Try reading my post on a bigger screen, obviously you have difficulties telling "plane" from "truck".
> Oh that's right, this is Slashdot where if a > single solution doesn't solve every problem it > doesn't solve any problems.
Maybe. But on the other hand, we're talking about the US, so if a solution would have solved last yesterday's problem, it surely will solve tomorrow's problem as well. Honestly, do you really believe that OBL would use the same trick twice for a large scale attack?
And just for your information: There IS a solution that would solve every problem. Just invest the money that's wasted on stupid security to actually help the people instead of just "liberating" (AKA: drop bombs on their homes) a country.
> Only enough missles to target a small number of > large cities on the US west coast.
So? It doesn't really matter if a nation can destroy earth a bazillion times or just once, so the 10000something missiles the US have don't really matter, too.
Imagine Washington, New York and LA being hit by nuclear missiles. True, most of US territory would remain unaffected, but the effect would still be devastating.
I've read about this before and I'm not sure if this is a good idea at all. Maybe you get a can of lukewarm coffe, but did they think about what one should do with the empty can?
I bet there are a dozen toxic ingredients in their secret recipe, so this is not the basic easy-to-recycle cola can.
> was "exceedingly erratic," so the recreators
> have made some slight concessions to safety.
Are there any real men out there? I mean, what's that stuff with "slight concessions to safety"?
If those guys had the guts, they'd fly the darned thing with nothing but their pyjamas on and for the real daring, there's always the option to use Win XP as a flight controller (which should just get them that "exceedingly erratic" behaviour)!
C. M. Burns
No surprise...
on
Browsing Alone
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· Score: 4, Interesting
As Katz stated, many places on the net
> turned to exclusive p2p "me media," the
> fragmented, often self-censored, personalized
> and specialized weblogs
[...]
That's my main concern. You see censorship almost everywhere popping up like mushrooms, be it Napster-like services blocking content or Slashdot bitchslapping whole threads because they "are not what we like our users to see" (this was practiced in the infamous "troll survey" thread).
Is there anything we can do against this? Maybe. A few years ago there was a company that provided a "second opinion" service for websites. Users were able to comment on certain pages and could also see the comments from other users visiting the site. No support from the commented sites was required, since the whole process was handled by a plugin.
This seemed like a rather useless idea back then, but come to think about it, I must admit I've changed my opinion.
I think that KDE definitely deserves the awards, but OTOH I hope that this doesn't lead to a "we'll add even more cool features" mindset among the developers.
KDE is nowhere near Mozilla's release problems, but I fear that they could fall in the feature-pit, just as Mozilla.
Guys, add features thar are USEFUL TO MOST USERS, anything beyond that should be packaged as an add-on.
Together is a great tool, but it's not really designed to do the job of a "real" IDE.
It's very good during analysis and design. Later on, try to use something more dedicated to the programming process. Together will update it's diagrams automagically by detecting changes in source files.
> But, since I am not a Java developer, I surely
> didn't push it to its limits.
It worked quite OK for smaller applications, but it surely didn't perform well (or even acceptable) in a production environment.
> What platform did you install it on? What kind
> of HW did you have in that machine?
Installed it on Win2000, the HW was up to the task. Maybe I should add, that this wasn't some bent and twisted geek box. It was solely used for development and I'm not the "install everything in sight" type. JBuilder was simply crap back then.
> Did you address this on the JBuilder support
> group? Any responses to your inquiry?
Sure. As I've said before, they told us that they knew there where problems (especially with the debugger). The support people told us: "We've fixed that in v.4". No support would have been better than that.
Does this really matter to the average Linux user in daily life? I've been using Linux for several years now and never stumbled upon some obscure VM (besides Java VMs, but that's another story). It just used to work, and it worked good.
So what's this all about? How does the average user profit from this change? Maybe Linus was right when he stated that the really important/interesting work is now done on the desktop frontier and no longer under the kernel's hood.
Sorry for replying to my own post, but I would really like to know who moderated this as flamebait while "Visual Studio is evil" is considered insightful...
Face it: Pascal is dead, even when it comes wrapped in a nice Linux IDE. OTOH I guess the average slashdotter really needs some kind of "klick here to create kewl button" interface.
One thing Borland really mastered is to sell inferior products at insane prices.
Just take a look at JBuilder: In v.3.x the debugger was next to unusable, and they knew there was a problem. Once we met some of Borland's consultants and they basically stated "yes we know that version was crap, but the problems will go away if you buy v.4". Well it turned out that all of my Borland griefs were solved by a simple uninstall followed by an installation of Forte.
