Correlation is not causation. Vietnam war until '75, Yom Kippur War and the following '73 oil crisis, '72 Watergate, '72 Munich olympics attack... might have something to do with the effects you mention
but it is something of a limiting factor for applications that need maximum performance or to get closer to the metal.
FUD. Java ME runs on processors embeded in credit cards for at least a decade. And no, that's not the execution time of the program. It (ME) gets compiled just as C/C++ would, in that case. Android is a different thing of course...
If you put the plates on a downhill ramp, then the car need to move vertically anyway.
So instead of having to use the brakes to convert energy into waste heat, they can convert it into electricity.
Then it would be more efficient to build a conveyor belt or a lift for descending cars only... But still more efficient is to cut of fuel - all modern cars do that - AND use some regeneration - some more expensive/advanced cars do that already.
BTW, e=m*v^2 has nothing to do with it, that's just the kinetic energy stored in a moving body, it can be converted to potential energy and back, as in a pendulum. What you are looking for is force x distance: F*s (or mass x gravitational constant x vertical distance: m*g*h)
The original idea is silly from a thermodynamic point of view, but bright from ecological theatre point of view, I think.
Thats like saying a house needs to be demolished because theyd like a new door
More like "soon their house will be demolished, better not invest in a new door now".
Within 2 years they probably have to migrate to Vista or Win7 anyway, they also need to buy and maintain AV software, why not invest in something else instead? Or at least look at alternatives and do the maths.
I hate it when I type pretty much anything in for an image search in google and I end up with porn. Okay when I'm at home but when I'm at work... not so cool.
My advice: spell check before you submit 'pretty much anal thing'. I've never had porn results whe searching for images on google yet...
In my experience, Pair programmers are more than twice as productive as a single developer when you factor in all the errors and bugs prevented by having two sets of eyes on the same problem.
This is a bovine manure argument. "I hate pair programming therefore programmers who like it are stupid".
Pair programming is not only about making fewer mistakes, it helps communication, spreading knowledge about code and best practices and it helps keeping disciplined about unit tests etc.
Similar to CamelCase. Limits the number of variations on the same name considerably (no: camelcase, Camelcase, Camel case, Cam El Case,...)
Reminds me of the command 'passwd' in *nix, I always have to 'apropos password' to find the correct spelling. Why is it not 'password' or 'psswrd'? Arbitrarily dropping 1 vowel and 1 consonant is silly.
Its a generic name for a certain type application (OSI Model, Application Layer), it often relies on NPT (Newtonian Physics Transport) and BCC (Body Collision Crumpling) in the transport and network layers.
A private DNS server running inside of a private domain's network couldn't get hijacked except for when it has to seek upstream for an address it doesn't know, but for all practical uses this shouldn't matter.
His own laptop. Configure it with an extra, private DNS at home, to find his computers by name in his home network, parents network, customers network... and accessing those being 'on the road'
Have you tried running Ubuntu (non-netbook edition) on a 10.2" screen at 1024x600 screen? Most apps simply don't fit on the screen, alt+mouse_drag only moves windows down, not up, meaning jumping through a lot of hoops simply to press OK in a dialog because it is below the screen.
I have, and it was also slow on Aspire One (512MB), that's probably why they had Ubuntu NBR (Net Book Remix) ready very soon. I like it. Great for reading pdf's and such or testing networks...
If the developer more or less steals your ideas or time, he's doing you wrong.
If you steel his ideas you did not pay for, you do wrong. An over extending contract enables you to do just that.
As a consultant I often work on clients software but in the mean time I develop some stuff I want for my business and other customers at night/weekend. I've had very interesting experiences learning how to use things (technologies, products). But until now I've never seen any idea worth copying, never mind stealing, in 'Enterprise' software.
With the idea of native apps not being practical for the purpose of ubiquity, one would probably point to cross-platform frameworks, like Java or GTK. That's fine and good, but these things require some "coaxing", if you will, especially in the UI department. A really simple app might be work just fine, but you have to be careful about using OS-specific functions and more complex programs sometimes need to be changed substantially. Applications that use web browser technologies don't really suffer from this.
Sigh, it happens too often that people say "you have this problem with (C|C++|C#|GTK|Qt|$YOUR_FAVORITE_LANGUAGE)+ and Java".
Java has webstart since 1.4 (2001) which uses JNLP (Java Network Launching Protocol ). From the desktop user's point of view.
WS automatically downloads new versions of the software, checks java versions etc. If you want to see it work and you have Java installed (>=1.4) you can try these Java 3D examples to see how the experience is.
Every once in a while somebody open sources something to gain visibility and once they're known they complain about having to give it away for nothing. That is greedy, you wouldn't probably have sold anything if it weren't free and Free, being a small operation... Make a business plan before releasing anything or have peace with no financial returns.
calling into question the long-term effect corporate culture will have on the evolution of open source
This is a different thing altogether, corporations ARE greedy and don't have morals, which is a bad thing. And in general it is more poignant as a function of how big the corporation is - or how anonymous the decision makers are, same thing.
