I will be the first to admit our problems. We have a lot of them. Many of them start with D and R. I hold our entire political system and value system at fault to some extent. You extrapolated a lot about my view point, most of it assumption. Our problems belong to us. It doesn't matter what the other guy does, really. I know that we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard. What I am saying is that will there be the same finger pointing in international and national circles when we are no longer the biggest consumer or will we still be held fo the fire even though we are no longer the biggest overall threat to the global environment and no longer the biggest consumers overall?
I could go on and on about problems with the current administration and the way they handle so many things. I love my country very much. I hate that so many hate us just because we are the biggest target.
I am a huge conservationist. I believe in preserving our wild places. I don't believe that all of the consumption hate and environmentalism is really doing anyone any good.
And on another note... The kyoto protocol. Fair trade agreements. There are better ways. We are the big boy on the block. If we don't have a little unilateral action now and then we weaken ourselves. We are on top and everyone envies those on top. Conservation. TRUE conservatism. Thats ok. That doesn't preclude one from having a heart and taking unilateral action. Its not always bullying, you know. People only THINK we are a real bully. I think they (people who view us as a bully) lose perspective on what we really do with our power compared to countless other nations. If anything people in this country sit back and just let things happen. We have become a bit complacent about the world at large. Hopefully we will truly awaken before we are lulled into a permanent sleep.
On and it was a bit trollish to break out the "Hate America" line. But it is fun some of the time even if I don't buy into it all that much.
AdSense directly benefits from the targetted advertising. Part of data AdSense is using directly uses pieces of the GMail service. So AdSense as it relates to GMail is a valid question IMO. The Lawsuit is nonsense, but I agree with the parent poster on this.. they make a killing on those ads.
Well.. in a way it makes sense. You place the most emphasis on items that get used a lot and remove emphasis on the lesser used items. Kind of like their "lets see if you can find where I hid the menu" game, but possibly more useful. If I had to choose between reduced visibility relative to other menu items or no visibility for menu items that don't get used a lot I pick reduced. I hate the hide the menu item game.
What would be really cool is if the menu sizing thing is adaptive to your usage habits. I guess it is just so hard to do it right. I say this because look at programs like PhotoShop and Visual Studio. They are both relatively complex with a completely customizable UI. Only YOU have to do the customizing. What if some sort of automated customization based on usage patterns was possible on some limites scale. Better than the hide the menu game.
I liked another posters idea of the "Google" search for menu items instead of static menu structures. The problem is you want to navigate menus with mousing only. Maybe some sort of spcial grid where you mouse through a box and as you move to certain areas it will zoom into that cluster of menu items and a standard area to mouse over that zooms you back out. I can imagine a fluid series of movements taking you down the equivalent of three or four menu levels rather quickly through a kind of set of 3D nodes. Only its more like a 3D chess board so that the structure is easy to follow and less fluid than a true 3D menu system with floating clusters of nodes that are only loosely connected.
Oh well. Thats all UI research, not something you can just spring on people. Or maybe.. if it were perfectly intuitive?
Don't worry, China will be well ahead of us (America) in a decade or so. Will people view the Chinese with such scorn when they are producing more greenhouse gasses than the rest of the world combined in their 1 billion+ person developing economy?
If your main criteria for all of this is going back to environmental concerns what will you come up with next to hate America?
Those classes are NOT worthless. They may not help you directly in getting a job. However, when you are in serious software development and architecture for the long haul those classes are invaluable! Don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. I was a working programmer right out of high school. I have since been getting my undergrad degree after hours. I treasure and value pretty much every college course, even classes that don't relate directly to computer science. These classes help me understand the world around me better. This in turn helps me be a better adjusted person more capable of dealing with life, which lets me focus on my work when it is time to work.
