No sense teaching him the weird indentation fetish that comes with it. Just too fucking bizarre.
Personally, I went from BASIC to C in high school. It was about 28 years ago. And then had to learn Pascal when I took a course in community college. After I dropped out, I took my first job as a wiz kid, and had to learn PL/I and assembler.
I used to lease a dedicated box, and over the years, I was faced with this decision to switch to another provider on 4 separate occasions. A similar situation, they weren't always asking for the root password, but in each instance, there were hardware problems crashing the box, and they would play ring around the rosies fixing it, and my family's business was losing business and credibility. I understand the problem, for $200/mo. for a dedicated box, a company can't afford to have a gaggle of techs so they can provide 4 hour response time, and have hot spare boxes ready to roll into place.
We decided we could no longer employ "hosting provider roulette" as part of a reasonable business plan.
I found a data center not exactly close to home but within a reasonable distance, near Downtown L.A., that had a reasonable colocation rate. We put together a 1U box, and put it in the rack. For $125/mo (~$40/mo. less than we were paying for an inferior dedicated box) our down time has all but disappeared. The thing is, whenever the down time was because of the hardware, I was able to drive down there and swap stuff around, including swapping in a tower for a time while I had to send our server out for repair. Our down time profile changed from multi-week periods of unreliable service to brief windows of usually less than an hour though one time about 4 hours while I had to drive around town rounding up some new drives once.
Another thing we got out of this move was the ability to configure our box as we pleased. We upgraded out box to an 8 core box with 24GB of RAM and a 1.3TB RAID 10 array. Leasing a box like that is cost prohibitive. And the time to do this was minimal, I just ordered the parts from Newegg, built it, burned it in, and went down to perform the swap. They didn't quibble about me having two machines hooked up for a day while I made the swap.
The "company" that runs the data center is actually a few companies sharing a space, and they help each other out covering tech support at night. They are all 100% top-notch geeks, who understand the problems a web admin faces, and they are very accommodating. They will put an IP KVM on the box or even wheel up a head, plug it in, and tell you what the screen is saying, even help diagnose, all for no additional charge. You can hire them to be a monkey by the hour, if needed, or just go there 24x7x365 on a moment's notice, to access the data center, which is secured, has halon, backup chillers, redundant power and backbone feeds, UPS, diesel generator, etc. all the amenities. I get nothing from them except goodwill for my recommendation. I can tell you I have never once in the 6 years I have colocated a box with time, have I ever considered moving. For anything. Not even the cloud could beckon me away. If anyone is interested: http://colocation.la/ also http://serverlogistics.com/ if you are interested in shared or dedicated hosting.
This legislation is about consolidating power for the large retailers and squeezing out the small guys. Sales tax is not just paid on a state-by-state basis. It is also county-by-county and city-by-city. I recently discovered that Alaska has no sales/use tax, but certain villages in Alaska do. So, if I ship something to Sitka AK, I would hypothetically need to write a check to the City of Sitka.
In California, when I send a check to the State Board of Equalization for our CA internet sales, they know what percentage to give to the state, the county and the city based on my account number. That's because the taxable nexus is on the point of origin.
Moving the nexus to the destination creates a massive accounting burden. Either the retailer ends up sending a check to every state, every count, and every city that they sold to, or they send one check to the state authority with a table describing the amounts collected for each of the different destinations. I don't think these guys are even thinking about this, probably the state tax authorities wish to usurp taxes due local governments and collect it all for themselves.
I believe this entire concept actually interferes with interstate commerce, and isn't there some act that prevents states from doing exactly that? The states should up their enforcement of use tax collection. Through audits and stiff penalties, they can ensure compliance. Problem solved.
Even if the economies of scale have not caught up to make the 360 profitable as a standalone sale, it is a great way to add another 600,000-1,000,000 to their unit count, which alters the market to perceive greater penetration than there is in reality.
Actually, isn't this more of a browser issue? Why should the browser hand control to a plugin registered for application/flash when it is processing an image/jpeg?
So, do you have any tips about scanning uploaded content? Is there a flash signature at a certain offset in the file or something? Since it seems that the fix is up to app developers, I need to get busy detecting and rejecting SWF file uploads.
From that same thread, the director dude out there is quoted there as saying it's no problem to move your hard drive to an unbanned 360 box. It would appear this is a ploy by Microsoft to sell more 360's.
