Not sure if anyone here has seen us yet.. but Titanium is an open source/open web alternative to AIR that just had it's first Preview Release (PR1) a week ago. We currently support OSX and Windows , and are hard at work refactoring and getting a Linux release into the fold for our PR2 release in January.
In generic terms, a Flex-Fuel vehicle (a vehicle that accepts any mixture of gasoline and ethanol from 0% ethanol/100% gas, all the way up to 85% ethanol/15% gas) has a mileage depreciation that hovers right around 20-25% from standard gasoline.
So, given a car that gets 30MPG on gasoline with a 12 gallon tank, at today's average price of $2.99 / gallon (according to fuel gauge report), would cost you $35.88 for the tank, which yields a range of 360 miles at a final cost of 9.9 cents per mile. Given the hypothetical $1 per gallon ethanol, it would cost you $12 for the tank, and would yield 270-285 miles for the final cost of 4.1 - 4.5 cents per mile (well under half the cost of current gasoline).
In terms of effeciency, ethanol's biggest problem is that the range is significantly lower with today's ICE. If you take a look at projects like the Chevy Volt, and other GM projects, you'll see that they are trying to add a plug-in charging battery / hybrid system on top of their current FFV fleet, making the range that much better / supplemented by battery technologies. If the Chevy Volt lives up to the hype, it's going to have an approx 500 mile range using ethanol and battery.
Hey everyone.. I work on the JBossTools and RHDS Team and just wanted to give some community-level info about our project.
Red Hat Developer Studio is our commercial offering of the JBossTools open source project (formerly known as JBossIDE), which has a vibrant community of users and contributors. You can check out our project(s) at the following URLs:
Feel free to drop by #jbosstools on freenode, we'd love to hear from you!
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People who want "Lifestyle phones" are in a specific demographic. Maybe it's a large demographic, or maybe it's one of the largest demographics, but that still stands. Just because you want this for your phone does not mean everyone does! This is why companies like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, etc have a wide range of offerings to suit different needs. If you don't want a phone that works like a computer than for god's sake don't buy it! As you pointed out, The RAZR is probably one of the best "lifestyle phones" on the market, but IMNSHO the RAZRs UI is completely inconsistent, and was one of the hardest learning curves I've had for a midrange device in years. Of course, so many things about software and phone looks are personal taste, so I don't want to get into a pissing fight over who's opinion is the right one =).
My main point is that the "lifestyle phone" segment is covered by every manufacturer, as is the "PDA phone" segment, as is the "low end" segment, as is the "Music phone" segment, etc, ad infinitum.
Disclaimer: I used to work for Nokia, and I own a N73 and it is a great phone IMO.
The article is pretty short, and it's main criticism is the fact that Nokia's flagship smart-phones (or as they say "multimedia computers") have too many features and aren't good at "one" thing. First, let's look at the market.
Phones are marketed to all different types of demographics, age groups, technological needs, price points, etc. Nokia, being one of the (if not _the_) biggest phone manufacturers on the planet, has a huge selection of phones that appeal to all kinds of different needs. There are the cheapo phones that make calls, send text and that's it. There's the mid-range that have some memory, include an MP3 player, and maybe have a decent camera too. Then there's the high-end ("N series") which are generally meant for high-end business users and tech-heads like your's truly. To claim that Nokia, as a company, is slipping into Gizmondo territory is either ignorant or wishful thinking.
TFA also makes claims about making calls and sending text messages with the new S60v3 being too difficult, yet provides no argument for "how?" or "why?". Using the N73 let me show you how "unintuitive" it is to make a phone call:
1) Type in the number 2) Press the green button on the left
As you can see, this is real rocket science not intended for every day cell phone users =). Ok, now let's take a look at writing a text message:
1) On S60v3 devices there is a small row of quick buttons on the Standby; one looks like an envelope with the caption "New text msg". Click that button. 2) In the To field you can type a number manually or just hop over to your contacts by Options >Add Recipient 3) type your message 4) Options>Send
Admittedly, writing a text message is a slightly more lengthy process than making a phone call, but you're typing on a numpad, so that is to be expected IMO. I think at the end of the day, it all boils down to what your needs are. If you want a simple user interface without feature bloat, don't buy a cell phone with a full blown operating system! There are plenty of *great* phones from Nokia that have simplistic user interfaces and do certain things very well. See the Nokia 6233 or Nokia 6131 for great examples of Nokia midrange phones that are highly functional (without feature bloat) and also extremely easy to use.
