Heh... It's not really done, until I can emerge it like real software:P
Seriously tho, I use VS.NET and Eclipse all the time. I find that both are extremely powerful when understood, both of their limitations and of their features.
For my java work, there's not really any point in using anything else 'cause Eclipse is what java IDE's are supposed to be.:p
I've been putting off posting a message like this, but it appears that SCO is intending on profiting off the hard labors of others, and denying them their rights to their own fruits of labor.
SCO MUST BE STOPPED. NOW.
My proposal to stop SCO is a simple, easy to implement little plan.
The Goal : Make SCO's stock drop like a rock.
The Method: If as many people as possible go onto stock boards, and post their negative feelings about SCO, and their own speculations as to what the outcome of the battle with IBM will be, Buyers will begin to flee from the stock.
It is important, that if you use this technique, that you label your comments as an OPINION, and that they are simply your own feelings as to what the outcome will be.
It would be also well to do if you indicate that your company will NEVER purchase, license, or other wise enter into a business agreement with SCO, as you feel that their products (specifically name them) are of low quality and should not be used in production environments.
If this is to work, as many people who care about the freedom of Open Source and Free Software should find a stock board, and start posting.
SCO is getting away with many lies, spreading FUD, and generally making everyone's life a little hellish. These acts are a direct threat to our way of life, and must be dealt with in a most severe fashion.
In order to ensure SCO does not have the tools to fight such a fight, we must eliminate the largest source of income from them at this point: STOCK.
Probably since they fear that they have little actual technology different from their competitors, and the code to the drivers is the only thing that makes them any different.
That ant Linksys, et al are likely violating the GPL in their proprietary systems, and are afraid of getting called out on it if they released the source.
Really, from another perspective, Open source can kibosh their business plans too: Tell me, how hard is it these days to build a tiny embedded router using linux(free), a low-end pentium($10), two cheap nics(2x$7), and a 8mb compact flash($3-ebay) w/ IDE card reader($20).
Long Answer: With the uncertain status of $CO , you really have to ask yourself: What happens if IBM wins? Or drags the case out for 10 years? IBM is the Master Litigator(tm). Throughout their existence they have used the courts to smash other companies into bits, or drag things out long enough to bankrupt the other guy. The only company that was worse than IBM for this was NCR (circa late 1800's to early 1900's --- several of their board got convicted for crap like that.)...
But I digress... IBM will keep the fires going for a really long time, and SCO can't last forever. By going the SCO route, you are essentially betting the farm that SCO wins, which seems a bit strange. If you go with Linux, you can be fairly confident that linux will be around for a hell of a lot longer, as SCO *may* have a case against contract breach by IBM, but they have't a leg to stand on against anyone else.
Given, that after the lawsuit is over, the entire community will shun them, they will have nowhere left to turn for customers, and let's face it: SCO never had many anyway. Aside from making a shitty product (And I've been exposed to SCO for over a decade now) they won't be spending any of their new found wealth on development, that money would be earmarked for the investors.
Linux is here to stay. No force in the planet will change that. Even if all the top Linux Kernel hackers died, Linux is going to persevere forever.
#1) If you are using the [WebMethod] shit and hosting your SOAP calls via IIS you need a smack in the head.
#2) If you are using SOAP to communicate between the layers of your application, and are not exposing the SOAP methods for external consumers of the web services, You need more smacks in the head.
#3) If you don't know what you are doing, hire someone who does. (and by the sound of your point #6 about using reflectiona and dynamic code in the production app, you don't.)
If you are in.NET and you *NEED* a remote facility between your layers, (And if you were working for me, you'd damn well prove it), then for the love of god, switch to Remoting. Don't know what that is? Grab a book, dumbass. You can use a binary formatter and jump your speed by an order of magnitude, or you can fall back to a SOAP formatter on remoting and still double your performance.
If you don't *NEED* a remote facility between the layers, stop using SOAP, or any other remote procedure calling solution. Nothing pisses me off more than bandwagon jumping know-nothings using a fancy fucking hammer to solve a problem which requires far less.
