The app is delivered via web browser and run by whatever plug-in/JVM is available on the machine.
By developing it in a Microsoft VM, (Because of upgrades/limitations of that VM) the app is unable to run outside that particular JVM/platform.
If they would have at least created it under Sun Java it would have had half a chance to run in the JVM's that are common today.
The point behind using Java is to make it easier to run your code cross platform, in essence, to create your app with less strings attached. I haven't had these types of problems making stuff in the Sun JDK and running it on even the IBM Java junk.
This is a lot less about code and more about standards. Standards are the only thing Java has going for it. As people take Java to places that break backwards compatibility Java looses any added utility over an OS/proc dependant compiled binary. So now you have a wastefully slow application with positively no flexibility. If the project doesn't require that flexibility it doesn't belong in Java. This wouldn't have been quite as much of a problem if it weren't for Microsoft distributing the non compatible version willy-nilly. (careful now, that's a technical term there)
If Java looses it's purity (and by that I mean strict reference standards) It'll loose the only thing it's really good for. I do not like Suns attitude in the least but IMO Java benefits from its evil overlords strict reference control where other things (Linux included) would see no benefit.
There is a point to maintaining pruity in your programming language. For example, we have an application at work that some knuckleheads in New York wrote against Microsoft Java about 2 years ago. Now the thing doesn't work with Sun Java, doesn't work with IBM Java and it doesn't even work with the new Microsoft Java. I'm forced to uninstall java on every machine in my location and install a 2 yr old M$ build.
Linux works without purity because it's not designed to be pure. It's designed to be taken apart and reoutfittied as necessary.
Yeah they're pretty nice. But with MythTV, you can run mame, burn DVD's, record multiple shows at once and have storage limited only by the amount of money you're willing to throw at it. And you know me, I'm feeling a TB raid 0 coming on.
Farewell TiVo. You were a good product, fun and revolutionary at the time, but your failure to change, update, add snazzy features, support high def OTA, share content to my pc and constant subscription fees have pushed you past your prime.
I've been toying the concept of starting a serious relationship with myth-tv, and this last little knife to the gut will certainly motivate me to move on with a new relationship.
Absolutely, I had a user labeling her archive disks with a ball point pen. As I quickly thumbed through their archive, I could easily read the scribes in the metallic layer through the back side of this disk. She appearantly hadn't needed to use any of them out since the labeles were engraved.
I would imagine that at one atom thick it wouldn't stand for a lot of stretching. I would venture to guess it would shred itself rather than slice through a more fortified material.
Inside: hmm, you're making every Tom Dick and Harry in the city want to go out and buy a wireless card and install it on their pc. You have to guess that 2/3 of the installs will be improperly protected and 1/10 will have open file sharing turned on. At least on cable and DSL connections most people have routers and NAT.
If they pull this off they'll likely be the model that starts a revolution in wireless internet access that will follow the footsteps of cell service.
If they don't It'll be rude awakening for the real security issues these days.
I have to wonder how long it will be till the wireless card companies start including easy and secure firewalling and nat into their adapters/drivers. I know it's not really their job to do so, but imagine the marketing on a "Secure Wireless Card".
So your point is that they're persuing people without proper proof.
For that argument to have any ground in this conversation, that has to mean that you think they are accusing people who didn't do it.
I don't think a lot of that is going on.
If you're unhappy that the guilty people aren't getting a chance to get off. I see a lot of problems with that as well.
The best course of action is to help the system fail faster. They'll not make enough money in litigation to support their industry. Force them into changing their business model to adapt instead of allowing them to rape the wallets of artists and consumers.
The old system is failing and the RIAA os gonna go out SCO style. That's all there really is to it. The main difference is that the RIAA actually has some viable legal backing to support them. (people ARE infringing their copyright)
Until copyright changes, or the RIAA is forced into submission, this will be status quo for years.
By all means put the hat on, but don't close the lid on the box yet.
