Who needs EJB when there's Hibernate http://www.hibernate.org/ and Spring http://www.springframework.org/. Persistence, Transaction Management, and SQL generation in one tidy package. And it works on any J2EE app server, no matter how lightweight or robust.
Not that I have qualms with any attempt to provide these services in PHP. It's not a matter of having just one tool in your toolbox, but rather knowing which tool is right for which job. My only response to the original poster is "I don't want to start a flamewar, but if you aren't a sound enough engineer to know when to use which tool, you pretty much suck."
I just don't buy into the exploration of space by governments anyhow. It largely only benefits research done by the military-industrial complex, and the real research that effects you and me into things like medicine, etc. should be done by professionals in those fields as part of private enterprise where the objectives and motives are driven by profit rather than by political pissing matches and the need to find a rocket that won't only propel a human to the moon, but will also propel a 50 megaton warhead into some dictators bunker in the middle of the desert. Just my.02 though.
Software capable of shopping at online stores, eh? Is this kind of like your phone company giving you a speed dial to the retailers they have some vested interest in? It's product tying, and it's illegal. It's just a pity that the current administration in the U.S. really doesn't care what M$ does anymore. Here's to some anti-trust mongers taking over next February.
Follow the money folks. You have to make it more expensive for spammers to conduct business. As long as their ROI is as high as it is, what would deter any profiteering individual from using UCE?
Open source will succeed if and only if can do the same things that closed source propietary software can at lower cost. It's not an issue of politics or thriving off of anti-American sentiment, it's simply an issue fo whether or not it's a worthwhile investment for your PHB. Let's stop with this BS about all the ideological reasons why open source WILL succeed, and start coming up with ways to better it's chances of actually SUCCEEDING.
You can't pontificate the future of open source, you can simply dangle the carrot of success by figuring out ways to make it more appealing to the largest number of people.
I came to a company outside of Boston in December '02, and our group was sold to a California company in February '03. THey wanted to move us out to their Palo Alto offices, but I saw no reason to join them. I've worked a contract position in Boston since last July when the buyout was completed, and I've had several interviews (and job offers since then). I really though joining the company I did in 12/02 was a smart move, and in the end it was good for what time I was there. But now I'm about to take on a Senior position at age 24 for a company in the Back Bay. I don't neccesarly think it hurt me at all.
There is no bug, and there will be no patches in December! We will reveal the vulnerabilities of the infidels and they shall tower over our own!
I don't really get them sometimes, honestly. Is this sort of like their being a SARS outbreak in New York and the CDC saying that they won't look into it for a month?
"Netcraft's surveys are biased towards domain name parkers and very small web sites, not taking into account how popular a site may be..."
I don't see why popularity matters, if it's simply a census of web platforms. The fact that I have a lot of friends doesn't change the fact that I only represent one individual in the population.
It's odd how software has become akin to daytime television. Every time Microsoft loses a market lately, it's the result of some failure of democracy and Natural Law. If a gas station were to lose it's business to a competitor down the street, would he chalk it up to the oppression of OPEC and chime about how such competition is akin to the spread of fascism in Europe in the 1930's?
I think it goes more to show how Microsoft feels entitled to each and every market they enter, and that they're not trained to respond to the market around them as they're so used to controlling it. If they lose business in some market, it's not because their prices are high and their products are inferior, it's because some other market force "has it in for them."
The dirty word that I never hear mentioned about the RIAA is that they are really no more than a bunch of record exec goons that are guilty of collusion. They've been essentially dubbed collusive as a result of losing that price fixing suit a year or so ago. They control prices, product, and are given the free reign to block competition. They are really no different from OPEC or DeBeers.
Who needs Oil when we have (someday) hydrogen fuel cells? No one, as long as OPEC is around. Diamonds are incredibly common gemstones, but they are the most expensive, because the product is under the complete control of one group of profiteers. The only difference between deBeers, OPEC, and the RIAA is that for some reason, the RIAA is the only one of those groups that is allowed to exist within the geopolitical boundaries of the United States. OPEC and DeBeers theoretically would have never been allowed to survive in the U.S. in the past. (We can also surely group the MPAA into this group, and their new ban of screeners is further proof of collusion used to kill competition.)
The approval, expected as early as next week, would be another step along the long road to the higher-quality, crisper digital signals, which have been slowed because of worries about piracy, high-priced equipment and limited available programming.
...We'll have copy-protected signals that are subject to limited availability and still require high-priced equipment to view? Sweet.
...and the businesses that use their software were coastal Alaska, does the sea life have to clean the oil off the shore every time one of Microsoft's products is exploited for it's insecurity? Why is a software company treated any differently than an energy company when something happens that involves their product and harms it's surrounding environment? It's about time a law suit like this came around.
