Mr Meeks is obviously very hostile towards ICANN for some reason, so I have to take his views with a pinch of salt. He also seems to have no idea who CORE are. Finally, he ignores the idea of opening up *all* top level domains. Could someone give me a concrete reason why this shouldn't be done?
Well, from what I've read, it allows you to pass actual data between languages without marshelling, the thing that COM does for you. It will also hide COM from you so you can just work with straight data types. Apparently.
Okay, point taken. Some of it could turn out good (easy multi-language development) and some of it could turn out plain eeeeevil (pretty poor privacy).
I am no Microsoft fan, but bashing.NET just because it's from them is very short sighted. Some of the ideas are very intersting, for instance common binary data types. This allows different languages to cooperate without the requirement of complex (slow, hard to understand) arbitration methods such as COM or CORBA.
Remember, people use computers to get things done, not to show off their latest window mamangers. If Microsoft make it easier to tie tools together people will use Windows and put up with its tempremental behaviour. Believe me, I've seen it where I work.
You would be better off with something like Mason for a better analogy. It's like ASP on steroids. It works with "components" that allow you to split up your pages into reusable blocks and provides great mechanisms for templating and caching. It beats PHP hands down too, but then it is based on Perl!:)
....you might like to look at Mason which builds on mod_perl to give you Perl in a ASP/PHP style. It's strength is that it has a strong component-based system which supports ideas such as automatic templating of pages (thus avoiding "include header" and "include footer" on every page).
What we need is Scaled Vector Grahpics in our browsers, and then we might be able to dump this "designed for 800x600" idiocy. It would be nice if all icons everywhere were properly scalable, including on the desktop. SGI have done been doing this with their desktop environment for years.
I used to test ORBitCPP and wrote the first FAQ on it about a year ago. At the time it was the only set of C++ bindings available for ORBit, and it seemed okay to me. It was only on version 0.1 back then, so don't let the version number scare you off. I know Phil would be grateful for any help.
You might want to look at CORBA which is the open standard equivalent of COM(+). The newer versions have stuff about services in. Remember it's only a standard though, so finding a suitable implementation for you is where the real problem lies.
At the risk of repeating myself, what about the MySQL server, which many people consider to be "free", that is in non-free because it's license does not meet up to the Debian standards?
Don't think I'm advocating non-free here, but it's a little rash to say that there is a free conterpart to every piece of software available. If only....
Yes, I use this and it's great. It provides many features above and beyond "code inside you HTML" model. These include a coherent (now OO based) component structure, data caching, page templating, a previewer, and even a content management system a la Zope (although I haven't used this myself, and I think it's still experimental). These feature definitely put it towards the top of the pile. If more service providers gave this as an options I'd never touch PHP again, version 4 or no. And don't be put off by the sub-1.0 version, it's being used in a lot of production systems already, including where I work. You can find out more at Mason HQ.
You need to get people who will actually be interested in your site to visit, not just random "click-thrus". Of course, good old word-of-mouth beats everything for this.
Case in point: with one project I used to run our traffic trippled overnight when we got a listing in the correct Yahoo section. The point is that it's no good just being registered with search engines, you need to get catagorised and preferably reviewed too. However strange your site, there are people out there looking for something like it, so make it easy for them to find you. This, in turn, will help you out on the word-of-mouth front.
I worked with a group that was building a GIS system atop PowerBuilder; they got about 1/2 done, and then had to discard it and recreate the whole application using MFC/C++ because they just couldn't push PowerBuilder far enough.
I have seen exactly the same thing happen with Oracle and their Designer 2000 built apps. They all turn out with the same cheap looking interfaces and are very hard to maintain. Like they say, when all you have is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail.
Nope, most definitely not an urban legend. We had it happen a few times at my old employers.
We have little plastic labels that you insert between the plug and socket. They have "LEAVE ON" written on them in big black letters. A very cheap way to avoid a headache.
Writing to an opposition MP may do more good than you think. They will use ANYTHING as ammunition against the governement, so at least we stand a chance of getting the topic into the public arena. What we need to do is get the non-technical public concerned enough that it filters back through the government focus groups to the people in charge.
Not the best solution, but as has been pointed out here before, you need to work within the rules of the game if you are to have any effect. Even if you hate doing it.
Now this has to also apply to this data encryption business doesn't it? Just tell you refuse to incriminate yourself (by giving them the key) then they'll have to try and crack it themselves, not just punish you anyhow
Yes, but the rest of the UK has not signed up to the European Human Rights Act yet. The good news, however, is that this should be happening in October. So no encrypting till then, OK?
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Will some more people please vote for the bug that prevents it from working behind MS Proxy 2.0! There's a patch, they just won't check it in!
Sorry, that should have read: CORE.
Mr Meeks is obviously very hostile towards ICANN for some reason, so I have to take his views with a pinch of salt. He also seems to have no idea who CORE are. Finally, he ignores the idea of opening up *all* top level domains. Could someone give me a concrete reason why this shouldn't be done?
