> How can I be a pirate if I paid for the content?
They have lots of money and therefore they are good and you are wrong and must be stopped and punished.
No, I mean really, why are you trying to apply logic to the situation? That is the fundamental basis of the system. They don't really even have to bribe politicians: anything that might have the slightest glimmer of "hurting the economy" must be punished with all due haste. And no, don't try to get logical on what hurts the economy. It just doesn't work like that. They want to hurt you and people in power want to let them. That is all.
Reductio ad absurdum? Perhaps. I find the modern world to be about that absurd anyway.
> Why do you Americans always make fun of Utah and\or New Jersey anyway???
Here's a quick rundown on regions and states:
* Utah - Mormons everywhere, running everything with a clean-cut friendly, smiling, family-friendly kind of theocratic fascism. The running gag is that the Mormon Church was one of the last to allow polygamy, and there's more than a few cultish types left there who actively practice it.
* New Jersey - Big chemical manufacturing industry presence "downstate" (i.e. the part near Jersey City), which gives the Garden State (no kidding, that's its nickname) its unique look and smell. The rest of the state is actually fairly pretty, for a giant suburb.
And limited time. And oh so ungodly-horrible intelligence. I have to take my sims to the bathroom, and it takes them an hour to navigate around the furniture, and another to do their business, if they even make it. I'd have enjoyed the game far more if it the sims weren't so damn slow, stiff, and stupid. The Sims 2 added diagonal paths and furniture placement, and made sims a tiny bit smarter about managing their bodily functions, but otherwise didn't improve on the state of the art. I couldn't even get through the demo.
If the Sims 3 adds a real actual 3d engine, I might get it, but it's really such a "couch game" for me that I can't just sit at a PC to play it anymore -- it's console or nothing for me. I actually enjoyed the Sims 1 "Busting Out" title on the PS2 more than the Sims 2 on the PC just because I could play it casually.
Meanwhile, my GF is addicted to Viva Piñata, and while I claim to be immune, I found myself late for work this morning because I tried to shoot for "just one more award".
Buffer cache does not show up in usage. What is showing up is prefetch, which apparently some drooling morons are incapable of turning off. Vista does in fact use too much memory -- Microsoft recently released a patch that dramatically reduces memory usage for many apps, and almost brings it down to XP's usage -- but this isn't anything I expect intelligent discussion about on slashdot. You have to go elsewhere for journalism.
> Is it possible to determine how many window handles have been allocated to a program?
Process Explorer. You can even break handles with it if you're sure they're not going to be used anymore (I used do this all the time with TortoiseCVS, but more recent versions seem to clean up better).
There's also a command-line tool from the same place (sysinternals) that lists handles, called strangely enough, "handle.exe". I find I have to run that one as the system user (which you can do with psexec -s from the pstools suite) in order to get much use out of it though.
> I'd like to see the people who pick them named and shamed for the damage they are doing to Linux adoption.
That would be one Mark Richard Shuttleworth. I think he's too busy in meetings with Dell and HP to talk to you right now, but I'll make sure he gets the message.
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> Does it work with Apache, or just J2EE containers?
It is a servlet, so it works with servlet containers. Like tomcat, resin, jetty, or those big ol JavaEE containers.
I'm not sure that tells you anything about why to use it though.
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Wicket's an example of a minimalist concept that refused to grow beyond it in order to satisfy some ideology of "purity". Refusing to support even a moral equivalent of taglibs is an example. Tapestry has always struck me as far more pragmatic, and Tapestry5 looks downright amazing. Seam with Facelets strikes me as an awesome solution, though you're dealing with an insanely complex stack (JSF) under the surface, and wherever JSF is inadequate and Seam doesn't cover for it, you're forced into workarounds that may have you ditching Java for your project altogether.
I'm an example of the last case -- a java burnout. We never needed scalability (internal apps with maybe 50 total users), so I'm back to cobbling together perl and python and even php now. Ironically, the need to glue these apps together has led to adopting more enterprisey stuff like SOAP and ESB's, but in a very ala-carte way. Useful enterprise apps remain grown, not engineered.
Firefox has a component named "libpr0n". It's developed by an organization named Mozilla (which also develops a full suite named Seamonkey), and the fundamental basis of its UI technology uses an XML namespace defined by a uri of, get ready for it, http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there. is.only.xul
If you are in the business of reselling a distribution, you may have a point. If you cannot sufficiently hide the development names of pieces of your system from dour humourless micromanagers, then you cannot do your job, full stop. This may or may not be your fault, but it's hardly a reason to keep dragging out the same tired old "the name is too silly" argument. Serious people take Mark Shuttleworth seriously, and it's not just because he has money.
Whoah. I've been doing sysadmin stuff for years, and I had no idea that TCPv4 even had anycast, let alone actual working services using it. Is this stuff covered in the Cisco CCNA/CCNP/CCIE books? I ought to crack those open again... (I only have the CCNA books and maybe one CCDP)
They do. On the front page of ubuntu.com. The only place I know of where they show up programmatically is in sources.list.
Anyway, corporate only cares when they're reselling. You saying it's hurting Ubuntu doesn't present any actual evidence that it is, and the bald assertion is hardly new or insightful.
