You obviously never wrote an AJAX app. AJAX does not increase the load on a server. In fact, using AJAX properly will normally reduce the load and save you a crap load of bandwidth. Trust me, I know. I write AJAX apps for a living and have been before the term AJAX was coined.
Technology is more than just weapons. Most humans would die within 2 weeks of being put outside a 50 mile radius of civilization even with a gun, a bow and a spear. We're becoming a physically weak species and would be no match to any animal half our size. Most people don't even know how to start a fire and would freeze to death during a regular winter in the northern part of the US. If not by an animal, they would probably kill themselves by eating a poisonous plant or dying of a benign wound because of infection.
The interesting thing to note here is that Mozilla as a closed source product and backed by a billion dollar company got destroyed by Microsoft. But as an open source project it's doing serious damage to the behemoth that destroyed it initially.
mount -o ssd option, which clusters file data writes together regardless of
the directory the files belong to. There are a number of other performance
tweaks for SSD, aimed at clustering metadata and data writes to better take
advantage of the hardware.
Mod parent up! If you have a genuine interest in technology, you will educate yourself naturally outside of the structured education system and end up with a more apropos and current knowledge.
You are correct for commodity software but very wrong for industry specific and specialized software. You would be an idiot to buy non commodity software without the source.
All the open source projects are benefiting from each other at an amazing rate with healthy competition. I'm anxious to see how well Microsoft will do in the end, all alone without the ability to use anyone else's code.
... Those managers should then trust us to know how to do the detail work required for our jobs.
How is the manager suppose to know who to trust if she doesn't know the technology? Those managerial decisions end up being made based on relationships more than business needs.
The Olympic Games are not about how far you can push the human body, they're about how far you can push the human spirit. We already know that steroids will make you perform better, that's not a mystery.
Watching a cheater win drums up very little emotion but on the other hand watching someone win cleanly is very exciting, motivating, inspiring and humbling.
Sounds like you are more interested in biological challenges than spiritual ones.
Seems like many Slashdotters are missing the point. The idea is to use the same technology that is used in the Firefox browser such as the rendering engine (Gecko), style sheets, scripting, XUL, etc. and use it for more than simply browsing the web. Let's call these parts the Mozilla platform. So now we have a web browser, Firefox, an mail client, Thunderbird and a calendar application, Sunbird. Why not an instant messenger, a media player, a bittorrent client, a document reader.
I would love to be able to set the look of my desktop by simply changing a style sheet or extend my applications by writing a little JavaScript. The Mozilla platform has become very capable over the years and could make the development of powerful network integrated desktop applications very easy. The name Firefox was used in the article because it is familiar but The Mozilla platform would have been a better choice of words.
Yes, yes, the System 36/38/AS400/iSeries is a wonderful machine. RPG is the best programming language and we don't need GUIs. The text screens work just fine. No one needs more than 16 colours and besides, green on black just looks awesome. Working with simple text files is a real joy. One thing this OS does very well is handle out of memory condition. The machine will only be down for a few hours, 1 hour to shutdown and 1 hour to boot not bad for $100,000.00 machine. The hardware is cheap too, you can buy a refurb 36 Gig SCSI drive for a mere $1635.00.
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You obviously never wrote an AJAX app. AJAX does not increase the load on a server. In fact, using AJAX properly will normally reduce the load and save you a crap load of bandwidth. Trust me, I know. I write AJAX apps for a living and have been before the term AJAX was coined.
Technology is more than just weapons. Most humans would die within 2 weeks of being put outside a 50 mile radius of civilization even with a gun, a bow and a spear. We're becoming a physically weak species and would be no match to any animal half our size. Most people don't even know how to start a fire and would freeze to death during a regular winter in the northern part of the US. If not by an animal, they would probably kill themselves by eating a poisonous plant or dying of a benign wound because of infection.
Actually, without any modern technology, we would be the hunted.
The interesting thing to note here is that Mozilla as a closed source product and backed by a billion dollar company got destroyed by Microsoft. But as an open source project it's doing serious damage to the behemoth that destroyed it initially.
mount -o ssd option, which clusters file data writes together regardless of the directory the files belong to. There are a number of other performance tweaks for SSD, aimed at clustering metadata and data writes to better take advantage of the hardware.
James, is that you?
Mod parent up! If you have a genuine interest in technology, you will educate yourself naturally outside of the structured education system and end up with a more apropos and current knowledge.
It's not killing Unix, it's uniting it. And for Windows, well, it's killing itself.
No, that's the right icon. Enlightenment was written by Carsten Haitzler who used to work for SourceForge, Inc, formerly VA.. You better have a good reason for not knowing this or I'll report you to the low UID authorities for fraud.
Now you know why we need to keep Google not evil.
1. Google invests in Tamiflu ...
972 votes now. Thank you Slashdot. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1265/
You're right! As soon as I installed silverlight, bam, I got the bsod.
I think that you just put your foot in your mouth.
You are correct for commodity software but very wrong for industry specific and specialized software. You would be an idiot to buy non commodity software without the source.
All the open source projects are benefiting from each other at an amazing rate with healthy competition. I'm anxious to see how well Microsoft will do in the end, all alone without the ability to use anyone else's code.
... Those managers should then trust us to know how to do the detail work required for our jobs.
How is the manager suppose to know who to trust if she doesn't know the technology? Those managerial decisions end up being made based on relationships more than business needs.
The Olympic Games are not about how far you can push the human body, they're about how far you can push the human spirit. We already know that steroids will make you perform better, that's not a mystery.
Watching a cheater win drums up very little emotion but on the other hand watching someone win cleanly is very exciting, motivating, inspiring and humbling.
Sounds like you are more interested in biological challenges than spiritual ones.
Sad, but true. The problem with management is they can't tell the difference.
I guess you can't read. I said when Apple makes the commercial.
Totally different. No man made parts were attached to his body to compensate for the missing arm. I would let Pistorius run without his prosthetics.
Seems like many Slashdotters are missing the point. The idea is to use the same technology that is used in the Firefox browser such as the rendering engine (Gecko), style sheets, scripting, XUL, etc. and use it for more than simply browsing the web. Let's call these parts the Mozilla platform. So now we have a web browser, Firefox, an mail client, Thunderbird and a calendar application, Sunbird. Why not an instant messenger, a media player, a bittorrent client, a document reader.
I would love to be able to set the look of my desktop by simply changing a style sheet or extend my applications by writing a little JavaScript. The Mozilla platform has become very capable over the years and could make the development of powerful network integrated desktop applications very easy. The name Firefox was used in the article because it is familiar but The Mozilla platform would have been a better choice of words.
Yes, yes, the System 36/38/AS400/iSeries is a wonderful machine. RPG is the best programming language and we don't need GUIs. The text screens work just fine. No one needs more than 16 colours and besides, green on black just looks awesome. Working with simple text files is a real joy. One thing this OS does very well is handle out of memory condition. The machine will only be down for a few hours, 1 hour to shutdown and 1 hour to boot not bad for $100,000.00 machine. The hardware is cheap too, you can buy a refurb 36 Gig SCSI drive for a mere $1635.00.
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Mathematica is a much better hammer for that type of nail.