They should have taken a clue from Planet of the Apes and used a Volkswagon Beetle.
1976 Ford Granada. 4 years from show-room to scrap yard, at 60,000 miles. Front end literally fell apart after 2 years, and the power steering managed to disconnect from the steering wheel - fortunately while parking. Also developed the infamous "Ford transmission that wouldn't stay in Park" around the 50,000 mile mark, the undersized Uniroyal tires that wore out prematurely, etc.
If any manufacturer today put out a POS like that, they'd be forced to make multiple recalls, and then they'd go belly-up. If it weren't for the current low interest rates and the home equity ATM buying spree, both Ford and GM would have gone bankrupt by now.
It could have been worse - it could have been a 197o's Ford, in which case all that would have been left would have been the tires and a lump of iron oxide.
Depending on where he lives, central heating might not be a luxury. Up here in Canuckistan, we have 10 months of winter and 2 months of lousy skating condtions...
The reaction to Novell's deal was way overblown...
I agree 100% on that...
People said Novell got screwed. Well they did, by the GPL leaders who reacted over a bunch of misplaced hype
I've been saying that Novell did pretty good - getting Microsoft to give them a most a half billion. And as I've pointed out plenty of times, Novell has continually denied any patent infringement charges, as has everyone (except Microsoft).
None of this was about the potentials of contaminating OSS. it is all about dealing with Microsoft. You don't even know the specfics of the deal and are accusing "Microsoft attacks" already.
We saw an attempt to contaminate developers with "shared source." I'm kind of wondering why we need MORE interoperability with Windows, myself. Let Microsoft make THEIR products more interoperable, if their customers really want interoperability. The source is out there for linux AND BSD - let Microsoft fix their b0rked implementations (hello, Kerberos, IE, etc.). After all, that's supposedly what their customers are paying them for - an operating system that's able to do at least as much as the free alternatives:-)
I'd say we have more than enough "interoperability" with Windows from our side - let them fix their stuff so it plays well with everyone else.
"Booze? I don't know about you, but coding while alcohol-intoxicated has a distinctly negative effect on quality of code for me..."
Who said anything about being intoxicated? Or even "having a bit of a buzz?"
That said, sometimes, when you're neck-deep trying to fix other people's crap undocumented code, taking a break and having everyone head down to the local pub for a clear-the-air brainstorming and bull session is just the ticket.
I hope I never go back to an IDE, unless its something along the lines of Borland's text-mode BC++/Turbo C version. It never "got in my way." My current "IDE" is a half-dozen shells opened at different parts of my source and release tree so I can run vi to dash of a quick 2-liner shell script or perl script, run ctags or mc; several copies of kate with different session hsitories, on different monitors; firefox for quick web searches (and to pop in on/.); and kopete so that everyone in the office can communicate. An IDE? My desktops ARE my IDE.
The only tools you REALLY need:
Multiple shells open, each with its own command history, so you can jump back and forth;
Text editor of choice that does syntax hilighting and code folding (vi, kate);
make;
some perl script fu, and some bash scrpt fu, and some python snake oil (great for automated testing);
mc (F2, 3 is handy for making quick tarballs);
a net connection so you can look up stuff fast;
IMPORTANT: a shelf full of O'Reilly books - do NOT skimp;
2 or more monitors - this is an almost absolute necessity for serious coding;
I seem to remember them doing the exact opposite - for example, nationalizing BP and turning it into PetroCan, so we could have some sort of "made-in-Canada" energy policy. Harper's government has signed a treaty guanteeing 59% of our energy supply to the US, even if WE need it more than them (Hey, first, its ourt, and second, it gets colder up here).
Of course, if we were smart, we'd join OPEC, and lobby for a carbon tax on every drop of oil we produce. Sure, under NAFTA we'd have to charge it to ourselves as well, but think of the lowered taxes on everything else... we'd all be ahead by miles. There's not enough capacity for the US to turn off the taps from ANY exporting country, and expecially not from us - we're their #1 supplier.
Start it at a buck a gallon, and raise it a buck every year.
I think its more along the lines of "Stephen Harper as his head shoved so far up Bush's ass that when Bush speaks, Harper can see his adenoids".
This is what you get when you combine a bunch of red-neck fundamentalists (the Reform Party) with a bunch of burned-out hacks desperate for power at any cost (what was left after the original Conservatives imploded).
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[_] There really should be someone who's in charge of looking at the story queue and actually cans dupe stories before they're posted - and who reads slashdot more than once in a while...
Just one problem - how are you going to patent a patch that nobody (including yourself) has invented?
