Since JDK 1.4.1.something Java has shipped with multiple other memory management options specifically designed to minimize problems caused by stop-the-world garbage collection. Tell your colleagues to upgrade their JDK then activate the "CMS" garbage collector via command line switches.
GPL: In payment for me letting you use my work, you will in turn let your users use the work you derive from it. If my work is valuable enough to you, it will be worth it. BSD: In payment for me letting you use my work, you will put me in a copyright notice.
I don't see why BSD is so much better for a developer. Why do you think it is?
I don't buy the freedom argument; if you truly cared about freedom, why place any restrictions on what can be done with your code at all? Public domain is clearly more free than BSD.
So, did one rich guy buy 9,999,999 zunes? And then Ballmer's bought one for his uncle?
I don't see how they could possibly con a million real people into suffering under their lame slow-to-set-up restricted and annoying version of music sharing.
Reasonable perspective, actually. It's for programmers, not people wanting to play a game. Programmers can compile things. By definition. If you can't jump that hurdle, the whole thing is certain to be useless to you, so why should anybody waste their time trying to support you wasting yours?
Yes, it has changed - the other people you know now have blackberries, and they can enter text even faster than you by using a good but still tiny and portable qwerty keyboard.
The legal protections on your checking account are significantly weaker than the legal protections on your credit card. The amount of headaches a lost/stolen/counterfeited card could cause you are much much worse on the ACH system than with Visa/MC. This would be great for merchants - so you shouldn't use it, you're the customer, and it's bad for you.
The IEEE study you linked found absolutely nothing except that people break the rules and make cell phone calls. There was absolutely nothing to support that it actually causes a problem in any way. They *mentioned* separate NASA studies that theorized cutting into safety limits but did not test or show any actual problem.
Get us a game worth playing, and we'll want to buy it. Should be a no-brainer. Maybe Sony should try to hire some people from Nintendo. Nintendo has to have somebody with a clue who thinks that powerful hardware would be nice to run a good game on.
The Alpharetta location is because there are a *huge* number of Tech jobs at GA 400 exit 11. Cingular's got a data center and their IT organization across the street, along with what's left of Nortel; Lucent is just up the road ; various smaller offices scattered around. Still, it's surprising Fry's couldn't find another major tech concentration somewhere further away, I know their Gwinnett store had enough draw to pull some people from Alpharetta over to it, it's surprising that they would want to split the sales when they could just build somewhere else entirely.
Oddly enough, Atlanta now has two Fry's, within a half hour drive of each other. Why there would be an 8 hour drive dead zone then two within 30 minutes I don't know, but there you have it.
Problem is, this perspective doesn't scale. Maybe you can do it in one particular area, but there is too much to learn about too many areas for one man to cover it all. You can't be your own carpenter, electrician, glazier, doctor, lawyer, mechanic, fitness instructor, nutritionist, cook, maid, appliance repairman, and plumber all at once - there isn't enough time in your life to learn everything required about every field, and even if there was, sometimes there are better uses for your time. So why think less of people who recognize this basic fact? Should they sneer at you if you can't assemble your own computer or bake your own wedding cake, like you sneer at them if they don't fix their own toilet?
Nextel sold a dual iDEN/GSM phone for travellers (i930). They also sold some GSM-only phones for international use, but those wouldn't work on the nextel U.S. network (v505, v180). But, they had no GSM network in America. http://www.nextel.com/en/support/faq/worldwide.sht ml#worldwide_q3
Hm. Appears that PCS can be GSM, but in Sprint's case, it isn't - they run CDMA. PCS is specifically the frequency, 1900mhz, not the communication method used on the frequency. Doh. Anyway, original point remains - Cingular or T-mobile for GSM in America.
This stuff is easy to check with Google. Sprint is PCS. PCS isn't GSM. Their official solution for travelling to Europe is renting a GSM phone from them. Alltell gained some GSM in an aquisition, but doesn't actively sell it to customers; they are CDMA.
Did you just skip the first half of the article, where he was talking about the difficulties and cost of retail distribution and shelf space and physical boxes?
