Damn right. I always considered people saying "well isn't that an interesting idea that we actually could be living in a matrix and that all our life is just an imagination" to be really superficial morons. I always tell those people "look around, the matrix is all around you. And it isn't even trying to hide itself."
Funny thing is that the movie is part of the Matrix itself.
Maybe it has no deep philosophical meaning, but are you sure the you are the one who can judge?
To me the more important thing is that it made a LOT of people think about some aspects in their lifes, it really made them THINK. If those people are having really deep thoughts is another matter, but the started thinking. IMHO this is just great. Name a movie that started more philosophical (no matter how superficial) than Matrix. And if you need a lot of car crashs and flying bullets to reach this, it's just fine with me.
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I agree. Mozilla Mail has an awesome spam filter that works really well after some days of training. Just after the first day it filtered already about 90% of the spam I received.
D'accord, my first post is only true for Applets and WebStart applications running in a Sandbox (or if for some other reason a Security Manager is installed).
So the question is: If a.Net application runs like an Applet in a Sandbox, is this still possible. If not, then this is no big deal. If yes, then Microsoft has a problem.
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It is not possible in Java. Otherwise you could access parts of java.lang.SecurityManager, which itself is written in Java. Not sure about.Net, but in Java you could do a lot of really nasty stuff if this was possible.
If this was possible in Java, Micrsosoft would have published at least three big reports on how insecure Java is (of course through some "independant" third party consulting companies)
I do not understand the fuzz, especially the reasoning of the so-called analyst, who said "Sun is cheap enough and when a company gets down to that level acquisitions do get increasingly likely". Maybe that guy should check the price of Sun shares from October 2002. They were at USD 2.34 that time, that's about 30% lower than today. Why didn't anybody start buying them then?
Some quite strange things happened today. The recent one: I sat in front of my computer, opened slashdot, and decided that the page must have been cached somewhere, because some hours ago exactly the same headline was on top. I actually reloaded the page three times before I found out that this was probably the fastest dupe ever on Slashdot.
Wasn't Sega supposed to be bought by Microsoft? I could imagine that some Keiretsu decided that the Microsoft/Sega merger would be a major threat to the Japanese consumer electronics industry (Sony/Nintendo), so in order to prevent that merger they made Sammy to merge with Sega.
About a year ago German company RWE (big energy corporation) was cheered as the new leader in broadband connections via powerlines. It even was available to customers, but eventually they quit the powerline business in September 2002. Appearantly they had only 200 paying customers instead of the expected 120000.
Anyone remember when Dutch intelligence found out that thery were using Israeli software that leaked information to the outside? Here is a link.
Who can assure that this is not another attempt to place a backdoor in our companies? Is the algorithm open source? If not, how can you be sure that they do not keep a secret key?
I like Java a lot, and I like to see that Sun realizes the biggest problems of Java. It gives me confidence that they will work on the mentiones issues and fix them.
The bad side of the memo is that it will certainly be misused for marketing purposes by the Java bashers.
Memory sticks are awesome. I have a USB-thumb drive and did not have to touch a floppy for the last months. I hope theses little devices will replace the floppy. And the computer manufacturers could make life easier by placing at least one USB port at the front of the computer.
I was looking at some photos and come to the conclusion that I would be able to paint these crop circles using Photoshop or PaintShopPro into some photographs of corn fields within a few hours. Also, of many crop circles there seems to be only one photo.
Taking over a business that is not viable in the market makes only sense if you can turn it into a viable business. If you cannot achieve this, you will end up with a lot of money lost and all you will achieve is postponing the death of the company a bit.
Maybe the community should rather give the money to some businesses that have already proven that they are viable, such as SuSE or Redhat, and strengthen their position.
There is a really good Java HTML component called WebWindow (http://home.earthlink.net/~hheister/). The designer focused on memory consuption, which makes it a great option for mobile devices. And since Microsoft seems to be losing ground at least on the mobile phone market, this could become another competitor.
The problem is that even if they fix it, they will not get the adience like the report from the Middleware Company. They really did a great deal of damage on J2EE, and I have the feeling that they will regret it.
The Middleware Company obviously got paid by Microsoft to achieve results in favor of.NET, and they included obvious performance errors into the J2EE implementation to get these results. This leads to the conclusion that you have to make really stupid mistakes in order to make J2EE slower than.NET, which explains why the.NET EULA explicitly forbids the publishing of benchmark results.
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Damn right. I always considered people saying "well isn't that an interesting idea that we actually could be living in a matrix and that all our life is just an imagination" to be really superficial morons. I always tell those people "look around, the matrix is all around you. And it isn't even trying to hide itself." Funny thing is that the movie is part of the Matrix itself.
