He was complaining about ActiveX, which is worthless for anything other than to break websites on non-IE/non-windows browsers.
He wasn't complaining about adding jpeg, gif, flash(urgh) and CSS.... in fact I'm not sure that there ever was a version of html that didn't support images, so unless you think the debate is gopher vs. html, STFU.
I'm sorry but that has to be the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
He's not asking for a way to set of handgrenades and claymores here.
What he wants is to set off normal, legal fireworks (well that's what we have to assume anyway), doing that electronically is much safer than doing it with the old cigar as most people do.
I'd suggest using a short length of constantan wire (5cm or so) wrapped around the fuse, you need a lot of current, but that will ignite the fuse every time.
You can also get some non-fireproof (duh) 1/4W resistors, experiment to find a good size (10Ohm perhaps) that give a good flame when hooked up to 12V, then solder the resistor to the wires and tape the resistor to the fuse.
Do make certain that noone is near the fireworks when you set them off, however, getting hit in the face with a rocket isn't much fun.
Around here all toxic waste has to be specially processed (read: burned, recycled or otherwise disposed of) rather than just dumped along with all the normal domestic waste.
Well, writing in JS vs. Java (GWT) is like writing in assembler vs. C++; sure you can write in assembler or JS and with large enough libraries you might even get a product working in the end, but why would you do that?
The problem with JS is not limited to different browsers, the language itself is broken, there is no type safety (even perl has more type checking), no reuse model, no tools (like a debugger).
JS is the assembler of browsers, it should have been bytecode, but SUN screwed that up by not going Open Source in time.
I'll continue to claim that JS is useless, at least if you want to get the work done without losing your sanity.
The huge amount of lead (much more than half the weight) that a TV contains is in the form of lead-glass.
The lead-glass is not ever going to be diluted by water, so that's a complete non-issue.
There are other sources of lead, like the solder used, but it's not that large an amount, lead isn't very soluble in water and all landfills have a watertight membrane underneath to keep the nasties out of the ground water.
Don't worry about it.
That said it's a bit silly to scrap tvs just because their turners don't work, with SCART (read:The RGB inputs on all european tvs) and the fact that most DVB is still Lowres you can just use an external tuner and the result will be just as nice (or nicer) as if you had changed the entire tv.
As far as I can tell it's 100% the other way around.
GWT gives you one good language for all browsers.
JavaScript gives you a terrible language that breaks differently in all browsers.
So if you value a working, professional solution you will use GWT, if you just want something to play with and don't care about stability or compatibility then you can use JavaScript.
To me it's not a choice between JavaScript and GWT it's between plain HTML and plain HTML + GWT, because JS is useless as it is.
Uhm, only the most primitive states in the world have the death penalty, as countries become more advanced they tend to stop killing their own citizens.
There is no sense in the death penalty, it's more expensive than just keeping people in prison for life and we lose any chance to learn how to avoid creating that sort of criminal.
I had a project up there that I really didn't want to let live (it was old, ugly and I was selling a competing version), but sourceforge doesn't remove projects, ever.
Well, the solution turned out to be to complain that the project wasn't open source (it had lots of files that didn't contain the GPL header, it they weren't technically covered by the GPL).
Happily you don't need a lawyer as the only limitation on what you can do with Vista is Copyright law.
EULAs are 100% worthless and unenforcable.
Well at least in Denmark and I suspect much of the EU.
You see we have a set of restrictions on confusing marketing, you can't sell something and then later try to impose extra limitations on the buyer.
If MS wants to make the EULA assholery binding then they will have to present the terms BEFORE the sale takes place otherwise we are free to ignore it completely.
The same is true for language, if the EULA is written in english then it's 100% non-binding.
What matters is real-world experience and before you have any of that there is formal education to get a foot in the door.
In the company i work for there is noone who has any certifications, execpt for a few people who got them by accident before being hired, there are plenty of good people who know everything there is to know about Solaris, Oracle, Linux, Java and C++ though.
What is a certificate good for other than to show that you can think inside of that particular vendors box?
Religion is not something you flaunt in Europe (not counting the south).
I don't know anything about the religious beliefs of any of the politicians in power in my country or any of the other EU countries for that matter, nor do I care.
I don't care about what they believe as long as their beliefs don't influence anything they do in the real world.
Around here people think you are an idiot if you do things because of religion (see the mohammed cartoon story a while back), while in the US it seems as though you need FSM-power to do anything at all.
I think that is what MS is all about, when it comes to new technology.
Whenever someone does something interesting they want to take over they spread FUD and tell everyone that all they need to do is to wait for MS to come out with their new cool solution.
That means that a lot of clueless people (read: Everybody who hasn't learned to ignore MS) will wait and eventually might even be fooled into buying Microsofts shoddy knockoff.
