Either MS is only promising some things that MAY happen, but of course may also NOT HAPPEN. Or MS is going to show them ONLY some pieces of the code, for example the mouse and USB driver code.
The learning mechanisms for detecting spam, like the Bayesian classification require a large amount of messages to build a good spam detection profile. The average 500 message JunkMail folder is not big enough for the purpose.
> Are there really that many companies using Java?
Yes, there are many companies that use Java. The reason that there are not so many summer jobs is that Java is server-side oriented and naturally suited for BIG and complex projects that require stability, uptime, interaction with various OLD systems, network transparency and platform neutral programming.
Java is not well suited for system-level "hacking" or OS dependant programming. For such purposes C++ is generally a better choice.
The old article uses the term "degrading". I noticed that not only the DVD-s are becoming degradable, the Slashdot comments are also degrading. The average length of the artikels posted 2.5 years ago is about 10 lines and most of them are quite interesting. When I compare it to the current posts, I see the term "degrading" in action.
The most important for every developer in my opinion is Java. It is the current foundation of the general programming (no flames, please). A second step will be the Java-releated technologies - J2EE, XML processing and so on.
You probably already have a solid knowledge of SQL, relational databases and C (C++).
Then XML, HTML, the different CSS and DOM things and so on.
Also some TCP/IP and basic Unix administration will come handy.
This I think is more than enough for a good start. Java + C + C++ + XML + HTML + TCP/IP + SQL + relational databases are going to be around for a very long time and a lot of BIG and small systems are going to depend on them.
About the learning - a good book (finding a good book may be hard), a lot of interest and trying to understand the underlying principles should be enough.
Cool, just plain cool!
For the price of a standard 100 sq.m. flat (250 000 EUR, Bayern, Germany), I can get a custom equipped B727 rotating on its own axe.
This is just not true. A standard Ford key has 5 sections, each of which can have 6 levels of thickness, so the total number of different keys is 7776 + the key has integrated immobilizer chip with A LOT of combinations possible for it.
Btw. Entering a car without a key is usually not a problem, starting it without a key can be a little bit more tricky.
The tona was a little bit hars, at maybe the employee that wrote it will have hard times when the news about his actions spread, but it probably is honest. The music companies run for profit and they see the people that copy illegal their music as criminals (also copying from LP and MC-s have always been illegal).
On the other hand if I have bought an audio CD and I want to play it on my PC, then I SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THAT, because I am not stealing anything!
And I have bought the audio CD as playable on all red-book compliant players and I have bought my CD-ROM drive as red-book compliant, SO THE CD SHOULD PLAY!
Also, it is just a matter of time, until the CD-ROM drives come with a simple button that makes them ignore all the tracks after the first one (on which most of the protections rely), so it becomes automatically CD-protected-ROM compatible. Maybe just wait until the december shoping fever?
You can use small LCD-s in the keys, for example the ones used in small electonic lady watch. The LCD-s can be reflective or inverse. The inverse LCD will need a LED placed underneath to show an image.
Having in mind that a cheapo electronic watch costs very little, the LCD-s probably will be 1-2 dollars each. The keycaps can be made transparent and the LCD can be placed below the cap to keep it from scratches. I remember one VERY OLD keyboard, that had the quadratic design of a Volvo 740 (when I say quadratic, I mean QUADRATIC:), everything was square with sharp edges), that had transparent keycaps and there were little pieces of paper below the caps with the letters printed on them. Changing the visual keyboard layout was a 1 min work.
Maybe there exist keyboards with transparent caps, so they can directly be used.
How many keyboards need a infinite number of monkeys, if every monkey types on two keyboards?
There is a lot of thought behind the Haloween documents. Many people have worked hard to make the research, to summarize the results and draw the conclusions. A lot of money were thrown for this, A LOT.
So the next time when you wonder why Windows costs so much and is such a peace of garbage, the answer is, because the company that develops it is investing not in making the product better, but in convincing the people that the product is better (FUD) and in looking for ways to force the people to use it (Monopoly).
All software programs have bugs, Mozilla is not an exception, for reference check the bugzilla, bug 200000 is on the way. It is however open source and the bugs are detected faster and patched much faster (hopefully) than the programs developed using the traditional closed source model.
Comparison with IE is hard to be made, the security model of IE is a late addition (IE6 is still Mosaic based), while Mozilla had it from the ground up.
Most of the given bugs are fixed for 1.2beta, so that they do not pose a treat for the people that upgrade regularly.
There was an interview (can not find it anymore) with a software company that was actually calculating the numbers of bugs per 1000 lines of code and was testing the new modules until the predicted number of bugs were detected. Their calculations were quite close to the reality and they had managed to catch the trend in bug detection and fixing so by the sheer number of bugs found and fixed in the beginning they were able to predict how much more bugs are to be detected until the product stabilizes and what time they will need for that.
