That idea died a horrible death, despite Microsoft's best efforts to make the Network the Computer.
As others have pointed out, the Network is the Computer was actually Suns slogan. I believe Microsoft did everything in their power to destroy that idea and the idea of platform independence, because at the time they had nothing to compete with in that area, and if it took off it would reduce the importance of Windows and Office. See for instance their immediate attempt to destroy cross-platform Java by introducing Windows platform specifics in the core libraries.
User interface components seems to be the new preferred way to try to lock customers and users in to a specific platform. Previously it was the OS and the apps, but now their relevance is fading. So now we get SWT from IBM trying to triumph Swing in the Java world, and Microsoft trying to get developers dependent on WinForms for instance.
For all the hype, AJAX is just another attempt to plug the feature gap in using web based interfaces (XUL, Java Server Faces, JavaScript...). I think developers are using a cobbled together approach based on web pages + lots of scipting and extra libraries, when perhaps they should considering going all the way and do a heavy client instead. This would reduce complexity and development time and still allow reasonable platform independence. These days they can be just as easily deployed and automatically updated when the server changes, for instance Java Web Start.
Well, you are unusual then. Noise affects people differently, but experiements show that for many people, a lot of ambient noise disturbs sleep, causing fewer REM periods. It can also damage your hearing over time.
There's also a bit of complaining about the poor state of advanced education, which has some validity as well.
He only talks about the state of education for engineering. It would have been interesting to read what he thought of the liberal arts teachers.
I am guessing though from a few hints in the article that he suffers from the usual American techie contempt for liberal arts "Do not pity me..." "Liberal arts student get high grades automatically..".
I have studied both computer science and liberal arts Uppsala University, and though I had some great teachers at both "sides", I must say that for me, the quality of the liberal arts teachers were generally higher.
I really can't believe people watch that trash. All these resources, they could have made some GREAT nature shows (or some great tech shows), and instead they had to make it into a fucking pro-wrestling show for the drooling masses. "These are the weapons and armour of contestant one..."
Hey, I have an idea, for next season maybe they can add some CGI of the animals talking trash at each other and screaming threats before the face-off. That would be awesome!
Maybe if he didn't smoke, Feynman would have been some kind of accountant helping people get rich instead of contributing to the world of physics. Which would have been better? Who knows.
Maybe if he didn't smoke, he would have been an EVEN BETTER physicist and mathematician, and we would have reached the singularity by know. Which would have been better? Who knows.
I'm not saying pot is good or bad, just pointing out that you are playing "what if" games and then taking the results as evidence supporting your claim.
The following is a transcript of this communication:
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Translating machine: "We come in peace... We come in peace...."
atrebuse wrote to mention a preview of the Ubuntu 5.10 Preview release, on Mad Penguin.
And I guess this is the preview of the real Slashdot article coming tomorrow... and the day after that.
According to the DistroWatch page hit ranking sidebar, Ubuntu Linux has held the title of '"most worshiped distro' for quite some time now.
Oh whopee, another article that thinks page hits on a single site is significant. Can we please have some hysterical "Redhat is dying" stories now that they are beaten on Distrowatch by distros like SLAX and Zenwalk?
Is it because the Ubuntu followers are just sitting there hitting their browsers refresh button on the DistroWatch Ubuntu page?
Yes. And possibly hype caused by fluff articles in media.
Still, congrats on the release Ubuntu team, I'm sure its good.
Java programs use up so much at the moment that I doubt there's enough silicon in the world to produce them once Java goes 64 bit!!!
It is not the programs themselves as he JVM that takes up memory, and Sun has merged code from Apple that allows a single JVM to run all your Java programs. I'm guessing that will not stop the usual trolling though.
As for the other part of your statement, there already exists plenty of 64 bit JVMs, and as usual, my programs work fine without me having to change a single line of code:
9 times out of 10 when sites demand that you use IE, it works fine with other browsers as well and the check is completely unneccessary. Just damn lazy site creators who assume it will take a lot of resources and time to verify that the site works with other browers.
