So, he disassembled a flash program to get a key to "circumvent" encryption. Is the DMCA's formidable vagueness enough to cover this?
It's not clear that the "work" is or isn't protectable (shouldn't be, but I remember a lot of fuss about similar sports related content from some other site). Or is it now enough to have token encryption like this to make it illegal to "circumvent" it?
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Are they just going to work on improving the 8TB paper limitation, or are they actually trying to improve on ext3 scalability? Which, currently tends to suck the big one, especially on a significant number of disks (eg: http://scalability.gelato.org/DiskScalability/Resu lts).
I also seem to keep coming up against a pretty hard 2TB block device limit in Linux (eg LVM2 lv size, LUN size for fibre attached SAN, etc). I don't really know what the reasons for it are, anyone know what technologies allow for larger single partitions?
Anyway, I've long ago settled on reiserfs (3) for speedy random access to small files, and XFS for file server type applications; though I still wonder why RedHat doesn't include any "enterprise" filesystems by default in their "enterprise" products (I know, I know, you can enable it - I did say "by default").
So, I realize that Tomcat is not in the same class as the other products dicussed, as it is not a full J2EE implementation, but it is still a type of application server, and in smaller environments can compete directly with the others. Application server is a very vague and general term.
Voters could then make their decision based on their knowledge of the candidate's stated intentions as well as their opinion about the intentions of the candidate's contributors.
Riiight. Voters can't be arsed to show up once in four years to press a button, and when they manage to show up, they can't seem to be able to press the one they wanted.
Any plan that requires voters to do anything (this includes any manner of thinking) will simply not work. It's just too easy to abuse.
Tomcat is even more popular than Sun's application server from what I can tell.
I thought tomcat was Sun's application server? Wasn't it originally Sun's reference implementation of a servlet container that they donated to Apache?
As for JBoss being somewhere in there, the only studies on this I've seen are from BZ Research (http://www.jboss.com/pdf/bzresearch_study.pdf, http://rmh.blogs.com/weblog/2006/05/bz_research_on _.html) and they consistently have JBoss tied with IBM for first place (and both growing: 37% in 2005, 34% in 2004), with BEA trailing behind (27%) and Oracle just catching up to tie BEA.
They don't officialy include Tomcat, but reportedly it's pretty close to BEA/Oracle, if not more popular.
Of course these types of surveys tend to have all the dependability of/. polls; and the question was "check all of these that your company uses"-type, so it could very well be "Yes we use IBM WS: it runs our multi-billion dollar production line" and "Yes we use JBoss: it runs our employee baby picture guessing contest", but coupled with anecdotal evidence, I think it's pretty safe to say that JBoss is competing head-to-head with the Big Boys.
Oh and speaking from personal experience, BEA can die in a fire - most frustrating platfrom I've ever used.
You've got real objects when you want them. LISP-like things like iterators and closures. The works.
I don't want this to degenerate into rabid fanboyism, but it seems the benefits of a "real" (or, real, if you preffer) object system over Perl's are routinely exaggerated. Yes, it could be better, but for 95% of the things you do, it works just fine.
And of course Perl has iterators and closures (and first order functions, and all that other hard-to-maitain stuff the Functional crowd always goes on about). It's probably one of the things I like best about Perl, it just has features as part of the language, no one makes a huge deal of it.
I've looked at Ruby (ok, glanced), and I just can't stomach the syntax - it's like writing Java in VB. Entirely subjective, of course. Though, as long as I live I will not understand this recent fad of trying your best not to delimit code blocks clearly - it smells of choosing ideology over utility.
Definitely agree about the lack of "simple and rigid" struct-like things, I miss those often.
And of course for anyone who wants a feature that Perl doesn't have, there's Perl 6 - that will have every feature that has existed in any language, ever.
So, all the frothing at the mouth about copyright infringement being legalized by this is probably not productive, but a few countries have this now (I remember France and Canada being mentioned), and I just can't see how this sort of thing can be legal.
