I don't know where you got that idea from but it's completely wrong.
It's not completely wrong. The failure of power to London Underground is not comparable to the power outage of large portions of the US or Italy.
I asserted that it was a failure of part of a utility service, and isolated to that service.... what part of that is wrong?
so there were areas of London with power but no Underground trains.
This again in a misleading comment. London didnt loose power. Disruption of power supply to London was minimal.
I think perhaps you're confusing my comments with some notion of blame. I have no clue as to what caused the power problems with the underground, and make no claim to. But I can tell you what lights went out and what didn't, and London did not blackout. The underground had a problem with its power supply. London didn't.... to suggest that London blacked out is grossly misleading.
The London blackout was rather misleadingly reported piece in the news in general, including the English news.
It was a power failure on a significant part of the London Underground (the underground train system).
The article furthers this misconception by compairing the London blackout the the blacking out of the US Eastern seaboard, which borders on the sensational. At no point does it tell you what actually blacked out.
Blackouts like the one that occured in Italy, and I *think*, but could well be wrong,the one in the US involve the logistics of brokering power between neighbouring countries. The London Underground blackout has nothing to do with this, it was a failure of part of a utility service, and was contained within that utility.
It annoyed the hell out of me that even here in London they reported a "London Blackout!" over the top of footage of a brightly lit evening street focusing on an entrance to a tube station (lit) with a flashing emergency sign (powered by electric not hampster power).
There are lessons that might be learnt in the ways countries broker power between each other, but we have to be careful not to roll everything into this... stuff breaks. Always has, always will. Stuff breaking isn't a new phenomena of the modern age, it's been breaking for a long time.
So, I'm supposed to be reassured that companies are will to use software that I create for free, rather than software that I make to sell.
Inreasingly I think developers are going to find the cost to their own pockets of free software.... I'm not sure people adequately thought through all the implications of free software.
As an individual story this is kinda cool. As a slashdoy headline of "KDE success in the enterprise" it's just sad.
And I would imagine all the Apple users raised an eyebrow at "is Unix ready for the desktop".
Like some business somewhere uses KDE on their desktop... so what? You not see how desperate it is to be going nuts over this rather small instance... how many desktops exactly are involved here?
[quote] Truly, the GNU worlds' greatest example of the american dream -realised! [/quote]
Well like yeehaw and stuff, but KDE is largely a European dream.... which is actually just petty retort on my part in response to your attempt to make "the dream" somehow nationally proprietary.
Keep the jingoism at home, or at least keep the jingoism related to things that actually have something to do with your nationhood.
If the French like, trust and enjoy Mintel what's the issues? It's not like internet access and Mintel are mutually exclusive.
Now it would seem to me that if FT can hold on with Mintel long enough, and make it available to PDAs and the new generation of mobile phones, they could find a whole new lease of life in Mintel.... Suddenly the bandwidth optomised, "primitive" graphics might seem really useful on small displays, where a lot of traditional internet content isn't viable.
But hey! They can deploy a team against other teams picked from countries the size of one of their States.
Field Texas, or Califonia, or whoever as a single state in the World Cup and then lets see how you stack up.
You think if the EU fielded a consolodated team you'd stand even the remotest chance of a look-in?
Bully-boy mentality pure and simple.
Do you never stop to consider the size of the countries you're competeing against when they beat you in international competition? Doesn't that cause you even the slightest shame?
Look its as simple as this... the US is more careful about letting sexual content into films than violence... and in the EU it's the other way around, with more care taken over violence in films.
Violent acts that the film board believe are likely to be imitated by *young* children, will get the film a cert allowing only older children to view it.
It reflects the different values of the two continents, and that's ok.
And as an aside, a sure fire way to get a film an 18 cert., is to mix even a hint of violence with sex. More than a hint of violence with sex has to be justified strongly in terms of plot or the film will simply be refused a certificate.
Lets fast forward a little, as the reactionary arguements for and against cloning have pretty much been heard, and will continue in much the same vein.
Lets consider... what if any leagal framework might address the issue not of a clone itself... but a clone or a particular person who a) objects to having been clones, and b) objects to the clones continued existence.
