The guy didn't say anything approaching that. He says that a guy has to pay his bills. If all programming is done for free, programmers don't get to pay their bills.
Moreover, he points out that Joe OpenSourcer doesn't make money on open-source; the big fishes like IBM or Red Hat do. Is that fair to Joe?
The best illustration for this is BIND: the SMTP protocol's spec is fixed (see the RFC 821), yet the implementation (BIND itself) is open-source. Is it not "open source" anyway?
Making incompatible changes to the JVM has already been done by someone: Microsoft. Making variations on a programming language only serves the destruction of it: if developers can't be sure a feature [is usable/behaves the same way] on all platforms, they have to stop using it.
Anyway, if somebody wants to make a language similar to Java with differences, they can make it and call it Jawa if they want. It will not be an implementation of Java anyway.
In fact, we are talking about JVM's, not the language itself.
The Java language specification is already avaliable in the open, just like the JVM spec. This means that anybody could write a complete java implementation, open source. The open source version could not evolve faster than the Sun spec(because it would not be a real JVM then), but the optimization and bug-tracking processes could go faster (if it gets the same kind of support Apache has).
What is interesting here is that Sun would participate directly.
So the solution to stupid system design is rewarding stupid system designer by buying a new version?!?
No sane person would do that for a car! I am certain nobody would have bought a Pinto II because the Pinto was "supported no more and it is their fault they still drive an exploding car because the new version is all right".
Another flaw: i get to check "always trust Hackerboy" box, but there is no "never trust Hackerboy" box for me to check. Would work wonders on my blood pressure...
Well, considering the extenuating pace at which video card rendering power advances, if you bought a nice video card yesterday, it will probably be an underpowered piece of crap tomorrow...
Because of that, I have invested in a game console for all my video-intensive gaming needs. No video card is good enough for a new game that came out 2 years after it hit the market, but if a console is scrapped after 2 years, it is a major failure for the company that produced it.
I should point out that Conrad Black's Hollinger was until really recently the biggest media owner in Canada. This inludes in PQ The Gazette, Le Soleil, and other (smaller) papers like Le Nouvelliste. Those are mostly now properties of CanWest Global.
On the electronic media front, there is the ubiquitous Astral Media, which owns almost all specialty channels(Canal Z, D, Historia, Super Ecran, etc) and a huge radio network which includes the "Radio Energie" group. I would not discount the national television network, Radio-Canada, which is an evenly matched competitor to TVA (yes, the national network is a big player here!)
Their label Musicor is largely unknown because BMG Musique (division of the international BMG label) and Sony have the lion's share of the successful artists here. Musicor is promised for a better tomorrow because of "Star Academie", an "American Idol"-style artist boot camp/publicity campaign.
All this to say that Quebecor is the most widely recognized media "giant", but there are other huge players.
In fact, I know about another Software engineering school: Laval University, Quebec.
I agree that titles like "engineer" should be protected as they are in Canada. It prevents people from making themselves look more educated/qualified than they are. In the US, any self-taught VB coder can call himself a software engineer. AARGH!
The first program lets you remove stuff from the many places in the registry where crap hides to start on bootup, while the second keeps crap from getting there without your explicit consent.
Since I have those two, life is good and (almost) malware-free.
Don't throw concepts you don't know just because the seem to fit the space. What you just said amounts to saying "use a bayesian filter to distribute software".
Neural nets share absolutely no common features with P2P networks. Neural nets are an AI technique that takes inputs and learns what are the correct outputs like natural neurons do. Thus, you can use a neural net to filter your mail, but not to distribute knowledge, or data, or software.
Aside from that conceptual mistake, using geographically distributed clusters of servers to keep sites working is a good idea, esp. if you expect a slashdotting(or DDOS).
FYI, US governement have been engaged in a nice deregulation wave for 10 years. That deregulation has been poorly tought out, because of a "The Market Cures All" mindset. What did the deregulation bring? Gigantic power outages and California-style power crunches.
The deregulated US power grid is overstressed, has little or no margin for extra demand, and has outdated and poorly maintained emergency systems. And thanks to Enron and friends, artificial scarceness has been created to crank up prices.
In a nutshell, you pay more and get less(safety, avaliability, quality) than when the market was regulated. Ain't The Market grand?
Electric power is a basic necessity(in our post-industrial world), and should be managed by the state, just like water works and law enforcement.
