Monopolies don't have to play by a different set of rules - they just can't use that monopoly to unfairly compete... unless you're in the US in which case apparently you can.
I mean really, this could easily be levied against anyone blocking spam in that case. If its their servers and their bandwidth and you're violating their terms of service, I don't see why they HAVE to deliver email or anything else.
Heck MSN is effectively blocking linux with the way they respond to search results through their search engines and you couldn't bring a court case against them about that. If CI Host (which really DOES suck and consists of mostly spam and porn hosts)) can't contain their customers - why would AOL be liable if they choose to protect their systems?
Last I heard the laws about Cybertresspass (the very laws AOL used to sue spammers - denial of chattel) were in AOL's favor - not CI Hosts'.
Has more to do with maintenance. Metal when heated and subjected to stress gets fatigued. Its one thing to have that on a tile that you swap out - its something altogether difference to have an issue with the entire wing structure.
SCO is dead and was dead before all this happened. They knew it, we know it - but the community is becoming obsessed with this and clearly is missing the boat.
This is an attack against the OpenSource business model, not Linux users in general. The whole point of this noise is to confuse and spread FUD about GPL, open source, and Linux. There are certain companies who benefit from this - and SCO is NOT one of them.
Stop spending your time worrying about SCO - worry about the effect this has on people who might have been considering open source or Linux and may have stepped back as a result. Consider who gains from this - and worry about THEM!
The one company who gains the most from this IMO is Microsoft and the fact that they have been funding this FUD campaign by licensing IP from SCO just stands out like a sore thumb to me.
Ya know - perhaps price isn't always the most paramount importance. Linux is supposedly cheaper to deploy, but you don't see IT shops dumping all of their client machines and using Linux and VMWare. Sometimes (many times) price just isn't the point. For the average business that trivial price difference you just listed is far far less than having a user unable to work and someone trying to solve their problem.
It is very interesting ideed, but the real question is whether or not they've done anything that's truly illegal. Many of these CEOs do many things that may be morally wrong and scummy, but may not be in fact truly illegal. It will be interesting to see what the true legal status of this action is on the parties involved because I'm sure they are stupid enough to do something so obvious while the SEC and the administration are parading executives in front of the cameras.
The more I read your post, the more and more I cringed until finally I read the part about Baltar and decided that perhaps I really DON'T want to see this. I didn't realize they were stupid enough to remake it from the beginning - its not like they couldn't have done a bagillion things by just picking up where the old one left off.
Far more important that the fact that the left is the REASON that they left. Have they become dissatisfied with their corporate parent? Are they going to found a new studio (and with that number of key folks that sounds likely to me)? Are they being acquired/courted by someone else (the real challenge of companies these days is not to protect the brands, but to keep the people who make these brands)? And most importantly, does Vivendi consider their gaming assets so invaluable that they wouldn't fight to keep these folks under their wing?
When high level folks like this leave, its usually because someone is giving them money to go off and do their own thing under a different banner/console.
Any heavy lifting design that's moving humans into orbit will definitely not be cheap, and as any engineer knows - reliability comes from finding mistakes and fixing them. There wasn't at some point two designs on the drawing board labelled a) cheap and reliable or b) expensive and risky. Things improve over time, and unfortunately sometimes people die to learn what the problems are. This reminds me of early SUVs and their terrible safety record. Over the years, they have improved - but there wasn't (and still isn't) some magical super safe design that we can adopt that will solve our problems.
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That's one really good thing that came/comes from the AMD Intel price war. They've so marginalized the price of CPUs that PCs have an insane amount of power for a mere pittance of price. Heck I could take a $100 bill and upgrade any of my boxes into the Athlon era (CPU, motherboard, and memory included) - then use that box as a competent server. Its almost scary that for a few thousand bucks you actually COULD build a decent server closet.
Sadly this is true. Soon we'll be right back in the upswing with companies spending money hand over fist, raising interest rates, and rampant mergers. In part I blame some of the more clueless upper level management types who are swayed by a bells and whistles demo and then sell their IT department down the river because they spent a lot of money because they didn't know any better and never allowed their own IT shop to really investigate the options.
Oracle to MySQL? Whomever is your CTO needs to be fired. Yes Open Source is great, yes open source solves some budget issues - but a migration of data from Oracle to Mysql along with the associated training and support (yeah support still ain't free) is likely to cost you more than you're saving.
