I've been using a privately owned ISP (Zipcon.net, they're great!) rather then the Verizon DSL ISP I once had. Verizon not only had horrible customer service (literally hours on hold, frequent connection loss etc.) but I also had a sneaky feeling that my privacy would be at risk. We all know how that turned out during the last administration.
My private ISP has much better uptime and the owner or some other person in the know will answer my calls during the first 4 rings almost all the time. If my DSL wire provider has an issue (yes, Verizon) he will deal with it for me, as opposed to Verizon which required me to wait hours for the ISP only to tell me that it was the other part of their company and to call them and wait on hold, again for long periods of time.
Because of all of that, I've not switched to FIOS even though it's been right in front of my house since the early days (we were a test neighborhood). If this rule goes through, I'll be jumping on FIOS and keeping my current, very good, ISP.
Get in there guys and make your comments to the FCC!
Great idea. Please Google, give us the maps of the darn (huge ass company I won't name here) buildings! I get lost every time I try to find a new conference room. By the way, make it work with my iPhone GPS while you're at it.
Now if I were a plumber, does this mean I can't do bathrooms? These NDAs (at least in Washington state) are not *supposed* to be able to prevent a person to continue their work after switching companies.
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The judge's order set a Sept. 6 hearing on Microsoft's request for a preliminary injunction, which would bar Lee from doing similar work at
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This guy is high profile, a former VP at MS. But... they do this to the line workers consistently. How the heck are you supposed to get a new job if what you did in the past is barred from you?
$90 + 2 days pay? Why not do what the rest of us do and get a $10 sound card? Motherboards designed to run on Windows platforms (did he forget to mention the Windows install CD?) often have problems with on motherboard hardware. A cheap NIC & sound card usually solve all of your hardware problems. It certainly costs less then 2 days pay.
FYI, Windows costs more then $90. Last I saw 2003 enterprise server (with simular features to Linux) lists for $5k, limited to 5 users of course.
They don't seem to provide a working link (there is a broken one) to vml.xsd and there is no way you could count on a system having it in C:\SCHEMAS (particularly on a Linux box). You also are prohibited from modifying the file to fix it.
It also appears their license requirements contradict themselves since they require you to state that you are including Microsoft intellectual property and also preclude you from using Microsoft trademarks ("Microsoft" is one of these").
This is really scary. As one of the worlds largest proprietary software companies IBM dones not seem the type to defend the GPL well in a court case. A case that will probably set precident. If the GPL looses, IBM has much to gain. They have always acted in a vary stratigic manor. What do you think they will do here?
At $3,970 I can't see myself buying one. That's 10x the cost of a desktop and 30x the cost of a Palm device. A $899 iBook is only about 12" square and has a much prettier OS. I'll wait for a reasonable price.
Gosh, back in 1996 I wrote an ActiveX control trying to warn everyone that this was a bad, bad idea. Embedding native code on a web page is plain stupid. Maybe it's time to open source the code for this thing so it can be brought up to date now that everyone is interested again?
Last time I opened my mouth about this Cornelius Willis (platform director at M$) called me "...clearly not an author that anyone can trust" and I ended up spending $600 on lawyers to fend off their proxy attack via Verisign. Anyone else willing to take up the cause?
Mike Doyle has been pretty clear about his intent on this, he intends to deny MS the patent and allow other browsers to keep on rolling. His intent? To allow the web to return to it's original platform agnostic experience. Not a bad thing given that 95% of the (IMHO) foolish public is running IE these days. Since most web sites only support IE and Netscrape 4.7 (gack!) isn't this a good thing?
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"Java doesn't really have a kick-ass companion scripting language. In MS world, VB plays this role. VB is really popular, but (I think most people would agree) a crap language and not really that high level. JavaScript just doesn't seem to cut it (pretty much only used in browsers). "
There is a kick-ass scripting language for Java, it's just not produced by Sun. Check out BeanShell. It makes a wonderful embedded scripting language as well as a standalone toy. I've used it in comercial applications and to play with adding new features on the fly. You can download BeanShell here.
You're 100% correct on this. I've only been programming microcomputers for 25 years or so, but this is the main problem newbies seem to have.
Only a small percentage of the code ever needs optimization. Since most of the cost of code is really in the maintance, (unless you worked for a.com), trashing the structure to optimize needs to be done to only that small portion of code and when it has to be done it also has to be very well documented. Unfortunatly it seldom happens that people who are optimization happy document their code well IMHO.
Good point. Do you have a URL where we can try the code ourselves? It would be good to try this in a modern version of Java. 2 Years ago is a very long time for Java.
Another thought: Benchmarks always seem to be slower in newer languages. But it's also true that those benchmarks were first written in the earlier language.
