There's a real battle going on between those who want to make SO/SU/UF into discussion sites and not just question/answer sites. There's a place for both I think, particularly as so much of software and computing in general *IS* subjective.
There's a higher incident of rabid under-5-minute question closings now than a year ago, and maybe that's just because there's more moderators, or higher ranked people, but maybe it's also the wikipedia Cult-Of-Better-Than-You overlordship.
That said, I have a high incidence of finding answers to my questions on SO. I think it can get better with more community maturation, better editing of questions, etc.
The Palm Pre is what the iPhone could be if the iPhone had a physical keyboard.
The only downside to the Pre right now is lack of applications and no SDHC slot - so I could shove a 64GB card in there and forego getting the iPod Touch for a media player.
Oh, and the fact that it's Sprint only.:-) Which is why I returned mine.:-/ Boo. I really liked it.
Wait. I was once a rabid experts-exchange contributor, but then they started the paywall - first simply being registered simply to read the answers, now needing to be a paying customer (broken javascript tricks aside).
There's hope stackoverflow can be better, but the trolls and free-range mods have already taken hold and there's some of that "just because I've got 10,000 points, I can close whatever I feel is stupid" going on.
I don't question the value of the site as a source of knowledge. But using it is a pain. I don't want to see Ruby or C# or iPhone questions, and on the front page I maybe get 1 question I'm interested in answering, whereas 6-8 months ago I might see 10-12. Stackoverflows filters don't actually filter anything.
Yet I keep going back, because it's got great answers, and smart people, and the trolls are worth it. Just like slashdot.
I would rather pay more money for less shit, pay for my TV programming and get a good product, well designed, and not built to break and fall apart after a year, than suffer through one more single TV commercial or ad, anywhere.
It's the fallacy that an economy can be built on information, instead of raw goods. That's what's going to do us in in the end. Information is cheap, and the rest of the world is rapidly catching up or exceeding the US in knowledge manufacture...
Physical goods... real physical scarcity. Therein lies wealth (and an entirely different set of problems).
Interesting... because I saw that ACORN thing all over Fox News and CNN. Hmm... Is he watching TV in America?
As for broadband infrastructure, I think it's high time the gubbermint mandates fiber to the door, and buys it from the telcos to sell on the open market. Pay someone to put lines in, pay someone a contract to manage/repair it (on 5-10y) basis, and let companies buy it from the government. Use the postal service model, perhaps?
I really don't care how it's done, but keep content separate from delivery. Period.
Simply because you have a finite number of ports via nat, and natting is just one more layer of configuration I have to fuck with to be able to share services. I can't push out 100 HTTP servers via a single NAT port, for example, without some complex proxying.
NAT is a great solution for a particular shortcoming of IPv4, but it's a workaround, nothing more. The underlying problem needs to be addressed, making clients first-class network citizens again.
Most applications written on Windows since the release of Windows95 are more than capable of being ported to any other Windows platform in relative ease. It's too bad the only other Windows platform available is Itanium (that PoS).
The reason that DEC/MIPS/PPC NT failed had absolutely nothing to do with the lack of apps, but the lack of the value-proposition those companies provided to end-users. MIPS/ALPHA/POWER platforms were two-four times more expensive than commodity Intel platforms. No one forsaw the power-house that Intel was to become with the Pentium Pro/Pentium II, and that single factor alone killed those platforms.
The apps issue was only secondary. When NT 3.1 first came out, boatloads of apps were ported to MIPS/Alpha as well as Intel. BOATLOADS. I supported a network with all three (four, we had some pre-release IBM PowerPC's in 1997). But that cost differential is what killed any chance for a multi-platform windows.
This is a different case. A9 can be as cost efficient as Atom.
Actually, I do the opposite, I run my "work" in a VM. It lets me keep work separate logically, but still lets me only have to carry one piece of kit around. I comply with all the update and AV requirements, but I do my work from a VM. And if they want it, I can copy the whole thing to my network home directory before I walk out the door.:-)
coupled with its designers absolute refusal to support deleting contents from the repository
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but in places I've worked, if we removed code in such a fashion and an audit found out about it, we'd get pummeled. Especially if it was discovered after a public release. It's one thing to ship code copyrighted by someone else, it's something completely different to go about covering up the fact.
