"We easily go through 1 or 2 gigabytes of bandwidth per month." (To use a common metric for bandwidth, that's equivalent to downloading 2,000 copies of the Bible.)
I think it's not uncommon in other parts of the world where they still smoke cigarettes (*cough*Turkey*cough*) in public places for there to be an intermission half way through movies. For example, here in Geneva (and presumably in France) many theaters (except the more "American-style" ones) have intermissions. Usually they don't display ads, though, just play music.
(not that you're looking for the story, as this is Slashdot)
You are in a twisty maze of an e-zine web page. Before you is a banner ad. To the south are two magazine ads. > scroll down You are between two magazine ads. To the east are Google ads. > scroll down You found a title! > read Before you is a summary. > scroll down Look out, a large box ad is lurking nearby! > read The page has refreshed! > read You found more Google ads. > scroll down You found information on the author. > scroll down You are being chased by ads disguised as links! > scroll down quickly Didn't understand command modifier "quickly". > scroll down You were eaten by a big orange footer ad. Start over [Y/n]?
Kind of what i wanted to get at was how do you decide which platform to learn, as you only have a limited amount of time. For example, I've read about using Mozilla as a Rapid App Development platform, too. Why should I use KDE over Mozilla? I doubt KDE is installed as many places as Mozilla is, so even if it's better to use than Mozilla it still might not be worth the effort to learn, unless you plan on focusing exclusively on KDE apps.
That link required me to register. I noticed that if I typed the original URL into the browser, I was also required to register, but when I did a search on Google http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=as cii&q=google&btnG=Search+News
the story for the NY Times was a regular link. So apparently they're using the HTTP-Referer now instead of partner=GOOGLE.
I really like the DCOP idea in KDE, and it's something I think Mozilla is missing. (Though how it would support every desktop environment, I don't know.)
But really, when you say that you spent 10 minutes
on the script, you actually spent more than that because you first had to learn what you talked about: K* and Q* classes, JavaScript, DCOM, QtDesigner...
The worse in my experience is on laptops where you have a touchpad and two crappy thumb buttons. It's infuriating trying to paste things on my HP laptop a lot of the time.
I often end up giving up and type the URL in by hand.
That's correct. And tab completion, command history, that's all readline. The key bindings can be changed to be like emacs or vi (or whatever you want); you can put key bindings into ~/.inputrc so any application can use them.
This argument doesn't make sense to me. If you're closer to the impact, then you'd get the heavier rocks falling on you. And the debris that made it around the world would probably be more dusty.
I'm not in the mood for insightful and thought-provoking, but from the description it sounds kind of like Mozilla's programming framework. Except for the compiler/linker part.
This is why Chinatown precincts are always more clogged with religous freaks than elsewhere in any given city.
I think your sweeping generalization is dubious.
I don't remember seeing religious freaks in Chinatown in Boston, but they were often in the subway.
If true, though, maybe it's because they like the food better there.
I post a legitimate, on-topic question and am moderated down, why? Not enough Soviet Russian Natalie Portman bullshit to make your nerdy potbelly wiggle? Thanks to the one replier,
a middle finger to the rest.
What is it with Apache and all the Java projects? They even used to have a separate Java site at java.apache.org, but it exploded into the various other projects.
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I think it's not uncommon in other parts of the world where they still smoke cigarettes (*cough*Turkey*cough*) in public places for there to be an intermission half way through movies. For example, here in Geneva (and presumably in France) many theaters (except the more "American-style" ones) have intermissions. Usually they don't display ads, though, just play music.
(not that you're looking for the story, as this is Slashdot)
...but I had to wait for emacs to load up. Ba-dum dum *ching*
Well, that's the history told by men about men, of course.
Being aware of other people in real life is what makes me nervous and bashful. It's a Sartrean thing.
Yes, I meant DCOP.
Kind of what i wanted to get at was how do you decide which platform to learn, as you only have a limited amount of time. For example, I've read about using Mozilla as a Rapid App Development platform, too. Why should I use KDE over Mozilla? I doubt KDE is installed as many places as Mozilla is, so even if it's better to use than Mozilla it still might not be worth the effort to learn, unless you plan on focusing exclusively on KDE apps.
That link required me to register. I noticed that if I typed the original URL into the browser, I was also required to register, but when I did a search on Google http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=as cii&q=google&btnG=Search+News
the story for the NY Times was a regular link. So apparently they're using the HTTP-Referer now instead of partner=GOOGLE.
I really like the DCOP idea in KDE, and it's something I think Mozilla is missing. (Though how it would support every desktop environment, I don't know.)
But really, when you say that you spent 10 minutes on the script, you actually spent more than that because you first had to learn what you talked about: K* and Q* classes, JavaScript, DCOM, QtDesigner...
The worse in my experience is on laptops where you have a touchpad and two crappy thumb buttons. It's infuriating trying to paste things on my HP laptop a lot of the time. I often end up giving up and type the URL in by hand.
That's correct. And tab completion, command history, that's all readline. The key bindings can be changed to be like emacs or vi (or whatever you want); you can put key bindings into ~/.inputrc so any application can use them.
You have to do it in gigadollars.
This argument doesn't make sense to me. If you're closer to the impact, then you'd get the heavier rocks falling on you. And the debris that made it around the world would probably be more dusty.
For the 2,600 people involved. The other 6,000,000,000 people in the world wouldn't consider it much of an explosion in popularity.
I'm not in the mood for insightful and thought-provoking, but from the description it sounds kind of like Mozilla's programming framework. Except for the compiler/linker part.
2600 participants. Three times more than last year, you say? That's some explosion.
The land area of the US is also 2.5 times the size of western europe.
Apache is apparently run by Sun these days, what with all the Java projects. [-1 Troll]
I post a legitimate, on-topic question and am moderated down, why? Not enough Soviet Russian Natalie Portman bullshit to make your nerdy potbelly wiggle? Thanks to the one replier, a middle finger to the rest.
What is it with Apache and all the Java projects? They even used to have a separate Java site at java.apache.org, but it exploded into the various other projects.