I'd assume his home directory was NFS mounted on said machine also. I've done pretty much the same thing myself before, just not with such spectacular results.
Actually, as I recall, we used to do this *deliberately* quite a lot in the old computer lab. At the time, it seemed pretty damn hilarious...
I don't think you're visualizing the situation correctly.
I don't see how the need for an extension language indicates that at all. An extension language (IMHO) is usually needed so that the end user of the application can script that app and extend it to do things you, the application engine writer, did not supply. The needs of the engine and the needs of the extension language are totally different.
I'm going to want to write the engine to be fast, efficient, and easy for me to maintain. The extension mechanism should be simple, allow for ease of re-use (so the user community can exchange code snippets amongst themselves), and powerful enough to allow the sort of add-ons and control structures I (the app designer) *think* the user will need.
Perfect example is Neverwinter Nights (although the darn app always crashes on me... but I digress ). Powerful engine, with a scripting language bolted on. You would never try to write that application *in* the scripting language. You might ship a large amount of *content* with the app pre-written using the scripting language, though.
Of course, The Godfather was written as the movie deal was being worked on also. Paramount developed both at the same time essentially... Francis Ford Coppola even guided the general 'tone' of the book from a simple "Mafia" book to more of a "Story of a Family".
Robert Evans (head of Paramount at the time) explains this nicely in his *excellent* and very entertaining movie "The Kid Stays In The Picture". So that's sort of cheating, isn't it?:-).
Hmm... let's run down the list, shall we? This is from someone who, while he might not be as big a fanboy as some, has read the books 5-6 times through (I've lost track), and also plays Middle Earth Role-Playing in a very long-running campaign, so we discuss LOTR *a lot*.
Gandalf? Seems 100% accurate to the books.
*All* the hobbits Dead on, at least characterization-wise. Might have missed some of the great lines using these characters, but nothing that jumped out at me.
Aragorn Again, don't see how Aragorn/Strider is any different from the books. OK, maybe a few scenes were left out (and yes, I missed some of those, like the scenes of him healing Eowyn, Faramir, and Merry), and some new scenes introduced to advance the "love" plotline, but BFD... Vigo nailed the part as far as I'm concerned.
Arwen OK, this is the biggest change. Now she actually has a part and some characterization. Most of her "screen time" in the book is just flashbacks to her and Aragorn meeting in Lothlorien. I don't mind this side-track too much in FOTR, although in the next two movies I think it got too much screen time and led to too many deviations from the book. On the other hand, I see that this plotline did help "sell" the movie to some people who had not read the books... a minor concession to make the movie more interesting and accessible to the General Public.
Gimli/Legolas Eh, a little bland, but neither character is very well fleshed out in the books anyway. They exist mostly as an illustration of "cooperation among the races" and "friendship". I love the characters, but I accept that they are minor characters over-all -- there is very little they do in the course of the whole trilogy that is of great importance to the storyline itself.
Boromir Dead on. Sean Bean was great in this part, I'm sorry that he did so well and yet missed out on the other two movies:-).
Elrond As with Legolas and Gimli, he has little to no character in the books... he is a prop. Giving him some emotions and motivations, and letting Hugo Weaving play the part seems like a good decision to me. I think as with Arwen, Elrond in the movie is very different and led to significant deviations from the books, but nothing I object to.
Galadriel Her scenes all got clipped way too short. Cate Blanchett was great in the part, but the movie moved the time in Lorien along too fast... However, I don't think the overall 'spirit' of the character suffered that much. *Horrible* CG in the "Mirror of Galadriel" scene, but we still got to hear the line I love so much:
"I pass the test. I will diminish, and go into The West, and remain Galadriel".
Since that line closes a plotline from the First Age and the Silmarillion, getting to deliver that one line saves anything else wrt Galadriel.
Eowyn Another minor character who steals the show. She is great in ROTK. I wish her scene killing the Witch King has been drawn out more (this is another one of the scenes I *love* in the books), but she is a very well done character in both script and acting.
Gollum I have no comment on this. If you want to criticize Gollum, I'm afraid our perspectives are so far apart as to be incomprehensible.
