Does it matter if it's two different markets? I can see why it doesn't matter when we're talking about two small unrelated markets. But with huge markets, unrelated as they may be, it can hurt one of the brand names. Think "Windows Ikea" for example. What's the legal status on this kind of a brand conflict?
Did any of their officers graduate from Stanford or Harvard Business School?
You joke, but Israel's business schools look more and more like American business schools every day. And that is a problem. Why? I invite you all to read the famous article by the late Sumantra Ghoshal: "Bad Management Theories Are Destroying Good Management Practices".
I agree about desktop and server software, but I think the most important aspect of Java could have been the applets. These could make the www a true software platform. About the JRE being outdated - it's not a problem with modern JREs. They update themselves.
The problem with the web is the lack of standards makes deploying webapps a nightmare. The combo of Flash/DHTML/JavaScript/XML with IE/Mozilla/Firebird/Safari/Opera each of different version and platform, of course, is impossible for doing productive development on the web for the wide public.
I'm very excited with all the improvments Java is going through, but I'd hate to see it all being completely missed by the general public and web application developers if Microsoft won't include the JRE and Java Plug-in in Longhorn.
"We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notices pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books." - Douglas Adams
As for the IDF automatically lowering RPG-ers security clearances,
RTFA. The IDF does not automatically lowers the security clearance of recruits who proclaim they play D&D. These recruits are sent to a psychological evaluation. More than half of these are found to have psychological traits that are not wanted in high security clearance positions.
The article says that Nokia's problem is not having features that consumers want
Where I live (Israel) it has become quite irritating to always take out your phone whenever you enter someplace.
The most wanted feature of a cellphone me and my friends want is very simple: A cellphone that does not cause metal detectors to beep.
One thing people who are buying a new cellphone do is asking around which phones do not beep.
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Nowadays communication lines are speedy and wireless, hard disk storage is cheap, and we have way too many standards for removable media.
Is it possible that by the time a removable media standard is consolidated, no one would want or need it?
yet slashdot missed this immensely important anniversary in a day.
I wonder how it feels like for an engineer in SCO to be working in an organization which is hated by his/her peers.
IBM and HP both recently laid off 14,000 workers each. There should be plenty of brains out there, available for work.
IBM and HP didn't fire their top engineers.
Does it matter if it's two different markets? I can see why it doesn't matter when we're talking about two small unrelated markets. But with huge markets, unrelated as they may be, it can hurt one of the brand names. Think "Windows Ikea" for example. What's the legal status on this kind of a brand conflict?
Vista Windows. Who will win in court?
Will Longhorn support Blu-Ray? If so, the standard says a Blu-Ray player must support Java. In that case, will Longhorn support Java?
They're late. It's already standardized.
You joke, but Israel's business schools look more and more like American business schools every day. And that is a problem. Why? I invite you all to read the famous article by the late Sumantra Ghoshal: "Bad Management Theories Are Destroying Good Management Practices".
That's the kind of marketing we need for UberGeeks. Soon they'll tell us blank monitors are good for practicing the 'force'.
Wanting to meet in order to better interoperate with OSS sounds too vague to me.
Am I being paranoid, or are there hidden motives? What are they?
I agree about desktop and server software, but I think the most important aspect of Java could have been the applets. These could make the www a true software platform. About the JRE being outdated - it's not a problem with modern JREs. They update themselves.
The problem with the web is the lack of standards makes deploying webapps a nightmare.
The combo of Flash/DHTML/JavaScript/XML with IE/Mozilla/Firebird/Safari/Opera each of different version and platform, of course, is impossible for doing productive development on the web for the wide public.
I'm very excited with all the improvments Java is going through, but I'd hate to see it all being completely missed by the general public and web application developers if Microsoft won't include the JRE and Java Plug-in in Longhorn.
Anyone knows what going on with this issue?
"We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notices pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books." - Douglas Adams
What you're saying is that 90% give the rest a bad name.
Now, that's news for nerds!
As for the IDF automatically lowering RPG-ers security clearances,
RTFA. The IDF does not automatically lowers the security clearance of recruits who proclaim they play D&D. These recruits are sent to a psychological evaluation. More than half of these are found to have psychological traits that are not wanted in high security clearance positions.
Optical Camouflage (with movies)
BBC article
Who decides on the names of these moons?
Deep down we all knew it would happen. Now, it happended, what do we do next?
WTF?
Google treats ".net" the same as "net". The googlefight between "java" and ".net" is the same as the googlefight between "java" and "net".
A man who speaks three languages is trilingual.
A man who speaks two languages is bilingual.
A man who speaks one language is American.
The article says that Nokia's problem is not having features that consumers want
Where I live (Israel) it has become quite irritating to always take out your phone whenever you enter someplace. The most wanted feature of a cellphone me and my friends want is very simple: A cellphone that does not cause metal detectors to beep.
One thing people who are buying a new cellphone do is asking around which phones do not beep.
Excellent write up.