But anyway, I'd pay a couple of bucks, especially if we get a Pay-Per-View event of Linus kicking McBride upside the head.
Lol, I'm still trying to pick myself up after trying to picture that. Not to say that he couldn't - you'd be surprised how many mousy-looking, quiet people have black belts or can bench 245. Nonetheless, it would be hella funny to watch.
Jesus H. Christ! My head hurts! I much prefer those little windows that hide most of the EULA behind a scrollbar.
At what point does an EULA become unenforcable due to excessive complexity? I'm thinking not so much of FoxPro but, say, Windows XP Home Edition here - a software product aimed at everyone, not just developers, presumably working within large corporations which can afford legal departments to sort pieces of shit like the above EULA out.
My point is, I wonder if a court would side with Joe Luser who didn't understand salient points of an overly-complex EULA and got screwed and subsequently went to court over it. But IANAL. Any Ls out there want to speak to this one?
I actually had something like this happen once. I went to a drive-up ATM at a bank I once used, and the machine was literally unlocked - there was a sort of swing-door arrangement where the whole ATM would open on a hinge sort of like some switch stacks do, and it was broken open. I decided not to stick my card in the machine and instead drove away to a payphone and called the bank.
Amazingly, the people on the other end gave me attitude when I called to tell them that their ATM was broken open - the attitude switched between "it's not my problem" and "you must have done it." At no time did I believe that they were actually going to do anything about it.
Two months later, when I was back in that town, I went to the same ATM, and the lock was still jimmied - it was closed, but obviously broken so that it would be a matter of prying with a screwdriver to open it again. I guess a couple of thousand bucks in cash and whatever private details can be gleaned from endorsed checks and deposit slips are unimportant to bancs of, um America.
Java stack traces in the console now appear with hyperlinks. When you place the mouse over a line in a stack trace, the pointer changes to the hand and the stack trace is underlined. Pressing the mouse button opens the associated Java source file and positions the cursor at the corresponding line.
I'm probably a big dork, but I've never seen this feature before, and I'm sure of some great uses for it! Downloading...
The first thing I (and many others - this is hardly original thought) think of is cost-shifting from advertisers to customers/consumers. Where a TV spot is clear-cut - the advertiser pays money to the station/network to buy a spot, and all the consumer "loses" out of the bargain is thirty seconds of "Who Wants to Marry This Guy For His Money," when it's a blasted fax, the person on the other end, who did nothing to deserve this, now has their fax machine tied up for several minutes; they have to pay for paper, toner, and disposal of the junk, which often enough has no relevance to their business.
With spam, more of the burden falls on the ISPs: bandwidth costs money, and a spam broadcast promising bigger penises directed at fifteen thousand randomname@domain.com chews hell out of bandwidth. I"ve seen this firsthand, and it isn't pretty. Then there's the issue of tech resources being diverted to deal with the problem: buying software to block spam, dealing with irritated customers who either got the spam or had an email falsely flagged, tracking down spammers, etc.
The first amendment is limited in the US - you can't yell out "fire" in a crowded theater, and you can't block the entrance to a business in protest of a policy. I'd posit that spam is very similar to the latter case, only the argument is even weaker in that a protester is at least making a moral point, while the spammer is only trying to make a fast buck.
What I'd really like to see is some way to prosecute people who use open mail relays to broadcast spam. Many of these people operate from within the US with impunity. I fail to see the difference between what they are doing and cracking, forgery, and DOS attacks.
Well, they did say that they've been using it since 1999. Which brings up an interesting point. Where using cookies to handle load balancing in 1999 seemed like a pretty neat idea (digital wristwatches), four years later, the idea is totally dated, as you've pointed out. Perhaps a "middle-of-the-road" solution would be to recognize the accellerated obsolescence inherent in technlology, and patent ideas related to software more appropriately - how's a four-year limit on software patents sound? Long enough for the developer to do whatever he wants with his/her ideas in the short term (I.e.: make lots of $$$), but short enough so that when the idea is released into the public domain, the ideas are still relevant, if dated.
Miguel, I respect, use, and enjoy your work, but I have to think you're dead wrong here. Sooner or later, the sheer number of idiotic little patents will become overwhelming - and the coder's ability to code around them will become more and more difficult, at least if he or she wants the code to be worth a damn. I know you've had some success working around certain patents, but even you've got to admit, sooner or later, too many foolish patents will pollute the codebase into decreased functionality.
Not to try to start an argument here, but believe me when I tell you that the OS and it's underpinnings have come a long, long way since 2001. I'm tempted to give it a try myself - gonna have to drag out the P III I've got laying about and see what happens:)
Well, aside from the 1337ness factor, probably the best thing I can think of is portability. Suppose, like me, your only Mac is an iBook 400 dual-USB. Totally kicks ass for network administration and client support, but I can tell you from long and painful experience that it's not much for compiling. On the other hand, my desktop box is a dual-Xeon monster that absolutely zips througth compiling - a vanilla linux kernel takes a couple of minutes on this box. Now, if I were running Darwin on it, and I wanted to port one of my favoriteapps onto it, it would be a hell of a lot less painful for me to do by setting the arch flags in the makefile and deal with all the debugging on a machine that takes less than a tenth of the time to do the compiles before packaging up the binary.
