Since Mozilla is beginning to look rather slick these days I have a quick question to someone enlightened. Is the new AOL (7.0?) interface based on Gecko or does it still use the IE control? Anybody in the know?
BS. Poles had the Enigma deciphered well before it even got into Briton's hands. The Brits were the ones who broke the second, improved Enigma's code but the very first Enigma was cracked by Poles. Swallow the truth.
There is a movie about Enigma out now in the UK. Unfortunately the movie is all fiction and gets many of the facts horribly wrong. One of the movies misrepresentations is "forgetting" that it was Polish scientists who first broke the Enigma encription and not the British. The other (which is quite disturbing) portrays one Polish guy as a traitor who tries to tell the Germans about the success of breaking Enigma. The movie caused a small scandal in Poland and will almost certainly hurt those remaining Poles who fought in the battle of Britain who still live in the UK and are now being portrayed in such ways. Bad Brittons! Bad!
This is getting ridiculous. British colleges/universities are achieving new lows. They charge extorsion money for their courses to all those outside of the EU (usually > $13,000 per academic year) and they keep enrolling foreign students who can barely speak English. Then they somehow manage to graduate them despite their abysmal language skills. I'm not xenophobic by saying this. I was a foreign student in Britain between 1992 and 1998. Last two years of my studies I saw the levels of education quickly decline while the oveseas tuition fees went through the roof at the same time. They became huge government approved money machines. What they are doing with this is their greed getting beyond belief. And note that I'm not talking about those colleges that pretend to be universities. In my case I'm talking about the University of Edinburgh. Last five years it's gone downhill so much it's not even funny. British education ain't nearly what it used to be.
Sun themselves are in a need for boxes like that as their website seems severely slashdotted right now.
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Isn't better to have unreliable jobs for 95% of the workers, than reliable jobs for 90%?
Not necessarily. I'm currently employed by a company that's planning to cash in on the new-new-economy. Even though I make enough to get a mortgage I'm afraid to take one. Things are so volatile these days that I no longer want to make any finnancial commitments that go beyond what I can payoff right away in case the sky falls down. Perhaps I'm paranoid but I've seen shit happen to people who bought homes and were subsequently laid off and lost not only their homes but also all the savings they put in the downpayment.
Now I'm living in a rented apartment making my shady landlord richer while I'm no better off than I was five years ago as most of my savings are consumed by my landlord. This way I'll stay poor for the forseeable future while my landlord will most likely increase his wealth quite a bit more during this period. It's a vicious circle that many young people such as myself are cought up in.
I posted a MLP to Kuro5hin earlier this year with an excellent photo-report from Chechnya made by a Polish journalist. Here is the story. Unfortunately the main link no longer works but I posted a comment which has direct links to all images. The body of the story contains the picture titles.
There has been no evidence whatsoever (beside urban legends) that Chechens ever engaged in terririst activities. KGB and the Russian media did what was in their power to tarnish their name in the public opinion. The truth is however, that Russia desperately tries to hold on to Chechnya as they have their eyes set on "reunification" with Georgia.
We've a pretty strict set of rules in the office in that you can't be distractive to your coworkers who could have pressing deadlines on their schedule. Hence, nerf guns, video games etc. are not received very well at the workplace. Having said that the stuff I do on the daily basis is pretty exciting. I write code to evaluate performance of top tier enterprise products such as BEA's WebLogic and IBM's WebSphere. It's fascinating to see all the different strengths and weaknesses in products from various vendors. I also have a cluster of Sun boxes to play with for pure research purposes so I've enough toys to last for quite some time. Essentially my job is to take our app and evaluate where we might want to take it in the light of new developments in the enterprise world. For example, at present I'm trying to find out whether EJB2.0 with CMP2.0 will suffice for our persistence needs. With EJB1.1 we only used Bean managed persistence but EJB2.0 looks much more promising in that department.
So yeah, there cool jobs out there but they are usually higer up in the ladder.
Well, we use JSPs because everything else we do is 100% java so it makes sense for us. Having said that though my personal and very subjective experience is that PHP pages are quite a bit faster than those generated by JSPs. Obviously it's nearly impossible to benchmark those things byut from experience I'd say that it's easier to create fast pages in PHP whereas with servlet/JSPs it's easier to create robust pages. Not very scientific I know, but here's my $0.02 on the subject.
I hear you loud and clear. But if you think you've seen the worst in terms of installation woes you should check out IBM Websphere. Oh, man two months since 4.0 shipped and I still haven't got it all running. What a f***ing nightmare!
Yeah, Tomcat guys were saying on the mailing list that they would call the last beta a "beta" until Sun puts a seal on the spec because they were ready much earlier (pending any changes in the spec that is). So basically as soon as they found out about the spec approval they just branched the code and made the build. It's all in their mailing list.
