If there had been no resistance at all, we'd probably be seeing a much more mature and respectable online advertising industry instead of the random, haphazard, and very annoying multitude of spam king wannabes downloading their spam kits and setting up shop.
You forgot another advises:
don't lock the car. If there had been no resistance at all, we'd probably be seeing a much more mature and respectable "used car utilization" industry instead of the random, haphazard, and very annoying multitude of car thiefts stealing our cars, reaping them apart and selling all parts separately.
don't lock the home. If there had been no resistance at all, we'd probably be seeing a much more mature and respectable "house cleaning" industry instead of the random, haphazard, and very annoying multitude of house theives stealing our stereo.
don't use PINs on CCs. If there had been no resistance at all, we'd probably be seeing a much more mature and respectable "investment of unused money" industry instead of the random, haphazard, and very annoying multitude of stealing our money to spend them on porno sites.
Personally, I want to see the ad industry nowhere - I don't need any advertisement, all I want information. As for today, my postal and electronic mail boxes are full of repeatable and useless ads, while it's still hard to find on internet any useful information about products and services.
In my whole life the most interesting and even intriguing adventure was to install Linux From Scratch: you never know what's broken next and what is the fix for it, you learn a lot, you ask people online for advise and thus socialize with them.
I know, for video-game funs it sounds weird, but old guys who played adventure games on old TTY mainframe terminals will understand what I mean.
In Canada we, broadband users, are GB-charged: most of ISP set the cap and you pay a fixed price for traffic bellow the cap. But if you exceed the limit the price goes up exponentially. The cap is in average (among providers) 20GB download, 10GB upload. Sometimes it's combined to 25GB altogether (upload and download).
While I hate the fact that I am limited in traffic, I understand that if we all would be constantly exceeding the cap that would require ISP to install the equipment with more bandwidth and thus with more cost of their facilities. Also, they (ISPs) would have to have a better connections to their backbone providers. So, the concept "bytes cost money" seems reasonable, although, the tariffs should not punish regular people (those who don't download tons of mps and dozens of iso images).
The cosmic radiation rays exist not only around the Earth but all over the Universe. And if you right the they create many tiny black holes everywhere they exist. How would you call many tiny black objects? Dark fog! Eurica! I'v just found where the dark matter is hidden - it's a dark fog and it's everywhere!
And you know what? Now I feel much safier. If the dark fog didn't suck me before - why should it after?
Seriously, I am thinking that evaporation period is so long only for big black holes, which are ex-stars. The dark fog must evaporate much faster, keeping in the balance the rate of new born and just evaporated black holelets. Otherwhise we would have noticed the dark fog already.
I don't like PDAs: the size is too small to host good application and still too big for wearing around. And I dislike when PIM functions make the cell unwearable big. If I need to manage my personal information and to run any "field force management application" then I prefer a laptop or perhaps a tablet PC.
I wonder when the cell phones will get embedded printers, scanners and DVD-burners (keeping already embedded PDAs, camera and MP3 players)? That's the direction they push the cell phone market, isn't it?
So tell me again how Java, which runs mostly on servers, is forcing people to upgrade their PC because of UI bloat?
Java did already win (partially) the market of web-servers. And that did not force desktop users to upgrade their PCs. But now, after few previous failed attempts, Java comes again to desktops and if it will succeed it will force desktop users to upgrade their PCs. I thought it was clear.
Java is made by a company that doesn't make a desktop PC
Also, Sun doesn't make x86 desktop PCs. But IBM does and so does HP. And Sun make money on licensing other Java vendors. Besides, Sun is still trying to push low-end sparc station on the market of desktops - working in two diff companies I was invited to the meeting where Sun reps used their charm to sell us their Ultra-10 and similar workstation. And in in one case my boss even forced me to support that decision. I think, a part of the conspirancy is to push more Sparc workstations to the desktop market too.
Java versus ytho/Perl/CGI
Java is a right tool, let's say, in 20 % cases, but it's decided to be used in 80 % - looks disproportional to me.
Comparing Swing to Flash is like comparing Gnome with HTML. That's right...
