It's much more informative than the web page. The guy basically says he is too sick to maintain the server and will export the blogs on request. For me, it sounds like people should either a) say thanks for a freeby they had for a while, export their stuff and move on or b) offer to host all or a portion of the sites and provide a legal privacy guarantee for moving the accounts.
Something that slashdot owners should consider, huh?
Nonsense. FIrstly, screens are 2D! Secondly, there are loads of GUI toolkits for J2ME, some open source. The latest J2ME version includes a 3d-game api.
Add-on UI toolkits are either slow (because they can't use native code) or tied to a specific vendor (that's some portability!). And in any case, lack of standard means every decent application has it's own L&F to learn. I can't imagine how Sun justified not including AWT.
Why would you want native code access on a secure VM designed to run portable binaries?
Because the included functionality is not enough to write an application that looks like it belongs to the device. As for security, you want security from programs that I install myself on my own PDA?
j2ME has a childish UI library that assumes 1D screen with no layout. If your device is so limited, why even bother with applications? In every other area, the built in class library is severly crippled and you keep having to write classes yourself. And lack of native code/regular filesystem access? Argh!
Compact framework actually shares many of the same "features" but at least has native code and it's possible to write usable UI with heavy hacking. Now that Sun and MS are pals, Javasoft should just bite the bullet and release official, well working Personal Java for CE. Why should Zaurus have all the fun?
Just impose huge fines for making false copyright infrigement claims. Also, make it criminal, with mandatory prison sentences for people responsible, if used to silence political speech or hurt business competitors. SCO will fit right in here.
I guess ISPs might be required to verify identity of the sender of the infrigement notice before acting in this case.
What is needed is either a lengthy prison term for Darl and a dozen other people at the helm, or an apology for unfair punishment to all the virus writers and pirates, to speak nothing of simple curious, computer-literate individuals. Recently, US justice system claimed worms cause billions of dollars in financial damage and a single song on Kazaa is worth tens of K. Well, they should really jump on this one - a rogue causing countless companies to waste money on laywers or pay for unwanted MS software.
In simple terms, the link uses an unknown vulnerability to open up a local Explorer help file -- ms-its:C:\WINDOWS\Help\iexplore.chm::/iegetsrt.htm
Oh boy, I know Bill gave Steve 400M or so before, but now they even cooperate on security holes?? Halliluah! I still say Apple's exploits are more user friendly. No need for "extremely sophisticated use of encrypted code".
mp3 consortium might charge a fee per user*MB or some such for commercial use of the encoder. Or even if they don't charge it now, they could easily add such fees for new licenses in future. If you think that's counter common sense for them, look at SCO.
Now let's say I offer my own music for free download, and sell some extra tracks to subsidize bandwidth, making it nominally commercial. If I get 100 people downloading 10 songs each daily, this will cost me 30 bucks per day if the license fee is one cent per user*meg. I might just decide it's not worth it, for my free music and only offer ogg streams. Or I might actually serve WMA if ogg is not well supported by portable players and Microsoft offers me a better deal than mp3.
Small segment of users? Perhaps. But so is Apple's market share. They would do well to follow open standards whenever it doesn't cause big problems rather than trying to "lock-in" users using the market dominance they don't have. They actually kind of did with UNIX-based OS.
Customer premise equipment consists of a book-sized indoor transceiver unit that consumers merely plug into power outlets and the Ethernet jacks of their LANs or PCs.
So basically the receiver is stationary and tied to at least one wire - the power line. If you already have cable at home, there is little point to this service. If you don't, then of course it's cool. But it should be still called "reduced wiring" rather than wireless.
Now, give me a notebook card that can connect to this service anywhere in a metropolitan area, and we are talking about something really useful.
while I type this through Mozilla, on my PowerBook
Boy, that's one slow browser. Use Safari or Camino, but install Paranoid Android to plug what I think of as the apple version of ActiveX (which Mozilla also "supports" by the way).
Tell them what's up without telling them how to get a hold of you
And herein lies the biggest problem of humanity. No, contact one user by e-mail/IM/net send, explain how to contact you, and help them with windows update, adaware and free anti-virus via remote assistance requests. Or just help someone clueless you know in real life.
