But AJAX works great in.NET already and it does everything you want it to do and you don't need to know javascript to make it work. I code.NET for a living, and that is just not true.
Ajaxcontroltoolkit is nice, but far from complete. Lots of things I have to do with JScript/JavaScript There are other frameworks that help with Ajax, but at the end of the day, you need to work with JS.
Please elaborate. Was that a joke? If that was the case, you should sound a little more disturbed in order for it to be funny. If it was not a joke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dichotomy
Just to clarify the cause effect relationship, that is not clear enough for me in the parent. KHTML, that is Konqueror's core, is open source, free software, and easily reusable. That's why Apple forked the project and uses it as a part of Safari.
It's the same thing. You "own" land that was previously intended to be used freely by all natives. The only reason you can live there is that someone was willing to kill any native who tried to keep using it. No ethical difference from 20 thugs inviting you out of your property just because they have bigger guns. A long chain of similar events are the reason why you can own land right now. Just that the thugs are organized, and you pay allegiance to them, so another group can't come and take your land. Your gun does nothing, because the guy next door can always buy a bigger one. Organized thugs are protecting your land, which they took by force in the past, and sold or legated you. Lots of people were killed by those thugs so you can have your property. Lots of people are being killed as we speak, just to protect the value of your property, with the money you pay them. You are a murderer, or at least someone who pays murderers. But that's the way the world works. People _have_ to die in order for others to have their land and property.
Fully compatible is not necessary. Matlab is not compatible with itself if you change too many versions. Octave is compatible enough (tm) for most people. At least as compatible as Matlab, and more easily extended.
Because of a combination of my win98 dying on me, and Matlab's crippling their command line in newer versions, I changed to Octave for my Numerical Methods for Differential Equations (?) class. It worked on my preferred platform, and I got the benefit of easily seen a nicely readable source of everthing I needed. Readline for the command line was of help, too, but that probably is only good for people used to the comand line.
You can hire a couple of good writers for 100k a year each. In a year, you get a book for 200k, with no copyright issues. I think it might be a good deal.
And what if when you opened your big mac, it had an insert saying you have to give your first born to Bill, if you want to actually eat the beef, and if you don't want to do that, you can get a refund?
Australian players don't even know what football is about. Here's to the champion. (IANAI, but I'm South American, and know how to difference good football from soulless football)
Excuse me. I am working in Barbados, in the Caribbean. I see British and Canadian old people here at the beach. Old ladies wear small bikinis. Old guys wear thongs. Not a pleasant sight, but _they_ probably would not give a flying fuck either about being nude.
I don't know about you, but for me it has been useful. More useful than writing endless websites.
I am from a Spanish speaking country in South America. I studied English for many years, but I only got the ability to use the right words in the right place after years of posting in Slashdot.
Right now I am working in the English speaking Caribbean. While it would have been possible to get the job without/. , I can communicate much better with local people than my coworkers. This results in my being more able to perform my job right. Even in my own language, I find I am much more eloquent expressing myself, and this is the main site I post into. Aside from the language thing, Slashdot helps me keep current with technology. I don't have the time or the motivation to check Freshmeat and a dozen other sites everyday just to see what is cooking.
Sorry for the off topic rant, but I just wanted to answer to that idea that always comes up about Slashdot being a waste of time.
Yes. Minors should have parents. Parents should take care of them. Then can even restrict them from accessing chatrooms. There are lots of technological ways to do that.
If you are a parent, have kids, and don't want to take care of them yourself, just don't allow them to use the internet. If you don't like the regular one, build a new one!
No one is keeping you from doing that. There are lots of networks that are not connected to the internet. Of course, if you want it to work, good luck doing it without freedom.
RMS is a religious zealot, and he preaches about _free software_ in a RMS religious zealot style. He is doing more good than harm.
The GPL is not about just working. It's about religious zealotry. The thing is that religious zealotry has brought us a lot more useful stuff than the "just works" "the right tool for the job" attitude.
The latter brought us the Mac, and MSDOS, and Excel. Religious zealotry made GNU/Linux available to us. Now we don't need to use proprietary software. Zealots have made sure that new software intended to be free could be kept free. The BSD people are nice, but because they are not religious zealots, they are not so relevant.
They are not trying to sell something. They like the name. They know "nuisance" is a negative word, and that negative words are not good for selling stuff. They don't need to be enlightened.
You are right the OSS is not about good vs evil. Free software, though, is. And most of the OSS you get is free software, too. For people who care about how software affects freedom, using proprietary software _is_ bad, and using free software is good, if it is viable, even if the free software was inferior feature-wise.
