In the heart of any exploration, any advance of human genius, there was always some personal itch needed to be scratched.
"oh, we can get to India faster" or "oh, we can fly mail to South America in 3 days" or "oh, we can throw explosives further", all this comes later as part of the speech aimed at the venture capitalists, etc. The foundation, the basic desire is always just because it is there. The practical needs come later.
So, on software part, for every freaking spreadsheet , email client and such, I 'll have to patiently explain to it what I want, wait for the work to be done, get absolutely nothing I could use, ask to start over and get the exact the same outcome again?
Been there, done that, not afraid.
which is the most important thing for Linux-on-laptop. When I got Gentoo to hibernate (and wake up - important too;-) on my Fujitsu, that was a happy day.
what is going on, Slashdot routinely spoon-feeds recycled Wired stories. It typically starts about 2 weeks after paper edition is out and continues for another 2 weeks or so. All the major Wired stories from the paper issue apear on/. spread evenly. They gots smarted now by not mentioning Wired in the text blurb and linking other sources in.
Is it because Columbia was not going to the station?
The thing is it would have not even been able to reach station's orbit. Columbia belonged to the museum and not to the launch pad. I wonder what was the point of having a space station AND STILL sending Columbia on a "stand-alone" mission?
how is it insightful? Java license specifically allows you distribution of the JRE with your products as long as you dont mess with it and it is required to run your program. Gratis.
This whole page of postings shows how nearsighted and ignorant new generation of slashdotters are: the only non-Free part in Java is the fact that Sun wants to preserve the standard in the language and thus wants to control it. I, personally, would prefer a completely OSS Java but it is good thing as is.
It seems like this problem is just a variation on more common problem - whre do you go on the internet in case of emergency?
Imagine if you have a 911 situation and you only have access to the Net - no phones. Where do you email? Which site do you go to?
I think it is about time someone puts together standards-based gateway to emergency services. Google are you listening?
I think any more or less developed human (especially geeky ones) is interested in that a lot! We are curious bunch, humans. I am sure there is well developed (both accepted and gray-area community) studiing how vegetation communicates.
If you got your big money by actually working for it (started a biz, banker, broker, bigtime writer, doctor, lawyer,..) it is your TIME that counts.
That is why I'd pay first class price to be able to travel without getting worn out in coach because I would be able to do some real work on the plane and be able to get to productive work faster AFTER the plane ride.
Recently I discovered a Gentoo feature that now IMHO makes it the most enterprise Java friendly distro.
Besides supporting bunch of JVMs, Gentoo integrates all the Java stuff in Gentoo way: you can just "emerge jboss" and you will end up with a complete server environment with all the scipts, etc. Very nice.
Verizon is a betamax of cell providers.
Their network (and call quality) is loads better than the competition but because they are not on the GSM wagon they are destined to die.
If the Bush/Cheney regime is responsible for IE features/release cycle, our only salvation is to have Dems fork Firefox and release a Dem-branded copy. maybe with Howard Dean providing sound effects - "404 - Eeeeeyaaaaaaaa";-)
Jboss and Tomcat
Axis
Jakarta commons, Spring, Hibernate
NetBeans (only if doing massive Java web app or Swing UI), Eclipse (good all around; web features castrated by IBM now trying to re-attach)
CVS and CVS client inside IDE. Other Linux clients IMHO have issues.
Junit
Ant, Ant and Ant everything via Ant
CruiseControl
Some form of Wiki
Poseidon / Argo UML
JIRA or equivalent
IMHO, deserve to stay away from:
JBuilder
Oracle Jdeveloper
IBM WSAD and other minions
Portal frameworks (maybe Liferay is ok)
You are trolling of course but recently I was thinking WHAT IF an idealisticly-minded political leader gets right exposure to "free as in freedom" concept.. Not necessarely W mind you.
This is even more important when a search engine (appliance) is capable to crawl the file shares directly (not just over HTTP). EnterFind appliance (which I participated in developing) has this (still unique) feature and their clients were amazed by what the crawler can dig out. Especially in those "hidden" fields in the Office documents.
It is accurate that "couple of the 9/11 hijackers were on.. known terrorist lists", it is not true that those lists were not enforced.
If you read 9/11 report, all the hijackers on such lists were pocessed according to the rules for their respective lists. The measures included: separating from one's luggage, etc.
The system failed because:
no one envisioned a massive suicide attack
there were no system in place to pinpoint to someone the sudden spike in alegged terrorists going thru the same checkpoint.
Top management of ANY big company is like that. Comes with the size, clout and maturity. Google or whatever will be the same as well.
It is like a law of nature, probably closely related to the Second Law of Termodynamics.
Simply, when company reaches certain size, no matter how bright the individual leaders or technologists are, they loose the ability to critically think and reason as a whole. Call it "BigGerman's Law Of Corporate Evolution";-)
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In the heart of any exploration, any advance of human genius, there was always some personal itch needed to be scratched.
"oh, we can get to India faster" or "oh, we can fly mail to South America in 3 days" or "oh, we can throw explosives further", all this comes later as part of the speech aimed at the venture capitalists, etc. The foundation, the basic desire is always just because it is there. The practical needs come later.
