Well, I'm not too sure if XML strives to do too much, or whether people try to make XML do to much. But I think the latter is more likely. XML makes a really nice interchange format for moving data/objects between applications. I don't think I would use xml files in place of an rdbms for storage, but having the rdbms send me my query results in xml would be nice (... ). And that would be what it is really designed for... data interchange.
HP, at least, already treats their inkjets as disposable. Just try finding new drivers from HP for products that are more than three (estimate) years old.
I have a HP720, which had some special features with the HP driver, but they stopped updating them at win98 (no 2000, ME or XP). Purchased it in 98 when it was still on the top part of the product line.
(::sigh:: the whole modding up vs replying decision.)
I'm trying to give this advice to all my friends who just got their first jobs out of college. Stop buying the new flashy toys, and start putting money away while you can (no real bills to eat up their paycheck). They'll have a lot more freedom later on.
Alright, this is very off-topic, but I'm just curious. Was there some kind of big hoopla about cnet having com.com that I missed or something. I hadn't noticed it before, but it seems like all the references people are using to news.com and download.com are now *.com.com.
Alright. Add one more reason why am glad I am not a woman. My gosh. How do you end up explaining this to her once it gets to a level you need to come clean. How could you still cover this up when you're married and not feel a bit sketchy.
The research sounds great for virtual environments or military-type training scenarios, but I've never thought complete player freedom or dramatic goal/mission/outcome adjusting based on player actions a good thing. A good game has goals and skill challenges that a player needs to achieve and attain. And a good game is not a story except in a very loose use of the term.
i'd be offended by this comment if i hadn't met so many morons that had paid ten times as much as i did for my degree, and yet hadn't really gotten anything for the expense except for membership into a bunch of secret handshake clubs. you're not any smarter, and you might have been struggling for that same B+ no matter where you took intro to calculus.
Actually, my handful of friends at Duke who took Calculus at UNC Chapel Hill because it was insanely easier may want to disagree with you.
And actually, I wouldn't make a snide remark about those secret handshake clubs. That's how most people get ahead in life--by who you know and the resources that are available to you. If you take advantages of them, resources at places like Duke, Stanford, Penn, etc can help a lot.
Does anyone know if people who have to remain in wheelchairs are subject to DVT? It seems that would be the most extensive cramped sitting situation. They must have some way to counteract this effect, or be very aware of its symptoms?
About three years ago I was stranded in an airport. I knew some people in the area that could've helped me out, but I couldn't recall their phone number.
So, I then went to the information desk in search of an internet connection I could use to find their phone number. The desk didn't have access available.
A few moments of silence passed, and the lady asked me if a phone book would do.
(Kicker to the story, my friends number was busy because they were using the phone line for AOL).
Yes, I definitely agree with you. But still, modding up erroneous information can't generally be a good thing. There's too much on it on slashdot to begin with, and when it gets modded up, it pollutes the handfull of quality information.
I kind of wish you weren't right. I would say I'm doing "commodity" work right now. Being fresh out of college, even a decent one, it was hard to find anyone to hire me for anything else. And the classic chicken-egg problem is finding qualifications for the creative problem solving work that you know you are competent enough to perform.
Honestly, this is probably not even an issue for a company like Microsoft, but whenever acquisitions like this get mentioned I start wondering.
Part of the whole Enron mess was that their growth was mainly due to acquisitions and mergers, not real internal growth. With problems like declining PC sales, are software/hardware companies going to have to resort to similar measures to boost their stock value?
Well, I'll chime in on ASP.NET a bit. I've been mainly a Java and PHP developer, but have been working with ASP.NET for the past few weeks (I never used ASP).
From what I can gather, ASP.NET is leaps beyond ASP. It's nearly a completely different creature. First off, it separates presentation and logic layers cleanly. I've generally used PHPLib templates in the past, and the ASP.NET method is very nice (however, presentation is more than just html... in development, they have their own components with a psuedo event-model... ie when you click a button it can call a method on the server, but it renders to html when sent to the client).
Another interesting thing about ASP.NET is that the logic layer is compiled code, which should make it scale infinitely better than ASP (I don't really have the environment to quantify the improvement though).