A government is one of the places where software is not just bits, "good" and "evil" do matter, because using proprietary software could even mean subjecting your people to the whims of some company, removing their freedom.
I got a new laptop with Vista Ultimate (Toshiba Qosmio F45, already out of production).
I am barely used to XP (lots of previous windows experience, tough), so I don't have enough experience to beta test Vista. I have been having some problems, like random freezes, random network failures and permission problems I don't understand, and can't be bothered to learn. That, aside from the performance issues I have been suffering.
So, I decided I should install XP Professional, so I can work on the Windows-only software I need for my work.
To my surprise, the oem XP SP2 install did not recognize my SATA HD. I had to jump through lots of hoops in order to slipstream the SATA drivers in the CD. Had to get software to modify the ISO, change lots of text files with strange snippets I found on the web.
It finally installed. Then I realized my video was not supported (Intel GM965). Ok, I downloaded the drivers. They worked. I also downloaded some "chipset drivers"
Then I found out I didn't have sound. I spent two nights crawling for drivers. I finally got the Realtek drivers, that bring a visual bug with my volume control, leaving small windows on top of my windows. I "fixed" that getting rid of the volume tray icon.
Now, I found out it doesn't come back gracefully from hibernation. I will see if next weekend I am lucky enough to fix it.
My point is that the problem is not that Linux drivers are difficult. They have been problematic in the past, but right now they are much better. On the other hand, Windows drivers can be a real headache, but you usually don't see it because they come preinstalled.
The real issue is that installing an OS on a machine is really hard, unless someone does it for you.
About my machine: I tried the live Ubuntu 7.10 in it, and everything worked flawlessly out of the box.
Disclaimer: I know Intel chipset driver issues with Windows XP are not supposed to be the fault of MS, but we all know that Intel and Microsoft are very good friends, it would be very easy for Intel to provide the right drivers in their website for XP, and not only for Vista, when we are talking about a chipset released when XP still was the top seller.
Nonsense. A ZX processor is good enough to do lynx style web browsing for reading Wikipedia. We have enough of those to power this century, and they are not that power intensive to produce. An energy crisis might send us back into the 80s, but I seriously doubt it.
Alright. Now I get it. You are the guy who likes 17 inch laptops, with big fonts. You are right. They _did_ steal your inch (not your pixels, of course). Now, there _are_ 19" notebooks, the vertical equivalent to the 4:3 17" ones, but they are not easy to get at all.
"Commercial" and "open source" are not opposite to each other. "Commercial" and "free software" (as in GPL) are not opposite to each other.
The GPL is involved in lots of commercial projects. It's not as if it was a hobbyst thing. People work and make a living (completely or partially) on free software, GPLed or not.
I know it's not your point, but every time I see that false dichotomy, I feel the need to say it's wrong. Some times I have to cater to that need.
The golden section is a matter of the taste of the majority, at the very least. It doesnÂt matter for something _you_ get done for yourself. It matters for things we all use.
Maybe I was not clear enough. I meant height as in physical height. What I meant is that your argument about real estate is not the only way of seeing it. You are complaining that the same laptop has less height. Maybe itÂs that the same laptop now is wider. A 4:3 14" laptop has 9.16 inches of height. A 16:9 15.4" laptop has 9.24 inches of height. The only difference is that you get 4 extra inches on the X axis. The same happens with 15" - 17"wide laptops. You could complain that it's heavier, of course. Even that is not true with current HP computers. You can't complain it's more expensive, because 15.4 laptops are the cheapest ones available for most manufacturers, cheaper than the equivalent 14.1 . It's not as they are charging you for the extra 4 inches.
It's not a conspiracy to rob you of your pixels. It's a new standard that new tech makes available (now there are no CRTs we need to be similar to) and works for more people. And we like it.
16:9 is more closer to what your eyes can see than 4:3. 16:9 is much closer to the golden rectangle, too. That means it just looks better. 4:3 is there only because it's closer to a circle, and that is obviously cheaper to produce for a CRT.
Just because you became accustomed to it, it doesn't mean it was ok to start with. 4:3 was a good standard. Probably other people didn't like it, but we all enjoyed the benefits of an standard. Now technology changed, and the standard is different. Learn to live with it.
And nobody took your real estate. You can still buy a laptop with the same height in pixels than before, just that it will come with extra horizontal real estate.
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Ajaxcontroltoolkit is nice, but far from complete.
Lots of things I have to do with JScript/JavaScript
There are other frameworks that help with Ajax, but at the end of the day, you need to work with JS.
