I guarantee the first time the feds kick in your neighbors door because of his environmentally friendly methlab you won't give a fuck how they caught him.
you'd think you tree huggin monkey fuckers would be pissed that the by product chemicals that he's dumping into the drains or the backyear (which are much worse than what the local refinery is kicking out) would matter to you, but your insane fear that the govt is looking to implant chips in your brains is clouding your judgement.
Put the tinfoil hat back on, sit back down and shut the fuck up..
god Damn you clueless kneejerk conspiracy theorist fuckwads.
Why the fuck would I care if some jack ass who has a very dangerous methlab next door gets the jackboot in the face by the feds? I don't give a fuck HOW the feds nailed him. I don't care if they hired Gary Coleman to sneak up his arse and hide while recording enough data for the feds to Waco the low life...
The patent laws need to be changed so you can't wait a number of years until infringing technology saturates the market and then pop up and say, "Oh gee. that's my invention. You need to pay me."
Unisys did this with gif's if you remember.
I say Eloas (which is a one man operation if I remember correctly) get's dick.
I would bet Apple would gladly cut a fantastic deal to get their model in the news as being part of one of the fasters supercomputers. They likely paid very little for the hardware.
I just installed Acrobat 6 on an athlon 800Mhz we have here and it installed in about 80 seconds.
You have either:
a) a serious hardware issue with the P4 machine
or
b) a tendency to lie in an effort to boost the mac image
Since you say you upgraded from a Cyrix M3/233 you might just be a simple moron since they haven't made that chip in God knows how many years and it was a shit architecture as well.
The whole story is dubious as why would you buy a p4 serial ata to help you at your freelance gig where you "copy a 17 meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder"?
Fuck Dell and all they are about. We bought a NAS from them (705N) about a year and a half ago. six months out of the gate it stops booting. Powers on but will not come up.
We call them and the guy says. "Well. I've got good news and bad news. We no longer service or make the 705Ns so we will send you a 715N. The bad news is the 715's run windows and the 705's ran Linux. THe drives will not work in the new system."
I asked, "How do we get the data off of the drives then?"
Dell: "I can get you the names of a few data recovery companies that can help you."
I said, "You mean to tell me you have NO spare motherboards around?"
Dell: "No sir, I'm sorry"
I exploded. I expect that if they were recording the call they likely kept it around to listen and laugh at or play at training sessions to get new hires ready for abuse.
The asshole then has the gall to tell me that when we recover the data to send the old hard drives back. We get the new 715N. By the luck of the Irish we find someone with a 705N who lets us use it to get the data transferred to the new 715.
I send the 705 Back with out drives and get a call from Dell. I tell them, "The drives were destroyed by the data recovery place. And we aren't paying for them." I hung up and we never heard from them again..
1) EULAS are only valid if people actually give a shit enough to follow them or care. I disregard EULA's completely and are largely unenforced or unenforceable. They are legal CYA for the most part.
2) Is the EULA in every language that might be spoken? If not I'd bet they have a hard time even attempting to enforce it. Have your non-english speaking IT guy install a fresh copy of whatever on it before he gives it to you..
<sql:statement id="stmt1" conn="conn"> <sql:query> select name from staff </sql:query> <%-- loop through the rows of your query --%> <sql:resultSet id="rset2"> <sql:getColumn position="1"/><br> </sql:resultSet> </sql:statement> <sql:closeConn ection conn="conn"/>
Actually results in more code. I prefer less code for very simple things and sometimes more readable.
Yup. In the newest version cf is compiled directly into servlets.
The JSP/Java crowd thinks the only way to go is Java. Nothing is faster! Nothing is more scalable. Buzzword bingo.. I used to be part of that JSP crowd..
The right tool for the job. That's the key. I wish I had discovered CF earlier than I did.
Since most sites are dynamic and database driven, here's an example.
Clearl y you can see how EASY to debug and understand the JSP code is... This is just one example. I can remember while discovering CF saying over and over. "This CAN'T be right. This would take me 10 times more code in JSP to accomplish the same thing!"
