Probably not free 6 months. My grandmother had to cancel her credit card to cancel her AOL account after they were double-billing her for five months and wouldn't compensate for their mistake or even stop the charging.
If they provide a version of OS X for the x86 platform, a lot of companies might be able to switch to OS X from Windows without buying new hardware. They would just have to wait for motherboard/chipset manufactures to write drivers for OS X.
I don't think they have the guts to pull off something like that. But, I think they would make more money being mostly a software company peddling OS X, iBooks, iPod, and iTunes.
Borland is a software tools company. They make tools to help programmers. But, nowadays there are so many open source programming tools that Borland has to compete with. They are really having a tough time.
That's the reason that I use Swing. However, SWT can help to build some sweet apps. Take a look at the code for bittorent client Azarius at www.sf.net. They really have done a great job at making a java app seem like a native app using SWT.
Java does have 64-bit support for Linux AMD-64 and the 1.5 jvm for Windows AMD-64 is available as a release canidate. Sun has also had support for Intel's old 64-bit processor a while now. If you do a google search, I'm sure you can find benchmarks to see the performance improvements this support offers.
I like Open Office, but it doesn't have nifty grammar check like MS Office does. Also, OOo supports powerful, complicated macros, they just aren't yet documented much.
It's almost like they tried to make the ugliest GUI of all time. Luckily, they are getting better and the Windows XP and Ocean look and feel for 1.5 look good. If only swing wasn't so bloated and it was little faster...
Pretty much all the raw radar and satellite data that Accuweather, maybe even all of it, comes from the government. However, the National Weather Service does not do things like filter out noise and provide long-term hourly temperature forecasts from their websites.
In fact, if you look at the data they provide, it's easy to see that they purposely go through little or no effort to make the data easy to view. So, only big companies like Accuweather have the resources to process this data and make it really useful. Also, the National Weather Service does not provide hourly historical records. You must buy that data from a place like Accuweather or Weatherbank.
The National Weather Service has offered this XML webservice for a quite a few months as a beta service. It does not provide historical data, just forecasts, which much more than you can get from the website.
Anyways, because the National Weather Sevice already has their hands tied, I have no doubts that our fine senators will take the next step, and the XML webservice will eventually go away.
I don't think giving the users a choice as to which components to download and install is going to help with the developer shortage.
I've downloaded the code, and it seems to me like the reason they don't have enough developers is because the project is so big that it takes a very long time for developers to learn enough about how it all works to be productive. Also, there is a lot of missing documentation that helps to make the software look very overwhelming to a programmer wanting get started on helping. It would help if the architecture is simplified a little and some really good documentation is made to help new developers get started. Also, if it was made easy to compile specific components of O.O.o, then that would help too.
I saw the long trailer of the movie, and the trailer was pretty good. Usually there are a few movie reviews that tell you if the movie sucks or not before it comes out, so there's no reason to worry about it now unless you plan your life weeks in advance.
I'm surprised there's not some government regulation against government competing against business for the betterment of everyone that's stopping this.
I think that Russians have the best hackers for two simple reasons:
It is very cold in Russia, so people are inside all the time on the computer.
Their economy crashed and they can't afford fast machines that run games nicely, so they are stuck with the linux bash shell to entertain themselves.
If you were stuck inside all the time with only a 486 linux box and your government was too busy to worry about computer crimes, maybe you would develop some good hacking skills too.
I don't think it's being on DST that causes problems, it's changing from whatever timezone to DST and back again.
I work in the power industry, and I can tell you that having 23 hours one day and 25 hours another day causes much trouble for a computer programmer who needs to keep track of every hour. It's a lot of extra coding time, and there are many ways of doing it. The extra two months shouldn't cause too many problems, as all you need to do is change the day we switch from DST. But having one year's DST change be in a different month than another year will cause problems or a least confusion.
Why can't we change to daylight savings time and stay there forever? Kind of like Arizona. Also, I'd like to see the details of the studies that say we'll save electricity from changing the times around.
The GPL says:
You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
So you don't charge for the software, you charge for distributing the software. I think that someone else is allowed to distribute another persons GPL software for free. So, they could charge for their product, but someone else could be giving it away for free if they released under the GPL to begin with.
You have some control over which fuels are being used to generate the electricity you are consuming. If you are using electricity off peak, then the incremental generation used will probably be coal or nuclear. If you are using power on peak, then you will probably be causing your power company to use more gas, diesel, or oil generation. NERC defines on peak to be Monday through Saturday hours ending 7-22 not including the five national holidays where most people are off work.
I've seen SQL Server and MSDE use way more than 32 MB of RAM on even rather small databases. Although you can limit the memory SQL server uses, the X-box does not have enough memory for SQL Server and the game that it's running. Besides, what kind of game would want to use a relational database anyways? Except for multiplayer stats, there's not a lot you can even use a RDBMS for in an action game.
Isn't that why mySQL has MaxDB? I think this project has had all these features for a while. However, the licensing is different. The licensing for all MySQL products is confusing.