Please elaborate.
Was that a joke? If that was the case, you should sound a little more disturbed in order for it to be funny.
If it was not a joke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dichotomy
Just to clarify the cause effect relationship, that is not clear enough for me in the parent.
KHTML, that is Konqueror's core, is open source, free software, and easily reusable.
That's why Apple forked the project and uses it as a part of Safari.
It's the same thing.
You "own" land that was previously intended to be used freely by all natives.
The only reason you can live there is that someone was willing to kill any native who tried to keep using it. No ethical difference from 20 thugs inviting you out of your property just because they have bigger guns.
A long chain of similar events are the reason why you can own land right now. Just that the thugs are organized, and you pay allegiance to them, so another group can't come and take your land.
Your gun does nothing, because the guy next door can always buy a bigger one. Organized thugs are protecting your land, which they took by force in the past, and sold or legated you.
Lots of people were killed by those thugs so you can have your property. Lots of people are being killed as we speak, just to protect the value of your property, with the money you pay them.
You are a murderer, or at least someone who pays murderers. But that's the way the world works.
People _have_ to die in order for others to have their land and property.
Fully compatible is not necessary. Matlab is not compatible with itself if you change too many versions. Octave is compatible enough (tm) for most people. At least as compatible as Matlab, and more easily extended.
Because of a combination of my win98 dying on me, and Matlab's crippling their command line in newer versions, I changed to Octave for my Numerical Methods for Differential Equations (?) class.
It worked on my preferred platform, and I got the benefit of easily seen a nicely readable source of everthing I needed. Readline for the command line was of help, too, but that probably is only good for people used to the comand line.
Kudos for inventing shareware!! (Not that I like it)
You can hire a couple of good writers for 100k a year each. In a year, you get a book for 200k, with no copyright issues. I think it might be a good deal.
Sweet!
And what if when you opened your big mac, it had an insert saying you have to give your first born to Bill, if you want to actually eat the beef, and if you don't want to do that, you can get a refund?
Australian players don't even know what football is about.
Here's to the champion. (IANAI, but I'm South American, and know how to difference good football from soulless football)
Excuse me.
I am working in Barbados, in the Caribbean.
I see British and Canadian old people here at the beach.
Old ladies wear small bikinis. Old guys wear thongs. Not a pleasant sight, but _they_ probably would not give a flying fuck either about being nude.
I don't know about you, but for me it has been useful. More useful than writing endless websites.
/. , I can communicate much better with local people than my coworkers. This results in my being more able to perform my job right.
I am from a Spanish speaking country in South America. I studied English for many years, but I only got the ability to use the right words in the right place after years of posting in Slashdot.
Right now I am working in the English speaking Caribbean. While it would have been possible to get the job without
Even in my own language, I find I am much more eloquent expressing myself, and this is the main site I post into.
Aside from the language thing, Slashdot helps me keep current with technology. I don't have the time or the motivation to check Freshmeat and a dozen other sites everyday just to see what is cooking.
Sorry for the off topic rant, but I just wanted to answer to that idea that always comes up about Slashdot being a waste of time.
Yes. Minors should have parents. Parents should take care of them. Then can even restrict them from accessing chatrooms.
There are lots of technological ways to do that.
If you are a parent, have kids, and don't want to take care of them yourself, just don't allow them to use the internet. If you don't like the regular one, build a new one!
No one is keeping you from doing that.
There are lots of networks that are not connected to the internet.
Of course, if you want it to work, good luck doing it without freedom.
You are a fascist.
You are suggesting the police state.
Everybody is guilty of something, so you can jail them whenever you feel the need to.
Of course, you are only trying to turn most minors into outlaws, but your reasoning escalates pretty well.
RMS is a religious zealot, and he preaches about _free software_ in a RMS religious zealot style.
He is doing more good than harm.
The GPL is not about just working. It's about religious zealotry. The thing is that religious zealotry has brought us a lot more useful stuff than the "just works" "the right tool for the job" attitude.
The latter brought us the Mac, and MSDOS, and Excel. Religious zealotry made GNU/Linux available to us. Now we don't need to use proprietary software. Zealots have made sure that new software intended to be free could be kept free. The BSD people are nice, but because they are not religious zealots, they are not so relevant.
Perà pays for their laptops.
Uruguay does, too.
They are not trying to sell something.
They like the name. They know "nuisance" is a negative word, and that negative words are not good for selling stuff. They don't need to be enlightened.
You are right the OSS is not about good vs evil.
Free software, though, is.
And most of the OSS you get is free software, too.