If you have access to both environments running on the same box, do the tests... For many things JSP/Java is no faster than the latest CF and just as portable as JSP.<br><bR>
Macromedia is not going to kill off Coldfusion and replace it with j2EE. CF is built on top of Java and co-exists very well with Java and can even be extended with Java. Other than that they are two completely different types of technology and have two different uses.
Java is for those who still think that Java is the only serious development tool for the net regardless of the long dev cycle and CF is for those who understand that rapid development and ease of maintenance is often key in sucessfull projects.
We were a huge JSP/J2EE/EJB shop and now rarely use it. It's just not necessary... CF is more than capable and just as fast for anything that is not massivly back end heavy.
Intuit learned their lesson by putting product activation in their 2002 version of Turbotax. Thousands of people returned the software (myself being one of them) and let Intuit know about it (again I did), A few months later I get a nice letter telling me that next year they will not be using activation and to please come back to Intuit.
I won't be.. I'll use Taxcut Pro again.. Cheaper and I found to do the job just as well.
When companies use the theoretical losses from piracy (how completely ignorant to assume that every pirated copy would translate to a purchased copy) they can be reactive. When their customers go elsewhere the loss of dollars quickly becomes real.
Symantec products are crap and for years I've been swaying anyone with a computer away from them. Maybe they should have taken some of the money they spent on product activation and spent it on creating a better product. If they were smart they would give the program away for FREE and just charge for the virus defs.
Oh horseshit.. The reason I wouldn't bother recommending Apple hardware is because we can get two machines for the price of one.
The exchange:
Me: I think we should get two of these really cool XServe boxes to act as webserver and for our mail machine.
BOSS: Woah! Why are these boxes so much more expensive than last time we bought servers?
Me: Because these are Apples! Even though they don't have a record of reliability in a server capacity, those hippies at Apple claim these boxes are more reliable and better and we can run Linux on them.
BOSS: But the boxes you've been building are all running that thing you call Linux and we've had no problems. Let's spend half the money and get the Intel boxes instead.
I agree.. If you install a linux box and then not go thru and make sure all of the kiddie-scriptable-spolits are not patched then you get what you deserve. Same goes for windows.
I've never gotten any of the viruses when other people on the same LAN have. Why? BEcause I hit windowsupdate every day or two...
While I will agree that windows is undoubtably a hacky non-secure OS, if you keep up on the patches you will have very little trouble with intrusion.
It just takes more time with windows, something that unfortunately gets left out of the ROI calculations by many jackass business types who stick their nose in the IT decision process.
How absolutely silly this is. About as silly as the one-click patent.
Idiotic patents and patent lawsuits like this actually stifle competition. It will get to a point that unless you have a ton of money to do "due diligence" on every idea you might want to develop, you just won't even attempt to innovate only to find out later that something vaguely similar will get you sued..
I know the/. crowd loves to see big business given the crap end of the stick but suits like this harm the industry as a whole.
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Were you in NYC that day and did something fall on your head?
Right the fuck on...
I guarantee the first time the feds kick in your neighbors door because of his environmentally friendly methlab you won't give a fuck how they caught him.
you'd think you tree huggin monkey fuckers would be pissed that the by product chemicals that he's dumping into the drains or the backyear (which are much worse than what the local refinery is kicking out) would matter to you, but your insane fear that the govt is looking to implant chips in your brains is clouding your judgement.
Put the tinfoil hat back on, sit back down and shut the fuck up..
Or go protest as a starbucks or something.
god Damn you clueless kneejerk conspiracy theorist fuckwads.
Why the fuck would I care if some jack ass who has a very dangerous methlab next door gets the jackboot in the face by the feds? I don't give a fuck HOW the feds nailed him. I don't care if they hired Gary Coleman to sneak up his arse and hide while recording enough data for the feds to Waco the low life...
The patent laws need to be changed so you can't wait a number of years until infringing technology saturates the market and then pop up and say, "Oh gee. that's my invention. You need to pay me."
Unisys did this with gif's if you remember.
I say Eloas (which is a one man operation if I remember correctly) get's dick.
