Why is this insightful? It's a series of assertions and stereotypes with no insight whatsoever.
Everyone in academia is not jealous of their pro counterparts. Everyone in Silicon Valley is not just like people in academia. There is not always some kid thinking up the next big thing, etc.
Some of them even contradict each other. The only legitimate thing zoomba said was that people often dislike or badmouth people who are more successful. But even this was said in an overly generalized way.
It's not fair to criticize the book because you use a tarted up text file instead of something like postgres or oracle or db2 or any number of other rdbms's that managed to support subqueries and foreign keys within 30 years of their invnetion.
Thank you for the clarification. As you can see formt he other reply, you were dead on about the confusion people have. I should choose my examples more carefully in the future.
It seems that school boards often do this to reach some sort of compromise due to political pressure from religious groups.
The idea that there can be some sort of fair time given in science classes to religious theories is flawed.
If a religion posits that "number theory is only a theory", and comes up with some religious alternative, then should math classes give them equal time?
What determines the validity of an alternative viewpoint? Popularity?
Though it may seem otherwise, anti-intellectualism and the desire to subvert bodies of knowledge to preconceived notions is really no more prevalent than it ever was. That is the problem. Aren't we supposed to be advancing?
I wish there were Secular Humanist organizations exerting more influence on our school boards.
The apple mouse does not have any buttons and can easily be clicked with handscale motions. Apple keyboard and mouse
The wireless mouse has a single button that makes it easy and comfortable to use, regardless of the size of your hand. Whether you have a light touch or a heavy hand, the thoughtful click-force adjustment feature makes it more customizable. And the optical engine provides accurate and responsive cursor movement unhampered by performance-inhibiting dirt and dust buildup.
You win this week's Confirmation Bias Award or Thinly Disguised Troll Award.
http://skepdic.com/confirmbias.html
What about the cornucopia of smart, creative people who [gasp] work for microsoft?
What about people using/developing mono?
I don't think that one's use of a development platform definitively indicates anything other than that they are likely to develop software with that platform.
Ooh, maybe it will be as fast and stable as Tomcat .
Anyone who has tried to use freeroller can tell you how stellar the combination of struts and tomcat is.
What will be interesting is to see how it stacks up against JBoss and Jonas the other Open Source application servers. At this point, however, it is vapor, though Jakarta does have an excellent and deserved reputation for follow-up and completion. I use many of their components (which is why I have complaints;)
The reason the J2EE learning curve is so steep is because the learning curve for transaction oriented distributed computing is steep. J2EE makes it easi-er, but not easy by any stretch of my tortured imagination. There is no wizard that can tell you how to scale and plan your architecture given your usage environment. Most people do it with a mixture of experience, best practices, and prayer.
Still, the more the merrier and the apache license will be very conducive to the constituent components of this server being used elsewhere. At the very least there will be more people to pray with over deployments.
Will the sunshine nations (OSEC) collude to create artificial shortages and drive up prices in the sunless nations. Rolling blackouts, $700 power bills. The best part will be when they say its the fault of the sunless nations for having draconian environmental laws.
I do not understand why the information would be classified. Our national highways are critical infrastructure, without which we would all be brought to a standstill, yet maps of them are readily available online or at any bookstore.
Could you imagine if the locations of communications infrastructure were classified? Would you need clearance to set up a node? Would you need to pay to have every line technicican get a full background check? This reminds me of the reaction of "security" people when they see WHOIS entries for their companies for the first time. Their foreheads are usually bruised for weeks because of the knee jerking. The first thing they want to do is take it down. They forget that a certain level of openness is neccesary for a system that benefits everyone.
The whole point of a privatised distributed communications infrastructure is that a terrorist or enemy state cannot cripple the entire thing. Now if the people at banks and government insititutions have not done a good job of ensuring redundancy and disaster recovery then it's their own fault. The solution is to fix it, not suppress information about it.
Obviously, no one recommends mailing al-qaeda a copy of the telecom/data infrastructure, but this exposes a major flaw with what's going on and we would be foolish to ignore it or suppress it.