There already is a Bluetooth 2.0, and beyond that, there is an Enhanced Data Rate(EDR) expansion that improves bandwidth speeds. I'm curious how effecient the Nokia solution will be, as bluetooth chips are getting more and more power friendly. I bought a Plantronics 645 with DSP (bluetooth headset) recently, and this thing gives me several days of standby time and at the very least 7-8 hours of talk time. I end up charging it like twice per week... if it could be moved down to "once" per week, that would be really nice. I've also seen that newer bluetooth stereo headsets (A2DP profile) are getting better with battery life as well.. I currently have a set of Plantronics P590s.. they give me about 8 hours of uninterrupted wireless stereo, but I've seen new headphones from Logitech and Motorola that are supposedly giving up to 18 hours of continuous playback!
Another concern is range.. there are basically 2 range sets in bluetooth as we know it today: Class 1 (100 meters) and Class 2 (10 meters). Class 2 is pretty much every device on the market right now, save a few bluetooth adapters that are trying to be ambitious. I would be interested in seeing a Class 1 implementation that mobile devices (such as headsets and cellphones) could use, that offers the same (or similar) power requirements as today's Class 2 devices.
Furthermore it's completely redundant. If I was going to write a peice of software that imposes DRM on my users, why in gods name would I want to make it open source (GPL or not)? It would be ridiculously easy to circumvent.
This is just an opportunity for a little soap-boxing in the license IMO (and we know RMS is completely capable of that..)
disclaimer: I work for JBoss, but have been a J2EE programmer for as long as I can remember =)
Most of the enterprise Java community actually agrees with you, hence why the EJB3 specification is highly derived and influenced from Hibernate. Value Objects, Home interfaces, and redundant configurations are just some of the things that have been all but completely removed from the new spec. But "removal of annoying features" isn't the only thing that EJB3 is focusing on. There is also a sharp focus on the Keep It Simple Stupid methodology that made Hibernate so popular to begin with. There are sane/default configurations for practically everything now, and DB->Entity mapping has finally been addressed as a non-vendor specific detail of the spec. Don't forget the fact that EJB3 Entities can also be easily detached and re-attached to the container, as well as used completely outside of the J2EE container.
And just for shits and grins, you should also check out JBossIDE's Hibernate & EJB3 Tools (shameless project plug!): http://www.jboss.com/products/jbosside
I just bought a new house in the Coppell/Lewisville Texas area where Verizon is rolling out FTTP for all new development. Just a quick disclaimer, I'm speaking from personal experience, so I don't know for sure if they are doing this in the New York area or not.
At any rate, I had this same concern when Verizon came to install our fiber. To my delight, Verizon installed a battery in my garage (just sits on the wall) that has an approximately 1 hour life that will serve your fiber phone line in case of a serious outage (I'm sketchy on the battery's life so don't quote me exactly -- it might be longer).
Enjoy the 15Mbps.. it's unreal. Definately the most useful $50 I spend every month =)
The "New Tab" button is there in firefox, it just doesn't show on the default installation. If you right click on the button toolbar and click "Customize" you should see the New Tab button in there. Drag it into the toolbar and voila:)
The last company I worked for employs a few H1Bs that it is very loyal to. In fact, just recently on of their H1B's was coming up on expired, and the company decided they still wanted him around.
Turns out you can go around the system pretty easily if you post the job on a public forum, collect resumes.. and just do nothing with them. You take your candidates resume and say, "He was the most fit for the job!" And, you have yourself a nice loophole =).
