"carpet would start to crawl - literally moving backwards and forwards"
Same here...happens to walls and ceilings also etc. You can sometimes fool your mind into doing it when you are not sleepy...or perhaps you've had to have this experience first, dunno.
When I get really tired I start thinking I see spiders scurry and flies whiz past, when in fact its just a dot or shadow or something.
A free/democratic system will always be prone to parasitic cancers ("terrorists", whatever, people who use the freedom of the system against itself). This cannot be legislated against without ruining the freedom of the system in the first place. The same is true for the internet, denial of service attacks, p2p file sharing systems, etc. The only way to combat it is raising awareness and building an organic proactive (but fuzzy and prone to false negatives and positives) defense into the system. Think of the human immune system. We are not programmed with every single pathogen out there, nor would we want to be. We use a bunch of heuristics to identify anomolous behavior, track it, contain it, and dynamically generate new defenses against it. Legislation against boxcutters or books on "how to derail trains" will never be the answer.
"I have a T1 for my business. I have to pay 100% of the bill for it. Sometimes my clients and I get email from AOL users. AOL doesn't pay for one cent of my T1, yet they expect to send me messages without worrying about the cost!"
Hey smart guy, it works both ways. Do you have to pay the recipient's ISP bill when *you* send *them* an email?
"licenses like the GPL that attempt to devalue the cost of software"
The cost of software is virtually nothing. The VALUE however can be high. Microsoft wants to DEVALUE GPL/LGPL software so that it can maintain it's own COST, so it can make MONEY. Why is this so HARD to UNDERSTAND?
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Media and culture are sickly twisted. Nobody can claim to be an "objective reporter" just "reporting the news". These days the media IS the news. The medium IS the reality. Society of the spectacle, life through proxy, etc. etc.
I'm sure there are tons of authentic and genuine people in centralized media, but there is no denying that you are part of the big hairy beast for good or bad. Which is why indiemedia is so exciting.
I think the bigger problem for Sun, though, is Microsoft's CLR technology is a lot more language neutral than Java VMs are, so its not just C# they need to worry about
Not really. The CLR was designed with a particular type of language in mind, C#. Everything else is basically C# with different tokens. Ask functional programmers what they think of CLR.
Sun is not smothering Java, but they are not letting Java move as fast nor as friendly as it could.
Actually, I'm not so sure I buy into this. From where I'm standing, it is still very hard to get clients updated quickly to the latest bleeding edge Java (no thanks to Microsoft's desktop dominance), so I don't see how Java is not moving as fast as it could be. Are you keeping track of all the specs and extensions they churn out? RMI, EJB, CORBA, JDBC, XML support, Servlets and JSP, JDO, Mail libraries, JNDI libraries, LDAP libraries, 3D graphics support, now they even have a serious Java Gaming push! Java seems to be moving very fast to me.
No I agree c# will not have the community that Java has EVER.
C# does NOT compete with Java. I have to say this about 15 times per month. Clearly M$ wants to keep pushing this idea, but no one has yet told me why its supposed to. C# competes with c++. c# is for windows, Java is for everywhere. Yes maybe you can use c# on some other os, but c# is "for" windows.
I wish they would just let this fake arguement of c# knocking off Java die.
Just wanted to quote that because I wholeheartedly agree. C# is primarily a migration path for *MS developers* to step into a world which until now J2EE has been the sole citizen. Of course MS is going to hype it if it can detract from Java, but that's just extra. And frankly, I'd rather see MS software written in C#/CLR (which is actually a decent architecture, with security, etc.) than C and C++.
HUH? Sun has put a TON of resources into Java, gives it away freely ("costless"), provides *extensive* docs, and even lets you look at the full source. Java is an immense and diverse platform. Sun sells hardly *any* Java-based products (the only thing that comes to mind is the HotJava Bean which has been discontinued, and Forte, which there is already a free edition!)
