Also on the taxation issue, a progressive tax is unfair and WRONG. It send the wrong message to people. The harder
you work, the more money you make, the more % you will have to pay in taxes. The less you make the less you will
have to pay and if you don't make anything we will give you some for doing nothing. Is this a good message? NO! But
its the one we are sending out everyday with welfare and the like. How are we going to get better as a country if we
punish those who work hard and do well for themselves?
"Hard drugs" is a false distinction. That's just like saying illegal drugs are bad (perhaps worse). Oh that's right, hard drugs are the powdered ones, the ones you snort or shoot, or the ones that poor people do. Right?
Heroin is actually one of the safer drugs out there. The dangers posed by heroin use are completely a product of the drug war and the black market that it creates.
Sure, you can get addicted, but addiction itself is not inherently dangerous, as long as you have a reliable and pure source of the drug -- something which is not possible in the current legal and political climate.
Just consider how heroin addicts are treated -- with methadone. Methadone is an opiate, just like heroin and binds to the same receptors (so you can't any effects from heroin). The only difference is that it doesn't make you FEEL GOOD. You're still addicted, but not to herion -- to a socially acceptable drug, one that doesn't make you FEEL GOOD and one that you can obtain a pure and reliable supply for under the pretense of "treatment."
For more information check the lycaeum, or better yet, try Pharmacotheon by Jonathan Ott.
No, of course not -- which is why we're switing to unicode, which is nice enough to remain compatible with ascii for the first 127 characters..
does this tnef do anything besides obfuscate a message and put useless formatting information in it? can it transmit characters for all the major scripts in the world?
That's the thing -- who knows what would have happened if they had not interfered -- things could have turned out quite differently, and they might be serious contenders.
I find it somewhat interesting (and disturbing) how the article infers that there are fewer privacy concerns simply because of a few apathetic advertisers.
The most dangerous information-gathering techniques aren't done for pure profit and are usually mandatory.
Having done a lot of this kind of stuff, here are my thoughts.
PHP is a joke, or at least it was when I used it (2.x). The parser was an abomination -- any language that won't let you use a valid expression inside of an if statement deserves to die. e.g.:
foo = function(1); if(foo) { echo "bar"; }
Compared to..
if(foo = function(1)) { echo "bar"; }
which did not work! what kind of a programming language is that!?
I got halfway through a medium-sized project with php (it seemed like the logical choice at the time) but ended up starting over due to the extreme levels of frustration.
So yeah, if you want unmaintainble spaghetti code mixed with HTML, forever linking the logic and presentation, go right ahead.
Perl is ok, but the real fact is that CGI is a "technology" not even worth an ancronym! <sarcasm>How a bunch of environment variables can be called an "interface" is beyond me.</sarcasm>
What you want is a real interface on top of whatever is provided to you -- such as CGI. That way, no matter what you're using -- apache modules, CGI, mod_perl, ISAPI -- you've got the same interface.
What has worked well for me in the past is nice object-oriented perl that parses HTML template files -- one method is to parse and interpret proprietary tags (remember, this was before xml -- and I knew about SGML and was going to use it, but it never got off the ground) -- the other is to do simple variable insertion.
Now that XML is here, this whole argument is moot. The most solid platform I've seen yet is the XML family of stanards. With a custom DTD and some small java classes, a nice parser like xerces and a XSLT processer like xalan, you can't go wrong! This set-up wields some awesome power!
CGI should have died a long time ago. If you must use it, use a real programming language like perl (CGI), bourne shell(CGI) or C(apache module), and don't waste your time with php. And abstract away from your CGI.
Yeah, why do you think they have a selection on the form for if you are from slashdot or not -- they know they will never get any financial support from you, so they know to ignore your opinion...
for instance -- i write apache modules that handle over million requests per day -- try using printf for that! I can only test it so much before I have to drop it in and collect coredumps;)
I would say it has more to do with that fact that "dumbed down people" (whatever those are) are more easily convinced that they have needs that don't really exist..
part of what its about is creating needs and wants that didn't exist previously and then stepping in to provide the products and services..
In my experience the more graphical config tools are used in a distribution, the more they are shoved down your throat and the more hidden the real information in your OS.. MacOS anyone?
Part of the reason things like LDAP aren't used in favor of textfiles is that text files are pretty much guaranteed to work. and if you can't read a text file on a local system, you aren't likely to be able to do much else either..
extensible databases are nice but damn if they just aren't as reliable..
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I don't particularly care for CDE, but I do enjoy using xfce which happens to be a CDE clone (who knew?)
you mean i.e. or e.g., right? ;)
Also on the taxation issue, a progressive tax is unfair and WRONG. It send the wrong message to people. The harder
you work, the more money you make, the more % you will have to pay in taxes. The less you make the less you will
have to pay and if you don't make anything we will give you some for doing nothing. Is this a good message? NO! But
its the one we are sending out everyday with welfare and the like. How are we going to get better as a country if we
punish those who work hard and do well for themselves?
