SmartSockets was created by Talarian, which was later bought by Tibco (when SmartSockets started to gain some traction as a competitor).
Some of the Talarian people, notably Mark Mahowald, later left Tibco to found 29West (www.29west.com), which -- guess what? -- competes against Rendezvous.
"There are about 3-4 different ways you can do each of them, with two of them being official or semi-official."
Isn't that the whole problem with Java in a nutshell? I like the language OK, but all the framework stuff bolted on to it, combined with "deprecated"-this and "deprecated"-that, really cause a geometric explosion in what one needs to understand and/or support in that environment.
That can work if the scratch is on the bottom of the disk, but not if the scratch is on the top. If the reflective layer is scratched through (i.e., you can see through the disk when you hold it up to light), then no amount of polishing will help. It may be possible to replace the top reflective layer, but I'm not aware of any tools to do that...
100G of DVD video is 20 hours. If you keep up at this rate (although you won't -- trust me) you'll have 400 hours (2TB) in 20 years. Good luck watching all that...
Still, probably the best solution is to keep buying newer HD's for a while. In 20 years something else is likely to come along.
In the meantime, you might also want to think about encoding in something else (DivX?) if the amount of storage is a problem.
I seem to recall a passage in Cryptonomicon where a OTP was being generated by little old ladies picking ping-pong balls out of a container. This was supposed to be random, but it turned out that there was a pattern to it, based on the way the balls felt to their fingers, that allowed for codes to be broken.
Don't know how true this passage was, but true randomness is hard to achieve.
The other side of the coin is that in this scenario the artist(s) keep ALL the money, as opposed to the pitiful percentage that the record labels pay under standard contracts. (For some interesting thoughts from the artist's point of view, see http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=8383 and other of Fripp's postings).
The good new for him (as pointed in out in several of the comments in the original article) is that he used his Amex to pay for it. Both my wife and I have had occasion in the past to dispute charges made on our Amex cards, and in all cases Amex resolved it to our satisfaction.
By contrast, I tried the same thing with a Discover card and their attitude was "too bad".
That's why I try to use my Amex if there's any chance I might want to return something.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw
http://www.knowprose.com/node/12260
I would suggest to the scrupulous that you might want to patronize Software Contractor's Guild (http://www.scguild.com/) instead of dice. I have dealt with scguild in the past, and have been very happy with them.
And while I'm on the subject, I use Eclipse with EPIC to debug Perl code. Again, good luck getting anything close to that level of productivity with "perl -d"...
I hate to be the one to recommend a MS practice, but one of the tenets that "gurus" in the MS world (McConnell, et al.) have regularly espoused, and that is apparently SOP at MS, is that developers have to step through all new/changed code using the debugger.
IMHO, this is one of the best things you can do. Like other things that are good for you but not much fun, I don't do it nearly as much as I should, but every time I do I am rewarded with insights to improve my code that I would not have gotten otherwise.
In the "old days" this was known as "desk-checking" -- actually stepping through your code on paper, even before compiling. With PC's and IDE's a debugger does the job much better by letting you actually see the results of the assignments and tests in a way that is much easier than using pencil and paper.
Not to mention, debuggers come in pretty handy when you actually have bugs...
P.S. I recently debugged a SEGV bug which happened when an app's "shutdown" function was getting called at odd times -- turns out, library code was calling socket's shutdown function (on a separate thread) and because of linkage problems (the app's shutdown was declared extern "C"), that function was being called instead of the socket libraries'. Good luck finding that with printf...
Give me a good (visual) debugger (e.g., ddd) any day...
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it - there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
-- Sherlock Holmes, to Dr. Watson in "A Study in Scarlet"
It would be interesting to know what percentage of Dell's machines, esp. laptops, are sold w/Complete Care. I know when I bought a Dell laptop for my son to take to college, I wouldn't have considered NOT getting the coverage.
I've had reasonably good results using an old Sony camcorder which can convert SVHS in to Firewire out -- then use your favorite software to go from AVI to MPEG. The files are large, but the results are generally better than trying to go from SVHS to MPEG on the fly.
As for which software to use, I haven't found any that I like, free or otherwise.
Boehm's (and the others') point is that it is not possible to provide robust and efficient synchronization support in the form of a library -- that it must be part of the language itself. A good example of this is the double-checked locking "anti-pattern" http://www.aristeia.com/Papers/DDJ_Jul_Aug_2004_re vised.pdf/
What does this have to do with StreamBase? Is Stonebraker just throwing StreamBase under the bus? Are they complementary? How can one person (even someone with his abilities) function as CTO of two separate companies?
I always thought it was Harlan Ellison, around the time of "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World". Definitely not "sci-fi", but definitely not "normal" fiction either.
Slashdot Mirror
Clever idea, but rubber bands do have a tendency to get brittle over time.
SmartSockets was created by Talarian, which was later bought by Tibco (when SmartSockets started to gain some traction as a competitor). Some of the Talarian people, notably Mark Mahowald, later left Tibco to found 29West (www.29west.com), which -- guess what? -- competes against Rendezvous.
"There are about 3-4 different ways you can do each of them, with two of them being official or semi-official."
