Yeah - and John Kerry hasn't "distorted" any facts in his campaign either.
Face it - any democrat or republican is going to try and deceive the public to get elected. You can either vote independent or encourage lies and deceit.
I browsed their website a little bit but had a hard time trying to figure out why I would want to use Laszlo over just directly using Flash.
There are plenty of "rich" web interfaces built using Javascript and Flash. Does Laszlo make this easier somehow? I tend to think that installing and configuring yet another server, learning another XML syntax, and figuring out how to work around the nuances and bugs is more difficult (in general) than just directly using the base language.
I'm not trying to slam the product. As a web developer, I would just like to know why I should be interested.
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It's Radiohead. It's the Roots. It's thousands of artists you've never heard of and likely never will.
I would probably vote for Bush if I felt I was wasting my vote by voting for a 3rd party.
Kerry will just be "more of the same" if he gets elected, because he's a politician.
Chances are you won't be *the* single deciding vote that gives Kerry the edge over Bush, therefore voting for Kerry is just as much a waste of a vote as voting 3rd party.
I think the 2 party system breeds corruption (Bush and Kerry are both deceitful to the US public) and I will cast my vote for a 3rd party just to try and help get the ball rolling for political reform. The more votes the 3rd parties get, the more viable they become.
The problems as I see it:
1. Kerry is a shady politician.
2. Bush is a shady politician.
3. Feinsten is a shady politician.
4. The media exaggerates anything negative.
We can't do anything about the media, because negative stories grab people's attention, and when you have people's attention, you can charge a lot for advertising. That's how media works.
As long as we have two shady parties in control continually writing laws to make it more and more difficult for a third party, politicians will *always* be shady. The system encourages lies and deceit towards the general public. Politicians are kind of like the WWE. They get on TV and tell lies about each other then go backstage and laugh and joke about it over a scotch and cigar. It's all a big production geared towards deceiving us into voting for one of them so their party can have power.
Go vote for a 3rd party. Any 3rd party. It's time to make a vote for democracy in our own nation first.
As for Iraq...
Allawi was put in control *temporarily* until elections can be held. Would you honestly expect the US to put someone in charge who wasn't at least slightly controlled by the US? That would be stupid. The first round of elections will be similar. Certainly, we want to make sure that radical muslims from the opposition don't win any elections. That would be stupid as well.
Kerry and Bush really have the same opinions on Iraq so I don't really care which one wins the election. Either way, it will be "more of the same."
You're paying for a phone number as well. Also, a service to route that phone number from the POTS system to your IP phone (and vice versa).
If *everyone* had broadband and we just used IP addresses, then there would be no need to charge for VOIP.
I have 2 cable companies and about 50 phone companies all competing to offer me faster and cheaper broadband than everyone else. Monopoly isn't a problem here in Tampa.
Also, aren't we going to have broadband over power lines soon? What ever happened to that?
I wish we could cast our vote *against* a candidate, and subtract a vote from his final tally. After all, isn't that how most of us really want to vote?
My voting opinion is not accurately reflected by voting for the lesser of two evils. I want to vote *against* one of them. This would be great because a 3rd party candidate would actually stand a chance of winning, since so many people would rather vote against Bush or Kerry than for either one.
... if you are comparing Java programming to C# programming.
VS.NET has the whole WYSINQWYG (What You See Is Not Quite What You Get) html/asp editor, but after pages get slightly complex, or you start taking advantage of User/Custom controls, the visual designer is more of a limitation than a benefit. The ability to create User controls is a really useful feature in ASP.NET.
I currently use both in an enterprise/production environment. I much prefer the CVS/Refactoring/Auto-Compile/etc. features that Eclipse has over the few minor advantages of VS. VS.NET also has some annoying bugs, whereas the latest and greatest Eclipse has been rock solid for us.
Also, at home I dabble in PHP and have good results using Eclipse with the PHP plugin from xored.com. It would still be nice to have a Visual HTML/PHP designer plugin (that was free).
Use Amsoil synthetic oils. With Amsoil, you can change your oil every 25,000 miles and be fine. They guarantee the oil will still meet or exceed the manufacturer's specifications after 25,000 miles.
Quote from the article:
"Twenty out of 25 people remembered their password the next day."
That doesn't seem like a big improvement. After all, I can remember 23 of my 25 passwords.
We have a few huge custom software systems that run on Linux. Due to the nature of our business (remote PCs, POTS connections, 24-7 use) we can't upgrade very often. The less, the better. We also have a RedHat guy on staff, b/c we want and need support for a long time.
Another thing to consider is your hardware vendor. They often won't support a "new PC/old Redhat" combo. We have already bought hundreds of PCs just b/c we'll need them in a few years, but will probably be stuck with an old RedHat (unless we want to support our own software on more OS versions than we already do!).
