I don't think anyone here has enough computers at home to need IPv6. I mean, if you have more than 253(*) computers in your house, you have more problems than needing IPv6.
(*) Number of possible nodes on a Class C subnet minus the router itself.
CGI doesn't scale well. That's the rest of the world moved away from CGI and forms to J2EE, LAMP, Django, Ruby on Rails, etc. Plus, once you've developed on Django or Ruby on Rails, you'll never go back to traditional models of Web development. You can write applications very, very quickly.
But, I digress. For a router, which won't have sufficient memory to run J2EE, Django, Ruby on Rails, etc., you'll definitely want CGI or maybe mod_perl because upward scalability isn't an issue: you need to shoehorn the thing in as little RAM as possible.
FWIW, I live in Florida and most of the time, I see people parking in handicap spaces with legal handicap tags who are clearly not handicapped. As in, they could walk just fine, at a normal pace, and did not appear to be in pain or straining in any way.
I would agree with you if the state properly enforced the law, but it clearly does not.
That's only for government-owned code. This code was originally written by JP Morgan and ownership was transferred at the end of last month to International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., who open-sourced it, according to the first paragaph in TFA.
Considering that most of MS-DOS was written in 8086 assembler, open sourcing it was a rather moot point. That's one reason why clones like DR-DOS were able to exist.
In the State of Michigan (and probably several other states), you can get out of a parking ticket for a handicap parking space if the sign is not properly placed or affixed in front of the parking space: the sign must be in front of (not next to) the center of the parking space, directly facing the parking space, must be of a minimum size, uniform colors and appearance, must be 84 inches off the ground, etc. If it fails to meet ANY of the criteria, take a photo of it (with your iPhone if it makes you feel better;), take it into court and your ticket will be dismissed immediately upon showing the photo to the magistrate. And, NO, blue lines on the parking space ARE NOT adequate.
Ditto in the state of Florida. The handicap parking sign MUST conform to F.S. 553.5041. If it's not duly marked or does not conform to 553.5041, it is not a legal handicap space and you are under no legal obligation whatsoever to observe it as such.
IANAL. Hire an attorney if you want real legal advice to get you out of your parking ticket.
Also, I can't verify, but I've been told that in Royal Oak, Michigan, if you've never received another parking violation, you can challenge it in court they will drop it, first time only though.
Even though OSS is not quite the same as "pro bono" work for a lawyer, there are similarities. (I know in some (most? all?) states, lawyers are required to do so many hours of pro-bono work.)
Anyway, think of it this way: you're in-between cases and business is a little slow, so you take on some pro-bono work. You know, to keep your skills sharp.
Does that prevent you from finding more paying work? Not really, because in doing so, you're talking with and collaborating with other people in your field, which is good for networking. Plus, you can always spend so many hours on the pro-bono case, so many hours on finding some paying work, etc. I know lawyers don't have to do that much to find payihg work, but you get the drift at least, I hope.
In any case, doing OSS work is the same: your networking with fellow developers, you can still spend time finding paying work, etc. Only with OSS work, unlike pro-bono work, there's really no deadlines or anything. If you don't get your code in fast enough to make it into the next release, it just isn't included in the next release. No big deal, really.
I totally agree, especially if you're looking for work as a developer. Saying "I wrote feature X for project Y" goes a long way toward proving to a potential employer that you know you how to write code, especially if project Y is related in some way to the job you're applying for.
(I'm someone who has sat on the interviewer side of the interview table, so I know of which I speak.)
Create a platform that people can build on themselves and they'll do all the hard work on their own.
Wow. That sounds awfully familiar...if only their were an operating system that people could build on themselves and do all the hard work on their own... You know, one that was highly-configurable, where people could pick and choose their components. One where people could modify the source code, even, if they wanted to.
I know there must be some OS like that out there...
Maybe. But I do think that customer feedback is crucial to Microsoft at this point. And I think they know that. They really can't afford for Windows 7 to get the same public backlash that Vista got.
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Does Levitt include a primary source for this story in Freakonomics? I mean it just has that smell of 'urban legend' all over it. Especially when you consider that the following Google searches turn up nothing: "Loser Lane" site:nyc.gov, "Sgt. Lane" site:nyc.gov. Being a sergeant in the NYPD usually would mean that one's name would show up in public records or maybe press releases.
