For not writing it "eXtensible Markup Language". That's so annoying.
What's wrong with talking about eXtensible Markup Language as "eXtensible Markup Language?" Got something against eXtensible Markup Language? What has eXtensible Markup Language ever done to you?
My ex once worked for an outfit in England that had a service like this for websites. Cellular Services Development I think they were called. Their service was called 'contact me' and the way she described it sounds identical to this. That was about six years ago.
Will it be able to instantly start translating from an alien language that it has never heard before as soon as the other person appears on the main viewer?
Sounds familiar, could have sworn I read something about this here the other day.
Anyway. Let's not fill this page up with 'Dupe' complaints. Macromedia are probably gonna have to re-think things (in the new Adobe environment, of course) since they were convinced that Flash would be the vehicle of choice in developing what they call Rich Web Applications. They'll now have to sell it on the basis that you can get a hell of a lot of functionality out of very few lines of Flex code.
Apple Store Specialists
Do you suppose these specialists abbreviate their title on their business cards?
Hey, it could be worse. There was once this woman who took charge of a college in Southampton and was going to re-name it Southampton Higher Institute of Technology until someone tapped her on the shoulder and pointed out the obvious.
I once worked at Bolton University where someone once suggested that we call it Bolton Academy of Science, Technology, And Related Disciplines. Now that would have looked great on a business card in abbreviated form!
Yeah yeah 'people need food first yadda yadda running water blah blah.' I don't know why this stuff continues to get modded 'insightful.'
You're responding to a post about a:
( ) Technical innovation in a developing country (*) Product shipped to a developing market ( ) General discussion about IT in the devbeloping world
The location is:
( ) Africa ( ) India ( ) Bangladesh ( ) China ( ) Somewhere else in Asia ( ) South America ( ) Central America (*) Other _unspecified_
You're objecting to it on the basis that:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in that country yet ( ) American jobs will be lost
Your argument is bogus because:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in the developed world either, that doesn't mean we should halt all technological research (*) This will not adversely affect any efforts to alleviate poverty (*) This will help to alleviate poverty ( ) Poverty in that country isn't as widespread as you say it is ( ) The US does not have a divine right to keep all the cool jobs
( ) Technical innovation in a developing country (*) Product shipped to a developing market ( ) General discussion about IT in the devbeloping world
The location is:
( ) Africa ( ) India ( ) Bangladesh ( ) China ( ) Somewhere else in Asia ( ) South America ( ) Central America (*) Other _unspecified_
You're objecting to it on the basis that:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in that country yet ( ) American jobs will be lost
Your argument is bogus because:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in the developed world either, that doesn't mean we should halt all technological research (*) This will not adversely affect any efforts to alleviate poverty (*) This will help to alleviate poverty ( ) Poverty in that country isn't as widespread as you say it is ( ) The US does not have a divine right to keep all the cool jobs
Education only makes sense where: 1) there is a growing middle class and positive economic growth rate; and 2) where the majority of the poor are not engaged in a subsistence economy.
You've been listening to too much Pink Floyd. "We don't need no education" is not something you're going to hear in most of the developing world.
Education makes sense everywhere. If you need me to explain how education can alleviate poverty, you're clearly in need of some education yourself.
