Shouldn't obsolete TLDs just be mothballed with further registrations prohibited?
It's not just a case of registering new domains for all those sites - think of the volume of inbound links that will break if a whole domain just vanishes overnight.
Which limits it to TCKs offered by Sun - meaning Sun doesn't actually spend any money, they just don't take any money in for those specific cases (they're not losing anything, since those implementors can't afford Sun's prices anyway!)
No, that would be the case if they were just throwing the license "over the wall", to quote the article. But they're not, they're saying that they realise that TCKs are potentially useless without support from the vendor.
The scolarships are there to provide that support to at least some of the people using the free licenses, and therefore have an actual cost to Sun in terms of resources.
And of course its limited to Sun's TCKs, they can hardly support those of other vendors can they?
It's OK to develop for. The motorola SDK is good and they provide a nice IDE.
Also the language is quite a nice high level, object based one with plenty of hooks for the phone/SMS functionality you want to use. PLus they say they're going to support java (J2ME?) later as well.
I couldn't live with it though (ignoring the fact that it crashed a lot - it was an engineering sample) its just not that great.
He's spot on about the interface being long winded, a common failing with Motorla.
The worst bit is the fact that you have to use the hands free kit all the time though. So if you want to answer incoming calls you have to have the wires connected all the time which is a complete pain.
The PDA stuff is pretty good, but not as good as a dedicated device, although obviously its nice to be able to dial direct from your address book.
The problem is it doesn't do either job well enough. As phone, it makes a nice PDA and vice versa.
Why does everyone assume that an office suite is the only thing that a corporate desktop needs?
Every company I've worked for has a raft of applications built in house from from the quick and dirty apps up to large, complex mission critical systems.
The bulk of these are written in Visual Basic, so what are you going to do with them in your ideal Linux world?
At my current job we're about to start quite a complex database front end and of course we're doing it in Visual Basic because a straw poll of the developers in the office showed that everyone had some VB from quite basic to expert.
I can't see how any company (particularly mediam sized ones) can ditch windows until their developers can wade into in house apps quickly and without extra training.
So now we're ditching all the Macs, which is nice in and of itself but we ain't ditching them in favour of Linux that's for sure.
If we'd gone round the developers and a large proportion of them had been confident they could produce the same app, as quickly on Linux as they could in VB then perhaps we'd have ditched the Macs and Windows in favour of it.
Could it possibly be that humour is subjective and the person that modded you down didn't find it funny but the person that modded that comment up did?
Nah, it must be a conspiracy.
Jesus, get over it.
Isn't everyone bored of comments complaining about moderation or suggestion moderation?
Everything that says "mod this up/down" or "why did this get modded up/down?" should get modded into oblivion as a matter of course. (He said breaking his own rule, please mod me down:-).
It tells errors common to other web languages too; not only related to PHP
Not really, the two chief problems he describes are the automatic creation and population of variables from the querystring or form fields and the ability to load library code off remote servers. Neither of which are possible under JSP or even ASP.
And just saying "code better" is no answer, like the paper says "if a language makes it hard for a programmer to write good code
(particularly by being counterintuitive) the language must itself take some
of the blame for the situation."
These are PHP specific problems and if you write in a mix of web scripting languages you are less likely to spot the implications of some of this slightly obscure behaviour.
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Your best bet for solving the problem you currently have is to have done something different in the past?
That's probably the least helpful advice ever :)
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
Shouldn't obsolete TLDs just be mothballed with further registrations prohibited?
It's not just a case of registering new domains for all those sites - think of the volume of inbound links that will break if a whole domain just vanishes overnight.
Who the fuck modded this 'insightful'?
The policy you're outlining is broadly what Isreal is doing to Lebanon.
That's working out real well isn't it?
But presumably you would trust Fiat?
They're going to have to make it less sensitive than that though aren't they?
I can't waive my wallet at the cashier to pay if I've got multiple cards - how would it know which one to pay with?
Actually it turns out people want mobile phones.
But surely java is getting templates?
This will be the business model of the future recording industry.
CD sales revenue will be replaced by lawsuit revenue.
Which limits it to TCKs offered by Sun - meaning Sun doesn't actually spend any money, they just don't take any money in for those specific cases (they're not losing anything, since those implementors can't afford Sun's prices anyway!)
No, that would be the case if they were just throwing the license "over the wall", to quote the article. But they're not, they're saying that they realise that TCKs are potentially useless without support from the vendor.
The scolarships are there to provide that support to at least some of the people using the free licenses, and therefore have an actual cost to Sun in terms of resources.
And of course its limited to Sun's TCKs, they can hardly support those of other vendors can they?
It's OK to develop for. The motorola SDK is good and they provide a nice IDE.
Also the language is quite a nice high level, object based one with plenty of hooks for the phone/SMS functionality you want to use. PLus they say they're going to support java (J2ME?) later as well.
I couldn't live with it though (ignoring the fact that it crashed a lot - it was an engineering sample) its just not that great.
He's spot on about the interface being long winded, a common failing with Motorla.
The worst bit is the fact that you have to use the hands free kit all the time though. So if you want to answer incoming calls you have to have the wires connected all the time which is a complete pain.
The PDA stuff is pretty good, but not as good as a dedicated device, although obviously its nice to be able to dial direct from your address book.
The problem is it doesn't do either job well enough. As phone, it makes a nice PDA and vice versa.
Why does everyone assume that an office suite is the only thing that a corporate desktop needs?
Every company I've worked for has a raft of applications built in house from from the quick and dirty apps up to large, complex mission critical systems.
The bulk of these are written in Visual Basic, so what are you going to do with them in your ideal Linux world?
At my current job we're about to start quite a complex database front end and of course we're doing it in Visual Basic because a straw poll of the developers in the office showed that everyone had some VB from quite basic to expert.
I can't see how any company (particularly mediam sized ones) can ditch windows until their developers can wade into in house apps quickly and without extra training.
So now we're ditching all the Macs, which is nice in and of itself but we ain't ditching them in favour of Linux that's for sure.
If we'd gone round the developers and a large proportion of them had been confident they could produce the same app, as quickly on Linux as they could in VB then perhaps we'd have ditched the Macs and Windows in favour of it.
Until then it just ain't practical.
Quite, ever read a Microsoft Knowledge Base bug article?
"This behaviour is by design"
Er, OK then.
Could it possibly be that humour is subjective and the person that modded you down didn't find it funny but the person that modded that comment up did?
:-).
Nah, it must be a conspiracy.
Jesus, get over it.
Isn't everyone bored of comments complaining about moderation or suggestion moderation?
Everything that says "mod this up/down" or "why did this get modded up/down?" should get modded into oblivion as a matter of course. (He said breaking his own rule, please mod me down
And the DMCA doesn't try and impose US law on non US Nationals?
Politicians can make bad laws whatever their nationality.
Not really, the two chief problems he describes are the automatic creation and population of variables from the querystring or form fields and the ability to load library code off remote servers. Neither of which are possible under JSP or even ASP.
And just saying "code better" is no answer, like the paper says "if a language makes it hard for a programmer to write good code (particularly by being counterintuitive) the language must itself take some of the blame for the situation."
These are PHP specific problems and if you write in a mix of web scripting languages you are less likely to spot the implications of some of this slightly obscure behaviour.