At least in terms of generating new hardware and software sales. Right now a 3 year old machine runs most business and office type applications adequately and there is very little incentive to upgrade. Unlike the good old days when an upgrade was need approximately every 1.2 years just to run the newest spreadsheet which had features that you desperately needed.
Games on the hand are much more intensive and often hook into unique operating system facilities that provide an incentive to upgrade. Case in point I just bought my son a new jet sim game this week end and it would not run wn Win2000 but would on XP. It was dog slow and often froze on my ancient 450 K5 and 900 Mhz Duron. And had be tbinking of buying a new machine while I sat waiting to reboot the system every 30 minutes.
Since the folks who download music are more likely to "borrow" that cd of Office it would make sense that the first few CPU cycles used will be to send MS or other software supplier a list of all unregistered software on your system. This idea really does work.
3) There are millions of people that already know SQL and can write a decent query with it. How does this help them? Never underestimate the power of SQL.
There are millions of people that already know how saddle and ride a horse. How do these new fangled automobile help them? Never underestimate the power of a horse.
While I agree with your other points... number 3 is never a reason to keep from embracing something new. People are suprisingly trainable.
The Navy/Marine corp are launching a large scale contract (NMCI) that restricts all Navy IT to MS and MS solutions. No room for further innovations with other platforms or the application of appropiate technology to the task, just a rosey pink homogeneous MS world. Under the new system you are not even allowed to connect a BSD, Linux, embedded network device or even a MAC machine to the network anywhere.
At the Navy labs, this one size fits all approach is even more short sighted and foolish. The upper echelon has yet to catch on that the network is the backbone or the infrastructure that enables an ever increasing plethora of monitoring systems, data acquisition and control systems, collabration and communication mechanisms, etc. As more and more devices become Web enabled the Navy has effectively locked itself out in the cold and crawled in bed with built in obsolesce - not to mentioned left itself vulnerable to an attack or virus that would spead like wild fire in a homogeneous network.
It seems software amd hardware companies are nostalgic for the good ole days when a server or desktop had a service life of about 1.5 to 2 years due to obsolence which was in effect similar to a subscription.
Now the pace of change has slowed down and so has need to buy new systems. Companies like MS and Sun are trying maintain and expand revenue without offering any compelling reason to upgrade. So they are now "innovating" with pricing.
I thought it was pretty clear. It is really quite simple, if Amazon is already doing it why can't that they just extend it to their other sites. oh never mind some people just don't it.
The cgi application processes a template which consists of replaceable parameters, this template is then sent to standard out - no html exists in the code and the template is viewable and editable using the browser/html editor of your choice. The process is sort of like this
cgi_app.pl --|
-----> std_out Template.html --|
There are a variety of template processors out there (at least for Perl and Python far as I know), the one I use and have grown to love is TemplateRex
I have not used a print statements to output html directly in years of CGI programming. The use of templates completely obviates the need to use print or printing "here" documents. The article is pure gibberish.
In fact html in the code is considered sophomoric where I work and is shunned.
Too bad slashdot does not have a mechanism to rate the article it reviews.
This is probably good for humanity in general. As lesser fortunate countries economically and technically advance they will tend toward democratic processes, equalizing rights to women and children, lesser corruption, etc. Tribalism seems to hold sway with some but I look for the day when the whole world is roughly equal in terms of freedom, economic opportunities, educational access, and medical care for all not just my country, ethnic group, class, etc.
Wasn't there an article recently where a RIAA exec was proclaiming that ISP should be 'taxed' since 'they all know that they are transporting pirated music' across their networks?
Well than is not the opposite true. That is if they have a business plan that includes the net as a distribution channel than they should have to pay a tax to allow their customers to download their product.
I always thought the antitrush remedy should have been to restricted MS from buying into technology companies which would have instead forced them to start from scratch and do what they claim they are best at anyways and that is to innovate. They use their monopolistic hoard to buy up the competition and move into new technology areas that they would have a more difficult time if they had to start from scratch - and oh no - compete!
Case in point: When they completely misjudged the growth of the Internet (talk about vision!) they quickly bought a browser by buying spyglass. Had they had to start from scratch they would have been months behind and the game may have played out differently. Same is true with hotmail, powerpoint, SQL server, Visio, etc.
I am in midst of rewriting a Motif application that used a plotting library ( XRTgraph ) for displaying data. In all the cross-platform gui environments which one has a decent plotting library?
The mere terminology of listing a system as a "legacy" system indicates that its days are numbered and any new system development will most likely be favored toward a NMCI supported platform.