Can someone come up with a precedent, where the government arbitrarily taxes the revenue of one industry and gives the money to a few corporations in another one, because some small fraction of the products of the former could potentially be used by consumers to infringe on the rights of the latter? How much of a "right" they have to the material is a different question, legally, they technically, currently have those rights (is that enough veiled qualifiers for "raping the artists"?)
I guess I just want our corporate overlords to at least pretend to feel some kind of mild bashfulness about screwing us.
But seriously, if I'm in Spain and I buy some CDRs to back up some data, their music industry will get money for that? What the fuck?
This could make life difficult for those small distros that are being maintained by one or two people in their spare time
That's a very good thing - there needs to be a lot less "small distros maintained by one or two people in their spare time". These SDMBORTPITSTs aren't helping anyone: if you want to roll your own linux for some itch you want to scratch - more power to you; but there's no need to call it a distro and pretend that you are going to maintain it for more than 2 months.
Every now and then he's spot an inefficiency in the software, remove an instruction, save three bytes... and use the freed-up space to add four new features.
Pfft. I think to appreciate what a Real Programmer is, someone needs to hear the epic tale of Mel...
Hey, thanks for that one! I've been through just about every single live CD out there - with more or less disappointing results - and recently finally found Finnix.
It works great for my sysadminning needs, and doesn't have the extra fluff.
(oh, except I had a problem with IDE ICH5 and SATA ICH7 support - no DMA can be really annoying when you are backing up a whole system)
Ok, so after a decade or so MS finally tries to improve some of the embarrassing aspects of their software, they do a poor job of it, and somehow it's the consumers' fault?
there is NOTHING that can be done in those languages that can not be done in VB.NET (Regular Expressions, Hashtables etc. and much more is available to programmers in VB.NET
Ok, I don't really know much about VB.NET, but such arguments always make me a little suspicious. Not to abuse the long-standing analogy, but if I'm shopping for a new car and the salesguy tells me that "It's just as good as any other car - it's got wheels, and seats, and lots of other stuff!", that might tend to make me look somewhere else.
Of course, technically this is true, but then technically there is NOTHING that can be done in any programming language that can't be done in a Turing Machine. The question is how the well it copes with increased size and complexity of the project.
My long-standing impression of VB is that it has a fair amount of whipuptitude (if you are married to windows, of course), but completely breaks down on manipulexity. Has this really changed with the latest generation?
In addition, over a quarter of these gamers said they wanted DVD (or HD-DVD, Blu-Ray or whatever) playback in their console.
So in other words over 80% of Japanese gamers do not want a DVD player in their console.
Re:Rumors that they're 'upgrading' from Ada.
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Even considering the Arianne-5 failure, it's still more reassuring to know that a software system is developed in Ada than Java.
Arianne 5 was the result of pure, old-fashioned incompetence. An obsolete component - left on when even its original function would not have been needed - dumps debug info on the bus, that's then interpreted as trajectory data. And the backup system runs identical hardware and identical software to the primary (I believe the backup actually failed a fraction of a second before the primary).
The rover software on the other hand - written in C, btw - is a gold standard of excellent engineering and testing practices. Most of the time it's not the platform that counts, it's the development team.
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could anybody explain why java isn't a good choice for such a mission?
Just guessing here, but it probably has something to do with no one having even heard of real time java when these systems were designed?
Theoretically there's probably nothing wrong with a VM in such a situation, but keep in mind that currently these systems are written in C (not Ada, like the OP stated) on some really old hardware, that often has trouble keeping up with the load. And this software doesn't just snap pictures - think "landing thrusters".
I remember there being some hoopla about the unexpectedly massive amounts of data the system had to shuffle around (I think the deal was it uncovered an inversion of priority bug in a system library) - they have to push their hardware pretty far; you can't just slap the latest K8 in there and watch it fly.
And yet they probably would be able to distinguish Mexico and Canada, or even two people from those countries.
I mean, I get not knowing where Slovenia and Slovakia are in relation to each other, but Russia and Ukraine, the two biggest countries in Europe? Sure population-wise Ukraine is smaller than a few Western European countries, but if you know any from the "other" europes, you've probably heard of Ukraine.
