The "back" button really isn't the greatest paradigm (motif) to begin with. The only purpose for its use is for sites with poor navigation
Maybe in some abstract design process this is true. In reality, when I hit "back" I very quickly get the page I had just been looking at; when I hit a link to the same page (what you're advocating) I have to wait for the relevant packets to zip back & forth over the internet.
here in Minneapolis. ..people are nice and no pollution and lots of open space and nature
Are you really talking about Minneapolis proper? I live and work in Minneapolis, and my daily routine is chock full of jerks, air pollution, and pavement as far as the eye can see. It's not bad for a city but let's not get carried away.
I have not used my snowmobile at all this year
Don't know a single person in Minneapolis with a snowmobile - more of a suburb thing really.
1) Scientists and environmentalists make their money by predicting doomsday.
Whereas high-ranking officers of oil and auto companies can make their money only by denying doomsday. If you were the sort of person who is primarily motivated by making money, would you choose to work in industry, or be climate scientist? What if you were primarily motivated by curiosity about how the world works?
money and *Enviromental REGULATION* are directly opposed
I haven't seen any economic analysis coming to this conclusion. Limits on pollution can alter the distribution of money a bit - for example, companies that provide pollution-limiting services and technologies do much better when legally required - but it's hardly a zero-sum game.
Obviously, you don't really have an idea about what "freedom" means in the west.
Obviously not. In the west, "freedom" means that police will douse you in tear gas and shoot you with rubber bullets if you get together with some friends in public places and voice your displeasure with the corporate control of your nation's trade policy.
Take Slashdot, for example. This comment posting page is one perl page, and six images. Do you really need six extra processes for those images? Especially large Apache processes that have mod_perl and who knows what else compiled into them.
I doubt that any mod_perl based site is set up in such a way. At a bare miniumum, mod_perl sites have two apache binaries serving pages: one for the static pages, one for the dynamic pages. The static binary is obviously as lightweight as possible. If you're really interested in mod_perl tuning check out the mod_perl guide at perl.apache.org.
It's not a zero sum game, they don't have to let an opium shipment go by to impound a DVD player.
Actually, it is a zero sum game. Time spent by customs officials maintaining & checking a list of 'official' DVD players, rejecting & filing paperwork for noncompliant players, etc. is time that can't be spent checking for goods that are (presumably) more threatening to our national well-being.
If our MySQL server had this limit:
. ..Questions: 3678405287 . ..I'd be receiving a phone call in about a month from my client wondering why the site stopped working.;)
Clarification - a 'Question' in mysqlese doesn't have to be an update / insert / delete, does it? I don't think SELECTs are counted as transactions under the pgsql limit.
...Seems like these are important features to become an Oracle/SQL Server replacement.
Yeah, and Postgresql doesn't require you to use a GUI to install it & administer it yet, either. Maybe it'll be more like the Big Boys when version 8.0 rolls around?
scripting languages avoid several common things that non-programmers usually have a hard time with:
* Variable declarations
Actually, most perl programs more than a few lines long (hopefully) use strict; thus requiring variable declarations.
* Memory allocation
Seems like plenty of programmers have trouble with this as well, based on the number of memory leaks out in the wild.
Really, why scripting languages? Why not? Hardware is fast and cheap compared to programmer time, so slightly slower (but written!) programs are often better than super-optimized programs that are only half done.
Scripting languages aren't necessarily slower, anyhow. Perl programs, for example, tend to do all their heavy lifting in libraries, with performance-critical parts coded in C. If you're into benchmarks, you can dig some up showing perl outpacing java and c++ at various text-processing tasks.
Mabye that's because Perl's OO support is an extremely kludged-together ugly beast that's undergoing a much-needed facelift in Perl6.
The author actually does the world a favor by not mentioning Perl and OO in the same sentence.
Too bad that your aesthetics are so easily offended. Plenty of us in the real world (including pretty much every author of a module on CPAN) find that OO perl is perfectly usable.
