For another Tech area, Telecommunications, in 1984 it was wisely judged that Competition Law was insufficient to encourage diversity and competition. Competition Law works mostly in terms of Monopolies, defined at near 40%. It was feared that the major telcos would just form oligopoloies and keep out competition.
So in 1984 the UK developed Oftel, and Oftel came up with the notion of Significant Market Power (SMP). This comes into effect at 25% of the market. This has now been adopted into EU law.
Being an SMP enforces obligations on those companies. One of those is that standard technologies must be patent free. There is also stuff about profit margin squeeze.
If kicking and screaming, we get dragged into software patents, I personally would like to see:
1. The term of patent reduced to say 3 years.
2. A new competition body, similar to Ofcom. Lets call it PatentCom.
3. Reduced market share to define Significant Market Power, like Telecoms.
The cost of this would be high, as instead of just 1 industry, the PatentCom would have to police every software domain. With a full time regulator and some framework of access and fines there may be some protection both ways. Consumer, industry and smaller industry.
Sure there IS the part that responds to HTTP with content.
But this is not a web application, it is a simple application that could have been a command line program.
For a scalable robust web application, you need the ability to deploy and undeploy portions. You need to be able to share objects around each webapp instance and you need a database abstraction/cache. You need a robust operating system which behaves. You need robust server hardware.
For me the language portion is Java, Linux and pre-built x86 servers. Java with libraries, java with a nice J2EE container. It is all there to pick up and use.
JBoss
Eclipse
Hibernate
C3P0
Tomcat
Some MVC framework like struts, you choose.
Then you'll need squid upfront and probably balance, an open source load balancer. This means you can bring up a new version of your app and switch it over. You'll also need Postgres.
The one thing you'll notice is that you needed to bring a lot of NON JAVA things in to fit the picture, and that is how it should be.
postgres, linux kernel, linux threading libraries, linux socket libraries, squid, balance and probably ssh, tar -jc, tail -f/var/log/messages, qmail and everything else are C,C++/ I don't care.
Hey scumbag
Hi! You posted as an Anonymous Coward. I'm not sure what your name is.
Hopefully Iran will soon be powerful enough to effect some sort of postivie regime change or even just nuke the place
Yeah, nice plan. Although you post anonymously, I can tell that you are a thoughtful person. Your idea seems well balanced and practical. I can tell you operate from the position of a comprehensive knowledge of the situation. I would be most interested to hear of your travels to Israel, Palestine and Iran.
Fly to Israel: Staff grill you before allowing you on the plane. Net result: 1 hour delay for say 150 passengers.
Fly to USA: Fingerprint scanning. Slight increase in time creates larger backlog. Clearing customs takes longer.
London Underground: Simple platform overcrowding at London Bridge Station, creates hour long waits *to get through the barriers*
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But I think the biggest parallel I must draw is between Israel border protection and the London Underground. In Israel a large amoutn of the suicide bombers detonated their packages at the border entry points, killing soldiers and innocent fellow border crossers.
If they install these machines at Tube stations, then terrorists will have a new target: at the point of inspection. They will be able to take out staff as well as passengers and entrance facilities. They do not have to even get on a damn tube.
Why spend money creating both a target and a delay???? The money would be better spent on building dialogue with the dis-enfrachised Muslim community. I mean who is going to be the main targets of 'spot-checks'? The man with the beard and skull-cap.
Escpecially where there are many many people here who do not and did not support the War.
Take Iraq as the example. Innocent people are killed in Iraq, and that is a tragedy. The military is very closed about justics for innocents as well, which is an outrage and a tragedy.
But inoccents are not targetted deliberately, and military justice is finally facing reform. Reform is propoese in the UK and Australia.
The rumour has it that Beethovens Ninth was a factor for the 74 minute length of a CD. It's a nice theory.
I think a better factor was that the disc diameter had to be able to fit within 5 1/4 inch disc drive bays, and then that manufacturing technology at the time only permitted a certain spiral density.
Still having a musical heuristic to validate its use as a musical storage format is a good idea.
just allowing the submitter to correct their own posts might go a long way toward making the Slashdot audience seem a bit more literate.
This is a brilliant idea. This will allow people to correct their language.
