Dow Corning and the silicone breast implant bankruptcy is a prime example
Amen to that, my father worked for Dow Corning for 35 years befor being "let go" in the middle of that debacle. He said it used to be a great place to work before all that started happening. Heck, I worked there for a few summers, the first summer the morale was great, later years not so much. All for what? So a bunch of women who couldn't follow the care instructions for their, mostly elective, surgical implants could get a nice fat settlement.
Luckily he was going to retire a couple of years later and ended up doing quite well out of his redundancy, however, there were others who were unfortunate to be far enough away from retirement that they couldn't take it early, yet too old to even be considered by many other companies for employment.
10 since it was released. Now, lets add 6months - 1year for ramping up production and we're at 11. But wait! What good is ramping up production if you have no chip design to produce from? Lets add another few years for that. Ok, now I'm not saying that 20 years is factually correct, but 15-16 years is definitely (in my mind) feasable.
We already know Microsoft has been caught stealing code many times, what is still lurking?
Um, care to elaborate some on that? As far as I know Microsoft has never been "caugh stealing code". If you mean them using BSD code for the telnet and ftp programmes, well, that's perfectly fine and allowable under the BSD license. The copyright (Regents of the University of California, Berkeley) is still clearly visible if you run strings on the exe, and they probably have acknowledgement of the origin of those apps in the documentation, buried somewhere.
...to perform any copyrighted song, you must simply pay the performance royalties. Many venues, however, will be covered by a blanket license which procludes even having to do this for every performance.
At $40/mo for my own box, I was expecting a fairly high level of service
I hope you realise how clueless that sentence makes you sound? $40 a month for a dedicated leased box puts you firmly in the "budget customer with little to spend" category. When you are paying ~£350.00 p/box p/month with places like Rackspace (last time I checked), then you can expect a high level of service (unless you run an indymedia site, then you're screwed whichever way you turn). True, the company shouldn't offer such low prices if they can only fulfill them with flaky hardware, but come on, for that little a month you are going to be on a heavily overloaded 10mbit port getting speads slower than first gen broadband.
I'm sure many people will reply below that I'm wrong and you can get great support for $40.00 a month, but those places are few and far between. And even then, what happens if you have a piece of hardware fail? Do they have spares to swap in or are their margins so low they have to order in parts when stuff goes wrong?
When it comes to hosting I think the real problem is in the rise of the clueless "I'll rent a box with ev1servers and start a hosting company, how hard can it be?". You can always tell one of those from the "big boys" when you visit their homepage and they've got the same templatemonster "hosting" template (or variation thereon) that every other fly-by-nighter has.
...XMLHTTPRequest (what AJAX is a buzzword for) was first introduced by Microsoft in IE 5.5. Gecko based browsers then implemented XMLHTTPRequest a little later (changing the methods slightly).
Originally it was an ActiveX based control that got loaded by IE to perform this function, that's not the case as of IE 6.
is really not a steaming pile at all. It's the only decent app out there that handles vector graphics as well as bitmapped equally well. It's a godsend for an awful lot of people. Plus, it's much easier to "dive in" than with photoshop for someone who doesn't do much graphics work, but is forced to every now and then.
PNG support is also much better, it produces smaller, better quality files than Photoshop manages to.
I do agree with your comment on freehand however, it is indeed doodooo.
where, because of the differing frame rates, american series and all films are played ~4% faster. Over here you'll only have to site through 31,202 minutes, or roughly a day less;o)
Google for "AMD Intel Antitrust" and see what you find. Basically Intel has allegedly been maintaining its monopoly via unorthodox (and in some cases plain illegal) means.
People like Dell are 100% Intel because if they sell even 1 AMD chip they will lose millions in back-hander "Advertising Funds" that Intel ply's them with.
The other reason they haven't been so popular in the data centre is that there has been a dirth of quality enterprise-level chipsets. The 4 and 8 Ways that Sun and IBM currently sell should sort that out thought.
The other problem is that the ignorant public at large still think AMD chips run hot and guzzle power when it's the inverse that is actuall true, Athlon/Turion/Opterons run cool whereas Pentium 4 and Xeon's are hotter than hell and suck up juice like a souped-up SUV.
Don't forget you can mention it on your CV and in Job interviews, that's sure to impress people in-the-know when you're up for that Java programming job.
The only thing that gives you "Raw control over the execution path" is assembly language.
Your c/c++ compiler is going to be making optimisations and tweaks to your code such that you can't exactly predict the way it will be working unless you know the inner workings of it as intimately as the people who work on it..
