I'm curious about your setup. What kind of hardware are you using for DVD player and TV? Are you using a computer with a DVD and HDTV/VIVO card? If you're using your PC, what kind of resolution are you able to achieve with it?
Do you have any recommendations or know of a good site with more info?
Do you use Dreamweaver all of the time or have you just checked it out? Because I use it all of the time and I think it sucks (except for the markup "intellisense").
Yes, I use it a lot. Mainly for JSP coding. I like the code tips, etc. The newest version (2004) can check your CLASSPATH and automatically give you a javabean's properties and can also read your taglib's descriptor to give you the tag properties. Those features are really nice.
It's a bit bulky. That's really the only thing I don't like about it.
For instance, try using single quotes for strings inside of a Javascript block. It screws the color coding up badly.
I've never had that problem. I do a LOT of javascript coding and I use single quotes all the time and I've never seen that happen unless there was a syntax error.
The tool windows are super annoying as well, since they don't stay were they're supposed to and don't dock properly to each other.
Again, I'm not sure what you are referring to... my tool windows dock just fine and they don't move unless I move them.. What version are you using? The older versions didn't have an MDI interface and it was really annoying.
Flash isn't the only thing they have going for them. I'm not a huge Macromedia fan but even I can see that they aren't just about Flash (yes, I hate Flash too). That's actually a pretty small part of their business now.
They have a great HTML/JSP/PHP/ASP editor (Dreamweaver) as well as a pretty decent J2EE application server (JRun) and the only Coldfusion server... of course all of this is because they bought Allaire but you gotta give them props for seeing this coming.
Well seeing as Yahoo is switching over to php, from C no less!
Well, changing from C to PHP is a big step in the right direction as far as scalability goes (I'm speaking of code maintentance, fault tolerance, resource pooling, etc) is concerned.
They are obviously going to have an easier time writting PHP webapps and services than C but I still think that J2EE would have been a much better choice in the longrun.
Their only reason for not going with J2EE was the poor threading performance in FreeBSD.
There are a number of different aspects of scalability. It always starts with performance, which is what we will cover in this article. But it also covers issues such as code maintainability, fault tolerance, and the availability of programming staff.
These are all reasonable issues, and should be covered whenever you are choosing the development platform for any large project. But in order to convey a convincing argument in this small space, I need to reduce the term scalability to its core concern: performance.
I think he's chosen the shittiest option here. Sure, any technology will scale if you throw enough resources behind it. Just keep load balancing and you can make almost anything scale performance-wise.
I think there are a lot of other factors that are much more important. Code maintenance, fault taulerance, etc. are much more important because those can't be fixed by throwing more hardware at it.
J2EE application servers come with transactions, security, resource pooling, and concurrency right out of the box. That's a lot more than I can say for PHP.
Now another thing... he's got his J2EE Architecture completely wrong when it comes to EJB's. With EJB 2.0 (which has been around since 2001), there is no RMI overhead for servlets communicating with Local EJBs. You'd only use a remote EJB if the bean resides on another server.
But it isn't the perfect vehicle for running back and forth to the corner store, and Java isn't the ideal language for scripting web pages.
That's the thing... most people who develop dynamic websites are developing rather simple applications that are fine for scripting languages such as Perl or PHP.
That really doesn't mean that Java doesn't have it's place as a Web/HTML/XML language. When you start to develop Enterprise level webapps you'll soon start finding yourself with a bunch of spaghetti code to maintain with these scripting languages.
When you're integrating Web Services, XML, distributed computing with transactions, security, resource pooling, and concurrency you'll, more than likely, find yourself in a world of hurt. That's where Application Servers, EJBs, and frameworks that use established, successful design patterns (such as Struts, JSF, etc.) come into play.
Sure it's overkill for your average web scrapper but it definitely has it's place. Even if you were able to squeak out an Enterprise level application with Perl or PHP faster than Java, I'd place a hefty wager that you'll spen 10x the amount of time supporting and extending it.
Seriously, do we really want all of the waistoids that this could bring along?
Of course I'm not talking about everyone who doesn't vote but shit! Think about it, for most people who can't go out and vote because of apathy or laziness, what makes you think they aren't just as lazy about picking a canidate or make a decision about a law? That sort of behavior does not lend itself towards research! Most people make up their mind by flashy lights along with bells and whistles.
I think it's a good thing to have people physically get out there and vote. It's kinda like the effort that actually goes into writting a letter to someone and stamping and taking it to the post office instead of just sending them a thank you email. I understand that the topics are apples and oranges but the point is the same.
