I reference wikipedia several times a week as a starting point for finding authenticated information and I have never seen a video or sound file on Wikipedia.
You're not looking very hard. The main page has a 'Featured content' link in the sidebar. As I type, there are various media files features, such as Truman's announcement of the WWII surrender of the Japanese.
Unlike sites such as youtube, every piece of content on wikipedia is verified to be in the public domain. Meaning of course, anyone can access it without fear of copyright infringement. Using the above example, if a teacher Evelyn wishes to include Truman's speech for a school project, she can freely.
The use of open formats allows Evelyn's work to be redistributed, on say a school DVD without legal rigmarole concerning patents for mp3 etc.
Sure, kids may not go to wikipedia to view videos of 'Dora the Explorer' or whatever flavour of the month entertainment the whipper-snappers access these days, but they might appreciate multimedia content for school projects etc.
And as far as ogg use personally, I not infrequently click on the sound files for pronunciation of foreign names or concepts just so I don't sound like a twit who can't even get a person's name right!
By that logic, why should the government be in charge of anything...
Take Mike Moore's work (Sicko) with a grain of salt given his anti-Dubya stance - The rest of the world were bemused at the assertion that a 3rd world nation like Cuba might have a better health care service than the mighty USA.
If OpenOffice.org gets a ringing endorsement from Baz, might the government mandate an Official Document Format? In which case Microsoft's alleged manipulation of ISO regarding Open XML would partially have been a waste of time.
IBM and Apache effectively in control of Java in the server space.
Define control? Tomcat is the defacto standard servlet container but anyone (including Sun employees) is free to contribute to it.
Big Blue historically had the edge is terms of Java EE containers for buying from a single vendor. That aside I'd rate Oracle and Red Hat ahead of them.
Last I checked Spring and Hibernate weren't Apache projects either...
Indeed, a quick Google search will reveal that Canonical's endorsement of python as one language to rule them all:
Ubuntu prefers the community to contribute work in Python. We develop our own tools and scripts in Python and it's much easier for us to integrate your work if you use the same platform.
Even the usual suspect (Apple) ships all their software for PPC Macs
No, it doesn't. Apple have already made PPC and first generation Core (32 bit) x86 machines obsolete by releasing Java 6 for x86_64 only.
Now that Steve "Nobody uses Java anymore" Jobs isn't running the company anymore, we might see Apple actually supporting their customers instead of playing petty 'use Cocoa' games with users and developers.
I guess it's in the definition of 'plugin' vs. 'extension'.
e.g. at the moment Java applets are supposed via NPAPI and NPRuntime
Any additional APIs that extensions use would be needed to be ported to Chrome e.g. for the numerous.xpi files one clicks on to install.
Perhaps for that to occur, a decoupling of the XUL presentation might need to occur, or for chrome to support that too?
Oh, okay, an energy saving globe/light.
Evidently the article summary is USA biased but not everyone understands American English, nor uses their 3 letter acronyms!
Reminds me of a bug I had to fix, caused by bundling an old library that conflicted with ours. So I tried downloading the 'jar' from Sun's Java web page only to find that due to export restrictions I had to be in the USA or Canada.
So legally I couldn't diagnose the problem because I couldn't download the offending software.
This for an encryption lib, of which a later version is included as part of the standard JRE and now possibly open-sourced...
Rather, in approximate terms... OpenJDK = Sun's JRE download - binary blogs - Java Plugin - Java Web Start IcedTea = OpenJDK + GNU Classpath replacements + gcjwebplugin + netx
So the IcedTeaPlugin.so is actually cobbled together from gcj. Red Hat decided they couldn't wait for Sun, so they sponsored GPLed IcedTea replacements for applets and jnlp.
Today's announcement is that the 'official' Sun plugin now supports 64 bits. NB It's a totally different code-base from the IcedTea plugin and still isn't GPLed, with no definite time-frame.
Type??? It's a phone for heavens sake! Keyboards are sooooo last millennium.
If you must, carry a fold up bluetooth keyboard, or one of those lasery things - or, heaven forbid, ssh.
For everything else, dictation. I'm sure google has, or should shortly have, a 3G voice to SMS service.
And if you must spell something out there's always
November Alfa Tango Oscar.
Which market? The market *that counts* at the moment is the pre-existing Java developer market. Including mac users, a figure I'm plucking out of the air, the Unix user base of java developers is possibly 40%, or perhaps more.
Development shops aren't going to ramp up development using a 1.0 product if their coders are in mixed environments and have to run FX in a VM, under wine or dual boot. e.g. "this sounds dandy but does it run in Ubuntu?" (Assuming, of course, the decision makers aren't hanging out on theserverside.com arguing for the 847th time why 'flavour of the month web framework' is better than Gavin's Seam - It's a website like Slashdot but for self-proclaimed Java EE demigods)
The download for Java *is* as small as possible. If you go to Sun's download page and select the "Windows Kernel Installation", the installer is 0.20 MB
It then dynamically downloads components from the network as required.
Don't ask me why (I guess it's an experimental feature they're prepping for the Java 7 release) but for the time being you have to access it via Sun's developer site rather than the consumer java.com one. Hmmm.
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But why use C when you could develop a 'BIOS' in Forth? :)
I reference wikipedia several times a week as a starting point for finding authenticated information and I have never seen a video or sound file on Wikipedia.
You're not looking very hard. The main page has a 'Featured content' link in the sidebar. As I type, there are various media files features, such as Truman's announcement of the WWII surrender of the Japanese.
Unlike sites such as youtube, every piece of content on wikipedia is verified to be in the public domain. Meaning of course, anyone can access it without fear of copyright infringement. Using the above example, if a teacher Evelyn wishes to include Truman's speech for a school project, she can freely.
