Most informative! The one-year after talk has some excellent info. It's quite a surprise that Y! doesn't have a clean MVC separation, and that Radwin feels the need for something akin to Struts in PHP.
Now, if we could have easily use PHP instead of JSP, I could keep coding in JAVA (instead of C), and you could have junior programmers or heck, even some designers using PHP on the page... that could be the easiest solution.
Well, their page doesn't even validate as strict XHTML even though they claim it does... sigh.
Anyhow, do we really need a root authority? Couldn't this be P2P? If I and 3 other people you know sign your certificate saying you are Jane/John/Buba, we should be able to establish a trust metric... and/or trust friends of friends.
Of course, I really don't understand this topic enough, so this could be completely off base... I'm just peeved at the high cost of certificates for my clients' e-commerce websites, and wonder why I have to get some bureaucracy to actually deem them trustworthy when trust in most communities is built by social networks.
Maybe it's just us slashdotting MSN, but I searched for "Greeting card", "Greeting cards", my name (firstName+lastName; lastName), and got nothing at all on the first several tries. I managed to get results once, then an error message. Oops, did I do that?
It did however find google, so it can't be that bad.
The belief that Lockheed is engaged in building only peaceful satelite launching missiles with "US AIR FORCE" written on them is absurd.
You'd also expect a trained PR flack to immediately challenge an egregious statement such as your factory producing WMDs- since he didn't, I'll asume it's true.
As Voltaire would say, those who have the power to make you believe absurdities have the power to make you commit atrocities.
XML uses the end users' bandwidth but it simultaneously eliminates the intermediary completely.
I used to work for B-Process, the European leader in "electronic bill payment and presentment" (they even use the acronym EBPP when speaking in french... but go figure french suits).
Anyhow, let me tell you... there isn't any solid agreement on formats yet. A lot of companies are still using EDI, various legacy and other XML formats. So a company can be faced with the task of massaging data of numerous types for every single supplier or buyer.
Instead, a few companies are setting up that have their own internal (and proprietary) format. They set up two transforms, XYZ->proprietary and proprietary->XYZ. Any 2 companies connected on the platform can send invoices and receipts back to each other, regardless of what legacy system either one might use.
A universal format would be great... but like all standards, this is as much a political problem as it is a technical one. The potential is there for getting rid of intermediaries. More important to me is that we could automate a lot of book-keeping while saving a lot of paper:)
Awesome. So people in Florida know... it's another state's turn to have funny tricks... don't worry, it shouldn't happen there again unless Bush & Co. are even more incompetent than they let on.
As for Blacks not being allowed to vote. Road construction? You prove xutopia's point... you are sadly misinformed! Purge voter lists by name and what have you got? Hmm... don't you find it odd that a lot of the names are predominant in some ethnicities and not others? It's almost like it was planned that way.
Last time Java was benchmarked here on/., I found optimizations for one test that doubled the speed. After posting that, someone showed how you could optimize it even further.
I've no knowledge of fp optimization, but I encourage you to have java-types critique your code. Good luck!:)
Oculus, you are ironically named for someone linking to such ocularly-hazardous web pages.
There ought to be serious penalties for any web designer that uses white text on black background. It might be pretty to look at as a template, but it hurts the eyes when you read it.
There are arguably about 1-2 billion people in the G8 countries.
Actually, barely a Billion.
United States - 290,342,554
Japan - 127,214,499
Germany - 82,544,000
United Kingdom - 60,094,648
France - 60,180,529
Italy - 57,715,625
Canada - 32,207,113
Russia - 145,537,200
(source: wikipedia G8 for the list of countries, and each country page for population)
As for how you define wealth and poverty... I could trade indoor plumbing and running water as well as a grid connection for electricity for some of the living situations you can have in so-called "third-world" countries. Many are going to leapfrog us, going directly solar and wireless; in many countries more people have cell phones than land lines because they're damned cheaper.
Health outcomes in some of the so-called "developed" countries are abysmal, e.g. child mortality rates. In Canada, we have cases of rickets...
