Ultimately, there was so much confusion surrounding FL in general, that no recounting actually mattered. The Supreme Court thought it better to end the questioning and assign victory to Bush. I presume this was to make a solid conclusion so that people would know for sure who the president would be, rather than be still wondering weeks later.
Regardless, the shenanigans in FL worked as a delay tactic enough to involve the Supreme Court to finish things off. -N
That's a very obvious statement. You basically said that a bad program written in one language could have been written better in the other language. But any program written badly in any language is going to be better when written better, regardless of language.
The comparison I believe the original post was making was between a good VB app and a good C app and between those, I'm guessing the C one would be better. -N
If search engines become responsible for the accuracy of their searches, then that's going to become risky business, especially when everyone's always just a little lower in the rankings than they'd like to be.
Worse for Google is that an insurance company is going to have lots of money and can easily afford to mount a very strong case against them. Hopefully, Google will have some luck, but it sounds like the similar case won't stand to help them much. -N
In my head, insurance agents who are capitalizing on this FUD are on par with amublance chasers sitting in the ER waiting room. Maybe that's a little harsh though towards the ambulance chasers, because at least they are around potential clients.
Offering this kind of insurance only perpetuates the FUD that Linux/OSS/FS/etc are not safe. Maybe if they offered this as general purpose software insurance, rather than targetting open source, I'd be more understanding. But offering it only for open source software essentially sends the message that IP infringement is common in open source software, but never happens in proprietary. -N
IEE Spectrum in January had an article about this coming - I'm a little behind in magazine reading. Looks like it could be awesome for moving my server backups off server without making my bandwidth charges skyrocket.
Unfortunately, the SCSI version isn't out yet - expected sometime this quarter I understand. The USB 2.0 and ATAPI versions won't work with my servers though. I only hope that typical SCSI removeable media drivers in Linux will work with it - they say Linux support won't be ready until the second half of 2004, but who knows what that means...
Anyway, I'm hopeful for one of these... There is definitely a need for backup media that is larger than a DVD in the small business world and probably the home markets as well. -N
I won't disagree, but I don't believe statistics as a general rule. What they hypothesized, and they did make it clear that it was only a suggested explanation, made sense to me. Sometimes common sense is more valuable than statistics and numbers, which is why I brought the half-conversations bit up as an interesting hypothesis.
And the part about the ringtones was just my own personal rant;-) -N
I rather like their hypothesis that people pay more attention to half a conversation than a full one and it seems it may be dead on. While I don't particularly listen in on others' conversations, I know I definitely overhear a cell conversation, even at normal volume, because having only half the conversation seems to leave my brain wondering and pondering the other half more.
Although, I can't believe they don't think the rings are annoying. I just wish a phone could have at least one decent normal ringer now... I don't want a song, but there really aren't options other than those now. The most recent phone we bought was for my fiance and all the rings it came with were songs. We figured we'd download something normal and only found more songs. Ultimately, we just picked the song ringer that sounded the least annoying. -N
No offense, but you sound like a PHB. Just because you want to do more, doesn't mean you can.
My brother and I run our own business that has lately been having many problems with this. We've been doing all the same things mentioned in this story and hopefully will soon work out to a resolution.
But just because I recognize that all I can do is limited to all AOL can let me do doesn't mean I am just an employee who doesn't rely on his job for his livelihood. -N
I think you're interpreting the sentence wrong. I read it that Microsoft has to give relevant information to competing products that they can interoperate with Windows machines. What really differentiates a server from a desktop these days, except for how its setup.
Ultimately, if Microsoft has to allow other server products to interact with its desktops, then other desktops will also be able to interact with it's desktops and when Microsoft makes a server worth using, it'll be based on their desktops, so they will play along too. -N
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I didn't say there isn't bias. I would be naive to suggest there isn't. Being able to read through the bias is part of reading anything presented as news.
But ultimately, you've got to consider that very seem thing when you read something pro-Microsoft too. I pointed out the bias in your corollary, which was rather silly, but they ignored most Microsoft-related security breaches and by doing so, counted Linux as more insecure.