Maybe it has no deep philosophical meaning, but are you sure the you are the one who can judge?
To me the more important thing is that it made a LOT of people think about some aspects in their lifes, it really made them THINK. If those people are having really deep thoughts is another matter, but the started thinking. IMHO this is just great. Name a movie that started more philosophical (no matter how superficial) than Matrix. And if you need a lot of car crashs and flying bullets to reach this, it's just fine with me.
I agree. Mozilla Mail has an awesome spam filter that works really well after some days of training. Just after the first day it filtered already about 90% of the spam I received.
D'accord, my first post is only true for Applets and WebStart applications running in a Sandbox (or if for some other reason a Security Manager is installed). So the question is: If a .Net application runs like an Applet in a Sandbox, is this still possible. If not, then this is no big deal. If yes, then Microsoft has a problem.
It is not possible in Java. Otherwise you could access parts of java.lang.SecurityManager, which itself is written in Java. Not sure about .Net, but in Java you could do a lot of really nasty stuff if this was possible.
If this was possible in Java, Micrsosoft would have published at least three big reports on how insecure Java is (of course through some "independant" third party consulting companies)
For those of you interested in the philosopy behind the Matrix, there is a philosophy section on the Matrix homepage.
I do not understand the fuzz, especially the reasoning of the so-called analyst, who said "Sun is cheap enough and when a company gets down to that level acquisitions do get increasingly likely". Maybe that guy should check the price of Sun shares from October 2002. They were at USD 2.34 that time, that's about 30% lower than today. Why didn't anybody start buying them then?
Some quite strange things happened today. The recent one: I sat in front of my computer, opened slashdot, and decided that the page must have been cached somewhere, because some hours ago exactly the same headline was on top. I actually reloaded the page three times before I found out that this was probably the fastest dupe ever on Slashdot.
Thanks, but I just don't want that Microsoft Server 2003. Not even for free. I am just not interested in it.
Wasn't Sega supposed to be bought by Microsoft? I could imagine that some Keiretsu decided that the Microsoft/Sega merger would be a major threat to the Japanese consumer electronics industry (Sony/Nintendo), so in order to prevent that merger they made Sammy to merge with Sega.
About a year ago German company RWE (big energy corporation) was cheered as the new leader in broadband connections via powerlines. It even was available to customers, but eventually they quit the powerline business in September 2002. Appearantly they had only 200 paying customers instead of the expected 120000.
Anyone remember when Dutch intelligence found out that thery were using Israeli software that leaked information to the outside? Here is a link.
Who can assure that this is not another attempt to place a backdoor in our companies? Is the algorithm open source? If not, how can you be sure that they do not keep a secret key?
I like Java a lot, and I like to see that Sun realizes the biggest problems of Java. It gives me confidence that they will work on the mentiones issues and fix them.
The bad side of the memo is that it will certainly be misused for marketing purposes by the Java bashers.
Memory sticks are awesome. I have a USB-thumb drive and did not have to touch a floppy for the last months. I hope theses little devices will replace the floppy. And the computer manufacturers could make life easier by placing at least one USB port at the front of the computer.
I was looking at some photos and come to the conclusion that I would be able to paint these crop circles using Photoshop or PaintShopPro into some photographs of corn fields within a few hours. Also, of many crop circles there seems to be only one photo.
Taking over a business that is not viable in the market makes only sense if you can turn it into a viable business. If you cannot achieve this, you will end up with a lot of money lost and all you will achieve is postponing the death of the company a bit.
Maybe the community should rather give the money to some businesses that have already proven that they are viable, such as SuSE or Redhat, and strengthen their position.
Or maybe they proposed a really cool project to him. That's how you get the really outstanding geeks.
How did Sun manage to make him work for them? Security-wise he alone is worth more than Microsoft's whole "Trustworthy Computing" campaign.
I know two Java books that are definitely worth their money:
- Effective Java
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- Java Platform Performance by Steve Wilson and Jeff Kesselman
Of the second book there is a HTML version available at this link
Here's why there are 20% assholes on this planet. Thanks a lot.
Mircosoft has some really awful business ethics, but I don't remember a case when they have misused the American patent system.
There is a really good Java HTML component called WebWindow (http://home.earthlink.net/~hheister/). The designer focused on memory consuption, which makes it a great option for mobile devices. And since Microsoft seems to be losing ground at least on the mobile phone market, this could become another competitor.
Hungry? Eat your WinXP.
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The Middleware Company obviously got paid by Microsoft to achieve results in favor of .NET, and they included obvious performance errors into the J2EE implementation to get these results. This leads to the conclusion that you have to make really stupid mistakes in order to make J2EE slower than .NET, which explains why the .NET EULA explicitly forbids the publishing of benchmark results.