Let's see, the target audience could be :
* people who hate M$'s guts all ready
* Windows users who want to see what the fuss is all about
* Manager who read this and think "my tech people like Unix, I can buy this and they will be happy".
Would anyone reading this want to touch it with a 10' pole? Anyone curious enough to find out what 'faster and easier' features they've added?
My real point about MyAbstractFooBarFactoryFactoryBean wasn't that it was a long name. I can deal with that. It's an example of one of these ghost classes. The kind that are there to make it 'extensible'.
The kind that are there 'just in case' you might need to use polymorphism, yet *much* more often than not lead to one single implementation class rather than a golfbag full of useful classes.
The java of today has a vastly different feel of the java of 12 years ago. There are two major influences that has caused this change :
* IDE's
* EJB's.
IDE's are not for me, but here is what I'd say are the pros and cons.
pro : easy code navigation
saves time typing
UI development
debugging is easier
con : leads to code concepts like MyAbstractFooBarFactoryFactoryBean
debugging takes longer (_look_ at what you've written, dammit)
gets you further from what the machine is actually doing
EJB's. I have yet to find a real live person who thinks these are a well thought out idea. I won't shooting at this particular fish in a barrel, but I think its changed the java culture in the following ways
* reliance of configuration files, with the express purpose of "making it easier so you don't have to code...just change the configuration". What do we wind up with? Logic that is spread far and wide and removed from the actual computer program.
* layers and layers of 'ghost' classes that really don't do anything but pass the buck. Some call this a framework. I call it Kafkaesque.
* XML, including the trifecta of embedding logic in configuration files in a language thats
> weak in human editing
> a horrible space hog
> poor in expressing trees
> overkill for 98% of what it is used for
How on earth does the McCain-Feingold Act prevent me from saying what I want? It's not impacted what I can say at all.
The dangerous concept of a "Free Speech Zones" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone) are the things that are chilling to free speech. While not invented by Mr Bush, they were certainly perfected by him.
To be fair, you'd have to say 'Dell' or 'Gateway'. There would be no outcry and name calling if this was about something they did or did not do.
I think your original point is how much Apple is adored and how much Microsoft is loathed, and that adoration or loathing remains resistant to logic.
Even with that, Microsoft's long history caused people to loath it. It's annoyed people so many times that even if it is nice once, people are not going to change their minds about it. People would have to perceive a fundamental change of Microsoft and a history of quality before it stops being a whipping boy.
There comes that point, no matter how secure the path, they keys, the algoritm, etc where a digital signal must be transformed into an analog, human "readable" signal. That signal can be re-captured and re-digitalized (and with the right equipment in good quality too) Don't underestimate the goofieness. That analog hole is why they want to embed chips that can perceieve copyright in all possible recording equipment and criminalize equipment without it. The real analog hole is our own memories and voices, and they'd want you to pay simply for humming a few bars.
No, it isn't a DoS against democracy. A filibuster can be ended when enough of the majority ask for it to end. American democracy was structured to give protection to minority views. It's not fullproof protection, but it exists. This structure has been eroded, maybe due to the sheer size of the populace. People fear the different and the strange, and fear random 'bad things'. Any person can be terribly dangerous and terribly fragile. That fear is why you see the erosion of gun ownership and the proliferation of bike helmets, warning labels, and politicians who consistently choose 'safe' opinions.
Yes. But you can only take it if you successfully leverage your paradigm. Did you work at Foster Wheeler/San Diego in 1997? That quote was said verbatim by a VP.
People would show off their new fake rolex and stock portfolio that they put all of their Nigeria money into. They would have ever-erect penises, larger busts and low rate home mortgages. Unfortunately, all their bank accounts had suspicious activity and their unexpected ebay and amazon deliveries hit snags. They could get all the women, men and shemales they wanted, and give them inexpensive holiday gifts. Their computers would all run pirated software are low down prices.
I was about to comment that Putin would conform to being a sociopath. When I looked it up in Wikipedia, the symptoms fit Putin reasonably well, and fit Bush perfectly. Judge for yourself.
Sociopath symptoms
1. Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest
2. Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure
3. Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
4. Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults
5. Reckless disregard for safety of self or others
6. Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain steady work or honor financial obligations
7. Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another Psychopath symptoms
* 1. Superficial charm and good "intelligence".
* 2. Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking.
* 3. Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations.
* 4. Unreliability.
* 5. Untruthfulness and insincerity.
* 6. Lack of remorse or shame.
* 7. Antisocial behavior without apparent compunction.
* 8. Poor judgment and failure to learn from experience.
* 9. Pathological egocentricity and incapacity to love.
* 10. General poverty in major affective reactions.
