I wonder what tricks people will perform to keep the perishible dye from breaking down. Seems to me that a clear coat of enamel and some car wax would do the trick. Also, don't these "CD repair kits" add a clear layer of some goo anyhow? Would this in essence make the media airtight again?
Did you intentionally reverse the figures? The.NET version was 2000 lines of code, and the Java version was 14,000 lines of code
Why not go to the source and draw your own conclusion. I looked at the report and it seemed more than fair. This was a straight up "best practices vs. best practices" competition, using Sun's recommended coding standards.
It is helpful to note that this is the second such test that The Middleware Company performed. The Java folks squawked because the.Net version used stored procedures instead of dynamic SQL statements (Sun advises dynamic sql for easier portability and because they are idiots). This time, they addressed the Java camps' gripes and J2EE still lost!
In my opinion you can pin the blame squarely on EJB's. They are bloated, the environments are a royal pain to configure, and they are S-L-O-W. Sun recommends that people use them, so it's totally fair that it was used against them in this comparison.
Hate Microsoft if you want (I do), but you can't wear blinders and ignore the competition. J2EE blows. Get over it.
It just seems blindingly obvious that free software would give you a much lower TCO than something that comes with massive license fees, regardless of what other factors you work into the equation
Obvious to you, perhaps. But tell me what costs more: a $10 potted plant or a free kitten? Does this TCO report factor in the cost of training users? Purchasing support contracts? Just looking at price tags and employee salaries can be deceptive. Not that I disagree with the TCO report entirely, but the answers are not so simple.
The folks that Novak has gone after in the past did not have vast amounts of money to fight. It seems that taking on "The Google" might end up being his downfall. I've heard that they have a few dollars.
I was in the audience and was enjoying quite a bit. However, some woman behind me kept playing her violin.
On top of that, the first few minutes of the performance caused a panic. Too many people switched their phones in vibrate mode upon entering the theatre (habit, I suppose). The resulting shockwave as the symphony began caused part of the building to collapse.
Dude, this story was on The Register a week ago!
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Also, I submitted this story and it was rejected! What gives!!!;-)
Yeah, and it's funny that the this post was ostensibly to report on ZipZaps, yet the editor posted no link to the zipzaps site and instead posted a link to the page where you could by the ThinkGeek cars.
I try not to criticize the reason why people suddenly become more appreciative of life and the world around them. Yes, less people died from the terrorist attacks than the horrible earthquake India.
But should we say to people that it is wrong to feel the way they do? Should we tell people to honor the dead 1/4th as much? To not phone relatives and say how much they love them? To be 25 percent less contemplative, or sad, or thankful to be alive?
For me it took one death to make me re-evaluate life. Early in the morning on September 12 of last year a man in my city was planting flowers outside of the convenience store that he owned. He was shot and killed that morning by a man who saw the color of his skin and wanted "revenge" for the day before. As he was taken away by police he screamed "I'm all for the USA!".
It made me think about the senselessness of violence and death, and the cruel inequity of good people slain by the ignorant, corrupt, and misguided. It reaffirmed in me the knowledge that no-one is promised tomorrow, and that no day should go by without letting our friends and loved-ones know how much we value them.
One death. An almost insignificant figure in the myriad of statistics that we see every day.
With that in mind, should we discount the attention that is paid to this event in which less people died than in other tragedies? No.
The numbers are irrelevant. What is importannt is what we take away from this tragedy. How can we learn and somehow rise above the terrible things that happen in the world.
Wasn't Bill Thompson writing just today in The Register that Europe should have its own private Internet due to the U.S. lawmakers and politicians' abuse of the net?
Maybe the U.S. doesn't have a monopoly on this kind of thing.
I dunno. Breaking compatibility is always dangerous, but eventually you have to erase the mistakes. You can still write code that uses the 1.0 event model and uses all of the deprecated classes/methods.
People managed to catch on to java 1.0 when there was no compatibility to anything else. People are catching on to C# because of it's syntatical/conceptual sililarities with C/Java (and the the mammoth marketing budget). With this in mind, I don't doubt that you could make "Java 3" that scraped off some barnicles.
I'm imagining that the largest downside with Blu-ray is that it requires the DVD producers to completely upgrade their infrastructure of DVD mastering equipment. With a different encoding standard, you could theoretically use the same equipment to master both DVD's and HD-DVD's. How big of a downside that is... I don't know.
I wonder why the industry doesn't just do both? Better compression, better capacity means even more freedom for content producers.
