OO is a concept, not an implementation... as is XP... they are not mutually exclusive (and concepts/languages are often complimentary) so how can one replace the other? Is this supposed to be a flamebait article?
SMALLTALK FOREVER! man, i hate C++, but still use it every day... POOP surely is a misguided notion:)
> number of employees is about 800, number of buildings is 4, number of servers is 54K, for which there are about 100K microprocessors and 261K hard drives
> most of companies out there can only imagine a Beowulf cluster of these, let alone build
I really don't find this too big a company. Sure, it was formed on the good financing of the dot-com boom, but 54K servers, 100K... 261K... must be about $1m of capital here. And you're suggesting AOL-TW or M$ can't raise £1m of capital? Web search is the holy grail of these so-called portholes, they can easily find a way... A start-up can't, though maybe they could team up with a big-boy.
It's their other assets - the human capital. Google has a lot of very intelligent staff, and a great name association with the public. These are much harder to get, though again a big boy could crack it if they got their act together, IMHO.
Google are big, but in terms of global resources for global internet companies, they are still a small man punching high.
These have been around for a while in some form, but are undergoing rapid development, or rather deployment, in the corporate world as companies quickly move to the cooperative working evnironment - no more network filesystem - all documents are 'stored' in a flat structure (or so it appears to the user) with an advanced search system or folders of 'favourites' for the user to interface with these files.
These plug into M$ Office. It is a network orientated system, M$ Office still runs from the thick-client, but all file interfacing is done through this network centric system.
These systems are almost all Java based.
IMHO, this is great forsight by IBM, seeing this shared system as the future. Corporates are looking to a shared system as the future, a shared office is a natural component of this. They have had great forsight before, will they pull it off? Interesting to watch.
This is a reference to rich white republican politician - show me one that is broad minded, fair, generous and open to opinion...
I am very pro-republican idealogy. Small government, freedom, opportunity. All good things. Just show me a rich white republican politician that is not a hypocrit against these values... I'll credit your paypal [wince] account $100 if you did not post as AC.
Stand up for your morals, don't be a hypocrit. Good general advice.
I love my TI85. It's still going strong, sitting next to my monitor right now. Totally sentimental value.
I learnt to program on this thing for hell's sake! It still has the same programs i typed into it when i was 16... fractal generators, data calculation routines, inbuilt poly solver!, i even made a 2 player game with a friend via the commumication cable!!!
I never tried a HP, so can't compare, but damn I live my TI, it released my geekness, never harnessed, so will be forever grateful to TI.
Not sure I'd like an emulator though, the physical thing, the difficulty in typing, the display pitch... It was all in the package, give me 100 emulators and I'll still prefer my TI85.
Most spam is sent (or relayed) via other countries. Many originators of spam benefit US companies... but are not in the US.
International regulation is hard... and hell, I'd rather action against human rights violatioons against residents in other countries than spam in my own.
We have to punish those who relay via other countries. As I say, most spam is originated in the US, or by US related companies, so we have to punish those who relay spam, or punish US subsidaries of companies overseas who spam.
If the government think it's worth it, they could 'incentivise' other overseas countries, but my moral dollar goes towards things other than spam, which is a shame on the rest of the world.
Singapore does not have a Chinese government. SIngapore is a seperate country.
Your opinions are severly prejudice.
Singapore is a western country, with a high GDP, a less corrupt government than the US (read corporate influence). The racial mix of SG is Malay, Chinese and others, christian, muslim and buddhist in strong numbers. There is no clear majority [do all people with 'slitty eyes' look the same to you?].
Take Hawaii for example, a mix of Pacific Islanders, Japanese, Chinese White and African Americans - would you like to call that an East Asian country full of people "_NOT_ like us"???
Your numbered points are laughable - take point 2 for some crass idiocy "most Taiwanese want Tibet to be in one China" - Taiwanese believe China is an occupied country and Taiwan should take control of it!!! Totally opposite!
I hope you are as unsuccessful as you are stupid, you surely deserve it.
The WHO fail to tackle the spread of AIDS in the world, they fail to tackle TB Hepatitus or Lepracy (YES!) in the third world, they fail to tackle malnutrition in the third world, obesity in the first world or CJD at all. These dieases kill millions a year... AIDS has a 100% quick-kill rate you know???? The others are well in double (%) figures and all lead to premature death....and they make the headlines calling SARS a world wide health threat! SARS is a nasty disease, don't get me wrong, it is a nasty nasty disease... but it a cold-type virus (read long complex DNA structure). A cold-type virus mutates quickly (hence inability for a vaccine) but this mutation includes mutation from being so lethal (survival rate has climbed significantly, because of good care and because of this mutation).