That's just one reason. I'm sure that there are others.
In the interest of full or false disclosure (you decide), I should let you all know that I'm not using v64, which I did not find at macrumors, and it does not have tabbed browsing, which I donot find to be the final feature which makes Safari not kick ass on the mac.
Had I known that these were seeds that Apple didn't want released, I would of course have downloaded them and used them. I would, after all, want to spoil a good thing
Windows is nothing but a very clumsy and poorly-implemented attempt to get a PC to pretend it's a Mac. If you had any doubts look at the Luna interface on XP, and then look at the Aqua interface on OS X, and then think about the fact that Aqua appeared on the market about a year before Luna.
Sure. Take a square. Make it just a tad darker than sky blue. Now put a grey bar at the bottom, with a crappy logo on the left and the word Start. (remember, you have to Start before you can Shut Down)
You will also notice a funny-looking lower-case 'e' somewhere. This is special software for your computer. Very special. Time-warp forward about three months. The blue square is now an annoying set of green tiles with gold trim, or a wierdly-distorted picture of someone's wife and kids. But it doesn't really matter because just about all you can see are random icons scattered haphazardly all over the place. Most of them came as a result of the funny 'e' software, and they are named things like "pics.scr" and "Brittney_SPears.mp3.exe. None of them do anything when you click on them, so you naturally download another to see if you can make that one work, too. But I digress...
Pretty much, that's the look of the thing after 3.1, at least until XP. To get a picture of XP in your head, you first have to be familiar with the gumdrop look of Mac OS X, which came before XP. Then, while holding the OS X desktop in your mind, send in some Tellytubbies, and have them run around, say gibberish, point to their belly buttons, and while they're at it, customize the desktop and control buttons very slightly to suit their own, um, needs. That's Windows XP, in a nutshell.
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Well, how about some research, then? Serious research. Just because there's one way to produce electricity from sunlight, doesn't mean that's the only way.
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LMAO
Interesting:
The site www.defibworld.com is running Apache on AIX.
Ah, hell, I have to day it, and moderators be damned!
Linus is God, and Linux is the best thing ever for anything
Okay, it isn't original, insightful, interesting, or almost anything else. But funny?
Jesus H. Christ! My head hurts! I much prefer those little windows that hide most of the EULA behind a scrollbar.
At what point does an EULA become unenforcable due to excessive complexity? I'm thinking not so much of FoxPro but, say, Windows XP Home Edition here - a software product aimed at everyone, not just developers, presumably working within large corporations which can afford legal departments to sort pieces of shit like the above EULA out.
My point is, I wonder if a court would side with Joe Luser who didn't understand salient points of an overly-complex EULA and got screwed and subsequently went to court over it. But IANAL. Any Ls out there want to speak to this one?
I actually had something like this happen once. I went to a drive-up ATM at a bank I once used, and the machine was literally unlocked - there was a sort of swing-door arrangement where the whole ATM would open on a hinge sort of like some switch stacks do, and it was broken open. I decided not to stick my card in the machine and instead drove away to a payphone and called the bank.
Amazingly, the people on the other end gave me attitude when I called to tell them that their ATM was broken open - the attitude switched between "it's not my problem" and "you must have done it." At no time did I believe that they were actually going to do anything about it.
Two months later, when I was back in that town, I went to the same ATM, and the lock was still jimmied - it was closed, but obviously broken so that it would be a matter of prying with a screwdriver to open it again. I guess a couple of thousand bucks in cash and whatever private details can be gleaned from endorsed checks and deposit slips are unimportant to bancs of, um America.
Date==1April2003
Had me going for a while there.
Ah, hell, and I thought I was going to get frist post! Oh, well.
Downloading...
The first thing I (and many others - this is hardly original thought) think of is cost-shifting from advertisers to customers/consumers. Where a TV spot is clear-cut - the advertiser pays money to the station/network to buy a spot, and all the consumer "loses" out of the bargain is thirty seconds of "Who Wants to Marry This Guy For His Money," when it's a blasted fax, the person on the other end, who did nothing to deserve this, now has their fax machine tied up for several minutes; they have to pay for paper, toner, and disposal of the junk, which often enough has no relevance to their business.
With spam, more of the burden falls on the ISPs: bandwidth costs money, and a spam broadcast promising bigger penises directed at fifteen thousand randomname@domain.com chews hell out of bandwidth. I"ve seen this firsthand, and it isn't pretty. Then there's the issue of tech resources being diverted to deal with the problem: buying software to block spam, dealing with irritated customers who either got the spam or had an email falsely flagged, tracking down spammers, etc.
