It's for British comedy, not for American. There probably are different standards for the same.
Both have quite different cultures and perceptions of what's considered funny. Personally, I think Friends (and most American excuses for comedies) are a pile of horse-shit.
The beta has been available for sometime now - apparently you need Win2003 or.Net v2 for it to be installed.
From someone I know who uses it:
Very slow, but the scripting was sweet, though not as compact as unix
Reminds you of a bastard child of unix+VMS
You can write commands in C#, kinda like servlets where you can extend a base class
It's an OO way of doing things, but unlike Perl/Python which are screenscrapers, Monad scripts can pipe out and pipe in objects - and everything happens through typed vars, not screenscraping.
It makes navigation a lot easier, settings of a city a lot familiar and an advancement in technology.
I mean, you wouldn't expect us to still be playing 2d games, do you? We perceive things in 3d and can relate a lot more easily to real-world landmarks than abstract notions - a realistic 3d map of a city would mean that it is more life-like.
At the very least, it is cool technology and it is progress.
Well, that would be largely inevitable or highly improbable.
Survival will be the primary goal of any form of life, and survival will require consumption of resources.
Unless the resources required for two life forms is remarkably different or there is a truly symbiotic relationship, it is quite likely that the two forms of life will be fighting with each other for resources. It may not even be intentional, but survival would require a fight at least at a very abstract level (deer and zebras sharing the same grasslands). And when you introduce complex factors into the equation, you can be rest assured that there will be a need for survival as you move up the food chain.
If you do not kill, you will be killed - this is a very likely scenario, and if sentience is to evolve, it would need safe and secure surivival first and foremost.
Learning to share resources is possible in only one scenario - symbiosis. Otherwise, it is quite unlikely given the nature of life, at least as we know it.
While I agree that for the general home user, Win 2000 is probably a better option, you can indeed turn off those options in Win XP, and it runs just as fast.
And XP does have some really good features for the power user.
Putterman is particularly famous for his work on sonoluminescence.
Funnily enough, this is not really the core research of Putterman, his earlier work has largely been in the area of blackbody radiation, sonoluminescence and certain related quantum phenomena.
It's almost like a me-too reaction. Looks like everybody is into Open Source, so let me also play the game and hopefully see how I can make it work for me.
Besides, any publicity is good publicity right?
If they went ahead and bashed OSS, folks would be up in arms. Now if they did something like this and bashed Open Source, folks would be confused, and some may even take them serious.
Well, he made an extreme stretch, and I made an extreme stretch.:)
Quite honestly, what he proposed was dicating how a corporation should be, based on _his_ ethical and moral principles. A corporation needs to just follow the law, nothing more and nothing less.
Something like controlling a format and the like is too specific and too detailed for a government to interefere, and those are operations related to how a company may function. IMHO, a government has no business poking their nose into such things.
For instance, I have scifi channel, but Stargate used to come at a very bad time for me.
So, I'd go ahead and download it off the web - hey, what's the difference? I pay for the channel and I'd have recorded it anyway, instead, I download it off someone who's recorded it.
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It's for British comedy, not for American. There probably are different standards for the same.
Both have quite different cultures and perceptions of what's considered funny. Personally, I think Friends (and most American excuses for comedies) are a pile of horse-shit.
> Being on slashdot, I'm obviosly something of a geek
You definitely belong here, buddy!
From someone I know who uses it:
Yes, you are.
It makes navigation a lot easier, settings of a city a lot familiar and an advancement in technology.
I mean, you wouldn't expect us to still be playing 2d games, do you? We perceive things in 3d and can relate a lot more easily to real-world landmarks than abstract notions - a realistic 3d map of a city would mean that it is more life-like.
At the very least, it is cool technology and it is progress.
Without my early morning Google buzz, I'd have a hard time starting out the day!
Now, I may proceed to doing other boringly mundane things, such as staring at the screen and hitting refresh. =)
Well, that would be largely inevitable or highly improbable.
Survival will be the primary goal of any form of life, and survival will require consumption of resources.
Unless the resources required for two life forms is remarkably different or there is a truly symbiotic relationship, it is quite likely that the two forms of life will be fighting with each other for resources. It may not even be intentional, but survival would require a fight at least at a very abstract level (deer and zebras sharing the same grasslands). And when you introduce complex factors into the equation, you can be rest assured that there will be a need for survival as you move up the food chain.
If you do not kill, you will be killed - this is a very likely scenario, and if sentience is to evolve, it would need safe and secure surivival first and foremost.
Learning to share resources is possible in only one scenario - symbiosis. Otherwise, it is quite unlikely given the nature of life, at least as we know it.
I agree.
Most people who bash ActiveX controls haven't really been in enterprise development environments where they have used them.
While their security aspect is a bad thing, they're quite useful in their own way.
While I agree that for the general home user, Win 2000 is probably a better option, you can indeed turn off those options in Win XP, and it runs just as fast.
And XP does have some really good features for the power user.
But it is grammatically valid.
and makes it very difficult to comprehend their speach.
Definitely American English. =)
Well, here's the abstract and a short description.
That's a pretty heady group.
Putterman is particularly famous for his work on sonoluminescence.
Funnily enough, this is not really the core research of Putterman, his earlier work has largely been in the area of blackbody radiation, sonoluminescence and certain related quantum phenomena.
More technical details would be nice.
Awww, he's just French... =)
Maybe that's why Microsoft still dominates the market?
Apple isn't a software company. They're a hardware company.
No, Apple is both a software and a hardware company.
There is a difference.
Yup, and from being optional it has become mandatory.
;)
Hell, companies have lost billions of dollars for not documenting their actions and lack of email accountability - so you're absolutely right.
However, this is also a bad thing, it takes away excuses.
Modded down for saying that a story is a dupe?
Wow, nice. Anyway, here's the right link.
Slashdot has already covered this Here
Sheesh!
Oops, should have been seriously, not serious.
That is more insightful than funny.
It's almost like a me-too reaction. Looks like everybody is into Open Source, so let me also play the game and hopefully see how I can make it work for me.
Besides, any publicity is good publicity right?
If they went ahead and bashed OSS, folks would be up in arms. Now if they did something like this and bashed Open Source, folks would be confused, and some may even take them serious.
Ooh, the conundrum.
First off, Acid2 test isn't that uncommon a term. Secondly, it's been featured on Slashdot before.
Even for someone who does not know the reference, it's quite obvious from the context of the article (if you bothered to read it, that is).
I mean, when an article on biology or something comes up, you just look up the terms you do not know on Google or Wikipedia. Why not the same here?
Just do a simple Google search or a Wikipedia lookup and there is enough and more information.
Why do you expect to be spoon-fed everything? Can't you do a simple search and find it yourself, is it that hard?
Cops and robbers, all the time.
And in the meantime, technology gets more sophisticated. Progress eitherway.
And, I must add, he completely ignores the real-world issues of competition and business in the design and development of software.
It isn't as simple as slapping together a bunch of stuff, things take time.
This post talks about it quite well.
Well, he made an extreme stretch, and I made an extreme stretch. :)
Quite honestly, what he proposed was dicating how a corporation should be, based on _his_ ethical and moral principles. A corporation needs to just follow the law, nothing more and nothing less.
Something like controlling a format and the like is too specific and too detailed for a government to interefere, and those are operations related to how a company may function. IMHO, a government has no business poking their nose into such things.
And TV shows, too.
For instance, I have scifi channel, but Stargate used to come at a very bad time for me.
So, I'd go ahead and download it off the web - hey, what's the difference? I pay for the channel and I'd have recorded it anyway, instead, I download it off someone who's recorded it.