Current open-source developers could just choose to ignore this development model and continue with business as usual. Although you might as well get paid for something if you were planning to do it for free anyway. This is basically the way TopCoder develops proprietary software (which I personally don't like), but if the software is open source, it seems like a decent model.
The controversial software company creator - whose commercial success has led to hatred of him among his competitors - is worth an estimated $40 billion (22 billion).
I think maybe repeatedly breaking laws has more to do with this than jealousy. Anyway, what is the protocol for challenging a knight to a sword fight or joust?
He also mentions national security. I thought this guy was pretty low before, but trying to cash in on the thousands of people that died on 9/11 is truly discraceful.
I don't think the average grandma will be switching to Linux, but I think many businesses, schools, and governments will switch when it comes time to upgrade their OS. What business wants to spend several hundrends of dollars per user when they can have Linux/OpenOffice for free?
The government of Israel pays tens of millions of shekels every year to Microsoft.
That was one complaint from the article since you're too lazy to read it:) Maybe it also has something to do with running your government with insecure, closed source software that someone could easily slip some spyware into.
In general, it is better to find bugs at compile time than run time.
True, but there is a third option - at unit testing time. If your code has a full suite of unit tests (which IMO it should no matter what language you're using) then I think it would negate the potential for run time errors caused by dynamic typing. I'm just starting to do a large project in Jython, so I guess I'll find out if this theory is true!
Well as a Java programmer learning Python and Jython, I don't think this is true. Just looking at a quick example from my "Jython for Java Programmers" book (p290), one program written in Java is 24 lines of code, and the Jython version is 16 lines of code. And I didn't even count the 5 lines of trailing } in the the Java version, so it could have been 31 lines!
BTW, thanks for your sig - it got me starting to look at Python. Now I'm starting to implement a major project with Jython, and I'm sure I'll be much more productive than with Java.
Personnaly I think Jython/Tapestry/Hibernate may be the ultimate web development platform, but I haven't used Zope much... I've witnessed that the Struts/EJB approach is not very productive.
Sorry about your accident, but what harm would it be for a passenger to be some work on thier laptop while you are driving? I don't think keyboard clicking is too distracting.
I'm making about 75% of what I made from 1999-2002, which is still a decent living. Everyone will be better off if developing countries become more prosperous and self-sufficient.
Prices can be more attractive and all but the quality of service and reliability still pales in comparison to traditional telco.
I think this is similar to the reason lots of people are switching to OpenOffice. It's good enough for most people and the price is right. If VoIP is cheaper, but less reliable, first poor people will switch to it (or people who want to save money), then as quality improves more and more people will switch. Eventually it will be world domination.
With our education and health care system theoretically getting betting you would think these numbers would go down. Sad that you think thousands of people dying is no big deal.
Milloy noted that despite all the chemicals, the overall U.S. population is living longer and healthier.
I guess that's why the rate of cancer has dramatically increased in the last 30 years. It's interesting that it started to decline in 1991. I wonder what happened then???
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Swing is pretty slow, and I don't see sun promoting any of the alternatives yet.
You need SWT. But I don't think you'll see sun promoting it:)
Just skip this and program in much better JVM based languages than Java:
Scala
Nice
I think AWT is better than SWT
Sure, maybe if you don't need silly controls like tables or trees, then awt is great.
Like the Ghandi quote:
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Linux has already won on the server, next the desktop.
Current open-source developers could just choose to ignore this development model and continue with business as usual. Although you might as well get paid for something if you were planning to do it for free anyway. This is basically the way TopCoder develops proprietary software (which I personally don't like), but if the software is open source, it seems like a decent model.
The controversial software company creator - whose commercial success has led to hatred of him among his competitors - is worth an estimated $40 billion (22 billion).
I think maybe repeatedly breaking laws has more to do with this than jealousy. Anyway, what is the protocol for challenging a knight to a sword fight or joust?
He also mentions national security. I thought this guy was pretty low before, but trying to cash in on the thousands of people that died on 9/11 is truly discraceful.
So somebody should just fork it. Sounds similar to the JBoss(tm)/Geronimo project.
Yes, I agree. Maybe it will run on mono someday...
Here's some cool open source dental software - Open Dental. Could be expanded into what you're talking about.
I don't think the average grandma will be switching to Linux, but I think many businesses, schools, and governments will switch when it comes time to upgrade their OS. What business wants to spend several hundrends of dollars per user when they can have Linux/OpenOffice for free?
The licence will be available both directly and through SCO's 11,000 resellers.
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The government of Israel pays tens of millions of shekels every year to Microsoft.
That was one complaint from the article since you're too lazy to read it:) Maybe it also has something to do with running your government with insecure, closed source software that someone could easily slip some spyware into.
In general, it is better to find bugs at compile time than run time.
True, but there is a third option - at unit testing time. If your code has a full suite of unit tests (which IMO it should no matter what language you're using) then I think it would negate the potential for run time errors caused by dynamic typing. I'm just starting to do a large project in Jython, so I guess I'll find out if this theory is true!
Well as a Java programmer learning Python and Jython, I don't think this is true. Just looking at a quick example from my "Jython for Java Programmers" book (p290), one program written in Java is 24 lines of code, and the Jython version is 16 lines of code. And I didn't even count the 5 lines of trailing } in the the Java version, so it could have been 31 lines!
BTW, thanks for your sig - it got me starting to look at Python. Now I'm starting to implement a major project with Jython, and I'm sure I'll be much more productive than with Java.
Personnaly I think Jython/Tapestry /Hibernate may be the ultimate web development platform, but I haven't used Zope much... I've witnessed that the Struts/EJB approach is not very productive.
And it also applies to other car passengers.
Sorry about your accident, but what harm would it be for a passenger to be some work on thier laptop while you are driving? I don't think keyboard clicking is too distracting.
I'm making about 75% of what I made from 1999-2002, which is still a decent living. Everyone will be better off if developing countries become more prosperous and self-sufficient.
yes, but I don't patronize jack-asses.
Prices can be more attractive and all but the quality of service and reliability still pales in comparison to traditional telco.
I think this is similar to the reason lots of people are switching to OpenOffice. It's good enough for most people and the price is right. If VoIP is cheaper, but less reliable, first poor people will switch to it (or people who want to save money), then as quality improves more and more people will switch. Eventually it will be world domination.
With our education and health care system theoretically getting betting you would think these numbers would go down. Sad that you think thousands of people dying is no big deal.
This is the graph for 20-54 year olds. It shows an increase as well.
Milloy noted that despite all the chemicals, the overall U.S. population is living longer and healthier.
I guess that's why the rate of cancer has dramatically increased in the last 30 years. It's interesting that it started to decline in 1991. I wonder what happened then???
Ok, that's true. I guess I'm still using Word 6.0 on my legacy Windows computer...