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You also get mod points faster if you meta-mod a lot, I think.
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Since you were bashing java with actual arguments, you got modded as a troll by a few java fanbois passing by.
May I ask which "good reasons" could stand for a $200+ jukebox outputting crappy quality music? (oh, and if you must know, there are high quality headphones out there, just get your head out of your ass and you may see them, some are even sold at acceptable prices for earbuds e.g. much less than the price of an iPod)
You should start running now, I've got news that ballmer has just vowed to Fucking Kill You(TM). The chairs will soon come flying at you. Do not attempt to fight back. He shall Fucking Bury(TM) you, he has done it before, and he will do it again. For the love of God, just run. Try to run to Google's headquarter and head past them, he's vowed to Fucking Kill(TM) Google too and he'll Fucking Bury(TM) them, that should give you the time to flee to another country.
s/mainly/primarily/ not a native speaker, meant to say that the X5 beats the iPod in just about everything, but the biggest edges are in sound quality and variety of available formats
Well, the iAudio X5 kind of beats the living shit out of the iPod, mainly in sound quality and power (both of which iAudio is known to be good in), and in the number of formats it can read, which include up to FLAC
the differentiator for customers is not the number comparison, but which vendor makes the patching and updating experience the least complex, most efficient and easiest to manage.
Yeah, because typing "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" once in a while is so damn hard to manage.
Far too annoying, although they're good products both Firefox and Thunderbird are VERY far from perfect, and the devs need the ability to change things.
Now the fact is that alpha/beta/RC should be used (that's one of their roles) by the extension developers to ensure that their extensions do work in the soon-to-be-released version (most extensions usually work out of the box afaik) and updated before the new version goes gold so that the users just have to click "update" and book it works (or let FF/Thunderbird grab the updated compatible version when they install the new one).
That's the bad thing, the good one is that extensions updates works MUCH better (by an order of magnitude) in FF 1.5/Tb 1.5, and you can set your soft to auto-download updates whenever it finds any for your non-geeks friends and parents so that their browser stays up to date.
They're not blocked by the update, they're blocked by the creator of the extension in the configuration file.
If you want to try to manually bump your extensions (so that Thunderbird sees them as compatible), close Thunderbird, go to %APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles\{your_profile}\exte nsions, open the "extensions.rdf" file, bump all the "em:maxVersion" that are set at 1.0, 1.0+ or 1.0.something to "1.5+", save, close, restart thunderbird.
Beware though, if you have TRULY incompatible extensions (may happen, especially for big version changes), you may bork your UI completely. I'd suggest a full profile archiving before trying so that you can reset everything if issues arise.
But if you're trying to make larger pages, and constantly have to jump between docs and defs (just to look up what that entity is known by, which elements thats forbidden in XHTML Strict and Transitional and what the hell that CSS attribute is named)
Or you just have half a brain and a few cheat sheets taped on your walls, it's not like CSS, HTML or JS needed huge multiple books references to just list the names of the values/attributes/whatever...
then you should use an IDE, like DreamWeaver in programmer mode.
Uh, no, you shouldn't, you should never use dreamweaver, and i'm not even going to talk about golive and frontpage here.
Well, Java is nice indeed, but it's not necessary. Anything you can do with Java, you can do with Brainfuck. Just wanted toi make it clear that your statement is stupid.
Either it's an ad to DeveloperWorks, which is fine for they run interresting articles about most languages and frameworks and get linked everywhere all the time.
Or it's an ad to Tapestry, which is an OSS framework...
Wait, aren't ads supposed to generate some kind of revenu or something?
A little off-topic, but the Creative X-Fi (http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?cate gory=1&subcategory=208&product=14000) sound system in the same booth was very powerful, and I could feel the chaingun rounds pummeling my chest!
That's not really helping, a sound card isn't supposed to be powerful (and isn't, really), it's supposed to
offer a perfect rendering of the data with as few distortion as possible
Suck the lowest possible level of ressources from your main CPU
Have additional features (high number of voice channels, effects,...)
Now the X-Fi line is VERY good at that (slightly lower perfs than the older Audigy lines, but much better quality, and can ramp up to 127 voice channels instead of 63 for the Audigys), but the power itself comes more from the amp and speakers than from the soundcard.
You are, Creative has already released the X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card quite some time ago (which already had some kind of advertisement for this mouse and the whole "Creative Fatal1ty line of stuff" and a gay-ass statement from fatal1ty himself)
Issue here is that this thing has neither, as far as I see not only doesn't it include any true innovation (innovation, you know, what Razer and Logitech sometimes happen to do with their mices), but it doesn't even use laser sensors (which even Microsoft finally switched to...)
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Once in a while you may get 5 mod points, you may use these mod points on any post in any thread (any article) with the only limitation that you may NOT participate (e.g. post non anymously) in a discussion where you used your mod points, nor may you moderate in a discussion where you moderated.
