Can you imagine Man U moving to Liverpool? Or Arsenal moving to Manchester to take their place?
No, because there's tradition and history involved, not just money. Plus, they'd be beaten to a pulp by an angry mob of inhabitants from both the old and the new city. We take soccer seriously in Europe.
They were animatronics, fer Christ's sake, not mecha.
And you're taking the criminal treatment completely out of context. They were turned into docile retards for a while, and during this time they were treated to remove the particular criminal impulse and also made to do community work. IMHO it beats paying from your own pocket for huge prisons where inmates live better than you do and come out ready to pick where they left off.
Clarke's had A LOT of interesting ideas, in general. Many are ages ahead of this time, such as acknowledging religion as mass psychosis. But some we may yet get to see in our lifetimes. TFA is proof of that.
Yeah, me too. But otherwise you're much better off doing one of two things:
[1] Consider if you REALLY expect the application to ever switch database. I know, it's guesswork to some extent, and it must be very well informed guesswork, but it's probably the best.
[2] Use OOP and implement database functionality with classes that extend the "stub" operations in ways specific to a certain engine. Not exactly the same as the mythical abstraction layer, but the same effect if you ever want to ever switch with minimal headache.
Of course, if you have database specific logic and code such as stored procedures, all bets are pretty much off. You're stuck with whatever you were using.
There's an important distinction to be made here. There's spotting bugs, and there's fixing them.
What you said ("with enough eyes on the code all bugs are shallow") works well for finding bugs.
However, fixing the bugs often needs higher skills, if only because the person called to fix them must usually be aquinted with the application and cooperate with other parallel code modifications. This means software development, and thus another theory applies in this case: The Mythical Man-Month.
Actually, in one of Arthur Clarke's "Oddysey" novels (I think it was "3001: Final Oddysey") they mention using space mirrors sometime during the 21st century to combat global warming. This would mean that yet another insight of Clarke's would come true (after that of the telecommunication satellites).
In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.
I got another theory. Oracle deals with Red Hat, Microsoft deals with SuSE. Somehow, don't know how. Who'll be left in the Linux business then? Mandriva? Ubuntu? Pfft.
I know it's a long shot, but sometimes you realize how fragile the whole thing is. If both SuSE and Red Hat would suddenly go under or sell out it would be quite a kick in the groin for Linux.
Wendy wouldn't exactly agree with you... I for one see plenty other things wrong with the EULA. The reinstall thing, as detailed here on/. on previous discussions, was a joke. You can always call the 800 number and whine and they'll give you a new key, an unlimited one at that. Someone said it's easier than browsing for the crack, you just dial and a nice person dictates the new license number.
Oh, and the virtual limitations are very real, thank you very much.
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Right, hierarchical organization. Worked really well for Gopher... until it got extinct, that is.
I've never found need for anything more than a text editor with syntax highlighting and the ability to pop-up the relevant manual page when you highlight a function name and press F1. On Windows I have EditPlus and the CHM manual from PHP. On Linux there's Nedit and a macro which opens the HTML page in Firefox. To each his own.
That's right, which is why I try to dig a little deeper for what actually goes on at these meetings. One excellent source of information is Kieren McCarthy's blog, a freelance journalist who also writes for The Register occasionally. I've been following his blog for a while now. While he does have an opinion of his own, he seems to put the facts before anything else, which is what journalism should be like in my view. Give it a try if you want the down and dirty about IGF.
Is it me or does it seem like MS wants me to "rent" their software?
Ummm... Hello. (wave) Yes. The Vista terms specifically state you're not buying, you're renting. That's how they're able to circumvent previous decisions which said EULA is not legally binding. It is, if you're no longer buying the software, only renting it.
So preload it. I use AllTray on Linux to accomplish that. Got both Thunderbird and Firefox loading inside AllTray from.xinitrc. When I actually need them they pop up instantly.
Honestly, I think it's the closest you'll ever get to your wish. Having a XUL application loaded with plugins and extensions start up instantly is just not doable, unless you pack a multi GHz CPU, ultra fast HDD and a load of RAM. I eagerly await Firefox devs to prove me wrong.
The second thing is that the/. main page doesn't render correctly.
Which brings home an interesting point. Are we going to see complaints that "IE7 doesn't work right" because of millions of sites using IE6-specific hacks? I mean, "they" used to pull that crap with Opera and Mozilla and Firefox a lot, claiming it was their fault. Can't wait to see the downfall this time, when IE7 gets a taste of Microsoft's own medicine.
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Yes, except Clippy becomes annoying really REALLY fast.
