Umm, the title of the report is "ReasoningTM Inspection Service Defect Data for
Apache 2.1-dev". I think most of the readers, at least here at/., know what "dev" means.
I don't think it's FUD, just straight marketing. I'm kind of interested to know if anyone asked for the study to be done or if they just said "Hey, I'm bored. Let's do a defect analysis of some open source stuff and get it posted to slashdot."
They make you fill out a form that asks for your email and then do an opt out checkbox at the bottom of the form (you have to check it to NOT get spam from them). The site's a bit slashdotted right now though.
As others have stated, the article states that "the difference in defect density between the two was not significant." Meaning that defect density, especially with such a small differential, has little bearing on the overall quality of the software. We know nothing of the severity, impact, etc of the defects: they could all be cosmetic for all we know. This is probably nothing more than a marketing strategy by Reasoning: publish a study without any details on a hotly debated topic and see how many people check out their site. It'd be nice if they had a downloadable version of their software to test drive.
FxCop is an example of a "defect" or code analysis tool. While I have NO idea of Reasoning's methodology, I know that with FxCop (which is specifically for.NET code analysis), you have to set it up to filter out the majority of its rules or you'll get 3000 instances of "You didn't name this variable the way MS says you're supposed to." FxCop is extensible though. The point is, not a single poster on this page (unless they work for the companies involved) knows what Reasoning's methodology or rule set was when they did this so we can glean virtually zero value from this analysis. I look forward to 600 anti-Microsoft posts because of it though....
Actually, if you read the OTHER f#$king article (the BBC one) you'll note that the author writes about "cartridges" in general. The only specific fact relating to whether they're talking about toner or ink is "Colour HP Cartridge costs £29", which is more in the $40 range and I think it actually refers to an ink cartridge (Google search for Colour HP Cartridge). So do we have a new geek acronym now? RTOFA (read the other f@#king article)?
Off topic shmoff topic. Quit being so rabid about it. As far as I see it, the issue is unfair competition and the environmental waste associated with a disposable society. Don't you think maybe we should be more concerned with toxins and landfill than the extra $20 it costs you to print a bunch of sh1t you found on the internet?
As has been mentioned elsewhere on this thread: he was selling bad CDs on his site for 16 bucks. So yes it's commercial.
However, if you have a look at his site now, he's taken all that crap off: maybe he or his staff understood that they were getting a ton of hits and he realized what a piece of sh#t his site looked like (and that crass commercialization isn't what his constituents were looking for).
BTW his explanation as to why he made the comments,
âoeI made my comments at yesterdayâ(TM)s hearing because I think that industry is not doing enough to help us find effective ways to stop people from using computers to steal copyrighted, personal or sensitive materials. I do not favor extreme remedies â" unless no moderate remedies can be found. I asked the interested industries to help us find those moderate remedies.â
doesn't hold water. Does no one just say "Sorry I said something stupid" in government? So: since I can't find a moderate remedy for littering (people keep doing it even though I'm fining them) I should start killing them instead? Hmmmm.
I know others have already commented on it but: standardize the client that you use and make it secure. Basically if you want to use IM at your brokerage, you have to use the one that the industry body requires. It's a useful tool but maybe if you want to do your front-running and insider trading you shouldn't use port 80 to do it.
And who the hell seriously expects AIM (or other IMs currently out) to have good security? It's going out over HTTP. C'mon.
I re-read the article a couple of times. I'm pretty sure the whole "SBC is not a villian" thing was tongue in cheek, although it's hard to be certain: which is why I think people seem to be having a hard time with it. I strikes me that it should be impossible to be on the side of SBC in this if you have ANY knowledge of the web/HTML: similar patents/suits having been featured on/., etc, about patenting things like hyperlinks (notice I didn't include any in my post? I don't want to have to pay the fees....)
by Paul Hawken. Here's a review of the book. To quote from it:
In this eloquent and visionary book, Hawken describes a third way, a path that is inherently sustainable and restorative but which uses many of the historically effective organizational and market techniques of free enterprise.
