Works fine here. Maybe if you put more than 64MB in your system, you'd see better response out of programs that are memory demanding? And I can't think of anything that demands more memory than an app that caches hundreds of megs of P2P data in memory.
I don't know about you but Azureus runs horribly on my machine and I have a 1GB of ram. It runs fine initially, but after a while it is hogging system resources to an unbelievable extent, making it impossible to leave running for a period of time if you want to get any work done. On the other hand uTorrent runs fine, even for days on end. Now I'm not saying that this is necessarily Java's fault, but something is wrong with Azureus, and I think Java may be contributing to the problem.
How would opening up Java make Sun any money. Might make us some money, but I doubt it would affect them much at all, since they already have nearly unversal market penetration.
Just because it's not as good as it could possibly have been doesn't make Sun's actions bad. They could have started charging us for Java, but instead they made it a little more open. I think we should be applauding a step in the right direction in order to encourage them to make more, instead of givin them the impression that they are hated, because why would you do anything for a group that hates you?
I don't understand why the summary puts such a negative slant on this. There are a lot of positive aspects to it as well, for example the people who want to see an event most, usually the biggest fans, who are willing to pay the most money, get to see it, not those who simply happen to get lucky. And don't tell me that it is unfair to the poor, because events are a luxury item, it is reasonable to expect them to be priced as high as the market will bear. Unlike food you can't claim that you need to go see whatver band you like at the moment.
I thought the proposed "solution" in the article was just stupid. The idea that somehow the law should police millions of blogs by applying some kind of complex formula to determine if they are in the wrong is just not feasable. Even if blogs are the worst source of plagerism there is really nothing that can be done about it, except raise public awareness.
I support NASA, but they have had a run of stupid mistakes lately. For example the whole meters to feet conversion problem. Yes everyone makes mistakes, I know, but NASA is supposed to be the best and the brightest. You would think that when dealing with such expensive equiptment they woulod check and re-check, and even methemtically prove the correctness of their programs. Sloppy programming from me or you on some spreadsheet app is bad, but not unexpected, but I have higher standards for NASA.
If you buy Computer Network Time Synchronization through my Amazon link you can get free shipping and help me pay for school. Thanks in advance. (personally though I feel the book is a little too pricy)
If by Kant and absolute silence you mean the sound of yourself sleeping... then yes, I see your point.
Let me put it this way, if there is anything else going on you can be sure I would be paying attention to it rather than Kant. The man doesn't know how to end a sentance.
If only they lived up to their names. Still the ability to rent a quiet space in a busy city + drinks would be nice, although I would personally put it to more serious uses than reading comics or surfing. Gernerally a quiet enviroment is most important when you are working hard, but personally I feel like I can goof off and read a novel anywhere. Kant on the other hand requires absolute silence.
Well it's nice to know that my online shopping is safe, it is somewhat scary to know that real life shopping is less secure. Just one more reason to never leave the room.
Lawsuits filed solely to make money, banish the thought. Who would do such a despicable thing? Seriously though, I am glad someone is speaking out about this practice in the yahoo case, but really something should be done within the legal system to fix the problem as a whole, not just this symptom. One possible solution would be to have lawyers on both sides be paid a fixed rate by the state, which would fix some inequalities, although admittedly individual people might still be motivated by money to sue.
The real problem with Ajax isn't java script or browser fickleness, or Microsofts hatred of standards, it is that we are trying to solve one a problem, distributed applications over the internet, within the wrong framework, a document viewer with scripting capabilities. What we really need is an internet application browser, that is desgined to be able to host such applications, render consistantly over multiple platforms, be stable and secure, ect. Then users wouldn't be confused concerning the behavior of the back button for example, because no one expects applications to have a back. It might make sense to have the broweser be able to launch the application viewer when needed, but more than that is just begging for problems.
So the high performance crowd will be wanting a PC by the time the PS3 comes out. The group gamers will want a Wii, and the "hard-core" console gamers probably already have an XBox 360. Who then is Sony hoping to sell the PS3 to? (not counting people with too much money)
From the article "McKinnon faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine." That has gotta hurt. The article also claims that his activities shut down the systems for a week. If that is true he might deserve this punishment, but I find it somewhat hard to believe that the military's computers were actually down for that long. Couldn't they just have done a clean boot?
A ban on IM alone will ensure that no one uses their product. I think that I am currently the only person in the US who isn't on AIM/MSN/Yahoo/IRC. I would love to be able to listen to their customer support calls: "C: AIM isn't working. S: We don't support AIM. C: We seem to have a bad connection, you don't what?!" Do they have their own private IM service they are planning on offering?
As expected the summary on/. is just trying to be inflammatory. The real gist of the article is as follows: Vista will require some programs to be re-written, espcially ones that interfaced closely with the old operating system. Thus many authentication systems will need to be updated. It's not really unexpected or unheard of for new APIs to break old programs. So if you want to bitch about how Vista is going to make you rewrite your code go ahead (I know I am not looking forward to it), but don't pretend it is a security problem.
More likely: there will be a few years of energy shortages, and then we will power everything on nuclear and solar. Its supply and demand my friend, the reason we aren't using alternative energy now is that there is no real demand for it (hydrocarbon is still cheaper and easier for cars, ect). The third world may have more problems however, since they will have a difficult time building infastructure for alternative power.