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Although there certainly is a lot of "fashion" and "tradition" in choosing names, it's hardly the nightmare of uniformity that is predicted by those who oppose genetic choice. Sometimes it might appear that everyone is named Steve, but alas, it is not so.
Nice straw man you got there.
The truth is that names hardly matter that much compared to your child's physiology and anatomy. In some countries, it's not uncommon for parents to kill girls that are born to them because they cannot carry on the family name, so to speak.
And, depending on the container used for the methanol and the amount of vapor contained within it, it may be subject to export regulations as munitions!
Sony-powered cellphones will become a must-have component for every terrorist-built IED!
Maybe not even a cudgel. Maybe just to lend some credence to their FUD that Linux violates 18 gazillion Microsoft patents.
Once again, Horatio, list the patents that Linux is violating or someone, sooner or later, is going to sue Microsoft for defamation. Is that really what you want to happen on your watch?
Not a problem. Windows uses an Installable File System (IFS) architecture. All that has to happen is that the filesystem driver gets installed with the hardware driver. This can be entirely transparent to the end-user.
Because (keep in mind this primarily isn't the mindset of the Slashdot crowd, but of the general society as a whole) girls aren't nerds.
Utter claptrap. I can introduce you to five girl nerds, right now. And I'm fairly certain there's more where they came from.
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A commenter from 1992 reviewing the WWW on Usenet: "Too slow, not as much information as Gopher, lame."
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Multiplayer Quake was too slow.
IRC was getting flooded by clueless n00bs.
Most websites were brochureware, e-commerce consisted of Amazon.com. Slashdot was yet to be born.
Instant messaging == AIM. Without file transfers, voice, etc.
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Maybe y'all were, but not me. I had an unlimited dialup account from a provider called FlashNet, prepaid by the year. It translated to like $8.95/month.
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does it run linux?
In Soviet Russia, Linux runs YOU!!!
are there any requirements to use it in a beowulf configuration?
You have to welcome your new OpenWrt-running overlords.
any requirement to be resistant to, and remain working, after having hot grits dumped on it?
No, but I hear pants are still optional, but recommended for you.
should it support QoS by streaming naked photos of natalie portman at top priority?
Only if naked and petrified.
I don't think anyone here has enough computers at home to need IPv6. I mean, if you have more than 253(*) computers in your house, you have more problems than needing IPv6.
(*) Number of possible nodes on a Class C subnet minus the router itself.
Why does everyone seem to hate the new interface? I like it, personally.
CGI doesn't scale well. That's the rest of the world moved away from CGI and forms to J2EE, LAMP, Django, Ruby on Rails, etc. Plus, once you've developed on Django or Ruby on Rails, you'll never go back to traditional models of Web development. You can write applications very, very quickly.
But, I digress. For a router, which won't have sufficient memory to run J2EE, Django, Ruby on Rails, etc., you'll definitely want CGI or maybe mod_perl because upward scalability isn't an issue: you need to shoehorn the thing in as little RAM as possible.
FWIW, I live in Florida and most of the time, I see people parking in handicap spaces with legal handicap tags who are clearly not handicapped. As in, they could walk just fine, at a normal pace, and did not appear to be in pain or straining in any way.
I would agree with you if the state properly enforced the law, but it clearly does not.
as traditionally understood: everyone owns it
That's only for government-owned code. This code was originally written by JP Morgan and ownership was transferred at the end of last month to International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., who open-sourced it, according to the first paragaph in TFA.
Use the RSS feed. ;)
Considering that most of MS-DOS was written in 8086 assembler, open sourcing it was a rather moot point. That's one reason why clones like DR-DOS were able to exist.
In the State of Michigan (and probably several other states), you can get out of a parking ticket for a handicap parking space if the sign is not properly placed or affixed in front of the parking space: the sign must be in front of (not next to) the center of the parking space, directly facing the parking space, must be of a minimum size, uniform colors and appearance, must be 84 inches off the ground, etc. If it fails to meet ANY of the criteria, take a photo of it (with your iPhone if it makes you feel better ;), take it into court and your ticket will be dismissed immediately upon showing the photo to the magistrate. And, NO, blue lines on the parking space ARE NOT adequate.