There aren't that many of us, and we sure as hell shouldn't be so smug about our accomplishment, or discount other countries.
It's the first I hear about this, and just googling it reveals a wasteland of affiliate spam for myostatin inhibitors.
It would be kind of neat if for a little while you could just do a search and find out what foods might inhibit the thing... but no, the affiliates have it already bottled and shrinkwrapped. f*ck!
Well, dear sir, perhaps you should re-read what I said in the first place. Sometimes people don't know what the equivalent is, and you are just one of those people right now.
The conventional measure for fuel efficiency in Europe is liters per 100km. Not km/l, not l/10k: l/100k.
And most people that use metric to measure a humans' height might not know that you measure in feet and inches. So it would be really handy if the Google calculator could figure that out for people.
Face it, most people don't know what the heck the metric or imperial equivalent is of any given measure.
Hmmm.... come to think of it, this might be a great Firefox extension.... let people select a measure, right-click/convert to metric. Look up a reference table of units, and send the query to Google which you open in another tab. OK, I'll add that to my todo list for sometime in the next few months, unless someone here does it first!:)
The US/UK tag-team also vetoed many other goods. Iraq for example was refused pencils (the graphite can be used to make bombs), paper, ink, chlorine (essential for water purification, but can also be used to make weapons), lightbulbs... the list goes on.
According to the UN, sanctions have killed over a million people in the time they were in place. People like Denis Halliday even quit and called the sanctions genocidal, squarely pointing the finger at the US and the UK.
So I'm not the least bit surprised that they would consider Linux dangerous. Anything that could be considered "dual-use" could be banned- even if they are essentials like chlorine.
What is perhaps more surprising is that a government would keep passing such stupid laws. They won't stop me, e.g., from bringing a Linux distro and encryption packages with me if I go to Cuba. Btw, I live in Canada, so won't face repercussions from the US; I wouldn't recommend this type of behaviour for US citizens as they can decide to give you a hard time.
They'll only cost if they are not bounced. Well, addies that bounce will still cost send-safe (wasted bandwidth) and it slows down the propagation of spam, which is good.
What would be more obnoxious still is to have emails that behave as if they were real. Have them actually "read" it by incrementing their counter, and have some emails actually visit the sites. The more "live" addresses they get, the more likely they are to be re-used on various CD distributions.
It's going to happen. And when it happens, it will be a very rapid change.
As soon as one of those technologies becomes standard, the incremental benefit of adding another one increases.
That is, suppose you have a good low-energy display like e-ink or whatnot; flexible solar panels start to make sense because people are more likely to use their laptops in bright areas. Or, if you have a good display and CPU, a change to a better HDD (+ram/flash) will be very significant for battery life.
It seems all but inevitable that at least one of those technologies will be adopted before 2010. After that, the competitive pressure to adopt the rest will only increase.
Who cares about demographics? We're trying to figure out what people's interests are, what types of ads they'll respond to.
Well, duh. If a visitor looks at the sports pages during work hours, you have a fair deal of information about that person already. Isn't that already enough to serve up ads that would likely be relevant?
If these dead-tree publishers of yesterday's news got a clue, they might also realize that web-ads are actionable, and actions can be counted. Do people click on the ads? Do they generate leads or sales? There's this interesting industry called affiliate marketing they should look into (my guess is they'd make good money off personals and job ads).
What they read, when they read it, and what ads they want to learn more about. WTF more do they need?
They're not going to build them; they're trying to get the big automotive companies to build them. So far they have had some success getting companies to adopt some of the technologies they designed, especially with Hybrids.
"It's not going to change the overall vehicle to be unrecognizable from today," Hass [manager of physical and environmental sciences at Ford] said. "But the biggest impact may well be beyond anybody's imagination today."
The guy isn't clued in. The car is one technology that is ready for more than incremental improvements; it needs a fundamental rethinking.
