Why can't I have an account on some other service and still tag photos that are hosted on Flickr? It's not like I have to go and get a Hotmail account just to chat with people who happen to use Hotmail.
Okay good point, but why not just use a dedicated runic font for that specific purpose ?
For semantics. An application that processes text won't deal with fonts. If it did deal with fonts, it would still need a way to convert the bogus text into a real representation, and for that representation, we would use Unicode.
But let's face it, there can't really be any less EFI in the market, can there? The only way that will happen would be if Apple dropped it, and then thousands of existing Intel-based Mac machines spontaneously combusted.
You must be on crack to believe that. Anyone who works in a job that requires any kind of concentration (software development being the most obvious example) will, given the opportunity, enter a state of "flow" where they are wholly committed to the work they're doing.
I certainly enter a state of "flow" when I've had too much coffee during the day, but I'm not sure it's the kind which actually enhanced productivity.
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Okay, I won't, but can you tell me why I would need more than 16 bits to store a single character ? Why the hell do we need so many characters in the world ? Are there so many ways to say "Hello" that we need millions of characters to communicate with our neighbors ? I'm not saying everyone should speak english (I'm french myself), but eventually the various dialects will condense into more portable languages.
Of course. For example, we don't need to runic characters in real life, however if you wanted to write a textbook on Anglo-Saxon linguistics, you'd be up shit creek if those characters weren't in there. Same goes for any given language.
But you see, there is a little thing we in the software industry call "planning for the future." For instance, if they had made String an abstract class, they could have later expanded it to work with UTF-32 strings, in the same way that InetAddress now works for IPv6 addresses (for that matter, they could have then supported ASCII strings without an encoding overhead.)
Well, everyone should have been on non-blocking IO channels for the past few years or so anyway, and besides, I was joking in the first place, in case you didn't notice.
"Hahaha! You amateurs! How does your pathetic toy deal with redundant HA database clusters in a real-time mission-critical enterprise environment with a 5-nines uptime guarantee? Come back when you've grown up!!"
Rails is scalable, but not in an interesting fashion at all. You want more processing power, you run more instances. Where's the fun in that? I love it in Java land, where creating something scalable inevitably means exciting things like building a single JVM that runs on multiple machines, or wrapping things in five layers of EJB so that they can work across multiple machines.
Java though, treats people who want to use UTF-32 as second-class citizens. It's perverse too... we were all taught in University that Java supported Unicode, and then it was only in the real world where we discovered that it didn't support things like surrogate pairs. And don't try to tell me that 16 bits is enough bits to store every character you'll ever want to display or print.
So basically your argument is: your company is too inept to open a port for people to connect to Jabber directly, therefore a protocol where all sensitive information leaves your company's network is superior.
It's not like AIM doesn't go down though. Back when I was still connected to it, I used to get disconnected from AIM much more often than I was completely disconnected from Jabber.
To me, "no DRM" means "no DRM" and not "some DRM".
Woman: Well there's rat cake... rat sorbet... rat pudding... or strawberry tart.
Man: Strawberry tart?!
Woman: Well it's got some rat in it.
Man: How much?
Woman: Three, rather a lot really.
Man:... well, I'll have a slice without so much rat in it.
Just find a way to make goofballs understand that it's sort of the inverse type of virtualization (distribution) from what everyone is thinking about right now (consolidation)...
Not a bad idea. I suppose the first step would be removing "Consolidation" from the title of the article.
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Won't this just pick up baby photos like the last five dozen attempts at recognising porn based on the image?
That's right, write in your own name and void your vote entirely.
But if I don't vote for a lizard, the wrong lizard might get in.
Typical mouse and keyboard cords are about 1.8m in length.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't AspectJ also use byte-code hacking?
I would have said "cooperation" there. Seriously.
Why can't I have an account on some other service and still tag photos that are hosted on Flickr? It's not like I have to go and get a Hotmail account just to chat with people who happen to use Hotmail.
