Actually amazon.com is patenting business processes and not technology per se. Affiliate programs are a business process as is 1 click shopping. theres no technical hurdles to implmenting either and both have been available in the real world for eons but amazon did it first online and grabbed a patent. The real problem of course is proving that it was a natural progression from the real world to the virtual and there is no virtual prior art available as far as i know.
yep. i like to think of Java as C++ done right. The 1.1/1.2 java versions are perfectly useable and lead to decent code in a decent size. the speed will improve eventually..but it rocks as a language.
The problem with C++ is that it basically sucks - it was meant as a powerful offshoot of C but instead turned into a large and *really* complex language..went waay too far out in the left field. Hell, even experienced C programmers cant pick it up easily. On the other hand, Java, besides its lack of multiple inheritance and all, was C++ done right. Java is easy to use, forgiving, has memory protection, easy to debug etc etc. In other words people - if you invent a proigramming language invent a forgiving one and one thats simple to understand for newbies. not everyone is an expert and this results in a cruddy mess of code like C++. there may be nothing wrong with C++ as a language or a compiler, but for most humans its a mess and the learning curve is simply *too steep*.
hmm..ive never had any problems with my MII chips which runs GREAT. its running on a low load 24/7 fileserver with sleep mode on and autowakeup running linux (RH5.2)...ive never had any problems with it and it doesnt require a cpu fan like those intel monsters.
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it was a joke you moron. god..i dont believe how many people iddnt get that..moderators included.
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rsync can transfer files over encrypted ssh connections. (http://rsync.samba.org)...an NFS would be too slow..however secure NFS (via secure ports) has been developed and is available for linux..its included in my distro (redhat).
unfortunately its impossible and worthless to preserve everything. data grows exponentially...i used to backup to paper and audio tape (300bps).moving slowly to floppy disk (360K) to higher density floppies (1.44MB) to hard disks (40MB seagates) to tape again (250MB HP colorado digital) to CDRs (650MB sony). im probably going to go DVD next. the point is that the number of audio tapes i used to have is now the same as the number of CDROMs i have..even though the data storage capacity is exponentially higher, the data GROWS exponentially to fill available capacity. and i throw out most of the data i create...and it still GROWS.
dont forget that ATM transfers a *max* of 48 BYTES of data per packet while IP packets can be as large as 64KBYTES. smaller packets=lower latency. and anyway, ATM was build for this sort of application with QoS stuff designed into it from the start.
cos its fairly useless. i remmeber writing a program similar to this for DOS and then releasing the binary only. result was when my tape drive died on me (Trakker 250) i didnt have the source anymore. after that one i said fuck it - release the source under the GPL or dont release the program at all. its much simpler this way and i can now backup to sourceforge and netpedia whenever i want to. plus, ive got quite a few contributions now so i release contributed stuff like german versions of my code and japanese versions as well as ports to hardware i dont have..which is really kewl.
what we really need is more females online - then we wouldnt feel so bad(?) about using the net so much. and a 50% male/female IRC channel is the best.
The whole point of this being an anonymous medium is that you dont have to hide your emotions - who cares whether you were shattered by your breakup with your girlfriend if your anonymous ? you can express yourself freely. IRC may be addictive but consider the fact that those people arent real likely to go out anyway - and IRC is far better than the boob tube. TV sucks. At least on IRC its a two way interaction with other humans. Most poeple DO stay longer on/. and other mediums. i remember frequenting lambdamoo fairly frequently and often met other mooers online at the same hours. same for IRC where there were a bunch of regulars and the same with usenet.
CLI mode gets old real fast ? good god man - thats the only mode worth running it in. dont blame us for your lack of basic skillz to type ls -al when required or run vi (or pico my favourite). just because youre a twit - the rest of us arent.
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why ? the network is the computer. without networking code X is useless. no more remote apps, no remote console logins to machines without monitors, no X terms etc etc.
download the JSDK from suns site and copy the javax directory into your programming directory. recompile and add import javax.* and use extends HttpServlet to your code and voila - instant servlet. its easy fast and fun.
you dumped Java because of Sun ? Why ? So far sun has managed to produce a fairly decent language as of java 2 with very few bugs (at least not as many as the horrible java 1.0.x). with kaffe other GPLed java implementations and class libraries Sun could be dumped almost completely. yes, its slow (as yet..) but its probably the only language out there which *can* be compiled once and run anywhere you can get a compatible VM. i can understand if youre coding in C and using the GNU tools - thats a FAR superior environment..but for stuff such as server side programming - Java far outclasses anything else if you have the hardware to pull it off.
css-auth does all that..or most of it. ALL the keys can be cracked in under one minute..not some. and anyway, they can still sue you under the same laws.
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Redhat's piranha tools in 6.1 already allow clustering. The SGIs failsafe thing needs to work with a RAID drive array and does roughly the same thing as the linux virtual server project http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/
SGIs stuff is available for download if anyone is interested at http://oss.sgi.com/ projects/sgilinux11/download/1.2-latest/ISO/
Actually amazon.com is patenting business processes and not technology per se. Affiliate programs are a business process as is 1 click shopping. theres no technical hurdles to implmenting either and both have been available in the real world for eons but amazon did it first online and grabbed a patent.
