According to their platform groupings, they lump Apache Coyote together with Apache httpd.
Since Coyote is the Connector component that allows Tomcat to function as a standalone webserver, I wonder how many of "Apache" sites are running Tomcat versus httpd.
One *huge* advantage of Velocity is that you can use it to generate documents other than web pages. I use it to create utility emails and in one case an XSL-FO document for PDF generation. I can leverage my web page velocity skills to these other realms.
Velocity is the preferred templating system in the Jakarta Turbine framework. I've used it in a web application I been developing and supporting over the past two years.
Velocity is very comfortable. I find it cleaner than JSP. Its limitations tend to push logic back into the Java code where it belongs. You write a 'pull tool' to expose an API to the Velocity layer and then have a lot of freedom to design and redesign your interface.
The delusion is exposed by a quick thought experiment: imagine yourself in a job interview saying,
"I'd
like to take this position, but it's clear from talking to everyone here that the previous guy was irreplaceable. You should probably try to get him back."
Munich is the capital of Bavaria, a large and influential state inside the German Federal Republic. So the outcome of this decision will be carefully watched by IT decisionmakers all over Europe.
They only need to muddy the waters
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Win, lose, or draw, SCO can hurt Linux merely by muddying the waters.
No doubt GPS implant records will clear more suspects than they convict. It's an indisputable, twenty-four hour a day alibi: "I was nowhere near the scene of the crime, and my movement records prove it."
Physical currency is outmoded
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I know it has its benefits, but to me physical currency itself feels horribly outmoded. I use it less and less each year, and I'll be glad when it's a historical curiosity.
It should be an easy matter to apply the system to a collection of hits songs of the past. How well could it have predicted historical hits and flops? A pretty basic test; has anyone performed it?
In corporate environments, end users don't buy software. Other people, with divergent interests, sign developer paychecks and software contracts and thus decide what software gets developed and purchased.
End user satisfaction becomes just one of many competing goals. And of course it's very easy to trade it off against the others, especially out-of-pocket cost.
There's nothing sinister about this; it's just the product of the matrix of incentives that people face.
Sometimes customers don't understand what kind of a system they're trying to build or how a consultant's skill set maps to their problem set. They see all technical professionals as "computer people" without distinction.
A standardized certification system might help these clients find the right kind of assistance.
It's not outside the realm of possibility that there might be nothing they can do: there may be no viable business model for pre-recorded entertainment once everyone has an all-purpose set of digital content storage and manipulation tools.
We may turn on our new digital televisions and find only live programming such as concerts, sports, and news. (And free content promoting upcoming live events.)
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A lot of Mac users are on Mac OS 8.x or 9.x as well, or using the Classic environment to run applications for OS 9.x under Mac OS X.
It seems that when people buy a computer, they expect the software to last as long as the hardware.
Nobody thinks about social justice when they get their 401(k) (or other investment account) statements. All they see is the return.
If it's negative, they say, "Where's my money?!"
If it's positive, they don't ask any questions at all.
As Chairman Mao might say,
"Let a million dekstops boot."
According to their platform groupings, they lump Apache Coyote together with Apache httpd.
Since Coyote is the Connector component that allows Tomcat to function as a standalone webserver, I wonder how many of "Apache" sites are running Tomcat versus httpd.
So I guess this is a weird form of foreign aid?
I pay top dollar for Microsoft products, to support their continued development for all users, legitimate and otherwise?
"Samba and Tridgell Recognized", but I'll bet not recognized on the street. :-)
Also consider the Sodipodi website. The product name is rendered in Cyrillic characters and the screenshot features anime.
Not likely to leave a manager with the feeling, "This will work for us."
I'm not taking any chances: give me one of each.
I wish I had some failures of the epoch-making magnitude of Windows...
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One *huge* advantage of Velocity is that you can use it to generate documents other than web pages. I use it to create utility emails and in one case an XSL-FO document for PDF generation. I can leverage my web page velocity skills to these other realms.
Not sure how you would do that in JSP or ASP!
Velocity is the preferred templating system in the Jakarta Turbine framework. I've used it in a web application I been developing and supporting over the past two years.
Velocity is very comfortable. I find it cleaner than JSP. Its limitations tend to push logic back into the Java code where it belongs. You write a 'pull tool' to expose an API to the Velocity layer and then have a lot of freedom to design and redesign your interface.
I wonder what fraction of these one billion have already been obsoleted and are now sitting in landfills?
Given Moore's Law, I'll bet it's a high share.
Since there's no Mac, Linux, or Java version, I guess your profile implicitly marks you as a Microsoft customer.
Munich is the capital of Bavaria, a large and influential state inside the German Federal Republic. So the outcome of this decision will be carefully watched by IT decisionmakers all over Europe.
Win, lose, or draw, SCO can hurt Linux merely by muddying the waters.
No doubt GPS implant records will clear more suspects than they convict. It's an indisputable, twenty-four hour a day alibi: "I was nowhere near the scene of the crime, and my movement records prove it."
I know it has its benefits, but to me physical currency itself feels horribly outmoded. I use it less and less each year, and I'll be glad when it's a historical curiosity.
It should be an easy matter to apply the system to a collection of hits songs of the past. How well could it have predicted historical hits and flops? A pretty basic test; has anyone performed it?
How will these stories be different from the plot of the Star Wars: Clone Wars console video game?
Is there an alternative search engine with better policies? (Leaving quality of results aside for the sake of discussion.)
The most abused piece of communication gear at my place of work isn't the router, it's the human voice box:
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Sports talk, car talk, parenting talk, movie talk, vacation talk, marriage talk, tech talk,
In corporate environments, end users don't buy software. Other people, with divergent interests, sign developer paychecks and software contracts and thus decide what software gets developed and purchased.
End user satisfaction becomes just one of many competing goals. And of course it's very easy to trade it off against the others, especially out-of-pocket cost.
There's nothing sinister about this; it's just the product of the matrix of incentives that people face.
Sometimes customers don't understand what kind of a system they're trying to build or how a consultant's skill set maps to their problem set. They see all technical professionals as "computer people" without distinction.
A standardized certification system might help these clients find the right kind of assistance.
My two cents.
It's not outside the realm of possibility that there might be nothing they can do: there may be no viable business model for pre-recorded entertainment once everyone has an all-purpose set of digital content storage and manipulation tools.
We may turn on our new digital televisions and find only live programming such as concerts, sports, and news. (And free content promoting upcoming live events.)
I can live with that.