They also protect government, emergency services. Corporations, emergency services, government also hold your personal information. I'm sure if all system administrators were not contactable (even via automatic notification needs), your very personal information would of got leaked out by now. This information can be used to commit identity fraud or against you in various ways obviously. Government? Personal information? You talk about those things like they should actually exist and be items to be worried about.
Generalizing. Yes. Any statement will be "generalizing" if that's what you want to read.
Even farmers without the ability to use tools would have difficulty surviving (assuming survival only required creating food and eating it). Hahaha, if "surviving" was so hard, we would be the only species of mammal on the planet. If a squirrel can survive, but you can't, that shows a gigantic problem in and of itself. With our brains being so much more advanced than every other animal on Earth, I find it hard to believe we wouldn't manage to survive. For the record, I'm talking about the population that would be left after the superfluous masses of people died off. Yes, the good ol' "humans are overpopulated, and the only way to survive without mankind-driven civilization is if most of the 6 billion people die" argument.
There is no such thing as _anybody_ who "needs their cell phone". So what if you're a surgeon? Not 20 years ago, surgeons did not have cell phones. All of a sudden, just because it's physically possible for them to be available 24/7, it should be that way? You can yap about "saving lives", but the fact of the matter is we get hurt. We die. If you're in a serious accident and a doctor is not available for you, tough luck. No other species of animal has access to healers that fix them up if they get injured.
Sysadmins? What the fuck? That is not "needing a cell phone"! The only reason a sysadmin "needs a cell phone" is to protect corporate, capitalist interests. The same goes for any on-call job. Your cell phone is not a necessity. Food, water, and shelter are necessities. Everything else is a luxury that self-important humans have come to expect to be handed to them on a silver platter.
The fact is, we've become so dependant on technology that we would be unable to live without it. Is it perverse of me to say I'd like to see North America permanently lose all electricity? I'm quite sure the majority of the population wouldn't survive the first year.
I find your insight into the interesting difference between 'insightful' and 'interesting' to be interestingly insightful.
Though more seriously, I'm not sure how one could confuse the two at all. Insight has absolutely nothing to do with interest. Either can exist without the other, both can exist together, and often, neither exists. If anything, the top 2 or 3 reasons for scores should be output, with the most prevalent tag first. So if a comment has been marked as insightful by many, and interesting by fewer, then the output should be "(Score:5; Insightful, Interesting)".
I liken ajax to any other browser markup... it's nothing fancier than knowing how to use a <div> tag or knowing how to create new DOM elements dynamically. We don't see articles about how to use divs, so why do we keep getting articles on how to use XMLHttpRequest? XHR is just another tool we can use; there is no big mystery or learning curve to using it. It's simple, has limited functionality, and takes -- at maximum -- a couple of hours to master.
Learn to use XMLHttpRequest. Learn how to manipulate the DOM with JavaScript. That's all there is to it. If you can't figure out how to put together your own slideshow without having to refer to others' markup and code, you obviously haven't got the slightest clue as to what you're doing. Perhaps saying it so bluntly is somewhat rude, but it really is true... XHR is _not_ a difficult object to manipulate.
It's bad enough that people depend on the prototype library as their crutch to use JS and XHR. For Internet Explorer, prototype doesn't even invoke the proper ActiveX objects (for anyone interested, read up from the source). I mean come on, prototype doesn't even support adding a timeout callback to the XHRequest.
As for the linked article itself, the writer writes non-validating HTML (what's with the <script> tags sans attributes?), and his PHP is worse than atrocious (not to mention he's not outputting an opening <?xml ?>). Whatever happened to posting quality work on/.?
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Generalizing. Yes. Any statement will be "generalizing" if that's what you want to read.
Even farmers without the ability to use tools would have difficulty surviving (assuming survival only required creating food and eating it). Hahaha, if "surviving" was so hard, we would be the only species of mammal on the planet. If a squirrel can survive, but you can't, that shows a gigantic problem in and of itself. With our brains being so much more advanced than every other animal on Earth, I find it hard to believe we wouldn't manage to survive. For the record, I'm talking about the population that would be left after the superfluous masses of people died off. Yes, the good ol' "humans are overpopulated, and the only way to survive without mankind-driven civilization is if most of the 6 billion people die" argument.
There is no such thing as _anybody_ who "needs their cell phone". So what if you're a surgeon? Not 20 years ago, surgeons did not have cell phones. All of a sudden, just because it's physically possible for them to be available 24/7, it should be that way? You can yap about "saving lives", but the fact of the matter is we get hurt. We die. If you're in a serious accident and a doctor is not available for you, tough luck. No other species of animal has access to healers that fix them up if they get injured. Sysadmins? What the fuck? That is not "needing a cell phone"! The only reason a sysadmin "needs a cell phone" is to protect corporate, capitalist interests. The same goes for any on-call job. Your cell phone is not a necessity. Food, water, and shelter are necessities. Everything else is a luxury that self-important humans have come to expect to be handed to them on a silver platter. The fact is, we've become so dependant on technology that we would be unable to live without it. Is it perverse of me to say I'd like to see North America permanently lose all electricity? I'm quite sure the majority of the population wouldn't survive the first year.
I find your insight into the interesting difference between 'insightful' and 'interesting' to be interestingly insightful. Though more seriously, I'm not sure how one could confuse the two at all. Insight has absolutely nothing to do with interest. Either can exist without the other, both can exist together, and often, neither exists. If anything, the top 2 or 3 reasons for scores should be output, with the most prevalent tag first. So if a comment has been marked as insightful by many, and interesting by fewer, then the output should be "(Score:5; Insightful, Interesting)".
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I liken ajax to any other browser markup... it's nothing fancier than knowing how to use a <div> tag or knowing how to create new DOM elements dynamically. We don't see articles about how to use divs, so why do we keep getting articles on how to use XMLHttpRequest? XHR is just another tool we can use; there is no big mystery or learning curve to using it. It's simple, has limited functionality, and takes -- at maximum -- a couple of hours to master.
Learn to use XMLHttpRequest. Learn how to manipulate the DOM with JavaScript. That's all there is to it. If you can't figure out how to put together your own slideshow without having to refer to others' markup and code, you obviously haven't got the slightest clue as to what you're doing. Perhaps saying it so bluntly is somewhat rude, but it really is true... XHR is _not_ a difficult object to manipulate.
It's bad enough that people depend on the prototype library as their crutch to use JS and XHR. For Internet Explorer, prototype doesn't even invoke the proper ActiveX objects (for anyone interested, read up from the source). I mean come on, prototype doesn't even support adding a timeout callback to the XHRequest.
As for the linked article itself, the writer writes non-validating HTML (what's with the <script> tags sans attributes?), and his PHP is worse than atrocious (not to mention he's not outputting an opening <?xml ?>). Whatever happened to posting quality work on /.?