I'm not sure it could. I don't see anyone saying that these games can't be made - just that they have to be rated so that other people can have an idea as to the content so they can choose whether or not they want to subject themselves or their children there. None of that violates the first amendment in any way.
The only argument I've heard that brings this into the first amendment realm has been by smaller developers who say that by rating their game as M, that they are being discriminated against and will suffer from lower sales since some stores may not stock their game. However, there are no legal precedents that suggest that this is legally valid since the only thing that's being done is further definition of the content on the box. Noone is stopping you from making it. You don't see XXX movies in movie theaters, but that doesn't stop people from making them or from them turning a profit - so I doubt that would stand up in court anyways.
I have always been curious as to whether or not parents are really using these systems. Certainly parents find out about certain games such as Grand Theft Auto and restrict the purchase of those games, but on the whole do parents really look at stuff like Command and Conquer, Half Life 2, and Star Wars Galaxies and say ('hmmmm... I should check the rating on this')? There are many very violent games that kinda squeek through the system unchecked would be my guess.
JDK1.4.2 goes a long way to solving these problems by actually proving a native platform L&F and not the nasty mess that has become MetalL&F. Sun has apparently been listening over the years and now many of the 'I don't want it to look different' issues are being dealt with. There are actually a surprising number of OSX applications that were done in Java. I just didn't realize it until I started updating them.
First off I'm curious to know how you can tell that its a JSP error since most sites don't host their.jsp extension.
Secondly I'm curious to know how you possibly measured that. Sounds like an out-of-my-ass statistic to me.
Actually it sounds to me that you either are a complete Java novice or have succumb to an extreme amount of FUD.
Java Desktop Applications that I like include: Limewire, JPhoto, Most J2ME development Tools, IntelliJ, IBM MPEG4 player, a couple of MAME applets, and a small colleciton of Java games using LWJGL. Hell there is a device that plugs into a gameboy advance that allows me to write midlets for that platform.
If you're even touching the classpath you simply don't have any idea of the advancements in java over some 3-4 years. Java has installers that make Java applications install like native applications, there are compilers that can make it compile to executable files for most platforms, and with JavaWebStart many applications are launchable from a web page URL.
When you get any of these other solutions to the point where I can develop applications that reside on a phone without having to use Brew for reasonable portability - then I might even consider what you have to say as coming from someone who didn't look at Java1.1.8 and assume that the java world froze in time while you continued to learn other things. There is a reason why the vast majority of jobs out there require Java - and its not so we have something to chat about during lunch.
So while I don't think you're a troll, I think you are certainly either blind to the truth or unwilling to accept it. Java has gotten a boatload better over the years and is here to stay.
I'm sure many businesses would just at the opportunity to give their IP away for free. Oh wait, they are the ones who are trying to protect it most in the first place:-/
There are too many big companies with too much at stake to ever let that happen. While it is technically possible, I doubt seriously if it would make it past the government.
You forgot to mention that IBM has been using Java and their superior Linux JVM to drive sales of their servers. The shop where I work has been adopting IBM servers at an accelerated rate because they are cheaper than the Sun equivalents and with the IBM JVM perform much better.
Then you must not work in the industry. Java makes up the core skill set of the corporate programming industry at this point. Most servers run it BEA Weblogic, Websphere, JBoss. The bulk of jobs require it if you're doing anything other than building L33T scripts. And finally, the industry momentum is behind it and accelerating.
Java is everywhere. Its rare at this point to find any Fortune 500 company or goverment project that isn't using it in some way.
Its not perception, its reality. I work for one of these Fortune 50 companies that is buying up IBM Linux servers because dollar for dollar they are cheaper and better supported than the Solaris equivalent.
There was a time when Sun had the potential to be a major force in the computing world - but due to dismal leadership and a business plan that is worse than that of your average startup, they are struggling to survive the downturn. I personally blame Scott. I think he's an idiot who lacks vision and needs to be removed so someone who can take advantage of Sun's remaining position can turn the company around before IBM steals their thunder altogether.
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Monopolies don't have to play by a different set of rules - they just can't use that monopoly to unfairly compete... unless you're in the US in which case apparently you can.
