No matter how you look at it, if the "halo effect" is real, it's a Good Thing(tm) for Apple, and probably for the industry in general, because it proves that there are legitimate alternatives to Windows for the non-techie crowd.
Oh, no, I didn't mean you, Stephan. Sorry if there was any misunderstanding there. My "you guys" was entirely directed at the Slashdot editorial staff, who apparently don't give a crap about anything resembling journalistic standards.
The Zope site explains things, well, about as well as can be hoped for to someone who isn't entirely sure what "web application server" and "transactional object database" mean (or are good for). For which you are to be commended.:)
The point, o troll, is that the stories ought to have information like this in the summary. If I don't know what [cool new product] is, I have to, as an AC so eruditely explained, visit the site and waste their bandwidth to find out. Aside from this practical point, it's just bad journalism -- not that anyone would ever accuse Slashdot of practising "real journalism" -- not to at least say what the heck a story subject *does* or *is*...
Whether I know what it is is irrelevant. If it isn't common knowledge, FUCKING EXPLAIN IT. Two extra lines isn't going to kill anyone.
From the "Related Links" section, actual link titles:
Best deals: The Internet Yee-haw, I'm gonna buy me this "Innernet" thing fer real cheap!
Best deals: Announcements For when you need a cheap talking head to run your press conferences?
Best deals: Developers Because we all know Slashdot is doing its best to put all the programmers whose jobs have been outsourced to India back to work. Or is Slashdot now working to find those companies better deals than their American developer staffs...? The mind boggles.
Slashdot ought to re-title the "Related Links" section to "text-based ads that might be marginally related to the topic, but we doubt it."
Zope is an open source web application server primarily written in the Python
programming language. It features a transactional object database which can store not only content and custom data, but also dynamic HTML templates, scripts, a search engine, and relational database (RDBMS) connections and code. It features a strong through-the-web development model, allowing you to update your web site from anywhere in the world. To allow for this, Zope also features a tightly integrated security model. Built around the concept of "safe delegation of control", Zope's security architecture also allows you to turn control over parts of a web site to other organizations or individuals.
You'd think story mods would put stuff like this in the stories. With over 800,000 registered users, the odds are pretty damn good not all of us know what the heck [latest software project] is.
I'm not even going to attempt to translate that bit into real English (you know, instead of buzzword-speak), but at least *try* to describe what the software does, guys...
Localised pollution and dumping aren't nearly the global problem that increased carbon dioxide emissions are.
CO2 can move around the globe very easily. It's pretty difficult for a pile of heavy metal waste in a pit in the middle of the Gobi desert to get into the water supply in Europe.
The pollution control laws in the US are primarily designed to give Americans a better quality of life. The Kyoto Protocol is designed to give all citizens of Earth a better quality of life.
For the intelligence-impaired, the set of "Americans" does not contain all members of the set of "all citizens of Earth."
Note the word you mentioned three times in that sentence: oil.
What are Bush's business associates (and Cheney's, for that matter) heavily involved in?
Oil.
Keeping oil prices high lines their pockets. Reducing American dependence on petroleum would put them out of business. Heaven forbid they should have to get by on the billions they've made in the energy business thus far./sarcasm
Offshoring jobs doesn't mean Americans are going to lose jobs...
After all, if we move the shores of the world's oceans 30 or 40 miles inland, I'm sure lots of large corporations' workplaces would be located off the shore!
Pay with a credit card and if the store refuses the return, you're still stuck with defective merchandise, regardless of what the store thinks about the legitimacy of your return. Just call the credit card company and tell them that you attempted to return the CD and that the store refused to accept it. That's grounds for getting your credit card credited, anyway. Enough chargebacks against that merchant and they'll quit this silly practise. (Of course, we don't know whether Best Buy/Circuit City/Fry's/FYE/whoever is doing this right now, either.)
Not that I really think enough people are doing the CD thing for it to matter anyway...