SARS is a worldwide threat, but AIDS and others are already here, are already a lot more lethal, and what does the WHO and world governments do to prevent them?
This is a lot better for M$ though (both than GPL and fully closed source) - WinCE is used a lot in embedded systems - what do they need? STABILITY - what's the best way to get this? OPEN SOURCE to allow full transparent interaction with the OS and underlying system.
So, like everything M$, its good for M$, it is not a move towards an open source strategy, it is not a sudden moral rash, it is a move to improve the stability of WinCE systems which will benefit M$.... If WinCE systems benefit form this transparency of design - what is the incentive to go to linux (a transparent OS designed for stability)...(provocative?)
I totally agree, open relays (or relays left open for the green-eyed-god) are a pain (and I hear of a lot of genuine Chinese ISPs being tarred with the same brush).
As long as we allow a market for it, it'll keep coming... I hate government imposing rules [laws], but the time has come for international action and an international mandate (international action is the only to combat this) - if they manage to outlaw it in China (show them its worth the effort), Chinese justice can be swift.
Don't know about you, but most of my spam is aimed at the good ol' US market, from good ol' US companies with prices in good ol' US $$$. Unless it is p0rn - then it has good ol' American Gals.
I agree, that's the crux, a search engine controlling (by the government) access to information.
Where as here we have corporates controlling the government and media, and Google calling corporate press releases news...
Hmmmmmmmmm
When i was in university we used to prove our code - it was hell, box logic diagrams recurrring over each other with an in-out structure down to a central point. Now this was at a pretty fundamental level. We could use libraries as one of these central points...
Note, when I mean proved, I mean one input results in one output, using mathematical proof, which therefore cannot be got around (randomness could exist within this mathematical framework).
Damn, don't get me wrong, I know this will be damn labour intensive and hardware specific. But isn't a one-off investment worth it if this hardware-software solution can last a sufficient period of time?
So why not prove your programs are secure, bottom up building on proofed instruction sets (though these are system-specific) gone before. C could be seen as just a language to write in which would then be compiled over these proved-secure components.
You could use virtual machine (suggested in previous posts), a virtual machine which had been proved before, so anything which runs on it cannot get below this unhackability...
The fact is, it is possible to prove code, it is possible to have unbreakable/perfectly predictable code. It is just damn hard work and very hardware specific. The main thing I see is the cost of investment on hardware which quickly moves on, needing a new proof... this is just a theoretical solution. [you could have an increased cluster of older hardware to give extendability].
> Imagine being able to leave a meal in the fridge for the day but then send a command over the internet to cook it so that it is ready when you get home.
Wasn't this possible before? Maybe not over the internet, but i could make a call on the mobile... it was called the wife.
You could order your food on the internet, get it delivered to a special mailbox, which sorts the food into types/categories, which this would then cook for you.
It's just like, eh, getting takeout on your way home... i can imagine a world of the future, a world with automated kitchens... but seriously, the kitchen is one of the home locations that could be automated most easily. Technology huh?
Yeah, compare SARS to BSE (mad cow disease), SARS may be a cold derived from animals [news released today], BSE mutated into CJD and millions were infected unknowingly [read lied to by their government], the tip of the iceberg appearing, with well over 100 deaths so far (at least with SARS only a few thousand have been infected and the Chinese government have been a lot more honest than the lying-for-ten-years British government).
Hell, the US is still lying about steroids in cattle...
I wish this was a work of fiction.
*pls note it was michael who wrongly labelled SARS as an epidemic, so I don't think this is off-topic, and i dodn't mention piggy-spongyform-ensophlysis either.
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But as soon as you reply, the website has disolved itself of responsibility - the website can no longer be prosecuted.
Sadly, the legal position is more important than the moral one.
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Totally agree...
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OO is a concept, not an implementation... as is XP... they are not mutually exclusive (and concepts/languages are often complimentary) so how can one replace the other? Is this supposed to be a flamebait article?
SMALLTALK FOREVER! man, i hate C++, but still use it every day... POOP surely is a misguided notion
There were some spaces in the link above, remove these.
Yes, the corret link is at The Inquirer.
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A quick Babel Fish of the article (not a bad translation either), however, shows that the law is not wholly welcomed.
Link to Babel Fish translation:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltru
The article is quite long, best not to post it in whole.
