Absolutely true. The interesting thing about this idea, though, is that, if true, it shifts the focus entirely and without a doubt beyond the algorithm. If you could actually prove an algorithm's unbreakability, then research could be spent elsewhere, and all the freaks/charlatans/conspiracy theorists can put this job next to their "work" in geometry.
XML is just a descriptive markup
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Of course you can't think of XML as some sort of godsend. It won't make your children's teeth straighter and whiter. It won't solve world hunger, and it won't create a tax law that is equally fair and acceptable to all.
It's just a markup language. It's only strengths lie in the fact that 1)it clearly and easily represents heirarchical data and 2)could become a standard way of representing data in many applications.
If XML finds its way into wide acceptance under certain industries(if it hasn't already), then its strength as a descriptive markup is perfectly valid. It will make business easier if you can unambiguously exchange information, rather than sifting through proprietary annotations or trying to convert a flat ASCII file into [proprietary language of your choice].
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I am sorry to see from the looks of the review that New Riders has gone the way of Sybex and Que, though. As far as books in "pop tech" go, you can usually go by this rule of thumb: thickness is inversely proportional to quality.
Take two examples: My O'Reilly XML(before the standard) pocketbook, and our Que "Mastering Javascript" Special edition. My O'Reilly book is a scant 107 (small) pages, yet has proven to be a completely invaluable reference. I wouldn't trade it for anything but the next edition of the same book. Back when I was trying to learn Javascript, that freaking Que book wasted more of my time than anything else I've ever read. By the time I needed to know about the syntax for multi-dimensional arrays you could just forget it.
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Of course MS didn't comment on a ridiculous rant like that.
If/. more readers were smart, they too would find Allchin's claims today equally without merit, and unworthy of any response. That is, if they want to take it the way/.'s Open Source Propaganda Machine spoon feeds it to them.
Of course, the typical 3-year-old child
(Read: Slashdot reading "me too" high-schooler) way of thinking is to bring bulldozers to Redmond...
I think you're looking at this issue in too complex a way. Repeat after me "Microsoft Bad. Linux Good(tm)." You have to understand that - darn it; I'm late for P.E. I'll finish with you later.
One might even go so far as to say that greyscale characters could be considered ANSI, not ASCII. One might go even further and say that encoding an ANSI picture as a PNG makes it nothing more than a very low-res graphic.
If this ascii webcam thing is just for fun, though, then hey, nice job. It's probably pretty educational to write something like that.
You must be kidding. Lunix isn't vulnerable to such things as DNS problems! That only happens with M$ crap. Come back to the hive, my child. Forget your silly ideas for a moment, and rest easy. You've had a hard day. How would you like another cup of special tea...?
Yeah, and guess what the reaction is: Californians go on a power consumption binge that severely affects the price and availability of power in Oregon(my state), which will put us right back where we started. Rot in the dark, Silicon Valley.
Caught red-handed, and now they're ready to cooperate. The ultimate noble gesture, sorta. The fact remains that these people(or someone in the company) tried to rip-off open source. What kind of punishment is it to let them get off with doing what they should have done in the first place?
I mean, really. Suppose the punishment for stealing was being forced to return the stolen goods, end of story, no ostricizing, no apology. Where's the accountability? Where's the programmer or manager who did this crawling around on his hands and knees with "Traitor" written all over his forehead? Where's the remorse? I don't want to see blood, but I do want the name of the responsible party made known to the community, maybe even for blacklisting at open-source shops.
The author compares one company's efforts(granted there were other competitors, but not on the same level) in 1984 with those of, as he counts them, 6 platforms today. This is competition compared to domination.
In other news, the FTC also approved the merger of McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Everyone on Earth, and their dogs. One FTC spokesperson was quoted as saying, "The cats were just too much."
After reading the actual article, I find the/. article totally misleading. Is this a news site, or is it Rob Malda/VA Linux's propaganda mouthpiece? It's no big deal that Transmeta leaked 300 faulty CPUs, but does Intel get a break when Best Buy/HP fail to do a mandatory BIOS upgrade? Is this news or corporate agenda?
Some of you might think this is OT/Flamebait/Trolling, but I'm just outraged to see in plain sight two CLEARLY biased articles on the same subject, on the same day, practically right next to each other. It's a flat out insult to the intelligence of so many readers, that if/. didn't post the occasional piece of real news, I'd have no need for it.
SLASHDOT LAND, Nov 29(Heuters) Moderators on the popular internet news site Slashdot, owned by VALinux and heavily invested in all things Linux, were shocked by an earlier Heuters Wire Release implying that something Linus Torvalds did was anything other than "divine perfection", as one slashdot reader commented.
Various heads of nations and multinational corporations found news of Slashdot Drones turning insane with rage at the slightest hint of anti-Linus humor somewhat un-newsworthy.
Heuters stock plunged 5.062 points in after-hours trading, losing nearly 20% of its value and becoming nearly worthless.
