I don't know much about Horus at all, but I would guess that its either a) too high-level and abstract of a solution to be of any practical use, or b) it doesn't natively support a number of environment like Java, C/C++, C#, etc.
Did you read the article? The whole point of this project, is they need something that can support more than just Java! As much as the people on the TSS.com like to feel, Java is not always the best solution and sometimes you do need to write some high perf. sensitive code in unmanaged code like C/C++. You can't do that with a JMS based solution, at least not easily.
I find it ironic, how IBM claims to be huge backers of open source. Yet Wall Street with all of their influence could not even convince IBM to open source the MQ Series product. They had to resort to building their own from scratch. The truth is, IBM only open source products where they have competitors they want to hurt, by commotitizing that type of software (i.e. supporting Linux & Eclipse to fight Microsoft over Windows & VS.Net).
Not saying there is anything wrong with, they are a company that wants to make money after all. It's just a bit strange coming from one of the largest financial backers of Linux.
What I'd like to see is a comparison of growth rates of major software companies. Even if Microsoft still comes out on top, at least the comparison would be relative to _something_.
Comparing Microsoft to other companies would be worthless, as the other companies could have either had bad quarters or good quarters. The only way to measure this is using a sector-wide metric, and if you do some research you will see that there aren't a lot of tech companies reporting above-average earnings right now.
That is not quite correct, there are a number of programs that MSFT offers its partners and ISVs, where you pay a fixed subscription fee and have free run for up to X number of licenses.
Same goes for the home theater setups. I've seen good DVD players hooked up via HDMI, and I've seen them hooked up via Component. It made no noticable difference to me.
I think most DVDs are only encoded in 480p at best. So component or HDMI are not going to make any difference if the input (the DVD) isn't superb to start with. Where this WILL make a difference is when you have the new HD-DVDs and/or Blu-Ray discs, with 1080p quality content.
You do realize who the author of the article is? Herb Sutter, he works on the C++ compiler team at Microsoft and IS THE CHAIR OF THE ISO C++ STANDARDS COMMITTEE.
It is important to have an understanding of the overall picture, but with macro there is a danger in over-simplifying too many things. People tend to overestimate their ability to predict/understand global trends with their limited understanding of macro theory. At least with micro, a lot of it is very practical and you can directly benefit from the knowledge & application of it.
If you have to pick only one, microeconomics is much more important to learn than macro. Microeconomic theory serves as a foundation for many commerce/business courses. In fact, I would go as far to say that micro is even more important than macro for most advanced economics classes.
... And this is coming from an economics major. There's a lot of practical knowledge to be gained from micro theory. I'm not sure the same could be said about macro because there are too many gross simplifications/assumptions built into a lot of it.
And the police would likely ignore single complaints. It's the ability for them to easily aggregrate the complaints from multiple users/travellers to indicate to them a real hazard and the current whereabouts of the dangerous driver. One complaint could mean anything, two complaints maybe concidence.. but three, four, fix, six complaints?? I think you get the idea.
Automatic warnings to all cars of accidents *the moment* it happens.. Think about how many lives could be saved if you could even warn oncoming cars a few seconds earlier.
Ability for travellers to self-police. If some guy is driving 60mph+ over the speed limit, likely you could have people report this driver.. Enough complaints and an officer will know where to respond.
Automatic 'fastest route' calculation based on traffic densities. No more guessing, you can just rely on computer algorithms using real-time information.
In related news, Sony will soon announce that all new TV models will use an encrypted signal to communicate between the remote and the box. Any third-party devices that attempt to imitate such remotes will be considered violations of the DMCA and thus be illegal to possess or manufacture.
.. And thus begins the demise of the universal remote.
No, you didn't. If you truly knew what was going on, you would have capitalized on it and shorted those stocks that were overvalued, while going long on the good ones. And you would have made a lot of money. Please do not kid yourself, you had a hunch, nothing more.
Hindsight is always 20/20. It's easy to play armchair quarterback, its quite another to put your money where your mouth is.
Making the OASIS Open Office XML format also an ISO standard would surely be nice and make it look better on paper to corporate and institutional IT managers.
And that is why you need it to be an ISO standard. If you want it to have any chance of successfully making its way through the huge EU bureacracy, it needs to be from a standards organization that is recognized by many, not just those in IT world ( and even there you will find people who have never heard of OASIS).
There's a problem with your analogy. This is a new processor and chipset, so likely it would not be compatible with that old hardware you have lying around. So if you wanted to make use of this technology, you would have to buy a new computer, or a new motherboard too at the very least (and then possibly new RAM as well).
Within a few years this new hardware you buy now would be back to that near-zero market value. But by then Wifi APs will likely be much cheaper than $100. Also the power consumption of the newer processors coming out of Intel and AMD these days is significantly higher than that of the 2 older machines you cited.
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I don't know much about Horus at all, but I would guess that its either a) too high-level and abstract of a solution to be of any practical use, or b) it doesn't natively support a number of environment like Java, C/C++, C#, etc.
