Have you even examined the W3C standards? How would you be "drastically" limited? Do you mean you would have to actually (gasp) code fuctionally into your application?
The only people who think they'd be "drastically" limited is the people who weren't programmers in the first place. Web page designer != programer.
If web page designers kept to standards, it would make everyone's job easier. There wouldn't be a need to "keep up with what was supported by who..".
While I think the space program will on, I don't think that the shuttle program will go on for long. This is a program that has claimed 14 lives so far and the technology is a bit outmoded.
With the advances in robotics I wonder just how many of the experiments performed in space need a human presence. If half of the experiments could be done with robots, that would greatly reduce the number of manned flights. This would also result in a significant cost savings, since most of the cost of a manned spacecraft comes from the systems required to support human life.
When places like Radio Shack ask for my name, I usually make up a really long name, like Aturoasmaronger Jagglemanterhold, especially if I notice ahead of time (usually while waiting in line) that the person is not a touch typist.
I am running Samba 2.2.6 here in a w2k mixed mode environment and do NOT need to create UNIX IDs on the Samba server. Samba authenticates the users through the w2k/NT domain controllers and then automatically maps the user to a UID and GID on-the-fly. Samba remembers this mapping for the next time the users logs in.
Visit www.samba.org and do a little reading. You obviously are running an old version of Samba.
Minux is a teaching OS
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Comparing Minux to Linux is like comparing a wagon to a Lexus. Minux was never designed to be a production O/S. It was designed to teach for students taking a first course in operating systems design.
It's not just the government funded agencies or commercial satellite companies that use command and control systems. There are many amateur high altitude ballonists that need a way to send commands and receive data from payloads attached to balloons. Here in Colorado, Edge of Space Sciences is a group of enthusiasts that launch and recover high altitude balloons with a variety of payloads. They are always looking for volunteers to help with launch and recovery. There are similar groups thoughout the U.S.
There are a series of amateur radio satellites in orbit sponsored by members of The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation and other organizations worldwide. They are free to use worldwide by anyone holding an amateur radio license. Most of these satellites are in low earth orbit, which means that they may make several passes a day. It does not take much to get started. You can communicate with other radio amateurs through these satellites with nothing more than a handheld antenna pointed at the sky and a handheld radio clipped to your belt. I use this antenna.
Yes, I know that I can whip out my cellphone and talk to anyone with much less effort. But I am a geek and this is much cooler (and fun!)
If you are in the U.S. check out the American Radio Relay League's web site for more information on getting licensed. If you are outside the U.S., check the above web site for information on getting licensed in your country. It's easy!
In 1991, I was given the assignment of having a halon system installed in our computer room.
Part of job included making the room as airtight as possible. This made the halon more effective. I had to order a special airtight door to replace the existing one.
So the day comes where everything is done and the last thing to do is get the local fire chief to sign off on it. Everyone gathers outside the computer room and looks though the glass panel in the door as I punch the halon switch.
The halon goes *poof* and all the hanging ceiling tiles fly up into the air and come fluttering down to the floor.
Everyone's head turns to stare at me.
We ended up ordering special (heavy) ceiling tiles.
Intellectual property can be the most valuable asset of a high-tech company. Many times, a company's product(s) are based on technology that they have patented. If a competitor uses that patented technology to market a competing product, that can affect the revenue stream of the company holding the patent.
Many companies (including the one I work for) routinely purchase competitors products and take them into product evaluation/reverse engineering labs to see what makes them tick and also to see if they are using technology patented by the company doing the evaluation.
Typically, if a patent violation is found, a letter is sent to the company requesting a meeting, where they try to hammer out a licensing agreement. If that doesn't work, it may end up in court.
A freely implementable standard is a successful standard. Examples are TCP/IP and the PC architecture.
However, there are many technologies that never became standards. Remember MicroChannel from IBM? It never succeeded because IBM held the licensing rights.
You can't have it both ways. Either it is freely implementable or you have to pay, whether it is in the form of licensing fees or other restrictions.
