I'm left wondering why Microsoft has so much power over what NASA develops their applications in. Also, I would think that MS would be more concerned about a Java port than being able to run the C# app in Mono.
A company as litigious as Microsoft (themselves victims of the litigious) will just use the cost of litigation to stifle their opponents. Their opponents (the little guys) would have to first have something Microsoft was really interested in, and would have to have the financial wherewithall to pursue Microsoft.
Good point. However, with the increasing popularity of tech companies suing each other, Microsoft may have met it's match. You can fight off a 300lb. gorilla (ahem) with a huge legal hammer but you can't kill a giant swarm of bees with that same hammer.
Adwords used to be a great thing for small-time advertisers and that's precisely the reason that myself and many other small advertisers like me used adwords. I could reach thousands on a budget of less than $100 a day.
Google changed their minimum-bid policy and now I have to end up paying $10 a click for some keywords and no less than $1 to get on the first result page for others. I used to get up near the top for less than.20 on many of my keywords. Not anymore. I can't afford $5-10 a click so I cancelled my adwords campaigns. Judging by some of the angry threads at webmaster world I'm guessing that there's hundreds of others out there like me. Maybe Google just needs something to show for thier inflated stock price.
If MSN can offer a decent amount of quality traffic for a good CPC I'll jump all over it.
It's not the attitude of Microsoft that makes them evil, it's the business practices. Google does not do the same thing as MS when it comes to business.
The attitude of Google reminds me a lot of the early days of Apple Computer. Out to win big - yes, but villian - no. At least not yet.
That's nice that you see it that way, and I agree that's it's a fair view of what the speed limit is supposed to be but tell that to the officer pulling you over who's just looking at numbers on his radar gun and you'll get a funny look or a laugh.
Note that this article was written by the person famous for creating the myth of Kevin Mitnick being a super hacker. Markoff is largely responsible for the fear and paranoia surrounding Mitnick and consequently his unfair prison experience.
His articles were full of lies and exaggerations back then so I would take this article with a grain of salt as well.
Memorizing a 10-digit number instead of the word "Google" isn't making things much easier for people
That's not really all that ENUM does. ENUM isn't grown up yet, but think of it as a DNS for phone numbers and then some. You wouldn't want to have to type in the IP address every time you wanted to view a web page, would you? ENUM does the same for telephony as DNS does for the web. The strongest use of ENUM, IMHO will be the ability to "follow" someone no matter what phone they're on based upon the rules they set up with their ENUM service. If ENUM matures enough and is widely accepted, you won't need to know a persons home number, cell number and work number; ENUM takes care of that automatically.
I want the opposite: I want my phone number to be arbitrary text of my choosing.
In the future, you might be able to register a telephony domain name much the same way you can register and internet domain name.
There's no way to fully censor the internet for those that are tech saavy. People in China already know how to get the information that they seek.
Blocking sites? Use a proxy. Blocking content? Use an encrypted proxy or tunnel.
Even if (and that's a really big *IF*) laws are passed in the USA and Can that force censorship on us there will be those people who can find a way around it. Huge industries will blossom that will allow people to view "forbidden" content; people will get rich and arrested.
Censorship will never happen because the porn industry is so huge and they will see to it that our free speech continues on the internet so they can make money.
If you're involved in a couple of high profile Open source projects it looks good on your resume.
The person responsible for hiring you can see exactly how well you code, which along with making a good impression in your interview will convince that person that you know what you are doing.
Think about this also, if you need to hire someone good, what sets them apart from the crowd? Certs? No. H1B? No. This person worked on the linux kerenel? Wow, call him in for an interview, now.
I'm glad thay people like the 17 year old who decides to have sex with his 15 year old girlfriend after the school dance then her parents decide to press statutory rape charges isn't affected by this.
I think tracking habitual child molesters is a great idea. Studies show time and time again that they cannot be rehabilitated.
RoR can not be successfully used with legacy databases that do not honor any kind of 'object' structure. I am not saying that Hibernate is any better, but you can not use RoR in this case, period.
Can you back this up? I think you're mistaken. Antithesis
I've used rails in some small test cases with legacy databases. It's not as easy to set up but it's still easier than hibernate.
The main problem with Clarion is that while it's easy to whip up a quick toy app, it plain dead sucks for anything more than an address book or recipe book with anything more than a couple of 1:many relations.
Clarion was (at least from my experience with 5.0-5.5) riddled with bugs in it's QBE template and softvelocity's solution was to buy a template that fixes the problem from a third party until the next version comes out. No thanks.
Another thing that pissed me off about clarion is that you would get buried in dialog boxes very quickly while clicking away at options with the mouse. Definetly not productive. Another fond memory I have is trying to figure out what event to use to do a certain action from the event model. The clarion community's response? Just keep trying different ones until you find one that works. I suspect that there's not one person who fully understands the event model.
If it's CRUD you want along with maintainability and separation of business logic, view and data model. Try Ruby On Rails. You can literally develop a "toy" app 5 times faster in ROR than you could in clarion that does all of your CRUD stuff.
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I'm left wondering why Microsoft has so much power over what NASA develops their applications in. Also, I would think that MS would be more concerned about a Java port than being able to run the C# app in Mono.
A company as litigious as Microsoft (themselves victims of the litigious) will just use the cost of litigation to stifle their opponents. Their opponents (the little guys) would have to first have something Microsoft was really interested in, and would have to have the financial wherewithall to pursue Microsoft.
Good point. However, with the increasing popularity of tech companies suing each other, Microsoft may have met it's match. You can fight off a 300lb. gorilla (ahem) with a huge legal hammer but you can't kill a giant swarm of bees with that same hammer.
Microsoft will have to adapt.
