Of course the content companies will go after Google. Going after YouTube as a private company with very little money is of small value. Going after Google with *lots* of cash is much more lucrative. I can visualize the lawers rubbing their hands in glee over this news. How long, I wonder, before the first suit is filed after the deal goes through.....?
Re: "I am a Republican, and have been all my life. But I've been an American for even longer" - now how does that work? Past life expereinces in which you were an American perhaps, of are you counting womb-time as part of the time you have been American? And how can someone be Ruplican all of their life -- implies that there was no decision and that the badge of Republican was accepted, blindly, at birth....?
Oh give me a break. If you don't like what it's doing -- then don't use it. It's not doing anything better or worse than 99.9% of all apps worldwide. Amazon is not out to "get you". I'm getting pregressively sicker of the whining "big brother is watching me" rehetoric. Don't like it - then don't play. But the benefits outweigh the cons. The material I've donwloaded from Unbox are full screen, crisp, great sound and with me in 5 mins or so. *I* for one like that and really don't care if anyone knows that I'm watching re-runs of Star Trek in my skivvies at 3:08am (in fact if anyone has not beeing looking at my personal traffic, now you all know my viewing habits. Knock yourself out with *that* information...!)
Boogie on clowns.
Yeah - so Hemos won't see this until his current Pokemon game is over (I kid you not). I'll have a T-shirt made and give it to him next week in Boston so he can enjoy the Pinkness of it all.
Congrats Jeff. Never thought you'd make it to 30.... I need to aim better next time!
Col
I hate getting ripped off by projector manufacturers who charge me in the hundreds of dollars for projector bulbs that (a) cost a fraction to make and (b) burn out in much less time than advertised. Sure, this built-in to a cell phone could be fun/useful, however my immediate need is a projector for my laptop that is small, robust, doesn't consume *very* expensive bulbs, full color and high resolution. This device may not be there just yet -- but it appears to be within spitting distance. If this company can't get there -- someone else will. All this I applaud.
I seem to recall that something similar was done with that unmitigating disaster known as cue cat:-)
Y'know - I don't really care how crap the images are - the point of this execise is all about
hacking because it's there. I think this is pretty cool. Would I every replicate this hack or have value
for it? -- probably not. But it's cool just for coolness sake. And one never knows when a cool hack will be
something you would use (if not today, maybe tomorrow...)
Yeah right. Like the folks at Flikr have all this free time to sit and monitor data uploaded to their site... Since it's not business-beneficial it will never happen.
What should and will happen is that the millions of pairs of eyes browing Flickr may notice something odd and they should "report it" (to whom is another question - I can't see my local PD being the slightest bit interested in "a cute looking dog that may contain encrypted data that may be plans for a terrorist attack"
Depends on who you think will go out of business first.
Flikr (Yahoo!) supports bulk uploads - the whole process could be easily scripted, ditto gmail. So this issue is: who do you feel will be around for the long term? Heck - double up your backups and store data on gmail and>/b flikr.
Well, notwithstanding that this is waaaaaays off topic: The reason is that it doesn't matter from where the news submission comes, as long as it is accurate and interesting (insightful etc...).
re: "They're just using the OSS community to get them visibility with corporate sponsors" - not so. When SF.net was launched no one knew how successful it would turn out. First and foremost the objective of SF.net is to do the best it can for the community. Yes money is needed to keep the site running (as Patrick says in his post, SF.net has *lots* of hardware, and consumes much bandwidth).
The developers that were laid off were not fired for completing 1.0 of SF.net as you imply. They were laid off along with many others when VA Linux got out of the hardware business. It had zero to do with SF.net, and all to do with the.com crash.
We know what we've done for the Open Source community today -- what have you done?
It's all very well to be able to run code backwards/forwards/slo-mo/etc, but how to handle non deterministic external events coming in from the network? Does this tool presume that all applications to which it will be applied live in isolation?
From the folks that brought you Slashdot, SourceForge.net, Freshmeat etc - all of the collaborative software development concepts employed by the Open Source development community are available in SourceForge for use within commercial software development organizations. SourceForge Enterprise Edition significantly extends on SF.net with a Role Based Access Control mechanism (RBAC), management dashboard, transparent integration with (*gasp*) MS Office tools and MS project. It has a wickedly broad API for integration and extenisons (SOAP XML WebServices and JAVA RMI), binary search of documents (no matter what database you use: Postgres, Oracle, DB2(!) - in fact any JDBC3 compliant database. And integration with CVS, ClearCase, Subversion etc etc.
