If you're trying to estimate the size of project for budgeting purposes, then function-point counting is a useful method. Over time you can learn how an organization performs and your estimates will become more accurate.
If you're trying to estimate for the purposes of visibility then don't—you're better of using one of the agile development methodologies.
by M-theory. My understanding is that there are 5 different versions of 10-dimensional string theory that can be generalized to 11-dimensional M-brane theory.
Not sure about the inflation thing though, I just wanted to throw in the fact that you are talking about an old theory.
Being able to cause something to crash consistently is neither a denial-of-service flaw nor any other kind of security flaw. Even ignoring that, the article incorrectly mentions denial-of-service as that, in terms of security, usually refers to taking over other machines to create huge amounts of network traffic - it's the taking-over of machines that is the security flaw - the use of the machines to cause a denial of service is just an attack.
You would think that the staff of a technical publication would know what they are talking about.
RIA is more of a type of architectural pattern...it is definately not a programming model like modular programming, object oriented programming, etc... Although I guess "programming model" could mean just about anything. The author of the article should not have mixed something very specific ("framework") with something very general ("programming model").
Yeah, browsers are getting old.
What we need is a program that you can open, and look at information from a variety of differented sources - perhaps they should even have some way of maintaining lists of your favourite sources. And they should invent somekind of markup language so that the information soures can structure their content so that the program knows how to present it.
oh wait....
Bill G: The result, he said, is that people either have to leave everything "in one big bucket" or they have to spend a lot of time creating lots of folders. "That turns you into a filing clerk."
Shall we get into another pointless discussion about how MS cannot innovate but can only copy the ideas of others?
The hash is generally generated on the client side of the original uploading system - and the validity of the file can only be checked once the file has been fully downloaded. So to break the system, just modify one of the open soure clients to report a particular hash for some random file of the same size as the original. There isn't any need to go to the effort that these guys have.
California has a new excuse for more taxes. Claiming losses due to fuel-efficient cars, such as Gasoline/Electric Hybrids, California is cooking-up a new system to punish people who aren't using enough gasoline.
This is a little off - they aren't punishing people for the amount of gasoline that they don't use....they just don't want to lose money as people use less. So they are wanting to switch away from a gasoline usage based tax system.
Still, sounds like a stupid idea - people should be incented to switch away from fossil-fuels as much as possible.
Everyone knows that Kerberos is the biggest solution to the single sign-on dilemma.
Single sign-on needs more than what Kerberos provides - so Kerberos is only a component of a solution.
Kerberos only does the authentication part, it's often paired with LDAP to hande authorization...
There wasn't enough in the article to be exactly sure what Mr Gosling was talking about. But I know that it's quite possible to deploy malicious code into a J2EE server - and I'm not sure what kind of company would not keep check of what is being deployed (read "SDLC").
Type safety doesn't seem to me to be related to security unless you just let anyone install stuff into your production environment. And if you did then people wouldn't need to resort to exploiting that particular weakness.
software patents are the major threat to anyone in the software business who doesn't have a 7 figure bank account. And he is not allowing any distracting moves (such as open-sourcing Solaris) to change his fight against them.
What is the point of open-sourcing Solaris (read free as in freedom) if we can't be sure of using the code that has been "opened" to further the open-source movement? Sun must open its software patents in order to do this.
Yes, you are, so relax.
If you separate the roles of creating an account (and defining the priveledges that it has) and setting/resetting/enabling the password on an account, then it takes at least two people to gain access against the wishes of the owner of the system.
Most large organizations have a standard that a single role cannot do this, and they usually have the roles working in different groups within the organization.
If DRM is going to happen, then the worst thing could be if it is owned by one company.
If an artist wants to make sure that only I can use a song, then I don't want them to also tell me that I have to use ms-based technologies to listen to it.
Agreed, but I was replying to someone who was trying to make their whole home directory read-only and then run KDE. This is different than what the original thread is about.
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Bandwidth is not the issue - the issue is CPU. h264 (HTML 5 Video) is rendered on an iPhone using hardware and works fine.
If you're trying to estimate the size of project for budgeting purposes, then function-point counting is a useful method. Over time you can learn how an organization performs and your estimates will become more accurate. If you're trying to estimate for the purposes of visibility then don't—you're better of using one of the agile development methodologies.