Just because technology will thrust forward to decode the current encryption, doesn't mean the end of encryption. It just means there will be a lull while we use the new hyper fast technology to creat a new level of encryption.
Computer technology ended up making simple machine encryption useless, then computer age encryption came about and was secure. When quantum computer technology makes Simple computer encryption useless, encryption born of the quantum computer technology will no doubt come about and be safe from the current tech of that age. (then something faster comes along...yada...yada...yada)
It's really only a matter of time until they're all data companies. In most places your signal is digitized within walking distance from your origin and doesn't get decoded again until it reaches walking distance from the destination.
I imagine the biggest change will come after they decide to quit pussy-footing around and give you digital to the jack. Let the phone to the conversion and compression.
PDA's aren't dead, just stale. My pda has bluetooth, wifi and is fast enough to emulate an super nintendo. Nothing new has come on the market since I bought the thing that would make me want to entertain the though of buying a new one.
With the advent of relatively inexpensive PDA's those who could make use of organizers bought them. There's little reason for your average joe to go out and upgrade his organizer. With the lack of new functionality there's not much incentive for your average gadget geek to upgrade thiers either.
It was a market that needed to be filled. They shot so hard to fill it that it became over populated with products. Now they'll all back out too quickly and create an unfilled demand again. Vicious cycle eh?
Yes they guys were on public land. What were they doing? Camping on vacation? Or are they prefoming espionage against a top secret military complex? Yeah we know they're not really trying to harm anyone or sell secrets to a rival military power, but we also know they're not there to enjoy the wilderness.
Them removing the motion detector isn't my beef here. My problem is that they're snooping around the base. I'm just really shocked the government hasn't worked out a way to call them spies or terrorists and locked them up. You certainly wouldn't catch me snooping around there.
Ehh. They maintain an unmarked air service (full size jets) that flies in and out of Las Vegas. They buss hundreds of people in from from the local towns every day. A Little too elaborate for a simple hHoax. If you're gonna go through all that trouble, you might as well do something classified there.
It's pretty well known that it an aircraft testing facility. Probably some really neat stuff under wraps there but I doubt that any alien testing is going on there.
It seems to me that the government has gone soft though. I expect that years ago these people would have simply ended up missing. Bodily harm is a wonderful deterrant. These guys are really lucky they're not classifying them as terrorists.
The stuff that's there is classified. We don't have any viable reason to snoop around there. Our government (all governments) have stuff that they need to do in secret. If we don't like it that's really too bad. There's enough bad stuff going on around us in plain sight that we should be looking in to and raising hell about.
There was a show on TechTV that Highlighted these circa 2002. There were on test in the UK. Back then they just changed color from green to red if you were speeding. You could tell a car was speeding just by the color of the road markers around it.
There are already some solar/illuminated markers embedded in a few test spots near my house on the southern baltimore beltway.
Yeah liquor, off company premesis (where someone else is responsible if you get hurt) is usually allowed for extra special parties at most larger companies in the US.
I do miss the.com days where I kept 2 bottles of gin and a bottle of mezcal in my file cabinet for the weekly company meetings. (never did like the beer/wine they provided)
It probably depends mostly on the size of your company, it's legal/financial department and it's management.
Because My hotmail account wasn't already COMPLETELY DECIATED by the last wave of spam from the last time someone got their hands on their email list....
The only reason I still have an account there is so that anytime a webform wants my email and I think they might actually send me a confirmation/activation email I might have a chance to pluck it our of the "send all emails not in my contacts list to the hopper" processor.
Feh a little more spam can't hurt hotmail, it's like taking a leak in the ocean.
You know, I can ALMOST sympathise with him.
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I had a ericson T68i. When you turned the bluetooth on it had this beautiful brilliant blue led. The led was great. You could see it from a hundred feet away. Which is fine until you try to go to sleep or a movie. It would light through a bluejean pants pocket and uncovered, provide a strong enough strobe to illuminte a small room brightly (every 7 seconds).