My point was that a very misleading comment had been modded up. THat would be unhelpful to someone who knew nothing about MVC. I understand someone making a mistake and posting it, but not modding the mistake up so that others think it is somehow valuable information. Anyone who knew what the post was trying to express (or mislead others about) woudl not have modded it up.
This makes so little sense that I can only assume that Ms. Coulter is laughing her butt off at the moderators.
There is no Java MVC for the web. You either roll your own or use Struts or Webwork or Maverick et al. MVC is a design pattern, which was correctly stated.
That, however, was the extent of any correctness. The Model is the data, which in her case would be the MySQL held data. The view would be a generated html page, JSP, Velocity Template, XML/XSLT pipeline, or whatever display technology you would use. The controller would be something that receives requests from a web browser and then decides what action to take (pull data from a database, massage it, return it, and show a results page). Accessing the data is handled by Data access objects or delegates.
If you don't know what in tarnation someone is talking about, don't moderate it down or up, just leave it.
I am going to start using that line at work though. "If we use java this way we will be akin to apple!"
I know several campfire horror stories that begin that way. They usually end with "but that is the price AFTER the mail-in rebate. {cue maniacal laughter}"
Summary: J: interesting and--Oh look! shiny php object! Jext: tricky installation, but nothing interesting in the five seconds I spent reviewing it. jEdit: reviewer liked this one the most, but was biased from the beginning.
Whatever. Why waste the time to even write a review if you are not even going to take the time to go into depth? The reviewer complains about bloated IDEs like eclipse or netbeans and then does not even point out why ANY of the reviewed editors are a compelling choice over an IDE. Eclipse and Netbeans make enterprise deployment, unit testing, and building a lot easier because they were created with that in mind. They only implement editing functions to the extent that they support iterative development cycles and integration with software engineering tools. Do the editors support automatic code copmletion based on classpath and in-scope variables? If I wanted souped up text editor I would use emacs or vi, whiach are FAR better than this j* stuff. An editor is great when you are developing alone, but when you are part of a team of developers, things like CVS integration, code style enforcement, and automation of repetitive build tasks are essential. How do any of these editors fare in that respect? You'll never find out in this review.
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4. slang. Food for lust; loose women, prostitutes. Also laced mutton: see LACED ppl. a. 5. So, the genital organs of a woman; copulation; phr. to hawk one's mutton, (of a woman) to seek a lover, to solicit (cf. hawking ppl. a. s.v. HAWK v.2). See also MUTTON-MONGER.
". ..interfaces also have no data. I have come to appreciate that if you use abstract base classes and eliminate any data from them, then a lot of the difficulties of multiple inheritance that I wrote about just go away, even in C++."
Interfaces in java can have member variables but they are always public (universally accessible), static (not associated with any particular instance of a class) and final (unchanging). Thus, if you use data members in interfaces you cannot hide them in the implementing class, but this is mitigated by them being read only. I have not seen anyone use these inherited constants (which is what they amount to), and I can't think of a major drawback to using them, but I don't know of any advantage either.
Does anyone know why interfaces have data members at all?
You can interact with the command line after selecting which packages you want to install/update. The reason for this is that the GUI is a wrapper for comand line functionality. Instead of obscuring the command line it allows you to interact with it. It will even launch the terminal app and type commands in it if you prefer that.
I have done a lot of graphics work and I must say that if photoshop and illustrator coudl do this I would be rather pleased. You get to the point where you know exactly what needs to be done, but is a PITA to go to Edit>Image>Curves and drag around a picture of a curve rather than feed it exact values in a console. I think any application where you perform consise operations on visual data would benefit from this approach.
We should make up a buzzword for it. What about "Active GUI" or "Dynamic GUI"? Once it is established as a marketing word it may achieve popularity.
I'm sorry but this attitude exemplifies something that is wrong with engineering culture. People are not born to anything except a slap on the ass and even that is dependent on a your health care plan.
