My understanding is that Silverlight replaces the DOM. It is xml markup at its core. I'm pretty sure it is like flash, embedded as an object and run by a plugin.
Well, it is a trade off of sorts. I think that uncopyrighted, public domain release, is basically as free as it gets, the problem being that the software is only truly free until someone else comes along and makes it not free. I understand Stallman's desire to try to ensure the openness of the code, but it does impose a limitation on the source code, and I understand why he often comes off being pretty far out. It smacks of socialism, for the good of the many from the work of the few, but it's a voluntary socialism. I think it's a good balance right now, with the need for more of Stallman's type of work. Without GNU, the market would be in a complete corporate stranglehold. Without Microsoft et al., I think that would stifle creativity at the same time, people holding out their best works from the public in any form, or being coerced into giving away something they want to keep closed. The field is still skewed a bit far in the direction of closed-source software, but that seems to be changing.
I use VS2005 every day, I'm pretty sure it does all of these things. Refactoring works but is slow, if you have a big project it's faster just to change what you want to change and try to compile and go through the error list. Been a while since I used VS6, maybe that's what you're referring to?
I disagree, but am I the only one thinking that Kerry was a little at fault here? He should have smacked the kid down verbally before it got out of hand. If he failed at that, he should have told them to cut his mic and let the kid know that he couldn't answer his questions unless he shut up for a second. Then the police could have escorted him out without such a scene. If he was really crazy and kept thrashing about at that point, I doubt that people would have been so shocked at his getting tazered.
I had my doubts about Kerry as presedential material when he ran in '04, and I voted for him because I really didn't like Bush. What a mistake. If he can't control one rowdy college student in what was still at the time a civil forum, how could he control a country? What a prick, seriously, it was his forum and he should have stood up and taken charge.
I have worked on projects where this is true, and the code was really fine and it was just not the way I would have done it in my wildest dreams, so that was cool because I learned something and didn't have to rewrite everything just to make a simple change work. Usually though when it looks like crap, guess what...
It shouldn't be any surprise that a man can be seduced by a woman, and most of what I've seen on this show is an adult posing as a minor and being very convincing at seducing men. It's not a level playing field and the entire thing *is* set up to trap people, even if it's not technically, legally, entrapment. This country is also psycho about "pedophilia". Many 12-14 year olds are pretty adult in body and mind and are sexually active even if they don't have the proper experience to decide responsibly for themselves. Doesn't mean it's right, but it's a societal thing that says someone under 18 can't have sex with someone over 18, not a biological one. I wouldn't be happy with any of these guys at home with my hypothetical 12 yo daughter but I would also expect that I would have a) brought her up well enough and b) watched her enough that this kind of thing would not happen. If I caught my daughter in a chat room provoking men in the same way as these "reporters" she would be in deep shit.
You must judge whether you are willing to let some otherwise productive people sink in order to change office suites. It may be worth it but I suspect that in most cases it will not. If 75% of your workforce is using Word all day long as a significant part of their job function, this will not work. If 30% are using it regularly and you have a technologically literate staff you will probably not have to lose anyone. It takes a lot of work and money to advertise a position, hire someone, and get them up to speed on the way things work, let alone any particular technical training that may be required. Plus, if you're in the 75% type of place, you'd have an uprising on your hands...
What's to say that the current background radiation from the Big Bang is not the result of something similar? I understand the basic observations and extrapolation that has occurred therefrom, and can certainly see nothing wrong with the Big Bang theory per se. Obviously something major happened 12-13 billion years ago or whatever the figure is now. But, the Cosmological assertion of the birth of Everything by expansion from a singularity has always seemed a bit more of a mystical explanation to me than a scientific one. Bottom line is that we are observing all this from a very limited viewpoint (that of Earth, at an arbitrary point in time) and there's a whole heaping load of stuff we don't know about the Universe. I would imagine that a mature space faring race, should such exist, would have a different take on our set of data, if for no other reason than a broader ambient dataset and range of experience.
I agree that the images are artificially colored. The liquid looks more like liquid C02 runoff from the underground Katari reactor installed in that region 50,000 years ago by the Zebnor tribe. It should be clear, not bluish in color...
There is no evidence of an evolutionary tie to the Caucasus region. White people are called Caucasians because of a man named Blumenbach, who created many of the racial categorizations that we have today. I can't recall if it was Blumenbach or one of his contemporaries who did this, but I heard the story from one of my professors way back when in an anthropology class in college. During his travels, he kept a paper cross in his pocket. He carried a small sewing pin with the cross. Every time he saw someone who he thought was "beautiful", he made a mark with the pin on one arm of the cross. Someone "ugly" got a mark on the other arm. He kept a tally, and his final conclusion was that the people of the Caucasus region were the most beautiful in the world, thus white folk were thereafter termed Caucasians.
