AJAX, that extroardinarily lame acronym, isn't "new" kids
Of course its's not new. Only this wierd new acronym is new, and most kids only know it by this name. All it really consists of (JS, XML, DOM, etc.) have been around for many years and used extensively. There just happen to be real coders out there who instead of giving freaky names to everything just use the available great technology to create great content. These days probably it's becoming more and more frequent that on job interviews one will be asked about knowing AJAX and if raising an eyebrow, they say goodbye, no matter (s)he is good with js/xml/dom/xhtml. These things just happen.
Many pro jobs could be easily got by two-legged dictionaries.
Or are you saying that MS should support everyone else's browsers?
You're really not on your waters here. A coding framework shall not be compatible or incompatible with any browser. It shall provide libraries to make coding easier. But what MS usual behavior looks like, they make it APS.NET/.NET/etc.-dependent, thus making their new stuff only good to create code which will most probably be only IE compatible (it always makes me want to puke when I see "IE" and "compatible" next to each other).
AJAX is a convergence of technolgies that makes us possible to create very nice, rich clients which can provide a high level user experience. AJAX is not browser- or libary-dependent, nor does it depend on some companies libraries who has a history on web- and standards-incompatible behavior.
MS will most probably one day proclaimed the king of forced de facto semi-standards. I just don't want to be there.
Ok, it just might be that you never heard, but there are lots of people who produce films with their own money [naturally with the hope of a huge profit at the end]. I'd very much like to see PJ-films, either just directed, or produced or both, etc. Of course I can't have a clue what he would do with the money. Still, if he just buys half of New Zealand, I wouldn't care. Point is, withholding money despite your previous contract, is a Bad Thing and shall be punished.
I assume you supposedly don't "get it", it's not what it's enough or not, it's that he was "promised" 20% of all profits, and that "promise" we call contract around here. I presonally don't care whether PJ's welth. If he says NL didn't pay him all he was promised, I believe him more. Then again, this is not a metter of belief, court will show.
If you have what to speak about, sometimes words can be enough. If you don't have anything in your hands, sometimes lots of graphics can save your ass. Still, "getting away with this" is not the proper terminology for this effort. It's a progress note if you wish, a notification, whatever, which for most of us tells a lot. For those who can't get it without posh graphics, all the graphics on this planet couldn't get the real value in this into their minds. All in all, a little graphics can't hurt, since comments like this could be avoided:P
I'm just through Asimov's full load [again] and man, was he a seeer, use a set of solar panels on orbit to gather solar energy. Well, it probably could also function for the purposes in the article, but for solutions on global warming I personally am on a different standpoint: if we're polluting too much, stop it, don't start using wierdo shields, it's not our Sun that's causing the problem, it's us. And you all probably know oh too well who has the largest air-polluting country on this planet, don't you.
They could just use wonderful browsers like Konqueror with builtin spellcheck support for form filling. But no, this way it's the/. way. Oh yes, I'm redundant, I know.
For average gamers a really good AI with combined CNN/SVM/GA/BI/HMM/A* could seem like magic. For others it's just a time to wait until more efficient implementations pop up, or more suited/powerful hardware comes around so as every NPC of a game could be controlled by its own "brain". Until then, there are many dozens of areas of application of these and similar methods.
Really. x% growth from amount A can be more or less then y% growth from amount B. 10% growth from 100 totals at 110, 5% growth from 100000 totals at 105000. One is 10 pieces, the other is 5000, with less %.
Having said that, I'm happy to see more Linuxes adopted, at whatever pace. Whatever amount of raise is a Good Thing.
converting Celsius to Fahrenheit and grams to pounds gives us
Eek, I wouldn't do that, ever.
I'd say I prefer US units
Of course you prefer. Me, I would fire every engineer who would not use the metric system for calculations. If it's good or not that can be [was,is] a subject of debate, but thing is, it works, and most of the world knows it. IMO the best way is to use metric units and convert to others if and only if necessary. Very many troubles can be escaped this way.
