This isn't about open source being better. It's about having the source available for scrutiny. When you can't see HOW the program is doing the benchmarking, how can you trust it?
It seems, in this case, open source isn't even necessary. All that's necessary is simply making the source available in a readable form. (and letting folks compile and run it themselves in order to duplicate the tests)
First, it's not a 404. A 404 is a http server response that says I don't have the resource you're requesting.
OpenDNS however, hijacks the DNS protocol when you attempt to lookup the address for a server. And so yes, a dns response that says that no addresses are found is more useful than a fake address that, if you connect using http, will provide an html response with search results on it. Note that this breaks any other use of DNS where you now connect to the server and get garbage rather than simply being told that the server address doesn't map to an IP address. If I wanted to do a search, I would do a search.
That being said, you can turn off all of the "enhancement" options in OpenDNS, and it works great as a DNS server.
For all those responding to your post that OpenDNS does the same thing. I am currently using OpenDNS, and it is working exactly as I would like, with no invalid responses, no ad-search type pages, etc.
If you sign up for an account (free) with OpenDNS, they give you a dashboard where you can configure how you want them to respond to certain types of requests. If you turn ALL of the options OFF, then their DNS service acts exactly as it should, with no hijacking of your requests. (for awhile, you couldn't turn off the google redirect issue, but they've even added an option for that now...)
There's a difference between "party on the weekends" and a photo history of you making a lot of poor decisions. Think, pictures of inappropriate jokes, pictures of you not just drunk, but completely obliterated, pictures of you breaking the law, etc.
If I'm hiring somebody, I don't care if they go out drinking on the weekends (in fact, I might be concerned if they didn't occasionally), but I would probably think twice if presented with evidence of them making repeated, poor, destructive decisions.
Decision making is a trait that translates over to work.
Ask yourself: Why can't an an equally skilled member of the team pick up the work of the lost employee in reasonable time?
The answer to that question is your real problem, kthxbye.
Isn't that the whole point of the "bus-factor"?
That it is important to ensure that, for example, were developer A to fall under a bus, equally skilled developer B is able to pick up his work?
The bus-factor "problem" is when there is no developer B, or he is not able to pick up the work of developer A...
So...ignoring the headline and considering the actual law - does this affect the folks doing RIAA's investigations? It sounds (from my uninformed point fo view) like it's written almost specifically for that sort of situation.
If postal services charged a flat rate, this might be a reasonable analogy.
As it is, I pay for every single piece of mail that I send. And, amazingly enough, if some piece of mail has more "priority" than another, I can pay more for it to be delivered more quickly.
How I wish I had mod points. I don't understand why this is such a difficult concept - evolution being the manner in which God created all the things that he created.
I'd be interested to hear if there are, and if so where, verses in the bible that counter the idea that evolution was God's mechanism for creating all the life that he created. Anyone?
I'm buying/building a jammer, illegal or not. I'd rather not have J. Random Asshat trying to read his email or check his eBay auction at 60mph next to me. Cellphones are already too bad. I'll turn his stuff off. So...you'd rather have J. Random Asshat trying to troubleshoot why his connection isn't working at 60mph next to you?
On the "recommendations" list, there is a line that looks something like this:
These recommendations are based on items you own and more. Except that "items you own" is a link. Click on it. You can tell Amazon what was a gift, and you can tell Amazon what past purchases you don't want it to consider for making recommendations.
Bullshit. They've been granted the right to use public property to lay their infrastructure. Do any of these companies actually own all of the land that their lines are buried in? Therefore, the people have every right to place restrictions on how they can provide service.
The majority of Java jobs that I see posted are for work that isn't distributed. Intranet web applications, internally developed web applications, etc. Everything that I have done in the past five years has been either web applications that are solely for the use of the employer, or that are used to add value to some existing service that is offered to business customers.
Also, supposedly Java is big in the mobile phone type electronics space, but I don't have any experience with that - maybe somebody else could provide some information on that.
It's 2 lines, not your 1. However, what you call bloat, I call flexibility (well, and a little bit of either ignorance or deliberate misinformation - there is seldom any good reason to include the entire package name - use import statements).
When what I need is:
XMLTransformer.transform(xmlfile, xsltFile, outputStream)
which should be a static method.
This is what we call a special case. I seldom have the need to do this particular operation. If you have to do it a lot, you can write a static method in 4 lines.
Also, I should point out that "org.apache.xalan.xslt" is hardly the Java API.
Actually the BSA doesnt the Mormon church that runs the hate all not mormon part of it.
I'm sorry, could you repeat that in english? I tried, I really did, and I'm usually awesome at understanding typoese... this just doesn't compute in any way, shape, or form.
No, really. But try typing the words in a sentence, this time. With, I don't know... grammar, and stuff.
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This isn't about open source being better. It's about having the source available for scrutiny. When you can't see HOW the program is doing the benchmarking, how can you trust it?
