I can't say I ever thought SlashDot articles were ever edited or formatted. They pretty much look like a quick copy/paste from a half-thought-out text-only email.
Last night, out of the blue, my son wanted to know about craters on the moon and meteors, so we got out some astronomy books and chatted about the comet that crashed into Jupiter.
He's five, so I doubt he's reading Slashdot (yet)...
"give me a good online newspaper, and I'll be happy to pay for it. As long as there are no ads..."
I didn't look at the ads for the books he was hawking on his site, but if he had anything to do with them I would suspect there are ten pieces of information and two hundred pages of fluff in each one.
"Our scenario in this comparison calls for a database solution for a relatively small e-commerce company with less than 200 employees. The company sells DVDs and books over the Internet and will initially have around 1000 customers"
Lemme see...five customers for each employee? With an American workforce pulling down $40K each with benefits, that means each customer needs to buy $8K of useless crap from this one company every year.
Clusty also serves Google ads. How do I know? I just looked up myself on Clusty and my Google text ad popped up. Interesting nonetheless; I'll add it to my search collection for a while and see how it goes.
"Anything else is extraneous, and I shouldn't be "
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Creating an IS Department?
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"Anything else is extraneous, and I shouldn't be dealing with it"
Sounds like you like to live in a more compartmentalized IT shop at a larger company (insurance?) where you can be isolated from reality. I'd start looking for a new job - there are thousands of other IT people who love the jack-of-all-trades hat.
...from the user's perspective it's one page until they start breaking things down with "View image" etc.
Or they attempt to save the page, in which case only the base HTML page is saved (rare, these days) or the base HTML page is modified to point to local resources and all the local resources referenced on the page are also downloaded. Either way, what you end up with on your hard drive isn't a complete, identical snapshot of what you were looking at on the web. (Even in the case where just the base HTML page is saved, a referenced image could be changed...)
My overall point is you don't have to go very far to run into cases where the assertion that "it must all be atomic" is unreasonable - a simple page with one IMG tag breaks the atomic model.
"Atomic" implies that all the information is there in one package. IMG tags and other embedded/included references require the reader to make additional requests, so they break the concept of a page as an "atomic" construct. (Conversely, "inline javascript" wouldn't break an "atomic" page.)
The fundamental design of the Web is based on having the page as the atomic unit of information...
Stop right there, grandpa. That statement ceased to be true as soon as "IMG" tags were allowed.
Re:Were they reviewing Spybot or not?
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Yes, because it misses the point. Unlike many (students? singles? who knows...) hanging around this site, I don't have unlimited amounts of free time. So, I scan long articles. First I scanned the product names...no Spybot. Then I skipped to the conclusions. In the first paragraph was "Spybot". So, I could have read the rest of the article, but it was easier to ask the question...
Were they reviewing Spybot or not?
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Were they reviewing Spybot or not? I saw mention of it in the results, but I don't think it was on the results chart...
Because for the last few years one of the knocks against GPL'ed applications has been that they MAY be infringing on patents held by commercial applications. You can call it simple FUD, but I'm just following the money here. This initiative is partially being funded by a couple of commercial entities who depend on GPL software and would very much like the patent vs. GPL license FUD to go away. The intent of this initiative is to revise the license. Therefore, I'm suggesting that the result of the initiative will likely be a new GPL license that explicitly addresses the patent issue.
$100 says this new version is being created largely to address software patents. I'd be surprised if there aren't several new sections of the license that attempt to address this area.
"I think webmail will soon be replacing client side readers for all but power users"
Your task is to go find me some email users who don't behave they're power users. This is kind of the line of thinking that drives many public transit programs; if we make it better, everyone else (not me) will use it...
It's really hard to keep young professional in small towns. Please from citys (which lets face it, most professionals are!) don't want to live in BFNW for more than a year or two. Additionally, at least in Canada, people are typically paid better in BFNW so as to give some insentive to move there.
Do you know any young professionals? If so, you may want to ask one of them to proof your future submissions first...
If I'm reading this correctly, the security researcher thinks that Google has fixed only one of the three bugs that open up this door...thus the public pronouncement.
"But if they would have recognized it and published a thank you note, this information wouldn't had been published. We have 3 ways to get to the same result, the others 2 are quite easier, and because of that easily we can deduce that it's a multibug, and a design error. With all these clues, they will not take too much to discover new methods."
This only works at night?
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Did I read this correctly: that HAARP only works at night?
"Ionospheric heating cannot be performed while the sun illuminates the ionosphere for two reasons:
* Solar UV creates the ionospheric D-region, which absorbs the radio waves used for ionospheric heating.
* The solar flux overwhelms any effect of ionospheric heating. "
Slashdot Mirror
I can't say I ever thought SlashDot articles were ever edited or formatted. They pretty much look like a quick copy/paste from a half-thought-out text-only email.
