I'm surprised such a large open source project could be so careless as to releasee version 3.1 twice in two days! Makes me question the quality altogether. That's it.. I'm moving to netbeans.
ahh... soft soothing dupes... no jarring new information in the morning, just cushy favorites from days past...
A quick trip to google news will show you 307 other sources of this story, which don't require registration. It seems to me like slashdot should never have to link to NYT from the main page.
I can understand if my suggestion is not taken seriously. I only hope it doesn't lead to 307 more dupes.
I'm not sure most of this stuff is worth making preserving digitally enough to justify the cost. Just print em out, and put them in a Raiders of the Lost Ark-style warehouse. The few people who want to see all of clinton's administration's emails can travel to it and search.
I'd much rather see those hundreds of millions of dollars invested in, for instance, making all out of print recordings and books available on-line. It's a smaller problem (sounds like), but would benefit the world much more than online copies of every government employee's timecard records.
anybody know what the government has spec'ed TFA's archiving system to do? It says it will need to read 16,000 file formats, and be impervious to terrorist attack (?), but not much else...
I wonder what kind of searches and cross-linking will be done, for instance. What kinds of access control there will be? I'd also just like to see what the 16,000 formats are, out of curiosity. Sounds like a project waaaay larger than the $136 million they've allotted for it so far.
Stupid name.... i'm guessing they were chuckling about 'the ERA of NARA'...
But what about all the ways good version control frees you up? I think all the "but I'm just on a small project by myself" people are missing out.
On my personal projects, I use arch all the time, and I rarely look at the file histories, or share development with anyone else. No, I use it to:
- keep my desktop and laptop copies of my project in sync
- make branches to try out ideas that may not work
- keep a changelog automatically for me
- identify all project files (vs. generated or temp files), for easy tar'ing up for distribution
- etc.
I would expend much MORE effort doing these things without arch (or similar). So, to me, people looking for something easier ought to expend the effort to learn a good VCS.
well, half of all projects may not use version control, but an even larger percentage of claims in advertisements are completely made up to make you want to buy their product.
And even when there's good data, words can be misleading. For instance, maybe they meant ALL projects use VCS, but 1/2 the people on each project don't. Like, the managers and secretaries and accountants, for instance.
AND it says many others experience problems, but it *doesn't* say that their problems are with their version control! They could have fertility problems, or drinking problems, and the ad would still be strictly factual.
(but to answer your question, no, I don't see any reason why people would want avoid version control of source files)
You know how we always said we wanted to spend our afterlives together? Well, frankly, the only way that's going to happen now is if you start sinning immediately. I don't mean shoplifting, either. Think big. If you go to church again, it better be to burn it down. You've got some catching up to do.
Do they know that they made two sub-standard sequels, and are laughing all the way to the bank?
Or, do they think they are making the best trilogy possible, and a lot of Matrix fans happen to disagree?
Think of how much respect it would engender if news came out that Revolutions were delayed 6 months because they weren't happy with the final product. Based on what I'm seeing everyone say, it shouldn't have been too difficult for them to see that the movie needed work.
Of course none of that is going to stop me from seeing it later today...maybe that makes me part of the problem--the movie is going to make money no matter how much it sucks.
In order to send mail to my correspondents who are stuck with AOL (including my mother) I have had to configure Postfix to use Comcast's SMTP server for outgoing mail to aol.com instead of my own.
I have to jump through similar hoops. Sounds like we're all taking one step back toward the manually-routed xxx!yyy!zzz addresses...
Take a look at the link off the article. There's a proof-of-concept interface out there. It seems like all they're really doing is collecting and analyzing statistics on the groups and posts. Now, before it's over I'm sure they'll put a front-end on it that uses that data to help prod idiots in the right direction, but I definitely don't see anything horrible about it yet.
It's particularly fun if you ask for more detail on microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics, where 4th down from the top is a long thread called 'FUCK MICROSOFT! FUCKING IDIOTIC CUNTS!'
It reminds me of those visual illusion drawings that cause our brains to make sense of things in a missleading way. Check it out[uml.edu]
Anyone else find it funny that this sentence points to UML.edu? If I had described UML in those terms, management would have us coding in C again in no time.
That's like saying everybody has a different kind of finger-print, or that this is a new kind of slashdot posting. When it's not a massive natural electrical discharge, then it's a new kind.
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Right. I've always thought it's not fair that so many criminals get the pleasure of raping, when I don't.
What about ecommerce for things that you download? I will have to give them my address now, even though nothing is shipped to me?
I'm surprised such a large open source project could be so careless as to releasee version 3.1 twice in two days! Makes me question the quality altogether. That's it.. I'm moving to netbeans.
ahh... soft soothing dupes... no jarring new information in the morning, just cushy favorites from days past...
A quick trip to google news will show you 307 other sources of this story, which don't require registration. It seems to me like slashdot should never have to link to NYT from the main page.