Okay good point, but why not just use a dedicated runic font for that specific purpose ?
For semantics. An application that processes text won't deal with fonts. If it did deal with fonts, it would still need a way to convert the bogus text into a real representation, and for that representation, we would use Unicode.
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...my thoughts precisely.
Aww... boo hoo, somebody can't boot his 4TB RAID array. Seriously, no sympathy here until you hand over that array.
But let's face it, there can't really be any less EFI in the market, can there? The only way that will happen would be if Apple dropped it, and then thousands of existing Intel-based Mac machines spontaneously combusted.
Here's a good reason: developing Windows software for work.
Good idea. Now implement it and claim the bounty.
You must be on crack to believe that. Anyone who works in a job that requires any kind of concentration (software development being the most obvious example) will, given the opportunity, enter a state of "flow" where they are wholly committed to the work they're doing.
I certainly enter a state of "flow" when I've had too much coffee during the day, but I'm not sure it's the kind which actually enhanced productivity.
Okay, I won't, but can you tell me why I would need more than 16 bits to store a single character ? Why the hell do we need so many characters in the world ? Are there so many ways to say "Hello" that we need millions of characters to communicate with our neighbors ? I'm not saying everyone should speak english (I'm french myself), but eventually the various dialects will condense into more portable languages.
Of course. For example, we don't need to runic characters in real life, however if you wanted to write a textbook on Anglo-Saxon linguistics, you'd be up shit creek if those characters weren't in there. Same goes for any given language.
But you see, there is a little thing we in the software industry call "planning for the future." For instance, if they had made String an abstract class, they could have later expanded it to work with UTF-32 strings, in the same way that InetAddress now works for IPv6 addresses (for that matter, they could have then supported ASCII strings without an encoding overhead.)
Well, everyone should have been on non-blocking IO channels for the past few years or so anyway, and besides, I was joking in the first place, in case you didn't notice.
"Hahaha! You amateurs! How does your pathetic toy deal with redundant HA database clusters in a real-time mission-critical enterprise environment with a 5-nines uptime guarantee? Come back when you've grown up!!"
Rails is scalable, but not in an interesting fashion at all. You want more processing power, you run more instances. Where's the fun in that? I love it in Java land, where creating something scalable inevitably means exciting things like building a single JVM that runs on multiple machines, or wrapping things in five layers of EJB so that they can work across multiple machines.
Java though, treats people who want to use UTF-32 as second-class citizens. It's perverse too... we were all taught in University that Java supported Unicode, and then it was only in the real world where we discovered that it didn't support things like surrogate pairs. And don't try to tell me that 16 bits is enough bits to store every character you'll ever want to display or print.
Maybe it's okay with things like EUC-JP and SHIFT-JIS but not okay with Unicode... who knows, I've put off reading that part of the book for ages.
So basically your argument is: your company is too inept to open a port for people to connect to Jabber directly, therefore a protocol where all sensitive information leaves your company's network is superior.
Yes, but jabber.org goes down.
...while all the other servers stay up.
It's not like AIM doesn't go down though. Back when I was still connected to it, I used to get disconnected from AIM much more often than I was completely disconnected from Jabber.
To me, "no DRM" means "no DRM" and not "some DRM".
Woman: Well there's rat cake ... rat sorbet... rat pudding... or strawberry tart. ... well, I'll have a slice without so much rat in it.
Man: Strawberry tart?!
Woman: Well it's got some rat in it.
Man: How much?
Woman: Three, rather a lot really.
Man:
Just find a way to make goofballs understand that it's sort of the inverse type of virtualization (distribution) from what everyone is thinking about right now (consolidation)...
Not a bad idea. I suppose the first step would be removing "Consolidation" from the title of the article.
Helix at least gave us an interesting framework. AOL gave us jack shit.
A message to AIM: if merely releasing an API made something open, then Windows would have been open forever.
You know, they still run the aim servers... for free.
In a world with hundreds of free Jabber servers, one free AIM server means dick.