Without any more information, you've got a bad NIC, almost certainly. Look on the switch for the port whose light is always on. As you've describe it, software has almost nothing to do with it. This is a NIC, or a bad switch, or bad cabling, or something.
I had the same problem when I was on DirecWay, with more or less the identical response. Fortunately, I was able to get terrestrial wireless a couple of months later, but the point is that the editors frankly don't give a damn about their customers. It would be trivially easy to implement something that would eliminate these restrictions for logged in users with high karma (or users who are more than "X" years old, or implement one of these wacky text code things for users on problem subnets, or whatever) but they just can't be bothered.
I greatly resent the use of the word "homophobia" to describe anyone who disagrees with any element of the "gay agenda." I don't need to have an irrational fear of homosexuality (what the word "homophobia" used to mean) to feel that a lot of the rhetoric surrounding homosexuality is at best misleading and at worst out-right false. I don't need to be afraid to feel that marriage is an institution that really only makes sense between a man and a woman.
For people who spend an awful lot of time demanding that their point of view be heard, the gay community seems awfully ready to use any means possible, including prejudicial and inflammatory rhetoric, to make sure that others points of view are silenced or at least ignored.
Really, I'm complaining about both. The amount of metadata is a pain in the neck, but XML makes it really odious by it's verbosity. Yes, a good IDE (like Eclipse) can simplify matters by doing a lot of the closing tags, etc., but it is still very verbose. This ends up meaning that it is very hard for a human to read. I much prefer something like YAML to XML, and RoR indeed uses YAML in the odd places where configuration is needed. YAML may not be as "correct" in some sense as XML, but it is certainly adequate for the task and doesn't take nearly the time to decipher that XML does.
I wonder whether most of the posters here are not looking at this in ways totally conditioned by software patents, where more often than not patents are granted on things that are obvious (e.g. wireless email) to a technically inclined individual. I don't know that gene patents are the same thing.
First of all, I don't think anyone is suggesting (or any court would uphold) that you need a license to your own genes. Instead, what is patented is the use of the gene in commercial processes. For example, my sister uses insulin made in such a way, and that this insulin is available is a Good Thing.
Second, take a look at the long view. A patent expires after 26 years. But 27 years from now we will still have the genuine innovation that the patents encouraged. The bottom line is that biotech is expensive to conduct, and these discoveries are not (so far as I can tell, but I'm no biologist) obvious. They required a lot of work, and a lot of expense. Commercializing them to develop new drugs requires even more work and even more expense. A patent ensures that as soon as the research is published (and peer-reviewed) it's not hijaaked by another company.
This doesn't mean that companies should be given a free hand on biotech patents, exploiting their monopoly charging exhorbitant rates to get maassive returns on investment for their shareholders to the detriment of the common good-but that genetic patents are not really the same problem as software patents, nor are they the same problem as copyright.
Something to think about. I'll take my thrashing now.
It depends on how you do it. What I usually do is, when I edit the scaffold code, just tell it to "skip" the updated_at and created_at fields (i.e. next if field=created_at or smething like that.) That way, if I add new fields, they still appear in the forms unless I deliberately skip them. Of course, the default scaffolding code is mostly useful during development. Once you get done building the scaffold of your application, you will probably replace most of it with custom coded pages that look pretty. However, I often just leave the scaffold there and build new pages with a more integrated look for the forms I'm interested in, then make the scaffolds accessible only to administrators.
Whichever way is probably valid, but I try to avoid tying the view to the database whenever ? can.
I think it's more a cultural thing. Rails has inherited a bit of perl's very flexible culture ("there's more than one way to do it") while still holding on to some decent OOL features. The Python community always seemed to me to be mostly populated by die-hard OOL purists, resulting in programming paradigms that weren't very flexible.
However, I'll be the first to admit that I'm not into the theoretical aspects of programming languages. I mostly just like to get programs written in as little time as possible.
