The quality of the code varies from source to source. Thus making it sub par. Their documentation is okay, since it's produced from the source code and is shown to the public. Atleast on the.java source. But overall I think their code it crap, but not nearly as bad as Mozilla was. The really irritating thing with the rt.jar source code, which has always been viewable, is that they don't follow their own java formatting conventions. There's going to be a lot of available "Janitorial" positions available once all the code get realeased in March (I think they said march). The only thing that really worries me is the JCP process. Linux works well, because in has a benevolent dictator at the top. Translation, it has a vision/direction. JCP's are commitiees, and that will slow down OS/FOSS development efforts. I imagine/hope that ClassPath will stick around and add features/ be the eqivilent of a development branch. There are things I'd like to see added to that language that would never make it through a commitiee (I just can't spell that word this morning, sorry). But by having a development unstable branch, maybe some of these things can be tried out and proven in the field, then added back into the mainline trunk. The JCP seems to work well, but I'm really curious to see if it can keep up with OS development.
I like the idea of them, but if I'm going to spend that much money, I'd like it to have a constant 2.8 fstop not a variable 4.5-5.6. I guess that why it's not an L-Series. Even though it has the price of one. I'm going to have to agree with you on the ironing out the quirks bit. I would imagine that they haven't really pushed it hard yet due to the haze/flare. I hope they do, I hate running around with a huge zoom lens. It knoks into stuff, and people sure notice it more. I just can't justify the price for the quality.
Is it the fact that they are diffractive optics that make them expensive, or just the fact that they are cannon lenses? this lens is probably a better example for the average bear. Twice as expensive as it's nearest realative, but it's also 2" shorter. And that can make a big difference when your walking around knocking into stuff. Is it worth it? don't know, is the picture quality any better? don't know. I would assume so, or why sell the thing at all.
True that because you can copy something in SL, its value is gone, but not the value of the initial creation time. Open up a shop where people will pay you to make something for them. Sure they may not have the only copy for long, but for a little while, they will. I think that coresponds to the open source model. You get paid for your skills, not for your merchandise. If there is something of value that ppl in SL want, I'm sure that they would be willing to pay for it. If SL has no real value to people, then it will just die off like buggy whips.
Here's my thought on what they would be afraid to take to FISA. 20,000 5 second wiretaps per minute for 3 months. I'm not going to even do the math. I think the authour of the article might be a bit wrong. I don't think they are looking for keywords at all. You just can't do it. It would be all noise, and no signal. I think what they are doing is a broad 5 second sampling of all international call every few minutes. Useing voice recongnition software to determine if any of the current conversations belong to any know terriosits. Recording marking anyone on the other end of the conversation as a potential, and the lines for their voice as well. Essentialy mapping a network of people,locations, and movement. Then flagging these networks as worth futher study or irrelevant. FISA would not approve this if it were put in terms of wiretapping. The conversations are not what's important here, on the idetification of the participants in the conversation. It is effectivly done through wire tapping, but wiretapping laws are really about content of a conversation, not participant indentification. If this is what they are doing, then I think it's probably legal, and quite cool. And if it not what they are doing, I want a patent on it..:)
Believe it or not, this isn't outrageous. The software that my company writes sells for 30-40K for a license and 3-4k per year for maintanance. You throw in the as400 that this has to run on, and you've quickly hit 100K. Add about 10K per extra software package btw. It's not uncommon for new clients to drop 70K in software costs. However, are nearest competitor, not in sales but price, starts at 300K and quickly get's into the millions. I had to adjust when shifting out of an idealistic academic atmosphere, into the biz world. You have to remeber that most software shops couldn't run without charging prices like this. You also have to remember that there are two kinds of software shops out there. Retail and Business. Retail works on selling lots of coppies for a cheap price while the biz market works on selling a few copies for a very large price. Oracle tries to serve the biz market and not the retail market, and there prices are quite inline, if not cheap for that market.
BTW, we use postgres for everything not running on a as400..
