* It's "a major site." ("Major" here means important, big). * With many ("tens of thousands of") users. (This means it will have lots of traffic.) * It's ("felt by many to be") the flagship RoR application. (It should be clear from the title, let alone the summary that RoR = Ruby on Rails.) * It has suffered from numerous outages, some of these lasting days at a time. (So they clearly are having reliability issues. Since the article concerns them possibly abandoning "RoR", it doesn't take much to use some logic and work out that they may be pointing the finger at "RoR").
Granted, the summary might have mentioned what "Twitter" is, but the majority of Slashdot users will likely either know already, or will use something called "Google", which operates over something called the "Web", and can answer these sorts of queries.
Do you really not understand how comment threading works? The new system isn't all that different, it just has handy features for hiding and showing comments.
Same question as above: why do you care? Several of the sites I used to build were static, but we used a database to link the admin/edit pages to the front end with it, and built the front-end dynamically. Sure, it would have been more efficient (CPU wise) to do it as static HTML, but the benefits of having the data in a database was enormous.
With proper caching it's a non-issue anyway.
The only other thing I can think of is sites with a massive URL serving up static data, but while it's annoying, is that a frequent problem? Most of the time URLs are copied, stored, parsed etc: they're not spoken aloud unless you're going to the homepage. No one says, "I found a great youtube video: youtube dot com slash watch questionmark v equals series of letters", they send the link.
So let me get this straight. Yahoo bought Flickr. Yahoo merged their Yahoo Photos service into Flickr because it was already popular and people preferred it. Now, Yahoo is adding video to Flickr... but they still run a competing service called Yahoo Video. I presume they hope Flickr's popularity will rub off on video too and create a competitor to Youtube?
While we're on the subject - assuming MS mangles flickr, can anyone suggest good alternatives? I'm not too bothered about the video aspect, but good presentation, photo management features (which is where flickr excels imo) count for a lot. I've been looking at pix.ie lately, but haven't tried it out yet.
Well it's not that surprising seeing as this whole thing was a copyright issue.
I like the fact that they made a special graphic for England though (featuring the Queen... yes America, that's all we're about really;) ) are there other graphics for other countries?
Even if it is an advert (and I suspect it isn't, though I have no proof), it's still an interesting discussion. I've been looking at the AWS line-up, and it'll be interesting to see what this thread throws up in terms of for and against.
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers.
These facts indicate that the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is used by at least 80% of the users.
If you were attempting to assign an IP to every molecule in the atmosphere, starting at the surface of the earth and working up, you'd only cover a thickness of 2.5 centimeters
Well it hardly seems worth doing then. Only 2.5 centimetres - so not even an inch! Lame.
UK motorways are proactive with this in that they adjust the speed limit when the volume of traffic is higher. I remember seeing basically TFA printed a few years ago explaining all this.
Please explain why you would not like CDs automounting. If I've just inserted a CD, obviously I'm likely to want to use it, and therefore need it mounted, no?
Devil's Advocate: So, you don't consider buying the computer hardware you need to view the content additional fees? I certainly do.
Yes, good point, but...
Because the problem with my Devil's Advocate statement there is that, while lots of companies make computing hardware, only one makes Windows.
Yes exactly. While buying PC hardware is also at cost, there are far more options for this, which means the price isn't set by a single (foreign, not that it's relevant really) entity.
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What don't you understand?
* It's "a major site." ("Major" here means important, big).
* With many ("tens of thousands of") users. (This means it will have lots of traffic.)
* It's ("felt by many to be") the flagship RoR application. (It should be clear from the title, let alone the summary that RoR = Ruby on Rails.)
* It has suffered from numerous outages, some of these lasting days at a time. (So they clearly are having reliability issues. Since the article concerns them possibly abandoning "RoR", it doesn't take much to use some logic and work out that they may be pointing the finger at "RoR").
Granted, the summary might have mentioned what "Twitter" is, but the majority of Slashdot users will likely either know already, or will use something called "Google", which operates over something called the "Web", and can answer these sorts of queries.
