Like most recent Blizzard releases, it will also ship simultaneously for the Mac Yes, using openGL instead of directX. Come on, a linux port must not be that difficult then !
Give any bar/restaurant/coffee shop that install free wifi equipment in his establishment a 500$ refund on taxes. Oh, and make them buy larger tables also...
As for the rest of this article, already 95% of the comments are completely worthless "boo Microsoft is so evil" themes. If you want to make an impact in the business world you'd better try and come up with something a little more mature than that.
Ok, got it:
As the founder as the independent [and self proclaimed] Paris Laboratory of Software Good Practice and Methods, I hereby make the following statement. A recent survey made in a representative sample of the professional programming population gave the following result:
- 76% of programmers consider MS products inferior to unix flavors
- 24% consider it superior
Conclusion of the study : Microsoft products fail short of expectations on their ability to leverage innovative processes in terms of feature enablement.
Okay, small prints for people actually interested in statistics : margin of error of more than 1% on a 4 peoples sample population. Now publish me in "Red herring" and watch this having more effects on the business world than a patch to some OSS project.
Oh, and btw : "Booo evil corporate world, please continue to ignore slashdot"
Arguably, you wouldn't want to use Internet Explorer for that. 80% of the visit to the site were made with IE. Here is a quote:
Here is a breakdown:
IE 5.5 1
IE 6.0 286
IE 7.0 48
Safari (419.3) 1
Opera 9.01 1
Opera 9.10 1
Firefox 1.0 7
Firefox 1.5.0.7 9
Firefox 1.5.0.8 2
Firefox 1.5.0.9 3
Firefox 2.0 3
Firefox 2.0.0.1 6
Firefox 2.0.0.2 1
Firefox 2.0.0.3 21
SeaMonkey 1.1 2
AdsBot-Google 24
Let me get this straight...
A random guy said on his blog that wikipedia sucks ? I mean, couldn't we....
Oww right, this is Slashdot. Nevermind then...
I think that what the founder tried to do is something interesting in courageous with their IPO. If they kept it private, as long as they lived and spent their time managing the Google company they could have fight to make the "do no evil" motto hold true. Now they prefered to turn Google in a publicly traded company, that is, a beast of many heads. And now they are trying to tame it to follow the motto. They proved that "not doing evil" was the key of their success, they want the company as whole to understand it. I wish them good luck.
This is actually a big issue in Slashdot, I think that when a lot of people on/. will get this trick, it will soon become umanageable. I, for one, believe that comments should be listed in their moderation order, +5 posts being at the top and +5 answers being first in their answers.
In order to make moderation easier, I also think that it would be a good idea to sort equally modded comments in reverse-chronological order. In fact, one can assume that a post that didn't get modded up during several hours will stay at 0 or 1 so most moderators could see the most recently posted stuff, which bear a greater probability of being worth a mod point.
The current moderation system assumed that most stories would not get more than 50 comments but nowadays 200/300 somments are fairly common.
By the way, someone knows how to configure windows XP so that it restores the session after it reboots ? I mean relaunching applications, web pages, explorer, Visual Studio, like KDE does when I quit it with applications still running ?
Well, at the time, it was just considered anti-republican and being a friend of USSR. Don't confuse socialism (which is our moderate left wing movement) with communism (which is what you call also communism).
I must also remind that Chirac is a right-wing politician, staunch opponent to left-wing candidates. But I think that the saying of Churchill is considered true by many people : "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."
Retention of data is, for good or bad, something that happens and will continue to happen. That's what Information Technology is about. This phenomenon is not new. Politician have known this for ages, and a journalist can easily dig into the past to find some crusty anecdotes about a politician's twenties. The fact is that nobody cares. Everyone has made stupid thing during their youth, done stupid things in private, and everyone knows that this doesn't matter much.
Here in France we have had photos of Chirac selling a communist newspaper while he was young or our ex-prime minister dancing shirtless at a private party. It didn't matter much.
Why wouldn't you just use the text of the DMCA itself as the key? Then the government can't publish it! The no-fly list mess proved us that since the patriot act, unpublished laws can be enforced by the government. So the use of a takedown notice (or just an essential part of it) makes for a very insightful choice.
I have always thought the point of OSS development was as such : * Install proprietary OS * Use proprietary OS * Mumble against the lack of feature X * Rant against the lack of feature X * Code feature X for the proprietary OS * Mumble when you discover you don't have all the necessary informations ti improve the OS * Load a free OS * Code the friggin' feature. * Rant about this world of retard where you had to code feature X by yourself because no one else found it interesting * No profit, but an OS that finally matches your needs
Yeah, that's what I was taught but you made me doubt. After a few wikipedia readings here is what I see : * Indochine war ended in 1954, with French troops retiring * Vietnam war started in 1959 * Dean Acheson was in office from 1949 to 1953
So, as much as I agree on your quotes, I think that French asked for american help during their war, before their withdrawal. After that there has been constant American support of the South-Vietnamese government and the war broke to prevent the "domino effect", then popular theory in Washington. And I think that what disturbed France was that the South-Vietnamese government wasn't fairly elected. That is a bit hypocrite, I have to agree : the fight against communism was also in France's interests.
