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That definitely brought back memories (and a bit of my breakfast).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Quote: “If you can facilitate the connection between different bodies of knowledge talking to each other, then there’s a trickle-up effect that maybe you’ll develop some wisdom on the planet,” Atkinson said in the interview."
Sadly, didn't seem to work out quite like that.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Google could owe Oracle Corp. billions of dollars after an appeals court said it didn’t have the right to use the Oracle-owned Java programming code in its Android operating system on mobile devices. "Hidden in the lines, written on the pages, is the answer to a neverending story"
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So it was established in 2016 that Google had only used enough of the Java API to allow people to write apps in Java (and I'm sure that Oracle would be the first to whine if people couldn't write Android apps in Java).
If Oracle win their appeal, does this not leave all platform providers in a position where they cannot risk any kind of support for Java?
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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PeejayAdams wrote: If Oracle win their appeal, does this not leave all platform providers in a position where they cannot risk any kind of support for Java?
I will add this to the list of 'Things that make you go hmmm.'
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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PeeJay Adams wrote: If Oracle win their appeal, does this not leave all platform providers in a position where they cannot risk any kind of support for Java?
That is a great question full of insight. I am wondering the same thing.
I need to read more about the decision but what does open source mean now?
This seems like a serious death blow to innovation.
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I don't think that it will limit innovation overall. It will, on the other hand, drive innovators away from innovating in Java. Why risk potential profits if there are plenty of other programming platforms that don't want to punish you for succeeding? Java is a tool. It just happens to be a useful tool to build other things.
As @robgrainger stated in a comment below, this move by Oracle has all the hallmarks of sacrificing long-term revenue for short-term payouts.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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Which reminds me: How fast and how far do farts travel?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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PeejayAdams wrote: If Oracle win their appeal, does this not leave all platform providers in a position where they cannot risk any kind of support for Java?
Sounds good to me. Oracle could be shooting themselves in the long-term foot for a short-term financial reward here.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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My sentiments exactly. They are already doing that anyways**, why not add fuel to the fire.
** With Oracle aggressively going after its own customers to maximize license fees, I know of several organizations that are dropping them like a hot rock.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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PeejayAdams wrote: does this not leave all platform providers in a position where they cannot risk any kind of support for Java?
And that is a BAD thing??
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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According to the summary of changes, using offensive language in Xbox services could lead to the suspension or banning of a user, loss of Xbox Gold membership time, and possibly the loss of account balances on the account. They know what I say when Windows crashes?
Oh, phew. Only XBox users. Safe for now.
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Micro and Soft sound actually quite offensive to me! There is a reason why the alliance and horde cannot talk to each other. Learn from the masters n00bz.
throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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If they get rid of theBSOD occurances, most offensive languagewould vanish!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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EPFL and Nissan researchers are able to read a driver's brain signals and send them to a smart vehicle so that it can anticipate the driver's moves and facilitate the driving process. For those (few) who can keep their mind on the road?
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Now your tinfoil hats can serve two purposes! Or three!
1) Protect from the hypno-rays, 2) Capture your brainwaves, or 3) Send big data to mothership
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Visual Studio is investing in new tools to improve the productivity of Windows desktop developers and we’d love your help to make sure the improvements we make are the right ones. A few of you might have an opinion on this
Possibly even one that can be shared without breaking the kid sister rule
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It's Ok, you can break my kid sister!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Astronomer Jill Tarter believes that by the end of this century, we will be able to find alien life. Just keep predicting it: there's a "possibility" you'll be right eventually
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Whilst I firmly believe that there's plenty of life out there to find, I just don't see SETI as being the way to find it. It's so reliant on another species evolving on similar lines and having the same idea, that the odds of finding anything are, well, astronomical.
We will, I suspect, discover life elsewhere in this solar system long before the end of the century but I wouldn't put too much money on SETI getting any results by the end of the millennium.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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If the odds are astronomical, they should have already found it! If they were miniscule, on the other hand
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I think there's already alien life discovered in the form of the POTUS.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Tribbles are real, and they can control a homunculus reasonably well. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The European Space Agency has pinpointed the vehicle’s reentry date to sometime between March 30th and April 2nd, with the event most likely happening on April Fools’ Day. Whoever gets hit is the April Fool?
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Microsoft looks poised to add a new Multi Session option to Windows 10, likely this fall, which will allow IT to provide multiple users with remote access to desktops/apps without relying on Windows Server. SSHiny?
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