Sticky sessions defeat the purpose of a clustered load-balanced system.... You can end up with a disproportionate number of users on one system bringing it down and lessening their experience.
We have an entire centralized server that does nothing but serve session data. From the ground up the server and database is optimized for serving session data.
I don't refute that is what prior art is for, I'm just saying if IBM really deserves the prior art for it, and I think it takes a lot more than even my armchair patent analysis to prove that, they also deserve the patent.
The patent it just a stronger means of defending your work, that is all.
Thats not to say I find the entire situation deplorable (software patents) but it is a reality and you can either get with it or you lose.
This is a fairly specific patent. After having a look at it im not really concerned. Their definition of "tool" is a little loose, which bothers me somewhat.
Having worked with content management systems in both PHP and ColdFusion using a WebBrowser and a VB client for managing the content.
The chances your specific interface emulate completely IBMs described interface are little to none.
Before I rise up to say how evil IBM is I will say this. Patents are an eventuality. It is like a nuclear arms race, if you don't patent it someone else will, and then they can use it against you or at least hold it over you.
Is this new, unique, exciting, or worth a patent? No probably not. It seems from their description to be little more than a super-duper WYSIWYAG (What you see is what you almost get) type site builder. WIth IBMs drive to do ecommerce this definitely fits with thier overall marketing and business plans.. This would obviously be for the low - medium end of the ecommerce spectrum
THe system also defines a system of content approval and rights of some sort
All in all I have designed systems this in depth or more. The systems may do similar things but the means of doing it are invariably almost completely different. (Of course my system focuses on already having a site and allowing an administrator to build the site without the overhead of really thinking up the design aspect at all.. just manage the content)
It is still a liberal policy, the recordings are allowed on services like Napster, people can still hear the music while supporting the artist all legally.
All recordings must be used for personal use or trading only. Selling or commercializing any recording is illegal and will jeopardize taping privileges for everyone. Please read our Bootleg Statement for more information.
So sure they let you trade amongst your friends but not commercializing it. Their goal is to foster interaction in their community, NOT commercilization of their community there is a world of difference.
There are also rules for tape authorized shows and how you can tape their shows.
How about this:
Commercial bootleg's are not only excessively priced and of inferior quality, but primarily, they are an illegal use that threaten the taping privileges of everyone. Due to the efforts of a few unscrupulous tapers the privilege of recording live performances has been jeopardized. Those of you who have passed along information about commercialized recordings have been very instrumental in our fight against these bootleggers. They are obviously against commercial trading, and that doesnt even touch their regular albums.
I agree with them they have one of the best policies out there but you still cant rape them blind. He is NOT okay with you taking his album and ripping it and putting it on a p2p service without his permission.
Nice try... nothins free
so you are limited to live recordings only and I will end with
Any method of trading that does not involve personal fan interaction defeats the spirit of this goal of the taping policy and is not authorized.
Just so you know.. qt for linux is COMPLETELY GPL'd. Does it get any freer? What do you want public domain? You have access to ALL the source.
Opensource for open software. I compiled Qt from source, what don't you have access to? People love to flame Trolltech for not being open but damn! They made the x11 version of Qt GPL'd.
Nuff said.
Relevant quote...
The Qt/X11 Free Edition is provided with no support and no warranty.
The Qt Free Edition is provided under both the Q Public License ("QPL") and the GPL. This specifies that you may freely use the Qt Free Edition for:
Running software developed by others (e.g. KDE)
Development of open source/non-proprietary software
The Qt Professional / Enterprise Editions are available for development of commercial/proprietary software. If you wish to evaluate Qt/X11 for commercial use, please see the Evaluation information.
and
The current version of Qt/X11 Free Edition is 3.0.0
I guess people should stop using Sun Solaris workstations all together.. such audacity using a server OS for a workstation because it is more productive for some people.
