ZenCart and osCommerce are both open-source and relatively robust. I noticed them break less, and less severely if they did. Seriously, adding a damned plug-in shouldn't cause a cascading list of 500 server errors.
I used to be a system admin at a web hosting company, and all our customers who used Magento were constantly having problems. First, it's a first-class resource hog. Basically, you need dedicated hardware to run it. Even on a VPS, it would cause node problems on a relatively frequent basis. Second, it's incredibly fragile. There were some customers who just couldn't leave well enough alone and kept trying to add plugins and whatnot. They invariably would screw up file permissions or trash their database tables, and next thing you know, we were having to restore from backups that were likely 24-36 hours behind (customers tended not to do their own backups, thinking our backups for emergency system restore were the same as "i better make a working copy before i screw with this") -- frankly, I don't know how they ever made any money with their sites. They probably didn't. In short, using Magento will make tech support laugh at you, system admins hate you, and kittens die tragic, horrible deaths by being subjected to John Waters films.
Socrates didn't have standardized tests or "no child left behind," and he produced Aristotle. We have had to poach talent since the end of the cold war, and in fact, we probably only one that because we swiped all the smart Nazis before the Russians could get them. I mean, look at Khan himself. Here's the child of a single-parent immigrant who has multiple BS degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics from MIT, then masters in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and a Harvard MBA (which is probably what makes him the big bucks...).
From the foreign students I knew at school and since, or the students who's parents were immigrants (especially the Asian variety), this isn't too far out of the norm for them. Frankly, I applaud this guy for taking all that knowledge, turning around, and helping to give it away like this. It's amazing, and consistent with the best traditions of science and education. I have a feeling if I had that many degrees, I'd probably be trying to protect my 'competitive advantage' or something. When I see people like this, I feel ashamed not only of myself for not fully taking advantage of all the educational opportunities that were presented to me, but also sad for my country because large swaths of my generation just don't even seem to care. Then again, Obama's no Kennedy, though Bush was a pretty good Nixon, and so my generation lacks the motivation and inspiration that the Gemini and Apollo programs helped give to my parents' generation. It also doesn't help that our enemy isn't remotely competent enough to actually destroy our civilization, just trick us into screwing our selves over. To paraphrase 'M' in Casino Royale, 'I miss the Cold War.'
Well, congrats. Have fun never getting to do anything fun, then. If you can't tell the difference between casual conversation with strangers in a bar and hanging out at the A/V Club, then, well... that's just sad. It isn't required, or desirable, in most situations to use a "fancy" word when a normal one will do, unless the precision of meaning is necessary as determined by context. It's like reserving an unsigned long long when all your need is a short.
Can you/prove/ you/really/ forgot the password? Can you prove you're not faking? Without the password, you can't access the data either, so how can you prove you're innocent? Sounds like a trick to me. *slams gavel*
They could probably charge you with contempt of court and hold you until you comply. Are you really willing to sit in jail forever for not giving up the password if the crime you're accused of committing has lower sentencing guidelines?
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.3480 -- really though, there should be a law, or at least a "best practice" requiring that bill numbers be reported in print and links to Thomas be report in on-line journalism. They stupid article linked in the/. summary didn't even give the name of the bill. I had to find it searching for the 3 co-sponsors, plus the Senate committee name. And then, it was one of 11 results. This is why people are uninformed, even when they're not lazy.
I was pretty much the last Perl enthusiast there. I sickened me to see them writing command-line tools in PHP. Seriously, there ought to be a law about some things.
A few months ago I left a job at a web hosting company, where at 24-25 years old, I was an "old man" by comparison. I was the only non-manager on the tech side of the company to have a degree, and had been programming C when most of the kids I worked with were in elementary school. Yet, they looked at me like I was some sort of "n00b" for not knowing PHP. Partly, I didn't have any desire to know PHP. My co-workers looked at "add more memory" as the solution to all their performance problems. Not one of them had ever programmed in a compiled language, never had to tweak out more memory, or anything like that. It was incredibly frustration when we were doing maintenance reboots against the memmap 0 bug that was out at the time and the senior admin and myself were the only two people in the department that knew why the bug was an actual problem, the difference between kernel space and userspace in memory, etc.
