I heard a while back Japan was supposed to be adding in systems that could handle 4 terabytes for there telephony systems. I would think that Japan would be leading the way if anyone.
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Stocks only mean stuff to people who own them. The company can only do so much with the money they get from stocks--mainly buy other companies. It is very possible to have a great company making tons of money but the stock value can still suck.
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Go to the official Andromeda web site and check out the boards there. They had a BIG debate going on about thet very topic, and they disected it a lot. I don't think there was a lot of stones left unturned.
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I found Andromeda more entertaining than any of the Star Trek series. They got very boring after there first seasons. It is one of the few shows I watch on a regular basis.
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Direct rip off of Farscape? Back that up with proof! The two are completely different. Farscape stars a human lost in space after testing a prototype drive (hmmm.. reminds me of lost in space). The main character just wants to go home--back to Earth, and Farscape wnet down hill after the first season.
Andromeda, is mainly about Dylan Hunt (Kvein's character) trying ot re-establish the systems common wealth which spanned 3 galaxies before it's fall.
I have news for you. Voyager wasn't the first sci-fi show/storyline to have a quest. There was Battlestar Galactica which had a quest to reach Earth with the remnants of Humanity.
I will give you the special effects being like Babylon 5.
UPN? What does that have to do with anything? I don't get that reference. Where I am, the show is on the WB.
/. ran a story a while back about finding Berkley liscense info in some of the core products. Unfortunately, I can't find the article, but I remember running the strings program on some of the microsoft stuff.
While the French (who bent over backwards for Germany during the war) telling a US company to remove something may seem like a major problem, it is really just the tip of the ice berg. What will happen next is the big problem. The French will start, if they already haven't, rewriting history to paint themselves in a better light. Look at Japan. I think this idea of another country invading the sovernty of another country's right to democratically write and inforce their own laws is terrible. Besides, like the socialist French have any room to speak. They are really just a hop, skip, and a jump away from Communism, and by ordering Yahoo to remove the items, they are no better than the Nazi's of WWII.
I am going to have to disagree with you. Java is nice, but I would have to agree with tulare that it is clunky and slow. I also don't like drilling the idea of OOP into a new students head just for the sake of OOP.
My first language was BASIC when I was eight or nine years old. It was simple enough to earn basic concepts of programming--even though it was spaghetti code. There was not a whole lot of structure to the language, and this allow me to focus more on what each structure did.
I think using OOP just for the sake of OOP is plain stupid and narrow minded. OOP is today's functional programming. The next generation may come up with even better ways to program. By forcing the student to learn OOP right away, you are narrowinf the students view of a problem. The student might not realize there is a simpler way to tackle a problem that doesn't involve wrapping something in an object.
At my almamater, Pascal was taught as the main language, and you could either learn FORTRAN or COBOL depending on what avenue you took CS/Business or CS/Mathematics. I would rather see either C/C++ or Pascal taught as the introductory language because they both can provide a wide view of programming and help to get the basics down.
I think assembly should be used when you get really low into how the computer works. This way get a hands on idea of what happens with the registers, memory, etc. Of course when I took the class, my professor (single guy with PhD. in Computer Science Mathematics) had us hand write out an assembly code program. Then he had created a machine code interpreter, and he required us to change the machine code into 0s and 1s. Then we had to run it and produce out put. We had to hand in everything.
OOP is just the current fad in programming in the Univerisities. In the real world, most people I know use various meths of programming from component and OOP to functional--usually the programs have both.
It is best to keep the students view wide and open allowing the student a better chance of adapting in the future to new programming ideas and concepts. When we start using quantum, or light based, computers, the resources will probably be limited and we'll end up going back to funcitonal programming to save on space because pure OOP waste a lot of space, and pure OOP does a lot of things that are not really necessary.
There is one small problem with the Chinese written language (not the English converted language, but the original). 170,000 characters would not be enought to express the whole language. (I think it maybe over 1,000,000 characters/symbols, but nobody knows the exact count.) Granted it has been a long time since I have done anything with Chinese, but I do remember there is a lot of characters/symbols. When I last checked, it didn't have an alphabet. This means virtually every word has it's own character, or combination of characters.