[00:54] HDD from banned to unbanned is ok, but you might have to reformat to get full access to licenses [00:54] etc
If Watson were still here, the people would be retrained into the next phase/project/product. It would cost money. Having people with such a diverse skill set would be a huge boon to innovation. Watson would see that end game and hold out for it.
People used to know, if you got hired at IBM, you were set for life. This is how Watson attracted the best of the best. Their failure to keep their eye on the ball is a primary contributor to their current position as an irrelevant has-been.
My friend's dad was a typewriter repairman for IBM most of his life. He had MS. When the Selectrics started disappearing in the mid-80's and as the MS started to impair him, they retrained him to work on a bench, repairing PCs. When his MS progressed to the point that the PC repair was too much for him, they gave him an office, and his one responsibility was to file a report on a monthly basis. He was not required to come to work every day. Still received full pay and benefits until he could no longer show up once a month, after he took a fall resulting in injury. He was able to leave with his pension and full benefits.
IBM was more than a corporation, it was an institution. It is extremely sad that this institution no longer exists.
Unless I'm experiencing some kind of time travel anomaly, I haven't heard of any 128-bit CPUs for micros even being discussed, let alone prototyped. in fact, the only 128-bit CPU I can find any mention of is in IBM's System/370. Anyone have any info about 128-bit microprocessors. And I don't mean vector processing extensions, I mean 128-bit wide general purpose registers, 128-bit wide bus, 128 address lines, etc. a REAL 128-bit CPU. None of this 8088-style crap either: 128-bit general purpose register with 64-bit bus.
I put dd-wrt on a Linksys box. Not sure about the chipset or the driver's blobular status, but the dd-wrt ui allowed me to increase the power of the transmitter above 1/4 watt, which is not FCC compliant.
Yes, of course I update my dev VM first, and I do a run through the typical code paths. But I don't do a full test of every code path every time there is an update, which is what is necessary now that these guys are saying they can't guarantee that they aren't going to break the language. Don't they have unit tests, anyway? Sooner or later, there is going to be some security update to perl, and I won't have the luxury of skipping the update. This is my primary motivation for updating my systems in the first place, to plug any security leaks.
The statement that they are unsure if they are going to break something is probably just the thing to kill it in my eyes. I have about 50,500 lines of perl running a production system, and this announcement has me seriously thinking I should port it all to a language I can rely on. I don't need a routine yum update breaking my system, and I sure as hell don't have time to test their code constantly.
What? This is a "features and benefits" document, presented electronically. This is a common sales practice, to hand out information about how a product stacks up against its competition. It is also quite common for vendors to invite sales people from the companies that sell their products to shindigs and junkets, where there is free lunch at a minimum, and at times, sales people are supplied with the products so they can know about what they are selling. Charging $10 for the copy of Win 7 is a lot less egregious than all that.
I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy out here, but your argument really holds no water.
That's a pretty good high score. I think my all time best was around 3 million. I used to play it back in the 80's in the arcade until the owner would kick me out, or I'd walk in exhaustion and let someone else get trashed on the game. I loved that game. I had a friend who shredded Asteroids, and the machines were right next to each other. We'd both score plenty of free men (ok, he scored up the ships), and then we would swap for a while, and we both weren't that great at the opposite game, so then we'd switch back and have to struggle to get a bunch of free men/ships in the bank again.
I loved Defender too. Defender actually inspired me to get into programming. I wanted to make a game that cool someday. That never happened, but I've turned my hobby into a lifelong career that I still love, after doing it for 25 years.
A few years back, my buddy got me the console from a Robotron game off of eBay, with two joysticks, and plenty of cigarette burns. One of these days, I'm gonna hook it up with a keyboard wedge and hang it on the wall with a flat panel and a copy of MAME.
GPL not only creates freedom for the users to customize their code, it also creates freedom for the code to evolve should the original author rest on their laurels and let opportunities pass them by.
That said, I think I'll go buy a copy of your app, just to throw a little salt in the eyes of the original developer for being such a crybaby.
I agree with what you're saying too. And people will make the choice to use an anemic host to serve their websites. However, I think scrimping on the server and offloading processing (read: increasing latency) to your users is a false economy. Not to mention, the loss of presentation to search spiders.
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Kind of makes you wonder what the feds have on him, eh?
http://www.facebook.com/zuck
Seems to me these judges just clotheslined the FCC. This ruling can now be used to challenge any enforcement action by the FCC.
No sense teaching him the weird indentation fetish that comes with it. Just too fucking bizarre.
Personally, I went from BASIC to C in high school. It was about 28 years ago. And then had to learn Pascal when I took a course in community college. After I dropped out, I took my first job as a wiz kid, and had to learn PL/I and assembler.
