I'm glad I stuck with Java. I'm fairly happy there, although I would give my right arm for a deconstructor. The J2EE suite is coming a long nicely and there are now free application servers these days to run on any platform/OS that runs the JRE. Anyone from the M$ camp ready to defect to the Java side?
I have watched less of TechTV since G4 took over. That's all they seem to focus on. Little of any "real" value. Way back in the day when Leo and Patrick hosted the ScreenSavers -- I got actual advice I could use with the occasional game-oriented segments. They still have game-only shows, but TechTV focused on the computer as a whole -- not just gaming. I think this is a disservice to all loyal fans of TechTV. If you want an exclusive gaming channel -- that's fine -- go do that -- but don't ruin a decent technology channel with much broader spectrum and appeal.
I think my days of watching G4/TechTV or whatever they call themselves has come to an end. GAME OVER!
Yes it is a "kludge" and an annoyance if *all* you want in the end is an MP3 or favoriate codec of choice.
However, you *should* be backing up to CD anyways so when your HD crashes, you're not screwed out of all your music purchases. At least you *can* burn to a CD -- many early services won't even let you do that much.
Also, folks should read the Terms of Service/End User Agreement, etc *before* they start purchasing stuff from them.
If you record to CD as PCM/Wave (CDA format), then extract that back to your favorite codec -- no more DRM! I hope the RIAA doesn't find out about this *feature* and shut down iTMS.
So, yes it is a kludge, but a needed step for so many additional benefits -- that it should just be accepted as the *normal* way to do things with iTMS. Besides, how expensive are CD and CD burners these days? For less than $50, you can get the burner and a 100 pack of CDs -- which should hold plenty of iTMS songs.:-)
I can always count on a bug/virus/trojan/hacker to screw up someone's computer -- then get me to fix it for a fee! Microsoft: Employing the IT industry for the last 20 years!
For my own servers, I run Linux, of course. Uptime approaching 1 year -- try that in Windows!
Anyone with experience realizes that, if you use J2EE, you're too busy to learn anything else, especially all of LAMP. Nobody uses both and STILL knows them both.
Gosh, you make it sound like LAMP and/or J2EE is somehow difficult to use/learn. I have not found this to be the case. Of course, I've been doing LAMP for at least 6 years and J2EE for 4 years. And, I consider myself always learning, but this is with any language/tool. I see a language as a tool -- just a tool. If you put too much stock in the favorite language of the day, then you'll be out of a job tomorrow. Instead, learn programming theory, patterns, OO concepts, and then pick up languages as you go. I originally started with dBase, VB, and Delphi -- I haven't touched any of them in years. My current toolbox is filled with Java (and related technologies), LAMP, and standard web stuff (HTML, CSS, XML, etc).
Not only do I have enough time to know enough about both to know when to use them, but I also have time to post on slashdot!
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I use all of the above technologies, depending on the needs and what I am trying to do.
For large scale projects, I use Java. It is great Object oriented language that I can use to the fullest extent. I can get very close to that MVC pattern that is soo useful in large-scale projects. I don't use EJBs -- not needed them yet. I use the JMS, WebServices, JSP/Servlets, etc. We connect to a real database (DB2). J2EE offers a completely different scale with work with. You can do everything from simple web applications to clustered app servers at several levels.
For smaller stuff, I like LAMP fairly well. It is simple and easy to get started, although not great for larger projects (code reuse, management, scaleability). MySQL, again, nice and fast for small stuff. I perfer PostgreSQL because of the power and flexibility. I'm trying to move more towards PostgreSQL especially after recent changes in licensing with MySQL. For these projects in general, I like PHP over Perl for webpages. Perl is still great for admin tools on the console or for confusing the heck out of folks not familiar with your code. PHP is simple and made for website based applications. Again, I'm not going down that path if I know it will grow into a huge project.
The deal is, they are tools. The both have their strengths and weaknesses. Evaluate your needs, and choose the best tool for the job. I use both and love both -- but choose wisely.
