Depending on the medium, we can choose to: 1. maintain self respect and research thoroughly, 2. go for the scoop, but still spend reasonable time researching facts, or 3. forget self respect and report trash.
An people wonder why news no longer reports news. Reporting as a profession has been going down hill rapidly the last 5 years. It's gotten to the point where news is 95% lies. Every now and then, a reporter works their ass off and gets 35% right. Since reporters rarely have full control and the editor usually change things. Of course people should think critically. Though every now and then it's great fun to post flamebait and trolls.
I might be mistaken, but are you referring to Robert Johnson? As in the same Mr. Johnson who went to the cross road and sold his soul to the devil. The legend goes that he couldn't play a lick. Then suddenly one day Johnson shows up and is able to play some amazing blues. The movie cross roads uses that legend. Many modern blues musician refer to Robert Johnson, like Eric Clapton's "Me and Mr. Johnson".
Robert Johnson was an innovator of blues guitar and did lots of things like open tunings. Many musicians try to immitate him. Some are successful and most are not. Robert Johnson's style of blues is still unique today, because of how he sang, tapped his feat and played the guitar.
is the definition of what constitutes art. well atleast to me. Even if I set it on random shuffle, I've already listened to the CD from beginning to end. I appreciate the intent of the artist, but random shuffling of songs leads to new expressions. In literature and art there's an idea called "found art". Art that is the result of random collage to form new expressions which the original authors/artists did not consider.
Art has never been static and never will be. Using the argument that kids are somehow brain damaged because they like to listen to songs randomly doesn't hold water to me. One could easily argue listening to an album from start to finish shows a lack of creative thinking or openness. How is listening with random shuffle any different than listening to radio? Both do not play a CD from beginning to end, does that mean radio listeners are brain damaged?
there are plenty of java-based html parser out there. Including JTidy, HTMLParser (on sourceforge) and a half dozen more. If you're talking about the lame URLConnection support for keep alive in Java, then yeah it sucks. But there's two HTTPClient packages out there that are mature. Apache has one in commons. there's quite a few package using raw sockets to get around issues like keepalive and so on.
why would IBM want to use Sun's JVM? IBM's VM already beats Sun's. All the benchmarks I've performed personally with Tomcat, eclipse, and other real apps, IBM VM beats Sun's VM by 10-30%. It wouldn't make any sense to use Sun's VM code. IBM should just open source their VM under a different license and not call it Java. It would be totally java compliant, but missing the official stamp and java name.
facade pattern is nice. I don't think it is necessarily the cause of the problem. Since VS.NET is suppose to make writing GUI's easier, why doesn't it have built in localization. this way, all buttons, labels and widgets read those values from external files. Java does that with resource bundles and it seems to work well enough until realize the default size for the icon you made is too small for the spanish text.
Having the equivalent of resource bundles and packaging them in a portable manner with the assembly would make it less painful. Microsoft controls the OS and VS.NET, so why couldn't they make a directory under winnt for all localization files. Then, a user can easily switch locale from us english to spanish, by dropping in the spanish locale file. This way other people can translate the images and text, without going through complicated steps for "basic" localization. For more sophisticated localization, it's hard to avoid the need for the source code.
No one will read it, but MainSoft has a product now that will assist.NET conversion to J2EE. Their Visual MainWin will compile VB.NET and C# for J2EE. I'm sure MS will be pissed at that one. I just hope they don't get killed by MS.
I believe the original post was the typical post before you think comment, but I also believe there's truth to it. I've read the blog by Brumme and I think the details support the post more than it disproves it.
Well if history can teach us a lesson about Anti-trust and Microsoft, I would say our government has told the public it is not illegal. Mildly annoying maybe, but I would hardley call the courts decision punishment. I'm biased obviously. For it to be illegal or perceived as illegal, the court would have to really fine or alter Microsoft's business practices. We can all see from MS behavior it's business as usual.
Besides it's far from clear whether bringing frivolous law suits via a proxy company is legal
Well people and companies file BS law suits all the time right. Hopefully most of them get dismissed. In an ideal world, businesses would behave ethically, but the behavior of companies the last 4 years paint a different picture.
personally, if you can afford the cost of nice french roast beans. Use a french press. It's not much longer than instant and is way better tasting. If you drink lots of coffee like me, a half pound ground by the professionals is the way to go. Personally, I only drink instant when I have to.
wowzers, you have a E4500? how many CPU's does it have and how much ram is on that sucker? By today's standards, an E4500 isn't a big deal, but it is still a nice system, especially if it is loaded up.
