I am seeking for lost wisdoms. Modern civilization forgot many of them. One is to understand at the world around *AND* at that process to understand the way how you understand the world.
We lost many wisdoms and we continue loosing them. AI in a big scale failed. Why? Software engineers don't want to work with knowledge: working with bytes is much simpler and mostly reflect the quality of American education. High order functions and high order logic is just too much for an average Joe-Programmer. The software industry rejected the wisdom. I am seeking to find lost wisdoms of software engineering.
In art, compare music of Bach, Mozart or Bethoven with modern noise. Why is it so bad now? Because musicians today do it for money and only for money. They are no different than 300 years ago drunk musicians in a port tavern. Personally, I think that music has finished on Jazz, on after-hours improvisation sessions. Without the wisdom the creativity has left the music. In old records, in new re-improvisations and in classic music performacs I am seeking for lost music wisdoms.
I can continue about painting, literature, movies, theatre, and, of course, about phylosophy. But you've got a point.
Would you classify it as a geekfullness? I don't think about that. All I want is to find the most I can and to pass the most I can to others, thus saving what I found from being lost finally (or reducing the chance of being finally lost).
I thought Linux claimed SCO irrelevant even before suite: I saw SCO customers migrating from SCO Unix to Linux (I've been seeing it for about 8 years, since I did it myself), but I've never seen Linux users migrating to SCO.
Excelent! Then all we have to do, in order to fight the spam, is to spam! Yes, let's flood all possible goverment organizations and departments. And once they will be/.ed the only way for them to survive will be to make a spam illegal. But that's exactly what we need!
So, let's do it! Now, can anyone publish the list of email from goverment job pages?
I manage the proprietary site which has gathered so far more than 2 thousands of various documents (pages, images, messages, files, etc). Periodically I have to make a stress testing and it keeps more than 100 simultaniosly requesting users on a pretty regular PC server. It has archiving, backup and even replication (sort of) to the cold-backup (stand-by) site.
But I already think to migrate it to accept a bigger user base. The key solution that will lets us doing it is ZEO - Zope Enterprise Objects, which turns the Zope object system into a distributed architecture, allowing multiple processors, machines, and networks to act as one website.
Here is more information from ZEO documentation about when you should use ZEO:
ZEO serves many hits in a fail-safe way. If your site does not get millions of hits, then you probably don't need ZEO. There is no hard-and-fast rule about when you should and should not use ZEO, but for the most part you should not need to run ZEO unless:
Your site is getting too many hits for your computer to handle them quickly. Zope is a high-performance system, and one Zope can handle millions of hits per day (depending on your hardware, of course). If you need to serve more hits than that, then you should use ZEO.
Your site is very critical and requires constant, 24/7 uptime. In this case, ZEO will allow you to have multiple fail-over servers.
You want to distribute your site globally to many different mirror ZEO clients.
You want to debug one ZEO client while others are still serving requests. This is a very advanced technique for Python developers and is not covered in this book.
All of these cases are fairly advanced, high-end uses of Zope. Installing, configuring, and maintaining systems like these requires advanced system administration knowledge and resources. Most Zope users will not need ZEO, or may not have the expertise necessary to maintain a distributed server system like ZEO. ZEO is fun, and can be very useful, but before jumping head-first and installing ZEO in your system you should weigh the extra administrative burden ZEO creates against the simplicity of running just a simple, stand-alone Zope.
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If you want to talk to strangers (customers, employers, students) then don't give them up your email address. instead, give them the URl to the web page where they have to leave the message. And make sure that the form is protected against the web-bots: put the image with barely (for OCR) readable word that a user must input to a field in order to make the form valid.
Don't forget to exceuse that this page is the protection against spammers and once you've got the message then the person email address will be included to the whitelist and the rest of communication will go through a regular email way. BTW, it's your choice - will you add the email address to the whitelist automatically as a part of the form submission (seems like the stranger is not a bot at least) or manually after you read the actual message (to make sure that you really want to talk to the stranger).
I can create (and debug) such page in about an hour. If you don;t know how to program - ask you programming friend. But don't leave the spammer any chance - keep your email behind the whitelist!
If that chip can make 1.8 Billion instruction/sec/sec = 1.8 Billion instructions then after that it what? Stops?
Man, you are certainly tired from your car, which makes 100 mph per hour = 100 miles/hour/hour = 100 miles = it runs 100 miles and then it stops and doesn't move unless it will be fixed again in the garage.