Try convincing a bank to finance you a hundred grand of lawyer fees, before going to court. Personnal loans cost a lot, and not everyone can afford a loan of this kind of magnitude. Moreover, there is always the possibility that you lose, and you get to pay Mr Corp's 5 lawyers, plus your own. Bankrupcy, anyone?
In fact, if the debts were equal to the assets, the CEO would just run away with a huge chunk of the assets, leaving the creditors out to dry. Moreover, he would suck the employee's pension plan while jacking up the share price with sensationalistic news releases and dump his stock through indirect connections.
Such is the nature and function of the position of CEO.
I'm somewhat popping out of space on this but I will coin my 2 cents.
From my appreciation of the economics of web-based advertising, Mandrake must just be reducing the cost of the bandwidth by showing advertisement. By setting up BitTorrents, people are in effect offering free bandwidth to Mandrake, which can have quite a good value(ever seen the bill for installing a new, puny 4.5mbps business-class line? ouch.)
Moreover, if the installer shows ads, the BitTorrent versions must still show them, delivering those ads for just the cost of the bandwidth of serving the pics... Quite a lot less than providing the ISO's THEN the ad pics!
Maybe I am missing something because I never downloaded Mandrake... or maybe your point is that the pre-release should remain for the favored ones. On that I have a neutral opinion.
Here, all DSL ISP's(and there are a lot)are really reselling ma Bell's DSL lines. Bell is forced to sell at cost the line to ISP's and they resell it to people.
The point is that the resellers are eating Bell alive because they have better packaging. Example: sometime a year and a half ago, Bell decided to hard-cap their DSL service. Of course, the tech-savvy people jumped fast to get an ISP without caps. Some of them had trouble keeping up with the new subscriptions, and Bell was shedding market share like a tree in autumn. A month or two ago, Bell removed the caps. Yay competition!
Morale: competition is a good thing. No caps is also a sweet thing;-) Open up the cable copper to competition, and watch prices go down and service levels up!
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No, it should be "War and Peace". Much more power to the user.
Moderation : +4 - damn, I bought the books before I knew this.
You know why that guy decided to move to Canada? I'll let you in on their secret:
;-)
Canadians have the best country in the world!
Yep, right there under the 3-meter snowbank...
The good analogy would be: I made use of Windows DLL's from an original CD I own in a Wine install.
Should be okay, I think.
The guy didn't say anything approaching that. He says that a guy has to pay his bills. If all programming is done for free, programmers don't get to pay their bills.
Moreover, he points out that Joe OpenSourcer doesn't make money on open-source; the big fishes like IBM or Red Hat do. Is that fair to Joe?
I disagree with your definition of "open source".
The best illustration for this is BIND: the SMTP protocol's spec is fixed (see the RFC 821), yet the implementation (BIND itself) is open-source. Is it not "open source" anyway?
Making incompatible changes to the JVM has already been done by someone: Microsoft. Making variations on a programming language only serves the destruction of it: if developers can't be sure a feature [is usable/behaves the same way] on all platforms, they have to stop using it.
Anyway, if somebody wants to make a language similar to Java with differences, they can make it and call it Jawa if they want. It will not be an implementation of Java anyway.
The Java language specification is already avaliable in the open, just like the JVM spec. This means that anybody could write a complete java implementation, open source. The open source version could not evolve faster than the Sun spec(because it would not be a real JVM then), but the optimization and bug-tracking processes could go faster (if it gets the same kind of support Apache has).
What is interesting here is that Sun would participate directly.
So the solution to stupid system design is rewarding stupid system designer by buying a new version?!? No sane person would do that for a car! I am certain nobody would have bought a Pinto II because the Pinto was "supported no more and it is their fault they still drive an exploding car because the new version is all right".
Another flaw: i get to check "always trust Hackerboy" box, but there is no "never trust Hackerboy" box for me to check. Would work wonders on my blood pressure...
Because of that, I have invested in a game console for all my video-intensive gaming needs. No video card is good enough for a new game that came out 2 years after it hit the market, but if a console is scrapped after 2 years, it is a major failure for the company that produced it.
I should point out that Conrad Black's Hollinger was until really recently the biggest media owner in Canada. This inludes in PQ The Gazette, Le Soleil, and other (smaller) papers like Le Nouvelliste. Those are mostly now properties of CanWest Global.
On the electronic media front, there is the ubiquitous Astral Media, which owns almost all specialty channels(Canal Z, D, Historia, Super Ecran, etc) and a huge radio network which includes the "Radio Energie" group. I would not discount the national television network, Radio-Canada, which is an evenly matched competitor to TVA (yes, the national network is a big player here!)
