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Re:Mod parent up
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What is .NET?
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One small thing - generally, it's not the developers who pick what they write. It's management, who do it on a basis of what looks popular, what their customers (also upper management) will want, what fits their budget and finally, what fits their strategic partnerships best.
The bad news is that technology and "what's best" never comes into it.:-(
Opera is good, but unfortunately lacks the DOM support of Mozilla. Try even basic DHTML with Opera (e.g. hiding/showing a DIV) and watch it break.
Personally I'm using the 2002020208 build of Moz and it's rock solid. And it isn't adware like the free version of Opera. And it can block popups incidently.
Re:Leave it to the Americans ...
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Apollo 1
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Off topic I know, but I really feel the need to ask...what is it that winds up Americans so much re communism? Is it the devaluing of the individual?
And no, I'm not a socialist, before the flames start. Just interested.
At Uni we used Linux. Generally. In first year we had WinNT 4 with emacs and CygWin. Second year we were lucky enough to get Linux boxes, although they did supply fvwm95 as the window manager:-( And we got to learn MIPs assembly. Third year, our choice. Linux labs or Windows 2k machines.
Great. Lots of fun. Then I got into the real world, and started working for everyone's favourite business, the multinational corporate IT company. And what happens? We use Microsoft. Why? Because our managers made a deal with their managers, and thus we're partners. So we use Exchange, and frequently get email virii (as many staff seem plain dumb unfortunately and have to double click everything). We get IIS, and oh so much pain from that (we managed to lose Internet access for an entire week after some idiot let Code Red through the firewall and it hit all the developers who hadn't got around to patching their machines). And, of course, we get Windows.
The moral here is technical matters don't matter to managers. At least not where I work. They want something everyone knows, and something which managers in other companies will buy. They aren't worried about the best solution; they want one that works and the customer will pay large amounts of money for. So we use Microsoft.
Having said that, thank god I have escaped to Java development ATM. Guess where we do our development however...:-)
Atomic weaponary? Where does this come in to my argument? My point was that people are dying needlessly, and the god you claim exists, created us and loves us does nothing. Science offers both good and bad, as does anything, and it is us, the people who apply it, who decide the outcome.
As for a zebra man, I'm still lost. Genetic manipulation to create freaks is a waste, without even heading towards the moral dilemas (i.e. it's just plain wrong), while using this technology to bioengineer solutions to problems is an avenue of opertunity.
You claim I am tied to something earthbound. I would hope that up proudly as a fact. Instead of being an escapist and imaganing 'it will all be better in the next life' I'm doing the damnedest to make this one a little better.
And this all resolves to one apparently insurmoutable truth. Despite no real evidence on either side, and despite the fact that even those who believe in god bicker and spread hate among themselves (Christians vs Catholics for example, and the recent blind hatred from many aginst Islam), you prefer to life your life by a book which someone long ago claimed was written by god. I prefer to live my life through experience, my world view is constantly changing and growing, and I live this life, not the next. I have thought about all things, and I continue to do so, which is more than I can say for the majority of religious people I have met.
Try telling that to the people who are currently dying through genetic diseases or have their life permenantly impacted by such diseases as diabetes or phenylketonuria. It's all very well for you to sit upon high and make moral judgements, but these do not help these people and are merely an insult to their struggle.
Your god lets millions starve, get raped, murdered, die in his/her name, die of diseases which rob their identity and dignity. Would a creator who loved us and created us in their image do such? I think not.
Science, and genetic manipulation give us the possibility of being able to help these people and many others. Yes, we must go slowly, and be sure of every step. But to ban or restrict this work because of a 'moral superiority' speaks of nothing more than an age old fear of the different. This technology has the potential to make us gods - not in the power mad comic book style, but to give us the power to help others and give them a higher quality of life. That's more than your (christian I presume) god has even done.
Last we heard, NZ was still getting the shit over the ban on nuclear warships in our waters. Why? Because Helen Clarke (and yes, I agree she is a left wing hippy) said we wouldn't invoke the ANZUS treaty, as we weren't an operational member. (For those who don't know, the US basically kicked us out after 1986, for the nuclear ban).
And now, I've seen a lot from [american] people who don't know the facts saying we are obviously against the US, and urging an NZ boycoutt.
It's bad when at a time like this some US citizens are doing their best to stir up anti-US feelings everywhere possible.....
Actually Elite did free 360 degree motion is 32Kb on the BBC B...apparently they even did an algorithm to generate the planet names (as hard coding took too much space). Definately deserved a mention.
