Updating hints is a one-line cronjob that you can run weekly or monthly. How hard is that to set up while you're setting up your DNS in the first place?
Of course you couldn't possibly have considered installing some other jabber server, could you? I mean its not as if ejabberd failed to warn you up front that it depended on Java, now did it? But you went ahead anyway... And now you're carping about the dependency...
Of the alleged billion disks, no doubt the majority of them are now defunct. Dead. Gone to the Big Backup in The Sky.
So what becomes of them? Landfill? Recycled? Shipped to poor schools in 3rd-world countries where they become a SEP?
What is the cost of dead-disk handling, and was it factored into the storage-cost numbers? I mean, when it comes to nukes, we sure as hell factor in the cost of handling the waste product, if not hte cost of decommissioning the reactor at the end of its lifespan, so why not the same measure for disk drives?
"On a clear disk you can seek forever"
--/usr/bin/fortune
I'd like to say nationalism is the new evil, but, unfortunately it's been around for as long as there has been nations. Absolutely right! And the inescapable conclusion is that the concept of "nation" is the inherent evil.
All I see is a link to some news article about Google hiring this DoJ person. Nothing at all to an article suggesting that the USDoJ is stonewalling EFF as suggested by the summary.
Indicating that the reporter writing the article doesn't have a clue, really. Given the guy's technical background and abilities, I'd be inclined to believe that he does understand the difference between "space" and "orbit", and might even be a bit pissed at the reporter's confusion of the two.
Free (as in beer) doesn't really represent a value proposition if you've "pirated" your non-Free software anyway.
The message that needs to be gotten across is "Free AND Legal". I've had people express complete disbelief in my claim that they can have Legal Copies of software for free (beer) -- to the point where they were pretty sure I was lying or making it up.
What I really, really want from OOo is a cleanup of the code to the point where merely-mortal developers like myself can actually do something useful with it. As it is, the codebase is just this great big hairy ball of stuff -- completely unapproachable unless you have someone willing to fork out a paycheck for you to bang on it full time.
Far too many open-source projects miss the point that one of their major "features" is clean code, design and architecture documentation; a big part of the "user base" are the people who might want to live (sometimes) inside the code. That means you have to keep the barrier to entry low for the programmer who is a noob to your codebase. (We could talk about how some OS projects lack developers who are clued enough to actually write clean code or design decently, but we won't go there;-)
Until a real and deep codebase cleanup happens OOo is "open-source" in name only as far as I am concerned.
I dunno... How can you claim the record companies are not creative? Their accounting practices are legendary for breaking new ground in advanced mathematics, economics and fantasy!
And while we're talking about flawed stats, lets take a look at
On the internet as a whole that's fine: like 80% of users run IE.
Really? In the same paragraph we're told that IE users are only 25% of/. traffic. On the several websites I run, I see a roughly 50-50 split between IE and FF, with Opera and Safari managing to mop up perhaps 5% between them. And these are not tech websites in any sense.
So where the hell does the notion come from? Has anybody actually measured recently? (Need I say, "With some real attempt to eliminate sources of bias.")
The problem is that -- somehow -- the corps have ended up with more and better rights than ordinary humans.
Let's see, Kill Thousands By Chemical Poisoning in Bhopal, get a fine. A slap on the wrist. An ordinary human would have been made to suffer the most severe punishment legally available in the country having jursidiction -- death, or life imprisonment. A corp? Wrist-slap!
Let's see: Crash a loaded oil tanker into the coastline, fuck up hundreds of kilometres of the coast and sea-life, and what do you get? Wrist-slapping accompanies by Finger Wagging, and get told to do some token cleanup. Won't help the ecology of that coastline for the next couple of decades, but hey! its a corp that did it.
Let's see: Get copyright extended to forever. Who benefits? I mean, an ordinary human is (barring/. fantasy miracle medical cure) sooner or later going to die, so eternal copyright doesn't really mean squat to us. But to a corp?
