I always found erlang(www.erlang.org) a pretty productive language and practical too.
But the learning curve for most people seems too much. OO on the other hand looks similar to more common programming paradigms. Unfortunately I have always found it does not scale well.
All except the biggest VxWorks (Well unless you pay big bucks for it) I have never understood why? What is so secret or revoltionay about it to require 50000 quids???
We are developing ship control systems based on Pentium chips. Ok not the latest and greatest, but for our application there cost performance is good. In 5/10 years time we will probably want to be using the next generation. If that has DRM as part of the silicon that will be worrying. The thing is embedded systems are now expected to do a lot more. They need to route packets act as web servers have embedded databases, in many ways act as embedded PC's. x86 processors are very good for this.
So what is intel going to do? develop a embedded x86 without DRM? How long before PC's etc start coming out with that chip instead of the crippled version.
One of the trends of the embedded industry is to use off the shelf x86 processors. They are powerful, cheap and have loads of software for them. Now if intel put DRM into every pentium plus we lose those advantages. We either use other less generic processors or put up with the potential problems of DRM. And if you cannot disable DRM....
The thing that always worry me about such projects is what happens when (and they will) fail Is it a good thing to be hanging over your city. The nice thing about satellites is they don't often come down in pieces big enough to do damage.
From what I can remember the problems started when the government sponsored project crashed and burned due to lack of aeronautical knowledge(On some river I think). A bit later the wright brothers did there historic flight and attempted to patent there ideas.
Later still Curtis using the well known principle of hindsight totally redesigned the first plane, took off in it and then with government backing tried to prove therefore prior art. This carried on for many years. The Smithsonian even had the original flyer up for many years claiming it was the original flying machine.
The wright brothers deserved there patents because they were the first to get all the bits together. It also a story of the plucky amateur beating the big sponsored governmet.
For people like you they also provide the book in ebook format(PDF)(See http://www.manning.com). Good price too and a discount if you wish to go to a more tree based existance. I wish more publishers woukd do that!
The one major drawback with the rabbit phones was that you could not receive incoming calls on them so making them basically useless(You do wonder who comes up with these ideas).
This is not a problem with WiFi because emails onlike phone calls do not need to be handled at once. Basically it will allow you to read the internet and catch up with emails when you get to the station or airport. I can see that being quite attractive.
And as for a "long and distinguished record of being a penal colony" 1788 (first landing) to 1868(last convicts shipped off to Australia) is 80 years, and 134 years ago now. So back off, pal.
However not quite long enough to remove the chip from the shoulder obviously
Can someone tell me how hard it would be to make a phone which the IMEI could not be changed, I don't know, encoded in the hrdware so any attempt to change it will cause the phone not to function.
Surely if this was done the discussion would be superfluous.
Surely it is the responsibility of phone manufactuers to improve phone security.
True, one problem Ericsson has is that it's telephone exchange market is mature so there is no growth(Of course that what ENGINE was suppossed to solve). However it has a few others.
Mobile phones. Ericsson has shown again and again they cannot produce consumer products. Phones,PDA'a, bluetooth,etc. The company is to slow moving to meet consumer demands. They were just a black hole to poor money down. They should of sold the mobile phone division off years ago. However the management believed you needed a finger in all mobile pies.
Secondly lack of direction, the number of cancelled projects in ericsson is legendary, and most departments spend there time in fighting. As for juniper, it was the kind of company that ericsson needed. However I think they sold there stake months ago.
Ericsson spent heavily betting on 3G. Unfortunately I do not think it is going to happen.
Strange used I worked for E. They could'nt tell there arse from there elbow either. I think it was more a case of the blind leading the blind. They said we will lead you into the future and then went over a cliff, taking there customers with them
This is also stated in Parkinson's Law by C.Northcote Parkinson. Basically he states when companies start building presidential offices, with luxury furniture the company is already going downhill. Basically if the company is working so hard to fulfill orders and make market, it has no time to update office space.
If you have'nt read parkinsons law, read it. It is years old, not very PC but still amazingly relevant
We are also looking at the present Transmeta chip. The great advantage for us is its low heat production. This means it can be sealed from the environment in a can with no need for a fan. Which is a great boon for things like shipboard systems.
Firstly let me say I admire RMS for his contributions to the computing world we have today and his principled stands. However don't you think it time we moved on a bit. GNU/Linux is know much bigger than it's component parts and much to umportant to be still squabbling over a name.
Names are funny thing. just by saying a thing is called such and such often makes little difference in the end, the user decides in the end and I'm afraid Linux is shorter and easier to say. I'm sure a lot of people do not know the origin of the name and those who do know probably know the role GNU had/has in its creation.
