"Improving" it? Microsoft added proprietary extensions into the standard "java" (or "javax" - I don't remember) namespace. That means that they disguised their own hooks as the standard Java API. Also, the Microsoft VM fiasco - that's the stuff that made poopooing Java on desktop so popular. I can only see this happening again.
Seriously, give it a rest folks. You can tinker with Java's real source code already, you just won't get Sun's seal of approval if you try and pass it off as a real thing.
Hehe, with a headline like that, I'm surprised they didn't shove the story into the YRO category, period.
I personally see nothing wrong with the patent. They are just applying some logic to the data they already know. Sure, that may encourage more data collection, but an average person's XYZ Shopper's Rewards Club Miles card already does enough snooping.
In fact, my beef is with the fact that this is a really broad patent. Any 15-year old could come up with the idea, if pressed to.
Re:Another perspective
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Got Game
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I think the idea here is to persuade the "old guard" to take us youngsters a little more seriously; and to use different management approaches. Since most of us greens have a pretty different take on how to do work, what with ADD and whatnot, this book tries to teach a manager how to utilize that.
Noone's gonna argue that communication skills are important, but I don't think that's even relevant to the article. Ah well, back to IMing with 5 people at once.
I don't understand why the database approach of old Palms is "antiquated" all of a sudden. If anything, I thought it was a gutsy and advanced way to look at data. Database approach fits the mobile environment perfectly - syncing the device with desktop is very elegant and consistent; data handling is unified from the program side.
I think dealing with data as uniform entries in one "flat" database is the way of the future - just look at Gmail and its lack of folders. Rather than organize everything into rigid hierarchy, just search for your data!
You should be allowed to say whatever you want, and if your employer doesn't like that - well that's between you and the company. How is this different from any other public speech?
See, next time you'll try to buy mail for your little paladin.
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Re:Good example of emergent behavior
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The use of word "emergent" here means that it "emerges" from very simple building blocks (that's just in case someone thinks it's for emergencies).
Anywho, any examples of what you provided only reinforce the parent statement. Each ant knows very simple things it can do. When all of them do those things, they do so without a central commanding point. When thousands of such simple things are done in unison, a very complex behaviour emerges, such as building fortifications or harvesting food. The fact that there is no central ant generalissimus to point them around means that it is an emergent behaviour.
This area of AI is a fascinating one. Games like Grand Theft Auto can exhibit very basic examples of it.
Er, the biggest city of Canada - Toronto - aint working (although it does provide spot-on regular results). Also, Canadian postal codes don't work. But I wish them all the best in making it work...
And if they do get it done, make it in damn Celsius!
Am I the only one who dislikes having to do a search to get some information?
Before, to get to the desired page you had to manually scan through the choices - e.g. select city. Now you have automated software to do that for you. But yes, as you said elsewhere, it is an odd progression towards doing everything in commandline (although I have zero problem with that).
Sometimes, when noone's around, I check out the SexyLosers (NSFW) comic. It has the some of the weirdest NSFW humour ever. Again, be warned, this is not for the faint of heart.
One of the articles about the Shuffle internals estimates their price to have about 40% markup over hardware costs. If that's true, is it the R&D department we're financing, or just paying for the privilege of a fashionable item?
In one way or another this is similar to training neural nets to recognize images, or spam filters to mark junkmail. Great way to put number-crunching power of computers to direct work.
I agree. I believe the whole point of Verisign's and others' existence is to make sure that the name/organization that shows up on the cert is actually corresponding to the person they're handing it to. And such verification costs money, or at least should take more than a simple Web form.
The post on linuxlookup seems like a pretty corny ad for some hosting company anyway. Pfft!
I think this is great. And there is already software to fill out these new specs too.
There is a next generation of engines that make the gap smaller and smaller between real-time graphics and rendered animated films. Take a look at this Unreal Engine 3 page for example.
What makes these new engines exciting is not just the fancy graphics. Increasing the resources on the hardware ultimately allows for a much more streamlined art pipeline, easier engine development and overall a faster and simpler product creation.
I absolutely respect the MacOS X Server, but in a server world dominated by a Solaris/Linux/Win32 are there any installations of this for medium-to-large shops? I want to hear from the folks that actually run this for serious production systems.