Bzzt, wrong. Fault of the design. In *nix you can compile an app and 1). run it from there, 2). install it somewhere where you have write access (e.g./usr/local/) and you're done. Hell, one can install an entire system with chroot and some wit. For all this, no root privileges are required. In Windows what you got ? 99.999% of applications won't install unless they can write to undesired places (windows, program files, unwriteable registry areas, etc.) so you must be admin to install and frequently even to successfully run them. Also, there are many MS applications which also can't be run as non-admin. If they can't lead the way, why would they expect others to do so ?
witnessed by millions of people this week, has puzzled great thinkers for centuries
Ok, I can understand that people who know, have read, have studied, etc. color/color appearance/vision/etc. theory and applications must be few in number [relatively speaking], still, writing about this as being some long time unsolved mistery, is just crap. Descriptions of such and similar vision-related pecularities have a really wide literature, some of which I also have read and studied, the most recent being a book of Arne Valberg, which also has a chapter about such topics, and the moon-size subject is also mentioned.
In general, I don't really like the idea of paying any money for low quality music (meaning lower than at least 320 kbps mp3 quality). Added to that I won't pay for no company who sells only wma, I don't want no wma. Then add to the above that in the hypothetical case that I bought music online, I'd very much better give my money to Apple than feeding the mouths of the RIAA&co., the organization which constantly keeps climbing up on my most-hated list.
And this point-based bandwidth sharing reward system is also something don't really like.
All in all, I find the whole thing crap on the rocks, and until I see something which I'll find a bit more appealing I'll stick with my disk buying habits combined with the occasional free supplies.
For instance, some have legislated that a home without an attached garage is "blighted"
Ok, so please explain it to me, because it seems that my under developed stupid european mind can't handle the load: how can american people tolerate to live in "fear" of having taken their homes away in the name of the local politicians and not do anything about it ? To me this whole thing seems wierd. And things like these happening in 2005 and guess where, I just find I should wake up, cause this seems a very distorted dream.
Me, I just suppress a gloating smile. Seeing the happenings of recent years regarding very many sides and aspects of freedoms and rights over the atlantic, I just can't be so easily surprised these days.
And the "conservative" wing is actually standing up for the little guy against the wealthy corporations who make millions in redevelopment. Who would'da thought?
To be honest, I'm not surprised. What I'm surprized - for long now - is what "conservative" means in "american", which is becoming a new language that more and more "free" people don't really want to learn these days. Also, it's somewhat strange to experience how several places on this planet which have been tagged not free by the US are becoming more free in many ways than the dream across the pond.
As things stand, if you want to buy a house and be sure that you can keep it, you have to make sure there's no nice view in the area, there's no ocean, beach, river, lake, snowy mountain, forest, in your neighborhood, that there's no oil, gas, other valuable minerals and metals underground, no highway/railway/air corridors are headed your way... naaah, being the president or - as a better bet - being an underbridge lowlife is your best bet.
I use adblock, quite a lot. But, I only block sites and addresses from which I only get maddening bullcrap ads, which I'd never click on anyway. Still, what is best for a "free" ad-full site: if I visit them, but block the crap ads, or if I stop visiting them (this is not a hypothetical situation, it happened a few times) because of the obtrusive and infuriating ads.
I almost never watch ads, anyway. In tv, if ads are coming I turn down the volume and listen to music, or switch to another channel. With ads on web sites, I can do the latter, but I can't do the former. There are _very_ few sites that offer really relevant ads and that in a non-faceblowing high volume flashbang. On those, I don't block. The rest... farewell.
You're perfectly right. This kind of baching is nothing more than the weapon of the weak. When you won't or can't do anything on your end about changing things for the better, discredit the others. One can [try to] balance a seesaw from both sides you know.
...it's all just excuses. Don't get me wrong, I think Opera is a great browser (I constantly have and use konqueror, firefox, mozilla, opera, in this order). Still, these kinds of "arguments" are just pointless and useless. Try something else, something which can make Opera rank higher, 'cause this ain't.
