Our government decides not to enforce evil patent law, and you all still bitch and moan about it. That small company is trying to hurt national security with their intellictual property claims, probably terrorists they are, and our government steps in and saves the day.
Isn't this exactly what you've been screaming for with all these anti-patent stories!?!
Funny how they rejected this court case stating that going forward would provide more information on this patent to the public, thus causing a "national security" concern due to its secret use. Of course doing so causes it to be national news.. Yep good way to keep it secret.
They're protecting the project which the patented item is being used on, not the patent itself.
The connection between this record-breaking storm year and global warming remains controversial.
So we may hit a total that we hit in 1933. How is this evidence of a change or part of the global warming debate? Shouldn't we be seeing totals consistently higher than the past? Or is someone just trying to stir up a liberal/conservative debate?
What butthole did the democrats have there heads up when let this scam be part of the 2004 election?
Maybe they were just too busy digging up dead people. (thanks fark)
Seriously though, there is no outrage, because there was no disaster. The election wasn't close enough for people to blame it on the machines (well, the ones that do are just tossed in the conspiracy theorist bin). And as for a system with problems, well, every system has problems. To the general public computers are supposed to be buggy and insecure anyway, so this really isn't raising the concerns it should.
Really only gonna get fixed in one of 3 ways: 1) A visionary with some power gets behind the cause to fix the system 2) Someone sucessfully raises the 'terrorists can change our votes' alarm 3) Something really bad happend, and an election is directly affected by the flaws
Nothing like taking a reply to one question completely out of context.
Yeah, but the Slashdot editors know that the current presentation will generate more site traffic than showing the quote in context. Every bit as sleazy as any politician or used car salesman out there.
I just think we were all just sent on a wild goose chase. All the posts here are going off the assessment of someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. The Apache disclaimer is just a standard CYA statement.
The problem is that whoever is trying to install the system can't overcome the bad documentation.
Sounds like some bozo SA is having a hard time installing this thing and is just tossing crap to management. "Ummm, uhhh, it don't work cause Windows sucks"
I'll assume the documentation is crap, so where is the vendor who wrote the thing? They should be the ones making it work.
However, if the site only works in one specific browser then the coder didn't know what he or she was doing. It's likely that this incompetent person (or team) screwed up many other aspects of the system. Having an unreliable claims system front-ending aid for such a huge disaster is only going to cause more harm.
Stop and think about what you're saying. They could be using ColdFusion or ASP.NET (guess I should look at the site) which may be autogenerating the code of concern. Or they may have needed an IE only component they had available that was too expensive to rewrite.
You're using the argument that if they don't have the same concerns that you do, then they must be imcompetent. IE only support is a 95% solution, and the people who it doesn't work for can find an IE install if they really need to.
I'm not saying that standards compliance is not important, i'm just saying that this is a stupid thing to fall on your sword for. Look at the comments being posted. Slashbots are getting positive mods for calling this part of a government conspiracy. Totally insane.
just get a bunch of old machines and setup a linux terminal server, or put a live-CD in.
You mean the old machines which probably already have windows on them? You need to stop and think about the people available to set these networks up. People who can install windows are a dime a dozen. People who can setup a linux terminal server are not.
Great, the biggest natural disaster in this country's history, and you're encouraging people to waste their time with complaints about browser support issues that really won't affect anyone.
Way to show that this community has a handle on what is important right now.
It's not so much that development processes are coming and going, it's just that people are tailoring the processes around what works.
I've been seeing this agile stuff for almost 8 years, and that doesn't mean it wasn't around before that.
So, gather around boys and girls, here is how you write software (does not apply to stuff like mission critical embedded software)
1. Ask customer what they want 2. Build something 3. Show it to customer, and ask what they want changed
If you make that cycle short, have good engineers, reasonable customers, and competent management, you will rule the universe.
What happens is that projects often have stupid and/or lazy people involved, so there are tons of failed projects. So, awhile back, the academics get together and come up with this deal where you do this extravagent design/requirements process upfront. TEH SAVIOR!!!...managers rejoice...projects continue to fail...however, the projects with good people continue to prosper. So, what is wrong? oh, we need agile, iterative, incremental, eXtreme, [insert buzzword here] processes. TEH SAVIOR!!!...managers rejoice...projects continue to fail...however, the projects with good people continue to prosper. Things are a little better though, because the processes are closer to how good people do things.
It's insanse that you need to preface your (very insightful) opinion with that comment. Its really shows how biased and ignorant this community can be.
Why all the hating on management/HR and people who hold degrees/certifications? Jealousy? I think so. Grow up boys and girls. It's petty and just reinforces stereotypes of the crabby pompous geek.
It is very difficult for someone to evaluate technology experience if they have none themselves. Say that a company is expanding their capabilities and need an Oracle DBA. How can an HR person tell the capability difference between two people spitting out techno-babble. Someone walking in the door with a cert from Oracle is huge. It shows some sort of 3rd party verification of the candidate's skills. The person may still turn out to be a bozo, but they're a better bet than someone without the cert. If all other things are equal, the cert would and should push them over the edge
Also, some of the more difficult certs are like degrees in that they show that the candidate can make a long term committment to something. They dug through the crap instead of throwing up their hands and bitching that it's a waste of time.
