Your car accident example is a good one. When someone causes a car accident, they have to pay the municipality for the ticket, they have to pay the other driver(s) for damage to their vehicles, and they have to pay for the damage to their own vehicle. I think people want to hold BP to this same standard.
SBC / AT&T or whatever they call themselves today keep advertising DSL for $12.99 per month. There is no question that I would subscribe for that amount. However, my neighborhood's phone system is supplied via a fiber line, and there is no DSL equipment on our end. That means SBC / AT&T can not provide DSL to my residence.
I am currently going back to school online so my only choice is to pay $60 per month for Cable access. Once school is done I will no longer have Internet access at home. This is too much money to spend on Internet access in my opinion.
This is too bad because I use it for many things. I use it as a file server to host code examples. I use and update these code examples all the time from work. I also use it to help my father and sister with computer problems they are having by using VNC over an SSH connection. I don't want to give these up, but as I said $60 per month is simply unreasonable.
I am not quite sure why people keep saying PHP will replace Java. PHP is a web page scripting language. This is roughly equivalent to Java's JSP, not Java as a whole.
This being said, I certainly welcome any improvement over JSP. This being said there is no reason PHP and another language cannot work together. Generally it is considered poor design for large applications to be written entirely in the web pages. There is much more going on in an application than the View (ie. the Model and Controler in an MVC architecture). For example, let's your application needs to update data based on the reciept of an asynchronous messasge. It would be poor design to have the pages wait for this message. Instead you would build a component on the "back-end" that would handle this update to the database for you.
PHP is ill equipped to handle this type of scenerio. This is not a dig on PHP, but PHP is not intended for this. The "back-end" code that handles this asynchronous update could certainly use PHP as its user interface.
Anyhow, this is why I do not believe PHP will overthrow any language other than page scripting languages like itself.
I find it interesting that an article about creating cross browser web pages does not print out properly from Firefox. The right side of some text gets cut off.
This is par for the course these days. I think this is simply a symptom of people thinking internet access is not worth what the providers are charging for it. I would love to have my own connection at home, but I am not willing to pay $60 a month for it.
This is just like the music industry. I think people prefer having the real copies of the CDs that they like. The problem is most CDs have one or two tracks that are worth anything, and they are too expensive.
This is ridiculous! The internet is what it is, an open forum for sharing files, whether those files are text or otherwise. The only reason that terrorists could possibly use the internet to "attack" us is that companies have forced their businesses onto the internet. These companys should bear the responsability of making their systems secure. The internet is not a secure place, and it never will be. Our use of the internet should not be restricted because of the business presence on the internet.
Is it just me or does the quote "One of the big problems in health care has been the medical records situation. So much of it is still on paper" mean nothing. If the records are still on paper how is inserting a harware "cookie" into patients going to help? Don't the records need to be in the computer for this to be effective? Why not just put the records in the computer, and keep using those wrist bands they use in the hospitals. Not too difficult to put a bar code on those. I'd really rather not have an implant.
Do we really want the government more involved with the internet. Yes spam sucks, and I have had some thoughts that I would prefer not to share about spammers, but getting the government involved is a double edged sword. We don't want them censoring what we see (China), yet we want to get them to do something about spammers. My opinion: Bad idea.
We would have to be very careful about laws against spam. I remeber a story here on Slashdot not too long ago about someone who apparently was accused of sending spam because he sent a resume. We don't want that to be illegal.
I am one of those people. I have Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon on CD and record. I think it definately sounds better on record. (Sumiko Pro-ject 1.2 record player vs. Sony 79ES CD player) I think it is more likely that the resolution on the CD is too low. But that's just my guess.
Even if an artist did not own his own works, they still deserve some kind of compensation. They have spent time, and certainly money on creating their art. This is a service to the consumer.
"higher pricing for users who tend to use more than their fair share of the bandwidth"? I pay for 384kbps, I use no more than that because I can't. That's my fair share of the bandwidth. If I use less, I'm not using the bandwidth, but I am still paying for the right to do so.
I would be interested in hearing about the "tweaks" for "specific OSs" that you mention, and the differences in compilers. With the code that I have written the only real issues that I have run into (other than GUI in a Microsoft VM) are with the Runtime.exec() stuff. Other than that I actually find it difficult to write an application that doesn't work cross platform. Granted I am not writing applications that need to be tied tightly to the OS, but Java is not the correct tool for that.
