As for OpenGL 3.0, the rage is that Khronos group promised us moisty delicious cake (whole new API, yay!), but after long long wait delivered only small biscuit.
So, would it be fair to say "the cake [was] a lie?"
I gotta say, I dunno where all this fear comes from.
Take a look at The Power of Nightmares, a three part documentary that aired in late 2004 on the BBC about how governments/movements can use myths of foreign threats to consolidate/unite their power bases in the context of both sides of the current "war on terror" (i.e. both US neocons and Islamic fundamentalists). You can find the documentary on YouTube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
I highly recommend it as an even-handed, nuanced historical analysis, as opposed to liberal agit-prop or conspiracy theory.
Are you fucking retarded? The 32-bit memory limit is not Microsoft's problem, that's math: 2^32 = 4GB. That 4GB has to cover *ALL* physically addressed memory in the system, including mapped memory for devices. The average graphics card now has 256 MB vidmem. Further the type of people who want >2GB sysmem, are also the people who want nice graphics cards, which can easily boost them to 512 - 1GB of total vidmem (keep in mind SLI/Crossfire).
The rest of your claims are retarded too. Superfetch uses *idle*, as in *unused*, memory to store apps. If that space becomes wanted for working apps, the Superfetch has cached is ejected.
I'm not MSFT fan boy, as a matter of fact I don't like a lot of what they do (mostly their monopolistic practices), but don't make technically unsound claims just you can bash something you don't like.
Who the fuck modded this person up.
That's still not any harder than programming with any other language/platform combo. Each different area of programming has its own unique caveats and gotchas. For example, you'll also see problems of asynchronous programming and data corruption when doing low level driver development.
This doesn't make AJAX (and web dev overall) any harder than general programming. (Though if you want to compare to just normal HTML, yes, I'll concede that it is harder.)
Or, we could not spend that money and work on reducing the deficit so my generation (Y), our kids, our grandchildren, etc. are not completely bankrupt. Further, if we were going to spend that money why doesn't it go to the feeding the third world, stopping genocide, etc.? And don't get me started on how environmentally harmful the industrial complexes surrounding NASA and the military are...
Before we start looking for other planets, why don't we try taking care of this one?
Now mod me down because I had the gaul to question NASA's right to exist.
French and (U.S.) American people are both extremely patriotic (compared to, for example, Spain or Germany)...
I think you're forgetting the Fascist/Nationalist movements that occurred in both Spain and Germany within the last century. I'm afraid very few countries are free from the scourge of nationalism/extreme patriotism.
Governments DO have all the technology. Without fueling the conspiracy theorist, yes, governments tend to have applied technology or even awareness of algorithms, methods, theories even before acadamia has such benefit; tons of cryptography, physics and organic chemistry for example.
MOST if not ALL technology is developed with ONE interest in mind. Military, and if it can give us an advantage. Ironically, this always boils down to a more efficient way of killing another man. We don't like this part of life, but military often does have fun with technology long before anyone else.
That is kinda the point. Our government puts so much R&D and money into spy games and the wermacht, that handling mundane tasks such as digitizing our civil records and responding to domestic emergencies have fallen by the wayside. I'd be very interested to compare salaries of IT types at the NSA/DOD/Defense Contractors and someone working for any of the other non-defense-related government branches. My guess is that salaries for the first are much higher (I already know that the budget allocations are...), and that they tend to attract the better talent.
There are many other areas that the government could lead the way in technological advances. They don't all have to be about how to kill each other faster/better...
Maybe someone else has pointed this out, but "domestic" just comes from the Latin "domus" for "home." The word "domestic" basically means "of the home."
I think your problems may not be with the actual words themselves, but more with the connotations they have taken on in the past century.
What about the Louisiana Corp of Engineers? What about the New Orleans Corp of Engineers? Doesn't a city get to a point where they realize after decades of inattention to those levees from the Feds, they have to step up to bat and deal with local problems on a local scale? Every big city has unique problems, and sitting and waiting for the cavalry to arrive after the fact isn't the most efficient way of actually getting things accomplished....end rant
With what money did you expect New Orleans to do that? All of their money comes from tourism (notice, that's all back up and running). How were all of the poor lower classes (who are still out of their homes) supposed to champion such a measure?
Camino still lacks very simple functionality and it does not support all the myriad plugins that Firefox does. Just a simple example, Ctrl+Click doesn't open in a new tab.
I like Firefox a lot on the Mac. In fact my only complaint is performance - (e.g. a total virtual memory footprint ~700MB on a machine with only 512MB physical RAM!!!!!!).
So I change my User-Agent string to "IE 6.0 WinXP" through Mozilla PrefBar (an awesome tool for Mozilla or firefox users, basicly lets you change any config file variable direct through the toolbar). When I tried it changing my UA string, the site just didn't load.
I don't know what they use, but it does need IE. Probably ActiveX or some such.
Good browser-sniffing relies not on the User-Agent string but on function availability. User-Agent strings change, but the existence of certain functions (which can be checked with a simple "if(function_name)") never do.