On top of that most such corporations have a strategic horizon of 3 months, when the next reports are published for the stock markets. How do you think the banks and car manufacturers got in the mess they're in?
I'm all for a free market, but with the responsibility of each player i that market... If you or I would pull such a stunt for an amount of a few thousand ($|â), jail would be our destination; CEO's frequently are rewarded for failure... That's far more of a problem than one OSS project feeling indignant for missed revenue.
To put that into perspective: total length german Autobahn: 12 200 km, US Interstate Highway System" 75 440 km, that's about 6 times longer. Population 80 vs 300 (3.75 times) million, area 360 000 vs 9 900 000 km^2 (27.5 times)...
Just as a point in fact, I don't think Michelangelo allowed cameras in the Sistine Chapel:)
At the time the Camera Obscura was already 2 millennia old, and was used by painters to trace pictures - but probably not to take copies of other paintings. Makes you wonder why he didn't paint the first quarter of the chapel with stern warnings and images of hell to scare off those evil visitors that wanted to steal his intellectual property.
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And if you can, maintain some sort of wiki. It is ideal for those kind of things.
For some long running gathering of information, I use the self contained (single file HTML + JS) TiddlyWiki, easy to keep on a USB stick...
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It depends largely on the organization, but more often than not, generating documents is often a goal on its own. Creating visibility, credibility. And most of those documents are only used at most once in a presentation - if you get lucky. It's called bureaucracy and it is probably as old as civilisation.
On its own it might seem a cynical statement, but it is not. People tend to learn that in this massive amount of information, nothing of value is to be found. So, they ignore it habitually.
Now, to break away from the cynicism, I would recommend
Keep it terse: a few diagrams, list of passwords, overview - not details.
Maintain a set of links to relevant info on the web.
Regularly throw away obsolete documentation, nothing as discouraging as reading a 100 page document and gradually discovering it is not usable.
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Correlation is not causation. Vietnam war until '75, Yom Kippur War and the following '73 oil crisis, '72 Watergate, '72 Munich olympics attack... might have something to do with the effects you mention
but it is something of a limiting factor for applications that need maximum performance or to get closer to the metal.
FUD. Java ME runs on processors embeded in credit cards for at least a decade. And no, that's not the execution time of the program. It (ME) gets compiled just as C/C++ would, in that case. Android is a different thing of course...
It's jargon. That is how they can recognize each other...
If you put the plates on a downhill ramp, then the car need to move vertically anyway. So instead of having to use the brakes to convert energy into waste heat, they can convert it into electricity.
Then it would be more efficient to build a conveyor belt or a lift for descending cars only... But still more efficient is to cut of fuel - all modern cars do that - AND use some regeneration - some more expensive/advanced cars do that already.
BTW, e=m*v^2 has nothing to do with it, that's just the kinetic energy stored in a moving body, it can be converted to potential energy and back, as in a pendulum. What you are looking for is force x distance: F*s (or mass x gravitational constant x vertical distance: m*g*h)
The original idea is silly from a thermodynamic point of view, but bright from ecological theatre point of view, I think.
Thats like saying a house needs to be demolished because theyd like a new door
More like "soon their house will be demolished, better not invest in a new door now".
Within 2 years they probably have to migrate to Vista or Win7 anyway, they also need to buy and maintain AV software, why not invest in something else instead? Or at least look at alternatives and do the maths.
I hate it when I type pretty much anything in for an image search in google and I end up with porn. Okay when I'm at home but when I'm at work ... not so cool.
My advice: spell check before you submit 'pretty much anal thing'. I've never had porn results whe searching for images on google yet...
I dunno, I would have preferred if you just said '42'.
Embrace and extend in geopolitics? No thanks.
In my experience, Pair programmers are more than twice as productive as a single developer when you factor in all the errors and bugs prevented by having two sets of eyes on the same problem.
This is a bovine manure argument. "I hate pair programming therefore programmers who like it are stupid".
Pair programming is not only about making fewer mistakes, it helps communication, spreading knowledge about code and best practices and it helps keeping disciplined about unit tests etc.
Similar to CamelCase. Limits the number of variations on the same name considerably (no: camelcase, Camelcase, Camel case, Cam El Case,...)
Reminds me of the command 'passwd' in *nix, I always have to 'apropos password' to find the correct spelling. Why is it not 'password' or 'psswrd'? Arbitrarily dropping 1 vowel and 1 consonant is silly.
What is this "sports" you speak of?
Its a generic name for a certain type application (OSI Model, Application Layer), it often relies on NPT (Newtonian Physics Transport) and BCC (Body Collision Crumpling) in the transport and network layers.
A private DNS server running inside of a private domain's network couldn't get hijacked except for when it has to seek upstream for an address it doesn't know, but for all practical uses this shouldn't matter.
His own laptop. Configure it with an extra, private DNS at home, to find his computers by name in his home network, parents network, customers network... and accessing those being 'on the road'
Have you tried running Ubuntu (non-netbook edition) on a 10.2" screen at 1024x600 screen? Most apps simply don't fit on the screen, alt+mouse_drag only moves windows down, not up, meaning jumping through a lot of hoops simply to press OK in a dialog because it is below the screen.
