Java is the main driver for adopting Linux in the organization
Not my organization. Java is part of the picture, but nothing more. IMHO, the corporate driver is the width and depth of development and infrastructure tools - Linux as the swiss army knife/melting pot of environments.
The prospect of C Sharp / Mono winning from this position is remote to say the least.
For server side stuff I agree...for now. Let's see once/if client side uptake explodes.
For client side stuff (and that is the subject of the article) the exact opposite is true IMHO - Java had years to get it together, and has failed. One last chance would be to throw in with IBM/Eclipse/SWT. As long as Sun isn't in that boat (and dealing with the free/open issue is the admission price), Linux.Net will have a huge opening.
I've been professionally developing using C/C++ since 1985 on everything from device drivers to GUIs on every platform imaginable and I love C++.
BUT I've also been doing Java and C# the last three years, and they are a *huge* win in developer efficiency. Watching people working on my projects, I can see marginal developers immediately become much more productive (2x in some cases) - and I've been measuring this using several objective metrics (modules/week, LOC, PR #, time/PR).
I would rather see Java "win", but unless Sun blinks on the free/open issue _very_ quickly, I think C# will win by default.
The video and audio quality is unbelievably bad in comparison to the Disney work (it actually hurts to say anything nice about Disney) and as you point out the lack of subtitles.
I don't have a problem with the dub - it is pretty good.
Does everyone remember Sun's Jonathan Schwartz and the FUD he spewed a few months ago? "We do not believe that Linux plays a role on the server. Period. Solaris is a better alternative, that is safer, more robust, higher quality and dramatically less expensive in purchase price..."
If they *had* to use email, they'd use bizcoach7239@hotmail.com type addresses. x-SCO people (here and elsewhere) have documented that BS has and uses such accounts.
The last thing they would use are email accounts know to be UNDER F**KIN SUBPOENA
Don't get me wrong - I'd be very happy if this were true and these guys were this dumb. I just don't believe it.
They've all been through the "email under subpoena" game in the previous lawsuits. I seem to recall one of them even hinged on email found in discovery.
This species of legal edge lowlife knows the discovery process inside and out.
Nothing in the (fake IMHO) letter implies that this money was moved without the required paper trail. Companies make these kinds of "investments" all the time. Sleazy, but legal.
The only legal exposure I can see (since we can safely assume the Bush DoJ doesn't care about M$ manipulation) for anyone is SCO and how these "revenue" dollars were/are disclosed in SEC filings.
I don't think these guys are _quite_ dumb enough to admit to this stuff in email. Much less on company email that is all under subpoena in the IBM litigation.
My answer is that the OSS movement is (mostly) commoditizing the "essential services" layer - much like the roads, sewers, and electrical grid that the broad economy needs to function. Only a *very* small percentage of IT industry jobs are building these things in propriatory products.
The vast number of IT jobs is in customization, adaptation, etc. of software to solve business specific problems.
In my case (R&D), the existance of OSS capabilities means that my corporate masters can spend vastly more on my labor to develop new solutions because they have saved (literally) millions of dollars on things like operating systems, compilers, databases, etc that I previously had to purchase.
My understanding is that TiVO has been showing a HDTV version of the TiVo around. I'm not into the scene enough to know what compromises went into it, but...
In addition, I think there are some folks who have the other OTA HDTV card working under Myth.
I have used several Intel Linux development products for several years. The C++ compiler, performance primitive library (IPP), and VTUNE are all extremely excellent products, and well supported under Linux.
It would be nice if VTUNE would be brought up to equal footing with VTUNE for Windows, but it's pretty good as is.
Back in the BSD era, Sun did help a lot. More recently, they've been a very poor (or confused) "friend".
Sun FUDs linux routinely - remember Schwartz's FUD? "We do not believe that Linux plays a role on the server. Period. Solaris is a better alternative, that is safer, more robust, higher quality and dramatically less expensive in purchase price..."
They coordinated the imdemmnification FUD with SCO and funded SCO's licensing initiatives and lawsuits. Just look into their weak excuses for why they needed to send money to those guys.
They label stuff (Java Desktop) in such a way as to claim way more credit then they deserve
Yes, OpenOffice and the help they give Gnome is nice. I don't know of anything else of any significance that they do.
It's hard to think of any big company who is more OSS-friendly than Sun.
You're kidding, right? IBM probably spends more on mass media Linux ads than Sun spends in total on OSS initiatives. Not to mention fighting SCO in such a way (they have other choices) as to protect Linux long-term. Not to mention contributing top-notch, hard-core technologies such as RCU, JFS, Eclipse (another Sun FUD target), etc.
