spent too much time on the j2ee crapper lately? a little sensitive? insulting my coding sk1llz? I don't care to convince you or anyone else. the train has left the station packed with the zealots, the uninformed and the coerced (mmm, maybe a theme for this time of year).
this is just me walking away from the debacle and lamenting the waste.
Java application servers were eventually going to be commoditized. It's just unfortunate J2EE had to be the form of it's incarnation. Like XML, J2EE is a committee-led disaster. Too many cooks have made it into an unpalatable grey soup that includes too much and accomplishes little.
Flame on. I spent over a decade in the client/server, app/server, web-service/server business. I've seen a lot of crap (can you say DCE) and J2EE is right up there.
For everyone worried about your ISP suddenly deciding to detect and crack down on everyone who's taken advantage of the currently ubiquitous, simple-to-use NAT hardware..., an anonymous reader writes with one way to foil detection efforts:
The problem with this paper is that it describes an overly complicated way to detect multiple IP's behind a NAT firewall when there is a much easier, simpler and already used method: transparent proxying of HTTP and checking the browser identifier.
Shocking, but true. Many ISP's already use this method to scan all of your outbound HTTP traffic. Figuring out if you have more than one computer (especially if their OS or browser's are different) is trivial.
The only way to defeat this is to implement your own proxy (like squid) and have it re-write HTTP headers. Or... run all machines with the exact same configuration.
A GPL violation is a GPL violation. If you use GPL code in your product, the modified code and anything it touches must be made freely available to *anyone* who asks.
Why would you want to inflict pain on them before you even know if they did violate GPL or not?
first, they do not have to provide the source if they did not use GPL'd software. so the offer and the website basically concede this point.
second, it's obvious they're trying to make it as difficult as possible to obtain what rightlyfully belongs to the public under the GPL. it's not like the don't have a web site that could be used as a distribution mechanism. and it's also not a great deal of code (floppies!? hello!).
in conclusion, they're being dicks and deserve a little pain.
Castle state that "any company or individual wishing to recieve a copy of the source code to this component should apply in writing to:"
The Managing Director
Castle Technology Ltd
Ore Trading Estate
Woodbridge Road
Framlingham
Suffolk
IP13 9LL
You will also need to enclose a formatted 3.5" floppy diskette and return postage stamps (or international reply coupons if you are outside the UK)
While I agree that this is a shameful tactic, it's also an opportunity to inflict a little pain on them. Since they can't see fit to post the code on the net, let's start sending them tons of floppies. They have to honour the request to send the code back on the floppies (or a real GPL breach) and this will be a devastating work load.
didn't you read the terms of service agreement you were handed at birth (us citizens only) that states any bypassing of ads during receipt of content is theft?
I'm just waiting for ashcroft's goons to knock on my door, find the tivo and haul my ass off to jail.
But this doesn't prove that management dictated this. It could have been some jackass web monkey
this is the most thoughtful reply so far. it's true that you will often find more zealots at the lower levels in organizations like microsoft.
but what I'm curious about is whether or not this css file causes the page to render better in any version of opera. since they're serving up different css for many different browsers (not just opera) and each of the css files is quite a bit different, it does look as though some thought was put into each file. perhaps a) the file was legitimately tailored for opera and b) opera is a victim of producing a better browser or (as I asserted earlier) this is a typo.
someone claimed that you couldn't get 3 and 0 confused. but if you're editing this file and the points are -2 0 0 0 and you meant to change it to -2 0 0 3 then, yeah, you could make that mistake. especially if it's late (or early) and you haven't had enough caffeine.
in the last couple of million lines of code that I've written, I've made less excusable typos.
but it really looks like an honest typo in the style sheet. i can understand how they'd be pissed, but did they try contacting MS to get it fixed first? the fact that the server sends a client-specific style-sheet isn't exactly damning. it's a very common (though misguided) practice.
never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
This was a few years ago, and things haven't gotten much better, unfortunately.
First of all, you didn't bother to mention this until half way through your screed. That's misleading.
Second, your information is dated and inaccurate. Java/Swing has come a long way in terms of performance, especially with the 1.3 and 1.4 JVMs. So while this was a valid criticism a few years ago, it is not today.
