Recently I found a discount online web hosting company with an unlikely name that offers a scalable, distributable SAN, called an HDSAN (High Density Storage Area Network), for its customers:
Yes, MS laid the foundation for Google to be a success, but not as Mundie suggests.
The analogy would be more akin to Detroit, in the 1970s, laid the foundation for the success of Japanese automakers.
Instead of laying a positive foundation, it was a foundation of failure that gave Google a chance to seize upon.
Much could be said for the entire Web economy -- it was Microsoft's Monopoly position on the desktop and subsequent Failure To Innovate that opened the way for desktop-less computing. And Linux. And for a resurgence of Apple (which could have easily been killed off if not for Microsoft Pinto, I mean, Millennium Edition's reliability and XP's Security).
Someone (TBL) was maybe enjoying a bit of the refer when codifying the HTTP specification...
Errors in programming (and technical documentation) become standards because the act of programming is creation and invention. Spell it "umount" and forever the act of "unmounting" is done via umount. No one bats an eye. When you define a variable everyone else must follow your lead.
If you say, "Hey, one who refers is not "REFER" but "REFERRER" your code will not work. HTTP_REFERER will forever be spelled that way until HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 retire. However, referring to the meaning of that key must be spelled correctly to be proper English. E.g.: "Check the referrer of the requested link with the optional HTTP_REFERER variable."
Don't want spelling mistakes in your Hungarian variable names? Be the first to create them.
By system I don't mean computer OS. I mean the business systems. If the current system is working, why change it?
My guess: there is something about the current system mgmt doesn't like and wants "fixed". They think going.NET will accomplish that.
You don't need to promote FOSS as much as you need to find out what mgmt thinks is broken, what they think.NET will do to fix it and then you need to address those concerns with a solution using your current tools and talent to mgmt.
It's likely they realize switching to.NET will cause turnover of talent; maybe that addresses the perceived problem!
I watched the last season on Mypace's 24 Page. Great quality video; few ads; updated within a few hours of the broadcast airing. I work night shift so I always missed the regular broadcast. Having it available online on demand was awesome.
Yeah, I think more of THAT could disrupt TV. Not your stinking, Javascript-laden, Flash-blasting, Emo shrine. But Kiefer's rocks!
Talk about nitpicking critiques, dude. ("Dude", because I've never met a chick with such a need to strain gnats.)
"Should have died" => colloquialism for "surviving a situation in which I had a high chance of dying." Does that make you feel superior, now?
As to the charge that I was espousing philosophy... you are incredibly dense. I said, explicitly, that I was referring to "personal experience" regarding what I subjectively "observed." I made no philosophical or scientific claim.
Please leave this multiverse to go to one where I did die as I should have.
Ok. I'm going public with this craziness of mine...
I've observed many times that I "should have" died. It struck me that, perhaps, I did die in an alternate universe, but I (whatever I "is") continue on in at least one of the multiverses. In those multiverses in which "I" experience the death of a close friend or family member... well... that just is how it goes. But they, too, continue in an instance of the multiverse. Perhaps I do not.
Anyway... "They're coming to take me away, ha ah..."
You're first job out of school is a throw-away. Take what you can get and move on. Seriously.
I've been a recruiter and employer (in IT). Send me your resume at robertATrjamestaylor.com and I'll get you placed -- once you graduate.
The entire reason for this museum is a fallacy that the book of Genesis' purpose is to detail the scientific facts behind the creation of the Universe and Earth. Actually, only the first verse of the book details this point. "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." The next verse follows the first in the book but it does not necessarily (or, based on other passages, such as Isaiah 14:45, and verses in Job, cannot) follow immediately: "And the earth [verb] waste and void."
I put "[verb]" there because the Hebrew word is translated into English based on context. Later in Genesis, the same [verb] occurs in the sentence "Lot's wife [verb] a pillar of salt." That verb could be "was" or "became" in English, based on context. With this second verse we're pretty certain that Lot's wife wasn't initially a pillar of salt, but that she became one after looking back on Sodom. Also, in Genesis 1, how we translate that verb depends on our understanding of the context.
Was the earth initially created as waste and void? Or, did something happen that resulted in the earth becoming that way? Well, among many clues are verses such as Isaiah 45:15 which state that the earth was NOT created waste and void, but to be inhabited. Job tells us that the "sons of God (the angels) rejoiced at the laying of the foundation of the earth." Translating Genesis 1:2 as "was waste and void" would create a direct contradiction to Isaiah 45:15. Translating it "became" would agree.
That the earth "became" waste and void after some indeterminate time after God's initial creation of the heavens and the earth would allow us to sequentially place the fall of Lucifer, the archangel, to his becoming God's adversary (Satan, in it's actual meaning, "adversary"), between creation and the earth "becoming" waste and void.
This point of theology may seem esoteric but just this one word translated "was" or "became" results spending millions to develop a Creation Museum or allowing for scientific discovery without contradicting one's beliefs.
Not that I agree with everything on the Wikipedia article, but here's some more reading in line with The Gap Theory of creationism.
It has been so long since I existed in the Closed Culture that I forgot what it was like when Microsoft's stance (namely, "we made a business decision to limit add-ons and this violates the EULA and ethos of the product") seemed reasonable. Being now 10 years in the Open Culture, or, more directly, the Free Culture, I cannot imagine such a scenario occurring where a beneficial add-on developer would be excoriated from participation.
The idiocy of Microsoft to oppose their CUSTOMER's interests (yes, not only this developer; they are fighting their customers here) is astounding.
Must be the Last Days for this model, which I will name the Angry Proprietary Model. It's different than merely Proprietary. It's Proprietary with a will to attack customers and developers adding features to one's products.
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I though it was more "Heaven's Garish", myself.
