I'm impressed. He built a very cool system. I'd be more impressed if he could devise a means in which his web page displayed in the fullness of my browser, instead of being limited to a tiny window in the center. I'm telling you, once someone conquers the "fit to window" problem this World Wide Web thing is really going to take off. Mark my words, someone will make money off it.
Where? To me, publishing a paper means your writing appeared in some peer-reviewed journal (where the "peers" are acknowledged as domain experts). What you did was put up a web page. With a donation link at the bottom.
For others looking for a solution, try POPFile. Open source, cross platform, gives me 96% accuracy.
One more thing: "practically eliminates" is not the same as "eliminates".
The Atari used a character set called ATASCII, though I'm sure the keyboard wouldn't have any knowledge of this. This page shows the ATASCII and internal values. I'm sure some mapping scheme could be made to work with the original keyboard...maybe the Atari key can be mapped as ALT. Interesting...
Sure you're in Mensa. Otherwise why would you write "complement" when you meant "compliment"? And what does this mean (from your profile)? I hate sexiest men, who are afraid of intelligent women. So, you like ugly men?
Looking through responses to your comments didn't reveal any insults because you claim to be a woman, but rather because you can't write worth a damn. My guess is a) you're not in Mensa and b) you're a guy.
I'm sorry you had to be an ass too. Thanks for taking on a thankless job though.
FYI, in my day job I'm part of a team working under a government contract (just got back from JavaOne courtesy of the contract), and in my night job I'm contracted directly by the government (U.S.) to provide services (software is the deliverable). IT in both cases. Oh yes, and in my other other job I'm in the Air Force Reserves. I'm a little familiar with government work...
This is a tax on not having an open format and wanting to sell to government.
This statement really sets the tone for your post. Do you think it's a good thing to tax an entity for a want? Or to purchase a product and then tax the maker of that product for not meeting some standard that you know wasn't met before the purchase? Lunacy.
This is a tax on not having an open format and wanting to sell to government. Doing that is very similar to a sin tax on cigarettes, say, which many governments do as well.
No. If the proposal was "very similar to a sin tax on cigarettes" then government agencies buying MS products would have to pay.
It is about applying a tax to closed formats if they want to be involved with government.
Again with the "want" tax...that's just silly. What's worse - a 10% tax on the seller or a 100% tax on the seller? Perhaps the government could just avoid purchasing closed format products (if the government finds that desirable).
Also somewhat similar, say, to some fees charged by the US government when someone like Lockheed fails to produce documents by a certain date on a government contract.
And here's strike 3. It's not "somewhat similar". In the example you give, Lockheed is already under contract to the government. There are penalties built into these contracts and the government is just exercising its right to lever them.
Perhaps if you had read the article you would have seen a more reasonable proposal: "...a pre-set set-aside of between 10-20% of the IT procurement budget that will be used to procure Open Source products..." How about that? Voting with one's wallet? So novel...let's compare the two cases:
Case 1: Buy from MSFT and then charge MSFT an extra 10% to fund open source, whatever that means. So MSFT still makes a pile of money while a small amount of the sale goes to fund other development.
Case 2: Spend 10-20% of the budget procuring open source solutions. Not knowing the size of the budget makes it impossible to compare the monetary benefit to the open source community but it would appear that MSFT would receive fewer orders. This case mandates the use of open source products while the first case does not. Doesn't that seem like a better thing? If open source products can truly compete with commercial products then this case will lead to more adoption of these products.
Unless, of course, the company is a publicly traded company with lots of owners (read: shareholders), and said company's stock now trades at about a buck and a half, down from its high of over $40 about 2 1/2 years ago.
Transmeta has always been very good at letting me spend even an inordinate amount of time on Linux, but as a result I've been feeling a little guilty at just how little "real work" I got done lately.
Just a little guilty? Boy, what a crappy employee. Really. It's one thing to work on projects in your spare time but to leech off your employer to do so is not right. I'm sure this will encourage other employers to support their employees' work on open source projects. I guess Transmeta didn't want the bad press associated with firing Torvalds...let's see if he goes back in a year. Will Transmeta even notice he's gone (except for part where they save money on his salary)?
There are two issues here: the predetermined outcome and the apparent "near win".
The site author takes issue with the fact the outcome is decided before the lever is pulled / button is pushed. This is alarming only if one expects the computer to model the physical behavior of spinning reels rather than just the outcome (statistically speaking) over time. As long as the machine pays out what it should, over time, then when the machine determines win/lose does not matter.