... That right. I don't want use GNOME through the web - HTML is more appropriate. Java is general purpose programming language. When you use it in plugins you use only 20% of the language. Specialized web languages (HTML with Java/Ecma Script, some XML like XForms or SVG, Flash script) are more appriate - they require less memory, less efforts to program and debug and less problems in corporate infrastructure to support it.
The only explanation I can find about what's the motivation of such projects as Mozilla in Java is that the development was paid by PC manufacturersas moving big (especially with GUI) applications is the only way to push regular consumers to upgrade their PC.
Seriosuly. Today most of people (at least what I can see in North America) have already got home office desktop PCs power enough to run most of applications they need. Typically it's 500Mhz - 1GHz CPU with 256-512 MB RAM (Geeks! your super PCs are not in count here as you are a minority of the PC user base!). But for PC vendors it's obsolete - they want to sell more and more power PCs in order to sqeez more and more money from users. So, how to force customers to upgrade?
There several answers: CPU-expensive UI candies of win2k and XP, XML with SOAP (read.Net) where it's not needed, and of course Java.
First Java has been expanded on the server market, where M$ is weak. It's very well known: most of Java based server installations do what was easy to program and cheap to run using Apache/CGI/PHP/Perl/Python. Now they try again desktop applications. They have failed with SWING plugins: Macromedia Flash is way lighter. And they didn't have any chances unless users realized that Windows is not the only liable platform. So, here are coming again: Java based GUI-monsters.
Now I know why MySQL is popular and PostgreSQL is not: it's all about the name! Try to pronounce PostgreSQL 20 times fast enough. Now same with MySQL. Which one is easier? That's exactly what your boss is thinking, the guy who is paying your salary.
P.S. I wonder why SleepyCat is not the most popular database? Oh, I know - the boss afraids to leak any evidence of his child porns. Again, that's right - it's all about the name!
for some tasks MySQL is superior (like PHP websites).
and like Visual Basic. All three are superior for tasks , which assigned programmers who doesn't know (or even worse: is not capable to know) anything else.
Typical dialog with PHP programmer: "Why do you use PHP?" - "It's fast to develop comparing to C!" - "Have you tried Zope or Cocoon or Axkit?" - "No, but why? PHP is already fast." - "Have you tried to develop and *debug* complex web applications?" - "No, PHP is good for single pages and that's what I am doing."
Typical dialog with MySQL programmer: "Why do you use MySQL?" - "It's fast to develop comparing to BerkleyDB!" - "Have you tried PostgreSQL or Firebird?" - "No, but why? MySQL is already fast." - "Have you tried to develop and *debug* complex databases?" - "No, MySQL is good for single tables and that's what I am doing."
Sorry guys, my fault. I was meaning "dynamically evaluated", but typed "typed". I was distructed with the other article comparing different typing systems.
Thanks all of you for correcting me so the others won't be confused. Thanks also for your valuable opinions and very useful references.
Perhaps SCO has solid evidence of the date when the code first came to Unix. SCO (or anothe Unix vendor) might be hiring some coder-consultants and the description of the code could a part of the contract. Also, the code might bring some functionality you can discover visually, let's say you install the Unix (which one? I don't know) of earlier versions with the code and without it and see if the code really provides that functionality. Then date whan they released Unix with that functionality first is the latest date when they've got the code. Also, that part of Unix could be acquired from another company and that might be documented as well. Either way - they have their own chances of well documented proof of what date they first got the code. But I agree - there is still a chance they fabricate the evidence.
But then we have to ask the same question in the opposite direction: what if the Linux person, who will watch the code demonstrated by SCO in the court, will leak the information silently and the other guys (let's say BSD guys) will fabricate with that code several CVS servers with very old dates on those files and very old dates of rsync logs? Technically we all know how to do it. Then what, those guys will prove that the code was originated in open source and has been stolen by one of Unix companies? I think this potential scenario is forcing SCO to keep the pointer to the code in secret as long as possible to avoid giving the time for leaked information to fabricate the opposite evidence against them.
This a very bad game SCO plays. But also it's a test for American justice system of being capable to handle such cases.
While I like ML (whole family) so much more than any imperative legacy (Java, C++, C, Perl), I see the main problem that any ML has with for modern RAD and with scripting is its static typing. And that's why I like (more than ML) Haskell - it's dynamically typed and thus it's much more appropriate both for operating scripting and for big app RAD.
