Java never was hype. It once was the new PL. It had garbage collection. But it never was hype. It was not flashy enough for that. It actually allways has been the absolute antithesis of flashyness. It was a slowpoke. Back then the VM was to slow for anybody to hype Java over everything. It's GUIs were (are?) ugly as hell. Yet it offered plattform independece and a good enviroment for those who could handle OOP.
The reason why so many people are now rather settling for Python/Ruby/Perl/PHP/Whatever is a very simple one: They are FOSS. They may suck in other ways than Java (no predictable GUI enviroment for these) and they certainly suck less than a PL that's 10 years old, but the main reason is they are FOSS. They will never be controlled by the whim of a MicroSuck or Sun.
In fact I'm quite shure that Sun prevented Java from hyping, in order to establish it as a constant classic. They could've easyly gotten into the RIA territory Flash/AS2 are in now but they didn't. They stuck to where the bucks were in order to sell their hardware. They moved from the client side to server side within a year or so and had no interest in hyping RIA.
Java never was hype and never will be. Along with all the downsides and upsides that come with it.
Ok, so first we have to scale real-time metrics in order to benchmark next-generation initiatives and architect synergistic platforms. If we then evolve B2B synergies and synergize vertical models together with our partners, we should be able to cultivate 24/7 channels. And, voila, we have achieved open source innovation leverage. Easy, isn't it?
Never use WASD myself, I find it too awkward, I always remap to DZXC.
I once took the time to relearn my FPS layout for a perfect fit. For two weeks I was moving like a drunkard, but then I got the knack.
Here's the setup: Mouse for moving/aiming only (no sniping problems with mousebutton fire), meaing: Mouse aim/turn, strife on left and right button, weapon change on wheel.
Left hand comfartably rests on KB. Forward/back E/S w. ringfinger, Fire 1 G w. Index, Fire 2 R w. Middlefinger, Crouch T w. Middlefinger, all extra stuff like special weapons w. Middlefinger (D,F,C) or Index (V & B) or Pinky (Q,A,W).
It's totally awkward at first, but it's by far the fastest and most comfortable layout I've seen to date. And I'm sidestrafing (quick klicking is much easyer) and sniperaiming (no fireactions to disturb mouse) like a god.:-) In unreal tournament people still ask me how I do the strafejumping so fast.
While the one show is yet another rehash of the alphabetical layout - which others have built before and in a better way - our current keyboards need a solid redesign.
Alignment in rows and columns for instance is much more effective and less strainfull. Shifted allignment is a herritage from 1895 or something (pure technical constraints back then). Caps Lock is really bad the way it is. Even for the countries that need it a lot for alternate Glyphsets (russian f.e.). It need to be moved away. Far away at a special position. Much to big too. In a way simular to Escape - the only key in a position and size that can stay the way it is. How often have we *all* pressed it by accident.
Then there's the asymetry. It sucks. To quote Edison: "There's a better way to do it. Find it." The important alternation keys like Caps, Ctrl, Alt, Command and the extra ones like Enter, Backspace and tab need a redo aswell. Symetry in size, amount and position all the way through and Enter moved to a super-prominent position in the center just the way space is now. Keyblock needs to be standardised, one way or the other. Either telephone or ancient-electrical-start-at-the-bottom. I prefer telephone since the other was only implemented due to technical constraints on the first calculators. Bottom-to-top keyblocks suck. Period.
While navigation keys are a must, F-Keys, Print, Help and such are nice extras. Maybe those could be spread about in an even fashion. F-Keys to the left, Navi and Fixed Funktions to the right. Mayybe a few extra keys in Mac style (volume+, volume-, mute, on/off, eject). Curiously enough I'm sitting at a current-state white mac kb just now. The Multimedia keys adside this kb has all the suckage I critized above. It actually expect Apple to sumon the guts to change all this. Maybe someday when all the Win people have switched to a unix variant.:-)
Right now to try to save themselves most Publishers are just attempting to do the same thing by making superficial changes in how books look and selling this facelift as the next big thing ("Head First Java" anyone?).
I've been buying, reading, using O'Reilly Books for almost 10 years now. If I need to buy 'blind', I buy O'Reilly and only have been disappointed once (their MySQL/mSQL DG sucks). I was disappointed when I saw them leaving the Animal Rule with the Head First series.