* 11. Specific loss of insight.
* 12. Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations.
* 13. Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink, and sometimes without.
* 14. Suicide threats rarely carried out.
* 15. Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated.
* 16. Failure to follow any life plan. Bush has continually stated in public that he's had no second thoughts. There is no indication if this is the case in his private life.
Both men will do absolutely anything they think they can get away with to retain power and control. Fortunately for the US, there are less viable options. Fortunately for Russia, Putin recognizes that a thriving oil based economy is key to dampening dissent.
Some of the Bard's work was based on the work of other artists. Romeo and Juliet come to mind. From Wikipedia:
Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to Ancient Greece. Its plot is based on an Italian tale, translated into verse as Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562, and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1582. Brooke and Painter were Shakespeare's chief sources of inspiration for Romeo and Juliet. He borrowed heavily from both, but developed minor characters, particularly Mercutio and Paris, in order to expand the plot. The play was probably written around 1595-6, and first published as a quarto in 1597. The text was of poor quality, and later editions corrected it, bringing it more in line with Shakespeare's original text. In such an idea ownership culture, those works would never have propagated and come to maturation.
It's like "Don't use a curling iron and fall asleep", "keep children out of large buckets", "Warning : these peanuts were made in a factory that processes nuts".
It's not meant to be taken seriously except by courts. I smell lawyers at work here rather than any sane decision.
"The "right of privacy" is a judicial construct. I'm not saying that it is a bad construct, but you'll never see the word "privacy" in the Constitution."
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. I know that the fourth amendment was mentioned specifically in the gp post, but here it is for full effect. If you don't believe that the text is not about privacy, then you have a different understanding of language that I do.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
This is how the borg begins, people. We invent a new tech we've never had before and suddenly its a necessary, irreplaceable part of life. The next step is bodymods that are necessary and irreplaceable.
We are going to teach ourselves to be frail and dependent blobs of flesh, requiring the crutch of technology and even letting technology make the decisions for us. Just wait till we hear the "It told me to do that" defense in court.
Perhaps these people should think twice before relying on a service that they have no control over whatsoever. Like....
* electric power
* water
* gas
* police dept
* fire dept
* road repair
(ok, amend that to 'no significant amount of control')
You need one of those ancient "greeters" as gate-keepers on the system. I don't even let people post comments on *my* lowly page without approving them first, how can they be so naive? Would they pay the greeter a decent wage? But seriously, how many would they have to hire to keep up?
Slashdot Mirror
Clinton lied about a blowjob under oath.
Bush lied in his oath of office about defending the constitution.
I know which I think is treasonous.
Clinton lied under oath about a blow job.
Bush lied under oath when he swore to defend the constitution.
Both are serious. I know which I find treasonous.
Let's see, the target audience could be :
* people who hate M$'s guts all ready
* Windows users who want to see what the fuss is all about
* Manager who read this and think "my tech people like Unix, I can buy this and they will be happy".
Would anyone reading this want to touch it with a 10' pole? Anyone curious enough to find out what 'faster and easier' features they've added?
This is gonna be a dog, a distorted bizarro unix.
I can't see it or say any other way than "My Squirrel"
My real point about MyAbstractFooBarFactoryFactoryBean wasn't that it was a long name. I can deal with that. It's an example of one of these ghost classes. The kind that are there to make it 'extensible'.
The kind that are there 'just in case' you might need to use polymorphism, yet *much* more often than not lead to one single implementation class rather than a golfbag full of useful classes.
The java of today has a vastly different feel of the java of 12 years ago.
There are two major influences that has caused this change :
* IDE's
* EJB's.
IDE's are not for me, but here is what I'd say are the pros and cons.
pro : easy code navigation
saves time typing
UI development
debugging is easier
con : leads to code concepts like MyAbstractFooBarFactoryFactoryBean
debugging takes longer (_look_ at what you've written, dammit)
gets you further from what the machine is actually doing
EJB's. I have yet to find a real live person who thinks these are a well thought out idea.
I won't shooting at this particular fish in a barrel, but I think its changed the java culture in the following ways
* reliance of configuration files, with the express purpose of "making it easier so you don't have to code...just change the configuration". What do we wind up with? Logic that is spread far and wide and removed from the actual computer program.
* layers and layers of 'ghost' classes that really don't do anything but pass the buck. Some call this a framework. I call it Kafkaesque.
* XML, including the trifecta of embedding logic in configuration files in a language thats
> weak in human editing
> a horrible space hog
> poor in expressing trees
> overkill for 98% of what it is used for
If that was in print, that is disturbing. If its in TV, well, TV doesn't have free speech to begin with, so it really wouldn't be that much of a loss.
