First, many people write pages to be compliant with 20% market share; just not enough, it seems. There are too many people who think IE *is* "The Internet", for that matter...
Also, Netscape has continually released new browser versions, official and unofficial. There's a 6.0 preview release if you're interested in testing compliance. Many of their releases are buggy and not release-quality yet, but hey, neither is IE or Windows, I can attest to that...
In conclusion, if the webstandards people want to get something done, they should release a competing browser, and gain market share by being better; that's what Netscape did. There's a little project called Mozilla that might be able to help them get started, too. If I just wanted to listen to pointless whining, I'd listen to Jon Katz... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Do you want it standards-compliant, or do you want it now?
For "web standards" people, they sure sound pushy. Don't tell me they think IE 5.5 is compliant just because it's out today! --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I find it funny that many of the same people who are in favor of censorship are also convinced of the necessity of what they call "a test of faith", to prove their loyalty or whatever. Hypocrisy? In religion? Never... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Incidentally, won't that stop people from modding it *down* as well?
...and if the code is in Perl, maybe he'll just overflow a floating-point number, or force it into scientific notation...
Of course, by 2003, we'll have perl scripts identify the topic, and replay the top posts from 6 months ago. "Karma Whore Bots", if you will.
...and this wormhole device might be the only way to accurately look at old Slashdot postings, since they'd all be eaten by the database by then. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
It's probably a temporal bug in Perl 6.006_065; it's been a known bug ever since the slashdot rabbit holes were created, and a post from Signul_94956 (#473457) got sent through... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
It's nice to see some of that money going back to the motherland, where it will be appreciated. I'll pretend that IBM is thanking Europe for developing Linux in the first place--except that I don't see Finland mentioned.:|
However, it's good to see that Intel is in on this one, too. Anything they can do to annoy Microsoft always entertains me.
Now, I don't expect a great degree of technical accuracy from the Financial Times, but I always snicker at that "running webservers" stuff. I guess that's all people care about. Forget that mundane crap like DNS, Mail, News, Timeservers, Database Servers, NFS, FTP Mirrors... All we know about is the web. Web pages, yeah, that's the ticket.
I'm not even going to mention compilers, image processing, clustering... I mean, really, who cares if it's not on the Internet? And if it isn't on the web, well, where can we find it? Isn't the Internet the web? Isn't that AOL? Ah well... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I wasn't claiming any knowledge of geography, but merely quoting msnbc.com; talk to them, I couldn't care less.
Incidentally, how was my post (#11) Redundant? Anyone, please point me to the earlier post that said what I did. Please. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
...for dispelling many commonly-held myths on slashdot.
Specifically, both the threads vs. processes rant and the GPL vs. BSD rant gets really stupid after the n-billionth time some lamer posts it again.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Well, first off, some of this *is* a matter of preference. The doughy crust... The sweet sauce... how can you not love it? Maybe it's a Southern thing, I don't know. Or maybe I just got addicted to it in High School...
However, Pizza Hut sucks for other reasons. It's *okay* if you have it in an actual Pizza Hut, but if you try to take your pizza home for leftovers, it'll last about 7 minutes, at which point it gets harder than week-old breadsticks. Papa Johns pizza is good hot when you get it, *and* cold and days-old, which is a College Pizza Requirement.
Also, Papa Johns tends to be reasonably priced, (well, not as cheap as Gumby's ("Give me a Gumby, Dammit!"), but a nice trade-off between cost and quality) while Pizza Hut tends to be too expensive, too small, and not really quality pizza. Domino's is ok.
...and if you want real pizza, don't get it from any of these places! Go to these only if you want fast pizza, or cheap pizza!:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Wow, I was hoping the 60GB drives would knock down the price of the 40GB drives; maybe I'll get something massively larger for the same money, now! For me, it'll all boil down to price/performance, with a constraint on price.
I was also considering getting two 20 or 30GB (or maybe two 40GB!) drives, and using Software RAID under Linux to increase their performance. How well does this work? Should I bother making a few partitions and using RAID-5, or should I just stripe them?
Also, I don't think I could ever use that many.mp3's! Time to start an ftp archive, or a very large http cache, or edit video, or store billions of digits of Pi, or something... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I'm going to build myself a computer, and it'll be 1.5-2x more powerful, for 1.5-2x less money than this monstrosity.
Twice the RAM, twice the HD space, a better video card, a processor that's roughly 1.5x faster, no MacOS, and--oh no!--it might not fit into an 8"x8" cube. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Hmm. In the first part, you aren't comparing the OSes anymore.
