Hey maybe even I can get an article posted today! My article submissions obviously aren't prime-time material but from what I'm seeing on this special day.... off to do some submissions.
If you speak one language, you might not see the problem. However mostly only North Americans speak only one language -- English (okay, and mabye I'll include the British too). However the rest of the world speaks multiple languages. We North Americans are just too single-sided, one-point-of-view. It obvious by the question that was posted.
I'm not so sure what's perceived to contradict the Bible actually does. I think Christianity itself attains a socially-acceptable set of rules and beliefs within the church, and it varies from church to church, which can even contradict the Bible in many ways. I'm still not convinced that the two theories cannot somehow be worked together, but it more often turns into a war like in this thread. Even though I posted saying I get tired of it all, it's probably because I'm on both sides at the same time. I don't think that one side has the insight and the other is a bunch of dummies. Each side would say that about itself and its opponents. I don't like the Christians totally discounting evolutionary science any more than I like evolutionists painting Christians as a bunch of dummies. Faith and science. The two exist in the human realm. I think there's common ground and research to be done. I know people and like people from both sides. There aren't two distinct groups of people... only when discussions like this come up and people pick sides.
I know it's important to discuss, but personally I grow weary of seeing the same arguments from both sides regurgitated time and time and time.... and time again, on Slashdot, in the local coffee shop, in the university in the church.
What's evident to be me is neither side can prove what they are trying to prove, not yet. Both sides have are incesant in a religious way about their beliefs and not enough proof is in existence for any side to win or stand down.
Good arguments and rebuttals from both sides. I expect to pop into another such conversation thread a decade from now and see the exact same stuff, even 50 years from now. And then shortly thereafter I will be dead.
reverse the questioning please
on
AJAX and IE7?
·
· Score: 1
I got an idea... YOU have the Ajax script that you want to test. Why don't you download IE7 beta, test it on your script and YOU tell US how it works by posting the answer to this thread.
Thanks from all of us.
-- Slashdot users. (I speak for them in this case.)
This AJAX-for-all-things to replace all things concept is just not going to work. No matter how far we stretch the browser capabilities, it's just not equivalent to the stand-alone counterpart. You're always working within the limitations of the browser after which is evident 30 seconds after using AjaxWrite.
If anything the revolution will come in the form of applications on demand delivered to your computer to be run natively for a more full-featured experience. This whole Ajax thing will be around forever but many aspects will be a flash in the pan like AjaxWrite. Remember when Corel tried to port WordPerfect over to Java (late '90s)? 'Nuff said.
Oh c'mon, Go Daddy is not suddenly the bad guy because they chose a different technology platform. They didn't choose it to make Linux advocates resentful or to make Microsoft partners happy. It was a business decision. They think it will help them for their specific need. If Mac OSX would have been more helpful to their business they would have chosen it instead, or Atari OS or whatever. So what if they had problems with non-Microsoft browsers in the past or not; the author tries to draw a correlation but it's irrelevant. The author is just acting stupid I'm afraid to say. I mean, the issue is very interesting in and of itself, but I want to see mature discussion. Let's not put Go Daddy down because we prefer apples over oranges. I would rather see mature discussion about the switch. Indeed the good posts are already coming in...
From the other perspective, if Microsoft has for years gotten away with providing the same binaries to all users and its popularity has not decreased because of it, I cannot see why precompiled binaries on any platform would make a difference to the end-user. Yes, they do make a difference to the developer, administrator, etc. but if it makes a difference for one developer and no difference to 100 end-users, why not just keep it precompiled. I know... speed, feature bloat, security, etc. but from the end-user perspective it means jack-sh**.
Well, that kind of depends on your perspective now doesn't it. How about "driving on the lefthand-side side of the road instead of the of the righthand-side of the road of which I am accustomed." There. Politically correct and squeaky clean now.
Many young idealists who set out to create an alternative to the tech Establishment now find themselves becoming part of it.
You don't just find yourself part of a tech establishment. It's a decision. You're not tied to the OSS project such that you have no choice to be scooped up (unless an agreement is signed). You can always quit too. Rather, I think it's hard not to become part of a money-making machine with a steady paycheque if you've been working on a successful open-source project for a while. I can see the mindset could easily change from "well, I've put in my time and done good for the OSS community", to aftwards "I deserve to reap some rewards". It's rare that anybody gives up an opportunity that deals with money. We all need money to live.
I thought the fuel cell technology was much more promising than 8 hours. That's still less than three times longer compared with my standard laptop battery. Or is the main point that it's refillable/reusable?
Last thing the space station needs
on
Golf in Space
·
· Score: 1
As long as he doesn't accidentally take a divot out of the space station or slice it and put it thorugh a solar panel..
Bacon takes a look why some of the reasons people give for not switching to Linux might not stand up under closer scrutiny
Deja-vu?
Instead of pretending that people don't perceive Linux as a good enough desktop, why not just improve the Linux desktop? I mean, if Linux is usuable to users, then users will start using it. Period.
