I have never seen the appeal of myspace. The blogging system is very poor and peoples custom designs are horrible. It seems to me that myspace is purely visual with very little substance. Apparently this appeals to a whole lot of people, but I am not one of them! I really miss the days of the old community sites (half-empty.org was my fav). I've been trying to find a modern site that has the same feel of those old community sites; debates, conversations, topics of interest, etc. Recently i found a new one called soulcast (in my sig) and so far it seems great. Anyone know of any other great community sites that aren't aimed at kids (by kids i mean 15-early 20's)?
Almost every problem that someone solves is a "passing fad" by your definition. Why learn how to build bridges when we will have flying cars one day? The reason is that learning how to solve an immediate problem well, i.e. serving web pages, will help you know how to solve other, future, problems. Learning rails helped me understand what good clean code should look like. This will help me with any coding problem I try to solve in the future.
I agree. I was just saying that in dollar terms it's cheaper for me. But in the long fun of life it certainly isn't cheaper for us as a society. I might be dead when the bill comes due so it still will likely be cheaper for me, but that's not the point.
"I want to live in a Utopia of plentiful abundance, and there is no intrinsic reason why we can't have it."
The intrinsic reason we can't is that the universe as far as we can tell is finite. However, I think we agree more than we disagree. Our biggest problem is that it's cheaper to be wastefull than to handle it properly.
I don't thin there is any way we will be living in space in the next 100 years. Also, I don't think moving is the solution to our problems. It's like the drug addict who thinks that moving away from the city will solve their drug addiction. The problems we have aren't a result of where we live, but how we live.
We have to stop being a desposable consumerist society. I.e. we have to live more simply. Now I'm not saying that we all need to be organic gardeners who tailor their own clothes and live directly off the land. I'm very much a metropolitan technologist, but I think that consumption purely for the sake of consumption is our biggest problem. The real question is if the market can correct this or if the market will dig such a deep hole that it doesn't react until the shit hits the fan.
Well the problem is that you didn't explain yourself well. We were talking about the itms then you made a complaint that seemed to be a complaint of the itms. Your real complaint is with the riaa which is a tangential matter. I stand by my point that the itms and ipod have done nothing wrong.
the profit sharing idea seems to be getting popular. There is a myspace/livejournal ish site at www.soulcast.com that does the same thing. I really love the soulcast site, but my love of it has nothing to do with the profit sharing. I just like their system better than myspace and livejournal. Check my sig for my soulcast blog
Let me see if I can understand this. You have an ipod. It does what you want it to. End of story.
"At the time, I could use iTunes to rip my cds and convert them to mp3 just fine."
And you can't now? Your last comment almost sounds like the rantings of a madman. I see absolutely no reason to think that you won't be able to put mp3's on your ipod in some hypothetical future. What the hell are you whining about exactly?
You have a very odd interpretation of the word free. There is nothing unfree about creating two products that go together and letting customers decide if they want that combo or something else. That is the very definition of freedom. Telling companies that they can only make products that stand individually is a RESTRICTION on freedom. I'm not saying that we should have absolute freedom. However, we shouldn't redfine the word "freedom" as you do.
They have every right to, but hypotheticals are not reality. It simply won't happen. It would cost way too much in legal fees to stop all the joe shmoe linux distros. But if some unknown linux distro becomes the next ubuntu then they should provide the sources.
Also you post seems to be implying that the "upstreams" can shut down the "downstreams". That implication is wrong. there is nothing prevent the "downstreams" from providing the sources.
this is typical sensational journalism. Who exactly are they in trouble with? Is someone going to sue them? Of course not! No one cares if somebody packages up a linux and distributes it to 3 people.
There is not a single successful system on that graph that is inline with teh PS3. The neo-geo was insanely overpriced when it came out and was a flop. However, the most important point is how it compares to it's compeitors, and again it's way overpriced.
Now I'm simply curious to see if the wii or 360 will win this round of the console battle.
"Capitalism will certainly destroy itself one day. It isn't going to end in Marxist revolt though, and it won't die because a few are exceedingly rich. It is simply going to out produce itself. It will produce until it breaks the paradigm that human work has value."
Your take on this is like saying it's "not hypocritical" for a narco-trafficker to punish his kids for taking drugs.
