With fewer users, there will be less incentive to release new information via this medium. It would, in the worst-case scenario, revert back to the BBS days of the Internet.
It's his opinion on the subject. Yes, he's just blogging about bloggers, and interestingly his need was met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs.
Microsoft releases products for its customers, which is what it should do.
However, the reason Microsoft is deemed evil by some is because it uses its power in order to capture marketshare. This is a huge faux pas in geekdom, which is traditionally a meritocracy.
What annoys/.'ers more than anything else is that most people don't care about merit. They just use products that are there, and which do the job required. This is something which most geeks don't get.
...which is what the rootkits expect you to do so they can achieve their fiendish ends, thereby revealing themselves anyway, requiring little use for the Sysinternals tool./from the Ministry of Silly Tin foil hats
You are entirely correct. And that's precisely why it's easier to extrapolate climate than it is to predict tomorrow's weather.
The computer model is based on certain variables, and upon receiving live data, attempts to calculate the consequences of the incoming data. This is based on rules of thumb (sort of), which are not always valid.
However, climate predictions are based on statistical methods. This is the key difference. Climate studies assume that if certain factors or parameters persist, trends will continue.
Weather and climate, as well as studies and predictions of the two, are not inherently related. Simply put, the variations in the atmosphere are more random in a shorter timeframe.
Weather is not climate. Climate is based on long-term trends. Weather is unpredictable.
An analogy would be that if you flipped a coin once, you wouldn't be able to tell if it would end up heads or tails, but if you flipped it a thousand or a million times, you'd notice a general trend of 50-50.
But when mistakes stand out so boldly, it would stand to reason that more proofing/editing could have helped.
I suppose it has to do with getting the stories out asap.
Clippy is an editor for Devshed and Slashdot!
If that were true, all news articles would be in the form of letters.
Because content is far more important than grammar.
In any case, for those mistakes that have been corrected, you wouldn't know about them. It's only the mistakes that stand out, which skews the viewpoint.
Humans are imperfect. Even Clippy can't help sometimes.
Mozilla can't be integrated with OOo, because of licensing issues, and the enormous bloat it would create, given the two different codebases.
In any case, a web-utilities suite and an office suite aren't enough to constitute a web browser. They would be enough for a simplistic out-of-the-box experience though.
My opinion is not based on statistics and the like. It is based on my own experience with the two.
Linux is more user-friendly and considerably easier to use for most people, but BSDs tend to lock their systems down much tighter, by default, than many Linux distros.
Linux 2.6 does aim to provide a remarkable increase in scalability. And that's a good thing. But I, myself, find BSD to be more stable and secure than Linux, at least out of the box.
For a viable alternative to Linux systems, there is already BSD.
They are both open-source, support many of the same applications, and share some of the same concepts. In fact, for most servers, BSD is a better choice.
Firefox is an attempt at seperating the browser component of Mozilla, and hopefully making it smaller, more portable, and more memory-efficient.
The rendering engine for both Seamonkey (the Mozilla Suite) and Firefox remains the same, the Gecko rendering engine. What differs is the UI, the functionality and large parts of the codebase.
Originally, Firefox, and Thunderbird, were scheduled to replace Seamonkey, but after some developers voiced their concerns over this, the Mozilla Foundation has decided against this move.
In short, it's not so much as code fork as it is a functionality fork. Firefox is geared towards IE/Opera/Safari users, while Seamonkey is geared towards old school Navigator/Netscape/Mozilla users.
Regardless of wealth, there are rules. Just ask Larry Ellison and his takeover of Peoplesoft. It wasn't easy, even though he's essentially in the same league as Bill Gates.
In any case, even if he did buy every member of Congress, they could be thrown out by the population. Sometimes one vote is worth more than billions of dollars.
The MySQL worm, based on Wootbot, had NOTHING to do with any MySQL vulnerability. It exploited weak passwords and maladministration. And Windows.
The difference with Windows and other OSes is that other OSes have for a long time goaded users to create their own account. Microsoft started this only with XP.
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Actually, many mainland companies copy American and English textbooks in bulk and sell them to students.
They are often 60-80% cheaper than the originals, which is extremely attractive to many students, especially if the school or teacher forces them to buy the books.
I have purchased one such textbook, because I didn't believe the textbook was of any use except for one class. I do buy legit books though, if I find they are useful.
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They can sell it, at any time, to the highest bidder, be it MSKB or Google.
With fewer users, there will be less incentive to release new information via this medium. It would, in the worst-case scenario, revert back to the BBS days of the Internet.
The advantage PHP has is simple: there are huge numbers of C/C++ coders who would find it easier to learn and use PHP than Perl/CGI, Java or ASP.Net.
And its lack of structure is attractive to many as many sites simple do not have a formal object-based structure.
It's simple, and it works. And that's what mainly matters anymore, especially with tightening budgets for web sites.
I read a lot of sites, and I can't afford to pay that much, as I am but a lowly student.
In any case, if the WWW becomes primarily subscription-based, you can expect a large drop in the number of users.
Those that provide you with that interesting content need to feed their kids too.
