FTFA...
"...the U.S. graduates more visual arts and performing arts majors than engineers. It also noted that the U.S. ranks 27th among developed nations in the proportion of college students receiving undergraduate degrees in science and engineering."
It strikes me that this stems from the philosophy that children in the US are encouraged to pursue 'whatever you enjoy most' under the misconception that is the career they will be best suited to and thus make them happiest. In other countries this doesn't happen. Parents push their kids towards the careers that pay well and are likely to ensure them a happy future. Later in life the kids thank their parent for this. How many penniless actors are there in the US that wish they'd chosen another career?
Sure, this philosophy works fine if you actually have won the lottery or have rich parents, but what do kids really know about making these decisions? You can say that an 18 yr old is perfectly mature enough to make up their own mind, but in reality the decision made much earlier in life. It doesn't happen often that a teenager, who has spent their whole childhood indulging in the arts, suddenly realizes he/she has made a mistake and then switches to a career in engineering.
Ok, so it's nothing to with not providing a complete Java platform then. Being able to write Java programs that run on Dalvik is really no different to writing Java programs for the.Net platform.
The question is, what patents does Dalvik infringe on?
I'd have thought that Google were fairly carefull not to infringe any of the patents, or at least regarded the patents as not easy to uphold, when they wrote Dalvik. After all the whole point of writing it was to provide a platform different from Sun's. Perhaps Oracle will start looking for patent infringements in the.Net CLR too.
Is Oracle saying this?
Anyone who writes and distributes a JVM, cannot provide just a JVM, but must instead provide the accompanying Sun libraries.
or this?
If you are providing the Sun libraries with your JVM, you must provide all of them.
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I disagree.
What makes you think that sciences are any more badly taught than say English or Art?
And who's to say it is the biggest factor in effecting career choices?
I say you parents have a much bigger influence.
FTFA... "...the U.S. graduates more visual arts and performing arts majors than engineers. It also noted that the U.S. ranks 27th among developed nations in the proportion of college students receiving undergraduate degrees in science and engineering." It strikes me that this stems from the philosophy that children in the US are encouraged to pursue 'whatever you enjoy most' under the misconception that is the career they will be best suited to and thus make them happiest. In other countries this doesn't happen. Parents push their kids towards the careers that pay well and are likely to ensure them a happy future. Later in life the kids thank their parent for this. How many penniless actors are there in the US that wish they'd chosen another career? Sure, this philosophy works fine if you actually have won the lottery or have rich parents, but what do kids really know about making these decisions? You can say that an 18 yr old is perfectly mature enough to make up their own mind, but in reality the decision made much earlier in life. It doesn't happen often that a teenager, who has spent their whole childhood indulging in the arts, suddenly realizes he/she has made a mistake and then switches to a career in engineering.
The dictionary defines an intellectual as: "someone possessing or showing intellect".
Ok, so it's nothing to with not providing a complete Java platform then. Being able to write Java programs that run on Dalvik is really no different to writing Java programs for the .Net platform.
The question is, what patents does Dalvik infringe on?
I'd have thought that Google were fairly carefull not to infringe any of the patents, or at least regarded the patents as not easy to uphold, when they wrote Dalvik. After all the whole point of writing it was to provide a platform different from Sun's. Perhaps Oracle will start looking for patent infringements in the .Net CLR too.
Is Oracle saying this? Anyone who writes and distributes a JVM, cannot provide just a JVM, but must instead provide the accompanying Sun libraries. or this? If you are providing the Sun libraries with your JVM, you must provide all of them.
That's a pretty lame comment - TBL and Edison arn't in the same league.