Your analogy on this is very sketchy. This guy isn't telling his kids not to consume his products (which is what your analogy is saying). He's not telling his kids not to do what he does. He's telling them not to do a certain job in his company. This seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Let me start by saying that I do good unit tests on all my code for serious projects. If you have good practices this isn't really a problem. Also, my backend models (think rails if you know it) have all the necessary validations. I personally would rather do validation in my models because it's much easy to code (and test that the code works) in ruby or php than it is in whatever in build sql language your db uses. I.e. I would much rather write a ruby validation (for something non trivial) than a trigger in T-SQL. Ultimately your ruby/php code has to handle the error so why not validate it in your code? Take your Feb 31 example. My code needs to know that an invalid date was input and needs to tell the user that they need to put a valid date. Since I have to do this it's so much easier to do the validation in the ruby/php model. Don't get me wrong though. If it's something really trivial to implement in your db then that extra level of safety is good, but it's not a major issue for me in most circumstances.
It must not allow bad external code to destroy its integrity, otherwise, it will be worthless for important applications.
define important. All the web applications I've ever made are essential to our business, they all us mysql (except on with is using sql server), and they are all successfull. You are absolutely right that a bank, hospital, etc, shouldn't use mysql. This doesn't mean that no one should and it doesn't mean that it can't be used for "important" applications. One thing people like you tend to forget is that there are costs to all the data integrity checks. Sometimes it's performance, sometimes it's added complexity, and sometimes it's just something that adds time to a developers work. The benefits don't always out weigh these costs.
Your keep returning to this point about one applications bug cascading to other applications. Your missing the point that the vast majority of us don't use multiple applications with a single database. I.e. mysql works great for me and for most people. I've written atleast 10 serious applications with mysql and never had a problem with this date issue, and never had a bug cascade to other applications. This doesn't mean mysql is right for you, but it works well for most of us.
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that was kind of my point. myspace clearly appeals to a ton of people. I'm just not one of them. btw, what was your nick on .5e?
I have never seen the appeal of myspace. The blogging system is very poor and peoples custom designs are horrible. It seems to me that myspace is purely visual with very little substance. Apparently this appeals to a whole lot of people, but I am not one of them! I really miss the days of the old community sites (half-empty.org was my fav). I've been trying to find a modern site that has the same feel of those old community sites; debates, conversations, topics of interest, etc. Recently i found a new one called soulcast (in my sig) and so far it seems great. Anyone know of any other great community sites that aren't aimed at kids (by kids i mean 15-early 20's)?
Almost every problem that someone solves is a "passing fad" by your definition. Why learn how to build bridges when we will have flying cars one day? The reason is that learning how to solve an immediate problem well, i.e. serving web pages, will help you know how to solve other, future, problems. Learning rails helped me understand what good clean code should look like. This will help me with any coding problem I try to solve in the future.
I agree. I was just saying that in dollar terms it's cheaper for me. But in the long fun of life it certainly isn't cheaper for us as a society. I might be dead when the bill comes due so it still will likely be cheaper for me, but that's not the point.
your reasoning is off because your assuming your time isn't worth anything. It's cheaper for me to throw it away than to spend the time cleaning it.
"I want to live in a Utopia of plentiful abundance, and there is no intrinsic reason why we can't have it."
The intrinsic reason we can't is that the universe as far as we can tell is finite. However, I think we agree more than we disagree. Our biggest problem is that it's cheaper to be wastefull than to handle it properly.
oh, you'll know!
I don't thin there is any way we will be living in space in the next 100 years. Also, I don't think moving is the solution to our problems. It's like the drug addict who thinks that moving away from the city will solve their drug addiction. The problems we have aren't a result of where we live, but how we live.
We have to stop being a desposable consumerist society. I.e. we have to live more simply. Now I'm not saying that we all need to be organic gardeners who tailor their own clothes and live directly off the land. I'm very much a metropolitan technologist, but I think that consumption purely for the sake of consumption is our biggest problem. The real question is if the market can correct this or if the market will dig such a deep hole that it doesn't react until the shit hits the fan.
personally i think ruby, and therefore rails, is better because I think dynamic languages are generally better than static ones.
are you talking about symbols? If so your spaghetti code conclusion makes no sense to me.
