You mean like how they're still making $2.8 BILLION each year in fucking POPEYE MERCHANDISE?! Are you shittin' me? Who the hell is buying all this crap?
Forget HP and Iran. Can someone please tell me why in the bloody hell the RSS abstract for this and almost every other Slashdot story over the past few weeks has included a banner ad for HGTV's "Myles of Style"? What exactly is their target audience here? I'm pretty sure the number of Slashdot readers who are interested in the finer points of choosing drapery fabrics to match the floor lamp can probably be stored in the register of an 8080 with two or three bits to spare.
Maybe their ad relevance engine picked up this story a few weeks back and misunderstood the meaning of "design patterns"?
Has it really failed? Don't companies still pay IBM lots of money to use it?
Yes, they do. My company (Humana) is one of them. If it were just a matter of switching email systems, we would have gone to Exchange long ago, but we have hundreds of workflow forms and other crap built on Notes databases which are unfortunately integral to a lot of business groups.
Never in a million years could I have imagined I would be longing for Outlook and Exchange until I started at this company!
You think "light" in Genesis is talking about photons? One Christian to another, I suggest you might not be giving Genesis its due. In Samuel 2:22, where it says, "You are my lamp, O LORD; the LORD turns my darkness into light," is that light talking about photons or a more profound kind of light?
You see, this is precisely the point I was making: two people can read the exact same passage and get two completely different meanings! Which is exactly why I see the Bible as a source of inspirational thought rather than a source of literal meaning.
But to answer your question: I guess I take the "let there be light" in with the rest of the chapter (separating heavens from earth, etc.) to give it a more celestial meaning, although I definitely see your point.
Also keep in mind: the translations of the Bible into English are still very much in dispute even today (another reason to not take the words literally!), and so it's possible that only one English word (light) is available to represent two different Hebrew words, much like English has only "free" where other languages have "libre" and "gratis" (speech vs. beer).
If you think the Bible is just poetry (which it is, at best) you shouldn't call yourself a Christian.
The only condition to classify oneself as a Christian is the belief that Christ died on the cross to forgive our sins and give us everlasting life. That's it. I am also a Christian who happens to believe in evolution and I take the Bible very loosely rather than literally. I believe that the Bible was inspired by God and not the literal word of God, because the latter can't be written into any human dialect. You lose something in the translation.
I do have friends who believe the universe was literally created in seven days, and I happen to think that is ludicrous (and impossible, since days are measured in units of rotations of the earth, which hadn't been created yet). So whether a "day" to God is a microsecond or a millennium, it doesn't matter to me. When I read "God said 'let there be light'", I read it as "God made the Big Bang". When I read that God created Adam from dust, I read it as "God set evolution in motion from the primordial soup and eventually humans came into being."
Believe me, fundamentalists who say that the earth is 6000 years old or that dinosaurs never existed annoy me as much as they do you, but to say that I'm less of a Christian for taking the Bible as words of inspiration rather than literal truth is flat out incorrect.
then use regular expressions on those that do to refuse connections from dynamic/home/dsl/dial_up/etc. (I tried to post the regexes, but slashdot whined about " Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!") Stop talking to dynamic IPs and about 90% of the world's spam will immediately vanish.
Or, rather than worry about keeping your regexes up-to-date, use the Spamhaus Policy Block List (PBL). It contains *only* dynamic and other "end-user" IPs. The PBL is also contained in their all-encompassing Zen blocklist, which is what I use, but those who don't like automated RBLs can still get the benefit of blocking dynamic IPs by using just the PBL. Adding it to most MTAs these days is a very simple one-line config change.
I mean, what part of PUBLIC office does this numbskull not understand? (Excuse me, the mastermind understands, just doesn't care.) Sickening. What's even worse is that no one's gonna make this administration accountable for anything they've done. In fact, I'm sure no one's gonna really take a hard look at what exactly this administration has done until a looong time later; everyone's too preoccupied with moving on.
