No, in the big banks, it's the disk servers that do the mirroring themselves, not the application servers. Except for software updates and configuration changes, the application servers just sit idle at the backup site.
Life is change. Stop whining and get over it, or write your own stagnant website that never adapts itself to any new technology. Maybe you could even write it in COBOL, just for giggles.:P
I notice all the whiners and trolls bitching about the layout changes are Anonymous Cowards.
Somehow it figures that people so lazy that they can't be bothered registering an account would also be the first to complain.
You're always welcome to just fuck off and go elsewhere to whimper on the internet, you know? Try Facebook -- they seem to love pathetic whiners and drama queens like you.
Apparently you haven't been reading the same news feeds I have over the past few years. The whole world's economy has been in the shitter for a long time now.
Note that although there are 7-bit character sets that will support each of the European languages, you have to use a multi-byte set in order to support all of those languages in one database. Splitting your data on language barriers isn't very effective, and would complicate systems even more than MBCS do.
And further to what the parent poster said, there is the issue of whether Silicon Valley is really any "better" when you consider the number of FAILED companies it has produced. I think the Europeans are a lot smarter about their investments than North Americans; both Canadians and Americans are far more prone to gamble on someone with a good story than they are in Europe.
Even Canada suffers on the "Silicon Valley" front because we're required by law to deploy systems in both French and English on launch, which makes software a lot harder to develop. Especially when you consider the fact that you don't even need to fuss around with multi-byte character sets to support English.
With one key difference. The crowding out is being caused by humans and humans alone; die-offs as a result of "extinction events" are unavoidable natural catastrophes. There is absolutely nothing "unavoidable" or "natural" about the way mankind is butchering this planet.
Every single time a leap second comes up in the future, we have these panic-stricken articles predicting doom and gloom for some services.
If you haven't figured out how to deal with leap seconds that have been an issue since the '70s, I say your service DESERVES to crash and burn, and you DESERVE to spend long and stressful hours dealing with the mess.
Leap seconds aren't a surprise to ANYONE with a functioning brain cell.
In short, give up on the idea of there *ever* being a "They've got everything" music site. Anyone who puts up a site of any kind will only have agreements with a subset of publishers. That's just a fact of life.
You can always get the "missing" content from another publisher, or (shock! horror! apoplectic fit!) buy the CD!
The problem with Java, C#, and every other language is that while the language and it's "core" libraries may be portable, the GUI layer never is. Mono has GTK+ bindings. Windows has Microsoft bindings.
Java deals with five stacks of GUI code -- AWT, Swing, IBM's code (used by Eclipse), the latest GUI code from Oracle (whose name escapes me at the moment), and the GUI for Android. There had been this dream that there would be one set of bindings that adapted to the platform (Swing), but that got screwed after claims of "performance problems" and Google flat out fucking up their "implementation" of Java for Android.
Yeah, and because the functionality is actually needed, with JavaScript you get a bunch of downloaded "extensions" that may or may not have vulnerabilities of their own, or roll your own code, which is even more likely to have bugs.
People keep re-inventing the wheel and insisting that their "new" invention isn't vulnerable to the same problems as those of the past. After 35 years of programming, it is just sickening to see the same arrogance from generation after generation of programmers.
"I'm a lazy bastard. Can anyone make my job so easy that I can just sleep at my desk for eight hours instead of working? I don't actually care about the quality or correctness of my work, I'm just tired of having to actually work for a living."
Anything which tries to run a "binary" or bytecode in the browser is going to be vulnerable to sandboxing issues. It doesn't matter who writes it, it doesn't matter how it's "designed" or "architected", there will be vulnerabilities. Hopefully there is a better and more efficient patching process than there was for the much-hated Java sandbox, but no one should fool themselves that this is a "secure" approach for web applications.
*LMAO* That's why you never hear about SCADA systems getting attacked or crippled, right?
Even the SWIFT banking network has had problems from time to time, and that is just about the most secure network on the planet short of those created by the military in a very short list of nation-states.
There is no such thing as "impenetrable security." Trusting devices that can't be or aren't regularly updated and which don't change their security certificates on a regular basis is just begging to be cracked.
And, by the way, this "idiot" wrote backbone internet and billing software for some small companies you may have heard of: Northern Telecom and AT&T. I've been around a long, long time and been the bowels of systems and corporations whose operations dwarf what most people have dealt with.
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No, in the big banks, it's the disk servers that do the mirroring themselves, not the application servers. Except for software updates and configuration changes, the application servers just sit idle at the backup site.
Life is change. Stop whining and get over it, or write your own stagnant website that never adapts itself to any new technology. Maybe you could even write it in COBOL, just for giggles. :P
I notice all the whiners and trolls bitching about the layout changes are Anonymous Cowards.
Somehow it figures that people so lazy that they can't be bothered registering an account would also be the first to complain.
You're always welcome to just fuck off and go elsewhere to whimper on the internet, you know? Try Facebook -- they seem to love pathetic whiners and drama queens like you.