I've seen lots of other stuff out there about how many resources go into what we think are "clean" devices. Computers don't SEEM like they're polluting a whole lot, but all that extra power they use (see many other articles,/. and elsewhere) adds to overburdened power grids: it's usually coal plants that have to be turned on to pick up the slack, at least in North America. Nasty sh!t.
Other interesting sources about this are: Paul Kennedy's work, Preparing for the Twenty-First Century, which is critiqued here, with the same sort of criticisms that Mr. Kennedy (and others) made about malthusian principles. Yes, technology can answer some of the problems that we create for ourselves, but only if we WANT to do something about it. It's all about balance, like everything else, and the problem there is it's too damn easy to ignore environmental problems.
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The book's gotten mixed reviews and not just from people who were the targets. But I'd say the value in F'd Company is the website: if you can get beyond the "I'm the first post you {racial/sexist epithet}XXXX{/racial/sexist epithet} and here's my XXX website" posts, there are some posts that have (apparently) real gossip on these companies. He also links to Internal Memos quite often. Fun to read how other people are getting screwed: there's one there called, kinda recursively, Salacious gossip and internal confidential information posted on a tacky website.
Hey, the guy's gonna try to make cash however he can, and there's a finite amount in internet ad revenue and amateur pr0n.
Neal Stephenson (who also wrote under the name Stephen Bury, title Interface: great book). I know he's been mentioned here, but it's worth reiterating. All of his books are great reads. Speaking of polymaths, it's amazing the number of people who say they've read everything good but have never read Stanislaw Lem (not recent I'll admit, but worthy of mention). He's the Ultimate sci-fi author: totally bleak, compelling, funny as hell. Other somewhat more recent stuff: William Gibson (Neuromancer et al), Bruce Sterling (The Difference Engine), Cory Doctorow (haven't read it but it's a free distro and was just mentioned on/.). The Culture novels by Iain Banks are wonderful. Have you read all of Orson Scott Card?
Didja Google? The tenth result lists:
"2000
Thunderhead, D. Preston & L. Child: not sci-fi, but a standard southwest American Indian-based mystery with a smattering of archaeology
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson: excellent!, but an acquired taste, massively long; essentially two parallel tales of the Southwest Pacific, the Philippines and Indonesia split between World War II and today, with characters in the same families figuring in both threads; a long treatise on cryptography, with such characters as a young Alan Turing, and an invented Scottish Hebridean island; a bit of a treasure hunt spiced up with borderline criminal intent
Darwin's Radio, Greg Bear: biological sci-fi, a rare sub-genre
Enchantment, Orson Scott Card: not sci-fi, on the border between folk-tale and fantasy; this is not Card's normal genre, and he has immense fun with it; quite humorous, with an edge
2001
The Silk Code, P. Levinson: another entry in the genre of biological sci-fi, with a focus on the Amish and the Mennonites, with a bit of Neanderthal thrown in
Perseus Spur (v1), Julian May: a trilogy with attitude, her characters are in the Dashiel Hammett or Humphrey Bogart vein, true smart alecks that have lots of odd and bad things happen to them; mixed up with planetary corporations gone bad, and other familiar villainy; she has always written well, but her humor is in the fore here
Orion Arm (v2), Julian May:
Sagittarius Whorl (v3), Julian May:
Pegasus in Space, Anne McCaffrey: if you're familiar with her short stories about "Pegasus" (contemporary and a little in the future attempts to study and control real human psi powers), this is the first full-length novel in that series
The Book of Q, J. Rabb: very good; not sci-fi, but another "hidden document" mystery/adventure with (again) the overtones and background of early Christianity, this time with conspiracies and Ludlum-esque action starting in contemporary war-torn Eastern Europe
The Eye of Horus, C. Thurston: not sci-fi, but a cross between Egyptology, archaeology, and a forensic mystery; a surprisingly good first novel, parallel threads between ancient Egypt and contemporary events
Wheelers, Ian Stewart & J. Cohen: a cross between the "mysterious alien artifact" genre and warring academic factions and "save the world" situations"
The Canadian Alliance is the official opposition. The Minister, in this case responsible for culture/heritage and a member of the Liberal party, championed the bill for "artist's rights" (I guess) and with the support of the Liberal party, which has a majority, pushed it through. I guess the Liberals also miss the point that independent artists (well, OK, NO artists as of now) are getting any money from the levy.