Garbage collectors have advanced in leaps and bounds since they were first introduced, gone are the days of the painfully naive mark-and-sweep algorithms. In some cases generational GC can be faster than manual memory management by all but the top 1% of c/c++ experts.
I challenge your "a few seconds" assertation however and expect it to be nothing more than FUD. If it isn't then your server/s are vastly underpowered for the application and you're insane to be offering SLAs based what sounds like a fairly low available capacity.
The reason is reduced cost of maintenance (no expensive app server admins) and to allow a far greater number of people to purchase and make use of our software. PHP hosting is still far more abundant and for the most part far cheaper.
We do use J2EE for larger bespoke projects (such as a complete asset tracking system for a large optics retailer we're working on at the moment). It's all about using the right tool for the job, smaller CMS and e-Commerce systems can be far better served using the PHP setup.
It also wasn't a lot of work to achieve our goals, 99% of it is just discipline, the other 1% is making sure you seperate stuff.
Our e-commerce and CMS platform is highly maintainable and is written in PHP.
We use a template library for all xhtml outputwhich is fully xhtml 1.0 compliant, all javascript and CSS is in external files, never inline.
In one swoop that's your display (xhtml+javascript+css) taken care of in a maintainable way. If a client wants a completely different look and feel for their system we merely tweak the css and/or templates and they are good to go, no messing with the business logic.
We've got a robust set of in-house libraries for dealing with things like sessions, authentication, data munging and whatnot, these are all kept in seperate library files and only included where necessary. We also use some brilliant third party libs, such as the excellent ADOdb and Smarty. All of our big libraries are extendable classes which allows us to easily plugin different components (e.g. we support 4 text editor widgets, WysiwygPRO, TinyMCE, FCKEditor and plain ol' textarea and image resizing and cropping via ImageMagick or GD2).
Finally, we use fusebox to promote code reuse and to logically compartmentalise the application, it really helps logic when you can break stuff down into circuits (eg admin, shop, customer login) and actions (add user, add to cart, checkout).
It's taken a few years to get to where we are (from the old way of php mixed with css mixed with html all in one file) but we've managed the transition and now have two platforms that are so ludricously easy to extend that we now allow clients access to do it (via a plugin API).
Whatever happened to the "applet" concept? True, there were problems with it initially, but one would think that these problems could have been solved by now. Instead, the industry turned away from nice clean designs to the brutal mess that is today's web app.
AFAIK applets still have major problems with accessability that you just don't get even with fairly rich dhtml stuff.
...the US has been throwing hissy tantrum-fits because:
Galileo will give private citizens much more accurate positioning data: Oh noes, terrorists will be aided!
They can't turn it of as and when they wantL Oh noes, terrorists will be aided!
Europe has for the most part steadfastly refused to allow the US to implement a backdoor that would allow them to jam Galileo signals: Oh noes, terrorists will be aided!
So we go and make our own and you still get upset!
IIRC, VideoLan plays back DVD's out of the box. MPEG2 is only licensed in countries where software patents are valid, VideoLan is developed in France which I believe does not have them, ergo, free and legal.
...in a corp IT environment "answered within hours, sometimes minutes" doesn't cut it. If you wanted to deploy Gentoo in any serious company setting you need to know that there are people you can call 24-7 who know how to fix whatever's not working.
I've never used Gentoo before (fedora man myself) but for it to be taken seriously for hosting critical apps this type of service is required.
You and I both know any competent sysadmin worth their salt will know how to diagnose and fix problems but PHB's want to be able to phone a vendor and vent down the phone, it's like a comfort blanket to them.
It would be possible to integrate it with outlook with full calendaring support etc. by writing a MAPI plugin. Some other third party exchange replacements do this (such as Communigate Pro).
In fact, when I moved from outlook to thunderbird for my mailbox (got to be over 2GB and kept getting corrupted by Outlook) I used the Communigate Pro MAPI plugin to migrate my mail across (thunderbird import stripped html from html mails so I had to use an IMAP server to do it, but Outlook and IMAP suck).
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Dow Corning and the silicone breast implant bankruptcy is a prime example
Amen to that, my father worked for Dow Corning for 35 years befor being "let go" in the middle of that debacle. He said it used to be a great place to work before all that started happening. Heck, I worked there for a few summers, the first summer the morale was great, later years not so much. All for what? So a bunch of women who couldn't follow the care instructions for their, mostly elective, surgical implants could get a nice fat settlement.
