actually the better record has to do with the fact fk all people use OS/400 / OpenVMS.
Yeah unix had some silly bugs, but that partly cos it was written by a really small team in spare time and became uber-popular despite it never really being intended to , and in an age where hackers where guys who logged in and FIXED your shit.
I thought of that when I wrote it and felt that it was important to recognize that the scope of enforceability would be limited to USA. The point of the sentence was to identify that the PEOPLE come first. That I failed to include the majority of the planet is offensive, I just didn't think that rest of the world gave two sh!ts about copyright or trademark infringement.
Eh, Your cool;)
sincerely (a foreigner). We do get grumpy americans occasionally forget theres life outside them borders, but by the same token apreciate it when you guys remember:)
(now, if you *really* want to impress me, put yerself in my boots;);););)
Actually, I'd like to see SCO brought by IBM and then have Darl fired, and sued. Then have the records plundered, any fraud exposed and have the lot of the bastards imprisoned.
Look Personally I adore Php. But I see his point. The templating thing is a red herring, but its indeed too easy to make oddball mistakes that arise from the weak typing.
Ie $arr[$index] =$value vs $arr[index] = $value
Both will 'work'. One will also screw up.
Its a similar problem that beset VB, and interestingly VB is (for reasons that really puzzle me. Both cobol and VB do have 'being crap' issues in common however) almost the new cobol of the windows business world.
However VB has the option to make typing explicit. PHP/Zend developers: Pay attention!
The Joe Gutnick ruling in australia (american site sued in australia under australian laws for defamation. Since site can be read in australia, the court held that the defamation happened in australia) pretty much opens the door for jurastiction shopping around the world.
And just cos your country dont recognise that countries rules, doesnt mean that you aint gunna find your bank balance empty one day.
You are quite correct there, and that also comes down to the competancies of the developers and software.
Oracle is fantastic data storage and retrieval, and is it great 'business logic'?. Probably not.
Likewise , A DBA is not necessary great at such logic, but a magician at getting and storing the data required for such logics, keeping it safe and as bookishly-correct atomic and/or normalised as wisely possible.
And theres some fantastic coders out there who's knowledge of DB's probably just extends to joins on selects and inserts.
So the DBA just presents a unified interface to the coder via stored procedures, and the coder does his job. The coder doesnt even have to know how the data is stored and retrieved.
Ken Kesey was never hooked to LSD, if you've ever used the stuff you'd understand why. Acid is both fun and gruelling, its one of those things you love to do..rarely.. cos its a heck of a journey. He did however use Psycosyblin after a researcher gave him some., and started his drug use there.
Its all detailed delightfully and bizarely in "The electric cool aid acid test".
Windows is more expensive to maintain as it requires more work, has been shown in some studies to be more difficult to use by beginners (gnome) and attracts less qualified IT staff. There? How does that grab ya?
Interestingly, the closest to a plausible theory as to how SCO could sue ibm/linux-folks is to unseal that agreement, somehow get it overturned (thus killing bsd, or at least in crazy SCO think), prove that Novell did indeed magically sell the unix business to SCO (the contract documents, and Novell suggest that Novell only made SCO the main distributor for unix, after all perhaps 90% or thereabouts of unix sales get sent back to novell... go figure!) and finally that linux has bits of BSD in it (maybe).
Once they have done that, proven they did not negligently contribute (Which they almost certainly can not, being that new-SCO aka Caldera's primary business was linux since new-SCO are *NOT* old-SCO aka Tarantella as they claim), and once they have proven that UNIX and Linux are not so hopelessly entangled in IBM patents as to make clear ownership a writeoff
Then they can win.
I put the chance of pulling off each one of these legal miracles as about 1%, and that will probably require using some sort of wierd mind control beam on the judge! or a miracle
01 COBOL COMEDY SECTION 02 OUTPUT A ROFL 03 END COBOL COMEDY SECTION 04 COMMENT I CANT REMEMBER COBOL SYNTAX AT ALL
Yeah I got it man. Interestingly, theres a part of me that thinks it wouldnt be as hard as it sounds. Cobol WAS pretty good at formatting and unformatting stuff from strings. If you concieve a tcp/ip packet as just a highly formatted bunch of info in a string, then maybe Cobol is just the ticket.
I've used Xandros a while now, and while I'm currently on he latest knoppix, I think I'm going back to xandros.
Its debian::is good.
*PLUS*
Its damn well integrated as heck. It feels like a package, rather than a bunch of stuff whacked together.
Its got a few anoyances ("My linux" ack!), but it works works works. The printer dialog works for everything. The sound system works for everything. Everything works. Autodetect. Work. work. work.
Plus its mostly vanilla debian under the hood. And that folks, is a gooood thing.
Half the worlds geeks visiting simultaneously a website having its bandwidth narrowed to a 9.6k serial pipe with the repeated message "j00 b33n ownz3d by goatse LOL". Let me think...
lucky bastards! The c64's at my high school really where just a floppy disk copying plant for us little bastards.