I can understand if my suggestion is not taken seriously. I only hope it doesn't lead to 307 more dupes.
I'm not sure most of this stuff is worth making preserving digitally enough to justify the cost. Just print em out, and put them in a Raiders of the Lost Ark-style warehouse. The few people who want to see all of clinton's administration's emails can travel to it and search.
I'd much rather see those hundreds of millions of dollars invested in, for instance, making all out of print recordings and books available on-line. It's a smaller problem (sounds like), but would benefit the world much more than online copies of every government employee's timecard records.
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anybody know what the government has spec'ed TFA's archiving system to do? It says it will need to read 16,000 file formats, and be impervious to terrorist attack (?), but not much else...
I wonder what kind of searches and cross-linking will be done, for instance. What kinds of access control there will be? I'd also just like to see what the 16,000 formats are, out of curiosity. Sounds like a project waaaay larger than the $136 million they've allotted for it so far.
Stupid name.... i'm guessing they were chuckling about 'the ERA of NARA'...
So, what are some things that we discovered 10 years ago, that should be coming to market soon?
I guess that's why there's no java native interf...
oh. nevermind.
If china puts 2 in space, will 1 + 1 start to equal 3 on earth? That'll take some getting used to.
But what about all the ways good version control frees you up? I think all the "but I'm just on a small project by myself" people are missing out.
On my personal projects, I use arch all the time, and I rarely look at the file histories, or share development with anyone else. No, I use it to:
- keep my desktop and laptop copies of my project in sync
- make branches to try out ideas that may not work
- keep a changelog automatically for me
- identify all project files (vs. generated or temp files), for easy tar'ing up for distribution
- etc.
I would expend much MORE effort doing these things without arch (or similar). So, to me, people looking for something easier ought to expend the effort to learn a good VCS.
well, half of all projects may not use version control, but an even larger percentage of claims in advertisements are completely made up to make you want to buy their product.
And even when there's good data, words can be misleading. For instance, maybe they meant ALL projects use VCS, but 1/2 the people on each project don't. Like, the managers and secretaries and accountants, for instance.
AND it says many others experience problems, but it *doesn't* say that their problems are with their version control! They could have fertility problems, or drinking problems, and the ad would still be strictly factual.
(but to answer your question, no, I don't see any reason why people would want avoid version control of source files)
That said, however, given that there are no macro-scale living things on Mars to infect, ...
Maybe that's because the deadly microbes killed them all.
Do 'leader' wasps that are painted to look weak still get respect?
Hi Dear,
You know how we always said we wanted to spend our afterlives together? Well, frankly, the only way that's going to happen now is if you start sinning immediately. I don't mean shoplifting, either. Think big. If you go to church again, it better be to burn it down. You've got some catching up to do.
Love,
1nv4d3r
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Do they know that they made two sub-standard sequels, and are laughing all the way to the bank?
Or, do they think they are making the best trilogy possible, and a lot of Matrix fans happen to disagree?
Think of how much respect it would engender if news came out that Revolutions were delayed 6 months because they weren't happy with the final product. Based on what I'm seeing everyone say, it shouldn't have been too difficult for them to see that the movie needed work.
Of course none of that is going to stop me from seeing it later today...maybe that makes me part of the problem--the movie is going to make money no matter how much it sucks.
In order to send mail to my correspondents who are stuck with AOL (including my mother) I have had to configure Postfix to use Comcast's SMTP server for outgoing mail to aol.com instead of my own.
I have to jump through similar hoops. Sounds like we're all taking one step back toward the manually-routed xxx!yyy!zzz addresses...
Shouldn't the slashdot topic icon say G5 on it by now?
Maybe now O'Reilly can finally deliver on his 'no spin zone' promise.
Of course, if all his electrons stopped spinning it would probably be the most interesting televised farewell I've ever seen.
H-2-0, H-3-0, H-1.5-0 I don't care.
But consider yourselves warned: Leave my caffeine molecule alone!
Thanks to the expected slashdotting, this is just one more eclipse I can't look directly at.
Take a look at the link off the article. There's a proof-of-concept interface out there. It seems like all they're really doing is collecting and analyzing statistics on the groups and posts. Now, before it's over I'm sure they'll put a front-end on it that uses that data to help prod idiots in the right direction, but I definitely don't see anything horrible about it yet.
It's particularly fun if you ask for more detail on microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics, where 4th down from the top is a long thread called 'FUCK MICROSOFT! FUCKING IDIOTIC CUNTS!'
It reminds me of those visual illusion drawings that cause our brains to make sense of things in a missleading way. Check it out[uml.edu]
Anyone else find it funny that this sentence points to UML.edu? If I had described UML in those terms, management would have us coding in C again in no time.
9000 ports in 9 years is like 2.7 ports a day. That's pretty impressive.
(not to equate quantity with quality, but still...)
That's like saying everybody has a different kind of finger-print, or that this is a new kind of slashdot posting. When it's not a massive natural electrical discharge, then it's a new kind.