If you have invented the patch, then maybe you're in business - except that most of the time, once the source of the bug is discovered, the patch is obvious -like fixing a buffer over/underflow, or fixing a dangling pointer, and not patentable.
This is one of those ideas that isn't going to cause anyone to lose any sleep at night, except for the fools who can't sleep because they're counting their $$$$ prematurely.
Hate to reply to myself, but I forgot to mention that this WAS an offensive move, because Microsoft was already planning to get into the portable player market in 2003, and being able to collect a "tax" from competitors is the same strategy SCO tried with linux.
You forgot about the FAT file system patent (5991517 - the '517 patent)... the one that they tried to shake down makers of portable devices and memory cards for, and it blew up in their faces with the patent being invalidated...
"... the system takes, on average, seven years to churn out a new patent. The vendor has to have deep pockets so it can pay damages, and your solution has to be simple enough to be explained to a jury."
So,not to be TOO obvious, but...
by the time they patent it, it will be obsolete;
if its simple enough to explain to a jury, it may be too simple to patent (patents have to be for non-obvious inventions);
looks like free/libre software gets a free ride (target must have deep pockets).
Isn't it funny how one of the biggest patent trolls sounds custom-made as the target.
"When are people going to wake-up to this bullshit? "Web apps" give you all the performance of regular apps running on an old 286, with half the features. Wow!"
Hey, I'm running this on a 286, you insensitive clod!
Don't laugh - I once used 127 floppies to back up a 350meg hd. You can buy a computer nowadays for what that drive cost me. (Of course, the same can be said for the 80 meg hd a few years before, or the ad lib 8-bit sound card, or the 14" vga monitor... or the dual external 5-14 floppy drives before that...)
a 5 digit UID and you don't know how to close an italics tag?
[_] I bought the 5-digit UID it on eBay
[_] It looked fine in preview mode - must be a bug in slashcode.
[X] I'm an ignorant clod - I didn't use preview(sigh)
Seriously, back on-topic... the houses are a total loss, and shold NOT be rebuilt. They should not be allowed to be resold - they should be bulldozed, the area declared to be off-limits to rebuilding, and start from scratch elsewhere.
Buying a gutted house there is buying a negative-value asset. Its like buying SCO - the liabilities exceed the assets. Anyone buying is buying a dream, TANSTAAFR, and IILTGTBTIPI (there ain't no such thing as a free lunch, and if it looks too good to be true, it probably is).
"I just got pre-approved to buy some gutted property in New Orleans"
Bleach. LOTS of bleach. You'll have to tear down all the internal walls to the bare wood and kill off all the mold and mildew that took root. Otherwise, you and your loved ones will be sick as dogs.
You really don't want to buy that property. Invest your time, energy and money into something safer, like swamp-land in Florida. At least you can make some money selling "mother-in-law tourist packages" if you have enough 'gators on it, and they don't mind a steady diet of old people.
"I also expect that the language is going to be forked at some point unless the PHP developers clean up the function naming - it's infuriating."
There's nothing to stop you from cleaning up the function naming. We'd all appreciate it:-)
Also, if you really want performance "uber alles", don't bother with apache or any other "pre-made" server - write a custom server in c designed to load modules that serve just the content you want served. You can then handle a thousand requests per second (including time to access the database a half-dozen times per request) on comodity hardware.
Its not like there isn't code out there that shows you how to implement a server in c, how to write and load modules in c, how to use threads in c, and how to access mysql via c. You'll be super fast... except that your development time will be super slow.
apache+php is a compromose that most people can live with, most of the time.
Yes, the function naming in php is crap. Show us a scripting language where it isn't.
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They should have taken a clue from Planet of the Apes and used a Volkswagon Beetle.
1976 Ford Granada. 4 years from show-room to scrap yard, at 60,000 miles. Front end literally fell apart after 2 years, and the power steering managed to disconnect from the steering wheel - fortunately while parking. Also developed the infamous "Ford transmission that wouldn't stay in Park" around the 50,000 mile mark, the undersized Uniroyal tires that wore out prematurely, etc.
If any manufacturer today put out a POS like that, they'd be forced to make multiple recalls, and then they'd go belly-up. If it weren't for the current low interest rates and the home equity ATM buying spree, both Ford and GM would have gone bankrupt by now.
As it is, Toyota has taken the #1 spot worldwide
It could have been worse - it could have been a 197o's Ford, in which case all that would have been left would have been the tires and a lump of iron oxide.
