Tibet was a separate country, and had been for a very long time. The Chinese invaded, killed somewhere around 90% of all wildlife (including yaks) to enforce a dependence on Chinese food supplies, and destroyed the Tibetan monastic system. Oh, and they also killed over 1/3 of the Tibetan population via direct means as well as starvation.
Nowadays, Tibet is used as a toxic waste dump, and the Han Chinese population outnumbers the Tibetan population. RIP Tibet, after sustaining some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century.
They are statisticians, and there are sophisticated techniques for accounting for this sort of thing. I take it you didn't even read the book review at all, and are just assuming they ask people who they voted for and then just tally up the results?
So based upon a Slashdot summary, your informed opinion is that IBM is better off without the architect of one of the most successful app server platforms ever? Do you even know what WebSphere is?
Fully agreed, I have long been a proponent of nuclear power - I can remember talking about this nearly 10 years ago, and not just for powerplants in spacecraft, but also as the real answer to air quality issues, foreign oil dependence, and so forth. To be honest, there is a significant number of enviro types who are pro-nuclear, but they tend to be in the rationalist camp. The emotional camp, always the larger and more vocal of the two, consistently drowns out the rationalists in any debate.
It was such emotional arguments that cancelled the U.S. Integral Fast Reactor back in the '90s (I think it was), and has retarded the deployment of reactors in general all over the place in favour of coal, etc.
What most amazes me are the Viking landers. Looking at some of the pictures they took, the quality is just great. And they kept transmitting information for years - I think Viking 2 finally died in 1982 or something, six years after landing. Cult 1970s technology!
I develop software on contract, and I'd say upwards of 90% of all software development is done for in-house purposes. A great, great deal of that has historically been the classic VB front end to a database. There are many of these old VB5-type applications still in use, and they won't run on a Mac. And they won't be rewritten anytime soon either. New client-side development tends to be done with.Net. A lot of web apps depend on ActiveX.
The great majority of custom programming in the enterprise is Windows-client specific. Denying this is simply denying the reality of the state of IT. I agree that it sucks, by the way, which is why I don't take such contracts anymore.
Microsoft is one of the key backers of HD DVD. They have committed hardware and software support for it. I'm not sure where you are getting your information from.
I never said there were no bugs. I said that the architecture had security in mind. Vulnerabilities like buffer overflows in the VM are a sad fact of life, and of course they'll have to be fixed. But at least the whole architecture isn't broken. Don't confuse architecture defects with coding bugs.
It was addressed back in the '90s. It's called client-side Java. The VM was slow to start up (it still is), and it faced hostility from Microsoft. But security was an uppermost concern, and the whole architecture is pretty nice. Maybe if the start-up problems in the VM are addressed, client-side Java will return (it's wholly server-side now, except for a few standalone apps here and there) and we'll see an end to this silly Ajax stuff.
The OP's point was that they introduced such functionality, period. Yeah, it only works with their stuff, but that's not the point. It was a genuine innovation. There's no requirement for innovation to be open and cross-platform, sorry to say. Nevertheless, OLE/COM allowed people to do things other apps would not.
Agreed, and in fact I worked with embedded Linux at my last job, so I'm right with you on cost issues and so forth. You're right, I overlooked embedded in my post, and I should have mentioned it.
Not to be rude, but no one cares about your (or my, for that matter - I really like KDE a lot) desktop. Linux is known as a server OS in the corporate world, period, and that's what OpenSolaris will supposedly replace. Who knows. But the desktop "market" is absolutely fringe by comparison, and I don't really think it's on anybody's radar aside from a few experimenters and cash-strapped early adopters.
3. Can only deal with the simplest Excel spreadsheets.
People see it as an alternative to MS Office, using the MS Office file formats. Since it lacks perfect compatibility, it is a non-starter. The only semi-professional place I've seen it in use is the public library.
You can argue all you want, but this is the truth: in the enterprise, OpenOffice is completely absent. And no, a kindergarten teacher is not representative of the needs of business.
Objects themselves are not moving. Rather, the metric defining space is changing. Therefore, it's not bound by the speed of light. Someone above posted a Wikipedia page about it.