I would bet Apple would gladly cut a fantastic deal to get their model in the news as being part of one of the fasters supercomputers. They likely paid very little for the hardware.
It's a no brainer...
I just installed Acrobat 6 on an athlon 800Mhz we have here and it installed in about 80 seconds.
You have either:
a) a serious hardware issue with the P4 machine
or
b) a tendency to lie in an effort to boost the mac image
Since you say you upgraded from a Cyrix M3/233 you might just be a simple moron since they haven't made that chip in God knows how many years and it was a shit architecture as well.
The whole story is dubious as why would you buy a p4 serial ata to help you at your freelance gig where you "copy a 17 meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder"?
I just complained to their ISP...
I got um. spammed. yea... really I did.
Bullet Proof/Bulk Friendly ISPs
Bullet Proof/Bulk Friendly Email Servers
Bullet Proof/Bulk Friendly Web Hosting
For these items alone it's worth the $20 so you know which ip's to add to the black hole list...
Flip the instances of wintel and apple around and this would have been labelled as either troll or flamebait.
But since it professes the arguable ease of use of the Mac, it's informative..
Bollocks.
Fuck Dell and all they are about. We bought a NAS from them (705N) about a year and a half ago. six months out of the gate it stops booting. Powers on but will not come up.
We call them and the guy says. "Well. I've got good news and bad news. We no longer service or make the 705Ns so we will send you a 715N. The bad news is the 715's run windows and the 705's ran Linux. THe drives will not work in the new system."
I asked, "How do we get the data off of the drives then?"
Dell: "I can get you the names of a few data recovery companies that can help you."
I said, "You mean to tell me you have NO spare motherboards around?"
Dell: "No sir, I'm sorry"
I exploded. I expect that if they were recording the call they likely kept it around to listen and laugh at or play at training sessions to get new hires ready for abuse.
The asshole then has the gall to tell me that when we recover the data to send the old hard drives back. We get the new 715N. By the luck of the Irish we find someone with a 705N who lets us use it to get the data transferred to the new 715.
I send the 705 Back with out drives and get a call from Dell. I tell them, "The drives were destroyed by the data recovery place. And we aren't paying for them." I hung up and we never heard from them again..
Two things:
1) EULAS are only valid if people actually give a shit enough to follow them or care. I disregard EULA's completely and are largely unenforced or unenforceable. They are legal CYA for the most part.
2) Is the EULA in every language that might be spoken? If not I'd bet they have a hard time even attempting to enforce it. Have your non-english speaking IT guy install a fresh copy of whatever on it before he gives it to you..
Ok... in taglib form. For the db connection I actually like the first one better for simple query.
r l>
n ection conn="conn"/>
<%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/dbtags" prefix="sql" %>
<sql:connection id="conn">
<sql:url>jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1/stafffolks</sql:u
<sql:driver>org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver</sql:driver>
</sql:connection>
<sql:statement id="stmt1" conn="conn">
<sql:query>
select name from staff
</sql:query>
<%-- loop through the rows of your query --%>
<sql:resultSet id="rset2">
<sql:getColumn position="1"/><br>
</sql:resultSet>
</sql:statement>
<sql:closeCon
Actually results in more code. I prefer less code for very simple things and sometimes more readable.
Yup. In the newest version cf is compiled directly into servlets.
The JSP/Java crowd thinks the only way to go is Java. Nothing is faster! Nothing is more scalable. Buzzword bingo.. I used to be part of that JSP crowd..
The right tool for the job. That's the key. I wish I had discovered CF earlier than I did.
Since most sites are dynamic and database driven, here's an example.
JSP
-------
<%@ page import="java.sql.*, javax.sql.DataSource, javax.naming.InitialContext" %>
<h1>DATABASE ENTRIES</h1>
<%
InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
DataSource ds = (DataSource) ctx.lookup("jdbc/TestDS");
Connection conn = ds.getConnection();
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT name FROM staff");
while ( rs.next() ) {
out.println( rs.getString("name") + "<br>");
}
conn.close();
%>
COLDFUSION
-- --------
<html>
<h1>DATABASE ENTRIES</h1>
<cfquery name="getstaff" datasource="staff">
SELECT name FROM staff
</cfquery>
<cfoutput query="getstaff">
#name#<br>
</cfoutput>
</html>
Clearl y you can see how EASY to debug and understand the JSP code is... This is just one example. I can remember while discovering CF saying over and over. "This CAN'T be right. This would take me 10 times more code in JSP to accomplish the same thing!"
