Does anybody know how easy/difficult it will be to port code from java to kjava and vice versa? Obviously, the main issue is how well the kjava packages map to java packages. And from what I have seen from the posts/web so far, it seems that sun didn't even try to do this (at least not for UI packages). Thus, if I had a spreadsheet application, would I have to re-code the UI from scratch? This makes kind of sense, as desktop and palmtop UIs have very different requirements. Anyone who knows more? Thoughts?
I remember that several years ago the buzz word "fuzzy logic" appeared. Instead of digital signals, communication between modules of systems would use floting point values.
Now I can see that this differs from what is described here, as fuzzy logic does not require a neural net. But if I understand the article (and discussion) correctly, the networks described here uses analog, and not digital signals. Is that a necessary requirement, or could such a nervous system be built on top of digital signals as well? I am not talking about emulating an analog system using a digital system, which is definitely doable (and probably much more efficient during the development phase).
There's a book by the German science fiction author Hans Dominik. I couldn't find his books on amazon.com, but I read a couple of his books in German. He writes in the style of Robert Heinlein.
Amazing! Born in 1872, he had an amazing vision of what might be possible in the future. In his book "Atomgewicht 500", written in 1935, he describes how scientists find that stuff. Scientifically very acurate for that time, and he also describes the plateau effect. Recommended reading for all German/. and Science Fiction fans!
... we know that from Beta vs. VHS. But that's not even the issue here. These technology can easily coexist, and the article is stating that as well: "This one simple difference has a significant impact on which unit to choose. If your users' primary need is instant and easy access to e-mail, the BlackBerry is the hands-down winner."... but if you want a bigger screen, Hotsync of all kinds of data, you stick with Palm.
Don't forget: Competition is good! I am happy to see something other than Palm or CE for a change!
Moving from one platform to another is much more expensive than starting from scratch with any platform. Thus, the hesitation to migrate to Linux is very understandable.
It would be interesting to see statistics for new IT systems - does anybody have numbers?
Seems that the message is, that SysAdmins are fed up with NT, and that they hope to be more efficient with Linux in the long run! This is a strong statement, considering that Linux SysAdmins are more expensive than NT SysAdmins, and considering that personell costs are usually a big chunk of any IT department!
This regulations are clearly made to prevent the illegal distribution of of-the-shelf software, in contrast to sofware which requires heavy support and/or customization. In fact, for that kind of software, the main revenues come from service and consulting.
It's interesting that during the past years, the business model of shrink wrapped software was changing in that direction as well: Software gets bundled and shipped without manuals (making it virtually free if you buy a new computer), and using technical support is not free any more.
This alone indicates that the need for so-called "self help" to sofware vendors is nonesense! In a professional organization, heavy service fees are paid, so (higher paid) engineers don't have to figure the software out themselves. As far as the private market is concerned, well, that doesn't seem to be UCITA's target group in the first place, which introduces even more controvercy!
Then again, this proposal already raises a lot of opposition, so I personally doubt that it will ever pass.
Actually, conductivity of mineral oil is not that great. But it can hold much more specific energy. I.e. To head up one cubic inch of oil absorbs much more energy than heating up one cubic inch of air. This means that oil can carry away much more heat, if you make sure that the fluid has a proper flow.
A typical application for mineral oil as a coolant is to cool transformers for high-power overland power lines. This technology has been in use for decades.
Doppler/Red shifting is always caused by a difference in speed. So the further away an object from earth, the faster it moves relative to earth.
But this leads to another interesting question: If everything moves away from the original center of the universe, we should measure different amounts of red shifting for equidistant objects, depending on whether they line up with earth and the center of the universe, or whether they are orthogonal to earth. In any event, the distance to earth should get bigger over time, but in the first case faster.
As far as I know, that's not the case, which would mean that earth must be very close to the former center of the universe. Does anyone know more about this?
