Lets face it, you want to think of Microsoft as the bad buy in every lawsuit. Hell, 1/2 of the/.ers around here blame Microsoft for the SCO vs. IBM thing. This really isn't the case with alot of these patent laws. Old patent laws don't apply well to new technology that develops VERY quickly. True progress is going to require a legal system that understand the technology that it governs over.
Porting problems. I like having my program and DB not rely on each other. If I'm taking an app and porting it from Perl to PHP, I don't want to have to completely re-create the database. Besides, languages like PHP have integrated APIs for most of the leading databases anyway. They encapsulate alot of the functions you'd have to deal with into the language. Easy to learn, quick to use, easy to port. Don't try and fix something that's not broken.
First of all, just read the first few chapters of MySQL & mSQL by Oreilly and you'll be on your way with "all that database theory" stuff. It's pretty easy actually. I learned how to manage an RDBMS at a fairly young age, especially for a simpler database. If worse comes to worse, Open Office does have some Databasing possibilities. In the end, the tools are out there, you just didn't seem to look to hard. There isn't that much to learn, and you would have found that out if you had tried to learn. The database that you seem interested in making (which I hope is simple, because you can't get away from something like MySQL if it's even just a mid-sized) shouldn't cause you any problems with all of the tools available.
Lets face it, the average user doesn't know what an MD5 checksum or PGP even are. It's a sad thing, because most security tools are easy to use, and would make the internet a safer place, but the fact of the matter is that you still have people opening up e-mail viruses that are an attachment with a notepad icon. Although if you know how you should, we need to find a safe delivery system that's a bit easier for the average joe, who seems to enjoy living on the edge, downloading lots of shareware, and clicking on every e-mail attachment they get.
From the Download:It is a collection of rules and practices each of which supports several others, and are supported by several others in turn.
A truly organic approach is the best way to program in a team. The people involved should and usually do develop their own system during a project. Having rules of practices that support and are supported is just way to complicated. No 2 people and no 2 teams will ever want to go at a project the same way, it makes teamwork tough enough. You should find a middleground, not a set of "rules" on how you do things that neither person will like.
Ok, every company makes mistakes and distributes faulty components. There is no way around it. Software and Hardware have bugs. More companies need to take action like this (albeit they took a while this time). Saying that they'll not only replace faulty components but reimburse customers (in any way) for some of their expenses is truly great. This is why companies like Apple and Toshiba always have incredible customer satisfaction ratings, unlike companies who make faulty products and don't do anything about it *cough* Gateway *cough* Microsoft. When companies can bite the bullet, admit a mistake, and do something about it, it truly impresses me.
As insecure as Microsoft Windows can be, it's easy to patch with the right tools. Get yourself a copy of LanGaurd. It pushes patches down to all 350 of our PCs (pcs are slow and network is slow), in about 1 night. Sometimes it's less. We also have automatic update run on the pc's individually at staggered times, and we push down anti-virus software through norton enterprise. It takes a few hours of work, and a one time expense of $1500 in software licenses, and we could secure about 2,000 pcs in a day easily.
give credit to -- individual contributors rather than continue to view X development primarily as a corporate activity.
I like this alot. Functionality to the desktop is something that Unix and Linux both need to see loads of improvement on to help spread it to a larger market. I also like to see the OpenSource community coming together and joining into larger projects that can do more, rather than see hundreds of smaller projects all going in the same direction seperately. Bringing lots of brain power together gets stuff done.
Er, Slashdotters are the paranoid people who sit and look at the sky to see aliens and space elevators. They of course will assume that this tech will be abused and used to track them. Big Brother and all that jazz. The simple fact of the matter is that they're probably right. Slashdotters don't just blindly love tech. Look at the e-voting fiasco. We love tech when it's pushed in the right direction, it's not abusive to people, and especially when it runs linux.
I've found very few games which are to difficult to beat on the lowest difficulty setting. A good example of why a user should set it is JK II: Jedi Outcast. I played it on easy the first time for the challenge of the puzzles, and then upped the difficulty the second time to challenge my skills. I get to play the game twice, but for different purposes. More bang for my buck. Not only that, but you souldn't make a game more beatable to get buzz. The point of a game is the challenge. It's not to make it easier and easier until the person can get through the levels. As long as game makers make sure that their "easy" setting is truly easy, you should have no problem. Let the user decide how difficult it should be. Some people want to get through a game without dying, others want to have to restart a level 100 times to truly feal that they earned the next level (masacists are weird....)