Not that this guy didn't deserve it, but clearly there are ways around trying to find the "most qualified" person for the job?
i'm not defending warez traders. as a free software advocate, i'm all for making proprietary software as expensive and hard to get as possible.
i'm merely pointing out that the state of prisons makes it understandable that some countries might be reluctant to extradite wanted persons to our country.
fair enough, i probably was on the defensive reading all the justification for warez traders in the 0's and 1's.. and took it out on you;).
i didn't use "shared" tactically - i used it because it was the most accurate word available. it seems that you're reading something into the word, not me.
the only problem i have is that "sharing" is not -- as a whole -- seen as a bad thing, and when you use that word to describe their activity it makes you sound overwhelmingly in favor of their behavior. maybe "illegaly copied" , or "illegaly shared"? I admit I'm not great at semantics. now you've exposed yourself to be either simple-minded, or a sadistic barbarian. end of conversation.
ps: here's wishing that you find *yourself* in the wrong overnight lock-up at the wrong time due to circumstances beyond your control.
well that's wonderful.. you've turned an intelligent debate into name calling, and wishes against my well being. I honestly don't want _anyone_ to get raped in jail, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't send anyone there. if some protestor gets locked up in county jail overnight, and get's raped due to the bad timing etc.. well, I definately feel bad for him. but we're not talking about innocent bystanders here.. we're talking about a known criminal. (i'm not really touching on the extradition issue as you can tell.. which probably makes this debate OT;)
The shear amount of hours and labor that goes into alot of these enterprise applications that get traded on mIRC like candy is unbelievable. Companies are paying millions to keep armies of programmers employed to churn out software like this. When a company charges money for software, it (usually) corresponds with the value that person who uses it will receive, and also reflects the labor given by the programmers who wrote it. How can you say, with a straight face, that the people who are distributing this software illegaly, without paying are not hurting the programmer at the end of the day?.
you can now be sent to prison to be raped for sharing software. I love how tactical the word "shared" is in this sentence. These warez traders are bastards, with not a moral leg to stand on. If you can't afford it, then find (or write?) an alternative. That's the way the system works. That's also alot of the reason open source is so succesful today. People want to use enterprise software, but not have to pay an arm and a leg for it. When you find constructive, creative ways to beat your competition, the market rewards you for it. These guys get what's coming to 'em. The fact that they get raped in jail is an unfortunate side effect.. hopefully it teaches them a lesson.
It's not that I disagree completely with your statement about slashdot being biased against microsoft, and I definately agree with your assesment of the article, but....
It seems that in the past year or two I've heard people whining about all the anti-MS FUD that happens on slashdot. Whenever someone (like yourself) has a good rebuttal to the parent story, it gets modded up for everyone to see, and everyone sees their complaint.
Now, I _might_ be wrong on this, but the fact that posts like yours -- that are exposing the truth behind articles like these -- are being seen more and more lately in the higher thresholds, is evidence to me that the community is willing to hear your "pro-MS" rebuttal, and therefore is not quite as closed minded as the generalization makes it out to be.
[Insert obligatory.. "This is Pro-MS, therefore no one will like me and i'll be modded as flamebait" comment here =P]
As far as I know (i heard this in JBoss training, and can verify it with the current build we are using -- 3.2.3) Tomcat is bundled and is the default web container from here on out.
The new JBoss 4.0 (which is still in beta) is coming bundled w/ Tomcat 5
I find it especially odd that JBoss (the defacto app open source app server) bundles Tomcat -- the Apache Software Foundation's reference implementation of a web container, and Geronimo bundles a 3rd party web container instead of Apache's own Tomcat.
I know that JBoss actually employs the main developer of Tomcat, but it is quite weird that a supposed ASF unified application server does not include their own tried and tested web container.
What's even more interesting is that JBoss used to bundle Jetty... I wonder if there something political going on behind the scenes here.
I actually don't smoke myself (anymore). I grew up in Texas, where smoking is encouraged just about everywhere.. so I guess it could be Texas that is at fault here, not California. The reason I listed it as a negative was because I believe that (and I could be wrong on this one) most of the US still allows people to smoke and drink in bars.
Even still, people that smoke do so out of choice, whether they are addicted or not. (this is coming from a 3 year smoker..) The quality (and longevity) of their lives is directly related to their choice, in my opinion.
I do agree with your statement that common people should not have to bend over for smokers, though. My wife has extremely bad asthma reactions to cigarrette smoke, so it's really given me a whole different perspective on it.
