Limiting the number of connections from a single IP address sounds like a great solution, until you discover that 300,000 IBM employees are only allowed to download your software one person at a time because they all go through the same huge firewall gateway in Colorado.
I was planning on getting a P800 until I discovered that the screen is smaller than a Palm.
I figured if I was going to put up with a device with a screen the size of a postage stamp, I'd go with a t68i, which will at least fit easily in my pocket, and have a separate handheld computer linked via Bluetooth.
I'm still looking for the computer part of the setup; the new Sony CLIE is looking promising.
Maybe I won't get invited to the PERL hacker parties any more, but I have to agree. PERL 5's hacks for object oriented programming have always seemed unnecessarily complicated and ugly, and I don't see things getting any better in PERL 6.
I too looked at Python. Like you, I decided that basing your language's syntax on differing amounts of whitespace was a really, really bad idea, not because it's ugly, but because I have enough trouble keeping tab damage under control on a single platform.
So I'm looking at Ruby. In fact, the only thing stopping me ditching PERL for Ruby tomorrow is lack of time for re-learning, given all the other new stuff I'm learning right now (J2EE, Objective-C, Cocoa, OpenGL,...)
If you don't understand what Fink is, when there's a link to the Fink web site in the article and you've presumably read the description on the front page, maybe you should get rid of the Mac and find something a little more in line with your mental capacity. Like, an Etch-A-Sketch.
Yeah, I skipped it because it looked like a made-for-TV action movie that happened to star the TNG cast.
Make a Trek movie that requires some intelligence from the audience and I'll pay money to see it.
The last two SF movies I've paid to see have been Solaris and Minority Report. Come up with something that intelligent in the Trek universe and I'm there.
"Tabs are better than windows because all the tabs can be seen at once, and the user can see exactly what they want, and reach for it with a single click."
Uh, with multiple browser windows all the windows can be seen at once (in the dock), the user can see exactly what they want (an image of the page, even, in the dock), and they can reach for it with a single click on the dock.
So what exactly is the problem tabs are solving?
I wonder if all the people who love tabs are people who've turned off the dock?
I'm interested by the cluelessness of the Microsoft guy's assertions about IBM's relationship to open source and Linux. (Disclaimer: Yeah, I work for IBM, but I'm gonna try not to make this a sales pitch. Obviously this isn't an official statement, it's my opinion, errors are mine, blah blah.)
He says that IBM is relying on proprietary, closed software. He seems to think that you won't see an open source equivalent of WebSphere.
Well, WebSphere is based on Apache Tomcat. The IBM HTTP server bundled with WebSphere is a version of Apache. IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer is based on Eclipse, another open source project.
I don't know what he means by "integration", but IBM has disk images for internal use that have a complete Linux, DB2 and WebSphere install, ready to run. They're used for demos; customers typically have very specific requirements, and want something that's custom integrated with their existing infrastructure. (Contrast with Microsoft's approach, where it's integrated only so long as everything else you own is Microsoft.)
Peter Houston asserts that IBM is pushing for a world of commodity Intel hardware running Linux. Well, not really--IBM has Linux running on iSeries (AS/400), pSeries (PowerPC) and zSeries (OS/390) as well as xSeries (Intel). (Yes, you can run Linux on your IBM mainframe.)
IBM is more than happy to sell you Linux solutions based on any of those hardware platforms, depending on how heavyweight your requirements are. I very much doubt that anyone is being encouraged to move from iSeries or zSeries to Intel; in fact, one recent ad campaign has been selling the benefits of consolidating hundreds of Intel boxes into one iSeries server.
Single sign-on? Yeah, we do that, with Kerberos, LDAP, JAAS, or Tivoli products on Linux.
IBM a services company, not a software company? That's a surprise to those of us who work in the $12 billion+ IBM Software Group.
And of course, if you really want a slick UNIX OS that's fully integrated and never needs you to touch a command line, and you don't care about how proprietary it is, you could buy an Apple Xserve... Seems to me Microsoft loses that battle too.
"Working for the houston civic authority doing IT support, I can tell you that many of us are severly displeased with this decision...Almost all of us are MS certified types (I have my MCSE)..."
A bunch of MCMWs (Microsoft Certified Microsoft Whores) are upset, because the flaky software that gives them job security is being kicked out? Tell us something we couldn't have guessed for ourselves.
Of course, reader #1 has a fundamentally conflicted position... he hates proprietary software, yet he buys a bleeding-edge machine and runs the latest Windoze games on it, thereby supporting proprietary software and the Microsoft monopoly.
