Perhaps an upgrade would be the worst thing you could do. Sticking with older, proven systems is many times a very wise idea.
Spoken like a true !businessman.
Consider the new feature:
SQL Database Support
mod_dbd, together with the apr_dbd framework, brings direct SQL support to modules that need it. Supports connection pooling in threaded MPMs.
I applaud Apache adding this, as it keeps alive the traditional approach of not forcing features onto people.
However, real businessmen are going beyond the clear break between the HTTP server, the database engine, and the application, and cooking the query support into the language, as per C# 2.0.
That'll keep their naughty bits within the clenched fist, by golly!
The US consumer economy emphasizes the tactical over the strategic; politically, economically, socially.
Now, before getting too frisky with accusations of shallowness, please cite a few examples of cultures that were significantly different. Hmmm. Ancient Egypt, in a way.
Beyond that, what sort of structural changes do you recommend? Doubling all federal term limits, so the cunning hams we elect so frequently get to eat more of their own slop?
Stripping authority from the Fed, al la O'Rourke "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys"?
Ignore the problem--all cultures grow old and die eventually?
never having to worry about a blue screen of death
Haven't seen any pattern of these since XP. There may have been one, due to a flaky driver, once. But, Windows CE/Me/NT is hard as a rock, and dumb as a brick.
Maybe Slashdot can atone by adding something to English: the WMD Argument Pattern. Noun. An argument so intellectually porous as to soak up the speaker's credibility.
Sure it is, if you live in Banglore and can whip up a mean curry.
Intersting book site
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My only disappointment was that the popup on mouse-over didn't say "Hello, world", which would've been funny on a couple of levels, and opted for something practical like telling you how to BTFM.
It costs them more if you buy the box and no games
Maybe. You also have to count the opportunity cost. Could've had a PS/2--wait, WTF t3h DRM? Can't tell which soulless mega-corporation to hate more. Race condition! Colonel Panic! Hellllp!
I thought about buying some old XB0rxen to make a little compile farm, but then I thought: why?
If Redmond is already losing Y dollars per sale, why not let them bleed more by not purchasing a unit in the first place?
Is the satisfaction of knowing that Grub is booting Gentoo on Billy's Baby worth that much?
nanoscale template metaprogramming
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smoke pouring soon out of a C++ compiler near you!
...I thought apache.org was primarily about Java projects.
I won't go into a troll about how challenging it was, trying to set up Tomcat to work with a database.
Poring over the source code, what I gathered was that they were using XML files and the admittedly interesting reflection features of the JVM to more or less script the JVM and quite a bit of the app server, especially the security stuff.
The documentation was less than illuminating, and the source code little help. So I took a failing grade in the software engineering class, quit school, and got on with life.
Anyway, a survey of apache.org would reveal an overwhelming Java bias in their projects, no?
I feel that you may have just discovered a concept called 'advertising'.
Possibly no one has thought to patent this concept.
However, your friendly PTO will be happy to slide you some justice.
So ya got that goin' for ya!
Just try not to notice that the words 'news' and 'matters' in the phrase 'News for nerds. Stuff that matters' may not mean what you think those words mean, 'K?
Short Answer:
Run Excel as a client/server app.
Is my crack habit out of control, or is that 40-year old technology that was replaced a couple of decades ago by n-tier solutions?
The chutzpah involved in pushing this as some kind of new technology, itself, is some kind of Killer App, where the victim is the market.
Patents to all t3h h0meez, for this startling, innovative, heretofore unseen wonder!
Solomon's observation 'there is nothing new under the sun' never hit any harder than with software patents.
For languages, we have Algol, Lisp, and a bazillion variations on the theme.
After packet-switched networks, let's see, there are a bazillion variations on the them of 'protocol'.
This 'software patent' nonsense is 100% pure belief system. I shall as soon become a 5-point Calvinist as believe that Bezos actually led any innovation other than 'creative mindfscking' with his One Click Shopping.
As muggings go, the software patent system is easily as refined and civilized as they come. Viva patents, and intellectual dishonesty!
A giant like eBay with their mountains of patented software stands to make a fortune every time someone else tries to write some of their own software to sell something on the Internet.
But but but...I thought that patents were about protecting the little someone else, so that we could continue to innovate?
Or is it all about wealth transfer from the innovators to the bureaucratic/legal ecology that has sprung up around software patents.?
One is tempted to cynicism.
Actually, having had a lengthy private conversation with the gentleman, I think I can say that RMS is a sane fellow with a sincere belief that liberal programs help people.
I shared with him that quote from Civ IV "The bureuacracy is expanding to support the needs of an expanding bureaucracy" but the point seemed to elude him. Possibly he focuses on the results, rather than the ethical vacuum existing within the Beltway.
At any rate, among the problems with the opaque OS X binary is that people can't learn much from it. I can't say that I have spelunked deeply within all of the tarballs in/usr/portage/distfiles, but I do look at them now and then. Having that latitude is not to be casually foregone, for all OS X is eyecandyville.
