A worm is usually a standalone program (runs on it's own) and is self-propagating. A virus is a much more general term. In fact, some might argue that a worm is a type of a virus. But in general, a virus infects other software (so it isn't necessarily standalone) and often requires some other application (or human) to transfer it from one location to another.
Okay, I'm sure that will get posted a hundred times, but here are some other ideas:
Start Small: If it's a serious issue, trying to change your entire lifestyle at once can be difficult. Not impossible, but a better approach might be to start with something small and work your way up. Perhaps starting with exercise (as someone mentioned) or managing your sleep schedule, or just some random chore. Do that regularly and you'll start to have more and more control.
Eliminate Distractions: If it's homework, then leave the apartment and go to the library. Find somewhere where you simply don't have any other distractions -- no computers, radios, TV's, people to bug you, etc. Changing your environment will help.
Accountability: Explain to a close friend your problem. Have them check up on you and encourage you. Knowing you'll have to face up to someone who cares (and not your professor or boss) can give you some motivation.
Rewards: Have the integrity not to give yourself rewards until after you've accomplished something. But a reward system can help. Promise to go watch a movie or buy something special or go on a vacation once you've accomplished a particular goal. Again, having someone make sure you don't cheat helps.
Journal: By far what's helped me is keeping a regular journal. This may not help everyone, but it helps me be honest with myself. I can better gauge change that occurs over months and years by keeping a written record. I can work out goals, anxieties and plans. It works for me.
At least those are some of my ideas. Also, finding some way or time to calm down and reflect on life helps to. This can be when you exercise, or do your journal, or go to church (if you're into that sort of thing). Point it, every now and then you'll need to stop and remember why it is you want to be productive.
While you will probably get a lot of trolls responding to this, a good work ethic is important and not easily gained. It's something a lot of us could use improvement on.
I worked with slackware before, but ended up going with RedHat. Recently I decided to upgrade and wanted something new. After trying out a number of distros, I ended up going back to Slackware. I love it. And I just installed dropline-gnome, a Gnome environment customized for Slackware and WOW does it look nice.
If you're really interested, I put a short article about it on my blog:
The ultimate failure of "open source" is this: everybody wants to have it his own way. Consequently, we have ten individuals or groups working on their own variations on X, instead of cooperating on X itself.
I'm almost ready to call troll on this one, but I figure I can answer this question yet once again and perhap it will stave off other similar comments.
First off: What is this "open source" you speak of? There is NO centralized, organized open source movement, despite what ESR might claim. There are may individuals and groups creating and producing open source software, yes. But they are widely varied in goals, scope, and success. Many (most?) produce open source software on their own time and on their own terms. That's certainly the case for me. It's a hobby. It's a fun thing to do. And no one is going to tell me I have to cooperate with so and so just to make sure open source software succeeds. I'm doing this for fun, remember? So if I want to create my own Yet Another Linux Distribution (YALD?) or whatever, then it's my choice, particularly since I'm doing this on my own free time!
"Open source" describes a software licensing model and, I suppose, a development model as well (not really) but certainly not a "software engineering protocol." Extreme Programming is a development model. Open source is a licensing model. It is not a grand movement. It is not a single entity bent on taking over software development. Sure there are some open source developers and free software developers with these ideas, but they do not necessarily represent the whole of the "community."
In other words, look at your comment this way:
The ultimate failure of "human society" is this: everybody wants to have it his own way. Consequently we have ten individuals or groups working on their own various on X, instead of cooperating on X itself.
Okay, yeah, so it was a troll, but it's a common misunderstanding too. Hopefully a few/.'ers will learn something from this (other than not to feed the trolls).
tkcRadio doesn't count then? Okay, so it's internet radio not normal AM/FM, but still, tkcRadio has been out for a while. [and yes, it's for the Zaurus, of course!]
I think it would really suck to be Sony right now.