I have to concure with this. We don't have a TV, but we get on-line. My 4 year old has and still does spend a huge amount of time outside. Sword fighting with the dogs and letting the well run dry while making mud pies for the dogs to eat. What we really end up doing is a lot of stimulating outdoor activity (running/building/breaking stuff) and the in the evening we will go inside and use the internet, games, and books to add understanding to what we did all day. I sort of make a mental list of some of the more difficult/interesting questions that were asked throughout the day, and then try to find stuff of the net that explains them better and more entertaingly than I can.
Good places to go:
NASA website for space shuttle launches.
PBS website for educational games.
TUXPAINT!!! I just can't recommend this more. My kid just loves this. And so do I, no mess to clean up.
It's very strange. I can download from every where else in the world using torrent, but for some reason, I can't even get a foothold on FC4. Or for that mater the azureus update torrent. I can ul/dl with lots of other stuff though..
You got an IP and port number or know a place where I can find one, so that I can reseed mydb...I'm not able to get any contacts at all. Wich seems to prevent me from using the magnet link.
Um, when did greece begin it's decline and fall. Was it perhaps starting to show it's signs at the time these words we're uttered...? Youth should be shackled, and only unbound by wisdom.;)
We have no problem hiring people where I work who have any sort of piercings, tatoos or whatnot. The only thing we really look for is that you look "put together" If your tatoos or esp your piercings tend to be placed acording to impluse, we probably won't hire you. If the koolaid in your hair looks like a small child did it, we won't hire you. But if it looks like OCD was involved, we probably will. We are looking for oraginzed people who take well though out risks. If that tatoo or RGB hair look well done, it's not a problem. I might have issues with a bone through the nose and a disk in the lip (unless it's cultural (sill be a trip though)). I've seen well put togerther freaks who look clean, and I've seen freaks who look like they got real drunk one night and then shot up, and then went on a piercing rampage. Translation, don't look like a junkie.
How long before Google Aquires this service. I personally Think it would be great. Make some money for the BT guy and give Google another interesting service.
I have thought that perhaps one solution would be to hold code reviews where one of the major features that was looked at was understandability in the code. But I have not experimented enough to know if this will actually get people to document their software.
We do this and its effect varies from person to person. Generally as with most things you will see a spike, but then they will drift backwards. I've found that the only way to do this is constant review. While someone is comming up to speed or whatever, you revire their code a little evryday. This gets them in the habbit of conforming shop standards and what not. And because you are interupting their train of thought everyday for a week or two they build the habbit quickly so that they can just right some code without having to deal with you.
Unlike everywhere else, here we're waiting for key-release instead of key-press because the operating environment has a race condition and posts them out of order! Go Sun!
I have this one word for word in my own code. Kinda spooky to see it here, but also nice to know it's not just me.
This idea is a lot like the way bookmarks are done in epiphinay (and where ever they stole it from). I have a number of UDF categories and when I bookmark something, I say that it blong in any number of these categories. That way when I look at my fun group and my news group slashdot shows up in both places. It's very addicting.
I enjoyed parts of Quicksilver, but a lot of it was slow, still a very good book. Ah, but "the Confusion," this was the first book that I have ever read that trully had me rivited to my seat. It trully has parts in it that make me think it is one of the best books I've ever read. The scene where they are feeling across the Mediterranean is both an amazing chase as well as grotesquely beautiful prose at times.
To me the most interesting thing about this articale is the fact that when you give people a choice of a thousand movies, they will tend to get the more obscure things. I know I do. When I look for music on-line, It's not Britney, it's things that I don't hear on the radio or things that are not popular enough for record stores to carry. Same with Movies, I bought one of those 14.99 unlimited things at BlockBuster's and quickly ran thriough all of the new releases, I then found myself renting an obscent amount of foreign films and other things that I would normally waste the moeny one ( as if most new (Big Name) releases are a waste to being with).
