Of course, not many users install Flash anyway. It ships pre-installed on most computers these days. I've love to see the internal emails which show when Adobe Flash became a target on the Microsoft Death Dartboard. Was there a threshold in the distribution channel which triggered it? Was it when they added video playback and the YouTube.com platform arose from it? Or was it when they added the Flex backend system to provide both a frontend client and backend server platform/system? Or was it the support level for other platforms?
Whatever it was, I'm sure there are some fascinating emails and some great quotes from Balmer, Gates, etc. Oh well, I'm sure we'll be finding out in a couple of years in the next anti-trust case either in the US or in the EU. IMO.
and the reasons why Microsoft came out with MS Silverlight, MS.Net, MS Direct3D, etc was all because they wanted to provide customers with a better products and competition? Hey folks, we got a newbie here! FYI, pretty much all of what Microsoft comes out with is about making something which is NOT cross platform and only runs on Microsoft Windows. If that doesn't work, the next best thing is something which runs half-assed on the other platforms.
And off the top of my head, the earliest signs of this was when they went after cross-platform C++ application frameworks in the early 90s. OpenGL is cross platform, Java is cross platform, Netscape was cross platform, Flash/Flex is cross platform, and the list goes on an on. Too bad it really isn't about competition cause that would be a good thing for sure. And remember, there is only One Microsoft Way and it is a curving road to a one way street you can't escape from. IMO.
Leverage the monopoly and wait til success arrives. If it does not happen too quickly, start paying for a quicker uptake.
Success using this simple technique has been quite good for Microsoft. Failures are all but guaranteed when they can't find a way to leverage the marketshare of Windows.
This silverlight software is all about the Windows desktop, is their response to Adobes position such that they are also pre-installed on close to 100% of the computer which are pre-installed with Microsoft Windows. Couple that distribution capability with the Adobe Flash/Flex capabilities to tie into backend services for a very rich client experience and Adobe is as much of a threat to Microsoft as Netscape once was.
BTW, Microsoft is out purchasing uptake for Silverlight at this moment. We've already heard about the US Library of Congress deal and there's a few more I can't recall specifically. Oh and with web pages so often relying on a plugin feature like Flash, I think Microsoft figured out that they no long need to keep proprietary HTML extensions in the browser to lock in developers to Windows, they have the above formula and Silverlight. Another nice lockin technology. IMO.
For an instructional tool it could have merit but was that the intent all along? And I don't question that it is interesting but question it's value considering the effort it must have taken. The way it read, it sounded like he was looking for ways to show of the rendering engines inside of MS Excel. And I suppose if he knew Java, he could have thrown together a Java3D application which threw out transform data into some JTables or the like. But hey, whatever floats his boat and who the hell cares what I say?
I can't help but think that anyone smart enough to do something like that shouldn't. exactly my thought. Does this guy not know another tool besides a spreadsheet? Maybe he should try learning Python or another scripting language before he wastes any more time on something like....making MS Word do realtime ascii art.
Only on Slashdot would an article ask if Windows can compete with Linux.
*Shakes head* And yet these low cost devices are constantly being offered only Microsofts 6 year old version of their operating system. That's right, out dated software instead of the latest as is the case with the Linux operating system and software on these devices. I just can't wait to see how the price of these devices go up when Microsoft pays them to put Windows Vista on them instead of Linux. But hey, what's another billion dollars or so spent to keep the ignorant shaking their heads?
should that not have been: 'adjusting the EXIT strategy' instead? How could anybody consider their putting 90% of their efforts into legal threats( threats with no proof I remind you ) and call it a business strategy? They surely were not minding their UNIX customer store because they ran those customers away very quickly.
So I wonder what they have planned now? Is SCO going to become a Law firm?
