Lol, still clamoring for Netbeans are you? Too bad. And the kicker is all this Eclipse publicity is not focusing any light on Java because Sun refuses to embrace it because they didn't do it.
An SSN is not a password. This focus on SSN secreacy is fucking stupid. SSN should not be used they way it is. If I become a victim, you can bet id sue the organizations that lend credit or anything in my name with a mere SSN...
And of course were going the other way. Credit cards require less and less verification. I wonder whats their source of income when they loose money, that encourages them to be so lax. Its not odd that the media keeps pushing the idea that identity theft forces the victim to pay up as opposed to the company that allowed it;)
Don't matter. There is no law about document compatability. But there is about disability. My mother uses Microsoft Word. Not because its good, but because while the Screen Reader people claim to support wordPerfect, etc. their support is laughable and full of bugs. My mother is legally blind.
So while fundamentally the issue of Accessibility is probably best solved at the OS level, MS has not but solved it at the Application level. Or at least they have made it smooth at the app level. And only MS apps receive true testing by these 2nd party application screen readers and dictation programs and screen zoomers, etc.
Its a tricky issue but one that has the laws on the surface fully in support of MS since MS does support this and the others really do not. Open Office should implement Accessibility, not just 'accessibility support' and not depend on a 2nd part to do it, if they want to fully compete. Especially with Government.
Its always great fun making a PP presentation for management. They always come back again and again asking how much more information can be taken out. Until finally there is only 4-5 pages, and it does not say anything except basically adjectives.
My last boss is funny though as he is an engineer and smart guy, but also a manager. So he would cause us to shrink the presentation down to a few slides, but we would have to keep making the font smaller because he wanted to be sure not to leave anything out, lol.
Yes, PP causes some strange things:P
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Office has been a great product. But after office 97 its been down hill ever since. Essentially Office is suffering from the same problem that doomed WordPerfect. Windows.
WordPerfect fell when it started, naturally, to use windows components for things the WP engineers had done a much better job at. WYSIWYG, windowing system, fonts, etc.
Office has become increasingly componentized. And even drag and drop was better in office 97. I can't even paste from one office product to another without using 'paste special' else it looks whack.
This is also the reason why office looks like its small on memory use. Because its componentized. Heck the JET database engine Access uses is part of windows even if you don't have office. So many other parts are like that. Thats also part of why it starts so fast.
Yes, VB is essentially a wrapper for COM. Thats what I thought when I first saw it, knowing COM. Its great for those quick programs we use at work to drive io ports to test things.
VB is a crap shoot though. Either it works or it does not. Forget debugging that thing as it can get near impossible.
I feel you. Working every day is dull. If I can manage to pull off a nice bank heist I can get on to more interesting fun parts of life. Hell, lets all do it!
Who has time to parent when you need two jobs and both parents working to make ends meet. Or at least to make ends meet and have some of the fine things all families on TV seem to have.
Seems like many of you that replied missed my point. Which is how could he have expected to succeed by GPLing his code in the first place? Of course he has to close his source because his source is his product.
If he wanted to make money off service contracts like JBoss or MySQL thats another story.
With Java you get all these optimizations, not necessarily for 'free'. They are given to you based on whose JVM you choose to use. So you stick to applicaiton code, and let the JVM writers handle the GC and memory code. Anyway you look at it _somebody_ is writing that GC and memory code; Even if you choose to program in Java, the GC/memory portions are written in C/C++ anyway. And yes, while my program has been the same since 1999, the jvm its run it has gotten better so now my program is better and I have not touched in in 5 years. Woot \o/
The comparison is foolish. You can't compare C/C++ to java. You can however compare C/C++ to a particular implementaiton of Java such as the sun 1.4.2_09 JVM or the sun 1.5.0 JVM, etc. Anything else is apples to oranges.
actually its not the weak reference but the soft reference that is cleared when memory is needed. And OOM are not thrown anywhere. They are thrown only where you see 'new'.
If you saying java does not let you manage memory as a programmer, you are correct. You need to adjust your JRE settings.
I should also note that desktop java by default is limited to using 64MB plus whatever the JRE uses. So there is NO WAY your netbeans could have used 1.2GB. Eclipse by default is tuned to use about 40MB.
You should check again. Your program will crash with an out of memory error long before i get to even 100MB let alone 1.2GB.
