Hmmm, this post is modded up as informative, when it should really be modded down as misinformative (if only there were such an option).
Somebody please mod up one of the child posts that correct the parent by pointing out that the "P" in LAMP represents Perl, Python, or PHP. Please DON'T give me the karma, give it to those still posting at 1. Thanks.
Wow, I didn't realize the President read Slashdot! That's almost as good an idea as the one you had about clear-cutting, er, I mean, thinning forrests to prevent wildfires.
Yet another example of your common-sense approach to the environment. Keep up the good work!
This has got to be one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard. I live in Orlando, and have known a lot of Sea World employees, and those who have worked the "Shark Encounter" exhibit tell me they have to replace the plexiglass every year because the sharks are relentless at gnawing through it.
What we really need is a shield made of transparent aluminum.
In addition to what's been said by the 2 previous replies, you can also use XSLT to generate static XHTML pages from your XML source documents, and then deploy those to the live webserver, rather than dynamically generating XHTML for each request.
It's surprising that they're "worth" the same, since Novell's revenues are about 8 times those of Red Hat, according to their latest 10-K filings.
Of course, Red Hat is growing each year, whereas Novell has been shinking slightly (though they've maintained over $1 billion in revenues each of the last 5 years). And Red Hat has finally managed to make its first small profit, while Novell hasn't made a profit in 3 or 4 years.
But you'd think Novell's acquisition of SuSE
would position them to be an important player in the Enterprise Linux market. And you'd think its stock price would reflect that.
I suspect that the star and producer have no higher goal than propping up their show's ratings.
Yeah, so they could charge more for the commercials. Greedy opportunistic PBS bastards! Money grubbing wh... ummm, commercials... PBS...?, uh, nevermind.
That's useful info, but doesn't address my point. My point is that the thief already knows the risk, and is willing to take it. If the payoff is big enough, the possibility of doing hard time (or even getting the death penalty) isn't going to be a deterent.
Making an honest person register their iPod, and subsequently searching it every time they leave the premises, isn't going to prevent theft, because the honest person wouldn't steal anyway.
The dishonest person might be detered based on the potential penalties, but if not, I don't think this policy is going to make any difference. Without the policy, the thief is going to make damn sure they don't get caught with sensitive data on the device, after copying the data. With the policy, the only difference is that they're also going to make damn sure they don't get caught with the device before copying the data, as well. I just don't really see a significant difference.
And in the mean time, the actual thieves simply carry in their USB storage device hidden away in their pocket, without registering it, and leave without any search.
This is just another example of a stupid law or policy that does nothing to prevent theft, but inconveniences the honest people.
That makes no sense. 35% of the user base decided to download, install, and use a new browser.
No, they didn't. They typically used whatever got installed from the disk their ISP provided, which was in most cases IE. In 1997, the 3 largest ISPs in the US bundled IE - America Online, Compuserve, and Internet MCI. Microsoft was very actively signing exclusive agreements with the major ISPs. This is one of the other anti-competitive practices they used to take away Netscape's market share. Thanks for reminding me.
So MS made IE. They used their monopoly to promote it, but it caught on mainly because it _was_ better than Netscape
This is utter nonsense. Yes, one could probably argue that IE 4.X was better than Netscape 4.X, but that's not why IE caught on. IE caught on because Microsoft integrated it into the operating system. Before they did so, Netscape still had around 65% of the market. People just weren't going to the trouble of downloading IE. Even when Microsoft started forcing users to install IE as a prerequisite to installing other MS products, people continued using Netscape. It wasn't until it came pre-installed that it started getting momentum.
ActiveX was a better platform for web applications than Netscape could provide, for example.
You gotta be kidding! Please list the specific reasons you believe this to be true.
Sheesh, I've still got an old 486 at home with RedHat 3.X on it. It runs (well, it would, if I'd boot it up) an old version of WindowMaker in just 8 MB of RAM. Not fast by any stretch, but the point is that this bloat is nothing new - it's been going on since day one.
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
I highly recommend that the submitter (Anonymous User) immediately head over to his/her favorite online book retailer and purchase Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
If the guy keeps spinning, maybe he can be used as a source of unlimited, cheap electricity.
Naw, it won't be cheap 'cause money-hungry Peri Fleisher would just exploit it for her own financial gain. OTOH, it would be a more environmentally friendly source of electricity. Maybe the Sierra Club will support Google in order to keep him spinning.
It is goddamn scary that a U.S. citizen even has to consider posting information on foreign ground to acheive freedom of speech and press.
Yes, it's very scary, just like it's scary that the same legislature that passed the Patriot Act has also tried numerous times to introduce a flag-burning amendment. These guys, and the American public that support them, are clueless. They just don't get it.