You know, I've never been more frustrated while at the keyboard than when I first learned my way around Linux. Wading through unintelligible man pages, cryptic commands, vague error messages, hit-and-miss support via newsgroups, and different flavors of *nix, really is a pain in the ass when you are not quite sure what you are even looking for to begin with. Not that I haven't gotten frustrated with many a Microsoft product, and the 'Net has become a much better resource than it was back then, but nothing can compare in terms of sheer piss-you-off value than going at the *nix command line as a newbie. The Gnome and KDE interfaces weren't much help, either.
That being said though, I've been away from Linux as a daily user for a while, and I downloaded Ubuntu a couple weeks back to see what it was like. I have to say, something like this would have been a much gentler in-road to an open source OS. The other stuff is still going on in the background but it has what I consider to be a practical menu arrangement and usable interface. I am pretty sure the tables have not turned in this area yet - OSX or Windows are going to be much less frustrating for the vast majority of the world population - but the gap is narrowing. The OLPC interface also looks like it was well thought-out for use by school children.
It is a hypervisor penalty in general. I've gotten the business edition running on Xensource, which comes as a pre-packaged linux install cum xen hypervisor. Have also set it up on MS Virtual Server 2005 though it runs like a dog on that system. I don't even think it's supported by either of those VMs yet but it more or less functions. As usual, the/. headline is just flamebait.
Really, I could see a demand for running the dumbed-down versions of Vista in virtualization. Much like the virtual images provided for IE6, it would be a handy thing for configuration testing. Who wants to waste a box on Vista Home, unless that's all you're ever going to use?
Really, any more I think the first part of the subdomain in an address is really more significant. You can get a.org without being an organization, a.com without being a company, etc., these divisions rapidly became meaningless after the mid 90's. I don't see why we can't just scratch the TLD system entirely at this point. I never worked with LDAP directories so am not sure if you are saying the same thing or not. http://who.the.hell.cares/ seems fine to me;)
In particular if a band has two good tracks and a couple of bad ones, where once they might have produced a single or maybe two, now they have to make it all into an Album and pad it out with a couple of over-length "dance remix" tracks and hope nobody notices
Somewhat of a counterpoint...There are plenty of one hit wonders out there that this is true for. There's another side of this that the internet has exposed, and the major record labels still don't get it. There are a lot of really solid, non-mainstream bands that produce very good music and only have one or two up tempo songs that get radio play. These bands have often found much larger markets through ad-hoc internet promotion, distribution of free content, etc. The more that the big labels stop producing music, per se, and focus on producing only those songs that they feel are guaranteed to be big hits, the more it will end up pushing the labels into a niche of their own. A lot of people are still into music for the sake of music, both musicians and fans. Signing with a big label is becoming less and less attractive.
I live by DC and have a veritable cornucopia of public radio options, I really can't complain. Some of the nationally syndicated shows are hit and miss with this sort of thing but I've recently heard some decent reporting on NPR that I haven't seen from any other broadcast outlets. It depends on the time of day and the program.
As to NPR being to the left, I think that they present a pretty balanced coverage of the news. If anything they cater to a younger audience than CNN and Fox and I think that a lot of the leftist criticism comes from not so much from a political slant but from a generational slant. The style of news and reporting that is geared towards the 45 and under crowd may seem to have a liberal bias not so much from the content but from the tone.
That was my thought too...take a garden hose and a sprayer and get it going in a solid stream, then swing it back and forth wildly. Not the same physics at work, exactly, but I think the basic concept is the same.
Yeah, NASA's been crippled on way more fundamental programs than asteroid detection/deflection by decades of political maneuvering. What we need is private space enterprise to develop to the point of being able to deflect an asteroid. Here's praying that the next killer asteroid to approach earth is made of solid gold...
Once the number in the Tetris game rolls over to -128, the plane is supposed to go down by itself. If the authorities can guide the falling plane to land perfectly between the high rise and the parking garage, they will clear the row and move on to the next level...
Seriously, too, who doesn't look at the J languages and think "they ripped this off from Java"? Wasn't that the entire point? Is there really some mystery here that is just coming to light?
/. leans a little to the crazy side of things, but I do not believe so in this case. I consider it at least rude of Myspace to go over the site owner's head and get the registrar to take out the entire domain without letting the site owner know about it. GoDaddy is not necessarily evil for going along with the request but it certainly is unorthodox and complying will not help their business any. And, to the article's point, it will not actually remove the data from the public domain, so for GoDaddy this was a stupid move and they gain nothing but bad PR for taking it. Stupid, not evil...
Not only can reprap not reproduce itself - it did successfully manage to reproduce one of its own plastic pieces, but that's about it - but it looks like this works much better than reprap actually works. The current model will never be able to truly reproduce itself, but it will print plastic gears that work and as I understand it will print metal traces. The pieces I've seen that are made with it are very crude in the pictures. The price, around USD 400, is attractive OTOH.