As for near wins, they're just to keep the player hooked. If you make slot machines you don't want losing players to feel like losers; you want them to feel like "near winners"...that with the next play the player will finally be a winner. Think of it like dating. If the woman plays you well you'll keep coming back for more dates even if you aren't having sex with her.
A secondary issue is the lack of regulation. Without any guaranteed payout there is no way of telling if these machines are paying as they should.
On a related note, here's a demo of a gambling game, Cash King Checkers (I've never seen this in a casino though). Somewhat addictive at first.
Can you imagine the U.S. watching China build and man a moon base?
Sweet! Ever have that astronaut ice cream they sell at the Smithsonian Air & Space museum? Blech...if the Chinese get there first we'll be able to get take out and have our space suits pressed and cleaned.
Please tell me you're trying to be funny with your "gather around the radio" remark... % of homes with tv passed 50% somewhere around 1953-1954. Uncle Miltie? Jack Paar? The Honeymooners? Any of it sound familiar?
No. Have fun. Let's see what you will be getting (from the CompUSA site):
Full Color Web Browser to Access Virtually Any Website
Get Your Email & Wireless Calls In One Convenient Package
Get the Internet & POP3 Email, Send Photos** & Read Image Attachments
Two-way Text Messaging
Use Your Existing Screenname for AOL Instant Messenger & AOL Mail
Wireless Synchronization
Flip Screen Reveals Qwerty Keyboard
32MB of RAM
When I see things like this I think, "why?" Some people need to be this connected, but I think that number is small. For the rest, I wonder why people have a need to stay so connected. Fear of loneliness or lack of feeling important? It seems an antisocial way of being social. For me, I'm happy being alone at times...not only alone but unreachable.
Not only because they have a pretty website but also because of this:
Please look for us at JavaOneâ booth 1705!
You don't just whip up a booth & promo material in a weekend (as someone who has worked booths I know it's a royal pain). This year I'm attending JavaOne as a developer...I'll definitely be stopping by to see what they've got. No good swag I'm sure...they're probably too poor yet...
Yes, it's cool, but I felt poorer just after reading the submission.
Let's see, besides the cost of the bike there's 10 years of effort to pay for. And of course, everyone is going to want one of these filling stations around the house, attractively displayed by a model with a hint of belly showing.
The $87k? I made that up so don't start with me about it:)
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If MS changes the Windows dll, do you think there's a small chance they will also change how that dll is accessed, thus cutting Mozilla out?
No, I don't think there's a chance of that. MS would not change the public API. Not only would it break products that depend on it, changing the API would also break other versions of IE (not to mention other Internet-aware applications). MS has changed the unpublished API before, resulting in broken applications that relied on it. Wah...that's why one shouldn't use those calls.
Then, once Mozilla has its own cross-platform, built-in NTLM, MS will really change NTLM, but at the server level, so that Mozilla has to start all over again.
This assumes that MS has magic powers to instantaneously retrofit all of its software throughout the world to comply with the new format. I don't think anyone, even on slashdot (except maybe you), holds this view.
I believe one of the things Sun tried to get at was to make Java development easier. It's something they're working on across the board, as this article notes.
Without seeing (in the Java source code) how the templates are implemented I can't say that I agree or disagree with your statement that they will be inefficient, though I'm inclined to disagree based on your example. Templates or not, objects are going to be stored the same way. The difference is how those objects are retrieved. Right now you have to cast everything coming out of an ArrayList (unless the Object reference is sufficient)...not only is that being moved to the language but you also gain compile-time type checking. That will only serve to reduce errors and make the software more reliable. Templates are optional anyway - you don't have to use them. I'm looking forward to them.
I don't think you're ever going to see VM sharing. If applications can share VMs then one rogue app could bring down other apps by trashing the VM (never supposed to happen) or by poor thread management.
Either way you look at it, it's a good year to finally be going to JavaOne...
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Bzzt. Win XP. IE6.
I'm impressed. He built a very cool system. I'd be more impressed if he could devise a means in which his web page displayed in the fullness of my browser, instead of being limited to a tiny window in the center. I'm telling you, once someone conquers the "fit to window" problem this World Wide Web thing is really going to take off. Mark my words, someone will make money off it.
Wow. You're an ass. Anyone who plays a game that much is a loser.
No, but calling it "publishing a paper" is...
