I looked a Mambo a few years ago and the code was pretty much as bad as I could imagine. It was so poorly written that I didn't even install it to try it out.
Drupal, on the other hand, is extremely well written as Dries is very strict about submissions to the core. I know Drupal inside and out and that's only possible because it's very well written and documented. An entire site is dedicated just the automatically generated API documentation.
I imagine a PBX like asterisk would let you block incoming calls from any particular numbers, assuming the caller ID info is provided.
I'm surprised this isn't legally harassment. They're unsolicited calls costing you time, and therefore money. What if they were to fill up your lines so no one else could call into your company? Is a phone DDOS attack legal?
How about putting up a short message to all callers that you have the right to bill for phone time. Don't bill your customers but bill these recruiters for thousands of dollars an hour.
"Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just an excercise [sic] in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but you don't actually get anything DONE. Nobody has ever shown that it made sense in the real world. It's basically just much simpler and saner to have a function call interface, and for operations that are non-local it gets transparently _promoted_ to a message. There's no reason why it should be considered to be a message when it starts out."
A single company holding a massive data mine containign cross-referenced information about the browsing habits and search terms of loads of people is another step toward a less free internet.
How? If the single company isn't an ISP then they aren't in control of access. If you're worried about the government getting this information to track people then the issue is the government, not the one company holding the data.
I understand your Star Wars reference, but who is this "Jordan" that you speak of and what game does he play? Why would his shoes wear down from playing a video game?
When I interview people for very technical programming jobs and the interviewee focuses too much on managerial opportunities it's definitely a red flag. A simple question about moving up the ladder is fine, of course. But if the intent is only to work up to management that's usually the sign of someone who's not going to enjoy the programming, and therefore not be very good at it.
Google recently redid the presentation of the statistics service they aquired (Google Analytics), making it worse.
The new analytics interface is FAR superior to the prior. I can get more information out it very quickly compared to the original. I can also dig deeper into particular characteristics of the stats what weren't possible before, or at least not easily found. Even just the new mini-graphs on the default from page are immensely helpful.
You're the first person I've heard complain about the new interface.
Ever work in a financial company? Some live almost entirely off of their scripted Excel spreadsheets. There is a lot of value in allowing spreadsheets to support scripting. But it's the abilities of those scripting languages that's a real problem. Just like JavaScript needs to be limited in scope within a web browser, so too should the spreadsheet scripts. Unfortunately these office suite scripts are often used for things like disk access to import data.
Threats don't work when they also say they won't follow through. See, for a threat to actually make an impact there must be a belief that it will have consequences. Not only are open source developers showing no fear, Microsoft is publicly saying they won't follow through (which will result in very bad press if they do sue any time soon).
So other than the memory cache, what features could be stripped from FF to make it leaner and faster? I know nothing of its internals, but without any extensions it doesn't seem to have many wasteful features.
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Yeah, I agree. I think the choice of going after Dell is mostly publicity. NY (and probably most states) like to go after the big fish to set an example for the rest.
But whatever the motive, note that they don't usually raise high profile cases like this without believing they will win. They must have at least a little valid evidence to back it all up.
As the other replier hints, the reason developers outside Microsoft ignore Microsoft's UI guidelines is because the developers inside Microsoft ignore them.
I think most parents would agree that we do halfway expect the teachers and administrators of that school to act more or less like responsible adults.
My girlfriend is a permanent substitute teacher. Every week she deals with a variety of teachers and assistants. In more than a few of the schools she's worked in the teachers are more immature than the students. The stories she tells are just ridiculous. After hearing all the stories of how irresponsible and manipulative the teachers are I'm afraid to eventually send our kids to any school.
Many parents are failing their responsibility to properly raise their kids, expecting teachers to take care of everything. But the teachers aren't even responsible enough to handle the basics of teaching properly (problem solving and reasoning skills instead of just memorization, for example). It's a really scary situation when kids are being mishandled by adults at home and at school.
So a judge has never thrown out evidence in a federal case because of an unconstitutional wire tap? Are you kidding?
Care to come up with a relevant example and some case law where a court has upheld a signing statement which is only intended to exempt the president from the signed law? Or will it just be "I'm right and you're wrong because I'm smarter than you and you don't can't possibly understand the constitution"?
Those who don't believe that the law which applies to everyone actually applies to everyone are dangerous. Unfortunately a few of those people are in positions of power.
clarify - verb 1 - make (a statement or situation) less confused and more clearly comprehensible 2 - [often as adj. ] ( clarified) melt (butter) in order to separate out the impurities.
Claiming a law doesn't apply to someone, when the law clearly does, is not clarification. Those signing statements are objections.
The President insists that since he has wartime authorization...
Except he doesn't. Congress hasn't declared war. By his logic every president in the last 30 years could spy on Americans without warrant because we're in a "war on drugs." We're not legally at war until declared by Congress. We're just technically at war, and reality has no bearing in the legal system.
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I looked a Mambo a few years ago and the code was pretty much as bad as I could imagine. It was so poorly written that I didn't even install it to try it out.
Drupal, on the other hand, is extremely well written as Dries is very strict about submissions to the core. I know Drupal inside and out and that's only possible because it's very well written and documented. An entire site is dedicated just the automatically generated API documentation.
I imagine a PBX like asterisk would let you block incoming calls from any particular numbers, assuming the caller ID info is provided.