"How does Skype handle this - does your traffic end up going out the the internet even when calling someone within your LAN?"
I don't know. I've only ever used it to for work reasons, like long distance calling, conference calls with the other consultants I work with, etc. I've never done any testing of its capabilities.
""How do I call your phone?"
I'm not sure what's hard about this - to call a SIP phone you just enter the SIP address (e.g. sip:foo@example.com - you can even click sip hyperlinks in web pages, etc.). And once you've entered your account details for whatever PSTN breakout service provider you've chosen you just dial a PSTN number."
Sorry, I wasn't clear on that one - I was referring to my landline. Since SkypeOut is so obvious to set up, and is integrated into the "experience" (the website, the client, etc.), as well as the technology, it makes it easier for the non-technical user to set up. People like my mom do not think in terms of technology. They think in terms of use-case.
Strangely enough given this conversation, I have far more experience with SIP phones (hard and soft) than I do Skype, simply because I used to write code to work with them. Maybe if I had to work on the innards of Skype, I'd learn to hate it too;)
Oh yeah, the company that uses IAX2 in its softphone is Freshtel. I would use it in a heartbeat and drop Skype, mainly because they interoperate with Asterisk, except everyone I know uses Skype, including the people I work with. A Skype protocol module in Asterisk would solve this, but no one has managed to reverse engineer it yet as far as I know.
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Tibet was a separate country, and had been for a very long time. The Chinese invaded, killed somewhere around 90% of all wildlife (including yaks) to enforce a dependence on Chinese food supplies, and destroyed the Tibetan monastic system. Oh, and they also killed over 1/3 of the Tibetan population via direct means as well as starvation.
Nowadays, Tibet is used as a toxic waste dump, and the Han Chinese population outnumbers the Tibetan population. RIP Tibet, after sustaining some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century.
They are statisticians, and there are sophisticated techniques for accounting for this sort of thing. I take it you didn't even read the book review at all, and are just assuming they ask people who they voted for and then just tally up the results?
Tons of bands use it, small independent movie studios and film productions, etc. etc. Basically, anyone with anything to promote.
As far as personal profiles go, I'd suspect most people are pretty young, like 20s. But I know of many people in their 30s with MySpace sites also.
So based upon a Slashdot summary, your informed opinion is that IBM is better off without the architect of one of the most successful app server platforms ever? Do you even know what WebSphere is?
Sorry, got them confused. Thanks for the correction.
Fully agreed, I have long been a proponent of nuclear power - I can remember talking about this nearly 10 years ago, and not just for powerplants in spacecraft, but also as the real answer to air quality issues, foreign oil dependence, and so forth. To be honest, there is a significant number of enviro types who are pro-nuclear, but they tend to be in the rationalist camp. The emotional camp, always the larger and more vocal of the two, consistently drowns out the rationalists in any debate.
It was such emotional arguments that cancelled the U.S. Integral Fast Reactor back in the '90s (I think it was), and has retarded the deployment of reactors in general all over the place in favour of coal, etc.
What most amazes me are the Viking landers. Looking at some of the pictures they took, the quality is just great. And they kept transmitting information for years - I think Viking 2 finally died in 1982 or something, six years after landing. Cult 1970s technology!
Actually, the Vista windowing system is so far beyond X that there's no comparison.
Read this (also posted by someone else) for some depressing info on the state of X and why something new is needed: http://jonsmirl.googlepages.com/graphics.html
Security-conscious distributions set up X to launch as -nolisten tcp for a reason. As someone else mentioned, it runs as suid root.
Anyway, what on earth does X's network transparency and overall shittiness have to do with Vista's tight security? Your post makes no sense.
I develop software on contract, and I'd say upwards of 90% of all software development is done for in-house purposes. A great, great deal of that has historically been the classic VB front end to a database. There are many of these old VB5-type applications still in use, and they won't run on a Mac. And they won't be rewritten anytime soon either. New client-side development tends to be done with .Net. A lot of web apps depend on ActiveX.
The great majority of custom programming in the enterprise is Windows-client specific. Denying this is simply denying the reality of the state of IT. I agree that it sucks, by the way, which is why I don't take such contracts anymore.
