What I would rather have is a facility that can spell check any text in any application. That way I can have a single dictionary, instead of every application having its own (with its own code base, causing its own bugs and its own maintenance headaches, etc).
You don't have to give up control of your information just to have access to it from most any computer.
With a USB thumb drive (which has ever increasing capacity) along with some apps from here, I can have the best of both worlds. My data is with me at all times, and it's in my hands, not the hands of some corporation which may use my data in ways I don't like, or lose it, or go under.
I know the English may not be the submitter's first language, but it would be nice if the editors....um, you know....*edited* the piece so it made sense.
Michael (Who now sits back and waits for people to pounce on my spelling/grammatical mistakes)
It seems like they are trying to remake Peter Jackson's movies on the stage, as opposed to the books themselves. Now, I understand the financial incentive to do so, but why compete in a medium that's ill suited? It's like Peter Jackson trying to "out book" the book. Different mediums have different strengths and weaknesses. The special effects available in modern movies blows away most anything that could be done on a stage. Why not use the stage's natural strengths? Why not try a slightly more intimate version (no Sam and Frodo jokes). All that can happen is for this to be compared unfavorably to the movie as well as the book.
A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly
a brand-new BMW advanced out of the dust cloud towards him. The driver, a
young man in a Broni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie,
leaned out the window and asked the shepherd...
"If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will
you give me one?"
The shepherd looked at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looked at
his peacefully-grazing flock and calmly answered, "Sure."
The yuppie parked his car, whipped out his IBM Thinkpad and
connected it to a cell phone, then he surfed to a NASA page on the internet
where he called up a GPS satellite navigation system, scanned the area, and
then opened up a database and an Excel spreadsheet with complex formulas.
He sent an email on his Blackberry and, after a
few minutes, received a response. Finally, he prints out a 130 page report
on his miniaturized printer then turns to the shepherd and says.......
"You have exactly 1586 sheep."
"That is correct; take one of the sheep." said the shepherd. He
watches the young man select one of the animals and bundle it into his car.
Then the shepherd says: "If I can tell you exactly what your
business is, will you give me back my animal?"
"OK, why not." answered the young man.
"Clearly, you are a consultant." said the shepherd.
"That's correct." says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answers the shepherd. "You turned up here
although nobody called you. You want to get paid for an answer I already
knew, to a question I never asked, and you don't know crap about my
business.... Now give me back my dog."
It sounds more like the parent poster was hoping for a blending of the two instead Sort By Date OR Sort By Relevance. So if you wanted to look up developments in relational databases you could search "relational database theory". Sliding all the way to date would be the same as a straight Sort By Date.
This would give you a bit more flexibility as it would allow more current information to perculate to the top while supressing current, but non-relevant, information from appearing.
Looks like customers win here. Maybe Firefox wasn't the first to ever do multiple tabs, but their popularity spurred MS to do something to make their own browser better. Once customers start seeing other features in Firefox that aren't in IE and start complaining they will be (slowly) added. Competition works! But of course we already knew that....
As disappointing as they were, the prequel trilogy when combined with the original trilogy creates a nice, balanced story of the fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker. It also puts Luke's temptations in Empire and Return of the Jedi into sharper focus. The father was turned, will Luke as well?
An additional trilogy would be just some tacked on stories.
I think this could be done. One way of handling it logistically, is for people to concentrate on their home state. Although you wouldn't get nation wide coverage right away, but as the project became more popular than it would build. I think what you are talking about are for the most part blue laws (In Connecticut, I tihnk you can't eat a pickle on Sundays). From a logistical standpoint it makes it easier, as there aren't too many blue laws being passed now a days.
The real problem is going to be politcal. Unless you very carefully limit the definition of "bad laws" you open yourself up to all kinds of partisan spamming. Left wingers will put up all anti-gay marriage laws, far right wingers will start listing welfare laws, white supremicists will put up all laws pertaining to non-descrimination, etc.
If you can deal with that issue, I think you will be fine. If not, the wiki will just become a jumbled yell fest.