See the basic difference is that we ordinary people can be locked up, physically threatened with Nasty Stuff that we fear, and ultimately we die. None of this applies to corps.
From afar they look like a great big hairy Bear, but close-up they're just a huge nest of cockroaches.
They have to be taken down. Brought down to a level close to where they were when the concept got going back in the 17th Century or so; a level where they are severely restricted in how long they exist and what they are allowed to do. For the sake of our own humanity, in the face of our own mortality, in recognition of our unique individuality, they have to be taken down.
Not to mention some consistency in the stats, being able to stay logged in across more than two pages and perhaps performance improvements in feed fetching.
Honestly, I cannot see much point in using FB; the pain almost outweighs the benefits. The blogs that use FB for feed handling are all incredibly slow and unreliable to load in my feedreader. Perhaps Google will be able to throw a bit more hardware and bandwidth at solving that one for them, now.
They simply cannot keep login sessions consistent across pages; click on a link to see a different blog's stats, and WHOA I'm being asked to log in again. Sometimes it just thrashes between the one page I want to see, the login landing page and the login page. Those days its best to just give up and spend the time contemplating how to write the competition that they so sorely need.
Then there's the bogus, unreliable "stats" they give. One page says x visits; then next says x + deltaX (where deltaX definitely != 0).
With a little luck Google will just fold FB into analytics and Google Reader (or something) and then kill what remains outright.
I can emphatically assure you not! I know for fact that discussion on open-sourcing (at least) Solaris has been under intense internal debate within Sun for at least nine years, Java perhaps slightly less, but still a long time. This has not been some snap decision by the powers that be in Sun; it has been a long, intensive, often painful, wrangle.
And No! I don't work for Sun -- just happen to have known and worked with a few key people in within Sun at fortuitous points in time.
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No. This time around he was luckily wearing a blessed Amulet of Life Saving!
Updating hints is a one-line cronjob that you can run weekly or monthly. How hard is that to set up while you're setting up your DNS in the first place?
Actually that's not **AA, but ??AA or, even better, (MP|RI)AA though I suppose I would allow [MR][PI]AA to pass...
Ah, so you're the one person who hit my site without Java enabled...
Of course you couldn't possibly have considered installing some other jabber server, could you? I mean its not as if ejabberd failed to warn you up front that it depended on Java, now did it? But you went ahead anyway... And now you're carping about the dependency...
Stop whining and get over it.
Of the alleged billion disks, no doubt the majority of them are now defunct. Dead. Gone to the Big Backup in The Sky.
So what becomes of them? Landfill? Recycled? Shipped to poor schools in 3rd-world countries where they become a SEP?
What is the cost of dead-disk handling, and was it factored into the storage-cost numbers? I mean, when it comes to nukes, we sure as hell factor in the cost of handling the waste product, if not hte cost of decommissioning the reactor at the end of its lifespan, so why not the same measure for disk drives?
"On a clear disk you can seek forever"
--/usr/bin/fortune
Yet another craptcha system that I fial. What sort of rubbish do you listen to?
...it's actually "Lisp is Stupid Parentheses"...
All I see is a link to some news article about Google hiring this DoJ person. Nothing at all to an article suggesting that the USDoJ is stonewalling EFF as suggested by the summary.
Enquiring minds wanna know!
Indicating that the reporter writing the article doesn't have a clue, really. Given the guy's technical background and abilities, I'd be inclined to believe that he does understand the difference between "space" and "orbit", and might even be a bit pissed at the reporter's confusion of the two.
+1 Insightful
but yeah... that's Canada! :-P
Free (as in beer) doesn't really represent a value proposition if you've "pirated" your non-Free software anyway.
The message that needs to be gotten across is "Free AND Legal". I've had people express complete disbelief in my claim that they can have Legal Copies of software for free (beer) -- to the point where they were pretty sure I was lying or making it up.
http://web.archive.org/web/19970418161616/http://www7.yahoo.com/
Good point about it originating as closed code. Fact remains, though, that the biggest missing feature in OOo is a code cleanup.