Not only is that the best way to sniff, it's also the way to write cross-browser-compatible scripts/suites...
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As for OpenGL 3.0, the rage is that Khronos group promised us moisty delicious cake (whole new API, yay!), but after long long wait delivered only small biscuit.
So, would it be fair to say "the cake [was] a lie?"
While C as a language is far from dead, I would hope you're not recommending it for web development. That's just brutal.
C++, on the other hand, might be more feasible for the intrawebs...
Watch the movie, even.
Only tangentially related: Watch the move Blue State.
Take a look at The Power of Nightmares, a three part documentary that aired in late 2004 on the BBC about how governments/movements can use myths of foreign threats to consolidate/unite their power bases in the context of both sides of the current "war on terror" (i.e. both US neocons and Islamic fundamentalists). You can find the documentary on YouTube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
I highly recommend it as an even-handed, nuanced historical analysis, as opposed to liberal agit-prop or conspiracy theory.
Please quote Ghostbusters correctly. Which also ties into another recent zany news item: the Ghostbusters video game!
Are you fucking retarded? The 32-bit memory limit is not Microsoft's problem, that's math: 2^32 = 4GB. That 4GB has to cover *ALL* physically addressed memory in the system, including mapped memory for devices. The average graphics card now has 256 MB vidmem. Further the type of people who want >2GB sysmem, are also the people who want nice graphics cards, which can easily boost them to 512 - 1GB of total vidmem (keep in mind SLI/Crossfire). The rest of your claims are retarded too. Superfetch uses *idle*, as in *unused*, memory to store apps. If that space becomes wanted for working apps, the Superfetch has cached is ejected. I'm not MSFT fan boy, as a matter of fact I don't like a lot of what they do (mostly their monopolistic practices), but don't make technically unsound claims just you can bash something you don't like. Who the fuck modded this person up.
This is /., so where's the dupe?
When did "the revolution" happen? I didn't know about it because it wasn't televised.
What, do an md5 of the source? Seriously, this isn't rocket science, especially for the /. crowd. No need to hawk your own shit.
That's still not any harder than programming with any other language/platform combo. Each different area of programming has its own unique caveats and gotchas. For example, you'll also see problems of asynchronous programming and data corruption when doing low level driver development. This doesn't make AJAX (and web dev overall) any harder than general programming. (Though if you want to compare to just normal HTML, yes, I'll concede that it is harder.)
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these... ...used to help the terrorists win.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
But do they eat brains? I don't think so. So, technically they're not zombies.
Or, we could not spend that money and work on reducing the deficit so my generation (Y), our kids, our grandchildren, etc. are not completely bankrupt. Further, if we were going to spend that money why doesn't it go to the feeding the third world, stopping genocide, etc.? And don't get me started on how environmentally harmful the industrial complexes surrounding NASA and the military are...
Before we start looking for other planets, why don't we try taking care of this one?
Now mod me down because I had the gaul to question NASA's right to exist.
I think you mean GNU/FASTSAT.
In Soviet Russia, the children think of you.
I think you're forgetting the Fascist/Nationalist movements that occurred in both Spain and Germany within the last century. I'm afraid very few countries are free from the scourge of nationalism/extreme patriotism.
MOST if not ALL technology is developed with ONE interest in mind. Military, and if it can give us an advantage. Ironically, this always boils down to a more efficient way of killing another man. We don't like this part of life, but military often does have fun with technology long before anyone else.
That is kinda the point. Our government puts so much R&D and money into spy games and the wermacht, that handling mundane tasks such as digitizing our civil records and responding to domestic emergencies have fallen by the wayside. I'd be very interested to compare salaries of IT types at the NSA/DOD/Defense Contractors and someone working for any of the other non-defense-related government branches. My guess is that salaries for the first are much higher (I already know that the budget allocations are...), and that they tend to attract the better talent.
There are many other areas that the government could lead the way in technological advances. They don't all have to be about how to kill each other faster/better...
Maybe someone else has pointed this out, but "domestic" just comes from the Latin "domus" for "home." The word "domestic" basically means "of the home."
I think your problems may not be with the actual words themselves, but more with the connotations they have taken on in the past century.
With what money did you expect New Orleans to do that? All of their money comes from tourism (notice, that's all back up and running). How were all of the poor lower classes (who are still out of their homes) supposed to champion such a measure?
Camino still lacks very simple functionality and it does not support all the myriad plugins that Firefox does. Just a simple example, Ctrl+Click doesn't open in a new tab.
I like Firefox a lot on the Mac. In fact my only complaint is performance - (e.g. a total virtual memory footprint ~700MB on a machine with only 512MB physical RAM!!!!!!).
You nailed that right on the head, considering that >95% of all desktops who run Microsoft or Apple...
I don't know what they use, but it does need IE. Probably ActiveX or some such.
Good browser-sniffing relies not on the User-Agent string but on function availability. User-Agent strings change, but the existence of certain functions (which can be checked with a simple "if(function_name)") never do.
Not only is that the best way to sniff, it's also the way to write cross-browser-compatible scripts/suites...