Well I think the sensational title "Windows XP is Listening" kinda gives slashdot a tabliod feel. I would support subscriptions if it meant that Slashdot editors would have to take journalism classes.
I see few parallels between OSS and Socialism and always wondered why people (other than those with an agenda) draw connections between OSS and Socialism/Communism.
In socialism both buyer/seller are forced to participate, whereas with OSS there is complete freedom to choose and freedom to contribute.
Socialism deals with the allocation of consumptive resources such as food shelter, medical care whereas OSS deals with Ideas and thoughts that are non-consumptive and that by sharing the product there is no loss to the producers.
Socialism fails because it often robs people of motivation to contribute while OSS is powered by innate motivations to create, to actualize, and belong to a like a minded community and other higher level impulses.
It is an icon aware world, and people like to receive some sort of notoriety or publicity for making contributions to charities. For example stickers such as "i gave blood" or "World Wildlife Fund" are prevalent.
Why not generate a cool gif that people can display on their web sites to signify that they contribute to the Perl Foundation. Might encourage contributions.
How about if the inventor of said device allows himself/herself to be locked in a hermitically sealed container with their invention powering a CO2 scubber/Oxygen Generator. Wait 24 hours and open up. Yes/No.
Succesful completion of this test would be extraordinary and get peoples attention.
Oh, and the French went on an imperialistic rampage throughout Europe after toppling the monarchy, with associated cruelity, poverty, slavery, oppresion and injustice.
Actually the French wrongly went from a Monarch to an Emperor. Bad move.
It should be noted that Napoleon did destroy entrenched feudalism thru out Europe. He did grant constitutitions and instantiated formal law codes where none existed before.
However, the point of this discussion that privilege and power by birth is absurd and wrong. If you prefer to be ruled over by an aristocratic class hurry, get your passport ready, there are a still a few more ruling monarchies around, but not for long.
All totalitarian style governments are unjust and immoral and fortunately fast becoming obsolete. The Monarchy is one of this set and should be relegated to the reject pile of history.
personally I'd like to see a purly Canadian (ie, non shared) monarchy in Canada.
What! Why on earth would you want to return to an archaric leadership concept. Monarchies represent a past littered with cruelity, poverty, slavery, oppresion, injustice . . . well you get the idea. Time to let it die. The French had the right idea a few hundred years ago.
If you looking for votes be sure to look up and make a visit to the local Linux Users Group, Perl Mongers Group, etc.
Guaranteed votes if you express some sort of OSS advocacy. Maybe this only accounts for several hundred or thousands votes but they would be cheap votes in terms of amount of time spent.
You might even get some offers to help.
BTW since you are somewhat close to florida you might try to get your name on _top_ of the ballot:) That should be worth a couple of precentage points.
I can't even imagine the jubilation and high five's that must have happened back at MS HQ after hearing of the proposed settlement. If you fall for conspiracy theories you could easily believe that Michael Hausfled was a paid double agent. He took a page out of Apple's marketing book, fine tuned it and called it a punishment. Roger Kay, an analyst with IDC, called the settlement "a huge victory" for Microsoft. "It's amazing to me how favorable this is to Microsoft".
Fortunately the judge saw this and put a halt it. He realized that +95% of the refurbished machines would run windows and that most school districts would choose Microsoft since they are interested in educating and it makes sense to teach the dominate prevalent technology. This would have done nothing to establishing competition in the market place, in fact, the opposite.
I have always wondered about this. If I had only two choices; Microsoft and Apple, I think I would prefer a world ruled by Microsoft than by Apple. The only thing Apple has going for it is that they are the underdogs and people like underdogs.
Apple's philosophy has always been about domination and control and they have never encouraged tinkering and hacking by individuals. At least Microsoft freely release GW-Basic in the early days and how many people first became interested in programming due to the availability of Basic. Microsoft has also supported the porting of Perl and Python (via Activestate) to the Windows environment. Also, Microsoft's software has been typically cheaper than Apple's
Also, Apple has shown to be very anti-competitive in other ways. Remember Apple 's sordid attempt to foster clones? As soon as the clone manufactures became a little too efficient and began competing a little too well and delivering products to consumers at lower cost; Apple put their foot down and revoked licensing.
