Winner of Company Most likely to produce Buggy Software....
The people who do this. You can produce work on the Server but to properly test you still need the windows environment. So you have to deploy to that, given that you need a testing environment per developer as well as for UAT and QA then your costs aren't really reduced. The advantages in terms of compile speed are killed in terms of transfer and deployment.
Somebody somewhere clearly things they need this, somebody somewhere doesn't work in large teams and on commercial apps.
Sorry to dis someones work, but I'd be more interested in a decent Open Source windows IDE on windows than being able to do a fraction of the work on Linux... and I loathe MS-Windows. Why do so many Open Source projects have to ape MS rather than take on the beast.
Too many people, too many projects. Come and save us IBM.
The UK is the most advanced country in the world, went through the Agricultural, Industrial and Communications revolutions first.
China still leads the world in many fields of science. Their micro-surgeons are acknowledged as the best, they have the most practice thanks to a total lack of safety in the average Chinese workplace. They have some of the finest maths brains on the planet, and there are 1.2 billion of them.
China is a scientific nation, you can't move at most scientific conferences without bumping into a large contingent who are either directly from China or who are researching in Western Unis.
Oh wait, you know are demonstrating how people who know jack shit about a subject and are never going to go to a scientific conference or get published in nature still think their opinions are valid even if based on a total lack of knowledge.
Sorry I nearly missed your wonderful example of irony.
Stem cell research in China one of 32 matches for Beijing university in natures publications. How many people from _your_ alma mater have been published in Nature ?
In a land-mark case Lexmark are invoking the DMCA against the pregnant women.
"We produce organs, so apparently do pregnant women, clearly they have reverse engineered our technology in breach of the DMCA. As normally with copyright violations this is biggest in China, India and other countries with large populations"
Pregnant Women have filed a class-action countersuit claiming prior art, but are not expect to win as they didn't give any cash to elected officials.
Senator Joe Bung(R) said "I know my mother doesn't agree with this case but the fact is she broke the DMCA when she had me, I'd much of prefered to have been printed out and it would have been easier for ma, women must realise that this is a natural thing and we must let the market decide."
Developing multi-array radar for a certain island nation that was in operation lets say around 13 years ago leads me to believe that Stealth Fighters and Bombers are totally useless against 10 year old radar.
You don't even want to know how pointless those billions spent are when trying to evade next-gen radar.
Those are brilliant, Turing was IMO the only Einstein that computing has had. Hell that isn't too bad as Physics has only had Newton and Einstein from the very top draw. One in 200 years really isn't that bad.
The commonwealth is the third largest inter-goverment body on the planet after the UN and EU. The US has withdrawn from almost every international treaty there is. This is not how to win friends and influence people.
No these people are wrong, look at Dolphins, clearly Dolphins have two "wings" at the front and two at the back on the tail. This is clearly correct and my total lack of knowledge or understanding of the subject should not get in the way of this being accepted as being the correct evolutionary move from dinos to not birds but mammals. We all know that birds evolved from insects as insects are what birds eats which means birds are cannibals.... the worrying thing is how many people have read to this stage and thought "yeah, what do all those Chinese science guys know, how long have they been doing science? Wha d'yu mean they invented printing 2,000 years before the west... and gunpowder".
Slashdot, never let a lack of education get in the way of an opinion.
Which Jobs sold to Apple, I'm sure Perot got his money back on that deal.
Next was cool, excellent systems and pleasure to install. He flogged it back to Apple when the begged him to return
"Steve we need you back" "I won't ask for a salary" "Thats great" "All you have to do is buy my current company for miles more than its really worth" "Sure no worry Steve, whatever you say"
Europe has 50+ years of co-operation, and a history of it. Not everyone together, but a history of country alliances.
WWII, France, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark etc.
WWI, France, UK
The Brits and the Dutch used to have alliances against the French and the Spanish. The Germans and Austrians are pretty pally, lots of parts of Europe used to be owned by other countries, e.g. most of France by England, Alsace by Germany etc etc.
The Napoleonic wars were everyone v Napoleon. The Crimea was Brit and France v Russia.