There is a model out there, one that has been out for 10 years now: the Hypercar. It started as a concept by the Rocky Mountain Institute, and eventually a company by the same name (Hypercar Inc.) was formed. Slashdotters might find it interesting that Bill Joy is one of their investors.
It's amazing technology, and it would have far reaching implications.
I got hired into a Java/Oracle shop after learning PHP/MySQL, and spending just a few hours doing the Java tutorial.
In the first few months, I scrambled hard to get used to the new language, tools, etc... Certification gave me a clear learning path, and showed the boss that I had the right attitude. I also learned the Java API inside out, and actually became much more productive... it's amazing how many people code for years in Java and don't know that there's this handy-dandy java.util.Properties thing in the API! Someone had duplicated it, so I refactored it, made it faster with 200 fewer lines to maintain. (In fact, I erased more lines than I wrote; my productivity that year was probably a negative 7-10,000 lines, )
When my trial period ended, I got a raise. 3 months later, I was almost done certification, and I got another raise. They had to lay me off after a year, but one of the two clients I did work for offered me a position, paying 5k Euro more- I wouldn't have been on the client projects if it weren't for the fact that I was certified.
I'm now self-employed, and when I sent out resumes, the certification helps me get an interview (I don't have a degree). It might prove I can jump through hoops, but it also proves I at least know my API.
Any HR person that relies on certs alone is an idiot. Disregarding them entirely would be stupid. But if you are on the other side of things, certifications can be damned useful:)
Anyhow, you're absolutely right to point out the geopolitical implications. You could have also mentionned Chirac's attempts at getting more military might, getting the ability to produce weapons in the EU, space exploration... Basically, France's right-wing uses a "Realist" analysis, and this thing has been going on for a while. While the Truman doctrine defined the US's ability to intervene in the Middle-East, around the same time the French had decided they were going nuclear to be independent of oil, and remain a big power.
In fact, trade war or no trade war, no country that seeks power can allow another to be its sole supplier for a strategic resource- economic, military, etc... All the more so if the other country has imperial ambitions (it takes one to know one).
Old rivalries die hard... in the mean time, we little ones in "civil-society" ought to make the most of these conflicts.
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Most informative! The one-year after talk has some excellent info. It's quite a surprise that Y! doesn't have a clean MVC separation, and that Radwin feels the need for something akin to Struts in PHP.
Now, if we could have easily use PHP instead of JSP, I could keep coding in JAVA (instead of C), and you could have junior programmers or heck, even some designers using PHP on the page... that could be the easiest solution.
Well, their page doesn't even validate as strict XHTML even though they claim it does... sigh.
Anyhow, do we really need a root authority? Couldn't this be P2P? If I and 3 other people you know sign your certificate saying you are Jane/John/Buba, we should be able to establish a trust metric... and/or trust friends of friends.
Of course, I really don't understand this topic enough, so this could be completely off base... I'm just peeved at the high cost of certificates for my clients' e-commerce websites, and wonder why I have to get some bureaucracy to actually deem them trustworthy when trust in most communities is built by social networks.
Is this possible (or even desirable)?
Maybe it's just us slashdotting MSN, but I searched for "Greeting card", "Greeting cards", my name (firstName+lastName; lastName), and got nothing at all on the first several tries. I managed to get results once, then an error message. Oops, did I do that?
It did however find google, so it can't be that bad.
The belief that Lockheed is engaged in building only peaceful satelite launching missiles with "US AIR FORCE" written on them is absurd.
You'd also expect a trained PR flack to immediately challenge an egregious statement such as your factory producing WMDs- since he didn't, I'll asume it's true.
As Voltaire would say, those who have the power to make you believe absurdities have the power to make you commit atrocities.
Anyhow, let me tell you... there isn't any solid agreement on formats yet. A lot of companies are still using EDI, various legacy and other XML formats. So a company can be faced with the task of massaging data of numerous types for every single supplier or buyer.
Instead, a few companies are setting up that have their own internal (and proprietary) format. They set up two transforms, XYZ->proprietary and proprietary->XYZ. Any 2 companies connected on the platform can send invoices and receipts back to each other, regardless of what legacy system either one might use.
