There is a former VP of production (promoted, now has another title) at Yahoo who has a name very, very similar to Tim Bray, but they are not the same person.
A new, and quite good book has been released regarding Ruby, "Programming Ruby" published by Addison Wesley. Yo ucan find it at many online booksellers.
Yes Bruce, people have heard of it. The FreeBSD ports tree is chock full of excellent Ruby software.
Ruby really is a great language, and I suspect that by time Perl6 is done, it will resemble Ruby in many ways.
Moving to Ruby now will probably give you everything Perl6 is promising, without the three year wait.
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they really have to cater to the same people who were too stupid to adopt DSSSL
You mean the people who were too smart to adopt DSSSL?? Have you ever seen the standard? I don't think there was ever a standard as universally trashed and quickly dismissed.
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Ever heard of XSL? This utterly contrived and absolutely worthless style technology is proof positive that the W3 should stay out of the technology development business.
After DSSSL was shite upon the SGML world, you'd think standards bodies would take a long hard look at what people wanted and were actually using before even thinking of developing another convoluted styles standard. This is pure "design by committee", repleat with all the fractured useless designs you'd expect from such an effort.
And before anyone out there thinks of offering a rebuttal in support for XSL, programming in XML is a silly idea, particularly when the schema used to express programming constructs fails to include even rudimentary reuse and modularity features found in real programming languages thirty years ago.
Jon, I really want you to take some time off and think long and hard about what you are going to write about next.
Until you have something fresh and interesting to say, go fishing or something and get some inspiration. You've spent the last six months flogging the same old issues, just slightly rehashed so as to constitute a different checksum than the article before.
Revote those
countys. having the whole state of Florida revote is expensive for the voters. If Only 18K or so votes are in question lets eliminate
uncertainty. Revote those countys! Isn't this the most fair?
No, it is completely unfair. It allows voters in one county to act on information that is not available when they were supposed to ballot (i.e., the final results of the voting in the rest of the ocuntry) as well as considerable undue influence from the media regarding the interpretation of these ballots.
There are complaints about vote fraud in every election - and it certainly isn't limited to Palm Beach in this election. In New York state there have been significant complaints, affecting more individual votes than in Florida (althoug they aren't being contested as they would not change the final electoral vote in the state).
It is fundamentally unfair to the rest of Florida and the rest of the country to give any single county special rights to act upon complaints - I think the only fair thing to do would be to toss the entire election and start over, which isn't going to happen.
if people were confused by the ballots, then the ballots are confusing.
Then the local democratic elections administrator shouldn't have signed off on approving the ballot, which she did - thus officially endorsing the design on behalf of the Democrat party.
Once you've dropped the card in the ballot box, that should be it. If you can't figure out the ballot, don't drop it in the slot until you can ask for instructions.
As far as I'm concerned, Palm Beach likes the Reform Party - if you let one town revote, I really don't see how you can restrict others who felt similarly defrauded around the country from revoting - you essentially have to write off the election entirely.
I think you want to say "trade" in place of property, because notions of ownership certainly are bovious in nature, while bartering is not (although a symbiotic relationship might approach this in one sense).
For example, most tribal societies didn't believe in the idea of owning land.
The overwhelming fact often ignored when discussing North American tribal societies is that the incredible abundance of resources made most notions of ownership unnecessay.
Were these same tribes to exist in a place like ancient Britain, where resources and land were more scarce, they would have certainly developed a notion of traded property.
Before the Industrial Revolution, the idea of somebody else
owning the tools that they didn't use personally was also a bit counterintuitive.
I agree with your statements, and I am at a loss to see why he is so often quoted and treated as an authority.
Most of the oh-so-highly regarded advice on his photo.net site is typically useless drivel. Use Oracle?? Gee thanks Philip! I would've never have thought of that. Use TCL? Gee thanks Philip, but no thanks! Keep my html simple and clean? Gee no one ever thought of that before!!.
Hopefully this flamefest will keep his diatribes off of/.
Don't believe the hype that IE is at 80% - recent stats show it has edged up over 85%. The fight is definitely over folks - once Steve Jobs made IE the default browser on the Mac, the gig was up, there were no popular alternative platforms to exploit (and no, linux doesn't count...yet).
The $64k question now is whether Case gets impatient with Mozilla and just yanks the plug on it at some point - this project is still in serious trouble.
I had been making productive use of M18 on FreeBSD 4.1, until I came to notice a performance degradation...top inaccuracies aside, M18 gets up to 80% of the system within fifteen minutes of being launched.
