*NOT* that there has been an implementation of true communism
It should be illustrative then, that that it's been tried and failed repeatedly, that communism has been shown to pander even more to powermongers and despots than most alternatives?
It seems to me this "that isn't true communism" argument is a variation of the "no true scotsman" fallacy, that one need merely disown as "not _true_ members of xyz" anyone who provides an example of reprehensible behavior. I see it all the time when debating religious zealots -- they may believe in a god that has a compelling personal interest in regulating your behavior and your very beliefs on pain of suffering and death (or at the least, social condemnation), but they suddenly become moderate when actual examples of the actions taken by the earthly agents of such a god are put forward, and I hear "oh but those weren't _real_ christians/muslims".
I've diverged a bit, but I think the parallels with communist apologists should be pretty clear.
Seriously, you'd probably have a locally cached list of providers for the ISBN scheme, so clicking the ISBN URN would consult the providers who would map it to a URL or choice of URL's (obviously need an interface for that, a search results window is probably appropriate). A librarian would probably want the library of congress, a home user might want amazon or bn. Browsers should probably be set up to use a sidebar to display the possible sources.
People and organizations are already providing this information. The interface to it just isn't all that uniform for a lot of it.
I apologize, I came off too strong and flaming. I can see the use of separate windows with separate tabs -- multiple desktops spring immediately to mind. All I ask for is a way to flip the defaults around, or some customization of feature of "new window opens in new tab". I don't think this is so much a poweruser thing as it is making tabbed browsing more of a default mode of operation instead of an add-on you stumble across.
As noted, there's an extension that handles this. I'm used to the idea of needing to pick a half-dozen extensions for Firebird before it really gets to the usability level I need -- it's sort of like picking options on cars. It'd be nice to have something like options selection on a download or initial install page for firebird, a menu to choose the extensions you want, chosen from a short list of extensions that meet stringent packaging and quality standards.
Still need a more robust DNS component before I can move my tools from perl scripts to a client-side web app (lots of asynchronous operations, no way do I want to handle it with a server-side web app). I'm told Firebird now compiles with mingw/msys, so I may give a shot at hacking in support for it myself.
Incidentally, I'm a solid emacs user, I spend more than half of my development time hacking on a 2000+ line elisp app.
I dunno, maybe because every other tabbed browser behaves that way? Mozilla didn't invent the concept. Play along. Or give me a preference to map the key that doesn't involve hacking obscure files.
Oh, I forgot, purity of essence is more important than consistency.
> that bugs me is that there's no way to make a call that will return multiple pieces of data over a long period.
With a SAX-based XML parser, you can stream data back in as leisurely a pace as you want and have your client react immediately to whatever tag delimits your message boundaries.
As for overhead, I'm in agreement there: the overhead of TCP/IP is definitely minimal compared to the cost of marshalling RPC data to begin with. TCP/IP can be tuned anyway, and it'll almost certainly be faster and more robust than something that tries to reinvent it over UDP.
So why doesn't Firebird support it intelligently out of the box. Out of Opera, Firebird, and two tabbed IE-based browsers, Firebird is still the only one that opens all new windows from popups (some popups are okay, people) in, well, a new *window* and not a tab. Ctrl-N opens a new *window*, not a tab. How about a little sensible out of the box behavior there? Not all of us are running XP with stacked taskbar buttons (and even then XP doesn't do much there).
And how about not scrolling the window when the selection extends past the visible screen but the pointer wasn't? Selecting a few rows from a table or otherwise nested element should not cause my browser to "wig out".
Would also love to see XPCOM's DNS component handle record types other than A records, otherwise I'm still having to write CGI's in perl with weird redirect and server push hacks to trickle in DNS information (don't ask, it's complicated) for what would otherwise be a straightforward client-side javascript application. Heck, I'll settle for updated documentation on IDNSService and related components. Otherwise it's java all the way, and I really don't want to go there.
> HTML email is an abomination that must be stopped. It's bigger than necessary, it's ugly and it's the spammer's friend....he says, hyperlinking the word "abomination".
> After comparing the/. headline with the actual content of the email, I wonder what exactly/. *does* check on before they post these...I feel like they're trolling for a bunch of misinformed readers to overreact.
Loyalty - If your previous employer was involved in something illegal or you were seriously underappreciated at your old job that is one thing, but to leave a decent job for a bit of a raise shows where your loyalties lie.
Yep, with myself. The notion of corporate loyalty is dead. I mean, most companies will fire me and the whole department to save a few bucks, so why shouldn't I with a clear conscience leave when it's to my own gain?
