Re:Oracle is doing everything they can to fuck up
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As I understand it, when the open source version gets adopted by a voluntarily group of individuals that keep developing the open source version, it might be forked pretty soon, so nothing of value would be lost.
As for the commercial version, that is probably gonna end like many other Oracle products, that got forgotten. I'll linger around in Oracle's inventory, but nobody will care much about it. Also, the fork might overshadow the commercial version in a couple of months, since performance tunes, are not exclusive to Oracle programmers...
Uh, watever, just migrate to Python, Perl6, Lua...
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It's out of question, that this will kill Java as preferred language in academia and science.
But who cares, really? There are other languages, that would be a more than adequate "replacement" - if I may call it that - for Java. So professors will have to teach Python in university, how is that something bad?
Java was chosen a few years back, because it was modern and cross platform, but that is Python as well. I also suggested using Lua in academia. For teaching programming and data structures, this is arguably one of the favorable languages.
I'm a Perl developer, so I'll wait and see what happens with Perl6...
I remember what I've gone through, when working with documents, where compatibility to Microsoft Office is needed. OO.o was not really an alternative, I've had the best results with Abiword, when using Word documents.
Is it realistic to search for a complete office suite like MS Office? Wouldn't it make more sense to collect different applications that perform in their task the best? Like, Abiword is a contender to Word, Gnumeric to Excell, etc...
Nope. You've never seen those Anime/Manga people I assume.
What Ubuntu is reaching out to, are 16.000 mostly obese, antisocial men (and a few women), that dress like their favourite character, even though they should weigh about 1/4 of their actual weight to even resemble their characters physique! Yes, they're clueless, but what you're referring to, are hipsters. People who have sexual fantasies with drawn characters, and spend all day watching Anime and reading Manga are "oh-so-creative"? Some of them doodle, but once they're told their "work" looks like a drawing of a 3 year old that suffers from ADHS, they stop.
Alright, I am Into Anime and Manga, but I keep it in secrecy. I don't want to blend with what Ubuntu is reaching out to right now. I don't really like the Idea that they're forcing that subculture into Ubuntu. It looks like they're trying to hop on that OS-tan train, that Microsoft is riding on right now.
Not a heatsink, but there are the thermoelectric generators. To describe them in the most basic way: They're the opposite of Peltier-Elements. The convert heat into electricity. You could use the 'waste heat' for a secondary power generating unit.
Methinks the Moon is not a great place to be running a reactor or power plant of the heat-cycle variety. Maybe solar cells.
The problem with solar cells on moon is, as with any other exposed surfaces on the moon: Meteors. As we all know, moon's atmosphere is almost negligible, any meteors, even very tiny ones (micro meteors) won't burn. They'll smash your solar power plants after a short period, in comparison with solar power plants on earth.
However, this doesn't mean moon's surfaces is unsuited for solar plants. I'm sure they'll be using solar power as one of their main power sources. The reactor is a nice Idea, but when you need a quick and uncomplicated power supply, for say, remote stations or mobile platforms, you want solar cells.
All you have to do, is hide the pipes that contain the water - or steam, in this case.
Astronauts experienced this effect while walking around on the moon: The portion of their suits that was facing the sun, got extremely hot, over 100ÂC, if I remember correctly. At the same time, the portion of the suit, that was facing away from the sun, was extremely cold, way below -150ÂC. All you have to do, is shield the pipes from direct sun. A reflective cover should do. Since there is no air, or aerosol, that's dense enough to conduct heat the way air does, the only heat you get, is from radiation. So just protect the pipes from radiation, and you've got cold water.
I started with three computers: Balthasar, Melchior, Caspar. They're my MAGI-System.
My Laptops are EVA00 and EVA01. I spray painted them accordingly...
No I don't wear a blue and white neoprene suit when operating them. I don't wear hair clips, either. But I do call the stylus of my PDA "The lance of Longinius"...
Here in Germany, we're used to have "real" offices (as someone said in another post), with walls going all the way up to the ceiling and a door.
Those offices are usually for two or three people, that work on the same project or in the same department.
We have a small kitchen to make some tea or coffee, maybe prepare a small snack or something, and we have a room with a couch, that is actually a comfortable couch, not one of those couches, that look good, but are extraordinary uncomfortable to sit on.