Kind of knocks media copyright issues to the sideline no?
Good reason cited for not...
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Serial ATA Coming
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[quote] The reason for the late breakthrough of Serial ATA is that nobody wanted to, unnecessarily, spend time and money, developing a new interface. [/quote]
Which seems like a good reason for not doing so.
I am in all likelihood missing something, but are we facing a bottleneck in ATA and ATAPI devices with their basic interfaces?... seems to be what we currently have has been able to improve and keep up.
Genuine question, not making rhetorical points.
It would seem to me, that unless Serial ATA offers clear and *necessary* benefits, it simply wont get support fro mthe chipset chaps.
I went looking for the benefits areticle on the cited page, but would appear they are struggling under their new load.
You think IBM is minor? You have to be kidding... IBM makes MS look small time.
People have a strange impression as to how big MS actually is. Yes they're big but they've no harware to speak of, and they dont punt to the really high end solution well were the likes of IBM and Sun do.
IBM produces a huge amount of patents annualy, across a wide range of product... MS aint even in the same ballpark.
Actually when you consider the number of sites that rely either upon the IE DOM or IE CSS quirks, the number is considerably higher than one might think.
It's easy to envisage AOL doing this until one considers that content on the Web has adapted to a large degree to IE dominance.
What AOL has to consider is its 34million users turning round and saying "the latest version of AOL is broke", if it's not rendering IE specific content correctly.
Yes I know Mozillas recent [good] record on standards compliance, but as it stands MS is holding the baton.
In short, I think this is a bluff on AOLs part, as there's too much commercial risk here, and there's no way AOL is going to take those risks (with a relatively dumb userbase), with the possibility of large user unhappiness.
Aye, but one must remember, that while it's relatively easy to wave consumer rights in many US States, it's very hard to wave consumer rights in the EU (certainly the UK), and indeed to attempt to mandate such is itself often illegal.
It's for this reason that so much product legalese is followed by "this does not effect your statutory rights".
In the UK if the consumer has rights, the vendor cannot make them wave them, no matter what the consumer may have signed, their rights are still intact... contracts do not supercede the law of the land, and [if] the rights are by act of Parliament not act of corporation X... Parliament wins =)
I remember having an argument with my bank over copies of statements and the data protection act, tangental I know... "I don't care what your policy is on the data protection act, I'm waving and an act of Parliament under your nose, which carries a little more wait than your written policy"... I got what I wanted.
Why Java? Why not any number of other languages? Who anointed Java?
I understand that lots of people like Java... good for them, they can go install it.
I personaly don't like Java (I'm allowed to dislike it =), and really don't care if it's not installed on a new system I buy.
Java on the client just sucks real bad... if you feel otherwise I'm pleased for you.
Wasn't one of the Electric Boards in the North of England about to roll out net access over their grid last year?
I thought they'd got as far as a limited roll-out but pulled it due to patch quality in several areas.
*shrug* anybody remember the details?
Who's facts? Your facts? My facts? His facts? One could get philisophical at this point and pose the question... "what is a fact?" and how do you concretely assert something as a fact?
A lot of what we took to be facts are now good for a historical giggle. How does one propogate new ideas if one is bound to only the currently accepted "fact"?
I'm sorry the idea of a globaly policed TLD
is at best silly and at worst prone to facist
tendancies.... is the WHO going to incorporate
Chines notions of medicine as fact? Or is
it simply going to apply Western notions of medicine as global fact?
Slashdot Mirror
Can we please start correctly attributing the awarding of these silly patents to the US patent office?
I don't know where you got that idea from but it's completely wrong.
It's not completely wrong. The failure of power to London Underground is not comparable to the power outage of large portions of the US or Italy.
I asserted that it was a failure of part of a utility service, and isolated to that service.... what part of that is wrong?
so there were areas of London with power but no Underground trains.
This again in a misleading comment. London didnt loose power. Disruption of power supply to London was minimal.
