Look, I'll probably get downgraded for being redunant or off topic or creating flaimbait, but I'm going to say this anyway. Anders credentials are based more on luck than skill. Here's why:
When Anders took over as the Borland Pascal Chief Architect (note: Delphi didn't exist yet). What he succeeded in doing was developing a product that nearly faded into the dev tool "Where is it now?" bin. It almost disappeared! VB was swallowing up BP programmers like crazy. Knock VB all you want (God knows I do), it was a *much* easier tool to develop Windows apps with because of that Visual paradigm that's so standard in tools today.
Then, one day, Anders gets this "brilliant idea" to take the BP language and put a visual interface on it! What a great idea! Why didn't anyone else think of that!?? (hmmm...)
The people that made Delphi a great tool then and continue to make it a great tool today are *still at Borland*. Anders came up with *one* idea - the Delphi *team* made that dream a reality.
I love Delphi, and I wish Anders well, but don't think that just because C# has his name on it that it will just automatically be great. That's the hype that Microsoft is hoping you'll buy into.
Sounds more like mafia-oriented strongarming and protection money, if you ask me (and I know you didn't *g*). This is where the RICO statues should be used, not in the Metallica v. Napster suit.
You know, you'd *think* most of the money would be made on service, but I dunno... In 1997 I bought, brand new, an Oldsmobile Aurora. I love the car. Nicest car I've ever owned.. but I digress... I take the car to the *same* dealer I bought it from for *all* service. In 2.5 years we've built a pretty good relationship, mainly because I've busted the chops of the service staff so many times over breaking the damn thing when they service it. And that's my point: I've taken that car into them for every regular service, but they screw up with little stuff so much that I *think* they've actually spent *more* money on the car than *I* have.
Yea, I *suppose* they're supposed to make money off of service of the car, I sure hope it offset the 1200 bucks they put into it on my behalf last year...;)
Hmm.. now that I think about it, I really have to find a new dealer...;-P
I telecommuted for a company based in Mercer Island, Washington from my ranch home in rural King County, Washington for a year. I would say it was probably one of the *most* productive work years in my career. When I didn't have meetings with the company's clients, I got up at 10am, walked into my office at 2pm, and worked until 10pm-2am. The company was thrilled with my work, I got *far* more done by telecommuting than I do now (I *lose* 3 hours a day on average commuting to my current client), and I got to work in my PJ's and crank KISS tunes all day.. what more could you want...:)
This smacks of the old Borland/Ashton Tate merger. Borland buys it's competitor purely out of ego and pays a king's ransom for it. Then they realize it was a bad idea and try to farm off (or spin off) as much of the competitor's technology as possible. In the case of Borland all they have left is Interbase, *and they just made that product free* because they couldn't find a buyer.
Pan forward a few years.. the k56/X2 wars rage on and USR finds themselves losing even tho they're selling lots of product. Enter 3Com, who in one self ego-gratifying swoop consumes their rival. Ending the 56k wars, just in time for DSL (making THAT a fine investment.. not!). The interesting part here is the 'booby' prize that 3Com had aquired as part of USR... Palm Computing. Now Palm has been spun off, it's the new rich kid on the block, 3Com investors have more money, etc. But 3Com had no clue they had that diamond in USR's corporate coalheap, that's not what they're target was in buying USR. It was just luck. Glad someone at 3Com was paying attention, perhaps that can save them.
Now they're trying to farm off all of their modem equipment, which no one is buying much of anymore these days anyway in favor of ISDN/DSL/Cable Modems (at least not in the US - I can't speak for other countries). Hope they can succeed in trying to futher backpeddle on their USR expenditure.
When you go to http://www.javasoft.com/products/jdk/1.2/download- solaris.html you'll see a statement that says "[The Reference Implementation] is distinguished from the Java 2 SDK Production Release."
Click on the link for the words 'Java 2 SDK Production Release' and you're then sent to http://www.sun.com/solaris/java/index.html. Click on the 'Download' link and you're at the production release for the Solaris JDK.
Sorry for the late response.. I was writing EJB's yesterday...
- Corel Office WAS Borland Office and then it was Novel Office. - It's easy to be one of the three most popular office suites when there are only three on the WinTel platform. - Inprise/Borland has been having tough times ever since the purchase of Ashton Tate. THAT was their downfall. They paid far too much for a company that they could have bought for a song. They also kept *way* too many of the Former A-T Employees. Probably about 80 percent of the holdovers could have been dismissed - especially considering the fact that the only A-T products that were kept were Interbase and dBASE and most of the employees that were retained were support and marketing groups for the products that Borland dismissed.
