JavaScript [...] is extremely helpful for making useful, clean, modern websites.
I'll see your "useful, clean, modern" and raise you "glacial, bloated, bug-ridden".
Both JS and non-JS sites can be written well or poorly, and I'm not averse to a little javascript where it demonstrably improves the user experience, such as auto-focus into form fields for example. However, the problem is that some designers/developers just don't know when to stop, and seemingly only test their results on a gigabit LAN with a browser on their quad-core monster. As a consequence they think nothing of pulling in scripts and libraries from half a dozen sources and then proceed to use only one tenth of that code in the page. Frequently I see JS code where the whole way through it keeps testing over and over again for specific user agents so that it can choose which hackish workaround to employ instead of testing once and pulling in a brower-specific library. I have a 10Mbps broadband connection here and some pages take longer to load and render than they did 15 years ago.
Good designers and devs can produce excellent JS-based sites. But the other 99% are just a struggle to use and a good proportion of those are close to unusable.
Kudos to AC for Reference of the Day. However, Microsoft is closer to Gecko than Teldar. Buying up competitors just to junk their offering, suing their own customers for piracy, vendor lock-in, EULA, anti-trust convictions, etc. - are these worse than what the finance houses get up to?
Hmmm. Both OpenOffice and LibreOffice have 4 syllables. Perhaps a similarly long but better name would summarise the main features of the suite instead of just picking a contentious name. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you DocCalcChartShow!
It is new because you would issue a cert for the internal host from your own internal CA. In this case a remote, third-party, seemingly trusted CA has issued a cert for an unqualified host. That's a massive difference and a huge cause for concern.
This is not a myth I had heard before. In fact, none of the *nix sysadmins I know would dream of rebooting the box to clear a problem except as a last resort. Where has this come from?
According to the Linux Counter Debian is third on the list being installed on 15.97% of registered machines (after Ubuntu and Others). Yes, it is a self-selecting sample, but the numbers are large enough to carry some weight, IMHO.
If it is of importance to you, why not create a page on your own site which is entirely under your own control and there you can state all your opinions as well as facts with or without citations. If you like you could then create a wikipedia stub which could reference your own page. It's then up to the wikiguardians to decide if the wiki page is appropriate, etc.
Wikipedia is useful, but it's not the be all and end all of information resources on the web.
That's not quite correct. It was the UK host which complied with the police request. The site is nowhosted in the USA for precisely the reason that the British police can't touch it.
Quite the opposite (unless you follow the ad links). By following the "organic" results links, which most people do, you are degrading the value of the ads which they sell.
If they're top in their own listings, big wow. Try typing "microsoft sucks arse" into bing.com and see what's number one.
I read your comment and was completely surprised that your experience could be like this, when mine was the complete opposite (every version of Windows I have ever used has been horribly slow in comparison to Linux).
Then a possibility occurred to me. Perhaps you have only been using GNOME or KDE? These are big, slow desktop environments and one or other is usually the default in most distros. If you would rather have something really fast, but still need X, then take a look at any of the alternative, smaller window managers out there which will make your experience screamingly fast in comparison.
Fedora isn't a penetration testing distro, it's a server distro.
What on earth makes you think that? I've never seen any comment from the fedora project to the effect of "this is a server distro". In fact given the bleeding-edge approach Fedora has to including new packages I would suggest that it's not really suited to being a server distro at all. Good enough on the desktop, though.
For complex number crunching purposes, Fortran kills Java.
Of course number crunching is not Perl's forte, but neither is Java's. Experienced programmers know that often the most important decision is the first decision: choose the right tool for the job. The question remains: for which task is Java the ideal language or platform? I can't answer this question - can you?
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JavaScript [...] is extremely helpful for making useful, clean, modern websites.
I'll see your "useful, clean, modern" and raise you "glacial, bloated, bug-ridden".
Both JS and non-JS sites can be written well or poorly, and I'm not averse to a little javascript where it demonstrably improves the user experience, such as auto-focus into form fields for example. However, the problem is that some designers/developers just don't know when to stop, and seemingly only test their results on a gigabit LAN with a browser on their quad-core monster. As a consequence they think nothing of pulling in scripts and libraries from half a dozen sources and then proceed to use only one tenth of that code in the page. Frequently I see JS code where the whole way through it keeps testing over and over again for specific user agents so that it can choose which hackish workaround to employ instead of testing once and pulling in a brower-specific library. I have a 10Mbps broadband connection here and some pages take longer to load and render than they did 15 years ago.
