To my mind, it seems weird that software can be both patented and copyrighted. So that's where I think the problem lies. I can't think of anything else that would fall under both (excluding design patents).
Um, actually the SI units (kilo, mega, etc.) existed before computer geeks started using them in the base-2 sense. So the computer geeks are the ones who bastardized the terminology in that case.
Actually, one of the common issues that beginning Rails developers have is to put too much business logic in the controller. There's even a name for the theory that almost all logic should be in the model: "skinny controller, fat model".
I actually had a bit of a hard time wrapping my head around the web-style MVC, because it doesn't follow the traditional GUI form of MVC. (Mainly because the model doesn't send updates directly to the view.) But the "best practices" that Rails suggest actually do make sense as MVC. And the more you stick with those best practice separations, the easier it is to work with your code.
It is our duty as citizens to follow the laws, to follow the moral contract made by our ancestors who founded the country and the sovereign people among which we live now: to which we are all therefore bound (as individuals), and it is unethical to abandon our duties, or violate rules we agree to follow without very good reasons.
It's also the duty of our legislators to base the laws on the ethics and morals of our society. When they (unethically) fail to do that, we're faced with an ethical dilemma.
But the Internet is a two-way street, with clients and servers. If the client-side ISPs decide to start throttling, then the server-side providers can decide to start throttling those ISPs as well.
Do you really think that people will stick with an ISP that has slowed-down access to Google? I think Google is in a good position to threaten ISPs into maintaining net neutrality. Imagine going to Google and seeing a note telling you that your ISP has caused your access to Google to be throttled, and suggesting that you call your ISP or move to another ISP.
Become a local user group. You could have special interest groups (SIGs), such as a Linux User Group (LUG), programming SIGs (possibly for different languages), etc.
User groups provide educational opportunities, similar to ones discussed in other posts here. They also provide social opportunities, allowing people with similar interests to meet each other. In addition, you'll be helping people solve problems, and provide technical support.
I'm thinking they want to keep using Gecko because they made it and want to justify its existence.
I think that may be part of the reason has not seriously considered switching to WebKit/KHTML. But I think there are a few other reasons they will likely continue using Gecko:
1) The work required to replace Gecko with WebKit in Firefox would be quite substantial. It'd probably take just as much effort as improving Gecko.
2) It's good to have competing renderers out there, to stir competition and prevent a mono-culture.
3) They've got a lot of developers familiar with Gecko. If they moved to WebKit, they would not have a lot of experience with it, so would have trouble improving it to meet their own needs. In some ways, this overlaps with my reason #1. But it could also be considered a part of controlling their own destiny.
Web sites can do this -- it's a feature of SSL called client certificates. I've set it up on a server at MIT. They use it a lot at MIT, and have their own CA for creating/signing client certificates.
Actually, one of the problems many of us have with Microsoft is that they don't follow the rules of US capitalism -- they cheat. Or at least they have several times in the past. And they've only been given a few slaps on the wrist for it. See this article for details. (I wish it had more on the 1994 consent decree -- they were charging PC makers for Windows even if the PC shipped with another OS instead of Windows.)
You're asking something like "how do I get my 1972 Pinto to go 120 mph?" Admittedly you could put in a new engine, new brakes, new transmission, etc. But you'd end up spending more time and money than if you just bought a car that goes 120 mph, and has less problems. That's what people are trying to tell you -- it's really not worth the effort. It's fine if you don't want to take their advice, and just want to make your Pinto go 120. But don't complain when they don't want to help you do something senseless.
Perhaps he might read it if the subject was more obvious. Lloyd Center is 2 stops EAST on the MAX. Only about 9 (short) blocks from the Oregon Convention Center. It's a nice 2-story mall, with a decent food court and an ice skating rink. I've not been to the theater.
YellowPages.com uses Rails -- try telling them that Rails doesn't scale.
I'm a web developer using both Rails and PHP. I've found Rails developers to be much more professional, employing testing, version control, and other best practices. PHP tends to be written more ad-hoc, leading to problems when the code base becomes larger.
