As a professional developer, I've seen complexity for even simple solutions skyrocket with a concomittant loss of performance with the current obsession on over-inheritence and Java-style interpreted/P-code software overall. Add to this GPL/OS that slashes meaningful business value from well engineered software components and I think we have retrograded from the vanilla unix with tough, straightforward C coding.
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Still interesting how many out there still believe that "Free as in Lunch" is economically viable.
LOL! MS took out the JVM since Sun got so prissy about how good MS's JVM implementation was the last time! MS figured - screw it - we don't need any steenking JVM anyway and now Sun won't have anything to whine about... Then Sun bawled like a baby that MS wasn't playing fair by NOT including their Sun JVM! Sun is one huge collective of temper tantruming rugrats and MS can't do anything without provoking a lawsuit or whine-fest by Sun and the states AG's and the leftwing tech-media. ROFLMAO!
Hey waitaminute... aren't all us slashdotters/linuxheads supposed to be anticaptitalists and in our own way trying to foment a technical "Dictatorship of the Proletariat"- Free Software (tm)?
yeah but it will p*&&-off the abortion rights wackos who were looking for stem cells to be a reason for them to feel better about killing their fetus's and embryos. (for the good of humanity, you know...)
how about - 1. Sun maintains its death-grip on Java - 2. The desktop space gets "owned" in the next 24 months by C#/.Net - 3. ASP.NET and J2EE fight it out for web services platforms while SUN keeps innovators out of J2EE process. 4. IBM signs deal with Micro$oft (after all legal matters resolved) for R6000 version of.NET framework. 5. Sun sues IBM and MSFT for anticompetitive actions and nobody notices or cares. 6. Java becomes a plaything for the free-download kiddies while the rest of the world gets back to business with.Net
EEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! They made JNI impossible to use and improbably slow to run real apps with so everyone would just live with java's slowness in the JVM and buy bigger SUN machines. Prove they didn't.
C# is for grown ups. Java is for moonies. When you need to link to a C++ binary for top speed but also allow managed memory and simple VB-like programming power for the easy stuff, C# is perfect. Java could have been successful in these cases had JNI not been intentionally brain-damaged. JNI is intentially slow with overly complex usability so that folks won't try to get the most out of their hardware. If JNI let Java do what unmanaged C# can do so easily, then C# would never have been necessary. C# is post Java.
Well imagine that - some idiots actually expect to get PAID for their HARD WORK. Borland is simply trying to stay a viable BUSINESS in hard times! People expect a free lunch nowadays then act surprised when they go under due to normal supply/demand/fee-for-services. It is simply amazing that Borland has survived this long and it should be allowed to expect payment at some point for it's products.
Or stay on an older version of Solaris - Unix is bloody old anyway and hasn't really changed much in the past 30 years when you get down to the detail... (asbestos underwear on)
Free software efforts are ALWAYS going to be waxed by folks like me who write software for a living, not as a hobby. Socialism never did work for the same reasons. You will find the time and will care more about work that feeds your family and keeps your roof over your head. GPL, Open Source, Free Software is all about a very small sector of elites who sponge off the rest of us in cushy government/school/grants-covered jobs who do not have to show results to get paid. Probably union too. GPL is killing so much good software - you can't make a living on writing it!
Maybe Linux will release itself from GPL and go to a BSD licence in 2002 - now there would be a prediction that would absolutely guarantee it raging success and universal acceptance. Except by idiot marxists like Stallings and Chomsky.
Hey Jack&^s, they recounted it twice and Al Loser would have lost anyway even if the clock had not be stopped by the court - just like everyone agreed to up front. What a loser.
You must be either ignorant or simply looking for a MOD bath. J.R.R Tolkien was professor of English Language and History at Oxford and his language in the books (Hobbit aside - was for kiddies) is masterful. Anyone reading the trilogy at least would come away with a better vocabulary, an artistic vision of beautifully described scenes, and quite an appreciation of historical references if one looked up all of the words used to describe the quasi-medieval era.
Writers can get inspired just by reading LoTR and following the verbs. (or the adjectives).
Would have loved to hear his lectures on Anglo Saxon literature! (he also did research on Old Norse lit.)
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It is running microsoft's ASP.NET
Probably to an SQL Server backend.
Think it will keep up / stay up?
As a professional developer, I've seen complexity for even simple solutions skyrocket with a concomittant loss of performance with the current obsession on over-inheritence and Java-style interpreted/P-code software overall. Add to this GPL/OS that slashes meaningful business value from well engineered software components and I think we have retrograded from the vanilla unix with tough, straightforward C coding.