Personally, I'm a big fan of OSS but just because the UN supports it doesn't exactly sway me. In fact, it probably takes ways from the credibility. I think most developing countries have figured out that "free" is often just as good as pirated MS products. Although, I'm sure there are plenty of countries that don't care one way or another, they don't have much in the way of technological infostructure -- they cannot even feed their own people. Seems like they have bigger things to worry about at the moment.
The webpage lists the top 100 challenged books. Of which I can understand why. Saying a book is challenged is like saying "I don't agree with this" and nothing more. If that were the case, I would agree with any book dealing with Sex, Homosexuality and the like for children in grade school. Stuff like that should be left to the parents to explain. Other books, I have no idea why. Certain Mark Twain has written some interesting things which challenge us, but Huck Finn ain't one of them. And the lot of others I grew up reading or seeing as PBS "After School Specials" -- I mean really? Give me a break.
Of course, nothing will substitute for good parenting. Parents should keep certain materials away from their children until they can understand it. If parents don't do their jobs, some one else will -- and those people won't exactly share your same values.
BTW, the link goes to the 1990-2000 list, where's the 2003 list?
It looks like the small version of the photo was taken recently, but if you view the "larger" version of it, you get the old 2002 image (note, the 2002 image is much darker).
I can understand your point. Anyone that gets their impressions of how brilliant Americans (BTW, capitalize the word "Americans" - it is a proper noun) are by watching our TV shows -- particularly Jay Leno's Jaywalking segment of the Tonight Show -- must think we are a bunch of idiots. The wonderful thing about Stupidity is that it does not discriminate on national origin, race, political affliction, creed, gender, or any other segregating factors. There seems to be a great number of stupid people in every people group in the world.
Regardless of what side you take, taking this type of action seems immature and illegal. If they want to support their cause and help their favorite side win the election, they should focus on positive ways to do it, not get thrown in jail. This will eventually cause more harm than good -- especially if the official party line does not condemn this behavior. Most certainly Black Hat.
If you do the math, their SCOscorge(eer source) has so far failed terribly. So, will raising the price on something no one actually cares about make a major impact on their finances?
I think their lawyers are starting to get smart and require actual money instead of stock options. Gosh, I wonder why? Anyone that has tracked SCOX since January knows.:-)
Never underestimate the power of negative press, especially self inflicted.
Very nice until I read the fine print. Too bad there are a lot of technologies that haven't reached their theoretical limits yet. I guess the marketeers will start us off at 10 G and move up from there each year until getting to 100 G at which time another format will obsolete this one -- which seems to be the story of my favorite CF card technology (now that 1G CF cards are somewhat affordable, I can't find many cameras to accept it now). Oh well. I guess yet another memory card to confuse things.
Response: deathray aimed at source of annoying frequencies ticking off all the local residence of our sector. After a breif squeal of about 6.2 billion voices screaming, at last peace and quite.
I don't have any more of a problem with spam than I already do. I have a special account that is the catch-all and I filter the most on this account. Other accouts setup at my domain have les restrictive filtering -- which are email addresses for trusted friends and family. With the catch-all, I assign every company I do business with a unique email account in the form of: businessname@mydomain.com -- what is nice about this approach is that I can basically know who sold my email address to spammers by reading the "to" email header. If I start getting lots of spam addresses to bigonlinestore@mydomain.com -- well, I have a fairly good idea who sold me out -- and I can effectively filter a large chunck of spam by blocking anything addressed to bigonlinestore@mydomain.com.
From personal experience, this seems to be working well. I only get a handful of spam sent to random addresses at my domain.
Other folks may have different experiences, but this is what I have found and I usually get 500+ spams daily accross my personal domain email accounts.
It seems even 8x media is hard to come by without ordering online. I can't just run down to Walmart or BestBuy and scarf up a pack 8x media. How long for 16x media, and forget dual layer discs. Although I have an 8x drive, I still mostly buy 4x media (good quality brands on sale/instant rebates at local stores -- difficult to resist).