But there still is an implied level of trust in the company you are giving your money to in return for a service. You give them the money on the good faith that they will come through. It *is* such a small amount on an individual scale and they have done nothing to disprove their reputation.
I would still stand by my give them the chance idea. These are open source programmers and WINE people, they have a lot of face to lose by dicking over the community that started them. In this case they really are not larger than their community and they rely nearly entirely on reputation at this point, performance of their intentions can only come later after an initial investment of trust throughout the community.
It Is reasonable to feel a little burned with companies like Lutris doing what they have, but hey you get what you pay for they say:)
I agree, now its being looked for obviously its going to be found more often. Im sure tons of cases have went unidentified.
I realize its not contagious as well.. was just pointing out a few relevant facts.
I learned about the vaccine from my gf (shes a biology major.. shes much scarier than anything on the news when she talks about this stuff she also thinks anthrax is kinda laughable as a widespread weapon)
The "so called" vaccine is really just a toxin they pump into your body that kills the bacteria. Its not a true vaccine in the regular sense. You can't really vaccinate (in the traditional sense) against bacteria.
The affects of the "vaccine" are debatable, I know people who left the military (dishonorable discharge) over not taking an antrax vaccine. It also involves a series of shots over several weeks followed by a shot every year to keep the toxins up in your body. Cure worse than disease?
Anthrax is anthrax, if you happen to breath it you die.
You won't really know you have it until your dead.
Another intersting fact that should bother everyone here some... The case of inhaled anthrax is the first documented case of anthrax in the last 25 YEARS
Not just here, anywhere. Of course now everyone will be looking for it so cutaneous may get identified more readily but still... 25 years and not one inhaled case and all of this sudden three cases in two completely different geographical regions?
A letter sent to microsoft with Anthrax?
No I doubt anyones gonna send me anthrax, and no im not worried about anyone using anthrax to kill people
Anthrax is now popularized in the media, there are scarier things out there than anthrax.
That program a quine (a brainfuck quine *shudder* quite a feat in any language actually)
That means the program when executed will print the entire source to the program.
Quines are pretty time consuming to construct. There are a couple of famous quines floating around in C as well.
So you can compile a quine run it, and pipe the output of the quine into a source file compile that, run it ad infinitum because the program generates itself:)
I am not saying what anyone else needs. I am saying I really appreciate the things I have learned outside of the scope of math and programming in college.
I have found they complement and enhanced my career and job beyond what the math and programming courses I have taken.
You can still avoid other courses and keep the narrow focus in college, I simply appreciate it and think you end up learning that in college regardless of whether you want to or not. Its not like I advocate it, but that is how it is at most colleges and thats how it will be for a while probably.
I agree, some of the time the focus should be more on skills rather than broad liberal arts classes.. But then this is slashdot where most people really dont think much beyond computers and programming.
I said "to each there own" that means, however you like it, I just found it to be not so bad like people are making it out to be.
While some people seem to only want to know what they need to say write a great C program and develop software I think there is something important in learning to think.
You may not think the classes your taking are worth very much to your career. You may not enjoy the subject matter. You may not even want to be in school. But if you really take the meaning of what is being taught you have learned to think that much more.
I don't really believe you will ever be prepared for a job coming out of college without some sort of serious extra cirricular activities in your chosen career field.
A college degree should prove your trainable and that you know how to learn.
Long term, I would rather hire someone who proves they can learn over someone who has a narrow focus on some limited subset of technology.
We may not be programming Java in 20 years, but we will still be learning and still be progressing with technology.
Having the ability to communicate and write and express your thoughts clearly are just as important as knowing what the finalize method does in Java. Unless you plan on working alone all your life you have to communicate and work with others.
I started programming right out of highschool, while I was in highschool actually. I understand the frustration of not really understanding the technology at play right away. I was just like most college graduates only coming out of high school in that respect. Now I have a couple of years of college under my belt and the changes in the developer I am today and the developer I was four years ago are amazing.
