They've promised to support 1.2, as well. You have to understand that they don't just stick a few bells and whistles in and then repackage it. IBM has 3 labs working on various aspects of the JVM. Some of the improvements they've made are truly impressive. IBM JDK1.1.8 speeds on Windows approach natively compiled Java code (a la TowerJ) on the same platform. The Linux 1.1.8 JDK is not that far behind. Take a look at IBM's dev site to see benchmarks and information. They're still working on similar levels of performance for the 1.2 JDK. Personally, I can't wait.
I've run the Blackdown 1.2 JDK and the IBM 1.1.8 JDK and there is no doubt the IBM version is faster. Granted, it doesn't "know" how to do as much, but even considering that factor, the 1.1.8 JDK kicks solid ass.
BeOS gained 70% yesterday, and SUN and others were up quite a bit.
Regardless, though, I think that the "market" has missed the glaring significance of this whole case: The damage has already been done. The net result of this case has been to erode the image of the all powerful Microsoft, and has given the various PC manufacturers the courage, so to speak, to sell PC's without Microsoft software. Since the bulk of their money is made by not doing anything (I mean, by pre-installs), if even 5% of machines come without Windows XX, then that's a significant drop in earnings).
On a second front, public perceptions of Microsoft has tarnished. They're not the same, super great company they were perceived to be before. Now, more and more people are seeing them as the robber barons of the 90's. People are looking for alternatives. People recognize that people don't like Microsoft software. Just 2 years ago, saying that I didn't use MSFT software on principle elicited "huh? Why?"'s from most non-computer people I know. Now, people at least go, "oh";-).
Intel probably never will go to invest in Debian. I don't think Debian is trying to make money and cater to the type of clients that Intel really looks towards, specifically companies that buy the latest/greatest (read those with the highest margins) processors for their servers. This isn't to say that Debian couldn't be used for those servers, but that companies such as RedHat and Turbolinux market towards that crowd.
As everyone knows, Intel is in this for themselves, and assuming they have limited money (relatively speaking), they're going to put their money where they'll get the best return.
Personally, every time I try to work up a good dislike for Intel, they seem to do something that redeems them a bit. More distributions with money is a good thing. That means more development and more money for Open Source projects.
Now, I agree that the world can hold both proprietary software and Free Software, and that the two can get along. It's just interesting that the article makes the point that you really can't trust a proprietary vendor to stay in the market, and thus you must code as if they won't.
It seems to me that this should be a general practice, anyways (i.e. staying vendor independent in your SQL). I'd go even further and say that it should be independent in your API calls as well. In the current project I'm working on at work, we've isolated all of our database specific api calls and other database specific stuff in a separate library, calling our wrapper functions instead. It seems like a bright thing to do anyway, as it gives you additional flexibility. Of course, this app is a $30 million dollar project, so we definitely have the time and money to do it.:-)
I was just sort of thinking about this and was wondering how many schools in English speaking countries have Portuguese departments or how many schools in portuguese speaking countries have english departments.
I went to Johns Hopkins, where they offered business and scientific french classes, and probably spanish as well (I don't remember, since I took French). I wonder if it would be possible to ask students taking those classes to translate the documentation and work on maintaining it. I mean, if you look at the sheer number of language students out there, there are sure to be enough that have the aptitude to translate technical documents, as well as the time to either volunteer to do it, or maybe do it for credit that they can get out of their departments.
For those of you still in college, this is something worth investigating. It would give them a great way to practice learning the language while helping the Linux community out.
Of course, this could just be a dumb idea, which I'm sure you'll let me know soon enough.:-)
You take a look at the stuff this guy worked on and there is no doubt that he's a brilliant man (or was at least) who has made some contributions. But then you take a look at some of the other stuff... I don't know... it makes me wonder a bit. For example, that link to Project Chariot was rather disturbing. With what we all sort of implicitly understand and know about nuclear power and nuclear weapons, it seems as if it would be rather difficult to miss the downside of using nuclear weapons to excavate. For someone who helped design and create the technology, you'd think he would understand what the implication and long term impact would be on a harbor excavated with nukes.
The article seems to make him sound like a crackpot obsessed with the power of the nuclear weapons he worked with, trying to use them for everything from geographical engineering to defense. The project chariot thing really disturbed me, though. If the account at the link above is true, then I worry that maybe he is a crazy scientist.
On the other hand, maybe this was his way of coping with a truly awful weapon that he had a hand in creating. Finding a successful peaceful use might make him feel better.
