It's a matter of degrees. Firefox is not perfect; there's alot stuff which it doesn't support yet, the important word being yet; I have every faith that any useful open standard will be embraced and incorporated into FF, whereas IE does a very shoddy job at supporting even old standards (CSS 2 etc) and Microsoft's done nothing to rectify this in many years...
I don't think peer to peer networks will ever die out; they're simply too good a way to distribute files and information, and I don't Just mean warez and the like, just look at the number of torrents running for various linux distros and the BSDs. The thing general populous is beginning to realize that the fasttrack network Kazaa uses is a pile and are moving to decentralised networks like bittorrent and as such the various organisations which would like to monitor the usage of peer to peer networks are having a much harder time getting accurate figures.
php.net is a wonderful reference, even for people who have only the most rudimentary understanding of how to use php but for a total newbie I can see how it could be very daunting; I personally began my way with php scripting by downloading a few pre-made scipts (for an automagically generated image gallery iirc) and realising that none of the three I had grabbed worked and there were features that if worked I would like from each. So I did the obvious thing and (looking up stuff on php.net) cobbled them together into a working set of scripts; problem with this route (and self-learning in general) when compared to traditional/book learning is that not knowing any better you get into some bad habbits which may (and im my case did) come back to bite you when you're more knowledgable. Additionally in getting something to 'just work' you may kludge together some funky code when there's a much easier way you could have done it if you'd read around the subject...
I think i've rambled enough but the jist of it is that php.net is an awesome reference if you can't remember the syntax for something but is far from ideal for a newbie trying to learn the language.
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Oh come on, that's not a troll...
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Could the GPL even apply to music? I'm trying to comprehend how it would work; would you have to make available individual pieces of track (probably bad phrasology here, I mean for example just the drums you can hear in the background or just the vocals) in the same way the GPL means you have to make the source freely available and modifiable? Don't get me wrong, I think the GPL is great for programs but I really can't see it working for something like music...
I'd love this to come through, and I think it could happen but to be honest I think they'd have to sell the first few versions at below cost (thusly incurring a loss) in order to get the intrest and momentum up; once you've got the momentum behind you you'll be producing a larger number of the same model of card meaning an overall decrease in cost per unit. It'd be kind of like corporate R&D where you foot a loss for a year or two in anticipation of making up the loss and then some in the future. Once they've got cards which do well for your 2D stuff and basic 3D they could (theoretically) then move towards the mid-range 3D cards market.
It's the old chicken and hen argument: Games aren't ported to linux because not many people use linux to play games. Not many people use linux to play games because not many games are available. The same thing applies to graphics cards, now if some company could take this risk I think they could come out of it very well off and with a very good reputation in the FOSS community.
Disclaimer: I know Doom 3, UT2k4 etc have all been ported to linux but these are the exception, not the rule. I also apologise if that came out as a long ramble...
Heh, brain burp, what I meant to say was that i'd be willing to use paypal to make a donation to the people who came up with this, but I think you know that.
I've already got copies of the windows binarys for portable firefox, portable thunderbird and filezilla on my USB memory stick; this sounds like just the ticket for cross-platform goodness. I'd certainly be willing to paypal the creators of this when a final version is released.
The moz ones certainly crash FF 0.10.1, I have the quality feedback agent installed so I simply added the url to the example HTML pages with the report.
It's actually an irish word (but used in the NE of England as well) and means (as I understand it from context) harmless practical jokes and stuff of that nature.
Am I missing something here but isn't what he's envisioning basically the same as the internet now but using XML to markup documents in a way so that programs can do clever tricks with it? And yes, it does sound like an awesome concept, let's hope it works in practice and he can get the momentum behind it to make it work.
For the longest time i've been resigned to the eventuallity of a non-open internet, with the majority of users browsing with non-standards compliant browsers and/or browsers with propriatory extensions. Much thanks must Mozilla guys and girls who've prevented this internet dystopia from comming to be.
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It's a matter of degrees. Firefox is not perfect; there's alot stuff which it doesn't support yet, the important word being yet; I have every faith that any useful open standard will be embraced and incorporated into FF, whereas IE does a very shoddy job at supporting even old standards (CSS 2 etc) and Microsoft's done nothing to rectify this in many years...
IE's ability to parse anything meant it survived the problems which caused both Opera and Firefox to crash has also made this nastiness possible...
