The only reason I can think is that Ingres was at one time one of the big 4, namely Oracle, Sybase, DB2, and Ingres. It comes from a commercial heritage, so it might be an easier sell to Joe CIO?
At least so far as commercial products go, Oracle was the first. To save a click, Oracle V1 was a consulting project used solely by CIA and dating back to 1978. Oracle V2 was the first marketed version starting in 1980.
Wrong, they released Windows NT 3.1 in 1994 a full year before Win95. Now WinNT was a revolution, Win95 was essentially Win3.1 modified to be 32 bits (shudders).
What you're describing isn't "click a button on itunes and remove all DRM from the music". It's more like:
1) Make a playlist
2) Burn playlist to CD
3) Rip playlist from CD
4) Reorganize your ripped files
You also pay a price in quality by re-encoding a low bitrate file on ripping. That said, there's always PlayFair to get rid of that pesky DRM in one nice step, not a click though.
... supporting mission critical software or hardware for a company with very expensive ($100k +) support contracts...
Actually, mission critical support contracts are typically MUCH more than $100K/year. I've seen contracts that hit the million*S* in cases where if that system goes down, that company is effectively unable to operate until it's restored.
Java is like C++ in a sandbox. It's designed to be harder than hell to make leak, crash, or exploit. It's also the primary programming used for corporate applications. Is it as fast as C++? It's pretty damned close *until* you toss a Swing GUI into the equation. The solution? Don't use Swing GUIs. Also, Java is not a scripting language, I think you're referring to JavaScript which is to Java what Perl is to C#, in other words unrelated. I like C++ and have written lots of apps with it, particularly GUI apps. However, comparing C++ to Java is like comparing a frame house to a block house in a typhoon. The frame house may withstand the typhoon but you can bet the block house will withstand the typhoon. However, you can built some much better looking structures with wood as compared to cinder blocks. Like the flexibility that wood offers, the flexibility of C++ comes with a price.
As for hooks, Java has JNI to expose hooks into C but that breaks platform agnosity so it's used sparingly. The most prominent example of JNI use is SWT, the native widget framework for Java on which Eclipse is based. However, if the "gaming kit" used JNI, then the whole "run on any platform" crap that the toolkit was supposed to provide in the first place is out the window.
Not only that, the application is code named "Puffin". Hmmm, black and white bird that lives in cold climates and eats fish... sounds vaguely familiar to me.
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Yep, yep, true... population densities due to the advent of high rises... didn't factor that one in, good call.
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I hate that spelling mistake and there I go an do it myself!
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Nah man, seriously, how do you think the great European cities existed prior to fossil fuels? Paris, London, Rome? Supplies were either brought in by horse buggy or boat and sold at farmer's markets. If you're in the burbs and we run outta gas, you're way more screwed than if you live in town. However, your right that the retail system as we know it is in for a heap of trouble!
Apparently there is a law saying that the government can't compete with a private business
I'd be surprised if such a law exists, at least if it does it's well buried. If it did exist, then UPS and FedEx would have presumably sued the USPS out of existence. Also, things like the public defenders (private attorneys) and the police (security firms) would presumably be illegal. However, I have no doubt Intuit would actively lobby against free software from the IRS.
Um, have you worked with southern yellow pine??? Yeah it's considered a "soft wood" but only because it's a pine. It's harder and denser than any other pine except for an obscure New Zealand species. I'd say souther yellow pine easily rivals most of the hardwood species, including oak and birch. Some of the guys I've worked with on projects even went so far as to name it "iron wood" because of how incredibly hard it becomes over time.
At the income tax level, combined federal and state taxes are actually very close to Canadian federal and provincial rates. The biggest difference is the insane sales taxes in Canada, something like 15% on what seems to be everything. Hard liquor is also hella-expensive but not as wallet brusting as in Europe.
I use JFS and it's been pretty good thus far. It's been around for a long time and it's backed by IBM, so that makes it a pretty safe bet for production use in my mind. I used to use Ext3 before that and experienced a few data losses that caused me to make a switch. I can't comment on Reiser or XFS since I haven't used 'em.
