But what about AJAX's "no page reload" paradigm. How is the Slashdot server to survive when thousands of clients are making dynamic changes, submitting them, and calling for customised updates to their local copies?
As we had an accountant in the house, we were one of the first people I know to get a PC. It was an old IBM, and I can't even remember the model. As I recall, it had what I now know was either Windows 1 or 2, a black and white monitor, and of course, all the "real" applications were in DOS. I think it had a 5MB harddisc.
What I used to play around with the most was Symphony, an old spreadsheet app. All I did with it was basically draw what I would now dub ASCII art, which quickly got to gargantuan proportions, across the whole spreadsheet. The file was enormous.
After it finally gave up the ghost, we upgraded to some machine whose specs escape me, though I do remember it having a 500MB hardisk which lasted for years. It ran a dual boot, win 3.11/ OS2 Warp system, but it was a 16bit machine, so OS2 crawled appallingly. All I did in the windows install was draw pictures in paint and play this puzzler game where you played some game involving multiple trap and hazard filled levels. It was addictive, but the name escapes me. The music for it is still on a lot of windows installs as canyon.mid.
When that one died, we got a pentium 2 compaq with Windows 98. The RAM just kept going up and up until at last all 4GB of harddisc were swallowed and an XP upgrade became inevitable. I later converted that box to a Samba network file share running Fedora Core 2, which worked out surprisingly well.
I only got into Linux about 18 months ago, but before that, I had basically tinkered with DOS and windows to the point that I was bored sick of it all.
Amid all this, my one regret is that I never saved that ASCII art. Tis lost to me forever.
That's not a bad featureset for only requiring a $50 capture card and some time to set up MythTV.
If by some time you mean about three weekends work that requires an almost sysadm level of linux knowladge, then no, the feature set is not worth what the hassle I could avoid by purchasing a TiVo.
it means that I can record and watch a recording as someone else as watching something elsewhere
Can anyone decipher that?
It means that the myth box can stream shows over the network. Basically it's a network file share with movies on it + the ability to record shows from the tuner cards.
But only with a wireless LAN and a laptop will the true decadence of this system be fully realised!
If Slashdot used AJAX, you'd be able to read it a lot faster on your dial-up line since you wouldn't have to re-download all of the page formatting for every comment you read.
Are you insane?! Under this system, comments would have to be fetched and transmitted to the client on a client by client basis. No more static html pages for CmdrTaco.
Ajax would quickly result in the Slashdot servers going critical and the resultant thermal shockwave would obliterate Taco in a spray of charred bones and vaporised Jolt where he sat debugging the godawful mess that had become Slashdot.
Complaining about this is tantamount to making love to your wife in your open front doorway and then demanding a law be passed to protect your privacy from your neighbor or the police car driving by. For crying out loud! Isn't some burden on you to secure your own privacy?
To entend the analogy, and answer your question, the situation for the last 30 years has essentially been that RSA have patented front doors and indeed, non transparent walls.
Off you go then and find that paticular law. While you're at it, try and find the law compelling Yahoo to provide this information. You'll find both rather elusive.
If, in the process of maximizing profits, the corporation breaks enough laws (legality of methods being subordinate to maximization of profits) the corporation will eventually cease to exist
This hilarious courtroom scene was punctuated by the RIAA and Co. fleeing from the courthouse as the baliff's launched (e)Donkeys from court catapults.
Also, John Cleese was wearing iPod earphones throughout the whole sketch.
Without Sun's beneficient guidance, how will OpenOffice truely embrace the awesome power and control that can only be offered by Java(TM)!!?
How can OpenOffice hope to succeed without object-oriented interfaces with sandboxed wrapper pardiagm extensible intuiative platform-independant mainatainable code... paradigms?
Only Java(TM) with its mastodonicly magnificant API can hope to keep OpenOffice afloat!
It means more in the sense that there are support groups, political action committees, newsletters, magazines. There are gay publications. When you go the universities they have special courses and even entire disciplines like "queer studies".
Once you've got a "---- studies" discipline I'd say it's fair to conclude it's become more than just a descriptive nomenclature (whatever the ---- may be).
