Well I can't really say either way, I don't have a gmail account and I don't intend on ever getting one, all I can say is that your about the only person I've seen really say anything really bad about it so they must be doing something right.
Google will go down the same way every ubersearch engine did before, someone will create something better and everyone will begin to use that instead, and google will go the way of webcrawler and altavista and everyone else into a obscure corner of the web. It just might take a little longer since they seem to have hit a chord with gmail.
Except Python isn't a business and so they don't care that they don't have control over it, on the other hand Sun is, and they want control, but don't want to alienate a whole community of talented developers who place more in the license of a product over its use as a simple tool.
Sun doesn't have to worry now about trademark dilution, since if they say it isn't Java, and a little lawsuit would solve that. What Sun wants is to have the more zealous of the OSS developer, the more moderate already chooses Java if they feel its the right tool, by having an openness while at the same time preventing forking of the type that MS tried to pull. They want to make sure that if people think its a java, lets say something like Classpath, that it is conforming to the one true Java API by allowing them to actually use the API but preventing them from making changes, harmless or destructive.
I know, I hate it when people enjoy using their computer too and make whatever they want, they should ask me before doing something silly.
Is it so hard for you to say, 'Wow, that looks cool.' instead of finding every stupid argument you can make against the guy. This was just for fun project some guy did, and probably had a few people ask for it so he released it. Even though I wouldn't use it, I can say that it looks like a good job. If everyone had nothing good to say about every project that comes out, well everyone who already doesn't since I don't see too many compliments here, what would be the reason to release any OSS project? Is it so hard to give a compliment on some hard work well done?
Ah yes, a great man once complained, "This place is great and all but its just so artificial. The gravity, the air, the gophers. You might as well stay on Earth."
But the reconnection feature could be so handy without being irritating. Every other IM client will try and silently reconnect, not pop up 3 Windows every 4 seconds just to say it still can't get a connection. It really is poorly done.
The lips are a dead giveaway that its a CG character. Once you notice that, you see everything else thats just not natural or 'right' about it. Very amazing work though.
As others have already said, I believe that RMS mentioned the Incompatible Time Sharing system that he worked on. Since this was also started when RMS was only 8, I doubt he had much to do with this one.
It does if you had something related to quantum physics sitting on your desk, you used it every day, couldn't live without it (e-mail), bought new things for it and yet actively refused to learn even the simplest things about it.
Because the vast majority of computer users are idiots. What's easier to understand to someone who refuses to learn anything, 'requires a level Level 5 machine' or 'requires a Intel compatible 1.4GHz processor or higher.' Here's a hint- User:'I have a AMD Athalon 2800, its 2.8GHz but is it Intel compatible?'
Ya you could do that, or you could do do things properly and have a firewall. Ya lets to the expensive reactionary-that-looks-like-proactive measures instead of the simple thing that would prevent 99% of problems before they occurred.
This has been a particular headache for embedded systems manufacturers. If the engineers take advantage of the openness of Linux and make some tweaks to the part that is officially Linux, the company must to distribute their changes too.
Seems to me a manufacturer might be distributing the product they manufacture.
I think the article was referring to the fact that the XBox is a P3 whereas XBox2 is slated to be a PPC based box. If they can do the needed translations at a respectable speed for VPC, they can do it for XBox2.
Language is a living thing, it evolves and word usage changes. Hacker is a negative thing in this context, talk to a kernel dev or a FreeBSD developer and maybe it won't be. Gay used to mean a happy person, and ignorant was uninformed, neither definition is what the general use is now so get over it.
BTW a hacker was not a skilled, passionate computer programmer, it was someone who created an ugly kludge to quickly solve a problem.
Said remaining jobs would pay less. A company isn't going to go through the trouble of organizing outsourced workers for a savings of a few dollars and then turn around and throw away the savings by hiring people at higher wages.
Do you still have the turntable your father purchased with that receiver? I don't know if it was purchased at the same time, but it was within a few years of the receiver, yes we still have it and it too works great. This stuff has got to be approaching 25~30 years old now, they're Phillips branded stuff if you were wondering.
Has it ever been serviced? I do not believe that it ever has, it just kept working. He is very pleased with it, so I think he would have mentioned it.
We have also been through 3 coffee makers in the past 2 years, on was a wedding gift for my parents, the other 2 were replacements when it died and they only lasted a year each.
If I get a LCD and it craps out in 5 years or less, there's gonna be hell to pay. For the cost, it should have a life longer then mine. They just don't make them like they used to, we have a stereo receiver here that was apparently the first thing my dad bought when he got a job, its a hell of a lot older then I am and works just as well as it did new. On the other hand, we got a 5 disk CD changer 5~6 years ago, and its had to be replaced already. Cheap parts at a premium price.
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Well I can't really say either way, I don't have a gmail account and I don't intend on ever getting one, all I can say is that your about the only person I've seen really say anything really bad about it so they must be doing something right.
