Re:PS2 will likely be Sony's "Next-Gen" console
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Sheesh, dont tell that to sony, they still think the console will sell, even despite the enforced blue ray drm, even with the hefty price point which puts it out of the league of many people, even if they think they can sell it without any games, because of their brand. Sony, a console is a toy, a console has to live with games, no one except for a few weirdos with too much money will buy something overpriced without games just because it is called sony.
I just bought a Nintendo DS and having the blast of my life, and it probably will be a Wii once it is out additionally.
The DS was a no brainer, the PSP was simply too expensive.
Seriously, forgoeing java and recommending C++ must be a joke. C++ is the biggest pile of garbage besides dos, which ever became industry standard. The language was designed after the, yeah this is cool, lets push this in also aspect. 90% of all problems arise by the fact that the language is insecure and has constructs which let people fight with the language itself instead of writing programs.
Java is way closer to being able to teach children good programming practices, but practically I would neither choose C++, nor java, nor Lisp or Haskell, there is a system perfectly designed for such a task, and a language as well. Alan Kays Squeak system on top of Smalltalk (his baby also)
The theory was that the us would invade the people would cheer with flowers and everyone would live happily ever after.
If you have lived outside the USA (western europe for instance) the theory was debunked by everyone upfront. Every middle east expert there was, in european media, warned upfront about a second vietnam, and that things would become really messy, due to the mentality of not wanting western interference in the arabic countries, and that there was no plan except for marching in and digging oil holes, due to the fact that the only plan after the invasion the us had was having cheering people.
Sorry to say that, but, if the US would have listened to a lot of experts instead of crying freedom (while eliminating it in their own country) things would have become way less messy even if they had invaded.
That already is done that way, every JDK which calls itself java has to pass several million compliance tests.
It works pretty well with every java related official api, and there already has been a coexistence of various apis that way. Tomcat for instance being an offical servlet runner, JBoss an official JEE Server and MyFaces as compliant JSF 1.1 implementation. I dont know the plans of Sun, but probably it will be resolved that way.
Mobile phones are a different ballpark for now, the display is so limited and often so distinctive, that visual drawing tools do not make sense in this area for now. A meta ui like the midp uses it makes way more sense.
Things might change, but for now as long as there are myriads of cellphones with small displays and lowres still in the market which have to be serviced forget it.
Graphical rad tools have their place, on cellphones for now they dont. Things will look differently in a year or two. But cellphones are a completely different ballpark compared to PDAs for now, unless you have a smartphone or can target a specific model.
Ahem first of all, the mipd development tools are free and always have been, secondly, if you need a good midp development platform, Eclipse is not your friend Netbeans is, also free of charge. Thirdly you can get the dev kits for most mobile phones from the phone vendors themselves, also free of charge...
Are you sure you ever had a serious look at midp development?
Maybe if you are a Fin it is not funny, but believe me, the combination of the northern language together with the really funny script made me roll on the floor.
This movie was way funnier than spaceballs.
Then you are not a gamer...
Spector is one of the handful of gaming legends. Most of his games are classics (well except for DeusEx 2 but that one was only managed on the financial side by him he did not interfere in the creative process)
You brought the problem to the point, but the angle is slightly different, 90% of the problems you mentioned are caused by the draconian hammer Sony Media constantly swings over the electronics division. One of the huge PS3 problems and one of the reasons for the huge delay is the DRM scheme they were enforced to build in to satisfy their paranoia (media) divsion. This problem was also the main reason why minidisk failed (no digital out), why sony was too late to the mp3 player game (enforced drm, atrac no mp3 as open format) and why Sony shot itself out of the initially successful dvd player market (cheap chinese all region all format players in european stores, compared to non selling six times as expensive region 2 locked enforced drmed dvd only sony players sitting on the shelves and waiting for buyers until today)
To sum it up, sony media kills sony electronics and probably will kill sony at all. In the end the only thing probably left alive out of this mess will be sony media, and that has pretty much the size companywise as the studio sony bought several years ago. Speaking of a viral takeover, Sony basically gotten that internally, at the expense of basically all other divisions of Sony.
five star restaurants do not have a mass market, they basically live on corporate meals and the occasional private couple and a bunch of really rich people with too much money. But five star restaurants are a niche market in itself.
