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Seriously: how is this any different than the sale of virtual goods in World of Warcraft?
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
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Think the memory card in your camera is high-capacity? It's got nothing on DNA. With data accumulating at a faster rate now than any other point in human history, scientists and engineers are looking to genetic code as a form of next-generation digital information storage. It might have to compete with that stuff in your keyboard
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I thought DNA was Microsoft's latest buzzword - Distributed Network Architecture...
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I think that was a few buzzwords back.
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IDC's report card says Oracle's stewardship has been good for the popular development platform "Baseball, been berry, berry good to me."
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If Oracle lets Java go, and it fails, then they are stuck with jumping onto the Microsoft bandwagon, and that is the last thing Oracle wants. Do not think C++ is a viable option for business applications.
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There are languages other than Java, C# and C++ out there and some of them are fine for business applications. Take Ruby or Python for instance.
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Of course that probably would mean that Oracle would have to invest in support since there is no single major company that is the focus for the software. C++ does have pretty significant support, but it is not really very good for business since the framework is not that good for business apps. That is why Java was created, because C++ had issues, and it still does. If C++ had been adequate, Java and C# would have never succeeded.
Oracle would just as well stick with unsupported Java. In fact there are a lot more languged than you stated: there if Fortran, Cobol, PL1, ... Probably the best option would be Ada since the US government is the main supporter.
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Judge Lucy Koh has been going increasingly terse with both Apple and Samsung as the trial continues, and she just let Apple have it after receiving a 75-page briefing. The document covered 22 potential rebuttal witnesses the company might want to call after Samsung finishes presenting its case. With the jury out of the courtroom, Koh laid into Apple, asking why it would present such a lengthy document "when unless you're smoking crack you know these witnesses aren't going to be called!" I'm sure with Apple prices, they can afford better stuff
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The US manufacturers of computers, phones, etc. have done a really sorry job of competing with apple, but these Korean companies like Samsung and LG have really shown that they can create compact elegant designs.
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I think you might be right. This might be a case of "Stomp them before they get too big."
The weirder part is that Samsung is one of one of Apple's bigger suppliers[^].
Big companies are so strange and dysfunctional. There used to be a group at Microsoft called "Technical Diplomats". Their job was to interact with companies that part of Microsoft was trying to put out of business while other parts of Microsoft depended on them.
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Today, talking about doing a big design up-front (BDUF) sounds a bit ridiculous, right? Who would do that? That's not craftsmanship, is it? It was the best of software development, it was the worst of software development
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Just so you know, C# is better than whatever language you use.
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And on the eighth day, G-d created Anders Hejlsberg.
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I use C# - is it better than that?
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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I worked on TDD. That is how the military does all thier designs, and it creates horrible weapon systems. The Abrams tank was a gas guzzler that had a horrible impact on tank battalions since they had to not only have new specialists to work only on the tank engines, but also more fuel trucks. There was a movie on how bad the Bradley was. Now look at the new F-35 (should change the name of the Lockheed to Junkers {original company was absorbed into Messerschmitt}). The one of the most significant problems with TDD is that there is no feedback loop. The government will tell you that if you do not meet the specification you are not meeting the contract. Costs just keep going up to try to meet requirements that should be dumped. The American planes and tanks of WWII were not built this way. Almost every truely successful project was agile. Software is no different.
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On the Abrams: I was once told that when they fired the big gun that they often had a full power outage and the onboard computers got restarted. Is that true?
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Another interesting thing is that the Leopard, which was being considered as the next American tank had a smoothbore 120mm gun. I believe the new development was partially justified because it stayed with the old 105, but the first upgrade had the german 120. I also heard that the Leopard option was discarded because it was considered too wide. It took a while to figure out where the justification came from: There was some obscure requirement for the size limit, something like transport on a particular ship. Both tanks are really too wide for a lot of transport. Also the highly regarded turbine engine still is costing the US taxpayer and the Army: http://www.g2mil.com/abramsdiesel.htm[^]
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A fundraiser is underway to save scientist Nikola Tesla's old laboratory, named Wardenclyffe, and to turn the site into a museum. The fundraising is spearheaded by Matthew Inman, creator of the webcomic site The Oatmeal. The property has been embattled for years between its owner, the Agfa Corporation, and the nonprofit organization that wants to save it and enter it in the National Register of Historic Places. ...because he's the greatest geek who ever lived (Tesla, that is)
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Certainly Tesla has aquired a lot more respect in recent years, respect he should have had a long time ago, except Edison was a better politian.
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Rob Pike, now a Distinguished Engineer at Google, worked at Bell Labs as a member of the Unix Team and co-created Plan 9 and Inferno. He was central to the creation of the Go and Limbo programming languages. Rob shares an experience at Bell Labs that changed his approach to debugging. Think twice, debug once
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Shouldn't this be in the Soapbox? 
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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True, but in the Soapbox it is news that can go in potentially "interesting" ways 
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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