Why do people willingly put crap like this into their bodies? Caffeine isn't good for you. Neither is alcohol. Combine the two and you're not helping yourself.
Indeed, many of the best programmers I ever worked with were strictly against the use of caffeine and alcohol. Why is that? Because they needed to be at the top of their game, developing software that cannot fail. Hyperactivity or a clouded mind does not lead to good code, even if some claim it does.
There are numerous ways to limit the excessive resource misallocation you mention. Again, any half decent mail server can do that, as can any half decent operating system.
And a thrashing server is not a crashed server by any means. If it's running a decent operating system (most UNIX-like systems, for instance), it should be working just fine within a short amount of time. Yes, it may not be the most responsive system for a little while, but it sure hasn't crashed.
Would my server straight out die? Of course not. It would queue the messages for as long as possible, and if the server happened to run out of disk space, it would begin rejecting the messages. The one thing it would not do is crash.
Perhaps it is time for that business to invest in a more modern mail server. Indeed, even the lowliest of Dell servers running Linux or FreeBSD can easily handle 5 million email messages, even if sent in a very short period of time. A large amount of mail should never cause the server to completely crash, even if it does consume much bandwidth and cause other delays.
Please teach your comrades in Kansas about how "intelligent" design is pure bullshit. Knock some sense into them, even if they aren't Catholic. Do it for the sake of your nation's economy. After all, America needs to stay amongst the leaders in science if they wish to remain a superpower, rather than becoming just another ideological shitpile.
Like I said, American scientists are forced to perform their science in other nations because there is a hostile attitude towards them in the US. In this particular case they became scientific refugees in Canada. Your point proves I was and am correct.
Indeed, it sounds like these people are scientific refugees, victims of the anti-science trend taking a hold in the US.
Between the extremists trying to force theology into science classes, and an administration which is plain anti-scientific in its own right, things just aren't looking up. At least science will progress elsewhere, even if it is not in the United States.
If SGI does go under, it looks like we will see the demise of yet another commercial UNIX. Just a few years back we had Wind River outright destroy BSD/OS. Tru64 basically died after the HP/Compaq merger. SCO UnixWare and OpenServer aren't in a very sound position, either. And if SGI does meet its demise, we may very well lose IRIX.
Indeed, the UNIX world will not be better off with less competition. Competition is what breeds innovation. That said, at least the source code to Solaris has been released. It will live on, even if Sun goes out of business. And at least Linux was able to gain XFS from IRIX, arguably one of its most prized features.
Don't waste your time with Fedora. It is a subpar Linux distribution, especially if you have serious work to get done. Indeed, your best bet is to use basically any other general purpose Linux distribution, including Debian, SuSE, and Slackware. Just avoid Fedora. As you have found, the quality is severely lacking.
When the market is too regulated, a black market often emerges. Why is that? Because economics trumps legal bullshit.
What will happen? Somebody will buy $1000 worth of circuits, or they'll obtain them from countries with a higher level of freedom. Then they'll proceed to unofficially sell them domestically to individuals. There will be Al Capones of analog technology.
Don't try to figure out which is more guilty. They're both just as horrible. Remember, there is very little real difference between Democrats and Republicans today. Indeed, they both share the same interests, and those are not the interests of the majority of American citizens. Thus you get crap like this, which serves the interests of a very, very small handful of people, at the expense of basically everyone else.
I read the book you linked to. It is about creating XUL applications on top of Mozilla. It is not about embedding Mozilla within existing applications. Hence it is useless.
The examples are basically useless to much around with. They are poorly documented, and are meant more as tests than as practical examples.
That newsgroup gets very little activity. I'm not about to waste my time there.
I know about the examples. They are the ones I mentioned earlier, had you bothered to read my posts. Take a look at them. They're very poorly commented, and the overall quality is poor. They're meant more as quick tests than they are as examples of any merit.
Frankly, people who are developing serious projects (that is, often for money) with Mozilla do not have time to "muck around" with examples, especially ones of atrocious quality. We need solid documentation that is up-to-date, accurate, helpful and with clear, well-engineered examples. The Mozilla project is not providing that, and if they want widespread adoption of their browser, they most likely should offer high-quality documentation and examples.
It's widely known that they're written at that level. But you have to consider who reads them. You rarely see children reading newspapers. You probably won't see a McDonald's employee reading a paper, nor will you see a construction worker or a clothing salesperson. You see business executives, university-level students, researchers and other people with a higher level of intelligence reading such material, even if it is written at a sixth grade level.
Most people don't have the time nor the resources to subscribe to multiple scientific/specialty journals, nor do they have time to attend parliament on a daily basis, or even to read the parliamentary transcripts.
