Well, it is kind of hard to use this new machine for porn distribution/consumption is not it?
Where else _any_ new technology finds early adopters but in xxx industry and military?
You are right - as fas as basic edit-copy-paste word processing and spreadsheets there is nothing to add.
However, look at what MS added in the newest Office - XML (for enterprise inter-op) and groupware (for sharing and collaboration). This is where the real innovation is. And I am afraid OO and friends are not even close and still trying to get to Office 97 levels.
The first heavier-than-air flight took place in Russia in 1880s. I am too lazy to look it up but I am sure others will.
So this thread is provided for your' all convinience;-)
Verrrry nice comment!
It also explains why we cannot see any traces of visitors from the future. Simply because this, current, instance of a universe has not been visited does not mean none were.
This approach makes the whole time travel thing not a physics problem but a probabilities problem.
After all, I imagine a new version of a universe is created any time dice roll: any time when something (person, worm, atom) assumes the one of several possible outcomes.
To add to that,
Standby databases are popular when (in Oracle scenario) the archived log files from your hot production database are constantly automatically applied to the cold standby database in some different location and if something happens to the primary it takes very little time to bring the standby up.
Also Oracle hot backup is by nature incremental, you can do like one tablespace per night, dont have to do the whole database at the same time (while backing up all the archived log files). I have seen sites where last cold backup was done something like 4 or 5 years ago.
I have not seen many of these when the database behind the site is Postgres.
As the matter of fact, have not seen many exception pages from Java/JSP coded sites recently either.
You can rename it to whatever you want!
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Did you notice how many posts here assumed that Java platform has anything to do with this Java Desktop System???
Even Java OS was mentioned!!!
People, Sun JDS is a Gnome based Linux distro with some Java apps on it. It is not written in / does not utilize Java platform. See OSnews review of JDS or Slashdot review of the review.
Actually, since it is not likely that the signal in question was sent in our direction on purpose, it might as well be an alien sitcom.
A civilization becomes noticable space-wise when it starts transmitting a lot of radiowaves. In case of Earthlings, this happened in 1940s-50s with the beginning of mass television broadcasts.
Imagine a sphere about 50 light-years in diameter rapidly expanding with I Love Lucy riding the wave up in front;-)
.. is control.
If you do it the VC way, they will force some people on your board, heck they will force you to _have_ a board. They call it "adult supervision".
There is alot of flexibilty you are going to have to give up.
I went through all circles of VC hell and finally decided to go slowly and by myself.
This is very good point: Tolkien has such vast quantities of material there, it is a shame that people cannot just use it.
This is primary example why long copyrights are bad.
Copyright was invented to protect the original creator. IMHO, even 10 years is more than enough.
mod this up.
I did this on Fedora powered laptop via apt-get and it went to 2.6 kernel as a boot option without s single problem. I ran some tests and performance improvement is 15-20%.
I am currently involved with major Java project at big big government agency.
Every new body on the team gets to sit and read the Struts book - it takes govnt weeks to get you a PC and months to hook it up.
But the application they eventually get to work on is a terrible mess of logic-laden JSPs, clueless beans and stored procedures doing String manipulation.
>>that outsourced software might be of higher quality precisely because of the absence of back and forth that's around in-house
The truth is that "back-and-forth" thing seems to be unseparable part of the software development process in general. It is objective, like gravity.
You can ignore this issue and pretend that it does not exist (and end up with requirements-first, strict-waterfall and MS-project-driven development) or you can embrace it (and endup using agile process like XP).
I have been doing soft for 11 years now and again and again I see that shops who insist on precise requirement definition upfront fail to deliver quality software. It is kinda like a socialist country where they pretend that free market and its rules do not exist but in fact even their economy is black market driven.
I suspect the same rules apply when your developers (or clients) are across the world. I participated in a project once where US team was developing for Europian company. Both sides spent weeks developing the specs for software. Guess what, the moment we started developing and first code was shown to the client, new issues appeared and eventually all the elaborate planning was scapped and we continued iteration by interation.
You would be surprised to see how much low-tech countries depend on high-tech. When country was not "blessed" with POTS telephone lines, it is much more likely to jump into advanced cell technologies.
Even some years back, every war lord in Afghan sported a sat phone. GPS is the way of life there if you are anyone significant at all.
Good point on visual effects. What kind of shock-and-awe is that? BZZZZZ-whooosh, you microwave is gone?
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Well, it is kind of hard to use this new machine for porn distribution/consumption is not it?
Where else _any_ new technology finds early adopters but in xxx industry and military?
You are right - as fas as basic edit-copy-paste word processing and spreadsheets there is nothing to add.