By the way, remember Vietnam? That was France's mess we ended up trying to clean up. I don't really think they have a leg to stand on with this kind of hypocritical chiding. Off-topic and troll but I like to jump on these:-)
Vietnam was then called Indochine. We made a mess and we pulled out, we recommended US to not engage in this but neverless, they went.
Well his enemies compare him to G.W. Bush.
He is more at the right than usual in France, he won by attracting electors of Le Pen, the far-right candidate.
I heard from people who work with international teams that this is the american way of doing. You need a champion, you need a super-hero who will be credited for the whole project. This is a bit shocking for other cultures I must say.
Internet is information on demand, but given a large amount of demands, some of the demands are redundant. For instance, it would make a lot of sense for a local ISP to cache the google homepage. Also, when making a modification on said homepage, it would make sense for Google to broadcast a signal to all ISPs to update their caches, or even to broadcast the new homepage to everyone. It is even more interesting in the case of the homepage of news websites.
I think that in order to see the benefits of the broadcasting of data, you have to take the ISPs and service providers point of vie, not the final user's.
Today, the ISP transmit every request from their users to the service provider, and the service providers answer to each user request. In the case of a dynamic web like online shops or search engines, there are no alternatives. But in the case of semi-static websites like news sites, having a system of cache synchronized at the ISP level thanks to a regular broadcast from the server can actually save a lot of bandwidth to the ISP and the service provider.
Remember the problem slashdot had with softwares like NewsTicker when it first provided a RSS feed. This is the kind of problems this wants to solve if I understand correctly.
Disclaimer : I didn't watch the one-hour long video with no transcript. Give me a text and save this bandwidth already, dammit !
Please note that if cold fusion really exists, it will probably not bear the same amount of energy. After all, the first occurrence of hot fusion was in the Hydrogen Bomb and the first occurrence of cold fusion was a bottle making bubbles.
Still interesting to power my laptop battery but maybe not enough for my jetpack.
A computer that can access Wikipedia and receive and send some mails, even only in black & white, even with only a text display, is still worth more than 10$. If they manage to do this, this could really be an impressive breakthrough in India's educative programs.
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You mean fusion power plants ? Because trading oil dependence for uranium dependence leads nowhere.
Give any bar/restaurant/coffee shop that install free wifi equipment in his establishment a 500$ refund on taxes. Oh, and make them buy larger tables also...
Ok, got it
As the founder as the independent [and self proclaimed] Paris Laboratory of Software Good Practice and Methods, I hereby make the following statement. A recent survey made in a representative sample of the professional programming population gave the following result
- 76% of programmers consider MS products inferior to unix flavors
- 24% consider it superior
Conclusion of the study : Microsoft products fail short of expectations on their ability to leverage innovative processes in terms of feature enablement.
Okay, small prints for people actually interested in statistics : margin of error of more than 1% on a 4 peoples sample population. Now publish me in "Red herring" and watch this having more effects on the business world than a patch to some OSS project.
Oh, and btw : "Booo evil corporate world, please continue to ignore slashdot"
IE 6.0 286
IE 7.0 48
Safari (419.3) 1
Opera 9.01 1
Opera 9.10 1
Firefox 1.0 7
Firefox 1.5.0.7 9
Firefox 1.5.0.8 2
Firefox 1.5.0.9 3
Firefox 2.0 3
Firefox 2.0.0.1 6
Firefox 2.0.0.2 1
Firefox 2.0.0.3 21
SeaMonkey 1.1 2
AdsBot-Google 24
Total 416
Let me get this straight...
A random guy said on his blog that wikipedia sucks ? I mean, couldn't we....
Oww right, this is Slashdot. Nevermind then...
Well thanks, I never realized that!
I bet that without midchlorians it can't taste the same.
I think that what the founder tried to do is something interesting in courageous with their IPO. If they kept it private, as long as they lived and spent their time managing the Google company they could have fight to make the "do no evil" motto hold true. Now they prefered to turn Google in a publicly traded company, that is, a beast of many heads. And now they are trying to tame it to follow the motto. They proved that "not doing evil" was the key of their success, they want the company as whole to understand it. I wish them good luck.