Think about it: The iPod is the walkman killer. If any other company already had all the infastructure to deliver this sort of solution, it's Sony. But who's doing it? Apple. I'm sure there are some very nervous executives at Sony right now.
That's not to say that Sony is going away. But when a major player like Sony can't offer an innovative solution, then companies like Apple can come in and eat away opportunies and market share. In the long term that can really hurt even a big company like Sony. I suppose that's what they get when their media business take precidence over their electronics.
I don't know if I'm the best example, though. I've spent tortured nights dreaming of physics problems, one or two particularly bad nights dreaming of C++, and even come up with a Pascal algorithm or two in my sleep.
At least you're not alone. The weirdest one I had was while working on a program for my HP 48. The programming is all done using the RPN functions of the calculator and it can be rather confusing. Couldn't find a bug one day, went to sleep, dreamt about the program all night. Funny thing is, next morning I got up, walked over to the calculator, added a missing parenthesis, and the program worked!
A club at your school could be really cool but you might also want to check out what User Groups are in your area: there are Java User Groups, XML user groups, Linux, Apple, etc. Plus organizations like SAGE. Even if you decide you'd really like to see a club at school, these other organizations in your area can offer support.
The exercise of looking up these organizations on Google is left to the reader.
I think we have to look at motivation here. For example, I just found out that someone in my apartment complex is running an unsecured wireless network. How do I know? Well, I was setting up my wireless PDA and noticed I was connected before setting my WEP keys. Checked the IP's and, yep, most definitely wasn't my wireless network.
Now, harmlessing stumbling upon someone else's wireless network shouldn't be a crime. I think that's part of the point here. Maliciously using someone else's wireless network, though, that's another matter. I don't think there's much debate about that.
Which brings this all to an interesting point? What about the "ignorant"? If my neighbor has no clue that he is sharing his bandwidth with the whole apartment complex, then how is my using his network anything less than theft of services? (Not counting that his ISP probably forbids it in the TOS anyway). From what I can tell from this law, it's saying that "ignorance" is no excuse, if you leave your wireless network open then anyone can use it for non-malicious purposes.
Hmm. Maybe a nice idea, but it also sounds like if I don't put a fence around my yard, anyone can come in and have a picnic!
Sorry, but this concept really drives me up a wall. What centralized 'open source' organization are you talking about? Open source isn't a single group. It isn't a solid movement. It isn't a company or even a consistent culture. Heck, I'm on open source developer, but I have no connections with most major projects individuals think of when they say 'open source.' Sure you have the FSF and the Apache Software Foundatation. There are larger projects like Gnome and KDE and the Linux Kernal. We also have some companies like Red Hat and SuSE. But they all distinct entities! They often disagree with one another. They often disagree internally! So let's repeat it again:
There is NO open source master plan!
Despite what anyone tells you, the 'open source' you speak of is a loose connection of individuals each with their own interests and reasons for contributing. And no open source developer has any obligation to make a peice of software any better for you as a user anymore than you do! I'm doing this as a hobby. Because I like it. Because I want to. Because it's fun. And if I don't want to build "in-between" programs like games or media servers, then that's fine. Who are you to tell me I should. Heck, I don't even have to make my software, which I write and give away FOR FREE, any more user friendly than I want it to be. If you want something more user friendly, then WRITE IT YOURSELF!
I can't stand it when open source users cry about why "open source" is going to fail or why the software sucks. Well, the beauty of it is, if you really think that, go over to sourceforge and start your own! Or maybe you could spend some time writing some documentation, or funding the project (in which case the developer would have an obligation to listen) or maybe even submit some code yourself.
But one last time: OPEN SOURCE IS NOT A SINGULAR MOVEMENT. Each developer does it for his or her own reasons and in most cases that means that they'll write and develop what they want to. No one beyond ESR or RMS has ever promised anything more. Linus sure hasn't. So before you claim the movement will never work, you might want to check if there's really a movement to begin with.
