If she were a *Detective*, maybe I'd expect her to be more interested in helping the police.
I understand what you're saying, but is it too much to ask that our police be interested in protecting our rights? Our system isn't supposed to be adversarial to the point where the police and prosecutors are allowed to get as bent and dirty as the defense team.
Maybe Adobe Acrobat needs a new menu item: Edit->Redact Then you only have to train people to use that feature rather than the backgound-color feature.
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Subsetting must hurt compatibility though - different vendors will implement different "10%"s of the features.
No, the ORB vendors should provide all of the spec'ed functionality. And to be fair, they tend to do a very good job at this completeness. As a programmer who uses CORBA (omniORB, ACE+TAO, and VisiBroker), I only *use* 10% of the features. I never use: POA interceptors, POA policies (hardly at all), Trading Service, AVService, etc.
There are a few features that are almost never implemented by the ORB vendors, such as the TypedEvent interfaces to the NotificationService. That is one of those stupid features that the domain specialists (e.g. IT people from the Healthcare industry) put into the spec, without knowing how difficult and inefficient it would be to implement and use. The ORB vendors responded by ignoring that feature (mostly out of necessity).
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Well one reason CORBA tools sucked was that it was over-engineered: intended to solve world hunger...
Your comment is similar to many of the other comments in this thread. You're right that the CORBA specifications are HUGE and overly complex. But here's one of the great things about CORBA: it can be easily 'subsetted'. I use CORBA every day. I use 10% of it's features, and it is beautiful. If you gave me an exam about the esoterica of CORBA, I would fail, but for the parts that my company uses, it's easy.
BTW, most of the huge CORBA spec that we ignore is stuff that isn't part of the SOAP spec anyway; SOAP isn't really comparable to CORBA, SOAP is comparable to IIOP (the most popular CORBA wire protocol). Saying that SOAP is better than CORBA because it's easier/simpler is kind of like saying that MS Works is better than MS Office because it's easier/simpler (no, that wasn't a great analogy, but at least it isn't an automotive analogy).
What about the other commercial vendors though? Don't they force "your guys" to do a great job? I mean the development efforts of MS have been driven by apple and google more then anything else.
Looking at Microsoft's core business, OS and Office, Google has intruded hardly at all and Apple has intruded into the OS business. To some extent, Apple's OS is based on an OSS flavor of BSD (someone feel free to provide a better explanation; I don't know much about OS X). If an OSS BSD wasn't available, would Apple have created their own from-scratch OS to replace MacOS9 and compete with Windows? Would it have been any good under the hood if it hadn't been *nix-based?
Sun is largely responsible for the availability of OpenOffice (thanks to their StarOffice acquisition and code-release). But even there, would Sun have bothered with StarOffice in the absence of an OSS option? I would wager that in terms of use, OpenOffice is wildly more successful than StarOffice, and that without OpenOffice, StarOffice would go nowhere. Sun's ability to say, "Look, here is a corporate-supported package based on OpenOffice." should give them a boost in sales.
Unfortunately, when satire becomes that subtle, it is just as dangerous as a serious site. Just look at Scientology. Total satire. Just look at the name! Yet today, the comedians have forgotten that they were joking.
...and using links to Wikipedia to prove their point
If you want to give a link to a Wikipedia article, and are worried that someone will change the content, then link to a specific revision of the article, not the article itself (which is changeable).
OTOH, why the hell would anyone link to Wikipedia to 'prove' anything??? Wikipedia is the first place I turn for info about a new topic, and I've had great success there, but 'proof'? Any politician who links to Wikipedia as proof of anything should be censured, impeached, tarred, and feathered.
And being agnostic I'm also surprised someone modded me flamebait... that is very telling.
New theory: regardless of your actual beliefs and abilities, if you make an idiotic statement, you will be modded like an idiot. We have one observed datapoint to support this theory. Keep 'em coming people.
you have the ability to vote, unless your [sic] a felon
Most states (in the U.S.) automatically restore voting rights after a felon has completed their sentence. Florida is an exception, and requires a request to a civil rights review board for a felon to get their voting rights restored.
Oops, the extra (real) 'e' in G4m3rs screws up a perfectly good (ok, mediocre) punch line. My 'l33t sp34k skills suck. Strangely, I'm not at all bothered by that.
This makes me wonder what future civilizations will think about all of these silicon squares (semiconductors) once we're gone. Jewelry?
Obviously pieces of some elaborate boardgame. One player would be 'Intel', the other would be 'AMD'. The rules are not known to us, but we presume that they bear some resemblance to checkers. This theory is supported by the Pacific-Northwest legends of a tribe called 'G4m3ers'.
On my workstation, I have an account called 'anon' just to visit dodgy websites and run dodgy software. There's nothing in/home/anon (I 'rm -Rf' the contents periodically to get rid of bookmarks, etc). Running Linux gets you 90% of the way to safe, a few simple practices facilitated by the tools built-in to Linux get you the rest of the way there. The same holds true for most non-Microsoft OSes.
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That's 'Corprato-Theocracy'. Even for the televangelists, the money comes first.
I understand what you're saying, but is it too much to ask that our police be interested in protecting our rights? Our system isn't supposed to be adversarial to the point where the police and prosecutors are allowed to get as bent and dirty as the defense team.