To prevent hit and run comments, people should be able to edit their posts and have the old version saved. The post should be clearly marked as editted, and the older versions available to all. So people could correct spelling mistakes, and not be able to engage in correctionism. There should be a limit, say of 3, corrections, which should keep the volume down.
Good language skills are important in any walk of middle class life. If you desire to be a middle class mover, then you will need them. If you are a non-aspirant middle-classer, then it is not important.
You say slashdot readers are: obsessed with technical knowledge and accuracy
Some slashdot readers are. Others are more interested in:
Tech Gossip, neither knowledgeable nor accurate Latest Gadgets, ditto Science Fiction Anime, large breasted Japanese girls(!?!), transforming creatures and flying penises Microsoft Delivery Schedule, always wrong Mac Advocacy, occassionally right.
Not so many obsessed with technical knowledge and accuracy.
Some scientists speculate that assortive mating of high IQ people is contributing to a rising incidence of autism and Asperger's Syndrome.
Great. So they're saying I should have children by girls just for their big tits and tight pussies? Damn my Askenazic heritage. Theres quite a lot of Sephardic in there too, maybe I'd be allow to try for girls who can read.
It argues that rules based AI is a dead end. It also classified levels of expertise.
It would seem like this non-rules-based IBM brain simulation method would be one which could possibly go beyond the 'advanced beginner' stage that Professor Hubert Dreyfus proves that rules base systems are limited to.
Phone providers could trivially provide a Morse mode for those who know, and an SMS mode for those who don't. Typing in Huffman encoded-ish string would seem sensible.
Reminds me of people who played counterstrike and bound their mouse keys to back and forward, and had keyboard keys for their firing. Default is fine for most, custom great for the übergamers. I never found out whether it was better, as I spent too much time respawning.
Cooling off periods are the classic way to deal with any hormonally impulsive descision or otherwise.
This hormonal stuff cannot be the only ingredient to Trust That Makes a Sale. What happens when people call the subject over a telephone, where there is physical separation?
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So in 1984 the UK developed Oftel, and Oftel came up with the notion of Significant Market Power (SMP). This comes into effect at 25% of the market. This has now been adopted into EU law.
Being an SMP enforces obligations on those companies. One of those is that standard technologies must be patent free. There is also stuff about profit margin squeeze.
If kicking and screaming, we get dragged into software patents, I personally would like to see:
1. The term of patent reduced to say 3 years.
2. A new competition body, similar to Ofcom. Lets call it PatentCom.
3. Reduced market share to define Significant Market Power, like Telecoms.
The cost of this would be high, as instead of just 1 industry, the PatentCom would have to police every software domain.
With a full time regulator and some framework of access and fines there may be some protection both ways.
Consumer, industry and smaller industry.
Unless they tax 'per inch'. Expect rather more realistically endowed porn stars.
But this is not a web application, it is a simple application that could have been a command line program.
For a scalable robust web application, you need the ability to deploy and undeploy portions. You need to be able to share objects around each webapp instance and you need a database abstraction/cache. You need a robust operating system which behaves. You need robust server hardware.
For me the language portion is Java, Linux and pre-built x86 servers. Java with libraries, java with a nice J2EE container. It is all there to pick up and use.
JBoss
Eclipse
Hibernate
C3P0
Tomcat
Some MVC framework like struts, you choose.
Then you'll need squid upfront and probably balance, an open source load balancer. This means you can bring up a new version of your app and switch it over. You'll also need Postgres.
The one thing you'll notice is that you needed to bring a lot of NON JAVA things in to fit the picture, and that is how it should be.
postgres, linux kernel, linux threading libraries, linux socket libraries, squid, balance and probably ssh, tar -jc, tail -f /var/log/messages, qmail and everything else are C,C++/ I don't care.
Games are biased towards female characters with very strong spines.
Hi! You posted as an Anonymous Coward. I'm not sure what your name is.
Hopefully Iran will soon be powerful enough to effect some sort of postivie regime change or even just nuke the place
Yeah, nice plan. Although you post anonymously, I can tell that you are a thoughtful person. Your idea seems well balanced and practical. I can tell you operate from the position of a comprehensive knowledge of the situation. I would be most interested to hear of your travels to Israel, Palestine and Iran.
