Essentially, the whole song is about confusing and mixing up events in one's past, especially historical events from the late 60's. "Free the expo 67" is confusing "Free the Chicago 7" and the "Libre Quebec" speech at the expo 67. This is similar to merging Martin Luther King and Malcom X together in the line "Martin X was mad when they outlawed bell bottoms".
I did a serach for some PL/SQL commands. The first was "TO_DATE TO_CHAR" which yielded nothing. I then just did "TO_DATE" which yielded soem strange results, as if it were seaching for "to date".
End result: I'll stick to Google and Altavista to find technical stuff.
I can certainly relate to crappy hardware. I decided to get a Compaq from Best Buy because I am tired of maintaining my home hardware. First thing that wen was the network card. I didn't even realize it, since the diagnotic tool didn't give an error, so I thought it was a problem with my ISP. The guy from RoadRunner replaced the card and everything worked well. So I figure "That's not too bad. I'll just leave it like this." A week later the disk drive goes. Now I'm SOL, since my Mavica uses disks to store images (currently I'm using my laptop to save the images). I dont want to send my machine back because there's no guarantee that I'll get the same hard drive, and I have a lot of crap already installed on this one. I realy don't want to have to install it all again. At least there is a CD-RW, and, in the worst case, a network connection to my laptop and linux server for when I do backup. It's just such a pain in the ass.
But this is a case where Godwin's law applies. Look at the statement:
The Nazi's wanted to keep the Arian race pure (Godwin's law, yeah, yeah) and we all know how bad an idea that was.
This in no way proves that racial purification is a bad idea. It only shows that the way the Nazis went about racial purification is bad. Godwin's law is to prevent statements like this, because anyone who continues the opposite view sounds like they are defending Nazi statements.
In this case it is particularily heighted as the arguement is meant to support the statement:
I would also like to note that cultural purity arguments of any type are closed-minded and restrict us from enjoying the benefits of each others' cultures.
which is about cultural purity, not racial purity. So essentially, the arguement is that since the Nazis were for some form of purity, then all forms of purification are bad.
Using Nazi history to prove that an ideology is wrong is flawed from the beginning. The Nazis were an implementation of many ideologies. To use them as "proof" is using a heuristic method. And to take any of the ideologies (like racial purification) out of the context of all the other ideologies, plus the implementation, you lose any point you could have made. Saying racial purification is bad because of how the Nazis did it, is like saying multiple inheritance is bad because of how C++ did it.
I agree that there is a tremendous amount of educational value to the study of Nazi Germany. There was a large section of it covered in my psych 232J course (The Psychology of Evil). But using Nazis as an example in an argument like this is a prime example of why Godwin's law is a good idea. It's not that Godwin supporters can't defend themselves against a "powerful arguement," but that they can't realistically defend themselves against the implications that they are Nazi suporters even in cases like this where the arguement is clearly separated from the Nazis.
Finally, I think that racial prurfication is bad, because I believe that a person should not be excluded because of something that they cannot inherently change about themselves. I, however, believe that cultural purification is fine because a culture is not inherent to a person, although a person can prefer a culture over another. I feel that is a person wants to live in North America does not accept the cultural idea of ownership of physical property, then they should go to jail when they take something. I also feel that implementing cultural purification on a large scale i nearly impossible.
While I am the first to trash the Java language specification, Java is a lot more than its syntax. If fact, the major appeal of Java for me are the standards, the APIs, and the infrastructure. What is the equivelent of EJBs in Python and OCaml. Corba support is not enough, what Python enterprise servers allow clustering, high availability through failover that understands idempotency? What is the standard for packaging a web application as a unit in OCaml or Python? What standards in OCaml parallel the javax.servlet... packages, including the jsp packages. How do you add a create a new tag extension in Python Server Pages?
Python and OCaml do not have standards that come close to those of J2EE. While their syntax may be better, especially when pertaining to OO, syntax only takes you so far.
I originally wasn't going to write a response to this, thinking that the whole premise was ludicrous.
There doesn't have to be linux support for Java, you just write java and it runs on any platform.
There is a large amount of Open Source support for Java, from the Giant Java Tree,
to the Java, Jakarta, and XML Apache projects.