That being said, I don't vote because of laziness and apathy. I think I have a solid background on the subject:)
So, that's still quite a few frames per commercial.
Given that your average television gives about 24 frames per second, that would mean about 12 frames per commercial. I'm pretty sure that you can't absorb any sort of content in 12 frames...
The conclusion is the structure of cable monopolies is preventing rapid adoption.
Hmm... That's just fucking bizzare.... especially since Comcast and Cox (2 of the top cable companies... especially since Comcast now owns AT&T) are all Tivo investors.
On the other hand, if your finger is on the fast-forward button, you're paying attention so you don't zoom past the start of the next scene, so you're more likely to catch pieces of the commercial inadvertently.
Hmmm.. you must not have a Tivo. On the top, fast forward setting (the one I use the most), it moves at 1 minute per second. That's about 2 commercials per second.
As much as I hate commercials, I have to say that this study is pure bullshit. Of course my nerves of pure playstion might be a little more comfortable with using 2 commercials per second than the average Joe.
And a rumor posted on The Register at that. I'll believe this when I see it confirmed somewhere that doesn't appear to be cribbing from the Reg or Slashdot.
This was a rumor over a year ago. I did a Macromedia seminar on flash/coldfusion/jrun remoting about a year ago and they confirmed it was a rumor then. That's probably still the case.
It's ironic that Moore would get these facts wrong, since they would tend to support his belief that guns cause violence.
Did you stay for the whole movie? It was his contention that the media and fanaticism, combined with ignorance and intolerance where the causes of gun violence in America.
I don't find it ironic at all and he probably did it on purpose.
If Linux had an exploit that allowed someone to ssh into your box, su to root, then fsck your harddrive, and a patch wasn't released yet, would you be pissed off that bugtraq posted the code to exploit the bug?
Don't say "it'll never happen," cause anything is possible.
Don't say it'll never happen? Hmmm... I think I can state with reasonable certainty that nobody will ever break into my linux box to run a file system check:)
I've got more important things to do with my time than turn off every process known to man that comes installed. OpenBSD already comes with mostly everything turned off.
Hmmm... the installation makes it pretty easy to remove these services. All it takes is a couple of clicks of a mouse. Even if it's post install, all you have to do is remove the files from the/etc/init.d and/etc/rc?.d dirs.
You're right tho', the default probably shouldn't come with everything. You'd think they'd learn a lesson from MS and all the services that they turn on for you by default.
The interface is inconsistent, and it doesn't make it obvious what is going on at any one time. There's nothing like the big 'Send/Recv' button in OE, and when you collect mail, you have no idea what's going on.
Oh my god! You mean sending mail is different than recieving it? Who would have known.
Seriously, the first time I used Outlook, I was confused by the fact that it was a single button. I think that you're just too comfortable with Outlook. It makes perfect sense to the rest of us.
The folders are sloppily managed, and the news reader is certainly worse.
I've never used the usenet agent with it but the folders seem easy enough to manage. Right click, new sub-folder.... Tools, message filters. Maybe you can explain a little more? What's so bad about it?
Sure, it doesn't automatically open attachments or spread viruses around.. but the user experience is more important than security to me! It's a program I have to use for hours every day!
LOL, that's the stupidest comment I've heard all week. Thanks for the laugh.
You're the reason why stupid virii, worms, trojans like nimda, I love you, etc. spread so easy. You can't be bothered with the inconvenience of security. With that sort of typical end user attitude, what motivation does the vendor have to fix it if the user doesn't even care (I'm not saying that it excuses the vendor though). You're attitude is dangerous. It doesn't just effect you.
On the contrary. I have no need to resize my browser window since it is already set to the correct width for me. Any website that expects me to resize because of their requirements need to have another re-think.
You're telling me you never resize your browser? Not even to make room for more windows on your screen? Well you're definitely a very odd case.
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This is exactly how SAX works
So does this mean that they intend to sue microsoft too?
How about this. They're threatening Linux users over the license fees. What's to keep them doing the same to Windows users?
I'm curious about your setup. What kind of hardware are you using for DVD player and TV? Are you using a computer with a DVD and HDTV/VIVO card? If you're using your PC, what kind of resolution are you able to achieve with it?
Do you have any recommendations or know of a good site with more info?
Do you use Dreamweaver all of the time or have you just checked it out? Because I use it all of the time and I think it sucks (except for the markup "intellisense").
Yes, I use it a lot. Mainly for JSP coding. I like the code tips, etc. The newest version (2004) can check your CLASSPATH and automatically give you a javabean's properties and can also read your taglib's descriptor to give you the tag properties. Those features are really nice.