As for bitkeeper, Well I understand why the FSF cannot be seen to be using non-free code. However there is no monopoly on good applications and maybe someone should write a free software competitor. As the old salavation army saying goes, why should the devil have the best tunes/software?
I agree there is a large overlap between phones and PDA's with address books. I can also be convinced there is a good mattch between mobile phones and e-mails.
The problem is they are now being pushed into areas such as web browsing etc. The screen size does not really support this. The main problem however is battery life. I charge my phone once a wekk and normally forget it. However you add large colour screens and CF cardsand you are going to hurt your usage times. 3 days on standby would probably be acceptable, 3 hours would not.
Also there is the debate on what is best- a mobile phone with PDA function or a PDA with add on mobile phone capability.
Personally I would go for a mobile phone and a decent notebook for my on the go web browsing
(Apologies to V.Vinge) What about imaging applications. Could we use neutrino's to map the center of planets oe even the sun?
Lets ignore the technical impossibilities for a second here.
Actually we already have a good application already. we have proved that the sun is working as we expect. There was two possibilities for the missing neutrino's.
1. The theories were wrong 2. The sun was very ill.
Personally I feel a lot richer for knowing 2 is not the case.
Can we use this technology as a way to monitor the sun?
A player for a format not many people are using on a platform even fewer people are using. Admirable, but not likely to be a commercial success.
Ever since the zaurus has come out, it seems everyone has been against. When it came out everyone complained the website could not be accessed from mozilla, you complained there were not enough applications and now you doing it again.
It runs linux, a development model was produced to encourage, not beat the open source community. The first fruits of that is already coming through. What do you people want!!!!
I've had a development model since March. It is wonderfully usable, has everyting I could want and I am now writing apps for it. I had a windows CE machine for years before that and never did much more than read the address book.
Seesh, no wonder microsoft are winning, they don't have to listen to you lot winging.
I was interested in the fact that some researchers have only recently come to the conclusion that software is written by people.
It is questionable how useful purely statistical methods are in these situation.
One thing I would be interested in knowing is how staff turnover effects development. For matainable software to be possible a consistent approach must be maintained on adding new functionality, this usually requires deep understanding of alrge code base, and if your programmers keep changing, the newbies may not follow the rules.
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I always found erlang(www.erlang.org) a pretty productive language and practical too.
But the learning curve for most people seems too much. OO on the other hand looks similar to more common programming paradigms. Unfortunately I have always found it does not scale well.
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Soft SOAP.
Wow. Thats what I call forward looking. I did'nt even know XML had been defined.
All except the biggest VxWorks (Well unless you pay big bucks for it) I have never understood why? What is so secret or revoltionay about it to require 50000 quids???
We are developing ship control systems based on Pentium chips. Ok not the latest and greatest, but for our application there cost performance is good. In 5/10 years time we will probably want to be using the next generation. If that has DRM as part of the silicon that will be worrying.
The thing is embedded systems are now expected to do a lot more. They need to route packets act as web servers have embedded databases, in many ways act as embedded PC's. x86 processors are very good for this.
So what is intel going to do? develop a embedded x86 without DRM? How long before PC's etc start coming out with that chip instead of the crippled version.
One of the trends of the embedded industry is to use off the shelf x86 processors. They are powerful, cheap and have loads of software for them. Now if intel put DRM into every pentium plus we lose those advantages. We either use other less generic processors or put up with the potential problems of DRM. And if you cannot disable DRM....
Good title in more ways than one.
The thing that always worry me about such projects is what happens when (and they will) fail Is it a good thing to be hanging over your city. The nice thing about satellites is they don't often come down in pieces big enough to do damage.
From what I can remember the problems started when the government sponsored project crashed and burned due to lack of aeronautical knowledge(On some river I think). A bit later the wright brothers did there historic flight and attempted to patent there ideas.
Later still Curtis using the well known principle of hindsight totally redesigned the first plane, took off in it and then with government backing tried to prove therefore prior art. This carried on for many years. The Smithsonian even had the original flyer up for many years claiming it was the original flying machine.
The wright brothers deserved there patents because they were the first to get all the bits together. It also a story of the plucky amateur beating the big sponsored governmet.
Or maybe the pot hat a bigger effect than he thought? 30 real people and 70 which kept melting whenever he tried to talk to them
For people like you they also provide the book in ebook format(PDF)(See http://www.manning.com). Good price too and a discount if you wish to go to a more tree based existance. I wish more publishers woukd do that!
The one major drawback with the rabbit phones was that you could not receive incoming calls on them so making them basically useless(You do wonder who comes up with these ideas).
This is not a problem with WiFi because emails onlike phone calls do not need to be handled at once. Basically it will allow you to read the internet and catch up with emails when you get to the station or airport. I can see that being quite attractive.