An appreciation of and a desire to participate in science and engineering often comes from the encouragement of others during one's education and subsequent career. Moreover, nothing in the article indicates that a passion for engineering will save you from a volatile job market. As people who work in these fields our focus should not be on the smug satisfaction that the pretenders are being ousted, but that people who want to innovate are not finding it economically feasible to do so.
Usually those who are passionate about something encourage others to be interested in it as well. Yet, like yourself, some feel that a particular field is 'theirs' and others are unworthy or unqualified for some reason or other. This is not a way to grow an industry or a field.
My question though is why begrudge someone the pleasure of working with a tool that they enjoy? I tried gentoo and I liked it. I still use suse but using gentoo made me understand a lot more about my system.
The crux of your argument is that source distros don't realize enough speed benefit to make it worth your while. Be that as it may, people use them for reasons other than speed: increased understanding, sheer boredom, quite granular customization, and a desire to be closer to the internals of their operating system. You may not care about these things either, but why be upset that others do.
It harms you in no way that people use source distros. You should be happy that people are enjoying free software and possible learning a lot.
I disagree completely. The person who owned the car consented to have the tracking system and when the car was stolen Onstar fulfilled its obligation to track the car and notify the authorities of its whereabouts.
Despite the fact that John Ashcroft is our attorney general, the police still require search warrants. No amount of technology can change our basic right to freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.
Sure, the system can be abused but no one has given an example where that has taken place. All you say is that they CAN use it to track your "activities" at 7-11. I can follow you around all day and it's perfectly legal. If the government wanted to do it they would have to get a judge to approve it.
The point of all this is that there is no bright line between tracking a stolen car and tracking you. You offer no analysis of how the jump will be made from kidnappers to joe schmoe. Please see my sig below.
Five people are dead, the suspects may be apprehended, and the only thing that comes out of it is. "I always knew the feds were using luxry autombiles to track us. I just knew it." Did it ever occur to the rather focused poster that the reason they used OnStar is because the car was STOLEN and that's one of the things it's FOR.
I know that electronic surveillance is frightening but this was not a case of unwarranted electronic tracking. A horrible crime was committed, and technology, for once, did what it was DESIGNED to do and helped catch actual suspects. It would be very different if law enforcement tracked all the onstar vehicles to look for patterns of suspicious activity. There is a difference between the legitimate use of technology to fight crime and using technology to as the ultimate panopticon where we are constantly under surveillance.
>The email client has to be the worst that I have ever used.
That is the admin's fault. Notes allows you to do a lot of customization so that it serves your needs, but once you do, it's pretty much essential. Of all the groupware I've seen it integrates best with heterogeneous data stores, custom applications, and workflows.
I agree that the e-mail is sucky compared to Outlook 2002 or mozilla or kmail or any number of other clients. This can be remedied though by effective use of custom domino applications and templates.
This is pretty exciting since, with MS Office, it makes the mac a pretty viable alternative in the non-creative workplace. I worked as a designer and it was always immensely frustrating to either have to also use a PC, or simply be excluded from some enterprise apps and productivity tools.
I noticed though that there is no Domino Server for OS X. pity. A Dual G4 domino server (with Gigabit ethernet of course) would kick serious butt and would make an all mac office a distinct possibility.
I dream of a day when Oracle server runs on OS X and Apple has an easy to use data access framework a la ADO.net (with Postgres support): Rack mounted OS X application & database servers. Oh my god, somebody get me a towel.
I disagree. One of the things that I think is missing from the open vs. closed source debate is the values that people from the two camps are really supporting. Microsoft has one overriding purpose: to increase shareholder value. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. If any corporation engages in altruistic deeds or helps the environment or the less fortunate, they are doing it because there is a return on the investment in the form of good will. Anyone who believes that Microsoft cares about their business as anything other than a revenue stream is a fool. That's not Microsoft's job.
Open source advocates promote their software because they want to have some control over their fates, to promote the general advancement of the field, and for numerous other reasons. They do not do it because they wish to make a profit.
The case that open source people can make that microsoft can't is that they are not trying to extract more money from your business. They are trying to improve technology because they believe that it's advancement is valuable in its own right.
