Taking a look at Oracles current strategic focus, id say they rather go for Aqualogic than Weblogic. It took its time but today OAS/OC4J is doing its job quite well - still not the best AS out there, but not as crappy as it used to be. As well the current JVM are fast enough for not needing JRockit.
Oracle got a neat offering for implementing SOA, but some parts still need some serious improvement. Its basically missing some aspects of the top layers in a SOA, like proper support for BPM (no, ARIS wont work out...) and SOA governance. So i guess thats what they are really after when bidding for BEA.
However, the human pilot might do something crazy it knows it can throw off the AIs strategy like flowing into a nearby storm cloud or perhaps into a dangerous maneuver through a canyon or city landscape (under bridges and between buildings) which might throw the logical AI off.
After a while, a human pilot would have a general strategy with dealing with an AI that didn't adapt. He would know how an AI would react and be able to defeat it without too much effort. Uh... this sounds like taken from your average crappy 80s sci-fi movie script.
hum... what are you trying to tell us? SunOS is the implementation of Unix, in the beginning BSD style, later versions sys v. Solaris is the whole "distribution", i.e. the SunOS core and additional stuff. So you suggest that the banner should be like "Solaris 2.0 SunOS UNIX 5.0" for Solaris 2?
mhm, and there are a couple of ethical funds out there which will put their money in stocks and bonds of companies that behave in an ethical way. So there must be some investors out there who actually do care which kind of company gets supported by their money....
As if we didnt already discuss the whole issue a hundred times here... *sigh*
It is _no_ good idea to try striking back by auto-ddosing all urls mentioned in some spam. First as already mentioned abov in most cases you simply attack some zombie box; so what, 50k fellow minions waiting to take its place when the next spam flood is coming... And there is always the famous joe-job, which means you will help to attack some more or less innocent third party which already gets tons of complaints and trouble with their hoster / registrant for being mentioned in spam.
But maybe your strategy works and the us military will adopt auto-retaliate for its icmbs one day;) man, this planet will be a safe place then.
actually ms comic chat was a crappy graphical irc client that tried to build some kind of comic strip from the stuff happening in the channel. since it was the 90s, age of the non-standard extensions (yes, i mean you, mr. blink tag), ms comic chat sent special lines that would be interpreted by other clients so it could create matching images. for some funny reasons there are still people around who use this client; whenever you see some guy entering a channel and sending a line like "scambaiter appears as CowboyNeal" you just met one of those;)
well, there are extensions that let you choose an external download manager like kget to use for downloading a file. works fine and the moz team doesnt have to replicate a component which is already there, therefore reducing bloat.
Sure there is a lot of stuff you cant do, im especially thinking of ethics here. Same problem in medical research, though.
Even physics has reached limits where they cant directly observe the subjects of research, so it just happens that due to the nature of research in psychology and economics those limits are reached earlier.
Didnt want to start flaming, just tried to provide some background of the history and aims of psychology when i read the thread...
Its so funny that people never seem to see psychology as a "real" science. They always think stuff like its about chatting a litte bit about intelligence and personality and when you are finished you write a cute little paper.
It is true that for centuries psychology was a field of philosophy, but in 18th and 19th century it evolved into a completely seperate field. People like Wundt felt that one should try to use the paradigms of science (esp. physics) for researching the human mind. Since these times psychology mostly tried to apply those paradigms and became an experimental science which added some nice methods to the field of statistics, for example factor analysis. Just think of it: measuring and researching things you cant directly measure - you need some good ideas to do that.
Commenting what the grandparent said: In both the tests required to provide repeatable proof are either impossible or immoral. This is just crap. As in most other sciences psychologists of course require that you can repeat experiments. But hey, its/., so everyone is invited to add some comment without knowing what hes talking about...
Actually i believe they try to slow down the worm but not feeding it with new email addresses. I could search just like always, just getting the 403 when searching for "email example.com". I might be wron though.
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hehe, just wait until perl6 will be ready:) i bet matts perl4 scripts will be completely be broken then and vanish completely... hm, so this might be a really good thing:)
and i guess its the old line: use the tool that fits the task best. perl is the swiss knife, php a more focused language for web apps. go for what you actually need.
hum, sandbox. I thought this was like "plug in printer, printer announces itself to any machine connected and sends (if needed) drivers to the machine". Could this really work out in a sandbox for the whole variety of stuff you could connect to a computer?
IBM has been in the patent business for quite some time;) I once read (no source at hand, might be some myth) that IBM makes around 25% of their profit from their patents and licensing. I guess you cant expect from some large R&D company which also is in hardware, software and services business to skip one of their primary sources of profit simply because they now support open source and the os crowd feels that they should do so. Maybe IBM likes to pretend that they are the white knight of os but you cant seriously expect them to really behave so from one day to the other;)
Looks like some PDA on steroids to me. Too small to get any real work done with it, but too big (and expensive) to carry it around all day long in your pocket. I mean who actually is supposed to buy one of them? Reading/. on the road with one of these looks quite painful, cant even imagine doing some coding on it.
Sorry guys, but this simply looks very much like a geek toy to me. Not really useful for anything than show-off.
AFAIR there is a thing called lateral inhibition (at least in german we call it that way, no translation at hand) that does the edge enhancing more or less directly in the eye. Whenever a neuron gets triggered by some sensory information (brightness of light) it sends an inhibtory signal to its neighbours: if the neighbour does not get triggered the difference of signal strength beteen the first neuron and the neighbour gets larger than the input would actually require.
On the other hand especially for processing visual information the brain uses (as i already pointed out) loads of heuristics and cues which lead to the well-known optical illusions. See for example this
or this.
So there is a lot of stuff that gets preprocessed for the brain so it does not have to process the information every single neuron delivers.
