So I could go to BestBuy, drive a truck through the lobby, steal all the plasma screens they have and give them to a charity, and I'd be ok and the charity could keep the TVs?? nice!
Technically speaking, any person belonging to a religious faith that has theological or mythological teachings on the world is anti-science. Christians are anti-science by their very definition. They have FAITH. If all scientists had faith in their discoveries (or things around them), they would never prove anything.
Sure, you get lots of christian scientists, but that's a contradiction in terms. Ask one of them about evolution or the creation of the universe, and watch their brains melt.
I'm not having a pop at christianity or wicca, heck - I'm all for some teachings from both schools of thought. I'm just fed up with people mixing up religion and science. With science, you can't have faith. You can have only proof.
PHP is much faster than ASP running on a comparable system. Oh, and ASP and IIS are connected at the hip, and anyone running an IIS webserver needs to be strung out in the desert somewhere.:-P
Watch your PHP libraries, though. I use the basic ones (curl, gd2, mssql (ugh)), and they work fine. I've been using it for a while now (I like to live dangerously), and they've worked fine toghether for months.
Older code will work fine. You can make PHP5 act like PHP4 on OOP via the.ini file, and most other code works straight away. I upgraded a server at work from php4 to php5, and had to change nothing.
I wrote a script for my ipod to parse the itunesdb and allow regular-expression pattern matching on song details, and rip the matching mp3s off to the hard disk (tagged with id3v2 tags). It's in PHP, and runs under windows, linux and osx perfectly. PHP is really cross-platform, which is cool:)
The runtimes are available, and for the command-line tools, all you need is the PHP executable and the php library (on windows, php.exe and php5ts.dll).
Windows XP ships for $200. Dell sells PCs ranging in price up to ten thousand dollars. How are you saying that's MS having Dell by the shorts? I'm not arguing, it's something I can't see. Dell doesn't get commission from Microsoft, which is the only way it can add leverage to its position as sole supplier of the OS. It's not financially possible for MS to cripple dell, short of charging them $8,000 per license, which isn't going to happen;)
Who says your responsible for everyone's safety? Do you check with everyone around you that they're OK with you having the ability to kill them at a distance any time you want? No. That's my whole issue. People "take it upon themselves to be responsible citizens", yet don't ask those around them if they're OK with it. After all, who vouched for their gun-totin' skills, or the fact they're not the sort of person who shouldn't have a gun in the first place?
You say you've only ever needed to use your gun once, when you were a security guard. Doesn't that tell you something? YOU DON'T NEED IT. There aren't rapists behind every bush, or assassins at every bus-stop or toll-booth. People aren't actively trying to kill you or anyone around you. Chances are, if someone wants to kill you, you've done something to make them feel that way.
You're scared of home invasions? One happened in your town TWO YEARS AGO. You have less chance of being in a home invasion (or any armed episode) than being hit by a car, yet you don't want to tackle that killer (even though it presents a much more real threat to your life, and those you love). We live in a society, which means we are responsible to everyone else. Who's to judge us worthy of carrying a gun? Someone carrying in public affects everyone, yet everyone doesn't get a say. It's not exactly fair, or safe.
OK - try playing videos with strange codecs, or the latest games. You'll experience more troubles than you'll realise. No, I've not used Linspire any time recently, but I've been up to my nuts in other linux distros, and none of them have a central codec system for enabling any AV software on the computer to handle multimedia quite as effortlessly as on windows. I'm not slating Linux, just trying to highlight the fact it has a long way to go, even though most people here won't admit it.
There aren't exactly icons for the languages on most linux distros either - what's your point:)
Also, bear in mind that the average user doesn't need programming languages these days. They were included with early computers not as a learning aid or something to waste time on, but to allow the user to become the developer, sculpting their OS the way they want. Now, that's not needed as much, as there are pre-scripted tools available. It's still there, though, for those who want to push the envelope.
If I were you, I'd check your site's submission to google, and read up. If you're site's on the net, it should be indexed. Google is one of the fairest search engines out there.... remember - we like google here;)
Look - it's/. Any OS that isn't the exact distro each user has will get slated for no real reason, because "it's not what I use". Windows gets bashed for lots of stuff that hasn't been true for 5 years, as does Apple./. is intrinsically prejudiced, and we have to remember that when talking about ANYTHING here:)
Microsoft doesn't have Dell by the short'n'curlies - people just don't want to buy linux desktops. it's purely market-driven, not ideology-driven. I mean, linux is the most accessible OS out there. It's everywhere. You can download it from any website, or even get it on a magazine cover CD, yet it has under 2.5% of the desktop share. People LOVE cheap things, yet a COMPLETELY FREE operating system is paling into insignificance. If Linux is the windows-killer as those on/. would have us think, why isn't it doing so well? Look at MP3s - free music. EVERYONE has MP3s. Why isn't Linux enjoying the same success? Clue - it isn't microsoft.
I'm not being funny, but how can linux beat longhorn? It's taken years and years for there to be a good OSS office clone, and just as long for a decent OSS browser to find its way out. Now, you expect linux to somehow spawn a multimedia child that can do everything under the sun, without having to touch.conf files or ever use a command line.
Lets not get above ourselves. I'm a linux developer, yet I can see that linux has a long way to go in some key areas. Sure - you can do 95% of windows stuff on linux, but until it gets to (or over) 100%, it's not going to change. linux will be the underdog.
