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  1. Re:Argh. on PHP 5.2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Python.

    It has deep-rooted support for meta-programming and introspection. Namespaces are simple and straight forward. The re-occurring interfaces in Python shave down development time and encorage uniformity.

    Using Python is actually a pleasure. Mind, it does have its flaws: Performance (which is about on par with PHP), populatity (not deployed as much as PHP), and some OOP querks (but still better than PHP's).

  2. Re:Non Adobe? (Off-topic) on Hacker Finds Multiple PDF Backdoors · · Score: 2

    I am using Slashdot's Discussion2 and I accidentally modded you redundant. Just posting this reply to cancel the mod.

    I find it very odd that there is no confirmation before a selected mod is applied. I think I'll submit that as a UI bug. Sorry for the inconvenience.

    BTW, I meant to mod the parent as Interesting, because he raises a great question: Are these flaws of the PDF format? Or just Adobe's implementation (or extensions)?

  3. Re:In a capitalist economy, stuff like this happen on Techies Asked To Train Foreign Replacements · · Score: 0
    America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn't belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don't care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.
    -Tom Morello
  4. Re:Something important from Canada on Canadians To Douse Chinese Firewall · · Score: 1

    McLaughlin Motors along with Buick formed General Motors in 1908. Wikipedia knows more.

  5. Re:Address Book on SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha released · · Score: 1
    I dont want to have to fire up a mail program just to get someone's phone number.
    You don't have to. Do it like this:

    In windows: "...\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -addressbook
    In OSX: /Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thund erbird -addressbook

    And you can actually do the same with Mozilla/Seamonkey.
  6. Re:Credit Card prank on New Identity Theft Technology Fails to Protect · · Score: 1

    Signature on my credit card (written in black marker):

    CHECK MY ID

    Sure, its a pain in my ass to have to flash my ID every time I use the card. But alomost every store clerk asks for it.

  7. Re:Acronym Collision on HD-DVD Wins Support of 4 Studios · · Score: 1

    I thought Cross Site Scripting just got more secure.

  8. What about robots.txt? on Google Censors Abu Ghraib Images [updated] · · Score: 1

    Doesn't google allow a site to put a robots.txt fle in a directory? And that file can stop google from adding some of the sites file to its search. Maybe that's what is going on here.

  9. Re:It's sad. Laugh. on Novell Sued Microsoft Through Caldera? · · Score: 1

    Nevertheless, the irony would be enough to kill a medium-sized vulcan town.

    Like this one?

  10. Re:3 things on Open Source Alternative to Dreamweaver's .LBI? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Any real self respecting geek writes the html and css in the raw. It's the only way.

    Not only that, but it makes for better pages. The code is not bloated, and the layout is more optimized. Hand-coding websites also gives you a chance to find new ways of doing things instead of the same old tricks.

    My design process includes Fireworks, also by Macromedia. My first step is drawing the page layout with all the images and menus. It's the easiest way to play around and find what looks just right. My next step is re-creating the page using minimal images, css, and xhtml. After it looks like the original images, I optimize the code and make sure the layout works in ALL browsers. I might also add in a step that includes javascript or server-side code if its necessary. This design process has served me very well.

    As for the question, I've used Dreamweaver, but never liked the extra features. I use it as a file manager and syntax highlighter when I'm on Windows, that about all (except FTP). I find the best way to manage your site is to have it manageable by design. Descriptive file names, good directory structure, and organization. That way you wont be locked into any specific solution.

  11. Real is to Apple as Apple is to... on Apple Rejects RealNetwork's Pleas · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...Microsoft.

    Apple shouldn't be so arrogent when they are in the same position in a different field.

  12. Re:download.com? on Freeware for Windows -- Where Did It Go? · · Score: 2, Informative

    A good site to check out is nonags. It has policy of only carying ad-free, money-free software for those who like to get something for nothing. There is always searching the web. But, I know. That takes effort.

  13. Re:VNC on Protecting Our Parents' PCs? · · Score: 1

    But how would you know who was behind the keyboard?