Or even $50m... point still holds.
I think it's time to lie down.
Opps, $10m is more like it, sorry typo, dunno how is did it twice... :\
But yes, $10m is not a lot for big corps.
> number of employees is about 800, number of buildings is 4, number of servers is 54K, for which there are about 100K microprocessors and 261K hard drives
> most of companies out there can only imagine a Beowulf cluster of these, let alone build
I really don't find this too big a company. Sure, it was formed on the good financing of the dot-com boom, but 54K servers, 100K... 261K... must be about $1m of capital here. And you're suggesting AOL-TW or M$ can't raise £1m of capital? Web search is the holy grail of these so-called portholes, they can easily find a way... A start-up can't, though maybe they could team up with a big-boy.
It's their other assets - the human capital. Google has a lot of very intelligent staff, and a great name association with the public. These are much harder to get, though again a big boy could crack it if they got their act together, IMHO.
Google are big, but in terms of global resources for global internet companies, they are still a small man punching high.
Read Document Management System (iManage, etc).
These have been around for a while in some form, but are undergoing rapid development, or rather deployment, in the corporate world as companies quickly move to the cooperative working evnironment - no more network filesystem - all documents are 'stored' in a flat structure (or so it appears to the user) with an advanced search system or folders of 'favourites' for the user to interface with these files.
These plug into M$ Office. It is a network orientated system, M$ Office still runs from the thick-client, but all file interfacing is done through this network centric system.
These systems are almost all Java based.
IMHO, this is great forsight by IBM, seeing this shared system as the future. Corporates are looking to a shared system as the future, a shared office is a natural component of this. They have had great forsight before, will they pull it off? Interesting to watch.
You could actually put it _in_ you neighbour's house... where there's a will (and p0rn is a hell of a will) there's a way!
What kind of conspiracy theory "my neighbour framed me" would stand up in court.
Remember... most criminals are stupid, they are nothing compared with a geek's cunning!!!
This is a reference to rich white republican politician - show me one that is broad minded, fair, generous and open to opinion...
I am very pro-republican idealogy. Small government, freedom, opportunity. All good things. Just show me a rich white republican politician that is not a hypocrit against these values... I'll credit your paypal [wince] account $100 if you did not post as AC.
Stand up for your morals, don't be a hypocrit. Good general advice.
I love my TI85. It's still going strong, sitting next to my monitor right now. Totally sentimental value.
I learnt to program on this thing for hell's sake! It still has the same programs i typed into it when i was 16... fractal generators, data calculation routines, inbuilt poly solver!, i even made a 2 player game with a friend via the commumication cable!!!
I never tried a HP, so can't compare, but damn I live my TI, it released my geekness, never harnessed, so will be forever grateful to TI.
Not sure I'd like an emulator though, the physical thing, the difficulty in typing, the display pitch... It was all in the package, give me 100 emulators and I'll still prefer my TI85.
> Remember folks, he's a rich white republican. Nothing can stop rich white republicans. Not even the truth or justice.
LOL!
True, so true. And despairing.
Yes. This is the point. I agree totally.
Most spam is sent (or relayed) via other countries. Many originators of spam benefit US companies... but are not in the US.
International regulation is hard... and hell, I'd rather action against human rights violatioons against residents in other countries than spam in my own.
We have to punish those who relay via other countries. As I say, most spam is originated in the US, or by US related companies, so we have to punish those who relay spam, or punish US subsidaries of companies overseas who spam.
If the government think it's worth it, they could 'incentivise' other overseas countries, but my moral dollar goes towards things other than spam, which is a shame on the rest of the world.
Pete Townsend [http://www.petetownshend.co.uk/] is still at it...
kinda...
but hopefully not "at it", so to speak.
Singapore does not have a Chinese government. SIngapore is a seperate country.
Your opinions are severly prejudice.
Singapore is a western country, with a high GDP, a less corrupt government than the US (read corporate influence). The racial mix of SG is Malay, Chinese and others, christian, muslim and buddhist in strong numbers. There is no clear majority [do all people with 'slitty eyes' look the same to you?].
Take Hawaii for example, a mix of Pacific Islanders, Japanese, Chinese White and African Americans - would you like to call that an East Asian country full of people "_NOT_ like us"???
Your numbered points are laughable - take point 2 for some crass idiocy "most Taiwanese want Tibet to be in one China" - Taiwanese believe China is an occupied country and Taiwan should take control of it!!! Totally opposite!
