The first post in the thread is not a troll, but the post I am responding to is. I hope future moderators study the subtle difference between the two posts carefully.
I only want the first movie in the series, which in my opinion is much greater than all the others.
I guess I'll just have to download it off Kazaa, just like I downloaded that one Madonna song I sort of liked (but thought the album was not worth looking at twice.)
Having just returned from a focus group where a bunch of VP level types thought that Paladium was something they'd be willing to pay $500 bucks a box for.
Why is it that this one clearly stupid slip of the tongue has become a major character flaw in what is clearly a man with above average inteligence (even if you think his ideas are wrong this must be admitted), while all the inane verbal blunders our current prez says seem to be classified as a quirky endearment?
Is this just a VP thing? Remember the Dan Quayle potato - potatoe thing!
Personally I couldn't care less about Gore (and even less about Qualye) but I am just concerned that our inability to let go of things like this will just cause our politians to become even more carefully coordinated and remote. If someone fears that any stupid, misspoken utterance is going to have such a price, then the result is that will be less candid, more rehersed and less available.
Why can't we just drop stupid things like this? I mean, I am sure Dan Qualye has the spell checker turned on when he writes, and I really doubt that even Gore thinks he really invented the internet.
Just a thought... Am I wrong? I'm sure you will tell me if I am!
"Note: I've been unable to substantiate this - which are fairly incendiary claims. Further updates as more is heard."
Gee, I'd think you'd want to substantiate this BEFORE publishing it live to millions of viewers. Not only is it irresponsible, it is potentially actionable. What if this is not true and SCO sues Slashdot for publishing this? Any real lawyers out their know what could or could not happen?
It's the part about being able to control the software on my PC. It's about being able to modify the code or make bug fixes that are important to me. It's also about being able to install the code on my computer and not have it running all sorts of process in the background, or tracking my online behavior or whatever.
Next time you buy proprietary software just ask yourself the question: Would I buy a car with a hood welded shut? How would you feel if there was a law that prevented you from changing your own oil, or if there were no independent mechanics, or if you could not learn about how cars work in school because all the textbooks were copyrighted and had controled distribution.
Aren't Scriptlets IE only? Do they work on Communicator? Are they an open standard? I remembere hearing something about these a few years ago but I don't recall...
I won't bother to elaborate on what several others have already mentioned, that this is a poorly edited stored pasted together from AMD press releases. The total kicker on this is the very last 'next' link takes you to a pages to buy some AMD Athlon chips!
The boundry between news and advertisement gets more porous each year...
I just attended a private focus group on this subject. All the attendees were Director level IT folk who are constantly hassled by security problems. Some of them came from a management background and some from a technical background. Almost all of them thought this would be a good idea. In fact they thought it was such a good idea that they would be willing to pay $25 to $400 more per server or desktop just for the chance to have this technology.
I think this shows just how far along this idea has gone. None of these people in the room cared a wit about privacy, open source, the ability to compile your own apps, etc. because the vast majority of people don't do even know what they could be missing. All they care about is a golden pill to solve all there security problems.
So we shouldn't all be thinking that somehow this idea will be MS shooting themselves in the foot. That won't happen unless we get the word out.
XML should not be a database replacement.
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Perl & XML
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· Score: 3, Insightful
I use XML as the interchange format for a web publishing system which publishes our internet web site (http://www.bms.com), but the data is actually stored in an oracle database. I have a perl object which handles all the fuss of getting/putting xml into the database.
As an interchange format XML is ideal; think of it comma separated files on steroids. When all your data can be serialized to XML you get the following benefits:
1. XML has rich data structures for complex info. 2. XML can be self describing. 3. XML is 100% portable.
Like HTML, people will discover uses for your XML files that you never thought of. Also, if you lose all the docs, you can read the XML in a standard text or unicode editor and figure it out. This is even better than comma separated, since most CSV files don't bother to include a first row field discription.
Like CVS, you can parse XML files with standard command line tools like grep. And in 100 years, all those Oracle tablespaces will require a lot of reverse engineering to get the data off it, while your text based xml files will still be parsable.
I agree though, with the general notion of the parent. Definitely don't do XML because it sounds cool. Use the best process for the job, and for many data related jobs, relational tables and SQL are best.
One thing you can do to improve speed; serialize your DOM objects using the Perl Storable module, and save along with your plain text versions. Then when you need to access the data, all you need to do is unserialize the object, which is a lot faster than reparsing.