That said, that's no excuse for newspapers to report blatantly false information. Going back to the example of the Iraqi invasion, every newspaper of any credibility should have torn Powell's UN presentation to pieces. It has nothing to do with politics. It just has to do with the fact that they're there to report fact, and thus the correct thing for them to do when presented with lies is to point out those lies for what they are.
Investigative reporting. That's still where the newspaper outpaces all other forms of news.
Except that they don't do that now, and probably won't in the future. Doing so to a professional degree would certainly cause severe annoyance to various advertisers and politicians. Soon enough ad space isn't bought, and press credentials are revoked. Then they're really fucked.
Have you checked the fan motor for faeces? Kids are known to throw their shit in all sorts of places on Halloween, including the camshafts of inflatable Frankenstein motors.
I'd say people end up being far more informed. Major newspapers will never present worthwhile news, because it is too costly for them. They most likely will not report on the misdeeds of major advertisers. Likewise, in America especially, if they question the administration they'll immediately lose their press access. Thus all they can do is put out bullshit, and hope that people continue to buy their papers. But it looks like people are catching on, and thus people aren't buying their papers.
Then again, many news websites are not as tied up. They can offer viewpoints that the major papers could never think of presenting. Even if their news is incorrect, it still may provoke thought in its readers, perhaps enough for them to investigate other news sources, and hence to make up their own mind based on the information they can obtain.
Truly, it is the newspapers who are killing themselves. Why is that? Because the quality of the reporting has dropped off substantially.
Take the New York Times. Between that Blair guy and now Miller, they've been shown to be nothing but a hack paper. Any newspaper that did not immediately point out the numerous lies of so many British and American politicians with regards to the ongoing war in Iraq falls into the same boat.
Intelligent people aren't going to pay money for ads and bullshit stories. And it's intelligent people who tend to read newspapers.
Of course anyone who has any database experience uses at least PostgreSQL, if not something superior. That goes without saying. But then again, anyone who would use MySQL would most likely use PHP as well, and thus cannot be considered a person of any intelligence.
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Why do people willingly put crap like this into their bodies? Caffeine isn't good for you. Neither is alcohol. Combine the two and you're not helping yourself.
Indeed, many of the best programmers I ever worked with were strictly against the use of caffeine and alcohol. Why is that? Because they needed to be at the top of their game, developing software that cannot fail. Hyperactivity or a clouded mind does not lead to good code, even if some claim it does.
How long is your penis, sir?
There are numerous ways to limit the excessive resource misallocation you mention. Again, any half decent mail server can do that, as can any half decent operating system.
And a thrashing server is not a crashed server by any means. If it's running a decent operating system (most UNIX-like systems, for instance), it should be working just fine within a short amount of time. Yes, it may not be the most responsive system for a little while, but it sure hasn't crashed.
Would my server straight out die? Of course not. It would queue the messages for as long as possible, and if the server happened to run out of disk space, it would begin rejecting the messages. The one thing it would not do is crash.
Perhaps it is time for that business to invest in a more modern mail server. Indeed, even the lowliest of Dell servers running Linux or FreeBSD can easily handle 5 million email messages, even if sent in a very short period of time. A large amount of mail should never cause the server to completely crash, even if it does consume much bandwidth and cause other delays.
What sort of transcoding do you do, Professor Norton?
Your penis did a fine job presenting that argument. I, for one, am convinced!
Please teach your comrades in Kansas about how "intelligent" design is pure bullshit. Knock some sense into them, even if they aren't Catholic. Do it for the sake of your nation's economy. After all, America needs to stay amongst the leaders in science if they wish to remain a superpower, rather than becoming just another ideological shitpile.
Like I said, American scientists are forced to perform their science in other nations because there is a hostile attitude towards them in the US. In this particular case they became scientific refugees in Canada. Your point proves I was and am correct.
Indeed, it sounds like these people are scientific refugees, victims of the anti-science trend taking a hold in the US.
Between the extremists trying to force theology into science classes, and an administration which is plain anti-scientific in its own right, things just aren't looking up. At least science will progress elsewhere, even if it is not in the United States.
If SGI does go under, it looks like we will see the demise of yet another commercial UNIX. Just a few years back we had Wind River outright destroy BSD/OS. Tru64 basically died after the HP/Compaq merger. SCO UnixWare and OpenServer aren't in a very sound position, either. And if SGI does meet its demise, we may very well lose IRIX.
Indeed, the UNIX world will not be better off with less competition. Competition is what breeds innovation. That said, at least the source code to Solaris has been released. It will live on, even if Sun goes out of business. And at least Linux was able to gain XFS from IRIX, arguably one of its most prized features.
