With the doorknob, it wasn't a materials problem. It was the mechanical design that was flawed. The new one was significantly different in how things were leveraged and attached together.
For another analogy, consider a car, which is more along the lines of the complexity of a piece of software. Just about every car out there has a number of TSBs (Technical Service Bulletins) and outright recalls to address widespread post-shipping problems. I'd bet that many of these problems were recognized by at least some members of the design and/or manufacturing teams before the product shipped. As with software, the problems are prioritized and known problems are part of the shipping product.
Would you ship a doorknob for an outside door that could have the lock so easily breached that it's as simple a matter as inserting a slot screwdriver into the keyhole and turning?
Bad example. The house I bought last year came with high-end doorknob hardware that failed a few months after I moved in. The knob was probably a couple years old, and I had no receipt for it, but I figured I'd call the manufacturer to see if they'd replace the broken part. They said that there was a recall of that part due to a design flaw, and they shipped me the redesigned mechanism the next day at no cost.
I mean, throwing in everything but the kitchen sink sure does support a lot of different hardware...but come ON. And what average user is going to rebuild/recompile their kernels?
WTF are you talking about? Do you know what a kernel module is?
Oh, that's a "Doctor Strangelove" reference... It's been a long time since I saw it, and I don't remember the fluids guy citing fluoride. Gotta see that one again.
I'm implying that human life is longer now than it ever has been, primarily because we broke off from methods of doing things for the last million years.
OK, I understand. It was a broad generalization suggesting that I'm anti-progress. I'm not.
But flouridated water leads to cleaner teeth, which indirectly leads to a longer lifespan, so yes.
Why don't we add vitamin C to the drinking water? Wouldn't that improve life span even more?
Longer lifespans and improved dental health have been seen equally in all industrialized parts of the world, yet few places outside the US add fluoride to the water. Indeed, many regions have to remove fluoride from water where it occurs naturally, due to its well-known toxic effects. (See, for instance, http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/disease s/fluorosis/en/)
I brush my teeth with fluoride toothpaste. If you want to take fluoride internally in larger than trace concentrations, you can take supplements. I don't want to.
"they'll sell the higher speeds and a select group of corrupt individuals in the government will get a kickback of the revenue and hide it away in their freezers"
Singing together was actually a pastime people would do at the dinner table for enjoyment. Now we don't because our culture is owned by megacorps who discourage that.
I tried this once, but I spilled gravy on my guitar. Still, I blame the megacorps.
In C++, it is necessary to spend execution time to physically recover the space of each object that has been allocated. In Java, the management process has gotten to the point where all it does is reserve the few objects it wants to keep then wipe the rest of the objects at once (like returning from a call, you recover the entire stack at once but for permanent heap memory instead of stack memory)
While I mainly agree with your other points, this one is wrong. In C++, the default allocator does what you say. But you can certainly write a custom allocator that doesn't spend time recovering space on a per-object basis (e.g. subheap allocation), or reduces the per-object recovery time to a couple cpu instructions (e.g. homoegenous object memory pools).
"EA aiming for 50% of the games they put their name on, but don't develop themselves, to be innovative."
It's not internal versus external. It's licensed properties versus original properties. Licensed means paying a lot of money for the videogame rights to an existing media property, such as Lord of the Rings. They develop both licensed and original games internally.
I'm wondering though how they are going to be able to tell a story in a universe that has such a well-established time-line, story and characters.
LOTR had a well-established time-line, story, and characters. I'd hardly say the same about Warcraft. Don't get me wrong - one of my favorite games of all time was a Warcraft title. But, as with most game->movie conversions, it may be exactly the lack of a solid story that is the biggest hindrance to the writers and directors. Granted, there were some novels written in the Warcraft universe, but it appears that the filmmakers aren't planning to base the film on them.
Rather than creating a freely downloadable game that tries to provoke insight into the tragedy at Columbine, the author should have sat on the couch and watched "Family Guy" reruns. As most of you know, that is such teh funney show. He wasted productive couch-sitting time, and I think that is the biggest tragedy yet. I'm glad most of you don't fall victim to creative urges like he did.
you get the slow startup times associated with JIT, and slow execution due to fiddling with bytecode. Let's not forget that the only type of optimisation carried out on the bytecode is peephole optimisation, which is inadequate for the majority of I/O intensive operations. The list goes on and on.