It was neat. I'm not so sure it was good that I was advertising that my phone was spewing bluetooth. The newer 616 has no flashing indicator for power or bt and I can't say that I've ever had a problem telling if it was on.
Purely from a logical standpoint this method has merrit. The only problem is it's just another deterrant. You start heavily screening one race, they'll just recruit from another. Screen from a birth origin and papers will be faked or they'll shoot for US teen recruits.
Honestly for all this money spent and technology contracts being awarded, the reinforced cabin door had 10x the effect. Heh they could heavily train the plan staff in martial arts and come out ahead on money and coolness points!
I wouldn't go so far as to say that HardOCP is lying about Infinium nor would I say that I can detect them blowing things out of proportion.
For the life of me I can't figure out why HardOCP cares, but they do and they've done a little investigative foot work. The mainstay of the OCP article mentions that this guy has run a few companies into the ground, that infinium labs has no legit place of business and is generally seedy about their operations.
The information covered in the article is mostly factual, publicly available knowledge. Although the article isn't written in a professional tone I really don't see any information in the article that sounds fishy. I've lived through the.com days, I've seen this business model before.
Perhaps you can explain to us the part of the OCP article that blows things out of proportion. You seem to have some inside track as to what's going on here please enlighten me.
The problem with the document sent to Mr. Bennett isn't that it suffers from being written in plain English. The document was simply written in an equally non-professional tone. What kind of lawyer would send a unprofessionally scripted document filled with angry insinuations to someone they wish to take to litigation?
Indeed, but the logic is morally subjective. Where does the level of morality and social consequences draw that line?
More people die in a year in drunk driving accidents than murders. Does that dictate prohabition the proper solution? If murder is over the line does that put alcohol there as well?
You can't make the decision to allow or ban things purely by the argument that they are happening. Social and economic factors must be weighed in full.
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The app is delivered via web browser and run by whatever plug-in/JVM is available on the machine.
By developing it in a Microsoft VM, (Because of upgrades/limitations of that VM) the app is unable to run outside that particular JVM/platform.
If they would have at least created it under Sun Java it would have had half a chance to run in the JVM's that are common today.
The point behind using Java is to make it easier to run your code cross platform, in essence, to create your app with less strings attached. I haven't had these types of problems making stuff in the Sun JDK and running it on even the IBM Java junk.
This is a lot less about code and more about standards. Standards are the only thing Java has going for it. As people take Java to places that break backwards compatibility Java looses any added utility over an OS/proc dependant compiled binary. So now you have a wastefully slow application with positively no flexibility. If the project doesn't require that flexibility it doesn't belong in Java. This wouldn't have been quite as much of a problem if it weren't for Microsoft distributing the non compatible version willy-nilly. (careful now, that's a technical term there)
If Java looses it's purity (and by that I mean strict reference standards) It'll loose the only thing it's really good for. I do not like Suns attitude in the least but IMO Java benefits from its evil overlords strict reference control where other things (Linux included) would see no benefit.
Yes, just complimenting your point, I fully agree with your post.
There is a point to maintaining pruity in your programming language. For example, we have an application at work that some knuckleheads in New York wrote against Microsoft Java about 2 years ago. Now the thing doesn't work with Sun Java, doesn't work with IBM Java and it doesn't even work with the new Microsoft Java. I'm forced to uninstall java on every machine in my location and install a 2 yr old M$ build.
Linux works without purity because it's not designed to be pure. It's designed to be taken apart and reoutfittied as necessary.
The whole comparison thing is Apples to Oranges.
Yeah they're pretty nice. But with MythTV, you can run mame, burn DVD's, record multiple shows at once and have storage limited only by the amount of money you're willing to throw at it. And you know me, I'm feeling a TB raid 0 coming on.
Farewell TiVo. You were a good product, fun and revolutionary at the time, but your failure to change, update, add snazzy features, support high def OTA, share content to my pc and constant subscription fees have pushed you past your prime.
I've been toying the concept of starting a serious relationship with myth-tv, and this last little knife to the gut will certainly motivate me to move on with a new relationship.
