I'd say the human brain's advantage isn't so much in its raw computing power but its ability to teach itself, adapt to tasks without guidance, and be able to solve such a wide range of problems without needing to be programmed to.
Except most of the time, when programming, you don't need to know what is behind the libraries you are using. Abstracting the behind-the-scenes stuff is important, because it lets the developers of a library/API completely change how it works internally, and still have all programs that depended on it work just fine. It's certainly nice to be able to look, sure, but it shouldn't be necessary to become an excellent programmer. Accurate and complete documentation of libraries/APIs is important. Which both Linux and Microsoft have in spades.
I do see what you are saying, but my main point is the APIs are often vastly different depending on what you are doing. Chances are your application uses a fair amount of APIs specific to an operating system. Otherwise porting would be a piece of cake.
Except they aren't banning rocket motors at all. The issue is that UPS is placing restrictions on shipping them, and it looks like other shipping companies may follow suit. Using the rocket motors is still quite legal. Shipping them is still quite legal too- the only issue is that companies would have to license their employees with the ATFE under new regulations to be able to ship them.
Tradeoffs like that are often made in interfaces, though. In this case, having two separate related buttons, where when one is active the other never is is a waste of space. For example, some browsers feature a single reload/stop button, since the two functions are related but fairly mutually exclusive
Uh.. do a little research into a tiny thing called NeXTStep.. It was quite robust for development of serious business apps. You are, quite frankly, pulling comments out of your ass.
I'd like you to provide some examples of why Macs are unsuitable for business.
When this feature kicks in, the 'forward' button changes to a 'fast forward' button, using a double arrow instead of a single. Also, the fast forward button will only appear when the forward button would usually be greyed out (no pages in forward history).. so there is no ambiguity here, just added functionality.
Um.. if you read the article, the guy who WORKS for Opera used wget with different browser identification strings. He includes links to the pages that wget obtained for different browser strings.. you can download them and diff them easily enough. If you put 'Opera' in the identification string, you got a broken style sheet, whereas if you put in 'Oprah', you got the IE6 one that works just fine. Earlier and latest versions of Opera rendered fine with the IE6 stylesheet.. a specific check was being made for Opera, and Opera was being fed a style sheet that made it appear very broken.
Funny thing.. as of last night, though, MSN now looks fine in Opera, where I saw it was broken before. Power of Slashdot, huh?
I don't see how you can make such a blanket statement like that with a straight face. Do you like it when people hold prejudices about you for liking computers, or whatnot? You are incredibly closed minded.
I agree that the core HTML engine is very important, but interface also counts for a lot. I'm not saying either is better or worse, but Safari and Konqueror sport very different interfaces.
Yes, Apple, with its large web browser marketshare, is producing a browser that is causing people to migrate away from Opera on no less than 8 operating systems.
Look, I love OS X. (well, mainly Cocoa and Aqua.. well, and Quartz Extreme... and Rendezvous.. and..) But saying Safari is driving Opera out of the market is goofy.
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I'd say the human brain's advantage isn't so much in its raw computing power but its ability to teach itself, adapt to tasks without guidance, and be able to solve such a wide range of problems without needing to be programmed to.
Except most of the time, when programming, you don't need to know what is behind the libraries you are using. Abstracting the behind-the-scenes stuff is important, because it lets the developers of a library/API completely change how it works internally, and still have all programs that depended on it work just fine. It's certainly nice to be able to look, sure, but it shouldn't be necessary to become an excellent programmer. Accurate and complete documentation of libraries/APIs is important. Which both Linux and Microsoft have in spades.
I do see what you are saying, but my main point is the APIs are often vastly different depending on what you are doing. Chances are your application uses a fair amount of APIs specific to an operating system. Otherwise porting would be a piece of cake.
I think anyone who start programming on any *nix machine, will have a better understanding of how to prgram on windoze if they need to anyway.
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Yeah.. I think that anyone who has learned Japanese will have a better understanding of how to speak French, anyway.
because its (a) two years old and (b) just another gas-sucking penis-replacement.
Dude.. I dunno.. I don't think that car is fitting in my girlfriend.
While we are bashing this, let's get rid of file permissions in Ext2.
Except they aren't banning rocket motors at all. The issue is that UPS is placing restrictions on shipping them, and it looks like other shipping companies may follow suit. Using the rocket motors is still quite legal. Shipping them is still quite legal too- the only issue is that companies would have to license their employees with the ATFE under new regulations to be able to ship them.
Tradeoffs like that are often made in interfaces, though. In this case, having two separate related buttons, where when one is active the other never is is a waste of space. For example, some browsers feature a single reload/stop button, since the two functions are related but fairly mutually exclusive
Thanks, I'd love an omelette right now.
Uh.. do a little research into a tiny thing called NeXTStep.. It was quite robust for development of serious business apps. You are, quite frankly, pulling comments out of your ass.
I'd like you to provide some examples of why Macs are unsuitable for business.
When this feature kicks in, the 'forward' button changes to a 'fast forward' button, using a double arrow instead of a single. Also, the fast forward button will only appear when the forward button would usually be greyed out (no pages in forward history).. so there is no ambiguity here, just added functionality.
Does Square have any relation to Squaresoft?
Offensive as it may be, Slashdot does not delete posts (with extremely rare exceptions.. it's maybe happened once or twice)
Link? Source?
You'll be back. They all come crawling back.
What was the original link?
Um.. if you read the article, the guy who WORKS for Opera used wget with different browser identification strings. He includes links to the pages that wget obtained for different browser strings.. you can download them and diff them easily enough. If you put 'Opera' in the identification string, you got a broken style sheet, whereas if you put in 'Oprah', you got the IE6 one that works just fine. Earlier and latest versions of Opera rendered fine with the IE6 stylesheet.. a specific check was being made for Opera, and Opera was being fed a style sheet that made it appear very broken.
Funny thing.. as of last night, though, MSN now looks fine in Opera, where I saw it was broken before. Power of Slashdot, huh?
I don't see how you can make such a blanket statement like that with a straight face. Do you like it when people hold prejudices about you for liking computers, or whatnot? You are incredibly closed minded.
I use my car to get to work (1 hour). How is this correcting a problem caused by other technological advances?
Yeah, but you sure will have a hell of a lot of body work to pay for.
That pales in comparison to: "Slashback: NWLink, Vivendi, Fistfucks"
I agree that the core HTML engine is very important, but interface also counts for a lot. I'm not saying either is better or worse, but Safari and Konqueror sport very different interfaces.
Yes, Apple, with its large web browser marketshare, is producing a browser that is causing people to migrate away from Opera on no less than 8 operating systems.
Look, I love OS X. (well, mainly Cocoa and Aqua.. well, and Quartz Extreme... and Rendezvous.. and..) But saying Safari is driving Opera out of the market is goofy.
Posting in a story undoes any moderation you did to that story.
That's utterly bizarre.. you would think identical program would produce identical files, but apparently not..