Still interesting how many out there still believe that "Free as in Lunch" is economically viable.
LOL! MS took out the JVM since Sun got so prissy about how good MS's JVM implementation was the last time! MS figured - screw it - we don't need any steenking JVM anyway and now Sun won't have anything to whine about... Then Sun bawled like a baby that MS wasn't playing fair by NOT including their Sun JVM! Sun is one huge collective of temper tantruming rugrats and MS can't do anything without provoking a lawsuit or whine-fest by Sun and the states AG's and the leftwing tech-media. ROFLMAO!
Hey waitaminute... aren't all us slashdotters/linuxheads supposed to be anticaptitalists and in our own way trying to foment a technical "Dictatorship of the Proletariat"- Free Software (tm)?
Nothing is faster on a MAC than on my Athlon 2.1 with 1GB DDR. Video card makes a diff too.
BSD had great compilers when linux wasn't in it's diapers yet - Sheeeeesh!
yeah but it will p*&&-off the abortion rights wackos who were looking for stem cells to be a reason for them to feel better about killing their fetus's and embryos. (for the good of humanity, you know...)
This is exactly why the president put the breaks on killing human embryos - to keep the sciences looking for a better way. Idiot.
how about - .NET framework. .Net
1. Sun maintains its death-grip on Java -
2. The desktop space gets "owned" in the next 24 months by C#/.Net -
3. ASP.NET and J2EE fight it out for web services platforms while SUN keeps innovators out of J2EE process.
4. IBM signs deal with Micro$oft (after all legal matters resolved) for R6000 version of
5. Sun sues IBM and MSFT for anticompetitive actions and nobody notices or cares.
6. Java becomes a plaything for the free-download kiddies while the rest of the world gets back to business with
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHoHoHoHoHoHoHoHoHoHoHo...phew.
what planet do you live on? MS office is the standard everywhere that matters.
EEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! They made JNI impossible to use and improbably slow to run real apps with so everyone would just live with java's slowness in the JVM and buy bigger SUN machines. Prove they didn't.
>>[stallman.org] is a Communist idiot. -- That statement is an oxymoron.
C# is for grown ups. Java is for moonies. When you need to link to a C++ binary for top speed but also allow managed memory and simple VB-like programming power for the easy stuff, C# is perfect. Java could have been successful in these cases had JNI not been intentionally brain-damaged. JNI is intentially slow with overly complex usability so that folks won't try to get the most out of their hardware. If JNI let Java do what unmanaged C# can do so easily, then C# would never have been necessary. C# is post Java.
waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! - crybabies!!!
Well imagine that - some idiots actually expect to get PAID for their HARD WORK. Borland is simply trying to stay a viable BUSINESS in hard times! People expect a free lunch nowadays then act surprised when they go under due to normal supply/demand/fee-for-services. It is simply amazing that Borland has survived this long and it should be allowed to expect payment at some point for it's products.
Or stay on an older version of Solaris - Unix is bloody old anyway and hasn't really changed much in the past 30 years when you get down to the detail... (asbestos underwear on)
friends don't let friends steal software...
hmmm... sounds like plagerism, fraud, or outright theft to me...
Free software efforts are ALWAYS going to be waxed by folks like me who write software for a living, not as a hobby. Socialism never did work for the same reasons. You will find the time and will care more about work that feeds your family and keeps your roof over your head. GPL, Open Source, Free Software is all about a very small sector of elites who sponge off the rest of us in cushy government/school/grants-covered jobs who do not have to show results to get paid. Probably union too. GPL is killing so much good software - you can't make a living on writing it!
Maybe Linux will release itself from GPL and go to a BSD licence in 2002 - now there would be a prediction that would absolutely guarantee it raging success and universal acceptance. Except by idiot marxists like Stallings and Chomsky.
Hey Jack&^s, they recounted it twice and Al Loser would have lost anyway even if the clock had not be stopped by the court - just like everyone agreed to up front. What a loser.
YaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwN! Sniff!
You must be either ignorant or simply looking for a MOD bath. J.R.R Tolkien was professor of English Language and History at Oxford and his language in the books (Hobbit aside - was for kiddies) is masterful. Anyone reading the trilogy at least would come away with a better vocabulary, an artistic vision of beautifully described scenes, and quite an appreciation of historical references if one looked up all of the words used to describe the quasi-medieval era.
Writers can get inspired just by reading LoTR and following the verbs. (or the adjectives).
Would have loved to hear his lectures on Anglo Saxon literature! (he also did research on Old Norse lit.)