True, java solutions seem confusing and misengineered when you look at them up close, but if you take a step back you'll realize that the usability and maintainability isn't lost, but has been traded for a vast quantity of enterprise. If you don't believe me, just perform these simple calculations to see how much enterprise your software is worth:
Number of Megabytes required to run software * Maximum depth of class hierarchy * Number of lines of XML configuration = Enterprise!
Honestly, if you're going to be reaching around your car and trying to pull your ipod from some crevasse, you should at least slow down to a reasonable speed.
Clearly you've never read the JSR-168 spec or you'd know that portlets are little web applications that adhere to standards so crippling that the easiest way to communicate between two portlets on the same server is to utilize the clients' web browser in a convoluted AJAX hack.
That wonderful feeling of making the password hard to guess, but easy to recall.
The best solution I have found is to use chemical equations. If you can remember the reactants, then you can figure out the products. It's the easiest way I've found to remember passwords with 20+ characters.
didn't consume vast amounts of my precious system memory
I could live with a browser that consumes vast amounts of memory if it would bother to periodically return that memory to the system. I'm likely to be modded down for saying this, but the real (and perhaps only) problem with firefox the memory leak which has pretty much always plagued it.
And before you respond by saying "read article X and change Y in about:config", I suggest you try a simple experiment: Open up a firefox window and start Gmail, leave the window open for several days and monitor how much memory is used each day. The memory will increase over time. Apply the "memory fixes" and run the same experiment. While these hacks can reduce the amount of memory used, they can't fix the memory leak.
Clearly the court prefers that you don't threaten people before you kill them.
Well, clearly slashdot does. Because lets face it, if a student shoots his/her teacher, we probably won't hear about it, but if that same student makes an IM icon and gets reprimanded, we do hear about it.
Every one says you have a monopoly on something, and usually you don't. Indeed, 95% of patent claims have documented prior art in any college library these days.
Yes, but as the RIM/NTP case demonstrated, the validity of the patent has nothing to do with the amount of money that you can still successfully "license" it for. Even though the Supreme Court implemented a workaround for the injunction problem, it is still often cheaper to settle out of court than to fight an invalid patent. If anything, a patent on something that's already known and widely in use is probably worth more.
It's a theory of mine that linking to a reputable site, such as Wikipedia will get any post modded informative, even if the link is completely irrelevant.
Am I right thinking it shouldn't be too difficult to sue Firestarter Software into oblivion?
I counter your "mapping an object model to a relational database" patent with my "mapping a relational database to a magnetic disk" patent of +3 vorpal.
I was curious about this as well. Can someone explain to me how this even got accepted as a patent? How is this really something that they can claim a patent on?
Well, the patent office is funded by the sale of monopolies. A person files an application that says, "I want a patent office on idea A". Now, the patent office can either pay someone to determine if the patent is valid, or they can not pay someone to investigate the patent and grant the patent in exchange for lots of money. As you can see, it's in the patent office's best interest to do their jobs as poorly as possible, and the people paying them certainly aren't going to fire them for it.
It would need some kind of definition to hold up consistently.
How about this: if someone accidentally infringes on a patent then it should be declared obvious. This would eliminate most obvious patents, make submarine patents extremely hard to enforce, and make sure that inventors/developers wouldn't have to constantly look up every trivial thing they think of to make sure they don't owe royalties.
To me, it seems wasteful to donate CPU cycles to drug research, where there's a.001% chance that they'll cure a disease. It makes more sense to look for aliens, where there's a.000001% chance that we'll find intelligent life and they'll cure all disease for us.
Well, one could easily set up a proxy server on this side of the firewall that ignores the reset packets. Then it doesn't matter how the web server is configured.
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I can't wait until they find a planet that's populated by my 8-foot-tall penis monsters.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is a pretty good book.
Well, nowadays, many programs, even those written in C, have some higher-level language built in to them. If you want a good example, look at firefox.
Number of Megabytes required to run software * Maximum depth of class hierarchy * Number of lines of XML configuration = Enterprise!
Honestly, if you're going to be reaching around your car and trying to pull your ipod from some crevasse, you should at least slow down to a reasonable speed.
Clearly you've never read the JSR-168 spec or you'd know that portlets are little web applications that adhere to standards so crippling that the easiest way to communicate between two portlets on the same server is to utilize the clients' web browser in a convoluted AJAX hack.
Better yet, store the names in a Bloom Filter. Sure it's lossy, but it can fit an unlimited number of names into an arbitrarily small space.
The best solution I have found is to use chemical equations. If you can remember the reactants, then you can figure out the products. It's the easiest way I've found to remember passwords with 20+ characters.
I imagine it's about 6/25ths of a full review.
You got your Blog linked on the front page of Slashdot. Now get your butt upstairs, Mom needs help with the dishes!
I could live with a browser that consumes vast amounts of memory if it would bother to periodically return that memory to the system. I'm likely to be modded down for saying this, but the real (and perhaps only) problem with firefox the memory leak which has pretty much always plagued it.
And before you respond by saying "read article X and change Y in about:config", I suggest you try a simple experiment: Open up a firefox window and start Gmail, leave the window open for several days and monitor how much memory is used each day. The memory will increase over time. Apply the "memory fixes" and run the same experiment. While these hacks can reduce the amount of memory used, they can't fix the memory leak.
Futurama, actually.
Once the great british firewall is constructed, they won't need to worry about shutting it down.
Well, clearly slashdot does. Because lets face it, if a student shoots his/her teacher, we probably won't hear about it, but if that same student makes an IM icon and gets reprimanded, we do hear about it.
You know, if you don't agree with the karma system, you can disable karma bonuses.
Yes, but as the RIM/NTP case demonstrated, the validity of the patent has nothing to do with the amount of money that you can still successfully "license" it for. Even though the Supreme Court implemented a workaround for the injunction problem, it is still often cheaper to settle out of court than to fight an invalid patent. If anything, a patent on something that's already known and widely in use is probably worth more.
It's a theory of mine that linking to a reputable site, such as Wikipedia will get any post modded informative, even if the link is completely irrelevant.
This is offtopic, but what's with modding posts "overrated" when they have no other moderations?
It costs too much money to buy patent reform from congress. The only true path to Patent Reform involves reforming the USPTO into a pile of rubble.
I counter your "mapping an object model to a relational database" patent with my "mapping a relational database to a magnetic disk" patent of +3 vorpal.
Well, the patent office is funded by the sale of monopolies. A person files an application that says, "I want a patent office on idea A". Now, the patent office can either pay someone to determine if the patent is valid, or they can not pay someone to investigate the patent and grant the patent in exchange for lots of money. As you can see, it's in the patent office's best interest to do their jobs as poorly as possible, and the people paying them certainly aren't going to fire them for it.
How about this: if someone accidentally infringes on a patent then it should be declared obvious. This would eliminate most obvious patents, make submarine patents extremely hard to enforce, and make sure that inventors/developers wouldn't have to constantly look up every trivial thing they think of to make sure they don't owe royalties.
Well, as long as I'm running the software on my computer at work, it isn't costing me anything.
To me, it seems wasteful to donate CPU cycles to drug research, where there's a .001% chance that they'll cure a disease. It makes more sense to look for aliens, where there's a .000001% chance that we'll find intelligent life and they'll cure all disease for us.
Well, one could easily set up a proxy server on this side of the firewall that ignores the reset packets. Then it doesn't matter how the web server is configured.