There are lots of hacks that enable GPS functionality on your various broadband devices. Most of the broadband devices I've seen have some sort of GPS capability, and in many cases its as simple as adding or changing a Windows registry setting. The Dell Mobile-blah Card Utility comes to mind.
The irony of these crazy electronic voting madness, is that the two fundamental strengths of computers are:
A) accurately remembering stuff
B) accurately adding stuff.
Totally agree with you on this point. It's a point that's not made often enough with regards to using either open source or proprietary software development tool. Documentation is SO important. And the parent is correct: Subversion's technical documentation is unusually lucid.
A good example of what you're talking about, can be seen at CSS Zen Garden, except that they don't store user-CSS preference, but rather allow you to click on older submissions and pass the variations by query string such as here, one of several winning submissions.
It's all perspective I suppose. I used to code in Java, then got elbowed into Microsoft(.NET) shops. C# is very Java-like..NET DOES run a virtual machine. But API-wise, the.NET framework is more of a wrapper around the Win32 API. The Java SDK, is a little "cleaner", in my opinion, and it heeds the spirit of OOP more closely. But for people who are transitioning from VB, and C++ to C#,.NET seems pretty great. I'm indifferent at this point. I try to keep my Java skills sharp, and will continue to do so. The whole "Java is Dying" FUD is ridiculous and without any real evidence.
On a sidenote, I had a recruiter try to tell me that Java was on its way out, and that EVERYONE was moving to.NET. He had NO clue what he was talking about. I asked him if he knew what the significant differences were between Java and.NET, and he just bumbled his way through some snake-tongue babble.
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I believe you meant "Guatemalan-insanity-pepper code".
That sounds a little suspect to me. BUT...I think the point being made is that, Shakespeare did in fact use quite a bit of crude (and I suppose profane) sexual innuendo in his plays. There's some pretty gritty speech in "Othello", "Hamlet", "Twelfth Night", and many of the comedies.
I agree. It's common knowledge that if you add a capital X to any part of your technology's name, it's obviously better than comparable non-X-titled technologies.
The alistapart web site is EXCELLENT. It's a good demo of how to take inline-style-bloated markup and convert it into something much more streamlined.
Unfortunately, in the web projects that I work on, I see nested tables ALL over the place, and it's like pulling teeth to get some of my co-workers to stop inlining style everywhere, and nesting tables instead of retooling the layout using CSS.
I knew something was up! When I search on "warriorpostman" in Yahoo and Google, my personal website (running on Apache) shows up, but the only thing that shows up on MSN's website are my Slashdot comments!?
I suppose it's not proof of a conspiracy, but still...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't "Yankee" a derogatory term for American colonists whose political views were considered part of the "extremist fringe"???
I thought it was slightly suspicious. BUT, the last quote of the article where Bush says that they might sell the space shuttle on Ebay; it sounded like something he might say.
No one is holding a gun to the heads of software company execs. Some of these managers need to grow a pair and listen to their engineers when the engineers say, "Hey, this isn't ready to go out. It's bloated with untested features. It's buggy, etc". Microsoft is reacting to greed not an unreconcilable set of "natural" phenomenom. The idea of "market forces" is just a gee-whiz economics term to define the process through which a collection of individuals decide which products are better than others. That process is way imperfect. Market forces have more to do with the arbitrary perceptions of corporate executives, so let's not scapegoat unit testing in the name of covering up the real problem, which is people following the cash trail, as opposed to following more disciplined software development practices.
I just read the first page of the document/study at that link, and I already see more content and points of technical interest in first page then I did in that horrific p2p manifesto. Thanks.
Sweet! With all this talk about colonizing other planets, I have now have cosmic justification for buying an X-Box so I can start playing Halo/2 immediately!
I somewhat agree with that. Ignorance definitely travels both ways between the two camps. Still, most of the UNIX/Linux-heads that I've worked with are a little more understanding of MSWindows, in comparison to MS-developers being knowledgeable of Linux. There are a lot of 100% homogenous MS shops, but companies that are using Unix/Linux are typically more heterogenous in their tools and OS's, as a group.
My only point is that, I can't believe anyone is in the slightest interested in what this guy (CIO?) has to say about anything, since his job title is really just a fancy term for cheerleader.
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There are lots of hacks that enable GPS functionality on your various broadband devices. Most of the broadband devices I've seen have some sort of GPS capability, and in many cases its as simple as adding or changing a Windows registry setting. The Dell Mobile-blah Card Utility comes to mind.
Wow. It never even occurred to me that people would execute traditional bank-style heists of data servers.
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The irony of these crazy electronic voting madness, is that the two fundamental strengths of computers are:
A) accurately remembering stuff
B) accurately adding stuff.
