Heh, most creative use of a starbucks sign i've seen: The "star" and part of the B has been painted over in the same green, and the "c" and "ee" of coffee, leaving "Fuck off"
But i digress. What an overly expensive with no real returns project.
The whole idea behind the record company is the "trust" that which promotes and pays bands. Granted, they don't pay enough to bands, and I think $20 is ridiculous for the cost of a CD. Charging $5-$10 a month for napster which goes into a large fund (much as the one that exists when you buy blank videotapes...) which pays out to the companies, who then distribute it among the artists. How else would you get it to individual artists? Keep track of them and their locations? impossible!
What kind of crack do you smoke? Do you know the taxation situation of every other western country? If you knew, the U.S. has the LOWEST taxes of all the western countries around.
No offense to the rest of the world, but why do you think americans typically have much more luxury items than the rest of the world. Go to canada, you won't see many lexus or infinities there. Lots of little GM cars all over. Why? Government takes a huge portion of your income. The same is true in england, france and most european countries.
Before bitching about the american situation, get a clue about the rest of the world and THEN decide if america is such a bad place after all.
its a cover-our-ass clause.. most ISP's have the exact same thing in their ToS's.. in case someone complains or threatens lawsuit, they can use that to terminate the account being complained about. These rules are generally unenforced unless they need to be enforced.
What really annoys me though is how ISP's can demand you NOT run servers on your own computer. An ISP should have no right to dictate what I can run on my computer and what I can't, provided that it has no negative impact on their network. An ftp server that pumps out 50 gigs of files a day is understandable, but my ISP has complained about my hobby webserver which puts out under 1 *meg* a day. Napster hurts them alot more than my webserver, yet napster is fine to use...
I don't see the section that prohibits viewing of porno.
As for port scans I see port scans being used to preclude a DOS attack as being banned, but what about an innocent port scan (I occasionally do them to test security on systems I own across the internet...)? The text of the acceptable use policy makes port scans used for a DoS attack unacceptable (as well it should), but port scans in general do not appear to be outlawed.
This is of course assuming that the village elders can read english. Most cannot read, fewer read english. And have the money to order genetically engineered seeds.
Since they have none of this, it does them absolutely NO GOOD to have a computer and an internet connection. Instead of shipping these people computers, we should instead ship them PEOPLE to teach and heal them. I agree, building schools is good. But sending computers is stupid.
Bill Gates (yes yes, i know everyone here hates him..get over it) said it best. "When a mother brings her sick child in and sees the computer, she will ask, can this save my son?" No, no it cannot. Vaccinations and doctors can save her son. Clean water and fresh food can help. People who speak these people's languages can help. But the computer is a long way from becoming what these people truly need.
2/3rds of the world get by just fine without a telephone. What in the world do they need a computer for?
I think before becoming the ceo of tech company...
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that donates computer equipment to impoverished villages, that the CEOs should be made to do some work for the Peace Corps first...THEN decide if a computer is what most of the world really needs.
Who needs food, medicine and clean water when we have computers, the miracle cure for everything!
12 year old Bgot Thai says "Even though my belly is swollen with hunger and my joints ache from malaria, I can now post on slashdot, until I become too weak to move my crippled fingers to type. Thank you, america"
SCSI and firewire already have such controls built into them, and no controversy exists there. Another incident of mundane happenings being blown waaaay out of proportion...
The computer is no replacement for genuine social interaction, which a "real" school provides. Social interaction is just as important as academic knowledge. If anything its more important. What good is all your knowledge if you dont have the social skills to convey it to others?
Keeping kids out of school earlier and earlier is ridiculous. Can you learn how to share through a computer? Can you learn manners? Things that are extremely important to the way you develop can ONLY be taught by in-person interaction. Teaching them purely through a computer is ridiculous. The computer is a useful learning TOOL..but it is no replacement for genuine interaction. You would not build a house with nothing more than a hammer.