This is certainly true if the system is to connect to "the" network. Therefore NMCI effectively locks out all non-MS systems that connect to the network and Internet - this figures into to a very large piece of the pie. This means all intranets will be IIS, end of discussion, and all application development will be MS products such VB/ASP and all clients will be MS, regardless if there are a better solutions for a given task. And believe me, for web applications, there are much better solutions.
Where I work we use Linux/Perl/Octave/Gnuplot/etc. extensively to acquire and process data, monitor systems, collobrate, admin remotely, etc. As NMCI approaches all new system and application devleopement that connect to the network will be directed toward an NMCI supported platform. Other systems will be tolerated for the time being but you have to request special "legacy" status.
This sucks as an engineer as you will not be able to match a solution to a problem but will instead be forced to reach into a very small and restricted toolbox.
Sure Linux and other open source solutions are being employed by the Marine Corp and Navy. However, all those existing systems are not termed as "legacy" systems and will be scheduled to be "rehosted" by a MS solution shortly with currently being implemented NMCI contract.
The NMCI contract converts all of Navy IT to Microsoft "solutions". You cannot connect a non-NMCI (read microsoft) computer to the network anywhere. The NMCI contract is a huge win for Microsoft and loss for the Navy as well as for Open Source and other platform suppliers.
The Navy/Marine corp is presently going in the opposite direction. They are launching a large scale contract (NMCI) that restricts all Navy IT to MS and MS solutions. No room for further innovations with other platforms or the application of appropiate technology to the task, just a rosey pink homogeneous MS world. Under the new system you are not even allowed to connect a BSD, Linux, embedded network device or even a MAC machine to the network anywhere.
At the Navy labs, this one size fits all approach is even more short sighted and foolish. The upper echelon has yet to catch on that the network is the backbone or the infrastructure that enables an ever increasing plethora of monitoring systems, data acquisition and control systems, collabration and communication mechanisms, etc. As more and more devices become Web enabled the Navy has effectively locked itself out in the cold and crawled in bed with built in obsolesce - not to mentioned left itself vulnerable to an attack or virus that would spead like wild fire in a homogeneous network.
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Can you name one commercial implementation in Squeak?
Good point. However how many commericial applications are written in Java? I am not talking about custom client/server apps or installer programs but popular shrink wrap applications that are written in Java? Just curious as I never seem to encounter any and often wonder why not - given the Java advantage of cross-plateform capability.
But the real problem is that there is ZERO reward for government spend conservatively, and in fact there are disincentives to do so. Agencies and departments that don't use up their budgets are often penalized by not having that money given to them in the future.
This is amazingly true. If you are a gov't manger and are given a budget your job is get the job done and the spend the money - and maybe beg for more. There are no kudos for doing a job efficiently and being under budget. I always thought there should be a deficit reduction account that a manager could direct unused funds to.
Gov't agencies need a hole in the bottom of the budgetary bucket. They cannot possibly be expected to exactly estimate their yearly budget requirements upfront. That is why agencies need a method to return monies to a general fund that could for example pay down he deficit then they would operate much more efficiently and have a mechanism to spend to the level required and not to the level allocated at the beginning of the year.
The Legislature likely will consider a bill in the coming session that would require Oklahoma's Internet companies to change the way they charge taxes on sales made in the state.
Like another bill considered a year ago, this one would require Internet sellers to compute the sales tax based on their locations rather than the buyers'.
This is from the second article for the state of OK. What a great way to slit your own thoat. This will effectively discourage any high tech, non-polluting, job creating, revenue generating business from your state.
My wife has a modest internet hot sauce store. She generates over 100k in revenue and hires an employee. The employee pays state and local taxes. We pay an inventory tax, a use tax on equipment used to run the business, property tax, state income tax, commercial vehicle tax, etc. If Idaho implemented such a tax we would close up shop or move to Montana or Nevada and the state of Idaho would lose.
The company you work for is suppose to pay a use tax for those online purchases. How is the state going to know if you bought those computers? Since a computer is a deductable item, if your company attempts to "write off" the said computer systems on their federal and state income tax than they will also be required to pay the use tax.
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At least in terms of generating new hardware and software sales. Right now a 3 year old machine runs most business and office type applications adequately and there is very little incentive to upgrade. Unlike the good old days when an upgrade was need approximately every 1.2 years just to run the newest spreadsheet which had features that you desperately needed.
Games on the hand are much more intensive and often hook into unique operating system facilities that provide an incentive to upgrade. Case in point I just bought my son a new jet sim game this week end and it would not run wn Win2000 but would on XP. It was dog slow and often froze on my ancient 450 K5 and 900 Mhz Duron. And had be tbinking of buying a new machine while I sat waiting to reboot the system every 30 minutes.