For people who care about how software affects freedom, using proprietary software _is_ bad, and using free software is good, if it is viable, even if the free software was inferior feature-wise.
A government is one of the places where software is not just bits, "good" and "evil" do matter, because using proprietary software could even mean subjecting your people to the whims of some company, removing their freedom.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
XP has the same issues.
I got a new laptop with Vista Ultimate (Toshiba Qosmio F45, already out of production).
I am barely used to XP (lots of previous windows experience, tough), so I don't have enough experience to beta test Vista. I have been having some problems, like random freezes, random network failures and permission problems I don't understand, and can't be bothered to learn. That, aside from the performance issues I have been suffering.
So, I decided I should install XP Professional, so I can work on the Windows-only software I need for my work.
To my surprise, the oem XP SP2 install did not recognize my SATA HD. I had to jump through lots of hoops in order to slipstream the SATA drivers in the CD. Had to get software to modify the ISO, change lots of text files with strange snippets I found on the web.
It finally installed. Then I realized my video was not supported (Intel GM965). Ok, I downloaded the drivers. They worked. I also downloaded some "chipset drivers"
Then I found out I didn't have sound. I spent two nights crawling for drivers. I finally got the Realtek drivers, that bring a visual bug with my volume control, leaving small windows on top of my windows. I "fixed" that getting rid of the volume tray icon.
Now, I found out it doesn't come back gracefully from hibernation. I will see if next weekend I am lucky enough to fix it.
My point is that the problem is not that Linux drivers are difficult. They have been problematic in the past, but right now they are much better. On the other hand, Windows drivers can be a real headache, but you usually don't see it because they come preinstalled.
The real issue is that installing an OS on a machine is really hard, unless someone does it for you.
About my machine: I tried the live Ubuntu 7.10 in it, and everything worked flawlessly out of the box.
Disclaimer: I know Intel chipset driver issues with Windows XP are not supposed to be the fault of MS, but we all know that Intel and Microsoft are very good friends, it would be very easy for Intel to provide the right drivers in their website for XP, and not only for Vista, when we are talking about a chipset released when XP still was the top seller.
Nonsense.
A ZX processor is good enough to do lynx style web browsing for reading Wikipedia.
We have enough of those to power this century, and they are not that power intensive to produce.
An energy crisis might send us back into the 80s, but I seriously doubt it.
Alright. Now I get it. You are the guy who likes 17 inch laptops, with big fonts.
You are right. They _did_ steal your inch (not your pixels, of course).
Now, there _are_ 19" notebooks, the vertical equivalent to the 4:3 17" ones, but they are not easy to get at all.
You are right. They are the ones talking about "commercial" licenses.
"Commercial" and "open source" are not opposite to each other.
"Commercial" and "free software" (as in GPL) are not opposite to each other.
The GPL is involved in lots of commercial projects. It's not as if it was a hobbyst thing. People work and make a living (completely or partially) on free software, GPLed or not.
I know it's not your point, but every time I see that false dichotomy, I feel the need to say it's wrong. Some times I have to cater to that need.
The golden section is a matter of the taste of the majority, at the very least. It doesnÂt matter for something _you_ get done for yourself. It matters for things we all use.
Maybe I was not clear enough. I meant height as in physical height.
What I meant is that your argument about real estate is not the only way of seeing it. You are complaining that the same laptop has less height.
Maybe itÂs that the same laptop now is wider.
A 4:3 14" laptop has 9.16 inches of height. A 16:9 15.4" laptop has 9.24 inches of height. The only difference is that you get 4 extra inches on the X axis. The same happens with 15" - 17"wide laptops.
You could complain that it's heavier, of course.
Even that is not true with current HP computers.
You can't complain it's more expensive, because 15.4 laptops are the cheapest ones available for most manufacturers, cheaper than the equivalent 14.1 . It's not as they are charging you for the extra 4 inches.
It's not a conspiracy to rob you of your pixels. It's a new standard that new tech makes available (now there are no CRTs we need to be similar to) and works for more people. And we like it.
16:9 is more closer to what your eyes can see than 4:3.
16:9 is much closer to the golden rectangle, too. That means it just looks better.
4:3 is there only because it's closer to a circle, and that is obviously cheaper to produce for a CRT.
Just because you became accustomed to it, it doesn't mean it was ok to start with.
4:3 was a good standard. Probably other people didn't like it, but we all enjoyed the benefits of an standard. Now technology changed, and the standard is different. Learn to live with it.
And nobody took your real estate. You can still buy a laptop with the same height in pixels than before, just that it will come with extra horizontal real estate.