I want all my applications, all my open documents, and all my network sessions to be connected and right where I left them when I sit down at my desk in the morning.
Unless we bring back the thin-client (VMware is working on that, I believe), my work machines are staying ON when I'm not using them.
His project is successful in spite of his gross mistakes in handling people. It is simply not logical for you to say he makes no mistakes or handles situations optimally.
Your post suggests that you yourself are similarly socially inept. If you enjoy some success despite your personal handicap, that does not mean you are without a handicap.
I think it's safe to say that anyone capable of writing a filesystem module at all is far above the "moron" level on the human intelligence scale. Furthermore, anyone willing to volunteer their time by writing such software and donating it to the ungrateful world should be thanked, mistakes or not.
Linus seems to have the wrong temperament for managing a project of humans.
Steam servers go down frequently, in my experience. This means I won't be able to use the software I purchased.
We are talking about entertainment software, so nobody's gonna die. But it is damn frustrating when you buy a game and can't play it because Steam's activation server is offline for hours at a time.
The license for the javascript software you are running might be important, but the far more important factor, in my mind, is the IP rights and responsibilities attached to your data.
Who has access to your data? How can you verify that? Who is responsible for keeping it secure? Who is responsible for making backups? How can you verify that?
Every four to eight years, we will be replacing all the networking equipment, even the cables, with parts from, coincidentally, the company that donated the most to the President's campaign.
If you get your firewalling right, then why not? NATing to everything makes it hard to track down security incidents. With global addressing, I can see exactly what's going down.
I'm also a network security professional. And I'm pushing for IPv6 deployment in my company.
I work for a software company. We are seeing IPv6 labs popping up around our global offices because customers are starting to ask for it in our products. It's showing up on RFPs. It's coming.
And having worked with it for a while, I must say it's a dream compared to v4.
In the "bible belt" you will be ostracized from your community if you mock religion (though it's acceptable to insult atheists). In other countries you can actually get killed for mocking religion.
Really, mocking religion on the internet is the only safe outlet a lot of people have.
Yeah, "hours of uncompressed 1080p video" really is the most important storage metric now, and there are no products which provide enough of that for any conceivable scenario.
Well, yeah. The liberal and the libertarian both want to protect personal liberties. But since we aren't all self-sufficient farmers living alone in shacks in the middle of nowhere, the liberals recognize some compromises are necessary for being part of a society, some more compromises are necessary for being part of a prosperous society.
And it seems a good number of the libertarians actually are self-sufficient farmers living in shacks so they see no reason to compromise on their principles.
But yeah, you get the idea. Same "spirit" as far as the abstract goals go.
As to browser cache and proxy behavior: You are assuming app developers have control over their users' browsers and proxy servers. That's a false assumption. You just failed to meet the minim requirements for the project (working on ie6 with ghettoproxy 0.1).
That is insane. Have you ever actually tried that stuff? Firewalls, cache, all these things don't behave well with GET. Furthermore, there are arbitrary limits to GET string length.
At the very least, any browser/server communication format must be able to handle arbitrarily complex datastructures of arbitrary length... unless you're writing toy apps.
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Sleep mode breaks applications, especially network apps. Hibernate does the same. This is not a solution to the persistent desktop problem.
I want all my applications, all my open documents, and all my network sessions to be connected and right where I left them when I sit down at my desk in the morning.
Unless we bring back the thin-client (VMware is working on that, I believe), my work machines are staying ON when I'm not using them.
His project is successful in spite of his gross mistakes in handling people. It is simply not logical for you to say he makes no mistakes or handles situations optimally.
Your post suggests that you yourself are similarly socially inept. If you enjoy some success despite your personal handicap, that does not mean you are without a handicap.
I think it's safe to say that anyone capable of writing a filesystem module at all is far above the "moron" level on the human intelligence scale. Furthermore, anyone willing to volunteer their time by writing such software and donating it to the ungrateful world should be thanked, mistakes or not.
Linus seems to have the wrong temperament for managing a project of humans.
I buy my music online from the likes of Apple and Amazon. None of that comes in FLAC.
We need players that can support any format, with the right plug-in.
Does that refer to the pathetically broken L4D process whereby one clicks:
Then one repeats five or six times until one finally gets matched with a game that isn't full?
That is one of the worst systems I've ever used.
Steam servers go down frequently, in my experience. This means I won't be able to use the software I purchased.
We are talking about entertainment software, so nobody's gonna die. But it is damn frustrating when you buy a game and can't play it because Steam's activation server is offline for hours at a time.
A short char field isn't necessarily slower than an integer, though. Right? They could both be indexed with log(n) search time.
Her last name is "09" and she is a "concentrator?" Who wrote this?
I think it's wrong to say our use is "inefficient." The US produces more wealth-per-carbon-use than any country. That's the opposite of inefficient.
The question is whether we should be producing less wealth.
The license for the javascript software you are running might be important, but the far more important factor, in my mind, is the IP rights and responsibilities attached to your data.
Who has access to your data? How can you verify that? Who is responsible for keeping it secure? Who is responsible for making backups? How can you verify that?
AJAX-enabled web pages/apps are constantly polling and doing other javascriptiness in the background. It would help for them to have their own cores.
Every four to eight years, we will be replacing all the networking equipment, even the cables, with parts from, coincidentally, the company that donated the most to the President's campaign.
If you get your firewalling right, then why not? NATing to everything makes it hard to track down security incidents. With global addressing, I can see exactly what's going down.
I'm also a network security professional. And I'm pushing for IPv6 deployment in my company.
I work for a software company. We are seeing IPv6 labs popping up around our global offices because customers are starting to ask for it in our products. It's showing up on RFPs. It's coming.
And having worked with it for a while, I must say it's a dream compared to v4.
In the "bible belt" you will be ostracized from your community if you mock religion (though it's acceptable to insult atheists). In other countries you can actually get killed for mocking religion.
Really, mocking religion on the internet is the only safe outlet a lot of people have.
I've got news for you. Very few people in the software industry can make that claim. Spend more time on thedailywtf if you need illustration ;-)
Call it "The Jesus Particle" and southern senators will finally vote for science funding.
Yeah, "hours of uncompressed 1080p video" really is the most important storage metric now, and there are no products which provide enough of that for any conceivable scenario.
Posted the wrong link.
SOAP via xmlhttprequest: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-wsajax/
SOAP via xmlhttprequest: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427
More browser-based soapiness: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/mx/rpc/soap/mxml/WebService.html
So... I'm wondering who's in the wrong job at this point. But good luck with that attitude, buddy!
You mistakingly assume I control my users' proxies and browser settings.
Well, yeah. The liberal and the libertarian both want to protect personal liberties. But since we aren't all self-sufficient farmers living alone in shacks in the middle of nowhere, the liberals recognize some compromises are necessary for being part of a society, some more compromises are necessary for being part of a prosperous society.
And it seems a good number of the libertarians actually are self-sufficient farmers living in shacks so they see no reason to compromise on their principles.
But yeah, you get the idea. Same "spirit" as far as the abstract goals go.
As to GET and PUT limitations: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427
As to browser cache and proxy behavior: You are assuming app developers have control over their users' browsers and proxy servers. That's a false assumption. You just failed to meet the minim requirements for the project (working on ie6 with ghettoproxy 0.1).
That is insane. Have you ever actually tried that stuff? Firewalls, cache, all these things don't behave well with GET. Furthermore, there are arbitrary limits to GET string length.
At the very least, any browser/server communication format must be able to handle arbitrarily complex datastructures of arbitrary length... unless you're writing toy apps.