Thus, Craig Mundie is a a salesperson, whose job it is to say anything necessary to promote microsft's way of doing business. Bruce Perens is an advocate shared technological advancement and general improvement.
There is a credibility gap but no the one you think. It needs to be exploited more though.
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I assume it is from the William Carlos Williams Poem, Red Wheelbarrow
A database being the red wheelbarrow of course. Don't ask about the chickens.
Why is this insightful? It's a series of assertions and stereotypes with no insight whatsoever.
Everyone in academia is not jealous of their pro counterparts. Everyone in Silicon Valley is not just like people in academia. There is not always some kid thinking up the next big thing, etc.
Some of them even contradict each other. The only legitimate thing zoomba said was that people often dislike or badmouth people who are more successful. But even this was said in an overly generalized way.
It's not fair to criticize the book because you use a tarted up text file instead of something like postgres or oracle or db2 or any number of other rdbms's that managed to support subqueries and foreign keys within 30 years of their invnetion.
Thank you for the clarification. As you can see formt he other reply, you were dead on about the confusion people have. I should choose my examples more carefully in the future.
It seems that school boards often do this to reach some sort of compromise due to political pressure from religious groups.
The idea that there can be some sort of fair time given in science classes to religious theories is flawed.
If a religion posits that "number theory is only a theory", and comes up with some religious alternative, then should math classes give them equal time?
What determines the validity of an alternative viewpoint? Popularity?
Though it may seem otherwise, anti-intellectualism and the desire to subvert bodies of knowledge to preconceived notions is really no more prevalent than it ever was. That is the problem. Aren't we supposed to be advancing?
I wish there were Secular Humanist organizations exerting more influence on our school boards.
Apple keyboard and mouse
You win this week's Confirmation Bias Award or Thinly Disguised Troll Award.
http://skepdic.com/confirmbias.html
What about the cornucopia of smart, creative people who [gasp] work for microsoft?
What about people using/developing mono?
I don't think that one's use of a development platform definitively indicates anything other than that they are likely to develop software with that platform.
A friend of mine called from 2000 looking for a state of the art mp3 player. Even at 1.5 ounces the shipping is going to be hell.
-a
Anyone who has tried to use freeroller can tell you how stellar the combination of struts and tomcat is.
What will be interesting is to see how it stacks up against JBoss and Jonas the other Open Source application servers. At this point, however, it is vapor, though Jakarta does have an excellent and deserved reputation for follow-up and completion. I use many of their components (which is why I have complaints
The reason the J2EE learning curve is so steep is because the learning curve for transaction oriented distributed computing is steep. J2EE makes it easi-er, but not easy by any stretch of my tortured imagination. There is no wizard that can tell you how to scale and plan your architecture given your usage environment. Most people do it with a mixture of experience, best practices, and prayer.
Still, the more the merrier and the apache license will be very conducive to the constituent components of this server being used elsewhere. At the very least there will be more people to pray with over deployments.
Will the sunshine nations (OSEC) collude to create artificial shortages and drive up prices in the sunless nations. Rolling blackouts, $700 power bills. The best part will be when they say its the fault of the sunless nations for having draconian environmental laws.
I'm really not this bitter in person.
I do not understand why the information would be classified. Our national highways are critical infrastructure, without which we would all be brought to a standstill, yet maps of them are readily available online or at any bookstore.
Could you imagine if the locations of communications infrastructure were classified? Would you need clearance to set up a node? Would you need to pay to have every line technicican get a full background check? This reminds me of the reaction of "security" people when they see WHOIS entries for their companies for the first time. Their foreheads are usually bruised for weeks because of the knee jerking. The first thing they want to do is take it down. They forget that a certain level of openness is neccesary for a system that benefits everyone.
The whole point of a privatised distributed communications infrastructure is that a terrorist or enemy state cannot cripple the entire thing. Now if the people at banks and government insititutions have not done a good job of ensuring redundancy and disaster recovery then it's their own fault. The solution is to fix it, not suppress information about it.
