For web based applications. Following szenario comes to my mind in the long run. Server an application server with java server faces. JFS has an MVC model on control level. Now it is thinkable to have more dynamics on the control level, with XUL als the view part for the Mozilla engine, Xaml as the view part for the IE, and normal HTML forms and Javascript for the rest of the world. Therefore you can get more dynamics with certain browsers, and UI building might become easier if you program against platforms which either support xul or xaml.
Face it the current situation with HTML forms and nothing else is god awful. I'd rather program 10 programs in Qt or Swing than one HTML form with the needed dynamics of input checking weird custom controls which are not supported out of the box etc....
Patents only cause a delay of such a development if at all.
Once you run a company you start to gather patents yourself if your financial background is strong enough, once your portfolio is big enough you can make deals with the others (patent exchange) and then you are free to do what you want to do.
The problem is, with the current outsourcing trend the research to a big degree is also moved to asia, while the US pushes over the WIPO for a stronger acceptance of the broken US patent system and trying to force it into Europe and Australia as well.
What happens is that we run into a patent dictatorship/sellout situation and the movement of research to asia. The impact this will have once the current wave of sellout patents has run out (in a few years) will have you can imagine.
Patents are enforced in the west while the key research already was taken over by local asian companies.
Pretty much the same situation the english did in the 18th century to the local indian weavers now comes back to the west, but this time, the west is at fault, or its endless greed for more money for a handful of people, an no invading nation.
Yes thats exactly what happens with outsourcing.
First the jobs are moved, once the jobs are moved the middle man (the local corporation which moved the jobs) is cut out and the outsourcers take over the market.
Happened before, Toyota, Sony and others got big this way, and will happen again.
But the western management is stupid enough to do it all over again and again and loosing the markets in the long run this way.
I expected that already 4 years ago, but I guess I was too early. The problems with PDAs is, that it is one gadget too much in the age of cellphones. The first combined PDA cell phone combinations were a fiasco saleswise (although some of them were quite god). I guess the average joe bloke was not ready for it. But face it the PDA cellphone combo is a combo which basically never should have been separated or separately developed, because they belong together.
I guess Sharp sees the light, although their pdas are the best there is, a single pda and a single cellphone does not have any future. I guess the future belongs to combined pda smartphones, with handheld consoles being added at a third stage in about 4 years.
You might add that Nokia already has tried this and failed, yes, but most technologies have 2-3 failures until the take off. There have been smartphones existing for years and almost all early models failed to a big degree for various reasons, yet they slowly take over the PDA market.
Some people mentioned dumping IE, although I second that recommendation for eliminating most trojans/backdoors out there in the wild, I would not recommend to do that for having to deal with spyware. The problem is more fundamental, spyware per se is just a small program which in most cases is installed by the user, most of the times it comes with some kind of shareware which gives you full access if you install the spyware, in some cases it is installed by an exploit. Locking down the IE only helps you in the second case.
What you have to do is to sandbox the user, Windows can do that, but that means that the user basically has no rights of program installs whatsoever. If you can justify that go ahead. The other solution is to go with a system where spyware is not rampant as in Windows. Macs, Linux, BSD come to my mind, but most users would feel unhappy about it probably.
The third one is to keep the data on a separate disk/networked computer and simply overwrite the users installation on a regular base.
None of these solutions would make the user happy because you take the power away from them. Anyway getting more and more antivirus scanners or anti spyware tools is like doctoring on the symptoms and not the cause. In case of spyware it is using a lousy hole ridden browser and users installing everything left and right on their workplace machines without knowing what could happen.
Well, there are many adult gamers, some of them play with there kids.
I am one of those 34, but I am probably an exception of not having a girlfriend or wife, and not being able to get one, due to a mental disease.
I still enjoy games.
But I will probably skip the POP2 (well actuall it must be pop7 or so) since the series goes into the wrong direction with less puzzles and more fights. In fact the fights were the worst part with the camera in Sands of Time, they were basically just jump trigger push jump, the first prince of persia (the one from 1990) had a better style in this regard, only one enemy and you had to figure out how to beat him.
The second problem of Sands of Time was the camera, which sometimes seemed to lock into god awful positions so you had to make a guess jump instead of being able to readjust the cam again.
