You actually shouldn't be too upset, so long as you do not ask anyone if they get the comment you are as safe in assuming that they do understand it as you are that they do not.
When are we going to move on from this web-browser as application platform bullshit and work with more interesting things like, for example, java web-start and other ways to maintain a rich thick client?
Probably when microsoft releases something similar to mozilla's xul Java web start, for all of its apparent usefulness, has a bad name with webheads, which means it will not see adoption anywhere. Technologies like xul are, imo, the end point that ajax will eventually come to. This will probably take years to accomplish, and will also require some kind of solution to the "but it does not work on my wireless/cellular palm/phone/webtv/toaster" issue.
Does this matter? Generate some printable HTML and let the browser do it. Or if that's still too unpredictable, generate a PDF, or better a Postscript file, and let the browser or it's PS plugin print that.
Generate HTML - Cannot guarantee that the document looks the same due to the inability of certain large software manufacturers to support anything near a decent standard.
Generate PDF/PostScript - and what happens if someone does not have the plugin installed?
The point is that trying to dump the printing problem onto the browser just makes more, smaller problems. Yes it allows you to actually print, but you end up sacrificing assurance that your document will always look the same, which makes your software useless to pretty much anyone who really needs a full office suite.
You better send those researchers a memo or something. I'm sure they're being all careless and shit, flinging beakers and test tubes back and forth across the lab, since they must not understand the danger.
Some things must simply be sacrificed in the name of electrophoresis-gel-in-a-rubber-glove football. For any of those that may object play it first, then come back if you still doubt the value of this unfortunately rare, but highly enjoyable pastime.
Like the half dozen or so other responses I have seen I think the naming system is a good idea, but the names generated for it would lead to confusion, especially amongst the less computer savvy.
I think the solution is to handle things the same way that we handle hurricanes. Keep a big list of names and iterate through that for each new virus.
In that vein I would like to now suggest that viruses be given the dumbest names possible as a means of discouraging stupid kids from writing them to seek publicity. After all who would want to see themselves listed as the author of ChickenChaser.5 or TinyPocketRocket 1.3"
AJAX is not a quiet revolution, it is not even a revolution at all. It is a name for something that people have been doing for years that is just now seeing some attention because your average joe has the bandwidth to make it possible. The application you cited looks like it would be an awesome replacement, for microsoft wordpad. It lacks a lot of the features that are truly necessary for document editing. By the time it had those features it would be horrible to use because A) Javascript is a slower language than c/c++ and B) Having to talk back to the server for everything will eventually cause the interface to respond slowly.
The real revolution here is in trying to break out of the html click-response method that is used to talk to servers across the world. Javascript is not the answer here, and ajax is a stupid buzzword. Both are, however, part of the idea for a better way of doing things. Maybe in a few years we will have web browsers that support a common method of creating a decent user interface, and provide support for writing at least some of your code in a faster language than javascript. By that time fast, reliable internet access should be ubiquitous. Until then ajax^H^H^H^H remote scripting is fine for fluff, but not enough to replace a powerful desktop application.
I don't think that is what we will see. Most of the places I have worked at seem to treat their point of sale systems like a toaster or an air conditioner. It is a piece of equipment designed to do a specific task. Part of that design is working with the backed systems that really are considered a separate entity. Although it may be a poor analogy what you are suggesting seems to me like switching to linux on your home computer because tivo uses it to make a halfway decent dvr.
Yes, but if they manage to pull off desalinated water and heat generation for the same price it would probably be worth it.
That and this is the first, or one of the first, times that this has been done. The cost of producing and running one of these plants may go down as technology adapts to the problem.
Somewhere in the haze of almost a year ago when I worked on PHP I think I remember that it assumes any integer not set to 0 is true. Using that logic this statement does work, but I agree it really should be something not retarded.
but all it takes is one worm on someone's laptop to bypass the corporate firewall(s).
Actually it shouldn't. If rdesktop is being used as a support tool then the only possible connections should be from an administrator's computer to a normal user's, user to user connections should not be possible. Then you only get fried when an administrator's system gets hit by a worm, which is at least slightly less likely.
Actually the artwork was only 'okay'. Yes the facial animations were awesome, but a large majority of the rest of the artwork was not much more than passable. Portions of it seemed very rough. (The struts on the bridge scene after you ride the buggy come to mind)
The point is that valve seemed to focus in on a few big things (facial animations, physics, the materials system) and did not do some of the basics as well as they could. Why give the player an awesome physics system then put invisible walls in small rooms? Why go through all the trouble with the facial animations but do substandard work on a lot of basic inanimate objects? It all smacks of poor design choices to me.
Hopefully if anyone ever manages to finish a mod for hl2 they can fix these things, as the majority of them are (hopefully) within the realm of things that can be fixed in a mod.
