Ding Ding Ding ~ give the man a cigar. They'll wait until it they have feed back from users and tweak it a bit. I'd wait until they release a few firmware, hardware, software updates and a normal headphone jack.
Interesting. The violence I was hoping for was only metaphorical in nature. Competition is only good when there is an ability to differentiate the offerings. I think I'll have to take a look at DOjo then. Native vector graphics sounds great.
Close. I'd like to see an all out brawl between the supporters of Dojo, Jquery, Prototype, and any others I've neglected to remember. The book and or the review should have mentioned the competing libraries and the particular advantages of Dojo. That would be helpful. Telling me that the book about dojo explains how to use dojo is not. Its a waste of time for most slashdotters.
I was thinking along the same lines. It certainly does remove some major points of emphasis for the second two points ( reducing the number of project files for an Ide, and extra file system work). But take another look in detail of the two workflows. It's looks like its just less painful all around to have a greater number of branches with Git. The only concern I would have would be file space. yes I know its cheap, but If I used git to its utmost branching potential , I think I'd fill up the drives pretty quickly.
I had several PSU 's fail on them. Couldn't find a psu to replace that fit nicely in the case. They're funky. THey had special adaptations to make them fit without screws. You'd find one that was roughly the same shape and from dell, but wouldn't fit cause it didn't have the right grooves. I suggest that someone with this type of a project get two of everything for redundancy. You'd probably be fine with two optiplexes of the same exact build.
Sometimes I just wanted to do a space Odyssey style monkey beat down of those funky psu's.
Something new won't sell. People wont adopt revolutionary products as easily as they will adopt incremental upgrades with a known and trusted brand. So calling it "Uber-fiber hyper gylde" won't sell as well as "Ethernet v10".
People will deal with confusion. They deal with it all the time. Its the only way they know to deal with the walrus.
I would not suggest a Dell Optiplex full tower. Funky Non standard shape Power supplies. They were also a maze of crazy plastic tabs that you need to press to remove some pointless part just to get at another pointless part to get to the part that blocks access to the funky isa riser that orients the cards vertically for no particular reason. Maybe some models were better. Working with a non for profit I ran into quite a few Optiplexes of that era. each one seemed to be almost completely different despite looking simuliar on the outside, and having comparable specs. But I guess the mere fact that I saw a lot of them means they sold well and lasted a while. HP's of that era are more compact and feature more screws than plastic tabs and have standard sized power supplies, but are also less reliable.
So what would I suggest? Finding a computer that works, without too much consideration for the particular make. Heck, if your worreid about reliability buy four. No one's going to offer you a guarantee on any thing that old, and they aren't particularly expensive. You can always cannibalize they identical ones when something fails.
Well, the thing that keeps me from getting a smart phone is that I don't want to pay for the data plan, but want a way of connecting to wifi ( most places I go are wifi'd or close to wifi'd places). Many otherwise capable phones ( see iphone) requires a data plan. However, I also don't want to carry another device around with me. Any recommendations for a wifi capable smart phone that doesn't require a data plan and is around $200? And while, I'm at it, I'd also like a competent government of the people for the people and by the people and a large fry.
We need a government that will work on any level. So we can have any improvement made to the system immediately work at the federal, state, county, township, city, family, and toaster level.
I agree, the lunatics aren't amusing enough. Its time to resort to shadier methods to keep quality high. Feel free to contact me directly samzenpus to discuss your alternative options to this grog.
On the positive side, I think this weekly feature has convinced me that not every insane person is funny or interesting. They are just as boring as regular people.
Well its a "well known fact"* that AIX was copied into linux and linux runs on sparc.
*According to this guy Darl I know. But then again Darl also says that Richard Stallman is a three inches tall and lives in a cigar box under his bed with his invisible unicorn Simon.
I'll take you up on the camcorder bet. I will only be including devices that record to a media other than flash. So no fair counting every cellphone available that records video as a camcorder, then docking it because it doesn't have firewire. I bought my camcorder a year ago, maybe 1 out of every 5 didn't have firewire, but it was the exception rather than the rule.
It is very similar to the 3 1/2 floppy issue. They dropped support for floppies when everyone was still using them. The university bought external floppy drives for every one of its new macs it bought because students demanded them. But unlike then, as others have pointed out, there is no other option for those that need firewire connectivity on the new macbooks.
But trying to suggest that this is adhering to web-standards, outside of an intellectual exercise in breaking the boundaries of the semantics of the English language, is rediculous [sic].
