> Certainly Gonzales hasn't been able to do anything in his official capacity, because the liberal propaganda machine has not let him do it.
Careful there, you're making "liberal" a good thing again. I mean geez, a liberal is someone that Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Ann Coulter all hate, and now it's someone who aims to put an end to the careers of the likes of Alberto Gonzales? Well hell, shove over Michael Moore, make some space on the left for me, and give me a liberal flag to wave.
> Why not take a note from actual software development and give licenses an inheritance hierarchy?
The lesson of software development is that people reinvent things rather than use base classes that don't entirely meet their needs.
I bet a few dozen of those licenses are just BSD 3-clause with the name of the copyright holder changed. And besides, licensing commercial software for redistribution is even more fraught with peril. No one is educated or swayed by this filler piece of an article. Licenses are hard. Deal.
Proper mail servers bounce during the SMTP session. Even AOL has LDAP integration so they can bounce during the SMTP session. If they can do it, anyone can. DynDNS is simply no longer doing accept-and-bounce, which is a GOOD thing. That they're not moving to an architecture that would prevent accept-and-bounce isn't so hot, but considering what they are, I don't see how they could. This makes them one of the few organizations that actually has an excuse.
I'm not one of the people that shouts how "email shouldn't be considered reliable", harkening back to the "good old days" when email was routinely eaten or delayed for days, but in a purely technical sense, email isn't a reliable datagram transport, and even though the RFC has a bunch of MUSTS (like 3.7) about reliable indicators, this is not enforced by the protocol. You have no guarantee that any human at the end even reads it anyway. Double these caveats when you're sending to such a chewing-gum-and-baling-twine type of infrastructure as a DynDNS hosted server.
I always counter "I have nothing to hide, so you have no reason to look. Got reasonable suspicion? Demonstrate it to a judge who grants you the authority and makes a record of it."
Apparently, a vague word like "reasonable" is the lynchpin of all liberty. We have to trust politicians to be reasonable. We're screwed.
Maybe the idea is to show how you could write your own killall, such as to find processes owned by a particular user or with more than X amount of CPU. On Windows, with the sysinternals PSTools, I can use pskill. Jeezub, that isn't the point.
And having to grep and awk output is a kludge that WMI/PSH scripting doesn't have to do. Sure it's fine if you want to do trivial things, but there's a reason people reach for perl in the end, and that has a lousy interactive shell, to say nothing of the syntax.
The VM speed is not Java's problem. The decrepit servlet architecture, which was designed from the start around one-thread-per-request, is. Anything that fixes this architecture is essentially a patch on a broken system. Even if you escape, you're going to find that many JavaEE components will have you buying stock in RAM manufacturers.
A good JMS provider is nice to have for HA though. Nothing like durable message storage to help you sleep well.
> But that's not a valid comparison - they're not *real* processes.
As far as erlang is concerned, they are. And if you want to glue erlang to the outside world without using an FFI, you can run erlang nodes in Java or Emacs Lisp (no kidding), and you can communicate with a node from the shell or even run erlang code on an ad-hoc node on the fly with erl_call.
I would be very surprised to see a database that didn't offer per-row callback functions in its call level API -- even SQLite has them. I won't hazard any guesses about MySQL, googling for the subject turned up too much PHP noise to be conclusive.
I actually find async programming with a good API to be easier, because everything's an event, and you don't have to design the flow of control of everything else around constantly returning to poll for results, or deal with the locking and race conditions if you do it threaded. Mind you, that's "with a good API", and those are far between.
All fiat money is short-term debt, actually. If all debts were settled today, the money would vanish. When the debt gets held where it won't circulate here, we issue some more debt, and that devalues the currency.
Have you noticed where the dollar is? Yes, that helps us import more goods cheaply... which just feeds the cycle.
> Trade deficit alarmism is pseudo-economics at its finest.
So is a hand-waving dismissal over their effects. Mercantilism is dead, but it doesn't mean deficits are harmless.
Various regulatory branches and legislators made up of in-bred idiots who have apparently never read the constitution have tried multiple times to pull such worthless crap and been shot down.
Shot down again and again and again and again and again and....
Eventually, they get some kind of "compromise" that sticks, but it always pushes in their direction. Then they start over again.
> If you abstract out enough, all you need is to eat, shit and sleep.
Yeah, except when someone craps where you sleep. Then we get laws to stop that.
(Go listen to Lenny Bruce's "Eat, Sleep, and Crap" sometime. It's great stuff)
It'd be nice actually, for my own country, the USA, to be taken down so many pegs that no one will harbor any more illusions about us being the emperors of the world, and maybe we'll all stop having to shoulder the cost of petty leaders, but I imagine we'll take the rest of the world down in a fit of infantile rage as it happens. Oh well, civilization was nice while it lasted.