I was actually thinking of "speed" more in terms of development time. With modern hardware, it is the rare application indeed where one needs to worry about speed in terms of execution time. (Not that it can't happen, especially if you use shoddy algorithms, but it's just not the issue it once was.) I've kind of gotten in the habit of worrying almost exclusively about development time, since that's what matters for the code I write.
I did find the sibling post, regarding Rails' catching, interesting. Just goes to show that the speed of the language itself is often the smallest factor.
I've been using RoR, and I'm convinced that it is not just a flash in the pan. Let me preface this by saying that I've programmed in just about everything out there... from perl/mod_perl/cgi development, to php, to Zope, to Java, to Struts, etc. I have never seen a framework that makes it so easy to quickly develop well-architected applications as rails. A lot of the credit for this goes to two things. First, Rails features, out of the box, excellent use of automation to setup the structure of your app for you. I can have basic CRUD functionality for a table with literally one command ('script/generate scaffold TableName'). Second, Rails has a built-in ORM layer (ActiveRecord) that greatly simplifies everything, in particular because it is very good ORM.
On one of the Rails pages they talk about a functional website in less times than other frameworks would have you spend on XML situps, and I have to agree. (Excursus: am I the only one who is underwhelmed with XML for application configuration? Apparently not!) Everything depends much less on configuration and much more on convention. This means less code to debug, which means more time to write the really distinctive stuff that was why you were custom-coding an app in the first place.
Ruby is also a dream come true. The speed of perl, the OO features of python, but without perl's crufty syntax and python's rigidity. Where in the past Ruby was often poorly documented, and sometimes slow and buggy, it has largely overcome these limitations.
I haven't looked at this particular site, but the ones I looked at were dominated by foreign nationals working from foreign locales with absurdly low (by North American standards) bids. There is simply no coding project that I would be willing to undertake for $100--it would take more than that in my time just to get the environment setup. But on the sites I looked at some fairly non-trivial hacks were going for $10-20.
You don't get it. The issue here is that the vast bulk of lawyers exist only to protect you from issues caused by other lawyers. Whether these are caused by lawmakers, personal injury types, tax lawyers, or what have you, they are still mostly occasioned by lawyers.
Just out of curiosity, which table type were you using in MySQL? I.e. MyISAM or InnoDB? If MyISAM, then I think it's fair to observe that you're really comparing apples and oranges.
The point is not whether MySQL is a "real" database. Clearly, it is a real database that is capable of doing real work.
The point is that, even in recent versions, MySQL has some serious limitations that other OSS databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) do not suffer from, and no really significant corresponding advantages. MySQL was not designed from the ground up to be many things it is now trying to be--it was not designed to support transactions, it was not designed to support foreign keys, it was not designed to support stored procedures. It was initially conceived as a small, fast database for managing very large datasets in a warehousing sort of role. PostgreSQL, on the other hand, was always conceived of as being a heavier-duty database, and this shows in terms of feature completeness and SQL standard compliance.
Given that the performance differential (which was always overstated) has been overcome, why would you want to go with MySQL only to discover what the latest feature to be missed was? What's the advantage to MySQL?
What I really want is an ipod with a touch screen and some PDA software. I tend to think it would be possible (perhaps even easy) to implement the ipod's trademark jog-wheel on a touch screen, and having a 60GB hard drive in a PDA would rock. Plus, it would actually work WELL with Macs, unlike most of the other PDAs on the market.
Fair, to a point. It's not certain how his political enemies would have reacted if he had freed and then married Sally Hemmings instead of having a protracted (but non-adulterous, given the timeframe) affair. Still, his fiscal irresponsibility is close enough to bad morals that I won't argue that aspect of him. As I noted, our founding fathers were all very human
FWIW, I was actually thinking more of Jefferson's failure to free his slaves upon his death, which was in turn driven by his "fiscal irresponsibility" (i.e. greed, laziness, and selfishness.) He could certainly have sacrificed the comforts due his station to free his slaves, if he had chosen to. I have much more admiration for Washington, who was much less principled in the abstract but much more apt to actually turn his principles into action (and did free his slaves upon his death.)