Couldn't do without it - all my data, tasks, bugs, requirements, documents, code etc within one, single environment. Much better that content management systems such as Plone (which have their place) as this is aimed at software developers, but provides capabilities to allow non-developers to collaborate on dev of software apps.
I attended an Edward Tufte lecture last year where he had assembled static pictures from drawings made by Galileo of the motion of Sun spots into a movie -- Galileo was the "cameraman", Tufte the "editor". Nice teamwork.
Lots of links here http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EdwardTufte
I also recall someone recreating audio from the thousands of years ago from the grooves cut by a potter in the pot he/she was throwing on a wheel. Essentially the pot and it's grooves acted as a recording device in the same way that the groves in vinyl do (did!).
Good frief fella. We're talking about Software patents and your "...distressed at the world my son will grow up in..." - get a life. Seriously. Go outside, smell the flowers, gaze at the clouds in the sky. Software patents dim into obscurity compared with the important things in life.
And to answer your questions: "Isn't the government supposed to be working for us? " - of course, it's your government. Don't like it, vote a new one in. But don't whine about corporate dynasties or other conspiracies.
Working on porting a compiler to a UNIX system in the mid 80's the hardware that we delivered required a 240v Power Supply. Being too cheap to install an extra one in our machine room we grabbed the one that was feeding our industrial strength microwave machine in the kitchen. But where to put the huge, hulking beast? Too cheap to buy extension power cables we put the machine in the women's bathroom next to the kitchen with the door propped open. Stayed that way for about three weeks. Luckly we had a number of female engineers who pitched in to do the "hands on" work on the console in the bathroom (Thanks Anna!).
Gee - I've worked in corporate america for 20 years. Yes - much is as you describe. The companies that tend to be successful are the ones that strive for quality *while* achieving cheaper, faster *and* better. They are out there. And they are winning.
I visited an independent car manufacturing plant in Fremont CA a few months ago. Interestingly they were building Toyotas and Hondas, all right hand drive, for export to Japan. Remember the days when car manufacturing was moving to Japan? Seems that our automobile industry learned how to adapt and is now reversing the trend. Perhaps software engineering will follow suit. It *never* ceases to amaze me how primitive Fortune 5000 IT development shops are. Oh yes, there are plenty of groups, teams, even divisions doing great work with new processes and technologies -- but on the corporate level few can answer basis questions such as "how many developers do you have?" "where are they located?" "On what are they working?". There is little standardization of processes, metrics are a pipedream and reuse is seemingly unachievable. Evolve or die!
Number of sites around the web are still selling Replay's with 3 years service. My advice - buy one + if Replay don't live up to their deal take them to small claims court. You'll easily win + there are no lawyer fees. (Actually Replay won't even show up for the case so it'll take all of 30 seconds for you to get the judgement). How to collect: Invoice them with the court documents or (if you want to be really nasty) stick a collection agency on them -- it'll cost you anything up to 50% of the court award, but the satisfaction will be pure bliss. Enjoy!
By the way, if you want to e-mail Blake Stowell, he of the "SCO is working with law enforcement officials and gathering information.." quote in the recent DOS press release, to ask specifically with which law enforcement officials he is working, his e-mail is bstowell@sco.com. Don't hold your breath for a response....
Take a look at the folks who contribute to projects on SourceForge.net - many successful projects with many contributors and users from just about every location around the world. These people don't have "face time", their native languages are different, time zones are (literally) all over the map. Yet they manage to turn out apps and code that work. Yes - not all of the projects are successful, but many are. Why is that? If Open Source developers can "many-shore" themselves (with no management -- but good leadership) shouldn't IT be able to do the same?
Re: 'We haven't talked to a single user who has said they're using [open source] because it's better'
Makes one wonder with how many users they have spoken. Apache beat the snot out of MS IIS and now has the largest market share of a web server. Why do people use it: faster, more features, less bugs, less prone to hacks etc. All these equal "better" in my book. Yeah - maybe Microsoft can say that no one said "better" (with fingers crossed behind their backs) -- but perhaps it's because they chose more appropriate words to describe a vast resource of well written and high performing code that is in use throughtout the Fortune 5000. Yes - there is a lot of crap Open Source code, but there is also a lot of very good code - some I daresay, written by Microsoft engineers in their spare time -- you know who you are:-)
One of the VA Software SourceForge developers is based in the Ukraine. Just an excellent engineer. We only met him for the first time a few months ago -- he's been with the team for over two years. Shows what can be done using SourceForge for distributed development. It's great to see staff in the Ukraine, US and Japan all working together on new development and bug fixing.