So, umm... who is left? Saruman? The Nazgul? Sauron? Come on, convince me that some character just got savaged by Peter Jackson. Other than Tom Bombadil, you'll have a hard time convincing me:-). I just posted an abbreviated analysis, granted, but I think I've risen above the level of "Y0u sux0r! LOTR rulz!!!".
So, air your complaints in specifics... I'd like to know. I don't feel betrayed at all... I feel damn glad Peter Jackson fought to make these movies and delivered an epic that I will watch and re-watch for years to come.
Oh, and I still own the books too, and I can still read those! Funny how that works, they didn't burn all copies of the books when they did the movie!
Oh, and Tony Hawk games have cool music too, but I've never seen the soundtracks offered separately. Too bad, I really cranked the songs sometimes while I played it on my Dreamcast:-).
I really don't follow things in games all that much (I like what I like, but I don't have enough time to devote to games to get fanatical about anything). However, one of my favorite CDs ever is my copy of "Inferno", which is a game soundtrack done by Alien Sex Fiend. Totally sounds different from any other ASF stuff I own, and I totally dig it. Lots of electronic samples, explosion noises, and cool audio drops.
So yeah, a good game soundtrack can be awesome, if it's fairly original. I don't usually like game or movie soundtracks that are just collections of existing songs or songs that really don't link to the game or movie (most Jerry Bruckheimer movies are very guilty of this level of blandness).
Oh no, I believed him 100%. I also saw a naval architect from China during that same interview period, and I've worked with several PhD's from China who were working much more entry-level jobs.
I believe he did say that he was having problems getting his credentials accepted here, but I didn't know what the details were -- his English was quite passable, but not up to some of the complexities in that discussion, so I'm sure I could have missed something subtle there.
My favorite piece on a resume was an application I got for a junior developer position. We're talking ground-level work for a very small firm...
This fellow was over here from China on a Visa, and getting a job was obviously key to his continued stay here. He had a decent amount of background in web programming, resume looked good. I finally got to his job history from China itself, and his formal schooling.
He listed 'Resident Neurosurgeon' as his last job title before coming to America.
Me: "Umm... is this correct? You worked as a neurosurgeon?"
Him: "Oh, yes."
Me: "But... you weren't operating on people, surely? You were training to be a doctor?"
Him: "Oh no, I operated on patients for two years there. I worked on people's brains."
I resisted the urge to make a joke about who did he think he was, some sort of brain surgeon? I later on got a similar opportunity when I hired a Chinese girl who had a PhD in (you guessed it) rocket science.:-)
(No, I didn't hire the brain surgeon. We found a candidate with more experience and less likeliness to jump ship from us if a job opened up in his true area of expertise)
Wow. I can't believe the absolutely *ignorant* comments on those forums. And I do mean *ignorant*, because the assertions made don't make any sense to me from any bit of knowledge I have at my disposal.
"Look at what happened to Linux" Umm... yeah. Linux is in a sad state indeed.
"There's lots of closed-source OS's out there, like Microsoft Windows and Mac OS!" Well, duh. I think perhaps those are successful because they have large teams and large corporate forces behind them... how do you match those? Open-source is one way... one person doing development all by himself seems pretty well doomed to failure.
I don't know. Sounds like a bad horse to bet anything on. Looks pretty, I'd even use it if it were open-source (or at least not being accused of GPL violations). But I suspect this isn't going to go anywhere unless and until the project opens up in some fashion. Linus tinkered with Linux on his own for quite a while, but I doubt it would have gone anywhere if he had never GPL'ed it. He himself has often said it was the pivotal decision he made in the development...
I find the road to be a pretty slippery slope for the most part:-).
In my defense, I do revisit things pretty much every day and comment out *something* or clarify the code better. In my current situation, that's the appropriate use of time, because I only have 2 other developers relying on this code base, and they already know it pretty well. I try not to envision the "getting hit by a truck scenario", since I'm a firm believer that you always get exactly what your thoughts dwell on (*)
(*) except for the naked women. Batting average is somewhat low on that one.
Actually, the way that it all ends at Mount Doom really is unexpected for those who encounter it the first time. I mean, it's hard for me to remember, it was over 20 years ago that I read the trilogy (and I might have already seen Return of the King The Animation...), but I recall that I didn't expect the Quest to end like that. Oh, I knew the Ring would be destroyed... but wasn't it a close one? Tolkien layered a lot into that final set of moments... in a way, the whole point of the series was in those moments of interaction between Sam, Gollum, and Frodo. I hope the movie really captures those moments well.