If you want functions, you can use the static imports, which sort of emulates that construct on the users level of the method.
But does it really matter?
Give me arguments why you think Fox news is unbiased and Murdoch is harmless.
This guy has a track record in Australia and the UK of trying to interfere with local politics.
And the debate was open in germany in the press (you can read that up ) when Murdoch for a short period of time took over the local TV station VOX.
Just look at Wikipedia for a good coverage on Ruperd Murdoch. Link here
The problems with the TV tax are the same all over western europe.
The idea behind it is brilliant, that the public pays for a quality service which should proved quality unbiased news coverage and quality programming.
The BBC does an excellent job in this regard, the german televisions not. News coverage on those ranges from extremely good to lousy on the same level as the private stations, the privat stations try to gather teenagers so the public stations go for the demographic of retired people in this country.
The entire demographic of the 25-50 year olds are ignored by both sectors of the media, but those are the ones who pay most of the fees.
Austria, where I come from is more absymal in this regard, the we have to pay the same tax as in germany, but the public TV stations basically bring only private TV programming to a big degree and also are allowed to do commercial breaks during certain program styles like sports. On the other hand they try to catch the 55+ demographic as well. So what we have over here is absymal news coverage on the level of a private station, endless real life soaps like on a private station and endless old people programs like on the german public tv stations.
And in between one or two occasional gems which usually are aired in the experimental niche.
Although I like the basic principle of having to pay for a non biased quality tv and give the general public access to it, the system over the years slowly has degenerated.
Arrm no, FoxNews is basically on the same level as good ole Soviet Russian TV stations, the reason why the news differ from BBC is, that the BBC basically brings unbiased news often directly from Reuters and other agencies, whereas Fox twists the news according to the political direction Murdoch wants to have them.
What Fox does is basically the same as the eastern European TV stations including Sovjet Russia did during the communist era.
You really should adjust your focus a little bit. Propaganda and twisted reality is always the same, no matter who is behind it.
The BBC has a long tradition of excellent news coverage and unbiased news. Whereas Murdoch has a long tradition on trying to control governments over his media imperium.
The article is about one of the best games of all time, namely Ultima 7 and the excellent works the Exult people and an affililated project have put in it.
And 90% of the posters think it is about Ultima Online and start to rant.
Sorry to rant here, but I think this one has reached a new low. I mean how hard is it to read either the introduction to the whole thing or to read the posting.
The magic word is read before writing something totally unrelated.
So mod me down now. As a huge fan of the Ultima 7s I am rather bitter about this here.
Around the size of document you did, documents within the 100-500 pages ransk with lots of illustrations footnotes a glossary and other stuff.
You were quite lucky, I know many people with different experience.
I think the biggest source of problems still are embedded (not linked) pics and OLE documents, which cause the instability and layout problems.
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Sorry, there is no Fud and the article is no flamefest.
The magazine as others pointed out was until a while ago a total Microsoft laptop. And all the points people have risen in the past about IE.
(Swiss cheese of browsers, not standards compliant for newer standards after 1997, lack of security and numerous other things are valid.)
The article in my opinion was pretty good from a Windows admin perspective. It raises valid points which can concern the average windows admin.
Actually no, I dont think that was a dump and hire scheme.
As far as I know, they sold off the entire division to IBM which said it could make the services much cheaper.
Afair they bought back the division from IBM because it was not cheaper at all.
They probably lost their best people during that process but that is another issue.
The dump and hire scheme is the perfect way into mediocrity, because a company looses its best IT people that way.
If it is the component patents from Wang. Microsoft is on the safe side there, they did a licensing from Wang before they started COM (not the patents but the bought the code).
But given the circumstances, CORBA probably was not the first component technology, neither COM.
I think you can find the first viable component implementations in various programs which use plugins and also probably in Hypercard.
If I understand here correctly, than Kodak basically tries to sue the hell out of everybody who has a VM with a language and a compiler on top if it with an overly broad patent.
Sun must have screwed this up majorly.
The first VM languages I know of which used similar structures as java are List and Smalltalk.
Smalltalk in its VM incarnation goes way back into the 70s.
I don`t think kodak has any case here. Java is a clone of a technology which is already more than 30 years old.
