Carly and Capellas went above and beyond the call of duty to destroy most of the interesting engineering that was done at DEC and the other firms (Tandem, etc) that have been borged over the years. The result has been the creation of the ultimate outsourcer of commodity junk "me-too" product on the market. Hopefully they will succeed through sheer scale at this point, since that is all they have left.
The corporate world is not quite ready to roll out a community based distro, and they probably never will be. While there is support for these distros as well (from third parties), most companies like getting support from the original vendor, for obvious liability reasons.
The real issue is if this will see HP really pushing linux through its sales channels instead of just being another "we recommend Windows 2000" shill.
When Wired magazine first started printing, they claimed that video-on-demand/interactive TV brought to us by TCI would take over the world. They had no context for predicting things like P2P. Too often futurists use their present contexts as a basis for prediction. The best ones don't.
All the oh-so insightful/.'s are carrying on a rich tradition of never being satisfied with anything. Now all of a sudden you actually care about Mozilla bloat...or do you just want to look insightful??
You all have sufficient disk space. You all have sufficient CPU and RAM.
Please save the forest and use the much more concise PHP.net docs. Wrox and Sams should have to pay an environmental terrorism tax for the amount of pulp they process.
Perl provides syntactic shortcuts and people use them. You do not need to use them. You can write Ada/Java-like incredibly verbose muck in Perl if you like. No one is forcing you to take the shortcuts....yet people do. Why is this? Because time is more valuable than code to many people.
Perl 5 already contains enough crap to confuse even perl "experts", yet this doesn't stop adoption. Take Bjarne's advice and only use the parts of a language you need, ignore the esoterica. Something else confuse you? Ignore it. Chances are you don't need it anyway.
Perl has always had a lot of esoterica. Don't let it bog you down. You can be amazingly productive in perl without ever knowing what a typeglob is.
Gee, they hold an obfuscated C contest every year. You think C would vanish by now given the disgusting crap the coders write for the contest.
The original poster simply pulled something similar. There is no requirement that your perl look anything like that, nor is "powerful" perl more obfuscated than plainish looking perl. This is total FUD drummed up by someone who has presented a corner case....which I can assure you can be done for any language. In fact, I wouldn't touch a language for which this didn't hold.
Your perl5 scripts will not be stranded. There are many ways this will be accomodated - by force or by detection of certain perl 5 tokens (like the package keyword).
What I typically hear and feel myself is that the php site documentation is sparse to a fault, with a great deal of useful information simply left out. Check out how many holes are filled in by contributors at the bottom of each page of the php.net site docs. These are glaring ommissions.
The VM is showing 10x speed improvements in preliminary tests. Couple that in with Moore's law and Perl (or any languages that compiles to the Parrot VM) becomes a very attractive language for more types of problems.
The Russians lost dozens of men due to shoddy safety standards, but they also lost equipment and time. Engineering for safety is not about being cautious, it is about conserving your resources - your trained staff, your equipment, and your time.
Quit your bellyaching and get a reality check. The cool tech most people in China are waiting for is running water. All empire fall, but it is going to be a while still before China uniformly leaves the U.S. in the dust....that is assuming they themselves aren't subverted economically by labor and intellectual capital even cheaper than themselvs. So far they are the low cost choice, but once standards start to rise there, they will also hear that "giant sucking sound" from cheaper locales like every other producer in the free trade world.
Most sectors of the software market are still totally oversaturated, filled with companies charging absurd amounts of money for mediocore products, banking on IT manager's ignorance or generous budgets.
Enterprise computing is probably the biggest pinata waiting to be burst. Seibel, Oracle, PeopleSoft, CA, IBM, BEA, SAP, SAS, Sybase...more and more these and other enterprise firms are poaching each other's markets, looking for growth. Only 10% will survive. I expect some major players in the enterprise market to vanish in the next five years. On top of this you have open source. Right now Oracle need not worry too much about MySQL, for example, but in five years they will have to worry about MySQL a great deal.
Open source and cheap foreign tech labor are converging to gut the high-margin software biz. I think in a few years people will drastically reconsider this market and profit prospects in it, and the process will be brutal.
Not all of the staff of Red Herring were dot-com pumpers. Tony Perkins was way ahead of the crowd with very harsh and insightful criticism of the dot-com bubble. His book on the subject is still worth reading, and if you read it and acted on it when it was published you would have escaped with your money intact.
I don't blame the Red Herring for bulking up and covering the dot-com era - everyone was taking money, and if they didn't, then Fast Company or Business 2.0 or Upside or The Standard would have. Out of all of these rags the Herring had the best commentary, often far more crtical than you would expect from a venture rag.
I hope to see Perkins and some of the other talented writers from the Herring show up in another publication soon.
In most identity databases there is absolutely nothing to assure that the entry actually represents you. The trust is inherent...we just assume that the phone company or credit agency has correctly assmebled a profile of you. Result - rampant identity theft. We live in a database society and nothing is going to change that. At least let me provide a reasonably secure means of verifying myself.
ATM transactions already create a full audit trail of your banking habits. At least this way, someone has to steal your eyeball and not just your card and PIN. The audit trail and data mining on your account takes place either way.
f we're going to live in a database society at least I want some assurance that my identity is proven with more than a plastic card and a four digit password.
Read some history. Iraq is not populated today by the same peoples that invented this device or "discovered the wheel" as you say thousands of years ago. The Islamic faith and the migrations of Arabic peoples into historically Persian regions over time has erased the cultural legacy of these peoples you refer to.
