What, exaclty, is "current" about revision control? Been around for years. And per the original post, is concurrent, non-blocking code new? It's as if young devs think this stuff came along with Git and node.js. I'm an older programmer, and I'm always willing to adopt new coding practices and learn from my younger peers, provided they're not ego-maniacal douchebags who think they've invented the wheel, which they can be sometimes. Just sayin'...
It may be symbolically important to re-establish a building as tall as the original twin towers, but I can tell you as a New Yorker, no one's going to want to work there. There is still too much fear. Does this mean that the terrorist "win"? Ask Osama Bin Laden.
Normally I'd hate on Apple for this, but when people start feeling the full brunt of the telecoms' limited data plans and ever-increasing feature lockdown of their phones, it's not going to matter whether an embedded phone number is one tap or two taps away.
For most folks in the U.S., you have to sign up for a free account invite. What is the schedule, quota, criteria for doling out those free invites, does anybody know? Their site says, "We'll send you [an invite] as soon as we can". Hmmmmm. When is that? Meanwhile, you give them an email address that they can use to promote their paid service to you or sell to 3rd parties. Easy for/.-ers to work around, but for the vast majority of consumers Spotify gets a free mailing list of interested music fans. Also agree with the posters who don't trust the cloud or rental model, mainly because of record company shenanigans. Vinyl still rules.
What else is Adobe gonna say? Of course they're worried. You've got a market maker in the iPad as dumb as it is inevitable, so you've got iPad developers going gaga, coding to an unfinished HTML5 spec . If the next big thing is the iPad, then the net big thing in development is to dump Flash, ready or not. Pathetic.
I think it's a generational thing. Older folks, like, oh, say, Rupert Murdoch, believe that a newspaper is a newspaper, no matter what its format, and you should pony up for it. Serious investigative journalism costs real money, they say. Fair enough. But of course, Murdoch goes too far, in pricing content too high and with this nonsense of trying shake down search engines for even linking to content.
Middle-age folks like me, who grew up w/o the internet but are still young enough to fully embrace it, might be willing to pay, but as yog said, watch that price. We know that distribution costs on the web are close to nothing, so don't price your content as if it costs the same as print. I don't know what that price is, but you better keep it down and offer a la carte pricing too.
The younger generation, the people who grew up with the internet, well, most of them figure you're a chump if you pay for *any* internet content, so who knows how you get them to suddenly value it. But media companies only have themselves to blame for not creating pay models years ago that could have steered cultural attitudes about the dollar worth of journalism on the web.
Now that we've had a good laugh at SCO's expense (and IBM's, with their legal fees, and all the poor schmoes who coughed up licensing fees), can someone please pry Caldera from their cold, dead hands? I used to love that distro.
I agree whole-heartedly. I've been using PHP stand-alone in lieu of shell scripting for quite some time now, for administrative tasks like cron jobs, ssh agent management, etc. It's just too damn simple and convenient. Why not include it in the rankings?
I wonder about this myself. I have an HP Pavillion Laptop that runs really hot. It runs really well considering what a piece of crap it is, but it's several years old and I live in constant anxiety that the machine's just going to up and die at any moment from the thermal pounding. Does heat have the same impact on laptop life as it does on destop mobos?
Amen! There outta be a law against abusing Flash - aimed at all these smarty-pants graphic designers who polute the web without any consideration given to open standards, sensible interface design, or bandwidth limitations, and who pull the wool over their client's eyes by having them review their site under tightly controlled conditions (like a high-performance computer and a T3 connection) and don't realize that their site becomes a really boring, tedious eyesore after just a few viewings.
[The merger proceeding] would mean the entire US would have but one satellite provider, which would be a total monopoly in those areas not served by cable.
This is true, but you have to consider an even greater evil: not having the size to compete w/ cable in those markets where both satellite and cable are available. Those markets are much bigger. This is why Murdoch mobilized.
When I grow up, I want to be the legislator of scientific laws.
Just as I get cywin and various LAMP ports to Win32 purring like a kitten, my boss say I can switch to a Ximian desktop any time I want. Oh, freedom's torment!
OK, I stand corrected: Law makers need sponsorship from a corporation, religious conservatives, the gun lobby, or Jane Fonda before taking any legislative initiatives.;)
What's the big deal about N.Y. Times Registration? Jeez, if it means so much to you, fill out some fake demographic information (oh, boy, that'll fix 'em) and get on your life!
Also, you don't need that much in the way of enforcement. Content companies need only to make an example out of a few people to scare the general public.
I'm just waiting out this XP /.NET silliness until it blows over. My new, heavily discounted Duron laptop has ME and all the ports of my favorite gnu tools purr like a kitten. Meanwhile, I'm putting my desktop OEM's Win98 system disk in a safety deposit box and leaving it in my will to my first born. This buys me time to figure out how the hell to make Linux work w/ my Westell DSL modem while preparing for the Armageddon. Now you'll excuse me, I have to stock up on some canned goods...
The author has remained anonymous! No DMCA prosecutions here, assuming she has covered her tracks properly.
The author is wisely remaining anonymous, because one lone act of civil disobedience may be influential, but easy to control. This begs the bigger question: what if there was organized disobedience on this issue? What if many of us applied this DRM2 crack by legally purchasing music online in.wma format, making a personal copy on our hard drives to assert fair usage rights, and sent this information along with our real identities to the RIAA or elected officials? The cause ain't exactly for world peace, but if we're really pissed off about this, then I for one would be willing to take a risk.