This reminds me of the conference about how companies can help 3rd world countries by donating computer systems, and bill gates giving a speech on "How is this going to help when those people don't even have enough food or medicine to live? A woman will see this computer and say 'But can it save my sick child?'".. computers are not the solution to everything.
heh as a JSP programmer, I know of this. It's something thats very tempting (and in some cases, not all that wrong in my opinion...) to do. If your code has *any* kind of displaying to do, it should be in the JSP. In fact, the only things i would relegate to beans are:
A. often reused code (such as creating a connection to the database)
B. Often reused code that does not generate output.
Beans are a pain in the ass. (ever forgotten to recompile when you've changed them? then spent half an hour hunting down that bug you fixed..) whereas jsp's recompile automatically. *shrugs* i see both sides of the situation, and its plain incorrect to say that one and ONLY one way is the right one.
I think everything about virtual communities can be summed up as this:
Humans are social creatures. They enjoy interacting. It's instinctive.
The online world isn't like the real world where people can just meet. It requires tools to be made. Ever since messaging on systems was invented, people have used the online world for communication.
Most community sites on the internet are commercial driven. There are mass-market sites like egroups and what not that offer cookie-cutter communities. These are terrible.
precisely. form posts straight to the servlet rather than a page, the servlet processings things in a millisecond or two, and then does a response.sendRedirect to a confirmation page. Most servlets dont do any displays as it's a pain in the ass. (which is why JSPs were invented..so programmers could write display servlets easily)
i work on software that i need to be deployed by average non-admin non-programmer people. I got tomcat to see if it would work (as it was a new version of servlet and jsp implementation).. it was terrible. I had to recompile it each time i wanted it to run, it couldnt be started automatically by apache and was hard to configure. I went back to good, fast (though slightly outdated) implementation using JServ and GNUJSP...
Anyways, the speed of a jsp and servlet depends on the software serving it. I've seen some software out there (orion i believe it was called?) that specs up to the speed of php serving.
Think ASPs, only more detailed and in java. While ASP takes care of alot of things for you (personally, i dont like that. I like to know how my sessions identify users...), JSP requires a decent knowledge of java. You don't really need servlet experience to get something out of them (I didnt when i started), though i can easily see where it would help (response and request objects abounds if you want to do anything beyond displaying the current time...)
by far the most popular site i can think of that uses JSP is shockwave.com. I'd love to know what their setup is... software, servers etc..
Servlets are one of the most unrecognized things in the world. thousands of site's use them for backend processing but nobody knows it. It's that transparent.
the grinch is a story by dr. seuss, it's basically an anti-commercial message (were seuss alive today, he never would let that ironical abomination of a movie be made..instead his dumb widow wife more or less got talked into it).
Anyways, the grinch goes around stealing presents and ruining xmas and eventually gives them back after being taught the spirit of it all..or something. i havent read the book since i was little.
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Heh, most creative use of a starbucks sign i've seen: The "star" and part of the B has been painted over in the same green, and the "c" and "ee" of coffee, leaving "Fuck off"
But i digress. What an overly expensive with no real returns project.
The whole idea behind the record company is the "trust" that which promotes and pays bands. Granted, they don't pay enough to bands, and I think $20 is ridiculous for the cost of a CD. Charging $5-$10 a month for napster which goes into a large fund (much as the one that exists when you buy blank videotapes...) which pays out to the companies, who then distribute it among the artists. How else would you get it to individual artists? Keep track of them and their locations? impossible!
No offense to the rest of the world, but why do you think americans typically have much more luxury items than the rest of the world. Go to canada, you won't see many lexus or infinities there. Lots of little GM cars all over. Why? Government takes a huge portion of your income. The same is true in england, france and most european countries.
Before bitching about the american situation, get a clue about the rest of the world and THEN decide if america is such a bad place after all.
actually i figured the slashdot nazis would lynch me for criticizing them...
What really annoys me though is how ISP's can demand you NOT run servers on your own computer. An ISP should have no right to dictate what I can run on my computer and what I can't, provided that it has no negative impact on their network. An ftp server that pumps out 50 gigs of files a day is understandable, but my ISP has complained about my hobby webserver which puts out under 1 *meg* a day. Napster hurts them alot more than my webserver, yet napster is fine to use...
This will hurt my karma but it had to be said.
