Wow "Pro PHP" and "PHP Security" both in the same title!
(Just kidding! I know PHP is really the web development platform of choice for professionals, and is incredibly secure!)
Has the Big Bang been established as scientific fact? Not saying it isn't, just would like some more info.
The fact that this post got modded up as both Insightful and Interesting is proof that there is no such thing as a stupid question - but there is such a thing as stupid moderation.
As to the book itself, I looked at the sample chapter and it's in the random, jumpy style that marks the modern MTV generation.
That's what I thought, too, until I read the preface to Head First Design Patterns. Turns out that the pictures, humor, etc., have actually been proven to improve learning and retention.
A bigger source of CO2 will be naturally occuring forest fires which according to some estimates already make up for nearly 50% of the world's C02 production. Forest fires are a much overlooked source of pollution.
Where'd you read that, Bush's justification for "thinning" forests, also known as "leave no timber company behind"?
How in the world could you be a Christian and not take the Bible literally? If you don't think that what is in the Bible is literal, you CAN'T be a Christian.
Senior Mgmt wanted to move from eDirectory to AD due to some price breaks on desktop os and MSOffice for over 50000 employees
Microsoft has been doing this for years with large corporate accounts. It still amazes me that when the DOJ was investigating them, they never touched upon this anti-competitive practice.
It would be nice to get a view from the other side
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Not everyone is a fan of Joel's. This reviewer obviously is. It would be interesting to get a more objective viewpoint.
No, when somebody comes out with an article that says "we've finally hit the size limit for hard drives that use existing technology - they just can't get any bigger than this" - that will be news. New, bigger hard drives in not news - it's a given, just like the sun rising in the east.
Even though we know there will be new releases of the Linux kernel in the future . ..
I'm not the biggest fan of Slashdot kernel articles either, but at least they generally discuss new features. If Slashdot were a newspaper, articles about new bigger hard drives sure wouldn't belong on the front page. It would be more appropriate for them to be buried on page H-29 in the "Boring Hardware News" section.
There's one more thing. Raymond was given $36 million in VA Software stock (LNUX) at their IPO as compensation for being on their board. See this article. Hence the comparison of MSFT and LNUX.
Doesn't seem to have an actual working version at the moment.
I think they have an actual working version, just not a demo version. Sounds like the current demo version has expired.
Pascal
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Oberon-2
These seem to be based on translating the source into Java.
No, go back and look again. There are 2 versions of each - one that compiles to Java source, and a 2nd that compiles to bytecode.
It works, I suppose, but not really a true compiler.
Even ignoring my previous response, this statement is incorrect. From page 1 of "the dragon book" - "Simply stated, a compiler is a program that reads a program written in one language - the source language - and translates it into an equivalent program in another language - the target language."
For example, the original C++ compiler, cfront, compiled C++ source to C source.
Python
That's an interpreter running in Java rather than a bytecode compiler like the.net equivalent.
TCL
Logo
Prolog
All interpreters, though the same is probably true of any.net implementations with these particular languages. But a language running through an interpreter is always going to be a worse choice for many situations, . ..
And it's always going to be a better choice for many situations, too.;) In particular, those cases where you want to be able to dynamically script something at runtime. Jython is often used for this.
All in all, more than I'd thought, but it still seems a poorer selection than for.net
Not sure how you came to that conclusion, given that I clearly stated "Here are just a few of the available languages for the JVM." There are many more lesser known languages for the JVM, most of which nobody's ever heard of.
. . . as Java continues to dominate the enterprise server space.
Web Services Journal, which is platform agnostic, has a Readers Choice poll going on right now. It's interesting that.NET is currently getting pummelled by Java in the polls:
Google is allowed to do a lot of things that most companies can't, because their prospectus actually says that their stock price isn't supposed to do well.
That's pretty standard in a prospectus. No company is going to claim that their stock will do well, because that creates an implied warranty to do well.