'd like to say that this is an interesting idea. As a sysadmin I spen
As a sysadmin, you should know better. Back in the days we just used lynx ftpsearch.ntnu.no to search for files. Twas nice. Now the new generation despises the cli, then reinvetns the wheel by doing some bastardized mockup of a never-to-be cli which one uses thourhg browsers... hell of a day. I always welcome bright new ideas that enhance everyday people's computer and web experience. This, I find absolutely useless, a way of spreading useless hundreds of bad and good-for-nothing commands that nobody ever will use for anything. This is worse than a bad joke. Troll me if you want, that can't change my opinion.
- First, I don't like protcted disks, no matter that they can be easily circumvented.
- Secondly, I don't like protected disks which don't say what you are allowed or not, just say they have protection. Very many of these are around. You just take the disk, it says it's protected. I have no choice about it. If I knew I can only rip it into wma, I'd never buy it to start with. If the protection itself is annoyance enough, they also force a fragin' format on you.
- Why wma ? Of course I know the answer to that. Still, so many record companies helping to spread MS's proprietary drm'ed format it just foolish. I don't want no stinkin' wma, I want flac, ogg or mp3. All the rest is crap I don't even want to hear about.
- They - of course - would like to see wma support on the ipods. Hell, why wouldn't they. But, God help us all, why wouldn't they be willing to use Apple's way of formatting and protecting, why the hell put wma support where there is already one good, working, and spread like hell, which shows the viability enough to raise attention. They still don't seem to care.
Despite all this, I've bought some protected disks. I managed to rip them any way I want, but still, I always had a really bad feeling when I cashed out for them. The problem is there are some artists which I like so much I can't help not buying their stuff.
No, Metallica - which was a long time favourite of mine - can't make me buy their albums ever again, no matter what.
You mean for once I am not a loser? I never thought I'd see the day when running Windows was... cool.
Aninteresting point to see the world from you got there:] Since an OpenBSD guru sees Linux users as loosers you suddenly feel that running Windows is cool ?:) Some logic profs would surely enjoy listen to your reasoning:D
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AJAX, that extroardinarily lame acronym, isn't "new" kids
Of course its's not new. Only this wierd new acronym is new, and most kids only know it by this name. All it really consists of (JS, XML, DOM, etc.) have been around for many years and used extensively. There just happen to be real coders out there who instead of giving freaky names to everything just use the available great technology to create great content. These days probably it's becoming more and more frequent that on job interviews one will be asked about knowing AJAX and if raising an eyebrow, they say goodbye, no matter (s)he is good with js/xml/dom/xhtml. These things just happen.
Many pro jobs could be easily got by two-legged dictionaries.
Or are you saying that MS should support everyone else's browsers?
You're really not on your waters here. A coding framework shall not be compatible or incompatible with any browser. It shall provide libraries to make coding easier. But what MS usual behavior looks like, they make it APS.NET/.NET/etc.-dependent, thus making their new stuff only good to create code which will most probably be only IE compatible (it always makes me want to puke when I see "IE" and "compatible" next to each other).
AJAX is a convergence of technolgies that makes us possible to create very nice, rich clients which can provide a high level user experience. AJAX is not browser- or libary-dependent, nor does it depend on some companies libraries who has a history on web- and standards-incompatible behavior.
MS will most probably one day proclaimed the king of forced de facto semi-standards. I just don't want to be there.
What do they do with all the money?
Ok, it just might be that you never heard, but there are lots of people who produce films with their own money [naturally with the hope of a huge profit at the end]. I'd very much like to see PJ-films, either just directed, or produced or both, etc. Of course I can't have a clue what he would do with the money. Still, if he just buys half of New Zealand, I wouldn't care. Point is, withholding money despite your previous contract, is a Bad Thing and shall be punished.
What a sily question, neither of them can be "really" killed. After a while it just would be boring as hell :D
but it's still not enough for him
I assume you supposedly don't "get it", it's not what it's enough or not, it's that he was "promised" 20% of all profits, and that "promise" we call contract around here. I presonally don't care whether PJ's welth. If he says NL didn't pay him all he was promised, I believe him more. Then again, this is not a metter of belief, court will show.