Doubtlessly. They can spend all the money they want - but you still have to convince (force) people to use your product. They have a position in the market to go out and make an impact, and while the financial advantages they have doubtlessly enhance their ability to enter the market, they already have their foot in the door by virtue of their other products.
If you look at the initial M$ suit, a major claim against Redmond was the practice of product tying. Introducing an internet search which is defaulted as your home page, defaulted as your redirect on mistyped URL's, and in all likelihood eventually accessed through the OS as well, can probably be seen as tying. Like I said, this could have interesting legal implications.
Microsoft could get into the whole grain bread market tomorrow with the cash that they have and they wouldn't have as easy a time entering that market because they don't have their foot in the door there. It's often more important who your current customers are, rather than how much you can afford to invest to get new ones.
I worked for AllTheWeb.com for a while before we were part of a package sold by FAST Search and Transfer to Overture over the summer. Overture then is gobbled up by Yahoo!, this all after Yahoo grabs Inktomi. The SEO market is in consolidation. Back after we were bought by Overture, there was a lot of speculation that Microsoft would buy out Overture, along with the Yahoo! speculation. In fact, each of the engineers with AllTheWeb.com were contacted by Microsoft regarding employment possibilities. One of my coworkers went to Yahoo! and i'm contracting now.
But I digress...
This is a market in consolidation. Microsoft throwing its' hat in the ring is probably a good thing for the market, like them or hate them. They have the capital to bring new products to market and introduce some more innovation to the search engine space. This IS a good thing. However it's going to cost Microsoft an arm and a leg to get in. Yahoo! bought Overture for the paid inclusion search, Google has it's own products now for sponsored search as we know. Microsoft is going to have to develop this capability in house now, or pay a king's ransom to Yahoo! to get the Overture paid search into their product.
The only advantage Microsoft has is that when you install IE, your home page is always MSN search. When you mistype a URL (outside of VeriSign's squatting), you get sent to MSN search. They'll get a lot of traffic by default.
But it also could re-open anti-trust inquires as well....very interesting.
Is the way to go - CVT is almost exclusively offered by Honda, and is something of a hybrid between a manual transmission and a automatic and is belt driven - supposively reducing a lot of strain on the engine and freeing up gas mileage. I have a manual transmission on my '01 Civic. If you know how to drive stick, and know the ins and outs of how to get the most of it, you can get upwards of 45mpg highway a lot of the time. A friend of mine has an '02, and she consistently gets 40mpg living in Boston./me walks back into the Honda brothel, ready to whore himself out again.
This really isn't JUST an issue of GUI standardization, it's an issue of deciding what market the Linux community wants to go after and start building products that appeal to that market.
There's all this discussion here about how you should have the right to choose, that some people like to be able to compare desktop environments, etc., etc. In the long run though, this crisis of conscience is a product of the Linux community acting more idealistic than capitalistic - for the most part, the development of the Linux Operating System has never been about finding a market and exploiting it by developing a product that meets that particular market's needs. More often, the argument ends that there should always be more than one way for the user to do something. To the person who is uninterested in this (almost any average desktop user), Microsoft offers exactly what they want - a combination of features and total cost that allows the consumer to use that product. You may argue that this is what makes Microsoft an evil corporation - but let's face it, most people don't want to have to make a decision between Evolution and Mozilla Mail and KMail - they just want to write a message to their cousin in Tempe who just got divorced.
Should there still be a choice about what software you use for a particular purpose? Absolutely. But some distro out there that wants to get into the Desktop market has to realize exactly what this article talks about - you really need to build some product that the average user can recognize as "ACME" Linux. It has to be turnkey so it can be used right out of the box, and it has to support a host of applications that do everything a Windows machine can do.
Only geeks care about whether or not they use KDE or Gnome. Let the marketing people decide which one sells better to the consumer. But the only way that Linux is going to get a foothold in the desktop market is by becoming more of a capitalist product rather than a socialist dream.
This isn't "throwing down the gauntlet," this is just a publicity stunt. They'll milk this for what it's worth from the flash in the pan they become from this press release, and then fold.
What you are saying is not deniable - Struts has XML/XSLT that is implemented for business logic. Then you have systems like smarty, and ASP.Net is effectively a huge language of it's own (a big one at that). However, I think that it's not a huge tool to add to a designers toolbox to be able to understand some control flow statements at the very least. I have some reservations about ASP.Net being a true division of business and presentation logic with things like datagrid controls built into the ASP.Net control set - but just asking a designer to loop through an array of DTO's using some simple syntax isn't going to break their back.
The YAL argument is valid. I'm just not sure that having expression syntax instead of a templating syntax makes the designers life any easier.
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Who needs EJB when there's Hibernate http://www.hibernate.org/ and Spring http://www.springframework.org/. Persistence, Transaction Management, and SQL generation in one tidy package. And it works on any J2EE app server, no matter how lightweight or robust.