Well, from what I've read, it allows you to pass actual data between languages without marshelling, the thing that COM does for you. It will also hide COM from you so you can just work with straight data types. Apparently.
Okay, point taken. Some of it could turn out good (easy multi-language development) and some of it could turn out plain eeeeevil (pretty poor privacy).
I am no Microsoft fan, but bashing .NET just because it's from them is very short sighted. Some of the ideas are very intersting, for instance common binary data types. This allows different languages to cooperate without the requirement of complex (slow, hard to understand) arbitration methods such as COM or CORBA.
Remember, people use computers to get things done, not to show off their latest window mamangers. If Microsoft make it easier to tie tools together people will use Windows and put up with its tempremental behaviour. Believe me, I've seen it where I work.
Yes indeed, isn't that against the law under the DMCA? Not that I'd know; I don't live is the US. :)
You would be better off with something like Mason for a better analogy. It's like ASP on steroids. It works with "components" that allow you to split up your pages into reusable blocks and provides great mechanisms for templating and caching. It beats PHP hands down too, but then it is based on Perl! :)
Amoung other things, the nightly builds are probably compiled with debugging information in them. IE is bound to be stripped down to a minimum.
"This flame is in the passive form, you should consider making it more offensive."
....you might like to look at Mason which builds on mod_perl to give you Perl in a ASP/PHP style. It's strength is that it has a strong component-based system which supports ideas such as automatic templating of pages (thus avoiding "include header" and "include footer" on every page).
What we need is Scaled Vector Grahpics in our browsers, and then we might be able to dump this "designed for 800x600" idiocy. It would be nice if all icons everywhere were properly scalable, including on the desktop. SGI have done been doing this with their desktop environment for years.
I used to test ORBitCPP and wrote the first FAQ on it about a year ago. At the time it was the only set of C++ bindings available for ORBit, and it seemed okay to me. It was only on version 0.1 back then, so don't let the version number scare you off. I know Phil would be grateful for any help.
You might want to look at CORBA which is the open standard equivalent of COM(+). The newer versions have stuff about services in. Remember it's only a standard though, so finding a suitable implementation for you is where the real problem lies.
Is a "WIPO" like a "typo", except you delete the wrong thing? Hmmm, could become rather apt if they gain jurisdiction over domain name disputes....
At the risk of repeating myself, what about the MySQL server, which many people consider to be "free", that is in non-free because it's license does not meet up to the Debian standards?
Don't think I'm advocating non-free here, but it's a little rash to say that there is a free conterpart to every piece of software available. If only....
Don't forget that may useful packages such as the MySQL server (what about the current KDE debs?) are in non-free because of licence issues.
Yes, I use this and it's great. It provides many features above and beyond "code inside you HTML" model. These include a coherent (now OO based) component structure, data caching, page templating, a previewer, and even a content management system a la Zope (although I haven't used this myself, and I think it's still experimental). These feature definitely put it towards the top of the pile. If more service providers gave this as an options I'd never touch PHP again, version 4 or no. And don't be put off by the sub-1.0 version, it's being used in a lot of production systems already, including where I work. You can find out more at Mason HQ.
You need to get people who will actually be interested in your site to visit, not just random "click-thrus". Of course, good old word-of-mouth beats everything for this.
Case in point: with one project I used to run our traffic trippled overnight when we got a listing in the correct Yahoo section. The point is that it's no good just being registered with search engines, you need to get catagorised and preferably reviewed too. However strange your site, there are people out there looking for something like it, so make it easy for them to find you. This, in turn, will help you out on the word-of-mouth front.
I have seen exactly the same thing happen with Oracle and their Designer 2000 built apps. They all turn out with the same cheap looking interfaces and are very hard to maintain. Like they say, when all you have is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail.
[Please excuse the dumb question, but this seems to be the best place to get a (semi) enlightened answer.]
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Does the DMCA have any effect outside the USA? If not, what happens when I release MyCPHack from the UK? How else can I help my American comrades?
Why would engineers use Kids? And why is Lego better than Kids?
We have little plastic labels that you insert between the plug and socket. They have "LEAVE ON" written on them in big black letters. A very cheap way to avoid a headache.
Writing to an opposition MP may do more good than you think. They will use ANYTHING as ammunition against the governement, so at least we stand a chance of getting the topic into the public arena. What we need to do is get the non-technical public concerned enough that it filters back through the government focus groups to the people in charge.
Not the best solution, but as has been pointed out here before, you need to work within the rules of the game if you are to have any effect. Even if you hate doing it.
Now this has to also apply to this data encryption business doesn't it? Just tell you refuse to incriminate yourself (by giving them the key) then they'll have to try and crack it themselves, not just punish you anyhow
Yes, but the rest of the UK has not signed up to the European Human Rights Act yet. The good news, however, is that this should be happening in October. So no encrypting till then, OK?