It is just a complete perspective thing that you really can't have until you have been out there in the real world. It gives me complete 100% appreciation for every college class I ever took, even religion. Now I can stand around and know the difference in the two major muslim factions without feeling clueless.
My main point is, you learn to learn and you get perspective on life and whats out there in college. You don't really gain a ton of ultra important skills until your in the work world. I did it backwards. I worked right outta high school programming, and have filled in the gaps with college at night. To each their own, I guess.
I wrote an essay on this, I have plugged it a few times here.. just visit my site (decidedly barren at this point) and check out "Price of Freedom". Anyhow, Every time one of these articles come up the same things are said over and over.
Something to the effect of, we all know these wont enhance our security and our more radical congresscritters are using this for their own agenda.
Someone gets modded to insightful for it by posing a few basic questions and we all know it would not have stopped the attacks, anyone who is capapble of rational objective thought can determine this. I wrote an essay with the hope I wouldnt have to keep saying the same thing a million times;) Within the "social" circles at slashdot I don't think its doing much good. Your average person, not slashdot readers, needs to hear this, and WHY it won't help, not just that it won't.
Slashdot Mirror
Sticky sessions defeat the purpose of a clustered load-balanced system.... You can end up with a disproportionate number of users on one system bringing it down and lessening their experience.
:)
We have an entire centralized server that does nothing but serve session data. From the ground up the server and database is optimized for serving session data.
Works quite nicely
Jeremy
I don't refute that is what prior art is for, I'm just saying if IBM really deserves the prior art for it, and I think it takes a lot more than even my armchair patent analysis to prove that, they also deserve the patent.
The patent it just a stronger means of defending your work, that is all.
Thats not to say I find the entire situation deplorable (software patents) but it is a reality and you can either get with it or you lose.
Jeremy
Go read the patent, not even close to what they have patented. Slashdot spin+ignorance = irrelevant comment.
Jeremy
This is a fairly specific patent. After having a look at it im not really concerned. Their definition of "tool" is a little loose, which bothers me somewhat.
Having worked with content management systems in both PHP and ColdFusion using a WebBrowser and a VB client for managing the content.
The chances your specific interface emulate completely IBMs described interface are little to none.
Before I rise up to say how evil IBM is I will say this. Patents are an eventuality. It is like a nuclear arms race, if you don't patent it someone else will, and then they can use it against you or at least hold it over you.
Is this new, unique, exciting, or worth a patent? No probably not. It seems from their description to be little more than a super-duper WYSIWYAG (What you see is what you almost get) type site builder. WIth IBMs drive to do ecommerce this definitely fits with thier overall marketing and business plans.. This would obviously be for the low - medium end of the ecommerce spectrum
THe system also defines a system of content approval and rights of some sort
All in all I have designed systems this in depth or more. The systems may do similar things but the means of doing it are invariably almost completely different. (Of course my system focuses on already having a site and allowing an administrator to build the site without the overhead of really thinking up the design aspect at all.. just manage the content)
Again, this is just an incremental evolution.
Jeremy
Hehe.. I wish I could use OS X or Linux all day :(
Jeremy
Even better, drag desktop! You get my computer almost always at the top PLUS your desktop. Explorer? Right click on my computer and explore.
Manage? Right click on my computer go manage.
I find it highly usable...
I also like OS X tho.. But I make do with Win2K when I have to.
Jeremy
It is still a liberal policy, the recordings are allowed on services like Napster, people can still hear the music while supporting the artist all legally.
I agree the philosophy does still hold.
Jeremy
Right on, one company got a bad batch of drives. 75 systems out of thousands...
Jeremy
Close.. from the DMB site:
All recordings must be used for personal use or trading only. Selling or commercializing any recording is illegal and will jeopardize taping privileges for everyone. Please read our Bootleg Statement for more information.
So sure they let you trade amongst your friends but not commercializing it. Their goal is to foster interaction in their community, NOT commercilization of their community there is a world of difference.
