Is this because PHP is inherently unreadable, or because it's so easy to learn that a lot of incompetent people who barely deserve the title "programmer" use it? People say the same things about Perl, but when I dabbled in Perl I concluded that its alleged unreadability had more to do with its users than the language itself, because the code I found was pretty readable (I happened to have an interest in a project written by MIT CS grads). I have no experience with PHP (besides looking at the manual and finding it unappealing), but maybe the same thing is going on with PHP. PHP was, after all, designed to be used by, let's just say, non-alpha-geeks.
The existence of badly written code that nonetheless works would be sign of PHP's success in that regard.
I wouldn't call using shorthand "tard-speech." This isn't formal writing, it saves time, and you know what they mean. 1f th3y st@rt wr1t1ng l13k th15, th@t5 d1ff3r3nt.
Throughput is fast, but latency is still quite noticeable. A page refresh usually takes a few seconds, even with cable or DSL. It's much better than using a dial-up modem 5 years ago, but if I have a choice between a site where, for example, I click a '+' icon and a tree expands immediately with some Javascript hackery and one where I have to wait for a page refresh, I'll pick the former.
I think the best solution, at least for users with broadband, is for websites to send everything you would be likely to need on the first request but not display it until you actually need it, which gives you a really snappy interface. Netflix does this with movie reviews, for example (you only see them onmouseover, but you see them instantly). This isn't really going back to dialup days because such wastefulness of bandwith to avoid a little latency wouldn't have been acceptable then.
MS has a dilemma; the more they squeeze their customers, the more money they make, but they also risk their monopoly when they push people towards alternatives. They have to find the right balance (which they've done successfully).
Some people will upgrade their OS, and others will get rid of IE for Firefox. But losing a few more points of IE market share doesn't really matter to MS. They already missed their opportunity to dominate the web when it went from 97% to less than 90%, and going from 85% to 80% just isn't that big of a deal. Besides, a lot of Firefox users (the non-MS hating people who use it because it's a better browser) will probably just click the big blue E again when they finally do get a new computer (with Vista or Windows 2010 or whatever), assuming IE 7 isn't a total POS like IE 6.
If MS was never worried about Firefox, why the public beta of IE 7? Originally, a new browser was supposed to be one of the selling points of Vista, and you would have to have Vista to get it. Now, while most of the other new stuff is too far behind schedule to make it into Vista, MS also had to release IE 7 to Windows 2000 users, leaving even less reason to upgrade. I don't see why they would do that unless they were worried. Justifiably so. Before Firefox, MSIE's market share was high enough that web developers would have soon abandoned standards and we would have had an MSIE only web (that process had already started). Now that won't happen anytime soon.
And of course they're going to say they're not worried. PR guys would only say they're worried if it's raining frogs and the sky is falling. Maybe not even then.
Emacs is very Darwinian. If you don't learn how to rebind your keys, it will destroy your wrists and weed you out of the gene pool. Not a nice feature, but keybindings are customizable.
Some people (not me) swear by swapping the Control key with Caps Lock. I have my Windows key bound to Super (old keyboards had Super and Hyper modifier keys) and all of the strenuous chords that I actually use are bound to it: For example, the function bound by default to Control-Meta-F is bound to WindowsKey-F. That's helped a lot.
As an Emacs user, I agree. Emacs has brain-dead defaults. To get usable keybindings, you have to do it yourself. OTOH, when you do it yourself you get keybindings customized to what YOU do, not some one-size-fits-all-but-not-that-well least common denominator keymap.
It's a Lisp interpreter that happens to come with a lot of pre-defined utilities for text editing. It uses an old, obsolete version of Lisp, which nobody would use if those text utilities didn't exist, so it has become confounded with the text editor. You can do anything with it that you could do with any other scripting language. Except start up in a reasonable amount of time on hardware from the early '90s, as vi zealots point out incessently.
Your search - "ending linux rollout" - did not match any documents.
I just don't recall seeing more than one or two of the "XXX Ending Linux Rollout" stories. The most high profile switcher, Munich, has had troubles with Linux desktops, but the rollout isn't ending.
Surely you can name a few companies if it's a trend.