Abuses in the tech industry are getting fairly common, but I wouldn't get too worried - already there are changes taking place. Firstly, as the land-grab on the web comes to an end, there is going to be less of a mad-rush to get things up in a hurry - there's no point now - no one is going to win marketshare with a quick solution at this point, and their are diminishing rewards to new companies joining the fray now. Added to which, at most large companies, you can already see an entrenched 8-hour cycle taking place.
As stock options become less lucrative, programmers are going to taper off their hours, regardless of what Greenspun puts in the office or threatens or promises.
Greenspun and his ilk are going to find it hard to find people willing ot program 70 hrs a week for sustained periods if you aren't going to offer them at least a million in post-tax compensation over the course of a two or three year employment stint.
I highly doubt you'll see Apple go into the rackmount market - the competition is fierce and Apple has no presence in it at all. Maybe a clone vendor could have taken on this market, but thats all water under the bridge now.
Note that Apple tried to venture into the enterprise market a few years back with some "larger" servers, but this effort was a total failure.
If you're fretting over your personal data hitting the wire, you're about fifteen years too late. ATMS, credit cards, medical records - all are transmitted over networks. These networks may not be SSL/HTTP - but the protocol is irrelevant to a seasoned hacker anyway.
Be has a solid OS, and just because its not Open Source doesn't mean it sucks and that Be should drop into the infernal abyss.
Of course Be has a quality product - but part of the marketing of that product is a decision whether or not to open the source. Like it or lump it, The BeOS market and the linux market are basically the same - people who are willing to try an alternative OS - and most of the users in this market are using the openness of the source in their product decision.
Be could have made that decision early on to capture mindshare - they didn't - and now they are toast. The bottom line is that you give users what they want. Even if the CEO doesn't think open source makes sense, you listen to users. If users want a free car wash and a commemorative plate with each OS install, thats what you give them.
Linux is a decent OS, it has a few things to learn (Which is why I use BSD:), but the thing that bugs me most about Linux are the claims by
its users that it can cure (insert "world hunger", "war", "disease", whatever else here.).
Speaking as someone who has used FreeBSD for five years, I can tell you that most of the cool userland stuff to land on BSD in the past three years has come from the linux userbase. Gnome and KDE would not have ever come about if not for the linux craze.
Aside from the real-time capabilities, which I presume are meaningless to almost all linux users, basically we've got another BeOS here.
My advice: learn the lesson that Be didn't - open source your OS if you want to survive. Regardless of whether it makes "strategic" sense for the company, the market for this type of product won't dedicate any mindshare to a closed source product. Without developer mindshare, you're toast.
Its not ridiculous that we tax capital gains per se, but that we depend on cap gains taxation to provide so much of the national budget.
Guess where the surplus came from? Thats right! Capital gains taxation. When the market goes, these taxes vanish, and there goes the surplus.
This nation will soon learn the error in depending too much on the taxation of speculation to prop up the budget, particularly whne most of the speculative behavior tapers off in a bear market.
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The online docs are also good.
Ruby really is a great language, and I suspect that by time Perl6 is done, it will resemble Ruby in many ways.
Moving to Ruby now will probably give you everything Perl6 is promising, without the three year wait.
You mean the people who were too smart to adopt DSSSL?? Have you ever seen the standard? I don't think there was ever a standard as universally trashed and quickly dismissed.
After DSSSL was shite upon the SGML world, you'd think standards bodies would take a long hard look at what people wanted and were actually using before even thinking of developing another convoluted styles standard. This is pure "design by committee", repleat with all the fractured useless designs you'd expect from such an effort.
And before anyone out there thinks of offering a rebuttal in support for XSL, programming in XML is a silly idea, particularly when the schema used to express programming constructs fails to include even rudimentary reuse and modularity features found in real programming languages thirty years ago.
Until you have something fresh and interesting to say, go fishing or something and get some inspiration. You've spent the last six months flogging the same old issues, just slightly rehashed so as to constitute a different checksum than the article before.
No, it is completely unfair. It allows voters in one county to act on information that is not available when they were supposed to ballot (i.e., the final results of the voting in the rest of the ocuntry) as well as considerable undue influence from the media regarding the interpretation of these ballots.
There are complaints about vote fraud in every election - and it certainly isn't limited to Palm Beach in this election. In New York state there have been significant complaints, affecting more individual votes than in Florida (althoug they aren't being contested as they would not change the final electoral vote in the state).