It's common for svn users to also have several days worth of work uncommitted.
I don't know what sort of developer you are, but I commit to my local branch several times a day, simply because I know I fuck up a lot and might overwrite changes I made earlier or rewrite code that I'm modifying to find a bug in.
It's not uncommon for me to check in once an hour.
My changes can get put onto the server many times a day with subversion. Not so much with git, SVK, or Hg.
Does Mr. T. reprise his commercial role as the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV0DtmxYFuE"Night Elf Mohawk" in Avatar? Serious, I thought WoW when I saw this. Even the live-action stuff looked CGI. There WAS live action, right?
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Which bank is this, and how do you get your codes?
Buy a good headset. With a decent plantronics headset I can talk for 14 hours straight (not that I like to). Even my wired phones I use a headset. I hate holding a phone. I need both my hands for typing and mousing.
Yes, it's called hardware level paging, and it's been around for 20+ years. This is a known problem. The problem is from how the exceptional condition (null pointer access) is handled by the kernel, and not the fact that NULL was called. The OS knows EVERY memory access that requires a page to be fetched from disk, that's a function of the memory management unit, and can be told of every access that tries to access an unmapped memory location. This isn't state of the art, this stuff is old hat (Linux and Windows).
So it's an OS bug, through and through, and yes, it's been fixed. Joy.
Ok, I don't get it. There's no obvious har har in there as there would be with Bush, and it might have even been mildly humorous if there was some setup involved?
Or is it simply a metaphor how everyone seems to want to eat of Obama's pie? Or his mother-in-law's pie? Is this a failed metaphor for big business begging at that government's tit for some food?
In Massachusetts, it's illegal to be *IN* the intersection unless you can immediately execute whatever maneuver necessary to get through it. What you're suggesting is illegal in some places.
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I think there's a bit of both.
There's a real battle going on between those who want to make SO/SU/UF into discussion sites and not just question/answer sites. There's a place for both I think, particularly as so much of software and computing in general *IS* subjective.
There's a higher incident of rabid under-5-minute question closings now than a year ago, and maybe that's just because there's more moderators, or higher ranked people, but maybe it's also the wikipedia Cult-Of-Better-Than-You overlordship.
That said, I have a high incidence of finding answers to my questions on SO. I think it can get better with more community maturation, better editing of questions, etc.
The Palm Pre is what the iPhone could be if the iPhone had a physical keyboard.
:-) Which is why I returned mine. :-/ Boo. I really liked it.
The only downside to the Pre right now is lack of applications and no SDHC slot - so I could shove a 64GB card in there and forego getting the iPod Touch for a media player.
Oh, and the fact that it's Sprint only.
Wait. I was once a rabid experts-exchange contributor, but then they started the paywall - first simply being registered simply to read the answers, now needing to be a paying customer (broken javascript tricks aside).
There's hope stackoverflow can be better, but the trolls and free-range mods have already taken hold and there's some of that "just because I've got 10,000 points, I can close whatever I feel is stupid" going on.
I don't question the value of the site as a source of knowledge. But using it is a pain. I don't want to see Ruby or C# or iPhone questions, and on the front page I maybe get 1 question I'm interested in answering, whereas 6-8 months ago I might see 10-12. Stackoverflows filters don't actually filter anything.
Yet I keep going back, because it's got great answers, and smart people, and the trolls are worth it. Just like slashdot.
I would rather pay more money for less shit, pay for my TV programming and get a good product, well designed, and not built to break and fall apart after a year, than suffer through one more single TV commercial or ad, anywhere.
I've always wanted to do a research project on the cost of advertising as a percentage of GDP and it's affect on inflation. Any ideas anyone?
I can walk down to B&N or Borders and buy a NY Times Bestselling Novel or Hardcover for $10.00 or $20.00 depending.
That same eBook on Amazon.com costs $9.95. WTF?
Which is where projects like wikibooks comes into play.
It's the fallacy that an economy can be built on information, instead of raw goods. That's what's going to do us in in the end. Information is cheap, and the rest of the world is rapidly catching up or exceeding the US in knowledge manufacture...
Physical goods... real physical scarcity. Therein lies wealth (and an entirely different set of problems).
Interesting... because I saw that ACORN thing all over Fox News and CNN. Hmm... Is he watching TV in America?
