You're proving my point just as well as you're proving anyone else's. There's recursive logic on both sides of the argument. As I said, until ads actually appear, it's silly to whine about them.
They didn't have ads on their search pages because AdSense didn't exist.
There are no ads on project pages right now. When there are ads on project pages, feel free to start whining. Until then, it's a little silly, isn't it?
By "honing this thing for years", do you mean "ignoring this thing for years"? I began using SourceForge the day it was announced, and I stopped using SourceForge about two years later when it became clear that they had no plans to fix many of the ridiculous bugs and annoying usability problems that have been there from day one.
* checks SourceForge again
Yep, same issues still there. SourceForge might get the job done, but it's not exactly getting the job done well, and they don't appear to have any interest in improving things.
By the way, Google isn't running ads on the Google Code pages. This isn't about ad revenue.
Um, yes they do. At least, the consumer wireless routers I've used from Linksys and Netgear do. Some of them allow you to turn that feature off, but it's almost always enabled by default.
Today, the existent manual used was developed with reStructuredText, a very nice piece of software; unfortunately, we're not able to create classes or templates for things like similar interfaces (that share the same functions), which means we need to write more code and that means more editing.
The use of "existent" in the above sentence is awkward, and the parentheses are unnecessary and confusing, but the semicolon is used properly. It would have been acceptable (and probably less confusing) to break the sentence into two sentences, but that doesn't mean the semicolon was misused.
I was just thinking the same thing. Ambergris was one of the most profitable parts of whaling back in those days, and they didn't just find it sitting on beaches or floating in the ocean; they harvested it from the whales themselves. Someone has their information wrong, and I'd be surprised if it were Melville.
Blizzard should be working overtime to fix the truckload of bugs they introduced with the 1.9 patch rather than worrying about whether WoW will run on the new Macs. Who wants to play a game that's half broken? </dork>
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the sound of me reaching a new personal low. I need to stop playing WoW.
Before you go taking that 80% pay cut, allow me to point out that "80% pay cut" and "80% of current pay" are two very different things. You might want to choose your wording very carefully.
Here's a photo of my H120 (same form factor as the H320, unless I'm mistaken) next to a Hitachi laptop hard drive. Unfortunately, the H120 is too small (especially in width) to contain the drive. It's a shame, too, because I love my H120 so much I don't know what I'd do if the drive failed and I couldn't replace it.
Austin Powers made almost $54 million at the US box office from a $16.5 million budget. Not quite a blockbuster, but definitely a box office success. Of course, the sequels made a lot more money.
Yes. It's the "almost every" that I have an issue with, because it's a blatant exaggeration. I've also seen that phrasing used in several news articles about the report. But when I looked at the actual report, I saw plenty of tests where Windows actually beat Unix. I didn't bother counting, but I'd estimate that the two came out pretty evenly matched, with Unix maybe slightly ahead. In any case, no matter which one beat the other more times, these are very low-level tests. Nobody's going to notice these differences unless they're running a high-traffic server or doing some really heavy-duty computing.
I've been seeing this damn report hailed all over the Internet for the last few days as Microsoft saying Unix is better than Windows, but apparently nobody has actually read the report.
For one thing, Windows is not slower than Unix in most of the tests. It's slower than Unix in some of the tests and faster in others. For another, these benchmark results are for low-level things like spawning processes and threads. Any programmer who knows anything about Unix and Windows will tell you that threads are cheaper in Windows and processes are cheaper in Unix, because that's how they were designed. So of course Windows is going to be slower than Unix at creating processes, and of course Unix is going to be slower than Windows at creating threads.
The only thing worth reporting about this thing is the performance of Singularity, which looks like it's shaping up to be an excellent modern kernel.
GUI != easy. If you have trouble understanding the FreeBSD installer, you're going to have trouble installing any Linux distribution, no matter how pretty and shiny the installer is. For that matter, you'll probably have trouble installing Windows.
How many times have you installed FreeBSD, anyway? It doesn't just dump a base OS onto a partition (unless that's all you want, of course). The installer will happily install any of thousands of pre-compiled packages for you if you want them. It may not have a pretty GUI, but there's nothing about FreeBSD's installer that makes it any more difficult to use than Ubuntu or Red Hat, and it's certainly easier to install than Gentoo.
In any case, I said it was easier in my opinion. If you don't share my opinion, good for you, but there's no need to be a fucking dick about it.
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FreeBSD is ridiculously easy to use as Unix-like operating systems go. The installer is friendly and efficient, and generally (in my opinion) much easier and much faster than the installer for any Linux distribution I've ever used. It's entirely possible to go from a bare system to a working FreeBSD install with a generic kernel in fifteen minutes or less.
