If I'm paying thousands of dollars for education the school had better not try to shove THEIR idea of ethics down my throat. I would prefer to keep to my own tyvm.
That really does not make much sense. Any research performed by the government is always in the public domain. The federal government can not hold copyright and/or patents. Therefore nobody has to "license" the result of government funded research. You, I, or any other US citizen can file a freedom of information act request and get reams of it.
I think you have hit the perception right on the head. The PDA is percieved as a puny semi-functional computer.
The ipod on the other hand is thought of as a super-powerful music player.
The more a device does, the more complex the interface. Most people still think of the PDA as too complex to figure out. But nobody thinks they can't handle a suped up walkman.
And capacity. If you want a music player it makes no sense to buy an expensive pda and expensive card to get a fraction of the storage capacity of the ipod. Even the palm lifedrive with 4gig of storage falls well short of a 60gig ipod.
Who cares why the Saudis and the Chinese are clamoring for freedom from ICANN? The Saudis and chinese wouldn't have any authority within said non-profit. NONE of the member nations would have any say in how dns is handled from that point forth.
I don't know about you. Personally I don't find ANY government body to be trustworthy, now or ever. DNS being in the hands of a national government is scary. DNS being in the hands of a body composed entirely of national governments is REALLY damned scary. The only thing worse than this would be if it were in the hands of a corporate entity.
How about putting DNS in the hands of a UN funded non-profit entity created exclusively for that purpose as it's charter and no oversight. After all it hardly makes sense for a single purpose entity to answer to a body with outside interests like profit or politics.
Don't worry CGI is NOT just an interface between the webserver and the application. CGI also defines much of the information the browser is required to exchange with the webserver.
"but if those decisions were allowed to stand, the criminal justice system would grind to a halt under the caseload."
That is debatable. That is the claim to support those decisions but I would counter that those plea bargains are precisely WHY the system is practically ground to a halt as it is. Lets look at a simple crime like petty theft. The overhead of a murder trial is greater but there are relatively few murder trials and most would agree that it is even more important not to allow plea bargains for more serious crimes.
As it stands now. There will one appearance to appoint an attorney. Another court date to plead not guilty. An offer will be made and the court will be asked for (and grant) time to consider it. That offer will be refused and a better one will be given along with another court date. Finally the offer is accepted (something like $100 fine). Another court date will be set to review the case and make sure the terms of the agreement were carried out.
That is 3 months before the first appearance and 2-3 months between each subsequent appearance. All told a simple petty theft case takes about A YEAR to go through the justice system with plea bargaining.
Without plea bargaining matters become much simpler. One appearance to appoint an attorney and then another to plea and if needed try the case. Then one to review.
If the accused already has an attorney the whole affair can be wrapped up in a single day with a simple followup review. All told this will take a couple hours of court time.
The steps cut out are obvious. Without plea bargains there is no need for massive delays to decide how to plea or to work out a deal. Either you want to throw yourself on the mercy of the court or you don't. If you had a lawyer to begin with you should have prepared your case in the 3-6 months it took to get into the courtroom to begin with. If not, you should have prepared your defense in the time it takes to get the second appearance. If more time is needed the legal system already permits the judge to grant more time IF JUSTIFIED.
So you see, in my not so professional opinion. Plea bargains exist to escalate attorney fees and only serve to slow the legal process down.
shhh don't tell anyone but when you program in PHP you ARE still programming to the CGI;) In fact everything you mentioned above still interacts with the client via CGI and html/xhtml just like it has for the last 10 years.
If that was meant to be sarcastic it should not be. Gmail is invite only and the first invitations went to an all tech savy crowd. Although gmail has spread far and wide I think the audience is still primarily tech oriented.
Aye. It is pretty obvious the gp is something of a fuckwit. However, for its intended purpose PHP is practically magic. Personally I have always been something of a Perl addict and then one day I was pondering some web work and decided to dive into php by recoding a couple of perl scrips in php. I was simply amazed at how much more simply one can do web cgi's in php.