Are you suggesting burning the land and boiling the sea are also in MSFTs plans? more like already attempted and partially implemented by purchasing competitors only to terminate their product lines along with promoting patent FUD via SCO and then their own IP threats/FUD. So yes, they have been working on burning the land and boiling the seas for quite some time.
good one. It's amazing how people still believe these guys. Don't they get it that it is all a game of smoke, mirrors, and slight of hand? From what I can tell, only a small small few get it. IMO.
oh pleaz, there is nothing to show that Microsoft is appealing to its market and that is not how Microsoft has worked over the last 20 something years. They are adjusting to the competition and those adjustments are designed to eliminate the competition. THAT is how Microsoft works.
Microsoft is profitable because of Windows and without Windows they would be just another software company. Because they know Windows must continue to exist in its dominant and monopoly position, they must stop threats from diminishing the position Windows has. That's it, Microsoft in a nutshell. Protect Windows market position and continue making billions in profits per quarter. People will take what is handed to them by Microsoft and like it because most see there being no other option.
I'll say it again here, Microsoft has been in the business of anti-competition for over 20 years. Why do people not see this and think that this is Microsoft adjusting to the market? I hate to quote John C. Dvorak but here's a bit of insight as to how this company is managed:
As to how and why the OS failed to become a huge success--I'm leaving the debate open this week. Steve Ballmer comes to mind. He started the ball rolling by proclaiming OS/2 to be the next great operating system, and within a few years he was walking around the floor of a computer show putting disks into computers running OS/2 to crash the systems and prove that OS/2 wasn't crash-proof! http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,768242,00.asp
There are hundreds of examples of Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior and nothing has changed or has ever changed. It is in their DNA and no press release changes that. IMO.
I was stunned when Sun signed the Java license deal with Microsoft in 1996 or so. It was soooo obvious over 10 years ago what Microsoft's tactics are yet here we are and again, most really believe what Microsoft says. It is just amazing how short sighted, ignorant, naive, etc people are with regards to how Microsoft operates.
The Charlie Brown / Lucy football gag is very fitting. And after decades of this, people still running full steam at Microsoft holding the football. And the press...constantly just publishing constant MS press release garbage without regard to their constant falsities.
A long time ago in a sector far far away, the Imperial Microsoft Death Star set its sights on UNIX application vendors. The Death Star weapon was a big success. See the Bristol vs Microsoft history. So, is there really enough ignorance in the market to let them do it again?
there's nothing on the www.shareaza.com/index.html page referencing page components from the base shareaza.com domain. It's all redirected to shareazaweb.com, a GoDaddy.com registered domain with DNS entries going to Israel.
DNS1=NETVISION.NET.IL this is all in a hebrew-looking language and unreadable by me
DNS2=ELRON.NET nowhere did I find in the list of companies they own for IT software does it list Shareaza
Many might already have noticed that Firefox flags this as a possible hijacked site and it sure looks like a strange partnership is behind this. IMO.
raw whois data:
$ whois shareazaweb.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the.com and.net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/ for detailed information.
it was a pure shame Palm purchased BeOS only to bury it. Seeing how poorly Garnet runs, it seems obvious nothing of the BeOS OS was used. It was a very nice OS IMO.
There's been some question as to Eclipse being derived from IBM's VisualAge products. FWIW, Wikipedia does a decent job at spelling it out but isn't too linear in its description. Object Technology International( OTI ) made a product in the early 90s which was based on Smalltalk and had a click-n-drag GUI application builder which included building apps with both GUI elements and non-visual/GUI elements. VisualAge was based on this product and IBM bought this company. After IBM built VisualAge for C++ ontop of the Smalltalk product, they then built VisualAge for Java and added Java capabilities to the Smalltalk runtime of VisualAge. Then, trimmed down and pure Java version of VisualAge was created and called VisualAge for Embedded and targeted Java on embedded devices. This, Java-based product was what eventually became Eclipse.
