I figure the guys doing this crap are either total morons, or they are just scumbags that are laughing their asses off at the people that are spending money on it.
Bourne's shakiness was done to emphasize the action.
I dunno, the entire thing was shaky. Part 2 and 3 didn't have a single steady shot. Even if the scene was someone in an office on the phone or in a meeting the camera was moving up and down. A simple tripod could of at least given our eyes a break for a few seconds. A good chunk of movie goers still have an attention span that doesn't require someone to shake a camera and flash shiny objects at the screen every half-second.
Any director that thinks this is artistic, raw, edgy, gritty, or whatever is an idiot.
I think changing renderers, input, sound, and network play away from directX would be the big chunk of work. I'd bet doing an OSX port would a huge step towards making a Linux port.
First, because it will make easier for developers to put more application logic in the database.
The mere potential to be abused doesn't automatically discredit the technology
Second, because a native compiled stored procedure (native, that is, to the DBMS) would be faster
Have you actually used Oracle's java stored procedures? Java's typical startup time is slow, but you won't be relaunching the whole JVM each call. Execution speed once things are in RAM isn't a problem. Not to mention things like Hotspot and thread and object pooling would probably be in place.
But mostly, because free hosting which maintains something based on Java it's like.. not there.
First, who said Mysql would be based on Java? We're just talking about a Java extension for stored procedures. Also, free hosting typically gives you an account on a shared MySQL server or cluster.
I'm sure considerations for throttling and sandboxing will be put in place before a mysql version with java extensions was considered production ready. The hosting company upgrading Mysql to a version that had more options for stored procedure syntax is by no means the same thing as having them give you your own tomcat or jboss instance.
And you have to admit that free hosting w/ MySQL is one of the reasons LAMP developers are so many, and LAMP is successful
Well I don't use much free hosting other than things like sourceforge, but the ~5dollar a month variety with tons of bandwith is great. I have a few websites running on just that. If I could get it for the same price, I'd much rather have LA(Postgres)P than LAMP and tomcat. That or just a vm that I could install whatever I wanted on.
Exactly my point. But moving the bytecode from the middle tier into the database makes no difference either.
For some things it can make all the difference in the world. Peformance bottleknecks in business applications are often due to round-trips to the database, especially when it's large amounts of are going back and forth over insuffecient bandwith.
I think you missed his point. Those technologies aren't a threat to operating systems in general, they are a threat to Microsoft's marketshare of desktops specifically. If 90% of your apps were cross-platform, and there were good equivalents for the other 10% on other operatings systems, what would be the compelling reason for user to continue to give money to microsoft?
I don't need Windows to watch youtube videos, view google maps, develop on eclipse, or run a joomla based site. Flash, ajax, java, and php and others are threats to microsoft regardless of whether or not you can write a video card driver with them.
Your comment is almost year outdated. Yum dropped the xml descriptors for package data in Fedora 7. Now it pulls down compressed sqlite files and rips through them very quickly.
If you haven't used it since Fedora 6, I suggest you give it another shot.
If we're doing analogies, I'd say it's even less than name of a football team. At least the players on the team really want the whole team to win. Members of political parties just use the team as a means of getting elected. Does every republican candidate truly support the war in Iraq? Is every democrat really pro-abortion? Just a means of raising enough money to get elected.
The AC's post wasn't a troll, the moderator was trigger happy or misunderstood his point.
He was right, tomcat used to be a complete pain in the ass to connect to apache web server. Thankfully things have gotten much easier. Also, on Fedora 8 you can have this all automatically working with the new open source JDK.
As of apache 2.2(web server, not tomcat) mod_jk is obsolete and this has gotten a whole lot easier. Take a look at mod_proxy_ajp.
It's now just one simple proxy_ajp.conf file. Plenty of options for advanced configuration, but a simple configuration could be done in one line like "ProxyPass/examples/ ajp://localhost:8009/jsp-examples/"
I have to second that. Sequences see like such a simple but useful feature. Why haven't sequences been added when more complex things like views and stored procedures are part of Mysql?
Agreed. Dwarves, Elves, and Humans were already fighting Suaron on their own fronts by the time they talked about it at Elrond's Rivendell council in Fellowship. Plenty of elaborate battle scenes for Jackson to film. If they can get at least a handful of the same actors from the other movies, they'll do fine.
Linux's stick has a poo on the end, and is brandished by a 300lb atheist liberal.
Do new Linux users know or care anything about RMS? They might have an idea of who Linus is, but I doubt they know or care much about the 300 pounder's politics. If anything, the face of Linux is the person that did the install or gave the CD to the new user.
BTW, you started off the last sentence as to why windows and os x win, but only talked up os x.
The only reason for them not release source code or specs is their own incompetence. It could be that the firmware on the device has no controls or validation for the parameters that are passed to it. It's possible that once the protocol is figured out a user may wish to send a value to the device that it can't handle.