It's not breaking any laws of physics. It could increase the efficiency of a system if the energy required to shock the crystal is less than the energy being radiated as heat.
It would only break the law of conservation of energy if the resulting energy created from the photovoltaic cell was greater than the energy being radiated.
No one is suggesting that. I think you guys just like reading your own funny quotes regarding laws of physics.
Laws of physics are only funny on Slashdot. What nerds!
If they could shift heat waves -> light waves, then absorb those with photovoltaic cells, we could harness lots of wasted energy. Almost everything generates wasted heat energy, and isn't heat energy basically the same thing as light waves, just at a different frequency?
Programming languages do make a difference, but not directly. Bad programmers write bad code, period.
However - languages, designs, development environments, and methodologies that speed development yield more time for testing. For example, if management has given a team a 6 month time frame, and the team thinks the product should start testing in 3 months, they may have a better chance at getting the product to SQA by using Java, Perl, or VB instead of C.
A product that is delivered to SQA late is more likely to be buggy. RAD environments and software architects (not managers) can speed development by picking the appropriate design and technologies. In my experience, this doesn't happen very often.
What we need to do is get every system admins on Slashdot to convince their legal department to join in w/ the lawsuits.
Estimate the number of spam messages your company gets per day and put a price tag on each one. Then join the fight!
Even if humans are causing global warming, I'm not convinced greenhouse gases are the problem.
Maybe the Earth is getting HOTTER from all the HEAT humans are creating.
What's coming out of your SUVs exhaust? Not just pollution, but large amounts of HEAT. Everything we do creates lots of heat. Cities are warmer than surrounding countryside. Trees, which absorb the Sun's heat are being cut down (sidenote - support the paper industry to gaurantee we always have forests). My computer is generating heat. My A/C is generating heat. I took a hot shower this morning. I used an oven. I created thousands of tiny air/fuel explosions on my way to work. I drove over really hot concrete, etc., etc., etc.
Maybe HEAT is responsible for the increase in Earth's temperature.
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Yeah - and John Kerry hasn't "distorted" any facts in his campaign either.
Face it - any democrat or republican is going to try and deceive the public to get elected. You can either vote independent or encourage lies and deceit.
http://www.factcheck.org/
Most schools would be ecstatic to receive some refurbished old laptops (or desktops).
Plus, you would get a real life Karma bonus.
I browsed their website a little bit but had a hard time trying to figure out why I would want to use Laszlo over just directly using Flash.
There are plenty of "rich" web interfaces built using Javascript and Flash. Does Laszlo make this easier somehow? I tend to think that installing and configuring yet another server, learning another XML syntax, and figuring out how to work around the nuances and bugs is more difficult (in general) than just directly using the base language.
I'm not trying to slam the product. As a web developer, I would just like to know why I should be interested.
Who's never heard of Radiohead?
I would probably vote for Bush if I felt I was wasting my vote by voting for a 3rd party.
Kerry will just be "more of the same" if he gets elected, because he's a politician.
Chances are you won't be *the* single deciding vote that gives Kerry the edge over Bush, therefore voting for Kerry is just as much a waste of a vote as voting 3rd party.
I think the 2 party system breeds corruption (Bush and Kerry are both deceitful to the US public) and I will cast my vote for a 3rd party just to try and help get the ball rolling for political reform. The more votes the 3rd parties get, the more viable they become.
The problems as I see it: 1. Kerry is a shady politician. 2. Bush is a shady politician. 3. Feinsten is a shady politician. 4. The media exaggerates anything negative. We can't do anything about the media, because negative stories grab people's attention, and when you have people's attention, you can charge a lot for advertising. That's how media works. As long as we have two shady parties in control continually writing laws to make it more and more difficult for a third party, politicians will *always* be shady. The system encourages lies and deceit towards the general public. Politicians are kind of like the WWE. They get on TV and tell lies about each other then go backstage and laugh and joke about it over a scotch and cigar. It's all a big production geared towards deceiving us into voting for one of them so their party can have power. Go vote for a 3rd party. Any 3rd party. It's time to make a vote for democracy in our own nation first. As for Iraq... Allawi was put in control *temporarily* until elections can be held. Would you honestly expect the US to put someone in charge who wasn't at least slightly controlled by the US? That would be stupid. The first round of elections will be similar. Certainly, we want to make sure that radical muslims from the opposition don't win any elections. That would be stupid as well. Kerry and Bush really have the same opinions on Iraq so I don't really care which one wins the election. Either way, it will be "more of the same."
You're paying for a phone number as well. Also, a service to route that phone number from the POTS system to your IP phone (and vice versa). If *everyone* had broadband and we just used IP addresses, then there would be no need to charge for VOIP.
Since many people still don't use firewalls in their home networks is their a security problem here?
Does your phone get assigned an IP address?
Will spammers have an easier time making unsolicited calls to VOIP customers?