Mad high school prank. I made a bunch of floppys up called "Copy PRO. Game copying tool", and left them around the computer labs at school.
There was an instruction on the disk on how to set the game disk to r/w explaining that to copy the game FIRST the util had to overwrite the copyprotection on the ORIGINAL DISK. The student would go and take the tab off with the rooms puncher thingee then put it in the computer which would proceed to wipe the drive and leave the message "Idiot." up on the screen.
Yeah. It was a stupid prank, but I was 15 and it was the 80's.
*Note. Not quite remembering how I got em to make the disks rw. I *think* it was a hole punch.
I dont think theres an obligation to return patches until distribution occurs. The 'licence' pretty much covers distribution, but I only think you lose usage rights if those conditions of distribution are breached.
Could you imagine the absolute black hole linux would exist in if everytime you modded an init script you had to upload it to an ftp site!
And of course theres the factor that these cases are not meant to make it to court.
Civil courts reeeeealy need to think about changing the level of proof from 'balance of probabilities' to 'beyond reasonable doubt' like the criminal courts *supposedly* use, and making being unable to afford to defend oneself a miscarige of justice (not sure if justice is right word for civil cases)
Having lost some beautiful people to car crashes as a teenager, I dont drive a car and dont intend to. (And live in australia one of the few countries outside the mid east where its almost essential to have one due to distance... note the mid east poses good reasons for em AND has a population not dependant on em)
Bikes are great. I used to ride 25ks into town every day to get to work before they put the bus on thru here.
Verry few people who claim to need cars actually do.
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actually the better record has to do with the fact fk all people use OS/400 / OpenVMS.
Yeah unix had some silly bugs, but that partly cos it was written by a really small team in spare time and became uber-popular despite it never really being intended to , and in an age where hackers where guys who logged in and FIXED your shit.
Yes, and that man will require immediate hospitalization and long-term psychotherapy.
...at least until they get a grip on reality again.
I thought of that when I wrote it and felt that it was important to recognize that the scope of enforceability would be limited to USA. The point of the sentence was to identify that the PEOPLE come first. That I failed to include the majority of the planet is offensive, I just didn't think that rest of the world gave two sh!ts about copyright or trademark infringement.
;)
:)
;) ;) ;) ;)
Eh, Your cool
sincerely (a foreigner). We do get grumpy americans occasionally forget theres life outside them borders, but by the same token apreciate it when you guys remember
(now, if you *really* want to impress me, put yerself in my boots
Yes.
Figure you aint dont one of those 'big jobs' before either.
Actually, I'd like to see SCO brought by IBM and then have Darl fired, and sued. Then have the records plundered, any fraud exposed and have the lot of the bastards imprisoned.
Even the receptionists pet dog.
silly woofer.
Nonono.
Look Personally I adore Php. But I see his point. The templating thing is a red herring, but its indeed too easy to make oddball mistakes that arise from the weak typing.
Ie $arr[$index] =$value
vs $arr[index] = $value
Both will 'work'. One will also screw up.
Its a similar problem that beset VB, and interestingly VB is (for reasons that really puzzle me. Both cobol and VB do have 'being crap' issues in common however) almost the new cobol of the windows business world.
However VB has the option to make typing explicit. PHP/Zend developers: Pay attention!
The Joe Gutnick ruling in australia (american site sued in australia under australian laws for defamation. Since site can be read in australia, the court held that the defamation happened in australia) pretty much opens the door for jurastiction shopping around the world.
And just cos your country dont recognise that countries rules, doesnt mean that you aint gunna find your bank balance empty one day.
Welcome to legal hell.
Fantastic thinking.
You are quite correct there, and that also comes down to the competancies of the developers and software.
Oracle is fantastic data storage and retrieval, and is it great 'business logic'?. Probably not.
Likewise , A DBA is not necessary great at such logic, but a magician at getting and storing the data required for such logics, keeping it safe and as bookishly-correct atomic and/or normalised as wisely possible.
And theres some fantastic coders out there who's knowledge of DB's probably just extends to joins on selects and inserts.
So the DBA just presents a unified interface to the coder via stored procedures, and the coder does his job. The coder doesnt even have to know how the data is stored and retrieved.
OO in action!
OMG! Of course the people pay those taxes. Who do you think owns those corporations? People DUH!
Would someone think of the children! If we tax the rich whom shall buy them ponies?
Ken Kesey was never hooked to LSD, if you've ever used the stuff you'd understand why. Acid is both fun and gruelling, its one of those things you love to do..rarely.. cos its a heck of a journey. He did however use Psycosyblin after a researcher gave him some., and started his drug use there.
Its all detailed delightfully and bizarely in "The electric cool aid acid test".
Fork bomb.
... dont.
Uh. thanks. not.
Dude, seriously, if your going to trick people into doing fork bombs, then for the love of god , just
Folks. IF you run that code on a server or something critical, expect an angry call from the boss.
