If you owned a copy of the software, you would have full redistribution rights, among other things. Therefore, according to what you are telling us, piracy is pretty much impossible. I wonder why the RIAA is still around?
Windows was in desperate need of a WebKit-based browser as it has pretty much become the de-facto standard for rendering engines. Since nobody else was stepping up to the plate, Apple did it themselves.
If you do not agree to the license, you do not have a right to use said software. If, as you claim, a signature was required for the license to be valid, you would not have the right to use any software (except, perhaps, BSD-style and artistic licensed work) without giving your signature to Microsoft, Apple, etc.
Perhaps it's not the progress of implementing ideas that is flat-lining, but the ideas themselves? All of the big ideas from science fiction of the past have already been invented or are in the process of being invented. There doesn't seem to be any off the wall ideas that seem impossible springing up in modern art. At least not in work that is making it into the mainstream.
In this case, this country would be Canada. I don't recall a Prime Minister Reagan. And I'm not sure our Digital Divide is that bad. Unless you live in a shack in the far north, most people have similar access for similar prices as someone who lives in downtown Toronto. If you do live in that shack, you'll still have the access, but you'll be looking at about twice the cost. Still, not bad, really, when you consider how large the country is and how few people we have.
I haven't used either in a couple of years now that I've switched to OS X, but at the time I preferred KDE because the applications worked together through DCOP interfaces to provide one cohesive system. Gnome applications, on the other hand, acted as separate entities and had to duplicate a lot of functionality found in other applications I already had on my system. Hopefully this situation has been improved.
ThruDB seems to be the favourite in the Rails world at the moment. But any high performance hash store will do. There are a lot of very interesting projects happening in this space right now.
But I simply don't know of a better alternative
As mentioned above, for most web applications you need a database that is built to stores hashes, not structured table data and relationships. ActiveRecord turns SQL into a rudimentary hash database. It's a hack, but it was the best option available at the time. A great example of embracing constraints, really.
Putting any more information in the SQL database than absolutely necessary is putting it in the wrong place. That logic belongs in the model, as ActiveRecord has done. As we start to move away from SQL in the future you'll be glad it is not in your database.
I'm not too hopeful. The current default is SQLite.
I think SQLite is the ideal default. It works out of the box and is good enough for the development of a lot of applications. Much better than the old MySQL default. But I was referring to ActiveDocument over ActiveRecord.
Considering that Ruby and Java were released at roughly the same time, that would pretty much be an impossibility unless Matz had some kind of inside track at Sun.
Another example is Ruby. Syntax wise, it looks like some kind of Python/Perl hybrid. While you can write your program to be similar to Perl or Python, you really need to start exploring Ruby's metaprogramming abilities to fully utilize what the language has to offer.
It gets even worse when your database supports real foreign keys.
The root of the problem here is that using an RDBMS for most web applications is a hack, no matter what language or framework you are using. Unfortunately at the time Rails was created there were no suitable, generally available, alternatives to the SQL server. As such, Rails had to do what it could to make SQL act like the right tool for the job. Not pretty, like hitting the nail with the handle of a screwdriver, but it got the job done.
But then came along the DBAs who failed to see why SQL is the wrong tool for the job and expected ActiveRecord to support every esoteric feature the RDBMS has to offer. When they found out it didn't the comments about how terrible ActiveRecord and Rails are started flooding in. They couldn't see the forest for the trees.
The plugins you mentioned are a great testament to Rails on how easy is to extend to do exactly what you want. But I think it's unfortunate how many people missed the point on why features such as foreign keys are not described in the database as far as ActiveRecord is concerned. On the bright side, I foresee Rails moving completely away from ActiveRecord as the default data access layer in the not so distant future.
Prices of wheat have already risen this year as farmers are growing corn for ethanol
I'm a farmer in North America and I'm not seeing that. This year, every other field is in wheat and the large majority of the rest will be going into beans in this area. There will still be corn grown, of course, as part of the crop rotation cycle and not putting all your eggs in one basket reasons. Unless things change by May, nobody is going out of their way to grow more corn than they have to, it's simply not worth enough.
Corn is practically worthless, still, even with all the ethanol production we have now. Wheat, on the other hand, is worth a fortune right now. If it was as simple as just picking a crop and growing it, you'd be crazy to even touch corn right now. Unfortunately it's not that simple.
Perhaps the problem is that you are advertising the job as a.NET job instead of a job of developing an application that does X? Talented developers aren't so much concerned about the technology as much as they are about what they are developing. It's okay to mention that the existing code base is developed in.NET, but any talk about specific technologies should end there.
Claiming there is a shortage passes the message on to the government that we need to allow more foreign workers in. As they come in the labour pool is increased and thus the average salary goes down.
But did you invite someone over for a home cooked meal Friday night? The horoscope indicates that the romp in the sack was a sure thing if you initiated the home cooked meal with that certain someone.
I thought that was caused by people adding comments boxes to webpages?
The comment boxes are part of Web 1.0, but the RSS feed to those comments is Web 2.0. Web 2.0 defines the machine readable web. Documents designed for computers instead of humans.
You don't need XML to do web 2.0 type stuff
While there are some people using technologies like JSON and YAML, for the most part you do need XML for Web 2.0 stuff.
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If you owned a copy of the software, you would have full redistribution rights, among other things. Therefore, according to what you are telling us, piracy is pretty much impossible. I wonder why the RIAA is still around?