Don't Ask Slashdot. All you'll get are a bunch of tired old rehashed snarky crap responses, half of them from people probably too young to even be working anyway. Ask a manager you respect. If you don't know any that you respect, you probably won't like the job anyway.
> Also, ditch the requirement to have function arguments in brackets.
Will not ever happen. Fortress on the other hand might be up your alley. I believe you can even overload the concatenation operator in Fortress. It may be aimed at fortran, but I imagine you could write whatever you like in in.
And BTW, perl got nothing whatsoever right about concatenation. It has a different operator for strings because it is incapable (without diving deep into internals) of telling the difference between strings and numbers.
All this stuff has already been done. All you're suggesting is moving shit around. I'd much rather see some radical language changes come with the next language, and it should certainly run on the JVM, but there's simply no reason it has to be Java.
I would argue that Scala is already the worthy successor language. Others would point at Fortress. Either way, all I care about as far as Java goes is that it evolve to help make those languages better and interoperate more.
> Nobody complained when Will Smith shot an evil alien disguised as a cute little girl.
Erm, a plywood figure of a little girl. Maybe I saw a different movie, because the whole gag was about seeing the stunned shock of everyone else in the room, and his explanation to Rip Torn's character about why he took that shot. I really am searching for some kind of connection to a serious point here.
Why should I have to download a local app just to crop and adjust levels on a picture I want to order prints from? I might not even have the image files on that PC.
> The SunRay servers ran like crap pretty much all the time and they were EXPENSIVE!!!
Sorry you couldn't hack it and/or got bad support. Other sites with sunrays work just fine. Maybe you cheaped out on the hardware -- it's not supposed to be any cheaper than desktops, it's just that desktop support is no longer a cost factor.
And sunrays are dumb terminals but otherwise have nothing to do with SAAS -- everything they run is very much "installed" on the server.
> Or is is just EASIER to let someone else do it for you so you can complain about it later?
That's the business model of pretty much all trade, yes. Make your own clothes, do you?
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> How can I be a pirate if I paid for the content?
They have lots of money and therefore they are good and you are wrong and must be stopped and punished.
No, I mean really, why are you trying to apply logic to the situation? That is the fundamental basis of the system. They don't really even have to bribe politicians: anything that might have the slightest glimmer of "hurting the economy" must be punished with all due haste. And no, don't try to get logical on what hurts the economy. It just doesn't work like that. They want to hurt you and people in power want to let them. That is all.
Reductio ad absurdum? Perhaps. I find the modern world to be about that absurd anyway.
> Why do you Americans always make fun of Utah and\or New Jersey anyway???
Here's a quick rundown on regions and states:
* Utah - Mormons everywhere, running everything with a clean-cut friendly, smiling, family-friendly kind of theocratic fascism. The running gag is that the Mormon Church was one of the last to allow polygamy, and there's more than a few cultish types left there who actively practice it.
* New Jersey - Big chemical manufacturing industry presence "downstate" (i.e. the part near Jersey City), which gives the Garden State (no kidding, that's its nickname) its unique look and smell. The rest of the state is actually fairly pretty, for a giant suburb.
> All while managing a budget.
And limited time. And oh so ungodly-horrible intelligence. I have to take my sims to the bathroom, and it takes them an hour to navigate around the furniture, and another to do their business, if they even make it. I'd have enjoyed the game far more if it the sims weren't so damn slow, stiff, and stupid. The Sims 2 added diagonal paths and furniture placement, and made sims a tiny bit smarter about managing their bodily functions, but otherwise didn't improve on the state of the art. I couldn't even get through the demo.
If the Sims 3 adds a real actual 3d engine, I might get it, but it's really such a "couch game" for me that I can't just sit at a PC to play it anymore -- it's console or nothing for me. I actually enjoyed the Sims 1 "Busting Out" title on the PS2 more than the Sims 2 on the PC just because I could play it casually.
Meanwhile, my GF is addicted to Viva Piñata, and while I claim to be immune, I found myself late for work this morning because I tried to shoot for "just one more award".
Traditionally, the Picts wore nothing but woad into battle. Picture that.
Buffer cache does not show up in usage. What is showing up is prefetch, which apparently some drooling morons are incapable of turning off. Vista does in fact use too much memory -- Microsoft recently released a patch that dramatically reduces memory usage for many apps, and almost brings it down to XP's usage -- but this isn't anything I expect intelligent discussion about on slashdot. You have to go elsewhere for journalism.
> Is it possible to determine how many window handles have been allocated to a program?
Process Explorer. You can even break handles with it if you're sure they're not going to be used anymore (I used do this all the time with TortoiseCVS, but more recent versions seem to clean up better).
There's also a command-line tool from the same place (sysinternals) that lists handles, called strangely enough, "handle.exe". I find I have to run that one as the system user (which you can do with psexec -s from the pstools suite) in order to get much use out of it though.
> I'd like to see the people who pick them named and shamed for the damage they are doing to Linux adoption.
That would be one Mark Richard Shuttleworth. I think he's too busy in meetings with Dell and HP to talk to you right now, but I'll make sure he gets the message.