In terms of the European defence industry being a joke, pretty harsh. Look at the contracts the US Goverment awards and look at the sub-contractors, Thales, Bae, Rolls-Royce are most often there.
Violent Crime in terms of rape and murder is MILES lower in Europe than the US. Muggings et al are higher, so we have unhappy people who live, and the US has unhappy relatives of people who died.
This isn't bloody American bashing, its laying out how Europe likes to co-operate to compete with the US Globalisation plan. Its a clash of cultures, each has their advantages and disadvantages.
Europe knows that the US is the biggest fish in the pond, but it also knows (to its cost) that being the biggest fish doesn't give you the right to dictate as you only get embarressed by what you did 100 years later.
WWI was started because the empire building powers thought that you could still fight a war from the 1800s with technology in the 1900s and that having plebs shot wasn't a very bad thing. Europe learnt alot from having tens of thousands of people die in a day.
The basic concern here is also reliance on technology that can be controlled by another goverment, the advantage of Open Source is not just financial but is also one of Intellectual Property. Most of Europe is politically much further to the left than the US and is pro-sharing. This is a major principle of the EU, as opposed to the US centric treaty that enables logging and exploitation on the other side of the pond.
So there is less of a clash of culture when considering open source, Europe understands why co-operation is good, that is how much of the European defence industry works already.
Now there is also the arrogant bit....
We think European Students can build better OSes than US corporations - Linus
We think that Europeans can build better enterprise systems - SAP
We think that the best things to come out of IBM were developed in Europe - MQSeries
So basically underpinning this is a belief that we don't have the cash to do better, but do have the talent. Most EU reports on Open Source software talk about leveraging this talent pool, and not having the marketing and release costs of a full scale company.
Its the difference between consent based and co-operative management and the approach taken over the pond.
In ONE battle (the Somme) 60,000 Allied forces died on the first day. This doesn't include the numbers that the Axis lost.
Part of the point of weapons such as this is to disable the military and reduce the number of dead, this leads to a less pissed off defeated nation than one that has just seen a large portion of its population killed.
Of course given that Iraq use Scuds which have bugger all electronics in them, and North Korea still appear to be point and fire propulsion rockets this would be really effective against the British and the French should they decide to attack the US.
Sort of like the Stealth Fighter, Iraq has bugger all radar that is any good but Stealth Fighters and Bombers still fly at 30,000 feet because Iraqi air defences don't reach that high. But to the British Navy's Radar a golf ball flying at 30,000 feet and 500mph is still at target that can be blown out of the sky.
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What a dull book, these aren't interesting failures.
Now WorldCom, Enron, Tyco etc etc.... those are interesting failures.
We all used to think that.COMs were the best failures ever. But it just goes to show, not only are traditional business the best at succeeding.... they are also the best at failure.
As someone who has learnt to touch type pretty successfully, which makes a huge difference to the way I work, I can't see these things being any use to me at all. You need to feel the gaps between the keys to indicate where they are. Sure for the "hunt and peck" mob out there this is a nice gadget to play with, but for a techy on the move who can actually type its not going to be useful.
I'd prefer a tiny keyboard (I can touch type on a Nokia Communicator, its just about adjusting slightly) than one with no tactile feel.
I understand why this will be great for somepeople, but for for speed typists this isn't very useful. Now a tactile glove might work a treat, well two of them obviously.
Its from the AMERICAN classic "To Kill a Mocking Bird", Atticus Finch is the lawyer at the centre of the book, and is actually the best shot in town. His point is that if you go into a room of angry people with a gun then they you are more likely to get shot than facing them as an unarmed man.
My quote is from a classic of literature, which member of the NRA came up with yours ?
Its a common thing with the slashdot crowd, something comes along with GPS and they moan about bluetooth (there could be issues with the GPS getting interference from bluetooth). If it had bluetooth it would be 802.11b, if it had that it would be the screen size, if it had that it would be too big.
HEY FOLKS A QUICK REALITY CHECK.
Having EVERYTHING costs money, these devices are aimed at sectors that want "just enough" at a reasonable price rather than "every damn thing under the sun" just so you can impress your mates.
If it had everything and was $1000 you'd bitch about the price.
