I remember checking Costco's website out a month or so ago, specifically to see if they'd changed that Amex-only policy because I was considering being a member. According to the website, they take anything, as I recall, but that could be online-only. If the stores are still Amex-only, then we know for sure that it was an online purchase in this case too. -N
Not that I disagree with your point, but they didn't mention most of the purchases being online or not. They didn't spend several thousand dollars at Denny's and the hotel (which was online, by the way). The only other merchant they mention was Costco, and that could well have been online. -N
Google news just links to news sites, sometimes with a picture thumbnail from a related story to illustrate the story headline better. They aren't presenting that content in any useful way to anyone except telling people it is there for them to click and see. -N
I think the fact is that most people really don't care that much. They just accept spam the same way they accept junk snail-mail.
So they throw it out? That doesn't sound like what you're saying, but that's what people do with junk mail. This article is about people paying attention to it instead just because it's online. -N
Business is competitive. You make it sound like it's a bad thing that you cannot maintain a monopoly on support of your product. Compete to be the best support available for your product (or other's products). In the end, it only improves things for everyone. -N
I'll second that point of view... it seems to me that even if the old laws somehow don't just make scamming in general illegal, then perhaps those laws should be adjusted so that they do.
That way, we can have one law that says scamming people is illegal rather than one law that says scamming people over the phone is illegal and another for scamming people on the internet, and another for scamming people in person, etc...
It's all the same crime - there's no reason to distinguish at the legal level, only in the methods of prosecution and gathering proof. -N
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KnoppMyth is probably the one you're talking about, but it's not trivial to setup. It's much easier than doing it from scratch and so long as you pick hardware that is receiving attention in the forums there, you should be fine, but there's a lot of options and configuration you need to do sometimes. A live CD backend wouldn't help too much, given that. -N
In a recent temp job, I was responsible for converting data from one format into one that Microsoft's own CRM would take for imports. The data from the old system was in Excel files. Damned if I could get it out, into tab-delimited text so that I could put it in a database and into some format that Microsoft would find familiar.
I looked into it and found that Excel would need a third party tool to output tab-separated values with escape characters for newlines and quotation marks and all those other pesky details that make the file worth something. So I naturally thought of doing it manually with find/replace to search for newlines and replace them with \n characters. And oh wait, that doesn't work either. You need a third-party tool to do decent find/replace.
OpenOffice let me open the Excel files fine and search/replace with regular expressions, and complete the project. Excel left me without a clue on how to proceed. And Excel, from what I understand is probably one of the apps in Office that people consider best at what it is designed to do. Go figure. -N
Not that I disagree, but just sending people to a bunch of discussions about Verisign on Slashdot is not exactly incontrivertible evidence that they suck. There are lots of reasons, but the Slashdot crowd not liking them is not a reason that speaks to anyone but the Slashdot crowd. -N
IANAL, but I'd guess that they were technically only providing the means of infringement. So they helped it along, but weren't the ones necessarily downloading the content. Then again, I'm sure they had their own collections of things they did download, but when's the last time enforcement was interested in punishing that? -N
In other words, you can install Mozilla with just the browser. However, you have to compile it for yourself if you want that. Or use Debian and just install the parts you want. I'd think other distros break it up too. -N
I've setup a couple servers from Penguin Computing and have been ecstatic with the results. Pricing out server-specific components really doesn't save money and you get a nice warranty with a system. And the racks I bought from Penguin were top-notch. When I did have a hardware problem (which wasn't their fault), they replaced the hardware instantaneously and we never even had downtime.
Time is money and they saved me a bunch of both. -N
That's along the lines I was thinking, but reading the article, the author writes those things off as confusing or over-complicated because you can't see the whole page at once. It seems to me that if you need to "see" the template of the page in while working on code, then you should be working on the templates.
The article applauds the feature that will allow you to edit the template and then publish those changes into all yoru files, so that the same change happens to the template code in each file. I admit this is something I found useful back in the days of entire websites in straight HTML, but I can't recall the last time I built even a small 2-3 page site in straight HTML.
