This is not because people think "XML is sexy. Let's do everything with it!". It's because the DB research world recently has been approaching semistructured data that allows for queries not immediatly available in the relational model.
Furthermore the "document society" has been bringing consistency back into the web by various derivates of the "webservices" concept, ie. there's an XML representation of data - which is machine readable, rather than one of quirky man made HTML.
This convergence between DB research and data representation is what is interesting to lots of people in this area. Will it suddenly make sense to use the hierachical structure as logical view on the database? If so, can we make operations like JOIN and UNION (or other) on websites thus causing data enhancement or aggregation?
The ideas are really interesting, don't quite knock them yet. I can strongly recommend a google search on "semistructred data", further the book "Data on the Web" by Abiteboul et al. is extremely insightful on this topic.
How? The one experience I've had with ext3 is very bad. I had a bad crash from which I could not recover. I could no longer execute vital files like eg. route, and basically I ended up reformatting the system, saving only what I could have on a floppy. Stuff like that should never ever happen, ext3 should just have made a rollback to last good known FS rather than sending me out to manually spend more than 30 minutes allowing fsck to do its job (which it didn't do well at all).
That's a load of horse dung. StarOffice 5.X was bloated and tried to bee too many things at the same time. This simply isn't the case with eg. newest releases of OpenOffice or StarOffice 6.0 Beta.
Both the Office import and export functionality has worked flawless for me.
You don't mention any specifics, so it's hard to give details in response. What databases? How free hands do you have?
I'd suggest a message oriented XML based system. You can model to your hearts content in XML, languages, charset etc. You can design near anything around that, and have various backends convert the XML messages (SOAP possibly) to the kind of data that's useful for the given backend.
Imagine we did read some meaningful data. I guess we can assume that the civilization is already extinct. Ok, so we know that there's chances of life out there - what else is new?
Why not spending that processing time on some relevant projects where you can help make a differences? Like http://foldingathome.stanford.edu/. Or similar projects for scanning for asteroids or anything else that just has a plausible purpose.
Miguel de Icaza: We were interested in the CLR because it solves a problem that we face every day. The Java VM did not solve this problem.
What does he mean here? I did not find any evidence
in the interview, and I'd really like to know the
advantages of.NET - when all comes to it, both techs are VM based and thus bound to suffer from similar weaknesses.
- Make the job a way for you to get experiences,
ie. don't be afraid to travel abroad etc.
- Make yourself invaluable, it's hard work, but
once there, any company will go great lengths
and listen to you if you're bored.
- Start your own. There's lots of money in making
internet software for small companies. When you
work for yourself, things are much more fun as
YOU make the decisions, ie. technology etc. and
you take on the challenges, and not just hide
out as an anonymous mouse at BigCompany (tm).
As for FPS, the next JSDK release (1.4.0) contains an exclusive mode that allows you to disable the windowing system. See the fullscreen exclusive mode API tutorial. There's already a bunch of OpenGL wrapper API's also, with the upcoming OpenGL 1.3, the JVM just may be the application that ships with games rather than DirectX. This is a very good thing as this means games being just as portable as Java, ie. the very same game runs equally on Solaris, Linux, HP and Wintendo. So gamers install JVM's - who cares about Microshaft shafting Java in XP? However idealistic, it's food for thought.
For the love of God, all you poor cubicle workers should quit and work at a place with an atmosphere. A place where you can talk and interact with your co-workers. Go abroad.
Oh. I agree with the GUI criticism, but still not with your first generalization on Java. From the screenshots and API it appears that Reptile runs via Servlets - no GUI flicker hanky panky there. As for the 10 meg plugin, it's just a matter of bundling your software delivery properly.
Bloated useless applets - I agree. Off the top of my head however, I can come up with several
good uses for applets:
Invisible applet web bugs with the ability to open sockets to the server from which they came.
This still has lots of potential.
Intranet "fat" clients. Give you a manner to distribute the client from a single source, no
need to run all over and update software on the client machines.
Units in a distributed system. No fancy GUI, just the real deal. This gives ease of access, people
can join eg. distributed.net with literally only a click in their browser - no installation needed.