You also get mod points faster if you meta-mod a lot, I think.
While you're supposed to act fairly and impartially when moderating, not everyone does it and most /. users use the moderation system to push forward their take on the subject without considering the actual and factual value of the moderated post.
Since you were bashing java with actual arguments, you got modded as a troll by a few java fanbois passing by.
Sun can die for all I care, and allying with Oracle will probably help them down that path.
May I ask which "good reasons" could stand for a $200+ jukebox outputting crappy quality music? (oh, and if you must know, there are high quality headphones out there, just get your head out of your ass and you may see them, some are even sold at acceptable prices for earbuds e.g. much less than the price of an iPod)
You should start running now, I've got news that ballmer has just vowed to Fucking Kill You(TM). The chairs will soon come flying at you. Do not attempt to fight back. He shall Fucking Bury(TM) you, he has done it before, and he will do it again. For the love of God, just run. Try to run to Google's headquarter and head past them, he's vowed to Fucking Kill(TM) Google too and he'll Fucking Bury(TM) them, that should give you the time to flee to another country.
s/mainly/primarily/ not a native speaker, meant to say that the X5 beats the iPod in just about everything, but the biggest edges are in sound quality and variety of available formats
Well, the iAudio X5 kind of beats the living shit out of the iPod, mainly in sound quality and power (both of which iAudio is known to be good in), and in the number of formats it can read, which include up to FLAC
It was obviously implied that the gp meant "out of the box"...
No idea, I mostly use the CLI and only start X if I actually need it.
Yeah, because typing "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" once in a while is so damn hard to manage.
Far too annoying, although they're good products both Firefox and Thunderbird are VERY far from perfect, and the devs need the ability to change things.
Now the fact is that alpha/beta/RC should be used (that's one of their roles) by the extension developers to ensure that their extensions do work in the soon-to-be-released version (most extensions usually work out of the box afaik) and updated before the new version goes gold so that the users just have to click "update" and book it works (or let FF/Thunderbird grab the updated compatible version when they install the new one).
That's the bad thing, the good one is that extensions updates works MUCH better (by an order of magnitude) in FF 1.5/Tb 1.5, and you can set your soft to auto-download updates whenever it finds any for your non-geeks friends and parents so that their browser stays up to date.
They're not blocked by the update, they're blocked by the creator of the extension in the configuration file.
If you want to try to manually bump your extensions (so that Thunderbird sees them as compatible), close Thunderbird, go to %APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles\{your_profile}\exte nsions, open the "extensions.rdf" file, bump all the "em:maxVersion" that are set at 1.0, 1.0+ or 1.0.something to "1.5+", save, close, restart thunderbird.
Beware though, if you have TRULY incompatible extensions (may happen, especially for big version changes), you may bork your UI completely. I'd suggest a full profile archiving before trying so that you can reset everything if issues arise.
Legally drunk would probably be closer to "drunk according to the local laws/regulations", I think. I Am Not A Native English Speaker though.
"not even remotely funny" would probably be a much better qualifier for it though, even the /. mods are not amused.
Enjoy them !
Hah, pythonistas don't want you if you don't appreciate the monty pythons anyway
Not by far much, and Monthy Python based jokes are higly valued in Python the community and appreciated in python code/comments.
YA RLY!
Linux running it will, there's no reason for it not to.
The Core Duo based iMacs are already shipping
Or you just have half a brain and a few cheat sheets taped on your walls, it's not like CSS, HTML or JS needed huge multiple books references to just list the names of the values/attributes/whatever...
Uh, no, you shouldn't, you should never use dreamweaver, and i'm not even going to talk about golive and frontpage here.
Well, Java is nice indeed, but it's not necessary. Anything you can do with Java, you can do with Brainfuck. Just wanted toi make it clear that your statement is stupid.
Ad to what?
Either it's an ad to DeveloperWorks, which is fine for they run interresting articles about most languages and frameworks and get linked everywhere all the time.
Or it's an ad to Tapestry, which is an OSS framework...
Wait, aren't ads supposed to generate some kind of revenu or something?
That's not really helping, a sound card isn't supposed to be powerful (and isn't, really), it's supposed to
Now the X-Fi line is VERY good at that (slightly lower perfs than the older Audigy lines, but much better quality, and can ramp up to 127 voice channels instead of 63 for the Audigys), but the power itself comes more from the amp and speakers than from the soundcard.
You are, Creative has already released the X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card quite some time ago (which already had some kind of advertisement for this mouse and the whole "Creative Fatal1ty line of stuff" and a gay-ass statement from fatal1ty himself)
Issue here is that this thing has neither, as far as I see not only doesn't it include any true innovation (innovation, you know, what Razer and Logitech sometimes happen to do with their mices), but it doesn't even use laser sensors (which even Microsoft finally switched to...)