Thousands of slashdot readers spontaneously combust, unable to pick a side involving an underhanded, unscrupulous entity and... an underhanded, unscrupulous entity.
I'd just like to state that there were never such debates back when we were all using Gopher.;-)
How exactly is this? Apple and Sun are going to compete with Microsoft with an inferior product (c'mon, even OSS zealots recognize this) on a platform that enjoys around a five percent market share. I seriously doubt that Bill is trembling over this.
Apparently Steve Jobs feels that Apple has nursed its wounds from six years ago, and no longer needs Microsoft to stay alive. He is wrong. Pretty much the worst thing that Microsoft could do to apple would be to cut them loose.
You paint these displaced american workers as the racists, but that's not accurate (in most cases). I do think that there's racism here, but it's on the part of large corporations who exploit foreign labor because they can get away with paying ridiculously low wages.
When I was a subcontractor for IBM, I worked on the same floor as IBM India. IBM sponsored provided H1B sponsorship so that the IBM India developers could work in the US. I was shocked to learn that while I was being billed out at $100/hour, my equally-trained, equally-capable counterparts were being billed out at $20/hour. Keep in mind that we were all taking home a *fraction* of what we were billed out for (I was getting around $25/hour, I shudder to think of what IBM India contractors were making). Sure, you could quit, but then you've lost your H1B visa and are deported. In essence, it was endentured servitude.
It all comes down to supply & demand. US Corporations are increasing the supply of IT professionals in order to drive down the wage they can commmand. However, they are doing this through questionable (if not downright unethical) means. You end up with one group of exploited developers, and another group of displaced developers.
The majority of sysadmins that I've worked with have been almost carbon copies of "Nick, your company's computer guy": rude, arrogant, impatient, and unresponsive. Many forget that it is their job to fix computers and feel they should be begged and groveled upon.
The sysadmin is the mechanic of the 21st century. You are not a god because you spent 3 weeks getting your a+ certification. Your one year at a tech school does not compare to the 4-year degrees of the people you serve.
Try earning your appreciation, rather than declaring your own holiday.
Motorola has been unable to increase the clock speed of the G4 platform by any notable amount. In the past 2 years, the fastest g4 has only increased in speed by about 33 percent. On the x86 side (amd, intel, et. al.) speeds have more than doubled. Please, no mac zealots screaming "A 1ghz g4 is as fast as a 2.5ghz p4!!!". That's not the point. Even if a g4 is more powerful than a p4 right now, motorola's ineptitude ensures that the x86 platform eventually will be.
Oh, and Motorola isn't doing so well. They lost 3.6 billion this quarter ("oh, but if you ignore the money that we spent in plant closures and layoff packages, we made 36 million!". sigh.)
You might be able to deal with hot drinks, but the cups at mcdonalds were not.
One of the exhibits that was shown in this case was the lid that was on the cup of coffee. The coffee was so hot that it partially melted the lid, causing it to pop off when the cup was slightly tilted and the coffee spilled on her.
Many people like to point to this case as THE example of why we need tort reform and limits on punitive damages. Usually when I hear that I point to the hospital in florida that amputated the wrong leg of a cancer patient. Of course the other leg still was cancerous so they then had to remove the correct leg. His punitive damages were limited to something outrageous like $40,000.
If we look to a case as a shining example of the need for reform, I hope that we point to this case involving JPEG's.
While UML isn't the end-all, be-all, it is certainly not a "fad". When it comes right down to it, your will need to be able to describe the architecture of your code with something more than comment-lines and manpages. And, with the "U" in UML standing for "Unified", the is the ability for a new-hire developer, or perhaps the purchaser of your source-code, to understand what the hell is going on without pouring over millions of lines of source code.
Code review is a power trip and best
I suppose you'd rather accept source code sight-unseen? True, there are good and bad ways to conduct code reviews, but all the code reviews I've been a part of have been a fairly easygoing experiences and almost always helpful. Sometimes you really need another set of eyeballs to catch problems. Isn't that one of the good aspects of OSS??
Large, geographically concentrated development teams
I'm torn on this one. Yes, it's bad to simply throw a large number of developers on a team (unless you break them down... way down). On the other hand, you can't tell me that it's not easier to resolve a problem by walking over to the co-worker in the next cube than than email the co-worker who lives thousands of miles away. Didn't the formal release of Mozilla 1.0 get held up because a few key developers had not signed off on the new open source license and they simply could not be found??
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You mean, they're actually trying to ban people from using pirated software on their network? What nerve!
Seriously folks, does this shock (or even surprise) anyone? Any company would do the same damn thing (yes even Redhat).
