Ars Technica tends to have better, though fewer, comments to their stories, and threads are moderated pretty ruthlessly (trolls etc. are deleted outright). The story topics tend to be better and often more technical. There is no Idle and not much in the way of Your Rights Online type stuff either. Desktop Linux zealotry is generally viewed with a really raised eyebrow of doubt, as it should be.
1. Written in Java, which means you're more likely to have on-site language expertise in case something goes seriously awry (you get the source when you buy a license).
2. Lots of support available, as it's the most popular enterprise wiki system.
3. Integrates with SharePoint, which for many places is a must-have.
Basically, Atlassian focuses on the enterprise market, and it shows. Best tool for the job, etc.
To be honest, a book review isn't the same as a book summary. People who buy a book like this generally know what's going to be covered. The real question is quality of coverage.
Maybe picking one or two areas that are of interest to you and discussing how Love's coverage of them gave you deeper understanding might have been the way to go, not to mention less typing for you.
Embryos are "destroyed" all the time via miscarriages, in vitro fertilisation and abortion. The "think of the embryos" argument only makes sense if you have some kind of religious belief about these things, in which case you should be kept far away from any science-based decision making anyway.
Good idea, except it would be more realistic to throw acid on the girls instead. And don't forget the side-missions of stalking around town grabbing men's beards to make sure they're long enough.
Yeah, I'm also shocked at how many youngish people (up to, say, early 20s) believe it was faked. I'm not sure if it's just a hip contrarian stance or a cynical view of government endeavours of all sorts or what, but it's pretty depressing.
Anecdotally, I know a woman in her late 30s who believes they were faked. She is a director at the local Science World.
Therefore, they are entitled to pirate it, against the developer's wishes. Great logic.
Here's an idea: instead of not paying developers who wish to be paid for the use of the software they've written, why don't people who don't want to pay for software just write their own? Oh yeah, they don't know how, which is why developers ask for money in the first place.
Apple approves 90%+ of all apps, according to their stats. They reject ones that don't work as advertised, that crash a lot, or that obviously violate their guidelines (malware, etc.).
If Apple's process was as horrible as the dummies around here like to pretend it is, the App Store wouldn't be such a fabulously successful enterprise.
2. ActionScript 3 is quite dissimilar to Java in various ways, making the syntactical similarities superficial. For example, method parameter semantics are totally different (AS passes by reference, except for "special" types which get passed by value). There are no generics or strongly-typed containers and no block scoping. It supports global variables, which Java shuns. AS lacks private classes. Etc., etc.
3. Flash/Flex is not touch-friendly and generally make for a poor mobile experience.
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Probably OpenOffice Base is your best bet. I've never tried it, but I know it's often put forward as an Access alternative. But like most things OpenOffice, it probably falls short in several (or many) respects.
The article mentioned NextSTEP's "Unix underpinnings" several times, actually. The typical reader of that article doesn't care about the distinction between BSD and System V - just saying Unix is informative enough.
Well, OS X is a Unix, so it's no surprise it feels familiar. Agreed about NextSTEP, although didn't the article mention it derived from "Unix"? I can't recall if it did or not. For most readers, the distinction between just saying "Unix" and "BSD" is probably irrelevant.
That would be more of a history of NextSTEP, which is where the BSD stuff was originally pulled in. There's this misconception that modern OS X is more or less a clone of one or more BSDs, but that is not the case.
"However most notably Robert Louis Kemp celebrates the work and wisdom on one which he quotes throughout his prose and cites credit beyond all the others, and that is God."
"I will reiterate the tools described by Kemp, as stated in his Prologue, 'For me, the mathematics of physics, are the tools that God gave man that he may understand, describe, and predict the great works of God's created universe.' "
What on earth is this sort of claptrap doing on Slashdot?
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Care to elaborate? Or do you just hate BSD's userland?
Ars Technica tends to have better, though fewer, comments to their stories, and threads are moderated pretty ruthlessly (trolls etc. are deleted outright). The story topics tend to be better and often more technical. There is no Idle and not much in the way of Your Rights Online type stuff either. Desktop Linux zealotry is generally viewed with a really raised eyebrow of doubt, as it should be.
Does this mean he no longer works at Slashdot?
