I fully agree with all your comments, but with one exception. Where you say memory and resource management isn't a bitg deal is true if you're a Java developer, but very hard if you're the JVM developer needed to optimize and improve the workflow. That said, these few brave souls writing better and better C/C++ code allow the vast millions of developers using the JVM to get thart lift. Now that's what I'd consider a nice boost to productivity for all.
That's just rediculous. Based on my projections, there will be 2 billion lawyers on earth by that point, and all they'd need to do is blow some hot air in the opposite direction to shift the earth's orbit. Problem solved!
Why through their entire post did they not once tackle one of the prime reasons to get DSLR's, and that's image quality? Lets assume for a moment that we have a brand new professional photographer that's somehow never bought body or glass in their lives. Would you in all your wisdom, or trey or whomever recommend picking up these cameras to do real work? In 2 years?
Maybe a more apt question, can one buy lenses in these limtied formats with anything near the level of variety in the SLR world? Yes, it sucks that there are two basically incompatible standards that one will only buy deeper into as time goes by, but at least one knows that the investment is future proof, the lenses made with good quality components to last.
When I see these pseudo-dslr cameras, the first thing I think is great, now there's 6 incompatible lens standards, everyone is running in different directions, nobody seems to have a good message for why these camera supplant the quality that even mid-range DSLR's accomplish, and in 5 years, will any of these platforms still be here? Forget the cameras themselves, becase even Trey admits that the technology is not here today. Or will the lenses even last that long?
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I hated 7 too until I found http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ Now, I'm more or less happy as a clam. There are still some annoyances that I needed to work around through heavy modifications, but at least now it looks 90%+ like XP was.
Flip that coin one more time. If Sony Was somehow godstruck and began acting like a responsible consumer driven company, would you still ever support them? It seems silly to have a decade old grudge over a company who's executives are most likely working for their competitors now. Now I don't know for sure if Sony's really wised up over their retarded past mistakes, but I find it silly that people get so emotional over a nebulous blob of an entity with so many working parts, anything could jade one. Customer Support is a big one. One bad disgruntled rep could stale the relationship with otherwise loyal customers forever.
Wow, you can't be happy with anything. Flip it around. Android allows for third party contact syncing to and from anyone with enough initiative to do so. Say the same thing about our SIG's namesake. No integration with anyone who isn't your namesake company. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2337307?threadID=2337307&tstart=0
At least with Android phones, if you have Exchange, you can sync against exchange out of the box. If you have a Google account, you can sync with Google contacts out of the box. If you have some other custom provider, you can write or ask for someone else to write it. Just because Google hasn't held everyone's hand by writing an adapter for 1000 different contact,calendar,etc.. providers, it doesn't mean that someone else couldn't. The API's are open and freely usable. (Except for Facebook sadly, but they invited it upon themselves.
Your baseless and petty attacks show just how philosophically biased you really are.
This type of story isn't new and i'd imagine its pretty common. When you know there are corner case bugs unpatched that were only 1 in 10,000,000 chance of being triggered in a given flight, do you still want to risk relying on your software for your life or death? Nah. What those engineers weren't doing was listening to the Boeing engineer's list of bugs and that they'd be doing the exact same thing whenever a new system's hot off the assembly line.
We have computer controlled trains in my city, and the rumor mill kept chupring away that the engineers would never touch them with a ten foot pole, but to my knowledge there's never been a serious derailment or automation related fatalities (lots of jumpers sadly, but I guess that comes with the territory).
Hell, 300 clams for a support license / year is penuts. CentOS gives you didly, besides patches if and when they decide it. Well, you may find that 300 a big damn deal, but for people making real money, the ability to get help and real assurance contractually is important. I wouldn't run my business on
You are crazy. I'm a Java developer, who uses Linux, and I'd neer consider OpenJDK as any sort of alternative to SunJDK. Its pretty much the first thing I install on my Linux boxes. The Oracle/Sun supplied JRE is a lot more stable, and I'd assume is better performant as well.
"4. you don't need fancy regulation to crack down on good ol' fraud, you just make it harder for small players to comply"
It wouldn't help anyways if federal prosecutors don't actually do anything about it. The number of Sarbox related lawsuits as a result of the latest crisisis? I think its bordering on 0.