For just about everything else there is still perl (which is definately superior to php in every NON web task) and when perl fails there is C (or C++ for those who believe that it's ok to make programs eat more cpu than they have to simply because cpus are faster than they used to be).
The moment he demonstrates an intellect and education that begins to compare with that of the average developer. Perhaps he could even learn something about programming before claiming that all the developers are idiots (since there are no developers who do not write flawed code regularly, despite good practice and best efforts) and incompetent.
yup, exactly. Great app in terms of function and usability... or it would be if it weren't written in java. No torrent app should EVER use a significant cpu load, but the windows version of Azureus will sit at 30-99% cpu at all times.
All anyone has to do to determine java is slow is run a practical application written in java. You can give examples and hypothesis and benchmarks all day long. It still won't change the fact that I can put a java app on joe blows desktop and will get a, "Damn this is slow." comment with all but the most trivial apps, each and every time.
You are right, as a user at home building your own personal computer is a crapshoot. As a technician who works on hundreds of systems a week where you can get a solid idea of how components really work in the wild it is a completely different story.
I don't need someone to describe a 3c905 nic as reliable to me. I have been working with them for years. There is nothing on a specification sheet or web review that you can read that will give you the same knowledge that first hand technical experience will give you.
Corporate customers usually have in-house techs regardless of what they need. At the scale I operate on we are talking about small to medium sized businesses. That means they can not afford to have people down and that almost every user is doing a different job and therefore has a unique software configuration. By the time I get there to begin with (1-4hrs) pull a suitable replacement pc out of the closet and hook it up (30 mins) and then ghost it (20-40mins depending on the weather) and then give that system a burn in (overnight diagnostics) that employee has lost 2 days productivity.
I could probably swing that. But if I can just walk in and swap out a power supply, or nic, or video card, or memory it cuts that down to 2-5hrs of downtime. My small businesses may push as large a cashflow as your corporate but the business OWNERS I deal with certainly care a lot more about the lost profits and salary than your CTO;)
People tend to call the company who built their pc's to fix them.
"You're just asking for trouble. Machines have fairly high failure rates no matter what brand or components you use. I'd rather point people to Dell so that when something breaks, I'm covered. =)"
And yet, somehow, Dell seems to turn a profit on these high failure rate systems. Dell offers a 90-120 day warranty. The odds of something going wrong with a pc in that time at all, and even more the odds of something going wrong in that time that is not billable are pretty slim. If you put 20 systems in a lab something has to go wrong with each and every one that takes several hours to fix before your cash flow goes out of the green and that is just on the initial sale. Even if you broke even after hardware difficulties residual business after the warranty term will put you back into the green.
"Besides, with PC prices the way they are, how much can you save your clients anyway? Especially once you factor in the cost of your time."
Not much. Of course you can offer them systems with increased reliability and/or performance than Dell can. Last I checked Dell and every other major brandname use the cheapest proprietary components on the market that will get them up to the "specs" that consumers are looking for.
The other thing to consider is that while you will not beat the price of the Dell by much at least you will keep the profits instead of giving Dell a handout. You can offer your customer a superior machine at the same or lower price AND on-call in-house expertise that Dell can't even begin to compete with.
Vigilante justice is not supposed to be allowed in civilized society and that is just what DRM is. I hope someone grows some balls and starts pushing legislation that all LEGAL intellectual property rights are waived the moment someone takes enforcement and regulation into his/her/its own hands through DRM.
Plagiarism and copyright infringment are not the same thing. Plagiarism is claiming the work of another as your own, regardless of whether said work is protected legally or not. For example, you can plagiarize a work in the public domain and having the true author's permission does not absolve you.
Copyright infringment is making and distributing copies of another's work, regardless of whether you claim said work is your own or not.
As you can see, although it is possible to do both simultaneously neither comes close to implying the other.
Neither dep nor rpm offer any especial benefits over each other. It is apt+synaptic that offers superior package management and I agree that all distros should ship with it setup by default.
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If I'm paying thousands of dollars for education the school had better not try to shove THEIR idea of ethics down my throat. I would prefer to keep to my own tyvm.
unless qubits have 4 states.... oh wait, they do!
