The post says that "Steve says that his kids are not allowed to use Google or have an iPod.".
This is plain wrong. Here's what he actually said: "My children--in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod."
How is it possible to take this literally instead of as a joke? Come on!
In fewer words, to the poster: RTFA + don't be a nitpick
The UI Controls all looked nice and worked very well in Firefox 1.5. Unless there's a Grand Hatch (tm) that we've all overlooked, I'll start using this right away*!
So, thanks Yahoo.
*) In this particular comment, "right away" is defined as "tomorrow, or any other time I feel like checking it out".
As the distinction between Java,.NET and Mono seems to be unclear to a few people, I'll throw in my "humble view":
Mono supports several langauges, that easily interoperate. Java supports one langugage. You can write in support for other languages in Java, like Jython, but this is not the point. A compiled function written in Boo can easily be called from C#. See: http://www.mono-project.com/Languages
Mono has a compiler, VM, and a bunch of classes that are all As Free As They Can Be (tm). In addition, Mono has re-implemented a few microsoft-specific classes, that can easily be removed, where there supposedely is an incredibly tiny chance that anyone will care. If you're making Linux-only programs, this will never be an issue for you, and you'll have a very nice and powerful tool for making programs with. See: http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_General
It's easy to call.dll's and.so's from Mono. For what I know, It's not that easy from Java. I tried calling some dlls a few years ago, and it was a mess. For me, at least, the threshold for calling a function from libsomething.so from Java is a lot higher than from Mono. Especially if you're planning on doing this in a crossplattform way, which Mono has support for. You can call the native.so on Linux and the native.dll on windows, with the same program. See: http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/8794
Regardless of my list of points above, I hope you'll see that Novell could very well be "reinforcing their commitment to the Java community, while at the same time funding Mono".
A plesant Ajax-style diversion
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Ajax in Action
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From the webpage: Welcome to Ajax in Action This is a pleasant Ajax-style diversion from the main web page for our book. We hope that you enjoy it.
[...]
For those who didn't notice, this was all written in a horribly obtrusive pop-up, that greedily filled up all my precious screen-estate, just after moving the mouse cursor over a small image. How on earth can we trust these people with reviewing AJAX for us? I know I can't.
On the serious side, AJAX seems to have the potential to bring lightweight[1] applications straight to your browser, with all the advantages and disadvantages that follows.
[1] (with the option of having heavyweight applications behind the lightweight curtain, of course)
It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future, but I'll try anyways: We have dynamic times ahead when it comes to web-applications, and I'm sure we haven't seen the last of AJAX.
... and did you know that in the video of Bill Gates and the Blue Screen of Death, the crash is exactly at the same frame as he gets a pie in his face in this other video?
Come on, anyone can pick one of the topics that are popular on Slashdot, find some video clips, play them simultaneously and make a statement about it.
- That doesn't make it "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
I wish we could just skip the DVD-era, and start using GB-sized flash-cards. I've seen 2048MB SD-cards for sale. That should be enough for a compressed movie.
And if the current trend continues, it shouldn't take too long before we can store HD-movies on the future generation of flash-cards.
The flash-cards are more robust, has no mecanical parts and are easy to deal with.
Okay, they are a bit expensive right now, but I think it's a nice alternative. As I understand, it's a lot cheaper to make both readers and writers for flash-cards than for DVD-s, BlueRay or HD-DVD.
I would rather have a cheap, portable flash-to-TV player, and an exensive card, than an expensive player, relatively cheap DVDs and a lot of burning- and incompatability-trouble.
Some might say that the future is to start sending movies over the internet, right away, but I think people will miss the feeling of beeing able to "hold a movie", in a physical-object kind of way.
I understand the moral choice of the Taiwanese goverment, but while caring for their population, they are also sending a bad signal to the patentholders.
Isn't it a good thing that Roche are making a drug like that in the first place? Is it really beneficial to disencourage them to make the drug?
IMHO, the old "whip and carrot"-trick should not be ignored, especially on a large scale.
If you're maintaining Windows-computers, I can highly recommend AutoIt.
It is the perfect tool/language for automating away tedious tasks. You can even make executables with it.:-)
AutoIt is script based, so it might take a few minutes to write what you want, but in my experience it's worth it. The language is very simplistic and reminds a bit of batch-files in DOS. But, using the utilities that comes with it, automating a task is a relatively quick undertaking.
It has saved me a lot of time and hassle in the past, and has always been stable and dependable.