I hope you realise that everything you've just mentioned exists for hetrosexual people as well. It's also a point of fact that most homosexuals do not avail of any of these services.
Being homosexual is just that. It does not carry any additional connotations unless that person, or someone else, wants it to.
You can deny all you want - but the fact is that in our modern society it means a lot more to be gay than just that you have sex with other guys/girls.
What do you mean? How much more does it mean exactly? A lot of the time being homosexual just means you have sex with people of the same sex as yourself. How much more do you think it means?
What I'm saying is that historically being gay was kind of like eating strawberries. It didn't mean anything other than what it meant. Now being gay is like being a vegetarian - it's not about what you do (or want to do) anymore - it's about who you are.
Being homosexual is just being homosexual. Not every homosexual bases their cultural and political philosophies on their sexuality.
Of course, some of them can and have been persecuted to the extent that their sexuality does become a personal and political issue. For many, this political and cultural side of their own private sexuality is unfairly thrust upon them, most often by people who are not even homosexuals themselves.
If being homosexual is now a political issue, it is clear that this has not occurred as a result of the actions of homosexuals, but rather as a result of the politicisation of private sexuality by others.
I was simply pointing out that there is a difference between: A. homosexuality as behavior and B. homosexuality as personal identity
The difference being what exactly? People are homosexual. It's a part of their identity. It may in many cases be a part of any written description of a person.
It think you're confusing homosexuality with the rather eccentric levels a few people who are homosexual take their identity to. Most homosexuals lead fairly mundane lives, especially as they get older.
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously Trip, you are trying waaay to hard.
But what about AJAX's "no page reload" paradigm. How is the Slashdot server to survive when thousands of clients are making dynamic changes, submitting them, and calling for customised updates to their local copies?
As we had an accountant in the house, we were one of the first people I know to get a PC. It was an old IBM, and I can't even remember the model. As I recall, it had what I now know was either Windows 1 or 2, a black and white monitor, and of course, all the "real" applications were in DOS. I think it had a 5MB harddisc.
What I used to play around with the most was Symphony, an old spreadsheet app. All I did with it was basically draw what I would now dub ASCII art, which quickly got to gargantuan proportions, across the whole spreadsheet. The file was enormous.
After it finally gave up the ghost, we upgraded to some machine whose specs escape me, though I do remember it having a 500MB hardisk which lasted for years. It ran a dual boot, win 3.11/ OS2 Warp system, but it was a 16bit machine, so OS2 crawled appallingly. All I did in the windows install was draw pictures in paint and play this puzzler game where you played some game involving multiple trap and hazard filled levels. It was addictive, but the name escapes me. The music for it is still on a lot of windows installs as canyon.mid.
When that one died, we got a pentium 2 compaq with Windows 98. The RAM just kept going up and up until at last all 4GB of harddisc were swallowed and an XP upgrade became inevitable. I later converted that box to a Samba network file share running Fedora Core 2, which worked out surprisingly well.
I only got into Linux about 18 months ago, but before that, I had basically tinkered with DOS and windows to the point that I was bored sick of it all.
Amid all this, my one regret is that I never saved that ASCII art. Tis lost to me forever.
That's not a bad featureset for only requiring a $50 capture card and some time to set up MythTV.
If by some time you mean about three weekends work that requires an almost sysadm level of linux knowladge, then no, the feature set is not worth what the hassle I could avoid by purchasing a TiVo.
Can anyone decipher that?
It means that the myth box can stream shows over the network. Basically it's a network file share with movies on it + the ability to record shows from the tuner cards.
But only with a wireless LAN and a laptop will the true decadence of this system be fully realised!
Do Larry and Sergey always dress in #000000?
For you, #000000FF.
If Slashdot used AJAX, you'd be able to read it a lot faster on your dial-up line since you wouldn't have to re-download all of the page formatting for every comment you read.
Are you insane?! Under this system, comments would have to be fetched and transmitted to the client on a client by client basis. No more static html pages for CmdrTaco.
Ajax would quickly result in the Slashdot servers going critical and the resultant thermal shockwave would obliterate Taco in a spray of charred bones and vaporised Jolt where he sat debugging the godawful mess that had become Slashdot.
