I'm sorry, every time I think of C# I can't help but think of that infamous video clip of Steve Ballmer flopping around onstage in front of thousands of halfheartedly applauding employees, screaming.. 'Developers Developers Developers..'
Uh, today's article was by Osvaldo Doederlein. It raised a number of minor, interesting points about the differences between the advertised and delivered C# CLR. Did you even read it? Or did you just notice it was on javalobby.org, start screaming 'bias' and stick your fingers in your ears?
You can generally find out the strongest arguments against a view from its strongest opponents. Their statements are only 'biased' if they are untrue, at least to my understanding of the meaning of the word.
Seeing that C# is a 90% copy of java, it would be difficult to think of a more qualified base of people to review C# than java experts...
This charge of 'bias' sure gets thrown around loosely these days. I seem to recall that an article had to contain untrue or highly misleading statements before it would be called 'biased'. Now, if you have a pre-existing point of view you are 'biased'. Very strange, how the language changes.
Whomever modded all my posts down on this thread is an odd, vindictive little creature. How does a person get to be so petty and vicious? Parental abuse? Why does slashdot tolerate such blatanly unfair/unreasonable nonsense?
I may try it.. I have been leery of adding anything to the Web browsing loop due to the perilous instability of my Win98 'recovery disk only' box from comically dysfunctional vendor Acer (e.g. I called them asking what the make and model of the built-in sound card was. After getting through to their US customer service department in Costa Rica, the nonnative English speaker at the end of the line told me 'I don't know. Sorry.' I finally found out by looking at third party sites on the Web..). At random intervals, Web browsing will cause the system to reboot itself.. Tried linux but no distributions supported the USB keyboard and mouse last time I checked (a while ago). Grr.
Did we fight for freedom or hegemony? USA Republicans were for neutrality until Pearl Harbor... And we turned away shiploads of fleeing Jews.. Maybe we can take a little 'time-out' from patting ourselves on the back for a minute and try to see ourselves as objective outsiders see us...
You can't dump product below price. You can't require people to buy one product to get another one. You can't price-gouge. Some others. Go look it up, it's not on TV though, you'll have to crack a book, or do a Web search.
If the DMA themselves are talking about self-regulating it's because they know they cannot hold the line where it is today. I actually have to respect an organization that will adapt to changing realities (see RIAA for contrasting example).
Now if we can just do something about all this vile paper spam I keep getting...
Hardware copy protection will not succeed in the market.
There will inevitably be overhead involved, where the hardware devices perform checks on file save operations to determine that copy protected files are not being saved or illegally modified without authorization.
As a customer, I'm not going to accept performance bottlenecks in my hardware for, say, my database server, just because the movie and music industries need protection against college kids on Napster v.8.
Right. But when the law makes something illegal that millions of people will do anyway, it weakens the overall rule of law. The law itself needs to move away from those things it can't govern. Even when commercial interests are threatened thereby. An example: when VCR's came out, the movie and television cartels got together and got them banned for a few years. Similarly with the newer ad-blocking VCR's. These are efforts by companies to extend existing rights to defeat new technologies. The introduction of these technologies resulted in a new balance being struck in those areas. People can copy movies. There was once a controversy over whether people could copy from vinyl records onto tape. The result: balance between consumers' interests and corporations' interests.
Similar efforts are underway by the content companies today to extend their property rights into areas that have been opened up by the introduction of new technologies. Today, the content companies are attempting to further expand their control over their 'rightful property', which consists of digital files residing in consumers' houses. This expanded control conflicts with individuals' property rights over the copies of these files they have purchased (CD's, vinyl, copies of movies, broadcasts of movies and TV programming). It also conflicts with the property rights of consumers who wish to purchase things like electronic media without built-in content control systems, and Internet connections that are unburdened by 'content cop' surveillance.
Why should corporations' property rights take absolute precedence over individuals' property rights?
A friend of mine once got home from work at Christmastime to her cat stuck on some tinsel it had eaten off the tree in exactly the way you describe. Not pretty.
"So far, nobody has an actuator that approaches the required efficiencies."
"Power is the crucial missing element, Jacobsen believes. Everything else is difficult but doable."
Game over.
Quick disclaimer: I actually am in favor of this kind of research getting done, if by the DoD so be it, as long as it isn't stuck under the veil of official secrecy.