I haven't looked at it yet but my first question is:
Does Tomcat4.0 support load balancing the way 3.2.x did?
In 3.3.x you could load balance a cluster of Tomcats through apache and mod_jserv or mod_jk (which is what we use). So does T4.0 support load balancing and if so is it through mod_jk or is there a new module to do the job? If so has anyone played with it yet?
Whoa! This guy has guts. Not only is he trying to battle William Gates III he's also named Bill's OS after himself! Even Bill Gates himself wasn't arrogant enough to instill a "BillOS" upon us! Sheesh.
Retro games should fit the criteria you specify. I don't know about their educational value but most will certainly meet the "non-violence" criteria. The ones that come to my mind include: Tetris, Manic Miner, Pirates, Boulder Dash etc. Often times they are more exciting that todays offerings and are pretty cost effective to purchase.
For a modern collection of PG rated titles try most things published by Nintendo. Actually Mario 64 was an excellent game in itself and a pretty challenging one too.
Microsoft is the most notable supporter of backwards compatibility. That's a large part of the reason why Win32 is such a bad API. There is just too much junk there that accumulated over they years that seemingly won't ever go away. The other problem backwards compatibility creates is code bloat. Because old interfaces and often implementations have to be kept in the binary the libraries grow bigger and bigger purely to keep the old junk around. Microsoft COM is the most guility party in that. The rule that interfaces can never, ever change results in nosense like DirectX 8 still supporting all interfaces of DirectX2. Fortunately this trend seems to have reversed and everyone is now keen on starting afresh. MS is rolling out their.NET framework. Apple released their OSX which has new native APIs. It's probably for the best to the consumer in the long run as well.
Luckily open source doesn't have ot suffer from the issue as much since source availability ensures that old software can often be tweaked or sometimes just recompiled to make it work with new versions of dependent libraries.
How long to maintain backwards compatibility is really the question of your business domain. An in house app can probably be changed significantly without impacting many people while a widget library (like QT for example) must maintain backwards compatibility for at least a couple of minor versions. The ability to simply recompile old code after a major change in the library is a welcome feature too.
I hate to say it but perhaps what the tech world needs is a few more MBA's
Bullshit. MBAs are the ones who desperately need to "manage" someone. If they haven't got scores of people to "manage" or they become irrelevant too. Between 1997 and 2000 I worked for a small shop (~20 developers) and we had a steady income and the company was profitable almost from day 1.
Then I moved to North America and found a new job (which I no longer hold btw). This time it was a company doing stuff that was simpler than my former employer yet the had ten times as many employees, aeron chairs, $20,000 projectors and all the other dotcommers shit. But mostly they had the human overhead. I worked there with two other blokes on a Windows Media codec for IP multicasts and for that simple project I had to report to:
Project Manager
Product Owner
Project Designer
Functional Architect
Technical Architect
Customer Specialist
In other words I had six dorks circling us and making important faces trying to pretend that they were actually being useful but in reality they were as pure an overhead as one can imagine. No purpose, no work, just talk, talk, talk. And despite this whole muppet show they still couldn't sell much despite having an entire army of marketing drones.
The former company is doing just fine (expanding even!) while the latter is well... fucked. The former company was founded by a PhD (in geology) the latter was founded by an MBA who "carefully studied and analysed the market space before committing investors money".
I can't see why a company may want to deploy sourceforge on site. Maybe I never worked for a big enough company but unless you have hundreds of projects I can't really see why one might one to have sourceforge in the office. Even when I worked for my biggest ever employer they had some sixteen distinct projects and that was a company with well over a thousand employees. Where's the selling point?
GCC can definitely be considered the success story of the Free Software movement. In terms of C++ standards compliance GCC is believed to be the first compiler to achieve full ISO compliance. No other compiler (commercial or otherwise) can make the same claim. And despite constant complaints about how much GCC sucks on platform X or Y it's still the most portable compiler out there. How many platforms has MIPS pro ben ported to? Or Sun Workshop C++? Or Visual C++? Or Borland C++? GCC is one of the killer apps of the whole community. Something we should be cherish and be thankful for.
Having seen a few gaming APIs in the past including a proprietary one that was highly protected by one of my former employers I can testify that SDL beats them all. Why?
Because it's simple
SDL takes the concept of KISS to the appropriate level. SDL makes things as simple as you can make them but no simpler. Everything you need is there and stuff that isn't you can implement yourself. I've used SDL_Image and SDL_mixeer and SDL_Mpeg and they are all wonderfully simple things yet they give you enough flexibility to implement what might be missing. It's so hard to maintain balance between flexibility and completness in a library but SDL makes an amazing job at that.