Well apparently considering that Microsoft hasn't even been FINED for its behavior - your question isn't as loaded as you think it is.
I mean really, this could easily be levied against anyone blocking spam in that case. If its their servers and their bandwidth and you're violating their terms of service, I don't see why they HAVE to deliver email or anything else. Heck MSN is effectively blocking linux with the way they respond to search results through their search engines and you couldn't bring a court case against them about that. If CI Host (which really DOES suck and consists of mostly spam and porn hosts)) can't contain their customers - why would AOL be liable if they choose to protect their systems? Last I heard the laws about Cybertresspass (the very laws AOL used to sue spammers - denial of chattel) were in AOL's favor - not CI Hosts'.
Has more to do with maintenance. Metal when heated and subjected to stress gets fatigued. Its one thing to have that on a tile that you swap out - its something altogether difference to have an issue with the entire wing structure.
SCO is dead and was dead before all this happened. They knew it, we know it - but the community is becoming obsessed with this and clearly is missing the boat. This is an attack against the OpenSource business model, not Linux users in general. The whole point of this noise is to confuse and spread FUD about GPL, open source, and Linux. There are certain companies who benefit from this - and SCO is NOT one of them. Stop spending your time worrying about SCO - worry about the effect this has on people who might have been considering open source or Linux and may have stepped back as a result. Consider who gains from this - and worry about THEM! The one company who gains the most from this IMO is Microsoft and the fact that they have been funding this FUD campaign by licensing IP from SCO just stands out like a sore thumb to me.
Ya know - perhaps price isn't always the most paramount importance. Linux is supposedly cheaper to deploy, but you don't see IT shops dumping all of their client machines and using Linux and VMWare. Sometimes (many times) price just isn't the point. For the average business that trivial price difference you just listed is far far less than having a user unable to work and someone trying to solve their problem.
It is very interesting ideed, but the real question is whether or not they've done anything that's truly illegal. Many of these CEOs do many things that may be morally wrong and scummy, but may not be in fact truly illegal. It will be interesting to see what the true legal status of this action is on the parties involved because I'm sure they are stupid enough to do something so obvious while the SEC and the administration are parading executives in front of the cameras.
MOD parent up - I think people need to see the actual science behind what is being pushed out (no matter how ludicrous an idea it really is).
The more I read your post, the more and more I cringed until finally I read the part about Baltar and decided that perhaps I really DON'T want to see this. I didn't realize they were stupid enough to remake it from the beginning - its not like they couldn't have done a bagillion things by just picking up where the old one left off.
Far more important that the fact that the left is the REASON that they left. Have they become dissatisfied with their corporate parent? Are they going to found a new studio (and with that number of key folks that sounds likely to me)? Are they being acquired/courted by someone else (the real challenge of companies these days is not to protect the brands, but to keep the people who make these brands)? And most importantly, does Vivendi consider their gaming assets so invaluable that they wouldn't fight to keep these folks under their wing?
When high level folks like this leave, its usually because someone is giving them money to go off and do their own thing under a different banner/console.
Any heavy lifting design that's moving humans into orbit will definitely not be cheap, and as any engineer knows - reliability comes from finding mistakes and fixing them. There wasn't at some point two designs on the drawing board labelled a) cheap and reliable or b) expensive and risky. Things improve over time, and unfortunately sometimes people die to learn what the problems are. This reminds me of early SUVs and their terrible safety record. Over the years, they have improved - but there wasn't (and still isn't) some magical super safe design that we can adopt that will solve our problems.
That's one really good thing that came/comes from the AMD Intel price war. They've so marginalized the price of CPUs that PCs have an insane amount of power for a mere pittance of price. Heck I could take a $100 bill and upgrade any of my boxes into the Athlon era (CPU, motherboard, and memory included) - then use that box as a competent server. Its almost scary that for a few thousand bucks you actually COULD build a decent server closet.
Sadly this is true. Soon we'll be right back in the upswing with companies spending money hand over fist, raising interest rates, and rampant mergers. In part I blame some of the more clueless upper level management types who are swayed by a bells and whistles demo and then sell their IT department down the river because they spent a lot of money because they didn't know any better and never allowed their own IT shop to really investigate the options.
