Does this mean I have to brush up on my REXX syntax to write shell scripts in the IBM Linux distro?
The most memorable part of OS/2 for me was installing it from about 40 floppy disks onto a system with a VGA monitor (640x480, 16 colors)
Wait, Linux only works on servers and desktops? Shit, now I've got to return all my linux based WiFi routers, Android phones, Nook e-book readers, and Cisco networking appliances.
It's also true that in terms of usage in the US, Android is only lagging by about 2-4% behind the iPhone last month. If trends continue the way they have been, Android usership should overtake iPhone within the next month or two, meaning that iPhone developers will actually have a smaller target audience than Android developers.
Seems a lot easier to do with employees than with customers. It's easy enough to just lock your employees out of your VPN if they have an insecure version, and force them to go get a new one, and you can mail them a new CD with their paycheck if security patches are necessary.
So it sounds like some of the point of this is that it's on a static iso9660 filesystem, and so viruses/malware cannot be downloaded to it, but what about security upgrades? With the news about webkit hacks today, and the Firefox security bugs recently, I'm not sure I'd trust my online banking to an unpatched OS from months ago.
I suppose a quarterly release by mail might alleviate some of the concern, but how much damage could a botnet owner do to a few million identical unpatched systems in 3 months?
I'm working on a taproot project right now... I don't think that the taproot work is challenging enough to keep skillsets up to date (though I guess I did learn a bit about how Chrome and Firefox use the audio tag),
Further, taproot projects are long... I'm in about month 3 on this project, and it's been 6 months since I signed up with taproot. Its not the kind of freelance stuff you'd find on guru.com or something like that. These are long projects, that take a lot of coordination with many folks, and take a while to get running. Hopefully, most unemployed folk joining Taproot can find a job before having time to finish more than one project.
However, Taproot definitely has a lot of benefits in the way of networking and exposing yourself to a greater range of folks to work with. If you're primarily a freelancer, or run your own consulting firm, I can see Taproot as a great way to introduce you to other people who might be fellow consultants or people to work with on freelance projects.
The Taproot Foundation (http://www.taprootfoundation.org/) is set up to provide Pro Bono professional services to non-profit organizations. I'm currently working on my first Taproot Project. The work is not as technical as I was originally hoping ( We're doing a pure HTML stie with a tiny bit of jQuery to accommodate a media player ), but the branding and marketing we're doing is very valuable to the NPO we're working with.
The projects are in the 3-6 month range, and Taproot helps a project manager put together a group from the taproot pool that has the skills needed, (i.e. 2 web folks, 1 graphic designer, 1 copy writer, etc... ). Taproot also provides a "project boilerplate" to help you get rolling on a short timeschedule with people who haven't worked together before.
It's true that probably the majority of the JavaScript apps built to this point are bad at memory management, from a percentage based view. I would also venture to guess that more programs have been written in JavaScript in the last 10 years than in C or Java, and more of those were written by developers with little or no training. That doesn't mean that the language is bad, just that the training level of the JavaScript community on average is low.
There are good JavaScript applications being built by skilled developers that are not resource hogs and which run very fast and efficiently on powerful JIT-based VMs. Just because there's a lot of bad JS written by a lot of bad developers doesn't mean that the language is inherently flawed... There are lots of bad C apps written by bad C developers too, they just don't have as wide an audience.
See the ServerJS specs at https://wiki.mozilla.org/ServerJS which are implemented by several of these projects. They provide a good solid library of Database, Network, and File IO abstractions,
If you read the OP, there's a link to the ServerJS specs that Mozilla has been working on standardizing. It's a set of standard DOM-ish APIs for the JavaScript language that allow it to work in a multi-platform way with local files, databases, TCP streams, etc.
Not really.... Honestly JavaScript is more like Lisp than it is like C# or Java. The only thing that it vaguely shares with C# and Java are that it's got a roughly C-like syntax.
And i'll point out that Java doesn't need to be compiled before running. JSR-274 specifies an interpreter for the Java Language. BeanShell is the current reference implementation http://www.beanshell.org/
I've recently been exposed to the world of Health Care Billing and rates. It's incredibly complex, and frightening. Medicare ends up paying *WAY* less than private insurers, and providers end up having to hike up their rates to the private insurers to cover the difference between cost and Medicare.
Seriously, we all know that aside from outliers like MSNBC and FOX news, television really only has one bias: Money.
If exposing Republicans sex scandals will sell more ad time, they'll do it. If posting "human interest" stories about how Obama's health care plan will create "Death Panels" will sell more ads, they'll do that too.
I remember when the first proof of an extra-solar planet was found, and people were amazed. Now we're only mildly fased by a planet whose orbit is probably one in a million.