Geek blogging is in decline. If you don't believe me, take a look at the Feedster 500 or Technorati 100 today and compare it to the Technorati Top 100 over the last few years. Take a look back in time to the top 10 in the Techorati Top 100 on November 26, 2002 and you'll see the generation of founding geek bloggers dominating the list: Doc Searls, Dave Winer...fast forward a year and things have started to change.
So, for geek tools, geeks usually get there first. Since, umm, they are the ones to create the tools. So since 100% of the users are geeks, then the top 10 lists will be dominated by geeks. So when it spreads into the non geek world, where there are more non geeks than geeks, hence 'non geek world', some percentage of the users will be non geeks. Non geeks will be more interested in what non geeks have to say, so top 10 lists will no longer be doninated by geeks.
In other words, when there are a bunch of apples, all of them are apples. When you throw in some oranges, they aren't all apples anymore. They are apples and oranges. I know its hard to follow, but trust me, its true.
It would also be interesting to see what Jakob Nielsen [useit.com] might have to say on this technology from a usability perspective.
Ugh, why is this guy any sort of expert? Even his ultra-simple website has issues.
Just look at the search option on his page. Some pages have a search box, some have a link which, when clicked, take you to an almost empty page with just a search box. Sometimes you get lucky and get a page with advanced search options! If you want to get to the advance search options from one of the pages with the hyper links, you need to click the search link, then click search button on the empty page, then, woohoo, you're at the advanced search page.
He also has broken links on his site.
Personally, I think the site looks like ass, and the font and layout makes it very difficult for me to scan the content.
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Our government decides not to enforce evil patent law, and you all still bitch and moan about it. That small company is trying to hurt national security with their intellictual property claims, probably terrorists they are, and our government steps in and saves the day.
Isn't this exactly what you've been screaming for with all these anti-patent stories!?!
Ungrateful.
Funny how they rejected this court case stating that going forward would provide more information on this patent to the public, thus causing a "national security" concern due to its secret use. Of course doing so causes it to be national news.. Yep good way to keep it secret.
They're protecting the project which the patented item is being used on, not the patent itself.
for the article summary to call this an application of eminent domain?
Article summaries are there to generate site traffic, not to summarize the articles. Buzzwords trump truth.
The connection between this record-breaking storm year and global warming remains controversial.
So we may hit a total that we hit in 1933. How is this evidence of a change or part of the global warming debate? Shouldn't we be seeing totals consistently higher than the past? Or is someone just trying to stir up a liberal/conservative debate?
What butthole did the democrats have there heads up when let this scam be part of the 2004 election?
Maybe they were just too busy digging up dead people. (thanks fark)
Seriously though, there is no outrage, because there was no disaster. The election wasn't close enough for people to blame it on the machines (well, the ones that do are just tossed in the conspiracy theorist bin). And as for a system with problems, well, every system has problems. To the general public computers are supposed to be buggy and insecure anyway, so this really isn't raising the concerns it should.
Really only gonna get fixed in one of 3 ways:
1) A visionary with some power gets behind the cause to fix the system
2) Someone sucessfully raises the 'terrorists can change our votes' alarm
3) Something really bad happend, and an election is directly affected by the flaws
Nothing like taking a reply to one question completely out of context.
Yeah, but the Slashdot editors know that the current presentation will generate more site traffic than showing the quote in context. Every bit as sleazy as any politician or used car salesman out there.
the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets.
Nice sig. Please post your name, address, pictures of you and your family, and your browser history
I just think we were all just sent on a wild goose chase. All the posts here are going off the assessment of someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. The Apache disclaimer is just a standard CYA statement.
The problem is that whoever is trying to install the system can't overcome the bad documentation.
This story is bizarre.
Sounds like some bozo SA is having a hard time installing this thing and is just tossing crap to management. "Ummm, uhhh, it don't work cause Windows sucks"
I'll assume the documentation is crap, so where is the vendor who wrote the thing? They should be the ones making it work.
One little invasion can ruin an entire legal system. And then leave a vacuum where the country should be, for years.
Yeah, things were much better when the legal system was the torture and execution of anyone who looked at the leadership funny.
Not making excuses for the war, but just want to be sure we don't use our political leanings to twist the truth.
I've been involved in government web projects for a decade now and have yet to see ANYONE give a crap about 508 compliance.
It's a good standard, but it's only cared about in certain circles.
However, if the site only works in one specific browser then the coder didn't know what he or she was doing. It's likely that this incompetent person (or team) screwed up many other aspects of the system. Having an unreliable claims system front-ending aid for such a huge disaster is only going to cause more harm.
Stop and think about what you're saying. They could be using ColdFusion or ASP.NET (guess I should look at the site) which may be autogenerating the code of concern. Or they may have needed an IE only component they had available that was too expensive to rewrite.
You're using the argument that if they don't have the same concerns that you do, then they must be imcompetent. IE only support is a 95% solution, and the people who it doesn't work for can find an IE install if they really need to.
