bolwing for columbine is chock full of
errors, fabrications, and lies. moore is an absolute idiot. if you choose to agree with his political perspective, fine, he is certainly "entertaining". but as a source of information, he is not. for example, stupid white men is also full of more lies, etc.
it it ain't illegal, unethical, or immoral, you're basically being paid to be a professional yes man so mid level PHB's can say "hey look, the consultant agreed." it's a CYA thing. our school district has done this. many times. arghhhh!!!
by now, it should be obvious to all but someone awakening from a coma what microsoft is and does. yet businesses still go with them. of course we know all the reasons. BFD. look, if people want to go with them, it's their business. other businesses will adopt FOSS solutions. they'll be at a competitive advantage, just as people were in the 80's with microsoft. but more MS is evil, please. my 2 year old even konws that!!!
there are some gui f*** ups in MX versus 4, which i had prevously used mostly on the mac. though i am unfamiliar with CF, i actually do most of my editing(php, perl, mysql) in vim and dwmx will let you open files in an external editor.
i think the point is that dw has lots of tools built in that save the developer time. like any IDE, there are some great things, some crappy things. the biggest problem isthat it is not a cocoa app, but carbon, as far as OS X is concerned. i understand that you can dock all the windows in, err, windows. dw probably generates the best standardized html, far better than FP or go live. excessive, yes, but i have rarely had dw pages fail to render correctly.
i usually will actully do most my work, especially in data driven sites from quanta gold or just vim. but, when i bring my ibook into a shop and set up a site locally, dw is far more impressive. so, if spending a few hundred gets me more work, oh well.
if you do serious web dev., then DW is far from expensive. and it will generate correct html, even if you use lots of fireworks dhtml, or layers. it will do all your checking, and it can check for browser differences. no, it's not open source, but at least DW is very platform nuetral. it does CF, asp, php, etc. yes you need windows or a mac, and that is a drawback.
Few scientists, regardless of their political views, doubt the reality of global warming. The evidence is increasingly difficult to refute _and_ there is a strong theoretical basis to the observations being made. Whether or not there were isolated areas which have actually been warmer in the last 1000 or so years is of little consequence. This is not mathematics. It will take a whole lot more than one counter-example to disprove the theory.
umm, there are many, just that, "hey, we're not melting" doesn't get as much play in the VERY enviro-sympathetic press. also, it is hard not to push the company line at universities for fear of retaliation. there is absolutely no empirical data to suggest global warming. there are statistics, there are theories, there are conjectures. there is no definitive proof. the answer always is, "we can't wait fifty years to find out if we're right. we must act now." yeah, that's scientific.
environmentalism is really a path to world socialism and world government, in the same vein as the UN. every time an "environmental crisis" appears, there is a always a call for money. money from the government. also, each new claim comes with the associated calls for limits to our freedoms.
if you remember the 70's, paul weirich, et al., the big concern was global cooling. now it's global warming. look, you're looking at empirical data for say, 20 years. the earth is 5 billion years old. that would be like saying, what do programmers do, spending 10 seconds while watching the program compile, then writing a book on programming.
i hunt and fish, and love the outdoors as much as anyone. but, i think capitalism and freedom are far more important. do you really want the corrupt third world dictators telling the US how to run its economy?
while i have installed linux many, many times, this article misses the whole point. installation of an os should never be an issue for users. installs should be an admin/tinkerer thing. if you get a pre-install/pre-config on linux, it'll blow your mind. windows advantage is simply because it comes preinstalled. period.
in my district, i had proposed several linux based solutions, from turning old p120's into thin X clients, to file servers, yada yada. all were shot down like a duck on opening day. so, i get to talking to our site district technidiot. turns out he goes to some microsoft seminars and they throw out VS, 2K pro, office pro, everything. in fact he laughed because he had a "no reg. key" copy cd. so next time you wonder why there is not the movement you would think towards FOSS, this is why. why would our district want to use FOSS, when the microsoft reps throw out cd's like halloween candy. the reps know full well that the schools have to pay, and they know how to get "the right people on board". it is so easy and cheap for them.
they are using facilities in the public domain. although, IANAL, and don't pretend to be one, this would be similar to using the phone lines to organize criminal activity. or, better, it is similar to radio or television broadcast frequencies.