> Does anyone else get the feeling that the authors of all of these anti-GTA articles haven't actually played the game?
Are you kidding? I suspect the article was paid for by Take Two to raise buzz about the game. Nothing sells like controversy.
There's two publications that still seem to get a lot of press that even a media eclecticist (is that a word?) like myself can dismiss out of hand: The Register, and the New York Post. Seriously, they're rags.
> Do you really think people who run such a database don't know how to configure it?
You haven't been in many corporate db environments, have you? I've seen six figures worth of Oracle database treated like MS Access before. "Index a date? Why would anyone want to search a customer database by date?"
Head meets wall repeatedly. Unfortunately, it's just my own.
Officials say at least one of three suicide bombers who barely missed the presidential convoy appears to have been a foreigner, raising suspicions that the attack that killed 15 people whole take on spam is that everything needs to be done on the user end. Laws have loopholes in every situation (foreign spammers being a large one,) It works _wonders_ for me, and I'd love to see more people use it retailers wished for mountains of plastic gift cards on Friday as they kicked off their annual after-Christmas blitz, the last chance to salvage a disappointing holiday season.
Check out the action here http://getyerpornhere.com
Also, there's the issue of viral spammers.. Those that send out viruses to do the spamming for them. If you infect enough, 8000 mails per day per computer
> I can't see how this differs from the concept of a notary
A notary is simply an officially licensed witness to a signing. Escrow involves actual property being moved (or in this case, intellectual property being copied) into another location.
The acts of document storage are wholly orthogonal to the function of notary publics. The USA most certainly has both. Do at least pick up a yellow pages and flip to "N" before levelling criticisms.
This by definition is not O(1), unless the queue is bounded. Then what happens, does it just not schedule anything?
I mean, I could consider the travelling salesman problem to be O(1) if my algorithm consists of the following steps:
1. Solve the problem.
Sorry to be flip here, but when I hear of queues, the best behavior I can think of is O(log n) (priority queue). I'm just not seeing the constant bound here. Maybe if the article actually explained how it worked...
The original article was MUCH MUCH more in depth it was toned down because of the "glaze over" effect people were getting. I didn't have much say in the editorial process in the matter.
Good lord.. considered syndication then? Because that article was absolutely empty of useful content, and I'd like to get to the actual meat of the article if you did indeed put technical detail in there.
Seriously, demand a reprint. They are destroying your career over there by making you look about as knowledgable as a the average PC Week technology columnist. Or maybe helping it by sanding off the sharp edges of content from your style... seems no article can possibly stand technical detail, even one aimed at an audience of people interested in a damn operating system kernel.
Sorry, I get a little steamed when talked down to...
> How long can someone that age live with a broken heart?
Sheer power of ego. He knows it, probably not even deep down. But he's so insufferably prideful he can't admit it to anyone. He may have partially convinced himself.
Or maybe he grew some brain cells and decided this is how he can sell the story. Or perhaps he's really a scheming genius who plans to abscond with the cash from the mortgage, made up some nigerian scam cover story after getting a scam mail, and will leave his wife holding the bag while he lives it up in the tropics somewhere. Hanlon's razor says probably neither of these is true. I guess his wife loses either way.
It's hard to get any less representational than nethack... in some ways it's not all that abstract though, given all the distinct objects with clear and obvious effects, unlike the more nebulous forms of board control in Chess or Go. Abstract would be the D&D combat system. Really abstract would be ProgressQuest.
I really wish I could still get excited about roguelikes though. I had this idea a while back to make a roguelike game using unicode characters to expand the tile repitoire without having to be an artist, but I just can't imagine anyone besides myself playing it. It's not for some idea of popularity or glory, it's that I'd really like to entertain and interest people. I guess unless I come up with something that totally breaks the mold instead of advancing the art, it's just never going to fly without 10K+ man-hours in 3D art at least..
> Naturally, I chose FreeBSD. Now that I think about it, I wish I ran FreeBSD from the start, as it's an awsome OS.
And wink wink, naturally you don't have to tell him about/compat/linux for those times when you really do need a Linux program. And if they notice, then well, it's an emulator, no Linux code in there, nosiree...
Sucks if you need a device or filesystem that only Linux supports though...
I eagerly awaited Ultima IX year after year, delay after delay. I was awed by what I saw was going in to it, and struck by the real beauty of it. It came out, I rushed out and bought it, and installed it.