I need to know this stuff before I consider switching. Someone help me out.
I have 2 cable companies and about 50 phone companies all competing to offer me faster and cheaper broadband than everyone else. Monopoly isn't a problem here in Tampa. Also, aren't we going to have broadband over power lines soon? What ever happened to that?
I wish we could cast our vote *against* a candidate, and subtract a vote from his final tally. After all, isn't that how most of us really want to vote? My voting opinion is not accurately reflected by voting for the lesser of two evils. I want to vote *against* one of them. This would be great because a 3rd party candidate would actually stand a chance of winning, since so many people would rather vote against Bush or Kerry than for either one.
As a Tampa-area resident I am stoked. I just hope they can offer static IPs for a price competitive with RoadRunner's cable-modem static IP ($60).
... if you are comparing Java programming to C# programming.
VS.NET has the whole WYSINQWYG (What You See Is Not Quite What You Get) html/asp editor, but after pages get slightly complex, or you start taking advantage of User/Custom controls, the visual designer is more of a limitation than a benefit. The ability to create User controls is a really useful feature in ASP.NET.
I currently use both in an enterprise/production environment. I much prefer the CVS/Refactoring/Auto-Compile/etc. features that Eclipse has over the few minor advantages of VS. VS.NET also has some annoying bugs, whereas the latest and greatest Eclipse has been rock solid for us.
Also, at home I dabble in PHP and have good results using Eclipse with the PHP plugin from xored.com. It would still be nice to have a Visual HTML/PHP designer plugin (that was free).
Use Amsoil synthetic oils. With Amsoil, you can change your oil every 25,000 miles and be fine. They guarantee the oil will still meet or exceed the manufacturer's specifications after 25,000 miles.
I have the completely up-to-date free version of ZoneAlarm, and I still got the worm.
Quote from the article: "Twenty out of 25 people remembered their password the next day." That doesn't seem like a big improvement. After all, I can remember 23 of my 25 passwords.
Cool. One day I'll be able to get a Master's degree in cursive!
A few decades isn't soon enough. Cursive should be relegated to the history books along with Old English.
We have a few huge custom software systems that run on Linux. Due to the nature of our business (remote PCs, POTS connections, 24-7 use) we can't upgrade very often. The less, the better. We also have a RedHat guy on staff, b/c we want and need support for a long time.
Another thing to consider is your hardware vendor. They often won't support a "new PC/old Redhat" combo. We have already bought hundreds of PCs just b/c we'll need them in a few years, but will probably be stuck with an old RedHat (unless we want to support our own software on more OS versions than we already do!).
It's not breaking any laws of physics. It could increase the efficiency of a system if the energy required to shock the crystal is less than the energy being radiated as heat.
It would only break the law of conservation of energy if the resulting energy created from the photovoltaic cell was greater than the energy being radiated.
No one is suggesting that. I think you guys just like reading your own funny quotes regarding laws of physics.
Laws of physics are only funny on Slashdot. What nerds!
Well, when I said heat waves (in a discussion about light) what do you think I was talking about?
Radiated light waves obviously.
And I never stated you'd get more energy than you started with - just that you'd get to "reuse" some wasted energy.
If they could shift heat waves -> light waves, then absorb those with photovoltaic cells, we could harness lots of wasted energy. Almost everything generates wasted heat energy, and isn't heat energy basically the same thing as light waves, just at a different frequency?
Programming languages do make a difference, but not directly. Bad programmers write bad code, period. However - languages, designs, development environments, and methodologies that speed development yield more time for testing. For example, if management has given a team a 6 month time frame, and the team thinks the product should start testing in 3 months, they may have a better chance at getting the product to SQA by using Java, Perl, or VB instead of C. A product that is delivered to SQA late is more likely to be buggy. RAD environments and software architects (not managers) can speed development by picking the appropriate design and technologies. In my experience, this doesn't happen very often.
What we need to do is get every system admins on Slashdot to convince their legal department to join in w/ the lawsuits. Estimate the number of spam messages your company gets per day and put a price tag on each one. Then join the fight!
I want to know if my X10 devices will interfere with this or be interfered by this? Does anyone know?
Even if humans are causing global warming, I'm not convinced greenhouse gases are the problem. Maybe the Earth is getting HOTTER from all the HEAT humans are creating. What's coming out of your SUVs exhaust? Not just pollution, but large amounts of HEAT. Everything we do creates lots of heat. Cities are warmer than surrounding countryside. Trees, which absorb the Sun's heat are being cut down (sidenote - support the paper industry to gaurantee we always have forests). My computer is generating heat. My A/C is generating heat. I took a hot shower this morning. I used an oven. I created thousands of tiny air/fuel explosions on my way to work. I drove over really hot concrete, etc., etc., etc. Maybe HEAT is responsible for the increase in Earth's temperature.