Don't interpret the recent moves away from IE as moves to Opera/Firefox - they didn't change because firefox and opera are so good, but because IE is so bad. Is that how Linux wants to be the best OS? Waiting for Windows to kill itself? jeez.
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and it stops people removing it and plugging in a keyboard how? :-P
The person breaking into your house needs help, not a bullet.
So I could go to BestBuy, drive a truck through the lobby, steal all the plasma screens they have and give them to a charity, and I'd be ok and the charity could keep the TVs?? nice!
He'd have to do it in a court which has jurisdiction over his scamming (Nigeria or England), which means he'll get in trouble. I don't think he will :)
physicsgenius - politics genius you ain't.
Sure, you get lots of christian scientists, but that's a contradiction in terms. Ask one of them about evolution or the creation of the universe, and watch their brains melt.
I'm not having a pop at christianity or wicca, heck - I'm all for some teachings from both schools of thought. I'm just fed up with people mixing up religion and science. With science, you can't have faith. You can have only proof.
You're not alone. Lots of Americans are getting out while they still can. America is heading in a scary direction, and no-one seems to care.
PHP is much faster than ASP running on a comparable system. Oh, and ASP and IIS are connected at the hip, and anyone running an IIS webserver needs to be strung out in the desert somewhere. :-P
Watch your PHP libraries, though. I use the basic ones (curl, gd2, mssql (ugh)), and they work fine. I've been using it for a while now (I like to live dangerously), and they've worked fine toghether for months.
Older code will work fine. You can make PHP5 act like PHP4 on OOP via the .ini file, and most other code works straight away. I upgraded a server at work from php4 to php5, and had to change nothing.
The runtimes are available, and for the command-line tools, all you need is the PHP executable and the php library (on windows, php.exe and php5ts.dll).
it's your own fault for having a kid :)
Windows XP ships for $200. Dell sells PCs ranging in price up to ten thousand dollars. How are you saying that's MS having Dell by the shorts? I'm not arguing, it's something I can't see. Dell doesn't get commission from Microsoft, which is the only way it can add leverage to its position as sole supplier of the OS. It's not financially possible for MS to cripple dell, short of charging them $8,000 per license, which isn't going to happen ;)
What do you want? Some sort of pocket calculator?? :)
You say you've only ever needed to use your gun once, when you were a security guard. Doesn't that tell you something? YOU DON'T NEED IT. There aren't rapists behind every bush, or assassins at every bus-stop or toll-booth. People aren't actively trying to kill you or anyone around you. Chances are, if someone wants to kill you, you've done something to make them feel that way.
You're scared of home invasions? One happened in your town TWO YEARS AGO. You have less chance of being in a home invasion (or any armed episode) than being hit by a car, yet you don't want to tackle that killer (even though it presents a much more real threat to your life, and those you love). We live in a society, which means we are responsible to everyone else. Who's to judge us worthy of carrying a gun? Someone carrying in public affects everyone, yet everyone doesn't get a say. It's not exactly fair, or safe.
OK - try playing videos with strange codecs, or the latest games. You'll experience more troubles than you'll realise. No, I've not used Linspire any time recently, but I've been up to my nuts in other linux distros, and none of them have a central codec system for enabling any AV software on the computer to handle multimedia quite as effortlessly as on windows. I'm not slating Linux, just trying to highlight the fact it has a long way to go, even though most people here won't admit it.
Also, bear in mind that the average user doesn't need programming languages these days. They were included with early computers not as a learning aid or something to waste time on, but to allow the user to become the developer, sculpting their OS the way they want. Now, that's not needed as much, as there are pre-scripted tools available. It's still there, though, for those who want to push the envelope.
If I were you, I'd check your site's submission to google, and read up. If you're site's on the net, it should be indexed. Google is one of the fairest search engines out there.... remember - we like google here ;)
So you want to forego functionality for a computer that can turn on in seconds, yet do nothing?? :)
Please answer my original question, if you care - how has linux/open source innovated so much recently?
Look - it's /. Any OS that isn't the exact distro each user has will get slated for no real reason, because "it's not what I use". Windows gets bashed for lots of stuff that hasn't been true for 5 years, as does Apple. /. is intrinsically prejudiced, and we have to remember that when talking about ANYTHING here :)
Just wait 'til it goes wrong, you want to play a game, or watch a movie. Then you'll get exactly what you paid for ;)
Microsoft doesn't have Dell by the short'n'curlies - people just don't want to buy linux desktops. it's purely market-driven, not ideology-driven. I mean, linux is the most accessible OS out there. It's everywhere. You can download it from any website, or even get it on a magazine cover CD, yet it has under 2.5% of the desktop share. People LOVE cheap things, yet a COMPLETELY FREE operating system is paling into insignificance. If Linux is the windows-killer as those on /. would have us think, why isn't it doing so well? Look at MP3s - free music. EVERYONE has MP3s. Why isn't Linux enjoying the same success? Clue - it isn't microsoft.
what a shock - the parent, which shows beyond doubt the grandparent's cited article is bunk, isn't modded up. prejudiced? slashdot???
After all, not everyone has a license.
Lets not get above ourselves. I'm a linux developer, yet I can see that linux has a long way to go in some key areas. Sure - you can do 95% of windows stuff on linux, but until it gets to (or over) 100%, it's not going to change. linux will be the underdog.
Don't interpret the recent moves away from IE as moves to Opera/Firefox - they didn't change because firefox and opera are so good, but because IE is so bad. Is that how Linux wants to be the best OS? Waiting for Windows to kill itself? jeez.