Here are some links to follow up on the synopsis above:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Technology_International BTW, I saw this product demo'ed on OS/2 in the early 90s and was pleased to then see the same kind of visual builder in the VisualAge product. Unfortunately, if you build it, they don't always come when they only see through Windows.
ok, that makes more sense. As far as that goes, it might have been that announcing open sourcing of the product would harm the current sales channel so they didn't announce it. Or maybe they didn't know if it was going to be released until someone approved it. Of all the things that the anti-trust case against IBM did, one very evident result was that they would not and did not pre-announce products like they used to. Microsoft will announce stuff years before they see the light of day but with IBM, you're lucky if you get 6 months notice unless you are an insider.
BTW, get the latest Eclipse tarball and run the following command against it( you might need the CDT ): strings eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.extraData.2 | grep VisualAge
How many times do you see the name "VisualAge"? I count 5 in the runtime module reverencing VAC++ versions. Not conclusive evidence but it shows 'some' connection.
I'm pretty sure VAJava and Eclipse had radically different lineages, especially since I could get VAJava in 1999 but not Eclipse. why would you then not consider Eclipse was based on VAJ lineage since it came before it?
It sounds like maybe VAJ/VAC++/VASmalltalk might not have been too modular and the Eclipse people may have built it from the guts of the VA platform. From what I've seen, there's a common feel to it having used VAC++ and VAJ in the 90s.
Before there was VisualAge for Java, there was VisualAge for C++. VisualAge for Java was based on the same foundation VA C++ was based on and that was a Smalltalk VM. IBM put alot of work into VAJ to merg the Smalltalk VM with Java and you might even find references to a universal virtual machine referencing this fact.
It's been a while but Eclipse reminds me of VA of old but with a different skin and some of the things removed. Even VA C++ had method based compiling instead of full project compilation.
Maybe there's someone who worked on the code will chime in, otherwise we'll just have to disagree.
Eclipse was based on VisualAge for Java which was, IIRC, based on VisualObjects or something like that for Smalltalk. IBM bought that company/product and added C++ capabilities to it. There might have even been a Cobol version. So it was first Smalltalk and then C/C++ but written in Smalltalk. When Java came along, IBM added the Java modules to it. IBM was also doing killer work in the JIT/jvm area and since they effectively had 2 vm's in VisualAge , why not create a universal vm so that VisualAge used it for its runtime and also allowed Java in VisualAge to use it. We are now talking about the 1995/97 or so timeframe. VisualAge for C++ also had some great SOM capabilities built into the framework for OS/2 and AIX applications. So by this time, IBM has given up on OS/2 on the desktop, server, and workstation while AIX is still going strong. Linux is picking up and so is Java on the server since Microsoft bastardized it on the desktop. It looks to me that Eclipse is built from VisualAge for Java with the licensed portions removed. Basically the really cool VisualBuilder was yanked and it/Eclipse started as a Java IDE. C++ was added back in with the CDT a few years later and now other languages are being added.
Remember, in the early 90s there was Borland and Watcom along with IBM who had compilers and SDKs for OS/2. OOP/C++ frameworks were/are a threat to Microsoft in that they abstract the underlying APIs and untie developers from their platform. So, Microsoft VisualC++ was pretty much sold at a lost for a good number of years to tie developers to Windows. Borland senior software designers were purchased away from Borland and helped in their demise(a court case won Borland some bucks from Microsoft for the brain-drain ). Watcom was not allowed to ship anyone elses class library framework along with Microsofts MFC so Watcom eventually was obsoleted by only shipping with MFC. The great era of cross platform C++ class libraries in the early to mid 90s entered the late 90s with C++ frameworks all but extinct. IBM on the other hand had spent a good decade attempting to find a cross platform development system for their mainframes, workstations, and PC developers. First with Smalltalk, then C++, SOM, and then Java. I'm sure the attack by Microsoft on cross platform frameworks also upset an number of IBMers. Once you go MFC, you're hooked and a massive port is required. And IBM spent alot of time and money attempting to build cross platform tools to ease developer reuse across its business divisions.