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I see no source of spaghetti code from this!
Well the problem is that you didn't explain yourself well. We were talking about the itms then you made a complaint that seemed to be a complaint of the itms. Your real complaint is with the riaa which is a tangential matter. I stand by my point that the itms and ipod have done nothing wrong.
the profit sharing idea seems to be getting popular. There is a myspace/livejournal ish site at www.soulcast.com that does the same thing. I really love the soulcast site, but my love of it has nothing to do with the profit sharing. I just like their system better than myspace and livejournal. Check my sig for my soulcast blog
Let me see if I can understand this. You have an ipod. It does what you want it to. End of story.
"At the time, I could use iTunes to rip my cds and convert them to mp3 just fine."
And you can't now? Your last comment almost sounds like the rantings of a madman. I see absolutely no reason to think that you won't be able to put mp3's on your ipod in some hypothetical future. What the hell are you whining about exactly?
You have a very odd interpretation of the word free. There is nothing unfree about creating two products that go together and letting customers decide if they want that combo or something else. That is the very definition of freedom. Telling companies that they can only make products that stand individually is a RESTRICTION on freedom. I'm not saying that we should have absolute freedom. However, we shouldn't redfine the word "freedom" as you do.
They have every right to, but hypotheticals are not reality. It simply won't happen. It would cost way too much in legal fees to stop all the joe shmoe linux distros. But if some unknown linux distro becomes the next ubuntu then they should provide the sources. Also you post seems to be implying that the "upstreams" can shut down the "downstreams". That implication is wrong. there is nothing prevent the "downstreams" from providing the sources.
Mepis is pretty popular no? They should provide the sources. They aren't some tiny upstart that no one knows.
this is typical sensational journalism. Who exactly are they in trouble with? Is someone going to sue them? Of course not! No one cares if somebody packages up a linux and distributes it to 3 people.
There is not a single successful system on that graph that is inline with teh PS3. The neo-geo was insanely overpriced when it came out and was a flop. However, the most important point is how it compares to it's compeitors, and again it's way overpriced.
Now I'm simply curious to see if the wii or 360 will win this round of the console battle.
"Capitalism will certainly destroy itself one day. It isn't going to end in Marxist revolt though, and it won't die because a few are exceedingly rich. It is simply going to out produce itself. It will produce until it breaks the paradigm that human work has value."
or until it destroys the ecosystem.
Your analogy on this is very sketchy. This guy isn't telling his kids not to consume his products (which is what your analogy is saying). He's not telling his kids not to do what he does. He's telling them not to do a certain job in his company. This seems perfectly reasonable to me.
agreed :)
Let me start by saying that I do good unit tests on all my code for serious projects. If you have good practices this isn't really a problem. Also, my backend models (think rails if you know it) have all the necessary validations. I personally would rather do validation in my models because it's much easy to code (and test that the code works) in ruby or php than it is in whatever in build sql language your db uses. I.e. I would much rather write a ruby validation (for something non trivial) than a trigger in T-SQL. Ultimately your ruby/php code has to handle the error so why not validate it in your code? Take your Feb 31 example. My code needs to know that an invalid date was input and needs to tell the user that they need to put a valid date. Since I have to do this it's so much easier to do the validation in the ruby/php model. Don't get me wrong though. If it's something really trivial to implement in your db then that extra level of safety is good, but it's not a major issue for me in most circumstances.
define important. All the web applications I've ever made are essential to our business, they all us mysql (except on with is using sql server), and they are all successfull. You are absolutely right that a bank, hospital, etc, shouldn't use mysql. This doesn't mean that no one should and it doesn't mean that it can't be used for "important" applications. One thing people like you tend to forget is that there are costs to all the data integrity checks. Sometimes it's performance, sometimes it's added complexity, and sometimes it's just something that adds time to a developers work. The benefits don't always out weigh these costs.
Your keep returning to this point about one applications bug cascading to other applications. Your missing the point that the vast majority of us don't use multiple applications with a single database. I.e. mysql works great for me and for most people. I've written atleast 10 serious applications with mysql and never had a problem with this date issue, and never had a bug cascade to other applications. This doesn't mean mysql is right for you, but it works well for most of us.