I have actually been using mozilla on all my platforms for the past 3 weeks, it's a great browser (finally...).
I used to do my browsing in IE, but Moz finally matured enough that I can drop in replace it for M$IE and the only thing I have noticed is a huge increase in cookie control, and a huge drop in popup adds.
I have to admit, I once upon a time doubted they could pull it off; but it looks like they finally have. Kudos to the great job Moz team.
The biggest thing I could see, is there is absolutly no reason a company couldn't just build thier hardware around the existing FreeBSD drivers, and save all that $$ on software optimization.
Now that open source is a viable option, it'd be silly to try and re-make drivers for something like that. The cheapest WiFi device would be on junky hardware, using WinBSD(TM) drivers, with just enough hardware to hand everything off to the driver, designed from the API backwards.
At least the editor appears to have had half a brain and put a explination at the end. That article was slighly disturbing. It basically says, people with information to share, use a forum for shring information in order to share it.
those actually don't work very well on most systems. You will be better off spending the money on a stamp and getting your name on the national Do not call list, for less than a dollar.
actually don't do that, you can mess up thier ears. More than once I had to throw down my headset because someone put on a really loud noise. Once I had to go home because the ringing didn't stop.
Remember they are just doing thier jobs, it's the marketers fault that the jobs exist in the first place. You have to understand, they probably don't want to call you just as much as you don't want to be called.
It's $10,000 and a federal law. There is a federal DNC list that you should be registering at. You won't be seeing that 10k though, because the FCC steals about 9k of it.
You can also tell the telemarketer (calmly) "please place me on the do not call list" and they will stop calling you (trust me, it works. They aern't idoits and they will put you on a DNC list). If you don't say the word list they are NOT legally required to stop calling you, so "please stop calling me" or "don't call here again" or "I dont take these kind of calls" will all be ignored, and you will probably be laughed at for being an idoit.
If you spaz on a telemarketer, they probably mute you and start laughing at your idocy. It requires no effort to get off of all telemarketing lists, forever, yet people like you seem to think that its a huge thing.
TCPA was passed in '92, why don't you learn a little more about it if you hate telemarketers so much. It's the law you should be worried about, and it only requires a quick call to the FCC to get everything rolling.
If you think I'm just making stuff up, I used to work at a telemarketing house in college, with alot of other college kids who were trying to make money. In general, there are some fuckups (I know one kid who lied to about everyone he called) but most telemarketers are just doing thier job. If you don't want them to, just say "Put me on the do not call list please", wait for them to say "goodbye" after rattling a little speech, and hang up. It's not hard, and it's idoits like you who give telemarkters a bad name, because your too stupid to learn your own rights.
(It's also interesting that the same people who hate telemarketers are the ones who think that telephone CSR's owe them something, the amusing part is most often they work for the same outsourcing company -- and often will call one day and take calls the next)
Perhaps one day, but current CRT and LCD displays are significantly inferior to the DPI of paper, and it strains the eyes after extended sessions of reading.
And there are some things that just aern't suited to the transient nature of a computer screen, such as deep and long technical manuals. And some things don't fit into the "text editor" pragma, such as debugging complex code you have never seen before (it's always easier to print it out and use a red pen, sometimes refrencing the screen to look at multiple places, but I have never found a situation that the screen was easier than ink+paper).
Wall Street uses Perl Alot, and ML has supported the Perl community for it's contributions. I'm almost positive they will do they same with Linux. With IBM switching to supporting Linux boxen, I suspect there will be alot more of this.
This isn't a "they don't understand free software" this is a "wow, we can save a ton of money, lets do so" followed by "lets give something back to the community that helped us so much"
Merril Lynch primarily develops in Perl, so they had pseudo-portable code to start with. This makes the transition cost much lower, and I'm sure that it ends up saving them money.
The one thing *I* never want for my company is to be responsible for enough 'liscenses' for an app that isn't buisness essential that an audit would take more than 8 hours. Once you pass that point, I personally feel it's time to figure out if its License ownership isn't more trouble than the alternatives.
