Of course MySpace REALLY just went noplace in terms of creating features. They piddled around but it was like everything was user interface nuclear disaster. It was the ugliest site in history. I guess FB COULD screw up that bad. I think they probably won't. They'll screw up a little bit, but so will Google.
I disagree somewhat mildly. The ugliest site in history was Geocities. Think Myspace, but web 1.0. Blink tags and marquee everywhere. Mouse cursors with trails. Also there were 'neighborhoods' with 'numbers' and the idea of referencing a site by the username of the person who created it simply didn't exist.
Myspace was bad, very eye-searing, but I doubt it ever took the title from Geocities.
I have to agree with this sentiment. Where is the 'one laptop per child' program in America? Not all of our own children have a laptop or a tablet, and we actually have the infrastructure to effect such a program.
Sometimes I wonder if these programs are just a veil over the real problems third world countries have, like lack of food or good water, because providing technology that they often can't effectively use.
If we really wanted to help these countries we'd help them build real infrastructure and provide them with ways to purify their own water.
Our own educational system is in a shambles over here as well, if technology in the hands of kids truly helps, maybe we should concentrate on getting our own house in order first.
Fact 1: All Myspace users are either pedophiles or jailbait. Fact 2: Most politicians have Myspace pages. Fact 3: Most politicians sure aren't jailbait.
Acutally this would only be true (worth 6000x more) if everyone else developing Debian were paid $1.
Since they are paid $0, this is actually a ratio of 6000:0.
Since 6000/0 is the limit of infinity (mathematically also undefined), it can now be said according to the payout, that the value of the managers over the developers, approaches infinity.
Of course we know that their contribution is probably closer to 1:1 in value, not 6000:0, which is why the payout is complete nonsense to begin with.
Is that databases are most often not creative works but compilations of data that other people own. If someone farms your email address or phone number from some source? Anyone else can get it from the same or different sources, and ultimately its your personal information, not theirs. I think one should be afraid that later there will be legislation, or even the twisted interpretation of this legislation, that would say the data itself was owned by the database compiler, allowing people to sue you for having a telephone number they farmed. Yes this is an extreme example, but we have seen equally stupid examples that became reality. If our elected lawmakers wanted to help us they would stop companies from selling their databases, make it so that every company has to work for their data, but I live in California so I concede the point.
Is that databases are most often not creative works but compilations of data that other people own.
If someone farms your email address or phone number from some source? Anyone else can get it from the same or different sources, and ultimately its your personal information, not theirs.
I think one should be afraid that later there will be legislation, or even the twisted interpretation of this legislation, that would say the data itself was owned by the database compiler, allowing people to sue you for having a telephone number they farmed. Yes this is an extreme example, but we have seen equally stupid examples that became reality.
If our elected lawmakers wanted to help us they would stop companies from selling their databases, make it so that every company has to work for their data, but I live in California so I concede the point.
If it were given that you could have an always on connection, or in a ipv6 scenario where everyone could have a static IP (and even a static subnet) then you could simply have a central server that associated a login name with a domain name or IP, and passed the password request onto the resolved machine. XML data could be passed when authentication occurs.
Your machine could have a daemon that returned your private data in XML wherever you were, the central location being your main box.
Windows 2000 clusters have some significant basic problems, totally discarding the fact that 2K clusters are more for fault tolerance than high computation:
1) RAM. Windows, to start up, will eat 64 megs of the RAM that you want to use for your process. Without a head and no X, you could get Linux down to 4.
2) Disk. Windows boot from a remote FS? Unlikely. To do so you'd need to get network cards that support booting from a network. Its also possible to have one app drive and alot of little drives... but to get Win2K on those, you're going to have to get them about better than about 300m in size. On Linux, you could install the basic stuff on 40 megs. Remember all it has to do is get instructions from your head computer. Or another option: Linux on a floppy, booting / from NFS. No HD needed. Just RAM, CPU, floppy drive, power, and something to put it in. That makes the reboot slower but so what? Whens the node going to go down? Which brings us to...
3) Stability. Lets assume for a moment all these computers arent the same kind and dont have heads. How long, even, till you even know a head has crashed? Linux offers stability that my servers never crash, their uptime is only limited by my want to upgrade them.
4) Price. Even if you are a school, if you get it for free, whats a salesman doing there anyway? I am sure that SOMEONE there is paying for those MS products. Linux? $0. Simple math:
#!/bin/sh
echo -n 'document.write("Bush winning by '
lynx -dump http://www.cnn.com/ | grep -2 PRESIDENT | perl -e 'while(<>){$n[$i++] = $1.$2.$3 if/\s(\d),(\d{3}),(\d{3})/}print $n[0]-$n[1];'
echo ' votes in Florida.");'
Next:
put it in your cgi directory.
chmod 755 nph-getvote.cgi
then you can put it on a webpage like this:
<script language="JavaScript" src="[URL to script]">Your browser doesnt support Javascript includes. Upgrade.</script>
P-code was cool. It was an instruction set that was compiled straight from Pascal code. I remember the Apple II had a special Pascal OS complete with interpreter and its own disk format. One of the interesting things was that the instructions 00-7F were all "throw value onto stack" because the system was very stack based. it basically let you embed ascii strings in the code. You could recognize a Pascal OS program because it would fill the screen with inverse '@'s as it was booting.
I must be old, because I actually remember that...
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Of course MySpace REALLY just went noplace in terms of creating features. They piddled around but it was like everything was user interface nuclear disaster. It was the ugliest site in history. I guess FB COULD screw up that bad. I think they probably won't. They'll screw up a little bit, but so will Google.
I disagree somewhat mildly.
