Did you read their handbook? It's mostly an outline -- only fleshed-out up to section 1.2.5 (long before the outline addresses the issues raised in this article.) Maybe it will be a useful link after they've actually written the handbook.
It is not the case that.org is "for non-profits". While it may be an appropriate superdomain for a non-profit organization, it was intended as a miscellaneous category for organizations that do not fit any other top-level domain. The difference may be subtle, but with "non profit organization" having a very specific legal meaning (at least in the US), I think it is an important one.
I'm not correcting you for being wrong, but I would like to disagree with the tacit assumtion that the entity controlling the technology is the greatest evil. In my opinion, the greatest evil is the utter lack of unambiguous specification for a technology. While Sun has control, at least they publish a spec. I'm far less concerned about making sure that the spec is in the hands of a bureaucracy.
I honestly think that Java gives all of this already. Furthermore, the performance improvements expected for the 2D API and Swing in version 1.4 are very impressive. I think the most annoying inadequacy of Java right now is that minor platforms (like linux on a PowerPC processor) don't get good ports of the JSDK. Sun tries to trumpet their support of linux, but they really mean linux-on-x86. MONO, not being burdened by the SCSL might find its way onto these platforms in a more timely manner. But Java certainly answers most of the questions that.NET is attempting to answer -- from my perspective.
I don't think the source of the paycheck was the point. Rather, the process of troubleshooting requires concentration, and if the customer can't go one measly hour without sending you an interrupt -- let alone can't refrain from verbal abuse -- it's time to yank them off the bus. Besides, who's in short supply here: the techie or the customer? Life's too short to work for a dick.
I use memorable phrases,mapped to characters in a n obvious way, but the hint need to give much information about it. For example, the phrase "working on a sex farm plowing through your bean field" could be mapped to w0a5fptybf -- and the hint could be "St. Hubbins". Who could go from the hint to the password? No one.
You are conflating two distinct meanings of the word free. This thread was clearly using the libre sense, and you're bitching about the gratis sense. Liberty does have a price.
Since when has being an advocate of democracy gone hand-in-hand with sitting quietly on the sidelines whenever nonsense is legistlated? I think it's quite the opposite: it would be negligent for such an advocate to quiet.
If the image of the can is challenged and needs to be replaced, I suggest replacing it with a pink, gelatinous, rectangular column of ground pork snouts.
I'm not happy with the culture of hate either, but you're not helping by barking about some rather innocent comments. You should save your lecture for some actual hate.
You know damned well that behind the walls of corporations people will give each other high-fives when they strike a blow (even a percieved one) against their competitor. Why should the free software community be disallowed the same enjoyment of competition?
I've read the original XP book, and believe that it is an excellent collection of great ideas, with very little fluff. I'm a little worried, though, about some of the implications of paired programming. The nightmare scenario is that everybody in my company gets bitten by the XP bug, and the book becomes scripture. Then somebody realizes that paired programming would proceed more smoothly if everybody is using the same tool.
So the jack-booted thugs come over to my desk and say "Hey, there mister emacs-using dvorak-typing linux geek...you're gonna switch to windows 2000 and JBuilder. And you're going to start typing in qwerty like everybody else so that you and Marty can pass this here keyboard back and forth effectively."
Are there any XP advocates out there willing to allay my fears?
That's funny. I'm glad you pitched it as a sad story. That really brought out the humor.
I couldn't help but get the feeling, though, that this is an elaborate plot to get us to forward this to all of our friends to prepare the market for intelligent monitors that can be used for copy-protection of content.
Just for the sake of balance, I live in an area that has great DSL service, and I'm a little dismayed at how a company like Verizon seems to be managing to single-handedly ruin the reputation of DSL. I have yet to see a cable modem provider offer a small block of static IP addresses, and I love the ability to get a shell on my server at home while I'm at work.
As a side note, A friend of mine just got cable service, and was having fun browsing the neighborhood's Windows shares. That's one part of cable service that I'm missing, I guess.
I don't know about whales, but I can attest to the fact that I can barely tolerate the fan noise in a typical x86 machine for very long, let alone the looping soundtracks in the games my kids play when they walk away from their computers without stopping the application. And I'm not very intelligent myself so I'd be sympathetic to marine life even if they weren't very intelligent either. The evidence for bottlenose dolphins, at least, seems to lean towards intellignece, though.
Remote exploits are gaping holes. Using non-root authority to leverage root authority (which was the bug fixed in 2.2.16) is merely a hole, not a gaping one. These are two entirely different classes of security problems. Remote exploits are cause for sounding the alarms. Besides, nobody has said that linux (or a linux application) has never had such a bug. You're setting up straw man arguments to lure careless moderators into throwing "Insightful" points at your insightless post.
There should be a "Misinformative" moderation label. Jikes is not an open source variant of Java. It is a compiler for the Java language, implemented with an open source license. It is merely an alternative to the javac compiler that comes with the JSDK. It was even a faster alternative the last time that I tried it, but it is not a language that was designed in an open community, which is what the question is about. One could use "offtopic", I guess, but then would likely be screwed in metamod. Not that I care about karma.
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Like your post that I'm responding to; there's no reason that needs to start at 2.
It seems to me that there is also no harm in it starting at 2. Your gripe is silly.
It's very fast execution-wise, in my experience. One can write naive, slow code in any language. The most common example I see in the java/servlet universe is establishing fresh database connections for each HTTP hit, rather than pooling them. If one does that, it'll be slow for sure. If one knows what they're doing, on the other hand, java/servlets/jsps can be very fast.
1. I take care to write only meaningful e-mails. And only when a phone call or voicemail won't suffice.
People do this where I work, and I think it's bothersome and rude. The default strategy should be to communicate asynchronously, and only right my phone when an email will not suffice.