Actually if she stays true to form with all the other astrology nuts I have seen the spending priority breakdown would go something like this:
1) More cats, and all the crap they need to take care of them in a way that compensates for a lack of true sanitation with extra food.
2) More astrology nut crap. For some reason these people like to buy the same stuff rebandaged again and again. Maybe they hope to use volume to compensate for logic.
3) Booze/pot. Nothing quite goes better with the solemn contemplation of the universe than a mead and weed party.
4) Incense. Between the cats, stale weed smoke, and the alcohol something has to cover the smell. And cleaning is out of the question, it takes quite a bit of time to build up all that magical, psychoactive astral-sight enchancing dust.
Before anyone gets upset about this all these comments come from personal experience, and I have at least one nutball to back up each.
ah the 'if-I-want-to-kill-myself-being-stupid-let-me kind' if only they were around a little bit longer. I'm actually moving out of Texas soon and my nutball, redneck friends who damn near killed me and a bunch of other people yesterday setting off a box full of fireworks to "speed things up so we can concentrate on drinking", are one of the few things I will miss.
p.s. I know the grammar in that (and this) sucked, if I thought anyone important would care it would be better.
She was also attempting to fill the thing with creamer and sugar to the coffee. That means that she probably had the cup precariously balanced on her lap, or at the least was holding it with one hand while trying to manage sugar, creamer, and stirring. I wonder why she wasn't using her knees to assist in holding the cup, maybe because she knew it was too damn hot?
The point is that the car doesn't have to be moving for some idiot to spill coffee while they add creamer to it.
Hmm... What do you call it when you are warned that your coffee is dangerously hot by the state safety officials but you decide to go ahead and do it anyway because it allows you to squeeze out more juice per grind?
The "safety organizations" quoted in the article are not stated as being state safety officials. Hell any nutball could create a "safety organization" and issue out warnings for anything. Unless they can provide names of some credible source that point is nothing more than bs.
If you have to question what "going mad and slaughtering cows, then killing yourself" has to do with web programming you evidently have not done much of it. After the nth time watching mozilla do something perfectly while IE takes a dump on my screen I was about in a mood to try the whole cow slaughter bit.
ASP.NET does have a lot of wonderful things going for it. Framework-based development is one area where PHP really does not compete well. There are a lot of good ones out there, but none of them really match it.
That said PHP looks like it is headed in the right direction. Love or hate the object model true exception handling is an awesome bonus to php5. PEAR and PECL are also huge assets, as they provide a central place for people to look for some of the more complex features. The frameworks are getting better, and I think the real final step would be getting a solid method to integrate PHP and the framework of your choice into Eclipse or Visual Studio.
The real advantage that PHP has going for it is in being open source. It will run on almost anything (at least compared to ASP it will) and will probably see wider adoption as the feature set improves. Also there is a lot to be said for the eventual situation of having multiple frameworks available to use.
In the end I doubt there will be a wrong horse. I think ASP.NET will stay the heavy handed 800 pound gorilla system, and PHP will be the more lightweight, flexible way of doing it. At that point you just pick the one that fits personal taste. So if it works, go ahead and do it.
I call bs. Poor graphics driver development alone is enough for linux to fall short of windows on game performance. Yes, it is getting better, but things still just are not good enough. Respectable performance I could accept, but "better than windows on a faster system" is pure crap.
That said, show me a couple of benchmarks proving it and I will buy it. The last time I seriously looked at windows vs linux game benchmarks was three months ago, maybe things are better now.
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You actually shouldn't be too upset, so long as you do not ask anyone if they get the comment you are as safe in assuming that they do understand it as you are that they do not.
Probably when microsoft releases something similar to mozilla's xul Java web start, for all of its apparent usefulness, has a bad name with webheads, which means it will not see adoption anywhere. Technologies like xul are, imo, the end point that ajax will eventually come to. This will probably take years to accomplish, and will also require some kind of solution to the "but it does not work on my wireless/cellular palm/phone/webtv/toaster" issue.
Generate HTML - Cannot guarantee that the document looks the same due to the inability of certain large software manufacturers to support anything near a decent standard.
Generate PDF/PostScript - and what happens if someone does not have the plugin installed?
The point is that trying to dump the printing problem onto the browser just makes more, smaller problems. Yes it allows you to actually print, but you end up sacrificing assurance that your document will always look the same, which makes your software useless to pretty much anyone who really needs a full office suite.
Some things must simply be sacrificed in the name of electrophoresis-gel-in-a-rubber-glove football. For any of those that may object play it first, then come back if you still doubt the value of this unfortunately rare, but highly enjoyable pastime.
I think the solution is to handle things the same way that we handle hurricanes. Keep a big list of names and iterate through that for each new virus.
