The french web sites mainly says that the so-called "filter" is a XSL transformation with some.NET code to have a Word "plugin". Looking at the Sourceforge CVS, it's just a few XSL files and it doesn't even look good.
It's ridiculously simple technology and definitely not something that will change the editing world and have the next war be Word vs OpenOffice.
You all can write that (yes!), why is that you are all not on Slashdot news all the time?
PHP isn't capable of working in a real enterprise.
I haven't had experience with integrating PHP into an "enterprise" situation personally, but I'll refer you to Zend's Enterprise PHP page for various reasons why PHP is indeed ready for the enterprise.
That's exactly the point that is missing in the FA and the F posts here. PHP is not usable in a average-size company. I have been in a lot of enterprise IT projects (last 10 years, mind you), many being interfaced with a web front-end. I have never been in a meeting where PHP was even considered an option, and never seen any PHP page there.
There is no room for PHP in a company that has mixed plateforms, transactional web sites, various security providers and such. PHP is just not suitable. Java is geared toward ease of integration, J2EE is oriented toward enterprise services.
PHP just cannot beat that, unless you have millions to throw out the window in an IT project, and have your next job waiting for you.
Having said that, yes you can knock up things with PHP rapidly. But those things stay at home. So how any good is this?
Sir, you are a mountain of ignorance regarding the rest of the world. Your statements show the extent of your blindness:
The currect (US led) system has 0 political control of domains.
Do you really believe this?
We bitch about the government restricting freedom of speech here in the US in general, but Europeans and especially China and the middle east are the the people with no real freedom in that respect (they can't even legally complain about not having freedom of speech in may cases).
First it sounds like you think China is in Europe. OOoops - scary somehow
Then, what do you know about freedom of speech in Europe? Are you aware that european countries have an instance in the European Community to which they have to report and can be sued in case of human rights violations and such other violations of "freedom" and that countries like France regularly get in trouble with it*? I suppose not.
*:Nothing compared to torturing prisonners though.
But this time, the "rest of the world" says "Tough!" to the USA.
Interesting how the UN position has got stronger in imposing their views against warmongers who say "ni"..or something similar.
It's a great post. You sum up all the reasons why IBM would actually donate RUP:
make sure everyone can use it - and if needed be, have anyone contribute to the code at their liking.
You can now yourself fix all the little worries you have listed.
Ah! The smart-ass/knows-it-all of the week from the US government.
We didn't had one this week.
Since I'm not in the mood of writing a long diatribe, let's put it that way:
Softwares are expensive to write. Good developers are expensive. Either you outsource to India and whatever happens happens, or you put more cash on the table. Then you'll get better code and less software defects.
As for the educational system, same problem. Much too expensive and many so-called teachers are just paid too much for the bad work they do: last example in Concordia University where a (supposedly) HTML teacher was heard saying "Why in hell would you want to write XHTML and close tags?". Quality software? Maybe?
Seriously...again...is that me reading between the lines or...
On Thursday, Daniel Cuthbert [...] was found guilty of breaching Section One of the Act [...]. He admitted attempted to access the Web site, which was collecting donations for victims of last year's tsunami.
So I understand that he "admitted accessing the web site"...Oh my...I just clicked on my "Slashdot" bookmark and accessed the web site. Is this not allowed any more?
The article also states:
Under Section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act, 1990, any unauthorised access to a computer site can be considered a crime, if the person accessing the system knows that he is not authorised to access the site.
As the Act says, "a person is guilty of an offence if: he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer and the access he intends to secure is unauthorised and he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case."
So basically, I have been testing my web application all morning. As it turns out, I was testing the ACEJI security configuration and got a lot of "access denied", which I was expecting since I wrote the system.
This scenario falls under the Act description. I should be jailed!
OK...I think that's not me...I think this world is getting dangerously ignorant and stupid.
Yes, that is the way it works in IT. And cubicles are a reality for most too. No evil in cubicles. The good thing in that first job experience is that you'll have better weapons for the next one, and the next, and the other one....
If you guys would read the news of the day, you'll find out that this story comes out from TODAY's meeting in Switzerland on that topic.
The linked article states "30 September 2005". Duh!
Excuse my inability to navigate in hyperspace to reach unknown layers of hyper-time, or get back in time, but this can hardly be a dupe from a previous slashdot post since it's dated from today.
By the way, you learn in this article that, yes, US is still standing against the rest of the world to make sure ICANN doesn't become an international instance, or somebody else that is not from USA takes other the TLD business.
I feel very sorry for you. That must suck to be a whinning loser.
