Its a buzzword that people overuse to try and sound intellectual. End of story. You're obviously one of them though quite clearly you're failing on the ultimate goal there.
Yeah , I can just see all those starving people begging for food at the side of the road
whipping out their Pocket PC once they hear that a wifi node has been set up on top of the local
rubbish heap.
Another obscure and pointless programming paradigm dreamed up by an academic who
wants to make a name for himself. God save us from the egos in the computer world...
Do you not perhaps think it might be quicker to turn the lights off and close the curtains
yourself? I mean how long does that take , 10 seconds? Jeeez... I can't think of anything
useful for it other than to do tasks that only the terminally lazy or moribund would find an
effort.
You'll probably find its NVRAM so the photos and other information doesn't disappear as soon
as you change your battery. In which case 2Mb is quite a lot!
Wowww , so you can control your mac using a phone???
Man thats almost like... uh , a remote control. Yawn.
So f*cking what? I want things that are useful , not technology for its own sake that only impresses teenage geeks.
"1. You can do queries in a real programming language. SQL isn't the only way to query a database."
Yes you can , but its a nightmare. Ever tried it? Why do you think SQL was invented and is still used 30 years later?
Why do you think that almost all code that accesses a database no matter what language its written in has embedded SQL to do the query?
SQL was *designed* for relational queries and its *FAR* better than and imperative language for that single task.
>Would you accept it then if someone came up to you and said, "Well, you should have done your research, it's well known that Dodge transmissions have been flaky for years."?
Yes , damn right I would! Just like if I bought a house that was subsiding but didn't bother to get a surveyor in then it fell down. Theres no excuse for ignorance, if people dont want to find out about something that will set them back the best part of $2000 then thats their choice , but they have NO excuse to moan if they don't like the outcome in that case. Also FYI I suspect that 99% of the public have heard of Macs so whats this nonsense about them having no choice over their OS? Non-windows doesn't just equate to Linux.
And I'm going to call bullshit on your post. When people buy their own things they generally find out about them first. Do you go and buy a car without checking stuff out about it first like mileage, mpg, top speed etc? Do you go and buy a hi-fi system without reading reviews on it? No! So if someone goes and buys a PC without reading up about the OS on the machine then serves them right for whatever
calamities/privacy infringements/you name it, that befall them and their system their system.
Only idiots buy in ignorance.
Talking to yourself in your head , sorry I mean "praying", is very easy. If you're so concerned why don't you go and stop saddams republican guards from killing more of his own people. Or is it because actual *practical* solutions are too difficult for people like you and you'd sooner pray to some mythical diety. Why not just pray to Thor while you're at it , maybe he can smite everone with a lightning bolt.
Well , these students must be pretty dumb anyway to do this for a measly $20 with the risk of being banned permanently from the uni network (or even the uni itself) so maybe the spammers ask for bank details (get them because of the amazing credulity of Simon Student), deposit $20 and then sell those details on to some people in Nigeria who always seem to be desperate for somewhere to deposit $20,000,000:) Ahem.
If only Sun hardware didn't crash. Unfortunately I've found Sparc machines (and Solaris) *much* less reliable than HP9000s and RS6000s. Barely a month goes by where I work (a large japanese bank) where we haven't had one of our major production servers die because of fault hardware (usually disk or memory errors) or just a plain old bug in Solaris. Give me HP-UX any day.
This article just demonstrates the tip of the iceberg for the problems that are going to be cause by software patents. Its about time patent offices woke up and refused to patent *any* software or software techniques otherwise the only winners will be lawyers and the only losers will be consumers due to restricted choice.
Its a bit like saying a 747 pilot might have to
learn to drive a car to get to and from the airport. The skills to do the latter are virtually inconsequential compared to the skills required by the former so the point is trivial and irrelevant.
Really? Perhaps you'd like to talk to Linus about why C++ can't be used to develop the linux kernel and why it (and all driver code) must be written in C. But obviously people who write operating systems arn't the best and brightest , no , they'd be the people that write yet-another-dbms-frontend. Right?
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You're right , its hardware. And all the games are hardwired in using TTL logic.
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You should have stayed reluctant to reply. "BIG CONSUMER ELECTRONICS COMPANIES CAN'T DO SOFTWARE FOR BEANS". Yeah , that'll be why playstation was such a failure. Idiot.
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No , the protocol is XML. Ie the XML data is all thats in the data packet and its in plain ascii. The only thing wrapping it will be the TCP/UDP and IP headers.
Why? Because you have to be 100% sure that the
code reading and writing the value (presumably using fprintf() or similar) has the IP address in *local* byte order , not network byte order when doing it. 2 hosts with different endian processors will write the same numeric value differently as ascii text if that numeric value is in network order and all the TCP/IP APIs required network byte order to function correctly. I see potential for problems here.
You're forgetting , most of these sorts of stupid ideas are not for the benefit of us mortals , they're to benefit big corporations and government to make it easier for them to charge us, sell us rubbish abd keep tabs on us. No one in their right mind would want one number for everything , its about as daft as having 1 PIN number for everything.
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Just wondering because I've not heard of it before.
Its a buzzword that people overuse to try and sound intellectual. End of story. You're obviously one of them
though quite clearly you're failing on the ultimate goal there.