Do you really not understand how comment threading works? The new system isn't all that different, it just has handy features for hiding and showing comments.
Right, but his point is that it's not Flash causing the problems, it's the developer (or the process). This is an important distinction.
Same question as above: why do you care? Several of the sites I used to build were static, but we used a database to link the admin/edit pages to the front end with it, and built the front-end dynamically. Sure, it would have been more efficient (CPU wise) to do it as static HTML, but the benefits of having the data in a database was enormous.
With proper caching it's a non-issue anyway.
The only other thing I can think of is sites with a massive URL serving up static data, but while it's annoying, is that a frequent problem? Most of the time URLs are copied, stored, parsed etc: they're not spoken aloud unless you're going to the homepage. No one says, "I found a great youtube video: youtube dot com slash watch questionmark v equals series of letters", they send the link.
Agree with Snowmit - that sounds brilliant. D'you have any sources for the Disney legal action? Did a quick Google but nothing good.
So let me get this straight. Yahoo bought Flickr. Yahoo merged their Yahoo Photos service into Flickr because it was already popular and people preferred it. Now, Yahoo is adding video to Flickr... but they still run a competing service called Yahoo Video. I presume they hope Flickr's popularity will rub off on video too and create a competitor to Youtube?
They also already have Jumpcut: http://jumpcut.com/While we're on the subject - assuming MS mangles flickr, can anyone suggest good alternatives? I'm not too bothered about the video aspect, but good presentation, photo management features (which is where flickr excels imo) count for a lot. I've been looking at pix.ie lately, but haven't tried it out yet.
Suggestions?
Well it's not that surprising seeing as this whole thing was a copyright issue.
;) ) are there other graphics for other countries?
I like the fact that they made a special graphic for England though (featuring the Queen... yes America, that's all we're about really
Even if it is an advert (and I suspect it isn't, though I have no proof), it's still an interesting discussion. I've been looking at the AWS line-up, and it'll be interesting to see what this thread throws up in terms of for and against.
Film was called "They Live".
Mod parent up. Consume.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=154155
Looks pretty active, release wise. I too am interested in looking at this, pretty excited to see this news if I must be honest.
It even says as much on the linked page:
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers.
These facts indicate that the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is used by at least 80% of the users.
At least now there is only IE7 to support - IE6 should quickly fall from use.
Have you read Jennifer Government? They're both US Alliance!
If you were attempting to assign an IP to every molecule in the atmosphere, starting at the surface of the earth and working up, you'd only cover a thickness of 2.5 centimeters
Well it hardly seems worth doing then. Only 2.5 centimetres - so not even an inch! Lame.
UK motorways are proactive with this in that they adjust the speed limit when the volume of traffic is higher. I remember seeing basically TFA printed a few years ago explaining all this.
Would you rather we stayed with the font tag?
Maybe you don't class them as Yahoo (after all, they were bought rather than created in house), but both flickr and del.icio.us are superb.
TeleAtlas is also being acquired for megabucks-- in fact, it was the subject of a bidding war between TomTom and Garmin.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/31/garmin_tomtom_teleatlas_bid_war_mapping_gps_satnav/
Thanks for bringing this up, I wasn't aware it was going on. Looks like Garmin are winning at the final hurdle.
"Posted Sep 11th 2006"
From a year and 2 months ago. Knowing that, can we really rely on that picture?
Not sure what you'll do with those Euros...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_krone
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A lot of Google products have ads, and yet I've never wanted to avoid Google because of it so far. What makes you think this new phone will be worse?
Please explain why you would not like CDs automounting. If I've just inserted a CD, obviously I'm likely to want to use it, and therefore need it mounted, no?
Devil's Advocate: So, you don't consider buying the computer hardware you need to view the content additional fees? I certainly do.
Yes, good point, but...
Because the problem with my Devil's Advocate statement there is that, while lots of companies make computing hardware, only one makes Windows.
Yes exactly. While buying PC hardware is also at cost, there are far more options for this, which means the price isn't set by a single (foreign, not that it's relevant really) entity.
So you don't consider buying the Microsoft products you need to view the content additional fees?
I certainly do.