However, look at what MS added in the newest Office - XML (for enterprise inter-op) and groupware (for sharing and collaboration). This is where the real innovation is. And I am afraid OO and friends are not even close and still trying to get to Office 97 levels.
The first heavier-than-air flight took place in Russia in 1880s. I am too lazy to look it up but I am sure others will. ;-)
So this thread is provided for your' all convinience
Booble?
39 minutes is just about enough to install patches, reboot, restart and re-test the applications so for a Windows shop it is ok ;-)
Verrrry nice comment!
It also explains why we cannot see any traces of visitors from the future. Simply because this, current, instance of a universe has not been visited does not mean none were.
This approach makes the whole time travel thing not a physics problem but a probabilities problem.
After all, I imagine a new version of a universe is created any time dice roll: any time when something (person, worm, atom) assumes the one of several possible outcomes.
Because they just follow the standard path of any software/web business:
B2C -> B2B -> B2Chapter11
For those a little bit older, this is the same Hans Blix who was sent with inspection to Chernobyl and concluded it was not a big deal.
most of those things are in flat Cobol-processed files and on magnetic tape so they would not appear on this list.
To add to that,
Standby databases are popular when (in Oracle scenario) the archived log files from your hot production database are constantly automatically applied to the cold standby database in some different location and if something happens to the primary it takes very little time to bring the standby up.
Also Oracle hot backup is by nature incremental, you can do like one tablespace per night, dont have to do the whole database at the same time (while backing up all the archived log files). I have seen sites where last cold backup was done something like 4 or 5 years ago.
head for the hills
I have not seen many of these when the database behind the site is Postgres.
As the matter of fact, have not seen many exception pages from Java/JSP coded sites recently either.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-010
Did you notice how many posts here assumed that Java platform has anything to do with this Java Desktop System???
Even Java OS was mentioned!!!
People, Sun JDS is a Gnome based Linux distro with some Java apps on it. It is not written in / does not utilize Java platform. See OSnews review of JDS or Slashdot review of the review.
>>Old testament should be read for reference, or entertainment only ;-)
Just like a book on Unix Socket Programming
Actually, since it is not likely that the signal in question was sent in our direction on purpose, it might as well be an alien sitcom. ;-)
A civilization becomes noticable space-wise when it starts transmitting a lot of radiowaves. In case of Earthlings, this happened in 1940s-50s with the beginning of mass television broadcasts.
Imagine a sphere about 50 light-years in diameter rapidly expanding with I Love Lucy riding the wave up in front
Not inventing the time machine will not stop them from claiming they did later on ;-)
..the ones I had while interviewing for developer position at Six Flags few years back. Go figure.
.. is control.
If you do it the VC way, they will force some people on your board, heck they will force you to _have_ a board. They call it "adult supervision". There is alot of flexibilty you are going to have to give up.
I went through all circles of VC hell and finally decided to go slowly and by myself.
This is very good point: Tolkien has such vast quantities of material there, it is a shame that people cannot just use it.
This is primary example why long copyrights are bad. Copyright was invented to protect the original creator. IMHO, even 10 years is more than enough.
mod this up.
I did this on Fedora powered laptop via apt-get and it went to 2.6 kernel as a boot option without s single problem. I ran some tests and performance improvement is 15-20%.
Sounds exactly like those guys' business plan, does not it? :-)
Or at least, this can be claimed as "prior art"
I am currently involved with major Java project at big big government agency.
Every new body on the team gets to sit and read the Struts book - it takes govnt weeks to get you a PC and months to hook it up.
But the application they eventually get to work on is a terrible mess of logic-laden JSPs, clueless beans and stored procedures doing String manipulation.
The truth is that "back-and-forth" thing seems to be unseparable part of the software development process in general. It is objective, like gravity.
You can ignore this issue and pretend that it does not exist (and end up with requirements-first, strict-waterfall and MS-project-driven development) or you can embrace it (and endup using agile process like XP).
I have been doing soft for 11 years now and again and again I see that shops who insist on precise requirement definition upfront fail to deliver quality software. It is kinda like a socialist country where they pretend that free market and its rules do not exist but in fact even their economy is black market driven.
I suspect the same rules apply when your developers (or clients) are across the world. I participated in a project once where US team was developing for Europian company. Both sides spent weeks developing the specs for software. Guess what, the moment we started developing and first code was shown to the client, new issues appeared and eventually all the elaborate planning was scapped and we continued iteration by interation.
You would be surprised to see how much low-tech countries depend on high-tech. When country was not "blessed" with POTS telephone lines, it is much more likely to jump into advanced cell technologies.
Even some years back, every war lord in Afghan sported a sat phone. GPS is the way of life there if you are anyone significant at all.
Good point on visual effects. What kind of shock-and-awe is that? BZZZZZ-whooosh, you microwave is gone?