I've been using the YUI professionally for over a year now, and the other day I had to set up a standalone page, separate from our usual infrastructure which serves the YUI.
I decided to give the hosted version a try, and was very pleasantly surprised. I shouldn't have been surprised at all: it seems Yahoo! really have their Content Distribution Network down pat all over the world.
"they are a corporation of ignorance posing as a religion"
Or just "a religion" for short:)
Bye bye karma, hello Mr Dawkins.
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most users would not be able to use Firefox for more than a few hours before they would have to restart it
No shit, Sherlock.
I browse actively, and that is exactly what I have to do, several times a day. 1GB RAM (significant because Firefox is configured to use an average amount of memory proportional to the amount available, I believe), a dozen extensions. After two or three hours and maybe 20-30 tabs opened / closed, the memory footprint goes over ~120MB and I restart it, because the system starts to have trouble coping.
There's no way Firefox could get the 14% usage share it has today with such a serious memory problem.
That is a purely fanboyish comment as far as I am concerned.
On a side-note, I am in favor of the direction Mozilla is steering Firefox in, with support for ever more powerful RIAs. But Firefox 2.0 is a memory guzzler, and that's that -- "some [few] memory leaks" my foot.
Well, the unemployment rate recently hit 9% on the way down.
As far as taxes are concerned, yes we have a horrible 19.6% percent inherited from the all too recent socialist era. However, do please note that over here, prices are systematically (except to businesses, which are exempt) given "T.T.C.", that's "Toutes Taxes Comprises" : inclusive of tax:)
I think France is not mentioned in the article because there is no French PC World publication (that link was still up a couple of minutes ago, it's from TFA), and the article says that it's about information collected in the various countries where that group does have magazines. Not that that's any excuse, of course.
Puh-lease, I can't believe France is not mentioned.
24 Mbps (ATM, 19.6 Mpbs IP) in all towns from 20K residents up, 150 free worldwide television channels (some of which HD), rock bottom prices for extra private channels, free VoIP plug-a-regular-phone-in communications to 28 countries including most of the western(ized) world and even mobile phones in the US (15 hours on the phone to a female friend in Australia ? 0.00 !)... and no catch in the contract.
All that, for 30 ($38) per month, with at least 4 different ISPs doing it, so the price is rapidly heading down to 25 if not 20.
OK, so I guess this is not mentioned in the article because there is no PC World publication in France (apparently), where the IT magazines market is pretty saturated by some big press groups already. But really, this is information which has been cited on/. itself many a time.
For some reason, I knew next to nothing about Python before reading that article. Now I know all the key aspects of the language, and that's more than enough information to guide a proper programmer in his choice of a language for a particular project, or for pleasure learning. Then he starts wading through tutorials and documentation.
Admittedly, I could have found out at least as much from Wikipedia or straight from python.org (which is also linked in the article, N.B.), without all the jokes besides. Well help me God, I had five minutes of fun by reading someone's mashup of a snake's programming language versus John Cleese and friends. How awful !
Oh, and the thing about it being on the front page of Slashdot ? Last I checked, this site was a tech blog. "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." is a f*cking humorous slogan -- and an elaborate programming + Monty Python joke is worthy of any nerd, anyway. Go somewhere else for your stuck-up copyedited journalism, this is CmdrTaco's fun place, for sh*t's sake !
You guys are all just sad. Except those who are merry enough to have disregarded this comment, of course. I'm hoping the nastier mods will fall in that second category. Oh wait...
Of course, far from me to deny that ! (If maybe a touch more class where Alizee is concerned ?)
But the question is, in the US, would it be aired on a saturday evening prime-time show, and by a public channel to boot ?;-)
The matter is not that of the artistic / moral pool. The matter is that of retrograde "acceptable to the community" laws instituted in... some countries / states.
Take this video in particular, for example. Gotta have some reason to love France... And my God guys, you should understand the lyrics... It's all about her relaxing in a bubble bath, her soft skin, etc. (not kidding). See that "2" logo in the top right ? That's France 2, the most important public channel (and in this country the public channels are neck to neck with the private ones for popularity). Still not kidding.
