Yeah, it's a stupid name for a company, but if I kept repeating "the plaintif this", "the defendant that", "the plaintif some other thing", people either wouldn't know who I was talking about, or would think I was either a lawyer or really pretentious.
No, it's not much more complicated. It was, however AdvertizingBanners.com's business model when X10 hired them. X10 subsequently copied the code and stopped paying AdvertizingBanners.com. If X10.com had implemented pop-unders without a contract with AdvertizingBanners.com, or let the contract expire first, there probably wouldn't have been a lawsuit. (IANAL)
Lower barriers to trade is a good Idea, but the FTA, NAFTA, and FTAA has little to do with trade, and everything to do with making governments subservient to trans-national corporations.
Actually, no, the connection handling only works if the client aborts the script, you can't close the connection yourself untill the script exits, without aborting the script, even if you set ignore user user aborts (I tried with PHP 4.1.2). Also the sem & shm don't help much as you can't leave a thread runnning to recieve the IPC info, unless you write the recieving program in some environment (ie perl | C/C++ | Java) that is not request-run-response-exit-oriented. You might be able to write & run a php based server program at the command line, but this is not really what php was designed for, or what it's good at.
How about this... have the voter mark the form herself with a pen, then drop it in a cardboard box with a hole on top. Then at the end of the night, have two sworn-in volunteers open the box and count the ballots while being watched by a (sworn-in) representative of each candidate. Then they mark the count in pen on a form, and sign and submit the form, along with the re-sealed ballot box, and phone the regional elections office to report the results.
Why not just have voters mark an X in the box denoting their choice, then have the votes counted manually by sworn volunteers at the poling station, under the watchfull eye of scrutineers appointed by each candidate?
I guess your information is not very important as it can be wiped out by a power-down between the database query returning and the page being flushed from the cache, or by a head crash between backups, or by a fire that destroys your site before the backup tapes are transferred, or by a meteor.
No, my information is not so important that I need more than stable hardware and software, a UPS, and regular backups.
I code PHP at work & Java Servlets at home. The reason I'm useing Servlets for my at home project is that I can leave a thread running in the background to do any database writes after the page is returned. It may not actually be any faster, but it sure seems that way to the user.
Hmmm... I have read claims 11-20. There is as much as the writer implies. To sum up their claims:
On first visit to a website, return a session cookie.
Associate this session cookie with preeference information stored on the server, as configured by the user on a preferences setting web page.
Customize the web-site based on this.
Do this for more than one visitor at a time.
These claims, if enforced could make the web Microsoft's own little feifdom. What makes it most frightenin g is the filing date. Was anyone doing this prior to December 6, 1996? does anyone have proof? (CVS logs for Netscape or NCSA Mosaic with support for cookies might be good enough)
#5 is already done, it's called XFree86. Try "startx --:1" when already running X. then you can flip back and forth between them by pressing CTL-ALT-F1 for:0 and CTL-ALT-F2 for:1.
When useing multiple USB keyboards all keyboards can be accessed through/dev/input/keyboard, and input from all keyboards appears on the console. (unless you don't insmod kbdev.o, and instead use/dev/input/eventx, which disables the console unless you also have a PS/2 keyboard, as well as useing a decidedly non-console like api)
If instead there were/dev/input/keyboards optionally linked to the console, and/dev/input/keyboard0..n (like it is with USB mice), we could use multiple video cards and an appropriately modified X to build multi-seat workstations, POS terminals, etc without needing Xterminals.
That whiz-bang Opteron/Itanium is Backwards compatible to the Pentium II MMX/K6-2, which is backwards compatible to the 80486, which is backwards compatible to the 386+387, which is backwards compatible to the 286+287, which is backwards compatible to the 8086+8087, which is backwards compatible to the 8080, which is backwards compatible to the 8008, which is backwards compatible to the 4004, which was designed for use in a pocket calculator. Likewise, that VIA K7VMM is backwards compatible to the PC JR and Win XP is backwards compatible (to some degree) to QDOS.
Because I do not use legacy binary-only software, I do not need my machine to be backwards compatible to run old DOS programs etc. Some things can be done much more efficiently with an architecture designed with modern features in mind from the start. I would love to get my hands on sizeable quantities of PPC G5 workstations, but because of economies of scale & microsoft's stranglehold, the only architechture available at a reasonable price from multiple vendors is the descendants of the IBM PC.
hmmm... It seems to me I had quite a few textbooks in elementary school that misspelled colour, flavour, etc. If the books are open source, the local governments would be free to localize them to their spelling or other concerns, and could either print them themselves or contract out the printing to the lowest bidder.
For a more recent example, see Kamloops Incident Investigation. Wherein after laying off all of the staff at an already understaffed government office, a middle manager is laid off. He promptly returned to the office and shot his boss, the shop steward, and himself.
I'd really like to see ministries/departments of education across the english speaking world get together to create open-source textbooks for elementary & highschool subjects.
South Korea hopes to save $300M by converting 20% of desktops and 30% of servers. They must have a hell of a lot of computers! Or a really bad bulk licensing deal. Although why they's stop at 20% I don't know... in their shoes, I'd probably try to convert about 95% (assuming some systems need non-WINE-able legacy software for some reason).
