Exactly... and just as importantly it's easy to not use them if you don't want to. PHP used to have a pretty clunky object model. They improved it. So?
Watch how fast Google generosity turns on a dime if their stock price collapses to 10% of its current value. Suddenly goodness and charity are nothing more than vehicles to monitize their investments.
There's no such thing as free when stock holders are involved.
I'm all for groups helping out the Commons, just as the long as the Commons makes sure that it isn't compramised in the process. Luckily, the Wikipedia group have a lot of good heads on their collective shoulders.
Freedom of speech has nothing to do with how much you like what the person is saying, or how much value you think it has. No one forces you to read a book, and no one forces you to listen to a radio show.
The problem with "Right or wrong, you broke the law" is that they won't define what the law is. The fines levied against Clear Channel for what Stern said were for comments he made years before they levied the fines. They refuse to specifically define what is obscene or indecent couching it in undefinable ways based on context and community standards.
Never once has anyone on the FCC said what you can and cannot say on the radio. The only clear standard is the Supreme Court's 7 dirty words, and Howard has never said them on the air.
The timeline of the most recent fines demonstrates that it has nothing do to with indecency and everything to do with politics:
Stern talks about reading Al Franken's book Lies and the lying liars... and says that he things that he's anybody but Bush.
A week later, shortly before appearing before Congress, Clear Channel drops Stern from the airwaves for indecency over comments identical to what they defended him over in the past before the FCC
The FCC fines Clear Channel around half a million over comments Stern made years ago and gives the company a waver against any future fines over past comments by their radio talent. They do not fine Viacom for broadcasting the same content and thus do not give them the same waiver thus leaving them open to an unknown amount of fines for unspecified comments in the past.
Viacom greatly increases the amount of censorship over Sterns show due to the threats of FCC Fines.
Even though on the surface it seemed like Clear Channel was the one being punished, this back door deal actually gave them much greater flexibility in the radio market then Viacom.
As an aside, Clear Channel is a major backer of President Bush.
While they say that they are just enforcing the law, what they are doing is protecting the interests of the President and his corporate allies.
"Every election year Republicans start pointing to counties where there are more registered voters than eligible ones. Okay, very slowly people. This happens. People die, and rarely call their local election board to inform them of that fact. People move, without bothering to tell their local election board. Often when they move they fail to re-register, or if they do re-register their new election board doesn't bother to inform their old one.
Do inflated voter rolls open up the possibility of voter fraud? Sure. But inflated voter rolls are not evidence of voter registration fraud."
Just one thing: Dont' write to your State Senators, Write to your State's U.S. Senators. In fact, write to other states Senators too. Why not call them up on the phone or send them an email, while you're at it?
My big concern with the direction that they are going in is the fragmentation of their product.
Yahoo is very good at having a unified service. Mail gets you into groups gets you into their customized maps. The core Yahoo ID is used by everything. (Their use of USERNAME@yahoo.com for their email was a brilliant marketing idea giving you a stake in the company.)
Blogger, orkut, groups2, all have components with similar datasets. Users, email, profiles. Each of these products is growing and the longer that they wait to create a unified core the harder it will be to do it at all.
They have so many brilliant people taking them in so many directions somebody is going to need to reign it all in.
Some companies have been great at taking Java and making it a part of their core business. IBM and Oracle for example. The problem is that one of these companies isn't Sun.
You want to find someone who really dislikes Java, talk to a veteran Solaris sysadmin.
Good call, I haven't tried it. It does look interesting, but I have no desire to be locked into another commercial IDE. No matter how good they are, the odds are very much against them when matched up against an open-source product backed up by IBM (and Sun?!!).
The market with Java is moving away from tools and twords servers in the mid term and services (people) in the long term. Of all the companies trying to make $$$ off of Java, IBM's is the soundest.
I've used every version of JBuilder since version one. Version one was slow. Version two was slow. Version four running on a dual processor 400mhz Pentium NT4 box was slow. Version 7 running with the latest Pentium processors and over 1GB on RAM was slow. Every time I've tried the latest version and every time it's as slow as molasses.
How sluggishness Swing IDEs are is the reason I switched to developing Java with Emacs... that was until I tried Eclipse. Why should I keep convincing people to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a product that is slow and doesn't have the community support of Eclipse?
This is coming from a long time lover of Borland products. While building Jbuilder in Java was a very ballsy move at the time it was also a fundamental design flaw that will be very hard to overcome.
Obviously the gang over at IBM must have seen something wrong with Swing if they were willing to invest in a totally different API. It sure as heck bares out in the performance of their products.
The key to Eclipse eclipsing other tools is it being built with the Standard Widget Toolkit. Swing is a failure like the AWT before it. Any IDE that is built with Swing will be blown out of the water by Eclipse.
Soon it will be down to VisualStudio.NET, Eclipse and Emacs for developing things. Borland's only man left on the island marriage with BEA ain't gonna save it.
> most arrogant chess player since Fischer but
> not nearly as talented...
What are you smoking?!
It's a shame Bobby can't take any time out from his busy schedule reading Mein Kampf or accepting blood money from genocidal arms merchants to let the world see any one of the top 10 players of today mop the floor with his tired psycho ass. Fischer would be lucky to earn himself a draw.
