I like how the little guys are going to benchmarks to indicate how their product actually performs while the big boys (Oracle, I'm looking at you) are recusing themselves from it.
Too bad that IT managers go with what they know (everyone else is using) and what's worked for them in the past.
It may be confusing for Jane Consumer, but it's nice to see that AMD's finally gotten a marketroid with a clue as to what works. Now if only their stock would start working, too...
If this story is true (and I doubt it is, as seen with The Register's recent retraction) then it's the scariest freaking thing I've heard of in a long time. Don't want people surreptitiously going behind my back and torching my legitimate (some of us rip our own CDs, thankyouverymuch) music collection on my hard drive.
Running with the possibility that this is true, hopefully the folks who would hack into peoples' computers will be tried as terrorists under the US's spankin' fresh new bills.
Think that, except for firemen coming in to regularly set fire to all your media. No matter if you're grandfathered or not: there exists the picture of impropriety, so better to err on the side of safety.
...more along the lines of "bootstrap it into J#, compile it into MSIL, decompile it into C#, and you're hopefully ahead of the porting game."
If you don't like that idea, no one's stopping you from taking your Java classes and porting them over to J2EE/EJBs. MS knows who its core constituency is, and it does't happen to be you. They can't be everything to everyone and you can't make everyone happy all the time, champ. If you want to point the bone at someone for fscking with you if you were a J++ developer, look at Sun. Granted, MS shares some (yes, plenty) of the blame for not implementing the AWT, but really: you already had access to Windows APIs to build Windows' windows, so why would you want to use a cut-rate windowing API that could likely confuse users by giving them a new look-and-feel that they're not used to?
Ancient VB apps aren't terribly hard to port, either, aside from the COM shifts and the like, but even those can be worked around. VB->VB.Net will likely be a different story, but you can still use COM components under.Net, so you can leave working components as is until you decide it's time to iterate them to.Net.
Where's the beef?
So a joint venture of the music monop^H^H^H^H^H labels is monopolistic, but an organization of them that's been known to fix prices and is deadset on receding Joe Average's rights so as to unnaturally force customers to stick with their now-antiquated business models isn't?
Hopefully this is a step in the right direction, not a has-been corporation throwing pebbles at a media giant-by-design.
> There are similar things out there, such as XML-RPC, but they don't focus as much on providing web services as.NET does.
SOAP is already an open standard. If Sun wanted to, I'd imagine it could pretty easily build in SOAP functionality into J2EE's guts, but you'd still be stuck, for better or for worse, developing in Java.
Why try them unless they want to be tried?
Not saying countries should turn a blind eye to the machinations of other countries' courts, only that, you know. They not be lazy fucking slobs and piggyback on other peoples' rulings.
That and yes. It does make things a bit hazy. American companies like to move their factories down to Mexico because of looser labor and environmental laws; what they're doing there is illegal here. Can we sue them for that or do we have to let the other countries apply their own rulings? And once they're found guilty there, likewise here?
These are questions for courts, not committees, to answer.
Could we get a warning about GOOD TIMES?
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You know. As long as we're reporting on crap that collects in our inboxes, you might as well.
Cripes.
The chips do take up space (they're not exactly wafer-thin once you put the memory chips on, plus the issue of the pin interconnects to the mobo) and I'd imagine that heat would become an issue if you planned to use them as a storage device.
Nice try.
Don't write a bit player in the software world (no offense to RedHat, but they're far from what I think of when I hear the term "multinational" bandied about), write your goddamned representatives and senators letters. Make sure your home address is on it, and make sure that you make the disdain for how the bill will treat you obvious without resorting to f bombs and the like.
I see this as the new cash cow for states and nations the world over.
Business A is found guilty of something. Business A does business in both Nation X and State Y. This act of which they've been found guilty (in Home Nation P) is, under their respective laws, punishable by a hefty fine. No need for a trial, as they're already guilty, just send them the bill.
I like it a lot.
The average user isn't a goddamned masochist. They want things to work and they don't want to think about it and figure out why this app needs this version of Gnome while that one needs this version of KDE and why'd I just get a kernel panic?
They just want their AOL and not to crash too much while they're downloading porn.
Also, I'll grab, but only if you ask nicely.
We're quickly moving back to the old notion of city-states with their own conflicting sets of laws. It's looking harder and harder to do business on a global scale as you open yourself up to provincial, myopic laws of other lands (just ask Dmitry), which I guess is an interesting dichotomy from the WTO's vision of "one world, one corporation".
I'd be happy if Microsoft had the huevos to not even bother to dispute the charges and just pulled all of its software out of the EU, flipping them the bird and leaving them to scramble for dry ground. It'd be a trial by fire for free software supporters, and I'd be very interested to see how it turns out.
