That's exactly the point of creating a safety czar and starting an advertising campaign. The "13 year old whorish girls" don't realize what they are getting in to and they need to be made aware of it.
While it's true that some will continue, others will see that what they're doing may be dangerous and at least clean up the personal information from their page.
This can also be very helpful to parents who don't realize the consequences of what their children are doing.
I don't think you can fault myspace for this. They're just trying to improve their site and Profit!
he WSJ notes an irony: Google is fighting for 'Internet freedom' in the U.S., by resisting the Justice Department's request for information on user searches."
Not much of an irony when you consider that by fighting in the U.S. they're not risking losing the entire market, whereas in China, trying to fight the government can get google banned from the entire market.
A lot of comments on this article have this completely wrong. The rumor is about Apple buying Palm, which makes handhelds such as the Treo and Tungsten. Palm does NOT own Palm OS. Palm OS is owned and developed by PalmSource. They are two different companies.
Indeed, Palm's latest Treo, the 700w, runs Windows Mobile Edition.
..this marks one of the first times that Intel released a processor with known bugs..
Huh? That's clearly wrong. When Intel had its famous FDIV bug, they shipped it knowing that the problem was there (the chips were already manufactured before they noticed it in their internal design validation.)
You see, it's just one of the many first times this has happened. You're referring to a different first time.
This is ridiculous. Yes, 75% of people in computer science are men. So what? What percentage of teachers are women? What percentage or care takers are women? I don't hear people screaming of a gender gap in those or other professions where men are less inclined to have careers.
Let's face it. Women are different and in general not as interested in the science of computers. Note, that I'm not talking about all women, but simply a greater percentage than men. It's reality. Let it go instead of forcing some women into a field in which they're not comfortable just so we can feel better about some meaningless percentages.
Betas are indeed helpful to consumers. It allows them to get an early look at a product and guide its final look and feel and feature set. This allows the company to develop a better product and consumers get a product that more suits there needs.
While it's true that using beta software is not for everyone, there are many users who do and make this symbiotic relationship worthwhile. As a software developer for enterprise customers, I see this play out with great success all the time.
I wonder if this means we'll be able to buy a google search appliance that can index Lotus Notes databases in the future.
It's got a start. The enterprise version of Google desktop can index Lotus Notes mail databases. I've used this and it's excellent. Much faster and more accurate than the search facility built into Notes.
2. Reusing code will not necessarily save work. See point one for the first reason. The second reason is that it is often faster to reimplement the functionality and then refactor. This generates more code than reusing someone else's library, but may save development time. Saved development time is a good thing in the type of business that is always in crunch time.
By "development" I assume you mean the actual programming which on most large projects only takes about a third or less of the total effort. Most of the effort is spent on testing and fixing defects in the code. When you reimplement something, that means it must be completely retested and is likely to have a lot of defects that would not exist in reused code.
This is a very important reason for reusing code and why companies spend so much effort on it. The less new code there is in a product, the fewer the defects and the overall time spent will in general be less.
TFA states that total server revenue in 2004 was US$49 billion, and that 9% of this was Linux servers. This amounts to US$4.41 billion. M$-Windows server revenue was US$4.6 billion in 2004.
Looks like Linux is catching up on M$-Windows.
Not quite yet. Microsoft Windows server revenue was US$4.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2004. So Linux still has only about 25% of Window's server revenue, but Linux's growth continues to remain very high and considering the fact that anyone can access it's source and binaries for free, that's not too bad.:)
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LoL... Write Once, Run Anywhere.... good one there... Java is Write Once, Debug Everywhere. Once you commit to one JVM, you are pretty much locked in because of the incompatibilities in other JVMs.
You haven't been writing many cross platform applications in Java recently have you? I've been writing large, complex applications that must run on Windows, Linux, HPUX, AIX, OS/400, and Solaris for 6 years now. When I started, your statement was true. However, this has largely become a non-issue. Throughout testing we rarely come across a bug that is specific to a single platform or JVM as long as you use a robust JVM like Sun's or IBM's.
While you still need to test on all platforms just to be sure, 98% of the bugs found are in the Java code, not the JVM.
I've also signed up for lingo, but to be honest the quality isn't as good as a POTS line. I get echos and have had a few dropped calls. The first night I had it, the service was out for two hours. Technical support said their servers had crashed.
Overall, though the quality has been "good enough" and the price makes it all worth it. My wife gets to spend hours talking to her family in Italy and the quality on international calls is the same as calling next door.
If nobody noticed, more people matured to legal working age than jobs created this year.
You need to subtract the number of people who retired, which given that baby boomers are retiring in huge numbers will decrease that number significantly.
You're right in that an education is what you make of it, but I disagree that what we have is an abysmal system. If someone doesn't care about school, usually because of the environment in which they were raised, there is little the educational system can do about it. It's a cultural problem and we need to start treating it that way.