Also, the RISC vs. CISC doesn't really hold water anymore--the PPC has some pretty complicated instructions nowadays, and all the x86 chips these days translate CISC into RISC in hardware (except for Transmeta--they do it in software, with a RISC-y VLIW core) and make the RISC vs. CISC argument obsolete. The reason I never liked RISC was that it tended to bloat the binaries at least on some platforms, which required more memory...
Ooo, ooo, unprovable argument: Windows has BASIC in it? Do you mean like GW-BASIC or Visual BASIC? I think they use C/C++ for that stuff, or else VB wouldn't need those extra DLL's. But if we're going to resort to pointless name-calling here, I could argue that MacOS has a significant amount of PASCAL in it.
I don't know if this is true or not, and I like Pascal, but in reality it's just 0xCODEDBAD, and needs to be reworked. (which is why we now have MacOS X, Windows 2000, BeOS, Linux, etc., etc. (which one don't belong? (Spot the UNIX clone!))) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Are you still talking about the Apple ][ here? That didn't crash often.
However, both MacOS and Windows die too often; I've used both of them. I remember that little bomb icon fondly, along with the Reboot button that didn't work, when the local Mac geek would wander around, going "Do you have a system disk"? --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
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First, many people write pages to be compliant with 20% market share; just not enough, it seems. There are too many people who think IE *is* "The Internet", for that matter...
Also, Netscape has continually released new browser versions, official and unofficial. There's a 6.0 preview release if you're interested in testing compliance. Many of their releases are buggy and not release-quality yet, but hey, neither is IE or Windows, I can attest to that...
In conclusion, if the webstandards people want to get something done, they should release a competing browser, and gain market share by being better; that's what Netscape did. There's a little project called Mozilla that might be able to help them get started, too. If I just wanted to listen to pointless whining, I'd listen to Jon Katz...
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Do you want it standards-compliant, or do you want it now?
For "web standards" people, they sure sound pushy. Don't tell me they think IE 5.5 is compliant just because it's out today!
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Heh heh. Excellent example.
I find it funny that many of the same people who are in favor of censorship are also convinced of the necessity of what they call "a test of faith", to prove their loyalty or whatever. Hypocrisy? In religion? Never...
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Feel free, dude!
Actually, I have a page or two there about that... To get the full effect, follow the link, too!
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AI Bots that can identify and snarf porn for us!
:)
What will those great Censorship people think of next?
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No, no, no; not that post; THIS POST.
Read my sig, you stupid motherfucker.
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Incidentally, won't that stop people from modding it *down* as well?
...and if the code is in Perl, maybe he'll just overflow a floating-point number, or force it into scientific notation...
Of course, by 2003, we'll have perl scripts identify the topic, and replay the top posts from 6 months ago. "Karma Whore Bots", if you will.
...and this wormhole device might be the only way to accurately look at old Slashdot postings, since they'd all be eaten by the database by then.
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You know, that actually wouldn't surprise me.
It's probably a temporal bug in Perl 6.006_065; it's been a known bug ever since the slashdot rabbit holes were created, and a post from Signul_94956 (#473457) got sent through...
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...for the free publicity.
;)
All this music is promoting the bands, right? More sales? Lots of media attention?
And heck, the RIAA has enough money to go around. Now *there's* a business model I could live with!
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Dude, I'm just glad IBM didn't sue "Big Blue Disk" back in the day.
(they weren't related, right?)
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I want to get an Athlon soon; is there an easy way to tell if it's a Thunderbird, or whatnot?
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It's nice to see some of that money going back to the motherland, where it will be appreciated. I'll pretend that IBM is thanking Europe for developing Linux in the first place--except that I don't see Finland mentioned. :|
However, it's good to see that Intel is in on this one, too. Anything they can do to annoy Microsoft always entertains me.
Now, I don't expect a great degree of technical accuracy from the Financial Times, but I always snicker at that "running webservers" stuff. I guess that's all people care about. Forget that mundane crap like DNS, Mail, News, Timeservers, Database Servers, NFS, FTP Mirrors... All we know about is the web. Web pages, yeah, that's the ticket.
I'm not even going to mention compilers, image processing, clustering... I mean, really, who cares if it's not on the Internet? And if it isn't on the web, well, where can we find it? Isn't the Internet the web? Isn't that AOL? Ah well...
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Follow the link to the article, and read!
