Posts by WinHatter 170 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Mar 2009
For once I'll follow M$ piece of advice, I'll wait till June 3011.
Well, people may not have to wait that long to see their PC crashing down every 2 hours.
I know M$ said shutting ... I say crashing ... tomayto tomato ...
/mine's the one made of apple fed penguin pelt
What if Oracle bought Sun just to get java & Sun's customers?
Hands on Java specification committee : good
Financial sector customers : good
Solaris : not so bad as a massive number of Oracle licenses are Solaris ones.
MySQL : well who cares other than a bunch of pennyless companies,
Sun UltraSparc I II IIi III IV T1 T2 : what can't you achieve on a x64 ??? Plus x64 has the added advantage to run any Linux distro or even Windows. Oracle may even terminate the UltraSparc thing all together as this will be one less CPU to maintain code for ... Fujitsu & Siemens can go to hell.
Basically the whole Sun stack is not that worthy.
So go ahead and build your stack but if companies are willing to pay less they'll take the stack and maintain it themselves if they are willing to pay for support being charged by Oracle will be fine.
Might be hard for a team of hackers to have all the adrenaline taken off. If you don't have any incentive ... a fat cheque may not be enough ... what is the point you just get back to the old system
What would work may be
Phase 1 hack us and we won't press charges.
Phase 2 hack us and if you manage to cover your tracks we won't press charges.
Phase 3 hack us and we are back to the old scheme but if the intrusion has not been noticed by the time you tell us the guy in charge of the security will be jailed.
That should help everybody to remain focused.
What about a standard emitter on the car that can be picked up by the receptor the blind people may need.
Batteries for such devices will be paid for by SUV owners and idiots with extra loud "audio" sound systems.
That should be an interim measure whilst all the cars are being converted to quieter models so the device is no longer needed. Or make the noise emitting system aware of the noise ambiance so you don't get a 90 dB level in a 45 dB background.
Having said that Yanks love noisy things, I got meself a US PC that goes "BEEP BEEP BEEP ..." when shutting down ... how annoying.
or did we ?
Companies that heavily invested in Java tech might be a bit worried. Oracle will pray on them as there is nothing else available to them in the short term. Those businesses want support and even if Java's developers are important they are worthless when it comes to supporting big companies. If they were why would Oracle still sell Oracle DB licenses when MySQL or PostgreSQL can do the same at a fraction of the cost.
You can trust Oracle to stop supporting any platform Oracle's other products are not running on and I even bet that the Sun JVM implementation will be garbaged making place for the JRockit as the commercially supported one. Expect a fork.
Well, it is said that we may be driving that in mega cities, where living outside might not be an option because the air will be unbreathable thanks to good old cars. One thing for sure, given the state of the roads in the UK, the chances to see those leccy thingies over here are quite remote.
And if you are about to complain about the design go full tilt, because the tyres won't remain glossy, the rims will gather dust, the rims are open on the inside meaning you can't even carry your cat as it might be centrifuged and expelled at high velocity in the cabin, there is no footrest and unless you are wearing sleepers with felt soles the foot place and the front bubble will be ruined in no time, there is no room for the oversized bottoms we'll have in a few years time.
Here is a hint Formula ones can be trashed for the exact same reasons.
at post-dictive snooping at least ... and Apple rubbish at predictive fining and Apple's lawyers are complete crap at previous art-dictive.
But how come you may be fined for infringing something you can re-invent yourself ... if you don't snatch the details of the implementation and anyway comes up with something similar how come it infringes some patents you may have heard about but never had access to?
This nonsense really has to stop.
The worst part is the whole jailbreaking thing is a selling argument for apple ...
If you are nice Apple will take care of you and provide you with safe apps in a controlled manner,
If you are naughty, Apple will make sure you still buy their handset buy publicising and even easing the existence of an unlocking kit. And if they manage to brick your phone after an easy jailbreak even better because you might buy another one.
Adversity = Opportunity
It's hard enough to deal with your own products so when things are brought in through acquisition you basically never agree with what's in it and you don't know if it's of any value to anyone.
If IBM acquires Sun in the end (which is likely) the Java & MySQL may remain because the community values them a bit. But very few give a pooh about Solaris (especially the financiers) and the kit especially considering :
The fact that Sun moved away from TI to TSMC for its Sparc T ... and that TSMC happens to be IBM's foundry seems part of a plan.
So the rest of the technologies will get ditched for good and nothing will end up into the Open Source pocket ... IBM is not a philanthropic company, and they can take the risk of releasing something that will serve as the base of their next big competitor, they got stung by M$ ... so they'll deprive the companies using Sun technologies ... period.
So all this package & compensation & bonus is just smoke to manoeuvre at peace.
The Bride does not want it, just because she thinks she's prettier than $9.4 a share. Well that is unlikely Cisco or HP steps in.
The only potential suitor is IBM for HW and WebSphere purposes . Sun should have acquired EDS to get some sort of "Services" to cash-in on their "open" things ...
So now IBM will be able to drive Sun out of business by pushing its gear at a discount until the initially provisioned $6-7bn run out. IBM has a bit of a bottom soreness called Oracle and getting the upper hand on the Java spec won't hurt.
Unless the Bride finally decide to say "I do". And as usual I think they'll just take the monies from the ongoing contracts, push their gear and kill off completely Sun things and I very much doubt IBM will ever give the non open bits to the open community.
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