Things that are directly related to computer science. Those are all big and important in my opinion. It is, after all, computer science. It is supposed to be theoretical. Having the theoretical knowledge with some practice of the practical and a god overview of the big picture of software development after a few years of real software development make you a more complete and competent programmer than just being some code monkey at a vocational program. I have used directly, or indirectly everything I picked up from the theoretical side of CS. Maybe it was just making a decision or piecing together where someone was going with a particular technology. That knowledge makes me a better all around architect. So sure.. if you want to be a code monkey who can sling out code.. by all means go vocational.
If you want to understand software at a deep and truly meaningful level do the theoretical as well as the practical.
There really is only one difference between your situation and theirs. They are Microsoft. Let me clarify what that means a little. BillG has more money than the bottom half of America. They have billions and billions of dollars and can wage this kind of war so long it is ridiculous.
Nice moderator bias in here. This post gets modded 3: Funny. Post below making a similar joke about Democrats gets modded 0: Flaimbait. Welcome to Leftdot, err Slashdot.
Thats not necesarilly true in some cases. If you have a statistically significant number of PCs exhibiting a behavior then it most likely is the software vendor to some extent. Programs should not lock up. Occasionally things happen outside of the scope of the norm leaving a program blamemess when it locksup. However, if many people experience this problem and it is significant it is a problem with the software most likely. You can't just say "well PC hardware is all different so its not a problem if you write software that is crummy". You still have to make it reasonably stable.
That said.. OO has never done anything odd for me.
Uh hu. I am sad you think that really. As a student of computer science I view all languages as tools. If I am testing algorithm performance it is all relative. I can implement in any language I want and determine performance of the algorithm relative to other implementations of the algorithm easily. So what if I use Python, Ruby, Java, or C#. The work is what is important.
Student's may be clueless for a time, but you are supposed to be learning computer science and how to write in ANY language. We started with Assembly and worked our way up from there. Why waste your time on tasks that don't require the fine grained control C gives you? Don't be another one of those "I have my Sledgehammer programming language and I will use it regardless of the task" programmers. Here in the commercial world those type of people do MUCH more harm than those who don't know C.
Heh. I amnot sure how to interpret your comment. Parse error. So if the only language I knew really well was C I should just go ahead and write my mundane system administration scripts in C? Because it is such a joy to allocate memory and deal with C file manipulation constructs just to do something simple like read a file and modify lines matching a regex? Geesh.
Learn to use that sledgehammer well. Let me know how hitting the gnats of software development goes for you;-)
But it is almost a given that in any large application someone somewhere dipped into the PInvoke toolbox to get something done. I haven't seen many.NET GUI apps of any large size that don't dip into PInvoke. Usually it was because the developers were familiar with the older Win32 API and didn't feel like doing things right, but still. You don't really see that in Java nearly as often. I have used JNI code a handful of times in 3 or 4 years of Java development and it is almost encouraged my Microsoft to PInvoke things when you need more power/control.
You were doing good until the mechanics of driving. At that point people just don't care. Explain to them how cool or how neat a standard gear box is.. BZZT. no go.;-)
It has not been my experience that the beer is more expensive at all. Decent high quality malt costs maybe 2 bucks a lb. Say you need like 12 - 15 lbs of grain at 2 bucks a shot that is 30 dollars. Plus the hops might cost another 5 dollars. Plus the odd end ingredients. So your up to like say 35-40 bucks. This yields you 45-50 bottles of beer. Where it costs the most is time and effort. Initial equipment purchase need not be expensive. 100 bucks at most. Averaged out across 6-8 batches of beer its still cheaper than a good craft brew. In reality you can usually do a batch of good beer for 30 bucks. Most places sell malt for 1.50 a lb. Its not that expensive and if your careful is usually much less expensive than craft brews. Not astronomically cheaper, but its not an expensive hobby.
It takes time and patience and a little elbow grease.