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Of course the content companies will go after Google. Going after YouTube as a private company with very little money is of small value. Going after Google with *lots* of cash is much more lucrative. I can visualize the lawers rubbing their hands in glee over this news. How long, I wonder, before the first suit is filed after the deal goes through.....?
Re: "I am a Republican, and have been all my life. But I've been an American for even longer" - now how does that work? Past life expereinces in which you were an American perhaps, of are you counting womb-time as part of the time you have been American? And how can someone be Ruplican all of their life -- implies that there was no decision and that the badge of Republican was accepted, blindly, at birth....?
Oh give me a break. If you don't like what it's doing -- then don't use it. It's not doing anything better or worse than 99.9% of all apps worldwide. Amazon is not out to "get you". I'm getting pregressively sicker of the whining "big brother is watching me" rehetoric. Don't like it - then don't play. But the benefits outweigh the cons. The material I've donwloaded from Unbox are full screen, crisp, great sound and with me in 5 mins or so. *I* for one like that and really don't care if anyone knows that I'm watching re-runs of Star Trek in my skivvies at 3:08am (in fact if anyone has not beeing looking at my personal traffic, now you all know my viewing habits. Knock yourself out with *that* information...!) Boogie on clowns.
Yeah - so Hemos won't see this until his current Pokemon game is over (I kid you not). I'll have a T-shirt made and give it to him next week in Boston so he can enjoy the Pinkness of it all. Congrats Jeff. Never thought you'd make it to 30.... I need to aim better next time! Col
...actually, cold fusion was the power source.....
I hate getting ripped off by projector manufacturers who charge me in the hundreds of dollars for projector bulbs that (a) cost a fraction to make and (b) burn out in much less time than advertised. Sure, this built-in to a cell phone could be fun/useful, however my immediate need is a projector for my laptop that is small, robust, doesn't consume *very* expensive bulbs, full color and high resolution. This device may not be there just yet -- but it appears to be within spitting distance. If this company can't get there -- someone else will. All this I applaud.
I seem to recall that something similar was done with that unmitigating disaster known as cue cat :-)
Y'know - I don't really care how crap the images are - the point of this execise is all about
hacking because it's there. I think this is pretty cool. Would I every replicate this hack or have value
for it? -- probably not. But it's cool just for coolness sake. And one never knows when a cool hack will be
something you would use (if not today, maybe tomorrow...)
What should and will happen is that the millions of pairs of eyes browing Flickr may notice something odd and they should "report it" (to whom is another question - I can't see my local PD being the slightest bit interested in "a cute looking dog that may contain encrypted data that may be plans for a terrorist attack"
Flikr (Yahoo!) supports bulk uploads - the whole process could be easily scripted, ditto gmail. So this issue is: who do you feel will be around for the long term? Heck - double up your backups and store data on gmail and>/b flikr.
Well, notwithstanding that this is waaaaaays off topic: The reason is that it doesn't matter from where the news submission comes, as long as it is accurate and interesting (insightful etc...).
re: "They're just using the OSS community to get them visibility with corporate sponsors" - not so. When SF.net was launched no one knew how successful it would turn out. First and foremost the objective of SF.net is to do the best it can for the community. Yes money is needed to keep the site running (as Patrick says in his post, SF.net has *lots* of hardware, and consumes much bandwidth).
.com crash.
We know what we've done for the Open Source community today -- what have you done?
The developers that were laid off were not fired for completing 1.0 of SF.net as you imply. They were laid off along with many others when VA Linux got out of the hardware business. It had zero to do with SF.net, and all to do with the
Please - just the facts....
It's all very well to be able to run code backwards/forwards/slo-mo/etc, but how to handle non deterministic external events coming in from the network? Does this tool presume that all applications to which it will be applied live in isolation?
From the folks that brought you Slashdot, SourceForge.net, Freshmeat etc - all of the collaborative software development concepts employed by the Open Source development community are available in SourceForge for use within commercial software development organizations. SourceForge Enterprise Edition significantly extends on SF.net with a Role Based Access Control mechanism (RBAC), management dashboard, transparent integration with (*gasp*) MS Office tools and MS project. It has a wickedly broad API for integration and extenisons (SOAP XML WebServices and JAVA RMI), binary search of documents (no matter what database you use: Postgres, Oracle, DB2(!) - in fact any JDBC3 compliant database. And integration with CVS, ClearCase, Subversion etc etc.