As for the Applets, I agree you might "piss off all the visitors to your web pages". However that is because they are slow to load, not unstable. I don't think Applets are inherently more unstable than any other code. Besides Applets are a few classes and interfaces in a language who's API has thousands. Java != Applets. If Java gets replaced by something better great, but for now, it's a great tool.
One of the problems with the use of the Social Security Numbers is that they are intended for use with contributing to and collecting from Social Security, and thus have information attatched to them about Social Security. The problem is, they are used as a generic form of identification (or authentication). Any time someone asks for your SSN to verify who you are, they are that much closer to the private personal information associated with your SSN. This same problem will occur with the driver's licenses.
I am against a National ID Card, but I would PREFER it to a national driver's license that would be effectively used for the same purpose.
If the website owners want to keep users from accessing certain pages directly via links on other sites they need to protect these pages. To leave these pages out in the open and expect no one to link to them is ridiculous. That is how the www works!
The pages can easily be protected using cookies or URL rewriting (for those who refuse cookies). Just keep track of whether or not a user has visited the home page. If they have, allow them to go on to the protected page, if they have not, redirect the user's browser to the home page. You might even let the user know that they were redirected, and offer them a link to the page they requested.
This would be much better than sending a cease and desist order, because no one would be able to link the pages in the first place. Oh, but that's too much work, maybe it's easier to threaten.
Another problem with HTTP, said Box, is that it is asymmetric. "Only one entity can initiate an exchange over HTTP, the other entity is passive, and can only respond. For peer-to-peer applications this is not really suitable,"
I don't know about you, but I don't want anyone "initiating an exchange" with my machine. I'll do the initiating thank you.
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Your car accident example is a good one. When someone causes a car accident, they have to pay the municipality for the ticket, they have to pay the other driver(s) for damage to their vehicles, and they have to pay for the damage to their own vehicle. I think people want to hold BP to this same standard.
SBC / AT&T or whatever they call themselves today keep advertising DSL for $12.99 per month. There is no question that I would subscribe for that amount. However, my neighborhood's phone system is supplied via a fiber line, and there is no DSL equipment on our end. That means SBC / AT&T can not provide DSL to my residence.
I am currently going back to school online so my only choice is to pay $60 per month for Cable access. Once school is done I will no longer have Internet access at home. This is too much money to spend on Internet access in my opinion.
This is too bad because I use it for many things. I use it as a file server to host code examples. I use and update these code examples all the time from work. I also use it to help my father and sister with computer problems they are having by using VNC over an SSH connection. I don't want to give these up, but as I said $60 per month is simply unreasonable.
I am not quite sure why people keep saying PHP will replace Java. PHP is a web page scripting language. This is roughly equivalent to Java's JSP, not Java as a whole.
This being said, I certainly welcome any improvement over JSP. This being said there is no reason PHP and another language cannot work together. Generally it is considered poor design for large applications to be written entirely in the web pages. There is much more going on in an application than the View (ie. the Model and Controler in an MVC architecture). For example, let's your application needs to update data based on the reciept of an asynchronous messasge. It would be poor design to have the pages wait for this message. Instead you would build a component on the "back-end" that would handle this update to the database for you.
PHP is ill equipped to handle this type of scenerio. This is not a dig on PHP, but PHP is not intended for this. The "back-end" code that handles this asynchronous update could certainly use PHP as its user interface.
Anyhow, this is why I do not believe PHP will overthrow any language other than page scripting languages like itself.
I find it interesting that an article about creating cross browser web pages does not print out properly from Firefox. The right side of some text gets cut off.
It looks like concrete. It feels like concrete. But does it taste like concrete?
So why can't we moderate an article Redundant?
This is par for the course these days. I think this is simply a symptom of people thinking internet access is not worth what the providers are charging for it. I would love to have my own connection at home, but I am not willing to pay $60 a month for it.
This is just like the music industry. I think people prefer having the real copies of the CDs that they like. The problem is most CDs have one or two tracks that are worth anything, and they are too expensive.