Heh, well... I can tell you my idea of it and the perception of the shift that many feel is occuring due to "progress". Traditional family values is really just a stupid catch phrase. What is really meant are good family values, but that starts an entire other argument that implies that more progressive or less church oriented households are somehow less than good. In my interpretation is means having a good and solid core in your life. I don't care where you derive this core from but it has to be there. You have to stand for right and wrong and teach these values to your family. You have to represent these things to properly teach your children. You should sit down with your family every week and get to know them. You should do the right thing and not create a troublesome environment at home. As a parent, YOU should be raising your children. For me and my wife that means one of us stays home so our kids know who we are growing up and aren't raised as latch key children because the family thought working two jobs to "provide" for their family was the way to go. Ss on and so forth. Many go to religion to help define their core beliefs and values. It is values like this that many feel progress erodes. These strong family values concepts just get lumped into the Traditional Family Values phrase.
To recap: strong marriges and choosing a partner for life. Raising your children and having a direct influence in their life and instilling your value system on them and not letting them pick up whatever is out there. I don't know if you have kids or have thought about it, but this truly is a different time. The amount of media bombardment children are exposed to is astonishing. It is up to the parents to help their children cope with and understand all they are exposed to. Really, the world kids grow up in now is faster and less innocent than the one I grew up in in the 80s and 90s. The age groups that are targeted by certain types of advertising are getting younger and younger. Without good parents there to help their children understand the world around them it can do some real damage. I know I grew up playing video games like mortal kombat and watching R rated movies and I don't feel that was negative. My parents made sure I was mature enough to understand what I was doing and how this affected me as an individual. I wasn't just given free reign on these things. There is also the Internet and other places where many parents don't know how to properly monitor and assist their children. Its a lot and I really feel that many parents just don't keep up. Many see this as erosion due to progress. I see it as lazy parenting with some speeding of up society getting thrown in there that could be viewed as a negative influence. More on the lazy parents than progress, but it all factors in.
Anyhow, doing what you believe is right, even if it is hard and requires sacrifice. Teaching your children these concepts. So, that is what it means to most slightly left, slightly right, or in the middle families that I know of. We are talking averge middle to upper class families in a major metro city in the deep south. Not your country bumpkins that still get pissy about the Georgia state flag. ALl of this for someone who is just looking for an argument anyhow. Believe what you will but don't pretend like its getting easier to raise children and keep a family toghether in modern American society. Its getting harder and the world around us is moving faster and becoming more and more connected for better or for worse and we all have to keep up.
Both sides like to think they stand on the moral high ground. Who is actually standing on it is anyones guess. For me it is simple: I don't care. I will do what I think is right and try and associate with other families that have the same general value systems I do and that is that. It's basic human nature.
I always hate these type of broad and sweeping statements. They brush aside so many of the complex interactions that it just makes the party line division that much worse. The "right" by and large is not resisting progress. The "left" by and large is not the only group to move things forward. Many people on the right and left lean much more towards moderate, are businessmen and technology people and they care very little for the extremists that are seen as radically pushing the envelope.
That said painting things as progress is also not quite fair. There are many things you might view as progress that others view as an erosion of traditional family values and such. This really has very little to do with the extreme rights religious Zeal. The extremists like the religious right and PETA do more harm to "progress" and seeing their goals met than they do towards actually making a difference. But still, you can't just claim that the right is against progress and the left is always for progress. Mainly because there is no great definition or agreement on what progress is. This is a fun little word game the extreme left likes to play.
There are diminishing returns on time spent improving performance. At some point you will reach x% of the theoretical max and your done. And when your theoretical max isn't going up, you have issues. It is just delaying the inevitable.
On the other side... I found that for doing a general site with various content management needs Drupal is quite superior. For your average user Mambo is far more complicated than Drupal in terms of maintenance and support. People understand drupal and getting waht typical users want done is far easier. So from the end user perspective the Drupal administration is much easier. Additional plugin/module installation also works well and without a hitch.
On the technical side they make it quite easy to create a custom look and feel for your site. If you want to change some aspect of Drupal it really isn't that hard. Drupal's module documentation is on par with Mambos. I like Mambo for some features, Drupal for others. But when it came to explaining it to non technical people Drupal was far easier.