Luckily he was going to retire a couple of years later and ended up doing quite well out of his redundancy, however, there were others who were unfortunate to be far enough away from retirement that they couldn't take it early, yet too old to even be considered by many other companies for employment.
Coral Cache of the image
Quoth the image: Show stopper, but only observed by Intel so far. Also, any OS developer who codes like this deserves this one.
10 since it was released. Now, lets add 6months - 1year for ramping up production and we're at 11. But wait! What good is ramping up production if you have no chip design to produce from? Lets add another few years for that. Ok, now I'm not saying that 20 years is factually correct, but 15-16 years is definitely (in my mind) feasable.
We already know Microsoft has been caught stealing code many times, what is still lurking?
Um, care to elaborate some on that? As far as I know Microsoft has never been "caugh stealing code". If you mean them using BSD code for the telnet and ftp programmes, well, that's perfectly fine and allowable under the BSD license. The copyright (Regents of the University of California, Berkeley) is still clearly visible if you run strings on the exe, and they probably have acknowledgement of the origin of those apps in the documentation, buried somewhere.
That functionality was only added in SP2, I believe the GP poster was referring to the original firewall in the original XP (pre service pack).
...to perform any copyrighted song, you must simply pay the performance royalties. Many venues, however, will be covered by a blanket license which procludes even having to do this for every performance.
At $40/mo for my own box, I was expecting a fairly high level of service
I hope you realise how clueless that sentence makes you sound? $40 a month for a dedicated leased box puts you firmly in the "budget customer with little to spend" category. When you are paying ~£350.00 p/box p/month with places like Rackspace (last time I checked), then you can expect a high level of service (unless you run an indymedia site, then you're screwed whichever way you turn). True, the company shouldn't offer such low prices if they can only fulfill them with flaky hardware, but come on, for that little a month you are going to be on a heavily overloaded 10mbit port getting speads slower than first gen broadband.
I'm sure many people will reply below that I'm wrong and you can get great support for $40.00 a month, but those places are few and far between. And even then, what happens if you have a piece of hardware fail? Do they have spares to swap in or are their margins so low they have to order in parts when stuff goes wrong?
When it comes to hosting I think the real problem is in the rise of the clueless "I'll rent a box with ev1servers and start a hosting company, how hard can it be?". You can always tell one of those from the "big boys" when you visit their homepage and they've got the same templatemonster "hosting" template (or variation thereon) that every other fly-by-nighter has.
...was it an African or European swallow they gave the answer for?
...XMLHTTPRequest (what AJAX is a buzzword for) was first introduced by Microsoft in IE 5.5. Gecko based browsers then implemented XMLHTTPRequest a little later (changing the methods slightly).
Originally it was an ActiveX based control that got loaded by IE to perform this function, that's not the case as of IE 6.
is really not a steaming pile at all. It's the only decent app out there that handles vector graphics as well as bitmapped equally well. It's a godsend for an awful lot of people. Plus, it's much easier to "dive in" than with photoshop for someone who doesn't do much graphics work, but is forced to every now and then.
PNG support is also much better, it produces smaller, better quality files than Photoshop manages to.
I do agree with your comment on freehand however, it is indeed doodooo.
...even better.
Steve: Sure guys, that's a great idea, we'll start charging more for premium tracks...
EMI Execs: Woot!
Steve: whoah, hold on there sparky! I said we'll be charging more for premium tracks. We'll be giving you the same amount as we do now.
where, because of the differing frame rates, american series and all films are played ~4% faster. Over here you'll only have to site through 31,202 minutes, or roughly a day less ;o)
Google for "AMD Intel Antitrust" and see what you find. Basically Intel has allegedly been maintaining its monopoly via unorthodox (and in some cases plain illegal) means.
People like Dell are 100% Intel because if they sell even 1 AMD chip they will lose millions in back-hander "Advertising Funds" that Intel ply's them with.
The other reason they haven't been so popular in the data centre is that there has been a dirth of quality enterprise-level chipsets. The 4 and 8 Ways that Sun and IBM currently sell should sort that out thought.
The other problem is that the ignorant public at large still think AMD chips run hot and guzzle power when it's the inverse that is actuall true, Athlon/Turion/Opterons run cool whereas Pentium 4 and Xeon's are hotter than hell and suck up juice like a souped-up SUV.
Don't forget you can mention it on your CV and in Job interviews, that's sure to impress people in-the-know when you're up for that Java programming job.
The only thing that gives you "Raw control over the execution path" is assembly language.