> Does it work with Apache, or just J2EE containers?
It is a servlet, so it works with servlet containers. Like tomcat, resin, jetty, or those big ol JavaEE containers.
I'm not sure that tells you anything about why to use it though.
Wicket's an example of a minimalist concept that refused to grow beyond it in order to satisfy some ideology of "purity". Refusing to support even a moral equivalent of taglibs is an example. Tapestry has always struck me as far more pragmatic, and Tapestry5 looks downright amazing. Seam with Facelets strikes me as an awesome solution, though you're dealing with an insanely complex stack (JSF) under the surface, and wherever JSF is inadequate and Seam doesn't cover for it, you're forced into workarounds that may have you ditching Java for your project altogether.
I'm an example of the last case -- a java burnout. We never needed scalability (internal apps with maybe 50 total users), so I'm back to cobbling together perl and python and even php now. Ironically, the need to glue these apps together has led to adopting more enterprisey stuff like SOAP and ESB's, but in a very ala-carte way. Useful enterprise apps remain grown, not engineered.
Firefox has a component named "libpr0n". It's developed by an organization named Mozilla (which also develops a full suite named Seamonkey), and the fundamental basis of its UI technology uses an XML namespace defined by a uri of, get ready for it, http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there. is.only.xul
If you are in the business of reselling a distribution, you may have a point. If you cannot sufficiently hide the development names of pieces of your system from dour humourless micromanagers, then you cannot do your job, full stop. This may or may not be your fault, but it's hardly a reason to keep dragging out the same tired old "the name is too silly" argument. Serious people take Mark Shuttleworth seriously, and it's not just because he has money.
Whoah. I've been doing sysadmin stuff for years, and I had no idea that TCPv4 even had anycast, let alone actual working services using it. Is this stuff covered in the Cisco CCNA/CCNP/CCIE books? I ought to crack those open again... (I only have the CCNA books and maybe one CCDP)
I'm inclined to agree with the other respondent: the problem was not the name.
Why Ubuntu on the server anyway? For support? Vanilla debian would do just as well otherwise.
> Sure you can use the 7.10 number
They do. On the front page of ubuntu.com. The only place I know of where they show up programmatically is in sources.list.
Anyway, corporate only cares when they're reselling. You saying it's hurting Ubuntu doesn't present any actual evidence that it is, and the bald assertion is hardly new or insightful.
> participants will gather in conference rooms
This cracks me up like you wouldn't believe. Think about it for a moment.
> I feel really sorry for whoever gets assigned the POP-CORN phone number.
I'd love to have it. I'd sell ads, make a damn fortune.
Don't Ask Slashdot. All you'll get are a bunch of tired old rehashed snarky crap responses, half of them from people probably too young to even be working anyway. Ask a manager you respect. If you don't know any that you respect, you probably won't like the job anyway.
> Also, ditch the requirement to have function arguments in brackets.
Will not ever happen. Fortress on the other hand might be up your alley. I believe you can even overload the concatenation operator in Fortress. It may be aimed at fortran, but I imagine you could write whatever you like in in.
And BTW, perl got nothing whatsoever right about concatenation. It has a different operator for strings because it is incapable (without diving deep into internals) of telling the difference between strings and numbers.
All this stuff has already been done. All you're suggesting is moving shit around. I'd much rather see some radical language changes come with the next language, and it should certainly run on the JVM, but there's simply no reason it has to be Java.
I would argue that Scala is already the worthy successor language. Others would point at Fortress. Either way, all I care about as far as Java goes is that it evolve to help make those languages better and interoperate more.
Replyeth the media: "Our take sells more papers. We stand by our story."
> Nobody complained when Will Smith shot an evil alien disguised as a cute little girl.
Erm, a plywood figure of a little girl. Maybe I saw a different movie, because the whole gag was about seeing the stunned shock of everyone else in the room, and his explanation to Rip Torn's character about why he took that shot. I really am searching for some kind of connection to a serious point here.
> Flash-based image editing online!
Why should I have to download a local app just to crop and adjust levels on a picture I want to order prints from? I might not even have the image files on that PC.
> The SunRay servers ran like crap pretty much all the time and they were EXPENSIVE!!!
Sorry you couldn't hack it and/or got bad support. Other sites with sunrays work just fine. Maybe you cheaped out on the hardware -- it's not supposed to be any cheaper than desktops, it's just that desktop support is no longer a cost factor.
And sunrays are dumb terminals but otherwise have nothing to do with SAAS -- everything they run is very much "installed" on the server.
> Or is is just EASIER to let someone else do it for you so you can complain about it later?
That's the business model of pretty much all trade, yes. Make your own clothes, do you?
> Is that a threat?
Yes. One guy on slashdot controls the nation's food supply and will cut it off if he doesn't get fast internet.
Maybe we need to focus on education more than broadband.
Credibility on slashdot. What a treasured commodity. You think the GGP was a serious policy discussion?
This is what gets me about greenies, they seem incapable of logical thought and of being critical of any process branded environmentally friendly.
If you think the "greenies" are radical, take a look at the homicidal mullahs that you're funnelling billions of dollars to every year.