Add to that that the games coming out for the PS3 are more McDonalds than Paul Bocuse you have a huge problem on your hands.
Another message, to all marketers, people do not have an endless amount of money to buy junk stuff, there are real needs like housing, clothing, retirement and food which have to be fullfilled first before luxury items can be bought, so the higher the price the less people simply will even look at it, period!
Is it just me or are the corporate people getting more and more out of touch with plain old reality. From Microsoft at a software standpoing I get this feeling, the movie industry and the RIAA seem to have been thinking for years that they have a right to one hand in the peoples cash wallet and now Sony with a mass market mc donalds item thinks it can sell it as much as its predecessor with Paul Bocuse prices.
I am still waiting for the Jar Jar Binks edition. The one where the movies are done as they were meant to be, with Luke being replaced by Jar Jar Binks.
The only place the average end user sees java nowadays either is by downloading azureus or one of the other java client side tools, or by hitting the web and getting the pages from one of the myriads of j2ee servers. In either case he wont notice that he is running java.
That the article mentioned SMB as the example where Microsoft is screaming, this is our IP, it is not. SMB was originally defined by IBM and an open protocol, Microsoft embraced and extended it until it closed the doors and now it is a Microsoft we own it and do not give the specs protocol. Guess who is on the payroll of the original inventor currently.
Yes some of the SMB core devs.
This behavior reminds me of someone who goes into a house throws the owner out, replaces the locks, the owner hires a guy who opens the locks, the thief goes to court and cries, this is my house, this guy has no right to go in there.
Good luck with that, there is a huge worldwide pressure pro patents due to lobbying groups financed by the big industries.
The EU commission already got two smack on the heads, but it announced again to push forward their plans to fine commercial patent infringement with three years of prison or 300.000 euros, speaking of insanity (source heise.de)
I think the entire economy has to collapse over this before anything is changed.:-(
To the worse getting this system due to gen tech into the food could be the possible cause of millions of starved people in the immediate future. Do you think this is insane? Look at the millions of dead people in the third world caused by the fact that those countries cannot afford patent plastered medication.
Depends on where you see java, java has its limits in its application, in oss java has taken over as the most successful language on sourceforge, apache is one of the most successful opensource communities there is,
and Eclipse although funded by corporations mostly probably is one of the most successful ides there ever was
already. You cannot see a huge impact of java in the standard linux application domain, due to the limitations of gcj and classpath currently, and the desktop domain generally (except for netbeans, azureus and eclipse)
it has its place in the opensource world thanks to a lot of projects of apache, java.net and sourceforge.
The main problem in our society is that the below average ones then fill in the middle management and keep the gifted downs, intelligent people often never learn to bite their way up the food chain, while the ones not so bright have that strategy due to various reasons often in their blood.
Depends basic programming skills is sort of knowing the basics of plumbing, but designing and scalable big 24/7 system is an entirely different issue.
The main problem is that people generally mix those things up, never ever would a plumber be exchanged with some designing and engineering complex high pressure pumps, in comp sci this happens every day.
As for newbys I can understand that they do not want it again. Althoug I love the field, whould I do it again, probably no, I probably would go for law or medicine, and keep the entire comp sci stuff as a hobby. This simply is a safer bet, given the current circumstances and the problem that our society treats high level comp scientists like plumbers (heck plumbers even often earn more)
Laywers and business men are produced more and more every year, so things look bright...
oh wait, they dont produce anything, they just sell and sue...
Actually Java is one of Suns biggest successes, if it wasnt for java they probably would have gone the way of SGI.
Face it Java is one of the most successful languages currently in existence and has replaced Cobol and C++ in the Enterprise application area.
If you are just a guy who runs a few BSD boxen at home or small companies you never get the picture on how much impact java has had in the enterprise area.
Less power consumption, less place on your desktop/wall whatever.
I agree with the picture issue, but the power consumption argument alone had me made to switch.
And yes the pictures compared to good crts especially in moving areas are dreadful, and even the high end gear is still not up to the task.
But for most people, including me, it is good enough.
Yea sure, recommending beanshell over groovy? Is this a joke?
Groovy is not perfect, it is in its infancy yet, but it already beats Beanshell by miles and the language and community is very active.