"Third-party applications bundled with this download may record your surfing habits, deliver advertising, collect private information, or modify your system settings."
Where is the justification for your illegal war?
The look on the Iraqi's school childrens faces when you give them a pack of markers to bring to school with them. The mass graves that were uncovered, because of Sadam's rath. That's what I personally think is the justification. The fact of the matter is my opinion doesn't matter. What I think is sad, is that I can post my comments with pride and my handle shown, but your forced to send out your forced to troll without saying who you are. I'll bite on your comments, but only because I believe in what I say.
If they're illegal, we can justly refuse them. If they're not illegal in the purest sense of the word, we follow them. Our job is to say what's right and wrong. That's the job of congress, the president, and the voters. The voters willed President Bush into power. Congress voted for action in Iraq (even if they regret it). Then President Bush sent us to war. It was a democratic proccess.
When I joined the military I raised my right hand and swore an oathe to defend the constitution, and I take that very seriously. Now, I also swore to follow the orders of the president of the united states. He was elected in a democratic election. There may have been problems with that election, he may not have had the popular vote, but he was elected by a democratic proccess, and I've followed his orders and the orders he has given to the officers appointed over me. That is what democracy is. I'd appreciate you not insulting my profession, or that of the soldiers who have come before me. I'd like you to walk into a VFW hall and tell them what you've said.
It's a shame that the government and these companies can't get their act together, and build a simple, secure voting system that includes a paper trail. Why is that so complicated. I'm currently serving in the US Army in Germany, and an online voting system would truly make life easier. It's a soldiers job to defend democracy, so it's a very sacred thing for us to be able to take part in it. To be able to vote right over the internet without much hassle is something has taken far to long to develop.
This game is sad simply because we can't put on some pr0n and drink with our friends. We make ourselves work for it now. Answering trivia is fun, but it seems like your only motivation in this game is to get drunk and see naked women, neither of which involves a game normally. YDKJ always was kind of fun at a party even without the "jubblies" though.
I'm a sys-admin in the US Army right now. Simply getting this new EAL accredation does not allow the military to install an OS (I don't know about the other agencies). The US military develops a set of security standards (baseline) for any OS that they use on a large scale. With these standards, we use it, without them, we don't. Certain *nix's including Solaris, and Red Hat are used on small scales for specific applications in the military, but this EAL will not allow the US Military any more options until senior leadership determines it neccessary and spends the money to adopt the standards of use and baselines for the operating system. I personally have been begging our head IASO to allow us to use Linux in a few instances, but have been shot down on every attempt for this one reason. I know I would love being able to avoid the weekly windows patches that have to be pushed down to the computers on our network though.
The US Military does take InfoSec very seriously though. Although several US depertments have been criticized for a lack of InfoSec (Including Homeland Security), I've never heard of the DoD receiving any such negative rating.
Well, I'm a 74B in the active duty. I'd say it's honestly a crap shoot. Some people will never touch a computer (except to check their e-mail) and get in some horrible line unit. This is not usually the case. Most 74's end up working help desk. Yes, you get 10 calls a day telling the person to plug their ethernet cable back in. I however got lucky. I've only been in the military for a year, yet I've already gotten experience with help desk, and system administration. I work on our PDC, Exchange Servers, Print Servers, App Servers, File Servers, etc... My unit also working hevily with the supply request systems used by the military (SARRS sp?). Their unix based and fairly interesting. I've already been sent away to an MCSE boot camp class. The civilian type and everything. Of course the class was tought by a german who sounded like Mr. Bean, but it's all good. I'd suggest people check out GS jobs. Government civilians are high paid, highly trained, get lots of paid holidays, and CAN'T be laid off! I doubt that the US government is going out of business any time soon. There are some search engines avaible to look for a GS job near you. Google for GS job listing or something. The military is a good place to get your feet wet, but I already dream of the day when I can get out to get a civilian or GS job. I wouldn't recommend to it someobody who's already been there and done that.
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Lets face it, you want to think of Microsoft as the bad buy in every lawsuit. Hell, 1/2 of the /.ers around here blame Microsoft for the SCO vs. IBM thing. This really isn't the case with alot of these patent laws. Old patent laws don't apply well to new technology that develops VERY quickly. True progress is going to require a legal system that understand the technology that it governs over.
