If you were having your wetware fondled, you'd probably care more about the track record of the application than the OS.
Linux != crashproof, as my recent www.linuxfromscratch.org efforts demonstrated.
Great to see Linux proliferating, sad to see it used for a completely gratuitous bashing.
I'd cast the 'real problem' in terms of the planning horizon for government solutions. That planning horizon is not much more than the next election.
To minimize fraud, most money has a lifespan of the next fiscal year. Prominent exceptions are things like procurements of nuclear aircraft carriers, where Newport News shipbuilding shant order the first part unless they know that the money will be there to finish it.
Too, there has been a shift from discretionary (pork barrel) spending towards entitlements (Socialist Security [who better to run a Ponzi scheme than your Uncle Sam, eh?], Medicare, etc). Good news, bad news, who can say?
An unfortunate side effect of our representative democracy is that the dependant majority can legally pick the pockets of the minority through socialist-flavored approaches.
Reform is unlikely when you've got lobbies like the AARP on the scene. The rich, of course, need not pool their cash to purchase political decisions.
Waaah, waaah, waaah. I'd argue that our system is muddling along as designed, faithful to its two design requirements: be stable, and preclude tyrrany.
Are we in greater danger now than in any historical period? Probably not.
Do this:
Go to this URL and set a bookmark to your elected folks and keep their inboxes stuffed with your/. wisdom.
True, if you know a priori that you are dealing with character data, your file metadata are highly stable, and the recursive nature of a file hierarchy is the scariest piece, one would suppose that a customized file system database engine might not be too huge.
But I speak well above my skill level, having just written my first little bit using a RegEx. Go, boost.
Maybe keeping an eye on Hans is a good idea.
So, you dump the photos into a folder and use an RDBMS to give you arbitrary meta-data about your archive. About the only thing you can't do is have arbitrary numbers of images named 'RillyKewlCar.jpg' in the same folder.
The killer argument in favor of what you already have is that a robust SQL engine that would fit on a bootable floppy would probably be software art of Knuthian proportions.
Not to be confused with neo-Legoism, a recent religious architectural fetish centered around building vast, plastic, ad hoc cathedrals out of tiny bits of plastic...
Worse still, if you have a script that generates an arbitrary number of 4:33.mp3s of nothing, you can violate John Cages copyright in truly efficient fashion. Now, if the product is a copyright violation, is the script itself a violation as well? What does the I-ANAL crowd think?
=>Different TVs, but they all can view the same =>channels and use the same antenna connectors.
PAL vs. NTSC?
=>Different VCRs but they all use the same tapes =>and work with any TV.
Beta vs. VHS, region coding?
=>Different cars, but they all use the same gas =>and standardised oil grades.
Regular, unleaded, diesel?
=>Differnt refridgerators, but they all use the =>same electricity.
115V, 60 Hz vs. 220V, 50 Hz?
We're really delving into economics and economic network externalities (which have nothing to do with packets).
I recommend this as a non-technical, yet excellent analysis of WTF is going on.
The do-it-yourself spirit that has me pondering ordering 4 Lindows boxen off of www.wallmart.com and IABCOT in my basement to support some research for school simply Does Not Translate into a general prophecy that Linux will rule.
The sheep remain sheep, and will not forget that BeelzeBill is their shepherd, and they shall not want (too frequently).
Linux standards development will continue along its present, Darwinian lines. For example, we gripe about Gnome/KDE, but I haven't heard much about alternatives to X. You can say all you like about Bluecurve, but that's the general direction that things, over time, are likely to go.
Now we see the basis for Bobby Schmidt's "Hell Freezes Over" column in the latest CUJ. The next Visual C++ is standards-compliant by vacuuming up a quality comptetitor...
No, that's a troll.
But Borland has a lot of Java product, and owning that would help to maneuver it out of the C# path...
No, that's a troll, too...
Borland's CLX library has the potential to do what QT could not, popularize GUI-applications that run under 'Doze and X, so you could blunt that attempt to compete if you owned the product... (seriously, I can't name a single application on the local CompUSA shelf using QT, please educate me)
No, that's YAT (Yet Another Troll)
The fact that the DOJ is a singleton-class, MS server application running inside the Beltway box means that MS can do whatever the fsck it likes and laugh about it...
Ah, now that is a sufficiently gratuitous troll...
Are there any open source tax preparation packages? I hear about this or that checkbook program, but the thought of doing my taxes warms me as much as a binary Repository for system configuration.
If we can balance our own books through Open Source software, maybe we can pressure the government to balance its own. Uncle Sam's accounting 'quirks' make MCI's vanish into--and I've heared this used in real conversations around DC-- 'decimal dust'.
I guess my understading of STL is way off.
Assuming a hierarchy of objects, with, say,
class vehicle {};
class sedan : public vehicle {};
class van : public vehicle{};
I thought you could say
std::vector<vehicle> carLot;
and put all of the sedan and van objects you want in the carLot...
Admittedly, I've done more with composite classes than inheritance in C++, so I'll lay by my dish now...
limited generics in a way that C++ can't even try to approach.