Having said this, I also agree that applets are not the killer application they were made to be
6 years ago. I believe Flash makes a better frontend for GUIs, I believe RealPlayer is a better
streaming media client. Why should a JRE be treated differently from another pluggable
browser element? People will need to get as used to upgrade their JRE as they are to upgrading
their Flash/RealPlayer/Whatever.
Why are you confusing Java developers with dorks? Big O notation applies in all programming languages,
an O(n) implementation in Java will beat an O(n*n) in C any day.
I'm a Java developer, one with a solid education as well. I believe that C should be your first language,
I don't however, believe that it should be mandatory to know the nuts and bolts of hardware near programming.
If you know C, you'll be able to grasp onto near any other programming language fairly easily.
This is nothing but a self promoting hoax.
What shocks me are the posts really believing
that this occurred. Japan is not a 3rd world
country run by some wack dictator.
Danish research, industry and power supply
in unified world record.
For the first time in the world superconducting wires are moved beyond the laboratories and
into the power grid. It happens monday at
Amager Koblingsstation located Irlandsvej 95.
The Italian/American competitor Pirelli is believed to be at least a month delayed.
Since february engineers from Copenhagen Energy,
NKT Cables, NKT Research and DTU have worked
on installing three pieces of superconducting wire
at Amager Koblingsstation, monday they're ready to
supply great parts of Amager with power.
This is a demonstration project (proof of concept) that through daily maintenance will show whether superconduction techniques are read for the terms of reality. the cables need to withstand the large fluctuations in power and voltage, that occur from time to time. Three cables at each 30 meters of length have been spliced into a section of the normal power grid, on the distribution side, where the voltage is 30 kilovolt.
The initial phase is careful, but as Amager Koblingsstation is capable of supplying power to all of Amager's 150000 inhabitants, the supercables will have theirs to see to.
"Initially the supercables will be in charge of 20 percent of the ordinary power, for as long as we're comfortable using them. Later the load will be increased", says integrational project manager Svend Korning of Copenhagen Energy.
Waste is halved
Not only the cables are on test. An important part of the cooling facility that's needed to keep the superconductors below their critical temperature, minus 160 degrees celcius (-256F), where electrical resistance disappears.
When the test phase is over, the new supercables are to be used across larger distances, typically 4-6 kilometers (1.6-3.75 miles). This is where
money is to be made in comparison to traditional power cables, that become 70-80 degrees celcius hot (158-176F) when fully loaded. The dug down cables heat the surrounding ground to no use, that waste will disappear completely when using superconductors.
"In stead there's going to be an extra power usage in the maintentance of the necessary cooling facilities, but that usage is only half the wast of the traditional cables" says project manager Dag Willen of NKT Research.
"The society can save energy on superconductors, but to the power companies it's more interesting that the cables are cheaper to install, as this helps then to be competitive on price. So far things look good. With cables that are several kilomneters in length, expensive high voltage transformers which have been necessary so far, can be saved when the power is to be transported. Furthermore, the supercables are smaller and bend easier" he says.
The demonstration project at Amager has costed 10 million danish crows (~$1.25m), but there are more possibilities of doing this cheaper next time. For examnple, the cables can be produced to take up less space, and allow larger maximum current.
"But for the first round, we've purposely produced a simple cable with the same dimensions as the old" says Dag Willen.
Indeed! I should have heeded your advice earlier today. I tried to GRIP a CD, the application hung like a horse, so I tried ALT+CTRL+F2 to try and get a prompt. I got burried in output about DriveSeek and horror and error++, so I logged in as root and rebooted. Needless to say I spent the rest of the day recovering my HDD. Initially it didn't even show up on fdisk. Bugger.
Ask yourself why IBM would do something like this.
For the sake of the Linux community? Hardly. They
get their system tested for free, just like MS
wishes to get people to try and crack (test) their
OS in the dumb challenges.
Once this is tested, imagine the potential it can
have at an ISP. No more snotty restricted accounts,
they just boot another VM, and you've got a full
blown Linux server, ready to host your apps.
It's money in the making.
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This is not because people think "XML is sexy. Let's do everything with it!". It's because the DB research world recently has been approaching semistructured data that allows for queries not immediatly available in the relational model.
Furthermore the "document society" has been bringing consistency back into the web by various derivates of the "webservices" concept, ie. there's an XML representation of data - which is machine readable, rather than one of quirky man made HTML.