1: Unix had multitasking from the begining, think 1970 or there abouts. 2: Linux has never been doing cooperative multitasking, it has been doing preemtive multitasking since 1991 when the first version from Thorvalds hit the net.
You act as though MS produces anything that's not worthless.
If MS doesn't comply then the EU courts can easily take what they want from MS by force (real force: guns and strong men), there are several large MS owned businesses in the EU, you know.
If that wasn't the case then MS copyrights could be invalidated in the entire EU zone, that would: 1) Make it free for everyone to use windows, thus strengthening the EU economy. 2) Weaken MS, the EU is the largest market for MS.
It would probably cost a bit for all of the EU to migrate to OSX / Linux, but doing so would be much cheaper than if just one company/government had to do so, because the EU is the largest market in the world and if it was to announce that everybody was migrating to Linux then a huge industry would be created to do that.
The best thing MS could do to promote Linux and thus kill itself would be to give up the european market.
What they found was that 3 grams of morphine per kg body weight is about as potent as 1 gram of morphine per kg body weight of the new saliva substance.
Good luck getting any of the customizable goodness that makes HTPCs such a great win.
Playback is going to be windows vista 64bit only, you can go screw yourself if you use anything else.
Personally I'll skip both those coaster technologies until there is a reliable Linux player.
If the Motion Picture Ass. of America reads this, then I will do what ever is easiest of the three options: 1) Play the HD movies from the legal optical medium, on my Linux box, with an opensource player. 2) Play the HD movies from harddisk, downloaded fron the Net, on my Linux box, with an opensource player. 3) Play the SD movies from the legal optical medium, on my Linux box, with an opensource player.
Notice I didn't mention Windows Vista or Standalone players as I consider both to be useles junk.
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He was complaining about ActiveX, which is worthless for anything other than to break websites on non-IE/non-windows browsers.
... in fact I'm not sure that there ever was a version of html that didn't support images, so unless you think the debate is gopher vs. html, STFU.
He wasn't complaining about adding jpeg, gif, flash(urgh) and CSS.
I'm sorry but that has to be the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
He's not asking for a way to set of handgrenades and claymores here.
What he wants is to set off normal, legal fireworks (well that's what we have to assume anyway), doing that electronically is much safer than doing it with the old cigar as most people do.
I'd suggest using a short length of constantan wire (5cm or so) wrapped around the fuse, you need a lot of current, but that will ignite the fuse every time.
You can also get some non-fireproof (duh) 1/4W resistors, experiment to find a good size (10Ohm perhaps) that give a good flame when hooked up to 12V, then solder the resistor to the wires and tape the resistor to the fuse.
Do make certain that noone is near the fireworks when you set them off, however, getting hit in the face with a rocket isn't much fun.
No JS is not useless, it is about as usable as Assembler.
/can/ be used, it's just that it's much nicer when you can use a higher level language with better tool support in stead.
My point is that JS
What kind of landfills you have there?
Around here all toxic waste has to be specially processed (read: burned, recycled or otherwise disposed of) rather than just dumped along with all the normal domestic waste.
Well, writing in JS vs. Java (GWT) is like writing in assembler vs. C++; sure you can write in assembler or JS and with large enough libraries you might even get a product working in the end, but why would you do that?
The problem with JS is not limited to different browsers, the language itself is broken, there is no type safety (even perl has more type checking), no reuse model, no tools (like a debugger).
JS is the assembler of browsers, it should have been bytecode, but SUN screwed that up by not going Open Source in time.
I'll continue to claim that JS is useless, at least if you want to get the work done without losing your sanity.
Well, somewhat wrong.
The huge amount of lead (much more than half the weight) that a TV contains is in the form of lead-glass.
The lead-glass is not ever going to be diluted by water, so that's a complete non-issue.
There are other sources of lead, like the solder used, but it's not that large an amount, lead isn't very soluble in water and all landfills have a watertight membrane underneath to keep the nasties out of the ground water.
Don't worry about it.
That said it's a bit silly to scrap tvs just because their turners don't work, with SCART (read:The RGB inputs on all european tvs) and the fact that most DVB is still Lowres you can just use an external tuner and the result will be just as nice (or nicer) as if you had changed the entire tv.
As far as I can tell it's 100% the other way around.
GWT gives you one good language for all browsers.
JavaScript gives you a terrible language that breaks differently in all browsers.
So if you value a working, professional solution you will use GWT, if you just want something to play with and don't care about stability or compatibility then you can use JavaScript.
To me it's not a choice between JavaScript and GWT it's between plain HTML and plain HTML + GWT, because JS is useless as it is.
The cost of killing someone legally is very expensive, at least if you pretend you have a justice system.
The cost comes from the initial trial as well as the appeals.
Keeping someone in jail for the rest of his natural life is much cheaper, go look it up if you doubt me.