This is actually a big issue in Slashdot, I think that when a lot of people on /. will get this trick, it will soon become umanageable. I, for one, believe that comments should be listed in their moderation order, +5 posts being at the top and +5 answers being first in their answers.
In order to make moderation easier, I also think that it would be a good idea to sort equally modded comments in reverse-chronological order. In fact, one can assume that a post that didn't get modded up during several hours will stay at 0 or 1 so most moderators could see the most recently posted stuff, which bear a greater probability of being worth a mod point.
The current moderation system assumed that most stories would not get more than 50 comments but nowadays 200/300 somments are fairly common.
Just my two euro-cents
By the way, someone knows how to configure windows XP so that it restores the session after it reboots ? I mean relaunching applications, web pages, explorer, Visual Studio, like KDE does when I quit it with applications still running ?
Well, at the time, it was just considered anti-republican and being a friend of USSR. Don't confuse socialism (which is our moderate left wing movement) with communism (which is what you call also communism).
I must also remind that Chirac is a right-wing politician, staunch opponent to left-wing candidates. But I think that the saying of Churchill is considered true by many people : "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."
Retention of data is, for good or bad, something that happens and will continue to happen. That's what Information Technology is about. This phenomenon is not new. Politician have known this for ages, and a journalist can easily dig into the past to find some crusty anecdotes about a politician's twenties. The fact is that nobody cares. Everyone has made stupid thing during their youth, done stupid things in private, and everyone knows that this doesn't matter much.
Here in France we have had photos of Chirac selling a communist newspaper while he was young or our ex-prime minister dancing shirtless at a private party. It didn't matter much.
... an intelligent hybrid car !
Of course, the missing feature we don't have but that robots could have is the internal switch : pain ON/OFF
*cough* biggots *cough*
I have always thought the point of OSS development was as such :
* Install proprietary OS
* Use proprietary OS
* Mumble against the lack of feature X
* Rant against the lack of feature X
* Code feature X for the proprietary OS
* Mumble when you discover you don't have all the necessary informations ti improve the OS
* Load a free OS
* Code the friggin' feature.
* Rant about this world of retard where you had to code feature X by yourself because no one else found it interesting
* No profit, but an OS that finally matches your needs
Yeah, that's what I was taught but you made me doubt. After a few wikipedia readings here is what I see :
* Indochine war ended in 1954, with French troops retiring
* Vietnam war started in 1959
* Dean Acheson was in office from 1949 to 1953
So, as much as I agree on your quotes, I think that French asked for american help during their war, before their withdrawal. After that there has been constant American support of the South-Vietnamese government and the war broke to prevent the "domino effect", then popular theory in Washington.
And I think that what disturbed France was that the South-Vietnamese government wasn't fairly elected. That is a bit hypocrite, I have to agree : the fight against communism was also in France's interests.
Vietnam was then called Indochine. We made a mess and we pulled out, we recommended US to not engage in this but neverless, they went.
Well his enemies compare him to G.W. Bush.
He is more at the right than usual in France, he won by attracting electors of Le Pen, the far-right candidate.
I heard from people who work with international teams that this is the american way of doing. You need a champion, you need a super-hero who will be credited for the whole project. This is a bit shocking for other cultures I must say.
Internet is information on demand, but given a large amount of demands, some of the demands are redundant. For instance, it would make a lot of sense for a local ISP to cache the google homepage. Also, when making a modification on said homepage, it would make sense for Google to broadcast a signal to all ISPs to update their caches, or even to broadcast the new homepage to everyone. It is even more interesting in the case of the homepage of news websites.
I think that in order to see the benefits of the broadcasting of data, you have to take the ISPs and service providers point of vie, not the final user's. Today, the ISP transmit every request from their users to the service provider, and the service providers answer to each user request. In the case of a dynamic web like online shops or search engines, there are no alternatives. But in the case of semi-static websites like news sites, having a system of cache synchronized at the ISP level thanks to a regular broadcast from the server can actually save a lot of bandwidth to the ISP and the service provider.
Remember the problem slashdot had with softwares like NewsTicker when it first provided a RSS feed. This is the kind of problems this wants to solve if I understand correctly.
Disclaimer : I didn't watch the one-hour long video with no transcript. Give me a text and save this bandwidth already, dammit !
Please note that if cold fusion really exists, it will probably not bear the same amount of energy. After all, the first occurrence of hot fusion was in the Hydrogen Bomb and the first occurrence of cold fusion was a bottle making bubbles.
Still interesting to power my laptop battery but maybe not enough for my jetpack.
A computer that can access Wikipedia and receive and send some mails, even only in black & white, even with only a text display, is still worth more than 10$. If they manage to do this, this could really be an impressive breakthrough in India's educative programs.