Although i graduated in psychology i have to admint that i had more focus on statistics than general psychology which covers issues of perception but i cannot recally studies which point out that most processing is done brute-force. Would be nice if you could dig up some for me. Thanks in advance.
Actually i think its a big mistake to think of the brain in terms of cpu computing power. The brain does not simply use brute-force computing power to solve problems and handle special tasks and situations. We got a lot of built-in or learnt features to do so efficiently. For examples we use a lot of shortcuts to (not always correctly) solve a task. Just think of optical illusions: the brain uses some cues to judge a situation instead of doing a correct calculation. Or think of reflexes: a lot is happening just before the brain is involved, e.g. when you put your hand on some hot thing (yep, that athlon that has been running for 2 weeks straight;)) the signal to take the hand away gets sent straight from the spine before it reaches the brain.
Unless we use equivalent mechanisms for cpu based computing comparing the speed of the brain to silcon based units imho doesnt make much sense.
It actually isnt. A lot of spam has forged headers to looke like its coming from compuserver.com, aol.com, hotmail.com or microsoft.com. Never seen any of the given IPs resolve to one of those domains though.
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Oracle got a neat offering for implementing SOA, but some parts still need some serious improvement. Its basically missing some aspects of the top layers in a SOA, like proper support for BPM (no, ARIS wont work out...) and SOA governance. So i guess thats what they are really after when bidding for BEA.
or am i missing yet another conspiracy?
mhm, and there are a couple of ethical funds out there which will put their money in stocks and bonds of companies that behave in an ethical way. So there must be some investors out there who actually do care which kind of company gets supported by their money....
It is _no_ good idea to try striking back by auto-ddosing all urls mentioned in some spam. First as already mentioned abov in most cases you simply attack some zombie box; so what, 50k fellow minions waiting to take its place when the next spam flood is coming... And there is always the famous joe-job, which means you will help to attack some more or less innocent third party which already gets tons of complaints and trouble with their hoster / registrant for being mentioned in spam.
But maybe your strategy works and the us military will adopt auto-retaliate for its icmbs one day;) man, this planet will be a safe place then.
hey, at least you can prepare a nice comment for the "linux doom3 released" story posted tomorrow.
actually ms comic chat was a crappy graphical irc client that tried to build some kind of comic strip from the stuff happening in the channel. since it was the 90s, age of the non-standard extensions (yes, i mean you, mr. blink tag), ms comic chat sent special lines that would be interpreted by other clients so it could create matching images. for some funny reasons there are still people around who use this client; whenever you see some guy entering a channel and sending a line like "scambaiter appears as CowboyNeal" you just met one of those;)
well, there are extensions that let you choose an external download manager like kget to use for downloading a file. works fine and the moz team doesnt have to replicate a component which is already there, therefore reducing bloat.
Even physics has reached limits where they cant directly observe the subjects of research, so it just happens that due to the nature of research in psychology and economics those limits are reached earlier.
Didnt want to start flaming, just tried to provide some background of the history and aims of psychology when i read the thread...
It is true that for centuries psychology was a field of philosophy, but in 18th and 19th century it evolved into a completely seperate field. People like Wundt felt that one should try to use the paradigms of science (esp. physics) for researching the human mind. Since these times psychology mostly tried to apply those paradigms and became an experimental science which added some nice methods to the field of statistics, for example factor analysis. Just think of it: measuring and researching things you cant directly measure - you need some good ideas to do that.
Commenting what the grandparent said: In both the tests required to provide repeatable proof are either impossible or immoral. This is just crap. As in most other sciences psychologists of course require that you can repeat experiments. But hey, its /., so everyone is invited to add some comment without knowing what hes talking about...
funny that siemens is already working on an alcohol testing mobile phone.
Actually i believe they try to slow down the worm but not feeding it with new email addresses. I could search just like always, just getting the 403 when searching for "email example.com". I might be wron though.
collateral damage
reminds me a lot of this strip.
and i guess its the old line: use the tool that fits the task best. perl is the swiss knife, php a more focused language for web apps. go for what you actually need.
hum, sandbox. I thought this was like "plug in printer, printer announces itself to any machine connected and sends (if needed) drivers to the machine". Could this really work out in a sandbox for the whole variety of stuff you could connect to a computer?
hm, i always thought that linux _is_ the kernel.
IBM has been in the patent business for quite some time;) I once read (no source at hand, might be some myth) that IBM makes around 25% of their profit from their patents and licensing. I guess you cant expect from some large R&D company which also is in hardware, software and services business to skip one of their primary sources of profit simply because they now support open source and the os crowd feels that they should do so. Maybe IBM likes to pretend that they are the white knight of os but you cant seriously expect them to really behave so from one day to the other;)
Last time i checked i didnt need a 1ghz 256mb ram 30gig hd box for sending sms;) I prefer using my cellular or the pda for that.
Sorry guys, but this simply looks very much like a geek toy to me. Not really useful for anything than show-off.
On the other hand especially for processing visual information the brain uses (as i already pointed out) loads of heuristics and cues which lead to the well-known optical illusions. See for example this or this. So there is a lot of stuff that gets preprocessed for the brain so it does not have to process the information every single neuron delivers.
Although i graduated in psychology i have to admint that i had more focus on statistics than general psychology which covers issues of perception but i cannot recally studies which point out that most processing is done brute-force. Would be nice if you could dig up some for me. Thanks in advance.
Unless we use equivalent mechanisms for cpu based computing comparing the speed of the brain to silcon based units imho doesnt make much sense.
It actually isnt. A lot of spam has forged headers to looke like its coming from compuserver.com, aol.com, hotmail.com or microsoft.com. Never seen any of the given IPs resolve to one of those domains though.
Well, Dennis Ritchie would make some sense, wouldnt it?;)