Did you read the article? The whole point of this project, is they need something that can support more than just Java! As much as the people on the TSS.com like to feel, Java is not always the best solution and sometimes you do need to write some high perf. sensitive code in unmanaged code like C/C++. You can't do that with a JMS based solution, at least not easily.
I find it ironic, how IBM claims to be huge backers of open source. Yet Wall Street with all of their influence could not even convince IBM to open source the MQ Series product. They had to resort to building their own from scratch. The truth is, IBM only open source products where they have competitors they want to hurt, by commotitizing that type of software (i.e. supporting Linux & Eclipse to fight Microsoft over Windows & VS.Net).
Not saying there is anything wrong with, they are a company that wants to make money after all. It's just a bit strange coming from one of the largest financial backers of Linux.
It's called a warrant..
What I'd like to see is a comparison of growth rates of major software companies. Even if Microsoft still comes out on top, at least the comparison would be relative to _something_.
Comparing Microsoft to other companies would be worthless, as the other companies could have either had bad quarters or good quarters. The only way to measure this is using a sector-wide metric, and if you do some research you will see that there aren't a lot of tech companies reporting above-average earnings right now.
That is not quite correct, there are a number of programs that MSFT offers its partners and ISVs, where you pay a fixed subscription fee and have free run for up to X number of licenses.
He said the UK, not New York city.
Same goes for the home theater setups. I've seen good DVD players hooked up via HDMI, and I've seen them hooked up via Component. It made no noticable difference to me.
I think most DVDs are only encoded in 480p at best. So component or HDMI are not going to make any difference if the input (the DVD) isn't superb to start with. Where this WILL make a difference is when you have the new HD-DVDs and/or Blu-Ray discs, with 1080p quality content.
Of course, there are a zillion ways to binary encode XML, but none are a W3C standard.
Compilers are for code, not data. Xml is data.
Good idea. Without Microsoft's support from their tools division, this idea will be dead on arrival..
You do realize who the author of the article is? Herb Sutter, he works on the C++ compiler team at Microsoft and IS THE CHAIR OF THE ISO C++ STANDARDS COMMITTEE.
It is important to have an understanding of the overall picture, but with macro there is a danger in over-simplifying too many things. People tend to overestimate their ability to predict/understand global trends with their limited understanding of macro theory. At least with micro, a lot of it is very practical and you can directly benefit from the knowledge & application of it.
If you have to pick only one, microeconomics is much more important to learn than macro. Microeconomic theory serves as a foundation for many commerce/business courses. In fact, I would go as far to say that micro is even more important than macro for most advanced economics classes.
... And this is coming from an economics major. There's a lot of practical knowledge to be gained from micro theory. I'm not sure the same could be said about macro because there are too many gross simplifications/assumptions built into a lot of it.
And the police would likely ignore single complaints. It's the ability for them to easily aggregrate the complaints from multiple users/travellers to indicate to them a real hazard and the current whereabouts of the dangerous driver. One complaint could mean anything, two complaints maybe concidence.. but three, four, fix, six complaints?? I think you get the idea.
Va(++)ICs. (Vader, Imperial, Coruscant)
Signed,
Emperor Palpatine
I think you meant to say, when we rationalize and eliminate the legal profession?
In related news, Sony will soon announce that all new TV models will use an encrypted signal to communicate between the remote and the box. Any third-party devices that attempt to imitate such remotes will be considered violations of the DMCA and thus be illegal to possess or manufacture.
.. And thus begins the demise of the universal remote.
No, you didn't. If you truly knew what was going on, you would have capitalized on it and shorted those stocks that were overvalued, while going long on the good ones. And you would have made a lot of money. Please do not kid yourself, you had a hunch, nothing more.
Hindsight is always 20/20. It's easy to play armchair quarterback, its quite another to put your money where your mouth is.
At $150,000 per flight, I would think most people with that kind of money have at least a small appreciation of what risk means.
Whoa! Deja vu!
I just saw this story this morning on Slashdot about Virgin going into this kind of thing
Making the OASIS Open Office XML format also an ISO standard would surely be nice and make it look better on paper to corporate and institutional IT managers.
And that is why you need it to be an ISO standard. If you want it to have any chance of successfully making its way through the huge EU bureacracy, it needs to be from a standards organization that is recognized by many, not just those in IT world ( and even there you will find people who have never heard of OASIS).
Attach the '.txt' file extension to the filename. It should fix your problem for just about every version of Windows.
There's a problem with your analogy. This is a new processor and chipset, so likely it would not be compatible with that old hardware you have lying around. So if you wanted to make use of this technology, you would have to buy a new computer, or a new motherboard too at the very least (and then possibly new RAM as well).
Within a few years this new hardware you buy now would be back to that near-zero market value. But by then Wifi APs will likely be much cheaper than $100. Also the power consumption of the newer processors coming out of Intel and AMD these days is significantly higher than that of the 2 older machines you cited.