The first Amiga I saw (with the famous juggler demo and the HAM graphics) had the most unstable OS I had experienced up to that time. Guru meditation all over the place.
Lisa and macs, at least, were perfectly usable up to their limits (and the first 128k mac's limits were easy to reach).
The SQL database abstraction layer is an important feature of SQLObject, that Ruby on Rails doesn't currently support -- you have to write database dependent SQL code mixed in with your Ruby code.
This doesn't look at all like database dependent SQL code... SQL queries are an option in Ruby on Rails, but active record tries to make you avoid them as much as possible.
I am not sure i like that. I think a playful method like a web based slot machine that lets you win an invitation (ajax based not to hammer the servers) would be nicer. Sigh.
...no system has ever been demonstrated to produce greater general prosperity or efficiency than free market capitalism.
Well let's leave alone the "free market" utopia. I can think of another system who produces more prosperity and efficiency than capitalism: slavery in ancient Greece. The Greek citizens had a better lifestyle than ours. Slave labour is more cost-efficient, too.
Of course, the price of slavery is unacceptable to the civilized man. But the current incarnation of capitalism built itself upon the squandering of resources and pollution should be unacceptable too. You can free a slave, you cannot tell a depleted uranium shell not to poison the land. And, what will happen to capitalism when natural resources are scarce? when pollution will have took from us the freedom to drink (gone), sunbathe(almost gone), breath naturally?
For example, my 1.0.7 version, see below, is stable as a rock. Wait a minute, no firefox has ever crashed on me in the last year or more.
It's quite unlikely that, on my debian desktop, firefox can crash the OS, but that's another matter;D
I must add that I never cared to install flash, as there's nothing more annoying than having those animated banners around webpages. Maybe the flash plugin is unstable and gives you all those problems.
Well maybe from an average windows-centric perspective. But firefox is an open and multi-platform browser, not a mere third party replacement for IE.
What if lots of people buy the ps3 with hd (good way to evade the console tax in some places of the world) and want to browse the web too? They're gonna get firefox. The next IE-killer might as well be gecko based, too, or derived directly from firefox.
Maybe in the ensuing battle between flash and sparkle we'll witness flash being difficult to use on vista (usual strategy of MS against competition), and open source and standards conscious people boycotting sparkle.
Which means more web apps would opt for AJAX related technology, instead.
Uhm. Wasn't it difficult in your country to be a communist? Doesn't your electoral system require you previously sign up to an electoral list, so isn't it a peculiar situation to have people openly support their candidates with those nice badges and all and then not being able to check if your vote counts because the diebold machines do not let you?
BTW I live in corporate Italy, I do not feel free, but at least SOFTWARE PATENTS are invalid here:)
Applications like Winamp never used the standard UI widgets and no one seemed to complain about that.
I do! The hard part of my switch from mac to powerpc linux was experiencing xmms (winamp clone) and similar software who shares the "let's imitate the look and feel of a VCR, since they're so user friendly" attitude.
But hey, it works, there are no audio dropouts (as those i heard on a three times faster Vaio with XP) and comes for free, and if I don't like it I can download the source and... use Rhythmbox instead:)
I wholeheartedly agree.
Python was bashed in another thread because of whitespace/tab issues but I think the worst problem for total beginners is that its syntax for classes and method calls is not as clear as Ruby's.
Java? i'd say that it's easier to work with an interpreted language, especially for the first concepts. Needing to talk about compilation, or creating static methods just for a simple if-then structure seems confusing.
If beginners are very young, Logo is enough, i guess.
>I use fastcgi with perl all the time. I love it, makes my apps very fast. Apache 2.0's "fcgi" module (fastcgi server component, but better maintained) works nicely almost out of the box.
You may also want to check out lighttpd. It's smaller and faster than apache on static content (dynamic content depends on cgi speed, I guess;) )
It might make sense for someone who's not computer literate. "Dunno what these folks want, let's send em the drives so they can sort it out".
But Rackspace? Sure they are not going to take things offline if they can avoid it. And if the deadline was near i'd rather have offered FBI a remote shell access, better if with read only privileges.
Also if Rackspace was so in awe of the FBI why RISKING by sending the drives around? what if they get damaged, exposed to magnetic fields, lost? then they could be suspected of trying to hide evidence and they would have NOTHING to defend themselves unless they had a backup, and if they did have backups why servers were taken offline, couldn't they simply send the backup?
Being the usual paranoid, I'd say this is an excuse that blames rackspace to save FBI from the heat coming from the hippy commies hackers all over the world.
To me it's a legitimate question about something that didn't happen. Since one can perfectly envision the proposed situation (not to exist), one can answer, and some people might answer "I'd rather not have existed". It's not possible to ask the same question to somebody who doesn't exist, but that is a different matter.
