All the OSS progammers looking over every distos shoulders should do it for awhile. If RedHate or SuSE got dirty the new open source ships on the other guys distribution. It cannot be a Witch's coven plotting their evil in deep woods of closed source Microsoft. Remember too that the USA and USSR got along during WWII and my calender says it is 1939.
Java was overhyped, I mean it reached for the moon! This does not mean it is dead. It does appear to have very good networking classes(I say this because I am sadly ignorant in this area (not for long)). The millstone was put around its neck as far as I for these reasons. Applets were put on the net during when low bandwidth was a nightmare(AOL bottle neck made this even worse when 28000 could not even max out). I found myself disabling JVM for performance and stability. Java failed in its most high profile area. I also did not like the idea of byte code apps in many situations, performance does matter. The wxwindows and Qt idea could have been promoted in Java while the syntax is the same, the option of a native compile would obviate the need for WX and Qt. Is a native compiler available for my platform? All the Java Books I had years ago was about lousy applets and byte code apps. If Java wraps low level API's in Windows and Xwin It would be what it already is and Qt. JNI seems to address this but my Compiler is 1.0 and this is your answer, even the "vaperware" it will have native capabilities would have kept my attention. The first reaction was just another interpreter. Now Java needs more marketing, not less.
If it is an open source measure all will be able to see it, incompatibilities cannot be buried in some binary. If they close the kernel it violates GPL, if they change the kernel it is not Linux and much of the difference between Linux and freeBSD is marketing(even good technology needs marketing), so L++ gets left out of Linux buzz words. I will say this, from the standpoint of marketing if anyone could nail jelly to a wall it is M$. There best alternative at this point is to add value to their OS equal to what one has to pay for it, but in the new world the OS only gives you the option to sell the bag of chips and give away the hotdog.
Standards from M$? Like NetBios and TCP/IP, OS/2 and WIN95, DR-DOS and the win3.1 beta, Office97 reading Office2000, ActiveX and Netscape, NTregistry and Samba, DOJ and Java ring a bell?,.doc word format and txt, Oh thats right! MS is the hero of open standards on instant messaging, when they can smear there competition (AOL). Check out bluemountain.com and see how M$ is the champion of the free exchange of information. Maybe when I am a prof at the local university I will say somthing positive about an M$ product, after all it is a quick $200 then I too can dip my snout into the M$ feedbag.
What is Redhat, Suse, Caldera doing anyway? I saw a catalog once in the mail, Uline I think. They sell shrinkwrap and packaging material. Hey UPS and Federal Express have packaging materials. Is there a FedX Linux? I want to be the first in line for HallMark Linux they have great cards. Here 's a question. "How many people take their cars to the dealership?". How can it be? People who work on cars not manufacturing it? If people can not see that service does not have to come from the original vendor by now I am going to stop watching the X-files because it scares me to think that human race is being observed.
Penquins are better dressed than many IT managers? MIS curriculum has in my opinion an emphasis on the M-management instead of information technology in the IT; I have seen some of the curriculum myself. If the aftershave on the suit smells better than the B.O. behind coke bottle glasses then the CIO goes with the suit. In other words upper management has no clue what the heck is going on in technology.
This sounds like the true voodoo economics of Keynes where $1 of snot is worth $1 oatmeal. Paying somone for nothing is a $1's worth of snot. I prefer oatmeal in the morning myself. Much of this silly way of thinking can be found in the media where economic good news is counted in "job creation" instead of wealth creation. Job creation can augment distribution of wealth but productive jobs do both (distribution and creation of wealth). Two hundred years ago employment was 100% in a realitively unproductive agrarian society. Sorry for the Econ. lecture in a tech forum but it is a pet peev of mine and productivity is what this game is about.
You get an A in Econ. The Fewer people doing the job means $ for the company and the worker, and with IT the work is never done. His comment is a nice reminder of MS innovation however.