Philips has a line of products named Streamium that has Wi-Fi built in. they already sell a DVD player which can play DVD's from a PC. I have a streamium boombox that can play MP3 from PC and it works well. it's a pretty sweet unit.
if you haven't checked out hash animation master, you should take a look. It has all the equivalent features of Maya and SoftImage. The renderer is pretty good and the animation features are nice. http://www.hash.com/
because when billions of dollars worth of transactions are on the line, how many companies have the resources to develop and test their application on huge iron or large enterprise systems. Do you think mysql or postgres has the money to buy several Sun E10K or IBM mainframes to make sure it runs well? Most likely not. How about running some seriously extreme loads to measure high availability and performance? Those kinds of resources don't come cheap. Not to mention the cost of running, and maintaining those systems.
Consider the problem of automating around manual processes, not just "old mainframes."
"The horror, the horror". Luckily I havent' had to do that yet, but I do have friends who have had to do that and boy was it a pain. Seems like it's banks and financial institutions that have these kinds/types of problems to solve. The older the bank, the greater occurance of these problems seems to be general rule.
Rob Enderle does not sufficiently prove his position and ends up being just as one sided as he accuses of AC posts on/. Sure there are people who open their mouth (or type) before they think, but Enderle is no different. Perhaps Enderle should look at history and compare the terms fascism and terrorism. Most people are loud mouths, but that does not make them a terrorist. Nor does being passionate about a topic. Enderle goes about defining different categories like Pro's, zeolots and so on, but no one maintains their composure all the time. Some days a person may be totally composed and provide lucid arguments and another day they rant like an zeolot idiot. Does that make a person a terrorist? The bottom line for me is this. Until a person commits a crime, is tried in court and found guilty, they are not terrorists. It's important to remember that terrorists are also human beings. They just happen to feel they have been unfairly persecuted and want to be heard. The street goes both ways and nothing was ever black and white.
NLP stands for Natural Language Parsing. NLP is feasible for very narrow domains. For example, say you want to make it easier for lock smiths to learn how to fix locks. By using syntax and grammar for questions, you can limit the number of possible combinations starting with "What" followed by an object like "tumblers." Normally there is a verb in between the two like "what is a tumbler?". Simple sentences are easy. The hard part is when you start to build complex sentences like "what is the purpose of the tumbler and how does it function within the mechanism?" This sentence can be interpreted different ways depending on the domain. The hard part is determining the relationship object/subject and mapping the valience. Valience is a term used in one school of NLP called Dependency Grammar. Valience is is meant to describe the relationship between the object and subject. Anyways, go search on google for more info.
I read the article and if I understand correctly, they already have the next generation kernel. Now they are adding a layer, so that windows stuff like CE.NET can run. So basically an emulation layer that converts windows API calls to TRON system calls. It's still open source and MS can't hijack it. If anything, it will force microsoft to make their applications more reliable and they should learn how to write a real-time operation system in the process. Since winCE obviously isn't a "true" real-time OS in the pure definition.
OODBMS is an old concept that is only practical in limited domains. The best domain for OODB is directories. For most other business applications, OODB is very difficult to change on the fly and often requires recompiling/rebuilding the whole database. Basically static models that never change. If your model has to be flexible, OODB is horrible. I know this from first hand experience trying to use LDAP.
http://www.superpages.com/ came out with mapbased search that uses an Applet a while back. And for those who remember Mapquest use to offer a similar feature back in the 90's. Google is a little late to the game. The application itself isn't all that hard to build. The real trick is providing a way for listees to correct the gps coordinates. For those familiar with GIS, that is the biggest problems. To my knowledge, VeriZon offers that capability to listees. You can easily test the accuracy of Goecodes by doing a search for the same address in mapquest, yahoo, and mappoint. You'll see the coordinates are not identical. Not only that, but each system uses a different level of precision. Only the military uses full precision, but then again they have to.