P.S. I am sorry if I did not understand that you mean that CPU increases it's frequency by 1.8GHz every sec, so in 10 seconds it runs on 18GHz, in 100 seconds - on 180GHz and in 1000 seconds it runs on 1.8THz and so on and on and nothing can stop it unless the human (the God of computers!) will use the hand to switch it off (even the God can be scared!).
Chimps have had 4-7 million years since we split from a common ancestor (according to the article) and they're still swinging in trees. Humans are reaching for the stars.
I am not sure about stars - we still just watch them, same as chimps. But... Let me put it in another way:
4-7 millions? What took us so long to grow finally up (or to degrade ultimately down?) for being capable of inventing drugs, porno, weapons, poisons, nuke bombs and space shuttles, democracy and capitalism, heavy metal and fast food - everything that makes our life so misarable and desirable at the same time?
Unless there is a proprietary hardware behind or proprietary technology to make such hardware - ALL SOFTWARE IS ALL ABOUT CONCEPT. In other words, in software there is nothing else but concept. Either it a concept of a single bit, or the concept of their combinations, or it's a concept of language: symbols and their meening.
US patent system is going to screw whole US economy more and more. Soon, any software development will be outsourced offshore not b/c of the price of american human resource (americans are the most expensive and that already really unreasonable counting their low intellectual quality), but b/c it will involve less IP problems to develop a software in a free world rather than in USA.
Personally, I think that American industry of software development is dead. Partially - thanks to US Patent Office.
You heard many stories as russian mafia groups kill some of each other when they devide something. But also there are many cases when russian politicians are killed for no economical reason. Often after demanding of investigation of activity of official russian security services.
There was a repression of soviet communists before 1989, not it's a repression of russian mafia, which is a huge iceberg, and a top of it is a Russian Goverment.
By the way, do you know where most of communists gone? Nowhere! They sit in same chairs in the same rooms. They just changed the sign on the door of their office.
And speaking of a repressive state, most of russians think that the current goverment is doing a genocide of the own people. It's the same as it was in Camboja, just it's better organized in order to prevent any international sanctions.
I agree, sometimes it's easy to move to alternative algorithm. But the problem is that it's not always economically convinient. And once we talk about economy and competition then don't forget: it's a world of mostly capitalism. I mean the whole world, not just USA.
I think that there will be more and more cases when some projects will emmigrate to other countries, where Open Source is more appreciated than in USA, where there is no such lobbiing pressure of Microsoft as in USA. And where software is math, while file/message formats as well as protocols are languages and thus they both cannot be patented.
Look, INS now protects american job market from being infestated by H1B alliens. What's happening? Companies outsource projects offshore. Samething will happen in IP area.
In Canada we have perhaps more free space. Peronally I can host one PC server (if it still works and it's not really noisy!) in my apartment. Send it over here to Canada.
Ok then, I'll combine all three together: I'll use those my accounts that doesn't have any of my personal ID *AND* I'll publish the code under GPL on Sourceforge/Savanna-like servers colocated in software-patent-free countries. So now what?
Yes, that's right, I forgot to mention in my previous post: US is the country with the worst patent laws. In many other countries software (code and algorithms) is math and as such it cannot be patented. File and message formats as well as protocols are languages and as such they cannot be patented.
Have you ever thought why Linus Torvalds is hosting the tree on BitKeeper in Australia? He, personally, works in Sillicon Valley. But b/c of the collective nature of the project and often anonymous participation (at least no personal ID is required - so no personal proof) - he can live and work safe in California even if some crazy guys from SCO would publish their company's IP code into the kernel and later SCO will try to sue him personally (it's just an example, no real connection to the recent SCO lawsuit).
Speaking about private detectives - what are they goind to do if I don't have any plans to go to USA? To kill me?
You can turn it off - it run by commercial companies.
But you can wait untill Congress will turn GPL off - on the territory of USA of course (unless they will send USA Army to liberate other peoples from GPL dictatorship). Then Americans will have a pleasure to see as year by year their economy is going more and more down, while in the rest of the world it's going up.
The ultimate outcome will be good: USA will be one of the other countries, *A* country (not *the* country as it is now). Finally. Perhaps that will teach Americans to respect the rest of the world, not to control it.
1. If I would publish the code under GPL and then people will improve and enhance it, and then they will fork ii, still under GPL - what can you do about it?
2. Sourceforge doesn't require from me any legal ID: I can host the project under any name I want.
3. Americans still forget that Internet is not a WAN of USA - it's international. If people around the world will publish the implemetation, that is in infringement of US patent, what is a patent holder going to do about it? Send US Army there?