Most of why I call Jefferson a blowhard is not because of his absence from the convention, but because the "wall of separation" quote comes from a much later period when Jefferson was "legacy building." Jefferson's propaganda at that time has given us many utterly misguided understandings of the founding period--e.g. the elevation of the Declartion of Independence to be on a par with the Constitution, when in fact it was more an elegantly written recognition of a fait accompli. The revolutionary war started in 1775, not 1776.
I think your view of the evangelical community is a bit off. It helps to remember that much of what is regarded as set doctrine today (e.g. prohibition of prayer in public schools) was set doctrine in the opposite direction 50 years ago. What happened was that, in the wake of the Scopes trial, many evangelicals basically withdrew themselves from the political process. This was largely occasioned by the rise of Dispensational eschatologies, which led them to regard the public outcry over Scopes as a sure sign of the end. (Lest we forget, the conservatives won Scopes.)
However, starting in the 70's, the sleeping giant of conservative Christianity awoke, and didn't like what it saw. Now they are fighting bitterly to bring church-state issues back to something resembling a happy medium after 50 years of their neglect. Personally, I think that the federal gov't needs to get out of the church state issue, which it has gotten into consequent to Supreme Court rulings on the scope of the 14th ammendment. This is an issue where regional opinions are radically different, and dealing with those sorts of differences is the peculiar genius of federalism.
Of course, who am I to disagree with the Supreme Court?:)
My 4-year-old just LOVES to talk on the phone. "Ya wanna speak to the lady of the house? SURE! I'll get her for ya!" Usually the poor schmucks hang up after about 5 minutes.
In a word: size. One thing I've noticed about Europeans is that they consistently underestimate the sheer size of the US. Let's put it this way: the relatively small area of the US affected by Katrina? That's the size of England.
The bottom line is that Americans drive longs distances because many of us have to drive long distances. I myself live in a rural area, and have to drive 30-40 miles for what many would consider basic things (e.g. to go to a movie theater.) So, while I have little sympathy for the whining of effete suburbanites driving their SUV's, I think it needs to be recognized that a large part of America's economy is neither suburban nor effete, and high gas prices hurt us badly.
That's really the core reason that we choose to be taxed in other ways, and it's also why America is so much more successful than Europe. If you look at the per capita GDP of most European countries, they would rate 48th in the nation. Sorry we don't imitate you.
I certainly agree that the young republic was seeking to distance itself from partisan discord. However, I have to disagree that the best way to characterize this was as a "wall of separation" between church and state, whatever Jefferson said. Jefferson was a blowhard with grand ideas and bad morals who wasn't even involved in the Constitutional convention--I don't take him very seriously.
Is "wall of separation" really the best way of understanding the establishment and free exercise clauses? I don't think so. Instead, I think we need to recognize two things: first, the approval of the fourteenth ammendment has expanded this beyond recognition, since it has taken what was meant to be a ban on Federal establishment of and interference with religion and turned it into a ban on all government doing the same. At the time of the constitution, Massachussetts was a theocracy! Second, much of the thinking on this subject has been guided by ideologies overtly hostile to Christianity--i.e. militant atheism and agressive pluralism. Is it really a violation of the establishment clause for some school teacher, working for a county in Virginia, to pray with a student? Does it really constitute a violation to put a copy of the ten commandments on a courthouse wall along with a copy of the Magna Carta and the code of Hammurabi? Is it really an establishment issue to allow a community group to put a nativity scene on the courthouse steps? Current legal decision regarding church and state issues seems to be not so much designed to enable the free exercise of religion in the public sphere as to prohibit it in every case possible.
The point then is that America was not a "Christian nation", but neither was America founded on the position that America should drive religion from the public sphere--which is the end objective of many on the religious left. Instead, the goal was to avoid sectarian tensions overwhelming the new republic. This is a very different thing.
I have to admit that I had not tried Opera in years. However, I decided to go ahead and try it again since (a) it was free and (b) I've been more or less stuck with IE because of corporate websites that require Microsoft's JVM to work.