- While true, both companies have been tromped on by MS (remember Novel bought the Borland Office who sold it to Corel - so the spanking goes back even further), Inprise has been working *extremely* hard to re-invent itself into a non-Windows company (JBuilder and the AppServer were just the first steps). And I *think* that Corel was taking a cue from their lead.
- And Borland tools *still* do *extremely* well in the Wintel market.
- BInprise and Corel have *both* been doing well in the Linux market (the problem is that most of the stuff so far has been free - JBuilder Foundation, for example). Now if they can just make this move as *profitable* as it has been *popular* we'll have a serious tools company.
These things being said.. I think this is great for Borland/Inprise/Whatever... I worry about what this will do for Corel...
The Dragonball processor has no MMU. And only has an execution space of about 64K (the max you'll have at any one time is 56K). Yes, the Dragonball has *access* to more memory for storage, etc. but not for actually program execution.
Think Z80 programming with a Motorola 68000 instruction set and you'll have an idea of what the Dragonball is like...:)
No, if Gateway had pulled a Steve Jobs and Newton'ed the thing, *then* they'd be killing it. At this point, at least it's getting a fighting chance. There's a lot of cool, very innovative, stuff out there that gets to the (relative) maturity that the Amiga had gotten to, only to die because of pinheadded marketing groups.
Case in point: The NewtonOS - once a trendsetter, now a footnote in PDA history.
Borland a bunch of Windows whores? Now *that* is funny. The reason they don't sell replacement media for BC++ for OS/2 is because they have no product left on the shelves for BC++ for OS/2. Everyone in the development tool community (including IBM) begged Borland to make a C++ tool for OS/2 so they did, and it sold like.. 10 copies. The sales of the tool were SO abysmal they dumped all OS/2 development from that point on (and they were working on a *lot* of OS/2 R&D at that point in time).
You want to call Borland on the carpet for something legit, go for it.. I'm always willing to listen, but not with this Anonymous "Borland is a bunch of Wintel whores" crap. It's just trolling and it's counter productive.
A color PalmOS device would still have a long battery life IF they based the screens on the color screen technology used in the Gameboy Color handheld systems. On those I get MONTHS of use out of a set of AA batteries. So I'm sure we'd still see 4-6 weeks of use out of a set of AAA batteries on the color Palm.
It just get's more confusing, because even if you convert the hebrew letters to latin alphabet, you still don't get anything useful (at least I don't think you do).
Believe it or not, she frequently donated her time and acting skills to the Children's Television Workshop for episodes of Sesame Street. In fact I just saw one of the M.K. episodes with my 11-month-old daughter over the weekend (she's already hooked *grin*).
It's a legitimate complaint. Hell, that's one of the reasons Jamie Zawinski left Mozilla; after a year there still wasn't a public beta. Here's his complete writeup for a reminder: http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html That doesn't mean I don't respect or appreciate the efforts of those who are volunteering their time to Mozilla, but while Netscape is looking older and older, IE starts looking more appealing in a lot of ways. Just my two scents...:-)
I recall at the beginning of the movie "Forbidden Planet" the narrator said that man didn't get to the moon until 2007. Fifteen years later, (in 69 for those who don't know when FP was in the theaters) we were there. 15 years for nanotechnology..? Try TWO.
Our lil 'button-down sex symbol'? Oh please.. she's Gillian Anderson.. who in Hollywood WOULDN'T hire her. The only flap she made was not being paid equally to Duchovny on the X-Files. Then they paid her, and she's continued to do great work since then.
Personally I'm looking forward to seeing ANYTHING else she does.
Assuming that the patent laws are not revised, you are correct. In 2003, the Unisys LZW patent expires. I've seen shareware/freeware packages where they've said GIF support will not be using compressed GIF's until 2003 because of this.
Roblimo did a great job with his posting. I only have *one* complaint. Did Unisys explain why they waited TEN YEARS to lower the boom on people using the GIF format, after it had become a widespread standard and so many graphics packages where using it?
Unisys can cry me a river. If they want to do something for their shareholders, they should try inventing some new technology. Rather than collect royalties on old patents until the patents expire. Say... there's a new concept... technology companies actually *innovating* and developing *new* ideas, rather than rehashing the stuff from the Xerox PARC 1984 alumni (hello? Apple? Microsoft?? oh, nobody home.. sorry).