"Microsoft is using lawsuits as a battering ram to smash Linux, to prevent it from reaching retail stores".
I've never heard of any other companies trying this.
E-mail? You must be crazy... Just stick to messaging the fokes on your local BBS. I just got done downloading this kicking game called Lemonade Stand!
Porting problems. I like having my program and DB not rely on each other. If I'm taking an app and porting it from Perl to PHP, I don't want to have to completely re-create the database. Besides, languages like PHP have integrated APIs for most of the leading databases anyway. They encapsulate alot of the functions you'd have to deal with into the language. Easy to learn, quick to use, easy to port. Don't try and fix something that's not broken.
First of all, just read the first few chapters of MySQL & mSQL by Oreilly and you'll be on your way with "all that database theory" stuff. It's pretty easy actually. I learned how to manage an RDBMS at a fairly young age, especially for a simpler database. If worse comes to worse, Open Office does have some Databasing possibilities. In the end, the tools are out there, you just didn't seem to look to hard. There isn't that much to learn, and you would have found that out if you had tried to learn. The database that you seem interested in making (which I hope is simple, because you can't get away from something like MySQL if it's even just a mid-sized) shouldn't cause you any problems with all of the tools available.
Lets face it, the average user doesn't know what an MD5 checksum or PGP even are. It's a sad thing, because most security tools are easy to use, and would make the internet a safer place, but the fact of the matter is that you still have people opening up e-mail viruses that are an attachment with a notepad icon. Although if you know how you should, we need to find a safe delivery system that's a bit easier for the average joe, who seems to enjoy living on the edge, downloading lots of shareware, and clicking on every e-mail attachment they get.
From the Download:It is a collection of rules and practices each of which supports several others, and are supported by several others in turn.
A truly organic approach is the best way to program in a team. The people involved should and usually do develop their own system during a project. Having rules of practices that support and are supported is just way to complicated. No 2 people and no 2 teams will ever want to go at a project the same way, it makes teamwork tough enough. You should find a middleground, not a set of "rules" on how you do things that neither person will like.
Ok, every company makes mistakes and distributes faulty components. There is no way around it. Software and Hardware have bugs. More companies need to take action like this (albeit they took a while this time). Saying that they'll not only replace faulty components but reimburse customers (in any way) for some of their expenses is truly great. This is why companies like Apple and Toshiba always have incredible customer satisfaction ratings, unlike companies who make faulty products and don't do anything about it *cough* Gateway *cough* Microsoft. When companies can bite the bullet, admit a mistake, and do something about it, it truly impresses me.
As insecure as Microsoft Windows can be, it's easy to patch with the right tools. Get yourself a copy of LanGaurd. It pushes patches down to all 350 of our PCs (pcs are slow and network is slow), in about 1 night. Sometimes it's less. We also have automatic update run on the pc's individually at staggered times, and we push down anti-virus software through norton enterprise. It takes a few hours of work, and a one time expense of $1500 in software licenses, and we could secure about 2,000 pcs in a day easily.
give credit to -- individual contributors rather than continue to view X development primarily as a corporate activity.
I like this alot. Functionality to the desktop is something that Unix and Linux both need to see loads of improvement on to help spread it to a larger market. I also like to see the OpenSource community coming together and joining into larger projects that can do more, rather than see hundreds of smaller projects all going in the same direction seperately. Bringing lots of brain power together gets stuff done.
Er, Slashdotters are the paranoid people who sit and look at the sky to see aliens and space elevators. They of course will assume that this tech will be abused and used to track them. Big Brother and all that jazz. The simple fact of the matter is that they're probably right. Slashdotters don't just blindly love tech. Look at the e-voting fiasco. We love tech when it's pushed in the right direction, it's not abusive to people, and especially when it runs linux.
The wholesalers won't foot the bill, it'll be passed down the food chain to the consumers.
I've found very few games which are to difficult to beat on the lowest difficulty setting. A good example of why a user should set it is JK II: Jedi Outcast. I played it on easy the first time for the challenge of the puzzles, and then upped the difficulty the second time to challenge my skills. I get to play the game twice, but for different purposes. More bang for my buck. Not only that, but you souldn't make a game more beatable to get buzz. The point of a game is the challenge. It's not to make it easier and easier until the person can get through the levels. As long as game makers make sure that their "easy" setting is truly easy, you should have no problem. Let the user decide how difficult it should be. Some people want to get through a game without dying, others want to have to restart a level 100 times to truly feal that they earned the next level (masacists are weird....)