Of course there is some rough edges and a bug or two but overall it's an outstanding API that anyone who wants to write games should have a look at.
DirectX might be more complete but by the time you learn it all Microsoft will have released a new version (again) which will render some of your knowledge obsolete. KISS definitely isn't the prinicple behind DirectX
''We expect to have (people) standing in line to use the Internet,'' says Denny Piper, the city's chief information officer.
No wonder. If you're only giving them 1000 access points (PCs) for the whole of Houston then no wonder they'll have to queue for or even book their internet access.
What good is a free email account when you dont have easy access to it?
But then RMS needs to be extreme because that is the only way you get people to listen to you in the world. Everyone else just gets ignored.
Nope. That is the way to get sidelined and branded a 'lunatic' and a 'zealot' and that is exactly what RMS has managed to accomplish throughout his life. I don't think many people who aren't frequent visitors to/. even know his name or care about his views.
I'm NOT complaining about the story being posted per se. I just didn't like that very last paragraph. What I'm complaining about is CmdrTaco trying to paint himself as a balanced observer when we all know that he's as big a FSF/GPL zealot as they get.
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Since Mozilla is beginning to look rather slick these days I have a quick question to someone enlightened. Is the new AOL (7.0?) interface based on Gecko or does it still use the IE control? Anybody in the know?
BS. Poles had the Enigma deciphered well before it even got into Briton's hands. The Brits were the ones who broke the second, improved Enigma's code but the very first Enigma was cracked by Poles. Swallow the truth.
There is a movie about Enigma out now in the UK. Unfortunately the movie is all fiction and gets many of the facts horribly wrong. One of the movies misrepresentations is "forgetting" that it was Polish scientists who first broke the Enigma encription and not the British. The other (which is quite disturbing) portrays one Polish guy as a traitor who tries to tell the Germans about the success of breaking Enigma. The movie caused a small scandal in Poland and will almost certainly hurt those remaining Poles who fought in the battle of Britain who still live in the UK and are now being portrayed in such ways. Bad Brittons! Bad!
This is getting ridiculous. British colleges/universities are achieving new lows. They charge extorsion money for their courses to all those outside of the EU (usually > $13,000 per academic year) and they keep enrolling foreign students who can barely speak English. Then they somehow manage to graduate them despite their abysmal language skills. I'm not xenophobic by saying this. I was a foreign student in Britain between 1992 and 1998. Last two years of my studies I saw the levels of education quickly decline while the oveseas tuition fees went through the roof at the same time. They became huge government approved money machines. What they are doing with this is their greed getting beyond belief. And note that I'm not talking about those colleges that pretend to be universities. In my case I'm talking about the University of Edinburgh. Last five years it's gone downhill so much it's not even funny. British education ain't nearly what it used to be.
Sun themselves are in a need for boxes like that as their website seems severely slashdotted right now.
Not necessarily. I'm currently employed by a company that's planning to cash in on the new-new-economy. Even though I make enough to get a mortgage I'm afraid to take one. Things are so volatile these days that I no longer want to make any finnancial commitments that go beyond what I can payoff right away in case the sky falls down. Perhaps I'm paranoid but I've seen shit happen to people who bought homes and were subsequently laid off and lost not only their homes but also all the savings they put in the downpayment.
Now I'm living in a rented apartment making my shady landlord richer while I'm no better off than I was five years ago as most of my savings are consumed by my landlord. This way I'll stay poor for the forseeable future while my landlord will most likely increase his wealth quite a bit more during this period. It's a vicious circle that many young people such as myself are cought up in.
I posted a MLP to Kuro5hin earlier this year with an excellent photo-report from Chechnya made by a Polish journalist. Here is the story. Unfortunately the main link no longer works but I posted a comment which has direct links to all images. The body of the story contains the picture titles.
There has been no evidence whatsoever (beside urban legends) that Chechens ever engaged in terririst activities. KGB and the Russian media did what was in their power to tarnish their name in the public opinion. The truth is however, that Russia desperately tries to hold on to Chechnya as they have their eyes set on "reunification" with Georgia.
So yeah, there cool jobs out there but they are usually higer up in the ladder.
Yuck! I'm supposed to start evaluating it next week! Ouch!
Well, we use JSPs because everything else we do is 100% java so it makes sense for us. Having said that though my personal and very subjective experience is that PHP pages are quite a bit faster than those generated by JSPs. Obviously it's nearly impossible to benchmark those things byut from experience I'd say that it's easier to create fast pages in PHP whereas with servlet/JSPs it's easier to create robust pages. Not very scientific I know, but here's my $0.02 on the subject.
I hear you loud and clear. But if you think you've seen the worst in terms of installation woes you should check out IBM Websphere. Oh, man two months since 4.0 shipped and I still haven't got it all running. What a f***ing nightmare!
