But it's the abstractness that makes it all so useful. I work for a software company whose flagship product is capable of supporting thousands of users accessing the same database, scattered over many timezones, interacting with a webclient in many different languages - even Simlified Chinese.
The server-side of the product is supported on Win NT, Vax, OS390 and various Unix favours...
OK, so you could do it in something other than Java. Yep, you could code the whole thing in C or C++, but how much would it cost? It's the abstract nature of the API, and hence its extendability, which makes Java my choice...
1. We have a large network of vendors for the National Lottery... there was talk a while back about using this system for e-voting. It's secure, handles large numbers of transactions, uses proven technology, and each machine is capable of scanning hundreds of lottery tickets per hour. Most people in the UK knows how to fill in a lottery ticket...
2. It's extremely easy to get multiple votes in the UK. My girlfriend received two voting cards for the 1995 General election, and could easily do so again... so any electronic version surely must be better than the current mess.
I don't care who runs.org, as long as I can keep using my.org just like I always did.
I don't mind paying a few pounds (dollars!) per year to retain the right to 'tthew.org', but I do get worried when I hear stories about.org being taken off individuals and being issued exclusively to non-profit organisations.
I'm not '.net'. I'm certainly not '.com'. And '.name' is just pants.
For those of us who run businesses, it'd be great to have a TINY printer that could attach directly to my PDA. Then I could use it to print out stickers for pricetags, barcodes, etc...
Infra-red-enabled PDAs and infra-red-enabled printers?
But Apple knows that Linux users, as a rule, don't buy software. No third party would license QuickTime for Linux, because they couldn't make any money on their product. So there's zero motivation for Apple to port QuickTime to Linux.
Ah, but it's not just about making sales to earn revenue. The other real reason for making a linux port available is that is would help them keep their market share. True, we don't have a reputation for buying software - but many of us do have brand-loyalty... especially when well-known Windows products are made freely available (beer-wise) to *nix.
If a linux version of Quicktime doesn't appear, there's an awful lot of linux users out there who'll just use a competitor's product.
Today, the Linux Counter system statistics... show less than 1% of users using the "development" kernel. Is this a worrying aspect of the Linux community's development cycle?
Or is it an indication that the numbers of professional linux users (who absolutely need stable kernels) is increasing?
Just because the ratio of stable:beta kernel users is decreasing, it doesn't necessarily mean that the number of beta-version kernel users is waning.
I'm encouraged by the lower stable:beta kernel ratio.
you don't get mod points because your an ac... unless you're one of the weenies that posts anonymously when he/she makes a shitty post to protect their stupid karma
Fair enough. But I (and probably you too) had relatively carefree upbringings without too much exposure to life's 'undesirables' early-on.
My early childhood was spent with computers (mostly programming and gaming), playing football with my mates, swinging from ropes suspended over streams and learning to ride my bike with no hands. Sure, I _did_ learn that there are such things as pornography, but not until later. My parents didn't need to explain about porn and drug-culture, when I was old enough to be curious, but not old enough to fully understand.
But my point is this: putting websites like that into their own tld (such as '.xxx') would give parents _more_ freedom. Freedom to easily choose whether their kids are exposed to it or not. Freedom for schools to concentrate on education rather than being in a running battle with website owners, using valuable public cash and resources.
Opt-in. Opt-out. You choose.
The only fault I can see with this, is that the NetNanny-type operations would suffer. Tough...
I've long believed that 'dodgy' websites should be relegated to '.xxx' or '.pr0n'.
Let's face it, the web is here to stay; and if people (in particular, kids) are to make the most of it in a safe environment, then pr0n needs keeping in its place.
And with a '.xxx' TLD (or whatever) it will be so easy to keep pr0n sites inaccessable to minors. If the pr0n peddlars are working in a mature responsible industry, then they too should welcome these moves.
Huzzah!
(And to those who'll inevitably rant on about freedom and free-speech, don't all the parents of the world deserve the freedom to let their kids roam the 'net without having to explain why tons of dodgy Japanese pr0n is appearing on the kids' screens?)
OK, has anyone patented twisting the ropes a few dozen times, before lifting ones feet off the ground causing the user to twist very quickly in the opposite direction?
(Thereby inducing dizzyness)
And if not, should we club together and get this one? Might make a fortune;-)
Digital is not always better. Digital cameras and digitial video certinaly offer alot in cost savings and convenience, but there are certain effects that are still far superior using analog inputs.
True, but if he stuck an IBM microsdrive in a digital camera, then he wouldn't have had to change film every 30 minutes, while steering with his knees.
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But how will they regulate this? How will they dentify the offenders?
Nice idea, but probably unworkable unfortunately :-(
But it's the abstractness that makes it all so useful. I work for a software company whose flagship product is capable of supporting thousands of users accessing the same database, scattered over many timezones, interacting with a webclient in many different languages - even Simlified Chinese.
The server-side of the product is supported on Win NT, Vax, OS390 and various Unix favours...
OK, so you could do it in something other than Java. Yep, you could code the whole thing in C or C++, but how much would it cost? It's the abstract nature of the API, and hence its extendability, which makes Java my choice...
1. We have a large network of vendors for the National Lottery... there was talk a while back about using this system for e-voting. It's secure, handles large numbers of transactions, uses proven technology, and each machine is capable of scanning hundreds of lottery tickets per hour. Most people in the UK knows how to fill in a lottery ticket...
