The logic behind the decision was that MacOS updates were free in the early years (until 7.1) and many users thought there was a implied promise there. So, 7.5.3 was more of a sop to owners of 68K Macs to allow them to get up to speed with modern networking and so on. Everyone who bought a PowerMac was already in the era when the OS revisions cost money.
IE has supported <IMG SRC="blahblah.mpg"> for years.
The problem with video has to do more with vendors warring over proprietary codecs and trying to shove their spamware media players into everyone's face. I tend to give the W3C a pass on this one because specing out a tag ain't exactly complicated.
But don't you see this (coding for IE) as a separate issue (from Flash/Silverlight/PDF)?
Well sort of. I've been guilty of building "IE Only" sites in the distant past. But when the choice was either use DHTML/AJAX with the only browser that had decent support for it at the time, versus Java or Flash, it wasn't necessarily a bad decision. (For the record, these were intranet sites.)
I have Aspergers. However, since I am according to you not articulate, and have poor speech skills, I can't write a witty rebuttal so I shall just say "Fuck You"
Fuck You.
I make it a point to not argue with mentally disabled people. Good luck to you.
> I beg your pardon? I've been in IT for quite a while.
Yeah, I figured:) When you rephrased it in terms of a business function or project scope, I have no disagreements. Although again there will be a lot of other factors there (availability, tools, libraries, and so on), its not a simple matter of "Eiffel is strongly typed and therefore good for medical applications".
The judge was sort of annoyed and told me that in our state, jurors are instructed to weigh testimony equally with physical evidence. I said something about not being sure I could do that. I was not invited to sit on that jury.
That's exactly what people in this thread are arguing. The jurors had to weigh the physical evidence of the blood found in Reiser's car versus his (ineffective) testimony on how it got there. The judge is saying you can't send someone up just because there's a blood spot or a dead body.
One could also read his LKML posts and come to the conclusion that he has narcissism, bipolor/borderline, paranoid schizophrenia, clinical depression, or just plain constipation. Technical flamewars are hardly the best way to shrink someone's head.
Thanks for the correction. Yes, only after Reiser's testimony had totally backfired, they brought in some shrinks to suggest he "may have" aspergers, based on tangential evidence. If he clearly had a mental illness, why wasn't he directly evaluated, and why wasn't this brought up before hand? Hmmm.
Shows what you know about Asperger's Syndrome. Being articulate does not rule you out. Those with Asperger's are often highly articulate when talking about their particular areas of focus.
Did Reiser have a particular focus on wife murdering? Because he seems pretty bad at it to me.
He wasn't talking about his filesystem on the stand for weeks you know.
No, because the whole "you can fork your own filesystem/RDBMS/OS/Office suite" argument is helmetwearer-level retarded.
The fact is that there's only a small number of firms in the world that have the talent to maintain these sorts of things. That is why OSS vendors exist.
I'm really railing on Novell/SUSE and anyone else who shipped ReiserFS here, not the guy himself. If Top Genius #99 at Microsoft or IBM went off to prison, they would simply hire replacements. Paying customers should not expect less.
This is pretty much a ridiculous conspiracy theory.
Reiser's attorney flat out denied that he had Aspberger's, and Reiser never once raised any sort of mental illness defense.
Furthermore, his speech skills were fine, he is actually very articulate. I find it hard to believe that he had any sort of autism-related mental illness.
The myth that every nerd who programs computers has some sort of "cool" mental defect really needs to die. A lot of you are just poorly socialized and stupid, that is all. Like Hans Reiser.
One guy got into legal trouble and now the filesystem and the whole metadata vision that went along with it is dead. Sucks to be you if you were writing applications against Reiser's APIs.
Remember that ReiserFS was supposed to be the OSS answer to WinFS? Linux people should be very thankful that MS wasn't able to ship it.
Reiser is hardly your typical nerdlinger geek though. He's physically fit, normal looking, well-spoken, and successful in his field.
Its also worth noting that he chose to testify in his own defense against the advice of his lawyer. If he saw himself as a "geek", as you apparently do, he would have never done this. Fact is that he thought he had superior social and persuasion skills.
Yeah, it's pretty pathetic that people tried to turn this into a Jocks vs Nerds playground battle when an mother was murdered.
But it is worth noting that wasn't entirely slashdot's overactive imagination; Reiser's lawyer tried to use the "geek" explanation after his client's poor performance on the stand.
