"This implies that one has to work to adapt Rails to new situations. You would not say the same thing about a programming language."
Are you even a web developer? You're defending programming languages by saying that they allow for future changes simply because algorithms are written with them, but you then turn around and call Rails unadaptable to "new situations" because it has an API.
Last I checked 100.0% of the dynamic content web developers out there actually use an API of some kind. It's lunacy to call a platform flawed because its API doesn't work with what's smokin' hot in 2011.
On this note, what are these "changes" around which you've built your entire case? What, ten years from now we'll be using port 1337 instead of port 80? Carrier pigeons will relay data? The speed of light changes?
I'd have to second the request for XUL support. With Microsoft producing its XUL clone XAML for use with Vista software, it's only a question of when, not if these technologies take off. Is this an area out of which Opera truly wishes to stay?
The parent's request for better AJAX debugging is another possibility certain to turn a number of web-dev heads. Few doubt AJAX's destiny. I for one would love to see this.
Additionally, I'd also like to request an option to specify how the middle-button responds to clicks for scrolling. Presently, and for prior versions, pressing the middle button to begin the hands-free scrolling feature snaps the cursor to the middle of the page. This becomes an issue when trying to open a page in a background tab with a middle click and, if the click is off by a little, the cursor shoots away, causing the user to move their cursor back to the link. A minor nuisance but one I've heard complained about for years.
Java is a low level language, and thus generally unsuitable for tasks where a high level language can be used.
I can't believe you just said that. I'm sorry, but you've just ruined any credibility you may have had to discuss Java ever again. From the Wikipedia defintion of High-level programming languages: "A high-level programming language is a programming language that is more user-friendly, to some extent platform-independent, and abstract from low-level computer processor operations such as memory accesses."
Can you possibly think of a more HLL than Java? That description couldn't fit Java better. Hell, that page even uses a comparison between Java and ASM! Where the hell did you get this Low Level Language shit? I know. From the tasty propaganda everyone loves.
Moving along...
Java's use of primatives and its reduced syntax . . . becomes more of a hinderance than a benefit.
I hear this all the time and it's completely wrong. As of Java 1.5, Sun has implemented a handy feature called "Autoboxing" and "Autounboxing" which makes primitives and their object wrappers intercompatible. What does this mean exactly? Here's an example:
private void foo(Integer i) {}
public static void main(String[] args) { foo(10); Integer y = 3; Integer x = new Integer(3); System.out.println(x > 1); System.out.println(y++); }
When using a Java 1.5 compiler, all this is perfectly legal. How, you ask? Java's autoboxing will automatically wrap and unwrap primitives as needed. So, Arevos, you were talking about a "hinderance"? Sorry, once again, that's bullshit.
I swear, the amount of anti-Java horse shit flying through the airwaves is enough to drive me insane.
I actually suggested this once with my girlfriend and she looked at me like I was crazy.
To her, she envisioned wardriving as me in the driver's seat going around neighborhoods as she watched NetStumbler find the networks and add them to the list...
...as if the purpose were to just see how many we could find.
I'd say Planeshift is kind of ruled out as getting anywhere, really. When I originally found out about it, I was so caught up in fascination, I installed Windows XP back on my computer just so I could play it (ATI Linux drivers, you know).
Trust me, I don't say this easily, but Planeshift is going no where. I know, its already so well developed, but in truth, there are so many problems behind the scenes.
A while back, I emailed the project manager for Planeshift and asked him why he didn't use the SourceForge mirrors for hosting the Planeshift binaries and replied saying, and I quote, "We have a proprietary license on art, and we don't want to use bandwidth of sourceforge for it, as it's intended for open assets." Now, Planeshift relies only on user-donated mirrors which are a joke. If any of them work at all, you'll spend a day downloading the game.
Actual playing for fun is on their servers is another sad impossibility. Because it's open source, it has tons of hackers who cause the admins to periodically flush the database of player characters. Not to mention, there's absolutely no story or any real depth to the game. It feels like it's more of a "proof of concept."
