Ugh. I just realized the purpose of the flame contest. Now when anyone who's somewhat detached from the community says "hey, I think I read someone saying something pretty bad about you guys" (like an investor), all they have to do is say:
"Oh yeah, that's a little contest we are running on our web site. Go check it out. Those crazy techies love to do this kind of stuff."
If you don't know what I'm talking about check here.
I respectfully disagree. Standards bodies are slow...companies motivated by profit are fast (too fast?). A company will attempt to get its proprietary technology out and gain market share. There will be competitors. At some point, there will be a convergence on a standard. There are many instances of this with browser-based technologies, including
JavaScript/JScript to ECMAScript
DHTML to DOM
Right now, the same thing is happening with the IM vendors. In my opinion, this actually allows things to move faster, as opposed to being a barrier to progress. Oh, and yes there is a standard for voice over IP, there are a whole set of them in fact. The most common one is H.323.
Apologies if this has been discussed in any of the recent Transmeta articles.
They are proud the chip can be updated over the net. Is this leading chips down the same path we are already going with software, namely release now and patch later? Will there be a case where it's "don't buy a Transmeta chip until it's on Service Pack 2"? As development cycles get shorter and net access gets more available, the quality of software appears to be going down because of easy patchability. Is hardware next?
I left Oracle a few months ago. There's an intranet site describing how much money you get if you earn a patent, and the developers are definitely working towards it. In fact, working there as a developer, I had never heard of this policy. As another poster pointed out, it looks to be pretty old (Oracle is #2, not #3, and has a lot more than 8,000 employees now, more like 30,000).
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Ugh. I just realized the purpose of the flame contest. Now when anyone who's somewhat detached from the community says "hey, I think I read someone saying something pretty bad about you guys" (like an investor), all they have to do is say:
"Oh yeah, that's a little contest we are running on our web site. Go check it out. Those crazy techies love to do this kind of stuff."
If you don't know what I'm talking about check here.
--jb
JavaScript/JScript to ECMAScript
DHTML to DOM
Right now, the same thing is happening with the IM vendors. In my opinion, this actually allows things to move faster, as opposed to being a barrier to progress. Oh, and yes there is a standard for voice over IP, there are a whole set of them in fact. The most common one is H.323.
--jb
Apologies if this has been discussed in any of the recent Transmeta articles.
They are proud the chip can be updated over the net. Is this leading chips down the same path we are already going with software, namely release now and patch later? Will there be a case where it's "don't buy a Transmeta chip until it's on Service Pack 2"? As development cycles get shorter and net access gets more available, the quality of software appears to be going down because of easy patchability. Is hardware next?
--jb
*laugh*
I left Oracle a few months ago. There's an intranet site describing how much money you get if you earn a patent, and the developers are definitely working towards it. In fact, working there as a developer, I had never heard of this policy. As another poster pointed out, it looks to be pretty old (Oracle is #2, not #3, and has a lot more than 8,000 employees now, more like 30,000).