is climate change, maybe/. editors can raise the awareness in their geek crowd through the backdoor of oh-wow computing gear and similar gimmicks like this.
As a developer I do have that many tabs on the taskbar, usually 3 rows. You can extend the taskbar to as many rows as you like in case you haven't noticed. Even on a 17 or 19 inch screen you will find enough space for that. (Btw, not that it matters much, but as a serious developer I also have a suitable monitor (22 inch), people with screens in the 17 inch area are not serious computer users/developers and don't have as many windows open.)
Does anyone get the issue with tabbed browsing? IE has always had tabbed browsing, just like all other windows apps, except the tabs are down there in the task bar and not 'inside' the app. The inside tabs are reminiscent of the old MDI apps like Word 6.0 that I was so glad to get away from. The taskbar integrating all apps' windows is much better.
Only those UNIX people apparently don't have that, so they get all excited about tabbed browsing.
Just saw something metioned on the Spiegel Online web site that the mothership, Mars Express, actually has a stereo camera that should be able to pick it up as soon as it's in proper orbit.
I'm curious as to what the resolution of all those cameras currently orbiting Mars is. Since the CIA can read my license plate from space by now, they must be able to spot a 1m object?
little green men, but have you ever thought that these things could just fail because the project teams on the grounds are just full of jerks?
I have worked in some fields of science and the tech industry, too, it's like Dilbert in many ways, and I don't see why jerks like that shouldn't build our space probes, too.
Just think of the Ariane 5 maiden flight failure that cost a billion bucks or so and how you'd have to be a complete jerk to fuck up the thing the way they did, I'll dig out the story if someone is interested.
It's maybe a general trend these days with big project, may it be a space probe or a big software project in the private sector.
Tech projects on this magniture simply require a lot of vision and character to place the bigger goal before your primal instincts, i.e. not to turn it into a game of who has the bigger dick each day, and most people just aren't up to it.
I just read the article about the ITER fusion reactor and thought how'd that be a cool job working there saving the world etc., but then I imagined some stuck-up moron as a boss telling me to install an SQL database in mauve and thought hell no.
If students spend their time in bed or the bar, how are they costing money?
Also, the thing about some students not valueing their education because they don't pay for it *might* be true, but what's definitely true is that the non-studying part of the population can be made feeling guilty about giving something to the students for free.
My former boss was a former employee at GCHQ. Kept bragging about it etc., alledgedly that's also "were he learned about software development", uh oh. Anyways, if GCHQ has any major role in British military things, then they are so doomed next time anyone seriously wants to fuck with them!
Yes, communities are lacking money but the reason they are taking it from the students now, is not because the universities are the reason for the lack of money, but because students are an easy target. It's easy to make people feel guilty about getting something for free.
I'm sure most students don't realize that when they're still in university and many will never for the rest of their lives, but having lived and worked in differeny countries with the full range from completely free over subsidized to fully-paid education, I can assure you it's well worth it.
This discussion could fill pages, but e.g. young Americans are sent off into real life with a huge debt to society, which promotes a fight-against-each-other mentality and greed. It's like putting someone in a corner telling them that they are guilty and having to prove they are innocent. To make proud, responsible and social minded citizens with self-esteem, you have to do the contrary and provide some up-front trust and encouragement.
You are insinuating that people wouldn't study if it wasn't free. Other countries prove otherwise. Students do pay up, and the government still gets the higher taxes.
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is climate change, maybe /. editors can raise the awareness in their geek crowd through the backdoor of oh-wow computing gear and similar gimmicks like this.
Solution: Stick with IE. Shoudda known.
that Google will still be around in one year? Hm.
No shit ....
As a developer I do have that many tabs on the taskbar, usually 3 rows. You can extend the taskbar to as many rows as you like in case you haven't noticed. Even on a 17 or 19 inch screen you will find enough space for that. (Btw, not that it matters much, but as a serious developer I also have a suitable monitor (22 inch), people with screens in the 17 inch area are not serious computer users/developers and don't have as many windows open.)
Only those UNIX people apparently don't have that, so they get all excited about tabbed browsing.
is basically crawling to a halt, given they're now down to increasing the fourth number in the version number .... sheesh ...
... check what is/has been out there before. I.e. something called ProGraph has been mentioned on /. a couple of times before.
This is actually very interesting. I have thought of doing prolog-like querying on the parse tree before, but never dared to ask for it.
I suspect you suspect right.
The truth is, that I have done a lot of research on the Internet to find suitable stuff for this problem. There is none. Period.
they can detect gravitational waves with a sphere in a lab?? What are those multi-million dollar projects like the 4km LIGO for then.
Isn't that the one that's a major player in that dubious corporation, ICANN?
Just saw something metioned on the Spiegel Online web site that the mothership, Mars Express, actually has a stereo camera that should be able to pick it up as soon as it's in proper orbit.
I'm curious as to what the resolution of all those cameras currently orbiting Mars is. Since the CIA can read my license plate from space by now, they must be able to spot a 1m object?
Slashdotters get so excited over an improvement in any technology, they'd drool over an improvement of the steam engine.
I have worked in some fields of science and the tech industry, too, it's like Dilbert in many ways, and I don't see why jerks like that shouldn't build our space probes, too.
Just think of the Ariane 5 maiden flight failure that cost a billion bucks or so and how you'd have to be a complete jerk to fuck up the thing the way they did, I'll dig out the story if someone is interested.
It's maybe a general trend these days with big project, may it be a space probe or a big software project in the private sector.
Tech projects on this magniture simply require a lot of vision and character to place the bigger goal before your primal instincts, i.e. not to turn it into a game of who has the bigger dick each day, and most people just aren't up to it.
I just read the article about the ITER fusion reactor and thought how'd that be a cool job working there saving the world etc., but then I imagined some stuck-up moron as a boss telling me to install an SQL database in mauve and thought hell no.
Isn't that the bunch of people whose stuff never ever made it into a real Microsoft product?
Also, the thing about some students not valueing their education because they don't pay for it *might* be true, but what's definitely true is that the non-studying part of the population can be made feeling guilty about giving something to the students for free.
That is absolutely true and an even bigger aspect that I haven't even touched yet.
I'm sure most students don't realize that when they're still in university and many will never for the rest of their lives, but having lived and worked in differeny countries with the full range from completely free over subsidized to fully-paid education, I can assure you it's well worth it.
This discussion could fill pages, but e.g. young Americans are sent off into real life with a huge debt to society, which promotes a fight-against-each-other mentality and greed. It's like putting someone in a corner telling them that they are guilty and having to prove they are innocent. To make proud, responsible and social minded citizens with self-esteem, you have to do the contrary and provide some up-front trust and encouragement.