I've always thought the discovery part of Jini was the only thing of great value in it. Having devices discover each other without blanketing the network (wired or wireless) with messages is a great feature. Apple's Rendezvous does this, and does it so well you don't even notice it, services just appear in Safari and iTunes. If Obje can do that too, that's nice, but is it in any way revolutionary? I doubt mDNSResponder is that hard to implement, even in a handheld.
If the only thing that mattered about any human endeavor was whether or not you could make money from it, the world would be a poorer place. Perhaps Vasters has spent too much time toiling away in some enormous corporation where the only visible proof you've done something is your paycheck. In that world, his arguments make sense, but in the bigger picture, there is room for other definitions. And that makes all the difference.
Scoble used to be a somewhat interesting writer, that is, until he took a job with Microsoft. Now he just parrots the party line, with some safe, but seemingly critical, comments on the top.
This is clever, and it's nice to see that it works, but Java? Most people's experience with Java is waiting forever for some applet to load on a web page only to discover it tells them what time it is. I can't see how they're going to convince Joe Average that this is somehow a competitive advantage, no matter how smoothly integrated the entire package is.
Providing emergency support is vastly important, but not sustainable over the long term as a rationale. Emergencies don't occur enough in the United States for people to maintain awareness. Amateur radio needs to innovate, to attract new experimenters, and to show the world that the spectrum it uses is vital. More importantly, it needs to get in the public eye. The FCC, after all, is a government agency that is beholden to interests besides amateurs. Depending on it, no matter who is in the White House, is a dangerous thing. Having public opinion in your favor (or not) can do a lot to overcome any reluctance the FCC might have to act.
Awk and those three books were the basis of my early career and I would think had the most impact on my thoughts and programming style. Not quite the philosophy of programming, but darned close. I'm still advocating the use of small, interoperable tools in my current work, even though I no longer do the programming.
"more jobs in other sectors will be created to satisfy the increased revenue IBM has available."
Um, no. That won't happen. It isn't happening now. Hasn't happened in the past. The goal of most technological advances is to reduce or eliminate human labor. It's sort of balanced when the location of revenue creation is the same as the location of employment reduction, then a situation such as you describe might occur. But it's not at all balanced when the revenue is created somewhere else. At best, it will foster additional infrastructure in India, not here.
Think of it this way, when there are no jobs, there is no need to support workers with things like restaurants, book stores, etc.
I'm using it on WinNT 4.0 SP6, I'm getting multiple complaints on start-up complaining about items in startup files. It also doesn't seem very happy with Blogger, either. I removed it and put 1.0 back on, which has only crashed once in all the time I've used it. I'm disappointed.
Surely you jest. It comes with damn near everything you buy, like it or not, even used systems (all my PC's are industrial surplus). Linux, for those of us with modems, is worth buying, and I have, Red Hat 5.0 and SuSE 6.1. I plan to buy SuSE 7.2 for a new system this summer. Just a data point.
Wait a minute, they waited until he made the presentation before arresting him? Isn't that entrapment? Do they think no one else will be able to figure this out?
Apparently, it's better to use lawyers than engineers when creating "secure" data formats...
Not only is Xerox PARC alive and well (I was there this summer), Xerox intends to take a very close look at its patent portfolio with every intention of making some money from it. There's a lot of technology in PARC that Xerox will never bring to market itself. The days of ignoring things that don't fit the corporate mission are gone.
What got the video back on the Web was the realization that the FBI's threat was an empty one. A bunch of poorly-worded, expletive-filled emails did little, other than allow Wired to make Slashdotters look like potty-mouthed malcontents.
I'm not saying that what Wieger did was all that great, but given the same choice, who would? For such a small ISP, litigation is not just a cost of doing business, it could very well be fatal. If we feel that free speech is important enough to defend, then let's defend it. But defend it by coming to the assistance of the weak, not beating them down. Remember what Ben Franklin said about hanging together.
I am still laughing. I remember using VM/370 at a company I worked at. We ran CMS (Conversational Monitoring System) as the "OS". The beauty of VM was you could run multiple OS's on the same system, which was rather amazing for the late 70's/early 80's. Had a crash, just reboot your OS and restart, the real hardware seldom hiccupped. You could even suspend the OS you were running, load and run another one, and then return to the first. It would have been even better if we had had graphics terminals in place of the 3270's but hey, it was a long time ago. I guess it just took a long time for someone to reinvent it.
Let's not underestimate the overwhelming power of having 90% of the market. Although I'd expect most Slashdot readers to be willing to work through arcane installation procedures and to do so whenever a new version of something comes out, there are a staggering number of computer users who wouldn't. They're not likely to suddenly reformat their hard drives because a judge said MS was a monopoly. Perhaps they never will. The new ground to be won, if there is any, won't be won with the PC users that exist today. And even when users have a choice, they'll need a compelling reason to choose an alternative. In other words, we need to 1) make Linux a viable alternative to Windows (not just "it's not Microsoft" and 2) make sure the users of tomorrow know it. Let's not squander the opportunity.
Just think how many of your packets go through Cisco routers. They may not be the only game in town but given the nature of the Internet, they get involved in some way. Time to think about opensource routers too, although proving reliability will be a challenge.
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...and your Sea Monkeys (tm) will come to life!
I've always thought the discovery part of Jini was the only thing of great value in it. Having devices discover each other without blanketing the network (wired or wireless) with messages is a great feature. Apple's Rendezvous does this, and does it so well you don't even notice it, services just appear in Safari and iTunes. If Obje can do that too, that's nice, but is it in any way revolutionary? I doubt mDNSResponder is that hard to implement, even in a handheld.
