If the intention of the spec is to be able to read/write documents between products, then the spec is a failure. The tests clearly show this. I'm sort of inclined to say that aside from performance, and nasty schemas, this is yet another reason why xml sucks. If the spec allows you to extend things with arbitrary namespaces, then you can never hope for the degree of compatibility that people are hoping for.
Product developers are always going to inclined to one-up competitors by implementing features that other products don't. The apparent way to do that while still being "compliant", will be to add namespaces that are unknown to competing products.
Wow. I'm glad I'm reading this. I've been going for a year now without anti-virus on my windows pc at home for fear of installing some shit that slows my machine to a crawl. I had no idea symantec sucked this bad. I think I'll stay with my current procedure which is to do microsoft's online check once every week that's free. Probably isn't going to do much, but what the hell, it does seem to find unused items from your registry and remove them.
This is one of the major downfalls of the various opensource licenses. Just like another reader posted about the fragmentation of the linux dekstop applications, we have a worse problem with licensing. How can we expect commercial software vendors to extend, build upon, contribute, etc. if the geeks can't even explain what the license means. Can I link? Can I change and sell? Who's gonna sue me? It's way too complicated. The licensing thing. And it's the same theme as the desktop application world. What toolkit does a commercial software vendor use? KDE, QT, Gnome, Mono? I think the open source philosophy in general suffers from too much chaos.
There is apparently this interesting phenomenon in politics where the ruling party can do what the other party is traditionally known for and not take any public heat for it. For example, Obama is going to be able to cut corporate taxes and take a giant shit on your personal privacy, but because the republicans are typically known for this type of stuff, he'll be able to get away with it without the media making a big show of it on the 6 o'clock news. I'm not sure why it is, but I suspect that people just assume that it's the part sort of playing middle ground whereas the republicans would get hammered for ignoring the "little guy". FYI: This is in no way an endorsement of either party. As far as I'm concerned, they're all selfish bastards.
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I can see it now. In ten years from now the talk will be, remember that company that thought it could beat everyone at everything and wound up going out of business because they were spread so thing trying to solve every problem ever conceived.
I say we just fork into two completely separate projects to include the kernel all the way up to the last u.i. pixmap and share nothing. We can call them klinux, and glinux. This should make things crystal clear for everyone and get tons of commercial developement going for the linux desktop. Oh shit I forgot, we'll need a few custom distros so we can choose different package management systems, and probably a distro or two that will ship capable of playing mp3s, and certainly one that stallman approves of, and one that, ah fuck it.
I have a "Great Idea" which I fully intend to take complete credit for.
Dear Google Goons,
Make your search engine faster and better. And get rid of those stupid sponsored adds.
Here's the problem... What does the taxpayer get in return -IF- Telsa completely fails in the next year or so? We get to service some dickhead's new toy? At least with GM/Ford you can argue that you saved a huge number of jobs for a while. Assuming they continue their miserable demise and get their bailout. Who knows, they may even get lucky and pull through. With Tesla you can say you saved the a few dozen jobs for a year or so. Everyone is assuming that some investment in Telsa means they're going to rule the world. They have a battery powered sports car and nothing else. The big manufacturers ford, gm have real products that are being sold right now for affordable prices.
I don't think google is bored. I think they're in "Throw shit at the wall and see what sticks" mode. They've made themselves into a global superstar with their search engine, which in my opinion, is clearly the best for general search, but now what? Cell phones, online office apps, virtual worlds, green energy, web browsers. They even gotten into the business of giving money away with google.org.
And not a single one comes close to the success of the search engine. I'm betting google won't ever come close to producing anything remotely close to being as successful and influential as their search engine.
I was pretty slack-jawed the first time I ran a citrix app on windows. I asked a windows guy a couple times to explain how the hell this shit was working and he really didn't make much sense. I looks like something functionally similar to X. I get the windows login jingle when I start a remote app, so there's some remote-login going on. I'm not sure if it's a bitmap blip across the network, or what, but it's pretty nice.