2. It's extremely easy to get multiple votes in the UK. My girlfriend received two voting cards for the 1995 General election, and could easily do so again... so any electronic version surely must be better than the current mess.
Nice idea, though...
I quote:
"2002 08 06 Patent issued, website up."
According to Auntie Beeb, the UK gets it on November 11th. Strange - we usually get releases about a month after everywhere else! Woo!
I heard that their cash was so indestructable that the company making it went out of business.
Or would that just be another urban myth?
I don't mind paying a few pounds (dollars!) per year to retain the right to 'tthew.org', but I do get worried when I hear stories about .org being taken off individuals and being issued exclusively to non-profit organisations.
I'm not '.net'. I'm certainly not '.com'. And '.name' is just pants.
For those of us who run businesses, it'd be great to have a TINY printer that could attach directly to my PDA. Then I could use it to print out stickers for pricetags, barcodes, etc... Infra-red-enabled PDAs and infra-red-enabled printers?
Ah, but it's not just about making sales to earn revenue. The other real reason for making a linux port available is that is would help them keep their market share. True, we don't have a reputation for buying software - but many of us do have brand-loyalty... especially when well-known Windows products are made freely available (beer-wise) to *nix.
If a linux version of Quicktime doesn't appear, there's an awful lot of linux users out there who'll just use a competitor's product.
Come on, Apple - wake up! Real have made a Linux/Unix version available!
Today, the Linux Counter system statistics ... show less than 1% of users using the "development" kernel.
Is this a worrying aspect of the Linux community's development cycle?
Or is it an indication that the numbers of professional linux users (who absolutely need stable kernels) is increasing?
Just because the ratio of stable:beta kernel users is decreasing, it doesn't necessarily mean that the number of beta-version kernel users is waning.
I'm encouraged by the lower stable:beta kernel ratio.
Believe it or not, some people ENJOY hearing about the development kernel releases.
Yes - but the same people can easily visit www.kernel.org every day.
If they did visit kernel.org regularly, they'd have been running the 2.5.19 kernel two days ago.
Are you sure you can trust your compiler? http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
Oh, well. Good thing they never bothered making a Flash 6 for Linux.
Yeah, I'll say! I do most of my surfing in the nude!
I wouldn't wanna get hit with lawsuits from indavertantly traumatizing people!
(ahem!)
> just remove the space
Yeah - that's really queer. There was no space in the textarea widget, but it was there in the preview.
So I typed it again, and again the space appeared.
Maybe something to do with Opera??
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/chogan/Web/pol yglot
Cobol, Pascal, Fortran, C, Postscript, shellscript, 8086
The hall in which Odin received the souls of slain heroes.
you don't get mod points because your an ac... unless you're one of the weenies that posts anonymously when he/she makes a shitty post to protect their stupid karma
;-)
Mr Pot: meet Mr Kettle.
matthew (not anon
Hey, that was moderated as "Funny".
Surely "absolutely bloody terrifying" would be more appropriate?
I wouldn't trust my mortgage calculations to Excel, let alone "The Future of the World as We Know It"
http://www.nv.doe.gov/nts/tours.htm
Woo-hoo! You can get a tour of the whole area!
But why would you want to?
"No cameras, no recording, no pregnant women, no picking up rocks..."
Fair enough. But I (and probably you too) had relatively carefree upbringings without too much exposure to life's 'undesirables' early-on.
My early childhood was spent with computers (mostly programming and gaming), playing football with my mates, swinging from ropes suspended over streams and learning to ride my bike with no hands. Sure, I _did_ learn that there are such things as pornography, but not until later. My parents didn't need to explain about porn and drug-culture, when I was old enough to be curious, but not old enough to fully understand.
But my point is this: putting websites like that into their own tld (such as '.xxx') would give parents _more_ freedom. Freedom to easily choose whether their kids are exposed to it or not. Freedom for schools to concentrate on education rather than being in a running battle with website owners, using valuable public cash and resources.
Opt-in. Opt-out. You choose.
The only fault I can see with this, is that the NetNanny-type operations would suffer. Tough...
Well, thank goodness for some common sense.
I've long believed that 'dodgy' websites should be relegated to '.xxx' or '.pr0n'.
Let's face it, the web is here to stay; and if people (in particular, kids) are to make the most of it in a safe environment, then pr0n needs keeping in its place.
And with a '.xxx' TLD (or whatever) it will be so easy to keep pr0n sites inaccessable to minors. If the pr0n peddlars are working in a mature responsible industry, then they too should welcome these moves.
Huzzah!
(And to those who'll inevitably rant on about freedom and free-speech, don't all the parents of the world deserve the freedom to let their kids roam the 'net without having to explain why tons of dodgy Japanese pr0n is appearing on the kids' screens?)
OK, has anyone patented twisting the ropes a few dozen times, before lifting ones feet off the ground causing the user to twist very quickly in the opposite direction?
;-)
(Thereby inducing dizzyness)
And if not, should we club together and get this one? Might make a fortune
Digital is not always better. Digital cameras and digitial video certinaly offer alot in cost savings and convenience, but there are certain effects that are still far superior using analog inputs.
True, but if he stuck an IBM microsdrive in a digital camera, then he wouldn't have had to change film every 30 minutes, while steering with his knees.
(And probably causing several accidents en-route)
Nutter!
It would be rather like driving past a car crash, or watching an eye operation on the TV: you know it'll be gross; you know it will make you sick...
... but you just... can't... help... looking!