It's hard to believe that Microsoft managed to put such a solid product out.
I believe it, and I usually bash Microsoft. It's the effect of not being a monopolist in one area. The Microsoft in the console area is Sony, if the ps3 linux kit won't fully support the hardware. A ps3 with more RAM and full liux would be a killer home computer.
This was a non-story Yep. One would think that a government would try to downplay threats to avoid unnecessary scare of the population. But that happens only with real threats. For example in 86 I was at home, looking at a peculiar yellow sky and warm air while the stones i was sitting on were cold: "Strange". Being 25 km from the iron curtain, it's impossible military didn't know that cloud was radioactive, it was the front in the ongoing cold war. Yet nobody said anything till a couple days after. Same thing happens nowadays with media failing to cover in a proportional way the damage done by floods and hurricanes.
When the police said there was a terror plot involving liquids, arrests people, introduces more security measures, and then fails to inform with the same fanfare that the suspected plot was unfeasible, I call that terrorism.
>lord knows why AAC has it all over Mp3s - is it the master tapes Apple touts?
Nope, it simply features a better way to compress music, given the same bitrate. At bitrates lower than 160kbit there is an apparent difference between mp3 and ogg, aac... at higher bitrates the gap decreases. Anyway the quality difference between mp3 and some newer formats was already discussed right here.
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But a serious, multi-site web-based application that spans continents is going to require something a bit more robust. Is Rails unstable in your experience? Two phase commits are still not implemented in rails IIRC but clustering is possible and done by rails hosting services. Just put session data on the DB so that each request sent to a rails app can be routed arbitrarily to whatever app server is available at the moment.
I use ROR + postgres on two different platforms, ppc and intel, without a hitch. Didn't try clustering the two yet.
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MVC is good for any project but the most simple things.
You start coding a web app you need, 3 DB tables. You normalize the db and add couple things you didn't think about in advance, 10 tables. Oh, login and permission data, at least other three. At least three web templates.
Barely one man month after, your app is mature beta and you already gained from having started with MVC. I'd add, if your code has not implemented at least some MVC-like separation you are already swimming in spaghetti.
In soviet PHP land, spaghetti eat You!
As for java, it's a language, not a framework. You meant some framework I guess. As for C# i'd rather code for a platform which a free community have control of.
You must have missed all the snide remarks from winlusers for each issue regarding linux, from linux being just different, to actual bugs, to the fact that hardware manufacturers author win drivers and linux drivers are made by third parties with no guarantee of help.
> Get a new computer and shut the hell up already...
this is the usual upgrade trap that made me go linux, incidentally.
A dual boot setup to run office apps? Then run virtualized linux or dual boot to linux and use openoffice. So when the aqua port is mature you have zero problems. Also, as an old mac user, gnome is quite more familiar than xp, dunno about vista. And, factor in the price difference.
doesn't it make sense to pay less royalties for a song used as a ringtone, compared to what you'd pay for the full quality version meant to be listened to?
Given that the artist's effort was the same to produce the idea that becomes the song anyway, I am not sure. If you meant that one should pay less for a reduced quality item, then the artist/publisher ratio should remain the same for a ringtone, reducing its overall cost. It seems instead that publishers want the ratio to change.
You don't get it: people celebrate anniversaries of the start of a war, an earthquake, a tsunami. The birth of the woman who invented COBOL fits perfectly this tradition. Of course some people don't believe COBOL was actually invented, but evoked from hell instead.
Sure thing, they have to eat their own doggy food. But that's not a problem if you have a company with their cash flow. Raising the bar means reducing the number of competitors.
Do not make the error of comparing languages instead of solutions. For example if you deploy (even as backup) to a virtual server leased somewhere, ram usage is a problem. So ruby/python/perl/php/lua solutions beat java ones.
On the other hand a java solution might be better than a ruby/python.... ones even if most scripting languages (except php) are more elegant because java frameworks addressed some issues that others still lack.