I think perhaps you're confusing my comments with some notion of blame. I have no clue as to what caused the power problems with the underground, and make no claim to. But I can tell you what lights went out and what didn't, and London did not blackout. The underground had a problem with its power supply. London didn't.... to suggest that London blacked out is grossly misleading.
The London blackout was rather misleadingly reported piece in the news in general, including the English news.
It was a power failure on a significant part of the London Underground (the underground train system).
The article furthers this misconception by compairing the London blackout the the blacking out of the US Eastern seaboard, which borders on the sensational. At no point does it tell you what actually blacked out.
Blackouts like the one that occured in Italy, and I *think*, but could well be wrong,the one in the US involve the logistics of brokering power between neighbouring countries. The London Underground blackout has nothing to do with this, it was a failure of part of a utility service, and was contained within that utility.
It annoyed the hell out of me that even here in London they reported a "London Blackout!" over the top of footage of a brightly lit evening street focusing on an entrance to a tube station (lit) with a flashing emergency sign (powered by electric not hampster power).
There are lessons that might be learnt in the ways countries broker power between each other, but we have to be careful not to roll everything into this... stuff breaks. Always has, always will. Stuff breaking isn't a new phenomena of the modern age, it's been breaking for a long time.
So, I'm supposed to be reassured that companies are will to use software that I create for free, rather than software that I make to sell.
Inreasingly I think developers are going to find the cost to their own pockets of free software.... I'm not sure people adequately thought through all the implications of free software.
Aww come on chaps.
As an individual story this is kinda cool. As a slashdoy headline of "KDE success in the enterprise" it's just sad.
And I would imagine all the Apple users raised an eyebrow at "is Unix ready for the desktop".
Like some business somewhere uses KDE on their desktop... so what? You not see how desperate it is to be going nuts over this rather small instance... how many desktops exactly are involved here?
There have to be better examples than this.
[quote]
Truly, the GNU worlds' greatest example of the american dream -realised!
[/quote]
Well like yeehaw and stuff, but KDE is largely a European dream.... which is actually just petty retort on my part in response to your attempt to make "the dream" somehow nationally proprietary.
Keep the jingoism at home, or at least keep the jingoism related to things that actually have something to do with your nationhood.
If the French like, trust and enjoy Mintel what's the issues? It's not like internet access and Mintel are mutually exclusive.
Now it would seem to me that if FT can hold on with Mintel long enough, and make it available to PDAs and the new generation of mobile phones, they could find a whole new lease of life in Mintel.... Suddenly the bandwidth optomised, "primitive" graphics might seem really useful on small displays, where a lot of traditional internet content isn't viable.
[quote]
Apparently, all formatting and presentation information is removed from the XML
[/quote]
So that would be a bit like XHTML and CSS then wouldn't it where the formatting and presentation information is removed from the XHTML.
Umm... GOOD.
I don't want the presentation information mixed in with the content. As a developer I'd be complaining if they did that.
But hey! They can deploy a team against other teams picked from countries the size of one of their States.
Field Texas, or Califonia, or whoever as a single state in the World Cup and then lets see how you stack up.
You think if the EU fielded a consolodated team you'd stand even the remotest chance of a look-in?
Bully-boy mentality pure and simple.
Do you never stop to consider the size of the countries you're competeing against when they beat you in international competition? Doesn't that cause you even the slightest shame?
Look its as simple as this... the US is more careful about letting sexual content into films than violence... and in the EU it's the other way around, with more care taken over violence in films.
Violent acts that the film board believe are likely to be imitated by *young* children, will get the film a cert allowing only older children to view it.
It reflects the different values of the two continents, and that's ok.
And as an aside, a sure fire way to get a film an 18 cert., is to mix even a hint of violence with sex. More than a hint of violence with sex has to be justified strongly in terms of plot or the film will simply be refused a certificate.
Lets fast forward a little, as the reactionary arguements for and against cloning have pretty much been heard, and will continue in much the same vein.
Lets consider... what if any leagal framework might address the issue not of a clone itself... but a clone or a particular person who a) objects to having been clones, and b) objects to the clones continued existence.
Kind of knocks media copyright issues to the sideline no?
[quote]
The reason for the late breakthrough of Serial ATA is that nobody wanted to, unnecessarily, spend time and money, developing a new interface.