Adwords used to be a great thing for small-time advertisers and that's precisely the reason that myself and many other small advertisers like me used adwords. I could reach thousands on a budget of less than $100 a day.
.20 on many of my keywords. Not anymore. I can't afford $5-10 a click so I cancelled my adwords campaigns. Judging by some of the angry threads at webmaster world I'm guessing that there's hundreds of others out there like me. Maybe Google just needs something to show for thier inflated stock price.
Google changed their minimum-bid policy and now I have to end up paying $10 a click for some keywords and no less than $1 to get on the first result page for others. I used to get up near the top for less than
If MSN can offer a decent amount of quality traffic for a good CPC I'll jump all over it.
It's not the attitude of Microsoft that makes them evil, it's the business practices. Google does not do the same thing as MS when it comes to business.
The attitude of Google reminds me a lot of the early days of Apple Computer. Out to win big - yes, but villian - no. At least not yet.
I'd like to nominate "Oops I did it again" to be the official launch song for longhorn.
I hope the server's running NetBSD because it's gonna be toast too!
That's nice that you see it that way, and I agree that's it's a fair view of what the speed limit is supposed to be but tell that to the officer pulling you over who's just looking at numbers on his radar gun and you'll get a funny look or a laugh.
And a hefty speeding ticket.
This is a great idea. If there is a way to make the signal just a bit stronger you can hack your own wireless media center.
Does Debian really ship Mplayer? I thought you had to get it from the Marillat repositories? I thought mplayer was not officially supported by Debian.
Note that this article was written by the person famous for creating the myth of Kevin Mitnick being a super hacker. Markoff is largely responsible for the fear and paranoia surrounding Mitnick and consequently his unfair prison experience.
His articles were full of lies and exaggerations back then so I would take this article with a grain of salt as well.
Get a channel bank (I reccomend the Adit 600) and a TE110P T1 card.
Connect the channel bank to the T1 card via a crossover cable and you have a 24 (or 23 ISDN) port FXS interface.
Memorizing a 10-digit number instead of the word "Google" isn't making things much easier for people
That's not really all that ENUM does. ENUM isn't grown up yet, but think of it as a DNS for phone numbers and then some. You wouldn't want to have to type in the IP address every time you wanted to view a web page, would you? ENUM does the same for telephony as DNS does for the web. The strongest use of ENUM, IMHO will be the ability to "follow" someone no matter what phone they're on based upon the rules they set up with their ENUM service. If ENUM matures enough and is widely accepted, you won't need to know a persons home number, cell number and work number; ENUM takes care of that automatically.
I want the opposite: I want my phone number to be arbitrary text of my choosing.
In the future, you might be able to register a telephony domain name much the same way you can register and internet domain name.
There's no way to fully censor the internet for those that are tech saavy. People in China already know how to get the information that they seek.
Blocking sites? Use a proxy.
Blocking content? Use an encrypted proxy or tunnel.
Even if (and that's a really big *IF*) laws are passed in the USA and Can that force censorship on us there will be those people who can find a way around it. Huge industries will blossom that will allow people to view "forbidden" content; people will get rich and arrested.
Censorship will never happen because the porn industry is so huge and they will see to it that our free speech continues on the internet so they can make money.
If you're involved in a couple of high profile Open source projects it looks good on your resume.
The person responsible for hiring you can see exactly how well you code, which along with making a good impression in your interview will convince that person that you know what you are doing.
Think about this also, if you need to hire someone good, what sets them apart from the crowd? Certs? No. H1B? No. This person worked on the linux kerenel? Wow, call him in for an interview, now.
I can think of some better uses for Jar Jar in consumer products...
Dart Boards.
Archery Targets.
Urinal Cakes.
Toilet Paper.
Clay Pidgeons.
Heavy Bags.
Their pitiful systems are no match for the power of slashdot!
I'm glad thay people like the 17 year old who decides to have sex with his 15 year old girlfriend after the school dance then her parents decide to press statutory rape charges isn't affected by this.
I think tracking habitual child molesters is a great idea. Studies show time and time again that they cannot be rehabilitated.
RoR can not be successfully used with legacy databases that do not honor any kind of 'object' structure. I am not saying that Hibernate is any better, but you can not use RoR in this case, period.
Can you back this up? I think you're mistaken.
Antithesis
I've used rails in some small test cases with legacy databases. It's not as easy to set up but it's still easier than hibernate.
Well obviously you haven't learned the difference between a male and female IO Port yet have you?
The main problem with Clarion is that while it's easy to whip up a quick toy app, it plain dead sucks for anything more than an address book or recipe book with anything more than a couple of 1:many relations.
Clarion was (at least from my experience with 5.0-5.5) riddled with bugs in it's QBE template and softvelocity's solution was to buy a template that fixes the problem from a third party until the next version comes out. No thanks.
Another thing that pissed me off about clarion is that you would get buried in dialog boxes very quickly while clicking away at options with the mouse. Definetly not productive. Another fond memory I have is trying to figure out what event to use to do a certain action from the event model. The clarion community's response? Just keep trying different ones until you find one that works. I suspect that there's not one person who fully understands the event model.
If it's CRUD you want along with maintainability and separation of business logic, view and data model. Try Ruby On Rails. You can literally develop a "toy" app 5 times faster in ROR than you could in clarion that does all of your CRUD stuff.
I've used Python/Boa for applications too. It simply rocks compared to Java/Swing.
One question -
What did you use for reports? I'm still stuck with Java (jasper reports) for reporting.
C'mon. You you people who modded the parent down can't honestly say that you didn't think of something along the same lines...
Let's be honest now.
I stand corrected then.
Slony is what you're looking for.
Yes, you can vacuum your tables without locking them.
IMHO, The win32 version is to give people who dabble with MySQL in windows and alternative database.