There is even an Open Source application server called Enhyra that supports
pretty much everything you would expect from an enterprise class J2EE server. And if you don't like open source, then BEA's
WebLogic server runs fine on Linux.
So why is there an impression that the Linux community doesn't support Java? One thing I will say is that if you
are a Java supporter, you probably aren't a strong Linux supporter. That is because Java is platform independent.
A Java developer doesn't care what platform they are on.
Before people respond to this with the typical FUD that Java isn't cross, platform, bear in mind that all of the
open source projects above run on all the platforms I've ever used them on, without any recompilation.
Xerces worked on Win2K and linux. Tomcat worked on Win2K, linux, and Solaris.
I don't know about weblogic, since I haven't tries moving the binaries over (I just used the rpm on linux, install on Win2K).
Development in Java is development in Java. If you do it right (meaning don't setLayout(null)), it'll work. If you're server side, you have no worries.
That being said, Blackdown supports JDK1.3, the latest release of the JDK on any other platform.
It seems that the majority of the OS developers I know from the projects I listed use linux as their development machine.
And let's face it, Java is giving linux a lot of credibility in the server side market because it's sinking in that spending 20,000 on a single Sparc if better spent on a cluster of linux machines running (insert appserver du jour here).
Finally, you can go ahead and say that it isn't making any headway on the desktop.
Well, that's true, but it isn't making headway on any platform's desktop.
Linux is no exception.
You can try to say that it isn't making headway in the embedded market, but with the KVM for larger embedded devices (>40K RAM), and
real-time specification fromt the community development, you'd be wrong.
I'm surprised that JDJ would print such tripe. I'm not surprised that Slashdot twisted it even farther and threw in a bunch of FUD.
I don't know how many people here pay attention to infomercials, but there is a large trend for them to register a domain so that their URL is
http://www.800-123-4567.com with the phone number being the same that you dial or order over the phone. I don't see how they can claim they are the first to the patent office.
I suppose it should not be surprising, but it is ironic that license agreements actually increase the market value of software by decreasing its utility.
This statement is flawed. We both agree that the license agreement decreases the utility of the software, but it also decreases the market value. I have been involved in the acquistion of full rights to software packages, and normally these deals are in the millions, albeit usually on paper in the form of stock. This is much higher than the retail or subcription costs of the software that is being acquired.
Quite simply, to purchase full rights to a piece of software, you had better be prepared to pay for the entire cost of development. This is true, even in the Open Source and Fre Software world, where you cannot get full rights to software, but are limited by the agreement given to you. If you want less restrictive rights (such as the right to use code without having to expose your own), then you must pay more.
The current Dial-a-Song is running on a crappy answering machine. In the liner notes for the album "Then", They describe how the sound of their music changed when they started Dial-a-Song, because they realized that certain sounds did not carry well over the phone lines: base and high pitch noises cause distortion, etc. Because of this, They began authoring music that would sound good over a phone line from their answering machine. At first, They had to do this by trial an error (TMBG is mostly an experimental band, anyways), but eventually They developed a sound out of it.
So, no, TMBG doesn't need powerful equipment backing this. They never have before and they don't need it now.
I'll buy this arguement, but then why the multiple ports? Doesn't this just increase the price of a product intended for a single machine. It's the duality of that that makes me wonder about it. Like I said before, if this is substantially cheaper than the Linksys, then it makes sense, and people will buy it.
It just occured to me that more people would probably buy it if it accepted a phone cable and provided firewall services for users of AOL accounts, etc. I know an AOL user who is sick of the chat rooms because of random tear droppers, etc. This would help out there.
I have to agree with a lot of the reviews here. The map itself is not very exciting and it doesn't seem to add much value to the organization of information. In addition, it has a drawback in that it takes a lot longer to navigate through when compared to text only indexes. Plus everything was fairly cluttered and when I drilled down it came to a point where there was a labeled region and I couldn't figure out how to get into that region (it was alternative radio), although I could select the links in that region on the higher level.