More words: read until the end of the post before hitting reply. The guy explains that context switch is affordable with the speed of today's machines...and points out that it will double soon anyway.
As a dad of a 7-years old, I am appauled that anyone could even think that a rating such as ESRB would prevail compared to one's judgement.
Said differently, who is that ESRB who is deciding for me what is good for my kid?
Moreover, few understand that such ratings bear a very heavy cultural background. What is good for a kid from Washington DC may not be good for a kid from Paris.
Lobby groups from USA should stop thinking they are the elite and that everyone should follow.
Also, in a time of parental dismissal and too much television, there are enough whistleblowers and idiots who think a hidden sex scene in a video game that requires a hack to get at is an outrage and the game should be immolated to the altar of good thinking.
Last but not least, I see only benefits in kids playing video games instead of watching television. Worse come to worse, telly is much worse than any video game. One simple reason being you cannot (really) control what's going on television, where if your kid bought a game you don't want him/her to play because your own "rating" says "No!", it's easy to hide a CD. Try hiding a television program when kid's at home and you are working.
I can make my own mind regarding my kid, thank you. I NEVER follow ratings. EVER! And I can tell you, at 11 years old she'll be playing an elf in World of Warcraft and I'll show her how to properly shoot cops in GTA.
Greetings Slashdot.
I write to you to inform you that I have filed a patent (REF: TOTAL-NONSENSE-54345-ID-4234) regarding the "slashdot" sequence of letters (or keystrokes).
As such, I offer to enter in agreement with you where each time this sequence is used (particularly on the web, but other instances may apply), I get PROFIT. A lot of it, if possible.
Thank you for your understanding and attention.
The Retarded Corporation.
Check the slashdot article about the dupe bug. Someone made a beautiful demonstration that this screenshot is a fake.
Basically, he enhanced the contrast of the image to show that the background of each row of the auction window is repeated, showing it has been copied/pasted using an image tool. If you look carefully on the auction windows, the background is from the main window, not each item's row.
Hence this screenshot is a fake.
Makes the dupe story not credible.
Why do you have to plague this already plaggued website with rumors or made-up stories?
You provide no link to anything, and your claim sounds so ridiculous (why putting servers down to parse log files?) that you are just a freaking troll.
Get off before I aim-shot you.
I'd be interested in your numerous publications about how to "program proper code" and/or make a MMORPG bug-free from day one.
Actually, a book on how to make a bug-free software, whatever the software would do. But I doubt anyone would risk writing one.
Do I really hate those software architect wannabees/lesson givers. You have no idea how complex those system are obviously and you're reasoning like you're working behind a single machine, running one software with a simple database that stores all items by their (supposedly) "unique ID".
First, what you see is the top of the iceberg. What you think is one machine is actually a whole cluster of computers making one single realm. Moreover, you can bet that instances are hosted on separate machines, just as the 2 different continents of WoW are - and this for each realm.
So your hashtable "solution" has to be applied to this setup. It is not as straight-forward as you apparently think it is.
Also consider that "unique IDs" clients see are probably not used as the unique identifier of an instance of an object. For storage space reason, it's very doubtful that Blizzard records instances of the same item. Unless it is unique to the WHOLE realm, among all users, and there is no such item in WoW.
for every character which the following happened in a short time (~1 minute):
a: Gave >X gold to friend
b: Entered instance
c: Was kicked out do to failure
That assumes Blizzard keeps a log of EVERYTHING you do, which sounds completely unrealistic to me given the amount of events/messages that are exchanged between the server and the client during a single WoW session. That would require hundreds of gigabyte a day for a single realm.
(Rough estimate based on the very innacurate count of 1 msg[255 chars]/sec/player/realm). Multiply this by at least 3 or 4 (since a client receives tens of messages per second) and you'll understand why you can't log everything.
Add to it the processing time to check all these logs for the specific sequence you've described. With the various combinations of messages you can get, you can be pretty sure you'll need clusters of computers to parse that amount of log files.
We all want Blizzard to put those spare machines inside realms rather than use them to parse log, don't we?
Slashdot Mirror
The french web sites mainly says that the so-called "filter" is a XSL transformation with some .NET code to have a Word "plugin". Looking at the Sourceforge CVS, it's just a few XSL files and it doesn't even look good.
It's ridiculously simple technology and definitely not something that will change the editing world and have the next war be Word vs OpenOffice.
You all can write that (yes!), why is that you are all not on Slashdot news all the time?
Oh my! Who gave the right for people to say what they thing? On the internet? I mean...it is so...2005...
PHP isn't capable of working in a real enterprise.
