Parent post is probably as balanced as you will get on/., I think he sums it up: Java is 98% problem-free cross-platform, if you poke long and deep enough you might find some problems, but these problems are most usually minor and mostly due to slightly different underlying platform issues like threading models that give different scaling behaviour (cross-platform doesn't mean you can entirely escape the platform you are running).
Anyone else recognize the pattern?
1. MS dismisses competing software.
2. MS starts FUD:ing the software.
3. MS starts copying the functionality of the software.
4. MS touts new features as significant new MS "innovation! Hooray!
It is quite easy to see how successful a specific open source software package is by looking at where Microsoft places it on the "Microsoft attention"-scale.
Immigration of people who can support themselves is an inherently good thing for all western countries considering the demographic bomb we are sitting on.
Most western countries including the US, even though Europes situation is considerably worse have birthrates that will barely sustain the current population without immigration, this leads to an "inverted" demographical pyramid were very few young people will have to support very many old people out of the workforce.
That is, if we dont get immigrants that can help even out the numbers!
Consider the following, what happens when:
* large portions of the population starts to take money out of the markets through their retirement funds to actually live on the money? Markets will plumet and capital for both mature companies and startups will be harder to raise.
* What happens when there are more retired people who pay no or very little in tax, instead of many young people who pay taxes? How do you support basic infrastructure in that case?
I could go on..
The point being: western countries should embrace and welcome every immigrant that wants to come to their country to work and make a life, its probably the only thing that will save our economies 30 years from now..
The article linked above is 9-page long when printed and contains tons of information.
I hope the poster doesn't actually expect any of us to post any meaningful comments based on having read that article, it's a lost cause.. At least on me.
Re:So i'm going to pay for open source apps?
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Well, if you want someone to take the time to burn you a CD and send it to you, its a fair assumption that you'll have to pay for the blank CD, postage and packaging and perhaps a little for the time it takes to burn it...
Although it seems that you can download the CD for free from the mirrors?
This might be useful for the large masses of people who do not yet have broadband,you know there still are some of those out there..
There is one fundamental problem in the open source community (and as an occassional open source developer I know what I am talking about):
It's the old "dont you dare critisize my darling project!"-dilemma, it somehow seems that some people think that because a commercial entity is not behind a piece of software it is all of a sudden beyond any criticism.
Open source adoption and progress would be better served by taking criticism more constructively and try to actually address the problems put forward (even those that are put forward undiplomatically), instead of retorting to "no, you are stupid", "why would you want to do that?", "no you are really really stupid"-flamewars in a pathetic attempt att diverting criticism back.
Check the ego at the door and see the community prosper.
I am not at all contesting that open source is disrupting proprietary software in a big way, but its not dominant (as of yet). Personally though, I think it eventually _will be_.
But it is taking the traditional low-end route: getting traction first through developers, and then moving its way up the food-chaing slowly but certainly.
I am actually in the process of ending my work at said "big global consultancy" to start out on my own with a couple of friends: we will most likely use mostly OSS software, all the way form linux desktops. So for a smaller company, open source is definitely here and a wonderful possibility for small companies.
Well, this all depends on the perspective:
Open source is an integral part of the enterprise environment these days in larger organizations, but that doesnt mean that its "linux on every desktop".
Working as a developer for a very large global consulting firm, I can say that the way open source is penetrating enterprises is by being "parts of the machinery", for example, if you are developing custom applications, it is almost unavoidable to use open source components such as Struts, Dom4j and tools like jUnit, Ant etc.
But we are still some distance from "open source dominating the environments", open source is gaining traction mostly in the areas where the developers have a big say in what is chosen. When it comes to the choice of "backbone platform", this is still very much a management choice of commercial platforms.
Bringing humans into space is just PR, humans are fragile, require massive resources (living quarters, food, oxygen, water etc), and are error-prone. Humans in space is just pure national-ego and PR.
Of course remote-controlling stuff is very slow, but it still requires less resources and time than to put actual people into space.
I think our best bet at exploring other planets "from the ground" is still machines, even more so if we can improve their AI:s and self-sustainability and adaptability in different conditions.
But then again, who wouldnt love going into space anyway?:)
I don't think the trade-makers are so enlightened either, but I do think that that is in fact the results trade bring with it.
Just look at all the relatively "new" _real_ democracies in south-east asia and what few there are in Africa (like Botswana), they have all embraced free-trade, which in turn has brought with it greater democracy, freedom and wealth, not to some, but to all inhabitants, even the poor. There really has been no "revolution", it has just been the inevitable progress of trade and openess to impression from the outside world.