Now now, don't be sketchy. Laser pointer, 2 grand. Moments like this, priceless.
Jedi sword.
They were animatronics, fer Christ's sake, not mecha.
And you're taking the criminal treatment completely out of context. They were turned into docile retards for a while, and during this time they were treated to remove the particular criminal impulse and also made to do community work. IMHO it beats paying from your own pocket for huge prisons where inmates live better than you do and come out ready to pick where they left off.
Clarke's had A LOT of interesting ideas, in general. Many are ages ahead of this time, such as acknowledging religion as mass psychosis. But some we may yet get to see in our lifetimes. TFA is proof of that.
Yeah, me too. But otherwise you're much better off doing one of two things:
[1] Consider if you REALLY expect the application to ever switch database. I know, it's guesswork to some extent, and it must be very well informed guesswork, but it's probably the best.
[2] Use OOP and implement database functionality with classes that extend the "stub" operations in ways specific to a certain engine. Not exactly the same as the mythical abstraction layer, but the same effect if you ever want to ever switch with minimal headache.
Of course, if you have database specific logic and code such as stored procedures, all bets are pretty much off. You're stuck with whatever you were using.
There's an important distinction to be made here. There's spotting bugs, and there's fixing them.
What you said ("with enough eyes on the code all bugs are shallow") works well for finding bugs.
However, fixing the bugs often needs higher skills, if only because the person called to fix them must usually be aquinted with the application and cooperate with other parallel code modifications. This means software development, and thus another theory applies in this case: The Mythical Man-Month.
AND, since Vista install faster than XP, it means it might actually make it through a full install before getting infected! Yey!
Actually, in one of Arthur Clarke's "Oddysey" novels (I think it was "3001: Final Oddysey") they mention using space mirrors sometime during the 21st century to combat global warming. This would mean that yet another insight of Clarke's would come true (after that of the telecommunication satellites).
In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.
I got another theory. Oracle deals with Red Hat, Microsoft deals with SuSE. Somehow, don't know how. Who'll be left in the Linux business then? Mandriva? Ubuntu? Pfft.
I know it's a long shot, but sometimes you realize how fragile the whole thing is. If both SuSE and Red Hat would suddenly go under or sell out it would be quite a kick in the groin for Linux.
Oh, you want a devil quote? Here's one: "When you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change. The devil changes you."
Wendy wouldn't exactly agree with you... I for one see plenty other things wrong with the EULA. The reinstall thing, as detailed here on /. on previous discussions, was a joke. You can always call the 800 number and whine and they'll give you a new key, an unlimited one at that. Someone said it's easier than browsing for the crack, you just dial and a nice person dictates the new license number.
Oh, and the virtual limitations are very real, thank you very much.
Right, hierarchical organization. Worked really well for Gopher... until it got extinct, that is.
I've never found need for anything more than a text editor with syntax highlighting and the ability to pop-up the relevant manual page when you highlight a function name and press F1. On Windows I have EditPlus and the CHM manual from PHP. On Linux there's Nedit and a macro which opens the HTML page in Firefox. To each his own.
That's right, which is why I try to dig a little deeper for what actually goes on at these meetings. One excellent source of information is Kieren McCarthy's blog, a freelance journalist who also writes for The Register occasionally. I've been following his blog for a while now. While he does have an opinion of his own, he seems to put the facts before anything else, which is what journalism should be like in my view. Give it a try if you want the down and dirty about IGF.
I'm going for a new word that combines both. :)
Ah, but would you entrust your machine to a TPM device... from Microsoft?
So preload it. I use AllTray on Linux to accomplish that. Got both Thunderbird and Firefox loading inside AllTray from .xinitrc. When I actually need them they pop up instantly.
Honestly, I think it's the closest you'll ever get to your wish. Having a XUL application loaded with plugins and extensions start up instantly is just not doable, unless you pack a multi GHz CPU, ultra fast HDD and a load of RAM. I eagerly await Firefox devs to prove me wrong.
Which brings home an interesting point. Are we going to see complaints that "IE7 doesn't work right" because of millions of sites using IE6-specific hacks? I mean, "they" used to pull that crap with Opera and Mozilla and Firefox a lot, claiming it was their fault. Can't wait to see the downfall this time, when IE7 gets a taste of Microsoft's own medicine.
I'd check my info if I were you.
http://www.webdevout.net/browser_support_css.php
Search for "opacity" on that page.
Opera and Explorer (both 6 and 7) support the standard "opacity" just fine. Firefox doesn't, it uses -moz-opacity instead.