer Yahoo! a paid service which allows BellSouth's customers to access Yahoo! more quickly than Google. If they're allowed to have monopoly access to infrastructure, they shouldn't be allowed to do this. Philosophically, the consumers would wind up footing the bill through higher costs.
I don't think so, and so the premise of the article makes no sense. Note that Linux's growth is still higher than Microsoft's growth.
If you'll notice the licensing on the specification, it's the Creative Commons Share-alike license. For a corporation that hates the GPL, this seems odd.
The issue is not that the CD installs software. The issue is that the CD doesn't inform the consumer of its actions and give them the chance to eject the CD. Sony should be fine with it if I'd rather not play the CD on my computer at all than have it install software.
On the other hand, is the CD able to install the software if auto-play is disabled?
If it's still patent-encumbered, it doesn't do any more good than what they have out there now.
The Ewoks weren't in space. Note that I based what I said on the space parts of the movies. If it were a "Best Movies That Had Something Space In Them" then my #1 is a toss-up between Apollo 13 and ESB.
Each economic model has a dark side. Capitalism's dark side is a tendency to stray into monopolism when competition is viewed as a privilege, not a right.
Also note that the rankings are still changing. #1 is Apollo 13 (which definitely deserves to be there - it is a masterpiece). #2 is 2001, and #3 is Star Wars IV (which, as previously mentioned, I think should be SW VI)