Just thinking about it, it seems it's the difference between amount and quantity, "how much" and "how many". e.g. "How much time is needed?" "Ninety days is the amount of time needed." vs. "How many days are needed?" "Ninety days are needed."
I doubt they will turn this into an AJAX system. I don't see the benefit to it. Once the initial search is made, the results are static. The cost would be too great to go back to the server everytime someone moved the slider compared to just letting the browser work its DOM magic.
I think your suggestion about tracking is a great one. It makes sense that in refining their rankings that they want to see how often people have to go to a second page. However, I think they could track just as easily using XMLHttpRequest in *that* instance, sending the query, slider position and the page number back and getting a response that would change nothing on the page. All content on the page would still be controlled by js.
This isn't quite AJAX. As far as I've seen (looked through some of the js files), it doesn't ever use the X (XMLHttpRequest) to request new data. If you view the source, you'll see that they load all hundred results at once and then show you the top ten based on where you have the slider. What confuses me, however, is that to get to the rest of the results, you have to click on the links at the bottom of the page, which does go back to the server. Seems silly to me. They already have all the data there.
Tiger Direct contends that Apple's use of the name has adversely affected its ranking amongst the Internet's largest search engines, Google and Yahoo, bumping the company from its usual spot in the first three results.
I searched Google and Yahoo for tiger, tiger software, and tiger computer. In all situations, "TigerDirect" was either in the top 3, or there were more than two other results above them that weren't related to apple. And the full name of the os is "Mac OS X Tiger", right? I don't even really understand the confusion. Someone... please defend TigerDirect here, 'cause I don't see them as having a leg to stand on.
I have to put more thought into structuring my sentence, instead of headlessly typing it
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One of the biggest complaints against MS is that they are slow to respond to user need, while quick to add profit-margin-stretching-even-though-the-user-does n't-want/need-anyway "features" (e.g. Clippy). So how is the/. community going to react when MS actually starts listening to the customer and adding true features like security, speed, efficiency?
I've noticed over the past couple of months that there have been a few of opinions coming out. One is that it's too late for MS. They screwed the pooch years ago and their entire user base will end up jumping ship.
Another is that this is nothing but a marketing ploy. MS isn't really changing their ideology, they're just making us think they are, so we're better off jumping ship.
The other (my personal opinion) is that it's a welcome change. I will be glad when Windows becomes an environment that is as stable and easily configurable as linux. I love competition. It's what makes America thrive, and if MS can become competitive (again) in the eyes of/. geeks, just think about how much more time/effort will go into linux to make it even better. And, as for jumping ship, we'll have no need. But we may have a fleet comprised of MS, *nix/*BSD, etc.
Kudos to MS for trying to fix their old mistakes, and hopefully in a couple of years, they'll have them fixed and we can really have an OS War!
Just wait until everybody has one of these. Rush hour traffic will really be a rush. Will they make these as convertibles? I love the feeling of wind blowing by as I drive.
Good point. I admit I don't find it tooooo annoying to text people, but I understand that it will take me 10 times as long to enter it on a cell phone as it would for me to type it. (ok 10 is a random number... never timed it) But I can't see someone acquiescing to that delay for jotting down a quick note.
One of the reasons people like PDA's is because they can take notes in class or in meetings. I didn't see any easy way to take notes with this thing, unless they use morse code: Left thumb = dash, right thumb = dot.
Which is exactly why NASA should say they're going to build one. Let the Europeans foot the bill. And it'll give Britain a chance to redeem themselves after their Beagle went belly up.
I just want to give a shout out to Ken. I used to work with him back when he was a student at BYU double majoring in CS and English. That guy saw more movies than anyone else that I know. He also took joy in finishing the NY Times Crossword puzzle. He seemed to just know every word.
Good to see that studying all that "useless trivia" is now paying off. Good job Ken. Long live Dr. Frodo.
before you score something as offtopic, will you please RTFP? Not only did I include elements to show that I Read TFA (look at the part about when the contest ends), but I also made a play on the long running Slashdot joke about everything being USA-centric. So mod it +1 funny or -1 overrated, but not offtopic. That's just silly.
How often does the average Brit go to the dentist? I think this could be a new slashdot poll (well for all geeks to answer... not just the British ones).