That's nice. But I'll wait on the Nikon or Canon DSLR version of the 500 Mpx. CCD. I really like the interchangeable lense -- really, who wants to tied down to one telescope or lense.:P
They guy next to me took this tech support call (we worked for a local ISP in Dothan, Alabama).
Apparently, so fairly old woman got this new fangled computer thing and she wanted to get access to that Internet thingy -- so she signed up with us. We gave her the appropriate disks to install our Internet access software. Well, she had problems with it.
She called in complaining that her footpedal wasn't working well with our software and was having problems it to run our setup program.
They guy taking the call was turning red and it was VERY difficult for him to keep from laughing his butt off. Eventually, he calmly explained that the footpedal was actually a mouse and belonged on the table near her keyboard and not on the floor.
We really enjoy that one. After the call, he told us what was the deal and we all laughed a good long while about that one. I still use that story when folks call me for support and tell me something like "you must think I'm stupid" -- I tell them I've seen worse.
I try to keep in mind that this was 6 or 7 years ago when the Internet really started to catch on to the average user. Folks starting getting online (or in this case, attempt to get online) that had very little experience with computers.
What can I say, I get a LOT of spams daily (> 1000 msgs) only 1 or 2 are legit. Even with HIGH spam filtering on my Hotmail account, I still have to delete half my account every day. I'm starting to tell people to just pickup the phone and call me.:-)
Gosh, I can't believe we made it to season 4! Many didn't think they would make it beyond day 4! Of course, whatelse are you going to watch these days? Yet another season of Survivor? Our the next installment of slutty guy/girls sleeping with each other on national TV pretending to pursue a "real" relationship? With shows like these, STE should do well next year.:)
I got these URLS from FedoraForum.org:
Fedora Core 2 ISOs:
ftp://redhat.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/fedora/co re/2/i386/iso/FC2-i386-disc1.iso
ftp://redhat.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/fedora/co re/2/i386/iso/FC2-i386-disc2.iso
ftp://redhat.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/fedora/co re/2/i386/iso/FC2-i386-disc3.iso
ftp://redhat.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/fedora/co re/2/i386/iso/FC2-i386-disc4.iso
I'm downloading at 230 Kbytes/second on my 3Mb DSL line (just upgraded for this event). Of course, give me about 10 more minutes to get the final ISO before everyone bogs down the server to 2.3 Kbytes/second.:-)
I don't believe this is true in the US. According to copyright laws that I am aware of, if you get PAID for the work you generate, then unless there is a special condition, the BUYER gets the copyright. That's why if you work for a company -- either salary, contract, freelance, etc -- and they PAY YOU to program -- they keep the source and the rights to it.
I've copyrighted a few programs about 10 years ago, so I believe that was the case at least then. I believe that notice was listed on the actual forms to submitting for the copyright.
Now if you DON'T get paid for the work, then the AUTHOR maintains the copyright regardless of who uses it and for what purpose -- again unless expressly transferred otherwise (to another party, public domain, etc).
OSS Innovation = we actually write the code
Microsoft Innovation = we buy a company that already wrote it and then call it our own --OR-- we steal it outright.
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I'm glad I stuck with Java. I'm fairly happy there, although I would give my right arm for a deconstructor. The J2EE suite is coming a long nicely and there are now free application servers these days to run on any platform/OS that runs the JRE. Anyone from the M$ camp ready to defect to the Java side?
I think my days of watching G4/TechTV or whatever they call themselves has come to an end. GAME OVER!
Yes it is a "kludge" and an annoyance if *all* you want in the end is an MP3 or favoriate codec of choice.
However, you *should* be backing up to CD anyways so when your HD crashes, you're not screwed out of all your music purchases. At least you *can* burn to a CD -- many early services won't even let you do that much.
Also, folks should read the Terms of Service/End User Agreement, etc *before* they start purchasing stuff from them.
If you record to CD as PCM/Wave (CDA format), then extract that back to your favorite codec -- no more DRM! I hope the RIAA doesn't find out about this *feature* and shut down iTMS.