I wasn't claiming any knowledge of geography, but merely quoting msnbc.com; talk to them, I couldn't care less.
Incidentally, how was my post (#11) Redundant? Anyone, please point me to the earlier post that said what I did. Please.
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...for dispelling many commonly-held myths on slashdot.
:)
Specifically, both the threads vs. processes rant and the GPL vs. BSD rant gets really stupid after the n-billionth time some lamer posts it again.
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Dude, I love Papa Johns! Pizza Hut sucks!
:)
Well, first off, some of this *is* a matter of preference. The doughy crust... The sweet sauce... how can you not love it? Maybe it's a Southern thing, I don't know. Or maybe I just got addicted to it in High School...
However, Pizza Hut sucks for other reasons. It's *okay* if you have it in an actual Pizza Hut, but if you try to take your pizza home for leftovers, it'll last about 7 minutes, at which point it gets harder than week-old breadsticks. Papa Johns pizza is good hot when you get it, *and* cold and days-old, which is a College Pizza Requirement.
Also, Papa Johns tends to be reasonably priced, (well, not as cheap as Gumby's ("Give me a Gumby, Dammit!"), but a nice trade-off between cost and quality) while Pizza Hut tends to be too expensive, too small, and not really quality pizza. Domino's is ok.
...and if you want real pizza, don't get it from any of these places! Go to these only if you want fast pizza, or cheap pizza!
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Hmm. Last I checked, the PC Clone industry *was* more successful. Ever heard of, say, Dell Computers?
...And why would I want a PDA? I don't even want a laptop...
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Wow, I was hoping the 60GB drives would knock down the price of the 40GB drives; maybe I'll get something massively larger for the same money, now! For me, it'll all boil down to price/performance, with a constraint on price.
.mp3's! Time to start an ftp archive, or a very large http cache, or edit video, or store billions of digits of Pi, or something...
I was also considering getting two 20 or 30GB (or maybe two 40GB!) drives, and using Software RAID under Linux to increase their performance. How well does this work? Should I bother making a few partitions and using RAID-5, or should I just stripe them?
Also, I don't think I could ever use that many
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I'm going to build myself a computer, and it'll be 1.5-2x more powerful, for 1.5-2x less money than this monstrosity.
Twice the RAM, twice the HD space, a better video card, a processor that's roughly 1.5x faster, no MacOS, and--oh no!--it might not fit into an 8"x8" cube.
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I can't argue with you there; I clarified that issue here, actually.
:)
Ah, computers were simpler back then.
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What the hell is a "no protest zone"?
Is that like a union job where you can't strike?
It seems to go against the whole idea of a protest...
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Hmm. In the first part, you aren't comparing the OSes anymore.
Also, the RISC vs. CISC doesn't really hold water anymore--the PPC has some pretty complicated instructions nowadays, and all the x86 chips these days translate CISC into RISC in hardware (except for Transmeta--they do it in software, with a RISC-y VLIW core) and make the RISC vs. CISC argument obsolete. The reason I never liked RISC was that it tended to bloat the binaries at least on some platforms, which required more memory...
Ooo, ooo, unprovable argument: Windows has BASIC in it? Do you mean like GW-BASIC or Visual BASIC? I think they use C/C++ for that stuff, or else VB wouldn't need those extra DLL's. But if we're going to resort to pointless name-calling here, I could argue that MacOS has a significant amount of PASCAL in it.
I don't know if this is true or not, and I like Pascal, but in reality it's just 0xCODEDBAD, and needs to be reworked. (which is why we now have MacOS X, Windows 2000, BeOS, Linux, etc., etc. (which one don't belong? (Spot the UNIX clone!)))
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I guess that does the same thing... sort of... Although it's just getting uglier. :)
Does Java support real closures?
(I guess you could fake lexical scoping with braces, as you would do it in C...)
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Are you still talking about the Apple ][ here? That didn't crash often.
However, both MacOS and Windows die too often; I've used both of them. I remember that little bomb icon fondly, along with the Reboot button that didn't work, when the local Mac geek would wander around, going "Do you have a system disk"?
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I believe it was called the Red Box.
If apple could have had Blue, Yellow, and Red support, with a native Unix core, then Rhapsody would have been excellent.
But... it was just vapor.
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Dude, Microsoft makes crappy software too.
But what about the weird memory segmentation model they use? Or all the extra crapppy modules they load? Or the incredibly *slow* performance?
Apple is pretty far behind, which is why we now have MacOS X, instead.
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