Slashdot Mirror
You really don't understand the 'embrace/extend/extinguish' cycle, do you?
Your overconfidence is misplaced, Sanjeev: the results are so evil that they will follow you back to India and thrash your karma!
Has NetCraft confirmed this?
Consider the new feature: I applaud Apache adding this, as it keeps alive the traditional approach of not forcing features onto people. However, real businessmen are going beyond the clear break between the HTTP server, the database engine, and the application, and cooking the query support into the language, as per C# 2.0.
That'll keep their naughty bits within the clenched fist, by golly!
The US consumer economy emphasizes the tactical over the strategic; politically, economically, socially.
Now, before getting too frisky with accusations of shallowness, please cite a few examples of cultures that were significantly different. Hmmm. Ancient Egypt, in a way.
Beyond that, what sort of structural changes do you recommend? Doubling all federal term limits, so the cunning hams we elect so frequently get to eat more of their own slop?
Stripping authority from the Fed, al la O'Rourke "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys"?
Ignore the problem--all cultures grow old and die eventually?
Law is the programming language of society.
Cruft happens.
Haven't seen any pattern of these since XP. There may have been one, due to a flaky driver, once. But, Windows CE/Me/NT is hard as a rock, and dumb as a brick.
Maybe Slashdot can atone by adding something to English: the WMD Argument Pattern. Noun. An argument so intellectually porous as to soak up the speaker's credibility.
Well, they already ported Gentoo's creator to MicroSoft, so the distro itself should logically follow.
My only disappointment was that the popup on mouse-over didn't say "Hello, world", which would've been funny on a couple of levels, and opted for something practical like telling you how to BTFM.
Is that what this is really all about? A sad cry for recognition from a tortured soul? Poor wee Bill...
I thought about buying some old XB0rxen to make a little compile farm, but then I thought: why?
If Redmond is already losing Y dollars per sale, why not let them bleed more by not purchasing a unit in the first place?
Is the satisfaction of knowing that Grub is booting Gentoo on Billy's Baby worth that much?
smoke pouring soon out of a C++ compiler near you!
Better still, a gnu.
<editor war goes here>
Prosecution rests.
...I thought apache.org was primarily about Java projects.
I won't go into a troll about how challenging it was, trying to set up Tomcat to work with a database.
Poring over the source code, what I gathered was that they were using XML files and the admittedly interesting reflection features of the JVM to more or less script the JVM and quite a bit of the app server, especially the security stuff.
The documentation was less than illuminating, and the source code little help. So I took a failing grade in the software engineering class, quit school, and got on with life.
Anyway, a survey of apache.org would reveal an overwhelming Java bias in their projects, no?
Yes, but how will you coordinate your bank robberies?c le/2005/11/14/AR2005111400635.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_We_Not_Men_We_Ar
I feel that you may have just discovered a concept called 'advertising'.
Possibly no one has thought to patent this concept.
However, your friendly PTO will be happy to slide you some justice.
So ya got that goin' for ya!
Just try not to notice that the words 'news' and 'matters' in the phrase 'News for nerds. Stuff that matters' may not mean what you think those words mean, 'K?
Run Excel as a client/server app.
Is my crack habit out of control, or is that 40-year old technology that was replaced a couple of decades ago by n-tier solutions?
The chutzpah involved in pushing this as some kind of new technology, itself, is some kind of Killer App, where the victim is the market.
Patents to all t3h h0meez, for this startling, innovative, heretofore unseen wonder!
Solomon's observation 'there is nothing new under the sun' never hit any harder than with software patents.
For languages, we have Algol, Lisp, and a bazillion variations on the theme.
After packet-switched networks, let's see, there are a bazillion variations on the them of 'protocol'.
This 'software patent' nonsense is 100% pure belief system. I shall as soon become a 5-point Calvinist as believe that Bezos actually led any innovation other than 'creative mindfscking' with his One Click Shopping.
As muggings go, the software patent system is easily as refined and civilized as they come. Viva patents, and intellectual dishonesty!
Or is it all about wealth transfer from the innovators to the bureaucratic/legal ecology that has sprung up around software patents.? One is tempted to cynicism.
Actually, having had a lengthy private conversation with the gentleman, I think I can say that RMS is a sane fellow with a sincere belief that liberal programs help people. /usr/portage/distfiles, but I do look at them now and then. Having that latitude is not to be casually foregone, for all OS X is eyecandyville.
I shared with him that quote from Civ IV "The bureuacracy is expanding to support the needs of an expanding bureaucracy" but the point seemed to elude him. Possibly he focuses on the results, rather than the ethical vacuum existing within the Beltway.
At any rate, among the problems with the opaque OS X binary is that people can't learn much from it. I can't say that I have spelunked deeply within all of the tarballs in
Yes, oh flogger of dead horses: yes.