Couldn't do without it - all my data, tasks, bugs, requirements, documents, code etc within one, single environment. Much better that content management systems such as Plone (which have their place) as this is aimed at software developers, but provides capabilities to allow non-developers to collaborate on dev of software apps.
Lots of links here http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EdwardTufte
I also recall someone recreating audio from the thousands of years ago from the grooves cut by a potter in the pot he/she was throwing on a wheel. Essentially the pot and it's grooves acted as a recording device in the same way that the groves in vinyl do (did!).
Good frief fella. We're talking about Software patents and your "...distressed at the world my son will grow up in..." - get a life. Seriously. Go outside, smell the flowers, gaze at the clouds in the sky. Software patents dim into obscurity compared with the important things in life. And to answer your questions: "Isn't the government supposed to be working for us? " - of course, it's your government. Don't like it, vote a new one in. But don't whine about corporate dynasties or other conspiracies.
Yeah!
I don't know what Just Sports USA does or what they sell -- but I'm buying from them. Support those who stand up to SCOtortion!
Working on porting a compiler to a UNIX system in the mid 80's the hardware that we delivered required a 240v Power Supply. Being too cheap to install an extra one in our machine room we grabbed the one that was feeding our industrial strength microwave machine in the kitchen. But where to put the huge, hulking beast? Too cheap to buy extension power cables we put the machine in the women's bathroom next to the kitchen with the door propped open. Stayed that way for about three weeks. Luckly we had a number of female engineers who pitched in to do the "hands on" work on the console in the bathroom (Thanks Anna!).
Gee - I've worked in corporate america for 20 years. Yes - much is as you describe. The companies that tend to be successful are the ones that strive for quality *while* achieving cheaper, faster *and* better. They are out there. And they are winning.
I visited an independent car manufacturing plant in Fremont CA a few months ago. Interestingly they were building Toyotas and Hondas, all right hand drive, for export to Japan. Remember the days when car manufacturing was moving to Japan? Seems that our automobile industry learned how to adapt and is now reversing the trend. Perhaps software engineering will follow suit. It *never* ceases to amaze me how primitive Fortune 5000 IT development shops are. Oh yes, there are plenty of groups, teams, even divisions doing great work with new processes and technologies -- but on the corporate level few can answer basis questions such as "how many developers do you have?" "where are they located?" "On what are they working?". There is little standardization of processes, metrics are a pipedream and reuse is seemingly unachievable. Evolve or die!
Number of sites around the web are still selling Replay's with 3 years service. My advice - buy one + if Replay don't live up to their deal take them to small claims court. You'll easily win + there are no lawyer fees. (Actually Replay won't even show up for the case so it'll take all of 30 seconds for you to get the judgement). How to collect: Invoice them with the court documents or (if you want to be really nasty) stick a collection agency on them -- it'll cost you anything up to 50% of the court award, but the satisfaction will be pure bliss. Enjoy!
By the way, if you want to e-mail Blake Stowell, he of the "SCO is working with law enforcement officials and gathering information.." quote in the recent DOS press release, to ask specifically with which law enforcement officials he is working, his e-mail is bstowell@sco.com.
Don't hold your breath for a response....
Take a look at the folks who contribute to projects on SourceForge.net - many successful projects with many contributors and users from just about every location around the world. These people don't have "face time", their native languages are different, time zones are (literally) all over the map. Yet they manage to turn out apps and code that work. Yes - not all of the projects are successful, but many are. Why is that? If Open Source developers can "many-shore" themselves (with no management -- but good leadership) shouldn't IT be able to do the same?
Re: 'We haven't talked to a single user who has said they're using [open source] because it's better' :-)
Makes one wonder with how many users they have spoken. Apache beat the snot out of MS IIS and now has the largest market share of a web server. Why do people use it: faster, more features, less bugs, less prone to hacks etc. All these equal "better" in my book. Yeah - maybe Microsoft can say that no one said "better" (with fingers crossed behind their backs) -- but perhaps it's because they chose more appropriate words to describe a vast resource of well written and high performing code that is in use throughtout the Fortune 5000.
Yes - there is a lot of crap Open Source code, but there is also a lot of very good code - some I daresay, written by Microsoft engineers in their spare time -- you know who you are
One of the VA Software SourceForge developers is based in the Ukraine. Just an excellent engineer. We only met him for the first time a few months ago -- he's been with the team for over two years. Shows what can be done using SourceForge for distributed development. It's great to see staff in the Ukraine, US and Japan all working together on new development and bug fixing.