I'm calling BS on this explanation. Unless your model and view are communicated via SOAP or the proverbial horse and carriage, there is little reason for in-process communication to be a bottle neck for applications.
In my experience, the slowness of an application can usually be narrowed down to a few hot spots where the wrong data structure is in use, or database access is done poorly. None of this relates to MVC.
There is a lot of negative talk about XForms, and plenty of people asking what it is good for. I've been following the spec and would like to share why it is useful.
If you have a web application that presents a form, but the server side needs to represent the data in XML, problems abound. Throw in the potential for repeatable elements and a few conditionals in the XML Schema and your simple little form becomes a major pain to develop. I personally wrote a web front end for authoring MODS records and had to do serious JavaScript/DOM acrobatics. The result was good, but compromises were made along the way.
XForms changes this because the form constrains to an XML Schema and sends a populated XML document to the server. This simplifies matters tremendously. It doesn't obviate the need for some serious work to setup XForms, but given my initial experience testing the spec, it is a great step forward.
It is overkill for a basic form, so I hope there are some provisions in XHTML for backward support.
I'm a pretty fast typist, but my speed producing lines of code is restricted by the bottleneck of inspiration and imagination. As much as I would like to be smug about my 10 finger keyboarding, it probably doesn't make be a faster coder. About the only thing it makes me faster at is typing slashdot comments.;)
I think the "think of the children" crowd are nuts as well, but I think you are painting too broad of a stroke concerning religion. By and large the religious position in America on nudity is to portray the human body in a positive manner. The fringe groups, who demonize all nudity, naturally make the most noise but they aren't representative of typical religious sentiment.
As for the separation of church and state, this is a notion intended to prohibit the establishment of a Church of America or the endorsement of any specific religion. In other words, the government shouldn't use taxes to build churches or fund specific religious functions. The concept, put forth by Jefferson, wasn't intended to banish any moral precept from public policy.
On a related note, I could imagine a archeologist digging into this "hidden vault of the unknown treasures of the 20th century" and dying of a mysterious illness. Something akin to a belief in a mummy's curse could arise out of such a situation.
The light from the cell phone is annoying. If someone can't spend 2 hours not communicating with other people to enjoy a movie, the person shouldn't go. Also, regarding the "silent" option, the problem is that the person's voice answering the damn phone isn't silent.
In the realm of software, I believe the equivalent would be confirmation dialogs (are you sure you want to delete that file?). These are helpful to the novice, however I believe that a good dialog box has some means to dismiss it from appearing in the future.
Bravo. I am also an American and behaved likewise in a recent trip to Italy. My wife and I tended to avoid the stereotypical American traveller, but I would tend to say that they were the minority. I believe the purpose of international travel (and even regional travel in the US) is to experience another culture. It is hard to do that if one expects the comforts of home. I'm glad to encounter another who understands this.
My obligatory horror story, if you are interested, came from a woman from Boston. She explained to me that she had to send her coffee back five times until the guy understood how to make an iced cappuccino. I wanted to scream. The Italians make incredible coffee and don't put ice in anything. They dress and act like professionals and take pride in their craft. I can only imagine the insult this person conveyed.
Incidentally, I returned from my trip recently and I'm still jonesing for a decent cafe. American coffee now tastes like dishwater to me.
I can empathize. The media has control of the editing process, which can affect meaning in dramatic ways. If you ever know that your viewpoint runs counter to the producer's, count on them using their stage and editing to their benefit, not yours.
One of my gauges of media reliability is to read the technology section of a newspaper, radio or television station. Often I'm amazed at the basic errors and useful omissions. This leads me to conclude that they are no better off in other matters, like world reporting, local news and financial insight. One must dig deep and seek out knowledge, because the general media is dangerously out of date and misrepresented.
The phrase "living wage" is just a new way for people to place the blame on the employer when they could instead decide to do something else for more money. It is much easier to complain about wages than to do something creative in response.
I will second your point about his contributions and all around good guyness, however with so many friends and supporters I would have expected him to find a better solution than pulling the plug. He has run his own company for over 10 years, so I would think he knows a thing or two about monetary forecasting. Obviously we aren't getting the whole story here, but this incident casts a shadow on Winer's stump speech proclaiming that weblogs will revolutionize the media.