Can't believe a five-digit user number is trolling, so could you expand on this point, por favor?
Now Soundgarden was headed for the bottom in track #4, Mailman. Had the clip lasted just a little longer, you'd know that they were riding you all the way, just like the Party back in Soviet Russia.
Hopefully, Chris Cornell hasn't died like Layne Staley and my Alice in Chains post did earlier today...
r0xah,
I dig getting paid, too. And I'll be the first to admit I've written wreams of code on MS platforms.
Agreed, much of what you hear here is the sound of a full diaper.
The other extreme is an ostrich-like attitude about fascist business practices. "What's good for MS is good for the US" is not much of an answer. I personally worry that the US stands to be at an economic disadvantage to the rest of the world because we've optimized ourselves to bow to Redmond at the expense of knowing how to get anything done, rendering US business less competitive.
Particularly offensive is crap like this. Government stuff is supposed to be all about the lowest bidder. Who bids lower than the GPL? TCO arguments do have merit, so make them. Show me that forking over a pile of cash to Redmond gets us a better memo.
Agree with your last statement.
I'll add that, for all open-source databases do a great job, there will always be a market for the 800 lb. gorillas like Oracle and DB2.
There are some high performance features of these proprietary applications that, I daresay, will never trickle into the Open Source world.
I doubt that Open Source anything will achieve consumer desktop conquest, due to the complexity. Note, too, the extreme disinterest afforded Open Source operating systems by all of the ISPs. Trying to get anything new to operate with Cox can be...interesting (finger on flamethrower twitches...). Inability to get TCP/IP packets into the home is problematic. Maybe Someone Might Say "Mighty Sweet M'f'n Situation". Monopoly, Someone? I'm openly curious as to the major shareholders in some of these ISPs. But I digress.
Embedded devices, maybe.
Server/networks/academically, there is a possibility.
My prediction is that both closed- and open-source exist in a mildly antagonistic coexistance (reminiscent of ma and pa Smith).
Now, if closed source has the effect of being a protectionist trade policy, and the rest of the world goes open, as India and China have recently made noises, is the US at risk of being beaten at its own technological game?
Who would be the un-American one in that situation, Mr. Ballmer?
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If you were having your wetware fondled, you'd probably care more about the track record of the application than the OS.
Linux != crashproof, as my recent www.linuxfromscratch.org efforts demonstrated.
Great to see Linux proliferating, sad to see it used for a completely gratuitous bashing.
"Instructors used too many TLAs without explaining what they mean".
TLA=Three Letter Acronym, BTW
I'd cast the 'real problem' in terms of the planning horizon for government solutions. That planning horizon is not much more than the next election.
/. wisdom.
To minimize fraud, most money has a lifespan of the next fiscal year. Prominent exceptions are things like procurements of nuclear aircraft carriers, where Newport News shipbuilding shant order the first part unless they know that the money will be there to finish it.
Too, there has been a shift from discretionary (pork barrel) spending towards entitlements (Socialist Security [who better to run a Ponzi scheme than your Uncle Sam, eh?], Medicare, etc).
Good news, bad news, who can say?
An unfortunate side effect of our representative democracy is that the dependant majority can legally pick the pockets of the minority through socialist-flavored approaches.
Reform is unlikely when you've got lobbies like the AARP on the scene. The rich, of course, need not pool their cash to purchase political decisions.
Waaah, waaah, waaah. I'd argue that our system is muddling along as designed, faithful to its two design requirements: be stable, and preclude tyrrany.
Are we in greater danger now than in any historical period? Probably not.
Do this:
Go to this URL and set a bookmark to your elected folks and keep their inboxes stuffed with your
True, if you know a priori that you are dealing with character data, your file metadata are highly stable, and the recursive nature of a file hierarchy is the scariest piece, one would suppose that a customized file system database engine might not be too huge.
But I speak well above my skill level, having just written my first little bit using a RegEx. Go, boost.
Maybe keeping an eye on Hans is a good idea.
So, you dump the photos into a folder and use an RDBMS to give you arbitrary meta-data
about your archive. About the only thing you can't do is have arbitrary numbers of images named 'RillyKewlCar.jpg' in the same folder.
The killer argument in favor of what you already have is that a robust SQL engine that
would fit on a bootable floppy would probably be software art of Knuthian proportions.
Not to be confused with neo-Legoism, a recent religious architectural fetish centered around building vast, plastic, ad hoc cathedrals out of tiny bits of plastic...
The Average Idiot.
Worse still, if you have a script that generates an arbitrary number of 4:33 .mp3s of nothing, you can violate John Cages copyright in truly efficient fashion.
Now, if the product is a copyright violation, is the script itself a violation as well? What does the I-ANAL crowd think?
To abuse your analogies:
=>Different TVs, but they all can view the same
=>channels and use the same antenna connectors.
PAL vs. NTSC?
=>Different VCRs but they all use the same tapes
=>and work with any TV.
Beta vs. VHS, region coding?
=>Different cars, but they all use the same gas
=>and standardised oil grades.