Screw working with them. Just friggin' buy the entire Beatles catalog! They have more than enough money for it...and they could guarantee iTMS was the only online store ever to have Beatles material. They could do whatever they wanted with special collector's edition Beatles iPods, too. (Which, by the way, I think is a great idea.)
As noted yesterday on As the Apple Turns, this could have some ramifications for the lawsuit, as Apple Computer is going to be shipping physical media with pre-recorded songs on it. The argument up to this point was that Apple Computer had never shipped any physical media containing songs (Barenaked Ladies music videos on the Mac OS 8+ system CDs notwithstanding), and thus wasn't in violation of the previous agreement with Apple Records.
I'm curious to see what the Beatles'/Apple Records' lawyers will say about this.
"Broken" HTML is, by definition, not compliant with the standard by which HTML is defined. It isn't HTML. It's something resembling HTML, but it isn't HTML. I can't write a parser that "properly" interprets pseudo-HTML for the same reason I can't write a compiler that compiles pseudo-C. If the format of the document is wrong, don't expect the rendering agent (the browser, in this case) to do anything approaching a "standard" with it.
No matter what Microsoft people to think, "malformed HTML/CSS/JS" is not really HTML/CSS/JS. It is something closely akin to these, but it is not these. The sooner people understand that, the better.
How does he find time to do interviews? He's wasting an hour or so of his life every morning -- not to mention the half gallon of juice he needs to choke 'em down -- just popping pills!
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That's why they raised their price target on AAPL to $100 (and also why AAPL gained six bucks a share two days ago).
MacWorld UK has a related story today.
No matter how you look at it, if the "halo effect" is real, it's a Good Thing(tm) for Apple, and probably for the industry in general, because it proves that there are legitimate alternatives to Windows for the non-techie crowd.
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Oh, no, I didn't mean you, Stephan. Sorry if there was any misunderstanding there. My "you guys" was entirely directed at the Slashdot editorial staff, who apparently don't give a crap about anything resembling journalistic standards.
:)
The Zope site explains things, well, about as well as can be hoped for to someone who isn't entirely sure what "web application server" and "transactional object database" mean (or are good for). For which you are to be commended.
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The point, o troll, is that the stories ought to have information like this in the summary. If I don't know what [cool new product] is, I have to, as an AC so eruditely explained, visit the site and waste their bandwidth to find out. Aside from this practical point, it's just bad journalism -- not that anyone would ever accuse Slashdot of practising "real journalism" -- not to at least say what the heck a story subject *does* or *is*...
Whether I know what it is is irrelevant. If it isn't common knowledge, FUCKING EXPLAIN IT. Two extra lines isn't going to kill anyone.
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I was unaware that "nerd" and "omnicient" had become synonymous.
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From the "Related Links" section, actual link titles:
Best deals: The Internet Yee-haw, I'm gonna buy me this "Innernet" thing fer real cheap!
Best deals: Announcements For when you need a cheap talking head to run your press conferences?
Best deals: Developers Because we all know Slashdot is doing its best to put all the programmers whose jobs have been outsourced to India back to work. Or is Slashdot now working to find those companies better deals than their American developer staffs...? The mind boggles.
Slashdot ought to re-title the "Related Links" section to "text-based ads that might be marginally related to the topic, but we doubt it."
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You'd think story mods would put stuff like this in the stories. With over 800,000 registered users, the odds are pretty damn good not all of us know what the heck [latest software project] is.
I'm not even going to attempt to translate that bit into real English (you know, instead of buzzword-speak), but at least *try* to describe what the software does, guys...
p
Localised pollution and dumping aren't nearly the global problem that increased carbon dioxide emissions are.
CO2 can move around the globe very easily. It's pretty difficult for a pile of heavy metal waste in a pit in the middle of the Gobi desert to get into the water supply in Europe.
The pollution control laws in the US are primarily designed to give Americans a better quality of life. The Kyoto Protocol is designed to give all citizens of Earth a better quality of life.
For the intelligence-impaired, the set of "Americans" does not contain all members of the set of "all citizens of Earth."