Exactly, it's time to move on already. I mean, Clinton has been out of office for almost 8 years now. What's the point of stirring up the past again?
Or, were you talking about Bush? It's hard to tell. Every time a president gets ready to leave office, the zealots on the other side start to complain about what criminals they were and how they should be prosecuted for their crimes and all of the dead bodies that were left behind and can't understand how it's not obvious to everyone what a snowjob they're pulling on everyone. Get over it already.
Not only that... check out the screen mockup from the patent! Those are obviously representations of the MS Paint and Excel UIs, as well as shitty MS clipart... can't they sue them for copyright infringement in their patent claim??
True, the legality of having the ROM images is suspect...
If by "suspect" you mean "blatantly runs afoul of copyright law", then yes, the legality is "suspect". Just because there's no one to press charges doesn't mean it's legal or OK, and the OP obviously wants stuff that's undeniably redistributable.
Wow... just when I begin to think that open source may be making some true inroads in enterprise culture, someone who still doesn't even understand that you can make money off open source software gets modded "Insightful"...
I bet it will be by the time any deal get's done and there ready to start putting it in there (sic) process.
Y'know, when a post contains at least three spelling/grammatical errors, and you decide to call attention to only one of them, it makes you look just as uninformed as the OP.
Agreed... and, much like Sun with Java, I expect that someday in the future, Adobe will be saying to themselves: "We were so close to becoming the ubiquitous platform that everyone used for deploying rich internet content to every type of device and platform. Our decision to keep the Flash player closed-source for so long looks so stupid now. What were we thinking? If only we could go back ten years and open it up..."
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C# is indeed C followed by a musical sharp. But everyone uses the octothorpe for convenience.
If I had mod points I'd give 'em to ya but instead I'll just reply that you're correct.:) In fact the C# standard (don't have the link handy) specifically states that although sharp is the "correct" glyph to use, the octothorpe is an "accepted" alternative due to the lack of the former on keyboards.
I guess that it depends upon your definition of "buggy." You can design a language where the Integer object has a destructor named "toString" if you want to. And if someone did that, I would consider the design to be broken.
No, the definition of "buggy" is not open to interpretation. If your language defines a destructor named toString, then that is a feature of the language, not a bug. Any implementation which does not correctly implement it is therefore buggy, but the language itself is not.
Now, anyone is certainly free to argue whether a destructor named toString, or any particular feature of JavaScript, is a good idea, but saying that the language itself is "buggy" or "broken" is, by definition, incorrect.
it's slow, buggy, and prone to being abused. why are we still using it?
Slow? Not with the next generation of JIT JavaScript compilers coming up in Firefox 3.1, Google Chrome, and WebKit. And I'm sure IE will get there someday. Buggy? Not sure what you even mean by that... particular implementations may be buggy, but a programming language cannot itself be buggy. Prone to being abused? Which language isn't?
Imo, version 5 and 6 were both old by their release. Windows mobile has a lot of nice features but the interface is boring and lacking and the OS is buggy.
You ain't kidding. Its resemblance to desktop Windows is striking though... you have to reboot your phone every few days or else everything starts running slowly, rendering halfway-drawn dialog boxes on the screen, and eventually crashing. And talk about poor integration... every app that has you enter an email, phone number, or contact name does it differently. Some use auto-complete, and others don't. It's just a mess and I can't wait for Android to come out.
The article uses very unclear wording in that part, so I thought I'd clarify.
Microsoft will release updated browser in their 6.2 update. The good news is it can render Flash and AJAX and so on because it's based on the rendering engine of the desktop Internet Explorer browser. The bad news: it's based on the desktop version of *IE6*.
I was very dismayed to read that also. I currently have a Windows Mobile 6 phone (AT&T 8525) and its current web browser is just terrible (based on IE 4 from what I understand). I had heard that the next version of Pocket IE would finally enter this century and naturally figured it would have the IE7 rendering engine at least.