For example, let's say a device has a little speaker that can have its default volume level in a range of 1-10 set by the windows only client application. If the application was suddenly opened, and the client side validation was removed someone might want to set the volume to 50 and blow out the speaker. The hardware manufacturer could easily put an acceptable range validation check in the firmware, but may have been too stupid or lazy to do so. They then might say they only support their target windows because other operating systems are too small of a market which is probably bullshit. They may also say that giving out specs would give their competitors an advantage which may also be bullshit.
Come on, that's the only part of his argument you choose to respond to?
Funny that you shy away from: "That's right. It's Microsoft's job to pay off officials, exert political pressure, and abuse due process to ensure that OOXML is forced into consumer hands before ODF catches hold."
Why should we be interested in furthering the goals of a convicted monopolist?
Take a somewhat interesting story, decent acting, a well directed first film. Then hand it off to a an epilectic hack with a handheld camcorder to make the next two movies. Yeah, real gritty and raw...barf.
Sure it wasn't as fast or complete as the Sun JVM, but it was being developed as an open source project during the years that Sun had kept still their JVM and libraries proprietary. Heck, gcj and gnu classpath were good enough to run tomcat a couple of years ago, and it's not like anyone was forced to use it. While Sun's jvm was proprietary, Redhat could only bundle eclipse with gcj on their own distro. But it never took away from anyone wanting to run eclipse on the sun jvm or adding Sun's jvm to to the jvm target list in the bundled eclipse.
And for the record, there was never a time that you HAD to hack eclipse to run under gcj to get it work on Linux. The Sun jvm for linux was released before eclipse was, and eclipse ran fine on it well before it was able to run on top of gcj.
"In another nod toward Nokia's 770 and N800 web tablets, the Intel/Red Flag MIDs will use the Matchbox window manager, alongside the proprietary Hildon UI and application framework."
Not sure why the article called it proprietary. Hildon and maemo are open source. The proprietary part is the build that Nokia puts out(along with media streamers,codecs, skype, etc.) called "Internet Tablet 2007" for the N800 (IT2006 for the 770).
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I figure the guys doing this crap are either total morons, or they are just scumbags that are laughing their asses off at the people that are spending money on it.
Bourne's shakiness was done to emphasize the action.
I dunno, the entire thing was shaky. Part 2 and 3 didn't have a single steady shot. Even if the scene was someone in an office on the phone or in a meeting the camera was moving up and down. A simple tripod could of at least given our eyes a break for a few seconds.
A good chunk of movie goers still have an attention span that doesn't require someone to shake a camera and flash shiny objects at the screen every half-second.
Any director that thinks this is artistic, raw, edgy, gritty, or whatever is an idiot.
Well that's a let down. Unfortunately I think I'll pass on this one.
Shaky cameras are what ruined the part 2 and 3 of the Bourne movies.
Why do people treat shit camera work as though it's something raw and edgy?
Spore's codebase is still in progress.
Spending money to use wine instead of doing a real port is stupid
Nevermind, its just another hackjob contract by transgaming.
Spore and COD4 would have done much better by paying icculus instead for real ports.
Wouldn't the OSX port be using openGL?
I think changing renderers, input, sound, and network play away from directX would be the big chunk of work.
I'd bet doing an OSX port would a huge step towards making a Linux port.
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I'd much rather have LA(Postgres)P AND tomcat than just LAMP.
First, because it will make easier for developers to put more application logic in the database.
The mere potential to be abused doesn't automatically discredit the technology
Second, because a native compiled stored procedure (native, that is, to the DBMS) would be faster
Have you actually used Oracle's java stored procedures? Java's typical startup time is slow, but you won't be relaunching the whole JVM each call. Execution speed once things are in RAM isn't a problem. Not to mention things like Hotspot and thread and object pooling would probably be in place.
But mostly, because free hosting which maintains something based on Java it's like.. not there.
First, who said Mysql would be based on Java? We're just talking about a Java extension for stored procedures.
Also, free hosting typically gives you an account on a shared MySQL server or cluster. I'm sure considerations for throttling and sandboxing will be put in place before a mysql version with java extensions was considered production ready.
The hosting company upgrading Mysql to a version that had more options for stored procedure syntax is by no means the same thing as having them give you your own tomcat or jboss instance.
And you have to admit that free hosting w/ MySQL is one of the reasons LAMP developers are so many, and LAMP is successful
Well I don't use much free hosting other than things like sourceforge, but the ~5dollar a month variety with tons of bandwith is great. I have a few websites running on just that.
If I could get it for the same price, I'd much rather have LA(Postgres)P than LAMP and tomcat. That or just a vm that I could install whatever I wanted on.
Exactly my point. But moving the bytecode from the middle tier into the database makes no difference either.
For some things it can make all the difference in the world.
Peformance bottleknecks in business applications are often due to round-trips to the database, especially when it's large amounts of are going back and forth over insuffecient bandwith.
How is adding Java stored procedures a bad thing?
Oracle has them and they are very useful. Unless of course you think PLSQL is the be-all end-all.
Sure you can use only CRUD operations and do everything in the middle or client tier but it's not always the most efficient.
I'd love to see Sun add two things: Java stored procedures and sequences.