If you're going to spend money on proprietary software, you might at least support UNIX, open source, and non-monopoly manufacturers by buying a Mac. There *are* adequate numbers of Mac games, after all.
(Don't try to convince me all those PC gamers are buying 2GHz machines so they can play Nethack really fast... or even GLQuake.)
That's not really true. What actually happened is that the W3C were adding features in one direction, and Netscape was adding features in a different direction. Sometimes Netscape added something--like tables--that had already been drafted by the W3C, but added it in a gratuitously incompatible way.
Fact is, Netscape never got around to implementing HTML 2.0 or 3.0 fully before adding crap like and layers. To say that they were pulling ahead is to bend the truth.
How the hell did this get moderated as "insightful"?
The current Palm OS 5 doesn't run on Dragonball processors, it runs on RISC chips like the Intel XScale at several hundred MHz. It's safe to assume that future versions of Palm OS, as discussed in the article, will require RISC also. Therefore there's no problem with doing handwriting recognition.
Sorry, but even FOX News admitted that any method of counting disputed votes, applied consistently across the state, results in Gore winning.
The only way for Bush to win is if you throw away all votes disputed for any reason at all (which would be highly undemocratic!), or recount only in those areas where Gore asked for a recount.
If Gore had done the right thing and demanded a single consistent state-wide recount, Gore would have won, *no matter what common standards had been choosen for interpreting the votes*--just so long as the same standards were applied everywhere.
If Bush had been a gentleman and allowed Gore's chosen recounts to proceed, Bush would have won.
In the actual event, Gore lost because of his naked ambition and desire to do what he thought would serve him best, rather than what is clearly right and democratic. And similarly, we know Bush lost only because of his decision to try and prevent recounts. The whole thing is almost poetic in its irony, an example of real-world karma at its best.
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I'll consider abandoning the acronymic usage when they correct the man page.
Limiting the number of connections from a single IP address sounds like a great solution, until you discover that 300,000 IBM employees are only allowed to download your software one person at a time because they all go through the same huge firewall gateway in Colorado.
Maybe I'm dense, but can someone explain to me why I might ever want this?
I was planning on getting a P800 until I discovered that the screen is smaller than a Palm.
I figured if I was going to put up with a device with a screen the size of a postage stamp, I'd go with a t68i, which will at least fit easily in my pocket, and have a separate handheld computer linked via Bluetooth.
I'm still looking for the computer part of the setup; the new Sony CLIE is looking promising.
Maybe I won't get invited to the PERL hacker parties any more, but I have to agree. PERL 5's hacks for object oriented programming have always seemed unnecessarily complicated and ugly, and I don't see things getting any better in PERL 6.
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I too looked at Python. Like you, I decided that basing your language's syntax on differing amounts of whitespace was a really, really bad idea, not because it's ugly, but because I have enough trouble keeping tab damage under control on a single platform.
So I'm looking at Ruby. In fact, the only thing stopping me ditching PERL for Ruby tomorrow is lack of time for re-learning, given all the other new stuff I'm learning right now (J2EE, Objective-C, Cocoa, OpenGL,
This is the "Blocking KaZaA" thread. You want "Stupid Security" further up the page.
If you're that stupid, how did you work out how to post?
In MA, the identity card says "NOT A LICENSE" in big letters.
(I'm not blind, I just don't drive.)
In other words: We hope to encourage adoption of .NET using our application.
No, thanks.
Sheesh, who'd've thought Ian Clarke would be a Microsoft whore?
If you don't understand what Fink is, when there's a link to the Fink web site in the article and you've presumably read the description on the front page, maybe you should get rid of the Mac and find something a little more in line with your mental capacity. Like, an Etch-A-Sketch.
Yeah, I skipped it because it looked like a made-for-TV action movie that happened to star the TNG cast.
Make a Trek movie that requires some intelligence from the audience and I'll pay money to see it.
The last two SF movies I've paid to see have been Solaris and Minority Report. Come up with something that intelligent in the Trek universe and I'm there.
Bzzt, wrong yourself. The dock uses scalable vector icon images in PDF files for things like the "poof" cloud.
Or does it only play DivX, i.e. MPEG-4 encoding in a non-standard AVI file?
"Tabs are better than windows because all the tabs can be seen at once, and the user can see exactly what they want, and reach for it with a single click."
Uh, with multiple browser windows all the windows can be seen at once (in the dock), the user can see exactly what they want (an image of the page, even, in the dock), and they can reach for it with a single click on the dock.
So what exactly is the problem tabs are solving?
I wonder if all the people who love tabs are people who've turned off the dock?