I'll never again buy a Windows Mobile phone. Microsoft is just too big and clumsy to continue innovating their products. It's ridiculous that I have to look for third-party software just to visit modern websites on my phone.
From my understanding of the GPL, this would only be true if the government is distributing the modified binaries to the terrorists. If the changes are internal-use only, there isn't a GPL conflict by not distributing the modified source.
I'm sure that they will be "distributing modified binaries to terrorists" at about 500 MPH:)
If they drop a smart bomb on someone that uses open source software in its circuitry, I'm guessing that's much like running GPL code on your webserver, and considered internal use only. Now if they use code under the Affero GPL, that could be interesting!
but lynx is a text-only browser. that's like saying a radio is a TV without the frills. stripping out core features does not make something have a cleaner interface or mean that the removed features are unnecessary.
Pffftt.. images may be "necessary" to you, but not all of us. Just this weekend I wrote a Perl script to render Flickr images in ASCII art. You can keep your fancy schmancy "images".
I think Adam Pash from Lifehacker puts it best: "What's Microsoft giving you out of the box besides Internet Explorer, a web browser you're going to use once to download a better one?"
"Transformers" is special? That's nearly as worrying as seeing "Eraser" at the top of the sales chart in the article.
While I'm sure it's fun to snobbishly deride others' tastes in movies that don't meet your own high-brow criteria for quality cinema, there's not much denying the fact that Transformers has currently set the bar for a special effects blockbuster, at least until next summer's crop one-ups it again. So while action movies with stunning CGI but a less than stellar plot may not be everyone's cup of tea, they are exactly the types of movies that Blu-Ray and HD showcase very well, and which differentiate themselves from standard DVDs the most, which I'm pretty sure was the point that GP was making.
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You mean like how they're still making $2.8 BILLION each year in fucking POPEYE MERCHANDISE?! Are you shittin' me? Who the hell is buying all this crap?
Forget HP and Iran. Can someone please tell me why in the bloody hell the RSS abstract for this and almost every other Slashdot story over the past few weeks has included a banner ad for HGTV's "Myles of Style"? What exactly is their target audience here? I'm pretty sure the number of Slashdot readers who are interested in the finer points of choosing drapery fabrics to match the floor lamp can probably be stored in the register of an 8080 with two or three bits to spare.
Maybe their ad relevance engine picked up this story a few weeks back and misunderstood the meaning of "design patterns"?
Has it really failed? Don't companies still pay IBM lots of money to use it?
Yes, they do. My company (Humana) is one of them. If it were just a matter of switching email systems, we would have gone to Exchange long ago, but we have hundreds of workflow forms and other crap built on Notes databases which are unfortunately integral to a lot of business groups.
Never in a million years could I have imagined I would be longing for Outlook and Exchange until I started at this company!
You think "light" in Genesis is talking about photons? One Christian to another, I suggest you might not be giving Genesis its due. In Samuel 2:22, where it says, "You are my lamp, O LORD; the LORD turns my darkness into light," is that light talking about photons or a more profound kind of light?
You see, this is precisely the point I was making: two people can read the exact same passage and get two completely different meanings! Which is exactly why I see the Bible as a source of inspirational thought rather than a source of literal meaning.
But to answer your question: I guess I take the "let there be light" in with the rest of the chapter (separating heavens from earth, etc.) to give it a more celestial meaning, although I definitely see your point.
Also keep in mind: the translations of the Bible into English are still very much in dispute even today (another reason to not take the words literally!), and so it's possible that only one English word (light) is available to represent two different Hebrew words, much like English has only "free" where other languages have "libre" and "gratis" (speech vs. beer).
If you think the Bible is just poetry (which it is, at best) you shouldn't call yourself a Christian.
The only condition to classify oneself as a Christian is the belief that Christ died on the cross to forgive our sins and give us everlasting life. That's it. I am also a Christian who happens to believe in evolution and I take the Bible very loosely rather than literally. I believe that the Bible was inspired by God and not the literal word of God, because the latter can't be written into any human dialect. You lose something in the translation.
