Many of the so-called problems turn out not to be problems at all.
OTOH, many of the so-called problems will come around and bite you in the ass harder than a rabid pit-bull in the later stages of the project. These problems tend to be of the form 'system X does not play nicely with technology Y'.
I always like to first do a Proof Of Concept first and make sure all of the systems and technologies talk to each other play nicely with each other in the sandbox. Once you get that far, then I agree with you wholehartedly--get started on that prototype, because you can prolly work out anything that was holding you up.
Now that I think about it, the only non-compatibility-related showstopper issues I have ever encountered were bad project managment and/or political fighting. Check out the recent/. article on the VNC failure for an example of what I mean.
Hmmm. It's been a while since I installed Snood, but I'm pretty sure it only installs a link to Bonzai, not the actual app. But frankly I don't even know what BB does. AdAware kills it pretty effectively.
The whole point of choosing "slashdot" as the name was to thwart verbal dictation of the site's url. Try saying it out loud once:
"Ech tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot oh arr gee."
"No, that's the word slash then the word dot, followed by a real dot then.. blah, screw it."
What are you talking about?
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NASA's FY'02 budget was $15.3 billion. Let's please check our facts first next time, ok? And let's remember that over half of that aid is required to be spent on US goods and services, so it's more or less just a stimulus to the US economy.
Also, I don't know the technical details of Israel's telecom infrastructure, but I can tell you that Bezeq makes any US phone co look like saints in the customer service realm.
Well, that depends on whose production environment. What do you mean by load? 1req/min? 1req/sec? 1000req/sec? What does it take to fulfill a request?
No one on/. is going to be able to answer this question for you. You'll need to load-test your Tomcat configuration yourself and see whether or not it is performant.
Personally, I prefer resin, but have had successful JBoss/Tomcat configurations. But every situation is different, so you'll have to do some load testing.
Why are cups better than liters? Because when you are measuring, it's much easier to double or halve something than to divide or multiply by 10. If I gave you a pint of beer, you could easily separate that into cups by dividing it in half. If I gave you 1dl of beer, could you easily separate out 1cl for me? Probably not.
You can think of your cups, pints, quarts, etc. as powers of 2. Here are the US customary units for your converting pleasure:
I'm actually a little surprised geeks are so metric-happy when we happily use powers of two for all things computer (2^10 bytes=1MB, 2^20 bytes=1GB, etc.)
I commute often between Washington DC and New York City. This experience has allowed me to minimize downtime in the airport or train station. I live about the same distance from both National Airport (DCA) and Union Station (Amtrak depot), and here are the results I've found:
My house -> DCA -> (Delta Shuttle) -> LGA -> Manhattan = 1:50 / $100. My house -> Union Station -> (Amtrak Acela Express) -> Penn station = 3:20 / $170.
For me, it's a no-brainer: I take the plane, unless there's weather. The train is a nice backup because it doesn't get stuck as badly in weather and it's obviously roomier. But currently, planes are faster than trains, even for short trips.
Downloading music is not stealing if you have permission of the copyright holder. In this case, you pay the copyright holder for permission, so you have permission to download. Nothing illegal about that.
I've always thought that the end of Napsteresque p2p sharing would be when the record industry released a reasonably-priced alternative. I mean, how much would you pay for a professionally ripped track from a high-bandwidth server found using a simple and fast search engine?
The pricepoint is a little higher than what I'd like to see, but this is definitely a step in the right direction for the music industry. Kudos to them for actually trying to solve the p2p "problem" by giving consumers (almost) what they want instead of trying to lock down every electronic device. It may be a clumsy interface, but it seems like a good first stab at a compromise between consumers' fair use rights and copyright holder interests.
... now what? No, seriously, what do you do once you've detected unauthorized access short of looking out your window for a guy with a Pringles can?
Normally, when you detect an intrusion, you have an IP address, you find its owner, and then try to determine who was using that address at the time of detection, and hopefully prosecute. It just seems to me that with 802.11, your best bet is to secure the thing rather than trying to figure out whose PDA inside a backpack is polling your network.
We are currently in the process of setting up the Group Defense and the PANIP Group Defense Fund. We hope to have it set up by the end of this week
The site is now accepting sites through PayPal and I just donated (Yeah, I know, Paypal sucks but it's for a worthy cause). Hopefully they'll raise enough cash to fight this thing. There's got to be a truckload of prior art out there. Just look at any of the older e-commerce websites.