To sum it up: I don't really believe Borland is able to put out stable, useful versions of their products. Furthermore, Kylix is a Pascal rehash, and (for my tastes) lightyears behind modern technology.
So we have something in common, I guess? Besides, this is Slashdot, being a jerk is mandatory!
Regarding the "diskless" client: One of the first things they recommend is creating a bootdisk... hmmmm... next they go on modifying boot ROMs, which I don't think is really great either.
> Tell you what - I'll set up a computer mounting
>/usr/lib over the network (or off a CD-R, or a
> ROM device), and you try to mount C:\Windows\
> (or was it C:\Windows\System?) the same way, and
> we'll compare notes on what doesn't break and
> what does.
Well, first I have to notice that it's absolutely amazing how every time a valid argument is brought up against Linux, some jerk comes up with a completely useless example of Linux supremacy. In this case it was not even an anti Linux posting. micromoog merely stated that the hierarchy used by Linux is as bewildering to the unsuspecting as the one used by Windows.
If you're talking about C:\Windows, you should also set up a Linux box and mount / over a network.
I'm sure some brown-nosed Linux zealot will mod this down as troll, but hey, that's what metamods are for, right?
Nothing, actually. Just keep your back to the wall, don't bent over to pick up the soap and force yourself to comment about women when you're out with your workmates. You don't see them as just mates without work, do you?
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> As to volunteers, I would (but I am too old; 45).
Well, it's always easy to say "i would do it" when you immediately give a reason for why you can't (unfortunately, but you really, *really* would).
> I am sure that there are others with the same
> willingness to go conqueror a frontier.
Right! Just like the Japanese guys who wanted to conquer Pearl Harbor.
C.M.Burns
> Try reading those roadsigns from a plane....
Try reading my post on a bigger screen, obviously you have difficulties telling "plane" from "truck".
> Oh that's right, this is Slashdot where if a
> single solution doesn't solve every problem it
> doesn't solve any problems.
Maybe. But on the other hand, we're talking about the US, so if a solution would have solved last yesterday's problem, it surely will solve tomorrow's problem as well. Honestly, do you really believe that OBL would use the same trick twice for a large scale attack?
And just for your information: There IS a solution that would solve every problem. Just invest the money that's wasted on stupid security to actually help the people instead of just "liberating" (AKA: drop bombs on their homes) a country.
C.M.Burns
... that a truck full of fertilizer and diesel fuel doesn't really need a GPS signal to find the nearest US embassy/bank/power plant?
One could just follow the road and, say, go by signs and a map.
C.M.Burns
> Only enough missles to target a small number of
> large cities on the US west coast.
So? It doesn't really matter if a nation can destroy earth a bazillion times or just once, so the 10000something missiles the US have don't really matter, too.
Imagine Washington, New York and LA being hit by nuclear missiles. True, most of US territory would remain unaffected, but the effect would still be devastating.
C.M.Burns
How about that: Use the european code and just call it "freedom code". Great, eh?
Hi,
I've read about this before and I'm not sure if this is a good idea at all. Maybe you get a can of lukewarm coffe, but did they think about what one should do with the empty can?
I bet there are a dozen toxic ingredients in their secret recipe, so this is not the basic easy-to-recycle cola can.
C. M. Burns
Well, Mr. Troll, so maybe you have nothing against german institutions spying on you, eh?
C. M. Burns
> was "exceedingly erratic," so the recreators
> have made some slight concessions to safety.
Are there any real men out there? I mean, what's that stuff with "slight concessions to safety"?
If those guys had the guts, they'd fly the darned thing with nothing but their pyjamas on and for the real daring, there's always the option to use Win XP as a flight controller (which should just get them that "exceedingly erratic" behaviour)!
C. M. Burns
As Katz stated, many places on the net
> turned to exclusive p2p "me media," the
> fragmented, often self-censored, personalized
> and specialized weblogs
[...]
That's my main concern. You see censorship almost everywhere popping up like mushrooms, be it Napster-like services blocking content or Slashdot bitchslapping whole threads because they "are not what we like our users to see" (this was practiced in the infamous "troll survey" thread).
Is there anything we can do against this? Maybe. A few years ago there was a company that provided a "second opinion" service for websites. Users were able to comment on certain pages and could also see the comments from other users visiting the site. No support from the commented sites was required, since the whole process was handled by a plugin.
This seemed like a rather useless idea back then, but come to think about it, I must admit I've changed my opinion.
C. M. Burns
Didn't the firewall functionality change in 2.4? I guess that better security would be enough to switch to a newer release...
C. M. Burns
Well, I doubt that. After all, doesen't the line "The 1st eZine built with ASP.NET" suggest a little bias towards Microsoft?