The first amendment is limited in the US - you can't yell out "fire" in a crowded theater, and you can't block the entrance to a business in protest of a policy. I'd posit that spam is very similar to the latter case, only the argument is even weaker in that a protester is at least making a moral point, while the spammer is only trying to make a fast buck.
What I'd really like to see is some way to prosecute people who use open mail relays to broadcast spam. Many of these people operate from within the US with impunity. I fail to see the difference between what they are doing and cracking, forgery, and DOS attacks.
Ah, you twirp! I admit being fooled. /me is big dope today
Admittedly, what fooled me was the glossy happy-speak so characteristic of Miguel, so nice job.
Well, they did say that they've been using it since 1999. Which brings up an interesting point. Where using cookies to handle load balancing in 1999 seemed like a pretty neat idea (digital wristwatches), four years later, the idea is totally dated, as you've pointed out. Perhaps a "middle-of-the-road" solution would be to recognize the accellerated obsolescence inherent in technlology, and patent ideas related to software more appropriately - how's a four-year limit on software patents sound? Long enough for the developer to do whatever he wants with his/her ideas in the short term (I.e.: make lots of $$$), but short enough so that when the idea is released into the public domain, the ideas are still relevant, if dated.
Miguel, I respect, use, and enjoy your work, but I have to think you're dead wrong here. Sooner or later, the sheer number of idiotic little patents will become overwhelming - and the coder's ability to code around them will become more and more difficult, at least if he or she wants the code to be worth a damn. I know you've had some success working around certain patents, but even you've got to admit, sooner or later, too many foolish patents will pollute the codebase into decreased functionality.
Not to try to start an argument here, but believe me when I tell you that the OS and it's underpinnings have come a long, long way since 2001. I'm tempted to give it a try myself - gonna have to drag out the P III I've got laying about and see what happens :)
Well, aside from the 1337ness factor, probably the best thing I can think of is portability. Suppose, like me, your only Mac is an iBook 400 dual-USB. Totally kicks ass for network administration and client support, but I can tell you from long and painful experience that it's not much for compiling. On the other hand, my desktop box is a dual-Xeon monster that absolutely zips througth compiling - a vanilla linux kernel takes a couple of minutes on this box. Now, if I were running Darwin on it, and I wanted to port one of my favorite apps onto it, it would be a hell of a lot less painful for me to do by setting the arch flags in the makefile and deal with all the debugging on a machine that takes less than a tenth of the time to do the compiles before packaging up the binary.
That's just one reason. I'm sure that there are others.
In the interest of full or false disclosure (you decide), I should let you all know that I'm not using v64, which I did not find at macrumors, and it does not have tabbed browsing, which I donot find to be the final feature which makes Safari not kick ass on the mac.
Had I known that these were seeds that Apple didn't want released, I would of course have downloaded them and used them. I would, after all, want to spoil a good thing
Move the nots around to make the above true.
Heh, it's been said before, and it's true IMHO:
Windows is nothing but a very clumsy and poorly-implemented attempt to get a PC to pretend it's a Mac. If you had any doubts look at the Luna interface on XP, and then look at the Aqua interface on OS X, and then think about the fact that Aqua appeared on the market about a year before Luna.
Sure. Take a square. Make it just a tad darker than sky blue. Now put a grey bar at the bottom, with a crappy logo on the left and the word Start. (remember, you have to Start before you can Shut Down)
You will also notice a funny-looking lower-case 'e' somewhere. This is special software for your computer. Very special. Time-warp forward about three months. The blue square is now an annoying set of green tiles with gold trim, or a wierdly-distorted picture of someone's wife and kids. But it doesn't really matter because just about all you can see are random icons scattered haphazardly all over the place. Most of them came as a result of the funny 'e' software, and they are named things like "pics.scr" and "Brittney_SPears.mp3.exe. None of them do anything when you click on them, so you naturally download another to see if you can make that one work, too. But I digress...
Pretty much, that's the look of the thing after 3.1, at least until XP. To get a picture of XP in your head, you first have to be familiar with the gumdrop look of Mac OS X, which came before XP. Then, while holding the OS X desktop in your mind, send in some Tellytubbies, and have them run around, say gibberish, point to their belly buttons, and while they're at it, customize the desktop and control buttons very slightly to suit their own, um, needs. That's Windows XP, in a nutshell.
The preceeding comments were brought to you by the letter G and the Number 3.
All your face..
are belong to John Poindexter! I fell for it too.
From the Netcraft link:
mod_bwlimited/1.0 PHP/4.3.1
Looks like it's working perfectly. They probably have to pay through the nose to their hosting company if throughput exceeds some arbitrary limit.
Heh, no doubt. First, I was somewhat startled to see this on the front page, but then it just went sideways
:)
I've never blown up my database myself. Honest
For a while now, Netcraft has reported Wal-Mart as running IIS 5.0 on Linux or Solaris :) See for yourself
Well, how about some research, then? Serious research. Just because there's one way to produce electricity from sunlight, doesn't mean that's the only way.