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All the OSS progammers looking over every distos shoulders should do it for awhile. If RedHate or SuSE got dirty the new open source ships on the other guys distribution. It cannot be a Witch's coven plotting their evil in deep woods of closed source Microsoft.
Remember too that the USA and USSR got along during WWII and my calender says it is 1939.
Java was overhyped, I mean it reached for the moon! This does not mean it is dead. It does appear to have very good networking classes(I say this because I am sadly ignorant in this area (not for long)).
The millstone was put around its neck as far as I for these reasons.
Applets were put on the net during when low bandwidth was a nightmare(AOL bottle neck made this even worse when 28000 could not even max out). I found myself disabling JVM for performance and stability. Java failed in its most high profile area.
I also did not like the idea of byte code apps in many situations, performance does matter. The wxwindows and Qt idea could have been promoted in Java while the syntax is the same, the option of a native compile would obviate the need for WX and Qt. Is a native compiler available for my platform?
All the Java Books I had years ago was about lousy applets and byte code apps. If Java wraps low level API's in Windows and Xwin It would be what it already is and Qt.
JNI seems to address this but my Compiler is 1.0
and this is your answer, even the "vaperware" it will have native capabilities would have kept my attention. The first reaction was just another interpreter.
Now Java needs more marketing, not less.
If it is an open source measure all will be able to see it, incompatibilities cannot be buried in some binary. If they close the kernel it violates GPL, if they change the kernel it is not Linux and much of the difference between Linux and freeBSD is marketing(even good technology needs marketing), so L++ gets left out of Linux buzz words.
I will say this, from the standpoint of marketing if anyone could nail jelly to a wall it is M$.
There best alternative at this point is to add value to their OS equal to what one has to pay for it, but in the new world the OS only gives you the option to sell the bag of chips and give away the hotdog.
Standards from M$? Like NetBios and TCP/IP, OS/2 and WIN95, DR-DOS and the win3.1 beta, Office97 reading Office2000, ActiveX and Netscape, NTregistry and Samba, DOJ and Java ring a bell?,.doc word format and txt,
Oh thats right! MS is the hero of open standards on instant messaging, when they can smear there competition (AOL).
Check out bluemountain.com and see how M$ is the champion of the free exchange of information.
Maybe when I am a prof at the local university I will say somthing positive about an M$ product, after all it is a quick $200 then I too can dip my snout into the M$ feedbag.
What is Redhat, Suse, Caldera doing anyway? I saw a catalog once in the mail, Uline I think. They sell shrinkwrap and packaging material. Hey UPS and Federal Express have packaging materials. Is there a FedX Linux? I want to be the first in line for HallMark Linux they have great cards. Here 's a question. "How many people take their cars to the dealership?". How can it be? People who work on cars not manufacturing it? If people can not see that service does not have to come from the original vendor by now I am going to stop watching the X-files because it scares me to think that human race is being observed.
Penquins are better dressed than many IT managers?
MIS curriculum has in my opinion an emphasis on the M-management instead of information technology
in the IT; I have seen some of the curriculum myself. If the aftershave on the suit smells better than the B.O. behind coke bottle glasses then the CIO goes with the suit.
In other words upper management has no clue what the heck is going on in technology.
This sounds like the true voodoo economics of Keynes where $1 of snot is worth $1 oatmeal. Paying somone for nothing is a $1's worth of snot.
I prefer oatmeal in the morning myself.
Much of this silly way of thinking can be found in the media where economic good news is counted in "job creation" instead of wealth creation. Job creation can augment distribution of wealth but productive jobs do both (distribution and creation of wealth). Two hundred years ago employment was 100% in a realitively unproductive agrarian society.
Sorry for the Econ. lecture in a tech forum but it is a pet peev of mine and productivity is what this game is about.
You get an A in Econ. The Fewer people doing the job means $ for the company and the worker, and with IT the work is never done. His comment is a nice reminder of MS innovation however.