I guess I just don't get it. I have never used Dreamweaver, though I've used one of its precursors, HomeSite/ColdFusion Studio extensively. And I found that Quanta can satisfy everything I cared about there and more in Linux/KDE. I always assumed there was some great feature to Dreamweaver that I didn't know about that made everyone talk about it so much, but if this article is describing the reason, then clearly my assumption is wrong. -N
I actually had thought that PHP was a great choice for a few other reasons.
From an educational standpoint, it allows the teaching of the basic principles of scripts, functional programming, and object-oriented programming. Granted, these facilities aren't as advanced as in C/C++, they are good demonstrations.
From a student perspective, the student can see results quickly - no compiling and little or no worries about memory problems that might cause very difficult-to-find bugs. Those kind of things can be very frustrating to someone new to computers and programming.
If someone learns the basics here, I'll bet they'll be more comfortable going on to programming within a toolkit like QT or something. -N
I'm pretty sure Slashdot did report that sub-$500 Mac awhile ago. I already knew about it and I don't really keep up with MAc news, except for what makes the front page of Slashdot. It must have been here. -N
Find an old Handspring Visor with a Springboard slot and get the CF reader for that. Magically, you have exactly what you want for probably under $50. And Palms are supported just fine in Linux - Kpilot syncs my Visor very well with Kontact and all the apps within it.
Newer devices do more than older devices - this isn't new. But don't complain that newer devices do too much for what you want when a thousand older devices must be on eBay looking for a home like yours. -N
The grandparent talked about the recent successes of FOSS and attributed them to a greater need over the last few years.
You started your reply seemingly to show him he's wrong by limiting your response to discussion of the last year or two and showing off the recent successes of FOSS.
His point wasn't that there aren't good alternatives. His point was that if you look back further than a few years, MS did eliminate the competition in many realms. The alternatives you list now are a result of that. -N
You could also suggest that changing the default behaviour would be a confusing matter. And programmers worth their salt will probably specify signed or unsigned if it's going to matter or if there's an obviously better choice. -N
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I remember checking Costco's website out a month or so ago, specifically to see if they'd changed that Amex-only policy because I was considering being a member. According to the website, they take anything, as I recall, but that could be online-only. If the stores are still Amex-only, then we know for sure that it was an online purchase in this case too.
-N
Not that I disagree with your point, but they didn't mention most of the purchases being online or not. They didn't spend several thousand dollars at Denny's and the hotel (which was online, by the way). The only other merchant they mention was Costco, and that could well have been online.
-N
Well, check the first post out... apparently, they're in real tight with the tobacco companies too.
-N
"This is Unix. I know this!"
Google news just links to news sites, sometimes with a picture thumbnail from a related story to illustrate the story headline better. They aren't presenting that content in any useful way to anyone except telling people it is there for them to click and see.
-N
I think the fact is that most people really don't care that much. They just accept spam the same way they accept junk snail-mail.
So they throw it out? That doesn't sound like what you're saying, but that's what people do with junk mail. This article is about people paying attention to it instead just because it's online.
-N
I think the great battery life of this thing is clearly overrated... Real workers use an Epson HX-20 to get through their workday.
-N
He basically answered those questions in
this post over an hour before yours:
The fact that a non-geek like me can set it up...
;-)
Go back and re-read your post... That seems to be some big geek mojo to me.
-N
Darn, you stopped before I figured out how you were going to add KDE into the mix.
-N
Business is competitive. You make it sound like it's a bad thing that you cannot maintain a monopoly on support of your product. Compete to be the best support available for your product (or other's products). In the end, it only improves things for everyone.
-N
I'll second that point of view... it seems to me that even if the old laws somehow don't just make scamming in general illegal, then perhaps those laws should be adjusted so that they do.
That way, we can have one law that says scamming people is illegal rather than one law that says scamming people over the phone is illegal and another for scamming people on the internet, and another for scamming people in person, etc...
It's all the same crime - there's no reason to distinguish at the legal level, only in the methods of prosecution and gathering proof.
-N
KnoppMyth is probably the one you're talking about, but it's not trivial to setup. It's much easier than doing it from scratch and so long as you pick hardware that is receiving attention in the forums there, you should be fine, but there's a lot of options and configuration you need to do sometimes. A live CD backend wouldn't help too much, given that.
-N
In a recent temp job, I was responsible for converting data from one format into one that Microsoft's own CRM would take for imports. The data from the old system was in Excel files. Damned if I could get it out, into tab-delimited text so that I could put it in a database and into some format that Microsoft would find familiar.
