Insightful comments? Well I guess it is a good semantic argument, though sadly and completely ignorant of the law. Please see the official FTC guidelines. I would look up famous prosecutions involving bogus "sales" from this year but am too lazy right now, it being 3:25 am. IIRC some womens clothing companies got nailed for claiming a sale when in fact it was just a shallow marketing ploy.
And no, neither the "a sale merely means that objects are being sold" nor the "Chewbacca Defense" worked for them.
Let me preface this by saying I like Java because I am lazy, but I hate it because like a weird programmer's crack it has rotted my skillz and made me functionally unemployable.
As a former Adobe employee who spent quality time making web applications using:
1) Apple's Web Objects
2) JSP / Tomcat
3) JSP with JBoss / Struts / Tiles / etc.
4) Perl
I have to say that I preferred 3. Especially Struts & Tiles which finally got rid of the crap we had to put up with before.
As for database we used Oracle, but we were switching away to SQLServer because of usurous Oracle licensing fees.
What I want to know though, is C# a better glue than Java? Feature wise I really liked it, our Architect liked it, but politically we could not use C# because "ooh, Microsoft made it". Yes that is a stupid attitude but such is life in a big company.
PS: similarly, politics dictated the use of Webobjects. Steve told John: "we _should_ use Webobjects [for our project]". Ugh.
For the curious the project (Adobe Studio) got cancelled, but was live for a year or so to underwhelming user demand (all 25 regulars, hehe, bless ya!).
Brain Drain my... behind. India trains them, we teach them to be entrepreneurs, and now all that labor is flowing back to India. Software companies are setting up shop there and moving jobs there.
The swank new Adobe India digs. These are to house 600+ engineers in the next few years. Hmmm, Adobe just layed off 600 [400?] people or so in their latest round. Some of the jobs elliminated in San Jose became available in India. So long suckers, thanks for making Framemaker a good product, but we can squeeze more money out of it in India.
I am sure more examples can be dredged up. Now is this a good thing?
Certainly for the Indians that benefit & India as well. Not good for me as a US based programmer unless I want to go live in India.
I guess everyone on the planet's living standard needs to reach parity before this process will even out. Short term ours decreases, while the 3rd world catches up. This process has already finished in Japan. Now that they are at the top it is time for their poorer neighbors to live it up while they stagnate. China, Malaysia, etc. come to mind.
Others in this thread have already answered the quality and suitability for Unix issue.
As for it being FUD, consider this:
1) At one time the Amiga had the kind of popularity (for different reasons obviously) that Linux now has. Due to piracy, eventually no-one developed business software for it (except in Germany apparently). So, no market leads to no development.
2) Ok, you say, but altruistic open source developers will just write everything required. Perhaps so. I certainly like Apache, ReiserFS and other "utility" type software. The open source model works well for them since the problem space is defined. I just fear for products where this is not the case.
3) I guess my general drift is off topic: If in the future all software is free, then the only people funding development are hardware makers, educational institutions, governments, IT departments, and makers of 1-shot software (like games)?
4) But perhaps also "service" companies that support software. Possibly, but that leaves a conflict of interrest. If you make money based on bugs / issues in software, then you have no incentive to fix them.
5) I suppose patents can give an actual software company a small window to exploit a genuinely new idea. But if eventually some people make your exact product for free, then it would be a hell of a business to be in. This is why I understand MS bashers praising China etc. efforts to go open source but cringe at the long term implications for the industry as a whole.
6) Final thought: perhaps anything that can be reduced to data is just plain doomed to become essentially free - movies, music, software, some visual art, etc. I just have a problem seeing how to reconcile that with the need to earn a living.
"The application arm ports the profitable bits of MS software to Linux"
Right, software companies are falling all over themselves making Linux ports that they can't sell because Linux users don't pay for software.
But sarcasm aside, I worked for a major software corporation that made a perfectly fine port to Linux of one of their products (already had a Unix port) but could not sell any copies. Right now there are no more Linux plans.
