Exactly! From the article, here is a statement to further your point along:
Apple says an employment agreement that Lopez signed with Volt's Sacramento office prohibited him from divulging confidential information.
This is eactly what these agreements are for -- when you have some dumbass who decides to go against a contractual agreement, the nondisclosure is the company's legal route of recourse.
No tears shed for this guy. I hope they take him to the cleaners.
So, these two electronics behemoths will be building a Linux platform for consumer electronics. This will be another embedded version of Linux then. How will this be different from, say, BlueCat? BlueCat is an embedded Linux development platform and has the embedded kernel, plus the cross compiler and all the goodies you need. It targets multiple processors, too. Will there be any advantage to this new system over existing products?
The real loss will not be C++Builder. The true loss will be Kylix.
While C++Builder is a reasonable approach to C++ development, you need to consider the quality of what it generates. In my experience, the executables that C++Builder generates are very large and very slow to execute. Being a fan of Delphi, I expected fairly small and fast executables when I purchased C++Builder, but there is a definite difference between the runtimes and the resulting executable code.
If you compare the floating point code generated between Delphi and C++Builder, there is an immense difference. The Pascal code generates much faster executables -- and that ought not to be! However, this is the case for Borland's C++ product line and it has been this way for over 10 years.
Practically every other C++ compiler out there generates tighter code than Borland's, especially in the area of floating point math. I am no fan of M$, and never have been, but I must say that their binary code is tighter, by quite a margin, than Borland's. If they acquire Borland and kill off C++Builder, they will be killing off a great GUI front end with a miserable code generator. Yes, I know Borland's is more ANSI compliant...so what? If the binary is slow, and you care about run times, ANSI compatibility is not your primary concern.
Where we will lose as developers will be in the loss of Kylix. It might not be perfect, and it might not be the most efficient code creation engine, but if it creates projects that can be ported to Linux, M$ will want to kill that off quick! And I can't say that I blame them (even if I disagree with the idea).
"There will have to be compelling reasons" to install the new operating system, because "it costs corporations a fortune to roll it out," he said.
This overhaul of Windows is also going to require a hardware shift as well, with the Palladium architecture. So, instead of paying for just a new OS license, companies have to shell out money for new systems, too?
Granted, some of the upgrades to Windows in the past have required better hardware, but often the PCs were already up to scratch or the companies in question needed new hardware anyway. This time, a new PC is an absolute requirement.
I sincerely hope this one gets dropped on the floor and that this pass at Windows will fail. Somehow, though, I suspect it won't and that M$ will have its way again. *sigh* Pass the Mac, please...
For those of us whose employers do business in the retail sector, one application for these is a spiffy "clipboard" for the sales personnel, so that they can quickly bring up information about products and whatnot without dashing to a PC somewhere, or digging out a catalog, etc. If they are set up right, they can be a sort of instant catalog for the sales floor, especially since the weight of said systems is low enough to allow them to be carried all over the sales floor. Add in wireless connectivity, and you have a very convenient way to look up inventory data.
Once you download the movie you have to be connected to start playing it. That's because you have to "authenticate" yourself.
So, when the service goes away and there's no one out there to do the authenication, then what? And, if the file you downloaded and paid for is corrupt, do you get your money back or are you told, "Oh, gee, that's a bummer, sorry"? Do you pay once for unlimited views, or is this a one time view per download? If you only get to watch it once per pay, do they let you just pay again or force you to download all over again?
So, if this face transplant stuff works, can you make me look like Cindy Crawford? (with the exception of having my hairy legs and spare tire, of course)
Java Complete, by Sybex. That book touts itself as a cheap book to learn Java and even has a good dump of the APIs at the end of the book. That said, it has got to be one of the most poory assembled books on Java I have seen. There are a few glimmers of intelligence in there, but as a whole the book collapses under its own poor organization. It's also for an older version of Java...
Hopefully the API listing is the only thing JDA has in common with Java Complete.
I am sure I am not the only one bothered by this..
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This kind of research always frightens the snot out of me. Without trying to sound like a holier-than-thou type, I can't help but think that this type of science is dabbling a little beyond the realm of what we should be working on.
On the bright side, I would suspect that such organisms don't live long enough to make a whole lot of difference. Some odd hybrid creature created through such means would be bound to have some hideous problems.
Maybe there is some benefit to this type of research, where we will get better medicines, or a better understanding of how our own body is put together. That said, I disagree with the method.
What I have observed in the course of software development, in various companies, is that the management dictates that "thou shalt follow said process" and there will be the obligatory design reviews, spiffy diagrams, an all the huffing and puffing. But when the smoke clears, it still comes down to 9 months of work compressed into 3 months of actual work time, and everyone shifts into a hack 'n slash mode. The processes in place fail because of a lack or adequate time and inflexibility of deadlines.
It is just a matter of time if the bottleneck is in the drivers. It would be great to see SiS get seriously competitive at the top end of the GPU battle and give both nVidia and ATI something about which to worry. If it's in the chip instead, though, all the driver tweaks in the world will not help it catch up.
Quickly supplying Linux drivers is a good move on their part, too. Wait too long, and they will cut themselves out of an important market. Windows ain't the only game in town anymore...
