I've always found that SOAP had all the markings of a specification developed by a committee that want to make sure that everything made it in to the first draft. Personally, I prefer XML RPC : http://www.xmlrpc.com/
Their argument is valid, that this will cause problems for their corporate clients. It will cause problems whenever it comes out, because some of their corporate clients (or their customers) will not be able to view their web pages properly.
Can you tell me how this is different from when any Microsoft product is upgraded? Jason.
How long before political committees start leasing out space?
"Hello, will you be voting for Bush in the next election?" "No." "Well then, would you like to have the the Daily Liberal newspaper delivered to your door?"
Jason.
Re:These drones are way too expensive
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Typical cargo planes costs dozens to hundreds of millions. Passenger planes are approaching $1B for new models.
Passenger planes cost $1 billion? Are you high? Try $50 million for an Airbus A320.
a) with half the crew and materials required b) in a quarter of the required time c) that will be retrofitted to support train tracks and a second level d) that will be backwards compatible with the previous bridge e) that is better than your competitors bridge
Most of these installations happened because of budget limitations. (EG. We only have a few I.T. guys on staff and just paid out *big* money for Oracle. We can't afford to purchase expensive Unix servers to run this stuff on, too
Considering how much Oracle costs - I don't think the price of the operating system should even be a factor.
1. Story gets posted to Slashdot 2. Website is bombarded with requests 3. Operating system automatically requisitions 5 new Sun E4500 servers to handle the load 4. Sun stock stays listed in on Nasdaq for one more day
Okay, this might be a really stupid question. Why not install Windows with some commercial software instead of trying to patch together some half-baked solution?
This is ridiculous - benchmarking a 64-bit server chip on Quake3? What's that suppose to prove? Is someone going to drool over this chip because it gives them 183fps instead of 182fps?
This is a server chip. Benchmark it using a database, a web server, number crunching, etc. Even better, why not put the 64-bit Linux port on it and run a kernel compile.
The licencing fees are a big selling point. You have a $400 (retail) product. It can't cost you more than $150 to build (in large quantities). A $10 per unit WinCE or VxWorks licence (plus development costs) is a considerable amount to spend on a product at that price point.
I agree with the rest of your post but I can guarantee that a Tivo does not cost $150 to build. In fact, I'd bet they are just breaking-even or losing money on each sale and are deriving their revenue from monthly subscription fees.
I've heard that the dry desert air plays some funny optical illusion tricks with your eyes and makes distances look much shorter than they actually are
I think it has to do with the fact that the casino's are MASSIVE and there's nothing in between to help judge the distance.
Jason.
Simply put...
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Simply put, Web services is SOAP and UDDI. SOAP is like RPC, UDDI is like LDAP. There is nothing really new here.
The reason it is becoming popular is: A) it uses XML for procedure calls and it has a big-fat standard for type-mapping so it's not tied to a specific language or language-binding. B) It can piggy-back on HTTP so it works through firewalls.
Web Services may have some issues when network/security administrators figure out people will be using RPC through the firewall.
Take a laser of high enough energy to encourage radioactive material to fise until it reaches a suitably short half life and is safe to store? Say a half life of a couple months?
This might be a dumb question but what are you going to use to power this laser?
Slashdot Mirror
I've always found that SOAP had all the markings of a specification developed by a committee that want to make sure that everything made it in to the first draft. Personally, I prefer XML RPC : http://www.xmlrpc.com/
Jason.
This problem with taxes is that they always go up.
Jason.
Well duh..has anybody called any hair salons??? (yes, I am joking ;)
I've seen this (they were fired the next month): // and now to boost my LOC/Day performance...
Was the manager asking for lines of code/day fired too?
This might be a little too obvious, but how about Java - a cross-platform language, API and GUI framework.
And, if the speed of Swing bothers you, you can try IBM's SWT toolkit. I'm very impressed with it so far.
Jason.
Their argument is valid, that this will cause problems for their corporate clients. It will cause problems whenever it comes out, because some of their corporate clients (or their customers) will not be able to view their web pages properly.
Can you tell me how this is different from when any Microsoft product is upgraded?
Jason.
Exception stack traces are a godsend.
Jason.
How long before political committees start leasing out space?
"Hello, will you be voting for Bush in the next election?"
"No."
"Well then, would you like to have the the Daily Liberal newspaper delivered to your door?"
Jason.
Typical cargo planes costs dozens to hundreds of millions. Passenger planes are approaching $1B for new models.
Passenger planes cost $1 billion? Are you high? Try $50 million for an Airbus A320.
11. Lack of line breaks
Jason.
I didn't think of that...I feel sorry for the owners of my last 3 cellphone numbers.
How does Jimmy Hoffa look on a sonar scan?
Jason.
Try building a bridge:
a) with half the crew and materials required
b) in a quarter of the required time
c) that will be retrofitted to support train tracks and a second level
d) that will be backwards compatible with the previous bridge
e) that is better than your competitors bridge
Jason.
Most of these installations happened because of budget limitations. (EG. We only have a few I.T. guys on staff and just paid out *big* money for Oracle. We can't afford to purchase expensive Unix servers to run this stuff on, too
Considering how much Oracle costs - I don't think the price of the operating system should even be a factor.
Jason.
Here's how I see it:
1. Story gets posted to Slashdot
2. Website is bombarded with requests
3. Operating system automatically requisitions 5 new Sun E4500 servers to handle the load
4. Sun stock stays listed in on Nasdaq for one more day
Jason.
Okay, this might be a really stupid question. Why not install Windows with some commercial software instead of trying to patch together some half-baked solution?
Jason.
April Fools was months ago - enough is enough!
This is ridiculous - benchmarking a 64-bit server chip on Quake3? What's that suppose to prove? Is someone going to drool over this chip because it gives them 183fps instead of 182fps?
This is a server chip. Benchmark it using a database, a web server, number crunching, etc. Even better, why not put the 64-bit Linux port on it and run a kernel compile.
Jason.
Uhm, Ralph Nader has a bit more street cred in Washington than you.
Jason.
The licencing fees are a big selling point. You have a $400 (retail) product. It can't cost you more than $150 to build (in large quantities). A $10 per unit WinCE or VxWorks licence (plus development costs) is a considerable amount to spend on a product at that price point.
I agree with the rest of your post but I can guarantee that a Tivo does not cost $150 to build. In fact, I'd bet they are just breaking-even or losing money on each sale and are deriving their revenue from monthly subscription fees.
Jason.
They have to show their shareholders that they are doing something to get the company back on the road to profitability
I'm not sure any shareholder would be impressed by the company taking this measure. This is a desparate act of a dying company.
Most companies are run on the principal of paying your people first and supplies/creditors second.
Jason.
I've heard that the dry desert air plays some funny optical illusion tricks with your eyes and makes distances look much shorter than they actually are
I think it has to do with the fact that the casino's are MASSIVE and there's nothing in between to help judge the distance.
Jason.
Simply put, Web services is SOAP and UDDI. SOAP is like RPC, UDDI is like LDAP. There is nothing really new here.
The reason it is becoming popular is:
A) it uses XML for procedure calls and it has a big-fat standard for type-mapping so it's not tied to a specific language or language-binding.
B) It can piggy-back on HTTP so it works through firewalls.
Web Services may have some issues when network/security administrators figure out people will be using RPC through the firewall.
Jason.
Take a laser of high enough energy to encourage radioactive material to fise until it reaches a suitably short half life and is safe to store? Say a half life of a couple months?
This might be a dumb question but what are you going to use to power this laser?
Jason.
I believe that jabber has added clustering support to the commercial version (http://www.jabber.com/products/platform.shtml)
Jason.