For you idiots who can't seem to get this straight, let's see if I can make it clear for you:
ActiveX != Java Applets.
ActiveX == NSPlugin.
Microsoft did not come up with ActiveX as an alternative to Java applets. They took a technology that they already used and repurposed it to fit the needs for a plug-in architecture for Internet Explorer.
So what this clown in the article is whining about it is way off the mark and, for all intents and purposes, is FUD.
I can write a Netscape Plug-in that will do just as much damage as an Active-X plug-in. It doesn't really matter which "technology" I use.
All the boo-hoo about Java applets is completely wrong.
The only downside to ActiveX is that it can be installed and used without a browser restart, where Netscape plug-ins can't (although I believe this behavior might be different in Firefox/Mozilla - and, if so, well there ya go!).
Get your collective heads out of your collective asses and maybe something constructive can happen here. But that's not likely.
Because you'd then be tethered to a brick everywhere you go.
I went through a period of dissatisfaction with my Treo and I did basically the same thing you describe above. It was incredibly inconvenient, to say the least. And, I looked like a total tard.
My Treo is the best cell phone I've ever had, but it still has a ways to go, imho.
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I'm not sure how this is marked "Insightful". The parent has no obvious idea of the history of Christmas.
Around 400AD, Christian church officials decided to celebrate the birth of Christ. Up to this point, the main holiday was Easter. The Pope at the time picked December 25th in attempt to sponge up the pagan celebrations that occured during the winter solstice.
Christmas was initially a drunken celebration. People would go to church in the morning, then spend the day getting drunk and holding a party not unlike Mardi Gras. A beggar was chosen as the Lord of Misrule and party peeps would play his servants. The poor would roll up to the houses of the rich and demand their best food and drink. If not given by the rich, they would be terrorized with mischeif.
In the 17th century, the puritans ruling England cancelled Christmas. It wasn't until Charles the II regained the throne that Christmas was reinstated.
The pilgrims that came to America, they didn't celebrate christmas at all. Christmas wasn't a holiday in early America. In fact, it was, at one point, outlawed in Boston for a period of 20 years or so. Anyone in the "Christmas Spirit" was fined.
After the American Revolution, Christmas slowly made a comeback as a holiday. However, it wasn't declard a federal holiday until 1870 (130 years ago!).
In the early 19th century, Christmas was "reinvented" to be similar to what we know now as Christmas - a family centric holiday. Where before it was a drunken festival, it was transformed into an introspective, peaceful family "custom".
In many ways, the original poster is incorrect. Christmas, for the most part, has had little to do with celebrating the birth of Christ. While it initially was "created" for this purpose, it was also largely a move by the Christian machine to broaden their reach by absorbing pagan customs into the church.
The customs of gift giving, tree decorating, missletoe, etc. are all "imported" from pagan rituals, btw. So if you want to be puritanical about it, start taking down that Christmas tree of yours and put the stockings in the closet.
I've worked with a lot of professional photographers whom work for magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, etc. who use the generation prior Canon, as well as Nikon's high end digital - all for print work.
Also, I remember using a digital film back for the Hasselblad about 10+ years ago for a lot of catalog work (you couldn't shoot people with it, it was incredibly slow, one shot per color plane).
Except poker really isn't gambling, it's a game of a skill that happens to have money involved.
Poker is the only game in a casino where you can calculate the probability of any particular hand being against you with reasonable predictability of outcome. It is also the only game where you aren't playing against the house.
I never walk out of Atlantic City, after playing poker, below what I walked in with. Some nights are better than others, but it's not a linear means of making money - however, in the long run, if you are good at it, can call most situations with some accumen, it is certainly a game that pays in the long haul.
IE hasn't been based on mosaic since 3.0. 4.0 was a complete rewrite.
Also, as a developer, you have complete access to the DOM via COM. There are a variety of third party tools that give you this capability. IE was a more developer centric than Netscape was, until the advent of mozilla. The script debugger alone was a thing of beauty. Not to mention some niceties if you were stuck developing an IE only intranet solution (behaviors, etc.).
