XSLT is barely comprehensible as a language, and XFORMS in conjunction with that is completely absurd. Every X that the W3C comes out with and argues against HTML makes me think they should have quit the X's and just gracefully extended the original HTML
If US and Europe do not foster IP, then wages will collapse as all production will move to lowest bidding countries and eventually the world will wind up as corporate serfs.
On the other hand, IP screws not only developing nations, it also undermines consumers and competitors at home. Wonder what the world would be like without IP? If Free Trade makes everything more productive, then, wouldn't free IP make everything more so?
Argh! Our own trade policy is very good at sinking the country even deeper into debt.
Every time about how American workers can't compete, I have to ask myself how BMW manages to build the ultimate driving machine in that socialist realm of Germany, or how the supposedly stagnant French are able to launch satellites more reliably than Lockheed, and how on earth did Boeing lose its lead to Airbus!
Really, it's not about the American worker, it's that American CEOs and middle managers are all idiots.
I've been hearing about the benefits about free trade since I voted for Reagan, twice, and I'm still waiting, as first manufacturing moved over seas, then simple services, and now more complex services. What's left in the US?
If the Chinese government can go around propping up Chinese industries until American businesses get torched and American workers get laid off, then why do it?
I mean, what's the point of being the only nation in town that believes in free trade when everyone else, including American importers, are using it to crush Americans at home.
Every year we hear stories about how mercury contamination is killing the fish. Now, having relented, it turns out the fish are killing us! Recently a 70lb catfish swallowed a dachsund puppy whole. Bring back those batteries soon, or flesh eating catfish will be gobbling your children!
The whole point of a legislative separate from the executive is that the Congress makes laws and spends money, and the President enforces the law and administrates the will of the congress. This distinction has been lost in the last 50 years, but, really, Congress is supposed to drive the nation, not the President.
Letting people vote on everything is a step in the right direction until you realize that would screw minorities in the US South, that's for sure. Should civil rights be subject to mob rule? Remember that following 9/11, 80% of the US populace favored using nuclear weapons in Afghanistan. Populations were also widely in favor of World War I, and we know how well that went for Europe.
In order to have a communist or socialist government, you have to have totalitarian state. That's the whole problem. Heck you can't give someone the keys to a major corporation without them trying to loot it. Imagine giving someone the keys to the whole US Economy.
If instead of one big bang, in this universe, there were several, 100 billion light years apart. The universes would each cease to exist before they could detect each other...
Everyone defends higher level things like Java, C# and other scripting languages on the basis that we should have tons of little dynamically allocated little objects floating around, and that you need to have a beefy memory manager floating around to deal with it.
Why do you have to have tons of tiny objects floating around? All that tiny little allocating over and over again just slows everything down, and probably makes your programs more complex. I say, screw dynamic allocation, just use big virtual memory backed vectors of fixed length structures. It's simpler, more reliable, and faster.
a) intellectual property and business practices would be leaked. Like, if you lost a case to MS for some reason, and were losing your home as a result, why wouldn't you leak any trial documents you ran into.
b) MS could lose. I mean, if you got your case tried in Mississipi, it is all but guaranteed that jurists would side with the little guy over the big company - in fact that is more likely to be the norm nationwide.
Finally, courts are the last stop before violence erupts. The free market should work without undo courts. If there is a lot a more court activity than courts, then the country is a step closer to civil war.
In the US it is now common to use bank account cards to purchase everything. If you assume that the government could capture the feeds from all the banks and credit card information, then, storage requirements for such an animal would break out conservatively as:
300 million citizens x 5 purchases per day x 4 bytes fk into SSN table x 4 bytes for long id of item purchased x 365 days x 60 years = 262.8 Tbytes which is A LOT, but doable.
To track everything for just a rolling 5 years, rather than 60, then your storage requirements drop down to 21TB, and then further if you actually assumed only 2 purchases per day (on average), you could knock it down to 8TB, and finally, if you assumed that 150 million citizens were actually buying stuff as the other were children, then, you could knock it down to 4TB. Given today's hard drive prices, this would almost be within the range of affordability for a small business or even a determined hobbyist.
So, the real issue is not, will the government be tracking everything, because, since it so cheap to do it it probably already does, but, the real issue will be, when will we use Kazaa to collect all the purchases everyone made simply for our own entertainment!
I've used Linux before and have loved it actually, but, with the whole.NET revolution I had to get a bead on it until I realized I still like C++ and screaming native code better.
I'm definately porting my application to Linux now. This is a desparation tactic by SCO and when this storm passes Linux will stand untouched and unchallengable.
I downloaded RedHat last night and now I'll have to do is figure out the best way to resize my NTFS partition so there is room.
Now... time to read up on mmap vs CreateFileMapping!
Besides, Linux users are probably more hip to newer technologies anyway. I guess being able to live without wizards opens up minds a bit.
For image quality you absolutely cannot beat the Epson Stylus 2200P. Laserjets just don't have the color saturation and resolution of something like this wonderful instrument. Pictures look absolutely wonderful.
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XSLT is barely comprehensible as a language, and XFORMS in conjunction with that is completely absurd. Every X that the W3C comes out with and argues against HTML makes me think they should have quit the X's and just gracefully extended the original HTML
This is a perfect solution for utilities trying to do real time monitoring of the consumption of gas, electricty and water.
The problem I think is one of exchange rates.