Obviously, no one recommends mailing al-qaeda a copy of the telecom/data infrastructure, but this exposes a major flaw with what's going on and we would be foolish to ignore it or suppress it.
My point was that a very misleading comment had been modded up. THat would be unhelpful to someone who knew nothing about MVC. I understand someone making a mistake and posting it, but not modding the mistake up so that others think it is somehow valuable information. Anyone who knew what the post was trying to express (or mislead others about) woudl not have modded it up.
This makes so little sense that I can only assume that Ms. Coulter is laughing her butt off at the moderators.
There is no Java MVC for the web. You either roll your own or use Struts or Webwork or Maverick et al. MVC is a design pattern, which was correctly stated.
That, however, was the extent of any correctness. The Model is the data, which in her case would be the MySQL held data. The view would be a generated html page, JSP, Velocity Template, XML/XSLT pipeline, or whatever display technology you would use. The controller would be something that receives requests from a web browser and then decides what action to take (pull data from a database, massage it, return it, and show a results page). Accessing the data is handled by Data access objects or delegates.
If you don't know what in tarnation someone is talking about, don't moderate it down or up, just leave it.
I am going to start using that line at work though. "If we use java this way we will be akin to apple!"
Imagine walking into your local CompUSA...
[shudder]
I know several campfire horror stories that begin that way. They usually end with "but that is the price AFTER the mail-in rebate. {cue maniacal laughter}"
-a
Summary:
J: interesting and--Oh look! shiny php object!
Jext: tricky installation, but nothing interesting in the five seconds I spent reviewing it.
jEdit: reviewer liked this one the most, but was biased from the beginning.
Whatever. Why waste the time to even write a review if you are not even going to take the time to go into depth? The reviewer complains about bloated IDEs like eclipse or netbeans and then does not even point out why ANY of the reviewed editors are a compelling choice over an IDE. Eclipse and Netbeans make enterprise deployment, unit testing, and building a lot easier because they were created with that in mind. They only implement editing functions to the extent that they support iterative development cycles and integration with software engineering tools. Do the editors support automatic code copmletion based on classpath and in-scope variables? If I wanted souped up text editor I would use emacs or vi, whiach are FAR better than this j* stuff. An editor is great when you are developing alone, but when you are part of a team of developers, things like CVS integration, code style enforcement, and automation of repetitive build tasks are essential. How do any of these editors fare in that respect? You'll never find out in this review.
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Interfaces in java can have member variables but they are always public (universally accessible), static (not associated with any particular instance of a class) and final (unchanging). Thus, if you use data members in interfaces you cannot hide them in the implementing class, but this is mitigated by them being read only. I have not seen anyone use these inherited constants (which is what they amount to), and I can't think of a major drawback to using them, but I don't know of any advantage either.
Does anyone know why interfaces have data members at all?
You can interact with the command line after selecting which packages you want to install/update. The reason for this is that the GUI is a wrapper for comand line functionality. Instead of obscuring the command line it allows you to interact with it. It will even launch the terminal app and type commands in it if you prefer that.
I have done a lot of graphics work and I must say that if photoshop and illustrator coudl do this I would be rather pleased. You get to the point where you know exactly what needs to be done, but is a PITA to go to Edit>Image>Curves and drag around a picture of a curve rather than feed it exact values in a console. I think any application where you perform consise operations on visual data would benefit from this approach.
We should make up a buzzword for it. What about "Active GUI" or "Dynamic GUI"? Once it is established as a marketing word it may achieve popularity.
I'm sorry but this attitude exemplifies something that is wrong with engineering culture. People are not born to anything except a slap on the ass and even that is dependent on a your health care plan.
An appreciation of and a desire to participate in science and engineering often comes from the encouragement of others during one's education and subsequent career. Moreover, nothing in the article indicates that a passion for engineering will save you from a volatile job market. As people who work in these fields our focus should not be on the smug satisfaction that the pretenders are being ousted, but that people who want to innovate are not finding it economically feasible to do so.
Usually those who are passionate about something encourage others to be interested in it as well. Yet, like yourself, some feel that a particular field is 'theirs' and others are unworthy or unqualified for some reason or other. This is not a way to grow an industry or a field.