So, saying that Eclipse was created to take down MS VisualStudio seems off mark. I would not doubt that there are still a few in IBM who find that saying the word "Microsoft" is like a psychedelic breakfast and leaves a bad taste. And Eclipse, being for Java, came way after MS Visual J anyways so how was it to take down VisualStudio anyways? Giving the OSS community something with the power of VisualAge probably had more to do with some IBMer wanting to continue using the IDE instead of letting it collect dust on the shelf like SOM/DSOM has. People are not forced to use Eclipse but look at the marketshare it has.
BTW, IBM also has a bunch of tools to generate SOM objects to make it much much easier to deal with. Still, SOM is not for PHBs in the sense of MS Visual Basic. It's for real developers and many did use it and used it well. Also, where the heck are the StarDock developers? They'd know a bit about SOM and the WorkplaceShell in that WorkplaceShell extension package they sold. It was incredible and mostly because of SOM and their use of it.
is it really that instantaneous of a generated oppositional force that it slows down the rotating disk? With the very large windings of those generator coils, wouldn't there be some inductance and therefore some off-phase current so that generated magnetic field is delayed just enough to end up being a delayed repulsive force and therefore an accelerator? If the magnet can get passed the center point with the generator coil before it's maximum repulsive force is applied, it then acts as an additive force instead of negative force?
In reading some of the other threads, it seems there is no perpetual motion claims and only/. comments to that. I also so something about eddy currents being conducted through the metal base, through the motor and back to the wheel via the drive shaft. Also adding to fields already in the motor and therefore helping increase its power.
Maybe I'm missing the story here but from the way I see it, he's got a motor he's generating X watts of power by applying X1 amps of current(external power added). The load(Y) is the friction from the bearings, air, and the large metal wheel with magnets on it and this combined load as a opposing force of just more then X watts so by itself, the electric motor/system will slow down after human power spun(external power added) it up to some RPM. Now, by capturing the field energy in the spinning load and feeding it back to the motor(taking energy from the load), he's accelerating the system. To me, it just looks like he has reduced Y(load) such that Y is now less than X and the input power(X1) is more than enough to spin the newly reduced load.
I'm missing the magic since in none of the 4 videos I watched, does he remove external energy from the system. The current to the motor is reduced but never removed so it therefore is not perpetual motion.
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Whatever it was, I'm sure there are some fascinating emails and some great quotes from Balmer, Gates, etc. Oh well, I'm sure we'll be finding out in a couple of years in the next anti-trust case either in the US or in the EU. IMO.
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how about:
Market share quickly being purchased for growth of slow starting Silverlight!
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and the reasons why Microsoft came out with MS Silverlight, MS .Net, MS Direct3D, etc was all because they wanted to provide customers with a better products and competition? Hey folks, we got a newbie here! FYI, pretty much all of what Microsoft comes out with is about making something which is NOT cross platform and only runs on Microsoft Windows. If that doesn't work, the next best thing is something which runs half-assed on the other platforms.
And off the top of my head, the earliest signs of this was when they went after cross-platform C++ application frameworks in the early 90s. OpenGL is cross platform, Java is cross platform, Netscape was cross platform, Flash/Flex is cross platform, and the list goes on an on. Too bad it really isn't about competition cause that would be a good thing for sure. And remember, there is only One Microsoft Way and it is a curving road to a one way street you can't escape from. IMO.
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Leverage the monopoly and wait til success arrives.
If it does not happen too quickly, start paying for a quicker uptake.
Success using this simple technique has been quite good for Microsoft. Failures are all but guaranteed when they can't find a way to leverage the marketshare of Windows.
This silverlight software is all about the Windows desktop, is their response to Adobes position such that they are also pre-installed on close to 100% of the computer which are pre-installed with Microsoft Windows. Couple that distribution capability with the Adobe Flash/Flex capabilities to tie into backend services for a very rich client experience and Adobe is as much of a threat to Microsoft as Netscape once was.
