After even writing a medium-sized grad thesis, I can tell you that writing a full, professional book is not to be taken lightly.
Don't even think about it unless you are an experienced programmer and writer.
$20k isn't that much when you consider that it may swallow a huge amount of your time, like all of it.
Sorry Katz, its technically feasible
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As one poster already pointed out, in places like China the network topology has been arranged to allow strict control of content. Simply put, all the bits going out of China go through a few select nodes.
Films and television existed for years without governmental censorship and content control. The web will be no different. As much as it really really bothers me, people better get comfy with their bits being sniffed, cleansed, and taxed, because its going to happen.
I have to say that Notes is one of the only pieces of software I have ever used that I have an open hostility towards.
Notes use at a company is a sure sign of a lame, lost in the 80's "we need an enterprise platform!" IS management style. Notes is favored by people to whom "4GL" is still a hip catchphrase.
Well obviously your perl code must at some point resolve to something computable.
Programming languages let you do all sorts of things that violate "purity". What do you think a type cast is? C will let you shoe horn anything you want as long as it doesn't cause a segfault.
Perl is by no means fuzzy. Every operation is founded on a set of principles that can be deduced by reading the source.
If children are feeling the urge to kill and acting out on that urge
Then the glory of Akkadia will be that much greater. Kids have been among the most violent members of society for 8,000 years. Why do you think we get them in the armed forces when their 18?
White middle American class kids do one thing well - complain. Katz provided what appeared to be a legitimate opportunity for them to claim victimhood - the right to bitch.
Note to future teenagers - you're going to be bullied, you're going to be hard-pressed for a sexual outlet, no one is going to like your clothes, and you've got horrible zits. Welcome to planet earth. Kids in Kosovo would kill to have problems as trite as yours.
Not to sound insulting, but if you get around the web a bit more you can find a variety of sites that easily crash netscape.
Try chat sites using java as a start. Open up another Netscape window while the first is open in the chat site. Sooner or later you will get errors.
Try Freshmeat - it routinely hoses Linux browsers (due to some seemingly unwise decisions by the site's developers, who are targetting the linux audience).
There should never be only one solution available for a component as important as a browser.
I'm continually stunned at how little competition there is in the browser market, which was essentially ceded to Microsoft and Netscape/AOL in an amazingly short time.
For interactive sites, I admit that caching has limited value. For things like The NY Times, which is only updated a few times a day, it could be very useful. For site like the W3C, which maybe are only updated once a week, it would be immensely useful.
Some sort of intelligent diff system could even reduce the amount of data that the cache servers download.
By making bandwidth a commodity that can be traded and bartered, we can start using it efficiently.
Currently, most (not all) web surfing could be adequately serviced by an extensive network of caching servers. Currently, most users get content directly from a site's main servers, which most likely is not the most efficient means of distributing data.
Also, compression techniques will improve as vendors attempt to be more miserly about the bandwidth they use - most web content could be compressed for transmission much more than it is now.
Compression and caching systems are but two technologies that would improve dramatically if we had to treat bandwidth as a commodity.
It would probably behoove/. to not make links to "member-only" articles unless they are extremely exceptional. Not only is it a pain in the rump for the 99.99999% of us who are not, nor will ever be, IEEE members, but it encourages some here to "pirate" the article and paste it in here, which I would assume runs counter to the intention of having it on a members-only site to begin with.
If you don't want your credit card transactions monitored, then you're already in trouble because the net doesn't offer any opportunities that didn't exist for credit card criminals 5 years ago.
ignorance is bliss. perhaps you haven't heard about the credit scams that porn sites have been accussed of?
net transactions mean more shadier people have your number, and it is easy for them to hide their identity from you.
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After even writing a medium-sized grad thesis, I can tell you that writing a full, professional book is not to be taken lightly.
Don't even think about it unless you are an experienced programmer and writer.
$20k isn't that much when you consider that it may swallow a huge amount of your time, like all of it.
As one poster already pointed out, in places like China the network topology has been arranged to allow strict control of content. Simply put, all the bits going out of China go through a few select nodes.
Films and television existed for years without governmental censorship and content control. The web will be no different. As much as it really really bothers me, people better get comfy with their bits being sniffed, cleansed, and taxed, because its going to happen.
This stuff is going to be used to figure out how to sell you more Danielle Steele books or determine who is the right market for direct marketing.
Do you think corporations are in this to solve world hunger?
Please go learn about the artistic license and come back and formulate something intelligent to say.
I have to say that Notes is one of the only pieces of software I have ever used that I have an open hostility towards.