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So basically, if I don't want stupid emails like this, I have to give up "real-time" communication from NSI about my account? That sounds kind of stupid, don't you think?
Though I agree the comment was probably worded as flamebait, I think the person has a point to make that many of us geeks don't like to admit. In terms of sheer practicality, the PalmPilots and their bretheren are nowhere near as useful for everyone as some people make them out to be. Some people swear by them, and use them a lot. I, on the other hand, don't, even though I have one, because it just didn't "take" with me.
That's one thing I would like to see for these PDAs: Replaceable OS's and/or more customizable interfaces. The reason is that I apparently don't work the way most other people do (at least, that's how it seems to me). It's be nice to tweak the interface a lot, and have the ability to change some of the major components of the PalmOS paradigm.
I know there are a lot of hacks out there that let you customize the palmos a lot, but there needs to be more modularity to the system so that you can sit at one "manager" interface and install and deinstall software at will from your PC. That would be nice. Sort of like Hackmaster for your PC. Is there something like that?
Do you have any opinions on the system? How difficult would it be to learn to use, in your opinion?
I wonder about stuff like this, because on one hand it can be very useful to let artists concentrate on the content of the game. On the other hand, it can constrain a game. I mean, if you look at some of the best games around, most of them don't really have the same or very, very similar engines. They share some characteristics, but in large part they're different.
I don't know if you'd ever see a really successful game come out of this type of engine. I guess that's the point I'm trying to make.
If you ask me, Star Trek is the ideal kids show (for like 10-15 year olds). It's also good for us "older" kids, don't get wrong. What I mean is that it is really a show aimed at the younger audience members. I mean, I hope that 20, 30, and 40+ year olds don't need morality messages daily.:-)
But for a younger audience, I think it fits most peoples' definition of "good television" for children. It's a fairly "geek" oriented show, emphasizing knowledge of science and technology, showing both men and women in roles of responsibility. These same smart scientific folks are also fit and athletic, which is important in this day and age of couch potatos. There are also good messages in all of the shows, which, if you agree with the messages, are good for kids to see.
Admittedly, this makes it annoying for the rest of us that don't need the moral lessons, but I would love to have my children (if I had any) watch star trek with me. I'll be sad if there isn't a Star Trek to watch when I do have kids.
As for today, though, I think DS9 was the first Star Trek series that lost the morality message (Wheel of Morality, turn turn turn;-) and became more of a science fiction soap, with a running plot line. That, I liked. I was sad to see it go.
It's a good idea, but best left decentralized (i.e. maybe a standard extension in the browser or some such idea). The idea of a single server for this type of information just scares me.... cracked once and a whole lot of people are in trouble. And, by it's very nature, it can't be protected in the same ways as credit card computer systems and bank systems (firewalls and dedicated networks).
didn't improve it? Are you serious? It's changed quite a bit since they bought it... not to mention "cool" things like integration with MSFT Passport. Now there's a good idea. Place credit cards, mailing addresses, and passwords into our cool online service so that crackers know exactly where to hit the mother lode.
I'd have to agree. While I won't hold back criticizing the MSFT when they deserve it, I'm not sure if this is their problem. In other words, Microsoft seems to want to support the Alpha, at least a little, but Compaq is blowing away the NT Unit because it's "underperforming" for them.
As for the Merced thing, I'd have to agree. This sounds more like an early hiccup vs. any serious problem. Believe me when I say that Intel will not hold back any support for getting MSFT stuff to run on their processors. Too big a market.
Although, if Intel were to not help MSFT, it's be interesting to see who that would hurt more? Intel or MSFT? I mean, if you think about it, with this move, NT is basically a one architecture beast. So unless they start pushing AMD K7's as their premier processor (not a bad idea from the reviews of the processor), MSFT is really in some trouble. On the other hand, cheap Intel processors would probably aid Be, Linux, OS/2, BSD, and the number of other x86 operating systems out there.... be interesting, if you ask me.
Java (push for more standards compliance, then extend when they didn't get their way) -- this is slightly different, I admit
XML (they helped come up with the damn spec for crying out loud, yet they don't fully support the standard in 5 but support extensions)
Those are just a few. I suggest you check out the BMS site for more examples of the open standard bait and switch.