Your idea implies that the only valid use for a domain is the distribution of content via HTTP. I'd like to think that one could register a domain for the sole purpose of a life-long email address: that one could never do anything else with the domain and still be considered its legitimate holder without fear of revokation because of some arbitrary silliness on the part of some standards body. But that's me; I like to think big.
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Did you read their handbook? It's mostly an outline -- only fleshed-out up to section 1.2.5 (long before the outline addresses the issues raised in this article.) Maybe it will be a useful link after they've actually written the handbook.
One processor could be running civclient while the other is running civserver. :-)
It is not the case that .org is "for non-profits". While it may be an appropriate superdomain for a non-profit organization, it was intended as a miscellaneous category for organizations that do not fit any other top-level domain. The difference may be subtle, but with "non profit organization" having a very specific legal meaning (at least in the US), I think it is an important one.
I'm not correcting you for being wrong, but I would like to disagree with the tacit assumtion that the entity controlling the technology is the greatest evil. In my opinion, the greatest evil is the utter lack of unambiguous specification for a technology. While Sun has control, at least they publish a spec. I'm far less concerned about making sure that the spec is in the hands of a bureaucracy.
I honestly think that Java gives all of this already. Furthermore, the performance improvements expected for the 2D API and Swing in version 1.4 are very impressive. I think the most annoying inadequacy of Java right now is that minor platforms (like linux on a PowerPC processor) don't get good ports of the JSDK. Sun tries to trumpet their support of linux, but they really mean linux-on-x86. MONO, not being burdened by the SCSL might find its way onto these platforms in a more timely manner. But Java certainly answers most of the questions that .NET is attempting to answer -- from my perspective.
I don't think the source of the paycheck was the point. Rather, the process of troubleshooting requires concentration, and if the customer can't go one measly hour without sending you an interrupt -- let alone can't refrain from verbal abuse -- it's time to yank them off the bus. Besides, who's in short supply here: the techie or the customer? Life's too short to work for a dick.
yikes...that should have said "the hint need not give much information about it"
I use memorable phrases,mapped to characters in a n obvious way, but the hint need to give much information about it. For example, the phrase "working on a sex farm plowing through your bean field" could be mapped to w0a5fptybf -- and the hint could be "St. Hubbins". Who could go from the hint to the password? No one.
You are conflating two distinct meanings of the word free. This thread was clearly using the libre sense, and you're bitching about the gratis sense. Liberty does have a price.
Since when has being an advocate of democracy gone hand-in-hand with sitting quietly on the sidelines whenever nonsense is legistlated? I think it's quite the opposite: it would be negligent for such an advocate to quiet.
Because it is the goal, genius.
If the image of the can is challenged and needs to be replaced, I suggest replacing it with a pink, gelatinous, rectangular column of ground pork snouts.
You know damned well that behind the walls of corporations people will give each other high-fives when they strike a blow (even a percieved one) against their competitor. Why should the free software community be disallowed the same enjoyment of competition?
P.S. In your face, Microsoft.
So the jack-booted thugs come over to my desk and say "Hey, there mister emacs-using dvorak-typing linux geek...you're gonna switch to windows 2000 and JBuilder. And you're going to start typing in qwerty like everybody else so that you and Marty can pass this here keyboard back and forth effectively."
Are there any XP advocates out there willing to allay my fears?
I couldn't help but get the feeling, though, that this is an elaborate plot to get us to forward this to all of our friends to prepare the market for intelligent monitors that can be used for copy-protection of content.
As a side note, A friend of mine just got cable service, and was having fun browsing the neighborhood's Windows shares. That's one part of cable service that I'm missing, I guess.
I don't know about whales, but I can attest to the fact that I can barely tolerate the fan noise in a typical x86 machine for very long, let alone the looping soundtracks in the games my kids play when they walk away from their computers without stopping the application. And I'm not very intelligent myself so I'd be sympathetic to marine life even if they weren't very intelligent either. The evidence for bottlenose dolphins, at least, seems to lean towards intellignece, though.
Remote exploits are gaping holes. Using non-root authority to leverage root authority (which was the bug fixed in 2.2.16) is merely a hole, not a gaping one. These are two entirely different classes of security problems. Remote exploits are cause for sounding the alarms. Besides, nobody has said that linux (or a linux application) has never had such a bug. You're setting up straw man arguments to lure careless moderators into throwing "Insightful" points at your insightless post.
I don't think it's about posturing as "clever". It's mere playfulness. Anyone who has forgotten play needs to step away from the keyboard.
There should be a "Misinformative" moderation label. Jikes is not an open source variant of Java. It is a compiler for the Java language, implemented with an open source license. It is merely an alternative to the javac compiler that comes with the JSDK. It was even a faster alternative the last time that I tried it, but it is not a language that was designed in an open community, which is what the question is about. One could use "offtopic", I guess, but then would likely be screwed in metamod. Not that I care about karma.
It seems to me that there is also no harm in it starting at 2. Your gripe is silly.
You might want to check out jboss. They've got an active community and a pretty good container.
It's very fast execution-wise, in my experience. One can write naive, slow code in any language. The most common example I see in the java/servlet universe is establishing fresh database connections for each HTTP hit, rather than pooling them. If one does that, it'll be slow for sure. If one knows what they're doing, on the other hand, java/servlets/jsps can be very fast.
People do this where I work, and I think it's bothersome and rude. The default strategy should be to communicate asynchronously, and only right my phone when an email will not suffice.
Your idea implies that the only valid use for a domain is the distribution of content via HTTP. I'd like to think that one could register a domain for the sole purpose of a life-long email address: that one could never do anything else with the domain and still be considered its legitimate holder without fear of revokation because of some arbitrary silliness on the part of some standards body. But that's me; I like to think big.