How this can be considered Insightful beats me. Cygwin is an attempt to create a Unix emulation layer on Windows, while this apparently describes a fully flegded.Net integrated shell enviroment for Windows.
If this is true, this will (in my opinion) give Windows a tremendously powerful and coherent (i.e. a single understandable object model and class library) scripting and shell environment.
Say what you will about Cygwin - I like Cygwin a lot and use it daily - but it cannot be said to be coherent and consisting of well integrated parts.
"This discovery is being hailed as the most important solar system discovery in the past 72 years."
Not by me.
What's wrong with today's moderators?
I can't believe a statement like that can be modded up to "Insightful". Had the poster at least written a few reasonable words stating why, I'd maybe understand it. But this...
This fits very vell with the "HOWTO spend a billion dollars" story further down on the Slashdot front page today. Imagine how many satelites a billion dollars could get into orbit at this price!
In Britain, publishers are required by law to send a copy of everything they publish to the British Library in London. I'm not sure if the USA has anything similar but libraries exist pretty much everywhere.
And that's okay! But Google isn't a library, and there isn't a law that require web sites to send their material to Google.
Does someone who puts information out into the public domain have the right to withdraw that information whenever they like? I don't think so.
Publishing something on an internet site doesn't nescessarily mean that you put the information into the public domain, just as you don't give New York Post the right to publish an article just because your article has been published in the New York Times the day before.
You don't give away the right to redistribute by publishing something, unless you explicitly state this. The copyright laws applies on the Internet, just as they do with printed media.
Even though I agree that this is a ridicilous way to look at privacy, I think it would be more interesting to look at the "Google cache problem" from a copyright point of view.
That they make copyrighted material from others sites - even dead sites - available trough the cache on their site, raises a lot of interesting questions:
- Do they breach copyright by presenting cached content? (I think they do)
- The Google cache is causing publishers to lose control over their material.
- In some cases publishers update articles, corrects errors or even remove articles from the web for different reasons (from deals that states that some content shall only be availiable in X days, to cease and desist orders). But if the content is indexed by Google, it's still available for the general public. In these cases the Google cache is publishing content that the author/copyright holder doesn't want to be puslished.
Who is ever going to be turned away from LinuxWorld(tm)?
Somebody's eventually going to be turned away from LinuxWorld too, I guess. This will happen the day somebody realises that they're giving a way hundres of free press passes to a lot of web sites with, say, less than 1000 unique readers per day.
Let's face it: A lot of press passes are given out to freeloaders.
For those of you who don't understand swedish too well: This release's code name, "Glad Midsommar", means "Happy midsummer". The swedes love a good mid summer party.
CPAN. Does PerlScript use CPAN? If not, the primary advantage of Perl (for me) is lost.
PerlScript doesn't exactly use CPAN, but almost. Explanation follows:
PerlScript doesn't differ much from Perl as you know it. PerlScript is just a term for "using Perl as an ASP language", not a derivation or a mutation of Perl. ActiveState's Perl distribution hooks into the Windows Scripting Host and because of this Perl can be used in ASP applications.
As far as I remember ActiveState's Perl distribution uses something called PPM (Perl Package Manager), which is sort of the same thing as CPAN - but different in the way that it does not depend on make and gcc and other tools not available on Windows.
What this means is that you download precompiled modules (in the cases where modules aren't pure Perl modules), not source code. This is neither better nor worse than CPAN in my opinion.
Most of the modules in CPAN are available trough PPM.
Actually, there's a ASP/PerlScript implementation for Apache with mod_perl that can be used on non-Windows operating systems. See www.apache-asp.org. I use it a little bit, and like it. It has a good object model.
Perhaps we need to change regex and a lot of other things because the way they work today is not too optimal, or even logical (not that Perl itself is) or intuitive.
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If you like this film, please go see the original film which this is based on. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0119375 [Imdb]. A much better film.