It is pretty standard in the US for unions to insist on a seniority system (where you are judged and rewarded primarily based on how long you have worked for a company), while a lot of common people and especially capable hard working people prefer the concept of a meritocracy (where you are judged and rewarded primarily based on the results you generate). So, many people who think of themselves as capable hard workers tends to dislike unions, because seniority systems lead to a lot of slackers.
Carriers in the past have indeed refused to sell phones specifically due to these features.
This sort of thing is slowly changing, particularly on GSM phones, but you will still find some features to be disallowed by the phone companies - it's very hard to download content like ringtones or games onto any phone sold by certain companies - unless you pay the company for the priviledge.
Unfortunately, the write-up doesn't help. You start to explain, then say it would be too difficult to explain any detail, and then just say that Interlink claims to have patented something like the Wii remote. Which we already knew before reading your explanation.
What I wanted to know was, how does one tell whether Interlink really does have a patent on the Wii remote? Does the Ninendo remote need to match all of the 'independent claims'? Just one? Or dependent claims? Does a 'dependent claim' narrow the corresponding independent claim, so if you vary in a detail you're ok? Or is it just an example, or just there in case the independent claim is ruled too broad? You mention one can be thrown out without the other, but due to their naming this doesn't make immediate sense, so maybe some of your expertise could shed some light on how something that is labelled 'dependent' can stand up after whatever it depends on is struck down?
The most common software testing solution that effectively tests a system of the complexity you have described is called "Production". Amazing how effective the "Production" environment is at locating all of the hard to find bugs. Anything less just won't do.
Short of 'production', Mercury makes some excellent tools, but they're more for automated regression or load than for full coverage.
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Since JDK 1.4.1.something Java has shipped with multiple other memory management options specifically designed to minimize problems caused by stop-the-world garbage collection. Tell your colleagues to upgrade their JDK then activate the "CMS" garbage collector via command line switches.
GPL: In payment for me letting you use my work, you will in turn let your users use the work you derive from it. If my work is valuable enough to you, it will be worth it.
BSD: In payment for me letting you use my work, you will put me in a copyright notice.
I don't see why BSD is so much better for a developer. Why do you think it is?
I don't buy the freedom argument; if you truly cared about freedom, why place any restrictions on what can be done with your code at all? Public domain is clearly more free than BSD.
Nope, can't be done, sorry.
Next story.
So, did one rich guy buy 9,999,999 zunes? And then Ballmer's bought one for his uncle?
I don't see how they could possibly con a million real people into suffering under their lame slow-to-set-up restricted and annoying version of music sharing.
Reasonable perspective, actually.
It's for programmers, not people wanting to play a game. Programmers can compile things. By definition. If you can't jump that hurdle, the whole thing is certain to be useless to you, so why should anybody waste their time trying to support you wasting yours?
Yes, it has changed - the other people you know now have blackberries, and they can enter text even faster than you by using a good but still tiny and portable qwerty keyboard.
The legal protections on your checking account are significantly weaker than the legal protections on your credit card. The amount of headaches a lost/stolen/counterfeited card could cause you are much much worse on the ACH system than with Visa/MC. This would be great for merchants - so you shouldn't use it, you're the customer, and it's bad for you.
The IEEE study you linked found absolutely nothing except that people break the rules and make cell phone calls.
There was absolutely nothing to support that it actually causes a problem in any way.
They *mentioned* separate NASA studies that theorized cutting into safety limits but did not test or show any actual problem.
Nonsense. Link to something support your completely wrong claim?7 february01.htm#maintain says they charge a pittance to keep a patent going.
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee200
It really as broken as people claim it is.
Get us a game worth playing, and we'll want to buy it.
Should be a no-brainer.
Maybe Sony should try to hire some people from Nintendo. Nintendo has to have somebody with a clue who thinks that powerful hardware would be nice to run a good game on.
You forgot: 4) Has more than one game you might want to play
Did you ask them why they hate their customers? That's what I really want to understand.