As for broadband infrastructure, I think it's high time the gubbermint mandates fiber to the door, and buys it from the telcos to sell on the open market. Pay someone to put lines in, pay someone a contract to manage/repair it (on 5-10y) basis, and let companies buy it from the government. Use the postal service model, perhaps?
I really don't care how it's done, but keep content separate from delivery. Period.
I feel happy!!! I feel happy!!!
And also explains why they are slowly self-destructing.
Simply because you have a finite number of ports via nat, and natting is just one more layer of configuration I have to fuck with to be able to share services. I can't push out 100 HTTP servers via a single NAT port, for example, without some complex proxying.
NAT is a great solution for a particular shortcoming of IPv4, but it's a workaround, nothing more. The underlying problem needs to be addressed, making clients first-class network citizens again.
Smart ones take the FUCKING COMPUTER!
Most applications written on Windows since the release of Windows95 are more than capable of being ported to any other Windows platform in relative ease. It's too bad the only other Windows platform available is Itanium (that PoS).
The reason that DEC/MIPS/PPC NT failed had absolutely nothing to do with the lack of apps, but the lack of the value-proposition those companies provided to end-users. MIPS/ALPHA/POWER platforms were two-four times more expensive than commodity Intel platforms. No one forsaw the power-house that Intel was to become with the Pentium Pro/Pentium II, and that single factor alone killed those platforms.
The apps issue was only secondary. When NT 3.1 first came out, boatloads of apps were ported to MIPS/Alpha as well as Intel. BOATLOADS. I supported a network with all three (four, we had some pre-release IBM PowerPC's in 1997). But that cost differential is what killed any chance for a multi-platform windows.
This is a different case. A9 can be as cost efficient as Atom.
Actually, I do the opposite, I run my "work" in a VM. It lets me keep work separate logically, but still lets me only have to carry one piece of kit around. I comply with all the update and AV requirements, but I do my work from a VM. And if they want it, I can copy the whole thing to my network home directory before I walk out the door. :-)
coupled with its designers absolute refusal to support deleting contents from the repository
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but in places I've worked, if we removed code in such a fashion and an audit found out about it, we'd get pummeled. Especially if it was discovered after a public release. It's one thing to ship code copyrighted by someone else, it's something completely different to go about covering up the fact.
So I'm torn on this "feature."
It's common for svn users to also have several days worth of work uncommitted.
I don't know what sort of developer you are, but I commit to my local branch several times a day, simply because I know I fuck up a lot and might overwrite changes I made earlier or rewrite code that I'm modifying to find a bug in.
It's not uncommon for me to check in once an hour.
My changes can get put onto the server many times a day with subversion. Not so much with git, SVK, or Hg.
what are those night elves doing in there?
Does Mr. T. reprise his commercial role as the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV0DtmxYFuE"Night Elf Mohawk" in Avatar? Serious, I thought WoW when I saw this. Even the live-action stuff looked CGI. There WAS live action, right?
Which bank is this, and how do you get your codes?
Buy a good headset. With a decent plantronics headset I can talk for 14 hours straight (not that I like to). Even my wired phones I use a headset. I hate holding a phone. I need both my hands for typing and mousing.
Yes, it's called hardware level paging, and it's been around for 20+ years. This is a known problem. The problem is from how the exceptional condition (null pointer access) is handled by the kernel, and not the fact that NULL was called. The OS knows EVERY memory access that requires a page to be fetched from disk, that's a function of the memory management unit, and can be told of every access that tries to access an unmapped memory location. This isn't state of the art, this stuff is old hat (Linux and Windows).
So it's an OS bug, through and through, and yes, it's been fixed. Joy.
Ok, I don't get it. There's no obvious har har in there as there would be with Bush, and it might have even been mildly humorous if there was some setup involved?
Or is it simply a metaphor how everyone seems to want to eat of Obama's pie? Or his mother-in-law's pie? Is this a failed metaphor for big business begging at that government's tit for some food?
Help me, I don't get it.
Didn't Linux go through this same thing way back in the day when Linus was the gatekeeper of all and sundry?
In Massachusetts, it's illegal to be *IN* the intersection unless you can immediately execute whatever maneuver necessary to get through it. What you're suggesting is illegal in some places.