Since the folks who download music are more likely to "borrow" that cd of Office it would make sense that the first few CPU cycles used will be to send MS or other software supplier a list of all unregistered software on your system. This idea really does work.
Usually the vulnerability is in the last mile where all the redundancy, multi-routes would not help.
3) There are millions of people that already know SQL and can write a decent query with it. How does this help them? Never underestimate the power of SQL.
There are millions of people that already know how saddle and ride a horse. How do these new fangled automobile help them? Never underestimate the power of a horse.
While I agree with your other points... number 3 is never a reason to keep from embracing something new. People are suprisingly trainable.
The Navy/Marine corp are launching a large scale contract (NMCI) that restricts all Navy IT to MS and MS solutions. No room for further innovations with other platforms or the application of appropiate technology to the task, just a rosey pink homogeneous MS world. Under the new system you are not even allowed to connect a BSD, Linux, embedded network device or even a MAC machine to the network anywhere.
At the Navy labs, this one size fits all approach is even more short sighted and foolish. The upper echelon has yet to catch on that the network is the backbone or the infrastructure that enables an ever increasing plethora of monitoring systems, data acquisition and control systems, collabration and communication mechanisms, etc. As more and more devices become Web enabled the Navy has effectively locked itself out in the cold and crawled in bed with built in obsolesce - not to mentioned left itself vulnerable to an attack or virus that would spead like wild fire in a homogeneous network.
It seems software amd hardware companies are nostalgic for the good ole days when a server or desktop had a service life of about 1.5 to 2 years due to obsolence which was in effect similar to a subscription.
Now the pace of change has slowed down and so has need to buy new systems. Companies like MS and Sun are trying maintain and expand revenue without offering any compelling reason to upgrade. So they are now "innovating" with pricing.
How can they be certain that this plant has not been around for long time and it just got noticed?
As an online retailer why should I spend my resources to act as a tax collector for another state of which I use no services or even visit.
This is an issue between the State's tax agency and the citizen of the that State, leave be the hell of of it.
And what if I don't. If I do not have any presence in that State of question can they really do anything. Can Florida AG enforce compliance in Idaho?
I thought it was pretty clear. It is really quite simple, if Amazon is already doing it why can't that they just extend it to their other sites. oh never mind some people just don't it.
The cgi application processes a template which consists of replaceable parameters, this template is then sent to standard out - no html exists in the code and the template is viewable and editable using the browser/html editor of your choice. The process is sort of like this
cgi_app.pl --|
-----> std_out
Template.html --|
There are a variety of template processors out there (at least for Perl and Python far as I know), the one I use and have grown to love is TemplateRex
I have not used a print statements to output html directly in years of CGI programming. The use of templates completely obviates the need to use print or printing "here" documents. The article is pure gibberish.
In fact html in the code is considered sophomoric where I work and is shunned.
Too bad slashdot does not have a mechanism to rate the article it reviews.
This is probably good for humanity in general. As lesser fortunate countries economically and technically advance they will tend toward democratic processes, equalizing rights to women and children, lesser corruption, etc. Tribalism seems to hold sway with some but I look for the day when the whole world is roughly equal in terms of freedom, economic opportunities, educational access, and medical care for all not just my country, ethnic group, class, etc.
Wasn't there an article recently where a RIAA exec was proclaiming that ISP should be 'taxed' since 'they all know that they are transporting pirated music' across their networks?
Well than is not the opposite true. That is if they have a business plan that includes the net as a distribution channel than they should have to pay a tax to allow their customers to download their product.
I always thought the antitrush remedy should have been to restricted MS from buying into technology companies which would have instead forced them to start from scratch and do what they claim they are best at anyways and that is to innovate. They use their monopolistic hoard to buy up the competition and move into new technology areas that they would have a more difficult time if they had to start from scratch - and oh no - compete!
Case in point: When they completely misjudged the growth of the Internet (talk about vision!) they quickly bought a browser by buying spyglass. Had they had to start from scratch they would have been months behind and the game may have played out differently. Same is true with hotmail, powerpoint, SQL server, Visio, etc.
I am in midst of rewriting a Motif application that used a plotting library ( XRTgraph ) for displaying data. In all the cross-platform gui environments which one has a decent plotting library?
The mere terminology of listing a system as a "legacy" system indicates that its days are numbered and any new system development will most likely be favored toward a NMCI supported platform.