I suspect a fair number of people never try Linux or one of the BSDs because they're moderately happy with AOL as an ISP, and switching OSes would mean switching ISPs at the same time.
Damn. That's the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.
And they say geeks have no sense of humor.
It's been said that justice is equal, but the rich can afford more of it.
When it comes to lawsuits, The Big Guy can win by default because cases are too expensive.
With DVD players, you're at the will of that pesky CSS when it comes to playing foreign flicks... unless you can afford otherwise. Ditto for Macrovision, etc.
It's still the case, but knowledge is quickly becoming the new currency: a little know-how replaces the money the average jane needs to run an end route.
The only question you have to ask yourself is... would the MPAA/RIAA put lives and other industries at risk with myopic legislation designed to artificially protect their bottom line?
Porting Postal is a good portent?
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Give me a break. For an independent release 4-ish years ago, it was playable. Which isn't by any stretch of the imagination to say that it was "good".
Lavishing praise on the re-release of a tired old second-rate-even-in-its-primetime game is no way to woo Joe Everyday User to install Linux on his computer.
...in n months, I can look forward to the next headline: "Windows Releases Utility To Alter File Extension Associations" along with the predictable banter.
"Why is this not standard?"
"The bundling of this software is anti-competitive towards [insert party of choice here]."
"Just another example of M$ bloat."
"The latest Mozilla milestone release KIX AZZ! LINUX R00LZ, WIND0ZE LU$ER$!!!"
Just practicing my Kreskin-fu.
...or more accurately, you could say that while people's eyes are well opened to the fact that MS puts out buggy software, their eyes haven't been opened to a better alternative to what they've currently got, because there is none.
Until one of these holes actually affects their bottom line or someone puts out a product that can actually compare in terms of ease of use, they won't be losing any sleep (or money) over their latest hole.
First it was ultraportables, then portables, then servers, now embedded?
Transmeta's abject lack of a business plan or any semblance of forward-looking pretty much guarantees that Transmeta can look forward to being embedded in the garbage heap of dot coms.
No doubt it was sexy technology, just not sexy or business savvy enough to overcome the big boys. Too bad.
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I like how the little guys are going to benchmarks to indicate how their product actually performs while the big boys (Oracle, I'm looking at you) are recusing themselves from it.
Too bad that IT managers go with what they know (everyone else is using) and what's worked for them in the past.
It may be confusing for Jane Consumer, but it's nice to see that AMD's finally gotten a marketroid with a clue as to what works. Now if only their stock would start working, too...
If this story is true (and I doubt it is, as seen with The Register's recent retraction) then it's the scariest freaking thing I've heard of in a long time. Don't want people surreptitiously going behind my back and torching my legitimate (some of us rip our own CDs, thankyouverymuch) music collection on my hard drive.
Running with the possibility that this is true, hopefully the folks who would hack into peoples' computers will be tried as terrorists under the US's spankin' fresh new bills.
Think that, except for firemen coming in to regularly set fire to all your media. No matter if you're grandfathered or not: there exists the picture of impropriety, so better to err on the side of safety.
...more along the lines of "bootstrap it into J#, compile it into MSIL, decompile it into C#, and you're hopefully ahead of the porting game." .Net, so you can leave working components as is until you decide it's time to iterate them to .Net.
If you don't like that idea, no one's stopping you from taking your Java classes and porting them over to J2EE/EJBs. MS knows who its core constituency is, and it does't happen to be you. They can't be everything to everyone and you can't make everyone happy all the time, champ. If you want to point the bone at someone for fscking with you if you were a J++ developer, look at Sun. Granted, MS shares some (yes, plenty) of the blame for not implementing the AWT, but really: you already had access to Windows APIs to build Windows' windows, so why would you want to use a cut-rate windowing API that could likely confuse users by giving them a new look-and-feel that they're not used to?
Ancient VB apps aren't terribly hard to port, either, aside from the COM shifts and the like, but even those can be worked around. VB->VB.Net will likely be a different story, but you can still use COM components under
Where's the beef?
So a joint venture of the music monop^H^H^H^H^H labels is monopolistic, but an organization of them that's been known to fix prices and is deadset on receding Joe Average's rights so as to unnaturally force customers to stick with their now-antiquated business models isn't?
Hopefully this is a step in the right direction, not a has-been corporation throwing pebbles at a media giant-by-design.
> After 'migration' it is still Java code you are using. It won't be much faster and you will still have to maintain it.
.NET has a decompiler. This one happens to be open-source, even.
This would be true, but as with Java,
> There are similar things out there, such as XML-RPC, but they don't focus as much on providing web services as .NET does.
SOAP is already an open standard. If Sun wanted to, I'd imagine it could pretty easily build in SOAP functionality into J2EE's guts, but you'd still be stuck, for better or for worse, developing in Java.
