The naivete and juvenille indignation on slashdot never ceases to amaze me. Your actions have consequences and you should accept the responsibility for those consquences.
You broke into a school computer and changed it. You got in trouble for it you cry "witchhunt"!
Let's get a couple things straight:
What you did was not the computer equivalent of sneaking something into class. You "bypassed security" intended to keep you out and then you made changes which I'm sure the school needed to fix once found. It was the computer equivalent of breaking and entering and vandalism.
You leave out the details but I hardly think your ordeal" qualifies as a witch hunt.
Were you falsely accused by someone with a grudge against you? No. You were turned over by a friend for an act that you committed.
Were you found guilty without the same processes and rights as other students had? (which admittedly are probably not many)
Face it. You did something wrong. You were caught and punished for it. It sounds like you didn't learn your lesson, though.
LaTeX pretty much has the same philosophy as HTML that make it bad as language to closely control layout.
I used to use LaTeX really well (haven't used it in a while). LaTeX features can be divided into two groups: layout commands and document structure features.
The layout commands (leave a medium sized space here; put a small space in between lines and a bigger space in between paragraphs) are:
1. pretty specific to print documents and
2. available in the TeX language on which LaTeX is built.
The document features{\begin{description} ; \subsection} are really what LaTeX brings to the table. These allow you write your document without worrying specifically about what it will look like.
You don't care that your section header is 15 pt and your subsection header is 13 pt. You let latex handle that for you. See the first or second chapter of Lamport's book to see the value of doing a logical markup of your language.
Note that html as originally conceived is exactly like that. In your document you have tiers of sections. You don't worry about how they will be rendered. You let the browser worry about that. Excellent latex2html filters have been around a long time. It's an obvious and simple translation. The logical structure match up very well for the most part.
This is it's so hard to get html documents to look exactly like you want. The use of html in most "polished" pages is a triumph of perversity.
Now, TeX really allows you some nice control over
layout but it's too complicated to use as a base for a web browers. In fact it's a Turing complete language. I know someone who implemented a BASIC interpreter in TeX.
HTML and LaTeX were both designed as logical formatting languages. HTML has been twisted into doing lots of physical layout and it's awful at it.
Doing real controlled layout will take a completely new ML (probably XML based). I don't know if there's anything in the works.
The big fatal flow mosaic has which was never fixed is an inability to understand any
tag inside a table. I was waiting for this
up until the day development was discontinued
There's so much wrong with this article it's hard to know where to start: This financial maneuver is a risky move that's generally taken by companies with massive upward momentum such as Yahoo.com, Amazon.com and, more recently, Qualcomm. A stock split is a responsible move which almost every successful publicially traded company makes. It is practically mandatory for a company with rising stock prices. The only exception would be Berkshires Hathaway, which has never split and now costs over $50,000 for a single share of stock. As Sony jumps into this stock split, its financial momentum is not as strong as the others, While I haven't looked over any filings for Sony, Yahoo, Amazon or Qualcomm, I can guarantee you that Sony has better "financial momentum" than all of those companies put together. They might have bright future prospects and stock price momentum, but Sony is a proven, succesfull, profitable, diversified company unlike the others. Perhaps the most important reason that Sony has chosen to split its stock is that it has little alternative. Well sure, it has to split, but that has nothing to do with a product launch. The stock is simply too expensive. The rest of the article talks about why the PlayStation 2 will be successful, but that's not really relevant to the issue of a stock split. I'm not familiar with Daily Radar, but they should stick to stuff they understand or learn a little about equity markets before posting garbage like this.
The Richochet modems work fine under Linux. It acts just like a normal modem. Dial 777 and it connects in a just a few seconds.
It's very stable and there are no timeouts. I recommend them. In fact, I'm about to get another one instead of a second phone line and a modem, while I hold out for some sort of fast internet access. Much cheaper over the course of a year.
They can be pretty slow if you're in a crowded area, though.
I tried them hours ago (because of a yahoo story). The site was already pretty much down. I'm sure slashdot isn't helping, but it looks like they're having a fundmental capacity issue.
I don't know that IBM is a "hardware" company. Last time I checked (a year or two ago). IBM still did more business in software than any other company. Granted, this was mostly in mainframe sales.
As indicated in the article. Their emphasis, now, is on service and consulting. Their Global Services division (consulting) is huge and growing fast. They see Linux as a way of selling billable hours. This can actually fit in very will with an open source model of software.
This sounds great. 3com has been treading water with their current palm line. The only real functional improvements since the first palm pilot have been the back light and the IR port.
With the springboard slot and a usb options they're can fix one of the palms biggest shortcomings, it's lack of hardware expandability.
I'm a little concerned about the lack of a cradle on the low end model. Easy hotsync was one of the great things about the orignal palm.
No one really thinks function codes are a good measure of software. There was a decent article in scientific american about using function points to measure code
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The naivete and juvenille indignation on slashdot never ceases to amaze me. Your actions have consequences and you should accept the responsibility for those consquences.
You broke into a school computer and changed it. You got in trouble for it you cry "witchhunt"!