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Look, I'll probably get downgraded for being redunant or off topic or creating flaimbait, but I'm going to say this anyway. Anders credentials are based more on luck than skill. Here's why:
When Anders took over as the Borland Pascal Chief Architect (note: Delphi didn't exist yet). What he succeeded in doing was developing a product that nearly faded into the dev tool "Where is it now?" bin. It almost disappeared! VB was swallowing up BP programmers like crazy. Knock VB all you want (God knows I do), it was a *much* easier tool to develop Windows apps with because of that Visual paradigm that's so standard in tools today.
Then, one day, Anders gets this "brilliant idea" to take the BP language and put a visual interface on it! What a great idea! Why didn't anyone else think of that!?? (hmmm...)
The people that made Delphi a great tool then and continue to make it a great tool today are *still at Borland*. Anders came up with *one* idea - the Delphi *team* made that dream a reality.
I love Delphi, and I wish Anders well, but don't think that just because C# has his name on it that it will just automatically be great. That's the hype that Microsoft is hoping you'll buy into.
Sounds more like mafia-oriented strongarming and protection money, if you ask me (and I know you didn't *g*). This is where the RICO statues should be used, not in the Metallica v. Napster suit.
You know, you'd *think* most of the money would be made on service, but I dunno... In 1997 I bought, brand new, an Oldsmobile Aurora. I love the car. Nicest car I've ever owned.. but I digress... I take the car to the *same* dealer I bought it from for *all* service. In 2.5 years we've built a pretty good relationship, mainly because I've busted the chops of the service staff so many times over breaking the damn thing when they service it. And that's my point: I've taken that car into them for every regular service, but they screw up with little stuff so much that I *think* they've actually spent *more* money on the car than *I* have.
;)
;-P
Yea, I *suppose* they're supposed to make money off of service of the car, I sure hope it offset the 1200 bucks they put into it on my behalf last year...
Hmm.. now that I think about it, I really have to find a new dealer...
I telecommuted for a company based in Mercer Island, Washington from my ranch home in rural King County, Washington for a year. I would say it was probably one of the *most* productive work years in my career. When I didn't have meetings with the company's clients, I got up at 10am, walked into my office at 2pm, and worked until 10pm-2am. The company was thrilled with my work, I got *far* more done by telecommuting than I do now (I *lose* 3 hours a day on average commuting to my current client), and I got to work in my PJ's and crank KISS tunes all day.. what more could you want... :)
This smacks of the old Borland/Ashton Tate merger. Borland buys it's competitor purely out of ego and pays a king's ransom for it. Then they realize it was a bad idea and try to farm off (or spin off) as much of the competitor's technology as possible. In the case of Borland all they have left is Interbase, *and they just made that product free* because they couldn't find a buyer.
Pan forward a few years.. the k56/X2 wars rage on and USR finds themselves losing even tho they're selling lots of product. Enter 3Com, who in one self ego-gratifying swoop consumes their rival. Ending the 56k wars, just in time for DSL (making THAT a fine investment.. not!). The interesting part here is the 'booby' prize that 3Com had aquired as part of USR... Palm Computing. Now Palm has been spun off, it's the new rich kid on the block, 3Com investors have more money, etc. But 3Com had no clue they had that diamond in USR's corporate coalheap, that's not what they're target was in buying USR. It was just luck. Glad someone at 3Com was paying attention, perhaps that can save them.
Now they're trying to farm off all of their modem equipment, which no one is buying much of anymore these days anyway in favor of ISDN/DSL/Cable Modems (at least not in the US - I can't speak for other countries). Hope they can succeed in trying to futher backpeddle on their USR expenditure.
When you go to http://www.javasoft.com/products/jdk/1.2/download- solaris.html you'll see a statement that says "[The Reference Implementation] is distinguished from the Java 2 SDK Production Release."
Click on the link for the words 'Java 2 SDK Production Release' and you're then sent to http://www.sun.com/solaris/java/index.html. Click on the 'Download' link and you're at the production release for the Solaris JDK.
Sorry for the late response.. I was writing EJB's yesterday...
First let's set down a few facts:
- Corel Office WAS Borland Office and then it was Novel Office.
- It's easy to be one of the three most popular office suites when there are only three on the WinTel platform.
- Inprise/Borland has been having tough times ever since the purchase of Ashton Tate. THAT was their downfall. They paid far too much for a company that they could have bought for a song. They also kept *way* too many of the Former A-T Employees. Probably about 80 percent of the holdovers could have been dismissed - especially considering the fact that the only A-T products that were kept were Interbase and dBASE and most of the employees that were retained were support and marketing groups for the products that Borland dismissed.