How long until this?!
Ask the Chinese.
The more important question is: why is everyone so hell bent on killing the retail market? Was everyone tramatized by a retail store as a kid?
A great many trips to the retail store have left me with a sour taste in my mouth and an empty feeling in my wallet.
PGP may make email correspondence with most users, including virtually all webmail based users, impossible.
Complaining about this is tantamount to making love to your wife in your open front doorway and then demanding a law be passed to protect your privacy from your neighbor or the police car driving by. For crying out loud! Isn't some burden on you to secure your own privacy?
To entend the analogy, and answer your question, the situation for the last 30 years has essentially been that RSA have patented front doors and indeed, non transparent walls.
What are these 'directories' of which you speak?
I use firebug, a firefox extension. It works great for in-browser message (send/reply and the js that made it).
I award you no points, and may the FSM have mercy, on your immortal soul.
In China it is illegal to do what he did.
Off you go then and find that paticular law. While you're at it, try and find the law compelling Yahoo to provide this information. You'll find both rather elusive.
And you think that's funny.
I find it ironic.
If, in the process of maximizing profits, the corporation breaks enough laws (legality of methods being subordinate to maximization of profits) the corporation will eventually cease to exist
This step contains the fallacy.
This hilarious courtroom scene was punctuated by the RIAA and Co. fleeing from the courthouse as the baliff's launched (e)Donkeys from court catapults.
Also, John Cleese was wearing iPod earphones throughout the whole sketch.
Without Sun's beneficient guidance, how will OpenOffice truely embrace the awesome power and control that can only be offered by Java(TM)!!?
How can OpenOffice hope to succeed without object-oriented interfaces with sandboxed wrapper pardiagm extensible intuiative platform-independant mainatainable code... paradigms?
Only Java(TM) with its mastodonicly magnificant API can hope to keep OpenOffice afloat!
It is true. Algorithims cannot be patented.
Unfortunately the USPTO is rather lax about applying its own criterea to patents nowadays.
It means more in the sense that there are support groups, political action committees, newsletters, magazines. There are gay publications. When you go the universities they have special courses and even entire disciplines like "queer studies".
Once you've got a "---- studies" discipline I'd say it's fair to conclude it's become more than just a descriptive nomenclature (whatever the ---- may be).
I hope you realise that everything you've just mentioned exists for hetrosexual people as well. It's also a point of fact that most homosexuals do not avail of any of these services.
Being homosexual is just that. It does not carry any additional connotations unless that person, or someone else, wants it to.
Mathematical algorithms cannot be patented.
All Software is mathematical algorithms.
Therefore, software cannot be patented.
The Slate can shove it.
You can deny all you want - but the fact is that in our modern society it means a lot more to be gay than just that you have sex with other guys/girls.
What do you mean? How much more does it mean exactly? A lot of the time being homosexual just means you have sex with people of the same sex as yourself. How much more do you think it means?
A man might have sex with another man, but that was just understood as an act which he did, not an act which defined what he was.
Apart from the fact that it defines him as homosexual, or perhaps bisexual. If there's a distinction here, the subtlety escapes me.
What I'm saying is that historically being gay was kind of like eating strawberries. It didn't mean anything other than what it meant. Now being gay is like being a vegetarian - it's not about what you do (or want to do) anymore - it's about who you are.
Being homosexual is just being homosexual. Not every homosexual bases their cultural and political philosophies on their sexuality.
Of course, some of them can and have been persecuted to the extent that their sexuality does become a personal and political issue. For many, this political and cultural side of their own private sexuality is unfairly thrust upon them, most often by people who are not even homosexuals themselves.
If being homosexual is now a political issue, it is clear that this has not occurred as a result of the actions of homosexuals, but rather as a result of the politicisation of private sexuality by others.
I was simply pointing out that there is a difference between:
A. homosexuality as behavior
and
B. homosexuality as personal identity
The difference being what exactly? People are homosexual. It's a part of their identity. It may in many cases be a part of any written description of a person.
It think you're confusing homosexuality with the rather eccentric levels a few people who are homosexual take their identity to. Most homosexuals lead fairly mundane lives, especially as they get older.