Because a simple to implement format would make it trivial to write applications that work with Office data, and all the installations of office that need only simpler processing of said data would have no reason at all to buy the office suite.
Other example, if Microsoft had released perfectly documented APIs, WINE would have been completed long ago (and outperforming WinXP, probably)
Were you being sarcastic? if not, read up about past MS practices.
The criteria to select a software must be: quality, usefullness (is that a word?) and , why not price, but NEVER political and isiological (idiotogical) reasons.
Being free vs commercial is not a political matter. In fact mostly detractors of FOSS utter that word. We're not choosing between two equivalent solutions because of sympathy for a hippie. They are two different things from a technical (as in: "can't recompile for a new arch", or: "can't get support for an obscure FOSS project") point of view. Saying that openness is not a factor opens the way for potential bad choices, ask mr. Linus about bitkeeper. And by negating some metrics that are favouring open source you make a political distinction.
ummm but the blurb was like: it's nice to upgrade to vista because of its redesigned TCP/IP stack with shaping. Somebody else says, but, linux already has that for ages.
So now the question is not use linux or vista, the question is: is it a good idea to upgrade to the resource hog vista to get advantage of functionality available on other platforms?
My answer as usual: if you want to spend money to have peace of mind go mac, else go linux. Nobody gets fired for using microsoft, but everybody gets burned.
Or, the deja vu is the equivalent of a race condition that involves comparing a bunch of sensorial input with the memory of itself that happens *after* the brain has assembled all input in a coherent model of reality (what you called cross linking and before the cross referencing which is the process where the race condition occurs). That takes away the necessity for synaesthesia.
It's a good thing they do away with linking deja vu to vision, but I am not surprised by that. In fact, it seems I already...
So, what's the message these kind of reactions from the authorities send? To me it seems: "We don't really care if the system is really secure, there are always some friends might need to sneak in, one day. You just let yourself be searched and stay well put during the flight, cause if you don't we call you a terrorist. Trust us or else."
>This is China, right? Since when have they cared about things like royalties or others' intellectual property?
They care, now. There is WTO. And China's investments in R&D are about to yield lots of patentable ideas. Do you think they'll have scruples doing a 180?
If you ask me, I'd make it legal to ignore Chinese intellectual property for the same amount of time China ignored western one.
But it will never happen. China is just a tool for the elite that pumped investment money into it to get advantage of Chinese people, oppressed by their government. It's the same elite that strangles everybody else, with pathetic propaganda about free market and concrete action towards a region coded DRMed patented bleak future.
Why should a company be forced to be limited to a standard? What if the standard doesn't handle all cases? (Flamebait -5) It's pretty insightful, instead. It makes a good case against Microsoft monoculture. Openoffice on the other hand doesn't force you to use odf as you can save in word formats and, being odf a standard, lets you unpack and parse the xml for whatever purpose.
why not get _relevant_ spam and advertisements? Because I'll never give a penny to the idiots who make me lose time sorting through their unsolicited email anyway. YMMV of course. Maybe ads are ok, not that I bought anything through web ads yet, but *cough* *noindex* *cough* don't tell it to google *cough*.
Microsoft adoption = embrace and ext{end,inguish} and it's usually not a good thing for the technology being assimil... ehm adopted. That's what i gather from what happened to WWW standards with explorer and java with MS JVM. That's why i have shivers for Mono and Novell. Odf, well i guess i can live with iso standard and hope it suffices.
Of course who took the effort and risks of using radioactive polonium was no ordinary killer, there's likely a government behind. The problem is, was the kgb, or somebody who wanted to blame the kgb? What are the official reactions? what the diplomatic downfall? I can think of a dozen ways to put the signature on a killing without the need for the general public to know. Appearing the bad guys in front of the entire world is not a good idea unless you have specific reasons to.
Hey anybody already did the In Soviet Russia, fish catches YOU! joke?