Sort of an odd comparison. VSS is, and has always been, a silly toy, I don't think even MS has ever actualy advocated, with a straight face, that anyone use it for any actual work. They themselves use, iirc, a Perforce derivative internally (at least have for a long time, I don't know what they do nowadays, I think finally switching to that new internal product the've been threatening to release for a few years now?).
CVS on the other hand was great 20 years ago, but is so horribly dated that its feature-set is just not up to snuff anymore. (Not to mention that the implementation hangs together with duct-tape - just eactly what do you have to go through to set up a secure remote CVS server?)
The only thing keeping CVS alive is intertia - it was so successful in its time that many people got used to thinking that CVS is version control and don't realize there's anything better out there.
So yeah, out of irrelevant and outdated, I guess outdated wins. But you couldn't say that, for example, subversion beats Perfoce hands-down, just because it's open source.
Taco said as much in his "expectations" but he keeps calling it a redesign. It's an update - they want the same basic thing, but they want it to look more modern (you know, like it's not 1994 anymore). And that's perfectly fine, in fact, slashdot is in desperate need of such an update, but don't call it something that it's not.
Could it be that it's because the Egyptian ones are better known? If they say it's 1/3 larger than the Khufu pyramid, I (and most other people) have a rough idea of the size; saying it's as big as the Great Pyramid of Cholula tells me nothing until I look it up.
But no, you are right, it must be racism.
Incidentally, the pyramids you listed are larger by volume, impressive enough to be sure, but height tends to be a more impressive feat for huge stone structures.
In its current state, Wikipedia is useful to get quick information on a subject you might be unfamiliar, but it is definitely not the place to look for quality details, incredible accuracy, etc. It fills much the same role as a traditional encyclopedia. It's a good place to start your research, but you wouldn't rely on it to write anything you want someone else to read.
WTF? Do you (along with many other people) just parrot that block of text, word for word, whenever anyone mentions Wikipedia? How on earth does Wikipedia's writings style, accuracy and quality of information, or "role" in research have to do with the parent post? Did you even read it?
And what the hell is it with constantly describing the purpose of an encyclopedia? We know what those are for, and we realize that Wikipedia is one - The Free Encyclopedia tipped us off.
Well, Xenia is one of the many epithets for Athena (so, Minerva, if you want the Roman corruption). From 'xenos', probably referring to her hospitality related "duties".
Incidentally, how did you pick your "proper list" from the hundreds of Roman deities? (Nike is the Greek form btw, Victoria is the Roman equivalent)
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So, he disassembled a flash program to get a key to "circumvent" encryption. Is the DMCA's formidable vagueness enough to cover this?
It's not clear that the "work" is or isn't protectable (shouldn't be, but I remember a lot of fuss about similar sports related content from some other site). Or is it now enough to have token encryption like this to make it illegal to "circumvent" it?
ext3: 8TB total, 4TB files
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ext4: 32 zettabyte (1024*1024*1024 TB), 1 exabyte files (1024*1024 TB)
Are they just going to work on improving the 8TB paper limitation, or are they actually trying to improve on ext3 scalability? Which, currently tends to suck the big one, especially on a significant number of disks (eg: http://scalability.gelato.org/DiskScalability/Res
I also seem to keep coming up against a pretty hard 2TB block device limit in Linux (eg LVM2 lv size, LUN size for fibre attached SAN, etc). I don't really know what the reasons for it are, anyone know what technologies allow for larger single partitions?
Anyway, I've long ago settled on reiserfs (3) for speedy random access to small files, and XFS for file server type applications; though I still wonder why RedHat doesn't include any "enterprise" filesystems by default in their "enterprise" products (I know, I know, you can enable it - I did say "by default").
So, I realize that Tomcat is not in the same class as the other products dicussed, as it is not a full J2EE implementation, but it is still a type of application server, and in smaller environments can compete directly with the others. Application server is a very vague and general term.
