> "Damn and blast British Telecom" exclaimed Dirk, the words coming easily from force of habit.
But you have to admit that they only charge local rates for calls to Bermuda from London, even back through time to the beginning of life on earth (which is either a few million or exactly 6000 years). What other company can promise good reception while using a time machine.
It's not really due to the fact that they are public sector companies - the reason is more to do with what happens when they run at a loss. Usually the government just subsidises them with increased taxes. In the long run, they diverge from being profit oriented to survival oriented , in other words making manageable losses.
In India we saw an about-turn in service quality when BSNL became a for-profit company. After all telecom is not for Future Good like Education or something... it's for now and today.
For one, slashdot renders properly in IE. Secondly it does come with my box - not as a 4 Mb download I have to make afterwards. It is not a good product for the sole reason that it existed to kill netscape's "web apps" - which are coming back as Mozilla.
I've been using Firefox for a while now and it seems like more then 'just another browser' to me.
Then firefox has failed. Firefox was meant to be "Just a Browser" , not the "An Application Platform by itself" Mozilla route. That is the what it was meant to do - and it sure does. It's a browser - a good one , but just a browser still.
> Google receives and temporarily caches cookie data that your computer sends with webpage requests in order to improve performance.
Cookies with session ids are the most common auth systems in practice. So what happens when google gets my cookie ?. (think about your webmail for example).
Note however that the TCP/IP work was done under a DARPA grant, paid for by the US government, so it is not only legal, but even moral right for Microsoft to use this code.
Microsoft does not have the moral right to use it because it prevents the exact same thing from happening again. It seems to concentrate on shoveling money from governments (US included) into it's bank even after reaping the benefits of public funded open software.
The obvious double standards is what we look down upon.
I gained a lot of respect for Java apps when I tried Azureus for the first time.
Sun would have fit if you called an SWT application a java application. Which in turn proves that Sun is truly a hardware company and has always been. Java has been wasted on Sun.
> Flash, Java,.NET, XUL, blah. If Laszlo really wants to make a difference, you should target AJAX.
You miss the point totally . Flash had the first Ajax (stupid name - because he went crazy and killed himself) like implementation. You should look at XmlSocket in flash to realize how good it was .
The real reason why this didn't become that popular was that you needed an expensive flash authoring tool to use it compared to just vi/emacs for Ajax.
Flash is cool , was cool and Adobe willing will remain cool. (and I'm a FOSS geek who thinks animated SVG will never quite make it).
I've been digging with XmlHttpRequest for over a month now - what I'd really love would be a way to automatically expose Java methods to Javascript.
Ideally it would be just an <script src="http://server/myclass.jws?client=javascript"> </script> . I don't give a damn whether it generates full SOAP stubs or anything - I want it to "Just Work".
Php's type-less stuff doesn't really help me too much
He's one president I really admire. A very learned and very humble man.
It's really sad that he holds no real power in India, unless there's an out & out war (in which case he commands the army, navy and air force). Nehru made the president a rubber stamp, which is why intellectuals like Adbul Kalam ended up in that seat.
I have a feeling that he'd do much better just to go back to Nuclear research. This feels so much like Newton being in the house of commons. But yeah, he's capable of using what little power he has to beat down *commision* vendors for government.
It's about time it came out with EWMH.. I've already switched to fluxbox (yeah, and fluxgen is a very helpful guy on irc).
You might want to say that Forking is bad for the health of any project - but sometimes such branching off can keep a project alive. If there hadn't been a fluxbox - I'd have dumped blackbox for good.
Is there any reason for blackbox anymore ?. (well, other than the "choice" factor).
Being an Indian and all that, I'm very much concerned about unicode sorting/collation kind of thing. Postgres has the best unicode support I've ever seen.
Ever since I started using transactions in pgsql, I haven't looked back to mysql land. All I now need is the Postgres-R (replication) stuff to work out of the box (like it does for mysql). I don't know if transaction speeds might be hit by replication or not.
Also great win32 installer - thank god the pgsql jdbc components aren't GPL. (it's a thin edge of the wedge to get it used for in house projects).
> the fact that the guy is the CEO of a site that caters to weirdos and doesn't think it is, or the fact that he doesn't find his website name, "Get In My Belly!", humiliating.
Of course all decent readers will interpret that as content ingested by the mouth. If you accidentally imagine something other wise (*umm*..) , please see this to be cleansed.
Of course, cannibalism is the only crime more henious than murder... (and Hitler was a vegetarian). [*confused*]
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Eat dirt you Khtml mongrels ?...
... It's just a browser on TOP of Gecko
... I wonder ... politics of OSS projects
With thanks to CPU Wars.
Btw, FireFox didn't invent Gecko
If Apple submitted a few more cleaner KHtml patches
But you have to admit that they only charge local rates for calls to Bermuda from London, even back through time to the beginning of life on earth (which is either a few million or exactly 6000 years). What other company can promise good reception while using a time machine.
