Given that XML has become a bit of a standard in business, it makes sense to use it to be able to share data between applications written in different languages. Now, I don't know the status of YAML in e.g. Java or C++, but unless they have good parsers for it I reckon I'd choose XML for the task simply because it's sufficiently clear, people know how to use schemas, and so on.
FWIW; this must be the 4th time this happens in a matter of at the most 2 years. Each attempt was made by sending out e-mails in extremely bad Swedish trying to convince customers to Nordea to hand over their user information or visit their website (which was on another domain or hijacked).
Each and everyone who fell for this must either be an immigrant, senile, or just plain dumb (this is a sincere hypothesis). The title of this story absolutely does not ring true to what's really happened - it wasn't huge and it's not a big scandal at all. Also, 2 people have been apprehended and are considered suspects to the fraud./from a random Swede
FWIW: Sex education in Sweden is at around 10-11 years of age, with a more complete and broader view at 12-14. 7-8 years and you'd have zero response because of the lack of sexual development.
Sorry, many of us are probably engineers. It is in our mind to search for problems and fix them before they become a problem. A work handicap, if you will.
This is not a flamebait..;-) Look, GNU/Linux is free. Most of us don't care if you use Linux or not. You may use whatever you choose to use.
If, for some reason, you find that buying Windows is costly and locks you in in various ways; then Linux is right there for you to use - free of charge. Now, isn't that nice? A free operating system, gosh. And look at all other software that is free - it must be worth millions! Look at Gimp for example. It's a very talented application that can do most of what Photoshop can do and it's also free.
So, please, stop making it sound like Linux users badly wants to convert people to use Linux - you have the option to do so if you want to, but don't expect Linux users and developers to wipe your ass for you. If you want perfect support, buy Windows.
I find myself being extremely thankful to the Open Source and GNU/Linux community since without you I'd be forced to running a closed source system - probably Windows. Let's not forget that Mac OS X is based on open code.
No worries. Us Swedes will hang our minister of justice and continue to mock MPAA et. al. In fact he's already facing constitutional questioning, something I'll be sure to watch.
Interesting that the governments website is still DDOS'ed.
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Yes, it's so obvious when you say it like that. Matter of fact is that I'm sitting with a frickin' has-been expensive ATI card and have to live with that the driver sometimes just don't load because of some bug in it.
Having had Gentoo, Ubuntu or whatever that is your flavor recommend you hardware companies I would have been able to choose wisely (Nvidia).
Now.. how to get the distros to do this. Do they read Slashdot?
Proof that gfx is not what it's about is the fact that Counter-Strike keeps on being a major, if not the number one game being played.
The failure of Counter-Strike:Source is because it's dead SLOW. Even on modern hardware you have problems getting into the game and stop feeling like you're controlling a character.
Blazing graphics and physics, like in Counter-Strike:Source sure would be welcome, but not on the expense of the gameplay and I don't think I'm the first to say this about this very game. Not to mention that you hardly have any time to admire the graphics in such an intense game. Also, there's a reason that CS players constantly nag about it's "lagging";-)
Actually Stable is the branch which is patched first if there's a security flaw.
Quoting their Unstable page (found under "Unstable" here):
Please note that security updates for "unstable" distribution are not managed by the security team. Hence, "unstable" does not get security updates in a timely manner.
This turned me off Debian (cannot for the love of god run Stable). I switched to Gentoo. No regrets.
It may be a good server OS, but completely worthless for a desktop imho.
You might want to read reviews before you go out and buy yourself an Acer laptop. Two friends have had multiple hardware failure on their laptops. I do not recollect the model however.
So read reviews, or suffer from faulty hardware.:-|
How is this strange to you? At some point some form of quality control *must* be done in order to make sure that the codebase don't go to hell with bugs or crappy code.
The thing is that all that code reading/quality testing takes up a lot of time. So perhaps rather than just giving anyone commit access a few devs gets invited "per week" so to speak, devs which have shown that they don't develop memory leaks every day or inconcistent hard-to-find bugs.
It really makes sense to me that one would close off the developer base the more people that rely on the "product". In this case, Firefox is used by millions, therefore people "depend" on it and the code shouldn't be messed with by someone not proved sufficient.
Of course testing for sufficientness is as I wrote above a thing that takes a lot of time, so people in general might feel left out.
I thought the idea behind TeX was that you shouldn't have to care about the layout, but rather only care about the *content*. And at that it is pretty damn sleek!
SuSE's live disc, since you mention it, apparently didn't support my Geforce 2 very well, it sent out an out of sync videosignal to my Samsung 19" monitor.
Trying to boot in "safe mode" didn't help either. Yes, indeed, a non-working live-CD isn't really what drives people to install the distro, or Linux consequently.
In the step Formatting I was quite puzzled by the following Perl-code:
perl -le '=1; =2; print " + = ", + '
It is, of course, nonsense. So this entire "test" seems utterly pointless since the person responsible also measured 38 bytes for Perl in this case (the above code).
Sync error just when it switches the resolution going to what I presume to be KDE. Too bad.
Setting a "lower" resolution in the boot doesn't help, neither does safe settings. Not exactly the screen I was expecting:-)
Using a Samsung 19" SyncMaster 959NF on a GeForce 2 GTS.
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Given that XML has become a bit of a standard in business, it makes sense to use it to be able to share data between applications written in different languages. Now, I don't know the status of YAML in e.g. Java or C++, but unless they have good parsers for it I reckon I'd choose XML for the task simply because it's sufficiently clear, people know how to use schemas, and so on.
Well I guess it was a suble point; no, they are considered illiteral in Swedish.