The Alpharetta location is because there are a *huge* number of Tech jobs at GA 400 exit 11. Cingular's got a data center and their IT organization across the street, along with what's left of Nortel; Lucent is just up the road ; various smaller offices scattered around. Still, it's surprising Fry's couldn't find another major tech concentration somewhere further away, I know their Gwinnett store had enough draw to pull some people from Alpharetta over to it, it's surprising that they would want to split the sales when they could just build somewhere else entirely.
Oddly enough, Atlanta now has two Fry's, within a half hour drive of each other. Why there would be an 8 hour drive dead zone then two within 30 minutes I don't know, but there you have it.
Problem is, this perspective doesn't scale. Maybe you can do it in one particular area, but there is too much to learn about too many areas for one man to cover it all. You can't be your own carpenter, electrician, glazier, doctor, lawyer, mechanic, fitness instructor, nutritionist, cook, maid, appliance repairman, and plumber all at once - there isn't enough time in your life to learn everything required about every field, and even if there was, sometimes there are better uses for your time. So why think less of people who recognize this basic fact? Should they sneer at you if you can't assemble your own computer or bake your own wedding cake, like you sneer at them if they don't fix their own toilet?
Nextel sold a dual iDEN/GSM phone for travellers (i930). They also sold some GSM-only phones for international use, but those wouldn't work on the nextel U.S. network (v505, v180). But, they had no GSM network in America. http://www.nextel.com/en/support/faq/worldwide.sht ml#worldwide_q3
Hm. Appears that PCS can be GSM, but in Sprint's case, it isn't - they run CDMA. PCS is specifically the frequency, 1900mhz, not the communication method used on the frequency. Doh. Anyway, original point remains - Cingular or T-mobile for GSM in America.
This stuff is easy to check with Google. Sprint is PCS. PCS isn't GSM. Their official solution for travelling to Europe is renting a GSM phone from them. Alltell gained some GSM in an aquisition, but doesn't actively sell it to customers; they are CDMA.
Nah, it's because they hired the same accountants the movie studios use to prove that a $100 million profit is actually a loss.
Did you just skip the first half of the article, where he was talking about the difficulties and cost of retail distribution and shelf space and physical boxes?
It is pretty standard in the US for unions to insist on a seniority system (where you are judged and rewarded primarily based on how long you have worked for a company), while a lot of common people and especially capable hard working people prefer the concept of a meritocracy (where you are judged and rewarded primarily based on the results you generate). So, many people who think of themselves as capable hard workers tends to dislike unions, because seniority systems lead to a lot of slackers.
At at least two of the jobs I have worked, not giving notice causes HR to flag you so that you are not eligible for re-hire.
And, one question that a new employer may ask a prior employer, and the prior employer may choose to answer, is "Would you re-hire this person?".
So, it can indeed affect the quality of your references, by burning that bridge or not.
Carriers in the past have indeed refused to sell phones specifically due to these features.
This sort of thing is slowly changing, particularly on GSM phones, but you will still find some features to be disallowed by the phone companies - it's very hard to download content like ringtones or games onto any phone sold by certain companies - unless you pay the company for the priviledge.
Unfortunately, the write-up doesn't help. You start to explain, then say it would be too difficult to explain any detail, and then just say that Interlink claims to have patented something like the Wii remote. Which we already knew before reading your explanation.
What I wanted to know was, how does one tell whether Interlink really does have a patent on the Wii remote? Does the Ninendo remote need to match all of the 'independent claims'? Just one? Or dependent claims? Does a 'dependent claim' narrow the corresponding independent claim, so if you vary in a detail you're ok? Or is it just an example, or just there in case the independent claim is ruled too broad? You mention one can be thrown out without the other, but due to their naming this doesn't make immediate sense, so maybe some of your expertise could shed some light on how something that is labelled 'dependent' can stand up after whatever it depends on is struck down?
The most common software testing solution that effectively tests a system of the complexity you have described is called "Production". Amazing how effective the "Production" environment is at locating all of the hard to find bugs. Anything less just won't do.
Short of 'production', Mercury makes some excellent tools, but they're more for automated regression or load than for full coverage.