BTW, Microsoft is out purchasing uptake for Silverlight at this moment. We've already heard about the US Library of Congress deal and there's a few more I can't recall specifically. Oh and with web pages so often relying on a plugin feature like Flash, I think Microsoft figured out that they no long need to keep proprietary HTML extensions in the browser to lock in developers to Windows, they have the above formula and Silverlight. Another nice lockin technology. IMO.
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For an instructional tool it could have merit but was that the intent all along? And I don't question that it is interesting but question it's value considering the effort it must have taken. The way it read, it sounded like he was looking for ways to show of the rendering engines inside of MS Excel. And I suppose if he knew Java, he could have thrown together a Java3D application which threw out transform data into some JTables or the like. But hey, whatever floats his boat and who the hell cares what I say?
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*Shakes head* And yet these low cost devices are constantly being offered only Microsofts 6 year old version of their operating system. That's right, out dated software instead of the latest as is the case with the Linux operating system and software on these devices. I just can't wait to see how the price of these devices go up when Microsoft pays them to put Windows Vista on them instead of Linux. But hey, what's another billion dollars or so spent to keep the ignorant shaking their heads?
And yes, I can shake my head too.
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should that not have been: 'adjusting the EXIT strategy' instead? How could anybody consider their putting 90% of their efforts into legal threats( threats with no proof I remind you ) and call it a business strategy? They surely were not minding their UNIX customer store because they ran those customers away very quickly.
So I wonder what they have planned now? Is SCO going to become a Law firm?
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I can't wait til they start changing the constellations.
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from what I've seen searching, vobsub works on Ubuntu but not when you switch to fullscreen. Issues on this were posted Dec 07 and I stopped there.
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good one. It's amazing how people still believe these guys. Don't they get it that it is all a game of smoke, mirrors, and slight of hand? From what I can tell, only a small small few get it. IMO.
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Microsoft is profitable because of Windows and without Windows they would be just another software company. Because they know Windows must continue to exist in its dominant and monopoly position, they must stop threats from diminishing the position Windows has. That's it, Microsoft in a nutshell. Protect Windows market position and continue making billions in profits per quarter. People will take what is handed to them by Microsoft and like it because most see there being no other option.
I'll say it again here, Microsoft has been in the business of anti-competition for over 20 years. Why do people not see this and think that this is Microsoft adjusting to the market? I hate to quote John C. Dvorak but here's a bit of insight as to how this company is managed: As to how and why the OS failed to become a huge success--I'm leaving the debate open this week. Steve Ballmer comes to mind. He started the ball rolling by proclaiming OS/2 to be the next great operating system, and within a few years he was walking around the floor of a computer show putting disks into computers running OS/2 to crash the systems and prove that OS/2 wasn't crash-proof! http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,768242,00.asp
There are hundreds of examples of Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior and nothing has changed or has ever changed. It is in their DNA and no press release changes that. IMO.
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I was stunned when Sun signed the Java license deal with Microsoft in 1996 or so. It was soooo obvious over 10 years ago what Microsoft's tactics are yet here we are and again, most really believe what Microsoft says. It is just amazing how short sighted, ignorant, naive, etc people are with regards to how Microsoft operates.
The Charlie Brown / Lucy football gag is very fitting. And after decades of this, people still running full steam at Microsoft holding the football. And the press...constantly just publishing constant MS press release garbage without regard to their constant falsities.
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A long time ago in a sector far far away, the Imperial Microsoft Death Star
set its sights on UNIX application vendors. The Death Star weapon was a
big success. See the Bristol vs Microsoft history. So, is there really
enough ignorance in the market to let them do it again?
http://www.google.com/search?q=bristol+vs+Microsoft
"The Truth Is Out There," just look for all the evidence.
"Trust No One," at Microsoft.
"I Want to Believe" but they are still out to destroy Linux.
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DNS1=NETVISION.NET.IL
this is all in a hebrew-looking language and unreadable by me
DNS2=ELRON.NET
nowhere did I find in the list of companies they own for IT software does it list Shareaza
Many might already have noticed that Firefox flags this as a possible hijacked site and it sure looks like a strange partnership is behind this. IMO.
raw whois data: $ whois shareazaweb.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/
for detailed information.
