Read about the painBen Wing, the architect of XEmacs, goes through, and you might change your mind. If it only helps one person, it's worth the effort.
I am writing to you as an owner of several IBM disk drives and as an IBM investor.
I've been following recent media reports about CPRM with alarm. The proposed standard for control over information would present problems for many applications (such as free software, which I use almost exclusively) while having dubious benefits.
Please consider retracting support for CPRM. If IBM continues to support it, I'll likely boycott IBM products -- and I don't want to do that (my Deskstars and Ultrastars are working great). Also I'll divest my IBM stock.
IBM made great contributions to open source community recently, and I'd hate to see that relationship affected by the policy of the storage division.
I wonder if more feedback like this will influence their actions...
You are misguided. Redundant information is bad; follow the True Way. The code should be read as text; Hungarian notation gets in the way (even the guy who invented it now admits that it was a mistake).
The size of the program is not too important if it is designed correctly -- then it consists of several essentially independent modules, each of manageable size.
You haven't read the article. One of the features of the Cyrix CPU is low power usage -- so it would make a bad heat source for a toaster. A Pentium IV, on the other hand...
Sun actually demoed Jini-aware toaster. Don't know what CPU they had in there.
Sony is selling PS2 at a loss. So if you buy PS2 and use it as a DVD player (or buy just a couple of games), then you'll hurt Sony's bottom line instead of helping it.
IBM doesn't announce vaporware: one of the conditions of the old IBM antitrust settlement was stopping the FUD campaigns of vaporware announcements (the tactics MSFT often uses now). IBM is very careful to comply with the rules.
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The Soyuz capsule is old news. But does anyone know WTF is happenning to the International Space Station right now? Whose module is at fault -- Russian or American?
Read about the pain Ben Wing, the architect of XEmacs, goes through, and you might change your mind. If it only helps one person, it's worth the effort.
Hello,
I am writing to you as an owner of several IBM disk drives and as an IBM investor.
I've been following recent media reports about CPRM with alarm. The proposed standard for control over information would present problems for many applications (such as free software, which I use almost exclusively) while having dubious benefits.
Please consider retracting support for CPRM. If IBM continues to support it, I'll likely boycott IBM products -- and I don't want to do that (my Deskstars and Ultrastars are working great). Also I'll divest my IBM stock.
IBM made great contributions to open source community recently, and I'd hate to see that relationship affected by the policy of the storage division.
I wonder if more feedback like this will influence their actions...
The size of the program is not too important if it is designed correctly -- then it consists of several essentially independent modules, each of manageable size.
You haven't read the article. One of the features of the Cyrix CPU is low power usage -- so it would make a bad heat source for a toaster. A Pentium IV, on the other hand...
Sun actually demoed Jini-aware toaster. Don't know what CPU they had in there.
Sony is selling PS2 at a loss. So if you buy PS2 and use it as a DVD player (or buy just a couple of games), then you'll hurt Sony's bottom line instead of helping it.
TechBargains.com mentioned availability of this device a couple of days ago. I've found this site to be a good resource; check it out.
Checkout BookFace.com. Peter Mattis (of GIMP fame) is the CTO of Boookface, btw.
The "Design Patterns" book is based in part on the experience with Interviews.
Get a clue. For example, read Berkeley security class notes
IBM doesn't announce vaporware: one of the conditions of the old IBM antitrust settlement was stopping the FUD campaigns of vaporware announcements (the tactics MSFT often uses now).
IBM is very careful to comply with the rules.