WSJ, eh? The Good Doctor is laying the groundwork of FUD for this:
The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the Central American Free Trade Agreement in the next two weeks, and one little-known provision of the agreement desperately needs to be exposed to public view. CAFTA, like the World Trade Organization, may serve as a forum for restricting or even banning dietary supplements in the U.S.
No thanks. I'll keep my ads blocked and actively donate to those sites I feel deserve it. And if there were decent "tip jar" technology that allowed me to send a nickel or quarter to a website with a single click, I'd take good advantage of it.
I suggest you start with a small project on your own. Download a copy of Orion as it's a full-powered J2EE server but by far the easiest to get running. Write a JSP or two, and build a simple servlet. Use the built-in hsql database, and learn some simple JDBC access. Don't fret taglibs yet, they're rarely used. Try to avoid the temptation to use jakarta projects, except for ant. After you get comfortable with all that, then learn EJB.
Can someone explain how all those cell phones worked so perfectly on 9/11? I have never been able to get a cell phone signal in flight. But judging from all those completed calls, no new technology needs to be developed!
I wonder if nurses and hairdressers agonize for hours on how to attract more men to the job. This is stupid. There are plenty of women in technology, and if any individual female wants to break in, she can. End of story.
White worms wouldn't be motivated by kindness for individual recipients so much as an attempt to protect oneself and the network in general from the destructive worms. People who maintain unpatched and unprotected systems open to attack from worms have little leg to stand on when complaining about a white worm. They can remove themselves from the game entirely by taking security measures. This seems to me like a reasonable sublimation of the worm writing instinct, which will ultimately do more good than harm.
Languages DO remain unchanged 200 years and more, when there is an institution preserving them. I'm thinking of the Arabic of the Koran, the Hebrew of the Torah, the Sanskrit of the Vedic scriptures, etc. And possibly the COBOL of the mainframes still being supported long past their expected demise.
Where will Moore's law be in 200 years? It's expected to grind to a halt before that, and its plateau will put an end to the exponential obsolescence we are accustomed to. More likely, though, capability will surpass usage -- if my wristwatch tells time properly, do I need to replace it with one featuring a chip that's 10 times faster? Laugh all you want at the COBOL machines (I certainly do) but apparently the need to upgrade isn't outweighing the costs.
There is an attitude of frenzied extreme neophilia among developers today. Any technique that's more than 3 years old is suspect; everyone is desperate to be on the cutting edge and not be seen wearing last year's shoes. J2EE isn't yet stabilized but it's already passe; OMFG, Entity beans are *so* 2001; the cool kids are all using Hibernate + Spring, but before 2005 is out only the lamers will be; the trendy label whores will have found something even more AOP, SOA, and IoC.
This even extends to terminology itself; I was a programmer, then a coder, then a developer, then an engineer; all without leaving my seat. I used to write programs, then I developed applications, and now I build solutions. Businesses were 20th century; now we all work for Enterprises.
It's a controversial post, calculated to be incendiary, for a debate that's been raging for thousands of years. Science vs. Religion is like circumcision, abortion, Israel vs. Palestine, GPL vs. BSD, emacs vs. vi, or any other of the 'religious wars' that simply clog up forums like weeds. And only a Nazi would disagree with me. (Joke.)
Gumby users aren't the only ones to prefer Windows over Linux. I made the switch to Windows XP from Linux 3 months ago and I never looked back. After 5 years of running & admining various Linux distros (and 15 years of heavy computer usage before that), I figured I was able to take on Gentoo. After a full day of "fun", not only couldn't I boot into X, but I couldn't even mount my CD. Call me lame if you will (and I'm sure some of you will) but I'd rather spend my time developing software than googling howtos and editing.conf files to get my wifi card, printer, and laptop sleep to work right. My own work takes up enough of my attention; I want everything else to just work, and although previous versions of Windows bordered on unusable, XP has gotten it right, or right enough. (I keep it updated, run Firefox & Thunderbird, and cygwin for shell.)
There was a time when all companies aspired to having their brands be household generic terms, like xerox and kleenex -- terms that no longer even deserve capitalization, as they are now accepted words. The moral is your lawyers need to always be kept on a short leash, otherwise they'll make your company look like jerks and conflict with the overall goals.
Great Perhaps you or someone could explain exactly how to turn this on, because I've searched the docs for "active desktop" so forth, and while I see they do have virtual desktops, I have found no clue either in the docs or the control center on how to turn on real edge-flipping. Thanks!