Fly to USA: Fingerprint scanning. Slight increase in time creates larger backlog. Clearing customs takes longer.
London Underground: Simple platform overcrowding at London Bridge Station, creates hour long waits *to get through the barriers*
---------------------
But I think the biggest parallel I must draw is between Israel border protection and the London Underground. In Israel a large amoutn of the suicide bombers detonated their packages at the border entry points, killing soldiers and innocent fellow border crossers.
If they install these machines at Tube stations, then terrorists will have a new target: at the point of inspection. They will be able to take out staff as well as passengers and entrance facilities. They do not have to even get on a damn tube.
Why spend money creating both a target and a delay???? The money would be better spent on building dialogue with the dis-enfrachised Muslim community. I mean who is going to be the main targets of 'spot-checks'? The man with the beard and skull-cap.
Take Iraq as the example. Innocent people are killed in Iraq, and that is a tragedy. The military is very closed about justics for innocents as well, which is an outrage and a tragedy.
But inoccents are not targetted deliberately, and military justice is finally facing reform. Reform is propoese in the UK and Australia.
But walk closer to Waterloo, where I quickly bought a bicycle to be able to get home to Belsize Park, and there is reception.
Hope you are all okay. Lots of people with near misses.
I think a better factor was that the disc diameter had to be able to fit within 5 1/4 inch disc drive bays, and then that manufacturing technology at the time only permitted a certain spiral density.
Still having a musical heuristic to validate its use as a musical storage format is a good idea.
This is a brilliant idea. This will allow people to correct their language.
To prevent hit and run comments, people should be able to edit their posts and have the old version saved. The post should be clearly marked as editted, and the older versions available to all. So people could correct spelling mistakes, and not be able to engage in correctionism. There should be a limit, say of 3, corrections, which should keep the volume down.
See http://twiki.org/ for inspiration.
You say slashdot readers are: obsessed with technical knowledge and accuracy
Some slashdot readers are. Others are more interested in:
Tech Gossip, neither knowledgeable nor accurate
Latest Gadgets, ditto
Science Fiction
Anime, large breasted Japanese girls(!?!), transforming creatures and flying penises
Microsoft Delivery Schedule, always wrong
Mac Advocacy, occassionally right.
Not so many obsessed with technical knowledge and accuracy.
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/
It's done the rounds before, but maybe new people haven't seen it yet. Possibly apocryphal, left to reader to decide.
Also has some AMAZING pictures of the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine at the end of last year. Very much well worth a look.
It has:
* Nested outline notes for everything
* call tracker
* looks just awful
If the last is not too much, check it out. It's great. Available here thands to CompuSol
Sounds like a sensible approach, well explained. Why cannot more tech companies show the same restraint on features and hype??
The Evening Standard releases The Metro and Evening Standard Lite. All are rubbish.
Great. So they're saying I should have children by girls just for their big tits and tight pussies? Damn my Askenazic heritage. Theres quite a lot of Sephardic in there too, maybe I'd be allow to try for girls who can read.
Citibank
666 Fifth Avenue,
New York,
New York 10103
Hey Jews didn't even believe what G-d dictated. He's of the opinion that we're a stiff necked people. Who'd disagree, nu? Deut 31:27
I don't think Koran 1.0 is in the stable branch. I'd wait for it to get merged first, but it's going to be a while.
From Socrates to Expert Systems.
It argues that rules based AI is a dead end. It also classified levels of expertise.
It would seem like this non-rules-based IBM brain simulation method would be one which could possibly go beyond the 'advanced beginner' stage that Professor Hubert Dreyfus proves that rules base systems are limited to.
Reminds me of people who played counterstrike and bound their mouse keys to back and forward, and had keyboard keys for their firing. Default is fine for most, custom great for the übergamers. I never found out whether it was better, as I spent too much time respawning.
This hormonal stuff cannot be the only ingredient to Trust That Makes a Sale. What happens when people call the subject over a telephone, where there is physical separation?
cd /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/User/My\ Documents
2. Put a mapping from Caps Lock to Left Control
3. Use new capslock instead
4. No more Emacs wanky or whatever you said.
You won't remember life before this change. And no having to use vi ;)
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