Now is that bovine American? Might have trouble with exports...
That's easy. Quit spending all your time on /. !!!
"Third-party applications bundled with this download may record your surfing habits, deliver advertising, collect private information, or modify your system settings."
Doesn't Kazaa do these things anyway?
Where is the justification for your illegal war? The look on the Iraqi's school childrens faces when you give them a pack of markers to bring to school with them. The mass graves that were uncovered, because of Sadam's rath. That's what I personally think is the justification. The fact of the matter is my opinion doesn't matter. What I think is sad, is that I can post my comments with pride and my handle shown, but your forced to send out your forced to troll without saying who you are. I'll bite on your comments, but only because I believe in what I say.
If they're illegal, we can justly refuse them. If they're not illegal in the purest sense of the word, we follow them. Our job is to say what's right and wrong. That's the job of congress, the president, and the voters. The voters willed President Bush into power. Congress voted for action in Iraq (even if they regret it). Then President Bush sent us to war. It was a democratic proccess.
When I joined the military I raised my right hand and swore an oathe to defend the constitution, and I take that very seriously. Now, I also swore to follow the orders of the president of the united states. He was elected in a democratic election. There may have been problems with that election, he may not have had the popular vote, but he was elected by a democratic proccess, and I've followed his orders and the orders he has given to the officers appointed over me. That is what democracy is. I'd appreciate you not insulting my profession, or that of the soldiers who have come before me. I'd like you to walk into a VFW hall and tell them what you've said.
It's a shame that the government and these companies can't get their act together, and build a simple, secure voting system that includes a paper trail. Why is that so complicated. I'm currently serving in the US Army in Germany, and an online voting system would truly make life easier. It's a soldiers job to defend democracy, so it's a very sacred thing for us to be able to take part in it. To be able to vote right over the internet without much hassle is something has taken far to long to develop.
This game is sad simply because we can't put on some pr0n and drink with our friends. We make ourselves work for it now. Answering trivia is fun, but it seems like your only motivation in this game is to get drunk and see naked women, neither of which involves a game normally. YDKJ always was kind of fun at a party even without the "jubblies" though.
I'm a sys-admin in the US Army right now. Simply getting this new EAL accredation does not allow the military to install an OS (I don't know about the other agencies). The US military develops a set of security standards (baseline) for any OS that they use on a large scale. With these standards, we use it, without them, we don't. Certain *nix's including Solaris, and Red Hat are used on small scales for specific applications in the military, but this EAL will not allow the US Military any more options until senior leadership determines it neccessary and spends the money to adopt the standards of use and baselines for the operating system. I personally have been begging our head IASO to allow us to use Linux in a few instances, but have been shot down on every attempt for this one reason. I know I would love being able to avoid the weekly windows patches that have to be pushed down to the computers on our network though. The US Military does take InfoSec very seriously though. Although several US depertments have been criticized for a lack of InfoSec (Including Homeland Security), I've never heard of the DoD receiving any such negative rating.
Well, I'm a 74B in the active duty. I'd say it's honestly a crap shoot. Some people will never touch a computer (except to check their e-mail) and get in some horrible line unit. This is not usually the case. Most 74's end up working help desk. Yes, you get 10 calls a day telling the person to plug their ethernet cable back in. I however got lucky. I've only been in the military for a year, yet I've already gotten experience with help desk, and system administration. I work on our PDC, Exchange Servers, Print Servers, App Servers, File Servers, etc... My unit also working hevily with the supply request systems used by the military (SARRS sp?). Their unix based and fairly interesting. I've already been sent away to an MCSE boot camp class. The civilian type and everything. Of course the class was tought by a german who sounded like Mr. Bean, but it's all good. I'd suggest people check out GS jobs. Government civilians are high paid, highly trained, get lots of paid holidays, and CAN'T be laid off! I doubt that the US government is going out of business any time soon. There are some search engines avaible to look for a GS job near you. Google for GS job listing or something. The military is a good place to get your feet wet, but I already dream of the day when I can get out to get a civilian or GS job. I wouldn't recommend to it someobody who's already been there and done that.
English-speaking people don't bitch about "rendez-vous", "à propos", etc. We're to busy complaining about the words french toast and french fries.
I don't have an AP your insensitive clod!