Voters could then make their decision based on their knowledge of the candidate's stated intentions as well as their opinion about the intentions of the candidate's contributors.
Riiight. Voters can't be arsed to show up once in four years to press a button, and when they manage to show up, they can't seem to be able to press the one they wanted.
Any plan that requires voters to do anything (this includes any manner of thinking) will simply not work. It's just too easy to abuse.
Tomcat is even more popular than Sun's application server from what I can tell.
n _.html) and they consistently have JBoss tied with IBM for first place (and both growing: 37% in 2005, 34% in 2004), with BEA trailing behind (27%) and Oracle just catching up to tie BEA.
/. polls; and the question was "check all of these that your company uses"-type, so it could very well be "Yes we use IBM WS: it runs our multi-billion dollar production line" and "Yes we use JBoss: it runs our employee baby picture guessing contest", but coupled with anecdotal evidence, I think it's pretty safe to say that JBoss is competing head-to-head with the Big Boys.
I thought tomcat was Sun's application server? Wasn't it originally Sun's reference implementation of a servlet container that they donated to Apache?
As for JBoss being somewhere in there, the only studies on this I've seen are from BZ Research (http://www.jboss.com/pdf/bzresearch_study.pdf, http://rmh.blogs.com/weblog/2006/05/bz_research_o
They don't officialy include Tomcat, but reportedly it's pretty close to BEA/Oracle, if not more popular.
Of course these types of surveys tend to have all the dependability of
Oh and speaking from personal experience, BEA can die in a fire - most frustrating platfrom I've ever used.
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Hmm, PERC... the Dell RAID cards? Actually, I think your acronym fits those just fine.
You've got real objects when you want them. LISP-like things like iterators and closures. The works.
I don't want this to degenerate into rabid fanboyism, but it seems the benefits of a "real" (or, real, if you preffer) object system over Perl's are routinely exaggerated. Yes, it could be better, but for 95% of the things you do, it works just fine.
And of course Perl has iterators and closures (and first order functions, and all that other hard-to-maitain stuff the Functional crowd always goes on about). It's probably one of the things I like best about Perl, it just has features as part of the language, no one makes a huge deal of it.
I've looked at Ruby (ok, glanced), and I just can't stomach the syntax - it's like writing Java in VB. Entirely subjective, of course. Though, as long as I live I will not understand this recent fad of trying your best not to delimit code blocks clearly - it smells of choosing ideology over utility.
Definitely agree about the lack of "simple and rigid" struct-like things, I miss those often.
And of course for anyone who wants a feature that Perl doesn't have, there's Perl 6 - that will have every feature that has existed in any language, ever.
So, all the frothing at the mouth about copyright infringement being legalized by this is probably not productive, but a few countries have this now (I remember France and Canada being mentioned), and I just can't see how this sort of thing can be legal.
Can someone come up with a precedent, where the government arbitrarily taxes the revenue of one industry and gives the money to a few corporations in another one, because some small fraction of the products of the former could potentially be used by consumers to infringe on the rights of the latter? How much of a "right" they have to the material is a different question, legally, they technically, currently have those rights (is that enough veiled qualifiers for "raping the artists"?)
I guess I just want our corporate overlords to at least pretend to feel some kind of mild bashfulness about screwing us.
But seriously, if I'm in Spain and I buy some CDRs to back up some data, their music industry will get money for that? What the fuck?
That's a very good thing - there needs to be a lot less "small distros maintained by one or two people in their spare time". These SDMBORTPITSTs aren't helping anyone: if you want to roll your own linux for some itch you want to scratch - more power to you; but there's no need to call it a distro and pretend that you are going to maintain it for more than 2 months.
Pfft. I think to appreciate what a Real Programmer is, someone needs to hear the epic tale of Mel...
It works great for my sysadminning needs, and doesn't have the extra fluff.
(oh, except I had a problem with IDE ICH5 and SATA ICH7 support - no DMA can be really annoying when you are backing up a whole system)
Couldn't agree more.
