I prefer the (new) php style of using keywords instead of spaces or brackets. I find it easier to keep track of multiple levels of indentation.
Example:
if ($foo):
while ($fee):
buncha code
endwhile;
endif;
If the buncha code fills up your screen it's easy to grok what's going on at the end of control structures. For every control structure php provides a keyword for the end.
So let me get this straight. I should release my code under BSD so that some corporation can make money off of it? Is that what you are saying? What's in it for me?
" It would be very hard for them to change something and not have it affect a lot of implementations. "
why would it be hard for them? Breaking implementation would help MS because it would prevent people from buying non MS products. MS has a history of backstabbing companies that it partnered with. Did they all find god all of a sudden or something?
It always boggles my mind when people advertise their ineptitude, stupidity or ignorance to the whole world. People would be embarrased to say 'I don't know how to read or write" but they seem downright proud of themselves when they say "I can't do math" or "I can't set up a simple thinng like samba".
If you are dumb keep it to yourself maybe we won't notice.
you still need unix ODBC drivers. Perl's DBI uses freetds so unless you want to pay for an ODBC deriver from merant (thousands of dollars!) you are screwed (freetds is not mission critical).
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tds support in sql7 is a bit flaky and worse in w2K. MS is going to ditch TDS support soon because they don't like the fact you can connect to sql server from linux/apacha/php (plays nice with others!). They want to force you to use windows and ODBC/ADO/OLEDB or whatever their alphabet soup of data access technology of the day is.
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freetds is a good effort but it's not suitable for mission critical web sites.
In some ways it's not oracle but in other ways it's better then oracle. It's missing some "enterprise" features like clustering, replication etc but it does have unlimited row sizes, a fantastic rule system, user loadable languages and my fave being able to define your own operators and aggregate functions. Once you use one of these things you will scratch your head and ask why anybody would pay a hundred thousand dollars for a database that does not do it. OTOH if you really need those enterprise features you could probably pay for them. For anybody else it's like butter.
TV is not free. You pay for it whenever you but a product advertised on TV. If coke did not spend a billions a year on commercials it would cost a nickel a can.
I got my mother a MAC. No more tech support call sto me! Really a mac is a great choice for mom or dad. I still don't think I would go with linux because dad likes AOL (go figure).
Yes but how many windows lusers who are not even capable of changing their default homepage are going to do that.
It has been said on slashdot a billion times. People can not be expected to actually mess with their software and that's why people use windows. You wouldn't let your mother use linux and your mother would not be able to mess with NT or windows 9x. Windows is an OS for people who don't care and who can't deal.
I noticed you used the word "should". Unfortunately that is not possible. For profit corporations can not exist to reflect human interest especially if by "human interest" you mean the vlaues you were tought as a kid or are likely to pick up from some sort of religion. OTOH if by "human interest" you mean satisfying the endless greed and cruelty of human beings then of course corporations are perfectly suited for that.
Corporation are not human beings. They have no souls. They also have ZERO interest in talkign or doing things that are moral or right. They are only interested in making money. It it costs less to do the right thing then OK but if it costs more (the usual case) then you can go fuck yourself. Corporation exists to make money not to obey some god, promote a better world, help the community, or do the right thing. The corporation is the ultimate satanic entity (as defined by the church of satan and also pretty much as defined by the bible). A creature that exists ro promote the seven the deadly sins and to profit from them.
"Before you slam all corporations, realize that corporate officers are merely protecting the assetts of the corporation, something they are required BY LAW to do, lest they be the personal and direct target of a class action lawsuit from their shareholders. So blame the shareholders! "
Corporations exist to escape blame. The primary purpose of a corporation is to shield people from taking personal responsibility. They use the same arguments that you do basically to justify anything that a corporation may do. Killing people, poisoning water supplies, relasing deadly gasses, ruining ecosystems it's all int he name of profit.
If we can hold human beings morally culpable for doing bad and evil things like murder, theft, littering etc then we ought to the same with corporations. The problem is that with a corporation nobody goes to jail for committing murder. Not the CEO, not the lowly worker, not the shareholders. In effect any corporation has a blank license to do anything it wants with no threat of jail time or criminal sanctions. Sometimes they get sued in civil court and have to give up money but for an organization that lives on money it's like skipping a meal no big deal.