From the very beginning Transmeta did not have a clear market strategy. They grabbed some attention at the time, mostly because of their hidden development and braveness to face Intel. Linus was another marketing trick (quite successful). But to survive in the market a clear business strategy is a must, not just a "nice to have". They tried to use (and open?) a new market niche - the low-power mobile devices, that was not existing. The chance was little and it mostly did not succeed. The company is however popular in Japan, which had always had a market for ultra-little things. So things fall now in place - it is very hard to use a new market segment, where there is none. (Anyone Iridium phones?)
The Japan-s are known to value the small things and are ready to pay real cash for the same functionality, just smaller. It is in their culture, so Transmeta was just doomed to succeed there.
By that time (June 5-th 2003), IE will be much further AND if MS opens the IE API (as the settlement has set) AND the people see the garbage inside, then there is no chance that Mozilla can catch in terms of bug numbers.
Nothing new, the pointing devices based on the gyroscope principle are at least 1 year old, if not more. Last yaer I was researching the market for a long-range wireless mouse and I found at least 2 gyro-mouses, one was with integrated laser pointer. It is really useful for PowerPoint presentations or any other projector based demostrations
> After applying each patch I had to sort out the problems with each merge and found that looking at
> the code it made a lot of sense to me and I could sort out the problems - mind you I can't program in
C at all.
> Look at the code for long enough and you start understanding what it is doing.
C is great! Even doctors can read it and fix the bugs!
Slashdot Mirror
Take a look at the web site (Flash required). There are some cool videos.
I do not beleave it
Either MS is only promising some things that MAY happen, but of course may also NOT HAPPEN. Or MS is going to show them ONLY some pieces of the code, for example the mouse and USB driver code.
For my local (Germany) the meteor shower started at 4am and lasted until 5.30am. Nothing to do with 11 local time.
The learning mechanisms for detecting spam, like the Bayesian classification require a large amount of messages to build a good spam detection profile. The average 500 message JunkMail folder is not big enough for the purpose.
> Do they have a mailing list I can sign up for if I want to get updated by e-mail?
No, but you can open a Hotmail account and receive a dayli dose of UP-TO-DATE spam message FOR FREE.
> No matter where you live, the hours between 11:00 p.m. on Monday and dawn on Tuesday are going to be the best for spotting Leonids."
I normally understand "No matter where you live" as "No matter where you live in the US" as too-many US sites do not care about the non-US readers
> Are there really that many companies using Java?
Yes, there are many companies that use Java. The reason that there are not so many summer jobs is that Java is server-side oriented and naturally suited for BIG and complex projects that require stability, uptime, interaction with various OLD systems, network transparency and platform neutral programming.
Java is not well suited for system-level "hacking" or OS dependant programming. For such purposes C++ is generally a better choice.
> We noted this 2.5 years ago.
The old article uses the term "degrading". I noticed that not only the DVD-s are becoming degradable, the Slashdot comments are also degrading. The average length of the artikels posted 2.5 years ago is about 10 lines and most of them are quite interesting. When I compare it to the current posts, I see the term "degrading" in action.
> Why is the entertainment industry so hell-bent on NOT giving us entertainment?
Because we (ahem) most of us do not pay for things that we can get without paying. And because it is another form of teasing the customer.
The most important for every developer in my opinion is Java. It is the current foundation of the general programming (no flames, please). A second step will be the Java-releated technologies - J2EE, XML processing and so on.
You probably already have a solid knowledge of SQL, relational databases and C (C++).
Then XML, HTML, the different CSS and DOM things and so on.
Also some TCP/IP and basic Unix administration will come handy.
This I think is more than enough for a good start. Java + C + C++ + XML + HTML + TCP/IP + SQL + relational databases are going to be around for a very long time and a lot of BIG and small systems are going to depend on them.
About the learning - a good book (finding a good book may be hard), a lot of interest and trying to understand the underlying principles should be enough.
Cool, just plain cool!
For the price of a standard 100 sq.m. flat (250 000 EUR, Bayern, Germany), I can get a custom equipped B727 rotating on its own axe.
Do these guys deliver to Europe?
This is just not true. A standard Ford key has 5 sections, each of which can have 6 levels of thickness, so the total number of different keys is 7776 + the key has integrated immobilizer chip with A LOT of combinations possible for it.
Btw. Entering a car without a key is usually not a problem, starting it without a key can be a little bit more tricky.
The tona was a little bit hars, at maybe the employee that wrote it will have hard times when the news about his actions spread, but it probably is honest. The music companies run for profit and they see the people that copy illegal their music as criminals (also copying from LP and MC-s have always been illegal).