There are also rules for tape authorized shows and how you can tape their shows.
How about this:
Commercial bootleg's are not only excessively priced and of inferior quality, but primarily, they are an illegal use that threaten the taping privileges of everyone. Due to the efforts of a few unscrupulous tapers the privilege of recording live performances has been jeopardized. Those of you who have passed along information about commercialized recordings have been very instrumental in our fight against these bootleggers. They are obviously against commercial trading, and that doesnt even touch their regular albums.
I agree with them they have one of the best policies out there but you still cant rape them blind. He is NOT okay with you taking his album and ripping it and putting it on a p2p service without his permission.
Nice try... nothins free
so you are limited to live recordings only and I will end with
Any method of trading that does not involve personal fan interaction defeats the spirit of this goal of the taping policy and is not authorized.
Jeremy
Just so you know.. qt for linux is COMPLETELY GPL'd. Does it get any freer? What do you want public domain? You have access to ALL the source.
:)
Opensource for open software. I compiled Qt from source, what don't you have access to? People love to flame Trolltech for not being open but damn! They made the x11 version of Qt GPL'd.
Nuff said.
Relevant quote...
The Qt/X11 Free Edition is provided with no support and no warranty.
The Qt Free Edition is provided under both the Q Public License ("QPL") and the GPL. This specifies that you may freely use the Qt Free Edition for:
Running software developed by others (e.g. KDE)
Development of open source/non-proprietary software
The Qt Professional / Enterprise Editions are available for development of commercial/proprietary software. If you wish to evaluate Qt/X11 for commercial use, please see the Evaluation information.
and
The current version of Qt/X11 Free Edition is 3.0.0
Jeremy
I guess people should stop using Sun Solaris workstations all together.. such audacity using a server OS for a workstation because it is more productive for some people.
Jeremy
But there still is an implied level of trust in the company you are giving your money to in return for a service. You give them the money on the good faith that they will come through. It *is* such a small amount on an individual scale and they have done nothing to disprove their reputation.
:)
I would still stand by my give them the chance idea. These are open source programmers and WINE people, they have a lot of face to lose by dicking over the community that started them. In this case they really are not larger than their community and they rely nearly entirely on reputation at this point, performance of their intentions can only come later after an initial investment of trust throughout the community.
It Is reasonable to feel a little burned with companies like Lutris doing what they have, but hey you get what you pay for they say
Jeremy
If it doesnt, the tenets of the company are flase, I bet they would lose thier subscriber base quick.... Wouldnt you leave them? :)
Anthrax is anthrax is antrhax, how you contract it is all that matters. One guy inhaled it, another person got the skin version.
Jeremy
I agree, now its being looked for obviously its going to be found more often. Im sure tons of cases have went unidentified.
I realize its not contagious as well.. was just pointing out a few relevant facts.
I learned about the vaccine from my gf (shes a biology major.. shes much scarier than anything on the news when she talks about this stuff she also thinks anthrax is kinda laughable as a widespread weapon)
Jeremy
(CNN Article CNN Dr Talks about Anthrax really great article)
The "so called" vaccine is really just a toxin they pump into your body that kills the bacteria. Its not a true vaccine in the regular sense. You can't really vaccinate (in the traditional sense) against bacteria.
The affects of the "vaccine" are debatable, I know people who left the military (dishonorable discharge) over not taking an antrax vaccine. It also involves a series of shots over several weeks followed by a shot every year to keep the toxins up in your body. Cure worse than disease?
Anthrax is anthrax, if you happen to breath it you die.
You won't really know you have it until your dead.
Another intersting fact that should bother everyone here some... The case of inhaled anthrax is the first documented case of anthrax in the last 25 YEARS
Not just here, anywhere. Of course now everyone will be looking for it so cutaneous may get identified more readily but still... 25 years and not one inhaled case and all of this sudden three cases in two completely different geographical regions?