Those offices have their computers and tables arranged in a way one employee cant look on the other employees computer. Or, if someone steps into your office, they can't look at your computer screen or desktop directly either.
Every office has a window, so you don't have to rely on artificial light, except if you're working at night, of course...
I used to work in an open designed workspace, and it sucked tremendously. Imagine this: you're sitting in a somewhat private area of that workspace, and someone was carrying a stack of files quite far away from you, in the other end of that workspace.
Then he trips and drops the files.
You've been partially in hermit-mode, and now you get distracted, probably scared, and now you're totally mad at that guy that dropped the files.
Another Scenario: You're working at something, and someone needs to ask you a question. He comes up to you, and asks something. You get scared, because you were so immersed in your work, you didn't see him coming. He was not actually sneaking up on you, you just didn't see or hear him coming, because the ambient noise is to high, and probably the only way to get to your desk, is from behind.
Well, yes, but why do they plan to keep a log of 6 months of your Internet transactions, "just in case..."?
The ISP's are forces to keep a log of internet transactions of every user of the past 6 months. This means, that basically every step you do on the internet, is recorded and stored for the police to seek through it. This is to help fight crime and specifically terrorism...
Not every single packet is stored, of course, only the target of your connection and what type of data you send or receive.
How is that respecting the rights of the individual? Why do they spy on everyone? This law, that has been approved last year, is highly criticized, but still, how could they not have any qualms about making that kind of law?
Oh, this applies to cell phones too: They store your location, the target, and a time stamp.
Tell this the german authorities, who developed a trojan (called 'Bundes-Trojaner', 'Federal-Trojan') to secretly infiltrate computers and search through their Data "to fight crime, such as terrorism".
Yes, they actually install logging software and a server-like application on your computer, and tell you afterwards about what they did to your privacy.
What if the worm mutates, halfway through the network.
So that it does contain malicious code, to wreak havoc among the computers it reaches.
A worm could be intercepted, it's code altered, and then redistributed into that network the same way, the 'friendly' worm was intended to.
How do I know, that this worm I just received, is indeed the worm that the admin send through the network to apply a patch?
I'd say trusted mirror sites are a better way to reduce load on servers.
You just need enough mirrors, so you can scale the load onto them.
Great idea, really.
But I forget to take my PDA with me VERY often, and that device is significantly handier, that that robotic pill box; at least, from what I can tell by viewing the images (http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/itw-india-enlarged.jpg).
I don't know how exactly the device works, but it hast to have some sort of battery in it, what happens, when that battery drains? I forget to recharge my PDA about as often as I forget to take it with me...
This box may be of great use in the well developed world, where people are used to electronic medical devices, like electronic blood sugar testers, for instance.
What if people treat the device like I treat my alarm clock sometimes: Throw it at a wall when I can't find the snooze button.
And I guess the box behaves much like an alarm clock...
YOU FORGOT ABOUT ELECTRONS!
THEY're doing the work!
No Networking without ELECTRONS!
Copper cables are just the ominous tubes, they're running through...
Oh, and don't forget photons either! More and more tubes are made of optical conductors.
Although they give their data to electrons at either end, so electrons should get the flowers...
Twitter like service?
Is it in fashion to have anyone reading your IM conversations these days?
I noticed, that - predominantly - japanese use Twitter like any other IM service.
Since anyone can read those messages, unless you make them hidden, this looks like a new sort of communication policy.
I do have a twitter account, but I'd never use it as any other IM service, maybe I'm still stuck in 90's Internet but I can't see why people like having other people read their messages.
Do I make any sense?
There is only one way to make an Image board attack an individual:
You tried to fool around with them.
I bet this FOX-Guy who was browsing the 420chan/i/-board that was visible on one of their shots, is a -channer himself.
He tried to use/i/ to attack his neighbor, co-worker or whatever, and they told him ANONYMOUS IS NOT YOUR PERSONAL ARMY. So he went >:(, looked for some ASPLODIN' Partyvans and made this article.
YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG, etc.
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As I understand it, when the open source version gets adopted by a voluntarily group of individuals that keep developing the open source version, it might be forked pretty soon, so nothing of value would be lost.
As for the commercial version, that is probably gonna end like many other Oracle products, that got forgotten. I'll linger around in Oracle's inventory, but nobody will care much about it. Also, the fork might overshadow the commercial version in a couple of months, since performance tunes, are not exclusive to Oracle programmers...
