The only way I could see Y going much of anywhere is if it allowed you to run X apps too. There are just too many damn X apps out there.
Look at the roadmap.. transparent windows work already in the fd.o X server.
X locking under load is an implementation issue really, and if you happened to look, the fd.o people have a new X server they're working on, which will likely get a lot more attention in this area (and every other area) than XFree. Recent Linux kernel improvements have also supposedly made X much more responsive.
The web people are always talking about all of these great standards and how they work so great for people viewing (or listening to or whatever) websites on non-mainstream devices, well, last I checked, people with bad eyesight tend to read better when the text is larger. But it's not as easy when it's an overlapping mess.
Does anyone else notice that CSS layouts tend to look like ass when you use a huge font? Try it on the/. CSS page, or on alistapart.com. Huge font, layout goes to hell. With a table layout, it'll conform and look OK. Yay for fixed-pixel layouts... and yay for no one using display:table et al.
I also just found out that Martin Schulz is a debian guy (and was made to feel that any idiot knows that, duh!), and the message is signed, so there's your authoritive confirmation I guess.
Yes, yes, it is ugly, but I am the type of person who doesn't really get hung up about how devices look, for the most part. I use an ugly old amp to power the speakers in my car, but I don't care that it's ugly. Hell, my car is pretty ugly, doesn't really bother me. (I just call them "rugged";)
Fire is often what people think of when they see it, but I don't see why it would be much of a worry. As far as I can tell, there would actually need to be a flame, and it would have to last for a decent amount of time for the thing to actually flame up. Hmm, I should probably take those papers off of it...
Cardboard beats tie-straps anyday!
Yes, I built a computer in a cardboard box, in fact, it's serving you that image. Small, cool, quiet, cheap, and fun to build (for the type of person who was a lego nerd when they were a kid, I guess).
Yep, these things are definitely not the future by any means. These qubes with mips chips were actually the earlier ones, the later ones had k6's of some sort (and that was an improvement over the mips, AFAIK).
Not that I'm a Marilyn Manson fan, but this method of declaring some music you don't like "not music" is just stupid. The funny thing is that the music that has been called "not music" in the past has very often become some of the most popular and influential music around. Elvis, KISS, ACDC, Black Sabbath, rap/hip-hop in general, etc.
Agreed. Every time there's a story here from OSNews, it's her bitching about something. And have you ever read the comments to her stories? She bitches at those people too! OSNews seems like a cool idea for a website but solely due to Eugenia, I stay far away.
I have a D-Link 604 and I don't see what you're talking about. What page of the config thingie is it on? Advanced->Virtual Server? Advanced->Applications? I don't see it anywhere. When I got mine I went through a little process of wiping out all of their cute defaults and just putting in what I needed. It has served me well, can't say I have any complaints at all. (Other than their config webpage thing being ugly as hell.)
You must be a spammer. That's the ONLY way your SMTP server could get blacklisted.
No it's not. I run a mail server on my home cable line, and I once got a message saying that I was blacklisted - the reason cited was that it was a residential broadband address, that shouldn't be sending mail. I told Postfix to use my ISP's mail server as a relay for outgoing mail, and voila, no more problems.
Everything on slashdot is a troll. PEAR is perhaps an attempt at a real standard library for PHP (versus the big cobble of functions that it is now), it does not in any way have anything to do with the language itself. PHP is still PHP, PEAR just gives you more code to start off with, instead of reinventing a bunch of wheels.
Tk is a gui library, and somehow I doubt that all Tcl programmers care about creating gui applications.
I'll be starting college in the spring, and I have no plans to STFU, but I appreciate your concern.
Agreed that it was basically a functional language with OO tacked on in PHP3->PHP4 but, in PHP5 it actually has become an OOP language.
Is the standard library OOP in PHP 5? Are standard types objects? As far as I can tell, neither are the case, and thus it still feels very much like OOP is tacked on, except, it's tacked on with lots of features!
