The authors are also pretty good about calling out common pitfalls -- several got me, once upon a time. It'd have been nice to have had a book like this when I was cutting my teeth...
I bet you never forgot the problem again. That's the thing, by researching these problems, you come across similar problems and pitfalls and you learn more looking it up.
The second thing is, many times, these pitfalls disappear after a release or so, so having them documented in a book that's updated after several releases can be a waste. On the other hand, when you have a boss/customer breathing down your neck, learning be damned, you got to get this sucker up and running!
And keep software under Copyright? If so, I agree. As long as software authors can protect themselves for whatever their reasons: keeping it open to getting rich.
Buddy, every buck the company saves pays a yacht tied to the piers of Monaco or the French Riviera, but
the product doesn't get any cheaper.
Sorry, you're still wrong. You also forgot about the whores - so, wrong again!.
You see, when Joe Blow sues XYZ corp for a million, said corp's CEO says, "OK, I need my yacht and whore, so I'll charge enough to cover the yacht, whore, AND lawsuit. So, if we eliminate the lawsuit part, we WILL get a cheaper product because of competition and the fact that the CEO doesn't have to cover lawsuits - but they will always have to cover the yachts and whores. Also, the CEOs that have cheaper yachts and whores can charge less for their products than the guys with the more expensive yachts and whores. So, I'm still right and you're wrong.
Now, we can on to politics and their (Republicans and Democrats) yachts and whores - if you want.
Yes siree, I know nothing. If I knew anything, I would be doing something useful other than being here on/. arguing with folks like you.
"We are at a point now where every large corporation that has the ability to say 'take it or leave it' is opting out of the civil justice system," said Cliff Palefsky, a San Francisco trial lawyer and expert on arbitration agreements. "Some do it in a straightforward manner. Others do it in an underhanded manner."
The securities brokerage industry, stocks, bonds, etc.. has been doing this for decades. If you want a brokerage account, I don't care where, you have to agree to an industry arbitration. And some business magazine, I believe "Forbes", many years ago found that the arbitration panels are heavily loaded in the industries favor.
I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand it sounds like everything is weighted in favor of the company and against the consumer.
On the other hand, many times consumers cause themselves their own problems and refuse to take responsibility for them. Whether it be installing boards incorrectly themselves, or gambling on the derivatives market. I, for one, don't want to have to pay other's litigations, whether through increased product costs, or insurance costs.
As Gateway tells it in court filings, the company replaced Sheehan's computer a few months after he first complained, and he kept both machines.
Oh yeah, it sounds like, if Gateway is telling the truth, that this guy is trying to "game" the system and get a free computer.
The Second Life TOS was a take-it-or-leave-it clickwrap deal. The site operator had superior bargaining power over the plaintiff and, Judge Robreno found, there were no reasonable available market alternatives to Second Life.
I wonder if this will be applied to other service on the web. It seams that every site has one of these agreements.
others think that 'the community' is "the developers and the users of the software" (and note that those "users" may or may not be Xandros customers).,p/>
But doesn't anything that hurts Xandros' customers also hurt the community as you defined them?
Typaldos says that was the genesis of Monday's deal with Microsoft that covered interoperability and IP licensing and included "covenants" to protect customers using Xandros software from any potential patent-infringement claims from Microsoft.
It looks like this company is actually helping the community. They're eliminating the fear that if their product is used, they, the customer, won't have to worry about the big bad MS coming after them. After all, wasn't this the exact same issue that kept folks from adopting Linux when the whole SCO thing was just getting started because they were afraid, and rightfully so, that SCO would come after them?
This deal doesn't look like a cut and dried "bend over and take it" type of thing; to me anyway.
However, would it be fair for your insurance company to raise your rates because you have bad vision?
Yes, if I am shopping for insurance that will give me a huge discount for having perfect eyes. The insurance would be to protect me if something really out of the blue happens or I suffer from a currently undiagnosed illness.
