No it wont. The only places using Java are those god-awful "B2B" shops. I don't see banks running Java on their critical transaction processing systems.
You need to get out a lot more. Java is everywhere, including large banks. Read up on CORBA, EJB. These are what bring together banks' legacy applications.
You are categorizing it as popular opinion when I believe it is not very different from having expert witnesses called to the stand in a trial. Who is more fit to judge? A group of domain experts or a jack of all trades Judge? Anyway, I'm not speaking of the status quo but what I would rather see.
Cases like this should get a vote from the people in the technical community. If over 90% say this case is bullshit, the plaintiff should be publicly humiliated, stripped of their assets, and forced to leave the country.
I think the power of corruption while in a place of power is more a rule than an exception. We have to face our human limitations and realize that we are all susceptible to corruption, given the right circumstances. Safeguards must always be in place. Who could deny this? They are the ones to watch.
You said it. Plus, why rewrite the entire Internet infrastructure because one application is broken? It makes no sense.
You'd end up with one version of everything new. That would be broken and insecure by the Law of New Code (kinda catchy:). We'd be without something usable for a long time. Countries would lose billions. Not everyone would agree on standards, breeding fragmentation.
Worst of all, greedy companies would change all the standards to their liking and to the disadvantage of net citizens. Governments would make it easier to limit what we see and track what we do see.
If this becomes popular, legal issues will crop up and it will be shut down and banned through mega-corporations' legal clout. I hope not, but I wouldn't be surprised at all. Today's net kinda sucks.
Well, using only thumb prints is just as archaic as having an identity card.
You would ideally have many points of identification taken together as a whole (all of them must match). Thumb print, retinal scan, blood type, height, maybe dna, hair colour, hair type (curly, straight, thick, thin), skin colour, gender, known languages, secret passphrase, accent, whatever. Try faking all that.
It won't be long and we'll be saying "why in hell did we create an identity card?! Each person is their own identity. Cards can be stolen, altered. People cannot (undetectably).
Fucking wankers. Half of one percent they don't care about annoying. What percentage of moviegoers actually will watch a cam'd movie and be happy with it? The sound and picture suck, so the only thing cam'd movies are good for is to see if a movie sucks before shelling out twenty bucks.
Personally, I'd rather watch movies on a DVD player on my big screen TV. No assholes, always a good seat.
You may not realize it, but you just participated in an opinion poll.
Fake news outlets are actually government-backed. They guage public reaction to phony stories without alarming everyone (had it actually been true). If the reaction is good, then the public is ready for it. For what? Today, Time travel.;)
We have about as many genes as a mouse... but is the mouse _using_ all of its genes? Maybe the mouse is like a souped up Pentium 4 running WordPerfect 5.1 under DOS... and we're like the same Pentium 4 running AutoCAD under Windows XP.
Perhaps it's time we outlawed corporations funding and fixing laws for their own benefit.:)
No kidding. For a moment I almost felt sorry for Microsoft just now... they're only working how the government works.. openly corrupt, but "what can they do about it" attitude.
Seriously, if you're like me and not really into (or don't have time to) protesting on the street, stop buying anything you can't use in a way that is acceptible to you.
Money talks - that has been made clear time after time by corporations and governments. We stop buying, things change. Remember, WE are funding governments and corporations. They need us.
I think one of IBM's main problems here will be ubiquity. Since only a fraction of companies use Domino, that means only a fraction of that will end up using IBM's office suite. Who wants to use an office suite that nobody else uses? That's a really scary vendor lockin situation IMO.
Second, though, wouldn't you think that everyone's already learned in or trained in an existing office suite by the time they are ready to purchase IBM's product? Be it MS Office or one of many already existing alternatives including KOffice.
Third, what about the cost of retraining? Worth it? Unless it's just like MS Word, etc... then this point isn't so important.
Whew! Just finished downloading the full set via BitTorrent. The kb/s wasn't too impressive. Strangely, now that I'm done, my upload rate is only 2-3 kb/s.