[/quote]
Which seems like a good reason for not doing so.
I am in all likelihood missing something, but are we facing a bottleneck in ATA and ATAPI devices with their basic interfaces?... seems to be what we currently have has been able to improve and keep up.
Genuine question, not making rhetorical points.
It would seem to me, that unless Serial ATA offers clear and *necessary* benefits, it simply wont get support fro mthe chipset chaps.
I went looking for the benefits areticle on the cited page, but would appear they are struggling under their new load.
You think IBM is minor? You have to be kidding... IBM makes MS look small time.
People have a strange impression as to how big MS actually is. Yes they're big but they've no harware to speak of, and they dont punt to the really high end solution well were the likes of IBM and Sun do.
IBM produces a huge amount of patents annualy, across a wide range of product... MS aint even in the same ballpark.
Actually when you consider the number of sites that rely either upon the IE DOM or IE CSS quirks, the number is considerably higher than one might think.
It's easy to envisage AOL doing this until one considers that content on the Web has adapted to a large degree to IE dominance.
What AOL has to consider is its 34million users turning round and saying "the latest version of AOL is broke", if it's not rendering IE specific content correctly.
Yes I know Mozillas recent [good] record on standards compliance, but as it stands MS is holding the baton.
In short, I think this is a bluff on AOLs part, as there's too much commercial risk here, and there's no way AOL is going to take those risks (with a relatively dumb userbase), with the possibility of large user unhappiness.
Aye, but one must remember, that while it's relatively easy to wave consumer rights in many US States, it's very hard to wave consumer rights in the EU (certainly the UK), and indeed to attempt to mandate such is itself often illegal.
It's for this reason that so much product legalese is followed by "this does not effect your statutory rights".
In the UK if the consumer has rights, the vendor cannot make them wave them, no matter what the consumer may have signed, their rights are still intact... contracts do not supercede the law of the land, and [if] the rights are by act of Parliament not act of corporation X... Parliament wins =)
I remember having an argument with my bank over copies of statements and the data protection act, tangental I know... "I don't care what your policy is on the data protection act, I'm waving and an act of Parliament under your nose, which carries a little more wait than your written policy"... I got what I wanted.
The Celts, the Scandanavians, and now the Chinese... and surely to god the native Indians who got there from Asia.
Culture X, discovered America before Columbus is redundant... lets just say Columbus didnt discover America and leave it at that.
As long as you stay put on that penal colony, we don't care what you call us =)
The Ximian guys are quite interested in it is the reply.
.NET
I think you might understand what Extended IL is... it's a series of extensions to make function languages easier to impliment under
Well considering the base class library has also gone through ECMA standardisation along with C# I'm not sure you need worry.
Mono will be implimenting the ECMA spec, so MS an drift where they like.
Developer here also, and for me keyboard shortcuts are vital... I use the mouse as little as possible.
Malicious attchements are not news worthy of slashdot.
This is an old old dead story repeated in various incarnations across many platforms.
Please get a grip on what's news and what is simply the same old stupidity tax.
- Numen
Why Java? Why not any number of other languages? Who anointed Java? I understand that lots of people like Java... good for them, they can go install it. I personaly don't like Java (I'm allowed to dislike it =), and really don't care if it's not installed on a new system I buy. Java on the client just sucks real bad... if you feel otherwise I'm pleased for you.
Wasn't one of the Electric Boards in the North of England about to roll out net access over their grid last year? I thought they'd got as far as a limited roll-out but pulled it due to patch quality in several areas. *shrug* anybody remember the details?
Who's facts? Your facts? My facts? His facts? One could get philisophical at this point and pose the question... "what is a fact?" and how do you concretely assert something as a fact?
A lot of what we took to be facts are now good for a historical giggle. How does one propogate new ideas if one is bound to only the currently accepted "fact"?
I'm sorry the idea of a globaly policed TLD is at best silly and at worst prone to facist tendancies.... is the WHO going to incorporate Chines notions of medicine as fact? Or is it simply going to apply Western notions of medicine as global fact?