Maybe a sript like cvstosvn could be modified to do a full project(starting from ci #1) co and ci into the target repo? It might put a lot of traffic on target server, but I can't see why it couldn't work.
I don't doubt that that is the case, but I do think that that approach is over-kill for a problem that should have a quick and dirty solution. Associating short text strings with a particular piece of content is easy, and any programmer who does any coding for the web can implement that (why we have so many approaches in the first place). On the other hand, implementing a standard is usually pretty involved and mostly best left to 'experts'. To use the thesauri that you mention, would you not have to reference whole books full of subject headings to stick to the standard? There is also the issue of keeping up to date with the latest set of headings. Sure these things can all be implemented in libraries or with some kind of web service, but the knowledge required to do those things is beyond many inexperienced programmers. Any standard for tagging should be as easily accessible to novice site developers as to the big players (something like RSS comes to mind).
Syntactically that would probably work fine, however, it won't add anything in the way of semantics, which is what the article covers. i.e. What types of text to actually put inside of the tags, spaces/no-spaces, etc.
How do you standardize something that has not been widely implemented before? It's great to say that it would be good idea to have one standard practice for tagging, but which one? There's no reason to make a huge fuss about this until it a least one clear contender for standardization emerges (which will probably happen on its own).
Not everyone has the option of integrating a whole ajax toolkit into their work.
Anyway, ajax is far from the only thing that firebug is useful for. The error reporting makes it a lot easier to track down and repair general javascript problems than with the existing console.
I haven't personally bought one, but I get the sense that you're pretty likely to get a all-round steaming pile from MDG anyway. They sell cut-rate hardware and I know of one Ontario University that specifically recommends that their students not buy from them because of the poor support. It doesn't surprise me that they would pull tricks like you describe.
You're on the right track but your examples are faulty. Apple does allow you to run Windows(and other OS's) on their hardware, Microsoft doesn't prevent sony from developing games for the 360 and Ford dealers don't prevent Nissan dealers from selling Fords (like in the case of trade-ins). You're right in that this is all about Sony maintaining an iron grip on what their products are used for, which is what the GP was getting at as well.
Exactly my point, that is for KDE 4, not 3. That's where the more trouble than it's worth comes in. Doing a significant rewrite of a big peace of code to improve performance can be a huge job, but if you're rewriting the whole thing for a new major version it's not much more work to optimize your algorithms and data structures along the way. For the same reason, the next major version of Gnome may very well also have improved performance.
There aren't an infinite number of places where you can improve memory usage. It may be that both Gnome and KDE have reached a point where improving memory use any further would require more effort than it's worth for the expected gain.
I wouldn't rush to call it pairity yet. It may be that Falcon brings MySQL into to paritiy with Postgres but we'll probably have to wait and see. My gut feeling is that Falcon may not be as mature as the storage engine used by Postgres, and may not be for some time.
My suspicion is that no matter what they say in their FAQ, they will continue to provide support for other Linux flavours(for the big customers at least). Do you think a customer Like Amazon which probably has 1000's (or more) Oracle installations is going to migrate the OS's on all of those machines? Not likely. The second you start letting vendors dictate major components in your IT infrastructure is the second you're screwed.
With so many 're-sales' I'm sure that including online data wouldn't be much more useful. The shipment numbers in the summary seem pretty consistant with what has been reported on/. and elsewhere anyway. If that is the case, then where would online sales have room to fit in?
I would think that being aware of a subpoena referring to anti-trust litigation is well within the the responsibilities of a PR dept. of a large corporation.
In sports it doesn't work that way. If there is a tie in the Olympics for example, then places that follow the tie are eliminated from the standings. For this list, the places would be:
1.EVE
1.Guild Wars
1.Everquest
4.Dark Age
6.*next game on the list*
I'll also point out, as stated in the article, that no more than 800 site will be affected. As long as the number of sites stays small and is limited to child pornography, then I don't have a problem with it. If they start adding different types of sites, that's another issue entirely.
The same results have been acheived using the magic of.. a mirror.
Amputee is sat down at a table with a mirror in front of them so they can see a reflection of their existing arm. By seeing the reflection of the other arm, they can 'trick' their brains into thinking that a phantom limb twisted in an uncomforable position has moved.
Obviously won't work if they have lost both of a pair of limbs though.
Unless Chun has changed the focus a lot, the book takes a fairly introductory stance on things. There's a lot of material explaining programming practices, OO and so on. If you're experienced with C/Perl/*nix development, you're probably better off with an O'Reilly book, or something else that has more reference material.
It sounds like the ultimate act of pretension to me. Unisys: 'We'll just toss a bunch of ads where those guys will see them and they'll just come running!'.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, that looks like a handy tool as well. I'll have to bookmark that site for later.
Correction, I meant cvs2svn
Here's the project page http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/
Maybe a sript like cvstosvn could be modified to do a full project(starting from ci #1) co and ci into the target repo? It might put a lot of traffic on target server, but I can't see why it couldn't work.