I haven't had experience with integrating PHP into an "enterprise" situation personally, but I'll refer you to Zend's Enterprise PHP page for various reasons why PHP is indeed ready for the enterprise.
That's exactly the point that is missing in the FA and the F posts here. PHP is not usable in a average-size company. I have been in a lot of enterprise IT projects (last 10 years, mind you), many being interfaced with a web front-end. I have never been in a meeting where PHP was even considered an option, and never seen any PHP page there. There is no room for PHP in a company that has mixed plateforms, transactional web sites, various security providers and such. PHP is just not suitable. Java is geared toward ease of integration, J2EE is oriented toward enterprise services. PHP just cannot beat that, unless you have millions to throw out the window in an IT project, and have your next job waiting for you. Having said that, yes you can knock up things with PHP rapidly. But those things stay at home. So how any good is this?I contributed to the market share by buying an AMD64 to put on a shuttle box, topped with Fedora 4 as the OS.
My experience with that? I will never go back to expensive Intel chips. This system works just great.
Oh I see, you guys are advertising free speech as in "Shut the fuck up"...That is a consistent stance on free speech...(sic!)
The currect (US led) system has 0 political control of domains.
Do you really believe this?
We bitch about the government restricting freedom of speech here in the US in general, but Europeans and especially China and the middle east are the the people with no real freedom in that respect (they can't even legally complain about not having freedom of speech in may cases).
First it sounds like you think China is in Europe. OOoops - scary somehow
Then, what do you know about freedom of speech in Europe? Are you aware that european countries have an instance in the European Community to which they have to report and can be sued in case of human rights violations and such other violations of "freedom" and that countries like France regularly get in trouble with it*? I suppose not.
*:Nothing compared to torturing prisonners though.
But this time, the "rest of the world" says "Tough!" to the USA. Interesting how the UN position has got stronger in imposing their views against warmongers who say "ni"..or something similar.
It's a great post. You sum up all the reasons why IBM would actually donate RUP: make sure everyone can use it - and if needed be, have anyone contribute to the code at their liking. You can now yourself fix all the little worries you have listed.
Ah! The smart-ass/knows-it-all of the week from the US government. We didn't had one this week.
Since I'm not in the mood of writing a long diatribe, let's put it that way:
Softwares are expensive to write. Good developers are expensive. Either you outsource to India and whatever happens happens, or you put more cash on the table. Then you'll get better code and less software defects.
As for the educational system, same problem. Much too expensive and many so-called teachers are just paid too much for the bad work they do: last example in Concordia University where a (supposedly) HTML teacher was heard saying "Why in hell would you want to write XHTML and close tags?". Quality software? Maybe?
And now folks, click on the Talk back link of that ZDNet article. You get the source of the HTML instead of the rendered page.
I suppose we are all packing stuff to sleep in custody for "accessing the web site" and found the source code exposed without doing "View Source"?Seriously...again...is that me reading between the lines or ...
On Thursday, Daniel Cuthbert [...] was found guilty of breaching Section One of the Act [...]. He admitted attempted to access the Web site, which was collecting donations for victims of last year's tsunami.
So I understand that he "admitted accessing the web site"...Oh my...I just clicked on my "Slashdot" bookmark and accessed the web site. Is this not allowed any more?
The article also states:
Under Section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act, 1990, any unauthorised access to a computer site can be considered a crime, if the person accessing the system knows that he is not authorised to access the site. As the Act says, "a person is guilty of an offence if: he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer and the access he intends to secure is unauthorised and he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case."
So basically, I have been testing my web application all morning. As it turns out, I was testing the ACEJI security configuration and got a lot of "access denied", which I was expecting since I wrote the system.
This scenario falls under the Act description. I should be jailed!
OK...I think that's not me...I think this world is getting dangerously ignorant and stupid.
To the author of the article:
Welcome to the real world.
Yes, that is the way it works in IT. And cubicles are a reality for most too. No evil in cubicles. The good thing in that first job experience is that you'll have better weapons for the next one, and the next, and the other one....
Control belongs to the US. End of argument.
For saying such a stupid thing, you must be an idiot. End of argument.
If you guys would read the news of the day, you'll find out that this story comes out from TODAY's meeting in Switzerland on that topic. The linked article states "30 September 2005". Duh! Excuse my inability to navigate in hyperspace to reach unknown layers of hyper-time, or get back in time, but this can hardly be a dupe from a previous slashdot post since it's dated from today. By the way, you learn in this article that, yes, US is still standing against the rest of the world to make sure ICANN doesn't become an international instance, or somebody else that is not from USA takes other the TLD business. I feel very sorry for you. That must suck to be a whinning loser.