P.S. I am genuinely curious, not trying to flamebait here
I think that only after 2001-ish the XMLHttpRequest object (the key piece of this whole thing) gained almost 99% browser support. And also keep in mind that it takes a long long time for a tech to grow from a toy into an accepted way of doing things. Even.Net with its huge marketing is still smirked at by a lot of shops.
First of all, almost any PC will have a semi-recent IE installed (or Firefox for the more enlightened), and that is already enough to run Google's stuff.
Compare that to the Java plugin requirement, which, sad to say, is pretty far behind in availability on most PCs.
Also, Javascript-based stuff is easier to program, trust me on this. Layout of elements is much easier - and it can be done in any decent HTML editor. Finally, there's no thread-related insanity that AWT/Swing bring to the table.
How far from a fully web-based productivity/home software suite with nothing but a good browser and a videocard on the other side?
Think about it, sell a tiny commoditized PC-like box with nothing but a browser and media player, all in firmware. Then sell a monthly subscription service that provides a Javascript-based rich text editor, webmail client, calendaring, and even a basic photo editor. All the user files never leave the server, accumulating there like in Gmail. And yes, all of this is possible already - that's just what the article mentions.
With enough capital to fund the hardware (which could and should be sold at a loss), such vendor could make a killing off the monthly fees. And if you think that people won't trust a server-based file store, then consider how much sensitive information people already store in their Hotmail/Gmail.
While I love the theory of munipalities offering low-cost Internet service wirelessly I am worried about the implications of the local government then mandating what is and is not appropriate to traverse that transmission medium.
Trust me, any private provider will put restrictions on the medium as fast, if not faster, if the government tells it to.
The issue is indeed about letting private folks make money where there could be a public service. Well, there's many ways to reach a compromise - say let several companies set up shop and then subsidise customer subscriptions...
The flaw in the argument is that Linux as a standalone entity does not exist - it is always an interpretation of a particular vendor, i.e. RedHat or SuSe or whoever. And those vendors do indeed claim responsibility for whatever pieces of code they decide to pack onto their CDs. That's what they ultimately get paid for.
And on a practical level, well, we all know the security statistics.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah let's do this: Slashdot.
I wonder if they are referring to the 2. ??? step.
"Improving" it? Microsoft added proprietary extensions into the standard "java" (or "javax" - I don't remember) namespace. That means that they disguised their own hooks as the standard Java API. Also, the Microsoft VM fiasco - that's the stuff that made poopooing Java on desktop so popular. I can only see this happening again.
Seriously, give it a rest folks. You can tinker with Java's real source code already, you just won't get Sun's seal of approval if you try and pass it off as a real thing.
Hehe, with a headline like that, I'm surprised they didn't shove the story into the YRO category, period.
I personally see nothing wrong with the patent. They are just applying some logic to the data they already know. Sure, that may encourage more data collection, but an average person's XYZ Shopper's Rewards Club Miles card already does enough snooping.
In fact, my beef is with the fact that this is a really broad patent. Any 15-year old could come up with the idea, if pressed to.
I think the idea here is to persuade the "old guard" to take us youngsters a little more seriously; and to use different management approaches. Since most of us greens have a pretty different take on how to do work, what with ADD and whatnot, this book tries to teach a manager how to utilize that.
Noone's gonna argue that communication skills are important, but I don't think that's even relevant to the article. Ah well, back to IMing with 5 people at once.
A workstation with network-mounted root is probably an even better solution; and it's been done many times before.
I think dealing with data as uniform entries in one "flat" database is the way of the future - just look at Gmail and its lack of folders. Rather than organize everything into rigid hierarchy, just search for your data!
Exactly.
You should be allowed to say whatever you want, and if your employer doesn't like that - well that's between you and the company. How is this different from any other public speech?
(Score:-1 Obscure)
Anywho, any examples of what you provided only reinforce the parent statement. Each ant knows very simple things it can do. When all of them do those things, they do so without a central commanding point. When thousands of such simple things are done in unison, a very complex behaviour emerges, such as building fortifications or harvesting food. The fact that there is no central ant generalissimus to point them around means that it is an emergent behaviour.