Actually, as far as I can tell (and IANAL) the GPL says nothing about renaming or rebranding. Perhaps the most relevant article of the GPL in this respect is:
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program. [emphasis mine]
As long as he is including a copy of the GPL on the CD, then he's probably fine (legally that is). The only other issue is to make sure that he did not reassign the copyright (left) for the program itself.
Can anyone else find anything about GPL and renaming?
I had the choice to go DSL or cable and I chose DSL, even though it was going to be slightly more expensive and probably a bit slower. Why would I do that? Because I wanted to support a particular local ISP. They have excellent service, are Linux friendly (you can actually get Linux support), and are reasonable about you running a small server.
This is the type of service I want to encourage, not the service I've seen many of the cable or larger DSL providers give. And I'm willing to pay a little more for it too. In the end, I've been extremely happy with the choice.
I've commited some of my spare time to open source projects and even started a few pet projects of my own. While success can sometimes be measured by number of users, or downloads, or mailing list traffic, I think it's worthwhile to step back from the project and make sure you're still having fun. At least that's important for those of us who develop open source software as a hobby as opposed to those who do it for a living (and there are many more hobbiest out there). If suddenly you find yourself dreading to read your mailing list or fire up you text editor or IDE, then you know it's time to take a break or re-evaluate the project.
Then again, every developer and project has different goals and really it's only by these individual metrics that a project or individual's success can be measured.
There was an interesting thread on the Jakarta general mailing list about this a couple months ago. You might want to
check it out.
Do you _really_ want Apple to buy a record label? Before you answer, think about Sony:
Back before the whole Betamax episode, Sony was just a tech company -- and a good one at that. But after losing to VHS, the executives thought that if they had had a media company under roof, they could have used the clout of that media library to push forward their own technology. So they bought Columbia.
Now maybe it was a smart move -- Sony Pictures made a heck of a lot of cash last year on movies like Spiderman. But have we really seen the marriage between tech and media that was promised? Moreover, Sony has often had internal turmoil due to the conflicting interests of Sony Pictures/Music and Sony Electronics. Many think it should have been Sony who came up with the iPod. I mean think about it, it's the next generation "walkman." The fact that Apple came up with it scares Sony to death. But do you think they could have produced it while holding interests in these large media corporations?
I'm not sure if the same fate would befall Apple if they took on a media company, but I would hate to see them (again) lose focus. Apple is a great tech company and Jobs seems to know what it is that Apple does best and right. Sometimes the smartest move is to keep it that way.
We use a lot of open source software, so I'm always looking for good ways to contribute to the oss-movement, but the consequences are too difficult to judge.
Perhaps you're looking in the wrong spot. I think the article is pointing out that if you use OSS, then contribute back to that project, not necessarily open source your own project.
For example, where I work we do a lot of Java Enterprise Development. Most of it is in house stuff and it's closed source. But we use A LOT of open source projects, mostly from Apache (like the jakarta subprojects). Consquently, if we find bugs in the apache software, we return the fixes back to the community. If we happen to need a particular feature that isn't very specific to us, we consider adding back to the community in general. This doens't mean we open source our final product, it just means we work with the communities that have helped us.
There's other ways of contributing -- like offering hosting, testing, documentation, etc. Running a (large) successful open source project takes a lot of work. Consider a donation of some sort to the developers. These are all ways a corporate entity can contribute back to the open source world without having to give away your own code (which I think is understandable).
Err perhaps someone could explain to me what is better about openZaurus,
Let me put it this way: About two weeks ago I tried out the very latest ROM. I found the ROM itself was stable, but nothing installed properly on it and I ended up going back to Sharp's ROM because there were apps I simply had to have running. Final impression: OZ is really nice and I only plan on staying on a Sharp ROM until I find that OZ can run these other 3rd party apps (which should be now since the new release is out). I was extremely disappointed to find I couldn't use OZ right away, but I've been anxiously awaiting this latest release so I can move over to OZ permanently.