I'm surprised this isn't legally harassment. They're unsolicited calls costing you time, and therefore money. What if they were to fill up your lines so no one else could call into your company? Is a phone DDOS attack legal?
How about putting up a short message to all callers that you have the right to bill for phone time. Don't bill your customers but bill these recruiters for thousands of dollars an hour.
"Message passing as the fundamental operation of the OS is just
an excercise [sic] in computer science masturbation. It may feel good, but
you don't actually get anything DONE. Nobody has ever shown that it
made sense in the real world. It's basically just much simpler and
saner to have a function call interface, and for operations that are
non-local it gets transparently _promoted_ to a message. There's no
reason why it should be considered to be a message when it starts out."
- Linus Torvalds, 1999
A single company holding a massive data mine containign cross-referenced information about the browsing habits and search terms of loads of people is another step toward a less free internet.
How? If the single company isn't an ISP then they aren't in control of access. If you're worried about the government getting this information to track people then the issue is the government, not the one company holding the data.
I understand your Star Wars reference, but who is this "Jordan" that you speak of and what game does he play? Why would his shoes wear down from playing a video game?
When I interview people for very technical programming jobs and the interviewee focuses too much on managerial opportunities it's definitely a red flag. A simple question about moving up the ladder is fine, of course. But if the intent is only to work up to management that's usually the sign of someone who's not going to enjoy the programming, and therefore not be very good at it.
Google recently redid the presentation of the statistics service they aquired (Google Analytics), making it worse.
The new analytics interface is FAR superior to the prior. I can get more information out it very quickly compared to the original. I can also dig deeper into particular characteristics of the stats what weren't possible before, or at least not easily found. Even just the new mini-graphs on the default from page are immensely helpful.
You're the first person I've heard complain about the new interface.
I give it about 9 months before something ala SOBig/Blaster hits the *nix scene...
You just conceived it? Congratulations! Do you have a name picked out?
Ever work in a financial company? Some live almost entirely off of their scripted Excel spreadsheets. There is a lot of value in allowing spreadsheets to support scripting. But it's the abilities of those scripting languages that's a real problem. Just like JavaScript needs to be limited in scope within a web browser, so too should the spreadsheet scripts. Unfortunately these office suite scripts are often used for things like disk access to import data.
Threats don't work when they also say they won't follow through. See, for a threat to actually make an impact there must be a belief that it will have consequences. Not only are open source developers showing no fear, Microsoft is publicly saying they won't follow through (which will result in very bad press if they do sue any time soon).
So no, just the threat isn't enough.
Very interesting considering what some are predicting for the iPhone.
So other than the memory cache, what features could be stripped from FF to make it leaner and faster? I know nothing of its internals, but without any extensions it doesn't seem to have many wasteful features.
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/consumer/consumer_issu
Yeah, I agree. I think the choice of going after Dell is mostly publicity. NY (and probably most states) like to go after the big fish to set an example for the rest.
But whatever the motive, note that they don't usually raise high profile cases like this without believing they will win. They must have at least a little valid evidence to back it all up.
As the other replier hints, the reason developers outside Microsoft ignore Microsoft's UI guidelines is because the developers inside Microsoft ignore them.
I think most parents would agree that we do halfway expect the teachers and administrators of that school to act more or less like responsible adults.
My girlfriend is a permanent substitute teacher. Every week she deals with a variety of teachers and assistants. In more than a few of the schools she's worked in the teachers are more immature than the students. The stories she tells are just ridiculous. After hearing all the stories of how irresponsible and manipulative the teachers are I'm afraid to eventually send our kids to any school.
Many parents are failing their responsibility to properly raise their kids, expecting teachers to take care of everything. But the teachers aren't even responsible enough to handle the basics of teaching properly (problem solving and reasoning skills instead of just memorization, for example). It's a really scary situation when kids are being mishandled by adults at home and at school.
So a judge has never thrown out evidence in a federal case because of an unconstitutional wire tap? Are you kidding?
Care to come up with a relevant example and some case law where a court has upheld a signing statement which is only intended to exempt the president from the signed law? Or will it just be "I'm right and you're wrong because I'm smarter than you and you don't can't possibly understand the constitution"?
Oh, I see. The law says one thing but the policy is to disobey it. And that's ok. Thanks for clarifying the clarification.
Those who don't believe that the law which applies to everyone actually applies to everyone are dangerous. Unfortunately a few of those people are in positions of power.
If it were truly a violation of the law, someone could do something about it.
Correct. Congress could impeach. They choose not to.
clarify - verb
1 - make (a statement or situation) less confused and more clearly comprehensible
2 - [often as adj. ] ( clarified) melt (butter) in order to separate out the impurities.
Claiming a law doesn't apply to someone, when the law clearly does, is not clarification. Those signing statements are objections.
You may want to actually read some of the hundreds of signing statements. "This doesn't apply to me" doesn't count as "clarification of policy".
You forgot the step after the failed impeachment hearings: get 2/3 vote by the Senate to override the Presidential veto.
Yeah, I know, never going to happen.
The President insists that since he has wartime authorization...
Except he doesn't. Congress hasn't declared war. By his logic every president in the last 30 years could spy on Americans without warrant because we're in a "war on drugs." We're not legally at war until declared by Congress. We're just technically at war, and reality has no bearing in the legal system.