[This may seem to be flamebait, but isn't meant to be:]
My guess is that the above poster hasn't even seen the Christopher Nolan version, but is Norwegian and tries his best to promote a norwegian movie.
There's nothing wrong in promoting norwegian movies, of course, but I just don't think this writer has enough data to make comparions - mostly because the american version isn't beging showed in Norwegian cinemas yet.
As long as Open Office is fairly well maintained, I think that Star Office doesn't stand much of a chance. I rather doubt that Star Office will get any *must have* features that would set it apart from other office suites.
I agree with you in that StarOffice 6.0 won't have any "must have" features over OpenOffice. But I don't think OpenOffice will "win" just because of this. Actually, I don't think features will be a deciding factor at all. Brand name recognition, however, will be. Because many people - including me - likes products that comes from vendors they know.
One example: I've been following the Mozilla project for a long time, and has downloaded and used both nigtly and milestone builds. I've even reported bugs, and done all a non-programming user can do. But for reason I don't quite understand myself, I never made Mozilla my main browser.
But last week Netscape repackaged Mozilla 1.0 RC 1 and released it with some extras as Netscape 7.0 PR 1. Something strange happened: Because of the name (Netscape) and the feeling that Mozilla finally had gotten the "approved" stamp, I downloaded and use Netscape 7.0 PR 1 daily - and as my main browser.
My father never trusted Mozilla at all - he doesn't relly understand what it is. But Netscape he knows, and he like Netscape products. So now he has also made the switch to Netscape 7.0 (from Netscape 4.7!).
Maybe the same'll apply to OpenOffice as well: Not many people knows OpenOffice.org or what it is. But more people have heard about Sun and will trust a product from them.
I'd say that RealName's problem isn't Microsoft at all, but rather that their technology isn't part of any standardized protocol or specification. Had it been, it would (perhaps) have been implemented as a standard feature of web browsers.
The situation was now that they was absolutely dependent on having this kind of deal with Microsoft. It seems to me that this was a big flaw in their business plan to begin with.
True, but let's not forget that Yahoo is not a news site at all. Presenting a well laid out menu of links is a quite different craft than presenting news.
Does anybody know whether anyone has questioned whether it's legal or not to present a cached version of someone else's content?
I like this functionality, but my gut feeling is that the function surely must be breaking some copyright law.
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How this can be considered Insightful beats me. Cygwin is an attempt to create a Unix emulation layer on Windows, while this apparently describes a fully flegded .Net integrated shell enviroment for Windows.
If this is true, this will (in my opinion) give Windows a tremendously powerful and coherent (i.e. a single understandable object model and class library) scripting and shell environment.
Say what you will about Cygwin - I like Cygwin a lot and use it daily - but it cannot be said to be coherent and consisting of well integrated parts.
What's wrong with today's moderators?
I can't believe a statement like that can be modded up to "Insightful". Had the poster at least written a few reasonable words stating why, I'd maybe understand it. But this...
This fits very vell with the "HOWTO spend a billion dollars" story further down on the Slashdot front page today. Imagine how many satelites a billion dollars could get into orbit at this price!
You don't give away the right to redistribute by publishing something, unless you explicitly state this. The copyright laws applies on the Internet, just as they do with printed media.
Even though I agree that this is a ridicilous way to look at privacy, I think it would be more interesting to look at the "Google cache problem" from a copyright point of view.
That they make copyrighted material from others sites - even dead sites - available trough the cache on their site, raises a lot of interesting questions:
- Do they breach copyright by presenting cached content? (I think they do)
- The Google cache is causing publishers to lose control over their material.
- In some cases publishers update articles, corrects errors or even remove articles from the web for different reasons (from deals that states that some content shall only be availiable in X days, to cease and desist orders). But if the content is indexed by Google, it's still available for the general public. In these cases the Google cache is publishing content that the author/copyright holder doesn't want to be puslished.
Let's face it: A lot of press passes are given out to freeloaders.