Windows Server 2003 is much more secure, but no operating system will ever be 100% secure as long as there are hackers out there to test every possible vulnerability
I think this statement is slightly flawed. It's not "as long as there are hackers", it's there will always be hackers. There always was, and always will be hackers. Script kiddies are stupid, hackers are not. That is the lesson Microsoft and all companies have to learn. It's not a matter of if or will they. It's always a matter of when and how.
So Bill Joy wants to do something new and challenging. Does that mean Sun is dead? Boy/.-ers sure are jumping to conclusions. A company should have change at the top level to give younger guys a chance to bring in a new perspective. Sure he's contributed a lot to Sun, but what's to say there isn't some one else could be equally effective in the same position? A healthy company should bring in new people and executives who are bored should do something new. It's good for the industry and good for Sun. I'd rather a bored Bill move to a new job and let some one else more interestd take the position, so that he can do something that excites him.
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An people wonder why news no longer reports news. Reporting as a profession has been going down hill rapidly the last 5 years. It's gotten to the point where news is 95% lies. Every now and then, a reporter works their ass off and gets 35% right. Since reporters rarely have full control and the editor usually change things. Of course people should think critically. Though every now and then it's great fun to post flamebait and trolls.
Robert Johnson was an innovator of blues guitar and did lots of things like open tunings. Many musicians try to immitate him. Some are successful and most are not. Robert Johnson's style of blues is still unique today, because of how he sang, tapped his feat and played the guitar.
Art has never been static and never will be. Using the argument that kids are somehow brain damaged because they like to listen to songs randomly doesn't hold water to me. One could easily argue listening to an album from start to finish shows a lack of creative thinking or openness. How is listening with random shuffle any different than listening to radio? Both do not play a CD from beginning to end, does that mean radio listeners are brain damaged?
Yeah, but Akamai's pipe are on Viagra, so it's still going strong!!
there are plenty of java-based html parser out there. Including JTidy, HTMLParser (on sourceforge) and a half dozen more. If you're talking about the lame URLConnection support for keep alive in Java, then yeah it sucks. But there's two HTTPClient packages out there that are mature. Apache has one in commons. there's quite a few package using raw sockets to get around issues like keepalive and so on.
why would IBM want to use Sun's JVM? IBM's VM already beats Sun's. All the benchmarks I've performed personally with Tomcat, eclipse, and other real apps, IBM VM beats Sun's VM by 10-30%. It wouldn't make any sense to use Sun's VM code. IBM should just open source their VM under a different license and not call it Java. It would be totally java compliant, but missing the official stamp and java name.
Comedy Central is cable, so they aren't under the same restrictions thank god.
Having the equivalent of resource bundles and packaging them in a portable manner with the assembly would make it less painful. Microsoft controls the OS and VS.NET, so why couldn't they make a directory under winnt for all localization files. Then, a user can easily switch locale from us english to spanish, by dropping in the spanish locale file. This way other people can translate the images and text, without going through complicated steps for "basic" localization. For more sophisticated localization, it's hard to avoid the need for the source code.
No one will read it, but MainSoft has a product now that will assist .NET conversion to J2EE. Their Visual MainWin will compile VB.NET and C# for J2EE. I'm sure MS will be pissed at that one. I just hope they don't get killed by MS.
I believe the original post was the typical post before you think comment, but I also believe there's truth to it. I've read the blog by Brumme and I think the details support the post more than it disproves it.
Besides it's far from clear whether bringing frivolous law suits via a proxy company is legal
Well people and companies file BS law suits all the time right. Hopefully most of them get dismissed. In an ideal world, businesses would behave ethically, but the behavior of companies the last 4 years paint a different picture.
have you tried NetSuite? It used to be called netledger, until Oracle bought them out. Now there's several products. all you need is a browser.
personally, if you can afford the cost of nice french roast beans. Use a french press. It's not much longer than instant and is way better tasting. If you drink lots of coffee like me, a half pound ground by the professionals is the way to go. Personally, I only drink instant when I have to.
wowzers, you have a E4500? how many CPU's does it have and how much ram is on that sucker? By today's standards, an E4500 isn't a big deal, but it is still a nice system, especially if it is loaded up.
