I have had my share of PermGen issue. I wouldn't put the blame fully on the developer here.
It is extremely easy to create PermGen issue (immortal classes object) but the JVM provide very little (closer to nothing) to address that issue: no guideline, no debugging tool, no warning or easy way to detect a leak,.... This is a java self-inflicted problem, you shouldn't need advanced knowledge of the classloader inner-working (actually, the fact that you need to know about classloader at all to create a webapp is a bit silly to start with) or garbage collection implementation to write some basic CRUD webapp.
Sorry, you are in the US. Median salary means nothing, all that matters is salary of the top. American Dream - we are special and we will make it big if we wish it hard enough.
Not at all. Just that Open Source does not mean GPLv3 and does not need the seal of FSF. There are plenty of other licenses and competition is fierce between libraries, applications, framework, companies,... At work we sell software build around open source software. We pick the libraries based on their spec and their license. And we do not only look at open source ones, mind you, we often look at closed source software. (they do not win very often though) Whatever does the work in condition that are beneficial to our business.
It is probably fair to assume that Android GPLv3 would not have been bought by Google. The open source bits in Android were already a big enough pill to swallow for phone and network companies.
The extra "fuck you evil companies" provisions in GPLv3 works as expected, evil companies do not use GPLv3 software...
I'm sure their real goal is only to have a virtual state in international water. One that is just useful to locate the headquarter of your company for tax purpose.
this article's basically of the "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Not at all, actually quite the opposite...
All sorts of amazing things are being thought of, written about, developed and researched, but are out of sight of the main stream New York Times journalism.
The article is not complaining about the lack of innovation, it is complaining about the lack of interest the world seems to have in progress and ideas.
China wants to manufacture everything we consume, they cannot afford the bad publicity that even one of the most powerful/recognizable companies on earth is getting screwed in China. As long as your business is not important enough to make the cover page of some important journal, you will be screwed in China with impunity.
The Google case was different. Google was competing directly in the Chinese market - and China is *very* protective of its own economy. If Google had only required a million slaves to update its indexes by hand, China would have happily opened its firewall for them.
What you see is the visible reason why patent and trademarks have been invented.
Cloning a product or business is a lot easier and cheaper than coming with a competing product/business: they don't have to invest in R&D, they can skip all the prototyping, trial/error phase and all the testing by simply cloning the final version. They even re-use the brand recognition which is also something costly to build: with it, they can even more money by selling lower quality substitute because their customer expectation will be based on the original product quality, not the actual quality of the knock off.
So the problem patent/copyright are trying to solve is real as seen in China. However, when looking at US, it is clear also that patent and copyrights are not a proper solution either.
the concepts equally apply to other systems and software
Wasn't it the goal of patent to protect actual invention rather than a concept ? They have patented the real life equivalent of "preparing your clothes for the next day before going to bed may save you time the following morning".
The effect of the last terrorist attack have already lasted a decade with no end in sight, and they affect the whole nation and arguably the whole world. So we are debating if we are more worried about loosing my right arm than our left arm.
So no real different than raytracing demo presented by Intel. That is still a level above "scam" and "impossible, duh".
There is almost every day an article about revolutionary new material, source of energy, cure for cancer,... the vast majority of it never make it to an actual product for lots of different reasons (does not scale, too weird, politic, bad time, fashion, $$$, 90% there syndrom, overoptimism, fatal flaws). That is still interesting, certainly more interesting than the 5 articles there will be today about the latest rumor of rumor on the next iPhone.
They claim they can do in realtime what you say is impossible. Now, if you don't actually have any technical argument, I'll take the view of an expert: John Carmack does not think it is a scam. That said, there are big always big challenges to go from the tech demo to the finished product for sure and they are unlikely to make it especially in the current game market which is already struggling to create content.
They have caught up in market share. The polish vary greatly based on the handset and manufacturer. The best of Android is better or similar to the iPhone in every aspect. The rest of Android phones (selling today)... no so much. That is the same as Windows vs Mac.
Executive summary: unlike the rest of the iPad competitor, the Galaxy tab look like a worthy competitor, meaning 95% of everything you would do on one work well on the other. If you are an ios user and happy, buy an iPad. If you are a bit bored after so many iPhone, just buy the Galaxy tab for a change. Vice versa for Android users.
For new users, if you like tinkering, the galaxy tab is for you. Otherwise, get an iPad, to have *today* the reference tablet, or a Galaxy Tab 2 to have an old version of *tomorrow* reference tablet (Galaxy Tab 3). Unless you need flash, in that case, buy a laptop.
They are *actually* starving, and yet they live in one of the richest place on earth. Lack of education, mass rape, continuous war, very low life expectancy, chaos at every level (state, infrastructure, law, health)... They are not having kid for pleasure, they are having kids as a form of basic survival instinct.