One new interface that I have been impressed with is WebBrain. It's fast, exciting, and organizes and crossreferences information very well. I wish I had a project where this would make sense to use:)
her power strip doesn't have any more space for the wall wart that invariably powers those things
I Just bought a Linksys EtherFast 4-port Cable/DSL Router and for the record, it uses the exact same power cable that a computer uses. Thus, no AC/DC adapter taking up 2-3 spots on the powerbar. In addition, I love the fact that it's power is independant of any of my machines. I don't want to have to worry about the power to my router dieing because I had to hard reset a computer (happens sometimes while gaming). If that were to happen: bye bye connections. Any friends who were on the game server with you are gone too.
That said, if this were a lot cheaper than the Linksys, then I can see a market.
If I walk on the street, for instance, I don't expect a camera somewhere spying everything I do, and then giving that information to anyone. So, yes, this is, IMHO, a privacy issue.
While you may not expect this, the law stated explicitly that in this case you have no legal expectation of privacy on a public street. Thus, if you are videotaped or audio recorded by police doing an illegal activity, it is admissable as evidence in court. This even extends to private property for public use (like a mall, or a restaurant). However, in your home, police must have a judge sign off on the taping for it to be admissable evidence.
I noticed a promotion for this on networksolutions website a week or two ago. I think that this is great, but we need TLDs in these characers as well, one with the chinese character for commercial, one for organization, one for educational. I wonder if that new TLD system that they are testing will allow these characters. For 50,000, you could register one of these Chinese TLDs and probably make a lot of money.
Not to mention that it is very simple to use an RPC over HTTP using XML for interchange model, and in doing so, remove any laguage dependancies. At my last job, we used HTTP RPC to call into a ProvideX system from a J2EE system. If we needed to call into Microsoft, it would have been no problem.
It is very easy to pick an RPC architecture that is friendly to disparate platforms.
But even programmers in a solutions development shop depend on copyright because more often than not, they are using some form of copyrighted software: from app servers like Weblogic to databases like Oracle. It is costly and dangerous to create everything from scratch.
Slashdot Mirror
This is also in the FAQ.
Essentially, the whole song is about confusing and mixing up events in one's past, especially historical events from the late 60's. "Free the expo 67" is confusing "Free the Chicago 7" and the "Libre Quebec" speech at the expo 67. This is similar to merging Martin Luther King and Malcom X together in the line "Martin X was mad when they outlawed bell bottoms".
the first page is simple and offers a choice of english or french
the next page has the search and index prominantly displayed
There is a crap load of information on there
I did a serach for some PL/SQL commands. The first was "TO_DATE TO_CHAR" which yielded nothing. I then just did "TO_DATE" which yielded soem strange results, as if it were seaching for "to date".
End result: I'll stick to Google and Altavista to find technical stuff.
We've had trouble loading in on RH7, though, so be warned.
There was an Ask Slashdot about this.
I can certainly relate to crappy hardware. I decided to get a Compaq from Best Buy because I am tired of maintaining my home hardware. First thing that wen was the network card. I didn't even realize it, since the diagnotic tool didn't give an error, so I thought it was a problem with my ISP. The guy from RoadRunner replaced the card and everything worked well. So I figure "That's not too bad. I'll just leave it like this." A week later the disk drive goes. Now I'm SOL, since my Mavica uses disks to store images (currently I'm using my laptop to save the images). I dont want to send my machine back because there's no guarantee that I'll get the same hard drive, and I have a lot of crap already installed on this one. I realy don't want to have to install it all again. At least there is a CD-RW, and, in the worst case, a network connection to my laptop and linux server for when I do backup. It's just such a pain in the ass.
But this is a case where Godwin's law applies. Look at the statement:
The Nazi's wanted to keep the Arian race pure (Godwin's law, yeah, yeah) and we all know how bad an idea that was.
This in no way proves that racial purification is a bad idea. It only shows that the way the Nazis went about racial purification is bad. Godwin's law is to prevent statements like this, because anyone who continues the opposite view sounds like they are defending Nazi statements.
In this case it is particularily heighted as the arguement is meant to support the statement:
I would also like to note that cultural purity arguments of any type are closed-minded and restrict us from enjoying the benefits of each others' cultures.
which is about cultural purity, not racial purity. So essentially, the arguement is that since the Nazis were for some form of purity, then all forms of purification are bad.