I dunno, it depends on our uses certainly, but Drupal is very clean and understandable. To users, system administrators, and to developers. I think that is why Drupal is so popular. I certainly like it and think it does well.
Not really.. if you know enough about the language to abuse it properly you can write amost purely procedural code. You will staill instantiate objects, but if everything you are doing is static and you don't use any instance varaibles you are basically using the absolute barest amount of OO possible to the point where youa re just arguing semantics claiming you are still doing OO.
I am always curios what happens when you want to implement some feature that is not represented by the Oasis document spec? Your just out of luck? Ammend the spec? I hope they have provisions for dealing with that sort of thing.
If thats the case just run some tubing to a bucket in the fridge and hook up a cheap pump.. Pump water into and out of the fridge continuously and you will definitely keep one room cooler;-)
Where is the threat folks? If Apple keeps their OS locked down to Apple hardware the story for Apple is basically the same as it has always been. Apple hardware, very good driver support for supported hardware etc. If you still have to pay for the Apple hardware to run the Apple OS what about the situation has truly changed?
I am sure someone will have OS X running on every one of their x86 machines the week it comes out. Outside of geek circles though, this won't mean a damn thing. If Apple keeps it locked to Apple hardware business and home user won't be downloading/buying OS X and installing it any time soon.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss".
At least at first, this really only helps Apple. They will get a wider variety of drivers from FreeBSD. However, I just don't see it affecting Linux and where Linux has been going on the desktop. Apple is still Apple and they still operate on proprietary (read: locked in) Apple hardware.
Until we here different from Apple and their policy on OS installation this changes nothing and really only benefits Apple in the short term. It will cause little to no change in my opinion.
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I will be the first to admit our problems. We have a lot of them. Many of them start with D and R. I hold our entire political system and value system at fault to some extent. You extrapolated a lot about my view point, most of it assumption. Our problems belong to us. It doesn't matter what the other guy does, really. I know that we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard. What I am saying is that will there be the same finger pointing in international and national circles when we are no longer the biggest consumer or will we still be held fo the fire even though we are no longer the biggest overall threat to the global environment and no longer the biggest consumers overall?
I could go on and on about problems with the current administration and the way they handle so many things. I love my country very much. I hate that so many hate us just because we are the biggest target.
I am a huge conservationist. I believe in preserving our wild places. I don't believe that all of the consumption hate and environmentalism is really doing anyone any good.
And on another note... The kyoto protocol. Fair trade agreements. There are better ways. We are the big boy on the block. If we don't have a little unilateral action now and then we weaken ourselves. We are on top and everyone envies those on top. Conservation. TRUE conservatism. Thats ok. That doesn't preclude one from having a heart and taking unilateral action. Its not always bullying, you know. People only THINK we are a real bully. I think they (people who view us as a bully) lose perspective on what we really do with our power compared to countless other nations. If anything people in this country sit back and just let things happen. We have become a bit complacent about the world at large. Hopefully we will truly awaken before we are lulled into a permanent sleep.
On and it was a bit trollish to break out the "Hate America" line. But it is fun some of the time even if I don't buy into it all that much.
Jeremy
AdSense directly benefits from the targetted advertising. Part of data AdSense is using directly uses pieces of the GMail service. So AdSense as it relates to GMail is a valid question IMO. The Lawsuit is nonsense, but I agree with the parent poster on this.. they make a killing on those ads.
J
Well.. in a way it makes sense. You place the most emphasis on items that get used a lot and remove emphasis on the lesser used items. Kind of like their "lets see if you can find where I hid the menu" game, but possibly more useful. If I had to choose between reduced visibility relative to other menu items or no visibility for menu items that don't get used a lot I pick reduced. I hate the hide the menu item game.
What would be really cool is if the menu sizing thing is adaptive to your usage habits. I guess it is just so hard to do it right. I say this because look at programs like PhotoShop and Visual Studio. They are both relatively complex with a completely customizable UI. Only YOU have to do the customizing. What if some sort of automated customization based on usage patterns was possible on some limites scale. Better than the hide the menu game.