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My understanding is that Silverlight replaces the DOM. It is xml markup at its core. I'm pretty sure it is like flash, embedded as an object and run by a plugin.
Well, it is a trade off of sorts. I think that uncopyrighted, public domain release, is basically as free as it gets, the problem being that the software is only truly free until someone else comes along and makes it not free. I understand Stallman's desire to try to ensure the openness of the code, but it does impose a limitation on the source code, and I understand why he often comes off being pretty far out. It smacks of socialism, for the good of the many from the work of the few, but it's a voluntary socialism. I think it's a good balance right now, with the need for more of Stallman's type of work. Without GNU, the market would be in a complete corporate stranglehold. Without Microsoft et al., I think that would stifle creativity at the same time, people holding out their best works from the public in any form, or being coerced into giving away something they want to keep closed. The field is still skewed a bit far in the direction of closed-source software, but that seems to be changing.
I use VS2005 every day, I'm pretty sure it does all of these things. Refactoring works but is slow, if you have a big project it's faster just to change what you want to change and try to compile and go through the error list. Been a while since I used VS6, maybe that's what you're referring to?
I disagree, but am I the only one thinking that Kerry was a little at fault here? He should have smacked the kid down verbally before it got out of hand. If he failed at that, he should have told them to cut his mic and let the kid know that he couldn't answer his questions unless he shut up for a second. Then the police could have escorted him out without such a scene. If he was really crazy and kept thrashing about at that point, I doubt that people would have been so shocked at his getting tazered.
I had my doubts about Kerry as presedential material when he ran in '04, and I voted for him because I really didn't like Bush. What a mistake. If he can't control one rowdy college student in what was still at the time a civil forum, how could he control a country? What a prick, seriously, it was his forum and he should have stood up and taken charge.
I have worked on projects where this is true, and the code was really fine and it was just not the way I would have done it in my wildest dreams, so that was cool because I learned something and didn't have to rewrite everything just to make a simple change work. Usually though when it looks like crap, guess what...
It shouldn't be any surprise that a man can be seduced by a woman, and most of what I've seen on this show is an adult posing as a minor and being very convincing at seducing men. It's not a level playing field and the entire thing *is* set up to trap people, even if it's not technically, legally, entrapment. This country is also psycho about "pedophilia". Many 12-14 year olds are pretty adult in body and mind and are sexually active even if they don't have the proper experience to decide responsibly for themselves. Doesn't mean it's right, but it's a societal thing that says someone under 18 can't have sex with someone over 18, not a biological one. I wouldn't be happy with any of these guys at home with my hypothetical 12 yo daughter but I would also expect that I would have a) brought her up well enough and b) watched her enough that this kind of thing would not happen. If I caught my daughter in a chat room provoking men in the same way as these "reporters" she would be in deep shit.
You must judge whether you are willing to let some otherwise productive people sink in order to change office suites. It may be worth it but I suspect that in most cases it will not. If 75% of your workforce is using Word all day long as a significant part of their job function, this will not work. If 30% are using it regularly and you have a technologically literate staff you will probably not have to lose anyone. It takes a lot of work and money to advertise a position, hire someone, and get them up to speed on the way things work, let alone any particular technical training that may be required. Plus, if you're in the 75% type of place, you'd have an uprising on your hands...
What's to say that the current background radiation from the Big Bang is not the result of something similar? I understand the basic observations and extrapolation that has occurred therefrom, and can certainly see nothing wrong with the Big Bang theory per se. Obviously something major happened 12-13 billion years ago or whatever the figure is now. But, the Cosmological assertion of the birth of Everything by expansion from a singularity has always seemed a bit more of a mystical explanation to me than a scientific one. Bottom line is that we are observing all this from a very limited viewpoint (that of Earth, at an arbitrary point in time) and there's a whole heaping load of stuff we don't know about the Universe. I would imagine that a mature space faring race, should such exist, would have a different take on our set of data, if for no other reason than a broader ambient dataset and range of experience.
I agree that the images are artificially colored. The liquid looks more like liquid C02 runoff from the underground Katari reactor installed in that region 50,000 years ago by the Zebnor tribe. It should be clear, not bluish in color...
There is no evidence of an evolutionary tie to the Caucasus region. White people are called Caucasians because of a man named Blumenbach, who created many of the racial categorizations that we have today. I can't recall if it was Blumenbach or one of his contemporaries who did this, but I heard the story from one of my professors way back when in an anthropology class in college. During his travels, he kept a paper cross in his pocket. He carried a small sewing pin with the cross. Every time he saw someone who he thought was "beautiful", he made a mark with the pin on one arm of the cross. Someone "ugly" got a mark on the other arm. He kept a tally, and his final conclusion was that the people of the Caucasus region were the most beautiful in the world, thus white folk were thereafter termed Caucasians.