That really does not make much sense. Any research performed by the government is always in the public domain. The federal government can not hold copyright and/or patents. Therefore nobody has to "license" the result of government funded research. You, I, or any other US citizen can file a freedom of information act request and get reams of it.
I think you have hit the perception right on the head. The PDA is percieved as a puny semi-functional computer.
The ipod on the other hand is thought of as a super-powerful music player.
The more a device does, the more complex the interface. Most people still think of the PDA as too complex to figure out. But nobody thinks they can't handle a suped up walkman.
And capacity. If you want a music player it makes no sense to buy an expensive pda and expensive card to get a fraction of the storage capacity of the ipod. Even the palm lifedrive with 4gig of storage falls well short of a 60gig ipod.
Who cares why the Saudis and the Chinese are clamoring for freedom from ICANN? The Saudis and chinese wouldn't have any authority within said non-profit. NONE of the member nations would have any say in how dns is handled from that point forth.
I don't know about you. Personally I don't find ANY government body to be trustworthy, now or ever. DNS being in the hands of a national government is scary. DNS being in the hands of a body composed entirely of national governments is REALLY damned scary. The only thing worse than this would be if it were in the hands of a corporate entity.
How about putting DNS in the hands of a UN funded non-profit entity created exclusively for that purpose as it's charter and no oversight. After all it hardly makes sense for a single purpose entity to answer to a body with outside interests like profit or politics.
Where are mod points when you need them. That was pretty insightful.
Don't worry CGI is NOT just an interface between the webserver and the application. CGI also defines much of the information the browser is required to exchange with the webserver.
"but if those decisions were allowed to stand, the criminal justice system would grind to a halt under the caseload."
That is debatable. That is the claim to support those decisions but I would counter that those plea bargains are precisely WHY the system is practically ground to a halt as it is. Lets look at a simple crime like petty theft. The overhead of a murder trial is greater but there are relatively few murder trials and most would agree that it is even more important not to allow plea bargains for more serious crimes.
As it stands now. There will one appearance to appoint an attorney. Another court date to plead not guilty. An offer will be made and the court will be asked for (and grant) time to consider it. That offer will be refused and a better one will be given along with another court date. Finally the offer is accepted (something like $100 fine). Another court date will be set to review the case and make sure the terms of the agreement were carried out.
That is 3 months before the first appearance and 2-3 months between each subsequent appearance. All told a simple petty theft case takes about A YEAR to go through the justice system with plea bargaining.
Without plea bargaining matters become much simpler. One appearance to appoint an attorney and then another to plea and if needed try the case. Then one to review.
If the accused already has an attorney the whole affair can be wrapped up in a single day with a simple followup review. All told this will take a couple hours of court time.
The steps cut out are obvious. Without plea bargains there is no need for massive delays to decide how to plea or to work out a deal. Either you want to throw yourself on the mercy of the court or you don't. If you had a lawyer to begin with you should have prepared your case in the 3-6 months it took to get into the courtroom to begin with. If not, you should have prepared your defense in the time it takes to get the second appearance. If more time is needed the legal system already permits the judge to grant more time IF JUSTIFIED.
So you see, in my not so professional opinion. Plea bargains exist to escalate attorney fees and only serve to slow the legal process down.
shhh don't tell anyone but when you program in PHP you ARE still programming to the CGI ;) In fact everything you mentioned above still interacts with the client via CGI and html/xhtml just like it has for the last 10 years.
If that was meant to be sarcastic it should not be. Gmail is invite only and the first invitations went to an all tech savy crowd. Although gmail has spread far and wide I think the audience is still primarily tech oriented.
Aye. It is pretty obvious the gp is something of a fuckwit. However, for its intended purpose PHP is practically magic. Personally I have always been something of a Perl addict and then one day I was pondering some web work and decided to dive into php by recoding a couple of perl scrips in php. I was simply amazed at how much more simply one can do web cgi's in php.
