Well, one reason is the process independence of the tabs. Just yesterday I had a bunch of tabs open in Firefox to all sorts of stuff - the Globe and Mail, YouTube, Slashdot, various bits of documentation, etc. One tab went nuts and brought the whole thing down. I hate that, and it should never happen. Each tab is like a separate app - having one tab crash everything harkens back to the days of cooperative multitasking (hello again, AmigoOS/Win 3.1/OS 7/8/9).
Once Chrome is fully up to speed with plugins and various refinements, I'll switch for sure.
Absolutely true. I would also offer up the example of the BC NDP party, and the unbelievably poor state in which they left this province. The NDP are fundamentally corrupt because of their close ties to the trade unions.
For most applications, some things are more important than speed - maintainability, portability, and time to market. "Fast enough" is good enough. Persistence frameworks allow you to focus on the stuff that matters - the actual business logic - and get the stuff out the door faster, to more clients, for more sales. Which is what it's all about.
The atrocities committed in Tibet by the Chinese are well-documented - the wilderness photographer Galen Rowell in particular took a large number of very damning photos, smuggled them out of the country, and when they were revealed to the world, the Chinese banned him for life from ever returning.
It doesn't really matter whether you think the Dalai Lama is a great guy or not, or whether the Iraq situation parallels it - two wrongs don't make a right, and many Americans who oppose what's happened to Tibet also oppose the invasion of Iraq.
Yes, they absolutely would accept your resume for programming jobs. At my old company, we hired two EEs for C progamming positions, and they did great.
The awesome thing about stories like this is it reveals who the religious kooks are, and so discredits any assertions they ever make about anything, past or present.
No, only the Common Language Infrastructure and C# have been submitted for standarisation. The rest of it remains proprietary, including the Framework Class Library, which makes.Net actually usable.
This depends on where you get your news. Afghanistan isn't an American operation the way Iraq is. There is a big Canadian and UK presence there too, so check news sources from those countries. The Canadians in particular are in southern Afghanistan/Kandahar and see more action than just about anybody, so there is plenty of news coverage on the CBC, including reporters' blogs, etc.
No, I don't think the US has anything in common with China (note: I'm not American - love how you assumed that, though). Have you any idea of the Chinese prison system, and how it operates? Do you understand the massive depth of corruption that exists throughout their society such that 10,000 children are killed in an earthquake because of shoddy building practices?
I'm somewhat connected to China via personal relations, and I can tell you that you have NO IDEA what you are talking about.
I never said the US was incorruptible or perfect, only that the scale of error is utterly different. And where did I malign the common people of China, or talk about the Cold War? You clearly live up to your user name, you dumb fuck.
1. Name the last time two democracies went to war against one another.
2. Tell me about all the prison camps and gulags that exist in democracies. Gitmo is one, for sure, and it is reprehensible. But the scale of what is happening there is nothing - NOTHING - compared to the Soviet gulags or the Chinese prison system. Or the North Korean, for that matter. I read an absolutely harrowing article by a woman who survived the latter - unbelievable.
3. Stalin killed 20 million of his own people, at a conservative estimate. That is around the equivalent of the total military deaths of all of World War 2.
4. The Holocaust....etc.
Democracy isn't a silver bullet, but the mistakes we make do not compare to the above.
It's always weird when people defend China, and point out problems and mistakes democratic nations have made to show how we are just as bad, even though the scope and scale are entirely different. It borders on the delusional.
If you indeed do need to run your own dns servers, then I second the PowerDNS recommendation. Having a proper sql backend is just paradise compared to the flat files of, uh, a certain other dns server that should be killed off. It's also worth noting that PowerDNS splits the authoritative server and the recursor into two separate daemons, which is quite a nifty idea.
My favourite is the terminal cursor. I was stuck on shitty Gnome at work, and the default terminal cursor is a blinking block. I prefer a non-blinking underscore, so I went into the terminal app's preferences to change it. Guess what - you can't. Eventually, I found a place in the general desktop config to change the cursor from blinking to non-blinking, but it affects the WHOLE desktop, not just the terminal! And I was still stuck with a block instead of an underscore.
So I spent the time to rip the whole thing out and install KDE 4.1, which has proper configurability. Now I have my non-blinking underscore...ahh.
Agreed - the 9/11 Truth stuff, the electric universe bullshit, climate change denial, it's all the same thing - a total lack of critical thinking and a desire to believe. All a truth label will do is feed conspiracy theorists.
The fossil record is only one part of evolutionary theory - consider picking up a genetics textbook sometime there, Moses. Evolution is the core of modern biology.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, one reason is the process independence of the tabs. Just yesterday I had a bunch of tabs open in Firefox to all sorts of stuff - the Globe and Mail, YouTube, Slashdot, various bits of documentation, etc. One tab went nuts and brought the whole thing down. I hate that, and it should never happen. Each tab is like a separate app - having one tab crash everything harkens back to the days of cooperative multitasking (hello again, AmigoOS/Win 3.1/OS 7/8/9).
Once Chrome is fully up to speed with plugins and various refinements, I'll switch for sure.
Those are some excellent links, thanks for posting them. Why has the parent post been modded as a troll?
