We met in the backyard, where he took a rest from hauling a crate of beer to his hole in the ash tree. The woodpecker said "Hey dude, you are rambling on about open source and FOSS all the time. Could you get me an open source nest, by any chance ? Us woodpeckers are rather into the proprietary model, we all have our own beak. But mine has signs of wear, and the price of new ones is too high." "Sure", I replied, "Apache Nest might be something for you. Or otherwise, check out jNest on github." Last I heard about him, he was founding a business - together with some raven from the neighbourhood - for 3d-printing spare beaks.
I am dressed in organic materials: membranes out wool, nylon, cotton that protect me from outside agressions. I have organelles that are clearly distinct from eachother: liver, spleen, heart, brains. I convert various sugars into chemical energy. And I have a function within the greater collection of my peers which we call a "society", instead of a "body". And hell yes, I produce waste: code.
I did not use the word "exponentially". And if and when I use it, I use it correctly, in the sense of "if input is n, then output grows as k^(C*n + D ), with k > 1. For "decimating", there actually is an accepted meaning of "reduce greatly in numbers", not only "reduce by a factor 10". I can look that up in the OED.
That's what I meant. I work with a guy who is about 70 years old. He had a mathematics degree from one of those universities, and then later also did CS, "just for fun". In spite of his age, the man is brilliant. So... we would be talking about language studies ? Humanities ? Sociology, psychology and so on ?
China - I can understand. But for Russians ? I worked with several Russians, all of them very-good-to-brilliant programmers and scientists. They had no trouble in getting recognition for their work and skills. Could you expound a bit on your remark ?
Exactly. I once had a colleague who, when on the highway, ALWAYS hung behind a truck. He had impressively low MPG - and needed much more time than others to reach his target, but simply calculated this in. I have verified it myself with a Renault Laguna: hanging behind a truck can reduce your MPG up to 40%.
US $ 20,000 = € 14800 ( I convert to euroland givens, as I have no idea about the price of a kWh over there ). In euroland, a kWh costs more or less € 0.20. Hence, € 14,800 purchase 74000 kWh. 74000 kWh / ( 365 days *24 hours / day ) = 8.53 kW.
Now - I like the picture. But I refuse to believe that even these power-guzzling old machines draw a steady 8.53 kW on a 24/7 basis. No way. A quick look-up in wikipedia shows me that kWh rates in Canada are even lower than here in Europe. What is Theo hiding ??
Yep. REST. Not an "object model" as you require, but who cares ? I can tranfer state to another place in the network, and never care in what language and on what OS the endpoint runs. I just get a behaviour guarantee, which is enough. For sure, I don't even know what code is running to service my GET or PUT call. So what ?
The problem with CORBA was that it took a greatly skilled programmer to understand and use it, let alone implement new functionality with it. REST ? Just put any 22-year old diplomand at it, he'll get it going. As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said ( about aircraft engines, in his days ): "Good technology can be judged good by the fact that you can forget it." CORBA one could never forget. REST is just there, and the programmer can turn to other, more interesting stuff.
I don't know Val Huber, but can judge his "technology" ( hardly worth that name, though ) by what he is doing: putting the logic of a server-side application inside an RDBMS. After years and years of Hibernate applications with abysmally bad mainainability, now that finally finally finally-thank-god there are mature no-SQL databases, this guy goes back to where we were in the 80s.
Moreover: comments on that article simply get suppressed. Which says enough about this guy's capability to sustain critical thought. Dupe. Total dupe.
is totally merited. Solaris was and still is brilliant, one of the best operating systems ever made. The scalability and reliability are legendary. I do not know of any OS that can run on a tiny PC AND on a big-mama cluster with exactly the same code. Solaris is another example of how mergers and corporate acquisitions boil down, most of the time, to sheer destruction of capital. Observed that with tiny companies and start-ups as well as with mega-mergers & acquisitions. Solaris is dead, and I concur with Gosling: I weep.
The Roman Empire continued on for nearly a thousand years after 476AD where it is commonly assumed it "fell". Microsoft will likely be the same way. They have WAY too big a cash hoard to disappear quickly or quietly. Worst case for them is they buy a number of smaller companies with more promising businesses using said cash hoard.
The same thing was true of Blackberry, up to 1.5 years ago. You may be right, with your 5 years. I am just making the point that larger empires have fallen. And as to buying smaller companies with more promising businesses... that may be done any time soon, when lack of vision and desperation begin to eat into the minds of MS upper management. Sooner than you and I now think it could happen. That's all.
As to the Roman Empire: I meant the western Roman Empire. I read the writings of Sidonius Apollinaris, who was a bishop in Gaul, so let's call him "part of the middle management", in 476. He didexperience it as a sudden fall, and was desperate. So was the population of Clermont-Ferrand, a medium-sized city that he had tried to administer and his brother had tried to defend, up to the very end.