For just about everything else there is still perl (which is definately superior to php in every NON web task) and when perl fails there is C (or C++ for those who believe that it's ok to make programs eat more cpu than they have to simply because cpus are faster than they used to be).
http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/breezy/ubuntu-5.10-i nstall-i386.iso.torrent
The moment he demonstrates an intellect and education that begins to compare with that of the average developer. Perhaps he could even learn something about programming before claiming that all the developers are idiots (since there are no developers who do not write flawed code regularly, despite good practice and best efforts) and incompetent.
yup, exactly. Great app in terms of function and usability... or it would be if it weren't written in java. No torrent app should EVER use a significant cpu load, but the windows version of Azureus will sit at 30-99% cpu at all times.
All anyone has to do to determine java is slow is run a practical application written in java. You can give examples and hypothesis and benchmarks all day long. It still won't change the fact that I can put a java app on joe blows desktop and will get a, "Damn this is slow." comment with all but the most trivial apps, each and every time.
You are right, as a user at home building your own personal computer is a crapshoot. As a technician who works on hundreds of systems a week where you can get a solid idea of how components really work in the wild it is a completely different story.
I don't need someone to describe a 3c905 nic as reliable to me. I have been working with them for years. There is nothing on a specification sheet or web review that you can read that will give you the same knowledge that first hand technical experience will give you.
Corporate customers usually have in-house techs regardless of what they need. At the scale I operate on we are talking about small to medium sized businesses. That means they can not afford to have people down and that almost every user is doing a different job and therefore has a unique software configuration. By the time I get there to begin with (1-4hrs) pull a suitable replacement pc out of the closet and hook it up (30 mins) and then ghost it (20-40mins depending on the weather) and then give that system a burn in (overnight diagnostics) that employee has lost 2 days productivity.
;)
I could probably swing that. But if I can just walk in and swap out a power supply, or nic, or video card, or memory it cuts that down to 2-5hrs of downtime. My small businesses may push as large a cashflow as your corporate but the business OWNERS I deal with certainly care a lot more about the lost profits and salary than your CTO
Where are you buying them, ebay?
It really does not matter if they blame you. They still have to pay you to fix it.
"Why build for someone as a consultant?"
People tend to call the company who built their pc's to fix them.
"You're just asking for trouble. Machines have fairly high failure rates no matter what brand or components you use. I'd rather point people to Dell so that when something breaks, I'm covered. =)"
And yet, somehow, Dell seems to turn a profit on these high failure rate systems. Dell offers a 90-120 day warranty. The odds of something going wrong with a pc in that time at all, and even more the odds of something going wrong in that time that is not billable are pretty slim. If you put 20 systems in a lab something has to go wrong with each and every one that takes several hours to fix before your cash flow goes out of the green and that is just on the initial sale. Even if you broke even after hardware difficulties residual business after the warranty term will put you back into the green.
"Besides, with PC prices the way they are, how much can you save your clients anyway? Especially once you factor in the cost of your time."
Not much. Of course you can offer them systems with increased reliability and/or performance than Dell can. Last I checked Dell and every other major brandname use the cheapest proprietary components on the market that will get them up to the "specs" that consumers are looking for.
The other thing to consider is that while you will not beat the price of the Dell by much at least you will keep the profits instead of giving Dell a handout. You can offer your customer a superior machine at the same or lower price AND on-call in-house expertise that Dell can't even begin to compete with.
Vigilante justice is not supposed to be allowed in civilized society and that is just what DRM is. I hope someone grows some balls and starts pushing legislation that all LEGAL intellectual property rights are waived the moment someone takes enforcement and regulation into his/her/its own hands through DRM.
Plagiarism and copyright infringment are not the same thing. Plagiarism is claiming the work of another as your own, regardless of whether said work is protected legally or not. For example, you can plagiarize a work in the public domain and having the true author's permission does not absolve you.
Copyright infringment is making and distributing copies of another's work, regardless of whether you claim said work is your own or not.
As you can see, although it is possible to do both simultaneously neither comes close to implying the other.
omg, yahoo.com still resolves!
Neither dep nor rpm offer any especial benefits over each other. It is apt+synaptic that offers superior package management and I agree that all distros should ship with it setup by default.