Philips has a line of products named Streamium that has Wi-Fi built in. they already sell a DVD player which can play DVD's from a PC. I have a streamium boombox that can play MP3 from PC and it works well. it's a pretty sweet unit.
if you haven't checked out hash animation master, you should take a look. It has all the equivalent features of Maya and SoftImage. The renderer is pretty good and the animation features are nice. http://www.hash.com/
because when billions of dollars worth of transactions are on the line, how many companies have the resources to develop and test their application on huge iron or large enterprise systems. Do you think mysql or postgres has the money to buy several Sun E10K or IBM mainframes to make sure it runs well? Most likely not. How about running some seriously extreme loads to measure high availability and performance? Those kinds of resources don't come cheap. Not to mention the cost of running, and maintaining those systems.
"The horror, the horror". Luckily I havent' had to do that yet, but I do have friends who have had to do that and boy was it a pain. Seems like it's banks and financial institutions that have these kinds/types of problems to solve. The older the bank, the greater occurance of these problems seems to be general rule.
Rob Enderle does not sufficiently prove his position and ends up being just as one sided as he accuses of AC posts on /. Sure there are people who open their mouth (or type) before they think, but Enderle is no different. Perhaps Enderle should look at history and compare the terms fascism and terrorism. Most people are loud mouths, but that does not make them a terrorist. Nor does being passionate about a topic. Enderle goes about defining different categories like Pro's, zeolots and so on, but no one maintains their composure all the time. Some days a person may be totally composed and provide lucid arguments and another day they rant like an zeolot idiot. Does that make a person a terrorist? The bottom line for me is this. Until a person commits a crime, is tried in court and found guilty, they are not terrorists. It's important to remember that terrorists are also human beings. They just happen to feel they have been unfairly persecuted and want to be heard. The street goes both ways and nothing was ever black and white.
NLP stands for Natural Language Parsing. NLP is feasible for very narrow domains. For example, say you want to make it easier for lock smiths to learn how to fix locks. By using syntax and grammar for questions, you can limit the number of possible combinations starting with "What" followed by an object like "tumblers." Normally there is a verb in between the two like "what is a tumbler?". Simple sentences are easy. The hard part is when you start to build complex sentences like "what is the purpose of the tumbler and how does it function within the mechanism?" This sentence can be interpreted different ways depending on the domain. The hard part is determining the relationship object/subject and mapping the valience. Valience is a term used in one school of NLP called Dependency Grammar. Valience is is meant to describe the relationship between the object and subject. Anyways, go search on google for more info.
I read the article and if I understand correctly, they already have the next generation kernel. Now they are adding a layer, so that windows stuff like CE.NET can run. So basically an emulation layer that converts windows API calls to TRON system calls. It's still open source and MS can't hijack it. If anything, it will force microsoft to make their applications more reliable and they should learn how to write a real-time operation system in the process. Since winCE obviously isn't a "true" real-time OS in the pure definition.
OODBMS is an old concept that is only practical in limited domains. The best domain for OODB is directories. For most other business applications, OODB is very difficult to change on the fly and often requires recompiling/rebuilding the whole database. Basically static models that never change. If your model has to be flexible, OODB is horrible. I know this from first hand experience trying to use LDAP.
http://www.superpages.com/ came out with mapbased search that uses an Applet a while back. And for those who remember Mapquest use to offer a similar feature back in the 90's. Google is a little late to the game. The application itself isn't all that hard to build. The real trick is providing a way for listees to correct the gps coordinates. For those familiar with GIS, that is the biggest problems. To my knowledge, VeriZon offers that capability to listees. You can easily test the accuracy of Goecodes by doing a search for the same address in mapquest, yahoo, and mappoint. You'll see the coordinates are not identical. Not only that, but each system uses a different level of precision. Only the military uses full precision, but then again they have to.
I think this statement is slightly flawed. It's not "as long as there are hackers", it's there will always be hackers. There always was, and always will be hackers. Script kiddies are stupid, hackers are not. That is the lesson Microsoft and all companies have to learn. It's not a matter of if or will they. It's always a matter of when and how.
So Bill Joy wants to do something new and challenging. Does that mean Sun is dead? Boy /.-ers sure are jumping to conclusions. A company should have change at the top level to give younger guys a chance to bring in a new perspective. Sure he's contributed a lot to Sun, but what's to say there isn't some one else could be equally effective in the same position? A healthy company should bring in new people and executives who are bored should do something new. It's good for the industry and good for Sun. I'd rather a bored Bill move to a new job and let some one else more interestd take the position, so that he can do something that excites him.