If anything, Sun enhancing MySQL is a win for LAMP.
I think you missed his point.
Those technologies aren't a threat to operating systems in general, they are a threat to Microsoft's marketshare of desktops specifically.
If 90% of your apps were cross-platform, and there were good equivalents for the other 10% on other operatings systems, what would be the compelling reason for user to continue to give money to microsoft?
I don't need Windows to watch youtube videos, view google maps, develop on eclipse, or run a joomla based site. Flash, ajax, java, and php and others are threats to microsoft regardless of whether or not you can write a video card driver with them.
Your comment is almost year outdated. Yum dropped the xml descriptors for package data in Fedora 7. Now it pulls down compressed sqlite files and rips through them very quickly.
If you haven't used it since Fedora 6, I suggest you give it another shot.
If we're doing analogies, I'd say it's even less than name of a football team. At least the players on the team really want the whole team to win. Members of political parties just use the team as a means of getting elected.
Does every republican candidate truly support the war in Iraq? Is every democrat really pro-abortion?
Just a means of raising enough money to get elected.
The AC's post wasn't a troll, the moderator was trigger happy or misunderstood his point.
He was right, tomcat used to be a complete pain in the ass to connect to apache web server. Thankfully things have gotten much easier.
Also, on Fedora 8 you can have this all automatically working with the new open source JDK.
As of apache 2.2(web server, not tomcat) mod_jk is obsolete and this has gotten a whole lot easier. Take a look at mod_proxy_ajp.
/examples/ ajp://localhost:8009/jsp-examples/"
It's now just one simple proxy_ajp.conf file. Plenty of options for advanced configuration, but a simple configuration could be done in one line like "ProxyPass
I have to second that. Sequences see like such a simple but useful feature. Why haven't sequences been added when more complex things like views and stored procedures are part of Mysql?
How so? The Asus one costs twice as much.
Good thing.
Us 770 owners were left out of IT2007 OS. (yes I know about the unsupported dev version of it)
Agreed.
Dwarves, Elves, and Humans were already fighting Suaron on their own fronts by the time they talked about it at Elrond's Rivendell council in Fellowship. Plenty of elaborate battle scenes for Jackson to film. If they can get at least a handful of the same actors from the other movies, they'll do fine.
Linux's stick has a poo on the end, and is brandished by a 300lb atheist liberal.
Do new Linux users know or care anything about RMS? They might have an idea of who Linus is, but I doubt they know or care much about the 300 pounder's politics. If anything, the face of Linux is the person that did the install or gave the CD to the new user.
BTW, you started off the last sentence as to why windows and os x win, but only talked up os x.
Agreed 100%
The only reason for them not release source code or specs is their own incompetence. It could be that the firmware on the device has no controls or validation for the parameters that are passed to it. It's possible that once the protocol is figured out a user may wish to send a value to the device that it can't handle.
For example, let's say a device has a little speaker that can have its default volume level in a range of 1-10 set by the windows only client application. If the application was suddenly opened, and the client side validation was removed someone might want to set the volume to 50 and blow out the speaker.
The hardware manufacturer could easily put an acceptable range validation check in the firmware, but may have been too stupid or lazy to do so. They then might say they only support their target windows because other operating systems are too small of a market which is probably bullshit. They may also say that giving out specs would give their competitors an advantage which may also be bullshit.
Come on, that's the only part of his argument you choose to respond to?
Funny that you shy away from: "That's right. It's Microsoft's job to pay off officials, exert political pressure, and abuse due process to ensure that OOXML is forced into consumer hands before ODF catches hold."
Why should we be interested in furthering the goals of a convicted monopolist?
Well put.
Take a somewhat interesting story, decent acting, a well directed first film. Then hand it off to a an epilectic hack with a handheld camcorder to make the next two movies. Yeah, real gritty and raw...barf.
Why the hate towards GCJ?
Sure it wasn't as fast or complete as the Sun JVM, but it was being developed as an open source project during the years that Sun had kept still their JVM and libraries proprietary.
Heck, gcj and gnu classpath were good enough to run tomcat a couple of years ago, and it's not like anyone was forced to use it. While Sun's jvm was proprietary, Redhat could only bundle eclipse with gcj on their own distro. But it never took away from anyone wanting to run eclipse on the sun jvm or adding Sun's jvm to to the jvm target list in the bundled eclipse.
And for the record, there was never a time that you HAD to hack eclipse to run under gcj to get it work on Linux. The Sun jvm for linux was released before eclipse was, and eclipse ran fine on it well before it was able to run on top of gcj.
I'm still waiting for that atto-itx for my pet ant's wrist watch.
The ant wants a zepto-itx for his pet bacterium.
"In another nod toward Nokia's 770 and N800 web tablets, the Intel/Red Flag MIDs will use the Matchbox window manager, alongside the proprietary Hildon UI and application framework."
Not sure why the article called it proprietary. Hildon and maemo are open source. The proprietary part is the build that Nokia puts out(along with media streamers,codecs, skype, etc.) called "Internet Tablet 2007" for the N800 (IT2006 for the 770).