Look, I don't like Microsoft, but I come by that dislike honestly. I was a support tech through college during the emergence of Netscape before Win95 was on the map. I started disliking them when I saw how often things blew up, and how often problems were caused by Windows 3.1 or the OS. Then seeing that even though they had marginal products, no alternative could survive because of their agreements with OEMs? I used to be a big Microsoft backer, pushing my department at school to adopt NT fileservers over Netware, and to use NT web servers. It wasn't some bias of mine that caused me to dislike them. It was my experience (and the experiences of others around me) that caused me to dislike them.
Then there is the issue of many of the investigations that have been done about them. Forged and doctored evidence at trial (oops, that was a mistake), not once but twice(!), various execs testifying to market division meetings (you want me to believe that they're all lying?), reports even today from other companies that they have tying agreements with MSFT. They're all false? or biased? One could argue that everything in The Microsoft File or any of the other books written about Gates and Microsoft are "biased" or "unfair." To me, though, the investigation of President Clinton was biased, politically motivated, and in the end, quite unfair.
Did it make a difference as to whether he actually did have an affair? Like Clinton, Microsoft doesn't claim that any of the reports of their business dealings are untrue... makes me wonder....
The point being that just as it's silly to criticize MSFT out of hand, it's silly to label all criticism, even on/., as Microsoft bashing. I have legitimate issues with the company, which has nurtured serious and considered skepticism of the company and it's pronouncements. This is not Anti-Microsoft myopia! Sujal
Yeah, I knew that... but I don't see the worth of it all. In other words, both sides are taking a huge PR hit on this. I'd be interested in knowing how much revenue AOL generates from AIM. If it were like millions of dollars in advertising, then I could understand. But I've run AIM from my PC's before, and all the advertising was for AOL. I've seen little other advertising, but I haven't used it in the past month. *shrug*
I think he was referring to a similar case brought by 3Com against Microsoft (or threatened to bring... can't remember) regarding the Microsoft palm-type device. I don't thing that it's relevant, though, as this seems to be more of a straight copyright complaint.
I just got my copy yesterday, and lets just say my girlfriend was a little annoyed because she felt I was ignoring her (do you *know* how long it's been since I got a new video game?!)
It's a great game, which also shows how well Linux can do as a gaming environment. The patch, I hope, addresses the little things that irked me last night. The graphics are great, the music is as good or better than the last version, and I like the new interface (though it does take some getting used to).
Worth the $49, if you ask me, especially considering the fact that I don't have to reboot. Besides, I answered that Slashdot poll about how much I'd be willing to spend on a game, so I should actually follow through on what I said.:-)
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I'm hoping this makes a good reference to carry around. The manual for my camera (a Minolta Maxxum XTsi) said enough about the various options and features to make me dangerous, I think.:-) Though I've had decent luck taking pictures (you can see some of them at my web site under Vacation Pics), I still want to be able to turn off all of the automatic features of my camera and honestly be able to say I understand what's going on.
I'm close, but I still need something that goes into detail. I went ahead and ordered this book, and I hope it's a help.
Well, the "military" is not one entity. Even within each major branch of the armed forces (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, etc.), there are further subdivisions, and little fiefdoms that exist.
For example, the company I work for is currently a contractor for the US Navy, and we're using Lotus Notes internally (at the Navy). It seems like all of the Navy uses Notes, BTW. The Marines use some Vines-like thing, and maybe Notes as well (the Marines are *technically* related to or part of the Navy).
Just wanted to point out that just because the Army is developing or forcing Unix-based systems, doesn't mean the Navy (who had the smart ship program) is doing the same thing. In fact, our NT based Domino servers have been flaky all week, further increasing everyone's ire with MSFT here
What you said above is entirely different from your original post. I don't think anyone is saying that there are "no such [things] as a destructive lifestyle." The point is that skin deep investigations don't help the situation. Also, many students are different without being destructive.
I know many Goths who don't do drugs or commit crimes, as well as geeks, freaks, and even jocks! I didn't interpret anything Katz was saying as condoning destructive lifestyles. But, as someone pointed out above, being different does not equate to being destructive.
Actually, we're not agreeing. The sarcasm of the first sentence (and the rest of the post, actually), implies that Katz's message was trying to sympathize with the TCM.
His post is exactly the attitude causing the crackdowns. Sympathizing with students in similar positions does not equate to sympathizing with the TCM. I did think before I flamed. That's what I thought of the post.
Understanding the feeling of otrascization doesn't equate to justifying the actions taken by those two kids. Too many people are saying what you've said above and are ignoring the real problem. It's not like all kids go berserk and start killing people. But many kids feel this way. Instead of focusing our efforts on curbing the playing of Quake and other dumb, useless things like that, we should focus on the root of this sentiment of anger and hate, which is how kids treat each other in school.