...get modded up high enough to be submitted? You'd think, here is a chance to ask some great technical question to a member of one of the coolest tech oriented web companies and all we can think about is female body parts.
Get a life, or if not fufill your addiction at a site that caters to your needs, i.e. www.hustler.com or something like that. Or you could go back to pouring hot grits down your pants and looking at petrified statues of natalie portman:)
Makes me sorry I was away that week on vacation and didn't have a chance to vote up a real question.
IBM Eclipse Project
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Extensible IDEs?
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· Score: 5, Informative
at www.eclipse.org has a extensible IDE, with a plugin toolkit. Out of the box it supports Java, and I think there is a late beta C++ plugin. I remember someone was working on a Perl plugin as well, but I'm not sure where that project went.
I has everything you would expect for a Java IDE right out of the box.
Supposedly IBM is going to put the Eclipse IDE at the center of their apache based application server, so expect to see JSP, J2EE, etc highlighted for this app.
Download is free, but you need a Java interpreter. This app is written in Java but uses a native widget toolkit to speed up the GUI. On my Pentuim III 600 The speed is more than enough to get my work done.
BTW, this editor has got the have the best diff+history system I have ever seen. You can diff the current version against snapshots, based on the undo buffer, I think, or diff any two snapshots against each other.
They also have a plug in developer kit and samples, but I don't have any experience with it.
I was prescribed the drug by my doctor because a different medication I was on made me very sleepy in the morning. I was so tired it was affecting my ability to get up and go to work. When I was on Provigal I did notice some minor improvements; more alertness in the morning being the #1 effect. The effect was very minor, almost indetectable. I didn't feel wired or anything like what you get from coffee, and there was no 'crash' later in the day.
I stopped taking it because I thought it was causing me to feel very sick to my stomach, but of course that might have just been because I live in downtown NYC and this was in October.
Generally this is a drug taken by people with serious sleeping problems, like people that fall asleep while driving all the time, etc. It is also thought to have some affect on depression, although the mechanism by which it accomplishes that is unknown. It might just be that getting a good start on the day helps depressed people!
Since this drug is not a traditional stimulant, such as caffeine, or cocaine, it can affect people in very different ways. It's more like Prozac, which seemed to help some people a lot, while others were not helped at all.
And didn't they nearly all die? I remember the inhabitants of this world all walked around with inhalers or something to help them breath? In the end, only the miracle of that Q girl saved them all.
Something like that, anyway.
BTW, notice this comes from the DOE, which is a government ageny run by President Oilman Bush, so it's no surprise they are coming up with this far out pseudo science to distract us from demanding a real enviromental policy. Think about it.
Activestate (www.activestate.com) is working on this. They actually have the python bindings out in beta form, but I don't knoe what happened to the perl bindings. They actually use the the python bindings to build their IDE, called 'Komodo', which is built on top of Mozilla, and I think uses Scintilla for text processing.
foreach my $array_item (@$array_list)
{
print "New Row! \n";
while( my ($key, $value) = each %$array_item )
{
print " Key: $key, Value: $value \n";
}
}
Both give the following:
New Row!
Key: ccc, Value: 333
Key: bbb, Value: 222
Key: aaa, Value: 111
New Row!
Key: ccc, Value: 333
Key: bbb, Value: 222
Key: aaa, Value: 111
New Row!
Key: ccc, Value: 333
Key: bbb, Value: 222
Key: aaa, Value: 111
New Row!
Key: ccc, Value: 333
Key: bbb, Value: 222
Key: aaa, Value: 111
I can think of several other ways to handle this, although I seldom need to write out code to parse though complex structures, since I can use data::dumper.
Of course, adding some documenation is always good for clarity.
Not that I have a problem with the python way. Looks cool to me. But I don't understand how it's really more self documenting than perl.
In question 9, the author makes an analogy which might not be true. He states that in the past, the web was non commercial, and that people were afraid that allowing commercial traffic would ruin it. In 1991 the US congress decided (for the world) that the Internet should become commercialized. The author feels this turned out positively. In the same way web standards today are public and non commercial as the web was in the 1980s. Therefore (according to the author) commercialization of web standards will also turn out good.
The analogy fails because there is a big difference between infrastructure and the costs involved in setting up the web and creating ISP, etc and web standards, which has relatively little cost, with the exception of the time for the people involved and the overhead of administering the standards body. You don't need to turn a profit to create standards, because creating standards is cheap in comparison to running a large ISP, or developing software to impliment standards.