I agree that writing your own framework severely decreases the "truck number" of the project. My current project is pretty much screwed if I get hit by a bus. Right now, I consider the benefits we're getting out of having 'rolled our own' to outweigh that risk. I do have the best of intentions of putting more effort towards documentation, commenting, etc to try to make the framework survive my tenure here...
I think the risk of established frameworks, the trade-off, is that they are not going to be optimized for your needs and your practices. For me, using something like Struts would be a pain in some ways only because the way it is set up is far more generalized than what I need. I had the same problem with Tomcat too... it was almost too configurable (I actually fell back to using Resin as our servlet engine partially because I found it easier to use and administrate).
I have also written my own framework. Actually, I've "written" it at least 3 times -- once in Perl, once in Java, once (again) in Java once I understood tag libraries and JSP's better. It was an evolution of concepts and best practices in Web programming borne out of my experience in the field (I think I wrote my first web app in 1995?).
I wrote my framework because at the time, there wasn't anything out there that was decent and fit my thoughts and opinions about "how it should be done". So far, it's worked out well. I can train a good programmer to use my framework in about 2-3 days if they already know basically how servlets and JSPs work. They usually really "know" it after a couple months working with it... about typical for a good framework, I think. I suspect my framework is more efficient than most of the "general" frameworks out there like Struts, because I built it to fit the needs and the programming model unique to my group(s), and my situation.
Even given how far Struts et al have come, I still prefer what I cooked up. I plan to do another rewrite of my framework in Ruby soon, both to learn the language and to have another possible platform I can deploy my own MVC concepts onto... it's my baby, and I like it:-).
Ah, should have just waited and added this to my post before. I see we have ASP.NET for Mono (kind of?):
http://www.go-mono.com/asp-net.html
Now, the next question I'll have to settle is, does ASP.NET not suck as bad as ASP under IIS used to? I never really liked the 'let's put our code in our pages' thing, I use JSPs in J2EE purely in the 'View' mode of an MVC architecture (like everyone else does, right? <grin>).
Oh well, at least something to play with in between compiles of my 'real work'. Lets me have an answer when the PHB(*) comes by and asks me about this "...new C# stuff, shouldn't we be using that?"
(*) Hey Tom, if you read this, I don't mean you. Oh, same goes if Rick reads this. Actually, I just made up that PHB stuff, of course we don't have any of those in our fine company:-).
My interest is less in whether C# itself is complete enough. I was wondering if the Mono implementation is going to include enough of the "goodies" that I can immediately start doing Web/Internet programming in C# using Mono only.
I'm still not *quite* sure, but I'm tending to think the answer is 'yes'. Of course, now that I think of it, I'm not quite clear on *how* I would do this. Is there a C# equivalent to the 'servlet' architecture in Java (and does Mono include this)? Something that hopefully runs just fine under Unix and Apache?
I suppose I should just dig around and find it. Must be a mod_dotnet out there:-).
So, is this worth looking into for C# development at this point? Is it complete enough? I know next to nothing about C#, but I wouldn't mind learning it. I mostly do Web/Internet apps, and my flavor of choice at the moment is Java (servlets, not the horror that is EJB).
I keep hearing about Mono lacking System.Windows.Forms -- is this a big deal? What else might it be missing (and is any of that going to be coming soon, like within 6 months?).
I have a lot of my developers here asking about C#, and I wouldn't mind exploring it. Our enterprise division is probably going to move towards using it in new products (we mostly sell Windows-based apps), so being able to better work with their products and code might be nice too...
I think I am now dumber having read that interview. Nowhere in that whole page did she say anything resembling a real thought. If I read something about "linking your business practices to your IT" again, I think I would have gone totally zombie.
Maybe that's the plan. Subliminal hypnosis. Only explanation for a CTO giving any money to HP for this pile of BS.
Oh, well, back to my own synergistic business initiatives linking IT to the customer base in a proactive fashion.
I avoid EJB development like the plague it is, but from what I understand in discussions with fellow developers, it is really the integrated tool set that they like. The fact that Websphere works well with Visual Age, and the sets of management tools for it, seem to be the selling point.