If I remember corectly, Unicode had a few different ways to represent characters. It depended on the langunge you were talking about some characters were meant to be combined with other to form the actual characters. They used this to extend the characters.
It some sense it is not pratical to represent some nonalphabetic launguages with computers. The number of characters would sky rocket. The only way I could think of to represent the entire Chinese language would be to a symbol for each posible brush stroke and combine them to form characters/symbols.
There will always be some launguages that will not be practical to completely represent on a computer.
I also don't think it is a bad thing. Linux can go to any platform someone has an itch to place it on. We've seen linux on a watch, the Play Station, and TiVo is rumored to use it. Linux can go almost anywhere because the source code is open and everyone if free to port it, change it, or modify it how ever they want. In this way, Linux can and does grow like a cancer cell, and I bet Microsoft is scarted because they can't match that grow. In that same light, other industries have not been so willing to attach themselves to Microsoft's Operating systems as they have Linux (and oter open *nix OSes).
I think Mr. Ballmer may have just opened is mouth and swallowed his foot.
I think will open up too much of a can of worms. There still a lot we don't completely understand. To allow tourists into space now? Bad idea. Befor eyou know it, our skies will be cluttered with "space hotels" from the Los Vegas hotel billionares. I say give it 10 to 20 more years before atempting somehting like this. This will give us time to advance our technology--hopefully to a point where this woudl be safe.
Nope. I was simply comment on the comment I repling to. I have read the LOTR triology and the Hobit and I enjoyed both. I think it is funny that someong moderated my comment as flaimbait, but others gave moderated up one of the replies to my comment that pretty much the same thing.
Boy have you got that right. I will probably get slammed for saying this, but this just goes to show how hipocritical slashdotter's can be. If it was Microsoft who came up with this first, then they'd be crying foul. They'd hve at least a hundred prior art examples posted by now. In it's purest form, this is just a computer multitasking! Tivo should focus on there content rather than there "inovation".
Most slashdotter's could easily build a clone. Then start a project to collect information from the Stations to be placed in a DB, and WOW, you have a Tivo product.
I can see how they would be in violation of the GPL though. The code may be "packaged seperately", but at run time the code becomes a part of the executeable. It gets copied into it's space--at least on windows 32bit systems. (Yes, I know that is a simplification of what goes on.) That is the basic nature of a dll. In this light, the code is a part of the program and they are not distributing the code to the rest of the program.
Under section 2.b.:
"You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License."
I believew this would constitute the requirement of them to provide the source to eveyone. Notice the "in whole or in part" in reference to "any work" it does not say and part of a work (or some resemblance there of).
Further under 2.b.:
"These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it. "
Notice the "apply to the modified work as a whole" with the addition clarification later of "when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License"
I think that should clearly prove that they are in violation with the GPL. I hope the FSF et al. win this one. It will give the GPL some muscle when they go into negotiations with other violators of the GPL.
Most of us already new Linux was not yet ready for the desktop. It was the media pushing Linux as a desktop OS. The rest of us knew it still has work to be done. There is still a chance for Linux to get the desktop market. The community needs to keep plugging away. Microsoft is heading towards paying for software as a service based on use. This shouldn't come as a big surprise to anyone.
Linux will stand a big chance of gaining ground on Micrsoft's desktop strangle hold during this time. Linux can do this by offering the users a choice. The apps the we are currently developing would be one choice, and the second would be the web based applicatiions Microsoft provides. That is where they are heading. In this sense, the users will get the best of both worlds.
We need to continue as normal. The media will someitmes like us, and they will sometimes hate us. So what. Life goes on. We'll continue to build roads into the desktop market.
Companies still need to find good methods of incorporating open source methods in to the methods of operations. Some of these companies that closed there doors was because they had no income. You can't have a company with out income. You need something to bring in money from customers on a regular basis.
So, it's business as usual for the Linux community.
Coward,
No where in the article does it say the are an
ad company. Either way, what I said still stands. Don't stick with them, and read the contract carefully. Their actions are the type of actions a company takes who is about to go under, or is trying to stop from going under.