Good designers and devs can produce excellent JS-based sites. But the other 99% are just a struggle to use and a good proportion of those are close to unusable.
You'll notice that most of the growth comes from adding support for new web standards, and adding workarounds for broken sites.
And therein lies the rub. A browser should never, never incorporate workarounds for broken sites. The broken sites should be fixed. End. Of. Story.
And, you cannot copy paste your login password to an OS :)
What? Of course you can.
$ ssh -l foo bar.baz.com
Password: [*paste*]
bar-foo 1 $
That's not to say you should of course, because it would be much better to use PKI, but the point is that you could if you really wanted to.
Kudos to AC for Reference of the Day. However, Microsoft is closer to Gecko than Teldar. Buying up competitors just to junk their offering, suing their own customers for piracy, vendor lock-in, EULA, anti-trust convictions, etc. - are these worse than what the finance houses get up to?
Wrong mood in TFS.
Nonsense - there are plenty of legitimate uses for domains other than web servers.
Hmmm. Both OpenOffice and LibreOffice have 4 syllables. Perhaps a similarly long but better name would summarise the main features of the suite instead of just picking a contentious name. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you DocCalcChartShow!
It is new because you would issue a cert for the internal host from your own internal CA. In this case a remote, third-party, seemingly trusted CA has issued a cert for an unqualified host. That's a massive difference and a huge cause for concern.
Ironic is when one's words say one thing and one's actions another that contradict it.
No, that's hypocrisy, not irony. Try again.
The usenet grep scene. *shudder*
This is not a myth I had heard before. In fact, none of the *nix sysadmins I know would dream of rebooting the box to clear a problem except as a last resort. Where has this come from?
According to the Linux Counter Debian is third on the list being installed on 15.97% of registered machines (after Ubuntu and Others). Yes, it is a self-selecting sample, but the numbers are large enough to carry some weight, IMHO.
It has nothing to do with respect and everything to do with ratings. Welcome to TVland.
If it is of importance to you, why not create a page on your own site which is entirely under your own control and there you can state all your opinions as well as facts with or without citations. If you like you could then create a wikipedia stub which could reference your own page. It's then up to the wikiguardians to decide if the wiki page is appropriate, etc.
Wikipedia is useful, but it's not the be all and end all of information resources on the web.
Are you sure Appnor is a hosting company? If so, it's not exactly a great advert that their site is slashdotted already.
That will teach me to his submit before rereading my post
Want to bet?
Also if you win a prize from their monopoly game ...
I think they prefer the term "franchise".
Quite so, especially seeing that one of those contributing was John Pilger. Nowhere near as contentious as Moore - one might even say "respected".
That's not quite correct. It was the UK host which complied with the police request. The site is now hosted in the USA for precisely the reason that the British police can't touch it.
I think it would be more intuitive if you were to swap the numerator and denominator. Otherwise, it's a good plan with much to recommend it.
Quite the opposite (unless you follow the ad links). By following the "organic" results links, which most people do, you are degrading the value of the ads which they sell.
If they're top in their own listings, big wow. Try typing "microsoft sucks arse" into bing.com and see what's number one.
I read your comment and was completely surprised that your experience could be like this, when mine was the complete opposite (every version of Windows I have ever used has been horribly slow in comparison to Linux).
Then a possibility occurred to me. Perhaps you have only been using GNOME or KDE? These are big, slow desktop environments and one or other is usually the default in most distros. If you would rather have something really fast, but still need X, then take a look at any of the alternative, smaller window managers out there which will make your experience screamingly fast in comparison.
HTH
Fedora isn't a penetration testing distro, it's a server distro.
What on earth makes you think that? I've never seen any comment from the fedora project to the effect of "this is a server distro". In fact given the bleeding-edge approach Fedora has to including new packages I would suggest that it's not really suited to being a server distro at all. Good enough on the desktop, though.
For complex number crunching purposes, Fortran kills Java.
Of course number crunching is not Perl's forte, but neither is Java's. Experienced programmers know that often the most important decision is the first decision: choose the right tool for the job. The question remains: for which task is Java the ideal language or platform? I can't answer this question - can you?
Certainly not. If it were Windows XP he would only have 16 Firefox windows.