It would appear the largest problem you have in overcomming your problems with.NET is your own stupidity. No matter if you are on.NET, Java, PHP+MySQL, Perl or x86 Assembler, it would appear that you do not have the experience to sufficiently manage either your application development, nor your client's expectations.
Bottom line: To support 100+ concurrent requests, There is no way that you shouldn't be able to do that for under 20K... (although I wonder where that number came from.. Do these servers sit in a vacuum? Who's running them?)
From a purely acedemic standpoint, what the heck were you guys thinking when you were going to spend only 20K on the hardware for an app that does 100+ concurrent transactions. That sounds like enough business to afford quite a heck of a lot more.
If you are/were so budget constrained, why are you spending at thousands on server software? (.NET server, SQL Server, etc...) If you are so budget constrained, you shoulda bought opensource.
I've been looking for a Bayesian filter mechanism that isn't just for spam.
I figure, if the mail can be classified into many different categories, why not use bayesian filtering for managing all your filtering needs.
It would be very valuable to have the bayesian filter learn what kind of mail I put in some folders, so that when my mail comes it, it can auto-sort it into the appropriate folder for me. Trouble is, all the current implementations of Bayesian email filtering are a single test SPAM/NOTSPAM. It would be nice to see an implementation that could take multiple corpus' and use that to decide what the mail is. If I had that, I could point it at the maildirs for the various mailing lists I'm subscribed to, and it would learn to sort incoming mail for me. *sigh*
As a matter of fact, many studies show that QWERTY, while not the *MOST* optimal, is many times more optimal than either randomly ordered keys, or linear ordering.
Given that the punctuatuion characters are gravitated outwards, and that the Z,X and Q characters are placed on the non-dominant hand, on the edges, seems to corroborate that. If indeed you wanted to slow someone down, drop those into the middle of the keyboard!
Now, for left-handers (often reffered to the more proper 'Spawn-of-the-devil' ) are probably at a disadvantage, but heck, what can you do ?:p
Humans are learning creatures. Machines are simply that--Machines.
It is far simpler to have a human adapt to an interface than to attempt to build the ultimate interface that would be universally accepted.
By creating a system that is abstracted from reality (windows/desktop/icons) allows us all common ground, as there is no real example of this sort of thing in the real world anyway.
Heck, the mouse and the keyboard are both *arbitrarily* designed devices. Each it built to perform a purpose, but unlike anything else. I've learned to use them effectively, as have most people. This trend is growing too. Younger people adapt quicker and quicker, and don't need the kind of training that folks did 20 years ago.
Another example of this: Newton vs Palm.
The Newton tried to understand and learn from the human. The Palm had grafitti--You were forced to learn it's dialect of writing. You know what? Millions learned grafitti, even "non-techies". My wife, learned grafitti in about an hour, and can really rock writing on a palm. The Netwon never really caught on, in part due to it's handwriting recognition skills.
In reference to your instant on. Computer already have this. Use sleep mode instead of the power button. You'll get your instant on without the wait.
I for one, do not wish to "start from scratch". I'm happy with the progression of today's desktops, and In *my* opinion, we've skyrocketed past the simple concepts from Xerox PARC (That's PARC not Park. Palo Alto Research Center).
Trust me, if you have ever used the fruits of the original technology, you would understand some of the differences.
it's been my experience that those that flaunt Mensa membership tend toward the lower end of the requirements for that organization
AMEN.
I meet many Mensa folk in my journeys. I have found exactly that. Bright folk, sure. But they do tend to be on a self-righteous trip, which I could certainly do without.
Some of us here rank a couple of sigmas above Mensa minimums, i.e in the top two percent of that top two percent. So what? We don't rub people's noses in it. If they've got something valid to say (or if they say something really stupid) it doesn't really matter what they scored on some test
And DOUBLE AMEN to that.
I too, by academic measure, score ridiculously high on IQ tests, but I fail to see where that grants me the authority to being an elitist sack of shit. I have a brother would not rank more than 100 on a test, if that, but in many ways not covered by that simplistic testing, is a genius in subjects that I still have trouble comprehending.
Geh, some people make me sick.