-A
My question though is why begrudge someone the pleasure of working with a tool that they enjoy? I tried gentoo and I liked it. I still use suse but using gentoo made me understand a lot more about my system.
The crux of your argument is that source distros don't realize enough speed benefit to make it worth your while. Be that as it may, people use them for reasons other than speed: increased understanding, sheer boredom, quite granular customization, and a desire to be closer to the internals of their operating system. You may not care about these things either, but why be upset that others do.
It harms you in no way that people use source distros. You should be happy that people are enjoying free software and possible learning a lot.
-A
I disagree completely. The person who owned the car consented to have the tracking system and when the car was stolen Onstar fulfilled its obligation to track the car and notify the authorities of its whereabouts.
Despite the fact that John Ashcroft is our attorney general, the police still require search warrants. No amount of technology can change our basic right to freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.
Sure, the system can be abused but no one has given an example where that has taken place. All you say is that they CAN use it to track your "activities" at 7-11. I can follow you around all day and it's perfectly legal. If the government wanted to do it they would have to get a judge to approve it.
The point of all this is that there is no bright line between tracking a stolen car and tracking you. You offer no analysis of how the jump will be made from kidnappers to joe schmoe. Please see my sig below.
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Five people are dead, the suspects may be apprehended, and the only thing that comes out of it is. "I always knew the feds were using luxry autombiles to track us. I just knew it." Did it ever occur to the rather focused poster that the reason they used OnStar is because the car was STOLEN and that's one of the things it's FOR.
I know that electronic surveillance is frightening but this was not a case of unwarranted electronic tracking. A horrible crime was committed, and technology, for once, did what it was DESIGNED to do and helped catch actual suspects. It would be very different if law enforcement tracked all the onstar vehicles to look for patterns of suspicious activity. There is a difference between the legitimate use of technology to fight crime and using technology to as the ultimate panopticon where we are constantly under surveillance.
-a
>The email client has to be the worst that I have ever used.
That is the admin's fault. Notes allows you to do a lot of customization so that it serves your needs, but once you do, it's pretty much essential. Of all the groupware I've seen it integrates best with heterogeneous data stores, custom applications, and workflows.
I agree that the e-mail is sucky compared to Outlook 2002 or mozilla or kmail or any number of other clients. This can be remedied though by effective use of custom domino applications and templates.
-a
Does anyone have any screenshots?
This is pretty exciting since, with MS Office, it makes the mac a pretty viable alternative in the non-creative workplace. I worked as a designer and it was always immensely frustrating to either have to also use a PC, or simply be excluded from some enterprise apps and productivity tools.
I noticed though that there is no Domino Server for OS X. pity. A Dual G4 domino server (with Gigabit ethernet of course) would kick serious butt and would make an all mac office a distinct possibility.
I dream of a day when Oracle server runs on OS X and Apple has an easy to use data access framework a la ADO.net (with Postgres support): Rack mounted OS X application & database servers.
Oh my god, somebody get me a towel.
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>There's a bit of a credibility gap.
I disagree. One of the things that I think is missing from the open vs. closed source debate is the values that people from the two camps are really supporting. Microsoft has one overriding purpose: to increase shareholder value. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. If any corporation engages in altruistic deeds or helps the environment or the less fortunate, they are doing it because there is a return on the investment in the form of good will. Anyone who believes that Microsoft cares about their business as anything other than a revenue stream is a fool. That's not Microsoft's job.
Open source advocates promote their software because they want to have some control over their fates, to promote the general advancement of the field, and for numerous other reasons. They do not do it because they wish to make a profit.
The case that open source people can make that microsoft can't is that they are not trying to extract more money from your business. They are trying to improve technology because they believe that it's advancement is valuable in its own right.
Thus, Craig Mundie is a a salesperson, whose job it is to say anything necessary to promote microsft's way of doing business. Bruce Perens is an advocate shared technological advancement and general improvement.
There is a credibility gap but no the one you think. It needs to be exploited more though.