One of the reasons I was iffy about ASP was that I don't like VB all that much. But with ASP.NET, I've been using C#, which comes very naturally. It'd take less than a day to be comfortable with C# from a Java background.
One last caveat though, the VS.NET IDE makes a world of difference, and save a lot of time (I've used emacs for php and java coding in the past). Without the IDE, I don't think I'd be much more productive in.NET than any other environment, and.NET as a framework doesn't really have many features that you can't get elsewhere (tomcat, j2ee, axis). But, it is a quite an impressive architecture nonetheless.
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I've been given this some thought, and having been born just after GenX (1979... does my generation even have a name?), I was cursing my luck of having to graduate right into the dotcom fallout and not being able to experience the ride.
I've since changed my tune though. Although the economy is still rough for new college grads, and I am taking part-time IT work to get by, I am really thankful to be forced into the market with realistic expectations. I have seen firsthand the benefits of savings and long-term investments (glad I didn't have money to invest during the height of the boom too) and the horrors of unchecked spending and debt.
In short, for those of us who were watching from my generation, we've learned valuable lessons from mistakes we hopefully won't repeat.
They are probbly not that clueless, but trying to boost sales of Mac by tying the iPod to it was a real clueless move in the first place.
I would have to disagree. The iPod is just a part of a very sweet package that Apple has been putting together. When you combine OS X, the iPod, T-Books, their cinemascreen monitors, etc, I'm finding myself considering an apple very seriously for the first time ever (i thought it would never happen). The sum is really greater than the parts.
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Well, I'm not too sure if XML strives to do too much, or whether people try to make XML do to much. But I think the latter is more likely. XML makes a really nice interchange format for moving data/objects between applications. I don't think I would use xml files in place of an rdbms for storage, but having the rdbms send me my query results in xml would be nice ( ... ). And that would be what it is really designed for ... data interchange.
HP, at least, already treats their inkjets as disposable. Just try finding new drivers from HP for products that are more than three (estimate) years old.
I have a HP720, which had some special features with the HP driver, but they stopped updating them at win98 (no 2000, ME or XP). Purchased it in 98 when it was still on the top part of the product line.
This may possibly be the first patent article on slashdot that won't have a general lament about the state of the uspo, if at least one of few.
(::sigh:: the whole modding up vs replying decision.)
I'm trying to give this advice to all my friends who just got their first jobs out of college. Stop buying the new flashy toys, and start putting money away while you can (no real bills to eat up their paycheck). They'll have a lot more freedom later on.
Alright, this is very off-topic, but I'm just curious. Was there some kind of big hoopla about cnet having com.com that I missed or something. I hadn't noticed it before, but it seems like all the references people are using to news.com and download.com are now *.com.com.
thanks for the info. all i have to say is thank goodness.
Alright. Add one more reason why am glad I am not a woman. My gosh. How do you end up explaining this to her once it gets to a level you need to come clean. How could you still cover this up when you're married and not feel a bit sketchy.
Well, actually they have. But the backups end up leading rebel borg factions.
The research sounds great for virtual environments or military-type training scenarios, but I've never thought complete player freedom or dramatic goal/mission/outcome adjusting based on player actions a good thing. A good game has goals and skill challenges that a player needs to achieve and attain. And a good game is not a story except in a very loose use of the term.
i'd be offended by this comment if i hadn't met so many morons that had paid ten times as much as i did for my degree, and yet hadn't really gotten anything for the expense except for membership into a bunch of secret handshake clubs. you're not any smarter, and you might have been struggling for that same B+ no matter where you took intro to calculus.
Actually, my handful of friends at Duke who took Calculus at UNC Chapel Hill because it was insanely easier may want to disagree with you.
And actually, I wouldn't make a snide remark about those secret handshake clubs. That's how most people get ahead in life--by who you know and the resources that are available to you. If you take advantages of them, resources at places like Duke, Stanford, Penn, etc can help a lot.
Does anyone know if people who have to remain in wheelchairs are subject to DVT? It seems that would be the most extensive cramped sitting situation. They must have some way to counteract this effect, or be very aware of its symptoms?