So one vote out of 280 million is not enough representation but a hundred shares of billions of shares is good enough. You have more say in how your govt behaves then how ms behaves. At least the govt makes a pretense of being a democracy. Corporations have no concept of one person one vote. Whoever has the most shares has the say so and unless you are a billionaire you aint got no juice with Bill Gates.
You are slave to everybody. You have to buy from somebody so your illusion of choice is just that. Don't buy from one corporation but buy from another whoop dee doo that's freedom? Guess what you can live in another country too but that does make you free. You only have freedom to choose your enslavers.
If you think that corporations don't abuse us please visit the town of libby montana where W.R. Grace corporation has committed mass murder of the citizens of that town. They then declared bankrupcy (chap 11) so that they can't be sued. Once the suits go away they will be re-opened for business.
Like that sheeple you complain about the sheeple of montana and libby readily went along with this poisoning of their friends and neighbors because they made proft from it. It costs too much money to clean up after yourself. It costs too much money not to kill people. Every corpie recognizes this simple fact. Kill them now and if the sheeple decide to come after you attack them with lawyers and if that does not work then use the legal system to circumvent personal responsibility.
The sheeple of libbly are not unique nor is W.R. Grace. The history of capitalism is full of even worse examples of atrocoties committed by corps. For every opressive govt there are hundreds of opressive corps and corps which have killed or maimed or destroyed thousands of sheeple.
If most of the music out there is in MP3 format or if the P2P servers only accept MP3s then the windows user will want to rip MP3s or listen to MP3s.
The solution is simple. Anybody who runs a gnutella or napster like server simply rejects any files that are not MP3s. Joe Shmoe will end up being a leech sucking up MP3s but never uploading anything because like most windows users he is too stupid to learn anything. Eventually Jow Smoe can only swap with the other brittany spears fans.
That's all good because it suits the MPAA just fine.
" Anyway, he may not have had as much information as we do today, but he was still a smart gent. Just because some of the ideas are outdated doesn't mean they're all useless now."
Of course not all of his ideas are useless. Most of his ideas however should be re-examined in the wake immense knowledge that has been gathered in the intervening decades.
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Hey but I can set up samba in under 30 minutes!
and the cost of advertising is not passed along to the consumer?
I prefer the (new) php style of using keywords instead of spaces or brackets. I find it easier to keep track of multiple levels of indentation.
Example:
if ($foo):
while ($fee):
buncha code
endwhile;
endif;
If the buncha code fills up your screen it's easy to grok what's going on at the end of control structures. For every control structure php provides a keyword for the end.
This is the greatest contribution of the perl community. A true example of code re-use.
we the sheeple.
So let me get this straight. I should release my code under BSD so that some corporation can make money off of it? Is that what you are saying? What's in it for me?
" It would be very hard for them to change something and not have it affect a lot of implementations. "
why would it be hard for them? Breaking implementation would help MS because it would prevent people from buying non MS products. MS has a history of backstabbing companies that it partnered with. Did they all find god all of a sudden or something?
It always boggles my mind when people advertise their ineptitude, stupidity or ignorance to the whole world. People would be embarrased to say 'I don't know how to read or write" but they seem downright proud of themselves when they say "I can't do math" or "I can't set up a simple thinng like samba".
If you are dumb keep it to yourself maybe we won't notice.
you still need unix ODBC drivers. Perl's DBI uses freetds so unless you want to pay for an ODBC deriver from merant (thousands of dollars!) you are screwed (freetds is not mission critical).
tds support in sql7 is a bit flaky and worse in w2K. MS is going to ditch TDS support soon because they don't like the fact you can connect to sql server from linux/apacha/php (plays nice with others!). They want to force you to use windows and ODBC/ADO/OLEDB or whatever their alphabet soup of data access technology of the day is.
freetds is a good effort but it's not suitable for mission critical web sites.
In some ways it's not oracle but in other ways it's better then oracle. It's missing some "enterprise" features like clustering, replication etc but it does have unlimited row sizes, a fantastic rule system, user loadable languages and my fave being able to define your own operators and aggregate functions. Once you use one of these things you will scratch your head and ask why anybody would pay a hundred thousand dollars for a database that does not do it. OTOH if you really need those enterprise features you could probably pay for them. For anybody else it's like butter.
TV is not free. You pay for it whenever you but a product advertised on TV. If coke did not spend a billions a year on commercials it would cost a nickel a can.
I got my mother a MAC. No more tech support call sto me! Really a mac is a great choice for mom or dad. I still don't think I would go with linux because dad likes AOL (go figure).