Depending on where he lives, central heating might not be a luxury. Up here in Canuckistan, we have 10 months of winter and 2 months of lousy skating condtions ...
We really should do more about letting people know about non-US repositories like packman.de that include multimedia codecs.
The reaction to Novell's deal was way overblown ...
I agree 100% on that ...
People said Novell got screwed. Well they did, by the GPL leaders who reacted over a bunch of misplaced hype
I've been saying that Novell did pretty good - getting Microsoft to give them a most a half billion. And as I've pointed out plenty of times, Novell has continually denied any patent infringement charges, as has everyone (except Microsoft).
None of this was about the potentials of contaminating OSS. it is all about dealing with Microsoft. You don't even know the specfics of the deal and are accusing "Microsoft attacks" already.
We saw an attempt to contaminate developers with "shared source." I'm kind of wondering why we need MORE interoperability with Windows, myself. Let Microsoft make THEIR products more interoperable, if their customers really want interoperability. The source is out there for linux AND BSD - let Microsoft fix their b0rked implementations (hello, Kerberos, IE, etc.). After all, that's supposedly what their customers are paying them for - an operating system that's able to do at least as much as the free alternatives :-)
I'd say we have more than enough "interoperability" with Windows from our side - let them fix their stuff so it plays well with everyone else.
Hey, you're still WAY ahead of the guy with the pacemaker ... though you're a bit behind the one on dialysis.
"Booze? I don't know about you, but coding while alcohol-intoxicated has a distinctly negative effect on quality of code for me..."
Who said anything about being intoxicated? Or even "having a bit of a buzz?"
That said, sometimes, when you're neck-deep trying to fix other people's crap undocumented code, taking a break and having everyone head down to the local pub for a clear-the-air brainstorming and bull session is just the ticket.
- Ubuntu and Lindows have a deal regarding "click-n-run", etc., and that future Lindows distros will use Ubuntu as the base.
-
Microsoft can't attack Ubuntu directly
- So Microsoft attacks their partner.
No, there's no "... PROFITI hope I never go back to an IDE, unless its something along the lines of Borland's text-mode BC++/Turbo C version. It never "got in my way." My current "IDE" is a half-dozen shells opened at different parts of my source and release tree so I can run vi to dash of a quick 2-liner shell script or perl script, run ctags or mc; several copies of kate with different session hsitories, on different monitors; firefox for quick web searches (and to pop in on /.); and kopete so that everyone in the office can communicate. An IDE? My desktops ARE my IDE.
The only tools you REALLY need:
- Multiple shells open, each with its own command history, so you can jump back and forth;
- Text editor of choice that does syntax hilighting and code folding (vi, kate);
- make;
- some perl script fu, and some bash scrpt fu, and some python snake oil (great for automated testing);
- mc (F2, 3 is handy for making quick tarballs);
- a net connection so you can look up stuff fast;
- IMPORTANT: a shelf full of O'Reilly books - do NOT skimp;
- 2 or more monitors - this is an almost absolute necessity for serious coding;
- a project wiki to keep track of things, etc.,
- fgrep -n, ctags, doxys for a first peak at other people's code
Also, not a tool but equally essential: plenty of liquids (coffee, soft drinks, booze).I seem to remember them doing the exact opposite - for example, nationalizing BP and turning it into PetroCan, so we could have some sort of "made-in-Canada" energy policy. Harper's government has signed a treaty guanteeing 59% of our energy supply to the US, even if WE need it more than them (Hey, first, its ourt, and second, it gets colder up here).
Of course, if we were smart, we'd join OPEC, and lobby for a carbon tax on every drop of oil we produce. Sure, under NAFTA we'd have to charge it to ourselves as well, but think of the lowered taxes on everything else ... we'd all be ahead by miles. There's not enough capacity for the US to turn off the taps from ANY exporting country, and expecially not from us - we're their #1 supplier.
Start it at a buck a gallon, and raise it a buck every year.
I think its more along the lines of "Stephen Harper as his head shoved so far up Bush's ass that when Bush speaks, Harper can see his adenoids".
This is what you get when you combine a bunch of red-neck fundamentalists (the Reform Party) with a bunch of burned-out hacks desperate for power at any cost (what was left after the original Conservatives imploded).
Maybe we should all just separate from Ottawa.
[_] Zonk is reposting for those who don't have the CowboyNeal option ,,,
(original story posted by CowboyNeal).
[_] Zonk uses a Gateway and can't see the stories
[_] Zonk - "Hmmm this is a dupe story, I think I'll can it ... OMG Ponies!"
[_] "What goes around, comes around, especially on /.."