I personally agree with the smoking ban as well.. even though I'm an ex-smoker. I currently live in texas and i swear you can't go to a public place with more than 10 people inside without coming out smelling like smoke... Pool halls are the worst =P
This is obviously a blatant attempt at california(n) flamage, but...
With a small amount of research I'm sure you can pull up stupid laws and occurences for just about every state in the union. You want to know why people love california? Let me list some reasons without trying to sound like a tourist commercial: - Extremely varying climates all within a relatively small area (i.e. Desert, Beach, Mountains all within a hour or so of each other) - Strong cultural heritage throughout the state - Southern california has some of the best weather in the US, bar-none. - Napa Valley, Big Bear, Hollywood, Alcatraz, Catalina Island, Sea World, just to name a few
If you're looking for real reasons not to move to California, I can give you those too: - Everything is expensive - California traffic has been compared to a day in hell - major metropolitan areas are very crowded. - no smoking in bars or restaurants (seriously)
Obviously they did zero research on this before they had their knee-jerk reaction I think the irony in that statement has been accurately summed up =)
No offense, but this is why we have places like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video.
Rent a movie for a few days and watch it as many times as you want. If you like it, buy it. If not, you're out a couple bucks. It's much faster to run down to the local Blockbuster than it is to download a few hundred megs off of IRC or kazaa, wait on queues for days on end, and end up with a shitty quality DivX that only plays on your computer.
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Not sure if anyone here has seen us yet .. but Titanium is an open source/open web alternative to AIR that just had it's first Preview Release (PR1) a week ago. We currently support OSX and Windows , and are hard at work refactoring and getting a Linux release into the fold for our PR2 release in January.
We're licensed under ASL and using lots of open source techs (WebKit, Chromium, Gears, libXML, to name a few).. come check us out!
http://github.com/marshall/titanium/tree/master
http://titaniumapp.com/
In generic terms, a Flex-Fuel vehicle (a vehicle that accepts any mixture of gasoline and ethanol from 0% ethanol/100% gas, all the way up to 85% ethanol/15% gas) has a mileage depreciation that hovers right around 20-25% from standard gasoline.
So, given a car that gets 30MPG on gasoline with a 12 gallon tank, at today's average price of $2.99 / gallon (according to fuel gauge report), would cost you $35.88 for the tank, which yields a range of 360 miles at a final cost of 9.9 cents per mile. Given the hypothetical $1 per gallon ethanol, it would cost you $12 for the tank, and would yield 270-285 miles for the final cost of 4.1 - 4.5 cents per mile (well under half the cost of current gasoline).
In terms of effeciency, ethanol's biggest problem is that the range is significantly lower with today's ICE. If you take a look at projects like the Chevy Volt, and other GM projects, you'll see that they are trying to add a plug-in charging battery / hybrid system on top of their current FFV fleet, making the range that much better / supplemented by battery technologies. If the Chevy Volt lives up to the hype, it's going to have an approx 500 mile range using ethanol and battery.
Hey everyone.. I work on the JBossTools and RHDS Team and just wanted to give some community-level info about our project.
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Red Hat Developer Studio is our commercial offering of the JBossTools open source project (formerly known as JBossIDE), which has a vibrant community of users and contributors. You can check out our project(s) at the following URLs:
JBossTools main page: http://jboss.org/tools
JBossTools blog: http://jbosstools.blogspot.com/
JBossTools 2.0.0.beta3: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?grou
RHDS 1.0.0.beta1 (based on JBossTools 2.0.0.beta3): http://www.redhat.com/developers/rhds/index.html
Feel free to drop by #jbosstools on freenode, we'd love to hear from you!
People who want "Lifestyle phones" are in a specific demographic. Maybe it's a large demographic, or maybe it's one of the largest demographics, but that still stands. Just because you want this for your phone does not mean everyone does! This is why companies like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, etc have a wide range of offerings to suit different needs. If you don't want a phone that works like a computer than for god's sake don't buy it! As you pointed out, The RAZR is probably one of the best "lifestyle phones" on the market, but IMNSHO the RAZRs UI is completely inconsistent, and was one of the hardest learning curves I've had for a midrange device in years. Of course, so many things about software and phone looks are personal taste, so I don't want to get into a pissing fight over who's opinion is the right one =).