Windows was in desperate need of a WebKit-based browser as it has pretty much become the de-facto standard for rendering engines. Since nobody else was stepping up to the plate, Apple did it themselves.
If you do not agree to the license, you do not have a right to use said software. If, as you claim, a signature was required for the license to be valid, you would not have the right to use any software (except, perhaps, BSD-style and artistic licensed work) without giving your signature to Microsoft, Apple, etc.
So, I think we can safely assume that they just forgot to change the same clause in the EULA for OS X also.
Perhaps it's not the progress of implementing ideas that is flat-lining, but the ideas themselves? All of the big ideas from science fiction of the past have already been invented or are in the process of being invented. There doesn't seem to be any off the wall ideas that seem impossible springing up in modern art. At least not in work that is making it into the mainstream.
Presumably the airport priced their services to allow a budget for future expansion.
It seems to me that they just need to build a bigger airport.
In this case, this country would be Canada. I don't recall a Prime Minister Reagan. And I'm not sure our Digital Divide is that bad. Unless you live in a shack in the far north, most people have similar access for similar prices as someone who lives in downtown Toronto. If you do live in that shack, you'll still have the access, but you'll be looking at about twice the cost. Still, not bad, really, when you consider how large the country is and how few people we have.
I haven't used either in a couple of years now that I've switched to OS X, but at the time I preferred KDE because the applications worked together through DCOP interfaces to provide one cohesive system. Gnome applications, on the other hand, acted as separate entities and had to duplicate a lot of functionality found in other applications I already had on my system. Hopefully this situation has been improved.
The hardware is priced accordingly. But the pre-installed version of OS X costs more than an OEM copy of Windows.
ThruDB seems to be the favourite in the Rails world at the moment. But any high performance hash store will do. There are a lot of very interesting projects happening in this space right now.
As mentioned above, for most web applications you need a database that is built to stores hashes, not structured table data and relationships. ActiveRecord turns SQL into a rudimentary hash database. It's a hack, but it was the best option available at the time. A great example of embracing constraints, really.
Putting any more information in the SQL database than absolutely necessary is putting it in the wrong place. That logic belongs in the model, as ActiveRecord has done. As we start to move away from SQL in the future you'll be glad it is not in your database.
I think SQLite is the ideal default. It works out of the box and is good enough for the development of a lot of applications. Much better than the old MySQL default. But I was referring to ActiveDocument over ActiveRecord.
Considering that Ruby and Java were released at roughly the same time, that would pretty much be an impossibility unless Matz had some kind of inside track at Sun.
Another example is Ruby. Syntax wise, it looks like some kind of Python/Perl hybrid. While you can write your program to be similar to Perl or Python, you really need to start exploring Ruby's metaprogramming abilities to fully utilize what the language has to offer.
Or PATH. It's Brainfuck in 2D.
Javascript doesn't have classes, it's a prototype-based language. But I agree, Javascript is awesome. It's up there as one of my favourite languages.
The root of the problem here is that using an RDBMS for most web applications is a hack, no matter what language or framework you are using. Unfortunately at the time Rails was created there were no suitable, generally available, alternatives to the SQL server. As such, Rails had to do what it could to make SQL act like the right tool for the job. Not pretty, like hitting the nail with the handle of a screwdriver, but it got the job done.
But then came along the DBAs who failed to see why SQL is the wrong tool for the job and expected ActiveRecord to support every esoteric feature the RDBMS has to offer. When they found out it didn't the comments about how terrible ActiveRecord and Rails are started flooding in. They couldn't see the forest for the trees.
The plugins you mentioned are a great testament to Rails on how easy is to extend to do exactly what you want. But I think it's unfortunate how many people missed the point on why features such as foreign keys are not described in the database as far as ActiveRecord is concerned. On the bright side, I foresee Rails moving completely away from ActiveRecord as the default data access layer in the not so distant future.
I'm a farmer in North America and I'm not seeing that. This year, every other field is in wheat and the large majority of the rest will be going into beans in this area. There will still be corn grown, of course, as part of the crop rotation cycle and not putting all your eggs in one basket reasons. Unless things change by May, nobody is going out of their way to grow more corn than they have to, it's simply not worth enough.
You must be either a rice farmer or exceedingly wealthy. Converting the demand for wheat into rice would send the price of rice through the roof.
Corn is practically worthless, still, even with all the ethanol production we have now. Wheat, on the other hand, is worth a fortune right now. If it was as simple as just picking a crop and growing it, you'd be crazy to even touch corn right now. Unfortunately it's not that simple.
Perhaps the problem is that you are advertising the job as a .NET job instead of a job of developing an application that does X? Talented developers aren't so much concerned about the technology as much as they are about what they are developing. It's okay to mention that the existing code base is developed in .NET, but any talk about specific technologies should end there.
Claiming there is a shortage passes the message on to the government that we need to allow more foreign workers in. As they come in the labour pool is increased and thus the average salary goes down.
But did you invite someone over for a home cooked meal Friday night? The horoscope indicates that the romp in the sack was a sure thing if you initiated the home cooked meal with that certain someone.
Why not offer H.264 encoded video to iPhone/iPod Touch users and Flash video to everyone else?
The comment boxes are part of Web 1.0, but the RSS feed to those comments is Web 2.0. Web 2.0 defines the machine readable web. Documents designed for computers instead of humans.
While there are some people using technologies like JSON and YAML, for the most part you do need XML for Web 2.0 stuff.