So, on software part, for every freaking spreadsheet , email client and such, I 'll have to patiently explain to it what I want, wait for the work to be done, get absolutely nothing I could use, ask to start over and get the exact the same outcome again?
Been there, done that, not afraid.
which is the most important thing for Linux-on-laptop. When I got Gentoo to hibernate (and wake up - important too ;-) on my Fujitsu, that was a happy day.
yeah it will have some nice unconspicuous business name on its side: Flowers By Irene ;-)
Mods, this is not a flamebait.
The guy mentions couple of facts and states his opinion. Come on.
what is going on, Slashdot routinely spoon-feeds recycled Wired stories. It typically starts about 2 weeks after paper edition is out and continues for another 2 weeks or so. All the major Wired stories from the paper issue apear on /. spread evenly. They gots smarted now by not mentioning Wired in the text blurb and linking other sources in.
Is it because Columbia was not going to the station?
The thing is it would have not even been able to reach station's orbit. Columbia belonged to the museum and not to the launch pad. I wonder what was the point of having a space station AND STILL sending Columbia on a "stand-alone" mission?
how is it insightful? Java license specifically allows you distribution of the JRE with your products as long as you dont mess with it and it is required to run your program. Gratis.
This whole page of postings shows how nearsighted and ignorant new generation of slashdotters are: the only non-Free part in Java is the fact that Sun wants to preserve the standard in the language and thus wants to control it. I, personally, would prefer a completely OSS Java but it is good thing as is.
It seems like this problem is just a variation on more common problem - whre do you go on the internet in case of emergency?
Imagine if you have a 911 situation and you only have access to the Net - no phones. Where do you email? Which site do you go to?
I think it is about time someone puts together standards-based gateway to emergency services. Google are you listening?
I think any more or less developed human (especially geeky ones) is interested in that a lot! We are curious bunch, humans. I am sure there is well developed (both accepted and gray-area community) studiing how vegetation communicates.
If you got your big money by actually working for it (started a biz, banker, broker, bigtime writer, doctor, lawyer,..) it is your TIME that counts.
That is why I'd pay first class price to be able to travel without getting worn out in coach because I would be able to do some real work on the plane and be able to get to productive work faster AFTER the plane ride.
Recently I discovered a Gentoo feature that now IMHO makes it the most enterprise Java friendly distro.
Besides supporting bunch of JVMs, Gentoo integrates all the Java stuff in Gentoo way: you can just "emerge jboss" and you will end up with a complete server environment with all the scipts, etc. Very nice.
this is subtle but interesting detail. Maybe because that socalled "agile alliance" in fact started using Oracle RAC thingies on Linux ;-)
not like I care but out of curiosity: how the first moderation of a posting can be"overrated"? Noone has rated it yet.
Verizon is a betamax of cell providers.
Their network (and call quality) is loads better than the competition but because they are not on the GSM wagon they are destined to die.
If the Bush/Cheney regime is responsible for IE features/release cycle, our only salvation is to have Dems fork Firefox and release a Dem-branded copy. maybe with Howard Dean providing sound effects - "404 - Eeeeeyaaaaaaaa" ;-)
I worked for them long time ago. They had poster on the wall: IF MORE PEOPLE USE E*FILE, YOU'D BE HOME BY NOW
Axis
Jakarta commons, Spring, Hibernate
NetBeans (only if doing massive Java web app or Swing UI), Eclipse (good all around; web features castrated by IBM now trying to re-attach)
CVS and CVS client inside IDE. Other Linux clients IMHO have issues.
Junit
Ant, Ant and Ant everything via Ant
CruiseControl
Some form of Wiki
Poseidon / Argo UML
JIRA or equivalent
IMHO, deserve to stay away from:
JBuilder
Oracle Jdeveloper
IBM WSAD and other minions
Portal frameworks (maybe Liferay is ok)
Love this idea. Anyone with powers to pull this off listening? ;-)
Could be even a reality TV show (on TechTv as it used to be)
You are trolling of course but recently I was thinking WHAT IF an idealisticly-minded political leader gets right exposure to "free as in freedom" concept.. Not necessarely W mind you.
This is even more important when a search engine (appliance) is capable to crawl the file shares directly (not just over HTTP).
EnterFind appliance (which I participated in developing) has this (still unique) feature and their clients were amazed by what the crawler can dig out. Especially in those "hidden" fields in the Office documents.
If you read 9/11 report, all the hijackers on such lists were pocessed according to the rules for their respective lists. The measures included: separating from one's luggage, etc.
The system failed because:
no one envisioned a massive suicide attack
there were no system in place to pinpoint to someone the sudden spike in alegged terrorists going thru the same checkpoint.
Supposingly, both problems are corrected now
.. my CrossOver installation.
Worked just fine. It seems to think it is Windows 98 being updated.
Top management of ANY big company is like that. Comes with the size, clout and maturity. Google or whatever will be the same as well. ;-)
It is like a law of nature, probably closely related to the Second Law of Termodynamics.
Simply, when company reaches certain size, no matter how bright the individual leaders or technologists are, they loose the ability to critically think and reason as a whole. Call it "BigGerman's Law Of Corporate Evolution"
. being sued by ??AAs!