And XUL isn't so novel as to be claimed as an original thought on behalf of the developers of mozilla. It's a fairly natural advancement of HTML, although, arguably, it could be designed a little more simply. But to say Avalon is a rehash of XUL is pretty dumb.
What is cool about the RFID stuff is that I bet with the right antenna, you could do the reprogramming from the parking lot, and do a whole shelf full (store full?) at once. Suddenly, everything in the store is a 50 cent pack of Wrigley's...
Nawp, the tag itself couldn't collect enough power to transmit back, so even if you had a reader/writer with an antenna the size of a buick, you'd still have to be pretty close to the tag.
Most linux based devices have crappy half-assed looking interfaces. I'm sure that image is photoshopped in, but having played with a zaurus, there is just something off about the quality of graphics used in the interface (type, layout, iconography, etc). It's not so much the UI itself, but the quality of graphics composing the UI.
And, personally, I'll take the iPronto over this thing any day of the week. I currently use a harmony, which I love, but it gets a little cumbersome and confused some times.
They're talking about SVG-Tiny. This is a spec you cannot implement half-heartedly. You must implement the entire thing or go home. There are plenty of cellphone vendors waiting in the wings to push this out.
remember what they were trying to do: stop the most destructive war in human history.
They were doing no such thing. The russians had declared war on Japan and Truman wanted to demonstrate the size of the United State's penis to prevent Russia from getting too cocky.
Additionally, one could argue that dropping the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was also a scientific experiment, as well as a political statement to the Russians.
Regardless, 300,000 people bit the dust in the attrocity that occurred at Hiroshima. Half of those people were children.
It's always been argued that we dropped the bomb to end the war, but the war was already over. Japan had been castrasted already; it's fleets blown to nothing, it's army pathetic, and it's people yelling for the war to end.
Watch the Fog of War if you want more insight on the decision making process behind nuking Japan.
You've been able to get all that crap from third parties for years, way ahead of opera and way ahead of mozilla. Why tabbed browsing is attributed to a mozilla or opera innovation is beyond me.
Everything you mentioned is a horrible example of "truly N-Tier design". SOAP, CORBA are too heavy for any kind of complex interaction, and XML-RPC still requires HTTP to function, which means yet another webserver to set up and maintain.
I'm a.NET douche bag, and most of the projects I work on are deployed on server farms, so scalability is something I know a little about. Obviously, with.NET, it's a bit of a no brainer to get working since it's an intrinsic design to the framework.
We use the pattern of localized cache, with one server acting as a cache manager. If an object graph on one server changes, it notifies the cache manager which notifies every other server to refresh. Doing this, we limit DB interaction from the middle tier to insert and updates, grabbing data from the DB only occurring once and cached on each individual app server until something changes and it's refreshed. Obviously, this isn't cool for data that is mission critical and must always be up to date, so in those instances we pull directly from the DB to avoid synchronization issues with the cache manager. But it's pretty rare we find a dataset that has to be handled that way.
I don't see how PHP could accomplish anything like that since it doesn't have state and is techinically more of a pre-processor than it is an application server.
I host a monthly 32 person (4 table) no limit hold 'em tournament. Started out last year as a small for cash thing and has grown since then.
We've completely automated the buy-in, re-buy and add-on process with pocket pc's outfitted with barcode scanners talking to a db through a SOAP interface. Each player has a plastic membership card with embossed PIN # and barcode on the back. The waitresses simply scan 'em in and off we go. Behold the power of.NET.
We dump the stats from each tournament and, if needed, re-rig the tournament rules to smooth things out for the next tournament.
Poker is definitely becoming the bridge of our generation though. We get more people each tournament, pretty soon we're going to have to rent out a hall or something.