If you want to know all the specifics about why OZ is better, you should
check out their site. However, the biggest reason I would suggest OZ is because it's actively being developed. Sharp has only offered bug fixes for it's ROM. OZ is steadily getting better, which means you'll see improvements and new features. So as far as I'm concerned, Sharp's ROM is a dead end while OZ is quite alive.
If you have a Zaurus, at some point you really should check out OpenZaurus, which is a complete replacement ROM. If you have a CompactFlash card, then making the switch is very easy and if you don't like it, it's also trivial to switch back to Sharp's ROM. So my suggestion is to try it out early before you get too comfortable and spend a lot of time setting up the PDA just the way you like it.
It's not so much that Flash competes with Java as it does compliment Java (and.NET). The solutions currently being explored is to have Flash and HTML on the front end with Java on the server back end. I think this combo could be really powerful and takes advantage of the strengths of each platform.
In fact, Macromedia did a Flash + Java "Petstore" application to show off this exact solution. See:
Also it's interesting to note that Macromedia produces it's own J2EE application server, JRun. The latest version is actually rather nice and very well priced. So I think Macromedia has no problems supporting both Flash and Java.
What I find interesting is that they've dropped the XML format for their PIM applications. Now they're using something called DTM:
DTM (DaTa Manager) is a set of modules that provide database functions to the applications.... However, all the default PIM applications on the SL-5600 now adopt and are managed by the DTM (PIM database). Thus, and 3rd party PIM applications that access the XML files on the SL-5500 PIM applications will not run as expeected....
This does not spell out well for third party developers who now have to have compliant apps for the 5500 and the 5600. It sounds like they're using something like the pdb format for palm. If they're going to change, I wonder why they didn't go with a standard like
iCalendar (RFC2445) at least for the PIM apps.
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come on people, don't feed the trolls.
A worm is usually a standalone program (runs on it's own) and is self-propagating. A virus is a much more general term. In fact, some might argue that a worm is a type of a virus. But in general, a virus infects other software (so it isn't necessarily standalone) and often requires some other application (or human) to transfer it from one location to another.
There's a good answer on Broadband Report Forum, or you could try Google.
Okay, I'm sure that will get posted a hundred times, but here are some other ideas:
At least those are some of my ideas. Also, finding some way or time to calm down and reflect on life helps to. This can be when you exercise, or do your journal, or go to church (if you're into that sort of thing). Point it, every now and then you'll need to stop and remember why it is you want to be productive.
While you will probably get a lot of trolls responding to this, a good work ethic is important and not easily gained. It's something a lot of us could use improvement on.
I worked with slackware before, but ended up going with RedHat. Recently I decided to upgrade and wanted something new. After trying out a number of distros, I ended up going back to Slackware. I love it. And I just installed dropline-gnome, a Gnome environment customized for Slackware and WOW does it look nice.
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If you're really interested, I put a short article about it on my blog:
http://www.jadetower.org/muses/blog/archives/0000
The ultimate failure of "open source" is this: everybody wants to have it his own way. Consequently, we have ten individuals or groups working on their own variations on X, instead of cooperating on X itself.
/.'ers will learn something from this (other than not to feed the trolls).
I'm almost ready to call troll on this one, but I figure I can answer this question yet once again and perhap it will stave off other similar comments.
First off: What is this "open source" you speak of? There is NO centralized, organized open source movement, despite what ESR might claim. There are may individuals and groups creating and producing open source software, yes. But they are widely varied in goals, scope, and success. Many (most?) produce open source software on their own time and on their own terms. That's certainly the case for me. It's a hobby. It's a fun thing to do. And no one is going to tell me I have to cooperate with so and so just to make sure open source software succeeds. I'm doing this for fun, remember? So if I want to create my own Yet Another Linux Distribution (YALD?) or whatever, then it's my choice, particularly since I'm doing this on my own free time!
