Actually, Iraq is stockpiling them so that the Iraqi Army can learn to kick the Kurd's ass in the new X-Men fighter. Save the Kurd's! Either bring them to the US to train them in Wolverine's new moves, or ship them PS2's!
That's great, but it's not the kind of thing that's 1. Easy or 2. Good for a living room. I don't want a computer in my living room to have to dick with.
I want the day to come soon where I can put a DVD, CD audio, CD-R, CD-RW, or a CD full of MP3's in my single component, and let it play. The stereo + DVD player + computer is too much of a headache now for a single media type. It's all software, so there's no reason why I shouldn't be able to buy a single player (that looks like a current CD component in a traditional stereo rack system) that play everything. If it's a DVD, the amp should be able to be smart enough to divert the video to my TV. C'mon electronics industry! How hard can this be? Hell, already my computer can regonize all of this. Now, I want to go to Circuit City to buy a simple device that sits in my living room.
Actually, from what I've heard, those new 'fat trapping pills' work pretty well. Essentially, eat what you want, then shit it all out! Heck, bulimia works! Being a big fan of shitting, I try to eat as much as possible, but just take a little pill with every gorging.
Only novice or unexperience developers or completley unprofessional developers advocate specific langauges. Anyone who's been in the industry (ie: held a job) for a number of years quickly realizes that languages are like tools in a toolbox. Use the right one for the right job. Langauage advocacy indicates a developer's immaturity, and is something that most successful developers quickly grow out of.
Oh sure. The largest software company in the world is going to go belly-up over a course of 6 months. This doesn't make sense from so many angles, I don't even know where to start. ESR is old and confused. He is in no way in touch with computing today. He should either shut up, or people like Slashdot should jsut stop reporting the ridiculous things that he says.
Really? As a professional developer who talkes to other professional developers, W2K is remarkably bug free. I don't take a lot of stock in kids answering phones to know anything about W2K.
One great point he made was that software should be more fragmented by who develops it. Everybody shouldn't try to develop everything. As a database developer, I see this every day. C++ hacks or web people try to develop database apps that are an absolute mess. All software is NOT the same. Just because you can write device drivers does NOT necessarily mean that you can also design a database, or produce a decent web page, or write a good game. Developers need to realize this. The world of 'software' is much too huge for everybody to be trying to do everything. Do you go to one doctor for everything? Heck no! Would any self respecting podiatrist accept a job as a heart surgeon? Heck no! Why are software developers still trying to do this, and in turn, make a total mess when developing outside of their specialties? And, I'm not advocating sticking to a language, but at least one type of software, along the lines of the ones I've already mentioned: device drivers, games, databases, web pages, embedded devices, client-server apps, OS, etc.
See, in real life, we have these things called 'bills'. 'Bills' come from all sorts of places, like the bank that you borrow money from to buy your house, or your car, or your credit card. In order to pay these 'bills', you need this stuff called 'money'. The way that most people get 'money', is from doing a service for someone else that they would not normally do, for which the other person receives a benefit. This is called 'work'...
Why in the world would I want to use this service if I have to re-verify my CD's? That implies that I have to carry my CD's around to be ready to put them in the machine when My.MP3.COM asks for them again. The whole point of My.MP3.COM is that you don't have to carry around CDs that you own. Looks like they wasted all of that money on those lawsuit settlements...
Except that already with server-side technologies like ASP, CF, and PHP, we already have been building web apps with content-independent layouts for years. With these technologies as mature as they are, it's unlikely that even XHTML will make inroads any time soon. XML/XHTML is a step backwards. It involves passing long text strings of data to the client to process. With current technologies, the data is processed on the server, giving the user a seamless and quick HTML interface.
XML has nothing to do with layout, whatsoever. XML is a way of describing data, period. It's simple a replacement for delimited strings that have been used for passing data between objects.
Yeah, thanks for the support. I figured that would happen, though. There are a lot of kids running around Slashdot who have nothing better to do then to mod down things they don't like.
If they have so much cash on hand, then why are they closing offices and firing employees? Really, what's happening is that they're looking into the future, and they see that cash drying up, soon. The business model isn't working out as well as they had hoped. If they were growing like they say they will be, then they wouldn't be closing offices. This is bad news for Red Hat.
This is easy. It's because people like this guy actually DO what they want to do, whereas most people are simply sheep, living boring, stagnant, unfulfilling lives. This guy knew how to live. Most minivan driving suburbanites have fantasies about being able to something other than shuttling kids to/from soccer practice and sitting in rush hour traffic.
OK, next time you get pulled over for a speeding ticket, tell the nice officer that you have no proof that you own your car, and you should have no reason to. Ford/Chevy/Toyota should keep track of that for you. I dare you, dumbass.
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Sorry, bud, but the hunters rule. Nothing like a good ol' critical hit to take out the nastiest of nasties.
Actually, Iraq is stockpiling them so that the Iraqi Army can learn to kick the Kurd's ass in the new X-Men fighter. Save the Kurd's! Either bring them to the US to train them in Wolverine's new moves, or ship them PS2's!