I think for places with more of a limited budget, JBoss is already well suited to be the choice. Why pay uber-bucks when JBoss does the job well enough and you can spend that cash on a beefier infrastructure (so that even if someone argued that JBoss isn't as fast or whatever, who cares... I'm got a 16 CPU Dell Server running Linux that I host it on). For places who tends to spend more money (and time) on development anyway (major auto maker, name begins with 'F' and rhymes with 'ord'), IBM probably will still own the EJB biz. Not sure if IONA can change that, they're a good company but still much lower-profile than BEA or IBM. Most people know of IONA only if they had been exposed to CORBA previously, and that's still a pretty low number of developers.
Just my general thoughts observing from the outside. I hope JBoss does take off, at least then I'd know there's an EJB suite I wouldn't mind working with...
I believe any router that knowing hijacks any connection *by default* is broken as designed. End of story. Does not meet my definition of a functional router. I don't care if I can turn it off. It's an abomination before God.
I think Belkin deserves every bit of abuse on this issue. They knowingly did something annoying to their customers only because they couldn't figure out how to sell this POS censorware service any other way. Screw them.
I really cannot believe this. This doesn't concern me as a censorship issue (doesn't appear as if censorship is built into the router itself... but without details on exactly how this parental control works, don't really know). It concerns me as a pure *annoyance* issue. I would absolutely flip out if my router dared to do this!
Everyone at Belkin should be ashamed of themselves. How could an engineer do this? He should be flogged with a cat-o-nine tails of twisted pair wire... this is evil, evil, evil.
Oh, and to the Belkin Marketing Department: Kill yourselves. Suck a tailpipe, hang yourself, borrow a gun... rid the world of your evil machinations. [ Just planting seeds ]
I assume we all decide what culture we'd like to be amalgamated into. I just think we should relax the paranoia that perhaps by elevating "humanity" to a higher status than our inividual cultural differences, we'll "lose our identity". How silly. Like I said, I have no problem being Italian, being American, and being Human. I try not to be attached to any of those concepts too strongly:-).
I just think rigid thinking, and the tendency to make it "us" vs. "them", is, well, bad (duh).
I totally disagree with this concept that companies should be barred *by law* from selling a product in English in a French (or whatever) country. How silly. Let them try to sell it, if people want to buy it, great. If it fails because the company didn't localize it, fine. But it's no business of the government to do that (IMHO).
So, if people don't want to *buy* it, then yes, they *won't* be able to sell it. But any concept that they *shouldn't* have a chance to try it sounds silly and protectionist to me...
> I think the Quebequois are worried that their > kids will just start speaking English, which > would be a major step toward their > disappearance as a distinct ethnic group.
Good.
Not because I hate French-Canadians, but because I hate distinctions between people. The less reasons we have to hate each other for being different, the better off the world will be. We need to start seeing ourselves as "human" much less than "Japanese", "European", etc.
Oh, and I'll note that I'm Italian-American, I speak English, know a little Italian, but I still have quite an attachment to my heritage without a fear of being integrated into America too.
I have to disagree (with most of what you said, but let's just focus on this one, because I think I can make a convincing point on this one).
In the fight scene we get:
- Bane/Smith making some good exposition about how much he, the machine, still hates humans and "living in the flesh". It is clear that Smith really is Neo's antithesis -- he will never want "peace", neither with the humans nor with the other machines. - Bane/Smith blinds Neo physically... -...which forces Neo to make the final connections. Blinded, he makes the final connection to his 'powers' -- he 'sees' Bane, and it is apparent that this is as suprising to him at it is to Bane. He achieves the final control he needs not only to penetrate the machine world's defenses physically, but to achieve the control he needs to defeat Smith in the Matrix, and to reprogram the Matrix at the end (what, you think that the 'Neo-Matrix' looking nicer is just a coincidence?)
The fight takes Neo's physical sight. That is the final link to his gnosis -- he is now totally cut off from 'seeing' the world of illusion, he sees the world as energy and knows how to manipulate that energy.
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I'd assume his home directory was NFS mounted on said machine also. I've done pretty much the same thing myself before, just not with such spectacular results.
Actually, as I recall, we used to do this *deliberately* quite a lot in the old computer lab. At the time, it seemed pretty damn hilarious...
