This kind of feeling / comment can't be encouraging for people who want to make the switch from MS. As it mentions in the article (and a comment above), he had two 'nice, not pushy' guys to help with his install - people who would probably help him with a problem like this rather than sit back and laugh.
Seems with all the different browsers interpreting standards in, er, different ways, we could do with some kind of higher level descriptive language - or possibly an extensible meta language ?
I know this is flippant (and worth down-modding) but I can't really see the point of continuing development of various different methods of describing content; either choose to use something like XML or come up with something better (and have it accepted and backed).
Of course the argument here is that even if every browser were to support XML/a.n.other rendering, each one would still do a variation on a theme. I don't care; at least they'd only have to render from one source description.
Bah. Not gonna happen; not for a while. Had to post about this - it kind of (for me anyway) echoes the open/closed source standards battles.
I've done this together with 4 members of a department that formed a reasonable part of the company's income. While it did cause some problems for them, it brought home to all of us after a time that the statement "no-one is indispenable" is really true (it took them several months of lost revenue to start recovering); many people do this to try and get a pay rise or better conditions etc.;considering the job market at the moment, it's much more worth while to talk to someone first (if you can). Having said all this, we couldn't have chosen better (we've in fact all gone to work for the same company) - more pay, better conditions, better work etc.
Following on from the above 'I don't normally do this...' karma thread....(and sorry for the redundant comment)
I wouldn't normally do this but OpenBSD really does rock; it's cool (but not surprising) that this has come from the hackathon news. I'm quite sure there'll be lots more interesting stuff to come from the most recent and future ones (with or without funding:)
That's what I thought, then I looked at the patch cabinets...this software'll have to get much better before it can sort out a cable that plugs into 3 different ports:S
This depends on your point of view. Just about everyone of the next generation above me (who i've spoken about it with) consider C&C, Quake, Unreal to be excessively violent; I don't. I've watched kids play similar, more graphic games without any concern (which I find a bit much).
Maybe there's no correlation between this and the acceptance of war or its usefulness to resolve issues (it's certainly final), but perhaps it shows that there's being an effort made to change this point of view.
I'm another York resident; I saw this covered on local news, apparently she said "If it's a meteorite, I'll sell it for as much as I can, and if it's not, I'll just stick it with my other interesting things on my shelf" - maybe she has a collection of other nearly-meteorites ? Or maybe it's just someone throwing strange brown rocks at her...
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This kind of feeling / comment can't be encouraging for people who want to make the switch from MS. As it mentions in the article (and a comment above), he had two 'nice, not pushy' guys to help with his install - people who would probably help him with a problem like this rather than sit back and laugh.
Seems with all the different browsers interpreting standards in, er, different ways, we could do with some kind of higher level descriptive language - or possibly an extensible meta language ?
I know this is flippant (and worth down-modding) but I can't really see the point of continuing development of various different methods of describing content; either choose to use something like XML or come up with something better (and have it accepted and backed).
Of course the argument here is that even if every browser were to support XML/a.n.other rendering, each one would still do a variation on a theme. I don't care; at least they'd only have to render from one source description.
Bah. Not gonna happen; not for a while. Had to post about this - it kind of (for me anyway) echoes the open/closed source standards battles.
I've done this together with 4 members of a department that formed a reasonable part of the company's income. While it did cause some problems for them, it brought home to all of us after a time that the statement "no-one is indispenable" is really true (it took them several months of lost revenue to start recovering); many people do this to try and get a pay rise or better conditions etc.;considering the job market at the moment, it's much more worth while to talk to someone first (if you can). Having said all this, we couldn't have chosen better (we've in fact all gone to work for the same company) - more pay, better conditions, better work etc.
Following on from the above 'I don't normally do this...' karma thread....(and sorry for the redundant comment)
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I wouldn't normally do this but OpenBSD really does rock; it's cool (but not surprising) that this has come from the hackathon news. I'm quite sure there'll be lots more interesting stuff to come from the most recent and future ones (with or without funding
No dad, it's May 7th.
Maybe this could also be put to work as beer-goggles for the terminally teetotal.
That's what I thought, then I looked at the patch cabinets...this software'll have to get much better before it can sort out a cable that plugs into 3 different ports :S
This depends on your point of view. Just about everyone of the next generation above me (who i've spoken about it with) consider C&C, Quake, Unreal to be excessively violent; I don't. I've watched kids play similar, more graphic games without any concern (which I find a bit much).
Maybe there's no correlation between this and the acceptance of war or its usefulness to resolve issues (it's certainly final), but perhaps it shows that there's being an effort made to change this point of view.
I'm another York resident; I saw this covered on local news, apparently she said "If it's a meteorite, I'll sell it for as much as I can, and if it's not, I'll just stick it with my other interesting things on my shelf" - maybe she has a collection of other nearly-meteorites ? Or maybe it's just someone throwing strange brown rocks at her...