On the other hand if I have bought an audio CD and I want to play it on my PC, then I SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THAT, because I am not stealing anything!
And I have bought the audio CD as playable on all red-book compliant players and I have bought my CD-ROM drive as red-book compliant, SO THE CD SHOULD PLAY!
Also, it is just a matter of time, until the CD-ROM drives come with a simple button that makes them ignore all the tracks after the first one (on which most of the protections rely), so it becomes automatically CD-protected-ROM compatible. Maybe just wait until the december shoping fever?
I am not last, I am first counting backwards
You can use small LCD-s in the keys, for example the ones used in small electonic lady watch. The LCD-s can be reflective or inverse. The inverse LCD will need a LED placed underneath to show an image. :), everything was square with sharp edges), that had transparent keycaps and there were little pieces of paper below the caps with the letters printed on them. Changing the visual keyboard layout was a 1 min work.
Having in mind that a cheapo electronic watch costs very little, the LCD-s probably will be 1-2 dollars each. The keycaps can be made transparent and the LCD can be placed below the cap to keep it from scratches. I remember one VERY OLD keyboard, that had the quadratic design of a Volvo 740 (when I say quadratic, I mean QUADRATIC
Maybe there exist keyboards with transparent caps, so they can directly be used.
How many keyboards need a infinite number of monkeys, if every monkey types on two keyboards?
There is a lot of thought behind the Haloween documents. Many people have worked hard to make the research, to summarize the results and draw the conclusions. A lot of money were thrown for this, A LOT.
So the next time when you wonder why Windows costs so much and is such a peace of garbage, the answer is, because the company that develops it is investing not in making the product better, but in convincing the people that the product is better (FUD) and in looking for ways to force the people to use it (Monopoly).
No alcohol is also not a solution
All software programs have bugs, Mozilla is not an exception, for reference check the bugzilla, bug 200000 is on the way. It is however open source and the bugs are detected faster and patched much faster (hopefully) than the programs developed using the traditional closed source model.
Comparison with IE is hard to be made, the security model of IE is a late addition (IE6 is still Mosaic based), while Mozilla had it from the ground up.
Most of the given bugs are fixed for 1.2beta, so that they do not pose a treat for the people that upgrade regularly.
There was an interview (can not find it anymore) with a software company that was actually calculating the numbers of bugs per 1000 lines of code and was testing the new modules until the predicted number of bugs were detected. Their calculations were quite close to the reality and they had managed to catch the trend in bug detection and fixing so by the sheer number of bugs found and fixed in the beginning they were able to predict how much more bugs are to be detected until the product stabilizes and what time they will need for that.
Slash me, trash me, I'm your RecycleBin
> The posts in the thread already mention that the Carusoe is a niche chip
Transmeta has managed to integrate an audio chip in the processor, how cool!!!
It reminds me of something:
:).
They had the right product at the right time, just the customers were not there (and did not arrive) (until it was too late
Have fun, life is short
From the very beginning Transmeta did not have a clear market strategy. They grabbed some attention at the time, mostly because of their hidden development and braveness to face Intel. Linus was another marketing trick (quite successful). But to survive in the market a clear business strategy is a must, not just a "nice to have". They tried to use (and open?) a new market niche - the low-power mobile devices, that was not existing. The chance was little and it mostly did not succeed. The company is however popular in Japan, which had always had a market for ultra-little things. So things fall now in place - it is very hard to use a new market segment, where there is none. (Anyone Iridium phones?) The Japan-s are known to value the small things and are ready to pay real cash for the same functionality, just smaller. It is in their culture, so Transmeta was just doomed to succeed there.
Nuff said, mod me now
By that time (June 5-th 2003), IE will be much further AND if MS opens the IE API (as the settlement has set) AND the people see the garbage inside, then there is no chance that Mozilla can catch in terms of bug numbers.
:(
Oh, I forgot, IE has no bug database
I hope that Adobe does not have the fate of Netscape ..
(optimized for IE 5.0+ and NS6.0+)
Optimized for Netscape 6.0+, which is the good old Mozilla thing. The site developers are catching up!
Wonder if it's real.
Real or not, it is already slashdotted
Nothing new, the pointing devices based on the gyroscope principle are at least 1 year old, if not more. Last yaer I was researching the market for a long-range wireless mouse and I found at least 2 gyro-mouses, one was with integrated laser pointer. It is really useful for PowerPoint presentations or any other projector based demostrations
> After applying each patch I had to sort out the problems with each merge and found that looking at
> the code it made a lot of sense to me and I could sort out the problems - mind you I can't program in C at all.
> Look at the code for long enough and you start understanding what it is doing.
C is great! Even doctors can read it and fix the bugs!