Last time I checked, the Mozilla license, the BSD license, the Apache license... all not GPL compatible.
Stop fighting the GPL-is-the-best-no-it-isnt war.
As for the patents, it might indeed be in vain, but it might also encourage others to do so. The more idiotic patents are given away, the better.
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Heh, I'm not american. So, the american industry is not really going to "suffer" from me... Note the "if needed" at the end. Futher down my little ranting, there is a more detailed course of actions that I want from a company I'm buying products from.
Bottom line is: if you're running critical tasks, you want a good company behind it, with good reputation, good support (long term, not the stupid 6 months release cycle from any Linux around the corner), fast and to the point responses, good solutions and if all that doesn't work, and you're losing business because something you ordered doesn't do what the vendor promised it would do, you want (need!) someone to blame. Business is business. I've seen very few companies thrive on zealot-ism.
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Hey, you didn't seem to understand the "support":
If I have a huge company, running critical tasks, I will go for a company that I can sue if needed. I won't be installing Debian, Gentoo,... but I would go for something like Redhat, Suse or Solaris. I would only use features that are supported by my vendor (so, as long as Redhat doesn't support the newly ported feature, it is a "no-go")
I would go for hardware from a vendor that delivers support (Dell, Sun, IBM,...) and that can be here, at my company, in my datacenter, with the needed parts and expertise to fix the problem is there is one.
Please, think away from the idea that "linux will get there, and the sysadmin will fix it." Please, that guy needs peace of mind and a vacation once in a while too. There needs to be a company behind a mission-critical solution, someone that can be addressed, questioned and sued if needed.
(And take notice, not every application is that easy to split up over several other machines. )
It is not only the hardware that is differentiating Sun from the "x86 + Linux" market. It is also Solaris. If you have used both Solaris and Linux then you would know the difference.
Linux might be easier to set up and easier to overview, but the features, scalability and support on Solaris is enormous. One can install the same release on any SUN hardware from single processor, single disk up to multi-proc machines with several terabytes of storage. Everything is built-in, enabled if needed and ready to use (and Solaris 10 is very promising).
You're right, both rich-text and shockwave will remain. Mea culpa on that. I was pointing out that there is a difference between both plugins and ActiveX (see parent).
However, as the presentation and method of input is controlled by the browser, and not directed by the form, it might be very well possible that each textarea-like form element will have some basic editing tools attached to it. I'm however completely unaware if it will be possible to "overload" the basic behavior of the elements.
ActiveX has its good points (...sorry, I can't think of any right now, but I'm sure that used wisely, it can be good).
As on your point that XForms will replace Java Applets in the near future, I'm not so sure about this. Applets are (next to Flash and the like) a way of putting some brain at the client side. It is commonly used to set up communication between the client and a server that is not a simple GET or POST request. (I fear a bit that Flash is pushing Java Applets aside.)
What will be replace by XForms (if they arrive) is all the silly Javascript that is needed to preload images, validate input, restrict input and do some other funky stuff. Unifomisation (XML format) and integration with other things (SOAP) are also great.
Hmmm, looks like the article is from March 2000, and the referrer software (Mozquito) is no longer at the URL they present. From what I can make out from the article, it used Java to process the pages.
I guess that MS will stick to their ASP, and their integration with IE and ISS. It is a nice solution, and allows one to quickly program certain things, without all the hassle of validation and the such, but it is very restrictive on platform/browser.
As far as I see it, those who want to implement XForms will have to have a Javascript "if"-block on top to decide if they present some XForms or just plain old forms with loads of Javascript to support every single browser and version.
And yes, SOAP would be great. SOAP is the way to go for integrating different online platforms...
Anything can be done, but it will only work in one specific browser and/or one specific version. Basic stuff works with Javascript, but every browsers has another interpretation of the standards...
However, if only Mozilla supports the Xforms2 standard, not a single site will adapt them. IE is still the market leader (yes, I'm using Firefox, so don't blame me;))...
You're talking about plugins. This is something different.
What is meant are things like "rich textarea" with some MS Office Word-like editing (through activeX) in it. Other uses are in very specific applications like the windows update and the such...
I'm not asking for everyone to write perfect English. I just don't want to be regularly depressed because people can't master their native tongue, or spell simple four letter words.