We don't have a great choice of leaders at all in this election:
Harper: uncharismatic, suspiciously socially conservative
Elizabeth May: an American(!) and devout Christian
Dion: seems weak, plus the Liberals are corrupt and need a time-out
Layton: commented that Punjabi should be made Canada's third official language - enough said
Absolutely true. I would also offer up the example of the BC NDP party, and the unbelievably poor state in which they left this province. The NDP are fundamentally corrupt because of their close ties to the trade unions.
No offense, but aren't you the guy who bought his Slashdot account on eBay or somewhere?
For most applications, some things are more important than speed - maintainability, portability, and time to market. "Fast enough" is good enough. Persistence frameworks allow you to focus on the stuff that matters - the actual business logic - and get the stuff out the door faster, to more clients, for more sales. Which is what it's all about.
Oh come on, you can't make a comment like that and not explain it! Although given current methods for hydrogen production, I agree with you.
There's no combustion involved, actually, so there's no need to be flabbergasted.
Tibetans make up 40% of the population in Lhasa.
It used to be 100%. That's sort of the problem.
The atrocities committed in Tibet by the Chinese are well-documented - the wilderness photographer Galen Rowell in particular took a large number of very damning photos, smuggled them out of the country, and when they were revealed to the world, the Chinese banned him for life from ever returning.
It doesn't really matter whether you think the Dalai Lama is a great guy or not, or whether the Iraq situation parallels it - two wrongs don't make a right, and many Americans who oppose what's happened to Tibet also oppose the invasion of Iraq.
Andy Kaufman did not fake his death. That is a total urban legend, which is why it's not mentioned on that Wikipedia page.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/kaufman.asp
Yes, they absolutely would accept your resume for programming jobs. At my old company, we hired two EEs for C progamming positions, and they did great.
The awesome thing about stories like this is it reveals who the religious kooks are, and so discredits any assertions they ever make about anything, past or present.
Yes, good one. Another good database example is PostgreSQL. Apache and its various modules also have excellent docs.
Like you said, the searchability of MSDN leaves a lot to be desired. It's complete, but hard to find anything.
No, only the Common Language Infrastructure and C# have been submitted for standarisation. The rest of it remains proprietary, including the Framework Class Library, which makes .Net actually usable.
Not saying I'm doubting you, but could you give some examples of better or more extensive developer documentation?
This depends on where you get your news. Afghanistan isn't an American operation the way Iraq is. There is a big Canadian and UK presence there too, so check news sources from those countries. The Canadians in particular are in southern Afghanistan/Kandahar and see more action than just about anybody, so there is plenty of news coverage on the CBC, including reporters' blogs, etc.
No, I don't think the US has anything in common with China (note: I'm not American - love how you assumed that, though). Have you any idea of the Chinese prison system, and how it operates? Do you understand the massive depth of corruption that exists throughout their society such that 10,000 children are killed in an earthquake because of shoddy building practices?
I'm somewhat connected to China via personal relations, and I can tell you that you have NO IDEA what you are talking about.
I never said the US was incorruptible or perfect, only that the scale of error is utterly different. And where did I malign the common people of China, or talk about the Cold War? You clearly live up to your user name, you dumb fuck.
Yes, that's what I'm saying.
1. Name the last time two democracies went to war against one another.
2. Tell me about all the prison camps and gulags that exist in democracies. Gitmo is one, for sure, and it is reprehensible. But the scale of what is happening there is nothing - NOTHING - compared to the Soviet gulags or the Chinese prison system. Or the North Korean, for that matter. I read an absolutely harrowing article by a woman who survived the latter - unbelievable.
3. Stalin killed 20 million of his own people, at a conservative estimate. That is around the equivalent of the total military deaths of all of World War 2.
4. The Holocaust. ...etc.
Democracy isn't a silver bullet, but the mistakes we make do not compare to the above.
It's always weird when people defend China, and point out problems and mistakes democratic nations have made to show how we are just as bad, even though the scope and scale are entirely different. It borders on the delusional.
If you indeed do need to run your own dns servers, then I second the PowerDNS recommendation. Having a proper sql backend is just paradise compared to the flat files of, uh, a certain other dns server that should be killed off. It's also worth noting that PowerDNS splits the authoritative server and the recursor into two separate daemons, which is quite a nifty idea.
My favourite is the terminal cursor. I was stuck on shitty Gnome at work, and the default terminal cursor is a blinking block. I prefer a non-blinking underscore, so I went into the terminal app's preferences to change it. Guess what - you can't. Eventually, I found a place in the general desktop config to change the cursor from blinking to non-blinking, but it affects the WHOLE desktop, not just the terminal! And I was still stuck with a block instead of an underscore.
So I spent the time to rip the whole thing out and install KDE 4.1, which has proper configurability. Now I have my non-blinking underscore...ahh.
OS X isn't really BSD, so he's fine. And the parts of OS X that are derived from BSD are open anyway.
Agreed - the 9/11 Truth stuff, the electric universe bullshit, climate change denial, it's all the same thing - a total lack of critical thinking and a desire to believe. All a truth label will do is feed conspiracy theorists.
The fossil record is only one part of evolutionary theory - consider picking up a genetics textbook sometime there, Moses. Evolution is the core of modern biology.
You mean processes rather than threads. Big difference.