It's out of question, that this will kill Java as preferred language in academia and science.
But who cares, really? There are other languages, that would be a more than adequate "replacement" - if I may call it that - for Java.
So professors will have to teach Python in university, how is that something bad?
Java was chosen a few years back, because it was modern and cross platform, but that is Python as well. I also suggested using Lua in academia. For teaching programming and data structures, this is arguably one of the favorable languages.
I'm a Perl developer, so I'll wait and see what happens with Perl6...
I remember what I've gone through, when working with documents, where compatibility to Microsoft Office is needed.
OO.o was not really an alternative, I've had the best results with Abiword, when using Word documents.
Is it realistic to search for a complete office suite like MS Office? Wouldn't it make more sense to collect different applications that perform in their task the best?
Like, Abiword is a contender to Word, Gnumeric to Excell, etc...
I'd worry more about the continuing relevance of Perl in a niche which has come to be dominated more and more by PHP (eww!) and Ruby in recent years.
I cast Lua at your PHP and Ruby shenanigans!
Nope. You've never seen those Anime/Manga people I assume.
What Ubuntu is reaching out to, are 16.000 mostly obese, antisocial men (and a few women), that dress like their favourite character, even though they should weigh about 1/4 of their actual weight to even resemble their characters physique!
Yes, they're clueless, but what you're referring to, are hipsters. People who have sexual fantasies with drawn characters, and spend all day watching Anime and reading Manga are "oh-so-creative"? Some of them doodle, but once they're told their "work" looks like a drawing of a 3 year old that suffers from ADHS, they stop.
Alright, I am Into Anime and Manga, but I keep it in secrecy. I don't want to blend with what Ubuntu is reaching out to right now.
I don't really like the Idea that they're forcing that subculture into Ubuntu. It looks like they're trying to hop on that OS-tan train, that Microsoft is riding on right now.
But metrosexuals, is not what they're gonna get!
Not a heatsink, but there are the thermoelectric generators. To describe them in the most basic way: They're the opposite of Peltier-Elements. The convert heat into electricity.
You could use the 'waste heat' for a secondary power generating unit.
Methinks the Moon is not a great place to be running a reactor or power plant of the heat-cycle variety. Maybe solar cells.
The problem with solar cells on moon is, as with any other exposed surfaces on the moon: Meteors.
As we all know, moon's atmosphere is almost negligible, any meteors, even very tiny ones (micro meteors) won't burn. They'll smash your solar power plants after a short period, in comparison with solar power plants on earth.
However, this doesn't mean moon's surfaces is unsuited for solar plants. I'm sure they'll be using solar power as one of their main power sources. The reactor is a nice Idea, but when you need a quick and uncomplicated power supply, for say, remote stations or mobile platforms, you want solar cells.
All you have to do, is hide the pipes that contain the water - or steam, in this case.
Astronauts experienced this effect while walking around on the moon: The portion of their suits that was facing the sun, got extremely hot, over 100ÂC, if I remember correctly. At the same time, the portion of the suit, that was facing away from the sun, was extremely cold, way below -150ÂC.
All you have to do, is shield the pipes from direct sun.
A reflective cover should do. Since there is no air, or aerosol, that's dense enough to conduct heat the way air does, the only heat you get, is from radiation.
So just protect the pipes from radiation, and you've got cold water.
>"Yeah, there are a few nuts in there who actually believe it, but you'll get stupid beliefs anywhere."
Scientology anyone?
I started with three computers: Balthasar, Melchior, Caspar. They're my MAGI-System.
My Laptops are EVA00 and EVA01. I spray painted them accordingly...
No I don't wear a blue and white neoprene suit when operating them. I don't wear hair clips, either. But I do call the stylus of my PDA "The lance of Longinius"...
You mean helium molecules, I suppose?
There is no such thing as helium atoms.
I don't like them.
Here in Germany, we're used to have "real" offices (as someone said in another post), with walls going all the way up to the ceiling and a door.
Those offices are usually for two or three people, that work on the same project or in the same department.
We have a small kitchen to make some tea or coffee, maybe prepare a small snack or something, and we have a room with a couch, that is actually a comfortable couch, not one of those couches, that look good, but are extraordinary uncomfortable to sit on.
Those offices have their computers and tables arranged in a way one employee cant look on the other employees computer. Or, if someone steps into your office, they can't look at your computer screen or desktop directly either.