For the love of god man, please stop posting this same message on different threads.
This is ridiculous! The internet is what it is, an open forum for sharing files, whether those files are text or otherwise. The only reason that terrorists could possibly use the internet to "attack" us is that companies have forced their businesses onto the internet. These companys should bear the responsability of making their systems secure. The internet is not a secure place, and it never will be. Our use of the internet should not be restricted because of the business presence on the internet.
Now who you jivin' with that cosmic debris?
Is it just me or does the quote "One of the big problems in health care has been the medical records situation. So much of it is still on paper" mean nothing. If the records are still on paper how is inserting a harware "cookie" into patients going to help? Don't the records need to be in the computer for this to be effective? Why not just put the records in the computer, and keep using those wrist bands they use in the hospitals. Not too difficult to put a bar code on those. I'd really rather not have an implant.
Do we really want the government more involved with the internet. Yes spam sucks, and I have had some thoughts that I would prefer not to share about spammers, but getting the government involved is a double edged sword. We don't want them censoring what we see (China), yet we want to get them to do something about spammers. My opinion: Bad idea.
We would have to be very careful about laws against spam. I remeber a story here on Slashdot not too long ago about someone who apparently was accused of sending spam because he sent a resume. We don't want that to be illegal.
Amen on the API docs. I love the API docs that come with the JDK, they are very easy to use. I wish every language had docs like that.
OK, this technology stops the cell phone transmissions, or reflects them around inside a metal cage?
I am one of those people. I have Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon on CD and record. I think it definately sounds better on record. (Sumiko Pro-ject 1.2 record player vs. Sony 79ES CD player) I think it is more likely that the resolution on the CD is too low. But that's just my guess.
Even if an artist did not own his own works, they still deserve some kind of compensation. They have spent time, and certainly money on creating their art. This is a service to the consumer.
"higher pricing for users who tend to use more than their fair share of the bandwidth"? I pay for 384kbps, I use no more than that because I can't. That's my fair share of the bandwidth. If I use less, I'm not using the bandwidth, but I am still paying for the right to do so.
I would be interested in hearing about the "tweaks" for "specific OSs" that you mention, and the differences in compilers. With the code that I have written the only real issues that I have run into (other than GUI in a Microsoft VM) are with the Runtime.exec() stuff. Other than that I actually find it difficult to write an application that doesn't work cross platform. Granted I am not writing applications that need to be tied tightly to the OS, but Java is not the correct tool for that.
As for the Applets, I agree you might "piss off all the visitors to your web pages". However that is because they are slow to load, not unstable. I don't think Applets are inherently more unstable than any other code. Besides Applets are a few classes and interfaces in a language who's API has thousands. Java != Applets. If Java gets replaced by something better great, but for now, it's a great tool.
One of the problems with the use of the Social Security Numbers is that they are intended for use with contributing to and collecting from Social Security, and thus have information attatched to them about Social Security. The problem is, they are used as a generic form of identification (or authentication). Any time someone asks for your SSN to verify who you are, they are that much closer to the private personal information associated with your SSN. This same problem will occur with the driver's licenses.
I am against a National ID Card, but I would PREFER it to a national driver's license that would be effectively used for the same purpose.
If the website owners want to keep users from accessing certain pages directly via links on other sites they need to protect these pages. To leave these pages out in the open and expect no one to link to them is ridiculous. That is how the www works!
The pages can easily be protected using cookies or URL rewriting (for those who refuse cookies). Just keep track of whether or not a user has visited the home page. If they have, allow them to go on to the protected page, if they have not, redirect the user's browser to the home page. You might even let the user know that they were redirected, and offer them a link to the page they requested.
This would be much better than sending a cease and desist order, because no one would be able to link the pages in the first place. Oh, but that's too much work, maybe it's easier to threaten.
Read thru the code. It's real simple. You can make sure it does not do anything harmful.
Yeah, but there's no software for it yet.
Code doesn't kill, people do!
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Another problem with HTTP, said Box, is that it is asymmetric. "Only one entity can initiate an exchange over HTTP, the other entity is passive, and can only respond. For peer-to-peer applications this is not really suitable,"
I don't know about you, but I don't want anyone "initiating an exchange" with my machine. I'll do the initiating thank you.