1. Stability First time importing my songs: Crash Second time importing my songs: Went fine
2. Online Integration All the help / addons / web integration stuff seems to be no-show. The pages are 404's, empty, or wiki not found's...
3. Video Playback (or lack thereof) Attempted to load some videos and it constantly complained about not having the codecs to play them. The 'solution' given was to visit the Wiki page... which doesn't exist...
Well, at least the media playback and selection works more or less after getting started. Its not in a state which I'd consider switching, but it has at least some potential.
Except for the 100% of all desktop users that know and use that same concept on a day to day basis. I learned about minimized windows in Computer literacy in maybe grade 7/8 whenever they had Windows 3.0 released. Out with the old, in with the different.
COBOL developers are in fact in demand, but no, the language and its use are NOT. The only developers are maintainers and the odd 'new feature' in order to shore up against the code needing to be modernized, which is pretty much every COBOL program out there. The companies are fighting tooth and nail to avoid touching that big black box in the corner until its just so rediculous to maintain that they're forced to deal with replacing it.
In slashdot, all users are treated equally, and if you get modded up its because the mob generally agrees with what you're saying. That said, after the 16th or so Gnome3/unity story, I think this flame war is about as boring as grass. Us haters have found somewhere else to hang our hats, and the lovers will defend it with their dieing breath. The winner like so many other decisions won't be held by the jury of slashdot, but instead in everyone's home/office/laptop from machine to machine, and no matter how much one shouts, that fact won't change.
If OSS history's taught us anything, its that distros / programs only remain relevant as long as they continue to service the needs of their users.
There are definitely rational thinking religious types, but ultimately, the conversation ends in a few well tread ways:
1. Religious-type take this all so personally, that they outright leave ending the debate then and there (not common for 'rational' types, but it has happened) 2. We basically devolve the argument into something so ting and specific that "the missing link is between X AND Y million years ago, so that invalidates all evolutionary theory", in which the point although technically correct leaves the rather large bulk of existing evidence in disproportunate weighting to the small sample of the unknown. 3. (The trump card) "but all that well structured and logical scientific stuff was put there by god to mess with the minds of disbelievers!!!!" 4. The religious-type and I finally settle on the FACT that although I believe what I do, and they believe what they do, that when it all comes down to it, we can and will never know and the whole discussion was verbal masterbation (This only happens with the truely pragmatic religious types, and thankfully I know a lot more of them than I do the 6000 year zealots)
I'm sure there were some other fun arguments I've forgotten to mention, but this covers the more notable ones.
"Math is 100% necessary to understand computers" No, actually "computer understanding" has more to do with logic than (non-trivial) mathamatics anyways. I'd say even programming is more relevant to have a good grasp of basic procedural logic and branching in order to 'get' computers. For one to "Make" a computer, you'll obviously need to know a fair bit of electrinics, DC circuits, digital design, etc.. which involves heavy amounts of Math and some Physics, but that's not the concept of a computer, its the implementation of one. I passed my math courses without a fault, and I can't recall applying a quarter of the math that I've learned in the > 10 years I've spent in development. Actually, the most applied math that I've personally used in Computer programming was in data aggregation modelling and that wasn't even taught in my classes.
"but is evolution 100% necessary to understand the body as it is" Just as the computer topic above, its good to know the fundamentals of how computers are build and function, but it doesn't mean you have to know evolution in order to be a competant medic. In fact, your analogies are rather apt since both aren't strictly required to perform ones duties in a 'best case' scenario anyways.
The more important problem arises not from being ignorant of something, but actually denying it. If a doctor denies evolution then what's the harm in over-perscribing anti-biotics, since any good X knows that evolution can't exist? Or are they just hypocrites that only deny macro-evolution? hmm? *smacks head* time for bed.