Their label Musicor is largely unknown because BMG Musique (division of the international BMG label) and Sony have the lion's share of the successful artists here. Musicor is promised for a better tomorrow because of "Star Academie", an "American Idol"-style artist boot camp/publicity campaign.
All this to say that Quebecor is the most widely recognized media "giant", but there are other huge players.
In fact, I know about another Software engineering school: Laval University, Quebec.
I agree that titles like "engineer" should be protected as they are in Canada. It prevents people from making themselves look more educated/qualified than they are. In the US, any self-taught VB coder can call himself a software engineer. AARGH!
it's pretty much standard fare for most couples!
Considering the constant loss of liberties and the general violence in the US, I'd consider being assigned abroad a bonus on my working conditions!
On the other hand, the fact that they published the spec is quite new for me!
Well, if the Patriot's are as good as in Desert Storm, Santa will be safe, if a little deafened!
- Startup control panel
The first program lets you remove stuff from the many places in the registry where crap hides to start on bootup, while the second keeps crap from getting there without your explicit consent.- Startup monitor
Since I have those two, life is good and (almost) malware-free.
Don't throw concepts you don't know just because the seem to fit the space. What you just said amounts to saying "use a bayesian filter to distribute software".
Neural nets share absolutely no common features with P2P networks. Neural nets are an AI technique that takes inputs and learns what are the correct outputs like natural neurons do. Thus, you can use a neural net to filter your mail, but not to distribute knowledge, or data, or software.
Aside from that conceptual mistake, using geographically distributed clusters of servers to keep sites working is a good idea, esp. if you expect a slashdotting(or DDOS).
FYI, US governement have been engaged in a nice deregulation wave for 10 years. That deregulation has been poorly tought out, because of a "The Market Cures All" mindset. What did the deregulation bring? Gigantic power outages and California-style power crunches.
The deregulated US power grid is overstressed, has little or no margin for extra demand, and has outdated and poorly maintained emergency systems. And thanks to Enron and friends, artificial scarceness has been created to crank up prices.
In a nutshell, you pay more and get less(safety, avaliability, quality) than when the market was regulated. Ain't The Market grand?
Electric power is a basic necessity(in our post-industrial world), and should be managed by the state, just like water works and law enforcement.
Power to the PEOPLE!
Free speech for al!
Govt. sponsored MEDICARE FOR all!
(sorry, my Tourette again...)
Try convincing a bank to finance you a hundred grand of lawyer fees, before going to court. Personnal loans cost a lot, and not everyone can afford a loan of this kind of magnitude. Moreover, there is always the possibility that you lose, and you get to pay Mr Corp's 5 lawyers, plus your own. Bankrupcy, anyone?
In fact, if the debts were equal to the assets, the CEO would just run away with a huge chunk of the assets, leaving the creditors out to dry. Moreover, he would suck the employee's pension plan while jacking up the share price with sensationalistic news releases and dump his stock through indirect connections.
Such is the nature and function of the position of CEO.
The exotic sports car you wanted, with less maintenance than you expected. Want a 100 grand price cut with that?
I'm somewhat popping out of space on this but I will coin my 2 cents.
From my appreciation of the economics of web-based advertising, Mandrake must just be reducing the cost of the bandwidth by showing advertisement. By setting up BitTorrents, people are in effect offering free bandwidth to Mandrake, which can have quite a good value(ever seen the bill for installing a new, puny 4.5mbps business-class line? ouch.)
Moreover, if the installer shows ads, the BitTorrent versions must still show them, delivering those ads for just the cost of the bandwidth of serving the pics... Quite a lot less than providing the ISO's THEN the ad pics!
Maybe I am missing something because I never downloaded Mandrake... or maybe your point is that the pre-release should remain for the favored ones. On that I have a neutral opinion.
Here, all DSL ISP's(and there are a lot)are really reselling ma Bell's DSL lines. Bell is forced to sell at cost the line to ISP's and they resell it to people.
;-) Open up the cable copper to competition, and watch prices go down and service levels up!
The point is that the resellers are eating Bell alive because they have better packaging. Example: sometime a year and a half ago, Bell decided to hard-cap their DSL service. Of course, the tech-savvy people jumped fast to get an ISP without caps. Some of them had trouble keeping up with the new subscriptions, and Bell was shedding market share like a tree in autumn. A month or two ago, Bell removed the caps. Yay competition!
Morale: competition is a good thing. No caps is also a sweet thing