The real problem is that websites have become "web applications". Simple forms are not enough anymore. There is demand for web sites to act like full blown windowed applications. Standard HTML and JavaScript just don't cut it sometimes. But M$ gives you cool JScript functions like showModalDialog() (which is really handy) and it supports IFRAMES, and does a few other things that make developing "applications" easier. That's why they are winning... features that people want.
Personally, as a web developer, I'm tired of building "applications" on top of a platform that's meant to display "pages" of information. It's dumb and slow sometimes. We have to maintain state ontop of a stateless server connection. We have to do tricky things to client side script "hidden" requests back to the server just to get a little piece of information in a JavaScript function to, I don't know, change the contents of a select box. It's ridiculous. There needs to be a new system... or framework. Browsers just aren't good enough for this sort of thing.
They should have just made it a browser. That's all IE is. Just a browser. But no... they want it to be "Communicator" with all the stupid email and HTML editor crap in it. That's where they went wrong.
everytime someone wants to take our rights to use something away... someone has to suggest an alternative... hay, can you watch the SuperBowl on a book? No.
I'm glad someone has finally gathered up the balls to sue these bastards. The RBL is a bunch of crap. If one (and I've seen this happen) website in a class C is either spamming, allowing spam to pass through it's mailserver, advertising any type of software that would be used to spam, or just generally being in favor of spam, these fuckers blacklist the whole damn subnet.
It's like a teacher punishing the whole class because of the students wrote a bad word on the chalkboard. It's simply not right. I don't give a damn what you anti-spam zealots say. Punishing everyone because of one bad apple is a load of crap.
Everyone gets all pissed off about spam and this and that. Just delete the fucking mail. It's not that hard... yeah it's a pain in the ass but it's easier to hit 'D' in pine then it is to route through your postal mail and throw away that junk.
If we continue to let the RBL and similar methods run their course, we will eventually just close up port 25 and be done with it. In fact, they way things are going, we may as well just shutdown the whole internet... Hey, at least there won't be anymore porn for the little kiddies to get their hands on.
Blacklisting "spammer" IP subnets is just like any of the other censorware out there. It's just like "targeted taxcuts", it's just like UCITA and the DMCA. It's a bunch of crap that no one who was a brain in their head can do anything about because the idiots have already ruined it.
Well, yeah... but for Yahoo to legally do business in France, they have to obey French law... just like a foreign company doing business in the US would have to obey our laws... notice how all foreign cars meet US safety standards.
The real problem is the internet is essentially everywhere and nowhere at the same time. And no one has figured out how to apply the current law to it.
That's a good point... I wonder how much GPLed code is in M$ products. I'm sure there is a lot of it... and I'm sure they are violating the GPL all over the place.
Yeah, I agree that getting more agressive on crime will cause more mistakes and false accusations... initally anyway. Think about it, if we reduce the amount of crime that occurs... then there will be less false accusations. There is no way to solve the problem without making mistakes... but let's at least put the blame in the right place instead of ignoring the problem.
Um... no. The RIAA and MPAA are not responible for the violence in this country. The fact that we allow it to go on without any consequences is the problem.
Let's start using the electric chair more. And let's start punishing people for commiting violent crimes. We should be blaming the liberal thought that no one is responsible for what they do and that it's always someone or something else's fault... not a few TV shows or song lyrics.
That's true but blocking an entire service because a percentage (not all) of the users are violationg copyrights is just plain stupid. It's just like a student putting a thumbtack on the teachers chair and the whole class getting punished because no one will fess up.
Quite frankly, i'm tired of my rights being infringed upon because of a few bad apples. And I'm tired of paying all the damn taxes just because I'm a single white male in his early twenties with a damn good job. I'm tired of idiots who vote for the same assholes that just take away more of our freedom because it keeps their asses in office.
Wake up people. Once our 2nd Amendment right is gone, we're fucked because the 1st Amendment is going to be next.
Would you people just get over the fact that if you are on the Internet you are going to lose privacy. As simple as that. If you leave your house in anyway you are going to lose your privacy... so you should probably just stay home, turn off all your phones, close all your blinds and turn on a white noise machine really loud so that no one can eavesdrop on your conversations.
This is a bogus argument... you know that have images laying around for all possible hardware configs and they just slap a disk image on the drive and push it down the assembly line.
When are we going to start ignoring this crap? I really could care less who likes Linux and who doesn't. What difference does it make? If other people use the wrong tool for the job... that's their problem not mine. I'm not going to waste my time trying to convice people that there is more than one OS and that there is the right OS for each particular type of system. I use Winblows as my workstation. Why? Because, the only thing I use it for is browsing, gaming, and running telnet clients to my Linux, and Irix machines. It's the best OS for that job. Being a server is something that is better left up to a real OS, like the two I meantioned above.
Anyway, I just think we should stop trying to convince the brain-dead that Linux has it's place. Most people that say these things haven't even used Linux anyway. Let's just concentrate our energy on improving Linux and all the applications that run on it instead of wasting it on stupid OS wars that never get anywhere.
