Almost modded up, but hopefully someone else will take care of it for me.
Expanding on parent's point, a lot of problems I see in my short time in web development is that too many people are getting into it not by learning basics (like how to build a well-formed XHTML/HTML document with DTD and such, or how to make an image swap sources onmouseover or whatever) but by diving straight into frameworks. I understand the want (and need, in some case) to make programming of all flavors more non-programmer friendly, but without that base foundation we'll end up with a bunch of forums full of "how do i make it do this" questions that are elementary in nature and, even worse, a bunch of web apps that are riddled with problems in security, UI, or other. There's no harm in asking questions, but when everyone is asking the same question that is answered in chapter 2 of any good HTML book, that's a lot of wasted time.
I'm not saying everyone needs to learn how to build Slashcode from the ground up using only Notepad, Mountain Dew, and a bag of Doritos, but learning the basics first then going to a framework to speed up your work on complex projects would seem like a better option. It will almost always be cheaper and faster to write simple things in the base language, but so many are so fixed on frameworks they wouldn't know how to do that.
The move to ban the site came from students and coaches expressing concern over safety and privacy issues. Kennedy said he hasn't seen the site.
So not only has the guy making the policy not even seen the site, but the move supposedly came from students and others - the same students who were posting there in the first place? "Higher" education is so smart.
Exactly - anyone who thinks all Interstates were built as straight as possible has never driven on West Virginia's interstates. Sure, they blast through mountains (kinda have to there to get anything wider than two lanes), but they are far from straight - especially their Turnpike.
So, is the fact that they're massively subsidizing the HD-DVD players a sign of trouble for Toshiba, or like everything else is it only a bad thing when Sony does it?
I'm not sure that Toshiba's subsidies are a bad sign; hardware manufacturers have done this for years to gain marketshare for software, accessories, etc. I think the bad sign is that this week at Best Buy, Blu-Ray 'DVDs' are buy 3, get 1 free.
Well, with no budget considerations...:) (used to work in a research lab doing some very fancy aerodynamics research)
Digitally acutated valves are easy to find, as are digital flow meters (Google for a decent industrial supply place - McMaster-Carr is a good one). Find an I/O card (PCI I/O boards are cheap), then write some code to control the valves based on flow meter feedback and tie into your chip's temperature readouts and regulate temperature that way. Be sure to allow for calibration procedures (i.e., build user-input constants into your code that you determine experimentally, like flow per volt from the flow meters, flow per volt to the valves, etc. - extra points for heat capacity for different liquids and transfer for different cpu heatsinks).
If you're in an experimental/research/academic environment and have access to LabVIEW or some other similar software, this should be easy to accomplish without much if any low level coding. LabVIEW systems tend to be not cheap though, but you can save on some rather coarse valves (you probably don't need microsecond response times or update cycles on the 10s of hertz levels...those babies are expensive). You're also not running anything too mission critical, so as long you're careful enough to use standard good practice plumbing, you shouldn't have to worry about inert valve coatings and the like (also expensive...but gold plated digitally actuated valves are fun to play with).
* 1GHz (or faster) Pentium III, Pentium 4, or AMD Athlon processor or faster
* Fedora Core 4
* 512MB (or more) of RAM
* 1GB hard disk space for disk cache
* Workstation-class graphics card, such as NVIDIA Quadro2 or Quadro4
* Display with 1280-by-1024-pixel resolution and 24-bit color
* Three-button mouse
That I can agree with. I like Wikipedia (in theory) because of the pure democratics in it, whether that produces a true encyclopedia or not. But to say that "Wikipedia is teh r0x0r!" just because other encyclopedias also have mistakes is stupid. It reminds me of the usual argument for Linux - "It isn't Windows"
How does it go, something to the effect of "history is just the victor's view of the battle."
I always like a good argument about "right" and "wrong," mostly because I always take the slightly out-of-style view that there is an absolute "right," as something did happen, regardless of how we perceive it to have happened. But the sophists have a point - who cares what happened if those who saw it happened didn't see it that way.
So you'd like to exclude any and all encyclopedias that may be made out of date when/if the definition of "planet" is changed? How about all those written around the turn of last century which included racial reasoning for various abilities? Or the textbooks which until the last part of the 20th century claimed that Christopher Columbus was the first European to "discover" the Western Hemisphere?