Actually, it isn't. The only time I've ever seen tablets in the wild (very rare) have always been stand-alone. The most often case for people using their devices (at least in public) have been:
1. Laptop toting coffee shop junkies, almost 99% laptop based, and 50-60% lean back in posture (AKA, not real work)
( Once ever have I seen a tablet at a coffee shop, and it was a guy flashing up some pictures for sales/marketing it seemed. ) 2. Cell Phones (all), for the ones that have user interfaces, I've recently seen a large number of people texting one another (IMHO not likely business), ~10% playing games?, and maybe 10% surfing for pages in some degree 3. E-paper devices - 99.999999% lean back
Of all examples cited, most people doing any sort of real work were the laptop toting junkies. Unless we move very far into the utopia of nobody needing to do real work, your argument seems flawed. The fact is that REAL work cannot and frankly is not done on the go.
Laptop rant: Our office has a policy of using laptops instead of desktops (who knows why?) and probably 20% of the coworkers that have and use laptops tote the beast between work and home (the rest don't even bother taking them home) and even then, the benefit of having a device on the go becomes pretty much irrelevant since its only used in fixed locations that could've been using cheaper equipment to begin with. Outside of the rugged road warriors who'll always be working from planes, trains, and automobiles, who needs portables (for work)?
Can I add quick launchers to my bars? I want one-click launchers as a first level task. I don't use desktop icons, because 99% of the time there's something in front of them. I just want a handy way to launch a very commonly used application without digging into menus or typing the exact name into a search box. If you can be more productive than a single click to a fixed point on my monitor, I'm sold.
It was 18% in 1995, and it was 17% in 2000, 19% in 2007, and now its 23.7... hmm. What happened between 2007-2010 which could have possibly caused such a substantial increase in gov spending against the GDP in the lest few years? I don't have the stats, but I'm sure you'll see similar blips around 1927-30's and during WW2. All I'm getting at is looking at raw stats without context doesn't give the whole picture of what the gov was spending their money on, or why.
If there's any truth to this story then their rationale is most likely the result of Google blocking their contacts/accounts and dialer integration. I'd personally say that Google's stance on data extraction is quite fair (What's good for the goose is good for the gander), but it means that Facebook is crippled on Android devices, and almost certainly never be fully integrated on IOS.
Once again, if in fact this story's real (of which I'm personally skeptical) I don't see it being a success. They have two options: Use Android or use a poorly developer serviced OS which will in all likelihood be forgotten by most developers in 5 years. IF they go for Android, they still have the natural barrier of Google who's bridges are all burned. The odds of a Facebook phone being 'certified' for the Google apps is next to zilch, so it comes down to Facebook needing their own store to drive sales.
One could argue that the viral nature of Facebook will lead to better applications discovery. but that advantage can only start to kick in once enough of their subscribers are also phone owners. Without that critical mass, its just another annoying "Facebook Games"-esk notification that gets dropped into the mental bit bucket.
I was thinking that a way of sending hidden messages between two locations (assuming a reasonably reliable network), one could introduce send messages by controlling the rate of the replies in a predictable manner (using ECC and varying transition timings for error rate compensation).
Another simple one would be with TCP/UDP in forcing out of order packets for positive/negative bit representation and similar correction routines as above.
Both hidden message systems are slow to send any substantial amount of information, but I can't see a reasonable approach to intercept without a full dump of the entire packets and timestamps which is more laborious than just the session data contents (assuming one is ManInTheMiddle). Further security on the payload as necessary, but the transmission of the message itself is hard detect.
How about: "Not suitable for High-school kids looking to write their first database application" or "Not for mere morons" or "Not suitable for enthusiasts"
It seems like of silly. For playing around with K/V based systems, on the low end, you can throw something together with bubblegum and gumption without much concern about reliability, concurrency, or scaling. If you are a large project with a non-trivial set of requirements, the learning curve on a solution should be far less important than the effective output of the system in production. Now I've never used Oracle's NoDB solution (or any NoSQL solutions for that matter) but I'd reserve judgement until its actually in your hands to see how it works with your development practices.
Personally, I was obsessed with the concept of NoSQL in development until I realized just how much heavy work systems like Oracle do for effectively free using relatively simple SQL expressions. Maybe if I ever work on huge volume or huge scale systems, my tone may change, but in my typical enterprise scale systems (tables under 10mil rows) I haven't seen the need for anything else.