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Heh-heh I just clicked on the link to the mensa site. They've got a blurb on there about the "Test the Nation" garbage that aired on Fox last week. What a pathetic bunch of nonsense. I can't beleive any organisation that promotes "intelligence" would be even remotely associated with that. *sigh*
It's not like one dilutes the other. They are not competing products. Even remotely. One does not affect the other.
Heck, Just plugging in Firebird on Google, the top 10 hits are:
3- related to Firebird Database 1- Related to the Pontiac Firebird (!) 2- Firebird Raceway 1- book company 1- design company 1- gem company 1- arts & music.
Hey, the browser didn't even make top 10!
So, maybe they(Database boneheads) should go after the racetrack, pontiac, the book company, design company, gem company, and the a&m company too.
Taxing email would stifle mailing lists massively.
I gave up on Usenet years ago, and use mailing lists as a method of communication that can be somewhat trusted to be spam free.
What possible benefit can no-money groups who use mailing lists get from this?
The money that people pay for their connection already goes to paying for bandwidth. Getting the greasy government fingers into it to further tax it, would be dumb dumb dumb. Who ever heard of taxes going away?... I can just imagine it, 50 years from now, I'll be telling my grandkids: "well sonny, I remember when it cost just a penny to send an e-mail... now it is 57 cents... *sigh*"...."Sure grampa... whatever"
Oh, and good fucking luck getting the entire world to collect the tax.
In order to use something as proof, a verdict must be reached. You can't say "I fscked that Guy in the ass, so you have to bend over too!" as an argument.
The dumbasses are going to find out when they go to court, how a shitty patent on prexisting art will make them part of the 99% of patent cases that upon reaching court get tossed.
To start with, you can use the fully open source FREEDOS.
Secondly, I can't see any reason, other than performance why Linux couldn't work off of Int13 , and use Bios-level calls for all disk access. It's probably a good idea, and it would get use to some nice places.
Thirdly, the reason that the OEMs are using dos boot disks for bios updates and whatnot, is because it is far more simple, predictable and stable to use an OS that doesn't have anything clever going on when you are flashing the BIOS.
and Finally, simplicity. DOS is downright stupidly simple to build a boot disk for, and the commands are simple to use, and it is simple to talk someone thru an operation over the phone.
I know that there are many people who can build a boot disk for linux and they will come out of the woodwork to say it's easy, but it ain't as easy as SYS'ing a disk and dumping on IO.SYS,MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM.
That, and try finding a Linux disk that is smaller than 300K ( as even the bloated IO.SYS/MSDOS.SYS/COMMAND.COM combo from Win98 is) and you'll find that it is just not going to fit.
Slashdot Mirror
*HUH*???
That's the damn strangest acquisition I've ever heard of.
Hell, Novell's purchase of WordPerfect seems to make sense under this veil.
Weird, weird, weird...
Heh... It's not really done, until I can emerge it like real software :P
:p
Seriously tho, I use VS.NET and Eclipse all the time. I find that both are extremely powerful when understood, both of their limitations and of their features.
For my java work, there's not really any point in using anything else 'cause Eclipse is what java IDE's are supposed to be.
Holy crap... That's like the antidote for a double shot venti latte!
I just about fell asleep reading that. Wuff, time for another coffee.
Corporations pay taxes on PROFIT, not Income. :p
I've been putting off posting a message like this, but it appears that SCO is intending on profiting off the hard labors of others, and denying them their rights to their own fruits of labor.
SCO MUST BE STOPPED. NOW.
My proposal to stop SCO is a simple, easy to implement little plan.
The Goal : Make SCO's stock drop like a rock.
The Method: If as many people as possible go onto stock boards, and post their negative feelings about SCO, and their own speculations as to what the outcome of the battle with IBM will be, Buyers will begin to flee from the stock.
It is important, that if you use this technique, that you label your comments as an OPINION, and that they are simply your own feelings as to what the outcome will be.
It would be also well to do if you indicate that your company will NEVER purchase, license, or other wise enter into a business agreement with SCO, as you feel that their products (specifically name them) are of low quality and should not be used in production environments.
