and the software for those capabilities, but Verizon made them scrap that software AFTER it was developed and QA'ed, and forced them to develop new software without those capabilities you want.
Very true. But I'm hoping that they scrap the software because they want to trouble shoot a single OS. I don't blame them. The problem is their OS sucks. So with Android behind them they could reduce the amount software they have to work on so they can focus on their shitty "get it now" software and let me install stuff I want with my phone. Aside from losing the ability to fully control what people put on their phone It's a total win for them. And if they think that they can get away with controlling every thing that I put on my phone I'll be off their network ASAP. As it is they almost lost me with the iPhone. They got lucky that the iPhone was locked down and that there was talk of the gPhone or else I would have moved.
Speaking as someone who is stuck on the Verizon network I say THANK GOD. My biggest complaint with Verizon is their OS. They have it on every phone and it's an unwieldy piece of crap. They might be a corporate super giant but they seem to be realizing that people don't like being fucked with. At first we just wanted good service, this is now their advertising corner stone. Then we had to teach that when you say unlimited you have to mean it. So they might be looking at things like Android and seriously consider it. A better OS for their phones that other people will take care of for them? Sounds like a good deal. I just hope to see something good from them soon because their iPhone want-a-be is the best they have and it still sucks
Why else would he be so angry at Intel for producing the Classmate PC?
Because his PC has all Open Source software on it. I remember when I learning about computers as a kid running Windows. There was this brick wall I just hit one day because I was not allowed to learn any more. It was a really frustrating feeling.
Also it seems like Intel is getting in to the game because they are out to make a buck not to help. So once they are the only game in town they are likely to just have the price jump up.
FYI: The TWIT that came out today talked about the OLPC project a lot.
I feel that I should also say something about the generational part of all this. The generation who grew up with the internet such as my self has many people who are hyper-educated by the Internet. By this I mean when ever we have any question we go and find the answer to it on the net. Hell it does not even have to be a question. We just go and learn about things that we become randomly interested in. For instance I found out today that Poinsettias being toxic is a myth. My friends and I all spend hours on Wikipedia just reading for the fun of it. So when ever we are having a conversation at some point someone is likely to bring up some obscure fact that no one could posably know with out either being on the net all the time or being an expert in that field. Now I don't think that this means in the future all people will be this educated or that the useless facts I learn on a daily basis will really matter much. The point is that I do look for answers to my questions. So when I have a question that really does matter I will not just depend on what little I am told but I will go out and learn about the issues and make as informed a choice as I can. I feel that this kind of daily learning is non-existent in most people who grew up before the internet. They very able to do this kind of learning but because it is not a habit they just don't.
As much as I can feel our freedom slipping away a can also feel the pull in the other direction. People are getting pissed. One by one people are realizing that stupid laws like this are getting passed. Soon people will realize that they can do something about it. As it is the current administration got a good slap on the wrist with the last election for congress. More needs to happen but it's start. My hope is that with the internet it will soon be the norm that all the governments doings will be posted on line so that it will be nearly imposable for an elected official to so much as take a crap with out the people who elected him being able to know about it. At the very least I hope independent news web sites take over and kick out the lazy and stupid news outlets like CNN and Fox. I can't help but remember when Jon Stewart was on a panel of some CNN show and he just started yelling at the CNN journalists for not asking elected officials any real questions.
I fully agree with your reasoning of why the RIAA does what it does.
You can take any successful song, and 90% of people will hate it... but it'll be *A DIFFERENT 90% FOR EACH RECORD*. The only way to successfully cater to this situation is "the single", which allows people to buy songs they like, without getting a dozen pieces of crap bundled in
I see your point but I feel it needs a bit of refinement on this issue. Most people can fit neatly in to a genre that they like. The rest are "into a bit of everything" and (I'm very sorry to say) don't really matter much right now. These are the people who really know music and look in to new bands and songs. The fact that you know about the loudness war at all makes me think you are one of them. The problem is that instead of hearing what people like you think of songs the average Joe gets what he knows from the radio. It's a system designed to trick people in to thinking that there are only 10 bands in the whole world. So they go out and buy the crappy CDs based on the one song that they hear over and over again on the way to work. Selling songs individually helps a lot but the average Joe will sill just buy the whole fucking album because iTunes will offer a discount on buying it all at once, they don't know any better, and (most importantly) they want to have more then one song to listen to. So just moving over to the pay per song model is not enough to improve music. The average Joe needs a way to buy good music with confidence and with out spending a ton of time and money looking in to new bands. I think that forcing a rating system in to the mix would work. Hence my end suggestion. In retrospect the price does not need to be rating based but a rating system MUST be included somehow so that good music sells better.