I do have friends who believe the universe was literally created in seven days, and I happen to think that is ludicrous (and impossible, since days are measured in units of rotations of the earth, which hadn't been created yet). So whether a "day" to God is a microsecond or a millennium, it doesn't matter to me. When I read "God said 'let there be light'", I read it as "God made the Big Bang". When I read that God created Adam from dust, I read it as "God set evolution in motion from the primordial soup and eventually humans came into being."
Believe me, fundamentalists who say that the earth is 6000 years old or that dinosaurs never existed annoy me as much as they do you, but to say that I'm less of a Christian for taking the Bible as words of inspiration rather than literal truth is flat out incorrect.
then use regular expressions on those that do to refuse connections from dynamic/home/dsl/dial_up/etc. (I tried to post the regexes, but slashdot whined about " Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!") Stop talking to dynamic IPs and about 90% of the world's spam will immediately vanish.
Or, rather than worry about keeping your regexes up-to-date, use the Spamhaus Policy Block List (PBL). It contains *only* dynamic and other "end-user" IPs. The PBL is also contained in their all-encompassing Zen blocklist, which is what I use, but those who don't like automated RBLs can still get the benefit of blocking dynamic IPs by using just the PBL. Adding it to most MTAs these days is a very simple one-line config change.
I mean, what part of PUBLIC office does this numbskull not understand? (Excuse me, the mastermind understands, just doesn't care.) Sickening. What's even worse is that no one's gonna make this administration accountable for anything they've done. In fact, I'm sure no one's gonna really take a hard look at what exactly this administration has done until a looong time later; everyone's too preoccupied with moving on.
Exactly, it's time to move on already. I mean, Clinton has been out of office for almost 8 years now. What's the point of stirring up the past again?
Or, were you talking about Bush? It's hard to tell. Every time a president gets ready to leave office, the zealots on the other side start to complain about what criminals they were and how they should be prosecuted for their crimes and all of the dead bodies that were left behind and can't understand how it's not obvious to everyone what a snowjob they're pulling on everyone. Get over it already.
Not only that... check out the screen mockup from the patent! Those are obviously representations of the MS Paint and Excel UIs, as well as shitty MS clipart... can't they sue them for copyright infringement in their patent claim??
At last, we now have a programming language that implements rot13() natively! Now my website's login authentication system will really fly...
True, the legality of having the ROM images is suspect...
If by "suspect" you mean "blatantly runs afoul of copyright law", then yes, the legality is "suspect". Just because there's no one to press charges doesn't mean it's legal or OK, and the OP obviously wants stuff that's undeniably redistributable.
OK, but does Mono or C# have its very own Slashdot icon? No?
Wow... just when I begin to think that open source may be making some true inroads in enterprise culture, someone who still doesn't even understand that you can make money off open source software gets modded "Insightful"...
I bet it will be by the time any deal get's done and there ready to start putting it in there (sic) process.
Y'know, when a post contains at least three spelling/grammatical errors, and you decide to call attention to only one of them, it makes you look just as uninformed as the OP.
Agreed... and, much like Sun with Java, I expect that someday in the future, Adobe will be saying to themselves: "We were so close to becoming the ubiquitous platform that everyone used for deploying rich internet content to every type of device and platform. Our decision to keep the Flash player closed-source for so long looks so stupid now. What were we thinking? If only we could go back ten years and open it up..."
Cue the tape! Fast-forward to minute 5...
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92xf94JPoB8&feature=related [youtube.com]
Thanks to the newly-available YouTube deep linking, I think you meant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92xf94JPoB8#t=5m
C# is indeed C followed by a musical sharp. But everyone uses the octothorpe for convenience.
If I had mod points I'd give 'em to ya but instead I'll just reply that you're correct. :) In fact the C# standard (don't have the link handy) specifically states that although sharp is the "correct" glyph to use, the octothorpe is an "accepted" alternative due to the lack of the former on keyboards.