It seems, in this case, open source isn't even necessary. All that's necessary is simply making the source available in a readable form. (and letting folks compile and run it themselves in order to duplicate the tests)
Troll?? If the issue is people on planes being annoyed because of other people making noise, then children are right at the top of this list.
And I agree with everything you just said. Except the implied notion that this somehow requires a law.
Mine.
First, it's not a 404. A 404 is a http server response that says I don't have the resource you're requesting.
OpenDNS however, hijacks the DNS protocol when you attempt to lookup the address for a server. And so yes, a dns response that says that no addresses are found is more useful than a fake address that, if you connect using http, will provide an html response with search results on it. Note that this breaks any other use of DNS where you now connect to the server and get garbage rather than simply being told that the server address doesn't map to an IP address. If I wanted to do a search, I would do a search.
That being said, you can turn off all of the "enhancement" options in OpenDNS, and it works great as a DNS server.
I'm curious...how can one opto-isolate server components from the power source?
For all those responding to your post that OpenDNS does the same thing. I am currently using OpenDNS, and it is working exactly as I would like, with no invalid responses, no ad-search type pages, etc.
If you sign up for an account (free) with OpenDNS, they give you a dashboard where you can configure how you want them to respond to certain types of requests. If you turn ALL of the options OFF, then their DNS service acts exactly as it should, with no hijacking of your requests. (for awhile, you couldn't turn off the google redirect issue, but they've even added an option for that now...)
There's a difference between "party on the weekends" and a photo history of you making a lot of poor decisions. Think, pictures of inappropriate jokes, pictures of you not just drunk, but completely obliterated, pictures of you breaking the law, etc.
If I'm hiring somebody, I don't care if they go out drinking on the weekends (in fact, I might be concerned if they didn't occasionally), but I would probably think twice if presented with evidence of them making repeated, poor, destructive decisions.
Decision making is a trait that translates over to work.
Compared to most of the 24 hour diner's I've eaten at, Denny's is pretty decent fare...It's usually my choice for a "good" meal at 4am.
The GP's idea sounds almost exactly like how I purchase propane for my grill. Minus the "credit for the remaining energy". That'd be nice.
Ask yourself: Why can't an an equally skilled member of the team pick up the work of the lost employee in reasonable time? The answer to that question is your real problem, kthxbye.
Isn't that the whole point of the "bus-factor"?
That it is important to ensure that, for example, were developer A to fall under a bus, equally skilled developer B is able to pick up his work?
The bus-factor "problem" is when there is no developer B, or he is not able to pick up the work of developer A...
So...ignoring the headline and considering the actual law - does this affect the folks doing RIAA's investigations? It sounds (from my uninformed point fo view) like it's written almost specifically for that sort of situation.
It's the Democrat party, not the Democratic party, but that's a common mistake people make.
I'm sure one could forgive the GP for making this mistake, as it appears the party has it wrong themselves...
If postal services charged a flat rate, this might be a reasonable analogy.
As it is, I pay for every single piece of mail that I send. And, amazingly enough, if some piece of mail has more "priority" than another, I can pay more for it to be delivered more quickly.
How I wish I had mod points. I don't understand why this is such a difficult concept - evolution being the manner in which God created all the things that he created.
I'd be interested to hear if there are, and if so where, verses in the bible that counter the idea that evolution was God's mechanism for creating all the life that he created. Anyone?
Because your responce sounds like the normal rederik of tax the rich because that way the government benefits without effecting me,
Partisan rederick from both sides doesn't seem to cover the big picture.
Is the word that you're going for here rhetoric?
If they took it down, they put it back up. I drove past it on a regular basis on the way to school in 1999, 2000....
Coz we'd go through all the IP addresses we currently have remaining in about 30 milliseconds once this was opened up.
Why? How does a larger namespace equate to more IPs used? It seems to me they're somewhat orthogonal...At least for things that you've bought, you can go in and tell Amazon not to consider it for making recommendations.
Bullshit. They've been granted the right to use public property to lay their infrastructure. Do any of these companies actually own all of the land that their lines are buried in? Therefore, the people have every right to place restrictions on how they can provide service.
The majority of Java jobs that I see posted are for work that isn't distributed. Intranet web applications, internally developed web applications, etc. Everything that I have done in the past five years has been either web applications that are solely for the use of the employer, or that are used to add value to some existing service that is offered to business customers.
Also, supposedly Java is big in the mobile phone type electronics space, but I don't have any experience with that - maybe somebody else could provide some information on that.
Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(new File(xsltFileName)));
transformer.transform(new StreamSource(new File(xmlFileName)), new StreamResult(outputStream));
It's 2 lines, not your 1. However, what you call bloat, I call flexibility (well, and a little bit of either ignorance or deliberate misinformation - there is seldom any good reason to include the entire package name - use import statements).
When what I need is:XMLTransformer.transform(xmlfile, xsltFile, outputStream)
which should be a static method.
This is what we call a special case. I seldom have the need to do this particular operation. If you have to do it a lot, you can write a static method in 4 lines.
Also, I should point out that "org.apache.xalan.xslt" is hardly the Java API.