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I fully agree with all your comments, but with one exception. Where you say memory and resource management isn't a bitg deal is true if you're a Java developer, but very hard if you're the JVM developer needed to optimize and improve the workflow. That said, these few brave souls writing better and better C/C++ code allow the vast millions of developers using the JVM to get thart lift. Now that's what I'd consider a nice boost to productivity for all.
Thanks to them for it.
Google is a corporation and they are in the business of making money. Thank you, captain obvious.
That's just rediculous. Based on my projections, there will be 2 billion lawyers on earth by that point, and all they'd need to do is blow some hot air in the opposite direction to shift the earth's orbit. Problem solved!
That this got posted vs. the thousands of similar stories that happen in a given year was that it happened on Facebook... lame story. Moving on...
Why through their entire post did they not once tackle one of the prime reasons to get DSLR's, and that's image quality? Lets assume for a moment that we have a brand new professional photographer that's somehow never bought body or glass in their lives. Would you in all your wisdom, or trey or whomever recommend picking up these cameras to do real work? In 2 years?
Maybe a more apt question, can one buy lenses in these limtied formats with anything near the level of variety in the SLR world? Yes, it sucks that there are two basically incompatible standards that one will only buy deeper into as time goes by, but at least one knows that the investment is future proof, the lenses made with good quality components to last.
When I see these pseudo-dslr cameras, the first thing I think is great, now there's 6 incompatible lens standards, everyone is running in different directions, nobody seems to have a good message for why these camera supplant the quality that even mid-range DSLR's accomplish, and in 5 years, will any of these platforms still be here? Forget the cameras themselves, becase even Trey admits that the technology is not here today. Or will the lenses even last that long?
I hated 7 too until I found http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/
Now, I'm more or less happy as a clam. There are still some annoyances that I needed to work around through heavy modifications, but at least now it looks 90%+ like XP was.
Flip that coin one more time. If Sony Was somehow godstruck and began acting like a responsible consumer driven company, would you still ever support them? It seems silly to have a decade old grudge over a company who's executives are most likely working for their competitors now. Now I don't know for sure if Sony's really wised up over their retarded past mistakes, but I find it silly that people get so emotional over a nebulous blob of an entity with so many working parts, anything could jade one. Customer Support is a big one. One bad disgruntled rep could stale the relationship with otherwise loyal customers forever.
Wow, you can't be happy with anything. Flip it around. Android allows for third party contact syncing to and from anyone with enough initiative to do so. Say the same thing about our SIG's namesake. No integration with anyone who isn't your namesake company.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2337307?threadID=2337307&tstart=0
At least with Android phones, if you have Exchange, you can sync against exchange out of the box. If you have a Google account, you can sync with Google contacts out of the box. If you have some other custom provider, you can write or ask for someone else to write it. Just because Google hasn't held everyone's hand by writing an adapter for 1000 different contact,calendar,etc.. providers, it doesn't mean that someone else couldn't. The API's are open and freely usable. (Except for Facebook sadly, but they invited it upon themselves.
Your baseless and petty attacks show just how philosophically biased you really are.
This type of story isn't new and i'd imagine its pretty common. When you know there are corner case bugs unpatched that were only 1 in 10,000,000 chance of being triggered in a given flight, do you still want to risk relying on your software for your life or death? Nah. What those engineers weren't doing was listening to the Boeing engineer's list of bugs and that they'd be doing the exact same thing whenever a new system's hot off the assembly line.
We have computer controlled trains in my city, and the rumor mill kept chupring away that the engineers would never touch them with a ten foot pole, but to my knowledge there's never been a serious derailment or automation related fatalities (lots of jumpers sadly, but I guess that comes with the territory).
Hell, 300 clams for a support license / year is penuts. CentOS gives you didly, besides patches if and when they decide it. Well, you may find that 300 a big damn deal, but for people making real money, the ability to get help and real assurance contractually is important. I wouldn't run my business on
You are crazy. I'm a Java developer, who uses Linux, and I'd neer consider OpenJDK as any sort of alternative to SunJDK. Its pretty much the first thing I install on my Linux boxes. The Oracle/Sun supplied JRE is a lot more stable, and I'd assume is better performant as well.
"4. you don't need fancy regulation to crack down on good ol' fraud, you just make it harder for small players to comply"
It wouldn't help anyways if federal prosecutors don't actually do anything about it. The number of Sarbox related lawsuits as a result of the latest crisisis? I think its bordering on 0.