It *is* a big deal when a company hypes itself as the second-coming and investors actually believe it.
This is just one of many cluex4's investors will probably be getting in the near future as they slowly realize that you don't rush into the market with something as complex as a CPU and save the world from [Evil Empire] without a few stumbles along the way.
NEW YORK, Nov 29 (Heuters) Upstart chipmaker Transmeta Corp. (NasdaqNM:TMTA - news) have just announced a shocking "Shifting of Focus" in their business in the near future. Says market analyst Skip Finkleman of International Investment Associates (NasdaqNM: IIAZ - news), "The unique approach of using recalled chips as fashionable jewelry has caught both the high tech and fashion worlds by storm. Expect to see Crusoe necklaces. earrings, bracelets, and even transdermal implants by Q2 2001."
Linus Torvalds, involved with the Transmeta venture from early on, urges Linux supporters to purchase Transmeta jewelry as soon as it becomes available. "We hope that the Open Source Community(tm) will support our move into wearable computers as whole heartedly as ever, even if it didn't come in the form we expected."
Don't waste your breath. This guy isn't interested in why Exchange could possibly be a *good* thing under any circumstances. He isn't interested in how to make an informed business decision based on facts. He has a gut feeling about something, fed by years of/. FUD, and can no longer see clearly enough to even ask the question in an impartial manner. Never mind that the situation may end up requiring Exchange, and then again may not.
What you say? Exchange could work in some situations? Pshaw, I say. So what if they've got users? The only reason *anyone* uses Exchange is because they're trapped in MS's plans to take over the world and install mind control chips in every God Fearing Patriotic American's Brain, causing them to Worship Satan and Eat Babies.
Oh yeah, and Hotmail runs off Exchange now. But I guess a 1,000 user network is probably way bigger than that.
A citizen of the United States of America is granted access to information about resources provided by a Department of the United States of America. Full government disclosure is a good thing unless it infringes on "our inalienable right to free internet access on the government dole". Slashdot users hippocritical. Film at 11.
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Absolutely true. The interesting thing about this idea, though, is that, if true, it shifts the focus entirely and without a doubt beyond the algorithm. If you could actually prove an algorithm's unbreakability, then research could be spent elsewhere, and all the freaks/charlatans/conspiracy theorists can put this job next to their "work" in geometry.
Of course you can't think of XML as some sort of godsend. It won't make your children's teeth straighter and whiter. It won't solve world hunger, and it won't create a tax law that is equally fair and acceptable to all.
It's just a markup language. It's only strengths lie in the fact that 1)it clearly and easily represents heirarchical data and 2)could become a standard way of representing data in many applications.
If XML finds its way into wide acceptance under certain industries(if it hasn't already), then its strength as a descriptive markup is perfectly valid. It will make business easier if you can unambiguously exchange information, rather than sifting through proprietary annotations or trying to convert a flat ASCII file into [proprietary language of your choice].
<rant>
I am sorry to see from the looks of the review that New Riders has gone the way of Sybex and Que, though. As far as books in "pop tech" go, you can usually go by this rule of thumb: thickness is inversely proportional to quality.
Take two examples: My O'Reilly XML(before the standard) pocketbook, and our Que "Mastering Javascript" Special edition. My O'Reilly book is a scant 107 (small) pages, yet has proven to be a completely invaluable reference. I wouldn't trade it for anything but the next edition of the same book. Back when I was trying to learn Javascript, that freaking Que book wasted more of my time than anything else I've ever read. By the time I needed to know about the syntax for multi-dimensional arrays you could just forget it.
</rant>
Of course MS didn't comment on a ridiculous rant like that.
/. more readers were smart, they too would find Allchin's claims today equally without merit, and unworthy of any response. That is, if they want to take it the way /.'s Open Source Propaganda Machine spoon feeds it to them.
If
I think you're looking at this issue in too complex a way. Repeat after me "Microsoft Bad. Linux Good(tm)." You have to understand that - darn it; I'm late for P.E. I'll finish with you later.
Or cause them to monitor all traffic to this site and others like it.
You have spoken out against the Hive and will now be ignored.
Guess you get what you pay for...
Nope, you sure didn't sleep through it. Some people, however, seem to have deluded themselves about the facts no matter how present they are in their own posts.
Let's review that link to Netcraft's survey again, and read off to ourselves every line that has the word "Apache" in it.
Three cheers for literacy!
C# vs. Java article. How many of these have we seen in the last 6 months alone?
... Dummies making Beowulf clusters.
One might even go so far as to say that greyscale characters could be considered ANSI, not ASCII. One might go even further and say that encoding an ANSI picture as a PNG makes it nothing more than a very low-res graphic.
If this ascii webcam thing is just for fun, though, then hey, nice job. It's probably pretty educational to write something like that.