You could say that the web infrastructure is like the rail system. Setup cost is high, so the goverment pays to get it going (or gives cheap loans to biz, but once a certain critical mass is achieved, you can turn the system over to private enterprise, who them provide services everyone benefits from.
You have to wonder though, is the web REALLY better for the 1991 decision? Would it have been better if the web had been setup with a universal national ISP, and goverment funding for people to come up with new interesting ideas? Instead what we have is a pop oriented web, mostly controlled by the people who controlled TV, Radio, Cable, etc, with an increasingly tiny fringe (slashdot for example). How long will that fringe last? Will Slashdot be here in a year?
I'm all for the goverment staying out of private matters, but sometimes Lazarre faire goes to far.
If this case is concluded first, and positively for the EFF, that would give extra ammo to the Dmitry Skylov case. Also, the Feldon case could lead to a Supreme Court review of the DMCA, which could either limit or overthrow the law, sending the Russian Programmer home.
No doubt the goverment would rather focus on Skylov, since they have a stronger case. The Feldon case has much more popular sympathy, since its a professor of a well known school. It's hard trying to convince the public of Dmitry's innocence, since all they see is a Russian hacker who broke the law.
Slashdot Mirror
The world really needed another proprietary, patented, owned by one company 'standard'. I hope they integrate this into every TV in the future.
The first post in the thread is not a troll, but the post I am responding to is. I hope future moderators study the subtle difference between the two posts carefully.
I only want the first movie in the series, which in my opinion is much greater than all the others.
I guess I'll just have to download it off Kazaa, just like I downloaded that one Madonna song I sort of liked (but thought the album was not worth looking at twice.)
I believed it for a few seconds.
Having just returned from a focus group where a bunch of VP level types thought that Paladium was something they'd be willing to pay $500 bucks a box for.
Just curious about peoples thoughts...
Why is it that this one clearly stupid slip of the tongue has become a major character flaw in what is clearly a man with above average inteligence (even if you think his ideas are wrong this must be admitted), while all the inane verbal blunders our current prez says seem to be classified as a quirky endearment?
Is this just a VP thing? Remember the Dan Quayle potato - potatoe thing!
Personally I couldn't care less about Gore (and even less about Qualye) but I am just concerned that our inability to let go of things like this will just cause our politians to become even more carefully coordinated and remote. If someone fears that any stupid, misspoken utterance is going to have such a price, then the result is that will be less candid, more rehersed and less available.
Why can't we just drop stupid things like this? I mean, I am sure Dan Qualye has the spell checker turned on when he writes, and I really doubt that even Gore thinks he really invented the internet.
Just a thought... Am I wrong? I'm sure you will tell me if I am!
"Note: I've been unable to substantiate this - which are fairly incendiary claims. Further updates as more is heard."
Gee, I'd think you'd want to substantiate this BEFORE publishing it live to millions of viewers. Not only is it irresponsible, it is potentially actionable. What if this is not true and SCO sues Slashdot for publishing this? Any real lawyers out their know what could or could not happen?
It's the part about being able to control the software on my PC. It's about being able to modify the code or make bug fixes that are important to me. It's also about being able to install the code on my computer and not have it running all sorts of process in the background, or tracking my online behavior or whatever.
Next time you buy proprietary software just ask yourself the question: Would I buy a car with a hood welded shut? How would you feel if there was a law that prevented you from changing your own oil, or if there were no independent mechanics, or if you could not learn about how cars work in school because all the textbooks were copyrighted and had controled distribution.
Aren't Scriptlets IE only? Do they work on Communicator? Are they an open standard? I remembere hearing something about these a few years ago but I don't recall...
I won't bother to elaborate on what several others have already mentioned, that this is a poorly edited stored pasted together from AMD press releases. The total kicker on this is the very last 'next' link takes you to a pages to buy some AMD Athlon chips!
The boundry between news and advertisement gets more porous each year...
I just attended a private focus group on this subject. All the attendees were Director level IT folk who are constantly hassled by security problems. Some of them came from a management background and some from a technical background. Almost all of them thought this would be a good idea. In fact they thought it was such a good idea that they would be willing to pay $25 to $400 more per server or desktop just for the chance to have this technology.