Cutting straight to the chase, Opera DOES work with corporate websites that require Microsoft's JVM, and Firefox does not. That's the good news.
Bad news: I think the speed claims may be overblown. I also find the interface a bit klunky. More substantively, the browser would be improved by having it automatically import IE bookmarks. Unfortunately, I had to manually import the bookmarks.
I'm posting it here just so everyone can see... I found it first! I've just updated wikipedia, so it should be out pretty soon. It turns out that Laura DiDio has been sensationalist throughout her career, and that she was intimately involved in the Amityville Horror hoax. In particular, she did the first story, and later brought in a bunch of "paranormal investigators" to look into it. Remember, you heard it here first;)
We were doing much the same thing until we discovered that our infant child had high blood lead levels. I had always thought that the issue was kids eating paint chips--well, that's bad, but what's worse is kids (and adults) breathing the dust kicked up by renovations in homes with lead paint. It is very difficult to avoid kicking up dust from plaster walls and paint, so you need to make sure that you are taking steps to protect yourself and your children! I mean it! This is double-plus-un-good.
The older the home, the more dangerous it may be, as paint manufacturers steadily cut the lead content of their paints from the turn of the century on. Don't guess, get it checked. And, if you have children, walk away and bleed money if you have to rather than expose them to lead.
That's what we did, and I now own a home built in 2003, and am very grateful that I don't need to worry about my kids' being poisoned by it.
Motherboards, chipsets, video cards, hell even computer cases are all part of the Apple experience.
Yeah, I'll say. You've never had the apple experience until you've had a broken hinge on your Titanium powerbook that requires you to unglue (!!) the screen to replace.
Or, for that matter, you've never had the apple experience until you've done body work to pull out the dings on your Aluminum powerbook.
I do wish you had picked a different verse... it's not all that dull, even in the Hebrew Bible! Take Isaiah 20:1-6:
1 In the year that the supreme commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it- 2 at that time the LORD spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, "Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet." And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.
3 Then the LORD said, "Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush, [a] 4 so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared--to Egypt's shame. 5 Those who trusted in Cush and boasted in Egypt will be afraid and put to shame. 6 In that day the people who live on this coast will say, 'See what has happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?' " IS 20.1-6
Yes, that does mean Isaiah walked around starkers for 3 years, in case you were wondering:)
Aside from that, however, I think you have a point. But it might be fair to wonder whether text books aren't more reference material than reading material? When I was an undergrad, I think I used them mostly for the homework questions and relied on my notes for everything else.
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Without any more information, you've got a bad NIC, almost certainly. Look on the switch for the port whose light is always on. As you've describe it, software has almost nothing to do with it. This is a NIC, or a bad switch, or bad cabling, or something.
I had the same problem when I was on DirecWay, with more or less the identical response. Fortunately, I was able to get terrestrial wireless a couple of months later, but the point is that the editors frankly don't give a damn about their customers. It would be trivially easy to implement something that would eliminate these restrictions for logged in users with high karma (or users who are more than "X" years old, or implement one of these wacky text code things for users on problem subnets, or whatever) but they just can't be bothered.
For people who spend an awful lot of time demanding that their point of view be heard, the gay community seems awfully ready to use any means possible, including prejudicial and inflammatory rhetoric, to make sure that others points of view are silenced or at least ignored.
Really, I'm complaining about both. The amount of metadata is a pain in the neck, but XML makes it really odious by it's verbosity. Yes, a good IDE (like Eclipse) can simplify matters by doing a lot of the closing tags, etc., but it is still very verbose. This ends up meaning that it is very hard for a human to read. I much prefer something like YAML to XML, and RoR indeed uses YAML in the odd places where configuration is needed. YAML may not be as "correct" in some sense as XML, but it is certainly adequate for the task and doesn't take nearly the time to decipher that XML does.
First of all, I don't think anyone is suggesting (or any court would uphold) that you need a license to your own genes. Instead, what is patented is the use of the gene in commercial processes. For example, my sister uses insulin made in such a way, and that this insulin is available is a Good Thing.