Unless you really want your neighbors growing bacteria cultures in their homes. 999 out of 1000 will be harmless, and then one will escape, sicken a hundred people and kill an eldery woman with weak immune system. That would be some practice of art, huh?
Ah, but since I have been unemployed and forced to get money for food by mugging and petty theft, I had an ample time to steal a gun. So let's settle ownership issues once and for all using your tiny, undetectable firearm and my simple, nomadic scalping knife.
Anyway, I was making a statement more on what should be done than what can be done.:-)
The simple nomadic lifestyle lived by the native americans was incompatible with western civilization. I'm not going to try to justify everything done to the Indians, but once the ownership issues were established for good, the land was put to far more productive use.
Ok, I want to take your 7-times-higher than college salary and put it to far more productive use. Today we are going to settle ownership issues once and for good using my simple, nomadic bow, arrows and a scalping knife. You may start by handing over the key to your 911. Thanks you!:-)
Tell me, why should someone be rewarded for simply existing?
Because a) You don't want to see sick and dying people when you go for a walk, b) cheaper than fighting crime, revolts and disease, c) it could happen to you someday, so think of it as an insurance and d) they might have had job or food if you didn't take it by outcompeting them.
And communism- hey, communism has only killed 100 million people so far, so let's give it another shot. Must not have been the right people in charge, eh?
Yes, actually. Most of these 100 million were killed by abusive dictatorship/oligarhy (a political concept), not communism (an economical concept). It's true that pure communism goes against human nature and could bring on famine. But if people were really in charge (as in "working democracy") reforms would happen long before that. In another working democracy, candidates who support unrestricted outsourcing would never have a chance.
I released a program and setup an amazon honor system account for "tips" recently. As a result, I got at least 8000 downloads (counting only versiontracker) and about $50 in tips. Only two people payed $10 that I suggested.
Granted, I wrote the program because I thought it was a good idea and said myself the tips are optional, so as for myself I am happy I got a nice dinner for two:-) But I doubt optional donations can provide the main income for people who are not already famous - and then they probably have other ways to make money. Just human nature at work.
The "cheaper labor" would be Americans:-) Actually Chinese and Korean according to the article. Another example of how short-sighted greed can ruin culture/world-class skill set of a country. I am one of the job-based green card holders, so I guess I should feel a bit guilty to complain. But we were a) limited in number each year, b) had to be paid prevailing wages, so hiring an American wasn't out of the question and c) payed US taxes and consumed goods produced by other people here.
The worst thing is that my company hires real morons in India while some of my rather talented friends have hard time finding a job, or get ones that really suck. One of these guys is a manager of 5 people, and he actually typed 'passwd' when told to give his password as an argument for a shell script to install samples and made us debug the resulting errors. So what if you get 6 for the price of one, if they can't even solve a trivial problem as a group?
I hope Bush and his gang get voted out of the office, and replaced by people who objectively weigh advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing for american citizens (who would be given more consideration, but not to the degree of "screw everyone else") and the rest of the world, and pass the laws accordingly. "Protectionism" is not an accurate word, it carries a negative connotation. Someone in favor will just call it "taking care of all of your country's folk, not just the top rich ones".
Yes, other countries may retaliate, but that's nothing new for Americans. I am sure war on Iraq is not that popular around the world either. Just take it into account along with all the other factors, like rising unemployment because of outsourcing, loss of unique skill set/competitive advantage that the country used to have, rise of crime and mental medical care costs because people are unable to do work they are good at and have done all their adult life and some just go postal, rising cost of education because people have to get another degree in midlife...
If you can't make the operating system work better, write to the vendor (Apple). Don't do anything yourself.
Come on, Apple was contacted in Feburary about URI exploits and didn't do anything until now. Should I just sit, do nothing and invite "software" that will really break down my protection barriers or should I download a fix that works in the only possible way - by patching existing software.
As for other haxies like UI skins - well if it's your personal machine, the defaults hurt your eyes and you are willing to accept some risk of instability, go for it. If your Mac is supported by other people, well they might uninstall your skin haxies if you get unusual crashes. But they should leave this one in until Apple has a fix.
