I hope you don't really think there's no catch. It doesn't matter what language or platform you choose, there's always a catch. The catch may not be relevant to your project, but there's always a catch.
There's still alot of catches in there, like how would ADO.NET work? Yes, I know ADO.NET isn't part of CL and is a library build on.NET. You have to ask yourself, "How am I going to connect to a database? What kind of databases have ADO.NET support? How can I leverage existing libraries written in other languages? Does it provide robust server threading model? Are there starndard API's for server management? Are there webservers written to take advantage of.NET on non-windows OS?"
There's a catch alright. About several hundred catches.
I'll just stop buying music all together for the next twenty years and convince 10 other people to do exactly the same. Even better I'll just convince ten people to only buy direct from small labels. This way the big record companies can shove those trillions up their ass.
Any multitier Web Application that NEEDS to handle 1500 concurrent queries only proves that either the architect or the entire development team are nothing but IDIOTS
Talk about a troll. Just because the parent post mentions 1500 concurrent requests, doesn't mean there aren't political or resource restrictions that make that kind of functional demands. You must have never worked on an application that actually has to support that level of concurrency or ever worked on complex applications.
What if you run a website that gets say 5million+ page views a day and you generate around 2gigs of logs per day per machine across 8 machines. At night you setup an automated batch to zip the logs and ftp them to a log reporting server. Then a cron jobs kicks off log analysis of all 16gigs of logs. Wouldn't this hardware acceleration help? Now let's try to scale that up to 20million+ page views a day. Or what if you're Yahoo who gets 1billion page views a day. How many gigs of logs do you have to process now. Not everyone needs hardware acceleration, but I would hardley call it useless.
JBoss beats Sun One hands down every day of the week and twice on Sundays. Anyone that has done serious java development for transactional applications know the value of an EJB container. It's just too bad many stupid CTO's think they need transactional when they really don't. The end result is EJB's get a bad rap for bad technical decisions by non-technical idiots.
That and Sun pushing EJB's for everything when they are designed for serious transactional applications. For non-transactional applications, 75% of the time you're better off cooking your own simple caching/pooling mechanism.
thanks AC for the info. What hasn't softimage done a press release about it. I wonder. I hope it really was done with toon rendering. It would be pretty damn sweet.
Anyone happen to know off hand if it was done with toon rendering. If so, which package. Some of the parts look like toon rendering, but other parts don't. If it's toon rendering, the shaders have come a long way.
That's a pretty informative site. I was hoping manufacturers would include it as a standard item in the list of features with all cameras. That way I don't have to go searching the net to find dpreview.com and see if the camera I want is listed.
for a camera with 3.1megapixel and a screen that doesn't need back lighting. Now if only manufacturers would rate the battery life based on how many pictures it can take with one charge, that would help consumers.
OK, I'll bite. what the hell I have karma to burn.
First off, everyone does agree Saddam is dangerous, but the reasons stated by you are dangerous and misguided.
As many point out, the US in the past has made great mistakes in its foreign policy. But that has nothing to do with the present.
Tell that to the families that have lost mothers, fathers, children, aunts, and uncles to US foriegn policy. Tell the hundreds of Americans who still have family in Iraq that "history" doesn't matter. Has the US ever made a public apology or offered real long term support to make up for past crimes?
And yes, Iraq is involved in terrorism. The main plotter behind WTC attack #1 (1993) was Ramzi Yousef, an Iraqi agent.
Back this up with real proof. I'm sure the US has proof, but in the interest of maintaining an edge in spying, the president probably decided not to reveal the information. Showing the information would surely compromise any current spies in Iraq. In this case the proof is needed to get international support. It's obvious you've never bothered to study history or pay attention in history class. Let's look at one the most successsful empire in human history. Ghaghis Khanh's empire at it's peak reached from china all the way into Russia and to Europe. In historical documents from several occupied countries show that GK allowed and encouraged the local culture to flourish. GK took time to pick governers who understood the local culture and made sure there was respect.
Based on what presiden GWB has said in public, does it give you an over-whelming sense of respect for other cultures? Does it even look like he takes the advice of the international community serious? If he was convincing, wouldn't the European nations given their support?