What a turd. Took days to get my system to run the damn thing, then it got about 5 FPS. The music might have been nice, but the "environmental sound" sounded like I was tromping through the marble clad city hall in hobnailed boots. The avatar's voice acting sounded like someone who walked in hung over, rattled off some lines, then walked out with their check. Lord British sends you on your quest like he was asking you to pick up some balogna at 7-11. But the bugs, bugs, bugs, the jerkiness, the slowness... I couldn't take it, and I wiped it off in disgust before getting any real distance into the game. I stopped getting excited about upcoming titles after that.
Nice troll. Those morons claim, among other things, that MySQL is broken because if you define an integer as "NOT NULL" that because MySQL doesn't automatically assume the integer should be NULL, it is a bug. WTF
Let me 'splain something real clear. When a column says NOT NULL, and you attempt to explicitly insert a NULL, that's an error in a real database. In MySQL land, it says "oh you really meant zero/empty string". MySQL puts a default in every column, whether you specified one or not. When I say NOT NULL, I mean NOT NULL, not "convert all NULLS to something else".
I suppose I could try NOT NULL DEFAULT NULL... that sort of construct invites some comment even I might construe as a troll though...
And that's just one of the multitude of data integrity problems MySQL has. Undefined behavior if your autoincrement columns overflow. Feel free to use your stunning rhetorical technique to address the other problems addressed on the site.
If only it were MySQL just lacking features that would, after much mudslinging at the ideas themselves, be grudgingly retrofitted into a new table type. MySQL's brokenness goes deeper than that.
MySQL's attitude toward data integrity can be summed up as "if the constraint can't be satisfied, do it half-assed anyway". I find myself having to write application code to manage data integrity with MySQL, something I can take for granted with a real database.
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*NOT* that there has been an implementation of true communism
It should be illustrative then, that that it's been tried and failed repeatedly, that communism has been shown to pander even more to powermongers and despots than most alternatives?
It seems to me this "that isn't true communism" argument is a variation of the "no true scotsman" fallacy, that one need merely disown as "not _true_ members of xyz" anyone who provides an example of reprehensible behavior. I see it all the time when debating religious zealots -- they may believe in a god that has a compelling personal interest in regulating your behavior and your very beliefs on pain of suffering and death (or at the least, social condemnation), but they suddenly become moderate when actual examples of the actions taken by the earthly agents of such a god are put forward, and I hear "oh but those weren't _real_ christians/muslims".
I've diverged a bit, but I think the parallels with communist apologists should be pretty clear.
> what does ISBN:1-84146986-4 take you to?
:)
Google
Seriously, you'd probably have a locally cached list of providers for the ISBN scheme, so clicking the ISBN URN would consult the providers who would map it to a URL or choice of URL's (obviously need an interface for that, a search results window is probably appropriate). A librarian would probably want the library of congress, a home user might want amazon or bn. Browsers should probably be set up to use a sidebar to display the possible sources.
People and organizations are already providing this information. The interface to it just isn't all that uniform for a lot of it.
I apologize, I came off too strong and flaming. I can see the use of separate windows with separate tabs -- multiple desktops spring immediately to mind. All I ask for is a way to flip the defaults around, or some customization of feature of "new window opens in new tab". I don't think this is so much a poweruser thing as it is making tabbed browsing more of a default mode of operation instead of an add-on you stumble across.
As noted, there's an extension that handles this. I'm used to the idea of needing to pick a half-dozen extensions for Firebird before it really gets to the usability level I need -- it's sort of like picking options on cars. It'd be nice to have something like options selection on a download or initial install page for firebird, a menu to choose the extensions you want, chosen from a short list of extensions that meet stringent packaging and quality standards.
Still need a more robust DNS component before I can move my tools from perl scripts to a client-side web app (lots of asynchronous operations, no way do I want to handle it with a server-side web app). I'm told Firebird now compiles with mingw/msys, so I may give a shot at hacking in support for it myself.
Incidentally, I'm a solid emacs user, I spend more than half of my development time hacking on a 2000+ line elisp app.
> Why should Ctrl-N open a new tab?
I dunno, maybe because every other tabbed browser behaves that way? Mozilla didn't invent the concept. Play along. Or give me a preference to map the key that doesn't involve hacking obscure files.
Oh, I forgot, purity of essence is more important than consistency.
> that bugs me is that there's no way to make a call that will return multiple pieces of data over a long period.
With a SAX-based XML parser, you can stream data back in as leisurely a pace as you want and have your client react immediately to whatever tag delimits your message boundaries.