Uhm, only the most primitive states in the world have the death penalty, as countries become more advanced they tend to stop killing their own citizens.
There is no sense in the death penalty, it's more expensive than just keeping people in prison for life and we lose any chance to learn how to avoid creating that sort of criminal.
That sounds interesting, where do I sign up?
Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to?
Dude! jonny walker is not good scotch, if you need it for anything other than cleaning a gearbox.
Glenmorangie, Highland park, Lagavulin, those are good scotch whiskys.
I've also used it with great luck on sourceforge.
I had a project up there that I really didn't want to let live (it was old, ugly and I was selling a competing version), but sourceforge doesn't remove projects, ever.
Well, the solution turned out to be to complain that the project wasn't open source (it had lots of files that didn't contain the GPL header, it they weren't technically covered by the GPL).
That project was gone in 30 minutes:)
Happily you don't need a lawyer as the only limitation on what you can do with Vista is Copyright law.
EULAs are 100% worthless and unenforcable.
Well at least in Denmark and I suspect much of the EU.
You see we have a set of restrictions on confusing marketing, you can't sell something and then later try to impose extra limitations on the buyer.
If MS wants to make the EULA assholery binding then they will have to present the terms BEFORE the sale takes place otherwise we are free to ignore it completely.
The same is true for language, if the EULA is written in english then it's 100% non-binding.
... if you're a digger operator.
Certifications are worthless.
What matters is real-world experience and before you have any of that there is formal education to get a foot in the door.
In the company i work for there is noone who has any certifications, execpt for a few people who got them by accident before being hired, there are plenty of good people who know everything there is to know about Solaris, Oracle, Linux, Java and C++ though.
What is a certificate good for other than to show that you can think inside of that particular vendors box?
Religion is not something you flaunt in Europe (not counting the south).
I don't know anything about the religious beliefs of any of the politicians in power in my country or any of the other EU countries for that matter, nor do I care.
I don't care about what they believe as long as their beliefs don't influence anything they do in the real world.
Around here people think you are an idiot if you do things because of religion (see the mohammed cartoon story a while back), while in the US it seems as though you need FSM-power to do anything at all.
Yeah, but other than that, what have the europeans ever done for us?
"Wait for us, we're the leader"
I think that is what MS is all about, when it comes to new technology.
Whenever someone does something interesting they want to take over they spread FUD and tell everyone that all they need to do is to wait for MS to come out with their new cool solution.
That means that a lot of clueless people (read: Everybody who hasn't learned to ignore MS) will wait and eventually might even be fooled into buying Microsofts shoddy knockoff.
Wrong, the first windows version that had preemtive multitasking at any level was windows NT (released in 1993).
The first version of Linux released did preemtive multitasking.
1: Unix had multitasking from the begining, think 1970 or there abouts.
2: Linux has never been doing cooperative multitasking, it has been doing preemtive multitasking since 1991 when the first version from Thorvalds hit the net.
Hey, didn't you hear about DVD Audio (DVDA, *snicker*)
You act as though MS produces anything that's not worthless.
If MS doesn't comply then the EU courts can easily take what they want from MS by force (real force: guns and strong men), there are several large MS owned businesses in the EU, you know.
If that wasn't the case then MS copyrights could be invalidated in the entire EU zone, that would:
1) Make it free for everyone to use windows, thus strengthening the EU economy.
2) Weaken MS, the EU is the largest market for MS.
It would probably cost a bit for all of the EU to migrate to OSX / Linux, but doing so would be much cheaper than if just one company/government had to do so, because the EU is the largest market in the world and if it was to announce that everybody was migrating to Linux then a huge industry would be created to do that.
The best thing MS could do to promote Linux and thus kill itself would be to give up the european market.
Unless you can come up with a link to the complete Exchange server protocol then STFU, NOOB, thanks.
Like this?
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http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/circuits-discover
They didn't inject 3g of morphine in a human.
They didn't even inject 3g of morphine in a rat.
What they found was that 3 grams of morphine per kg body weight is about as potent as 1 gram of morphine per kg body weight of the new saliva substance.
Good luck getting any of the customizable goodness that makes HTPCs such a great win.
Playback is going to be windows vista 64bit only, you can go screw yourself if you use anything else.
Personally I'll skip both those coaster technologies until there is a reliable Linux player.
If the Motion Picture Ass. of America reads this, then I will do what ever is easiest of the three options:
1) Play the HD movies from the legal optical medium, on my Linux box, with an opensource player.
2) Play the HD movies from harddisk, downloaded fron the Net, on my Linux box, with an opensource player.
3) Play the SD movies from the legal optical medium, on my Linux box, with an opensource player.
Notice I didn't mention Windows Vista or Standalone players as I consider both to be useles junk.