Then I looked into "Head First Java" and "Head First Design Patterns". And bought them right away. I must say that the "Head First" Line takes the O'Reilly fullfilment of quality to a whole new level. These books are absolutely awesome and would have saved me *years* of grocking the concepts of OO and Patterns, if they only had been there earlier.
Why there is some stuff that looks like O'Reilly jumping on the lesser quality "Dummy" type of textbook with some current german titels in order to up the throughput that is absolutely not the case with the "Head First" series. They are by far the best guided training books ever and truly redefine that type of book.
I mean we have dupes here. A dime a dozen. What about tripes? I think we should make a sport of scoring tripes. Here's the deal: Whenever you notice a dupe, modify the Bulletin a little and submit it. If every slashdot user does this we'll have a nice lineup of users-enforced tripes in no time. We could even maybe aim for real quads. Maybe we have some allready?
At least then this dupe thing would get a new twist and we'd add some fun and interactivty to it.
I don't like WordPress like some others here do. I think there's to much of an unjustified hype about it. I consider both b2evolution and Pivot superiour in terms of quality, features and usability. Pivot is database free which can be a big performance plus if you're only powering a single blog. I'd actually suggest you check out Pivot. It's backend is approachable and extremly easy to use and the available templates are a wonderfull groundwork to get rolling with your own style.
Of course all these are GPLd blogtools. If you insist on spending money for a commercial blogtool licence I'd strongly recommend Expression Engine over Movable Type or others.
A third alternative are payed blog services. You might want to check out Squarespace which looks like solid functionality crossed with a designers wet dream.
I've allways liked ActiveState and their suckage free aproach of bundling OSS with their commercial tools. On and off I've been looking for a fast, native IDE for mentioned languages that runs on OS X. Nice to see Komodo offers that. I DLd the Tryout and am testing it just now. While it does look quite complete and the documentation appears to be top-of-the-line I must say that I'm obviously pampered by jEdit's extensive features and expandability - even though it 'only' runs on Java.
Code color highlighting is much more customizable, whitespace coloring can be changed, at least three folding modes instead of just one, bracket-scope highlighting (I think jEdit is the only one to have this) and countless other things make jEdit an Editor/IDE that appears to be hard to beat. I'll do some more extensive testing with Komodo but I presume I'm going to continue using jEdit.
How to test a server (heavy duty massive access)
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1) Issue competition of best looking virtual girls 2) Post full finalists roundup including pictures on server 3) Post meta article on slashdot with link to said server 4) Retreat to safe distance as server gets warm and shows cracks
Broken redirect usage. This provider is the suxx0rsz. You are in the postition to ask them to change the behaviour of their servers to RFC compliance. I'd suggest you do it. And change the provider if they don't fix it.
For more details on the actual quitting process go to joecartoon.com and watch "The Boss". Hilriously funny if joecartoon is your kind of humor (it's something like Monty Python with the brakes removed).
You need us, believe it or not Bullsh*t. Nobody needs anybody. It's a TCP/IP network, stupido. It's built on a mutual unwritten agreement and understanding that the benefits of hooking up everybody to the same net outweigh the downsides.
I wish the U.S. would just shut off all outbound and inbound routing for just a single day.
I wish they would too. Sad thing is they won't. This whole "Internet Gouvernance" Excitement thing is a bunch of rubbish. It's the corporations that decide it the Inet stays the Inet or if it doesn't. No gouverment whatsoever has a saying in this. Rice and her european adversaries are basically bullshitting themselves if they believe they'd have any say in this. The Inet is some stupid TCP/IP over copper, glass and radiowave, and if the US would clamp off it's routers it would take like a dozen days for other parts of the world to say "Oh what the hell, we'll start routing our own stuff".
It's basically a good idea to keep the control with the ICAN, because everybody knows if they screw up beyond just some ego-quabiling there will be an alternative popping up overnight. Aside from other things the 'gouvernance' of the Inet is a thing that actually has to let freedom reign if it ought to stay in place. A nice execise if you ask me.
