Um... were the WSJ journalits breaking the DMCA when they decrypted the files?
Should not M$ sue them?
Or just get them arrested a la Sklyarivsky...
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IBM Wants Linux
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This sounds less like a challenge to the Open Source community, than a vision to hijack the platform. IBM has pretty good (I want to say vast, but you guys will flame me) developer muscle. They can change Linux to fit their servers. They can throw out the code that doesn't work on their platforms, and keep the rest of the goodies. They can come up with a "Linux" that's only 50% of the Linux we know. It would still *look* like Linux, perhaps, though.
I would question: is the brand image of Linux sufficiently powerful for Big Blue to chuck AIX (and probably corporate pride), and do the amount of development needed to bring Linux up to be a mainframe OS?
Perhaps, it is the fact that if they have a single OS, from the very small to the very big, source code compatibility becomes a terribly attractive thing?
Could this become a move like Microsoft made with Java? Would the Open Source process ensure that that does not happen?
Apocalyptic vision: IBM's version of Linux is very good, very popular, and brings a smile to the lips and a cheer to the heart of the corporate IS manager. And though the modifications are free, they are not really usuable on x86es and PPCs. Ho hum. Now everone is buying IBM Linux, even if they own a piddly x86. Not because it has the same code as the one that runs on the RS6000, but because IBM makes it.
I agree that this is a terrific book on JSP.
What makes WDJSP book different is its attention to design and architecture issues, and for pointing out that while JSP will let you "put everything in one file", why one shouldn't do it and how not to do it.
IMO servlets + JSP are good technologies for creating large and complex web-based applications. By designing carefully, it is easy to integrate it with non-web corporate apps (theoretically, since there are not, I suppose, many corporate apps in Java).
Consider the Struts project on Apache-Jakarta. This is about implementing the MVC design pattern using servlets and JSP.
I believe that helping grok complex information is where 3D environments can help best. And there is a lot of complex information around.
To illustrate, imagine one is trying to understand how a gee-wizz software system works. The 2D desktop may be good enough to read a few pages of code. Or see a couple of diagrams. Beyond that, a lot depends on how much info you can hold into your head at a time.
Now imagine a 3D landscape: you see a figure made of what looks like three giant differently colored cubes, with flags on 'em that say "dbase manager", "info collector", and "presenter". Stare at "info collector" --- the other cubes fade away and this one zooms up and becomes transparent, revealing a few more multi-colored cubes inside....
Stuff you could visualize in your sleep.
Of course, right *now* someone will have to convert code-text files into an arcane scripting language to make a 3D UI let you see all this. But someday we will be *creating* things in such an environment.
The pessimistic views here could be the result of:
(a) the fact that current UI's are too expensive or not good enough;
(b) they are not working with data that *really* needs to be seen in 3D...
I read an article in New Scientist where VR systems were being used by people to detect patterns in the firing of neurons. Looking doen on a sheet of paper with "Neuron A fired Neuron B" just does not cut it, if what you want to derive is a rule like "the... lobe activates the... lobe...". The fact is, the human brain is pretty good at seeing patterns qualitatively in 3D.
So let's cheer the pioneers. One day I might be able to say, "I knew it all along..." Why pass the chance;-)
They want developers? Then why charge for the dev kit? I would think _they_ need developers, rather than the the other way round. Feeling a bit pissed about how costs of (some) dev lits.
...is the fact that they have no word embodying the concept of hackers as you'd describe them. So you can't let the media stick to their term and adopt another, for strictly PR terms, let's say.
Okie. I am an Indian. From India. I'd say all you geeks have a haven there. Geeks are a much respected species there. They're a bit short of girlfriends there, but I don't think that's a big problem, eh? I am currently pursuing undergraduate studies in Singapore. The situation is not so bad here either, I think. I do not get the picture and cannot understand the intense hatred against geeks the posts here show. Let's say you are a bright student, actually like the 'hard' subjects, do stuff with electronics and/or computers, can be seen at lunch with a book that does not deal with the movies etc., and probably look at the fat textbooks of your seniors with lust. (An incomplete and biased description, I know; geeks don't all root for texts.) In my place teachers would beam at you, and fellow students shake heads in respectful disbelief. Why not? You win awards at science fairs, write cooler code than the teacher, know most of the answers... So do *you* find that hard to believe?
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Um... were the WSJ journalits breaking the DMCA when they decrypted the files?
Should not M$ sue them?
