Sorry, you're dead wrong. The supreme court seems to understand the importance of anomymity.
You mean like the part of our law that provides that an accused party can face their accusor? Where is the anonymity there???
The very founding fathers of this country were prolific anonymous writers
"The founding fathers bla bla bla"...sorry, this is the most tired drivel you could have drawn up. Let me guess - NRA member?
Some things are simply TOO dangerous to put your name on.
This is once again ridiculous. In the Soviet Union alone there were numeours dissidents who spoke out against the regime at peril to their lives, but they spoke out publically as themselves, not some shadowy anonymous entity.
we don't allow phone users or dirver's license holders to remain anonymous, although their records are kepot private...not sure why online identities must be different.
The issue of sexual abuse groups is the ultimate red herring in this debate. Anyone who thinks that abuse groups are the crux of this issue is deluding themselves. Firstly, the notion of bearing your soul and your abuse to a group of strangers is ridiculous in itself. These folks need to deal with professional counsellors who can really help them, not a bunch of wannabe psychologists hanging out in newsgroups giving out bad advice.
Anonymity on the web is almost entirely focused on the ability to perform porn-related transactions without shame. Anyone who thinks it has anything to do with anything else needs a clue.
THese advancements are cute, but these companies who want to advance linux on the desktop have got to tackle the issue of streaming media players at some point.
Linux is losing ground every day to the windows platform in terms of web browsing - windows has a better browser (IE5) than anything available for linux, and every manner of streaming player is available for the platform. How many media players does linux support? RealPlayer on linux is a joke.
Comparing Amazon and VA Linux is simply flawed from the get-go. The only thing they share is the fact that they are on the web. Amazon sells everything from Harry Potter books to televisions.
VA Linux is tying to sell essentially stock PC's.
Pehrpas one thing they both share are huge competitors and razr-thin margins.
If people feel like contributing money to an open source project, a charity, or whatever, thats thei business.
Please don't start with this institutionalized begging, whereby everyone associated with an open source IPO is required to fork half of their loot back into your coffers.
Its been obvious for quite some time that numerous companies that are considered to hip, new and highly valued, will certainly evaporate within five years.
We see some of this already - Yahoo has eliminated its portal competition, EBay has pretty much sewn up auctions, and AOL rules everything in between.
As it stands, it should be quite obvious that VA Linux will certainly be worth less than $1 billion within twelve months. If you own this stock, use your brain and cut your losses right now.
Look at the charts for most.coms - they're already in bear territory.
Like any search, the search that tries to reunite your 404 error with the correct address is going to be wrong quite often.
Frankly, I'd rather just get the 404 than waste time digging through erroneous links.
By the way, there are hypertext systems that address this issue in ways that actually solve the problem - the now defunct HyperG system was very intelligent about redirecting requests.
What is your opinion on caching vs. Akamai? It would appear that it properly implemented, Akamai-style services can make all of this caching infrastructure obsolete.
C++ is a multi-prardigm language. You can program in OO. You can program procedurally. Its up to you. This is considered a strength of the language - if OO falls out of fashion, Java is hosed. C++ can easily be adapted to other paradigms, such as generic programming.
Since C++ is mutli-paradigm, having a set of built-in classes wouldn't make sense.
Also, having built in classes can be either a benefit or a curse. When they are well designed (smalltalk), they make programming a joy. When they are a moving target (Java), you're sometimes better off avoiding them altogether.
The notion that casting down from Object is a replacement for tempaltes is pure and utter garbage. Please go on comp.object and post this opinion - it would be amusing to see them fry you like bacon.
Here's your first hint - casting from Object removes all your static type checking. Your basically taking a stab in the dark at that point.
You've hit the nail on the head. Most of these applications really are toys compared to the Windows equivalents.
Even the KDE folks, who are further along than most, are at best trying to catch up with what Microsoft was offering five years ago.
Not that I think it really matters - if you really need to use an office suite, you're either already using Windows, or you're a retard.
I'd much rather hack perl and C on a linux box anyday, and the web is making desktop apps less relevant every second, so obviously linux and *BSD have their place.
Probably because if you bank at more than one institution (and IMO, smart 'shoppers' do)
Wrong - as you go up the foodchain in banking, the more consolidated your services become. Deposit seven figures at most good banks and you go through one liason for all your banking needs.
Sorry to the linux tail-light chasers who have been trying to emulate Quicken97, but online banking is the way to go.
Why enter all of your money and handlings automatically when the bank can do it for you?
I do all my credit card, savings, checking, and money market through one bank (well fargo) that puts it all online securely so I can get it from anywhere, anytime.
Why on earth would you want to follow the dead desktop-centric model of Gnucash?
One of the problems that server farms can face is the issue of support. If you install 8 intel boxes you must support 8 intel boxes.
A trained chimp can support an intel box. If its too much hassle - go with a colocation service that does it for you. Still cheaper than a mainframe.
The point with webserving is granularity. Think of webservers as grains of sand - you add or subtract them at will to increase performance or to fix problems. In this contect a mainframe is a large rock, which doesn't work well in webserving environments.
WEb serving is fairly light on processors - its heavy on network connectivity and disk I/O, with an emphasis of 100% uptime. With these requirements, it doesn't make sense to use mainframes, and I don't think anyone would reasonably advocate using them in this capacity.
Take a tour of a colocation like globalcenter - it will put things in perspective.
The reason web serving is typically spread over many machines is because no affordable hardware exists to handle all of the network I/O for any moderately busy website through one connection.