Yeah , I can just see all those starving people begging for food at the side of the road
whipping out their Pocket PC once they hear that a wifi node has been set up on top of the local
rubbish heap.
Word #234:
leverage (vb): means "use"
Alternative trendy buzzwords and phrases:
enabled
facilitate deployment
fixed resource empowerment
consolidate operational dynamics
foster tangible goals
"Weaving"? Oh excellent , another buzzword to ad to my The-way-people-try-to-sound-intellectual list.
Another obscure and pointless programming paradigm dreamed up by an academic who
wants to make a name for himself. God save us from the egos in the computer world...
An extra 2 oz = an extra $N upgrade if they feel in the mood...
Do you not perhaps think it might be quicker to turn the lights off and close the curtains
yourself? I mean how long does that take , 10 seconds? Jeeez... I can't think of anything
useful for it other than to do tasks that only the terminally lazy or moribund would find an
effort.
You'll probably find its NVRAM so the photos and other information doesn't disappear as soon
as you change your battery. In which case 2Mb is quite a lot!
Wowww , so you can control your mac using a phone??? ... uh , a remote control. Yawn.
Man thats almost like
So f*cking what? I want things that are useful , not technology for its own sake that only impresses teenage geeks.
"1. You can do queries in a real programming language. SQL isn't the only way to query a database."
Yes you can , but its a nightmare. Ever tried it?
Why do you think SQL was invented and is still used 30 years later?
Why do you think that almost all code that accesses a database no matter what language its written in has embedded SQL to do the query?
SQL was *designed* for relational queries and its *FAR* better than and imperative language for that single task.
Its a battery because it produced electricty you muppet.
>Would you accept it then if someone came up to you and said, "Well, you should have done your research, it's well known that Dodge transmissions have been flaky for years."? Yes , damn right I would! Just like if I bought a house that was subsiding but didn't bother to get a surveyor in then it fell down. Theres no excuse for ignorance, if people dont want to find out about something that will set them back the best part of $2000 then thats their choice , but they have NO excuse to moan if they don't like the outcome in that case. Also FYI I suspect that 99% of the public have heard of Macs so whats this nonsense about them having no choice over their OS? Non-windows doesn't just equate to Linux.
And I'm going to call bullshit on your post. When people buy their own things they generally find out about them first. Do you go and buy a car without checking stuff out about it first like mileage, mpg, top speed etc? Do you go and buy a hi-fi system without reading reviews on it? No! So if someone goes and buys a PC without reading up about the OS on the machine then serves them right for whatever calamities/privacy infringements/you name it, that befall them and their system their system. Only idiots buy in ignorance.
Talking to yourself in your head , sorry I mean "praying", is very easy. If you're so concerned why don't you go and stop saddams republican guards from killing more of his own people. Or is it because actual *practical* solutions are too difficult for people like you and you'd sooner pray to some mythical diety. Why not just pray to Thor while you're at it , maybe he can smite everone with a lightning bolt.
Well , these students must be pretty dumb anyway to do this for a measly $20 with the risk of being banned permanently from the uni network (or even the uni itself) so maybe the spammers ask for bank details (get them because of the amazing credulity of Simon Student), deposit $20 and then sell those details on to some people in Nigeria who always seem to be desperate for somewhere to deposit $20,000,000 :) Ahem.
If only Sun hardware didn't crash. Unfortunately I've found Sparc machines (and Solaris) *much* less reliable than HP9000s and RS6000s. Barely a month goes by where I work (a large japanese bank) where we haven't had one of our major production servers die because of fault hardware (usually disk or memory errors) or just a plain old bug in Solaris. Give me HP-UX any day.
This article just demonstrates the tip of the iceberg for the problems that are going to be cause by software patents. Its about time patent offices woke up and refused to patent *any* software or software techniques otherwise the only winners will be lawyers and the only losers will be consumers due to restricted choice.
Its a bit like saying a 747 pilot might have to learn to drive a car to get to and from the airport. The skills to do the latter are virtually inconsequential compared to the skills required by the former so the point is trivial and irrelevant.
Really? Perhaps you'd like to talk to Linus about why C++ can't be used to develop the linux kernel and why it (and all driver code) must be written in C. But obviously people who write operating systems arn't the best and brightest , no , they'd be the people that write yet-another-dbms-frontend. Right?
You're right , its hardware. And all the games are hardwired in using TTL logic.
You should have stayed reluctant to reply. "BIG CONSUMER ELECTRONICS COMPANIES CAN'T DO SOFTWARE FOR BEANS". Yeah , that'll be why playstation was such a failure. Idiot.
No , the protocol is XML. Ie the XML data is all thats in the data packet and its in plain ascii. The only thing wrapping it will be the TCP/UDP and IP headers.
Why? Because you have to be 100% sure that the code reading and writing the value (presumably using fprintf() or similar) has the IP address in *local* byte order , not network byte order when doing it. 2 hosts with different endian processors will write the same numeric value differently as ascii text if that numeric value is in network order and all the TCP/IP APIs required network byte order to function correctly. I see potential for problems here.
You're forgetting , most of these sorts of stupid ideas are not for the benefit of us mortals , they're to benefit big corporations and government to make it easier for them to charge us, sell us rubbish abd keep tabs on us. No one in their right mind would want one number for everything , its about as daft as having 1 PIN number for everything.