I can't believe they posted this. This is an American site. We should not be catering to the "distinguished gentlemen" and "right honorable ladies" from across the sea. I say we slashdot the BBC. (an aside - isn't it interesting that before computers, the best way to protest a news source was to not purchase/view/patronize it, and now the best way is to get as many people as possible to view it at once.)
And the fact that this contest (which ends tomorrow... good timing) isn't open to Americans is further proof that Tony Blair is not W.'s lapdog. This is an outrage.
The new API is HTML, and the new winners in the application development marketplace will be the people who can make HTML sing.
You would think that after progrmaming for as long as he claims (13 years) he would understand tht HTML is not an API, but a Markup Language (HyperText even). And I wish people would stop trying to make HTML sing. I just want it to mark the text up. That's what it's for.
I also fail to see how he feels (apparently along with others) that the API is MS's cash cow. There have been people building libraries (like the ones his beloved VB use) to abstract the OS-API layer, like QT, or Java (which built its own VM, but still abstracted the OS out in most cases). IIRC the 2.6 kernel changed a lot of things in linux, even broke some apps, but did not spell the downfall of linux (granted, they did not change the entire API and are stil POSIX compliant, I think). Why then would a new API hurt MS? If Longhorn catches on (assuming it's ever released), then people will program for it, just like they do for XP/2000.
Now that I've stopped making sense even to myself, I end this rant.
Why does dave think that his creating Linux Today adds any clout to wanting to boycott it? If he's upset because he no longer has any control over the site, he shouldn't have walked away (or let himself be pushed away, whichever the case may be) from it.
To me, a similar scenario would be if Linus walked away from Linux and said (years later), "I don't like the direction Linux is taking, and since I created it, please boycott it."
Perhaps a better solution than boycotting would be to fight fire w/ kFire (or gFire or GNU\Fire, etc.) and let the Linux community purchase ad's on pro Microsoft sites. Or, maybe push IBM to refute the statements that MS has made by purchasing ad space as well.
For the record, I don't care that MS has ad's on a pro Linux site; I see it as a beauty of capitalism. Also, I don't have any money to contribute to the cause of purchasing ad space for pro Linux ad's, but I still think it's a good idea.
For the sake of all things GPL-ish, I'm pretty sure we want SCO to lose. If they're able to start enforcing copyright on things that are currently GPL'd or otherwise what most people consider public domain, the repercussions would be hard felt and long lasting.
And SCO isn't trying to take anyone else's proprietary code away. They're claiming that people are using their(SCO's) code in an unapproved way.
Frankly, win or lose, I think SCO has damaged their reputation among open source programmers, so I wonder who they're going to find to produce anything new for them.
Right now the government doesn't have enough power to stop people from illegally violating copyrights. People trade copyrighted material all the time. Is this decision going to somehow empower the American government with some way of stopping illegal network traffic. And had the vote gone the other way, do you think people would all of a sudden have started distributing more things? I think they would have just had a clearer conscience about the files they were already sharing.
Obviously, the government has missed the boat in this age of information dissimination. The nice part is, they were only passengers, and not part of the crew. The internet community will continue to do as it pleases because there really is no way to stop it, and I think they're going to be hard pressed to find a way to. They can make all the laws they want and throw a few people in jail, but I doubt they want to throw most of the American youth in jail for trading music, or back episodes of the Mickey Mouse Club.
So, what does this ruling really mean for the common American who just doesn't care?
to think that this never would have been discovered if we hadn't had that Anthrax scare. I mean, you can't tell me that scientists were just sitting around and then said, "Let's see if we can alter Anthrax to kill cancer". It was more of a "Recent events have shown us that Anthrax is an efficient cell killer. Let's take it and see if we can customize it to attack cancerous cells." And then they used a characteristic that separates cancer cells from normal cells and exploit it to the benefit of man. What a great world we live in.
It makes me happy to see scientists turn something that has been portrayed as only an indiscriminate killer (which, unaltered, it is) and use it to battle one of the body's toughest enemies.
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Just thinking about it, it seems it's the difference between amount and quantity, "how much" and "how many". e.g. "How much time is needed?" "Ninety days is the amount of time needed." vs. "How many days are needed?" "Ninety days are needed."
