So three examples of an ideal situation seldom seen in the real world vs. thousands of real computers being used the way computers are meant to be used.
I don't agree with this at all, unless by "modern PC," you mean the ones you and your friends have. I work in plenty of offices where I have to deal with thousands of 1 or 2 year-old Dells. They run WinXP. They take in excess of 30 seconds from power-on to logon, not even including the occasional Novel login. You don't know what you're talking about, or maybe you're just making shit up.
I was surprised a couple months ago to see the web-development site sitepoint.com employing odd scripting to subvert Mozilla's blocking. It's saddening to see a resource for inovative web programming discussions blazing a trail in the employment of abusive scripting.
Well, with all the marketing articles, I guess it's not that shocking. Never mind.
When I want to hear something funny, I'll listen to George Carlin. When I want to hear fundamental data about our climate, I'll listen to climatologists.
And when, for once and for all times, I want a definitive answer to the question of whether there is a global warming trend and whether humans are responsible for it, I'll try to find one of those lively, civil, and informative discussion threads on slashdot. You know the ones: the discussions that have an at best tenuous relationship to computers or computer programming, where the expertise of the slashdot public really comes out to shine.
I did not realize that. Thanks. It appeared to be unironic, though. But I went back and read the entire article after all because of your post and the second half was much better than the first, which still strikes me as being tainted with some misplaced vanity.
Honest. But when I got to the sentence where he uses the phrase "the talent" to describe a group of people, I just had to stop. I mean, come on: A Site That Opens Your Mind To Computer Technology?! Oh, wow, thanks. I really needed that. Yes, thank you for opening my mind with your fucking website.
The Browser Security Test is finished. Please find the results below: High Risk Vulnerabilities 0 Medium Risk Vulnerabilities 0 Low Risk Vulnerabilities 0
Now this is funny. Probably the same root as your British root, "arse," which is a word I love, which presumably comes fom old or middle English. I adore etymology, and pop-etymology on a forum such as this is especially delicious.
So now Monsieur Piquepaille has been shamed by scornful posters into including a link to the actual article (instead of harvesting page views), but he'd still really, really like you to click through to his page....
Pop up to the homepage, and that issue of millimeter also has a really interesting bit on the creation of the sword fight in the leaves from Zhang Yimou's "Hero."
Javascript (or more properly ECMAscript) is going to play more and more of a role in the web browsing experience, like it or not. Witness gmail. This sort of dynamic page refreshing can only be handled with the DOM and I think script-written content is going to spread as developers attempt to make web apps act like local apps, with an entire dynamic layer loaded into the client. This is scary, but good. The possibilities opened up by, say, XUL and PHP xmlrpc are just too tantalizing for developers to ignore. All that has to happen is that security models need to evolve with the technology as its underlying possibilities are exploited. The essential thing that needs to be preserved is the integrity of the namespace. But this is completely doable. Despare not and evolve!
Bad spelling and grammar can (do two things...#1:) severely impact...(and #2:) hurt...
Hmmm. "Impact" as a transitive verb? Maybe the grammar Nazis in your dictatorship can go with that particular flow, but over here in the true fatherland, you'd be buying a one-way ticket to a nice camp with fun activities such as 'wasting away,' and 'dying of typhoid fever.'
I translate all of my important documents into "memes" and propagate them out into the culture at large. I can retreive them later using a USB ethnographic peripheral. Or just by reading magazines and watching TV.
Slashdot Mirror
So three examples of an ideal situation seldom seen in the real world vs. thousands of real computers being used the way computers are meant to be used.
Hmm, I'd say it is you who needs to bite me.
I don't agree with this at all, unless by "modern PC," you mean the ones you and your friends have. I work in plenty of offices where I have to deal with thousands of 1 or 2 year-old Dells. They run WinXP. They take in excess of 30 seconds from power-on to logon, not even including the occasional Novel login. You don't know what you're talking about, or maybe you're just making shit up.
