XML is not a protocol! XML is a method of formatting structured text data. In this case the protocol seems to be HyperQueue (whetever that is) and the payload is formatted in XML (and compressed).
Using XML instead of a streamlined binary format and then compressing it to save bandwidth is double stupid.
I used Prevayler in a test project to see how it works. I became quickly frustrated to the way the objects are serialized. It is nearly impossible to make usable test releases of a program that uses Prevayler. Once the data model changes all existing persistent data beccomes unusable (class inconsistence) and that data is only readable by Java programs.
But this can be fixed, yay! There are several projects that provide XML serialization to Java objects. This added to Prevayler would improve the system a lot and would possibly make the system more compatible with other languages. Performance would propably degrade (but that's a hardware problem;-)).
Or another solution is to write specialized serializers that turn the data model into plaintext or other format. The great thing about Prevayler is the way it works. It doesn't require Java serialization to work. Java serialization just makes it easier to implement.
Oh, I don't want to take credit from other people so I must add that I did not have the text "Only idiots quote signatures" quoted like in this and the above/. post. Someone else came up with that joke and used it in his signature. I'd say he is a witty person too.
For those who doubted it all these years,/. proves me right!
In 1999 my signature read "Only idiots quote signatures". It ceased being funny after the millionth idiot quoted it so I changed it into a normal and informative signature. And thanks to Google I can also prove it.:-)
As far as I know, this world is all we have, and I'd rather be alive than decomposing.
You are a prime example of a self centered, SUV driving (or is it Java writing), cash hoarding, Real American (the stereotype, I know good americans exist too) way of life.
You are not a special being. There are almost 5 billion otper people on this planet. Just live your life and die like everyone else does and make sure you leave a usable planet for the people that are born after you have passed away.
Instead of a long life I'd prefer an average length life without all the problems that come with old age (arithritis and such).
Also a competition like this will make the mice suffer longer. Whoever developes a morale and stops messing up with life first (human or animal) should get the first price.
Oh sorry, I didn't sleep too well last night. I only read the original author saying "scale is tipped drastically" but didn't realize that he didn't specify the direction...
Duh, did all the PHP fanboys just moderate the parent up to +4 Insightful? Get a life...
.NET and J2EE are more than just ASP and JSP. Comparing PHP to them is way more stupid than what Giga Research group had to do in order make the/. front page...
If a corporation is allowed to sell end user products that change advertisements on websites then a corporation is also allowed to sell end user products that remove those advertisements completely.
If programs that remove advertisements from web sites are legal then it would make sense that programs that remove advertisements from e-mail are legal too.
And suddenly all those real time spam black lists are legal again. Rejoice!
So that was 2-3 hours of your time wasted. Does anybody else want to add to the list?;-)
Thank god gxine has a GTK user interface that looks and works like all the other GTK applications I use! The buttons look like buttons, File- and View-menus contain exactly the menu items you expect. Isn't that the point?
How many hours did you waste while you wrote yet another skinned user interface? How many hours did you waste with Gimp while you made all those nifty default skins? How many hours of everyone elses time do you waste when people despreately install new skins in order to find the one that is even remotely usable?
GUI widget sets are there to make it easy for programmers and designers to make user interfaces that are consistent and easy to learn. By implementing your very own eye candy skin framework you undermine all the hard work made by all those smart people.
This is not a troll. Go read a book or two about user interface design.
For most tasks this is way too bureaucratic approach. Of course, as you are on the "right" side of the "counter", it is easy and good for you but your lusers and the techie boss hates it.
The right way is to allow all people to request your time and at the same time allow you to turn down all requests. This way the secretaries don't need to waste time by going through the techie boss in order to get the monitor cable changed and those who really need your time can escalate it to the techie boss or even her boss.
What comes to the original question: prioritize and estimate! You decide how much a task takes and in which order they should be executed. Your superiors naturally may change the order as they please.
Mod me down as a troll if you like but I declare cwolfsheep the stupidest Slashdot article submitter EVER and he needs to know it!