I vote fool and thus nominate him for an entry at:
http://www.phrenicea.com/oops.htm
Auerbach is lucky he didn't have to type his musings while snuggling under 6 feet of horse manure.
So one of the features of IPV6 is to eliminate the whole spoofing thing, eg. http://www.globecom.net/ietf/draft/draft-dupont-ip v6-ingress-filtering-00.html
Assuming IPV6 has no naive limitations in that regard, we are left with just the problematic crap floating around. But now we can find where it comes from and eliminate it.
Leaving us with infected machines sending junk mail. Well, eventually MS will get its shit together & auto apply patches, leaving no room for a successful exploit. Perhaps they will even, gasp, write a secure OS eventually. Problem solved. (And yes, legacy systems have a finite half-life and will eventually solve the problem they pose naturally).
Both movies were shot at the same time to avoid that possible actor strike or whatever it was. So...
Revolutions is unlikely to be a better movie (but I am hoping).
As for a special effects Oscar, maybe they can pull that off with the extra 8 months of post production, but 8 months doesn't leave room for a hell of a lot of new & innovative fx. Especially not geniunely new & kool fx like bullet time.
Yes: fake trailers that give you an idea of what is in the movie but are ficticious and don't actually apear in the movie. Just think of the abuse though...;-(
Or maybe the fake stuff can come from the inevitable added footage of the dvd release. Pretty dry stuff tho, but it would give them incentive to spice up that stuff a little. And then people will totally crave the cool stuff on the dvd. Win win all the way.
As a TiVo watcher I am mostly immune to trailers that are not in the first & last spot in a blipvert sequence. But sometimes sheer fatigue creeps up on you, especially in a long pre-campaign like the Matrix.
Mind you, accelerating expansion will eventually push all galaxies over the horizon from each other (speed of light no longer sufficient for any "ons" (photons, gravitons, persons) to ever reach between galaxies).
The next phenomenon then is a race between the big black hole in each galaxy core and ejection of a star from the galaxy. Add a little more expansion and we are left with a bunch of black holes, some collapsed stars and a whole lot of dead cinders none of which can perceive anything else in the universe.
Mmm, now if only protons decayed, then we could disassemble everything and really spread things thinly...
Yeah, thats why I used to buy SCSI disks: cuz they had longer cables. I like being as far away from the motherboard as possible. I really didn't care much for the extra speed, it just threw off the timings on the cutscenes in my games.
But the range isn't there for me yet. I think ima gonna wait till it is 50 miles or so. Yeah, and using TDMA to parcel out data snipets...
CONNECTION LOST, PLEASE TRY AGAIN LATER, SJ DS1.
Hell, WHERE I grew up we walked 200 miles through the bush on ground covered in thorns, wearing no shoes, because we had no voltage whatsoever.
But we did hear camp fire tales of certified electricians fixing the magical powerlines in the lands of milk and voltage.
+ / - a few spots, my memory grows dim after reading the article in Wired? earlier this year.
Some economist did the calculations based on the going rate for a mansion and contents, etc. If I wasn't so lazy I would try to hunt down the article and get my "facts" straight.
Personally I don't see any problem with farming a MMORPG for fun & profit. Rich people don't have the time to waste to get to high level so what's wrong with paying someone else to do it for you?
Oh, and it has been available for a few years now, and it is certainly not the only solution. There are free versions that need only the crappy microphone that shipped with your computer or sound card anyway.
Er, they do require broadband and a computer though.
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Insightful comments? Well I guess it is a good semantic argument, though sadly and completely ignorant of the law. Please see the official FTC guidelines. I would look up famous prosecutions involving bogus "sales" from this year but am too lazy right now, it being 3:25 am. IIRC some womens clothing companies got nailed for claiming a sale when in fact it was just a shallow marketing ploy.
And no, neither the "a sale merely means that objects are being sold" nor the "Chewbacca Defense" worked for them.
No way to filter that crap till I have spent 5 cents printing it. Or phone spam during dinner time or any other part of the day.
Nope, have the government make it illegal & put the bastards in jail.