In summary: The Slashdot crowd wants
A Tablet PC with a flexible paper thin screen that can be folded from the size of a credit card to A0, which has GPS, Bluetooth, Firewire 400 & 800, USB 1 and 2, every wireless connection method under the Sun, IRDA, Biometric authentication, works via a keyboard or a "keyboard glove", has a 15Ghz Transmeta processor, 1TB of RAM, 1PB of Storage, runs off a single AA battery for 3 year, runs Linux and responds to scribbles or the spoken word.
And costs under $100. Only then will people on Slashdot not moan about the features... except to complain how X they bought a year ago is now out of date and uncool.
What is most impressive about this book is the way it doesn't condemn the Xerox execs out of hand for not taking up ideas, it slates them for destroying the atmosphere that created those ideas. The execs made a bundle of cash out of Xerox Parc, sure they could have made more but it more than paid for itself as it was.
Where the execs went wrong was because they _tried_ to make Parc more commercial, and more commercially driven. The power of PARC was that it started as basically a University within a corporation, and the corporation gained many valuable elements from it. As soon as they moved towards a more commercial model (Star et al) then the suits began to exert more control and the brains began to leave or get pissed off.
Don't slate Xerox for not capitalising on all of the ideas, slate Xerox for trying to capitalise on PARC and destroying it in the process.
Xerox PARC invented the majority of the important technology today, in the sense that they made it a reality even if others had thought of it first. Your PC has windowing because Apple saw PARC, your PC has ethernet because they needed to network computers, your printer works because PARC made it so.
PARC founded the modern computing world, but commercialism and the attempt to exploit the ideas are what destroyed it. PARC made Xerox HUGE amounts of cash, it was a desire (greed?) to get even more than led to the bright lights leaving.
These bright lights have gone on to bigger and better things, how Xerox must now think "if only".
SMS is one of the biggest revenue generation tools for Mobile operators in Europe and Asia, there are millions of messages sent every day, at a cost that varies but taking 5c as an average wouldn't be too bad a guess.
So how the hell is this moderated as "Insightful" when the person who wrote it confused MSN, Yahoo Instant Messenger et al with the Short Message Service that comes with GSM mobile phones.
And to answer his question, you CAN pay for a reliable IM environment which includes auditing and many enterprises have already installed such products.
For "global brand" read "US Brand" and this brand gives you the right to...
Actually it gives you the right to do nothing. The point here is that they are aiming to be an "approved" networking solution, so you would only connect to "approved" solutions providers, and your local coffee shop would not be approved but Starbucks sure as hell would be.
Welcome to the corporatisation of community efforts. They don't like Mom and Pop doing this, so they are starting a plan
1) Create a brand 2) Start calling it "approved" 3) Complain to councils and goverments about "un-approved" networks that are causing interfernce. 4) Get unapproved networks stopped. 5) Ramp up the price.
This and this (last item) very impressive and definately totally new and original and no-one has ever considered this before. Not these people bet it wouldn't occur to them in a millon years.
Oh and of course there are lots of mobile phone that do this already as well.
For real computing in Cars then look at Formula one. Launch Control, Engine Control, Automatic and Semi Automatic gearboxes, traction control etc etc etc.
These are cars that can be remotely re-tuned during a race. From a tech perspective its amazing.
However it ruins what should be a battle of man and machine and enables the big spenders to kill the little guys everytime. Computing is great for some things, but it too often reduces the skill required in sports like Motor Racing, making it a battle of programmers rather than drivers.
Fully automated remote racing with large cars might be quite cool, but what makes it really interesting is that people can make mistakes, and even better take risks that a computer wouldn't think are smart.
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Winner of Company Most likely to produce Buggy Software....
The people who do this. You can produce work on the Server but to properly test you still need the windows environment. So you have to deploy to that, given that you need a testing environment per developer as well as for UAT and QA then your costs aren't really reduced. The advantages in terms of compile speed are killed in terms of transfer and deployment.
Somebody somewhere clearly things they need this, somebody somewhere doesn't work in large teams and on commercial apps.
Sorry to dis someones work, but I'd be more interested in a decent Open Source windows IDE on windows than being able to do a fraction of the work on Linux... and I loathe MS-Windows. Why do so many Open Source projects have to ape MS rather than take on the beast.