Fantastic idea... one small problem... it costs $10K on average to prepare and file a patent in the US alone, so where is the money going to come from??? Beyond that, defending even a single patent in court would make that $10K seem like milk money. The only practical solution from a FOSS perspective is to abolish software / business method patents altogether, and that's a little like taking a steak away from a Rottweiler as it's chowing down on it. The silver lining is that the patent system is becoming increasing cumbersome so there's a very slim chance it will choke the economy so much that the US government will have no other option other than to abolish / reduce the lifespan of these patents altogether. So, maybe we'd be better off creating an "Open Lobbyist" project.
Good point about the IDEs. I was a long time MSVS user and the best IDE I've used on Linux is Sun's NetBeans. It's a personal opinion though and others may not agree. Disclaimer aside, I think it's easily the best Java IDE on Linux and with a little configuration it makes a pretty good C/C++ IDE too. However, it's quite resource heavy so laptops and machines with less than 512M of memory need not apply.
FWIW, I did look into several proprietary IDEs for Linux while back but none had the integration of CVS, code completion, code reformatting, and debugging features of NB in a single package.
Yep, I should have RTFA... sounds like these are Java web start applications after reading it. It will be interesting to see how well they've implemented them when a demo eventually bubbles up.
The fact that it's web based severely limits it's appeal. Yeah, it's neat technology but if Joe VP can't work on his PowerPoint on the plane, it's not gonna be acceptable.
If you're a new user or an end user, you shouldn't concern yourself with vanilla kernel updates. Your distro should provide hot patches like MS Update on some kind of a regular basis. As for how different that MS Update that is, it's not, a code fix is a code fix, regardless of your platform. There's nothing really wrong with this since MS Update is actually a decent patching facility.
Yeah right, you upgraded your kernel to 2.6.6 already. I call bullshit on you AC. I would bet an inordinate amount of money that you typed that post on a pirated copy of XP. Why don't you just go back to enjoying Slapper.
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The only reason I can think is that Ingres was at one time one of the big 4, namely Oracle, Sybase, DB2, and Ingres. It comes from a commercial heritage, so it might be an easier sell to Joe CIO?
At least so far as commercial products go, Oracle was the first. To save a click, Oracle V1 was a consulting project used solely by CIA and dating back to 1978. Oracle V2 was the first marketed version starting in 1980.
Wrong, they released Windows NT 3.1 in 1994 a full year before Win95. Now WinNT was a revolution, Win95 was essentially Win3.1 modified to be 32 bits (shudders).
What you're describing isn't "click a button on itunes and remove all DRM from the music". It's more like:
1) Make a playlist
2) Burn playlist to CD
3) Rip playlist from CD
4) Reorganize your ripped files
You also pay a price in quality by re-encoding a low bitrate file on ripping. That said, there's always PlayFair to get rid of that pesky DRM in one nice step, not a click though.
Actually, mission critical support contracts are typically MUCH more than $100K/year. I've seen contracts that hit the million*S* in cases where if that system goes down, that company is effectively unable to operate until it's restored.
Java is like C++ in a sandbox. It's designed to be harder than hell to make leak, crash, or exploit. It's also the primary programming used for corporate applications. Is it as fast as C++? It's pretty damned close *until* you toss a Swing GUI into the equation. The solution? Don't use Swing GUIs. Also, Java is not a scripting language, I think you're referring to JavaScript which is to Java what Perl is to C#, in other words unrelated. I like C++ and have written lots of apps with it, particularly GUI apps. However, comparing C++ to Java is like comparing a frame house to a block house in a typhoon. The frame house may withstand the typhoon but you can bet the block house will withstand the typhoon. However, you can built some much better looking structures with wood as compared to cinder blocks. Like the flexibility that wood offers, the flexibility of C++ comes with a price.
As for hooks, Java has JNI to expose hooks into C but that breaks platform agnosity so it's used sparingly. The most prominent example of JNI use is SWT, the native widget framework for Java on which Eclipse is based. However, if the "gaming kit" used JNI, then the whole "run on any platform" crap that the toolkit was supposed to provide in the first place is out the window.
Not only that, the application is code named "Puffin". Hmmm, black and white bird that lives in cold climates and eats fish ... sounds vaguely familiar to me.