Sun has no "services" they are trying to shove on people. They define everything as open specs, and then simply create a reference implementation that you can *choose* to use - next to being fully open source (and they've been making strides trying to be more open), there really isn't much *more* they could do for developers. I'm actually surprised that Sun is devoting this much energy to Java when there isn't much profit to be made from it, but it sure is great.
I don't see C# having anywhere near the community that Java has. Typically Microsoft communities are people who have comradery in being serfs. It's a lot different with Java.
'Remember the advent of the Blue Screen of Death in NT 4.0? That was really just a message telling the user "we think it's time for you to shut off the computer".'
Yeah, but that message was always spot-on. Amazing.
"I can find plenty of examples of governments who have killed thousands or millions."
Yes, but likewise there are many non-governments which have done the same. If we agree that humans in isolation, don't have much motivation for mass killings, then it must be something about the structure of government (or religion, etc.). The key then is not the fuzzy concept of "government" but the lack of *participation* in government (and media!). Bureaucratic Democracies/Republics which dampen citizens' participatory power (yeah, right "throw away" that vote) or keep them fat content and ignorant (ABC McNews sez everything is Double Plus Good, rations are up 3%), can commit as much atrocity as totalitarian regimes. Of course you could counter that the very fact that it seems we are unable to create workable representative governments is an indightment of government itself and thus it should be abandoned entirely, at which point you'd be called an anarchist and teargassed:p Personally I think that we should *first* try to remove the most egregious corrupting factors from government before denouncing it entirely (er, massive corporatization of politics, media, and culture in general).
You define an interface (uh, "Plugin"?) which has a fixed API for your program to query it, and your provides some API so it can manipulate the program. In this API you might want to include a "bus" or event system that all plugins share so they can talk to other plugins without having to know about them ahead of time.
Bam. There's your plugin "architecture". What is the problem?
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"carpet would start to crawl - literally moving backwards and forwards"
Same here...happens to walls and ceilings also etc. You can sometimes fool your mind into doing it when you are not sleepy...or perhaps you've had to have this experience first, dunno.
When I get really tired I start thinking I see spiders scurry and flies whiz past, when in fact its just a dot or shadow or something.
"I close the shades when I do not want others to see what is in my apartment and do not need a law to alleviate me of my responsibility."
How would you respond to thermal scanning of your house? You can't just close a window shade.
A free/democratic system will always be prone to parasitic cancers ("terrorists", whatever, people who use the freedom of the system against itself). This cannot be legislated against without ruining the freedom of the system in the first place. The same is true for the internet, denial of service attacks, p2p file sharing systems, etc. The only way to combat it is raising awareness and building an organic proactive (but fuzzy and prone to false negatives and positives) defense into the system. Think of the human immune system. We are not programmed with every single pathogen out there, nor would we want to be. We use a bunch of heuristics to identify anomolous behavior, track it, contain it, and dynamically generate new defenses against it. Legislation against boxcutters or books on "how to derail trains" will never be the answer.
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That reminds me, I have to patent the tire swing.
"I have a T1 for my business. I have to pay 100% of the bill for it. Sometimes my clients and I get email from AOL users. AOL doesn't pay for one cent of my T1, yet they expect to send me messages without worrying about the cost!"
Hey smart guy, it works both ways. Do you have to pay the recipient's ISP bill when *you* send *them* an email?
"Fact is that people who live in developing countries exploit each other just as much as the developed countries exploit the developing countries."
And this is supposed to make it right? When resources are scarce and people are desparate, they exploit each other more. What a lovely vicious circle.
"licenses like the GPL that attempt to devalue the cost of software"
The cost of software is virtually nothing. The VALUE however can be high. Microsoft wants to DEVALUE GPL/LGPL software so that it can maintain it's own COST, so it can make MONEY. Why is this so HARD to UNDERSTAND?
Media and culture are sickly twisted. Nobody can claim to be an "objective reporter" just "reporting the news". These days the media IS the news. The medium IS the reality. Society of the spectacle, life through proxy, etc. etc.
