I'm excited about the idea of new forum software. I feel like Google, Facebook, and Twitter have made reasonably good conversation interfaces that forum or bulletin board software could easily borrow from. Having good search facilities, an interface with lower friction (i.e fewer clicks and scrolling) and snappy performance would be a great start.
Recent improvements in web user interface frameworks such as Twitter Bootstrap would go a long way towards making a mobile friendly and easier to use forum interface. It seems strange that popular forum software doesn't use those technologies.
I don't like when anonymous posters tack on some irrelevant piece of opinion on the end. I don't even know *who* is wondering whether it might support NNTP or why that might matter. It's like an anonymous comment trolling except that it is on the front page.
Why is this added to the article and why do the editors choose to publish it?/rant
It sounds like any popular general purpose language will do just fine for you. There are more important concerns you should be spending your brain power on. Just flip a coin, pick a language, and do a project. If you don't have any specific goals right now, then don't worry about it. If you later decide you would like to make programming a full-time thing, then you can more carefully learn a language that fits well with the problem domain you are interested in.
As for suggestions, language that are presently popular and have have supporting libraries for just about everything include: Python, Ruby, Java, and C#. There are many more but these are a few safe suggestions no matter what platforms or types of projects interest you.
From what I understand of their boxes, they are able to operate without communicating at all with Blue Coat. Syria doesn't have to sneakily do anything. And I doubt a country's ISP cares about cloud-based ANYTHING. They just want to configure a box to block traffic. What Syria is doing may be more advanced, but would you blame Cisco if someone set up a router not to route to select IPs?
That's cool; I like personal responsibility. Just don't expect my insurance premium to cover you. Please save up money for emphysema treatment or find a way to die before the more costly smoking-caused illnesses set in.
As usual, they're simply trying to make a statement in a controversial manner... arguments like this just continue to paint Greenpeace as a collection of sensationalist, attention-whoring, hippies.
And websites like Slashdot disseminate these articles on their behalf instead of more meaningful, less sensational ones. Unfortunately, these articles keep you and me coming back here to click on the ads (or Slashdot would still be a blog run by CmdrTaco).
The Debian project lead, Stefano Zacchiroli, is being terribly misquoted.
The numbers in the article do not address the common case of having one package maintainer for both distros. That 74% actually means that 74% of packages are *in common* between the distros. It is conceivable that much of that 74% is because of maintainers who contribute to both distributions. It isn't fair to say that Debian does all the work and Ubuntu merely takes advantage of it.
Seeing that the same package exists in both Debian and Ubuntu does not mean that the package originated in Debian and was taken without effort by an Ubuntu maintainer. Frequently, the same person creates a package for both. Either by creating an Ubuntu package and verifying that it works on Debian or the other way around.
Go look at the names of package maintainers. You'll see the same big group of people working on both projects.
Microsoft may have an exclusive deal with Netflix to have built-in Netflix support. Simply giving DVDs out with software for the other platforms *without* the possibility to install it may get around this agreement.
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If the games industry were to start starving, they would actually start taking more risks in an attempt to capture more sales. When you are backed into a corner do you take more or less risks to get out? The industry must be doing very well to be making the same games over and over. If you didn't notice, the people who have the least money innovate the most. So it sounds to me that the effect of used games is to help increase the quality of new titles. Buy more Used games!! Its good for the Industry!
I have the same problem on some computers. You might try upgrading or downgrading your adobe acrobat. The current version of Acrobat has very poor compatibility with Mozilla browsers. Hopefully Adobe will fix it in their upcoming version.
What a day indeed! Don't forget the World of Warcraft open beta starting today! ISPs around the world are complaining about the massive mozilla.org and fileplanet.com downloads eating their bandwidth;)
The sensible thing to do would be to not worry about the extra letter, and translate the stroke for b-a-l-o-n to balloon in the dictionary subsystem. Ambigous entries aren't really any more of a problem with this since it looks like they already have them and have dealt with them with the drop-down correction box.
Why are you assuming that the material's conductive properties change when it becomes solid? Do you know something about aCD and/or 4MP that the rest of us don't?
I tried metisse... And I know others who have tried it before it was even posted on slashdot. I would appreciate it if you didn't pretend to be so omnipotent as to think you know what others have or have not done.
CS runs almost perfectly for me under wineX 3.2. Every other mod I've tried runs fine as well. Are you sure your machine is set up right? Have you tried the official packages? I haven't found many games that *don't* run under wineX.
There seems to be some confusion as to what kind of noise the author is talking about. I got the impression that he is refering to EM noise effecting the audio card. As any audiophile will point out, internal sound cards pick up a lot of noise from the inside of a computer. I don't think removing the harddrive helps much, but perhaps the author thinks otherwise.
I know you are joking, but this is what I did. I installed linux and left a spare partition for installing windows. Then I installed windows, it left my linux partition be, and I reinstalled the grub bootloader afterwards. Now everything is fine.
I don't think it is safe to assume that the EIOffice GUI was written with Swing, AWT, or IBMs SWT. They may have used Qt or another portable GUI library. If this is the case, the GUI speed has nothing to do with the app being written in java.
Portable.NET has been avaliable on the Mac for over a year now and even has support for SWF (the GUI library) on mac. Good to hear that Mono is also getting thereselves over to mac. Now if only the JIT would get written for it:)
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Now we just need a site where you enter your build and it puts together order lists from newegg and amazon to optimize for price.
http://pcpartpicker.com/ does exactly that!
I see what you did there, Anonymous Coward!
I'm excited about the idea of new forum software. I feel like Google, Facebook, and Twitter have made reasonably good conversation interfaces that forum or bulletin board software could easily borrow from. Having good search facilities, an interface with lower friction (i.e fewer clicks and scrolling) and snappy performance would be a great start.