"Open source" describes a software licensing model and, I suppose, a development model as well (not really) but certainly not a "software engineering protocol." Extreme Programming is a development model. Open source is a licensing model. It is not a grand movement. It is not a single entity bent on taking over software development. Sure there are some open source developers and free software developers with these ideas, but they do not necessarily represent the whole of the "community."
In other words, look at your comment this way:
The ultimate failure of "human society" is this: everybody wants to have it his own way. Consequently we have ten individuals or groups working on their own various on X, instead of cooperating on X itself.
Okay, yeah, so it was a troll, but it's a common misunderstanding too. Hopefully a few
Good idea.
I'm starting to put something together on my wiki site.
tkcRadio doesn't count then? Okay, so it's internet radio not normal AM/FM, but still, tkcRadio has been out for a while. [and yes, it's for the Zaurus, of course!]
I think it would really suck to be Sony right now.
Think about it: The iPod is the walkman killer. If any other company already had all the infastructure to deliver this sort of solution, it's Sony. But who's doing it? Apple. I'm sure there are some very nervous executives at Sony right now.
That's not to say that Sony is going away. But when a major player like Sony can't offer an innovative solution, then companies like Apple can come in and eat away opportunies and market share. In the long term that can really hurt even a big company like Sony. I suppose that's what they get when their media business take precidence over their electronics.
I don't know if I'm the best example, though. I've spent tortured nights dreaming of physics problems, one or two particularly bad nights dreaming of C++, and even come up with a Pascal algorithm or two in my sleep.
At least you're not alone. The weirdest one I had was while working on a program for my HP 48. The programming is all done using the RPN functions of the calculator and it can be rather confusing. Couldn't find a bug one day, went to sleep, dreamt about the program all night. Funny thing is, next morning I got up, walked over to the calculator, added a missing parenthesis, and the program worked!
This is exactly what I was thinking.
A club at your school could be really cool but you might also want to check out what User Groups are in your area: there are Java User Groups, XML user groups, Linux, Apple, etc. Plus organizations like SAGE. Even if you decide you'd really like to see a club at school, these other organizations in your area can offer support.
The exercise of looking up these organizations on Google is left to the reader.
I think we have to look at motivation here. For example, I just found out that someone in my apartment complex is running an unsecured wireless network. How do I know? Well, I was setting up my wireless PDA and noticed I was connected before setting my WEP keys. Checked the IP's and, yep, most definitely wasn't my wireless network.
Now, harmlessing stumbling upon someone else's wireless network shouldn't be a crime. I think that's part of the point here. Maliciously using someone else's wireless network, though, that's another matter. I don't think there's much debate about that.
Which brings this all to an interesting point? What about the "ignorant"? If my neighbor has no clue that he is sharing his bandwidth with the whole apartment complex, then how is my using his network anything less than theft of services? (Not counting that his ISP probably forbids it in the TOS anyway). From what I can tell from this law, it's saying that "ignorance" is no excuse, if you leave your wireless network open then anyone can use it for non-malicious purposes.
Hmm. Maybe a nice idea, but it also sounds like if I don't put a fence around my yard, anyone can come in and have a picnic!
What is the "open source" you speak of?
/me steps off soapbox and returns to coding
What open source needs to do:... blah blah blah
Sorry, but this concept really drives me up a wall. What centralized 'open source' organization are you talking about? Open source isn't a single group. It isn't a solid movement. It isn't a company or even a consistent culture. Heck, I'm on open source developer, but I have no connections with most major projects individuals think of when they say 'open source.' Sure you have the FSF and the Apache Software Foundatation. There are larger projects like Gnome and KDE and the Linux Kernal. We also have some companies like Red Hat and SuSE. But they all distinct entities! They often disagree with one another. They often disagree internally! So let's repeat it again: There is NO open source master plan!