In addition, the ports system makes installing software a snap, and the online FreeBSD Handbook and FreeBSD FAQ are very well-written and kept up to date if you have any questions.
Sure I remember OS/2. Now tell me: how many Linux distributions has Dave Barry installed on his computer?
The fact that Dave Barry knew what OS/2 was, bought it, installed it, and then wrote about it means that IBM's marketing campaign was at least effective enough to reach a non-techie newspaper columnist and his readers. Hell, I was maybe 12 years old when OS/2 came out, I had never heard of Linux, I had only the vaguest idea of what Unix was, and even I ran OS/2 for a short time.
A multimillion dollar ad campaign. That's what it'll take.
Now please, for fuck's sake, let's talk about something else. Every couple of weeks there's another damn article whining about how open source is soooooooo close to succeeding as a mainstream desktop alternative and asking what's keeping it from taking that final step, and everyone always answers "consistency" or "usability" or "accessibility" or "pictures of naked ladies", but the real issue here is that Grandma doesn't know what the fuck Linux is because she doesn't see ads for it on TV.
You can give your citizens more sleep by left-clicking in the sky and manipulating the time of day. A nifty feature, but the only way to learn about it is to click on one of the various tutorial scrolls on the second (or was it third?) island.
Splogspot provides a searchable index of splogs, as well as an RSS feed of the most recently discovered splogs. ReferrerCop provides a searchable index of referrer spam (which often consists of splogs) as well as downloadable blacklists in a variety of formats.
Um, Microsoft hasn't tried to keep MSN IM closed. They even released the specs for the protocol, if I remember correctly. Not only that, I've read accounts of Microsoft providing support to third-party developers using the protocol and even fixing bugs reported by those developers. They've certainly been a lot more open than any of the other IM bigwigs (Jabber excluded).
It's not one long function. The rcube_webmail() function is being used as a class (or as close as you can get to a class in JavaScript). If you actually look at the source, you'll see that it consists of a bunch of properties and child functions. At a glance, it actually looks to me like this code is very well written. And I'm an ornery bastard who thinks most code is crap, so that's saying a lot.
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SourceForge is littered with ads. Why not whine about that? Those ads are actually there right now. Google's are hypothetical and in the future.
Even if they do throw some ads on the site, what's the big deal? Are you so far behind the times that you don't have AdBlock installed?
You're proving my point just as well as you're proving anyone else's. There's recursive logic on both sides of the argument. As I said, until ads actually appear, it's silly to whine about them.
They didn't have ads on their search pages because AdSense didn't exist.
There are no ads on project pages right now. When there are ads on project pages, feel free to start whining. Until then, it's a little silly, isn't it?
http://code.google.com/hosting/faq.html#adsonproje ct
By "honing this thing for years", do you mean "ignoring this thing for years"? I began using SourceForge the day it was announced, and I stopped using SourceForge about two years later when it became clear that they had no plans to fix many of the ridiculous bugs and annoying usability problems that have been there from day one.
* checks SourceForge again
Yep, same issues still there. SourceForge might get the job done, but it's not exactly getting the job done well, and they don't appear to have any interest in improving things.
By the way, Google isn't running ads on the Google Code pages. This isn't about ad revenue.
Um, yes they do. At least, the consumer wireless routers I've used from Linksys and Netgear do. Some of them allow you to turn that feature off, but it's almost always enabled by default.
Today, the existent manual used was developed with reStructuredText, a very nice piece of software; unfortunately, we're not able to create classes or templates for things like similar interfaces (that share the same functions), which means we need to write more code and that means more editing.
The use of "existent" in the above sentence is awkward, and the parentheses are unnecessary and confusing, but the semicolon is used properly. It would have been acceptable (and probably less confusing) to break the sentence into two sentences, but that doesn't mean the semicolon was misused.
I was just thinking the same thing. Ambergris was one of the most profitable parts of whaling back in those days, and they didn't just find it sitting on beaches or floating in the ocean; they harvested it from the whales themselves. Someone has their information wrong, and I'd be surprised if it were Melville.
Blizzard should be working overtime to fix the truckload of bugs they introduced with the 1.9 patch rather than worrying about whether WoW will run on the new Macs. Who wants to play a game that's half broken?
</dork>
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the sound of me reaching a new personal low. I need to stop playing WoW.
Before you go taking that 80% pay cut, allow me to point out that "80% pay cut" and "80% of current pay" are two very different things. You might want to choose your wording very carefully.
Here's a photo of my H120 (same form factor as the H320, unless I'm mistaken) next to a Hitachi laptop hard drive. Unfortunately, the H120 is too small (especially in width) to contain the drive. It's a shame, too, because I love my H120 so much I don't know what I'd do if the drive failed and I couldn't replace it.