While the following benchmarks are somewhat biased, they fairly reflect the speed of the previous generation of Sun's JVM. The latest one (5.0) improves upon this.
Java's not the perfect tool for everything, but in my experience, it's great for making server applications that need to be reliable, maintainable, and fast, in that order. This is roughly the order in which many businesses need their software to be.
"intellectual property" does not confer a "bundle of rights" in the way that traditional "Lockean" property does.
Surely you are correct. However, this was not the point of the original post, and not the point I was contradicting. In the original post, there were no complaints about the comparison of either term to traditional property.
All through this article, Ms Holzer uses the term "intellectual property owner" where she means "patent owner".
When writing about a specific thing (patents), it's not uncommon to use the general form (intellectual property) to refer to the same thing. The context makes it clear that the writer isn't referring to other specific forms (trademark, copyright) of the general thing.
It's similar to: "Lacrosse is a demanding sport. Athletes must stay in top shape to perform well." Clearly, in the second sentence, I'm referring to lacrosse athletes, not athletes in general, nor some other specific type of athlete, such as baseball players.
This post is definitely insightful. Sorry to see your kharma is so low your posting level is 0. It looks like it's because lots of people disagreed with you last time this same subject came up. On slashdot, the squeaky wheel gets the axe.
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You shouldn't trademark pi. It's just not natural.
With the doorknob, it wasn't a materials problem. It was the mechanical design that was flawed. The new one was significantly different in how things were leveraged and attached together.
For another analogy, consider a car, which is more along the lines of the complexity of a piece of software. Just about every car out there has a number of TSBs (Technical Service Bulletins) and outright recalls to address widespread post-shipping problems. I'd bet that many of these problems were recognized by at least some members of the design and/or manufacturing teams before the product shipped. As with software, the problems are prioritized and known problems are part of the shipping product.
Would you ship a doorknob for an outside door that could have the lock so easily breached that it's as simple a matter as inserting a slot screwdriver into the keyhole and turning?
Bad example. The house I bought last year came with high-end doorknob hardware that failed a few months after I moved in. The knob was probably a couple years old, and I had no receipt for it, but I figured I'd call the manufacturer to see if they'd replace the broken part. They said that there was a recall of that part due to a design flaw, and they shipped me the redesigned mechanism the next day at no cost.
Our data is used by many medical professionals in highly-stressful, quick-paced environments. If we mess something up, it can kill people.
Are you saying there aren't any mistakes in the data you publish?
compiler error: $DEITY is just pretend.
I mean, throwing in everything but the kitchen sink sure does support a lot of different hardware...but come ON. And what average user is going to rebuild/recompile their kernels?
WTF are you talking about? Do you know what a kernel module is?
Oh, that's a "Doctor Strangelove" reference... It's been a long time since I saw it, and I don't remember the fluids guy citing fluoride. Gotta see that one again.
Not too mention that Communists flouridate the water, making it sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids.
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It's not communists.
http://www.fluoridealert.org/phosphate/overview.h
I'm implying that human life is longer now than it ever has been, primarily because we broke off from methods of doing things for the last million years.
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OK, I understand. It was a broad generalization suggesting that I'm anti-progress. I'm not.
But flouridated water leads to cleaner teeth, which indirectly leads to a longer lifespan, so yes.
Why don't we add vitamin C to the drinking water? Wouldn't that improve life span even more?
Longer lifespans and improved dental health have been seen equally in all industrialized parts of the world, yet few places outside the US add fluoride to the water. Indeed, many regions have to remove fluoride from water where it occurs naturally, due to its well-known toxic effects. (See, for instance, http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/diseas
I brush my teeth with fluoride toothpaste. If you want to take fluoride internally in larger than trace concentrations, you can take supplements. I don't want to.
You're ignoring the fact that the life expectancy of a human for most of its history has been at most 40.
Are you suggesting that fluoridated water extends life expectancy?
"they'll sell the higher speeds and a select group of corrupt individuals in the government will get a kickback of the revenue and hide it away in their freezers "
No communist plot. It just turns out that water without fluoride has sustained life for millions of years. Why pollute it with industrial waste?