Oh, and my unix shell tidbit. Prefix your command with '\' to bypass any alias. Good for when an NFS mount is really slow and ls is aliased to "ls -l --color'.
And as we see by the current turmoil in the financial world (including real-estate and soon to be credit card debt and student loans), the "Let do" approach is working wonders.
I've got ten bucks that says he was stoned while writing that. The letter is very scatter-brained. He sounds like he's at a frat party when he's arguing about the legality of marijuana. Not that I disagree, I'm just saying that when you write your good-bye letter resigning as the head of a hedge-fund, you're probably better off leaving the "weed talk" out.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx
At first I thought we finally had a real shell on windows, but we don't. Once you get used to it, it is much nicer than the cmd shell. You can access.NET/COM stuff from a powershell script.
e.g.
PS C:\Users\jake> $now = [DateTime]::Now
PS C:\Users\jake> [Console]::WriteLine($now)
10/10/2008 10:44:10 PM
PS C:\Users\jake>
The amazing part to me is that when people try to compare managed code -- like java or.NET -- to native code c, c+++ they make these wild claims about how much faster native code is. But they fail to mention that most of the managed code is running natively. And as far as your simulation, can you reasonably explain why it would be so much faster in c++ as opposed to say java that we would have to wait forever for it to finish?
FYI: RAD is short for radabonzical and not rapid application development, and guess what? PyPy is gonna beat out flash simply for namesake. Just think of all the new wrappers we can write. PyPyTk, PyPyGL, PyPyMySqlAdapter, PyPyList, Vector, etc. I'm totally psyched for PyPy. Or maybe we should write Gnome bindings... GnomePyPyHashSet. You can dance to that one.
Yes. The only thing that this shows is that lots of firefox users upgraded. I could even argue that this means that IE6 is more stable than firefox 2.0 because IE users don't need to upgrade.
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If the intention of the spec is to be able to read/write documents between products, then the spec is a failure. The tests clearly show this. I'm sort of inclined to say that aside from performance, and nasty schemas, this is yet another reason why xml sucks. If the spec allows you to extend things with arbitrary namespaces, then you can never hope for the degree of compatibility that people are hoping for. Product developers are always going to inclined to one-up competitors by implementing features that other products don't. The apparent way to do that while still being "compliant", will be to add namespaces that are unknown to competing products.
You mean emacs doesn't talk?
Can your shell do this? ls |where {$_.Length -gt 2000}|format-table Name, Length
find ./ -type f -and -size +6831433c -printf "%-50f %k\n"
Why not a time machine too?
Then again, maybe not.
Wow. I'm glad I'm reading this. I've been going for a year now without anti-virus on my windows pc at home for fear of installing some shit that slows my machine to a crawl. I had no idea symantec sucked this bad. I think I'll stay with my current procedure which is to do microsoft's online check once every week that's free. Probably isn't going to do much, but what the hell, it does seem to find unused items from your registry and remove them.
This is one of the major downfalls of the various opensource licenses. Just like another reader posted about the fragmentation of the linux dekstop applications, we have a worse problem with licensing. How can we expect commercial software vendors to extend, build upon, contribute, etc. if the geeks can't even explain what the license means. Can I link? Can I change and sell? Who's gonna sue me? It's way too complicated. The licensing thing. And it's the same theme as the desktop application world. What toolkit does a commercial software vendor use? KDE, QT, Gnome, Mono? I think the open source philosophy in general suffers from too much chaos.
There is apparently this interesting phenomenon in politics where the ruling party can do what the other party is traditionally known for and not take any public heat for it. For example, Obama is going to be able to cut corporate taxes and take a giant shit on your personal privacy, but because the republicans are typically known for this type of stuff, he'll be able to get away with it without the media making a big show of it on the 6 o'clock news. I'm not sure why it is, but I suspect that people just assume that it's the part sort of playing middle ground whereas the republicans would get hammered for ignoring the "little guy". FYI: This is in no way an endorsement of either party. As far as I'm concerned, they're all selfish bastards.
