As/if oil gets scarce, the price will go up naturally, and the market forces will dictate people drive more efficient cars or alternatively-fueled cars.
This is not necessarily true. It's entirely possible that as oil becomes scarcer, we will simply become more desparate to get at what's still left. In our desperation, it is possible that more wars will be started to gain control of what's left and that any area containing oil will be torn up to sate our thirst (much like what could happen in Alaska).
Never underestimate the oil lifestyle's grip on the average American. The market scenario you mention is possible, but it is not necessarily what will happen.
Whoa, whoa. "Complex things are not possible" ? Ruby and Java are both Turing-complete. Exactly what complex things can Java do that Ruby can't?
Your arguments are straight red herrings. SOAP, CORBA, and RMI are irrelevant for most web applications. Even if they weren't, Ruby has libraries for SOAP and CORBA. It also has DRb (Distributed Ruby), which is equivalent to RMI but easier to use.
- When I Google my name, I can see most of what I've been doing publicly on the net for the last 10+ years. Fair enough, I had no privacy expectation, but still scary to realize I actually said some pretty lame things I didn't remember.
This is not insightful - it's a total troll. How is it Google's fault that things you've said show up in searches for your name? That's the point of a search engine. If you say stupid things on the Internet, they're going to be visible whether Google is there or not. The only solution is not being stupid.
- Google has indexed 20 years worth of newsgroups. Again, I can't say I'm too pleased with some of the stuff I posted once (think "alt.binary."). But okay...
So did Deja. And if you have Usenet access you could do this yourself.
- Google now "offers" 1G worth of email storage, and warns that they "may" use their searching technology on it. Now they don't even make the effort of ferreting info about you anymore, they plain and simply lure you into giving it to them
- And now the personal information releasing trap widens with this new photo storage thing. hmmm...
What next? in 5 years maybe I'll be able to google my name and see a private mail of mine saying "hey look at that d!rty picture of the secretary on my picasa account! (don't tell anyone about this, hey...)" with a nice link to my private picasa pic? Thanks but no thanks.
Whoa, what a total non sequitur. Google uses their search engine to let you search through your mail and lets you store pictures, so the obvious next step is that Gogole will index your e-mail for public searching?
I don't know how so many people can claim that this is unenforceable. All spammers have to provide some way of contacting their clients to purchase whatever they're selling. If someone spams you, then that contact information can be used to prove that the company was contracting spammers. It's not rocket science.
A program to display a form with two text boxes, and display the sum of the numbers in those two boxes, would take seconds to write in VB, but hours in Perl or C.
I'm still not having this problem. If I browse to http://notarealaddressatall2323.com, my browser just says "Looking up host" and then eventually returns an error.
I've never actually seen this happen. Is it possible that my provider (Earthlink) has blocked this in their own DNS servers?
I'm probably not going to get a lot of agreement here, but Perl is an excellent candidate for what the OP was talking about.
Like Java, Perl is invulnerable to buffer overflows. It's also open-source, which means that any security problems in the core are easily detectable.
Perl encourages code reuse with the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (search.cpan.org). Code is submitted to CPAN and gradually improved over time. This means that you can use well-tested components in your application without starting from scratch.
The only place Perl falls short for server usage is its memory management. Perl programs tend to have hefty footprints. From what I understand, though, Parrot and Perl 6 should help clear this up.
Seriously, it's a lot easier to just get broadband. I mean, look at it this way - these people are paying in the neighborhood of $19.95 a month (or $22.95 if they're letting AOL rape them) and also around $15 for an extra phone line. So in most cases, you're paying around $35 a month for crap service.
Where I live, DSL is $30 a month and cable is $40 a month. How can you argue with that?
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The size of 2.6 isn't the problem - the crazy policy of not having a development branch and throwing everything at 2.6, on the other hand, is.
As/if oil gets scarce, the price will go up naturally, and the market forces will dictate people drive more efficient cars or alternatively-fueled cars.
This is not necessarily true. It's entirely possible that as oil becomes scarcer, we will simply become more desparate to get at what's still left. In our desperation, it is possible that more wars will be started to gain control of what's left and that any area containing oil will be torn up to sate our thirst (much like what could happen in Alaska).