At last a sun workstation that doesn't look entirely like crap. All the other stuff appears to be standard x86 fare - allthough it probably isn't just that - but at least the box looks decent. With everyone going all comodity and even Apple switching to x86, with computers powerfull enough for allmost any job this little visual detail stuff is more important than ever. If they actually manage to build an market a solid x86 setup that earns itself a reputation for stability and bottleneck-free x86 performance and comes across with visual and usable consitency Sun might even get the curve. Even if they screwed up UltraSparc and keep Java as unattractive for rich clients as it is.
Adium with built-in hassle-free encryption, VOIP and H.323 Video Chat would pretty much have everything I can imagine. Including not looking like crap.
When I programm ERP Modules (in Python) I start with a large comment on what the module is supposed to do. I actually started doing this quite from the beginning. I write a litte summary of what the module does and comment heavily throughout the source. I even have debugging sessions were I only work on comments - often detailing them further. I also do a lot of other programming (ActionScript rich media and stuff). I don't do opening or other comments there that much. Why that? If a multimedia app doesn't work I get an e-mail or a call asking to check into it within the next 24 hrs. The customer is anoyed or says that this comes bad with the end-user. We talk a little, I get to work and fix it within the next 10 hrs. If a ERP module doesn't do what it's supposed to, I get a call on my mobile, with the CEO at the other end telling me that he's losing 200 Euro an hour because order processing has gone haywire.
This is a good point to end all discussion wether commenting is good or bad. When you are debugging a piece of code that keeps 3 people breathing you shure as well want it to be well commented.
skype.com and their call-out service might just be the most simple and hassle free solution for you. And it could very well be cheaper than regular Phone. In the end you'll end up not wanting a landline.:-)
The suggested retail price of the MX610 laser cordless mouse $59.99.
Does anyone remember luxury mice costing no more than 30$? Is it just me or am I wrong about this? This one costs something like 50 IIRC and that's like 2 the price I used to pay for top-of-the-line mice. Can anyone from germany or any other Euro country confirm this?
Or am I just not remebering prices for stuff like this correctly?
Running your business on OSS or making money of OSS is about shutting up about it. How would I look if I'd say I've underpriced my competitors by 50% for that corporate website because it runs of an OSS CMS? It's the remaining 50% we make money on. And finance our active support and development of OSS. The competitors make even a larger amount of money (if they'd sell) but they can bullshit about their efforts and technology all the way because it's closed source. When you do OSS on the other hand, you market yourself more than the product. That's why OSS isn't talked about that often.
There are partners we have who couldn't care less if the framework we're using is being built as OSS and available under a different name at sf.net - but they do want us not to advertise that to their competitors. Quite logical.
Be it that that extremly powerfull framework at that famous software copmany costs 15000$ dollars. It doesn't matter as long as only a few know that the very same thing is available as OSS. And even those who do will shut up about it.:-)
OSS business isn't about talking about things, it's about knowing things. And talking usually doesn't cut it anyway, because people who need the advantage of OSS technologies explained often are to dumb to understand that explaination. I've learned that more than once. Might aswell just wait until it sinks in and gain business momentum along the way.
I here lot's of bickering about PHP 5 ...
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... still having no namespaces and lacking in full-blown OOP and all.
So what?
PHP is the web generations basic. No more. But no less either.
Given that loads of very usefull webapps out there are built in PHP I'd say the criticisim is mostly inadequate whining. If PHP doesn't cut it for your job, take something else. No big deal.
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Java never was hype. It once was the new PL. It had garbage collection. But it never was hype. It was not flashy enough for that. It actually allways has been the absolute antithesis of flashyness. It was a slowpoke. Back then the VM was to slow for anybody to hype Java over everything. It's GUIs were (are?) ugly as hell. Yet it offered plattform independece and a good enviroment for those who could handle OOP.
The reason why so many people are now rather settling for Python/Ruby/Perl/PHP/Whatever is a very simple one: They are FOSS. They may suck in other ways than Java (no predictable GUI enviroment for these) and they certainly suck less than a PL that's 10 years old, but the main reason is they are FOSS. They will never be controlled by the whim of a MicroSuck or Sun.
In fact I'm quite shure that Sun prevented Java from hyping, in order to establish it as a constant classic. They could've easyly gotten into the RIA territory Flash/AS2 are in now but they didn't. They stuck to where the bucks were in order to sell their hardware. They moved from the client side to server side within a year or so and had no interest in hyping RIA.