Other insurance plans work that way now. They will deny you life insurance if you fail their physical. Which has always been a criticism of insurance - you can only get it when you don't need it. I haven't shopped for one, but I'm sure there are pools that you can pay into to get life insurance when you fail elsewhere. But we're back to another poster's point, you'll be charged so much in premiums that it wouldn't make any financial sense.
Figure out what you need and shop around. Don't pass by Apple because you think it's too expensive. You may be surprised that Apple, for the machine you're looking for, is actually more cost effective.
...but other people are incredibly sensitive for no reason.
My wife has to deal with those folks occasionally in the hospital. They come in with heart disease and they whine that they did everything right: diet, exercise, no smoking, no drinking - they are very religious people. She tries to explain to them that sometimes, people get sick for no fault of their own. It's just genetics or things that medicine doesn't know about. Those patients become very insulted. They can't understand the concept that things just happen sometimes: regardless of how well they behave. They firmly believe that if they are "good" then they will be alright. Many of them actually believe that they have sinned somehow and that's why they're sick: not because of genetics.
It wouldn't be such a problem except that these people complain to their physician who then chews my wife out. These physicians know that their patients are overly religious. I have to wonder about their (MDs) credentials!
I couldn't be in medicine with those people. I probably would just tell them that, Yes, you've sinned just to get them off my back and let them go back to their overly religious doctor.
Our knowledge is vast, but compared to the infinity of space, insignificant. If nothing else, quantum physics teaches us that there are many gray areas, where things are not as cut-and-dried as they seem.
I agree wholeheartedly (I loved Contact. Had to buy my own copy!) You're coming from a rational and philosophical point of view regarding faith and spirituality. That there's more out there than me and my perceptions of life, the World, and the Universe. Those folks that consider this museum as fact are superstitious. But if you compare their beliefs with the Roman myths, they'd be insulted and say that it's different. Their beliefs are not the spirituality that you speak of - they believe in the religious equivalent of the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus.
..."to my knowledge has not experienced these types of issues"...
And..."We have no record of [insert issue]"
"Sorry for the inconvenience."
There is currently an investigation into the matter."
"The person involved is suspended (usually with pay in Gov)pending the outcome of this investigation."
Blah blah blah!They all boil down to,"We're going to say nothing really, until all of you forget about it or get distracted by the next Paris Hilton/Brittany Spears/American Idol/etc... headline. And in the meantime, we get away with it!"
Not only do they expect you to be a computer expert, but they also expect you to be a legal expert.
I hope he wins. It has always disgusted me that the computer industry is one of the few that can basically say, "Pay through the nose for our product and if it's defective, well, you have to upgrade."
Any other industry would have been out of business by now. Which I guess is what our society expects of technology: it's crap.
Now, my next post will be on American Medical care and why is it that I can't get a price, like I can with every other service on the planet, for my care before hand.
And nothing! Not a whimper! And the Red States think he's a Good Ole' Boy!
Seriously, people -- WTF???
Yes, I actually know folks who still think Bush is doing a "heck evah job"! You can't miss them. They drive the biggest SUVs or luxury cars with pristine "W '04" bumper stickers on them.
Are they your stereotypical Bible Thumper? No. At least the Bible Thumpers have some sort of peaceful philosophy behind them - really, they do! No, these folks are your business-executive-law-and-order type that needs America to assert her power. These folks want America to stay the Super Power for ever and ever. These folks equate greatness with military power.
Then there are the Security Moms. They also drive the biggest SUVs because "they're safer"! (Yeah, try to explain to them that driving it like a sports car while talking on their cell phones means death - which they all do.) They want their kids o be safe from the big bad turbaned boogy man. Bush is the guy to save them and their children! You have to think of the children!
The Bible thumpers got all the blame for Bush - which is true for his first term, but second, no way! It was the folks who I mentioned.
That's just my political analysis. But as always, my user name is my disclaimer.
Damn right.
Real web developers make their sites using Assembly! Screw those lame high level languages.