I don't think peer to peer networks will ever die out; they're simply too good a way to distribute files and information, and I don't Just mean warez and the like, just look at the number of torrents running for various linux distros and the BSDs. The thing general populous is beginning to realize that the fasttrack network Kazaa uses is a pile and are moving to decentralised networks like bittorrent and as such the various organisations which would like to monitor the usage of peer to peer networks are having a much harder time getting accurate figures.
php.net is a wonderful reference, even for people who have only the most rudimentary understanding of how to use php but for a total newbie I can see how it could be very daunting; I personally began my way with php scripting by downloading a few pre-made scipts (for an automagically generated image gallery iirc) and realising that none of the three I had grabbed worked and there were features that if worked I would like from each. So I did the obvious thing and (looking up stuff on php.net) cobbled them together into a working set of scripts; problem with this route (and self-learning in general) when compared to traditional/book learning is that not knowing any better you get into some bad habbits which may (and im my case did) come back to bite you when you're more knowledgable. Additionally in getting something to 'just work' you may kludge together some funky code when there's a much easier way you could have done it if you'd read around the subject... I think i've rambled enough but the jist of it is that php.net is an awesome reference if you can't remember the syntax for something but is far from ideal for a newbie trying to learn the language.
Oh come on, that's not a troll...
It runs on something other than IIS...
Could the GPL even apply to music? I'm trying to comprehend how it would work; would you have to make available individual pieces of track (probably bad phrasology here, I mean for example just the drums you can hear in the background or just the vocals) in the same way the GPL means you have to make the source freely available and modifiable? Don't get me wrong, I think the GPL is great for programs but I really can't see it working for something like music...
I love the original Star Wars trilogy as much as the next person but /.'s following of it is really over the top...
I think it's more the fact that any organisation can afford to purchase that number of apple machines that gets peoples attention...
I believe you but post please post the photos (and a brief description of the circumstances that caused this) anyway, i'm very intrigued by this.
I'd love this to come through, and I think it could happen but to be honest I think they'd have to sell the first few versions at below cost (thusly incurring a loss) in order to get the intrest and momentum up; once you've got the momentum behind you you'll be producing a larger number of the same model of card meaning an overall decrease in cost per unit. It'd be kind of like corporate R&D where you foot a loss for a year or two in anticipation of making up the loss and then some in the future. Once they've got cards which do well for your 2D stuff and basic 3D they could (theoretically) then move towards the mid-range 3D cards market. It's the old chicken and hen argument: Games aren't ported to linux because not many people use linux to play games. Not many people use linux to play games because not many games are available. The same thing applies to graphics cards, now if some company could take this risk I think they could come out of it very well off and with a very good reputation in the FOSS community. Disclaimer: I know Doom 3, UT2k4 etc have all been ported to linux but these are the exception, not the rule. I also apologise if that came out as a long ramble...
Heh, brain burp, what I meant to say was that i'd be willing to use paypal to make a donation to the people who came up with this, but I think you know that.
I've already got copies of the windows binarys for portable firefox, portable thunderbird and filezilla on my USB memory stick; this sounds like just the ticket for cross-platform goodness. I'd certainly be willing to paypal the creators of this when a final version is released.
Bullshit does it, save a page to your computer and upload it to http://validator.w3.org and see how well it complys to the HTML 3.2 spec.
Don't click the link unless you have an antivirus installed; it trys to install "Trojan.CrashIE", thankfully Norton picked it up for me.
The moz ones certainly crash FF 0.10.1, I have the quality feedback agent installed so I simply added the url to the example HTML pages with the report.
I don't think that /.ers have an aversion to women, it's the women who have an aversion to us!
Don't you just love irony?
Posting a website filled with screen captures onto /. is not a good idea... I would RTFA but it'd be /.'ed before there were any comments.
I can't compare them on technical merits (I know ~0 about XAML) but XUL has the major advantage that it works now...
It's actually an irish word (but used in the NE of England as well) and means (as I understand it from context) harmless practical jokes and stuff of that nature.
Am I missing something here but isn't what he's envisioning basically the same as the internet now but using XML to markup documents in a way so that programs can do clever tricks with it? And yes, it does sound like an awesome concept, let's hope it works in practice and he can get the momentum behind it to make it work.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsla shdot.jp%2F
It fails, but at least the .jp server allows w3c to access it.
Damn, the link's dead before the first comment. Are there any mirrors/did somebody sort out a Coral Cache of it?
For the longest time i've been resigned to the eventuallity of a non-open internet, with the majority of users browsing with non-standards compliant browsers and/or browsers with propriatory extensions. Much thanks must Mozilla guys and girls who've prevented this internet dystopia from comming to be.