I'm interested by the cluelessness of the Microsoft guy's assertions about IBM's relationship to open source and Linux. (Disclaimer: Yeah, I work for IBM, but I'm gonna try not to make this a sales pitch. Obviously this isn't an official statement, it's my opinion, errors are mine, blah blah.)
He says that IBM is relying on proprietary, closed software. He seems to think that you won't see an open source equivalent of WebSphere.
Well, WebSphere is based on Apache Tomcat. The IBM HTTP server bundled with WebSphere is a version of Apache. IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer is based on Eclipse, another open source project.
I don't know what he means by "integration", but IBM has disk images for internal use that have a complete Linux, DB2 and WebSphere install, ready to run. They're used for demos; customers typically have very specific requirements, and want something that's custom integrated with their existing infrastructure. (Contrast with Microsoft's approach, where it's integrated only so long as everything else you own is Microsoft.)
Peter Houston asserts that IBM is pushing for a world of commodity Intel hardware running Linux. Well, not really--IBM has Linux running on iSeries (AS/400), pSeries (PowerPC) and zSeries (OS/390) as well as xSeries (Intel). (Yes, you can run Linux on your IBM mainframe.)
IBM is more than happy to sell you Linux solutions based on any of those hardware platforms, depending on how heavyweight your requirements are. I very much doubt that anyone is being encouraged to move from iSeries or zSeries to Intel; in fact, one recent ad campaign has been selling the benefits of consolidating hundreds of Intel boxes into one iSeries server.
He says that Linux open source makes it very difficult to have a revenue-generating business. Well, IBM generated over a billion dollars of revenue from Linux sales last year, in the middle of a recession. Not so difficult after all?
Single sign-on? Yeah, we do that, with Kerberos, LDAP, JAAS, or Tivoli products on Linux.
IBM a services company, not a software company? That's a surprise to those of us who work in the $12 billion+ IBM Software Group.
And of course, if you really want a slick UNIX OS that's fully integrated and never needs you to touch a command line, and you don't care about how proprietary it is, you could buy an Apple Xserve... Seems to me Microsoft loses that battle too.
"Working for the houston civic authority doing IT support, I can tell you that many of us are severly displeased with this decision...Almost all of us are MS certified types (I have my MCSE)..."
A bunch of MCMWs (Microsoft Certified Microsoft Whores) are upset, because the flaky software that gives them job security is being kicked out? Tell us something we couldn't have guessed for ourselves.
Of course, reader #1 has a fundamentally conflicted position... he hates proprietary software, yet he buys a bleeding-edge machine and runs the latest Windoze games on it, thereby supporting proprietary software and the Microsoft monopoly.
If you're going to spend money on proprietary software, you might at least support UNIX, open source, and non-monopoly manufacturers by buying a Mac. There *are* adequate numbers of Mac games, after all.
(Don't try to convince me all those PC gamers are buying 2GHz machines so they can play Nethack really fast... or even GLQuake.)
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That's not really true. What actually happened is that the W3C were adding features in one direction, and Netscape was adding features in a different direction. Sometimes Netscape added something--like tables--that had already been drafted by the W3C, but added it in a gratuitously incompatible way.
Fact is, Netscape never got around to implementing HTML 2.0 or 3.0 fully before adding crap like and layers. To say that they were pulling ahead is to bend the truth.
How the hell did this get moderated as "insightful"?
The current Palm OS 5 doesn't run on Dragonball processors, it runs on RISC chips like the Intel XScale at several hundred MHz. It's safe to assume that future versions of Palm OS, as discussed in the article, will require RISC also. Therefore there's no problem with doing handwriting recognition.
It's also km not KM.
Can "basic knowledge of SI units" be made a requirement for Slashdot moderators please?
I can't believe nobody has mentioned Ted Nelson, inventor of hypertext and hypermedia.
...we only 'ad one register. And that were t'program counter.
"Emacs Performance Tuning".
Sorry, but even FOX News admitted that any method of counting disputed votes, applied consistently across the state, results in Gore winning.
The only way for Bush to win is if you throw away all votes disputed for any reason at all (which would be highly undemocratic!), or recount only in those areas where Gore asked for a recount.
If Gore had done the right thing and demanded a single consistent state-wide recount, Gore would have won, *no matter what common standards had been choosen for interpreting the votes*--just so long as the same standards were applied everywhere.
If Bush had been a gentleman and allowed Gore's chosen recounts to proceed, Bush would have won.
In the actual event, Gore lost because of his naked ambition and desire to do what he thought would serve him best, rather than what is clearly right and democratic. And similarly, we know Bush lost only because of his decision to try and prevent recounts. The whole thing is almost poetic in its irony, an example of real-world karma at its best.