"Tech writer (and programmer) Jeff Cogswell examines both sides from a programming perspective."
Irrelevant. The data exists to serve the needs of the business and programmers/developers work to serve those needs. The company should chose the best tool for the job which is a usually a relational database as it serve the needs of the "business" the best in most cases. If you are looking to see which is easier for you then you are a shitty programmer and you need to upgrade your skills to understand how to work with relational databases. You should not be dictating what storage methodology is used for the data.
To be a competent developer, you need to have some understanding of how databases work because you cannot rely on the DBA to babysit all of the projects. You should understand what indexes are, the difference between and inner and outer join and when you can use each time and you should test your code against a large data set to find any bottlenecks on the database side.
He basically installed malware/spyware onto Apple store computer and he calls that "art". Are botnets just another form of "expression"? Give me a break. There was not permission from the store owners and no informed consent from the subjects. The guy is creepy as hell.
I think you are confusing the commandments with the covenant god made with the people of Israel. The covenant spells out what things they should do ceremonially.
No wait I bought Win7 for my gaming PC a few years ago.
Just looking at your sig and then your comment. Are you aware that Microsoft is a convicted monopolist? Are you aware that they prevented companies like Next and BeOS from making deals with OEMs?
They could couple these sensors with an image search algorithm of the NSA database and there you have it, the Intersect.
Obviously, the whole storing the database in your head is a bit far fetched but imagine a pair of glasses that contained a wireless radio that processed the input from the sensors detecting a recognition in your brain forwarding that to the database and returning a result back to display on the glasses to the wearer or to a bluetooth connected device.
I don't work with image matching but I do work systems that match based on text and phoneme similarity of names and places in data from disparate sources.
Verizon's decision to pursue LTE before it was actually ready was a master stroke in keeping the market fragmented and avoiding head to head competition and they even managed to screw up LTE so that they had their own special 700 Mhz band for LTE instead of the standard one. Other countries including Canada have multiple carriers sharing a set of frequencies for both HSPA/HSPA+ and LTE so why couldn't regulators in the US force direct competition on the same devices in the US?
Then there is the whole problem with Sprint trying to push WiMax as a competing standard to LTE and keep their old creaky CDMA for voice and texts.
Interestingly, in Canada the CDMA carriers decided to go with HSPA+ by November 2009 to be ready for the 2010 winter olympics held in Vancouver. Part of the impetuous for this was overwhelming popularity of the iPhone in Canada and the lack of Android options on CDMA for Canadian carriers to use. Most of the "super" phones on Android were either Verizon exclusives or already using the proprietary version of LTE on Verizon so the Canadian carriers had little choice but to go the HSPA+ route and directly compete head to head with the offspring of the old Rogers/AT&T partnership known as Rogers and Fido.
All of this back story led to different attitudes about phones and carriers. In Canada, the iPhone brought about a new view of phones and carriers with the phone becoming more important than the carrier you were on and carriers became "dumb pipes". In the US, it seems like people talk about their "phone bill" and not wanting manufacturers to add charges to that bill and that is the old school way it used to be in Canada. We Canadians now see carriers as a necessary evil for the phone we bought and want to use and not as the sole source of the "phone" we want. The carriers are seen as a utility rather than a provider of hardware in Canada and the increased direct competition has led to lower prices on data plans and flexible month to month tablet data plans.
In a round about way, I am saying that the RIM CEO is partially right that the LTE push was a problem but Apple avoided that by not courting Verizon and Sprint early in the game but instead focused on international expansion.
RIM's issues go deeper than the carrier fragmentation in the US. Their software stack and hardware are outdated and too dependent on BIS and BES.
The "buck" is supposed to stop with the CEO of the company so you imprison/fine the CEO and/or the C-level exec who signed off on the project personally.
Some exec should be seeing either a personal fine, jail time or both.
Steve Ballmer's statement is based on the false premise that Apple is innovative.
They are not. However, they are very clever and skilled IP thieves.
I'm trying really hard to not fall for you trap but maybe you could give us an example of what you think innovation is, an example of an innovative company and examples of how Apple steals rather than innovates.
Perhaps you are not aware of the Apple Newton and how it is a predecessor of graphical PDA like Palm put out by a couple of years. It introduced the concept of handwriting recognition on a tablet form factor and rows of icons on a stylus controlled resistive touch screen device.