As for overhead, I'm in agreement there: the overhead of TCP/IP is definitely minimal compared to the cost of marshalling RPC data to begin with. TCP/IP can be tuned anyway, and it'll almost certainly be faster and more robust than something that tries to reinvent it over UDP.
> Tabbed browsing *rocks*.
So why doesn't Firebird support it intelligently out of the box. Out of Opera, Firebird, and two tabbed IE-based browsers, Firebird is still the only one that opens all new windows from popups (some popups are okay, people) in, well, a new *window* and not a tab. Ctrl-N opens a new *window*, not a tab. How about a little sensible out of the box behavior there? Not all of us are running XP with stacked taskbar buttons (and even then XP doesn't do much there).
And how about not scrolling the window when the selection extends past the visible screen but the pointer wasn't? Selecting a few rows from a table or otherwise nested element should not cause my browser to "wig out".
Would also love to see XPCOM's DNS component handle record types other than A records, otherwise I'm still having to write CGI's in perl with weird redirect and server push hacks to trickle in DNS information (don't ask, it's complicated) for what would otherwise be a straightforward client-side javascript application. Heck, I'll settle for updated documentation on IDNSService and related components. Otherwise it's java all the way, and I really don't want to go there.
> HTML email is an abomination that must be stopped. It's bigger than necessary, it's ugly and it's the spammer's friend. ...he says, hyperlinking the word "abomination".
Accord, article was unbellyfeel verging thoughtcrime. Slashdot, duckspeak opsource futurewise!
> After comparing the /. headline with the actual content of the email, I wonder what exactly /. *does* check on before they post these...I feel like they're trolling for a bunch of misinformed readers to overreact.
YNHAY? (You're new here, aren't you?)
Loyalty - If your previous employer was involved in something illegal or you were seriously underappreciated at your old job that is one thing, but to leave a decent job for a bit of a raise shows where your loyalties lie.
Yep, with myself. The notion of corporate loyalty is dead. I mean, most companies will fire me and the whole department to save a few bucks, so why shouldn't I with a clear conscience leave when it's to my own gain?
> Does anyone else get the feeling that the authors of all of these anti-GTA articles haven't actually played the game?
Are you kidding? I suspect the article was paid for by Take Two to raise buzz about the game. Nothing sells like controversy.
There's two publications that still seem to get a lot of press that even a media eclecticist (is that a word?) like myself can dismiss out of hand: The Register, and the New York Post. Seriously, they're rags.
> Do you really think people who run such a database don't know how to configure it?
You haven't been in many corporate db environments, have you? I've seen six figures worth of Oracle database treated like MS Access before. "Index a date? Why would anyone want to search a customer database by date?"
Head meets wall repeatedly. Unfortunately, it's just my own.
(Switch to new slide, each word appears one by one with a
I'm
An
Ordinary
Guy
(Fly in from the sides, gigantic font in word art)
Burning Down The House
> Details: viral:01 barely:98 attack:98 spammers:98 annual:98 season:98 spammers:98 8000:98 user:01 i'd:02 missed:03 friday:04 appears:07 done:
Interesting... all the words it fired on had nothing whatsoever to do with the spam.
I can train my filter to weight the word "free" at 100% if I want too. Would tend to have negative consequences for my ACLU newsletters...
Officials say at least one of three suicide bombers who barely missed the presidential convoy appears to have been a foreigner, raising suspicions that the attack that killed 15 people whole take on spam is that everything needs to be done on the user end. Laws have loopholes in every situation (foreign spammers being a large one,) It works _wonders_ for me, and I'd love to see more people use it retailers wished for mountains of plastic gift cards on Friday as they kicked off their annual after-Christmas blitz, the last chance to salvage a disappointing holiday season.
Check out the action here http://getyerpornhere.com
Also, there's the issue of viral spammers.. Those that send out viruses to do the spamming for them. If you infect enough, 8000 mails per day per computer
Bayes that.
> I can't see how this differs from the concept of a notary
A notary is simply an officially licensed witness to a signing. Escrow involves actual property being moved (or in this case, intellectual property being copied) into another location.
The acts of document storage are wholly orthogonal to the function of notary publics. The USA most certainly has both. Do at least pick up a yellow pages and flip to "N" before levelling criticisms.
> The run queue is scanned
This by definition is not O(1), unless the queue is bounded. Then what happens, does it just not schedule anything?
