look at a paper (or book) typeset in TeX. I mean, really look at it, notice how the paragrpahs are justified, how the serif/san serif/monotype fonts all match each other. Notice how well the letters are kerned. Notice how easy it is to read. Then look at something printed from most anything else.
I'm not a font-geek by any means, but I find ragged-right (left-justified) text to be ugly and unprofessional looking.
s/slashdotted/it with a bulldozer by a drunk construction worker/
Fault tolerance was the big selling point for the internet as a communications medium.
correction: Fault tolerence was the big selling point for ARPANet. When the internet backbones got handed off to commercial companies, the fault tolerance and redundant lines disappeared. Most of the major pipelines are near full capacity at peak times, so accidents, worms, equipment failure, etc can shutdown routes quite easily.
it's basically a pyramid scheme. A handful of well known leaders (RMS, ESR, Bruce Perens, Linus, etc) capitalize on their open source name recognition for high-paying ringer jobs, stock options, board of director, etc. The rest of the open source coders keep coding in their spare time (to the detriment of their own paying jobs!) in the hops that their Open Source project listed on sourceforge will attract venture capitalists to start a company, etc.
shouldn't this story go in the ads.slashdot.org section?
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the only thing spookier than the coincidental quote at the bottom of the page is the coincidental ad at the top of the page. And the predictable content between them.
how often does whiz bang hardware fail in windows yet works (and is supported) in linux without hours of dicking around with config files and recompiling the kernel?
Maybe if he's installing a circa 1994 floppy drive or something.
his idea is overly-complicated, but almost every linux/unix config file is designed differently, and requires reading a manual page or HOWTO to get to the finer points.
I'd hope that kde and gnome provide a framework to help make loading/saving preferences easier. I know openstep/gnustep/macos x has property list (and xml) file support built in. Load and save your preferences in a consistent format that's easy to edit in a text editor, and provide a nice GUI screen if you want to.
perl's statement if (condition) is nice, but I feel it only exists to make up for the lame if/elsif/else support.
Honestly, I wonder why if/else/elsif blocks need to be enclosed with {}. C has shift/reduce error, but perl is context-sensitive, so it can't be explained by language purity.
Upgrading to Python 2.3 will _not_ increase your skill levels, and will NOT make your AOL downloads faster!
Actually, it could. The PHP crowd blew every horn they could find when yahoo switched over to PHP, but AOL has been using python behind the scenes for a long time with little fanfare (or problems). So if it's AOL doing the upgrading, it might help your AOL downloads be faster.
There are plenty of upper management (or older generation) types that don't deal with email directly.
E. Djiekstra, for example, had his secretary print out email, to which he would write out a reply in long hand, which would then be typed back in.
Ted Turner stated in an interview a few months ago that his secretary deals with all his email, and he never touches it.
I know Lotus Notes allows you to allow others access to read/send email on your behalf. High level management have personal attendants to do shit like delete spam.
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Apple also makes the rack mounted X-Serve, and has OS-X Server.
4-5 years ago, there were rumors of Sun buying Apple. But then again, there were also rumors of IBM buying Apple.
I'm not a font-geek by any means, but I find ragged-right (left-justified) text to be ugly and unprofessional looking.
s/slashdotted/it with a bulldozer by a drunk construction worker/
Fault tolerance was the big selling point for the internet as a communications medium.
correction: Fault tolerence was the big selling point for ARPANet. When the internet backbones got handed off to commercial companies, the fault tolerance and redundant lines disappeared. Most of the major pipelines are near full capacity at peak times, so accidents, worms, equipment failure, etc can shutdown routes quite easily.
And I wonder if O'Reilly would be so successful without the perl books.
Next time, post a ninja-link to goatse.cx -- at least some guy's bloody asshole is less disgusting that watching b-flack and j-lo trying to act!
it's basically a pyramid scheme. A handful of well known leaders (RMS, ESR, Bruce Perens, Linus, etc) capitalize on their open source name recognition for high-paying ringer jobs, stock options, board of director, etc. The rest of the open source coders keep coding in their spare time (to the detriment of their own paying jobs!) in the hops that their Open Source project listed on sourceforge will attract venture capitalists to start a company, etc.
shouldn't this story go in the ads.slashdot.org section?
the only thing spookier than the coincidental quote at the bottom of the page is the coincidental ad at the top of the page. And the predictable content between them.
I submitted this story almost 20 years ago!
Maybe if he's installing a circa 1994 floppy drive or something.
this is great news! Too bad i don't care.
I'd hope that kde and gnome provide a framework to help make loading/saving preferences easier. I know openstep/gnustep/macos x has property list (and xml) file support built in. Load and save your preferences in a consistent format that's easy to edit in a text editor, and provide a nice GUI screen if you want to.
If you get busted with a dimebag, the police will confiscate it. It doesn't matter if you paid for it or stole it, or found it lying on the ground.
only in the USA could a poor black kid grow up to be a rich white woman.
if (is_true) parse(); else exit(0);
perl's statement if (condition) is nice, but I feel it only exists to make up for the lame if/elsif/else support.
Honestly, I wonder why if/else/elsif blocks need to be enclosed with {}. C has shift/reduce error, but perl is context-sensitive, so it can't be explained by language purity.
People don't want bandwidth or disk space or CPU cycles, they want a solution.
Actually, it could. The PHP crowd blew every horn they could find when yahoo switched over to PHP, but AOL has been using python behind the scenes for a long time with little fanfare (or problems). So if it's AOL doing the upgrading, it might help your AOL downloads be faster.
unless the story was posted by timothy, and it takes half an hour for him to unclick the "archived" button.
E. Djiekstra, for example, had his secretary print out email, to which he would write out a reply in long hand, which would then be typed back in.
Ted Turner stated in an interview a few months ago that his secretary deals with all his email, and he never touches it.
I know Lotus Notes allows you to allow others access to read/send email on your behalf. High level management have personal attendants to do shit like delete spam.
Wow. Marriage sure has changed you, CmdrTaco!
What good is Open Source if you do is wait for others to fix things?