"Let's climb mt Everest because it exists. Let's also melt the north pole because it exists."
I wonder if he considerer one second about what happens to the Antarctic and Greenland (and let's not forget all the ice covered mountain regions around the world, can you say "mud slide") while he is busy spraying CFC in the air (yeah, aerosols no longer contain CFC's, so he was wrong about that too).
I don't see how the glider could carry weapons, food, water, other equipment, the oxygen tank and the parachute and still be able to glide efficiently enough. Plus I guess that thing is pretty unsafe. A killed soldier costs a shitload of money in lost training and morale. That's why the army goes out of their way to rescue troops from behind the enemy lines.
My dad used to play a lot of Microsoft's Tetris. So I had to play too just to keep my initials on the top spot. I once had a really good game going. I was in the zone. I was playing comfortably on the fastest level. I had way over 32k points.
And then the score rolled to -32k. I've never hated Microsoft as much as I did that day (and I hate them a lot). I was dumbfound. They can't code AND they can't play Tetris. And they call themselves professionals... I eventually took it as a quest to get the top score as close to 32767 as possible. IIRC I got it within 28 points. My dad never beat that score.
This doesn't have anything to do with Wozniak or Apple. But hey, they mentioned Tetris.
You got it a bit wrong. The clean needles are there to keep the drug addicts from using dirty needles and spreading diseases (such as AIDS).
Providing fake servers with fake confidential data would be analogous to the clean needle approach. And that doesn't work because crackers crack for fun, not because they're physically addicted to it.
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Did the author honestly think Microsoft cared about bad publicity?
At the current rate they already are receiving it with all the viruses and anti trust law suits?
I thought so too... Welcome to the reality. :-(
It obviously has a great sense of humor and a true love for football.
The other virtue gave us a football shaped universe and the other gave us David Beckham.
What kind of dumbasses submit these articles?
XML is not a protocol! XML is a method of formatting structured text data. In this case the protocol seems to be HyperQueue (whetever that is) and the payload is formatted in XML (and compressed).
Using XML instead of a streamlined binary format and then compressing it to save bandwidth is double stupid.
There are only a bit over 17000 TLA's and there already are 3 candidates for DDC (according to www.acronymfinder.com)...
I used Prevayler in a test project to see how it works. I became quickly frustrated to the way the objects are serialized. It is nearly impossible to make usable test releases of a program that uses Prevayler. Once the data model changes all existing persistent data beccomes unusable (class inconsistence) and that data is only readable by Java programs.
But this can be fixed, yay! There are several projects that provide XML serialization to Java objects. This added to Prevayler would improve the system a lot and would possibly make the system more compatible with other languages. Performance would propably degrade (but that's a hardware problem ;-)).
Or another solution is to write specialized serializers that turn the data model into plaintext or other format. The great thing about Prevayler is the way it works. It doesn't require Java serialization to work. Java serialization just makes it easier to implement.
Oh, I don't want to take credit from other people so I must add that I did not have the text "Only idiots quote signatures" quoted like in this and the above /. post. Someone else came up with that joke and used it in his signature. I'd say he is a witty person too.
For those who doubted it all these years, /. proves me right!
In 1999 my signature read "Only idiots quote signatures". It ceased being funny after the millionth idiot quoted it so I changed it into a normal and informative signature. And thanks to Google I can also prove it. :-)
As far as I know, this world is all we have, and I'd rather be alive than decomposing.
You are a prime example of a self centered, SUV driving (or is it Java writing), cash hoarding, Real American (the stereotype, I know good americans exist too) way of life.
You are not a special being. There are almost 5 billion otper people on this planet. Just live your life and die like everyone else does and make sure you leave a usable planet for the people that are born after you have passed away.
Instead of a long life I'd prefer an average length life without all the problems that come with old age (arithritis and such).
Also a competition like this will make the mice suffer longer. Whoever developes a morale and stops messing up with life first (human or animal) should get the first price.
Oh sorry, I didn't sleep too well last night. I only read the original author saying "scale is tipped drastically" but didn't realize that he didn't specify the direction...