Of course I would have to take a rake at that point and it would become illegal. *shrugs*
Having a serious 10 year caffeine problem, on the order of 12 to 16 shots of espresso a day, I developed an "allergy" to caffeine which in turn caused Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
After a battery of tests, I was told that my intake of caffeine was causing excess adrenaline production, hence a constant state of anxiety.
Now I take three klonopin a day just to feel normal.
I still drink coffee though, the decaf variety, but every once in awhile the idiot at the coffee shop fucks it up and gives me a caffeinated beverage. Suffice to say, it can be a day wrecker. Dizziness, fainting sensations and general physical sensations of imbalance.
Because, like it or not, C# is a better designed language than Java. It's a nice bridge between C, C++, Java and - yes - object pascal.
Additionally, the idea of the CLR is language neurtrality which means that Mono isn't tied to a specific language. All the linux geeks won't lose anything by writing mono apps in python/perl/ruby/what have you.
This isn't entirely true, if I'm understanding you correctly. It's really a matter of design.
If you're running a MUD, let's say written in.NET, and want to add scripting on top of it, you wouldn't use ActiveScripting to do this (what I'm assuming you're doing).
Instead you would more then likely have those scripts compiled and objects "loaded" on the fly using ICodeCompiler using the GenerateInMemory property set to true. You can then recompile this on the fly at any point.
Your problem lies in script B using a class in script A, and recompiling script A while script B is instantiated. I've never run into a situation where this is a plausibility, but would certainly be something to investigate. I'd imagine this would be a problem in Java as well as it's really a design issue versus something intrinsinic to the platform.
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Pass that joint over here, smells like some good shit.
Please cite sources.
You all seem to forget that Microsoft had it's own VM, they didn't need an answer to Java applets - as they already had their own.
ActiveX was/is the plug-in architecture for Internet Explorer. That's a world of difference over a Java Applet.
You think Flash player could be done as a Java applet? You think any of the video players back then could have been done as a Java applet?
If so, share what your smoking because it seems to be some premium stuff.
For you idiots who can't seem to get this straight, let's see if I can make it clear for you:
ActiveX != Java Applets.
ActiveX == NSPlugin.
Microsoft did not come up with ActiveX as an alternative to Java applets. They took a technology that they already used and repurposed it to fit the needs for a plug-in architecture for Internet Explorer.
So what this clown in the article is whining about it is way off the mark and, for all intents and purposes, is FUD.
I can write a Netscape Plug-in that will do just as much damage as an Active-X plug-in. It doesn't really matter which "technology" I use.
All the boo-hoo about Java applets is completely wrong.
The only downside to ActiveX is that it can be installed and used without a browser restart, where Netscape plug-ins can't (although I believe this behavior might be different in Firefox/Mozilla - and, if so, well there ya go!).
Get your collective heads out of your collective asses and maybe something constructive can happen here. But that's not likely.
Why didn't you do your ASP in javascript and stub out the lengthy functions with something shorter?
Because you'd then be tethered to a brick everywhere you go.
I went through a period of dissatisfaction with my Treo and I did basically the same thing you describe above. It was incredibly inconvenient, to say the least. And, I looked like a total tard.
My Treo is the best cell phone I've ever had, but it still has a ways to go, imho.
I'm not sure how this is marked "Insightful". The parent has no obvious idea of the history of Christmas.
Around 400AD, Christian church officials decided to celebrate the birth of Christ. Up to this point, the main holiday was Easter. The Pope at the time picked December 25th in attempt to sponge up the pagan celebrations that occured during the winter solstice.
Christmas was initially a drunken celebration. People would go to church in the morning, then spend the day getting drunk and holding a party not unlike Mardi Gras. A beggar was chosen as the Lord of Misrule and party peeps would play his servants. The poor would roll up to the houses of the rich and demand their best food and drink. If not given by the rich, they would be terrorized with mischeif.
In the 17th century, the puritans ruling England cancelled Christmas. It wasn't until Charles the II regained the throne that Christmas was reinstated.