Until today, both ML and Haskell had a common problem: a lack of commercial and real world interest in it and therefore a lack of real-world libraries and supporting frameworks. But now things are going to be changed.
First Ericson came with Erlang, an excelent essence of FP, LP, scripting and networking. Now M$ (I know - evil, but anyway) came with F# bringing OCaml to the real world saving from being forgotten somewhere in Inria.
What next? I think that would be Haskell, the language even more suprior to ML, with already OOP, Parallel and Cuncurrent extensions. Also I like its Functional-Logical dialect - Curry. But who will bring it to the real world? IBM?
He forgot to mention that on his PPC with OSX he was running Virtual PC, which was running Windows XP, which was running Cygwin, which was building NetBSD. Or man, some people are doing very crazy things to their computers!
I wonder, why not run just Gentoo Linux PPC on that box? Just run it. No building of NetBSD even will be required - you will be happy emergeing Gentoo packages already!
They getting rid from technical support and entry level egnineers. High-level programmers in Sillicon Valley still make 150K - 250K, and that would give 300K - 500K for the budget. But even they are not overpaid as they actuall those who really work. But if SGI wants to really cut the cost then they should let go execs - the guys who are actually responsible for keeping the company on the buttom. Of course that will never happen - execs will never lay themselves off.
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You forgot another advises:
Personally, I want to see the ad industry nowhere - I don't need any advertisement, all I want information. As for today, my postal and electronic mail boxes are full of repeatable and useless ads, while it's still hard to find on internet any useful information about products and services.
Now I see the problem... Are you saying that a whole continent is being served by one and only one telco?
I know, for video-game funs it sounds weird, but old guys who played adventure games on old TTY mainframe terminals will understand what I mean.
You missed the version: IP Hurd E17 v6 - the excelent projects that would never happen to real life :(
While I hate the fact that I am limited in traffic, I understand that if we all would be constantly exceeding the cap that would require ISP to install the equipment with more bandwidth and thus with more cost of their facilities. Also, they (ISPs) would have to have a better connections to their backbone providers. So, the concept "bytes cost money" seems reasonable, although, the tariffs should not punish regular people (those who don't download tons of mps and dozens of iso images).
Wrong assumption. The correct one: go for metrics.
And you know what? Now I feel much safier. If the dark fog didn't suck me before - why should it after?
Seriously, I am thinking that evaporation period is so long only for big black holes, which are ex-stars. The dark fog must evaporate much faster, keeping in the balance the rate of new born and just evaporated black holelets. Otherwhise we would have noticed the dark fog already.
I wonder when the cell phones will get embedded printers, scanners and DVD-burners (keeping already embedded PDAs, camera and MP3 players)? That's the direction they push the cell phone market, isn't it?
So, here we come again: PKI and e-signature are the only way to safe the email from being destroyed by the spammers.
- they guess my address;
- they have screened my address from the web;
But how about to protect me from this spam:- I registered to the service, but I didn't want any related spam and the warning about upcoming spam was unclear in a very small font;
- I gave up my emaill address to one company, but they gave it up to another and so on;
- I have subsrcibed to the mail list, but something is broken and I cannot unsubscribe anymore;
No chance yet?Java did already win (partially) the market of web-servers. And that did not force desktop users to upgrade their PCs. But now, after few previous failed attempts, Java comes again to desktops and if it will succeed it will force desktop users to upgrade their PCs. I thought it was clear.
Java is made by a company that doesn't make a desktop PC
Also, Sun doesn't make x86 desktop PCs. But IBM does and so does HP. And Sun make money on licensing other Java vendors. Besides, Sun is still trying to push low-end sparc station on the market of desktops - working in two diff companies I was invited to the meeting where Sun reps used their charm to sell us their Ultra-10 and similar workstation. And in in one case my boss even forced me to support that decision. I think, a part of the conspirancy is to push more Sparc workstations to the desktop market too.
Java versus ytho/Perl/CGI
Java is a right tool, let's say, in 20 % cases, but it's decided to be used in 80 % - looks disproportional to me.
Comparing Swing to Flash is like comparing Gnome with HTML. That's right...
Java is platform-neutral if the platform is not weker than 2GHz CPU and 1 GB of RAM. Otherwise it's annoingly slow on that platform.