I don't think you're visualizing the situation correctly.
I don't see how the need for an extension language indicates that at all. An extension language (IMHO) is usually needed so that the end user of the application can script that app and extend it to do things you, the application engine writer, did not supply. The needs of the engine and the needs of the extension language are totally different.
I'm going to want to write the engine to be fast,
efficient, and easy for me to maintain. The extension mechanism should be simple, allow for ease of re-use (so the user community can exchange code snippets amongst themselves), and powerful enough to allow the sort of add-ons and control structures I (the app designer) *think* the user will need.
Perfect example is Neverwinter Nights (although the darn app always crashes on me... but I digress ). Powerful engine, with a scripting language bolted on. You would never try to write that application *in* the scripting language. You might ship a large amount of *content* with the app pre-written using the scripting language, though.
Of course, The Godfather was written as the movie deal was being worked on also. Paramount developed both at the same time essentially... Francis Ford Coppola even guided the general 'tone' of the book from a simple "Mafia" book to more of a "Story of a Family".
:-).
Robert Evans (head of Paramount at the time) explains this nicely in his *excellent* and very entertaining movie "The Kid Stays In The Picture". So that's sort of cheating, isn't it?
Sweeping changes?
:-).
:-). I just posted an abbreviated analysis, granted, but I think I've risen above the level of "Y0u sux0r! LOTR rulz!!!".
Hmm... let's run down the list, shall we? This is from someone who, while he might not be as big a fanboy as some, has read the books 5-6 times through (I've lost track), and also plays Middle Earth Role-Playing in a very long-running campaign, so we discuss LOTR *a lot*.
Gandalf?
Seems 100% accurate to the books.
*All* the hobbits
Dead on, at least characterization-wise. Might have missed some of the great lines using these characters, but nothing that jumped out at me.
Aragorn
Again, don't see how Aragorn/Strider is any different from the books. OK, maybe a few scenes were left out (and yes, I missed some of those, like the scenes of him healing Eowyn, Faramir, and Merry), and some new scenes introduced to advance the "love" plotline, but BFD... Vigo nailed the part as far as I'm concerned.
Arwen
OK, this is the biggest change. Now she actually has a part and some characterization. Most of her "screen time" in the book is just flashbacks to her and Aragorn meeting in Lothlorien. I don't mind this side-track too much in FOTR, although in the next two movies I think it got too much screen time and led to too many deviations from the book. On the other hand, I see that this plotline did help "sell" the movie to some people who had not read the books... a minor concession to make the movie more interesting and accessible to the General Public.
Gimli/Legolas
Eh, a little bland, but neither character is very well fleshed out in the books anyway. They exist mostly as an illustration of "cooperation among the races" and "friendship". I love the characters, but I accept that they are minor characters over-all -- there is very little they do in the course of the whole trilogy that is of great importance to the storyline itself.
Boromir
Dead on. Sean Bean was great in this part, I'm sorry that he did so well and yet missed out on the other two movies
Elrond
As with Legolas and Gimli, he has little to no character in the books... he is a prop. Giving him some emotions and motivations, and letting Hugo Weaving play the part seems like a good decision to me. I think as with Arwen, Elrond in the movie is very different and led to significant deviations from the books, but nothing I object to.
Galadriel
Her scenes all got clipped way too short. Cate Blanchett was great in the part, but the movie moved the time in Lorien along too fast... However, I don't think the overall 'spirit' of the character suffered that much. *Horrible* CG in the "Mirror of Galadriel" scene, but we still got to hear the line I love so much:
"I pass the test. I will diminish, and go into The West, and remain Galadriel".
Since that line closes a plotline from the First Age and the Silmarillion, getting to deliver that one line saves anything else wrt Galadriel.
Eowyn
Another minor character who steals the show. She is great in ROTK. I wish her scene killing the Witch King has been drawn out more (this is another one of the scenes I *love* in the books), but she is a very well done character in both script and acting.
Gollum
I have no comment on this. If you want to criticize Gollum, I'm afraid our perspectives are so far apart as to be incomprehensible.