Notice how Phillips takes the cheap shot ("rant") in order to play to ESR's current unpopularity with the slashdot crowd? He doesn't try to refute the issues ESR raises.
I guess it's hard to be coherent when your company doesn't really know where it stands wrt open source.
He's wrong about some of his concern - the regents explicitly removed the advertising requirement from all code copyrighted by them. His analysis ignores that fact.
Just do it. I had headaches for a week, but I've been free 18 months now.
Some hints for this approach - drink a lot of ice cold water. Use pain relief without caffine (some pills have caffine in them) when you need to feel normal. Eat healthy and exercise.
AvStop Magazine Online Research
By Geoffrey Rodliffe
http://avstop.com/History/AroundTheWorld/NewZ/rese arch.html
Wild and inaccurate statements have been publicised from time to time concerning Richard Pearse's achievements in the field of aviation. However. no responsible researcher has ever claimed that he achieved fully controlled flight before the Wright brothers, or indeed at any time. To attain fully controlled flight a pilot would have to be able to get his plane into the air, fly it on a chosen course and land it at a predetermined destination.
Obviously Pearse's short "hops" or "flights", whilst they established the fact that he could readily become airborne, did not come within this category, but neither, for that matter, did the first powered flights of the Wright brothers in December 1903. The Wiight brothers, however, had the resources necessary to continue their experimentation until they achieved fully controlled flight.
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Java is the main driver for adopting Linux in the organization
.Net will have a huge opening.
Not my organization. Java is part of the picture, but nothing more. IMHO, the corporate driver is the width and depth of development and infrastructure tools - Linux as the swiss army knife/melting pot of environments.
The prospect of C Sharp / Mono winning from this position is remote to say the least.
For server side stuff I agree...for now. Let's see once/if client side uptake explodes.
For client side stuff (and that is the subject of the article) the exact opposite is true IMHO - Java had years to get it together, and has failed. One last chance would be to throw in with IBM/Eclipse/SWT. As long as Sun isn't in that boat (and dealing with the free/open issue is the admission price), Linux
I've been professionally developing using C/C++ since 1985 on everything from device drivers to GUIs on every platform imaginable and I love C++.
BUT I've also been doing Java and C# the last three years, and they are a *huge* win in developer efficiency. Watching people working on my projects, I can see marginal developers immediately become much more productive (2x in some cases) - and I've been measuring this using several objective metrics (modules/week, LOC, PR #, time/PR).
I would rather see Java "win", but unless Sun blinks on the free/open issue _very_ quickly, I think C# will win by default.
AFAIK, they only handle over-the-air HDTV.
Sorry, I should have been more specific.
The video and audio quality is unbelievably bad in comparison to the Disney work (it actually hurts to say anything nice about Disney) and as you point out the lack of subtitles.
I don't have a problem with the dub - it is pretty good.
...let's hope the great job Disney has done so far continues. In particular, no matter what, do not buy the Fox 'Totoro' - everything about it sucks.
Sad treatment for a movie acclaimed by many as one of the best movies of all time.
Does everyone remember Sun's Jonathan Schwartz and the FUD he spewed a few months ago? "We do not believe that Linux plays a role on the server. Period. Solaris is a better alternative, that is safer, more robust, higher quality and dramatically less expensive in purchase price..."
I hate "me too" posts, but...
I tried to get used to 2k3, but it's just a pretty looking, bad playing quake clone with short people players.
I still play UT on the net. Lots of great servers & good players.
First choice would be phone or in person.
If they *had* to use email, they'd use bizcoach7239@hotmail.com type addresses. x-SCO people (here and elsewhere) have documented that BS has and uses such accounts.
The last thing they would use are email accounts know to be UNDER F**KIN SUBPOENA
Don't get me wrong - I'd be very happy if this were true and these guys were this dumb. I just don't believe it.
They've all been through the "email under subpoena" game in the previous lawsuits. I seem to recall one of them even hinged on email found in discovery.
This species of legal edge lowlife knows the discovery process inside and out.
Nothing in the (fake IMHO) letter implies that this money was moved without the required paper trail. Companies make these kinds of "investments" all the time. Sleazy, but legal.
The only legal exposure I can see (since we can safely assume the Bush DoJ doesn't care about M$ manipulation) for anyone is SCO and how these "revenue" dollars were/are disclosed in SEC filings.
I believe this to be a hoax. If it isn't, I think legal problems (if any) would come from how SCO disclosed this "revenue" in their SEC filings.