Yeah, Tomcat guys were saying on the mailing list that they would call the last beta a "beta" until Sun puts a seal on the spec because they were ready much earlier (pending any changes in the spec that is). So basically as soon as they found out about the spec approval they just branched the code and made the build. It's all in their mailing list.
Does Tomcat4.0 support load balancing the way 3.2.x did?
In 3.3.x you could load balance a cluster of Tomcats through apache and mod_jserv or mod_jk (which is what we use). So does T4.0 support load balancing and if so is it through mod_jk or is there a new module to do the job? If so has anyone played with it yet?
Whoa! This guy has guts. Not only is he trying to battle William Gates III he's also named Bill's OS after himself! Even Bill Gates himself wasn't arrogant enough to instill a "BillOS" upon us! Sheesh.
For a modern collection of PG rated titles try most things published by Nintendo. Actually Mario 64 was an excellent game in itself and a pretty challenging one too.
Hope this helps.
Luckily open source doesn't have ot suffer from the issue as much since source availability ensures that old software can often be tweaked or sometimes just recompiled to make it work with new versions of dependent libraries.
How long to maintain backwards compatibility is really the question of your business domain. An in house app can probably be changed significantly without impacting many people while a widget library (like QT for example) must maintain backwards compatibility for at least a couple of minor versions. The ability to simply recompile old code after a major change in the library is a welcome feature too.
Bullshit. MBAs are the ones who desperately need to "manage" someone. If they haven't got scores of people to "manage" or they become irrelevant too. Between 1997 and 2000 I worked for a small shop (~20 developers) and we had a steady income and the company was profitable almost from day 1.
Then I moved to North America and found a new job (which I no longer hold btw). This time it was a company doing stuff that was simpler than my former employer yet the had ten times as many employees, aeron chairs, $20,000 projectors and all the other dotcommers shit. But mostly they had the human overhead. I worked there with two other blokes on a Windows Media codec for IP multicasts and for that simple project I had to report to:
- Project Manager
- Product Owner
- Project Designer
- Functional Architect
- Technical Architect
- Customer Specialist
In other words I had six dorks circling us and making important faces trying to pretend that they were actually being useful but in reality they were as pure an overhead as one can imagine. No purpose, no work, just talk, talk, talk. And despite this whole muppet show they still couldn't sell much despite having an entire army of marketing drones.The former company is doing just fine (expanding even!) while the latter is well... fucked. The former company was founded by a PhD (in geology) the latter was founded by an MBA who "carefully studied and analysed the market space before committing investors money".
A-the-OS. It's all in capitalization baby!
I can't see why a company may want to deploy sourceforge on site. Maybe I never worked for a big enough company but unless you have hundreds of projects I can't really see why one might one to have sourceforge in the office. Even when I worked for my biggest ever employer they had some sixteen distinct projects and that was a company with well over a thousand employees. Where's the selling point?
GCC can definitely be considered the success story of the Free Software movement. In terms of C++ standards compliance GCC is believed to be the first compiler to achieve full ISO compliance. No other compiler (commercial or otherwise) can make the same claim. And despite constant complaints about how much GCC sucks on platform X or Y it's still the most portable compiler out there. How many platforms has MIPS pro ben ported to? Or Sun Workshop C++? Or Visual C++? Or Borland C++? GCC is one of the killer apps of the whole community. Something we should be cherish and be thankful for.
Because it's simple
SDL takes the concept of KISS to the appropriate level. SDL makes things as simple as you can make them but no simpler. Everything you need is there and stuff that isn't you can implement yourself. I've used SDL_Image and SDL_mixeer and SDL_Mpeg and they are all wonderfully simple things yet they give you enough flexibility to implement what might be missing. It's so hard to maintain balance between flexibility and completness in a library but SDL makes an amazing job at that. Of course there is some rough edges and a bug or two but overall it's an outstanding API that anyone who wants to write games should have a look at.
DirectX might be more complete but by the time you learn it all Microsoft will have released a new version (again) which will render some of your knowledge obsolete. KISS definitely isn't the prinicple behind DirectX
No wonder. If you're only giving them 1000 access points (PCs) for the whole of Houston then no wonder they'll have to queue for or even book their internet access. What good is a free email account when you dont have easy access to it?
Nope. That is the way to get sidelined and branded a 'lunatic' and a 'zealot' and that is exactly what RMS has managed to accomplish throughout his life. I don't think many people who aren't frequent visitors to /. even know his name or care about his views.
I'm NOT complaining about the story being posted per se. I just didn't like that very last paragraph. What I'm complaining about is CmdrTaco trying to paint himself as a balanced observer when we all know that he's as big a FSF/GPL zealot as they get.