Austin Powers made almost $54 million at the US box office from a $16.5 million budget. Not quite a blockbuster, but definitely a box office success. Of course, the sequels made a lot more money.
Yes. It's the "almost every" that I have an issue with, because it's a blatant exaggeration. I've also seen that phrasing used in several news articles about the report. But when I looked at the actual report, I saw plenty of tests where Windows actually beat Unix. I didn't bother counting, but I'd estimate that the two came out pretty evenly matched, with Unix maybe slightly ahead. In any case, no matter which one beat the other more times, these are very low-level tests. Nobody's going to notice these differences unless they're running a high-traffic server or doing some really heavy-duty computing.
For one thing, Windows is not slower than Unix in most of the tests. It's slower than Unix in some of the tests and faster in others. For another, these benchmark results are for low-level things like spawning processes and threads. Any programmer who knows anything about Unix and Windows will tell you that threads are cheaper in Windows and processes are cheaper in Unix, because that's how they were designed. So of course Windows is going to be slower than Unix at creating processes, and of course Unix is going to be slower than Windows at creating threads.
The only thing worth reporting about this thing is the performance of Singularity, which looks like it's shaping up to be an excellent modern kernel.
GUI != easy. If you have trouble understanding the FreeBSD installer, you're going to have trouble installing any Linux distribution, no matter how pretty and shiny the installer is. For that matter, you'll probably have trouble installing Windows.
How many times have you installed FreeBSD, anyway? It doesn't just dump a base OS onto a partition (unless that's all you want, of course). The installer will happily install any of thousands of pre-compiled packages for you if you want them. It may not have a pretty GUI, but there's nothing about FreeBSD's installer that makes it any more difficult to use than Ubuntu or Red Hat, and it's certainly easier to install than Gentoo.
In any case, I said it was easier in my opinion. If you don't share my opinion, good for you, but there's no need to be a fucking dick about it.
FreeBSD is ridiculously easy to use as Unix-like operating systems go. The installer is friendly and efficient, and generally (in my opinion) much easier and much faster than the installer for any Linux distribution I've ever used. It's entirely possible to go from a bare system to a working FreeBSD install with a generic kernel in fifteen minutes or less.
In addition, the ports system makes installing software a snap, and the online FreeBSD Handbook and FreeBSD FAQ are very well-written and kept up to date if you have any questions.
Sure I remember OS/2. Now tell me: how many Linux distributions has Dave Barry installed on his computer?
The fact that Dave Barry knew what OS/2 was, bought it, installed it, and then wrote about it means that IBM's marketing campaign was at least effective enough to reach a non-techie newspaper columnist and his readers. Hell, I was maybe 12 years old when OS/2 came out, I had never heard of Linux, I had only the vaguest idea of what Unix was, and even I ran OS/2 for a short time.
A multimillion dollar ad campaign. That's what it'll take.
Now please, for fuck's sake, let's talk about something else. Every couple of weeks there's another damn article whining about how open source is soooooooo close to succeeding as a mainstream desktop alternative and asking what's keeping it from taking that final step, and everyone always answers "consistency" or "usability" or "accessibility" or "pictures of naked ladies", but the real issue here is that Grandma doesn't know what the fuck Linux is because she doesn't see ads for it on TV.
Goodness I'm bitter today.
Works just fine for me on my Radeon X800 with the latest Omega drivers.
You can give your citizens more sleep by left-clicking in the sky and manipulating the time of day. A nifty feature, but the only way to learn about it is to click on one of the various tutorial scrolls on the second (or was it third?) island.
Splogspot provides a searchable index of splogs, as well as an RSS feed of the most recently discovered splogs. ReferrerCop provides a searchable index of referrer spam (which often consists of splogs) as well as downloadable blacklists in a variety of formats.
Um, Microsoft hasn't tried to keep MSN IM closed. They even released the specs for the protocol, if I remember correctly. Not only that, I've read accounts of Microsoft providing support to third-party developers using the protocol and even fixing bugs reported by those developers. They've certainly been a lot more open than any of the other IM bigwigs (Jabber excluded).
Hallelujah and amen to that.
It's not one long function. The rcube_webmail() function is being used as a class (or as close as you can get to a class in JavaScript). If you actually look at the source, you'll see that it consists of a bunch of properties and child functions. At a glance, it actually looks to me like this code is very well written. And I'm an ornery bastard who thinks most code is crap, so that's saying a lot.
Live site: $Id: index.html 915 2005-08-24 17:32:04Z sam $Host: 81.57.248.96
Mirrordot: $Id: index.html 861 2005-04-27 09:16:33Z sam $Host: 140.99.200.2