no transition period where both the old and new scripting languages will be simultaneously supported
Both VBA and VSTO have been supported in Office 2003 and Office 2007 for years now. Not sure why/. needs to make stuff like that up. It's not like it's that hard to find MS criticisms that are actually true.
You can also hear the press conference (Real media format) and read the News Release, which (surprise!) is a lot different than than the article summary.
It is evolving faster than probably any language ever has before, and the rate of its change is likely to increase.
Do you have any scientific evidence to back up that claim or did you just pull it out of your ass? For example, just among the languages I know, Japanese has changed far more than English in the last 100 years:
The massive effects of the rapid changes to traditional Japanese social hierarchies on "respect language."
The modern industrialization of Japan.
A few folks making a Creole of English (a common process throughout history, BTW) doesn't begin to compare to the fundamental changes rapidly occurring in many of the world's languages.
Attention editors: There's no point in trying to keep up with Digg.
* You can't keep up with Digg because Digg has 100-200 front page articles/day, while Slashdot has 10-20. But know this: that's how we like it. And we don't even mind having slow news days where there are only 5 front page articles. If there's no news, don't add filler.
* We read slashdot for intelligent articles, not the mindless crap found on digg. If you're going to insist on posting crap, we'll just go read the same crap elsewhere a few days earlier.
Seriously, mod parent up. Let's keep this crap off Slashdot. Tag the story "stupid", "notslashworthy", and/or "seenondigg".
There's almost 500 posts on this so far, well above average for Slashdot articles. Your hypothesis about why we read Slashdot seems to be failing the scientific method.
And is it that much of a leap of faith to assume if God can create the world as it says in genesis to believe He could have created molecules with an atomic structure such that carbon dating says they're billions of years old? Or that as you said, that He could maybe just possibly decide to put fossiles in different layers so we *believe* that it's so much older than it really is? If He created the universe, is it really going to be that much harder for Him to create it with a bit of physical history? Umm. No.
This belief that the scientific age of the world is different than the actual age of the world is actually held by many religious people. Although I don't share it, I have no objection to it as a religious belief (not unlike how when I dream at night, I inhabit worlds that appear older than the dream). This is a perfect example of something that may be appropriate in (privately funded) religious classes and obviously totally inappropriate to teach in science class (because it concedes that the world is scientifically old).
Sound familiar? It seems like the tried-and-true tactic of publicly looking into Linux so Microsoft will rush in and offer support and discounts. Hopefully, they are seriously considering Linux regardless.
And this is bad because...? This is why monopolies are bad and competitive markets are good. I'd say this is the expected benefit of having two credible choices available: prices, however you measure them, go down. Whichever is chosen, Linux has already helped ensure that the FAA will pay a market-set rate for their software. There's nothing wrong with making vendors compete on cost.
For the sake of us non-lawyers, can you elaborate on this? Why doesn't ripping an mp3 from your own legally purchased CD (e.g. so you can play it on your iPod) constitute fair use?
The problem with your statement is that the President has the powers that you question, and they are granted to him by the Constitution. You know that nastly little document that is the frameworks for our government. The President is tasked in a time of war to protect the country as he/she sees fit, and guess what we are at war. Our enemy has said that they are at war with us.
You are saying that the President can govern during time of war without legislative or judicial review. Since the War on Terror (like the War on Drugs) will go on for the foreseeable future, do you believe that the US should be a dictatorship from now on?
If the U.S is at war, I give the Commander and Chief great latitude in how it conducts that war. I give him the benefit of any doubt whatsoever that he's conducting this war and listening to those calls for the benefit of the security of the U.S.
Since the "War on Terrorism" is no more likely to end than the "War on Crime" or the "War on Drugs", are you proposing that the President should now have permanent dictatorial (i.e., not subject to judicial or congressional review) powers? Do you think that is what the Constitutional had in mind when creating the Balance of Power between governmental institutions?
I don't see the charge of unfairness as anything other than political cover to avoid taking action. Given the current state of knowledge (even without certainty, the risk of greenhouse warming is too serious too ignore), it would be prudent for the US to get its greenhouse gas production under control in any case, which is all the Kyoto treaty requires. Given that the US is the by far the biggest producer (along with Australia), this would be a meaningful step independently of what anyone else does.
They aren't dogmatic about it and there are many more languages in heavy use at Google. Orkut is written in C#. Google also uses Javascript/Ajax extensively for many of their client-side sites. If you want a good illustration of how ridiculous it would be to insist on single language such as Java everywhere, imagine if all their sites (e.g. maps.google.com) had to be provided using Java applets.
Actually, I think it will have the opposite result. Since it looks like NTP will end up getting hundreds of millions of dollars for invalid patents, people will start filing many more patents that they know won't stand up in court.
This isn't enough in itself because you have a year to file in the US. For XML to qualify as prior art, there needs to be records of the ideas being discussed in the standards deliberation prior to January 28, 1996.
There are tons of reasons why people change their career. If less than 1 in 20 science and engineering Ph.D.'s work outside their field, there must be tremendous demand for them. Hell, more than 5% of the science and engineering Ph.D.'s I know are incompetent.
Here are some more things that are only "theories"
1+1 = 2 (number theory)
Earth travels around the Sun (Copernican Theory)
Theory of gravity
Matrix theory (AMS Subject classification 15-xx)
K-Theory (my doctoral area of research. If I were to be submit a "theorem" without proof, my paper wouldn't even be considered.)