What would I do? Well I for one would have president Reagan and Bush volunteer to go on trail for their part in the death of millions of Iraqi. How is another culture supposed to respect our freedom, when our nation's policy show little to no respect of theirs. If the X-presidents and the US government put forth all the evidence it has about Iraq and provided a real solution/road map to a democractic and free Iraq, the international community would most likely go along. Not only that, it would probably get the support of the Iraqi people. But instead, it's about revenge. If history has a lesson to teach, it's revenge gets you deeper in the hole with fewer ladders to climb out. Letting SH stay in power is stupid, but how it is done is equally important as doing something about it.
Go read some history or perhaps some philosophy. Try The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass by Eric Hoffer, or The Art of War by Sun Tzu. Unfortunately neither has president Bush. The best way to win the war is to win the hearts and minds of Muslims and have them turn Saddam and Bin Laden in themselves. Acting like a bunch of egotistic cowboys isn't the solution to anything, other than making more graves.
For those who are too damn lazy to read what the language does and why Sun wrote a reference implementation.
* One standard access control policy language can replace dozens of application-specific languages
* Administrators save time and money because they don't need to rewrite their policies in many different languages
* Developers save time and money because they don't have to invent new policy languages and write code to support them; they can reuse existing code
* Good tools for writing and managing XACML policies will be developed, since they can be used with many applications
* XACML is flexible enough to accommodate most access control policy needs and extensible so that new requirements can be supported
* One XACML policy can cover many resources; this helps avoid inconsistent policies on different resources
* XACML allows one policy to refer to another; this is important for large organizations, for instance, a site-specific policy may refer to a company-wide policy and a country-specific policy.
Before someone else rants about copy protection, find out what it is before you start typing. I'm guitly of it in the past, but this is a useful language will real benefits.
would be "how to convince management and HR to hire good people and not bodies." It's been said time and time again by numerous people, but it all boils down to the programmer. Why then hasn't anyone written a book on how to get management to put quality of the staff first. I've worked at companies that had formal testing policies, but to be honest that doesn't work. What you end up with is a bunch of people who are good at memorizing text books, but have no practical experience. Not having a formal interview processes isn't better either. From past experience, the best people where the ones the team had no doubts. The times we hired bodies was when HR bitched and moaned and said "You guys are impossible to satisfy." Or worse, HR throws "The person you're looking for doesn't exist."
In most cases, it is better to not hire bodies. In all the cases I've seen first hand, it results it delays and problems. Not only are the good programmers bogged down with stupid questions, but they end up spending time fixing other's code. The end result is the same programmer is less productive. There really should be a book that teaches programmers how to negotiate with management and how to work with HR. I've had to learn that the hard way.
might be worth a purchase, but still not completely sold. self-organizing is nice when engineers on the team understand the reality that organizing with other team members is good thing. It still doesn't help when one member of a team doesn't listen to anyone and ends up rewriting their code 5-6 times.
I don't know about others, but all of Microsoft's talk about using standards and supporting them has been completely invalidated. That just isn't going to fly in the financial world or any large enterprises that see standard protocols and processes a way to insure their investments.
Chalk another one up for greed and mis-guided beliefs. IBM backs up their talk about not charging for their patents by donating software to open source. Until microsoft puts their money where their mouth is, they just lost a huge chunk of credibility.
If you think.NET is great. I would suggest do the same excersize with.NET 1.0 and how well that works. The answer is will be worse than java. Even better, try to write a heavy weight persistent transactional application that is highly multi-threaded. Guess what, it's not advised by microsoft.
go read msdn and see all the problems and challenges with.NET. Nothing is perfect, and the industry needs to get back to basics. This includes everyone from Oracle, Sun, Microsoft and every major software company. The first thing to do is to kick out all the money mongering accountants running big companies. Then replace them with solid technical leaders that care about software engineeering and quality. Until then, all these problems will persist. Just about every industry goes through these growing pains, so it's not unique. Look at all the crappy inefficient, gas guzzling tanks american's produced until oil prices shot up and some one else started offering a better choice. Until a new company appears to show the old ones they've got it wrong, it's not going to change.