Your c/c++ compiler is going to be making optimisations and tweaks to your code such that you can't exactly predict the way it will be working unless you know the inner workings of it as intimately as the people who work on it..
Garbage collectors have advanced in leaps and bounds since they were first introduced, gone are the days of the painfully naive mark-and-sweep algorithms. In some cases generational GC can be faster than manual memory management by all but the top 1% of c/c++ experts.
I challenge your "a few seconds" assertation however and expect it to be nothing more than FUD. If it isn't then your server/s are vastly underpowered for the application and you're insane to be offering SLAs based what sounds like a fairly low available capacity.
The reason is reduced cost of maintenance (no expensive app server admins) and to allow a far greater number of people to purchase and make use of our software. PHP hosting is still far more abundant and for the most part far cheaper.
We do use J2EE for larger bespoke projects (such as a complete asset tracking system for a large optics retailer we're working on at the moment). It's all about using the right tool for the job, smaller CMS and e-Commerce systems can be far better served using the PHP setup.
It also wasn't a lot of work to achieve our goals, 99% of it is just discipline, the other 1% is making sure you seperate stuff.
...and should stick to it.
Our e-commerce and CMS platform is highly maintainable and is written in PHP.
We use a template library for all xhtml outputwhich is fully xhtml 1.0 compliant, all javascript and CSS is in external files, never inline.
In one swoop that's your display (xhtml+javascript+css) taken care of in a maintainable way. If a client wants a completely different look and feel for their system we merely tweak the css and/or templates and they are good to go, no messing with the business logic.
We've got a robust set of in-house libraries for dealing with things like sessions, authentication, data munging and whatnot, these are all kept in seperate library files and only included where necessary. We also use some brilliant third party libs, such as the excellent ADOdb and Smarty. All of our big libraries are extendable classes which allows us to easily plugin different components (e.g. we support 4 text editor widgets, WysiwygPRO, TinyMCE, FCKEditor and plain ol' textarea and image resizing and cropping via ImageMagick or GD2).
Finally, we use fusebox to promote code reuse and to logically compartmentalise the application, it really helps logic when you can break stuff down into circuits (eg admin, shop, customer login) and actions (add user, add to cart, checkout).
It's taken a few years to get to where we are (from the old way of php mixed with css mixed with html all in one file) but we've managed the transition and now have two platforms that are so ludricously easy to extend that we now allow clients access to do it (via a plugin API).
Whatever happened to the "applet" concept? True, there were problems with it initially, but one would think that these problems could have been solved by now. Instead, the industry turned away from nice clean designs to the brutal mess that is today's web app.
AFAIK applets still have major problems with accessability that you just don't get even with fairly rich dhtml stuff.
So we go and make our own and you still get upset!
simply set your power management to "Minimal" for a desktop and it uses C'N'Q, or at least id does on my Athlon64 d'top.
I've also got an AMD Turion 64 based laptop and for that, the good ol' laptop setting also makes it kick in.
...what a complete douche thompson is.
IIRC, VideoLan plays back DVD's out of the box. MPEG2 is only licensed in countries where software patents are valid, VideoLan is developed in France which I believe does not have them, ergo, free and legal.
What kind of support does Fedora offer, anyway? :)
The same as Gentoo up until now, none past community efforts like wiki's and the forums, which is why I use RHEL on any production machines ;o)
Number of times we've had to rely on support from RedHat? 0.
Warm fuzzy feeling we get from being able to rely on them, priceless.
...in a corp IT environment "answered within hours, sometimes minutes" doesn't cut it. If you wanted to deploy Gentoo in any serious company setting you need to know that there are people you can call 24-7 who know how to fix whatever's not working.
I've never used Gentoo before (fedora man myself) but for it to be taken seriously for hosting critical apps this type of service is required.
You and I both know any competent sysadmin worth their salt will know how to diagnose and fix problems but PHB's want to be able to phone a vendor and vent down the phone, it's like a comfort blanket to them.
It would be possible to integrate it with outlook with full calendaring support etc. by writing a MAPI plugin. Some other third party exchange replacements do this (such as Communigate Pro).
In fact, when I moved from outlook to thunderbird for my mailbox (got to be over 2GB and kept getting corrupted by Outlook) I used the Communigate Pro MAPI plugin to migrate my mail across (thunderbird import stripped html from html mails so I had to use an IMAP server to do it, but Outlook and IMAP suck).
...why biometrics are being woven into the protective blanket that is the passport.