Where? To me, publishing a paper means your writing appeared in some peer-reviewed journal (where the "peers" are acknowledged as domain experts). What you did was put up a web page. With a donation link at the bottom.
For others looking for a solution, try POPFile. Open source, cross platform, gives me 96% accuracy.
One more thing: "practically eliminates" is not the same as "eliminates".
Where did I call you names? You're not a very good troll you know...
The Atari used a character set called ATASCII, though I'm sure the keyboard wouldn't have any knowledge of this. This page shows the ATASCII and internal values. I'm sure some mapping scheme could be made to work with the original keyboard...maybe the Atari key can be mapped as ALT. Interesting...
Sure you're in Mensa. Otherwise why would you write "complement" when you meant "compliment"? And what does this mean (from your profile)? I hate sexiest men, who are afraid of intelligent women. So, you like ugly men?
Looking through responses to your comments didn't reveal any insults because you claim to be a woman, but rather because you can't write worth a damn. My guess is a) you're not in Mensa and b) you're a guy.
+1 Funny for you. -1 Bite My Ass for whoever modded you a troll.
I'm sorry you had to be an ass too. Thanks for taking on a thankless job though.
FYI, in my day job I'm part of a team working under a government contract (just got back from JavaOne courtesy of the contract), and in my night job I'm contracted directly by the government (U.S.) to provide services (software is the deliverable). IT in both cases. Oh yes, and in my other other job I'm in the Air Force Reserves. I'm a little familiar with government work...
This is a tax on not having an open format and wanting to sell to government.
This statement really sets the tone for your post. Do you think it's a good thing to tax an entity for a want? Or to purchase a product and then tax the maker of that product for not meeting some standard that you know wasn't met before the purchase? Lunacy.
This is a tax on not having an open format and wanting to sell to government. Doing that is very similar to a sin tax on cigarettes, say, which many governments do as well.
No. If the proposal was "very similar to a sin tax on cigarettes" then government agencies buying MS products would have to pay.
It is about applying a tax to closed formats if they want to be involved with government.
Again with the "want" tax...that's just silly. What's worse - a 10% tax on the seller or a 100% tax on the seller? Perhaps the government could just avoid purchasing closed format products (if the government finds that desirable).
Also somewhat similar, say, to some fees charged by the US government when someone like Lockheed fails to produce documents by a certain date on a government contract.
And here's strike 3. It's not "somewhat similar". In the example you give, Lockheed is already under contract to the government. There are penalties built into these contracts and the government is just exercising its right to lever them.
Perhaps if you had read the article you would have seen a more reasonable proposal: "...a pre-set set-aside of between 10-20% of the IT procurement budget that will be used to procure Open Source products..." How about that? Voting with one's wallet? So novel...let's compare the two cases:
Case 1: Buy from MSFT and then charge MSFT an extra 10% to fund open source, whatever that means. So MSFT still makes a pile of money while a small amount of the sale goes to fund other development.
Case 2: Spend 10-20% of the budget procuring open source solutions. Not knowing the size of the budget makes it impossible to compare the monetary benefit to the open source community but it would appear that MSFT would receive fewer orders. This case mandates the use of open source products while the first case does not. Doesn't that seem like a better thing? If open source products can truly compete with commercial products then this case will lead to more adoption of these products.
Unless, of course, the company is a publicly traded company with lots of owners (read: shareholders), and said company's stock now trades at about a buck and a half, down from its high of over $40 about 2 1/2 years ago.
Quarterly Income Statement
Hey, here's a fun graph: TMTA vs MSFT
Transmeta has always been very good at letting me spend even an inordinate amount of time on Linux, but as a result I've been feeling a little guilty at just how little "real work" I got done lately.
Just a little guilty? Boy, what a crappy employee. Really. It's one thing to work on projects in your spare time but to leech off your employer to do so is not right. I'm sure this will encourage other employers to support their employees' work on open source projects. I guess Transmeta didn't want the bad press associated with firing Torvalds...let's see if he goes back in a year. Will Transmeta even notice he's gone (except for part where they save money on his salary)?
Submitter asks, "So what does you do if you're a Canadian cabinet maker who's a closet techie do during those long winter months?"
Case modder writes, "Of course I waited for Mrs. Mike to go shopping first..."
I suppose the obvious answer to the submitter's question is, "do your wife". Glad to see the guy came out of the closet to work on his computer...
There are two issues here: the predetermined outcome and the apparent "near win".