Don't waste your time with Fedora. It is a subpar Linux distribution, especially if you have serious work to get done. Indeed, your best bet is to use basically any other general purpose Linux distribution, including Debian, SuSE, and Slackware. Just avoid Fedora. As you have found, the quality is severely lacking.
When the market is too regulated, a black market often emerges. Why is that? Because economics trumps legal bullshit.
What will happen? Somebody will buy $1000 worth of circuits, or they'll obtain them from countries with a higher level of freedom. Then they'll proceed to unofficially sell them domestically to individuals. There will be Al Capones of analog technology.
Don't try to figure out which is more guilty. They're both just as horrible. Remember, there is very little real difference between Democrats and Republicans today. Indeed, they both share the same interests, and those are not the interests of the majority of American citizens. Thus you get crap like this, which serves the interests of a very, very small handful of people, at the expense of basically everyone else.
PWC does, apparently.
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No, I mentioned the examples and their horrible quality way back in my original post: "The example programs aren't exactly that good, either. They lack comments that truly describe what is going on, what pitfalls to watch out for, and so on."
I read the book you linked to. It is about creating XUL applications on top of Mozilla. It is not about embedding Mozilla within existing applications. Hence it is useless.
The examples are basically useless to much around with. They are poorly documented, and are meant more as tests than as practical examples.
That newsgroup gets very little activity. I'm not about to waste my time there.
I know about the examples. They are the ones I mentioned earlier, had you bothered to read my posts. Take a look at them. They're very poorly commented, and the overall quality is poor. They're meant more as quick tests than they are as examples of any merit.
Frankly, people who are developing serious projects (that is, often for money) with Mozilla do not have time to "muck around" with examples, especially ones of atrocious quality. We need solid documentation that is up-to-date, accurate, helpful and with clear, well-engineered examples. The Mozilla project is not providing that, and if they want widespread adoption of their browser, they most likely should offer high-quality documentation and examples.
It's widely known that they're written at that level. But you have to consider who reads them. You rarely see children reading newspapers. You probably won't see a McDonald's employee reading a paper, nor will you see a construction worker or a clothing salesperson. You see business executives, university-level students, researchers and other people with a higher level of intelligence reading such material, even if it is written at a sixth grade level.
Most people don't have the time nor the resources to subscribe to multiple scientific/specialty journals, nor do they have time to attend parliament on a daily basis, or even to read the parliamentary transcripts.
That said, that's no excuse for newspapers to report blatantly false information. Going back to the example of the Iraqi invasion, every newspaper of any credibility should have torn Powell's UN presentation to pieces. It has nothing to do with politics. It just has to do with the fact that they're there to report fact, and thus the correct thing for them to do when presented with lies is to point out those lies for what they are.
Investigative reporting. That's still where the newspaper outpaces all other forms of news.
Except that they don't do that now, and probably won't in the future. Doing so to a professional degree would certainly cause severe annoyance to various advertisers and politicians. Soon enough ad space isn't bought, and press credentials are revoked. Then they're really fucked.
Have you checked the fan motor for faeces? Kids are known to throw their shit in all sorts of places on Halloween, including the camshafts of inflatable Frankenstein motors.
I'd say people end up being far more informed. Major newspapers will never present worthwhile news, because it is too costly for them. They most likely will not report on the misdeeds of major advertisers. Likewise, in America especially, if they question the administration they'll immediately lose their press access. Thus all they can do is put out bullshit, and hope that people continue to buy their papers. But it looks like people are catching on, and thus people aren't buying their papers.
Then again, many news websites are not as tied up. They can offer viewpoints that the major papers could never think of presenting. Even if their news is incorrect, it still may provoke thought in its readers, perhaps enough for them to investigate other news sources, and hence to make up their own mind based on the information they can obtain.
Truly, it is the newspapers who are killing themselves. Why is that? Because the quality of the reporting has dropped off substantially.
Take the New York Times. Between that Blair guy and now Miller, they've been shown to be nothing but a hack paper. Any newspaper that did not immediately point out the numerous lies of so many British and American politicians with regards to the ongoing war in Iraq falls into the same boat.
Intelligent people aren't going to pay money for ads and bullshit stories. And it's intelligent people who tend to read newspapers.
"Sack" as in fire him, or "sack" as in punch him square in the scrotum?
Frankly, I think he needs the punch before being fired.
Of course anyone who has any database experience uses at least PostgreSQL, if not something superior. That goes without saying. But then again, anyone who would use MySQL would most likely use PHP as well, and thus cannot be considered a person of any intelligence.