This is very true, but I would advise that you look for some practical experience in your education. I took a whole bunch of CS programs, but also took a program where I was in a semi-realistic development environment. This taught me that algorithms, languages, paradigms and provability are only a part of what it takes to create great software.
The Evergreen State College in Washington state has a program called Student Originated Software that attempts to address this problem. It is a Software Engineering class (well, its a full year program) that draws students from comp.sci., liberal arts, and natural science backgrounds and puts them in a fairly realistic SE atmosphere. They must solicite for projects, then design and implement them. The focus is on cooperation, organization and design, not Comp.Sci. fundamentals.
In addition to sharing their expertise in development...
Testing, documentation and applications would help "us" and IBM the most. Granted, what they really want is better support for "big" machines, but that is going to take some time (and debating with the folks who want linux optimised for embedded uses).
For some BBSpot articles, its true, but for others I would argue that they are works of comedy that rival the The Onion. Did you see the AOLTechnica site? Oh jeez, I almost died laughing at the some of the more suble features like the rollovers ("The TV for your computer", HAR!). And the "New linux kernel will increase intellectual superiority"? Damn thats funny.
And of course the now legendary, "MS purchases Evil From Satan"...
Most of my desires have already been mentioned except for this: cvs integration. Most of the big "enterprise" (cough, hack... I said "enterprise") software I've been looking at doesn't provide a nice way to share and update documents. In particular, it would be nice to be able to tie check-ins to message boards, email lists, schedules, etc... This isn't just for source code, this is for any document that must be maintained, be it documentation, source code, or html.
For example, if the document that describes our testing strategy has changed, the entire testing team as well as the developers need to be notified. This would provide the ulimate method for finding errors or miscommunicated information.
Thats really interesting. I know several women (in the US) who prefer to use that name for their "apparatus". These women also tend to despise terms like "p...y", "sn..ch", "c**ze", because the have so many implications and extra meanings.
In many ways, linux is heading toward being the standard unix. Not it will be "king", but more and more unix's (or whatever) will start to look more like linux (on the outside at least). This will be for two reasons: 1. portability 2. Companies like IBM and HP have finally realized that they don't want to reinvent the wheel. Why bother creating new software/manuals/support/etc... when there is something that everybody knows, everybody supports, and they get a jump start because they have the source.
As far as where linux-proper will go... it depends. Frankly, kde2 rocks. Sure, its not win2000 yet (grumble grumble, sorta impressed), but its showing stability, functionality, and for the first time INNOVATION! I keep showing coworkers and friends the useability features that have been integrated into KDE2 and they've become quite jealous.
Where should distro's go? Toward the desktop sure, but what really needs to happen? Apache + OpenLDAP + Linux/*BSD + kerberos + imap + ical + cvs + webdav + (add more good OS projects here). There is a TON of great OS software out there that CAN be integrated, it just hasn't been pre-integrated ala exchange and in the future,.NET.
Everybody keeps mentioning "I like google better anyway". Well, google doesn't offer free email, chat, etc...
These are the "free" services that everybody has been expecting to become less profitable. People are becoming immune to banner ads and furthermore they have less site-loyalty than they used to, which makes your advertising ability less powerful.
With your rampant "screw that, its not free like my pet OS", you might be giving up ALL the internet luxuries that you enjoy. If yahoo goes under, investors will notice. And not every company is going to make a linux version of their chat client (like yahoo does).
Oh screw it, everything should be free. I'm alive, I MUST deserve it...
I agree, but I'm concerned about the mailing address. For my domain, its my home number. Somebody emailed my own address once (from whois) and the first thing I thought was "mail bomb". I can recycle all the web-related snail-spam I now receive, but I can't recycle a 'splosion. Yes, I could get a post office box... but still.
>>(I mean really get any sizeable information out of it that can be access a month or more after a sotry is posted).
I would disagree, I've gone back and searched for links on slashdot dozens of times. In fact, I was hunting for link at 3am this morning regarding Sun's spontanious rebooting. Guess why I was awake at 3am?:-(
Also, how can you blame Sun for wanting to use their own operating system? Do you think that they spent all their money porting Solaris to leave it sitting on the shelf?
As I understand it, AOL does something like this. I've seen web server access logs that show a user(logged in with a session) accessing a page from an AOL account. Two pictures and the html all went to different IP's, presumably of caching web proxies.
ID releases source and encourages people to make mods. This is not a situation where dozens of mods have broken and won't ever be fixed. Yes, there seem to have been some communication problems between ID and q3 community, but nobody died (in real life;-).
You have probably already figured this out from other posts, but I'll go ahead anyhoo.
Sun does not redistribute either Becker's code or his binaries. Sun distributes a non-GPL tool that transforms linux drivers into solaris drivers (it sounded like it is performed on the compiled code). So users can obtain the tool, obtain a linux driver, and convert it for their own use.
The GPL restricts redistribution, not intent of use. If a solaris user were to create the solaris driver, then distribute it, he would need to heed the GPL.
To be honest, I haven't formed an opinion on this yet. Sun is providing a mechanism for its users to make use of Becker's (and other, of course) work.
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Was this with servlets in mind? It seems that the nature of servlets would lend itself to JIT particularly well.
I'm a bit confused, what distinguishes this from another (even IBM's other java compilers) java compiler? Is it just speed?
This is very true, but I would advise that you look for some practical experience in your education. I took a whole bunch of CS programs, but also took a program where I was in a semi-realistic development environment. This taught me that algorithms, languages, paradigms and provability are only a part of what it takes to create great software.
