Man, the last time I came to visit Slashdot, almost the same story led. It's like I never left. Reddit be damned. news.ycombinator.com ? pfft. If I want the same old shit, I'll just come to ancient.slashdot.org and hear about this (admittedly studly) guy being knighted or getting the Order of Merit. Maybe you gots to be a Brit to get it. Seriously. What are the odds of the last two visits having a TBL love session?
They happen to be using Trac as a web-based wiki/issue tracker/project management tool, and they're using an old version.
Trac's development trunk has fixed some of these locking issues with SQLite as well as allowed for using Postgres as a backend. I'm still not sure if it would survive a slashdotting, but it would be better performance than this.
I don't think their dev server is any indication of the level of service...
"if you have connected your PC (laptop) to external power, you have disabled your phone line, (while) simultaneously being connected to a grounded peripheral, and you are touching a metal part of the PC, and your phone rings"
... off the building, over the bridge, through the park, nothing but net.
On a point-by-point comparison,.Net frequently is superior to Java.
Didn't Microsoft just take time to clean up their core classes and run-time engine? They took steps to get rid of DLL Hell. I agree that such an undertaking is a big deal, and that MS Marketing confused everyone. But I wonder what would happen if there were an effort to
clean up Java.
1. Write and distribute free software
2. Sell support for the software
3. Profit
We're a services company writing and using open source software, and collecting revenue for the service. If the software is commoditized (OS & apps), the place to make money is on services. See IBM, who has more than 50% of revenues in Gloabl Services.
The JBoss guys from the article want to make some money consulting (fork step 2). I merely thought Ballmer was not seeing the forest through the trees on services revenue.
Ballmer also disputed suggestions that software and other aspects of information technology are reaching commodity status. "There is an interesting debate emerging in the industry today about the value of information technology," he wrote. "Some pundits are suggesting that IT no longer matters; that what was once a transforming technology has reached the end of the road in terms of innovation, that it ceases to be a source of business advantage once everyone has it, and that customers should just optimize for costs and outsource IT for efficiencies.
Does television hardware/software rule now, or does television service and content rule?
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I'm not going to lie to you. That's art. Clear as day after wandering through Hazzard County.
In a smaller arena, it seems other struggling companies are trying this survival technique. Sapient is claiming a patent on Computer based system for monitoring and processing data collected at the point of sale of goods and services (filed 12/29/1995) infringes upon any company collecting data from a POS system and reporting and alerting on it in a Business Intelligence application. A number of companies serving the restaurant industry have been notified to pay up or face legal consequences.
Fact is, Ralph Kimball was doing this stuff in 1982 for Metaphor Systems. Seems like that's "Prior Art".
Won't someone come up with prior art in the SCO case, or is it a contract, not a patent that everyone's worried about?
Slashdot Mirror
Man, the last time I came to visit Slashdot, almost the same story led. It's like I never left. Reddit be damned. news.ycombinator.com ? pfft. If I want the same old shit, I'll just come to ancient.slashdot.org and hear about this (admittedly studly) guy being knighted or getting the Order of Merit. Maybe you gots to be a Brit to get it. Seriously. What are the odds of the last two visits having a TBL love session?
The government is also said to be developing eye-drops that will cure this antisocial behaviour. Looking forward to those...
They happen to be using Trac as a web-based wiki/issue tracker/project management tool, and they're using an old version.
Trac's development trunk has fixed some of these locking issues with SQLite as well as allowed for using Postgres as a backend. I'm still not sure if it would survive a slashdotting, but it would be better performance than this.
I don't think their dev server is any indication of the level of service...
Isn't this like trying to cure the violently criminal mind with eye-drops?
heh heh - you said "load"
evil bit
You know, I have one simple request and that is to have sharks with freakin' laser beams attached to their heads!
"if you have connected your PC (laptop) to external power, you have disabled your phone line, (while) simultaneously being connected to a grounded peripheral, and you are touching a metal part of the PC, and your phone rings"
... off the building, over the bridge, through the park, nothing but net.
On a point-by-point comparison, .Net frequently is superior to Java.
Didn't Microsoft just take time to clean up their core classes and run-time engine? They took steps to get rid of DLL Hell. I agree that such an undertaking is a big deal, and that MS Marketing confused everyone. But I wonder what would happen if there were an effort to clean up Java.
These guys can't even round up !
GNU's Not Unix, damnit.
How is this offtopic?
The parent says:
1. Write and distribute free software
2. Sell support for the software
3. Profit
We're a services company writing and using open source software, and collecting revenue for the service. If the software is commoditized (OS & apps), the place to make money is on services. See IBM, who has more than 50% of revenues in Gloabl Services.
The JBoss guys from the article want to make some money consulting (fork step 2). I merely thought Ballmer was not seeing the forest through the trees on services revenue.
So Ballmer is off-base when he says software is not reaching commoditized status?
Ballmer Memo to Troops
Ballmer also disputed suggestions that software and other aspects of information technology are reaching commodity status. "There is an interesting debate emerging in the industry today about the value of information technology," he wrote. "Some pundits are suggesting that IT no longer matters; that what was once a transforming technology has reached the end of the road in terms of innovation, that it ceases to be a source of business advantage once everyone has it, and that customers should just optimize for costs and outsource IT for efficiencies.
Does television hardware/software rule now, or does television service and content rule?
I'm not going to lie to you. That's art. Clear as day after wandering through Hazzard County.
In a smaller arena, it seems other struggling companies are trying this survival technique. Sapient is claiming a patent on Computer based system for monitoring and processing data collected at the point of sale of goods and services (filed 12/29/1995) infringes upon any company collecting data from a POS system and reporting and alerting on it in a Business Intelligence application. A number of companies serving the restaurant industry have been notified to pay up or face legal consequences.
Fact is, Ralph Kimball was doing this stuff in 1982 for Metaphor Systems. Seems like that's "Prior Art". Won't someone come up with prior art in the SCO case, or is it a contract, not a patent that everyone's worried about?
Actually, they're calling it massively-multiplayer online games (MMOGs).
Sony and IBM are throwing a lot of attention towards butterfly.net.
It's a small company in WV, but with some interesting applications for grid computing with massively parallel games.
Smithers: "Mr. Burns, there is a small Linux vendor trying to make money in sector 7G."
Mr. Burns: "Release the hounds."