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Sheesh, dont tell that to sony, they still think the console will sell, even despite the enforced blue ray drm, even with the hefty price point which puts it out of the league of many people, even if they think they can sell it without any games, because of their brand. Sony, a console is a toy, a console has to live with games, no one except for a few weirdos with too much money will buy something overpriced without games just because it is called sony.
I just bought a Nintendo DS and having the blast of my life, and it probably will be a Wii once it is out additionally. The DS was a no brainer, the PSP was simply too expensive.
Seriously, forgoeing java and recommending C++ must be a joke. C++ is the biggest pile of garbage besides dos, which ever became industry standard. The language was designed after the, yeah this is cool, lets push this in also aspect. 90% of all problems arise by the fact that the language is insecure and has constructs which let people fight with the language itself instead of writing programs. Java is way closer to being able to teach children good programming practices, but practically I would neither choose C++, nor java, nor Lisp or Haskell, there is a system perfectly designed for such a task, and a language as well. Alan Kays Squeak system on top of Smalltalk (his baby also)
The theory was that the us would invade the people would cheer with flowers and everyone would live happily ever after. If you have lived outside the USA (western europe for instance) the theory was debunked by everyone upfront. Every middle east expert there was, in european media, warned upfront about a second vietnam, and that things would become really messy, due to the mentality of not wanting western interference in the arabic countries, and that there was no plan except for marching in and digging oil holes, due to the fact that the only plan after the invasion the us had was having cheering people. Sorry to say that, but, if the US would have listened to a lot of experts instead of crying freedom (while eliminating it in their own country) things would have become way less messy even if they had invaded.
That already is done that way, every JDK which calls itself java has to pass several million compliance tests. It works pretty well with every java related official api, and there already has been a coexistence of various apis that way. Tomcat for instance being an offical servlet runner, JBoss an official JEE Server and MyFaces as compliant JSF 1.1 implementation. I dont know the plans of Sun, but probably it will be resolved that way.
Mobile phones are a different ballpark for now, the display is so limited and often so distinctive, that visual drawing tools do not make sense in this area for now. A meta ui like the midp uses it makes way more sense. Things might change, but for now as long as there are myriads of cellphones with small displays and lowres still in the market which have to be serviced forget it. Graphical rad tools have their place, on cellphones for now they dont. Things will look differently in a year or two. But cellphones are a completely different ballpark compared to PDAs for now, unless you have a smartphone or can target a specific model.
Ahem first of all, the mipd development tools are free and always have been, secondly, if you need a good midp development platform, Eclipse is not your friend Netbeans is, also free of charge. Thirdly you can get the dev kits for most mobile phones from the phone vendors themselves, also free of charge... Are you sure you ever had a serious look at midp development?
Maybe if you are a Fin it is not funny, but believe me, the combination of the northern language together with the really funny script made me roll on the floor. This movie was way funnier than spaceballs.
Then you are not a gamer... Spector is one of the handful of gaming legends. Most of his games are classics (well except for DeusEx 2 but that one was only managed on the financial side by him he did not interfere in the creative process)
You brought the problem to the point, but the angle is slightly different, 90% of the problems you mentioned are caused by the draconian hammer Sony Media constantly swings over the electronics division. One of the huge PS3 problems and one of the reasons for the huge delay is the DRM scheme they were enforced to build in to satisfy their paranoia (media) divsion. This problem was also the main reason why minidisk failed (no digital out), why sony was too late to the mp3 player game (enforced drm, atrac no mp3 as open format) and why Sony shot itself out of the initially successful dvd player market (cheap chinese all region all format players in european stores, compared to non selling six times as expensive region 2 locked enforced drmed dvd only sony players sitting on the shelves and waiting for buyers until today) To sum it up, sony media kills sony electronics and probably will kill sony at all. In the end the only thing probably left alive out of this mess will be sony media, and that has pretty much the size companywise as the studio sony bought several years ago. Speaking of a viral takeover, Sony basically gotten that internally, at the expense of basically all other divisions of Sony.
five star restaurants do not have a mass market, they basically live on corporate meals and the occasional private couple and a bunch of really rich people with too much money. But five star restaurants are a niche market in itself. Add to that that the games coming out for the PS3 are more McDonalds than Paul Bocuse you have a huge problem on your hands. Another message, to all marketers, people do not have an endless amount of money to buy junk stuff, there are real needs like housing, clothing, retirement and food which have to be fullfilled first before luxury items can be bought, so the higher the price the less people simply will even look at it, period! Is it just me or are the corporate people getting more and more out of touch with plain old reality. From Microsoft at a software standpoing I get this feeling, the movie industry and the RIAA seem to have been thinking for years that they have a right to one hand in the peoples cash wallet and now Sony with a mass market mc donalds item thinks it can sell it as much as its predecessor with Paul Bocuse prices.