Far too many pepople rely on the educational system alone to turn their obnoxious little brats into good upstanding citizens. They don't understand that the educational system is just a tool. It generally takes a good upbringing to get kids to take advantage of it.
Once someone wants to learn and sees the value in a good education, they'll get a good education, even in the "abysmal" system we currently have.
Uh, electricity is already above pre-war levels and with a system in place that is far superior to the system that existed before the war. Don't believe me? Check it out.
Cats lick all the dirt off their entire body, including the dingle berries left on their ass after they poop. You might want to start there if you're looking for a cause.
Sorry to bring a little common sense to your tirade, but what does oil have to do with generating power for homes?
Quite sensible fiscal policy, actually. It seems that you'll soon be in the eviable position of being able to sell a valuable comodity while not consuming any (very little) of it yourselves.
I'm thinking they would still have vehicles that must consume this valuable commodity.
If the US politicians and oil producers could wrap their minds around that concept, there'd be quite a change in the amount of polution produced in the world, as well as curing our horrendous trade deficit...
Umm..The U.S. gets its power from natural gas, coal, and nuclear fuel. If it went completely to renewable energy for power generation, it would still need just as much oil.
It's difficult to believe that Simonyi could be ignorant of the many many years of development of CASE tools and AI projects that have promised to build software systems from specifications.
Read the quote from the article again. He never mentions anything about code generation. He's talking about having a clear separation between what a program does and how it does it. Today, specifications are written in narratives and do not fully capture what a program should do. This then leaves the programmer to fill in the gaps. If the SMEs were to create a specification that included the high level operations with clear pre and post conditions, the programmers could focus on implementing the architecture and underlying design that would satisfy the specification.
I think it's an all out war between the current Bush Administration and control of the Internet and OSS.
Not to take anything away from your very interesting points on the connection between the Bush Administration and oil, but I think you forgot that your whole post was supposed to provide a link between the Bush Administration and the Internet/OSS. Not a single fact that you bring up even alludes to this. Try to make your opening statements a little more accurate next time.
DATE: December 5, 2003 CASE NO. 2:03CV294DAK SCO v IBM
APPEARANCE OF COUNSEL
Pla Kevin McBride, Brent Hatch Dft David Marriot, Todd Shaugnessey
MATTER SET: Motion to Compel
Counsel for both parties present. The Court hears arguments re: Motion to Compel (#68). Court GRANTS motion. Plaintiff is to provide responses/affidavits within 30 days of the entry of this order. All other discovery is to be postponed until the order has been complied with. An order reflecting this ruling is to be prepared by counsel for defendant. A motion hearing is scheduled for 1/23/04 at 10:00 a.m. Court is adjourned.
and emphasises the lack of innovation in Internet Explorer and MS-Office.
So often Microsoft is decried as unoriginal with all its products and with this I certainly agree. However, and I'm not trying to troll here, rarely have I seen Open Source software do anything but the same.
Most innovation comes from small closed source companies that have an idea and want to make some money off of it. Microsoft moves forward by either emulating these companies or buying them outright. Open Source software seems to move forward almost exclusively through emulating these innovative companies (Either directly or indirectly by emulating Microsoft).
Almost all open source software provides a piece of functionality already provided in closed source or non-"free as in beer" software
This all begs the question, why doesn't open source encourage more innovation? I really don't know why. Does anyone else have an answer to this?
In this case, it only makes sense that a critical infrastructure like Internet service be provided by the state. Charging me $50/month for my broadband connection seems ridiculously high.
Since when did a broadband internet connection become a piece of critical infrastructure? Even if you consider internet access in general very important, dial up still easily provides that requirement at a very reasonable price.
If these things are pushed too early by private companies, the company and its investors pay the price. Or, if you don't like what the company is doing, take your money out.
If the government does the same, at a likely much higher cost, everyone gets to pay the price whether you like it or not. It's not the government's duty to be engaging in very expensive and risky ventures like this that will eventually be handled by companies anyway. It may take a little longer, but it will likely be far more efficient and have a far better impact on the economy.
Before you go putting down the U.S. government for not dropping everything to make a very public switch to Open Source, consider that Microsoft is based in the U.S. Do you think Brazil would be doing the same thing if Microsoft were based out of Rio de Janeiro?
Saddam was an asshole, but he fed, clothed and watered his people during the UN sanctions. They *had* infrastructure. The electricity supply worked (for example). A recent report into child welfare shows things are much, much, much worse since the coalition "liberated" them.
Were African-American slaves better off because their master provided them the bare necessities for life, but didn't allow them to really live? Two months after they were freed, they had no job and were probably finding it more difficult to survive. However, they were better off because they had control over their own destiny.