I hope you are as unsuccessful as you are stupid, you surely deserve it.
The WHO fail to tackle the spread of AIDS in the world, they fail to tackle TB Hepatitus or Lepracy (YES!) in the third world, they fail to tackle malnutrition in the third world, obesity in the first world or CJD at all. These dieases kill millions a year... AIDS has a 100% quick-kill rate you know???? The others are well in double (%) figures and all lead to premature death. ...and they make the headlines calling SARS a world wide health threat! SARS is a nasty disease, don't get me wrong, it is a nasty nasty disease... but it a cold-type virus (read long complex DNA structure). A cold-type virus mutates quickly (hence inability for a vaccine) but this mutation includes mutation from being so lethal (survival rate has climbed significantly, because of good care and because of this mutation).
SARS is a worldwide threat, but AIDS and others are already here, are already a lot more lethal, and what does the WHO and world governments do to prevent them?
Pure hypocracy, it makes me sick.
No it's not as good as the GPL [for us].
... If WinCE systems benefit form this transparency of design - what is the incentive to go to linux (a transparent OS designed for stability) ...(provocative?)
This is a lot better for M$ though (both than GPL and fully closed source) - WinCE is used a lot in embedded systems - what do they need? STABILITY - what's the best way to get this? OPEN SOURCE to allow full transparent interaction with the OS and underlying system.
So, like everything M$, its good for M$, it is not a move towards an open source strategy, it is not a sudden moral rash, it is a move to improve the stability of WinCE systems which will benefit M$.
I totally agree, open relays (or relays left open for the green-eyed-god) are a pain (and I hear of a lot of genuine Chinese ISPs being tarred with the same brush).
As long as we allow a market for it, it'll keep coming... I hate government imposing rules [laws], but the time has come for international action and an international mandate (international action is the only to combat this) - if they manage to outlaw it in China (show them its worth the effort), Chinese justice can be swift.
Don't know about you, but most of my spam is aimed at the good ol' US market, from good ol' US companies with prices in good ol' US $$$. Unless it is p0rn - then it has good ol' American Gals.
Which country is the king of spam???
I agree, that's the crux, a search engine controlling (by the government) access to information. Where as here we have corporates controlling the government and media, and Google calling corporate press releases news... Hmmmmmmmmm
When i was in university we used to prove our code - it was hell, box logic diagrams recurrring over each other with an in-out structure down to a central point. Now this was at a pretty fundamental level. We could use libraries as one of these central points...
Note, when I mean proved, I mean one input results in one output, using mathematical proof, which therefore cannot be got around (randomness could exist within this mathematical framework).
Damn, don't get me wrong, I know this will be damn labour intensive and hardware specific. But isn't a one-off investment worth it if this hardware-software solution can last a sufficient period of time?
So why not prove your programs are secure, bottom up building on proofed instruction sets (though these are system-specific) gone before. C could be seen as just a language to write in which would then be compiled over these proved-secure components.
You could use virtual machine (suggested in previous posts), a virtual machine which had been proved before, so anything which runs on it cannot get below this unhackability...
The fact is, it is possible to prove code, it is possible to have unbreakable/perfectly predictable code. It is just damn hard work and very hardware specific. The main thing I see is the cost of investment on hardware which quickly moves on, needing a new proof... this is just a theoretical solution. [you could have an increased cluster of older hardware to give extendability].
> Imagine being able to leave a meal in the fridge for the day but then send a command over the internet to cook it so that it is ready when you get home.
Wasn't this possible before? Maybe not over the internet, but i could make a call on the mobile... it was called the wife.
Ohhhhhhhh, sorry!
You could order your food on the internet, get it delivered to a special mailbox, which sorts the food into types/categories, which this would then cook for you. It's just like, eh, getting takeout on your way home... i can imagine a world of the future, a world with automated kitchens... but seriously, the kitchen is one of the home locations that could be automated most easily. Technology huh?
Yeah, compare SARS to BSE (mad cow disease), SARS may be a cold derived from animals [news released today], BSE mutated into CJD and millions were infected unknowingly [read lied to by their government], the tip of the iceberg appearing, with well over 100 deaths so far (at least with SARS only a few thousand have been infected and the Chinese government have been a lot more honest than the lying-for-ten-years British government).
Hell, the US is still lying about steroids in cattle...
I wish this was a work of fiction.
*pls note it was michael who wrongly labelled SARS as an epidemic, so I don't think this is off-topic, and i dodn't mention piggy-spongyform-ensophlysis either.