Microsoft is one of the key backers of HD DVD. They have committed hardware and software support for it. I'm not sure where you are getting your information from.
It's a good thing you stated that in boldface type - now Sony will really sit up and take notice.
Hint: "I been telling..." --> "I h___ been telling..."
Google uses Java extensively, so your suggestion is dumb (assuming "gtfo" means "get the fuck out").
I never said there were no bugs. I said that the architecture had security in mind. Vulnerabilities like buffer overflows in the VM are a sad fact of life, and of course they'll have to be fixed. But at least the whole architecture isn't broken. Don't confuse architecture defects with coding bugs.
Yes, I thought it was implied that I was talking about applets, since the OP was ranting against Javascript. Sorry if that wasn't more clear.
It was addressed back in the '90s. It's called client-side Java. The VM was slow to start up (it still is), and it faced hostility from Microsoft. But security was an uppermost concern, and the whole architecture is pretty nice. Maybe if the start-up problems in the VM are addressed, client-side Java will return (it's wholly server-side now, except for a few standalone apps here and there) and we'll see an end to this silly Ajax stuff.
What does that have to do with COM?
Obviously, MS has an abysmal security record, but I'm not sure I see the connection here, sorry.
The OP's point was that they introduced such functionality, period. Yeah, it only works with their stuff, but that's not the point. It was a genuine innovation. There's no requirement for innovation to be open and cross-platform, sorry to say. Nevertheless, OLE/COM allowed people to do things other apps would not.
Agreed, and in fact I worked with embedded Linux at my last job, so I'm right with you on cost issues and so forth. You're right, I overlooked embedded in my post, and I should have mentioned it.
Not to be rude, but no one cares about your (or my, for that matter - I really like KDE a lot) desktop. Linux is known as a server OS in the corporate world, period, and that's what OpenSolaris will supposedly replace. Who knows. But the desktop "market" is absolutely fringe by comparison, and I don't really think it's on anybody's radar aside from a few experimenters and cash-strapped early adopters.
1. Slow as molasses.
.doc compatibility.
2. Lacks perfect
3. Can only deal with the simplest Excel spreadsheets.
People see it as an alternative to MS Office, using the MS Office file formats. Since it lacks perfect compatibility, it is a non-starter. The only semi-professional place I've seen it in use is the public library.
You can argue all you want, but this is the truth: in the enterprise, OpenOffice is completely absent. And no, a kindergarten teacher is not representative of the needs of business.
Objects themselves are not moving. Rather, the metric defining space is changing. Therefore, it's not bound by the speed of light. Someone above posted a Wikipedia page about it.
Anyway, now you can drop all that "god" nonsense.
"How does Skype handle this - does your traffic end up going out the the internet even when calling someone within your LAN?"
;)
I don't know. I've only ever used it to for work reasons, like long distance calling, conference calls with the other consultants I work with, etc. I've never done any testing of its capabilities.
""How do I call your phone?"
I'm not sure what's hard about this - to call a SIP phone you just enter the SIP address (e.g. sip:foo@example.com - you can even click sip hyperlinks in web pages, etc.). And once you've entered your account details for whatever PSTN breakout service provider you've chosen you just dial a PSTN number."
Sorry, I wasn't clear on that one - I was referring to my landline. Since SkypeOut is so obvious to set up, and is integrated into the "experience" (the website, the client, etc.), as well as the technology, it makes it easier for the non-technical user to set up. People like my mom do not think in terms of technology. They think in terms of use-case.
Strangely enough given this conversation, I have far more experience with SIP phones (hard and soft) than I do Skype, simply because I used to write code to work with them. Maybe if I had to work on the innards of Skype, I'd learn to hate it too
Oh yeah, the company that uses IAX2 in its softphone is Freshtel. I would use it in a heartbeat and drop Skype, mainly because they interoperate with Asterisk, except everyone I know uses Skype, including the people I work with. A Skype protocol module in Asterisk would solve this, but no one has managed to reverse engineer it yet as far as I know.
How come kooks like you never seem to log in?