...and the legendary tradition of american mediocrity and terrible lack of consideration for one another carries on... and on... and on...
Get slashdotted by posting the URL of your website on the slashdot front page.
Two words: Context Switches
More words: read until the end of the post before hitting reply. The guy explains that context switch is affordable with the speed of today's machines...and points out that it will double soon anyway.
Two words: Please read
As a dad of a 7-years old, I am appauled that anyone could even think that a rating such as ESRB would prevail compared to one's judgement.
Said differently, who is that ESRB who is deciding for me what is good for my kid?
Moreover, few understand that such ratings bear a very heavy cultural background. What is good for a kid from Washington DC may not be good for a kid from Paris.
Lobby groups from USA should stop thinking they are the elite and that everyone should follow.
Also, in a time of parental dismissal and too much television, there are enough whistleblowers and idiots who think a hidden sex scene in a video game that requires a hack to get at is an outrage and the game should be immolated to the altar of good thinking.
Last but not least, I see only benefits in kids playing video games instead of watching television. Worse come to worse, telly is much worse than any video game. One simple reason being you cannot (really) control what's going on television, where if your kid bought a game you don't want him/her to play because your own "rating" says "No!", it's easy to hide a CD. Try hiding a television program when kid's at home and you are working.
I can make my own mind regarding my kid, thank you. I NEVER follow ratings. EVER! And I can tell you, at 11 years old she'll be playing an elf in World of Warcraft and I'll show her how to properly shoot cops in GTA.
Natural selection still rules, and there is one less brainless retard in the mankind gene pool.
I hope this guy will at least be nominated for the darwin awards. He really deserves a mention.
I have to say that the world would be a better place if more Christians were like you.
I have to say, the world would be a much better place if NO religion existed in the first place.
Greetings Slashdot. I write to you to inform you that I have filed a patent (REF: TOTAL-NONSENSE-54345-ID-4234) regarding the "slashdot" sequence of letters (or keystrokes). As such, I offer to enter in agreement with you where each time this sequence is used (particularly on the web, but other instances may apply), I get PROFIT. A lot of it, if possible. Thank you for your understanding and attention. The Retarded Corporation.
Check the slashdot article about the dupe bug. Someone made a beautiful demonstration that this screenshot is a fake. Basically, he enhanced the contrast of the image to show that the background of each row of the auction window is repeated, showing it has been copied/pasted using an image tool. If you look carefully on the auction windows, the background is from the main window, not each item's row. Hence this screenshot is a fake. Makes the dupe story not credible.
Why do you have to plague this already plaggued website with rumors or made-up stories? You provide no link to anything, and your claim sounds so ridiculous (why putting servers down to parse log files?) that you are just a freaking troll. Get off before I aim-shot you.
I'd be interested in your numerous publications about how to "program proper code" and/or make a MMORPG bug-free from day one. Actually, a book on how to make a bug-free software, whatever the software would do. But I doubt anyone would risk writing one.
Do I really hate those software architect wannabees/lesson givers. You have no idea how complex those system are obviously and you're reasoning like you're working behind a single machine, running one software with a simple database that stores all items by their (supposedly) "unique ID".
First, what you see is the top of the iceberg. What you think is one machine is actually a whole cluster of computers making one single realm. Moreover, you can bet that instances are hosted on separate machines, just as the 2 different continents of WoW are - and this for each realm.
So your hashtable "solution" has to be applied to this setup. It is not as straight-forward as you apparently think it is.
Also consider that "unique IDs" clients see are probably not used as the unique identifier of an instance of an object. For storage space reason, it's very doubtful that Blizzard records instances of the same item. Unless it is unique to the WHOLE realm, among all users, and there is no such item in WoW.
for every character which the following happened
That assumes Blizzard keeps a log of EVERYTHING you do, which sounds completely unrealistic to me given the amount of events/messages that are exchanged between the server and the client during a single WoW session. That would require hundreds of gigabyte a day for a single realm. (Rough estimate based on the very innacurate count of 1 msg[255 chars]/sec/player/realm). Multiply this by at least 3 or 4 (since a client receives tens of messages per second) and you'll understand why you can't log everything.in a short time (~1 minute):
a: Gave >X gold to friend
b: Entered instance
c: Was kicked out do to failure
Add to it the processing time to check all these logs for the specific sequence you've described. With the various combinations of messages you can get, you can be pretty sure you'll need clusters of computers to parse that amount of log files.
We all want Blizzard to put those spare machines inside realms rather than use them to parse log, don't we?