although, admittedly, I'm a bit dispassionate after Ridley Scott deviated from the original novel by marking Deckard definitively as a replicant.. I'm always interested in seeing what the director considers a truer version of their intention..
A great example of a movie salvaged from profit-driven editing is brazil, by Terry Gilliam. Wikipedia has a great article detailing the rather drastic differences between the released versions.
while i do truly support open source projects wherever i can, i have to ask.. how is ubuntu the most cost-effective competitor of microsoft (amongst the various OS vendors and distributions, i assume)?
as one of many various linux distributions, that might, granted, appeal to a broader mass-market audience, is ubuntu more cost-effective for enterprise level businesses requiring relevant support than RHEL? more cost-effective than gentoo for businesses requiring package level customization and management?
while i'm not knocking ubuntu, i'm tired of seeing the level of media (granted, it's geek media) devoted to it, especially when it seems to cater to users (and from what i've gleaned, no insult intended, more intro-to-novice-to-mild-intermediate-level users) not businesses, or administrators.
each distro is graceful is it's own right, and it's own market. don't presume (or is it assume?) one flavor of hammer fits every nail.
join the linux community [no link provided, but i hope linux.org is an appropriate place to point newbies?]
cheers.. and sorry to be so parenthetical..
ps. if the grammar is awry, blame the damn vodka-tonic, not my education or accessibility to a reference manual. piss off.
i didn't infer that the parent was exclusively referring to tobacco.
there are other things to smoke.. such as cannabis, perhaps? (yes, there might be other long-term health risks, but apparently cancer isn't one one of them)
While AJAX is limited to acquiring data from within the same basedomain, it's trivial to use something on a local server like cURL wrapped with PHP/Perl to get & parse remote content. You can then do sanity & security checks on the acquired content before passing it along to your AJAX application.
(Silly, but it reminds me of my first few Perl scripts, and how I would get around "taint" checking by passing all input through a 's/(.)/$1/' regular expression)
I almost never post comments here (and thus will probably never be seen), but I had to say something..
While I might agree with some of the philosophical ideologies common on slashdot, I do get tired of the seeming group think sometimes.
regardless, your comment seems ill thought out..
If Microsoft contributed money, time, resources and influence to promote closed source software through American Universities, all it would add up to is a sponsored marketing effort, no different than coca-cola or pepsi sponsoring a high school to get their vending machines exclusively represented on campus.
Google dumping money into open source projects (while it obviously provides them with some good PR) directly benefits everyone. *Everyone*.. or at least, everyone that's not supported by closed-source companies.
actually, "gestapo" looks to be an acurate description of the FBI tactics used for this event.
Main Entry: gestapo
Pronunciation: g&-'stä-(")pO
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -pos
Etymology: German, from Geheime Staatspolizei, literally, secret state police
: a secret-police organization employing underhanded and terrorist methods against persons suspected of disloyalty
1) the warrants are sealed (secret)
2) "underhanded" might be arguably pejorative, but to me, armed police officers storming a school campus mid-day for a non-violent civil offense looks pretty underhanded.
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I'm withholding judgement until release..
although, admittedly, I'm a bit dispassionate after Ridley Scott deviated from the original novel by marking Deckard definitively as a replicant.. I'm always interested in seeing what the director considers a truer version of their intention..
A great example of a movie salvaged from profit-driven editing is brazil, by Terry Gilliam. Wikipedia has a great article detailing the rather drastic differences between the released versions.
while i do truly support open source projects wherever i can, i have to ask.. how is ubuntu the most cost-effective competitor of microsoft (amongst the various OS vendors and distributions, i assume)?
as one of many various linux distributions, that might, granted, appeal to a broader mass-market audience, is ubuntu more cost-effective for enterprise level businesses requiring relevant support than RHEL? more cost-effective than gentoo for businesses requiring package level customization and management?
while i'm not knocking ubuntu, i'm tired of seeing the level of media (granted, it's geek media) devoted to it, especially when it seems to cater to users (and from what i've gleaned, no insult intended, more intro-to-novice-to-mild-intermediate-level users) not businesses, or administrators.
each distro is graceful is it's own right, and it's own market. don't presume (or is it assume?) one flavor of hammer fits every nail.
join the linux community [no link provided, but i hope linux.org is an appropriate place to point newbies?]
cheers.. and sorry to be so parenthetical..
ps. if the grammar is awry, blame the damn vodka-tonic, not my education or accessibility to a reference manual. piss off.
So I'm guessing either you're dismissing or have not read the Similarion?
i didn't infer that the parent was exclusively referring to tobacco.
there are other things to smoke.. such as cannabis, perhaps? (yes, there might be other long-term health risks, but apparently cancer isn't one one of them)
While AJAX is limited to acquiring data from within the same basedomain, it's trivial to use something on a local server like cURL wrapped with PHP/Perl to get & parse remote content. You can then do sanity & security checks on the acquired content before passing it along to your AJAX application.
(Silly, but it reminds me of my first few Perl scripts, and how I would get around "taint" checking by passing all input through a 's/(.)/$1/' regular expression)
shouldn't that be "mole-people underlords"?
I almost never post comments here (and thus will probably never be seen), but I had to say something..
While I might agree with some of the philosophical ideologies common on slashdot, I do get tired of the seeming group think sometimes.
regardless, your comment seems ill thought out..
If Microsoft contributed money, time, resources and influence to promote closed source software through American Universities, all it would add up to is a sponsored marketing effort, no different than coca-cola or pepsi sponsoring a high school to get their vending machines exclusively represented on campus.
Google dumping money into open source projects (while it obviously provides them with some good PR) directly benefits everyone. *Everyone*.. or at least, everyone that's not supported by closed-source companies.
cheers..
I read the summary the same way at first, and was puzzled.
a beer or two later, and it made sense:
bad news [for them] all around, lately.
Didn't the united states declare war only after attacked by japan at Pearl Harbor?
2) "underhanded" might be arguably pejorative, but to me, armed police officers storming a school campus mid-day for a non-violent civil offense looks pretty underhanded.
anyone else need a beer?