Actually it would seem that their product would go down, or at least would be built from the top down, rather then the bottom up. So yeah, one might sugest that this company might come crashing back to earth;p
Thigs SO/OO lacks:
Speed - a 45 second startup time on a 1.7GHz processor is unacceptable
Standard GUI toolkit - Standard as in same as the user's other apps, not standard as in uses the same crap on all platforms.
SVG images
Anti-aliased text
Really when was the last time you use OO? My aging tbird 900 opens writer pretty quickly (~15 seconds). The suite uses standard widgets in win2k and, well, what do you call standard in X? Good SVG support would be nice. My text in OO looks just fine under KDE 3.1 - I sugest you look not to OO to do things I would consider system level responsibilities.
It is plain that Microsoft's internal testing is insufficient. I don't really fault them for this -- it's simply impossible to have enough configurations, testcases, and procedures to cover more than a small percentage of the actual ways the product is used.
IMO, Microsoft would benefit by issuing public release candidates for new OS versions and patches. It would greatly reduce the impact of problems with patches and new releases.
Gee, and here I sat thinking that M$'s blatant lack of testing & quality control (I mean, htf did they miss this one, surely somebody noticed?) was a sure indication that 'service packs' == release candidates. A little 'fix' here, some liberal pathing there, a nifty hack there - done! Release it to those rabid pirates^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hloyal consumers.
4 is a big old red herring.
The data compresses so well because it's encoded in a highly inefficent manner. Your average compression algorithm will be able to find more redundancy and give you a better % compressed, but it still won't compare with a human actually packing the data tightly together in the first place.
#4 is only a 'red herring' from the advocacy point of view - comming from the 'XML sucks' camp it's a straw man. because XML _is_ rather verbose text it will compress well with a multitude of existing tools designed for such tasks, XML's verbosity, therefore, is not a significant problem.
>The nice (if obvious) tool for XML is the parser.
>XML is specified so that any computer science
>undergrad could write one in a couple weeks.
hahahahahaha. If by "XML" you mean, something with encoded element names and a small ammount of & "character references". Then, yeh, an ok programer could write something passable in a week or two. However XML isn't even remotely this nice, indeed a wc -l *.c for libxml-2.4.23 is 118,775. But yes, the useful thing about XML isn't XML itself, but the network effects of everyone using it... much like the internet itself.
mmm, IMHO the truly nice thing about xml is the thought of never having to write another parser - just grab an of-the-shelf parser, hammer out a relatively simple description of what we're parsing and go. Done. simple.
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> BBC is extremely liberal by US standards. They won't even bother hiding it.
Why should anyone hide being liberal "by US standards"? Most of the political spectrum is "liberal" by US standards.
Well I guess the fact that being liberal, and god knows what else, might be considered justification for those who are conservative (even by US standards) to carpet bomb the fuck out of you might be considered a good reason for lying low.
I too am uncomfortable when another seems to take pride in 'just doing my job' regradless of their misgivings. That being said your comment:
"Of course the situation is in no way comparable - the USA is a democratic and free country, and whatever you think about this war, it's not comparable to World War II. And this is not meant as a personal offense against you."
is, well, a little off the mark. Hitler was voted in, eh? Germany is & was a democracy. No, the situation is very comparable to prewar germany and I, for one, being a Canadian am just a little concerend about becoming the great white Poland of the north.
In short, I wish all those who are away from home today well, may your efforts & the efforts of those in opposition be traded for something more constructive. May everyone's fathers, brothers, sons, uncles & cousins come home tonight. Until then, well, FUCK OFF bush
Re:how many hack books do i need to buy?
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All of this information is searchable in google. By buying the book you are paying for the convenience of having everything consolidated right there in front of you, in a searchable (index) format. You could also go with a Safari subscription from O'reilly to acheive the same effect with a webpage.
Actually I can think of at least on other reason to buy a book: inspiration. Sometimes it's take a moment to truly appreciate how a new tool (or an unthought of use for a tool) can be integrated into your personal tool box. How many times have to seen something & said "Neato! Now what am I gonna do with this?". Sometimes it's not just knowing _how_ to ask a question, it's knowing _what_ questions to ask. A competant author will have done this already.
