Yes it's Japan, and that makes it doubly weird, since after the death of young kid here in a revolving door accident about 3 years ago (I think), every single revolving door throughout Tokyo - and I mean *all* of them - has been put out of service.
I don't understand why they would be experimenting with this kind of technology, but too squeamish to put the revolving doors back in (that incidently cost way too much to leave sitting idle). Really weird.
It's interesting how this kind of "Community, but if you get out of line, we'll bite you" style of OSS product management is evil when seen in the context of a GPL product, yet no-one objects even slightly to the fact that Sun has been doing this to Java for years.
Before you can release any java code that implements java.* packages, there are non-disclosure agreements and compliance contracts you have to sign, so that you can't tell anyone about the horrors they will inflict on you if you release something that doesn't comply.
And Sun still enjoy the image of a "friend" of open source... ah the power of marketing.
I thought 2D maps had troubles with things changing and the map being incorrect. Can you imagine this ? If someone even digs up the sidewalk, the thing will become invalid.
I know there are acceptable degrees of invalidity for mapping, but wouldn't adding an extra dimension to the map make it invalid even more quickly ? The applications for which one uses 3D maps are likely to require a lower error tolerance, aren't they ?
(Someone correct me if I'm wrong - I'm no 3D modelling guru or map expert)
I'm no professional scientist, but it was my understanding that in order to prove something was not true, you have to demonstrate why it can never happen, not that it doesn't happen on a single car that you test it on.
There must be hundreds of different versions of the car's software that have varying levels of resilience to the virus.
I can't wait to see the follow up... "Why Windows never crashes: we tested and it didn't so it never crashes okay ?" No trouble getting funding for that study from Redmond.
Out of date comments are far far worse than none, and this happens with absolute certainty.
People will usually update variable names, but they won't update comments, especially when the IDE makes comments a different colour - your eyes don't even see them after a while.
You think spaghetti code is bad with no comments - try it with misleading comments.
This has to be the most stylish way to get slashdotted I've ever seen. Actually making it fake like you wrote a page that ddin't work in the first place when under load.... cool !!
(ducks)
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP An error occurred at line: 531 in the jsp file:/MissionControl/Tracking/index.jsp Generated servlet error: [javac] Compiling 1 source file/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.19/work/Catalina/loc alhost/_/org/apache/jsp/MissionControl/Tracking/in dex_jsp.java:607: ')' expected An error occurred at line: 531 in the jsp file:/MissionControl/Tracking/index.jsp Generated servlet error: out.println( com.conchango.vagf.util.TridionHelper.getComponent Link(application, "tcm:0-206-1").getLinkAsString("tcm:206-4611-64", "tcm:206-4720","tcm:206-3559-32", "", ""Friendship" flies the Atlantic", true) ); ...
The similarity to the open source debate is too close to ignore. You have company/association using traditional cathedral model, relying on hierarchy structure for quality control, and home types using the bazaar model, relying on incessant peer review.
I think the fact that this guy is commenting at all is a sign that the cathedral model is losing again.
Yeah - especially all the comedy central Daily Show clips of Jon Stewart. That alone is enough to keep my machine a dualboot win/linux box, instead of linux only.
I can't wait till some hacker manages first to bypass whatever safety mechanisms he includes and then to point the gun at his house, cronning a random couple of shots in the vicinity each minute. He'll never be able to leave the house again. Heheh
Completely agree, but I would add an important piece of advice:
If you use software raid, BACK UP/etc/raidtab !!
It seems like trivial info, but when I lost my os partition with a raid0 set attached, I had a hell of a time trying to figure out what the old raidtab looked like. If you get it wrong (eg in reverse order) when you try to guess, you can end up with directory listings that look fine, but you're corrupting the disk with every write.
Seems crazy, and it may have been an older incarnation of software raid, but I ended up having to re-rip 50 dvds as punishment. Make sure you back it up !!
As a closet Australian, I'd just to like to reassure everyone out there that there's nothing worth stealing in Australia anyway - not even information... so it's all moot.
Heheh... well clearly it's all a lie then. What's more likely - that the sysadmin made up all those figures to get at his boss, or that someone managed to play Solitaire that much without a single crash ?
Next time this guy decides to make up a story, he should be a little more creative with his facts.
