All languages are open source to their users in the sense that everyone can see everything that makes them up (the grammer). Heck, even English is open source, ain't it!
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So let me understand, this passport is no good in Maryland? What kind of a worthless passport is this? (I did not realize I needed a passport to travel across state lines.)
And when did MS think it was big enough to start issuing passports anyhow?
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only thing different now from what you describe above is increased capacity and we replaced operators
Not quite. Radio telephones were not cellphones because there were no cells. The breakthrough in the 80's was that networks of low-power radio towers covering small "cells" of area together covered as far as you were willing to build towers. No point in calling a single big-power-tower system a cell network because it isnt and was not.
It is a semantic point, but that is the one I choose to make.
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Power consumption by even the best integrated devices in the 60's was just too much for even today's Li batteries to run for more than just a few minutes. The law was not the only thing keeping shoe phones off the market.
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but now with this new technology (hopefully) we'll be able to carry around a credit card or small box with all of our DVDs
That would be good enough for me. In fact, just having that much space alone opens up new possibilities. How about a video camera that never runs out of room? How about a TiVo that can keep all your favorite shows forever and still have room to record more stuff?
I don't see how this is a bad thing.
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Switch locations to a better neighborhood in the bay if you can. A blurry streak of an image from a night-time vandalism raid will not save your boat. Perhaps it is time to move because the bad guys already know where to find your boat and that it is easy pickins'.
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How will you power this thing? Some ideas so far suggest using an old laptop. Even my new laptop only lasts about 6 hours. (Plus it becomes a new and more tempting reason for unfriendlies to visit your pontoon boat!
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I've seen (and been a part of) bastard systems that no one enjoyed working on. No one wanted to take the credit (=blame) for that junk. If the team does not care about what they are building, no amount of process will produce a great system.
Enjoying the work you do is not not the same as enjoying coming to work. That is something different.
During the dot-com boom having toys in the office became a big fad. I'm sure successful teams have had nerf-guns and basketballs around the cubes but that is not what made them successful. If they produced great product it is because the team had fun making the product despite having the toy destractions!
Show me a programmer that does not enjoy the challenge of putting together a program for a project and I will show you a programmer I would never want to hire or work with on that project.
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C++ was an innovation that extended C into object territory that it was never designed to handle.
Take the best Ferarri from 1966. Best of breed for its time. Nice looking too. Race it against the best of breed from this year. Do whatever you want to that 1966 Ferarri, it will never be as good as a new a fresh design.
Java syntax is an improvement over the convoluted syntax that is C++. Deal with it. Its creators would have to be less than top-notch considering they could see all the bad things in C++ and avoid them.
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My concern with closed source (even at the start) is:
1. Will it ever become open source? (Promises are cheap. Why not open now?)
2. Who is this guy and why should I trust that this EXE will not compromise my system?
The Java thingy exists and already runs on Windows. The closed source EXE is not a better alternative here.
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I had to use Tomcat for about 3 months last year at a dot-bomb and was not impressed. As evidenced by this tutorial, there are too many steps to setup the thing. I also found it to be unstable on Win2000 and Mandrake Linux. I hear and read that it is also very slow compared to other products.
Recently a friend suggested I install a free download of OrionServer (www.orionserver.com) because it was easy and is also an EJB container and all that stuff. I was skeptical, but damn --- it installed and configured in 3 steps: 1=Download, 2=Unzip, 3=Run orion.java. (Their tutorial is 1 paragraph.) Why isn't Tomcat clean enough to install & configure like that?
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I'm just getting back into Servlets and a friend recommended I try orionserver. He said it is stable and easier to configure. He was right. According to the benchmarks posted on their site (www.orionserver.com) it is also faster than everything else. This is good enough for me because it is free for my purposes.
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These days we hear more about private conversations recorded by neighbors, seedy journalists, and voyeurs. None of that happens with a call from a random payphone. If you need to say something and keep it private --- it sounds ridiculous but its true -- use a payphone.
For the same reason, I would feel more comfortable hooking into the web at an airport using a plug than I would using bluetooth or any of the other wireless protocols out today.
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If I could do my townhome over again, I would have placed cat5 into the walls before they were finished. I did not and ended up fishing it through walls after the fact.
No reason to do wireless unless you want to spend more money or cannot fish line through your walls.
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What is it the Chinese PhD at LosAlamos (USA) lost --- one tape? Said he threw it away or something? All hell broke lose, and he went to jail. (For a short while.)
I think three state department computers have been lost in the last 5 years. That has been a terrific stink too. All over the news about a year ago.
If branch of the US government lost anything close to 205 laptops with secret information, there would be hell to pay.
(Goodbye karma) Maybe UK has much lower standards for security?
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What you propose reduces the extent of the problem but does not solve it. You still need to find a way to resolve disputes within a countries borders. And heaven help the confused user that goes to apple.uk think it is the UK version of apple.us and so on. By your rules, there would be no coordinated assignment effort accross borders. That does not sound like a good idea to me. We can do better.
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All languages are open source to their users in the sense that everyone can see everything that makes them up (the grammer). Heck, even English is open source, ain't it!
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So let me understand, this passport is no good in Maryland? What kind of a worthless passport is this? (I did not realize I needed a passport to travel across state lines.)
And when did MS think it was big enough to start issuing passports anyhow?