Java never was hype and never will be. Along with all the downsides and upsides that come with it.
Let's just ask the official web economy bullshit generator about this, shall we?:
http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html
Ok, so first we have to scale real-time metrics in order to benchmark next-generation initiatives and architect synergistic platforms. If we then evolve B2B synergies and synergize vertical models together with our partners, we should be able to cultivate 24/7 channels. And, voila, we have achieved open source innovation leverage.
Easy, isn't it?
Never use WASD myself, I find it too awkward, I always remap to DZXC.
:-) In unreal tournament people still ask me how I do the strafejumping so fast.
I once took the time to relearn my FPS layout for a perfect fit. For two weeks I was moving like a drunkard, but then I got the knack.
Here's the setup:
Mouse for moving/aiming only (no sniping problems with mousebutton fire), meaing: Mouse aim/turn, strife on left and right button, weapon change on wheel.
Left hand comfartably rests on KB. Forward/back E/S w. ringfinger, Fire 1 G w. Index, Fire 2 R w. Middlefinger, Crouch T w. Middlefinger, all extra stuff like special weapons w. Middlefinger (D,F,C) or Index (V & B) or Pinky (Q,A,W).
It's totally awkward at first, but it's by far the fastest and most comfortable layout I've seen to date. And I'm sidestrafing (quick klicking is much easyer) and sniperaiming (no fireactions to disturb mouse) like a god.
While the one show is yet another rehash of the alphabetical layout - which others have built before and in a better way - our current keyboards need a solid redesign.
:-)
Alignment in rows and columns for instance is much more effective and less strainfull. Shifted allignment is a herritage from 1895 or something (pure technical constraints back then). Caps Lock is really bad the way it is. Even for the countries that need it a lot for alternate Glyphsets (russian f.e.). It need to be moved away. Far away at a special position. Much to big too. In a way simular to Escape - the only key in a position and size that can stay the way it is. How often have we *all* pressed it by accident.
Then there's the asymetry. It sucks. To quote Edison: "There's a better way to do it. Find it."
The important alternation keys like Caps, Ctrl, Alt, Command and the extra ones like Enter, Backspace and tab need a redo aswell. Symetry in size, amount and position all the way through and Enter moved to a super-prominent position in the center just the way space is now. Keyblock needs to be standardised, one way or the other. Either telephone or ancient-electrical-start-at-the-bottom. I prefer telephone since the other was only implemented due to technical constraints on the first calculators. Bottom-to-top keyblocks suck. Period.
While navigation keys are a must, F-Keys, Print, Help and such are nice extras. Maybe those could be spread about in an even fashion. F-Keys to the left, Navi and Fixed Funktions to the right. Mayybe a few extra keys in Mac style (volume+, volume-, mute, on/off, eject). Curiously enough I'm sitting at a current-state white mac kb just now. The Multimedia keys adside this kb has all the suckage I critized above. It actually expect Apple to sumon the guts to change all this. Maybe someday when all the Win people have switched to a unix variant.
Right now to try to save themselves most Publishers are just attempting to do the same thing by making superficial changes in how books look and selling this facelift as the next big thing ("Head First Java" anyone?).
I've been buying, reading, using O'Reilly Books for almost 10 years now. If I need to buy 'blind', I buy O'Reilly and only have been disappointed once (their MySQL/mSQL DG sucks). I was disappointed when I saw them leaving the Animal Rule with the Head First series.
Then I looked into "Head First Java" and "Head First Design Patterns". And bought them right away. I must say that the "Head First" Line takes the O'Reilly fullfilment of quality to a whole new level. These books are absolutely awesome and would have saved me *years* of grocking the concepts of OO and Patterns, if they only had been there earlier.
Why there is some stuff that looks like O'Reilly jumping on the lesser quality "Dummy" type of textbook with some current german titels in order to up the throughput that is absolutely not the case with the "Head First" series. They are by far the best guided training books ever and truly redefine that type of book.
Jules: 'Why did you post that dupe? Again.'
... we don't actually.'
Slashdot Admin: 'What?'
Jules: 'Do I look like I'm stupid?'
