What AOL ought to do is start distributing the latest version of Mozilla and Open Office on all the CDs, right alongside of their own ISP software. Then people would actually keep the CDs around instead of pitching them.
This would be a huge PR coup for AOL as well a boon for the open source community.
I actually got an AOL CD with my newspaper last week-end!
Sounds like you have your own conventions, but you still have to wire servlets into your web.xml... and JSPs & Tomcat is a lot simpler than Struts. And you've had to code in the MVC logic...
Step one, install Mozilla and turn on the background prefetching.
Step two, go to Google and search on something
Step three, Mozilla will immediately start fetching the pages in the background and storing them on your machine.
Step four, get arrested for having every link on the results page cached on your machine. Even the crazy pornographic (and illegal) pages that you didn't click.
As I understand it (and I'm just starting to tinker with ROR) is that ROR is configured by convention, not by configuration file.
If you use Struts, Spring, etc., you configure every action in mulitple XML files. You map everything around so that the application knows what to do. This means you must define knowledge about your application's architecture in multiple places. It will be in code and in several config files. This gets complicated fast.
With ROR, the application code is in a folder called "app". Their are subfolders for "model", "view" and "controllers". (These may just be the defaults that ROR gives you when you ask it to create your new application's skeleton.)
If you want a controller called "say", you name it "say_controller.rb" and ROR knows it's a controller. So if something asks for a controller called "say", it finds it and runs it.
The idea is that by using clear, well-defined conventions the app server knows how to handle your code. No redundant declarations and mappings.
I'm probably grossly misrepresenting the framework with this short blurb... Check out the Rails homepage for more...
I saw Dave give his Ruby On Rails talk last weekend at a No Fluff Just Stuff conference (http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/). It was the first time I had seen it in action like that... I've since made time to start tinkering with it.
It's an amazing framework. I think that's one of the reasons it's getting so much interest.
strike-back technologies turn your network into attack-bots for script-kiddies.....
This might happen occasionally but these attacks (in my limited experience) are more theoretical than acutal. Shutting down the zombied machines would more than compensate for the occasional spoofed address.
Yeah, but that's the book, not the PDF... and it's not the beta either. You order it from Amazon, you wait until August for your book.
btw, I saw Dave give the Ruby on Rails talk this week-end at a No Fluff-Just Stuff conference. It was incredible what he was able to do with the framework in a very short amount of time. I'm a long time Java guy, but I'm moving two projects over to Ruby on Rails.. it feels just like SmallTalk again!
we all know most of the people using programs like Decrypter are using them to make copies of movies they rent from their favorite dvd rental place (as my friend likes to call it PirateBuster).
I can't speak for most people, but I use it back up DVDs before my 6 year old or my 2 year get near them... I let them scratch up copies instead of originals.
Sadly, not everyone can be trusted to act responsibly; if they could, we wouldn't need laws and police and armies. What's needed is a balance where those authorities don't interfere with someone exercising their freedoms responsibly, but can interfere when the trust is abused.
Excellent point. What the/. crowd needs to understand is that if we fail to regulate ourselves, the government ~will~ step in and do the regulation for us.
Not everyone who reads and posts here is reflected by the recent trend of snivelling whiners (and nearly all the first round of posts). I'm not sure if I'm just getting old (a possibility) or if the quality of the comments is really as bad as I think it is.
This is GREAT step forward for Google and I hope that many other companies will follow Google's lead. IBM? Sun?
The point of a lawsuit isn't always to get the money, it's to get the attention of the company in question. Since Yahoo ignored her for several months, and the lawsuit got the profiles pulled, I'd say 3 million is a great number.
Also, with a $$ driven corporation, the only way to effect change is to impact their profit margin. Asking for $1,000 wouldn't have been enough money to make Yahoo change any policies. But if she gets even a fraction of the three million, Yahoo will have to start taking removal requests a little more seriously.
Doesn't that simply mean that the VCs are doing their job and providing needed services instead of letting each company go out and re-invent the wheel?
This is the sort of service that a ~good~ VC brings to the table... in addition to cash, they hook you up with their existing business connections. You get the benefit of the VCs experience and business contacts.
Hiow is reserch for it's own sake different from survival of the species for it's own sake.
To me, pure research is pretty pointless if the planet gets smashed... but I'm one who believes that having the planet intact and few folks left on the planet is a Good Thing.
I guess I'm placing a higher priority (and even associating value with) the survival of the race. That will, after all, enable more pure research and great science!
Until some moron starts harassing his ex-girlfriend from his work account and you company gets sued for umpteen million dollars. Then it would've made a lot of sense!
You not lose the case, but the lawyer fees would probably make the monitoring look very attractive.
Also, haven't you worked with at least one person dumb enough to try to mail out the company's source code or mail out resumes from their work account? I know I have.