The real problem of course is proving that it was a natural progression from the real world to the virtual and there is no virtual prior art available as far as i know.
yep. i like to think of Java as C++ done right. The 1.1/1.2 java versions are perfectly useable and lead to decent code in a decent size. the speed will improve eventually..but it rocks as a language.
The problem with C++ is that it basically sucks - it was meant as a powerful offshoot of C but instead turned into a large and *really* complex language..went waay too far out in the left field. Hell, even experienced C programmers cant pick it up easily. On the other hand, Java, besides its lack of multiple inheritance and all, was C++ done right. Java is easy to use, forgiving, has memory protection, easy to debug etc etc. In other words people - if you invent a proigramming language invent a forgiving one and one thats simple to understand for newbies. not everyone is an expert and this results in a cruddy mess of code like C++. there may be nothing wrong with C++ as a language or a compiler, but for most humans its a mess and the learning curve is simply *too steep*.
check out http://busybox.lineo.com..most of their stuff is downloadable but not advertised on their site.
hmm..ive never had any problems with my MII chips which runs GREAT. its running on a low load 24/7 fileserver with sleep mode on and autowakeup running linux (RH5.2)...ive never had any problems with it and it doesnt require a cpu fan like those intel monsters.
it was a joke you moron. god..i dont believe how many people iddnt get that..moderators included.
rsync can transfer files over encrypted ssh connections. (http://rsync.samba.org)...an NFS would be too slow..however secure NFS (via secure ports) has been developed and is available for linux..its included in my distro (redhat).
unfortunately its impossible and worthless to preserve everything. data grows exponentially...i used to backup to paper and audio tape (300bps).moving slowly to floppy disk (360K) to higher density floppies (1.44MB) to hard disks (40MB seagates) to tape again (250MB HP colorado digital) to CDRs (650MB sony). im probably going to go DVD next. the point is that the number of audio tapes i used to have is now the same as the number of CDROMs i have ..even though the data storage capacity is exponentially higher, the data GROWS exponentially to fill available capacity. and i throw out most of the data i create...and it still GROWS.
dont forget that ATM transfers a *max* of 48 BYTES of data per packet while IP packets can be as large as 64KBYTES. smaller packets=lower latency. and anyway, ATM was build for this sort of application with QoS stuff designed into it from the start.
how bout letting us moderators type in our own ? it should be interesting to see the result at least...
cos its fairly useless. i remmeber writing a program similar to this for DOS and then releasing the binary only. result was when my tape drive died on me (Trakker 250) i didnt have the source anymore. after that one i said fuck it - release the source under the GPL or dont release the program at all. its much simpler this way and i can now backup to sourceforge and netpedia whenever i want to. plus, ive got quite a few contributions now so i release contributed stuff like german versions of my code and japanese versions as well as ports to hardware i dont have..which is really kewl.
yeah. all real men prefer AfterStep anyway. so bah.
what we really need is more females online - then we wouldnt feel so bad(?) about using the net so much. and a 50% male/female IRC channel is the best.
The whole point of this being an anonymous medium is that you dont have to hide your emotions - who cares whether you were shattered by your breakup with your girlfriend if your anonymous ? you can express yourself freely. /. and other mediums. i remember frequenting lambdamoo fairly frequently and often met other mooers online at the same hours. same for IRC where there were a bunch of regulars and the same with usenet.
IRC may be addictive but consider the fact that those people arent real likely to go out anyway - and IRC is far better than the boob tube. TV sucks. At least on IRC its a two way interaction with other humans.
Most poeple DO stay longer on
CLI mode gets old real fast ? good god man - thats the only mode worth running it in. dont blame us for your lack of basic skillz to type ls -al when required or run vi (or pico my favourite). just because youre a twit - the rest of us arent.
eww...did you have to tell us all *that* ? ugh.
why ? the network is the computer. without networking code X is useless. no more remote apps, no remote console logins to machines without monitors, no X terms etc etc.
i run linux on 386DX-25 machines (slackware) and it runs fine. perhaps youre confusing a bloated distro with E with linux ? linux is a kernel dimwit.
BTW, regarding your development sites - www.netpedia.net is a free dev site and works great for me.
download the JSDK from suns site and copy the javax directory into your programming directory. recompile and add import javax.* and use extends HttpServlet to your code and voila - instant servlet. its easy fast and fun.
you dumped Java because of Sun ? Why ? So far sun has managed to produce a fairly decent language as of java 2 with very few bugs (at least not as many as the horrible java 1.0.x). with kaffe other GPLed java implementations and class libraries Sun could be dumped almost completely. yes, its slow (as yet..) but its probably the only language out there which *can* be compiled once and run anywhere you can get a compatible VM. i can understand if youre coding in C and using the GNU tools - thats a FAR superior environment ..but for stuff such as server side programming - Java far outclasses anything else if you have the hardware to pull it off.
css-auth does all that..or most of it. ALL the keys can be cracked in under one minute..not some. and anyway, they can still sue you under the same laws.
actually it looks like the bandwidth limiter kicked in. theres a mirror in the next message tho.
but if anyone missed it there is a fundraiser to help the EFF on tuesday in boston at the harvard club.