If you have access to both environments running on the same box, do the tests... For many things JSP/Java is no faster than the latest CF and just as portable as JSP.<br><bR>
Who the fuck mods these things?
Troll me but give a 2 informative to a post that is factually incorrect...
How is this a troll post? Because I think .NEt is shit?!
Whoever modded this should go fuck a chicken.
Obviously you don't use them both.
Macromedia is not going to kill off Coldfusion and replace it with j2EE. CF is built on top of Java and co-exists very well with Java and can even be extended with Java. Other than that they are two completely different types of technology and have two different uses.
Java is for those who still think that Java is the only serious development tool for the net regardless of the long dev cycle and CF is for those who understand that rapid development and ease of maintenance is often key in sucessfull projects.
We were a huge JSP/J2EE/EJB shop and now rarely use it. It's just not necessary... CF is more than capable and just as fast for anything that is not massivly back end heavy.
Intuit learned their lesson by putting product activation in their 2002 version of Turbotax. Thousands of people returned the software (myself being one of them) and let Intuit know about it (again I did), A few months later I get a nice letter telling me that next year they will not be using activation and to please come back to Intuit.
I won't be.. I'll use Taxcut Pro again.. Cheaper and I found to do the job just as well.
When companies use the theoretical losses from piracy (how completely ignorant to assume that every pirated copy would translate to a purchased copy) they can be reactive. When their customers go elsewhere the loss of dollars quickly becomes real.
Symantec products are crap and for years I've been swaying anyone with a computer away from them. Maybe they should have taken some of the money they spent on product activation and spent it on creating a better product. If they were smart they would give the program away for FREE and just charge for the virus defs.
Why not just use what .NET is TRYING very hard to become... Coldfusion
And have code that runs on several different platforms as well..
My God man, in freaking English!
Gee there's a surprise. Incident #25819 Whenever someone says something bad about Apple, mod that bastard down and label it flamebait!
Oh horseshit.. The reason I wouldn't bother recommending Apple hardware is because we can get two machines for the price of one.
The exchange:
Me: I think we should get two of these really cool XServe boxes to act as webserver and for our mail machine.
BOSS: Woah! Why are these boxes so much more expensive than last time we bought servers?
Me: Because these are Apples! Even though they don't have a record of reliability in a server capacity, those hippies at Apple claim these boxes are more reliable and better and we can run Linux on them.
BOSS: But the boxes you've been building are all running that thing you call Linux and we've had no problems. Let's spend half the money and get the Intel boxes instead.
Well maybe if you dumb (L)users would stop using windows and start using Linux you wouldn't have this problem!
Ohh... wait....
Coldfusion is not what is making the site slow unless it's like version 2.
Obviosuly you know nothing about coldfusion as the newer versions rival asp/.net in speed of delivery.
I agree.. If you install a linux box and then not go thru and make sure all of the kiddie-scriptable-spolits are not patched then you get what you deserve. Same goes for windows.
I've never gotten any of the viruses when other people on the same LAN have. Why? BEcause I hit windowsupdate every day or two...
While I will agree that windows is undoubtably a hacky non-secure OS, if you keep up on the patches you will have very little trouble with intrusion.
It just takes more time with windows, something that unfortunately gets left out of the ROI calculations by many jackass business types who stick their nose in the IT decision process.
How absolutely silly this is. About as silly as the one-click patent.
/. crowd loves to see big business given the crap end of the stick but suits like this harm the industry as a whole.
Idiotic patents and patent lawsuits like this actually stifle competition. It will get to a point that unless you have a ton of money to do "due diligence" on every idea you might want to develop, you just won't even attempt to innovate only to find out later that something vaguely similar will get you sued..
I know the