Creating a Planeshift character is probably the most frustrating thing a game has ever made me do. In a respectable sign of innovation, the Planeshift developers created tons of different things you can change, but really, as the creation windows say, most of the things don't really work. What you end up doing is reading hundreds of lines of text, understanding everything, then you get an ambiguous error message that says some of your choices conflict *AFTER* you go through the creation system, and end up having to do it all over again. If you're making a Planeshift character, expect to set aside one or two hours, at least.
Realistically, no one wants Planeshift to be a hit more than I do. I'm an open source programmer with a strong love for MMORPGs. But Planeshift is not the solution we've all been waiting for. A tragedy, truly.
Everquest emulation is such a stunning achievement in reverse engineering. I used to run an EQEmu server a couple years ago and being a GM on a server was the most empowering feeling I've ever felt in my life. Not many can say they've killed Kerafyrm one-on-one with pure melee and no GM invincibility!
To this day I owe my sanity to Everquest emulation because it effectively killed my Everquest addiction. Playing as a GM ruined my want to ever want to go back to measly old dictated EQ servers.:)
More servers will follow. Go to hell SOE. We're going to keep playing.
Alice was definitely one of the best games I've ever played. It was crazy, fun, and extremely well thought out. Honestly, I don't think a movie producer could pick a better game to make a movie out of.
I've been keeping track of the movie for years. I'm glad the idea wasn't just smoke in the wind.
How feasible is it to, in some way, initiate and maintain a wireless TCP/IP connection to a weather balloon at this height?
I know omnidirectional wireless technologies like 802.11 work only a few hundred feet max without tremendous signal boosting, but what about a more focused, directional approach? Could it somehow really reach nine miles up? What about a sattelite intermediary to create a the connection like airplanes use? Granted, that would need some pretty fancy tracking software.
Also, how long could a balloon like this maintain its altitude? A few hours? Days? A week?
Haha, how awesome would it be to stick a webcam with a trackerpod on that balloon and snap space shots in real time?
I've brought this issue up to many of my friends and it generally reduces them to a stupor.
You've provided the most compelling argument I've ever seen-- and probably will ever see-- to this point.
Only on Slashdot can you find people of respectable intelligence.:)
I wrote a quick Java program myself to test out your positive mutation scenario, but I got very different results:
Trial #1: Reached 20 good mutations in 2147483649 tries. Trial #2: Reached 20 good mutations in 2147483649 tries. Trial #3: Reached 20 good mutations in 2147483649 tries. Trial #4: Reached 20 good mutations in 2147483649 tries. Average of 4 tries to reach 20 good mutations: 2.147483649E9
The maximum value that can be stored in a four-byte Java int type is 2147483647, so I bumped the tries data type to a 16 byte long. Why each result ended two values immediately above the int threshold is puzzling.
Here's my code:
import java.util.Random;
class test {
static final int TRIES = 4;
static final int GOOD_MUTATIONS = 20;
public static void main (String[] args) {
System.out.println("Running evolutionary genetic mutation simulation. This will take a long time.");
Random rnd = new Random();
long[] tries = new long[TRIES];
for(int i = 0; i < TRIES; i++) {
System.out.print("Running Trial #" + (i+1));
int score = 0;
while(score < GOOD_MUTATIONS) {
int tmp = rnd.nextInt(1);
score += (tmp == 1)?1:-1;
tries[i]++;
}
System.out.println("\rTrial #" + (i + 1) + ": Reached " + GOOD_MUTATIONS + " good mutations in " + tries[i] + " tries.");
}
double result = 0.0;
for(long x : tries) result += x;
result/= TRIES;
System.out.println("Average of " + TRIES + " tries to reach " + GOOD_MUTATIONS + " good mutations: " + result);
} }
Regardless of the data type, my experiment obviously took more tries than 2.1 million tries to get a good mutation score of 20.
...there are a whole lot of church going, very religious people who believe in evolution.
I agree. There are. But only because Christianity has become less about religion and more pop culture. Christian cheerleading camps, Christian goth bands, Christian ministers telling you, "don't think of it as Church... think of it as a party!"