Especially when Hollywood ignores history in favour of what sells, such as the delightful flick U-571. I can't but feel it belittles the efforts of those who did solve enigma, merely to make a few more dollars in the US market. Has Hollywood no shame?
My girlfiend never played games until I introduced her to Doom...now she's hooked on Unreal Tourney and Diablo 2 as well and it's impossible to get near my pc (her one is only a P200). One of my flatmates is an enthusiastic gamer and spends many nights alone with her boyfriend...playing multiplayer Diablo 2. How sweet.
At this point you must ask do girls make up a minority of game players because they have better things to do (shopping they tell me) or because computers/pc games are considered to be 'boys toys'...I've definately found a number of women who have never really been into computers, but love the games once they discover them.
Given that your own president (barring further legal battles) doesn't know the prime minister of India (or 'The General' of Pahkistan) i'd say some of the older Americans fit that catagory as well....
The NS 6 branch came off the tree about a month before release (if I remember correctly), so it's about 6 weeks behind Mozilla now.
As for Mozilla nightlies, I'm using them as my main browser now, and current start up time is 4 seconds (5 seconds for 4.75, under Win2k).
Konqueror is nice, but doesn't seem to have full ECMAScript support yet, or doesn't support the DOM properly - I havn't had time to look into it really. Nice thought. Opera has a nasty interface, KMeleon seems to have dissapeared - anyone else game to try a Galeon style browser for Win32?
I'm an IT student, and this is the first I've heard of it. So much for public discussion. There seems to be more interest in rugby than protecting freedoms.
As for the politcal parties, they're all as bad as each other, so I'm not expecting any debate there.
Given that our SIS can't get into a house without being caught (though I believe they've introduced laws to get around that as well), can you imagine what success their attempts to crack passwords would be met by?
More seriously, yay for American pressure which turns us into a security monitoring station and anti-republican pro-treaty bollocks which stops us getting a written constitution.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the DLLs comprise most of IE? Certainly the HTML renderer, and iexplore.exe is merely the front end. Most of the DLL usage isn't listed with that.
To prove my point, try 98lite and check the default system free memory afterwards. The last Win98 machine I tried ended up with 10 more Mb free RAM after startup with IE 4 removed.
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One small thing - generally, it's not the developers who pick what they write. It's management, who do it on a basis of what looks popular, what their customers (also upper management) will want, what fits their budget and finally, what fits their strategic partnerships best.
:-(
The bad news is that technology and "what's best" never comes into it.
Opera is good, but unfortunately lacks the DOM support of Mozilla. Try even basic DHTML with Opera (e.g. hiding/showing a DIV) and watch it break.
Personally I'm using the 2002020208 build of Moz and it's rock solid. And it isn't adware like the free version of Opera. And it can block popups incidently.
Off topic I know, but I really feel the need to ask...what is it that winds up Americans so much re communism? Is it the devaluing of the individual?
And no, I'm not a socialist, before the flames start. Just interested.
At Uni we used Linux. Generally. In first year we had WinNT 4 with emacs and CygWin. Second year we were lucky enough to get Linux boxes, although they did supply fvwm95 as the window manager :-( And we got to learn MIPs assembly. Third year, our choice. Linux labs or Windows 2k machines.
:-)
Great. Lots of fun. Then I got into the real world, and started working for everyone's favourite business, the multinational corporate IT company. And what happens? We use Microsoft. Why? Because our managers made a deal with their managers, and thus we're partners. So we use Exchange, and frequently get email virii (as many staff seem plain dumb unfortunately and have to double click everything). We get IIS, and oh so much pain from that (we managed to lose Internet access for an entire week after some idiot let Code Red through the firewall and it hit all the developers who hadn't got around to patching their machines). And, of course, we get Windows.
The moral here is technical matters don't matter to managers. At least not where I work. They want something everyone knows, and something which managers in other companies will buy. They aren't worried about the best solution; they want one that works and the customer will pay large amounts of money for. So we use Microsoft.
Having said that, thank god I have escaped to Java development ATM. Guess where we do our development however...
Atomic weaponary? Where does this come in to my argument? My point was that people are dying needlessly, and the god you claim exists, created us and loves us does nothing. Science offers both good and bad, as does anything, and it is us, the people who apply it, who decide the outcome.
As for a zebra man, I'm still lost. Genetic manipulation to create freaks is a waste, without even heading towards the moral dilemas (i.e. it's just plain wrong), while using this technology to bioengineer solutions to problems is an avenue of opertunity.
