Open Source code better than commercial quality.
According to a study by Reasoning software (here's a link, but it's down at the moment), Linux' 2.4.19 implementation of the TCP/IP stack ran around .1 defect per 1,000 lines of code (which we'll assume means executable semi-colons), compared …
more ...1. What is your most prized material possession?
My wedding ring. (Awww...)
2. What item, that you currently own, have you had the longest?
Hmmm... I have the first release of the "Star Wars" soundtrack, (c) 1977. Since I only listened to it about three times (in 1977), it's …
more ...Microsoft and the corporate market. There are three 'platforms' for building corporate applications today: J2EE, Microsoft.NET and the 'Open Source' platform. In the later I also include Java software that is not J2EE like Struts, WebWork, Hibernate, Castor....a big oil company and an airline company. Both have J2EE …
more ...Microsoft has filed broad patents covering the .NET API. It appears that they are attempting to patent the relationships between namespaces (client programming versus XML manipulation versus network transport, etc.). At this broad level, the patent should be rejected on the basis that the particular separation of concerns noted is …
more ...Yes.... my first personal computer was this close (fingers teeny bit apart) to being an Amiga. Instead I bought an XT-compatible with Hercules graphics.
more ...Borland "Sidewinder" to be C# design-and-development tool. According to this CNet article, Borland's first .NET product will be C#-specific. As I surmised last week, this appears to be the next generation of Together Control Center.
more ...Borland Together to go .NET: While reiterating its commitment to Java, Linux, and the general concept of cross-platform-ness, according to this News.com article, Borland appears to have unveiled the first tool in its .NET strategy (they'd already made the general commitment to support .NET). Although no details are yet …
more ...Casey Chesnut has written a client for the Pocket PC Phone Edition that records your voice, shoots it off to a .NET Web Service running a speech recognition engine, and returns the results to your client. The best use of this is certainly for constrained input, not continuous speech recognition …
more ...Dot-com tell-all Website sued by former CEO. The ex-CEO of a now-defunct company for which I worked is trying to quash Fabian Gonzalez' iMind Parody Site for detailing how the company burned through \$15M in investment while having employees share toilet-cleaning duty.
Substance abuse; first class plane tickets, five-star hotels …
more ...Baby sleep aid says: "I hate you". "a Vancouver, Wash., family discovered that the toy they unsuspectingly attached to their son's crib utters the words "I hate you" amid the rhythmic ocean sounds designed to lull the baby asleep." Link Discuss (Thanks, Jeremy!) via [Boing Boing Blog]
This brings back …
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