As for port scans I see port scans being used to preclude a DOS attack as being banned, but what about an innocent port scan (I occasionally do them to test security on systems I own across the internet...)? The text of the acceptable use policy makes port scans used for a DoS attack unacceptable (as well it should), but port scans in general do not appear to be outlawed.
i love the cheesy aspects. flying is the only way to fight ;)
I would consider an engineer a great deal more knowledgeable than I. Why don't you ask him yourself, since he's the one who made the "claim".
if anyone knows of a place showing it, please tell...
Since they have none of this, it does them absolutely NO GOOD to have a computer and an internet connection. Instead of shipping these people computers, we should instead ship them PEOPLE to teach and heal them. I agree, building schools is good. But sending computers is stupid. Bill Gates (yes yes, i know everyone here hates him..get over it) said it best. "When a mother brings her sick child in and sees the computer, she will ask, can this save my son?" No, no it cannot. Vaccinations and doctors can save her son. Clean water and fresh food can help. People who speak these people's languages can help. But the computer is a long way from becoming what these people truly need.
2/3rds of the world get by just fine without a telephone. What in the world do they need a computer for?
that donates computer equipment to impoverished villages, that the CEOs should be made to do some work for the Peace Corps first...THEN decide if a computer is what most of the world really needs.
12 year old Bgot Thai says "Even though my belly is swollen with hunger and my joints ache from malaria, I can now post on slashdot, until I become too weak to move my crippled fingers to type. Thank you, america"
"FYI, SCSI and IEEE1394 have already approved something similar without controversy."
For those not in the know, IEEE1394 is the real name of firewire.
SCSI and firewire already have such controls built into them, and no controversy exists there. Another incident of mundane happenings being blown waaaay out of proportion...
Keeping kids out of school earlier and earlier is ridiculous. Can you learn how to share through a computer? Can you learn manners? Things that are extremely important to the way you develop can ONLY be taught by in-person interaction. Teaching them purely through a computer is ridiculous. The computer is a useful learning TOOL..but it is no replacement for genuine interaction. You would not build a house with nothing more than a hammer.
This reminds me of the conference about how companies can help 3rd world countries by donating computer systems, and bill gates giving a speech on "How is this going to help when those people don't even have enough food or medicine to live? A woman will see this computer and say 'But can it save my sick child?'".. computers are not the solution to everything.
A. often reused code (such as creating a connection to the database)
B. Often reused code that does not generate output.
Beans are a pain in the ass. (ever forgotten to recompile when you've changed them? then spent half an hour hunting down that bug you fixed..) whereas jsp's recompile automatically. *shrugs* i see both sides of the situation, and its plain incorrect to say that one and ONLY one way is the right one.
Humans are social creatures. They enjoy interacting. It's instinctive.
The online world isn't like the real world where people can just meet. It requires tools to be made. Ever since messaging on systems was invented, people have used the online world for communication.
Most community sites on the internet are commercial driven. There are mass-market sites like egroups and what not that offer cookie-cutter communities. These are terrible.
Tools such as COG (demo website linked to) may change all that in a few months. I sure hope it does.
java is the standard language of teaching in american universities and high schools now.
And by like token, i guess "real" websites dont use perl or php either. Zealot.
precisely. form posts straight to the servlet rather than a page, the servlet processings things in a millisecond or two, and then does a response.sendRedirect to a confirmation page. Most servlets dont do any displays as it's a pain in the ass. (which is why JSPs were invented..so programmers could write display servlets easily)
Anyways, the speed of a jsp and servlet depends on the software serving it. I've seen some software out there (orion i believe it was called?) that specs up to the speed of php serving.
Think ASPs, only more detailed and in java. While ASP takes care of alot of things for you (personally, i dont like that. I like to know how my sessions identify users...), JSP requires a decent knowledge of java. You don't really need servlet experience to get something out of them (I didnt when i started), though i can easily see where it would help (response and request objects abounds if you want to do anything beyond displaying the current time...)
Servlets are one of the most unrecognized things in the world. thousands of site's use them for backend processing but nobody knows it. It's that transparent.
Anyways, the grinch goes around stealing presents and ruining xmas and eventually gives them back after being taught the spirit of it all..or something. i havent read the book since i was little.