I do have to say that is alot more forgiving than the license I had imagined they would have. (goes and figures out how he can qualify to peek at some of that source)
Um have you ever clean installed windows from a custom built machine?
Tinkering with the bios is part of installing a new OS, always will be. In order to upgrade windows you have to actually flash some bioses, is *that* userfriendly?
hm, I live in Iowa. Most farmers around here have a PC with windows and a 56K connection. Just thought I'd point that out =p
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I have ADD and the drugs do prety much nothing =p
(though to be completly honest, I take them religiously, and I think they do do something, I just have a big ego and can't admit my life is ruled by a chemical)
I too had a similar problem with my first IBM hard drive. I had built a custom system about 3 years ago, and got an IBM 10gig for it. It managed to bum out inside of 2 months, I just got a new drive instead of playing with techies.
I personally won't be buying another IBM hard drive.
I had thought that odd also. Though I think M$ just paid 'W' a few greens and all thier troubles went away. Likley in 2 years if we can get him out of office they can be held accountable.
I don't know, my COBOL class needed a comercial compiler, and the first day of class there was a kid passing the CD around for 5$ a hit. When I all but started a formal debate on the spot, everyone else in the room thought it was perfectly acceptable for him to be selling it. I seriously thought about calling the BSA, it was the most obscene thing I've ever seen in my life.
upon a bit more research, I'm convinced that this could be a usefull extension to OOP in alot of situations (mind you I'm still not 100% convinced that OOP is the 'one true way'). I don't think its the ends within the means that its made out to be in the articles though.
I'm not entirley 100% convinced its really worth *that* much, every example he gave for OOP leading to bad design, well, was *bad design*; so I think I'll have to see a bit more realisitic comparison before I jump on the bandwagon.
I think a better description would be Event Wraped Objects, it seems more realisitic (though perhaps less easy to market).
Anyway, this is an interesting peice of trivia to have, I don't think its a end of the world type upgrade, but if it does catch on it should take alot less time to beat into my head than OOP did, considering all it appears to be is event wrappers for program actions.
spot the buzzwords and impacts and marketing hype: starting with part 1
software systems, concerns, crosscut, Object-oriented, concerns, invasive to implement, tough to understand, difficult to evolve, aspect-oriented programming (AOP), of crosscutting concerns, facilitates modularization, crosscutting concerns, easier to design, easier to understand, easier to maintain, higher productivity, improved quality, better ability to implement newer features
(done paragraph 1... this isn't looking promising)
"goal, concept, or area of interest" (to be fair that was a definition), core concern, system-level concerns, "transaction integrity, authentication, security, performance" (only because they were placed there to impress PHB's), crosscutting concerns, implementation modules, "systems that are harder to design, understand, implement, and evolve."
(end paragrph 2, slightly better, only half the words were buzzwords...)
separates concerns, modularization of crosscutting concerns.
ok, I think you have goten the point by now, attempting to finish the document.
If anyone knows something non-buzzwordish that has to do with AOP can you please post it? Since it appears to have stemed from Java and was never part of academia (a fact that kinda scares me), real factual sources are a bit lacking from google searches.
what you just described can be summarized in two buzzwords "Modularization" and "Encapsulation". Whats diffrent between an 'aspect' and an 'encapuslated method'? (I admit I haven't read the entire article yet, I will, I just came back to see if any comments could help me get through his buzzword soup)
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I have actually been using mozilla on all my platforms for the past 3 weeks, it's a great browser (finally...).
I used to do my browsing in IE, but Moz finally matured enough that I can drop in replace it for M$IE and the only thing I have noticed is a huge increase in cookie control, and a huge drop in popup adds.
I have to admit, I once upon a time doubted they could pull it off; but it looks like they finally have. Kudos to the great job Moz team.
