I am his daughter, my name is Jessica Mary Rose and I wrote that passage, on my own, EVERY SINGLE WORD. If I lie I'll drop dead and die!! If you simply refuse to believe it whatever, dude but I am most definently sure that my dad did not help me, AT ALL!! Anyways It wasn't an assingnment I simply wrote that blurb because I liked the book and wanted other people to know that!!
I don't have my own log in so i am using my dad's!!
Oh, Hi. Good to see you back again. I was missing my own personal troll, you haven't posted in a while. I guess you were using both your neurons for something else.
I was wondering if you could come up with another topic - you're posts are getting WAY too repetitous. Perhaps start in on my politics instead of sexuality. You could accuse me of being a Nazi, a Communist or even (topically) a Muslim terrorist.
No, Timothy puts that bit in. Frankly, I don't much care what Slashdot trolls say.
In fact the review box on my reviews has always given my name as Tony Williams. Good Slashdot trolls never let the truth get in the way of a good brainfart.
With some companies deciding that litigation and threats are possible business models and the growing number of software patents how do you see this affecting software development?
How can the EFF and 'open source' organisations help abate the problems of open source developers who cannot afford patent searches on every element of their interface and methods?
Tony Williams
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I agree, the original comment about why I had the time to review all those books *was* funny.
The comment I was replying to was the one accusing me of being a "paid shill".
I was in two minds about replying to this. I decided that since I let the last two similar comments slide it was about time to raise my voice again.
First. If you'd like a "critical" review (in fact most reviews raise at least one or two criticisms of a book, I think you mean "negative") then you only need to go back as far as my last review, "Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser". If you want to read a review where I totally pan a book then try my review of Online! The Book.
Second, I enjoy reading technical books and I enjoy writing. Slashdot just happens to be an open site for book reviews. From the number of book reviews that receive a large number of comments I'd say a lot of people enjoy reading them. From the number Timothy passes through the system I'd say he is fairly often short of reviews. Perhaps the negative, unknowing, unthinking comments of people such as yourself is one reason for that shortage. I've certainly noticed that the number of comments such as yours far outnumber the compliments that reviewers get.
Third. No one pays me to write these reviews. I do get to have my user id linking to my website. Last quarter that made a grand total of $21, which I took as an Amazon Gift Certificate to (patrially) feed my book habit. My guess is about 3/4 of that was due to getting my reviews published here.
Fourth. Yes, some of the books I review are sent to me by publishers. Some I buy, some are borrowed from friends. I just did a quick check and over the last few months I've refused to have sent to me by publishers about the same number I've said "yes" too. Both of the book reviews I mentioned above are actually of books sent to me by publishers so I believe I can truthfully say I am not influenced by how a book comes to me.
Finally, if you think my reviews are those of a "paid shill" you have two perfect solutions. Either write your own reviews or just don't read mine.
For the *vast majority* of software it is significantly better value to design and build a well architected OO solution
Last time I checked an architect doesn't 'architect', she 'designs', therefore the past tense is 'designed' not that godawful non-word 'architected' that has sprung up here on/. several times recently.
Ah, true fame at last. My very own Slashdot troll.
Thank you, dishonestpuck. I'm tempted to make you a friend just so I can track your trolling. Pity you don't supply some contact details on your Slashdot page so I can thank you in person.
In thie context in which you often find yourself using a shell script 'overhead' does not just mean machine speed.
As a sysadmin you can find yourself writing a shell script because you cannot, for example, guarantee that the volume containing anything else has loaded yet. You might also be concerned with writing a boot system that fits onto small media. You might also be writing scripts for computers in such high security situations that Perl and Python have been removed from the system.
So ithe shell is still required as computers get faster.
What about all the things you didn't consider, such as:
- thousands of companies building products to interact or run with microsoft products(including my company)
- millions of dollars from conventions and events sponsored by the company and related companies
- technologies that Microsoft has pioneered and advanced, including fueling the hardware industries
- millions of people who's jobs are easier due to being able to run software, instead of, oh, say, doing their accounting by hand
- all the charity donations from Microsoft/Bill Gates (largest philanthropist in the world)
- money into the legal system from a new branch of law, in no small part fueled by Microsoft (good and bad!)
