--and there is no beanstalk growing.
AOL, on the other hand, was smart enough to convert it's Internet hyped valuation into control over a company that would be worth something after the crash.
The point is that the CLR is not all that language independent if it can't support important language features like generics and multiple inheritance. AFAICT, the big stumbling block for really supporting C++ is multiple inheritance. Generics may get shoehorned in to the CLR, similarly to how they are being added to Java with 1.4.
Rosen is talking about people making unauthorized copies of recordings on DVD's and CD's and selling them in large numbers. Can we at least agree that this particular activity is piracy, even if sharing MP3's over the Internet isn't?
With regards to this piracy, I think the recording industry is well within their rights to demand relief. This activity is, in fact, directly diminishing their revenue.
In this case, they are not talking about siccing the CHIPs on FastTrack users. So don't fly off the handle.
It can't be that most of what we claim to be able to do one day is, in fact, impossible, with a good body of theory demonstrating that truth. If we are going to keep getting grants (and, God willing, venture capital someday) we have to keep our buzzword hot.
The government is really interested in what we're doing, but wants us to keep real quiet about it. The government is suppressing us--yeah, that's the ticket. The government is suppressing us. Oops, I wasn't supposed to say that (wink, wink).
Now, how can we get the message out? Who has watched so much Star Trek that they'll believe any damn thing is possible? I've got it!
To really change the virus ecosystem it has to run on Windows--and it has to apply to code received from e-mails. How long until Microsoft gets around to this? (Of course then the anti-virus vendors will accuse Microsoft of further anti-trust violations:))
The question is, why can't the production costs get paid out of the 85-90% of the recordings' price that the artist never sees? Why will the artists see so little money unless the record is a million seller?
The answer is that the big 4 record companies have a monopoly on distribution and radio airplay (through the infinitely corrupt payola system), and can essentially force the contract terms they dictate on the artist.
Artists have the option of independent labels, but they then face much more limited access to retail and radio.
It's not the size, it's the ratio of surface area to mass. A high surface area to mass ratio will lose energy and come down faster. Smaller objects (in general) have a lot of surface area for their mass, and so will come down quicker.
AFAIK, royalties are in the low-teens % of the wholesale price (which is like $12.98 or something). Almost all the production expenses and a surprising amount of the promotion expenses for the record come out of the royalties, though, so if the record is not a platinum-seller, the artists get very, very little.
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Not companies routinely make information available to the Internet, and routinely make use of information that other companies provide. Unfortunately, lots of times this is more difficult than necessary since all the information is formatted in pretty web pages for people to see.
Web services just means that you are providing the same data in a format for other companies' programs to use. This is an excellent idea, particularly when you can charge for providing the data.
This was always the idea behind CORBA, but I think people didn't get it because since both ends of the communication were to be programs, it was too abstract. Now that people do these kinds of information exchanges everyday with web servers and browsers, it's much clearer what the point was all along.
Web services takes the CORBA idea and adds the web momentum. You leverage the communication infrastructure built for the web. SOAP is a hell of a lot less efficient than IIOP, though.
I'm a little upset that Rehnquist and Scalia disagreed with the decision. Those two are apparently willing to let Congress do anything it wants with the Constitution.
I hate to break it to you, but the hydrogen fusing at the core of the sun is not renewable. Relying on that as an energy source presents the same longer-term problems.
It's orders of magnitudes greater--billions and billions. It represents an amount of hydrogen comparable to the amount that is in all the water in the oceans. If there is an easy way to extract it, we'll all be drowning before we run out of it.
Write-once run anywhere?
Hmmm, today I can write a nice app in Java and have it run on Linux, OS/X, Solaris as well as Windows.
With.NET, it will run on Windows. If it doesn't interact with the display or a database, it will run on FreeBSD. It might run on Linux with Mono, someday.
AFAIK, there is a law that requires copyright holders to license recordings for broadcast, in return for a set royalty per song. The royalty is not very large--but I don't know if it is set depending on the power of the station/the size of the station's listenership.
If the internet stations have to pay per listener and the radio stations don't, that strikes me as quite unfair. It means that the very large radio stations are, in effect, getting quite a subsidy. Does anyone no more about this?
I've done both CORBA and Web Services and if you use tools with the same level of sophistication they are about the same level of difficulty. One advantage Web services do have is that they can eliminate transport layer issues that crop up with CORBA and firewalls.
You don't address the original point, which is that the cost isn't in making the object available on the network; it's in designing your system so it integrates with network objects in such a way that the network objects do you any good and your performance does not go to hell.