I have sometimes the funny impression that the media attention for wrongdoers seems to encourage stupid acts of rebellion. Few days ago, a campione del mondo of stupidity put online a video of (probably) himself running in motorcycle at twice the speed limit. Video footage was broadcast in italian national newscasts for one day an a half. Why? Nobody gets hurt, while other events killed dozens and didn't get so much exposure. And, Why this guy, other than being denounced (well in Italy he won't do a day in prison, i bet), was offered a free track day ticket by a motorcycle association? Get him to witness how his less lucky pals end up against trees, instead.
So, back to topic, maybe we should stop assuming that mass media want to educate us . Too often this is not the case.
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It's hard to believe that Microsoft managed to put such a solid product out.
I believe it, and I usually bash Microsoft. It's the effect of not being a monopolist in one area. The Microsoft in the console area is Sony, if the ps3 linux kit won't fully support the hardware. A ps3 with more RAM and full liux would be a killer home computer.
When the police said there was a terror plot involving liquids, arrests people, introduces more security measures, and then fails to inform with the same fanfare that the suspected plot was unfeasible, I call that terrorism.
SCO, Novell, Microsoft! Beat dis, you sissy! ;)
>lord knows why AAC has it all over Mp3s - is it the master tapes Apple touts?
Nope, it simply features a better way to compress music, given the same bitrate. At bitrates lower than 160kbit there is an apparent difference between mp3 and ogg, aac... at higher bitrates the gap decreases. Anyway the quality difference between mp3 and some newer formats was already discussed right here.
I use ROR + postgres on two different platforms, ppc and intel, without a hitch. Didn't try clustering the two yet.
MVC is good for any project but the most simple things.
You start coding a web app you need, 3 DB tables. You normalize the db and add couple things you didn't think about in advance, 10 tables. Oh, login and permission data, at least other three. At least three web templates.
Barely one man month after, your app is mature beta and you already gained from having started with MVC. I'd add, if your code has not implemented at least some MVC-like separation you are already swimming in spaghetti.
In soviet PHP land, spaghetti eat You!
As for java, it's a language, not a framework. You meant some framework I guess.
As for C# i'd rather code for a platform which a free community have control of.
You must have missed all the snide remarks from winlusers for each issue regarding linux, from linux being just different, to actual bugs, to the fact that hardware manufacturers author win drivers and linux drivers are made by third parties with no guarantee of help.
> Get a new computer and shut the hell up already...
this is the usual upgrade trap that made me go linux, incidentally.
A dual boot setup to run office apps? Then run virtualized linux or dual boot to linux and use openoffice. So when the aqua port is mature you have zero problems. Also, as an old mac user, gnome is quite more familiar than xp, dunno about vista. And, factor in the price difference.
doesn't it make sense to pay less royalties for a song used as a ringtone, compared to what you'd pay for the full quality version meant to be listened to?
Given that the artist's effort was the same to produce the idea that becomes the song anyway, I am not sure. If you meant that one should pay less for a reduced quality item, then the artist/publisher ratio should remain the same for a ringtone, reducing its overall cost. It seems instead that publishers want the ratio to change.
You don't get it: people celebrate anniversaries of the start of a war, an earthquake, a tsunami. The birth of the woman who invented COBOL fits perfectly this tradition. Of course some people don't believe COBOL was actually invented, but evoked from hell instead.
Sure thing, they have to eat their own doggy food. But that's not a problem if you have a company with their cash flow. Raising the bar means reducing the number of competitors.
Do not make the error of comparing languages instead of solutions. For example if you deploy (even as backup) to a virtual server leased somewhere, ram usage is a problem. So ruby/python/perl/php/lua solutions beat java ones.
On the other hand a java solution might be better than a ruby/python.... ones even if most scripting languages (except php) are more elegant because java frameworks addressed some issues that others still lack.
Oh no! The dead have risen and they're voting for copyright extension
What's wrong with that? After all, they got many advantages from the copyright system. I'd call'em the grateful dead.