Using Nazi history to prove that an ideology is wrong is flawed from the beginning. The Nazis were an implementation of many ideologies. To use them as "proof" is using a heuristic method. And to take any of the ideologies (like racial purification) out of the context of all the other ideologies, plus the implementation, you lose any point you could have made. Saying racial purification is bad because of how the Nazis did it, is like saying multiple inheritance is bad because of how C++ did it.
I agree that there is a tremendous amount of educational value to the study of Nazi Germany. There was a large section of it covered in my psych 232J course (The Psychology of Evil). But using Nazis as an example in an argument like this is a prime example of why Godwin's law is a good idea. It's not that Godwin supporters can't defend themselves against a "powerful arguement," but that they can't realistically defend themselves against the implications that they are Nazi suporters even in cases like this where the arguement is clearly separated from the Nazis.
Finally, I think that racial prurfication is bad, because I believe that a person should not be excluded because of something that they cannot inherently change about themselves. I, however, believe that cultural purification is fine because a culture is not inherent to a person, although a person can prefer a culture over another. I feel that is a person wants to live in North America does not accept the cultural idea of ownership of physical property, then they should go to jail when they take something. I also feel that implementing cultural purification on a large scale i nearly impossible.
While I am the first to trash the Java language specification, Java is a lot more than its syntax. If fact, the major appeal of Java for me are the standards, the APIs, and the infrastructure. What is the equivelent of EJBs in Python and OCaml. Corba support is not enough, what Python enterprise servers allow clustering, high availability through failover that understands idempotency? What is the standard for packaging a web application as a unit in OCaml or Python? What standards in OCaml parallel the javax.servlet... packages, including the jsp packages. How do you add a create a new tag extension in Python Server Pages?
Python and OCaml do not have standards that come close to those of J2EE. While their syntax may be better, especially when pertaining to OO, syntax only takes you so far.
I originally wasn't going to write a response to this, thinking that the whole premise was ludicrous. There doesn't have to be linux support for Java, you just write java and it runs on any platform. There is a large amount of Open Source support for Java, from the Giant Java Tree, to the Java, Jakarta, and XML Apache projects. There is even an Open Source application server called Enhyra that supports pretty much everything you would expect from an enterprise class J2EE server. And if you don't like open source, then BEA's WebLogic server runs fine on Linux.
So why is there an impression that the Linux community doesn't support Java? One thing I will say is that if you are a Java supporter, you probably aren't a strong Linux supporter. That is because Java is platform independent. A Java developer doesn't care what platform they are on. Before people respond to this with the typical FUD that Java isn't cross, platform, bear in mind that all of the open source projects above run on all the platforms I've ever used them on, without any recompilation. Xerces worked on Win2K and linux. Tomcat worked on Win2K, linux, and Solaris. I don't know about weblogic, since I haven't tries moving the binaries over (I just used the rpm on linux, install on Win2K). Development in Java is development in Java. If you do it right (meaning don't setLayout(null)), it'll work. If you're server side, you have no worries.
That being said, Blackdown supports JDK1.3, the latest release of the JDK on any other platform. It seems that the majority of the OS developers I know from the projects I listed use linux as their development machine. And let's face it, Java is giving linux a lot of credibility in the server side market because it's sinking in that spending 20,000 on a single Sparc if better spent on a cluster of linux machines running (insert appserver du jour here).
Finally, you can go ahead and say that it isn't making any headway on the desktop. Well, that's true, but it isn't making headway on any platform's desktop. Linux is no exception.
You can try to say that it isn't making headway in the embedded market, but with the KVM for larger embedded devices (>40K RAM), and real-time specification fromt the community development, you'd be wrong.
I'm surprised that JDJ would print such tripe. I'm not surprised that Slashdot twisted it even farther and threw in a bunch of FUD.
I believe he was refering to Sun's Java logo (the swirly coffee cup). Not Sun's logo.
Moderate this article (-1, Flamebait).
Just when my coil was hitting the green line! (no this doesn't make sence unless you've seen the english dubbed version)
I don't know how many people here pay attention to infomercials, but there is a large trend for them to register a domain so that their URL is http://www.800-123-4567.com with the phone number being the same that you dial or order over the phone. I don't see how they can claim they are the first to the patent office.