Hey moderators - please read the moderator guidelines, which state "Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting" and "Average Comments might be slightly offtopic, but still might be worth reading. They might be redundant. They might be a 'Me Too' article. They might say something painfully obvious. They don't detract from the discussion, but they don't necessarily significantly add to it." The parent post fits into this category, and as such probably already had an appropriate score of 1.
If your gut reaction is to mod something down, maybe take a look at the poster's history. This guy is new to Slashdot, he's already posted some worthwhile things. His only other negatively modded post was flagged redundant (another overused moderation). I don't think he meant anything by this post. Yes, it's off-topic, but did it really deserve to get slammed down to -1, the same score as this post?
Please use your mod points more constructively. There are some good posts out there that deserved to be modded up more than the parent post deserved to be modded down.
..that Mac OSX users now think they know 'Nix, and that 'Nix users think they know Mac now?
If you're refering to Davidson, it might interest you that he's actually a fairly recent convert to the Mac. He worked for Sun for quite a while, contributing quite a bit to parts of the J2EE spec and the Tomcat webserver (as well as creating "Ant").
Anyone who knows anything about scanners knows that there's no chance of digitizing a virus, because Xerox PARC recognized the danger back in the late 1970's and ensured that the bulbs used in scanning emit strong ultraviolet light specifically to sterilize the scanned media.
And to add fault-tolerance, just in case a pathogen should survive the UV, there's circuitry in every scanner to slightly scramble the digitized image - not enough to notice with the human eye, but enough to ensure that the likelihood of a digitized virus surviving is extremely small. Yeah, there's an infinitly small chance that the morphed digital virus could survive and be more dangerous than anything in history, but the very slight risk was deemed acceptable.
I don't have a problem with the global economy. What I have a problem with is that it seems the US is the only country openly embracing this global economy. Our trade deficit is currently at an all time high.
I'm not in favor of total isolationism, but OTOH I would like to see increased tarriffs and some protectionist laws in place *until* we achieve a level playing field.
Otherwise, how can our standard of living not go down?
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Hmmm, this post is modded up as informative, when it should really be modded down as misinformative (if only there were such an option).
Somebody please mod up one of the child posts that correct the parent by pointing out that the "P" in LAMP represents Perl, Python, or PHP. Please DON'T give me the karma, give it to those still posting at 1. Thanks.
ROFL. Somebody please mod parent up. That's so funny.
Never use a $4 calculator when you can use a $1600 software package instead (and then make an invalid conclusion because it rounded off for you!).
Wow, I didn't realize the President read Slashdot! That's almost as good an idea as the one you had about clear-cutting, er, I mean, thinning forrests to prevent wildfires.
Yet another example of your common-sense approach to the environment. Keep up the good work!
This has got to be one of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard. I live in Orlando, and have known a lot of Sea World employees, and those who have worked the "Shark Encounter" exhibit tell me they have to replace the plexiglass every year because the sharks are relentless at gnawing through it.
What we really need is a shield made of transparent aluminum.
Microsoft has announced it's putting its share of MSNBC up for sale.
In addition to what's been said by the 2 previous replies, you can also use XSLT to generate static XHTML pages from your XML source documents, and then deploy those to the live webserver, rather than dynamically generating XHTML for each request.
This is the approach taken by the Apache website.
It's surprising that they're "worth" the same, since Novell's revenues are about 8 times those of Red Hat, according to their latest 10-K filings.
Of course, Red Hat is growing each year, whereas Novell has been shinking slightly (though they've maintained over $1 billion in revenues each of the last 5 years). And Red Hat has finally managed to make its first small profit, while Novell hasn't made a profit in 3 or 4 years.
But you'd think Novell's acquisition of SuSE would position them to be an important player in the Enterprise Linux market. And you'd think its stock price would reflect that.
I suspect that the star and producer have no higher goal than propping up their show's ratings.
Yeah, so they could charge more for the commercials. Greedy opportunistic PBS bastards! Money grubbing wh... ummm, commercials... PBS...?, uh, nevermind.
. . . called Rainbows End (and for the grammar nazis, that's right, there's no apostrophe at the end of 'Rainbows.')
That should be "Nazi", not "nazi".
Sincerely,
A capitalization Nazi.
That's useful info, but doesn't address my point. My point is that the thief already knows the risk, and is willing to take it. If the payoff is big enough, the possibility of doing hard time (or even getting the death penalty) isn't going to be a deterent.
Making an honest person register their iPod, and subsequently searching it every time they leave the premises, isn't going to prevent theft, because the honest person wouldn't steal anyway.
The dishonest person might be detered based on the potential penalties, but if not, I don't think this policy is going to make any difference. Without the policy, the thief is going to make damn sure they don't get caught with sensitive data on the device, after copying the data. With the policy, the only difference is that they're also going to make damn sure they don't get caught with the device before copying the data, as well. I just don't really see a significant difference.
And in the mean time, the actual thieves simply carry in their USB storage device hidden away in their pocket, without registering it, and leave without any search.