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The quality of the code varies from source to source. Thus making it sub par. Their documentation is okay, since it's produced from the source code and is shown to the public. Atleast on the .java source. But overall I think their code it crap, but not nearly as bad as Mozilla was. The really irritating thing with the rt.jar source code, which has always been viewable, is that they don't follow their own java formatting conventions. There's going to be a lot of available "Janitorial" positions available once all the code get realeased in March (I think they said march). The only thing that really worries me is the JCP process. Linux works well, because in has a benevolent dictator at the top. Translation, it has a vision/direction. JCP's are commitiees, and that will slow down OS/FOSS development efforts. I imagine/hope that ClassPath will stick around and add features/ be the eqivilent of a development branch. There are things I'd like to see added to that language that would never make it through a commitiee (I just can't spell that word this morning, sorry). But by having a development unstable branch, maybe some of these things can be tried out and proven in the field, then added back into the mainline trunk. The JCP seems to work well, but I'm really curious to see if it can keep up with OS development.
I like the idea of them, but if I'm going to spend that much money, I'd like it to have a constant 2.8 fstop not a variable 4.5-5.6. I guess that why it's not an L-Series. Even though it has the price of one. I'm going to have to agree with you on the ironing out the quirks bit. I would imagine that they haven't really pushed it hard yet due to the haze/flare. I hope they do, I hate running around with a huge zoom lens. It knoks into stuff, and people sure notice it more. I just can't justify the price for the quality.
Is it the fact that they are diffractive optics that make them expensive, or just the fact that they are cannon lenses?
this lens is probably a better example for the average bear. Twice as expensive as it's nearest realative, but it's also 2" shorter. And that can make a big difference when your walking around knocking into stuff. Is it worth it? don't know, is the picture quality any better? don't know. I would assume so, or why sell the thing at all.
True that because you can copy something in SL, its value is gone, but not the value of the initial creation time. Open up a shop where people will pay you to make something for them. Sure they may not have the only copy for long, but for a little while, they will. I think that coresponds to the open source model. You get paid for your skills, not for your merchandise. If there is something of value that ppl in SL want, I'm sure that they would be willing to pay for it. If SL has no real value to people, then it will just die off like buggy whips.
Here's my thought on what they would be afraid to take to FISA. 20,000 5 second wiretaps per minute for 3 months. I'm not going to even do the math. I think the authour of the article might be a bit wrong. I don't think they are looking for keywords at all. You just can't do it. It would be all noise, and no signal. I think what they are doing is a broad 5 second sampling of all international call every few minutes. Useing voice recongnition software to determine if any of the current conversations belong to any know terriosits. Recording marking anyone on the other end of the conversation as a potential, and the lines for their voice as well. Essentialy mapping a network of people,locations, and movement. Then flagging these networks as worth futher study or irrelevant. FISA would not approve this if it were put in terms of wiretapping. The conversations are not what's important here, on the idetification of the participants in the conversation. It is effectivly done through wire tapping, but wiretapping laws are really about content of a conversation, not participant indentification. If this is what they are doing, then I think it's probably legal, and quite cool. And if it not what they are doing, I want a patent on it..:)
Believe it or not, this isn't outrageous. The software that my company writes sells for 30-40K for a license and 3-4k per year for maintanance. You throw in the as400 that this has to run on, and you've quickly hit 100K. Add about 10K per extra software package btw. It's not uncommon for new clients to drop 70K in software costs. However, are nearest competitor, not in sales but price, starts at 300K and quickly get's into the millions. I had to adjust when shifting out of an idealistic academic atmosphere, into the biz world. You have to remeber that most software shops couldn't run without charging prices like this. You also have to remember that there are two kinds of software shops out there. Retail and Business. Retail works on selling lots of coppies for a cheap price while the biz market works on selling a few copies for a very large price. Oracle tries to serve the biz market and not the retail market, and there prices are quite inline, if not cheap for that market.
BTW, we use postgres for everything not running on a as400..
That's cool. I guess that's what mine would do if he had thumbs.
I feel like such an insensitive clod, I didn't realize your 4 year old didn't have thumbs!