I did exactly the same, except in landscaping. I could have driven to work at an internship but for what? A small amount more to cover my college expenses? It's not all about money. The tan, muscle, and comradery I built working outside with my hands was worth at least twice what I could have made doing QA for some random company. Excellent comment and story.
mmm I would have to agree. I worked as a swim coach in the summers - most rewarding thing I ever did. When it came time to 'find a good job' the experience and skills learned were of much greater interest, ironically, then my grades. The fact that I could point to a sucessfull program, note a proven ability to teach, and the fact that parents actually trusted me with their kids in the pool were _big_things_ to interviewers.
Heck, after working some thankless job for five years I realised, to quote myself "...most rewarding thing I ever did" and waddya know, now i coach for a living. Another comment said something to the effect "get out and learn something non it releated, there's a whole world out there". I, for one, refuse to let Office Space become my reality.
Now geeks everywhere will all be able to carry a 24 inch CRT under each arm from one side of the building to the other;-). Seriously, though, this could be a bad thing. If you just wake up one day, and you are super-strong, you are gonna screw stuff up. Maybe you'll break someone's hand (ala a Star Trek The Next Generation episode when some guy takes over Data's body), or you are just going to generally screw up your super-muscles. You'll probably still never exercise, and end up pulling your super-strong muscles (which will probably hurt more, because there is more mass).
well.... I'm pretty sure that a little gene therapy to increase, incrementaly, one's tendancy to build muscle prob isn't going to make bruce banners out of anybody. If you break your arm, spend 6 weeks in a cast, get it off it's highly unlikely you're gonna be crushing other peoples hands in 2 days because all of a sudden your grip is stronger then it's been in nearly 2 months.
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mmm, I would think, though, that the brenan-monster (from protector) would have something to say about that. I mean he does basically say that he has no free will, because he always know the 'right' answer and the 'right' answer usually involves removing _any_and_all_possible_threats_real_or_imagined_ that may present themselves to his offspring. I'd think the outsiders, regardless of experience, would def be in this category.
Come to think of it, if the outsiders built the ring world, how did it get populated with hominids? Even if the PAK came later, what are the chances that they'd ever inhabit such a structure without knowing who built it, and destroying that entity first?
Dude, didn't ya get the memo? Tom's recommends pretty darn everything that doesn't actually burn down the lab. Anything to server another 2 doz add impressions.....
wth am I up to reply to this - from the description I'm sure I'll wake up to find that it's all a wierd, pizza indeced dream. OTOH I'm sure there's nothing in my subconcious thAT would prompt a computer/alarm clock
In order to receive that free subscription, you'd need to provide a mailing address or PO Box.
Once the military tracks you down, I'm not sure they'd let you read 2600 in prison...
well, having had the 'pleasure' of ttying to get domains transferred & what not when.ca was basically some guy at UBC I can attest the the supposition that the back end was a little meger.
It's been my experience that working with or, frankly, bartering with the evil is usually easier & more productive then attempts to do so with the merely stupid & misguided.
An 'evil' person isn't necessarily aimless or an anarchist - they, like most people with an IQ greater then that of a potato, want things. These 'things' just might not be that same things you or I want. They, also, may not quest for these things in the same manner we would but the do want, and usually not irrationaly. Stupid people, on the other hand, don't know what they want, don't know how they're going to go about getting what the don't know they want and are simply unable to negotiate with you inorder that they might get anything at all.
That being said what _really_ scares me is stupid, evil people - and I'm afraid the yanks went and elected one hell of a guy 2 years ago.
This is a problem? Perhpas you'd like to come up for a vist. I live in a city (no snickers please;p) og ~75,000 in a trading area of ~250,000 sandwiched between Edmonton & Calgary (combined pop ~ 1.5mil). The radio here in my cavement gets 3 country stations & 2 pop rock. Just what do you have to complain about?
