> Campana's attorn"heir"s just got incredibly lucky that Campana won the race to file in a moronic patent system
Well it's not the first time people get incredibly lucky with patent litigation, IIRC.
Most notably, big corps being beaten by small peons.
It gives the idea that patents work as a kind of equalizer.
So I think big corps are not entirely sorry they lose some cases now, until enough time passes and new generations consider the patent system natural just because they grew up with it.
> They have a mirror set up on the moon so that anyone who knows where to look can fire a laser at it and get a reflection back; that conspiracy theory has been debunked long ago
Uhmmm, that's a partial debunking. Getting machinery on other planets is a sure thing. But a man is not a mirror. If we landed in 69 or no, it will be apparent when we get there [again].
> what the world needs its just a tad of discipline and self control
until that objective is reached I'd ban use of stealthy addictive things in food. Let us coffee people understand if and how we're dependent on the stuff.
> no one is forcing you to eat that stuff.
subtle advertisement will. caffeine causing addiction will. Don't forget millions of people were convinced by Hollywood to smoke terribly smelling tobacco leaves, recently mixed with various chemicals.
Going a lil OT, this sounds to me like the trite argument about TV, "nobody's forcing you to see crappy programs". But you get enough judgment to understand if you're seeing crap only after years of swallowing TV, and parents are not around every time (not to mention TV sitcoms have parents and sons in constant attrition)
So what we get is TV debates on how on earth people are so dumb and violent to replicate what they see on TV in real life (of course they never put it this way blaming everything, society politicians school family, never themselves)
> A second problem is the "more information than I asked for" problem. SELECT * should be used sparingly in favor of just grabbing the information that you need. ORMs have no idea of what information you want, so they just grab everything. The more information in your table (i.e. large text fields), the bigger problem that is.
You've already been replied to, but don't forget that Rails "find by sql" lets you query the db using plain ol' database dependent (but optimized) and have the selected fields returned in handy AR instances. I guess rails developers start building their app using normal AR facilities, then when they got familiar with the required data structures to solve the problem think about replacing AR queries with SQL without touching much the rest of the code.
Hehe as a non pro XP user i had noticed too that logging in as an unprivileged user does not notify you of any updates. I'm really constantly amazed about the lag between windows and the other OSes out there, when astroturfing and online debates stop, and real work needs to get done. Hope vista is way better, for you vista users.
I noticed that ie7 "phones home" a lot, might it be antiphishing, WGA issues. And its user interface is different from a certain broad mozilla/ie6/opera convention. So I'm getting FF installed for users who complain. Maybe that explains something.
Well every time linux has some recognition, however insignificant for you (and for me, being it non free binary blob that my powerpc won't see anyway), is yet another nail in the coffin of the "non readiness of linux on the desktop" tale.
I thought that "keyword" meant a word characterizing a document usually coming by the document creators, while "tag" meant something that the user puts on documents according to his needs. So if one user has his own habit he does not need any tag standard. As you say the only problem is to have aggregators for tagged things coming from different apps, but in my experience it's easy to recall if what you were looking for was an email rather than a word document or a webpage link. I'd be more interested in tags encoded in files' metadata, so that a file path is relevant for the OS while the user is free to catalog his hd content however he sees fit. I guess new filesystems allow this?
Thanks. Then, I don't see the point of the parent of my original post. If one comes along with an unreadable office doc, I can bounce and ask him to use a more compatible format. Making people aware of document formats lock in is a social responsibility:)
Can't the new word save docs in older word 03 format? I dunno, just asking.
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> You mean saddled with a mediocre O-R mapper, template language, and MVC model that comes to dominate any web project done in those languages despite the flaws that a very "opinionated" project leader refuses to address?
I meant a web app mvc framework. If it lets you also sketch up apps like rails does, or addresses some rails shortcomings while keeping the differential of performance between lisp and ruby, great.
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> I still don't seem what advantage Ruby has over Lisp or Smalltalk.
IIRC Smalltalk doesn't have open classes and mixins (kind of multiple inheritance). These features can be abused leading to hyperspaghetti code (tangled in a couple more dimensions than regular spaghetti code) but they let people implement very elegant solutions. Over lisp... uhm... it helps with repeated stress syndrome on typing parentheses:)
It would be cool to see common lisp or io "on rails", though.
> I think there's some ball lightning coming out of that server.
Wouldn't it be a great way to signal excessive load on a server? Except that then microsoft would embrace and extend the idea with ballMer lightning, which also throws chairs at you if it spots license irregularities.