Beyond the fundamental wrongness of mass murder, there's something seriously wrong about hiding in a cave back home while you send other people out to blow themselves up to score political points for you.
Seriously, this morning it was about 20 F ( -2 C ) with slippery, new fallen snow on the ground. No one was going past 55 on the expressway (normal speed of 65). Living in upstate New York, bicycles are impractical many times a year.
Cry me a river. I rode my bicycle to work today (as I do every day), in Minnesota. The temp was 13 degrees F. Not a problem with proper clothing (a hat, windbreaker, and warm gloves). I live in the city, where traffic on major roads keeps them clear enough that I can travel the 3 miles to and from work faster than a car can.
Sure, I slow down on the back streets that aren't as clear, but it's easy to get most of your miles on busier streets.
Mac users are bright enough to realize that their machines do not use Pentium or compatible processors.
Plenty of Mac users don't know what a Pentium is, other than having a vague idea that it makes internet connections go faster. Plenty of computer users don't grasp that "the box that sits on the floor" is anything other than a place to stick CDs in.
Limiting the function of these new-fangled CDs to windows machines is just asking for trouble.
You do? You don't visit any sites that use Microsoft IIS for their webserver software?
Is this really so hard to imagine? Maybe 10% of the sites I visit repeatedly run IIS at some point or another (I'm thinking Ebay's frontend), so it's not hard at all to imagine that someone else might not visit any IIS sites.
In violation of what? There's nothing in the article that specifies who the law would apply to. As has been discussed elsewhere, it's entirely possible that such a law could apply to software products that are sold by a company, but wouldn't apply to source code that can be downloaded and compiled (Linux, etc.)
Every other possible solution is no worse, and usually much better, than CVS.
That's a little strong. True, I haven't used anything but CVS for the last couple years, but last time I tried common alternatives (namely MS VSS and PVCS), they were major PITAes - slow, unreliable, and not helpful when more than one developer was working on the same file. Not to say that CVS doesn't have its problems, of course, but for a number of years it has been the logical choice for anyone who doesn't want to plunk down hundreds of dollars per seat for a closed-source tool.
The Free Software Foundation doesn't consider Apple's license to be free [gnu.org], but puhleeease...Darwin is free software. It's just silly how RMS thinks he owns the word "free."
Would you think it was silly if you put lots of work into modifying Darwin for internal use, and then realized that you were legally obligated to publish your changes? Because, according to the link you provide, that's why the FSF doesn't call Darwin free.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe in some abstract design process this is true. In reality, when I hit "back" I very quickly get the page I had just been looking at; when I hit a link to the same page (what you're advocating) I have to wait for the relevant packets to zip back & forth over the internet.
Are you really talking about Minneapolis proper? I live and work in Minneapolis, and my daily routine is chock full of jerks, air pollution, and pavement as far as the eye can see. It's not bad for a city but let's not get carried away.
I have not used my snowmobile at all this year
Don't know a single person in Minneapolis with a snowmobile - more of a suburb thing really.
I can't wait for the closed-doors WTO trial evaluating this kind of policy... should be fun.
hack-it-up-in-5mins CGI days are over
So, you think slashcode uses CGI? Interesting.
Whereas high-ranking officers of oil and auto companies can make their money only by denying doomsday. If you were the sort of person who is primarily motivated by making money, would you choose to work in industry, or be climate scientist? What if you were primarily motivated by curiosity about how the world works?
I haven't seen any economic analysis coming to this conclusion. Limits on pollution can alter the distribution of money a bit - for example, companies that provide pollution-limiting services and technologies do much better when legally required - but it's hardly a zero-sum game.
Obviously not. In the west, "freedom" means that police will douse you in tear gas and shoot you with rubber bullets if you get together with some friends in public places and voice your displeasure with the corporate control of your nation's trade policy.
Takes a bit more work to intercept a phone call (esp. on a land line) than a TV station broadcast, don't you think?
know anyone who broadcasts their cc# over public airwaves?