My main point is that the "lifestyle phone" segment is covered by every manufacturer, as is the "PDA phone" segment, as is the "low end" segment, as is the "Music phone" segment, etc, ad infinitum.
Disclaimer: I used to work for Nokia, and I own a N73 and it is a great phone IMO.
The article is pretty short, and it's main criticism is the fact that Nokia's flagship smart-phones (or as they say "multimedia computers") have too many features and aren't good at "one" thing. First, let's look at the market.
Phones are marketed to all different types of demographics, age groups, technological needs, price points, etc. Nokia, being one of the (if not _the_) biggest phone manufacturers on the planet, has a huge selection of phones that appeal to all kinds of different needs. There are the cheapo phones that make calls, send text and that's it. There's the mid-range that have some memory, include an MP3 player, and maybe have a decent camera too. Then there's the high-end ("N series") which are generally meant for high-end business users and tech-heads like your's truly. To claim that Nokia, as a company, is slipping into Gizmondo territory is either ignorant or wishful thinking.
TFA also makes claims about making calls and sending text messages with the new S60v3 being too difficult, yet provides no argument for "how?" or "why?". Using the N73 let me show you how "unintuitive" it is to make a phone call:
1) Type in the number
2) Press the green button on the left
As you can see, this is real rocket science not intended for every day cell phone users =). Ok, now let's take a look at writing a text message:
1) On S60v3 devices there is a small row of quick buttons on the Standby; one looks like an envelope with the caption "New text msg". Click that button.
2) In the To field you can type a number manually or just hop over to your contacts by Options >Add Recipient
3) type your message
4) Options>Send
Admittedly, writing a text message is a slightly more lengthy process than making a phone call, but you're typing on a numpad, so that is to be expected IMO. I think at the end of the day, it all boils down to what your needs are. If you want a simple user interface without feature bloat, don't buy a cell phone with a full blown operating system! There are plenty of *great* phones from Nokia that have simplistic user interfaces and do certain things very well. See the Nokia 6233 or Nokia 6131 for great examples of Nokia midrange phones that are highly functional (without feature bloat) and also extremely easy to use.
There already is a Bluetooth 2.0, and beyond that, there is an Enhanced Data Rate(EDR) expansion that improves bandwidth speeds. I'm curious how effecient the Nokia solution will be, as bluetooth chips are getting more and more power friendly. I bought a Plantronics 645 with DSP (bluetooth headset) recently, and this thing gives me several days of standby time and at the very least 7-8 hours of talk time. I end up charging it like twice per week... if it could be moved down to "once" per week, that would be really nice. I've also seen that newer bluetooth stereo headsets (A2DP profile) are getting better with battery life as well.. I currently have a set of Plantronics P590s.. they give me about 8 hours of uninterrupted wireless stereo, but I've seen new headphones from Logitech and Motorola that are supposedly giving up to 18 hours of continuous playback!
Another concern is range.. there are basically 2 range sets in bluetooth as we know it today: Class 1 (100 meters) and Class 2 (10 meters). Class 2 is pretty much every device on the market right now, save a few bluetooth adapters that are trying to be ambitious. I would be interested in seeing a Class 1 implementation that mobile devices (such as headsets and cellphones) could use, that offers the same (or similar) power requirements as today's Class 2 devices.
Furthermore it's completely redundant. If I was going to write a peice of software that imposes DRM on my users, why in gods name would I want to make it open source (GPL or not)? It would be ridiculously easy to circumvent.
This is just an opportunity for a little soap-boxing in the license IMO (and we know RMS is completely capable of that..)
disclaimer: I work for JBoss, but have been a J2EE programmer for as long as I can remember =)
Most of the enterprise Java community actually agrees with you, hence why the EJB3 specification is highly derived and influenced from Hibernate. Value Objects, Home interfaces, and redundant configurations are just some of the things that have been all but completely removed from the new spec. But "removal of annoying features" isn't the only thing that EJB3 is focusing on. There is also a sharp focus on the Keep It Simple Stupid methodology that made Hibernate so popular to begin with. There are sane/default configurations for practically everything now, and DB->Entity mapping has finally been addressed as a non-vendor specific detail of the spec. Don't forget the fact that EJB3 Entities can also be easily detached and re-attached to the container, as well as used completely outside of the J2EE container.