1. Stability
First time importing my songs: Crash
Second time importing my songs: Went fine
2. Online Integration
All the help / addons / web integration stuff seems to be no-show. The pages are 404's, empty, or wiki not found's...
3. Video Playback (or lack thereof)
Attempted to load some videos and it constantly complained about not having the codecs to play them. The 'solution' given was to visit the Wiki page... which doesn't exist...
Well, at least the media playback and selection works more or less after getting started. Its not in a state which I'd consider switching, but it has at least some potential.
Except for the 100% of all desktop users that know and use that same concept on a day to day basis. I learned about minimized windows in Computer literacy in maybe grade 7/8 whenever they had Windows 3.0 released. Out with the old, in with the different.
COBOL developers are in fact in demand, but no, the language and its use are NOT. The only developers are maintainers and the odd 'new feature' in order to shore up against the code needing to be modernized, which is pretty much every COBOL program out there. The companies are fighting tooth and nail to avoid touching that big black box in the corner until its just so rediculous to maintain that they're forced to deal with replacing it.
In slashdot, all users are treated equally, and if you get modded up its because the mob generally agrees with what you're saying. That said, after the 16th or so Gnome3/unity story, I think this flame war is about as boring as grass. Us haters have found somewhere else to hang our hats, and the lovers will defend it with their dieing breath. The winner like so many other decisions won't be held by the jury of slashdot, but instead in everyone's home/office/laptop from machine to machine, and no matter how much one shouts, that fact won't change.
If OSS history's taught us anything, its that distros / programs only remain relevant as long as they continue to service the needs of their users.
There are definitely rational thinking religious types, but ultimately, the conversation ends in a few well tread ways:
1. Religious-type take this all so personally, that they outright leave ending the debate then and there (not common for 'rational' types, but it has happened)
2. We basically devolve the argument into something so ting and specific that "the missing link is between X AND Y million years ago, so that invalidates all evolutionary theory", in which the point although technically correct leaves the rather large bulk of existing evidence in disproportunate weighting to the small sample of the unknown.
3. (The trump card) "but all that well structured and logical scientific stuff was put there by god to mess with the minds of disbelievers!!!!"
4. The religious-type and I finally settle on the FACT that although I believe what I do, and they believe what they do, that when it all comes down to it, we can and will never know and the whole discussion was verbal masterbation (This only happens with the truely pragmatic religious types, and thankfully I know a lot more of them than I do the 6000 year zealots)
I'm sure there were some other fun arguments I've forgotten to mention, but this covers the more notable ones.
"Math is 100% necessary to understand computers"
No, actually "computer understanding" has more to do with logic than (non-trivial) mathamatics anyways. I'd say even programming is more relevant to have a good grasp of basic procedural logic and branching in order to 'get' computers. For one to "Make" a computer, you'll obviously need to know a fair bit of electrinics, DC circuits, digital design, etc.. which involves heavy amounts of Math and some Physics, but that's not the concept of a computer, its the implementation of one. I passed my math courses without a fault, and I can't recall applying a quarter of the math that I've learned in the > 10 years I've spent in development. Actually, the most applied math that I've personally used in Computer programming was in data aggregation modelling and that wasn't even taught in my classes.
"but is evolution 100% necessary to understand the body as it is"
Just as the computer topic above, its good to know the fundamentals of how computers are build and function, but it doesn't mean you have to know evolution in order to be a competant medic. In fact, your analogies are rather apt since both aren't strictly required to perform ones duties in a 'best case' scenario anyways.
The more important problem arises not from being ignorant of something, but actually denying it. If a doctor denies evolution then what's the harm in over-perscribing anti-biotics, since any good X knows that evolution can't exist? Or are they just hypocrites that only deny macro-evolution? hmm? *smacks head* time for bed.
Um, this from the country that list(s/ed?) Scientology as a cult?