I wonder what tricks people will perform to keep the perishible dye from breaking down. Seems to me that a clear coat of enamel and some car wax would do the trick. Also, don't these "CD repair kits" add a clear layer of some goo anyhow? Would this in essence make the media airtight again?
Damn, have I just violated the DMCA?
I'm glad somebody else caught on to this. It immediately came to mind.
Did you intentionally reverse the figures? The
Why not go to the source and draw your own conclusion. I looked at the report and it seemed more than fair. This was a straight up "best practices vs. best practices" competition, using Sun's recommended coding standards.
It is helpful to note that this is the second such test that The Middleware Company performed. The Java folks squawked because the
In my opinion you can pin the blame squarely on EJB's. They are bloated, the environments are a royal pain to configure, and they are S-L-O-W. Sun recommends that people use them, so it's totally fair that it was used against them in this comparison.
Hate Microsoft if you want (I do), but you can't wear blinders and ignore the competition. J2EE blows. Get over it.
The folks that Novak has gone after in the past did not have vast amounts of money to fight. It seems that taking on "The Google" might end up being his downfall. I've heard that they have a few dollars.
I was in the audience and was enjoying quite a bit. However, some woman behind me kept playing her violin.
On top of that, the first few minutes of the performance caused a panic. Too many people switched their phones in vibrate mode upon entering the theatre (habit, I suppose). The resulting shockwave as the symphony began caused part of the building to collapse.
Also, I submitted this story and it was rejected! What gives!!!
Yeah, and it's funny that the this post was ostensibly to report on ZipZaps, yet the editor posted no link to the zipzaps site and instead posted a link to the page where you could by the ThinkGeek cars.
The irony is that after buying all that Pepsi, he'll be Too Fat For Space.
There's still hope. Everybody pray for Lance!
I try not to criticize the reason why people suddenly become more appreciative of life and the world around them. Yes, less people died from the terrorist attacks than the horrible earthquake India.
But should we say to people that it is wrong to feel the way they do? Should we tell people to honor the dead 1/4th as much? To not phone relatives and say how much they love them? To be 25 percent less contemplative, or sad, or thankful to be alive?
For me it took one death to make me re-evaluate life. Early in the morning on September 12 of last year a man in my city was planting flowers outside of the convenience store that he owned. He was shot and killed that morning by a man who saw the color of his skin and wanted "revenge" for the day before. As he was taken away by police he screamed "I'm all for the USA!".
It made me think about the senselessness of violence and death, and the cruel inequity of good people slain by the ignorant, corrupt, and misguided. It reaffirmed in me the knowledge that no-one is promised tomorrow, and that no day should go by without letting our friends and loved-ones know how much we value them.
One death. An almost insignificant figure in the myriad of statistics that we see every day.
With that in mind, should we discount the attention that is paid to this event in which less people died than in other tragedies? No.
The numbers are irrelevant. What is importannt is what we take away from this tragedy. How can we learn and somehow rise above the terrible things that happen in the world.
So, on imdb they list Senator Kelly as being in the film. Didn't he turn into H20 in the last film? Or is this simply Mystique in his form?
Wasn't Bill Thompson writing just today in The Register that Europe should have its own private Internet due to the U.S. lawmakers and politicians' abuse of the net?
Maybe the U.S. doesn't have a monopoly on this kind of thing.
Of having your testicles that close to a Tesla coil? http://www.edm.net/~jwilliams/Brentonped.gif. Can you still reproduce? And if so, will your wife give birth to Magneto?
I dunno. Breaking compatibility is always dangerous, but eventually you have to erase the mistakes. You can still write code that uses the 1.0 event model and uses all of the deprecated classes/methods.
People managed to catch on to java 1.0 when there was no compatibility to anything else. People are catching on to C# because of it's syntatical/conceptual sililarities with C/Java (and the the mammoth marketing budget). With this in mind, I don't doubt that you could make "Java 3" that scraped off some barnicles.
I'm imagining that the largest downside with Blu-ray is that it requires the DVD producers to completely upgrade their infrastructure of DVD mastering equipment. With a different encoding standard, you could theoretically use the same equipment to master both DVD's and HD-DVD's. How big of a downside that is... I don't know.
I wonder why the industry doesn't just do both? Better compression, better capacity means even more freedom for content producers.
Thousands of slashdot readers spontaneously combust, unable to pick a side involving an underhanded, unscrupulous entity and... an underhanded, unscrupulous entity.
;-)
I'd just like to state that there were never such debates back when we were all using Gopher.