So clearly...it's a hardware problem.
Totally agree with you on this point. It's a point that's not made often enough with regards to using either open source or proprietary software development tool. Documentation is SO important. And the parent is correct: Subversion's technical documentation is unusually lucid.
A good example of what you're talking about, can be seen at CSS Zen Garden, except that they don't store user-CSS preference, but rather allow you to click on older submissions and pass the variations by query string such as here, one of several winning submissions.
...pretty flower :)
After reading this, it has become apparent to me why I always feel like I'm fighting dragons and monsters at work all day.
Amen.
It's all perspective I suppose. I used to code in Java, then got elbowed into Microsoft(.NET) shops. C# is very Java-like. .NET DOES run a virtual machine. But API-wise, the .NET framework is more of a wrapper around the Win32 API. The Java SDK, is a little "cleaner", in my opinion, and it heeds the spirit of OOP more closely. But for people who are transitioning from VB, and C++ to C#, .NET seems pretty great. I'm indifferent at this point. I try to keep my Java skills sharp, and will continue to do so. The whole "Java is Dying" FUD is ridiculous and without any real evidence.
.NET. He had NO clue what he was talking about. I asked him if he knew what the significant differences were between Java and .NET, and he just bumbled his way through some snake-tongue babble.
On a sidenote, I had a recruiter try to tell me that Java was on its way out, and that EVERYONE was moving to
I believe you meant "Guatemalan-insanity-pepper code".
That sounds a little suspect to me. BUT...I think the point being made is that, Shakespeare did in fact use quite a bit of crude (and I suppose profane) sexual innuendo in his plays. There's some pretty gritty speech in "Othello", "Hamlet", "Twelfth Night", and many of the comedies.
Amen.
I agree. It's common knowledge that if you add a capital X to any part of your technology's name, it's obviously better than comparable non-X-titled technologies.
Hmm...for me, it registers as 667KB in Opera. And in Windows explorer for that matter.
Quick...switch browsers.
The alistapart web site is EXCELLENT. It's a good demo of how to take inline-style-bloated markup and convert it into something much more streamlined.
Unfortunately, in the web projects that I work on, I see nested tables ALL over the place, and it's like pulling teeth to get some of my co-workers to stop inlining style everywhere, and nesting tables instead of retooling the layout using CSS.
Yeah can you confirm that? Or is that speculation on your part, from looking at the javascript that you believe to be "auto-gen'd"?
Rocket surgeons everywhere are shaking their heads in disbelief at your comment. ...
I knew something was up! When I search on "warriorpostman" in Yahoo and Google, my personal website (running on Apache) shows up, but the only thing that shows up on MSN's website are my Slashdot comments!?
I suppose it's not proof of a conspiracy, but still...
My comment wasn't offtopic...It was ironic. Maybe you didn't find it funny, and that I could understand, but don't say it was off-topic.
Please buy a clue...at the clue store.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't "Yankee" a derogatory term for American colonists whose political views were considered part of the "extremist fringe"???
Come on, loosen up...this one was Funny! Way funnier than the space shuttle one.
Although, is there always this much fake-posting on April 1?
I thought it was slightly suspicious. BUT, the last quote of the article where Bush says that they might sell the space shuttle on Ebay; it sounded like something he might say.
...so yes, I was FOOLED!
*sigh*
Market forces != a gangster named Tony
No one is holding a gun to the heads of software company execs. Some of these managers need to grow a pair and listen to their engineers when the engineers say, "Hey, this isn't ready to go out. It's bloated with untested features. It's buggy, etc". Microsoft is reacting to greed not an unreconcilable set of "natural" phenomenom. The idea of "market forces" is just a gee-whiz economics term to define the process through which a collection of individuals decide which products are better than others. That process is way imperfect. Market forces have more to do with the arbitrary perceptions of corporate executives, so let's not scapegoat unit testing in the name of covering up the real problem, which is people following the cash trail, as opposed to following more disciplined software development practices.
I just read the first page of the document/study at that link, and I already see more content and points of technical interest in first page then I did in that horrific p2p manifesto. Thanks.
Sweet! With all this talk about colonizing other planets, I have now have cosmic justification for buying an X-Box so I can start playing Halo/2 immediately!
I somewhat agree with that. Ignorance definitely travels both ways between the two camps. Still, most of the UNIX/Linux-heads that I've worked with are a little more understanding of MSWindows, in comparison to MS-developers being knowledgeable of Linux. There are a lot of 100% homogenous MS shops, but companies that are using Unix/Linux are typically more heterogenous in their tools and OS's, as a group. My only point is that, I can't believe anyone is in the slightest interested in what this guy (CIO?) has to say about anything, since his job title is really just a fancy term for cheerleader.