I agree with most of the article, but when people have attitudes such as "It's not easy to nominate them here as their business practices aren't very kind" (Windows Server 2008) I tend to take the article less seriously. The OS either holds up to the criteria of the article or it doesn't. Keep it at that.
" This type of communication is critical to tomorrow's battlefield"
It is critical to today's battlefield. It is pathetic that the video feeds are wide open putting lives at risk when a relatively simple solution exists.
"It's not BS... it just needs some refining. Don't use CFLs on a dimmer switch. Don't use them in poorly ventilated enclosures. Don't use CFLs in fixtures you turn off and on a lot."
Except you don't see that up front on the package when you buy it. If the consumer doesn't see that they will expect it to work like a standard bulb.
Nobody should come into/. thinking they are getting 'fair and balanced news'. News perhaps, but certainly not fair and balanced. While the slogan is 'News For Nerds. Stuff That Matters", the reality is that many of the stories and comments here have a strong Open Source, anti-Microsoft bias. That is ok. I like/. too. But you have to put that into context when visiting the site and reading the stories and comments.
On a side but related note, I think this is newsworthy. We have two multi-billion dollar corporations spending millions (assuming) of dollars for advertising products that affect our daily lives. While you (I'm assuming here again) and I might not like Advertising in general, it is naive to think it does not have an impact or that other people aren't influenced by it.
"then compile them to produce classes to represent those structures in the language of your choice"
That's not entirely true, but I digress. Anyway, can someone shed some light on how this is different than binary serialization I've been using to pass C# objects around for quite some time now? It is just a matter of giving the class a Serializable attribute and then using the BinaryFormatter class to serialize the object to a stream. XML serialization is available if needed to pass to non-M$ entities, but binary serialization has been around a while, no?
Stack up 4,648,421,052 of these bad boys and you'll have a nano wire Empire State building. Conversely, the length of these are approximately 2.15x10^-7 Empire State Building's long*.
"In the age of amateur/quasi-amatuer Internet porn, where anyone can take nude pictures, put them online, or get them discretely printed at CVS, and home camcorders are small and $300-$500, I would think that the professional adult industry would WANT to move up market. They need to compete with the amateur offerings, and real production values could no doubt help."
You must be talking about very, very small time 'players'. Most of the 'amateur' websites that generate any kind of revenue are owned and operated by a large corporation in the porn industry. The product may very well be a married couple performing and selling sex acts, but the production and distribution costs are more than likely coming from 'Hollywood'.
You would think that there would be a way for the winner to avoid having to pay the taxes for winning this trip. I'm not a tax guru by any means, but couldn't the company just temporarily hire the winner as an employee, pay them minimum wage, and then send them on the trip as part of the job description? This way, the winner will only be paying a very small amount of income tax. Monetary winnings are one thing, but I would think there would be loop holes as far as services are concerned. Just a thought.
"different set of rules"...the rest paraphrased by the author
"We need to get ahead of the curve before we actually lose a city, which I think could happen in the next decade"
...and already people are bashing the guy. I don't see how anyone can come to any conclusions based on these two quotes. The rest of the story should have some Gingrich bashers really confused:
"Gingrich said America has "failed" in Iraq over the past three years and urged a new approach to winning the conflict. The U.S. needs to engage Syria and Iran and increase investment to train the Iraqi army and a national police force, he said. "How does a defeat for America make us safer?" Gingrich said. "I would look at an entirely new strategy." He added: "We have clearly failed in the last three years to achieve the kind of outcome we want."
You might not be a Republican, and you might not agree with everything he has to say, but he is an extrememly intelligent man (Ph.D Tulane) and it might behoove you to read the entire speech transcript before getting so worked up.
The syntax is similar to Pascal. No thanks. Out of all the languages I would be least likely to model a new langauge syntax after, Pascal and Lisp would be near the top.
I just watched the sample video on the North Korean nuke issue. While the researchers' intentions might be good, the application still needs some work for it to be taken seriously. The speech was choppy and broken and I think it will be difficult for them to reproduce personal names accurately. Until a machine can dynamically produce clear, fluid speach, I don't see this taking off.
Why is netstat "yet another reason to use Linux" if it is already in Windows? If it's already there, no need to switch. Also, I would agree that very few Windows users know about or how to use netstat. And even if you were to tell a typical Windows user to go run netstat -a -n, do you think any of them would know what to do with it? I seriously doubt it, and I also don't really think they should. Not everyone has the time/desire to be a computer expert.