However not quite long enough to remove the chip from the shoulder obviously
Can someone tell me how hard it would be to make
a phone which the IMEI could not be changed, I don't know, encoded in the hrdware so any attempt to change it will cause the phone not to function.
Surely if this was done the discussion would be superfluous.
Surely it is the responsibility of phone manufactuers to improve phone security.
True, one problem Ericsson has is that it's telephone exchange market is mature so there is no growth(Of course that what ENGINE was suppossed to solve). However it has a few others.
Mobile phones. Ericsson has shown again and again they cannot produce consumer products. Phones,PDA'a, bluetooth,etc. The company is to slow moving to meet consumer demands. They were just a black hole to poor money down. They should of sold the mobile phone division off years ago. However the management believed you needed a finger in all mobile pies.
Secondly lack of direction, the number of cancelled projects in ericsson is legendary, and most departments spend there time in fighting. As for juniper, it was the kind of company that ericsson needed. However I think they sold there stake months ago.
Ericsson spent heavily betting on 3G. Unfortunately I do not think it is going to happen.
Strange used I worked for E. They could'nt tell there arse from there elbow either. I think it was more a case of the blind leading the blind. They said we will lead you into the future and then went over a cliff, taking there customers with them
Hey, don't forget the musical episode of LEXX
This is also stated in Parkinson's Law by C.Northcote Parkinson. Basically he states when companies start building presidential offices, with luxury furniture the company is already going downhill. Basically if the company is working so hard to fulfill orders and make market, it has no time to update office space.
If you have'nt read parkinsons law, read it. It is years old, not very PC but still amazingly relevant
We are also looking at the present Transmeta chip. The great advantage for us is its low heat production. This means it can be sealed from the environment in a can with no need for a fan. Which is a great boon for things like shipboard systems.
Firstly let me say I admire RMS for his contributions to the computing world we have today and his principled stands. However don't you think it time we moved on a bit. GNU/Linux is know much bigger than it's component parts and much to umportant to be still squabbling over a name.
Names are funny thing. just by saying a thing is called such and such often makes little difference in the end, the user decides in the end and I'm afraid Linux is shorter and easier to say. I'm sure a lot of people do not know the origin of the name and those who do know probably know the role GNU had/has in its creation.
As for bitkeeper, Well I understand why the FSF cannot be seen to be using non-free code. However there is no monopoly on good applications and maybe someone should write a free software competitor. As the old salavation army saying goes, why should the devil have the best tunes/software?
Just think of it as DA last words to his creation.
We apologise for any inconsistencies
I agree there is a large overlap between phones and PDA's with address books. I can also be convinced there is a good mattch between mobile phones and e-mails.
The problem is they are now being pushed into areas such as web browsing etc. The screen size does not really support this. The main problem however is battery life. I charge my phone once a wekk and normally forget it. However you add large colour screens and CF cardsand you are going to hurt your usage times. 3 days on standby would probably be acceptable, 3 hours would not.
Also there is the debate on what is best- a mobile phone with PDA function or a PDA with add on mobile phone capability.
Personally I would go for a mobile phone and a decent notebook for my on the go web browsing
What have the Romans/British/Americans ever done for us...
(Apologies to V.Vinge) What about imaging applications. Could we use neutrino's to map the center of planets oe even the sun?
Lets ignore the technical impossibilities for a second here.
Actually we already have a good application already. we have proved that the sun is working as we expect. There was two possibilities for the missing neutrino's.
1. The theories were wrong
2. The sun was very ill.
Personally I feel a lot richer for knowing 2 is not the case.
Can we use this technology as a way to monitor the sun?
You did not close windows down correctly...
Starting scandisk
estimated completion time 4 years 6 days.
and how long is speedisk going to take?
A player for a format not many people are using on a platform even fewer people are using. Admirable, but not likely to be a commercial success.
Ever since the zaurus has come out, it seems everyone has been against. When it came out everyone complained the website could not be accessed from mozilla, you complained there were not enough applications and now you doing it again.
It runs linux, a development model was produced to encourage, not beat the open source community. The first fruits of that is already coming through. What do you people want!!!!
I've had a development model since March. It is wonderfully usable, has everyting I could want and I am now writing apps for it. I had a windows CE machine for years before that and never did much more than read the address book.
Seesh, no wonder microsoft are winning, they don't have to listen to you lot winging.
I was interested in the fact that some researchers have only recently come to the conclusion that software is written by people.
It is questionable how useful purely statistical methods are in these situation.
One thing I would be interested in knowing is how staff turnover effects development. For matainable software to be possible a consistent approach must be maintained on adding new functionality, this usually requires deep understanding of alrge code base, and if your programmers keep changing, the newbies may not follow the rules.