I had something similar happen when I was working for a company (not the one I am presently working for). The only difference was it was the company tell me if I didn't sign I wouldn't get the money. Our parent company had gone through two rounds of layoffs, and the final manager of our company got our parent company to agree to a contract stating if the laid off any (or all) of the remaining employees with a year or two, the company would be required to give us X months severence pay.
Needless to say, they eventually let us go. Before I could get the severence check they were obligated to give me under the contract, I had to singn a similar agreement stating I would not sue the company. I wouldn't make any money sueing so I signed.
If thy are doing this to your website, look for space elsewhere! This is NOT good news for this company. You are better off finding a better sight. It sounds like the company is running out of money, and you don't want to be stuck when they go under and somehting happens to the content of your website.
Not to mention IP is a good road to another Dark Ages. History is really onthe side of Open Source. If we were to look back in history where groups of people controled certain knowledge, and nobody else was allowed to know it, eventually the technology/knowledge gets losts when the group dies off.
Right now, Microsoft is doomed to repeat history if they continue down this road. As Open Source evolves and becomes stronger, how can they easily compete with a 24/7/365.x work force? Especially when they don't work that much.
Don't forget that the first modals will probably be monocrome. Let's hope they don't use one of the colors that happens to be a color cone in our eyes. Anybody reber Nintendos 3D environment the was red? People brought them back because their eyes were hurting.
Hopefully, the other memory companies that settled with RAMBUS will try and reverse their situation. I think they will wait to see the end of this case. All in all, this is a deffinately blow to RAMBUS' scheme to increase their bottomline with royalties!
This really isn't a "new" technology but rather a modification to an old one. Back in the eighties I played around with a computer program that use electronic modules to turn appliances on and off.
In this case, they set the timer to the game, and the electronic appliances are the lights. I don't think I would want this. When I play a game I can become total emersed in the game. Playing with the lighting would make me jumpy--especially if it's the sega zombie game. Plus, what if the game goes from light to dark rather quickly? I won't waste my money on it.
I will waite for somethign more.
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You forget every congress person has their price...
I heard a while back Japan was supposed to be adding in systems that could handle 4 terabytes for there telephony systems. I would think that Japan would be leading the way if anyone.
Stocks only mean stuff to people who own them. The company can only do so much with the money they get from stocks--mainly buy other companies. It is very possible to have a great company making tons of money but the stock value can still suck.
Go to the official Andromeda web site and check out the boards there. They had a BIG debate going on about thet very topic, and they disected it a lot. I don't think there was a lot of stones left unturned.
I found Andromeda more entertaining than any of the Star Trek series. They got very boring after there first seasons. It is one of the few shows I watch on a regular basis.
Direct rip off of Farscape? Back that up with proof! The two are completely different. Farscape stars a human lost in space after testing a prototype drive (hmmm.. reminds me of lost in space). The main character just wants to go home--back to Earth, and Farscape wnet down hill after the first season.
Andromeda, is mainly about Dylan Hunt (Kvein's character) trying ot re-establish the systems common wealth which spanned 3 galaxies before it's fall.
I have news for you. Voyager wasn't the first sci-fi show/storyline to have a quest. There was Battlestar Galactica which had a quest to reach Earth with the remnants of Humanity.
I will give you the special effects being like Babylon 5.
UPN? What does that have to do with anything? I don't get that reference. Where I am, the show is on the WB.
Why is a web browser included inthe product? Why can't one of the existing browsers that are not so simple handle this functionality.
While the French (who bent over backwards for Germany during the war) telling a US company to remove something may seem like a major problem, it is really just the tip of the ice berg. What will happen next is the big problem. The French will start, if they already haven't, rewriting history to paint themselves in a better light. Look at Japan. I think this idea of another country invading the sovernty of another country's right to democratically write and inforce their own laws is terrible. Besides, like the socialist French have any room to speak. They are really just a hop, skip, and a jump away from Communism, and by ordering Yahoo to remove the items, they are no better than the Nazi's of WWII.
I am going to have to disagree with you. Java is nice, but I would have to agree with tulare that it is clunky and slow. I also don't like drilling the idea of OOP into a new students head just for the sake of OOP.