A universal format would be great... but like all standards, this is as much a political problem as it is a technical one. The potential is there for getting rid of intermediaries. More important to me is that we could automate a lot of book-keeping while saving a lot of paper
Let's outlaw world-views!!!
Awesome. So people in Florida know... it's another state's turn to have funny tricks... don't worry, it shouldn't happen there again unless Bush & Co. are even more incompetent than they let on.
As for Blacks not being allowed to vote. Road construction? You prove xutopia's point... you are sadly misinformed! Purge voter lists by name and what have you got? Hmm... don't you find it odd that a lot of the names are predominant in some ethnicities and not others? It's almost like it was planned that way.
Last time Java was benchmarked here on /., I found optimizations for one test that doubled the speed. After posting that, someone showed how you could optimize it even further.
:)
I've no knowledge of fp optimization, but I encourage you to have java-types critique your code. Good luck!
Oculus, you are ironically named for someone linking to such ocularly-hazardous web pages.
There ought to be serious penalties for any web designer that uses white text on black background. It might be pretty to look at as a template, but it hurts the eyes when you read it.
Actually, barely a Billion.
(source: wikipedia G8 for the list of countries, and each country page for population)
As for how you define wealth and poverty... I could trade indoor plumbing and running water as well as a grid connection for electricity for some of the living situations you can have in so-called "third-world" countries. Many are going to leapfrog us, going directly solar and wireless; in many countries more people have cell phones than land lines because they're damned cheaper.
Health outcomes in some of the so-called "developed" countries are abysmal, e.g. child mortality rates. In Canada, we have cases of rickets...
There aren't that many of us, and we sure as hell shouldn't be so smug about our accomplishment, or discount other countries.
It's the first I hear about this, and just googling it reveals a wasteland of affiliate spam for myostatin inhibitors.
It would be kind of neat if for a little while you could just do a search and find out what foods might inhibit the thing... but no, the affiliates have it already bottled and shrinkwrapped. f*ck!
Well, dear sir, perhaps you should re-read what I said in the first place. Sometimes people don't know what the equivalent is, and you are just one of those people right now.
The conventional measure for fuel efficiency in Europe is liters per 100km. Not km/l, not l/10k: l/100k.
And most people that use metric to measure a humans' height might not know that you measure in feet and inches. So it would be really handy if the Google calculator could figure that out for people.
Google calculator is great. The only thing I've requested they add... is the ability to enter queries such as this:
:)
10 miles per gallon in metric
Face it, most people don't know what the heck the metric or imperial equivalent is of any given measure.
Hmmm.... come to think of it, this might be a great Firefox extension.... let people select a measure, right-click/convert to metric. Look up a reference table of units, and send the query to Google which you open in another tab. OK, I'll add that to my todo list for sometime in the next few months, unless someone here does it first!
All excellent suggestions. The only thing I would add is good screens. LCDs rather than CRT; as big and as high a resolution as you can afford.
The US/UK tag-team also vetoed many other goods. Iraq for example was refused pencils (the graphite can be used to make bombs), paper, ink, chlorine (essential for water purification, but can also be used to make weapons), lightbulbs... the list goes on.
According to the UN, sanctions have killed over a million people in the time they were in place. People like Denis Halliday even quit and called the sanctions genocidal, squarely pointing the finger at the US and the UK.
So I'm not the least bit surprised that they would consider Linux dangerous. Anything that could be considered "dual-use" could be banned- even if they are essentials like chlorine.
What is perhaps more surprising is that a government would keep passing such stupid laws. They won't stop me, e.g., from bringing a Linux distro and encryption packages with me if I go to Cuba. Btw, I live in Canada, so won't face repercussions from the US; I wouldn't recommend this type of behaviour for US citizens as they can decide to give you a hard time.
GI Rights Hotline might be useful if you find yourself uncomfortable with the answers you come up with.