Yep, yep, true ... population densities due to the advent of high rises ... didn't factor that one in, good call.
I hate that spelling mistake and there I go an do it myself!
Nah man, seriously, how do you think the great European cities existed prior to fossil fuels? Paris, London, Rome? Supplies were either brought in by horse buggy or boat and sold at farmer's markets. If you're in the burbs and we run outta gas, you're way more screwed than if you live in town. However, your right that the retail system as we know it is in for a heap of trouble!
Apparently there is a law saying that the government can't compete with a private business
I'd be surprised if such a law exists, at least if it does it's well buried. If it did exist, then UPS and FedEx would have presumably sued the USPS out of existence. Also, things like the public defenders (private attorneys) and the police (security firms) would presumably be illegal. However, I have no doubt Intuit would actively lobby against free software from the IRS.
Um, have you worked with southern yellow pine??? Yeah it's considered a "soft wood" but only because it's a pine. It's harder and denser than any other pine except for an obscure New Zealand species. I'd say souther yellow pine easily rivals most of the hardwood species, including oak and birch. Some of the guys I've worked with on projects even went so far as to name it "iron wood" because of how incredibly hard it becomes over time.
At the income tax level, combined federal and state taxes are actually very close to Canadian federal and provincial rates. The biggest difference is the insane sales taxes in Canada, something like 15% on what seems to be everything. Hard liquor is also hella-expensive but not as wallet brusting as in Europe.
I use JFS and it's been pretty good thus far. It's been around for a long time and it's backed by IBM, so that makes it a pretty safe bet for production use in my mind. I used to use Ext3 before that and experienced a few data losses that caused me to make a switch. I can't comment on Reiser or XFS since I haven't used 'em.
Found this on Google ... looks like lawyer eat the biggest chunk with the USPTO taking in only about $500 of that $10K.
Fantastic idea ... one small problem ... it costs $10K on average to prepare and file a patent in the US alone, so where is the money going to come from??? Beyond that, defending even a single patent in court would make that $10K seem like milk money. The only practical solution from a FOSS perspective is to abolish software / business method patents altogether, and that's a little like taking a steak away from a Rottweiler as it's chowing down on it. The silver lining is that the patent system is becoming increasing cumbersome so there's a very slim chance it will choke the economy so much that the US government will have no other option other than to abolish / reduce the lifespan of these patents altogether. So, maybe we'd be better off creating an "Open Lobbyist" project.
Ok ... so it beats the tar out of dial-up ... well worth 30 bucks for a transatlantic flight!
Doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere and the Boeing site appears to be dead. I'm assuming it's better than dial-up.
Good point about the IDEs. I was a long time MSVS user and the best IDE I've used on Linux is Sun's NetBeans. It's a personal opinion though and others may not agree. Disclaimer aside, I think it's easily the best Java IDE on Linux and with a little configuration it makes a pretty good C/C++ IDE too. However, it's quite resource heavy so laptops and machines with less than 512M of memory need not apply.
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FWIW, I did look into several proprietary IDEs for Linux while back but none had the integration of CVS, code completion, code reformatting, and debugging features of NB in a single package.
YMMV
... wish I had mod points today!
It's been coming for a long time, any idea as to when it will get here and what are the criteria for achieving that mystical 1.0 milestone!
Yep, I should have RTFA ... sounds like these are Java web start applications after reading it. It will be interesting to see how well they've implemented them when a demo eventually bubbles up.
The fact that it's web based severely limits it's appeal. Yeah, it's neat technology but if Joe VP can't work on his PowerPoint on the plane, it's not gonna be acceptable.
If you're a new user or an end user, you shouldn't concern yourself with vanilla kernel updates. Your distro should provide hot patches like MS Update on some kind of a regular basis. As for how different that MS Update that is, it's not, a code fix is a code fix, regardless of your platform. There's nothing really wrong with this since MS Update is actually a decent patching facility.
Yeah right, you upgraded your kernel to 2.6.6 already. I call bullshit on you AC. I would bet an inordinate amount of money that you typed that post on a pirated copy of XP. Why don't you just go back to enjoying Slapper.