Let's just hope they open source java properly before they go down the gurgler, and start having to sell their assets to stay afloat. Next time they settle with Microsoft, they might have to hand something over for their next $2 billion dollars.
I don't think these guys know enough about technology to really tell what's going on and what needs to be done
Since when has that stopped laws being passed ?
There's apparently a great line in the new Michael Moore movie where a senate guy says something along the lines of "We don't read most of the bills that we pass".
Sun have made the API licensing of Java so developer-friendly that it makes the life of the API implementors hell.
For example - I've implemented a servlet container, but in order to get the test kit for it, I had to sign a contract guarding the contents of the license - I can't tell you how draconian the conditions are, because the conditions themselves are protected.
Sun have pulled off the PR dream scenario - screw over a minority that helps them (the implementors), gag them so tightly they tell you everything is alright, and everyone still sees Sun as the champion of the little guy.
The goals they seek (API compliance) could *easily* be achieved through more positive methods. If they want API compliance, why don't they just make the compatibility test kits so easy to get/use that anyone who downloads a non-compliant implementation of a sun api will hae the chance to know it before installation - kind of like how most GNU stuff uses "make test". It's certainly a lot better than forcing open-source implementors to sign conditions so harsh it could personally bankrupt them if Sun decided they wanted to.
Perhaps the reason they chose a BSD license is a result of the Microsoft settlement... maybe they secretly agreed to release the full JVM source under a BSD license so that Microsoft could make their own less-Free version available under different conditions as a derivative. That could be one possible reason.
Damn... any kind of license change is an improvement over the abomination they call an "open" license now. Sure it's open for users of their APIs, but implementors have to sign a contract before they get to read the contract they have to sign for the test kits (which the software is contractually required to pass before you can release any implementation). You end up agreeing to stuff that's got the potential to personally bankrupt you if they wanted to, all in the name of API compatibility.
I guess that's what happens when you keep too many lawyers on retainer.
Please Sun.... find a better way !! If a BSD rather than GPL license will do it, then that's fine by me. Just make it implementor friendly too - perhaps making the test kits automated (or really easy to use) and freely available would be a good start.
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Yes it's Japan, and that makes it doubly weird, since after the death of young kid here in a revolving door accident about 3 years ago (I think), every single revolving door throughout Tokyo - and I mean *all* of them - has been put out of service.
I don't understand why they would be experimenting with this kind of technology, but too squeamish to put the revolving doors back in (that incidently cost way too much to leave sitting idle). Really weird.
It's interesting how this kind of "Community, but if you get out of line, we'll bite you" style of OSS product management is evil when seen in the context of a GPL product, yet no-one objects even slightly to the fact that Sun has been doing this to Java for years.
... ah the power of marketing.
Before you can release any java code that implements java.* packages, there are non-disclosure agreements and compliance contracts you have to sign, so that you can't tell anyone about the horrors they will inflict on you if you release something that doesn't comply.
And Sun still enjoy the image of a "friend" of open source
I thought 2D maps had troubles with things changing and the map being incorrect. Can you imagine this ? If someone even digs up the sidewalk, the thing will become invalid.
I know there are acceptable degrees of invalidity for mapping, but wouldn't adding an extra dimension to the map make it invalid even more quickly ? The applications for which one uses 3D maps are likely to require a lower error tolerance, aren't they ?
(Someone correct me if I'm wrong - I'm no 3D modelling guru or map expert)
We all know Cuba isn't a part of Europe ...
I'm no professional scientist, but it was my understanding that in order to prove something was not true, you have to demonstrate why it can never happen, not that it doesn't happen on a single car that you test it on.
... "Why Windows never crashes: we tested and it didn't so it never crashes okay ?" No trouble getting funding for that study from Redmond.
There must be hundreds of different versions of the car's software that have varying levels of resilience to the virus.
I can't wait to see the follow up
Out of date comments are far far worse than none, and this happens with absolute certainty.
People will usually update variable names, but they won't update comments, especially when the IDE makes comments a different colour - your eyes don't even see them after a while.
You think spaghetti code is bad with no comments - try it with misleading comments.
Heheh - I love that the acronym would become FOO.org. That ought to win over the geek crowd at least.
#include
Is QEMU ported to Mach OS X ?
... are they making a subtle point here about the Darwin kernel's origin ?