Seriously, enough already: 2D Display + 2D Content == No fucking need for 3D presentation.
Ok, so after a decade or so MS finally tries to improve some of the embarrassing aspects of their software, they do a poor job of it, and somehow it's the consumers' fault?
Ok, I don't really know much about VB.NET, but such arguments always make me a little suspicious. Not to abuse the long-standing analogy, but if I'm shopping for a new car and the salesguy tells me that "It's just as good as any other car - it's got wheels, and seats, and lots of other stuff!", that might tend to make me look somewhere else.
Of course, technically this is true, but then technically there is NOTHING that can be done in any programming language that can't be done in a Turing Machine. The question is how the well it copes with increased size and complexity of the project.
My long-standing impression of VB is that it has a fair amount of whipuptitude (if you are married to windows, of course), but completely breaks down on manipulexity. Has this really changed with the latest generation?
Evolution vs creationism is not complex, it is a very simple problem surrounded by a state of fundamentalist hysteria.
So in other words over 80% of Japanese gamers do not want a DVD player in their console.
Arianne 5 was the result of pure, old-fashioned incompetence. An obsolete component - left on when even its original function would not have been needed - dumps debug info on the bus, that's then interpreted as trajectory data. And the backup system runs identical hardware and identical software to the primary (I believe the backup actually failed a fraction of a second before the primary).
The rover software on the other hand - written in C, btw - is a gold standard of excellent engineering and testing practices. Most of the time it's not the platform that counts, it's the development team.
Just guessing here, but it probably has something to do with no one having even heard of real time java when these systems were designed?
Theoretically there's probably nothing wrong with a VM in such a situation, but keep in mind that currently these systems are written in C (not Ada, like the OP stated) on some really old hardware, that often has trouble keeping up with the load. And this software doesn't just snap pictures - think "landing thrusters".
I remember there being some hoopla about the unexpectedly massive amounts of data the system had to shuffle around (I think the deal was it uncovered an inversion of priority bug in a system library) - they have to push their hardware pretty far; you can't just slap the latest K8 in there and watch it fly.
I mean, I get not knowing where Slovenia and Slovakia are in relation to each other, but Russia and Ukraine, the two biggest countries in Europe? Sure population-wise Ukraine is smaller than a few Western European countries, but if you know any from the "other" europes, you've probably heard of Ukraine.
And yet one of the two countries in question is twice the size of the US.
CVS on the other hand was great 20 years ago, but is so horribly dated that its feature-set is just not up to snuff anymore. (Not to mention that the implementation hangs together with duct-tape - just eactly what do you have to go through to set up a secure remote CVS server?)
The only thing keeping CVS alive is intertia - it was so successful in its time that many people got used to thinking that CVS is version control and don't realize there's anything better out there.
So yeah, out of irrelevant and outdated, I guess outdated wins. But you couldn't say that, for example, subversion beats Perfoce hands-down, just because it's open source.
Taco said as much in his "expectations" but he keeps calling it a redesign. It's an update - they want the same basic thing, but they want it to look more modern (you know, like it's not 1994 anymore). And that's perfectly fine, in fact, slashdot is in desperate need of such an update, but don't call it something that it's not.
But no, you are right, it must be racism.
Incidentally, the pyramids you listed are larger by volume, impressive enough to be sure, but height tends to be a more impressive feat for huge stone structures.
WTF? Do you (along with many other people) just parrot that block of text, word for word, whenever anyone mentions Wikipedia? How on earth does Wikipedia's writings style, accuracy and quality of information, or "role" in research have to do with the parent post? Did you even read it?
And what the hell is it with constantly describing the purpose of an encyclopedia? We know what those are for, and we realize that Wikipedia is one - The Free Encyclopedia tipped us off.
Well, Xenia is one of the many epithets for Athena (so, Minerva, if you want the Roman corruption). From 'xenos', probably referring to her hospitality related "duties".
Incidentally, how did you pick your "proper list" from the hundreds of Roman deities? (Nike is the Greek form btw, Victoria is the Roman equivalent)