Remember PGP? Well, there was no any infringement of the pattented process, but the way how the code has left USA was certainly a violation of US export rules. And what has US govt done about to prevent, stop or revert it?
I also think that US patent system is obsolete, it doesn't reflect the reality, it doesn't help small and mid business to compete free and it doesn't motivate individual and small-biz inventors to invent. All it does is it pretends that it protects interests of big corps, but in fact it doesn't protect even their interests anymore. It's a bad legacy that must be wiped out.
Lemme try one more time: it worth to remind OSX zealots that there is another choice. And it's good to put that reminder in the place where all OSX zealots would look at first. You've noticed it, you even talk to me - so it works:)
Personally, I run Gentoo Linux PPC and have the best possible performace I can get on the hardware. But from time to time I have to run MOL (with Macos9) in order to run:
games - there are some good educational games, not ported to Linux (ppc) yet;
flash - there are some site with good content but with bad design decisions to limit to only flash compatible users;
Also I have to reboot to Macos directly some times for other reasons: scanner, DVD playing.
But b/c I do it very occasionly I don't need OSX - Macos9 is more than enough.
I got it. If you would do whoising them for mysql.org domain then the system will choke:)
... just kidding. I think nothing wrong neither with PostgreSQL nor with.ORG registrar. What's wrong is what's with/. editors letting through such crazy "news".
I was reading in some article few weeks ago that last fall Microsoft reps have visiting one UUG on the East coast and asked them question what they would like to see in the next release of a server OS from MS that would make them to like to use that OS. Many Unixoids have openly answered, like about CLI, scripting etc.
Who knows, maybe Microsoft Unix won't be an oxymoron anymore.
Besides, having a Unix license Bill Gates can control not only 90% of a desktop market, but also 90% of OS vendors. I doubt he will lose such a chance.
2005: the last sale of a cell-phone without internet connection;
2006: the last sale of a cell-phone without embedded PDA;
2007: first cell-phone (with PDA) implaneted to the brain for direct connections with voice, messages and IP;
2008: first beowulf cluster based on brain-implanted cell-PDAs;
2009: the last porn-site is closed, now it goes virtual on IRC;
2010: the last sale of a PC - people use only brain-implanted cell-PDAs;
2011: self-repairable servers;
2012: the last travelling to the work;
2013: the last social contact done at physical meeting;
???
2020: Matrix?
2030: Matrix reloaded?
And what's changed since then? Nothing. I am working with both Java and Python no both GUI-client and web-server sides since all these year and I can tell: all proportions between Java and Python hasn't been changed. JVM is still big, it starts slow, it has huge memory leaks and it breaks compatibility every minor release. Python interpreter starts fast and it's small.
But don't even think about starting a flame war: I will talk only to people who has production-quality experience with both Java and Python.
There are few cases where you would prefer Java. In the rest of application Python is more appropriate. The major benefit java has got all these years is Sun, IBM and others who are eager for profit and who is ready to do everything for that. That's why they are aggresively pushing Java to the market. It was easy for them as most of IT/SE managers blindly accepted everything from advertisement.
1999? It's even proves more: since that time Sun hasn't changed anything to improve the situation. Why. B/c they didn't have to. No need to invest money to engineering department in order to improve Java if marketing department works much better. All they added for these years were features good for marketing.
At the same time, these years, Python has been improved a lot targeting the quality of python-based application: the language, the interpreter performance and it's stability. Without any commercial push, Python is coming more and more popular. For me - the best ad is no ad but still sucess.
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We lost many wisdoms and we continue loosing them. AI in a big scale failed. Why? Software engineers don't want to work with knowledge: working with bytes is much simpler and mostly reflect the quality of American education. High order functions and high order logic is just too much for an average Joe-Programmer. The software industry rejected the wisdom. I am seeking to find lost wisdoms of software engineering.
In art, compare music of Bach, Mozart or Bethoven with modern noise. Why is it so bad now? Because musicians today do it for money and only for money. They are no different than 300 years ago drunk musicians in a port tavern. Personally, I think that music has finished on Jazz, on after-hours improvisation sessions. Without the wisdom the creativity has left the music. In old records, in new re-improvisations and in classic music performacs I am seeking for lost music wisdoms.
I can continue about painting, literature, movies, theatre, and, of course, about phylosophy. But you've got a point.
Would you classify it as a geekfullness? I don't think about that. All I want is to find the most I can and to pass the most I can to others, thus saving what I found from being lost finally (or reducing the chance of being finally lost).
I wonder, is US Goverment the only one in the world keeping such stupid laws or other countries have same or similar stupidy in place?