You can ask a guy, for example, if he would like to have been born in another country. You do not need to ask somebody in that other country if he likes to have been born there: his answer could well be irrelevant to the first guy even if he knew it.
Anyway I just dropped in to say I liked "Scotty" and it's nice to know he was a good man IRL too.
1) Do not allow ANY consequence to come from an act of terrorism, other than the capture of the criminals who are behind it. Try not allowing psychological consequences, even.
If NO consequence come from an act of terror, there are much less people interested in committing it.
In accepting consequence we give some people an interest in perpetrating these acts because of their result or because of the reaction to those results. See the Reichstag fire.
If some consequences are inevitable (as it MIGHT be in case some security hardware gets installed) make sure NOBODY makes a buck out of it.
Of course I also tend to agree with the parent recipe.
Well maybe in some other places of the world parents may be at fault.
What I see in modern Italy is parents working, parking kids in front of the TV so they soak up ads and start assaulting the family finances with requests to get the latest stuff around the age of ten.
They also see two kind of parents on TV: the superhero type, with mental superpowers to understand the poor troubled kid, and the "i'm never here" type, which apparently resembles their real dad or mom, but doesn't account for the possibility that the real parent is not a real cynic airhead, but just phisically tired.
IMHO, blaming "parents", is technically the same as blaming "videogames", "TV", "society". An oversimplification that leads nowhere.
True, but think about it, what is the truth for non technical things?
Before wiki and the 'net in general made content become alive, and coming from whatever source, all such discussions were lost. The winner of the argument, or more likely, the one with the arguments that were more pleasing for the ones in charge, would win and get published and later become part of what is taught in schools.
With wikipedia the argument is part of the content and being critic of what you read is a good exercise for the mind.
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The first Amiga I saw (with the famous juggler demo and the HAM graphics) had the most unstable OS I had experienced up to that time. Guru meditation all over the place.
Lisa and macs, at least, were perfectly usable up to their limits (and the first 128k mac's limits were easy to reach).
The SQL database abstraction layer is an important feature of SQLObject, that Ruby on Rails doesn't currently support -- you have to write database dependent SQL code mixed in with your Ruby code.
This doesn't look at all like database dependent SQL code... SQL queries are an option in Ruby on Rails, but active record tries to make you avoid them as much as possible.
I am quite surprised myself. Nobody ever let me know they have something against me, so I guess there's no agenda.
:)
Thank you anyway
I am not sure i like that. I think a playful method like a web based slot machine that lets you win an invitation (ajax based not to hammer the servers) would be nicer. Sigh.
...no system has ever been demonstrated to produce greater general prosperity or efficiency than free market capitalism.
Well let's leave alone the "free market" utopia. I can think of another system who produces more prosperity and efficiency than capitalism: slavery in ancient Greece. The Greek citizens had a better lifestyle than ours. Slave labour is more cost-efficient, too.
Of course, the price of slavery is unacceptable to the civilized man. But the current incarnation of capitalism built itself upon the squandering of resources and pollution should be unacceptable too. You can free a slave, you cannot tell a depleted uranium shell not to poison the land. And, what will happen to capitalism when natural resources are scarce? when pollution will have took from us the freedom to drink (gone), sunbathe(almost gone), breath naturally?
For example, my 1.0.7 version, see below, is stable as a rock. Wait a minute, no firefox has ever crashed on me in the last year or more.
;D
It's quite unlikely that, on my debian desktop, firefox can crash the OS, but that's another matter
I must add that I never cared to install flash, as there's nothing more annoying than having those animated banners around webpages. Maybe the flash plugin is unstable and gives you all those problems.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923
Firefox/1.0.7 (Debian package 1.0.7-1)
Well maybe from an average windows-centric perspective. But firefox is an open and multi-platform browser, not a mere third party replacement for IE.
What if lots of people buy the ps3 with hd (good way to evade the console tax in some places of the world) and want to browse the web too? They're gonna get firefox. The next IE-killer might as well be gecko based, too, or derived directly from firefox.
Maybe in the ensuing battle between flash and sparkle we'll witness flash being difficult to use on vista (usual strategy of MS against competition), and open source and standards conscious people boycotting sparkle. Which means more web apps would opt for AJAX related technology, instead.
...produce the biodiesel fuel at the cost of about $0.30 (US) per liter...
... like the body or the subject!)"
I think we solved the oil shortage problem. Just raise cats - at something like 0.50$ a day for cat food - then make biofuel out of them...
"Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment
Uhm. Wasn't it difficult in your country to be a communist? Doesn't your electoral system require you previously sign up to an electoral list, so isn't it a peculiar situation to have people openly support their candidates with those nice badges and all and then not being able to check if your vote counts because the diebold machines do not let you?