I don't doubt that that is the case, but I do think that that approach is over-kill for a problem that should have a quick and dirty solution. Associating short text strings with a particular piece of content is easy, and any programmer who does any coding for the web can implement that (why we have so many approaches in the first place). On the other hand, implementing a standard is usually pretty involved and mostly best left to 'experts'. To use the thesauri that you mention, would you not have to reference whole books full of subject headings to stick to the standard? There is also the issue of keeping up to date with the latest set of headings. Sure these things can all be implemented in libraries or with some kind of web service, but the knowledge required to do those things is beyond many inexperienced programmers. Any standard for tagging should be as easily accessible to novice site developers as to the big players (something like RSS comes to mind).
Syntactically that would probably work fine, however, it won't add anything in the way of semantics, which is what the article covers. i.e. What types of text to actually put inside of the tags, spaces/no-spaces, etc.
How do you standardize something that has not been widely implemented before? It's great to say that it would be good idea to have one standard practice for tagging, but which one? There's no reason to make a huge fuss about this until it a least one clear contender for standardization emerges (which will probably happen on its own).
Not everyone has the option of integrating a whole ajax toolkit into their work. Anyway, ajax is far from the only thing that firebug is useful for. The error reporting makes it a lot easier to track down and repair general javascript problems than with the existing console.
I haven't personally bought one, but I get the sense that you're pretty likely to get a all-round steaming pile from MDG anyway. They sell cut-rate hardware and I know of one Ontario University that specifically recommends that their students not buy from them because of the poor support. It doesn't surprise me that they would pull tricks like you describe.
You're on the right track but your examples are faulty. Apple does allow you to run Windows(and other OS's) on their hardware, Microsoft doesn't prevent sony from developing games for the 360 and Ford dealers don't prevent Nissan dealers from selling Fords (like in the case of trade-ins). You're right in that this is all about Sony maintaining an iron grip on what their products are used for, which is what the GP was getting at as well.
Exactly my point, that is for KDE 4, not 3. That's where the more trouble than it's worth comes in. Doing a significant rewrite of a big peace of code to improve performance can be a huge job, but if you're rewriting the whole thing for a new major version it's not much more work to optimize your algorithms and data structures along the way. For the same reason, the next major version of Gnome may very well also have improved performance.
There aren't an infinite number of places where you can improve memory usage. It may be that both Gnome and KDE have reached a point where improving memory use any further would require more effort than it's worth for the expected gain.
Sometimes you just can't win. Our building has a roof that leaks, sometimes right along the wall next to our development server :-(
I wouldn't rush to call it pairity yet. It may be that Falcon brings MySQL into to paritiy with Postgres but we'll probably have to wait and see. My gut feeling is that Falcon may not be as mature as the storage engine used by Postgres, and may not be for some time.
Here's another picture that looks less bogus.. html?qs=;s=66;w=480
http://www.wftv.com/slideshow/news/2691965/detail
I recommend looking at the rest of the gallery too, there's some pretty fun stuff.
My suspicion is that no matter what they say in their FAQ, they will continue to provide support for other Linux flavours(for the big customers at least). Do you think a customer Like Amazon which probably has 1000's (or more) Oracle installations is going to migrate the OS's on all of those machines? Not likely. The second you start letting vendors dictate major components in your IT infrastructure is the second you're screwed.
With so many 're-sales' I'm sure that including online data wouldn't be much more useful. The shipment numbers in the summary seem pretty consistant with what has been reported on /. and elsewhere anyway. If that is the case, then where would online sales have room to fit in?
S3 is still producing new 3d processors, just not terribly great ones.
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=5648
I would think that being aware of a subpoena referring to anti-trust litigation is well within the the responsibilities of a PR dept. of a large corporation.
In sports it doesn't work that way. If there is a tie in the Olympics for example, then places that follow the tie are eliminated from the standings.
For this list, the places would be:
1.EVE
1.Guild Wars
1.Everquest
4.Dark Age
6.*next game on the list*
I'll also point out, as stated in the article, that no more than 800 site will be affected. As long as the number of sites stays small and is limited to child pornography, then I don't have a problem with it. If they start adding different types of sites, that's another issue entirely.
The same results have been acheived using the magic of.. a mirror.
Amputee is sat down at a table with a mirror in front of them so they can see a reflection of their existing arm. By seeing the reflection of the other arm, they can 'trick' their brains into thinking that a phantom limb twisted in an uncomforable position has moved.
Obviously won't work if they have lost both of a pair of limbs though.
Unless Chun has changed the focus a lot, the book takes a fairly introductory stance on things. There's a lot of material explaining programming practices, OO and so on. If you're experienced with C/Perl/*nix development, you're probably better off with an O'Reilly book, or something else that has more reference material.
Wouldn't that be unstructuring? Isn't restructuring supposed to help you make sales instead of loose them ??!
That would be a clever tie in and it's almost the first thing that came to my mind.
It sounds like the ultimate act of pretension to me. Unisys: 'We'll just toss a bunch of ads where those guys will see them and they'll just come running!'.