Unfortunately, we live in a not so benevolent dictatorship where one guy rules the roost. In a majority government, there are no real checks and balances: the Senate is pretty toothless here. Ever read Piet Hein? Majority Rule is a pretty cool poem.
I'm sure that Stand On Guard will give you a better perspective on Canadian politics.
I went to ITI about 3 years ago. It's strong on methodology and has pretty good breadth in terms of curriculum (HTML/Client side scripting, VB 6 (3 years ago), Java, and Oracle. Each section was a 2 or 3 month project, and that was cool too: you work in teams for 3 months at a time. It prepares you for what you might be doing, and you get to do different things: project management, coding, testing, documentation, although you still have to do a certain amount of actual coding every time.
The problems were that it's expensive, a huge amount of the cash goes to marketing (BTW, they didn't design the website themselves, they contracted it out or at least they had when I was there), and consequently there wasn't enough money to hire and hold the best teachers or to provide the best software (some of the software decisions seemed to be more about $$ than quality). It also seems they spend too much money on the campuses: it's seems like they're trying to prove to you that they're successful but what they're really doing is spending your tuition on swanky downtown offices.
I was also disappointed with the lack of follow through in the projects: we brought them up to a certain point in the SDLC, them just left them there: no deployment, no real testing process, no evolve or transition phases....
They do have a pretty good track record in terms of placement. I got a good job, but it was as much from networking as the schooling. I do feel that it prepared me for the job market, but another problem was that the marking was way too easy: unless you were stupid or you smoked up before every exam, you'd get A/A+ on everything. But you get what give: if you worked really hard (and there were the resources there to learn from including a good supply of books, labs, CBTs, and supplementary materials and projects in the curriculum reading), then you could really learn something. Perhaps they should concentrate more on the quality of the grads (some of the people who graduated didn't have a clue about technology/programming/IT when they left) than the placement rate/graduation rate. Even if someone gives you $30k, you're still allowed to fail the f&*ckers.
The Integra brand, which is Onkyo's, is totally high end. They made awesome amps in the 80's (always great reviews in the audiophile mags) and now are leaders in the home automation field: lots of rs 232 support, ethernet, etc.
I know they've got some lower end stuff too, which works, but i've got some better stuff from 1985 that still works great (well, some of the pots need to be cleaned, but the sound is still crystal clear.)
This and the next few posts are more of a pointless waste of electrons than the Q&A (of course, my response might be too: my guess is I won't make much of a dent in the coward's manners)... the very first post was funny (Next Week on Junkyard Wars!!! Contestants try and build a SHIFT key!!!), but it degenerated quickly and pointlessly.
I'm not even a fan of JYW, but even I can understand that if someone's willing to take the time and answer some questions for fans, why pillory them over a style issue? Have you never chatted online? Much online communication takes place without caps at the beginning of a sentence and it's perfectly easy to understand (unless they use monstrous acronym's like ROTFLBTCDICAJTTWADBSIHPWTRHITSBKABAYB or IITYWIMWYBMAD: see one of many lists that explain online acronyms).
The real waste of electrons is posts that do nothing more than decry bandwidth usage for something THEY clicked on....
Save the misogyny for someone that deserves it: Celine, Britney et al.
"I am totally opposed to any software or hardware requirements that limit my fair use of purchased materials. I will not knowingly purchase any materials that limit my fair use of them.
I find it outrageous that Sony would expect that informed consumers are going to willing allow raw usage statistics be forwarded to Sony. As far as I understand it, there isn't even an opt-out program in place.
