Recently the classpath guys seem to have been working mainly on hacking thier code into a form where it can be used to fill the holes in suns source releases. Some of that code may eventually be merged into suns tree but this is complicated by the fact that sun requires authors of code to sign a "contributor agreement" giving sun a load of rights to thier code.
My guess is that most of the alternate java implementations will gradually fade into insignificance as sun java is freed up and ported to more platforms. Some alternate VMs may retain a niche on platforms where sun doesn't have a JIT.
I have never used python so I can't comment there.
Javas interface to native code is horrible. You have to create a java class with methods declared native and compile it. Then you have to seperately write and compile a peice of C code that uses obtuse apis to access the java data and pass it to the native library. And of course you have to seperately compile this code for every platform even if the interface to the native library is the same.
Long ago is a bit of an exaggeration, the first code drop was less than two years ago and the first drop of the majority of the code
Sun was talking about open sourcing java for many years, but it was only fairly recently (december 2006) that they actually annouced the license they planned to use and gave us a little taste of code (not that said code was much use on it's own). and promised all of the JDK "except for a few components that Sun does not have the right to publish in source form under the GPL" would be released by march of the next year
Then when it came we discovered that those few components included serveral major parts of the graphics subsystem. Progress to getting high quality replacements for those components and getting them into the official codebase has been rather slow and is still not complete.
Also it was only last febuary that they opensourced anything from the java6 codebase, before that everything they released was from the java 7 alpha codebase, hardly ideal for production use (though a couple of linux distros shipped the code anyway because they considered it better than nothin).
This article doesn't really tell us anything we didn't know already.
Major distros will ship proper java by default (some already are shipping java builds based on the code sun has released so far with bits from elsewhere to try and plug the gaps) and they will be able to patch it themselves to backport security fixes or fix issues with new versions of libraries (there was a bad one involving sun java 6 and a new version of some library recently, I don't remember the details but I do remember sun took ages to get a fix out).
On the contrary, this is the way a free market should work. I see craigslist as a somewhat scrappy underdog that is getting ahead by offering their services at a lower rate than the other guys. And ebay absoloutely doesn't want them to do that because much of craigslists users are going to come at ebays expense.
I belive destroying craigslist as a cheap alternative to ebay (either by destroying it completely or forcing it to raise prices) is what this lawsuit is really about regardless of the stated reasons.
mostly the newer games are just more of the same with more pokemon to get and better graphics.
There are a hell of a lot of pokemon in recent versions. My brother and I got every pokemon for the GBA generation (ruby/saphire/fire red/leaf green/emerald/colloseum/xd) except the event only pokemon and the one from pokemon channel but it took us well over a year and the DS generation adds even more to get.
The stories were reasonable but nothing steller and getting constantly interrupted by wild pokemon you didn't want was a PITA. There was also a lot of grinding (wandering aimlessly arround in the higest level area you could access trying to gain EXP for the next run of fights)
BTW if you own a gamecube give colloseum and XD a go (in that order since XD is a sequal to colloseum). They keep the pokemon theme while being in a 3D world and having a fairly different story from the other games.
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Whether they honestly belive it or not is irrelevent. They can claim it and since a private company is difficult to value they can probablly cause a reasonablly protracted lawsuit over it.
Afaict for ebay buying a share in craigslist serves two purposes, firstly if they find more people willing to sell out they may eventually get a controlling interest (which would allow them to put up it's prices), secondly it gives them a whole new category of lawsuits to harras them with.
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True so there is no share price to knock down.
If ebay can get a controlling majority in craigslist they put the prices up to be higher than thier own and they win.
If ebay can bankrupt craigslist they buy the name/domains at the bankrupcy sale and either redirect it to ebay or set up thier own craigslist site with ebay like pricing. Again they win.
If they can get a settlement or judgement paid in stock that puts them closer to a controlling majority.
snap up shares when you can and harras the company with minority shareholder lawsuits (which are likely to cause pain to a lot of companies who aren't agressively monitising thier assets) in the meantime. Also harras the company with any other lawsuits you think you can get away with.
I would think of 2x memory as a guideline for the maxium swap you are likely to be able to fill up before things slow to a crawl. That doesn't mean you need that much swap in regular use.