Yes but how many windows lusers who are not even capable of changing their default homepage are going to do that.
It has been said on slashdot a billion times. People can not be expected to actually mess with their software and that's why people use windows. You wouldn't let your mother use linux and your mother would not be able to mess with NT or windows 9x. Windows is an OS for people who don't care and who can't deal.
I noticed you used the word "should". Unfortunately that is not possible. For profit corporations can not exist to reflect human interest especially if by "human interest" you mean the vlaues you were tought as a kid or are likely to pick up from some sort of religion. OTOH if by "human interest" you mean satisfying the endless greed and cruelty of human beings then of course corporations are perfectly suited for that.
Corporation are not human beings. They have no souls. They also have ZERO interest in talkign or doing things that are moral or right. They are only interested in making money. It it costs less to do the right thing then OK but if it costs more (the usual case) then you can go fuck yourself. Corporation exists to make money not to obey some god, promote a better world, help the community, or do the right thing. The corporation is the ultimate satanic entity (as defined by the church of satan and also pretty much as defined by the bible). A creature that exists ro promote the seven the deadly sins and to profit from them.
"Before you slam all corporations, realize that corporate officers are merely protecting the assetts of the corporation, something they are required BY LAW to do, lest they be the personal and direct target of a class action lawsuit from their shareholders. So blame the shareholders! "
Corporations exist to escape blame. The primary purpose of a corporation is to shield people from taking personal responsibility. They use the same arguments that you do basically to justify anything that a corporation may do. Killing people, poisoning water supplies, relasing deadly gasses, ruining ecosystems it's all int he name of profit.
If we can hold human beings morally culpable for doing bad and evil things like murder, theft, littering etc then we ought to the same with corporations. The problem is that with a corporation nobody goes to jail for committing murder. Not the CEO, not the lowly worker, not the shareholders. In effect any corporation has a blank license to do anything it wants with no threat of jail time or criminal sanctions. Sometimes they get sued in civil court and have to give up money but for an organization that lives on money it's like skipping a meal no big deal.
Yes but large corporations don't pay people to go to amihotornot and rate people. That's a big difference to me.
You are more right then you think.
A windows 2000 cluster managed by MS would cost more then 15% of your annual income.
So one vote out of 280 million is not enough representation but a hundred shares of billions of shares is good enough. You have more say in how your govt behaves then how ms behaves. At least the govt makes a pretense of being a democracy. Corporations have no concept of one person one vote. Whoever has the most shares has the say so and unless you are a billionaire you aint got no juice with Bill Gates.
You are slave to everybody. You have to buy from somebody so your illusion of choice is just that. Don't buy from one corporation but buy from another whoop dee doo that's freedom? Guess what you can live in another country too but that does make you free. You only have freedom to choose your enslavers.
If you think that corporations don't abuse us please visit the town of libby montana where W.R. Grace corporation has committed mass murder of the citizens of that town. They then declared bankrupcy (chap 11) so that they can't be sued. Once the suits go away they will be re-opened for business.
Like that sheeple you complain about the sheeple of montana and libby readily went along with this poisoning of their friends and neighbors because they made proft from it. It costs too much money to clean up after yourself. It costs too much money not to kill people. Every corpie recognizes this simple fact. Kill them now and if the sheeple decide to come after you attack them with lawyers and if that does not work then use the legal system to circumvent personal responsibility.
The sheeple of libbly are not unique nor is W.R. Grace. The history of capitalism is full of even worse examples of atrocoties committed by corps. For every opressive govt there are hundreds of opressive corps and corps which have killed or maimed or destroyed thousands of sheeple.
If most of the music out there is in MP3 format or if the P2P servers only accept MP3s then the windows user will want to rip MP3s or listen to MP3s.
The solution is simple. Anybody who runs a gnutella or napster like server simply rejects any files that are not MP3s. Joe Shmoe will end up being a leech sucking up MP3s but never uploading anything because like most windows users he is too stupid to learn anything. Eventually Jow Smoe can only swap with the other brittany spears fans.
That's all good because it suits the MPAA just fine.
" Anyway, he may not have had as much information as we do today, but he was still a smart gent. Just because some of the ideas are outdated doesn't mean they're all useless now."
Of course not all of his ideas are useless. Most of his ideas however should be re-examined in the wake immense knowledge that has been gathered in the intervening decades.
Which proves how silly the law is.