I am firmly of the opinion that Sony is shooting themselves in the foot with their most recent DRM initiative. There has been a constant battle for centuries over new media technologies: the technologies always take over, and the publishers and artists make more from it. Why resist? Even file sharing has been shown to INCREASE sales, not diminish them.
Grow up."
Like that'll make a difference. Too bad most consumers are "One of the nine."
well, we're not all moving at the same speed, really: someone at a pole wouldn't have the same average velocity as someone at the equator. the pole person would be describing a near perfect (except for the wobble) ellipse around the sun, but someone at the equator would be describing an eccentric (in two planes: 'up' and 'down', and 'in' and 'out') orbit. so time would be faster/slower depending on your frame of reference.
What happened to the quantum electron tunneling limit? I thought they weren't planning on going past.13 microns because of uncertainty tunneling. Is that no longer a factor at these widths and with these materials? Are they adding error correcting features?
Now i see that they're talking about a 0.003 micron process. Let's hope IBM actually knows what they're doing and doesn't find out later that "Oops, Schrödinger was right after all...."
I've got a 1600x1200 resolution screen. I'm being discriminated against through table widths that are too small. About 20% of the websites I visit that have images or tds that span the width of the page aren't wide enough. CmdrTaco, you're guilty too!
If it's a relatively small business, then the economics are in favour of ignoring the 5%.
E.g.: let's assume $50,000 dev cost for IE only, $100,000 for multi-browser, $200,000 for all browsers. If the intended revenues are going to be 100k per year, which are they going to pick? A 5% loss will only cost them $5,000. What if the revenues are going to be $10,000,000? Then 5% is $500,000. So a smart business operator will do the math.
In other words, it depends on the business requirements. Absolutes rarely work out that way in the real world.
It's not just which browser people use. It's the features they turn off. If someone turns off active scripting, cookies, graphics etc because of paranoia (call it security concerns if you don't like the bias there), they're not going to get the same user experience. Again, the client drives the needs of a project, and sometimes they don't want to be persuaded to accept a relatively un-bells-and-whistles site, which is much easier to cross-browserize.
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Umm, the title of the report is "ReasoningTM Inspection Service Defect Data for Apache 2.1-dev". I think most of the readers, at least here at /., know what "dev" means.
I don't think it's FUD, just straight marketing. I'm kind of interested to know if anyone asked for the study to be done or if they just said "Hey, I'm bored. Let's do a defect analysis of some open source stuff and get it posted to slashdot."
Metric Report
They make you fill out a form that asks for your email and then do an opt out checkbox at the bottom of the form (you have to check it to NOT get spam from them). The site's a bit slashdotted right now though.
As others have stated, the article states that "the difference in defect density between the two was not significant." Meaning that defect density, especially with such a small differential, has little bearing on the overall quality of the software. We know nothing of the severity, impact, etc of the defects: they could all be cosmetic for all we know. This is probably nothing more than a marketing strategy by Reasoning: publish a study without any details on a hotly debated topic and see how many people check out their site. It'd be nice if they had a downloadable version of their software to test drive.
.NET code analysis), you have to set it up to filter out the majority of its rules or you'll get 3000 instances of "You didn't name this variable the way MS says you're supposed to." FxCop is extensible though. The point is, not a single poster on this page (unless they work for the companies involved) knows what Reasoning's methodology or rule set was when they did this so we can glean virtually zero value from this analysis. I look forward to 600 anti-Microsoft posts because of it though....
FxCop is an example of a "defect" or code analysis tool. While I have NO idea of Reasoning's methodology, I know that with FxCop (which is specifically for
Off topic shmoff topic. Quit being so rabid about it. As far as I see it, the issue is unfair competition and the environmental waste associated with a disposable society. Don't you think maybe we should be more concerned with toxins and landfill than the extra $20 it costs you to print a bunch of sh1t you found on the internet?
As has been mentioned elsewhere on this thread: he was selling bad CDs on his site for 16 bucks. So yes it's commercial.