Thanks for yet another wonderful contribution to the Slashdot community, and mankind as a whole. Your posting history should be copied verbatim into Wikipedia because of its incredible value.
Gee, I didn't realize Google was the Firefox help system. Maybe they should get rid of the Firefox Help dialog and just go to Google when you pick Help from the menu.:)
That function (stopping animGIFs) should not be linked to the 'halt page loading' button, it should be a preference.
It's not linked to the 'halt page loading' button, it's linked to the 'Stop' button. Seems natural to me to use the Stop button to stop things, whether it's page loading or GIF animations.
Your solution doesn't meet my requirements. Not all animated GIFs are evil. Some are useful.
Therefore, there's no one setting that's perfect. Invariably, if you turn off GIF animation all-together, you'll find some site that uses an animated GIF to demo something that you want to see. Or, if you set it to only run the animation once, invariably the final "frame" of the animation will be a blank image. I haven't found those preference settings to be desirable. And it's too inconvenient to have to go into preferences and change a setting just to view a particular page the way you want to, and then have to remember to set it back when you're done.
I like the ability to click STOP to STOP the animations. I'd also like a context menu item for animated images that says "Stop animation".
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Wow "Pro PHP" and "PHP Security" both in the same title! (Just kidding! I know PHP is really the web development platform of choice for professionals, and is incredibly secure!)
Has the Big Bang been established as scientific fact? Not saying it isn't, just would like some more info.
The fact that this post got modded up as both Insightful and Interesting is proof that there is no such thing as a stupid question - but there is such a thing as stupid moderation.As to the book itself, I looked at the sample chapter and it's in the random, jumpy style that marks the modern MTV generation.
That's what I thought, too, until I read the preface to Head First Design Patterns. Turns out that the pictures, humor, etc., have actually been proven to improve learning and retention.
A bigger source of CO2 will be naturally occuring forest fires which according to some estimates already make up for nearly 50% of the world's C02 production. Forest fires are a much overlooked source of pollution.
Where'd you read that, Bush's justification for "thinning" forests, also known as "leave no timber company behind"?
How in the world could you be a Christian and not take the Bible literally? If you don't think that what is in the Bible is literal, you CAN'T be a Christian.
Hold still, I think there's a plank in your eye.
Any person could lok (sic) at it and asume (sic) it was a press release form (sic) the white house because the seal was being used.
From the freakin' Onion?
With that post, you really lived up to your username.
Senior Mgmt wanted to move from eDirectory to AD due to some price breaks on desktop os and MSOffice for over 50000 employees
Microsoft has been doing this for years with large corporate accounts. It still amazes me that when the DOJ was investigating them, they never touched upon this anti-competitive practice.
Not everyone is a fan of Joel's. This reviewer obviously is. It would be interesting to get a more objective viewpoint.
You sleep with your hard drive, don't you?
These hard drives do indeed have a new feature: increased capacity over previous drives.
No, that's not a new feature. That's the same feature that every fscking new drive has had relative to its predecessors. Hence, it's not newsworthy.
You realize this is news, correct?
No, when somebody comes out with an article that says "we've finally hit the size limit for hard drives that use existing technology - they just can't get any bigger than this" - that will be news. New, bigger hard drives in not news - it's a given, just like the sun rising in the east.
Even though we know there will be new releases of the Linux kernel in the future . . .
I'm not the biggest fan of Slashdot kernel articles either, but at least they generally discuss new features. If Slashdot were a newspaper, articles about new bigger hard drives sure wouldn't belong on the front page. It would be more appropriate for them to be buried on page H-29 in the "Boring Hardware News" section.
These Slashdot hard drive articles never get old.
I can hardly wait for the upcoming artlcles about Maxtor and Western Digital coming out with 2.5 inch 150GB drives.
I'm on the edge of my seat!
Yeah, but the evolution of planes is... intelligent design :-)
Unlike the evolution of automobiles.
There's one more thing. Raymond was given $36 million in VA Software stock (LNUX) at their IPO as compensation for being on their board. See this article. Hence the comparison of MSFT and LNUX.