So, yes it is a kludge, but a needed step for so many additional benefits -- that it should just be accepted as the *normal* way to do things with iTMS. Besides, how expensive are CD and CD burners these days? For less than $50, you can get the burner and a 100 pack of CDs -- which should hold plenty of iTMS songs. :-)
For my own servers, I run Linux, of course. Uptime approaching 1 year -- try that in Windows!
I still must use MySQL because a few OS projects have not implemented support for it yet, but they are slowly moving towards this.
Not everything can be accomplished with a sub-query -- sometimes a join or union is needed.
Not only do I have enough time to know enough about both to know when to use them, but I also have time to post on slashdot!
Help to modders: -1 reply to flame, +1 for interesting = net 0
For large scale projects, I use Java. It is great Object oriented language that I can use to the fullest extent. I can get very close to that MVC pattern that is soo useful in large-scale projects. I don't use EJBs -- not needed them yet. I use the JMS, WebServices, JSP/Servlets, etc. We connect to a real database (DB2). J2EE offers a completely different scale with work with. You can do everything from simple web applications to clustered app servers at several levels.
For smaller stuff, I like LAMP fairly well. It is simple and easy to get started, although not great for larger projects (code reuse, management, scaleability). MySQL, again, nice and fast for small stuff. I perfer PostgreSQL because of the power and flexibility. I'm trying to move more towards PostgreSQL especially after recent changes in licensing with MySQL. For these projects in general, I like PHP over Perl for webpages. Perl is still great for admin tools on the console or for confusing the heck out of folks not familiar with your code. PHP is simple and made for website based applications. Again, I'm not going down that path if I know it will grow into a huge project.
The deal is, they are tools. The both have their strengths and weaknesses. Evaluate your needs, and choose the best tool for the job. I use both and love both -- but choose wisely.
Personally, I'm a big fan of OSS but just because the UN supports it doesn't exactly sway me. In fact, it probably takes ways from the credibility. I think most developing countries have figured out that "free" is often just as good as pirated MS products. Although, I'm sure there are plenty of countries that don't care one way or another, they don't have much in the way of technological infostructure -- they cannot even feed their own people. Seems like they have bigger things to worry about at the moment.
The webpage lists the top 100 challenged books. Of which I can understand why. Saying a book is challenged is like saying "I don't agree with this" and nothing more. If that were the case, I would agree with any book dealing with Sex, Homosexuality and the like for children in grade school. Stuff like that should be left to the parents to explain. Other books, I have no idea why. Certain Mark Twain has written some interesting things which challenge us, but Huck Finn ain't one of them. And the lot of others I grew up reading or seeing as PBS "After School Specials" -- I mean really? Give me a break.
Of course, nothing will substitute for good parenting. Parents should keep certain materials away from their children until they can understand it. If parents don't do their jobs, some one else will -- and those people won't exactly share your same values.
BTW, the link goes to the 1990-2000 list, where's the 2003 list?
It looks like the small version of the photo was taken recently, but if you view the "larger" version of it, you get the old 2002 image (note, the 2002 image is much darker).
I can understand your point. Anyone that gets their impressions of how brilliant Americans (BTW, capitalize the word "Americans" - it is a proper noun) are by watching our TV shows -- particularly Jay Leno's Jaywalking segment of the Tonight Show -- must think we are a bunch of idiots. The wonderful thing about Stupidity is that it does not discriminate on national origin, race, political affliction, creed, gender, or any other segregating factors. There seems to be a great number of stupid people in every people group in the world.
Regardless of what side you take, taking this type of action seems immature and illegal. If they want to support their cause and help their favorite side win the election, they should focus on positive ways to do it, not get thrown in jail. This will eventually cause more harm than good -- especially if the official party line does not condemn this behavior. Most certainly Black Hat.
I think their lawyers are starting to get smart and require actual money instead of stock options. Gosh, I wonder why? Anyone that has tracked SCOX since January knows. :-)
Never underestimate the power of negative press, especially self inflicted.