I am glad tho that I do not have to pick between the lesser of two evils:)
Implied assumption - "Pure" OO programming is always better for all problem spaces. OO programming while useful is not the end all, be all.
C is not orbject-oriented and many of the most important applications are written in C, why is that.
I might add that Perl has the fantastic advantage of being ambidextrous, allowing the user to choose the best implimentation for the problem at hand.
I find this critism of Perl interesting since one of the special promises of OO was to facilate reusable code modules. Perl's CPAN module archive has been very successful in delivering code reuse on a large scale. I have always been amazed at the scope and quality of Perl modules available on CPAN. Also interfacing to these modules are often simple and straight forward.
2 Too many simple tasks are pointlessly complicated
Perl's primary strength is making hard thing easy and impossible things possible. The example you mentioned about list of lists is a no brainer if you understand the syntax. And what language doesn't have its own "special syntax".
Perl has a collection functions that make hard things easy. Some of my favorites are:
- grep, map, sort (implied loops)
- symbolic refernces ($var = 'temperature'; $$var = 50;)
- variable string interpolation, ($str = "Today's date is $date";)
- pack and unpack.
etc.
3 Perl is notoriously impossible read and maintain.
Perl is no more difficult to read then C, C++, Java or Python. The example you provided has more to do with regular expression and pattern matching then the Perl syntax. Regular expressions are extremely powerful often replacing dozens of lines code with a single line. Other languages implement regular expressions (such as Python and Java) and if they are employed within these environments they can be as equally obtuse.
Also, to stenghten you point you cobble several operations together. I can also write a complicated C or Java line of code that relies on several levels of precedence and implied functionality.
I suppose the perfect antidote to a portable 'Supernova' weapon would be a portable 'Blackhole' weapon. Man the defense industry is going to love this.
My wife uses Quickbooks for her hot gourmet web store Sam McGees. I find the following issues with Quickbooks:
1. Frequent database corruption and no way to repair the database. Since whole shebang is one db file this is scary. We backup twice daily.
2. Scalability. If you have a small customer database then it maybe fast enough, but we have several thousand customers it bogs down and becomes sloooooow. Current single file db is around 50 Mbytes.
3. And foremost the database is inaccessible with no published API. I tried a while back with Quickbooks 2000 to import orders (transactions) from a flat file. Forget it. After hours of work I was able to get customers to import, but the documentation was incomplete and I had to find trick from the usenet to make it work.
This was the result of compromises with the Microsoft Windows servers.
However, I see no mention of the operating/database that was compromised. Following one of the background links there is reference to an IBM mainframe.
Among the facts omitted was the name of the Denver firm that maintains the IBM computer mainframe for the trust system
Just thought that should be pointed out.
Now the webservers may be IIS but the database being hacked was IBM. Most likely just a poor implementation.
This could be useful in negotiations with the Taliban. If they agree to abandon Kunduz and Kandahar and in fact all of Afghanistan they will be given a 223 sq mile nation of their own - complete virgin territory. They will have complete and utter control and no other nation will interfer in their affairs. We will even provide transportation for themselves and their faithfull followers.
FWIW I have a firewire interface written in Perl that talks to Opto22 Brains.
A while back we delivered a submersible safety system to the Navy based on Opto22 hardware. The system used a central Linux server querying 5 remotely mounted Opto22 Brain boards over ethernet. The nice thing about Opto is that they have modules to interface to just about any instrument/controller/device.
The Perl firewire module is based on the C++ code available from the company.
It all depends who you believe and what they count. The $100B was mention on CNN a while back. But I did find this link which gives a good cost comparision of this and other wars. A quote from the reference link:
"Because of its global scale and long-term nature, the war on terrorism probably will cost more than the Persian Gulf War, which totaled about $80 billion in constant fiscal-year 2002 dollars"
BTW, we are little quick to call someone stupid are we not. You should show a little restraint. I am sorry i accidently fat fingered the 1 and 2.