Just wait until someone from Quebec wants to use whatever you're producing and you'll be hearing from the lawyers.
Apparently you haven't been reading the same news feeds I have over the past few years. The whole world's economy has been in the shitter for a long time now.
Fair is fair -- why are celebrities allowed to go by their stage names?
Note that although there are 7-bit character sets that will support each of the European languages, you have to use a multi-byte set in order to support all of those languages in one database. Splitting your data on language barriers isn't very effective, and would complicate systems even more than MBCS do.
This.
And further to what the parent poster said, there is the issue of whether Silicon Valley is really any "better" when you consider the number of FAILED companies it has produced. I think the Europeans are a lot smarter about their investments than North Americans; both Canadians and Americans are far more prone to gamble on someone with a good story than they are in Europe.
Even Canada suffers on the "Silicon Valley" front because we're required by law to deploy systems in both French and English on launch, which makes software a lot harder to develop. Especially when you consider the fact that you don't even need to fuss around with multi-byte character sets to support English.
Unfortunately the drug delivery system explodes half way to the patient... :P :P :P
With one key difference. The crowding out is being caused by humans and humans alone; die-offs as a result of "extinction events" are unavoidable natural catastrophes. There is absolutely nothing "unavoidable" or "natural" about the way mankind is butchering this planet.
You do realize that "race" is merely an accident of melanin levels and sun exposure?
Nah, of course not. When it was time to learn grade school biology, you took that as your cue to fuck your cousin.
We're not in the middle of an "extinction event" -- we're simply crowding out other species and consuming their habitats.
There is a world of difference between an asteroid strike and bulldozing the rain forest.
Why shouldn't death come for a robot? Where is it written that robots should be granted immortality, even if they are sentient?
All things come to an end. Even metal and plastic.
Every single time a leap second comes up in the future, we have these panic-stricken articles predicting doom and gloom for some services.
If you haven't figured out how to deal with leap seconds that have been an issue since the '70s, I say your service DESERVES to crash and burn, and you DESERVE to spend long and stressful hours dealing with the mess.
Leap seconds aren't a surprise to ANYONE with a functioning brain cell.
Read between the lines of what the summary is complaining about. Apparently the slashdroids have that fantasy.
In short, give up on the idea of there *ever* being a "They've got everything" music site. Anyone who puts up a site of any kind will only have agreements with a subset of publishers. That's just a fact of life.
You can always get the "missing" content from another publisher, or (shock! horror! apoplectic fit!) buy the CD!
Those aren't problems for *Apple*. They're "problems" for a very small segment of the consumer market and for indie publishers.
The revenue Apple would earn from getting those indie publishers on board is *paltry*, so I really don't think they give a damn about them.
The problem with Java, C#, and every other language is that while the language and it's "core" libraries may be portable, the GUI layer never is. Mono has GTK+ bindings. Windows has Microsoft bindings.
Java deals with five stacks of GUI code -- AWT, Swing, IBM's code (used by Eclipse), the latest GUI code from Oracle (whose name escapes me at the moment), and the GUI for Android. There had been this dream that there would be one set of bindings that adapted to the platform (Swing), but that got screwed after claims of "performance problems" and Google flat out fucking up their "implementation" of Java for Android.
Yeah, and because the functionality is actually needed, with JavaScript you get a bunch of downloaded "extensions" that may or may not have vulnerabilities of their own, or roll your own code, which is even more likely to have bugs.
People keep re-inventing the wheel and insisting that their "new" invention isn't vulnerable to the same problems as those of the past. After 35 years of programming, it is just sickening to see the same arrogance from generation after generation of programmers.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20011121
"I'm a lazy bastard. Can anyone make my job so easy that I can just sleep at my desk for eight hours instead of working? I don't actually care about the quality or correctness of my work, I'm just tired of having to actually work for a living."
Anything which tries to run a "binary" or bytecode in the browser is going to be vulnerable to sandboxing issues. It doesn't matter who writes it, it doesn't matter how it's "designed" or "architected", there will be vulnerabilities. Hopefully there is a better and more efficient patching process than there was for the much-hated Java sandbox, but no one should fool themselves that this is a "secure" approach for web applications.
*LMAO* That's why you never hear about SCADA systems getting attacked or crippled, right?
Even the SWIFT banking network has had problems from time to time, and that is just about the most secure network on the planet short of those created by the military in a very short list of nation-states.
There is no such thing as "impenetrable security." Trusting devices that can't be or aren't regularly updated and which don't change their security certificates on a regular basis is just begging to be cracked.
*LOL* "been in the bowels"
Mind you, some of the jobs were pretty shitty. :P
And, by the way, this "idiot" wrote backbone internet and billing software for some small companies you may have heard of: Northern Telecom and AT&T. I've been around a long, long time and been the bowels of systems and corporations whose operations dwarf what most people have dealt with.