if an isp laid (no pun intended) its own lines, and ran its own vpn or whatever, and had its own backbone, etc., than the issue is different. but, unless i am wrong, and that possibility does exist, most isp's are leasing lines and connect over a public backbone. thus, there is clearly a compelling interest that those lines not be used to disseminate child porn.
as for the slippery slope, this is pure nonsense. remove the word porn. just deal with the age factor. we are talking about sexually explicit photography of children UNDER 18. if you can't tell the difference between that and naked baby photos my wife takes of my kids, then i feel sorry for you.
i think it goes without saying, okay well maybe it does, is that with the exception of rendezvous, which is cool, this can all be implemented in java. rather easily with sockets and rmi. plus by making the data protected and synchronized, and separating things in separate threads, you can make it rather safe. the only thing i guess java lacks is rendezvous, but since this is on os x, and java is a core component, rendezvous is accessible on pure java.
i'm not criticizing, and havign used rendezvous only in my school's network to print from my ibook, i am impressed with rendezvous so far. but this is not a a WOW thing. but hey, it's about os x, and this is/.
i may be confused about.NET, i mean, is it a desert topping or a floor polish? but seriously, the only things that microsoft has spec'd are the language and runtime. yes, there are some platform independent libraries, but the meat of.NET is still tied to a specific platform. when VS.NET can write apps for linux then i'll be sold. which still leads me to a question i can't find an answer to: what exactly is.NET?
i know that with java (forgetting swing for a moment), i can write a networked app that will run on any platform. remember microsoft's java, and how much they added. i have been working on some cocoa/java apps. yes, that is very platform dependent. fine. but, apple didn't tie up there JVM with cocoa dependencies. they just added the cocoa bindings to java, so native apps and java apps work (almost) the same.
i still see.NET as being another way for microsoft to leverage its desktop position to eventually lock out other platforms. which makes good business sense, but...
while it might be easier programmig in windows, that is because MFC sucked. how is it that there are better toolkits, i.e. Qt, for windows, than microsoft's own? but,.NET is still platform dependent. i defy anyone to prove otherwise. c# is simply a language, and the CLI is simply a VM. BFD. all the things windows are still locked up and inaccessible via anyhting other than on windows platform.
if you jumed so quickly from java to c# and VB, you either learned nothing or learned programming theory which is applicable to every language. having examined both, there is no advantage of c# to java, excpet tighter integration into the windows platform.
a file system that, for example, can allow for different files of essentially the same "file type" yet be launched by different apps
this was one of the macs biggest problems. what if i sent you an html file done in dreamweaver and you don't have it. you'd have to figure out what type of doc it is, and what app to use. PITA. talk about file incompatibility. why do yo think apple dropped this "feature"?
just buy the book CGI programming with Perl. you'll get more than a few scripts that you can rework. it'll give you a detailed overview and plenty of code. from the description, it sounds rather like a get together and a "let's do perl" rather than a guy who is a serious perl hacker. personally, dude deserved an ass rippin from randall. besides, what i've discovered from perl hackers is this: if you ask them, they will offer all the help they can, but if you pretend you know, they will unleash. i've been at perl a few years. i can do alot of things, specifically because of perl.
perl is something you can teach yourself, for the most part. however, you have to go to the right sources.
The good part about OS X on Intel is that the machines would be damn cheap.
and that's the problem. apple is a hardware company. every apple post, i have to repeat this. apple sells hardware. all the iapps, etc., help sell their hardware. this is where they make money. apple is a technology company. they are always pushing the envelope, especially with hardware. if they port to x86, or they move to an intel platform, they 1) open the door up for clones (they don't like mac clones) 2) they become a software company (which is completely different business, and we see how microsoft is strggling trying to changes its bus. model) 3) they finally seal their fate (they are not "different" any more).
i am a linux user who also loves his ibook. i use both, love both. they have far more in common. i think jobs is smart enough to know that x86 *nix is linux, not bsd/darwin/os x.
actually, it was microsoft fucking apple. and oh yeah, to save their ass (office, ie), it was apple sucking microsoft, or was it only jobs. oh, shit, you meant it as in the adjective not the verb. what'd ya expect, i was an econ major, not english.
