A health care worker might have loaded patient files onto a laptop, for example, and taken it home where a son or daughter could have downloaded a peer-to-peer client onto the laptop to share music.
Or the son or daughter could have emailed the patient files. Or printed them out. Or uploaded them to googledocs. Come on, what has this to do with p2p? And how about not giving your child access to your patient files? Hm?
I'm testing Ubuntu 9.04 atm, and the installer found my xp partition and asked me if i want to import my firefox and explorer profile, some stuff from My Documents and whatnot. Don't know about mails in thunderbird or outlook, as I don't use a mail client. But really, this is great, people can keep their bookmarks and configs.
Put another way, if the users are going to be confused anyway when upgrading from XP, you might as well upgrade to Linux and get off the treadmill.
this is *exactly* my linux pitch. if someone comes for help to upgrade their xp box to vista, i tell them..."look, its gonna be a new os, and with that you may need a new office suite anyway, so here is ubuntu". works great.
but the fact that the state of an application is NOT persisted enables you to reboot. what this phantom os can (or will be able to) do we already can do, with every programming language, but in RAM. the "added value" is just that RAM==persistent state. but we actually want RAM!=persistent state. oh, and not only real files are modeled like files, message pipes, io channels and lots more uses the file abstraction. just take a look at the world you are getting your ideas from: the java world for example wouldn't work without clear boundaries (tiers) where you know something is persisted or not.
please stay with car analogies. sorry, but your comment makes you look like someone who hasn't a clue what diplomacy is about (hint: it doesn't mean "talking to people"), or what rape is about (hint: there are no options other than being raped in a rape), and finally, hell, it makes you look like a moron who does anything to get off a first post.
get that picture of poor little third-world-workers living on nothing but bread and water to send every penny home to their dying mother in some village in africa out of your head please. It may apply to some extend to the "migrant mexican workers" you're speaking about, but they don't exactly work in the 60k tier of bank employees now do they. When a company hires workers from another country than yours, there is only reason why: IT COSTS LESS MONEY.
and one important point: the moment you start to turn your anger against the people that's been hired or their behaviour (that's what you're doing), you're on the wrong track. Especially people in the bank business, american people mind you, transfer their money to tax havens, be it via fonds or investments. And yes, especially the middle class does this.
uhm, you're just telling that it is amazingly improbable. but there's been more than a million years and a gazillion rocks, i bet there is at least one stone out there sharp enough to be useful and not made by man.
Ha, I have it...Sell the CDs for half the price and add a second cd with high quality, drm free digital versions (flac, ogg or hq mp3). So i can have them archived on a shelf, put them on my terrabyte disc and have my cover art.
for now. really, keep that in mind, there still collecting data.
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in java i would just use the bag class from apache commons. bad example;) I mean i got your point, ruby is good in implementing containing data structures because of the blocks, but do you really think a project gets developed faster because a language has blocks and closures? I've experienced quite the opposite...if you start using a language that is particularly good in one thing, every problem gets resolved by using this one thing. Especially in ruby, where you have to use blocks which are quite unreadable for everything or you're a noob (just google for a software problem and add "ruby way" to the query).
concerning the web layer you're right on the spot, its too low level and should not be dealt with directly, but jpa, session beans and mdbs are pretty sound and simple and should be dealt with directly, everything else, except for specific business needs, is nih and overhead. and hibernate is in fact a jpa implementation. and with spring, well you have an alternative to application servers, but jee is NOT about just application servers anymore.
why is it that you people always try to sell Americans on the idea that we spent all our money on wars and thus must have less than you in other areas?
because we're right? look at the budget your country spents on the military. the thing after "why is it" actually is true. mod me troll, but you even (so does the eu) get the democracy thing wrong. ever wondered what the poli means in "politician" or "police"? it means city state. democrazy doesnt work with that much people around. marx was a scientist. not an agitator. but yea, obama will make it all right, sure.
A very good protection is actually the GPL. As long as you are the copyright holder of your source code/ other material, GPL it. Java code for example is always decompilable (obfuscating is pants, really), and python is distributed as source, so is ruby and javascript. Unless you're a real coding wizard, code is not that valuable anyway. And if someone steals it, you are protected. You can relicense it later anyway, have a look at QT.
The one thing these articles miss out is the massive costs involved in switching over and training staff.