Why buy an entire CD when only one track is worth listening to.
This is a bit of a tangent but that made me think. The reason is because that model made them the most money. One good song = one short album with good sales. Ok so change the model right? Any new model will have the same kind of 'attack' done on it by the RIAA. So say we Charge by song. Well that's easy to work around, push bands to make a lot of songs. You will get plenty of suckers who will buy all the songs after only hearing one and being disappointed. So that does not really fix the problem. Ok so lets charge by length! Well then lets have them make really long songs. Um....charge by rating? Now THAT could work. However if we do that they are gonna try some NASTY stuff to get the ratings up on the songs. It might be the best option since they try to do that anyway for their cash cows and fail at it for the most part.
They hate it because it started off as closed source, slow, buzz word nonsense. However over the last 12 years it has become open sourced, decently fast, and a valid language to do work in. They got a bad taste in their mouth about it and refuse to let the issue go. People don't care that it's better then it was and that most of these issues have been fixed. They will only care if it can do something they already do better then what they have now. So until Java can beat C/C++ or Perl most people refuse to even learn how about how well it can do somethings. Even if it can handle most of the cross platform and memory leak issues of C/C++ and that Perl 6 is trying to use the same VM idea that Java has had for years now they just don't care. I don't get it either, I just try to correct the miss understandings and hope that they catch on to the fact that Java has become a useful language.
On 13 November 2006, Sun released much of Java as free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). On 8 May 2007 Sun finished the process, making all of Java's core code open source, aside from a small portion of code to which Sun did not hold the copyright.
I believe these run-time optimizations are critical for Java to meet or surpass C++ in speed.
Considering the out come of the Fortran vs. ASM battle I talked about I think that day will come. It makes me wonder if FireFox were written in Java would it still have the memory leak issues it has been having (and yes there are ways to make memory leaks in Java. It's just harder). In any case I just look forward to the day where anytime a program is written in Java people don't immediately consider it slow and worthless.
Yes but there is more then one way to compile a program. Back in the day people thought high-level languages could never work because a compiler that turned Fortran in to ASM would never be able to match the efficiency of the ASM code generated by a programmer who was trying to write a program to do the same exact thing. Over the years compilers got smarter and now it's hard for a programmer to match a compiler. In the same way a newer Java compiler could be smarter and write faster bytecode code. I just have no idea what is more important, the Java compiler or the JVM.
It seems simple but it gets very messy very quickly. They started out doing that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history. AWT would use what ever GUI system was native to the OS. The result was the Java app looked like it fit right in. But it was a mess. From Java 1.0 to Java 1.1 they tried to fix it but it still did not help. So with Java 1.2 they said fuck it all and just made Swing. Swing still kinda sucks but it's way better then AWT was.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history The main improvements are not what has been added to the language but the improvements that make the whole thing faster. Where I work we recently switched our JSP server from Java 3 to Java 5 and went from having 60% of our pages take under 2 seconds to having 95% of our pages take under 2 seconds. No code changes. Hell, I don't even think we recompiled it. With Java you need to keep in mind that things like memory management that Java does on it's own can always be improved.
Client side Java applications have historically sucked because the Java GUI objects sucked and/or were too hard to use. It caused the apps to be bloated, unresponsive, slow, and hard to write. You could work around these problems but it was a tough fight and you needed to REALLY know what Java was doing. If Java 6 does fix even some of this then we are likely to see many more usable Java client apps. Hell, even the Java bashers might enjoy using some of them soon.
If the programs know to use the new version of Java it should. Java 6 is faster then Java 5(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history). According to some other posts the JDK for OSX is built in. With any luck this JDK will replace that one. There is also a chance that the programs will need to be recompiled to take full advantage of it.
That does not mean that other people would not benefit from it. Java 6 has a number of performance and GUI improvements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history Anyone would be happy if their programs were faster, better looking and more responsive.
I thought that too at first but he seems to stick mostly to the Simpsons. David X. Cohen is the main guy behind Futurama but as I understand it he still has to answer to Groening.
It's worth noting that both Adult Swim and Comedy Central both put in bids for the new eps of Futurama and Comedy Central won. Since Adult Swim more or less resurrected Futurama by playing it almost every night for the last few years it was kind of a dirty move on CCs part. So if Adult Swim got it the new eps would still happen and would be in, what some would consider, more capable hands. The same exact thing happened with Family Guy but the other guy was Fox and not CC.
As I understand it a lot of it is for speed. FF loves to forward and back cache pages. So it caches most of the pages you've been to and pages you might go to from where you are. Then you have the raw caches of all the images as has already been talked about. You also have the JavaScript engine. I'm sure I'm missing a lot of things too. It does have a lot to remember so I'm not surprised about the ram usage.
