You mean, people really buy these overpriced "pretty" laptops at 1500-2000? Man, I just slickdeal.net 'ed myself a Dell e1505 for $599 just a few weeks ago. It's drives me crazy to see people pay so much for such a "plain" amount of horsepower!
Ah, you must work for Motorola. The J2ME standard **does** provide an API to access the native phone book, except that Motorola purposely blocks that API unless you pay them to be some official vendor. The same API works seemlessly with Nokia/Symbian phones.
He has 300 India contacts, 200 British contacts - some overlap, basically different profiles for different countries. And the key is, he ONLY wants the right contacts in his phone for each country - and he wants to synch the new profile over the net via only his phone. If this was a Nokia phone, this would be a no-brainer. But Motorola LOCKS OUT developers from the native Razr phone unless they approve of your project via MotoCoder - a bunch of BS. Screw Motorola! Burn your Razr NOW!
Motorola seems to go OUT OF THEIR WAY to make it really hard to write code on their "much lauded" Razr phone. ESPECIALLY when it comes to working with the phone book. One of the executitives of one of my clients wants to change all of the phone numbers on his RAZR and have different "profiles" as he travels internationally, and he wants them synced up to the database in the home office.
Motorola has locked out the RAZR's native phone book to developers. Someone please please prove me wrong!
Who can blame them? The Operating System is becoming less and less relevant as web apps take center stage as THE way to do corporate apps. So SORRY Microsoft that your world is crumbling around you!
Actually I guess the message here is that no matter how much you really, really want something to be be true (Java on the decline) this does not make it true.
Thank you for your post, on multiple levels. And I agree - I've been a Java consultant for 8 years, and I'm seeing rates and opportunities similar to the dot.com era right now. Got Java and Got it Good then the Going should be Good for you Right Now.:)
but cautioned that technical advances are less important than improvements in how technology is presented to users.
This seems like a little bit of "I want my cake and I want to eat it do" - good security measures say "close access by default, shut it down by default, force user interaction." Good security is at the sacrifice of the user experience, there is no way around it. Bruce was only talking about "how technology is presented to users" but I think he is toting a very thin line.
Oh my, we are turning a Red Hat Press release that possibly paints a little-two rosy picture of Linux into a Microsoft bash session> This seems a little surreal to me...;-)
> Is it really feasible to expect program developers to do manual memory management
It's funny to read this as a long-time Java developer. Sure, I'm not writing Kernel code, frankly, quite the opposite. I'm so far up the virtual stack I have no clue what Operating System I'm working on at times. Now even though Java still has memory leaks, and you can still do bad memory things with Java, (and the moral of this post is) for the most part I do not even think about memory management anymore. The Java "Garbage Collection" way of doing things seems to work very well in production high-load enviornments.
Encryption implies the ability to "obscure" a message as well as the ability to "uncover" the message through some special method. MD5 is only a one-way algorithm, used to make a "fingerprint" of data for verification, but not for encrypting.
There are tons of 3rd party API's for connecting to MS Exchange. In the Java space alone, there is J-integra, compoze, com to java bridge (alphaworks, ez jcom) - and that was just from quick googling (my first Google result from a simple search was http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=608 074&messageID=4032674 )
Exchange has been around for a while, frankly, it seems like a no-brainer to "talk" to exchange from a non-MS app!
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Kindda minimalist, not to mention that it doesn't match the article title....;-)
Hey man, if it's a virus, serious spyware, or other hacker infection on Windoze box, backup-wipe-reload-protect-sanitizebackup is the only way to go...
"But the two men, co-founders of Rite-Solutions, a software company that builds advanced -- and highly classified -- command-and-control systems for the Navy, don't worry much about Nasdaq or the New York Stock Exchange."
I have to agree, I do not want the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council, which will be power-meetings with CIA, NSA, FBI and private sector allies, whom are all working on securing nation's infrastructure, cybercomponents included, to be on closed-circuit TV. Now I must admit, I'd sure like to listen in, but I'd gladly sacrifice that right so mine enemies to not listen in as well. Can I think such a way and still be on the left?
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You mean, people really buy these overpriced "pretty" laptops at 1500-2000? Man, I just slickdeal.net 'ed myself a Dell e1505 for $599 just a few weeks ago. It's drives me crazy to see people pay so much for such a "plain" amount of horsepower!
Ah, you must work for Motorola. The J2ME standard **does** provide an API to access the native phone book, except that Motorola purposely blocks that API unless you pay them to be some official vendor. The same API works seemlessly with Nokia/Symbian phones.
He has 300 India contacts, 200 British contacts - some overlap, basically different profiles for different countries. And the key is, he ONLY wants the right contacts in his phone for each country - and he wants to synch the new profile over the net via only his phone. If this was a Nokia phone, this would be a no-brainer. But Motorola LOCKS OUT developers from the native Razr phone unless they approve of your project via MotoCoder - a bunch of BS. Screw Motorola! Burn your Razr NOW!