It is fundamentally unfair to the rest of Florida and the rest of the country to give any single county special rights to act upon complaints - I think the only fair thing to do would be to toss the entire election and start over, which isn't going to happen.
Then the local democratic elections administrator shouldn't have signed off on approving the ballot, which she did - thus officially endorsing the design on behalf of the Democrat party.
As far as I'm concerned, Palm Beach likes the Reform Party - if you let one town revote, I really don't see how you can restrict others who felt similarly defrauded around the country from revoting - you essentially have to write off the election entirely.
When was any notion of "natural rights" ever a precondition?
Is there any reason to hoard these resources through legislation?
Bandwith may be infinite, but creativity and time are still finite. Finite resources must be valued.
I think you want to say "trade" in place of property, because notions of ownership certainly are bovious in nature, while bartering is not (although a symbiotic relationship might approach this in one sense).
For example, most tribal societies didn't believe in the idea of owning land.
The overwhelming fact often ignored when discussing North American tribal societies is that the incredible abundance of resources made most notions of ownership unnecessay.
Were these same tribes to exist in a place like ancient Britain, where resources and land were more scarce, they would have certainly developed a notion of traded property.
Before the Industrial Revolution, the idea of somebody else owning the tools that they didn't use personally was also a bit counterintuitive.
Ever heard of the feudal system?
Put a big blue E on their desktop and take away netscape, and they don't know what the hell to do.
What school is this????
Most of the oh-so-highly regarded advice on his photo.net site is typically useless drivel. Use Oracle?? Gee thanks Philip! I would've never have thought of that. Use TCL? Gee thanks Philip, but no thanks! Keep my html simple and clean? Gee no one ever thought of that before!!.
Hopefully this flamefest will keep his diatribes off of /.
Yes, so they could make lots of money. Instead, the made no money...actually negative money.
Saying NEtscape won is like saying Xerox won because PARC got everyone using GUIs.
Come on, use your brain.
The $64k question now is whether Case gets impatient with Mozilla and just yanks the plug on it at some point - this project is still in serious trouble.
Don't get me wrong, I'm rooting for Mozilla, but at this point it really looks hopeless.
I had been making productive use of M18 on FreeBSD 4.1, until I came to notice a performance degradation...top inaccuracies aside, M18 gets up to 80% of the system within fifteen minutes of being launched.
Abuses in the tech industry are getting fairly common, but I wouldn't get too worried - already there are changes taking place. Firstly, as the land-grab on the web comes to an end, there is going to be less of a mad-rush to get things up in a hurry - there's no point now - no one is going to win marketshare with a quick solution at this point, and their are diminishing rewards to new companies joining the fray now. Added to which, at most large companies, you can already see an entrenched 8-hour cycle taking place.
Greenspun and his ilk are going to find it hard to find people willing ot program 70 hrs a week for sustained periods if you aren't going to offer them at least a million in post-tax compensation over the course of a two or three year employment stint.
Note that Apple tried to venture into the enterprise market a few years back with some "larger" servers, but this effort was a total failure.
Of course Be has a quality product - but part of the marketing of that product is a decision whether or not to open the source. Like it or lump it, The BeOS market and the linux market are basically the same - people who are willing to try an alternative OS - and most of the users in this market are using the openness of the source in their product decision.
Be could have made that decision early on to capture mindshare - they didn't - and now they are toast. The bottom line is that you give users what they want. Even if the CEO doesn't think open source makes sense, you listen to users. If users want a free car wash and a commemorative plate with each OS install, thats what you give them.
Linux is a decent OS, it has a few things to learn (Which is why I use BSD :), but the thing that bugs me most about Linux are the claims by
its users that it can cure (insert "world hunger", "war", "disease", whatever else here.).
Speaking as someone who has used FreeBSD for five years, I can tell you that most of the cool userland stuff to land on BSD in the past three years has come from the linux userbase. Gnome and KDE would not have ever come about if not for the linux craze.
My advice: learn the lesson that Be didn't - open source your OS if you want to survive. Regardless of whether it makes "strategic" sense for the company, the market for this type of product won't dedicate any mindshare to a closed source product. Without developer mindshare, you're toast.
Guess where the surplus came from? Thats right! Capital gains taxation. When the market goes, these taxes vanish, and there goes the surplus.
This nation will soon learn the error in depending too much on the taxation of speculation to prop up the budget, particularly whne most of the speculative behavior tapers off in a bear market.