Most business decisions aren't based on the decisions of one person. There are exceptions, to be sure, but most business decisions are based on rational conclusions drawn by a company's panel of experts in the area the decision is made by.
No doubt. But keeping Yahoo alive and independent of Microsoft was and still is in Google's best interests, whether you call it a 'rescuing' or not. Microsoft wants Yahoo's search because their own sucks and they know it. Even Ballmer has admitted that his own impatience caused Microsoft to fail in search. Yahoo is the next best technology to Google's.
So of course Google wanted to 'rescue' Yahoo from the jaws of Microsoft.
Never attribute to heroism what can be explained by simple self-interest.;)
To be honest, between Silverlight/Moonlight and Flash, Silverlight/Moonlight is obviously the superior technology. It's also, ironically, the more open of the two.
And we've known for a long, long time that Flash was junk. It's just that now that Microsoft has their own competing technology, all of a sudden we're like "What's wrong with Flash?"
Seriously. Just because you or I may not like Microsoft, you have to give props where props are due.
I think the point of looking for Earth-sized planets outside of our solar system is looking for the possibility of extraterrestrial life, not looking for a place to build our condos...
But we can do that on our own planet. In fact, just hang out here long enough. You're sure to find some.
Right. But Python already has introspection without GObject. I think that was part of the original poster's point. And GObject and GTK have had very stable and mature Python bindings for years.
So the question remains: What does JavaScript bring to the table that Python or Perl or Lua or Scheme or Ruby do not?
IMHO, nothing other than the fact there are probably a lot more JavaScript programmers than all of those other languages combined. Of course, in general, they tend to be lower quality programmers.
If you ask me, this whole thing reaks of another language *cough*VBScript*cough* that has been the root cause of multiple security vulnerabilities on another operating system platform. Mostly, in fact, due to the high percentage of low-quality programmers said platform brings to the table.
The Basic Unified Crew Compartment (BUnCC) reminds me of a big cubical-type enclosed bookshelf. Or something in Tokyo maybe.
Looks a bit cramped, but then with space being at a premium it's understandable why it's designed this way.
But can you imagine spending two weeks sleeping in one of these things? Now you have to imagine that a manned mission to mars will have people being cramped in a spacecraft MONTHS before they get there and I'd imagine they'd be spending far longer than two weeks given the cost of a manned mission to mars. (If it ever happens)
Note to the clueless: The above comment is entirely intended to make the point that encryption is not a substitute for wiping. If you can recover encrypted data with a key, so can someone who doesn't have the key given enough time, skill and determination. It's not just a theoretical possibility.
By showing myself to be sounding confident with an obviously wrong statement, I was parroting the parent.
For those of you in Rio Linda, nobody cares about you, or your data, unless you work for the government or military.
Ah. A dittohead.
The government or military might be interested in your data, especially if you are not government or military. Especially if you are suspected of something. Whether or not it's true.
Nice the dems are back in charge. Continuing on Gore's invention of the internet, Obama invented http://www.usaspending.gov/ [usaspending.gov]
Actually, Obama was one of the inventors of that site.
Welcome to USASpending.gov The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Transparency Act) requires a single searchable website, accessible by the public for free that includes for each Federal award
The bill was introduced by Senator Tom Coburn, for himself and Senators Barack Obama, Tom Carper and John McCain on April 6, 2006.[1] After two "secret holds" placed by Senators Ted Stevens, a Republican, and Robert Byrd, a Democrat were revealed and removed[4][5], it was passed unanimously in the Senate on September 7, 2006 and by the House on September 13, 2006. The bill was signed into law by President George W. Bush on September 26, 2006.[6]
Note that this bill is a bi-partisan initiative: Coburn-R, Obama-D, Carper-D and McCain-R introduced this bill.
I'm not surprised. Anyone who has followed Samba's development as religiously as I have knows that Active Directory was always not fully documented and has always been a moving target. Samba 4 has been in development a very long time -- I remember hearing about "Samba TNG" (what they used to call it) years ago.
Slowly but surely they added Active Directory client integration and server development happened in parallel.
What will surprise you is how stable Samba 4 is right now. Even the alphas were stable enough that some people have been using them in production a while.
LDAP is only a pain in the ass when you first set it up. Once you get it going, it's far easier than alternatives such as NIS/NIS+. Note that AD is LDAP-based.
A wise directory architect/administrator will plan his schema out carefully first, taking into account all of the possible current and future requirements, including replication and high-availability requirements in addition to the data elements themselves. Only then, after he has buy-in from both management and the user-base, will he begin to implement.
Slashdot Mirror
How are you on Slashdot? Android?
Dude, I can post on Slashdot even from my fairly low-end LG LX-260 (Rumor) on Sprint. You don't need Android, iPhone or other smartphone to do that.
Most business decisions aren't based on the decisions of one person. There are exceptions, to be sure, but most business decisions are based on rational conclusions drawn by a company's panel of experts in the area the decision is made by.
No doubt. But keeping Yahoo alive and independent of Microsoft was and still is in Google's best interests, whether you call it a 'rescuing' or not. Microsoft wants Yahoo's search because their own sucks and they know it. Even Ballmer has admitted that his own impatience caused Microsoft to fail in search. Yahoo is the next best technology to Google's.
So of course Google wanted to 'rescue' Yahoo from the jaws of Microsoft.
Never attribute to heroism what can be explained by simple self-interest. ;)
Oh, sure. Just go ahead and ruin all of our Belkin-bashing fun with your "logic" and "reason"! Pffft! :-P
Hey! What's that green paper you just stuck in your pocket!