Historical accuracy is always in debate. The point of an encyclopedia or any record isn't to be absolutely right the first time, it's to be as right as possible and then easily fixed in light of new information. Sure there are those on Wikipedia that don't try in the first place, but no one has ever been immune to stupid or lazy writers/fact checkers. The great thing about Wikipedia though is that it can easily be fixed, without having to go find all the old copies and destroy them, or wait until it's economical to produce a new edition.
Great point - as ridiculous as it may sound, it's like driving a car. You have to learn how to drive and then take a test to get a license (let's for the sake of argument not get into how effective the testing and licensing process is in ensure that you are actually a good, safe driver). We don't want children doing even menial household chores like operating the gas stove that could incinerate your entire house or the washing machine that could flood your entire basement without proper instruction. Why then do people think they can just go buy a computer, plug it in, and go without reading the manuals (though they could be better), learning how to operate the computer (not Video Professor, something a bit more useful and free), etc. On one hand, you can argue (and well) that it shouldn't require a computer science degree to operate a home PC, but on the hand, shoulds are nice, but what is leads to many problems with consumers and the Internet today.
You're assuming Grandma figures out how to work the new Computer Telephone thingy. I'm all for consumer responsibility, but if companies would quit their marketing mumbo jumbo about every tech-based new idea and try to actually educated the masses as to how the thing works, be up front what it's strengths/weaknesses are, etc. (or if we as tech-based people would help out all those non-techies out there), we'd probably be in better shape. "What, I'm not supposed to just click OK? But everytime you fix my computer you just sit there and click all the OK buttons?!"
Yes - I work 40+ hours a week right now and pay more than half my salary toward food and rent. Perspective is important - $25 in America doesn't go far, but it's not the dollar amount that counts. If $25 paid for rent and food for a month in a major American city, we wouldn't think it was so bad. Not to say that living with 100 of my closest friends in a room would be fun, but just based on money, if the article is to believed about half going to food and housing, it's not so bad.
Bite them? You honestly think this hurts MS sales in the least bit? At the minimum, it should help them - now if you want support, you have to get 2000/XP/2003/Vista.
I almost modded parent "Funny" but figured it would be more constructed to post.
I think we've established (courts, lawyers, society, whoever) that software companies aren't liable for "defective software" unless enough people get together and file suit (unless it's mission critical software, but most commercial software strikes that with their EULAs). And it would be ridiculous at this point if users tried to take MS to court over 8 year old software that hasn't been supported for 4 years (for free at least), when they were "supposed" to upgrade a long time ago. I know, I know, users shouldn't have to fork over the cash to upgrade from bad software, but if you buy a bad product, one that is commercially available, has been seen by others, etc., there's some responsibility you're taking for dealing with it.
If that weren't the case, not only would far fewer software companies be out there, and far fewer pieces of software out there, but everything would have to sit in testing until it worked perfectly...and that just ain't gonna happen.
The idea of an "AppleBerry" partnership between Research In Motion Ltd. and Apple Computer Inc. was floated yesterday by Peter Misek, an analyst with Canaccord Capital Inc., who last year accurately predicted a partnership between RIM and Intel Corp.
Nah, I was thinking more about their mild cheddar dip and.../runs into kitchen before finishing post
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They being the advertisers, not the networks (since they are obviously complaining about this) - that was my point. Advertisers have more than one way to get to me, that's just smart business. If the networks only have one revenue stream, no matter what it is, that's not smart business.
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You make a good point, except for this - if this were really the networks' issue, they should have sued Frito-Lay and Pepsi decades ago. I skip commercials all the time, and I don't have a Tivo or other DVR. People have been skipping commercials for years - mostly to go get whatever the commercial is selling out of the fridge. And if advertisers really though people were going to skip their commercials too much, they should have went after whoever it was that release the first remote control. Even if I'm not hungry, I'm not watching commercials if the remote is within reach. I don't see many complaints from the actual advertisers (maybe because its Slashdot and we don't care if Pepsi complains about us not watching their commercials while we IV in Mountain Dew during any and all coding projects, or mostly because they've been using multiple business models in their advertising for years under blanket marketing strategies), just the networks themselves.
What, you want numbers and objective reasoning to back up conclusions comparing three software platforms in an empirical manner? You kids and your obsession with not believing truths that aren't supported by facts.
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Almost modded up, but hopefully someone else will take care of it for me.
