Hmm. Small fast good java runtime instead of "java"-script? What an intriguing idea.
Of course, you really have to be careful here. You would want to call it Java, but you have to meet SUN's requirements. So, what about the "Micro Edition" of Java for embedded devices? It is supposed to be quite a bit smaller. I personnally have not worked with it, so I don't know if it is fatally crippled in some way, or if it retains most general usefulness.
If it is mostly usefull, but lacks a few things, could a mozilla/fire-thing package be added on with enough XUL support to get the job done?
Yes, all the "Enterprise" (translation: big, over-complicated and bloated) mumbo-jumbo and impressive (?) sounding word-ifying logo-rhea gets old after a while.
Yes, and it's completely off topic, but I just had to chime in with a hearty "AOL!".:-)
Windows 3.1 would not run on DR-DOS 5 unless you had a patch from Novell to fool it or some such things. I've got the disks at home (DR-DOS, the patch disks), this is NOT a lie.
DR-DOS 5 kicked MS-DOS 5 butt.
(on the other hand, by the time winders-95 had come out, I'd already been using a certain other 32 bit OS which is popular on slashdot, so MS can nosedive into the ground for about all I care...)
Equating software to gold is an interesting insight into the guy's view of the world.
I guess he figures there are a finite number of dumb and obvious ideas to patent, so you'd better stake your claim ASAP before all the nuggets are gone. 0 sum game: the only way I can win is if you lose.
An alternative might be to consider the possibility of leveraging productivity between various and sundry things on the market, whether goods or services, rather than an attitude of "I own it, I own it all, back off!", which doesn't seem to fit the realm of abstractions like it does physical goods or specific blueprints for a widget.
It still sucks for the economy to be out 8.7 million hours.
It sounds like, as far as I can guess, that the order of operations chose by MS was:
1) run "security validation" (?) on URL 2) convert URL into canonical form
rather than
1) convert URL into canonical form 2) run "security validation" on URL (to see if you have rights to the resource referenced)
I don't know how they could accurately identify what resource the incoming URL referenced, and not catch your lack-of-privelidge to access it.
I think it is part of our job to continually remind our bosses what presumtive ("we're number one, so we don't have to care!") twits MS can be, and question just how wise it is to trust your livelihood to these folks.
OK, let's NOT invoke Moore's Law here, as we are dealing with a serious "energy budget" problem.
However, let's assume a 5% improvement in performance (altitude) every year:
1) 105 km 2) 110 km 3) 116 km . .. 10) 163 km
That's assuming no "revolutionary" advances and a rather crummy increment of improvement. That still brings the "ride time" up a fair amount every year.
Of course, if any of these companies turns a profit, there will be a dozen other start ups, 11 of which go bankrupt, and one of which invents Something Even Better, but perhaps I'm being too optomistic.
Yes, CEO money recirculates through the economy, directed as the "great ones" will direct it.
However, it is *their* money, and lending it out or buying up shares just means the rest of us, or the new companies are started, are indebedted / flat-out-owned, by them. If that does not bother you, good. Some of us are more ill socially adjusted, though, and resent being indentured servants.:-)
I just installed (updated) Slackware on an old junker 486/100 MHz / 16 MB laptop a few weeks back.
Check out the HOWTO for zipslack. It takes about 100 MB of "disk" space, and you can set up the files using somebody else's DOS/Winders box, if need be. I'm not sure about the USB support, though, as that was not my experience. I just wanted to get a PCMCIA ehternet card working to make a web browser "kiosk" out of the thing. Ufortunately, the poor thing is drinking out of a broadband firehose now, so it works best just to run "xinit", "xhost +..." on it, and set up a window managaer and browser from the machine in the next room, but I digress...
I used zipslack on the "D:" drive, so I could leave the old slackware (1996!) I had on the other file system intact during the tweaking.
Try installing and using Slackware, or one of the other distros sure to be mentioned.
I've used both Slackware and Redhat. I also hate RPMs.
I tend to use Slackware on serverish boxes, and Redhat on workstationish boxes. Not that you couldn't get most of the software present on either running on the other, but I'm Lazy. (and Impatient, and all that)
Is switching browsers enough? After that business last week about the IIS + IE sucker punch, I very much distrust anything running on Windows, for fear that the entire system is so easily compromised. If every key stroke is logged, every file is scanned, any DLL can be replaced, you really need to adopt an "X Files" kind of mentality, or you aren't paranoid enough. (they ARE out to get you, where they = black hats; you = people with anything valuable on a computer)
I *do* use Windows -- as a home entertainment center. At this point, there is no way I would consider putting anything like bank account numbers or SSNs on a Windows box. I have no illusions about the perfection of Linux, but there is something to be said about a diversity of platforms. I've never loaded BSD myself, but maybe it's time to start diversifying my software portfolio (OTOH - I can hardly wait to try to find *those* drivers).