Motorola seems to go OUT OF THEIR WAY to make it really hard to write code on their "much lauded" Razr phone. ESPECIALLY when it comes to working with the phone book. One of the executitives of one of my clients wants to change all of the phone numbers on his RAZR and have different "profiles" as he travels internationally, and he wants them synced up to the database in the home office. Motorola has locked out the RAZR's native phone book to developers. Someone please please prove me wrong!
When I saw 12.8 Petabytes I was hoping those were the stats of some new under 99$ SATA Hard Drive. Ah well, I can dare to dream!
And muthafuckas act like they forgot about Vista
Who can blame them? The Operating System is becoming less and less relevant as web apps take center stage as THE way to do corporate apps. So SORRY Microsoft that your world is crumbling around you!
I've never seen such a huge disconnect between a comedian and his audience --
:)
And he didn't even miss a beat. The camera cutting to the silient disbelief-stricken audience made me howl with laughter!
Brother, I do not see 100$/hr Cobol jobs for cutting-edge companies. I do see such things in the Java world.
Actually I guess the message here is that no matter how much you really, really want something to be be true (Java on the decline) this does not make it true.
:)
Thank you for your post, on multiple levels. And I agree - I've been a Java consultant for 8 years, and I'm seeing rates and opportunities similar to the dot.com era right now. Got Java and Got it Good then the Going should be Good for you Right Now.
but cautioned that technical advances are less important than improvements in how technology is presented to users.
This seems like a little bit of "I want my cake and I want to eat it do" - good security measures say "close access by default, shut it down by default, force user interaction." Good security is at the sacrifice of the user experience, there is no way around it. Bruce was only talking about "how technology is presented to users" but I think he is toting a very thin line.
Oh my, we are turning a Red Hat Press release that possibly paints a little-two rosy picture of Linux into a Microsoft bash session> This seems a little surreal to me... ;-)
> Is it really feasible to expect program developers to do manual memory management
It's funny to read this as a long-time Java developer. Sure, I'm not writing Kernel code, frankly, quite the opposite. I'm so far up the virtual stack I have no clue what Operating System I'm working on at times. Now even though Java still has memory leaks, and you can still do bad memory things with Java, (and the moral of this post is) for the most part I do not even think about memory management anymore. The Java "Garbage Collection" way of doing things seems to work very well in production high-load enviornments.
Sir, MD5 is not an encryption algorithm, it is a hash algorithm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function
Encryption implies the ability to "obscure" a message as well as the ability to "uncover" the message through some special method. MD5 is only a one-way algorithm, used to make a "fingerprint" of data for verification, but not for encrypting.
There are tons of 3rd party API's for connecting to MS Exchange. In the Java space alone, there is J-integra, compoze, com to java bridge (alphaworks, ez jcom) - and that was just from quick googling (my first Google result from a simple search was http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=608 074&messageID=4032674 )
Exchange has been around for a while, frankly, it seems like a no-brainer to "talk" to exchange from a non-MS app!
MD5 is not an encryption algorithm, it's a hash function. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5
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Kindda minimalist, not to mention that it doesn't match the article title....
Hey man, if it's a virus, serious spyware, or other hacker infection on Windoze box, backup-wipe-reload-protect-sanitizebackup is the only way to go...
Has anyone considered the friendly fire considerations of this automated chaff-firing defense system?
So my question is, is slashdot truly the "will of the folks who post" or is there upper-level editing going on that has an agenda?
Oh get over yourself, I was just kidding around. Its funny I got modded as "interesting" and not the "funny" I was aiming for.
Yea, my favorite missle weapon was a magic +3 sling of speed that my halfling warrior used to specialize in. Roll d20 to hit! To Arms! To Arms!
"But the two men, co-founders of Rite-Solutions, a software company that builds advanced -- and highly classified -- command-and-control systems for the Navy, don't worry much about Nasdaq or the New York Stock Exchange."
Scype = GOOD and JUST (until they get big like Google, then they are evil)
RICO (or anyone bashing anti-extablishment small tech companies or anyone bashing LINUX in any way) = evil, unless scype gets too big, then its ok
BASHING LINUX = always gets your modded down and you will go right to hell if you are Catholic!
I have to agree, I do not want the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council, which will be power-meetings with CIA, NSA, FBI and private sector allies, whom are all working on securing nation's infrastructure, cybercomponents included, to be on closed-circuit TV. Now I must admit, I'd sure like to listen in, but I'd gladly sacrifice that right so mine enemies to not listen in as well. Can I think such a way and still be on the left?
I'm amazed that you can actually find a computer that comes with anything other than Windows pre-installed.
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Dell has had a "no-os" pc option for some time now. http://news.com.com/Dell+offers+an+open-source+PC