Am I the only one on here who likes Netbeans?
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Netbeans 4.1 Released
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Judging from most of the comments when netbeans news is posted, it appears that the vast majority of slashdot users hate netbeans, especially when compared to eclipse. I do application and light web development using net beans and I find it very easy to use and responsive, even though I don't have the best quality hardware.
The UI is responsive and the controls are intuitive. Building web apps isn't too difficult either. So where is the love?
What is the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group?
It is a loose unofficial collaboration of Web browser manufacturers and interested parties who wish to develop new technologies designed to allow authors to write and deploy Applications over the World Wide Web.
The working group mailing list is an open subscription public mailing list and anyone is welcome to contribute.
The focus of this working group is limited to technologies that will need to be directly implemented in Web browsers. It is not the right forum for very domain-specific proposals that would not be suitable for implementation in, for instance, Safari, Firefox, or Opera.
Simpler, but it doesn't read as well. Proceeds and advance are two things that go together, and make more since to be grouped in the same clause. It reads clunky the other way.
As if my language skills were perfect...
Ick.
I suppose you could do it that way if you want to. Maybe its just me, but I like to keep data in relational DBs and keep the XML stuff for when I need to provide a way of sending information to outside people who will not have direct access to the DB. Most of the time the DB is being accessed, it is for internal applications which can access the tables via accessor methods. Now I suppose you could just write accessor methods against the XML DB.....
Relational DBs for storage, XML as a transmission format. But the types of things I tend to build are quite small, so YMMV.
It may be obvious to those who already buy into the FOSS movement, but not to those who don't. In fact Forks and arguments like these are used to put FOSS in a negative light as being unstable and counterproductive. This article does a good job of showing otherwise.
There is a difference between the OO the application, and the file format it uses (OASIS). Yes, I agree that OO.o Writer is not the prettiest, most light weight, elegant word processor out there. But its pretty damn functional, and has gotten a lot better.
There is nothing preventing Apple from developing "pretty, slick, useful, and fun consumer apps", using the OASIS file format. They are two different things.
So the next question is, how can/should the metaphor change? Should it be something like Lyx? Something more like Raskin's Humane Interface?
I do not have the coding skills to knock out my own word processor (I'm a statistical programmer with some basic Java and database skills), but it would be interesting to see what alternatives there are, to the typical typewriter paradigm.
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How did they count the votes to determine who won?
What I would rather have is a facility that can spell check any text in any application. That way I can have a single dictionary, instead of every application having its own (with its own code base, causing its own bugs and its own maintenance headaches, etc).
Something like what these guys are doing.
You don't have to give up control of your information just to have access to it from most any computer.
With a USB thumb drive (which has ever increasing capacity) along with some apps from here, I can have the best of both worlds. My data is with me at all times, and it's in my hands, not the hands of some corporation which may use my data in ways I don't like, or lose it, or go under.
I know the English may not be the submitter's first language, but it would be nice if the editors....um, you know....*edited* the piece so it made sense.
Michael (Who now sits back and waits for people to pounce on my spelling/grammatical mistakes)
It seems like they are trying to remake Peter Jackson's movies on the stage, as opposed to the books themselves. Now, I understand the financial incentive to do so, but why compete in a medium that's ill suited? It's like Peter Jackson trying to "out book" the book. Different mediums have different strengths and weaknesses. The special effects available in modern movies blows away most anything that could be done on a stage. Why not use the stage's natural strengths? Why not try a slightly more intimate version (no Sam and Frodo jokes). All that can happen is for this to be compared unfavorably to the movie as well as the book.
Perhaps we could build a baysian filter that takes in baysian filters and sorts them into pig and horse?
...but I was wondering if anyone could tell me if Eclipse 3.1 had been released.