If this is to work, as many people who care about the freedom of Open Source and Free Software should find a stock board, and start posting.
SCO is getting away with many lies, spreading FUD, and generally making everyone's life a little hellish. These acts are a direct threat to our way of life, and must be dealt with in a most severe fashion.
In order to ensure SCO does not have the tools to fight such a fight, we must eliminate the largest source of income from them at this point: STOCK.
Probably since they fear that they have little actual technology different from their competitors, and the code to the drivers is the only thing that makes them any different.
That ant Linksys, et al are likely violating the GPL in their proprietary systems, and are afraid of getting called out on it if they released the source.
Really, from another perspective, Open source can kibosh their business plans too: Tell me, how hard is it these days to build a tiny embedded router using linux(free), a low-end pentium($10), two cheap nics(2x$7), and a 8mb compact flash($3-ebay) w/ IDE card reader($20).
Short answer: Buy Linux.
Long Answer: With the uncertain status of $CO , you really have to ask yourself: What happens if IBM wins? Or drags the case out for 10 years? IBM is the Master Litigator(tm). Throughout their existence they have used the courts to smash other companies into bits, or drag things out long enough to bankrupt the other guy. The only company that was worse than IBM for this was NCR (circa late 1800's to early 1900's --- several of their board got convicted for crap like that.)...
But I digress... IBM will keep the fires going for a really long time, and SCO can't last forever. By going the SCO route, you are essentially betting the farm that SCO wins, which seems a bit strange. If you go with Linux, you can be fairly confident that linux will be around for a hell of a lot longer, as SCO *may* have a case against contract breach by IBM, but they have't a leg to stand on against anyone else.
Given, that after the lawsuit is over, the entire community will shun them, they will have nowhere left to turn for customers, and let's face it: SCO never had many anyway. Aside from making a shitty product (And I've been exposed to SCO for over a decade now) they won't be spending any of their new found wealth on development, that money would be earmarked for the investors.
Linux is here to stay. No force in the planet will change that. Even if all the top Linux Kernel hackers died, Linux is going to persevere forever.
Holy mother of fscking god.
.NET and you *NEED* a remote facility between your layers, (And if you were working for me, you'd damn well prove it), then for the love of god, switch to Remoting. Don't know what that is? Grab a book, dumbass. You can use a binary formatter and jump your speed by an order of magnitude, or you can fall back to a SOAP formatter on remoting and still double your performance.
.NET is your own stupidity. No matter if you are on .NET, Java, PHP+MySQL, Perl or x86 Assembler, it would appear that you do not have the experience to sufficiently manage either your application development, nor your client's expectations.
STOP USING WEB SERVICES.
#1) If you are using the [WebMethod] shit and hosting your SOAP calls via IIS you need a smack in the head.
#2) If you are using SOAP to communicate between the layers of your application, and are not exposing the SOAP methods for external consumers of the web services, You need more smacks in the head.
#3) If you don't know what you are doing, hire someone who does. (and by the sound of your point #6 about using reflectiona and dynamic code in the production app, you don't.)
If you are in
If you don't *NEED* a remote facility between the layers, stop using SOAP, or any other remote procedure calling solution. Nothing pisses me off more than bandwagon jumping know-nothings using a fancy fucking hammer to solve a problem which requires far less.
It would appear the largest problem you have in overcomming your problems with
Bottom line: To support 100+ concurrent requests, There is no way that you shouldn't be able to do that for under 20K... (although I wonder where that number came from.. Do these servers sit in a vacuum? Who's running them?)
From a purely acedemic standpoint, what the heck were you guys thinking when you were going to spend only 20K on the hardware for an app that does 100+ concurrent transactions. That sounds like enough business to afford quite a heck of a lot more.
If you are/were so budget constrained, why are you spending at thousands on server software? (.NET server, SQL Server, etc...) If you are so budget constrained, you shoulda bought opensource.
Um, well, No Taxes:
Didn't GWB eliminate taxes on dividends? That'd be pure cash for the Gatester, right?
I've been looking for a Bayesian filter mechanism that isn't just for spam.