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only thing different now from what you describe above is increased capacity and we replaced operators
Not quite. Radio telephones were not cellphones because there were no cells. The breakthrough in the 80's was that networks of low-power radio towers covering small "cells" of area together covered as far as you were willing to build towers. No point in calling a single big-power-tower system a cell network because it isnt and was not.
It is a semantic point, but that is the one I choose to make.
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Power consumption by even the best integrated devices in the 60's was just too much for even today's Li batteries to run for more than just a few minutes. The law was not the only thing keeping shoe phones off the market.
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but now with this new technology (hopefully) we'll be able to carry around a credit card or small box with all of our DVDs
That would be good enough for me. In fact, just having that much space alone opens up new possibilities. How about a video camera that never runs out of room? How about a TiVo that can keep all your favorite shows forever and still have room to record more stuff?
I don't see how this is a bad thing.
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How is this funny? This is very very sad.
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Another cool thing to steal. Where is the boat exactly?
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Sounds like a setup worth stealing!
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He needed a better resolution camera.
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Switch locations to a better neighborhood in the bay if you can. A blurry streak of an image from a night-time vandalism raid will not save your boat. Perhaps it is time to move because the bad guys already know where to find your boat and that it is easy pickins'.
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How will you power this thing? Some ideas so far suggest using an old laptop. Even my new laptop only lasts about 6 hours. (Plus it becomes a new and more tempting reason for unfriendlies to visit your pontoon boat!
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
I've seen (and been a part of) bastard systems that no one enjoyed working on. No one wanted to take the credit (=blame) for that junk. If the team does not care about what they are building, no amount of process will produce a great system.
Enjoying the work you do is not not the same as enjoying coming to work. That is something different.
During the dot-com boom having toys in the office became a big fad. I'm sure successful teams have had nerf-guns and basketballs around the cubes but that is not what made them successful. If they produced great product it is because the team had fun making the product despite having the toy destractions!
Show me a programmer that does not enjoy the challenge of putting together a program for a project and I will show you a programmer I would never want to hire or work with on that project.
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
C++ was an innovation that extended C into object territory that it was never designed to handle.
Take the best Ferarri from 1966. Best of breed for its time. Nice looking too. Race it against the best of breed from this year. Do whatever you want to that 1966 Ferarri, it will never be as good as a new a fresh design.
Java syntax is an improvement over the convoluted syntax that is C++. Deal with it. Its creators would have to be less than top-notch considering they could see all the bad things in C++ and avoid them.
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
My concern with closed source (even at the start) is:
1. Will it ever become open source? (Promises are cheap. Why not open now?)
2. Who is this guy and why should I trust that this EXE will not compromise my system?
The Java thingy exists and already runs on Windows. The closed source EXE is not a better alternative here.
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power is extremely safe because it is highly regulated
And who will regulate Billy-Bob's third hand fission box that is rusting just outside his double-wide?
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I had to use Tomcat for about 3 months last year at a dot-bomb and was not impressed. As evidenced by this tutorial, there are too many steps to setup the thing. I also found it to be unstable on Win2000 and Mandrake Linux. I hear and read that it is also very slow compared to other products.
Recently a friend suggested I install a free download of OrionServer (www.orionserver.com) because it was easy and is also an EJB container and all that stuff. I was skeptical, but damn --- it installed and configured in 3 steps: 1=Download, 2=Unzip, 3=Run orion.java. (Their tutorial is 1 paragraph.) Why isn't Tomcat clean enough to install & configure like that?
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I'm just getting back into Servlets and a friend recommended I try orionserver. He said it is stable and easier to configure. He was right. According to the benchmarks posted on their site (www.orionserver.com) it is also faster than everything else. This is good enough for me because it is free for my purposes.
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You might be right about government taps. I was referring to hacker and opportunistic taps.
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These days we hear more about private conversations recorded by neighbors, seedy journalists, and voyeurs. None of that happens with a call from a random payphone. If you need to say something and keep it private --- it sounds ridiculous but its true -- use a payphone.
For the same reason, I would feel more comfortable hooking into the web at an airport using a plug than I would using bluetooth or any of the other wireless protocols out today.
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
If I could do my townhome over again, I would have placed cat5 into the walls before they were finished. I did not and ended up fishing it through walls after the fact.
No reason to do wireless unless you want to spend more money or cannot fish line through your walls.
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
What is it the Chinese PhD at LosAlamos (USA) lost --- one tape? Said he threw it away or something? All hell broke lose, and he went to jail. (For a short while.)
I think three state department computers have been lost in the last 5 years. That has been a terrific stink too. All over the news about a year ago.
If branch of the US government lost anything close to 205 laptops with secret information, there would be hell to pay.
(Goodbye karma) Maybe UK has much lower standards for security?
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Communists hiding their failures without regard to the human side of the equation is to be expected by any student of history.
However, you lost me when you suggested McCarthy wasn't anything but a quisling to the spirit of our founding fathers.
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would kick the USA into being more ambitious about the manned space program
It might be the kick we need to really go to the moon this time.
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This is like looking at television through a paper tube.
Seems to me the ultimate blind person's access would be an entire screen laying horizontally on a desk surface using this pin technology.
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What you propose reduces the extent of the problem but does not solve it. You still need to find a way to resolve disputes within a countries borders. And heaven help the confused user that goes to apple.uk think it is the UK version of apple.us and so on. By your rules, there would be no coordinated assignment effort accross borders. That does not sound like a good idea to me. We can do better.
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