I respect your opinion, but your reasons are totally disconnected from your statement.
Neither "it's a framework", "has more features" or "improves usability" are reasons for why it should be the future of the web.
When that's all said and done, here's what I know about the issue: - There are several alternative frameworks out there (Zope, Plone and Tomcat/Struts are three examples) - More features are seldom the answer to anything - JS might improve usability in a few cases, but more often, I've seen it ruin whatever usability was left of a webpage
I'm sure RoR will be part of the future of the web (it already is, to some limited extent), but I can't imagine it playing a vital role.
I understand this attitude, of "do it yourself if you are unhappy", since meritocracies often work, but this kind of thinking is flawed, IMHO.
In extreme cases of meritocracy: - You are not allowed to wish for anything, unless you do it yourself - You are not allowed to report a bug, unless you do it yourself - You are not allowed to express your opinion about something, unless you FIX IT YOURSELF. (yelling intended);)
I would much rather have a world where people are allowed to express themselves about things like open source software, and discuss it, than having to fix it themselves right away.
If users weren't able to state negative sides about the software, there would be no valuable feedback.
So, please: Even though a coder is worth a gazillion critics, let people say what they feel without telling them to fix it themselves.:-)
If robots were able to reproduce themselves, I think the same or similar needs/motivations would arise. The robots that were not able to experience the right desires, would simply die out. A bit like humans. How many adult humans do you know of that does not want to reproduce themselves, or haven't already done so?
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The post says that "Steve says that his kids are not allowed to use Google or have an iPod.".
This is plain wrong. Here's what he actually said:
"My children--in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod."
How is it possible to take this literally instead of as a joke? Come on!
In fewer words, to the poster: RTFA + don't be a nitpick
The UI Controls all looked nice and worked very well in Firefox 1.5.
Unless there's a Grand Hatch (tm) that we've all overlooked, I'll start using this right away*!
So, thanks Yahoo.
*) In this particular comment, "right away" is defined as "tomorrow, or any other time I feel like checking it out".
This isn't very interesting at all.
You can compile a java-program and run it under Mono.
Eclipse runs under Mono.
See: http://www.go-mono.com/images/ikvm-screenshot.png
As the distinction between Java,
You can write in support for other languages in Java, like Jython, but this is not the point.
A compiled function written in Boo can easily be called from C#.
See: http://www.mono-project.com/Languages
In addition, Mono has re-implemented a few microsoft-specific classes, that can easily be removed, where there supposedely is an incredibly tiny chance that anyone will care. If you're making Linux-only programs, this will never be an issue for you, and you'll have a very nice and powerful tool for making programs with.
See: http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_General
See: http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/8794
See: http://www.python.org/pycon/dc2004/papers/9/
Regardless of my list of points above, I hope you'll see that Novell could very well be "reinforcing their commitment to the Java community, while at the same time funding Mono".
From the webpage:
Welcome to
Ajax in Action
This is a pleasant Ajax-style diversion from the main web page for our book. We hope that you enjoy it.
[...]
For those who didn't notice, this was all written in a horribly obtrusive pop-up, that greedily filled up all my precious screen-estate, just after moving the mouse cursor over a small image. How on earth can we trust these people with reviewing AJAX for us? I know I can't.
On the serious side, AJAX seems to have the potential to bring lightweight[1] applications straight to your browser, with all the advantages and disadvantages that follows.
[1] (with the option of having heavyweight applications behind the lightweight curtain, of course)
It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future, but I'll try anyways:
We have dynamic times ahead when it comes to web-applications, and I'm sure we haven't seen the last of AJAX.
"isn't natural" is a logical fallacy. Cannabis is natural. Radiation is natural.
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Read about logical fallacies here:
http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/fallacies.html#Natu
Hypnosis is a well known phenomena. You don't have a buggy brain if you're able to be hypnotized.
Read about Hypnosis here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnosis
"a brain that can be put into a state whereby it can't control its own body definately has a bug"
;-)
Yes! Just like sleeping! Or when your foot falls asleep!
Don't Yoda mock, insensitive clod you are!
Write this way some of us might actually do.
... and did you know that in the video of Bill Gates and the Blue Screen of Death, the crash is exactly at the same frame as he gets a pie in his face in this other video?
Come on, anyone can pick one of the topics that are popular on Slashdot, find some video clips, play them simultaneously and make a statement about it.
- That doesn't make it "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
Why cares if some RedMonk analyst believes the trend for whatever is upwards or downwards?
My mother can predict stuff as good as him.