Not that I have qualms with any attempt to provide these services in PHP. It's not a matter of having just one tool in your toolbox, but rather knowing which tool is right for which job. My only response to the original poster is "I don't want to start a flamewar, but if you aren't a sound enough engineer to know when to use which tool, you pretty much suck."
I just don't buy into the exploration of space by governments anyhow. It largely only benefits research done by the military-industrial complex, and the real research that effects you and me into things like medicine, etc. should be done by professionals in those fields as part of private enterprise where the objectives and motives are driven by profit rather than by political pissing matches and the need to find a rocket that won't only propel a human to the moon, but will also propel a 50 megaton warhead into some dictators bunker in the middle of the desert. Just my .02 though.
Software capable of shopping at online stores, eh? Is this kind of like your phone company giving you a speed dial to the retailers they have some vested interest in? It's product tying, and it's illegal. It's just a pity that the current administration in the U.S. really doesn't care what M$ does anymore. Here's to some anti-trust mongers taking over next February.
Follow the money folks. You have to make it more expensive for spammers to conduct business. As long as their ROI is as high as it is, what would deter any profiteering individual from using UCE?
You can't pontificate the future of open source, you can simply dangle the carrot of success by figuring out ways to make it more appealing to the largest number of people.
Yes, hence the statement that I would just stick with perl 5. If I want fancy OO features, I'll user Python, Java, or PHP5.
Great, will this be as reliable as OS9 mode in OSX? Not even going to bother with Perl 6. Perl 5 works fine for me.
I came to a company outside of Boston in December '02, and our group was sold to a California company in February '03. THey wanted to move us out to their Palo Alto offices, but I saw no reason to join them. I've worked a contract position in Boston since last July when the buyout was completed, and I've had several interviews (and job offers since then). I really though joining the company I did in 12/02 was a smart move, and in the end it was good for what time I was there. But now I'm about to take on a Senior position at age 24 for a company in the Back Bay. I don't neccesarly think it hurt me at all.
At least *try* to obscure the fact that this was taken from a press release. Slahsdot is beginning to sound like the Iraqi Information Minister...
88 feet is longer than 70 feet? By golly, I'm glad that someone made sure to mention that. :P
There is no bug, and there will be no patches in December! We will reveal the vulnerabilities of the infidels and they shall tower over our own!
I don't really get them sometimes, honestly. Is this sort of like their being a SARS outbreak in New York and the CDC saying that they won't look into it for a month?
"Netcraft's surveys are biased towards domain name parkers and very small web sites, not taking into account how popular a site may be..."
I don't see why popularity matters, if it's simply a census of web platforms. The fact that I have a lot of friends doesn't change the fact that I only represent one individual in the population.
It's odd how software has become akin to daytime television. Every time Microsoft loses a market lately, it's the result of some failure of democracy and Natural Law. If a gas station were to lose it's business to a competitor down the street, would he chalk it up to the oppression of OPEC and chime about how such competition is akin to the spread of fascism in Europe in the 1930's?
I think it goes more to show how Microsoft feels entitled to each and every market they enter, and that they're not trained to respond to the market around them as they're so used to controlling it. If they lose business in some market, it's not because their prices are high and their products are inferior, it's because some other market force "has it in for them."
The dirty word that I never hear mentioned about the RIAA is that they are really no more than a bunch of record exec goons that are guilty of collusion. They've been essentially dubbed collusive as a result of losing that price fixing suit a year or so ago. They control prices, product, and are given the free reign to block competition. They are really no different from OPEC or DeBeers.
Who needs Oil when we have (someday) hydrogen fuel cells? No one, as long as OPEC is around. Diamonds are incredibly common gemstones, but they are the most expensive, because the product is under the complete control of one group of profiteers. The only difference between deBeers, OPEC, and the RIAA is that for some reason, the RIAA is the only one of those groups that is allowed to exist within the geopolitical boundaries of the United States. OPEC and DeBeers theoretically would have never been allowed to survive in the U.S. in the past. (We can also surely group the MPAA into this group, and their new ban of screeners is further proof of collusion used to kill competition.)
So why do we need RIAA?
Because they say we do.
Wait until the copyright whackjobs get wind of this. A good new service for Apple though - iMasterpiece.
The approval, expected as early as next week, would be another step along the long road to the higher-quality, crisper digital signals, which have been slowed because of worries about piracy, high-priced equipment and limited available programming.
...We'll have copy-protected signals that are subject to limited availability and still require high-priced equipment to view? Sweet.
...and the businesses that use their software were coastal Alaska, does the sea life have to clean the oil off the shore every time one of Microsoft's products is exploited for it's insecurity? Why is a software company treated any differently than an energy company when something happens that involves their product and harms it's surrounding environment? It's about time a law suit like this came around.