If you don't want to read slashdot, then don't. I'm guessing you won't be missed. -N
I personally think that it's becoming the groupthink/chic thing to do to point out that the Slashdot crowd doesn't like Microsoft.
Personally, I'd say the posting of that story should stand as proof that Slashdot isn't so biased as you seem to indicate. Moreover, whenever good news for Microsoft is posted here, it's generally studied with great detail and flaws are exposed in the methodology. For example, in the story you mention, they ignored worms, viruses, trojans, etc, because they didn't involve a person specifically targetting a specific windows machine for an intrusion. I remember thinking that the only valuable thing to come of that study was that Linux/Unix/whatever required actual human intervention to break into it, while Microsoft wasn't worth the bother when a thousand automated tools do it for you. -N
Perhaps you're a WPI grad like me? Personally, I'll admit that it sucks to see MIT get all of the attention for tech schools in the northeast and a certain amount of jealousy will always reside in me.
But then again, to ignore the fact that MIT is also obviously a really good school is just silly and petty. -N
It sounds like you've got really high expectations for "new technology" or what qualifies as new. Given that, consider the last 5 great things you consider "new technology" and aks yourself how often they come out. Is it so unreasonable that there isn't an announcement every year about a new technology that you consider new? -N
If you're worried about the government infecting open source projects with hidden code or something, then don't. It's open - that's the point. At the very worst, it would be on par with the proprietary software in use now. Hidden code would be seen.
Are you concerned that the government will screw up open source with bad management? So don't use software that is run by bad managers - simple solution. It's not like you don't have choices. If someone doesn't like the direction a government entity is taking a project, it will fork - not unlike the way things are now.
I just hope you don't get modded insightful as this sounds like one of those comments that gets insightful when it's anything but. -N
While a good point, perhaps, I'm sure the government has no interest in even considering that unless they have the necessary government classification clearances, which I'm guessing would be pretty high given the assumed use of a database of this magnitude. -N
I used to use ColdFusion back when there was a good Linux server for it. I also used to code with HomeSite and/or ColdFusion Studio through WINE when I was coding for ColdFusion. When Macromedia bought Allaire, that all went to hell. Their next Linux server was for ColdFusion MX and it was a horrible product. Completely unreliable and completely rewritten to be a Java plugin to a plugin to Apache, rather than the native Apache module as it had been. Further, the CF community wouldn't hear from Macromedia for months at a time while they promised patches and updates galore.
Meanwhile, we returned our copy of ColdFusion MX Server, which wasn't that hard since the support staff was used to taking those calls. We stuck with the older CF server and are almost done porting to PHP. Further, eventually, I discovered Quanta and so no longer care about using HomeSite/CF Studio under WINE.
Obviously, our new setup doesn't take well to Flash, but that's for designers more than developers like us, so I don't feel a loss. We've found the free software world's equivalent and we've found it's better, cheaper, and far more reliable.
From the sound of it, they're going to do like Corel did and make WINE-compatible programs, but as I recall Corel actually had to package an entire WINE distribution with their software to make it work reliably - not exactly efficient. We'll see, but it's going to be awhile before I trust Macromedia to do anything good with Linux for a bit. -N
That is the point of brake fluid. But when it boils, the gas is compressible and so the pressure is gone. It only takes a little bit of water moisture to turn into enough steam to kill your brakes. And water will boil much sooner than brake fluid. Realistically, any car with enough mileage (100k+ especially) should have the brake fluid tested regularly for moisture. I learned the hard way before I knew enough about cars when my brakes went out while going down a mountain and I got lucky. -N
I call BS. Water in your brake lines would boil the first time you tapped the brakes. Brake fluid doesn't boil for hundreds of degrees where as water would boil just coming near your brakes. Once it boils, you've got no brake pressure and you better hope your parking brake has some tension. -N
I disagree... I've finally been migrating our web services to PHP code and things have never been better. The ColdFusion days are close to gone now. -N
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Ultimately, there was so much confusion surrounding FL in general, that no recounting actually mattered. The Supreme Court thought it better to end the questioning and assign victory to Bush. I presume this was to make a solid conclusion so that people would know for sure who the president would be, rather than be still wondering weeks later.