Despite what anyone tells you, the 'open source' you speak of is a loose connection of individuals each with their own interests and reasons for contributing. And no open source developer has any obligation to make a peice of software any better for you as a user anymore than you do! I'm doing this as a hobby. Because I like it. Because I want to. Because it's fun. And if I don't want to build "in-between" programs like games or media servers, then that's fine. Who are you to tell me I should. Heck, I don't even have to make my software, which I write and give away FOR FREE, any more user friendly than I want it to be. If you want something more user friendly, then WRITE IT YOURSELF!
I can't stand it when open source users cry about why "open source" is going to fail or why the software sucks. Well, the beauty of it is, if you really think that, go over to sourceforge and start your own! Or maybe you could spend some time writing some documentation, or funding the project (in which case the developer would have an obligation to listen) or maybe even submit some code yourself.
But one last time: OPEN SOURCE IS NOT A SINGULAR MOVEMENT. Each developer does it for his or her own reasons and in most cases that means that they'll write and develop what they want to. No one beyond ESR or RMS has ever promised anything more. Linus sure hasn't. So before you claim the movement will never work, you might want to check if there's really a movement to begin with.
Actually, as far as I can tell (and IANAL) the GPL says nothing about renaming or rebranding. Perhaps the most relevant article of the GPL in this respect is:
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program. [emphasis mine]
As long as he is including a copy of the GPL on the CD, then he's probably fine (legally that is). The only other issue is to make sure that he did not reassign the copyright (left) for the program itself.
Can anyone else find anything about GPL and renaming?
I agree 100%.
I had the choice to go DSL or cable and I chose DSL, even though it was going to be slightly more expensive and probably a bit slower. Why would I do that? Because I wanted to support a particular local ISP. They have excellent service, are Linux friendly (you can actually get Linux support), and are reasonable about you running a small server.
This is the type of service I want to encourage, not the service I've seen many of the cable or larger DSL providers give. And I'm willing to pay a little more for it too. In the end, I've been extremely happy with the choice.
Are you still having fun?
I've commited some of my spare time to open source projects and even started a few pet projects of my own. While success can sometimes be measured by number of users, or downloads, or mailing list traffic, I think it's worthwhile to step back from the project and make sure you're still having fun. At least that's important for those of us who develop open source software as a hobby as opposed to those who do it for a living (and there are many more hobbiest out there). If suddenly you find yourself dreading to read your mailing list or fire up you text editor or IDE, then you know it's time to take a break or re-evaluate the project.
Then again, every developer and project has different goals and really it's only by these individual metrics that a project or individual's success can be measured.
There was an interesting thread on the Jakarta general mailing list about this a couple months ago. You might want to check it out.
Do you _really_ want Apple to buy a record label? Before you answer, think about Sony:
Back before the whole Betamax episode, Sony was just a tech company -- and a good one at that. But after losing to VHS, the executives thought that if they had had a media company under roof, they could have used the clout of that media library to push forward their own technology. So they bought Columbia.
Now maybe it was a smart move -- Sony Pictures made a heck of a lot of cash last year on movies like Spiderman. But have we really seen the marriage between tech and media that was promised? Moreover, Sony has often had internal turmoil due to the conflicting interests of Sony Pictures/Music and Sony Electronics. Many think it should have been Sony who came up with the iPod. I mean think about it, it's the next generation "walkman." The fact that Apple came up with it scares Sony to death. But do you think they could have produced it while holding interests in these large media corporations?
I'm not sure if the same fate would befall Apple if they took on a media company, but I would hate to see them (again) lose focus. Apple is a great tech company and Jobs seems to know what it is that Apple does best and right. Sometimes the smartest move is to keep it that way.
We use a lot of open source software, so I'm always looking for good ways to contribute to the oss-movement, but the consequences are too difficult to judge.
Perhaps you're looking in the wrong spot. I think the article is pointing out that if you use OSS, then contribute back to that project, not necessarily open source your own project.