Slashdot Admin: 'What?'
Jules: 'Do I look like like someone who needs to be told everything twice?'
Slashdot Admin: 'What?'
Jules: 'Don't you understand what I'm saying? What country are you from?'
Slashdot Admin: 'W...? What?'
Jules: ' "What"? "What" ain't no country I ever heard of. Do they speak english in "What"? '
Slashdot Admin: 'What?'
Jules: ' Say "What" again. SAY "WHAT" AGAIN! I DARE YOU, MOTHERF*CKER, I DOUBLE DARE YOU. '
Vincet: 'How do you read our submitions and the articles posted?'
Slashdot Admin: 'W... w... we
Jules: 'So you think we're stupid?'
Slashdot Admin: 'What?'
*BLAM!* *BLAM!* *BLAM!* *BLAM!* *BLAM!* *BLAM!* *BLAM!*
A book on PHP and MySQL. I've been waiting for this for ages!
Really, this is just what we needed.
I mean we have dupes here. A dime a dozen. What about tripes? I think we should make a sport of scoring tripes.
Here's the deal:
Whenever you notice a dupe, modify the Bulletin a little and submit it.
If every slashdot user does this we'll have a nice lineup of users-enforced tripes in no time.
We could even maybe aim for real quads. Maybe we have some allready?
At least then this dupe thing would get a new twist and we'd add some fun and interactivty to it.
I don't like WordPress like some others here do. I think there's to much of an unjustified hype about it. I consider both b2evolution and Pivot superiour in terms of quality, features and usability. Pivot is database free which can be a big performance plus if you're only powering a single blog. I'd actually suggest you check out Pivot. It's backend is approachable and extremly easy to use and the available templates are a wonderfull groundwork to get rolling with your own style.
Of course all these are GPLd blogtools. If you insist on spending money for a commercial blogtool licence I'd strongly recommend Expression Engine over Movable Type or others.
A third alternative are payed blog services. You might want to check out Squarespace which looks like solid functionality crossed with a designers wet dream.
I've allways liked ActiveState and their suckage free aproach of bundling OSS with their commercial tools. On and off I've been looking for a fast, native IDE for mentioned languages that runs on OS X. Nice to see Komodo offers that. I DLd the Tryout and am testing it just now. While it does look quite complete and the documentation appears to be top-of-the-line I must say that I'm obviously pampered by jEdit's extensive features and expandability - even though it 'only' runs on Java.
Code color highlighting is much more customizable, whitespace coloring can be changed, at least three folding modes instead of just one, bracket-scope highlighting (I think jEdit is the only one to have this) and countless other things make jEdit an Editor/IDE that appears to be hard to beat. I'll do some more extensive testing with Komodo but I presume I'm going to continue using jEdit.
1) Issue competition of best looking virtual girls
2) Post full finalists roundup including pictures on server
3) Post meta article on slashdot with link to said server
4) Retreat to safe distance as server gets warm and shows cracks
Now that's what I call a contradiction in term.
.Net, but some other, slightly more predictable technology.
If you're intelligent you don't build in
What's next?
Reasonable Al-Quaida Terrorists?
Goody Twoshoe CIA Interrogators?
Guantanamo Bay Beachpartys?
Yepp. Me too. Blank on Safari.
Broken redirect usage. This provider is the suxx0rsz.
You are in the postition to ask them to change the
behaviour of their servers to RFC compliance.
I'd suggest you do it.
And change the provider if they don't fix it.
"... I quit. 'Cuz you suck.
Signed: me."
For more details on the actual quitting process go to joecartoon.com and watch "The Boss".
Hilriously funny if joecartoon is your kind of humor (it's something like Monty Python with the brakes removed).
You need us, believe it or not
Bullsh*t. Nobody needs anybody. It's a TCP/IP network, stupido. It's built on a mutual unwritten agreement and understanding that the benefits of hooking up everybody to the same net outweigh the downsides.
I wish the U.S. would just shut off all outbound and inbound routing for just a single day.