The western world doesnt need to push for political reforms in China, just look at what trade and impressions to the outside world has brought China already, the government is steping back in area after area. Granted China is far from a free country as of yet, but its considerably freer than 20 years ago, and the slow progress towards freedom will proceed and cannot be stopped, even if it isnt happening overnight.
what I also don't understand is why 'democratic' world has such a great trade relations with totalitarian China?
Well, look at all the good isolation did to Iraq and take a wild guess..
Trade means that they also get information and impressions from the outside whether they like it or not, which in turn leads to enlightenment. And an informed and enlightened population will most likely not put up with tyranny for too long, but still be able hopefully to revolutionize to democracy in a peaceful manner.
Isolation is not an option, it only means that the totalitarian government has an outside enemy to focus the populations attention on and blame for all evils.
Then there is also the aspect of peace, Bastiat said "When goods don't cross borders, soldiers will."
You can use Hibernate in you applications and deploy it on Geronimo to your hearts content. Hibernate is application server neutral and doesnt even require an application server! You can use it in your standalone apps as well.
And I would definitely recommend using Hibernate, I have pushed it into several big commercial projects and its worked like a charm.
for more info on Hibernate.
Just joking there. Was referring to the slashbots who shamelessly look something up in wikipedia to say some trivia about a subject to get modded up, just thought the linking to wikipedia was "even more shameless if the poster is a slashbot":)
Well, you got me there, the syncing is pretty shitty to say the least, and that goes for both the windows/outlook and linux/evolution combos..
I have lost a few numbers due to syncing problems, and appointment times always get messed up.
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Parent post is probably as balanced as you will get on /., I think he sums it up: Java is 98% problem-free cross-platform, if you poke long and deep enough you might find some problems, but these problems are most usually minor and mostly due to slightly different underlying platform issues like threading models that give different scaling behaviour (cross-platform doesn't mean you can entirely escape the platform you are running).
Hey this sucks, it started out like The Matrix but 3 minutes in, it just loops continously.
Then it must have been "Matrix Revolutions" that you saw..
I think prospect magazine just escaped into a parallell internet..
And so by dismissing it, where does that put it on their 'attention scale'?
Its coming onto their radar from obscurity..
And sorry to dissapoint you, its not MS bashing, I am simply stating their modus operandi, which is quite predictable in these cases.
Anyone else recognize the pattern?
1. MS dismisses competing software.
2. MS starts FUD:ing the software.
3. MS starts copying the functionality of the software.
4. MS touts new features as significant new MS "innovation! Hooray!
It is quite easy to see how successful a specific open source software package is by looking at where Microsoft places it on the "Microsoft attention"-scale.
"Guess my "race", please."
Homo Sapiens?
Immigration of people who can support themselves is an inherently good thing for all western countries considering the demographic bomb we are sitting on. Most western countries including the US, even though Europes situation is considerably worse have birthrates that will barely sustain the current population without immigration, this leads to an "inverted" demographical pyramid were very few young people will have to support very many old people out of the workforce. That is, if we dont get immigrants that can help even out the numbers! Consider the following, what happens when: * large portions of the population starts to take money out of the markets through their retirement funds to actually live on the money? Markets will plumet and capital for both mature companies and startups will be harder to raise. * What happens when there are more retired people who pay no or very little in tax, instead of many young people who pay taxes? How do you support basic infrastructure in that case? I could go on.. The point being: western countries should embrace and welcome every immigrant that wants to come to their country to work and make a life, its probably the only thing that will save our economies 30 years from now..
The article linked above is 9-page long when printed and contains tons of information.
I hope the poster doesn't actually expect any of us to post any meaningful comments based on having read that article, it's a lost cause.. At least on me.
Well, if you want someone to take the time to burn you a CD and send it to you, its a fair assumption that you'll have to pay for the blank CD, postage and packaging and perhaps a little for the time it takes to burn it...
Although it seems that you can download the CD for free from the mirrors?
This might be useful for the large masses of people who do not yet have broadband,you know there still are some of those out there..
"It's a naturally evolved human characteristic to grow and expand and eventually consume every resource that is available to us."
You're American aren't you?
"sorry, brain seems to be malfunctioning."
Well, considering the quality of the past two Star Wars movies, estimates say that George Lucas's brain did the same thing ca 1984..
Sure is, I saw some really ugly buggers who were supposed to look like Brad Pitt.
:)
Not to mention that I was supposed to look like George Clooney, funny my (absent) love life doesn't really mirror that "fact"..