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exposes native functionality to JavaScript
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You mean things like `rm -rf
I wish menuing was built into the browser using some XML specification that is implemented much like external style sheets.
Too much effort is spent on developing human friendly navigation and requires the extraordinary use of "Javascript and DHTML tricks" that often break.
They want to hunt!
Well I think the sensational title "Windows XP is Listening" kinda gives slashdot a tabliod feel. I would support subscriptions if it meant that Slashdot editors would have to take journalism classes.
Well I am freshman economics student and I am try to make sense of the following MS claims.
1. OSS is bad because it costs nothing and therefore does not contribute to the tax base.
2. OSS is bad because the real cost of ownership is higher.
It seems to me that if 2 is true, then OSS contributes more to the tax base and that is good. No?
I see few parallels between OSS and Socialism and always wondered why people (other than those with an agenda) draw connections between OSS and Socialism/Communism.
In socialism both buyer/seller are forced to participate, whereas with OSS there is complete freedom to choose and freedom to contribute.
Socialism deals with the allocation of consumptive resources such as food shelter, medical care whereas OSS deals with Ideas and thoughts that are non-consumptive and that by sharing the product there is no loss to the producers.
Socialism fails because it often robs people of motivation to contribute while OSS is powered by innate motivations to create, to actualize, and belong to a like a minded community and other higher level impulses.
It is an icon aware world, and people like to receive some sort of notoriety or publicity for making contributions to charities. For example stickers such as "i gave blood" or "World Wildlife Fund" are prevalent.
Why not generate a cool gif that people can display on their web sites to signify that they contribute to the Perl Foundation. Might encourage contributions.
How about if the inventor of said device allows himself/herself to be locked in a hermitically sealed container with their invention powering a CO2 scubber/Oxygen Generator. Wait 24 hours and open up. Yes/No.
Succesful completion of this test would be extraordinary and get peoples attention.
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer special edition collectable stamps
And if they did issue such a stamp some people would have a problem getting them to stick as they would spit on the wrong side.
A bit like the modern US of A then ...
A vapid swipe with no justification.
Oh, and the French went on an imperialistic rampage throughout Europe after toppling the monarchy, with associated cruelity, poverty, slavery, oppresion and injustice.
Actually the French wrongly went from a Monarch to an Emperor. Bad move.
It should be noted that Napoleon did destroy entrenched feudalism thru out Europe. He did grant constitutitions and instantiated formal law codes where none existed before.
However, the point of this discussion that privilege and power by birth is absurd and wrong. If you prefer to be ruled over by an aristocratic class hurry, get your passport ready, there are a still a few more ruling monarchies around, but not for long.
All totalitarian style governments are unjust and immoral and fortunately fast becoming obsolete. The Monarchy is one of this set and should be relegated to the reject pile of history.
personally I'd like to see a purly Canadian (ie, non shared) monarchy in Canada.
What! Why on earth would you want to return to an archaric leadership concept. Monarchies represent a past littered with cruelity, poverty, slavery, oppresion, injustice . . . well you get the idea. Time to let it die. The French had the right idea a few hundred years ago.
If you looking for votes be sure to look up and make a visit to the local Linux Users Group, Perl Mongers Group, etc.
:) That should be worth a couple of precentage points.
Guaranteed votes if you express some sort of OSS advocacy. Maybe this only accounts for several hundred or thousands votes but they would be cheap votes in terms of amount of time spent.
You might even get some offers to help.
BTW since you are somewhat close to florida you might try to get your name on _top_ of the ballot
I can't even imagine the jubilation and high five's that must have happened back at MS HQ after hearing of the proposed settlement. If you fall for conspiracy theories you could easily believe that Michael Hausfled was a paid double agent. He took a page out of Apple's marketing book, fine tuned it and called it a punishment. Roger Kay, an analyst with IDC, called the settlement "a huge victory" for Microsoft. "It's amazing to me how favorable this is to Microsoft".