Notes use at a company is a sure sign of a lame, lost in the 80's "we need an enterprise platform!" IS management style. Notes is favored by people to whom "4GL" is still a hip catchphrase.
NDS is marketed as an add-on for NT, so in a sense NT already has NDS.
Once Netware legacy installs move on, Novell will port NDS to linux...if they aren't planning to already.
Sorry, perl does not use the GPL. It can be extended at whim.
Lets face it - to be accepted in the mainstream you have to work and work well on Microsoft platforms.
As long as they isolate most of the changes, I don't mind.
A Microsoft:: package hierarchy would be just fine - such a hierarchy already exists for others OSs.
I have had both. Cable modem blows. Cable modem packet loss was way too high, and general uptime was quite crappy.
Both of these problems I found were solved with DSL.
Well obviously your perl code must at some point resolve to something computable.
Programming languages let you do all sorts of things that violate "purity". What do you think a type cast is? C will let you shoe horn anything you want as long as it doesn't cause a segfault.
Perl is by no means fuzzy. Every operation is founded on a set of principles that can be deduced by reading the source.
I can't believe complicating your system by running VMWare increases security - there's just way too many question marks. KISS is still the best way.
Almost any website of worth changes periodically enough that such a technique is silly.
There are adequate ways to secure a web site without doing this.
Oh just to move to Ireland and quit yer whinin'
If children are feeling the urge to kill and acting out on that urge
Then the glory of Akkadia will be that much greater. Kids have been among the most violent members of society for 8,000 years. Why do you think we get them in the armed forces when their 18?
Yes, everyday redheads are persecuted, taunted, beaten, raped, and even murdered for their fiery hair.
Ye gods. Get a grip. Now redheads are an oppresed group?
Last time I was at a bar they were hotly pursued as a preferred trait.
The truth is, something has gone horribly wrong with these kids
Adults have been saying that for 8,000 years.
until schools take a hard look at the established cliques, we will continue to see this kind of problem.
Yes - if we destroy everyone's individuality, we'll all be equal.
Note to gay kids: you are going to be discriminated, beaten up, harassed and killed just because you're different.
Ha. Nice tactic, but nothing in Katz's original articles or my response have anything to do directly with gays.
I've just read your web-essays, and I think you mention at least twenty times how "smart" and "exceptional" you are. How self-indulgent can you get?
You should join MENSA. Its full of mal-adjusted geniuses who can't get a date.
White middle American class kids do one thing well - complain. Katz provided what appeared to be a legitimate opportunity for them to claim victimhood - the right to bitch.
Note to future teenagers - you're going to be bullied, you're going to be hard-pressed for a sexual outlet, no one is going to like your clothes, and you've got horrible zits. Welcome to planet earth. Kids in Kosovo would kill to have problems as trite as yours.
Not to sound insulting, but if you get around the web a bit more you can find a variety of sites that easily crash netscape.
Try chat sites using java as a start. Open up another Netscape window while the first is open in the chat site. Sooner or later you will get errors.
Try Freshmeat - it routinely hoses Linux browsers (due to some seemingly unwise decisions by the site's developers, who are targetting the linux audience).
There should never be only one solution available for a component as important as a browser.
I'm continually stunned at how little competition there is in the browser market, which was essentially ceded to Microsoft and Netscape/AOL in an amazingly short time.
For interactive sites, I admit that caching has limited value. For things like The NY Times, which is only updated a few times a day, it could be very useful. For site like the W3C, which maybe are only updated once a week, it would be immensely useful.
Some sort of intelligent diff system could even reduce the amount of data that the cache servers download.
By making bandwidth a commodity that can be traded and bartered, we can start using it efficiently.
Currently, most (not all) web surfing could be adequately serviced by an extensive network of caching servers. Currently, most users get content directly from a site's main servers, which most likely is not the most efficient means of distributing data.
Also, compression techniques will improve as vendors attempt to be more miserly about the bandwidth they use - most web content could be compressed for transmission much more than it is now.
Compression and caching systems are but two technologies that would improve dramatically if we had to treat bandwidth as a commodity.
It would probably behoove /. to not make links to "member-only" articles unless they are extremely exceptional. Not only is it a pain in the rump for the 99.99999% of us who are not, nor will ever be, IEEE members, but it encourages some here to "pirate" the article and paste it in here, which I would assume runs counter to the intention of having it on a members-only site to begin with.
If you don't want your credit card transactions monitored, then you're already in trouble because the net doesn't offer any opportunities that didn't exist for credit card criminals 5 years ago.
ignorance is bliss. perhaps you haven't heard about the credit scams that porn sites have been accussed of?
net transactions mean more shadier people have your number, and it is easy for them to hide their identity from you.