You claim I am tied to something earthbound. I would hope that up proudly as a fact. Instead of being an escapist and imaganing 'it will all be better in the next life' I'm doing the damnedest to make this one a little better.
And this all resolves to one apparently insurmoutable truth. Despite no real evidence on either side, and despite the fact that even those who believe in god bicker and spread hate among themselves (Christians vs Catholics for example, and the recent blind hatred from many aginst Islam), you prefer to life your life by a book which someone long ago claimed was written by god. I prefer to live my life through experience, my world view is constantly changing and growing, and I live this life, not the next. I have thought about all things, and I continue to do so, which is more than I can say for the majority of religious people I have met.
Try telling that to the people who are currently dying through genetic diseases or have their life permenantly impacted by such diseases as diabetes or phenylketonuria. It's all very well for you to sit upon high and make moral judgements, but these do not help these people and are merely an insult to their struggle.
Your god lets millions starve, get raped, murdered, die in his/her name, die of diseases which rob their identity and dignity. Would a creator who loved us and created us in their image do such? I think not.
Science, and genetic manipulation give us the possibility of being able to help these people and many others. Yes, we must go slowly, and be sure of every step. But to ban or restrict this work because of a 'moral superiority' speaks of nothing more than an age old fear of the different. This technology has the potential to make us gods - not in the power mad comic book style, but to give us the power to help others and give them a higher quality of life. That's more than your (christian I presume) god has even done.
Last we heard, NZ was still getting the shit over the ban on nuclear warships in our waters. Why? Because Helen Clarke (and yes, I agree she is a left wing hippy) said we wouldn't invoke the ANZUS treaty, as we weren't an operational member. (For those who don't know, the US basically kicked us out after 1986, for the nuclear ban).
And now, I've seen a lot from [american] people who don't know the facts saying we are obviously against the US, and urging an NZ boycoutt.
It's bad when at a time like this some US citizens are doing their best to stir up anti-US feelings everywhere possible.....
The US sponsored the IRA for some time. The point is, anyone can be the good/bad guy with a little information filtering.
Actually Elite did free 360 degree motion is 32Kb on the BBC B...apparently they even did an algorithm to generate the planet names (as hard coding took too much space). Definately deserved a mention.
Especially when Hollywood ignores history in favour of what sells, such as the delightful flick U-571. I can't but feel it belittles the efforts of those who did solve enigma, merely to make a few more dollars in the US market. Has Hollywood no shame?
My girlfiend never played games until I introduced her to Doom...now she's hooked on Unreal Tourney and Diablo 2 as well and it's impossible to get near my pc (her one is only a P200). One of my flatmates is an enthusiastic gamer and spends many nights alone with her boyfriend...playing multiplayer Diablo 2. How sweet.
At this point you must ask do girls make up a minority of game players because they have better things to do (shopping they tell me) or because computers/pc games are considered to be 'boys toys'...I've definately found a number of women who have never really been into computers, but love the games once they discover them.
Given that your own president (barring further legal battles) doesn't know the prime minister of India (or 'The General' of Pahkistan) i'd say some of the older Americans fit that catagory as well....
The NS 6 branch came off the tree about a month before release (if I remember correctly), so it's about 6 weeks behind Mozilla now.
As for Mozilla nightlies, I'm using them as my main browser now, and current start up time is 4 seconds (5 seconds for 4.75, under Win2k).
Konqueror is nice, but doesn't seem to have full ECMAScript support yet, or doesn't support the DOM properly - I havn't had time to look into it really. Nice thought. Opera has a nasty interface, KMeleon seems to have dissapeared - anyone else game to try a Galeon style browser for Win32?
It can't get any slower...
I'm an IT student, and this is the first I've heard of it. So much for public discussion. There seems to be more interest in rugby than protecting freedoms.
As for the politcal parties, they're all as bad as each other, so I'm not expecting any debate there.
Given that our SIS can't get into a house without being caught (though I believe they've introduced laws to get around that as well), can you imagine what success their attempts to crack passwords would be met by? More seriously, yay for American pressure which turns us into a security monitoring station and anti-republican pro-treaty bollocks which stops us getting a written constitution.
A testament indeed when you consider it took Microsoft seven years to make a usable shell (1985 - 1992 for Windows 3.0)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the DLLs comprise most of IE? Certainly the HTML renderer, and iexplore.exe is merely the front end. Most of the DLL usage isn't listed with that.
To prove my point, try 98lite and check the default system free memory afterwards. The last Win98 machine I tried ended up with 10 more Mb free RAM after startup with IE 4 removed.