As covered by Red Dwarf... "Well, the thing about a Black Hole, its main distinguishing feature, is it's black! And the thing about space, the colour of space, yer basic space colour, is its Black! So how are you supposed to see them.... We've been in space for three million years and there hasn't been one! Then, all of a sudden five of them turn up at once!"
And the cause of all these black holes? "Five specs of grit on the scanner scope....the thing is about Grit... is it's black.."
You're right but you're missing the point. Stealing someone's bandwidth is morally (and hopefully legally) wrong. Whether you use a wireless network or a wired one to access their bandwidth is irrelevant it's just simply easier and much more likely to happen with a wireless network.
Effectively using someone's monthly download quota is depriving them of using it themselves so if you have any sort of conscience you won't do it.
JIRA isn't open source although it is quite nice and I use it internally at my workplace.
I might suggest Trac. It's an open source ticket management system integrated with Subversion. Probably doesn't have the extensive customer management features but with the wiki+ticketing is done quite well and can no doubt be used to satisfy the posters needs.
In fact members of MY electorate voted for him. When I went to vote at the local public school he was there talking to people.
In his own electorate he actually suffered one of the biggest swings against him of the entire election. But of course he was sitting on such a margin that it didnt matter.
Actually this is used in a movie too. Remember the Will Smith one - I think it was Enemy of the State. He's in a store and some guy comes running through and drops something in a bag. The "bad guys" use a camera in the store and fly almost 180 degree around Will Smith to see what gets dropped in the bag.
And to be pedantic it was designed for mission crictical embedded systems. It is horrible at text processing. There are also loads of good features to ADA, after learning it my programming style improved in all other languages I used (Java, perl, C, C#, PHP ect).
Reminds me of this little sequence from Red Dwarf:
Holly: They're from the NorWEB Federation. Lister: What's that? Holly: NorthWestern Electricity Board. They want you, Dave. Lister: Me? Why? What for? Holly: For your crimes against humanity. Lister: You what?! Holly: Seems when you left Earth, three million years ago, you left two half-eaten German sausages on a plate in your kitchen. Lister: Did I? Holly: You know what happens to sausages left unattended for three million years? Lister: Yeh, they go mouldy. Holly: Your sausages, Dave, now cover seven-eighths of the Earth's surface. Also, you left seventeen pounds, fifty pence in your bank account. Thanks to compound interest you now own 98% of all the world's wealth. And because you hoarded it for three million years, nobody's got any money except for you and NorWEB. Lister: Why NorWEB? Holly: You left a light on in the bathroom. I've got a final demand here for one hundred and eighty billion pounds. Lister: A hundred and eighty billion pounds!! You're kidding! Holly, wearing glasses, nose and moustache: April Fool. Lister: But it's not April! Holly: Yeah, I know. But I can't be waiting six months with a red-hot jape like that underneath me hat.
Both are a good choice if you want to properly engineer a new web-based tool. ASP.NET is probably quicker but if you want to do anything really serious you'll probably want to look at purchasing Visual Studio 2005 rather than just using the Visual Web Developer Express. Also the tool support for JSF isn't nearly as mature so it will probably take longer to implement in JSF than in ASP.NET.
Having said that JSF is still a good choice - particularly if licensing costs and portability are an issue. Apache MyFaces is an excellent framework whose only downside is the poor documentation. JSF can be slower to get started with but I found that it enforces best practices more strictly and once you get the hang of all the XML wiring it wasn't that bad. Another benefit of JSF is that you'll have trouble breaking the MVC pattern but you can pretty easily embed alot of code in ASP.NET unless you properly use code-behind and deliberately seperate out the DAL which isn't the default for the point and click wizards (the DAL separation).
In the end it comes down to a few things. If you have existing C#/VB skills and don't mind being stuck with IIS then go for.NET. If portability is a big issue and you'd really like to run this application on a small server running Jetty(for instance) then go for JSF.
Although I do agree that whoever wrote the article could have used easier words. You have to already be familiar with Dependency Injection (or IoP) and AoP to actually understand. Which sorta voids the purpose of the article.
Off topic but if you look into the details of sedition it is only a crime if it is used to incite violence. Although I do agree that whether someone may be inciting violence could be open to debate I doubt your post could be considered a criminal offence.
Because limiting the speed can actually be dangerous in certain circumstances.
Say you're driving along a two lane road (1 lane in both directions) stuck behind a slow truck. Cars are piled up behind you. I'm sure most drivers have been in this situation before. When you overtake the car behind you will move up to your old position stopping you from going back. If while you're on the wrong side of the road you see a car coming towards you it may be necessary to speed to complete the overtaking move. The proposed system would appear to allow for this while a set speed limiter may not. I'd prefer to speed than to die wouldn't you?
