I'm mad as hell to the shitty level of thinking that goes into the alarmist scifi nonsense we've seen so much off of late. I'm an old AI developer who used to do this stuff for a living (but then thought better of it) and have digged deeper into more human and philosophical issues, and I wrote this a couple of weeks ago; http://sheltered-objections.bl...
Hmm, I own a Asus Transformer, and I'm actually damn productive on it. I take it everywhere, write, do sketches, all manner of web stuff, slight programming, Citrix Client into a serious dev environment with HDMI to big screen, you name it. The only time I need my laptop is when doing heavy development with NetBeans and heaps of various server services running, even though I *could* do that through Citrix (but I'm not that crazy:) ). For everything else, the Transformer is bloody fantastic!
Funny thing, I was working on the train on my Toshiba P300 laptop on a SharePoint connector in Visual Studio running in a Vista VM under Ubuntu 10.04. A guy and a girl were standing up in the aisle waiting to get off on the next stop, and he burst out, "Hey, he's working in Ubuntu!" This is on the South Coast line south of Australia! Computers are still a novelty down here. This is a sure sign of either the apocalypse or the coming of the messiah. Not sure which one.
> And they don't appear to close half of their.php files with '?>'. Why is that?
Ah, now that is because they are smarter than you.:) The hints are; 1) whitespace control, 2) conscious idea of separating code and markup, and 3) slight but minuscule speed improvement.
My upgrade went fine, except that I used OSS instead of ALSA. I had *no* problems whatsofever. I *then* chose to go back to ALSA to see if they had improved support for Intel embedded sound chips, and -after stuffing around a bit, as usual, with the crappy asound / modprobe options - indeed they had, even the microphone seems to be alive. I like the Karmic Koala, it's all coming together very nicely. There's been a slight flurry of updates the last few days, which is good as they sort out the kinks, but all in all this beats Windows down the pants; I was a Windows user since version 2.0 (!!!) and a DOS users for years and years before that. I switched to Ubuntu about 9 months ago, and I am *blown*away* with it, and ashamed I didn't do it earlier.
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Funny, but I can write far better code in PHP than in Java, simply because the flexibility of PHP enables me more than limiting me. Some people needs flexibility, some need constraints. If you like constraints, choose something like Java. These are all personal preferences; there is no winner.
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"Socialism is the final step on the journey towards communism." and "... socialist regimes..."
I agree with your last statement, but not this one. Socialism can't be associated with regimes. What you may be trying to say is that some misguided individuals put labels such as 'socialism' and 'communism' on their corrupt fascist schemes. Using the word 'socialism' for these things only continues the misguided use of the word that has some idealistic merits, just like 'communism' has.
Call them what they are; fascist regimes with given quantifiers.
Uh, this article on "problems" I found rather "looking for trouble"ish. You can create crap code examples in any language. If the article is meant to keep beginners from learning PHP, they fail because PHP is easy tp pick up for simple stuff. If it is to warn against it in professional / enterprise environments, they fail, because professionals don't do a lot of the stupid things the examples show. However, people going from newbie to cluie might bump into some of these problems, but for heavens sake; mention me one language that hasn't got similar problems!
For the record, I use both Java and PHP for enterprise applications, and the golden rule is; use the language that best fits the job. I'm using PHP more and more, after being professional with Java for over 4 years, and I can write an article twice as long on the perils of Java.
Look at good PHP code, both functional and OO; it can be very effective and scalable.
In fast businesses like the consultancy world, a fast and powerful laptop is at the core of the workings. In my last work in that business, we had top-notch IBM laptops which enabled us to move around internally and externally, running the systems we created locally and on servers, and as most developers know, this is paramount to fast development. I'd rather have a powerful laptop than a powerful desktop anyday. And it isn't about battery-life; it is more about moving your environment over distances and then plug back in again.
People, this is all about getting Linux succesful on the desktop, not wheter it is possible or not. Of course this is all possible, with the right tweeks and flicks, but to Average Joe - who, wheter you like it or not, is the one that says "yay" or "nay" to the factor of success - it has to be easier and more intuitive. Simple as that.
People have a tendency to focus on the wrong things. If you don't want Linux to succeed on the desktop, we're doing alright. If otherwise, success is the keyword; not possible.
Before we start name-calling, please be aware that Opera does report itself as Opera, but you can switch because a lot of sites blocks out people not for the browsers ability to handle the HTML, but because it is something *else* than what their assumptions can give them. Assumptions always suck. That is why it was put there in the first place.
I am myself an Opera user, identifying everywhere I go that I am such. Yes, hotmail gives me crap, but who would expect anything else from Microsoft? Hence, I no longer use Hotmal either.
Remember why the practice of wrongly identify yourself started. Heck, even Explorer still identifies itself as a Mozilla; compatible. Do you know why? If someone puts up barriers for your success, one tries to cirumvent these. Opera did what they had to do, and even if it isn't the correct way[TM], they are now defaulting to Opera identify. Anybody who actually uses Opera also update their browser more frequently that iExplorers do, and the problem will eventually go away.