I mean, I could consider the travelling salesman problem to be O(1) if my algorithm consists of the following steps:
1. Solve the problem.
Sorry to be flip here, but when I hear of queues, the best behavior I can think of is O(log n) (priority queue). I'm just not seeing the constant bound here. Maybe if the article actually explained how it worked...
The original article was MUCH MUCH more in depth it was toned down because of the "glaze over" effect people were getting. I didn't have much say in the editorial process in the matter.
.. considered syndication then? Because that article was absolutely empty of useful content, and I'd like to get to the actual meat of the article if you did indeed put technical detail in there.
Good lord
Seriously, demand a reprint. They are destroying your career over there by making you look about as knowledgable as a the average PC Week technology columnist. Or maybe helping it by sanding off the sharp edges of content from your style... seems no article can possibly stand technical detail, even one aimed at an audience of people interested in a damn operating system kernel.
Sorry, I get a little steamed when talked down to...
> How long can someone that age live with a broken heart?
Sheer power of ego. He knows it, probably not even deep down. But he's so insufferably prideful he can't admit it to anyone. He may have partially convinced himself.
Or maybe he grew some brain cells and decided this is how he can sell the story. Or perhaps he's really a scheming genius who plans to abscond with the cash from the mortgage, made up some nigerian scam cover story after getting a scam mail, and will leave his wife holding the bag while he lives it up in the tropics somewhere. Hanlon's razor says probably neither of these is true. I guess his wife loses either way.
It's hard to get any less representational than nethack ... in some ways it's not all that abstract though, given all the distinct objects with clear and obvious effects, unlike the more nebulous forms of board control in Chess or Go. Abstract would be the D&D combat system. Really abstract would be ProgressQuest.
I really wish I could still get excited about roguelikes though. I had this idea a while back to make a roguelike game using unicode characters to expand the tile repitoire without having to be an artist, but I just can't imagine anyone besides myself playing it. It's not for some idea of popularity or glory, it's that I'd really like to entertain and interest people. I guess unless I come up with something that totally breaks the mold instead of advancing the art, it's just never going to fly without 10K+ man-hours in 3D art at least..
> Naturally, I chose FreeBSD. Now that I think about it, I wish I ran FreeBSD from the start, as it's an awsome OS.
/compat/linux for those times when you really do need a Linux program. And if they notice, then well, it's an emulator, no Linux code in there, nosiree...
And wink wink, naturally you don't have to tell him about
Sucks if you need a device or filesystem that only Linux supports though...
> Hey, I'm sorry if we hurt your feelings or whatever, but management projected Linux was going to destroy us within 5 years
And management said "damned if we're going to let them beat us, we can sink the company faster than that!"
I eagerly awaited Ultima IX year after year, delay after delay. I was awed by what I saw was going in to it, and struck by the real beauty of it. It came out, I rushed out and bought it, and installed it.
... I couldn't take it, and I wiped it off in disgust before getting any real distance into the game. I stopped getting excited about upcoming titles after that.
What a turd. Took days to get my system to run the damn thing, then it got about 5 FPS. The music might have been nice, but the "environmental sound" sounded like I was tromping through the marble clad city hall in hobnailed boots. The avatar's voice acting sounded like someone who walked in hung over, rattled off some lines, then walked out with their check. Lord British sends you on your quest like he was asking you to pick up some balogna at 7-11. But the bugs, bugs, bugs, the jerkiness, the slowness
Nice troll. Those morons claim, among other things, that MySQL is broken because if you define an integer as "NOT NULL" that because MySQL doesn't automatically assume the integer should be NULL, it is a bug. WTF
... that sort of construct invites some comment even I might construe as a troll though...
Let me 'splain something real clear. When a column says NOT NULL, and you attempt to explicitly insert a NULL, that's an error in a real database. In MySQL land, it says "oh you really meant zero/empty string". MySQL puts a default in every column, whether you specified one or not. When I say NOT NULL, I mean NOT NULL, not "convert all NULLS to something else".
I suppose I could try NOT NULL DEFAULT NULL
And that's just one of the multitude of data integrity problems MySQL has. Undefined behavior if your autoincrement columns overflow. Feel free to use your stunning rhetorical technique to address the other problems addressed on the site.
If only it were MySQL just lacking features that would, after much mudslinging at the ideas themselves, be grudgingly retrofitted into a new table type. MySQL's brokenness goes deeper than that.
MySQL's attitude toward data integrity can be summed up as "if the constraint can't be satisfied, do it half-assed anyway". I find myself having to write application code to manage data integrity with MySQL, something I can take for granted with a real database.