I used to lease a dedicated box, and over the years, I was faced with this decision to switch to another provider on 4 separate occasions. A similar situation, they weren't always asking for the root password, but in each instance, there were hardware problems crashing the box, and they would play ring around the rosies fixing it, and my family's business was losing business and credibility. I understand the problem, for $200/mo. for a dedicated box, a company can't afford to have a gaggle of techs so they can provide 4 hour response time, and have hot spare boxes ready to roll into place.
We decided we could no longer employ "hosting provider roulette" as part of a reasonable business plan.
I found a data center not exactly close to home but within a reasonable distance, near Downtown L.A., that had a reasonable colocation rate. We put together a 1U box, and put it in the rack. For $125/mo (~$40/mo. less than we were paying for an inferior dedicated box) our down time has all but disappeared. The thing is, whenever the down time was because of the hardware, I was able to drive down there and swap stuff around, including swapping in a tower for a time while I had to send our server out for repair. Our down time profile changed from multi-week periods of unreliable service to brief windows of usually less than an hour though one time about 4 hours while I had to drive around town rounding up some new drives once.
Another thing we got out of this move was the ability to configure our box as we pleased. We upgraded out box to an 8 core box with 24GB of RAM and a 1.3TB RAID 10 array. Leasing a box like that is cost prohibitive. And the time to do this was minimal, I just ordered the parts from Newegg, built it, burned it in, and went down to perform the swap. They didn't quibble about me having two machines hooked up for a day while I made the swap.
The "company" that runs the data center is actually a few companies sharing a space, and they help each other out covering tech support at night. They are all 100% top-notch geeks, who understand the problems a web admin faces, and they are very accommodating. They will put an IP KVM on the box or even wheel up a head, plug it in, and tell you what the screen is saying, even help diagnose, all for no additional charge. You can hire them to be a monkey by the hour, if needed, or just go there 24x7x365 on a moment's notice, to access the data center, which is secured, has halon, backup chillers, redundant power and backbone feeds, UPS, diesel generator, etc. all the amenities. I get nothing from them except goodwill for my recommendation. I can tell you I have never once in the 6 years I have colocated a box with time, have I ever considered moving. For anything. Not even the cloud could beckon me away. If anyone is interested: http://colocation.la/ also http://serverlogistics.com/ if you are interested in shared or dedicated hosting.
But when did Chevy ever use a Big Block V8 in a Corvair?
This legislation is about consolidating power for the large retailers and squeezing out the small guys. Sales tax is not just paid on a state-by-state basis. It is also county-by-county and city-by-city. I recently discovered that Alaska has no sales/use tax, but certain villages in Alaska do. So, if I ship something to Sitka AK, I would hypothetically need to write a check to the City of Sitka.
In California, when I send a check to the State Board of Equalization for our CA internet sales, they know what percentage to give to the state, the county and the city based on my account number. That's because the taxable nexus is on the point of origin.
Moving the nexus to the destination creates a massive accounting burden. Either the retailer ends up sending a check to every state, every count, and every city that they sold to, or they send one check to the state authority with a table describing the amounts collected for each of the different destinations. I don't think these guys are even thinking about this, probably the state tax authorities wish to usurp taxes due local governments and collect it all for themselves.
I believe this entire concept actually interferes with interstate commerce, and isn't there some act that prevents states from doing exactly that? The states should up their enforcement of use tax collection. Through audits and stiff penalties, they can ensure compliance. Problem solved.
Even if the economies of scale have not caught up to make the 360 profitable as a standalone sale, it is a great way to add another 600,000-1,000,000 to their unit count, which alters the market to perceive greater penetration than there is in reality.
Actually, isn't this more of a browser issue? Why should the browser hand control to a plugin registered for application/flash when it is processing an image/jpeg?
So, do you have any tips about scanning uploaded content? Is there a flash signature at a certain offset in the file or something? Since it seems that the fix is up to app developers, I need to get busy detecting and rejecting SWF file uploads.
From that same thread, the director dude out there is quoted there as saying it's no problem to move your hard drive to an unbanned 360 box. It would appear this is a ploy by Microsoft to sell more 360's.
[00:54] HDD from banned to unbanned is ok, but you might have to reformat to get full access to licenses
[00:54] etc
Didn't it say "in the last trimester"? Abortions after 24 weeks are illegal.