This is a problem indeed, but it has nothing to do with what you are switching to. It has something to do with employing stupid and/ or lazy people. For anyone able to read a book the switch from MS Office to OOo won't be a problem. If you need to train your people for THAT, you have a problem. Really, RTFM and back to work.
I beg to differ. It is a huge convenience if you are able to process data from documents like spreadsheets in code you write. Especially when it comes to requirement documents or test descriptions. Removing the barrier that usually stands between documents and implementation is a big thing. Yea, there are some libs that can process excel stuff, but we usually have to convert everything to csv files and load them. But having full programmatic access to odf documents makes it possible to integrate those documents into the whole development process. Sure, those people will still use excel or word, but they will export their docs as odf files and that's what matters. Who cares what "editor" they use?
I've been watching this election closely from europe, and for me and a lot of people i know it is enough that finally a black (or coloured, or afro-american, pc my ass;) ) person is president. No really, it's an achievement, and everyone who thinks it is not because we live in "modern times": it *really is* an achievement. And by that I mean no offense to you americans, the western world, including europe, is still a quite racist world. The important thing is he did not win because he is black but because he is a frigging good and smart politician. That's enough "change" for the moment, really. The rest is a bonus.
oh noes, it uses a language you don't have installed and some libraries. if you have something against java, then say so and be fine, but complaining about developers using opensource libs is kinda funny.
yea, nice fancy stuff, but that is technology, not game design. wii fit, nice, but not as revolutionary as the first mario or the first zelda. it's as revolutionary and new as the iphone is. i'm just saying he can do more than *that*. see what impact mario had? in 10 years the wii will be remembered as the macbook of consoles. creating new universes is a whole other thing.
You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?
you're right, i usually don't. that's why i post on slashdot;)
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yay, troll mods rolling in. but i read the link in your signature, and i can't take you serious for a second. wtf is going on with you guys.
this is where Ubuntu must concentrate in order to convince users to switch from Windows (if that is in fact a goal).
Ubuntu is (from what i know) the only linux distro that in fact has this goal. Look at their number one entry in their bug tracking system.
spam. monty python. flying circus. intro. and now to something completely different. frontal nudity!
No. If I hadn't scratched my arse at that one time in the 90s, the default color of hyperlinks would be green.
A health care worker might have loaded patient files onto a laptop, for example, and taken it home where a son or daughter could have downloaded a peer-to-peer client onto the laptop to share music.
Or the son or daughter could have emailed the patient files. Or printed them out. Or uploaded them to googledocs. Come on, what has this to do with p2p? And how about not giving your child access to your patient files? Hm?
on the 'net you can't tell the major corporation from the kid in a garage
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True. But I don't know if the implication to hope for the first is so wise
I'm testing Ubuntu 9.04 atm, and the installer found my xp partition and asked me if i want to import my firefox and explorer profile, some stuff from My Documents and whatnot. Don't know about mails in thunderbird or outlook, as I don't use a mail client. But really, this is great, people can keep their bookmarks and configs.
Put another way, if the users are going to be confused anyway when upgrading from XP, you might as well upgrade to Linux and get off the treadmill.
this is *exactly* my linux pitch. if someone comes for help to upgrade their xp box to vista, i tell them..."look, its gonna be a new os, and with that you may need a new office suite anyway, so here is ubuntu". works great.
but the fact that the state of an application is NOT persisted enables you to reboot. what this phantom os can (or will be able to) do we already can do, with every programming language, but in RAM. the "added value" is just that RAM==persistent state. but we actually want RAM!=persistent state. oh, and not only real files are modeled like files, message pipes, io channels and lots more uses the file abstraction. just take a look at the world you are getting your ideas from: the java world for example wouldn't work without clear boundaries (tiers) where you know something is persisted or not.
please stay with car analogies. sorry, but your comment makes you look like someone who hasn't a clue what diplomacy is about (hint: it doesn't mean "talking to people"), or what rape is about (hint: there are no options other than being raped in a rape), and finally, hell, it makes you look like a moron who does anything to get off a first post.
and the guy with the child like view is you.
get that picture of poor little third-world-workers living on nothing but bread and water to send every penny home to their dying mother in some village in africa out of your head please. It may apply to some extend to the "migrant mexican workers" you're speaking about, but they don't exactly work in the 60k tier of bank employees now do they. When a company hires workers from another country than yours, there is only reason why: IT COSTS LESS MONEY.
and one important point: the moment you start to turn your anger against the people that's been hired or their behaviour (that's what you're doing), you're on the wrong track. Especially people in the bank business, american people mind you, transfer their money to tax havens, be it via fonds or investments. And yes, especially the middle class does this.
uhm, you're just telling that it is amazingly improbable. but there's been more than a million years and a gazillion rocks, i bet there is at least one stone out there sharp enough to be useful and not made by man.