Anyway, I eventually left for a company that does its own hardware design, writes everything in C and Perl, runs FreeBSD instead of CentOS and has actual engineers. I'm the youngest, greenest person on the block again, and so I actually have to start learning again. Luckily, I'm learning in my own comfort level. They could have doubled my pay at the hosting company and I'd never have been happy there. Maybe I'm stodgy; maybe I'm a curmudgeon; maybe kids today really aren't as smart as they used to be. Frankly, though, I think that when you reach a certain point in your life, free pizza and the ability to keep a nerf gun next to your desk don't compensate for low pay, long hours and having to put up with idiots who are fat, white and loud yet somehow think they're ninjas. It's the difference between the kid running Ubuntu at home and a professional AIX admin. As you get older, your professional goals change, your life goals change, and you take a different direction. Most of the "cool" companies are started by kids who are still in their nerf war stage. A company like IBM or Juniper is probably a lot less "ageist" than one that uses terms like "agile" as if the term is domain-specific with no other meaning.
In order to have a web of trust, don't you need to be able to establish the identity of the other people in your web to a reasonable degree of certainty? Wouldn't verifiable identities undermine the concept of anonymity that is the whole purpose of Tor?
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if they're needed to win, I don't mind losing. But that's why I'm not in business. Or politics.
An interrogated app store IS NOT a terrible thing even for a desktop.
But what about an ENHANCED interrogated app store?
ZenCart and osCommerce are both open-source and relatively robust. I noticed them break less, and less severely if they did. Seriously, adding a damned plug-in shouldn't cause a cascading list of 500 server errors.
I used to be a system admin at a web hosting company, and all our customers who used Magento were constantly having problems. First, it's a first-class resource hog. Basically, you need dedicated hardware to run it. Even on a VPS, it would cause node problems on a relatively frequent basis. Second, it's incredibly fragile. There were some customers who just couldn't leave well enough alone and kept trying to add plugins and whatnot. They invariably would screw up file permissions or trash their database tables, and next thing you know, we were having to restore from backups that were likely 24-36 hours behind (customers tended not to do their own backups, thinking our backups for emergency system restore were the same as "i better make a working copy before i screw with this") -- frankly, I don't know how they ever made any money with their sites. They probably didn't. In short, using Magento will make tech support laugh at you, system admins hate you, and kittens die tragic, horrible deaths by being subjected to John Waters films.
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wait... Plato taught Aristotle, not Socrates... see, my mind is leaking out my ear. At least I remembered.
Socrates didn't have standardized tests or "no child left behind," and he produced Aristotle. We have had to poach talent since the end of the cold war, and in fact, we probably only one that because we swiped all the smart Nazis before the Russians could get them. I mean, look at Khan himself. Here's the child of a single-parent immigrant who has multiple BS degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics from MIT, then masters in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and a Harvard MBA (which is probably what makes him the big bucks...).
From the foreign students I knew at school and since, or the students who's parents were immigrants (especially the Asian variety), this isn't too far out of the norm for them. Frankly, I applaud this guy for taking all that knowledge, turning around, and helping to give it away like this. It's amazing, and consistent with the best traditions of science and education. I have a feeling if I had that many degrees, I'd probably be trying to protect my 'competitive advantage' or something. When I see people like this, I feel ashamed not only of myself for not fully taking advantage of all the educational opportunities that were presented to me, but also sad for my country because large swaths of my generation just don't even seem to care. Then again, Obama's no Kennedy, though Bush was a pretty good Nixon, and so my generation lacks the motivation and inspiration that the Gemini and Apollo programs helped give to my parents' generation. It also doesn't help that our enemy isn't remotely competent enough to actually destroy our civilization, just trick us into screwing our selves over. To paraphrase 'M' in Casino Royale, 'I miss the Cold War.'