The ugliest site in history was Geocities. Think Myspace, but web 1.0. Blink tags and marquee everywhere. Mouse cursors with trails.
Also there were 'neighborhoods' with 'numbers' and the idea of referencing a site by the username of the person who created it simply didn't exist.
Myspace was bad, very eye-searing, but I doubt it ever took the title from Geocities.
thats what I get for posting at 6am.
Because providing technology that they often can't effectively use, is easier than fixing their real problems.
I have to agree with this sentiment. Where is the 'one laptop per child' program in America? Not all of our own children have a laptop or a tablet, and we actually have the infrastructure to effect such a program.
Sometimes I wonder if these programs are just a veil over the real problems third world countries have, like lack of food or good water, because providing technology that they often can't effectively use.
If we really wanted to help these countries we'd help them build real infrastructure and provide them with ways to purify their own water.
Our own educational system is in a shambles over here as well, if technology in the hands of kids truly helps, maybe we should concentrate on getting our own house in order first.
Finally, I can play Second Life at full framerate....
Fact 1: All Myspace users are either pedophiles or jailbait.
Fact 2: Most politicians have Myspace pages.
Fact 3: Most politicians sure aren't jailbait.
Conclusion: Most politicians are pedophiles.
Acutally this would only be true (worth 6000x more) if everyone else developing Debian were paid $1.
Since they are paid $0, this is actually a ratio of 6000:0.
Since 6000/0 is the limit of infinity (mathematically also undefined), it can now be said according to the payout, that the value of the managers over the developers, approaches infinity.
Of course we know that their contribution is probably closer to 1:1 in value, not 6000:0, which is why the payout is complete nonsense to begin with.
To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke:
Any sufficiently advanced spyware is indistinguishable from Gator.
Question, here, if he cleared $130k in 10 months, why does he have to beg for money on his site?
Is that databases are most often not creative works but compilations of data that other people own. If someone farms your email address or phone number from some source? Anyone else can get it from the same or different sources, and ultimately its your personal information, not theirs. I think one should be afraid that later there will be legislation, or even the twisted interpretation of this legislation, that would say the data itself was owned by the database compiler, allowing people to sue you for having a telephone number they farmed. Yes this is an extreme example, but we have seen equally stupid examples that became reality. If our elected lawmakers wanted to help us they would stop companies from selling their databases, make it so that every company has to work for their data, but I live in California so I concede the point.
Sorry everyone this was the wrong article. Please dont hurt me moderators.
Is that databases are most often not creative works but compilations of data that other people own. If someone farms your email address or phone number from some source? Anyone else can get it from the same or different sources, and ultimately its your personal information, not theirs. I think one should be afraid that later there will be legislation, or even the twisted interpretation of this legislation, that would say the data itself was owned by the database compiler, allowing people to sue you for having a telephone number they farmed. Yes this is an extreme example, but we have seen equally stupid examples that became reality. If our elected lawmakers wanted to help us they would stop companies from selling their databases, make it so that every company has to work for their data, but I live in California so I concede the point.
If it were given that you could have an always on connection, or in a ipv6 scenario where everyone could have a static IP (and even a static subnet) then you could simply have a central server that associated a login name with a domain name or IP, and passed the password request onto the resolved machine. XML data could be passed when authentication occurs.
Your machine could have a daemon that returned your private data in XML wherever you were, the central location being your main box.
Windows 2000 clusters have some significant basic problems, totally discarding the fact that 2K clusters are more for fault tolerance than high computation:
1) RAM. Windows, to start up, will eat 64 megs of the RAM that you want to use for your process. Without a head and no X, you could get Linux down to 4.
2) Disk. Windows boot from a remote FS? Unlikely. To do so you'd need to get network cards that support booting from a network. Its also possible to have one app drive and alot of little drives... but to get Win2K on those, you're going to have to get them about better than about 300m in size. On Linux, you could install the basic stuff on 40 megs. Remember all it has to do is get instructions from your head computer. Or another option: Linux on a floppy, booting / from NFS. No HD needed. Just RAM, CPU, floppy drive, power, and something to put it in. That makes the reboot slower but so what? Whens the node going to go down? Which brings us to...
3) Stability. Lets assume for a moment all these computers arent the same kind and dont have heads. How long, even, till you even know a head has crashed? Linux offers stability that my servers never crash, their uptime is only limited by my want to upgrade them.
4) Price. Even if you are a school, if you get it for free, whats a salesman doing there anyway? I am sure that SOMEONE there is paying for those MS products. Linux? $0. Simple math:
Nodes - Linux cost - Windows cost
1 - $0 - $150
10 - $0 - $1500
100 - $0 - $15000
Overall, I would have to say, the whole concept of a Windows Cluster is just Not There.
if you want it up on a webpage:
/\s(\d),(\d{3}),(\d{3})/}print $n[0]-$n[1];'
file nph-getvote.cgi:
#!/bin/sh
echo -n 'document.write("Bush winning by '
lynx -dump http://www.cnn.com/ | grep -2 PRESIDENT | perl -e 'while(<>){$n[$i++] = $1.$2.$3 if
echo ' votes in Florida.");'
Next:
put it in your cgi directory.
chmod 755 nph-getvote.cgi
then you can put it on a webpage like this:
<script language="JavaScript" src="[URL to script]">Your browser doesnt support Javascript includes. Upgrade.</script>
P-code was cool. It was an instruction set that was compiled straight from Pascal code. I remember the Apple II had a special Pascal OS complete with interpreter and its own disk format. One of the interesting things was that the instructions 00-7F were all "throw value onto stack" because the system was very stack based. it basically let you embed ascii strings in the code. You could recognize a Pascal OS program because it would fill the screen with inverse '@'s as it was booting. I must be old, because I actually remember that...