Here's another nice one: Use BS&S and DieIn India we saw an about-turn in service quality when BSNL became a for-profit company. After all telecom is not for Future Good like Education or something... it's for now and today.
A very belated Happy Birthday ?. This black hole was probably born before there were mammals on earth , I suppose.
Looking into deep space is sort of looking back into time - time is space and space is timeFor one, slashdot renders properly in IE. Secondly it does come with my box - not as a 4 Mb download I have to make afterwards. It is not a good product for the sole reason that it existed to kill netscape's "web apps" - which are coming back as Mozilla.
I've been using Firefox for a while now and it seems like more then 'just another browser' to me.Then firefox has failed. Firefox was meant to be "Just a Browser" , not the "An Application Platform by itself" Mozilla route. That is the what it was meant to do - and it sure does. It's a browser - a good one , but just a browser still.
You'll also end up with idiots exploiting the same gray (or grey) areas to deny RIAA their profits. Which is what is happening right now.
It's an evolutionary arms race - but played out in internet time instead of in centuries.- DOS -- CP/M
- Windows 3.1 -- Apple
- Windows NT -- OS/2
- IE -- Netscape
- MS Word -- WordPerfect
- WinFS -- BeFS (and Cairo OFS)
.NET/C# -- Java
And Longhorn will have the kitchen sinkCookies with session ids are the most common auth systems in practice. So what happens when google gets my cookie ?. (think about your webmail for example).
Microsoft does not have the moral right to use it because it prevents the exact same thing from happening again. It seems to concentrate on shoveling money from governments (US included) into it's bank even after reaping the benefits of public funded open software.
The obvious double standards is what we look down upon.Sun would have fit if you called an SWT application a java application. Which in turn proves that Sun is truly a hardware company and has always been. Java has been wasted on Sun.
A 160 GB Dell Sata costs 202 EUR - which would incur a tax of ~200% if it had been sold For an Mp3 player.
Also this tax pretty much legitimises copyright violations or in theory should.Overclocking ?. Mmm.. that explains that thermal signature.
You miss the point totally . Flash had the first Ajax (stupid name - because he went crazy and killed himself) like implementation. You should look at XmlSocket in flash to realize how good it was .
The real reason why this didn't become that popular was that you needed an expensive flash authoring tool to use it compared to just vi/emacs for Ajax.Flash is cool , was cool and Adobe willing will remain cool. (and I'm a FOSS geek who thinks animated SVG will never quite make it).
Shared sores.... maybe open too..
Also not to mention that BeeHive @attributes looks a hell of a lot like .NET's [WebMethod]...
Sad to see Sun copying MS (JVM had custom attributes since '97, but Java never had - till now).
I've been digging with XmlHttpRequest for over a month now - what I'd really love would be a way to automatically expose Java methods to Javascript.
> </script> . I don't give a damn whether it generates full SOAP stubs or anything - I want it to "Just Work".
Ideally it would be just an <script src="http://server/myclass.jws?client=javascript"
Php's type-less stuff doesn't really help me too much
It's really sad that he holds no real power in India, unless there's an out & out war (in which case he commands the army, navy and air force). Nehru made the president a rubber stamp, which is why intellectuals like Adbul Kalam ended up in that seat.
I have a feeling that he'd do much better just to go back to Nuclear research. This feels so much like Newton being in the house of commons. But yeah, he's capable of using what little power he has to beat down *commision* vendors for government.Google's always behind technology
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:)
Yahoo's always behind safe money (see the Y! News vs G News)
And Microsoft is behind all evil,
Netscape survived as Firefox and
Macromedia just went to Adobe
That's a brief history of the web since Y2K
if you have any more doubts - look at the configuration screen. Also peek at the commented code - looks familiar ?. (linux, etc..)
And I thought Gentoo for Solaris was a joke .... Maybe the Ubunu Co-Linux thing should have been announced tonight.
I think it was cancelled due to lack of interest (on the sponsor's side, I think). I don't think there'll be an event left to cancel in 2006 ...
But yeah, I think I should sing Hey Vendor ! , leave our kids alone ...
It's about time it came out with EWMH .. I've already switched to fluxbox (yeah, and fluxgen is a very helpful guy on irc).
You might want to say that Forking is bad for the health of any project - but sometimes such branching off can keep a project alive. If there hadn't been a fluxbox - I'd have dumped blackbox for good.
Is there any reason for blackbox anymore ?. (well, other than the "choice" factor).
Ever since I started using transactions in pgsql, I haven't looked back to mysql land. All I now need is the Postgres-R (replication) stuff to work out of the box (like it does for mysql). I don't know if transaction speeds might be hit by replication or not.
Also great win32 installer - thank god the pgsql jdbc components aren't GPL. (it's a thin edge of the wedge to get it used for in house projects).Of course all decent readers will interpret that as content ingested by the mouth. If you accidentally imagine something other wise (*umm*..) , please see this to be cleansed.
Of course, cannibalism is the only crime more henious than murder