I think this shows just how far along this idea has gone. None of these people in the room cared a wit about privacy, open source, the ability to compile your own apps, etc. because the vast majority of people don't do even know what they could be missing. All they care about is a golden pill to solve all there security problems.
So we shouldn't all be thinking that somehow this idea will be MS shooting themselves in the foot. That won't happen unless we get the word out.
I use XML as the interchange format for a web publishing system which publishes our internet web site (http://www.bms.com), but the data is actually stored in an oracle database. I have a perl object which handles all the fuss of getting/putting xml into the database.
As an interchange format XML is ideal; think of it comma separated files on steroids. When all your data can be serialized to XML you get the following benefits:
1. XML has rich data structures for complex info.
2. XML can be self describing.
3. XML is 100% portable.
Like HTML, people will discover uses for your XML files that you never thought of. Also, if you lose all the docs, you can read the XML in a standard text or unicode editor and figure it out. This is even better than comma separated, since most CSV files don't bother to include a first row field discription.
Like CVS, you can parse XML files with standard command line tools like grep. And in 100 years, all those Oracle tablespaces will require a lot of reverse engineering to get the data off it, while your text based xml files will still be parsable.
I agree though, with the general notion of the parent. Definitely don't do XML because it sounds cool. Use the best process for the job, and for many data related jobs, relational tables and SQL are best.
One thing you can do to improve speed; serialize your DOM objects using the Perl Storable module, and save along with your plain text versions. Then when you need to access the data, all you need to do is unserialize the object, which is a lot faster than reparsing.
If your definition of 'liking' girls is so infantile you might just discover real quality women don't like you very much at all...
...get modded up high enough to be submitted? You'd think, here is a chance to ask some great technical question to a member of one of the coolest tech oriented web companies and all we can think about is female body parts.
:)
Get a life, or if not fufill your addiction at a site that caters to your needs, i.e. www.hustler.com or something like that. Or you could go back to pouring hot grits down your pants and looking at petrified statues of natalie portman
Makes me sorry I was away that week on vacation and didn't have a chance to vote up a real question.
at www.eclipse.org has a extensible IDE, with a plugin toolkit. Out of the box it supports Java, and I think there is a late beta C++ plugin. I remember someone was working on a Perl plugin as well, but I'm not sure where that project went.
I has everything you would expect for a Java IDE right out of the box.
Supposedly IBM is going to put the Eclipse IDE at the center of their apache based application server, so expect to see JSP, J2EE, etc highlighted for this app.
Download is free, but you need a Java interpreter. This app is written in Java but uses a native widget toolkit to speed up the GUI. On my Pentuim III 600 The speed is more than enough to get my work done.
BTW, this editor has got the have the best diff+history system I have ever seen. You can diff the current version against snapshots, based on the undo buffer, I think, or diff any two snapshots against each other.
They also have a plug in developer kit and samples, but I don't have any experience with it.
Hope this helps!
Like they did in December 2000, huh?
I was prescribed the drug by my doctor because a different medication I was on made me very sleepy in the morning. I was so tired it was affecting my ability to get up and go to work. When I was on Provigal I did notice some minor improvements; more alertness in the morning being the #1 effect. The effect was very minor, almost indetectable. I didn't feel wired or anything like what you get from coffee, and there was no 'crash' later in the day.
I stopped taking it because I thought it was causing me to feel very sick to my stomach, but of course that might have just been because I live in downtown NYC and this was in October.
Generally this is a drug taken by people with serious sleeping problems, like people that fall asleep while driving all the time, etc. It is also thought to have some affect on depression, although the mechanism by which it accomplishes that is unknown. It might just be that getting a good start on the day helps depressed people!
Since this drug is not a traditional stimulant, such as caffeine, or cocaine, it can affect people in very different ways. It's more like Prozac, which seemed to help some people a lot, while others were not helped at all.
No surprise this article came out of a government agency run by the man responsible for pulling the US out of the Kyoto treaty.
And didn't they nearly all die? I remember the inhabitants of this world all walked around with inhalers or something to help them breath? In the end, only the miracle of that Q girl saved them all.
Something like that, anyway.
BTW, notice this comes from the DOE, which is a government ageny run by President Oilman Bush, so it's no surprise they are coming up with this far out pseudo science to distract us from demanding a real enviromental policy. Think about it.
Why was this modded a troll? Just because you disagree politically with the issue doesn't make it unreasonable to ask.
A little less knee jerk, immature reactions are what is called for here.
