The digital text services are a huge step back
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Ceefax Turns 30
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As a football (soccer) fan ceefax is the fastest way to keep up to date. I don't know any football fan who hasn't at some time "watched" a match on ceefax.
The 30 years of ceefax pages (p190 from memory) have quotes from several players and top managers (as well as David Moyes) saying pretty much the same.
Interviews with players in the past have quotes where ceefax is often the first time they here about something happening at the club they play for.
By comparison the digital services like "Sky Text" etc are slow and clunky. They don't allow the flexibility to show/hide information quickly and in my opinion are a huge step backwards for usability.
From the article "Scalability is gained by using a shared-nothing architecture where you can scale horizontally infinitely. A typical Java application will make use of the fact that it is running under a JVM in which you can store session and state data very easily and you can effectively write a web application very much the same way you would write a desktop application. This is very convenient, but it doesn't scale. "
Storing and more importantly trying to replicate stored state via sessions in Java can be expensive, but saying Java scales badly because it makes it easy to do things that don't scale well is a poor argument. I don't know enough about the merits of PHP to comment on how it deals with this issue, but when you've done lots of server side Java programming you learn to be very judicious in the use of Session scope.
"Multiple tags can be read simultaneously by a single reader at speeds of up to 320km per hour (200mph), up to 100 metres (300 feet) away."
From memory Top Gear (a uk motoring program) proved that the GATSO cameras (the main uk speed camera at the moment) couldn't see vehicles over 165mph, this ups the ante a little.
Time to learn how to hack the engine management chip on my car:)
Re:Absolutely the best Java book I've read
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Effective Java
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Indeed. It might be worth noting that James Gosling (one of the parents of Java) describes this as a book he needs.
This book will show you any bad habits that you have picked up, and teach you why they are bad. I've not found a single developer of any level of experience who has not found this book useful.
I would expect to see this sort of information more readily available throughout Europe too. At the end of September 2002 the existing Block Exemption expires in Europe.
This means a number of major changes in the industry including the right for independent motor dealers to buy directly from manufacturers (as franchise dealers do now), and for them to have the right to the information required to service these vehicles at a fair price.
What if the gateway only replaced links when no affiliate was selected. i.e. added an affiliate where none was previously present.
Playing devils advocate:-
a) The employee is breaking the terms of his contract in using the business connection for personal shopping.
b) The company adds its own affiliate information, recouping some of the cost of the actions of the employee.
The general consensus seemed to be that the company was probably on dodgy ground morally, and possibly breaking the terms of any merchant agreement with Amazon, but the employee would have little or no recourse.
A while ago a colleague and I wondered about the morality of large companies altering internet gateways to do exactly this.
i.e. Where would LargeMegaCorp stand if they rewrote URLs passing out of the companies firewall to redirect any Amazon purchases to go to a merchant account for the company.
Most large companies have policies on personal surfing, so would the employees have any recourse?
As long as the browser being used supports Java the applet download is around 115K significantly less than installing Real Player etc.
It's a streaming client happily decoding on the fly, I've used it for listening to content from the BBC for three months and found it reliable throughout.
Going to management and telling them that from tommorrow code is going to take n-times longer to develop so the general level of quality will improve isn't something they will like to hear.
One of the XP mantras I believe in is refactoring, which tends to make code stronger the more often its changed. Every time you need to alter one of the "pre-written pre-used" routines, take a look at the design and sort out any issues you see. Whilst this approach isn't going to radically increase quality on day one, it will have a cumulative effect without dramatically increasing the timescales on what is to be delivered.
IANAL but would applying browser based styling count as modification? e.g. changing the font properties etc.
Would we also see the same issues where Javascript was turned off or not supported by the browser?
I suspect that the weasel words needed should cover specifically containing the content itself, be even then a case sould be made that rendering www.slashdot.org to www.microsoft.com was a style issue.
That was what we where all told, but the pre-release packaging for Halo on XBox has the "Only on Xbox" logo on it. Full article on Ign. Some further stuff on voodooextreme claims that Microsoft will evaluate the PC version after the launch.
Do we take it that "Only on Xbox" really means "On the Xbox until other ports are finished", it doesn't have quite the same impact.