And linux is quite happy to swap to files so it's easy to add more swap in a hurry if you need it for a specific task.
I have seen system builder packs in one license and three license sizes, there may be larger though (just if there are the suppliers I use don't stock them)
The trouble with system builder packs is they are a pain for places doing PC builds on a large scale.
Each machine has to be installed using it's own individual key (or imaged and then rekeyed before activation) and then activated online or over the phone. The key sticker comes attached to the shrinkwrap packet containing the CD and manual (which is not how an assembly line operation would want them).
The people I see this being usefull for is those who want to image thier machines but don't have a volume license.
Install XP, make image, put image on machines then enter keys and activate. Avoids the risk of accidently activating the wrong key on a machine which may potentially cause problems later.
btw according to MS system builder packs will continue to be availible until next january.
My understanding is that wga comes in two forms. The checker which is needed before it will let you install certain stuff (windows steadystate) and the notifications program which nags you if your system is not "genuine"
I generally keep it set to download automatically but ask me before installing.
but if it was a machine I wasn't going to be keeping an eye on, I knew the user didn't have the techical know-how to make reasonable choices on updates and I was sure it was a fully legit copy I would probablly put it on full auto.
Where did you get the idea XP was going to be using vista style activation?
Afaict activation will be the same as before with the one exception that you can install first and enter the product key later if you wish. Of course WGA will be mandatory which may be a problem if you are breaking the rules.
Growth takes time and who says something similar won't happen to the next one?
For a trading site to be practical it needs to build a critical mass of users and the more users there are the better it gets for those users as they are more likely to find a good match.
You'll have to create that 60GB FAT32 partition with Linux A windows 98 emergency startup disk should do it fine, there are also third party utilities for windows that can format such partitions (though that isn't any use for the boot partition)
Except that the only thing that requires reactivation is a new motherboard. Assuming you are talking about retail or whitebox OEM (big brand OEM uses a completely different system) it is a tally of various hardware components.
It is possible to go over the limit without replacing the motherboard, especially if the motherboad doesn't have a built in lan port (or it has one but it's disabled).
BTW I would strongly reccomend backing up your activation data so a clean reinstall does not mean needing to reactivate. Afaict when you reactivate with any hardware (or possiblly even driver) changes at all MS can't tell the difference between that and trying to activate on completely different hardware.
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people are protesting that Microsoft is killing the operating system they use, for the sole motive of making more profit. That's not generous, it's abusive.
A lot of people are exagerating the situation. Between downgrade rights for OEM vista buisness/ultimate and downgrade rights in volume license programs XP it is not as though XP is going to become unavailible.
BTW it is not contradictory for MS to be very generous to it's volume licensing customers and reasonablly generous to those who buy buisness or ultimate OEM while at the same time screwing those who buy vista home basic or home premium OEM.
System builder packs will remain availible until january of next year, volume license agreements come with very generous downgrade rights and iirc vista buisness OEM comes with downgrade rights to XP pro.
Afaict if you have an individual subscription (not under a volume license agreement) you don't get the VLK version of XP.
and from vista onwards every version needs activation unless you have a KMS server (which needs a KMS key and needs more than a certain number of clients before it starts working).
better to use something like partimage or ghost which will create images of used space only and can restore to a partition of different size to the original.
There are so many other alternatives How many of them have the international presense and existing userbase that paypal does?
Yes paypal charges fees but paying both the foriegn transaction fee on my debit card AND bidpays fees is a lot more expensive.
and the price for a bank transfer from my british account to a german account was stupidly high (I ended up sending cash through the post for that transaction because that was the only mutually acceptable method that the seller and I could come up with).
I kind of got bored with elite after I got to the first mission but the trail went cold and I couldn't find any info online on what to do next.
I tried the nes port and found the controls horrible. having to move along a sluggish icon bar to get screens that were one keypress away in the BBC micro version.
and what is there to stop the government setting up a central procurment department (if they don't already have one) and having that department join the partnet program.
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Recently the classpath guys seem to have been working mainly on hacking thier code into a form where it can be used to fill the holes in suns source releases. Some of that code may eventually be merged into suns tree but this is complicated by the fact that sun requires authors of code to sign a "contributor agreement" giving sun a load of rights to thier code.