IIRC, and in the italian localization, ie6 said about my site that the user CHOSE NOT TO TRUST that CA (I setup my own CA, it's for internal use). Except that user never did that (especially at first connection) ie7 says "blah blah... connect to site anyway (discouraged)"
At least firefox is honest, says "I can't verify this CA, do you want to trust it always, for this session, never?"
As i said i have no public users so i can instruct people to trust the CA. Public sites should setup a link to explain the situation on the login page, there were dedicated sites explaining the dangers of eu patents so something centralized would be nice.
The only reason to withhold the patch is to make people frustrated with W2K to encourage them to upgrade "Encourage" like the Godfather would, I'd add.
It seems every windows box out there is Pwned: by microsoft.
Porn might have been a deciding factor in beta vs. VHS, but that was before the almighty internet tubes. I guess most porn people have comes in handy divx or similar formats. Heck i'd fell bad paying for porn, supporting that industry.
Well direct opposition to the creation of such a "geek republic" is a bad idea. Better not openly fight people who simply want to be free to develop their ideas without influencing the precious WTO dictatorship, the risk is making more people aware of the way big business defeats national and political boundaries.
A better strategy would be infiltrate that community with paedophiles, software pirates, and anyone who can get advantage of a free infrastructure... "throw enough mud and some will stick", right?
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> Campana's attorn"heir"s just got incredibly lucky that Campana won the race to file in a moronic patent system
Well it's not the first time people get incredibly lucky with patent litigation, IIRC.
Most notably, big corps being beaten by small peons.
It gives the idea that patents work as a kind of equalizer.
So I think big corps are not entirely sorry they lose some cases now, until enough time passes and new generations consider the patent system natural just because they grew up with it.
> They have a mirror set up on the moon so that anyone who knows where to look can fire a laser at it and get a reflection back; that conspiracy theory has been debunked long ago
Uhmmm, that's a partial debunking. Getting machinery on other planets is a sure thing. But a man is not a mirror. If we landed in 69 or no, it will be apparent when we get there [again].
> what the world needs its just a tad of discipline and self control
until that objective is reached I'd ban use of stealthy addictive things in food. Let us coffee people understand if and how we're dependent on the stuff.
> no one is forcing you to eat that stuff.
subtle advertisement will. caffeine causing addiction will. Don't forget millions of people were convinced by Hollywood to smoke terribly smelling tobacco leaves, recently mixed with various chemicals.
Going a lil OT, this sounds to me like the trite argument about TV, "nobody's forcing you to see crappy programs". But you get enough judgment to understand if you're seeing crap only after years of swallowing TV, and parents are not around every time (not to mention TV sitcoms have parents and sons in constant attrition)
So what we get is TV debates on how on earth people are so dumb and violent to replicate what they see on TV in real life (of course they never put it this way blaming everything, society politicians school family, never themselves)
> Buy this comment for $20 a year!
Don't get it modded down for $2 a year! (to each slashdot moderator, unfortunately)
> A second problem is the "more information than I asked for" problem. SELECT * should be used sparingly in favor of just grabbing the information that you need. ORMs have no idea of what information you want, so they just grab everything. The more information in your table (i.e. large text fields), the bigger problem that is.
You've already been replied to, but don't forget that Rails "find by sql" lets you query the db using plain ol' database dependent (but optimized) and have the selected fields returned in handy AR instances. I guess rails developers start building their app using normal AR facilities, then when they got familiar with the required data structures to solve the problem think about replacing AR queries with SQL without touching much the rest of the code.
That sure didn't happen for IE7 update. I'll see what happens with other updates on the box i log in as luser.
Hehe as a non pro XP user i had noticed too that logging in as an unprivileged user does not notify you of any updates. I'm really constantly amazed about the lag between windows and the other OSes out there, when astroturfing and online debates stop, and real work needs to get done. Hope vista is way better, for you vista users.
I noticed that ie7 "phones home" a lot, might it be antiphishing, WGA issues. And its user interface is different from a certain broad mozilla/ie6/opera convention. So I'm getting FF installed for users who complain. Maybe that explains something.
Well every time linux has some recognition, however insignificant for you (and for me, being it non free binary blob that my powerpc won't see anyway), is yet another nail in the coffin of the "non readiness of linux on the desktop" tale.
>Pragmatic eh? Where's Stallman on security?
>Apparently, he thinks that everyone should have root.