I thought Linux claimed SCO irrelevant even before suite: I saw SCO customers migrating from SCO Unix to Linux (I've been seeing it for about 8 years, since I did it myself), but I've never seen Linux users migrating to SCO.
So, let's do it! Now, can anyone publish the list of email from goverment job pages?
Read the book and you'll increase your chances of having a job that would require your reading this book :)
But I already think to migrate it to accept a bigger user base. The key solution that will lets us doing it is ZEO - Zope Enterprise Objects, which turns the Zope object system into a distributed architecture, allowing multiple processors, machines, and networks to act as one website.
Here is more information from ZEO documentation about when you should use ZEO:
ZEO serves many hits in a fail-safe way. If your site does not get millions of hits, then you probably don't need ZEO. There is no hard-and-fast rule about when you should and should not use ZEO, but for the most part you should not need to run ZEO unless:
- Your site is getting too many hits for your computer to handle them quickly. Zope is a high-performance system, and one Zope can handle millions of hits per day (depending on your hardware, of course). If you need to serve more hits than that, then you should use ZEO.
- Your site is very critical and requires constant, 24/7 uptime. In this case, ZEO will allow you to have multiple fail-over servers.
- You want to distribute your site globally to many different mirror ZEO clients.
- You want to debug one ZEO client while others are still serving requests. This is a very advanced technique for Python developers and is not covered in this book.
All of these cases are fairly advanced, high-end uses of Zope. Installing, configuring, and maintaining systems like these requires advanced system administration knowledge and resources. Most Zope users will not need ZEO, or may not have the expertise necessary to maintain a distributed server system like ZEO. ZEO is fun, and can be very useful, but before jumping head-first and installing ZEO in your system you should weigh the extra administrative burden ZEO creates against the simplicity of running just a simple, stand-alone Zope.Don't forget to exceuse that this page is the protection against spammers and once you've got the message then the person email address will be included to the whitelist and the rest of communication will go through a regular email way. BTW, it's your choice - will you add the email address to the whitelist automatically as a part of the form submission (seems like the stranger is not a bot at least) or manually after you read the actual message (to make sure that you really want to talk to the stranger).
I can create (and debug) such page in about an hour. If you don;t know how to program - ask you programming friend. But don't leave the spammer any chance - keep your email behind the whitelist!
Basically, how much really should we thank the guy?
Man, you are certainly tired from your car, which makes 100 mph per hour = 100 miles /hour/hour = 100 miles = it runs 100 miles and then it stops and doesn't move unless it will be fixed again in the garage.
P.S. I am sorry if I did not understand that you mean that CPU increases it's frequency by 1.8GHz every sec, so in 10 seconds it runs on 18GHz, in 100 seconds - on 180GHz and in 1000 seconds it runs on 1.8THz and so on and on and nothing can stop it unless the human (the God of computers!) will use the hand to switch it off (even the God can be scared!).
There is no such thing as 32 bit data or 64 bit data. There is data. Period.
I am not sure about stars - we still just watch them, same as chimps. But... Let me put it in another way:
4-7 millions? What took us so long to grow finally up (or to degrade ultimately down?) for being capable of inventing drugs, porno, weapons, poisons, nuke bombs and space shuttles, democracy and capitalism, heavy metal and fast food - everything that makes our life so misarable and desirable at the same time?
US patent system is going to screw whole US economy more and more. Soon, any software development will be outsourced offshore not b/c of the price of american human resource (americans are the most expensive and that already really unreasonable counting their low intellectual quality), but b/c it will involve less IP problems to develop a software in a free world rather than in USA.
Personally, I think that American industry of software development is dead. Partially - thanks to US Patent Office.
Really? How do you know that?
You heard many stories as russian mafia groups kill some of each other when they devide something. But also there are many cases when russian politicians are killed for no economical reason. Often after demanding of investigation of activity of official russian security services.
There was a repression of soviet communists before 1989, not it's a repression of russian mafia, which is a huge iceberg, and a top of it is a Russian Goverment.
By the way, do you know where most of communists gone? Nowhere! They sit in same chairs in the same rooms. They just changed the sign on the door of their office.
And speaking of a repressive state, most of russians think that the current goverment is doing a genocide of the own people. It's the same as it was in Camboja, just it's better organized in order to prevent any international sanctions.
I think that there will be more and more cases when some projects will emmigrate to other countries, where Open Source is more appreciated than in USA, where there is no such lobbiing pressure of Microsoft as in USA. And where software is math, while file/message formats as well as protocols are languages and thus they both cannot be patented.