No boundaries of the semantics of the English language were harmed in my previous post (I think, sort of hard to parse that sentence it may have been garbled in transmission, please make sure your sentences are properly sent in accordance with RFC 1149). What every one does is by a definition of the word "standard", a standard. It is at times important when talking to non technical types that they may not know of the formal technical standards that have been agreed upon. They may be using the other definition of standard (as in what every one does).
Yes it is. It is the standard that everyone shoots for. The defacto standard if you will. It is not a rigorously defined standard published by an internationally recognized standards body. I'm afraid there is not a single standard definition of the word standard in the English language.
Not justifying any violent acts, but I think the difference in reaction comes down to one reason: familiarity. The unknown is always more frightening than the known. GB knows Ireland. Its close by, they visit every so often. They have a long history together, not all of it pleasant. Islamic terrorism is performed by individuals that don't look or talk like people they know. That makes it more frightening as they can heap all of their fears, superstitions and hatred upon them.
Well, given your responses you really aren't talking about the article anymore. We're just down to a Legitimate difference in opinion. Might be solved with a lot of benchmarks and what not, but not really worth the effort.
Should have been more specific. I meant non-consumer hardware, Switches routers and the like. A lot of them don't have the resources to handle their current load under the more intensive ipv6, even if you can get a software upgrade from the hardware vendor.
Because everyone will have to buy new hardware that will properly handle ip6. Those that might be volume buyers of Ip6 enabled hardware are the same ones that have excess ip 4 addresses. So, they have little motivation to switch, and the demand for Ip6 hardware remains low while price remains high.
Piracy could have been a factor. Piracy was indeed rampant, and that could have been one of the reasons. With out having a control group of China that was not exposed to piracy, its very difficult to see what kind of an impact it had.
An individual's choice to buy or not buy a product will not influence the price. Only if they individuals act in concert, either through a shared value system that leads them to individually decide the product is not worth the asking price or through an organized boycott. But the effects of either will be greatly diminished if there are large businesses that will buy it at the selling price.
No, I don't think you can just load a source code file of Java into a running java Application without Groovy. If I had my way, flash wouldn't be used either. I understand the temptation to use Java in the browser, believe me I do, but the slow start up time and resource usage makes it a bloated whale. I'm guessing you don't remember the bad old days of java applets in the mid to late 90's. There is a reason why developers have even preferred kludgy AJAX over revising Java applets.
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Ding Ding Ding ~ give the man a cigar. They'll wait until it they have feed back from users and tweak it a bit. I'd wait until they release a few firmware, hardware, software updates and a normal headphone jack.
I'll volunteer you as well. If you care that little about the rest of us, we'll even get blizzard to throw in a WOW server in for the "lucky" exiles.
Samba is GPL 3 licensed. I think Microsoft would have a hard time with any patent suite in light of that.
Interesting. The violence I was hoping for was only metaphorical in nature. Competition is only good when there is an ability to differentiate the offerings. I think I'll have to take a look at DOjo then. Native vector graphics sounds great.
Close. I'd like to see an all out brawl between the supporters of Dojo, Jquery, Prototype, and any others I've neglected to remember. The book and or the review should have mentioned the competing libraries and the particular advantages of Dojo. That would be helpful. Telling me that the book about dojo explains how to use dojo is not. Its a waste of time for most slashdotters.
I was thinking along the same lines. It certainly does remove some major points of emphasis for the second two points ( reducing the number of project files for an Ide, and extra file system work). But take another look in detail of the two workflows. It's looks like its just less painful all around to have a greater number of branches with Git. The only concern I would have would be file space. yes I know its cheap, but If I used git to its utmost branching potential , I think I'd fill up the drives pretty quickly.
I had several PSU 's fail on them. Couldn't find a psu to replace that fit nicely in the case. They're funky. THey had special adaptations to make them fit without screws. You'd find one that was roughly the same shape and from dell, but wouldn't fit cause it didn't have the right grooves. I suggest that someone with this type of a project get two of everything for redundancy. You'd probably be fine with two optiplexes of the same exact build.
Sometimes I just wanted to do a space Odyssey style monkey beat down of those funky psu's.
Something new won't sell. People wont adopt revolutionary products as easily as they will adopt incremental upgrades with a known and trusted brand. So calling it "Uber-fiber hyper gylde" won't sell as well as "Ethernet v10".
People will deal with confusion. They deal with it all the time. Its the only way they know to deal with the walrus.