The use of open formats allows Evelyn's work to be redistributed, on say a school DVD without legal rigmarole concerning patents for mp3 etc.
Sure, kids may not go to wikipedia to view videos of 'Dora the Explorer' or whatever flavour of the month entertainment the whipper-snappers access these days, but they might appreciate multimedia content for school projects etc.
And as far as ogg use personally, I not infrequently click on the sound files for pronunciation of foreign names or concepts just so I don't sound like a twit who can't even get a person's name right!
By that logic, why should the government be in charge of anything...
Take Mike Moore's work (Sicko) with a grain of salt given his anti-Dubya stance - The rest of the world were bemused at the assertion that a 3rd world nation like Cuba might have a better health care service than the mighty USA.
Whereas I saw the words nuclear and safe in the summary and thought nature reserve
If OpenOffice.org gets a ringing endorsement from Baz, might the government mandate an Official Document Format? In which case Microsoft's alleged manipulation of ISO regarding Open XML would partially have been a waste of time.
Go Mr McNealy!
Define control? Tomcat is the defacto standard servlet container but anyone (including Sun employees) is free to contribute to it.
Big Blue historically had the edge is terms of Java EE containers for buying from a single vendor. That aside I'd rate Oracle and Red Hat ahead of them.
Last I checked Spring and Hibernate weren't Apache projects either...
Certain companies won't touch LGPL for such reasons, preferring apache-licensed stuff.
cf. Apple & objective-c.
No, it doesn't. Apple have already made PPC and first generation Core (32 bit) x86 machines obsolete by releasing Java 6 for x86_64 only.
Now that Steve "Nobody uses Java anymore" Jobs isn't running the company anymore, we might see Apple actually supporting their customers instead of playing petty 'use Cocoa' games with users and developers.
But aren't most dwellings running on AC? For a 'table lamp', isn't there an overhead associated with AC/DC conversion?
I assume here "4GB of internal memory" refers to secondary storage, not RAM. The Vista install media alone would exceed that.
Last I checked, BSD only ran on toasters.
There's an idea. Get rid of the 4GB flash and use bread as the consumable media.
In paparazzi mode, imagine, "OMG! President O'Bama just appeared on my sourdough!"
I guess it's in the definition of 'plugin' vs. 'extension'. .xpi files one clicks on to install.
e.g. at the moment Java applets are supposed via NPAPI and NPRuntime
Any additional APIs that extensions use would be needed to be ported to Chrome e.g. for the numerous
Perhaps for that to occur, a decoupling of the XUL presentation might need to occur, or for chrome to support that too?
Oh, okay, an energy saving globe/light.
Evidently the article summary is USA biased but not everyone understands American English, nor uses their 3 letter acronyms!
I read the article - what the hell is a CFL, for us lay-people???
Reminds me of a bug I had to fix, caused by bundling an old library that conflicted with ours. So I tried downloading the 'jar' from Sun's Java web page only to find that due to export restrictions I had to be in the USA or Canada.
So legally I couldn't diagnose the problem because I couldn't download the offending software.
This for an encryption lib, of which a later version is included as part of the standard JRE and now possibly open-sourced...
Wheels? Awesome! Strap an outboard motor to the back of it and then it's even more portable. The other solution requires a car. :)
IcedTea != OpenJDK != Sun's JRE.
Rather, in approximate terms...
OpenJDK = Sun's JRE download - binary blogs - Java Plugin - Java Web Start
IcedTea = OpenJDK + GNU Classpath replacements + gcjwebplugin + netx
So the IcedTeaPlugin.so is actually cobbled together from gcj. Red Hat decided they couldn't wait for Sun, so they sponsored GPLed IcedTea replacements for applets and jnlp.
Today's announcement is that the 'official' Sun plugin now supports 64 bits. NB It's a totally different code-base from the IcedTea plugin and still isn't GPLed, with no definite time-frame.
Teachers maybe not but perhaps the librarian!
Indeed, isomorphic algorithms could be quite useful for software transactional memory.
But then I flunked high school physics, so (s)he lost me when starting to talk about entropy.
Nope. :)
I have a phone with a slide out 12-key thumb-pad. At no stage would I consider that 'typing'.
Smart-phone users, at times, sound like they want to compose vast tomes on these things...
Type??? It's a phone for heavens sake! Keyboards are sooooo last millennium.
If you must, carry a fold up bluetooth keyboard, or one of those lasery things - or, heaven forbid, ssh.
For everything else, dictation. I'm sure google has, or should shortly have, a 3G voice to SMS service.
And if you must spell something out there's always November Alfa Tango Oscar.
Which market? The market *that counts* at the moment is the pre-existing Java developer market. Including mac users, a figure I'm plucking out of the air, the Unix user base of java developers is possibly 40%, or perhaps more.
Development shops aren't going to ramp up development using a 1.0 product if their coders are in mixed environments and have to run FX in a VM, under wine or dual boot. e.g. "this sounds dandy but does it run in Ubuntu?" (Assuming, of course, the decision makers aren't hanging out on theserverside.com arguing for the 847th time why 'flavour of the month web framework' is better than Gavin's Seam - It's a website like Slashdot but for self-proclaimed Java EE demigods)
The download for Java *is* as small as possible. If you go to Sun's download page and select the "Windows Kernel Installation", the installer is 0.20 MB
It then dynamically downloads components from the network as required.
More information about this here.
Don't ask me why (I guess it's an experimental feature they're prepping for the Java 7 release) but for the time being you have to access it via Sun's developer site rather than the consumer java.com one. Hmmm.