I wish they would too. Sad thing is they won't. This whole "Internet Gouvernance" Excitement thing is a bunch of rubbish. It's the corporations that decide it the Inet stays the Inet or if it doesn't. No gouverment whatsoever has a saying in this. Rice and her european adversaries are basically bullshitting themselves if they believe they'd have any say in this. The Inet is some stupid TCP/IP over copper, glass and radiowave, and if the US would clamp off it's routers it would take like a dozen days for other parts of the world to say "Oh what the hell, we'll start routing our own stuff".
It's basically a good idea to keep the control with the ICAN, because everybody knows if they screw up beyond just some ego-quabiling there will be an alternative popping up overnight. Aside from other things the 'gouvernance' of the Inet is a thing that actually has to let freedom reign if it ought to stay in place. A nice execise if you ask me.
At last a sun workstation that doesn't look entirely like crap. All the other stuff appears to be standard x86 fare - allthough it probably isn't just that - but at least the box looks decent.
With everyone going all comodity and even Apple switching to x86, with computers powerfull enough for allmost any job this little visual detail stuff is more important than ever.
If they actually manage to build an market a solid x86 setup that earns itself a reputation for stability and bottleneck-free x86 performance and comes across with visual and usable consitency Sun might even get the curve. Even if they screwed up UltraSparc and keep Java as unattractive for rich clients as it is.
Adium with built-in hassle-free encryption, VOIP and H.323 Video Chat would pretty much have everything I can imagine. Including not looking like crap.
When I programm ERP Modules (in Python) I start with a large comment on what the module is supposed to do. I actually started doing this quite from the beginning. I write a litte summary of what the module does and comment heavily throughout the source. I even have debugging sessions were I only work on comments - often detailing them further.
I also do a lot of other programming (ActionScript rich media and stuff). I don't do opening or other comments there that much.
Why that?
If a multimedia app doesn't work I get an e-mail or a call asking to check into it within the next 24 hrs. The customer is anoyed or says that this comes bad with the end-user. We talk a little, I get to work and fix it within the next 10 hrs.
If a ERP module doesn't do what it's supposed to, I get a call on my mobile, with the CEO at the other end telling me that he's losing 200 Euro an hour because order processing has gone haywire.
This is a good point to end all discussion wether commenting is good or bad. When you are debugging a piece of code that keeps 3 people breathing you shure as well want it to be well commented.
skype.com and their call-out service might just be the most simple and hassle free solution for you. And it could very well be cheaper than regular Phone. In the end you'll end up not wanting a landline. :-)
Macromedia for one should have a commercial interesst in Flash running stable on FF.
I don't want to buy this record, it is scratched.
The suggested retail price of the MX610 laser cordless mouse $59.99.
Does anyone remember luxury mice costing no more than 30$? Is it just me or am I wrong about this? This one costs something like 50 IIRC and that's like 2 the price I used to pay for top-of-the-line mice. Can anyone from germany or any other Euro country confirm this?
Or am I just not remebering prices for stuff like this correctly?
This Storys headline wins The Ultimate Captain Obvious Award. With no sweat at all.
Running your business on OSS or making money of OSS is about shutting up about it. How would I look if I'd say I've underpriced my competitors by 50% for that corporate website because it runs of an OSS CMS? It's the remaining 50% we make money on. And finance our active support and development of OSS. The competitors make even a larger amount of money (if they'd sell) but they can bullshit about their efforts and technology all the way because it's closed source.
:-)
When you do OSS on the other hand, you market yourself more than the product. That's why OSS isn't talked about that often.
There are partners we have who couldn't care less if the framework we're using is being built as OSS and available under a different name at sf.net - but they do want us not to advertise that to their competitors. Quite logical.
Be it that that extremly powerfull framework at that famous software copmany costs 15000$ dollars. It doesn't matter as long as only a few know that the very same thing is available as OSS. And even those who do will shut up about it.
OSS business isn't about talking about things, it's about knowing things. And talking usually doesn't cut it anyway, because people who need the advantage of OSS technologies explained often are to dumb to understand that explaination. I've learned that more than once. Might aswell just wait until it sinks in and gain business momentum along the way.
... still having no namespaces and lacking in full-blown OOP and all.
So what?
PHP is the web generations basic. No more. But no less either.
Given that loads of very usefull webapps out there are built in PHP
I'd say the criticisim is mostly inadequate whining. If PHP doesn't
cut it for your job, take something else. No big deal.