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I've run the Blackdown 1.2 JDK and the IBM 1.1.8 JDK and there is no doubt the IBM version is faster. Granted, it doesn't "know" how to do as much, but even considering that factor, the 1.1.8 JDK kicks solid ass.
Sujal
Regardless, though, I think that the "market" has missed the glaring significance of this whole case: The damage has already been done. The net result of this case has been to erode the image of the all powerful Microsoft, and has given the various PC manufacturers the courage, so to speak, to sell PC's without Microsoft software. Since the bulk of their money is made by not doing anything (I mean, by pre-installs), if even 5% of machines come without Windows XX, then that's a significant drop in earnings).
On a second front, public perceptions of Microsoft has tarnished. They're not the same, super great company they were perceived to be before. Now, more and more people are seeing them as the robber barons of the 90's. People are looking for alternatives. People recognize that people don't like Microsoft software. Just 2 years ago, saying that I didn't use MSFT software on principle elicited "huh? Why?"'s from most non-computer people I know. Now, people at least go, "oh" ;-).
Sujal
As everyone knows, Intel is in this for themselves, and assuming they have limited money (relatively speaking), they're going to put their money where they'll get the best return.
Personally, every time I try to work up a good dislike for Intel, they seem to do something that redeems them a bit. More distributions with money is a good thing. That means more development and more money for Open Source projects.
Sujal
It seems to me that this should be a general practice, anyways (i.e. staying vendor independent in your SQL). I'd go even further and say that it should be independent in your API calls as well. In the current project I'm working on at work, we've isolated all of our database specific api calls and other database specific stuff in a separate library, calling our wrapper functions instead. It seems like a bright thing to do anyway, as it gives you additional flexibility. Of course, this app is a $30 million dollar project, so we definitely have the time and money to do it. :-)
Sujal
I went to Johns Hopkins, where they offered business and scientific french classes, and probably spanish as well (I don't remember, since I took French). I wonder if it would be possible to ask students taking those classes to translate the documentation and work on maintaining it. I mean, if you look at the sheer number of language students out there, there are sure to be enough that have the aptitude to translate technical documents, as well as the time to either volunteer to do it, or maybe do it for credit that they can get out of their departments.
For those of you still in college, this is something worth investigating. It would give them a great way to practice learning the language while helping the Linux community out.
Of course, this could just be a dumb idea, which I'm sure you'll let me know soon enough. :-)
Sujal
The article seems to make him sound like a crackpot obsessed with the power of the nuclear weapons he worked with, trying to use them for everything from geographical engineering to defense. The project chariot thing really disturbed me, though. If the account at the link above is true, then I worry that maybe he is a crazy scientist.
On the other hand, maybe this was his way of coping with a truly awful weapon that he had a hand in creating. Finding a successful peaceful use might make him feel better.
Sujal
So basically, if I don't want stupid emails like this, I have to give up "real-time" communication from NSI about my account? That sounds kind of stupid, don't you think?
Sujal
That's one thing I would like to see for these PDAs: Replaceable OS's and/or more customizable interfaces. The reason is that I apparently don't work the way most other people do (at least, that's how it seems to me). It's be nice to tweak the interface a lot, and have the ability to change some of the major components of the PalmOS paradigm.
I know there are a lot of hacks out there that let you customize the palmos a lot, but there needs to be more modularity to the system so that you can sit at one "manager" interface and install and deinstall software at will from your PC. That would be nice. Sort of like Hackmaster for your PC. Is there something like that?
Sujal
I wonder about stuff like this, because on one hand it can be very useful to let artists concentrate on the content of the game. On the other hand, it can constrain a game. I mean, if you look at some of the best games around, most of them don't really have the same or very, very similar engines. They share some characteristics, but in large part they're different.
I don't know if you'd ever see a really successful game come out of this type of engine. I guess that's the point I'm trying to make.
Sujal
But for a younger audience, I think it fits most peoples' definition of "good television" for children. It's a fairly "geek" oriented show, emphasizing knowledge of science and technology, showing both men and women in roles of responsibility. These same smart scientific folks are also fit and athletic, which is important in this day and age of couch potatos. There are also good messages in all of the shows, which, if you agree with the messages, are good for kids to see.
Admittedly, this makes it annoying for the rest of us that don't need the moral lessons, but I would love to have my children (if I had any) watch star trek with me. I'll be sad if there isn't a Star Trek to watch when I do have kids.