- While true, both companies have been tromped on by MS (remember Novel bought the Borland Office who sold it to Corel - so the spanking goes back even further), Inprise has been working *extremely* hard to re-invent itself into a non-Windows company (JBuilder and the AppServer were just the first steps). And I *think* that Corel was taking a cue from their lead.
- And Borland tools *still* do *extremely* well in the Wintel market.
- BInprise and Corel have *both* been doing well in the Linux market (the problem is that most of the stuff so far has been free - JBuilder Foundation, for example). Now if they can just make this move as *profitable* as it has been *popular* we'll have a serious tools company.
These things being said.. I think this is great for Borland/Inprise/Whatever... I worry about what this will do for Corel...
The Dragonball processor has no MMU. And only has an execution space of about 64K (the max you'll have at any one time is 56K). Yes, the Dragonball has *access* to more memory for storage, etc. but not for actually program execution.
:)
Think Z80 programming with a Motorola 68000 instruction set and you'll have an idea of what the Dragonball is like...
No, if Gateway had pulled a Steve Jobs and Newton'ed the thing, *then* they'd be killing it. At this point, at least it's getting a fighting chance. There's a lot of cool, very innovative, stuff out there that gets to the (relative) maturity that the Amiga had gotten to, only to die because of pinheadded marketing groups.
Case in point: The NewtonOS - once a trendsetter, now a footnote in PDA history.
Borland a bunch of Windows whores? Now *that* is funny. The reason they don't sell replacement media for BC++ for OS/2 is because they have no product left on the shelves for BC++ for OS/2. Everyone in the development tool community (including IBM) begged Borland to make a C++ tool for OS/2 so they did, and it sold like.. 10 copies. The sales of the tool were SO abysmal they dumped all OS/2 development from that point on (and they were working on a *lot* of OS/2 R&D at that point in time).
You want to call Borland on the carpet for something legit, go for it.. I'm always willing to listen, but not with this Anonymous "Borland is a bunch of Wintel whores" crap. It's just trolling and it's counter productive.
A color PalmOS device would still have a long battery life IF they based the screens on the color screen technology used in the Gameboy Color handheld systems. On those I get MONTHS of use out of a set of AA batteries. So I'm sure we'd still see 4-6 weeks of use out of a set of AAA batteries on the color Palm.
What some people will do for 15 minutes of fame.. Sheesh!
Nice to see our scholarship dollars are put to good use these days.
Good question... Since 666 in Roman Numerals is:
DCLXVI
It just get's more confusing, because even if you convert the hebrew letters to latin alphabet, you still don't get anything useful (at least I don't think you do).
Believe it or not, she frequently donated her time and acting skills to the Children's Television Workshop for episodes of Sesame Street. In fact I just saw one of the M.K. episodes with my 11-month-old daughter over the weekend (she's already hooked *grin*).
It's a legitimate complaint. Hell, that's one of the reasons Jamie Zawinski left Mozilla; after a year there still wasn't a public beta. Here's his complete writeup for a reminder: http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html That doesn't mean I don't respect or appreciate the efforts of those who are volunteering their time to Mozilla, but while Netscape is looking older and older, IE starts looking more appealing in a lot of ways. Just my two scents... :-)
I recall at the beginning of the movie "Forbidden Planet" the narrator said that man didn't get to the moon until 2007. Fifteen years later, (in 69 for those who don't know when FP was in the theaters) we were there. 15 years for nanotechnology..? Try TWO.
Our lil 'button-down sex symbol'? Oh please.. she's Gillian Anderson.. who in Hollywood WOULDN'T hire her. The only flap she made was not being paid equally to Duchovny on the X-Files. Then they paid her, and she's continued to do great work since then.
Personally I'm looking forward to seeing ANYTHING else she does.
Assuming that the patent laws are not revised, you are correct. In 2003, the Unisys LZW patent expires. I've seen shareware/freeware packages where they've said GIF support will not be using compressed GIF's until 2003 because of this.
Roblimo did a great job with his posting. I only have *one* complaint. Did Unisys explain why they waited TEN YEARS to lower the boom on people using the GIF format, after it had become a widespread standard and so many graphics packages where using it?
Unisys can cry me a river. If they want to do something for their shareholders, they should try inventing some new technology. Rather than collect royalties on old patents until the patents expire. Say... there's a new concept... technology companies actually *innovating* and developing *new* ideas, rather than rehashing the stuff from the Xerox PARC 1984 alumni (hello? Apple? Microsoft?? oh, nobody home.. sorry).
The index.cgi program that drives the crack just got pulled. I think all of us here beating on it got the attention of the sys admin at 2038.com.. ;-)
Take care.