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  1. Re:Estate of the Nation on U.S. Jobs Jumping Ship · · Score: 1

    But people tend to forget that certain states liked to deny rights to certain classes of people, until the federal gov't got involved. They were big on "states rights". And that's how the camel got it's nose into the tent....

  2. Re:Liberal media on Salon, Nearly No Money and Ultramercials · · Score: 1

    Yeah, just like Henry Hyde, Newt Gringrich and the mother of all crooks... Nixon

  3. Re:Bias on Tragedy, Media and Marketing · · Score: 1

    Plenty of people refute the claims of "Bias".

    Try these:

    http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/05/nunb er g-g-05-15.html

    http://www-csli.stanford.edu/%7Enunberg/bias.htm l

    http://www.dailyhowler.com/h030802_1.shtml

    The media is libertine, but hardly liberal. There are left-wingers around, but they don't get nearly the airtime compared to the right-wingers.

  4. CORBA is NOT that complex on Web Services · · Score: 1

    Sheesh, why does everybody say CORBA is too complicated, the following few lines of code initialize our (Visibroker) CORBA service:

    // Initialize the ORB.
    orb = org.omg.CORBA.ORB.init( args, null );

    // Initialize the BOA.
    // Need to cast boa for java 1.2.x
    boa = ((com.inprise.vbroker.orb.ORB)orb).BOA_init();
    // Export the newly created object.
    boa.obj_is_ready(service);

    // Wait for incoming requests
    boa.impl_is_ready();

    and here's a typical method call;

    /**

    Operation: ::com::appdesigngroup::appsecurity::IBaseSecurity: : uthenticate.

    #pragma prefix "com/appdesigngroup/appsecurity/IBaseSecurity"
    st ring authenticate(
    in string user,
    in string credentials) raises(::com::appdesigngroup::corba::util::UserExc eption, ::com::appdesigngroup::corba::util:: SystemException
    );
    */
    public java.lang.String authenticate(java.lang.String user, java.lang.String password)
    throws com.appdesigngroup.corba.util.UserException, com.appdesigngroup.corba.util.SystemException
    {
    return authenticate(user, password, enforceExpiration, false);
    }

    Yes, I know Visibroker has a non-standard registration service, but it has a full-blown naming service if you need it. If you're just calling your own methods, then you can simplify things a lot. And yes, you have to run the IDL compiler, but we just put that in our makefiles (yes we still use make), and it's taken care of automagically. New developers don't have to learn all the gritty details.

    I don't see how this is much more complex than RMI or SOAP, but the advanced stuff is there if you need it. And I don't see how parsing an XML tree every time you need to check a data element is speedy or efficient.

  5. Re:No it's not! on Broadband Obstacles · · Score: 2, Informative

    No I'd rather have the wife of a Senator on my board, so he can tack a major deregulation law onto another bill.

  6. Re:I love how MS is dealing with XML on Creating and Using XML-Based Internal Documents? · · Score: 1

    If they do it's news to the help system. Try typing in "save as XML", in Help search, you get nothing back. I also just looked at a MS2K .doc file. Looks like binary to me.

  7. Re:add in a DVDanywhere on What's The Best Combo DVD/VCD/CD/MP3 Player? · · Score: 1

    Remember that if you have a 2.4GHz phone system anywhere in your house, X10's DVD/MP3 anywhere will buzz and crackle. If you have a Seimens Gigset (very cool) it will pop and buzz and click continuously as the base station communicates with the remotes. I tried it. -r

  8. Re:Old Methods Not At Fault on eLection '04 · · Score: 1

    I heard today on some TV news show that Palm Beach county has a FIVE minute time limit! So much for taking your time.

  9. Look at CORBA on Alternatives to COM+ · · Score: 1

    We looked at COM a while ago, before all the COM+ stuff was available and it was seriously brain-dead. Although it may be better now, if you plan on doing any cross platform development, take a very good look at CORBA. We use Visigenic/Borland/Inprise or whatever its called this week. Their marketing is terrible, but the product is great stuff. Adding about 20 lines of code makes it network/cross platform ready. We use it on both Solaris and NT and it's fast and reliable. Just don't get too crazy with lots of embedded objects and remember that each CORBA function call is actually a data transfer over a socket connction. Too many remote calls and the performance degrades. (We get 50ms response on our local network.) Other technologies, like Java RMI, and direct sockets are either slower, don't work, or are a pain in the arse to develop. Forget get about cross platform RMI. And beware the applications server vendors, they can lock you in to there stuff, which can be a pain to program around if it doesn't do what you need.