EVERYONE with a Visa or Mastercard has fraud protection. It's a federal law. You probably didn't know that, and were suckered into paying extra for it.
Usually when I am away, not even hotels have it in the locations I have gone/need to go.
Newsflash: Most people don't give a flying shit about wireless. Wireless is something that only geeks and some college kids even *know* about. Neither geeks nor college kids provide enough revenue for hotels to even justify a transmitter.
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It's demand. Nobody gives a shit about anything on the Net that needs high speed access, anymore. Hell, I know that I don't even need high speed, and I run a shitload of web sites.
I never said guarantee. I said that if they own the music, they're entitled to whatever profits they can make off it. They deserve to be protected from theft same as any other business owner. Someone tries to rob my store, and they're gonna have a nice little surprise. Actually, it's kinda' a big surprise.
The same applies to the RIAA. They can want profits, but that doesn't mean they are entitled to profits.
It's a contract. They bought the rights to the music. They own it. The musicians sold their rights to the music to the record companies, so it belongs to the record companies. The record companies can do whatever the fuck they want with the music. And yes, they are entitled to the profits from the music.
Well, there are others, but none right now with nearly the selection of FastTrack. It would take another year or so for the bulk of generic users to move over to a new system. FastTrack still isn't at the point where Napster once was as far as available files. That's why I was wondering if FastTrack could be killed by a company going under.
It's real basic here. Property rights come before people's whims. That's great that you want to own that Ferrari. Unfortunately, that other guy owns it. You can want something more than anyone has ever wanted something in the world. That doesn't make you entitled to it.
Do Kazaa, or the other people making the clients have *anything* to do with the actual network anymore? If say all of these companies were shut down, would the Kazaa/Morpheus/Kazaalite/whatever clients still talk to each other? Is it really as decentralized as it's touted to be?
This is an excellent point. At least with proprietary software, with enough money you can FORCE a company that you bought software from to fix it. It happens all of the time with big companies... Problem with IIS? Well, a call from any grunt at IBM will get 'em moving. Problem with Apache? Nobody has any obligation whatsoever to fix it.
And THAT'S why most businesses will never move to OSS as a primary platform. Business is built on relationships and contracts. If there's no contract, there's nothing to fall back on when things go wrong (and things *always* go wrong).
Would you rather spend a little extra and get a car with a warranty, or a car "as is"? I'll spend the extra and get the warranty. I'm not a mechanic, and I'm not paying for a fucking mechanic.
Although it's ostensibly about "self healing", it seems the largest portion of the page was about databases that self-optimize their queries. They make a big deal about Microsoft having stuff like that out, and that IBM has some big thing coming soon (LEO).
AFAIK, the free and open-source PostgreSQL also has similar technology built in.
*YAWN*
Oracle has had this for years. Oh yeah, and it works.
1. "Greed" made the rest of the world what it is, thank you. You wouldn't be typing away on a dirt cheap computer on a cheap Net connection if not for "greed", so quit your mindless kneejerking.
2. So then, every gun manufacturer should be sued for the people who use 'em to kill people? Car manufacturers should be sued for people who drive drunk? Baseball bat companies should be sued for people who buy their bats to bludgeon somebody to death? You're a fucking clueless moron. China's not the problem, here, not Cisco.
No they won't. That's part of what Tianemen Square was all about. That's life under a Communist regime. Consider yourself lucky not to be living there.
Well, with web apps, scalability *shouldn't* be a problem. The problem with most web apps is that they're written and architected wrong. Most that I've seen lean very heavily on the web server, thus that's the bottleneck, which is why you see server farms.
In reality, the bulk of any web app should be in the database. The majority of people building web apps know little to nothing about databases except for SELECT * FROM TABLENAME, so all of the heavy lifting is done at the web server. If databases are left to do what they're designed to do, and that's retrieving, AND manipulating data, then the web server becomes increasingly less important. If the app is designed correctly, different web servers should be able to hit the same databases with minimal coding done at the web server. Unfortunately, again, most people don't do this out of sheer ignorance. Thus, cross-platform shouldn't be a concern with web servers. Don't like like IIS for some reason, switch to Tomcat or Apache.
And this problem is also why you see so many people (at least in small projects) using a very feature and performance poor MySQL. A robust database, such as Oracle, SQL Server, or DB2 can do the work for you, with half of the hardware needed, and twice the performance. Heck, Oracle even has a web server and their own scripting language.