Why can't a solution like Greasemonkey work?
by M-theory. My understanding is that there are 5 different versions of 10-dimensional string theory that can be generalized to 11-dimensional M-brane theory. Not sure about the inflation thing though, I just wanted to throw in the fact that you are talking about an old theory.
so which (non-vb-infected) operating system do I switch to now?
Being able to cause something to crash consistently is neither a denial-of-service flaw nor any other kind of security flaw. Even ignoring that, the article incorrectly mentions denial-of-service as that, in terms of security, usually refers to taking over other machines to create huge amounts of network traffic - it's the taking-over of machines that is the security flaw - the use of the machines to cause a denial of service is just an attack. You would think that the staff of a technical publication would know what they are talking about.
That's about it really.
If we can't go out and pick it up in 50000 years time, then something is wrong....
M$ will announce that the, like IE, the filesystem is embedded in the Oper...oh yeah
RIA is more of a type of architectural pattern...it is definately not a programming model like modular programming, object oriented programming, etc... Although I guess "programming model" could mean just about anything. The author of the article should not have mixed something very specific ("framework") with something very general ("programming model").
Yeah, browsers are getting old. What we need is a program that you can open, and look at information from a variety of differented sources - perhaps they should even have some way of maintaining lists of your favourite sources. And they should invent somekind of markup language so that the information soures can structure their content so that the program knows how to present it. oh wait....
They should invent some word to make it easier to say 25 million mega..oh, don't worry.
Shall we get into another pointless discussion about how MS cannot innovate but can only copy the ideas of others?
That is three words.
The hash is generally generated on the client side of the original uploading system - and the validity of the file can only be checked once the file has been fully downloaded. So to break the system, just modify one of the open soure clients to report a particular hash for some random file of the same size as the original. There isn't any need to go to the effort that these guys have.
It would be interesting if anyone knows which Linux distribution he uses....
Agreed - but give credit to GNU for g++, Knoppix is just a Linux distribution. Knoppix
It was "2) ???" - 3 ?'s are hard enough - don't make it harder.
California has a new excuse for more taxes. Claiming losses due to fuel-efficient cars, such as Gasoline/Electric Hybrids, California is cooking-up a new system to punish people who aren't using enough gasoline.
This is a little off - they aren't punishing people for the amount of gasoline that they don't use....they just don't want to lose money as people use less. So they are wanting to switch away from a gasoline usage based tax system. Still, sounds like a stupid idea - people should be incented to switch away from fossil-fuels as much as possible.
Everyone knows that Kerberos is the biggest solution to the single sign-on dilemma. Single sign-on needs more than what Kerberos provides - so Kerberos is only a component of a solution. Kerberos only does the authentication part, it's often paired with LDAP to hande authorization...
There wasn't enough in the article to be exactly sure what Mr Gosling was talking about. But I know that it's quite possible to deploy malicious code into a J2EE server - and I'm not sure what kind of company would not keep check of what is being deployed (read "SDLC").
Type safety doesn't seem to me to be related to security unless you just let anyone install stuff into your production environment. And if you did then people wouldn't need to resort to exploiting that particular weakness.
software patents are the major threat to anyone in the software business who doesn't have a 7 figure bank account. And he is not allowing any distracting moves (such as open-sourcing Solaris) to change his fight against them.
What is the point of open-sourcing Solaris (read free as in freedom) if we can't be sure of using the code that has been "opened" to further the open-source movement? Sun must open its software patents in order to do this.
Yes, you are, so relax. If you separate the roles of creating an account (and defining the priveledges that it has) and setting/resetting/enabling the password on an account, then it takes at least two people to gain access against the wishes of the owner of the system. Most large organizations have a standard that a single role cannot do this, and they usually have the roles working in different groups within the organization.
If DRM is going to happen, then the worst thing could be if it is owned by one company. If an artist wants to make sure that only I can use a song, then I don't want them to also tell me that I have to use ms-based technologies to listen to it.
Agreed, but I was replying to someone who was trying to make their whole home directory read-only and then run KDE. This is different than what the original thread is about.