FWIW; this must be the 4th time this happens in a matter of at the most 2 years. Each attempt was made by sending out e-mails in extremely bad Swedish trying to convince customers to Nordea to hand over their user information or visit their website (which was on another domain or hijacked).
/from a random Swede
Each and everyone who fell for this must either be an immigrant, senile, or just plain dumb (this is a sincere hypothesis). The title of this story absolutely does not ring true to what's really happened - it wasn't huge and it's not a big scandal at all. Also, 2 people have been apprehended and are considered suspects to the fraud.
FWIW: Sex education in Sweden is at around 10-11 years of age, with a more complete and broader view at 12-14. 7-8 years and you'd have zero response because of the lack of sexual development.
Sorry, many of us are probably engineers. It is in our mind to search for problems and fix them before they become a problem. A work handicap, if you will.
This is not a flamebait.. ;-) Look, GNU/Linux is free. Most of us don't care if you use Linux or not. You may use whatever you choose to use.
If, for some reason, you find that buying Windows is costly and locks you in in various ways; then Linux is right there for you to use - free of charge. Now, isn't that nice? A free operating system, gosh. And look at all other software that is free - it must be worth millions! Look at Gimp for example. It's a very talented application that can do most of what Photoshop can do and it's also free.
So, please, stop making it sound like Linux users badly wants to convert people to use Linux - you have the option to do so if you want to, but don't expect Linux users and developers to wipe your ass for you. If you want perfect support, buy Windows.
I find myself being extremely thankful to the Open Source and GNU/Linux community since without you I'd be forced to running a closed source system - probably Windows. Let's not forget that Mac OS X is based on open code.
Thank you.
It is only peaking this weekend. It will be visible a great deal longer - till august 20th or something. So pack your bags...
No worries. Us Swedes will hang our minister of justice and continue to mock MPAA et. al. In fact he's already facing constitutional questioning, something I'll be sure to watch. Interesting that the governments website is still DDOS'ed.
Yes, it's so obvious when you say it like that. Matter of fact is that I'm sitting with a frickin' has-been expensive ATI card and have to live with that the driver sometimes just don't load because of some bug in it.
Having had Gentoo, Ubuntu or whatever that is your flavor recommend you hardware companies I would have been able to choose wisely (Nvidia).
Now.. how to get the distros to do this. Do they read Slashdot?
Proof that gfx is not what it's about is the fact that Counter-Strike keeps on being a major, if not the number one game being played.
;-)
The failure of Counter-Strike:Source is because it's dead SLOW. Even on modern hardware you have problems getting into the game and stop feeling like you're controlling a character.
Blazing graphics and physics, like in Counter-Strike:Source sure would be welcome, but not on the expense of the gameplay and I don't think I'm the first to say this about this very game. Not to mention that you hardly have any time to admire the graphics in such an intense game. Also, there's a reason that CS players constantly nag about it's "lagging"
Also, you may use GOTO for breaking out of multi-level loops where a single BREAK won't help you. E.g.:
...
for (int i=0; i<10; i++) {
for (int j=i; j<10; j++) {
if (i*j == x)
goto SUCCESS;
}
}
SUCCESS:
...
Dupe.. I think they ignore us :-P
It may be a good server OS, but completely worthless for a desktop imho.
You might want to read reviews before you go out and buy yourself an Acer laptop. Two friends have had multiple hardware failure on their laptops. I do not recollect the model however.
:-|
So read reviews, or suffer from faulty hardware.
Although put in a silly language, the parent does have a point. :-\
Giving up mod access.
How is this strange to you? At some point some form of quality control *must* be done in order to make sure that the codebase don't go to hell with bugs or crappy code.
The thing is that all that code reading/quality testing takes up a lot of time. So perhaps rather than just giving anyone commit access a few devs gets invited "per week" so to speak, devs which have shown that they don't develop memory leaks every day or inconcistent hard-to-find bugs.
It really makes sense to me that one would close off the developer base the more people that rely on the "product". In this case, Firefox is used by millions, therefore people "depend" on it and the code shouldn't be messed with by someone not proved sufficient.
Of course testing for sufficientness is as I wrote above a thing that takes a lot of time, so people in general might feel left out.
I thought the idea behind TeX was that you shouldn't have to care about the layout, but rather only care about the *content*. And at that it is pretty damn sleek!
That image linked in your sig did so not crash my precious Firefox 1.0.
No need for multiple tables either, although that might be more pedagogical(?)..
E.g.:This would represent a three-dimensional space seen with a wordID centric view, or a two-dimensional space seen with a docID centric view.
What if the "Ask me where to save every file"-option is checked and there is apparently no defined download directory?
Uh. What then?
That http://ask.usgs.gov/digidata.html was a bit fouled up... With Firefox it took me to Microsoft's site. :-P
Try clicking it, or try using "http//ask.usgs.gov/digidata.html" (without the colon) and it takes you to http://www.microsoft.com/, anyone know why???
SuSE's live disc, since you mention it, apparently didn't support my Geforce 2 very well, it sent out an out of sync videosignal to my Samsung 19" monitor.
Trying to boot in "safe mode" didn't help either. Yes, indeed, a non-working live-CD isn't really what drives people to install the distro, or Linux consequently.
It is, of course, nonsense. So this entire "test" seems utterly pointless since the person responsible also measured 38 bytes for Perl in this case (the above code).
Literally. :-P
:-)
Sync error just when it switches the resolution going to what I presume to be KDE. Too bad.
Setting a "lower" resolution in the boot doesn't help, neither does safe settings. Not exactly the screen I was expecting
Using a Samsung 19" SyncMaster 959NF on a GeForce 2 GTS.
There's always the Koenigsegg..