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the coutnry is cutting taxes
A well known and proven way to improve the economy.
is running up huge debts
Considering the U.S. is coming out of a recession, some overspending isn't outrageous.
unemployment is rising
Nope, it's dropping and is likely to continue dropping as the economy improves.
the rich are wasting vast amounts of the country's money on useless trinkets
Generally the rich tend to spend money on new technologies which in turn allows these technologies to grow into new markets. New markets means more jobs and overall economic growth.
and now the space pioneer that was NASA has fallen behind Europe's ESA/Russian space programs to the point where it is using 1960s rockets compared with ion engines.
a) The U.S. is building the only current and planned space station for future space research.
b) The U.S. has in the past decade and continues to launch many probes into the solar system to study various planets/moons/asteroids/comets while the ESA is working on launching its first and Russia hasn't launched one in years.
c) This article represents the forward looking aspects that will keep the U.S. in front.
Slashdot Mirror
That's exactly the point of creating a safety czar and starting an advertising campaign. The "13 year old whorish girls" don't realize what they are getting in to and they need to be made aware of it.
While it's true that some will continue, others will see that what they're doing may be dangerous and at least clean up the personal information from their page.
This can also be very helpful to parents who don't realize the consequences of what their children are doing.
I don't think you can fault myspace for this. They're just trying to improve their site and Profit!
Not much of an irony when you consider that by fighting in the U.S. they're not risking losing the entire market, whereas in China, trying to fight the government can get google banned from the entire market.
A lot of comments on this article have this completely wrong. The rumor is about Apple buying Palm, which makes handhelds such as the Treo and Tungsten. Palm does NOT own Palm OS. Palm OS is owned and developed by PalmSource. They are two different companies.
Indeed, Palm's latest Treo, the 700w, runs Windows Mobile Edition.
Got it?
Huh? That's clearly wrong. When Intel had its famous FDIV bug, they shipped it knowing that the problem was there (the chips were already manufactured before they noticed it in their internal design validation.)
You see, it's just one of the many first times this has happened. You're referring to a different first time.
This is ridiculous. Yes, 75% of people in computer science are men. So what? What percentage of teachers are women? What percentage or care takers are women? I don't hear people screaming of a gender gap in those or other professions where men are less inclined to have careers.
Let's face it. Women are different and in general not as interested in the science of computers. Note, that I'm not talking about all women, but simply a greater percentage than men. It's reality. Let it go instead of forcing some women into a field in which they're not comfortable just so we can feel better about some meaningless percentages.
Betas are indeed helpful to consumers. It allows them to get an early look at a product and guide its final look and feel and feature set. This allows the company to develop a better product and consumers get a product that more suits there needs.
While it's true that using beta software is not for everyone, there are many users who do and make this symbiotic relationship worthwhile. As a software developer for enterprise customers, I see this play out with great success all the time.
It's got a start. The enterprise version of Google desktop can index Lotus Notes mail databases. I've used this and it's excellent. Much faster and more accurate than the search facility built into Notes.
By "development" I assume you mean the actual programming which on most large projects only takes about a third or less of the total effort. Most of the effort is spent on testing and fixing defects in the code. When you reimplement something, that means it must be completely retested and is likely to have a lot of defects that would not exist in reused code.
This is a very important reason for reusing code and why companies spend so much effort on it. The less new code there is in a product, the fewer the defects and the overall time spent will in general be less.
Looks like Linux is catching up on M$-Windows.
Not quite yet. Microsoft Windows server revenue was US$4.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2004. So Linux still has only about 25% of Window's server revenue, but Linux's growth continues to remain very high and considering the fact that anyone can access it's source and binaries for free, that's not too bad. :)
You haven't been writing many cross platform applications in Java recently have you? I've been writing large, complex applications that must run on Windows, Linux, HPUX, AIX, OS/400, and Solaris for 6 years now. When I started, your statement was true. However, this has largely become a non-issue. Throughout testing we rarely come across a bug that is specific to a single platform or JVM as long as you use a robust JVM like Sun's or IBM's.
While you still need to test on all platforms just to be sure, 98% of the bugs found are in the Java code, not the JVM.
Overall, though the quality has been "good enough" and the price makes it all worth it. My wife gets to spend hours talking to her family in Italy and the quality on international calls is the same as calling next door.
You need to subtract the number of people who retired, which given that baby boomers are retiring in huge numbers will decrease that number significantly.
Far too many pepople rely on the educational system alone to turn their obnoxious little brats into good upstanding citizens. They don't understand that the educational system is just a tool. It generally takes a good upbringing to get kids to take advantage of it.
Once someone wants to learn and sees the value in a good education, they'll get a good education, even in the "abysmal" system we currently have.