No, that's not the net they are talking about. The net they're talking about is short for network, which is something fishermen do with nets.
About three years ago I was stranded in an airport. I knew some people in the area that could've helped me out, but I couldn't recall their phone number.
So, I then went to the information desk in search of an internet connection I could use to find their phone number. The desk didn't have access available.
A few moments of silence passed, and the lady asked me if a phone book would do.
(Kicker to the story, my friends number was busy because they were using the phone line for AOL).
I knew what every comment would be like to this article before I even clicked the link, but I did so anyway. Stupid, stupid.
Politcal rants lacking in any thoughtful merit infallibly supporting whichever team (lib/cons) allegiance has been pledged to. It's all so frivalous.
Yes, I definitely agree with you. But still, modding up erroneous information can't generally be a good thing. There's too much on it on slashdot to begin with, and when it gets modded up, it pollutes the handfull of quality information.
I kind of wish you weren't right. I would say I'm doing "commodity" work right now. Being fresh out of college, even a decent one, it was hard to find anyone to hire me for anything else. And the classic chicken-egg problem is finding qualifications for the creative problem solving work that you know you are competent enough to perform.
Well, they purchased their domain in 1996, so I'm doubtful they were following apple here.
Pardon, but who moderated this up as informative??
Honestly, this is probably not even an issue for a company like Microsoft, but whenever acquisitions like this get mentioned I start wondering.
Part of the whole Enron mess was that their growth was mainly due to acquisitions and mergers, not real internal growth. With problems like declining PC sales, are software/hardware companies going to have to resort to similar measures to boost their stock value?
Well, I'll chime in on ASP.NET a bit. I've been mainly a Java and PHP developer, but have been working with ASP.NET for the past few weeks (I never used ASP).
... in development, they have their own components with a psuedo event-model ... ie when you click a button it can call a method on the server, but it renders to html when sent to the client).
.NET than any other environment, and .NET as a framework doesn't really have many features that you can't get elsewhere (tomcat, j2ee, axis). But, it is a quite an impressive architecture nonetheless.
From what I can gather, ASP.NET is leaps beyond ASP. It's nearly a completely different creature. First off, it separates presentation and logic layers cleanly. I've generally used PHPLib templates in the past, and the ASP.NET method is very nice (however, presentation is more than just html
Another interesting thing about ASP.NET is that the logic layer is compiled code, which should make it scale infinitely better than ASP (I don't really have the environment to quantify the improvement though).
One of the reasons I was iffy about ASP was that I don't like VB all that much. But with ASP.NET, I've been using C#, which comes very naturally. It'd take less than a day to be comfortable with C# from a Java background.
One last caveat though, the VS.NET IDE makes a world of difference, and save a lot of time (I've used emacs for php and java coding in the past). Without the IDE, I don't think I'd be much more productive in
Isn't this the same concept behind Emacs?
Anyone else read the article summary and just know there was going to be a comment saying something about 'n' not being acurate?
I've been given this some thought, and having been born just after GenX (1979 ... does my generation even have a name?), I was cursing my luck of having to graduate right into the dotcom fallout and not being able to experience the ride.
I've since changed my tune though. Although the economy is still rough for new college grads, and I am taking part-time IT work to get by, I am really thankful to be forced into the market with realistic expectations. I have seen firsthand the benefits of savings and long-term investments (glad I didn't have money to invest during the height of the boom too) and the horrors of unchecked spending and debt.
In short, for those of us who were watching from my generation, we've learned valuable lessons from mistakes we hopefully won't repeat.
They are probbly not that clueless, but trying to boost sales of Mac by tying the iPod to it was a real clueless move in the first place.
I would have to disagree. The iPod is just a part of a very sweet package that Apple has been putting together. When you combine OS X, the iPod, T-Books, their cinemascreen monitors, etc, I'm finding myself considering an apple very seriously for the first time ever (i thought it would never happen). The sum is really greater than the parts.
CMOS technology stops improving. Alien invasions. I think it's beginning to look like a really good year to skip out on.