If US and Europe do not foster IP, then wages will collapse as all production will move to lowest bidding countries and eventually the world will wind up as corporate serfs.
On the other hand, IP screws not only developing nations, it also undermines consumers and competitors at home. Wonder what the world would be like without IP? If Free Trade makes everything more productive, then, wouldn't free IP make everything more so?
Argh! Our own trade policy is very good at sinking the country even deeper into debt.
Every time about how American workers can't compete, I have to ask myself how BMW manages to build the ultimate driving machine in that socialist realm of Germany, or how the supposedly stagnant French are able to launch satellites more reliably than Lockheed, and how on earth did Boeing lose its lead to Airbus!
Really, it's not about the American worker, it's that American CEOs and middle managers are all idiots.
But they aren't.
I've been hearing about the benefits about free trade since I voted for Reagan, twice, and I'm still waiting, as first manufacturing moved over seas, then simple services, and now more complex services. What's left in the US?
If the Chinese government can go around propping up Chinese industries until American businesses get torched and American workers get laid off, then why do it?
I mean, what's the point of being the only nation in town that believes in free trade when everyone else, including American importers, are using it to crush Americans at home.
F---- free trade.
Every year we hear stories about how mercury contamination is killing the fish. Now, having relented, it turns out the fish are killing us! Recently a 70lb catfish swallowed a dachsund puppy whole. Bring back those batteries soon, or flesh eating catfish will be gobbling your children!
The whole point of a legislative separate from the executive is that the Congress makes laws and spends money, and the President enforces the law and administrates the will of the congress. This distinction has been lost in the last 50 years, but, really, Congress is supposed to drive the nation, not the President.
Letting people vote on everything is a step in the right direction until you realize that would screw minorities in the US South, that's for sure. Should civil rights be subject to mob rule? Remember that following 9/11, 80% of the US populace favored using nuclear weapons in Afghanistan. Populations were also widely in favor of World War I, and we know how well that went for Europe.
In order to have a communist or socialist government, you have to have totalitarian state. That's the whole problem. Heck you can't give someone the keys to a major corporation without them trying to loot it. Imagine giving someone the keys to the whole US Economy.
If instead of one big bang, in this universe, there were several, 100 billion light years apart. The universes would each cease to exist before they could detect each other...
Everyone defends higher level things like Java, C# and other scripting languages on the basis that we should have tons of little dynamically allocated little objects floating around, and that you need to have a beefy memory manager floating around to deal with it.
Why do you have to have tons of tiny objects floating around? All that tiny little allocating over and over again just slows everything down, and probably makes your programs more complex. I say, screw dynamic allocation, just use big virtual memory backed vectors of fixed length structures. It's simpler, more reliable, and faster.
The thing about courts is that
a) intellectual property and business practices would be leaked. Like, if you lost a case to MS for some reason, and were losing your home as a result, why wouldn't you leak any trial documents you ran into.
b) MS could lose. I mean, if you got your case tried in Mississipi, it is all but guaranteed that jurists would side with the little guy over the big company - in fact that is more likely to be the norm nationwide.
Finally, courts are the last stop before violence erupts. The free market should work without undo courts. If there is a lot a more court activity than courts, then the country is a step closer to civil war.
In the US it is now common to use bank account cards to purchase everything. If you assume that the government could capture the feeds from all the banks and credit card information, then, storage requirements for such an animal would break out conservatively as:
300 million citizens x 5 purchases per day x 4 bytes fk into SSN table x 4 bytes for long id of item purchased x 365 days x 60 years = 262.8 Tbytes which is A LOT, but doable.
To track everything for just a rolling 5 years, rather than 60, then your storage requirements drop down to 21TB, and then further if you actually assumed only 2 purchases per day (on average), you could knock it down to 8TB, and finally, if you assumed that 150 million citizens were actually buying stuff as the other were children, then, you could knock it down to 4TB. Given today's hard drive prices, this would almost be within the range of affordability for a small business or even a determined hobbyist.
So, the real issue is not, will the government be tracking everything, because, since it so cheap to do it it probably already does, but, the real issue will be, when will we use Kazaa to collect all the purchases everyone made simply for our own entertainment!
Or driver side mirrors. As soon as some SUV does the brights on you, just turn your windows to black...
if you store state in an encrypted hash on an input hidden tag.
Business model A is "better" than business model B iff A($)>B($)
sleep( rand() % 1000000 );
printf( "we recommend you stick with windows.\n" );
The guy clearly does not want his work to be copied. Instead of just --copying--- it, why not make something better!
I've used Linux before and have loved it actually, but, with the whole .NET revolution I had to get a bead on it until I realized I still like C++ and screaming native code better.
I'm definately porting my application to Linux now. This is a desparation tactic by SCO and when this storm passes Linux will stand untouched and unchallengable.
I downloaded RedHat last night and now I'll have to do is figure out the best way to resize my NTFS partition so there is room.
Now... time to read up on mmap vs CreateFileMapping!
Besides, Linux users are probably more hip to newer technologies anyway. I guess being able to live without wizards opens up minds a bit.
Hell, we should give them both the h-bomb, and let George Bush settle the Kashmir issue!
This is the worst thing imaginable..!!!
Not sure what the technical solution to THAT problem is!
For image quality you absolutely cannot beat the Epson Stylus 2200P. Laserjets just don't have the color saturation and resolution of something like this wonderful instrument. Pictures look absolutely wonderful.