I'm sorry, but if you're Christian, you take the Bible as the word of God. No questions.
Furthermore, if you call yourself a Christian, you have to believe absolutely every word in the Bible-- every single adjective, noun, and verb in there. Why? Because the Bible is the word of God and the Bible itself says that God is infallible. If you disagree with this and believe he may be wrong occasionally, then your religion has absolutely no merit at all.
Creationism and Evolution are polar opposites. If you believe in evolution, then you disagree with something in the Bible, in which case you claim that God is fallible in his word and, according to your relgion, you are blatantly wrong.
So, these "very religious people who believe in evolution" you speak of?
I agree with your point, but I also feel there is a strong demographic attraction to the languages you mentioned for the more "free spirited" programmers who branch off from industry standards and try out new, interesting things.
Perhaps the respective language's own unique personality causes its community to grow with and gain open source programmers and evangelists...
You don't need the broom You don't need the shoes You don't need the wiz You will never lose You have all you need You always had heart You always had courage Did somebody fart?
Is it just me, or is this line completely uncalled for? I don't mean to sound like a elementary school teacher, but randomly speaking of farts in a somewhat serious song takes away from its..... maturity.
Ah well. I like the song overall, but its resemblance to Pink Floyd is absolutely disturbing. Will modern society never see another unique piece of music?
Our only hope now is to leave it up to the audiophiles to spit out a couple dozen moderately original techno remixes.
If you find the XFree/Xorg nVidia Linux drivers hard to set up or maintain, maybe you should reevaluate your opinion of Mandrake.
Perhaps you missed the clickety-click sound your mouse makes as you click the "Next" button in NVidia's InstallShield Windows installer. Or was it the pretty progress bar? The Linux NVidia drivers couldn't be easier to install.
If Mandrake took longer to boot up than XP, why didn't you do anything about it? You had the ability to edit the runlevels or uninstall packages. It's not Mandrake's problem that you're an inept Linux user.
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I thought the reason why Google Maps didn't have ultra-high resolution images was because of government restrictions.
"This implies that one has to work to adapt Rails to new situations. You would not say the same thing about a programming language."
Are you even a web developer? You're defending programming languages by saying that they allow for future changes simply because algorithms are written with them, but you then turn around and call Rails unadaptable to "new situations" because it has an API.
Last I checked 100.0% of the dynamic content web developers out there actually use an API of some kind. It's lunacy to call a platform flawed because its API doesn't work with what's smokin' hot in 2011.
On this note, what are these "changes" around which you've built your entire case? What, ten years from now we'll be using port 1337 instead of port 80? Carrier pigeons will relay data? The speed of light changes?
Take the FUD elsewhere.
I'd have to second the request for XUL support. With Microsoft producing its XUL clone XAML for use with Vista software, it's only a question of when, not if these technologies take off. Is this an area out of which Opera truly wishes to stay?
The parent's request for better AJAX debugging is another possibility certain to turn a number of web-dev heads. Few doubt AJAX's destiny. I for one would love to see this.
Additionally, I'd also like to request an option to specify how the middle-button responds to clicks for scrolling. Presently, and for prior versions, pressing the middle button to begin the hands-free scrolling feature snaps the cursor to the middle of the page. This becomes an issue when trying to open a page in a background tab with a middle click and, if the click is off by a little, the cursor shoots away, causing the user to move their cursor back to the link. A minor nuisance but one I've heard complained about for years.
Guys, I think the big reason this hasn't caught on already is that it would mean your lights could never be turned off instantly.
Your room would remain lit up for the few hours it takes for the glowing substance to completely discharge.
As neat as this feature is, I certainly wouldn't want it in my house.
I can't believe you just said that. I'm sorry, but you've just ruined any credibility you may have had to discuss Java ever again. From the Wikipedia defintion of High-level programming languages: "A high-level programming language is a programming language that is more user-friendly, to some extent platform-independent, and abstract from low-level computer processor operations such as memory accesses."
Can you possibly think of a more HLL than Java? That description couldn't fit Java better. Hell, that page even uses a comparison between Java and ASM! Where the hell did you get this Low Level Language shit? I know. From the tasty propaganda everyone loves.