Third, if you're doing visualization in Java and your using the Graphics object directly (without the aid of Graphics2D or Java3D), you're screwed. Low level AWT graphics is a black art in terms of performance. And that would also not be taking advantage of 2D/3D acceleration.
boy, if you think this is waste, I've got a few government agencies to sell you. this is probably one of the better uses of our tax dollars (relatively speaking).
is a little walking around money to grease the skids with the local stuffed shirts. nothing says democracy, law and order better than a few greenbacks.
A strong gravitational field can actually create entangled particles; those that break free of the field are called Hawking radiation. "It would be very nice if this could be turned around and Hawking radiation derived as a consequence of quantum information in curved spacetime,"
the actual pixel resolution is around 800x600. it fakes 1024x768 through scaling and blurring. very sucky for anything other than powerpoints. the article even states this. for gaming, the article also states that the 60Hz refresh rate leads to headaches over prolonged periods of time if you're not far enough away.
If someone is running down the street pointing a gun at you and you have time to figure out it's a formerly convicted criminal, on parole, then you probably have time to figure out a lot of other options, too. You might also be able to figure out that a) the gun isn't loaded and/or b) it's a water gun and/or c) the person isn't pointing the gun at you, but instead at that the big puppeteer standing over you pulling your strings.
which totally sucks on a laptop. I've got a dell insiron 8200 which has a geforce4. the older drivers could be re-compiled to ignore apm, so I could hobble by. however they crashed a lot. the newer ones are more stable, but will lock up the machine when put to sleep. the recompile/patch doesn't work. nvidia is ignoring the apm issue despite many pleas from the community.
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spent too much time on the j2ee crapper lately? a little sensitive? insulting my coding sk1llz? I don't care to convince you or anyone else. the train has left the station packed with the zealots, the uninformed and the coerced (mmm, maybe a theme for this time of year).
this is just me walking away from the debacle and lamenting the waste.
popular == good? mmmkay. it's the spec that's crap. some implementations have tried heroically to overcome it.
Java application servers were eventually going to be commoditized. It's just unfortunate J2EE had to be the form of it's incarnation. Like XML, J2EE is a committee-led disaster. Too many cooks have made it into an unpalatable grey soup that includes too much and accomplishes little.
Flame on. I spent over a decade in the client/server, app/server, web-service/server business. I've seen a lot of crap (can you say DCE) and J2EE is right up there.
For everyone worried about your ISP suddenly deciding to detect and crack down on everyone who's taken advantage of the currently ubiquitous, simple-to-use NAT hardware..., an anonymous reader writes with one way to foil detection efforts:
The problem with this paper is that it describes an overly complicated way to detect multiple IP's behind a NAT firewall when there is a much easier, simpler and already used method: transparent proxying of HTTP and checking the browser identifier.
Shocking, but true. Many ISP's already use this method to scan all of your outbound HTTP traffic. Figuring out if you have more than one computer (especially if their OS or browser's are different) is trivial.
The only way to defeat this is to implement your own proxy (like squid) and have it re-write HTTP headers. Or... run all machines with the exact same configuration.
Also, more hot chicks wear I work would be great (*damn* did I say that out loud?)
what's an "I work" and how do you wear one?
A GPL violation is a GPL violation. If you use GPL code in your product, the modified code and anything it touches must be made freely available to *anyone* who asks.
Why would you want to inflict pain on them before you even know if they did violate GPL or not?
first, they do not have to provide the source if they did not use GPL'd software. so the offer and the website basically concede this point.
second, it's obvious they're trying to make it as difficult as possible to obtain what rightlyfully belongs to the public under the GPL. it's not like the don't have a web site that could be used as a distribution mechanism. and it's also not a great deal of code (floppies!? hello!).
in conclusion, they're being dicks and deserve a little pain.