I have, and it was also slow on Aspire One (512MB), that's probably why they had Ubuntu NBR (Net Book Remix) ready very soon. I like it. Great for reading pdf's and such or testing networks...
[...]but I doubt "corporate" java apps are going to be small[...]
I would think that in a corporate environment, that would not be such a big issue.
Now, I'm not advocating to use ws/jnlp for everything, but for complicated graphical tools, why not? It's an alternative.
Oh... looks like the 5 minutes was to download a new version of Java or something.
I think that's a good point, one more deployment issue out of the way...
[...]it's my dime that you developed it with!
It's about balance of power between 2 parties.
If the developer more or less steals your ideas or time, he's doing you wrong.
If you steel his ideas you did not pay for, you do wrong. An over extending contract enables you to do just that.
As a consultant I often work on clients software but in the mean time I develop some stuff I want for my business and other customers at night/weekend. I've had very interesting experiences learning how to use things (technologies, products). But until now I've never seen any idea worth copying, never mind stealing, in 'Enterprise' software.
With the idea of native apps not being practical for the purpose of ubiquity, one would probably point to cross-platform frameworks, like Java or GTK. That's fine and good, but these things require some "coaxing", if you will, especially in the UI department. A really simple app might be work just fine, but you have to be careful about using OS-specific functions and more complex programs sometimes need to be changed substantially. Applications that use web browser technologies don't really suffer from this.
Sigh, it happens too often that people say "you have this problem with (C|C++|C#|GTK|Qt|$YOUR_FAVORITE_LANGUAGE)+ and Java".
Java has webstart since 1.4 (2001) which uses JNLP (Java Network Launching Protocol ). From the desktop user's point of view.
WS automatically downloads new versions of the software, checks java versions etc. If you want to see it work and you have Java installed (>=1.4) you can try these Java 3D examples to see how the experience is.
Every once in a while somebody open sources something to gain visibility and once they're known they complain about having to give it away for nothing. That is greedy, you wouldn't probably have sold anything if it weren't free and Free, being a small operation... Make a business plan before releasing anything or have peace with no financial returns.
calling into question the long-term effect corporate culture will have on the evolution of open source
This is a different thing altogether, corporations ARE greedy and don't have morals, which is a bad thing. And in general it is more poignant as a function of how big the corporation is - or how anonymous the decision makers are, same thing.
On top of that most such corporations have a strategic horizon of 3 months, when the next reports are published for the stock markets. How do you think the banks and car manufacturers got in the mess they're in?
I'm all for a free market, but with the responsibility of each player i that market... If you or I would pull such a stunt for an amount of a few thousand ($|â), jail would be our destination; CEO's frequently are rewarded for failure... That's far more of a problem than one OSS project feeling indignant for missed revenue.
I give my root password to friends/install programs they tell me are interesting.
I don't even trust myself with a root password.
I'm sure they are out to get me, I can tell, so do these voices. Can anyone loosen up this straightjacket?
3. 2. 1. and
Knock knock, Mr Dan? Dan 541? This is the FBI
The patent is on associating properties with text without embedding the formatting codes directly. Most XML formats don't do that.
It's about saying something like "in the text, make characters 17-21 bold face" separately from the text itself, instead of "{\bf hello}"
Of course 'XML' does not do that. XML + XML does that, e.g. an ODF file is a zip-container with several XML documents in it, some of which are:
so it's not only presentation(style) that is separated from content... But still, the entire document is self contained.
There's a bit of a gap between 'holds all of their prosecuting cases' and 'here is a case where they were the defendant'.
Also, if what CajunArson writes is correct, it was the plaintiff that chose Marshall and not Microsoft.
Damned if you do, dam... oh wait, just 'damned if you are Microsoft, to hell with facts'.
No, damned if you sue for patents and damned if you get sued for them. Software patents are silly.
The irony is that MS is now on the receiving end. And the Marshall/Texas reference is irrelevant.
To put that into perspective: total length german Autobahn: 12 200 km, US Interstate Highway System" 75 440 km, that's about 6 times longer. Population 80 vs 300 (3.75 times) million, area 360 000 vs 9 900 000 km^2 (27.5 times)...
Just as a point in fact, I don't think Michelangelo allowed cameras in the Sistine Chapel :)
At the time the Camera Obscura was already 2 millennia old, and was used by painters to trace pictures - but probably not to take copies of other paintings. Makes you wonder why he didn't paint the first quarter of the chapel with stern warnings and images of hell to scare off those evil visitors that wanted to steal his intellectual property.
And if you can, maintain some sort of wiki. It is ideal for those kind of things.
For some long running gathering of information, I use the self contained (single file HTML + JS) TiddlyWiki, easy to keep on a USB stick...
It depends largely on the organization, but more often than not, generating documents is often a goal on its own. Creating visibility, credibility. And most of those documents are only used at most once in a presentation - if you get lucky. It's called bureaucracy and it is probably as old as civilisation.
On its own it might seem a cynical statement, but it is not. People tend to learn that in this massive amount of information, nothing of value is to be found. So, they ignore it habitually.
Now, to break away from the cynicism, I would recommend