Too many people, too many projects. Come and save us IBM.
The UK is the most advanced country in the world, went through the Agricultural, Industrial and Communications revolutions first.
China still leads the world in many fields of science. Their micro-surgeons are acknowledged as the best, they have the most practice thanks to a total lack of safety in the average Chinese workplace. They have some of the finest maths brains on the planet, and there are 1.2 billion of them.
China is a scientific nation, you can't move at most scientific conferences without bumping into a large contingent who are either directly from China or who are researching in Western Unis.
Oh wait, you know are demonstrating how people who know jack shit about a subject and are never going to go to a scientific conference or get published in nature still think their opinions are valid even if based on a total lack of knowledge.
Sorry I nearly missed your wonderful example of irony.
Stem cell research in China one of 32 matches for Beijing university in natures publications. How many people from _your_ alma mater have been published in Nature ?
In a land-mark case Lexmark are invoking the DMCA against the pregnant women.
"We produce organs, so apparently do pregnant women, clearly they have reverse engineered our technology in breach of the DMCA. As normally with copyright violations this is biggest in China, India and other countries with large populations"
Pregnant Women have filed a class-action countersuit claiming prior art, but are not expect to win as they didn't give any cash to elected officials.
Senator Joe Bung(R) said "I know my mother doesn't agree with this case but the fact is she broke the DMCA when she had me, I'd much of prefered to have been printed out and it would have been easier for ma, women must realise that this is a natural thing and we must let the market decide."
Developing multi-array radar for a certain island nation that was in operation lets say around 13 years ago leads me to believe that Stealth Fighters and Bombers are totally useless against 10 year old radar.
You don't even want to know how pointless those billions spent are when trying to evade next-gen radar.
Those are brilliant, Turing was IMO the only Einstein that computing has had. Hell that isn't too bad as Physics has only had Newton and Einstein from the very top draw. One in 200 years really isn't that bad.
Friends are not people who are scared of you.
The commonwealth is the third largest inter-goverment body on the planet after the UN and EU. The US has withdrawn from almost every international treaty there is. This is not how to win friends and influence people.
No these people are wrong, look at Dolphins, clearly Dolphins have two "wings" at the front and two at the back on the tail. This is clearly correct and my total lack of knowledge or understanding of the subject should not get in the way of this being accepted as being the correct evolutionary move from dinos to not birds but mammals. We all know that birds evolved from insects as insects are what birds eats which means birds are cannibals. ... the worrying thing is how many people have read to this stage and thought "yeah, what do all those Chinese science guys know, how long have they been doing science? Wha d'yu mean they invented printing 2,000 years before the west... and gunpowder".
Slashdot, never let a lack of education get in the way of an opinion.
Which Jobs sold to Apple, I'm sure Perot got his money back on that deal.
Next was cool, excellent systems and pleasure to install. He flogged it back to Apple when the begged him to return
"Steve we need you back"
"I won't ask for a salary"
"Thats great"
"All you have to do is buy my current company for miles more than its really worth"
"Sure no worry Steve, whatever you say"
Europe has 50+ years of co-operation, and a history of it. Not everyone together, but a history of country alliances.
WWII, France, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark etc.
WWI, France, UK
The Brits and the Dutch used to have alliances against the French and the Spanish. The Germans and Austrians are pretty pally, lots of parts of Europe used to be owned by other countries, e.g. most of France by England, Alsace by Germany etc etc.
The Napoleonic wars were everyone v Napoleon. The Crimea was Brit and France v Russia.
In terms of the European defence industry being a joke, pretty harsh. Look at the contracts the US Goverment awards and look at the sub-contractors, Thales, Bae, Rolls-Royce are most often there.
Violent Crime in terms of rape and murder is MILES lower in Europe than the US. Muggings et al are higher, so we have unhappy people who live, and the US has unhappy relatives of people who died.
This isn't bloody American bashing, its laying out how Europe likes to co-operate to compete with the US Globalisation plan. Its a clash of cultures, each has their advantages and disadvantages.