The pilgrims that came to America, they didn't celebrate christmas at all. Christmas wasn't a holiday in early America. In fact, it was, at one point, outlawed in Boston for a period of 20 years or so. Anyone in the "Christmas Spirit" was fined.
After the American Revolution, Christmas slowly made a comeback as a holiday. However, it wasn't declard a federal holiday until 1870 (130 years ago!).
In the early 19th century, Christmas was "reinvented" to be similar to what we know now as Christmas - a family centric holiday. Where before it was a drunken festival, it was transformed into an introspective, peaceful family "custom".
In many ways, the original poster is incorrect. Christmas, for the most part, has had little to do with celebrating the birth of Christ. While it initially was "created" for this purpose, it was also largely a move by the Christian machine to broaden their reach by absorbing pagan customs into the church.
The customs of gift giving, tree decorating, missletoe, etc. are all "imported" from pagan rituals, btw. So if you want to be puritanical about it, start taking down that Christmas tree of yours and put the stockings in the closet.
Your blowing a lot of hot air.
I've worked with a lot of professional photographers whom work for magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, etc. who use the generation prior Canon, as well as Nikon's high end digital - all for print work.
Also, I remember using a digital film back for the Hasselblad about 10+ years ago for a lot of catalog work (you couldn't shoot people with it, it was incredibly slow, one shot per color plane).
These "devices" are hardly amateur.
Except poker really isn't gambling, it's a game of a skill that happens to have money involved.
Poker is the only game in a casino where you can calculate the probability of any particular hand being against you with reasonable predictability of outcome. It is also the only game where you aren't playing against the house.
I never walk out of Atlantic City, after playing poker, below what I walked in with. Some nights are better than others, but it's not a linear means of making money - however, in the long run, if you are good at it, can call most situations with some accumen, it is certainly a game that pays in the long haul.
IE hasn't been based on mosaic since 3.0. 4.0 was a complete rewrite.
Also, as a developer, you have complete access to the DOM via COM. There are a variety of third party tools that give you this capability. IE was a more developer centric than Netscape was, until the advent of mozilla. The script debugger alone was a thing of beauty. Not to mention some niceties if you were stuck developing an IE only intranet solution (behaviors, etc.).
And XUL isn't so novel as to be claimed as an original thought on behalf of the developers of mozilla. It's a fairly natural advancement of HTML, although, arguably, it could be designed a little more simply. But to say Avalon is a rehash of XUL is pretty dumb.
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Nawp, the tag itself couldn't collect enough power to transmit back, so even if you had a reader/writer with an antenna the size of a buick, you'd still have to be pretty close to the tag.
Most linux based devices have crappy half-assed looking interfaces. I'm sure that image is photoshopped in, but having played with a zaurus, there is just something off about the quality of graphics used in the interface (type, layout, iconography, etc). It's not so much the UI itself, but the quality of graphics composing the UI.
And, personally, I'll take the iPronto over this thing any day of the week. I currently use a harmony, which I love, but it gets a little cumbersome and confused some times.
Next time, RTFA.
They're talking about SVG-Tiny. This is a spec you cannot implement half-heartedly. You must implement the entire thing or go home. There are plenty of cellphone vendors waiting in the wings to push this out.
They were doing no such thing. The russians had declared war on Japan and Truman wanted to demonstrate the size of the United State's penis to prevent Russia from getting too cocky.
Additionally, one could argue that dropping the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was also a scientific experiment, as well as a political statement to the Russians.
Regardless, 300,000 people bit the dust in the attrocity that occurred at Hiroshima. Half of those people were children.
It's always been argued that we dropped the bomb to end the war, but the war was already over. Japan had been castrasted already; it's fleets blown to nothing, it's army pathetic, and it's people yelling for the war to end.
Watch the Fog of War if you want more insight on the decision making process behind nuking Japan.