I encourage to check out the new annotation/POJO based EJB3 spec here:
http://java.sun.com/products/ejb/docs.html
Or, for a walkthrough of EJB3 and how to use it in JBoss, see our (IMO) excellent trailblazer:
http://trailblazer.demo.jboss.com/EJB3Trail/
And just for shits and grins, you should also check out JBossIDE's Hibernate & EJB3 Tools (shameless project plug!):
http://www.jboss.com/products/jbosside
It would be ironic if it were true.
TurboLinux 10 (and above?) bundle a linux version of Cyberlink's PowerDVD. See here:
http://www.turbolinux.com/news/040722.html
There is also a linux version of WinDVD (LinDVD) but as far as I know it is not available to consumers.
I just bought a new house in the Coppell/Lewisville Texas area where Verizon is rolling out FTTP for all new development. Just a quick disclaimer, I'm speaking from personal experience, so I don't know for sure if they are doing this in the New York area or not.
.. it's unreal. Definately the most useful $50 I spend every month =)
At any rate, I had this same concern when Verizon came to install our fiber. To my delight, Verizon installed a battery in my garage (just sits on the wall) that has an approximately 1 hour life that will serve your fiber phone line in case of a serious outage (I'm sketchy on the battery's life so don't quote me exactly -- it might be longer).
Enjoy the 15Mbps
Call it the cynic in me, but I believe society will always have people who are ready and willing to exploit the downfall of others for their own ends.
It's the way that humanity is, and always will be.
The "New Tab" button is there in firefox, it just doesn't show on the default installation. If you right click on the button toolbar and click "Customize" you should see the New Tab button in there. Drag it into the toolbar and voila :)
The last company I worked for employs a few H1Bs that it is very loyal to. In fact, just recently on of their H1B's was coming up on expired, and the company decided they still wanted him around.
Turns out you can go around the system pretty easily if you post the job on a public forum, collect resumes.. and just do nothing with them. You take your candidates resume and say, "He was the most fit for the job!" And, you have yourself a nice loophole =).
Not that this guy didn't deserve it, but clearly there are ways around trying to find the "most qualified" person for the job?
i'm not defending warez traders. as a free software advocate, i'm all for making proprietary software as expensive and hard to get as possible.
.. and took it out on you ;).
;)
i'm merely pointing out that the state of prisons makes it understandable that some countries might be reluctant to extradite wanted persons to our country.
fair enough, i probably was on the defensive reading all the justification for warez traders in the 0's and 1's
i didn't use "shared" tactically - i used it because it was the most accurate word available. it seems that you're reading something into the word, not me.
the only problem i have is that "sharing" is not -- as a whole -- seen as a bad thing, and when you use that word to describe their activity it makes you sound overwhelmingly in favor of their behavior. maybe "illegaly copied" , or "illegaly shared"? I admit I'm not great at semantics.
now you've exposed yourself to be either simple-minded, or a sadistic barbarian. end of conversation.
ps: here's wishing that you find *yourself* in the wrong overnight lock-up at the wrong time due to circumstances beyond your control.
well that's wonderful.. you've turned an intelligent debate into name calling, and wishes against my well being. I honestly don't want _anyone_ to get raped in jail, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't send anyone there. if some protestor gets locked up in county jail overnight, and get's raped due to the bad timing etc.. well, I definately feel bad for him. but we're not talking about innocent bystanders here.. we're talking about a known criminal. (i'm not really touching on the extradition issue as you can tell.. which probably makes this debate OT
What the hell.. I got Karma to burn.
The shear amount of hours and labor that goes into alot of these enterprise applications that get traded on mIRC like candy is unbelievable. Companies are paying millions to keep armies of programmers employed to churn out software like this. When a company charges money for software, it (usually) corresponds with the value that person who uses it will receive, and also reflects the labor given by the programmers who wrote it. How can you say, with a straight face, that the people who are distributing this software illegaly, without paying are not hurting the programmer at the end of the day?.
you can now be sent to prison to be raped for sharing software.