I liked another posters idea of the "Google" search for menu items instead of static menu structures. The problem is you want to navigate menus with mousing only. Maybe some sort of spcial grid where you mouse through a box and as you move to certain areas it will zoom into that cluster of menu items and a standard area to mouse over that zooms you back out. I can imagine a fluid series of movements taking you down the equivalent of three or four menu levels rather quickly through a kind of set of 3D nodes. Only its more like a 3D chess board so that the structure is easy to follow and less fluid than a true 3D menu system with floating clusters of nodes that are only loosely connected.
Oh well. Thats all UI research, not something you can just spring on people. Or maybe.. if it were perfectly intuitive?
Jeremy
Don't worry, China will be well ahead of us (America) in a decade or so. Will people view the Chinese with such scorn when they are producing more greenhouse gasses than the rest of the world combined in their 1 billion+ person developing economy?
If your main criteria for all of this is going back to environmental concerns what will you come up with next to hate America?
Jeremy
Technology is neutral. It is we who decide what to use. Nuclear weapons, Atomic Energy, Firearms, Cars. They are all good and bad.
J
Those classes are NOT worthless. They may not help you directly in getting a job. However, when you are in serious software development and architecture for the long haul those classes are invaluable! Don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. I was a working programmer right out of high school. I have since been getting my undergrad degree after hours. I treasure and value pretty much every college course, even classes that don't relate directly to computer science. These classes help me understand the world around me better. This in turn helps me be a better adjusted person more capable of dealing with life, which lets me focus on my work when it is time to work.
Things that are directly related to computer science. Those are all big and important in my opinion. It is, after all, computer science. It is supposed to be theoretical. Having the theoretical knowledge with some practice of the practical and a god overview of the big picture of software development after a few years of real software development make you a more complete and competent programmer than just being some code monkey at a vocational program. I have used directly, or indirectly everything I picked up from the theoretical side of CS. Maybe it was just making a decision or piecing together where someone was going with a particular technology. That knowledge makes me a better all around architect. So sure.. if you want to be a code monkey who can sling out code.. by all means go vocational.
If you want to understand software at a deep and truly meaningful level do the theoretical as well as the practical.
Jeremy
There really is only one difference between your situation and theirs. They are Microsoft. Let me clarify what that means a little. BillG has more money than the bottom half of America. They have billions and billions of dollars and can wage this kind of war so long it is ridiculous.
Jeremy
Nice moderator bias in here. This post gets modded 3: Funny. Post below making a similar joke about Democrats gets modded 0: Flaimbait. Welcome to Leftdot, err Slashdot.
J
Repo men don't hide FROM debtors, they work FOR the debtors....
Thats not necesarilly true in some cases. If you have a statistically significant number of PCs exhibiting a behavior then it most likely is the software vendor to some extent. Programs should not lock up. Occasionally things happen outside of the scope of the norm leaving a program blamemess when it locksup. However, if many people experience this problem and it is significant it is a problem with the software most likely. You can't just say "well PC hardware is all different so its not a problem if you write software that is crummy". You still have to make it reasonably stable.
That said.. OO has never done anything odd for me.
J
Uh hu. I am sad you think that really. As a student of computer science I view all languages as tools. If I am testing algorithm performance it is all relative. I can implement in any language I want and determine performance of the algorithm relative to other implementations of the algorithm easily. So what if I use Python, Ruby, Java, or C#. The work is what is important.
Student's may be clueless for a time, but you are supposed to be learning computer science and how to write in ANY language. We started with Assembly and worked our way up from there. Why waste your time on tasks that don't require the fine grained control C gives you? Don't be another one of those "I have my Sledgehammer programming language and I will use it regardless of the task" programmers. Here in the commercial world those type of people do MUCH more harm than those who don't know C.
Jeremy
Heh. I amnot sure how to interpret your comment. Parse error. So if the only language I knew really well was C I should just go ahead and write my mundane system administration scripts in C? Because it is such a joy to allocate memory and deal with C file manipulation constructs just to do something simple like read a file and modify lines matching a regex? Geesh.