Moving along...
I hear this all the time and it's completely wrong. As of Java 1.5, Sun has implemented a handy feature called "Autoboxing" and "Autounboxing" which makes primitives and their object wrappers intercompatible. What does this mean exactly? Here's an example:
When using a Java 1.5 compiler, all this is perfectly legal. How, you ask? Java's autoboxing will automatically wrap and unwrap primitives as needed. So, Arevos, you were talking about a "hinderance"? Sorry, once again, that's bullshit.
I swear, the amount of anti-Java horse shit flying through the airwaves is enough to drive me insane.
I actually suggested this once with my girlfriend and she looked at me like I was crazy.
...as if the purpose were to just see how many we could find.
To her, she envisioned wardriving as me in the driver's seat going around neighborhoods as she watched NetStumbler find the networks and add them to the list...
Haha, I love it!
Has anyone calculated the postage cost for an empty Pringles can?
Rest in peace, Mr. Doohan.
You will live on eternally in the minds of your many many fans.
Eh,
I'd say Planeshift is kind of ruled out as getting anywhere, really. When I originally found out about it, I was so caught up in fascination, I installed Windows XP back on my computer just so I could play it (ATI Linux drivers, you know).
Trust me, I don't say this easily, but Planeshift is going no where. I know, its already so well developed, but in truth, there are so many problems behind the scenes.
A while back, I emailed the project manager for Planeshift and asked him why he didn't use the SourceForge mirrors for hosting the Planeshift binaries and replied saying, and I quote, "We have a proprietary license on art, and we don't want to use bandwidth of sourceforge for it, as it's intended for open assets." Now, Planeshift relies only on user-donated mirrors which are a joke. If any of them work at all, you'll spend a day downloading the game.
Actual playing for fun is on their servers is another sad impossibility. Because it's open source, it has tons of hackers who cause the admins to periodically flush the database of player characters. Not to mention, there's absolutely no story or any real depth to the game. It feels like it's more of a "proof of concept."
Creating a Planeshift character is probably the most frustrating thing a game has ever made me do. In a respectable sign of innovation, the Planeshift developers created tons of different things you can change, but really, as the creation windows say, most of the things don't really work. What you end up doing is reading hundreds of lines of text, understanding everything, then you get an ambiguous error message that says some of your choices conflict *AFTER* you go through the creation system, and end up having to do it all over again. If you're making a Planeshift character, expect to set aside one or two hours, at least.
Realistically, no one wants Planeshift to be a hit more than I do. I'm an open source programmer with a strong love for MMORPGs. But Planeshift is not the solution we've all been waiting for. A tragedy, truly.
Everquest emulation is such a stunning achievement in reverse engineering. I used to run an EQEmu server a couple years ago and being a GM on a server was the most empowering feeling I've ever felt in my life. Not many can say they've killed Kerafyrm one-on-one with pure melee and no GM invincibility!
:)
To this day I owe my sanity to Everquest emulation because it effectively killed my Everquest addiction. Playing as a GM ruined my want to ever want to go back to measly old dictated EQ servers.
More servers will follow. Go to hell SOE. We're going to keep playing.
Right. While I was out out buying pot you were out making fantastically insightful untrollish comments on Slashdot.
Alice was definitely one of the best games I've ever played. It was crazy, fun, and extremely well thought out. Honestly, I don't think a movie producer could pick a better game to make a movie out of.
I've been keeping track of the movie for years. I'm glad the idea wasn't just smoke in the wind.
Anyone who hasn't played it should check it out.
So do you toast the bread by overheating the whole thing with HTTP requests?
Great job!
You managed to squeeze that marvelous piece of flamebait in as the first reply of the first post!
Score!
No sign on Usenet either.
Hahahaha!
:)
Oh, the sweet smell of triumph!
Yeah, I sent the webmaster a not-so-friendly email. Apparently he got it.
