They are arguing that open file formats = democracy and closed file formats don't which makes sense to me.
whether or not the file format is "open" says nothing about whether it costs to use it. I mean, don't get me wrong, I think using microsoft word for publishing documents that just really don't need it is a frustrating habit that many people have, and it's nice to see someone recognizing it.
But besides that, the irony of all of this is that by 2007, office will be using standards-based file formats, so I'm guessing the "readable by openoffice" clause will mean that most of the documents are still put out in microsoft word, as long as openoffice manages to support the xml formatted documents by then.
Well, uh, not only is it biased, but it's wrong. They don't spend more on music. They spend more on "digital music". (singles and albums online) That's pretty obvious, if you ask me. My parents have lots of CDs, but they haven't bought any of them online (nor have they ever used file sharing software)
Laptops are expensive. Configurations with more than one computer are expensive, take up quite a lot of space, and generate a lot of heat. It's also more of a hassel in general.
If you develop code on linux, but still want to play video games...and want a fast computer for both, it makes a lot more sense than using a dual machine configuration.
Actually, you're just an annoying troll, and I don't know why I'm actually giving you an answer. Excuse me while I use my freshly acquired moderator points to mod you down.
Maybe jobs are being outsourced because americans have gotten selfish, and don't realize how lucky they are to have the jobs they do, simply by virtue of being born in a certain country. If someone else is willing to work harder than me, and for less, I think that's perfectly legitimate for the job to go to them. They deserve it more.
The problem is that americans think we deserve the quality of life we have, and we really don't. That's going to come and bite us in the butt when India and China come of age technologically and educationally.
Not only that, but encrypted traffic is harder to compress, since you encrypt away the patterns in, say, HTML files.
For 99% of the information you request, encryption is useless. The problem isn't TCP, the problem is people who don't use encrypted protocols for private data.
How many times do we have to re-invent the wheel? How many languages promised re-usability?
There's actually quite a bit that's very important about new languages. Writing a programming language is not only about what the programmer sees (is it powerful, is it readable, does it allow me to do what I want to do), but quite a bit of it is about what the compiler can do with it. C++ has been huge for the last 15 years not because of how easy or wonderful it was to program in, but because of what the compiler could do with the code.
The tweaks that go in to, say, c# 2.0 to allow for lexical closures are not amazing in the sense that that was never done before in a programming language, but because of how efficiently they're done. smalltalk, lisp, SML, OCAML, and haskall may be really freaking cool to program in, but at the end of the day, if the programming power that you have is gained at the cost of a prohibitively slow end product, it won't do you much good.
Try asking a goodyear engineer how many times you need to reinvent the wheel.
You're retarded. 99% of the population doesn't even understand what DRM is. They want a computer that's cheap, and that the nice salesperson at best buy tells them they need. It's a bonus if it matches the drapes. This isn't a loss of freedom to them - to them it means "I can play music I downloaded off of msn music".
I hate to break it to you, but hacker slang isn't cool. "Stuffed shirt companies" are just a different form of uncool. Uncool meet uncool, and this is their love child.
This is why humans are inherently dangerous. We all have the tendency to take pride in the sense that we KNOW and others don't. This happens in political arena, the social arena, and the religious arena. The problem isn't religion, the problem is human arrogance. You can accept something on faith from a position of humility and understanding that there are some things that you don't understand, or you can accept something on faith from a position of "Now I have all of the answers".
Why do people make comments like this? "I'm surprised at the slashdot editors, ____" Since when do you have any basis for thinking that slashdot is anything other than a zoo run by the animals? They know that all they have to do is click "accept" on a few stories, and people will still come and do their thing. They pretty much have a monopoly on the nerd news.
Actually, in some kinds of applications, poor programmers are actually on par or better than smarter programmers. Usually you do your best when you're writing code that is easy enough to understand, but hard enough to keep you interested. I, for one, have no patience for writing simple test UIs, for example, or webpages. But some other people find it challenging enough to keep them interested.
Non-compete? No, it denies the freedom of place of work.
You're an idiot. There is no such thing as "freedom of place of work". Should I be allowed any job I want? Where do you work? I want your job. If you don't give me your job, you're denying my freedom of place to work.
He signed a non-compete clause. He should follow through with it.
Word meaning does not have to be straight-forward and correct for it to make sense in a sentence. Most of humor is using language or meaning in a way that is not quite correct. (sarcasm, irony, etc.)
For example, if I say "you have a good face for radio", the humor is that the real meaning of the sentence is not the same as the straightforward meaning.
Slashdot Mirror
They are arguing that open file formats = democracy and closed file formats don't which makes sense to me.
whether or not the file format is "open" says nothing about whether it costs to use it. I mean, don't get me wrong, I think using microsoft word for publishing documents that just really don't need it is a frustrating habit that many people have, and it's nice to see someone recognizing it.
But besides that, the irony of all of this is that by 2007, office will be using standards-based file formats, so I'm guessing the "readable by openoffice" clause will mean that most of the documents are still put out in microsoft word, as long as openoffice manages to support the xml formatted documents by then.