Care to contextualize? I think i know what he means, possibly recalling his own experiences of a community developing new ideas for OSs and apps.
Yet anonymous grandpa is right with Torvalds and the bitkeeper that bit him in the ass.
I thought that "keyword" meant a word characterizing a document usually coming by the document creators, while "tag" meant something that the user puts on documents according to his needs. So if one user has his own habit he does not need any tag standard. As you say the only problem is to have aggregators for tagged things coming from different apps, but in my experience it's easy to recall if what you were looking for was an email rather than a word document or a webpage link. I'd be more interested in tags encoded in files' metadata, so that a file path is relevant for the OS while the user is free to catalog his hd content however he sees fit. I guess new filesystems allow this?
Thanks. Then, I don't see the point of the parent of my original post. If one comes along with an unreadable office doc, I can bounce and ask him to use a more compatible format. Making people aware of document formats lock in is a social responsibility :)
Can't the new word save docs in older word 03 format? I dunno, just asking.
> You mean saddled with a mediocre O-R mapper, template language, and MVC model that comes to dominate any web project done in those languages despite the flaws that a very "opinionated" project leader refuses to address?
I meant a web app mvc framework. If it lets you also sketch up apps like rails does, or addresses some rails shortcomings while keeping the differential of performance between lisp and ruby, great.
> I still don't seem what advantage Ruby has over Lisp or Smalltalk.
:)
IIRC Smalltalk doesn't have open classes and mixins (kind of multiple inheritance). These features can be abused leading to hyperspaghetti code (tangled in a couple more dimensions than regular spaghetti code) but they let people implement very elegant solutions. Over lisp... uhm... it helps with repeated stress syndrome on typing parentheses
It would be cool to see common lisp or io "on rails", though.
> I think there's some ball lightning coming out of that server.
Wouldn't it be a great way to signal excessive load on a server? Except that then microsoft would embrace and extend the idea with ballMer lightning, which also throws chairs at you if it spots license irregularities.
Yep, one of the problems is that ie lies to you.
IIRC, and in the italian localization, ie6 said about my site that the user CHOSE NOT TO TRUST that CA (I setup my own CA, it's for internal use). Except that user never did that (especially at first connection)
ie7 says "blah blah... connect to site anyway (discouraged)"
At least firefox is honest, says "I can't verify this CA, do you want to trust it always, for this session, never?"
As i said i have no public users so i can instruct people to trust the CA. Public sites should setup a link to explain the situation on the login page, there were dedicated sites explaining the dangers of eu patents so something centralized would be nice.
The only reason to withhold the patch is to make people frustrated with W2K to encourage them to upgrade "Encourage" like the Godfather would, I'd add.
It seems every windows box out there is Pwned: by microsoft.
Porn might have been a deciding factor in beta vs. VHS, but that was before the almighty internet tubes. I guess most porn people have comes in handy divx or similar formats. Heck i'd fell bad paying for porn, supporting that industry.
> Funny maybe, but what "insight" or "information" does the parent post provide?
You haven't experienced MS vs. others' stacks (be it Mac, Linux, or even mature Amiga OS) long enough to realize it.
I agree with your criticism, though: due to the absence of "Obvious", stating that MS software ain't that good is probably "Redundant".
> Who are you ducking from around here?
Sorry for the qui pro quack, I actually meant that Microsoft software is likely to have been conceived and released by ducks.
>The patches caused more harm than good so they decided to pull them?
Not much of an excuse, considering that most Microsoft software causes more harm than good, yet they release it.
*ducks*
> You forgot "4a) Actually get recognised by at least one other country". Best of luck with that.
Getting recognized is a piece of cake. Just behave as your newly found status of Sealander lets you. Ignore patents.
The difficult part is not getting defeated.
It's not a great name, no matter the outcome of a possible lawsuit.
:P)
Why not calling it the
Any (or All)
Media
Device
(ok, I don't really expect those guys in marketing to like geeky recursive acronyms, nevermind
Well direct opposition to the creation of such a "geek republic" is a bad idea. Better not openly fight people who simply want to be free to develop their ideas without influencing the precious WTO dictatorship, the risk is making more people aware of the way big business defeats national and political boundaries.
A better strategy would be infiltrate that community with paedophiles, software pirates, and anyone who can get advantage of a free infrastructure... "throw enough mud and some will stick", right?
> 7) Threaten to develop nuclear bombs
:)
being a geek republic I'd threaten to develop BETTER nuclear bombs