You know, we really get tired of MOST of the dupes here and as we have discussed before, sometimes dupes are a good thing because we don't get all the stories because we're not connected all the time.
Get off your ass and read the stories from when you weren't connected then, they're still there if you click on the date. You're a tiny proportion of all the users, better to inconvenience you a little bit than inconvenience everyone. Besides, if there weren't so many dupes you wouldn't have missed as many stories from when you weren't connected, because they'd still be on the front page.
It is one of those things that most people don't feel like it is a crime and there is nothing MPAA and RIAA can do. No amount of lawsuits, no amount of sappy ads before every movie in the theatres showing poor set designers that are now starving because those pirates stole the bread from their kid's table, is going to change that. Because people don't think it is such a big crime to share and download mp3 files and movies.
I download movies solely so I don't have to see those bloody ads. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
the sort of people who if you did build a computer for them, would get all pissy that you put a GeForce 4 in the machine, and insist on that "voodoo 5" thing they heard about (yes, this happened to me, no I never did manage to convince them that the GeForce was better).
I have my whole/home on a luks/cast6 partition, I'm not worried about such things, but I think file encryption is still too hard for the "typical" user. Wheras everyone understands having account passwords.
And it still doesn't support AIM encryption. The only way to have a secure IM with gaim is to talk to another gaim user.
Not true - the OTR plugin is compatible with Adium and can be used with any AIM client via their proxy. I agree it's not as widespread as it should be, but it is a standard way of doing things.
On the other hand, yes, some sort of OS specific hooks to make this easier would be sensible. For example, using Mac OS's "keychain", or Windows XP's "secure storage".
Really? I have 1.25 gig of ram, will the VM actually suck up more than 1 gig of ram?
IME, always, it certainly always consumes my 1384mb of virtual memory eventually. Might just be lazy programming in all the java programs I've tried, but I doubt it.
Because gecko, not to put too fine a point on it, sucks. It's slow, bloated, and the codebase is horrible. They'd have a better chance writing their own.
However, I do agree to a certain extent with your point but I think that in some circumstances, the current technology available makes web applications a viable solution. HTML, AJAX and everything else, has evolved to where it is because things that work stuck and things that didn't got left behind. Anything new will have to go through that same 'survival of the fittest' trial and unless it had significant benefits, I think most people would stick to the tireless job of evolving what they already know to fit their requirements.
Point, hmm. It does work, I can't deny that. It could work so much better being redesigned from a "fresh start", but the effort it would take to do that isn't worth it for anyone. But when you heap adaptation on adaptation you'll end up with a whole load of cruft. If people switched now it would be worth it in the long run - but people don't think like that. It's a big challenge to try and replace an established technology, and I'm not sure how I'd accomplish it.
The only requirements for running a web app was a compatible web-browser and a connection to the intranet.
And the only requirements for running applications done the way I'm suggesting are a client program and a connection to the network.
Any other type of deployment would require the tech support staff in every site to install the application on every PC, everytime there was an update.
That's completely false. If you had deployed it via X11, for example, you would be in pretty much the same situation as you are now. I'm not saying X11 is a perfect solution (the way anyone on the network can sniff your session makes it no good for many applications) but something akin to it would be a better way of doing remote applications than over the web.
My via-chipsetted mobo has firewire that works fine as far as I can tell. Ouch on the bus timing, maybe I've just been lucky never to have such a problem.
Not my experience at all. They actually ship linux drivers on the CDs which is more than most will do, and AFAICS are pretty helpful with specs.
particularly IDE without DMA, or something like that.
170mb PIO-only drive worked fine in the two of my systems I tried it in.
In the past few years, their northbridges have been getting hotter and hotter very very quickly, and yet motherboard makers rarely put a fan on them. Besides serious power consumption problems, that leads to real instability unless your system has terribly good airflow.
The box I'm writing this on has no fan on the northbridge and a very cheap-and-crappy case, but hasn't had any stability problems. I've left it on for days without a hint of trouble.
Seems to me that Perl is the same way, yet your code isn't broken if you use an editor or IDE that mishandles your whitespace:)
No it's not. I like perl in the right place, but the perl OO system is bolted-on and very loosely fitting.
On the other hand, learning programming != learning a language. I don't see a problem with going from one language and not using OO to another language and using OO.
It means you have to learn OO at the same time as learning the new language, which makes things harder. Better if you can learn OO in a language you already know.
In addition, I've found that grasping the idea of object-oriented programming became much easier when I stopped listening to people try to explain what an object is to me, and when I just started using an OO language, which is to say Javascript. Like, there's an object! And you create one! And it has methods and properties, whee.
In that moment, the student was enlightened.
That's directly contrary to my experience of how most people learn it.