For example, where I work we do a lot of Java Enterprise Development. Most of it is in house stuff and it's closed source. But we use A LOT of open source projects, mostly from Apache (like the jakarta subprojects). Consquently, if we find bugs in the apache software, we return the fixes back to the community. If we happen to need a particular feature that isn't very specific to us, we consider adding back to the community in general. This doens't mean we open source our final product, it just means we work with the communities that have helped us.
There's other ways of contributing -- like offering hosting, testing, documentation, etc. Running a (large) successful open source project takes a lot of work. Consider a donation of some sort to the developers. These are all ways a corporate entity can contribute back to the open source world without having to give away your own code (which I think is understandable).
Bindings are possible. For example:
Java-gnome Just check out google for others.
Err perhaps someone could explain to me what is better about openZaurus,
Let me put it this way: About two weeks ago I tried out the very latest ROM. I found the ROM itself was stable, but nothing installed properly on it and I ended up going back to Sharp's ROM because there were apps I simply had to have running. Final impression: OZ is really nice and I only plan on staying on a Sharp ROM until I find that OZ can run these other 3rd party apps (which should be now since the new release is out). I was extremely disappointed to find I couldn't use OZ right away, but I've been anxiously awaiting this latest release so I can move over to OZ permanently.
If you want to know all the specifics about why OZ is better, you should check out their site. However, the biggest reason I would suggest OZ is because it's actively being developed. Sharp has only offered bug fixes for it's ROM. OZ is steadily getting better, which means you'll see improvements and new features. So as far as I'm concerned, Sharp's ROM is a dead end while OZ is quite alive.
Don't forget this great documentation site (for developers _and_ users): Sharp Zaurus Developer Information
If you have a Zaurus, at some point you really should check out OpenZaurus, which is a complete replacement ROM. If you have a CompactFlash card, then making the switch is very easy and if you don't like it, it's also trivial to switch back to Sharp's ROM. So my suggestion is to try it out early before you get too comfortable and spend a lot of time setting up the PDA just the way you like it.
It's not so much that Flash competes with Java as it does compliment Java (and .NET). The solutions currently being explored is to have Flash and HTML on the front end with Java on the server back end. I think this combo could be really powerful and takes advantage of the strengths of each platform.
In fact, Macromedia did a Flash + Java "Petstore" application to show off this exact solution. See:
J2EETM: Behind the Pet Market From Macromedia
Macromedia Pet Market Blueprint Application
Macromedia JavaTM Application Development Center
Also it's interesting to note that Macromedia produces it's own J2EE application server, JRun. The latest version is actually rather nice and very well priced. So I think Macromedia has no problems supporting both Flash and Java.
What I find interesting is that they've dropped the XML format for their PIM applications. Now they're using something called DTM:
... However, all the default PIM applications on the SL-5600 now adopt and are managed by the DTM (PIM database). Thus, and 3rd party PIM applications that access the XML files on the SL-5500 PIM applications will not run as expeected. ...
DTM (DaTa Manager) is a set of modules that provide database functions to the applications.
This does not spell out well for third party developers who now have to have compliant apps for the 5500 and the 5600. It sounds like they're using something like the pdb format for palm. If they're going to change, I wonder why they didn't go with a standard like iCalendar (RFC2445) at least for the PIM apps.
This may not yet be a chance for rejoicing. See the ServerSide article on this same issue:
Phipps' remarks are bizarre since it is obvious that no vendor can pass the J2EE 1.4 test suite, since J2EE 1.4 itself is not in final release yet.
There's something not quite right about all this, so it may be a setup by Sun to put JBoss in a difficult position.
Uh.. OS X has complete java 1.4.1 support. In fact, java on OS X is incredibly fast.
See http://developer.apple.com/java/
And if your developing for java it really shouldn't matter what platform you develop on as long as your target audience has a current JRE.