I think you don't understand the meaning of "firmly refutes".
From the man page:
realloc() returns a pointer to the newly allocated memory, which is
suitably aligned for any kind of variable and may be different from
ptr, or NULL if the request fails. If size was equal to 0, either NULL
or a pointer suitable to be passed to free() is returned. If realloc()
fails the original block is left untouched - it is not freed or moved.
In 2002 I developed a voter contact management system (phone bank) for a municipal campaign in a medium sized Canadian city (pop 78,000). It was based on Linux/Apache/PHP/PostgreSQL, and was only accessible to volunteers within the campaign office LAN.
Some things I learned from the Experience are:
Many users do not understand the concept of logging out, so use timeouts
Database connections are expensive, and there are a limited amount allowed, so use only one website user (in your DBMS) and persistant connections. Or use one DBMS user for each level of access allowed. Keep user access restrictions in the web application tier.
There are sufficient interested volunteers with Cable or DSL to warrant allowing access from the Internet (with prudent precautions like rate limiting). 4 phone lines is not enough, and many volunteers do not want to come down to the campaign office. All the volunteers tend to want to work in the phone bank at the same time.
(non-competing) Candidates from the opposite end of the (left-right) political spectrum will volunteer for your campaign and stick to the script if you agree on issues key to your community.
The settings on your workstations will be tampered with (innocently or otherwise) if they are useing an operating system that allows this. Donated computers should recieve a new install of an OS thast supports access restrictions (ie Linux or Win2K/XP, if you care to pay the liscense fees). You should tell the person donating the computer that they will recieve it back with a wiped hard-drive.
Someone who opposes you will email a copy of Sub7 installer (or worse) to everyone listed as a contact (candidate, campaign manager, official agent, etc) on your public website. Get server-side email virus scanning, or an ISP who has it (we did).
Some of our opponents were not above vandalizing our signs. There were frequenly areas of the city where all of the signs belonging to any candidate on our side of the spectrum were vandalized.
If you make a web based system, volunteers can be trained to use it very fast even if they've never used a computer before, so long as they're not afraid of computers.
If you make a web based system, once the web browser is open it makes little difference from a usability standpoint whether the workstation is Linux, Windows, or Macintosh (we used all of these). Where it does matter is in preventing tampering or acccidental misconfiguration.
Begin searching for donated hardware early.
I'm hopeing to apply what I've learned and what I've learned since to building a system suitable for the next federal election.It'll probably be a combination of Servlets and domain model objects, PostgreSQL, and PL/pgSQL stored procedures.
...focus on how to take money from the wealthy and decrease the world's dependency on corporations, or even private companies (that later become corporations), by building cooperatives and collectives.
doesn't translate to "...sell things to wealthy people"?
The argument is that increased productivity causes unemployment, therefore we need to increase productivity so that small businesses can function more efficiently and cut costs, thus paving the way for more small businesses. I don't think you can have it both ways. Increased productivity can't be both our bane and our salvation.
I think part of the problem with this article is that he's mixing one cause with the remedy for annother cause. He is claiming that unemployment is caused partially by improved productivity. Then he is offering open-source technology as a way to reduce the barriers of entry (annother cause of unemployment) to small business.
Unlike during the Enclosuere Commission era, Open Source technology, co-operatives, and credit unions allow the commoners to create a new commons upon which to build.
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Yeah, it's a stupid name for a company, but if I kept repeating "the plaintif this", "the defendant that", "the plaintif some other thing", people either wouldn't know who I was talking about, or would think I was either a lawyer or really pretentious.
No, it's not much more complicated. It was, however AdvertizingBanners.com's business model when X10 hired them. X10 subsequently copied the code and stopped paying AdvertizingBanners.com. If X10.com had implemented pop-unders without a contract with AdvertizingBanners.com, or let the contract expire first, there probably wouldn't have been a lawsuit. (IANAL)
You may choose to use whatever protocols you want in your business. Please allow me the freedom to do likewise.
NAFTA threatens environmental protection will FTAA be any better? NAFTA threatens public services will FTAA be any better?
Lower barriers to trade is a good Idea, but the FTA, NAFTA, and FTAA has little to do with trade, and everything to do with making governments subservient to trans-national corporations.
Actually, no, the connection handling only works if the client aborts the script, you can't close the connection yourself untill the script exits, without aborting the script, even if you set ignore user user aborts (I tried with PHP 4.1.2). Also the sem & shm don't help much as you can't leave a thread runnning to recieve the IPC info, unless you write the recieving program in some environment (ie perl | C/C++ | Java) that is not request-run-response-exit-oriented. You might be able to write & run a php based server program at the command line, but this is not really what php was designed for, or what it's good at.
How about this... have the voter mark the form herself with a pen, then drop it in a cardboard box with a hole on top. Then at the end of the night, have two sworn-in volunteers open the box and count the ballots while being watched by a (sworn-in) representative of each candidate. Then they mark the count in pen on a form, and sign and submit the form, along with the re-sealed ballot box, and phone the regional elections office to report the results.