Expanding on parent's point, a lot of problems I see in my short time in web development is that too many people are getting into it not by learning basics (like how to build a well-formed XHTML/HTML document with DTD and such, or how to make an image swap sources onmouseover or whatever) but by diving straight into frameworks. I understand the want (and need, in some case) to make programming of all flavors more non-programmer friendly, but without that base foundation we'll end up with a bunch of forums full of "how do i make it do this" questions that are elementary in nature and, even worse, a bunch of web apps that are riddled with problems in security, UI, or other. There's no harm in asking questions, but when everyone is asking the same question that is answered in chapter 2 of any good HTML book, that's a lot of wasted time.
I'm not saying everyone needs to learn how to build Slashcode from the ground up using only Notepad, Mountain Dew, and a bag of Doritos, but learning the basics first then going to a framework to speed up your work on complex projects would seem like a better option. It will almost always be cheaper and faster to write simple things in the base language, but so many are so fixed on frameworks they wouldn't know how to do that.
Apparently this particular cannot be spell-checked.
The move to ban the site came from students and coaches expressing concern over safety and privacy issues. Kennedy said he hasn't seen the site.
So not only has the guy making the policy not even seen the site, but the move supposedly came from students and others - the same students who were posting there in the first place? "Higher" education is so smart.
Exactly - anyone who thinks all Interstates were built as straight as possible has never driven on West Virginia's interstates. Sure, they blast through mountains (kinda have to there to get anything wider than two lanes), but they are far from straight - especially their Turnpike.
So, is the fact that they're massively subsidizing the HD-DVD players a sign of trouble for Toshiba, or like everything else is it only a bad thing when Sony does it?
I'm not sure that Toshiba's subsidies are a bad sign; hardware manufacturers have done this for years to gain marketshare for software, accessories, etc. I think the bad sign is that this week at Best Buy, Blu-Ray 'DVDs' are buy 3, get 1 free.
Well, with no budget considerations... :) (used to work in a research lab doing some very fancy aerodynamics research)
Digitally acutated valves are easy to find, as are digital flow meters (Google for a decent industrial supply place - McMaster-Carr is a good one). Find an I/O card (PCI I/O boards are cheap), then write some code to control the valves based on flow meter feedback and tie into your chip's temperature readouts and regulate temperature that way. Be sure to allow for calibration procedures (i.e., build user-input constants into your code that you determine experimentally, like flow per volt from the flow meters, flow per volt to the valves, etc. - extra points for heat capacity for different liquids and transfer for different cpu heatsinks).
If you're in an experimental/research/academic environment and have access to LabVIEW or some other similar software, this should be easy to accomplish without much if any low level coding. LabVIEW systems tend to be not cheap though, but you can save on some rather coarse valves (you probably don't need microsecond response times or update cycles on the 10s of hertz levels...those babies are expensive). You're also not running anything too mission critical, so as long you're careful enough to use standard good practice plumbing, you shouldn't have to worry about inert valve coatings and the like (also expensive...but gold plated digitally actuated valves are fun to play with).
Linux
* 1GHz (or faster) Pentium III, Pentium 4, or AMD Athlon processor or faster
* Fedora Core 4
* 512MB (or more) of RAM
* 1GB hard disk space for disk cache
* Workstation-class graphics card, such as NVIDIA Quadro2 or Quadro4
* Display with 1280-by-1024-pixel resolution and 24-bit color
* Three-button mouse
Well, it runs on Fedora Core 4, but whatever.
That I can agree with. I like Wikipedia (in theory) because of the pure democratics in it, whether that produces a true encyclopedia or not. But to say that "Wikipedia is teh r0x0r!" just because other encyclopedias also have mistakes is stupid. It reminds me of the usual argument for Linux - "It isn't Windows"
How does it go, something to the effect of "history is just the victor's view of the battle."
I always like a good argument about "right" and "wrong," mostly because I always take the slightly out-of-style view that there is an absolute "right," as something did happen, regardless of how we perceive it to have happened. But the sophists have a point - who cares what happened if those who saw it happened didn't see it that way.
So you'd like to exclude any and all encyclopedias that may be made out of date when/if the definition of "planet" is changed? How about all those written around the turn of last century which included racial reasoning for various abilities? Or the textbooks which until the last part of the 20th century claimed that Christopher Columbus was the first European to "discover" the Western Hemisphere?
Historical accuracy is always in debate. The point of an encyclopedia or any record isn't to be absolutely right the first time, it's to be as right as possible and then easily fixed in light of new information. Sure there are those on Wikipedia that don't try in the first place, but no one has ever been immune to stupid or lazy writers/fact checkers. The great thing about Wikipedia though is that it can easily be fixed, without having to go find all the old copies and destroy them, or wait until it's economical to produce a new edition.