Did anyone else notice that the homepage uses Windows XP's Internet Explorer home button icon between the distro's name and its respective website?
g if
From site: http://www.linuxisotorrent.com/images/home.gif
IE screenshot: http://searchy.protecus.de/en/address_bar_search.
Apparently LinuxISOtorrent.com doesn't share the same philosophies which propels the software it indirectly hosts.
I wonder how much money they've made off this slashdotting from advertising? Pffft.
How feasible is it to, in some way, initiate and maintain a wireless TCP/IP connection to a weather balloon at this height?
I know omnidirectional wireless technologies like 802.11 work only a few hundred feet max without tremendous signal boosting, but what about a more focused, directional approach? Could it somehow really reach nine miles up? What about a sattelite intermediary to create a the connection like airplanes use? Granted, that would need some pretty fancy tracking software.
Also, how long could a balloon like this maintain its altitude? A few hours? Days? A week?
Haha, how awesome would it be to stick a webcam with a trackerpod on that balloon and snap space shots in real time?
I've brought this issue up to many of my friends and it generally reduces them to a stupor.
You've provided the most compelling argument I've ever seen-- and probably will ever see-- to this point.
Only on Slashdot can you find people of respectable intelligence.
I wrote a quick Java program myself to test out your positive mutation scenario, but I got very different results:
The maximum value that can be stored in a four-byte Java int type is 2147483647, so I bumped the tries data type to a 16 byte long. Why each result ended two values immediately above the int threshold is puzzling.
Here's my code:Regardless of the data type, my experiment obviously took more tries than 2.1 million tries to get a good mutation score of 20.
Very interesting.
I'm sorry. I'm just blown away by what you said:
...there are a whole lot of church going, very religious people who believe in evolution.
I agree. There are. But only because Christianity has become less about religion and more pop culture. Christian cheerleading camps, Christian goth bands, Christian ministers telling you, "don't think of it as Church... think of it as a party!"
I'm sorry, but if you're Christian, you take the Bible as the word of God. No questions.
Furthermore, if you call yourself a Christian, you have to believe absolutely every word in the Bible-- every single adjective, noun, and verb in there. Why? Because the Bible is the word of God and the Bible itself says that God is infallible. If you disagree with this and believe he may be wrong occasionally, then your religion has absolutely no merit at all.
Creationism and Evolution are polar opposites. If you believe in evolution, then you disagree with something in the Bible, in which case you claim that God is fallible in his word and, according to your relgion, you are blatantly wrong.
So, these "very religious people who believe in evolution" you speak of?
They're absolute fucking morons.
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I agree with your point, but I also feel there is a strong demographic attraction to the languages you mentioned for the more "free spirited" programmers who branch off from industry standards and try out new, interesting things.
:)
Perhaps the respective language's own unique personality causes its community to grow with and gain open source programmers and evangelists...
Just a thought...
You don't need the broom
:(
You don't need the shoes
You don't need the wiz
You will never lose
You have all you need
You always had heart
You always had courage
Did somebody fart?
Is it just me, or is this line completely uncalled for? I don't mean to sound like a elementary school teacher, but randomly speaking of farts in a somewhat serious song takes away from its..... maturity.
Ah well. I like the song overall, but its resemblance to Pink Floyd is absolutely disturbing. Will modern society never see another unique piece of music?
Our only hope now is to leave it up to the audiophiles to spit out a couple dozen moderately original techno remixes.
We're doomed.
Just what we need....
:(
More NVIDIA drivers that actually WORK!
NVIDIA users live life too luxuriously. We ATI Linux users live life in its truest form: harsh, painful, and cruel.
If you find the XFree/Xorg nVidia Linux drivers hard to set up or maintain, maybe you should reevaluate your opinion of Mandrake.
Perhaps you missed the clickety-click sound your mouse makes as you click the "Next" button in NVidia's InstallShield Windows installer. Or was it the pretty progress bar? The Linux NVidia drivers couldn't be easier to install.
If Mandrake took longer to boot up than XP, why didn't you do anything about it? You had the ability to edit the runlevels or uninstall packages. It's not Mandrake's problem that you're an inept Linux user.
Don't blame your stove for burning you...