You know why most applications are never ported? Because lock down software is proliferating.
No, it's because most applications are closed/proprietary and no one is willing to pay money to port the code. If there's no business case driving the port, there's no project; and if there's no project, there's no programmer to do cool things.
We have no detailed understanding of how the brain works, but look at the pretty lights! Some areas of the brain light up for Commericial A and others light up for Commercial B. Wow! What does it mean? Maybe it means that we can predict behavior based on gross neural activation/deactivation patterns... but maybe it doesn't.
Can we have some more funding now? And, say, I'm thirsty. Who's up for a beer?
I certainly don't view other people as marks. However, I do know how to protect myself from such treatment.
As one nerd to another, here's an analogy you may appreciate: If you are a good wizard in the Harry Potter world, you study Defense Against the Dark Arts. I suggest you do the same.
What are you talking about? I said she was spoiled, not dumb.
Your complaint about "weasels" is a non sequitir, but I question it anyway. Smart people who are consistently out-maneuvered by weasels probably aren't so smart to begin with. Being a nerd is not the same thing as being smart. Nor does it have any relevance to this story.
I think you may have a major chip on your shoulder, Mr. Nerd.
That's a good point, but if you're doing a TCO comparison and need to focus on the "most typical" cases, I think you're going to want to compare against.NET rather than Java.
You're right that ISA Server isn't a web server -- that is a huge mistake and does indeed call into question the credibility of the study.
However, I don't think Apache, MySQL, or Eclipse (rather than IIS, SQL Server, and Visual Studio) are very common in the Microsoft world. I think it makes good sense to compare OSS against a Micrsoft-only configuration.
I was going to say the same thing. He invented the idea of natural selection 50 years before anyone could think of a viable mechanism (genetics) -- and he was right! That's incredible insight.
Science is not about answers. Science is a way of asking questions.
That sounds nice, but it's silly. Science is a way of asking and then answering questions so that the answers are reliably, reproduceably, and objectively true. To say that the answers are not important is foolish.
Something smells fishy to me. $10 billion is alot of money for a marketing campaign.
Assuming that each Itanium chip retails for roughly $1,000, Intel/HP could simply give away 10,000,000 chips for the investment they're making. Do they really think that there will be enough demand for these chips between now and 2010 to make up for that kind of marketing expense?
I have a hard time believing they will actually spend anything near this amount on marketing, even if the campaign is successful.
Yeah, but if all those "fit parameters" happen to correspond to a body with a plausible mass and velocity, then it becomes harder to dismiss as having no physical meaning.
I'm not saying that the precession data point to such a body, but I think it was exactly the kind of logic that you decry that led to the discovery of Pluto.
It used to be all about the photographer: a talented amateur with a fairly cheap 35mm camera could take pictures all but indistinguishable from those taken by an average pro
I think this is still true in the digital age. Why wouldn't it be?
Part of being an editor is understanding timeliness. Is it worth getting the reporter to fix a problem? Can I fix it myself? Does it need to be fixed at all?
Newspaper editors work under a hard deadline and deal with these questions every day. Slashdot editors pretend they don't exist.
That makes sense. So if I was a user who cared more about latency than privacy, I might opt to use the ping approach. I don't think there's much demand for it from this group, but it's at least plausible.
However, the load on the servers remains the same in both cases, so it's not clear to me why content providers would care either way. According to the linked article, they're the ones asking for this feature.
You'd think the guy would at least have some pride. If I knew that thousands of people were going to read my writing, I'd sure as hell spend some time making sure I don't embarrass myself.
I know he comes from the tech side (like most of us), but he's had 10 YEARS to teach himself how to write and edit English. If he'd show the slightest interest in learning to do this, I'd cut him more slack.
Take the very title of this article on article "formatting". After all this time, Rob still doesn't understand the difference between formatting (which is only about visual presentation of text) and editing (which is about getting the syntax and semantics right). It's sad for him, and it reflects poorly on anyone who cares about Slashdot.
I have for a long time thought that being a Slashdot editor is one of the world's easiest jobs, but held back due to the possibility that there was more to it than I thought. This long description of a task that anyone with a high school degree should be able to perform confirms my original impression.
Rob, with all due respect, I am not impressed. Slashdot would be so much better if you all would either a) act like real editors (e.g. fact check, give feedback to submitters, spelling/grammar check), or b) admit that you are basically superfluous and get out of the way (e.g. like Digg).
At the very least, please improve your writing skills. Even in a "pub" like Slashdot, communicating well is important.
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Destruction of state property? Come again? I thought rape was illegal itself.
So much for anonymity on the Internet.
and will be able to replace IE6 even on XP machines
You've always been able to upgrade IE on its own. Heck, I remember installing IE4 over IE3 on NT ten years ago. This is hardly a new feature for IE7.
You know why most applications are never ported? Because lock down software is proliferating.
No, it's because most applications are closed/proprietary and no one is willing to pay money to port the code. If there's no business case driving the port, there's no project; and if there's no project, there's no programmer to do cool things.
It has nothing whatsoever to do with DRM.