Every office has a window, so you don't have to rely on artificial light, except if you're working at night, of course...
I used to work in an open designed workspace, and it sucked tremendously.
Imagine this: you're sitting in a somewhat private area of that workspace, and someone was carrying a stack of files quite far away from you, in the other end of that workspace.
Then he trips and drops the files.
You've been partially in hermit-mode, and now you get distracted, probably scared, and now you're totally mad at that guy that dropped the files.
Another Scenario: You're working at something, and someone needs to ask you a question. He comes up to you, and asks something. You get scared, because you were so immersed in your work, you didn't see him coming. He was not actually sneaking up on you, you just didn't see or hear him coming, because the ambient noise is to high, and probably the only way to get to your desk, is from behind.
Well, yes, but why do they plan to keep a log of 6 months of your Internet transactions, "just in case..."?
The ISP's are forces to keep a log of internet transactions of every user of the past 6 months.
This means, that basically every step you do on the internet, is recorded and stored for the police to seek through it. This is to help fight crime and specifically terrorism...
Not every single packet is stored, of course, only the target of your connection and what type of data you send or receive.
How is that respecting the rights of the individual? Why do they spy on everyone?
This law, that has been approved last year, is highly criticized, but still, how could they not have any qualms about making that kind of law?
Oh, this applies to cell phones too: They store your location, the target, and a time stamp.
Nobody can hear you fart, but everyone will notice that little "nebula" you left behind...
Tell this the german authorities, who developed a trojan (called 'Bundes-Trojaner', 'Federal-Trojan') to secretly infiltrate computers and search through their Data "to fight crime, such as terrorism".
Yes, they actually install logging software and a server-like application on your computer, and tell you afterwards about what they did to your privacy.
What if the worm mutates, halfway through the network. So that it does contain malicious code, to wreak havoc among the computers it reaches. A worm could be intercepted, it's code altered, and then redistributed into that network the same way, the 'friendly' worm was intended to. How do I know, that this worm I just received, is indeed the worm that the admin send through the network to apply a patch? I'd say trusted mirror sites are a better way to reduce load on servers. You just need enough mirrors, so you can scale the load onto them.
Great idea, really. But I forget to take my PDA with me VERY often, and that device is significantly handier, that that robotic pill box; at least, from what I can tell by viewing the images (http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/itw-india-enlarged.jpg). I don't know how exactly the device works, but it hast to have some sort of battery in it, what happens, when that battery drains? I forget to recharge my PDA about as often as I forget to take it with me... This box may be of great use in the well developed world, where people are used to electronic medical devices, like electronic blood sugar testers, for instance. What if people treat the device like I treat my alarm clock sometimes: Throw it at a wall when I can't find the snooze button. And I guess the box behaves much like an alarm clock...
YOU FORGOT ABOUT ELECTRONS! THEY're doing the work! No Networking without ELECTRONS! Copper cables are just the ominous tubes, they're running through... Oh, and don't forget photons either! More and more tubes are made of optical conductors. Although they give their data to electrons at either end, so electrons should get the flowers...
Twitter like service? Is it in fashion to have anyone reading your IM conversations these days? I noticed, that - predominantly - japanese use Twitter like any other IM service. Since anyone can read those messages, unless you make them hidden, this looks like a new sort of communication policy. I do have a twitter account, but I'd never use it as any other IM service, maybe I'm still stuck in 90's Internet but I can't see why people like having other people read their messages. Do I make any sense?
There is only one way to make an Image board attack an individual: You tried to fool around with them. I bet this FOX-Guy who was browsing the 420chan /i/-board that was visible on one of their shots, is a -channer himself.
He tried to use /i/ to attack his neighbor, co-worker or whatever, and they told him ANONYMOUS IS NOT YOUR PERSONAL ARMY. So he went >:(, looked for some ASPLODIN' Partyvans and made this article.
YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG, etc.
How about we use some allready mainstream term, but from a foreign language? I suggest useing "Kei-Tai" the japanese Term for cellphone...
Text-Speak can be defined for this use, like conventions, one has to obey.
Math is full of cryptic abbreviatons, and every Student has to learn them in college, if not allready in highschool
Always use Lynx, under-stimuli TO THE MAX!
Maybe put them into a compartement (or tray or something) where the flight attendants are, so it's monitored even at night flights.