Now for the less jowful news. I happen to live in France, as you might have gathered, and I'm a bit surprised by the international analysis of the DADVSI law (since that's it name) that indeed got through Parliament tuesday evening.
The fact is that the government has :
legalized DRM,
set up a standard parking-ticket style fine for downloading pirated stuff and another for making content available to others (38 and 150 euros respectively, about 45 and 180 USD),
decided that P2P software makers were liable to pay 300'000 euros and spend 3 years in prison,
given up on the "monthly subscription to be allowed to download legally" deal, under pressure from the local RIAA associates that forced a vast majority of artists to back them,
completely forbidden copying of a DVD, even as a personal backup,
and simply required that DRM'd files be interoperable, which is where Apple's beef is.
I'm very flattered by all the positive light this is being shown in internationally, it's not every day the world has nice things to say about this country, but I must point out that IT enthusiasts over here are miserably decrying this law, and would probably be in the streets themselves if they weren't already chocablock with students demonstrating:-(
Please, oh mercy, please, I'm not usually one to gripe about this sort of thing, but please !
There's already "ATM Machine" and the likes, and now that Slashdot has created the acronym TFA... The F*cking Article (or "Fine", to be polite), after the well-known expression "RTFM"...
"It seemed as if, given free reign, the developers pursued their own personal interests rather than the goals of the project." [...] "So I canned the project and shutdown the development office, letting the developers go."
For Pete's sake, don't anyone let my boss see that !! O.O
Very watchable. Only a couple of minutes of brainless conspiracy theory between 21:00 and 23:00 or thereabouts.
Otherwise objective, concise, informative (except that we all knew it all already, of course) and clear : an all-round view of Google today, and of the challenges in the works.
you'd think the French people would take Bush's bed-fellow and string him up
Damn straight, a considerable portion of the French population would like nothing better ! Just not enough to constitute a majority against the increasingly conservative, vaguely xenophobic and/or ageing masses...
Slashdot Mirror
Seems to me that Arstechnica really earned their name with this article...
I had the exact same reaction.
:)
As Wikipedia soon indicated, however, and as the brother post has mentioned, the summary is referring to the CNES
I've been using the YUI professionally for over a year now, and the other day I had to set up a standalone page, separate from our usual infrastructure which serves the YUI.
I decided to give the hosted version a try, and was very pleasantly surprised. I shouldn't have been surprised at all: it seems Yahoo! really have their Content Distribution Network down pat all over the world.
Video is visible as part of a news report here : http://wcbstv.com/video?id=99739@wcbs.dayport.com& cid=2 (Flash required).
Found through Yahoo! video.
Or just "a religion" for short :)
Bye bye karma, hello Mr Dawkins.
most users would not be able to use Firefox for more than a few hours before they would have to restart it
No shit, Sherlock.
I browse actively, and that is exactly what I have to do, several times a day. 1GB RAM (significant because Firefox is configured to use an average amount of memory proportional to the amount available, I believe), a dozen extensions. After two or three hours and maybe 20-30 tabs opened / closed, the memory footprint goes over ~120MB and I restart it, because the system starts to have trouble coping.
There's no way Firefox could get the 14% usage share it has today with such a serious memory problem.
That is a purely fanboyish comment as far as I am concerned.
On a side-note, I am in favor of the direction Mozilla is steering Firefox in, with support for ever more powerful RIAs. But Firefox 2.0 is a memory guzzler, and that's that -- "some [few] memory leaks" my foot.
My first stop is Google, with site:wikipedia.org in the search.
So much faster than Wikipedia's own search engine !
Well, the unemployment rate recently hit 9% on the way down.
:)
As far as taxes are concerned, yes we have a horrible 19.6% percent inherited from the all too recent socialist era. However, do please note that over here, prices are systematically (except to businesses, which are exempt) given "T.T.C.", that's "Toutes Taxes Comprises" : inclusive of tax
I'm glad our information concurs :-)
I think France is not mentioned in the article because there is no French PC World publication (that link was still up a couple of minutes ago, it's from TFA), and the article says that it's about information collected in the various countries where that group does have magazines. Not that that's any excuse, of course.
Puh-lease, I can't believe France is not mentioned.
/. itself many a time.