"it could face a torrent of cease-and-desist letters from the legal departments of newspapers, which would argue that "fair use" doesn't cover lifting headlines and lead paragraphs verbatim from their articles"
I don't see the problem. Doesn't that exactly describe Slashdot's business model? J/K
So I assume you're the one behind the push to house all linux kernel coders inside a cube farm office?
Perhaps you'd like to think about what you're saying slightly before you post it. Bug/Work Item tracking, project management, EVM, teams working at different locations, team members working from home are all extremely good reasons to want these collaboration tools.
And then you saddle your post with a pile of anti-MS rhetoric to make it sound authoritative. Yes VSS is a pile of junk. Strangely it is Windows only but thats because this vendor produces windows. Perhaps you'd prefer suns collaboration tools that are platform independant. Perhaps you'd prefer a tool chain of open source products (SVN, trac, wiki, emails). But like it or not there is a definite need for this type of software.
Well I find the numbering in word works fine for me. You get to a certain stage through your thesis where it all clicks and seems to work. There is a correct way of doing things that is slightly illogical I'd have to agree. If you wanted to complain about something being broken in word pick on image placement. The way images seemingly jump at random around the document baffles me completely.
But more seriously I agree and disagree with your main point about the bloatedness of IDEs. I'm a huge fan of Eclipse for its plugin architecture. If you want something simple then the base install is fine. If you need more features then get a plugin. VS.NET seems to take the opposite approach; I have no idea why it gives me so many options when all I want to do is create a goddamn class and maybe use a GUI builder. I suspect its like word and with enough use all seems to make sense but it would be good to have a barebones mode and allow me to enable features as I think I need them.
I disagree because I'm actually writing my thesis on software engineering collaboration and the team system actually looks like it gets out of the way more than it gets in the way - but then again the only times I've seen it in action are at the hands of the experts so I've no doubt they make it look easy.
Exactly. In fact the largest recorded Saltwater crocodile was almost 9 meters in length.
The first thing I thought when I read this (and its been in regular news sites for a day and a bit) was "mmm thats pretty small" and its especially small when compared with SuperCroc (although there is an interesting clash of largest recorded sizes for salties between those two wikipedia articles)
While its possible that your state level government doesn't need to comply there are several laws and policies in the US that could possibly apply and at least would make people listen:
Don't try to appear to be on a moral crusade against MS and IE. But hopefully once the lawyers sniff out that there could be potential hassles from building a website in a non-accessible/standards based manner the development process will be forced to change fairly quickly.
No that article is about the Community Information Warning System CIWS (no not close in weapons system). It actually has very little to do with terrorism but is rather a generic method of relaying information to not only the community but also people such as the volunteer fire brigade (we have bad fires in Australia). See http://www.4warn.com.au/ for details.
What IS pretty sad is that a fantastic system with amazing potential such as the one proposed is being twisted to be a weapon in the "war on terror" (like you can goto war against an idea). Anyone with half a brain can see we're on someone's hit list. But aforementioned someone is probably a crazy lune with zero backing from anyone.
Because its stupid? We used to do this in a restricted area and it was a PITA. As a developer I NEED to be able to instantly access online resources. Either that or my company can choose to send me on courses and buy me books for every bit of tech I want to assess... You do the math.
FYI the hack works fanstastically. Does everything I expected with no perceptible slowdown of my slowish 800mhz g4 ibook. Why they disabled it? Business reasons make sense but its stupid from a tech POV.
I totally agree. Easy to setup - dead simple to use. Has features than "Enterprise" wiki's (such as confluence) don't have.
The timeline feature alone is worthwhile - throw in the Roadmap. All it needs is a better ticket workflow (selectable per ticket) and it easier support for multiple projects and it would be perfect.
The girl says it "should" be balanced. Which I read to mean that ideally it should be balanced. It's impossible to know what she exactly meant by that short quote however.
And in general to the people who are scoffing at the MCAD - she's 10 years old. Perhaps that escaped your massive brains but this is an article talking about something that is a good achievement for someone her age. Its not even worth noting for someone only a few years older than her. At 10 most slashdotters were still singing soprano and afraid of girl germs (It seems some still are).
Well done to Arfa and her father. I hope she becomes a very competent member of the software development community. We can all hope she discovers the wonders of open source though...
Slashdot Mirror
As covered by Red Dwarf... ... We've been in space for three million years and there hasn't been one! Then, all of a sudden five of them turn up at once!"
"Well, the thing about a Black Hole, its main distinguishing feature, is it's black! And the thing about space, the colour of space, yer basic space colour, is its Black! So how are you supposed to see them.
And the cause of all these black holes?
