In theory, yes. In practice, most users will get a brand new DE with their next Ubuntu/Fedora/X-distro upgrade and will not have the time/patience/expertise to switch to a past version. Past versions will not be in the official repository, and for sure will break several GUI apps.
Yesterday my host provider (a big one) failed (again!) to renew the shared server host certificate so I couldn't access their Cpanel via HTTPS, so had to open a ticket.
That happened in 2008, 2009, 2010, and now, so I'm expecting the same situation by march 2012, 2013, etc...
BTW, they sell me a signed certificate for my domain. Alas, they don't track its expiration (nor me, of course!) so by some time in the year I'll have to open a ticket asking them to renew it (no big deal since I'm not doing e-business or similar.)
Obviously these aren't good practices, but I see a design failure in the scheme. The security should degrade in a better way.
Before Schliemann nobody knew for sure about the reality of Troy and the whole Homer opus with its mix of men and gods. Atlantis is a different case, where a very modern tale is fabricated from twisted interpretations of old passages, and that fabrication is very well documented as a hoax. Atlantis is in the same category as Chariots_of_gods for example.
"If you wish to converse with me," said Voltaire, "define your terms."
For a lot of people (readers of the design patterns ideas) a framework is a set of whatever things that help/enforce a well proved design, so you don't have to invent a new design for a lot of well known requirements presented on most applications. That's a bit different (but not much!) from a library or toolbox that helps to implement whatever design.
Of course, people may assign another definition or concept to the term...
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Yes that kind of problem is very real and annoying. But in the Java case is mostly an implementation problem, not the result of a conscious decision to break everything. Also, IMO that issue was less frequent in recent years, at least with the mayor JVM implementations.
I think this can be used as a nice kind of benchmark... as others pointed out, this demo shows that a browser application is currently at the same speed of an old 386/486 native app (not bad IMHO, since a lot of great apps ran perfectly in that kind of system.)
The data extracted from tree rings (I studied the subject in its relation to 14C calibration) doesn't provide a clean nor precise planetary record of the climate (broad regional differences, lack of adequate species near the equator, etc.) Recorded history for 1000 years??? What???
BTW, the GP was talking about geological times.
Offtopic: I don't assume any better knowledge, that's the reason I'm trying to get an answer.
Yes, it seems most people assume it is that simple! sadly the average change for 10 million years doesn't say anything about the change levels for particular centuries.
> The speed of change that's happening is staggering, it's at least a hundred times faster than the speed of natural, geological changes.
I don't understand how people gets this conclusion. How can the scientists do the measurements of the rate of climate change for some century of -for example- 50M years ago?
AFIK the "distributed source control system" is not about networking or Internet, but about giving each developer a whole copy of the central repository so they can "pre-commit" their code and this generates some benefits Spolsky talks about when referring to Mercurial.
BTW, Subversion will not prevent anybody's work being exported to India.
> At one time, COBOL was the only way to develop on tens of thousands of computers. Very expensive computers with very expensive maintenance and licensing contracts. There was a lot of money in this, measured in hundreds of thousands of dollars per year per site.
Why you talk in past tense? How many mainframes are using Ruby for the business?
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From the article, about a "secure operating system":
> Generally, this would be taken to mean an operating system that was designed with security in mind, and provides various methods and tools to implement security polices and limits on the system.
Sadly most naive users still believe that security is about setting fine grained permissions, roles, resources and tagging system objects in general. In practice 1) security exploits simply bypass or reconfigure such validations or policies for their own purpose, and 2) getting a really good "fine grained" configuration and reconfiguration is pretty difficult, time consuming, and prone to error (i.e. to increase the vulnerability.)
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I'm not trying to be rude, but you lost me at your first mention of SELinux.
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> mainly it's available on ALL UNIX systems
Mainly it doesn't matter since this book is about LINUX shell scripting.
Besides Bash, a lot of tricks and utilities are only available if you assume a Linux environment.
3- turn on, wait 1 sec, and start programming in BASIC (P [SHIFT] + [O] 53281,0 , etc...)
> hell, can always revert to Gnome 2 or KDE
In theory, yes. In practice, most users will get a brand new DE with their next Ubuntu/Fedora/X-distro upgrade and will not have the time/patience/expertise to switch to a past version. Past versions will not be in the official repository, and for sure will break several GUI apps.
But why not use its own Virtualbox? I find it a lot more usable than Xen. Well, anything is easier to use than Xen.