Activestate (www.activestate.com) is working on this. They actually have the python bindings out in beta form, but I don't knoe what happened to the perl bindings. They actually use the the python bindings to build their IDE, called 'Komodo', which is built on top of Mozilla, and I think uses Scintilla for text processing.
1. Stupid, drunken frat boy disease
2. Rich boy syndrome
3. Norm Malaise
When will we have pills for intolerance and bullying?
Well, if you don't like the O'Reilly Example, there are several other ways to do this. Maybe you think the following is more clear?
Try
##>>> Build an Array of Hashes...
our @array_list = (
{ aaa => 111, bbb => 222, ccc => 333},
{ aaa => 111, bbb => 222, ccc => 333},
{ aaa => 111, bbb => 222, ccc => 333},
{ aaa => 111, bbb => 222, ccc => 333},
);
##>>> Loop d' loop...
foreach my $array_item (@array_list)
{
print "New Row! \n";
while( my ($key, $value) = each %$array_item )
{
print " Key: $key, Value: $value \n";
}
}
if the variable @array was a scalar ref this would be basically the same:
our $array_list = [
{ aaa => 111, bbb => 222, ccc => 333},
{ aaa => 111, bbb => 222, ccc => 333},
{ aaa => 111, bbb => 222, ccc => 333},
{ aaa => 111, bbb => 222, ccc => 333},
];
foreach my $array_item (@$array_list)
{
print "New Row! \n";
while( my ($key, $value) = each %$array_item )
{
print " Key: $key, Value: $value \n";
}
}
Both give the following:
New Row!
Key: ccc, Value: 333
Key: bbb, Value: 222
Key: aaa, Value: 111
New Row!
Key: ccc, Value: 333
Key: bbb, Value: 222
Key: aaa, Value: 111
New Row!
Key: ccc, Value: 333
Key: bbb, Value: 222
Key: aaa, Value: 111
New Row!
Key: ccc, Value: 333
Key: bbb, Value: 222
Key: aaa, Value: 111
I can think of several other ways to handle this, although I seldom need to write out code to parse though complex structures, since I can use data::dumper.
Of course, adding some documenation is always good for clarity.
Not that I have a problem with the python way. Looks cool to me. But I don't understand how it's really more self documenting than perl.
Peace.
In question 9, the author makes an analogy which might not be true. He states that in the past, the web was non commercial, and that people were afraid that allowing commercial traffic would ruin it. In 1991 the US congress decided (for the world) that the Internet should become commercialized. The author feels this turned out positively. In the same way web standards today are public and non commercial as the web was in the 1980s. Therefore (according to the author) commercialization of web standards will also turn out good.
The analogy fails because there is a big difference between infrastructure and the costs involved in setting up the web and creating ISP, etc and web standards, which has relatively little cost, with the exception of the time for the people involved and the overhead of administering the standards body. You don't need to turn a profit to create standards, because creating standards is cheap in comparison to running a large ISP, or developing software to impliment standards.
You could say that the web infrastructure is like the rail system. Setup cost is high, so the goverment pays to get it going (or gives cheap loans to biz, but once a certain critical mass is achieved, you can turn the system over to private enterprise, who them provide services everyone benefits from.
You have to wonder though, is the web REALLY better for the 1991 decision? Would it have been better if the web had been setup with a universal national ISP, and goverment funding for people to come up with new interesting ideas? Instead what we have is a pop oriented web, mostly controlled by the people who controlled TV, Radio, Cable, etc, with an increasingly tiny fringe (slashdot for example). How long will that fringe last? Will Slashdot be here in a year?
I'm all for the goverment staying out of private matters, but sometimes Lazarre faire goes to far.
Reagan shelled the place after a suicide bomber drove a truck into a Marine barracks, killing something like 200 soldiers.
Then we left and less than 20 years later a bunch of suicide terrorist kill thousands in NYC, so we bomb Afganistan.
We'll probably leave again.
If this case is concluded first, and positively for the EFF, that would give extra ammo to the Dmitry Skylov case. Also, the Feldon case could lead to a Supreme Court review of the DMCA, which could either limit or overthrow the law, sending the Russian Programmer home.
No doubt the goverment would rather focus on Skylov, since they have a stronger case. The Feldon case has much more popular sympathy, since its a professor of a well known school. It's hard trying to convince the public of Dmitry's innocence, since all they see is a Russian hacker who broke the law.