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I selectively read and subscribe (via RSS) to some blogs that cover specific topic areas. I think this is where the blog model works well, however I'm bothered by the lack of accountability. As much as I don't like some aspects of traditional media (basically selling out to advertisers), the situation does promote a sense of accountability. A blogger need only say "my bad" and move onto the next conjecture. Maybe in time readers will be more critical and quality bloggers will rise to the top via some mechanism, but it is hard for the common person (or geek) to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Shareaza gets second place. The dumbest name has to be SubEthaEdit. I like the program, but I can't recommend it to anyone because I hate to write the name or say it.
You raise an interesting problem, but I think the issue you mentioned has existed for a long time in the form of nepotism. Powerful people tend to keep it in the family, in a tribal sort of way. One might as well be angry at the son/daughter as well as the initial person.
Of course, what you mention also smacks of class warfare, which isn't nearly as prevalent as Marx thought so.
I can't recall the source, but I've read before that the fear of being caught is a larger deterrent than the penalty. When interviewing criminals they never reveal that the penalty was trivial or considered in a cost/benefit ratio, but rather they simply didn't expect to be caught. If we can trust these findings, it should lead us to increase the presence of police officers rather than increasing the penalties for crime. The added benefit would be less cost to incarcerate criminals for excessively long periods of time.
Don't get me started on mandatory minimum laws, which stipulate that congress knows better than judges what sort of sentence to issue.
I think it just demonstrates that some people don't treat their employment or their operating system as a quasi-religious statement about themselves. The higher up in an organization you go, the less you should care about personal allegiance, in lieu of professional allegiance.
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I've never met Major Issue, but I have heard a lot about General Protection Fault.
oes the capitalization improve or impede understanding in any way?
That depends if you want to help your uncle Jack off his horse, or if you want to help your uncle jack off his horse.
I'm calling BS on this explanation. Unless your model and view are communicated via SOAP or the proverbial horse and carriage, there is little reason for in-process communication to be a bottle neck for applications.
In my experience, the slowness of an application can usually be narrowed down to a few hot spots where the wrong data structure is in use, or database access is done poorly. None of this relates to MVC.
There is a lot of negative talk about XForms, and plenty of people asking what it is good for. I've been following the spec and would like to share why it is useful.
If you have a web application that presents a form, but the server side needs to represent the data in XML, problems abound. Throw in the potential for repeatable elements and a few conditionals in the XML Schema and your simple little form becomes a major pain to develop. I personally wrote a web front end for authoring MODS records and had to do serious JavaScript/DOM acrobatics. The result was good, but compromises were made along the way.
XForms changes this because the form constrains to an XML Schema and sends a populated XML document to the server. This simplifies matters tremendously. It doesn't obviate the need for some serious work to setup XForms, but given my initial experience testing the spec, it is a great step forward.
It is overkill for a basic form, so I hope there are some provisions in XHTML for backward support.
I'm a pretty fast typist, but my speed producing lines of code is restricted by the bottleneck of inspiration and imagination. As much as I would like to be smug about my 10 finger keyboarding, it probably doesn't make be a faster coder. About the only thing it makes me faster at is typing slashdot comments. ;)
bingo! Given the option of paying for police to sit and monitor the roadways, or a simple technology to enforce the rule, I'll opt for the latter.
Of course, along those lines, why do we have cars that can go x km/h when the speed limit is much lower than x?
What separates South Korea from the rest is a clear agenda and execution process by the government.
I hear that North Korea also has an agenda that includes execution.
I think the "think of the children" crowd are nuts as well, but I think you are painting too broad of a stroke concerning religion. By and large the religious position in America on nudity is to portray the human body in a positive manner. The fringe groups, who demonize all nudity, naturally make the most noise but they aren't representative of typical religious sentiment.
As for the separation of church and state, this is a notion intended to prohibit the establishment of a Church of America or the endorsement of any specific religion. In other words, the government shouldn't use taxes to build churches or fund specific religious functions. The concept, put forth by Jefferson, wasn't intended to banish any moral precept from public policy.
Interesting. I'll watch for that book.
On a related note, I could imagine a archeologist digging into this "hidden vault of the unknown treasures of the 20th century" and dying of a mysterious illness. Something akin to a belief in a mummy's curse could arise out of such a situation.