Ditto in the state of Florida. The handicap parking sign MUST conform to F.S. 553.5041. If it's not duly marked or does not conform to 553.5041, it is not a legal handicap space and you are under no legal obligation whatsoever to observe it as such.
IANAL. Hire an attorney if you want real legal advice to get you out of your parking ticket.
Also, I can't verify, but I've been told that in Royal Oak, Michigan, if you've never received another parking violation, you can challenge it in court they will drop it, first time only though.
Your personal underpants gnomes?
What? Don't you have any?
Even though OSS is not quite the same as "pro bono" work for a lawyer, there are similarities. (I know in some (most? all?) states, lawyers are required to do so many hours of pro-bono work.)
Anyway, think of it this way: you're in-between cases and business is a little slow, so you take on some pro-bono work. You know, to keep your skills sharp.
Does that prevent you from finding more paying work? Not really, because in doing so, you're talking with and collaborating with other people in your field, which is good for networking. Plus, you can always spend so many hours on the pro-bono case, so many hours on finding some paying work, etc. I know lawyers don't have to do that much to find payihg work, but you get the drift at least, I hope.
In any case, doing OSS work is the same: your networking with fellow developers, you can still spend time finding paying work, etc. Only with OSS work, unlike pro-bono work, there's really no deadlines or anything. If you don't get your code in fast enough to make it into the next release, it just isn't included in the next release. No big deal, really.
I totally agree, especially if you're looking for work as a developer. Saying "I wrote feature X for project Y" goes a long way toward proving to a potential employer that you know you how to write code, especially if project Y is related in some way to the job you're applying for.
(I'm someone who has sat on the interviewer side of the interview table, so I know of which I speak.)
Create a platform that people can build on themselves and they'll do all the hard work on their own.
Wow. That sounds awfully familiar...if only their were an operating system that people could build on themselves and do all the hard work on their own... You know, one that was highly-configurable, where people could pick and choose their components. One where people could modify the source code, even, if they wanted to.
I know there must be some OS like that out there...
Maybe. But I do think that customer feedback is crucial to Microsoft at this point. And I think they know that. They really can't afford for Windows 7 to get the same public backlash that Vista got.
Does Levitt include a primary source for this story in Freakonomics? I mean it just has that smell of 'urban legend' all over it. Especially when you consider that the following Google searches turn up nothing: "Loser Lane" site:nyc.gov, "Sgt. Lane" site:nyc.gov. Being a sergeant in the NYPD usually would mean that one's name would show up in public records or maybe press releases.
Wow, Nasa /.'ed
We're interrogating Mr. Malda now.
Thanks,
No Such Agency.
Ah. You must one of those.
Although there certainly is a lot of "fashion" and "tradition" in choosing names, it's hardly the nightmare of uniformity that is predicted by those who oppose genetic choice. Sometimes it might appear that everyone is named Steve, but alas, it is not so.
Nice straw man you got there.
The truth is that names hardly matter that much compared to your child's physiology and anatomy. In some countries, it's not uncommon for parents to kill girls that are born to them because they cannot carry on the family name, so to speak.
And, depending on the container used for the methanol and the amount of vapor contained within it, it may be subject to export regulations as munitions!
Sony-powered cellphones will become a must-have component for every terrorist-built IED!
Maybe not even a cudgel. Maybe just to lend some credence to their FUD that Linux violates 18 gazillion Microsoft patents.
Once again, Horatio, list the patents that Linux is violating or someone, sooner or later, is going to sue Microsoft for defamation. Is that really what you want to happen on your watch?
Not a problem. Windows uses an Installable File System (IFS) architecture. All that has to happen is that the filesystem driver gets installed with the hardware driver. This can be entirely transparent to the end-user.
Because (keep in mind this primarily isn't the mindset of the Slashdot crowd, but of the general society as a whole) girls aren't nerds.
Utter claptrap. I can introduce you to five girl nerds, right now. And I'm fairly certain there's more where they came from.
A commenter from 1992 reviewing the WWW on Usenet: "Too slow, not as much information as Gopher, lame."
Maybe y'all were, but not me. I had an unlimited dialup account from a provider called FlashNet, prepaid by the year. It translated to like $8.95/month.
The Web sucked in 1996 compared to today.
Now get off of my lawn.