A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of the dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Broni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the shepherd... "If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?" The shepherd looked at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looked at his peacefully-grazing flock and calmly answered, "Sure." The yuppie parked his car, whipped out his IBM Thinkpad and connected it to a cell phone, then he surfed to a NASA page on the internet where he called up a GPS satellite navigation system, scanned the area, and then opened up a database and an Excel spreadsheet with complex formulas. He sent an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, received a response. Finally, he prints out a 130 page report on his miniaturized printer then turns to the shepherd and says....... "You have exactly 1586 sheep." "That is correct; take one of the sheep." said the shepherd. He watches the young man select one of the animals and bundle it into his car. Then the shepherd says: "If I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my animal?" "OK, why not." answered the young man. "Clearly, you are a consultant." said the shepherd. "That's correct." says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?" "No guessing required." answers the shepherd. "You turned up here although nobody called you. You want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked, and you don't know crap about my business.... Now give me back my dog."
Are you kidding? We're already there. Whether its the Government or corporations....
This would give you a bit more flexibility as it would allow more current information to perculate to the top while supressing current, but non-relevant, information from appearing.
Looks like customers win here. Maybe Firefox wasn't the first to ever do multiple tabs, but their popularity spurred MS to do something to make their own browser better. Once customers start seeing other features in Firefox that aren't in IE and start complaining they will be (slowly) added. Competition works! But of course we already knew that....
An additional trilogy would be just some tacked on stories.
The real problem is going to be politcal. Unless you very carefully limit the definition of "bad laws" you open yourself up to all kinds of partisan spamming. Left wingers will put up all anti-gay marriage laws, far right wingers will start listing welfare laws, white supremicists will put up all laws pertaining to non-descrimination, etc.
If you can deal with that issue, I think you will be fine. If not, the wiki will just become a jumbled yell fest.
The UI is responsive and the controls are intuitive. Building web apps isn't too difficult either. So where is the love?
I'm tired of all these no carrier jokes. Isn't it about time we move onto something new and more funny...something more li#$%@#$@%$~NO CARRIER
What is the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group?
It is a loose unofficial collaboration of Web browser manufacturers and interested parties who wish to develop new technologies designed to allow authors to write and deploy Applications over the World Wide Web.
The working group mailing list is an open subscription public mailing list and anyone is welcome to contribute.
The focus of this working group is limited to technologies that will need to be directly implemented in Web browsers. It is not the right forum for very domain-specific proposals that would not be suitable for implementation in, for instance, Safari, Firefox, or Opera.
Simpler, but it doesn't read as well. Proceeds and advance are two things that go together, and make more since to be grouped in the same clause. It reads clunky the other way.
As if my language skills were perfect...
"The proceeds from the sale of the book are being donated. . All royalties are going to Creative Commons, plus the advance."
How about making that "The advance and all proceeds from the sale of the book are being donated to Creative Commons."?
Yeah its a nit pick, but I'm in that kind of mood. (Now watch while some smartass, finds something wrong with my post).
Ick. I suppose you could do it that way if you want to. Maybe its just me, but I like to keep data in relational DBs and keep the XML stuff for when I need to provide a way of sending information to outside people who will not have direct access to the DB. Most of the time the DB is being accessed, it is for internal applications which can access the tables via accessor methods. Now I suppose you could just write accessor methods against the XML DB..... Relational DBs for storage, XML as a transmission format. But the types of things I tend to build are quite small, so YMMV.
You bet! I love popcorn...
It may be obvious to those who already buy into the FOSS movement, but not to those who don't. In fact Forks and arguments like these are used to put FOSS in a negative light as being unstable and counterproductive. This article does a good job of showing otherwise.
Details, details...
There is a difference between the OO the application, and the file format it uses (OASIS). Yes, I agree that OO.o Writer is not the prettiest, most light weight, elegant word processor out there. But its pretty damn functional, and has gotten a lot better. There is nothing preventing Apple from developing "pretty, slick, useful, and fun consumer apps", using the OASIS file format. They are two different things.
I do not have the coding skills to knock out my own word processor (I'm a statistical programmer with some basic Java and database skills), but it would be interesting to see what alternatives there are, to the typical typewriter paradigm.