Maybe you weren't banned for tasteless jokes, but for posting jokes that were already considered stale in 1978.
Maybe Adobe Acrobat needs a new menu item: Edit->Redact Then you only have to train people to use that feature rather than the backgound-color feature.
Just because you're releasing the 12th printing of the 4th edition, does not make this a 'new book'.
These were probably rat stem cells, so who cares whether they were adult or embryonic?
So a gay pedophile likely "doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground".
(It's an American phrase saying that someone is very stupid. The phrase might only be common in the south-eastern US?)
It is not politically correct to refer to H1B workers as 'bots'. The term 'drones' is more popular, and barely acceptable.
New feature: The Blue Chainsaw of Death.
No, the ORB vendors should provide all of the spec'ed functionality. And to be fair, they tend to do a very good job at this completeness. As a programmer who uses CORBA (omniORB, ACE+TAO, and VisiBroker), I only *use* 10% of the features. I never use: POA interceptors, POA policies (hardly at all), Trading Service, AVService, etc.
There are a few features that are almost never implemented by the ORB vendors, such as the TypedEvent interfaces to the NotificationService. That is one of those stupid features that the domain specialists (e.g. IT people from the Healthcare industry) put into the spec, without knowing how difficult and inefficient it would be to implement and use. The ORB vendors responded by ignoring that feature (mostly out of necessity).
Your comment is similar to many of the other comments in this thread. You're right that the CORBA specifications are HUGE and overly complex. But here's one of the great things about CORBA: it can be easily 'subsetted'. I use CORBA every day. I use 10% of it's features, and it is beautiful. If you gave me an exam about the esoterica of CORBA, I would fail, but for the parts that my company uses, it's easy.
BTW, most of the huge CORBA spec that we ignore is stuff that isn't part of the SOAP spec anyway; SOAP isn't really comparable to CORBA, SOAP is comparable to IIOP (the most popular CORBA wire protocol). Saying that SOAP is better than CORBA because it's easier/simpler is kind of like saying that MS Works is better than MS Office because it's easier/simpler (no, that wasn't a great analogy, but at least it isn't an automotive analogy).
Looking at Microsoft's core business, OS and Office, Google has intruded hardly at all and Apple has intruded into the OS business. To some extent, Apple's OS is based on an OSS flavor of BSD (someone feel free to provide a better explanation; I don't know much about OS X). If an OSS BSD wasn't available, would Apple have created their own from-scratch OS to replace MacOS9 and compete with Windows? Would it have been any good under the hood if it hadn't been *nix-based?
Sun is largely responsible for the availability of OpenOffice (thanks to their StarOffice acquisition and code-release). But even there, would Sun have bothered with StarOffice in the absence of an OSS option? I would wager that in terms of use, OpenOffice is wildly more successful than StarOffice, and that without OpenOffice, StarOffice would go nowhere. Sun's ability to say, "Look, here is a corporate-supported package based on OpenOffice." should give them a boost in sales.
In this case: LTFA.
And we already have the phrase for this: "plugging the analog hole."
Please note that the scatalogical jokes have already been made and re-made for this phrase. Don't bother.
Unfortunately, when satire becomes that subtle, it is just as dangerous as a serious site. Just look at Scientology. Total satire. Just look at the name! Yet today, the comedians have forgotten that they were joking.
If you want to give a link to a Wikipedia article, and are worried that someone will change the content, then link to a specific revision of the article, not the article itself (which is changeable).
OTOH, why the hell would anyone link to Wikipedia to 'prove' anything??? Wikipedia is the first place I turn for info about a new topic, and I've had great success there, but 'proof'? Any politician who links to Wikipedia as proof of anything should be censured, impeached, tarred, and feathered.
Democracy sucks! It only offers representation to those who are willing to vote.
New theory: regardless of your actual beliefs and abilities, if you make an idiotic statement, you will be modded like an idiot. We have one observed datapoint to support this theory. Keep 'em coming people.
Most states (in the U.S.) automatically restore voting rights after a felon has completed their sentence. Florida is an exception, and requires a request to a civil rights review board for a felon to get their voting rights restored.
We're fscked.
Stop laughing foreigners. When I said 'we', that included 'you'.
Oops, the extra (real) 'e' in G4m3rs screws up a perfectly good (ok, mediocre) punch line. My 'l33t sp34k skills suck. Strangely, I'm not at all bothered by that.
Obviously pieces of some elaborate boardgame. One player would be 'Intel', the other would be 'AMD'. The rules are not known to us, but we presume that they bear some resemblance to checkers. This theory is supported by the Pacific-Northwest legends of a tribe called 'G4m3ers'.
Yeah. If Apple and Microsoft hadn't been founded by grizzled veterans, they wouldn't even exist today.
On my workstation, I have an account called 'anon' just to visit dodgy websites and run dodgy software. There's nothing in /home/anon (I 'rm -Rf' the contents periodically to get rid of bookmarks, etc). Running Linux gets you 90% of the way to safe, a few simple practices facilitated by the tools built-in to Linux get you the rest of the way there. The same holds true for most non-Microsoft OSes.
Using the word "literal" metaphorically is like using the word "truth" falsely or the word "intelligent" stupidly.