MySQL? Bah! I store my databases in txt files like a real man.
Dude! You need to write a book called: "Programming the Web for Real Men."
It could a whole series of books! Like: "PHP for Real Men!" or "Buddhism for Real Men!" or "Emotional Healing for Real Men!"
...and softcore porn there isn't much that interesting
Ya know, Softcore is actually sexier, as in, more of a "turn on" than the hardcore stuff. The hardcore stuff comes across as more anatomical than anything - at least in my advancing age.
I said "cums"...huh, huh, huh....
OK, I'm not too advanced in mental age because I still think of "Beavis and Butthead"...I said "Butt"...huh, huh, huh...heh.....heh...heh....
FTFA: I've outlined before how multicore moves the burden of taking advantage of Moore's law from hardware onto developers.
From Wikipedia:Moore's Law is the empirical observation made in 1965 that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit for minimum component cost doubles every 24 months
Alrighty, then. It's been a while since my CS classes. How does that apply to software? Does he mean that instead of increasing transistors on a single chip, the transistors are virtually increasing by using multiple cores?
The Wikipedia article says it was mentioned in the movie "Solaris". Anyone remember what this particle did in the movie?
I saw the original Russian version made in the '70s (yeah, queue the "In Soviet Russia, movies make you!", jokes) . It was a very original movie.
Basically, these cosmonauts go to a space station orbiting Jupiter, I think, or one of the outer solar planets. Anyway, on the station, anything their thinking of, will manifest. For instance, the protagonist really misses his wife who died a number years before. She appears. But, she's not completely human: she rips through a metal door with her bare hands. Also, she doesn't remember much. The other station members just kind of live with it for the exception of one who committed suicide.
Anyway, I won't give out too much of the movie, but if you want something along the lines of "2001", this is a movie to see. I haven't seen the American remake with George Clooney.
It's also a good break from most of what passes for SciFi these days, you know: monster in space kills everyone on space station, space ship, or colony except for the hero who just barely escapes with his/her life only to discover that the monster isn't dead - cue sequel. Basically, rip offs of the "Alien" movies.
Many recruiting companies' sales folk will call as a recruiter only to get management "references". They will then use these references as sales leads - in the meantime using your name as a reference for themselves sullying it (your name) as a result!
These folks are creeps! Treat them as such!
And when they try to indirectly insult your intelligence (like, "well, the way it's done is...) it's a red flag that they're an asshole crook!
Watch out my friends! I've been burned a few times and by a few different methods by these smooth talking assholes.
When in doubt, a recruiter is a lier until proven innocent. Sorry, but that's what you have to do to protect yourself.
In addition to the obvious medical benefits of refining motor control via controllers, the entertainment allows soldiers to reconnect to experiences they may have had prior to their combat experiences.
And they get to (in the video game) slap the shit out of Rumsfeld , Cheney, and Bush, and say, "What the FUCK were you thinking?!?!?".
Alrighty, gimme the karma hit. I expect it. I needed to express what I said.
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I bet you never forgot the problem again. That's the thing, by researching these problems, you come across similar problems and pitfalls and you learn more looking it up.
The second thing is, many times, these pitfalls disappear after a release or so, so having them documented in a book that's updated after several releases can be a waste. On the other hand, when you have a boss/customer breathing down your neck, learning be damned, you got to get this sucker up and running!
And keep software under Copyright? If so, I agree. As long as software authors can protect themselves for whatever their reasons: keeping it open to getting rich.
Sorry, you're still wrong. You also forgot about the whores - so, wrong again!.
You see, when Joe Blow sues XYZ corp for a million, said corp's CEO says, "OK, I need my yacht and whore, so I'll charge enough to cover the yacht, whore, AND lawsuit. So, if we eliminate the lawsuit part, we WILL get a cheaper product because of competition and the fact that the CEO doesn't have to cover lawsuits - but they will always have to cover the yachts and whores. Also, the CEOs that have cheaper yachts and whores can charge less for their products than the guys with the more expensive yachts and whores. So, I'm still right and you're wrong.