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What, exaclty, is "current" about revision control? Been around for years. And per the original post, is concurrent, non-blocking code new? It's as if young devs think this stuff came along with Git and node.js. I'm an older programmer, and I'm always willing to adopt new coding practices and learn from my younger peers, provided they're not ego-maniacal douchebags who think they've invented the wheel, which they can be sometimes. Just sayin'...
It may be symbolically important to re-establish a building as tall as the original twin towers, but I can tell you as a New Yorker, no one's going to want to work there. There is still too much fear.
Does this mean that the terrorist "win"? Ask Osama Bin Laden.
Normally I'd hate on Apple for this, but when people start feeling the full brunt of the telecoms' limited data plans and ever-increasing feature lockdown of their phones, it's not going to matter whether an embedded phone number is one tap or two taps away.
For most folks in the U.S., you have to sign up for a free account invite. What is the schedule, quota, criteria for doling out those free invites, does anybody know? Their site says, "We'll send you [an invite] as soon as we can". Hmmmmm. When is that? Meanwhile, you give them an email address that they can use to promote their paid service to you or sell to 3rd parties. Easy for /.-ers to work around, but for the vast majority of consumers Spotify gets a free mailing list of interested music fans.
Also agree with the posters who don't trust the cloud or rental model, mainly because of record company shenanigans. Vinyl still rules.
What else is Adobe gonna say? Of course they're worried. You've got a market maker in the iPad as dumb as it is inevitable, so you've got iPad developers going gaga, coding to an unfinished HTML5 spec . If the next big thing is the iPad, then the net big thing in development is to dump Flash, ready or not.
Pathetic.
I think it's a generational thing. Older folks, like, oh, say, Rupert Murdoch, believe that a newspaper is a newspaper, no matter what its format, and you should pony up for it. Serious investigative journalism costs real money, they say. Fair enough. But of course, Murdoch goes too far, in pricing content too high and with this nonsense of trying shake down search engines for even linking to content.
Middle-age folks like me, who grew up w/o the internet but are still young enough to fully embrace it, might be willing to pay, but as yog said, watch that price. We know that distribution costs on the web are close to nothing, so don't price your content as if it costs the same as print. I don't know what that price is, but you better keep it down and offer a la carte pricing too.
The younger generation, the people who grew up with the internet, well, most of them figure you're a chump if you pay for *any* internet content, so who knows how you get them to suddenly value it. But media companies only have themselves to blame for not creating pay models years ago that could have steered cultural attitudes about the dollar worth of journalism on the web.
Or as Nelson might say, "Ha Ha!"
Now that we've had a good laugh at SCO's expense (and IBM's, with their legal fees, and all the poor schmoes who coughed up licensing fees), can someone please pry Caldera from their cold, dead hands? I used to love that distro.
I agree whole-heartedly. I've been using PHP stand-alone in lieu of shell scripting for quite some time now, for administrative tasks like cron jobs, ssh agent management, etc. It's just too damn simple and convenient. Why not include it in the rankings?
I wonder about this myself. I have an HP Pavillion Laptop that runs really hot. It runs really well considering what a piece of crap it is, but it's several years old and I live in constant anxiety that the machine's just going to up and die at any moment from the thermal pounding. Does heat have the same impact on laptop life as it does on destop mobos?
Sun Microsystems is more akin to a black hole these days.
Amen! There outta be a law against abusing Flash - aimed at all these smarty-pants graphic designers who polute the web without any consideration given to open standards, sensible interface design, or bandwidth limitations, and who pull the wool over their client's eyes by having them review their site under tightly controlled conditions (like a high-performance computer and a T3 connection) and don't realize that their site becomes a really boring, tedious eyesore after just a few viewings.
The sentence: make them use Lynx!
Since when is repeating the original post funny?
Agreed. It's no laughing matter. The CIA has known all along that the moon is made of cheese.
This is true, but you have to consider an even greater evil: not having the size to compete w/ cable in those markets where both satellite and cable are available. Those markets are much bigger. This is why Murdoch mobilized.
When I grow up, I want to be the legislator of scientific laws.
Just as I get cywin and various LAMP ports to Win32 purring like a kitten, my boss say I can switch to a Ximian desktop any time I want. Oh, freedom's torment!
OK, I stand corrected: Law makers need sponsorship from a corporation, religious conservatives, the gun lobby, or Jane Fonda before taking any legislative initiatives. ;)
Law makers need a corporate sponsor before taking any kind of action.
What's the big deal about N.Y. Times Registration? Jeez, if it means so much to you, fill out some fake demographic information (oh, boy, that'll fix 'em) and get on your life!
Also, you don't need that much in the way of enforcement. Content companies need only to make an example out of a few people to scare the general public.
I'm just waiting out this XP / .NET silliness until it blows over. My new, heavily discounted Duron laptop has ME and all the ports of my favorite gnu tools purr like a kitten. Meanwhile, I'm putting my desktop OEM's Win98 system disk in a safety deposit box and leaving it in my will to my first born. This buys me time to figure out how the hell to make Linux work w/ my Westell DSL modem while preparing for the Armageddon. Now you'll excuse me, I have to stock up on some canned goods...
The author has remained anonymous! No DMCA prosecutions here, assuming she has covered her tracks properly.
.wma format, making a personal copy on our hard drives to assert fair usage rights, and sent this information along with our real identities to the RIAA or elected officials? The cause ain't exactly for world peace, but if we're really pissed off about this, then I for one would be willing to take a risk.
The author is wisely remaining anonymous, because one lone act of civil disobedience may be influential, but easy to control. This begs the bigger question: what if there was organized disobedience on this issue? What if many of us applied this DRM2 crack by legally purchasing music online in