So you hope to see another way that any website can get root access to your device and change the operating system without the connected user consent ? An you consider that a plus on a "critical"(your word) device like your phone ??
You are just making an opposite troll. The quality is not always undercut, otherwise Apple would never have been able to sell anything, and they didn't get any special favor from the government.
In this instance however, you are right. The TSA current system has not been functioning for years - that is why it is called security theater in the first place - and yet there has been no real incident. So companies would not be able to compete on actual result (better security) but only on BS like ISO certification, government audit, marketing,... ?
That is of course not better at all, we want to get rid of the security theater, not an security theater industry.
If a breakthrough was available today, it would still take years, even decades to scale it up. Unforseen breakthrough immediately scalable may happen, the same way a new ice age may start tomorrow or we can get hit by a giant meteorite. And even in that case, how would that hampers their plan in any way ? Do you really think that too much cheap energy will cripple France economy ?
Dead, for an IT magazine, only means that they make less money if they use on their cover: you have hot (Tablet, Smartphone, Apple, Google,...) and dead (Desktop, Microsoft, IBM,...). It does not even matter if the dead product is competing or not with a hot one. That reminds me more of the fashion industry.
Not the same at all. There never existed any popular flying car or jet pack.
This is the 90s where ebook were practical only in the scifi movies, ebook are on their way to outsell paper book with today technology. There are books that are not even published in the paper format anymore.
The unique feeling, the smell of the paper that makes it unbelievable is just something unique to our generation, like my grand mother would never pay with something else than cash, because she says, that is the only reasonable way to control the money. The next generation will probably see physical book as an difficult to obtain, expensive and cumbersome alternative to ebook lacking features like search, dictionary, wikipedia access,... . If they have physical book that will be luxury hardback with handmade cover, signed by the author, they won't stack bookshelves of cheap paperback anymore.
Of course that is still prediction, something else can replace the book, but the book as a physical object has the same problem as movies and music. The content is what matter, not the medium.
The promises of OSS was to have more eyes looking at your code and therefore making better software.
That is var sad that money needs to be involved, but we don't live in the same OMG ponies world RMS lives in, it died in the 80s after our pot smoking parent changed their mind about the value of money. Nowadays, you see leech of the system making money with all sorts of repulsive business model,... so that is a good thing that security researcher gets rewarded and that student with too much time invest it improving the common good rather than another link farm business.
Google, Apple, Netflix will team together and repel any net neutrality rule. After all they can pay for the bandwidth their user will use and they are very interested to keep datacap for competitors. (not the one that are big today, the upstart one that will be big tomorrow)
Something I was wondering. Does that work really well, from a network transfer point of view ? I was under the impression that a TrueCrypt file (like a 2 GB disk) would change significantly for even a small change ?
For OSX users, there is also the option of using a compressed (encrypted) sparse image. It is a little less secure than TrueCrypt (only 256 bit AES) but it will split the file in chunk of 2MB. (OK, it also lacks plausible deniability and other features, but for the purpose of adding client-side encryption to Dropbox, that does not matter)
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I have had my share of PermGen issue. I wouldn't put the blame fully on the developer here. .... This is a java self-inflicted problem, you shouldn't need advanced knowledge of the classloader inner-working (actually, the fact that you need to know about classloader at all to create a webapp is a bit silly to start with) or garbage collection implementation to write some basic CRUD webapp.
It is extremely easy to create PermGen issue (immortal classes object) but the JVM provide very little (closer to nothing) to address that issue: no guideline, no debugging tool, no warning or easy way to detect a leak,
That is normal mental condition, the expected result is generally called "hope".
Sorry, you are in the US. Median salary means nothing, all that matters is salary of the top. American Dream - we are special and we will make it big if we wish it hard enough.
It is probably fair to assume that Android GPLv3 would not have been bought by Google. The open source bits in Android were already a big enough pill to swallow for phone and network companies.
The extra "fuck you evil companies" provisions in GPLv3 works as expected, evil companies do not use GPLv3 software ...
I'm sure their real goal is only to have a virtual state in international water. One that is just useful to locate the headquarter of your company for tax purpose.
this article's basically of the "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Not at all, actually quite the opposite ...
All sorts of amazing things are being thought of, written about, developed and researched, but are out of sight of the main stream New York Times journalism.
The article is not complaining about the lack of innovation, it is complaining about the lack of interest the world seems to have in progress and ideas.
The Google case was different. Google was competing directly in the Chinese market - and China is *very* protective of its own economy. If Google had only required a million slaves to update its indexes by hand, China would have happily opened its firewall for them.
Cloning a product or business is a lot easier and cheaper than coming with a competing product/business: they don't have to invest in R&D, they can skip all the prototyping, trial/error phase and all the testing by simply cloning the final version. They even re-use the brand recognition which is also something costly to build: with it, they can even more money by selling lower quality substitute because their customer expectation will be based on the original product quality, not the actual quality of the knock off.