Absolutely, I had a user labeling her archive disks with a ball point pen. As I quickly thumbed through their archive, I could easily read the scribes in the metallic layer through the back side of this disk.
She appearantly hadn't needed to use any of them out since the labeles were engraved.
I would imagine that at one atom thick it wouldn't stand for a lot of stretching. I would venture to guess it would shred itself rather than slice through a more fortified material.
Inside:
hmm, you're making every Tom Dick and Harry in the city want to go out and buy a wireless card and install it on their pc. You have to guess that 2/3 of the installs will be improperly protected and 1/10 will have open file sharing turned on. At least on cable and DSL connections most people have routers and NAT.
If they pull this off they'll likely be the model that starts a revolution in wireless internet access that will follow the footsteps of cell service.
If they don't It'll be rude awakening for the real security issues these days.
I have to wonder how long it will be till the wireless card companies start including easy and secure firewalling and nat into their adapters/drivers. I know it's not really their job to do so, but imagine the marketing on a "Secure Wireless Card".
So your point is that they're persuing people without proper proof.
For that argument to have any ground in this conversation, that has to mean that you think they are accusing people who didn't do it.
I don't think a lot of that is going on.
If you're unhappy that the guilty people aren't getting a chance to get off. I see a lot of problems with that as well.
The best course of action is to help the system fail faster. They'll not make enough money in litigation to support their industry. Force them into changing their business model to adapt instead of allowing them to rape the wallets of artists and consumers.
The old system is failing and the RIAA os gonna go out SCO style. That's all there really is to it. The main difference is that the RIAA actually has some viable legal backing to support them. (people ARE infringing their copyright)
Until copyright changes, or the RIAA is forced into submission, this will be status quo for years.
By all means put the hat on, but don't close the lid on the box yet.
Just because technology will thrust forward to decode the current encryption, doesn't mean the end of encryption. It just means there will be a lull while we use the new hyper fast technology to creat a new level of encryption.
Computer technology ended up making simple machine encryption useless, then computer age encryption came about and was secure. When quantum computer technology makes Simple computer encryption useless, encryption born of the quantum computer technology will no doubt come about and be safe from the current tech of that age. (then something faster comes along...yada...yada...yada)
It's really only a matter of time until they're all data companies. In most places your signal is digitized within walking distance from your origin and doesn't get decoded again until it reaches walking distance from the destination.
I imagine the biggest change will come after they decide to quit pussy-footing around and give you digital to the jack. Let the phone to the conversion and compression.
PDA's aren't dead, just stale. My pda has bluetooth, wifi and is fast enough to emulate an super nintendo. Nothing new has come on the market since I bought the thing that would make me want to entertain the though of buying a new one.
With the advent of relatively inexpensive PDA's those who could make use of organizers bought them. There's little reason for your average joe to go out and upgrade his organizer. With the lack of new functionality there's not much incentive for your average gadget geek to upgrade thiers either.
It was a market that needed to be filled. They shot so hard to fill it that it became over populated with products. Now they'll all back out too quickly and create an unfilled demand again. Vicious cycle eh?
http://consumer.usa.canon.com/ir/controller?act=Mo delFeaturesAct&fcategoryid=139&modelid=8772#f0
Looks like it's a 1.6 as well.
BAH!
how can you forget a beowolf cluster of dead horses!
Yes they guys were on public land. What were they doing? Camping on vacation? Or are they prefoming espionage against a top secret military complex? Yeah we know they're not really trying to harm anyone or sell secrets to a rival military power, but we also know they're not there to enjoy the wilderness.
Them removing the motion detector isn't my beef here. My problem is that they're snooping around the base. I'm just really shocked the government hasn't worked out a way to call them spies or terrorists and locked them up. You certainly wouldn't catch me snooping around there.
Ehh. They maintain an unmarked air service (full size jets) that flies in and out of Las Vegas. They buss hundreds of people in from from the local towns every day. A Little too elaborate for a simple hHoax. If you're gonna go through all that trouble, you might as well do something classified there.