:)
BTW I live in corporate Italy, I do not feel free, but at least SOFTWARE PATENTS are invalid here
Moderation in EVERYTHING is key
A pretty tautology. Remember this is Slashdot.
The Overclocking Theory completes the previously ill-conceived Intelligent Design theory.
It provides a logical explanation to all our glitches...
All heil the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
Applications like Winamp never used the standard UI widgets and no one seemed to complain about that.
:)
I do! The hard part of my switch from mac to powerpc linux was experiencing xmms (winamp clone) and similar software who shares the "let's imitate the look and feel of a VCR, since they're so user friendly" attitude.
But hey, it works, there are no audio dropouts (as those i heard on a three times faster Vaio with XP) and comes for free, and if I don't like it I can download the source and... use Rhythmbox instead
I wholeheartedly agree. Python was bashed in another thread because of whitespace/tab issues but I think the worst problem for total beginners is that its syntax for classes and method calls is not as clear as Ruby's. Java? i'd say that it's easier to work with an interpreted language, especially for the first concepts. Needing to talk about compilation, or creating static methods just for a simple if-then structure seems confusing. If beginners are very young, Logo is enough, i guess.
ok but be a geek, run it through a midi to cv gate converter :)
I used the novation bass station's built in converter to talk to a Moog Rogue, worked fine.
Goodbye, mr Moog.
>I use fastcgi with perl all the time. I love it, makes my apps very fast. Apache 2.0's "fcgi" module (fastcgi server component, but better maintained) works nicely almost out of the box.
;) )
You may also want to check out lighttpd. It's smaller and faster than apache on static content (dynamic content depends on cgi speed, I guess
LOL!
It might make sense for someone who's not computer literate. "Dunno what these folks want, let's send em the drives so they can sort it out". But Rackspace? Sure they are not going to take things offline if they can avoid it. And if the deadline was near i'd rather have offered FBI a remote shell access, better if with read only privileges. Also if Rackspace was so in awe of the FBI why RISKING by sending the drives around? what if they get damaged, exposed to magnetic fields, lost? then they could be suspected of trying to hide evidence and they would have NOTHING to defend themselves unless they had a backup, and if they did have backups why servers were taken offline, couldn't they simply send the backup? Being the usual paranoid, I'd say this is an excuse that blames rackspace to save FBI from the heat coming from the hippy commies hackers all over the world.
To me it's a legitimate question about something that didn't happen. Since one can perfectly envision the proposed situation (not to exist), one can answer, and some people might answer "I'd rather not have existed". It's not possible to ask the same question to somebody who doesn't exist, but that is a different matter.
You can ask a guy, for example, if he would like to have been born in another country. You do not need to ask somebody in that other country if he likes to have been born there: his answer could well be irrelevant to the first guy even if he knew it.
Anyway I just dropped in to say I liked "Scotty" and it's nice to know he was a good man IRL too.
Yeah, but does it run?
1) Do not allow ANY consequence to come from an act of terrorism, other than the capture of the criminals who are behind it. Try not allowing psychological consequences, even.
If NO consequence come from an act of terror, there are much less people interested in committing it.
In accepting consequence we give some people an interest in perpetrating these acts because of their result or because of the reaction to those results. See the Reichstag fire.
If some consequences are inevitable (as it MIGHT be in case some security hardware gets installed) make sure NOBODY makes a buck out of it.
Of course I also tend to agree with the parent recipe.
Yes, but does it run?
Well maybe in some other places of the world parents may be at fault.
What I see in modern Italy is parents working, parking kids in front of the TV so they soak up ads and start assaulting the family finances with requests to get the latest stuff around the age of ten.
They also see two kind of parents on TV: the superhero type, with mental superpowers to understand the poor troubled kid, and the "i'm never here" type, which apparently resembles their real dad or mom, but doesn't account for the possibility that the real parent is not a real cynic airhead, but just phisically tired.
IMHO, blaming "parents", is technically the same as blaming "videogames", "TV", "society". An oversimplification that leads nowhere.
I am still trying to figure out waht this means: Aruba lied to a customer calling "power loss"
It appears the police raid was made and no one bothered to tell the responsible for the servers that an investigation/seizing of data was being made.
Disruption of service occurred, and the phone calls by costumers were answered with technical excuses, instead of telling the truth.
This is what italian webpress says.
Note also that 30000 accounts, personal data, crypto keys, was seized because one single hosted site was under investigation.
True, but think about it, what is the truth for non technical things?
Before wiki and the 'net in general made content become alive, and coming from whatever source, all such discussions were lost. The winner of the argument, or more likely, the one with the arguments that were more pleasing for the ones in charge, would win and get published and later become part of what is taught in schools.
With wikipedia the argument is part of the content and being critic of what you read is a good exercise for the mind.