This convergence between DB research and data representation is what is interesting to lots of people in this area. Will it suddenly make sense to use the hierachical structure as logical view on the database? If so, can we make operations like JOIN and UNION (or other) on websites thus causing data enhancement or aggregation?
The ideas are really interesting, don't quite knock them yet. I can strongly recommend a google search on "semistructred data", further the book "Data on the Web" by Abiteboul et al. is extremely insightful on this topic.
How? The one experience I've had with ext3 is very bad. I had a bad crash from which I could not recover. I could no longer execute vital files like eg. route, and basically I ended up reformatting the system, saving only what I could have on a floppy. Stuff like that should never ever happen, ext3 should just have made a rollback to last good known FS rather than sending me out to manually spend more than 30 minutes allowing fsck to do its job (which it didn't do well at all).
That's a load of horse dung. StarOffice 5.X was bloated and tried to bee too many things at the same time. This simply isn't the case with eg. newest releases of OpenOffice or StarOffice 6.0 Beta.
Both the Office import and export functionality has worked flawless for me.
Am I the only one who thinks that Galeon, however perty, is notoriously unstable?
You don't mention any specifics, so it's hard to give details in response. What databases? How free hands do you have?
I'd suggest a message oriented XML based system. You can model to your hearts content in XML, languages, charset etc. You can design near anything around that, and have various backends convert the XML messages (SOAP possibly) to the kind of data that's useful for the given backend.
Imagine we did read some meaningful data. I guess we can assume that the civilization is already extinct. Ok, so we know that there's chances of life out there - what else is new?
Why not spending that processing time on some relevant projects where you can help make a differences? Like http://foldingathome.stanford.edu/. Or similar projects for scanning for asteroids or anything else that just has a plausible purpose.
this is a test test hest mest
in the best test
Rather strange if you ask me.
But this is just a test.
Why is it that AMD produces explicit MP CPUs, and I read about MP boards that can use standard CPUs?
You have several options.
- Make the job a way for you to get experiences,
ie. don't be afraid to travel abroad etc.
- Make yourself invaluable, it's hard work, but
once there, any company will go great lengths
and listen to you if you're bored.
- Start your own. There's lots of money in making
internet software for small companies. When you
work for yourself, things are much more fun as
YOU make the decisions, ie. technology etc. and
you take on the challenges, and not just hide
out as an anonymous mouse at BigCompany (tm).
Java has become a competitor to .NET? .NET is not even reality yet.
.NET gets going we'll have the best of breed virus platform
:)
Java has strong infrastructural strengths already (and have had so since day 1).
OTOH, once
that supports any MS programming language (and more!) of your choice
Link to cache from there.
[lapis]~>wc -l reallyMeanCrack
40882 reallyMeanCrack
[lapis]~>cat reallyMeanCrack|tr '\n' ' ' > reallyMeanOneLinerCrack
As for FPS, the next JSDK release (1.4.0) contains an exclusive mode that allows you to disable the windowing system. See the fullscreen exclusive mode API tutorial. There's already a bunch of OpenGL wrapper API's also, with the upcoming OpenGL 1.3, the JVM just may be the application that ships with games rather than DirectX. This is a very good thing as this means games being just as portable as Java, ie. the very same game runs equally on Solaris, Linux, HP and Wintendo. So gamers install JVM's - who cares about Microshaft shafting Java in XP? However idealistic, it's food for thought.
For the love of God, all you poor cubicle workers should quit and work at a place with an atmosphere. A place where you can talk and interact with your co-workers. Go abroad.
Oh. I agree with the GUI criticism, but still not with your first generalization on Java. From the screenshots and API it appears that Reptile runs via Servlets - no GUI flicker hanky panky there. As for the 10 meg plugin, it's just a matter of bundling your software delivery properly.
Last time you ran a Java application was in 1995, correct?
Bloated useless applets - I agree. Off the top of my head however, I can come up with several
good uses for applets:
Invisible applet web bugs with the ability to open sockets to the server from which they came.
This still has lots of potential.
Intranet "fat" clients. Give you a manner to distribute the client from a single source, no
need to run all over and update software on the client machines.