You feel free to ask them to make those changes to your agreement. You also feel free to start sending out your resumes to other companies... It is highly unlikely that they are going to allow you to make these changes and keep your job.
I think you somehow missed the point here. He is asking if it is possible to add a suplement to a NEW contract, so no sending out resumes, no "keeping" the job,...
As for me, here in Belgium, I have a company together with some other chaps. My current work is in the line of what the company is doing. I discussed this with my employer, and no problems were found, as long as I keep both of them really separate. No logging in to servers, not answering phones,... Fair deal.
I always argumented this as "you asked for people who dare to take a risk, want to work hard and have some insight into business and running a business". If you don't score with that, the HR-guy is afraid that you might take his job.
Looking at a candidate's website is a good way to see what THEY think is important.
Hmmm, sorry if this may come as a shock to you, but their site might include a list of the things that they think that might be usefull to get elected. As always in politics, don't trust what they say, look at what they are doing or did in the past. Look up their career, their major points, their accomplishments,...
When I joined the company, the shoved a Alphaserver 1200 in my direction (the things weights a ton and is about 30 by 60 cm and 40 cm in heigh) with the famous words "Here, your workstation". It didn't boot, it got a crappy VGA card,... luckily, there was debian.
A few days later, when I was happy with the machine (I'm typing currently on it), I found out they meant it as a joke. To late, I fell in love with it.
The laptop that was ordered for me with additional keyboard is used to test-drive applications.
Well, if the software is build (designed, programmed, tested, debugged,...) by the government, with the aid of tax-money, then YES! OPEN SOFTWARE! NOW!. It was my money that made it happen...
If they just take a part of the tax-money (which was intended for the running of the government) and go out and buy some licenses to make them do their job better/faster/..., then it should not necessarly be open source software. If possible, they should give preference to open software, and to software made in the country/EU (support local economy, like that, tax money is re-entering the economic system of the country/region).
I hope they put quite some stress and effort in the "open standard" parts. I don't care which software is being used. The government will have a good reason why they take it (and I hope this reason is a mixture of cost, support, easy to use, scalability, lifetime,...). If it possible using Open Source, why not. If a product and support from a company are better, sorry, but you have to be reasonable (and that is MY tax money they are using:)).
As long as the documents and data that are stored in the systems are stored in an easy accessible format, and not some closed standard, I'm a happy person. If the government want to switch software, they should be able to do so with little problems.
Also, it's quite disturbing to notice (again and again) that you can download all the documents you need do something administrative, but find out that it is in the latest crappy MS DOC format which is unreadable/badly formatted by my word processor... I even got auto-reply mail with only a doc file attached.
Up until now, you could order a PC with Linux on it at the local PC vendor if the guy behind the counter was a Linux-adept...
But now a company that everybody knows (if it isn't from the server market or the desktop market, it will be from the printers and the calculators, and the stupid Compaq - HP thing) is doing this. Big difference!
If Evesham is big in the US, sorry, but here in Europe, it is not widely known...
It is indeed good news that one of the bigger vendors is putting a Linux box in their catalog... However, just giving a blank box and a CD set is not the way it should be done.
Quite a lot of software should be preloaded, all nicely set-up to enable the buyer to start using it right away. When, in a later stage, someone asked him if his PC worked well with this all new, thing-of-the-underworld, very-neet-and-1337, futuristic OS on it. Only if the person can say then "yeah, sure, it had everything on it, I plugged it in and it started in 60 seconds, it came with an office suite preloaded and i browsed the internet and read e-mails in no-time...".
Yeah, my nokia also has this, but it calls back right away... it just hangs up and calls again. What is the chance that the other person is allready of the phone by then...
Mind the 30 seconds i mentioned, and even the, it should notice me in 30 seconds by some small beep or vibration that it is time to call back (some sort of "snooze function" for a call you are making)...
Is is only me, but I'm surpised every time some company comes up with some new feature for a cellphone, and they demonstrate it by saying it might come in handy when playing a game? Every new phone is marketeered by saying how much games it has, how much ringtones, how easily you can change the cover,...
I can't think of a good thing I can do with a phone with a gyroscope in it right now. I assume that anyone can come up with some basic telephone feature that is still missing. One I can come up with is "if busy, present a callback function (Call back in 30 seconds? Yes/No)". Another one is "answer and delete message".