Regarding the much-covered by Slashdot proposal to add "evolution is only a theory" sticker to science textbooks, I would much rather the judge added a "1+1 = 2 is only a theory" sticker to the textbook instead of removing the sticker (which is what he actually did).
It is amazing how many people still believe that PPC is vastly superior to x86. (and yes it is x86 and NOT 386).
Um, you mean because it is?
What exactly do you think a PPC can do that an x86 cannot?
For example,
Much lower heat
Much better design for multiprocessor scalability. x86 SMP scalability typically falls way below linear once you exceed 4 processors. Even 32-processor PPC SMP boxes are fairly close to linear. A lot of this stems from intelligent design decisions like using linked-load and store conditional for synchronization.
Incredibly clean well-designed RISC architecture. I've worked in code generation professionally for much of the last 20 years, and I don't think I've seen a better architecture than PPC. I've seen a couple worse than x86 but not many.
Whether you believe it or not, good processor architecture does make a difference and this is a major contributor to why Apple systems tend to be more reliable, stable, and scalable than PC software.
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Both VBA and VSTO have been supported in Office 2003 and Office 2007 for years now. Not sure why
You can read the book online for free here.
You can also hear the press conference (Real media format) and read the News Release, which (surprise!) is a lot different than than the article summary.
Gleevec
EMI should offer KC $150,000 for each song downloaded. After all, turnabout is fair play.
Do you have any scientific evidence to back up that claim or did you just pull it out of your ass? For example, just among the languages I know, Japanese has changed far more than English in the last 100 years:
A few folks making a Creole of English (a common process throughout history, BTW) doesn't begin to compare to the fundamental changes rapidly occurring in many of the world's languages.
There's almost 500 posts on this so far, well above average for Slashdot articles. Your hypothesis about why we read Slashdot seems to be failing the scientific method.
And is it that much of a leap of faith to assume if God can create the world as it says in genesis to believe He could have created molecules with an atomic structure such that carbon dating says they're billions of years old? Or that as you said, that He could maybe just possibly decide to put fossiles in different layers so we *believe* that it's so much older than it really is? If He created the universe, is it really going to be that much harder for Him to create it with a bit of physical history? Umm. No.
This belief that the scientific age of the world is different than the actual age of the world is actually held by many religious people. Although I don't share it, I have no objection to it as a religious belief (not unlike how when I dream at night, I inhabit worlds that appear older than the dream). This is a perfect example of something that may be appropriate in (privately funded) religious classes and obviously totally inappropriate to teach in science class (because it concedes that the world is scientifically old).
And this is bad because...? This is why monopolies are bad and competitive markets are good. I'd say this is the expected benefit of having two credible choices available: prices, however you measure them, go down. Whichever is chosen, Linux has already helped ensure that the FAA will pay a market-set rate for their software. There's nothing wrong with making vendors compete on cost.
What's the relevance of OpenOffice to this discussion? It doesn't support VB6 either.
For the sake of us non-lawyers, can you elaborate on this? Why doesn't ripping an mp3 from your own legally purchased CD (e.g. so you can play it on your iPod) constitute fair use?
You are saying that the President can govern during time of war without legislative or judicial review. Since the War on Terror (like the War on Drugs) will go on for the foreseeable future, do you believe that the US should be a dictatorship from now on?
Since the "War on Terrorism" is no more likely to end than the "War on Crime" or the "War on Drugs", are you proposing that the President should now have permanent dictatorial (i.e., not subject to judicial or congressional review) powers? Do you think that is what the Constitutional had in mind when creating the Balance of Power between governmental institutions?
I don't see the charge of unfairness as anything other than political cover to avoid taking action. Given the current state of knowledge (even without certainty, the risk of greenhouse warming is too serious too ignore), it would be prudent for the US to get its greenhouse gas production under control in any case, which is all the Kyoto treaty requires. Given that the US is the by far the biggest producer (along with Australia), this would be a meaningful step independently of what anyone else does.
Here
"$612 million for patents that don't have to be valid. I think I can do that."
Get ready for the floodgates.
They aren't dogmatic about it and there are many more languages in heavy use at Google. Orkut is written in C#. Google also uses Javascript/Ajax extensively for many of their client-side sites. If you want a good illustration of how ridiculous it would be to insist on single language such as Java everywhere, imagine if all their sites (e.g. maps.google.com) had to be provided using Java applets.
Actually, I think it will have the opposite result. Since it looks like NTP will end up getting hundreds of millions of dollars for invalid patents, people will start filing many more patents that they know won't stand up in court.
Free, inexhaustable challenge, choose your level, interesting conversation.
So is Chicago. What's your point?
This isn't enough in itself because you have a year to file in the US. For XML to qualify as prior art, there needs to be records of the ideas being discussed in the standards deliberation prior to January 28, 1996.
As if you didn't know that cats routinely come from shelters labeled with RFID chips, you sicko
There are tons of reasons why people change their career. If less than 1 in 20 science and engineering Ph.D.'s work outside their field, there must be tremendous demand for them. Hell, more than 5% of the science and engineering Ph.D.'s I know are incompetent.
While certainly a hoax, it's an unusually thorough one. Check out their appearance as a CES Innovations 2005 Awards Honoree.
Regarding the much-covered by Slashdot proposal to add "evolution is only a theory" sticker to science textbooks, I would much rather the judge added a "1+1 = 2 is only a theory" sticker to the textbook instead of removing the sticker (which is what he actually did).
Um, you mean because it is?
For example,
Whether you believe it or not, good processor architecture does make a difference and this is a major contributor to why Apple systems tend to be more reliable, stable, and scalable than PC software.