I wonder what the Sun laywers were smoking when they defended Sun in the lawsuit?
No the ecosystem of rivers in western europe was hosed in the 50s and 60s but for instance the danube and rhine nowadays are quite clean.
The huge chemical desaster in the rhine 15-20 years ago did its fair share for the reconstruction work.
But if you mean that the water is regulated in huge parts in those rivers and has been, you are right to a certain degree.
Well the atomic waste problem is a different issue, the problem is, that even if you bury it in a mountain, the waste remains there for another 50.000 and more years unless it becomes untoxic. The other issue is, that the containers, do not last that long.
You basically bury in a heritage which a civlizatiion in the distant future has to cope with. If they are lucky they are technically advanced enough to deal with the problem, but if not, say goodbye to the civilization.
You are right about the prairies in the open spaces. But those would be perfect for a windmill system (yes I know the birds, whatever)
or the grassy plains for harvesting grass like plants which could be burned.
Also as I said numerous times in that thread, the sea is an untapped potential for growing biomass.
2/3rd of the earths surface is ocean, numerous biomass able lifeforms grow there anyway, which could be harvested and raised in open sea farms.
Raising algae for biomass energy production would be feasable for instance.
I drank 2-3 cups of coffee per day. Stopped it a while ago.
The effects and the weekly withdrawal was too strong.
The problem I had with coffee was that if I drank a little bit it gave me a huge energy boost in the short term. But too much of it gave me a some kind of "feeling high" condition (I was not the only one, a friend of mine had the same symptoms)
And on friday I basically stopped drinking coffee and on saturday I was worn out the whole weekend until sunday afternoon, which I probably think is some kind of withdrawal.
Add to that that I have suffered from anxiety disorder since I was a child which probably increased the effects big time.
Nowadays I only drink coffee like very other drug (alcohol for instance) occasionally for social purposes.
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Examples for systems using Mach are MacOSX and IBMs AIX.... ;-)
Mach used to be bad around 1990 but the things have been patched up
For web based applications.
Following szenario comes to my mind in the long run.
Server an application server with java server faces.
JFS has an MVC model on control level.
Now it is thinkable to have more dynamics on the control level, with XUL als the view part for the Mozilla engine, Xaml as the view part for the IE, and normal HTML forms and Javascript for the rest of the world.
Therefore you can get more dynamics with certain browsers, and UI building might become easier if you program against platforms which either support xul or xaml.
Face it the current situation with HTML forms and nothing else is god awful. I'd rather program 10 programs in Qt or Swing than one HTML form with the needed dynamics of input checking weird custom controls which are not supported out of the box etc....
Patents only cause a delay of such a development if at all. Once you run a company you start to gather patents yourself if your financial background is strong enough, once your portfolio is big enough you can make deals with the others (patent exchange) and then you are free to do what you want to do. The problem is, with the current outsourcing trend the research to a big degree is also moved to asia, while the US pushes over the WIPO for a stronger acceptance of the broken US patent system and trying to force it into Europe and Australia as well.
What happens is that we run into a patent dictatorship/sellout situation and the movement of research to asia. The impact this will have once the current wave of sellout patents has run out (in a few years) will have you can imagine.
Patents are enforced in the west while the key research already was taken over by local asian companies.
Pretty much the same situation the english did in the 18th century to the local indian weavers now comes back to the west, but this time, the west is at fault, or its endless greed for more money for a handful of people, an no invading nation.
Yes thats exactly what happens with outsourcing. First the jobs are moved, once the jobs are moved the middle man (the local corporation which moved the jobs) is cut out and the outsourcers take over the market.
Happened before, Toyota, Sony and others got big this way, and will happen again.
But the western management is stupid enough to do it all over again and again and loosing the markets in the long run this way.
I expected that already 4 years ago, but I guess I was too early.
The problems with PDAs is, that it is one gadget too much in the age of cellphones.
The first combined PDA cell phone combinations were a fiasco saleswise (although some of them were quite god). I guess the average joe bloke was not ready for it. But face it the PDA cellphone combo is a combo which basically never should have been separated or separately developed, because they belong together.
I guess Sharp sees the light, although their pdas are the best there is, a single pda and a single cellphone does not have any future.