*ducks*
Because a simple to implement format would make it trivial to write applications that work with Office data, and all the installations of office that need only simpler processing of said data would have no reason at all to buy the office suite. Other example, if Microsoft had released perfectly documented APIs, WINE would have been completed long ago (and outperforming WinXP, probably) Were you being sarcastic? if not, read up about past MS practices.
The criteria to select a software must be: quality, usefullness (is that a word?) and , why not price, but NEVER political and isiological (idiotogical) reasons.
Being free vs commercial is not a political matter. In fact mostly detractors of FOSS utter that word. We're not choosing between two equivalent solutions because of sympathy for a hippie. They are two different things from a technical (as in: "can't recompile for a new arch", or: "can't get support for an obscure FOSS project") point of view.
Saying that openness is not a factor opens the way for potential bad choices, ask mr. Linus about bitkeeper. And by negating some metrics that are favouring open source you make a political distinction.
ummm but the blurb was like: it's nice to upgrade to vista because of its redesigned TCP/IP stack with shaping. Somebody else says, but, linux already has that for ages. So now the question is not use linux or vista, the question is: is it a good idea to upgrade to the resource hog vista to get advantage of functionality available on other platforms? My answer as usual: if you want to spend money to have peace of mind go mac, else go linux. Nobody gets fired for using microsoft, but everybody gets burned.
Or, the deja vu is the equivalent of a race condition that involves comparing a bunch of sensorial input with the memory of itself that happens *after* the brain has assembled all input in a coherent model of reality (what you called cross linking and before the cross referencing which is the process where the race condition occurs). That takes away the necessity for synaesthesia.
It's a good thing they do away with linking deja vu to vision, but I am not surprised by that. In fact, it seems I already...
So, what's the message these kind of reactions from the authorities send? To me it seems: "We don't really care if the system is really secure, there are always some friends might need to sneak in, one day. You just let yourself be searched and stay well put during the flight, cause if you don't we call you a terrorist. Trust us or else."
>This is China, right? Since when have they cared about things like royalties or others' intellectual property?
They care, now. There is WTO. And China's investments in R&D are about to yield lots of patentable ideas. Do you think they'll have scruples doing a 180?
If you ask me, I'd make it legal to ignore Chinese intellectual property for the same amount of time China ignored western one.
But it will never happen. China is just a tool for the elite that pumped investment money into it to get advantage of Chinese people, oppressed by their government. It's the same elite that strangles everybody else, with pathetic propaganda about free market and concrete action towards a region coded DRMed patented bleak future.
> Way to set them up for computer litterate...
At least the browser in my (linux powered) desktop has a built-in spellchecker.
Microsoft adoption = embrace and ext{end,inguish} and it's usually not a good thing for the technology being assimil... ehm adopted. That's what i gather from what happened to WWW standards with explorer and java with MS JVM. That's why i have shivers for Mono and Novell. Odf, well i guess i can live with iso standard and hope it suffices.
Of course who took the effort and risks of using radioactive polonium was no ordinary killer, there's likely a government behind. The problem is, was the kgb, or somebody who wanted to blame the kgb? What are the official reactions? what the diplomatic downfall? I can think of a dozen ways to put the signature on a killing without the need for the general public to know. Appearing the bad guys in front of the entire world is not a good idea unless you have specific reasons to.
Hey anybody already did the In Soviet Russia, fish catches YOU! joke?
I have sometimes the funny impression that the media attention for wrongdoers seems to encourage stupid acts of rebellion. Few days ago, a campione del mondo of stupidity put online a video of (probably) himself running in motorcycle at twice the speed limit. Video footage was broadcast in italian national newscasts for one day an a half. Why? Nobody gets hurt, while other events killed dozens and didn't get so much exposure. And, Why this guy, other than being denounced (well in Italy he won't do a day in prison, i bet), was offered a free track day ticket by a motorcycle association? Get him to witness how his less lucky pals end up against trees, instead.
So, back to topic, maybe we should stop assuming that mass media want to educate us . Too often this is not the case.