In that vein I would like to now suggest that viruses be given the dumbest names possible as a means of discouraging stupid kids from writing them to seek publicity. After all who would want to see themselves listed as the author of ChickenChaser
The real revolution here is in trying to break out of the html click-response method that is used to talk to servers across the world. Javascript is not the answer here, and ajax is a stupid buzzword. Both are, however, part of the idea for a better way of doing things. Maybe in a few years we will have web browsers that support a common method of creating a decent user interface, and provide support for writing at least some of your code in a faster language than javascript. By that time fast, reliable internet access should be ubiquitous. Until then ajax^H^H^H^H remote scripting is fine for fluff, but not enough to replace a powerful desktop application.
I don't think that is what we will see. Most of the places I have worked at seem to treat their point of sale systems like a toaster or an air conditioner. It is a piece of equipment designed to do a specific task. Part of that design is working with the backed systems that really are considered a separate entity. Although it may be a poor analogy what you are suggesting seems to me like switching to linux on your home computer because tivo uses it to make a halfway decent dvr.
Nah, just slap a google logo on it, or put an OSX sticker somewhere in there. Both of those are sacred on slashdot right now.
Yes, but if they manage to pull off desalinated water and heat generation for the same price it would probably be worth it.
That and this is the first, or one of the first, times that this has been done. The cost of producing and running one of these plants may go down as technology adapts to the problem.
Somewhere in the haze of almost a year ago when I worked on PHP I think I remember that it assumes any integer not set to 0 is true. Using that logic this statement does work, but I agree it really should be something not retarded.
Actually it shouldn't. If rdesktop is being used as a support tool then the only possible connections should be from an administrator's computer to a normal user's, user to user connections should not be possible. Then you only get fried when an administrator's system gets hit by a worm, which is at least slightly less likely.
The point is that valve seemed to focus in on a few big things (facial animations, physics, the materials system) and did not do some of the basics as well as they could. Why give the player an awesome physics system then put invisible walls in small rooms? Why go through all the trouble with the facial animations but do substandard work on a lot of basic inanimate objects? It all smacks of poor design choices to me.
Hopefully if anyone ever manages to finish a mod for hl2 they can fix these things, as the majority of them are (hopefully) within the realm of things that can be fixed in a mod.
1) More cats, and all the crap they need to take care of them in a way that compensates for a lack of true sanitation with extra food.
2) More astrology nut crap. For some reason these people like to buy the same stuff rebandaged again and again. Maybe they hope to use volume to compensate for logic.
3) Booze/pot. Nothing quite goes better with the solemn contemplation of the universe than a mead and weed party.
4) Incense. Between the cats, stale weed smoke, and the alcohol something has to cover the smell. And cleaning is out of the question, it takes quite a bit of time to build up all that magical, psychoactive astral-sight enchancing dust.
Before anyone gets upset about this all these comments come from personal experience, and I have at least one nutball to back up each.
p.s. I know the grammar in that (and this) sucked, if I thought anyone important would care it would be better.
The point is that the car doesn't have to be moving for some idiot to spill coffee while they add creamer to it.
The "safety organizations" quoted in the article are not stated as being state safety officials. Hell any nutball could create a "safety organization" and issue out warnings for anything. Unless they can provide names of some credible source that point is nothing more than bs.
If you have to question what "going mad and slaughtering cows, then killing yourself" has to do with web programming you evidently have not done much of it. After the nth time watching mozilla do something perfectly while IE takes a dump on my screen I was about in a mood to try the whole cow slaughter bit.
Especially if it gave you a drink every time a program crashed....windows 95 here I come.
You sir, have obviously not been educated in the fine art of bureaucratical math.
Shows how little you know. This is slashdot, everyone has something to whine about.
Well, in that case, I have a Nielson box. Send me ten bucks a week and a list of programming and i'll vote for whatever the hell you want with it.
That said PHP looks like it is headed in the right direction. Love or hate the object model true exception handling is an awesome bonus to php5. PEAR and PECL are also huge assets, as they provide a central place for people to look for some of the more complex features. The frameworks are getting better, and I think the real final step would be getting a solid method to integrate PHP and the framework of your choice into Eclipse or Visual Studio.
The real advantage that PHP has going for it is in being open source. It will run on almost anything (at least compared to ASP it will) and will probably see wider adoption as the feature set improves. Also there is a lot to be said for the eventual situation of having multiple frameworks available to use.
In the end I doubt there will be a wrong horse. I think ASP.NET will stay the heavy handed 800 pound gorilla system, and PHP will be the more lightweight, flexible way of doing it. At that point you just pick the one that fits personal taste. So if it works, go ahead and do it.
That said, show me a couple of benchmarks proving it and I will buy it. The last time I seriously looked at windows vs linux game benchmarks was three months ago, maybe things are better now.
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In fact, i'll do that now.