Better link/picture of the dynathing - mostly a blimp
http://www.ohio-airships.com/Old/Default.htm
No, but he wasn't too fond of the concept of solar death, either.
Last night, out of the blue, my son wanted to know about craters on the moon and meteors, so we got out some astronomy books and chatted about the comet that crashed into Jupiter.
He's five, so I doubt he's reading Slashdot (yet)...
It's hard to tell from the site, but I think IHT is a New York Times publication. See... http://www.iht.com/images/misc/breakfastsub33.jpg
"give me a good online newspaper, and I'll be happy to pay for it. As long as there are no ads..."
I didn't look at the ads for the books he was hawking on his site, but if he had anything to do with them I would suspect there are ten pieces of information and two hundred pages of fluff in each one.
The "Extreme" edition is marketed to gamers?
You don't say.
"Our scenario in this comparison calls for a database solution for a relatively small e-commerce company with less than 200 employees. The company sells DVDs and books over the Internet and will initially have around 1000 customers"
Lemme see...five customers for each employee? With an American workforce pulling down $40K each with benefits, that means each customer needs to buy $8K of useless crap from this one company every year.
Clusty also serves Google ads. How do I know? I just looked up myself on Clusty and my Google text ad popped up. Interesting nonetheless; I'll add it to my search collection for a while and see how it goes.
Sounds like you like to live in a more compartmentalized IT shop at a larger company (insurance?) where you can be isolated from reality. I'd start looking for a new job - there are thousands of other IT people who love the jack-of-all-trades hat.
Russ for President in 2008
"Aha, by USA"
This is what the engineers will be overheard saying when they review what went wrong and track it down to a particular computer chip...
Too late to patent the "Sound Blaster", is it?
Or they attempt to save the page, in which case only the base HTML page is saved (rare, these days) or the base HTML page is modified to point to local resources and all the local resources referenced on the page are also downloaded. Either way, what you end up with on your hard drive isn't a complete, identical snapshot of what you were looking at on the web. (Even in the case where just the base HTML page is saved, a referenced image could be changed...)
My overall point is you don't have to go very far to run into cases where the assertion that "it must all be atomic" is unreasonable - a simple page with one IMG tag breaks the atomic model.
"Atomic" implies that all the information is there in one package. IMG tags and other embedded/included references require the reader to make additional requests, so they break the concept of a page as an "atomic" construct. (Conversely, "inline javascript" wouldn't break an "atomic" page.)
Stop right there, grandpa. That statement ceased to be true as soon as "IMG" tags were allowed.
Yes, because it misses the point. Unlike many (students? singles? who knows...) hanging around this site, I don't have unlimited amounts of free time. So, I scan long articles. First I scanned the product names...no Spybot. Then I skipped to the conclusions. In the first paragraph was "Spybot". So, I could have read the rest of the article, but it was easier to ask the question...
Were they reviewing Spybot or not? I saw mention of it in the results, but I don't think it was on the results chart...
"In what way and why?"
Because for the last few years one of the knocks against GPL'ed applications has been that they MAY be infringing on patents held by commercial applications. You can call it simple FUD, but I'm just following the money here. This initiative is partially being funded by a couple of commercial entities who depend on GPL software and would very much like the patent vs. GPL license FUD to go away. The intent of this initiative is to revise the license. Therefore, I'm suggesting that the result of the initiative will likely be a new GPL license that explicitly addresses the patent issue.
$100 says this new version is being created largely to address software patents. I'd be surprised if there aren't several new sections of the license that attempt to address this area.
"I think webmail will soon be replacing client side readers for all but power users"
Your task is to go find me some email users who don't behave they're power users. This is kind of the line of thinking that drives many public transit programs; if we make it better, everyone else (not me) will use it...
Hint: Quit putting your key in the code
That will be $200, thank you.
It's really hard to keep young professional in small towns. Please from citys (which lets face it, most professionals are!) don't want to live in BFNW for more than a year or two. Additionally, at least in Canada, people are typically paid better in BFNW so as to give some insentive to move there.
Do you know any young professionals? If so, you may want to ask one of them to proof your future submissions first...
If I'm reading this correctly, the security researcher thinks that Google has fixed only one of the three bugs that open up this door...thus the public pronouncement.
"But if they would have recognized it and published a thank you note, this information wouldn't had been published. We have 3 ways to get to the same result, the others 2 are quite easier, and because of that easily we can deduce that it's a multibug, and a design error. With all these clues, they will not take too much to discover new methods."
"Ionospheric heating cannot be performed while the sun illuminates the ionosphere for two reasons:
* Solar UV creates the ionospheric D-region, which absorbs the radio waves used for ionospheric heating.
* The solar flux overwhelms any effect of ionospheric heating. "