Apple has made numerous contributions to open source projects over the years and even created some new open source projects.
Steve Jobs wasn't as successful with Apple as many would like to believe. Remember, Apple was skirting on bankruptcy, and it was MS that bailed them out. MS viewed Apple the way that Intel views AMD. Apple has been pushing the Mac desktop for almost 30 years and they are still a lot closer to the market share of desktop Linux than they are to Windows.
What planet/universe are you on? Microsoft's investment was the result of an out of court lawsuit settlement negotiated by Jobs when he came back to Apple. He had been gone for a decade before he came back. That investment was dwarfed by the cash hoard Apple had at the time. Apple was definitely in trouble but the cash infusion by itself would not have saved Apple. Its importance was symbolic as it was a seen as a vote of confidence in Apple's future. Microsoft also agreed to develop Microsoft Microsoft Office for five years and continue supporting Internet Explorer on the Mac OS platform. Those moved brought back confidence to the third party developer community and user community but the money itself was nothing and they were not doing it out of the goodness of their heart. Microsoft feared that they would be broken up by the DOJ if Apple failed and they wanted to end the lawsuit over the stolen Quicktime codec code.
Apple started to become profitable again when the released products like the iMac, Powermac G3 tower and eventually the Powermac G4 towers and all of those products came about after Steve Jobs came back to Apple.
If they do, corporate America is dead. MS is baked into its IT DNA. Competitors might score brand new technologies, but consumer tech is not going to replace the base IT infrastructure that supports 99.9% of all businesses. If MS mysteriously died, most IT divisions would collapse shortly thereafter.
I don't think you actually have worked in a large fortune 500 company. They use windows desktops but many have a lot of infrastructure running on various flavours of commercial UNIX and Oracle databases.
That was entirely self-serving. They wanted a mechanism to allow webpages to target IE specifically rather than the standard HTML features.
Video codec innovations which led to VC-1 being the premier codec for HD-DVD and BR discs.
Early codecs were based on Quicktime code stolen by a sub-contractor from Apple. VC-1 is inferior to H.264, HD-DVD lost the format war and many BR discs with the best video quality use H.264.
Did you even read the page you linked to? I quote: "TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript."
What a fucking lie. If we look at human history, it's obvious that Mankind is a warrior race.
No, it isn't obvious at all Notice, for example, we're not all wearing goatees, swords, and radiation suits.
Seriously, next time you head into the office, look around at the people around you. Try to picture Ted from Accounting slashing the throat of his superior to become your boss.
I see your problem right there. You are confusing science "fiction" and our real world history. If left to our own natures, we are warring, killing, raping and pillaging bastards. Want some examples? The vikings, American soldiers in Vietnam, the Muslim armies that swept across northern africa and into Spain/portugal in 700.
Some are striving to overcome our violent with faiths such as christianity. Humanity cannot achieve a Utopian society through humanism. Star Trek was a lie and were are more like the "mirror" universe than you would care to admit.
The church held a monopoly because nobody else was interested. In case if you did not notice, society had collapsed into the dark ages when the Roman empire fell and the new rulers had no interest in a state sponsored educational system. They also had little interest in preserving knowledge from the past. So the monks had to step in and save what they could.
Why don't you do yourself a favour and just admit to yourself that you have prejudice and that your fear of religion is based on ignorance?
I cannot argue you into changing your mind. All I can do is point out the error and just leave it in god's hands in prayer. May god bless you and reveal himself to you. I forgive you because what you do is out of ignorance rather than malice.
This must be utterly confusing to you right? Why would I bless you when you are hostile towards me and my faith? That is what the upside-down kingdom is all about. You love your enemies, you bless those who curse you, you forgive rather than seek revenge. Finally, the first shall be last and the last shall be first.
The values of this world are often the opposite of god's values.
Balmer instituted a stack review process which is better suited for a sales organization rather than a software development company. That process is killing morale and innovation. Everyone there is afraid to work on side projects for fear of being reviewed as mediocre or at the bottom.
Yea and HP, Sharp, Casio, and GRID all had the same type of system in the 80's whats your point? The fact that apple made a palmtop has nothing to do with the patent in question dink.