Ok, there have been tons of debate on this. Some good, mostly bad, but here is another perspective that isn't the same rehash. For those who have attended a microsoft cert class or thought about getting one. One thing that I've notice is the culture Microsoft used to promote. IE, that everything should be simple and done through a GUI. There very little focus on learning the deep components, how they work and how they can be exploited. Because of this, I feel Microsoft brought this on themselves. One of the main selling points Microsoft books, PR, traning, certs and advertising push is "Our GUI's make it so any body can do it."
Well, that is contrary to reality as everyone knows, but their marketing machine has been very effective at repeating that mantra. Security is hard, no matter who is doing it. There is no such thing as easy security besides, turn off your computer and burry it in concrete. From that perspective, Microsoft created the problem for themselves. It's not the product of poor engineering or inferior software. It's the admin and development culture MS promotes. This is also why things like.NET is having a hard time getting adopted. High performance distributed computing isn't easy and won't be for another 100yrs or more. Saying ".NET will make development a breeze" in the context of enterprise software development is undesirable and detrimental.
If enterprise high performance software was easy to build, than SQL Server 2K would be able to supports thousands of connection in it's connection pool. Which it doesn't.
Most of what was stated is "pie in the sky" idealism. Get real, it will take a long time for programming and software development to get to the point where it works elegantly the way he describes it. I have no problems with reminding people "hey, lets try to improve how software is developed." Like those of us in the trenches don't realize how much of a mess it is most of the time. We can't get from point A to point M without going through all the painful intermediate steps.
I seriously doubt nature came to the elegant design of 4 base pairs overnight, so let's work hard at making it better w/o throwing a pile of dung on people's face. After all, they are the ones who have to build the pieces to get to that point.
seems like HR is not a popular person and is seen as a joke. Therefore, it would be better for the consumers if she stays in that job. Think about. Having a new CEO of RIAA gives them a chance to build up their influence, whereas now there's so much negative press, she can't do her job.
So let's be smart about this and keep her in the spot, where she do absolutely nothing.
I don't know about anyone else, but when ever the topic of SSL comes up, I recommend hardware acceleration. Software SSL creates too much load and stress and impacts stability. People should realize the best performance for SSL is hardware acceleration.
Anyone think these models will be used by hollywood to make perfect replicas for movies? I could be synical, but part of me says if it's in the library of congress and available, why not use it in a movie.
If I'm not mistaken, in the early 80's most of the telco's started laying fiber. One of the main reasons it was done was the government subsidized it. When it was done, the government said "you have to share it, since it was partly funded by tax dollars." Well the telco's didn't like that idea. The government said if the telco's didn't share the lines with competitors, they would have to dig it out. Guess what? All of them decided to dig it out. Pure and simple it was because the Telco's didn't want to share the fiber. The end result is the tax dollars spent on laying fiber was a total waste. The only people who benefitted were the top execs who got bonuses for pushing fiber and the politicians that got kick backs.
Is this really a problem with spoiled kids who are in college because their parents pay tuition? From personal experience, those who are in college to learn and take out a ton of students loans to be in school aren't likely to be surfing and slacking off. Kids with rich parents that spoil them tend to be the ones talking, doing other stuff and generally being disruptive.
<sarcasm>Maybe we should just out law spoiled kids</sarcasm>
these professors need to get over their own bloated egos. There's definitely a problem, but it's not WIFI or education. It's the culture which says "slack off, don't do work and be famous for being stupid."
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There's still alot of catches in there, like how would ADO.NET work? Yes, I know ADO.NET isn't part of CL and is a library build on .NET. You have to ask yourself, "How am I going to connect to a database? What kind of databases have ADO.NET support? How can I leverage existing libraries written in other languages? Does it provide robust server threading model? Are there starndard API's for server management? Are there webservers written to take advantage of .NET on non-windows OS?"
There's a catch alright. About several hundred catches.
I'll just stop buying music all together for the next twenty years and convince 10 other people to do exactly the same. Even better I'll just convince ten people to only buy direct from small labels. This way the big record companies can shove those trillions up their ass.