Doubtlessly. They can spend all the money they want - but you still have to convince (force) people to use your product. They have a position in the market to go out and make an impact, and while the financial advantages they have doubtlessly enhance their ability to enter the market, they already have their foot in the door by virtue of their other products. If you look at the initial M$ suit, a major claim against Redmond was the practice of product tying. Introducing an internet search which is defaulted as your home page, defaulted as your redirect on mistyped URL's, and in all likelihood eventually accessed through the OS as well, can probably be seen as tying. Like I said, this could have interesting legal implications. Microsoft could get into the whole grain bread market tomorrow with the cash that they have and they wouldn't have as easy a time entering that market because they don't have their foot in the door there. It's often more important who your current customers are, rather than how much you can afford to invest to get new ones.
I worked for AllTheWeb.com for a while before we were part of a package sold by FAST Search and Transfer to Overture over the summer. Overture then is gobbled up by Yahoo!, this all after Yahoo grabs Inktomi. The SEO market is in consolidation. Back after we were bought by Overture, there was a lot of speculation that Microsoft would buy out Overture, along with the Yahoo! speculation. In fact, each of the engineers with AllTheWeb.com were contacted by Microsoft regarding employment possibilities. One of my coworkers went to Yahoo! and i'm contracting now.
But I digress...
This is a market in consolidation. Microsoft throwing its' hat in the ring is probably a good thing for the market, like them or hate them. They have the capital to bring new products to market and introduce some more innovation to the search engine space. This IS a good thing. However it's going to cost Microsoft an arm and a leg to get in. Yahoo! bought Overture for the paid inclusion search, Google has it's own products now for sponsored search as we know. Microsoft is going to have to develop this capability in house now, or pay a king's ransom to Yahoo! to get the Overture paid search into their product.
The only advantage Microsoft has is that when you install IE, your home page is always MSN search. When you mistype a URL (outside of VeriSign's squatting), you get sent to MSN search. They'll get a lot of traffic by default.
But it also could re-open anti-trust inquires as well....very interesting.
Mmmm...Postfix.
Is the way to go - CVT is almost exclusively offered by Honda, and is something of a hybrid between a manual transmission and a automatic and is belt driven - supposively reducing a lot of strain on the engine and freeing up gas mileage. I have a manual transmission on my '01 Civic. If you know how to drive stick, and know the ins and outs of how to get the most of it, you can get upwards of 45mpg highway a lot of the time. A friend of mine has an '02, and she consistently gets 40mpg living in Boston. /me walks back into the Honda brothel, ready to whore himself out again.
Irish Mob accuses DirectTV of copyright infringement over the use of extortion as a business practice...
This really isn't JUST an issue of GUI standardization, it's an issue of deciding what market the Linux community wants to go after and start building products that appeal to that market. There's all this discussion here about how you should have the right to choose, that some people like to be able to compare desktop environments, etc., etc. In the long run though, this crisis of conscience is a product of the Linux community acting more idealistic than capitalistic - for the most part, the development of the Linux Operating System has never been about finding a market and exploiting it by developing a product that meets that particular market's needs. More often, the argument ends that there should always be more than one way for the user to do something. To the person who is uninterested in this (almost any average desktop user), Microsoft offers exactly what they want - a combination of features and total cost that allows the consumer to use that product. You may argue that this is what makes Microsoft an evil corporation - but let's face it, most people don't want to have to make a decision between Evolution and Mozilla Mail and KMail - they just want to write a message to their cousin in Tempe who just got divorced. Should there still be a choice about what software you use for a particular purpose? Absolutely. But some distro out there that wants to get into the Desktop market has to realize exactly what this article talks about - you really need to build some product that the average user can recognize as "ACME" Linux. It has to be turnkey so it can be used right out of the box, and it has to support a host of applications that do everything a Windows machine can do. Only geeks care about whether or not they use KDE or Gnome. Let the marketing people decide which one sells better to the consumer. But the only way that Linux is going to get a foothold in the desktop market is by becoming more of a capitalist product rather than a socialist dream.
This isn't "throwing down the gauntlet," this is just a publicity stunt. They'll milk this for what it's worth from the flash in the pan they become from this press release, and then fold.
What you are saying is not deniable - Struts has XML/XSLT that is implemented for business logic. Then you have systems like smarty, and ASP.Net is effectively a huge language of it's own (a big one at that). However, I think that it's not a huge tool to add to a designers toolbox to be able to understand some control flow statements at the very least. I have some reservations about ASP.Net being a true division of business and presentation logic with things like datagrid controls built into the ASP.Net control set - but just asking a designer to loop through an array of DTO's using some simple syntax isn't going to break their back. The YAL argument is valid. I'm just not sure that having expression syntax instead of a templating syntax makes the designers life any easier.