I think that the DMCA and similar legislation shouldn't be too worried about, and will work itself out in time. All that happens when they ban, for instance, publishing flaws in encryption schemes, is that people can no longer do it legally. This empowers those who disregard the law, and gives them profit.
I will be called an idealist, but I believe there's enough brains in our government and the companies involved to figure this out over time. Companies like Adobe will realize that it is better to have law abiding college professors publishing your errors (and contibuting to a fix) than to have inheritly illegal hackers explioting them for their own gain.
Yeah, but the article IS important in alot of ways...A lot of the business world isn't totally comfortable with Linux yet, as the article states... The important role of Java for Linux fans is that it creates a safe way for businesses to experiement with Linux. If Linux sucks, the Java investment is still good because it can run on Win32.
Think of it as a gateway drug ; )
Remember that the Java Micro Edition is actually a totally different version of Java than the JSDK...Its been desinged from the ground up embedded devices and such in mind, thus the performance flaws are minimalized...
Does anybody have anythig to say about the status of Cocoon 2? I used Cocoon 1 for a while, but was none too impressed with the performace, mostly due (I think) to the DOM based appoach to parsing the XML. Does Cocoon 2 seem faster or more stable?
I agree with the article not only on the mentioned issues, but on the broader issues of the open source movement rushing to copy what companies like Microsoft create. It seems hypocritical to me that the open source movement should so readily rush to imitate what it itself often condemns, rather than creating its own model based on open standards rather than proprietary systems.
The open source movement has grown, and I have no reason to doubt that if we lead the corporations that currently govern the industry will soon follow, or be lost in the tide.
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I think that there is a lot more than mere functionality to look at when one considers OOP vs porcedural etc. I prefer OOP just because I find it VASTLY easier to conceptually deal with. I think the beauty of the approach derives from the fact that we have been dealing with real objects sinse we were born, and it more closely mirrors our natural ways of thinking.
For instance, if I offer you a Flaming Flamingo, your first question would probably be "what's that?" i.e. "what class does it extend?" I would say its a cocktail, and you would make your decision based on the information you know about the superclass "cocktail" (e.g. it will get me drunk)rather than relying on an exact explanation of the chemical composition of the fluid, as the metaphor would extend to describe the same thing only if it were in purely procedural programming.
Its good to hear that point said loud and clear here on Slashdot, about piracy. I have always recognised it to be a fundamental enemy of free software, as it leverages its strength (being freely distributable) and uses it to establish its own position of dominance...Getting something "free" (pirated) from Microsoft doesn't really hurt Microsoft, especially if the user builds a skill set/dependance to the software that will eventually create more compentent MS users in the marketplace, and thus make their software more appealling to companies.
I think its a a mistake to think that MS doesn't know this however, and one wonders about exactly how much of a "mistake" the code leak of Windows XP was...
It never ceases to amaze me how Taco can post the exact same story twice, and Slashdotters post the exact same complaint that he is repeating himself 730 times.
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I think that the DMCA and similar legislation shouldn't be too worried about, and will work itself out in time. All that happens when they ban, for instance, publishing flaws in encryption schemes, is that people can no longer do it legally. This empowers those who disregard the law, and gives them profit.
I will be called an idealist, but I believe there's enough brains in our government and the companies involved to figure this out over time. Companies like Adobe will realize that it is better to have law abiding college professors publishing your errors (and contibuting to a fix) than to have inheritly illegal hackers explioting them for their own gain.
Yeah, but the article IS important in alot of ways...A lot of the business world isn't totally comfortable with Linux yet, as the article states... The important role of Java for Linux fans is that it creates a safe way for businesses to experiement with Linux. If Linux sucks, the Java investment is still good because it can run on Win32. Think of it as a gateway drug ; )
Remember that the Java Micro Edition is actually a totally different version of Java than the JSDK...Its been desinged from the ground up embedded devices and such in mind, thus the performance flaws are minimalized...
Does anybody have anythig to say about the status of Cocoon 2? I used Cocoon 1 for a while, but was none too impressed with the performace, mostly due (I think) to the DOM based appoach to parsing the XML. Does Cocoon 2 seem faster or more stable?
I agree with the article not only on the mentioned issues, but on the broader issues of the open source movement rushing to copy what companies like Microsoft create. It seems hypocritical to me that the open source movement should so readily rush to imitate what it itself often condemns, rather than creating its own model based on open standards rather than proprietary systems. The open source movement has grown, and I have no reason to doubt that if we lead the corporations that currently govern the industry will soon follow, or be lost in the tide.
I think that there is a lot more than mere functionality to look at when one considers OOP vs porcedural etc. I prefer OOP just because I find it VASTLY easier to conceptually deal with. I think the beauty of the approach derives from the fact that we have been dealing with real objects sinse we were born, and it more closely mirrors our natural ways of thinking.
For instance, if I offer you a Flaming Flamingo, your first question would probably be "what's that?" i.e. "what class does it extend?" I would say its a cocktail, and you would make your decision based on the information you know about the superclass "cocktail" (e.g. it will get me drunk)rather than relying on an exact explanation of the chemical composition of the fluid, as the metaphor would extend to describe the same thing only if it were in purely procedural programming.
Its good to hear that point said loud and clear here on Slashdot, about piracy. I have always recognised it to be a fundamental enemy of free software, as it leverages its strength (being freely distributable) and uses it to establish its own position of dominance...Getting something "free" (pirated) from Microsoft doesn't really hurt Microsoft, especially if the user builds a skill set/dependance to the software that will eventually create more compentent MS users in the marketplace, and thus make their software more appealling to companies.
I think its a a mistake to think that MS doesn't know this however, and one wonders about exactly how much of a "mistake" the code leak of Windows XP was...
It never ceases to amaze me how Taco can post the exact same story twice, and Slashdotters post the exact same complaint that he is repeating himself 730 times.