I guess that it depends upon your definition of "buggy." You can design a language where the Integer object has a destructor named "toString" if you want to. And if someone did that, I would consider the design to be broken.
No, the definition of "buggy" is not open to interpretation. If your language defines a destructor named toString, then that is a feature of the language, not a bug. Any implementation which does not correctly implement it is therefore buggy, but the language itself is not.
Now, anyone is certainly free to argue whether a destructor named toString, or any particular feature of JavaScript, is a good idea, but saying that the language itself is "buggy" or "broken" is, by definition, incorrect.
it's slow, buggy, and prone to being abused. why are we still using it?
Slow? Not with the next generation of JIT JavaScript compilers coming up in Firefox 3.1, Google Chrome, and WebKit. And I'm sure IE will get there someday. Buggy? Not sure what you even mean by that... particular implementations may be buggy, but a programming language cannot itself be buggy. Prone to being abused? Which language isn't?
Imo, version 5 and 6 were both old by their release. Windows mobile has a lot of nice features but the interface is boring and lacking and the OS is buggy.
You ain't kidding. Its resemblance to desktop Windows is striking though... you have to reboot your phone every few days or else everything starts running slowly, rendering halfway-drawn dialog boxes on the screen, and eventually crashing. And talk about poor integration... every app that has you enter an email, phone number, or contact name does it differently. Some use auto-complete, and others don't. It's just a mess and I can't wait for Android to come out.
The article uses very unclear wording in that part, so I thought I'd clarify.
Microsoft will release updated browser in their 6.2 update. The good news is it can render Flash and AJAX and so on because it's based on the rendering engine of the desktop Internet Explorer browser. The bad news: it's based on the desktop version of *IE6*.
I was very dismayed to read that also. I currently have a Windows Mobile 6 phone (AT&T 8525) and its current web browser is just terrible (based on IE 4 from what I understand). I had heard that the next version of Pocket IE would finally enter this century and naturally figured it would have the IE7 rendering engine at least.
I'll never again buy a Windows Mobile phone. Microsoft is just too big and clumsy to continue innovating their products. It's ridiculous that I have to look for third-party software just to visit modern websites on my phone.
From my understanding of the GPL, this would only be true if the government is distributing the modified binaries to the terrorists. If the changes are internal-use only, there isn't a GPL conflict by not distributing the modified source.
I'm sure that they will be "distributing modified binaries to terrorists" at about 500 MPH :)
If they drop a smart bomb on someone that uses open source software in its circuitry, I'm guessing that's much like running GPL code on your webserver, and considered internal use only. Now if they use code under the Affero GPL, that could be interesting!
but lynx is a text-only browser. that's like saying a radio is a TV without the frills. stripping out core features does not make something have a cleaner interface or mean that the removed features are unnecessary.
Pffftt.. images may be "necessary" to you, but not all of us. Just this weekend I wrote a Perl script to render Flickr images in ASCII art. You can keep your fancy schmancy "images".
I think Adam Pash from Lifehacker puts it best: "What's Microsoft giving you out of the box besides Internet Explorer, a web browser you're going to use once to download a better one?"
"Transformers" is special? That's nearly as worrying as seeing "Eraser" at the top of the sales chart in the article.
While I'm sure it's fun to snobbishly deride others' tastes in movies that don't meet your own high-brow criteria for quality cinema, there's not much denying the fact that Transformers has currently set the bar for a special effects blockbuster, at least until next summer's crop one-ups it again. So while action movies with stunning CGI but a less than stellar plot may not be everyone's cup of tea, they are exactly the types of movies that Blu-Ray and HD showcase very well, and which differentiate themselves from standard DVDs the most, which I'm pretty sure was the point that GP was making.
I tried using the Schrodinger library but I'm uncertain it works. Plus, I can't find my cat.
I hate to tell you, but your cat is dead. And/or not.