So the problem patent/copyright are trying to solve is real as seen in China. However, when looking at US, it is clear also that patent and copyrights are not a proper solution either.
the concepts equally apply to other systems and software
Wasn't it the goal of patent to protect actual invention rather than a concept ? They have patented the real life equivalent of "preparing your clothes for the next day before going to bed may save you time the following morning".
The effect of the last terrorist attack have already lasted a decade with no end in sight, and they affect the whole nation and arguably the whole world. So we are debating if we are more worried about loosing my right arm than our left arm.
There is almost every day an article about revolutionary new material, source of energy, cure for cancer, ... the vast majority of it never make it to an actual product for lots of different reasons (does not scale, too weird, politic, bad time, fashion, $$$, 90% there syndrom, overoptimism, fatal flaws). That is still interesting, certainly more interesting than the 5 articles there will be today about the latest rumor of rumor on the next iPhone.
They claim they can do in realtime what you say is impossible. Now, if you don't actually have any technical argument, I'll take the view of an expert: John Carmack does not think it is a scam. That said, there are big always big challenges to go from the tech demo to the finished product for sure and they are unlikely to make it especially in the current game market which is already struggling to create content.
They have caught up in market share. The polish vary greatly based on the handset and manufacturer. The best of Android is better or similar to the iPhone in every aspect. The rest of Android phones (selling today) ... no so much. That is the same as Windows vs Mac.
For new users, if you like tinkering, the galaxy tab is for you. Otherwise, get an iPad, to have *today* the reference tablet, or a Galaxy Tab 2 to have an old version of *tomorrow* reference tablet (Galaxy Tab 3). Unless you need flash, in that case, buy a laptop.
They are *actually* starving, and yet they live in one of the richest place on earth. Lack of education, mass rape, continuous war, very low life expectancy, chaos at every level (state, infrastructure, law, health) ... They are not having kid for pleasure, they are having kids as a form of basic survival instinct.
un-tethered jailbreak
So you hope to see another way that any website can get root access to your device and change the operating system without the connected user consent ? An you consider that a plus on a "critical"(your word) device like your phone ??
-Mind blows-
In this instance however, you are right. The TSA current system has not been functioning for years - that is why it is called security theater in the first place - and yet there has been no real incident. So companies would not be able to compete on actual result (better security) but only on BS like ISO certification, government audit, marketing, ... ?
That is of course not better at all, we want to get rid of the security theater, not an security theater industry.
If a breakthrough was available today, it would still take years, even decades to scale it up. Unforseen breakthrough immediately scalable may happen, the same way a new ice age may start tomorrow or we can get hit by a giant meteorite. And even in that case, how would that hampers their plan in any way ? Do you really think that too much cheap energy will cripple France economy ?
What does that say about an innovating company when its best minds are on the floor marked Legal?
That their business model will soon be protected by the government ?
Dead, for an IT magazine, only means that they make less money if they use on their cover: you have hot (Tablet, Smartphone, Apple, Google, ...) and dead (Desktop, Microsoft, IBM, ...). It does not even matter if the dead product is competing or not with a hot one. That reminds me more of the fashion industry.
Anyways, it's not that expensive
Is my sarcasm detector broken or the shittiest, most expensive coverage I have ever heard of is really considered "not that expensive" in the US ?
This is the 90s where ebook were practical only in the scifi movies, ebook are on their way to outsell paper book with today technology. There are books that are not even published in the paper format anymore.
The unique feeling, the smell of the paper that makes it unbelievable is just something unique to our generation, like my grand mother would never pay with something else than cash, because she says, that is the only reasonable way to control the money. The next generation will probably see physical book as an difficult to obtain, expensive and cumbersome alternative to ebook lacking features like search, dictionary, wikipedia access, ... . If they have physical book that will be luxury hardback with handmade cover, signed by the author, they won't stack bookshelves of cheap paperback anymore.
Of course that is still prediction, something else can replace the book, but the book as a physical object has the same problem as movies and music. The content is what matter, not the medium.
That is var sad that money needs to be involved, but we don't live in the same OMG ponies world RMS lives in, it died in the 80s after our pot smoking parent changed their mind about the value of money. Nowadays, you see leech of the system making money with all sorts of repulsive business model, ... so that is a good thing that security researcher gets rewarded and that student with too much time invest it improving the common good rather than another link farm business.
Google, Apple, Netflix will team together and repel any net neutrality rule. After all they can pay for the bandwidth their user will use and they are very interested to keep datacap for competitors. (not the one that are big today, the upstart one that will be big tomorrow)
For OSX users, there is also the option of using a compressed (encrypted) sparse image. It is a little less secure than TrueCrypt (only 256 bit AES) but it will split the file in chunk of 2MB. (OK, it also lacks plausible deniability and other features, but for the purpose of adding client-side encryption to Dropbox, that does not matter)