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Note the word you mentioned three times in that sentence: oil.
/sarcasm
What are Bush's business associates (and Cheney's, for that matter) heavily involved in?
Oil.
Keeping oil prices high lines their pockets. Reducing American dependence on petroleum would put them out of business. Heaven forbid they should have to get by on the billions they've made in the energy business thus far.
p
Offshoring jobs doesn't mean Americans are going to lose jobs...
After all, if we move the shores of the world's oceans 30 or 40 miles inland, I'm sure lots of large corporations' workplaces would be located off the shore!
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Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't.
Pay with a credit card and if the store refuses the return, you're still stuck with defective merchandise, regardless of what the store thinks about the legitimacy of your return. Just call the credit card company and tell them that you attempted to return the CD and that the store refused to accept it. That's grounds for getting your credit card credited, anyway. Enough chargebacks against that merchant and they'll quit this silly practise. (Of course, we don't know whether Best Buy/Circuit City/Fry's/FYE/whoever is doing this right now, either.)
Not that I really think enough people are doing the CD thing for it to matter anyway...
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This should work without any registration:
Some Shoppers Find Fewer Happy Returns
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Am I the only one who read that as "50K Linux Bites Man...?" And here I was thinking, "Man, this is REALLY big news! A computer bit someone!"
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Lessee...eight...16x...that makes this a review of, what, 128 burners, according to the MPAA?
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Call me when they have a transparent industrial diamond coating.
Until then, don't call it "scratch-proof."
Because it isn't. And it wouldn't be then, either.
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I myself have already voted, by absentee ballot in Berekely County, West Virginia. I even wrote myself in for county surveyor.
You too, huh? Wow, what a coincidence!
Erm, except I voted absentee in Michigan. And it was township clerk. But I wrote in my best friend for surveyor...
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Erm...that *is* his personal Web space at UMich, unless they've changed policies in the year that I've been gone.
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Why, yes, in fact, I do.
(Thanks to fmaxwell for the idea.)
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You laugh, but I'm fairly certain that at one time, Dana was running a Quadra 605 as her primary Web server. That would certainly explain it ;)
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Uh...didja ever think maybe, just maybe, he was taking what's called "artistic licence?"
Yeah.
As Slashdot says, "It's funny. Laugh."
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Screw working with them. Just friggin' buy the entire Beatles catalog! They have more than enough money for it...and they could guarantee iTMS was the only online store ever to have Beatles material. They could do whatever they wanted with special collector's edition Beatles iPods, too. (Which, by the way, I think is a great idea.)
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As noted yesterday on As the Apple Turns, this could have some ramifications for the lawsuit, as Apple Computer is going to be shipping physical media with pre-recorded songs on it. The argument up to this point was that Apple Computer had never shipped any physical media containing songs (Barenaked Ladies music videos on the Mac OS 8+ system CDs notwithstanding), and thus wasn't in violation of the previous agreement with Apple Records.
I'm curious to see what the Beatles'/Apple Records' lawyers will say about this.
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rendering broken HTML correctly
What the hell is "correct?" How do you decide?
"Broken" HTML is, by definition, not compliant with the standard by which HTML is defined. It isn't HTML. It's something resembling HTML, but it isn't HTML. I can't write a parser that "properly" interprets pseudo-HTML for the same reason I can't write a compiler that compiles pseudo-C. If the format of the document is wrong, don't expect the rendering agent (the browser, in this case) to do anything approaching a "standard" with it.
No matter what Microsoft people to think, "malformed HTML/CSS/JS" is not really HTML/CSS/JS. It is something closely akin to these, but it is not these. The sooner people understand that, the better.
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Good question. I was wondering that myself. Probably the same guy who modded this comment "informative."
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How does he find time to do interviews? He's wasting an hour or so of his life every morning -- not to mention the half gallon of juice he needs to choke 'em down -- just popping pills!
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He's posting non-arguments like this in response to anything that's remotely pro-Apple or pro-Linux:
;)
here
here
the above comment
No feedy the trolls, kids.
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