Google has officially crossed the line from cool geek toy to hated corporation. When exactly did this happen? The slashdot postings appear to have turned in the last month, following the typical trend curves that dictate that early adopters turn their noses up at anything co-opting by the masses.
The Slashdot corporate karma quotient is becoming a contrary indicator for fiscal success. The more hated you are by Slashthought, the more succesful you will likely be. Someone should try a mutual fund predicated on this.
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Carly and Capellas went above and beyond the call of duty to destroy most of the interesting engineering that was done at DEC and the other firms (Tandem, etc) that have been borged over the years. The result has been the creation of the ultimate outsourcer of commodity junk "me-too" product on the market. Hopefully they will succeed through sheer scale at this point, since that is all they have left.
The real issue is if this will see HP really pushing linux through its sales channels instead of just being another "we recommend Windows 2000" shill.
This is the whole point. If you are trying to address the standard, you are dealing with a very complex set of details.
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When Wired magazine first started printing, they claimed that video-on-demand/interactive TV brought to us by TCI would take over the world. They had no context for predicting things like P2P. Too often futurists use their present contexts as a basis for prediction. The best ones don't.
They go by the names McKinsey and Co, Monitor Group, AT Kearney, etc.
You all have sufficient disk space. You all have sufficient CPU and RAM.
Shut up and enjoy it.
Please save the forest and use the much more concise PHP.net docs. Wrox and Sams should have to pay an environmental terrorism tax for the amount of pulp they process.
Perl provides syntactic shortcuts and people use them. You do not need to use them. You can write Ada/Java-like incredibly verbose muck in Perl if you like. No one is forcing you to take the shortcuts....yet people do. Why is this? Because time is more valuable than code to many people.
Perl has always had a lot of esoterica. Don't let it bog you down. You can be amazingly productive in perl without ever knowing what a typeglob is.
The original poster simply pulled something similar. There is no requirement that your perl look anything like that, nor is "powerful" perl more obfuscated than plainish looking perl. This is total FUD drummed up by someone who has presented a corner case....which I can assure you can be done for any language. In fact, I wouldn't touch a language for which this didn't hold.
Your perl5 scripts will not be stranded. There are many ways this will be accomodated - by force or by detection of certain perl 5 tokens (like the package keyword).
Does php provide anything like this?
What I typically hear and feel myself is that the php site documentation is sparse to a fault, with a great deal of useful information simply left out. Check out how many holes are filled in by contributors at the bottom of each page of the php.net site docs. These are glaring ommissions.
The VM is showing 10x speed improvements in preliminary tests. Couple that in with Moore's law and Perl (or any languages that compiles to the Parrot VM) becomes a very attractive language for more types of problems.
And as a former employee, you give a shit why???
Writing a back door is just more coding. Code for a while and see how much extraneous crap you write just for kicks.
The Russians lost dozens of men due to shoddy safety standards, but they also lost equipment and time. Engineering for safety is not about being cautious, it is about conserving your resources - your trained staff, your equipment, and your time.
Quit your bellyaching and get a reality check. The cool tech most people in China are waiting for is running water. All empire fall, but it is going to be a while still before China uniformly leaves the U.S. in the dust....that is assuming they themselves aren't subverted economically by labor and intellectual capital even cheaper than themselvs. So far they are the low cost choice, but once standards start to rise there, they will also hear that "giant sucking sound" from cheaper locales like every other producer in the free trade world.
Enterprise computing is probably the biggest pinata waiting to be burst. Seibel, Oracle, PeopleSoft, CA, IBM, BEA, SAP, SAS, Sybase...more and more these and other enterprise firms are poaching each other's markets, looking for growth. Only 10% will survive. I expect some major players in the enterprise market to vanish in the next five years. On top of this you have open source. Right now Oracle need not worry too much about MySQL, for example, but in five years they will have to worry about MySQL a great deal.
Open source and cheap foreign tech labor are converging to gut the high-margin software biz. I think in a few years people will drastically reconsider this market and profit prospects in it, and the process will be brutal.
I don't blame the Red Herring for bulking up and covering the dot-com era - everyone was taking money, and if they didn't, then Fast Company or Business 2.0 or Upside or The Standard would have. Out of all of these rags the Herring had the best commentary, often far more crtical than you would expect from a venture rag.
I hope to see Perkins and some of the other talented writers from the Herring show up in another publication soon.
In most identity databases there is absolutely nothing to assure that the entry actually represents you. The trust is inherent...we just assume that the phone company or credit agency has correctly assmebled a profile of you. Result - rampant identity theft. We live in a database society and nothing is going to change that. At least let me provide a reasonably secure means of verifying myself.
Sure, but this is much easier today. All a thief has to do is steal your card and either force you to provide your PIN or just crack it.
f we're going to live in a database society at least I want some assurance that my identity is proven with more than a plastic card and a four digit password.
Read some history. Iraq is not populated today by the same peoples that invented this device or "discovered the wheel" as you say thousands of years ago. The Islamic faith and the migrations of Arabic peoples into historically Persian regions over time has erased the cultural legacy of these peoples you refer to.
The Slashdot corporate karma quotient is becoming a contrary indicator for fiscal success. The more hated you are by Slashthought, the more succesful you will likely be. Someone should try a mutual fund predicated on this.