24 Mbps (ATM, 19.6 Mpbs IP) in all towns from 20K residents up, 150 free worldwide television channels (some of which HD), rock bottom prices for extra private channels, free VoIP plug-a-regular-phone-in communications to 28 countries including most of the western(ized) world and even mobile phones in the US (15 hours on the phone to a female friend in Australia ? 0.00 !)... and no catch in the contract.
All that, for 30 ($38) per month, with at least 4 different ISPs doing it, so the price is rapidly heading down to 25 if not 20.
Seriously. http://www.free.fr/. Not called "free" for nothing.
OK, so I guess this is not mentioned in the article because there is no PC World publication in France (apparently), where the IT magazines market is pretty saturated by some big press groups already. But really, this is information which has been cited on
It's actually been in the works for some time now, you know...
Sorry you missed it !
I think it looks great ; do upgrade your browser, you're missing out :)
You people are all very sad.
For some reason, I knew next to nothing about Python before reading that article. Now I know all the key aspects of the language, and that's more than enough information to guide a proper programmer in his choice of a language for a particular project, or for pleasure learning. Then he starts wading through tutorials and documentation.
Admittedly, I could have found out at least as much from Wikipedia or straight from python.org (which is also linked in the article, N.B.), without all the jokes besides. Well help me God, I had five minutes of fun by reading someone's mashup of a snake's programming language versus John Cleese and friends. How awful !
Oh, and the thing about it being on the front page of Slashdot ? Last I checked, this site was a tech blog . "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." is a f*cking humorous slogan -- and an elaborate programming + Monty Python joke is worthy of any nerd, anyway. Go somewhere else for your stuck-up copyedited journalism, this is CmdrTaco's fun place, for sh*t's sake !
You guys are all just sad. Except those who are merry enough to have disregarded this comment, of course. I'm hoping the nastier mods will fall in that second category. Oh wait...
Wow, no wonder the guy was filming then ! O.O
I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry...
Of course, far from me to deny that ! (If maybe a touch more class where Alizee is concerned ?)
;-)
But the question is, in the US, would it be aired on a saturday evening prime-time show, and by a public channel to boot ?
The matter is not that of the artistic / moral pool. The matter is that of retrograde "acceptable to the community" laws instituted in... some countries / states.
Now for the less jowful news. I happen to live in France, as you might have gathered, and I'm a bit surprised by the international analysis of the DADVSI law (since that's it name) that indeed got through Parliament tuesday evening.
The fact is that the government has :
I'm very flattered by all the positive light this is being shown in internationally, it's not every day the world has nice things to say about this country, but I must point out that IT enthusiasts over here are miserably decrying this law, and would probably be in the streets themselves if they weren't already chocablock with students demonstrating
Very happy that you saw my post and obviously got the message, yes :-p
And honoured to get a witty answer from someone who's user ID is close to 1/10th of my own... Wish I'd noticed that earlier -.-
No, no, no, no, noooooooooooooooooooooo !
:O
:'(
Please, oh mercy, please, I'm not usually one to gripe about this sort of thing, but please !
There's already "ATM Machine" and the likes, and now that Slashdot has created the acronym TFA... The F*cking Article (or "Fine", to be polite), after the well-known expression "RTFM"...
Someone has to go and say "The TFA"
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease
That reminds me a lot of Thinkgeek's Smart Mass Thinking Putty. Any connection ?
"So I canned the project and shutdown the development office, letting the developers go."
For Pete's sake, don't anyone let my boss see that !! O.O
"roaming Ajax desktops"
I swear that statement would scare my mother.
FFS, that's hilarious ! Possibly the most in-context use of a Slashdot meme ever !
Very watchable. Only a couple of minutes of brainless conspiracy theory between 21:00 and 23:00 or thereabouts.
Otherwise objective, concise, informative (except that we all knew it all already, of course) and clear : an all-round view of Google today, and of the challenges in the works.
"ZNet" ? Are you kidding ? How long has that site been going for, and how on Earth has it escaped the notice of CNet Networks, Inc. ?
you'd think the French people would take Bush's bed-fellow and string him up
Damn straight, a considerable portion of the French population would like nothing better ! Just not enough to constitute a majority against the increasingly conservative, vaguely xenophobic and/or ageing masses...