Regardless, the shenanigans in FL worked as a delay tactic enough to involve the Supreme Court to finish things off.
-N
That's a very obvious statement. You basically said that a bad program written in one language could have been written better in the other language. But any program written badly in any language is going to be better when written better, regardless of language.
The comparison I believe the original post was making was between a good VB app and a good C app and between those, I'm guessing the C one would be better.
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True, technically. But personally, I find Google's Ads so appropriate to my searches most of the time, I just consider them results.
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If search engines become responsible for the accuracy of their searches, then that's going to become risky business, especially when everyone's always just a little lower in the rankings than they'd like to be.
Worse for Google is that an insurance company is going to have lots of money and can easily afford to mount a very strong case against them. Hopefully, Google will have some luck, but it sounds like the similar case won't stand to help them much.
-N
In my head, insurance agents who are capitalizing on this FUD are on par with amublance chasers sitting in the ER waiting room. Maybe that's a little harsh though towards the ambulance chasers, because at least they are around potential clients.
Offering this kind of insurance only perpetuates the FUD that Linux/OSS/FS/etc are not safe. Maybe if they offered this as general purpose software insurance, rather than targetting open source, I'd be more understanding. But offering it only for open source software essentially sends the message that IP infringement is common in open source software, but never happens in proprietary.
-N
IEE Spectrum in January had an article about this coming - I'm a little behind in magazine reading. Looks like it could be awesome for moving my server backups off server without making my bandwidth charges skyrocket.
Unfortunately, the SCSI version isn't out yet - expected sometime this quarter I understand. The USB 2.0 and ATAPI versions won't work with my servers though. I only hope that typical SCSI removeable media drivers in Linux will work with it - they say Linux support won't be ready until the second half of 2004, but who knows what that means...
Anyway, I'm hopeful for one of these... There is definitely a need for backup media that is larger than a DVD in the small business world and probably the home markets as well.
-N
I won't disagree, but I don't believe statistics as a general rule. What they hypothesized, and they did make it clear that it was only a suggested explanation, made sense to me. Sometimes common sense is more valuable than statistics and numbers, which is why I brought the half-conversations bit up as an interesting hypothesis.
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And the part about the ringtones was just my own personal rant
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I rather like their hypothesis that people pay more attention to half a conversation than a full one and it seems it may be dead on. While I don't particularly listen in on others' conversations, I know I definitely overhear a cell conversation, even at normal volume, because having only half the conversation seems to leave my brain wondering and pondering the other half more.
Although, I can't believe they don't think the rings are annoying. I just wish a phone could have at least one decent normal ringer now... I don't want a song, but there really aren't options other than those now. The most recent phone we bought was for my fiance and all the rings it came with were songs. We figured we'd download something normal and only found more songs. Ultimately, we just picked the song ringer that sounded the least annoying.
-N
No offense, but you sound like a PHB. Just because you want to do more, doesn't mean you can.
My brother and I run our own business that has lately been having many problems with this. We've been doing all the same things mentioned in this story and hopefully will soon work out to a resolution.
But just because I recognize that all I can do is limited to all AOL can let me do doesn't mean I am just an employee who doesn't rely on his job for his livelihood.
-N
I think you're interpreting the sentence wrong. I read it that Microsoft has to give relevant information to competing products that they can interoperate with Windows machines. What really differentiates a server from a desktop these days, except for how its setup.
Ultimately, if Microsoft has to allow other server products to interact with its desktops, then other desktops will also be able to interact with it's desktops and when Microsoft makes a server worth using, it'll be based on their desktops, so they will play along too.
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I didn't say there isn't bias. I would be naive to suggest there isn't. Being able to read through the bias is part of reading anything presented as news.
But ultimately, you've got to consider that very seem thing when you read something pro-Microsoft too. I pointed out the bias in your corollary, which was rather silly, but they ignored most Microsoft-related security breaches and by doing so, counted Linux as more insecure.
If you don't want to read slashdot, then don't. I'm guessing you won't be missed.
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I personally think that it's becoming the groupthink/chic thing to do to point out that the Slashdot crowd doesn't like Microsoft.