If Microsoft want to tightly control implementations, then in my opinion.NET is already well on it's way to becoming a failure as a standard.
Google *acquired* Deja. That means Google doesn't have to worry about Deja's culture. They own Deja. There won't be any merger-type culture battles because Google will be calling the shots.
When a rant from a troll (yesterday's "Object Oriented Hype" item) is presented as a serious article, you have to wonder if the submissions are being reviewed by the right (read technically competent) people.
When Slashdot reports that a large corporation is suing the Freetype project without a shread of evidence, it makes you wonder if anyone at slashdot is even remotely familiar with the term "journalistic integrity".
Before Slashdot continues to gleefully points out the mistakes of others, they need to get their own house in order. After they finish wiping all the egg off their face, that is.
How can a paradigm that has been a foundation of successful application development for years be called hype? That's akin to calling procedural languages hype.
"Personally, I've never been a huge fan of OOP"
I'm not try to convert you, but have you done any serious OOP programming?
What some people don't understand is that knowing how to program in a OO language doesn't automatically mean a person knows how to do OO programming. If a person partitions an application into objects that don't make sense (e.g., an object that should really be multiple objects), then he isn't really isn't getting the advantages offered by OOP.
I've seen programmers try OO languages and say "it sucks". When I look at their code, I tell them their OOP sucks.
Companies have been licensing patented technology that they don't necessarily think should have been patented in the first place since before your pimply ass was born.
Hardly a "precedent". Do some research before writing about things you know nothing about.
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I can't believe some of the fucktards here.
Have you even examined the W3C standards? How would you be "drastically" limited? Do you mean you would have to actually (gasp) code fuctionally into your application?
The only people who think they'd be "drastically" limited is the people who weren't programmers in the first place. Web page designer != programer.
If web page designers kept to standards, it would make everyone's job easier. There wouldn't be a need to "keep up with what was supported by who..".
In fairnes to who? MicroSoft?
You didn't even bother to read the article, did you?
MicroSoft is deliberately sending Opera browsers broken html. This is not some sort of screwup by an idiot employee. It's not an accident or mistake.
While I think the space program will on, I don't think that the shuttle program will go on for long. This is a program that has claimed 14 lives so far and the technology is a bit outmoded.
With the advances in robotics I wonder just how many of the experiments performed in space need a human presence. If half of the experiments could be done with robots, that would greatly reduce the number of manned flights. This would also result in a significant cost savings, since most of the cost of a manned spacecraft comes from the systems required to support human life.
When places like Radio Shack ask for my name, I usually make up a really long name, like Aturoasmaronger Jagglemanterhold, especially if I notice ahead of time (usually while waiting in line) that the person is not a touch typist.
I am running Samba 2.2.6 here in a w2k mixed mode environment and do NOT need to create UNIX IDs on the Samba server. Samba authenticates the users through the w2k/NT domain controllers and then automatically maps the user to a UID and GID on-the-fly. Samba remembers this mapping for the next time the users logs in.
Visit www.samba.org and do a little reading. You obviously are running an old version of Samba.
Comparing Minux to Linux is like comparing a wagon to a Lexus. Minux was never designed to be a production O/S. It was designed to teach for students taking a first course in operating systems design.
Yes.
I contacted them all and they said they're ready.
There isn't any.
It's not just the government funded agencies or commercial satellite companies that use command and control systems. There are many amateur high altitude ballonists that need a way to send commands and receive data from payloads attached to balloons. Here in Colorado, Edge of Space Sciences is a group of enthusiasts that launch and recover high altitude balloons with a variety of payloads. They are always looking for volunteers to help with launch and recovery. There are similar groups thoughout the U.S.
Is is so hard for the editors to have a policy of checking with the other editors before posting an article? I fail to see the difficulty here.
That's terrible! Can you send me the chicks with dicks link please?