No, it's kind of dumb and no manufacturer will bother to pay attention. Nice try at fear-mongering, though.
1. Written in Java, which means you're more likely to have on-site language expertise in case something goes seriously awry (you get the source when you buy a license).
2. Lots of support available, as it's the most popular enterprise wiki system.
3. Integrates with SharePoint, which for many places is a must-have.
Basically, Atlassian focuses on the enterprise market, and it shows. Best tool for the job, etc.
Andrew Plotkin's stuff is great. Never played Spider and Web though, thanks for the recommendation.
To be honest, a book review isn't the same as a book summary. People who buy a book like this generally know what's going to be covered. The real question is quality of coverage.
Maybe picking one or two areas that are of interest to you and discussing how Love's coverage of them gave you deeper understanding might have been the way to go, not to mention less typing for you.
Embryos are "destroyed" all the time via miscarriages, in vitro fertilisation and abortion. The "think of the embryos" argument only makes sense if you have some kind of religious belief about these things, in which case you should be kept far away from any science-based decision making anyway.
That is one kooky-ass website you've got there.
Good idea, except it would be more realistic to throw acid on the girls instead. And don't forget the side-missions of stalking around town grabbing men's beards to make sure they're long enough.
No.
Godel used the term "formal system" to specifically mean a recursive axiomatic system that can do arithmetic. I don't think it really applies here.
Yeah, I'm also shocked at how many youngish people (up to, say, early 20s) believe it was faked. I'm not sure if it's just a hip contrarian stance or a cynical view of government endeavours of all sorts or what, but it's pretty depressing.
Anecdotally, I know a woman in her late 30s who believes they were faked. She is a director at the local Science World.
Therefore, they are entitled to pirate it, against the developer's wishes. Great logic.
Here's an idea: instead of not paying developers who wish to be paid for the use of the software they've written, why don't people who don't want to pay for software just write their own? Oh yeah, they don't know how, which is why developers ask for money in the first place.
FYI, BadAnalogyGuy is an honest-to-god, old-fashioned troll.
If there was an award for dumbest post of the day, yours would win.
Apple approves 90%+ of all apps, according to their stats. They reject ones that don't work as advertised, that crash a lot, or that obviously violate their guidelines (malware, etc.).
If Apple's process was as horrible as the dummies around here like to pretend it is, the App Store wouldn't be such a fabulously successful enterprise.
1. It's "Java", not "JAVA". It's not an acronym.
2. ActionScript 3 is quite dissimilar to Java in various ways, making the syntactical similarities superficial. For example, method parameter semantics are totally different (AS passes by reference, except for "special" types which get passed by value). There are no generics or strongly-typed containers and no block scoping. It supports global variables, which Java shuns. AS lacks private classes. Etc., etc.
3. Flash/Flex is not touch-friendly and generally make for a poor mobile experience.
Probably OpenOffice Base is your best bet. I've never tried it, but I know it's often put forward as an Access alternative. But like most things OpenOffice, it probably falls short in several (or many) respects.
Wrong on Webkit. It wasn't "taken", for one thing. And Webkit bears little resemblance to KHTML these days.
The article mentioned NextSTEP's "Unix underpinnings" several times, actually. The typical reader of that article doesn't care about the distinction between BSD and System V - just saying Unix is informative enough.
Well, OS X is a Unix, so it's no surprise it feels familiar. Agreed about NextSTEP, although didn't the article mention it derived from "Unix"? I can't recall if it did or not. For most readers, the distinction between just saying "Unix" and "BSD" is probably irrelevant.
That would be more of a history of NextSTEP, which is where the BSD stuff was originally pulled in. There's this misconception that modern OS X is more or less a clone of one or more BSDs, but that is not the case.
Actually, the author of the book mentions a literal God as the creator of the universe etc., and not the metaphorical "God" of Einstein.
"However most notably Robert Louis Kemp celebrates the work and wisdom on one which he quotes throughout his prose and cites credit beyond all the others, and that is God."
"I will reiterate the tools described by Kemp, as stated in his Prologue, 'For me, the mathematics of physics, are the tools that God gave man that he may understand, describe, and predict the great works of God's created universe.' "
What on earth is this sort of claptrap doing on Slashdot?