Since the DoJ is happy with the M$ monopoloy, we can safely assume they fear nothing from that direction.
I don't think these guys are _quite_ dumb enough to admit to this stuff in email. Much less on company email that is all under subpoena in the IBM litigation.
I smell a setup.
My answer is that the OSS movement is (mostly) commoditizing the "essential services" layer - much like the roads, sewers, and electrical grid that the broad economy needs to function. Only a *very* small percentage of IT industry jobs are building these things in propriatory products.
The vast number of IT jobs is in customization, adaptation, etc. of software to solve business specific problems.
In my case (R&D), the existance of OSS capabilities means that my corporate masters can spend vastly more on my labor to develop new solutions because they have saved (literally) millions of dollars on things like operating systems, compilers, databases, etc that I previously had to purchase.
My understanding is that TiVO has been showing a HDTV version of the TiVo around. I'm not into the scene enough to know what compromises went into it, but...
In addition, I think there are some folks who have the other OTA HDTV card working under Myth.
isn't this...it's a hdtv input card that can take component inputs.
Most HDTV uptake will come from HDTV over cable, with the decoding/descrambling done by the cable company box, which produces component outputs.
Then our MythTV boxes will be able to record HDTV!
I have used several Intel Linux development products for several years. The C++ compiler, performance primitive library (IPP), and VTUNE are all extremely excellent products, and well supported under Linux.
It would be nice if VTUNE would be brought up to equal footing with VTUNE for Windows, but it's pretty good as is.
I'd like to see that substantiated.
Back in the BSD era, Sun did help a lot. More recently, they've been a very poor (or confused) "friend".
Sun FUDs linux routinely - remember Schwartz's FUD? "We do not believe that Linux plays a role on the server. Period. Solaris is a better alternative, that is safer, more robust, higher quality and dramatically less expensive in purchase price..."
They coordinated the imdemmnification FUD with SCO and funded SCO's licensing initiatives and lawsuits. Just look into their weak excuses for why they needed to send money to those guys.
They label stuff (Java Desktop) in such a way as to claim way more credit then they deserve
Yes, OpenOffice and the help they give Gnome is nice. I don't know of anything else of any significance that they do.
It's hard to think of any big company who is more OSS-friendly than Sun.
You're kidding, right? IBM probably spends more on mass media Linux ads than Sun spends in total on OSS initiatives. Not to mention fighting SCO in such a way (they have other choices) as to protect Linux long-term. Not to mention contributing top-notch, hard-core technologies such as RCU, JFS, Eclipse (another Sun FUD target), etc.
Notice how Phillips takes the cheap shot ("rant") in order to play to ESR's current unpopularity with the slashdot crowd? He doesn't try to refute the issues ESR raises.
I guess it's hard to be coherent when your company doesn't really know where it stands wrt open source.
Lippman/Lajoie "C++ Primer"
Good overall intro to the language and supporting library (STL)
Coplien "Advanced C++"
A great "next level" book for intermediate C++ devs.
He's wrong about some of his concern - the regents explicitly removed the advertising requirement from all code copyrighted by them. His analysis ignores that fact.
...perhaps Green Hills Software (Dan O'Dowd's company) has an axe to grind and came up with this agitprop.
Come on editors - at least point out the conflict of interest!
Why, then, does he advocate GNOME when it (more than anything else in the free software ecosystem) enables closed, non-free propriatory software?
GNOMErs gleefully point this out as the major selling point for GNOME over KDE.
I don't have a problem with the license choice, just the hypocrisy.
Just do it. I had headaches for a week, but I've been free 18 months now.
Some hints for this approach - drink a lot of ice cold water. Use pain relief without caffine (some pills have caffine in them) when you need to feel normal. Eat healthy and exercise.
I'll suck, but it'll end.
AvStop Magazine Online Researche arch.html
By Geoffrey Rodliffe
http://avstop.com/History/AroundTheWorld/NewZ/res
Wild and inaccurate statements have been publicised from time to time concerning Richard Pearse's achievements in the field of aviation. However. no responsible researcher has ever claimed that he achieved fully controlled flight before the Wright brothers, or indeed at any time. To attain fully controlled flight a pilot would have to be able to get his plane into the air, fly it on a chosen course and land it at a predetermined destination.
Obviously Pearse's short "hops" or "flights", whilst they established the fact that he could readily become airborne, did not come within this category, but neither, for that matter, did the first powered flights of the Wright brothers in December 1903. The Wiight brothers, however, had the resources necessary to continue their experimentation until they achieved fully controlled flight.
Why the FX5200? Doesn't the PVR350 have video out?