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bolwing for columbine is chock full of errors, fabrications, and lies. moore is an absolute idiot. if you choose to agree with his political perspective, fine, he is certainly "entertaining". but as a source of information, he is not. for example, stupid white men is also full of more lies, etc.
french bastards. don't know whether i think it's good or bad. business returning to US, or buying frog crap.
it it ain't illegal, unethical, or immoral, you're basically being paid to be a professional yes man so mid level PHB's can say "hey look, the consultant agreed." it's a CYA thing. our school district has done this. many times. arghhhh!!!
by now, it should be obvious to all but someone awakening from a coma what microsoft is and does. yet businesses still go with them. of course we know all the reasons. BFD. look, if people want to go with them, it's their business. other businesses will adopt FOSS solutions. they'll be at a competitive advantage, just as people were in the 80's with microsoft. but more MS is evil, please. my 2 year old even konws that!!!
there are some gui f*** ups in MX versus 4, which i had prevously used mostly on the mac. though i am unfamiliar with CF, i actually do most of my editing(php, perl, mysql) in vim and dwmx will let you open files in an external editor.
i think the point is that dw has lots of tools built in that save the developer time. like any IDE, there are some great things, some crappy things. the biggest problem isthat it is not a cocoa app, but carbon, as far as OS X is concerned. i understand that you can dock all the windows in, err, windows. dw probably generates the best standardized html, far better than FP or go live. excessive, yes, but i have rarely had dw pages fail to render correctly.
i usually will actully do most my work, especially in data driven sites from quanta gold or just vim. but, when i bring my ibook into a shop and set up a site locally, dw is far more impressive. so, if spending a few hundred gets me more work, oh well.
uh, for us married folk, umm, ain't never gonna happen. they ain't never lettin' go of the riens.
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if you do serious web dev., then DW is far from expensive. and it will generate correct html, even if you use lots of fireworks dhtml, or layers. it will do all your checking, and it can check for browser differences. no, it's not open source, but at least DW is very platform nuetral. it does CF, asp, php, etc. yes you need windows or a mac, and that is a drawback.
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Few scientists, regardless of their political views, doubt the reality of global warming. The evidence is increasingly difficult to refute _and_ there is a strong theoretical basis to the observations being made. Whether or not there were isolated areas which have actually been warmer in the last 1000 or so years is of little consequence. This is not mathematics. It will take a whole lot more than one counter-example to disprove the theory.
umm, there are many, just that, "hey, we're not melting" doesn't get as much play in the VERY enviro-sympathetic press. also, it is hard not to push the company line at universities for fear of retaliation. there is absolutely no empirical data to suggest global warming. there are statistics, there are theories, there are conjectures. there is no definitive proof. the answer always is, "we can't wait fifty years to find out if we're right. we must act now." yeah, that's scientific.
environmentalism is really a path to world socialism and world government, in the same vein as the UN. every time an "environmental crisis" appears, there is a always a call for money. money from the government. also, each new claim comes with the associated calls for limits to our freedoms.
if you remember the 70's, paul weirich, et al., the big concern was global cooling. now it's global warming. look, you're looking at empirical data for say, 20 years. the earth is 5 billion years old. that would be like saying, what do programmers do, spending 10 seconds while watching the program compile, then writing a book on programming.
i hunt and fish, and love the outdoors as much as anyone. but, i think capitalism and freedom are far more important. do you really want the corrupt third world dictators telling the US how to run its economy?
while i have installed linux many, many times, this article misses the whole point. installation of an os should never be an issue for users. installs should be an admin/tinkerer thing. if you get a pre-install/pre-config on linux, it'll blow your mind. windows advantage is simply because it comes preinstalled. period.
in my district, i had proposed several linux based solutions, from turning old p120's into thin X clients, to file servers, yada yada. all were shot down like a duck on opening day. so, i get to talking to our site district technidiot. turns out he goes to some microsoft seminars and they throw out VS, 2K pro, office pro, everything. in fact he laughed because he had a "no reg. key" copy cd. so next time you wonder why there is not the movement you would think towards FOSS, this is why. why would our district want to use FOSS, when the microsoft reps throw out cd's like halloween candy. the reps know full well that the schools have to pay, and they know how to get "the right people on board". it is so easy and cheap for them.
they are using facilities in the public domain. although, IANAL, and don't pretend to be one, this would be similar to using the phone lines to organize criminal activity. or, better, it is similar to radio or television broadcast frequencies.