Can't say I understand it, but it seems right.
I doubt they will turn this into an AJAX system. I don't see the benefit to it. Once the initial search is made, the results are static. The cost would be too great to go back to the server everytime someone moved the slider compared to just letting the browser work its DOM magic.
I think your suggestion about tracking is a great one. It makes sense that in refining their rankings that they want to see how often people have to go to a second page. However, I think they could track just as easily using XMLHttpRequest in *that* instance, sending the query, slider position and the page number back and getting a response that would change nothing on the page. All content on the page would still be controlled by js.
This isn't quite AJAX. As far as I've seen (looked through some of the js files), it doesn't ever use the X (XMLHttpRequest) to request new data. If you view the source, you'll see that they load all hundred results at once and then show you the top ten based on where you have the slider. What confuses me, however, is that to get to the rest of the results, you have to click on the links at the bottom of the page, which does go back to the server. Seems silly to me. They already have all the data there.
To those of you posting headlessly: Please go find your head before continuing. A FP is not worth it.
To those of you posting heedlessly: Please follow this rule - if it ain't spelt right, make it funny. We'd rather laugh at you than correct your mistake.
One of the biggest complaints against MS is that they are slow to respond to user need, while quick to add profit-margin-stretching-even-though-the-user-does n't-want/need-anyway "features" (e.g. Clippy). So how is the /. community going to react when MS actually starts listening to the customer and adding true features like security, speed, efficiency?
/. geeks, just think about how much more time/effort will go into linux to make it even better. And, as for jumping ship, we'll have no need. But we may have a fleet comprised of MS, *nix/*BSD, etc.
I've noticed over the past couple of months that there have been a few of opinions coming out. One is that it's too late for MS. They screwed the pooch years ago and their entire user base will end up jumping ship.
Another is that this is nothing but a marketing ploy. MS isn't really changing their ideology, they're just making us think they are, so we're better off jumping ship.
The other (my personal opinion) is that it's a welcome change. I will be glad when Windows becomes an environment that is as stable and easily configurable as linux. I love competition. It's what makes America thrive, and if MS can become competitive (again) in the eyes of
Kudos to MS for trying to fix their old mistakes, and hopefully in a couple of years, they'll have them fixed and we can really have an OS War!
Just wait until everybody has one of these. Rush hour traffic will really be a rush. Will they make these as convertibles? I love the feeling of wind blowing by as I drive.
What about EXTREME moderation?
Good point. I admit I don't find it tooooo annoying to text people, but I understand that it will take me 10 times as long to enter it on a cell phone as it would for me to type it. (ok 10 is a random number... never timed it) But I can't see someone acquiescing to that delay for jotting down a quick note.
What would you do to optimize the input?
One of the reasons people like PDA's is because they can take notes in class or in meetings. I didn't see any easy way to take notes with this thing, unless they use morse code: Left thumb = dash, right thumb = dot.
I mean, he got an e-mail that says:
US $8,370,000.00 has arrived here and you should have access to your account by Noon today.
This guy's rich. I hope someone sends me an e-mail telling me how I can get rich like him.
Which is exactly why NASA should say they're going to build one. Let the Europeans foot the bill. And it'll give Britain a chance to redeem themselves after their Beagle went belly up.
I just want to give a shout out to Ken. I used to work with him back when he was a student at BYU double majoring in CS and English. That guy saw more movies than anyone else that I know. He also took joy in finishing the NY Times Crossword puzzle. He seemed to just know every word.
Good to see that studying all that "useless trivia" is now paying off. Good job Ken. Long live Dr. Frodo.
Unless you hit the planet with a Black Hole Generator, in which case, they's more than likely all affected.
never worked in tech support. From the article :There's nothing worse than a satellite that can't make decisions.
Or perhaps would should make him sit on a barbed-wire fence until Duke Nukem Forever comes out.
before you score something as offtopic, will you please RTFP? Not only did I include elements to show that I Read TFA (look at the part about when the contest ends), but I also made a play on the long running Slashdot joke about everything being USA-centric. So mod it +1 funny or -1 overrated, but not offtopic. That's just silly.