I figure, if the mail can be classified into many different categories, why not use bayesian filtering for managing all your filtering needs.
It would be very valuable to have the bayesian filter learn what kind of mail I put in some folders, so that when my mail comes it, it can auto-sort it into the appropriate folder for me. Trouble is, all the current implementations of Bayesian email filtering are a single test SPAM/NOTSPAM. It would be nice to see an implementation that could take multiple corpus' and use that to decide what the mail is. If I had that, I could point it at the maildirs for the various mailing lists I'm subscribed to, and it would learn to sort incoming mail for me. *sigh*
Very True.
:p
As a matter of fact, many studies show that QWERTY, while not the *MOST* optimal, is many times more optimal than either randomly ordered keys, or linear ordering.
Given that the punctuatuion characters are gravitated outwards, and that the Z,X and Q characters are placed on the non-dominant hand, on the edges, seems to corroborate that. If indeed you wanted to slow someone down, drop those into the middle of the keyboard!
Now, for left-handers (often reffered to the more proper 'Spawn-of-the-devil' ) are probably at a disadvantage, but heck, what can you do ?
I am a die-hard M Fanatic. So is a buddy of mine.
:)
We scour local flea markets, garage sales and auctions for people getting rid of them.
This year, I scored three at three seperate garage sales. $5, $2, $2 !
I've got about 10 now, and I put one with every computer I use.
My co-workers used to rile me about the noise, but after I started hitting them over the head with it, they stopped complaining.
Hang on a minute here...
Humans are learning creatures. Machines are simply that--Machines.
It is far simpler to have a human adapt to an interface than to attempt to build the ultimate interface that would be universally accepted.
By creating a system that is abstracted from reality (windows/desktop/icons) allows us all common ground, as there is no real example of this sort of thing in the real world anyway.
Heck, the mouse and the keyboard are both *arbitrarily* designed devices. Each it built to perform a purpose, but unlike anything else. I've learned to use them effectively, as have most people. This trend is growing too. Younger people adapt quicker and quicker, and don't need the kind of training that folks did 20 years ago.
Another example of this: Newton vs Palm.
The Newton tried to understand and learn from the human. The Palm had grafitti--You were forced to learn it's dialect of writing. You know what? Millions learned grafitti, even "non-techies". My wife, learned grafitti in about an hour, and can really rock writing on a palm. The Netwon never really caught on, in part due to it's handwriting recognition skills.
In reference to your instant on. Computer already have this. Use sleep mode instead of the power button. You'll get your instant on without the wait.
I for one, do not wish to "start from scratch". I'm happy with the progression of today's desktops, and In *my* opinion, we've skyrocketed past the simple concepts from Xerox PARC (That's PARC not Park. Palo Alto Research Center).
Trust me, if you have ever used the fruits of the original technology, you would understand some of the differences.
I agree.
:P
*Perception* is absolutely everything.
God damn swing apps *FEEL LIKE THEY* run god damn slow!
I mean, when some prick leaks that Hermione dies in the last book, the least that could be done is that screen updates don't take so long.
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed herein are not necessarily those of MENSA, which I am a member of.
:)
:p
I think you mean "of which I am a member."
DAMN!
You beat me to the punch on that one. I saw that she had changed her signature line, and I figured I'd get in a quick jab
Odd, Her views may not not necessarily be those of MENSA, of which she is a member, but her attitude sure the heck is.
it's been my experience that those that flaunt Mensa membership tend toward the lower end of the requirements for that organization
AMEN.
I meet many Mensa folk in my journeys. I have found exactly that. Bright folk, sure. But they do tend to be on a self-righteous trip, which I could certainly do without.
Some of us here rank a couple of sigmas above Mensa minimums, i.e in the top two percent of that top two percent. So what? We don't rub people's noses in it. If they've got something valid to say (or if they say something really stupid) it doesn't really matter what they scored on some test
And DOUBLE AMEN to that.
I too, by academic measure, score ridiculously high on IQ tests, but I fail to see where that grants me the authority to being an elitist sack of shit. I have a brother would not rank more than 100 on a test, if that, but in many ways not covered by that simplistic testing, is a genius in subjects that I still have trouble comprehending.