After using a Logitech wireless trackball-thingy for about a year, I am completely converted.
I beat my mates in FPS-games with my trackball.
I do my work with my trackball.
I surf the net with my trackball.
All without any pains in my shoulder or writst. Ever.
I'll probably stick with trackballs for the rest of my life.
I wish we could just skip the DVD-era, and start using GB-sized flash-cards.
I've seen 2048MB SD-cards for sale. That should be enough for a compressed movie.
And if the current trend continues, it shouldn't take too long before we can store HD-movies on the future generation of flash-cards.
The flash-cards are more robust, has no mecanical parts and are easy to deal with.
Okay, they are a bit expensive right now, but I think it's a nice alternative.
As I understand, it's a lot cheaper to make both readers and writers for flash-cards than for DVD-s, BlueRay or HD-DVD.
I would rather have a cheap, portable flash-to-TV player, and an exensive card, than an expensive player, relatively cheap DVDs and a lot of burning- and incompatability-trouble.
Some might say that the future is to start sending movies over the internet, right away, but I think people will miss the feeling of beeing able to "hold a movie", in a physical-object kind of way.
Anyways. Just a wish.
...not to invent drugs anymore.
I understand the moral choice of the Taiwanese goverment, but while caring for their population, they are also sending a bad signal to the patentholders.
Isn't it a good thing that Roche are making a drug like that in the first place?
Is it really beneficial to disencourage them to make the drug?
IMHO, the old "whip and carrot"-trick should not be ignored, especially on a large scale.
I would say the language Boo. It's fun like Python and relatively quick and crossplattform like C# with Mono.
:-)
And, if you ever get a job involving C#, you can write in Boo, and convert to C#. Beautiful!
Boo is the future!
For me, and lots of other people and companies, every year is a new year of GNU/Linux. It's already there, and has been there for a while. :)
It's not hard to agree that things were far from perfect in Irak. But, it's a long way from there, to going to war against it.
I don't see the automatics here, and I don't think it should be an automatic reaction either.
If you're maintaining Windows-computers, I can highly recommend AutoIt.
:-)
It is the perfect tool/language for automating away tedious tasks. You can even make executables with it.
AutoIt is script based, so it might take a few minutes to write what you want, but in my experience it's worth it. The language is very simplistic and reminds a bit of batch-files in DOS. But, using the utilities that comes with it, automating a task is a relatively quick undertaking.
It has saved me a lot of time and hassle in the past, and has always been stable and dependable.
I respect your opinion, but your reasons are totally disconnected from your statement.
:-)
Neither "it's a framework", "has more features" or "improves usability" are reasons for why it should be the future of the web.
When that's all said and done, here's what I know about the issue:
- There are several alternative frameworks out there (Zope, Plone and Tomcat/Struts are three examples)
- More features are seldom the answer to anything
- JS might improve usability in a few cases, but more often, I've seen it ruin whatever usability was left of a webpage
I'm sure RoR will be part of the future of the web (it already is, to some limited extent), but I can't imagine it playing a vital role.
That's my personal opinion.
I understand this attitude, of "do it yourself if you are unhappy", since meritocracies often work, but this kind of thinking is flawed, IMHO.
;)
:-)
In extreme cases of meritocracy:
- You are not allowed to wish for anything, unless you do it yourself
- You are not allowed to report a bug, unless you do it yourself
- You are not allowed to express your opinion about something, unless you FIX IT YOURSELF. (yelling intended)
I would much rather have a world where people are allowed to express themselves about things like open source software, and discuss it, than having to fix it themselves right away.
If users weren't able to state negative sides about the software, there would be no valuable feedback.
So, please: Even though a coder is worth a gazillion critics, let people say what they feel without telling them to fix it themselves.
I don't see why my comment was modded Troll, when it produced such fine answers as the two that was kind enough to answer my question. Oh well.
Okay, I admit that I find several other areas more interesting than networking, so I'm biased.
:-)
But I still can't help wondering; are there anybody here that really finds this question interesting?
We're not the mouses-overlords, damnit! We are the mice-overlords! ;-)
If robots were able to reproduce themselves, I think the same or similar needs/motivations would arise. The robots that were not able to experience the right desires, would simply die out. A bit like humans. How many adult humans do you know of that does not want to reproduce themselves, or haven't already done so?
I wonder what the perfect dialogbox for newbies is.
Fullscreen and less than seven words in big letters, with maximum two choices?
Let's call it a day.
Because IronPython is faster.