;-)
Learn to use that sledgehammer well. Let me know how hitting the gnats of software development goes for you
J
But it is almost a given that in any large application someone somewhere dipped into the PInvoke toolbox to get something done. I haven't seen many .NET GUI apps of any large size that don't dip into PInvoke. Usually it was because the developers were familiar with the older Win32 API and didn't feel like doing things right, but still. You don't really see that in Java nearly as often. I have used JNI code a handful of times in 3 or 4 years of Java development and it is almost encouraged my Microsoft to PInvoke things when you need more power/control.
Jeremy
Pear only has a handful of modules compared to CPAN, in all fairness.
Jeremy
You were doing good until the mechanics of driving. At that point people just don't care. Explain to them how cool or how neat a standard gear box is.. BZZT. no go. ;-)
(I drive a 5 spd.)
Jeremy
It has not been my experience that the beer is more expensive at all. Decent high quality malt costs maybe 2 bucks a lb. Say you need like 12 - 15 lbs of grain at 2 bucks a shot that is 30 dollars. Plus the hops might cost another 5 dollars. Plus the odd end ingredients. So your up to like say 35-40 bucks. This yields you 45-50 bottles of beer. Where it costs the most is time and effort. Initial equipment purchase need not be expensive. 100 bucks at most. Averaged out across 6-8 batches of beer its still cheaper than a good craft brew. In reality you can usually do a batch of good beer for 30 bucks. Most places sell malt for 1.50 a lb. Its not that expensive and if your careful is usually much less expensive than craft brews. Not astronomically cheaper, but its not an expensive hobby.
It takes time and patience and a little elbow grease.
Jeremy
Heh, well... I can tell you my idea of it and the perception of the shift that many feel is occuring due to "progress". Traditional family values is really just a stupid catch phrase. What is really meant are good family values, but that starts an entire other argument that implies that more progressive or less church oriented households are somehow less than good. In my interpretation is means having a good and solid core in your life. I don't care where you derive this core from but it has to be there. You have to stand for right and wrong and teach these values to your family. You have to represent these things to properly teach your children. You should sit down with your family every week and get to know them. You should do the right thing and not create a troublesome environment at home. As a parent, YOU should be raising your children. For me and my wife that means one of us stays home so our kids know who we are growing up and aren't raised as latch key children because the family thought working two jobs to "provide" for their family was the way to go. Ss on and so forth. Many go to religion to help define their core beliefs and values. It is values like this that many feel progress erodes. These strong family values concepts just get lumped into the Traditional Family Values phrase.
To recap: strong marriges and choosing a partner for life. Raising your children and having a direct influence in their life and instilling your value system on them and not letting them pick up whatever is out there. I don't know if you have kids or have thought about it, but this truly is a different time. The amount of media bombardment children are exposed to is astonishing. It is up to the parents to help their children cope with and understand all they are exposed to. Really, the world kids grow up in now is faster and less innocent than the one I grew up in in the 80s and 90s. The age groups that are targeted by certain types of advertising are getting younger and younger. Without good parents there to help their children understand the world around them it can do some real damage. I know I grew up playing video games like mortal kombat and watching R rated movies and I don't feel that was negative. My parents made sure I was mature enough to understand what I was doing and how this affected me as an individual. I wasn't just given free reign on these things. There is also the Internet and other places where many parents don't know how to properly monitor and assist their children. Its a lot and I really feel that many parents just don't keep up. Many see this as erosion due to progress. I see it as lazy parenting with some speeding of up society getting thrown in there that could be viewed as a negative influence. More on the lazy parents than progress, but it all factors in.