I love how tactical the word "shared" is in this sentence. These warez traders are bastards, with not a moral leg to stand on. If you can't afford it, then find (or write?) an alternative. That's the way the system works. That's also alot of the reason open source is so succesful today. People want to use enterprise software, but not have to pay an arm and a leg for it. When you find constructive, creative ways to beat your competition, the market rewards you for it. These guys get what's coming to 'em. The fact that they get raped in jail is an unfortunate side effect.. hopefully it teaches them a lesson.
You mean the MPAA right?
It's not that I disagree completely with your statement about slashdot being biased against microsoft, and I definately agree with your assesment of the article, but....
It seems that in the past year or two I've heard people whining about all the anti-MS FUD that happens on slashdot. Whenever someone (like yourself) has a good rebuttal to the parent story, it gets modded up for everyone to see, and everyone sees their complaint.
Now, I _might_ be wrong on this, but the fact that posts like yours -- that are exposing the truth behind articles like these -- are being seen more and more lately in the higher thresholds, is evidence to me that the community is willing to hear your "pro-MS" rebuttal, and therefore is not quite as closed minded as the generalization makes it out to be.
[Insert obligatory.. "This is Pro-MS, therefore no one will like me and i'll be modded as flamebait" comment here =P]
As far as I know (i heard this in JBoss training, and can verify it with the current build we are using -- 3.2.3) Tomcat is bundled and is the default web container from here on out.
The new JBoss 4.0 (which is still in beta) is coming bundled w/ Tomcat 5
I find it especially odd that JBoss (the defacto app open source app server) bundles Tomcat -- the Apache Software Foundation's reference implementation of a web container, and Geronimo bundles a 3rd party web container instead of Apache's own Tomcat.
... I wonder if there something political going on behind the scenes here.
I know that JBoss actually employs the main developer of Tomcat, but it is quite weird that a supposed ASF unified application server does not include their own tried and tested web container.
What's even more interesting is that JBoss used to bundle Jetty
I actually don't smoke myself (anymore). I grew up in Texas, where smoking is encouraged just about everywhere.. so I guess it could be Texas that is at fault here, not California. The reason I listed it as a negative was because I believe that (and I could be wrong on this one) most of the US still allows people to smoke and drink in bars.
Even still, people that smoke do so out of choice, whether they are addicted or not. (this is coming from a 3 year smoker..) The quality (and longevity) of their lives is directly related to their choice, in my opinion.
I do agree with your statement that common people should not have to bend over for smokers, though. My wife has extremely bad asthma reactions to cigarrette smoke, so it's really given me a whole different perspective on it.
I personally agree with the smoking ban as well.. even though I'm an ex-smoker. I currently live in texas and i swear you can't go to a public place with more than 10 people inside without coming out smelling like smoke... Pool halls are the worst =P
This is obviously a blatant attempt at california(n) flamage, but...
With a small amount of research I'm sure you can pull up stupid laws and occurences for just about every state in the union. You want to know why people love california? Let me list some reasons without trying to sound like a tourist commercial:
- Extremely varying climates all within a relatively small area (i.e. Desert, Beach, Mountains all within a hour or so of each other)
- Strong cultural heritage throughout the state
- Southern california has some of the best weather in the US, bar-none.
- Napa Valley, Big Bear, Hollywood, Alcatraz, Catalina Island, Sea World, just to name a few
If you're looking for real reasons not to move to California, I can give you those too:
- Everything is expensive
- California traffic has been compared to a day in hell
- major metropolitan areas are very crowded.
- no smoking in bars or restaurants (seriously)
Obviously they did zero research on this before they had their knee-jerk reaction
I think the irony in that statement has been accurately summed up =)
No offense, but this is why we have places like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video.
Rent a movie for a few days and watch it as many times as you want. If you like it, buy it. If not, you're out a couple bucks. It's much faster to run down to the local Blockbuster than it is to download a few hundred megs off of IRC or kazaa, wait on queues for days on end, and end up with a shitty quality DivX that only plays on your computer.
Shitty COmpany,
Smelly, Careless Oafs,
Sharing Code with 0,
Silly Corporate Oddballs,
Suing Companies Ominously,
and finally..
Somebody please Castrate Our lawyers
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