The biggest thing I could see, is there is absolutly no reason a company couldn't just build thier hardware around the existing FreeBSD drivers, and save all that $$ on software optimization.
Now that open source is a viable option, it'd be silly to try and re-make drivers for something like that. The cheapest WiFi device would be on junky hardware, using WinBSD(TM) drivers, with just enough hardware to hand everything off to the driver, designed from the API backwards.
At least the editor appears to have had half a brain and put a explination at the end. That article was slighly disturbing. It basically says, people with information to share, use a forum for shring information in order to share it.
those actually don't work very well on most systems. You will be better off spending the money on a stamp and getting your name on the national Do not call list, for less than a dollar.
actually don't do that, you can mess up thier ears. More than once I had to throw down my headset because someone put on a really loud noise. Once I had to go home because the ringing didn't stop.
Remember they are just doing thier jobs, it's the marketers fault that the jobs exist in the first place. You have to understand, they probably don't want to call you just as much as you don't want to be called.
It's $10,000 and a federal law. There is a federal DNC list that you should be registering at. You won't be seeing that 10k though, because the FCC steals about 9k of it.
You can also tell the telemarketer (calmly) "please place me on the do not call list" and they will stop calling you (trust me, it works. They aern't idoits and they will put you on a DNC list). If you don't say the word list they are NOT legally required to stop calling you, so "please stop calling me" or "don't call here again" or "I dont take these kind of calls" will all be ignored, and you will probably be laughed at for being an idoit.
If you spaz on a telemarketer, they probably mute you and start laughing at your idocy. It requires no effort to get off of all telemarketing lists, forever, yet people like you seem to think that its a huge thing.
TCPA was passed in '92, why don't you learn a little more about it if you hate telemarketers so much. It's the law you should be worried about, and it only requires a quick call to the FCC to get everything rolling.
If you think I'm just making stuff up, I used to work at a telemarketing house in college, with alot of other college kids who were trying to make money. In general, there are some fuckups (I know one kid who lied to about everyone he called) but most telemarketers are just doing thier job. If you don't want them to, just say "Put me on the do not call list please", wait for them to say "goodbye" after rattling a little speech, and hang up. It's not hard, and it's idoits like you who give telemarkters a bad name, because your too stupid to learn your own rights.
(It's also interesting that the same people who hate telemarketers are the ones who think that telephone CSR's owe them something, the amusing part is most often they work for the same outsourcing company -- and often will call one day and take calls the next)
I take it you know where it is I pay to set up a MP3 repository?
oh yeah, I forgot there is no one to take $$ for that. How is it similar to insider trading, there is *NO* alternative?
um, prof's generally don't own thier IP..
Perhaps one day, but current CRT and LCD displays are significantly inferior to the DPI of paper, and it strains the eyes after extended sessions of reading.
And there are some things that just aern't suited to the transient nature of a computer screen, such as deep and long technical manuals. And some things don't fit into the "text editor" pragma, such as debugging complex code you have never seen before (it's always easier to print it out and use a red pen, sometimes refrencing the screen to look at multiple places, but I have never found a situation that the screen was easier than ink+paper).
um, I'm not gona give you a long reply.
Wall Street uses Perl Alot, and ML has supported the Perl community for it's contributions. I'm almost positive they will do they same with Linux. With IBM switching to supporting Linux boxen, I suspect there will be alot more of this.
This isn't a "they don't understand free software" this is a "wow, we can save a ton of money, lets do so" followed by "lets give something back to the community that helped us so much"
Merril Lynch primarily develops in Perl, so they had pseudo-portable code to start with. This makes the transition cost much lower, and I'm sure that it ends up saving them money.
The one thing *I* never want for my company is to be responsible for enough 'liscenses' for an app that isn't buisness essential that an audit would take more than 8 hours. Once you pass that point, I personally feel it's time to figure out if its License ownership isn't more trouble than the alternatives.