Second, take a look at the long view. A patent expires after 26 years. But 27 years from now we will still have the genuine innovation that the patents encouraged. The bottom line is that biotech is expensive to conduct, and these discoveries are not (so far as I can tell, but I'm no biologist) obvious. They required a lot of work, and a lot of expense. Commercializing them to develop new drugs requires even more work and even more expense. A patent ensures that as soon as the research is published (and peer-reviewed) it's not hijaaked by another company.
This doesn't mean that companies should be given a free hand on biotech patents, exploiting their monopoly charging exhorbitant rates to get maassive returns on investment for their shareholders to the detriment of the common good-but that genetic patents are not really the same problem as software patents, nor are they the same problem as copyright.
Something to think about. I'll take my thrashing now.
Whichever way is probably valid, but I try to avoid tying the view to the database whenever ? can.
However, I'll be the first to admit that I'm not into the theoretical aspects of programming languages. I mostly just like to get programs written in as little time as possible.
I did find the sibling post, regarding Rails' catching, interesting. Just goes to show that the speed of the language itself is often the smallest factor.
Err... actually, business rules belong in the *model*, not the controller.
On one of the Rails pages they talk about a functional website in less times than other frameworks would have you spend on XML situps, and I have to agree. (Excursus: am I the only one who is underwhelmed with XML for application configuration? Apparently not!) Everything depends much less on configuration and much more on convention. This means less code to debug, which means more time to write the really distinctive stuff that was why you were custom-coding an app in the first place.
Ruby is also a dream come true. The speed of perl, the OO features of python, but without perl's crufty syntax and python's rigidity. Where in the past Ruby was often poorly documented, and sometimes slow and buggy, it has largely overcome these limitations.
Try rails. You'll like it.
I haven't looked at this particular site, but the ones I looked at were dominated by foreign nationals working from foreign locales with absurdly low (by North American standards) bids. There is simply no coding project that I would be willing to undertake for $100--it would take more than that in my time just to get the environment setup. But on the sites I looked at some fairly non-trivial hacks were going for $10-20.
You don't get it. The issue here is that the vast bulk of lawyers exist only to protect you from issues caused by other lawyers. Whether these are caused by lawmakers, personal injury types, tax lawyers, or what have you, they are still mostly occasioned by lawyers.
Just out of curiosity, which table type were you using in MySQL? I.e. MyISAM or InnoDB? If MyISAM, then I think it's fair to observe that you're really comparing apples and oranges.
The point is that, even in recent versions, MySQL has some serious limitations that other OSS databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) do not suffer from, and no really significant corresponding advantages. MySQL was not designed from the ground up to be many things it is now trying to be--it was not designed to support transactions, it was not designed to support foreign keys, it was not designed to support stored procedures. It was initially conceived as a small, fast database for managing very large datasets in a warehousing sort of role. PostgreSQL, on the other hand, was always conceived of as being a heavier-duty database, and this shows in terms of feature completeness and SQL standard compliance.
Given that the performance differential (which was always overstated) has been overcome, why would you want to go with MySQL only to discover what the latest feature to be missed was? What's the advantage to MySQL?
Bring back the Newton, Steve!
Most of why I call Jefferson a blowhard is not because of his absence from the convention, but because the "wall of separation" quote comes from a much later period when Jefferson was "legacy building." Jefferson's propaganda at that time has given us many utterly misguided understandings of the founding period--e.g. the elevation of the Declartion of Independence to be on a par with the Constitution, when in fact it was more an elegantly written recognition of a fait accompli. The revolutionary war started in 1775, not 1776.
I think your view of the evangelical community is a bit off. It helps to remember that much of what is regarded as set doctrine today (e.g. prohibition of prayer in public schools) was set doctrine in the opposite direction 50 years ago. What happened was that, in the wake of the Scopes trial, many evangelicals basically withdrew themselves from the political process. This was largely occasioned by the rise of Dispensational eschatologies, which led them to regard the public outcry over Scopes as a sure sign of the end. (Lest we forget, the conservatives won Scopes.)