I know I'll continue to use the best OSes for the job they are best suited for and I'll just continue to laugh at the people who don't. But, I'll keep the laughter to myself.
I don't think it's that people are annoyed with X or with window managers. It's more the fact that there are no standard components. It's up to the window manager to provide them. So, every different window manager has different components, and applications written for one window manager don't work in others. With Windows or MacOS you write for one set of standard components (or write your own in the app)... so you know that your app will run on any windows or macos machine. Can you write a KDE app and be sure that it will run on any Linux machine? No you cannot. That's the problem and that's why there is a lack of desktop apps on Linux because everyone has to keep reinventing the wheel with each window manager so we never get to the more complicated apps.
Either X should die, or we should pick one Window Manager and call it the Linux window manager and focus development on that. BTW - in my opinion all the window managers out there suck hard compared to Windows and MacOS. Go ahead and flame me. The only X Window Manager that I've used and liked is SGI's 4Dwm... so maybe we can get them to port it to Linux.
Hmm... well, if you took an Object Oriented approach to it... you could theoretically (god I can't even spell that word) abstract the "DISPLAY" into a class so that if you want to add remote displays later, you would just have to implement a new class to do it.
If a new system was designed with the possibility of these types of add-ons in mind, it would probably work out nicely. This is a project that I thought about working on about a month ago. I decided against it because I didn't think people would take interest in it. Maybe, it's not such a bad idea.
All Intel processors since the Pentium Pro allow for memory addressing greater than 32-bits. The PPro can use 36-bit memory addresses. So the system can have up to 64GB of physical memory... but programs can only address 4GB individually... which to me, doesn't seem to be that great of a limitation for most applications.
I'm tired of hearing about this...
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Hey, I remember when pirating software and copying CDs and taping VHS tapes was something that you did with your friends. And occasionally there was a pirate BBS that was very hush hush about what it was doing. Now, everyone wants to be able to do this stuff out in the open and starts complaining when people get pissed off about it. Do we really need Napster? No. I have no sympathy for them. They should have known before they started that they were going to get themselves in trouble for this.
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The real problem is that websites have become "web applications". Simple forms are not enough anymore. There is demand for web sites to act like full blown windowed applications. Standard HTML and JavaScript just don't cut it sometimes. But M$ gives you cool JScript functions like showModalDialog() (which is really handy) and it supports IFRAMES, and does a few other things that make developing "applications" easier. That's why they are winning... features that people want.
Personally, as a web developer, I'm tired of building "applications" on top of a platform that's meant to display "pages" of information. It's dumb and slow sometimes. We have to maintain state ontop of a stateless server connection. We have to do tricky things to client side script "hidden" requests back to the server just to get a little piece of information in a JavaScript function to, I don't know, change the contents of a select box. It's ridiculous. There needs to be a new system... or framework. Browsers just aren't good enough for this sort of thing.
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They should have just made it a browser. That's all IE is. Just a browser. But no... they want it to be "Communicator" with all the stupid email and HTML editor crap in it. That's where they went wrong.
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Oh fuck that...
everytime someone wants to take our rights to use something away... someone has to suggest an alternative... hay, can you watch the SuperBowl on a book? No.
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That's great... just say no and don't back it up... I'm really interested in hearing your reasoning for that 'No.'
I'm glad someone has finally gathered up the balls to sue these bastards. The RBL is a bunch of crap. If one (and I've seen this happen) website in a class C is either spamming, allowing spam to pass through it's mailserver, advertising any type of software that would be used to spam, or just generally being in favor of spam, these fuckers blacklist the whole damn subnet. It's like a teacher punishing the whole class because of the students wrote a bad word on the chalkboard. It's simply not right. I don't give a damn what you anti-spam zealots say. Punishing everyone because of one bad apple is a load of crap. Everyone gets all pissed off about spam and this and that. Just delete the fucking mail. It's not that hard... yeah it's a pain in the ass but it's easier to hit 'D' in pine then it is to route through your postal mail and throw away that junk. If we continue to let the RBL and similar methods run their course, we will eventually just close up port 25 and be done with it. In fact, they way things are going, we may as well just shutdown the whole internet... Hey, at least there won't be anymore porn for the little kiddies to get their hands on. Blacklisting "spammer" IP subnets is just like any of the other censorware out there. It's just like "targeted taxcuts", it's just like UCITA and the DMCA. It's a bunch of crap that no one who was a brain in their head can do anything about because the idiots have already ruined it.
Apparently, you didn't read the article because it does mention EDDR.
Well, yeah... but for Yahoo to legally do business in France, they have to obey French law... just like a foreign company doing business in the US would have to obey our laws... notice how all foreign cars meet US safety standards.
The real problem is the internet is essentially everywhere and nowhere at the same time. And no one has figured out how to apply the current law to it.
Next time Germany invades France... let's help the Germans.