I'm not saying that standards compliance is not important, i'm just saying that this is a stupid thing to fall on your sword for. Look at the comments being posted. Slashbots are getting positive mods for calling this part of a government conspiracy. Totally insane.
just get a bunch of old machines and setup a linux terminal server, or put a live-CD in.
You mean the old machines which probably already have windows on them? You need to stop and think about the people available to set these networks up. People who can install windows are a dime a dozen. People who can setup a linux terminal server are not.
Great, the biggest natural disaster in this country's history, and you're encouraging people to waste their time with complaints about browser support issues that really won't affect anyone.
Way to show that this community has a handle on what is important right now.
I know. I mean requiring a piece of software that 99% of people have access too. I mean, it's just insane.
And to also offer an offline alternative. Wow, what were they thinking.
I hear that flying cars will come installed with agents that make hotel reservations for you.
Be careful about such sweeping statements, please. They're more often wrong that right
So sweeping statements aren't more often wrong?
I'm still trying to figure out who shaves the damn barber!
It's not so much that development processes are coming and going, it's just that people are tailoring the processes around what works.
...managers rejoice...projects continue to fail...however, the projects with good people continue to prosper. So, what is wrong? oh, we need agile, iterative, incremental, eXtreme, [insert buzzword here] processes. TEH SAVIOR!!!...managers rejoice...projects continue to fail...however, the projects with good people continue to prosper. Things are a little better though, because the processes are closer to how good people do things.
I've been seeing this agile stuff for almost 8 years, and that doesn't mean it wasn't around before that.
So, gather around boys and girls, here is how you write software (does not apply to stuff like mission critical embedded software)
1. Ask customer what they want
2. Build something
3. Show it to customer, and ask what they want changed
If you make that cycle short, have good engineers, reasonable customers, and competent management, you will rule the universe.
What happens is that projects often have stupid and/or lazy people involved, so there are tons of failed projects. So, awhile back, the academics get together and come up with this deal where you do this extravagent design/requirements process upfront. TEH SAVIOR!!!
Closer:
You are dealing with apples. So do you need just an apple crate, or a rig which carries apple crates across the country?
If you don't need the long distance shipping, then the simple crate alone will do the job.
Now, I'm not defending certs, and I'm not in HR
It's insanse that you need to preface your (very insightful) opinion with that comment. Its really shows how biased and ignorant this community can be.
Very sad.
Why all the hating on management/HR and people who hold degrees/certifications? Jealousy? I think so. Grow up boys and girls. It's petty and just reinforces stereotypes of the crabby pompous geek.
It is very difficult for someone to evaluate technology experience if they have none themselves. Say that a company is expanding their capabilities and need an Oracle DBA. How can an HR person tell the capability difference between two people spitting out techno-babble. Someone walking in the door with a cert from Oracle is huge. It shows some sort of 3rd party verification of the candidate's skills. The person may still turn out to be a bozo, but they're a better bet than someone without the cert. If all other things are equal, the cert would and should push them over the edge
Also, some of the more difficult certs are like degrees in that they show that the candidate can make a long term committment to something. They dug through the crap instead of throwing up their hands and bitching that it's a waste of time.
Tomcat
Don't add complexity you don't need. Only use JBoss when Tomcat doesn't support what you're doing and you understand why.
Geek blogging is in decline. If you don't believe me, take a look at the Feedster 500 or Technorati 100 today and compare it to the Technorati Top 100 over the last few years. Take a look back in time to the top 10 in the Techorati Top 100 on November 26, 2002 and you'll see the generation of founding geek bloggers dominating the list: Doc Searls, Dave Winer...fast forward a year and things have started to change.
So, for geek tools, geeks usually get there first. Since, umm, they are the ones to create the tools. So since 100% of the users are geeks, then the top 10 lists will be dominated by geeks. So when it spreads into the non geek world, where there are more non geeks than geeks, hence 'non geek world', some percentage of the users will be non geeks. Non geeks will be more interested in what non geeks have to say, so top 10 lists will no longer be doninated by geeks.
In other words, when there are a bunch of apples, all of them are apples. When you throw in some oranges, they aren't all apples anymore. They are apples and oranges. I know its hard to follow, but trust me, its true.
The ability to write != the ability to reason.
These articles are like monthly soap operas. What will happen next? Google gets pregnant? lame.
Ummm, yeah, but here we all are talking about it. Even lamer.
It would also be interesting to see what Jakob Nielsen [useit.com] might have to say on this technology from a usability perspective.
Ugh, why is this guy any sort of expert? Even his ultra-simple website has issues.
Just look at the search option on his page. Some pages have a search box, some have a link which, when clicked, take you to an almost empty page with just a search box. Sometimes you get lucky and get a page with advanced search options!
If you want to get to the advance search options from one of the pages with the hyper links, you need to click the search link, then click search button on the empty page, then, woohoo, you're at the advanced search page.
He also has broken links on his site.
Personally, I think the site looks like ass, and the font and layout makes it very difficult for me to scan the content.