I looked into it and found that Excel would need a third party tool to output tab-separated values with escape characters for newlines and quotation marks and all those other pesky details that make the file worth something. So I naturally thought of doing it manually with find/replace to search for newlines and replace them with \n characters. And oh wait, that doesn't work either. You need a third-party tool to do decent find/replace.
OpenOffice let me open the Excel files fine and search/replace with regular expressions, and complete the project. Excel left me without a clue on how to proceed. And Excel, from what I understand is probably one of the apps in Office that people consider best at what it is designed to do. Go figure.
-N
Not that I disagree, but just sending people to a bunch of discussions about Verisign on Slashdot is not exactly incontrivertible evidence that they suck. There are lots of reasons, but the Slashdot crowd not liking them is not a reason that speaks to anyone but the Slashdot crowd.
-N
IANAL, but I'd guess that they were technically only providing the means of infringement. So they helped it along, but weren't the ones necessarily downloading the content. Then again, I'm sure they had their own collections of things they did download, but when's the last time enforcement was interested in punishing that?
-N
I seem to recall reading in a recent article posted here that the next shuttle launch is scheduled for March or April.
-N
In other words, you can install Mozilla with just the browser. However, you have to compile it for yourself if you want that.
Or use Debian and just install the parts you want. I'd think other distros break it up too.
-N
I've setup a couple servers from Penguin Computing and have been ecstatic with the results. Pricing out server-specific components really doesn't save money and you get a nice warranty with a system. And the racks I bought from Penguin were top-notch. When I did have a hardware problem (which wasn't their fault), they replaced the hardware instantaneously and we never even had downtime.
Time is money and they saved me a bunch of both.
-N
That's along the lines I was thinking, but reading the article, the author writes those things off as confusing or over-complicated because you can't see the whole page at once. It seems to me that if you need to "see" the template of the page in while working on code, then you should be working on the templates.
The article applauds the feature that will allow you to edit the template and then publish those changes into all yoru files, so that the same change happens to the template code in each file. I admit this is something I found useful back in the days of entire websites in straight HTML, but I can't recall the last time I built even a small 2-3 page site in straight HTML.
I guess I just don't get it. I have never used Dreamweaver, though I've used one of its precursors, HomeSite/ColdFusion Studio extensively. And I found that Quanta can satisfy everything I cared about there and more in Linux/KDE. I always assumed there was some great feature to Dreamweaver that I didn't know about that made everyone talk about it so much, but if this article is describing the reason, then clearly my assumption is wrong.
-N
I actually had thought that PHP was a great choice for a few other reasons.
From an educational standpoint, it allows the teaching of the basic principles of scripts, functional programming, and object-oriented programming. Granted, these facilities aren't as advanced as in C/C++, they are good demonstrations.
From a student perspective, the student can see results quickly - no compiling and little or no worries about memory problems that might cause very difficult-to-find bugs. Those kind of things can be very frustrating to someone new to computers and programming.
If someone learns the basics here, I'll bet they'll be more comfortable going on to programming within a toolkit like QT or something.
-N
I'm pretty sure Slashdot did report that sub-$500 Mac awhile ago. I already knew about it and I don't really keep up with MAc news, except for what makes the front page of Slashdot. It must have been here.
-N
Find an old Handspring Visor with a Springboard slot and get the CF reader for that. Magically, you have exactly what you want for probably under $50. And Palms are supported just fine in Linux - Kpilot syncs my Visor very well with Kontact and all the apps within it.
Newer devices do more than older devices - this isn't new. But don't complain that newer devices do too much for what you want when a thousand older devices must be on eBay looking for a home like yours.
-N
The grandparent talked about the recent successes of FOSS and attributed them to a greater need over the last few years.
You started your reply seemingly to show him he's wrong by limiting your response to discussion of the last year or two and showing off the recent successes of FOSS.
His point wasn't that there aren't good alternatives. His point was that if you look back further than a few years, MS did eliminate the competition in many realms. The alternatives you list now are a result of that.
-N
You could also suggest that changing the default behaviour would be a confusing matter. And programmers worth their salt will probably specify signed or unsigned if it's going to matter or if there's an obviously better choice.
-N