And to think I always thought the first rule of debate was that if you don't give specifics and cite your sources, people might think that you're talking out of your ass. I'm still more inclined to believe a study by a Political Economy prof from a respected University than some dude on Slashdot who thinks he remembers reading an article on the subject once but we can't read the article (you didn't post a link, and 90 seconds of googling for it turned up nothing).
Anyhow, my point was that deregulation can be a good thing for both consumers and industries if thought through and done correctly and it can also be a disaster, otherwise. I also assert that your argument that deregulation must be bad was weak since it was supported by inaccurate information. Fair enough?:-)
First of all, here is a good article on why airline deregulation was a good thing. In a nutshell, unless your credentials beat "Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, at Cornell University", we're going to have to accept that you are totally wrong on this point. He pretty much refutes everything you've said about airline deregulation.
Also, I'm not sure about your anecdotal evidence on Cable, but I can tell you that Cox cable was able to get me a cable modem a full 1.5/years/ before regulated Verizon got off their asses long enough to get DSL available at my (urban) home. Even if DSL was rolled-out, it would have taken them 6 weeks to do an install where my cable modem took 3 days. Cox had a 0% price increase last year and my basic cable costs $6 since I have a cable modem through them. By contrast, my regulated Verizon local phone service costs like 50 bucks! Amazing!
Deregulation, if done correctly, is a good thing. If you want to write a treatise against deregulation, cite the CA power deregulation or something.
Dude, if you know MUMPS, you should be able to find a job easily in the Managed Care software industry. Talk about your specialization.:-) See if Intersystems has a consulting partner program or something. But thanks for making me chuckle over that blast from the past.
Too bad prolly no one saw this comment. I wish e-gold, et al had more market penetration so that they could be useful for doing business with anyone online. Problem is: most Internet users have credit cards already, and don't really understand the case for real digital currencies until they get screwed by situations such as this.
I mean, try explaining to the average American that he cannot buy your goods with his credit card, which he already has. Instead, he must send money to a "Market Maker", who will then fund his e-gold account, and then, days later, he can actually make a purchase. Hah. E-gold is great for people who already have gold, but it's a tough sell to try to get someone to open a new account, fund it, and still hold interest in your product enough to come back and purchase it after N hours/days.
Maybe some people don't like to talk on the phone?
Maybe they don't, but the ADA does not cover this situation. Consider a person in a wheelchair who doesn't like to use ramps. Only elevators. Should my store have to put in an elevator in addition to a ramp in addition to stairs on the off chance that someone doesn't like ramps? No.
The whole point of the ADA is to cover situations that would render a business inaccessable to the disabled. It does not force businesses to comply to the personal tastes of every disabled person who could possibly be a customer. Only to provide some method of access.
I know this was said on the last thread we had on the subject, but it's worth repeating. The guy was in no way prevented from buying tickets or flying. If the website was too difficult to navigate, he could simply call Southwest on the phone.
The best analogy I can think of is a building with both stairs and a ramp to access it. If this lawsuit was successful, it would be like compelling the owner of said building to make the stairs accessable to disabled people when there is a perfectly good ramp. Why should Southwest have to change their website when there is a perfectly good phone number?
The sad thing is that there are school teachers who use this song to explain "irony" to students. Someone should remind them that "rain on your wedding day" is only ironic if the bride and/or groom is a meteorologist.
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We're all a bunch of programmers and sysadmins. I am having a hard time thinking of two lazier classes of people.
I always like to first do a Proof Of Concept first and make sure all of the systems and technologies talk to each other play nicely with each other in the sandbox. Once you get that far, then I agree with you wholehartedly--get started on that prototype, because you can prolly work out anything that was holding you up.
Now that I think about it, the only non-compatibility-related showstopper issues I have ever encountered were bad project managment and/or political fighting. Check out the recent /. article on the VNC failure for an example of what I mean.
Hmmm. It's been a while since I installed Snood, but I'm pretty sure it only installs a link to Bonzai, not the actual app. But frankly I don't even know what BB does. AdAware kills it pretty effectively.
The whole point of choosing "slashdot" as the name was to thwart verbal dictation of the site's url. Try saying it out loud once:
.. blah, screw it."
"Ech tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot oh arr gee."
"No, that's the word slash then the word dot, followed by a real dot then
Also, I don't know the technical details of Israel's telecom infrastructure, but I can tell you that Bezeq makes any US phone co look like saints in the customer service realm.
Not that you care, though.
I've never seen so many cut-'n-pastes from Google get modded up to +5 before. You, my friend, are a karma-whore black-belt!
Thanks for the amusement!