Let's get a couple things straight:
What you did was not the computer equivalent of sneaking something into class. You "bypassed security" intended to keep you out and then you made changes which I'm sure the school needed to fix once found. It was the computer equivalent of breaking and entering and vandalism.
You leave out the details but I hardly think your ordeal" qualifies as a witch hunt.
Were you falsely accused by someone with a grudge against you? No. You were turned over by a friend for an act that you committed.
Were you found guilty without the same processes and rights as other students had? (which admittedly are probably not many)
Face it. You did something wrong. You were caught and punished for it. It sounds like you didn't learn your lesson, though.
LaTeX pretty much has the same philosophy as HTML that make it bad as language to closely control layout.
I used to use LaTeX really well (haven't used it in a while). LaTeX features can be divided into two groups: layout commands and document structure features.
The layout commands (leave a medium sized space here; put a small space in between lines and a bigger space in between paragraphs) are:
1. pretty specific to print documents and
2. available in the TeX language on which LaTeX is built.
The document features{\begin{description} ; \subsection} are really what LaTeX brings to the table. These allow you write your document without worrying specifically about what it will look like.
You don't care that your section header is 15 pt and your subsection header is 13 pt. You let latex handle that for you. See the first or second chapter of Lamport's book to see the value of doing a logical markup of your language.
Note that html as originally conceived is exactly like that. In your document you have tiers of sections. You don't worry about how they will be rendered. You let the browser worry about that. Excellent latex2html filters have been around a long time. It's an obvious and simple translation. The logical structure match up very well for the most part.
This is it's so hard to get html documents to look exactly like you want. The use of html in most "polished" pages is a triumph of perversity.
Now, TeX really allows you some nice control over layout but it's too complicated to use as a base for a web browers. In fact it's a Turing complete language. I know someone who implemented a BASIC interpreter in TeX.
HTML and LaTeX were both designed as logical formatting languages. HTML has been twisted into doing lots of physical layout and it's awful at it.
Doing real controlled layout will take a completely new ML (probably XML based). I don't know if there's anything in the works.
The big fatal flow mosaic has which was never fixed is an inability to understand any
tag inside a table. I was waiting for this
up until the day development was discontinued
Months.
Trick question. Chess and go have never been popular.
There's so much wrong with this article it's hard to know where to start:
This financial maneuver is a risky move that's generally taken by companies with massive upward momentum such as Yahoo.com, Amazon.com and, more recently, Qualcomm. A stock split is a responsible move which almost every successful publicially traded company makes. It is practically mandatory for a company with rising stock prices. The only exception would be Berkshires Hathaway, which has never split and now costs over $50,000 for a single share of stock. As Sony jumps into this stock split, its financial momentum is not as strong as the others, While I haven't looked over any filings for Sony, Yahoo, Amazon or Qualcomm, I can guarantee you that Sony has better "financial momentum" than all of those companies put together. They might have bright future prospects and stock price momentum, but Sony is a proven, succesfull, profitable, diversified company unlike the others. Perhaps the most important reason that Sony has chosen to split its stock is that it has little alternative. Well sure, it has to split, but that has nothing to do with a product launch. The stock is simply too expensive. The rest of the article talks about why the PlayStation 2 will be successful, but that's not really relevant to the issue of a stock split. I'm not familiar with Daily Radar, but they should stick to stuff they understand or learn a little about equity markets before posting garbage like this.
The Richochet modems work fine under Linux. It acts just like a normal modem. Dial 777 and it connects in a just a few seconds.
It's very stable and there are no timeouts. I recommend them. In fact, I'm about to get another one instead of a second phone line and a modem, while I hold out for some sort of fast internet access. Much cheaper over the course of a year.
They can be pretty slow if you're in a crowded area, though.
I tried them hours ago (because of a yahoo story). The site was already pretty much down. I'm sure slashdot isn't helping, but it looks like they're having a fundmental capacity issue.
I don't know that IBM is a "hardware" company. Last time I checked (a year or two ago). IBM still did more business in software than any other company. Granted, this was mostly in mainframe sales.
As indicated in the article. Their emphasis, now, is on service and consulting. Their Global Services division (consulting) is huge and growing fast. They see Linux as a way of selling billable hours. This can actually fit in very will with an open source model of software.
What's the word on running the GeForce256 under linux? I've looked around but have not been able to find a definitive answer.
If you mean that wrench, you can find it at http://www.knifecenter.com
They also have the cybertool available. Quite a cool site.
This sounds great. 3com has been treading water with their current palm line. The only real functional improvements since the first palm pilot have been the back light and the IR port.
With the springboard slot and a usb options they're can fix one of the palms biggest shortcomings, it's lack of hardware expandability.
I'm a little concerned about the lack of a cradle on the low end model. Easy hotsync was one of the great things about the orignal palm.
I think you could do something a lot better by buying a normal recliner, a flat panel display, some sort of arm and a split keyboard.
You could probably do the whole setup for under $2000.
No one really thinks function codes are a good measure of software. There was a decent article
in scientific american about using function points to measure code
This just what the author is saying. When a better format than mp3 (mp4 or whatever) comes along people will switch to it.
He's predicting the death of the mp3 format. Not the death of all computer playable audio formats.