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I don't know about you but Azureus runs horribly on my machine and I have a 1GB of ram. It runs fine initially, but after a while it is hogging system resources to an unbelievable extent, making it impossible to leave running for a period of time if you want to get any work done. On the other hand uTorrent runs fine, even for days on end. Now I'm not saying that this is necessarily Java's fault, but something is wrong with Azureus, and I think Java may be contributing to the problem.
How would opening up Java make Sun any money. Might make us some money, but I doubt it would affect them much at all, since they already have nearly unversal market penetration.
Just because it's not as good as it could possibly have been doesn't make Sun's actions bad. They could have started charging us for Java, but instead they made it a little more open. I think we should be applauding a step in the right direction in order to encourage them to make more, instead of givin them the impression that they are hated, because why would you do anything for a group that hates you?
I don't understand why the summary puts such a negative slant on this. There are a lot of positive aspects to it as well, for example the people who want to see an event most, usually the biggest fans, who are willing to pay the most money, get to see it, not those who simply happen to get lucky. And don't tell me that it is unfair to the poor, because events are a luxury item, it is reasonable to expect them to be priced as high as the market will bear. Unlike food you can't claim that you need to go see whatver band you like at the moment.
I thought the proposed "solution" in the article was just stupid. The idea that somehow the law should police millions of blogs by applying some kind of complex formula to determine if they are in the wrong is just not feasable. Even if blogs are the worst source of plagerism there is really nothing that can be done about it, except raise public awareness.
I support NASA, but they have had a run of stupid mistakes lately. For example the whole meters to feet conversion problem. Yes everyone makes mistakes, I know, but NASA is supposed to be the best and the brightest. You would think that when dealing with such expensive equiptment they woulod check and re-check, and even methemtically prove the correctness of their programs. Sloppy programming from me or you on some spreadsheet app is bad, but not unexpected, but I have higher standards for NASA.
Mmmm, tastes like people. Soylent green anybody?
If you buy Computer Network Time Synchronization through my Amazon link you can get free shipping and help me pay for school. Thanks in advance. (personally though I feel the book is a little too pricy)
All that's missing are tiny traffic cops who hand out tiner speed tickets.
If by Kant and absolute silence you mean the sound of yourself sleeping... then yes, I see your point.
Let me put it this way, if there is anything else going on you can be sure I would be paying attention to it rather than Kant. The man doesn't know how to end a sentance.
Tell me more about these "love hotels"
If only they lived up to their names. Still the ability to rent a quiet space in a busy city + drinks would be nice, although I would personally put it to more serious uses than reading comics or surfing. Gernerally a quiet enviroment is most important when you are working hard, but personally I feel like I can goof off and read a novel anywhere. Kant on the other hand requires absolute silence.
Well it's nice to know that my online shopping is safe, it is somewhat scary to know that real life shopping is less secure. Just one more reason to never leave the room.
Lawsuits filed solely to make money, banish the thought. Who would do such a despicable thing? Seriously though, I am glad someone is speaking out about this practice in the yahoo case, but really something should be done within the legal system to fix the problem as a whole, not just this symptom. One possible solution would be to have lawyers on both sides be paid a fixed rate by the state, which would fix some inequalities, although admittedly individual people might still be motivated by money to sue.
Hm 4 / 10 so far.
What, no human organs? How boring.
The real problem with Ajax isn't java script or browser fickleness, or Microsofts hatred of standards, it is that we are trying to solve one a problem, distributed applications over the internet, within the wrong framework, a document viewer with scripting capabilities. What we really need is an internet application browser, that is desgined to be able to host such applications, render consistantly over multiple platforms, be stable and secure, ect. Then users wouldn't be confused concerning the behavior of the back button for example, because no one expects applications to have a back. It might make sense to have the broweser be able to launch the application viewer when needed, but more than that is just begging for problems.
So the high performance crowd will be wanting a PC by the time the PS3 comes out. The group gamers will want a Wii, and the "hard-core" console gamers probably already have an XBox 360. Who then is Sony hoping to sell the PS3 to? (not counting people with too much money)
From the article "McKinnon faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine." That has gotta hurt. The article also claims that his activities shut down the systems for a week. If that is true he might deserve this punishment, but I find it somewhat hard to believe that the military's computers were actually down for that long. Couldn't they just have done a clean boot?
pfff, Linus, what would he know?
A ban on IM alone will ensure that no one uses their product. I think that I am currently the only person in the US who isn't on AIM/MSN/Yahoo/IRC. I would love to be able to listen to their customer support calls: "C: AIM isn't working. S: We don't support AIM. C: We seem to have a bad connection, you don't what?!" Do they have their own private IM service they are planning on offering?
I apologize then
such a whore, it's not down in the least.
As expected the summary on /. is just trying to be inflammatory. The real gist of the article is as follows: Vista will require some programs to be re-written, espcially ones that interfaced closely with the old operating system. Thus many authentication systems will need to be updated. It's not really unexpected or unheard of for new APIs to break old programs. So if you want to bitch about how Vista is going to make you rewrite your code go ahead (I know I am not looking forward to it), but don't pretend it is a security problem.
More likely: there will be a few years of energy shortages, and then we will power everything on nuclear and solar. Its supply and demand my friend, the reason we aren't using alternative energy now is that there is no real demand for it (hydrocarbon is still cheaper and easier for cars, ect). The third world may have more problems however, since they will have a difficult time building infastructure for alternative power.