You made me spray Dew all over my monitor. I really need to learn to aim for the keyboard in these situations. Much cheaper hardware.
Are you being difficult, Lars? If I ever pour you a cup of beer, I may be forced to measure yours by giving you 16 mouthfuls... ;)
Anyhow, it's must easier to eyeball-estimate 1/2 than 1/10. And as a backup, you can always use mouthfuls.
Well, that depends on whose production environment. What do you mean by load? 1req/min? 1req/sec? 1000req/sec? What does it take to fulfill a request?
/. is going to be able to answer this question for you. You'll need to load-test your Tomcat configuration yourself and see whether or not it is performant.
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Personally, I prefer resin, but have had successful JBoss/Tomcat configurations. But every situation is different, so you'll have to do some load testing.
Good luck!
You can think of your cups, pints, quarts, etc. as powers of 2. Here are the US customary units for your converting pleasure:
2^0: mouthful
2^1: jigger
2^2: jack
2^3: gill/jill
2^4: cup
2^5: pint
2^6: quart
2^7: pottle
2^8: gallon
2^9: peck
2^10: pail
2^11: bushel
2^12: strike
2^13: coomb
2^14: cask
2^15: barrel
2^16: hogshead
2^17: pipe
2^18: tun
I'm actually a little surprised geeks are so metric-happy when we happily use powers of two for all things computer (2^10 bytes=1MB, 2^20 bytes=1GB, etc.)
My house -> DCA -> (Delta Shuttle) -> LGA -> Manhattan = 1:50 / $100.
My house -> Union Station -> (Amtrak Acela Express) -> Penn station = 3:20 / $170.
For me, it's a no-brainer: I take the plane, unless there's weather. The train is a nice backup because it doesn't get stuck as badly in weather and it's obviously roomier. But currently, planes are faster than trains, even for short trips.
Downloading music is not stealing if you have permission of the copyright holder. In this case, you pay the copyright holder for permission, so you have permission to download. Nothing illegal about that.
The pricepoint is a little higher than what I'd like to see, but this is definitely a step in the right direction for the music industry. Kudos to them for actually trying to solve the p2p "problem" by giving consumers (almost) what they want instead of trying to lock down every electronic device. It may be a clumsy interface, but it seems like a good first stab at a compromise between consumers' fair use rights and copyright holder interests.
Normally, when you detect an intrusion, you have an IP address, you find its owner, and then try to determine who was using that address at the time of detection, and hopefully prosecute. It just seems to me that with 802.11, your best bet is to secure the thing rather than trying to figure out whose PDA inside a backpack is polling your network.
Anyhow, my point was that deregulation can be a good thing for both consumers and industries if thought through and done correctly and it can also be a disaster, otherwise. I also assert that your argument that deregulation must be bad was weak since it was supported by inaccurate information. Fair enough? :-)
Also, I'm not sure about your anecdotal evidence on Cable, but I can tell you that Cox cable was able to get me a cable modem a full 1.5 /years/ before regulated Verizon got off their asses long enough to get DSL available at my (urban) home. Even if DSL was rolled-out, it would have taken them 6 weeks to do an install where my cable modem took 3 days. Cox had a 0% price increase last year and my basic cable costs $6 since I have a cable modem through them. By contrast, my regulated Verizon local phone service costs like 50 bucks! Amazing!
Deregulation, if done correctly, is a good thing. If you want to write a treatise against deregulation, cite the CA power deregulation or something.
Good luck!
I mean, try explaining to the average American that he cannot buy your goods with his credit card, which he already has. Instead, he must send money to a "Market Maker", who will then fund his e-gold account, and then, days later, he can actually make a purchase. Hah. E-gold is great for people who already have gold, but it's a tough sell to try to get someone to open a new account, fund it, and still hold interest in your product enough to come back and purchase it after N hours/days.
The whole point of the ADA is to cover situations that would render a business inaccessable to the disabled. It does not force businesses to comply to the personal tastes of every disabled person who could possibly be a customer. Only to provide some method of access.
The best analogy I can think of is a building with both stairs and a ramp to access it. If this lawsuit was successful, it would be like compelling the owner of said building to make the stairs accessable to disabled people when there is a perfectly good ramp. Why should Southwest have to change their website when there is a perfectly good phone number?
We already are on Double Secret Probation! Have been since 26-OCT-2001. Argh.
The sad thing is that there are school teachers who use this song to explain "irony" to students. Someone should remind them that "rain on your wedding day" is only ironic if the bride and/or groom is a meteorologist.