That is a great idea and I do not find it too spammy. Twitter could implement something like that themselves as advertisement (simple context aware text ads).
It appears that Twitter is starting to move in this direction. I recently read that they now embed what they call "Promoted Tweets" (another word for an ad) in their search results. I'm wondering how long it will be before these start showing up in our timelines.
Could someone be so kind to explain why this is bad for Java instead being bad for patents? I guess we all agree that software patents are bad. This issue seems to be just about them. Why is Java dragged into this? (Genuine curiosity.)
I'll try: Decisions for one "platform" (it's not just Java, it's J2EE etc.) are based on many factors, but one of the most important factors is trust. Examples:
* Companies (more specially: Enterprises) must trust you or they won't use your technology
* Library makers must have trust in you or they will not continue building libraries for your platform
Only two examples, but I think they highlight the point: Nobody will invest in a technology/platform/programming language they do not trust. And starting patent lawsuits against companies that use your platform is a great way to loose trust.
While Android/Davik technically is not a Java VM that is not what most people will see. Most people will see "Oracle starts lawsuits against companies using Java"
Because people will use something else instead of Java to avoid being sued by Oracle. Just like they stopped using OpenSolaris to avoid being sued by NetApp (like CoRaid). One by one, the open Sun technologies will fall into irrelevance.
Hold on a moment there... Java is still #1 on the TIOBE index and hasn't been lower than #2 since the index began in 2001. Oracle could declare by fiat that it was going to sue every single Java shop in existence, and it would still probably be cheaper for most of them to pay Oracle's settlement fee then to switch away from Java.
The problem is not that enterprise won't pay, they can and they will. That's how Oracle sells databases.
The problem is a middle-term one: open-source will shy away from it (and the Apache/JBoss libraries are A Big Reason to use Java), academia will begin to stop teaching it (for all the "it doesn't matter what language you use" arguments, there are many mediocre programmers who can only handle the one thing they are taught), and new company projects will try and avoid the license fees and choose unencumbered languages. That sort of thing won't hurt Oracle now, but it will in five to ten years.
Heck, if Microsoft ever saw the woods from the trees and freed C#, bought the Mono devs and pushed the .NET ecosystem to other platforms, creating a sea of programmers that use their language alone, Oracle could feel the results of this in less than three years.
For all the crap Java the language gets, it's led to many mature, excellent projects and libraries (just take a look down the Apache list), it's led to the JVM and Scala, Clojure, etc.
The language itself has shown that it probably isn't going to get past version 7, and even getting that through was by cutting a whole lot of features (lol closures lol?). However, that would just mean Java faded into insignificance when a new leader emerged. I think this may well have fallen to Scala given time. Oracle is unnecessarily hastening Java's demise, and from my limited understanding of the reporting, might be taking the JVM with it. That's a really bad thing for software development in general.
Ha, OK while it is slightly naff to do it I couldn't help but smile and pull this quote out of pg's essay:
11. Its daddy is in a pinch. Sun's business model is being undermined on two
fronts. Cheap Intel processors, of the same type used in desktop machines, are
now more than fast enough for servers. And FreeBSD seems to be at least as good
an OS for servers as Solaris. Sun's advertising implies that you need Sun
servers for industrial strength applications. If this were true, Yahoo would be
first in line to buy Suns; but when I worked there, the servers were all Intel
boxes running FreeBSD. This bodes ill for Sun's future. If Sun runs into
trouble, they could drag Java down with them.
Big companies that can't smell very well and have piles of Cobol-esque Java [The Java Programming Language (tm)] code running on things like AS/400's will probably just pay whatever patenting licensing fees they need to in order to carry on with Java as long as they possibly can.
It's just more anti-java noise. There are a lot of anti-java folks out there and I don't see how this isn't more ammunition.
All things being equal, Oracle suing somebody and doing it in part because of "java" does have to make you take notice if you do anything with it. It's not like there is some open standard for Java and 10 different yet fairly equal implementations to choose from like it is with a C compiler. For serious java work, there still are maybe 3 implementations (Sun's, IBM's and maybe OpenJDK?) and they share some common components and ancestry.
Time will tell though, we'll see what happens. The java haters will continue to hate it, the java lovers will continue to love it and then those in the middle will have a raised eye brow and sort of pay attention.
If it was not so darn expensive, I would be psyched. But this way I will wait for the OpenPandora for my mobile mini-PC needs (for a telephone I love my Nokia 6310 and will use it until the day it ceases functioning).
Hm ... according to 1, 3, 4, 5 around 718$, pre tax and pre carrier subsidy, to 2 750$. I don't think this is too much of a prize for market entry. Remember the 1st iPhone, with all of its specs.
Actually it looks like it will sell for a bit less than an iPhone outright. 'Outright' is a word used by people in the free world to describe actual phone ownership as opposed to rental.
Now if only they'd make it truly free, provide an easy download option (also the possibility to get the whole archive) and use the crowd to improve the quality of the text.
I wonder if re-hosting is allowed, then someone could start a plain archive where people can upload the files.
Doubleplus grest because it fully works without the need for Javascript and even Cookies, thanks.
I searched for a Pizza Salami, selected about 10 of the top ingredients and got about 6000 results. I then added some of the suggested ingredients and got more results (until I added an obscure one). Shouldn't more ingredients means a smaller set of recipes? Maybe you are using less strict rules (OR instead of AND) for later result pages, otherwise I cannot imagine why this happened. Well, minor observation really. ;-)
In addition to the advantage that notaddicted mentioned, you can also limit the user(s) to a specific command, set of commands, and so forth. Using sudo in that fashion doesn't give a user root access to the entire system, so it's quite different from "being" the root user.
It is completely irrelevant how many users use it.
If it is a great tool for just a minority, then it deserves attention in that minority.
edit: Am I missing about the number of users deciding about the quality of something? Or why on earth am I getting downmodded? I don't have a problem with that, but I feel stupid and I rather not.
You are allowed to watch it with your friends though, of course that might depend on the country you live in. In Germany you are even allowed to give copies to close friends and family members (but you are not allowed to break copy protection).