What extra hassle? It took me 15 minutes.
As to the why, that's easy: so I can use Mason, which is IMHO the greatest web development tool since sliced bread.
I doubt that any mod_perl based site is set up in such a way. At a bare miniumum, mod_perl sites have two apache binaries serving pages: one for the static pages, one for the dynamic pages. The static binary is obviously as lightweight as possible. If you're really interested in mod_perl tuning check out the mod_perl guide at perl.apache.org.
Actually, it is a zero sum game. Time spent by customs officials maintaining & checking a list of 'official' DVD players, rejecting & filing paperwork for noncompliant players, etc. is time that can't be spent checking for goods that are (presumably) more threatening to our national well-being.
Yeah, it's hard to see how millions of dollars of campaign contributions could possibly sway an elected official.
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Clarification - a 'Question' in mysqlese doesn't have to be an update / insert / delete, does it? I don't think SELECTs are counted as transactions under the pgsql limit.
Yeah, and Postgresql doesn't require you to use a GUI to install it & administer it yet, either. Maybe it'll be more like the Big Boys when version 8.0 rolls around?
scripting languages avoid several common things that non-programmers usually have a hard time with:
* Variable declarations
Actually, most perl programs more than a few lines long (hopefully) use strict; thus requiring variable declarations.
* Memory allocation
Seems like plenty of programmers have trouble with this as well, based on the number of memory leaks out in the wild.
Really, why scripting languages?
Why not? Hardware is fast and cheap compared to programmer time, so slightly slower (but written!) programs are often better than super-optimized programs that are only half done.
Scripting languages aren't necessarily slower, anyhow. Perl programs, for example, tend to do all their heavy lifting in libraries, with performance-critical parts coded in C. If you're into benchmarks, you can dig some up showing perl outpacing java and c++ at various text-processing tasks.
The author actually does the world a favor by not mentioning Perl and OO in the same sentence.
Too bad that your aesthetics are so easily offended. Plenty of us in the real world (including pretty much every author of a module on CPAN) find that OO perl is perfectly usable.
Note to impressionable youngsters: there is no basis in fact for this statement.
Quit picking on Cheney!
Cry me a river. I rode my bicycle to work today (as I do every day), in Minnesota. The temp was 13 degrees F. Not a problem with proper clothing (a hat, windbreaker, and warm gloves). I live in the city, where traffic on major roads keeps them clear enough that I can travel the 3 miles to and from work faster than a car can.
Sure, I slow down on the back streets that aren't as clear, but it's easy to get most of your miles on busier streets.
Plenty of Mac users don't know what a Pentium is, other than having a vague idea that it makes internet connections go faster. Plenty of computer users don't grasp that "the box that sits on the floor" is anything other than a place to stick CDs in.
Limiting the function of these new-fangled CDs to windows machines is just asking for trouble.
Is this really so hard to imagine? Maybe 10% of the sites I visit repeatedly run IIS at some point or another (I'm thinking Ebay's frontend), so it's not hard at all to imagine that someone else might not visit any IIS sites.
In violation of what? There's nothing in the article that specifies who the law would apply to. As has been discussed elsewhere, it's entirely possible that such a law could apply to software products that are sold by a company, but wouldn't apply to source code that can be downloaded and compiled (Linux, etc.)
That's a little strong. True, I haven't used anything but CVS for the last couple years, but last time I tried common alternatives (namely MS VSS and PVCS), they were major PITAes - slow, unreliable, and not helpful when more than one developer was working on the same file. Not to say that CVS doesn't have its problems, of course, but for a number of years it has been the logical choice for anyone who doesn't want to plunk down hundreds of dollars per seat for a closed-source tool.
Would you think it was silly if you put lots of work into modifying Darwin for internal use, and then realized that you were legally obligated to publish your changes? Because, according to the link you provide, that's why the FSF doesn't call Darwin free.