WRT to aD TCL, you've in some ways demonstrated precisely the author's point: he's suggesting that using technology your competitors don't understand is a win. Your competitors don't understand that a good data model and a simple, quick programming language (TCL) with a good library is more important that using tredy Java crapware.
Your competitors don't understand that; they point and laugh and make fun of you for using TCL. They struggle with bloated, trendy middleware. You make your clients happy. You win.
Actually, the most famous LISP app is probably AutoCAD, which many people outside of Unixy circles have heard of. Not only that, but AutoCAD's use of a LISP dialect for macros has proably resulted in more people becoming LISP programmers than anything else - all those drafters, engineers and whatnot who don't realise LISP is supposed to be hard and obscure and only for academics.
I imagine it's for organisations that have requirements for mandatory access controls already. Some secure systems have pervasive systems that tightly control the flow of content (indeed, NSA Linux implements an NSA system); if those organisation want to deploy browser-based applications, this would be a good tool.
Have a look at what unionised employees get paid - in many cases it'll be more than you. So go ahgead, stick your nose in the air and get hoity-toity about being more 733t than them. They're crying all the way to the bank.
Many companies friends have worked for have a daily rate for being on call - it seems to be pretty standard for older, bigger companies (including EDS in New Zealand).
I've had at least one employer decree I was on-call, although suince i wasn't in my contract and there was no incentive to change that (money), I told them to get stuffed.
Geomthermal energy is indeed used in a number of places; Rotorua, New Zealand for one. The problem that popped up in Rotorua is that people end up depleting the source (underground steam pockets) faster than they were replenised. Oops.
Cost me a couple of hundred dollars in bandwidth charges when it happened to me (vis a vis smutcraft); bandwidth ain't that cheap once you start chewing through it.
And that was *after* I'd taken the web server on the box down once I could see the amount of traffic churning through.
And that, BTW, is why I do get my panties in a bunch about spam. Fuckheads who claim I'm a whiner for not just deleting it need to pull their head out of their arse and look at what spam actually costs.
Sorry, but your lawyer should have advised you that discussing cases currently before the courts is dumb. It's a good way pissing off the judge. I'm not surprised that you got stung for running a web site about it while it was before the courts.
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John Dvorak has always paid other people to write the articles that appear under his name. Why did he once sound like he knew one and of an Amiga from the other? Because he hired someone who knew what they were talking about to write the article.
Dvorak is a brand; he's obviously whoring that brand to use factual innacuracies on behalf of the highest bidder is more profitable than trying to provide useful information for the average person.
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I doubt it changes much. After all, other than Dawkin's friends, Andrea Dworkin, and sundry Feminist Studies departments, does anyone consider biological determinism anything other than a bag of shit, anyway?
It's ironic that a language so villified for its OO support by OO fanatics has better real-world code reuse - one of the promises of OO techniques - than pretty much anything else.
Older versions of Exchange relayed by default. E2K doesn't, and I don't think 5.5 did either.
Clueless lusers don't help; the ISP referred to brags about running open relays as a service to customers so they don't have to worry about changing their SMTP settings on their mail programs if they travel overseas.
Actually, they can't all see each others sources, as it were. Some distros (SUSE, SLS) carefully try and rope bits of their distro off to prevent anyone using it as a base for their own distros. Others (RedHat, Debian) are more sanguine about that and play nice.
I'll wager money that NCR want to manufacture WinCE devices and are getting some sort of deal out of Redmond if they kill Palm - note they don't want Palm to pay them royalties, they wan't them put out of business.
Capitalism has nothing to do with encoraging free markets; it is a the description of a system whereby people inves capital and obtain a return on that capital. If fostering a healthy market maimises return on investment, individuals and companies will do so. If not, they will act against customer choice.
Free market theory is concerned with maximising value, usually to the consumer, through competition. Capitalism is interested in maximising value to the owners of capital. The entertainment industry is lousy at markets, but great at capitalism.
You appear to be labouring under the delusion that you operate in a demand driven market economy. I have news for you: you don't.
I don't want stupid region protection and MacroVision on DVDs, and I doubt many consumers d, either. People are prepared to pay premiums to get Macrovision removers, out-of-region disc releases with all the things they want. The market response to this is to come up with more elaborate zoning mechanisms, lobby for laws to make anti-Macrovision tools illegal (and to hell with people who want to play their legally aquired DVDs through projectors), and so on.
We live in a capitalist system. The sioal goal in such a society is to maximise income. What customers want is irrelevant if one can arrange the market to deny customers choice, and this article is discussing how the entertainment industry is pressuring manufacturers and standards groups to ensure that happens.
Even if there is a general PC, its price could rise substantially.
Have a look at media ownership some time. The fact of the matter is that NBC are hardly going to cover copyright term extension concerns when they're owned by Disney, are they?
You'd do exactly what I have to do: crawl behind your TV, unplug your game system, and plug your DVD in to watch a movie. The switch back when you want to watch TV/VCR/play game etc.
Sucks, doesn't it. But hey, fuck you, you only paid for the DVD, why should you be able to use it with any degree of convenience?
Hell, they can't even sell their hardware. When I contacted them a year ago about whether they wanted some business supplying my employer hardware, no-one could even be bothered repsonding my mail.
I know a million or so New Zealand dollars are only worth half a million US, so I guess VA couldn't be bothered with such a small account.
You should clarify which market you mean: the free market of ideals, or the actual market. Mostly because market failures are usually a natural result of capitalism in action, pulling them away from the ideal market.