What would happen to a "new" benchmark written in Java and *then* ported to C, C++, Pascal and Fortran?
I remember people telling me that C++ was too slow to use for anything real.
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I've been waiting for this for years!
I've been using a privately owned ISP (Zipcon.net, they're great!) rather then the Verizon DSL ISP I once had. Verizon not only had horrible customer service (literally hours on hold, frequent connection loss etc.) but I also had a sneaky feeling that my privacy would be at risk. We all know how that turned out during the last administration.
My private ISP has much better uptime and the owner or some other person in the know will answer my calls during the first 4 rings almost all the time. If my DSL wire provider has an issue (yes, Verizon) he will deal with it for me, as opposed to Verizon which required me to wait hours for the ISP only to tell me that it was the other part of their company and to call them and wait on hold, again for long periods of time.
Because of all of that, I've not switched to FIOS even though it's been right in front of my house since the early days (we were a test neighborhood). If this rule goes through, I'll be jumping on FIOS and keeping my current, very good, ISP.
Get in there guys and make your comments to the FCC!
Great idea. Please Google, give us the maps of the darn (huge ass company I won't name here) buildings! I get lost every time I try to find a new conference room. By the way, make it work with my iPhone GPS while you're at it.
This guy is high profile, a former VP at MS. But... they do this to the line workers consistently. How the heck are you supposed to get a new job if what you did in the past is barred from you?
I hope you intend to open source version 1 as well.
$90 + 2 days pay? Why not do what the rest of us do and get a $10 sound card? Motherboards designed to run on Windows platforms (did he forget to mention the Windows install CD?) often have problems with on motherboard hardware. A cheap NIC & sound card usually solve all of your hardware problems. It certainly costs less then 2 days pay. FYI, Windows costs more then $90. Last I saw 2003 enterprise server (with simular features to Linux) lists for $5k, limited to 5 users of course.
<xsd:import namespace="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" schemaLocation="C:\SCHEMAS\vml.xsd"></xsd:import>
They don't seem to provide a working link (there is a broken one) to vml.xsd and there is no way you could count on a system having it in C:\SCHEMAS (particularly on a Linux box). You also are prohibited from modifying the file to fix it.
It also appears their license requirements contradict themselves since they require you to state that you are including Microsoft intellectual property and also preclude you from using Microsoft trademarks ("Microsoft" is one of these").
This is really scary. As one of the worlds largest proprietary software companies IBM dones not seem the type to defend the GPL well in a court case. A case that will probably set precident. If the GPL looses, IBM has much to gain. They have always acted in a vary stratigic manor. What do you think they will do here?
At $3,970 I can't see myself buying one. That's 10x the cost of a desktop and 30x the cost of a Palm device. A $899 iBook is only about 12" square and has a much prettier OS. I'll wait for a reasonable price.
Gosh, back in 1996 I wrote an ActiveX control trying to warn everyone that this was a bad, bad idea. Embedding native code on a web page is plain stupid. Maybe it's time to open source the code for this thing so it can be brought up to date now that everyone is interested again? Last time I opened my mouth about this Cornelius Willis (platform director at M$) called me "...clearly not an author that anyone can trust" and I ended up spending $600 on lawyers to fend off their proxy attack via Verisign. Anyone else willing to take up the cause? Mike Doyle has been pretty clear about his intent on this, he intends to deny MS the patent and allow other browsers to keep on rolling. His intent? To allow the web to return to it's original platform agnostic experience. Not a bad thing given that 95% of the (IMHO) foolish public is running IE these days. Since most web sites only support IE and Netscrape 4.7 (gack!) isn't this a good thing?
There is a kick-ass scripting language for Java, it's just not produced by Sun. Check out BeanShell. It makes a wonderful embedded scripting language as well as a standalone toy. I've used it in comercial applications and to play with adding new features on the fly. You can download BeanShell here.
You're 100% correct on this. I've only been programming microcomputers for 25 years or so, but this is the main problem newbies seem to have. Only a small percentage of the code ever needs optimization. Since most of the cost of code is really in the maintance, (unless you worked for a .com), trashing the structure to optimize needs to be done to only that small portion of code and when it has to be done it also has to be very well documented. Unfortunatly it seldom happens that people who are optimization happy document their code well IMHO.
Good point. Do you have a URL where we can try the code ourselves? It would be good to try this in a modern version of Java. 2 Years ago is a very long time for Java. Another thought: Benchmarks always seem to be slower in newer languages. But it's also true that those benchmarks were first written in the earlier language. What would happen to a "new" benchmark written in Java and *then* ported to C, C++, Pascal and Fortran? I remember people telling me that C++ was too slow to use for anything real.