Seriosuly. Today most of people (at least what I can see in North America) have already got home office desktop PCs power enough to run most of applications they need. Typically it's 500Mhz - 1GHz CPU with 256-512 MB RAM (Geeks! your super PCs are not in count here as you are a minority of the PC user base!). But for PC vendors it's obsolete - they want to sell more and more power PCs in order to sqeez more and more money from users. So, how to force customers to upgrade?
There several answers: CPU-expensive UI candies of win2k and XP, XML with SOAP (read .Net) where it's not needed, and of course Java.
First Java has been expanded on the server market, where M$ is weak. It's very well known: most of Java based server installations do what was easy to program and cheap to run using Apache/CGI/PHP/Perl/Python. Now they try again desktop applications. They have failed with SWING plugins: Macromedia Flash is way lighter. And they didn't have any chances unless users realized that Windows is not the only liable platform. So, here are coming again: Java based GUI-monsters.
Assuming that mozilla is properly installed on your machine, you need only run: /usr/bin/mozilla
And presuming I run anything only if sources are available, I don't want any Java VM on my machine.
P.S. I wonder why SleepyCat is not the most popular database? Oh, I know - the boss afraids to leak any evidence of his child porns. Again, that's right - it's all about the name!
and like Visual Basic. All three are superior for tasks , which assigned programmers who doesn't know (or even worse: is not capable to know) anything else.
Typical dialog with PHP programmer: "Why do you use PHP?" - "It's fast to develop comparing to C!" - "Have you tried Zope or Cocoon or Axkit?" - "No, but why? PHP is already fast." - "Have you tried to develop and *debug* complex web applications?" - "No, PHP is good for single pages and that's what I am doing."
Typical dialog with MySQL programmer: "Why do you use MySQL?" - "It's fast to develop comparing to BerkleyDB!" - "Have you tried PostgreSQL or Firebird?" - "No, but why? MySQL is already fast." - "Have you tried to develop and *debug* complex databases?" - "No, MySQL is good for single tables and that's what I am doing."
No need to go to VB - the point is clear I hope.
Adding feature of a real DBMS (SAP) to MySQL will let finally call it MyGreSQL.
you mean MyZilla?
Give American English to evolve 5 more years and all loosers will loose their color. Or colour?
Perhaps, of beowulf cluster of such clusters? :)
On a serious note, does anyone know what type of cluster they use and what kind of tasks are they solving on it?
Thanks all of you for correcting me so the others won't be confused. Thanks also for your valuable opinions and very useful references.
But then we have to ask the same question in the opposite direction: what if the Linux person, who will watch the code demonstrated by SCO in the court, will leak the information silently and the other guys (let's say BSD guys) will fabricate with that code several CVS servers with very old dates on those files and very old dates of rsync logs? Technically we all know how to do it. Then what, those guys will prove that the code was originated in open source and has been stolen by one of Unix companies? I think this potential scenario is forcing SCO to keep the pointer to the code in secret as long as possible to avoid giving the time for leaked information to fabricate the opposite evidence against them.
This a very bad game SCO plays. But also it's a test for American justice system of being capable to handle such cases.
Until today, both ML and Haskell had a common problem: a lack of commercial and real world interest in it and therefore a lack of real-world libraries and supporting frameworks. But now things are going to be changed.
First Ericson came with Erlang, an excelent essence of FP, LP, scripting and networking. Now M$ (I know - evil, but anyway) came with F# bringing OCaml to the real world saving from being forgotten somewhere in Inria.
What next? I think that would be Haskell, the language even more suprior to ML, with already OOP, Parallel and Cuncurrent extensions. Also I like its Functional-Logical dialect - Curry. But who will bring it to the real world? IBM?
I wonder, why not run just Gentoo Linux PPC on that box? Just run it. No building of NetBSD even will be required - you will be happy emergeing Gentoo packages already!
They getting rid from technical support and entry level egnineers. High-level programmers in Sillicon Valley still make 150K - 250K, and that would give 300K - 500K for the budget. But even they are not overpaid as they actuall those who really work. But if SGI wants to really cut the cost then they should let go execs - the guys who are actually responsible for keeping the company on the buttom. Of course that will never happen - execs will never lay themselves off.