It can only reassign existing ones. How will it protect you from spam:// URL handler registered by opening an ftp URL? Since the problem is in a shared library, it's only logical to use fix it by injecting code into every process. Just like for other things haxies are doing, like global UI changes.
but it is yet another way to advance the public interest via IP law
You got to be kidding. Say, I sell my own closed-source software and re-discover your idea independently. Then you come weilding your patent and force me to either go out of business (because my software is not of the nature that lets me make money on support) or release an inferior product by not using results of my own hard work. Which public interest was advanced? Remember my customers already had a choice of using your open source software.
Require the use of "open-thought software" instead - that is I can use your patents as long as I refrain from using my own software patents in an obnoxious way - and we are getting somewhere.
Safari "supports" MacOSX URL handlers, which basically let web pages automatically run arbitary code by first mounting a disk image or an ftp share and then going to some foo:// URL schema that an application contained there registers - by just being there, no need for user to run it. This is worse than ActiveX, because you don't even get a Yes/No message box.
By contrast, Opera only lets the user add URL handlers explicitely through it's preferences and asks before launching helper apps. Maybe a good time to look at it again?
we have had one service call to Dell in the entire time I've worked here, for a failed CPU fan
Some of the machines are over three years old.
This kind of thinking is fine for software development. But just imagine setting up a PC like this for each of your relatives and having them all start dying because of CPU fans or crashed hard drives after 4 years. First aunt Marge grambles about having to replace an expensive product so soon, while her car and her big-screen TV work "just fine thank you". Then you get to set up Longhorn (XP doesn't have DRM drivers needed for new PC) with window colors "just like the old PC used to have". "Bingo night fortune teller" doesn't run on Longhorn? She is not gonna be happy! Care to repeat this experience 10 times? How about supporting a big manufacturing plant that installed those PCs as access points in hundreds of locations?
Slashdot Mirror
It's much more informative than the web page. The guy basically says he is too sick to maintain the server and will export the blogs on request. For me, it sounds like people should either a) say thanks for a freeby they had for a while, export their stuff and move on or b) offer to host all or a portion of the sites and provide a legal privacy guarantee for moving the accounts.
Something that slashdot owners should consider, huh?
Nonsense. FIrstly, screens are 2D! Secondly, there are loads of GUI toolkits for J2ME, some open source. The latest J2ME version includes a 3d-game api.
Add-on UI toolkits are either slow (because they can't use native code) or tied to a specific vendor (that's some portability!). And in any case, lack of standard means every decent application has it's own L&F to learn. I can't imagine how Sun justified not including AWT.
Why would you want native code access on a secure VM designed to run portable binaries?
Because the included functionality is not enough to write an application that looks like it belongs to the device. As for security, you want security from programs that I install myself on my own PDA?
j2ME has a childish UI library that assumes 1D screen with no layout. If your device is so limited, why even bother with applications? In every other area, the built in class library is severly crippled and you keep having to write classes yourself. And lack of native code/regular filesystem access? Argh!
Compact framework actually shares many of the same "features" but at least has native code and it's possible to write usable UI with heavy hacking. Now that Sun and MS are pals, Javasoft should just bite the bullet and release official, well working Personal Java for CE. Why should Zaurus have all the fun?
Just impose huge fines for making false copyright infrigement claims. Also, make it criminal, with mandatory prison sentences for people responsible, if used to silence political speech or hurt business competitors. SCO will fit right in here.
I guess ISPs might be required to verify identity of the sender of the infrigement notice before acting in this case.
What is needed is either a lengthy prison term for Darl and a dozen other people at the helm, or an apology for unfair punishment to all the virus writers and pirates, to speak nothing of simple curious, computer-literate individuals. Recently, US justice system claimed worms cause billions of dollars in financial damage and a single song on Kazaa is worth tens of K. Well, they should really jump on this one - a rogue causing countless companies to waste money on laywers or pay for unwanted MS software.
especially when compared to the abortion that is the x86 family architecture
From your mouth sir and into the god's ears.