A few years ago I went back to school and got a CS degree (already had degree in Economics). I was approached many times from other CS students asking for help on programming/database/math projects. Most of the time the questions were legitimate and I wouldn't consider them 'cheating'. However, there were times when I was flat out asked to share my code/algorithms. I hated that. One of the primary reasons I went back to get another degree was because I loved the problem-solving aspect of software development. It's kind of like cheating in games. If you're handed the answers, where is the challenge? Where is the benefit? Also, I found that (at my school at least) there was a strong community of Indian students who stuck together. Once I made a few friends in this small community, I found that the cheating was rampant. Code sharing, test sharing, etc. was commonplace. It always put me in a difficult situation when I was asked to show someone else my code. I don't mind helping others (frequent message boards), but simply giving someone else code that I worked hours on was out of the question.
So the guy finishes undergrad in 1 year. All of the sudden everyone thinks he 'missed out' on the social aspects of college. The problem here is that he is still in college. Masters degree, law school, possible PhD program. He won't finish all of that in one more year so he still has time to focus on getting laid.
Ahh, your true colors are shining through. There is nothing inherently wrong with being rich. If you were rich, I seriously doubt you would mind. The problem is the individual, not the money.
The company I work for develops and sells a database reporting tool. This tool allows the user to build reports in.pdf or.xls format. When using Excel, the user can build any design they want using macros, formatting, etc. All of the 'data' is stored in seperate sections and the main output is a clean, functional, interactive report with all of Excel's bells and whistles. Our software puts no limitation on a date range that a user runs a report against. So, if a user has a *large* database (SQL or ORACLE) and runs a report for a large time span, a million rows could theoretically be used. The end report result could just be a summary of the data, but the supporting data set could easily have hundreds of thousands of rows. We use a database to store the client's data but the report queries this data and dumps the result set to the Excel spreadsheet.
My point is that not everyone uses Excel as a database and this is a welcome change for us.
"I go to my local Uni and see overseas students who have had little experience with a computer who say that they struggled harder with Windows than they did with learning Linux"
I have seen similar claims on/. before but have seen no hard evidence for this. I have found nothing on Windows machines that is inherently more difficult to do than on Linux. Being a 'casual' Linux user, I'm not familiar with all of the buzz words but Windows has 'DLL Hell' and I'm sure there is a term for Linux 'Package Hell'. This and hardware configuration are the two biggest complaints I have against Linux. The only common installation prerequisite warnings I see in Windows are either 'This OS is not supported' or 'You need the.NET framwork installed'. In Linux, you will receive a 'package not installed' error then go install that package only to find that it needs another package that you don't have. It's a mess. Add to that the fact that I've never had a piece of hardware that didn't have Windows drivers but have had multiple instances of hardware lacking Linux drivers and things can get quite tricky.
"At last count, the breakdown of where that $.99 goes is (on average):
Apple - $.35
Label - $.53
Artist - $.11"
I have never been paid 11.1% of 'market value' for any work I've done, and I can see why many people cringe over this figure. However, there is another side to the story. If an artist didn't sign with the label, their chance at large-scale success diminishes greatly. So, why not sign the deal, make 11.1% for each song sold on iTunes, and then build a following so you can pack the arenas and make the big bucks?
I love how there are only 24 comments and the Apple Bots are already spinning this failure into a Microsoft bashing bananzaa. What rock do I have to live under where dropping a significant portion of a development team due to major bugs and poor performance isn't considered a failure? Last time I checked, you don't get 'dumped' because your code was amazing.
"You seriously expect climatologists to be able to predict the future..."
20 - 400 million tonnes IS a prediction. It is their prediction. Are you suggesting that they are just pulling those numbers out of their ass? It sounds like it.
"Please don't ridicule what you don't understand."
With all due respect, I do happen to understand the scientific method. I might not be a global climat expert, but I can recognize bogus science when I see it.
What it tells me is that the testing methods, variables, and methodology are seriously flawed. If you are trying to build support for measures to reduce global warming or excess polution in general, you better have a more accurate read on what could actually happen. The risk of famine, hunger, water stress, and drought are serious allegations. If you can't provide me with better math, then don't bother.
An example to illustrate how ridiculous the article's claims are: Credit Card Company: Sir, you owe us $20,000 in past bills. John Doe: Yes, I realize that. Have patience though because next month I'm searching for a new job and I'll be making between $50,000 and $1,000,000.