I do have to say that is alot more forgiving than the license I had imagined they would have. (goes and figures out how he can qualify to peek at some of that source)
Um have you ever clean installed windows from a custom built machine?
Tinkering with the bios is part of installing a new OS, always will be. In order to upgrade windows you have to actually flash some bioses, is *that* userfriendly?
hm, I live in Iowa. Most farmers around here have a PC with windows and a 56K connection. Just thought I'd point that out =p
I have ADD and the drugs do prety much nothing =p
(though to be completly honest, I take them religiously, and I think they do do something, I just have a big ego and can't admit my life is ruled by a chemical)
no they figure out what the cherry picker types buy, and make it so they buy some high profit items as well.
right.. you do that....
I personally will mourn the loss of Tilly and rejoyce when he gets his next job or his contract fixed and comes back.
I seriously cannot see Tilly just *stoping* his OSS development on a dime, I give him a year before he gets everything worked out, tops.
Anyone elaborate for me?
I too had a similar problem with my first IBM hard drive. I had built a custom system about 3 years ago, and got an IBM 10gig for it. It managed to bum out inside of 2 months, I just got a new drive instead of playing with techies.
I personally won't be buying another IBM hard drive.
I had thought that odd also. Though I think M$ just paid 'W' a few greens and all thier troubles went away. Likley in 2 years if we can get him out of office they can be held accountable.
I don't know, my COBOL class needed a comercial compiler, and the first day of class there was a kid passing the CD around for 5$ a hit. When I all but started a formal debate on the spot, everyone else in the room thought it was perfectly acceptable for him to be selling it. I seriously thought about calling the BSA, it was the most obscene thing I've ever seen in my life.
upon a bit more research, I'm convinced that this could be a usefull extension to OOP in alot of situations (mind you I'm still not 100% convinced that OOP is the 'one true way'). I don't think its the ends within the means that its made out to be in the articles though.
I'm not entirley 100% convinced its really worth *that* much, every example he gave for OOP leading to bad design, well, was *bad design*; so I think I'll have to see a bit more realisitic comparison before I jump on the bandwagon.
I think a better description would be Event Wraped Objects, it seems more realisitic (though perhaps less easy to market).
Anyway, this is an interesting peice of trivia to have, I don't think its a end of the world type upgrade, but if it does catch on it should take alot less time to beat into my head than OOP did, considering all it appears to be is event wrappers for program actions.
spot the buzzwords and impacts and marketing hype: starting with part 1
software systems, concerns, crosscut, Object-oriented, concerns, invasive to implement, tough to understand, difficult to evolve, aspect-oriented programming (AOP), of crosscutting concerns, facilitates modularization, crosscutting concerns, easier to design, easier to understand, easier to maintain, higher productivity, improved quality, better ability to implement newer features
(done paragraph 1... this isn't looking promising)
"goal, concept, or area of interest" (to be fair that was a definition), core concern, system-level concerns, "transaction integrity, authentication, security, performance" (only because they were placed there to impress PHB's), crosscutting concerns, implementation modules, "systems that are harder to design, understand, implement, and evolve."
(end paragrph 2, slightly better, only half the words were buzzwords...)
separates concerns, modularization of crosscutting concerns.
ok, I think you have goten the point by now, attempting to finish the document.
If anyone knows something non-buzzwordish that has to do with AOP can you please post it? Since it appears to have stemed from Java and was never part of academia (a fact that kinda scares me), real factual sources are a bit lacking from google searches.
"Aspects consist of code and a pattern defining where this code is to be inserted in the OO program."
/. until I've done more research
that sounds like you end up with a very limited set of potential applications using AOP, either that or there is a very small set of 'patterns'? hmmm
ok last post before reading, closing
I don't get it?
what you just described can be summarized in two buzzwords "Modularization" and "Encapsulation". Whats diffrent between an 'aspect' and an 'encapuslated method'? (I admit I haven't read the entire article yet, I will, I just came back to see if any comments could help me get through his buzzword soup)