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Probably not free 6 months. My grandmother had to cancel her credit card to cancel her AOL account after they were double-billing her for five months and wouldn't compensate for their mistake or even stop the charging.
I had to switch from Java to .Net and I found that the resharper tool can help make VS a lot better.
I don't think they have the guts to pull off something like that. But, I think they would make more money being mostly a software company peddling OS X, iBooks, iPod, and iTunes.
Don't forget potato chips and poker chips.
I read the article, I don't see what the problem is. Is there a problem because the Sun JVM isn't open source?
I'll get it as soon as the PC version comes out.
The Battlestar Galactica mini-series is being re-run tonight on the Sci-Fi channel, so you shouldn't have to worry about it.
Borland is a software tools company. They make tools to help programmers. But, nowadays there are so many open source programming tools that Borland has to compete with. They are really having a tough time.
That's the reason that I use Swing. However, SWT can help to build some sweet apps. Take a look at the code for bittorent client Azarius at www.sf.net. They really have done a great job at making a java app seem like a native app using SWT.
Java does have 64-bit support for Linux AMD-64 and the 1.5 jvm for Windows AMD-64 is available as a release canidate. Sun has also had support for Intel's old 64-bit processor a while now. If you do a google search, I'm sure you can find benchmarks to see the performance improvements this support offers.
I like Open Office, but it doesn't have nifty grammar check like MS Office does. Also, OOo supports powerful, complicated macros, they just aren't yet documented much.
It's almost like they tried to make the ugliest GUI of all time. Luckily, they are getting better and the Windows XP and Ocean look and feel for 1.5 look good. If only swing wasn't so bloated and it was little faster...
In fact, if you look at the data they provide, it's easy to see that they purposely go through little or no effort to make the data easy to view. So, only big companies like Accuweather have the resources to process this data and make it really useful. Also, the National Weather Service does not provide hourly historical records. You must buy that data from a place like Accuweather or Weatherbank.
The National Weather Service has offered this XML webservice for a quite a few months as a beta service. It does not provide historical data, just forecasts, which much more than you can get from the website.
Anyways, because the National Weather Sevice already has their hands tied, I have no doubts that our fine senators will take the next step, and the XML webservice will eventually go away.
I've downloaded the code, and it seems to me like the reason they don't have enough developers is because the project is so big that it takes a very long time for developers to learn enough about how it all works to be productive. Also, there is a lot of missing documentation that helps to make the software look very overwhelming to a programmer wanting get started on helping. It would help if the architecture is simplified a little and some really good documentation is made to help new developers get started. Also, if it was made easy to compile specific components of O.O.o, then that would help too.
There are several ways of accessing OpenGL from Java. One example is using the OpenGL for Java API at http://gl4java.sourceforge.net/
I saw the long trailer of the movie, and the trailer was pretty good. Usually there are a few movie reviews that tell you if the movie sucks or not before it comes out, so there's no reason to worry about it now unless you plan your life weeks in advance.
I'm surprised there's not some government regulation against government competing against business for the betterment of everyone that's stopping this.
It is very cold in Russia, so people are inside all the time on the computer.
Their economy crashed and they can't afford fast machines that run games nicely, so they are stuck with the linux bash shell to entertain themselves.
If you were stuck inside all the time with only a 486 linux box and your government was too busy to worry about computer crimes, maybe you would develop some good hacking skills too.
Here are some bad things about Canada.
I work in the power industry, and I can tell you that having 23 hours one day and 25 hours another day causes much trouble for a computer programmer who needs to keep track of every hour. It's a lot of extra coding time, and there are many ways of doing it. The extra two months shouldn't cause too many problems, as all you need to do is change the day we switch from DST. But having one year's DST change be in a different month than another year will cause problems or a least confusion.
Why can't we change to daylight savings time and stay there forever? Kind of like Arizona. Also, I'd like to see the details of the studies that say we'll save electricity from changing the times around.
The GPL says:
You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
So you don't charge for the software, you charge for distributing the software. I think that someone else is allowed to distribute another persons GPL software for free. So, they could charge for their product, but someone else could be giving it away for free if they released under the GPL to begin with.
You have some control over which fuels are being used to generate the electricity you are consuming.
If you are using electricity off peak, then the incremental generation used will probably be coal or nuclear. If you are using power on peak, then you will probably be causing your power company to use more gas, diesel, or oil generation.
NERC defines on peak to be Monday through Saturday hours ending 7-22 not including the five national holidays where most people are off work.
MSNBC is reporting this same story.
I've seen SQL Server and MSDE use way more than 32 MB of RAM on even rather small databases. Although you can limit the memory SQL server uses, the X-box does not have enough memory for SQL Server and the game that it's running. Besides, what kind of game would want to use a relational database anyways? Except for multiplayer stats, there's not a lot you can even use a RDBMS for in an action game.
Isn't that why mySQL has MaxDB? I think this project has had all these features for a while. However, the licensing is different. The licensing for all MySQL products is confusing.