Great point - as ridiculous as it may sound, it's like driving a car. You have to learn how to drive and then take a test to get a license (let's for the sake of argument not get into how effective the testing and licensing process is in ensure that you are actually a good, safe driver). We don't want children doing even menial household chores like operating the gas stove that could incinerate your entire house or the washing machine that could flood your entire basement without proper instruction. Why then do people think they can just go buy a computer, plug it in, and go without reading the manuals (though they could be better), learning how to operate the computer (not Video Professor, something a bit more useful and free), etc. On one hand, you can argue (and well) that it shouldn't require a computer science degree to operate a home PC, but on the hand, shoulds are nice, but what is leads to many problems with consumers and the Internet today.
You're assuming Grandma figures out how to work the new Computer Telephone thingy. I'm all for consumer responsibility, but if companies would quit their marketing mumbo jumbo about every tech-based new idea and try to actually educated the masses as to how the thing works, be up front what it's strengths/weaknesses are, etc. (or if we as tech-based people would help out all those non-techies out there), we'd probably be in better shape. "What, I'm not supposed to just click OK? But everytime you fix my computer you just sit there and click all the OK buttons?!"
I know, I know, common sense != good business.
Yes - I work 40+ hours a week right now and pay more than half my salary toward food and rent. Perspective is important - $25 in America doesn't go far, but it's not the dollar amount that counts. If $25 paid for rent and food for a month in a major American city, we wouldn't think it was so bad. Not to say that living with 100 of my closest friends in a room would be fun, but just based on money, if the article is to believed about half going to food and housing, it's not so bad.
Pay only $25/month for rent and food! Wow...sure, no visitors, 100 per room, but it'll be like being in college all over again.
They do cause global warming after all...damned "sport utility robot" exception.
My money was on manatees.
Bite them? You honestly think this hurts MS sales in the least bit? At the minimum, it should help them - now if you want support, you have to get 2000/XP/2003/Vista.
I almost modded parent "Funny" but figured it would be more constructed to post.
I think we've established (courts, lawyers, society, whoever) that software companies aren't liable for "defective software" unless enough people get together and file suit (unless it's mission critical software, but most commercial software strikes that with their EULAs). And it would be ridiculous at this point if users tried to take MS to court over 8 year old software that hasn't been supported for 4 years (for free at least), when they were "supposed" to upgrade a long time ago. I know, I know, users shouldn't have to fork over the cash to upgrade from bad software, but if you buy a bad product, one that is commercially available, has been seen by others, etc., there's some responsibility you're taking for dealing with it.
If that weren't the case, not only would far fewer software companies be out there, and far fewer pieces of software out there, but everything would have to sit in testing until it worked perfectly...and that just ain't gonna happen.
Google is the new GE.
Umm..
The idea of an "AppleBerry" partnership between Research In Motion Ltd. and Apple Computer Inc. was floated yesterday by Peter Misek, an analyst with Canaccord Capital Inc., who last year accurately predicted a partnership between RIM and Intel Corp.
My grandmother used to keep peanut butter there.
/runs into kitchen before finishing post
Nah, I was thinking more about their mild cheddar dip and...
They being the advertisers, not the networks (since they are obviously complaining about this) - that was my point. Advertisers have more than one way to get to me, that's just smart business. If the networks only have one revenue stream, no matter what it is, that's not smart business.
You make a good point, except for this - if this were really the networks' issue, they should have sued Frito-Lay and Pepsi decades ago. I skip commercials all the time, and I don't have a Tivo or other DVR. People have been skipping commercials for years - mostly to go get whatever the commercial is selling out of the fridge. And if advertisers really though people were going to skip their commercials too much, they should have went after whoever it was that release the first remote control. Even if I'm not hungry, I'm not watching commercials if the remote is within reach. I don't see many complaints from the actual advertisers (maybe because its Slashdot and we don't care if Pepsi complains about us not watching their commercials while we IV in Mountain Dew during any and all coding projects, or mostly because they've been using multiple business models in their advertising for years under blanket marketing strategies), just the networks themselves.
What, you want numbers and objective reasoning to back up conclusions comparing three software platforms in an empirical manner? You kids and your obsession with not believing truths that aren't supported by facts.
It's "mobile," unless you were making a very bad car/oil pun.