Also, how do you expect a loosely typed language to handle type handling?
That's exactly it; I don't like loose typing. I find it convoluted and doesn't reward learning. I have this weird belief about learning curves. A good learning curve should be a little hard at first, but gradually get better and better and when you're a pro, it should be freaking awesome. A bad learning curve will make it super easy at first, but not reward you for learning. As you get better and better, you start actually running into problems that you didn't at first. I hate this type of learning curve. And this is the type of learning curve I seem to have encountered with PHP, while Python has the former, extremely better (IMO) learning curve. With Python I end up finding more and more good things, while PHP only went downhill..
Taking a look around their CVS tree through ViewCVS, and I see paged with echo statements sprinkled around database queries, actual SQL inside of other non-DB related stuff.. And even just code-style-wise -- inconsistent indentation (which instantly makes me cringe), 30 or 50 lines of code without a single empty line for breathing room, etc.
I generally try to avoid using regexps when not needed. Even when reading my own code, I have to stop and examine *exactly* what each regexp does. Many times there is a function(s) that does what I want, that has a sane name, and has less overhead.
The main point was, Why, if is_numeric() checks the contents of a string, does is_int() check for the actual type? It just seems completely braindead to me.
The problem is that people *do* use it for these heavy duty tasks. "PHP Usage in the Enterprise"...
It's like a lot of things: not bad, but grossly misused. Flash is not a bad technology. PDFs are not a bad technology. Javascript is not a bad technology. The problem is that people use them for all kinds of stuff that they shouldn't, and it winds up working like crap and annoying people.
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The only way I could see Y going much of anywhere is if it allowed you to run X apps too. There are just too many damn X apps out there.
Look at the roadmap.. transparent windows work already in the fd.o X server.
X locking under load is an implementation issue really, and if you happened to look, the fd.o people have a new X server they're working on, which will likely get a lot more attention in this area (and every other area) than XFree. Recent Linux kernel improvements have also supposedly made X much more responsive.
What exactly are "the big issues"?
The web people are always talking about all of these great standards and how they work so great for people viewing (or listening to or whatever) websites on non-mainstream devices, well, last I checked, people with bad eyesight tend to read better when the text is larger. But it's not as easy when it's an overlapping mess.
Does anyone else notice that CSS layouts tend to look like ass when you use a huge font? Try it on the /. CSS page, or on alistapart.com. Huge font, layout goes to hell. With a table layout, it'll conform and look OK. Yay for fixed-pixel layouts... and yay for no one using display:table et al.
I also just found out that Martin Schulz is a debian guy (and was made to feel that any idiot knows that, duh!), and the message is signed, so there's your authoritive confirmation I guess.
I've seen no confirmation of this by anyone @debian.org. So what's the deal? Real or not?
There was some fuss on the debian-user list, and this was labeled a hoax, yet I saw no official word that it was true.
Yes, yes, it is ugly, but I am the type of person who doesn't really get hung up about how devices look, for the most part. I use an ugly old amp to power the speakers in my car, but I don't care that it's ugly. Hell, my car is pretty ugly, doesn't really bother me. (I just call them "rugged" ;)
Fire is often what people think of when they see it, but I don't see why it would be much of a worry. As far as I can tell, there would actually need to be a flame, and it would have to last for a decent amount of time for the thing to actually flame up. Hmm, I should probably take those papers off of it...
Cardboard beats tie-straps anyday! Yes, I built a computer in a cardboard box, in fact, it's serving you that image. Small, cool, quiet, cheap, and fun to build (for the type of person who was a lego nerd when they were a kid, I guess).
Yep, these things are definitely not the future by any means. These qubes with mips chips were actually the earlier ones, the later ones had k6's of some sort (and that was an improvement over the mips, AFAIK).
Sounds like you're describing BSD, not Linux or GNU.