So, umm... who is left? Saruman? The Nazgul? Sauron? Come on, convince me that some character just got savaged by Peter Jackson. Other than Tom Bombadil, you'll have a hard time convincing me
So, air your complaints in specifics... I'd like to know. I don't feel betrayed at all... I feel damn glad Peter Jackson fought to make these movies and delivered an epic that I will watch and re-watch for years to come.
Oh, and I still own the books too, and I can still read those! Funny how that works, they didn't burn all copies of the books when they did the movie!
Oh, and Tony Hawk games have cool music too, but I've never seen the soundtracks offered separately. Too bad, I really cranked the songs sometimes while I played it on my Dreamcast :-).
I really don't follow things in games all that much (I like what I like, but I don't have enough time to devote to games to get fanatical about anything). However, one of my favorite CDs ever is my copy of "Inferno", which is a game soundtrack done by Alien Sex Fiend. Totally sounds different from any other ASF stuff I own, and I totally dig it. Lots of electronic samples, explosion noises, and cool audio drops.
So yeah, a good game soundtrack can be awesome, if it's fairly original. I don't usually like game or movie soundtracks that are just collections of existing songs or songs that really don't link to the game or movie (most Jerry Bruckheimer movies are very guilty of this level of blandness).
Oh no, I believed him 100%. I also saw a naval architect from China during that same interview period, and I've worked with several PhD's from China who were working much more entry-level jobs.
I believe he did say that he was having problems getting his credentials accepted here, but I didn't know what the details were -- his English was quite passable, but not up to some of the complexities in that discussion, so I'm sure I could have missed something subtle there.
> They don't give out Nobel prizes for "Most
> Novel New Method to Kill People".
Irony intended, I'm sure, but you do know what Alfred Nobel was famous for, right?
My favorite piece on a resume was an application I got for a junior developer position. We're talking ground-level work for a very small firm...
:-)
This fellow was over here from China on a Visa, and getting a job was obviously key to his continued stay here. He had a decent amount of background in web programming, resume looked good. I finally got to his job history from China itself, and his formal schooling.
He listed 'Resident Neurosurgeon' as his last job title before coming to America.
Me: "Umm... is this correct? You worked as a neurosurgeon?"
Him: "Oh, yes."
Me: "But... you weren't operating on people, surely? You were training to be a doctor?"
Him: "Oh no, I operated on patients for two years there. I worked on people's brains."
I resisted the urge to make a joke about who did he think he was, some sort of brain surgeon? I later on got a similar opportunity when I hired a Chinese girl who had a PhD in (you guessed it) rocket science.
(No, I didn't hire the brain surgeon. We found a candidate with more experience and less likeliness to jump ship from us if a job opened up in his true area of expertise)
Wow. I can't believe the absolutely *ignorant* comments on those forums. And I do mean *ignorant*, because the assertions made don't make any sense to me from any bit of knowledge I have at my disposal.
"Look at what happened to Linux"
Umm... yeah. Linux is in a sad state indeed.
"There's lots of closed-source OS's out there, like Microsoft Windows and Mac OS!"
Well, duh. I think perhaps those are successful because they have large teams and large corporate forces behind them... how do you match those? Open-source is one way... one person doing development all by himself seems pretty well doomed to failure.
I don't know. Sounds like a bad horse to bet anything on. Looks pretty, I'd even use it if it were open-source (or at least not being accused of GPL violations). But I suspect this isn't going to go anywhere unless and until the project opens up in some fashion. Linus tinkered with Linux on his own for quite a while, but I doubt it would have gone anywhere if he had never GPL'ed it. He himself has often said it was the pivotal decision he made in the development...
I find the road to be a pretty slippery slope for the most part :-).
In my defense, I do revisit things pretty much every day and comment out *something* or clarify the code better. In my current situation, that's the appropriate use of time, because I only have 2 other developers relying on this code base, and they already know it pretty well. I try not to envision the "getting hit by a truck scenario", since I'm a firm believer that you always get exactly what your thoughts dwell on (*)
(*) except for the naked women. Batting average is somewhat low on that one.
Actually, the way that it all ends at Mount Doom really is unexpected for those who encounter it the first time. I mean, it's hard for me to remember, it was over 20 years ago that I read the trilogy (and I might have already seen Return of the King The Animation...), but I recall that I didn't expect the Quest to end like that. Oh, I knew the Ring would be destroyed... but wasn't it a close one? Tolkien layered a lot into that final set of moments... in a way, the whole point of the series was in those moments of interaction between Sam, Gollum, and Frodo. I hope the movie really captures those moments well.