They'll only cost if they are not bounced. Well, addies that bounce will still cost send-safe (wasted bandwidth) and it slows down the propagation of spam, which is good.
What would be more obnoxious still is to have emails that behave as if they were real. Have them actually "read" it by incrementing their counter, and have some emails actually visit the sites. The more "live" addresses they get, the more likely they are to be re-used on various CD distributions.
Read up on Natural Capitalism, co-written by Paul Hawken, which you have no doubt heard of in that field.
:)
There are several interesting ideas in there, and best of all the book is available in its entirety for free
As soon as one of those technologies becomes standard, the incremental benefit of adding another one increases.
That is, suppose you have a good low-energy display like e-ink or whatnot; flexible solar panels start to make sense because people are more likely to use their laptops in bright areas. Or, if you have a good display and CPU, a change to a better HDD (+ram/flash) will be very significant for battery life.
It seems all but inevitable that at least one of those technologies will be adopted before 2010. After that, the competitive pressure to adopt the rest will only increase.
Hmm... Hergé is Belgian, not French!
Who cares about demographics? We're trying to figure out what people's interests are, what types of ads they'll respond to.
Well, duh. If a visitor looks at the sports pages during work hours, you have a fair deal of information about that person already. Isn't that already enough to serve up ads that would likely be relevant?
If these dead-tree publishers of yesterday's news got a clue, they might also realize that web-ads are actionable, and actions can be counted. Do people click on the ads? Do they generate leads or sales? There's this interesting industry called affiliate marketing they should look into (my guess is they'd make good money off personals and job ads).
What they read, when they read it, and what ads they want to learn more about. WTF more do they need?
They're not going to build them; they're trying to get the big automotive companies to build them. So far they have had some success getting companies to adopt some of the technologies they designed, especially with Hybrids.
There is a model out there, one that has been out for 10 years now: the Hypercar. It started as a concept by the Rocky Mountain Institute, and eventually a company by the same name (Hypercar Inc.) was formed. Slashdotters might find it interesting that Bill Joy is one of their investors.
It's amazing technology, and it would have far reaching implications.
I got hired into a Java/Oracle shop after learning PHP/MySQL, and spending just a few hours doing the Java tutorial.
:)
In the first few months, I scrambled hard to get used to the new language, tools, etc... Certification gave me a clear learning path, and showed the boss that I had the right attitude. I also learned the Java API inside out, and actually became much more productive... it's amazing how many people code for years in Java and don't know that there's this handy-dandy java.util.Properties thing in the API! Someone had duplicated it, so I refactored it, made it faster with 200 fewer lines to maintain. (In fact, I erased more lines than I wrote; my productivity that year was probably a negative 7-10,000 lines, )
When my trial period ended, I got a raise. 3 months later, I was almost done certification, and I got another raise. They had to lay me off after a year, but one of the two clients I did work for offered me a position, paying 5k Euro more- I wouldn't have been on the client projects if it weren't for the fact that I was certified.
I'm now self-employed, and when I sent out resumes, the certification helps me get an interview (I don't have a degree). It might prove I can jump through hoops, but it also proves I at least know my API.
Any HR person that relies on certs alone is an idiot. Disregarding them entirely would be stupid. But if you are on the other side of things, certifications can be damned useful
Chirac is one shrewd asshole... er politician.
Anyhow, you're absolutely right to point out the geopolitical implications. You could have also mentionned Chirac's attempts at getting more military might, getting the ability to produce weapons in the EU, space exploration... Basically, France's right-wing uses a "Realist" analysis, and this thing has been going on for a while. While the Truman doctrine defined the US's ability to intervene in the Middle-East, around the same time the French had decided they were going nuclear to be independent of oil, and remain a big power.
In fact, trade war or no trade war, no country that seeks power can allow another to be its sole supplier for a strategic resource- economic, military, etc... All the more so if the other country has imperial ambitions (it takes one to know one).
Old rivalries die hard... in the mean time, we little ones in "civil-society" ought to make the most of these conflicts.