The rule for circumstantial evidence -- anything that's not eyewitness testimony, basically -- sounded pretty simple. For any given piece of circumstantial evidence, if there's a "reasonable" explanation for that evidence that supports innocence then the jury is supposed to accept that explanation even if it means erring on the side of innocence. If there isn't a reasonable explanation that supports innocence, then the jury can use it as evidence of guilt.
Except Reiser testified in his own defense and came up with some real bullshit to explain the circumstantial evidence. So the jury wasn't reaching for a "reasonable explanation", they were judging whether Reiser was credible or not.
Had Reiser said "Oh gee, my wife cut her foot once", he might have had a chance. Instead he made up some ridiculous story to explain why he had torn the seats and carpeting out of his car days after his wife disappeared.
This seems like something a student would come up with. It would never make any sense to build parallel teams based on something business customers would never understand (typing).
If you wanted to argue that web projects under $100K should be done in PHP, but over should be Java, that might be something. But there is much greater rationale there than what you've described.
Yeah, I'm aware of those extensions. NoScript in particular makes the web browser practically unusable for a normal person (as would managing IE zones), so I think it's a somewhat unfair standard to set. Only a few nerds are willing to break normal browsing behavior just to prevent getting rickrolled or dialog-spammed.
You're right that Firefox's extension technologies have not been as widely adopted as ActiveX. But not because Firefox doesn't have the features.
In terms of the underlying mechanism and security risk, there's is almost no difference. Both are systems to e-z install native code into your browser process.
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The logic behind the decision was that MacOS updates were free in the early years (until 7.1) and many users thought there was a implied promise there. So, 7.5.3 was more of a sop to owners of 68K Macs to allow them to get up to speed with modern networking and so on. Everyone who bought a PowerMac was already in the era when the OS revisions cost money.
MacOS 9 was bundled with OS X until 10.3, IIRC.
Sorry, but you're only demonstrating your complete ignorance of both HTML and digital video.
Forgot about OBJECT, but you are wrong about IMG. It does work in Internet Explorer, as I stated.
Otherwise you just restated my point in a long and tedious manner, so I'm unclear how this demonstrates my ignorance.
IE has supported <IMG SRC="blahblah.mpg"> for years.
The problem with video has to do more with vendors warring over proprietary codecs and trying to shove their spamware media players into everyone's face. I tend to give the W3C a pass on this one because specing out a tag ain't exactly complicated.
But don't you see this (coding for IE) as a separate issue (from Flash/Silverlight/PDF)?
Well sort of. I've been guilty of building "IE Only" sites in the distant past. But when the choice was either use DHTML/AJAX with the only browser that had decent support for it at the time, versus Java or Flash, it wasn't necessarily a bad decision. (For the record, these were intranet sites.)
I have Aspergers. However, since I am according to you not articulate, and have poor speech skills, I can't write a witty rebuttal so I shall just say "Fuck You"
Fuck You.
I make it a point to not argue with mentally disabled people. Good luck to you.
If you think you pulled some sort of awesome gotcha there, don't ever testify in your defense.
> I beg your pardon? I've been in IT for quite a while.
Yeah, I figured :) When you rephrased it in terms of a business function or project scope, I have no disagreements. Although again there will be a lot of other factors there (availability, tools, libraries, and so on), its not a simple matter of "Eiffel is strongly typed and therefore good for medical applications".
If you don't get that project scope is one of the most critical aspects of planning, you really are a student.
The judge was sort of annoyed and told me that in our state, jurors are instructed to weigh testimony equally with physical evidence. I said something about not being sure I could do that. I was not invited to sit on that jury.
That's exactly what people in this thread are arguing. The jurors had to weigh the physical evidence of the blood found in Reiser's car versus his (ineffective) testimony on how it got there. The judge is saying you can't send someone up just because there's a blood spot or a dead body.
One could also read his LKML posts and come to the conclusion that he has narcissism, bipolor/borderline, paranoid schizophrenia, clinical depression, or just plain constipation. Technical flamewars are hardly the best way to shrink someone's head.
Then why did he bring multiple witnesses to suggest otherwise?
Thanks for the correction. Yes, only after Reiser's testimony had totally backfired, they brought in some shrinks to suggest he "may have" aspergers, based on tangential evidence. If he clearly had a mental illness, why wasn't he directly evaluated, and why wasn't this brought up before hand? Hmmm.