My first language was BASIC when I was eight or nine years old. It was simple enough to earn basic concepts of programming--even though it was spaghetti code. There was not a whole lot of structure to the language, and this allow me to focus more on what each structure did.
I think using OOP just for the sake of OOP is plain stupid and narrow minded. OOP is today's functional programming. The next generation may come up with even better ways to program. By forcing the student to learn OOP right away, you are narrowinf the students view of a problem. The student might not realize there is a simpler way to tackle a problem that doesn't involve wrapping something in an object.
At my almamater, Pascal was taught as the main language, and you could either learn FORTRAN or COBOL depending on what avenue you took CS/Business or CS/Mathematics. I would rather see either C/C++ or Pascal taught as the introductory language because they both can provide a wide view of programming and help to get the basics down.
I think assembly should be used when you get really low into how the computer works. This way get a hands on idea of what happens with the registers, memory, etc. Of course when I took the class, my professor (single guy with PhD. in Computer Science Mathematics) had us hand write out an assembly code program. Then he had created a machine code interpreter, and he required us to change the machine code into 0s and 1s. Then we had to run it and produce out put. We had to hand in everything.
OOP is just the current fad in programming in the Univerisities. In the real world, most people I know use various meths of programming from component and OOP to functional--usually the programs have both.
It is best to keep the students view wide and open allowing the student a better chance of adapting in the future to new programming ideas and concepts. When we start using quantum, or light based, computers, the resources will probably be limited and we'll end up going back to funcitonal programming to save on space because pure OOP waste a lot of space, and pure OOP does a lot of things that are not really necessary.
You could always write such a thing for Mozzilla.
There is one small problem with the Chinese written language (not the English converted language, but the original). 170,000 characters would not be enought to express the whole language. (I think it maybe over 1,000,000 characters/symbols, but nobody knows the exact count.) Granted it has been a long time since I have done anything with Chinese, but I do remember there is a lot of characters/symbols. When I last checked, it didn't have an alphabet. This means virtually every word has it's own character, or combination of characters.
If I remember corectly, Unicode had a few different ways to represent characters. It depended on the langunge you were talking about some characters were meant to be combined with other to form the actual characters. They used this to extend the characters.
It some sense it is not pratical to represent some nonalphabetic launguages with computers. The number of characters would sky rocket. The only way I could think of to represent the entire Chinese language would be to a symbol for each posible brush stroke and combine them to form characters/symbols.
There will always be some launguages that will not be practical to completely represent on a computer.
I also don't think it is a bad thing. Linux can go to any platform someone has an itch to place it on. We've seen linux on a watch, the Play Station, and TiVo is rumored to use it. Linux can go almost anywhere because the source code is open and everyone if free to port it, change it, or modify it how ever they want. In this way, Linux can and does grow like a cancer cell, and I bet Microsoft is scarted because they can't match that grow. In that same light, other industries have not been so willing to attach themselves to Microsoft's Operating systems as they have Linux (and oter open *nix OSes).
I think Mr. Ballmer may have just opened is mouth and swallowed his foot.
I think will open up too much of a can of worms. There still a lot we don't completely understand. To allow tourists into space now? Bad idea. Befor eyou know it, our skies will be cluttered with "space hotels" from the Los Vegas hotel billionares. I say give it 10 to 20 more years before atempting somehting like this. This will give us time to advance our technology--hopefully to a point where this woudl be safe.
Nope. I was simply comment on the comment I repling to. I have read the LOTR triology and the Hobit and I enjoyed both. I think it is funny that someong moderated my comment as flaimbait, but others gave moderated up one of the replies to my comment that pretty much the same thing.
Boy have you got that right. I will probably get slammed for saying this, but this just goes to show how hipocritical slashdotter's can be. If it was Microsoft who came up with this first, then they'd be crying foul. They'd hve at least a hundred prior art examples posted by now. In it's purest form, this is just a computer multitasking! Tivo should focus on there content rather than there "inovation".
Most slashdotter's could easily build a clone. Then start a project to collect information from the Stations to be placed in a DB, and WOW, you have a Tivo product.