I guess the future belongs to combined pda smartphones, with handheld consoles being added at a third stage in about 4 years.
You might add that Nokia already has tried this and failed, yes, but most technologies have 2-3 failures until the take off. There have been smartphones existing for years and almost all early models failed to a big degree for various reasons, yet they slowly take over the PDA market.
Some people mentioned dumping IE, although I second that recommendation for eliminating most trojans/backdoors out there in the wild, I would not recommend to do that for having to deal with spyware.
The problem is more fundamental, spyware per se is just a small program which in most cases is installed by the user, most of the times it comes with some kind of shareware which gives you full access if you install the spyware, in some cases it is installed by an exploit.
Locking down the IE only helps you in the second case.
What you have to do is to sandbox the user, Windows can do that, but that means that the user basically has no rights of program installs whatsoever. If you can justify that go ahead.
The other solution is to go with a system where spyware is not rampant as in Windows. Macs, Linux, BSD come to my mind, but most users would feel unhappy about it probably.
The third one is to keep the data on a separate disk/networked computer and simply overwrite the users installation on a regular base.
None of these solutions would make the user happy because you take the power away from them. Anyway getting more and more antivirus scanners or anti spyware tools is like doctoring on the symptoms and not the cause. In case of spyware it is using a lousy hole ridden browser and users installing everything left and right on their workplace machines without knowing what could happen.
Well, there are many adult gamers, some of them play with there kids. I am one of those 34, but I am probably an exception of not having a girlfriend or wife, and not being able to get one, due to a mental disease. I still enjoy games. But I will probably skip the POP2 (well actuall it must be pop7 or so) since the series goes into the wrong direction with less puzzles and more fights. In fact the fights were the worst part with the camera in Sands of Time, they were basically just jump trigger push jump, the first prince of persia (the one from 1990) had a better style in this regard, only one enemy and you had to figure out how to beat him.
The second problem of Sands of Time was the camera, which sometimes seemed to lock into god awful positions so you had to make a guess jump instead of being able to readjust the cam again.
Sweden just was bombed for patent violation and weapons of mass copying.
If you want functions, you can use the static imports, which sort of emulates that construct on the users level of the method. But does it really matter?
They will weasel their way out of it again. After all they have so much smearing cream ($$$$) in their pockets that law is a non issue for them.
Give me arguments why you think Fox news is unbiased and Murdoch is harmless. This guy has a track record in Australia and the UK of trying to interfere with local politics. And the debate was open in germany in the press (you can read that up ) when Murdoch for a short period of time took over the local TV station VOX.
Just look at Wikipedia for a good coverage on Ruperd Murdoch. Link here
The problems with the TV tax are the same all over western europe. The idea behind it is brilliant, that the public pays for a quality service which should proved quality unbiased news coverage and quality programming. The BBC does an excellent job in this regard, the german televisions not. News coverage on those ranges from extremely good to lousy on the same level as the private stations, the privat stations try to gather teenagers so the public stations go for the demographic of retired people in this country. The entire demographic of the 25-50 year olds are ignored by both sectors of the media, but those are the ones who pay most of the fees.
Austria, where I come from is more absymal in this regard, the we have to pay the same tax as in germany, but the public TV stations basically bring only private TV programming to a big degree and also are allowed to do commercial breaks during certain program styles like sports. On the other hand they try to catch the 55+ demographic as well. So what we have over here is absymal news coverage on the level of a private station, endless real life soaps like on a private station and endless old people programs like on the german public tv stations. And in between one or two occasional gems which usually are aired in the experimental niche. Although I like the basic principle of having to pay for a non biased quality tv and give the general public access to it, the system over the years slowly has degenerated.
Arrm no, FoxNews is basically on the same level as good ole Soviet Russian TV stations, the reason why the news differ from BBC is, that the BBC basically brings unbiased news often directly from Reuters and other agencies, whereas Fox twists the news according to the political direction Murdoch wants to have them. What Fox does is basically the same as the eastern European TV stations including Sovjet Russia did during the communist era.
You really should adjust your focus a little bit. Propaganda and twisted reality is always the same, no matter who is behind it. The BBC has a long tradition of excellent news coverage and unbiased news. Whereas Murdoch has a long tradition on trying to control governments over his media imperium.