As for today, though, I think DS9 was the first Star Trek series that lost the morality message (Wheel of Morality, turn turn turn ;-) and became more of a science fiction soap, with a running plot line. That, I liked. I was sad to see it go.
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As for the Merced thing, I'd have to agree. This sounds more like an early hiccup vs. any serious problem. Believe me when I say that Intel will not hold back any support for getting MSFT stuff to run on their processors. Too big a market.
Although, if Intel were to not help MSFT, it's be interesting to see who that would hurt more? Intel or MSFT? I mean, if you think about it, with this move, NT is basically a one architecture beast. So unless they start pushing AMD K7's as their premier processor (not a bad idea from the reviews of the processor), MSFT is really in some trouble. On the other hand, cheap Intel processors would probably aid Be, Linux, OS/2, BSD, and the number of other x86 operating systems out there.... be interesting, if you ask me.
Sujal
Java (push for more standards compliance, then extend when they didn't get their way) -- this is slightly different, I admit
XML (they helped come up with the damn spec for crying out loud, yet they don't fully support the standard in 5 but support extensions)
Those are just a few. I suggest you check out the BMS site for more examples of the open standard bait and switch.
Look, I don't like Microsoft, but I come by that dislike honestly. I was a support tech through college during the emergence of Netscape before Win95 was on the map. I started disliking them when I saw how often things blew up, and how often problems were caused by Windows 3.1 or the OS. Then seeing that even though they had marginal products, no alternative could survive because of their agreements with OEMs? I used to be a big Microsoft backer, pushing my department at school to adopt NT fileservers over Netware, and to use NT web servers. It wasn't some bias of mine that caused me to dislike them. It was my experience (and the experiences of others around me) that caused me to dislike them.
Then there is the issue of many of the investigations that have been done about them. Forged and doctored evidence at trial (oops, that was a mistake), not once but twice(!), various execs testifying to market division meetings (you want me to believe that they're all lying?), reports even today from other companies that they have tying agreements with MSFT. They're all false? or biased? One could argue that everything in The Microsoft File or any of the other books written about Gates and Microsoft are "biased" or "unfair." To me, though, the investigation of President Clinton was biased, politically motivated, and in the end, quite unfair.
Did it make a difference as to whether he actually did have an affair? Like Clinton, Microsoft doesn't claim that any of the reports of their business dealings are untrue... makes me wonder....
The point being that just as it's silly to criticize MSFT out of hand, it's silly to label all criticism, even on /., as Microsoft bashing. I have legitimate issues with the company, which has nurtured serious and considered skepticism of the company and it's pronouncements. This is not Anti-Microsoft myopia! Sujal
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It's a great game, which also shows how well Linux can do as a gaming environment. The patch, I hope, addresses the little things that irked me last night. The graphics are great, the music is as good or better than the last version, and I like the new interface (though it does take some getting used to).
Worth the $49, if you ask me, especially considering the fact that I don't have to reboot. Besides, I answered that Slashdot poll about how much I'd be willing to spend on a game, so I should actually follow through on what I said. :-)
Sujal
I'm close, but I still need something that goes into detail. I went ahead and ordered this book, and I hope it's a help.
Sujal
For example, the company I work for is currently a contractor for the US Navy, and we're using Lotus Notes internally (at the Navy). It seems like all of the Navy uses Notes, BTW. The Marines use some Vines-like thing, and maybe Notes as well (the Marines are *technically* related to or part of the Navy).
Just wanted to point out that just because the Army is developing or forcing Unix-based systems, doesn't mean the Navy (who had the smart ship program) is doing the same thing. In fact, our NT based Domino servers have been flaky all week, further increasing everyone's ire with MSFT here
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I know many Goths who don't do drugs or commit crimes, as well as geeks, freaks, and even jocks! I didn't interpret anything Katz was saying as condoning destructive lifestyles. But, as someone pointed out above, being different does not equate to being destructive.
Conformity is NOT the answer.
Sujal
His post is exactly the attitude causing the crackdowns. Sympathizing with students in similar positions does not equate to sympathizing with the TCM. I did think before I flamed. That's what I thought of the post.
Sujal
Understanding the feeling of otrascization doesn't equate to justifying the actions taken by those two kids. Too many people are saying what you've said above and are ignoring the real problem. It's not like all kids go berserk and start killing people. But many kids feel this way. Instead of focusing our efforts on curbing the playing of Quake and other dumb, useless things like that, we should focus on the root of this sentiment of anger and hate, which is how kids treat each other in school.
Sujal
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