Unfortunately, MTS was based on COM, which was a fundamentally broken technology for the creation of business objects--the biggest flaws being that it was single platform, stored the object metadata in that registry abomination, and was unable to propagate exceptions across object boundaries. COM pretty much only worked as a native interface layer for VB.
After five years, Java's inroads in business application development finally persuaded Microsoft to abandon COM. They didn't want to become just another Java vendor, so they cloned Java and gave their version some marketing spin to try to lure people back to a single vendor solution.
First, you are comparing freely available tools with a several-thousand dollar product from Microsoft. The product will do more hand holding, which will be convenient until you need to do something outside of the paradigm of the product. A fairer comparison would be with the latest versions of WebSphere or BEA's app server.
Second, does your application need to be a web service, or will some other IPC do? If it doesn't need to be a web service, you are going to a lot of extra trouble in the Java implementation.
I certainly hope not. Most of the philosophisizing about quantum mechanics that makes its way into popular books is crap. They miss the crucial distinction between "unknown" and "indeterminate," and in so doing give quantum mechanics some spooky relationship with consciousness or a universal oneness that it just doesn't have.
The important rights that are being taken away are:
the right to speak, even if the speech is describing a computer program
the right to run the computer programs of our choice on our own equipment [there is no right to use/hack someone elses equipment]
Someone needs to acknowledge these are essential rights, bound intimately with our first amendment and privacy rights.
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People discuss quantum computing as if it were inevitable, when in fact it is not at all clear that the difficulty of getting n bits entangled in a quantum computer does not scale as exp(n)--in other words, the difficulty of getting a quantum computer working may scale just as quickly as the computational advantage you get from it.
A useful quantum computer being impossible to build would not be surprising at all. Lots of neato quantum effects are in fact impossible to scale to the macro world.
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The 3,500 figure for Afghani non-combatant dead is highly disputed. In any case, and this may seem callous, it's kind of a drop in the bucket in the face of the death toll of their continuing civil war. By finishing the war quickly and efficiently, we probably saved Afghan lives in the long run.
I disagree. I think the Napster demographic was very young, and so if anything record-company-hyped "big name" artists were downloaded disproportionately. Sheesh, how many people got busted for downloading Metallica (hardly an unknown band).
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--and there is no beanstalk growing. AOL, on the other hand, was smart enough to convert it's Internet hyped valuation into control over a company that would be worth something after the crash.
The point is that the CLR is not all that language independent if it can't support important language features like generics and multiple inheritance. AFAICT, the big stumbling block for really supporting C++ is multiple inheritance. Generics may get shoehorned in to the CLR, similarly to how they are being added to Java with 1.4.
Rosen is talking about people making unauthorized copies of recordings on DVD's and CD's and selling them in large numbers. Can we at least agree that this particular activity is piracy, even if sharing MP3's over the Internet isn't? With regards to this piracy, I think the recording industry is well within their rights to demand relief. This activity is, in fact, directly diminishing their revenue. In this case, they are not talking about siccing the CHIPs on FastTrack users. So don't fly off the handle.
It can't be that most of what we claim to be able to do one day is, in fact, impossible, with a good body of theory demonstrating that truth. If we are going to keep getting grants (and, God willing, venture capital someday) we have to keep our buzzword hot.
The government is really interested in what we're doing, but wants us to keep real quiet about it. The government is suppressing us--yeah, that's the ticket. The government is suppressing us. Oops, I wasn't supposed to say that (wink, wink).
Now, how can we get the message out? Who has watched so much Star Trek that they'll believe any damn thing is possible? I've got it!
To really change the virus ecosystem it has to run on Windows--and it has to apply to code received from e-mails. How long until Microsoft gets around to this? (Of course then the anti-virus vendors will accuse Microsoft of further anti-trust violations :))
The question is, why can't the production costs get paid out of the 85-90% of the recordings' price that the artist never sees? Why will the artists see so little money unless the record is a million seller? The answer is that the big 4 record companies have a monopoly on distribution and radio airplay (through the infinitely corrupt payola system), and can essentially force the contract terms they dictate on the artist. Artists have the option of independent labels, but they then face much more limited access to retail and radio.
It's not the size, it's the ratio of surface area to mass. A high surface area to mass ratio will lose energy and come down faster. Smaller objects (in general) have a lot of surface area for their mass, and so will come down quicker.
AFAIK, royalties are in the low-teens % of the wholesale price (which is like $12.98 or something). Almost all the production expenses and a surprising amount of the promotion expenses for the record come out of the royalties, though, so if the record is not a platinum-seller, the artists get very, very little.
Not companies routinely make information available to the Internet, and routinely make use of information that other companies provide. Unfortunately, lots of times this is more difficult than necessary since all the information is formatted in pretty web pages for people to see.