Europe knows that the US is the biggest fish in the pond, but it also knows (to its cost) that being the biggest fish doesn't give you the right to dictate as you only get embarressed by what you did 100 years later.
WWI was started because the empire building powers thought that you could still fight a war from the 1800s with technology in the 1900s and that having plebs shot wasn't a very bad thing. Europe learnt alot from having tens of thousands of people die in a day.
Namely War does actually suck.
Being wrong is neither ironic, nor sarcastic.
Sarcasm would have been
"Yes in the same way that the French produce such great pop-music, they really show us up there"
Irony would have been
"and who made the money out of European ideas ?"
So you don't seem to have proven your point at this stage. But please keep trying, it shows you care.
Errr I really hate to break it to you about the two people you mentioned, but neither are French.
Computer Science: Alan Turing, UK.
The only genius computing has ever had, forced into topping himself because the UK goverment was homophobic.
The basic concern here is also reliance on technology that can be controlled by another goverment, the advantage of Open Source is not just financial but is also one of Intellectual Property. Most of Europe is politically much further to the left than the US and is pro-sharing. This is a major principle of the EU, as opposed to the US centric treaty that enables logging and exploitation on the other side of the pond.
So there is less of a clash of culture when considering open source, Europe understands why co-operation is good, that is how much of the European defence industry works already.
Now there is also the arrogant bit....
We think European Students can build better OSes than US corporations - Linus
We think that Europeans can build better enterprise systems - SAP
We think that the best things to come out of IBM were developed in Europe - MQSeries
So basically underpinning this is a belief that we don't have the cash to do better, but do have the talent. Most EU reports on Open Source software talk about leveraging this talent pool, and not having the marketing and release costs of a full scale company.
Its the difference between consent based and co-operative management and the approach taken over the pond.
Thousands of people died in a day.
In ONE battle (the Somme) 60,000 Allied forces died on the first day. This doesn't include the numbers that the Axis lost.
Part of the point of weapons such as this is to disable the military and reduce the number of dead, this leads to a less pissed off defeated nation than one that has just seen a large portion of its population killed.
Of course given that Iraq use Scuds which have bugger all electronics in them, and North Korea still appear to be point and fire propulsion rockets this would be really effective against the British and the French should they decide to attack the US.
Sort of like the Stealth Fighter, Iraq has bugger all radar that is any good but Stealth Fighters and Bombers still fly at 30,000 feet because Iraqi air defences don't reach that high. But to the British Navy's Radar a golf ball flying at 30,000 feet and 500mph is still at target that can be blown out of the sky.
What a dull book, these aren't interesting failures.
Now WorldCom, Enron, Tyco etc etc.... those are interesting failures.
We all used to think that
Can't
It would just prove that US citizens can remember more information than the rest of us thought...
That is why people are complaining about having a phone number in which they can't write a digit on each digit.
As someone who has learnt to touch type pretty successfully, which makes a huge difference to the way I work, I can't see these things being any use to me at all. You need to feel the gaps between the keys to indicate where they are. Sure for the "hunt and peck" mob out there this is a nice gadget to play with, but for a techy on the move who can actually type its not going to be useful.
I'd prefer a tiny keyboard (I can touch type on a Nokia Communicator, its just about adjusting slightly) than one with no tactile feel.
I understand why this will be great for somepeople, but for for speed typists this isn't very useful. Now a tactile glove might work a treat, well two of them obviously.
Its from the AMERICAN classic "To Kill a Mocking Bird", Atticus Finch is the lawyer at the centre of the book, and is actually the best shot in town. His point is that if you go into a room of angry people with a gun then they you are more likely to get shot than facing them as an unarmed man.
My quote is from a classic of literature, which member of the NRA came up with yours ?
Its a common thing with the slashdot crowd, something comes along with GPS and they moan about bluetooth (there could be issues with the GPS getting interference from bluetooth). If it had bluetooth it would be 802.11b, if it had that it would be the screen size, if it had that it would be too big.
HEY FOLKS A QUICK REALITY CHECK.
Having EVERYTHING costs money, these devices are aimed at sectors that want "just enough" at a reasonable price rather than "every damn thing under the sun" just so you can impress your mates.