Regular, unleaded, diesel?
=>Differnt refridgerators, but they all use the
=>same electricity.
115V, 60 Hz vs. 220V, 50 Hz?
We're really delving into economics and economic network externalities (which have nothing to do with packets).
I recommend this as a non-technical, yet excellent analysis of WTF is going on.
The do-it-yourself spirit that has me pondering ordering 4 Lindows boxen off of www.wallmart.com and IABCOT in my basement to support some research for school simply Does Not Translate into a general prophecy that Linux will rule.
The sheep remain sheep, and will not forget that BeelzeBill is their shepherd, and they shall not want (too frequently).
Linux standards development will continue along its present, Darwinian lines. For example, we gripe about Gnome/KDE, but I haven't heard much about alternatives to X. You can say all you like about Bluecurve, but that's the general direction that things, over time, are likely to go.
Hmmm... So, perhaps a little more research next time? Props for straightening me out...
</blush>
Now we see the basis for Bobby Schmidt's "Hell Freezes Over" column in the latest CUJ. The next Visual C++ is standards-compliant by vacuuming up a quality comptetitor...
No, that's a troll.
But Borland has a lot of Java product, and owning that would help to maneuver it out of the C# path...
No, that's a troll, too...
Borland's CLX library has the potential to do what QT could not, popularize GUI-applications that run under 'Doze and X, so you could blunt that attempt to compete if you owned the product... (seriously, I can't name a single application on the local CompUSA shelf using QT, please educate me)
No, that's YAT (Yet Another Troll)
The fact that the DOJ is a singleton-class, MS server application running inside the Beltway box means that MS can do whatever the fsck it likes and laugh about it...
Ah, now that is a sufficiently gratuitous troll...
Are there any open source tax preparation packages? I hear about this or that checkbook program, but the thought of doing my taxes warms me as much as a binary Repository for system configuration.
If we can balance our own books through Open Source software, maybe we can pressure the government to balance its own. Uncle Sam's accounting 'quirks' make MCI's vanish into--and I've heared this used in real conversations around DC-- 'decimal dust'.
I guess my understading of STL is way off. Assuming a hierarchy of objects, with, say,
class vehicle {};
class sedan : public vehicle {};
class van : public vehicle{};
I thought you could say
std::vector<vehicle> carLot;
and put all of the sedan and van objects you want in the carLot... Admittedly, I've done more with composite classes than inheritance in C++, so I'll lay by my dish now...
limited generics in a way that C++ can't even try to approach.
Can't believe a five-digit user number is trolling, so could you expand on this point, por favor?
Clearly. What is sweeter than taking Mr. Softie's brilliant targeting
of the low common denominator and shooting just a little lower?
Too easy.
Now Soundgarden was headed for the bottom in track #4, Mailman. Had the clip lasted just a little longer, you'd know that they were riding you all the way, just like the Party back in Soviet Russia.
Hopefully, Chris Cornell hasn't died like Layne Staley and my Alice in Chains post did earlier today...
LFS
That's where I wish I'd started.
Not while Layne Staley is alive...
<unable to take you directly to sample #3, "Rain when I die". I suck.>
r0xah,
I dig getting paid, too. And I'll be the first to admit I've written wreams of code on MS platforms.
Agreed, much of what you hear here is the sound of a full diaper.
The other extreme is an ostrich-like attitude about fascist business practices. "What's good for MS is good for the US" is not much of an answer. I personally worry that the US stands to be at an economic disadvantage to the rest of the world because we've optimized ourselves to bow to Redmond at the expense of knowing how to get anything done, rendering US business less competitive.
Particularly offensive is crap like this. Government stuff is supposed to be all about the lowest bidder. Who bids lower than the GPL? TCO arguments do have merit, so make them. Show me that forking over a pile of cash to Redmond gets us a better memo.
All your laws court are belong to us--BeelzeBill.
Agree with your last statement.
I'll add that, for all open-source databases do a great job, there will always be a market for the 800 lb. gorillas like Oracle and DB2.
There are some high performance features of these proprietary applications that, I daresay, will never trickle into the Open Source world.
I doubt that Open Source anything will achieve consumer desktop conquest, due to the complexity. Note, too, the extreme disinterest afforded Open Source operating systems by all of the ISPs. Trying to get anything new to operate with Cox can be...interesting (finger on flamethrower twitches...). Inability to get TCP/IP packets into the home is problematic. Maybe Someone Might Say "Mighty Sweet M'f'n Situation". Monopoly, Someone? I'm openly curious as to the major shareholders in some of these ISPs. But I digress.
Embedded devices, maybe.
Server/networks/academically, there is a possibility.
My prediction is that both closed- and open-source exist in a mildly antagonistic coexistance (reminiscent of ma and pa Smith).
Now, if closed source has the effect of being a protectionist trade policy, and the rest of the world goes open, as India and China have recently made noises, is the US at risk of being beaten at its own technological game?
Who would be the un-American one in that situation, Mr. Ballmer?
That's my question. Probably no BIOS support?
...waiting to see Guide to Intimacy...