Knowing that the Quake II engine was used to render this movie, it makes wish I could just run into the Anachronox virtual world and kick some butt! Thought I wonder what frame rate you would get running the movie in real time through the engine..?
Dumb question... is it possible to install two or more wireless NICs, enable support for splitting tcp/ip traffic amongst them, and get twice the throughput? I thought this was possible using ethernet cable... but I'm not sure how the wireless frequency bandwidth would limit something like this.
"The Patriot Act has been an extremely useful tool, a demonstrated success, and we don't want that to expire on us," a senior department official said on condition of anonymity.
You beat me to it - I was just going to say the same thing. That speaks about the obviousness of this irony! I can't wait until someone leaks who said that.
Perhaps this is some alien species' way of saying "Hey! We're over here!!!". Generating a great big blast of light without destroying the entire galaxy. What a great (and far advanced) idea!
Now let's hope they aren't sending us a message in Morse code. Hehe..
Scientists who aren't on Exxon's payroll aren't arguing about whether the temperature's rising, and they're not even arguing about whether humans are having an effect--the debate has moved to what effect we are having, and how to control it. If you think this is just the province of Greenpeace kids hanging signs from smokestacks, congratulations! The industry is keeping you in the '80s. This debate isn't going on in Granola Crunch Quarterly anymore, it's going on in Nature.
No, people don't prefer MP3s over CDs. They prefer affordable music over expensive overpriced music.
I'm in full agreement. Sure, mp3s are convenient, but you can create your own anyway from bought CDs. The point here is that people aren't buying as many CDs because they are sick of paying high prices for mostly second-rate tracks. It's _not_ because the MP3 format rules over CDs.
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No it wont. The only places using Java are those god-awful "B2B" shops. I don't see banks running Java on their critical transaction processing systems.
You need to get out a lot more. Java is everywhere, including large banks. Read up on CORBA, EJB. These are what bring together banks' legacy applications.
You are categorizing it as popular opinion when I believe it is not very different from having expert witnesses called to the stand in a trial. Who is more fit to judge? A group of domain experts or a jack of all trades Judge? Anyway, I'm not speaking of the status quo but what I would rather see.
No problem... launch nanobots at each weed to turn it into something inert. Not that we're there yet... and not that I want us to ever BE there. :)
Cases like this should get a vote from the people in the technical community. If over 90% say this case is bullshit, the plaintiff should be publicly humiliated, stripped of their assets, and forced to leave the country.
I thought it meant rebuilding their country, not reformatting and installing the USA operating system.
1. Purchase AK-47 MP3 player.
2. Upload your Megadeth/Spawn/etc.. collection.
3. Crank the volume.
4. Kill!!
Heh, and you thought I was going to say Profit!
This item should come in handy for future liberations.
I think the power of corruption while in a place of power is more a rule than an exception. We have to face our human limitations and realize that we are all susceptible to corruption, given the right circumstances. Safeguards must always be in place.
Who could deny this? They are the ones to watch.
You said it. Plus, why rewrite the entire Internet infrastructure because one application is broken? It makes no sense.
:). We'd be without something usable for a long time. Countries would lose billions. Not everyone would agree on standards, breeding fragmentation.
You'd end up with one version of everything new. That would be broken and insecure by the Law of New Code (kinda catchy
Worst of all, greedy companies would change all the standards to their liking and to the disadvantage of net citizens. Governments would make it easier to limit what we see and track what we do see.
Just give me IPv6 and be gone I say!
Most definitely! Half Life (w/Team Fortress mod) is still the only game I play. I will definitely pick up the next one.
If this becomes popular, legal issues will crop up and it will be shut down and banned through mega-corporations' legal clout. I hope not, but I wouldn't be surprised at all. Today's net kinda sucks.
Well, using only thumb prints is just as archaic as having an identity card.
You would ideally have many points of identification taken together as a whole (all of them must match). Thumb print, retinal scan, blood type, height, maybe dna, hair colour, hair type (curly, straight, thick, thin), skin colour, gender, known languages, secret passphrase, accent, whatever. Try faking all that.