Welcome to Bill Gates Nightmare..
How exactly is this? Apple and Sun are going to compete with Microsoft with an inferior product (c'mon, even OSS zealots recognize this) on a platform that enjoys around a five percent market share. I seriously doubt that Bill is trembling over this.
Apparently Steve Jobs feels that Apple has nursed its wounds from six years ago, and no longer needs Microsoft to stay alive. He is wrong. Pretty much the worst thing that Microsoft could do to apple would be to cut them loose.
So, who's being the racist here?
You paint these displaced american workers as the racists, but that's not accurate (in most cases). I do think that there's racism here, but it's on the part of large corporations who exploit foreign labor because they can get away with paying ridiculously low wages.
When I was a subcontractor for IBM, I worked on the same floor as IBM India. IBM sponsored provided H1B sponsorship so that the IBM India developers could work in the US. I was shocked to learn that while I was being billed out at $100/hour, my equally-trained, equally-capable counterparts were being billed out at $20/hour. Keep in mind that we were all taking home a *fraction* of what we were billed out for (I was getting around $25/hour, I shudder to think of what IBM India contractors were making). Sure, you could quit, but then you've lost your H1B visa and are deported. In essence, it was endentured servitude.
It all comes down to supply & demand. US Corporations are increasing the supply of IT professionals in order to drive down the wage they can commmand. However, they are doing this through questionable (if not downright unethical) means. You end up with one group of exploited developers, and another group of displaced developers.
The majority of sysadmins that I've worked with have been almost carbon copies of "Nick, your company's computer guy": rude, arrogant, impatient, and unresponsive. Many forget that it is their job to fix computers and feel they should be begged and groveled upon.
The sysadmin is the mechanic of the 21st century. You are not a god because you spent 3 weeks getting your a+ certification. Your one year at a tech school does not compare to the 4-year degrees of the people you serve.
Try earning your appreciation, rather than declaring your own holiday.
re-read my post, zealot. I'm not talking speed, I'm talking increase in speed over time.
I've written assembly for 6800, x86, and MIPS. I know a thing or two about how processors handle instructions.
Motorola has been unable to increase the clock speed of the G4 platform by any notable amount. In the past 2 years, the fastest g4 has only increased in speed by about 33 percent. On the x86 side (amd, intel, et. al.) speeds have more than doubled. Please, no mac zealots screaming "A 1ghz g4 is as fast as a 2.5ghz p4!!!". That's not the point. Even if a g4 is more powerful than a p4 right now, motorola's ineptitude ensures that the x86 platform eventually will be.
Oh, and Motorola isn't doing so well. They lost 3.6 billion this quarter ("oh, but if you ignore the money that we spent in plant closures and layoff packages, we made 36 million!". sigh.)
Oh please,
You might be able to deal with hot drinks, but the cups at mcdonalds were not.
One of the exhibits that was shown in this case was the lid that was on the cup of coffee. The coffee was so hot that it partially melted the lid , causing it to pop off when the cup was slightly tilted and the coffee spilled on her.
Many people like to point to this case as THE example of why we need tort reform and limits on punitive damages. Usually when I hear that I point to the hospital in florida that amputated the wrong leg of a cancer patient. Of course the other leg still was cancerous so they then had to remove the correct leg. His punitive damages were limited to something outrageous like $40,000.
If we look to a case as a shining example of the need for reform, I hope that we point to this case involving JPEG's.
UML and other modelling fads.
While UML isn't the end-all, be-all, it is certainly not a "fad". When it comes right down to it, your will need to be able to describe the architecture of your code with something more than comment-lines and manpages. And, with the "U" in UML standing for "Unified", the is the ability for a new-hire developer, or perhaps the purchaser of your source-code, to understand what the hell is going on without pouring over millions of lines of source code.
Code review is a power trip and best
I suppose you'd rather accept source code sight-unseen? True, there are good and bad ways to conduct code reviews, but all the code reviews I've been a part of have been a fairly easygoing experiences and almost always helpful. Sometimes you really need another set of eyeballs to catch problems. Isn't that one of the good aspects of OSS??
Large, geographically concentrated development teams
I'm torn on this one. Yes, it's bad to simply throw a large number of developers on a team (unless you break them down... way down). On the other hand, you can't tell me that it's not easier to resolve a problem by walking over to the co-worker in the next cube than than email the co-worker who lives thousands of miles away. Didn't the formal release of Mozilla 1.0 get held up because a few key developers had not signed off on the new open source license and they simply could not be found??