"Five specs of grit on the scanner scope....the thing is about Grit... is it's black.."
You're right but you're missing the point. Stealing someone's bandwidth is morally (and hopefully legally) wrong. Whether you use a wireless network or a wired one to access their bandwidth is irrelevant it's just simply easier and much more likely to happen with a wireless network.
Effectively using someone's monthly download quota is depriving them of using it themselves so if you have any sort of conscience you won't do it.
JIRA isn't open source although it is quite nice and I use it internally at my workplace.
I might suggest Trac. It's an open source ticket management system integrated with Subversion. Probably doesn't have the extensive customer management features but with the wiki+ticketing is done quite well and can no doubt be used to satisfy the posters needs.
In fact members of MY electorate voted for him. When I went to vote at the local public school he was there talking to people.
In his own electorate he actually suffered one of the biggest swings against him of the entire election. But of course he was sitting on such a margin that it didnt matter.
Actually this is used in a movie too. Remember the Will Smith one - I think it was Enemy of the State. He's in a store and some guy comes running through and drops something in a bag. The "bad guys" use a camera in the store and fly almost 180 degree around Will Smith to see what gets dropped in the bag.
Totally bogus.
When I got my 20gig 3rd Gen ipod it came with the "remote", dock and a case. Apple calls it an: "iPod Carrying Case with Belt Clip"
I still work with ADA you insenstive clod!
And to be pedantic it was designed for mission crictical embedded systems. It is horrible at text processing. There are also loads of good features to ADA, after learning it my programming style improved in all other languages I used (Java, perl, C, C#, PHP ect).
Reminds me of this little sequence from Red Dwarf:
Holly: They're from the NorWEB Federation.
Lister: What's that?
Holly: NorthWestern Electricity Board. They want you, Dave.
Lister: Me? Why? What for?
Holly: For your crimes against humanity.
Lister: You what?!
Holly: Seems when you left Earth, three million years ago, you left two half-eaten German sausages on a plate in your kitchen.
Lister: Did I?
Holly: You know what happens to sausages left unattended for three million years?
Lister: Yeh, they go mouldy.
Holly: Your sausages, Dave, now cover seven-eighths of the Earth's surface. Also, you left seventeen pounds, fifty pence in your bank account. Thanks to compound interest you now own 98% of all the world's wealth. And because you hoarded it for three million years, nobody's got any money except for you and NorWEB.
Lister: Why NorWEB?
Holly: You left a light on in the bathroom. I've got a final demand here for one hundred and eighty billion pounds.
Lister: A hundred and eighty billion pounds!! You're kidding!
Holly, wearing glasses, nose and moustache: April Fool.
Lister: But it's not April!
Holly: Yeah, I know. But I can't be waiting six months with a red-hot jape like that underneath me hat.
The page now says:
"Please Visit my site on this cached mirror... scanner photography"
Which of course takes you to a page that says:
"Please Visit my site on this cached mirror... scanner photography"
And following that link.....
Both are a good choice if you want to properly engineer a new web-based tool. ASP.NET is probably quicker but if you want to do anything really serious you'll probably want to look at purchasing Visual Studio 2005 rather than just using the Visual Web Developer Express. Also the tool support for JSF isn't nearly as mature so it will probably take longer to implement in JSF than in ASP.NET.
.NET. If portability is a big issue and you'd really like to run this application on a small server running Jetty(for instance) then go for JSF.
Having said that JSF is still a good choice - particularly if licensing costs and portability are an issue. Apache MyFaces is an excellent framework whose only downside is the poor documentation. JSF can be slower to get started with but I found that it enforces best practices more strictly and once you get the hang of all the XML wiring it wasn't that bad. Another benefit of JSF is that you'll have trouble breaking the MVC pattern but you can pretty easily embed alot of code in ASP.NET unless you properly use code-behind and deliberately seperate out the DAL which isn't the default for the point and click wizards (the DAL separation).
In the end it comes down to a few things. If you have existing C#/VB skills and don't mind being stuck with IIS then go for
Yes.
Although I do agree that whoever wrote the article could have used easier words. You have to already be familiar with Dependency Injection (or IoP) and AoP to actually understand. Which sorta voids the purpose of the article.
Off topic but if you look into the details of sedition it is only a crime if it is used to incite violence. Although I do agree that whether someone may be inciting violence could be open to debate I doubt your post could be considered a criminal offence.
Because limiting the speed can actually be dangerous in certain circumstances.
Say you're driving along a two lane road (1 lane in both directions) stuck behind a slow truck. Cars are piled up behind you. I'm sure most drivers have been in this situation before. When you overtake the car behind you will move up to your old position stopping you from going back. If while you're on the wrong side of the road you see a car coming towards you it may be necessary to speed to complete the overtaking move. The proposed system would appear to allow for this while a set speed limiter may not. I'd prefer to speed than to die wouldn't you?