"The patent covers a system to detect telephone numbers in e-mails so, when the number on the screen is tapped, they can be stored in directories or called without dialing."
la-de da, show me where a newton did that?
Do you become embroiled in the minutia and have seeing the big picture? Are you left leaning? I get the weird feeling like you cannot see the forest for the trees. That patent is based on OS X technology known as data detectors and iOS is based on OS X. So, what is your point again? Are you assuming that Apple only came up with the idea shortly before the iPhone came out? Really? You are too focused on finding minutia to "prove" me wrong that you are not seeing what is right in front of you.
Seriously, you don't have to believe me but you do have to do a little research yourself.
The majority of PDAs from prior to the Newton did not have a touch screen of any sort with rows of icons. The Atari Porfolio was keyboard driven and text based and the same thing applies to the other companies you mention. You seem to have revisionist memory.
You might want to go into that large blue room located outside of home once in a while. There are a lot of people in there who do not have access to computers, have no credit cards and not bank accounts.
Slashdot Mirror
So which lawsuit did Google initiate? Plenty where suits have been bought against Google. I don't know of any where Google was the initiator.
By proxy via Motorola which they were still in the middle of buying.
"Tech writer (and programmer) Jeff Cogswell examines both sides from a programming perspective."
Irrelevant. The data exists to serve the needs of the business and programmers/developers work to serve those needs. The company should chose the best tool for the job which is a usually a relational database as it serve the needs of the "business" the best in most cases. If you are looking to see which is easier for you then you are a shitty programmer and you need to upgrade your skills to understand how to work with relational databases. You should not be dictating what storage methodology is used for the data.
To be a competent developer, you need to have some understanding of how databases work because you cannot rely on the DBA to babysit all of the projects. You should understand what indexes are, the difference between and inner and outer join and when you can use each time and you should test your code against a large data set to find any bottlenecks on the database side.
He basically installed malware/spyware onto Apple store computer and he calls that "art". Are botnets just another form of "expression"? Give me a break. There was not permission from the store owners and no informed consent from the subjects. The guy is creepy as hell.
The ten commandments are in Exodus 20:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2020%20&version=KJV
I think you are confusing the commandments with the covenant god made with the people of Israel. The covenant spells out what things they should do ceremonially.
No wait I bought Win7 for my gaming PC a few years ago.
Just looking at your sig and then your comment. Are you aware that Microsoft is a convicted monopolist? Are you aware that they prevented companies like Next and BeOS from making deals with OEMs?
What if they accidentally unleash a zombie/zerg bacteria/virus?
> he could be fracking parks and recreations
Gee thanks. It'll take a long time to get that mental image out of my head.
No doubt, they should not allow exploration for natural gas deposits inside of parks.
They could couple these sensors with an image search algorithm of the NSA database and there you have it, the Intersect.
Obviously, the whole storing the database in your head is a bit far fetched but imagine a pair of glasses that contained a wireless radio that processed the input from the sensors detecting a recognition in your brain forwarding that to the database and returning a result back to display on the glasses to the wearer or to a bluetooth connected device.
I don't work with image matching but I do work systems that match based on text and phoneme similarity of names and places in data from disparate sources.
Verizon's decision to pursue LTE before it was actually ready was a master stroke in keeping the market fragmented and avoiding head to head competition and they even managed to screw up LTE so that they had their own special 700 Mhz band for LTE instead of the standard one. Other countries including Canada have multiple carriers sharing a set of frequencies for both HSPA/HSPA+ and LTE so why couldn't regulators in the US force direct competition on the same devices in the US?
Then there is the whole problem with Sprint trying to push WiMax as a competing standard to LTE and keep their old creaky CDMA for voice and texts.
Interestingly, in Canada the CDMA carriers decided to go with HSPA+ by November 2009 to be ready for the 2010 winter olympics held in Vancouver. Part of the impetuous for this was overwhelming popularity of the iPhone in Canada and the lack of Android options on CDMA for Canadian carriers to use. Most of the "super" phones on Android were either Verizon exclusives or already using the proprietary version of LTE on Verizon so the Canadian carriers had little choice but to go the HSPA+ route and directly compete head to head with the offspring of the old Rogers/AT&T partnership known as Rogers and Fido.
