Once the jvm is ported to the ps3 or other systems it's not really a stretch. In fact, many developers would love to write console games in java. Remember, the GPU is doing most of the work. The fact that java is slower than C/C++ doesn't mean anything because that's not where the bottleneck is. It's at the GPU. I really hope the JVM comes standard in the next gen consoles. Game development time to market would improve greatly. It would also encourage more small-time gaming companies to produce games.
I hate to break it to you, but you are (or were) in fact a Palm developer. Just because you didn't wind up using/selling the software is moot. Obviously though, you are not in fact two Palm developers as you mentioned.
The important thing to remember is that no company is loyal to you. No manager is going to lose his job to save yours. As soon as the company determines it is more profitable to release you, they will. If they don't, they won't be in business very long. You aren't a 'team member' or part of the '[corporate name] family'. Their goal is to make you feel this way so that you will work more for less. The truth is that you provide a service for a fee. If the company you work for requires more service, it is your job to make them aware that your fee will increase. If you feel you're unjustly being asked to work more for the same money, start looking for a new job immediately. If you feel you can do it without being fired, ask a manager if you can use them as a reference. Let them know in a not so subtle way, without actually saying it, that you're looking for other employment. You'll find out very quickly how much they value you.
A buddy of mine just bought his new Mac whatever laptop. He's running parallels so that he can use the Windows Only VPN client. Apparently the fine folks that make Parallels have a new version out such that you can run windows applications that appear to be running like a regular Apple app (i.e. you minimize the virtualization window). As virtualization becomes more and more powerful, I don't think worrying about which OS you're running will be that much of an issue. I can't speak for what most DBAs see in their daily life but as an application developer the only DB issues I see are related to disk hit. It really wouldn't make any appreciable difference if Unbreakable Linux was running in a miniature virtual machine while storing the information on a SAN.
Google is not capable of vendor locking for their biggest revenue maker. Consumers can be very fickle. It only takes about ten seconds for me to change my home page from google to msn, yahoo, metacrawler, ask, etc. It would take about 5 minutes more for me to figure out how to get my gmail forwarded to another mail account (or I could ignore it altogether). Now if I decided to switch from Microsoft products, that's a journey which costs much more than 5 minutes and ten seconds.
Sure, at that point you can still do the retarded thing and go "ha ha, so the full install didn't fit and they had to strip it down", but may I point out that the average Linux distro is even bigger than the full XP?
A base installation of Windows XP, Office XP,.NET, and MSSQL is not any smaller than the average linux distro. The cds just come in separate packages. In fact, the linux distro typically has multiple development platforms, multiple desktop environments, multiple database engines, and at least two office suites. One might argue about which sets of applications are 'better' but you're comparing apples to oranges.
The interesting thing here would be to find out where the campaign financiers are. If I was to try to list a few 'top picks' that the government should be investigating, NVidia and ATI would not be on the list at all. My guess is that someone wants to tie up these two companies in a big legal mess forcing blow millions of dollars on research/lawyers so that something else can happen (or not happen). Something about this doesn't smell right.
First of all, it would be a waste to mod AC up. Secondly, you're far more likely to see a company code for IE first and then make Firefox 'work' than the other way around. Just because your company, or maybe it's just you, is backwards from the rest of the industry doesn't mean you deserve the same level of fanfare. Unless of course you subscribe to the 'I use linux therefore I am superior to all' theorem of development. In which case, I'm sorry to have wasted my time.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but I think we won. Iraq is, in fact, no longer a threat or potential threat. I personally don't believe the costs we've paid and are going to pay are worth it, but it's hard to argue that we did not succeed in disarming Iraq.
Hammurabi's code had laws like "If you steal something form the temple, you will be put to death." A simple risk/profit analysis would indicate that stealing something from the temple is probably not worth it. However, 'hacking' on the internet is relatively low risk of getting caught and the punishments are relatively small. People will generally act within their own best interest and the legal ramifications are only one part of the consequences of action. In the case of home robbery, there's the shotgun blast to the face consequence on top of the legal ramifications. In the case of hacking, unless you hack the mob/FBI/CIA/IRS you're unlikely to find yourself in a 'car accident.'