Rails is a really good choice for a certain subset of web sites. (Generally, if you need to create/read/update/delete database-backed objects.)
You can get that in Java too, using the SWT widgets from Eclipse. With a single code base in the application, the widget set will use the OS's native widgets (GTK in GNU/Linux). So Eclipse looks native in each OS, while still remaining consistent across platforms.
They don't even have to include the source code in the box as long as they provide a way to download it from somewhere.
That's true of GPLv3 software, but not GPLv2. The GPLv2 requires that a written offer be made to supply the source on physical media for a reasonable cost. And most of the software in Ubuntu is currently GPLv2 (and the Linux kernel will likely remain GPLv2 for a very long time).
I first read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when I was about 12. I definitely recommend it, and think it would be appropriate at around that age. It's still my favorite book. (Snow Crash is a close second, but not age appropriate until about 17.)
Which is more free -- the freedom to do anything (including taking away the freedom of others), or the freedom to do anything EXCEPT taking away the freedom of others? I don't think it's a question that really has an answer -- it's more of a philosophical question that individuals have to answer for themselves in various situations.
That said, I think the author makes some good points. Freedom of the code/project is another way to look at things, although strong GPL proponents would emphasize that it's people we are trying to provide freedom to.
I'd rather have a usable keyboard that you can use with one hand, without having to rest the keyboard on a surface. (Think of something like an umpire's counter.) Such keyboards exist, but they've not caught on to any degree.
Do you have any evidence to support that trees developed in the same climate as humans? Or do you just think that the entire planet has the same climate?
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To my mind, it seems weird that software can be both patented and copyrighted. So that's where I think the problem lies. I can't think of anything else that would fall under both (excluding design patents).
potential disagreement about what the last P stands for (Perl, PHP, Python, ...)
Or Ruby -- it starts with a P with a kickstand.
Um, actually the SI units (kilo, mega, etc.) existed before computer geeks started using them in the base-2 sense. So the computer geeks are the ones who bastardized the terminology in that case.
Actually, Linus named it after himself:
See the git FAQ.
Actually, one of the common issues that beginning Rails developers have is to put too much business logic in the controller. There's even a name for the theory that almost all logic should be in the model: "skinny controller, fat model".
I actually had a bit of a hard time wrapping my head around the web-style MVC, because it doesn't follow the traditional GUI form of MVC. (Mainly because the model doesn't send updates directly to the view.) But the "best practices" that Rails suggest actually do make sense as MVC. And the more you stick with those best practice separations, the easier it is to work with your code.
He said XML is a language, not a programming language. And why do you insist upon calling all Ruby users "Nuby"?
It is our duty as citizens to follow the laws, to follow the moral contract made by our ancestors who founded the country and the sovereign people among which we live now: to which we are all therefore bound (as individuals), and it is unethical to abandon our duties, or violate rules we agree to follow without very good reasons.
It's also the duty of our legislators to base the laws on the ethics and morals of our society. When they (unethically) fail to do that, we're faced with an ethical dilemma.
But the Internet is a two-way street, with clients and servers. If the client-side ISPs decide to start throttling, then the server-side providers can decide to start throttling those ISPs as well.
Do you really think that people will stick with an ISP that has slowed-down access to Google? I think Google is in a good position to threaten ISPs into maintaining net neutrality. Imagine going to Google and seeing a note telling you that your ISP has caused your access to Google to be throttled, and suggesting that you call your ISP or move to another ISP.
Become a local user group. You could have special interest groups (SIGs), such as a Linux User Group (LUG), programming SIGs (possibly for different languages), etc.
User groups provide educational opportunities, similar to ones discussed in other posts here. They also provide social opportunities, allowing people with similar interests to meet each other. In addition, you'll be helping people solve problems, and provide technical support.
I'm thinking they want to keep using Gecko because they made it and want to justify its existence.