There are a series of amateur radio satellites in orbit sponsored by members of The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation and other organizations worldwide. They are free to use worldwide by anyone holding an amateur radio license. Most of these satellites are in low earth orbit, which means that they may make several passes a day. It does not take much to get started. You can communicate with other radio amateurs through these satellites with nothing more than a handheld antenna pointed at the sky and a handheld radio clipped to your belt. I use this antenna.
Yes, I know that I can whip out my cellphone and talk to anyone with much less effort. But I am a geek and this is much cooler (and fun!)
If you are in the U.S. check out the American Radio Relay League's web site for more information on getting licensed. If you are outside the U.S., check the above web site for information on getting licensed in your country. It's easy!
In 1991, I was given the assignment of having a halon system installed in our computer room.
Part of job included making the room as airtight as possible. This made the halon more effective. I had to order a special airtight door to replace the existing one.
So the day comes where everything is done and the last thing to do is get the local fire chief to sign off on it. Everyone gathers outside the computer room and looks though the glass panel in the door as I punch the halon switch.
The halon goes *poof* and all the hanging ceiling tiles fly up into the air and come fluttering down to the floor.
Everyone's head turns to stare at me.
We ended up ordering special (heavy) ceiling tiles.
Intellectual property can be the most valuable asset of a high-tech company. Many times, a company's product(s) are based on technology that they have patented. If a competitor uses that patented technology to market a competing product, that can affect the revenue stream of the company holding the patent.
Many companies (including the one I work for) routinely purchase competitors products and take them into product evaluation/reverse engineering labs to see what makes them tick and also to see if they are using technology patented by the company doing the evaluation.
Typically, if a patent violation is found, a letter is sent to the company requesting a meeting, where they try to hammer out a licensing agreement. If that doesn't work, it may end up in court.
A freely implementable standard is a successful standard. Examples are TCP/IP and the PC architecture.
.NET is already well on it's way to becoming a failure as a standard.
However, there are many technologies that never became standards. Remember MicroChannel from IBM? It never succeeded because IBM held the licensing rights.
You can't have it both ways. Either it is freely implementable or you have to pay, whether it is in the form of licensing fees or other restrictions.
If Microsoft want to tightly control implementations, then in my opinion
Google *acquired* Deja. That means Google doesn't have to worry about Deja's culture. They own Deja. There won't be any merger-type culture battles because Google will be calling the shots.
Then the patents becomes part of the assets of the company and can be sold. Happens all the time.
When a rant from a troll (yesterday's "Object Oriented Hype" item) is presented as a serious article, you have to wonder if the submissions are being reviewed by the right (read technically competent) people.
When Slashdot reports that a large corporation is suing the Freetype project without a shread of evidence, it makes you wonder if anyone at slashdot is even remotely familiar with the term "journalistic integrity".
Before Slashdot continues to gleefully points out the mistakes of others, they need to get their own house in order. After they finish wiping all the egg off their face, that is.
"The Object Oriented Hype"
How can a paradigm that has been a foundation of successful application development for years be called hype? That's akin to calling procedural languages hype.
"Personally, I've never been a huge fan of OOP"
I'm not try to convert you, but have you done any serious OOP programming?
What some people don't understand is that knowing how to program in a OO language doesn't automatically mean a person knows how to do OO programming. If a person partitions an application into objects that don't make sense (e.g., an object that should really be multiple objects), then he isn't really isn't getting the advantages offered by OOP.
I've seen programmers try OO languages and say "it sucks". When I look at their code, I tell them their OOP sucks.
Let's say I'm a democrat who voted for Nader. What's to prevent me from claiming that I wanted to vote for Gore but mistakenly voted for Buchanan?
She is going to be wearing a device that will
automatically deploy the parachute once she
is below a preset altitude.
Companies have been licensing patented technology that they don't necessarily think should have been patented in the first place since before your pimply ass was born.
Hardly a "precedent". Do some research before writing about things you know nothing about.
They're going to have to build one hell of a radiation shield to protect CDs for 50000 years.
You really think it won't last a few thousand more?
IPv6 doesn't add bandwidth. CmdrTaco is clueless.