Sounds to me more like a scheme to squeeze money out of software producers: "Give us teh money if ya wants yer program whilelisted."
What I really, really want from OOo is a cleanup of the code to the point where merely-mortal developers like myself can actually do something useful with it. As it is, the codebase is just this great big hairy ball of stuff -- completely unapproachable unless you have someone willing to fork out a paycheck for you to bang on it full time.
;-)
Far too many open-source projects miss the point that one of their major "features" is clean code, design and architecture documentation; a big part of the "user base" are the people who might want to live (sometimes) inside the code. That means you have to keep the barrier to entry low for the programmer who is a noob to your codebase. (We could talk about how some OS projects lack developers who are clued enough to actually write clean code or design decently, but we won't go there
Until a real and deep codebase cleanup happens OOo is "open-source" in name only as far as I am concerned.
I dunno... How can you claim the record companies are not creative? Their accounting practices are legendary for breaking new ground in advanced mathematics, economics and fantasy!
Really? In the same paragraph we're told that IE users are only 25% of
So where the hell does the notion come from? Has anybody actually measured recently? (Need I say, "With some real attempt to eliminate sources of bias.")
The problem is that -- somehow -- the corps have ended up with more and better rights than ordinary humans.
/. fantasy miracle medical cure) sooner or later going to die, so eternal copyright doesn't really mean squat to us. But to a corp?
Let's see, Kill Thousands By Chemical Poisoning in Bhopal, get a fine. A slap on the wrist. An ordinary human would have been made to suffer the most severe punishment legally available in the country having jursidiction -- death, or life imprisonment. A corp? Wrist-slap!
Let's see: Crash a loaded oil tanker into the coastline, fuck up hundreds of kilometres of the coast and sea-life, and what do you get? Wrist-slapping accompanies by Finger Wagging, and get told to do some token cleanup. Won't help the ecology of that coastline for the next couple of decades, but hey! its a corp that did it.
Let's see: Get copyright extended to forever. Who benefits? I mean, an ordinary human is (barring
See the basic difference is that we ordinary people can be locked up, physically threatened with Nasty Stuff that we fear, and ultimately we die. None of this applies to corps.
From afar they look like a great big hairy Bear, but close-up they're just a huge nest of cockroaches.
They have to be taken down. Brought down to a level close to where they were when the concept got going back in the 17th Century or so; a level where they are severely restricted in how long they exist and what they are allowed to do. For the sake of our own humanity, in the face of our own mortality, in recognition of our unique individuality, they have to be taken down.
Oil.
Not complex. Not many reasons. Just oil.
The fact that there are other, collateral, "benefits" to America is just "happy fallout".
Not to mention some consistency in the stats, being able to stay logged in across more than two pages and perhaps performance improvements in feed fetching.
Honestly, I cannot see much point in using FB; the pain almost outweighs the benefits. The blogs that use FB for feed handling are all incredibly slow and unreliable to load in my feedreader. Perhaps Google will be able to throw a bit more hardware and bandwidth at solving that one for them, now.
They simply cannot keep login sessions consistent across pages; click on a link to see a different blog's stats, and WHOA I'm being asked to log in again. Sometimes it just thrashes between the one page I want to see, the login landing page and the login page. Those days its best to just give up and spend the time contemplating how to write the competition that they so sorely need.
Then there's the bogus, unreliable "stats" they give. One page says x visits; then next says x + deltaX (where deltaX definitely != 0).
With a little luck Google will just fold FB into analytics and Google Reader (or something) and then kill what remains outright.
"a last ditch attempt"?
I can emphatically assure you not! I know for fact that discussion on open-sourcing (at least) Solaris has been under intense internal debate within Sun for at least nine years, Java perhaps slightly less, but still a long time. This has not been some snap decision by the powers that be in Sun; it has been a long, intensive, often painful, wrangle.
And No! I don't work for Sun -- just happen to have known and worked with a few key people in within Sun at fortuitous points in time.