You've been able to get all that crap from third parties for years, way ahead of opera and way ahead of mozilla. Why tabbed browsing is attributed to a mozilla or opera innovation is beyond me.
Everything you mentioned is a horrible example of "truly N-Tier design". SOAP, CORBA are too heavy for any kind of complex interaction, and XML-RPC still requires HTTP to function, which means yet another webserver to set up and maintain.
.NET douche bag, and most of the projects I work on are deployed on server farms, so scalability is something I know a little about. Obviously, with .NET, it's a bit of a no brainer to get working since it's an intrinsic design to the framework.
I'm a
We use the pattern of localized cache, with one server acting as a cache manager. If an object graph on one server changes, it notifies the cache manager which notifies every other server to refresh. Doing this, we limit DB interaction from the middle tier to insert and updates, grabbing data from the DB only occurring once and cached on each individual app server until something changes and it's refreshed. Obviously, this isn't cool for data that is mission critical and must always be up to date, so in those instances we pull directly from the DB to avoid synchronization issues with the cache manager. But it's pretty rare we find a dataset that has to be handled that way.
I don't see how PHP could accomplish anything like that since it doesn't have state and is techinically more of a pre-processor than it is an application server.
The original post is clueless with a capital C.
I host a monthly 32 person (4 table) no limit hold 'em tournament. Started out last year as a small for cash thing and has grown since then.
.NET.
We've completely automated the buy-in, re-buy and add-on process with pocket pc's outfitted with barcode scanners talking to a db through a SOAP interface. Each player has a plastic membership card with embossed PIN # and barcode on the back. The waitresses simply scan 'em in and off we go. Behold the power of
We dump the stats from each tournament and, if needed, re-rig the tournament rules to smooth things out for the next tournament.
Poker is definitely becoming the bridge of our generation though. We get more people each tournament, pretty soon we're going to have to rent out a hall or something.
Of course I would have to take a rake at that point and it would become illegal. *shrugs*
Sure, 500 megatwatts sounds awesome Yes, 500 mega-twats does sound awesome! Bring on the pr0n!
Having a serious 10 year caffeine problem, on the order of 12 to 16 shots of espresso a day, I developed an "allergy" to caffeine which in turn caused Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
After a battery of tests, I was told that my intake of caffeine was causing excess adrenaline production, hence a constant state of anxiety.
Now I take three klonopin a day just to feel normal.
I still drink coffee though, the decaf variety, but every once in awhile the idiot at the coffee shop fucks it up and gives me a caffeinated beverage. Suffice to say, it can be a day wrecker. Dizziness, fainting sensations and general physical sensations of imbalance.
No fun.
XP, which came out before OSX, already did most/all of this. It wasn't enabled out of the box, but it was there.
Because, like it or not, C# is a better designed language than Java. It's a nice bridge between C, C++, Java and - yes - object pascal.
Additionally, the idea of the CLR is language neurtrality which means that Mono isn't tied to a specific language. All the linux geeks won't lose anything by writing mono apps in python/perl/ruby/what have you.
Plus, if it's broken, you got the source, fix it.
People seem to misunderstand that.
This isn't entirely true, if I'm understanding you correctly. It's really a matter of design.
.NET, and want to add scripting on top of it, you wouldn't use ActiveScripting to do this (what I'm assuming you're doing).
If you're running a MUD, let's say written in
Instead you would more then likely have those scripts compiled and objects "loaded" on the fly using ICodeCompiler using the GenerateInMemory property set to true. You can then recompile this on the fly at any point.
Your problem lies in script B using a class in script A, and recompiling script A while script B is instantiated. I've never run into a situation where this is a plausibility, but would certainly be something to investigate. I'd imagine this would be a problem in Java as well as it's really a design issue versus something intrinsinic to the platform.
Just my guess however.
We just scaled a single server asp.net solution to a 5 server farm without a single code change or recompile.
:p
I did have to change one line in the web.config file though. I guess that 10 minutes of my time isn't a great improvement in scalability?