That's a good point... I wonder how much GPLed code is in M$ products. I'm sure there is a lot of it... and I'm sure they are violating the GPL all over the place.
But yet, you use hotmail.com... dumb shit.
I would pay $1,000 for a terrorist to drive a bomb into Redmond.
Yeah, I agree that getting more agressive on crime will cause more mistakes and false accusations... initally anyway. Think about it, if we reduce the amount of crime that occurs... then there will be less false accusations. There is no way to solve the problem without making mistakes... but let's at least put the blame in the right place instead of ignoring the problem.
Um... no. The RIAA and MPAA are not responible for the violence in this country. The fact that we allow it to go on without any consequences is the problem.
Let's start using the electric chair more. And let's start punishing people for commiting violent crimes. We should be blaming the liberal thought that no one is responsible for what they do and that it's always someone or something else's fault... not a few TV shows or song lyrics.
Exactly.
That's true but blocking an entire service because a percentage (not all) of the users are violationg copyrights is just plain stupid. It's just like a student putting a thumbtack on the teachers chair and the whole class getting punished because no one will fess up.
Quite frankly, i'm tired of my rights being infringed upon because of a few bad apples. And I'm tired of paying all the damn taxes just because I'm a single white male in his early twenties with a damn good job. I'm tired of idiots who vote for the same assholes that just take away more of our freedom because it keeps their asses in office.
Wake up people. Once our 2nd Amendment right is gone, we're fucked because the 1st Amendment is going to be next.
Geeze, didn't mean to go on a rant.
Would you people just get over the fact that if you are on the Internet you are going to lose privacy. As simple as that. If you leave your house in anyway you are going to lose your privacy... so you should probably just stay home, turn off all your phones, close all your blinds and turn on a white noise machine really loud so that no one can eavesdrop on your conversations.
Jeeze, get the fsck over it.
This is a bogus argument... you know that have images laying around for all possible hardware configs and they just slap a disk image on the drive and push it down the assembly line.
When are we going to start ignoring this crap? I really could care less who likes Linux and who doesn't. What difference does it make? If other people use the wrong tool for the job... that's their problem not mine. I'm not going to waste my time trying to convice people that there is more than one OS and that there is the right OS for each particular type of system. I use Winblows as my workstation. Why? Because, the only thing I use it for is browsing, gaming, and running telnet clients to my Linux, and Irix machines. It's the best OS for that job. Being a server is something that is better left up to a real OS, like the two I meantioned above.
Anyway, I just think we should stop trying to convince the brain-dead that Linux has it's place. Most people that say these things haven't even used Linux anyway. Let's just concentrate our energy on improving Linux and all the applications that run on it instead of wasting it on stupid OS wars that never get anywhere.
I know I'll continue to use the best OSes for the job they are best suited for and I'll just continue to laugh at the people who don't. But, I'll keep the laughter to myself.
I love how that feel that what they are doing is right. Ridiculous.
I don't think it's that people are annoyed with X or with window managers. It's more the fact that there are no standard components. It's up to the window manager to provide them. So, every different window manager has different components, and applications written for one window manager don't work in others. With Windows or MacOS you write for one set of standard components (or write your own in the app)... so you know that your app will run on any windows or macos machine. Can you write a KDE app and be sure that it will run on any Linux machine? No you cannot. That's the problem and that's why there is a lack of desktop apps on Linux because everyone has to keep reinventing the wheel with each window manager so we never get to the more complicated apps.
Either X should die, or we should pick one Window Manager and call it the Linux window manager and focus development on that. BTW - in my opinion all the window managers out there suck hard compared to Windows and MacOS. Go ahead and flame me. The only X Window Manager that I've used and liked is SGI's 4Dwm... so maybe we can get them to port it to Linux.
Hmm... well, if you took an Object Oriented approach to it... you could theoretically (god I can't even spell that word) abstract the "DISPLAY" into a class so that if you want to add remote displays later, you would just have to implement a new class to do it.
If a new system was designed with the possibility of these types of add-ons in mind, it would probably work out nicely. This is a project that I thought about working on about a month ago. I decided against it because I didn't think people would take interest in it. Maybe, it's not such a bad idea.
All Intel processors since the Pentium Pro allow for memory addressing greater than 32-bits. The PPro can use 36-bit memory addresses. So the system can have up to 64GB of physical memory... but programs can only address 4GB individually... which to me, doesn't seem to be that great of a limitation for most applications.
Hey, I remember when pirating software and copying CDs and taping VHS tapes was something that you did with your friends. And occasionally there was a pirate BBS that was very hush hush about what it was doing. Now, everyone wants to be able to do this stuff out in the open and starts complaining when people get pissed off about it. Do we really need Napster? No. I have no sympathy for them. They should have known before they started that they were going to get themselves in trouble for this.
Hmmm.... pico (or emacs... had to mention so I don't get flamed) and gcc.... that's all the development environment you should need. :)
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