Shows what you know about Asperger's Syndrome. Being articulate does not rule you out. Those with Asperger's are often highly articulate when talking about their particular areas of focus.
Did Reiser have a particular focus on wife murdering? Because he seems pretty bad at it to me.
He wasn't talking about his filesystem on the stand for weeks you know.
No, because the whole "you can fork your own filesystem/RDBMS/OS/Office suite" argument is helmetwearer-level retarded.
The fact is that there's only a small number of firms in the world that have the talent to maintain these sorts of things. That is why OSS vendors exist.
I'm really railing on Novell/SUSE and anyone else who shipped ReiserFS here, not the guy himself. If Top Genius #99 at Microsoft or IBM went off to prison, they would simply hire replacements. Paying customers should not expect less.
Actually OJ got off because of (a) Perjury on the stand (b) Planted Evidence (c) Courtroom theatrics that backfired.
And Reiser got convicted because of (a) Physical evidence (b) He testified in his own defense, and (c) He's an totally unconvincing psychopathic liar
In conclusion, ur dum.
This is pretty much a ridiculous conspiracy theory.
Reiser's attorney flat out denied that he had Aspberger's, and Reiser never once raised any sort of mental illness defense.
Furthermore, his speech skills were fine, he is actually very articulate. I find it hard to believe that he had any sort of autism-related mental illness.
The myth that every nerd who programs computers has some sort of "cool" mental defect really needs to die. A lot of you are just poorly socialized and stupid, that is all. Like Hans Reiser.
That's right in the area where I expected they'd find it, thanks.
Had Reiser told the truth to the cops, he certainly might have gotten off with manslaughter.
However he never once played the abuse card and denied that his wife was dead until today.
Actually this is pretty legit as far as FUD goes.
One guy got into legal trouble and now the filesystem and the whole metadata vision that went along with it is dead. Sucks to be you if you were writing applications against Reiser's APIs.
Remember that ReiserFS was supposed to be the OSS answer to WinFS? Linux people should be very thankful that MS wasn't able to ship it.
Reiser is hardly your typical nerdlinger geek though. He's physically fit, normal looking, well-spoken, and successful in his field.
Its also worth noting that he chose to testify in his own defense against the advice of his lawyer. If he saw himself as a "geek", as you apparently do, he would have never done this. Fact is that he thought he had superior social and persuasion skills.
Yeah, it's pretty pathetic that people tried to turn this into a Jocks vs Nerds playground battle when an mother was murdered.
But it is worth noting that wasn't entirely slashdot's overactive imagination; Reiser's lawyer tried to use the "geek" explanation after his client's poor performance on the stand.
The rule for circumstantial evidence -- anything that's not eyewitness testimony, basically -- sounded pretty simple. For any given piece of circumstantial evidence, if there's a "reasonable" explanation for that evidence that supports innocence then the jury is supposed to accept that explanation even if it means erring on the side of innocence. If there isn't a reasonable explanation that supports innocence, then the jury can use it as evidence of guilt.
Except Reiser testified in his own defense and came up with some real bullshit to explain the circumstantial evidence. So the jury wasn't reaching for a "reasonable explanation", they were judging whether Reiser was credible or not.
Had Reiser said "Oh gee, my wife cut her foot once", he might have had a chance. Instead he made up some ridiculous story to explain why he had torn the seats and carpeting out of his car days after his wife disappeared.
This seems like something a student would come up with. It would never make any sense to build parallel teams based on something business customers would never understand (typing).
If you wanted to argue that web projects under $100K should be done in PHP, but over should be Java, that might be something. But there is much greater rationale there than what you've described.
Apple WebObjects is Java based, so we know for sure they use it.
A lot of times it's political or budgetary too.
"Man those Oracle DBAs are assholes! Just install MS-SQL over there, so we can get started."
Of course in the long run, the MS-SQL server is going to end up parked right next to the Oracle one with the same DBA team looking over it.
Yeah, I'm aware of those extensions. NoScript in particular makes the web browser practically unusable for a normal person (as would managing IE zones), so I think it's a somewhat unfair standard to set. Only a few nerds are willing to break normal browsing behavior just to prevent getting rickrolled or dialog-spammed.
You're right that Firefox's extension technologies have not been as widely adopted as ActiveX. But not because Firefox doesn't have the features.
In terms of the underlying mechanism and security risk, there's is almost no difference. Both are systems to e-z install native code into your browser process.