However, starting in the 70's, the sleeping giant of conservative Christianity awoke, and didn't like what it saw. Now they are fighting bitterly to bring church-state issues back to something resembling a happy medium after 50 years of their neglect. Personally, I think that the federal gov't needs to get out of the church state issue, which it has gotten into consequent to Supreme Court rulings on the scope of the 14th ammendment. This is an issue where regional opinions are radically different, and dealing with those sorts of differences is the peculiar genius of federalism.
Of course, who am I to disagree with the Supreme Court? :)
My 4-year-old just LOVES to talk on the phone. "Ya wanna speak to the lady of the house? SURE! I'll get her for ya!" Usually the poor schmucks hang up after about 5 minutes.
The bottom line is that Americans drive longs distances because many of us have to drive long distances. I myself live in a rural area, and have to drive 30-40 miles for what many would consider basic things (e.g. to go to a movie theater.) So, while I have little sympathy for the whining of effete suburbanites driving their SUV's, I think it needs to be recognized that a large part of America's economy is neither suburban nor effete, and high gas prices hurt us badly.
That's really the core reason that we choose to be taxed in other ways, and it's also why America is so much more successful than Europe. If you look at the per capita GDP of most European countries, they would rate 48th in the nation. Sorry we don't imitate you.
Is "wall of separation" really the best way of understanding the establishment and free exercise clauses? I don't think so. Instead, I think we need to recognize two things: first, the approval of the fourteenth ammendment has expanded this beyond recognition, since it has taken what was meant to be a ban on Federal establishment of and interference with religion and turned it into a ban on all government doing the same. At the time of the constitution, Massachussetts was a theocracy! Second, much of the thinking on this subject has been guided by ideologies overtly hostile to Christianity--i.e. militant atheism and agressive pluralism. Is it really a violation of the establishment clause for some school teacher, working for a county in Virginia, to pray with a student? Does it really constitute a violation to put a copy of the ten commandments on a courthouse wall along with a copy of the Magna Carta and the code of Hammurabi? Is it really an establishment issue to allow a community group to put a nativity scene on the courthouse steps? Current legal decision regarding church and state issues seems to be not so much designed to enable the free exercise of religion in the public sphere as to prohibit it in every case possible.
The point then is that America was not a "Christian nation", but neither was America founded on the position that America should drive religion from the public sphere--which is the end objective of many on the religious left. Instead, the goal was to avoid sectarian tensions overwhelming the new republic. This is a very different thing.
Cutting straight to the chase, Opera DOES work with corporate websites that require Microsoft's JVM, and Firefox does not. That's the good news.
Bad news: I think the speed claims may be overblown. I also find the interface a bit klunky. More substantively, the browser would be improved by having it automatically import IE bookmarks. Unfortunately, I had to manually import the bookmarks.
Otherwise, looks pretty good.
I'm posting it here just so everyone can see ... I found it first! I've just updated wikipedia, so it should be out pretty soon. It turns out that Laura DiDio has been sensationalist throughout her career, and that she was intimately involved in the Amityville Horror hoax. In particular, she did the first story, and later brought in a bunch of "paranormal investigators" to look into it. Remember, you heard it here first ;)
The older the home, the more dangerous it may be, as paint manufacturers steadily cut the lead content of their paints from the turn of the century on. Don't guess, get it checked. And, if you have children, walk away and bleed money if you have to rather than expose them to lead.
That's what we did, and I now own a home built in 2003, and am very grateful that I don't need to worry about my kids' being poisoned by it.
Or, for that matter, you've never had the apple experience until you've done body work to pull out the dings on your Aluminum powerbook.
Thanks, but no thanks buddy. :)
Of course, I've never quite had the courage to ask what her basis for comparison was :|
Aside from that, however, I think you have a point. But it might be fair to wonder whether text books aren't more reference material than reading material? When I was an undergrad, I think I used them mostly for the homework questions and relied on my notes for everything else.