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I agree with most of the article, but when people have attitudes such as "It's not easy to nominate them here as their business practices aren't very kind" (Windows Server 2008) I tend to take the article less seriously. The OS either holds up to the criteria of the article or it doesn't. Keep it at that.
" This type of communication is critical to tomorrow's battlefield" It is critical to today's battlefield. It is pathetic that the video feeds are wide open putting lives at risk when a relatively simple solution exists.
Personally, I think 1000101.1000101.1000101.100101 would be a helluva lot cooler Yours truly...
"It's not BS... it just needs some refining. Don't use CFLs on a dimmer switch. Don't use them in poorly ventilated enclosures. Don't use CFLs in fixtures you turn off and on a lot." Except you don't see that up front on the package when you buy it. If the consumer doesn't see that they will expect it to work like a standard bulb.
Nobody should come into /. thinking they are getting 'fair and balanced news'. News perhaps, but certainly not fair and balanced. While the slogan is 'News For Nerds. Stuff That Matters", the reality is that many of the stories and comments here have a strong Open Source, anti-Microsoft bias. That is ok. I like /. too. But you have to put that into context when visiting the site and reading the stories and comments.
On a side but related note, I think this is newsworthy. We have two multi-billion dollar corporations spending millions (assuming) of dollars for advertising products that affect our daily lives. While you (I'm assuming here again) and I might not like Advertising in general, it is naive to think it does not have an impact or that other people aren't influenced by it.
"then compile them to produce classes to represent those structures in the language of your choice"
That's not entirely true, but I digress. Anyway, can someone shed some light on how this is different than binary serialization I've been using to pass C# objects around for quite some time now? It is just a matter of giving the class a Serializable attribute and then using the BinaryFormatter class to serialize the object to a stream. XML serialization is available if needed to pass to non-M$ entities, but binary serialization has been around a while, no?
Stack up 4,648,421,052 of these bad boys and you'll have a nano wire Empire State building. Conversely, the length of these are approximately 2.15x10^-7 Empire State Building's long*.
*including tower
"In the age of amateur/quasi-amatuer Internet porn, where anyone can take nude pictures, put them online, or get them discretely printed at CVS, and home camcorders are small and $300-$500, I would think that the professional adult industry would WANT to move up market. They need to compete with the amateur offerings, and real production values could no doubt help."
You must be talking about very, very small time 'players'. Most of the 'amateur' websites that generate any kind of revenue are owned and operated by a large corporation in the porn industry. The product may very well be a married couple performing and selling sex acts, but the production and distribution costs are more than likely coming from 'Hollywood'.
You would think that there would be a way for the winner to avoid having to pay the taxes for winning this trip. I'm not a tax guru by any means, but couldn't the company just temporarily hire the winner as an employee, pay them minimum wage, and then send them on the trip as part of the job description? This way, the winner will only be paying a very small amount of income tax. Monetary winnings are one thing, but I would think there would be loop holes as far as services are concerned. Just a thought.
"Gingrich said America has "failed" in Iraq over the past three years and urged a new approach to winning the conflict. The U.S. needs to engage Syria and Iran and increase investment to train the Iraqi army and a national police force, he said. "How does a defeat for America make us safer?" Gingrich said. "I would look at an entirely new strategy." He added: "We have clearly failed in the last three years to achieve the kind of outcome we want."
You might not be a Republican, and you might not agree with everything he has to say, but he is an extrememly intelligent man (Ph.D Tulane) and it might behoove you to read the entire speech transcript before getting so worked up.
The syntax is similar to Pascal. No thanks. Out of all the languages I would be least likely to model a new langauge syntax after, Pascal and Lisp would be near the top.
I just watched the sample video on the North Korean nuke issue. While the researchers' intentions might be good, the application still needs some work for it to be taken seriously. The speech was choppy and broken and I think it will be difficult for them to reproduce personal names accurately. Until a machine can dynamically produce clear, fluid speach, I don't see this taking off.
Why is netstat "yet another reason to use Linux" if it is already in Windows? If it's already there, no need to switch. Also, I would agree that very few Windows users know about or how to use netstat. And even if you were to tell a typical Windows user to go run netstat -a -n, do you think any of them would know what to do with it? I seriously doubt it, and I also don't really think they should. Not everyone has the time/desire to be a computer expert.