Never underestimate the oil lifestyle's grip on the average American. The market scenario you mention is possible, but it is not necessarily what will happen.
Fine, but those who are actively blocking it will neither click nor buy. They're wasting bandwidth.
Whoa, whoa. "Complex things are not possible" ? Ruby and Java are both Turing-complete. Exactly what complex things can Java do that Ruby can't?
Your arguments are straight red herrings. SOAP, CORBA, and RMI are irrelevant for most web applications. Even if they weren't, Ruby has libraries for SOAP and CORBA. It also has DRb (Distributed Ruby), which is equivalent to RMI but easier to use.
I call bullshit.
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The Economist traditionally does not give the name of an article's author.
Not too surprising, when the alternative has run up a $7 trillion national debt.
...do we really want enthusias?
(FP!)
This is not insightful - it's a total troll. How is it Google's fault that things you've said show up in searches for your name? That's the point of a search engine. If you say stupid things on the Internet, they're going to be visible whether Google is there or not. The only solution is not being stupid.
- Google has indexed 20 years worth of newsgroups. Again, I can't say I'm too pleased with some of the stuff I posted once (think "alt.binary."). But okay... So did Deja. And if you have Usenet access you could do this yourself.
- Google now "offers" 1G worth of email storage, and warns that they "may" use their searching technology on it. Now they don't even make the effort of ferreting info about you anymore, they plain and simply lure you into giving it to them
- And now the personal information releasing trap widens with this new photo storage thing. hmmm...
What next? in 5 years maybe I'll be able to google my name and see a private mail of mine saying "hey look at that d!rty picture of the secretary on my picasa account! (don't tell anyone about this, hey...)" with a nice link to my private picasa pic? Thanks but no thanks.
Whoa, what a total non sequitur. Google uses their search engine to let you search through your mail and lets you store pictures, so the obvious next step is that Gogole will index your e-mail for public searching?
Give it a rest.
Perhaps a better name would be WTF?
Who's Brian?
Hmm. I thought that was an allusion to the Matrix and read the whole thing in a Hugo Weaving voice until I realized what I was dealing with.
I don't know how so many people can claim that this is unenforceable. All spammers have to provide some way of contacting their clients to purchase whatever they're selling. If someone spams you, then that contact information can be used to prove that the company was contracting spammers. It's not rocket science.
X10? Come on, everyone's using X11 nowadays.
To paraphrase the great Arnold Schwarzenegger: "We have many plans to use lasers in warfare - unfortunately, none of them make sense."
1961 called....they want their news back.
Come on, who else visualized a bunch of bears linking themselves together with Cat5?
Wow, what is this? What's that server?
A program to display a form with two text boxes, and display the sum of the numbers in those two boxes, would take seconds to write in VB, but hours in Perl or C.
use Tk;
$mw = MainWindow->new;
$e1 = $mw->Entry->pack;
$e2 = $mw->Entry->pack;
$sum = $mw->Label->pack;
$mw->Button(-text => 'Compute', -command => sub {
$sum->configure(-text => ($e1->get() + $e2->get()));
});
MainLoop;
I'm still not having this problem. If I browse to http://notarealaddressatall2323.com, my browser just says "Looking up host" and then eventually returns an error.
I've never actually seen this happen. Is it possible that my provider (Earthlink) has blocked this in their own DNS servers?
Like Java, Perl is invulnerable to buffer overflows. It's also open-source, which means that any security problems in the core are easily detectable.
Perl encourages code reuse with the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (search.cpan.org). Code is submitted to CPAN and gradually improved over time. This means that you can use well-tested components in your application without starting from scratch.
The only place Perl falls short for server usage is its memory management. Perl programs tend to have hefty footprints. From what I understand, though, Parrot and Perl 6 should help clear this up.
How do you like them apples?
Ba-dum-ching!
Judging from the number of trolls already, I'd say this story is better left unreported.
Where I live, DSL is $30 a month and cable is $40 a month. How can you argue with that?
I always thought they liked nations trying to escape lock-in. :)