Surely using Flex would make more sense than JavaScript. It has all the benefits you mentioned, plus it performs a hell of a lot faster, and is far more cross-platform, as JavaScript implementations are still far from standardised across all platforms and browsers.
Unfortunately there's a lot JavaScript can't do. The main one is "be consistently quick across platforms", something Flash has managed to achieve with its offerings. I'm not saying JavaScript is terrible - it's not - it has many uses, and I use it all the time on my sites. The only problem is it's simply not implemented to do this stuff. The 280slides website, for me at least, was painfully slow. Shoe-horning a UI somewheres it doesn't belong is not necessarily a great thing, and definitely not a great thing when it runs like a 1-legged dog uphill.
Unfortunately, from my experience of bosses, that will quickly change to "Penalties for Bad Developers", which will destroy morale and make most of their developers, including their good ones, walk. Many bosses seem to prefer to punish undesired behaviour than reward the positive.
Apart from the fact that the government, in the US at least, isn't representative of the people, regardless of what they say. It's impossible for 2 parties to accurately represent 300m people. That is my point - make the government accountable to the people, and not the other way round. Currently the government doesn't listen to anyone, and does what it likes with the military and the people.
The US is a country where the government controls the military and the population, while performing the magnificent trick of making the people think they're still in control. The government gets their cake, and eats it too.
It's a lazy-ass check. The best alternative? Have the armed forces listen to the people, not the government. Oh, and a functioning democracy, where corruption can be exposed by the non-corporate-owned media, and the people's voices can actually be heard. Saying "oh sod it - give everyone a gun. this government stuff is too hard" is playing it fast and loose with people's lives through some short-sighted vision of government.
The difference is if no-one has guns, the entire scenario changes entirely. It's a lot harder to kill an innocent passer-by with a knife. Unfortunately, the choice of whether to live in a gun-free society or not was a right never granted to the American people. The founding fathers made that decision on their own, and once it was set in motion, could never be undone.
Fixing the symptoms is never better than fixing the cause. The idea of solving police corruption by arming anyone, instead of ensuring the police are themselves policed, is pretty retarded.
And only if said tyrannical government doesn't have an army made up of highly-trained individuals with complete logistical support and access to weapons no civilian can buy. When was the last time you heard of a tyrant without an army? Heck, France had an army (read: LOTS of people with guns), and Germany walked all over them. Same for Poland. Same for Belgium. Same for the Netherlands. I don't know what a bunch of disparate people without training or support could do in such a situation.
Surely the outcome of the government vs. the people will be decided by on who's side the armed forces lie. If they side with the government, the people will be defeated, no matter how many guns they have. If they're on the side of the people, then it doesn't matter how many guns the people have, as the armed forces has nuclear submarines and A10 warthogs. We've seen armed populations be overthrown by stronger armies, so we know it's not going to stop any military. The only time an armed civilian population can stand up to a better-equipped army is when said army is operating thousands of miles away from home.
It doesn't tax the 3D card a lot at all. Considering it's performing all the GUI in hardware, it's drawing a lot less power than if it was being rendered in software.
It might be larger than I think, but it clearly isn't as large as it needs to be to leverage support from the large players. Your anecdote isn't reflective of the entire industry.
I have to disagree. SSL certificates, regardless of who signed them, are a matter of trust. This site just wants the trust put it in (and not a CA), which you would be willing to do if you wanted to use the site in the first place. Getting all pissy about it like some petulent 8-year-old doesn't change that.
Your points would make sense if the linux market was approaching the size of Windows. It's not. It's not even close. That "financial incentive" is tiny, either way.
I agree with you entirely. First things first. Get binary drivers for Linux that just work, and once enough people start using it, then push the manufacturers for actual open drivers. Of course, open drivers are not always possible, considering that drivers can (and frequently do, especially for video cards) contain licensed code.
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Surely using Flex would make more sense than JavaScript. It has all the benefits you mentioned, plus it performs a hell of a lot faster, and is far more cross-platform, as JavaScript implementations are still far from standardised across all platforms and browsers.