"Hard drugs" is a false distinction. That's just like saying illegal drugs are bad (perhaps worse). Oh that's right, hard drugs are the powdered ones, the ones you snort or shoot, or the ones that poor people do. Right?
Just in case you forgot, caffeine is still a drug.
Heroin is actually one of the safer drugs out there. The dangers posed by heroin use are completely a product of the drug war and the black market that it creates.
Sure, you can get addicted, but addiction itself is not inherently dangerous, as long as you have a reliable and pure source of the drug -- something which is not possible in the current legal and political climate.
Just consider how heroin addicts are treated -- with methadone. Methadone is an opiate, just like heroin and binds to the same receptors (so you can't any effects from heroin). The only difference is that it doesn't make you FEEL GOOD. You're still addicted, but not to herion -- to a socially acceptable drug, one that doesn't make you FEEL GOOD and one that you can obtain a pure and reliable supply for under the pretense of "treatment."
For more information check the lycaeum, or better yet, try Pharmacotheon by Jonathan Ott.
tterb, Lycaeum volunteer.
I would assume that they would sell all kinds of accessories as well.. so if you are into the funky mice, you can 1-click(tm) them all day.
No, of course not -- which is why we're switing to unicode, which is nice enough to remain compatible with ascii for the first 127 characters..
does this tnef do anything besides obfuscate a message and put useless formatting information in it? can it transmit characters for all the major scripts in the world?
And if you ignore a few more bits, 'A-Z' is the same as 'a-z' in ASCII as well
That's the thing -- who knows what would have happened if they had not interfered -- things could have turned out quite differently, and they might be serious contenders.
I find it somewhat interesting (and disturbing) how the article infers that there are fewer privacy concerns simply because of a few apathetic advertisers.
The most dangerous information-gathering techniques aren't done for pure profit and are usually mandatory.
Having done a lot of this kind of stuff, here are my thoughts.
PHP is a joke, or at least it was when I used it (2.x). The parser was an abomination -- any language that won't let you use a valid expression inside of an if statement deserves to die. e.g.:
foo = function(1);
Compared to..if(foo) {
echo "bar";
}
if(foo = function(1)) {
echo "bar";
}
which did not work! what kind of a programming language is that!?
I got halfway through a medium-sized project with php (it seemed like the logical choice at the time) but ended up starting over due to the extreme levels of frustration.
So yeah, if you want unmaintainble spaghetti code mixed with HTML, forever linking the logic and presentation, go right ahead.
Perl is ok, but the real fact is that CGI is a "technology" not even worth an ancronym! <sarcasm>How a bunch of environment variables can be called an "interface" is beyond me.</sarcasm>
What you want is a real interface on top of whatever is provided to you -- such as CGI. That way, no matter what you're using -- apache modules, CGI, mod_perl, ISAPI -- you've got the same interface.
What has worked well for me in the past is nice object-oriented perl that parses HTML template files -- one method is to parse and interpret proprietary tags (remember, this was before xml -- and I knew about SGML and was going to use it, but it never got off the ground) -- the other is to do simple variable insertion.
Now that XML is here, this whole argument is moot. The most solid platform I've seen yet is the XML family of stanards. With a custom DTD and some small java classes, a nice parser like xerces and a XSLT processer like xalan, you can't go wrong! This set-up wields some awesome power!
CGI should have died a long time ago. If you must use it, use a real programming language like perl (CGI), bourne shell(CGI) or C(apache module), and don't waste your time with php. And abstract away from your CGI.
emacs is all the IDE you need!
I wonder when you'll realize you have no fscking idea what you're talking about.
Maybe if you had a clue you would realize that a no-cost compiler is useful to "open source" (hurl) developers, whereas IE is not.
Yeah, why do you think they have a selection on the form for if you are from slashdot or not -- they know they will never get any financial support from you, so they know to ignore your opinion...
for instance -- i write apache modules that handle over million requests per day -- try using printf for that! I can only test it so much before I have to drop it in and collect coredumps ;)
I've been censored!!! where's the post button!!!
As a wise man once said, the game hasn't ever changed, just the costumes and funny hats.
People don't know what they want, which is why they have other people tell them.
If there is one giant monopoly, it controls what people want, and so of course people want them.
I would say it has more to do with that fact that "dumbed down people" (whatever those are) are more easily convinced that they have needs that don't really exist..
part of what its about is creating needs and wants that didn't exist previously and then stepping in to provide the products and services..
In my experience the more graphical config tools are used in a distribution, the more they are shoved down your throat and the more hidden the real information in your OS.. MacOS anyone?
Part of the reason things like LDAP aren't used in favor of textfiles is that text files are pretty much guaranteed to work. and if you can't read a text file on a local system, you aren't likely to be able to do much else either..
extensible databases are nice but damn if they just aren't as reliable..
Why are we competing with Window's Control Panel again?