Recent improvements in web user interface frameworks such as Twitter Bootstrap would go a long way towards making a mobile friendly and easier to use forum interface. It seems strange that popular forum software doesn't use those technologies.
" I wonder if it will ever have an NNTP gateway."
I don't like when anonymous posters tack on some irrelevant piece of opinion on the end. I don't even know *who* is wondering whether it might support NNTP or why that might matter. It's like an anonymous comment trolling except that it is on the front page.
Why is this added to the article and why do the editors choose to publish it? /rant
I thought the bold text was a new Ask Slashdot feature to help everyone see the OPs replies! Thanks for doing that.
It sounds like any popular general purpose language will do just fine for you. There are more important concerns you should be spending your brain power on. Just flip a coin, pick a language, and do a project. If you don't have any specific goals right now, then don't worry about it. If you later decide you would like to make programming a full-time thing, then you can more carefully learn a language that fits well with the problem domain you are interested in.
As for suggestions, language that are presently popular and have have supporting libraries for just about everything include: Python, Ruby, Java, and C#. There are many more but these are a few safe suggestions no matter what platforms or types of projects interest you.
From what I understand of their boxes, they are able to operate without communicating at all with Blue Coat. Syria doesn't have to sneakily do anything. And I doubt a country's ISP cares about cloud-based ANYTHING. They just want to configure a box to block traffic. What Syria is doing may be more advanced, but would you blame Cisco if someone set up a router not to route to select IPs?
That's cool; I like personal responsibility. Just don't expect my insurance premium to cover you. Please save up money for emphysema treatment or find a way to die before the more costly smoking-caused illnesses set in.
As usual, they're simply trying to make a statement in a controversial manner ... arguments like this just continue to paint Greenpeace as a collection of sensationalist, attention-whoring, hippies.
And websites like Slashdot disseminate these articles on their behalf instead of more meaningful, less sensational ones. Unfortunately, these articles keep you and me coming back here to click on the ads (or Slashdot would still be a blog run by CmdrTaco).
this could be one of two things: wifi hotspots being found via a network of other iphones or ...
He filtered out wifi from the data before doing the analysis.
The Debian project lead, Stefano Zacchiroli, is being terribly misquoted.
The numbers in the article do not address the common case of having one package maintainer for both distros. That 74% actually means that 74% of packages are *in common* between the distros. It is conceivable that much of that 74% is because of maintainers who contribute to both distributions. It isn't fair to say that Debian does all the work and Ubuntu merely takes advantage of it.
Seeing that the same package exists in both Debian and Ubuntu does not mean that the package originated in Debian and was taken without effort by an Ubuntu maintainer. Frequently, the same person creates a package for both. Either by creating an Ubuntu package and verifying that it works on Debian or the other way around.
Go look at the names of package maintainers. You'll see the same big group of people working on both projects.
Microsoft may have an exclusive deal with Netflix to have built-in Netflix support. Simply giving DVDs out with software for the other platforms *without* the possibility to install it may get around this agreement.
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As a fellow karma pwner, you will surely relate to this pigeon pwning soviet russia shirt. And being a karma whore in a previous life time, You can probably understand if I troll slashdot with slashdot jokes! 0_o
If the games industry were to start starving, they would actually start taking more risks in an attempt to capture more sales. When you are backed into a corner do you take more or less risks to get out? The industry must be doing very well to be making the same games over and over. If you didn't notice, the people who have the least money innovate the most. So it sounds to me that the effect of used games is to help increase the quality of new titles. Buy more Used games!! Its good for the Industry!
I have the same problem on some computers. You might try upgrading or downgrading your adobe acrobat. The current version of Acrobat has very poor compatibility with Mozilla browsers. Hopefully Adobe will fix it in their upcoming version.
What a day indeed! Don't forget the World of Warcraft open beta starting today! ISPs around the world are complaining about the massive mozilla.org and fileplanet.com downloads eating their bandwidth ;)
The sensible thing to do would be to not worry about the extra letter, and translate the stroke for b-a-l-o-n to balloon in the dictionary subsystem. Ambigous entries aren't really any more of a problem with this since it looks like they already have them and have dealt with them with the drop-down correction box.
Why are you assuming that the material's conductive properties change when it becomes solid? Do you know something about aCD and/or 4MP that the rest of us don't?
aside from the sensational stuff, you just described Mac OS X. Its been around for 3 or 4 years now. No need to imagine, a lot of people use it.
I tried metisse... And I know others who have tried it before it was even posted on slashdot. I would appreciate it if you didn't pretend to be so omnipotent as to think you know what others have or have not done.
CS runs almost perfectly for me under wineX 3.2. Every other mod I've tried runs fine as well. Are you sure your machine is set up right? Have you tried the official packages? I haven't found many games that *don't* run under wineX.
There seems to be some confusion as to what kind of noise the author is talking about. I got the impression that he is refering to EM noise effecting the audio card. As any audiophile will point out, internal sound cards pick up a lot of noise from the inside of a computer. I don't think removing the harddrive helps much, but perhaps the author thinks otherwise.
I know you are joking, but this is what I did. I installed linux and left a spare partition for installing windows. Then I installed windows, it left my linux partition be, and I reinstalled the grub bootloader afterwards. Now everything is fine.
I don't think it is safe to assume that the EIOffice GUI was written with Swing, AWT, or IBMs SWT. They may have used Qt or another portable GUI library. If this is the case, the GUI speed has nothing to do with the app being written in java.
Portable.NET has been avaliable on the Mac for over a year now and even has support for SWF (the GUI library) on mac. Good to hear that Mono is also getting thereselves over to mac. Now if only the JIT would get written for it :)