Well, what about the things you don't consider.
- 0f the thousands of companies developing products that interact with MS, most could just as easily interact with OO, in fact it would be easier since they have source for OO.
- If we weren't spending all that money on MS products we could afford to spend more going to tech conferences. We would also spend more on other tech products so other tech companies could sponsor tech events.
- Most of the conventions and events sponsored by MS promote MS products.
- MS have pioneered and advanced almost NO technologies. They follow others or buy them out.
- Those jobs are not easier because of MS. They didn't write the first accounting package, spreadsheet or word processor.
- Microsoft/Bill Gates give away so much money because they rip so much money out of IT
As for your last point I won't dignify it with a response.
You are missing the point on this excellent post. The spam itself is usually unlawful, it doesn't require that the email advertise something unlawful. There are a number of jurisdictions in the US and outside it that, for example, insist on legitimate list removal links. Sending unsolicited commercial email is in and of itself an unlawful act in a lot of places.
Tony
ACCC couldnt enforce mandatory breathing on anyone, let alone get this right.
Actually the ACCC has done a pretty good job at understanding technology in several cases. I was involved in a case (as expert witness) where they and the TGA stopped a guy trading prescription drugs over the 'net. The people at ACCC showed a good understanding of what was going on. They also did a good job when the music publishers tried to stop several record stores from legally importing records from South East Asia. All the publishers ended up paying large fines and damages to the stores.
While testing some software I'm working on I killed the dates on a few posts on my weblog.
'Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules' I actually started a few months ago - my review's been on/. since early August. I'm not sure what the date on the 'Practical mod_perl' post should be but I know I've had it for a while. (Good book BTW - writing the review at the moment).
One comment like this makes up for many posts implying I am paid to do this (I'm not) or receive a benefit from the B&N link at the bottom of the review (I don't - OSDN gets that money) or even employed by one of the publishers (I'm actually unemployed at the moment).
I hope you continue to read and appreciate my reviews. I enjoy writing them.
You'll be glad to know that I'm writing two more reviews at the moment and have another couple of books on the stack.
While it sometimes seems as if I'm paying the grocery bills for 10 people, no, there's only one of me.
Actually, the last three reviews published here were written over about 6 to 8 weeks and submitted to Slashdot over a 5 week period. The books were read over an even longer period, it's just that I often write reviews in a surge of two or three at a time. I'm also usually writing a couple of reviews at once as I always re-read a book after a first draft of the review.
This is indeed a useful book. As someone who is a long time Unix programmer and just starting out with Objective C and Cocoa I found it mostly above my head but a book I know I will grow into and find useful for a long time.
I agree with the reviewer about the lack of pointers for further info. I hope that the authors might fix this at the excellent site for the book.
For close to $100 this is an expensive book, but if you want to learn to write professional Mac apps then it's probably worth the price. These guys know their stuff and the book is a lot less than the $3500 they charge for the course.
To quote from that review, I thought that the Unleashed book was "not as well structured and has a wordier, less terse and technical style. It's also more expensive and twice the size and weight."
I agree with previous comments that the "Unleashed" series is starting to lose its quality edge.I usually like books from SAMS, in fact I've raved about both editions of PHP & MySQL Web Development, and don't like to criticise a good publisher but I think they're falling down on the job with this series - they do feel rushed to me.
It's kind of funny that the main factor in Weta Digital's decision on the Blade servers was the space they took up, not the cost. Apparently Weta is running out of room.
Well, New Zealand's not a big country, you know. Not to mention they have to fit in all the sheep as well as computer clusters.
Well actually SMS spam is an incredibly minor problem in Australia. I don't even believe this is a pre-emptive measure.
I think that what we have here is a government doing it's usual thrashing around trying to convince people it understands technology and its problems and trying to convince us that its doing something about our problems without having to admit that it either doesn't want or cannot address the real issues like email spam, an incredibly low broadband take up rate and a badly performing virtual telecommunications monopoly in the shape of Telstra.
Of course a large part of the Australian electorate will be convinced. Hey, those cool dudes in the Government and its bureacracy are doing a great job -- look at the way they handled SMS spam.