Now, we can on to politics and their (Republicans and Democrats) yachts and whores - if you want.
Yes siree, I know nothing. If I knew anything, I would be doing something useful other than being here on /. arguing with folks like you.
The securities brokerage industry, stocks, bonds, etc.. has been doing this for decades. If you want a brokerage account, I don't care where, you have to agree to an industry arbitration. And some business magazine, I believe "Forbes", many years ago found that the arbitration panels are heavily loaded in the industries favor.
I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand it sounds like everything is weighted in favor of the company and against the consumer.
On the other hand, many times consumers cause themselves their own problems and refuse to take responsibility for them. Whether it be installing boards incorrectly themselves, or gambling on the derivatives market. I, for one, don't want to have to pay other's litigations, whether through increased product costs, or insurance costs.
As Gateway tells it in court filings, the company replaced Sheehan's computer a few months after he first complained, and he kept both machines.
Oh yeah, it sounds like, if Gateway is telling the truth, that this guy is trying to "game" the system and get a free computer.
I wonder if this will be applied to other service on the web. It seams that every site has one of these agreements.
But doesn't anything that hurts Xandros' customers also hurt the community as you defined them?
It looks like this company is actually helping the community. They're eliminating the fear that if their product is used, they, the customer, won't have to worry about the big bad MS coming after them. After all, wasn't this the exact same issue that kept folks from adopting Linux when the whole SCO thing was just getting started because they were afraid, and rightfully so, that SCO would come after them?
This deal doesn't look like a cut and dried "bend over and take it" type of thing; to me anyway.
Yes, if I am shopping for insurance that will give me a huge discount for having perfect eyes. The insurance would be to protect me if something really out of the blue happens or I suffer from a currently undiagnosed illness.
Other insurance plans work that way now. They will deny you life insurance if you fail their physical. Which has always been a criticism of insurance - you can only get it when you don't need it. I haven't shopped for one, but I'm sure there are pools that you can pay into to get life insurance when you fail elsewhere. But we're back to another poster's point, you'll be charged so much in premiums that it wouldn't make any financial sense.
Figure out what you need and shop around. Don't pass by Apple because you think it's too expensive. You may be surprised that Apple, for the machine you're looking for, is actually more cost effective.
My wife has to deal with those folks occasionally in the hospital. They come in with heart disease and they whine that they did everything right: diet, exercise, no smoking, no drinking - they are very religious people. She tries to explain to them that sometimes, people get sick for no fault of their own. It's just genetics or things that medicine doesn't know about. Those patients become very insulted. They can't understand the concept that things just happen sometimes: regardless of how well they behave. They firmly believe that if they are "good" then they will be alright. Many of them actually believe that they have sinned somehow and that's why they're sick: not because of genetics.
It wouldn't be such a problem except that these people complain to their physician who then chews my wife out. These physicians know that their patients are overly religious. I have to wonder about their (MDs) credentials!
I couldn't be in medicine with those people. I probably would just tell them that, Yes, you've sinned just to get them off my back and let them go back to their overly religious doctor.
I agree wholeheartedly (I loved Contact. Had to buy my own copy!) You're coming from a rational and philosophical point of view regarding faith and spirituality. That there's more out there than me and my perceptions of life, the World, and the Universe. Those folks that consider this museum as fact are superstitious. But if you compare their beliefs with the Roman myths, they'd be insulted and say that it's different. Their beliefs are not the spirituality that you speak of - they believe in the religious equivalent of the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus.
And..."We have no record of [insert issue]"
"Sorry for the inconvenience."
There is currently an investigation into the matter."
"The person involved is suspended (usually with pay in Gov)pending the outcome of this investigation."
Blah blah blah!They all boil down to ,"We're going to say nothing really, until all of you forget about it or get distracted by the next Paris Hilton/Brittany Spears/American Idol/etc... headline. And in the meantime, we get away with it!"