Netbeans != java. Netbeans has sucked for a while IMHO. Try Eclipse. If you have tested your SERVER software and found it wanting thats one thing. But if you test somebody else's app and found it wanting, and decide you need to dump your app, thats just odd.
JRE 1.5 is the first JRE to share OS resources between other instances of the JRE, so I should expect 1.5 will be better with regards to your sharing complaint.
Lets start out with THE most important issue. Latency, as you pointed out. The sound will have to be reproduced with almost 0 delay. Or at the least the delay will have to be coordinated between speakers in order to get the stereo effect. Let alone surround sound. However, for a home network system there is really no reason for delay. Well unless you are using VOIP and playing games etc. on the network at the same time. You will get a chance to see if you are really getting max throughput. That is throughput without delay.
Im not sure i agree with you on the DACs. You will have a seperate DAC for each audio channel anyway. It does not matter if the DAC is all part of a single larger DAC or not. But its true that now you introduce new voltage regulators and components which will increase the overall cost.
Also, we already have remote digital speakers. amphony has some. They are digital RF, but they are remote. Different transport, but same principle. I have a pair of remote speakers that are RF but are not digital. They sound OK, but there is so much RF problems I dont have a chance to evaluate the reproduction quality...
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3) Market your produce better than the competition.
Honestly, when the source is equal, what did he really think would set his product apart from the competition? His only advantage is that he wrote it. Thats not a technical advantage since he GPLed it. But it sure is a marketing and support advantage.
The flaw is not in the GPL but in his business plan that did not match the fact that he was GPLing his code.
I like it. I prefer desktop apps for things I use very frequently. Funny how were all supposed to be piling onto the web and not using desktop applications anymore. The biggest thing I hate about microsoft money and quicken is their webness...
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Lol, still clamoring for Netbeans are you? Too bad. And the kicker is all this Eclipse publicity is not focusing any light on Java because Sun refuses to embrace it because they didn't do it.
The oddest part is that he is talking about 'open' as if being less open is somehow bad.
An SSN is not a password. This focus on SSN secreacy is fucking stupid. SSN should not be used they way it is. If I become a victim, you can bet id sue the organizations that lend credit or anything in my name with a mere SSN...
;)
And of course were going the other way. Credit cards require less and less verification. I wonder whats their source of income when they loose money, that encourages them to be so lax. Its not odd that the media keeps pushing the idea that identity theft forces the victim to pay up as opposed to the company that allowed it
There is a such thing as good faith. You cant make an escuse to shit in someone's dining room just because they let you in their house can you!?
Don't matter. There is no law about document compatability. But there is about disability. My mother uses Microsoft Word. Not because its good, but because while the Screen Reader people claim to support wordPerfect, etc. their support is laughable and full of bugs. My mother is legally blind.
So while fundamentally the issue of Accessibility is probably best solved at the OS level, MS has not but solved it at the Application level. Or at least they have made it smooth at the app level. And only MS apps receive true testing by these 2nd party application screen readers and dictation programs and screen zoomers, etc.
Its a tricky issue but one that has the laws on the surface fully in support of MS since MS does support this and the others really do not. Open Office should implement Accessibility, not just 'accessibility support' and not depend on a 2nd part to do it, if they want to fully compete. Especially with Government.
Its always great fun making a PP presentation for management. They always come back again and again asking how much more information can be taken out. Until finally there is only 4-5 pages, and it does not say anything except basically adjectives.
:P
My last boss is funny though as he is an engineer and smart guy, but also a manager. So he would cause us to shrink the presentation down to a few slides, but we would have to keep making the font smaller because he wanted to be sure not to leave anything out, lol.
Yes, PP causes some strange things
Office has been a great product. But after office 97 its been down hill ever since. Essentially Office is suffering from the same problem that doomed WordPerfect. Windows.
WordPerfect fell when it started, naturally, to use windows components for things the WP engineers had done a much better job at. WYSIWYG, windowing system, fonts, etc.
Office has become increasingly componentized. And even drag and drop was better in office 97. I can't even paste from one office product to another without using 'paste special' else it looks whack.
This is also the reason why office looks like its small on memory use. Because its componentized. Heck the JET database engine Access uses is part of windows even if you don't have office. So many other parts are like that. Thats also part of why it starts so fast.