My opinion of businesses considering using (requiring?!?) Windows for any kind of accounting or personal information just sunk another notch lower today.
I'm a little surprised you can mention Python and Ruby and omit Perl.
The big weaknesses I see in Perl are * The need for an (optional!!!) "use types" kind of strongly typed mode * Non-kluged (eval is a kluge) exception handling. * The need for a standard GUI toolkit in the distro (I know Perl/tk exists, but it's not shipped normally, I believe)
Otherwise, it's generally easier to write a modest size job in Perl, rather than in Java, AND, it runs faster. I do a lot more batch-ish stuff that user-coddling GUIs (<Grin/>), so the run-time speed matters, and the fact that Perl is also EASIER to write helps.
I hope Perl 6 comes out sooner, rather than later...
Or, in more typical slashdotter terms "I call bullshit".
Sometimes, you have to be willing to break an unjust law, AND, pay the consequences, to get other people to really see the absurdity, so that the public at large begins to want something done. And yes, it's the deliberately getting caught part and having your (public, I hope) day in court that has to happen to finish the job. Unless they grab selected ACLU staffers and ship them off to Guatanamo, of course. Ouch.
Not that I have done anything like this, mind you, but I can certainly see the rationale behind it.
Slashdot Mirror
"but if I were Bill Gates my eyes would be aimed at google for the time being."
Poor Frodo doesn't have a chance, unless we launch a counter strike at the gates of Mordor itself as a diversion!
Er, ah, carry on!
Hmm. Small fast good java runtime instead of "java"-script? What an intriguing idea.
Of course, you really have to be careful here. You would want to call it Java, but you have to meet SUN's requirements. So, what about the "Micro Edition" of Java for embedded devices? It is supposed to be quite a bit smaller. I personnally have not worked with it, so I don't know if it is fatally crippled in some way, or if it retains most general usefulness.
If it is mostly usefull, but lacks a few things, could a mozilla/fire-thing package be added on with enough XUL support to get the job done?
Any comments?
You hate that phrase, too?
:-)
Yes, all the "Enterprise" (translation: big, over-complicated and bloated) mumbo-jumbo and impressive (?) sounding word-ifying logo-rhea gets old after a while.
Yes, and it's completely off topic, but I just had to chime in with a hearty "AOL!".
Windows 3.1 would not run on DR-DOS 5 unless you had a patch from Novell to fool it or some such things. I've got the disks at home (DR-DOS, the patch disks), this is NOT a lie.
DR-DOS 5 kicked MS-DOS 5 butt.
(on the other hand, by the time winders-95 had come out, I'd already been using a certain other 32 bit OS which is popular on slashdot, so MS can nosedive into the ground for about all I care...)
Mother do you think they'll drop The Bomb?
(oh no, just lots of little cute ones!)
Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?
Equating software to gold is an interesting insight into the guy's view of the world.
I guess he figures there are a finite number of dumb and obvious ideas to patent, so you'd better stake your claim ASAP before all the nuggets are gone. 0 sum game: the only way I can win is if you lose.
An alternative might be to consider the possibility of leveraging productivity between various and sundry things on the market, whether goods or services, rather than an attitude of "I own it, I own it all, back off!", which doesn't seem to fit the realm of abstractions like it does physical goods or specific blueprints for a widget.
Same old flame war...
It still sucks for the economy to be out 8.7 million hours.
:-)
It sounds like, as far as I can guess, that the order of operations chose by MS was:
1) run "security validation" (?) on URL
2) convert URL into canonical form
rather than
1) convert URL into canonical form
2) run "security validation" on URL (to see if you have rights to the resource referenced)
I don't know how they could accurately identify what resource the incoming URL referenced, and not catch your lack-of-privelidge to access it.
I think it is part of our job to continually remind our bosses what presumtive ("we're number one, so we don't have to care!") twits MS can be, and question just how wise it is to trust your livelihood to these folks.
But that's just my opinion.
Flogging a dead horse, but...
20) 265 km
That, however, is somewhat close to LEO. 20 years, yeah, that's not very exciting progress, but it does get people there in my lifetime. YMMV.
OK, let's NOT invoke Moore's Law here, as we are dealing with a serious "energy budget" problem.
.
However, let's assume a 5% improvement in performance (altitude) every year:
1) 105 km
2) 110 km
3) 116 km
. .
10) 163 km
That's assuming no "revolutionary" advances and a rather crummy increment of improvement. That still brings the "ride time" up a fair amount every year.
Of course, if any of these companies turns a profit, there will be a dozen other start ups, 11 of which go bankrupt, and one of which invents Something Even Better, but perhaps I'm being too optomistic.