Castle state that "any company or individual wishing to recieve a copy of the source code to this component should apply in writing to:" The Managing Director Castle Technology Ltd Ore Trading Estate Woodbridge Road Framlingham Suffolk IP13 9LL You will also need to enclose a formatted 3.5" floppy diskette and return postage stamps (or international reply coupons if you are outside the UK)
While I agree that this is a shameful tactic, it's also an opportunity to inflict a little pain on them. Since they can't see fit to post the code on the net, let's start sending them tons of floppies. They have to honour the request to send the code back on the floppies (or a real GPL breach) and this will be a devastating work load.
ashcroft is a thug regardless of his party affiliation. take of your partisan blinders and understand that patriotism != submission.
didn't you read the terms of service agreement you were handed at birth (us citizens only) that states any bypassing of ads during receipt of content is theft?
I'm just waiting for ashcroft's goons to knock on my door, find the tivo and haul my ass off to jail.
But this doesn't prove that management dictated this. It could have been some jackass web monkey
this is the most thoughtful reply so far. it's true that you will often find more zealots at the lower levels in organizations like microsoft.
but what I'm curious about is whether or not this css file causes the page to render better in any version of opera. since they're serving up different css for many different browsers (not just opera) and each of the css files is quite a bit different, it does look as though some thought was put into each file. perhaps a) the file was legitimately tailored for opera and b) opera is a victim of producing a better browser or (as I asserted earlier) this is a typo.
someone claimed that you couldn't get 3 and 0 confused. but if you're editing this file and the points are -2 0 0 0 and you meant to change it to -2 0 0 3 then, yeah, you could make that mistake. especially if it's late (or early) and you haven't had enough caffeine.
in the last couple of million lines of code that I've written, I've made less excusable typos.
but it really looks like an honest typo in the style sheet. i can understand how they'd be pissed, but did they try contacting MS to get it fixed first? the fact that the server sends a client-specific style-sheet isn't exactly damning. it's a very common (though misguided) practice.
never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
This was a few years ago, and things haven't gotten much better, unfortunately.
First of all, you didn't bother to mention this until half way through your screed. That's misleading.
Second, your information is dated and inaccurate. Java/Swing has come a long way in terms of performance, especially with the 1.3 and 1.4 JVMs. So while this was a valid criticism a few years ago, it is not today.
Third, if you're doing visualization in Java and your using the Graphics object directly (without the aid of Graphics2D or Java3D), you're screwed. Low level AWT graphics is a black art in terms of performance. And that would also not be taking advantage of 2D/3D acceleration.
cool. maybe all that dark matter is really just gravity. silly scientists and their extra dimensions.
boy, if you think this is waste, I've got a few government agencies to sell you. this is probably one of the better uses of our tax dollars (relatively speaking).
is a little walking around money to grease the skids with the local stuffed shirts. nothing says democracy, law and order better than a few greenbacks.
nothing drives innovation like porn and piracy. bring on the flames.
A strong gravitational field can actually create entangled particles; those that break free of the field are called Hawking radiation. "It would be very nice if this could be turned around and Hawking radiation derived as a consequence of quantum information in curved spacetime,"
I say, that would be nice, indeed!
the actual pixel resolution is around 800x600. it fakes 1024x768 through scaling and blurring. very sucky for anything other than powerpoints. the article even states this. for gaming, the article also states that the 60Hz refresh rate leads to headaches over prolonged periods of time if you're not far enough away.
is limited to 800x600. it's hardly good for any serious computer use. this article's title is very misleading.
seriously. I love this name. it says, "hey, lawyers, come and get me! nya nya nya!" it also sounds like "asswipe" if your from the right geography.
he sure looks old for his age. in close-ups he reminds me of the cigarette man.
If someone is running down the street pointing a gun at you and you have time to figure out it's a formerly convicted criminal, on parole, then you probably have time to figure out a lot of other options, too. You might also be able to figure out that a) the gun isn't loaded and/or b) it's a water gun and/or c) the person isn't pointing the gun at you, but instead at that the big puppeteer standing over you pulling your strings.
Because not every MacAddlebrained Drone leaves Sofware Update in the default check-every-day mode
So what I get from this is that Slashdot is of most use to "MacAddlebrained Drones".
which totally sucks on a laptop. I've got a dell insiron 8200 which has a geforce4. the older drivers could be re-compiled to ignore apm, so I could hobble by. however they crashed a lot. the newer ones are more stable, but will lock up the machine when put to sleep. the recompile/patch doesn't work. nvidia is ignoring the apm issue despite many pleas from the community.