At this moment, nobody knows who or what is going to replace Windows and Office. Remember Android, how fast it came up ? And then - if and when the other shark in the tank, Apple, sees a fledgling Microsoft, it may well decide to offer an OEM version of its OS and ecosystem for Windows-era prices. But that is more remote a possibility than for a yet-unknown OS to spring up in, say, 3 years time.
Look at Steam OS. Who, three years ago, would have ever, ever thought that PCs would be offered, as a sort of don't-say-don't-tell-alternative to game consoles, with a Linux-based OS, for crying out loud ?.
The most amazing developments, in this arena, are yet to take place. A weakening and self-imploding Microsoft is the ideal factor to destabilize the market, up to a point where established imperia may suddenly and crashingly fall. Remember how the Roman Empire fell: not at once, but only after some time of having been hollowed out, from the inside, by "barbarians". Isn't that what is going on here, silently ?
Mark my words: some time after the release of Windows 9, Microsoft may be making losses for the first time in its history. Same thing as Blackberry: for having failed to have adapted to a changing market, in spite of many, many warning signals.
A large company can make mistakes, and even repeated mistakes if and when its pockets are deep. It can not, however, keep making only mistakes. Which leads us to the conclusion: Microsoft will get a last chance - Widows 10. With that, it will be quitte ou double.
And nobody does anything about it ?? Not even the most enlightened and human-hearted of the so-called "leaders" do anyhting ? How socially backwards is that country, anyways ?
Mod parent up. Wanting, needing a clear victor in any contest does, indeed, seem to be "typically American". As for me, a "typical European", I could live with the idea of Steam occupying some grey niche area between the desktop PC and the gaming console. Why not ? It would be better for the general public, just as any open OS viz. the opening-up of any OS is better for the general public. It would be good for the fledgling PC industry. It would be good for game developers.
Although I nearly daily read papers from almost any university in the world, I had never heard of Bond "university". Which Bond is this - James Bond ?
On a more serious note, though: "IntelCrawler" does not ring a bell, either. The only somewhat creditworthy title being cited is csmonitor. For the moment I am writing TFA off as hype-generation and FUD. I would love to be proved wrong, however.
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We met in the backyard, where he took a rest from hauling a crate of beer to his hole in the ash tree. The woodpecker said "Hey dude, you are rambling on about open source and FOSS all the time. Could you get me an open source nest, by any chance ? Us woodpeckers are rather into the proprietary model, we all have our own beak. But mine has signs of wear, and the price of new ones is too high." "Sure", I replied, "Apache Nest might be something for you. Or otherwise, check out jNest on github." Last I heard about him, he was founding a business - together with some raven from the neighbourhood - for 3d-printing spare beaks.
USA, land of the enslaved, home of the dumb.
I am dressed in organic materials: membranes out wool, nylon, cotton that protect me from outside agressions. I have organelles that are clearly distinct from eachother: liver, spleen, heart, brains. I convert various sugars into chemical energy. And I have a function within the greater collection of my peers which we call a "society", instead of a "body". And hell yes, I produce waste: code.
I did not use the word "exponentially". And if and when I use it, I use it correctly, in the sense of "if input is n, then output grows as k^(C*n + D ), with k > 1. For "decimating", there actually is an accepted meaning of "reduce greatly in numbers", not only "reduce by a factor 10". I can look that up in the OED.
That's what I meant. I work with a guy who is about 70 years old. He had a mathematics degree from one of those universities, and then later also did CS, "just for fun". In spite of his age, the man is brilliant. So... we would be talking about language studies ? Humanities ? Sociology, psychology and so on ?
China - I can understand. But for Russians ? I worked with several Russians, all of them very-good-to-brilliant programmers and scientists. They had no trouble in getting recognition for their work and skills. Could you expound a bit on your remark ?
Nothing pedantic about that. Mod parent up, please.
Of course. You are right. More MPG ( US ) = less l/ 100 km. Confusion between the two. And yes,
deserves a medal.
Exactly. I once had a colleague who, when on the highway, ALWAYS hung behind a truck. He had impressively low MPG - and needed much more time than others to reach his target, but simply calculated this in. I have verified it myself with a Renault Laguna: hanging behind a truck can reduce your MPG up to 40%.
US $ 20,000 = € 14800 ( I convert to euroland givens, as I have no idea about the price of a kWh over there ). In euroland, a kWh costs more or less € 0.20. Hence, € 14,800 purchase 74000 kWh. 74000 kWh / ( 365 days *24 hours / day ) = 8.53 kW.
Now - I like the picture. But I refuse to believe that even these power-guzzling old machines draw a steady 8.53 kW on a 24/7 basis. No way. A quick look-up in wikipedia shows me that kWh rates in Canada are even lower than here in Europe. What is Theo hiding ??