How often does the average Brit go to the dentist? I think this could be a new slashdot poll (well for all geeks to answer... not just the British ones).
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I can't believe they posted this. This is an American site. We should not be catering to the "distinguished gentlemen" and "right honorable ladies" from across the sea. I say we slashdot the BBC. (an aside - isn't it interesting that before computers, the best way to protest a news source was to not purchase/view/patronize it, and now the best way is to get as many people as possible to view it at once.)
And the fact that this contest (which ends tomorrow... good timing) isn't open to Americans is further proof that Tony Blair is not W.'s lapdog. This is an outrage.
I also fail to see how he feels (apparently along with others) that the API is MS's cash cow. There have been people building libraries (like the ones his beloved VB use) to abstract the OS-API layer, like QT, or Java (which built its own VM, but still abstracted the OS out in most cases). IIRC the 2.6 kernel changed a lot of things in linux, even broke some apps, but did not spell the downfall of linux (granted, they did not change the entire API and are stil POSIX compliant, I think). Why then would a new API hurt MS? If Longhorn catches on (assuming it's ever released), then people will program for it, just like they do for XP/2000.
Now that I've stopped making sense even to myself, I end this rant.
Why does dave think that his creating Linux Today adds any clout to wanting to boycott it? If he's upset because he no longer has any control over the site, he shouldn't have walked away (or let himself be pushed away, whichever the case may be) from it.
To me, a similar scenario would be if Linus walked away from Linux and said (years later), "I don't like the direction Linux is taking, and since I created it, please boycott it."
Perhaps a better solution than boycotting would be to fight fire w/ kFire (or gFire or GNU\Fire, etc.) and let the Linux community purchase ad's on pro Microsoft sites. Or, maybe push IBM to refute the statements that MS has made by purchasing ad space as well.
For the record, I don't care that MS has ad's on a pro Linux site; I see it as a beauty of capitalism. Also, I don't have any money to contribute to the cause of purchasing ad space for pro Linux ad's, but I still think it's a good idea.
"it was written saturday linustime"
Oh great, one more timezone to have to worry about. Question is... does he go along w/ daylight saving time?
To make matters worse they're pursuing this with all the class and aplomb of any eight-year-old shouting "I'll just take my bat and ball and go home!"
The problem with this analogy is that the 8 year old can usually prove that the bat and ball are his, and someone might actually care if he leaves.
For the sake of all things GPL-ish, I'm pretty sure we want SCO to lose. If they're able to start enforcing copyright on things that are currently GPL'd or otherwise what most people consider public domain, the repercussions would be hard felt and long lasting.
And SCO isn't trying to take anyone else's proprietary code away. They're claiming that people are using their(SCO's) code in an unapproved way.
Frankly, win or lose, I think SCO has damaged their reputation among open source programmers, so I wonder who they're going to find to produce anything new for them.
Right now the government doesn't have enough power to stop people from illegally violating copyrights. People trade copyrighted material all the time. Is this decision going to somehow empower the American government with some way of stopping illegal network traffic. And had the vote gone the other way, do you think people would all of a sudden have started distributing more things? I think they would have just had a clearer conscience about the files they were already sharing.
Obviously, the government has missed the boat in this age of information dissimination. The nice part is, they were only passengers, and not part of the crew. The internet community will continue to do as it pleases because there really is no way to stop it, and I think they're going to be hard pressed to find a way to. They can make all the laws they want and throw a few people in jail, but I doubt they want to throw most of the American youth in jail for trading music, or back episodes of the Mickey Mouse Club.
So, what does this ruling really mean for the common American who just doesn't care?
to think that this never would have been discovered if we hadn't had that Anthrax scare. I mean, you can't tell me that scientists were just sitting around and then said, "Let's see if we can alter Anthrax to kill cancer". It was more of a "Recent events have shown us that Anthrax is an efficient cell killer. Let's take it and see if we can customize it to attack cancerous cells." And then they used a characteristic that separates cancer cells from normal cells and exploit it to the benefit of man. What a great world we live in.
It makes me happy to see scientists turn something that has been portrayed as only an indiscriminate killer (which, unaltered, it is) and use it to battle one of the body's toughest enemies.
Bravo.