My guess is that most of the alternate java implementations will gradually fade into insignificance as sun java is freed up and ported to more platforms. Some alternate VMs may retain a niche on platforms where sun doesn't have a JIT.
I have never used python so I can't comment there.
Javas interface to native code is horrible. You have to create a java class with methods declared native and compile it. Then you have to seperately write and compile a peice of C code that uses obtuse apis to access the java data and pass it to the native library. And of course you have to seperately compile this code for every platform even if the interface to the native library is the same.
Long ago is a bit of an exaggeration, the first code drop was less than two years ago and the first drop of the majority of the code
Sun was talking about open sourcing java for many years, but it was only fairly recently (december 2006) that they actually annouced the license they planned to use and gave us a little taste of code (not that said code was much use on it's own). and promised all of the JDK "except for a few components that Sun does not have the right to publish in source form under the GPL" would be released by march of the next year
Then when it came we discovered that those few components included serveral major parts of the graphics subsystem. Progress to getting high quality replacements for those components and getting them into the official codebase has been rather slow and is still not complete.
Also it was only last febuary that they opensourced anything from the java6 codebase, before that everything they released was from the java 7 alpha codebase, hardly ideal for production use (though a couple of linux distros shipped the code anyway because they considered it better than nothin).
This article doesn't really tell us anything we didn't know already.
It is good news for users of java on linux.
Major distros will ship proper java by default (some already are shipping java builds based on the code sun has released so far with bits from elsewhere to try and plug the gaps) and they will be able to patch it themselves to backport security fixes or fix issues with new versions of libraries (there was a bad one involving sun java 6 and a new version of some library recently, I don't remember the details but I do remember sun took ages to get a fix out).
On the contrary, this is the way a free market should work. I see craigslist as a somewhat scrappy underdog that is getting ahead by offering their services at a lower rate than the other guys.
And ebay absoloutely doesn't want them to do that because much of craigslists users are going to come at ebays expense.
I belive destroying craigslist as a cheap alternative to ebay (either by destroying it completely or forcing it to raise prices) is what this lawsuit is really about regardless of the stated reasons.
mostly the newer games are just more of the same with more pokemon to get and better graphics.
There are a hell of a lot of pokemon in recent versions. My brother and I got every pokemon for the GBA generation (ruby/saphire/fire red/leaf green/emerald/colloseum/xd) except the event only pokemon and the one from pokemon channel but it took us well over a year and the DS generation adds even more to get.
The stories were reasonable but nothing steller and getting constantly interrupted by wild pokemon you didn't want was a PITA. There was also a lot of grinding (wandering aimlessly arround in the higest level area you could access trying to gain EXP for the next run of fights)
BTW if you own a gamecube give colloseum and XD a go (in that order since XD is a sequal to colloseum). They keep the pokemon theme while being in a 3D world and having a fairly different story from the other games.
Whether they honestly belive it or not is irrelevent. They can claim it and since a private company is difficult to value they can probablly cause a reasonablly protracted lawsuit over it.
Afaict for ebay buying a share in craigslist serves two purposes, firstly if they find more people willing to sell out they may eventually get a controlling interest (which would allow them to put up it's prices), secondly it gives them a whole new category of lawsuits to harras them with.
True so there is no share price to knock down.
If ebay can get a controlling majority in craigslist they put the prices up to be higher than thier own and they win.
If ebay can bankrupt craigslist they buy the name/domains at the bankrupcy sale and either redirect it to ebay or set up thier own craigslist site with ebay like pricing. Again they win.
If they can get a settlement or judgement paid in stock that puts them closer to a controlling majority.
snap up shares when you can and harras the company with minority shareholder lawsuits (which are likely to cause pain to a lot of companies who aren't agressively monitising thier assets) in the meantime. Also harras the company with any other lawsuits you think you can get away with.
I would think of 2x memory as a guideline for the maxium swap you are likely to be able to fill up before things slow to a crawl. That doesn't mean you need that much swap in regular use.
And linux is quite happy to swap to files so it's easy to add more swap in a hurry if you need it for a specific task.