( ) Technical innovation in a developing country (*) Product shipped to a developing market ( ) General discussion about IT in the devbeloping world
The location is:
( ) Africa ( ) India ( ) Bangladesh ( ) China ( ) Somewhere else in Asia ( ) South America ( ) Central America (*) Other _unspecified_
You're objecting to it on the basis that:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in that country yet ( ) American jobs will be lost
Your argument is bogus because:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in the developed world either, that doesn't mean we should halt all technological research (*) This will not adversely affect any efforts to alleviate poverty (*) This will help to alleviate poverty ( ) Poverty in that country isn't as widespread as you say it is ( ) The US does not have a divine right to keep all the cool jobs
( ) Technical innovation in a developing country (*) Product shipped to a developing market ( ) General discussion about IT in the devbeloping world
The location is:
( ) Africa ( ) India ( ) Bangladesh ( ) China ( ) Somewhere else in Asia ( ) South America ( ) Central America (*) Other _unspecified_
You're objecting to it on the basis that:
( ) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in that country yet (*) American jobs will be lost
Your argument is bogus because:
( ) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in the developed world either, that doesn't mean we should halt all technological research ( ) This will not adversely affect any efforts to alleviate poverty ( ) This will help to alleviate poverty ( ) Poverty in that country isn't as widespread as you say it is (*) The US does not have a divine right to keep all the cool jobs
( ) Technical innovation in a developing country (*) Product shipped to a developing market ( ) General discussion about IT in the devbeloping world
The location is:
( ) Africa ( ) India ( ) Bangladesh ( ) China ( ) Somewhere else in Asia ( ) South America ( ) Central America (*) Other __unspecified__
You're objecting to it on the basis that:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in that country yet ( ) American jobs will be lost
Your argument is bogus because:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in the developed world either, that doesn't mean we should halt all technological research (*) This will not adversely affect any efforts to alleviate poverty (*) This will help to alleviate poverty ( ) Poverty in that country isn't as widespread as you say it is ( ) The US does not have a divine right to keep all the cool jobs
Seriously you build upon the failures that DHTML, HTML, Javascript, XML, XMLHTTRequest and you form a system which requires at least a 1 ghz processor just run a very simple GUI.
There is nothing special about this other than the incredible amount of sheer dependencies that exist. You cross browser incompatibilities you have inexact everything.
Indeed. Reminds me of the standard/. response to anything that mentions Flash (Standard rebuttal for the "Flash-sucks-because-of-animated-ads-but javascript-doesn't-even-though-it's-used-for popups" brigade).
People here lambast Flash because it doesn't conform to the open source fundamentalist way of doing things (just like Apple, but Apple's exempt from the wrath of the/. hive mind) and a few other half-baked reasons. I respond with the advantages of it, i.e. it allows you to create cross-platform rich internet apps that don't require a whole page reloading every time the user interacts with it.
The standard/. response to that is usually along the lines of "oh, you can do all that in HTML with just a little bit of java and just a bit of javascript with just a bit of XML. Oh, and just a little use of iFrames too, then you've got it. Almost. See? It's every bit as easy!"
Moderators, if you're gonna hit me as a 'troll' just because I've expressed an opinion, maybe you shouldn't be involved in open source.
But there isn't any empirical evidence that will prove that... some super-dense ball of matter spontaneously exploded to create a universe billions of years ago, either.
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My ex once worked for an outfit in England that had a service like this for websites. Cellular Services Development I think they were called. Their service was called 'contact me' and the way she described it sounds identical to this. That was about six years ago.
Will it be able to instantly start translating from an alien language that it has never heard before as soon as the other person appears on the main viewer?
Sounds familiar, could have sworn I read something about this here the other day.
Anyway. Let's not fill this page up with 'Dupe' complaints. Macromedia are probably gonna have to re-think things (in the new Adobe environment, of course) since they were convinced that Flash would be the vehicle of choice in developing what they call Rich Web Applications. They'll now have to sell it on the basis that you can get a hell of a lot of functionality out of very few lines of Flex code.
It's gonna be interesting.
Tatanum doesn't quite have the same ring to it though, does it?
It's aluminium actually. Now drive on the right side of the road dammit!
Astronaut Dave Bowman must be jealous, I'll bet he thought he lasted longer than anybody else that made it into the vacuum of space back in 2001.
I'm glad your moderators had a sense of humour, mine clearly didn't!
I once worked at Bolton University where someone once suggested that we call it Bolton Academy of Science, Technology, And Related Disciplines. Now that would have looked great on a business card in abbreviated form!
Yeah yeah 'people need food first yadda yadda running water blah blah.'
I don't know why this stuff continues to get modded 'insightful.'
