I have been impressed with the LED lights over florescent or incandescent. The subdued lighting is fine with me and the energy consumption / bulb longevity is the best part. When my wife and I move (build a house), we will go 100% LED.
What is really accomplished in all this? No one has stopped making websites with GIF images. After I install Fedora on my box, I race out for the MP3 libs. So, if this goes through, we will all continue to use XML regardless?
Tired jokes aside, anyone know how many people actually use luggage combinations like that?
My wife flips out when I travel because I do not use locks or combos at all. The combo locks are easy to feel your way to opening, and the travel locks with keys are easy to pick. I travel quite a bit and other than my bag being "lost" for a period, I have had nothing stolen from my bags. Of course, a nerd like me packs nothing of value, and I doubt airport personnel would have a thing for sniffing my boxers.
I disagree on the supposed non-portability of Java. For the last few years, all my Java work has been developed on win32 and and then hosted on *nix systems, mostly Solaris and some RedHat and it's all been fine.
That's great. What I was saying is this is becoming more rare. If someone attempts to play some online Java games, they work fine in Windows, but not from a Mac. I know of a corporation that wrote many apps in Java ontop of Netware, but things ceased to work when they pushed the apps to Linux desktops. All I am saying is that Java's write-once approach does not work in the real world because many programmers are building applications for a specific audience of operating systems/environments, and not caring about any of the others.
I am an owner of a software development company, and I can tell you that both have their place. All languages (and sadly, operating systems) are tools and it makes sense to use the right tool for the job. Languages we may be using depending on the task include C, Pascal, DataFlex, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, and even bash. Someone might ask why Pascal; which is because we have a well-defined set of libraries for that language which allow us to access many other applications, which in another language would be difficult or expensive to recode.
All that aside, we typically use PHP for all web-based applications. The ease of coding, and the ability to affect change with zero downtime is a big plus. We can have several programmers affecting changes in one codebase in real time. And, for a program which took us six months to develop in PHP, it would have taken at least fifty percent longer with Java.
I'm neither a java or php programmer, but I do work with both. While java is nice and portable, I'm very impressed with how far PHP (Personal Home Page) has gone. There are acclerator projects out there that cache php scripts, making them much more responsive. I use eAceelerator (formerly MmTURKE Cache or something like that) and it's obvious that php performance can be improved. For many a simple LAMP setup is very powerful, I've been using it for a website, as well as webmail, for over 4 years now.
Two things:
Java may be portable, but a fair percentage of applications written with Java, both corporate and Internet, work only for an intended audience of operating systems. Java has evolved out of its starting premise of platform-independence.
PHP no longer is referenced as Personal Home Page. It is the PHP Hypertext Processor. For some reason, corporate types won't let you use something with the word personal in it, but annoying recursive acronyms are acceptable.
Also new is the amazing pro photography software Aperture, as well as new lower pricing on Apple Displays.
I am completely ignorant when it comes to the this, and no place in town sells Macs retail. What is the connector on the back of the Apple monitors? I am interested in a nice display for my computer, but cannot go Mac for compatibility reasons (hardware). Can I hook up my Intel workstation to one of those sweet monitors, or is there another display I should be looking into?
I gave Firefox a chance....now I refuse to use it. The developers have had ample time to optimize the browser and its memory management, but they haven't.... I'll have a Firefox window with about 8 tabs open, I'll minimize it, and then go play a game. When I quit the game 1-2 hours later, and try to bring FIrefox back up, the chugging begins. It takes about a minute to bring the Firefox window back up, my hard drive being slammed...
I told a friend of mine that uses Windows to try Firefox and he later claimed something similar. I would like to say that this is not indicative of my Linux experience with Firefox. It works as expected, with no latency, and is not bogged-down by my running of more applications/tabs/etc.
I love IMDB, but I really think they ought to change their name by now. They have info on movies, television, video games, you name it. I think it is the fact they have a four-letter domain that is the stopper. Finding a short domain name is tough, or in the case of four letters, impossible.
I have been wondering why they had a region code in the first place for DVDs. I mean, you have purchased the media -- if you migrate to another country, are you supposed to trash the media and buy a new copy for your region? What person on a commitee thought this was a good idea, any why?
I think this is excellent, and will only lead to an expansion of InnoDB functionality. The speed over MyIsam coupled with the direct disk access is great, and was a huge factor in choosing MySQL over some others in recent software development. I have not ever heard of Oracle purchasing technology to squash it, either.
The problem that I have had with Wikipedia is that in editing articles on which I am a recognized expert, I have had my edits and entries entirely removed by others who "feel" that these edits were somehow inappropriate, even when I referenced those entries along with results from peer reviewed journals.
No matter how many peer-reviewed sources you produce, Earth is not flat and WWII's Holocaust really happened.
Seriously though, I have had similar experiences with Wikipedia. All I can suggest is to keep a record of your post and try again some time in the future. Of course, you can always post information here. The beauty there is that Slashdot is a reputable source.