Nop. Han Solo was and interesting + flamebait character at the same time....
Yoda was a troll and funny monster but also an insightful teacher...
R2D2 was an interesting machine...
C3PO was an informative translator...
Leia was underrated and Ewoks were overrated...
Yesterday my host provider (a big one) failed (again!) to renew the shared server host certificate so I couldn't access their Cpanel via HTTPS, so had to open a ticket.
That happened in 2008, 2009, 2010, and now, so I'm expecting the same situation by march 2012, 2013, etc...
BTW, they sell me a signed certificate for my domain. Alas, they don't track its expiration (nor me, of course!) so by some time in the year I'll have to open a ticket asking them to renew it (no big deal since I'm not doing e-business or similar.)
Obviously these aren't good practices, but I see a design failure in the scheme. The security should degrade in a better way.
Before Schliemann nobody knew for sure about the reality of Troy and the whole Homer opus with its mix of men and gods. Atlantis is a different case, where a very modern tale is fabricated from twisted interpretations of old passages, and that fabrication is very well documented as a hoax. Atlantis is in the same category as Chariots_of_gods for example.
"If you wish to converse with me," said Voltaire, "define your terms."
For a lot of people (readers of the design patterns ideas) a framework is a set of whatever things that help/enforce a well proved design, so you don't have to invent a new design for a lot of well known requirements presented on most applications. That's a bit different (but not much!) from a library or toolbox that helps to implement whatever design.
Of course, people may assign another definition or concept to the term...
Yes that kind of problem is very real and annoying. But in the Java case is mostly an implementation problem, not the result of a conscious decision to break everything. Also, IMO that issue was less frequent in recent years, at least with the mayor JVM implementations.
It would be interesting to search for a correlation between /. karma and stress. Maybe that was a reason for dropping the karma score...
The review also failed to mention that glassfish v3 runs on osgi
> But what does this demonstrate?
I think this can be used as a nice kind of benchmark... as others pointed out, this demo shows that a browser application is currently at the same speed of an old 386/486 native app (not bad IMHO, since a lot of great apps ran perfectly in that kind of system.)
Your comments made me think on Star Wars 1/2/3...
Just read the ice core article from wikipedia, very interesting and promising. Thanks.
The data extracted from tree rings (I studied the subject in its relation to 14C calibration) doesn't provide a clean nor precise planetary record of the climate (broad regional differences, lack of adequate species near the equator, etc.) Recorded history for 1000 years??? What???
BTW, the GP was talking about geological times.
Offtopic: I don't assume any better knowledge, that's the reason I'm trying to get an answer.
Yes, it seems most people assume it is that simple! sadly the average change for 10 million years doesn't say anything about the change levels for particular centuries.
> The speed of change that's happening is staggering, it's at least a hundred times faster than the speed of natural, geological changes.
I don't understand how people gets this conclusion. How can the scientists do the measurements of the rate of climate change for some century of -for example- 50M years ago?
> No one on the planet has ever switched platforms because of the contents of these types of articles.
But I know a lot of people in this planet that never switched platforms because of such articles.
AFIK the "distributed source control system" is not about networking or Internet, but about giving each developer a whole copy of the central repository so they can "pre-commit" their code and this generates some benefits Spolsky talks about when referring to Mercurial.
BTW, Subversion will not prevent anybody's work being exported to India.
Ok, just googled "mysql profile" and got:
http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/using-new-query-profiler.html
> Use Silverlight on the intranet or on corporate, limited-audience websites for rich in-browser apps.
People didn't learn from the immortal IE6 lesson?
At last, a nice summary. Now it would be interesting to know how could the SAP managers be so stupid to do or allow that.
> At one time, COBOL was the only way to develop on tens of thousands of computers. Very expensive computers with very expensive maintenance and licensing contracts. There was a lot of money in this, measured in hundreds of thousands of dollars per year per site.
Why you talk in past tense? How many mainframes are using Ruby for the business?
From the article, about a "secure operating system":
> Generally, this would be taken to mean an operating system that was designed with security in mind, and provides various methods and tools to implement security polices and limits on the system.
Sadly most naive users still believe that security is about setting fine grained permissions, roles, resources and tagging system objects in general. In practice 1) security exploits simply bypass or reconfigure such validations or policies for their own purpose, and 2) getting a really good "fine grained" configuration and reconfiguration is pretty difficult, time consuming, and prone to error (i.e. to increase the vulnerability.)
I'm not trying to be rude, but you lost me at your first mention of SELinux.