Has anyone mirrored this story? I want to read who I look like!
There is one fundamental problem in the open source community (and as an occassional open source developer I know what I am talking about):
It's the old "dont you dare critisize my darling project!"-dilemma, it somehow seems that some people think that because a commercial entity is not behind a piece of software it is all of a sudden beyond any criticism.
Open source adoption and progress would be better served by taking criticism more constructively and try to actually address the problems put forward (even those that are put forward undiplomatically), instead of retorting to "no, you are stupid", "why would you want to do that?", "no you are really really stupid"-flamewars in a pathetic attempt att diverting criticism back.
Check the ego at the door and see the community prosper.
"The Santa Cruz Sentinel is reporting, SCO is laying off 10 percent of its worldwide workforce."
:)
I guess they are laying of lawyers in Germany then?
I am not at all contesting that open source is disrupting proprietary software in a big way, but its not dominant (as of yet). Personally though, I think it eventually _will be_.
But it is taking the traditional low-end route: getting traction first through developers, and then moving its way up the food-chaing slowly but certainly.
I am actually in the process of ending my work at said "big global consultancy" to start out on my own with a couple of friends: we will most likely use mostly OSS software, all the way form linux desktops. So for a smaller company, open source is definitely here and a wonderful possibility for small companies.
Well, this all depends on the perspective:
Open source is an integral part of the enterprise environment these days in larger organizations, but that doesnt mean that its "linux on every desktop".
Working as a developer for a very large global consulting firm, I can say that the way open source is penetrating enterprises is by being "parts of the machinery", for example, if you are developing custom applications, it is almost unavoidable to use open source components such as Struts, Dom4j and tools like jUnit, Ant etc.
But we are still some distance from "open source dominating the environments", open source is gaining traction mostly in the areas where the developers have a big say in what is chosen. When it comes to the choice of "backbone platform", this is still very much a management choice of commercial platforms.
Bringing humans into space is just PR, humans are fragile, require massive resources (living quarters, food, oxygen, water etc), and are error-prone. Humans in space is just pure national-ego and PR.
:)
Of course remote-controlling stuff is very slow, but it still requires less resources and time than to put actual people into space.
I think our best bet at exploring other planets "from the ground" is still machines, even more so if we can improve their AI:s and self-sustainability and adaptability in different conditions.
But then again, who wouldnt love going into space anyway?
I don't think the trade-makers are so enlightened either, but I do think that that is in fact the results trade bring with it.
Just look at all the relatively "new" _real_ democracies in south-east asia and what few there are in Africa (like Botswana), they have all embraced free-trade, which in turn has brought with it greater democracy, freedom and wealth, not to some, but to all inhabitants, even the poor.
There really has been no "revolution", it has just been the inevitable progress of trade and openess to impression from the outside world.
The western world doesnt need to push for political reforms in China, just look at what trade and impressions to the outside world has brought China already, the government is steping back in area after area. Granted China is far from a free country as of yet, but its considerably freer than 20 years ago, and the slow progress towards freedom will proceed and cannot be stopped, even if it isnt happening overnight.
what I also don't understand is why 'democratic' world has such a great trade relations with totalitarian China?
Well, look at all the good isolation did to Iraq and take a wild guess..
Trade means that they also get information and impressions from the outside whether they like it or not, which in turn leads to enlightenment. And an informed and enlightened population will most likely not put up with tyranny for too long, but still be able hopefully to revolutionize to democracy in a peaceful manner.
Isolation is not an option, it only means that the totalitarian government has an outside enemy to focus the populations attention on and blame for all evils.
Then there is also the aspect of peace, Bastiat said "When goods don't cross borders, soldiers will."
You can use Hibernate in you applications and deploy it on Geronimo to your hearts content. Hibernate is application server neutral and doesnt even require an application server! You can use it in your standalone apps as well. And I would definitely recommend using Hibernate, I have pushed it into several big commercial projects and its worked like a charm. for more info on Hibernate.
Here's a pointer for you: If you are using a command prompt, you can stop trying to drag'n'drop the file, the command you are looking for is "cp"..
Just joking there. Was referring to the slashbots who shamelessly look something up in wikipedia to say some trivia about a subject to get modded up, just thought the linking to wikipedia was "even more shameless if the poster is a slashbot" :)
Kharma whoring are we? :)
Well, you got me there, the syncing is pretty shitty to say the least, and that goes for both the windows/outlook and linux/evolution combos.. I have lost a few numbers due to syncing problems, and appointment times always get messed up.