It's pretty well known that it an aircraft testing facility. Probably some really neat stuff under wraps there but I doubt that any alien testing is going on there.
It seems to me that the government has gone soft though. I expect that years ago these people would have simply ended up missing. Bodily harm is a wonderful deterrant. These guys are really lucky they're not classifying them as terrorists.
The stuff that's there is classified. We don't have any viable reason to snoop around there. Our government (all governments) have stuff that they need to do in secret. If we don't like it that's really too bad. There's enough bad stuff going on around us in plain sight that we should be looking in to and raising hell about.
There was a show on TechTV that Highlighted these circa 2002. There were on test in the UK. Back then they just changed color from green to red if you were speeding. You could tell a car was speeding just by the color of the road markers around it.
There are already some solar/illuminated markers embedded in a few test spots near my house on the southern baltimore beltway.
I prefer using cordless phones and microwave ovens to jam up my 802.11 equipment. Sure it's low tech, but I'm lazy damnit!
Yeah liquor, off company premesis (where someone else is responsible if you get hurt) is usually allowed for extra special parties at most larger companies in the US.
.com days where I kept 2 bottles of gin and a bottle of mezcal in my file cabinet for the weekly company meetings. (never did like the beer/wine they provided)
I do miss the
It probably depends mostly on the size of your company, it's legal/financial department and it's management.
Because My hotmail account wasn't already COMPLETELY DECIATED by the last wave of spam from the last time someone got their hands on their email list....
The only reason I still have an account there is so that anytime a webform wants my email and I think they might actually send me a confirmation/activation email I might have a chance to pluck it our of the "send all emails not in my contacts list to the hopper" processor.
Feh a little more spam can't hurt hotmail, it's like taking a leak in the ocean.
I had a ericson T68i. When you turned the bluetooth on it had this beautiful brilliant blue led. The led was great. You could see it from a hundred feet away. Which is fine until you try to go to sleep or a movie. It would light through a bluejean pants pocket and uncovered, provide a strong enough strobe to illuminte a small room brightly (every 7 seconds).
It was neat. I'm not so sure it was good that I was advertising that my phone was spewing bluetooth. The newer 616 has no flashing indicator for power or bt and I can't say that I've ever had a problem telling if it was on.
Yes and no,
Purely from a logical standpoint this method has merrit. The only problem is it's just another deterrant. You start heavily screening one race, they'll just recruit from another. Screen from a birth origin and papers will be faked or they'll shoot for US teen recruits.
Honestly for all this money spent and technology contracts being awarded, the reinforced cabin door had 10x the effect. Heh they could heavily train the plan staff in martial arts and come out ahead on money and coolness points!
I wouldn't go so far as to say that HardOCP is lying about Infinium nor would I say that I can detect them blowing things out of proportion.
.com days, I've seen this business model before.
For the life of me I can't figure out why HardOCP cares, but they do and they've done a little investigative foot work. The mainstay of the OCP article mentions that this guy has run a few companies into the ground, that infinium labs has no legit place of business and is generally seedy about their operations.
The information covered in the article is mostly factual, publicly available knowledge. Although the article isn't written in a professional tone I really don't see any information in the article that sounds fishy. I've lived through the
Perhaps you can explain to us the part of the OCP article that blows things out of proportion. You seem to have some inside track as to what's going on here please enlighten me.
The problem with the document sent to Mr. Bennett isn't that it suffers from being written in plain English. The document was simply written in an equally non-professional tone. What kind of lawyer would send a unprofessionally scripted document filled with angry insinuations to someone they wish to take to litigation?
wonder how many mri's they did on the mice to determine this......;)
Indeed, but the logic is morally subjective. Where does the level of morality and social consequences draw that line?
More people die in a year in drunk driving accidents than murders. Does that dictate prohabition the proper solution? If murder is over the line does that put alcohol there as well?
You can't make the decision to allow or ban things purely by the argument that they are happening. Social and economic factors must be weighed in full.