If you have what to speak about, sometimes words can be enough. If you don't have anything in your hands, sometimes lots of graphics can save your ass. Still, "getting away with this" is not the proper terminology for this effort. It's a progress note if you wish, a notification, whatever, which for most of us tells a lot. For those who can't get it without posh graphics, all the graphics on this planet couldn't get the real value in this into their minds. All in all, a little graphics can't hurt, since comments like this could be avoided :P
As do many others as well. Still, trying to give reasonable answers to an trolling arse AC is a waste of time.
I'm just through Asimov's full load [again] and man, was he a seeer, use a set of solar panels on orbit to gather solar energy. Well, it probably could also function for the purposes in the article, but for solutions on global warming I personally am on a different standpoint: if we're polluting too much, stop it, don't start using wierdo shields, it's not our Sun that's causing the problem, it's us. And you all probably know oh too well who has the largest air-polluting country on this planet, don't you.
They could just use wonderful browsers like Konqueror with builtin spellcheck support for form filling. But no, this way it's the /. way. Oh yes, I'm redundant, I know.
For average gamers a really good AI with combined CNN/SVM/GA/BI/HMM/A* could seem like magic. For others it's just a time to wait until more efficient implementations pop up, or more suited/powerful hardware comes around so as every NPC of a game could be controlled by its own "brain". Until then, there are many dozens of areas of application of these and similar methods.
Really. x% growth from amount A can be more or less then y% growth from amount B. 10% growth from 100 totals at 110, 5% growth from 100000 totals at 105000. One is 10 pieces, the other is 5000, with less %.
Having said that, I'm happy to see more Linuxes adopted, at whatever pace. Whatever amount of raise is a Good Thing.
converting Celsius to Fahrenheit and grams to pounds gives us
Eek, I wouldn't do that, ever.
I'd say I prefer US units
Of course you prefer. Me, I would fire every engineer who would not use the metric system for calculations. If it's good or not that can be [was,is] a subject of debate, but thing is, it works, and most of the world knows it. IMO the best way is to use metric units and convert to others if and only if necessary. Very many troubles can be escaped this way.
Bzzt, wrong. Fault of the design. In *nix you can compile an app and 1). run it from there, 2). install it somewhere where you have write access (e.g. /usr/local/) and you're done. Hell, one can install an entire system with chroot and some wit. For all this, no root privileges are required. In Windows what you got ? 99.999% of applications won't install unless they can write to undesired places (windows, program files, unwriteable registry areas, etc.) so you must be admin to install and frequently even to successfully run them. Also, there are many MS applications which also can't be run as non-admin. If they can't lead the way, why would they expect others to do so ?
witnessed by millions of people this week, has puzzled great thinkers for centuries
Ok, I can understand that people who know, have read, have studied, etc. color/color appearance/vision/etc. theory and applications must be few in number [relatively speaking], still, writing about this as being some long time unsolved mistery, is just crap. Descriptions of such and similar vision-related pecularities have a really wide literature, some of which I also have read and studied, the most recent being a book of Arne Valberg, which also has a chapter about such topics, and the moon-size subject is also mentioned.
In general, I don't really like the idea of paying any money for low quality music (meaning lower than at least 320 kbps mp3 quality). Added to that I won't pay for no company who sells only wma, I don't want no wma. Then add to the above that in the hypothetical case that I bought music online, I'd very much better give my money to Apple than feeding the mouths of the RIAA&co., the organization which constantly keeps climbing up on my most-hated list.
And this point-based bandwidth sharing reward system is also something don't really like.
All in all, I find the whole thing crap on the rocks, and until I see something which I'll find a bit more appealing I'll stick with my disk buying habits combined with the occasional free supplies.
For instance, some have legislated that a home without an attached garage is "blighted"
Ok, so please explain it to me, because it seems that my under developed stupid european mind can't handle the load: how can american people tolerate to live in "fear" of having taken their homes away in the name of the local politicians and not do anything about it ? To me this whole thing seems wierd. And things like these happening in 2005 and guess where, I just find I should wake up, cause this seems a very distorted dream.
Me, I just suppress a gloating smile. Seeing the happenings of recent years regarding very many sides and aspects of freedoms and rights over the atlantic, I just can't be so easily surprised these days.
And the "conservative" wing is actually standing up for the little guy against the wealthy corporations who make millions in redevelopment. Who would'da thought?