Ditto on apache
The Evergreen State College in Washington state has a program called Student Originated Software that attempts to address this problem. It is a Software Engineering class (well, its a full year program) that draws students from comp.sci., liberal arts, and natural science backgrounds and puts them in a fairly realistic SE atmosphere. They must solicite for projects, then design and implement them. The focus is on cooperation, organization and design, not Comp.Sci. fundamentals.
TESC
In addition to sharing their expertise in development...
Testing, documentation and applications would help "us" and IBM the most. Granted, what they really want is better support for "big" machines, but that is going to take some time (and debating with the folks who want linux optimised for embedded uses).
For some BBSpot articles, its true, but for others I would argue that they are works of comedy that rival the The Onion. Did you see the AOLTechnica site? Oh jeez, I almost died laughing at the some of the more suble features like the rollovers ("The TV for your computer", HAR!). And the "New linux kernel will increase intellectual superiority"? Damn thats funny.
And of course the now legendary, "MS purchases Evil From Satan"...
Most of my desires have already been mentioned except for this: cvs integration. Most of the big "enterprise" (cough, hack... I said "enterprise") software I've been looking at doesn't provide a nice way to share and update documents. In particular, it would be nice to be able to tie check-ins to message boards, email lists, schedules, etc... This isn't just for source code, this is for any document that must be maintained, be it documentation, source code, or html.
For example, if the document that describes our testing strategy has changed, the entire testing team as well as the developers need to be notified. This would provide the ulimate method for finding errors or miscommunicated information.
Thats really interesting. I know several women (in the US) who prefer to use that name for their "apparatus". These women also tend to despise terms like "p...y", "sn..ch", "c**ze", because the have so many implications and extra meanings.
;-)
Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?
On the desktop, sure. Nobody has ever said that *nix desktops were better than winderze.
In many ways, linux is heading toward being the standard unix. Not it will be "king", but more and more unix's (or whatever) will start to look more like linux (on the outside at least). This will be for two reasons: 1. portability 2. Companies like IBM and HP have finally realized that they don't want to reinvent the wheel. Why bother creating new software/manuals/support/etc... when there is something that everybody knows, everybody supports, and they get a jump start because they have the source.
.NET.
As far as where linux-proper will go... it depends. Frankly, kde2 rocks. Sure, its not win2000 yet (grumble grumble, sorta impressed), but its showing stability, functionality, and for the first time INNOVATION! I keep showing coworkers and friends the useability features that have been integrated into KDE2 and they've become quite jealous.
Where should distro's go? Toward the desktop sure, but what really needs to happen? Apache + OpenLDAP + Linux/*BSD + kerberos + imap + ical + cvs + webdav + (add more good OS projects here). There is a TON of great OS software out there that CAN be integrated, it just hasn't been pre-integrated ala exchange and in the future,
Everybody keeps mentioning "I like google better anyway". Well, google doesn't offer free email, chat, etc...
These are the "free" services that everybody has been expecting to become less profitable. People are becoming immune to banner ads and furthermore they have less site-loyalty than they used to, which makes your advertising ability less powerful.
With your rampant "screw that, its not free like my pet OS", you might be giving up ALL the internet luxuries that you enjoy. If yahoo goes under, investors will notice. And not every company is going to make a linux version of their chat client (like yahoo does).
Oh screw it, everything should be free. I'm alive, I MUST deserve it...
I agree, but I'm concerned about the mailing address. For my domain, its my home number. Somebody emailed my own address once (from whois) and the first thing I thought was "mail bomb". I can recycle all the web-related snail-spam I now receive, but I can't recycle a 'splosion. Yes, I could get a post office box... but still.
vi2000 rocks!
Ah Wesley. I was in Chicago several months ago and finally got to check off "See Wesley Willis play" off my list of goals...
rock on london
rock on chicago
IBM already shared their SOAP implementation to apache and I think they've already modified/extended it a bit.
Can anybody speak for apache's performance on Win2K?
>>(I mean really get any sizeable information out of it that can be access a month or more after a sotry is posted).
:-(
I would disagree, I've gone back and searched for links on slashdot dozens of times. In fact, I was hunting for link at 3am this morning regarding Sun's spontanious rebooting. Guess why I was awake at 3am?
Also, how can you blame Sun for wanting to use their own operating system? Do you think that they spent all their money porting Solaris to leave it sitting on the shelf?
As I understand it, AOL does something like this. I've seen web server access logs that show a user(logged in with a session) accessing a page from an AOL account. Two pictures and the html all went to different IP's, presumably of caching web proxies.
maybe that is the meat of the comment :P
ID releases source and encourages people to make mods. This is not a situation where dozens of mods have broken and won't ever be fixed. Yes, there seem to have been some communication problems between ID and q3 community, but nobody died (in real life ;-).
Ug, please don't speak the language of annoying ex-girlfriends :/
You have probably already figured this out from other posts, but I'll go ahead anyhoo.
Sun does not redistribute either Becker's code or his binaries. Sun distributes a non-GPL tool that transforms linux drivers into solaris drivers (it sounded like it is performed on the compiled code). So users can obtain the tool, obtain a linux driver, and convert it for their own use.
The GPL restricts redistribution, not intent of use. If a solaris user were to create the solaris driver, then distribute it, he would need to heed the GPL.
To be honest, I haven't formed an opinion on this yet. Sun is providing a mechanism for its users to make use of Becker's (and other, of course) work.
Amen! I was gonna try and flesh out my agreement, but it all started to sound like metaphysical bullshit and I figured I'd just spare y'all :/