Actually, it isn't. The only time I've ever seen tablets in the wild (very rare) have always been stand-alone. The most often case for people using their devices (at least in public) have been:
1. Laptop toting coffee shop junkies, almost 99% laptop based, and 50-60% lean back in posture (AKA, not real work)
( Once ever have I seen a tablet at a coffee shop, and it was a guy flashing up some pictures for sales/marketing it seemed. )
2. Cell Phones (all), for the ones that have user interfaces, I've recently seen a large number of people texting one another (IMHO not likely business), ~10% playing games?, and maybe 10% surfing for pages in some degree
3. E-paper devices - 99.999999% lean back
Of all examples cited, most people doing any sort of real work were the laptop toting junkies. Unless we move very far into the utopia of nobody needing to do real work, your argument seems flawed. The fact is that REAL work cannot and frankly is not done on the go.
Laptop rant: Our office has a policy of using laptops instead of desktops (who knows why?) and probably 20% of the coworkers that have and use laptops tote the beast between work and home (the rest don't even bother taking them home) and even then, the benefit of having a device on the go becomes pretty much irrelevant since its only used in fixed locations that could've been using cheaper equipment to begin with. Outside of the rugged road warriors who'll always be working from planes, trains, and automobiles, who needs portables (for work)?
Can I add quick launchers to my bars? I want one-click launchers as a first level task. I don't use desktop icons, because 99% of the time there's something in front of them. I just want a handy way to launch a very commonly used application without digging into menus or typing the exact name into a search box. If you can be more productive than a single click to a fixed point on my monitor, I'm sold.
It was 18% in 1995, and it was 17% in 2000, 19% in 2007, and now its 23.7... hmm. What happened between 2007-2010 which could have possibly caused such a substantial increase in gov spending against the GDP in the lest few years? I don't have the stats, but I'm sure you'll see similar blips around 1927-30's and during WW2. All I'm getting at is looking at raw stats without context doesn't give the whole picture of what the gov was spending their money on, or why.
If there's any truth to this story then their rationale is most likely the result of Google blocking their contacts/accounts and dialer integration. I'd personally say that Google's stance on data extraction is quite fair (What's good for the goose is good for the gander), but it means that Facebook is crippled on Android devices, and almost certainly never be fully integrated on IOS.
Once again, if in fact this story's real (of which I'm personally skeptical) I don't see it being a success. They have two options: Use Android or use a poorly developer serviced OS which will in all likelihood be forgotten by most developers in 5 years. IF they go for Android, they still have the natural barrier of Google who's bridges are all burned. The odds of a Facebook phone being 'certified' for the Google apps is next to zilch, so it comes down to Facebook needing their own store to drive sales.
One could argue that the viral nature of Facebook will lead to better applications discovery. but that advantage can only start to kick in once enough of their subscribers are also phone owners. Without that critical mass, its just another annoying "Facebook Games"-esk notification that gets dropped into the mental bit bucket.
I was thinking that a way of sending hidden messages between two locations (assuming a reasonably reliable network), one could introduce send messages by controlling the rate of the replies in a predictable manner (using ECC and varying transition timings for error rate compensation).
Another simple one would be with TCP/UDP in forcing out of order packets for positive/negative bit representation and similar correction routines as above.
Both hidden message systems are slow to send any substantial amount of information, but I can't see a reasonable approach to intercept without a full dump of the entire packets and timestamps which is more laborious than just the session data contents (assuming one is ManInTheMiddle). Further security on the payload as necessary, but the transmission of the message itself is hard detect.
How about: "Not suitable for High-school kids looking to write their first database application"
or
"Not for mere morons"
or
"Not suitable for enthusiasts"
It seems like of silly. For playing around with K/V based systems, on the low end, you can throw something together with bubblegum and gumption without much concern about reliability, concurrency, or scaling. If you are a large project with a non-trivial set of requirements, the learning curve on a solution should be far less important than the effective output of the system in production. Now I've never used Oracle's NoDB solution (or any NoSQL solutions for that matter) but I'd reserve judgement until its actually in your hands to see how it works with your development practices.
Personally, I was obsessed with the concept of NoSQL in development until I realized just how much heavy work systems like Oracle do for effectively free using relatively simple SQL expressions. Maybe if I ever work on huge volume or huge scale systems, my tone may change, but in my typical enterprise scale systems (tables under 10mil rows) I haven't seen the need for anything else.