I refuse to post this anonymously: this place makes me sick!
The knee-jerk racism that a large proportion of Slashdotters display is very much tied in with the reason there's so much bad feeling against the United States out in the rest of the world...
Besides, MS Word, apart from not presenting a consistent document (page breaks and tables different on different machine), is not standard for everybody - most legal types still use Word Perfect.
And don't make me laugh - OASIS, OpenOffice... what world do you live in?
Did you read my comment at all?
I was criticising that your - and even moreso the article you quoted's - objections seem to be mostly based around PDF on the Web. As much as I agree about it being unatural there, and as much as Adobe tried to push for such usage, this isn't actually its primary use. You're simply over-generalising...
Take a typical example (an almost daily example in my wife's business) - email: "can you review this contract and suggest changes or print and sign off". It's then read on screen and then, usually after some iterations, printed off and faxed back.
Perfectly effective but according to you she should *avoid this at all costs* - why?
That link mostly assumes, as do you, that you're either printing or web surfing. Lots of people usefully use PDF for on-screen-read document exchange (nothing to do with the Web), lots of people have real jobs...
Hate to sound like a phone geek, but my new Nokia 3220 with this standard mod has this feature, supported by 'Java motion' for programming, and ships games that use it...
How is it controversial? Not all of us live in USA, you know.
Now you're the one being small-minded: not only does the presence of controversy make something controversial, whether the majority opinion is in favour where you live or not, but American Christian fundamentalism isn't the only arena wherein creation myths are accepted as fact. I'm glad to live in Europe, but I know there's North America, my homeland and more...
Technically, Java != COBOL, though. The only similarity that these languages have is there popularity in businesses. Other than that, they are very different languages; it would be like comparing C and BASIC (gotos, line numbers and all).
There's no wonder it took Java so long to get parametric polymorphism with that level of understanding prevalent.
Dijkstra's argument against GOTO, Hoare's against pointers, and Nygaard's for the object-oriented approach were also all in the "1960s-70s".
In a few more decades we might actually have an industry using higher-order functions, inductive datatypes, a generalised inclusion polymorphism not crippled by being tied to code reuse via 'inheritance' and, who knows, maybe even dependent types. Then people might actually realise that the comparisons being drawn between imperative languages are pretty insubstantial and more about library and IDE support than language features.
Ah yes, I agree with that poster - black and white provision in the current license means a black and white rendering of the UHF, not discontinued VHF, signal... I'll watch one such in bed this evening!
That's one way to look at it.
The other is that upload capping is necessary to stop you flooding out your uplink on low bandwidth and asymmetric connections, and you should adjust it to the point you can still do everything else you need and seed after you've got the download until you've at least given back (so you're at a 1:1 ratio).
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We need to figure out why women are leaving IT
No we don't.
We need to be told if there's a concrete problem and fix it, we need to be confident that we're being fair ourselves and make colleagues aware when we see that they're not, but we don't need to devote our time to 'figuring these things out', i.e. theorising.
I'm a Computer Science researcher and I'd rather just get on with some Computer Science (not just because it's more interesting to me, but also because those theories have formal proofs rather than just feel-good conjecture).
The question I've not seen asked yet is this: What happens when you drop it?
True. On the other hand, people chase you to insure your phone, I doubt they'd want to know about it on your home contents insurance if you dropped an iPod... (I could be wrong)
If the (great)grandparent post doesn't know why the HDD is motivated he ought to learn to read, it's right there: "The SGH-I300 will offer 3GB of storage which allows you to store up to 1,000 songs on it for playback through the music player."
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I refuse to post this anonymously: this place makes me sick!
The knee-jerk racism that a large proportion of Slashdotters display is very much tied in with the reason there's so much bad feeling against the United States out in the rest of the world...
Besides, MS Word, apart from not presenting a consistent document (page breaks and tables different on different machine), is not standard for everybody - most legal types still use Word Perfect.
And don't make me laugh - OASIS, OpenOffice... what world do you live in?
... and her own 'precedent' was reported in last week's New Scientist there!
"a professional journalist"? Are you lost?...
Nope, you could even haven taken the time to punctuate...
Did you read my comment at all? I was criticising that your - and even moreso the article you quoted's - objections seem to be mostly based around PDF on the Web. As much as I agree about it being unatural there, and as much as Adobe tried to push for such usage, this isn't actually its primary use. You're simply over-generalising... Take a typical example (an almost daily example in my wife's business) - email: "can you review this contract and suggest changes or print and sign off". It's then read on screen and then, usually after some iterations, printed off and faxed back. Perfectly effective but according to you she should *avoid this at all costs* - why?
In other shocking news Slashdot is divided between two enemies and each poster who jumps for one extreme or the other looks a fool... again!
The source on this article isn't the New York Times, nor as suggested the LA Times or New Scientist, but Nature (vol 434, p 505 - subscription only)
That link mostly assumes, as do you, that you're either printing or web surfing. Lots of people usefully use PDF for on-screen-read document exchange (nothing to do with the Web), lots of people have real jobs...
Hate to sound like a phone geek, but my new Nokia 3220 with this standard mod has this feature, supported by 'Java motion' for programming, and ships games that use it...
I'd estimate five million and about... say... two hundred and thirty five thousand...
The article includes its own title. Unless this is changed to 'Keylogging Used By Caught Bank Crackers' it remains incorrect.
Dijkstra's argument against GOTO, Hoare's against pointers, and Nygaard's for the object-oriented approach were also all in the "1960s-70s".
In a few more decades we might actually have an industry using higher-order functions, inductive datatypes, a generalised inclusion polymorphism not crippled by being tied to code reuse via 'inheritance' and, who knows, maybe even dependent types. Then people might actually realise that the comparisons being drawn between imperative languages are pretty insubstantial and more about library and IDE support than language features.
What's the harm in going Communist? Doesn't the principle apply that the more you give the more you get in return? Just look at Russia!
Ah yes, I agree with that poster - black and white provision in the current license means a black and white rendering of the UHF, not discontinued VHF, signal... I'll watch one such in bed this evening!
Have a look here for the cost of the BBC television license and what it funds...
That's one way to look at it. The other is that upload capping is necessary to stop you flooding out your uplink on low bandwidth and asymmetric connections, and you should adjust it to the point you can still do everything else you need and seed after you've got the download until you've at least given back (so you're at a 1:1 ratio).
You're going to want all your civil liberties when, one day, something stupid you've said - like, say, "I can't wait till someone attacks China. It would make my day I hate China." - resurfaces to bite you... sounds like incitement to terrorism, if you ask me.
I'm a Computer Science researcher and I'd rather just get on with some Computer Science (not just because it's more interesting to me, but also because those theories have formal proofs rather than just feel-good conjecture).
If the (great)grandparent post doesn't know why the HDD is motivated he ought to learn to read, it's right there: "The SGH-I300 will offer 3GB of storage which allows you to store up to 1,000 songs on it for playback through the music player."