Anyhow, doing what you believe is right, even if it is hard and requires sacrifice. Teaching your children these concepts. So, that is what it means to most slightly left, slightly right, or in the middle families that I know of. We are talking averge middle to upper class families in a major metro city in the deep south. Not your country bumpkins that still get pissy about the Georgia state flag. ALl of this for someone who is just looking for an argument anyhow. Believe what you will but don't pretend like its getting easier to raise children and keep a family toghether in modern American society. Its getting harder and the world around us is moving faster and becoming more and more connected for better or for worse and we all have to keep up.
Both sides like to think they stand on the moral high ground. Who is actually standing on it is anyones guess. For me it is simple: I don't care. I will do what I think is right and try and associate with other families that have the same general value systems I do and that is that. It's basic human nature.
Jeremy
I always hate these type of broad and sweeping statements. They brush aside so many of the complex interactions that it just makes the party line division that much worse. The "right" by and large is not resisting progress. The "left" by and large is not the only group to move things forward. Many people on the right and left lean much more towards moderate, are businessmen and technology people and they care very little for the extremists that are seen as radically pushing the envelope.
That said painting things as progress is also not quite fair. There are many things you might view as progress that others view as an erosion of traditional family values and such. This really has very little to do with the extreme rights religious Zeal. The extremists like the religious right and PETA do more harm to "progress" and seeing their goals met than they do towards actually making a difference. But still, you can't just claim that the right is against progress and the left is always for progress. Mainly because there is no great definition or agreement on what progress is. This is a fun little word game the extreme left likes to play.
Jeremy
There are diminishing returns on time spent improving performance. At some point you will reach x% of the theoretical max and your done. And when your theoretical max isn't going up, you have issues. It is just delaying the inevitable.
Jeremy
On the other side... I found that for doing a general site with various content management needs Drupal is quite superior. For your average user Mambo is far more complicated than Drupal in terms of maintenance and support. People understand drupal and getting waht typical users want done is far easier. So from the end user perspective the Drupal administration is much easier. Additional plugin/module installation also works well and without a hitch.
On the technical side they make it quite easy to create a custom look and feel for your site. If you want to change some aspect of Drupal it really isn't that hard. Drupal's module documentation is on par with Mambos. I like Mambo for some features, Drupal for others. But when it came to explaining it to non technical people Drupal was far easier.
I dunno, it depends on our uses certainly, but Drupal is very clean and understandable. To users, system administrators, and to developers. I think that is why Drupal is so popular. I certainly like it and think it does well.
Jeremy
Not really.. if you know enough about the language to abuse it properly you can write amost purely procedural code. You will staill instantiate objects, but if everything you are doing is static and you don't use any instance varaibles you are basically using the absolute barest amount of OO possible to the point where youa re just arguing semantics claiming you are still doing OO.
Jeremy
I am always curios what happens when you want to implement some feature that is not represented by the Oasis document spec? Your just out of luck? Ammend the spec? I hope they have provisions for dealing with that sort of thing.
Jeremy
If thats the case just run some tubing to a bucket in the fridge and hook up a cheap pump.. Pump water into and out of the fridge continuously and you will definitely keep one room cooler ;-)
J
OK.. spaces are not valid for identifiers.
;)
Try (good_breadwinner + good_hair + muscles) or in Java style, (goodBreadwinner + goodHair + muscles).
J
Where is the threat folks? If Apple keeps their OS locked down to Apple hardware the story for Apple is basically the same as it has always been. Apple hardware, very good driver support for supported hardware etc. If you still have to pay for the Apple hardware to run the Apple OS what about the situation has truly changed?
I am sure someone will have OS X running on every one of their x86 machines the week it comes out. Outside of geek circles though, this won't mean a damn thing. If Apple keeps it locked to Apple hardware business and home user won't be downloading/buying OS X and installing it any time soon.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss".
At least at first, this really only helps Apple. They will get a wider variety of drivers from FreeBSD. However, I just don't see it affecting Linux and where Linux has been going on the desktop. Apple is still Apple and they still operate on proprietary (read: locked in) Apple hardware.
Until we here different from Apple and their policy on OS installation this changes nothing and really only benefits Apple in the short term. It will cause little to no change in my opinion.
Jeremy