Isn't that the whole problem with Java in a nutshell? I like the language OK, but all the framework stuff bolted on to it, combined with "deprecated"-this and "deprecated"-that, really cause a geometric explosion in what one needs to understand and/or support in that environment.
That can work if the scratch is on the bottom of the disk, but not if the scratch is on the top.
If the reflective layer is scratched through (i.e., you can see through the disk when you hold it up to light), then no amount of polishing will help.
It may be possible to replace the top reflective layer, but I'm not aware of any tools to do that...
100G of DVD video is 20 hours. If you keep up at this rate (although you won't -- trust me) you'll have 400 hours (2TB) in 20 years. Good luck watching all that... Still, probably the best solution is to keep buying newer HD's for a while. In 20 years something else is likely to come along. In the meantime, you might also want to think about encoding in something else (DivX?) if the amount of storage is a problem.
I seem to recall a passage in Cryptonomicon where a OTP was being generated by little old ladies picking ping-pong balls out of a container. This was supposed to be random, but it turned out that there was a pattern to it, based on the way the balls felt to their fingers, that allowed for codes to be broken. Don't know how true this passage was, but true randomness is hard to achieve.
http://www.dgmlive.com/
which was first described back in 1968 ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook
The other side of the coin is that in this scenario the artist(s) keep ALL the money, as opposed to the pitiful percentage that the record labels pay under standard contracts. (For some interesting thoughts from the artist's point of view, see http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=8383 and other of Fripp's postings).
Here are a couple that I just bought and like a lot:
Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback) by Jenifer Tidwell (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596008031
User Interface Design for Programmers (Paperback) by Joel Spolsky (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1893115941
http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/20/technology/business2_netflixgallery/index.htm
The good new for him (as pointed in out in several of the comments in the original article) is that he used his Amex to pay for it. Both my wife and I have had occasion in the past to dispute charges made on our Amex cards, and in all cases Amex resolved it to our satisfaction.
By contrast, I tried the same thing with a Discover card and their attitude was "too bad".
That's why I try to use my Amex if there's any chance I might want to return something.
These are both decent starting points. Please report back if you find something good -- I'd be very interested.
http://highscalability.com/
http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
http://www.knowprose.com/node/12260
I would suggest to the scrupulous that you might want to patronize Software Contractor's Guild (http://www.scguild.com/) instead of dice. I have dealt with scguild in the past, and have been very happy with them.
And while I'm on the subject, I use Eclipse with EPIC to debug Perl code. Again, good luck getting anything close to that level of productivity with "perl -d"...
I hate to be the one to recommend a MS practice, but one of the tenets that "gurus" in the MS world (McConnell, et al.) have regularly espoused, and that is apparently SOP at MS, is that developers have to step through all new/changed code using the debugger.
IMHO, this is one of the best things you can do. Like other things that are good for you but not much fun, I don't do it nearly as much as I should, but every time I do I am rewarded with insights to improve my code that I would not have gotten otherwise.
In the "old days" this was known as "desk-checking" -- actually stepping through your code on paper, even before compiling. With PC's and IDE's a debugger does the job much better by letting you actually see the results of the assignments and tests in a way that is much easier than using pencil and paper.
Not to mention, debuggers come in pretty handy when you actually have bugs...
P.S. I recently debugged a SEGV bug which happened when an app's "shutdown" function was getting called at odd times -- turns out, library code was calling socket's shutdown function (on a separate thread) and because of linkage problems (the app's shutdown was declared extern "C"), that function was being called instead of the socket libraries'. Good luck finding that with printf...
Give me a good (visual) debugger (e.g., ddd) any day...
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it - there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. -- Sherlock Holmes, to Dr. Watson in "A Study in Scarlet"
It would be interesting to know what percentage of Dell's machines, esp. laptops, are sold w/Complete Care. I know when I bought a Dell laptop for my son to take to college, I wouldn't have considered NOT getting the coverage.
I've had reasonably good results using an old Sony camcorder which can convert SVHS in to Firewire out -- then use your favorite software to go from AVI to MPEG. The files are large, but the results are generally better than trying to go from SVHS to MPEG on the fly.
As for which software to use, I haven't found any that I like, free or otherwise.
Boehm's (and the others') point is that it is not possible to provide robust and efficient synchronization support in the form of a library -- that it must be part of the language itself. A good example of this is the double-checked locking "anti-pattern" http://www.aristeia.com/Papers/DDJ_Jul_Aug_2004_re vised.pdf/
Check these out:
t ml
o penpdfs/standardsfeb07.pdf
1 164.htm
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/c++mm/
http://www.artima.com/cppsource/threads_meeting.h
http://www.usenix.com/publications/login/2007-02/
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n
or, just google for "boehm threads c++"
What does this have to do with StreamBase? Is Stonebraker just throwing StreamBase under the bus? Are they complementary? How can one person (even someone with his abilities) function as CTO of two separate companies?
Actually, VT can be used to enable VMWare Server (the free version) to run 64-bit guest OS's on 32-bit hosts ( http://kb.vmware.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/73/ 1901_f.SAL_Public.html). Although, in my experience the performance can be somewhat iffy (http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz .5.437372.14).
I always thought it was Harlan Ellison, around the time of "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World". Definitely not "sci-fi", but definitely not "normal" fiction either.