Google will go down the same way every ubersearch engine did before, someone will create something better and everyone will begin to use that instead, and google will go the way of webcrawler and altavista and everyone else into a obscure corner of the web. It just might take a little longer since they seem to have hit a chord with gmail.
Except Python isn't a business and so they don't care that they don't have control over it, on the other hand Sun is, and they want control, but don't want to alienate a whole community of talented developers who place more in the license of a product over its use as a simple tool.
Sun doesn't have to worry now about trademark dilution, since if they say it isn't Java, and a little lawsuit would solve that. What Sun wants is to have the more zealous of the OSS developer, the more moderate already chooses Java if they feel its the right tool, by having an openness while at the same time preventing forking of the type that MS tried to pull. They want to make sure that if people think its a java, lets say something like Classpath, that it is conforming to the one true Java API by allowing them to actually use the API but preventing them from making changes, harmless or destructive.
I know, I hate it when people enjoy using their computer too and make whatever they want, they should ask me before doing something silly.
Is it so hard for you to say, 'Wow, that looks cool.' instead of finding every stupid argument you can make against the guy. This was just for fun project some guy did, and probably had a few people ask for it so he released it. Even though I wouldn't use it, I can say that it looks like a good job. If everyone had nothing good to say about every project that comes out, well everyone who already doesn't since I don't see too many compliments here, what would be the reason to release any OSS project? Is it so hard to give a compliment on some hard work well done?
I don't know about that, I've seen my coffee maker spit out some odd things when something goes wrong.
Ya I know it was stupid.
I keep trying not to see the political stories, it doesn't work, slashdot is broken.
Ah yes, a great man once complained, "This place is great and all but its just so artificial. The gravity, the air, the gophers. You might as well stay on Earth."
Sort of says it all.
But the reconnection feature could be so handy without being irritating. Every other IM client will try and silently reconnect, not pop up 3 Windows every 4 seconds just to say it still can't get a connection. It really is poorly done.
The lips are a dead giveaway that its a CG character. Once you notice that, you see everything else thats just not natural or 'right' about it. Very amazing work though.
As others have already said, I believe that RMS mentioned the Incompatible Time Sharing system that he worked on. Since this was also started when RMS was only 8, I doubt he had much to do with this one.
It does if you had something related to quantum physics sitting on your desk, you used it every day, couldn't live without it (e-mail), bought new things for it and yet actively refused to learn even the simplest things about it.
Because the vast majority of computer users are idiots. What's easier to understand to someone who refuses to learn anything, 'requires a level Level 5 machine' or 'requires a Intel compatible 1.4GHz processor or higher.' Here's a hint-
User:'I have a AMD Athalon 2800, its 2.8GHz but is it Intel compatible?'
Ya you could do that, or you could do do things properly and have a firewall. Ya lets to the expensive reactionary-that-looks-like-proactive measures instead of the simple thing that would prevent 99% of problems before they occurred.
Seems to me a manufacturer might be distributing the product they manufacture.
Fine, your default desktop background will be puke green until the next version. How do you like the decision I made for you?
I think the article was referring to the fact that the XBox is a P3 whereas XBox2 is slated to be a PPC based box. If they can do the needed translations at a respectable speed for VPC, they can do it for XBox2.
Ya, but it does make you feel good.
Language is a living thing, it evolves and word usage changes. Hacker is a negative thing in this context, talk to a kernel dev or a FreeBSD developer and maybe it won't be. Gay used to mean a happy person, and ignorant was uninformed, neither definition is what the general use is now so get over it.
BTW a hacker was not a skilled, passionate computer programmer, it was someone who created an ugly kludge to quickly solve a problem.
Sony would have to be complete idiots to drop backwards compatibility, it was such a big thing in the success of the PS2.
Said remaining jobs would pay less. A company isn't going to go through the trouble of organizing outsourced workers for a savings of a few dollars and then turn around and throw away the savings by hiring people at higher wages.
Do you still have the turntable your father purchased with that receiver?
I don't know if it was purchased at the same time, but it was within a few years of the receiver, yes we still have it and it too works great. This stuff has got to be approaching 25~30 years old now, they're Phillips branded stuff if you were wondering.
Has it ever been serviced?
I do not believe that it ever has, it just kept working. He is very pleased with it, so I think he would have mentioned it.
We have also been through 3 coffee makers in the past 2 years, on was a wedding gift for my parents, the other 2 were replacements when it died and they only lasted a year each.
If I get a LCD and it craps out in 5 years or less, there's gonna be hell to pay. For the cost, it should have a life longer then mine. They just don't make them like they used to, we have a stereo receiver here that was apparently the first thing my dad bought when he got a job, its a hell of a lot older then I am and works just as well as it did new. On the other hand, we got a 5 disk CD changer 5~6 years ago, and its had to be replaced already. Cheap parts at a premium price.
While I can see where this would be handy, I would personally prefer a decent SNMP server in Windows. Take what you can get I guess.
...beacuse when you have to change your records, your gonna be swimming in it.