Meh. At least Germany wears its totalitarian nomenclature on its sleeve. In the USA, the same department would be part of the Department of Commerce, created by part 79, paragraph 34, section 5(b) of the Oil Drilling and Cuddly Puppy Recognition Act.
My comments were for people capable of understanding the ambiguousness and vagaries of language.
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> Microsoft seems to prefer cheap tricks. And what's the worst thing that happens when someone fails? They pay to take the test again.
That's the same for pretty much every professional certification, including Cisco's, and the states bars just to name a couple. Are you suggesting that someone failing should be permanently blacklisted, or was this just a cheap-ass dig at microsoft?
CCNA is an entry level cert, as is MCSE. If the industry actually wants better qualifications, they'll demand a tougher exam.
Forth can be generated, sure, but at that point why not skip the middleman and generate assembly? For a forth chip, forth is ths ISA, so what you really have is just another target architecture. Now that we're talking about equal terms, what remains is the question: is the Zero-Operand Instruction Set architecture actually superior?
There's something to be said for starting again from fundamentals, but I doubt the SeaForth folks solved any of the basic design issues that Intel or AMD face. The ISA isn't everything, but you'd never know it from the advocacy that comes from c.l.f.
> But the assumption here seems to be that any censorship is inherently wrong
That would be an incorrect assumption when it comes to parents and minors, the workplace, or a number of other venues. Wal-Mart's censorship is more of a pandering to a moral code that aims to restrict virtually every expression of grown men and women. So yes, I consider it wrong. It's their right, and my right to not shop there, and I leave it at that.
Wal-Mart is in for trouble as their growth plateaus, because I can't think of any other retailer with a public image that's not only "uncool" (K-Mart and Target had that problem) but actively loathed with such passion -- and not just by customers, but by suppliers!
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> Certainly Gonzales hasn't been able to do anything in his official capacity, because the liberal propaganda machine has not let him do it.
Careful there, you're making "liberal" a good thing again. I mean geez, a liberal is someone that Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Ann Coulter all hate, and now it's someone who aims to put an end to the careers of the likes of Alberto Gonzales? Well hell, shove over Michael Moore, make some space on the left for me, and give me a liberal flag to wave.
> If that means Philips refused to license the tech to the porn industry, then it's no wonder the system failed.
It means you have been trolled, in classic AFU style.
As for "betamax porn": http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=2126
> Who makes a better machine? Dell, Compaq, HP, Packard Bell?
Yes, Yes, Yes (same company), and no. The last one is already gone.
> Please, I don't think so...
The analysts, the reviewers, and the market all say different. You rebel you.
> Why not take a note from actual software development and give licenses an inheritance hierarchy?
The lesson of software development is that people reinvent things rather than use base classes that don't entirely meet their needs.
I bet a few dozen of those licenses are just BSD 3-clause with the name of the copyright holder changed. And besides, licensing commercial software for redistribution is even more fraught with peril. No one is educated or swayed by this filler piece of an article. Licenses are hard. Deal.
Proper mail servers bounce during the SMTP session. Even AOL has LDAP integration so they can bounce during the SMTP session. If they can do it, anyone can. DynDNS is simply no longer doing accept-and-bounce, which is a GOOD thing. That they're not moving to an architecture that would prevent accept-and-bounce isn't so hot, but considering what they are, I don't see how they could. This makes them one of the few organizations that actually has an excuse.
I'm not one of the people that shouts how "email shouldn't be considered reliable", harkening back to the "good old days" when email was routinely eaten or delayed for days, but in a purely technical sense, email isn't a reliable datagram transport, and even though the RFC has a bunch of MUSTS (like 3.7) about reliable indicators, this is not enforced by the protocol. You have no guarantee that any human at the end even reads it anyway. Double these caveats when you're sending to such a chewing-gum-and-baling-twine type of infrastructure as a DynDNS hosted server.
Train stations are where trains come to a stop. My desk has a workstation.
I always counter "I have nothing to hide, so you have no reason to look. Got reasonable suspicion? Demonstrate it to a judge who grants you the authority and makes a record of it."
Apparently, a vague word like "reasonable" is the lynchpin of all liberty. We have to trust politicians to be reasonable. We're screwed.
Maybe the idea is to show how you could write your own killall, such as to find processes owned by a particular user or with more than X amount of CPU. On Windows, with the sysinternals PSTools, I can use pskill. Jeezub, that isn't the point.
And having to grep and awk output is a kludge that WMI/PSH scripting doesn't have to do. Sure it's fine if you want to do trivial things, but there's a reason people reach for perl in the end, and that has a lousy interactive shell, to say nothing of the syntax.
Car thieves have their own equivalent of script kiddies. They just repeat what works, over and over.
The VM speed is not Java's problem. The decrepit servlet architecture, which was designed from the start around one-thread-per-request, is. Anything that fixes this architecture is essentially a patch on a broken system. Even if you escape, you're going to find that many JavaEE components will have you buying stock in RAM manufacturers.