However, if you have a look at his site now, he's taken all that crap off: maybe he or his staff understood that they were getting a ton of hits and he realized what a piece of sh#t his site looked like (and that crass commercialization isn't what his constituents were looking for).
BTW his explanation as to why he made the comments,
âoeI made my comments at yesterdayâ(TM)s hearing because I think that industry is not doing enough to help us find effective ways to stop people from using computers to steal copyrighted, personal or sensitive materials. I do not favor extreme remedies â" unless no moderate remedies can be found. I asked the interested industries to help us find those moderate remedies.â
doesn't hold water. Does no one just say "Sorry I said something stupid" in government? So: since I can't find a moderate remedy for littering (people keep doing it even though I'm fining them) I should start killing them instead? Hmmmm.
And who the hell seriously expects AIM (or other IMs currently out) to have good security? It's going out over HTTP. C'mon.
I looked at a few pages, but this one was the coolest of the bunch: animations and everything.
Nah, i saved it up as my chrostmas present: i didn't get anything else so it's OK. Been waiting for 4 years for this....
I re-read the article a couple of times. I'm pretty sure the whole "SBC is not a villian" thing was tongue in cheek, although it's hard to be certain: which is why I think people seem to be having a hard time with it. I strikes me that it should be impossible to be on the side of SBC in this if you have ANY knowledge of the web/HTML: similar patents/suits having been featured on /., etc, about patenting things like hyperlinks (notice I didn't include any in my post? I don't want to have to pay the fees....)
Other interesting sources about this are: Paul Kennedy's work, Preparing for the Twenty-First Century, which is critiqued here, with the same sort of criticisms that Mr. Kennedy (and others) made about malthusian principles. Yes, technology can answer some of the problems that we create for ourselves, but only if we WANT to do something about it. It's all about balance, like everything else, and the problem there is it's too damn easy to ignore environmental problems.
The book's gotten mixed reviews and not just from people who were the targets. But I'd say the value in F'd Company is the website: if you can get beyond the "I'm the first post you {racial/sexist epithet}XXXX{/racial/sexist epithet} and here's my XXX website" posts, there are some posts that have (apparently) real gossip on these companies. He also links to Internal Memos quite often. Fun to read how other people are getting screwed: there's one there called, kinda recursively, Salacious gossip and internal confidential information posted on a tacky website .
Hey, the guy's gonna try to make cash however he can, and there's a finite amount in internet ad revenue and amateur pr0n.
Neal Stephenson (who also wrote under the name Stephen Bury, title Interface: great book). I know he's been mentioned here, but it's worth reiterating. All of his books are great reads. Speaking of polymaths, it's amazing the number of people who say they've read everything good but have never read Stanislaw Lem (not recent I'll admit, but worthy of mention). He's the Ultimate sci-fi author: totally bleak, compelling, funny as hell. Other somewhat more recent stuff: William Gibson (Neuromancer et al), Bruce Sterling (The Difference Engine), Cory Doctorow (haven't read it but it's a free distro and was just mentioned on /.). The Culture novels by Iain Banks are wonderful. Have you read all of Orson Scott Card?