All of this back story led to different attitudes about phones and carriers. In Canada, the iPhone brought about a new view of phones and carriers with the phone becoming more important than the carrier you were on and carriers became "dumb pipes". In the US, it seems like people talk about their "phone bill" and not wanting manufacturers to add charges to that bill and that is the old school way it used to be in Canada. We Canadians now see carriers as a necessary evil for the phone we bought and want to use and not as the sole source of the "phone" we want. The carriers are seen as a utility rather than a provider of hardware in Canada and the increased direct competition has led to lower prices on data plans and flexible month to month tablet data plans.
In a round about way, I am saying that the RIM CEO is partially right that the LTE push was a problem but Apple avoided that by not courting Verizon and Sprint early in the game but instead focused on international expansion.
RIM's issues go deeper than the carrier fragmentation in the US. Their software stack and hardware are outdated and too dependent on BIS and BES.
How do you imprison a corporation?
The "buck" is supposed to stop with the CEO of the company so you imprison/fine the CEO and/or the C-level exec who signed off on the project personally.
Some exec should be seeing either a personal fine, jail time or both.
Steve Ballmer's statement is based on the false premise that Apple is innovative.
They are not. However, they are very clever and skilled IP thieves.
I'm trying really hard to not fall for you trap but maybe you could give us an example of what you think innovation is, an example of an innovative company and examples of how Apple steals rather than innovates.
Perhaps you are not aware of the Apple Newton and how it is a predecessor of graphical PDA like Palm put out by a couple of years. It introduced the concept of handwriting recognition on a tablet form factor and rows of icons on a stylus controlled resistive touch screen device.
Apple has made numerous contributions to open source projects over the years and even created some new open source projects.
Steve Jobs wasn't as successful with Apple as many would like to believe. Remember, Apple was skirting on bankruptcy, and it was MS that bailed them out. MS viewed Apple the way that Intel views AMD. Apple has been pushing the Mac desktop for almost 30 years and they are still a lot closer to the market share of desktop Linux than they are to Windows.
What planet/universe are you on? Microsoft's investment was the result of an out of court lawsuit settlement negotiated by Jobs when he came back to Apple. He had been gone for a decade before he came back. That investment was dwarfed by the cash hoard Apple had at the time. Apple was definitely in trouble but the cash infusion by itself would not have saved Apple. Its importance was symbolic as it was a seen as a vote of confidence in Apple's future. Microsoft also agreed to develop Microsoft Microsoft Office for five years and continue supporting Internet Explorer on the Mac OS platform. Those moved brought back confidence to the third party developer community and user community but the money itself was nothing and they were not doing it out of the goodness of their heart. Microsoft feared that they would be broken up by the DOJ if Apple failed and they wanted to end the lawsuit over the stolen Quicktime codec code.
Apple started to become profitable again when the released products like the iMac, Powermac G3 tower and eventually the Powermac G4 towers and all of those products came about after Steve Jobs came back to Apple.
If they do, corporate America is dead. MS is baked into its IT DNA. Competitors might score brand new technologies, but consumer tech is not going to replace the base IT infrastructure that supports 99.9% of all businesses. If MS mysteriously died, most IT divisions would collapse shortly thereafter.
I don't think you actually have worked in a large fortune 500 company. They use windows desktops but many have a lot of infrastructure running on various flavours of commercial UNIX and Oracle databases.
I work for a fortune 500 company.
Involved in the creation of the browser useragent
That was entirely self-serving. They wanted a mechanism to allow webpages to target IE specifically rather than the standard HTML features.
Video codec innovations which led to VC-1 being the premier codec for HD-DVD and BR discs.
Early codecs were based on Quicktime code stolen by a sub-contractor from Apple. VC-1 is inferior to H.264, HD-DVD lost the format war and many BR discs with the best video quality use H.264.
Helped establish TrueType
Did you even read the page you linked to? I quote: "TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript."
ClearType
They were copying ATSUI.
The Taskbar
A copy of the NEXT dock and other systems.
Ability to alter compiled code while debugging it
NEXT had that in the 90's with the predecessor to X-Code and Objective-C.
Lots of small innovations in .NET that when combined equal large cumulative innovation.
The .NET framework borrowed ideas from Cocoa and Java.
XNA
Most high profile games that are multi-platform use C/C++ code rather than XNA.