Would you prefer to have everything like NYTimes.com instead? There's only so much BugMeNot can handle.
It's his opinion on the subject. Yes, he's just blogging about bloggers, and interestingly his need was met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs.
Microsoft releases products for its customers, which is what it should do.
/.'ers more than anything else is that most people don't care about merit. They just use products that are there, and which do the job required. This is something which most geeks don't get.
However, the reason Microsoft is deemed evil by some is because it uses its power in order to capture marketshare. This is a huge faux pas in geekdom, which is traditionally a meritocracy.
What annoys
...which is what the rootkits expect you to do so they can achieve their fiendish ends, thereby revealing themselves anyway, requiring little use for the Sysinternals tool. /from the Ministry of Silly Tin foil hats
Apparently about 25million have returned an 'e', thanks to Firefox.
You are entirely correct. And that's precisely why it's easier to extrapolate climate than it is to predict tomorrow's weather.
The computer model is based on certain variables, and upon receiving live data, attempts to calculate the consequences of the incoming data. This is based on rules of thumb (sort of), which are not always valid.
However, climate predictions are based on statistical methods. This is the key difference. Climate studies assume that if certain factors or parameters persist, trends will continue.
Weather and climate, as well as studies and predictions of the two, are not inherently related. Simply put, the variations in the atmosphere are more random in a shorter timeframe.
Weather is not climate. Climate is based on long-term trends. Weather is unpredictable.
An analogy would be that if you flipped a coin once, you wouldn't be able to tell if it would end up heads or tails, but if you flipped it a thousand or a million times, you'd notice a general trend of 50-50.
But when mistakes stand out so boldly, it would stand to reason that more proofing/editing could have helped.
I suppose it has to do with getting the stories out asap.
Clippy is an editor for Devshed and Slashdot!
If that were true, all news articles would be in the form of letters.
Because content is far more important than grammar.
In any case, for those mistakes that have been corrected, you wouldn't know about them. It's only the mistakes that stand out, which skews the viewpoint.
Humans are imperfect. Even Clippy can't help sometimes.
Actually, it's neither. The article describes the use of a portability layer abstracting the APIs.
A lot of coders are beginning to write in a obtuse or obfuscated syntax, in order to keep them at their jobs.
This is getting increasingly common with outsourcing and a large number of CS graduates taking over the market.
The major benefit is that it's not inherently legal, because most PHBs don't realize what's going on.
Mozilla games: http://games.mozdev.org/
Mozilla can't be integrated with OOo, because of licensing issues, and the enormous bloat it would create, given the two different codebases.
In any case, a web-utilities suite and an office suite aren't enough to constitute a web browser. They would be enough for a simplistic out-of-the-box experience though.
My opinion is not based on statistics and the like. It is based on my own experience with the two.
Linux is more user-friendly and considerably easier to use for most people, but BSDs tend to lock their systems down much tighter, by default, than many Linux distros.
Linux 2.6 does aim to provide a remarkable increase in scalability. And that's a good thing. But I, myself, find BSD to be more stable and secure than Linux, at least out of the box.
For a viable alternative to Linux systems, there is already BSD.
They are both open-source, support many of the same applications, and share some of the same concepts. In fact, for most servers, BSD is a better choice.
Firefox is an attempt at seperating the browser component of Mozilla, and hopefully making it smaller, more portable, and more memory-efficient.
The rendering engine for both Seamonkey (the Mozilla Suite) and Firefox remains the same, the Gecko rendering engine. What differs is the UI, the functionality and large parts of the codebase.
Originally, Firefox, and Thunderbird, were scheduled to replace Seamonkey, but after some developers voiced their concerns over this, the Mozilla Foundation has decided against this move.
In short, it's not so much as code fork as it is a functionality fork. Firefox is geared towards IE/Opera/Safari users, while Seamonkey is geared towards old school Navigator/Netscape/Mozilla users.
Regardless of wealth, there are rules. Just ask Larry Ellison and his takeover of Peoplesoft. It wasn't easy, even though he's essentially in the same league as Bill Gates.
In any case, even if he did buy every member of Congress, they could be thrown out by the population. Sometimes one vote is worth more than billions of dollars.
The reason why Google is one of the top brands is given at the end of the article:
"A total of 1,984 brandchannel readers from 75 countries voted online between November and December 2004."
The keyword is online.
I doubt it, although that is the logical assumption.
I use Mozilla 1.7.5 but I haven't had any problems with Slashdot. Ever.
The MySQL worm, based on Wootbot, had NOTHING to do with any MySQL vulnerability. It exploited weak passwords and maladministration. And Windows.
The difference with Windows and other OSes is that other OSes have for a long time goaded users to create their own account. Microsoft started this only with XP.
Actually, many mainland companies copy American and English textbooks in bulk and sell them to students.
They are often 60-80% cheaper than the originals, which is extremely attractive to many students, especially if the school or teacher forces them to buy the books.
I have purchased one such textbook, because I didn't believe the textbook was of any use except for one class. I do buy legit books though, if I find they are useful.
They should do it for the sake of their other customers.
Unlike Microsoft, viruses, spyware, and other forms of malware don't check for Genuine Advantage.