Good review (and not just 'cause I got a mention).
Personally I prefer PHP Developer's Cookbook from SAMS, though it is in need of a third edition fairly soon (are you listening out there Mr Hughes). I thought it had a better organization and a wider selection of material. Just my personal preference.
Also, someone could bring this up, but I'd still like an answer. Isn't PDF owned by Adobe?
Well actually, no. PDF is a public domain format. Adobe developed it and has produced the most famous writer of PDF, Acrobat, and the most common reader, Acrobat Reader, but the format is public domain.
Display PostScript, however, is copyright Adobe and if you use it in a commercial produt you gotta pay them money.
That's why PDF is used in MacOS X, not Display Postscript.
Tony Williams
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I am his daughter, my name is Jessica Mary Rose and I wrote that passage, on my own, EVERY SINGLE WORD. If I lie I'll drop dead and die!! If you simply refuse to believe it whatever, dude but I am most definently sure that my dad did not help me, AT ALL!! Anyways It wasn't an assingnment I simply wrote that blurb because I liked the book and wanted other people to know that!! I don't have my own log in so i am using my dad's!!
Oh, I can go lower than that ID. tonyw@honestpuck.com Tony Williams
I was wondering if you could come up with another topic - you're posts are getting WAY too repetitous. Perhaps start in on my politics instead of sexuality. You could accuse me of being a Nazi, a Communist or even (topically) a Muslim terrorist.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Tony
In fact the review box on my reviews has always given my name as Tony Williams. Good Slashdot trolls never let the truth get in the way of a good brainfart.
Tony
With various governments at various levels across the world starting to enact anti-spam laws do you think that this will have any effect?
How do you think laws (and perhaps international conventions) could be best used to fight this problem?
Tony Williams
With some companies deciding that litigation and threats are possible business models and the growing number of software patents how do you see this affecting software development?
How can the EFF and 'open source' organisations help abate the problems of open source developers who cannot afford patent searches on every element of their interface and methods?
Tony Williams
I agree, the original comment about why I had the time to review all those books *was* funny.
The comment I was replying to was the one accusing me of being a "paid shill".
Tony
I was in two minds about replying to this. I decided that since I let the last two similar comments slide it was about time to raise my voice again.
First. If you'd like a "critical" review (in fact most reviews raise at least one or two criticisms of a book, I think you mean "negative") then you only need to go back as far as my last review, "Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser". If you want to read a review where I totally pan a book then try my review of Online! The Book.
Second, I enjoy reading technical books and I enjoy writing. Slashdot just happens to be an open site for book reviews. From the number of book reviews that receive a large number of comments I'd say a lot of people enjoy reading them. From the number Timothy passes through the system I'd say he is fairly often short of reviews. Perhaps the negative, unknowing, unthinking comments of people such as yourself is one reason for that shortage. I've certainly noticed that the number of comments such as yours far outnumber the compliments that reviewers get.
Third. No one pays me to write these reviews. I do get to have my user id linking to my website. Last quarter that made a grand total of $21, which I took as an Amazon Gift Certificate to (patrially) feed my book habit. My guess is about 3/4 of that was due to getting my reviews published here.
Fourth. Yes, some of the books I review are sent to me by publishers. Some I buy, some are borrowed from friends. I just did a quick check and over the last few months I've refused to have sent to me by publishers about the same number I've said "yes" too. Both of the book reviews I mentioned above are actually of books sent to me by publishers so I believe I can truthfully say I am not influenced by how a book comes to me.
Finally, if you think my reviews are those of a "paid shill" you have two perfect solutions. Either write your own reviews or just don't read mine.
Tony Williams
Last time I checked an architect doesn't 'architect', she 'designs', therefore the past tense is 'designed' not that godawful non-word 'architected' that has sprung up here on /. several times recently.
Tony Williams
Thank you, dishonestpuck. I'm tempted to make you a friend just so I can track your trolling. Pity you don't supply some contact details on your Slashdot page so I can thank you in person.
Tony 'honestpuck' Williams
As a sysadmin you can find yourself writing a shell script because you cannot, for example, guarantee that the volume containing anything else has loaded yet. You might also be concerned with writing a boot system that fits onto small media. You might also be writing scripts for computers in such high security situations that Perl and Python have been removed from the system.