It won't be long and we'll be saying "why in hell did we create an identity card?! Each person is their own identity. Cards can be stolen, altered. People cannot (undetectably).
I guess I don't get it.
Maybe UPS can fund an OSS startup, "BrownHat"? We'll see..."
I was thinking more along the lines of "BrownStripe", but that's just me.
Fucking wankers. Half of one percent they don't care about annoying. What percentage of moviegoers actually will watch a cam'd movie and be happy with it? The sound and picture suck, so the only thing cam'd movies are good for is to see if a movie sucks before shelling out twenty bucks.
Personally, I'd rather watch movies on a DVD player on my big screen TV. No assholes, always a good seat.
You may not realize it, but you just participated in an opinion poll.
Fake news outlets are actually government-backed. They guage public reaction to phony stories without alarming everyone (had it actually been true). If the reaction is good, then the public is ready for it. For what? Today, Time travel.
I'm going to look into the EFF some more. Thanks for the info!
We have about as many genes as a mouse... but is the mouse _using_ all of its genes? Maybe the mouse is like a souped up Pentium 4 running WordPerfect 5.1 under DOS... and we're like the same Pentium 4 running AutoCAD under Windows XP.
Perhaps it's time we outlawed corporations funding and fixing laws for their own benefit. :)
No kidding. For a moment I almost felt sorry for Microsoft just now... they're only working how the government works.. openly corrupt, but "what can they do about it" attitude.
Seriously, if you're like me and not really into (or don't have time to) protesting on the street, stop buying anything you can't use in a way that is acceptible to you.
Money talks - that has been made clear time after time by corporations and governments. We stop buying, things change. Remember, WE are funding governments and corporations. They need us.
I think one of IBM's main problems here will be ubiquity. Since only a fraction of companies use Domino, that means only a fraction of that will end up using IBM's office suite. Who wants to use an office suite that nobody else uses? That's a really scary vendor lockin situation IMO.
Second, though, wouldn't you think that everyone's already learned in or trained in an existing office suite by the time they are ready to purchase IBM's product? Be it MS Office or one of many already existing alternatives including KOffice.
Third, what about the cost of retraining? Worth it? Unless it's just like MS Word, etc... then this point isn't so important.
Whew! Just finished downloading the full set via BitTorrent. The kb/s wasn't too impressive. Strangely, now that I'm done, my upload rate is only 2-3 kb/s.
Knowing that the Quake II engine was used to render this movie, it makes wish I could just run into the Anachronox virtual world and kick some butt! Thought I wonder what frame rate you would get running the movie in real time through the engine..?
Dumb question... is it possible to install two or more wireless NICs, enable support for splitting tcp/ip traffic amongst them, and get twice the throughput? I thought this was possible using ethernet cable... but I'm not sure how the wireless frequency bandwidth would limit something like this.
"The Patriot Act has been an extremely useful tool, a demonstrated success, and we don't want that to expire on us," a senior department official said on condition of anonymity.
You beat me to it - I was just going to say the same thing. That speaks about the obviousness of this irony! I can't wait until someone leaks who said that.
Perhaps this is some alien species' way of saying "Hey! We're over here!!!". Generating a great big blast of light without destroying the entire galaxy. What a great (and far advanced) idea!
Now let's hope they aren't sending us a message in Morse code. Hehe..
Scientists who aren't on Exxon's payroll aren't arguing about whether the temperature's rising, and they're not even arguing about whether humans are having an effect--the debate has moved to what effect we are having, and how to control it. If you think this is just the province of Greenpeace kids hanging signs from smokestacks, congratulations! The industry is keeping you in the '80s. This debate isn't going on in Granola Crunch Quarterly anymore, it's going on in Nature.
Couldn't agree more.
No, people don't prefer MP3s over CDs. They prefer affordable music over expensive overpriced music.
I'm in full agreement. Sure, mp3s are convenient, but you can create your own anyway from bought CDs. The point here is that people aren't buying as many CDs because they are sick of paying high prices for mostly second-rate tracks. It's _not_ because the MP3 format rules over CDs.