You're responding to a post about a:
( ) Technical innovation in a developing country
(*) Product shipped to a developing market
( ) General discussion about IT in the devbeloping world
The location is:
( ) Africa
( ) India
( ) Bangladesh
( ) China
( ) Somewhere else in Asia
( ) South America
( ) Central America
(*) Other _unspecified_
You're objecting to it on the basis that:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in that country yet
( ) American jobs will be lost
Your argument is bogus because:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in the developed world either, that doesn't mean we should halt all technological research
(*) This will not adversely affect any efforts to alleviate poverty
(*) This will help to alleviate poverty
( ) Poverty in that country isn't as widespread as you say it is
( ) The US does not have a divine right to keep all the cool jobs
Speak of the divil
*Sigh*
You're responding to a post about a:
( ) Technical innovation in a developing country
(*) Product shipped to a developing market
( ) General discussion about IT in the devbeloping world
The location is:
( ) Africa
( ) India
( ) Bangladesh
( ) China
( ) Somewhere else in Asia
( ) South America
( ) Central America
(*) Other _unspecified_
You're objecting to it on the basis that:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in that country yet
( ) American jobs will be lost
Your argument is bogus because:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in the developed world either, that doesn't mean we should halt all technological research
(*) This will not adversely affect any efforts to alleviate poverty
(*) This will help to alleviate poverty
( ) Poverty in that country isn't as widespread as you say it is
( ) The US does not have a divine right to keep all the cool jobs
You're responding to a post about a:
( ) Technical innovation in a developing country
(*) Product shipped to a developing market
( ) General discussion about IT in the devbeloping world
The location is:
( ) Africa
( ) India
( ) Bangladesh
( ) China
( ) Somewhere else in Asia
( ) South America
( ) Central America
(*) Other _unspecified_
You're objecting to it on the basis that:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in that country yet
( ) American jobs will be lost
Your argument is bogus because:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in the developed world either, that doesn't mean we should halt all technological research
(*) This will not adversely affect any efforts to alleviate poverty
(*) This will help to alleviate poverty
( ) Poverty in that country isn't as widespread as you say it is
( ) The US does not have a divine right to keep all the cool jobs
You're responding to a post about a:
( ) Technical innovation in a developing country
(*) Product shipped to a developing market
( ) General discussion about IT in the devbeloping world
The location is:
( ) Africa
( ) India
( ) Bangladesh
( ) China
( ) Somewhere else in Asia
( ) South America
( ) Central America
(*) Other _unspecified_
You're objecting to it on the basis that:
( ) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in that country yet
(*) American jobs will be lost
Your argument is bogus because:
( ) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in the developed world either, that doesn't mean we should halt all technological research
( ) This will not adversely affect any efforts to alleviate poverty
( ) This will help to alleviate poverty
( ) Poverty in that country isn't as widespread as you say it is
(*) The US does not have a divine right to keep all the cool jobs
You're responding to a post about a:
( ) Technical innovation in a developing country
(*) Product shipped to a developing market
( ) General discussion about IT in the devbeloping world
The location is:
( ) Africa
( ) India
( ) Bangladesh
( ) China
( ) Somewhere else in Asia
( ) South America
( ) Central America
(*) Other __unspecified__
You're objecting to it on the basis that:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in that country yet
( ) American jobs will be lost
Your argument is bogus because:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in the developed world either, that doesn't mean we should halt all technological research
(*) This will not adversely affect any efforts to alleviate poverty
(*) This will help to alleviate poverty
( ) Poverty in that country isn't as widespread as you say it is
( ) The US does not have a divine right to keep all the cool jobs
People here lambast Flash because it doesn't conform to the open source fundamentalist way of doing things (just like Apple, but Apple's exempt from the wrath of the /. hive mind) and a few other half-baked reasons. I respond with the advantages of it, i.e. it allows you to create cross-platform rich internet apps that don't require a whole page reloading every time the user interacts with it.
The standard /. response to that is usually along the lines of "oh, you can do all that in HTML with just a little bit of java and just a bit of javascript with just a bit of XML. Oh, and just a little use of iFrames too, then you've got it. Almost. See? It's every bit as easy!"
Moderators, if you're gonna hit me as a 'troll' just because I've expressed an opinion, maybe you shouldn't be involved in open source.
Nothing new here. Try a google for "Offshore Wind Farms."