Geh, some people make me sick.
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Heh-heh I just clicked on the link to the mensa site. They've got a blurb on there about the "Test the Nation" garbage that aired on Fox last week. What a pathetic bunch of nonsense. I can't beleive any organisation that promotes "intelligence" would be even remotely associated with that. *sigh*
No, but, pointing out, that you, among others, use, from a certain perspective, far too may commas, is. :p
lol
That SCO is just looking for a good old fashioned ass fucking?
Wow. I can not understand how unbelievably poor judgement SCO's lawyers are showing. They keep manufacuturing new crap so fast I can't keep up.
The good news is, I've seen "high-priced" lawyers do the same thing and end up with a severe boot to the head.
*sigh*
Start stealing stuff now!
Think about it, if the company is forcing you to work and treating you like crap, pick up a few extra items at the office.
When it goes bankrupt, who better deserves all that stuff? you ? or the creditors?
They tend to lock everyone out and escort them around when companies go under, so do it early!
heh-heh
No kidding. sheesh.
:
It's not like one dilutes the other. They are not competing products. Even remotely. One does not affect the other.
Heck, Just plugging in Firebird on Google, the top 10 hits are
3- related to Firebird Database
1- Related to the Pontiac Firebird (!)
2- Firebird Raceway
1- book company
1- design company
1- gem company
1- arts & music.
Hey, the browser didn't even make top 10!
So, maybe they(Database boneheads) should go after the racetrack, pontiac, the book company, design company, gem company, and the a&m company too.
This is just so silly.
How many people refer to the current Mozilla suite as "SeaMonkey"?
:p
Few. Certainly less than the number of people who refer to the Netscape 4.x browsers as "A hot, steaming pile of shit" .
Uh, didn't they read the EULA.
They are not allowed to sue if the software Fscks up.
Heh, now Microsoft/BSA is gonna audit their asses off.. Hope they are in compliance.
Slashdot had a little lamb
with fleece as white as snow
every time the lameness filter kicks in
my Brains out I wish to blow!
Taxing email would stifle mailing lists massively.
I gave up on Usenet years ago, and use mailing lists as a method of communication that can be somewhat trusted to be spam free.
What possible benefit can no-money groups who use mailing lists get from this?
The money that people pay for their connection already goes to paying for bandwidth. Getting the greasy government fingers into it to further tax it, would be dumb dumb dumb. Who ever heard of taxes going away?... I can just imagine it, 50 years from now, I'll be telling my grandkids: "well sonny, I remember when it cost just a penny to send an e-mail... now it is 57 cents... *sigh*"...."Sure grampa... whatever"
Oh, and good fucking luck getting the entire world to collect the tax.
Unfortunalty for them settling isn't proof.
In order to use something as proof, a verdict must be reached. You can't say "I fscked that Guy in the ass, so you have to bend over too!" as an argument.
The dumbasses are going to find out when they go to court, how a shitty patent on prexisting art will make them part of the 99% of patent cases that upon reaching court get tossed.
To start with, you can use the fully open source FREEDOS.
,MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM.
Secondly, I can't see any reason, other than performance why Linux couldn't work off of Int13 , and use Bios-level calls for all disk access. It's probably a good idea, and it would get use to some nice places.
Thirdly, the reason that the OEMs are using dos boot disks for bios updates and whatnot, is because it is far more simple, predictable and stable to use an OS that doesn't have anything clever going on when you are flashing the BIOS.
and Finally, simplicity. DOS is downright stupidly simple to build a boot disk for, and the commands are simple to use, and it is simple to talk someone thru an operation over the phone.
I know that there are many people who can build a boot disk for linux and they will come out of the woodwork to say it's easy, but it ain't as easy as SYS'ing a disk and dumping on IO.SYS
That, and try finding a Linux disk that is smaller than 300K ( as even the bloated IO.SYS/MSDOS.SYS/COMMAND.COM combo from Win98 is) and you'll find that it is just not going to fit.