Talk about a troll. Just because the parent post mentions 1500 concurrent requests, doesn't mean there aren't political or resource restrictions that make that kind of functional demands. You must have never worked on an application that actually has to support that level of concurrency or ever worked on complex applications.
What if you run a website that gets say 5million+ page views a day and you generate around 2gigs of logs per day per machine across 8 machines. At night you setup an automated batch to zip the logs and ftp them to a log reporting server. Then a cron jobs kicks off log analysis of all 16gigs of logs. Wouldn't this hardware acceleration help? Now let's try to scale that up to 20million+ page views a day. Or what if you're Yahoo who gets 1billion page views a day. How many gigs of logs do you have to process now. Not everyone needs hardware acceleration, but I would hardley call it useless.
That and Sun pushing EJB's for everything when they are designed for serious transactional applications. For non-transactional applications, 75% of the time you're better off cooking your own simple caching/pooling mechanism.
thanks AC for the info. What hasn't softimage done a press release about it. I wonder. I hope it really was done with toon rendering. It would be pretty damn sweet.
Anyone happen to know off hand if it was done with toon rendering. If so, which package. Some of the parts look like toon rendering, but other parts don't. If it's toon rendering, the shaders have come a long way.
That's a pretty informative site. I was hoping manufacturers would include it as a standard item in the list of features with all cameras. That way I don't have to go searching the net to find dpreview.com and see if the camera I want is listed.
for a camera with 3.1megapixel and a screen that doesn't need back lighting. Now if only manufacturers would rate the battery life based on how many pictures it can take with one charge, that would help consumers.
years already predict this would happen? Nuf said.
First off, everyone does agree Saddam is dangerous, but the reasons stated by you are dangerous and misguided.
As many point out, the US in the past has made great mistakes in its foreign policy. But that has nothing to do with the present.
Tell that to the families that have lost mothers, fathers, children, aunts, and uncles to US foriegn policy. Tell the hundreds of Americans who still have family in Iraq that "history" doesn't matter. Has the US ever made a public apology or offered real long term support to make up for past crimes?
And yes, Iraq is involved in terrorism. The main plotter behind WTC attack #1 (1993) was Ramzi Yousef, an Iraqi agent.
Back this up with real proof. I'm sure the US has proof, but in the interest of maintaining an edge in spying, the president probably decided not to reveal the information. Showing the information would surely compromise any current spies in Iraq. In this case the proof is needed to get international support. It's obvious you've never bothered to study history or pay attention in history class. Let's look at one the most successsful empire in human history. Ghaghis Khanh's empire at it's peak reached from china all the way into Russia and to Europe. In historical documents from several occupied countries show that GK allowed and encouraged the local culture to flourish. GK took time to pick governers who understood the local culture and made sure there was respect.
Based on what presiden GWB has said in public, does it give you an over-whelming sense of respect for other cultures? Does it even look like he takes the advice of the international community serious? If he was convincing, wouldn't the European nations given their support?
What would I do? Well I for one would have president Reagan and Bush volunteer to go on trail for their part in the death of millions of Iraqi. How is another culture supposed to respect our freedom, when our nation's policy show little to no respect of theirs. If the X-presidents and the US government put forth all the evidence it has about Iraq and provided a real solution/road map to a democractic and free Iraq, the international community would most likely go along. Not only that, it would probably get the support of the Iraqi people. But instead, it's about revenge. If history has a lesson to teach, it's revenge gets you deeper in the hole with fewer ladders to climb out. Letting SH stay in power is stupid, but how it is done is equally important as doing something about it.
Go read some history or perhaps some philosophy. Try The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass by Eric Hoffer, or The Art of War by Sun Tzu. Unfortunately neither has president Bush. The best way to win the war is to win the hearts and minds of Muslims and have them turn Saddam and Bin Laden in themselves. Acting like a bunch of egotistic cowboys isn't the solution to anything, other than making more graves.
Talk about a load of PR horse crap. What a waste of time. why the hell is this crap even getting posted.