This area of AI is a fascinating one. Games like Grand Theft Auto can exhibit very basic examples of it.
And if they do get it done, make it in damn Celsius!
Before, to get to the desired page you had to manually scan through the choices - e.g. select city. Now you have automated software to do that for you. But yes, as you said elsewhere, it is an odd progression towards doing everything in commandline (although I have zero problem with that).
Sometimes, when noone's around, I check out the SexyLosers (NSFW) comic. It has the some of the weirdest NSFW humour ever. Again, be warned, this is not for the faint of heart.
One of the articles about the Shuffle internals estimates their price to have about 40% markup over hardware costs. If that's true, is it the R&D department we're financing, or just paying for the privilege of a fashionable item?
In one way or another this is similar to training neural nets to recognize images, or spam filters to mark junkmail. Great way to put number-crunching power of computers to direct work.
I agree. I believe the whole point of Verisign's and others' existence is to make sure that the name/organization that shows up on the cert is actually corresponding to the person they're handing it to. And such verification costs money, or at least should take more than a simple Web form.
The post on linuxlookup seems like a pretty corny ad for some hosting company anyway. Pfft!
I think this is great. And there is already software to fill out these new specs too.
There is a next generation of engines that make the gap smaller and smaller between real-time graphics and rendered animated films. Take a look at this Unreal Engine 3 page for example.
What makes these new engines exciting is not just the fancy graphics. Increasing the resources on the hardware ultimately allows for a much more streamlined art pipeline, easier engine development and overall a faster and simpler product creation.
I absolutely respect the MacOS X Server, but in a server world dominated by a Solaris/Linux/Win32 are there any installations of this for medium-to-large shops? I want to hear from the folks that actually run this for serious production systems.
P.S. I am genuinely curious, not trying to flamebait here
I think that only after 2001-ish the XMLHttpRequest object (the key piece of this whole thing) gained almost 99% browser support. And also keep in mind that it takes a long long time for a tech to grow from a toy into an accepted way of doing things. Even .Net with its huge marketing is still smirked at by a lot of shops.
First of all, almost any PC will have a semi-recent IE installed (or Firefox for the more enlightened), and that is already enough to run Google's stuff.
Compare that to the Java plugin requirement, which, sad to say, is pretty far behind in availability on most PCs.
Also, Javascript-based stuff is easier to program, trust me on this. Layout of elements is much easier - and it can be done in any decent HTML editor. Finally, there's no thread-related insanity that AWT/Swing bring to the table.
How far from a fully web-based productivity/home software suite with nothing but a good browser and a videocard on the other side?
Think about it, sell a tiny commoditized PC-like box with nothing but a browser and media player, all in firmware. Then sell a monthly subscription service that provides a Javascript-based rich text editor, webmail client, calendaring, and even a basic photo editor. All the user files never leave the server, accumulating there like in Gmail. And yes, all of this is possible already - that's just what the article mentions.
With enough capital to fund the hardware (which could and should be sold at a loss), such vendor could make a killing off the monthly fees. And if you think that people won't trust a server-based file store, then consider how much sensitive information people already store in their Hotmail/Gmail.
supports one 5.25" drive
Does that I mean I can get to my old pr0n collection now?
3. Staying inside increases the likely hood of procreation.
I stay inside all the time in my basement, and can tell that this is pure conjecture.
While I love the theory of munipalities offering low-cost Internet service wirelessly I am worried about the implications of the local government then mandating what is and is not appropriate to traverse that transmission medium.
Trust me, any private provider will put restrictions on the medium as fast, if not faster, if the government tells it to.
The issue is indeed about letting private folks make money where there could be a public service. Well, there's many ways to reach a compromise - say let several companies set up shop and then subsidise customer subscriptions...
The flaw in the argument is that Linux as a standalone entity does not exist - it is always an interpretation of a particular vendor, i.e. RedHat or SuSe or whoever. And those vendors do indeed claim responsibility for whatever pieces of code they decide to pack onto their CDs. That's what they ultimately get paid for.
And on a practical level, well, we all know the security statistics.