In the case of Final Fantasy, audiences were too distracted in noticing subtle rendering and animation flaws that they failed to suspend disbelief. If the rendering had been more stylized (like in Japanese anime), viewers may not have focused only on rendering flaws, but on the story and characters.
I think the makers of FF: The Movie are greatful for anything and everything that distracts the audience from the story and characters.
And this comes from someone who doesn't have very high expectations when it comes to sci-fi films...
Imagine a Bell curve. You just picked a statistical sample of one (Keith Richards) who happened to fall in the outer edges of the statistics. This does not change the fact that by taking care of yourself you can drastically lower the risk of getting cancer or other diseases. The risk is not 0% of course, you can still get unlucky.
If your conclusion (95% genetics) was right, why has life expectancy for some peoples in history been so low that being 40 years old was considered a venerable age? Do you really think human genes have changed that quickly?
I used these in social science class in 1992 in Sweden, they weren't wireless though of course. I was 16 at the time ("Gymnasiet" in Sweden, not sure what it is called in other countries - secondary high?)
Quite fun, we students got to write yes/no questions and passed them to the teacher, she selected the most interesting ones. I would have been interested to see the answer to the question "Do you consider yourself gay or bi", but I chickened out.
Agh! That is terrible advice! Learn many languages, yes, but on one project, try to use as FEW languages as possible. A language has strengths, but it also has weaknesses, and the join between languages can also lead to weaknesses.
To continue your carpenter and tools anology, what do you think a master carpenter would say to someone who said "I created this bridge by gluing together as many different materials as possible because they all have their own strengths!"?
Er, JSP/Servlets are part of the J2EE specification. So is classes for handling XML, and so is JDBC, which you are almost certainly using with Spring/Hibernate.
Exactly. I have a Sun certification rebate that expires in a few days. I was thinking I should I get the Business Component Developer (EJB) exam, but now I'm thinking perhaps the Mobile Application Developer (J2ME) exam could be a good move?
Of course, I could buy both, but that would mean working really hard for months...
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Yeah, that one was great. Bush's inauguration speech: "Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over!"
Linux/UNIX shells have been developed, tested and improved by hundreds (thousands?) of people who use them repeatedly every day over the course of more than 20 years. How the hell is MS going to make something superior in 3-5?
I hate to be in any way sticking up for Microsoft, but don't underestimate the value of starting from a clean slate.
Apple has done some pretty nifty things, for instance launcd . I know it's not popular with everyone, but I think it was pretty cool replacing all these different scipts and daemons, and having one XML based config file. They simplified by daring to question established wisdom (the "We've always done it this way so it must be perfect" mindset.)
Greenpeace has been charged as a terrorist organisation because some members climbed up on a roof and unfolded a "NO GM PIGS" banner. The government is invoking a "anti-terror" law that was rushed through by the right-wing government.
Remember this is the country where Bjorn Lomborg was given a post as a director of an Environmental Institute.
Fascists are really grabbing for power around the world.
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That idea died a horrible death, despite Microsoft's best efforts to make the Network the Computer.
As others have pointed out, the Network is the Computer was actually Suns slogan. I believe Microsoft did everything in their power to destroy that idea and the idea of platform independence, because at the time they had nothing to compete with in that area, and if it took off it would reduce the importance of Windows and Office. See for instance their immediate attempt to destroy cross-platform Java by introducing Windows platform specifics in the core libraries.
User interface components seems to be the new preferred way to try to lock customers and users in to a specific platform. Previously it was the OS and the apps, but now their relevance is fading. So now we get SWT from IBM trying to triumph Swing in the Java world, and Microsoft trying to get developers dependent on WinForms for instance.