To be honest, between Silverlight/Moonlight and Flash, Silverlight/Moonlight is obviously the superior technology. It's also, ironically, the more open of the two.
And we've known for a long, long time that Flash was junk. It's just that now that Microsoft has their own competing technology, all of a sudden we're like "What's wrong with Flash?"
Seriously. Just because you or I may not like Microsoft, you have to give props where props are due.
It's like how Microsoft doesn't participate in anticompetitve behavior.
I think the point of looking for Earth-sized planets outside of our solar system is looking for the possibility of extraterrestrial life, not looking for a place to build our condos...
But we can do that on our own planet. In fact, just hang out here long enough. You're sure to find some.
Right. But Python already has introspection without GObject. I think that was part of the original poster's point. And GObject and GTK have had very stable and mature Python bindings for years.
So the question remains: What does JavaScript bring to the table that Python or Perl or Lua or Scheme or Ruby do not?
IMHO, nothing other than the fact there are probably a lot more JavaScript programmers than all of those other languages combined. Of course, in general, they tend to be lower quality programmers.
If you ask me, this whole thing reaks of another language *cough*VBScript*cough* that has been the root cause of multiple security vulnerabilities on another operating system platform. Mostly, in fact, due to the high percentage of low-quality programmers said platform brings to the table.
There is no browser, only XUL.
Correct. In other words, this has already existed for years. Most of Firefox's user interface is written in XUL (read: JavaScript + XML)
Downright inhospitable, in fact, which is -- I think -- the word you were looking for.
As the inevitable cuts came, who do you think hung on to their job?
The cute receptionist?
Only if she puts out.
Of course if the cops happen to notice that you are stalking and killing drug dealers, you'll get quite a bit more than community service.
The Basic Unified Crew Compartment (BUnCC) reminds me of a big cubical-type enclosed bookshelf. Or something in Tokyo maybe.
Looks a bit cramped, but then with space being at a premium it's understandable why it's designed this way.
But can you imagine spending two weeks sleeping in one of these things? Now you have to imagine that a manned mission to mars will have people being cramped in a spacecraft MONTHS before they get there and I'd imagine they'd be spending far longer than two weeks given the cost of a manned mission to mars. (If it ever happens)
Note to the clueless: The above comment is entirely intended to make the point that encryption is not a substitute for wiping. If you can recover encrypted data with a key, so can someone who doesn't have the key given enough time, skill and determination. It's not just a theoretical possibility.
By showing myself to be sounding confident with an obviously wrong statement, I was parroting the parent.
For those of you in Rio Linda, nobody cares about you, or your data, unless you work for the government or military.
Ah. A dittohead.
The government or military might be interested in your data, especially if you are not government or military. Especially if you are suspected of something. Whether or not it's true.
Yep. They'll never get my data. It's all encrypted with the superior ROT13 encryption method. Twice just to be sure.
Nice the dems are back in charge. Continuing on Gore's invention of the internet, Obama invented http://www.usaspending.gov/ [usaspending.gov]
Actually, Obama was one of the inventors of that site.
Welcome to USASpending.gov
The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Transparency Act) requires a single searchable website, accessible by the public for free that includes for each Federal award
If we look a the Wikipedia article for that Act:
The bill was introduced by Senator Tom Coburn, for himself and Senators Barack Obama, Tom Carper and John McCain on April 6, 2006.[1] After two "secret holds" placed by Senators Ted Stevens, a Republican, and Robert Byrd, a Democrat were revealed and removed[4][5], it was passed unanimously in the Senate on September 7, 2006 and by the House on September 13, 2006. The bill was signed into law by President George W. Bush on September 26, 2006.[6]
Note that this bill is a bi-partisan initiative: Coburn-R, Obama-D, Carper-D and McCain-R introduced this bill.
I'm not surprised. Anyone who has followed Samba's development as religiously as I have knows that Active Directory was always not fully documented and has always been a moving target. Samba 4 has been in development a very long time -- I remember hearing about "Samba TNG" (what they used to call it) years ago.
Slowly but surely they added Active Directory client integration and server development happened in parallel.
What will surprise you is how stable Samba 4 is right now. Even the alphas were stable enough that some people have been using them in production a while.
So, where does one hire precognitive directory architects?
Obviously, someone who knew what they were doing would be able to anticipate future growth and demand for the system.
You're the one who thinks you know what you're talking about when you, in fact, couldn't buy a clue given enough money and 10 possible clue vendors.
Have you ever heard of a business plan? Have you ever heard of a departmental plan? Do you understand anything about business or IT?
Because I have a degree in both and enough experience to match. You, OTOH, obviously have nothing better to do than to be my personal troll.
Now go shoot yourself.
Now we just need to make some atomic-scale chickens...
LDAP is only a pain in the ass when you first set it up. Once you get it going, it's far easier than alternatives such as NIS/NIS+. Note that AD is LDAP-based.
A wise directory architect/administrator will plan his schema out carefully first, taking into account all of the possible current and future requirements, including replication and high-availability requirements in addition to the data elements themselves. Only then, after he has buy-in from both management and the user-base, will he begin to implement.
I speak from personal experience.
Red Hat offers 24x7 support for Red Hat Enterprise Directory. I'm pretty sure Novell has a similar product for SuSE that they offer 24x7 support on.
It's not like your only choice for 24x7 support is Microsoft.
Real programmers don't make backups. They post their code on the Net and let the world mirror it.
-- Linus Torvalds (paraphrased)
Yeah....well, that's great, except that Belkin doesn't make enterprise hardware and their stuff really doesn't even qualify for SOHO, let alone SMB.
The last mid-sized company I worked for bought Cisco.