I just want a cell phone that can make and receive calls effectively. I don't really need mms, e-mail, web, etc. on my phone. Give me one tool that does one thing well. If a phone is big enough to have a usable keyboard I don't want it (I'm looking at you crackberry).
How is the page supposed to execute an action (post the data) without javascript? You must be tricked into clicking an action button. You're not exactly bullet proof, but it does add a layer of protection.
...but I have a problem when it starts distributing the mental tools for people to stick their fingers in their ears and say "na na na!" about something that matters to me.
Yeah, little did they know that ebay would require 50 positive feedbacks before they let you sell a PS3. There's no way Sony could get 50 positive feedbacks.
Nintendo's first shipment was 500,000. They expect to have several million out by the new year. Sony, on the other hand, shipped 400,000 units and there are no further expected ship dates this year. If those reports are true, Nintendo will have major major mind share over Sony come 2k7.
Ahh, but if you could break it up into a billion tiny pieces you're increasing the surface area. A larger percentage of the mass will burn up in the atmosphere and/or be deflected away.
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I feel like a broken record. Apple is not a hardware or software company. Apple is a technology integrator. They buy (or get for free like BSD) technologies, integrate them, pretty them up, and sell them for a huge markup. They don't manufacture their own hardware. They didn't develop the vast majority of their OS. They didn't invent the portable music player or the online music store. They integrated technology in a way that the mass market finds useful.
I've posted this before and I'll post it again. Apple and Microsoft are not technology innovators, they are technology integrators. They purchase technologies (or get them free in the case of BSD), integrate them, shiny them up, and then sell them for massive profits. For me, the linux kernel is useless. However, this company Redhat integrated a bunch of software into a single distribution, prettied it up with some artwork, and I really like it. Redhat is not primarily a technology innovator either. Most large companies are in fact not.
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J2ME targets devices with a memory size with a minimum of like 4MB. The JRE can be pretty small if you need it to be.
Once the jvm is ported to the ps3 or other systems it's not really a stretch. In fact, many developers would love to write console games in java. Remember, the GPU is doing most of the work. The fact that java is slower than C/C++ doesn't mean anything because that's not where the bottleneck is. It's at the GPU. I really hope the JVM comes standard in the next gen consoles. Game development time to market would improve greatly. It would also encourage more small-time gaming companies to produce games.
I hate to break it to you, but you are (or were) in fact a Palm developer. Just because you didn't wind up using/selling the software is moot. Obviously though, you are not in fact two Palm developers as you mentioned.
I didn't think you could sell GPL software, only support. I thought with GPL it also had to be free as in beer. Am I wrong?
How much would it cost them to hire another you?
That's only because I can't get any games to run on my mac while I should be working like I do on my PC. =)
The important thing to remember is that no company is loyal to you. No manager is going to lose his job to save yours. As soon as the company determines it is more profitable to release you, they will. If they don't, they won't be in business very long. You aren't a 'team member' or part of the '[corporate name] family'. Their goal is to make you feel this way so that you will work more for less. The truth is that you provide a service for a fee. If the company you work for requires more service, it is your job to make them aware that your fee will increase. If you feel you're unjustly being asked to work more for the same money, start looking for a new job immediately. If you feel you can do it without being fired, ask a manager if you can use them as a reference. Let them know in a not so subtle way, without actually saying it, that you're looking for other employment. You'll find out very quickly how much they value you.
MySQL began supporting Unbreakable Linux.
A buddy of mine just bought his new Mac whatever laptop. He's running parallels so that he can use the Windows Only VPN client. Apparently the fine folks that make Parallels have a new version out such that you can run windows applications that appear to be running like a regular Apple app (i.e. you minimize the virtualization window). As virtualization becomes more and more powerful, I don't think worrying about which OS you're running will be that much of an issue. I can't speak for what most DBAs see in their daily life but as an application developer the only DB issues I see are related to disk hit. It really wouldn't make any appreciable difference if Unbreakable Linux was running in a miniature virtual machine while storing the information on a SAN.