For all the hype, AJAX is just another attempt to plug the feature gap in using web based interfaces (XUL, Java Server Faces, JavaScript...). I think developers are using a cobbled together approach based on web pages + lots of scipting and extra libraries, when perhaps they should considering going all the way and do a heavy client instead. This would reduce complexity and development time and still allow reasonable platform independence. These days they can be just as easily deployed and automatically updated when the server changes, for instance Java Web Start.
Well, you are unusual then. Noise affects people differently, but experiements show that for many people, a lot of ambient noise disturbs sleep, causing fewer REM periods. It can also damage your hearing over time.
There's also a bit of complaining about the poor state of advanced education, which has some validity as well.
He only talks about the state of education for engineering. It would have been interesting to read what he thought of the liberal arts teachers.
I am guessing though from a few hints in the article that he suffers from the usual American techie contempt for liberal arts "Do not pity me..." "Liberal arts student get high grades automatically..".
I have studied both computer science and liberal arts Uppsala University, and though I had some great teachers at both "sides", I must say that for me, the quality of the liberal arts teachers were generally higher.
I really can't believe people watch that trash. All these resources, they could have made some GREAT nature shows (or some great tech shows), and instead they had to make it into a fucking pro-wrestling show for the drooling masses. "These are the weapons and armour of contestant one..."
Hey, I have an idea, for next season maybe they can add some CGI of the animals talking trash at each other and screaming threats before the face-off. That would be awesome!
Tsunemi: "Bah, the pictures are no good without something next to it for scale. Hey Kyoichi-san, get undressed, dive down there and hug it!"
Maybe if he didn't smoke, Feynman would have been some kind of accountant helping people get rich instead of contributing to the world of physics. Which would have been better? Who knows.
Maybe if he didn't smoke, he would have been an EVEN BETTER physicist and mathematician, and we would have reached the singularity by know. Which would have been better? Who knows.
I'm not saying pot is good or bad, just pointing out that you are playing "what if" games and then taking the results as evidence supporting your claim.
The following is a transcript of this communication:
EeeeeeeEEE EEEe eree e E eEeeeeee eEee eEEEEE eEee EREEEEEEE EEEEEEEEE EeeeeEEE EE eEEEEE. EEEE E E eeEE eee EE E eEeeEeeee eeE EEEEe EeeE eeE EEEEEEEEEEEE! EEEEE eE e eEEE E EE e eeee eEE eEE eeeee EE EE e EEEEEEEE e EEEEEEEE!!! EEE! EEEE E E EEEEE E E EEEE EE EEEE EEEEE!!!
Translating machine: "We come in peace... We come in peace...."
Crowd: "Ooohh! Ahhh!"
The Dolphins open fire.
Crowd: "Aaahh!!! Arrrrghh!"
atrebuse wrote to mention a preview of the Ubuntu 5.10 Preview release, on Mad Penguin.
And I guess this is the preview of the real Slashdot article coming tomorrow... and the day after that.
According to the DistroWatch page hit ranking sidebar, Ubuntu Linux has held the title of '"most worshiped distro' for quite some time now.
Oh whopee, another article that thinks page hits on a single site is significant. Can we please have some hysterical "Redhat is dying" stories now that they are beaten on Distrowatch by distros like SLAX and Zenwalk?
Is it because the Ubuntu followers are just sitting there hitting their browsers refresh button on the DistroWatch Ubuntu page?
Yes. And possibly hype caused by fluff articles in media.
Still, congrats on the release Ubuntu team, I'm sure its good.
Oh, it's been done. See here. Looks fun!
Java programs use up so much at the moment that I doubt there's enough silicon in the world to produce them once Java goes 64 bit!!!
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It is not the programs themselves as he JVM that takes up memory, and Sun has merged code from Apple that allows a single JVM to run all your Java programs. I'm guessing that will not stop the usual trolling though.
As for the other part of your statement, there already exists plenty of 64 bit JVMs, and as usual, my programs work fine without me having to change a single line of code:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/install-solaris-64
http://e-docs.bea.com/wljrockit/docs142/certif.ht
There are more 64 bit JVMs available from IBM and others, for Windows, Linux, Unix...