Look, INS now protects american job market from being infestated by H1B alliens. What's happening? Companies outsource projects offshore. Samething will happen in IP area.
In Canada we have perhaps more free space. Peronally I can host one PC server (if it still works and it's not really noisy!) in my apartment. Send it over here to Canada.
Yes, that's right, I forgot to mention in my previous post: US is the country with the worst patent laws. In many other countries software (code and algorithms) is math and as such it cannot be patented. File and message formats as well as protocols are languages and as such they cannot be patented.
Have you ever thought why Linus Torvalds is hosting the tree on BitKeeper in Australia? He, personally, works in Sillicon Valley. But b/c of the collective nature of the project and often anonymous participation (at least no personal ID is required - so no personal proof) - he can live and work safe in California even if some crazy guys from SCO would publish their company's IP code into the kernel and later SCO will try to sue him personally (it's just an example, no real connection to the recent SCO lawsuit).
Speaking about private detectives - what are they goind to do if I don't have any plans to go to USA? To kill me?
You can turn it off - it run by commercial companies.
But you can wait untill Congress will turn GPL off - on the territory of USA of course (unless they will send USA Army to liberate other peoples from GPL dictatorship). Then Americans will have a pleasure to see as year by year their economy is going more and more down, while in the rest of the world it's going up.
The ultimate outcome will be good: USA will be one of the other countries, *A* country (not *the* country as it is now). Finally. Perhaps that will teach Americans to respect the rest of the world, not to control it.
2. Sourceforge doesn't require from me any legal ID: I can host the project under any name I want.
3. Americans still forget that Internet is not a WAN of USA - it's international. If people around the world will publish the implemetation, that is in infringement of US patent, what is a patent holder going to do about it? Send US Army there?
Remember PGP? Well, there was no any infringement of the pattented process, but the way how the code has left USA was certainly a violation of US export rules. And what has US govt done about to prevent, stop or revert it?
I also think that US patent system is obsolete, it doesn't reflect the reality, it doesn't help small and mid business to compete free and it doesn't motivate individual and small-biz inventors to invent. All it does is it pretends that it protects interests of big corps, but in fact it doesn't protect even their interests anymore. It's a bad legacy that must be wiped out.
Lemme try one more time: it worth to remind OSX zealots that there is another choice. And it's good to put that reminder in the place where all OSX zealots would look at first. You've noticed it, you even talk to me - so it works :)
Personally, I run Gentoo Linux PPC and have the best possible performace I can get on the hardware. But from time to time I have to run MOL (with Macos9) in order to run:
- games - there are some good educational games, not ported to Linux (ppc) yet;
- flash - there are some site with good content but with bad design decisions to limit to only flash compatible users;
Also I have to reboot to Macos directly some times for other reasons: scanner, DVD playing.But b/c I do it very occasionly I don't need OSX - Macos9 is more than enough.
RTFA:
Does it answer your question?
Who knows, maybe Microsoft Unix won't be an oxymoron anymore.
Besides, having a Unix license Bill Gates can control not only 90% of a desktop market, but also 90% of OS vendors. I doubt he will lose such a chance.
2005: the last sale of a cell-phone without internet connection; 2006: the last sale of a cell-phone without embedded PDA; 2007: first cell-phone (with PDA) implaneted to the brain for direct connections with voice, messages and IP; 2008: first beowulf cluster based on brain-implanted cell-PDAs; 2009: the last porn-site is closed, now it goes virtual on IRC; 2010: the last sale of a PC - people use only brain-implanted cell-PDAs; 2011: self-repairable servers; 2012: the last travelling to the work; 2013: the last social contact done at physical meeting; ??? 2020: Matrix? 2030: Matrix reloaded?
But don't even think about starting a flame war: I will talk only to people who has production-quality experience with both Java and Python.
There are few cases where you would prefer Java. In the rest of application Python is more appropriate. The major benefit java has got all these years is Sun, IBM and others who are eager for profit and who is ready to do everything for that. That's why they are aggresively pushing Java to the market. It was easy for them as most of IT/SE managers blindly accepted everything from advertisement.
1999? It's even proves more: since that time Sun hasn't changed anything to improve the situation. Why. B/c they didn't have to. No need to invest money to engineering department in order to improve Java if marketing department works much better. All they added for these years were features good for marketing.
At the same time, these years, Python has been improved a lot targeting the quality of python-based application: the language, the interpreter performance and it's stability. Without any commercial push, Python is coming more and more popular. For me - the best ad is no ad but still sucess.