Hmmm
The similarity to the open source debate is too close to ignore. You have company/association using traditional cathedral model, relying on hierarchy structure for quality control, and home types using the bazaar model, relying on incessant peer review.
I think the fact that this guy is commenting at all is a sign that the cathedral model is losing again.
What do you think ?
This will never win, but I hope they include it as an option in the final download.
http://live.gnome.org/static/CarlCarlson.png
Yeah - especially all the comedy central Daily Show clips of Jon Stewart. That alone is enough to keep my machine a dualboot win/linux box, instead of linux only.
I can't wait till some hacker manages first to bypass whatever safety mechanisms he includes and then to point the gun at his house, cronning a random couple of shots in the vicinity each minute. He'll never be able to leave the house again. Heheh
So many pseudo-informed comments - amazing how geeks think they know everything, even down to linugistics and child psychology.
We should rename the site to "slashtot.org" just for the day, since it's turned into a mother's meeting.
"legal and management concerns" is pronounced "fear of being sued for libel".
Completely agree, but I would add an important piece of advice:
/etc/raidtab !!
If you use software raid, BACK UP
It seems like trivial info, but when I lost my os partition with a raid0 set attached, I had a hell of a time trying to figure out what the old raidtab looked like. If you get it wrong (eg in reverse order) when you try to guess, you can end up with directory listings that look fine, but you're corrupting the disk with every write.
Seems crazy, and it may have been an older incarnation of software raid, but I ended up having to re-rip 50 dvds as punishment. Make sure you back it up !!
As a closet Australian, I'd just to like to reassure everyone out there that there's nothing worth stealing in Australia anyway - not even information ... so it's all moot.
.... nothing to see here.
Move along
This sounds more like a job for an XML database than a relational one - tree structures rather than fixed relations would allow you to do that.
That's why you put them far enough apart that they don't overlap, and therefore the interference is insignificant.
Heheh ... well clearly it's all a lie then. What's more likely - that the sysadmin made up all those figures to get at his boss, or that someone managed to play Solitaire that much without a single crash ?
Next time this guy decides to make up a story, he should be a little more creative with his facts.
(Above is highly sarcastic)
Let's just hope they open source java properly before they go down the gurgler, and start having to sell their assets to stay afloat. Next time they settle with Microsoft, they might have to hand something over for their next $2 billion dollars.
I don't think these guys know enough about technology to really tell what's going on and what needs to be done
Since when has that stopped laws being passed ?
There's apparently a great line in the new Michael Moore movie where a senate guy says something along the lines of "We don't read most of the bills that we pass".
Sun have made the API licensing of Java so developer-friendly that it makes the life of the API implementors hell.
For example - I've implemented a servlet container, but in order to get the test kit for it, I had to sign a contract guarding the contents of the license - I can't tell you how draconian the conditions are, because the conditions themselves are protected.
Sun have pulled off the PR dream scenario - screw over a minority that helps them (the implementors), gag them so tightly they tell you everything is alright, and everyone still sees Sun as the champion of the little guy.
The goals they seek (API compliance) could *easily* be achieved through more positive methods. If they want API compliance, why don't they just make the compatibility test kits so easy to get/use that anyone who downloads a non-compliant implementation of a sun api will hae the chance to know it before installation - kind of like how most GNU stuff uses "make test". It's certainly a lot better than forcing open-source implementors to sign conditions so harsh it could personally bankrupt them if Sun decided they wanted to.
Perhaps the reason they chose a BSD license is a result of the Microsoft settlement ... maybe they secretly agreed to release the full JVM source under a BSD license so that Microsoft could make their own less-Free version available under different conditions as a derivative. That could be one possible reason.
... any kind of license change is an improvement over the abomination they call an "open" license now. Sure it's open for users of their APIs, but implementors have to sign a contract before they get to read the contract they have to sign for the test kits (which the software is contractually required to pass before you can release any implementation). You end up agreeing to stuff that's got the potential to personally bankrupt you if they wanted to, all in the name of API compatibility.
.... find a better way !! If a BSD rather than GPL license will do it, then that's fine by me. Just make it implementor friendly too - perhaps making the test kits automated (or really easy to use) and freely available would be a good start.
Damn
I guess that's what happens when you keep too many lawyers on retainer.
Please Sun