But they rejected pleas to ban spam altogether, despite an impassioned plea from British Liberal Democrat Graham Watson, who complained that he had received 42 pieces of junk email this week and called it a "bloody nuisance."
I am sure he's on AOL...
Even though spam can be anoying I would have been really worried if incompetent European politicians would try to regulate it (I have to know - I'm from Europe). Judging from what happend in the past (e.g. CompuServe blocking porn newsgroup sites because of Germany), they do more harm than good anyway.
Sofware with Ad-Banners is out there. A prominent example is PKZip from PKWare. This compression utility features an ad space embedded in the GUI. On a regular basis, it downloads a new batch of banners.
The Ad network is currently owned by Conducent. For a while it was owned by Marble Associates, a company I worked for and that closed operations a year ago (not my fault). Marble bought the network from the inventors (I forgot the name of their company), who established the first ad network, but they were not very successful with it.
When I started to work with the system at Marble, at first I found it intriguing, but then we figured out quickly why it wasn't doing that well:
You need a lot of money to establish the critical mass for making people notice the network exists.
You need a killer app to give people an incentive to download the software (hint: yet another unzipper won't do the job).
People are very nervous about privacy, storage capacity and performance implications.
The target group are non-professionals. In professional environments (where most money is), sofware is purchased.
Banners are lame and nothing new.
In short, I wouldn't bet on the technology...
Today hostile code is intrusive, not desctructive
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When people started to demand security back in the late 80th, early 90th, the main thread for your computer were destructive viruses. Today's hostile code focusses on being intrusive (however, ebayla's information can easily be used for destructive purposes).
Bottom Line: This is just the beginning! I am sure we'll see much more code like this in the near future. No straightforward fix in sight! So better know the tools you are using!
It will be hard to develop a customer segment.
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AOL might spread itself to thin, trying to jump on too many bandwagons at the same time. After they successfully managed to appear on almost every M$ desktop and focussing on being a consumer service organization (in contrast to being just an ISP), They were expanding in a new direction, the corporate market place (Sun/Netscape deal, AOL Anywhere campaign). Picking up Linux, introduces yet another direction - still not "professional" enough for many coorporations, and to complicated for the bulk of typical AOL end users.
But then again, the whole thing is very vague, and honestly, bringing the latest buzz words in the news always impresses shareholders.
Allow spam - but give more power to the enduser
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Letting someone else (government?) do the regulation for you is always risky - they might filter out more than just spam. Also, many free Internet services use "spam" as a legitimate means of financing the service they are offering you.
If you get an email from a Yahoo affiliate, and you are using Yahoo email, are you offended? I am not, but I want to have the power to stop receiving messages from that particular mailer. and every successful Internet marketing company knows that and gives you an easy way to get removed from the list (Yoyodyne, Digital Impact, Post Communications, etc.) Marketers are aware that you better not annoy your potential customer, or you might loose him or her forever. And that's even more true on the web, where the competitor is just a click away.
However, some regulation makes sense, mostly to take care of the stupid marketers. A gentle way to enforce some basic guidelines has been introduced in California:
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Does anybody know how easy/difficult it will be to port code from java to kjava and vice versa? Obviously, the main issue is how well the kjava packages map to java packages. And from what I have seen from the posts/web so far, it seems that sun didn't even try to do this (at least not for UI packages). Thus, if I had a spreadsheet application, would I have to re-code the UI from scratch? This makes kind of sense, as desktop and palmtop UIs have very different requirements. Anyone who knows more? Thoughts?
Now I can see that this differs from what is described here, as fuzzy logic does not require a neural net. But if I understand the article (and discussion) correctly, the networks described here uses analog, and not digital signals. Is that a necessary requirement, or could such a nervous system be built on top of digital signals as well? I am not talking about emulating an analog system using a digital system, which is definitely doable (and probably much more efficient during the development phase).
- Alpha 1 by end of August
- Beta 1 by End of January
- Release one year from now!