Uh, electricity is already above pre-war levels and with a system in place that is far superior to the system that existed before the war. Don't believe me? Check it out.
Cats lick all the dirt off their entire body, including the dingle berries left on their ass after they poop. You might want to start there if you're looking for a cause.
Quite sensible fiscal policy, actually. It seems that you'll soon be in the eviable position of being able to sell a valuable comodity while not consuming any (very little) of it yourselves.
I'm thinking they would still have vehicles that must consume this valuable commodity.
If the US politicians and oil producers could wrap their minds around that concept, there'd be quite a change in the amount of polution produced in the world, as well as curing our horrendous trade deficit...
Umm..The U.S. gets its power from natural gas, coal, and nuclear fuel. If it went completely to renewable energy for power generation, it would still need just as much oil.
Read the quote from the article again. He never mentions anything about code generation. He's talking about having a clear separation between what a program does and how it does it. Today, specifications are written in narratives and do not fully capture what a program should do. This then leaves the programmer to fill in the gaps. If the SMEs were to create a specification that included the high level operations with clear pre and post conditions, the programmers could focus on implementing the architecture and underlying design that would satisfy the specification.
Not to take anything away from your very interesting points on the connection between the Bush Administration and oil, but I think you forgot that your whole post was supposed to provide a link between the Bush Administration and the Internet/OSS. Not a single fact that you bring up even alludes to this. Try to make your opening statements a little more accurate next time.
MINUTES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF UTAH
JUDGE: Hon. Brooke Wells
COURT REPORTER:
COURTROOM DEPUTY: Amy Pehrson
DATE: December 5, 2003
CASE NO. 2:03CV294DAK
SCO v IBM
APPEARANCE OF COUNSEL
Pla Kevin McBride, Brent Hatch
Dft David Marriot, Todd Shaugnessey
MATTER SET: Motion to Compel
Counsel for both parties present. The Court hears arguments re: Motion to Compel
(#68). Court GRANTS motion. Plaintiff is to provide responses/affidavits within
30 days of the entry of this order. All other discovery is to be postponed until
the order has been complied with. An order reflecting this ruling is to be
prepared by counsel for defendant. A motion hearing is scheduled for 1/23/04 at
10:00 a.m. Court is adjourned.
Case Title: 2:03CV294DAK, SCO v IBM
So often Microsoft is decried as unoriginal with all its products and with this I certainly agree. However, and I'm not trying to troll here, rarely have I seen Open Source software do anything but the same.
Most innovation comes from small closed source companies that have an idea and want to make some money off of it. Microsoft moves forward by either emulating these companies or buying them outright. Open Source software seems to move forward almost exclusively through emulating these innovative companies (Either directly or indirectly by emulating Microsoft).
Almost all open source software provides a piece of functionality already provided in closed source or non-"free as in beer" software
This all begs the question, why doesn't open source encourage more innovation? I really don't know why. Does anyone else have an answer to this?
Since when did a broadband internet connection become a piece of critical infrastructure? Even if you consider internet access in general very important, dial up still easily provides that requirement at a very reasonable price.
If these things are pushed too early by private companies, the company and its investors pay the price. Or, if you don't like what the company is doing, take your money out.
If the government does the same, at a likely much higher cost, everyone gets to pay the price whether you like it or not. It's not the government's duty to be engaging in very expensive and risky ventures like this that will eventually be handled by companies anyway. It may take a little longer, but it will likely be far more efficient and have a far better impact on the economy.
Until Someone puts a link to the camera on slashdot. D'oh!
Before you go putting down the U.S. government for not dropping everything to make a very public switch to Open Source, consider that Microsoft is based in the U.S. Do you think Brazil would be doing the same thing if Microsoft were based out of Rio de Janeiro?
Were African-American slaves better off because their master provided them the bare necessities for life, but didn't allow them to really live? Two months after they were freed, they had no job and were probably finding it more difficult to survive. However, they were better off because they had control over their own destiny.
A well known and proven way to improve the economy.
is running up huge debts
Considering the U.S. is coming out of a recession, some overspending isn't outrageous.
unemployment is rising
Nope, it's dropping and is likely to continue dropping as the economy improves.
the rich are wasting vast amounts of the country's money on useless trinkets
Generally the rich tend to spend money on new technologies which in turn allows these technologies to grow into new markets. New markets means more jobs and overall economic growth.
and now the space pioneer that was NASA has fallen behind Europe's ESA/Russian space programs to the point where it is using 1960s rockets compared with ion engines.
a) The U.S. is building the only current and planned space station for future space research. b) The U.S. has in the past decade and continues to launch many probes into the solar system to study various planets/moons/asteroids/comets while the ESA is working on launching its first and Russia hasn't launched one in years. c) This article represents the forward looking aspects that will keep the U.S. in front.