It just keeps calling itself recursively generating more and more processes until it locks or bombs. Dont do it as root.
And dude. Thats not cool. at all.
Windows is more expensive to maintain as it requires more work, has been shown in some studies to be more difficult to use by beginners (gnome) and attracts less qualified IT staff. There? How does that grab ya?
I'd frankly love to see military stuff banned from space altogether.
It'd *really* *really* be nice to know *somewhere* , there is a place outside of millitary juristiction.
Interestingly, the closest to a plausible theory as to how SCO could sue ibm/linux-folks is to unseal that agreement, somehow get it overturned (thus killing bsd, or at least in crazy SCO think), prove that Novell did indeed magically sell the unix business to SCO (the contract documents, and Novell suggest that Novell only made SCO the main distributor for unix, after all perhaps 90% or thereabouts of unix sales get sent back to novell... go figure!) and finally that linux has bits of BSD in it (maybe).
Once they have done that, proven they did not negligently contribute (Which they almost certainly can not, being that new-SCO aka Caldera's primary business was linux since new-SCO are *NOT* old-SCO aka Tarantella as they claim), and once they have proven that UNIX and Linux are not so hopelessly entangled in IBM patents as to make clear ownership a writeoff
Then they can win.
I put the chance of pulling off each one of these legal miracles as about 1%, and that will probably require using some sort of wierd mind control beam on the judge! or a miracle
I think its damn cool myself.
So what if theres a page name being passed back. Compliance perhaps? Eh. Its a finishing touch or an unfinished feature.
Get over it! Its the TCP stack that makes this baby interesting.
01 COBOL COMEDY SECTION
02 OUTPUT A ROFL
03 END COBOL COMEDY SECTION
04 COMMENT I CANT REMEMBER COBOL SYNTAX AT ALL
Yeah I got it man. Interestingly, theres a part of me that thinks it wouldnt be as hard as it sounds. Cobol WAS pretty good at formatting and unformatting stuff from strings. If you concieve a tcp/ip packet as just a highly formatted bunch of info in a string, then maybe Cobol is just the ticket.
Of course your on your own coping with the I/O
I concur.
I've used Xandros a while now, and while I'm currently on he latest knoppix, I think I'm going back to xandros.
Its debian::is good.
*PLUS*
Its damn well integrated as heck. It feels like a package, rather than a bunch of stuff whacked together.
Its got a few anoyances ("My linux" ack!), but it works works works. The printer dialog works for everything. The sound system works for everything. Everything works. Autodetect. Work. work. work.
Plus its mostly vanilla debian under the hood. And that folks, is a gooood thing.
Lets see.
:(
Half the worlds geeks visiting simultaneously a website having its bandwidth narrowed to a 9.6k serial pipe with the repeated message "j00 b33n ownz3d by goatse LOL". Let me think...
hmm...
This is why we cant have nice things.
linux server to the web pages....
lucky bastards! The c64's at my high school really where just a floppy disk copying plant for us little bastards.
Mad high school prank. I made a bunch of floppys up called "Copy PRO. Game copying tool", and left them around the computer labs at school.
There was an instruction on the disk on how to set the game disk to r/w explaining that to copy the game FIRST the util had to overwrite the copyprotection on the ORIGINAL DISK. The student would go and take the tab off with the rooms puncher thingee then put it in the computer which would proceed to wipe the drive and leave the message "Idiot." up on the screen.
Yeah. It was a stupid prank, but I was 15 and it was the 80's.
*Note. Not quite remembering how I got em to make the disks rw. I *think* it was a hole punch.
I dont think theres an obligation to return patches until distribution occurs. The 'licence' pretty much covers distribution, but I only think you lose usage rights if those conditions of distribution are breached.
Could you imagine the absolute black hole linux would exist in if everytime you modded an init script you had to upload it to an ftp site!
And of course theres the factor that these cases are not meant to make it to court.
Civil courts reeeeealy need to think about changing the level of proof from 'balance of probabilities' to 'beyond reasonable doubt' like the criminal courts *supposedly* use, and making being unable to afford to defend oneself a miscarige of justice (not sure if justice is right word for civil cases)
9000kWh!!!!!!
far out.
pass laws guys. Thats freaking ridiculous.
Definitely not. Even at 24V your 30amps look a little optimistic unless you had huge panels.
Ok then maybe it was magical space panels and we where all on acid.
No. It was 30amps and 4 panels.
good point.
:) :) :) :)
I suggest you build a hydroelectric dam then
Having lost some beautiful people to car crashes as a teenager, I dont drive a car and dont intend to. (And live in australia one of the few countries outside the mid east where its almost essential to have one due to distance... note the mid east poses good reasons for em AND has a population not dependant on em)
Bikes are great. I used to ride 25ks into town every day to get to work before they put the bus on thru here.
Verry few people who claim to need cars actually do.