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Actually it would seem that their product would go down, or at least would be built from the top down, rather then the bottom up. So yeah, one might sugest that this company might come crashing back to earth ;p
mmm, IMHO the truly nice thing about xml is the thought of never having to write another parser - just grab an of-the-shelf parser, hammer out a relatively simple description of what we're parsing and go. Done. simple.
but even with the update it's hard to imagine it keeping up to, say, KDE. gotta check it out & compare, though, it's been a while
gotta get me some of that, mmmm tasty
Well I guess the fact that being liberal, and god knows what else, might be considered justification for those who are conservative (even by US standards) to carpet bomb the fuck out of you might be considered a good reason for lying low.
In short, I wish all those who are away from home today well, may your efforts & the efforts of those in opposition be traded for something more constructive. May everyone's fathers, brothers, sons, uncles & cousins come home tonight. Until then, well, FUCK OFF bush
Actually I can think of at least on other reason to buy a book: inspiration. Sometimes it's take a moment to truly appreciate how a new tool (or an unthought of use for a tool) can be integrated into your personal tool box. How many times have to seen something & said "Neato! Now what am I gonna do with this?". Sometimes it's not just knowing _how_ to ask a question, it's knowing _what_ questions to ask. A competant author will have done this already.
pffft - that's GNUMCP to you, punk ;)
mmm I would have to agree. I worked as a swim coach in the summers - most rewarding thing I ever did. When it came time to 'find a good job' the experience and skills learned were of much greater interest, ironically, then my grades. The fact that I could point to a sucessfull program, note a proven ability to teach, and the fact that parents actually trusted me with their kids in the pool were _big_things_ to interviewers.
Heck, after working some thankless job for five years I realised, to quote myself "...most rewarding thing I ever did" and waddya know, now i coach for a living. Another comment said something to the effect "get out and learn something non it releated, there's a whole world out there". I, for one, refuse to let Office Space become my reality.
well.... I'm pretty sure that a little gene therapy to increase, incrementaly, one's tendancy to build muscle prob isn't going to make bruce banners out of anybody. If you break your arm, spend 6 weeks in a cast, get it off it's highly unlikely you're gonna be crushing other peoples hands in 2 days because all of a sudden your grip is stronger then it's been in nearly 2 months.
Come to think of it, if the outsiders built the ring world, how did it get populated with hominids? Even if the PAK came later, what are the chances that they'd ever inhabit such a structure without knowing who built it, and destroying that entity first?
meh - who ever said you had to be sentient to post on
now is that with or without allowances for touchpads? I mean things could get dicey if Grant Hackett decided to wear shoes, y'know.
Dude, didn't ya get the memo? Tom's recommends pretty darn everything that doesn't actually burn down the lab. Anything to server another 2 doz add impressions.....
15) Remember to short TurboTax first - D'OH!! ;p
wth am I up to reply to this - from the description I'm sure I'll wake up to find that it's all a wierd, pizza indeced dream. OTOH I'm sure there's nothing in my subconcious thAT would prompt a computer/alarm clock
The yank military can kiss my ass
umm, ever tried cygwin?
well, having had the 'pleasure' of ttying to get domains transferred & what not when .ca was basically some guy at UBC I can attest the the supposition that the back end was a little meger.
An 'evil' person isn't necessarily aimless or an anarchist - they, like most people with an IQ greater then that of a potato, want things. These 'things' just might not be that same things you or I want. They, also, may not quest for these things in the same manner we would but the do want, and usually not irrationaly. Stupid people, on the other hand, don't know what they want, don't know how they're going to go about getting what the don't know they want and are simply unable to negotiate with you inorder that they might get anything at all.
That being said what _really_ scares me is stupid, evil people - and I'm afraid the yanks went and elected one hell of a guy 2 years ago.
heck - I wouldn't mind having a PM the _read_ every word of every document that has his signature on it...
This is a problem? Perhpas you'd like to come up for a vist. I live in a city (no snickers please ;p) og ~75,000 in a trading area of ~250,000 sandwiched between Edmonton & Calgary (combined pop ~ 1.5mil). The radio here in my cavement gets 3 country stations & 2 pop rock. Just what do you have to complain about?