I agree that writing your own framework severely decreases the "truck number" of the project. My current project is pretty much screwed if I get hit by a bus. Right now, I consider the benefits we're getting out of having 'rolled our own' to outweigh that risk. I do have the best of intentions of putting more effort towards documentation, commenting, etc to try to make the framework survive my tenure here...
I think the risk of established frameworks, the trade-off, is that they are not going to be optimized for your needs and your practices. For me, using something like Struts would be a pain in some ways only because the way it is set up is far more generalized than what I need. I had the same problem with Tomcat too... it was almost too configurable (I actually fell back to using Resin as our servlet engine partially because I found it easier to use and administrate).
I have also written my own framework. Actually, I've "written" it at least 3 times -- once in Perl, once in Java, once (again) in Java once I understood tag libraries and JSP's better. It was an evolution of concepts and best practices in Web programming borne out of my experience in the field (I think I wrote my first web app in 1995?).
:-).
I wrote my framework because at the time, there wasn't anything out there that was decent and fit my thoughts and opinions about "how it should be done". So far, it's worked out well. I can train a good programmer to use my framework in about 2-3 days if they already know basically how servlets and JSPs work. They usually really "know" it after a couple months working with it... about typical for a good framework, I think. I suspect my framework is more efficient than most of the "general" frameworks out there like Struts, because I built it to fit the needs and the programming model unique to my group(s), and my situation.
Even given how far Struts et al have come, I still prefer what I cooked up. I plan to do another rewrite of my framework in Ruby soon, both to learn the language and to have another possible platform I can deploy my own MVC concepts onto... it's my baby, and I like it
You know, this is not the scenario *I* think of when I think of meeting some woman, plugging something in, and leaving with no words exchanged.
;-).
But I guess Apple people have different priorities
Ah, should have just waited and added this to my post before. I see we have ASP.NET for Mono (kind of?):
:-).
http://www.go-mono.com/asp-net.html
Now, the next question I'll have to settle is, does ASP.NET not suck as bad as ASP under IIS used to? I never really liked the 'let's put our code in our pages' thing, I use JSPs in J2EE purely in the 'View' mode of an MVC architecture (like everyone else does, right? <grin>).
Oh well, at least something to play with in between compiles of my 'real work'. Lets me have an answer when the PHB(*) comes by and asks me about this "...new C# stuff, shouldn't we be using that?"
(*) Hey Tom, if you read this, I don't mean you. Oh, same goes if Rick reads this. Actually, I just made up that PHB stuff, of course we don't have any of those in our fine company
My interest is less in whether C# itself is complete enough. I was wondering if the Mono implementation is going to include enough of the "goodies" that I can immediately start doing Web/Internet programming in C# using Mono only.
:-).
I'm still not *quite* sure, but I'm tending to think the answer is 'yes'. Of course, now that I think of it, I'm not quite clear on *how* I would do this. Is there a C# equivalent to the 'servlet' architecture in Java (and does Mono include this)? Something that hopefully runs just fine under Unix and Apache?
I suppose I should just dig around and find it. Must be a mod_dotnet out there
So, is this worth looking into for C# development at this point? Is it complete enough? I know next to nothing about C#, but I wouldn't mind learning it. I mostly do Web/Internet apps, and my flavor of choice at the moment is Java (servlets, not the horror that is EJB).
I keep hearing about Mono lacking System.Windows.Forms -- is this a big deal? What else might it be missing (and is any of that going to be coming soon, like within 6 months?).
I have a lot of my developers here asking about C#, and I wouldn't mind exploring it. Our enterprise division is probably going to move towards using it in new products (we mostly sell Windows-based apps), so being able to better work with their products and code might be nice too...
So, uh... enlighten me.
I think I am now dumber having read that interview. Nowhere in that whole page did she say anything resembling a real thought. If I read something about "linking your business practices to your IT" again, I think I would have gone totally zombie.
Maybe that's the plan. Subliminal hypnosis. Only explanation for a CTO giving any money to HP for this pile of BS.
Oh, well, back to my own synergistic business initiatives linking IT to the customer base in a proactive fashion.