This is the same Nintendo that announced that "Gamecube will definitely launch on schedule", and at the same time suggested Microsoft would slip the Xbox "Microsoft has announced Nov. 8 as its launch date, but I don't think that's final.". I guess this means that its launching 10 days after the Xbox unless Microsft have some further announcements.
Those of us in Europe have to wait until next year anyway.......
Whatever mechanism you use to centrally stop delivery of file types you don't like/trust please make sure you either bounce the mail with the attachment, or notify the recipient that you won't deliver the particular attachment.
I consult for a large automotive company who have a policy of throwing away certain attachment types (including.tar.gz) and I have been repeatedly caught out by external suppliers sending me information which just gets thrown into the bit bucket by the corporate mail server. Neither the sender of recipient is notified that the mail has been binned which is massively irritating!
I've been part of a development project with a major motor manufacturer for the creation/translation/distribution of technical documentation worldwide (workshop manuals, training guides, owners guides etc).
The project is spread over AIX/Solaris/NT running on a series of boxes in the UK an US. We use a combination of Orbix on the AIX box providing services in C++ talking to legacy data applications, and Java services running on NT/Solaris with OrbixWeb. The performance of the Java services has never been a problem with this application and I don't want to start an advocacy thread, but we see massive benefits in running with Java services. We can move these services around the hardware on the network without code changes when we see changes in usage profiles. In reality this means we can release test services to small numbers of users on low spec hardware and then roll the same services out onto more powerful kit.
My belief is that the tooling provided with the commercial Java based Orbs could easily be replicated within the Orb provided by Sun free as part of the J2E platform.
Given a blank sheet of paper I would very seriously consider using commercial Orbs for our legacy services (C++) and a pure Java solution for the rest of the network. Does anyone have experience of attempting to mix the J2E orb with other solutions?
Don't let the lack of responses stop you guys. I'm really enjoying it, and many of my cow-orkers that don't read slashdot(heathens) are listening to the mp3.
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As a football (soccer) fan ceefax is the fastest way to keep up to date. I don't know any football fan who hasn't at some time "watched" a match on ceefax.
The 30 years of ceefax pages (p190 from memory) have quotes from several players and top managers (as well as David Moyes) saying pretty much the same.
Interviews with players in the past have quotes where ceefax is often the first time they here about something happening at the club they play for.
By comparison the digital services like "Sky Text" etc are slow and clunky. They don't allow the flexibility to show/hide information quickly and in my opinion are a huge step backwards for usability.
And why would you want to do such a thing?
For failover if you loose a node in the cluster.
Application servers like Resin support the synchronisation of these in memory sessions with failover when a node dies/is taken out of service etc.
From the article
"Scalability is gained by using a shared-nothing architecture where you can scale horizontally infinitely. A typical Java application will make use of the fact that it is running under a JVM in which you can store session and state data very easily and you can effectively write a web application very much the same way you would write a desktop application. This is very convenient, but it doesn't scale. "
Storing and more importantly trying to replicate stored state via sessions in Java can be expensive, but saying Java scales badly because it makes it easy to do things that don't scale well is a poor argument. I don't know enough about the merits of PHP to comment on how it deals with this issue, but when you've done lots of server side Java programming you learn to be very judicious in the use of Session scope.
"Multiple tags can be read simultaneously by a single reader at speeds of up to 320km per hour (200mph), up to 100 metres (300 feet) away."
:)
From memory Top Gear (a uk motoring program) proved that the GATSO cameras (the main uk speed camera at the moment) couldn't see vehicles over 165mph, this ups the ante a little.
Time to learn how to hack the engine management chip on my car
Indeed. It might be worth noting that James Gosling (one of the parents of Java) describes this as a book he needs.
This book will show you any bad habits that you have picked up, and teach you why they are bad. I've not found a single developer of any level of experience who has not found this book useful.
This means a number of major changes in the industry including the right for independent motor dealers to buy directly from manufacturers (as franchise dealers do now), and for them to have the right to the information required to service these vehicles at a fair price.
Some more info on this is available here.