Duh, did all the PHP fanboys just moderate the parent up to +4 Insightful? Get a life...
If a corporation is allowed to sell end user products that change advertisements on websites then a corporation is also allowed to sell end user products that remove those advertisements completely.
If programs that remove advertisements from web sites are legal then it would make sense that programs that remove advertisements from e-mail are legal too.
And suddenly all those real time spam black lists are legal again. Rejoice!
I hear the school has an extra basement for all of their Microsoft licenses. After all, it's cheaper to build it than to fail in the license audit.
So that was 2-3 hours of your time wasted. Does anybody else want to add to the list? ;-)
Thank god gxine has a GTK user interface that looks and works like all the other GTK applications I use! The buttons look like buttons, File- and View-menus contain exactly the menu items you expect. Isn't that the point?
How many hours did you waste while you wrote yet another skinned user interface? How many hours did you waste with Gimp while you made all those nifty default skins? How many hours of everyone elses time do you waste when people despreately install new skins in order to find the one that is even remotely usable?
GUI widget sets are there to make it easy for programmers and designers to make user interfaces that are consistent and easy to learn. By implementing your very own eye candy skin framework you undermine all the hard work made by all those smart people.
This is not a troll. Go read a book or two about user interface design.
For most tasks this is way too bureaucratic approach. Of course, as you are on the "right" side of the "counter", it is easy and good for you but your lusers and the techie boss hates it.
The right way is to allow all people to request your time and at the same time allow you to turn down all requests. This way the secretaries don't need to waste time by going through the techie boss in order to get the monitor cable changed and those who really need your time can escalate it to the techie boss or even her boss.
What comes to the original question: prioritize and estimate! You decide how much a task takes and in which order they should be executed. Your superiors naturally may change the order as they please.
England's weather would start to be more like Nova Scotia's.
I apologize for the obvious joke, but wouldn't that really be an improvement?
Mod me down as a troll if you like but I declare cwolfsheep the stupidest Slashdot article submitter EVER and he needs to know it!
"Let's climb mt Everest because it exists. Let's also melt the north pole because it exists."
I wonder if he considerer one second about what happens to the Antarctic and Greenland (and let's not forget all the ice covered mountain regions around the world, can you say "mud slide") while he is busy spraying CFC in the air (yeah, aerosols no longer contain CFC's, so he was wrong about that too).
Also, the ability to filter noise out of the AC helps with stability...
I've noticed that browsing with treshold 4 filters out all AC noise. It helps with my mental stability.
I don't see how the glider could carry weapons, food, water, other equipment, the oxygen tank and the parachute and still be able to glide efficiently enough. Plus I guess that thing is pretty unsafe. A killed soldier costs a shitload of money in lost training and morale. That's why the army goes out of their way to rescue troops from behind the enemy lines.
I have now have given Redhat a shot (in a duel boot setting).
I'd like to see that in action. :-)
Do not forget Singapore .sg and Monaco .mc.
Dr Dre should buy out Monaco and start selling .mc domains to upstart rappers.
My dad used to play a lot of Microsoft's Tetris. So I had to play too just to keep my initials on the top spot. I once had a really good game going. I was in the zone. I was playing comfortably on the fastest level. I had way over 32k points.
And then the score rolled to -32k. I've never hated Microsoft as much as I did that day (and I hate them a lot). I was dumbfound. They can't code AND they can't play Tetris. And they call themselves professionals... I eventually took it as a quest to get the top score as close to 32767 as possible. IIRC I got it within 28 points. My dad never beat that score.
This doesn't have anything to do with Wozniak or Apple. But hey, they mentioned Tetris.
The patterns they threw away were discontinued. Your analogy doesn't take that into account.
A more accurate analogy would be a news stand throwing away last weeks papers.
You got it a bit wrong. The clean needles are there to keep the drug addicts from using dirty needles and spreading diseases (such as AIDS).
Providing fake servers with fake confidential data would be analogous to the clean needle approach. And that doesn't work because crackers crack for fun, not because they're physically addicted to it.