Google is not capable of vendor locking for their biggest revenue maker. Consumers can be very fickle. It only takes about ten seconds for me to change my home page from google to msn, yahoo, metacrawler, ask, etc. It would take about 5 minutes more for me to figure out how to get my gmail forwarded to another mail account (or I could ignore it altogether). Now if I decided to switch from Microsoft products, that's a journey which costs much more than 5 minutes and ten seconds.
The interesting thing here would be to find out where the campaign financiers are. If I was to try to list a few 'top picks' that the government should be investigating, NVidia and ATI would not be on the list at all. My guess is that someone wants to tie up these two companies in a big legal mess forcing blow millions of dollars on research/lawyers so that something else can happen (or not happen). Something about this doesn't smell right.
First of all, it would be a waste to mod AC up. Secondly, you're far more likely to see a company code for IE first and then make Firefox 'work' than the other way around. Just because your company, or maybe it's just you, is backwards from the rest of the industry doesn't mean you deserve the same level of fanfare. Unless of course you subscribe to the 'I use linux therefore I am superior to all' theorem of development. In which case, I'm sorry to have wasted my time.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but I think we won. Iraq is, in fact, no longer a threat or potential threat. I personally don't believe the costs we've paid and are going to pay are worth it, but it's hard to argue that we did not succeed in disarming Iraq.
Yes, but not the integration piece (exchange) which was basically his point.
Hammurabi's code had laws like "If you steal something form the temple, you will be put to death." A simple risk/profit analysis would indicate that stealing something from the temple is probably not worth it. However, 'hacking' on the internet is relatively low risk of getting caught and the punishments are relatively small. People will generally act within their own best interest and the legal ramifications are only one part of the consequences of action. In the case of home robbery, there's the shotgun blast to the face consequence on top of the legal ramifications. In the case of hacking, unless you hack the mob/FBI/CIA/IRS you're unlikely to find yourself in a 'car accident.'
I just want a cell phone that can make and receive calls effectively. I don't really need mms, e-mail, web, etc. on my phone. Give me one tool that does one thing well. If a phone is big enough to have a usable keyboard I don't want it (I'm looking at you crackberry).
Don't give them such a hard time. Ten geek girls are difficult to scrounge up.
How is the page supposed to execute an action (post the data) without javascript? You must be tricked into clicking an action button. You're not exactly bullet proof, but it does add a layer of protection.
Anyone who really into supercomputing (or computing for that matter) would not make such liberal use of the phrase 'real time.'
...but I have a problem when it starts distributing the mental tools for people to stick their fingers in their ears and say "na na na!" about something that matters to me.
There, fixed it for you.
Yeah, little did they know that ebay would require 50 positive feedbacks before they let you sell a PS3. There's no way Sony could get 50 positive feedbacks.
Nintendo's first shipment was 500,000. They expect to have several million out by the new year. Sony, on the other hand, shipped 400,000 units and there are no further expected ship dates this year. If those reports are true, Nintendo will have major major mind share over Sony come 2k7.
Ahh, but if you could break it up into a billion tiny pieces you're increasing the surface area. A larger percentage of the mass will burn up in the atmosphere and/or be deflected away.
I feel like a broken record. Apple is not a hardware or software company. Apple is a technology integrator. They buy (or get for free like BSD) technologies, integrate them, pretty them up, and sell them for a huge markup. They don't manufacture their own hardware. They didn't develop the vast majority of their OS. They didn't invent the portable music player or the online music store. They integrated technology in a way that the mass market finds useful.
I've posted this before and I'll post it again. Apple and Microsoft are not technology innovators, they are technology integrators. They purchase technologies (or get them free in the case of BSD), integrate them, shiny them up, and then sell them for massive profits. For me, the linux kernel is useless. However, this company Redhat integrated a bunch of software into a single distribution, prettied it up with some artwork, and I really like it. Redhat is not primarily a technology innovator either. Most large companies are in fact not.