Anything computer-related done by either government or schools tends to be incompetently executed and annoying, probably because when you need to deal with them, you need to deal with them - you're not a customer and if you don't like the way they do things, you can go fuck yourself. There's no reason for them to care about you, and it would be irrational for them to spend much money on giving you a better experience (well, up until the point that they get in trouble for leaking your private info on the web, that is). At least that's my theory to explain my experiences.
I think something went over *your* head, so I'll explain it more carefully. The Republicans are in power, so they should get credit for things that involve the government that go well (kind of a moot point these days), and blame for things that go badly. So defending Bush by blaming FEMA isn't going to cut it. Bush is FEMA's boss, and he's had almost five years to do whatever it takes to fix FEMA, in a time when we've all been expecting disaster, of either the natural or terrorist-induced kind. There's no excuse for failure.
Ah well... trying to look on the bright side of life I feel confident nobody but republican americans will have much influence for the foreseeable
Exactly. You all (Republicans - I'll go out on a limb and assume you are one) are in charge now, so the buck stops with the leaders you elected.
Once again, you fail to make your point. The quotes in the links you posted are of lefties blaming Bush for not *responding* to the crisis adequately, not for controlling the weather and causing hurricanes.
Data talks and bullshit walks. You just need a little bit of reading comprehension skills to tell the difference.
I don't know what your point is. Do you? I don't think so, because your snide references to "MikeMoore" and so on indicate that you're a Republican, yet you just linked several articles showing that we knew this was likely to happen. That begs the question of why the people in power (that means Bush, first and foremost) did so little to prepare for it, and are reacting to it so inadequately, which is why Bush is being criticized.
FYI, I don't know what quote they took out of context from some obscure liberal blog and presented as the voice of the Left on Little Green Footballs or wherever you get your news, but not even the most strident liberal has accused Bush of directly causing Katrina.
FEMA and the NOPD are two of the most notoriously inept and corrupt government organizations ever to pose as providing a vital service worth having.
FEMA's a federal organization, under Bush's authority. That's why it starts with the letter 'F'. After five years of getting whatever he wants from a rubber-stamp Republican Congress, if FEMA is incompetent, the buck stops with Bush.
I know Republicans are congenitally incapable of taking responsibility for anything, but after 5 years of one-party rule it's time that they be held accountable for their mistakes.
I prefer Firefox's interface, but Opera is undeniably faster. I use Firefox for normal browsing, but for long documents like manuals, I use Opera, which can search through several hundred KB worth of html without slowing down a bit (unlike Firefox on my machinge).
As a power user, your needs are much more intense than those of 99% of the rest of us. For most users, OO.o is fine, and MS Office is a waste of money. Word may be better, and it may be worth it for you, but for someone like me paying for it would be like buying a Hummer to go to the grocery store. In the 90s I had licensed, paid-for copies of MS Office, but now OO.o is a good-enough alternative, and it's cheaper, so that's what I use.
I think that people like me (light users) probably outnumber power users like you, but many are wasting their money on MS Office. Hopefully they'll wise up. Gates doesn't need any more money.
While I agree with the gist of your comment, I'd like to note that there is such a thing as apt-cdrom - you don't have to be on the internet to use apt.
What Linux really needs to succeed on the desktop is a major vendor to push preinstalled Linux desktops/notebooks that come set up to do the things that normal people do with their computers. It wouldn't be difficult to do, but AFAIK, no vendor is doing so or has plans to do so (note that something like Walmart having super-cheapo Linspire boxes that are only available on their website and not really promoted doesn't count as "pushing").
Maybe when MS tries to destroy the desktop market by making the Xbox do desktop stuff the OEMs will wise up.
80 mpg for the first 20 miles is great for the stay at home mom that drive to the store or around a little bit. the majority of the american public lives more than that from work.
The majority of exurban commuters may live farther from work than that, but that ignores city dwellers who tend to live closer to where they need to go. Hybrids seem ideal for urbanites.
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The existence of badly written code that nonetheless works would be sign of PHP's success in that regard.
I wouldn't call using shorthand "tard-speech." This isn't formal writing, it saves time, and you know what they mean. 1f th3y st@rt wr1t1ng l13k th15, th@t5 d1ff3r3nt.