The problem with CORBA was that it took a greatly skilled programmer to understand and use it, let alone implement new functionality with it. REST ? Just put any 22-year old diplomand at it, he'll get it going. As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said ( about aircraft engines, in his days ): "Good technology can be judged good by the fact that you can forget it." CORBA one could never forget. REST is just there, and the programmer can turn to other, more interesting stuff.
Technological changes are outpacing humanity’s ability to manage them in ways that ensure our safety and security.
Combine that with automated killing of automatons. I challenge you not to shiver.
"We, the USA, are a financially-not-so-stable dictatorship that thinks itself extremely wealthy. World War III is just one temper tantrum away".
There, FTFY.
I didn't know there was still CORBA support in Java EE. In 2014. Wow.
Linux is not an OS. Linux is the kernel for an OS. Which is quite vastly different.
I don't know Val Huber, but can judge his "technology" ( hardly worth that name, though ) by what he is doing: putting the logic of a server-side application inside an RDBMS. After years and years of Hibernate applications with abysmally bad mainainability, now that finally finally finally-thank-god there are mature no-SQL databases, this guy goes back to where we were in the 80s.
Moreover: comments on that article simply get suppressed. Which says enough about this guy's capability to sustain critical thought. Dupe. Total dupe.
is totally merited. Solaris was and still is brilliant, one of the best operating systems ever made. The scalability and reliability are legendary. I do not know of any OS that can run on a tiny PC AND on a big-mama cluster with exactly the same code. Solaris is another example of how mergers and corporate acquisitions boil down, most of the time, to sheer destruction of capital. Observed that with tiny companies and start-ups as well as with mega-mergers & acquisitions. Solaris is dead, and I concur with Gosling: I weep.
The book seems to part from the premises that
1) Adobe Flash is essential for building web sites that make people return
2) Without Flash, it can't be done
3) Nobody knows, yet, about the revolutionary stuff of "keeping it iterative" and "investing in professionals".
One more "XYZ for dummies", then.
The Roman Empire continued on for nearly a thousand years after 476AD where it is commonly assumed it "fell". Microsoft will likely be the same way. They have WAY too big a cash hoard to disappear quickly or quietly. Worst case for them is they buy a number of smaller companies with more promising businesses using said cash hoard.
The same thing was true of Blackberry, up to 1.5 years ago. You may be right, with your 5 years. I am just making the point that larger empires have fallen. And as to buying smaller companies with more promising businesses... that may be done any time soon, when lack of vision and desperation begin to eat into the minds of MS upper management. Sooner than you and I now think it could happen. That's all.
As to the Roman Empire: I meant the western Roman Empire. I read the writings of Sidonius Apollinaris, who was a bishop in Gaul, so let's call him "part of the middle management", in 476. He didexperience it as a sudden fall, and was desperate. So was the population of Clermont-Ferrand, a medium-sized city that he had tried to administer and his brother had tried to defend, up to the very end.
At this moment, nobody knows who or what is going to replace Windows and Office. Remember Android, how fast it came up ? And then - if and when the other shark in the tank, Apple, sees a fledgling Microsoft, it may well decide to offer an OEM version of its OS and ecosystem for Windows-era prices. But that is more remote a possibility than for a yet-unknown OS to spring up in, say, 3 years time.
Look at Steam OS. Who, three years ago, would have ever, ever thought that PCs would be offered, as a sort of don't-say-don't-tell-alternative to game consoles, with a Linux-based OS, for crying out loud ?.
The most amazing developments, in this arena, are yet to take place. A weakening and self-imploding Microsoft is the ideal factor to destabilize the market, up to a point where established imperia may suddenly and crashingly fall. Remember how the Roman Empire fell: not at once, but only after some time of having been hollowed out, from the inside, by "barbarians". Isn't that what is going on here, silently ?
Mark my words: some time after the release of Windows 9, Microsoft may be making losses for the first time in its history. Same thing as Blackberry: for having failed to have adapted to a changing market, in spite of many, many warning signals.
A large company can make mistakes, and even repeated mistakes if and when its pockets are deep. It can not, however, keep making only mistakes. Which leads us to the conclusion: Microsoft will get a last chance - Widows 10. With that, it will be quitte ou double.
And nobody does anything about it ?? Not even the most enlightened and human-hearted of the so-called "leaders" do anyhting ? How socially backwards is that country, anyways ?
Mod parent up. Wanting, needing a clear victor in any contest does, indeed, seem to be "typically American". As for me, a "typical European", I could live with the idea of Steam occupying some grey niche area between the desktop PC and the gaming console. Why not ? It would be better for the general public, just as any open OS viz. the opening-up of any OS is better for the general public. It would be good for the fledgling PC industry. It would be good for game developers.
Although I nearly daily read papers from almost any university in the world, I had never heard of Bond "university". Which Bond is this - James Bond ?
On a more serious note, though: "IntelCrawler" does not ring a bell, either. The only somewhat creditworthy title being cited is csmonitor. For the moment I am writing TFA off as hype-generation and FUD. I would love to be proved wrong, however.