I'm sure there are tons of authentic and genuine people in centralized media, but there is no denying that you are part of the big hairy beast for good or bad. Which is why indiemedia is so exciting.
Actually, I'm not so sure I buy into this. From where I'm standing, it is still very hard to get clients updated quickly to the latest bleeding edge Java (no thanks to Microsoft's desktop dominance), so I don't see how Java is not moving as fast as it could be. Are you keeping track of all the specs and extensions they churn out? RMI, EJB, CORBA, JDBC, XML support, Servlets and JSP, JDO, Mail libraries, JNDI libraries, LDAP libraries, 3D graphics support, now they even have a serious Java Gaming push! Java seems to be moving very fast to me.
Just wanted to quote that because I wholeheartedly agree. C# is primarily a migration path for *MS developers* to step into a world which until now J2EE has been the sole citizen. Of course MS is going to hype it if it can detract from Java, but that's just extra. And frankly, I'd rather see MS software written in C#/CLR (which is actually a decent architecture, with security, etc.) than C and C++.
I think he was talking about applications spawned through Runtime.exec(), in which case he has a point.
"cash in on Java's popularity."
HUH? Sun has put a TON of resources into Java, gives it away freely ("costless"), provides *extensive* docs, and even lets you look at the full source. Java is an immense and diverse platform. Sun sells hardly *any* Java-based products (the only thing that comes to mind is the HotJava Bean which has been discontinued, and Forte, which there is already a free edition!)
Sun has no "services" they are trying to shove on people. They define everything as open specs, and then simply create a reference implementation that you can *choose* to use - next to being fully open source (and they've been making strides trying to be more open), there really isn't much *more* they could do for developers. I'm actually surprised that Sun is devoting this much energy to Java when there isn't much profit to be made from it, but it sure is great.
I don't see C# having anywhere near the community that Java has. Typically Microsoft communities are people who have comradery in being serfs. It's a lot different with Java.
And what about this:
"Expedition leader Monty Halls"
How many gold pieces and dragon treasure did they find?
I think the name comes from a mountain/ski range in Washington...not the animal.
'Remember the advent of the Blue Screen of Death in NT 4.0? That was really just a message telling the user "we think it's time for you to shut off the computer".'
Yeah, but that message was always spot-on. Amazing.
Which I think calls for a new HTTP header or HTML tag:
Slashdot-cachable: Yes
or
<meta http-equiv name="slashdot-cachable" content="yes">
"out of order, see?"
Um, how exactly do planets line up out of order? Is it due to eccentric orbits? Otherwise it just seems illogical.
So, what do libertarians think about this? Isn't the market supposed to regulate itself?
"I can find plenty of examples of governments who have killed thousands or millions."
:p Personally I think that we should *first* try to remove the most egregious corrupting factors from government before denouncing it entirely (er, massive corporatization of politics, media, and culture in general).
Yes, but likewise there are many non-governments which have done the same. If we agree that humans in isolation, don't have much motivation for mass killings, then it must be something about the structure of government (or religion, etc.). The key then is not the fuzzy concept of "government" but the lack of *participation* in government (and media!). Bureaucratic Democracies/Republics which dampen citizens' participatory power (yeah, right "throw away" that vote) or keep them fat content and ignorant (ABC McNews sez everything is Double Plus Good, rations are up 3%), can commit as much atrocity as totalitarian regimes. Of course you could counter that the very fact that it seems we are unable to create workable representative governments is an indightment of government itself and thus it should be abandoned entirely, at which point you'd be called an anarchist and teargassed
Yes. End of story. Move along people.
You define an interface (uh, "Plugin"?) which has a fixed API for your program to query it, and your provides some API so it can manipulate the program. In this API you might want to include a "bus" or event system that all plugins share so they can talk to other plugins without having to know about them ahead of time.
Bam. There's your plugin "architecture". What is the problem?
AIDS is funny to whom?
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