Patterns and UML are fine, and MVC has its place too, but currently it's overrated, suffering from the hammer/nail syndrome. Check out this article on why in many cases, real OO is better than MVC:
I'm using Galeon 1.0.3. Should I bother switching to Phoenix? It seems all the hype about Phoenix also applies to Galeon. Oh, and I don't give a damn about X-platform over to Windows.
Inspired by this post I downloaded OpenOffice and installed it on my stock Mandrake 8.2, and watched the install go just fine except it couldn't create any of the symlinks...the permissions were ok, but it seemed as if there was a space in one of the script variables. No problem, I can make my own symlinks.
So I fetched an MS Word document and watched it dump core as it tried to read it.
Far from an excuse of MS's ailing security philosophy, your cogent piece is a strong reminder that we in the software industry must pay attention to security and documentation, and drop the disdain for the average user that many geeks tend to hold. Not all users are the jocks that gave you wedgies in high school gym class. Bad things are and will continue to happen if we don't start treating them like valued customers.
Chairman Mao probably would have forced all programmers to spend a year driving a cab, to put us in contact with "the people" and break our elitist notions. In the West, as the author notes, we'll only have to suffer with a lousy job market, trillions of dollars blown on downtime from viruses, etc. targetting cheap software, and the eventual threat of government regulation.
Weird, I wonder why he said that then...it's Sawfish that only lets you switch horizontally, I think. Or perhaps you can switch vertically too but it's the same windows; up = right. Yuck.
Well if I can only go horizontally I'll have to stick with GNOME+E until K gets it right. I too need a 3x3, and a bunch of windows all in a row just isn't good enough. Of course, I would try K+E but I've been told not even to bother trying to get them to play nicely together!
Multiple desktops, virtual desktops, perhaps K calls them active desktops...I'm talking about the feature where you can slide your mouse pointer to the right edge of the desktop, and a new desktop slides in, and your mouse pointer intuitively appears on the left of the screen. Does K3 have this? Clicking numbered boxes in my wharf is too clumsy for me to consider. In the most recent versions of K that I saw, the feature was disabled because it was being re-written, and for whatever reason they decided to yank the existing implementation, forcing me to switch to crashy GNOME only because it runs nicely with Enlightenment which supports virtual desktops very nicely.
If the copy protection scheme really makes the CD impossible to play on certain players, those owners may be forced to turn to "stolen" mp3s, increasing the number of people searching for and using napster alternatives. Doh!
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No thanks. I'll keep my ads blocked and actively donate to those sites I feel deserve it. And if there were decent "tip jar" technology that allowed me to send a nickel or quarter to a website with a single click, I'd take good advantage of it.
I suggest you start with a small project on your own. Download a copy of Orion as it's a full-powered J2EE server but by far the easiest to get running. Write a JSP or two, and build a simple servlet. Use the built-in hsql database, and learn some simple JDBC access. Don't fret taglibs yet, they're rarely used. Try to avoid the temptation to use jakarta projects, except for ant. After you get comfortable with all that, then learn EJB.
Can someone explain how all those cell phones worked so perfectly on 9/11? I have never been able to get a cell phone signal in flight. But judging from all those completed calls, no new technology needs to be developed!
I wonder if nurses and hairdressers agonize for hours on how to attract more men to the job. This is stupid. There are plenty of women in technology, and if any individual female wants to break in, she can. End of story.
White worms wouldn't be motivated by kindness for individual recipients so much as an attempt to protect oneself and the network in general from the destructive worms. People who maintain unpatched and unprotected systems open to attack from worms have little leg to stand on when complaining about a white worm. They can remove themselves from the game entirely by taking security measures. This seems to me like a reasonable sublimation of the worm writing instinct, which will ultimately do more good than harm.
Languages DO remain unchanged 200 years and more, when there is an institution preserving them. I'm thinking of the Arabic of the Koran, the Hebrew of the Torah, the Sanskrit of the Vedic scriptures, etc. And possibly the COBOL of the mainframes still being supported long past their expected demise.
Where will Moore's law be in 200 years? It's expected to grind to a halt before that, and its plateau will put an end to the exponential obsolescence we are accustomed to. More likely, though, capability will surpass usage -- if my wristwatch tells time properly, do I need to replace it with one featuring a chip that's 10 times faster? Laugh all you want at the COBOL machines (I certainly do) but apparently the need to upgrade isn't outweighing the costs.
There is an attitude of frenzied extreme neophilia among developers today. Any technique that's more than 3 years old is suspect; everyone is desperate to be on the cutting edge and not be seen wearing last year's shoes. J2EE isn't yet stabilized but it's already passe; OMFG, Entity beans are *so* 2001; the cool kids are all using Hibernate + Spring, but before 2005 is out only the lamers will be; the trendy label whores will have found something even more AOP, SOA, and IoC.