The site author takes issue with the fact the outcome is decided before the lever is pulled / button is pushed. This is alarming only if one expects the computer to model the physical behavior of spinning reels rather than just the outcome (statistically speaking) over time. As long as the machine pays out what it should, over time, then when the machine determines win/lose does not matter.
As for near wins, they're just to keep the player hooked. If you make slot machines you don't want losing players to feel like losers; you want them to feel like "near winners"...that with the next play the player will finally be a winner. Think of it like dating. If the woman plays you well you'll keep coming back for more dates even if you aren't having sex with her.
A secondary issue is the lack of regulation. Without any guaranteed payout there is no way of telling if these machines are paying as they should.
On a related note, here's a demo of a gambling game, Cash King Checkers (I've never seen this in a casino though). Somewhat addictive at first.
Can you imagine the U.S. watching China build and man a moon base?
Sweet! Ever have that astronaut ice cream they sell at the Smithsonian Air & Space museum? Blech...if the Chinese get there first we'll be able to get take out and have our space suits pressed and cleaned.
Please tell me you're trying to be funny with your "gather around the radio" remark... % of homes with tv passed 50% somewhere around 1953-1954. Uncle Miltie? Jack Paar? The Honeymooners? Any of it sound familiar?
More fun tv facts
No. Have fun. Let's see what you will be getting (from the CompUSA site):
Full Color Web Browser to Access Virtually Any Website
Get Your Email & Wireless Calls In One Convenient Package
Get the Internet & POP3 Email, Send Photos** & Read Image Attachments
Two-way Text Messaging
Use Your Existing Screenname for AOL Instant Messenger & AOL Mail
Wireless Synchronization
Flip Screen Reveals Qwerty Keyboard
32MB of RAM
When I see things like this I think, "why?" Some people need to be this connected, but I think that number is small. For the rest, I wonder why people have a need to stay so connected. Fear of loneliness or lack of feeling important? It seems an antisocial way of being social. For me, I'm happy being alone at times...not only alone but unreachable.
Not only because they have a pretty website but also because of this:
Please look for us at JavaOneâ booth 1705!
You don't just whip up a booth & promo material in a weekend (as someone who has worked booths I know it's a royal pain). This year I'm attending JavaOne as a developer...I'll definitely be stopping by to see what they've got. No good swag I'm sure...they're probably too poor yet...
IBM bought Manhattan for some beads, and the Indians beat the ChiSox 5-4 in 10 innings.
Oh, wrong Indians...sorry.
It's funny. Laugh. (Note the foot icon accompanying the story).
They would change them, but not in a way to break existing software. Backwards compatibility...
Yes, it's cool, but I felt poorer just after reading the submission.
:)
Let's see, besides the cost of the bike there's 10 years of effort to pay for. And of course, everyone is going to want one of these filling stations around the house, attractively displayed by a model with a hint of belly showing.
The $87k? I made that up so don't start with me about it
If MS changes the Windows dll, do you think there's a small chance they will also change how that dll is accessed, thus cutting Mozilla out?
No, I don't think there's a chance of that. MS would not change the public API. Not only would it break products that depend on it, changing the API would also break other versions of IE (not to mention other Internet-aware applications). MS has changed the unpublished API before, resulting in broken applications that relied on it. Wah...that's why one shouldn't use those calls.
Then, once Mozilla has its own cross-platform, built-in NTLM, MS will really change NTLM, but at the server level, so that Mozilla has to start all over again.
This assumes that MS has magic powers to instantaneously retrofit all of its software throughout the world to comply with the new format. I don't think anyone, even on slashdot (except maybe you), holds this view.
I believe one of the things Sun tried to get at was to make Java development easier. It's something they're working on across the board, as this article notes.
Without seeing (in the Java source code) how the templates are implemented I can't say that I agree or disagree with your statement that they will be inefficient, though I'm inclined to disagree based on your example. Templates or not, objects are going to be stored the same way. The difference is how those objects are retrieved. Right now you have to cast everything coming out of an ArrayList (unless the Object reference is sufficient)...not only is that being moved to the language but you also gain compile-time type checking. That will only serve to reduce errors and make the software more reliable. Templates are optional anyway - you don't have to use them. I'm looking forward to them.
I don't think you're ever going to see VM sharing. If applications can share VMs then one rogue app could bring down other apps by trashing the VM (never supposed to happen) or by poor thread management.
Either way you look at it, it's a good year to finally be going to JavaOne...