How on earth does the McCain-Feingold Act prevent me from saying what I want? It's not impacted what I can say at all.
The dangerous concept of a "Free Speech Zones" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone) are the things that are chilling to free speech. While not invented by Mr Bush, they were certainly perfected by him.
To be fair, you'd have to say 'Dell' or 'Gateway'. There would be no outcry and name calling if this was about something they did or did not do.
I think your original point is how much Apple is adored and how much Microsoft is loathed, and that adoration or loathing remains resistant to logic.
Even with that, Microsoft's long history caused people to loath it. It's annoyed people so many times that even if it is nice once, people are not going to change their minds about it. People would have to perceive a fundamental change of Microsoft and a history of quality before it stops being a whipping boy.
There comes that point, no matter how secure the path, they keys, the algoritm, etc where a digital signal must be transformed into an analog, human "readable" signal. That signal can be re-captured and re-digitalized (and with the right equipment in good quality too) Don't underestimate the goofieness. That analog hole is why they want to embed chips that can perceieve copyright in all possible recording equipment and criminalize equipment without it.
The real analog hole is our own memories and voices, and they'd want you to pay simply for humming a few bars.
No, it isn't a DoS against democracy. A filibuster can be ended when enough of the majority ask for it to end. American democracy was structured to give protection to minority views. It's not fullproof protection, but it exists. This structure has been eroded, maybe due to the sheer size of the populace. People fear the different and the strange, and fear random 'bad things'. Any person can be terribly dangerous and terribly fragile. That fear is why you see the erosion of gun ownership and the proliferation of bike helmets, warning labels, and politicians who consistently choose 'safe' opinions.
We'll have data utterly lost. "We lost the piece of paper with the password." Whee!
People would show off their new fake rolex and stock portfolio that they put all of their Nigeria money into. They would have ever-erect penises, larger busts and low rate home mortgages. Unfortunately, all their bank accounts had suspicious activity and their unexpected ebay and amazon deliveries hit snags. They could get all the women, men and shemales they wanted, and give them inexpensive holiday gifts. Their computers would all run pirated software are low down prices.
Am I missing anything?
When there are accidents on the Autobahn, they are spectacular dozens of car pileups. Ick!
Sociopath symptoms 1. Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest
2. Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure
3. Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
4. Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults
5. Reckless disregard for safety of self or others
6. Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain steady work or honor financial obligations
7. Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another Psychopath symptoms * 1. Superficial charm and good "intelligence".
* 2. Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking.
* 3. Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations.
* 4. Unreliability.
* 5. Untruthfulness and insincerity.
* 6. Lack of remorse or shame.
* 7. Antisocial behavior without apparent compunction.
* 8. Poor judgment and failure to learn from experience.
* 9. Pathological egocentricity and incapacity to love.
* 10. General poverty in major affective reactions.
* 11. Specific loss of insight.
* 12. Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations.
* 13. Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink, and sometimes without.
* 14. Suicide threats rarely carried out.
* 15. Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated.
* 16. Failure to follow any life plan. Bush has continually stated in public that he's had no second thoughts. There is no indication if this is the case in his private life.
Both men will do absolutely anything they think they can get away with to retain power and control. Fortunately for the US, there are less viable options. Fortunately for Russia, Putin recognizes that a thriving oil based economy is key to dampening dissent.
It's like "Don't use a curling iron and fall asleep", "keep children out of large buckets", "Warning : these peanuts were made in a factory that processes nuts".
It's not meant to be taken seriously except by courts. I smell lawyers at work here rather than any sane decision.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. I know that the fourth amendment was mentioned specifically in the gp post, but here it is for full effect. If you don't believe that the text is not about privacy, then you have a different understanding of language that I do. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
This is how the borg begins, people. We invent a new tech we've never had before and suddenly its a necessary, irreplaceable part of life. The next step is bodymods that are necessary and irreplaceable.
We are going to teach ourselves to be frail and dependent blobs of flesh, requiring the crutch of technology and even letting technology make the decisions for us. Just wait till we hear the "It told me to do that" defense in court.
Bah! Baaaaaah.
Hmm, automatic upgrades? That will be loads of fun when your file from years ago suddenly ceases to work.
It's something 'cool sounding' more to market.
In one corner, the Constitution of the United States of America.
In the other, a tag team of a pile of steaming money and power, supported by apathy and fear.
* electric power
* water
* gas
* police dept
* fire dept
* road repair
(ok, amend that to 'no significant amount of control')
Except...
First versions of 98?
Windows ME?
The patterns seems to be one big step forward, a few small steps back.
Win 2000 was the high point for me so far.