Not that I'm a Marilyn Manson fan, but this method of declaring some music you don't like "not music" is just stupid. The funny thing is that the music that has been called "not music" in the past has very often become some of the most popular and influential music around. Elvis, KISS, ACDC, Black Sabbath, rap/hip-hop in general, etc.
Agreed. Every time there's a story here from OSNews, it's her bitching about something. And have you ever read the comments to her stories? She bitches at those people too! OSNews seems like a cool idea for a website but solely due to Eugenia, I stay far away.
I have a D-Link 604 and I don't see what you're talking about. What page of the config thingie is it on? Advanced->Virtual Server? Advanced->Applications? I don't see it anywhere. When I got mine I went through a little process of wiping out all of their cute defaults and just putting in what I needed. It has served me well, can't say I have any complaints at all. (Other than their config webpage thing being ugly as hell.)
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Six syllables! Learn to troll!
They're not doing enforcement for ISPs, they're doing what they're supposed to do - identifying likely spammers.
My fault for posting before waking up :P (people always make excuses for posting dumb stuff, but it's the truth, I swear ;)
No it's not. I run a mail server on my home cable line, and I once got a message saying that I was blacklisted - the reason cited was that it was a residential broadband address, that shouldn't be sending mail. I told Postfix to use my ISP's mail server as a relay for outgoing mail, and voila, no more problems.
I guess the submitter's idea of "unbiased coverage" is "comments from people who have lots of reasons to dislike Microsoft."
It's almost impossible to avoid bias in anything, but this one is plain as day!
Ok, that didn't work out well, I suppose my fault for not previewing.. anyways, it was full of html, javascript, etc.
{
$text=urlencode("
$title
$text");return " ";
}
We have PHP, html, javascript, and a boatload of backslashes, all in one. Static paths to images, inline CSS.. Not my idea of "well written."
Everything on slashdot is a troll. PEAR is perhaps an attempt at a real standard library for PHP (versus the big cobble of functions that it is now), it does not in any way have anything to do with the language itself. PHP is still PHP, PEAR just gives you more code to start off with, instead of reinventing a bunch of wheels.
Tk is a gui library, and somehow I doubt that all Tcl programmers care about creating gui applications.
I'll be starting college in the spring, and I have no plans to STFU, but I appreciate your concern.
Is the standard library OOP in PHP 5? Are standard types objects? As far as I can tell, neither are the case, and thus it still feels very much like OOP is tacked on, except, it's tacked on with lots of features!
Also, how do you expect a loosely typed language to handle type handling?
That's exactly it; I don't like loose typing. I find it convoluted and doesn't reward learning. I have this weird belief about learning curves. A good learning curve should be a little hard at first, but gradually get better and better and when you're a pro, it should be freaking awesome. A bad learning curve will make it super easy at first, but not reward you for learning. As you get better and better, you start actually running into problems that you didn't at first. I hate this type of learning curve. And this is the type of learning curve I seem to have encountered with PHP, while Python has the former, extremely better (IMO) learning curve. With Python I end up finding more and more good things, while PHP only went downhill..
Taking a look around their CVS tree through ViewCVS, and I see paged with echo statements sprinkled around database queries, actual SQL inside of other non-DB related stuff.. And even just code-style-wise -- inconsistent indentation (which instantly makes me cringe), 30 or 50 lines of code without a single empty line for breathing room, etc.
I generally try to avoid using regexps when not needed. Even when reading my own code, I have to stop and examine *exactly* what each regexp does. Many times there is a function(s) that does what I want, that has a sane name, and has less overhead.
The main point was, Why, if is_numeric() checks the contents of a string, does is_int() check for the actual type? It just seems completely braindead to me.
The problem is that people *do* use it for these heavy duty tasks. "PHP Usage in the Enterprise"...
It's like a lot of things: not bad, but grossly misused. Flash is not a bad technology. PDFs are not a bad technology. Javascript is not a bad technology. The problem is that people use them for all kinds of stuff that they shouldn't, and it winds up working like crap and annoying people.