In simple terms, the link uses an unknown vulnerability to open up a local Explorer help file -- ms-its:C:\WINDOWS\Help\iexplore.chm::/iegetsrt.htm
Oh boy, I know Bill gave Steve 400M or so before, but now they even cooperate on security holes?? Halliluah! I still say Apple's exploits are more user friendly. No need for "extremely sophisticated use of encrypted code".
mp3 consortium might charge a fee per user*MB or some such for commercial use of the encoder. Or even if they don't charge it now, they could easily add such fees for new licenses in future. If you think that's counter common sense for them, look at SCO.
Now let's say I offer my own music for free download, and sell some extra tracks to subsidize bandwidth, making it nominally commercial. If I get 100 people downloading 10 songs each daily, this will cost me 30 bucks per day if the license fee is one cent per user*meg. I might just decide it's not worth it, for my free music and only offer ogg streams. Or I might actually serve WMA if ogg is not well supported by portable players and Microsoft offers me a better deal than mp3.
Small segment of users? Perhaps. But so is Apple's market share. They would do well to follow open standards whenever it doesn't cause big problems rather than trying to "lock-in" users using the market dominance they don't have. They actually kind of did with UNIX-based OS.
Customer premise equipment consists of a book-sized indoor transceiver unit that consumers merely plug into power outlets and the Ethernet jacks of their LANs or PCs.
So basically the receiver is stationary and tied to at least one wire - the power line. If you already have cable at home, there is little point to this service. If you don't, then of course it's cool. But it should be still called "reduced wiring" rather than wireless.
Now, give me a notebook card that can connect to this service anywhere in a metropolitan area, and we are talking about something really useful.
while I type this through Mozilla, on my PowerBook
Boy, that's one slow browser. Use Safari or Camino, but install Paranoid Android to plug what I think of as the apple version of ActiveX (which Mozilla also "supports" by the way).
Tell them what's up without telling them how to get a hold of you
And herein lies the biggest problem of humanity. No, contact one user by e-mail/IM/net send, explain how to contact you, and help them with windows update, adaware and free anti-virus via remote assistance requests. Or just help someone clueless you know in real life.
Unless you really want your neighbors growing bacteria cultures in their homes. 999 out of 1000 will be harmless, and then one will escape, sicken a hundred people and kill an eldery woman with weak immune system. That would be some practice of art, huh?
Or "block certain-sized elements" in Opera at work, I might agree with you. As it is, I, unfortunately, never had a chance to be shocked by those ads.
"Nano-iPOD" with two of those cards and small enough to fit in a pair of cute white headphones with a sports ear band. Yum!
Ah, but since I have been unemployed and forced to get money for food by mugging and petty theft, I had an ample time to steal a gun. So let's settle ownership issues once and for all using your tiny, undetectable firearm and my simple, nomadic scalping knife.
:-)
Anyway, I was making a statement more on what should be done than what can be done.
The simple nomadic lifestyle lived by the native americans was incompatible with western civilization. I'm not going to try to justify everything done to the Indians, but once the ownership issues were established for good, the land was put to far more productive use.
:-)
Ok, I want to take your 7-times-higher than college salary and put it to far more productive use. Today we are going to settle ownership issues once and for good using my simple, nomadic bow, arrows and a scalping knife. You may start by handing over the key to your 911. Thanks you!
Tell me, why should someone be rewarded for simply existing?
Because a) You don't want to see sick and dying people when you go for a walk, b) cheaper than fighting crime, revolts and disease, c) it could happen to you someday, so think of it as an insurance and d) they might have had job or food if you didn't take it by outcompeting them.
And communism- hey, communism has only killed 100 million people so far, so let's give it another shot. Must not have been the right people in charge, eh?
Yes, actually. Most of these 100 million were killed by abusive dictatorship/oligarhy (a political concept), not communism (an economical concept). It's true that pure communism goes against human nature and could bring on famine. But if people were really in charge (as in "working democracy") reforms would happen long before that. In another working democracy, candidates who support unrestricted outsourcing would never have a chance.
I released a program and setup an amazon honor system account for "tips" recently. As a result, I got at least 8000 downloads (counting only versiontracker) and about $50 in tips. Only two people payed $10 that I suggested.
:-) But I doubt optional donations can provide the main income for people who are not already famous - and then they probably have other ways to make money. Just human nature at work.