Smalltalk
Doesn't seem to have an actual working version at the moment.
I think they have an actual working version, just not a demo version. Sounds like the current demo version has expired.
Pascal
Modula-2
Oberon-2
These seem to be based on translating the source into Java.
No, go back and look again. There are 2 versions of each - one that compiles to Java source, and a 2nd that compiles to bytecode.
It works, I suppose, but not really a true compiler.
Even ignoring my previous response, this statement is incorrect. From page 1 of "the dragon book" - "Simply stated, a compiler is a program that reads a program written in one language - the source language - and translates it into an equivalent program in another language - the target language."
For example, the original C++ compiler, cfront, compiled C++ source to C source.
Python
That's an interpreter running in Java rather than a bytecode compiler like the .net equivalent.
TCL
Logo
Prolog
All interpreters, though the same is probably true of any .net implementations with these particular languages. But a language running through an interpreter is always going to be a worse choice for many situations, . . .
And it's always going to be a better choice for many situations, too. ;) In particular, those cases where you want to be able to dynamically script something at runtime. Jython is often used for this.
All in all, more than I'd thought, but it still seems a poorer selection than for .net
Not sure how you came to that conclusion, given that I clearly stated "Here are just a few of the available languages for the JVM." There are many more lesser known languages for the JVM, most of which nobody's ever heard of.
. . . as Java continues to dominate the enterprise server space.
Web Services Journal, which is platform agnostic, has a Readers Choice poll going on right now. It's interesting that .NET is currently getting pummelled by Java in the polls:
Best App Server for Web Services
Best Web Services Platform
That was supposed to be Scheme, not Schema. Sometimes my fingers have a mind of their own.
You can write in lots of nice languages for it, wheras Java afaik only has Java and Ruby.
No offense, but I guess you don't know much. Here are just a few of the available languages for the JVM:
Oh, I must be tired: Shamir is, of course, the *S* in RSA. Crikey.
Hmmmm, the old "double the karma by posting a followup correcting a mistake in the parent" trick. I gotta remember that one!
Google is allowed to do a lot of things that most companies can't, because their prospectus actually says that their stock price isn't supposed to do well.
That's pretty standard in a prospectus. No company is going to claim that their stock will do well, because that creates an implied warranty to do well.
Thanks for yet another wonderful contribution to the Slashdot community, and mankind as a whole. Your posting history should be copied verbatim into Wikipedia because of its incredible value.
Who knew the Queen Mum was into wireless?
She doesn't have much choice. They generally don't run ethernet cable to coffins.
Gee, I didn't realize Google was the Firefox help system. Maybe they should get rid of the Firefox Help dialog and just go to Google when you pick Help from the menu. :)
Guess you'll have to resort to using the incredibly difficult esc key.
Thanks for the information. You can shove the sarcasm, though.
Using the escape key isn't difficult, but neither is it intuitive. And here's what Firefox help says when you search for:
animated: [No matching items found.]
animation: [No matching items found.]
GIF: [No matching items found.]
That function (stopping animGIFs) should not be linked to the 'halt page loading' button, it should be a preference.
It's not linked to the 'halt page loading' button, it's linked to the 'Stop' button. Seems natural to me to use the Stop button to stop things, whether it's page loading or GIF animations.
Your solution doesn't meet my requirements. Not all animated GIFs are evil. Some are useful.
Therefore, there's no one setting that's perfect. Invariably, if you turn off GIF animation all-together, you'll find some site that uses an animated GIF to demo something that you want to see. Or, if you set it to only run the animation once, invariably the final "frame" of the animation will be a blank image. I haven't found those preference settings to be desirable. And it's too inconvenient to have to go into preferences and change a setting just to view a particular page the way you want to, and then have to remember to set it back when you're done.
I like the ability to click STOP to STOP the animations. I'd also like a context menu item for animated images that says "Stop animation".