- It uses the proprietary.nap format, so you can't play the tracks anywhere but inside the Napster application on your computer.
- Only tracks which are 'approved' by record labels (or independent artists, maybe, someday) for distribution over Napster will be available.
- 50 downloads a month, now for $10 a month, maybe more later.
They will last just long enough to spend all the venture money. Nobody will sign up. The major labels have no reason to deal with em, since they hate Napster already, and have already started up their own services with identical (doomed) business model. So it will never be the 'jukebox in the sky' which is the only model that even has a shot at competing with free.
You have to have a (good) product to 'leverage the brand'. They don't. So they will fail. Frankly, all these entrepeneurs who have tried to 'leverage brands' without worrying about building good products get what they deserve. Napster should have thrown in the towel once they lost what was good about their service in court, or stood up and added their strength to the Gnutella network. Instead, they tried to play it safe with this approach, and are going to lose everything (except the.05 on the dollar they will get when their assets are fire-saled). Well, they picked their fate. Tough to make a million dollars these days.
I was wondering about the cost of operating fast breeder reactors. What I read indicated they had mainly been used for producing weapons-grade plutionium, and that the power generation was a small side bonus. Is this type of reactor an economical way to produce power? If not, where should the money come from? Should nuclear waste be a 'public problem', or should dealing with it be part of the tab for the power generation company that produces it?
If you look at the paper, it is mostly made up of references to the JVM, and how the CLI is 'better'. I would say this is squarely aimed at Sun and at java.
Microsoft needs the hardware vendors as much as they need MS. The CLI would be irrelevant (or another toy for early adopters) if it were not for the fact that ~90% of computers bought will ship with it.
What they are trying to do is: beat java not in the language-design arena (where they can't win since Sun is better than Microsoft at this), but at the runtime/platform level. Expect to see press releases about how the CLI is faster, how it supports more languages, etc. All this to address Ballmer's concern: Developers, developers, developers.
They have a pretty plausible chance of succeeding, since their monopoly nullifies Sun's 'first-mover' advantage in this area. They will be able to get a greater installed base for their VM than Sun has from the get-go due to their relationships with OEMs and the upgrade treadmill they will be forcing on their corporate customers with their new licensing.
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I'm sorry, every time I think of C# I can't help but think of that infamous video clip of Steve Ballmer flopping around onstage in front of thousands of halfheartedly applauding employees, screaming.. 'Developers Developers Developers..'
Uh, today's article was by Osvaldo Doederlein. It raised a number of minor, interesting points about the differences between the advertised and delivered C# CLR. Did you even read it? Or did you just notice it was on javalobby.org, start screaming 'bias' and stick your fingers in your ears? You can generally find out the strongest arguments against a view from its strongest opponents. Their statements are only 'biased' if they are untrue, at least to my understanding of the meaning of the word.
Seeing that C# is a 90% copy of java, it would be difficult to think of a more qualified base of people to review C# than java experts... This charge of 'bias' sure gets thrown around loosely these days. I seem to recall that an article had to contain untrue or highly misleading statements before it would be called 'biased'. Now, if you have a pre-existing point of view you are 'biased'. Very strange, how the language changes.
Whomever modded all my posts down on this thread is an odd, vindictive little creature. How does a person get to be so petty and vicious? Parental abuse? Why does slashdot tolerate such blatanly unfair/unreasonable nonsense?
-1 troll. Cute. I guess the lesson to be learned here is: "Don't talk about the moderation. You will be smacked down."
I may try it.. I have been leery of adding anything to the Web browsing loop due to the perilous instability of my Win98 'recovery disk only' box from comically dysfunctional vendor Acer (e.g. I called them asking what the make and model of the built-in sound card was. After getting through to their US customer service department in Costa Rica, the nonnative English speaker at the end of the line told me 'I don't know. Sorry.' I finally found out by looking at third party sites on the Web..). At random intervals, Web browsing will cause the system to reboot itself.. Tried linux but no distributions supported the USB keyboard and mouse last time I checked (a while ago). Grr.
Why do posts that say nothing except "java is slow" still get modded up? They should be (-1, Troll).
Did we fight for freedom or hegemony? USA Republicans were for neutrality until Pearl Harbor... And we turned away shiploads of fleeing Jews.. Maybe we can take a little 'time-out' from patting ourselves on the back for a minute and try to see ourselves as objective outsiders see us...