You know, I've never been more frustrated while at the keyboard than when I first learned my way around Linux. Wading through unintelligible man pages, cryptic commands, vague error messages, hit-and-miss support via newsgroups, and different flavors of *nix, really is a pain in the ass when you are not quite sure what you are even looking for to begin with. Not that I haven't gotten frustrated with many a Microsoft product, and the 'Net has become a much better resource than it was back then, but nothing can compare in terms of sheer piss-you-off value than going at the *nix command line as a newbie. The Gnome and KDE interfaces weren't much help, either.
That being said though, I've been away from Linux as a daily user for a while, and I downloaded Ubuntu a couple weeks back to see what it was like. I have to say, something like this would have been a much gentler in-road to an open source OS. The other stuff is still going on in the background but it has what I consider to be a practical menu arrangement and usable interface. I am pretty sure the tables have not turned in this area yet - OSX or Windows are going to be much less frustrating for the vast majority of the world population - but the gap is narrowing. The OLPC interface also looks like it was well thought-out for use by school children.
It is a hypervisor penalty in general. I've gotten the business edition running on Xensource, which comes as a pre-packaged linux install cum xen hypervisor. Have also set it up on MS Virtual Server 2005 though it runs like a dog on that system. I don't even think it's supported by either of those VMs yet but it more or less functions. As usual, the /. headline is just flamebait.
Really, I could see a demand for running the dumbed-down versions of Vista in virtualization. Much like the virtual images provided for IE6, it would be a handy thing for configuration testing. Who wants to waste a box on Vista Home, unless that's all you're ever going to use?
Really, any more I think the first part of the subdomain in an address is really more significant. You can get a .org without being an organization, a .com without being a company, etc., these divisions rapidly became meaningless after the mid 90's. I don't see why we can't just scratch the TLD system entirely at this point. I never worked with LDAP directories so am not sure if you are saying the same thing or not. http://who.the.hell.cares/ seems fine to me;)
Somewhat of a counterpoint...There are plenty of one hit wonders out there that this is true for. There's another side of this that the internet has exposed, and the major record labels still don't get it. There are a lot of really solid, non-mainstream bands that produce very good music and only have one or two up tempo songs that get radio play. These bands have often found much larger markets through ad-hoc internet promotion, distribution of free content, etc. The more that the big labels stop producing music, per se, and focus on producing only those songs that they feel are guaranteed to be big hits, the more it will end up pushing the labels into a niche of their own. A lot of people are still into music for the sake of music, both musicians and fans. Signing with a big label is becoming less and less attractive.
I guess Bush was actually informed on an issue for once. It still made me laugh when I heard it the first five times though...
As to NPR being to the left, I think that they present a pretty balanced coverage of the news. If anything they cater to a younger audience than CNN and Fox and I think that a lot of the leftist criticism comes from not so much from a political slant but from a generational slant. The style of news and reporting that is geared towards the 45 and under crowd may seem to have a liberal bias not so much from the content but from the tone.
This being slashdot, the parent post was probably not intended as a joke...
That was my thought too...take a garden hose and a sprayer and get it going in a solid stream, then swing it back and forth wildly. Not the same physics at work, exactly, but I think the basic concept is the same.
Yeah, NASA's been crippled on way more fundamental programs than asteroid detection/deflection by decades of political maneuvering. What we need is private space enterprise to develop to the point of being able to deflect an asteroid. Here's praying that the next killer asteroid to approach earth is made of solid gold...
Once the number in the Tetris game rolls over to -128, the plane is supposed to go down by itself. If the authorities can guide the falling plane to land perfectly between the high rise and the parking garage, they will clear the row and move on to the next level...
No, no, you're not going to fool me. It's nothing but turtles, all the way down!
Seriously, too, who doesn't look at the J languages and think "they ripped this off from Java"? Wasn't that the entire point? Is there really some mystery here that is just coming to light?
/. leans a little to the crazy side of things, but I do not believe so in this case. I consider it at least rude of Myspace to go over the site owner's head and get the registrar to take out the entire domain without letting the site owner know about it. GoDaddy is not necessarily evil for going along with the request but it certainly is unorthodox and complying will not help their business any. And, to the article's point, it will not actually remove the data from the public domain, so for GoDaddy this was a stupid move and they gain nothing but bad PR for taking it. Stupid, not evil...
Not only can reprap not reproduce itself - it did successfully manage to reproduce one of its own plastic pieces, but that's about it - but it looks like this works much better than reprap actually works. The current model will never be able to truly reproduce itself, but it will print plastic gears that work and as I understand it will print metal traces. The pieces I've seen that are made with it are very crude in the pictures. The price, around USD 400, is attractive OTOH.
Octarine. Duh.