I know of several open source developers who have stopped using it because of the recent Debian nonsense. Debates aside, their handling of the situation had a very negative impact. Many developers have gained a dislike for the Mozilla project, and others have switched. Those developers I know are now using Konqueror. One of them is using Opera on Windows....
You may think that it's only 20 or so people I'm talking about here, and that we're not that important. I'd beg to differ. Each one of us has recommended the use of Firefox to our relatives, friends, colleagues, and other acquaintances. Many of them have stopped suggesting it. I personally don't recommend its use. I suggest Konqueror or Opera for Linux users, and Opera for Windows users. Mac OS X users these days seem to go straight to Safari. At least five of the people I know are now making similar recommendations to people they know.
{Java/ECMA}Script keeps getting better and better. I'll be happy to bet that by the time Perl 6 is actually "released," and "working" (in the sense that Perl 5.6.1 was working and Perl 5.6.0 was not), JavaScript will be cooler, faster, and more useful.
I want JavaScript + a Mozilla-like UI that will let me write full-featured locally-hosted GUI apps that can do all the things other local languages can... read/write local files, and so on.
R.A.W was an editor at Playboy for several years - his name was on the masthead. Somewhere I have some of those issues. The letters he read must have been great inspiration.
Schrodinger's Cat and The Trick Top Hat were two of the funnest/funniest books I read in my late teens. The Illuminatus Trilogy didn't do much for me, but I do make jokes about the Dog Star from time to time.
Is this 300 million with or without undocumented, er, illegal, er, visiting, um, whoever they are.
In a less trollish tone, maybe we have 300 million residents because, since the 1970s, 50 million people from all around the world decided the US was a cool place to live, and practically climbed over one another to get here.
Anyway, once China gets serious about ridding the world of fossil fuel, we in the US will seem like a nation of effete greenies.
Yeah, I am about 150 pages into that book and it's sitting on the coffee table right in front of me, waiting for me to take it into the throne room....
The real problem with Perl is that it's a good language for small programs, but 10,000 lines of Perl is a mess unless you're a very disciplined programmer. The "there's more than one way to do it" is hell on maintenance programmers, because they have to know everything in the language to read code. Nor is reading Perl easy. I used to need three different Perl books when doing maintenance programming, because no one book, including Larry Wall's, covered everything in the language.
Having worked in a production environment where hundreds of thousands of lines of Perl written by fewer than 50 developers have run with extreme reliability 24x7 for years, supporting a company of tens of thousands of employees worldwide, I feel confident in saying "you have no idea what you're talking about."
I remember working on this wacky thing called "twisted pair Ethernet" with this exotic technology called "echo cancellation." Frankly that flimsy stuff has never had the cachet of half-inch thick yellow coax. Plus, you can't tell when someone down the hall has unplugged the cable from his transceiver.
While impressive, the feat was accomplished over a single optical fiber using proprietary amplifiers not in production. It certainly is innovative, but it is not an indication of speeds you will see in consumer level services.
What would a consumer do with 10 terabits per second? The only comprehensible measure of that speed is "one large cabinet of DVDs per second." It might be nice to have a DVD vending machine that could chug along at that clip, but you'd have to feed it a ton of polycarbonate every 5 minutes or so, or, put another way, two boxcars of DVD blanks (cases and pallets not included) per day. Then, what do you put on them? After all, it takes only 3 months to crank out the roughly 1.5 billion DVDs that will be sold this year. The remaining 4.5 billion are, what, extra copies of Battlefield Earth and Gigli?
I guess you're right that it's not "consumer level." Good call.
there is an Answer Stop breeding like Rats you blazing Idiots.while You're at it help deport 12 Million breeding Illegals that are infesting our Country,destroying the Social Security System by receiving cash payments,handed out by your republican corporate criminals.
Warning, folks: This what drinking Mad Dog for breakfast will do to you.
(Last year) 700,000 busted for possession (DOJ Number) Cost to house, $27,000 a year (DOJ published average)
Total cost $18,900,000,000.00 to house them for a year. Why don't we repeal the weed laws and spend the 18,900,000,000.00 on alternative fuels?
If you think 700,000 pot busts = 700,000 smoker-years in prison, you're smoking something stronger than pot. This also applies if you think 700,000 * 27,000 = 18.9 trillion.
If you can't stay a little bit on topic, can you at least stay rational?