A letter sent to microsoft with Anthrax?
No I doubt anyones gonna send me anthrax, and no im not worried about anyone using anthrax to kill people
Anthrax is now popularized in the media, there are scarier things out there than anthrax.
Jeremy
That program a quine (a brainfuck quine *shudder* quite a feat in any language actually)
:)
That means the program when executed will print the entire source to the program.
Quines are pretty time consuming to construct. There are a couple of famous quines floating around in C as well.
So you can compile a quine run it, and pipe the output of the quine into a source file compile that, run it ad infinitum because the program generates itself
Jeremy
Just carry a laptop with you and sleep with it in a location accessible only by phsyically moving your body.
:)
Jeremy
Okay I know its corny but it just seemed to fit... rr ee dd uu nn dd aa nn tt can be funny some days
Jeremy
Im just not sure how practical it is.. well see..
Jeremy
My company specialized in localized intranets :)
Albeit more aimed at master planned communities...
Neighborware
Jeremy
YHBT HAND :-)
I am not saying what anyone else needs. I am saying I really appreciate the things I have learned outside of the scope of math and programming in college.
I have found they complement and enhanced my career and job beyond what the math and programming courses I have taken.
You can still avoid other courses and keep the narrow focus in college, I simply appreciate it and think you end up learning that in college regardless of whether you want to or not. Its not like I advocate it, but that is how it is at most colleges and thats how it will be for a while probably.
I agree, some of the time the focus should be more on skills rather than broad liberal arts classes.. But then this is slashdot where most people really dont think much beyond computers and programming.
I said "to each there own" that means, however you like it, I just found it to be not so bad like people are making it out to be.
Jeremy:)
While some people seem to only want to know what they need to say write a great C program and develop software I think there is something important in learning to think.
You may not think the classes your taking are worth very much to your career. You may not enjoy the subject matter. You may not even want to be in school. But if you really take the meaning of what is being taught you have learned to think that much more.
I don't really believe you will ever be prepared for a job coming out of college without some sort of serious extra cirricular activities in your chosen career field.
A college degree should prove your trainable and that you know how to learn.
Long term, I would rather hire someone who proves they can learn over someone who has a narrow focus on some limited subset of technology.
We may not be programming Java in 20 years, but we will still be learning and still be progressing with technology.
Having the ability to communicate and write and express your thoughts clearly are just as important as knowing what the finalize method does in Java. Unless you plan on working alone all your life you have to communicate and work with others.
I started programming right out of highschool, while I was in highschool actually. I understand the frustration of not really understanding the technology at play right away. I was just like most college graduates only coming out of high school in that respect. Now I have a couple of years of college under my belt and the changes in the developer I am today and the developer I was four years ago are amazing.
It is just a complete perspective thing that you really can't have until you have been out there in the real world. It gives me complete 100% appreciation for every college class I ever took, even religion. Now I can stand around and know the difference in the two major muslim factions without feeling clueless.
My main point is, you learn to learn and you get perspective on life and whats out there in college. You don't really gain a ton of ultra important skills until your in the work world. I did it backwards. I worked right outta high school programming, and have filled in the gaps with college at night. To each their own, I guess.
Jeremy
I wrote an essay on this, I have plugged it a few times here.. just visit my site (decidedly barren at this point) and check out "Price of Freedom". Anyhow, Every time one of these articles come up the same things are said over and over.
;) Within the "social" circles at slashdot I don't think its doing much good. Your average person, not slashdot readers, needs to hear this, and WHY it won't help, not just that it won't.
Something to the effect of, we all know these wont enhance our security and our more radical congresscritters are using this for their own agenda.
Someone gets modded to insightful for it by posing a few basic questions and we all know it would not have stopped the attacks, anyone who is capapble of rational objective thought can determine this. I wrote an essay with the hope I wouldnt have to keep saying the same thing a million times
Jeremy