* One standard access control policy language can replace dozens of application-specific languages
* Administrators save time and money because they don't need to rewrite their policies in many different languages
* Developers save time and money because they don't have to invent new policy languages and write code to support them; they can reuse existing code
* Good tools for writing and managing XACML policies will be developed, since they can be used with many applications
* XACML is flexible enough to accommodate most access control policy needs and extensible so that new requirements can be supported
* One XACML policy can cover many resources; this helps avoid inconsistent policies on different resources
* XACML allows one policy to refer to another; this is important for large organizations, for instance, a site-specific policy may refer to a company-wide policy and a country-specific policy.
Before someone else rants about copy protection, find out what it is before you start typing. I'm guitly of it in the past, but this is a useful language will real benefits.
In most cases, it is better to not hire bodies. In all the cases I've seen first hand, it results it delays and problems. Not only are the good programmers bogged down with stupid questions, but they end up spending time fixing other's code. The end result is the same programmer is less productive. There really should be a book that teaches programmers how to negotiate with management and how to work with HR. I've had to learn that the hard way.
might be worth a purchase, but still not completely sold. self-organizing is nice when engineers on the team understand the reality that organizing with other team members is good thing. It still doesn't help when one member of a team doesn't listen to anyone and ends up rewriting their code 5-6 times.
Chalk another one up for greed and mis-guided beliefs. IBM backs up their talk about not charging for their patents by donating software to open source. Until microsoft puts their money where their mouth is, they just lost a huge chunk of credibility.
go read msdn and see all the problems and challenges with .NET. Nothing is perfect, and the industry needs to get back to basics. This includes everyone from Oracle, Sun, Microsoft and every major software company. The first thing to do is to kick out all the money mongering accountants running big companies. Then replace them with solid technical leaders that care about software engineeering and quality. Until then, all these problems will persist. Just about every industry goes through these growing pains, so it's not unique. Look at all the crappy inefficient, gas guzzling tanks american's produced until oil prices shot up and some one else started offering a better choice. Until a new company appears to show the old ones they've got it wrong, it's not going to change.
Well, that is contrary to reality as everyone knows, but their marketing machine has been very effective at repeating that mantra. Security is hard, no matter who is doing it. There is no such thing as easy security besides, turn off your computer and burry it in concrete. From that perspective, Microsoft created the problem for themselves. It's not the product of poor engineering or inferior software. It's the admin and development culture MS promotes. This is also why things like .NET is having a hard time getting adopted. High performance distributed computing isn't easy and won't be for another 100yrs or more. Saying ".NET will make development a breeze" in the context of enterprise software development is undesirable and detrimental.
If enterprise high performance software was easy to build, than SQL Server 2K would be able to supports thousands of connection in it's connection pool. Which it doesn't.
I seriously doubt nature came to the elegant design of 4 base pairs overnight, so let's work hard at making it better w/o throwing a pile of dung on people's face. After all, they are the ones who have to build the pieces to get to that point.
So let's be smart about this and keep her in the spot, where she do absolutely nothing.
I don't know about anyone else, but when ever the topic of SSL comes up, I recommend hardware acceleration. Software SSL creates too much load and stress and impacts stability. People should realize the best performance for SSL is hardware acceleration.
It is really a shame to loose alpha architecture to Intel and HP. Some one please buy the tech and give it a real shot in the market place.
Anyone think these models will be used by hollywood to make perfect replicas for movies? I could be synical, but part of me says if it's in the library of congress and available, why not use it in a movie.
If I'm not mistaken, in the early 80's most of the telco's started laying fiber. One of the main reasons it was done was the government subsidized it. When it was done, the government said "you have to share it, since it was partly funded by tax dollars." Well the telco's didn't like that idea. The government said if the telco's didn't share the lines with competitors, they would have to dig it out. Guess what? All of them decided to dig it out. Pure and simple it was because the Telco's didn't want to share the fiber. The end result is the tax dollars spent on laying fiber was a total waste. The only people who benefitted were the top execs who got bonuses for pushing fiber and the politicians that got kick backs.
<sarcasm>Maybe we should just out law spoiled kids</sarcasm>
these professors need to get over their own bloated egos. There's definitely a problem, but it's not WIFI or education. It's the culture which says "slack off, don't do work and be famous for being stupid."