By the way for those of you who have not kept up one of the big problems with FF2 was that the memory would start to get fragmented over time. So you ended up with large blocks of memory that contained only a few bits of information. FF2 did not seem to have a good way to handle this. But FF3 does. If you open up Task Manager you can watch it's ram in use drop after a heavy browsing session.
A huge memory footprint is bad but a slow browser is just not worth it.
Valve has done a lot of things that sound funny. But I have yet to see them do anything that was actually bad. I was aggravated by them at first with steam being DRM and all. But now I would rather get a game on steam then on a disk. Their idea of DRM is actually MANAGING digital rights instead of restricting them.
It is just an initial surge, but it is showing signs of a long standing trend. Apple has been gaining a lot of ground over Microsoft. And Vista has been tanking. I don't think something like this happened with the last version of OS X and XP. It's not a big deal yet but it looks like unless Microsoft figures out something soon this could turn in to regular occurrence.
Technically, yes you can call IE a web app(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application). However the common definition of web apps is a web page that has some kind of huge back end that can do something impressive, Like hotmail and flicker. IE is far more considered a web browser then a web app. Even if it was a web app it only got to where it was because it came with Windows. It did not have to earn being used. It only had to earn not being replaced. And now it's losing that battle too.
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Speaking as someone who is stuck on the Verizon network I say THANK GOD. My biggest complaint with Verizon is their OS. They have it on every phone and it's an unwieldy piece of crap. They might be a corporate super giant but they seem to be realizing that people don't like being fucked with. At first we just wanted good service, this is now their advertising corner stone. Then we had to teach that when you say unlimited you have to mean it. So they might be looking at things like Android and seriously consider it. A better OS for their phones that other people will take care of for them? Sounds like a good deal. I just hope to see something good from them soon because their iPhone want-a-be is the best they have and it still sucks
Also it seems like Intel is getting in to the game because they are out to make a buck not to help. So once they are the only game in town they are likely to just have the price jump up.
FYI: The TWIT that came out today talked about the OLPC project a lot.
I feel that I should also say something about the generational part of all this. The generation who grew up with the internet such as my self has many people who are hyper-educated by the Internet. By this I mean when ever we have any question we go and find the answer to it on the net. Hell it does not even have to be a question. We just go and learn about things that we become randomly interested in. For instance I found out today that Poinsettias being toxic is a myth. My friends and I all spend hours on Wikipedia just reading for the fun of it. So when ever we are having a conversation at some point someone is likely to bring up some obscure fact that no one could posably know with out either being on the net all the time or being an expert in that field. Now I don't think that this means in the future all people will be this educated or that the useless facts I learn on a daily basis will really matter much. The point is that I do look for answers to my questions. So when I have a question that really does matter I will not just depend on what little I am told but I will go out and learn about the issues and make as informed a choice as I can. I feel that this kind of daily learning is non-existent in most people who grew up before the internet. They very able to do this kind of learning but because it is not a habit they just don't.
As much as I can feel our freedom slipping away a can also feel the pull in the other direction. People are getting pissed. One by one people are realizing that stupid laws like this are getting passed. Soon people will realize that they can do something about it. As it is the current administration got a good slap on the wrist with the last election for congress. More needs to happen but it's start. My hope is that with the internet it will soon be the norm that all the governments doings will be posted on line so that it will be nearly imposable for an elected official to so much as take a crap with out the people who elected him being able to know about it. At the very least I hope independent news web sites take over and kick out the lazy and stupid news outlets like CNN and Fox. I can't help but remember when Jon Stewart was on a panel of some CNN show and he just started yelling at the CNN journalists for not asking elected officials any real questions.
Selling songs individually helps a lot but the average Joe will sill just buy the whole fucking album because iTunes will offer a discount on buying it all at once, they don't know any better, and (most importantly) they want to have more then one song to listen to. So just moving over to the pay per song model is not enough to improve music. The average Joe needs a way to buy good music with confidence and with out spending a ton of time and money looking in to new bands. I think that forcing a rating system in to the mix would work. Hence my end suggestion. In retrospect the price does not need to be rating based but a rating system MUST be included somehow so that good music sells better.
They hate it because it started off as closed source, slow, buzz word nonsense. However over the last 12 years it has become open sourced, decently fast, and a valid language to do work in. They got a bad taste in their mouth about it and refuse to let the issue go. People don't care that it's better then it was and that most of these issues have been fixed. They will only care if it can do something they already do better then what they have now. So until Java can beat C/C++ or Perl most people refuse to even learn how about how well it can do somethings. Even if it can handle most of the cross platform and memory leak issues of C/C++ and that Perl 6 is trying to use the same VM idea that Java has had for years now they just don't care. I don't get it either, I just try to correct the miss understandings and hope that they catch on to the fact that Java has become a useful language.