Domain Name: SHAREAZAWEB.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com/
Name Server: DNS.NETVISION.NET.IL
Name Server: NYPOP.ELRON.NET
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientRenewProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 28-nov-2007
Creation Date: 22-nov-2007
Expiration Date: 22-nov-2008
>>> Last update of whois database: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:28:26 UTC
it was a pure shame Palm purchased BeOS only to bury it. Seeing how poorly Garnet runs, it seems obvious nothing of the BeOS OS was used. It was a very nice OS IMO.
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There's been some question as to Eclipse being derived from IBM's VisualAge products. FWIW, Wikipedia does a decent job at spelling it out but isn't too linear in its description. Object Technology International( OTI ) made a product in the early 90s which was based on Smalltalk and had a click-n-drag GUI application builder which included building apps with both GUI elements and non-visual/GUI elements. VisualAge was based on this product and IBM bought this company. After IBM built VisualAge for C++ ontop of the Smalltalk product, they then built VisualAge for Java and added Java capabilities to the Smalltalk runtime of VisualAge. Then, trimmed down and pure Java version of VisualAge was created and called VisualAge for Embedded and targeted Java on embedded devices. This, Java-based product was what eventually became Eclipse.
Here are some links to follow up on the synopsis above:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Technology_International
BTW, I saw this product demo'ed on OS/2 in the early 90s and was pleased to then see the same kind of visual builder in the VisualAge product. Unfortunately, if you build it, they don't always come when they only see through Windows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualAge
Getting back to SOM -
This is a review of VisualAge for C++(Windows) v3.5 with SOM v2.x and COM linkage:
http://www.ddj.com/windows/184415551
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ok, that makes more sense. As far as that goes, it might have been that announcing open sourcing of the product would harm the current sales channel so they didn't announce it. Or maybe they didn't know if it was going to be released until someone approved it. Of all the things that the anti-trust case against IBM did, one very evident result was that they would not and did not pre-announce products like they used to. Microsoft will announce stuff years before they see the light of day but with IBM, you're lucky if you get 6 months notice unless you are an insider.
BTW, get the latest Eclipse tarball and run the following command against it( you might need the CDT ):
strings eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.extraData.2 | grep VisualAge
How many times do you see the name "VisualAge"? I count 5 in the runtime module reverencing VAC++ versions. Not conclusive evidence but it shows 'some' connection.
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I'm pretty sure VAJava and Eclipse had radically different lineages, especially since I could get VAJava in 1999 but not Eclipse.
why would you then not consider Eclipse was based on VAJ lineage since it came before it?
It sounds like maybe VAJ/VAC++/VASmalltalk might not have been too modular and the Eclipse people may have built it from the guts of the VA platform. From what I've seen, there's a common feel to it having used VAC++ and VAJ in the 90s.
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Before there was VisualAge for Java, there was VisualAge for C++. VisualAge for Java was based on the same foundation VA C++ was based on and that was a Smalltalk VM. IBM put alot of work into VAJ to merg the Smalltalk VM with Java and you might even find references to a universal virtual machine referencing this fact.
It's been a while but Eclipse reminds me of VA of old but with a different skin and some of the things removed. Even VA C++ had method based compiling instead of full project compilation.
Maybe there's someone who worked on the code will chime in, otherwise we'll just have to disagree.
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Eclipse was based on VisualAge for Java which was, IIRC, based on VisualObjects or something like that for Smalltalk. IBM bought that company/product and added C++ capabilities to it. There might have even been a Cobol version. So it was first Smalltalk and then C/C++ but written in Smalltalk. When Java came along, IBM added the Java modules to it. IBM was also doing killer work in the JIT/jvm area and since they effectively had 2 vm's in VisualAge , why not create a universal vm so that VisualAge used it for its runtime and also allowed Java in VisualAge to use it. We are now talking about the 1995/97 or so timeframe. VisualAge for C++ also had some great SOM capabilities built into the framework for OS/2 and AIX applications. So by this time, IBM has given up on OS/2 on the desktop, server, and workstation while AIX is still going strong. Linux is picking up and so is Java on the server since Microsoft bastardized it on the desktop. It looks to me that Eclipse is built from VisualAge for Java with the licensed portions removed. Basically the really cool VisualBuilder was yanked and it/Eclipse started as a Java IDE. C++ was added back in with the CDT a few years later and now other languages are being added.