While a mainframe may be able to handle all of the CPU needs for EBay, no single network card can handle all of the traffic in an affordable fashion. And even if one did, EBay would be silly to put all of their eggs in one basket, regardless of its power.
Failover, sustainability and load balancing are key when building a web infrastructure. You are better off with fifty rackmount P III's than one mainframe any day of the week. That is why no one uses or advocates using mainframes for web serving.
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You mean like the part of our law that provides that an accused party can face their accusor? Where is the anonymity there???
The very founding fathers of this country were prolific anonymous writers
"The founding fathers bla bla bla"...sorry, this is the most tired drivel you could have drawn up. Let me guess - NRA member?
Some things are simply TOO dangerous to put your name on.
This is once again ridiculous. In the Soviet Union alone there were numeours dissidents who spoke out against the regime at peril to their lives, but they spoke out publically as themselves, not some shadowy anonymous entity.
As it stands, even whistle blowers must be recognized as who they are - under our law, you are allowed to stand before your accusor.
The issue of sexual abuse groups is the ultimate red herring in this debate. Anyone who thinks that abuse groups are the crux of this issue is deluding themselves. Firstly, the notion of bearing your soul and your abuse to a group of strangers is ridiculous in itself. These folks need to deal with professional counsellors who can really help them, not a bunch of wannabe psychologists hanging out in newsgroups giving out bad advice.
Anonymity on the web is almost entirely focused on the ability to perform porn-related transactions without shame. Anyone who thinks it has anything to do with anything else needs a clue.
Linux is losing ground every day to the windows platform in terms of web browsing - windows has a better browser (IE5) than anything available for linux, and every manner of streaming player is available for the platform. How many media players does linux support? RealPlayer on linux is a joke.
tcsh is a derivative of csh, the most ill-conceived shell available.
Where have you been for the last decade? Perl killed shell scripting for non-trivial automation years ago.
Down Trigger, its just korn shell fer christs sake.
The Kennedy assassination is still unsolved. Aliens at Roswell are still unconfirmed.
Zsh is miles above korn anyway - AT&T is a day late and a dollar short.
VA Linux is tying to sell essentially stock PC's.
Pehrpas one thing they both share are huge competitors and razr-thin margins.
Please don't start with this institutionalized begging, whereby everyone associated with an open source IPO is required to fork half of their loot back into your coffers.
We see some of this already - Yahoo has eliminated its portal competition, EBay has pretty much sewn up auctions, and AOL rules everything in between.
As it stands, it should be quite obvious that VA Linux will certainly be worth less than $1 billion within twelve months. If you own this stock, use your brain and cut your losses right now.
Look at the charts for most .coms - they're already in bear territory.
Frankly, I'd rather just get the 404 than waste time digging through erroneous links.
By the way, there are hypertext systems that address this issue in ways that actually solve the problem - the now defunct HyperG system was very intelligent about redirecting requests.
What is your opinion on caching vs. Akamai? It would appear that it properly implemented, Akamai-style services can make all of this caching infrastructure obsolete.
Since C++ is mutli-paradigm, having a set of built-in classes wouldn't make sense.
Also, having built in classes can be either a benefit or a curse. When they are well designed (smalltalk), they make programming a joy. When they are a moving target (Java), you're sometimes better off avoiding them altogether.
Here's your first hint - casting from Object removes all your static type checking. Your basically taking a stab in the dark at that point.
Some of us out there aren't satisfied with mediocore knock-offs.
Even the KDE folks, who are further along than most, are at best trying to catch up with what Microsoft was offering five years ago.
Not that I think it really matters - if you really need to use an office suite, you're either already using Windows, or you're a retard.
I'd much rather hack perl and C on a linux box anyday, and the web is making desktop apps less relevant every second, so obviously linux and *BSD have their place.
Wrong - as you go up the foodchain in banking, the more consolidated your services become. Deposit seven figures at most good banks and you go through one liason for all your banking needs.
Give me a break - the bank's computers are easily far more secure than your windows machine. Particularly if you are a cable modem/dsl user.
Thats certainly for transactions, not serving html.
Its a lot harder to yank out two hundred power cords than one.
Well, the one I work for does. As a hint, it was "attacked" two weeks ago. The traffic this site gets is what I base my comments on.
Why enter all of your money and handlings automatically when the bank can do it for you?
I do all my credit card, savings, checking, and money market through one bank (well fargo) that puts it all online securely so I can get it from anywhere, anytime.
Why on earth would you want to follow the dead desktop-centric model of Gnucash?
A trained chimp can support an intel box. If its too much hassle - go with a colocation service that does it for you. Still cheaper than a mainframe.
The point with webserving is granularity. Think of webservers as grains of sand - you add or subtract them at will to increase performance or to fix problems. In this contect a mainframe is a large rock, which doesn't work well in webserving environments.
WEb serving is fairly light on processors - its heavy on network connectivity and disk I/O, with an emphasis of 100% uptime. With these requirements, it doesn't make sense to use mainframes, and I don't think anyone would reasonably advocate using them in this capacity.
Take a tour of a colocation like globalcenter - it will put things in perspective.
While a mainframe may be able to handle all of the CPU needs for EBay, no single network card can handle all of the traffic in an affordable fashion. And even if one did, EBay would be silly to put all of their eggs in one basket, regardless of its power.
Failover, sustainability and load balancing are key when building a web infrastructure. You are better off with fifty rackmount P III's than one mainframe any day of the week. That is why no one uses or advocates using mainframes for web serving.