C. M. Burns
I think that KDE definitely deserves the awards, but OTOH I hope that this doesn't lead to a "we'll add even more cool features" mindset among the developers.
KDE is nowhere near Mozilla's release problems, but I fear that they could fall in the feature-pit, just as Mozilla.
Guys, add features thar are USEFUL TO MOST USERS, anything beyond that should be packaged as an add-on.
Resist the featuritis temptation, use the force!
Together is a great tool, but it's not really designed to do the job of a "real" IDE.
It's very good during analysis and design. Later on, try to use something more dedicated to the programming process. Together will update it's diagrams automagically by detecting changes in source files.
That said, I recommend Together and Forte.
> But, since I am not a Java developer, I surely
> didn't push it to its limits.
It worked quite OK for smaller applications, but it surely didn't perform well (or even acceptable) in a production environment.
> What platform did you install it on? What kind
> of HW did you have in that machine?
Installed it on Win2000, the HW was up to the task. Maybe I should add, that this wasn't some bent and twisted geek box. It was solely used for development and I'm not the "install everything in sight" type. JBuilder was simply crap back then.
> Did you address this on the JBuilder support
> group? Any responses to your inquiry?
Sure. As I've said before, they told us that they knew there where problems (especially with the debugger). The support people told us: "We've fixed that in v.4". No support would have been better than that.
> But, I am aware that one of the biggest problems
> facing the JBuilder team was the diversity of
> Java VMs (i.e. some worked and some don't).
So you are also aware of the fact that it didn't even work with the VM that came with JBuilder?
Does this really matter to the average Linux user in daily life? I've been using Linux for several years now and never stumbled upon some obscure VM (besides Java VMs, but that's another story). It just used to work, and it worked good.
So what's this all about? How does the average user profit from this change? Maybe Linus was right when he stated that the really important/interesting work is now done on the desktop frontier and no longer under the kernel's hood.
Any suggestions?
This is "4, Interesting"? Obviously slashdot moderators are even dumber than the name suggests...
Hint: Mod this up to "5, Insightful". Morons.
Sorry for replying to my own post, but I would really like to know who moderated this as flamebait while "Visual Studio is evil" is considered insightful...
Face it: Pascal is dead, even when it comes wrapped in a nice Linux IDE. OTOH I guess the average slashdotter really needs some kind of "klick here to create kewl button" interface.
... is America's foundation.
One thing Borland really mastered is to sell inferior products at insane prices.
Just take a look at JBuilder: In v.3.x the debugger was next to unusable, and they knew there was a problem. Once we met some of Borland's consultants and they basically stated "yes we know that version was crap, but the problems will go away if you buy v.4". Well it turned out that all of my Borland griefs were solved by a simple uninstall followed by an installation of Forte.
To sum it up: I don't really believe Borland is able to put out stable, useful versions of their products. Furthermore, Kylix is a Pascal rehash, and (for my tastes) lightyears behind modern technology.
Hoogla Boogla
> You are being a unnecessarily insulting jerk.
So we have something in common, I guess? Besides, this is Slashdot, being a jerk is mandatory!
Regarding the "diskless" client: One of the first things they recommend is creating a bootdisk... hmmmm... next they go on modifying boot ROMs, which I don't think is really great either.
> Tell you what - I'll set up a computer mounting /usr/lib over the network (or off a CD-R, or a
>
> ROM device), and you try to mount C:\Windows\
> (or was it C:\Windows\System?) the same way, and
> we'll compare notes on what doesn't break and
> what does.
Well, first I have to notice that it's absolutely amazing how every time a valid argument is brought up against Linux, some jerk comes up with a completely useless example of Linux supremacy. In this case it was not even an anti Linux posting. micromoog merely stated that the hierarchy used by Linux is as bewildering to the unsuspecting as the one used by Windows.
If you're talking about C:\Windows, you should also set up a Linux box and mount / over a network.
I'm sure some brown-nosed Linux zealot will mod this down as troll, but hey, that's what metamods are for, right?
Hoogla Boogla
Nothing, actually. Just keep your back to the wall, don't bent over to pick up the soap and force yourself to comment about women when you're out with your workmates. You don't see them as just mates without work, do you?
C. M. Burns
... for a bazillion books emerging in the next fews weeks, basically all permutations of the words "The 1000 Best Tips On Using Windows XP".
I suspect the world would be a better place if they were just called "Hands Off!".
C. M. Burns
I know the average slashdot reader likes to sound important by bringing up some obscure "licensing issues", but with MP3 there are none.
Use LAME, it's entirely free, so no problem at all.