So ithe shell is still required as computers get faster.
Tony
- 0f the thousands of companies developing products that interact with MS, most could just as easily interact with OO, in fact it would be easier since they have source for OO.
- If we weren't spending all that money on MS products we could afford to spend more going to tech conferences. We would also spend more on other tech products so other tech companies could sponsor tech events.
- Most of the conventions and events sponsored by MS promote MS products.
- MS have pioneered and advanced almost NO technologies. They follow others or buy them out.
- Those jobs are not easier because of MS. They didn't write the first accounting package, spreadsheet or word processor.
- Microsoft/Bill Gates give away so much money because they rip so much money out of IT
As for your last point I won't dignify it with a response.
You are missing the point on this excellent post. The spam itself is usually unlawful, it doesn't require that the email advertise something unlawful. There are a number of jurisdictions in the US and outside it that, for example, insist on legitimate list removal links. Sending unsolicited commercial email is in and of itself an unlawful act in a lot of places. Tony
While testing some software I'm working on I killed the dates on a few posts on my weblog.
'Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules' I actually started a few months ago - my review's been on /. since early August. I'm not sure what the date on the 'Practical mod_perl' post should be but I know I've had it for a while. (Good book BTW - writing the review at the moment).
Tony Williams
One comment like this makes up for many posts implying I am paid to do this (I'm not) or receive a benefit from the B&N link at the bottom of the review (I don't - OSDN gets that money) or even employed by one of the publishers (I'm actually unemployed at the moment).
I hope you continue to read and appreciate my reviews. I enjoy writing them.
You'll be glad to know that I'm writing two more reviews at the moment and have another couple of books on the stack.
Tony Williams
This is a good review. I liked the reviewers take on the two books and he certainly told me what he liked about the book being reviewed.
He could, perhaps, have told us a bit more what he didn't like.
Tony
While it sometimes seems as if I'm paying the grocery bills for 10 people, no, there's only one of me.
Actually, the last three reviews published here were written over about 6 to 8 weeks and submitted to Slashdot over a 5 week period. The books were read over an even longer period, it's just that I often write reviews in a surge of two or three at a time. I'm also usually writing a couple of reviews at once as I always re-read a book after a first draft of the review.
Tony 'honestpuck' Williams
I agree with the reviewer about the lack of pointers for further info. I hope that the authors might fix this at the excellent site for the book.
For close to $100 this is an expensive book, but if you want to learn to write professional Mac apps then it's probably worth the price. These guys know their stuff and the book is a lot less than the $3500 they charge for the course.
Tony Williams
To quote from that review, I thought that the Unleashed book was "not as well structured and has a wordier, less terse and technical style. It's also more expensive and twice the size and weight."
I agree with previous comments that the "Unleashed" series is starting to lose its quality edge.I usually like books from SAMS, in fact I've raved about both editions of PHP & MySQL Web Development, and don't like to criticise a good publisher but I think they're falling down on the job with this series - they do feel rushed to me.
ROFL - good one.
Tony 'honestpuck' Williams
Well, New Zealand's not a big country, you know. Not to mention they have to fit in all the sheep as well as computer clusters.
Tony Williams
I think that what we have here is a government doing it's usual thrashing around trying to convince people it understands technology and its problems and trying to convince us that its doing something about our problems without having to admit that it either doesn't want or cannot address the real issues like email spam, an incredibly low broadband take up rate and a badly performing virtual telecommunications monopoly in the shape of Telstra.
Of course a large part of the Australian electorate will be convinced. Hey, those cool dudes in the Government and its bureacracy are doing a great job -- look at the way they handled SMS spam.
Tony Williams
Personally I prefer PHP Developer's Cookbook from SAMS, though it is in need of a third edition fairly soon (are you listening out there Mr Hughes). I thought it had a better organization and a wider selection of material. Just my personal preference.
Tony Williams
Display PostScript, however, is copyright Adobe and if you use it in a commercial produt you gotta pay them money.
That's why PDF is used in MacOS X, not Display Postscript. Tony Williams