if an isp laid (no pun intended) its own lines, and ran its own vpn or whatever, and had its own backbone, etc., than the issue is different. but, unless i am wrong, and that possibility does exist, most isp's are leasing lines and connect over a public backbone. thus, there is clearly a compelling interest that those lines not be used to disseminate child porn.
as for the slippery slope, this is pure nonsense. remove the word porn. just deal with the age factor. we are talking about sexually explicit photography of children UNDER 18. if you can't tell the difference between that and naked baby photos my wife takes of my kids, then i feel sorry for you.
i think it goes without saying, okay well maybe it does, is that with the exception of rendezvous, which is cool, this can all be implemented in java. rather easily with sockets and rmi. plus by making the data protected and synchronized, and separating things in separate threads, you can make it rather safe. the only thing i guess java lacks is rendezvous, but since this is on os x, and java is a core component, rendezvous is accessible on pure java.
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i'm not criticizing, and havign used rendezvous only in my school's network to print from my ibook, i am impressed with rendezvous so far. but this is not a a WOW thing. but hey, it's about os x, and this is
that was my breakfast this morning. tomorrow i'm trying cheerios and vodka.
i thought bsd was dead. wow, what a resurrection.
i may be confused about .NET, i mean, is it a desert topping or a floor polish? but seriously, the only things that microsoft has spec'd are the language and runtime. yes, there are some platform independent libraries, but the meat of .NET is still tied to a specific platform. when VS .NET can write apps for linux then i'll be sold. which still leads me to a question i can't find an answer to: what exactly is .NET?
.NET as being another way for microsoft to leverage its desktop position to eventually lock out other platforms. which makes good business sense, but...
i know that with java (forgetting swing for a moment), i can write a networked app that will run on any platform. remember microsoft's java, and how much they added. i have been working on some cocoa/java apps. yes, that is very platform dependent. fine. but, apple didn't tie up there JVM with cocoa dependencies. they just added the cocoa bindings to java, so native apps and java apps work (almost) the same.
i still see
while it might be easier programmig in windows, that is because MFC sucked. how is it that there are better toolkits, i.e. Qt, for windows, than microsoft's own? but, .NET is still platform dependent. i defy anyone to prove otherwise. c# is simply a language, and the CLI is simply a VM. BFD. all the things windows are still locked up and inaccessible via anyhting other than on windows platform.
if you jumed so quickly from java to c# and VB, you either learned nothing or learned programming theory which is applicable to every language. having examined both, there is no advantage of c# to java, excpet tighter integration into the windows platform.
a file system that, for example, can allow for different files of essentially the same "file type" yet be launched by different apps
this was one of the macs biggest problems. what if i sent you an html file done in dreamweaver and you don't have it. you'd have to figure out what type of doc it is, and what app to use. PITA. talk about file incompatibility. why do yo think apple dropped this "feature"?
/. to switch to IIS?
just buy the book CGI programming with Perl. you'll get more than a few scripts that you can rework. it'll give you a detailed overview and plenty of code. from the description, it sounds rather like a get together and a "let's do perl" rather than a guy who is a serious perl hacker. personally, dude deserved an ass rippin from randall. besides, what i've discovered from perl hackers is this: if you ask them, they will offer all the help they can, but if you pretend you know, they will unleash. i've been at perl a few years. i can do alot of things, specifically because of perl.
perl is something you can teach yourself, for the most part. however, you have to go to the right sources.
The good part about OS X on Intel is that the machines would be damn cheap.
and that's the problem. apple is a hardware company. every apple post, i have to repeat this. apple sells hardware. all the iapps, etc., help sell their hardware. this is where they make money. apple is a technology company. they are always pushing the envelope, especially with hardware. if they port to x86, or they move to an intel platform, they 1) open the door up for clones (they don't like mac clones) 2) they become a software company (which is completely different business, and we see how microsoft is strggling trying to changes its bus. model) 3) they finally seal their fate (they are not "different" any more).
i am a linux user who also loves his ibook. i use both, love both. they have far more in common. i think jobs is smart enough to know that x86 *nix is linux, not bsd/darwin/os x.
you'd think they were fucking Microsoft
actually, it was microsoft fucking apple. and oh yeah, to save their ass (office, ie), it was apple sucking microsoft, or was it only jobs. oh, shit, you meant it as in the adjective not the verb. what'd ya expect, i was an econ major, not english.
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