For those of you who don't understand swedish too well: This release's code name, "Glad Midsommar", means "Happy midsummer". The swedes love a good mid summer party.
PerlScript doesn't differ much from Perl as you know it. PerlScript is just a term for "using Perl as an ASP language", not a derivation or a mutation of Perl. ActiveState's Perl distribution hooks into the Windows Scripting Host and because of this Perl can be used in ASP applications.
As far as I remember ActiveState's Perl distribution uses something called PPM (Perl Package Manager), which is sort of the same thing as CPAN - but different in the way that it does not depend on make and gcc and other tools not available on Windows.
What this means is that you download precompiled modules (in the cases where modules aren't pure Perl modules), not source code. This is neither better nor worse than CPAN in my opinion.
Most of the modules in CPAN are available trough PPM.
Actually, there's a ASP/PerlScript implementation for Apache with mod_perl that can be used on non-Windows operating systems. See www.apache-asp.org. I use it a little bit, and like it. It has a good object model.
Perhaps we need to change regex and a lot of other things because the way they work today is not too optimal, or even logical (not that Perl itself is) or intuitive.
My guess is that the above poster hasn't even seen the Christopher Nolan version, but is Norwegian and tries his best to promote a norwegian movie.
There's nothing wrong in promoting norwegian movies, of course, but I just don't think this writer has enough data to make comparions - mostly because the american version isn't beging showed in Norwegian cinemas yet.
One example: I've been following the Mozilla project for a long time, and has downloaded and used both nigtly and milestone builds. I've even reported bugs, and done all a non-programming user can do. But for reason I don't quite understand myself, I never made Mozilla my main browser.
But last week Netscape repackaged Mozilla 1.0 RC 1 and released it with some extras as Netscape 7.0 PR 1. Something strange happened: Because of the name (Netscape) and the feeling that Mozilla finally had gotten the "approved" stamp, I downloaded and use Netscape 7.0 PR 1 daily - and as my main browser.
My father never trusted Mozilla at all - he doesn't relly understand what it is. But Netscape he knows, and he like Netscape products. So now he has also made the switch to Netscape 7.0 (from Netscape 4.7!).
Maybe the same'll apply to OpenOffice as well: Not many people knows OpenOffice.org or what it is. But more people have heard about Sun and will trust a product from them.
You may be right that the other guy's wrong, but I'd personally prefer if you'd also tell us who was first to implement these things.
Even though this is Slashdot one isn't required to be arrogant.
I'd say that RealName's problem isn't Microsoft at all, but rather that their technology isn't part of any standardized protocol or specification. Had it been, it would (perhaps) have been implemented as a standard feature of web browsers.
The situation was now that they was absolutely dependent on having this kind of deal with Microsoft. It seems to me that this was a big flaw in their business plan to begin with.
I agree with you. Warning somebody about potential slashdotting is a simple but still great thing to do.
Is it any way I can make CTRL+N (open new window) open a tab instead of a new window?
I love the tabbed feature, and would like it to replace new window altogether.
Did anyone notice the little scene in the middle of the trailer, where Anakin carries a couple of suitcases.
They sure look like Samsonite suitcases to me. Since when did Jedi Knights travel with such earthly baggage?
Where are my Karma Points when I need them?
DOS wasn't licensed from Gary Kildall (who actually was the father of CP/M), but from Tim Paterson.
You would have known this if you had read the article you're commenting on.
True, but let's not forget that Yahoo is not a news site at all. Presenting a well laid out menu of links is a quite different craft than presenting news.
This unit looks very good indeed!
Does anyone know the size? The only things I dislike about PocketPCs is that they're waaay bigger than my Palm Vx.
If HP has managed to reduce the size to something Palm like, they'll have a winner on their hands.
Does anybody know whether anyone has questioned whether it's legal or not to present a cached version of someone else's content? I like this functionality, but my gut feeling is that the function surely must be breaking some copyright law.