Shadow Copy
A backup on the same hard drive? That is not a backup. It is idiotic.
Certainly that should qualify as an innovation.
Nope.
What a fucking lie. If we look at human history, it's obvious that Mankind is a warrior race.
No, it isn't obvious at all Notice, for example, we're not all wearing goatees, swords, and radiation suits.
Seriously, next time you head into the office, look around at the people around you. Try to picture Ted from Accounting slashing the throat of his superior to become your boss.
I see your problem right there. You are confusing science "fiction" and our real world history. If left to our own natures, we are warring, killing, raping and pillaging bastards. Want some examples? The vikings, American soldiers in Vietnam, the Muslim armies that swept across northern africa and into Spain/portugal in 700.
Some are striving to overcome our violent with faiths such as christianity. Humanity cannot achieve a Utopian society through humanism. Star Trek was a lie and were are more like the "mirror" universe than you would care to admit.
The church held a monopoly because nobody else was interested. In case if you did not notice, society had collapsed into the dark ages when the Roman empire fell and the new rulers had no interest in a state sponsored educational system. They also had little interest in preserving knowledge from the past. So the monks had to step in and save what they could.
Why don't you do yourself a favour and just admit to yourself that you have prejudice and that your fear of religion is based on ignorance?
I cannot argue you into changing your mind. All I can do is point out the error and just leave it in god's hands in prayer. May god bless you and reveal himself to you. I forgive you because what you do is out of ignorance rather than malice.
This must be utterly confusing to you right? Why would I bless you when you are hostile towards me and my faith? That is what the upside-down kingdom is all about. You love your enemies, you bless those who curse you, you forgive rather than seek revenge. Finally, the first shall be last and the last shall be first.
The values of this world are often the opposite of god's values.
Have I made myself clear?
So you are saying that you are constipated and need a suppository?
Balmer instituted a stack review process which is better suited for a sales organization rather than a software development company. That process is killing morale and innovation. Everyone there is afraid to work on side projects for fear of being reviewed as mediocre or at the bottom.
See:
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-was-destroyed-by-its-stack-review-process-according-to-new-vanity-fair-expose-2012-7
Yea and HP, Sharp, Casio, and GRID all had the same type of system in the 80's whats your point? The fact that apple made a palmtop has nothing to do with the patent in question dink.
"The patent covers a system to detect telephone numbers in e-mails so, when the number on the screen is tapped, they can be stored in directories or called without dialing."
la-de da, show me where a newton did that?
Do you become embroiled in the minutia and have seeing the big picture? Are you left leaning? I get the weird feeling like you cannot see the forest for the trees. That patent is based on OS X technology known as data detectors and iOS is based on OS X. So, what is your point again? Are you assuming that Apple only came up with the idea shortly before the iPhone came out? Really? You are too focused on finding minutia to "prove" me wrong that you are not seeing what is right in front of you.
Seriously, you don't have to believe me but you do have to do a little research yourself.
The majority of PDAs from prior to the Newton did not have a touch screen of any sort with rows of icons. The Atari Porfolio was keyboard driven and text based and the same thing applies to the other companies you mention. You seem to have revisionist memory.
A lot of people like to bring up Windows Mobile as prior art but Windows Mobile only dates back to 2000:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile
Then others try to bring up Palm but Palm OS only dates back to 1996:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_OS
But everyone seems to have forgotten about the Newton which debuted in 1993:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform)
The Newton went on to be the inspiration for the iOS platform many year later.
By the chroniclers of the time. Your religiousness is showing.
You seem to have a problem with the concept of past and present. The monks were the only chroniclers of time. Your ignorance is showing.
But they have gold?
No, they have this thing called "CASH". It is anonymous and easy to obtain even without a computer and a bank account.
How is one supposed to pay for these things with digital currency? Pimps and drug dealers love paper trails!
No, they love cash. Paper trails are incriminating.
Gold:
[x] Cashless
[x] High-Value
[x] Anonymous
[ ] Digital
You might want to go into that large blue room located outside of home once in a while. There are a lot of people in there who do not have access to computers, have no credit cards and not bank accounts.
More likely, the event would have been recorded more objectively without all the religious bullsh^Wovertones.
By whom exactly? Your prejudice is showing.