To be honest, I'm not surprised. What I'm surprized - for long now - is what "conservative" means in "american", which is becoming a new language that more and more "free" people don't really want to learn these days. Also, it's somewhat strange to experience how several places on this planet which have been tagged not free by the US are becoming more free in many ways than the dream across the pond.
As things stand, if you want to buy a house and be sure that you can keep it, you have to make sure there's no nice view in the area, there's no ocean, beach, river, lake, snowy mountain, forest, in your neighborhood, that there's no oil, gas, other valuable minerals and metals underground, no highway/railway/air corridors are headed your way... naaah, being the president or - as a better bet - being an underbridge lowlife is your best bet.
I use adblock, quite a lot. But, I only block sites and addresses from which I only get maddening bullcrap ads, which I'd never click on anyway. Still, what is best for a "free" ad-full site: if I visit them, but block the crap ads, or if I stop visiting them (this is not a hypothetical situation, it happened a few times) because of the obtrusive and infuriating ads.
I almost never watch ads, anyway. In tv, if ads are coming I turn down the volume and listen to music, or switch to another channel. With ads on web sites, I can do the latter, but I can't do the former. There are _very_ few sites that offer really relevant ads and that in a non-faceblowing high volume flashbang. On those, I don't block. The rest... farewell.
All along MS's life I've just been thrilled by how they re-defined "innovation" to mean "buy everything we don't have that seems successful".
:P :D
Whatever. Don't even listen to me. If I had the money...
rich sugar daddy
You're perfectly right. This kind of baching is nothing more than the weapon of the weak. When you won't or can't do anything on your end about changing things for the better, discredit the others. One can [try to] balance a seesaw from both sides you know.
...it's all just excuses. Don't get me wrong, I think Opera is a great browser (I constantly have and use konqueror, firefox, mozilla, opera, in this order). Still, these kinds of "arguments" are just pointless and useless. Try something else, something which can make Opera rank higher, 'cause this ain't.
'd like to say that this is an interesting idea. As a sysadmin I spen
As a sysadmin, you should know better. Back in the days we just used lynx ftpsearch.ntnu.no to search for files. Twas nice. Now the new generation despises the cli, then reinvetns the wheel by doing some bastardized mockup of a never-to-be cli which one uses thourhg browsers... hell of a day. I always welcome bright new ideas that enhance everyday people's computer and web experience. This, I find absolutely useless, a way of spreading useless hundreds of bad and good-for-nothing commands that nobody ever will use for anything. This is worse than a bad joke. Troll me if you want, that can't change my opinion.
- First, I don't like protcted disks, no matter that they can be easily circumvented.
- Secondly, I don't like protected disks which don't say what you are allowed or not, just say they have protection. Very many of these are around. You just take the disk, it says it's protected. I have no choice about it. If I knew I can only rip it into wma, I'd never buy it to start with. If the protection itself is annoyance enough, they also force a fragin' format on you.
- Why wma ? Of course I know the answer to that. Still, so many record companies helping to spread MS's proprietary drm'ed format it just foolish. I don't want no stinkin' wma, I want flac, ogg or mp3. All the rest is crap I don't even want to hear about.
- They - of course - would like to see wma support on the ipods. Hell, why wouldn't they. But, God help us all, why wouldn't they be willing to use Apple's way of formatting and protecting, why the hell put wma support where there is already one good, working, and spread like hell, which shows the viability enough to raise attention. They still don't seem to care.
Despite all this, I've bought some protected disks. I managed to rip them any way I want, but still, I always had a really bad feeling when I cashed out for them. The problem is there are some artists which I like so much I can't help not buying their stuff.
No, Metallica - which was a long time favourite of mine - can't make me buy their albums ever again, no matter what.
You mean for once I am not a loser? I never thought I'd see the day when running Windows was... cool.
:] Since an OpenBSD guru sees Linux users as loosers you suddenly feel that running Windows is cool ? :) Some logic profs would surely enjoy listen to your reasoning :D
Aninteresting point to see the world from you got there
Theo is teh ghey! L12nux r00lzzzzzz!!!
:D :D :D And this was modded Interesting :D :D :D
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