"it could face a torrent of cease-and-desist letters from the legal departments of newspapers, which would argue that "fair use" doesn't cover lifting headlines and lead paragraphs verbatim from their articles"
I don't see the problem. Doesn't that exactly describe Slashdot's business model? J/K
So I assume you're the one behind the push to house all linux kernel coders inside a cube farm office?
Perhaps you'd like to think about what you're saying slightly before you post it. Bug/Work Item tracking, project management, EVM, teams working at different locations, team members working from home are all extremely good reasons to want these collaboration tools.
And then you saddle your post with a pile of anti-MS rhetoric to make it sound authoritative. Yes VSS is a pile of junk. Strangely it is Windows only but thats because this vendor produces windows. Perhaps you'd prefer suns collaboration tools that are platform independant. Perhaps you'd prefer a tool chain of open source products (SVN, trac, wiki, emails). But like it or not there is a definite need for this type of software.
Well I find the numbering in word works fine for me. You get to a certain stage through your thesis where it all clicks and seems to work. There is a correct way of doing things that is slightly illogical I'd have to agree. If you wanted to complain about something being broken in word pick on image placement. The way images seemingly jump at random around the document baffles me completely.
But more seriously I agree and disagree with your main point about the bloatedness of IDEs. I'm a huge fan of Eclipse for its plugin architecture. If you want something simple then the base install is fine. If you need more features then get a plugin. VS.NET seems to take the opposite approach; I have no idea why it gives me so many options when all I want to do is create a goddamn class and maybe use a GUI builder. I suspect its like word and with enough use all seems to make sense but it would be good to have a barebones mode and allow me to enable features as I think I need them.
I disagree because I'm actually writing my thesis on software engineering collaboration and the team system actually looks like it gets out of the way more than it gets in the way - but then again the only times I've seen it in action are at the hands of the experts so I've no doubt they make it look easy.
Well actually they'd save quite a lot of bandwidth. So I'd be guessing its money that /. is trying to save by moving to CSS.
Try actually thinking for a second before you post.
Exactly. In fact the largest recorded Saltwater crocodile was almost 9 meters in length.
The first thing I thought when I read this (and its been in regular news sites for a day and a bit) was "mmm thats pretty small" and its especially small when compared with SuperCroc (although there is an interesting clash of largest recorded sizes for salties between those two wikipedia articles)
While its possible that your state level government doesn't need to comply there are several laws and policies in the US that could possibly apply and at least would make people listen:
w3.org has the list at:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/Policy/
Don't try to appear to be on a moral crusade against MS and IE. But hopefully once the lawyers sniff out that there could be potential hassles from building a website in a non-accessible/standards based manner the development process will be forced to change fairly quickly.
No that article is about the Community Information Warning System CIWS (no not close in weapons system). It actually has very little to do with terrorism but is rather a generic method of relaying information to not only the community but also people such as the volunteer fire brigade (we have bad fires in Australia). See http://www.4warn.com.au/ for details.
What IS pretty sad is that a fantastic system with amazing potential such as the one proposed is being twisted to be a weapon in the "war on terror" (like you can goto war against an idea). Anyone with half a brain can see we're on someone's hit list. But aforementioned someone is probably a crazy lune with zero backing from anyone.
apachectl -k graceful
or on some versions of apache simply
apachectl graceful
or perhaps apachectl2
Because its stupid? We used to do this in a restricted area and it was a PITA. As a developer I NEED to be able to instantly access online resources. Either that or my company can choose to send me on courses and buy me books for every bit of tech I want to assess... You do the math.
FYI the hack works fanstastically. Does everything I expected with no perceptible slowdown of my slowish 800mhz g4 ibook. Why they disabled it? Business reasons make sense but its stupid from a tech POV.
I totally agree. Easy to setup - dead simple to use. Has features than "Enterprise" wiki's (such as confluence) don't have.
The timeline feature alone is worthwhile - throw in the Roadmap. All it needs is a better ticket workflow (selectable per ticket) and it easier support for multiple projects and it would be perfect.
The girl says it "should" be balanced. Which I read to mean that ideally it should be balanced. It's impossible to know what she exactly meant by that short quote however.
And in general to the people who are scoffing at the MCAD - she's 10 years old. Perhaps that escaped your massive brains but this is an article talking about something that is a good achievement for someone her age. Its not even worth noting for someone only a few years older than her. At 10 most slashdotters were still singing soprano and afraid of girl germs (It seems some still are).
Well done to Arfa and her father. I hope she becomes a very competent member of the software development community. We can all hope she discovers the wonders of open source though...