Or just get them arrested a la Sklyarivsky...
This sounds less like a challenge to the Open Source community, than a vision to hijack the platform. IBM has pretty good (I want to say vast, but you guys will flame me) developer muscle. They can change Linux to fit their servers. They can throw out the code that doesn't work on their platforms, and keep the rest of the goodies. They can come up with a "Linux" that's only 50% of the Linux we know. It would still *look* like Linux, perhaps, though.
I would question: is the brand image of Linux sufficiently powerful for Big Blue to chuck AIX (and probably corporate pride), and do the amount of development needed to bring Linux up to be a mainframe OS?
Perhaps, it is the fact that if they have a single OS, from the very small to the very big, source code compatibility becomes a terribly attractive thing?
Could this become a move like Microsoft made with Java? Would the Open Source process ensure that that does not happen?
Apocalyptic vision: IBM's version of Linux is very good, very popular, and brings a smile to the lips and a cheer to the heart of the corporate IS manager. And though the modifications are free, they are not really usuable on x86es and PPCs. Ho hum. Now everone is buying IBM Linux, even if they own a piddly x86. Not because it has the same code as the one that runs on the RS6000, but because IBM makes it.
Capiche?
I hope I am very wrong.
I agree that this is a terrific book on JSP. What makes WDJSP book different is its attention to design and architecture issues, and for pointing out that while JSP will let you "put everything in one file", why one shouldn't do it and how not to do it. IMO servlets + JSP are good technologies for creating large and complex web-based applications. By designing carefully, it is easy to integrate it with non-web corporate apps (theoretically, since there are not, I suppose, many corporate apps in Java). Consider the Struts project on Apache-Jakarta. This is about implementing the MVC design pattern using servlets and JSP.
I believe that helping grok complex information is where 3D environments can help best. And there is a lot of complex information around. To illustrate, imagine one is trying to understand how a gee-wizz software system works. The 2D desktop may be good enough to read a few pages of code. Or see a couple of diagrams. Beyond that, a lot depends on how much info you can hold into your head at a time. Now imagine a 3D landscape: you see a figure made of what looks like three giant differently colored cubes, with flags on 'em that say "dbase manager", "info collector", and "presenter". Stare at "info collector" --- the other cubes fade away and this one zooms up and becomes transparent, revealing a few more multi-colored cubes inside.... Stuff you could visualize in your sleep. Of course, right *now* someone will have to convert code-text files into an arcane scripting language to make a 3D UI let you see all this. But someday we will be *creating* things in such an environment. The pessimistic views here could be the result of: (a) the fact that current UI's are too expensive or not good enough; (b) they are not working with data that *really* needs to be seen in 3D ...
I read an article in New Scientist where VR systems were being used by people to detect patterns in the firing of neurons. Looking doen on a sheet of paper with "Neuron A fired Neuron B" just does not cut it, if what you want to derive is a rule like "the ... lobe activates the ... lobe...". The fact is, the human brain is pretty good at seeing patterns qualitatively in 3D.
So let's cheer the pioneers. One day I might be able to say, "I knew it all along..." Why pass the chance ;-)
They want developers? Then why charge for the dev kit? I would think _they_ need developers, rather than the the other way round. Feeling a bit pissed about how costs of (some) dev lits.
I can't see it! Is there a bug?
Let us say Stallman is a hacker. Let us say gcc is a well designed compiler. Ummm....
Let us say that hackers may not _necessarily_ bad coders. Can?
...is the fact that they have no word embodying the concept of hackers as you'd describe them. So you can't let the media stick to their term and adopt another, for strictly PR terms, let's say.
Okie. I am an Indian. From India. I'd say all you geeks have a haven there. Geeks are a much respected species there. They're a bit short of girlfriends there, but I don't think that's a big problem, eh? I am currently pursuing undergraduate studies in Singapore. The situation is not so bad here either, I think. I do not get the picture and cannot understand the intense hatred against geeks the posts here show. Let's say you are a bright student, actually like the 'hard' subjects, do stuff with electronics and/or computers, can be seen at lunch with a book that does not deal with the movies etc., and probably look at the fat textbooks of your seniors with lust. (An incomplete and biased description, I know; geeks don't all root for texts.) In my place teachers would beam at you, and fellow students shake heads in respectful disbelief. Why not? You win awards at science fairs, write cooler code than the teacher, know most of the answers... So do *you* find that hard to believe?