9 times out of 10 when sites demand that you use IE, it works fine with other browsers as well and the check is completely unneccessary. Just damn lazy site creators who assume it will take a lot of resources and time to verify that the site works with other browers.
In the case of Final Fantasy, audiences were too distracted in noticing subtle rendering and animation flaws that they failed to suspend disbelief. If the rendering had been more stylized (like in Japanese anime), viewers may not have focused only on rendering flaws, but on the story and characters.
I think the makers of FF: The Movie are greatful for anything and everything that distracts the audience from the story and characters.
And this comes from someone who doesn't have very high expectations when it comes to sci-fi films...
Imagine a Bell curve. You just picked a statistical sample of one (Keith Richards) who happened to fall in the outer edges of the statistics. This does not change the fact that by taking care of yourself you can drastically lower the risk of getting cancer or other diseases. The risk is not 0% of course, you can still get unlucky.
If your conclusion (95% genetics) was right, why has life expectancy for some peoples in history been so low that being 40 years old was considered a venerable age? Do you really think human genes have changed that quickly?
I used these in social science class in 1992 in Sweden, they weren't wireless though of course. I was 16 at the time ("Gymnasiet" in Sweden, not sure what it is called in other countries - secondary high?)
Quite fun, we students got to write yes/no questions and passed them to the teacher, she selected the most interesting ones. I would have been interested to see the answer to the question "Do you consider yourself gay or bi", but I chickened out.
Agh! That is terrible advice! Learn many languages, yes, but on one project, try to use as FEW languages as possible. A language has strengths, but it also has weaknesses, and the join between languages can also lead to weaknesses.
To continue your carpenter and tools anology, what do you think a master carpenter would say to someone who said "I created this bridge by gluing together as many different materials as possible because they all have their own strengths!"?
No J2EE fluff
Er, JSP/Servlets are part of the J2EE specification. So is classes for handling XML, and so is JDBC, which you are almost certainly using with Spring/Hibernate.
Funny how many think that J2EE EJB.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Darn, I need to go back and refresh exceptions handling. I ought to know this stuff by heart, I passed the Sun Certified Programmer exam.
Are you sure that compiles in Java? It looks more like C#, which allows finally blocks without catch.
Even if you somehow get it to compile, if you throw a new Exception there the excecution won't go through the clean up code in the finally block.
Exactly. I have a Sun certification rebate that expires in a few days. I was thinking I should I get the Business Component Developer (EJB) exam, but now I'm thinking perhaps the Mobile Application Developer (J2ME) exam could be a good move?
Of course, I could buy both, but that would mean working really hard for months...
Yeah, that one was great. Bush's inauguration speech: "Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over!"
ECMA script is a standard. Javascript is an implementation (or tries to be) of that standard.
As for the AC comment - tiresome troll.
Linux/UNIX shells have been developed, tested and improved by hundreds (thousands?) of people who use them repeatedly every day over the course of more than 20 years. How the hell is MS going to make something superior in 3-5?
I hate to be in any way sticking up for Microsoft, but don't underestimate the value of starting from a clean slate.
Apple has done some pretty nifty things, for instance launcd . I know it's not popular with everyone, but I think it was pretty cool replacing all these different scipts and daemons, and having one XML based config file. They simplified by daring to question established wisdom (the "We've always done it this way so it must be perfect" mindset.)
Greenpeace has been charged as a terrorist organisation because some members climbed up on a roof and unfolded a "NO GM PIGS" banner. The government is invoking a "anti-terror" law that was rushed through by the right-wing government.
Remember this is the country where Bjorn Lomborg was given a post as a director of an Environmental Institute.
Fascists are really grabbing for power around the world.
Either everyone gets extensions or no one does... it's only fair...
In the interest of fairness, I propose decapitations for everyone involved in this legislation.
I finally dug up that strange bump on my driveway. Guess what - it was Jimmy Hoffa!