With Alaska, S. America, Russia, and US occupied Iraq in the picture, that just isn't going to happen mate. I take that as a "no." In fact it sounds like you weren't even in the country. (Or born.)
It doesn't matter whether you're building wind turbines, solar arrays, hydropower, tidal power, geothermal plants, trash-to-steam plants, or cow-fart turbines, or just training hamsters to spin little generators. In California, someone will bitch about it and figure out a way to shut you down.
Working from home for a day already saves you about $20 in the Bay Area not to mention 1-2 hr of commute. That's about $4000 gross in a year and almost 20 workdays of commute time if you do it twice a week.
Increased costs are always passed on to consumers. If oil production becomes less profitable, supply is reduced, and, guess what, the price goes up. You can't legislate pricing without inducing shortages (or, alternatively, in the case of price supports, creating surpluses). Anyone here remember gasoline rationing? Was your license plate even or odd?
Here in California we already have the most expensive fuel in the US, except for perhaps some locations in Hawaii. We have the least affordable housing in the US, except for perhaps Manhattan. New refineries will probably never be built in California. There will probably never be significant new oil development in California. Lawmakers are considering requiring that imported power come from power plants that meet California greenhouse emission standards.
I know what problems continuing to increase the price of oil and energy in this state will cause, but what problems will it solve?
Anyway, this new tax should free up general funds for prisons and prison guards, which burned through about 7.5 billion dollars in 2005. So there is that.
Slashdot Mirror
Your organization is huge, and your stats include your employees browsing the IE-only company directory and org chart.
I knew Firefox had caught on when every web site except Myspace started working right.
Try both in this MSX emulation in javascript and see the difference:
http://jsmsxdemo.googlepages.com/jsmsx.html
The "emulating ancient computer hardware" JavaScript benchmark is exactly the one I'm interested in.
(Not.)
The good old free ride. Takes me back to the days when domain registration was free and UUNET was a non-profit. (Does anyone remember UUNET?)
Right, I use Opera when I need a browser that looks weird and can't handle JavaScript and CSS but does it all really fast.
I know of several open source developers who have stopped using it because of the recent Debian nonsense. Debates aside, their handling of the situation had a very negative impact. Many developers have gained a dislike for the Mozilla project, and others have switched. Those developers I know are now using Konqueror. One of them is using Opera on Windows. ...
You may think that it's only 20 or so people I'm talking about here, and that we're not that important. I'd beg to differ. Each one of us has recommended the use of Firefox to our relatives, friends, colleagues, and other acquaintances. Many of them have stopped suggesting it. I personally don't recommend its use. I suggest Konqueror or Opera for Linux users, and Opera for Windows users. Mac OS X users these days seem to go straight to Safari. At least five of the people I know are now making similar recommendations to people they know.
Yes, you're not that important.
{Java/ECMA}Script keeps getting better and better. I'll be happy to bet that by the time Perl 6 is actually "released," and "working" (in the sense that Perl 5.6.1 was working and Perl 5.6.0 was not), JavaScript will be cooler, faster, and more useful.
... read/write local files, and so on.
I want JavaScript + a Mozilla-like UI that will let me write full-featured locally-hosted GUI apps that can do all the things other local languages can
R.A.W was an editor at Playboy for several years - his name was on the masthead. Somewhere I have some of those issues. The letters he read must have been great inspiration.
Schrodinger's Cat and The Trick Top Hat were two of the funnest/funniest books I read in my late teens. The Illuminatus Trilogy didn't do much for me, but I do make jokes about the Dog Star from time to time.
Now, I'm going to go Burger.
OMG, what did that take, like 30 seconds?
Holy Cow, Beavis and Butthead never had such a straight line.
Is this 300 million with or without undocumented, er, illegal, er, visiting, um, whoever they are.
In a less trollish tone, maybe we have 300 million residents because, since the 1970s, 50 million people from all around the world decided the US was a cool place to live, and practically climbed over one another to get here.
Anyway, once China gets serious about ridding the world of fossil fuel, we in the US will seem like a nation of effete greenies.
Is there any class of people other than Slashdot editors that doesn't recognize "buereau" as a mispelling? I mean, misspelling.
Yeah, I am about 150 pages into that book and it's sitting on the coffee table right in front of me, waiting for me to take it into the throne room ....