[_] This is a "Best of slashdot" repeat presentation"
[_] "I didn't see the original story on my f***ed-up Gateway, you ignorant clod!"
[_] There really should be someone who's in charge of looking at the story queue and actually cans dupe stories before they're posted - and who reads slashdot more than once in a while ...
Just one problem - how are you going to patent a patch that nobody (including yourself) has invented?
If you have invented the patch, then maybe you're in business - except that most of the time, once the source of the bug is discovered, the patch is obvious -like fixing a buffer over/underflow, or fixing a dangling pointer, and not patentable.
This is one of those ideas that isn't going to cause anyone to lose any sleep at night, except for the fools who can't sleep because they're counting their $$$$ prematurely.
Hate to reply to myself, but I forgot to mention that this WAS an offensive move, because Microsoft was already planning to get into the portable player market in 2003, and being able to collect a "tax" from competitors is the same strategy SCO tried with linux.
You forgot about the FAT file system patent (5991517 - the '517 patent) ... the one that they tried to shake down makers of portable devices and memory cards for, and it blew up in their faces with the patent being invalidated ...
Lexar paid to license FAT in 2003.
Microsoft does not, in any way, meet the definition of a "patent troll."
"Linux infringes on over 200 patents - but we can't tell you which ones."
That's trolling, and its about patents. Microsoft is the biggest patent troll around, trying to collect $$$ on non-existent patents.
They must be pretty gay patents, if they're "the patents that dare not speak their names."
Even if the USPTO does, it won't matter:
"... the system takes, on average, seven years to churn out a new patent. The vendor has to have deep pockets so it can pay damages, and your solution has to be simple enough to be explained to a jury."
So,not to be TOO obvious, but ...
Isn't it funny how one of the biggest patent trolls sounds custom-made as the target.
"When are people going to wake-up to this bullshit? "Web apps" give you all the performance of regular apps running on an old 286, with half the features. Wow!"
Hey, I'm running this on a 286, you insensitive clod!
Don't laugh - I once used 127 floppies to back up a 350meg hd. You can buy a computer nowadays for what that drive cost me. (Of course, the same can be said for the 80 meg hd a few years before, or the ad lib 8-bit sound card, or the 14" vga monitor ... or the dual external 5-14 floppy drives before that ...)
a 5 digit UID and you don't know how to close an italics tag?
[_] I bought the 5-digit UID it on eBay
[_] It looked fine in preview mode - must be a bug in slashcode.
[X] I'm an ignorant clod - I didn't use preview(sigh)
Seriously, back on-topic ... the houses are a total loss, and shold NOT be rebuilt. They should not be allowed to be resold - they should be bulldozed, the area declared to be off-limits to rebuilding, and start from scratch elsewhere.
Buying a gutted house there is buying a negative-value asset. Its like buying SCO - the liabilities exceed the assets. Anyone buying is buying a dream, TANSTAAFR, and IILTGTBTIPI (there ain't no such thing as a free lunch, and if it looks too good to be true, it probably is).
Bleach. LOTS of bleach. You'll have to tear down all the internal walls to the bare wood and kill off all the mold and mildew that took root. Otherwise, you and your loved ones will be sick as dogs.
You really don't want to buy that property. Invest your time, energy and money into something safer, like swamp-land in Florida. At least you can make some money selling "mother-in-law tourist packages" if you have enough 'gators on it, and they don't mind a steady diet of old people.
Do I *really* have to explain the joke?
(sigh)
Sons of Bees => Sons of Bs'=> SOBs => Sons of B*tches
"So, what you're trying to say is that the only good bee is a dead bee?"
Dead bees don't reproduce.
This means there are fewer son's of bees in the world.
Isn't the world better off with fewer SoB's?
FastCGI is a server extension - this allows you to avoid using a server like apache, etc.
"I also expect that the language is going to be forked at some point unless the PHP developers clean up the function naming - it's infuriating."
There's nothing to stop you from cleaning up the function naming. We'd all appreciate it :-)
Also, if you really want performance "uber alles", don't bother with apache or any other "pre-made" server - write a custom server in c designed to load modules that serve just the content you want served. You can then handle a thousand requests per second (including time to access the database a half-dozen times per request) on comodity hardware.
Its not like there isn't code out there that shows you how to implement a server in c, how to write and load modules in c, how to use threads in c, and how to access mysql via c. You'll be super fast ... except that your development time will be super slow.
apache+php is a compromose that most people can live with, most of the time.
Yes, the function naming in php is crap. Show us a scripting language where it isn't.