If it had everything and was $1000 you'd bitch about the price.
In summary: The Slashdot crowd wants
A Tablet PC with a flexible paper thin screen that can be folded from the size of a credit card to A0, which has GPS, Bluetooth, Firewire 400 & 800, USB 1 and 2, every wireless connection method under the Sun, IRDA, Biometric authentication, works via a keyboard or a "keyboard glove", has a 15Ghz Transmeta processor, 1TB of RAM, 1PB of Storage, runs off a single AA battery for 3 year, runs Linux and responds to scribbles or the spoken word.
And costs under $100. Only then will people on Slashdot not moan about the features... except to complain how X they bought a year ago is now out of date and uncool.
What is most impressive about this book is the way it doesn't condemn the Xerox execs out of hand for not taking up ideas, it slates them for destroying the atmosphere that created those ideas. The execs made a bundle of cash out of Xerox Parc, sure they could have made more but it more than paid for itself as it was.
Where the execs went wrong was because they _tried_ to make Parc more commercial, and more commercially driven. The power of PARC was that it started as basically a University within a corporation, and the corporation gained many valuable elements from it. As soon as they moved towards a more commercial model (Star et al) then the suits began to exert more control and the brains began to leave or get pissed off.
Don't slate Xerox for not capitalising on all of the ideas, slate Xerox for trying to capitalise on PARC and destroying it in the process.
Xerox PARC invented the majority of the important technology today, in the sense that they made it a reality even if others had thought of it first. Your PC has windowing because Apple saw PARC, your PC has ethernet because they needed to network computers, your printer works because PARC made it so.
PARC founded the modern computing world, but commercialism and the attempt to exploit the ideas are what destroyed it. PARC made Xerox HUGE amounts of cash, it was a desire (greed?) to get even more than led to the bright lights leaving.
These bright lights have gone on to bigger and better things, how Xerox must now think "if only".
So what Mr Flat is really saying is that he hasn't looked at Eiffel, Ada, OCL or any design by contract work.
This really is a bizarre article that most first year students would get marked down for.
SMS is one of the biggest revenue generation tools for Mobile operators in Europe and Asia, there are millions of messages sent every day, at a cost that varies but taking 5c as an average wouldn't be too bad a guess.
So how the hell is this moderated as "Insightful" when the person who wrote it confused MSN, Yahoo Instant Messenger et al with the Short Message Service that comes with GSM mobile phones.
And to answer his question, you CAN pay for a reliable IM environment which includes auditing and many enterprises have already installed such products.
This move by Sun means that one of the largest HW vendors is looking at Linux as an OS.
Linux as the OS, Java as the environment, J2EE as the application platform.
IBM have gone this way, now Sun, HP already have too..... interesting times ahead.
For "global brand" read "US Brand" and this brand gives you the right to...
Actually it gives you the right to do nothing. The point here is that they are aiming to be an "approved" networking solution, so you would only connect to "approved" solutions providers, and your local coffee shop would not be approved but Starbucks sure as hell would be.
Welcome to the corporatisation of community efforts. They don't like Mom and Pop doing this, so they are starting a plan
1) Create a brand
2) Start calling it "approved"
3) Complain to councils and goverments about "un-approved" networks that are causing interfernce.
4) Get unapproved networks stopped.
5) Ramp up the price.
Of course they'd need to sign up the hardware vendors to ensure proper lock down... oh.... they've already thought of that
This and this (last item) very impressive and definately totally new and original and no-one has ever considered this before. Not these people bet it wouldn't occur to them in a millon years.
Oh and of course there are lots of mobile phone that do this already as well.
For real computing in Cars then look at Formula one. Launch Control, Engine Control, Automatic and Semi Automatic gearboxes, traction control etc etc etc.
These are cars that can be remotely re-tuned during a race. From a tech perspective its amazing.
However it ruins what should be a battle of man and machine and enables the big spenders to kill the little guys everytime. Computing is great for some things, but it too often reduces the skill required in sports like Motor Racing, making it a battle of programmers rather than drivers.
Fully automated remote racing with large cars might be quite cool, but what makes it really interesting is that people can make mistakes, and even better take risks that a computer wouldn't think are smart.