Ha, I have it...Sell the CDs for half the price and add a second cd with high quality, drm free digital versions (flac, ogg or hq mp3). So i can have them archived on a shelf, put them on my terrabyte disc and have my cover art.
for now. really, keep that in mind, there still collecting data.
in java i would just use the bag class from apache commons. bad example ;) I mean i got your point, ruby is good in implementing containing data structures because of the blocks, but do you really think a project gets developed faster because a language has blocks and closures? I've experienced quite the opposite...if you start using a language that is particularly good in one thing, every problem gets resolved by using this one thing. Especially in ruby, where you have to use blocks which are quite unreadable for everything or you're a noob (just google for a software problem and add "ruby way" to the query).
concerning the web layer you're right on the spot, its too low level and should not be dealt with directly, but jpa, session beans and mdbs are pretty sound and simple and should be dealt with directly, everything else, except for specific business needs, is nih and overhead. and hibernate is in fact a jpa implementation. and with spring, well you have an alternative to application servers, but jee is NOT about just application servers anymore.
why is it that you people always try to sell Americans on the idea that we spent all our money on wars and thus must have less than you in other areas?
because we're right? look at the budget your country spents on the military. the thing after "why is it" actually is true. mod me troll, but you even (so does the eu) get the democracy thing wrong. ever wondered what the poli means in "politician" or "police"? it means city state. democrazy doesnt work with that much people around. marx was a scientist. not an agitator. but yea, obama will make it all right, sure.
scnr, but please read what you wrote and think hard ;)
A very good protection is actually the GPL. As long as you are the copyright holder of your source code/ other material, GPL it. Java code for example is always decompilable (obfuscating is pants, really), and python is distributed as source, so is ruby and javascript. Unless you're a real coding wizard, code is not that valuable anyway. And if someone steals it, you are protected. You can relicense it later anyway, have a look at QT.
The one thing these articles miss out is the massive costs involved in switching over and training staff.
This is a problem indeed, but it has nothing to do with what you are switching to. It has something to do with employing stupid and/ or lazy people. For anyone able to read a book the switch from MS Office to OOo won't be a problem. If you need to train your people for THAT, you have a problem. Really, RTFM and back to work.
he just did.
I beg to differ. It is a huge convenience if you are able to process data from documents like spreadsheets in code you write. Especially when it comes to requirement documents or test descriptions. Removing the barrier that usually stands between documents and implementation is a big thing. Yea, there are some libs that can process excel stuff, but we usually have to convert everything to csv files and load them. But having full programmatic access to odf documents makes it possible to integrate those documents into the whole development process. Sure, those people will still use excel or word, but they will export their docs as odf files and that's what matters. Who cares what "editor" they use?
I've been watching this election closely from europe, and for me and a lot of people i know it is enough that finally a black (or coloured, or afro-american, pc my ass ;) ) person is president. No really, it's an achievement, and everyone who thinks it is not because we live in "modern times": it *really is* an achievement. And by that I mean no offense to you americans, the western world, including europe, is still a quite racist world. The important thing is he did not win because he is black but because he is a frigging good and smart politician. That's enough "change" for the moment, really. The rest is a bonus.
oh noes, it uses a language you don't have installed and some libraries. if you have something against java, then say so and be fine, but complaining about developers using opensource libs is kinda funny.
yea, nice fancy stuff, but that is technology, not game design. wii fit, nice, but not as revolutionary as the first mario or the first zelda. it's as revolutionary and new as the iphone is. i'm just saying he can do more than *that*. see what impact mario had? in 10 years the wii will be remembered as the macbook of consoles. creating new universes is a whole other thing.
;)
You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?
you're right, i usually don't. that's why i post on slashdot