I have to concure with this. We don't have a TV, but we get on-line. My 4 year old has and still does spend a huge amount of time outside. Sword fighting with the dogs and letting the well run dry while making mud pies for the dogs to eat. What we really end up doing is a lot of stimulating outdoor activity (running/building/breaking stuff) and the in the evening we will go inside and use the internet, games, and books to add understanding to what we did all day. I sort of make a mental list of some of the more difficult/interesting questions that were asked throughout the day, and then try to find stuff of the net that explains them better and more entertaingly than I can.
Good places to go:
NASA website for space shuttle launches.
PBS website for educational games.
TUXPAINT!!! I just can't recommend this more. My kid just loves this. And so do I, no mess to clean up.
That's what I'm doing, just rather do the BT thing ya know..
It's very strange. I can download from every where else in the world using torrent, but for some reason, I can't even get a foothold on FC4. Or for that mater the azureus update torrent. I can ul/dl with lots of other stuff though..
You got an IP and port number or know a place where I can find one, so that I can reseed mydb...I'm not able to get any contacts at all. Wich seems to prevent me from using the magnet link.
I've been having the same problem for the last hour or so. I get nothing but timeouts when connection to the tracker
Um, when did greece begin it's decline and fall. Was it perhaps starting to show it's signs at the time these words we're uttered...? Youth should be shackled, and only unbound by wisdom. ;)
We have no problem hiring people where I work who have any sort of piercings, tatoos or whatnot. The only thing we really look for is that you look "put together" If your tatoos or esp your piercings tend to be placed acording to impluse, we probably won't hire you. If the koolaid in your hair looks like a small child did it, we won't hire you. But if it looks like OCD was involved, we probably will. We are looking for oraginzed people who take well though out risks. If that tatoo or RGB hair look well done, it's not a problem. I might have issues with a bone through the nose and a disk in the lip (unless it's cultural (sill be a trip though)). I've seen well put togerther freaks who look clean, and I've seen freaks who look like they got real drunk one night and then shot up, and then went on a piercing rampage. Translation, don't look like a junkie.
How long before Google Aquires this service. I personally Think it would be great. Make some money for the BT guy and give Google another interesting service.
I believe that you missed 2061.
I bet, for the Onion, the put a REAL news story out
I have thought that perhaps one solution would be to hold code reviews where one of the major features that was looked at was understandability in the code. But I have not experimented enough to know if this will actually get people to document their software.
We do this and its effect varies from person to person. Generally as with most things you will see a spike, but then they will drift backwards. I've found that the only way to do this is constant review. While someone is comming up to speed or whatever, you revire their code a little evryday. This gets them in the habbit of conforming shop standards and what not. And because you are interupting their train of thought everyday for a week or two they build the habbit quickly so that they can just right some code without having to deal with you.
Unlike everywhere else, here we're waiting for key-release instead of key-press because the operating environment has a race condition and posts them out of order! Go Sun!
I have this one word for word in my own code. Kinda spooky to see it here, but also nice to know it's not just me.
Research institutions aren't made of money
but Research is...
This idea is a lot like the way bookmarks are done in epiphinay (and where ever they stole it from). I have a number of UDF categories and when I bookmark something, I say that it blong in any number of these categories. That way when I look at my fun group and my news group slashdot shows up in both places. It's very addicting.
I enjoyed parts of Quicksilver, but a lot of it was slow, still a very good book. Ah, but "the Confusion," this was the first book that I have ever read that trully had me rivited to my seat. It trully has parts in it that make me think it is one of the best books I've ever read. The scene where they are feeling across the Mediterranean is both an amazing chase as well as grotesquely beautiful prose at times.
And the wikipedia entry has already been updated. Cool
my boss says the same thing about our receptionist. "I order the same thing every day for lunch, why can't I just ask for the 'Regular' and get it."
To me the most interesting thing about this articale is the fact that when you give people a choice of a thousand movies, they will tend to get the more obscure things. I know I do. When I look for music on-line, It's not Britney, it's things that I don't hear on the radio or things that are not popular enough for record stores to carry. Same with Movies, I bought one of those 14.99 unlimited things at BlockBuster's and quickly ran thriough all of the new releases, I then found myself renting an obscent amount of foreign films and other things that I would normally waste the moeny one ( as if most new (Big Name) releases are a waste to being with).