A few years ago I went back to school and got a CS degree (already had degree in Economics). I was approached many times from other CS students asking for help on programming/database/math projects. Most of the time the questions were legitimate and I wouldn't consider them 'cheating'. However, there were times when I was flat out asked to share my code/algorithms. I hated that. One of the primary reasons I went back to get another degree was because I loved the problem-solving aspect of software development. It's kind of like cheating in games. If you're handed the answers, where is the challenge? Where is the benefit? Also, I found that (at my school at least) there was a strong community of Indian students who stuck together. Once I made a few friends in this small community, I found that the cheating was rampant. Code sharing, test sharing, etc. was commonplace. It always put me in a difficult situation when I was asked to show someone else my code. I don't mind helping others (frequent message boards), but simply giving someone else code that I worked hours on was out of the question.
So the guy finishes undergrad in 1 year. All of the sudden everyone thinks he 'missed out' on the social aspects of college. The problem here is that he is still in college. Masters degree, law school, possible PhD program. He won't finish all of that in one more year so he still has time to focus on getting laid.
pageflakes == live.com
"...of the rich bastards..."
Ahh, your true colors are shining through. There is nothing inherently wrong with being rich. If you were rich, I seriously doubt you would mind. The problem is the individual, not the money.
My point is that not everyone uses Excel as a database and this is a welcome change for us.
"I go to my local Uni and see overseas students who have had little experience with a computer who say that they struggled harder with Windows than they did with learning Linux"
/. before but have seen no hard evidence for this. I have found nothing on Windows machines that is inherently more difficult to do than on Linux. Being a 'casual' Linux user, I'm not familiar with all of the buzz words but Windows has 'DLL Hell' and I'm sure there is a term for Linux 'Package Hell'. This and hardware configuration are the two biggest complaints I have against Linux. The only common installation prerequisite warnings I see in Windows are either 'This OS is not supported' or 'You need the .NET framwork installed'. In Linux, you will receive a 'package not installed' error then go install that package only to find that it needs another package that you don't have. It's a mess. Add to that the fact that I've never had a piece of hardware that didn't have Windows drivers but have had multiple instances of hardware lacking Linux drivers and things can get quite tricky.
I have seen similar claims on
Are you suggesting that this is Norton's fault or the end user's fault?
"At last count, the breakdown of where that $.99 goes is (on average):
Apple - $.35
Label - $.53
Artist - $.11"
I have never been paid 11.1% of 'market value' for any work I've done, and I can see why many people cringe over this figure. However, there is another side to the story. If an artist didn't sign with the label, their chance at large-scale success diminishes greatly. So, why not sign the deal, make 11.1% for each song sold on iTunes, and then build a following so you can pack the arenas and make the big bucks?
You're joking right? Three of the four links you posted are to stories hosted by left-wing organizations. All of those sites have huge agendas that don't exactly sit well with Corporate America ©. If you're trying to convince someone who thinks Wal-Mart is OK that they are not OK, you might consider using better references. Personally, I think Wal-Mart does more good than bad (employs the elderly and those with disabilities, helps fuel economy, etc.), but I'm willing to listen to those who have issues with the company. Just not from the sources you provided.
I love how there are only 24 comments and the Apple Bots are already spinning this failure into a Microsoft bashing bananzaa. What rock do I have to live under where dropping a significant portion of a development team due to major bugs and poor performance isn't considered a failure? Last time I checked, you don't get 'dumped' because your code was amazing.
"You seriously expect climatologists to be able to predict the future..."
20 - 400 million tonnes IS a prediction. It is their prediction. Are you suggesting that they are just pulling those numbers out of their ass? It sounds like it.
"Please don't ridicule what you don't understand."
With all due respect, I do happen to understand the scientific method. I might not be a global climat expert, but I can recognize bogus science when I see it.
What it tells me is that the testing methods, variables, and methodology are seriously flawed. If you are trying to build support for measures to reduce global warming or excess polution in general, you better have a more accurate read on what could actually happen. The risk of famine, hunger, water stress, and drought are serious allegations. If you can't provide me with better math, then don't bother.
An example to illustrate how ridiculous the article's claims are:
Credit Card Company: Sir, you owe us $20,000 in past bills.
John Doe: Yes, I realize that. Have patience though because next month I'm searching for a new job and I'll be making between $50,000 and $1,000,000.