It's called 'bundling'. Here's an article on it at this link
Click this link It's a matter of public record. No need to be such a weiner about it.
You can't dump product below price. You can't require people to buy one product to get another one. You can't price-gouge. Some others. Go look it up, it's not on TV though, you'll have to crack a book, or do a Web search.
Of course, RedHat doesn't have any monopolies in any markets, and Microsoft does. The rules are different for you if you have a monopoly.
Now if we can just do something about all this vile paper spam I keep getting...
There will inevitably be overhead involved, where the hardware devices perform checks on file save operations to determine that copy protected files are not being saved or illegally modified without authorization.
As a customer, I'm not going to accept performance bottlenecks in my hardware for, say, my database server, just because the movie and music industries need protection against college kids on Napster v.8.
The content companies can't win this one.
"Doesn't this border on a predatory innovation?" Only if there's a monopoly. These are oligopolies, so the antitrust laws don't apply.
Similar efforts are underway by the content companies today to extend their property rights into areas that have been opened up by the introduction of new technologies. Today, the content companies are attempting to further expand their control over their 'rightful property', which consists of digital files residing in consumers' houses. This expanded control conflicts with individuals' property rights over the copies of these files they have purchased (CD's, vinyl, copies of movies, broadcasts of movies and TV programming). It also conflicts with the property rights of consumers who wish to purchase things like electronic media without built-in content control systems, and Internet connections that are unburdened by 'content cop' surveillance.
Why should corporations' property rights take absolute precedence over individuals' property rights?
A friend of mine once got home from work at Christmastime to her cat stuck on some tinsel it had eaten off the tree in exactly the way you describe. Not pretty.
"So far, nobody has an actuator that approaches the required efficiencies."
"Power is the crucial missing element, Jacobsen believes. Everything else is difficult but doable."
Game over.
Quick disclaimer: I actually am in favor of this kind of research getting done, if by the DoD so be it, as long as it isn't stuck under the veil of official secrecy.
I have one, but there isn't enough room in the margin here to write it down...
- Only tracks which are 'approved' by record labels (or independent artists, maybe, someday) for distribution over Napster will be available.
- 50 downloads a month, now for $10 a month, maybe more later.
They will last just long enough to spend all the venture money. Nobody will sign up. The major labels have no reason to deal with em, since they hate Napster already, and have already started up their own services with identical (doomed) business model. So it will never be the 'jukebox in the sky' which is the only model that even has a shot at competing with free.
You have to have a (good) product to 'leverage the brand'. They don't. So they will fail. Frankly, all these entrepeneurs who have tried to 'leverage brands' without worrying about building good products get what they deserve. Napster should have thrown in the towel once they lost what was good about their service in court, or stood up and added their strength to the Gnutella network. Instead, they tried to play it safe with this approach, and are going to lose everything (except the .05 on the dollar they will get when their assets are fire-saled). Well, they picked their fate. Tough to make a million dollars these days.
That's exactly what is distressing about this group, the fact that they are ENFORCING.
This 'BSA' group is acting as a private law enforcement agency. Private law enforcement agencies are a bad idea. It's that simple.
I was wondering about the cost of operating fast breeder reactors. What I read indicated they had mainly been used for producing weapons-grade plutionium, and that the power generation was a small side bonus. Is this type of reactor an economical way to produce power? If not, where should the money come from? Should nuclear waste be a 'public problem', or should dealing with it be part of the tab for the power generation company that produces it?
Microsoft needs the hardware vendors as much as they need MS. The CLI would be irrelevant (or another toy for early adopters) if it were not for the fact that ~90% of computers bought will ship with it.
What they are trying to do is: beat java not in the language-design arena (where they can't win since Sun is better than Microsoft at this), but at the runtime/platform level. Expect to see press releases about how the CLI is faster, how it supports more languages, etc. All this to address Ballmer's concern: Developers, developers, developers.
They have a pretty plausible chance of succeeding, since their monopoly nullifies Sun's 'first-mover' advantage in this area. They will be able to get a greater installed base for their VM than Sun has from the get-go due to their relationships with OEMs and the upgrade treadmill they will be forcing on their corporate customers with their new licensing.
The Japanese one had some problems as you can see here
They either think:
(1) You're a bloody idiot who can't figure it out, and the rhetoric is just a cover.
(2) You're playing games with them.
Nice suggestion, Mr. Stallman!