I think the best solution, at least for users with broadband, is for websites to send everything you would be likely to need on the first request but not display it until you actually need it, which gives you a really snappy interface. Netflix does this with movie reviews, for example (you only see them onmouseover, but you see them instantly). This isn't really going back to dialup days because such wastefulness of bandwith to avoid a little latency wouldn't have been acceptable then.
Ever since I bought an extra 2 Megs of RAM for my 386, that doesn't happen anymore.
Some people will upgrade their OS, and others will get rid of IE for Firefox. But losing a few more points of IE market share doesn't really matter to MS. They already missed their opportunity to dominate the web when it went from 97% to less than 90%, and going from 85% to 80% just isn't that big of a deal. Besides, a lot of Firefox users (the non-MS hating people who use it because it's a better browser) will probably just click the big blue E again when they finally do get a new computer (with Vista or Windows 2010 or whatever), assuming IE 7 isn't a total POS like IE 6.
And of course they're going to say they're not worried. PR guys would only say they're worried if it's raining frogs and the sky is falling. Maybe not even then.
The new yahoo mail is still a non-public beta. You haven't seen the improved one yet.
Emacs is very Darwinian. If you don't learn how to rebind your keys, it will destroy your wrists and weed you out of the gene pool. Not a nice feature, but keybindings are customizable.
Some people (not me) swear by swapping the Control key with Caps Lock. I have my Windows key bound to Super (old keyboards had Super and Hyper modifier keys) and all of the strenuous chords that I actually use are bound to it: For example, the function bound by default to Control-Meta-F is bound to WindowsKey-F. That's helped a lot.
As an Emacs user, I agree. Emacs has brain-dead defaults. To get usable keybindings, you have to do it yourself. OTOH, when you do it yourself you get keybindings customized to what YOU do, not some one-size-fits-all-but-not-that-well least common denominator keymap.
It's a Lisp interpreter that happens to come with a lot of pre-defined utilities for text editing. It uses an old, obsolete version of Lisp, which nobody would use if those text utilities didn't exist, so it has become confounded with the text editor. You can do anything with it that you could do with any other scripting language. Except start up in a reasonable amount of time on hardware from the early '90s, as vi zealots point out incessently.
Upgrade to a 386 and it won't be a problem.
Anything computer-related done by either government or schools tends to be incompetently executed and annoying, probably because when you need to deal with them, you need to deal with them - you're not a customer and if you don't like the way they do things, you can go fuck yourself. There's no reason for them to care about you, and it would be irrational for them to spend much money on giving you a better experience (well, up until the point that they get in trouble for leaking your private info on the web, that is). At least that's my theory to explain my experiences.
Data talks and bullshit walks. You just need a little bit of reading comprehension skills to tell the difference.
FYI, I don't know what quote they took out of context from some obscure liberal blog and presented as the voice of the Left on Little Green Footballs or wherever you get your news, but not even the most strident liberal has accused Bush of directly causing Katrina.
With this story dominating the media, God knows what vile legislation Congress will pass while nobody's looking...
I know Republicans are congenitally incapable of taking responsibility for anything, but after 5 years of one-party rule it's time that they be held accountable for their mistakes.
I prefer Firefox's interface, but Opera is undeniably faster. I use Firefox for normal browsing, but for long documents like manuals, I use Opera, which can search through several hundred KB worth of html without slowing down a bit (unlike Firefox on my machinge).
I think that people like me (light users) probably outnumber power users like you, but many are wasting their money on MS Office. Hopefully they'll wise up. Gates doesn't need any more money.
What Linux really needs to succeed on the desktop is a major vendor to push preinstalled Linux desktops/notebooks that come set up to do the things that normal people do with their computers. It wouldn't be difficult to do, but AFAIK, no vendor is doing so or has plans to do so (note that something like Walmart having super-cheapo Linspire boxes that are only available on their website and not really promoted doesn't count as "pushing").
Maybe when MS tries to destroy the desktop market by making the Xbox do desktop stuff the OEMs will wise up.
it's done.
>I'm one of those people who stays a good distance away from loop... Good thinking.