Regarding the things of which I have intimate knowledge, I have seen as many errors per page in Wikipedia as Newsweek, Encyclopedia Brittanica, National Geographic, IMDB, textbooks, etc. Information is only as good as its source. A writer gathers information, an editor picks over it, it is passed before panel reviews, and is published as true. At least with Wikipedia the editing process can pass before more people, and any one of them can do something to affect the publishing. If the informed decision is based on misinformation or misunderstanding, the outcome is a compounded error, and now is stamped with more credibility than the original articles.
I use Wikipedia quite often, but I usually perform some secondary research.
Great. Now thanks to your subject line I'll have that Good Charlotte tune stuck in my head all day.;)
At first I was thinking Mr Leech. But, as soon as I typed it in, all I could think of was the song too. At least the Macarena has dropped out of my head...
I know their involvement is not based on what they can expect monetarily, but how much fortune have the major open-source players made from their fame? For example, is Linus a wealthy person, upper middle-class, or destitute (I know this is incorrect). People like Stallman: I have only read that he supports himself from giving lectures and making appearances. It is easy to see where folks that have attached to IPOs have made money and re-invested it to be wealthy, but what about everyone else? Does anyone here have some of that information?
There are many companies that I have tried to convert to OpenOffice (and before that, StarOffice), but compatibility issues have always come up. Even with the licensing costs for Microsoft Office, it would be great to throw that application on top of an operating system where I would have more control. The only way I can control the desktop, remove many licensing concerns, and expand depreciation schedules, is to consider Citrix (ahem, or I guess Terminal Services in a pinch).
I would seriously use Microsoft Office if it were available for Linux -- even at home.
Slashdot Mirror
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one...
I have been impressed with the LED lights over florescent or incandescent. The subdued lighting is fine with me and the energy consumption / bulb longevity is the best part. When my wife and I move (build a house), we will go 100% LED.
What is really accomplished in all this? No one has stopped making websites with GIF images. After I install Fedora on my box, I race out for the MP3 libs. So, if this goes through, we will all continue to use XML regardless?
I can't be held accountable, I never make misteaks.
My wife flips out when I travel because I do not use locks or combos at all. The combo locks are easy to feel your way to opening, and the travel locks with keys are easy to pick. I travel quite a bit and other than my bag being "lost" for a period, I have had nothing stolen from my bags. Of course, a nerd like me packs nothing of value, and I doubt airport personnel would have a thing for sniffing my boxers.
That's great. What I was saying is this is becoming more rare. If someone attempts to play some online Java games, they work fine in Windows, but not from a Mac. I know of a corporation that wrote many apps in Java ontop of Netware, but things ceased to work when they pushed the apps to Linux desktops. All I am saying is that Java's write-once approach does not work in the real world because many programmers are building applications for a specific audience of operating systems/environments, and not caring about any of the others.
Someone change the combination on my luggage!
All that aside, we typically use PHP for all web-based applications. The ease of coding, and the ability to affect change with zero downtime is a big plus. We can have several programmers affecting changes in one codebase in real time. And, for a program which took us six months to develop in PHP, it would have taken at least fifty percent longer with Java.
Two things:
Also new is the amazing pro photography software Aperture, as well as new lower pricing on Apple Displays.
I am completely ignorant when it comes to the this, and no place in town sells Macs retail. What is the connector on the back of the Apple monitors? I am interested in a nice display for my computer, but cannot go Mac for compatibility reasons (hardware). Can I hook up my Intel workstation to one of those sweet monitors, or is there another display I should be looking into?
I told a friend of mine that uses Windows to try Firefox and he later claimed something similar. I would like to say that this is not indicative of my Linux experience with Firefox. It works as expected, with no latency, and is not bogged-down by my running of more applications/tabs/etc.
Reminds me of the hype surrounding the Segway.
I love IMDB, but I really think they ought to change their name by now. They have info on movies, television, video games, you name it.
I think it is the fact they have a four-letter domain that is the stopper. Finding a short domain name is tough, or in the case of four letters, impossible.
Interesting, but is 2 - 10 years as precise as they can be?
8 years seems to be a long time, to me.
Yep, and thirty years ago they said that we would be out of oil in twenty years. Go figure...
Yeah, I do not think that IBM's websites could get Slashdotted. Article looked fine to me too, and loaded in a second or two.
Use of SIOX will most likely increase Fark and Worth 1000 entries. No comment on if this is a good or bad thing...
Oh, competition is fine so long as their competition is not Microsoft.
I think this is excellent, and will only lead to an expansion of InnoDB functionality. The speed over MyIsam coupled with the direct disk access is great, and was a huge factor in choosing MySQL over some others in recent software development. I have not ever heard of Oracle purchasing technology to squash it, either.
No matter how many peer-reviewed sources you produce, Earth is not flat and WWII's Holocaust really happened.
Seriously though, I have had similar experiences with Wikipedia. All I can suggest is to keep a record of your post and try again some time in the future. Of course, you can always post information here. The beauty there is that Slashdot is a reputable source.
I use Wikipedia quite often, but I usually perform some secondary research.
Whom....cares?!?!
At first I was thinking Mr Leech. But, as soon as I typed it in, all I could think of was the song too. At least the Macarena has dropped out of my head...
Note that I am just overly curious...
I would seriously use Microsoft Office if it were available for Linux -- even at home.