If Watson were still here, the people would be retrained into the next phase/project/product. It would cost money. Having people with such a diverse skill set would be a huge boon to innovation. Watson would see that end game and hold out for it.
People used to know, if you got hired at IBM, you were set for life. This is how Watson attracted the best of the best. Their failure to keep their eye on the ball is a primary contributor to their current position as an irrelevant has-been.
My friend's dad was a typewriter repairman for IBM most of his life. He had MS. When the Selectrics started disappearing in the mid-80's and as the MS started to impair him, they retrained him to work on a bench, repairing PCs. When his MS progressed to the point that the PC repair was too much for him, they gave him an office, and his one responsibility was to file a report on a monthly basis. He was not required to come to work every day. Still received full pay and benefits until he could no longer show up once a month, after he took a fall resulting in injury. He was able to leave with his pension and full benefits.
IBM was more than a corporation, it was an institution. It is extremely sad that this institution no longer exists.
Sure, I understand all that. I was replying to someone who said the hardware would not permit it because of the regulations and certification.
Unless I'm experiencing some kind of time travel anomaly, I haven't heard of any 128-bit CPUs for micros even being discussed, let alone prototyped. in fact, the only 128-bit CPU I can find any mention of is in IBM's System/370. Anyone have any info about 128-bit microprocessors. And I don't mean vector processing extensions, I mean 128-bit wide general purpose registers, 128-bit wide bus, 128 address lines, etc. a REAL 128-bit CPU. None of this 8088-style crap either: 128-bit general purpose register with 64-bit bus.
Wassamatter, Microsoft? 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes ain't enough for anybody anymore?
They're getting ready to take their bloatware skills to the next level, in celebration of Windows' 25th Anniversary.
I put dd-wrt on a Linksys box. Not sure about the chipset or the driver's blobular status, but the dd-wrt ui allowed me to increase the power of the transmitter above 1/4 watt, which is not FCC compliant.
Yes, of course I update my dev VM first, and I do a run through the typical code paths. But I don't do a full test of every code path every time there is an update, which is what is necessary now that these guys are saying they can't guarantee that they aren't going to break the language. Don't they have unit tests, anyway? Sooner or later, there is going to be some security update to perl, and I won't have the luxury of skipping the update. This is my primary motivation for updating my systems in the first place, to plug any security leaks.
The statement that they are unsure if they are going to break something is probably just the thing to kill it in my eyes. I have about 50,500 lines of perl running a production system, and this announcement has me seriously thinking I should port it all to a language I can rely on. I don't need a routine yum update breaking my system, and I sure as hell don't have time to test their code constantly.
What? This is a "features and benefits" document, presented electronically. This is a common sales practice, to hand out information about how a product stacks up against its competition. It is also quite common for vendors to invite sales people from the companies that sell their products to shindigs and junkets, where there is free lunch at a minimum, and at times, sales people are supplied with the products so they can know about what they are selling. Charging $10 for the copy of Win 7 is a lot less egregious than all that.
I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy out here, but your argument really holds no water.
That's a pretty good high score. I think my all time best was around 3 million. I used to play it back in the 80's in the arcade until the owner would kick me out, or I'd walk in exhaustion and let someone else get trashed on the game. I loved that game. I had a friend who shredded Asteroids, and the machines were right next to each other. We'd both score plenty of free men (ok, he scored up the ships), and then we would swap for a while, and we both weren't that great at the opposite game, so then we'd switch back and have to struggle to get a bunch of free men/ships in the bank again.
I loved Defender too. Defender actually inspired me to get into programming. I wanted to make a game that cool someday. That never happened, but I've turned my hobby into a lifelong career that I still love, after doing it for 25 years.
A few years back, my buddy got me the console from a Robotron game off of eBay, with two joysticks, and plenty of cigarette burns. One of these days, I'm gonna hook it up with a keyboard wedge and hang it on the wall with a flat panel and a copy of MAME.
GPL not only creates freedom for the users to customize their code, it also creates freedom for the code to evolve should the original author rest on their laurels and let opportunities pass them by.
That said, I think I'll go buy a copy of your app, just to throw a little salt in the eyes of the original developer for being such a crybaby.
Read the FAQ. GPVv2 source is triggered by distribution.
There are no inherent platform restrictions, take the code and compile it for another platform, as the GPL empowers you to do.
This might help too.
I agree with what you're saying too. And people will make the choice to use an anemic host to serve their websites. However, I think scrimping on the server and offloading processing (read: increasing latency) to your users is a false economy. Not to mention, the loss of presentation to search spiders.