The article is about one of the best games of all time, namely Ultima 7 and the excellent works the Exult people and an affililated project have put in it. And 90% of the posters think it is about Ultima Online and start to rant.
Sorry to rant here, but I think this one has reached a new low. I mean how hard is it to read either the introduction to the whole thing or to read the posting. The magic word is read before writing something totally unrelated. So mod me down now. As a huge fan of the Ultima 7s I am rather bitter about this here.
Actually, most supermodels dont have any balloons, you can be grateful if they have breasts at all.
Around the size of document you did, documents within the 100-500 pages ransk with lots of illustrations footnotes a glossary and other stuff. You were quite lucky, I know many people with different experience. I think the biggest source of problems still are embedded (not linked) pics and OLE documents, which cause the instability and layout problems.
Sorry, there is no Fud and the article is no flamefest. The magazine as others pointed out was until a while ago a total Microsoft laptop. And all the points people have risen in the past about IE. (Swiss cheese of browsers, not standards compliant for newer standards after 1997, lack of security and numerous other things are valid.) The article in my opinion was pretty good from a Windows admin perspective. It raises valid points which can concern the average windows admin.
Well the problem is if you do serious work with word (huge documents) then it basically falls apart.
Actually no, I dont think that was a dump and hire scheme. As far as I know, they sold off the entire division to IBM which said it could make the services much cheaper. Afair they bought back the division from IBM because it was not cheaper at all. They probably lost their best people during that process but that is another issue. The dump and hire scheme is the perfect way into mediocrity, because a company looses its best IT people that way.
Translation: Ipod users dont feed my pockets, therefore they must be thiefs.
Components: Corba, Com, the whole NextOS which was component based and is now called Cocoa.
If it is the component patents from Wang. Microsoft is on the safe side there, they did a licensing from Wang before they started COM (not the patents but the bought the code). But given the circumstances, CORBA probably was not the first component technology, neither COM. I think you can find the first viable component implementations in various programs which use plugins and also probably in Hypercard.
If I understand here correctly, than Kodak basically tries to sue the hell out of everybody who has a VM with a language and a compiler on top if it with an overly broad patent. Sun must have screwed this up majorly. The first VM languages I know of which used similar structures as java are List and Smalltalk. Smalltalk in its VM incarnation goes way back into the 70s. I don`t think kodak has any case here. Java is a clone of a technology which is already more than 30 years old. I wonder what the Sun laywers were smoking when they defended Sun in the lawsuit?
No the ecosystem of rivers in western europe was hosed in the 50s and 60s but for instance the danube and rhine nowadays are quite clean. The huge chemical desaster in the rhine 15-20 years ago did its fair share for the reconstruction work. But if you mean that the water is regulated in huge parts in those rivers and has been, you are right to a certain degree.
Well the atomic waste problem is a different issue, the problem is, that even if you bury it in a mountain, the waste remains there for another 50.000 and more years unless it becomes untoxic. The other issue is, that the containers, do not last that long.
You basically bury in a heritage which a civlizatiion in the distant future has to cope with. If they are lucky they are technically advanced enough to deal with the problem, but if not, say goodbye to the civilization.
You are right about the prairies in the open spaces. But those would be perfect for a windmill system (yes I know the birds, whatever) or the grassy plains for harvesting grass like plants which could be burned.
Also as I said numerous times in that thread, the sea is an untapped potential for growing biomass. 2/3rd of the earths surface is ocean, numerous biomass able lifeforms grow there anyway, which could be harvested and raised in open sea farms. Raising algae for biomass energy production would be feasable for instance.
I drank 2-3 cups of coffee per day. Stopped it a while ago. The effects and the weekly withdrawal was too strong.
The problem I had with coffee was that if I drank a little bit it gave me a huge energy boost in the short term. But too much of it gave me a some kind of "feeling high" condition (I was not the only one, a friend of mine had the same symptoms)
And on friday I basically stopped drinking coffee and on saturday I was worn out the whole weekend until sunday afternoon, which I probably think is some kind of withdrawal. Add to that that I have suffered from anxiety disorder since I was a child which probably increased the effects big time.
Nowadays I only drink coffee like very other drug (alcohol for instance) occasionally for social purposes.