Keep in mind, that the skeletion only aids the movement. It is not intended to replace broken bones (and/or other parts). The human skeletion still carries the weight of the human (plus the backpack with a computer, a battery pack, cooling fans,...)
Although I guess that it can easily adopted to support broken limbs...
Here, more than ever: "a small step for (a old) man,..."
Palm is a strong brand name, and the "palmsource" division benefits from the sales of the "palmone" division. No hardware sold, no software needed. Therefor, it would have been better to keep the name for the hardware division, as the software benefits from it.
Ah, anyway, they must have had a good reason to change the name. It is a very honest decision that is made (not giving the strong name to either of the divisions). Strange however that "honest" can be used in association with a big multinational firm. Maybe we should encourage this, as it is a rare fact...
(and indeed, "split" is a better word, but remember that I'm not a native English speaking person, so sometimes I have to improvise:)).
Would it not have been wiser to keep the name "Palm"? They don't want any of the two spin-off's to benefit of the name. But doesn't the PalmSource company benefit from the sales that are generated by "PalmOne"? (Note that this assumtions hold true to a certain level the other way around, but not that strong.)
Therefor, i find it a bit silly. The split was made by the board that will control both company's (they did not sell one division as far as I know) and the new controlling company. The controlling company name is irrelevant, as no-one outside the Palm-offices and the financial world will know, or needs to know it.
It would be better to keep the name for the hardware division. They had a strong name, and I guess that they did a bad move. And two years to come up with "PalmOne"? For crying out loud...
As a sidenote, as a belgian, I guess that I'm not worried, as long as the name change does not influence the taste of a glass Palm beer.
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Last time I checked, the Mozilla license, the BSD license, the Apache license... all not GPL compatible.
Stop fighting the GPL-is-the-best-no-it-isnt war.
As for the patents, it might indeed be in vain, but it might also encourage others to do so. The more idiotic patents are given away, the better.
Heh, I'm not american. So, the american industry is not really going to "suffer" from me... Note the "if needed" at the end. Futher down my little ranting, there is a more detailed course of actions that I want from a company I'm buying products from.
Bottom line is: if you're running critical tasks, you want a good company behind it, with good reputation, good support (long term, not the stupid 6 months release cycle from any Linux around the corner), fast and to the point responses, good solutions and if all that doesn't work, and you're losing business because something you ordered doesn't do what the vendor promised it would do, you want (need!) someone to blame. Business is business. I've seen very few companies thrive on zealot-ism.
Hey, you didn't seem to understand the "support":
...) and that can be here, at my company, in my datacenter, with the needed parts and expertise to fix the problem is there is one.
If I have a huge company, running critical tasks, I will go for a company that I can sue if needed. I won't be installing Debian, Gentoo,... but I would go for something like Redhat, Suse or Solaris. I would only use features that are supported by my vendor (so, as long as Redhat doesn't support the newly ported feature, it is a "no-go")
I would go for hardware from a vendor that delivers support (Dell, Sun, IBM,
Please, think away from the idea that "linux will get there, and the sysadmin will fix it." Please, that guy needs peace of mind and a vacation once in a while too. There needs to be a company behind a mission-critical solution, someone that can be addressed, questioned and sued if needed.
(And take notice, not every application is that easy to split up over several other machines. )
It is not only the hardware that is differentiating Sun from the "x86 + Linux" market. It is also Solaris. If you have used both Solaris and Linux then you would know the difference.
Linux might be easier to set up and easier to overview, but the features, scalability and support on Solaris is enormous. One can install the same release on any SUN hardware from single processor, single disk up to multi-proc machines with several terabytes of storage. Everything is built-in, enabled if needed and ready to use (and Solaris 10 is very promising).
You're right, both rich-text and shockwave will remain. Mea culpa on that. I was pointing out that there is a difference between both plugins and ActiveX (see parent).
However, as the presentation and method of input is controlled by the browser, and not directed by the form, it might be very well possible that each textarea-like form element will have some basic editing tools attached to it. I'm however completely unaware if it will be possible to "overload" the basic behavior of the elements.