Fortunately the judge saw this and put a halt it. He realized that +95% of the refurbished machines would run windows and that most school districts would choose Microsoft since they are interested in educating and it makes sense to teach the dominate prevalent technology. This would have done nothing to establishing competition in the market place, in fact, the opposite.
I have always wondered about this. If I had only two choices; Microsoft and Apple, I think I would prefer a world ruled by Microsoft than by Apple. The only thing Apple has going for it is that they are the underdogs and people like underdogs.
:)
Apple's philosophy has always been about domination and control and they have never encouraged tinkering and hacking by individuals. At least Microsoft freely release GW-Basic in the early days and how many people first became interested in programming due to the availability of Basic. Microsoft has also supported the porting of Perl and Python (via Activestate) to the Windows environment. Also, Microsoft's software has been typically cheaper than Apple's
Also, Apple has shown to be very anti-competitive in other ways. Remember Apple 's sordid attempt to foster clones? As soon as the clone manufactures became a little too efficient and began competing a little too well and delivering products to consumers at lower cost; Apple put their foot down and revoked licensing.
I am glad tho that I do not have to pick between the lesser of two evils
2 Too many simple tasks are pointlessly complicated
3 Perl is notoriously impossible read and maintain.
Or
"What does Solaris offer me that Linux doesn't"
I suppose the perfect antidote to a portable 'Supernova' weapon would be a portable 'Blackhole' weapon. Man the defense industry is going to love this.
My wife uses Quickbooks for her hot gourmet web store Sam McGees. I find the following issues with Quickbooks:
1. Frequent database corruption and no way to repair the database. Since whole shebang is one db file this is scary. We backup twice daily.
2. Scalability. If you have a small customer database then it maybe fast enough, but we have several thousand customers it bogs down and becomes sloooooow. Current single file db is around 50 Mbytes.
3. And foremost the database is inaccessible with no published API. I tried a while back with Quickbooks 2000 to import orders (transactions) from a flat file. Forget it. After hours of work I was able to get customers to import, but the documentation was incomplete and I had to find trick from the usenet to make it work.
Is this the "Briar Patch Remedy" which a punishment that is actually a page from Apple's long range marketing strategy!
This was the result of compromises with the Microsoft Windows servers.
However, I see no mention of the operating/database that was compromised. Following one of the background links there is reference to an IBM mainframe.
Among the facts omitted was the name of the Denver firm that maintains the IBM computer mainframe for the trust system
Just thought that should be pointed out.
Now the webservers may be IIS but the database being hacked was IBM. Most likely just a poor implementation.
Hockey - Canada's gift to the world
Dentistry the worlds gift to Hockey
The flash presentation makes an interesting claim on the motors:
"Two of them drive each wheel independently. Fully redundant. If one fails, the other takes over."
I would like to see this.
Also claims to have 5 Gyro's that "operate by commitee, voting among themselves to eliminate errent readings"
Would this device work in Florida?
This could be useful in negotiations with the Taliban. If they agree to abandon Kunduz and Kandahar and in fact all of Afghanistan they will be given a 223 sq mile nation of their own - complete virgin territory. They will have complete and utter control and no other nation will interfer in their affairs. We will even provide transportation for themselves and their faithfull followers.
FWIW I have a firewire interface written in Perl that talks to Opto22 Brains.
A while back we delivered a submersible safety system to the Navy based on Opto22 hardware. The system used a central Linux server querying 5 remotely mounted Opto22 Brain boards over ethernet. The nice thing about Opto is that they have modules to interface to just about any instrument/controller/device.
The Perl firewire module is based on the C++ code available from the company.
It all depends who you believe and what they count. The $100B was mention on CNN a while back. But I did find this link which gives a good cost comparision of this and other wars. A quote from the reference link:
"Because of its global scale and long-term nature, the war on terrorism probably will cost more than the Persian Gulf War, which totaled about $80 billion in constant fiscal-year 2002 dollars"
BTW, we are little quick to call someone stupid are we not. You should show a little restraint. I am sorry i accidently fat fingered the 1 and 2.