My experience is *not* with dot-com anything. My experience is with large, mission-critial web applications. Most large organizations have standardized on a platform, and don't just "switch". A major platform switch is a time consuming, expensive task that is only done when absolutely necessary. Thus, an application written that has an expected life, of say, 5 years, is very unlikely to be forced to move platforms within that time. Again, I'm talking about mature companies, not stuff started in people's basements.
Again, commerce sites are, by definition, simple, low volume applications. Content sites are even more lightwieght. Those are 1. no test of a language and 2. irrelevant as far as the job market is concerned.
One platform isn't a problem if the project is thought out and architected correctly. If you're jumping platforms midway through, somebody did a real half-assed job in the planning phase.
If your web application has to manually open a socket, then you completely screwed up the architecture, somewhere.
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Netcraft knows nothing about intranets, which is where most real web development is done. I have yet to see a large company standardize on PHP, internally.
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I see ASP a hell of a lot more than I see PHP in my area.
You're not any kind of businessman either. There's more than one type of contract. You seem to think that the only thing that a company can do is to sell a physical item one time to a customer. There are *MANY* different kinds of contracts... leases, co-ops, condos, timeshares, royalties, options, etc., etc. It's not as cut and dried as you make it out to be.
Hardware manufacturers might just say, "Fuck it. The GPL is too hard to deal with, from a legal standpoint. It's easier to buy or develop our own software." You don't know how Epson is going to react, yet.
Corporations should have the right to collect a crop tax, eh?
No, but they should have a right to be paid for their products. Without basic property laws enforced, you have anarchy. Zimbawe is letting black people steal land from white people who legally own it. Perhaps you'd like that system better?
You hit the nail on the head. I agree 100%. I think that virtually anybody who has a website that earns them some kind of a living will agree too. Not students, not employees, but people whose website brings them income is gonna agree. The W3C is completely irrelevant. It's out of touch with reality. The reality is that 90% of all web users use IE 5+. 95% use IE 4+. IE works, and is consistent, and it IS the new standard. I honestly couldn't give a flying shit what the W3C does. It has nothing to do with what I do with my websites.
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EVERYONE with a Visa or Mastercard has fraud protection. It's a federal law. You probably didn't know that, and were suckered into paying extra for it.
Usually when I am away, not even hotels have it in the locations I have gone/need to go.
Newsflash: Most people don't give a flying shit about wireless. Wireless is something that only geeks and some college kids even *know* about. Neither geeks nor college kids provide enough revenue for hotels to even justify a transmitter.
It's demand. Nobody gives a shit about anything on the Net that needs high speed access, anymore. Hell, I know that I don't even need high speed, and I run a shitload of web sites.
I never said guarantee. I said that if they own the music, they're entitled to whatever profits they can make off it. They deserve to be protected from theft same as any other business owner. Someone tries to rob my store, and they're gonna have a nice little surprise. Actually, it's kinda' a big surprise.
The same applies to the RIAA. They can want profits, but that doesn't mean they are entitled to profits.
It's a contract. They bought the rights to the music. They own it. The musicians sold their rights to the music to the record companies, so it belongs to the record companies. The record companies can do whatever the fuck they want with the music. And yes, they are entitled to the profits from the music.
Well, there are others, but none right now with nearly the selection of FastTrack. It would take another year or so for the bulk of generic users to move over to a new system. FastTrack still isn't at the point where Napster once was as far as available files. That's why I was wondering if FastTrack could be killed by a company going under.
It's real basic here. Property rights come before people's whims. That's great that you want to own that Ferrari. Unfortunately, that other guy owns it. You can want something more than anyone has ever wanted something in the world. That doesn't make you entitled to it.
Do Kazaa, or the other people making the clients have *anything* to do with the actual network anymore? If say all of these companies were shut down, would the Kazaa/Morpheus/Kazaalite/whatever clients still talk to each other? Is it really as decentralized as it's touted to be?
This is an excellent point. At least with proprietary software, with enough money you can FORCE a company that you bought software from to fix it. It happens all of the time with big companies... Problem with IIS? Well, a call from any grunt at IBM will get 'em moving. Problem with Apache? Nobody has any obligation whatsoever to fix it.
And THAT'S why most businesses will never move to OSS as a primary platform. Business is built on relationships and contracts. If there's no contract, there's nothing to fall back on when things go wrong (and things *always* go wrong).
Would you rather spend a little extra and get a car with a warranty, or a car "as is"? I'll spend the extra and get the warranty. I'm not a mechanic, and I'm not paying for a fucking mechanic.
Although it's ostensibly about "self healing", it seems the largest portion of the page was about databases that self-optimize their queries. They make a big deal about Microsoft having stuff like that out, and that IBM has some big thing coming soon (LEO).