Oracle to MySQL? Whomever is your CTO needs to be fired. Yes Open Source is great, yes open source solves some budget issues - but a migration of data from Oracle to Mysql along with the associated training and support (yeah support still ain't free) is likely to cost you more than you're saving.
I'm not sure it could. I don't see anyone saying that these games can't be made - just that they have to be rated so that other people can have an idea as to the content so they can choose whether or not they want to subject themselves or their children there. None of that violates the first amendment in any way.
The only argument I've heard that brings this into the first amendment realm has been by smaller developers who say that by rating their game as M, that they are being discriminated against and will suffer from lower sales since some stores may not stock their game. However, there are no legal precedents that suggest that this is legally valid since the only thing that's being done is further definition of the content on the box. Noone is stopping you from making it. You don't see XXX movies in movie theaters, but that doesn't stop people from making them or from them turning a profit - so I doubt that would stand up in court anyways.
I have always been curious as to whether or not parents are really using these systems. Certainly parents find out about certain games such as Grand Theft Auto and restrict the purchase of those games, but on the whole do parents really look at stuff like Command and Conquer, Half Life 2, and Star Wars Galaxies and say ('hmmmm... I should check the rating on this')? There are many very violent games that kinda squeek through the system unchecked would be my guess.
JDK1.4.2 goes a long way to solving these problems by actually proving a native platform L&F and not the nasty mess that has become MetalL&F. Sun has apparently been listening over the years and now many of the 'I don't want it to look different' issues are being dealt with. There are actually a surprising number of OSX applications that were done in Java. I just didn't realize it until I started updating them.
IntelliJ spanks Visual Studio in many many ways. JBuilder Enterprise does as well, but suffers from some feature bloat issues.
First off I'm curious to know how you can tell that its a JSP error since most sites don't host their .jsp extension.
Secondly I'm curious to know how you possibly measured that. Sounds like an out-of-my-ass statistic to me.
Actually it sounds to me that you either are a complete Java novice or have succumb to an extreme amount of FUD. Java Desktop Applications that I like include: Limewire, JPhoto, Most J2ME development Tools, IntelliJ, IBM MPEG4 player, a couple of MAME applets, and a small colleciton of Java games using LWJGL. Hell there is a device that plugs into a gameboy advance that allows me to write midlets for that platform. If you're even touching the classpath you simply don't have any idea of the advancements in java over some 3-4 years. Java has installers that make Java applications install like native applications, there are compilers that can make it compile to executable files for most platforms, and with JavaWebStart many applications are launchable from a web page URL. When you get any of these other solutions to the point where I can develop applications that reside on a phone without having to use Brew for reasonable portability - then I might even consider what you have to say as coming from someone who didn't look at Java1.1.8 and assume that the java world froze in time while you continued to learn other things. There is a reason why the vast majority of jobs out there require Java - and its not so we have something to chat about during lunch. So while I don't think you're a troll, I think you are certainly either blind to the truth or unwilling to accept it. Java has gotten a boatload better over the years and is here to stay.
I'm sure many businesses would just at the opportunity to give their IP away for free. Oh wait, they are the ones who are trying to protect it most in the first place :-/
There are too many big companies with too much at stake to ever let that happen. While it is technically possible, I doubt seriously if it would make it past the government.
You forgot to mention that IBM has been using Java and their superior Linux JVM to drive sales of their servers. The shop where I work has been adopting IBM servers at an accelerated rate because they are cheaper than the Sun equivalents and with the IBM JVM perform much better.
Then you must not work in the industry. Java makes up the core skill set of the corporate programming industry at this point. Most servers run it BEA Weblogic, Websphere, JBoss. The bulk of jobs require it if you're doing anything other than building L33T scripts. And finally, the industry momentum is behind it and accelerating. Java is everywhere. Its rare at this point to find any Fortune 500 company or goverment project that isn't using it in some way.
Its not perception, its reality. I work for one of these Fortune 50 companies that is buying up IBM Linux servers because dollar for dollar they are cheaper and better supported than the Solaris equivalent. There was a time when Sun had the potential to be a major force in the computing world - but due to dismal leadership and a business plan that is worse than that of your average startup, they are struggling to survive the downturn. I personally blame Scott. I think he's an idiot who lacks vision and needs to be removed so someone who can take advantage of Sun's remaining position can turn the company around before IBM steals their thunder altogether.