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WRT to aD TCL, you've in some ways demonstrated precisely the author's point: he's suggesting that using technology your competitors don't understand is a win. Your competitors don't understand that a good data model and a simple, quick programming language (TCL) with a good library is more important that using tredy Java crapware.
Your competitors don't understand that; they point and laugh and make fun of you for using TCL. They struggle with bloated, trendy middleware. You make your clients happy. You win.
Actually, the most famous LISP app is probably AutoCAD, which many people outside of Unixy circles have heard of. Not only that, but AutoCAD's use of a LISP dialect for macros has proably resulted in more people becoming LISP programmers than anything else - all those drafters, engineers and whatnot who don't realise LISP is supposed to be hard and obscure and only for academics.
I imagine it's for organisations that have requirements for mandatory access controls already. Some secure systems have pervasive systems that tightly control the flow of content (indeed, NSA Linux implements an NSA system); if those organisation want to deploy browser-based applications, this would be a good tool.
And drug asset siezures, in the US.
Have a look at what unionised employees get paid - in many cases it'll be more than you. So go ahgead, stick your nose in the air and get hoity-toity about being more 733t than them. They're crying all the way to the bank.
Many companies friends have worked for have a daily rate for being on call - it seems to be pretty standard for older, bigger companies (including EDS in New Zealand).
I've had at least one employer decree I was on-call, although suince i wasn't in my contract and there was no incentive to change that (money), I told them to get stuffed.
More to the point, dams have a fairly significant ecological impact.
Geomthermal energy is indeed used in a number of places; Rotorua, New Zealand for one. The problem that popped up in Rotorua is that people end up depleting the source (underground steam pockets) faster than they were replenised. Oops.
Cost me a couple of hundred dollars in bandwidth charges when it happened to me (vis a vis smutcraft); bandwidth ain't that cheap once you start chewing through it.
And that was *after* I'd taken the web server on the box down once I could see the amount of traffic churning through.
And that, BTW, is why I do get my panties in a bunch about spam. Fuckheads who claim I'm a whiner for not just deleting it need to pull their head out of their arse and look at what spam actually costs.
Sorry, but your lawyer should have advised you that discussing cases currently before the courts is dumb. It's a good way pissing off the judge. I'm not surprised that you got stung for running a web site about it while it was before the courts.
John Dvorak has always paid other people to write the articles that appear under his name. Why did he once sound like he knew one and of an Amiga from the other? Because he hired someone who knew what they were talking about to write the article.
Dvorak is a brand; he's obviously whoring that brand to use factual innacuracies on behalf of the highest bidder is more profitable than trying to provide useful information for the average person.
I doubt it changes much. After all, other than Dawkin's friends, Andrea Dworkin, and sundry Feminist Studies departments, does anyone consider biological determinism anything other than a bag of shit, anyway?
It's ironic that a language so villified for its OO support by OO fanatics has better real-world code reuse - one of the promises of OO techniques - than pretty much anything else.
Bullshit. Ali sued precisely because the ads ran without permission.
Older versions of Exchange relayed by default. E2K doesn't, and I don't think 5.5 did either.
Clueless lusers don't help; the ISP referred to brags about running open relays as a service to customers so they don't have to worry about changing their SMTP settings on their mail programs if they travel overseas.
Nobody used the Internet before the web? Gee, what was I doing all those years?
Actually, they can't all see each others sources, as it were. Some distros (SUSE, SLS) carefully try and rope bits of their distro off to prevent anyone using it as a base for their own distros. Others (RedHat, Debian) are more sanguine about that and play nice.
I'll wager money that NCR want to manufacture WinCE devices and are getting some sort of deal out of Redmond if they kill Palm - note they don't want Palm to pay them royalties, they wan't them put out of business.
Capitalism has nothing to do with encoraging free markets; it is a the description of a system whereby people inves capital and obtain a return on that capital. If fostering a healthy market maimises return on investment, individuals and companies will do so. If not, they will act against customer choice.
Free market theory is concerned with maximising value, usually to the consumer, through competition. Capitalism is interested in maximising value to the owners of capital. The entertainment industry is lousy at markets, but great at capitalism.
You appear to be labouring under the delusion that you operate in a demand driven market economy. I have news for you: you don't.
I don't want stupid region protection and MacroVision on DVDs, and I doubt many consumers d, either. People are prepared to pay premiums to get Macrovision removers, out-of-region disc releases with all the things they want. The market response to this is to come up with more elaborate zoning mechanisms, lobby for laws to make anti-Macrovision tools illegal (and to hell with people who want to play their legally aquired DVDs through projectors), and so on.
We live in a capitalist system. The sioal goal in such a society is to maximise income. What customers want is irrelevant if one can arrange the market to deny customers choice, and this article is discussing how the entertainment industry is pressuring manufacturers and standards groups to ensure that happens.
Even if there is a general PC, its price could rise substantially.
Have a look at media ownership some time. The fact of the matter is that NBC are hardly going to cover copyright term extension concerns when they're owned by Disney, are they?
You'd do exactly what I have to do: crawl behind your TV, unplug your game system, and plug your DVD in to watch a movie. The switch back when you want to watch TV/VCR/play game etc.
Sucks, doesn't it. But hey, fuck you, you only paid for the DVD, why should you be able to use it with any degree of convenience?
And a prophet, no less.
Hell, they can't even sell their hardware. When I contacted them a year ago about whether they wanted some business supplying my employer hardware, no-one could even be bothered repsonding my mail.
I know a million or so New Zealand dollars are only worth half a million US, so I guess VA couldn't be bothered with such a small account.
You should clarify which market you mean: the free market of ideals, or the actual market. Mostly because market failures are usually a natural result of capitalism in action, pulling them away from the ideal market.