As far as I'm concerned, virus checkers, firewalls, all sorts of TSRs -- they're all patches. What's remarkable about a third party "OS patch"?
There are hundreds (or thousands) of applications that might contain critical vulnerabilities.
The real problem with Perl is that it's a good language for small programs, but 10,000 lines of Perl is a mess unless you're a very disciplined programmer. The "there's more than one way to do it" is hell on maintenance programmers, because they have to know everything in the language to read code. Nor is reading Perl easy. I used to need three different Perl books when doing maintenance programming, because no one book, including Larry Wall's, covered everything in the language.
Having worked in a production environment where hundreds of thousands of lines of Perl written by fewer than 50 developers have run with extreme reliability 24x7 for years, supporting a company of tens of thousands of employees worldwide, I feel confident in saying "you have no idea what you're talking about."
I remember working on this wacky thing called "twisted pair Ethernet" with this exotic technology called "echo cancellation." Frankly that flimsy stuff has never had the cachet of half-inch thick yellow coax. Plus, you can't tell when someone down the hall has unplugged the cable from his transceiver.
While impressive, the feat was accomplished over a single optical fiber using proprietary amplifiers not in production. It certainly is innovative, but it is not an indication of speeds you will see in consumer level services.
What would a consumer do with 10 terabits per second? The only comprehensible measure of that speed is "one large cabinet of DVDs per second." It might be nice to have a DVD vending machine that could chug along at that clip, but you'd have to feed it a ton of polycarbonate every 5 minutes or so, or, put another way, two boxcars of DVD blanks (cases and pallets not included) per day. Then, what do you put on them? After all, it takes only 3 months to crank out the roughly 1.5 billion DVDs that will be sold this year. The remaining 4.5 billion are, what, extra copies of Battlefield Earth and Gigli?
I guess you're right that it's not "consumer level." Good call.
Oh, wait, that's a different Apple.
there is an Answer Stop breeding like Rats you blazing Idiots.while You're at it help deport 12 Million breeding Illegals that are infesting our Country,destroying the Social Security System by receiving cash payments,handed out by your republican corporate criminals.
Warning, folks: This what drinking Mad Dog for breakfast will do to you.
(Last year) 700,000 busted for possession (DOJ Number)
Cost to house, $27,000 a year (DOJ published average)
Total cost $18,900,000,000.00 to house them for a year. Why don't we repeal the weed laws and spend the 18,900,000,000.00 on alternative fuels?
If you think 700,000 pot busts = 700,000 smoker-years in prison, you're smoking something stronger than pot. This also applies if you think 700,000 * 27,000 = 18.9 trillion.
If you can't stay a little bit on topic, can you at least stay rational?
"Anyone here remember gasoline rationing?"
With Alaska, S. America, Russia, and US occupied Iraq in the picture, that just isn't going to happen mate.
I take that as a "no." In fact it sounds like you weren't even in the country. (Or born.)
It doesn't matter whether you're building wind turbines, solar arrays, hydropower, tidal power, geothermal plants, trash-to-steam plants, or cow-fart turbines, or just training hamsters to spin little generators. In California, someone will bitch about it and figure out a way to shut you down.
Working from home for a day already saves you about $20 in the Bay Area not to mention 1-2 hr of commute. That's about $4000 gross in a year and almost 20 workdays of commute time if you do it twice a week.
Exactly how much more credit do you need?
Increased costs are always passed on to consumers. If oil production becomes less profitable, supply is reduced, and, guess what, the price goes up. You can't legislate pricing without inducing shortages (or, alternatively, in the case of price supports, creating surpluses). Anyone here remember gasoline rationing? Was your license plate even or odd?
Here in California we already have the most expensive fuel in the US, except for perhaps some locations in Hawaii. We have the least affordable housing in the US, except for perhaps Manhattan. New refineries will probably never be built in California. There will probably never be significant new oil development in California. Lawmakers are considering requiring that imported power come from power plants that meet California greenhouse emission standards.
I know what problems continuing to increase the price of oil and energy in this state will cause, but what problems will it solve?
Anyway, this new tax should free up general funds for prisons and prison guards, which burned through about 7.5 billion dollars in 2005. So there is that.
Perfection is boring. Even if it involves blue LEDs. (Which I see none of these winners have.)
Also, if they really were proud of their layouts, there'd be some 10 megapixel snaps that the rest of us could pore over for minute detail.