Very nice until I read the fine print. Too bad there are a lot of technologies that haven't reached their theoretical limits yet. I guess the marketeers will start us off at 10 G and move up from there each year until getting to 100 G at which time another format will obsolete this one -- which seems to be the story of my favorite CF card technology (now that 1G CF cards are somewhat affordable, I can't find many cameras to accept it now). Oh well. I guess yet another memory card to confuse things.
Response: deathray aimed at source of annoying frequencies ticking off all the local residence of our sector. After a breif squeal of about 6.2 billion voices screaming, at last peace and quite.
From personal experience, this seems to be working well. I only get a handful of spam sent to random addresses at my domain.
Other folks may have different experiences, but this is what I have found and I usually get 500+ spams daily accross my personal domain email accounts.
Anyone tried installing Windows XP on Pentium 70 Mhtz with 32 MB of RAM and 200 MB harddrive? I didn't think so. :)
It seems even 8x media is hard to come by without ordering online. I can't just run down to Walmart or BestBuy and scarf up a pack 8x media. How long for 16x media, and forget dual layer discs. Although I have an 8x drive, I still mostly buy 4x media (good quality brands on sale/instant rebates at local stores -- difficult to resist).
That's nice. But I'll wait on the Nikon or Canon DSLR version of the 500 Mpx. CCD. I really like the interchangeable lense -- really, who wants to tied down to one telescope or lense. :P
Apparently, so fairly old woman got this new fangled computer thing and she wanted to get access to that Internet thingy -- so she signed up with us. We gave her the appropriate disks to install our Internet access software. Well, she had problems with it.
She called in complaining that her footpedal wasn't working well with our software and was having problems it to run our setup program.
They guy taking the call was turning red and it was VERY difficult for him to keep from laughing his butt off. Eventually, he calmly explained that the footpedal was actually a mouse and belonged on the table near her keyboard and not on the floor.
We really enjoy that one. After the call, he told us what was the deal and we all laughed a good long while about that one. I still use that story when folks call me for support and tell me something like "you must think I'm stupid" -- I tell them I've seen worse.
I try to keep in mind that this was 6 or 7 years ago when the Internet really started to catch on to the average user. Folks starting getting online (or in this case, attempt to get online) that had very little experience with computers.
What can I say, I get a LOT of spams daily (> 1000 msgs) only 1 or 2 are legit. Even with HIGH spam filtering on my Hotmail account, I still have to delete half my account every day. I'm starting to tell people to just pickup the phone and call me. :-)
Gosh, I can't believe we made it to season 4! Many didn't think they would make it beyond day 4! Of course, whatelse are you going to watch these days? Yet another season of Survivor? Our the next installment of slutty guy/girls sleeping with each other on national TV pretending to pursue a "real" relationship? With shows like these, STE should do well next year. :)
I got these URLS from FedoraForum.org: Fedora Core 2 ISOs: ftp://redhat.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/fedora/co re/2/i386/iso/FC2-i386-disc1.iso
ftp://redhat.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/fedora/co re/2/i386/iso/FC2-i386-disc2.iso
ftp://redhat.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/fedora/co re/2/i386/iso/FC2-i386-disc3.iso
ftp://redhat.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/fedora/co re/2/i386/iso/FC2-i386-disc4.iso
I'm downloading at 230 Kbytes/second on my 3Mb DSL line (just upgraded for this event). Of course, give me about 10 more minutes to get the final ISO before everyone bogs down the server to 2.3 Kbytes/second. :-)
I've copyrighted a few programs about 10 years ago, so I believe that was the case at least then. I believe that notice was listed on the actual forms to submitting for the copyright.
Now if you DON'T get paid for the work, then the AUTHOR maintains the copyright regardless of who uses it and for what purpose -- again unless expressly transferred otherwise (to another party, public domain, etc).
OSS Innovation = we actually write the code
Microsoft Innovation = we buy a company that already wrote it and then call it our own --OR-- we steal it outright.