It's a difficult problem, isn't it - although we would all like to see unbiased accounts of history, they never happen - history of conflict tends to be recorded by the "victors", or in peacetime by the most technologically developed nations - and usually with a view to selling the material to a media agent.
It's a shame in a way - that when we read the news on the internet, we still have to read several versions of it to get anything like a balanced account.
How the hell is the US national archives the "history of the world"?
It's exactly what it says it is - the "US National Archives" - i.e. the US version of video recorded history, given whatever slant the news networks of the day were putting on things.
I'm not anti-American (I have American family), but I WISH the US would remember that they are ONE country in a VERY big world.
I'm big enough and ugly enough to look after myself:)
My blog script isn't really "my pride and joy" - it's just some code I knocked together for myself that I now let other people have copies of. It hopefully shows them how a pro puts scripts together, and shows them some nice (easily managed) ways of doing things.
My CMS code is quite a bit more clever than the blog code. but that's another story...
Having written a blog engine myself using PHP and MySQL and given it away as open source, I'm wondering what he calls "robust code" too... I'm a professional developer in the daytime, and no book code I have ever seen has been good enough for other people to pick up easily (not enough conventions etc).
If you're interested in my project by the way, head on over to the PluggedOut Blog project.
Any of us who work in the commercial sector will know that this guy only has himself to blame, and good on Apple for acting quickly.
OSX is commercial software. He signed a NDA. He broke the terms of the agreement. End of story!
I used to run a website (ThoughtCafe) for writers where they could give feedback on each others work. I had to close it down in the end because a small minority wrecked it for everybody.
It seems most "community" websites suffer from the same issue - the possiblity of one "rogue" person to pose as several personalities within the website - basically in order to start an argument with themselves in order to draw others in, and then feed the argument.
We never found an adequate defence against it.
You are very wrong in your approach to content management.
Any CMS system worth its salt will allow page caching of static pages (meaning it writes the statis pages to files, and just streams the pre-built stuff).
It's open source - but open source does not mean free. Commercial use requires a license.
I chose that route because it's totally unrealistic for a single guy (with a development day job) to market, sell, install and support anything in a corporate setting on his own. With a systems integrator doing that for you, all you need to do is concentrate on the core product.
I'm not saying that's an idealogically good way to do things, but it's the best understanding I could get out of the commercial people for them to take up the CMS system...
The main reasons for me writing my own content management system were;
a) nothing available was powerful enough
b) nothing available was extendable enough
c) nothing available had a good enough interface
By "nothing available", I mean nothing for less than the likes of Gauss, or IXOS - which OpenText bought a little while back, and are busy trying to integrate with Livelink...
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Guilty as charged - I realised that after posting, and thought seriously about posting a follow-up revising the statement.
It's a difficult problem, isn't it - although we would all like to see unbiased accounts of history, they never happen - history of conflict tends to be recorded by the "victors", or in peacetime by the most technologically developed nations - and usually with a view to selling the material to a media agent.
It's a shame in a way - that when we read the news on the internet, we still have to read several versions of it to get anything like a balanced account.
How the hell is the US national archives the "history of the world"?
It's exactly what it says it is - the "US National Archives" - i.e. the US version of video recorded history, given whatever slant the news networks of the day were putting on things.
I'm not anti-American (I have American family), but I WISH the US would remember that they are ONE country in a VERY big world.
Does this mean the DTI is going to try and confiscate all boxed copies of Linux for sale in the UK?
I'm big enough and ugly enough to look after myself :)
My blog script isn't really "my pride and joy" - it's just some code I knocked together for myself that I now let other people have copies of. It hopefully shows them how a pro puts scripts together, and shows them some nice (easily managed) ways of doing things.
My CMS code is quite a bit more clever than the blog code. but that's another story...
Having written a blog engine myself using PHP and MySQL and given it away as open source, I'm wondering what he calls "robust code" too... I'm a professional developer in the daytime, and no book code I have ever seen has been good enough for other people to pick up easily (not enough conventions etc).
If you're interested in my project by the way, head on over to the PluggedOut Blog project.
Everybody said this is what would happen if any countries allowed software patents, and here we go - the US is off and running...
Don't you mean "Discovererizer" ?
Any of us who work in the commercial sector will know that this guy only has himself to blame, and good on Apple for acting quickly. OSX is commercial software. He signed a NDA. He broke the terms of the agreement. End of story!
Why is Arnold Schwarzenegger, an Austrian, born in Austria, who has made movies in America the governor of California?
Why does everybody refer to the platform as "Linux", when that is only the kernel?
I used to run a website (ThoughtCafe) for writers where they could give feedback on each others work. I had to close it down in the end because a small minority wrecked it for everybody. It seems most "community" websites suffer from the same issue - the possiblity of one "rogue" person to pose as several personalities within the website - basically in order to start an argument with themselves in order to draw others in, and then feed the argument. We never found an adequate defence against it.
You are very wrong in your approach to content management. Any CMS system worth its salt will allow page caching of static pages (meaning it writes the statis pages to files, and just streams the pre-built stuff).
It's open source - but open source does not mean free. Commercial use requires a license.
I chose that route because it's totally unrealistic for a single guy (with a development day job) to market, sell, install and support anything in a corporate setting on his own. With a systems integrator doing that for you, all you need to do is concentrate on the core product.
I'm not saying that's an idealogically good way to do things, but it's the best understanding I could get out of the commercial people for them to take up the CMS system...
The main reasons for me writing my own content management system were; a) nothing available was powerful enough b) nothing available was extendable enough c) nothing available had a good enough interface By "nothing available", I mean nothing for less than the likes of Gauss, or IXOS - which OpenText bought a little while back, and are busy trying to integrate with Livelink...