I avoid EJB development like the plague it is, but from what I understand in discussions with fellow developers, it is really the integrated tool set that they like. The fact that Websphere works well with Visual Age, and the sets of management tools for it, seem to be the selling point.
I think for places with more of a limited budget, JBoss is already well suited to be the choice. Why pay uber-bucks when JBoss does the job well enough and you can spend that cash on a beefier infrastructure (so that even if someone argued that JBoss isn't as fast or whatever, who cares... I'm got a 16 CPU Dell Server running Linux that I host it on). For places who tends to spend more money (and time) on development anyway (major auto maker, name begins with 'F' and rhymes with 'ord'), IBM probably will still own the EJB biz. Not sure if IONA can change that, they're a good company but still much lower-profile than BEA or IBM. Most people know of IONA only if they had been exposed to CORBA previously, and that's still a pretty low number of developers.
Just my general thoughts observing from the outside. I hope JBoss does take off, at least then I'd know there's an EJB suite I wouldn't mind working with...
I believe any router that knowing hijacks any connection *by default* is broken as designed. End of story. Does not meet my definition of a functional router. I don't care if I can turn it off. It's an abomination before God.
I think Belkin deserves every bit of abuse on this issue. They knowingly did something annoying to their customers only because they couldn't figure out how to sell this POS censorware service any other way. Screw them.
I really cannot believe this. This doesn't concern me as a censorship issue (doesn't appear as if censorship is built into the router itself... but without details on exactly how this parental control works, don't really know). It concerns me as a pure *annoyance* issue. I would absolutely flip out if my router dared to do this!
Everyone at Belkin should be ashamed of themselves. How could an engineer do this? He should be flogged with a cat-o-nine tails of twisted pair wire... this is evil, evil, evil.
Oh, and to the Belkin Marketing Department: Kill yourselves. Suck a tailpipe, hang yourself, borrow a gun... rid the world of your evil machinations. [ Just planting seeds ]
I assume we all decide what culture we'd like to be amalgamated into. I just think we should relax the paranoia that perhaps by elevating "humanity" to a higher status than our inividual cultural differences, we'll "lose our identity". How silly. Like I said, I have no problem being Italian, being American, and being Human. I try not to be attached to any of those concepts too strongly :-).
I just think rigid thinking, and the tendency to make it "us" vs. "them", is, well, bad (duh).
I totally disagree with this concept that companies should be barred *by law* from selling a product in English in a French (or whatever) country. How silly. Let them try to sell it, if people want to buy it, great. If it fails because the company didn't localize it, fine. But it's no business of the government to do that (IMHO).
So, if people don't want to *buy* it, then yes, they *won't* be able to sell it. But any concept that they *shouldn't* have a chance to try it sounds silly and protectionist to me...
> I think the Quebequois are worried that their
> kids will just start speaking English, which
> would be a major step toward their
> disappearance as a distinct ethnic group.
Good.
Not because I hate French-Canadians, but because I hate distinctions between people. The less reasons we have to hate each other for being different, the better off the world will be. We need to start seeing ourselves as "human" much less than "Japanese", "European", etc.
Oh, and I'll note that I'm Italian-American, I speak English, know a little Italian, but I still have quite an attachment to my heritage without a fear of being integrated into America too.
I have to disagree (with most of what you said, but let's just focus on this one, because I think I can make a convincing point on this one).
...which forces Neo to make the final connections. Blinded, he makes the final connection to his 'powers' -- he 'sees' Bane, and it is apparent that this is as suprising to him at it is to Bane. He achieves the final control he needs not only to penetrate the machine world's defenses physically, but to achieve the control he needs to defeat Smith in the Matrix, and to reprogram the Matrix at the end (what, you think that the 'Neo-Matrix' looking nicer is just a coincidence?)
In the fight scene we get:
- Bane/Smith making some good exposition about how much he, the machine, still hates humans and "living in the flesh". It is clear that Smith really is Neo's antithesis -- he will never want "peace", neither with the humans nor with the other machines.
- Bane/Smith blinds Neo physically...
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The fight takes Neo's physical sight. That is the final link to his gnosis -- he is now totally cut off from 'seeing' the world of illusion, he sees the world as energy and knows how to manipulate that energy.