Yes, VB is essentially a wrapper for COM. Thats what I thought when I first saw it, knowing COM. Its great for those quick programs we use at work to drive io ports to test things.
VB is a crap shoot though. Either it works or it does not. Forget debugging that thing as it can get near impossible.
Yes, it does. Tell me again why I should pay for this?
Stuff is stuff, the trick is to realize both in game and IRL that the system is not fair. Fight the power.
I feel you. Working every day is dull. If I can manage to pull off a nice bank heist I can get on to more interesting fun parts of life. Hell, lets all do it!
Who has time to parent when you need two jobs and both parents working to make ends meet. Or at least to make ends meet and have some of the fine things all families on TV seem to have.
Bad news man. One dot being the difference from you loosing tons of money or not? Bad news.
Seems like many of you that replied missed my point. Which is how could he have expected to succeed by GPLing his code in the first place? Of course he has to close his source because his source is his product.
If he wanted to make money off service contracts like JBoss or MySQL thats another story.
With Java you get all these optimizations, not necessarily for 'free'. They are given to you based on whose JVM you choose to use. So you stick to applicaiton code, and let the JVM writers handle the GC and memory code. Anyway you look at it _somebody_ is writing that GC and memory code; Even if you choose to program in Java, the GC/memory portions are written in C/C++ anyway. And yes, while my program has been the same since 1999, the jvm its run it has gotten better so now my program is better and I have not touched in in 5 years. Woot \o/
The comparison is foolish. You can't compare C/C++ to java. You can however compare C/C++ to a particular implementaiton of Java such as the sun 1.4.2_09 JVM or the sun 1.5.0 JVM, etc. Anything else is apples to oranges.
actually its not the weak reference but the soft reference that is cleared when memory is needed. And OOM are not thrown anywhere. They are thrown only where you see 'new'.
If you saying java does not let you manage memory as a programmer, you are correct. You need to adjust your JRE settings.
Because even in C the fast graphics routines are coded in assembly.
I should also note that desktop java by default is limited to using 64MB plus whatever the JRE uses. So there is NO WAY your netbeans could have used 1.2GB. Eclipse by default is tuned to use about 40MB.
You should check again. Your program will crash with an out of memory error long before i get to even 100MB let alone 1.2GB.
Netbeans != java. Netbeans has sucked for a while IMHO. Try Eclipse. If you have tested your SERVER software and found it wanting thats one thing. But if you test somebody else's app and found it wanting, and decide you need to dump your app, thats just odd.
JRE 1.5 is the first JRE to share OS resources between other instances of the JRE, so I should expect 1.5 will be better with regards to your sharing complaint.
Lets start out with THE most important issue. Latency, as you pointed out. The sound will have to be reproduced with almost 0 delay. Or at the least the delay will have to be coordinated between speakers in order to get the stereo effect. Let alone surround sound. However, for a home network system there is really no reason for delay. Well unless you are using VOIP and playing games etc. on the network at the same time. You will get a chance to see if you are really getting max throughput. That is throughput without delay.
Im not sure i agree with you on the DACs. You will have a seperate DAC for each audio channel anyway. It does not matter if the DAC is all part of a single larger DAC or not. But its true that now you introduce new voltage regulators and components which will increase the overall cost.
Also, we already have remote digital speakers. amphony has some. They are digital RF, but they are remote. Different transport, but same principle. I have a pair of remote speakers that are RF but are not digital. They sound OK, but there is so much RF problems I dont have a chance to evaluate the reproduction quality...
My experience as well. They think everybody is guilty too.
True. IIRC Oracle just bought Peoplesoft, so what could they possibly need Innobase for?
Its called sophism.
3) Market your produce better than the competition.
Honestly, when the source is equal, what did he really think would set his product apart from the competition? His only advantage is that he wrote it. Thats not a technical advantage since he GPLed it. But it sure is a marketing and support advantage.
The flaw is not in the GPL but in his business plan that did not match the fact that he was GPLing his code.
I like it. I prefer desktop apps for things I use very frequently. Funny how were all supposed to be piling onto the web and not using desktop applications anymore. The biggest thing I hate about microsoft money and quicken is their webness...
But this fly is not stupid.
I suspect they are trying hard to alter ones concept of 'use' to include things which are otherwise not perishable. Like software.