I think that may be part of the reason has not seriously considered switching to WebKit/KHTML. But I think there are a few other reasons they will likely continue using Gecko:
1) The work required to replace Gecko with WebKit in Firefox would be quite substantial. It'd probably take just as much effort as improving Gecko.
2) It's good to have competing renderers out there, to stir competition and prevent a mono-culture.
3) They've got a lot of developers familiar with Gecko. If they moved to WebKit, they would not have a lot of experience with it, so would have trouble improving it to meet their own needs. In some ways, this overlaps with my reason #1. But it could also be considered a part of controlling their own destiny.
Web sites can do this -- it's a feature of SSL called client certificates. I've set it up on a server at MIT. They use it a lot at MIT, and have their own CA for creating/signing client certificates.
Actually, one of the problems many of us have with Microsoft is that they don't follow the rules of US capitalism -- they cheat. Or at least they have several times in the past. And they've only been given a few slaps on the wrist for it. See this article for details. (I wish it had more on the 1994 consent decree -- they were charging PC makers for Windows even if the PC shipped with another OS instead of Windows.)
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by greed.
I think you might be missing their point.
You're asking something like "how do I get my 1972 Pinto to go 120 mph?" Admittedly you could put in a new engine, new brakes, new transmission, etc. But you'd end up spending more time and money than if you just bought a car that goes 120 mph, and has less problems. That's what people are trying to tell you -- it's really not worth the effort. It's fine if you don't want to take their advice, and just want to make your Pinto go 120. But don't complain when they don't want to help you do something senseless.
Perhaps he might read it if the subject was more obvious. Lloyd Center is 2 stops EAST on the MAX. Only about 9 (short) blocks from the Oregon Convention Center. It's a nice 2-story mall, with a decent food court and an ice skating rink. I've not been to the theater.
Uh-huh...
YellowPages.com uses Rails -- try telling them that Rails doesn't scale.
I'm a web developer using both Rails and PHP. I've found Rails developers to be much more professional, employing testing, version control, and other best practices. PHP tends to be written more ad-hoc, leading to problems when the code base becomes larger.
Rails is a really good choice for a certain subset of web sites. (Generally, if you need to create/read/update/delete database-backed objects.)
I actually showed that video at a LUG presentation I gave, titled "Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About Hard Drives". It's funny, but does a good job explaining how it works. I also recommend IBM's video on MR and GMR disk read heads.
I never realized it, but I've frequently paraphrased that guy:
Anything you can think of, there's somebody out there who's into it.
You can get that in Java too, using the SWT widgets from Eclipse. With a single code base in the application, the widget set will use the OS's native widgets (GTK in GNU/Linux). So Eclipse looks native in each OS, while still remaining consistent across platforms.
They don't even have to include the source code in the box as long as they provide a way to download it from somewhere.
That's true of GPLv3 software, but not GPLv2. The GPLv2 requires that a written offer be made to supply the source on physical media for a reasonable cost. And most of the software in Ubuntu is currently GPLv2 (and the Linux kernel will likely remain GPLv2 for a very long time).
I first read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when I was about 12. I definitely recommend it, and think it would be appropriate at around that age. It's still my favorite book. (Snow Crash is a close second, but not age appropriate until about 17.)
To me, the question is:
Which is more free -- the freedom to do anything (including taking away the freedom of others), or the freedom to do anything EXCEPT taking away the freedom of others? I don't think it's a question that really has an answer -- it's more of a philosophical question that individuals have to answer for themselves in various situations.
That said, I think the author makes some good points. Freedom of the code/project is another way to look at things, although strong GPL proponents would emphasize that it's people we are trying to provide freedom to.
This doesn't sound all that much different than the Triplecast idea that NBC tried with the 1992 Olympics. Spoiler: it went over like a lead balloon.
I'd rather have a usable keyboard that you can use with one hand, without having to rest the keyboard on a surface. (Think of something like an umpire's counter.) Such keyboards exist, but they've not caught on to any degree.
Do you have any evidence to support that trees developed in the same climate as humans? Or do you just think that the entire planet has the same climate?