Didja Google? The tenth result lists: "2000 Thunderhead, D. Preston & L. Child: not sci-fi, but a standard southwest American Indian-based mystery with a smattering of archaeology Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson: excellent!, but an acquired taste, massively long; essentially two parallel tales of the Southwest Pacific, the Philippines and Indonesia split between World War II and today, with characters in the same families figuring in both threads; a long treatise on cryptography, with such characters as a young Alan Turing, and an invented Scottish Hebridean island; a bit of a treasure hunt spiced up with borderline criminal intent Darwin's Radio, Greg Bear: biological sci-fi, a rare sub-genre Enchantment, Orson Scott Card: not sci-fi, on the border between folk-tale and fantasy; this is not Card's normal genre, and he has immense fun with it; quite humorous, with an edge 2001 The Silk Code, P. Levinson: another entry in the genre of biological sci-fi, with a focus on the Amish and the Mennonites, with a bit of Neanderthal thrown in Perseus Spur (v1), Julian May: a trilogy with attitude, her characters are in the Dashiel Hammett or Humphrey Bogart vein, true smart alecks that have lots of odd and bad things happen to them; mixed up with planetary corporations gone bad, and other familiar villainy; she has always written well, but her humor is in the fore here Orion Arm (v2), Julian May: Sagittarius Whorl (v3), Julian May: Pegasus in Space, Anne McCaffrey: if you're familiar with her short stories about "Pegasus" (contemporary and a little in the future attempts to study and control real human psi powers), this is the first full-length novel in that series The Book of Q, J. Rabb: very good; not sci-fi, but another "hidden document" mystery/adventure with (again) the overtones and background of early Christianity, this time with conspiracies and Ludlum-esque action starting in contemporary war-torn Eastern Europe The Eye of Horus, C. Thurston: not sci-fi, but a cross between Egyptology, archaeology, and a forensic mystery; a surprisingly good first novel, parallel threads between ancient Egypt and contemporary events Wheelers, Ian Stewart & J. Cohen: a cross between the "mysterious alien artifact" genre and warring academic factions and "save the world" situations"
The Canadian Alliance is the official opposition. The Minister, in this case responsible for culture/heritage and a member of the Liberal party, championed the bill for "artist's rights" (I guess) and with the support of the Liberal party, which has a majority, pushed it through. I guess the Liberals also miss the point that independent artists (well, OK, NO artists as of now) are getting any money from the levy.
Unfortunately, we live in a not so benevolent dictatorship where one guy rules the roost. In a majority government, there are no real checks and balances: the Senate is pretty toothless here. Ever read Piet Hein? Majority Rule is a pretty cool poem.
I'm sure that Stand On Guard will give you a better perspective on Canadian politics.
I've had lots of problems with CE in Webpads and stuff: there's no WAY I'd put it in a car. Laughable.
I went to ITI about 3 years ago. It's strong on methodology and has pretty good breadth in terms of curriculum (HTML/Client side scripting, VB 6 (3 years ago), Java, and Oracle. Each section was a 2 or 3 month project, and that was cool too: you work in teams for 3 months at a time. It prepares you for what you might be doing, and you get to do different things: project management, coding, testing, documentation, although you still have to do a certain amount of actual coding every time.
The problems were that it's expensive, a huge amount of the cash goes to marketing (BTW, they didn't design the website themselves, they contracted it out or at least they had when I was there), and consequently there wasn't enough money to hire and hold the best teachers or to provide the best software (some of the software decisions seemed to be more about $$ than quality). It also seems they spend too much money on the campuses: it's seems like they're trying to prove to you that they're successful but what they're really doing is spending your tuition on swanky downtown offices.
I was also disappointed with the lack of follow through in the projects: we brought them up to a certain point in the SDLC, them just left them there: no deployment, no real testing process, no evolve or transition phases....
They do have a pretty good track record in terms of placement. I got a good job, but it was as much from networking as the schooling. I do feel that it prepared me for the job market, but another problem was that the marking was way too easy: unless you were stupid or you smoked up before every exam, you'd get A/A+ on everything. But you get what give: if you worked really hard (and there were the resources there to learn from including a good supply of books, labs, CBTs, and supplementary materials and projects in the curriculum reading), then you could really learn something. Perhaps they should concentrate more on the quality of the grads (some of the people who graduated didn't have a clue about technology/programming/IT when they left) than the placement rate/graduation rate. Even if someone gives you $30k, you're still allowed to fail the f&*ckers.
The Integra brand, which is Onkyo's, is totally high end. They made awesome amps in the 80's (always great reviews in the audiophile mags) and now are leaders in the home automation field: lots of rs 232 support, ethernet, etc. I know they've got some lower end stuff too, which works, but i've got some better stuff from 1985 that still works great (well, some of the pots need to be cleaned, but the sound is still crystal clear.)