Oh come on, that one was funny.
The reference was to this
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http://open.itworld.com/4915/070508opsjava/page_1.html
Here is a summery for people to lazy to click on the link from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)
Yes but there is more then one way to compile a program. Back in the day people thought high-level languages could never work because a compiler that turned Fortran in to ASM would never be able to match the efficiency of the ASM code generated by a programmer who was trying to write a program to do the same exact thing. Over the years compilers got smarter and now it's hard for a programmer to match a compiler. In the same way a newer Java compiler could be smarter and write faster bytecode code. I just have no idea what is more important, the Java compiler or the JVM.
It seems simple but it gets very messy very quickly. They started out doing that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history. AWT would use what ever GUI system was native to the OS. The result was the Java app looked like it fit right in. But it was a mess. From Java 1.0 to Java 1.1 they tried to fix it but it still did not help. So with Java 1.2 they said fuck it all and just made Swing. Swing still kinda sucks but it's way better then AWT was.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history The main improvements are not what has been added to the language but the improvements that make the whole thing faster. Where I work we recently switched our JSP server from Java 3 to Java 5 and went from having 60% of our pages take under 2 seconds to having 95% of our pages take under 2 seconds. No code changes. Hell, I don't even think we recompiled it. With Java you need to keep in mind that things like memory management that Java does on it's own can always be improved.
Client side Java applications have historically sucked because the Java GUI objects sucked and/or were too hard to use. It caused the apps to be bloated, unresponsive, slow, and hard to write. You could work around these problems but it was a tough fight and you needed to REALLY know what Java was doing. If Java 6 does fix even some of this then we are likely to see many more usable Java client apps. Hell, even the Java bashers might enjoy using some of them soon.
If the programs know to use the new version of Java it should. Java 6 is faster then Java 5(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history). According to some other posts the JDK for OSX is built in. With any luck this JDK will replace that one. There is also a chance that the programs will need to be recompiled to take full advantage of it.
That does not mean that other people would not benefit from it. Java 6 has a number of performance and GUI improvements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history Anyone would be happy if their programs were faster, better looking and more responsive.
Your right. I was thinking about the events leading up to it, not the details of the conclusion.
I thought that too at first but he seems to stick mostly to the Simpsons. David X. Cohen is the main guy behind Futurama but as I understand it he still has to answer to Groening.
It's worth noting that both Adult Swim and Comedy Central both put in bids for the new eps of Futurama and Comedy Central won. Since Adult Swim more or less resurrected Futurama by playing it almost every night for the last few years it was kind of a dirty move on CCs part. So if Adult Swim got it the new eps would still happen and would be in, what some would consider, more capable hands. The same exact thing happened with Family Guy but the other guy was Fox and not CC.
As I understand it a lot of it is for speed. FF loves to forward and back cache pages. So it caches most of the pages you've been to and pages you might go to from where you are. Then you have the raw caches of all the images as has already been talked about. You also have the JavaScript engine. I'm sure I'm missing a lot of things too. It does have a lot to remember so I'm not surprised about the ram usage. By the way for those of you who have not kept up one of the big problems with FF2 was that the memory would start to get fragmented over time. So you ended up with large blocks of memory that contained only a few bits of information. FF2 did not seem to have a good way to handle this. But FF3 does. If you open up Task Manager you can watch it's ram in use drop after a heavy browsing session. A huge memory footprint is bad but a slow browser is just not worth it.
Valve has done a lot of things that sound funny. But I have yet to see them do anything that was actually bad. I was aggravated by them at first with steam being DRM and all. But now I would rather get a game on steam then on a disk. Their idea of DRM is actually MANAGING digital rights instead of restricting them.
Yeah but not by much. That seems to be why they released the Orange box with everything in it and not just Ep2 by it self.
It is just an initial surge, but it is showing signs of a long standing trend. Apple has been gaining a lot of ground over Microsoft. And Vista has been tanking. I don't think something like this happened with the last version of OS X and XP. It's not a big deal yet but it looks like unless Microsoft figures out something soon this could turn in to regular occurrence.
Technically, yes you can call IE a web app(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application). However the common definition of web apps is a web page that has some kind of huge back end that can do something impressive, Like hotmail and flicker. IE is far more considered a web browser then a web app. Even if it was a web app it only got to where it was because it came with Windows. It did not have to earn being used. It only had to earn not being replaced. And now it's losing that battle too.