Bottled water sells because of psychological tricks and convenience.
Actually, I buy 5-gallon jugs of it as drinking water to avoid getting the fluoride that is put in tap water in the US.
Further, likening the sale and marketing of a human necessity to something as trivial and ethereal as popular music is doomed to be a poor analogy.
"Mine Sweeper, the Next Netscape?" I thought MS was integrating Internet Explorer and Minesweeper. Perhaps they'd call it Mine Explorer.
OK, I didn't really think that.
Singing together was actually a pastime people would do at the dinner table for enjoyment. Now we don't because our culture is owned by megacorps who discourage that.
I tried this once, but I spilled gravy on my guitar. Still, I blame the megacorps.
In C++, it is necessary to spend execution time to physically recover the space of each object that has been allocated. In Java, the management process has gotten to the point where all it does is reserve the few objects it wants to keep then wipe the rest of the objects at once (like returning from a call, you recover the entire stack at once but for permanent heap memory instead of stack memory)
While I mainly agree with your other points, this one is wrong. In C++, the default allocator does what you say. But you can certainly write a custom allocator that doesn't spend time recovering space on a per-object basis (e.g. subheap allocation), or reduces the per-object recovery time to a couple cpu instructions (e.g. homoegenous object memory pools).
"EA aiming for 50% of the games they put their name on, but don't develop themselves, to be innovative."
It's not internal versus external. It's licensed properties versus original properties. Licensed means paying a lot of money for the videogame rights to an existing media property, such as Lord of the Rings. They develop both licensed and original games internally.
Does this mean that Sun is endorsing the Debian package management system over RPM-based approaches?
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Ubuntu appears to be considering using the SMART package manager in future releases.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1625
I'm wondering though how they are going to be able to tell a story in a universe that has such a well-established time-line, story and characters.
LOTR had a well-established time-line, story, and characters. I'd hardly say the same about Warcraft. Don't get me wrong - one of my favorite games of all time was a Warcraft title. But, as with most game->movie conversions, it may be exactly the lack of a solid story that is the biggest hindrance to the writers and directors. Granted, there were some novels written in the Warcraft universe, but it appears that the filmmakers aren't planning to base the film on them.
Rather than creating a freely downloadable game that tries to provoke insight into the tragedy at Columbine, the author should have sat on the couch and watched "Family Guy" reruns. As most of you know, that is such teh funney show. He wasted productive couch-sitting time, and I think that is the biggest tragedy yet. I'm glad most of you don't fall victim to creative urges like he did.
you get the slow startup times associated with JIT, and slow execution due to fiddling with bytecode. Let's not forget that the only type of optimisation carried out on the bytecode is peephole optimisation, which is inadequate for the majority of I/O intensive operations. The list goes on and on.
While the following benchmarks are somewhat biased, they fairly reflect the speed of the previous generation of Sun's JVM. The latest one (5.0) improves upon this.
http://kano.net/javabench/
Java's not the perfect tool for everything, but in my experience, it's great for making server applications that need to be reliable, maintainable, and fast, in that order. This is roughly the order in which many businesses need their software to be.
Even in this here Slashdot page, I see the java tag used all over the source code for this page.
/. who don't know this.
For the bazillionth time, Javascript is not Java. I can't believe there are people on
"intellectual property" does not confer a "bundle of rights" in the way that traditional "Lockean" property does.
Surely you are correct. However, this was not the point of the original post, and not the point I was contradicting. In the original post, there were no complaints about the comparison of either term to traditional property.
All through this article, Ms Holzer uses the term "intellectual property owner" where she means "patent owner".
When writing about a specific thing (patents), it's not uncommon to use the general form (intellectual property) to refer to the same thing. The context makes it clear that the writer isn't referring to other specific forms (trademark, copyright) of the general thing.
It's similar to: "Lacrosse is a demanding sport. Athletes must stay in top shape to perform well." Clearly, in the second sentence, I'm referring to lacrosse athletes, not athletes in general, nor some other specific type of athlete, such as baseball players.
This post is definitely insightful. Sorry to see your kharma is so low your posting level is 0. It looks like it's because lots of people disagreed with you last time this same subject came up. On slashdot, the squeaky wheel gets the axe.