Remember, in the early 90s there was Borland and Watcom along with IBM who had compilers and SDKs for OS/2. OOP/C++ frameworks were/are a threat to Microsoft in that they abstract the underlying APIs and untie developers from their platform. So, Microsoft VisualC++ was pretty much sold at a lost for a good number of years to tie developers to Windows. Borland senior software designers were purchased away from Borland and helped in their demise(a court case won Borland some bucks from Microsoft for the brain-drain ). Watcom was not allowed to ship anyone elses class library framework along with Microsofts MFC so Watcom eventually was obsoleted by only shipping with MFC. The great era of cross platform C++ class libraries in the early to mid 90s entered the late 90s with C++ frameworks all but extinct. IBM on the other hand had spent a good decade attempting to find a cross platform development system for their mainframes, workstations, and PC developers. First with Smalltalk, then C++, SOM, and then Java. I'm sure the attack by Microsoft on cross platform frameworks also upset an number of IBMers. Once you go MFC, you're hooked and a massive port is required. And IBM spent alot of time and money attempting to build cross platform tools to ease developer reuse across its business divisions.
So, saying that Eclipse was created to take down MS VisualStudio seems off mark. I would not doubt that there are still a few in IBM who find that saying the word "Microsoft" is like a psychedelic breakfast and leaves a bad taste. And Eclipse, being for Java, came way after MS Visual J anyways so how was it to take down VisualStudio anyways? Giving the OSS community something with the power of VisualAge probably had more to do with some IBMer wanting to continue using the IDE instead of letting it collect dust on the shelf like SOM/DSOM has. People are not forced to use Eclipse but look at the marketshare it has.
BTW, IBM also has a bunch of tools to generate SOM objects to make it much much easier to deal with. Still, SOM is not for PHBs in the sense of MS Visual Basic. It's for real developers and many did use it and used it well. Also, where the heck are the StarDock developers? They'd know a bit about SOM and the WorkplaceShell in that WorkplaceShell extension package they sold. It was incredible and mostly because of SOM and their use of it.
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is it really that instantaneous of a generated oppositional force that it slows down the rotating disk? With the very large windings of those generator coils, wouldn't there be some inductance and therefore some off-phase current so that generated magnetic field is delayed just enough to end up being a delayed repulsive force and therefore an accelerator? If the magnet can get passed the center point with the generator coil before it's maximum repulsive force is applied, it then acts as an additive force instead of negative force?
/. comments to that. I also so something about eddy currents being conducted through the metal base, through the motor and back to the wheel via the drive shaft. Also adding to fields already in the motor and therefore helping increase its power.
In reading some of the other threads, it seems there is no perpetual motion claims and only
Thanks for the explanation.
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Maybe I'm missing the story here but from the way I see it, he's got a motor he's generating X watts of power by applying X1 amps of current(external power added). The load(Y) is the friction from the bearings, air, and the large metal wheel with magnets on it and this combined load as a opposing force of just more then X watts so by itself, the electric motor/system will slow down after human power spun(external power added) it up to some RPM. Now, by capturing the field energy in the spinning load and feeding it back to the motor(taking energy from the load), he's accelerating the system. To me, it just looks like he has reduced Y(load) such that Y is now less than X and the input power(X1) is more than enough to spin the newly reduced load.
I'm missing the magic since in none of the 4 videos I watched, does he remove external energy from the system. The current to the motor is reduced but never removed so it therefore is not perpetual motion.
What am I missing?
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