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I'm mad as hell to the shitty level of thinking that goes into the alarmist scifi nonsense we've seen so much off of late. I'm an old AI developer who used to do this stuff for a living (but then thought better of it) and have digged deeper into more human and philosophical issues, and I wrote this a couple of weeks ago; http://sheltered-objections.bl...
Hmm, I own a Asus Transformer, and I'm actually damn productive on it. I take it everywhere, write, do sketches, all manner of web stuff, slight programming, Citrix Client into a serious dev environment with HDMI to big screen, you name it. The only time I need my laptop is when doing heavy development with NetBeans and heaps of various server services running, even though I *could* do that through Citrix (but I'm not that crazy :) ). For everything else, the Transformer is bloody fantastic!
Funny thing, I was working on the train on my Toshiba P300 laptop on a SharePoint connector in Visual Studio running in a Vista VM under Ubuntu 10.04. A guy and a girl were standing up in the aisle waiting to get off on the next stop, and he burst out, "Hey, he's working in Ubuntu!" This is on the South Coast line south of Australia! Computers are still a novelty down here. This is a sure sign of either the apocalypse or the coming of the messiah. Not sure which one.
> And they don't appear to close half of their .php files with '?>'. Why is that?
Ah, now that is because they are smarter than you. :) The hints are; 1) whitespace control, 2) conscious idea of separating code and markup, and 3) slight but minuscule speed improvement.
My upgrade went fine, except that I used OSS instead of ALSA. I had *no* problems whatsofever. I *then* chose to go back to ALSA to see if they had improved support for Intel embedded sound chips, and -after stuffing around a bit, as usual, with the crappy asound / modprobe options - indeed they had, even the microphone seems to be alive. I like the Karmic Koala, it's all coming together very nicely. There's been a slight flurry of updates the last few days, which is good as they sort out the kinks, but all in all this beats Windows down the pants; I was a Windows user since version 2.0 (!!!) and a DOS users for years and years before that. I switched to Ubuntu about 9 months ago, and I am *blown*away* with it, and ashamed I didn't do it earlier.
Funny, but I can write far better code in PHP than in Java, simply because the flexibility of PHP enables me more than limiting me. Some people needs flexibility, some need constraints. If you like constraints, choose something like Java. These are all personal preferences; there is no winner.
"Socialism is the final step on the journey towards communism." and "... socialist regimes ..."
I agree with your last statement, but not this one. Socialism can't be associated with regimes. What you may be trying to say is that some misguided individuals put labels such as 'socialism' and 'communism' on their corrupt fascist schemes. Using the word 'socialism' for these things only continues the misguided use of the word that has some idealistic merits, just like 'communism' has. Call them what they are; fascist regimes with given quantifiers.
Uh, this article on "problems" I found rather "looking for trouble"ish. You can create crap code examples in any language. If the article is meant to keep beginners from learning PHP, they fail because PHP is easy tp pick up for simple stuff. If it is to warn against it in professional / enterprise environments, they fail, because professionals don't do a lot of the stupid things the examples show. However, people going from newbie to cluie might bump into some of these problems, but for heavens sake; mention me one language that hasn't got similar problems! For the record, I use both Java and PHP for enterprise applications, and the golden rule is; use the language that best fits the job. I'm using PHP more and more, after being professional with Java for over 4 years, and I can write an article twice as long on the perils of Java. Look at good PHP code, both functional and OO; it can be very effective and scalable.
Actually, many such things exist, RDF and Topic Maps XTM (http://shelter.nu/art-007.html) being two popular ones.
In fast businesses like the consultancy world, a fast and powerful laptop is at the core of the workings. In my last work in that business, we had top-notch IBM laptops which enabled us to move around internally and externally, running the systems we created locally and on servers, and as most developers know, this is paramount to fast development. I'd rather have a powerful laptop than a powerful desktop anyday. And it isn't about battery-life; it is more about moving your environment over distances and then plug back in again.
People, this is all about getting Linux succesful on the desktop, not wheter it is possible or not. Of course this is all possible, with the right tweeks and flicks, but to Average Joe - who, wheter you like it or not, is the one that says "yay" or "nay" to the factor of success - it has to be easier and more intuitive. Simple as that.
People have a tendency to focus on the wrong things. If you don't want Linux to succeed on the desktop, we're doing alright. If otherwise, success is the keyword; not possible.
Before we start name-calling, please be aware that Opera does report itself as Opera, but you can switch because a lot of sites blocks out people not for the browsers ability to handle the HTML, but because it is something *else* than what their assumptions can give them. Assumptions always suck. That is why it was put there in the first place.
I am myself an Opera user, identifying everywhere I go that I am such. Yes, hotmail gives me crap, but who would expect anything else from Microsoft? Hence, I no longer use Hotmal either.
Remember why the practice of wrongly identify yourself started. Heck, even Explorer still identifies itself as a Mozilla; compatible. Do you know why? If someone puts up barriers for your success, one tries to cirumvent these. Opera did what they had to do, and even if it isn't the correct way[TM], they are now defaulting to Opera identify. Anybody who actually uses Opera also update their browser more frequently that iExplorers do, and the problem will eventually go away.
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