AFAIK, the free and open-source PostgreSQL also has similar technology built in.
*YAWN*
Oracle has had this for years. Oh yeah, and it works.
That's a huge load of horse shit.
1. "Greed" made the rest of the world what it is, thank you. You wouldn't be typing away on a dirt cheap computer on a cheap Net connection if not for "greed", so quit your mindless kneejerking.
2. So then, every gun manufacturer should be sued for the people who use 'em to kill people? Car manufacturers should be sued for people who drive drunk? Baseball bat companies should be sued for people who buy their bats to bludgeon somebody to death? You're a fucking clueless moron. China's not the problem, here, not Cisco.
Ass.
Wow. You're ignorant.
1. The gov't would do their best to censor any news of any revolts from leaving the country.
2. People in China who even *think* about any such thing are summarily "disappeared".
No they won't. That's part of what Tianemen Square was all about. That's life under a Communist regime. Consider yourself lucky not to be living there.
Well, with web apps, scalability *shouldn't* be a problem. The problem with most web apps is that they're written and architected wrong. Most that I've seen lean very heavily on the web server, thus that's the bottleneck, which is why you see server farms.
In reality, the bulk of any web app should be in the database. The majority of people building web apps know little to nothing about databases except for SELECT * FROM TABLENAME, so all of the heavy lifting is done at the web server. If databases are left to do what they're designed to do, and that's retrieving, AND manipulating data, then the web server becomes increasingly less important. If the app is designed correctly, different web servers should be able to hit the same databases with minimal coding done at the web server. Unfortunately, again, most people don't do this out of sheer ignorance. Thus, cross-platform shouldn't be a concern with web servers. Don't like like IIS for some reason, switch to Tomcat or Apache.
And this problem is also why you see so many people (at least in small projects) using a very feature and performance poor MySQL. A robust database, such as Oracle, SQL Server, or DB2 can do the work for you, with half of the hardware needed, and twice the performance. Heck, Oracle even has a web server and their own scripting language.
My experience is *not* with dot-com anything. My experience is with large, mission-critial web applications. Most large organizations have standardized on a platform, and don't just "switch". A major platform switch is a time consuming, expensive task that is only done when absolutely necessary. Thus, an application written that has an expected life, of say, 5 years, is very unlikely to be forced to move platforms within that time. Again, I'm talking about mature companies, not stuff started in people's basements.
Again, commerce sites are, by definition, simple, low volume applications. Content sites are even more lightwieght. Those are 1. no test of a language and 2. irrelevant as far as the job market is concerned.
One platform isn't a problem if the project is thought out and architected correctly. If you're jumping platforms midway through, somebody did a real half-assed job in the planning phase.
If your web application has to manually open a socket, then you completely screwed up the architecture, somewhere.
Netcraft knows nothing about intranets, which is where most real web development is done. I have yet to see a large company standardize on PHP, internally.
I see ASP a hell of a lot more than I see PHP in my area.
I'm not some lawyer for fuck's sake
You're not any kind of businessman either. There's more than one type of contract. You seem to think that the only thing that a company can do is to sell a physical item one time to a customer. There are *MANY* different kinds of contracts... leases, co-ops, condos, timeshares, royalties, options, etc., etc. It's not as cut and dried as you make it out to be.
Hardware manufacturers might just say, "Fuck it. The GPL is too hard to deal with, from a legal standpoint. It's easier to buy or develop our own software." You don't know how Epson is going to react, yet.
Corporations should have the right to collect a crop tax, eh?
No, but they should have a right to be paid for their products. Without basic property laws enforced, you have anarchy. Zimbawe is letting black people steal land from white people who legally own it. Perhaps you'd like that system better?
I know where at least a few hundred gig a week of bandwidth goes to...
You hit the nail on the head. I agree 100%. I think that virtually anybody who has a website that earns them some kind of a living will agree too. Not students, not employees, but people whose website brings them income is gonna agree. The W3C is completely irrelevant. It's out of touch with reality. The reality is that 90% of all web users use IE 5+. 95% use IE 4+. IE works, and is consistent, and it IS the new standard. I honestly couldn't give a flying shit what the W3C does. It has nothing to do with what I do with my websites.
If a browser won't render properly written code, that's the user's fault for choosing internet explorer.
That may be nice to say on a hobby site, but if a website does anything business related, you can't have this kind of kindergarten mentality.
Pull YOUR head out of your ass and read the link. You're talking out of your ass here without knowing anything.