Princess Mononoke
BSD daemon
This statement is flawed. We both agree that the license agreement decreases the utility of the software, but it also decreases the market value. I have been involved in the acquistion of full rights to software packages, and normally these deals are in the millions, albeit usually on paper in the form of stock. This is much higher than the retail or subcription costs of the software that is being acquired.
Quite simply, to purchase full rights to a piece of software, you had better be prepared to pay for the entire cost of development. This is true, even in the Open Source and Fre Software world, where you cannot get full rights to software, but are limited by the agreement given to you. If you want less restrictive rights (such as the right to use code without having to expose your own), then you must pay more.
The current Dial-a-Song is running on a crappy answering machine. In the liner notes for the album "Then", They describe how the sound of their music changed when they started Dial-a-Song, because they realized that certain sounds did not carry well over the phone lines: base and high pitch noises cause distortion, etc. Because of this, They began authoring music that would sound good over a phone line from their answering machine. At first, They had to do this by trial an error (TMBG is mostly an experimental band, anyways), but eventually They developed a sound out of it.
So, no, TMBG doesn't need powerful equipment backing this. They never have before and they don't need it now.
I'll buy this arguement, but then why the multiple ports? Doesn't this just increase the price of a product intended for a single machine. It's the duality of that that makes me wonder about it. Like I said before, if this is substantially cheaper than the Linksys, then it makes sense, and people will buy it.
It just occured to me that more people would probably buy it if it accepted a phone cable and provided firewall services for users of AOL accounts, etc. I know an AOL user who is sick of the chat rooms because of random tear droppers, etc. This would help out there.
Just thinking out loud. n/m
I have to agree with a lot of the reviews here. The map itself is not very exciting and it doesn't seem to add much value to the organization of information. In addition, it has a drawback in that it takes a lot longer to navigate through when compared to text only indexes. Plus everything was fairly cluttered and when I drilled down it came to a point where there was a labeled region and I couldn't figure out how to get into that region (it was alternative radio), although I could select the links in that region on the higher level.
One new interface that I have been impressed with is WebBrain. It's fast, exciting, and organizes and crossreferences information very well. I wish I had a project where this would make sense to use :)
I Just bought a Linksys EtherFast 4-port Cable/DSL Router and for the record, it uses the exact same power cable that a computer uses. Thus, no AC/DC adapter taking up 2-3 spots on the powerbar. In addition, I love the fact that it's power is independant of any of my machines. I don't want to have to worry about the power to my router dieing because I had to hard reset a computer (happens sometimes while gaming). If that were to happen: bye bye connections. Any friends who were on the game server with you are gone too.
That said, if this were a lot cheaper than the Linksys, then I can see a market.
Street name for ketamine
If I walk on the street, for instance, I don't expect a camera somewhere spying everything I do, and then giving that information to anyone. So, yes, this is, IMHO, a privacy issue.
While you may not expect this, the law stated explicitly that in this case you have no legal expectation of privacy on a public street. Thus, if you are videotaped or audio recorded by police doing an illegal activity, it is admissable as evidence in court. This even extends to private property for public use (like a mall, or a restaurant). However, in your home, police must have a judge sign off on the taping for it to be admissable evidence.
IANAL
I noticed a promotion for this on networksolutions website a week or two ago. I think that this is great, but we need TLDs in these characers as well, one with the chinese character for commercial, one for organization, one for educational. I wonder if that new TLD system that they are testing will allow these characters. For 50,000, you could register one of these Chinese TLDs and probably make a lot of money.
This article is far more interesting than the Sun article. Thanks for posting the link. Deserves a (+5, Interesting)
Not to mention that it is very simple to use an RPC over HTTP using XML for interchange model, and in doing so, remove any laguage dependancies. At my last job, we used HTTP RPC to call into a ProvideX system from a J2EE system. If we needed to call into Microsoft, it would have been no problem.
It is very easy to pick an RPC architecture that is friendly to disparate platforms.
But even programmers in a solutions development shop depend on copyright because more often than not, they are using some form of copyrighted software: from app servers like Weblogic to databases like Oracle. It is costly and dangerous to create everything from scratch.