As far as I know, both Bea's and IBM's implementation of the SDK are based on the Sun one. I really don't think that they can open source it without Sun approval.
The things that one should learn at college should be more permanent. Learning a technology or other is irrelevant. And technology changes (a lot). Today is Windows and Linux, but in ten years, who knows?.
Formal education should go to the basics. If you learn about networking, you should learn the difference between state-full and state-less protocols, and the two army dilemma.
If you are learning about programming, you should learn about paradigms (several of them, imperative, functional, objects, etc) and, maybe, concurrency issues and stuff.
If you are learning databases, the best thing is the relational model.
Focusing on tools instead of concepts it's bread for today and hunger for tomorrow.
Hope it helps,
Aureliano
At work, I was working with a fiscal printer. It worked with 110V, and here the electricity is 220V.
The transformer worked both ways, being able to choose the voltage change with a switch. So I setted up the switch on the wrong position.
Long story short. I've plugged the 110V printer at 440V. So I've broken the printer power almost instantly.
I still remember the delicate smell of the power source burning up.
Military is looking for options like this a long time ago. That's why they funded the research of packet switched networks (like TCP/IP) when all the known networks first established a path an then routed all the communitacions throw this path (circuit switching networks, like telephone networks).
The whole idea behind military funding TCP/IP is to be able to shut-down compromised nodes without taking down the entire network. Id est keeping the system running even when the system is partially compromised.
Aureliano.
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As far as I know, both Bea's and IBM's implementation of the SDK are based on the Sun one. I really don't think that they can open source it without Sun approval.
Before you actually fix it.
I think that they are missing a good IDE (where is the eclipse equivalent for python?)
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I've read "Koffice" and interpretated "coffee". I think I should get some sleep!
The things that one should learn at college should be more permanent. Learning a technology or other is irrelevant. And technology changes (a lot). Today is Windows and Linux, but in ten years, who knows?. Formal education should go to the basics. If you learn about networking, you should learn the difference between state-full and state-less protocols, and the two army dilemma. If you are learning about programming, you should learn about paradigms (several of them, imperative, functional, objects, etc) and, maybe, concurrency issues and stuff. If you are learning databases, the best thing is the relational model. Focusing on tools instead of concepts it's bread for today and hunger for tomorrow. Hope it helps, Aureliano
At work, I was working with a fiscal printer. It worked with 110V, and here the electricity is 220V. The transformer worked both ways, being able to choose the voltage change with a switch. So I setted up the switch on the wrong position. Long story short. I've plugged the 110V printer at 440V. So I've broken the printer power almost instantly. I still remember the delicate smell of the power source burning up.
Please post an URL refering to the pizza stuff. Thank you.
Military is looking for options like this a long time ago. That's why they funded the research of packet switched networks (like TCP/IP) when all the known networks first established a path an then routed all the communitacions throw this path (circuit switching networks, like telephone networks). The whole idea behind military funding TCP/IP is to be able to shut-down compromised nodes without taking down the entire network. Id est keeping the system running even when the system is partially compromised. Aureliano.