Mmmmm... Heaven's Garish. I think that's the name of that style web (non-)design I'll use from henceforth.
one of the best "gotta have been there to get it" sites I've ever seen. It's either pure brilliance or a complete WTF.
Excellently executed (no, I had no hand in it!).
with an unlikely name that offers a scalable,
distributable SAN, called an HDSAN
(High Density Storage Area Network),
for its customers:
How many stones, hands, Rhode Islands would that be?
Yes, MS laid the foundation for Google to be a success, but not as Mundie suggests.
The analogy would be more akin to Detroit, in the 1970s, laid the foundation for the success of Japanese automakers.
Instead of laying a positive foundation, it was a foundation of failure that gave Google a chance to seize upon.
Much could be said for the entire Web economy -- it was Microsoft's Monopoly position on the desktop and subsequent Failure To Innovate that opened the way for desktop-less computing. And Linux. And for a resurgence of Apple (which could have easily been killed off if not for Microsoft Pinto, I mean, Millennium Edition's reliability and XP's Security).
Thanks, Microsoft!
of course, I forgot my favorite shell: /bin/false
/dev/null
Nope. No bloat there.
Someone (TBL) was maybe enjoying a bit of the refer when codifying the HTTP specification...
Errors in programming (and technical documentation) become standards because the act of programming is creation and invention. Spell it "umount" and forever the act of "unmounting" is done via umount. No one bats an eye. When you define a variable everyone else must follow your lead.
If you say, "Hey, one who refers is not "REFER" but "REFERRER" your code will not work. HTTP_REFERER will forever be spelled that way until HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 retire. However, referring to the meaning of that key must be spelled correctly to be proper English. E.g.: "Check the referrer of the requested link with the optional HTTP_REFERER variable."
Don't want spelling mistakes in your Hungarian variable names? Be the first to create them.
yep. Runs great on my Dell desktop.
Fixed That For YouBy system I don't mean computer OS. I mean the business systems. If the current system is working, why change it?
.NET will accomplish that.
.NET will do to fix it and then you need to address those concerns with a solution using your current tools and talent to mgmt.
.NET will cause turnover of talent; maybe that addresses the perceived problem!
My guess: there is something about the current system mgmt doesn't like and wants "fixed". They think going
You don't need to promote FOSS as much as you need to find out what mgmt thinks is broken, what they think
It's likely they realize switching to
How cruel can this Parallel Processing company be?
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Yeah, I think more of THAT could disrupt TV. Not your stinking, Javascript-laden, Flash-blasting, Emo shrine. But Kiefer's rocks!
Zzzzzzz... O. Sorry. Did you say something?
Talk about nitpicking critiques, dude. ("Dude", because I've never met a chick with such a need to strain gnats.)
"Should have died" => colloquialism for "surviving a situation in which I had a high chance of dying." Does that make you feel superior, now?
As to the charge that I was espousing philosophy... you are incredibly dense. I said, explicitly, that I was referring to "personal experience" regarding what I subjectively "observed." I made no philosophical or scientific claim.
Please leave this multiverse to go to one where I did die as I should have.
Ok. I'm going public with this craziness of mine...
I've observed many times that I "should have" died. It struck me that, perhaps, I did die in an alternate universe, but I (whatever I "is") continue on in at least one of the multiverses. In those multiverses in which "I" experience the death of a close friend or family member... well... that just is how it goes. But they, too, continue in an instance of the multiverse. Perhaps I do not.
Anyway... "They're coming to take me away, ha ah..."
This is the reality of censorship in the router.
Thanks for giving them the idea, Finkelstein!
You're first job out of school is a throw-away. Take what you can get and move on. Seriously. I've been a recruiter and employer (in IT). Send me your resume at robertATrjamestaylor.com and I'll get you placed -- once you graduate.
I put "[verb]" there because the Hebrew word is translated into English based on context. Later in Genesis, the same [verb] occurs in the sentence "Lot's wife [verb] a pillar of salt." That verb could be "was" or "became" in English, based on context. With this second verse we're pretty certain that Lot's wife wasn't initially a pillar of salt, but that she became one after looking back on Sodom. Also, in Genesis 1, how we translate that verb depends on our understanding of the context.
Was the earth initially created as waste and void? Or, did something happen that resulted in the earth becoming that way? Well, among many clues are verses such as Isaiah 45:15 which state that the earth was NOT created waste and void, but to be inhabited. Job tells us that the "sons of God (the angels) rejoiced at the laying of the foundation of the earth." Translating Genesis 1:2 as "was waste and void" would create a direct contradiction to Isaiah 45:15. Translating it "became" would agree.
That the earth "became" waste and void after some indeterminate time after God's initial creation of the heavens and the earth would allow us to sequentially place the fall of Lucifer, the archangel, to his becoming God's adversary (Satan, in it's actual meaning, "adversary"), between creation and the earth "becoming" waste and void.
This point of theology may seem esoteric but just this one word translated "was" or "became" results spending millions to develop a Creation Museum or allowing for scientific discovery without contradicting one's beliefs.
Not that I agree with everything on the Wikipedia article, but here's some more reading in line with The Gap Theory of creationism.
The idiocy of Microsoft to oppose their CUSTOMER's interests (yes, not only this developer; they are fighting their customers here) is astounding.
Must be the Last Days for this model, which I will name the Angry Proprietary Model. It's different than merely Proprietary. It's Proprietary with a will to attack customers and developers adding features to one's products.
what?
"immediate"
bah!
Yes; if you're credit history is so poor that V/MC won't give you a debit card or if you specifically ask your bank for a non-check card.
Sorry. We're not trying to keep people IN
The United States: Most immigrated to (legally or illegally) country in the world.