Heck, I ran a single Oracle instance once that was 2.5 TB on a Sun box. No big deal with the disk space.
That's great, but it's not the kind of thing that's 1. Easy or 2. Good for a living room. I don't want a computer in my living room to have to dick with.
I want the day to come soon where I can put a DVD, CD audio, CD-R, CD-RW, or a CD full of MP3's in my single component, and let it play. The stereo + DVD player + computer is too much of a headache now for a single media type. It's all software, so there's no reason why I shouldn't be able to buy a single player (that looks like a current CD component in a traditional stereo rack system) that play everything. If it's a DVD, the amp should be able to be smart enough to divert the video to my TV. C'mon electronics industry! How hard can this be? Hell, already my computer can regonize all of this. Now, I want to go to Circuit City to buy a simple device that sits in my living room.
You can still eat less, fatass. Try eating nothing for a few days. I'll guarantee 100% that you lose weight.
Actually, from what I've heard, those new 'fat trapping pills' work pretty well. Essentially, eat what you want, then shit it all out! Heck, bulimia works! Being a big fan of shitting, I try to eat as much as possible, but just take a little pill with every gorging.
Now, that IS useful.
Only novice or unexperience developers or completley unprofessional developers advocate specific langauges. Anyone who's been in the industry (ie: held a job) for a number of years quickly realizes that languages are like tools in a toolbox. Use the right one for the right job. Langauage advocacy indicates a developer's immaturity, and is something that most successful developers quickly grow out of.
Oh sure. The largest software company in the world is going to go belly-up over a course of 6 months. This doesn't make sense from so many angles, I don't even know where to start. ESR is old and confused. He is in no way in touch with computing today. He should either shut up, or people like Slashdot should jsut stop reporting the ridiculous things that he says.
Really? As a professional developer who talkes to other professional developers, W2K is remarkably bug free. I don't take a lot of stock in kids answering phones to know anything about W2K.
This was one of the funniest things I've read on Slashdot in a long time! Give this convo a +5 Funny! I'm assuming this is a joke, right...?
One great point he made was that software should be more fragmented by who develops it. Everybody shouldn't try to develop everything. As a database developer, I see this every day. C++ hacks or web people try to develop database apps that are an absolute mess. All software is NOT the same. Just because you can write device drivers does NOT necessarily mean that you can also design a database, or produce a decent web page, or write a good game. Developers need to realize this. The world of 'software' is much too huge for everybody to be trying to do everything. Do you go to one doctor for everything? Heck no! Would any self respecting podiatrist accept a job as a heart surgeon? Heck no! Why are software developers still trying to do this, and in turn, make a total mess when developing outside of their specialties? And, I'm not advocating sticking to a language, but at least one type of software, along the lines of the ones I've already mentioned: device drivers, games, databases, web pages, embedded devices, client-server apps, OS, etc.
They're using Linux to save money. I don't think that they're zealots.
See, in real life, we have these things called 'bills'. 'Bills' come from all sorts of places, like the bank that you borrow money from to buy your house, or your car, or your credit card. In order to pay these 'bills', you need this stuff called 'money'. The way that most people get 'money', is from doing a service for someone else that they would not normally do, for which the other person receives a benefit. This is called 'work'...
Why in the world would I want to use this service if I have to re-verify my CD's? That implies that I have to carry my CD's around to be ready to put them in the machine when My.MP3.COM asks for them again. The whole point of My.MP3.COM is that you don't have to carry around CDs that you own. Looks like they wasted all of that money on those lawsuit settlements...
Except that already with server-side technologies like ASP, CF, and PHP, we already have been building web apps with content-independent layouts for years. With these technologies as mature as they are, it's unlikely that even XHTML will make inroads any time soon. XML/XHTML is a step backwards. It involves passing long text strings of data to the client to process. With current technologies, the data is processed on the server, giving the user a seamless and quick HTML interface.
XML has nothing to do with layout, whatsoever. XML is a way of describing data, period. It's simple a replacement for delimited strings that have been used for passing data between objects.
Yeah, thanks for the support. I figured that would happen, though. There are a lot of kids running around Slashdot who have nothing better to do then to mod down things they don't like.
How do you know they make money? Last I checked, SUSE is a private company, and they don't disclose their financials.
If they have so much cash on hand, then why are they closing offices and firing employees? Really, what's happening is that they're looking into the future, and they see that cash drying up, soon. The business model isn't working out as well as they had hoped. If they were growing like they say they will be, then they wouldn't be closing offices. This is bad news for Red Hat.
Your mom.
This is easy. It's because people like this guy actually DO what they want to do, whereas most people are simply sheep, living boring, stagnant, unfulfilling lives. This guy knew how to live. Most minivan driving suburbanites have fantasies about being able to something other than shuttling kids to/from soccer practice and sitting in rush hour traffic.
OK, next time you get pulled over for a speeding ticket, tell the nice officer that you have no proof that you own your car, and you should have no reason to. Ford/Chevy/Toyota should keep track of that for you. I dare you, dumbass.