I would not suggest a Dell Optiplex full tower. Funky Non standard shape Power supplies. They were also a maze of crazy plastic tabs that you need to press to remove some pointless part just to get at another pointless part to get to the part that blocks access to the funky isa riser that orients the cards vertically for no particular reason. Maybe some models were better. Working with a non for profit I ran into quite a few Optiplexes of that era. each one seemed to be almost completely different despite looking simuliar on the outside, and having comparable specs. But I guess the mere fact that I saw a lot of them means they sold well and lasted a while. HP's of that era are more compact and feature more screws than plastic tabs and have standard sized power supplies, but are also less reliable.
So what would I suggest? Finding a computer that works, without too much consideration for the particular make. Heck, if your worreid about reliability buy four. No one's going to offer you a guarantee on any thing that old, and they aren't particularly expensive. You can always cannibalize they identical ones when something fails.
I just had interstellar relations with that radiator woman from the radiator planet.
Yeah. Its pretty close to perfect, its developed significantly since I last looked at it. Very tempting. If it were $200, there would be no doubt.
Well, the thing that keeps me from getting a smart phone is that I don't want to pay for the data plan, but want a way of connecting to wifi ( most places I go are wifi'd or close to wifi'd places). Many otherwise capable phones ( see iphone) requires a data plan. However, I also don't want to carry another device around with me. Any recommendations for a wifi capable smart phone that doesn't require a data plan and is around $200? And while, I'm at it, I'd also like a competent government of the people for the people and by the people and a large fry.
We need a government that will work on any level. So we can have any improvement made to the system immediately work at the federal, state, county, township, city, family, and toaster level.
I agree, the lunatics aren't amusing enough. Its time to resort to shadier methods to keep quality high. Feel free to contact me directly samzenpus to discuss your alternative options to this grog. On the positive side, I think this weekly feature has convinced me that not every insane person is funny or interesting. They are just as boring as regular people.
Well its a "well known fact"* that AIX was copied into linux and linux runs on sparc.
*According to this guy Darl I know. But then again Darl also says that Richard Stallman is a three inches tall and lives in a cigar box under his bed with his invisible unicorn Simon.
I'll take you up on the camcorder bet. I will only be including devices that record to a media other than flash. So no fair counting every cellphone available that records video as a camcorder, then docking it because it doesn't have firewire. I bought my camcorder a year ago, maybe 1 out of every 5 didn't have firewire, but it was the exception rather than the rule.
It is very similar to the 3 1/2 floppy issue. They dropped support for floppies when everyone was still using them. The university bought external floppy drives for every one of its new macs it bought because students demanded them. But unlike then, as others have pointed out, there is no other option for those that need firewire connectivity on the new macbooks.
You need one to enforce the first law in the case of a severe malfunction.
Yes it is. It is the standard that everyone shoots for. The defacto standard if you will. It is not a rigorously defined standard published by an internationally recognized standards body. I'm afraid there is not a single standard definition of the word standard in the English language.
Isn't English fun, my compeer?
Not justifying any violent acts, but I think the difference in reaction comes down to one reason: familiarity. The unknown is always more frightening than the known. GB knows Ireland. Its close by, they visit every so often. They have a long history together, not all of it pleasant. Islamic terrorism is performed by individuals that don't look or talk like people they know. That makes it more frightening as they can heap all of their fears, superstitions and hatred upon them.
Well, given your responses you really aren't talking about the article anymore. We're just down to a Legitimate difference in opinion. Might be solved with a lot of benchmarks and what not, but not really worth the effort.
Should have been more specific. I meant non-consumer hardware, Switches routers and the like. A lot of them don't have the resources to handle their current load under the more intensive ipv6, even if you can get a software upgrade from the hardware vendor.
Because everyone will have to buy new hardware that will properly handle ip6. Those that might be volume buyers of Ip6 enabled hardware are the same ones that have excess ip 4 addresses. So, they have little motivation to switch, and the demand for Ip6 hardware remains low while price remains high.
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Piracy could have been a factor. Piracy was indeed rampant, and that could have been one of the reasons. With out having a control group of China that was not exposed to piracy, its very difficult to see what kind of an impact it had.
An individual's choice to buy or not buy a product will not influence the price. Only if they individuals act in concert, either through a shared value system that leads them to individually decide the product is not worth the asking price or through an organized boycott. But the effects of either will be greatly diminished if there are large businesses that will buy it at the selling price.
No, I don't think you can just load a source code file of Java into a running java Application without Groovy. If I had my way, flash wouldn't be used either. I understand the temptation to use Java in the browser, believe me I do, but the slow start up time and resource usage makes it a bloated whale. I'm guessing you don't remember the bad old days of java applets in the mid to late 90's. There is a reason why developers have even preferred kludgy AJAX over revising Java applets.