I am still waiting for the Jar Jar Binks edition. The one where the movies are done as they were meant to be, with Luke being replaced by Jar Jar Binks.
The only place the average end user sees java nowadays either is by downloading azureus or one of the other java client side tools, or by hitting the web and getting the pages from one of the myriads of j2ee servers. In either case he wont notice that he is running java.
Sorry with SMB core devs I meant SAMBA core devs.
That the article mentioned SMB as the example where Microsoft is screaming, this is our IP, it is not. SMB was originally defined by IBM and an open protocol, Microsoft embraced and extended it until it closed the doors and now it is a Microsoft we own it and do not give the specs protocol. Guess who is on the payroll of the original inventor currently. Yes some of the SMB core devs. This behavior reminds me of someone who goes into a house throws the owner out, replaces the locks, the owner hires a guy who opens the locks, the thief goes to court and cries, this is my house, this guy has no right to go in there.
Good luck with that, there is a huge worldwide pressure pro patents due to lobbying groups financed by the big industries. The EU commission already got two smack on the heads, but it announced again to push forward their plans to fine commercial patent infringement with three years of prison or 300.000 euros, speaking of insanity (source heise.de) I think the entire economy has to collapse over this before anything is changed. :-(
To the worse getting this system due to gen tech into the food could be the possible cause of millions of starved people in the immediate future. Do you think this is insane? Look at the millions of dead people in the third world caused by the fact that those countries cannot afford patent plastered medication.
Depends on where you see java, java has its limits in its application, in oss java has taken over as the most successful language on sourceforge, apache is one of the most successful opensource communities there is, and Eclipse although funded by corporations mostly probably is one of the most successful ides there ever was already. You cannot see a huge impact of java in the standard linux application domain, due to the limitations of gcj and classpath currently, and the desktop domain generally (except for netbeans, azureus and eclipse) it has its place in the opensource world thanks to a lot of projects of apache, java.net and sourceforge.
The main problem in our society is that the below average ones then fill in the middle management and keep the gifted downs, intelligent people often never learn to bite their way up the food chain, while the ones not so bright have that strategy due to various reasons often in their blood.
Depends basic programming skills is sort of knowing the basics of plumbing, but designing and scalable big 24/7 system is an entirely different issue. The main problem is that people generally mix those things up, never ever would a plumber be exchanged with some designing and engineering complex high pressure pumps, in comp sci this happens every day. As for newbys I can understand that they do not want it again. Althoug I love the field, whould I do it again, probably no, I probably would go for law or medicine, and keep the entire comp sci stuff as a hobby. This simply is a safer bet, given the current circumstances and the problem that our society treats high level comp scientists like plumbers (heck plumbers even often earn more)
Laywers and business men are produced more and more every year, so things look bright... oh wait, they dont produce anything, they just sell and sue...
Actually Java is one of Suns biggest successes, if it wasnt for java they probably would have gone the way of SGI. Face it Java is one of the most successful languages currently in existence and has replaced Cobol and C++ in the Enterprise application area. If you are just a guy who runs a few BSD boxen at home or small companies you never get the picture on how much impact java has had in the enterprise area.
Less power consumption, less place on your desktop /wall whatever.
I agree with the picture issue, but the power consumption argument alone had me made to switch.
And yes the pictures compared to good crts especially in moving areas are dreadful, and even the high end gear is still not up to the task.
But for most people, including me, it is good enough.
Yea sure, recommending beanshell over groovy? Is this a joke? Groovy is not perfect, it is in its infancy yet, but it already beats Beanshell by miles and the language and community is very active.
Bill Gates invented the iPod ;-)
Atomic plants would have had a strongy lobbying group behind it than windmills...