I can see how they would be in violation of the GPL though. The code may be "packaged seperately", but at run time the code becomes a part of the executeable. It gets copied into it's space--at least on windows 32bit systems. (Yes, I know that is a simplification of what goes on.) That is the basic nature of a dll. In this light, the code is a part of the program and they are not distributing the code to the rest of the program.
Under section 2.b.:
"You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License."
I believew this would constitute the requirement of them to provide the source to eveyone. Notice the "in whole or in part" in reference to "any work" it does not say and part of a work (or some resemblance there of).
Further under 2.b.:
"These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it. "
Notice the "apply to the modified work as a whole" with the addition clarification later of "when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License"
I think that should clearly prove that they are in violation with the GPL. I hope the FSF et al. win this one. It will give the GPL some muscle when they go into negotiations with other violators of the GPL.
Most of us already new Linux was not yet ready for the desktop. It was the media pushing Linux as a desktop OS. The rest of us knew it still has work to be done. There is still a chance for Linux to get the desktop market. The community needs to keep plugging away. Microsoft is heading towards paying for software as a service based on use. This shouldn't come as a big surprise to anyone.
Linux will stand a big chance of gaining ground on Micrsoft's desktop strangle hold during this time. Linux can do this by offering the users a choice. The apps the we are currently developing would be one choice, and the second would be the web based applicatiions Microsoft provides. That is where they are heading. In this sense, the users will get the best of both worlds.
We need to continue as normal. The media will someitmes like us, and they will sometimes hate us. So what. Life goes on. We'll continue to build roads into the desktop market.
Companies still need to find good methods of incorporating open source methods in to the methods of operations. Some of these companies that closed there doors was because they had no income. You can't have a company with out income. You need something to bring in money from customers on a regular basis.
So, it's business as usual for the Linux community.
Coward,
No where in the article does it say the are an
ad company. Either way, what I said still stands. Don't stick with them, and read the contract carefully. Their actions are the type of actions a company takes who is about to go under, or is trying to stop from going under.
I had something similar happen when I was working for a company (not the one I am presently working for). The only difference was it was the company tell me if I didn't sign I wouldn't get the money. Our parent company had gone through two rounds of layoffs, and the final manager of our company got our parent company to agree to a contract stating if the laid off any (or all) of the remaining employees with a year or two, the company would be required to give us X months severence pay.
Needless to say, they eventually let us go. Before I could get the severence check they were obligated to give me under the contract, I had to singn a similar agreement stating I would not sue the company. I wouldn't make any money sueing so I signed.
If thy are doing this to your website, look for space elsewhere! This is NOT good news for this company. You are better off finding a better sight. It sounds like the company is running out of money, and you don't want to be stuck when they go under and somehting happens to the content of your website.
I know of at least two in NH that are not on there. I'll have to look and see if I still have the numbers. These were between 1983 and 199x.
Not to mention IP is a good road to another Dark Ages. History is really onthe side of Open Source. If we were to look back in history where groups of people controled certain knowledge, and nobody else was allowed to know it, eventually the technology/knowledge gets losts when the group dies off.
Right now, Microsoft is doomed to repeat history if they continue down this road. As Open Source evolves and becomes stronger, how can they easily compete with a 24/7/365.x work force? Especially when they don't work that much.
Don't forget that the first modals will probably be monocrome. Let's hope they don't use one of the colors that happens to be a color cone in our eyes. Anybody reber Nintendos 3D environment the was red? People brought them back because their eyes were hurting.
Hopefully, the other memory companies that settled with RAMBUS will try and reverse their situation. I think they will wait to see the end of this case. All in all, this is a deffinately blow to RAMBUS' scheme to increase their bottomline with royalties!
This really isn't a "new" technology but rather a modification to an old one. Back in the eighties I played around with a computer program that use electronic modules to turn appliances on and off.
In this case, they set the timer to the game, and the electronic appliances are the lights. I don't think I would want this. When I play a game I can become total emersed in the game. Playing with the lighting would make me jumpy--especially if it's the sega zombie game. Plus, what if the game goes from light to dark rather quickly? I won't waste my money on it.
I will waite for somethign more.