This even extends to terminology itself; I was a programmer, then a coder, then a developer, then an engineer; all without leaving my seat. I used to write programs, then I developed applications, and now I build solutions. Businesses were 20th century; now we all work for Enterprises.
It's a controversial post, calculated to be incendiary, for a debate that's been raging for thousands of years. Science vs. Religion is like circumcision, abortion, Israel vs. Palestine, GPL vs. BSD, emacs vs. vi, or any other of the 'religious wars' that simply clog up forums like weeds. And only a Nazi would disagree with me. (Joke.)
That should be modded "Troll".
Gumby users aren't the only ones to prefer Windows over Linux. I made the switch to Windows XP from Linux 3 months ago and I never looked back. After 5 years of running & admining various Linux distros (and 15 years of heavy computer usage before that), I figured I was able to take on Gentoo. After a full day of "fun", not only couldn't I boot into X, but I couldn't even mount my CD. Call me lame if you will (and I'm sure some of you will) but I'd rather spend my time developing software than googling howtos and editing .conf files to get my wifi card, printer, and laptop sleep to work right. My own work takes up enough of my attention; I want everything else to just work, and although previous versions of Windows bordered on unusable, XP has gotten it right, or right enough. (I keep it updated, run Firefox & Thunderbird, and cygwin for shell.)
There was a time when all companies aspired to having their brands be household generic terms, like xerox and kleenex -- terms that no longer even deserve capitalization, as they are now accepted words. The moral is your lawyers need to always be kept on a short leash, otherwise they'll make your company look like jerks and conflict with the overall goals.
Great Perhaps you or someone could explain exactly how to turn this on, because I've searched the docs for "active desktop" so forth, and while I see they do have virtual desktops, I have found no clue either in the docs or the control center on how to turn on real edge-flipping. Thanks!
Unless it has edge flipping back, which I believe K used to support but it was removed (!), I can't be bothered with it.
Cute....sort of. This should never have been moderated all the way up to 5.
Patterns and UML are fine, and MVC has its place too, but currently it's overrated, suffering from the hammer/nail syndrome. Check out this article on why in many cases, real OO is better than MVC:
M$ users ignore the Mac, Mac users ignore Linux, Linux users ignore....um....I forget!
I'm using Galeon 1.0.3. Should I bother switching to Phoenix? It seems all the hype about Phoenix also applies to Galeon. Oh, and I don't give a damn about X-platform over to Windows.
Inspired by this post I downloaded OpenOffice and installed it on my stock Mandrake 8.2, and watched the install go just fine except it couldn't create any of the symlinks...the permissions were ok, but it seemed as if there was a space in one of the script variables. No problem, I can make my own symlinks.
So I fetched an MS Word document and watched it dump core as it tried to read it.
Far from an excuse of MS's ailing security philosophy, your cogent piece is a strong reminder that we in the software industry must pay attention to security and documentation, and drop the disdain for the average user that many geeks tend to hold. Not all users are the jocks that gave you wedgies in high school gym class. Bad things are and will continue to happen if we don't start treating them like valued customers.
Chairman Mao probably would have forced all programmers to spend a year driving a cab, to put us in contact with "the people" and break our elitist notions. In the West, as the author notes, we'll only have to suffer with a lousy job market, trillions of dollars blown on downtime from viruses, etc. targetting cheap software, and the eventual threat of government regulation.
So, what's the difference between a workspace and a virtual desktop?
Weird, I wonder why he said that then...it's Sawfish that only lets you switch horizontally, I think. Or perhaps you can switch vertically too but it's the same windows; up = right. Yuck.
Well if I can only go horizontally I'll have to stick with GNOME+E until K gets it right. I too need a 3x3, and a bunch of windows all in a row just isn't good enough. Of course, I would try K+E but I've been told not even to bother trying to get them to play nicely together!
Multiple desktops, virtual desktops, perhaps K calls them active desktops...I'm talking about the feature where you can slide your mouse pointer to the right edge of the desktop, and a new desktop slides in, and your mouse pointer intuitively appears on the left of the screen. Does K3 have this? Clicking numbered boxes in my wharf is too clumsy for me to consider. In the most recent versions of K that I saw, the feature was disabled because it was being re-written, and for whatever reason they decided to yank the existing implementation, forcing me to switch to crashy GNOME only because it runs nicely with Enlightenment which supports virtual desktops very nicely.
A google search for "scientology xenu" shows a link from xenu.net in the third hit.
If the copy protection scheme really makes the CD impossible to play on certain players, those owners may be forced to turn to "stolen" mp3s, increasing the number of people searching for and using napster alternatives. Doh!