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Wasn't there a movie about this?
Exactly... and just as importantly it's easy to not use them if you don't want to. PHP used to have a pretty clunky object model. They improved it. So?
Watch how fast Google generosity turns on a dime if their stock price collapses to 10% of its current value. Suddenly goodness and charity are nothing more than vehicles to monitize their investments.
There's no such thing as free when stock holders are involved.
I'm all for groups helping out the Commons, just as the long as the Commons makes sure that it isn't compramised in the process. Luckily, the Wikipedia group have a lot of good heads on their collective shoulders.
Don't do anything until voting integrity is insured. Everything else is a waste of time.
Did your vote count?
Until the voters of Florida can answer that question with certainty no other question needs to be asked.
This is a smoke screen distracting us from the real problem. Our voting system is a joke. Fix it.
Votes have value. Treat them as such.
Freedom of speech has nothing to do with how much you like what the person is saying, or how much value you think it has. No one forces you to read a book, and no one forces you to listen to a radio show.
The problem with "Right or wrong, you broke the law" is that they won't define what the law is. The fines levied against Clear Channel for what Stern said were for comments he made years before they levied the fines. They refuse to specifically define what is obscene or indecent couching it in undefinable ways based on context and community standards.
Never once has anyone on the FCC said what you can and cannot say on the radio. The only clear standard is the Supreme Court's 7 dirty words, and Howard has never said them on the air.
The timeline of the most recent fines demonstrates that it has nothing do to with indecency and everything to do with politics:
Even though on the surface it seemed like Clear Channel was the one being punished, this back door deal actually gave them much greater flexibility in the radio market then Viacom.
As an aside, Clear Channel is a major backer of President Bush.
While they say that they are just enforcing the law, what they are doing is protecting the interests of the President and his corporate allies.
Amen to that!
Just one thing: Dont' write to your State Senators, Write to your State's U.S. Senators. In fact, write to other states Senators too. Why not call them up on the phone or send them an email, while you're at it?
The danger in fighting a stronger opponent is that often the most effective way to combat them is to become them.
My big concern with the direction that they are going in is the fragmentation of their product.
Yahoo is very good at having a unified service. Mail gets you into groups gets you into their customized maps. The core Yahoo ID is used by everything. (Their use of USERNAME@yahoo.com for their email was a brilliant marketing idea giving you a stake in the company.)
Blogger, orkut, groups2, all have components with similar datasets. Users, email, profiles. Each of these products is growing and the longer that they wait to create a unified core the harder it will be to do it at all.
They have so many brilliant people taking them in so many directions somebody is going to need to reign it all in.
It's not how you handle your victories that make you a success. It's how you handle your failures.
Pretty soon when you watch the World Series of Poker everyone will be wearing burkas.
While it is nice that you've found new employment, it has nothing to do with the more general shift of programming jobs overseas.
> Hind sight is alwasy 20:20.
Nothing hind about it. CIA and State Department analysts warned about it, millions around the glob protested it; all well before it happened.
Plagiarism is an essential part of the creative process.
Some companies have been great at taking Java and making it a part of their core business. IBM and Oracle for example. The problem is that one of these companies isn't Sun.
You want to find someone who really dislikes Java, talk to a veteran Solaris sysadmin.
Good call, I haven't tried it. It does look interesting, but I have no desire to be locked into another commercial IDE. No matter how good they are, the odds are very much against them when matched up against an open-source product backed up by IBM (and Sun?!!).
The market with Java is moving away from tools and twords servers in the mid term and services (people) in the long term. Of all the companies trying to make $$$ off of Java, IBM's is the soundest.
I've used every version of JBuilder since version one. Version one was slow. Version two was slow. Version four running on a dual processor 400mhz Pentium NT4 box was slow. Version 7 running with the latest Pentium processors and over 1GB on RAM was slow. Every time I've tried the latest version and every time it's as slow as molasses.
How sluggishness Swing IDEs are is the reason I switched to developing Java with Emacs... that was until I tried Eclipse. Why should I keep convincing people to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a product that is slow and doesn't have the community support of Eclipse?
This is coming from a long time lover of Borland products. While building Jbuilder in Java was a very ballsy move at the time it was also a fundamental design flaw that will be very hard to overcome.
Obviously the gang over at IBM must have seen something wrong with Swing if they were willing to invest in a totally different API. It sure as heck bares out in the performance of their products.
Soon it will be down to VisualStudio.NET, Eclipse and Emacs for developing things. Borland's only man left on the island marriage with BEA ain't gonna save it.
But what's going to happen to all those Angels dancing on the head of that pin?
> not nearly as talented...
What are you smoking?!
It's a shame Bobby can't take any time out from his busy schedule reading Mein Kampf or accepting blood money from genocidal arms merchants to let the world see any one of the top 10 players of today mop the floor with his tired psycho ass. Fischer would be lucky to earn himself a draw.
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3. Books on using MySQL with PHP
It's starting to look like the US recession will be one of the best things to happen to the Open-Source movement.
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