You must be kidding. Lunix isn't vulnerable to such things as DNS problems! That only happens with M$ crap. Come back to the hive, my child. Forget your silly ideas for a moment, and rest easy. You've had a hard day. How would you like another cup of special tea...?
On the other hand, maybe it doesn't...
Yeah, and guess what the reaction is: Californians go on a power consumption binge that severely affects the price and availability of power in Oregon(my state), which will put us right back where we started. Rot in the dark, Silicon Valley.
Caught red-handed, and now they're ready to cooperate. The ultimate noble gesture, sorta. The fact remains that these people(or someone in the company) tried to rip-off open source. What kind of punishment is it to let them get off with doing what they should have done in the first place?
I mean, really. Suppose the punishment for stealing was being forced to return the stolen goods, end of story, no ostricizing, no apology. Where's the accountability? Where's the programmer or manager who did this crawling around on his hands and knees with "Traitor" written all over his forehead? Where's the remorse? I don't want to see blood, but I do want the name of the responsible party made known to the community, maybe even for blacklisting at open-source shops.
The author compares one company's efforts(granted there were other competitors, but not on the same level) in 1984 with those of, as he counts them, 6 platforms today. This is competition compared to domination.
In other news, the FTC also approved the merger of McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Everyone on Earth, and their dogs. One FTC spokesperson was quoted as saying, "The cats were just too much."
Yeah, but this time it's Intel, and Intel is the Evil Empire(tm) these days. Has anyone noticed an explosion of anti-Intel articles lately? Anyone?
After reading the actual article, I find the /. article totally misleading. Is this a news site, or is it Rob Malda/VA Linux's propaganda mouthpiece? It's no big deal that Transmeta leaked 300 faulty CPUs, but does Intel get a break when Best Buy/HP fail to do a mandatory BIOS upgrade? Is this news or corporate agenda?
/. didn't post the occasional piece of real news, I'd have no need for it.
Some of you might think this is OT/Flamebait/Trolling, but I'm just outraged to see in plain sight two CLEARLY biased articles on the same subject, on the same day, practically right next to each other. It's a flat out insult to the intelligence of so many readers, that if
Wednesday November 29, 4:50 pm Eastern Time
Slashdot Hive-mind rejects legitimate satire
SLASHDOT LAND, Nov 29(Heuters) Moderators on the popular internet news site Slashdot, owned by VALinux and heavily invested in all things Linux, were shocked by an earlier Heuters Wire Release implying that something Linus Torvalds did was anything other than "divine perfection", as one slashdot reader commented.
Various heads of nations and multinational corporations found news of Slashdot Drones turning insane with rage at the slightest hint of anti-Linus humor somewhat un-newsworthy.
Heuters stock plunged 5.062 points in after-hours trading, losing nearly 20% of its value and becoming nearly worthless.
It *is* a big deal when a company hypes itself as the second-coming and investors actually believe it.
This is just one of many cluex4's investors will probably be getting in the near future as they slowly realize that you don't rush into the market with something as complex as a CPU and save the world from [Evil Empire] without a few stumbles along the way.
Wednesday November 29, 2:30 pm Eastern Time
Transmeta "Shifts Focus" to fashion accessories
NEW YORK, Nov 29 (Heuters) Upstart chipmaker Transmeta Corp. (NasdaqNM:TMTA - news) have just announced a shocking "Shifting of Focus" in their business in the near future. Says market analyst Skip Finkleman of International Investment Associates (NasdaqNM: IIAZ - news), "The unique approach of using recalled chips as fashionable jewelry has caught both the high tech and fashion worlds by storm. Expect to see Crusoe necklaces. earrings, bracelets, and even transdermal implants by Q2 2001."
Linus Torvalds, involved with the Transmeta venture from early on, urges Linux supporters to purchase Transmeta jewelry as soon as it becomes available. "We hope that the Open Source Community(tm) will support our move into wearable computers as whole heartedly as ever, even if it didn't come in the form we expected."
Don't waste your breath. This guy isn't interested in why Exchange could possibly be a *good* thing under any circumstances. He isn't interested in how to make an informed business decision based on facts. He has a gut feeling about something, fed by years of /. FUD, and can no longer see clearly enough to even ask the question in an impartial manner. Never mind that the situation may end up requiring Exchange, and then again may not.
What you say? Exchange could work in some situations? Pshaw, I say. So what if they've got users? The only reason *anyone* uses Exchange is because they're trapped in MS's plans to take over the world and install mind control chips in every God Fearing Patriotic American's Brain, causing them to Worship Satan and Eat Babies.
Oh yeah, and Hotmail runs off Exchange now. But I guess a 1,000 user network is probably way bigger than that.
A citizen of the United States of America is granted access to information about resources provided by a Department of the United States of America. Full government disclosure is a good thing unless it infringes on "our inalienable right to free internet access on the government dole". Slashdot users hippocritical. Film at 11.
What? A flaky Alpha release of any product? You must be kidding.