As long as they leave enough fat to make soap with on the 10th challenge.
What if the gateway only replaced links when no affiliate was selected. i.e. added an affiliate where none was previously present. :-
Playing devils advocate
a) The employee is breaking the terms of his contract in using the business connection for personal shopping.
b) The company adds its own affiliate information, recouping some of the cost of the actions of the employee.
The general consensus seemed to be that the company was probably on dodgy ground morally, and possibly breaking the terms of any merchant agreement with Amazon, but the employee would have little or no recourse.
A while ago a colleague and I wondered about the morality of large companies altering internet gateways to do exactly this.
i.e. Where would LargeMegaCorp stand if they rewrote URLs passing out of the companies firewall to redirect any Amazon purchases to go to a merchant account for the company.
Most large companies have policies on personal surfing, so would the employees have any recourse?
This matrix shows 9i Application Clusters as certified for Linux.
Until we see the new license this isn't a victory.
Is the mistake over the audit clause, waving jury trials or both?
At the risk of being trolled .....
FUD.
As long as the browser being used supports Java the applet download is around 115K significantly less than installing Real Player etc.
It's a streaming client happily decoding on the fly, I've used it for listening to content from the BBC for three months and found it reliable throughout.
Try JOrbis, its pure java, will run from within a web browser (I've tested the BBC streams from within Mozilla) and works with proxy servers.
Going to management and telling them that from tommorrow code is going to take n-times longer to develop so the general level of quality will improve isn't something they will like to hear.
One of the XP mantras I believe in is refactoring, which tends to make code stronger the more often its changed. Every time you need to alter one of the "pre-written pre-used" routines, take a look at the design and sort out any issues you see. Whilst this approach isn't going to radically increase quality on day one, it will have a cumulative effect without dramatically increasing the timescales on what is to be delivered.
IANAL but would applying browser based styling count as modification? e.g. changing the font properties etc.
Would we also see the same issues where Javascript was turned off or not supported by the browser?
I suspect that the weasel words needed should cover specifically containing the content itself, be even then a case sould be made that rendering www.slashdot.org to www.microsoft.com was a style issue.
Do we take it that "Only on Xbox" really means "On the Xbox until other ports are finished", it doesn't have quite the same impact.
Those of us in Europe have to wait until next year anyway.......
Whatever mechanism you use to centrally stop delivery of file types you don't like/trust please make sure you either bounce the mail with the attachment, or notify the recipient that you won't deliver the particular attachment.
.tar.gz) and I have been repeatedly caught out by external suppliers sending me information which just gets thrown into the bit bucket by the corporate mail server. Neither the sender of recipient is notified that the mail has been binned which is massively irritating!
I consult for a large automotive company who have a policy of throwing away certain attachment types (including
Take a look at either
TogetherJ or Netbeans for Java/Swing based GUI apps strong enough for daily use.
My University in the UK issued us with cut-outs of Einstein to describe any coding problems when th lab was emtpy. It worked for me on many occasions.
I've been part of a development project with a major motor manufacturer for the creation/translation/distribution of technical documentation worldwide (workshop manuals, training guides, owners guides etc).
The project is spread over AIX/Solaris/NT running on a series of boxes in the UK an US. We use a combination of Orbix on the AIX box providing services in C++ talking to legacy data applications, and Java services running on NT/Solaris with OrbixWeb. The performance of the Java services has never been a problem with this application and I don't want to start an advocacy thread, but we see massive benefits in running with Java services. We can move these services around the hardware on the network without code changes when we see changes in usage profiles. In reality this means we can release test services to small numbers of users on low spec hardware and then roll the same services out onto more powerful kit.
My belief is that the tooling provided with the commercial Java based Orbs could easily be replicated within the Orb provided by Sun free as part of the J2E platform.
Given a blank sheet of paper I would very seriously consider using commercial Orbs for our legacy services (C++) and a pure Java solution for the rest of the network. Does anyone have experience of attempting to mix the J2E orb with other solutions?
Don't let the lack of responses stop you guys. I'm really enjoying it, and many of my cow-orkers that don't read slashdot(heathens) are listening to the mp3.
Surely it was a toothpaste tube box?