This is just another example of a stupid law or policy that does nothing to prevent theft, but inconveniences the honest people.
That makes no sense. 35% of the user base decided to download, install, and use a new browser.
No, they didn't. They typically used whatever got installed from the disk their ISP provided, which was in most cases IE. In 1997, the 3 largest ISPs in the US bundled IE - America Online, Compuserve, and Internet MCI. Microsoft was very actively signing exclusive agreements with the major ISPs. This is one of the other anti-competitive practices they used to take away Netscape's market share. Thanks for reminding me.
I agree with most of your post, but...
So MS made IE. They used their monopoly to promote it, but it caught on mainly because it _was_ better than Netscape
This is utter nonsense. Yes, one could probably argue that IE 4.X was better than Netscape 4.X, but that's not why IE caught on. IE caught on because Microsoft integrated it into the operating system. Before they did so, Netscape still had around 65% of the market. People just weren't going to the trouble of downloading IE. Even when Microsoft started forcing users to install IE as a prerequisite to installing other MS products, people continued using Netscape. It wasn't until it came pre-installed that it started getting momentum.
ActiveX was a better platform for web applications than Netscape could provide, for example.
You gotta be kidding! Please list the specific reasons you believe this to be true.
Is this news to anyone?
Sheesh, I've still got an old 486 at home with RedHat 3.X on it. It runs (well, it would, if I'd boot it up) an old version of WindowMaker in just 8 MB of RAM. Not fast by any stretch, but the point is that this bloat is nothing new - it's been going on since day one.
The virus named, Korgo, started showing up . . .
I highly recommend that the submitter (Anonymous User) immediately head over to his/her favorite online book retailer and purchase Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
If the guy keeps spinning, maybe he can be used as a source of unlimited, cheap electricity.
Naw, it won't be cheap 'cause money-hungry Peri Fleisher would just exploit it for her own financial gain. OTOH, it would be a more environmentally friendly source of electricity. Maybe the Sierra Club will support Google in order to keep him spinning.
It is goddamn scary that a U.S. citizen even has to consider posting information on foreign ground to acheive freedom of speech and press.
Yes, it's very scary, just like it's scary that the same legislature that passed the Patriot Act has also tried numerous times to introduce a flag-burning amendment. These guys, and the American public that support them, are clueless. They just don't get it.
At the risk of getting modded down myself:
Hey moderators - please read the moderator guidelines, which state "Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting" and "Average Comments might be slightly offtopic, but still might be worth reading. They might be redundant. They might be a 'Me Too' article. They might say something painfully obvious. They don't detract from the discussion, but they don't necessarily significantly add to it." The parent post fits into this category, and as such probably already had an appropriate score of 1.
If your gut reaction is to mod something down, maybe take a look at the poster's history. This guy is new to Slashdot, he's already posted some worthwhile things. His only other negatively modded post was flagged redundant (another overused moderation). I don't think he meant anything by this post. Yes, it's off-topic, but did it really deserve to get slammed down to -1, the same score as this post?
Please use your mod points more constructively. There are some good posts out there that deserved to be modded up more than the parent post deserved to be modded down.
Thanks.
Boy, the Chappaquiddick jokes just never get old, even after 35 years.
And how does working on Java (whether at Sun or elsewhere) make him a UNIX expert?
I don't know. Who said he was a UNIX expert?
If you're refering to Davidson, it might interest you that he's actually a fairly recent convert to the Mac. He worked for Sun for quite a while, contributing quite a bit to parts of the J2EE spec and the Tomcat webserver (as well as creating "Ant").
It took tremendous Linsight to come up with the name "Linspire". I find the whole story quite Linteresting. Thanks for the Linformative links.
Prevent virii, sterilize you scanners before use.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Anyone who knows anything about scanners knows that there's no chance of digitizing a virus, because Xerox PARC recognized the danger back in the late 1970's and ensured that the bulbs used in scanning emit strong ultraviolet light specifically to sterilize the scanned media.
And to add fault-tolerance, just in case a pathogen should survive the UV, there's circuitry in every scanner to slightly scramble the digitized image - not enough to notice with the human eye, but enough to ensure that the likelihood of a digitized virus surviving is extremely small. Yeah, there's an infinitly small chance that the morphed digital virus could survive and be more dangerous than anything in history, but the very slight risk was deemed acceptable.
I've always considered this to be CERT, not this.
Apparently our new Dept. of Homeland Security launched us-cert.gov as a partnership with Carnegie Mellon's cert.org (and others, in the future).
I feel safer already.
Apologies - this post has a US-centric viewpoint.
I don't have a problem with the global economy. What I have a problem with is that it seems the US is the only country openly embracing this global economy. Our trade deficit is currently at an all time high.
I'm not in favor of total isolationism, but OTOH I would like to see increased tarriffs and some protectionist laws in place *until* we achieve a level playing field.
Otherwise, how can our standard of living not go down?