It's a bit bulky. That's really the only thing I don't like about it.
For instance, try using single quotes for strings inside of a Javascript block. It screws the color coding up badly.
I've never had that problem. I do a LOT of javascript coding and I use single quotes all the time and I've never seen that happen unless there was a syntax error.
The tool windows are super annoying as well, since they don't stay were they're supposed to and don't dock properly to each other.
Again, I'm not sure what you are referring to... my tool windows dock just fine and they don't move unless I move them.. What version are you using? The older versions didn't have an MDI interface and it was really annoying.
Flash isn't the only thing they have going for them. I'm not a huge Macromedia fan but even I can see that they aren't just about Flash (yes, I hate Flash too). That's actually a pretty small part of their business now.
They have a great HTML/JSP/PHP/ASP editor (Dreamweaver) as well as a pretty decent J2EE application server (JRun) and the only Coldfusion server... of course all of this is because they bought Allaire but you gotta give them props for seeing this coming.
Well seeing as Yahoo is switching over to php, from C no less!
Well, changing from C to PHP is a big step in the right direction as far as scalability goes (I'm speaking of code maintentance, fault tolerance, resource pooling, etc) is concerned.
They are obviously going to have an easier time writting PHP webapps and services than C but I still think that J2EE would have been a much better choice in the longrun.
Their only reason for not going with J2EE was the poor threading performance in FreeBSD.
There are a number of different aspects of scalability. It always starts with performance, which is what we will cover in this article. But it also covers issues such as code maintainability, fault tolerance, and the availability of programming staff.
These are all reasonable issues, and should be covered whenever you are choosing the development platform for any large project. But in order to convey a convincing argument in this small space, I need to reduce the term scalability to its core concern: performance.
I think he's chosen the shittiest option here. Sure, any technology will scale if you throw enough resources behind it. Just keep load balancing and you can make almost anything scale performance-wise.
I think there are a lot of other factors that are much more important. Code maintenance, fault taulerance, etc. are much more important because those can't be fixed by throwing more hardware at it.
J2EE application servers come with transactions, security, resource pooling, and concurrency right out of the box. That's a lot more than I can say for PHP.
Now another thing... he's got his J2EE Architecture completely wrong when it comes to EJB's. With EJB 2.0 (which has been around since 2001), there is no RMI overhead for servlets communicating with Local EJBs. You'd only use a remote EJB if the bean resides on another server.
But it isn't the perfect vehicle for running back and forth to the corner store, and Java isn't the ideal language for scripting web pages.
That's the thing... most people who develop dynamic websites are developing rather simple applications that are fine for scripting languages such as Perl or PHP.
That really doesn't mean that Java doesn't have it's place as a Web/HTML/XML language. When you start to develop Enterprise level webapps you'll soon start finding yourself with a bunch of spaghetti code to maintain with these scripting languages.
When you're integrating Web Services, XML, distributed computing with transactions, security, resource pooling, and concurrency you'll, more than likely, find yourself in a world of hurt. That's where Application Servers, EJBs, and frameworks that use established, successful design patterns (such as Struts, JSF, etc.) come into play.
Sure it's overkill for your average web scrapper but it definitely has it's place. Even if you were able to squeak out an Enterprise level application with Perl or PHP faster than Java, I'd place a hefty wager that you'll spen 10x the amount of time supporting and extending it.
"Sure beats going to the record store," the advertisement concluded.
Ouch. That might come back to haunt them.
Hmm... it's not like there aren't any legit download services.
Now I understand what all this union shit is about. It's really fucking sad that we have to make a gang to keep our jobs.
Of course, most developers would never agree to such a thing. They'd rather die first. Fucking irony.
Seriously, do we really want all of the waistoids that this could bring along?
:)
Of course I'm not talking about everyone who doesn't vote but shit! Think about it, for most people who can't go out and vote because of apathy or laziness, what makes you think they aren't just as lazy about picking a canidate or make a decision about a law? That sort of behavior does not lend itself towards research! Most people make up their mind by flashy lights along with bells and whistles.
I think it's a good thing to have people physically get out there and vote. It's kinda like the effort that actually goes into writting a letter to someone and stamping and taking it to the post office instead of just sending them a thank you email. I understand that the topics are apples and oranges but the point is the same.
That being said, I don't vote because of laziness and apathy. I think I have a solid background on the subject
So, that's still quite a few frames per commercial.
Given that your average television gives about 24 frames per second, that would mean about 12 frames per commercial. I'm pretty sure that you can't absorb any sort of content in 12 frames...
The conclusion is the structure of cable monopolies is preventing rapid adoption.