Personally, I'd say the posting of that story should stand as proof that Slashdot isn't so biased as you seem to indicate. Moreover, whenever good news for Microsoft is posted here, it's generally studied with great detail and flaws are exposed in the methodology. For example, in the story you mention, they ignored worms, viruses, trojans, etc, because they didn't involve a person specifically targetting a specific windows machine for an intrusion. I remember thinking that the only valuable thing to come of that study was that Linux/Unix/whatever required actual human intervention to break into it, while Microsoft wasn't worth the bother when a thousand automated tools do it for you.
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Perhaps you're a WPI grad like me? Personally, I'll admit that it sucks to see MIT get all of the attention for tech schools in the northeast and a certain amount of jealousy will always reside in me.
But then again, to ignore the fact that MIT is also obviously a really good school is just silly and petty.
-N
It sounds like you've got really high expectations for "new technology" or what qualifies as new. Given that, consider the last 5 great things you consider "new technology" and aks yourself how often they come out. Is it so unreasonable that there isn't an announcement every year about a new technology that you consider new?
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It sounds like you're joking, but just in case...
If you're worried about the government infecting open source projects with hidden code or something, then don't. It's open - that's the point. At the very worst, it would be on par with the proprietary software in use now. Hidden code would be seen.
Are you concerned that the government will screw up open source with bad management? So don't use software that is run by bad managers - simple solution. It's not like you don't have choices. If someone doesn't like the direction a government entity is taking a project, it will fork - not unlike the way things are now.
I just hope you don't get modded insightful as this sounds like one of those comments that gets insightful when it's anything but.
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I don't believe you, but in order to prove you wrong, I have to fall for it. Tough decisions...
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Not here yet. Blame Holden
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While a good point, perhaps, I'm sure the government has no interest in even considering that unless they have the necessary government classification clearances, which I'm guessing would be pretty high given the assumed use of a database of this magnitude.
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I used to use ColdFusion back when there was a good Linux server for it. I also used to code with HomeSite and/or ColdFusion Studio through WINE when I was coding for ColdFusion. When Macromedia bought Allaire, that all went to hell. Their next Linux server was for ColdFusion MX and it was a horrible product. Completely unreliable and completely rewritten to be a Java plugin to a plugin to Apache, rather than the native Apache module as it had been. Further, the CF community wouldn't hear from Macromedia for months at a time while they promised patches and updates galore.
Meanwhile, we returned our copy of ColdFusion MX Server, which wasn't that hard since the support staff was used to taking those calls. We stuck with the older CF server and are almost done porting to PHP. Further, eventually, I discovered Quanta and so no longer care about using HomeSite/CF Studio under WINE.
Obviously, our new setup doesn't take well to Flash, but that's for designers more than developers like us, so I don't feel a loss. We've found the free software world's equivalent and we've found it's better, cheaper, and far more reliable.
From the sound of it, they're going to do like Corel did and make WINE-compatible programs, but as I recall Corel actually had to package an entire WINE distribution with their software to make it work reliably - not exactly efficient. We'll see, but it's going to be awhile before I trust Macromedia to do anything good with Linux for a bit.
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That is the point of brake fluid. But when it boils, the gas is compressible and so the pressure is gone. It only takes a little bit of water moisture to turn into enough steam to kill your brakes. And water will boil much sooner than brake fluid. Realistically, any car with enough mileage (100k+ especially) should have the brake fluid tested regularly for moisture. I learned the hard way before I knew enough about cars when my brakes went out while going down a mountain and I got lucky.
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I call BS. Water in your brake lines would boil the first time you tapped the brakes. Brake fluid doesn't boil for hundreds of degrees where as water would boil just coming near your brakes. Once it boils, you've got no brake pressure and you better hope your parking brake has some tension.
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MOD PARENT UP - this link is quite a good reference to many SCOMS ties.
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I disagree... I've finally been migrating our web services to PHP code and things have never been better. The ColdFusion days are close to gone now.
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I don't think you're plan requires a step 2. It's working for SCO without one.
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I thought painters' works aren't worth the big money until the painters themselves are dead. Not a bad example though, ignoring that. ;-)
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