Units in a distributed system. No fancy GUI, just the real deal. This gives ease of access, people
can join eg. distributed.net with literally only a click in their browser - no installation needed.
Having said this, I also agree that applets are not the killer application they were made to be
6 years ago. I believe Flash makes a better frontend for GUIs, I believe RealPlayer is a better
streaming media client. Why should a JRE be treated differently from another pluggable
browser element? People will need to get as used to upgrade their JRE as they are to upgrading
their Flash/RealPlayer/Whatever.
Why are you confusing Java developers with dorks? Big O notation applies in all programming languages,
an O(n) implementation in Java will beat an O(n*n) in C any day.
I'm a Java developer, one with a solid education as well. I believe that C should be your first language,
I don't however, believe that it should be mandatory to know the nuts and bolts of hardware near programming.
If you know C, you'll be able to grasp onto near any other programming language fairly easily.
I saw the NEC plasma displays at CeBIT. Those
things are as crisp as anything.
This is nothing but a self promoting hoax. What shocks me are the posts really believing that this occurred. Japan is not a 3rd world country run by some wack dictator.
Danish research, industry and power supply in unified world record.
For the first time in the world superconducting wires are moved beyond the laboratories and into the power grid. It happens monday at Amager Koblingsstation located Irlandsvej 95. The Italian/American competitor Pirelli is believed to be at least a month delayed.
Since february engineers from Copenhagen Energy, NKT Cables, NKT Research and DTU have worked on installing three pieces of superconducting wire at Amager Koblingsstation, monday they're ready to supply great parts of Amager with power.
This is a demonstration project (proof of concept) that through daily maintenance will show whether superconduction techniques are read for the terms of reality. the cables need to withstand the large fluctuations in power and voltage, that occur from time to time. Three cables at each 30 meters of length have been spliced into a section of the normal power grid, on the distribution side, where the voltage is 30 kilovolt.
The initial phase is careful, but as Amager Koblingsstation is capable of supplying power to all of Amager's 150000 inhabitants, the supercables will have theirs to see to.
"Initially the supercables will be in charge of 20 percent of the ordinary power, for as long as we're comfortable using them. Later the load will be increased", says integrational project manager Svend Korning of Copenhagen Energy.
Waste is halved
Not only the cables are on test. An important part of the cooling facility that's needed to keep the superconductors below their critical temperature, minus 160 degrees celcius (-256F), where electrical resistance disappears.
When the test phase is over, the new supercables are to be used across larger distances, typically 4-6 kilometers (1.6-3.75 miles). This is where money is to be made in comparison to traditional power cables, that become 70-80 degrees celcius hot (158-176F) when fully loaded. The dug down cables heat the surrounding ground to no use, that waste will disappear completely when using superconductors.
"In stead there's going to be an extra power usage in the maintentance of the necessary cooling facilities, but that usage is only half the wast of the traditional cables" says project manager Dag Willen of NKT Research.
"The society can save energy on superconductors, but to the power companies it's more interesting that the cables are cheaper to install, as this helps then to be competitive on price. So far things look good. With cables that are several kilomneters in length, expensive high voltage transformers which have been necessary so far, can be saved when the power is to be transported. Furthermore, the supercables are smaller and bend easier" he says.
The demonstration project at Amager has costed 10 million danish crows (~$1.25m), but there are more possibilities of doing this cheaper next time. For examnple, the cables can be produced to take up less space, and allow larger maximum current.
"But for the first round, we've purposely produced a simple cable with the same dimensions as the old" says Dag Willen.
Indeed! I should have heeded your advice earlier today. I tried to GRIP a CD, the application hung like a horse, so I tried ALT+CTRL+F2 to try and get a prompt. I got burried in output about DriveSeek and horror and error++, so I logged in as root and rebooted. Needless to say I spent the rest of the day recovering my HDD. Initially it didn't even show up on fdisk. Bugger.
Ask yourself why IBM would do something like this. For the sake of the Linux community? Hardly. They get their system tested for free, just like MS wishes to get people to try and crack (test) their OS in the dumb challenges.
Once this is tested, imagine the potential it can have at an ISP. No more snotty restricted accounts, they just boot another VM, and you've got a full blown Linux server, ready to host your apps. It's money in the making.