None of this opt-out crap either. If I want spam I can damn well opt in.
Now if only we can get rid of the snail spam the Post Office insists on shoving into my mailbox.
Seems like this might be real usefull as well for surfing uhm interresting sites when, .. er .., I only have one hand available.
Let me preface this by saying I like Java because I am lazy, but I hate it because like a weird programmer's crack it has rotted my skillz and made me functionally unemployable.
As a former Adobe employee who spent quality time making web applications using: 1) Apple's Web Objects 2) JSP / Tomcat 3) JSP with JBoss / Struts / Tiles / etc. 4) Perl I have to say that I preferred 3. Especially Struts & Tiles which finally got rid of the crap we had to put up with before.
As for database we used Oracle, but we were switching away to SQLServer because of usurous Oracle licensing fees.
What I want to know though, is C# a better glue than Java? Feature wise I really liked it, our Architect liked it, but politically we could not use C# because "ooh, Microsoft made it". Yes that is a stupid attitude but such is life in a big company.
PS: similarly, politics dictated the use of Webobjects. Steve told John: "we _should_ use Webobjects [for our project]". Ugh.
For the curious the project (Adobe Studio) got cancelled, but was live for a year or so to underwhelming user demand (all 25 regulars, hehe, bless ya!).
Brain Drain my ... behind. India trains them, we teach them to be entrepreneurs, and now all that labor is flowing back to India. Software companies are setting up shop there and moving jobs there.
The swank new Adobe India digs. These are to house 600+ engineers in the next few years. Hmmm, Adobe just layed off 600 [400?] people or so in their latest round. Some of the jobs elliminated in San Jose became available in India. So long suckers, thanks for making Framemaker a good product, but we can squeeze more money out of it in India.
Same can be said of Sun
I am sure more examples can be dredged up. Now is this a good thing? Certainly for the Indians that benefit & India as well. Not good for me as a US based programmer unless I want to go live in India.
I guess everyone on the planet's living standard needs to reach parity before this process will even out. Short term ours decreases, while the 3rd world catches up. This process has already finished in Japan. Now that they are at the top it is time for their poorer neighbors to live it up while they stagnate. China, Malaysia, etc. come to mind.
... If it was limited to non-CGI techniques from 30 years ago, would the movie [have?] suffered anything more than "realism"?...
Well, I can already watch Dr. Who on the telly, from about 30 years ago too.
"You do this in a studio with a green-screen ..."
Actually, they had to pick between a red and blue one, and went with the red.
Others in this thread have already answered the quality and suitability for Unix issue.
As for it being FUD, consider this:
1) At one time the Amiga had the kind of popularity (for different reasons obviously) that Linux now has. Due to piracy, eventually no-one developed business software for it (except in Germany apparently). So, no market leads to no development.
2) Ok, you say, but altruistic open source developers will just write everything required. Perhaps so. I certainly like Apache, ReiserFS and other "utility" type software. The open source model works well for them since the problem space is defined. I just fear for products where this is not the case.
3) I guess my general drift is off topic: If in the future all software is free, then the only people funding development are hardware makers, educational institutions, governments, IT departments, and makers of 1-shot software (like games)?
4) But perhaps also "service" companies that support software. Possibly, but that leaves a conflict of interrest. If you make money based on bugs / issues in software, then you have no incentive to fix them.
5) I suppose patents can give an actual software company a small window to exploit a genuinely new idea. But if eventually some people make your exact product for free, then it would be a hell of a business to be in. This is why I understand MS bashers praising China etc. efforts to go open source but cringe at the long term implications for the industry as a whole. 6) Final thought: perhaps anything that can be reduced to data is just plain doomed to become essentially free - movies, music, software, some visual art, etc. I just have a problem seeing how to reconcile that with the need to earn a living.
Ok, company: Adobe, product: FrameMaker.
"The application arm ports the profitable bits of MS software to Linux"
Right, software companies are falling all over themselves making Linux ports that they can't sell because Linux users don't pay for software.