Granted, I wrote the program because I thought it was a good idea and said myself the tips are optional, so as for myself I am happy I got a nice dinner for two
The "cheaper labor" would be Americans :-) Actually Chinese and Korean according to the article. Another example of how short-sighted greed can ruin culture/world-class skill set of a country. I am one of the job-based green card holders, so I guess I should feel a bit guilty to complain. But we were a) limited in number each year, b) had to be paid prevailing wages, so hiring an American wasn't out of the question and c) payed US taxes and consumed goods produced by other people here.
The worst thing is that my company hires real morons in India while some of my rather talented friends have hard time finding a job, or get ones that really suck. One of these guys is a manager of 5 people, and he actually typed 'passwd' when told to give his password as an argument for a shell script to install samples and made us debug the resulting errors. So what if you get 6 for the price of one, if they can't even solve a trivial problem as a group?
I hope Bush and his gang get voted out of the office, and replaced by people who objectively weigh advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing for american citizens (who would be given more consideration, but not to the degree of "screw everyone else") and the rest of the world, and pass the laws accordingly. "Protectionism" is not an accurate word, it carries a negative connotation. Someone in favor will just call it "taking care of all of your country's folk, not just the top rich ones".
Yes, other countries may retaliate, but that's nothing new for Americans. I am sure war on Iraq is not that popular around the world either. Just take it into account along with all the other factors, like rising unemployment because of outsourcing, loss of unique skill set/competitive advantage that the country used to have, rise of crime and mental medical care costs because people are unable to do work they are good at and have done all their adult life and some just go postal, rising cost of education because people have to get another degree in midlife...
If you can't make the operating system work better, write to the vendor (Apple). Don't do anything yourself.
Come on, Apple was contacted in Feburary about URI exploits and didn't do anything until now. Should I just sit, do nothing and invite "software" that will really break down my protection barriers or should I download a fix that works in the only possible way - by patching existing software.
As for other haxies like UI skins - well if it's your personal machine, the defaults hurt your eyes and you are willing to accept some risk of instability, go for it. If your Mac is supported by other people, well they might uninstall your skin haxies if you get unusual crashes. But they should leave this one in until Apple has a fix.
It can only reassign existing ones. How will it protect you from spam:// URL handler registered by opening an ftp URL? Since the problem is in a shared library, it's only logical to use fix it by injecting code into every process. Just like for other things haxies are doing, like global UI changes.
but it is yet another way to advance the public interest via IP law
You got to be kidding. Say, I sell my own closed-source software and re-discover your idea independently. Then you come weilding your patent and force me to either go out of business (because my software is not of the nature that lets me make money on support) or release an inferior product by not using results of my own hard work. Which public interest was advanced? Remember my customers already had a choice of using your open source software.
Require the use of "open-thought software" instead - that is I can use your patents as long as I refrain from using my own software patents in an obnoxious way - and we are getting somewhere.
If I wasn't so satisfied with Safari, I'd switch
Safari "supports" MacOSX URL handlers, which basically let web pages automatically run arbitary code by first mounting a disk image or an ftp share and then going to some foo:// URL schema that an application contained there registers - by just being there, no need for user to run it. This is worse than ActiveX, because you don't even get a Yes/No message box.
By contrast, Opera only lets the user add URL handlers explicitely through it's preferences and asks before launching helper apps. Maybe a good time to look at it again?
we have had one service call to Dell in the entire time I've worked here, for a failed CPU fan
Some of the machines are over three years old.
This kind of thinking is fine for software development. But just imagine setting up a PC like this for each of your relatives and having them all start dying because of CPU fans or crashed hard drives after 4 years. First aunt Marge grambles about having to replace an expensive product so soon, while her car and her big-screen TV work "just fine thank you". Then you get to set up Longhorn (XP doesn't have DRM drivers needed for new PC) with window colors "just like the old PC used to have". "Bingo night fortune teller" doesn't run on Longhorn? She is not gonna be happy! Care to repeat this experience 10 times? How about supporting a big manufacturing plant that installed those PCs as access points in hundreds of locations?
Try thinking of something or someone other than yourself for a change
Aren't we making unwaranted assumptions here?