Amazing how far astronomy has come in the last decade or so.
I wonder how long until we figure out a way to detect inhabited planets. Can't be too far off.
Seriously, is that really a concern? I've never seen a company whose source code was so "advanced" that stealing it was really worth while. If you're doing something really revolutionary, patent it. If you're just implementing algorithms that hundreds of other people have implemented in the past, theres basically nothing worth stealing in your code. True, a sysadmin could possibly copy everything about your web site, and change the domain name, and stand up a copy of it, with all of the data but even a skilled admin would take a day or two to do it. Then there's the challenge of trying to convince the customers that they should switch to a system that's exactly the same as the one they're already on, but run by someone else.... Why would they want to do that?
So, lets say that the sysadmin then hires some coders to change the source code, to make their site different form yours. Design some changes, get some coders on it, and put it through QA, and you're looking at at least a week, probably closer to a month before they've got a site that's an "improvement" over yours that might attract customers. How much has your site improved in a month? How many customers have you added in a month that will be resistant to change? How much has your marketing department done in a month? How many marketing folks will this outsourced sysadmin company have to hire and spin up to compete with your marketing folks?
Ultimately, it comes down to this... The sysadmin is in a different business than you. They have no reason to steal your code or customers, because unless you provide outsourced system administration, they aren't set up to do the same kind of business as you, and probably have no interest in it.
It doesn't appear that there's any "Voice" in it inherently... it's just a method for retrieving and modifying XML documents in a shared setting. I wouldn't think that putting Voice data in there would be very efficient.
If Lens Flares count as special effects, then they were heavily overused. Apparently in the future they've lost the art of making and using polarized lenses. Pretty much any scene involving the bridge was so distracting I couldn't watch.
It's fixed for the most common search terms, but it still seems to be filtering down for some less commonly searched terms. Interesting what this reveals about the Google caching/optimization architecture.
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Does this mean I have to brush up on my REXX syntax to write shell scripts in the IBM Linux distro? The most memorable part of OS/2 for me was installing it from about 40 floppy disks onto a system with a VGA monitor (640x480, 16 colors)
Umm, Flash isn't proprietary... It's an open format, with at least one open source implementation: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/
Wait, Linux only works on servers and desktops? Shit, now I've got to return all my linux based WiFi routers, Android phones, Nook e-book readers, and Cisco networking appliances.
That's hardly direct competition for at least two reasons:
1) Both Apple and Adobe are pushing H.264 Video in HTML5
2) Flash is a Software VM, like Java, not a Video Codec. Flash includes support for H.264 video, but that's only a small part of it's runtime library.
It's also true that in terms of usage in the US, Android is only lagging by about 2-4% behind the iPhone last month. If trends continue the way they have been, Android usership should overtake iPhone within the next month or two, meaning that iPhone developers will actually have a smaller target audience than Android developers.
http://jaxenter.com/iphone-is-loosing-a-great-deal-of-market-share-to-android-10688.html
Seems a lot easier to do with employees than with customers. It's easy enough to just lock your employees out of your VPN if they have an insecure version, and force them to go get a new one, and you can mail them a new CD with their paycheck if security patches are necessary.
Sure, but who's likely to sit down and download 100mb worth of patches each time they want to check their BofA account balance?
So it sounds like some of the point of this is that it's on a static iso9660 filesystem, and so viruses/malware cannot be downloaded to it, but what about security upgrades? With the news about webkit hacks today, and the Firefox security bugs recently, I'm not sure I'd trust my online banking to an unpatched OS from months ago.
I suppose a quarterly release by mail might alleviate some of the concern, but how much damage could a botnet owner do to a few million identical unpatched systems in 3 months?
On which smartphones? I know that the Google Voice app on the Blackberry Curve still uses voice minutes.
I'm working on a taproot project right now... I don't think that the taproot work is challenging enough to keep skillsets up to date (though I guess I did learn a bit about how Chrome and Firefox use the audio tag),
Further, taproot projects are long... I'm in about month 3 on this project, and it's been 6 months since I signed up with taproot. Its not the kind of freelance stuff you'd find on guru.com or something like that. These are long projects, that take a lot of coordination with many folks, and take a while to get running. Hopefully, most unemployed folk joining Taproot can find a job before having time to finish more than one project.
However, Taproot definitely has a lot of benefits in the way of networking and exposing yourself to a greater range of folks to work with. If you're primarily a freelancer, or run your own consulting firm, I can see Taproot as a great way to introduce you to other people who might be fellow consultants or people to work with on freelance projects.
The Taproot Foundation (http://www.taprootfoundation.org/) is set up to provide Pro Bono professional services to non-profit organizations. I'm currently working on my first Taproot Project. The work is not as technical as I was originally hoping ( We're doing a pure HTML stie with a tiny bit of jQuery to accommodate a media player ), but the branding and marketing we're doing is very valuable to the NPO we're working with.