I hope he wins. It has always disgusted me that the computer industry is one of the few that can basically say, "Pay through the nose for our product and if it's defective, well, you have to upgrade."
Any other industry would have been out of business by now. Which I guess is what our society expects of technology: it's crap.
Now, my next post will be on American Medical care and why is it that I can't get a price, like I can with every other service on the planet, for my care before hand.
Yes, I actually know folks who still think Bush is doing a "heck evah job"! You can't miss them. They drive the biggest SUVs or luxury cars with pristine "W '04" bumper stickers on them.
Are they your stereotypical Bible Thumper? No. At least the Bible Thumpers have some sort of peaceful philosophy behind them - really, they do! No, these folks are your business-executive-law-and-order type that needs America to assert her power. These folks want America to stay the Super Power for ever and ever. These folks equate greatness with military power.
Then there are the Security Moms. They also drive the biggest SUVs because "they're safer"! (Yeah, try to explain to them that driving it like a sports car while talking on their cell phones means death - which they all do.) They want their kids o be safe from the big bad turbaned boogy man. Bush is the guy to save them and their children! You have to think of the children!
The Bible thumpers got all the blame for Bush - which is true for his first term, but second, no way! It was the folks who I mentioned.
That's just my political analysis. But as always, my user name is my disclaimer.
Which makes it harder to understand for a layman, i.e. non-lawyer.
Dude! You need to write a book called: "Programming the Web for Real Men."
It could a whole series of books! Like: "PHP for Real Men!" or "Buddhism for Real Men!" or "Emotional Healing for Real Men!"
You're sitting on a Goldmine! I tell you!
You teach freshman CS, or CE, don't you?
Ya know, Softcore is actually sexier, as in, more of a "turn on" than the hardcore stuff. The hardcore stuff comes across as more anatomical than anything - at least in my advancing age.
I said "cums" ...huh, huh, huh....
OK, I'm not too advanced in mental age because I still think of "Beavis and Butthead"...I said "Butt"...huh, huh, huh...heh.....heh...heh....
From Wikipedia:Moore's Law is the empirical observation made in 1965 that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit for minimum component cost doubles every 24 months
Alrighty, then. It's been a while since my CS classes. How does that apply to software? Does he mean that instead of increasing transistors on a single chip, the transistors are virtually increasing by using multiple cores?
I saw the original Russian version made in the '70s (yeah, queue the "In Soviet Russia, movies make you!", jokes) . It was a very original movie.
Basically, these cosmonauts go to a space station orbiting Jupiter, I think, or one of the outer solar planets. Anyway, on the station, anything their thinking of, will manifest. For instance, the protagonist really misses his wife who died a number years before. She appears. But, she's not completely human: she rips through a metal door with her bare hands. Also, she doesn't remember much. The other station members just kind of live with it for the exception of one who committed suicide.
Anyway, I won't give out too much of the movie, but if you want something along the lines of "2001", this is a movie to see. I haven't seen the American remake with George Clooney.
It's also a good break from most of what passes for SciFi these days, you know: monster in space kills everyone on space station, space ship, or colony except for the hero who just barely escapes with his/her life only to discover that the monster isn't dead - cue sequel. Basically, rip offs of the "Alien" movies.
May I have another!
These folks are creeps! Treat them as such!
And when they try to indirectly insult your intelligence (like, "well, the way it's done is ...) it's a red flag that they're an asshole crook!
Watch out my friends! I've been burned a few times and by a few different methods by these smooth talking assholes.
When in doubt, a recruiter is a lier until proven innocent. Sorry, but that's what you have to do to protect yourself.
Oh, wait, can they then use the number I've called them with to call me back and burn my minutes?
And they get to (in the video game) slap the shit out of Rumsfeld , Cheney, and Bush, and say, "What the FUCK were you thinking?!?!?".
Alrighty, gimme the karma hit. I expect it. I needed to express what I said.
I thought that's where Linux excelled: outdated hardware.