This and the next few posts are more of a pointless waste of electrons than the Q&A (of course, my response might be too: my guess is I won't make much of a dent in the coward's manners)... the very first post was funny (Next Week on Junkyard Wars!!! Contestants try and build a SHIFT key!!!), but it degenerated quickly and pointlessly.
I'm not even a fan of JYW, but even I can understand that if someone's willing to take the time and answer some questions for fans, why pillory them over a style issue? Have you never chatted online? Much online communication takes place without caps at the beginning of a sentence and it's perfectly easy to understand (unless they use monstrous acronym's like ROTFLBTCDICAJTTWADBSIHPWTRHITSBKABAYB or IITYWIMWYBMAD: see one of many lists that explain online acronyms).
The real waste of electrons is posts that do nothing more than decry bandwidth usage for something THEY clicked on....
Save the misogyny for someone that deserves it: Celine, Britney et al.
Here's my note to them:
"I am totally opposed to any software or hardware requirements that limit my fair use of purchased materials. I will not knowingly purchase any materials that limit my fair use of them.
I find it outrageous that Sony would expect that informed consumers are going to willing allow raw usage statistics be forwarded to Sony. As far as I understand it, there isn't even an opt-out program in place.
I am firmly of the opinion that Sony is shooting themselves in the foot with their most recent DRM initiative. There has been a constant battle for centuries over new media technologies: the technologies always take over, and the publishers and artists make more from it. Why resist? Even file sharing has been shown to INCREASE sales, not diminish them.
Grow up."
Like that'll make a difference. Too bad most consumers are "One of the nine."
well, we're not all moving at the same speed, really: someone at a pole wouldn't have the same average velocity as someone at the equator. the pole person would be describing a near perfect (except for the wobble) ellipse around the sun, but someone at the equator would be describing an eccentric (in two planes: 'up' and 'down', and 'in' and 'out') orbit. so time would be faster/slower depending on your frame of reference.
What happened to the quantum electron tunneling limit? I thought they weren't planning on going past .13 microns because of uncertainty tunneling. Is that no longer a factor at these widths and with these materials? Are they adding error correcting features?
Now i see that they're talking about a 0.003 micron process. Let's hope IBM actually knows what they're doing and doesn't find out later that "Oops, Schrödinger was right after all...."
HTML Help
.asp sites out there, but my guess is that's not what slashdotters are looking for....
WASP would be a good place for all newbs to start.
WASP
Find Tutorials is a good general tutorial finder.
PHP
First LAMP tutorial
PHP.net
PHP Help
There are tons of good
Never read anything by this Robert CHARLES Wilson guy, but Robert ANTON Wilson wrote some pretty cool, messed up books. Try the Illuminati trilogy....
I've got a 1600x1200 resolution screen. I'm being discriminated against through table widths that are too small. About 20% of the websites I visit that have images or tds that span the width of the page aren't wide enough. CmdrTaco, you're guilty too!
HELP! I'M BEING OPPRESSED!
Release those libraries! Even if they're out of date by the time the project's done. I'll use 'em if you post 'em.
"when you work it all out, it's really not THAT hard" Just like everything else in IT. It's always easier the second time.
If it's a relatively small business, then the economics are in favour of ignoring the 5%.
E.g.: let's assume $50,000 dev cost for IE only, $100,000 for multi-browser, $200,000 for all browsers. If the intended revenues are going to be 100k per year, which are they going to pick? A 5% loss will only cost them $5,000. What if the revenues are going to be $10,000,000? Then 5% is $500,000. So a smart business operator will do the math.
In other words, it depends on the business requirements. Absolutes rarely work out that way in the real world.
It's not just which browser people use. It's the features they turn off. If someone turns off active scripting, cookies, graphics etc because of paranoia (call it security concerns if you don't like the bias there), they're not going to get the same user experience. Again, the client drives the needs of a project, and sometimes they don't want to be persuaded to accept a relatively un-bells-and-whistles site, which is much easier to cross-browserize.