Unfortunately there's a lot JavaScript can't do. The main one is "be consistently quick across platforms", something Flash has managed to achieve with its offerings. I'm not saying JavaScript is terrible - it's not - it has many uses, and I use it all the time on my sites. The only problem is it's simply not implemented to do this stuff. The 280slides website, for me at least, was painfully slow. Shoe-horning a UI somewheres it doesn't belong is not necessarily a great thing, and definitely not a great thing when it runs like a 1-legged dog uphill.
Unfortunately, from my experience of bosses, that will quickly change to "Penalties for Bad Developers", which will destroy morale and make most of their developers, including their good ones, walk. Many bosses seem to prefer to punish undesired behaviour than reward the positive.
"Didn't catch on"? I know this is slashdot, but what's with the past tense? It's still selling a load of units, and most people seem happy with it.
Apart from the fact that the government, in the US at least, isn't representative of the people, regardless of what they say. It's impossible for 2 parties to accurately represent 300m people. That is my point - make the government accountable to the people, and not the other way round. Currently the government doesn't listen to anyone, and does what it likes with the military and the people.
Schizophrenia?
The US is a country where the government controls the military and the population, while performing the magnificent trick of making the people think they're still in control. The government gets their cake, and eats it too.
It's a lazy-ass check. The best alternative? Have the armed forces listen to the people, not the government. Oh, and a functioning democracy, where corruption can be exposed by the non-corporate-owned media, and the people's voices can actually be heard. Saying "oh sod it - give everyone a gun. this government stuff is too hard" is playing it fast and loose with people's lives through some short-sighted vision of government.
The difference is if no-one has guns, the entire scenario changes entirely. It's a lot harder to kill an innocent passer-by with a knife. Unfortunately, the choice of whether to live in a gun-free society or not was a right never granted to the American people. The founding fathers made that decision on their own, and once it was set in motion, could never be undone.
Fixing the symptoms is never better than fixing the cause. The idea of solving police corruption by arming anyone, instead of ensuring the police are themselves policed, is pretty retarded.
And only if said tyrannical government doesn't have an army made up of highly-trained individuals with complete logistical support and access to weapons no civilian can buy. When was the last time you heard of a tyrant without an army? Heck, France had an army (read: LOTS of people with guns), and Germany walked all over them. Same for Poland. Same for Belgium. Same for the Netherlands. I don't know what a bunch of disparate people without training or support could do in such a situation.
Surely the outcome of the government vs. the people will be decided by on who's side the armed forces lie. If they side with the government, the people will be defeated, no matter how many guns they have. If they're on the side of the people, then it doesn't matter how many guns the people have, as the armed forces has nuclear submarines and A10 warthogs. We've seen armed populations be overthrown by stronger armies, so we know it's not going to stop any military. The only time an armed civilian population can stand up to a better-equipped army is when said army is operating thousands of miles away from home.
It doesn't tax the 3D card a lot at all. Considering it's performing all the GUI in hardware, it's drawing a lot less power than if it was being rendered in software.
It might be larger than I think, but it clearly isn't as large as it needs to be to leverage support from the large players. Your anecdote isn't reflective of the entire industry.
You can hook up your GPS to your phone and do that anyway, today. Or get a 3G cellphone with built-in GPS and Wi-Fi.
Nope, Web2.0 is a buzzword that means absolutely nothing. User-generated content has been on the web as long as the web has existed.
Two centres dangerously close to water, and another dangerously close to a nuke-wielding dictatorship. Sounds solid to me!
Unfortunately for Master Shake and Carl, it can make "dogs".
I have to disagree. SSL certificates, regardless of who signed them, are a matter of trust. This site just wants the trust put it in (and not a CA), which you would be willing to do if you wanted to use the site in the first place. Getting all pissy about it like some petulent 8-year-old doesn't change that.
Clearly you know diddley-shit about mental illness.
Does he do a lot of work late at night, for Italians?
Very much so. That is what I was trying to get at, without incurring the "oh no he didn't" kneejerk reaction often employed on slashdot.
Got their ass kicked? Was that a joke? Check out the market stats on Nokia phones, and you'll see how ridiculous that statement is.
Your points would make sense if the linux market was approaching the size of Windows. It's not. It's not even close. That "financial incentive" is tiny, either way.
I agree with you entirely. First things first. Get binary drivers for Linux that just work, and once enough people start using it, then push the manufacturers for actual open drivers. Of course, open drivers are not always possible, considering that drivers can (and frequently do, especially for video cards) contain licensed code.