This is certainly true if the system is to connect to "the" network. Therefore NMCI effectively locks out all non-MS systems that connect to the network and Internet - this figures into to a very large piece of the pie. This means all intranets will be IIS, end of discussion, and all application development will be MS products such VB/ASP and all clients will be MS, regardless if there are a better solutions for a given task. And believe me, for web applications, there are much better solutions.
Where I work we use Linux/Perl/Octave/Gnuplot/etc. extensively to acquire and process data, monitor systems, collobrate, admin remotely, etc. As NMCI approaches all new system and application devleopement that connect to the network will be directed toward an NMCI supported platform. Other systems will be tolerated for the time being but you have to request special "legacy" status.
This sucks as an engineer as you will not be able to match a solution to a problem but will instead be forced to reach into a very small and restricted toolbox.
Sure Linux and other open source solutions are being employed by the Marine Corp and Navy. However, all those existing systems are not termed as "legacy" systems and will be scheduled to be "rehosted" by a MS solution shortly with currently being implemented NMCI contract.
The NMCI contract converts all of Navy IT to Microsoft "solutions". You cannot connect a non-NMCI (read microsoft) computer to the network anywhere. The NMCI contract is a huge win for Microsoft and loss for the Navy as well as for Open Source and other platform suppliers.
After reading your link I noticed that the date on the article was 1999 - no longer relevant.
Or so I thought I checked it out via netcraft and here are the results:
The site www.army.mil is running WebSTAR/4.5(SSL) ID/70636 on MacOS
The Navy/Marine corp is presently going in the opposite direction. They are launching a large scale contract (NMCI) that restricts all Navy IT to MS and MS solutions. No room for further innovations with other platforms or the application of appropiate technology to the task, just a rosey pink homogeneous MS world. Under the new system you are not even allowed to connect a BSD, Linux, embedded network device or even a MAC machine to the network anywhere.
At the Navy labs, this one size fits all approach is even more short sighted and foolish. The upper echelon has yet to catch on that the network is the backbone or the infrastructure that enables an ever increasing plethora of monitoring systems, data acquisition and control systems, collabration and communication mechanisms, etc. As more and more devices become Web enabled the Navy has effectively locked itself out in the cold and crawled in bed with built in obsolesce - not to mentioned left itself vulnerable to an attack or virus that would spead like wild fire in a homogeneous network.
Can you name one commercial implementation in Squeak?
Good point. However how many commericial applications are written in Java? I am not talking about custom client/server apps or installer programs but popular shrink wrap applications that are written in Java? Just curious as I never seem to encounter any and often wonder why not - given the Java advantage of cross-plateform capability.
This piece of crap is posted every time a Perl topic comes around. It is a repost from here
A few clues to its troll content:
While I wouldn't use its to code the new Doom (VB would be a better choice)
Perl lacks a graphics library of any kind.
But the real problem is that there is ZERO reward for government spend conservatively, and in fact there are disincentives to do so. Agencies and departments that don't use up their budgets are often penalized by not having that money given to them in the future.
This is amazingly true. If you are a gov't manger and are given a budget your job is get the job done and the spend the money - and maybe beg for more. There are no kudos for doing a job efficiently and being under budget. I always thought there should be a deficit reduction account that a manager could direct unused funds to.
Gov't agencies need a hole in the bottom of the budgetary bucket. They cannot possibly be expected to exactly estimate their yearly budget requirements upfront. That is why agencies need a method to return monies to a general fund that could for example pay down he deficit then they would operate much more efficiently and have a mechanism to spend to the level required and not to the level allocated at the beginning of the year.
The Legislature likely will consider a bill in the coming session that would require Oklahoma's Internet companies to change the way they charge taxes on sales made in the state.
Like another bill considered a year ago, this one would require Internet sellers to compute the sales tax based on their locations rather than the buyers'.
This is from the second article for the state of OK. What a great way to slit your own thoat. This will effectively discourage any high tech, non-polluting, job creating, revenue generating business from your state.
My wife has a modest internet hot sauce store. She generates over 100k in revenue and hires an employee. The employee pays state and local taxes. We pay an inventory tax, a use tax on equipment used to run the business, property tax, state income tax, commercial vehicle tax, etc. If Idaho implemented such a tax we would close up shop or move to Montana or Nevada and the state of Idaho would lose.
The proposal put forth obviously cover all interstate transactions not just internet commerce - I thought this was obvious.
did NOT collect at least $77,500 in sales taxes
The company you work for is suppose to pay a use tax for those online purchases. How is the state going to know if you bought those computers? Since a computer is a deductable item, if your company attempts to "write off" the said computer systems on their federal and state income tax than they will also be required to pay the use tax.