I have seen system builder packs in one license and three license sizes, there may be larger though (just if there are the suppliers I use don't stock them)
The trouble with system builder packs is they are a pain for places doing PC builds on a large scale.
Each machine has to be installed using it's own individual key (or imaged and then rekeyed before activation) and then activated online or over the phone. The key sticker comes attached to the shrinkwrap packet containing the CD and manual (which is not how an assembly line operation would want them).
apparently that method doesn't work for SP1, someone found a method that did but it was quite a pain.
The people I see this being usefull for is those who want to image thier machines but don't have a volume license.
Install XP, make image, put image on machines then enter keys and activate. Avoids the risk of accidently activating the wrong key on a machine which may potentially cause problems later.
btw according to MS system builder packs will continue to be availible until next january.
was it a key that would have failed a wga check?
My understanding is that wga comes in two forms. The checker which is needed before it will let you install certain stuff (windows steadystate) and the notifications program which nags you if your system is not "genuine"
My understanding is that sp3 includes the latter.
I generally keep it set to download automatically but ask me before installing.
but if it was a machine I wasn't going to be keeping an eye on, I knew the user didn't have the techical know-how to make reasonable choices on updates and I was sure it was a fully legit copy I would probablly put it on full auto.
Where did you get the idea XP was going to be using vista style activation?
Afaict activation will be the same as before with the one exception that you can install first and enter the product key later if you wish. Of course WGA will be mandatory which may be a problem if you are breaking the rules.
Growth takes time and who says something similar won't happen to the next one?
For a trading site to be practical it needs to build a critical mass of users and the more users there are the better it gets for those users as they are more likely to find a good match.
You'll have to create that 60GB FAT32 partition with Linux
A windows 98 emergency startup disk should do it fine, there are also third party utilities for windows that can format such partitions (though that isn't any use for the boot partition)
Except that the only thing that requires reactivation is a new motherboard.
Assuming you are talking about retail or whitebox OEM (big brand OEM uses a completely different system) it is a tally of various hardware components.
It is possible to go over the limit without replacing the motherboard, especially if the motherboad doesn't have a built in lan port (or it has one but it's disabled).
BTW I would strongly reccomend backing up your activation data so a clean reinstall does not mean needing to reactivate. Afaict when you reactivate with any hardware (or possiblly even driver) changes at all MS can't tell the difference between that and trying to activate on completely different hardware.
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsNT/UserTips/Miscellaneous/BackupRestoreXPActivation.html
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people are protesting that Microsoft is killing the operating system they use, for the sole motive of making more profit. That's not generous, it's abusive.
A lot of people are exagerating the situation. Between downgrade rights for OEM vista buisness/ultimate and downgrade rights in volume license programs XP it is not as though XP is going to become unavailible.
BTW it is not contradictory for MS to be very generous to it's volume licensing customers and reasonablly generous to those who buy buisness or ultimate OEM while at the same time screwing those who buy vista home basic or home premium OEM.
System builder packs will remain availible until january of next year, volume license agreements come with very generous downgrade rights and iirc vista buisness OEM comes with downgrade rights to XP pro.
Afaict if you have an individual subscription (not under a volume license agreement) you don't get the VLK version of XP.
and from vista onwards every version needs activation unless you have a KMS server (which needs a KMS key and needs more than a certain number of clients before it starts working).
better to use something like partimage or ghost which will create images of used space only and can restore to a partition of different size to the original.
There are so many other alternatives
How many of them have the international presense and existing userbase that paypal does?
Yes paypal charges fees but paying both the foriegn transaction fee on my debit card AND bidpays fees is a lot more expensive.
and the price for a bank transfer from my british account to a german account was stupidly high (I ended up sending cash through the post for that transaction because that was the only mutually acceptable method that the seller and I could come up with).
I kind of got bored with elite after I got to the first mission but the trail went cold and I couldn't find any info online on what to do next.
I tried the nes port and found the controls horrible. having to move along a sluggish icon bar to get screens that were one keypress away in the BBC micro version.
and what is there to stop the government setting up a central procurment department (if they don't already have one) and having that department join the partnet program.