For the game industry this might be standard, but for a volunteer project quite a challenge! Let's do it!Amazing! Born in 1872, he had an amazing vision of what might be possible in the future. In his book "Atomgewicht 500", written in 1935, he describes how scientists find that stuff. Scientifically very acurate for that time, and he also describes the plateau effect. Recommended reading for all German /. and Science Fiction fans!
Don't forget: Competition is good! I am happy to see something other than Palm or CE for a change!
It would be interesting to see statistics for new IT systems - does anybody have numbers?
Seems that the message is, that SysAdmins are fed up with NT, and that they hope to be more efficient with Linux in the long run! This is a strong statement, considering that Linux SysAdmins are more expensive than NT SysAdmins, and considering that personell costs are usually a big chunk of any IT department!
It's hard to believe, but remember what happened to HotMail - nobody believed that Microsoft would pay $400 million (see Wired story: HotMale).
It's interesting that during the past years, the business model of shrink wrapped software was changing in that direction as well: Software gets bundled and shipped without manuals (making it virtually free if you buy a new computer), and using technical support is not free any more.
This alone indicates that the need for so-called "self help" to sofware vendors is nonesense! In a professional organization, heavy service fees are paid, so (higher paid) engineers don't have to figure the software out themselves. As far as the private market is concerned, well, that doesn't seem to be UCITA's target group in the first place, which introduces even more controvercy!
Then again, this proposal already raises a lot of opposition, so I personally doubt that it will ever pass.
A typical application for mineral oil as a coolant is to cool transformers for high-power overland power lines. This technology has been in use for decades.
But this leads to another interesting question: If everything moves away from the original center of the universe, we should measure different amounts of red shifting for equidistant objects, depending on whether they line up with earth and the center of the universe, or whether they are orthogonal to earth. In any event, the distance to earth should get bigger over time, but in the first case faster.
As far as I know, that's not the case, which would mean that earth must be very close to the former center of the universe. Does anyone know more about this?
Of course there's dust on the NT boxes. Cambridge, MA is the neighborhood where X and Kerberos were born. And I hope Cambridge stays that way!
I am sure he's on AOL...
Even though spam can be anoying I would have been really worried if incompetent European politicians would try to regulate it (I have to know - I'm from Europe). Judging from what happend in the past (e.g. CompuServe blocking porn newsgroup sites because of Germany), they do more harm than good anyway.
The Ad network is currently owned by Conducent. For a while it was owned by Marble Associates, a company I worked for and that closed operations a year ago (not my fault). Marble bought the network from the inventors (I forgot the name of their company), who established the first ad network, but they were not very successful with it.
When I started to work with the system at Marble, at first I found it intriguing, but then we figured out quickly why it wasn't doing that well:
- You need a lot of money to establish the critical mass for making people notice the network exists.
- You need a killer app to give people an incentive to download the software (hint: yet another unzipper won't do the job).
- People are very nervous about privacy, storage capacity and performance implications.
- The target group are non-professionals. In professional environments (where most money is), sofware is purchased.
- Banners are lame and nothing new.
In short, I wouldn't bet on the technology...Bottom Line: This is just the beginning! I am sure we'll see much more code like this in the near future. No straightforward fix in sight! So better know the tools you are using!
But then again, the whole thing is very vague, and honestly, bringing the latest buzz words in the news always impresses shareholders.
If you get an email from a Yahoo affiliate, and you are using Yahoo email, are you offended? I am not, but I want to have the power to stop receiving messages from that particular mailer. and every successful Internet marketing company knows that and gives you an easy way to get removed from the list (Yoyodyne, Digital Impact, Post Communications, etc.) Marketers are aware that you better not annoy your potential customer, or you might loose him or her forever. And that's even more true on the web, where the competitor is just a click away.
However, some regulation makes sense, mostly to take care of the stupid marketers. A gentle way to enforce some basic guidelines has been introduced in California:
Californi a Toughens Laws On Unsolicited E-Mail Ads