A good JMS provider is nice to have for HA though. Nothing like durable message storage to help you sleep well.
> But that's not a valid comparison - they're not *real* processes.
As far as erlang is concerned, they are. And if you want to glue erlang to the outside world without using an FFI, you can run erlang nodes in Java or Emacs Lisp (no kidding), and you can communicate with a node from the shell or even run erlang code on an ad-hoc node on the fly with erl_call.
I would be very surprised to see a database that didn't offer per-row callback functions in its call level API -- even SQLite has them. I won't hazard any guesses about MySQL, googling for the subject turned up too much PHP noise to be conclusive.
I actually find async programming with a good API to be easier, because everything's an event, and you don't have to design the flow of control of everything else around constantly returning to poll for results, or deal with the locking and race conditions if you do it threaded. Mind you, that's "with a good API", and those are far between.
> It's NOT a debt.
... which just feeds the cycle.
All fiat money is short-term debt, actually. If all debts were settled today, the money would vanish. When the debt gets held where it won't circulate here, we issue some more debt, and that devalues the currency.
Have you noticed where the dollar is? Yes, that helps us import more goods cheaply
> Trade deficit alarmism is pseudo-economics at its finest.
So is a hand-waving dismissal over their effects. Mercantilism is dead, but it doesn't mean deficits are harmless.
Various regulatory branches and legislators made up of in-bred idiots who have apparently never read the constitution have tried multiple times to pull such worthless crap and been shot down.
....
Shot down again and again and again and again and again and
Eventually, they get some kind of "compromise" that sticks, but it always pushes in their direction. Then they start over again.
> If you abstract out enough, all you need is to eat, shit and sleep.
Yeah, except when someone craps where you sleep. Then we get laws to stop that.
(Go listen to Lenny Bruce's "Eat, Sleep, and Crap" sometime. It's great stuff)
It'd be nice actually, for my own country, the USA, to be taken down so many pegs that no one will harbor any more illusions about us being the emperors of the world, and maybe we'll all stop having to shoulder the cost of petty leaders, but I imagine we'll take the rest of the world down in a fit of infantile rage as it happens. Oh well, civilization was nice while it lasted.
> "You bastard! You sold me 700 Terahertz!"
Yeah, but then they own the color purple. Take that, Alice Walker.
> A lot of the plots revolve around lame puns.
Can't be any worse than Piers Anthony then.
Then again, I can't really think of much of anything that's worse than Piers Anthony's books. Except maybe Piers Anthony himself.
Meh. At least Germany wears its totalitarian nomenclature on its sleeve. In the USA, the same department would be part of the Department of Commerce, created by part 79, paragraph 34, section 5(b) of the Oil Drilling and Cuddly Puppy Recognition Act.
> How does an operating system make claims?
My comments were for people capable of understanding the ambiguousness and vagaries of language.
> Microsoft seems to prefer cheap tricks. And what's the worst thing that happens when someone fails? They pay to take the test again.
That's the same for pretty much every professional certification, including Cisco's, and the states bars just to name a couple. Are you suggesting that someone failing should be permanently blacklisted, or was this just a cheap-ass dig at microsoft?
CCNA is an entry level cert, as is MCSE. If the industry actually wants better qualifications, they'll demand a tougher exam.
Maybe it cleans up you tubes?
Sorry.
Someone is sticking the "googleisevil" on every single article now. Time to turn tags off again, it's not like they've ever been useful.
Seriously what the hell, it's tags, how hard is it to do that right?
And how hard is it to get a fucking moderation system right. I've got more karma than your lame-ass mod points.
Someone is sticking the "googleisevil" on every single article now. Time to turn tags off again, it's not like they've ever been useful.
Seriously what the hell, it's tags, how hard is it to do that right?
Forth can be generated, sure, but at that point why not skip the middleman and generate assembly? For a forth chip, forth is ths ISA, so what you really have is just another target architecture. Now that we're talking about equal terms, what remains is the question: is the Zero-Operand Instruction Set architecture actually superior?
There's something to be said for starting again from fundamentals, but I doubt the SeaForth folks solved any of the basic design issues that Intel or AMD face. The ISA isn't everything, but you'd never know it from the advocacy that comes from c.l.f.
> But the assumption here seems to be that any censorship is inherently wrong
That would be an incorrect assumption when it comes to parents and minors, the workplace, or a number of other venues. Wal-Mart's censorship is more of a pandering to a moral code that aims to restrict virtually every expression of grown men and women. So yes, I consider it wrong. It's their right, and my right to not shop there, and I leave it at that.
Wal-Mart is in for trouble as their growth plateaus, because I can't think of any other retailer with a public image that's not only "uncool" (K-Mart and Target had that problem) but actively loathed with such passion -- and not just by customers, but by suppliers!