There are only two possible rational interpretations: First, that all actions are rights unless that action is explicitly prohibited, or Second, that there is a mystical list of "other rights" floating around somewhere that nobody knows about, except obviously you, and maybe some other people in government.
That's an incredibly dumb argument. Are you seriously saying that everything which is legal is a right?
Slashdot Mirror
Get off your ass and read the stories from when you weren't connected then, they're still there if you click on the date. You're a tiny proportion of all the users, better to inconvenience you a little bit than inconvenience everyone. Besides, if there weren't so many dupes you wouldn't have missed as many stories from when you weren't connected, because they'd still be on the front page.
C. For the simple reason that if they don't support C, noone will use them. Look at what happened to lisp machines.
I download movies solely so I don't have to see those bloody ads. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
I want to be famous. While I won't deny that I'm insane, why does the one necessarily follow from the other?
The voodoo 5 is better, open drivers.
They don't. They just click the blue e for internet icon.
I have my whole /home on a luks/cast6 partition, I'm not worried about such things, but I think file encryption is still too hard for the "typical" user. Wheras everyone understands having account passwords.
The how is the why. You don't ask for a religious reason for why an apple falls to the floor.
Not true - the OTR plugin is compatible with Adium and can be used with any AIM client via their proxy. I agree it's not as widespread as it should be, but it is a standard way of doing things.
Then use Kopete instead.
And under linux, kwallet!
They could encrypt the passwords for all your accounts using one password, which saves a bit of remembering. Or even better, use kwallet :).
IME, always, it certainly always consumes my 1384mb of virtual memory eventually. Might just be lazy programming in all the java programs I've tried, but I doubt it.
Because gecko, not to put too fine a point on it, sucks. It's slow, bloated, and the codebase is horrible. They'd have a better chance writing their own.
Have you seen the firefox codebase? You'd have a better chance rewriting it from scratch.
and they could modify it however they want to easily produce the second.
Not really. Opera's interface is the best (computer) UI. Ever. Anywhere.
It would also contribute to the respect that people have toward them for supporting open source and doing little to no evil.
I think buying opera and then open sourcing it would be even more of that.
Point, hmm. It does work, I can't deny that. It could work so much better being redesigned from a "fresh start", but the effort it would take to do that isn't worth it for anyone. But when you heap adaptation on adaptation you'll end up with a whole load of cruft. If people switched now it would be worth it in the long run - but people don't think like that. It's a big challenge to try and replace an established technology, and I'm not sure how I'd accomplish it.
And the only requirements for running applications done the way I'm suggesting are a client program and a connection to the network.
Any other type of deployment would require the tech support staff in every site to install the application on every PC, everytime there was an update.
That's completely false. If you had deployed it via X11, for example, you would be in pretty much the same situation as you are now. I'm not saying X11 is a perfect solution (the way anyone on the network can sniff your session makes it no good for many applications) but something akin to it would be a better way of doing remote applications than over the web.
My via-chipsetted mobo has firewire that works fine as far as I can tell. Ouch on the bus timing, maybe I've just been lucky never to have such a problem.
Two or three, just my own home system.
They do commonly have poor support for Linux,
Not my experience at all. They actually ship linux drivers on the CDs which is more than most will do, and AFAICS are pretty helpful with specs.
particularly IDE without DMA, or something like that.
170mb PIO-only drive worked fine in the two of my systems I tried it in.
In the past few years, their northbridges have been getting hotter and hotter very very quickly, and yet motherboard makers rarely put a fan on them. Besides serious power consumption problems, that leads to real instability unless your system has terribly good airflow.
The box I'm writing this on has no fan on the northbridge and a very cheap-and-crappy case, but hasn't had any stability problems. I've left it on for days without a hint of trouble.
No it's not. I like perl in the right place, but the perl OO system is bolted-on and very loosely fitting.
On the other hand, learning programming != learning a language. I don't see a problem with going from one language and not using OO to another language and using OO.
It means you have to learn OO at the same time as learning the new language, which makes things harder. Better if you can learn OO in a language you already know.
In addition, I've found that grasping the idea of object-oriented programming became much easier when I stopped listening to people try to explain what an object is to me, and when I just started using an OO language, which is to say Javascript. Like, there's an object! And you create one! And it has methods and properties, whee. In that moment, the student was enlightened.
That's directly contrary to my experience of how most people learn it.
That's an incredibly dumb argument. Are you seriously saying that everything which is legal is a right?
I've found modern VIA chipsets to be fine. Great linux support, does everything I need it to. What're your problems with them?
Whenever you do such an analysis, the assumption is you found 20% of them. That makes it 15 for Britannica and 16 remaining for Wikipedia.
Novell devotedly supports whatever their customers want. Which right now means both Java and .Net.
The poster might be able to do run their own server as another means to the end.
And on that front there's more than two fistfuls of technology to emit browser compatiable code.
Indeed. And here we are discussing it.