The Register is a UK web site. In the UK we're not quite as obsessviely politically correct as the US: I suspect it's because we lack the whole history etc around domestic slavery, the civil rights movement etc etc.
The only problem with the UN?: The fact that the world's richest country refuses to pay the money it owes and has treaty obligations to hand-over to fund the UN.
The reason? As Iraq as shown: The US doesn't honour it's own Constituion (see the election of El Presidente Dublya) nor international treaties: not even the Geneva convention.
Noob. The Web (invented by Tim Berners-Lee) != the internet.
The US *did* invent the internet: Google for Arpanet (and of course Al Gore's contribution;-)
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Insightful?? What are the mods smoking today? The parent poster clearly hasn't ever even used a Mac (they don't have emergency ejects using a paper-cli: that's PC hardware you're thinking of).
Parent should have been modded troll.
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"Why should I pay for lots of information that I'm fairly sure I'm never going to need to pay for?"
Because I'm a geek and like reading shit like this (I just bought it and downloaded it). Did this really need saying on Slashdot?
Actually you *can* scale explosives, you can't (as the grandparent pointed out) scale the fission materials. If you don't have at least the "critical mass" (which is created by firing to sub-critical mass lumps together using conventional explosives) then you get a phfut rather than a bang.
Sure I do. When my brother-in-law and my nephew come round for a session of Warcraft or Age of Mythology I have accounts setup for them to play with. That way I minimise the danger of either them or the games messing up my account.
I also have non-people user accounts setup on my machine: for example MySQL has its own account.
Wouldn't a better architecture have been to go for a plug-in model? That way I could choose what extras I wanted, and either uninstall, or never install, the crud I don't care about.
The problems with the Mozilla monolith are:
You get everything or nothing: I can't decide just to have the web browser and html editor: but I'd rather use my existing email app so I don't want that taking up resources on my machine.
Regression testing. This is more an issue for the Mozilla developers, but a change in one component (email say) could break another part (html editing say).
And separating the dev' environment (browser) from the users environment as you suggest only makes life harder.
Let's hope the answer is "never". The reason: association with bloat, at least in my mind. Whenever someone mentions Mozilla I think "bloatware".
And if any of my colleagues mentions they're considering switching (from IE) to Mozilla I stop them and point them at Firebird (which they always love: how fast they cry! How bloat free!).
There's an expression: You can never be too rich or too thin. For software the corollary is: it can never be too fast or to lightweight.
One of the reasons I stopped using Mozilla was the bloat. I do not need one tool that does: web browsing, email, usenet, html editing and, now, ftp upload.
One of the perennial criticisms of MS software is the bloat. Is bloatware some how ok if it's open source? Of course it isn't.
Adding yet another piece of unnecessary functionality to Mozilla makes it less, not more, attractive.
I know there's concern amongst us that MS will, yet again, rip-off the Mac's GUI but isn't ot rather arrogant to go telegraphing it in quite this mannner?
Next they'll be renaming Direct3D as "Silicate" or maybe "Quacks".
Walking out of Birmingham, New Street station today I noticed a Napster logo and their tag line sprayed on a pillar. I assumed it was deliberate vandalism and paid for by them.
This story confirms that. Let's hope they fined and charged to clean up the mess they've made: I doubt the one I saw was the only one.
Well as it's the Record Industry Association of AMERICA who gives a flying fuck what they think in Europe? Not allofmp3.com for one, who sell music at 1 cent a megabyte with NO DRM.
From the site: "PC only, Windows XP/2000, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 or higher, Windows Media Player 7.1 or higher, Internet connectivity"
So I guess as a Mac user who wouldn't touch IE with a bargepole I'll stick with www.allofmp3.com where I can download music, in ANY format and bit rate of my choosing for a 1cent a megabyte (that's about 60cents an album!). And no DRM.
A *kilo*byte is 1024 bytes. (kilo being the Greek pre-fix for thousand and 1024 is the closest integer power of 2).
A *mega*byte is (usually) 1024 kilobytes or 1,048,567 bytes. (Mega is the Greek prefix for million which is a thousand squared, or a kilo squared which in computers is 1024 squared).
Except when you're talking about disk space in which case a megabyte is 1000 kilobyte ot 1,024,000 bytes: hence the discrepancy between that results in my 20gig iPod having ca. 18megs of disk space reported.
What are they teaching Kids in schools these days?
What contribution have you made, ever, to advancing computer science? Is it significantly more than Tenabaum's? Is it on par? Have you made *any* contribution at all?
Except that, as others have pointed out, as they make their money from consultancy they actually have an incentive not to answer questions and not to produce an easy to use product. The more obscure and difficult it is to set up and use the more money they'll make.
If you go to their forums you'll get a taste of the sheer nastiness around JBoss:
Books about JBoss written by anyone other than a JBoss guru (eg the rather good "JBoss 3.0 Deployment and Adminstration Handbook" by Meeraj Moidoo Kunnumpurath) get slammed.
Newbies looking for help get cursed and told they're cheap for not paying for the documentation.
Any slight criticism: even constructive, is instantly flamed.
Altogether a very unpleasant community. So the kinds of slimey, underhand and outright dishonest behaviour by JBoss people being reported here doesn't exactly surprise me. I guess they must take Microsoft and SCO as their inspiration.
The bad behaviour of the JBoss community has been reported previously on Slashdot.
Such a shame really as JBoss itself is an excellent App Server.