Well, uh, not only is it biased, but it's wrong. They don't spend more on music. They spend more on "digital music". (singles and albums online) That's pretty obvious, if you ask me. My parents have lots of CDs, but they haven't bought any of them online (nor have they ever used file sharing software)
echo "Joe Smith" > /dev/null
ok, that was the joke. proceed with modding it down.
Laptops are expensive. Configurations with more than one computer are expensive, take up quite a lot of space, and generate a lot of heat. It's also more of a hassel in general.
If you develop code on linux, but still want to play video games...and want a fast computer for both, it makes a lot more sense than using a dual machine configuration.
Actually, you're just an annoying troll, and I don't know why I'm actually giving you an answer. Excuse me while I use my freshly acquired moderator points to mod you down.
no.
Um, I think that's the national enquirer you're thinking of. This isn't celebrity news, this is technology news.
Most of the sources of insane speculation on slashdot are fairly disreputable, but the inquirer? come on, slashdot. =( You make me cry.
Maybe jobs are being outsourced because americans have gotten selfish, and don't realize how lucky they are to have the jobs they do, simply by virtue of being born in a certain country. If someone else is willing to work harder than me, and for less, I think that's perfectly legitimate for the job to go to them. They deserve it more.
The problem is that americans think we deserve the quality of life we have, and we really don't. That's going to come and bite us in the butt when India and China come of age technologically and educationally.
Not only that, but encrypted traffic is harder to compress, since you encrypt away the patterns in, say, HTML files.
For 99% of the information you request, encryption is useless. The problem isn't TCP, the problem is people who don't use encrypted protocols for private data.
How many times do we have to re-invent the wheel? How many languages promised re-usability?
There's actually quite a bit that's very important about new languages. Writing a programming language is not only about what the programmer sees (is it powerful, is it readable, does it allow me to do what I want to do), but quite a bit of it is about what the compiler can do with it. C++ has been huge for the last 15 years not because of how easy or wonderful it was to program in, but because of what the compiler could do with the code.
The tweaks that go in to, say, c# 2.0 to allow for lexical closures are not amazing in the sense that that was never done before in a programming language, but because of how efficiently they're done. smalltalk, lisp, SML, OCAML, and haskall may be really freaking cool to program in, but at the end of the day, if the programming power that you have is gained at the cost of a prohibitively slow end product, it won't do you much good.
Try asking a goodyear engineer how many times you need to reinvent the wheel.
Like Berkley Sockets?
Yes, no way google would use that.
You're retarded. 99% of the population doesn't even understand what DRM is. They want a computer that's cheap, and that the nice salesperson at best buy tells them they need. It's a bonus if it matches the drapes. This isn't a loss of freedom to them - to them it means "I can play music I downloaded off of msn music".
I hate to break it to you, but hacker slang isn't cool. "Stuffed shirt companies" are just a different form of uncool. Uncool meet uncool, and this is their love child.
Which is horribly inefficient in most cases, since that code most likely won't be used again unless you have a -really- mundane job.
Which was my original point. Someone who can just "get it done" and have that interest them will get it done quicker.
This is why humans are inherently dangerous. We all have the tendency to take pride in the sense that we KNOW and others don't. This happens in political arena, the social arena, and the religious arena. The problem isn't religion, the problem is human arrogance. You can accept something on faith from a position of humility and understanding that there are some things that you don't understand, or you can accept something on faith from a position of "Now I have all of the answers".
The latter seems to be the more predominant.
Why do people make comments like this? "I'm surprised at the slashdot editors, ____" Since when do you have any basis for thinking that slashdot is anything other than a zoo run by the animals? They know that all they have to do is click "accept" on a few stories, and people will still come and do their thing. They pretty much have a monopoly on the nerd news.
See? Lack of competition does breed crap. =P
Actually, in some kinds of applications, poor programmers are actually on par or better than smarter programmers. Usually you do your best when you're writing code that is easy enough to understand, but hard enough to keep you interested. I, for one, have no patience for writing simple test UIs, for example, or webpages. But some other people find it challenging enough to keep them interested.
Pat yourself on the back - this comment was posted without a hiche.
That information wants to be set free.
I bet you're also a privacy freak who won't use gmail because you're afraid that they'll do something evil with your e-mails.
"Information wants to be free - unless it's mine!"
Non-compete? No, it denies the freedom of place of work.
You're an idiot. There is no such thing as "freedom of place of work". Should I be allowed any job I want? Where do you work? I want your job. If you don't give me your job, you're denying my freedom of place to work.
He signed a non-compete clause. He should follow through with it.
That's what the US military did to the Iraqi's the first Gulf War
whose the first Gulf War?
How about Squeak? That has no usefulness. It seems like people only use it for its "beauty". =P
Word meaning does not have to be straight-forward and correct for it to make sense in a sentence. Most of humor is using language or meaning in a way that is not quite correct. (sarcasm, irony, etc.)
For example, if I say "you have a good face for radio", the humor is that the real meaning of the sentence is not the same as the straightforward meaning.
It was funny. Laugh.
And saying something that is clearly (contextually) wrong for the purposes of humor has no absolutely no precedent in language.
He couldn't have possibly meant it humorously.
though one nit pick I had myself is that he wasn't adding any salt to the water!!! He could have dropped the water down at least another ten degrees
I'm sure that would have been really good for the grass below his window.