Why not just have voters mark an X in the box denoting their choice, then have the votes counted manually by sworn volunteers at the poling station, under the watchfull eye of scrutineers appointed by each candidate?
Oh wait, that's too hard to corrupt.
I guess your information is not very important as it can be wiped out by a power-down between the database query returning and the page being flushed from the cache, or by a head crash between backups, or by a fire that destroys your site before the backup tapes are transferred, or by a meteor.
No, my information is not so important that I need more than stable hardware and software, a UPS, and regular backups.
I code PHP at work & Java Servlets at home. The reason I'm useing Servlets for my at home project is that I can leave a thread running in the background to do any database writes after the page is returned. It may not actually be any faster, but it sure seems that way to the user.
Come on, that was one of the few funny, on topic posts to this thread.
Hmmm... I have read claims 11-20. There is as much as the writer implies. To sum up their claims:
On first visit to a website, return a session cookie.
Associate this session cookie with preeference information stored on the server, as configured by the user on a preferences setting web page.
Customize the web-site based on this.
Do this for more than one visitor at a time.
These claims, if enforced could make the web Microsoft's own little feifdom. What makes it most frightenin g is the filing date. Was anyone doing this prior to December 6, 1996? does anyone have proof? (CVS logs for Netscape or NCSA Mosaic with support for cookies might be good enough)
#5 is already done, it's called XFree86. Try "startx -- :1" when already running X. then you can flip back and forth between them by pressing CTL-ALT-F1 for :0 and CTL-ALT-F2 for :1.
When useing multiple USB keyboards all keyboards can be accessed through /dev/input/keyboard, and input from all keyboards appears on the console. (unless you don't insmod kbdev.o, and instead use /dev/input/eventx, which disables the console unless you also have a PS/2 keyboard, as well as useing a decidedly non-console like api)
If instead there were /dev/input/keyboards optionally linked to the console, and /dev/input/keyboard0..n (like it is with USB mice), we could use multiple video cards and an appropriately modified X to build multi-seat workstations, POS terminals, etc without needing Xterminals.
PCI VGA ~$50 vs ~$500 /XTerminal
That whiz-bang Opteron/Itanium is Backwards compatible to the Pentium II MMX/K6-2, which is backwards compatible to the 80486, which is backwards compatible to the 386+387, which is backwards compatible to the 286+287, which is backwards compatible to the 8086+8087, which is backwards compatible to the 8080, which is backwards compatible to the 8008, which is backwards compatible to the 4004, which was designed for use in a pocket calculator. Likewise, that VIA K7VMM is backwards compatible to the PC JR and Win XP is backwards compatible (to some degree) to QDOS.
Because I do not use legacy binary-only software, I do not need my machine to be backwards compatible to run old DOS programs etc. Some things can be done much more efficiently with an architecture designed with modern features in mind from the start. I would love to get my hands on sizeable quantities of PPC G5 workstations, but because of economies of scale & microsoft's stranglehold, the only architechture available at a reasonable price from multiple vendors is the descendants of the IBM PC.
hmmm... It seems to me I had quite a few textbooks in elementary school that misspelled colour, flavour, etc. If the books are open source, the local governments would be free to localize them to their spelling or other concerns, and could either print them themselves or contract out the printing to the lowest bidder.
For a more recent example, see Kamloops Incident Investigation. Wherein after laying off all of the staff at an already understaffed government office, a middle manager is laid off. He promptly returned to the office and shot his boss, the shop steward, and himself.
I'd really like to see ministries/departments of education across the english speaking world get together to create open-source textbooks for elementary & highschool subjects.
South Korea hopes to save $300M by converting 20% of desktops and 30% of servers. They must have a hell of a lot of computers! Or a really bad bulk licensing deal. Although why they's stop at 20% I don't know... in their shoes, I'd probably try to convert about 95% (assuming some systems need non-WINE-able legacy software for some reason).
Many countries cannot afford $10,000 machines for their hospitals; they can afford lots of bags of ceramic dust and labour, though.
I think you don't understand the meaning of "firmly refutes".
From the man page:
In 2002 I developed a voter contact management system (phone bank) for a municipal campaign in a medium sized Canadian city (pop 78,000). It was based on Linux/Apache/PHP/PostgreSQL, and was only accessible to volunteers within the campaign office LAN.
Some things I learned from the Experience are:
I'm hopeing to apply what I've learned and what I've learned since to building a system suitable for the next federal election.It'll probably be a combination of Servlets and domain model objects, PostgreSQL, and PL/pgSQL stored procedures.
What part of:
doesn't translate to "...sell things to wealthy people"?I think part of the problem with this article is that he's mixing one cause with the remedy for annother cause. He is claiming that unemployment is caused partially by improved productivity. Then he is offering open-source technology as a way to reduce the barriers of entry (annother cause of unemployment) to small business.
Unlike during the Enclosuere Commission era, Open Source technology, co-operatives, and credit unions allow the commoners to create a new commons upon which to build.
Hmmm... +1 Insightful isn't how I'd moderate this... I'd be torn between -1 Offtopic and -1 Flamebait.