Check out the groovy help desk. Nico- and Twiggy-bots are lounging on orange and pink beanbag chairs off to the right.
*brrrrrring*
dude: "Dude! so what's up with your operating system?"
caller: "I don't think I like it very much."
dude: "Duuuuude."
You read the Wired story! ...thing... that's, well, see, you give me some money because I, uh,
You perused the slashdot comments!
Now buy this
never mind.
...with what they are calling 'Ajax' as in 'Asynchronous JavaScript + XML' aka the XmlHttpRequest Object.
Who exactly is "they?" Please god don't let this stupid, coined-after-the-fact acronym creep into general usage!
I claim prior art in a big way.
he is posting them up so people can check if their sites are secure
Uh-huh. I imagine most of his readers are using them to make sure everyone else's site is secure : )
no.
I was surprised a couple months ago to see the web-development site sitepoint.com employing odd scripting to subvert Mozilla's blocking. It's saddening to see a resource for inovative web programming discussions blazing a trail in the employment of abusive scripting.
Well, with all the marketing articles, I guess it's not that shocking. Never mind.
All I can say is, you're going to feel really stupid if you ever find out.
When I want to hear something funny, I'll listen to George Carlin. When I want to hear fundamental data about our climate, I'll listen to climatologists.
And when, for once and for all times, I want a definitive answer to the question of whether there is a global warming trend and whether humans are responsible for it, I'll try to find one of those lively, civil, and informative discussion threads on slashdot. You know the ones: the discussions that have an at best tenuous relationship to computers or computer programming, where the expertise of the slashdot public really comes out to shine.
Impressively hideous. Stay tuned for my working lego toilet.
I did not realize that. Thanks. It appeared to be unironic, though. But I went back and read the entire article after all because of your post and the second half was much better than the first, which still strikes me as being tainted with some misplaced vanity.
Honest. But when I got to the sentence where he uses the phrase "the talent" to describe a group of people, I just had to stop. I mean, come on: A Site That Opens Your Mind To Computer Technology?! Oh, wow, thanks. I really needed that. Yes, thank you for opening my mind with your fucking website.
Now this is funny. Probably the same root as your British root, "arse," which is a word I love, which presumably comes fom old or middle English. I adore etymology, and pop-etymology on a forum such as this is especially delicious.
No- I don't think djb cares per say
Not to be an asshole, but it's per se
Bzzzt. Right.
extremely funny.
So now Monsieur Piquepaille has been shamed by scornful posters into including a link to the actual article (instead of harvesting page views), but he'd still really, really like you to click through to his page....
(back in the late '80ies, early '90ies)?
OK, it should be "80's and 90's" because "80ies" parses as "eighty-ees." Or maybe try "8-T's and 9-T's."
Pop up to the homepage, and that issue of millimeter also has a really interesting bit on the creation of the sword fight in the leaves from Zhang Yimou's "Hero."
Javascript (or more properly ECMAscript) is going to play more and more of a role in the web browsing experience, like it or not. Witness gmail. This sort of dynamic page refreshing can only be handled with the DOM and I think script-written content is going to spread as developers attempt to make web apps act like local apps, with an entire dynamic layer loaded into the client. This is scary, but good. The possibilities opened up by, say, XUL and PHP xmlrpc are just too tantalizing for developers to ignore. All that has to happen is that security models need to evolve with the technology as its underlying possibilities are exploited. The essential thing that needs to be preserved is the integrity of the namespace. But this is completely doable. Despare not and evolve!
Bad spelling and grammar can (do two things...#1:) severely impact...(and #2:) hurt...
Hmmm. "Impact" as a transitive verb? Maybe the grammar Nazis in your dictatorship can go with that particular flow, but over here in the true fatherland, you'd be buying a one-way ticket to a nice camp with fun activities such as 'wasting away,' and 'dying of typhoid fever.'
I translate all of my important documents into "memes" and propagate them out into the culture at large. I can retreive them later using a USB ethnographic peripheral. Or just by reading magazines and watching TV.