  14. Re:I think more around 2006 on Linus Says 2004 is the Year for Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    I can't really put my finger on just why that year sticks out, but it does.

    Maybe because that's the year (perhaps) that Longhorn will be released?

  15. Re:Where are the "True 1080P" HDTV screens? on 61-inch Wide Plasma Monitor · · Score: 1

    Eh? Thats TWO years AND three months, if you leave it running 24h a day. Don't know about you, but even though I'm pretty lazy I usually manage to hit the off button on the remote when I leave the couch... :)

    That's asuming you leave the couch.

  16. Re:wow ! on Stone Skipping the Scientific Way · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The whole point of scienctific research is to find new technologies and (maybe) a use for them. You never know how this research could effect the world. Wakeboarding and surfing come to mind, as well as applications with the slashdown of spacecraft. Who knows?

  17. Re:27% of google users use windows 98 on Windows 98 Phased Out · · Score: 1

    Just because you can doesn't mean you will. I'm proud to have Konqueror as my user agent.

  18. Re:Hollywood? on Grand Theft Auto Ban To Be Decided By Courts · · Score: 1

    If that's true, Hollywood's plan will backfire. Nothing makes something more popular than telling people that they can't have it.

  19. Re:It amazes me... on Tim Berners-Lee Attains Knighthood · · Score: 1

    You're right, you're probably biased. The electric light bulb was nothing more than just making something we already did a bit faster, cheaper and easier.

    The interweb has the potential to change everything, everywhere just as the lightbulb had. These four things have a lot in common with each other by way of importence to society. Except only on the interweb can someone rant on slashdot.

    The internet actually has more potential than the lightbulb because it allows for so many other things to become a posibility, like open forums, easy to access information, inexpensive communication, and (of course) Slashdot! Sure the lightbulb opens up some doors, but the interweb opens up so many more.

  20. Re:Nifty on Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators · · Score: 5, Insightful

    An open source alternative can help keep the heat on TI to make a better product. Also, in the future, this OSS can even become a better alternative than the TI software. It also gives an oportunity for developers to enhance the O/S they use when the please.

  21. Re:Simple reason... on Retired Microsoft Operating Systems Still Popular · · Score: 1

    When I bought a new computer (128MB RAM) a year ago, I managed to open the case without damaging the sticker. I popped some more memory in there, a CD-RW drive, and an old GeForce2 and closed it back up with the sticker still in place.

    About a month later the computer crapped out (the power supply), so I took it to customer service because it was still under warantee and they said they'd fix it for free. When I came back the next day they had it fixed and didn't even notice the new hardware! I grabbed my box (the computer) and never looked back.

  22. Re:Original CD prices going up! on Retired Microsoft Operating Systems Still Popular · · Score: 1

    A Google Cache Link for the Microsoft-challenged. (Is it that HARD to offer a PDF version of a document?!)

  23. Re:Upgrade on Microsoft Retires Windows 98 · · Score: 1

    Although I don't look at the kernel source, I do look and modify things like the Kicker and Apache and PHP modules. That's why I like Open Source. If somthing makes me angry I have the code to change it or to give to someone who can change it.

    If I had the Windows 98 source (and it was written in a language I care to learn) there would be many things I (and others) would change (like the Task Manager or the dependency on IE). Most of my efforts would be used to make WINE better.

  24. Re:PAY UP! on Regifting Not Just A Seinfeld Gag -- It's Patented · · Score: 2, Funny
    Now it's your turn to pay up.
    I've just recieved the patent for:
    Method for Specifying a Sequential Series of Steps in Electronic Format for Achieving Profitability for Use as a Business Plan Where the Step Immediately Prior to Profitability May Be Ambiguous, Omitted, Incomplete, Unclear, Stupid, Foolish, Humorous, or Otherwise Unlikely-to-Work-in-the-Real-World On The Internet
  25. Re:Can somebody please explain what pages are? on Give the Gift of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Read this to answer your subscription question. And learn HTML and post comments as HTML Formatted to get purdy links in your comments.