No, but his descendants that conquered Persia then were instrumental in spreading the religion, especially into India and further east into Asia.
"Funny thing about this signed document... it was never notarized" -- Lucy Van Pelt
Well, congrats. Have fun never getting to do anything fun, then. If you can't tell the difference between casual conversation with strangers in a bar and hanging out at the A/V Club, then, well... that's just sad. It isn't required, or desirable, in most situations to use a "fancy" word when a normal one will do, unless the precision of meaning is necessary as determined by context. It's like reserving an unsigned long long when all your need is a short.
Yet, they still tend to stay far enough away from people who say things like "rapid ambulation" in casual conversation to make it irrelevant.
Can you /prove/ you /really/ forgot the password? Can you prove you're not faking? Without the password, you can't access the data either, so how can you prove you're innocent? Sounds like a trick to me. *slams gavel*
They could probably charge you with contempt of court and hold you until you comply. Are you really willing to sit in jail forever for not giving up the password if the crime you're accused of committing has lower sentencing guidelines?
Yes
Yeah, but they're only paying in PBR and black-framed Buddy Holly glasses.
There needs to be a colon ':' at the end of the link or it won't work... it got cut off by slashdot formatting.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.3480 -- really though, there should be a law, or at least a "best practice" requiring that bill numbers be reported in print and links to Thomas be report in on-line journalism. They stupid article linked in the /. summary didn't even give the name of the bill. I had to find it searching for the 3 co-sponsors, plus the Senate committee name. And then, it was one of 11 results. This is why people are uninformed, even when they're not lazy.
What would you expect from the first Neo-con^WRepublican president?
i suppose it would depend on if they signed a waiver, and how good your lawyer is.
I named my home wifi access point dv-da so people wouldn't want to try and associate with it (wpa2 and mac address filtering not withstanding)
combine new and old markets and double-penetrate them both?
I'm not sure where the problem comes into it. Slashdot 2.0 was starting to piss me off. This is much faster.
I was pretty much the last Perl enthusiast there. I sickened me to see them writing command-line tools in PHP. Seriously, there ought to be a law about some things.
A few months ago I left a job at a web hosting company, where at 24-25 years old, I was an "old man" by comparison. I was the only non-manager on the tech side of the company to have a degree, and had been programming C when most of the kids I worked with were in elementary school. Yet, they looked at me like I was some sort of "n00b" for not knowing PHP. Partly, I didn't have any desire to know PHP. My co-workers looked at "add more memory" as the solution to all their performance problems. Not one of them had ever programmed in a compiled language, never had to tweak out more memory, or anything like that. It was incredibly frustration when we were doing maintenance reboots against the memmap 0 bug that was out at the time and the senior admin and myself were the only two people in the department that knew why the bug was an actual problem, the difference between kernel space and userspace in memory, etc.
Anyway, I eventually left for a company that does its own hardware design, writes everything in C and Perl, runs FreeBSD instead of CentOS and has actual engineers. I'm the youngest, greenest person on the block again, and so I actually have to start learning again. Luckily, I'm learning in my own comfort level. They could have doubled my pay at the hosting company and I'd never have been happy there. Maybe I'm stodgy; maybe I'm a curmudgeon; maybe kids today really aren't as smart as they used to be. Frankly, though, I think that when you reach a certain point in your life, free pizza and the ability to keep a nerf gun next to your desk don't compensate for low pay, long hours and having to put up with idiots who are fat, white and loud yet somehow think they're ninjas. It's the difference between the kid running Ubuntu at home and a professional AIX admin. As you get older, your professional goals change, your life goals change, and you take a different direction. Most of the "cool" companies are started by kids who are still in their nerf war stage. A company like IBM or Juniper is probably a lot less "ageist" than one that uses terms like "agile" as if the term is domain-specific with no other meaning.
In order to have a web of trust, don't you need to be able to establish the identity of the other people in your web to a reasonable degree of certainty? Wouldn't verifiable identities undermine the concept of anonymity that is the whole purpose of Tor?