The projects are in the 3-6 month range, and Taproot helps a project manager put together a group from the taproot pool that has the skills needed, (i.e. 2 web folks, 1 graphic designer, 1 copy writer, etc... ). Taproot also provides a "project boilerplate" to help you get rolling on a short timeschedule with people who haven't worked together before.
It's true that probably the majority of the JavaScript apps built to this point are bad at memory management, from a percentage based view. I would also venture to guess that more programs have been written in JavaScript in the last 10 years than in C or Java, and more of those were written by developers with little or no training. That doesn't mean that the language is bad, just that the training level of the JavaScript community on average is low.
There are good JavaScript applications being built by skilled developers that are not resource hogs and which run very fast and efficiently on powerful JIT-based VMs. Just because there's a lot of bad JS written by a lot of bad developers doesn't mean that the language is inherently flawed... There are lots of bad C apps written by bad C developers too, they just don't have as wide an audience.
You know, we all have to deal with Spam too, and that's all from C, Java, and Perl apps... Should C, Java, and Perl take the blame for that?
Just because people have used a language for evil doesn't mean that the language is inherently bad.
See the ServerJS specs at https://wiki.mozilla.org/ServerJS which are implemented by several of these projects. They provide a good solid library of Database, Network, and File IO abstractions,
If you read the OP, there's a link to the ServerJS specs that Mozilla has been working on standardizing. It's a set of standard DOM-ish APIs for the JavaScript language that allow it to work in a multi-platform way with local files, databases, TCP streams, etc.
Not really.... Honestly JavaScript is more like Lisp than it is like C# or Java. The only thing that it vaguely shares with C# and Java are that it's got a roughly C-like syntax.
And i'll point out that Java doesn't need to be compiled before running. JSR-274 specifies an interpreter for the Java Language. BeanShell is the current reference implementation http://www.beanshell.org/
I've recently been exposed to the world of Health Care Billing and rates. It's incredibly complex, and frightening. Medicare ends up paying *WAY* less than private insurers, and providers end up having to hike up their rates to the private insurers to cover the difference between cost and Medicare.
Seriously, we all know that aside from outliers like MSNBC and FOX news, television really only has one bias: Money.
If exposing Republicans sex scandals will sell more ad time, they'll do it. If posting "human interest" stories about how Obama's health care plan will create "Death Panels" will sell more ads, they'll do that too.
I remember when the first proof of an extra-solar planet was found, and people were amazed. Now we're only mildly fased by a planet whose orbit is probably one in a million.
Amazing how far astronomy has come in the last decade or so.
I wonder how long until we figure out a way to detect inhabited planets. Can't be too far off.
Seriously, is that really a concern? I've never seen a company whose source code was so "advanced" that stealing it was really worth while. If you're doing something really revolutionary, patent it. If you're just implementing algorithms that hundreds of other people have implemented in the past, theres basically nothing worth stealing in your code. True, a sysadmin could possibly copy everything about your web site, and change the domain name, and stand up a copy of it, with all of the data but even a skilled admin would take a day or two to do it. Then there's the challenge of trying to convince the customers that they should switch to a system that's exactly the same as the one they're already on, but run by someone else.... Why would they want to do that?
So, lets say that the sysadmin then hires some coders to change the source code, to make their site different form yours. Design some changes, get some coders on it, and put it through QA, and you're looking at at least a week, probably closer to a month before they've got a site that's an "improvement" over yours that might attract customers. How much has your site improved in a month? How many customers have you added in a month that will be resistant to change? How much has your marketing department done in a month? How many marketing folks will this outsourced sysadmin company have to hire and spin up to compete with your marketing folks?
Ultimately, it comes down to this... The sysadmin is in a different business than you. They have no reason to steal your code or customers, because unless you provide outsourced system administration, they aren't set up to do the same kind of business as you, and probably have no interest in it.
It doesn't appear that there's any "Voice" in it inherently... it's just a method for retrieving and modifying XML documents in a shared setting. I wouldn't think that putting Voice data in there would be very efficient.
From my reading, they're requiring TLS on the XMPP stream, which pretty well covers encryption.
If Lens Flares count as special effects, then they were heavily overused. Apparently in the future they've lost the art of making and using polarized lenses. Pretty much any scene involving the bridge was so distracting I couldn't watch.
It's fixed for the most common search terms, but it still seems to be filtering down for some less commonly searched terms. Interesting what this reveals about the Google caching/optimization architecture.
Someone is so getting fired for this.
This is the first Google effective downtime in my memory.. Were there other ones that anyone can think of?