Hmm... That's just fucking bizzare.... especially since Comcast and Cox (2 of the top cable companies... especially since Comcast now owns AT&T) are all Tivo investors.
On the other hand, if your finger is on the fast-forward button, you're paying attention so you don't zoom past the start of the next scene, so you're more likely to catch pieces of the commercial inadvertently.
Hmmm.. you must not have a Tivo. On the top, fast forward setting (the one I use the most), it moves at 1 minute per second. That's about 2 commercials per second.
As much as I hate commercials, I have to say that this study is pure bullshit. Of course my nerves of pure playstion might be a little more comfortable with using 2 commercials per second than the average Joe.
Sign up for a hotmail email account and make sure you uncheck any auto-spam sign ups. Don't give out the address to anyone.
Wait 24-36 hours and count the spam. Should be about 10-20 spams. I think I know exactly where M$ stands on the whole spam issue.
If Red Hat's decision had been "obviously right", it wouldn't have been "controversial".
:)
:-)
You can never please everyone
Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.
-- Larry Wall
And a rumor posted on The Register at that. I'll believe this when I see it confirmed somewhere that doesn't appear to be cribbing from the Reg or Slashdot.
This was a rumor over a year ago. I did a Macromedia seminar on flash/coldfusion/jrun remoting about a year ago and they confirmed it was a rumor then. That's probably still the case.
1) XML, SOAP and all these new technologies were pioneered by Microsoft
Really?
It's ironic that Moore would get these facts wrong, since they would tend to support his belief that guns cause violence.
Did you stay for the whole movie? It was his contention that the media and fanaticism, combined with ignorance and intolerance where the causes of gun violence in America.
I don't find it ironic at all and he probably did it on purpose.
If Linux had an exploit that allowed someone to ssh into your box, su to root, then fsck your harddrive, and a patch wasn't released yet, would you be pissed off that bugtraq posted the code to exploit the bug?
Don't say "it'll never happen," cause anything is possible.
Don't say it'll never happen? Hmmm... I think I can state with reasonable certainty that nobody will ever break into my linux box to run a file system check
I've got more important things to do with my time than turn off every process known to man that comes installed. OpenBSD already comes with mostly everything turned off.
/etc/init.d and /etc/rc?.d dirs.
Hmmm... the installation makes it pretty easy to remove these services. All it takes is a couple of clicks of a mouse. Even if it's post install, all you have to do is remove the files from the
You're right tho', the default probably shouldn't come with everything. You'd think they'd learn a lesson from MS and all the services that they turn on for you by default.
RedHat is a pain to strip down to a bare minimum web server, I prefer OpenBSD [openbsd.org]. Sleek and elegant like the early days of Linux distros.
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache \
Huh?
for i in `rpm -qa|grep ^mod_`;do rpm -e $i;done
rpm -e apache
cd ~/src/apache.xxx
--enable-rule=SHARED_CORE \
--enable-module=so
make
make install
with mod_so (DSO - Dynamic Shared Object) support, module installation is trivial.
"Shoplifting is a victimless crime, like punching someone in the dark."
:)
-- Nelson, The Simpsons
Of course this isn't shoplifting but it's still funny
The interface is inconsistent, and it doesn't make it obvious what is going on at any one time. There's nothing like the big 'Send/Recv' button in OE, and when you collect mail, you have no idea what's going on.
Oh my god! You mean sending mail is different than recieving it? Who would have known.
Seriously, the first time I used Outlook, I was confused by the fact that it was a single button. I think that you're just too comfortable with Outlook. It makes perfect sense to the rest of us.
The folders are sloppily managed, and the news reader is certainly worse.
I've never used the usenet agent with it but the folders seem easy enough to manage. Right click, new sub-folder.... Tools, message filters. Maybe you can explain a little more? What's so bad about it?
Sure, it doesn't automatically open attachments or spread viruses around.. but the user experience is more important than security to me! It's a program I have to use for hours every day!
LOL, that's the stupidest comment I've heard all week. Thanks for the laugh.
You're the reason why stupid virii, worms, trojans like nimda, I love you, etc. spread so easy. You can't be bothered with the inconvenience of security. With that sort of typical end user attitude, what motivation does the vendor have to fix it if the user doesn't even care (I'm not saying that it excuses the vendor though). You're attitude is dangerous. It doesn't just effect you.
On the contrary. I have no need to resize my browser window since it is already set to the correct width for me. Any website that expects me to resize because of their requirements need to have another re-think.
You're telling me you never resize your browser? Not even to make room for more windows on your screen? Well you're definitely a very odd case.