The light from the cell phone is annoying. If someone can't spend 2 hours not communicating with other people to enjoy a movie, the person shouldn't go. Also, regarding the "silent" option, the problem is that the person's voice answering the damn phone isn't silent.
I would hope the cinema operators would eject anyone who would be so insensitive as to do text messaging during a movie.
In the realm of software, I believe the equivalent would be confirmation dialogs (are you sure you want to delete that file?). These are helpful to the novice, however I believe that a good dialog box has some means to dismiss it from appearing in the future.
Bravo. I am also an American and behaved likewise in a recent trip to Italy. My wife and I tended to avoid the stereotypical American traveller, but I would tend to say that they were the minority. I believe the purpose of international travel (and even regional travel in the US) is to experience another culture. It is hard to do that if one expects the comforts of home. I'm glad to encounter another who understands this.
My obligatory horror story, if you are interested, came from a woman from Boston. She explained to me that she had to send her coffee back five times until the guy understood how to make an iced cappuccino. I wanted to scream. The Italians make incredible coffee and don't put ice in anything. They dress and act like professionals and take pride in their craft. I can only imagine the insult this person conveyed.
Incidentally, I returned from my trip recently and I'm still jonesing for a decent cafe. American coffee now tastes like dishwater to me.
The next time you forget to zip your fly, I hope someone announces it to the whole room instead of discretely telling you.
I can empathize. The media has control of the editing process, which can affect meaning in dramatic ways. If you ever know that your viewpoint runs counter to the producer's, count on them using their stage and editing to their benefit, not yours.
One of my gauges of media reliability is to read the technology section of a newspaper, radio or television station. Often I'm amazed at the basic errors and useful omissions. This leads me to conclude that they are no better off in other matters, like world reporting, local news and financial insight. One must dig deep and seek out knowledge, because the general media is dangerously out of date and misrepresented.
The phrase "living wage" is just a new way for people to place the blame on the employer when they could instead decide to do something else for more money. It is much easier to complain about wages than to do something creative in response.
I will second your point about his contributions and all around good guyness, however with so many friends and supporters I would have expected him to find a better solution than pulling the plug. He has run his own company for over 10 years, so I would think he knows a thing or two about monetary forecasting. Obviously we aren't getting the whole story here, but this incident casts a shadow on Winer's stump speech proclaiming that weblogs will revolutionize the media.
I selectively read and subscribe (via RSS) to some blogs that cover specific topic areas. I think this is where the blog model works well, however I'm bothered by the lack of accountability. As much as I don't like some aspects of traditional media (basically selling out to advertisers), the situation does promote a sense of accountability. A blogger need only say "my bad" and move onto the next conjecture. Maybe in time readers will be more critical and quality bloggers will rise to the top via some mechanism, but it is hard for the common person (or geek) to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Shareaza gets second place. The dumbest name has to be SubEthaEdit. I like the program, but I can't recommend it to anyone because I hate to write the name or say it.
You raise an interesting problem, but I think the issue you mentioned has existed for a long time in the form of nepotism. Powerful people tend to keep it in the family, in a tribal sort of way. One might as well be angry at the son/daughter as well as the initial person.
Of course, what you mention also smacks of class warfare, which isn't nearly as prevalent as Marx thought so.
I can't recall the source, but I've read before that the fear of being caught is a larger deterrent than the penalty. When interviewing criminals they never reveal that the penalty was trivial or considered in a cost/benefit ratio, but rather they simply didn't expect to be caught. If we can trust these findings, it should lead us to increase the presence of police officers rather than increasing the penalties for crime. The added benefit would be less cost to incarcerate criminals for excessively long periods of time.
Don't get me started on mandatory minimum laws, which stipulate that congress knows better than judges what sort of sentence to issue.
I think it just demonstrates that some people don't treat their employment or their operating system as a quasi-religious statement about themselves. The higher up in an organization you go, the less you should care about personal allegiance, in lieu of professional allegiance.
Wow... someone who still uses OS/2. That is just about us rare as aliens.
(Just kidding... I used to be a rabid OS/2 user)
You are going to go see the movie, so drop the 'tude and fess up. Yeah, it sucks, but marginally less than spending the evening in mom's basement.
(Seriously, Sixth Sense was spoiled for me when someone mentioned that Bruce Willis was actually a robot)
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I haven't seen that movie yet, you insensitive clod!