ActiveX has its good points (...sorry, I can't think of any right now, but I'm sure that used wisely, it can be good).
As on your point that XForms will replace Java Applets in the near future, I'm not so sure about this. Applets are (next to Flash and the like) a way of putting some brain at the client side. It is commonly used to set up communication between the client and a server that is not a simple GET or POST request. (I fear a bit that Flash is pushing Java Applets aside.)
What will be replace by XForms (if they arrive) is all the silly Javascript that is needed to preload images, validate input, restrict input and do some other funky stuff. Unifomisation (XML format) and integration with other things (SOAP) are also great.
Hmmm, looks like the article is from March 2000, and the referrer software (Mozquito) is no longer at the URL they present. From what I can make out from the article, it used Java to process the pages.
I guess that MS will stick to their ASP, and their integration with IE and ISS. It is a nice solution, and allows one to quickly program certain things, without all the hassle of validation and the such, but it is very restrictive on platform/browser.
As far as I see it, those who want to implement XForms will have to have a Javascript "if"-block on top to decide if they present some XForms or just plain old forms with loads of Javascript to support every single browser and version.
And yes, SOAP would be great. SOAP is the way to go for integrating different online platforms...
Anything can be done, but it will only work in one specific browser and/or one specific version. Basic stuff works with Javascript, but every browsers has another interpretation of the standards...
;))...
However, if only Mozilla supports the Xforms2 standard, not a single site will adapt them. IE is still the market leader (yes, I'm using Firefox, so don't blame me
You're talking about plugins. This is something different.
What is meant are things like "rich textarea" with some MS Office Word-like editing (through activeX) in it. Other uses are in very specific applications like the windows update and the such...
Who's saying it is the OPs native tongue?
You feel free to ask them to make those changes to your agreement. You also feel free to start sending out your resumes to other companies... It is highly unlikely that they are going to allow you to make these changes and keep your job.
I think you somehow missed the point here. He is asking if it is possible to add a suplement to a NEW contract, so no sending out resumes, no "keeping" the job,...
As for me, here in Belgium, I have a company together with some other chaps. My current work is in the line of what the company is doing. I discussed this with my employer, and no problems were found, as long as I keep both of them really separate. No logging in to servers, not answering phones,... Fair deal.
I always argumented this as "you asked for people who dare to take a risk, want to work hard and have some insight into business and running a business". If you don't score with that, the HR-guy is afraid that you might take his job.
Looking at a candidate's website is a good way to see what THEY think is important.
Hmmm, sorry if this may come as a shock to you, but their site might include a list of the things that they think that might be usefull to get elected. As always in politics, don't trust what they say, look at what they are doing or did in the past. Look up their career, their major points, their accomplishments,...
Remember that this is also the same company that redirected all typo's to their own service/servers/...
"Hello, the tag you scanned does not exist, but we supplied the info of some other product..."
VeriSign would be the last company I would give this mandate to. Only choosing them on hardware terms is plain stupid...
I wouldn't beat the projector's protability (although that also depends on the model)...
The article mentions clearly:
"We have succeeded in holding a light pulse still without taking all the energy away from it," said Mikhail D. Lukin, a Harvard physicist.
This is somehow different from "...without destroying its energy." like it is stated in the posting. Maybe a subtle detail, but not quite the same.
However, a briliant achievement. Kuddos.
When I joined the company, the shoved a Alphaserver 1200 in my direction (the things weights a ton and is about 30 by 60 cm and 40 cm in heigh) with the famous words "Here, your workstation". It didn't boot, it got a crappy VGA card,... luckily, there was debian.
A few days later, when I was happy with the machine (I'm typing currently on it), I found out they meant it as a joke. To late, I fell in love with it.
The laptop that was ordered for me with additional keyboard is used to test-drive applications.
after a first glance at the pictures, can someone tell me how to hold it so you are not listening to the microphone and talking to the speaker?
Well, if the software is build (designed, programmed, tested, debugged,...) by the government, with the aid of tax-money, then YES! OPEN SOFTWARE! NOW!. It was my money that made it happen...
If they just take a part of the tax-money (which was intended for the running of the government) and go out and buy some licenses to make them do their job better/faster/..., then it should not necessarly be open source software. If possible, they should give preference to open software, and to software made in the country/EU (support local economy, like that, tax money is re-entering the economic system of the country/region).