Of course there are. You could describe them as members of the class itself, as a Singleton or as a meta-class. None of those concepts are language dependent.
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The Register is a UK web site. In the UK we're not quite as obsessviely politically correct as the US: I suspect it's because we lack the whole history etc around domestic slavery, the civil rights movement etc etc.
The only problem with the UN?: The fact that the world's richest country refuses to pay the money it owes and has treaty obligations to hand-over to fund the UN.
The reason? As Iraq as shown: The US doesn't honour it's own Constituion (see the election of El Presidente Dublya) nor international treaties: not even the Geneva convention.
Noob. The Web (invented by Tim Berners-Lee) != the internet.
The US *did* invent the internet: Google for Arpanet (and of course Al Gore's contribution ;-)
Insightful?? What are the mods smoking today? The parent poster clearly hasn't ever even used a Mac (they don't have emergency ejects using a paper-cli: that's PC hardware you're thinking of).
Parent should have been modded troll.
Because I'm a geek and like reading shit like this (I just bought it and downloaded it). Did this really need saying on Slashdot?
Actually you *can* scale explosives, you can't (as the grandparent pointed out) scale the fission materials. If you don't have at least the "critical mass" (which is created by firing to sub-critical mass lumps together using conventional explosives) then you get a phfut rather than a bang.
Sure I do. When my brother-in-law and my nephew come round for a session of Warcraft or Age of Mythology I have accounts setup for them to play with. That way I minimise the danger of either them or the games messing up my account.
I also have non-people user accounts setup on my machine: for example MySQL has its own account.
Wouldn't a better architecture have been to go for a plug-in model? That way I could choose what extras I wanted, and either uninstall, or never install, the crud I don't care about.
The problems with the Mozilla monolith are:
And separating the dev' environment (browser) from the users environment as you suggest only makes life harder.
Let's hope the answer is "never". The reason: association with bloat, at least in my mind. Whenever someone mentions Mozilla I think "bloatware".
And if any of my colleagues mentions they're considering switching (from IE) to Mozilla I stop them and point them at Firebird (which they always love: how fast they cry! How bloat free!).
There's an expression: You can never be too rich or too thin. For software the corollary is: it can never be too fast or to lightweight.
One of the reasons I stopped using Mozilla was the bloat. I do not need one tool that does: web browsing, email, usenet, html editing and, now, ftp upload.
One of the perennial criticisms of MS software is the bloat. Is bloatware some how ok if it's open source? Of course it isn't.
Adding yet another piece of unnecessary functionality to Mozilla makes it less, not more, attractive.
Now that's not fair on Microsoft is it.
They do at least deliver versions of Windows (much as many of us would rather they'd stop!)
Perhaps "Iron Pyrites" would probably be the best mineral related name for Direct3D.
I know there's concern amongst us that MS will, yet again, rip-off the Mac's GUI but isn't ot rather arrogant to go telegraphing it in quite this mannner?
Next they'll be renaming Direct3D as "Silicate" or maybe "Quacks".
Walking out of Birmingham, New Street station today I noticed a Napster logo and their tag line sprayed on a pillar. I assumed it was deliberate vandalism and paid for by them.
This story confirms that. Let's hope they fined and charged to clean up the mess they've made: I doubt the one I saw was the only one.
Well as it's the Record Industry Association of AMERICA who gives a flying fuck what they think in Europe? Not allofmp3.com for one, who sell music at 1 cent a megabyte with NO DRM.
From the site: "PC only, Windows XP/2000, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 or higher, Windows Media Player 7.1 or higher, Internet connectivity"
So I guess as a Mac user who wouldn't touch IE with a bargepole I'll stick with www.allofmp3.com where I can download music, in ANY format and bit rate of my choosing for a 1cent a megabyte (that's about 60cents an album!). And no DRM.
So fuck you Napster.
What utter rubbish.
What are they teaching Kids in schools these days?
20/20 hindsight is easy.
What contribution have you made, ever, to advancing computer science? Is it significantly more than Tenabaum's? Is it on par? Have you made *any* contribution at all?
Except that, as others have pointed out, as they make their money from consultancy they actually have an incentive not to answer questions and not to produce an easy to use product. The more obscure and difficult it is to set up and use the more money they'll make.
If you go to their forums you'll get a taste of the sheer nastiness around JBoss:
Altogether a very unpleasant community. So the kinds of slimey, underhand and outright dishonest behaviour by JBoss people being reported here doesn't exactly surprise me. I guess they must take Microsoft and SCO as their inspiration.
The bad behaviour of the JBoss community has been reported previously on Slashdot.
Such a shame really as JBoss itself is an excellent App Server.
Err excuse me- but they are. And the advertise themselves as such for example: Sainsbury's *BANK* http://www.sainsburysbank.co.uk/
They're actually backed by a "real" bank eg the Royal Bank of Scotland. So not only do they call themselves banks, they're protected as banks.
So I guess to paraphrase you, no-one (stupid) doesn't think they are banks.
Not now it isn't! ;-)
Of course there are. You could describe them as members of the class itself, as a Singleton or as a meta-class. None of those concepts are language dependent.
Really?
Show me a transistor or steam engine that occurs naturally in nature?
Helps if you get your facts straight.
I'm posting this reply to your troll using my 800MHz Ti PowerBook (complete with bubbly paint) that you claim doesn't exist.
Lucky for you there isn't a "-1 Fuckwit" moderation.