Web services just means that you are providing the same data in a format for other companies' programs to use. This is an excellent idea, particularly when you can charge for providing the data.
This was always the idea behind CORBA, but I think people didn't get it because since both ends of the communication were to be programs, it was too abstract. Now that people do these kinds of information exchanges everyday with web servers and browsers, it's much clearer what the point was all along.
Web services takes the CORBA idea and adds the web momentum. You leverage the communication infrastructure built for the web. SOAP is a hell of a lot less efficient than IIOP, though.
I think Thomas needs to recuse himself on anything related to pornography :)
I'm a little upset that Rehnquist and Scalia disagreed with the decision. Those two are apparently willing to let Congress do anything it wants with the Constitution.
I hate to break it to you, but the hydrogen fusing at the core of the sun is not renewable. Relying on that as an energy source presents the same longer-term problems.
It's orders of magnitudes greater--billions and billions. It represents an amount of hydrogen comparable to the amount that is in all the water in the oceans. If there is an easy way to extract it, we'll all be drowning before we run out of it.
Plants release oxygen from both carbon dioxide and water. When you metabolize carbohydrates, you get both CO2 and H2O. Photosynthesis reverses this.
Write-once run anywhere? Hmmm, today I can write a nice app in Java and have it run on Linux, OS/X, Solaris as well as Windows. With .NET, it will run on Windows. If it doesn't interact with the display or a database, it will run on FreeBSD. It might run on Linux with Mono, someday.
Two points 1. The client isn't where Java is successful now anyway 2. AFAIK the XP's now shipping don't have a .Net runtime, either
AFAIK, there is a law that requires copyright holders to license recordings for broadcast, in return for a set royalty per song. The royalty is not very large--but I don't know if it is set depending on the power of the station/the size of the station's listenership. If the internet stations have to pay per listener and the radio stations don't, that strikes me as quite unfair. It means that the very large radio stations are, in effect, getting quite a subsidy. Does anyone no more about this?
I've done both CORBA and Web Services and if you use tools with the same level of sophistication they are about the same level of difficulty. One advantage Web services do have is that they can eliminate transport layer issues that crop up with CORBA and firewalls. You don't address the original point, which is that the cost isn't in making the object available on the network; it's in designing your system so it integrates with network objects in such a way that the network objects do you any good and your performance does not go to hell.
Unfortunately, MTS was based on COM, which was a fundamentally broken technology for the creation of business objects--the biggest flaws being that it was single platform, stored the object metadata in that registry abomination, and was unable to propagate exceptions across object boundaries. COM pretty much only worked as a native interface layer for VB.
After five years, Java's inroads in business application development finally persuaded Microsoft to abandon COM. They didn't want to become just another Java vendor, so they cloned Java and gave their version some marketing spin to try to lure people back to a single vendor solution.
First, you are comparing freely available tools with a several-thousand dollar product from Microsoft. The product will do more hand holding, which will be convenient until you need to do something outside of the paradigm of the product. A fairer comparison would be with the latest versions of WebSphere or BEA's app server.
Second, does your application need to be a web service, or will some other IPC do? If it doesn't need to be a web service, you are going to a lot of extra trouble in the Java implementation.
I certainly hope not. Most of the philosophisizing about quantum mechanics that makes its way into popular books is crap. They miss the crucial distinction between "unknown" and "indeterminate," and in so doing give quantum mechanics some spooky relationship with consciousness or a universal oneness that it just doesn't have.
The important rights that are being taken away are:
the right to speak, even if the speech is describing a computer program
the right to run the computer programs of our choice on our own equipment [there is no right to use/hack someone elses equipment]
Someone needs to acknowledge these are essential rights, bound intimately with our first amendment and privacy rights.
People discuss quantum computing as if it were inevitable, when in fact it is not at all clear that the difficulty of getting n bits entangled in a quantum computer does not scale as exp(n)--in other words, the difficulty of getting a quantum computer working may scale just as quickly as the computational advantage you get from it. A useful quantum computer being impossible to build would not be surprising at all. Lots of neato quantum effects are in fact impossible to scale to the macro world.
The 3,500 figure for Afghani non-combatant dead is highly disputed. In any case, and this may seem callous, it's kind of a drop in the bucket in the face of the death toll of their continuing civil war. By finishing the war quickly and efficiently, we probably saved Afghan lives in the long run.
I disagree. I think the Napster demographic was very young, and so if anything record-company-hyped "big name" artists were downloaded disproportionately. Sheesh, how many people got busted for downloading Metallica (hardly an unknown band).