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2) The government knows who you are... hmmm... that's not news either
3) The government is getting more saavy and is kicking into some targetting recruitment. Just like every advertising firm on the planet.
(humor tag) How did this get posted on /. ? Is it because they used a database?
Thanks! It occurred to me while I was throwing out an AOL CD this weekend...
Are there any licensing concerns with any of that stuff being distributed with AOL software?
I don't know... I'm sure any of the packages mentioned would be more than will to be distributed though...
This would be a huge PR coup for AOL as well a boon for the open source community.
I actually got an AOL CD with my newspaper last week-end!
A week ago I've agree with you btw. :)
Step two, go to Google and search on something
Step three, Mozilla will immediately start fetching the pages in the background and storing them on your machine.
Step four, get arrested for having every link on the results page cached on your machine. Even the crazy pornographic (and illegal) pages that you didn't click.
If you use Struts, Spring, etc., you configure every action in mulitple XML files. You map everything around so that the application knows what to do. This means you must define knowledge about your application's architecture in multiple places. It will be in code and in several config files. This gets complicated fast.
With ROR, the application code is in a folder called "app". Their are subfolders for "model", "view" and "controllers". (These may just be the defaults that ROR gives you when you ask it to create your new application's skeleton.)
If you want a controller called "say", you name it "say_controller.rb" and ROR knows it's a controller. So if something asks for a controller called "say", it finds it and runs it.
The idea is that by using clear, well-defined conventions the app server knows how to handle your code. No redundant declarations and mappings.
I'm probably grossly misrepresenting the framework with this short blurb... Check out the Rails homepage for more...
It's an amazing framework. I think that's one of the reasons it's getting so much interest.
Apparently there were a few people who bought the book the first week-end...
http://blogs.pragprog.com/cgi-bin/pragdave.cgi/Ran dom/RailsBeta2.rdoc
http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/archives/2005/06/16/ javalobby-founder-ruby-on-rails-is-a-powerhouse/
This might happen occasionally but these attacks (in my limited experience) are more theoretical than acutal. Shutting down the zombied machines would more than compensate for the occasional spoofed address.
You can buy them on Amazon, O'Reilly (in fact, I'm on the front page right now!), WalMart, etc.
Of course, the fastest place to get them from is the Prag Prog site itself. ;)
btw, I saw Dave give the Ruby on Rails talk this week-end at a No Fluff-Just Stuff conference. It was incredible what he was able to do with the framework in a very short amount of time. I'm a long time Java guy, but I'm moving two projects over to Ruby on Rails.. it feels just like SmallTalk again!
I've got a blog entry on it at JaredRichardson.net
Disclaimer... I also have a book for sale at the Prag Prog site... see my URl...
Stupid (being led around by a small group of evil men)?
Evil? Trying to take over the world?
Or are they possibly better informed than you and doing what they think we need done?
hmmmm.... fully briefed heads of state of large country... geeks on a discussion board....
Think about it.
I can't speak for most people, but I use it back up DVDs before my 6 year old or my 2 year get near them... I let them scratch up copies instead of originals.
Excellent point. What the /. crowd needs to understand is that if we fail to regulate ourselves, the government ~will~ step in and do the regulation for us.
This is GREAT step forward for Google and I hope that many other companies will follow Google's lead. IBM? Sun?
The point of a lawsuit isn't always to get the money, it's to get the attention of the company in question. Since Yahoo ignored her for several months, and the lawsuit got the profiles pulled, I'd say 3 million is a great number.
Also, with a $$ driven corporation, the only way to effect change is to impact their profit margin. Asking for $1,000 wouldn't have been enough money to make Yahoo change any policies. But if she gets even a fraction of the three million, Yahoo will have to start taking removal requests a little more seriously.
Come on... post the script!
Another AC... coward.
I work for SAS, the world's largest privately owned software company. I did however do my time at two different startups.
This is the sort of service that a ~good~ VC brings to the table... in addition to cash, they hook you up with their existing business connections. You get the benefit of the VCs experience and business contacts.
What's the point of a MythTV setup?
Sounds like an arguement for a Windows license.
To me, pure research is pretty pointless if the planet gets smashed... but I'm one who believes that having the planet intact and few folks left on the planet is a Good Thing.
I guess I'm placing a higher priority (and even associating value with) the survival of the race. That will, after all, enable more pure research and great science!
But if theren't any carcasses around to get the "great science" and do something with it, the value of "great science" is somewhat diminished. ;)
Unless you believe in pure research for it's own sake...
Until some moron starts harassing his ex-girlfriend from his work account and you company gets sued for umpteen million dollars. Then it would've made a lot of sense!
You not lose the case, but the lawyer fees would probably make the monitoring look very attractive.
Also, haven't you worked with at least one person dumb enough to try to mail out the company's source code or mail out resumes from their work account? I know I have.
It's not well known, but the shine of the BSODs from this cluster is the real source of the Norther Lights! ;)