...purports to suck in every scrap of electronic information about everyone...
This kind of crap is exactly what it would take to make me cancel my account with my ISP and do everything by paper again. Big step backwards. Yeah, I know, they have all the dirt by other channels anyway, but why make it easy?
It would be fun to play around with something cool like that, just for the sheer ability to say "Hey, y'all watch this!" (Oops, better watch that there accent, ya rekcon?) It would especially nice to have a C compiler or something to develop apps for it, again just for the coolness factor.
With a twelve-bit computer, what is the address space, anyway? Something like 2048 words? Suprisingly, you can actually do a lot with that if you code it tightly. No, can't do weather map rendering too well or anything like that, but I bet you could pull off a stripped down version of NetHack or something...
...is how said information would be useful to us, since we already know what stresses bacteria. I mean, are we looking for an advancement in medicine or something, that will, say, extend the shelf life of certain helpful cultures or anything like that? Or is this just for the pure science of it and the satisfation of having knowledge?
I don't care either way. It's interesting to follow stuff like this, but it makes it a lot more interesting for the spectator when one knows what the goal is...
It will be very interesting to see how long it is before Bucksnort..er, I mean, Buckeye loses the remaining client base it has. I am sure everyone is in agreement that sending in armed FBI agents over a breach of service contract is overkill. I doubt the intent was to scare away any other customers they have (and potentially could have had, because they overreact. But that's exactly what's going to happen.
What do they do if your bill is two days late? That would be on my mind, even though I tend to pay a hair early just to be on the safe side.
It is all well and good that they are putting out drivers that works "across the board" for their product line, but I have seen, time and again, where a "universal" device driver is not so universal after all. If it was written on a machine sporting an 8500, where does it degrade with the 9700 and so on? If they are not the same card, they won't be 100% compatible.
Another possibility is that the drivers are written to work generically with the chipset. This would have the distinction of having unremarkable drivers that do not push any card to its full potential.
My deep and sincere apologies to ATI if they are successful in making a universal driver for their stuff that actually takes full advantage of each device. I would bet that such a driver would be a real winner.
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Exactly! From the article, here is a statement to further your point along:
Apple says an employment agreement that Lopez signed with Volt's Sacramento office prohibited him from divulging confidential information.
This is eactly what these agreements are for -- when you have some dumbass who decides to go against a contractual agreement, the nondisclosure is the company's legal route of recourse.
No tears shed for this guy. I hope they take him to the cleaners.
So, these two electronics behemoths will be building a Linux platform for consumer electronics. This will be another embedded version of Linux then. How will this be different from, say, BlueCat? BlueCat is an embedded Linux development platform and has the embedded kernel, plus the cross compiler and all the goodies you need. It targets multiple processors, too. Will there be any advantage to this new system over existing products?
Guess what happens when you type HotBox.com instead of HotBot.com? Not cool when you're at work.... :-(
Hopefully this new and improved HotBot will be comparable to Google in speed. Old one was slow, I thought.
The real loss will not be C++Builder. The true loss will be Kylix.
While C++Builder is a reasonable approach to C++ development, you need to consider the quality of what it generates. In my experience, the executables that C++Builder generates are very large and very slow to execute. Being a fan of Delphi, I expected fairly small and fast executables when I purchased C++Builder, but there is a definite difference between the runtimes and the resulting executable code.
If you compare the floating point code generated between Delphi and C++Builder, there is an immense difference. The Pascal code generates much faster executables -- and that ought not to be! However, this is the case for Borland's C++ product line and it has been this way for over 10 years.
Practically every other C++ compiler out there generates tighter code than Borland's, especially in the area of floating point math. I am no fan of M$, and never have been, but I must say that their binary code is tighter, by quite a margin, than Borland's. If they acquire Borland and kill off C++Builder, they will be killing off a great GUI front end with a miserable code generator. Yes, I know Borland's is more ANSI compliant...so what? If the binary is slow, and you care about run times, ANSI compatibility is not your primary concern.
Where we will lose as developers will be in the loss of Kylix. It might not be perfect, and it might not be the most efficient code creation engine, but if it creates projects that can be ported to Linux, M$ will want to kill that off quick! And I can't say that I blame them (even if I disagree with the idea).
You are not like the others. You can be assimilated.
The article shows laptop computer image translating to "Oil It". Maybe that's why the keys on my laptop keep sticking, I keep forgetting to oil them?
From the article:
"There will have to be compelling reasons" to install the new operating system, because "it costs corporations a fortune to roll it out," he said.
This overhaul of Windows is also going to require a hardware shift as well, with the Palladium architecture. So, instead of paying for just a new OS license, companies have to shell out money for new systems, too?
Granted, some of the upgrades to Windows in the past have required better hardware, but often the PCs were already up to scratch or the companies in question needed new hardware anyway. This time, a new PC is an absolute requirement.
I sincerely hope this one gets dropped on the floor and that this pass at Windows will fail. Somehow, though, I suspect it won't and that M$ will have its way again. *sigh* Pass the Mac, please...