I hope they put quite some stress and effort in the "open standard" parts. I don't care which software is being used. The government will have a good reason why they take it (and I hope this reason is a mixture of cost, support, easy to use, scalability, lifetime,...). If it possible using Open Source, why not. If a product and support from a company are better, sorry, but you have to be reasonable (and that is MY tax money they are using :)).
As long as the documents and data that are stored in the systems are stored in an easy accessible format, and not some closed standard, I'm a happy person. If the government want to switch software, they should be able to do so with little problems.
Also, it's quite disturbing to notice (again and again) that you can download all the documents you need do something administrative, but find out that it is in the latest crappy MS DOC format which is unreadable/badly formatted by my word processor... I even got auto-reply mail with only a doc file attached.
Up until now, you could order a PC with Linux on it at the local PC vendor if the guy behind the counter was a Linux-adept...
But now a company that everybody knows (if it isn't from the server market or the desktop market, it will be from the printers and the calculators, and the stupid Compaq - HP thing) is doing this. Big difference!
If Evesham is big in the US, sorry, but here in Europe, it is not widely known...
It is indeed good news that one of the bigger vendors is putting a Linux box in their catalog... However, just giving a blank box and a CD set is not the way it should be done.
Quite a lot of software should be preloaded, all nicely set-up to enable the buyer to start using it right away. When, in a later stage, someone asked him if his PC worked well with this all new, thing-of-the-underworld, very-neet-and-1337, futuristic OS on it. Only if the person can say then "yeah, sure, it had everything on it, I plugged it in and it started in 60 seconds, it came with an office suite preloaded and i browsed the internet and read e-mails in no-time...".
Only then Linux will Linux hit the home-market.
Yeah, my nokia also has this, but it calls back right away... it just hangs up and calls again. What is the chance that the other person is allready of the phone by then...
Mind the 30 seconds i mentioned, and even the, it should notice me in 30 seconds by some small beep or vibration that it is time to call back (some sort of "snooze function" for a call you are making)...
Is is only me, but I'm surpised every time some company comes up with some new feature for a cellphone, and they demonstrate it by saying it might come in handy when playing a game? Every new phone is marketeered by saying how much games it has, how much ringtones, how easily you can change the cover,...
I can't think of a good thing I can do with a phone with a gyroscope in it right now. I assume that anyone can come up with some basic telephone feature that is still missing. One I can come up with is "if busy, present a callback function (Call back in 30 seconds? Yes/No)". Another one is "answer and delete message".
Oh boy, if only I would design phones...
Keep in mind, that the skeletion only aids the movement. It is not intended to replace broken bones (and/or other parts). The human skeletion still carries the weight of the human (plus the backpack with a computer, a battery pack, cooling fans,...)
Although I guess that it can easily adopted to support broken limbs...
Here, more than ever: "a small step for (a old) man,..."
But then again, the situation stays the same:
:)).
Palm is a strong brand name, and the "palmsource" division benefits from the sales of the "palmone" division. No hardware sold, no software needed. Therefor, it would have been better to keep the name for the hardware division, as the software benefits from it.
Ah, anyway, they must have had a good reason to change the name. It is a very honest decision that is made (not giving the strong name to either of the divisions). Strange however that "honest" can be used in association with a big multinational firm. Maybe we should encourage this, as it is a rare fact...
(and indeed, "split" is a better word, but remember that I'm not a native English speaking person, so sometimes I have to improvise
Would it not have been wiser to keep the name "Palm"? They don't want any of the two spin-off's to benefit of the name. But doesn't the PalmSource company benefit from the sales that are generated by "PalmOne"? (Note that this assumtions hold true to a certain level the other way around, but not that strong.)
Therefor, i find it a bit silly. The split was made by the board that will control both company's (they did not sell one division as far as I know) and the new controlling company. The controlling company name is irrelevant, as no-one outside the Palm-offices and the financial world will know, or needs to know it.
It would be better to keep the name for the hardware division. They had a strong name, and I guess that they did a bad move. And two years to come up with "PalmOne"? For crying out loud...
As a sidenote, as a belgian, I guess that I'm not worried, as long as the name change does not influence the taste of a glass Palm beer.