If the only thing that mattered about any human endeavor was whether or not you could make money from it, the world would be a poorer place. Perhaps Vasters has spent too much time toiling away in some enormous corporation where the only visible proof you've done something is your paycheck. In that world, his arguments make sense, but in the bigger picture, there is room for other definitions. And that makes all the difference.
Scoble used to be a somewhat interesting writer, that is, until he took a job with Microsoft. Now he just parrots the party line, with some safe, but seemingly critical, comments on the top.
Even more fun: go down the aisle at the store and open the packages. If anyone ever buys one (sounds unlikely, but it could happen) it's already dead.
This is clever, and it's nice to see that it works, but Java? Most people's experience with Java is waiting forever for some applet to load on a web page only to discover it tells them what time it is. I can't see how they're going to convince Joe Average that this is somehow a competitive advantage, no matter how smoothly integrated the entire package is.
You're correct, John. My mistake. Dick is working with some interesting stuff (EZ-Rocket), but it is Burt I was thinking of.
Dick Rutan.
Providing emergency support is vastly important, but not sustainable over the long term as a rationale. Emergencies don't occur enough in the United States for people to maintain awareness. Amateur radio needs to innovate, to attract new experimenters, and to show the world that the spectrum it uses is vital. More importantly, it needs to get in the public eye. The FCC, after all, is a government agency that is beholden to interests besides amateurs. Depending on it, no matter who is in the White House, is a dangerous thing. Having public opinion in your favor (or not) can do a lot to overcome any reluctance the FCC might have to act.
Awk and those three books were the basis of my early career and I would think had the most impact on my thoughts and programming style. Not quite the philosophy of programming, but darned close. I'm still advocating the use of small, interoperable tools in my current work, even though I no longer do the programming.
Some ideas are just right.
"more jobs in other sectors will be created to satisfy the increased revenue IBM has available."
Um, no. That won't happen. It isn't happening now. Hasn't happened in the past. The goal of most technological advances is to reduce or eliminate human labor. It's sort of balanced when the location of revenue creation is the same as the location of employment reduction, then a situation such as you describe might occur. But it's not at all balanced when the revenue is created somewhere else. At best, it will foster additional infrastructure in India, not here.
Think of it this way, when there are no jobs, there is no need to support workers with things like restaurants, book stores, etc.
I'm using it on WinNT 4.0 SP6, I'm getting multiple complaints on start-up complaining about items in startup files. It also doesn't seem very happy with Blogger, either. I removed it and put 1.0 back on, which has only crashed once in all the time I've used it. I'm disappointed.
to bad rubbish. It's so sad to see this once great show in it's declining years. Anyone care to speculate when it "Jumped the Shark"?
Surely you jest. It comes with damn near everything you buy, like it or not, even used systems (all my PC's are industrial surplus). Linux, for those of us with modems, is worth buying, and I have, Red Hat 5.0 and SuSE 6.1. I plan to buy SuSE 7.2 for a new system this summer. Just a data point.
Wait a minute, they waited until he made the presentation before arresting him? Isn't that entrapment? Do they think no one else will be able to figure this out?
Apparently, it's better to use lawyers than engineers when creating "secure" data formats...
Not only is Xerox PARC alive and well (I was there this summer), Xerox intends to take a very close look at its patent portfolio with every intention of making some money from it. There's a lot of technology in PARC that Xerox will never bring to market itself. The days of ignoring things that don't fit the corporate mission are gone.
Did it? Did it really?
What got the video back on the Web was the realization that the FBI's threat was an empty one. A bunch of poorly-worded, expletive-filled emails did little, other than allow Wired to make Slashdotters look like potty-mouthed malcontents.
I'm not saying that what Wieger did was all that great, but given the same choice, who would? For such a small ISP, litigation is not just a cost of doing business, it could very well be fatal. If we feel that free speech is important enough to defend, then let's defend it. But defend it by coming to the assistance of the weak, not beating them down. Remember what Ben Franklin said about hanging together.
I am still laughing. I remember using VM/370 at a company I worked at. We ran CMS (Conversational Monitoring System) as the "OS". The beauty of VM was you could run multiple OS's on the same system, which was rather amazing for the late 70's/early 80's. Had a crash, just reboot your OS and restart, the real hardware seldom hiccupped. You could even suspend the OS you were running, load and run another one, and then return to the first. It would have been even better if we had had graphics terminals in place of the 3270's but hey, it was a long time ago. I guess it just took a long time for someone to reinvent it.
Let's not underestimate the overwhelming power of having 90% of the market. Although I'd expect most Slashdot readers to be willing to work through arcane installation procedures and to do so whenever a new version of something comes out, there are a staggering number of computer users who wouldn't. They're not likely to suddenly reformat their hard drives because a judge said MS was a monopoly. Perhaps they never will. The new ground to be won, if there is any, won't be won with the PC users that exist today. And even when users have a choice, they'll need a compelling reason to choose an alternative. In other words, we need to 1) make Linux a viable alternative to Windows (not just "it's not Microsoft" and 2) make sure the users of tomorrow know it. Let's not squander the opportunity.
Just think how many of your packets go through Cisco routers. They may not be the only game in town but given the nature of the Internet, they get involved in some way. Time to think about opensource routers too, although proving reliability will be a challenge.