Why try them unless they want to be tried?
Not saying countries should turn a blind eye to the machinations of other countries' courts, only that, you know. They not be lazy fucking slobs and piggyback on other peoples' rulings.
That and yes. It does make things a bit hazy. American companies like to move their factories down to Mexico because of looser labor and environmental laws; what they're doing there is illegal here. Can we sue them for that or do we have to let the other countries apply their own rulings? And once they're found guilty there, likewise here?
These are questions for courts, not committees, to answer.
You know. As long as we're reporting on crap that collects in our inboxes, you might as well.
Cripes.
The chips do take up space (they're not exactly wafer-thin once you put the memory chips on, plus the issue of the pin interconnects to the mobo) and I'd imagine that heat would become an issue if you planned to use them as a storage device.
Nice try.
It's circumventing a content protection method, so I don't see how this is much different than DeCSS.
...are condemned to repeat it.
Don't write a bit player in the software world (no offense to RedHat, but they're far from what I think of when I hear the term "multinational" bandied about), write your goddamned representatives and senators letters. Make sure your home address is on it, and make sure that you make the disdain for how the bill will treat you obvious without resorting to f bombs and the like.
I see this as the new cash cow for states and nations the world over.
Business A is found guilty of something. Business A does business in both Nation X and State Y. This act of which they've been found guilty (in Home Nation P) is, under their respective laws, punishable by a hefty fine. No need for a trial, as they're already guilty, just send them the bill.
I like it a lot.
The .Net framework? SOAP? XML? Kerberos? SMB? Don't be afraid to name names.
The average user isn't a goddamned masochist. They want things to work and they don't want to think about it and figure out why this app needs this version of Gnome while that one needs this version of KDE and why'd I just get a kernel panic?
They just want their AOL and not to crash too much while they're downloading porn.
Also, I'll grab, but only if you ask nicely.
We're quickly moving back to the old notion of city-states with their own conflicting sets of laws. It's looking harder and harder to do business on a global scale as you open yourself up to provincial, myopic laws of other lands (just ask Dmitry), which I guess is an interesting dichotomy from the WTO's vision of "one world, one corporation".
I'd be happy if Microsoft had the huevos to not even bother to dispute the charges and just pulled all of its software out of the EU, flipping them the bird and leaving them to scramble for dry ground. It'd be a trial by fire for free software supporters, and I'd be very interested to see how it turns out.
My sincerest condolences to anyone trying to use this in a production environment.
I suspect a fair number of people never try Linux or one of the BSDs because they're moderately happy with AOL as an ISP, and switching OSes would mean switching ISPs at the same time.
Damn. That's the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.
And they say geeks have no sense of humor.
It's been said that justice is equal, but the rich can afford more of it.
When it comes to lawsuits, The Big Guy can win by default because cases are too expensive.
With DVD players, you're at the will of that pesky CSS when it comes to playing foreign flicks... unless you can afford otherwise. Ditto for Macrovision, etc.
It's still the case, but knowledge is quickly becoming the new currency: a little know-how replaces the money the average jane needs to run an end route.
The only question you have to ask yourself is... would the MPAA/RIAA put lives and other industries at risk with myopic legislation designed to artificially protect their bottom line?
Give me a break. For an independent release 4-ish years ago, it was playable. Which isn't by any stretch of the imagination to say that it was "good".
Lavishing praise on the re-release of a tired old second-rate-even-in-its-primetime game is no way to woo Joe Everyday User to install Linux on his computer.
...in n months, I can look forward to the next headline: "Windows Releases Utility To Alter File Extension Associations" along with the predictable banter.
"Why is this not standard?"
"The bundling of this software is anti-competitive towards [insert party of choice here]."
"Just another example of M$ bloat."
"The latest Mozilla milestone release KIX AZZ! LINUX R00LZ, WIND0ZE LU$ER$!!!"
Just practicing my Kreskin-fu.
...or more accurately, you could say that while people's eyes are well opened to the fact that MS puts out buggy software, their eyes haven't been opened to a better alternative to what they've currently got, because there is none.
Until one of these holes actually affects their bottom line or someone puts out a product that can actually compare in terms of ease of use, they won't be losing any sleep (or money) over their latest hole.
First it was ultraportables, then portables, then servers, now embedded?
Transmeta's abject lack of a business plan or any semblance of forward-looking pretty much guarantees that Transmeta can look forward to being embedded in the garbage heap of dot coms.
No doubt it was sexy technology, just not sexy or business savvy enough to overcome the big boys. Too bad.
One more super particle accelerator means one more chance for physicists to blow up the world.
If the e-mail hoax is to be believed, anyhoo.