Allow me to summarize this article for you all:
We have no detailed understanding of how the brain works, but look at the pretty lights! Some areas of the brain light up for Commericial A and others light up for Commercial B. Wow! What does it mean? Maybe it means that we can predict behavior based on gross neural activation/deactivation patterns... but maybe it doesn't.
Can we have some more funding now? And, say, I'm thirsty. Who's up for a beer?
I certainly don't view other people as marks. However, I do know how to protect myself from such treatment.
As one nerd to another, here's an analogy you may appreciate: If you are a good wizard in the Harry Potter world, you study Defense Against the Dark Arts. I suggest you do the same.
What are you talking about? I said she was spoiled, not dumb.
Your complaint about "weasels" is a non sequitir, but I question it anyway. Smart people who are consistently out-maneuvered by weasels probably aren't so smart to begin with. Being a nerd is not the same thing as being smart. Nor does it have any relevance to this story.
I think you may have a major chip on your shoulder, Mr. Nerd.
See http://www.masslawyersweekly.com/break021506.cfm
That's a good point, but if you're doing a TCO comparison and need to focus on the "most typical" cases, I think you're going to want to compare against .NET rather than Java.
I wouldn't want to work with either of the lawyers in this story.
He offered her a job and then reduced the salary after she accepted. That's a huge red flag. Highly unacceptable.
She's a spoiled brat ("trust fund baby"). You've got to wonder what her father, who's still supporting her at age 24, thinks of her behavior.
You're right that ISA Server isn't a web server -- that is a huge mistake and does indeed call into question the credibility of the study.
However, I don't think Apache, MySQL, or Eclipse (rather than IIS, SQL Server, and Visual Studio) are very common in the Microsoft world. I think it makes good sense to compare OSS against a Micrsoft-only configuration.
I think they made this movie and called it Matchstick Men. Pretty good flick.
I was going to say the same thing. He invented the idea of natural selection 50 years before anyone could think of a viable mechanism (genetics) -- and he was right! That's incredible insight.
Okay. Besides being dreary, how is that substantially different from my definition?
Science is not about answers. Science is a way of asking questions.
That sounds nice, but it's silly. Science is a way of asking and then answering questions so that the answers are reliably, reproduceably, and objectively true. To say that the answers are not important is foolish.
Something smells fishy to me. $10 billion is alot of money for a marketing campaign.
Assuming that each Itanium chip retails for roughly $1,000, Intel/HP could simply give away 10,000,000 chips for the investment they're making. Do they really think that there will be enough demand for these chips between now and 2010 to make up for that kind of marketing expense?
I have a hard time believing they will actually spend anything near this amount on marketing, even if the campaign is successful.
Yeah, but if all those "fit parameters" happen to correspond to a body with a plausible mass and velocity, then it becomes harder to dismiss as having no physical meaning.
I'm not saying that the precession data point to such a body, but I think it was exactly the kind of logic that you decry that led to the discovery of Pluto.
It used to be all about the photographer: a talented amateur with a fairly cheap 35mm camera could take pictures all but indistinguishable from those taken by an average pro
I think this is still true in the digital age. Why wouldn't it be?
Part of being an editor is understanding timeliness. Is it worth getting the reporter to fix a problem? Can I fix it myself? Does it need to be fixed at all?
Newspaper editors work under a hard deadline and deal with these questions every day. Slashdot editors pretend they don't exist.
That makes sense. So if I was a user who cared more about latency than privacy, I might opt to use the ping approach. I don't think there's much demand for it from this group, but it's at least plausible.
However, the load on the servers remains the same in both cases, so it's not clear to me why content providers would care either way. According to the linked article, they're the ones asking for this feature.
I have a hard time understanding why the server-side implementation is so much slower than this new "ping" attribute.
Yes, clients can hack around the server-side implementation, but it is much harder than simply turning off a preference.
Sure, selecting articles is more important. However, that's not the topic of Rob's meta-article. It's also not very hard either.
You'd think the guy would at least have some pride. If I knew that thousands of people were going to read my writing, I'd sure as hell spend some time making sure I don't embarrass myself.
I know he comes from the tech side (like most of us), but he's had 10 YEARS to teach himself how to write and edit English. If he'd show the slightest interest in learning to do this, I'd cut him more slack.
Take the very title of this article on article "formatting". After all this time, Rob still doesn't understand the difference between formatting (which is only about visual presentation of text) and editing (which is about getting the syntax and semantics right). It's sad for him, and it reflects poorly on anyone who cares about Slashdot.
I have for a long time thought that being a Slashdot editor is one of the world's easiest jobs, but held back due to the possibility that there was more to it than I thought. This long description of a task that anyone with a high school degree should be able to perform confirms my original impression.
Rob, with all due respect, I am not impressed. Slashdot would be so much better if you all would either a) act like real editors (e.g. fact check, give feedback to submitters, spelling/grammar check), or b) admit that you are basically superfluous and get out of the way (e.g. like Digg).
At the very least, please improve your writing skills. Even in a "pub" like Slashdot, communicating well is important.
How?