W? Ridge???
:-)
Oh, you meant Washington and Jefferson.
I think maybe that explains the difference
If I had the points today. Interesting idea about the polar route.
Post on slashdot! Be a bigger dick than ever before! Instant karma loan approval!!!
What, no monkey-boy, dance-remix on the MSCE top 40 list?
http://achurch.org/media/ballmer.avi
This is so off topic, but...
:-)
Yes, CEO money recirculates through the economy, directed as the "great ones" will direct it.
However, it is *their* money, and lending it out or buying up shares just means the rest of us, or the new companies are started, are indebedted / flat-out-owned, by them. If that does not bother you, good. Some of us are more ill socially adjusted, though, and resent being indentured servants.
the mozilla download seemed to be, well, slashdotted.
of course, I'm assuming the patch works, if you remove the space between "...extern" and "al.shell".
So don't set up a swap partition.
I just installed (updated) Slackware on an old junker 486/100 MHz / 16 MB laptop a few weeks back.
Check out the HOWTO for zipslack. It takes about 100 MB of "disk" space, and you can set up the files using somebody else's DOS/Winders box, if need be. I'm not sure about the USB support, though, as that was not my experience. I just wanted to get a PCMCIA ehternet card working to make a web browser "kiosk" out of the thing. Ufortunately, the poor thing is drinking out of a broadband firehose now, so it works best just to run "xinit", "xhost +..." on it, and set up a window managaer and browser from the machine in the next room, but I digress...
I used zipslack on the "D:" drive, so I could leave the old slackware (1996!) I had on the other file system intact during the tweaking.
Try installing and using Slackware, or one of the other distros sure to be mentioned.
I've used both Slackware and Redhat. I also hate RPMs.
I tend to use Slackware on serverish boxes, and Redhat on workstationish boxes. Not that you couldn't get most of the software present on either running on the other, but I'm Lazy. (and Impatient, and all that)
Is switching browsers enough? After that business last week about the IIS + IE sucker punch, I very much distrust anything running on Windows, for fear that the entire system is so easily compromised. If every key stroke is logged, every file is scanned, any DLL can be replaced, you really need to adopt an "X Files" kind of mentality, or you aren't paranoid enough. (they ARE out to get you, where they = black hats; you = people with anything valuable on a computer)
:-)
I *do* use Windows -- as a home entertainment center. At this point, there is no way I would consider putting anything like bank account numbers or SSNs on a Windows box. I have no illusions about the perfection of Linux, but there is something to be said about a diversity of platforms. I've never loaded BSD myself, but maybe it's time to start diversifying my software portfolio (OTOH - I can hardly wait to try to find *those* drivers).
My opinion of businesses considering using (requiring?!?) Windows for any kind of accounting or personal information just sunk another notch lower today.
-- END RANT --
Oh, to have a workgroup server with only 15 people on it!
Unfortunately, we regularly have to use a server with about 50 users. Ouch!!!
'Course, I often use my laptop (linux) when the job-of-the-day does not require propietary tools which only work on The Great and "Mighty" Server.
Yes, most places use PCs or individual workstations, but you'd be surprised.
At least that is my experience.
I'm a little surprised you can mention Python and Ruby and omit Perl.
The big weaknesses I see in Perl are
* The need for an (optional!!!) "use types" kind of strongly typed mode
* Non-kluged (eval is a kluge) exception handling.
* The need for a standard GUI toolkit in the distro (I know Perl/tk exists, but it's not shipped normally, I believe)
Otherwise, it's generally easier to write a modest size job in Perl, rather than in Java, AND, it runs faster. I do a lot more batch-ish stuff that user-coddling GUIs (<Grin/>), so the run-time speed matters, and the fact that Perl is also EASIER to write helps.
I hope Perl 6 comes out sooner, rather than later...
I was expecting the ob "Worst episode ever" comicbook-man line. So disappointed...
Works for me.
Or, in more typical slashdotter terms "I call bullshit".
:-)
Sometimes, you have to be willing to break an unjust law, AND, pay the consequences, to get other people to really see the absurdity, so that the public at large begins to want something done. And yes, it's the deliberately getting caught part and having your (public, I hope) day in court that has to happen to finish the job. Unless they grab selected ACLU staffers and ship them off to Guatanamo, of course. Ouch.
Not that I have done anything like this, mind you, but I can certainly see the rationale behind it.
Did I forget to post this AC? Oops.
Nail. On. The. Head.
But seriously, while they only had 2 or 3 robberies, they averaged well over $100,000 each.
It sounds like a virtual gated community (without the actual gates) looking to harass anybody who does not belong.
It's their right, I guess, but an ugly precedent.