In search of a common language: Markup languages for everything
Here we go again, failing to learn from history. People, its like this -- Programmers dont think alike. Thats what makes them programmers. You'll no sooner see people using the same language for markup as you'll see people coding in Smalltalk. People gravitate towards languages based on their ability to be proficient at it. No matter how good XML is, people will still use HTML becuase it suits them better, or PHP, or Perl, or C, or Assembly, or freakin Smalltalk if they want. Name a single time in history when a programmer was considered proficient in his art, WITHOUT knowing more than one language. Get my drift?
XML is all about data exchange and messaging. No, it's doubtful that it will replace HTML but it is does appear to be becoming the standard for business to business transactions. XML has found it's purpose not in web pages but in unified data formats and standards... and will be used along side dozens of other programming tools.
What's going to happen when some of todays artist's write music that captures the feelings we are having today and the owner of 1200 stations around the country decides that we can't handle it? That would be a tragedy.
i agree with that 100%
(although I'm not looking forward to that Michael Jackson song:p - well at least it'll raise some good $$ )
"assaults on civil liberties"
"censorship in every way"
You guys must be joking. Because a radio station
decides to alter its playlist (probably only for a few weeks) to try to be sensitive to its listeners???
This is not the government telling you that you can't listen to these songs, that you can't play them or sing them or think them. This is a radio station(s) choosing to not to play them. I'm sure if you asked a country station to play Rage Against The Machine they wouldn't. Are you being censored? Fox didn't show it's regular programming this week- were you being censored?
These songs will be on the air again and many DJs simply mocked the list and played them in spite.
Why must people cry 'foul' and 'censorship' at something that is obviously not?
Think first... judge sanely... find something useful to do!
(I wonder if those "censoring" moderators will mod me down? Those Bastards!!);/
it's not the EJB technology that sucks, it's these bullshit can-barely-code psuedo-architects who design these ridiculous mega-projects without understanding the proper way to do n-tier development.
YES!! Every waking day I see this crap. You've always got a handful of really talented architects who can see/understand the task and its scope, then you've got your buzz-word-speaking, boot-camp-going, over-hyped, under-educated, just-enough-info-to-be-dangerous, never-coded-a-solid-app, architects who have to contort even the simplest systems. *deep breath* "halleluiah, where's the aspirin?"
Just ignore M$ 'standards'. IBM, although a massive co., seems to actually care about open business standards and does a hell of a lot more to support them.
For open, supported process management wait for IBM WSFL
I'm not agreeing with the system/software, I think it's absolutely wrong.
I'm just bothered by the spin on the article. The wife, not the software, made the false identification. It seems to me that many people are pissed b/c they think a computer glitch is the root cause here when it's not.
OK, the "just as easily" phrase was without thought.
OK, not that I agree with the system but realize that the SNAFU was really the wife's doing. The surveillance system was the means of observation. Couldn't she just as easily have seen him in the background of a live news broadcast or something and have the same result?
Sure, It wasn't honest but this sort of thing happens everywhere, all the time.
Yes, people will dishonestly post messages. Yes, about their competitors. Yes, even in journalism. But do you think the collectively honest people of the world can flush out every journalist lacking integrity? Where would we get our news from?
Open your eyes, use that massive brain of yours to scrutinize what you read and hear.
Regretfully, I have to agree.
The percentage of non-/. readers that have even heard of ogg at this point must be close to 0. The only chance it would have is to get backing by a major distributor which IMHO is not in the cards.
MP3 is infused in today's architecture, both hardware and software. The masses have figured out how to use it and it's here to stay.:(
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Hey Mark,
Speaking of off-topic posts..
Are you from Cambridge MA?
In search of a common language: Markup languages for everything Here we go again, failing to learn from history. People, its like this -- Programmers dont think alike. Thats what makes them programmers. You'll no sooner see people using the same language for markup as you'll see people coding in Smalltalk. People gravitate towards languages based on their ability to be proficient at it. No matter how good XML is, people will still use HTML becuase it suits them better, or PHP, or Perl, or C, or Assembly, or freakin Smalltalk if they want. Name a single time in history when a programmer was considered proficient in his art, WITHOUT knowing more than one language. Get my drift?
XML is all about data exchange and messaging. No, it's doubtful that it will replace HTML but it is does appear to be becoming the standard for business to business transactions. XML has found it's purpose not in web pages but in unified data formats and standards... and will be used along side dozens of other programming tools.
What's going to happen when some of todays artist's write music that captures the feelings we are having today and the owner of 1200 stations around the country decides that we can't handle it? That would be a tragedy.
:p - well at least it'll raise some good $$ )
i agree with that 100%
(although I'm not looking forward to that Michael Jackson song
"assaults on civil liberties"
;/
"censorship in every way"
You guys must be joking. Because a radio station
decides to alter its playlist (probably only for a few weeks) to try to be sensitive to its listeners???
This is not the government telling you that you can't listen to these songs, that you can't play them or sing them or think them. This is a radio station(s) choosing to not to play them. I'm sure if you asked a country station to play Rage Against The Machine they wouldn't. Are you being censored? Fox didn't show it's regular programming this week- were you being censored?
These songs will be on the air again and many DJs simply mocked the list and played them in spite.
Why must people cry 'foul' and 'censorship' at something that is obviously not?
Think first... judge sanely... find something useful to do!
(I wonder if those "censoring" moderators will mod me down? Those Bastards!!)
*sigh*
That makes me nostalgic for the days when I programmed COBOL on SCO Unix & XENIX.
All on a spanky-new Wyse-30.
MMM. green.
it's not the EJB technology that sucks, it's these bullshit can-barely-code psuedo-architects who design these ridiculous mega-projects without understanding the proper way to do n-tier development.
YES!! Every waking day I see this crap. You've always got a handful of really talented architects who can see/understand the task and its scope, then you've got your buzz-word-speaking, boot-camp-going, over-hyped, under-educated, just-enough-info-to-be-dangerous, never-coded-a-solid-app, architects who have to contort even the simplest systems.
*deep breath* "halleluiah, where's the aspirin?"
sounds like a good business relationship. :)
Just ignore M$ 'standards'. IBM, although a massive co., seems to actually care about open business standards and does a hell of a lot more to support them.
For open, supported process management wait for
IBM WSFL
I'm not agreeing with the system/software, I think it's absolutely wrong.
I'm just bothered by the spin on the article. The wife, not the software, made the false identification. It seems to me that many people are pissed b/c they think a computer glitch is the root cause here when it's not.
OK, the "just as easily" phrase was without thought.
OK, not that I agree with the system but realize that the SNAFU was really the wife's doing. The surveillance system was the means of observation. Couldn't she just as easily have seen him in the background of a live news broadcast or something and have the same result?
-just my 00000010
My goodness aren't people getting upset here.
Sure, It wasn't honest but this sort of thing happens everywhere, all the time.
Yes, people will dishonestly post messages. Yes, about their competitors. Yes, even in journalism. But do you think the collectively honest people of the world can flush out every journalist lacking integrity? Where would we get our news from?
Open your eyes, use that massive brain of yours to scrutinize what you read and hear.
-
Regretfully, I have to agree. The percentage of non-/. readers that have even heard of ogg at this point must be close to 0. The only chance it would have is to get backing by a major distributor which IMHO is not in the cards. MP3 is infused in today's architecture, both hardware and software. The masses have figured out how to use it and it's here to stay. :(