I can see it now. In ten years from now the talk will be, remember that company that thought it could beat everyone at everything and wound up going out of business because they were spread so thing trying to solve every problem ever conceived.
I say we just fork into two completely separate projects to include the kernel all the way up to the last u.i. pixmap and share nothing. We can call them klinux, and glinux. This should make things crystal clear for everyone and get tons of commercial developement going for the linux desktop. Oh shit I forgot, we'll need a few custom distros so we can choose different package management systems, and probably a distro or two that will ship capable of playing mp3s, and certainly one that stallman approves of, and one that, ah fuck it.
I have a "Great Idea" which I fully intend to take complete credit for. Dear Google Goons, Make your search engine faster and better. And get rid of those stupid sponsored adds.
Here's the problem... What does the taxpayer get in return -IF- Telsa completely fails in the next year or so? We get to service some dickhead's new toy? At least with GM/Ford you can argue that you saved a huge number of jobs for a while. Assuming they continue their miserable demise and get their bailout. Who knows, they may even get lucky and pull through. With Tesla you can say you saved the a few dozen jobs for a year or so. Everyone is assuming that some investment in Telsa means they're going to rule the world. They have a battery powered sports car and nothing else. The big manufacturers ford, gm have real products that are being sold right now for affordable prices.
Anyone remember this shit? http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html
I don't think google is bored. I think they're in "Throw shit at the wall and see what sticks" mode. They've made themselves into a global superstar with their search engine, which in my opinion, is clearly the best for general search, but now what? Cell phones, online office apps, virtual worlds, green energy, web browsers. They even gotten into the business of giving money away with google.org. And not a single one comes close to the success of the search engine. I'm betting google won't ever come close to producing anything remotely close to being as successful and influential as their search engine.
Whatever happened to the "first post" comments?
I was pretty slack-jawed the first time I ran a citrix app on windows. I asked a windows guy a couple times to explain how the hell this shit was working and he really didn't make much sense. I looks like something functionally similar to X. I get the windows login jingle when I start a remote app, so there's some remote-login going on. I'm not sure if it's a bitmap blip across the network, or what, but it's pretty nice. Oh, and my unix shell tidbit. Prefix your command with '\' to bypass any alias. Good for when an NFS mount is really slow and ls is aliased to "ls -l --color'.
And as we see by the current turmoil in the financial world (including real-estate and soon to be credit card debt and student loans), the "Let do" approach is working wonders.
Too bad I already patented the the patent on censoring speech
I've got ten bucks that says he was stoned while writing that. The letter is very scatter-brained. He sounds like he's at a frat party when he's arguing about the legality of marijuana. Not that I disagree, I'm just saying that when you write your good-bye letter resigning as the head of a hedge-fund, you're probably better off leaving the "weed talk" out.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx At first I thought we finally had a real shell on windows, but we don't. Once you get used to it, it is much nicer than the cmd shell. You can access .NET/COM stuff from a powershell script.
e.g.
PS C:\Users\jake> $now = [DateTime]::Now
PS C:\Users\jake> [Console]::WriteLine($now)
10/10/2008 10:44:10 PM
PS C:\Users\jake>
And it's apparently so interesting that you're surfing the web.
The amazing part to me is that when people try to compare managed code -- like java or .NET -- to native code c, c+++ they make these wild claims about how much faster native code is. But they fail to mention that most of the managed code is running natively. And as far as your simulation, can you reasonably explain why it would be so much faster in c++ as opposed to say java that we would have to wait forever for it to finish?
Isn't xdr compact enough?
FYI: RAD is short for radabonzical and not rapid application development, and guess what? PyPy is gonna beat out flash simply for namesake. Just think of all the new wrappers we can write. PyPyTk, PyPyGL, PyPyMySqlAdapter, PyPyList, Vector, etc. I'm totally psyched for PyPy. Or maybe we should write Gnome bindings... GnomePyPyHashSet. You can dance to that one.
Yes. The only thing that this shows is that lots of firefox users upgraded. I could even argue that this means that IE6 is more stable than firefox 2.0 because IE users don't need to upgrade.