For those of us whose employers do business in the retail sector, one application for these is a spiffy "clipboard" for the sales personnel, so that they can quickly bring up information about products and whatnot without dashing to a PC somewhere, or digging out a catalog, etc. If they are set up right, they can be a sort of instant catalog for the sales floor, especially since the weight of said systems is low enough to allow them to be carried all over the sales floor. Add in wireless connectivity, and you have a very convenient way to look up inventory data.
Once you download the movie you have to be connected to start playing it. That's because you have to "authenticate" yourself.
So, when the service goes away and there's no one out there to do the authenication, then what? And, if the file you downloaded and paid for is corrupt, do you get your money back or are you told, "Oh, gee, that's a bummer, sorry"? Do you pay once for unlimited views, or is this a one time view per download? If you only get to watch it once per pay, do they let you just pay again or force you to download all over again?
Drop the laptop, and add on a six pack of beer on the platform instead, and then you really have something useful!
So, if this face transplant stuff works, can you make me look like Cindy Crawford? (with the exception of having my hairy legs and spare tire, of course)
Java Complete, by Sybex. That book touts itself as a cheap book to learn Java and even has a good dump of the APIs at the end of the book. That said, it has got to be one of the most poory assembled books on Java I have seen. There are a few glimmers of intelligence in there, but as a whole the book collapses under its own poor organization. It's also for an older version of Java...
Hopefully the API listing is the only thing JDA has in common with Java Complete.
This kind of research always frightens the snot out of me. Without trying to sound like a holier-than-thou type, I can't help but think that this type of science is dabbling a little beyond the realm of what we should be working on.
On the bright side, I would suspect that such organisms don't live long enough to make a whole lot of difference. Some odd hybrid creature created through such means would be bound to have some hideous problems.
Maybe there is some benefit to this type of research, where we will get better medicines, or a better understanding of how our own body is put together. That said, I disagree with the method.
Flame away.
What I have observed in the course of software development, in various companies, is that the management dictates that "thou shalt follow said process" and there will be the obligatory design reviews, spiffy diagrams, an all the huffing and puffing. But when the smoke clears, it still comes down to 9 months of work compressed into 3 months of actual work time, and everyone shifts into a hack 'n slash mode. The processes in place fail because of a lack or adequate time and inflexibility of deadlines.
It is just a matter of time if the bottleneck is in the drivers. It would be great to see SiS get seriously competitive at the top end of the GPU battle and give both nVidia and ATI something about which to worry. If it's in the chip instead, though, all the driver tweaks in the world will not help it catch up.
Quickly supplying Linux drivers is a good move on their part, too. Wait too long, and they will cut themselves out of an important market. Windows ain't the only game in town anymore...
Good luck to SiS!!
This kind of crap is exactly what it would take to make me cancel my account with my ISP and do everything by paper again. Big step backwards. Yeah, I know, they have all the dirt by other channels anyway, but why make it easy?
This is sure to be a big box office draw, but 50,000 scantily-clad beach bimbo babes might do even better at the box office!
It would be fun to play around with something cool like that, just for the sheer ability to say "Hey, y'all watch this!" (Oops, better watch that there accent, ya rekcon?) It would especially nice to have a C compiler or something to develop apps for it, again just for the coolness factor.
With a twelve-bit computer, what is the address space, anyway? Something like 2048 words? Suprisingly, you can actually do a lot with that if you code it tightly. No, can't do weather map rendering too well or anything like that, but I bet you could pull off a stripped down version of NetHack or something...
Coolness, regardless. :-)
Wouldn't going on strike have been a little more effective than burning down the office?
...is how said information would be useful to us, since we already know what stresses bacteria. I mean, are we looking for an advancement in medicine or something, that will, say, extend the shelf life of certain helpful cultures or anything like that? Or is this just for the pure science of it and the satisfation of having knowledge?
I don't care either way. It's interesting to follow stuff like this, but it makes it a lot more interesting for the spectator when one knows what the goal is...
It will be very interesting to see how long it is before Bucksnort..er, I mean, Buckeye loses the remaining client base it has. I am sure everyone is in agreement that sending in armed FBI agents over a breach of service contract is overkill. I doubt the intent was to scare away any other customers they have (and potentially could have had, because they overreact. But that's exactly what's going to happen.
What do they do if your bill is two days late? That would be on my mind, even though I tend to pay a hair early just to be on the safe side.
It is all well and good that they are putting out drivers that works "across the board" for their product line, but I have seen, time and again, where a "universal" device driver is not so universal after all. If it was written on a machine sporting an 8500, where does it degrade with the 9700 and so on? If they are not the same card, they won't be 100% compatible.
Another possibility is that the drivers are written to work generically with the chipset. This would have the distinction of having unremarkable drivers that do not push any card to its full potential.
My deep and sincere apologies to ATI if they are successful in making a universal driver for their stuff that actually takes full advantage of each device. I would bet that such a driver would be a real winner.
Seattle Monorail & California High Speed Rail Move Forward
Now if they could just get the damn things to actually stop when they get to a destination...
The first time a shopping cart tells me that SPAM is on sale, I'm going to bludgeon a manager!
Obviously, said experts haven't tried driving in the Washington DC rush hour.