But sarcasm aside, I worked for a major software corporation that made a perfectly fine port to Linux of one of their products (already had a Unix port) but could not sell any copies. Right now there are no more Linux plans.
Is this cat's owner's name Schrodinger by any chance?
I vote fool and thus nominate him for an entry at:
http://www.phrenicea.com/oops.htm
Auerbach is lucky he didn't have to type his musings while snuggling under 6 feet of horse manure.
So one of the features of IPV6 is to eliminate the whole spoofing thing, eg. http://www.globecom.net/ietf/draft/draft-dupont-ip v6-ingress-filtering-00.html
Assuming IPV6 has no naive limitations in that regard, we are left with just the problematic crap floating around. But now we can find where it comes from and eliminate it.
Leaving us with infected machines sending junk mail. Well, eventually MS will get its shit together & auto apply patches, leaving no room for a successful exploit. Perhaps they will even, gasp, write a secure OS eventually. Problem solved. (And yes, legacy systems have a finite half-life and will eventually solve the problem they pose naturally).
No, no, no, Fox prvides "fair and balanced" news, not "un-censored and un-biased information."
"... typical rotten egg smell."
Heh, and here I thought battery packs start emitting an increasingly high pitched sound before detonating.
Star Trek: no longer just at breakfast
They will toss everything except your already correctly accessorized cell.
It should be right on the opposite side of where the face is.
Both movies were shot at the same time to avoid that possible actor strike or whatever it was. So ...
Revolutions is unlikely to be a better movie (but I am hoping).
As for a special effects Oscar, maybe they can pull that off with the extra 8 months of post production, but 8 months doesn't leave room for a hell of a lot of new & innovative fx. Especially not geniunely new & kool fx like bullet time.
I think what he is trying to say is get seats around the projector - can't beat a projector's eye view.
Yes: fake trailers that give you an idea of what is in the movie but are ficticious and don't actually apear in the movie. Just think of the abuse though...;-( Or maybe the fake stuff can come from the inevitable added footage of the dvd release. Pretty dry stuff tho, but it would give them incentive to spice up that stuff a little. And then people will totally crave the cool stuff on the dvd. Win win all the way. As a TiVo watcher I am mostly immune to trailers that are not in the first & last spot in a blipvert sequence. But sometimes sheer fatigue creeps up on you, especially in a long pre-campaign like the Matrix.
Mind you, accelerating expansion will eventually push all galaxies over the horizon from each other (speed of light no longer sufficient for any "ons" (photons, gravitons, persons) to ever reach between galaxies). The next phenomenon then is a race between the big black hole in each galaxy core and ejection of a star from the galaxy. Add a little more expansion and we are left with a bunch of black holes, some collapsed stars and a whole lot of dead cinders none of which can perceive anything else in the universe. Mmm, now if only protons decayed, then we could disassemble everything and really spread things thinly ...
Yeah, thats why I used to buy SCSI disks: cuz they had longer cables. I like being as far away from the motherboard as possible. I really didn't care much for the extra speed, it just threw off the timings on the cutscenes in my games. But the range isn't there for me yet. I think ima gonna wait till it is 50 miles or so. Yeah, and using TDMA to parcel out data snipets ...
CONNECTION LOST, PLEASE TRY AGAIN LATER, SJ DS1.
Hell, WHERE I grew up we walked 200 miles through the bush on ground covered in thorns, wearing no shoes, because we had no voltage whatsoever. But we did hear camp fire tales of certified electricians fixing the magical powerlines in the lands of milk and voltage.
+ / - a few spots, my memory grows dim after reading the article in Wired? earlier this year. Some economist did the calculations based on the going rate for a mansion and contents, etc. If I wasn't so lazy I would try to hunt down the article and get my "facts" straight. Personally I don't see any problem with farming a MMORPG for fun & profit. Rich people don't have the time to waste to get to high level so what's wrong with paying someone else to do it for you?
Oh, and it has been available for a few years now, and it is certainly not the only solution. There are free versions that need only the crappy microphone that shipped with your computer or sound card anyway. Er, they do require broadband and a computer though.