I find the whole "Linux as a desktop is good" skew a bit of a twist on reality. It's like the article (Bacon) wants Linux to be a better desktop system and figures if it covers it's ears and keeps repeating the mantra it will just magically happen. Good open-source doesn't just happen. It takes hard work.
From the prospective of hiring Canadians (I'm in Toronto) I found this job site particularly useful because it's easy to use for both job seeker and employer.
www.directjobs.ca
Some interesting features are:
* If you're searching for a job, the site includes results found in newsgroups too like tor.jobs, in addition to the jobs posted directly to the site.
* Job alerts can be created to notify you about potential matches for what you're looking for (is also intgrated with newsgroup feature).
* Some social networking (buddy groups) allowing you to seek and post jobs within the group.
* Can fax out your resume from the site.
* Can create notes to associate with contacts, job postings, etc.
but the Free databases will continue to gain on Oracle. Oracle's nightmare cannot go away.
Courageous, but unfortunately it's a two-way street. Likewise Open Source's nightmare cannot go away because they are the companies with huge resources at their disposal, and will continue to make acquisitions.
People from both sides have to get it into their heads that the two sides (Darwinism vs. Creationism) are not necessarily diametrically opposed. As time progresses, the theories either get solidified, modified, or trashed. There's still a lot of time to figure out these things, and definitely no need to throw one side or the other out of the picture anytime soon.
Also free VB.NET and C# compilers by downloading the Microsoft.NET Runtime SDK. (Only Visual Studio IDE costs $)
Combine Microsoft's free C# compiler and tools with the Open Source Sharp Develop IDE and you have a free C# development environment. Nice.
The article says: Other factors that Microsoft paid little to no attention to and still don't today would be gaming consoles, advertising, portable music devices, and computer security.
Um, Can anybody say "XBOX"?
What is Microsoft's advertising revenue? I see many M$ adverts all around, but have yet to remember seeing the competition advertising. I think I don't want more M$ advertising thank you very much. Funny how they're doing such a good job of it without paying attention whatsoever!
This blog article is screwed. I stopped reading at this point. Next Slashdot article please...
We get stuck in little boxes and like the things the way they used to be. That's human. However times change. Doesn't mean it's wrong. Doesn't mean it's right. Just means it's changing.
Slashdot Mirror
But is it smart enough to move itself when it senses the parking enforcement officer approaching with a ticket.
Hey maybe even I can get an article posted today! My article submissions obviously aren't prime-time material but from what I'm seeing on this special day .... off to do some submissions.
If you speak one language, you might not see the problem. However mostly only North Americans speak only one language -- English (okay, and mabye I'll include the British too). However the rest of the world speaks multiple languages. We North Americans are just too single-sided, one-point-of-view. It obvious by the question that was posted.
I'm not so sure what's perceived to contradict the Bible actually does. I think Christianity itself attains a socially-acceptable set of rules and beliefs within the church, and it varies from church to church, which can even contradict the Bible in many ways. I'm still not convinced that the two theories cannot somehow be worked together, but it more often turns into a war like in this thread. Even though I posted saying I get tired of it all, it's probably because I'm on both sides at the same time. I don't think that one side has the insight and the other is a bunch of dummies. Each side would say that about itself and its opponents. I don't like the Christians totally discounting evolutionary science any more than I like evolutionists painting Christians as a bunch of dummies. Faith and science. The two exist in the human realm. I think there's common ground and research to be done. I know people and like people from both sides. There aren't two distinct groups of people ... only when discussions like this come up and people pick sides.
What's evident to be me is neither side can prove what they are trying to prove, not yet. Both sides have are incesant in a religious way about their beliefs and not enough proof is in existence for any side to win or stand down. Good arguments and rebuttals from both sides. I expect to pop into another such conversation thread a decade from now and see the exact same stuff, even 50 years from now. And then shortly thereafter I will be dead.
I got an idea ... YOU have the Ajax script that you want to test. Why don't you download IE7 beta, test it on your script and YOU tell US how it works by posting the answer to this thread.
Thanks from all of us.
-- Slashdot users. (I speak for them in this case.)
Ah, I think I'll wait and see the screen shots on my own monitor when I'm running Vista ...
This AJAX-for-all-things to replace all things concept is just not going to work. No matter how far we stretch the browser capabilities, it's just not equivalent to the stand-alone counterpart. You're always working within the limitations of the browser after which is evident 30 seconds after using AjaxWrite. If anything the revolution will come in the form of applications on demand delivered to your computer to be run natively for a more full-featured experience. This whole Ajax thing will be around forever but many aspects will be a flash in the pan like AjaxWrite. Remember when Corel tried to port WordPerfect over to Java (late '90s)? 'Nuff said.
Oh c'mon, Go Daddy is not suddenly the bad guy because they chose a different technology platform. They didn't choose it to make Linux advocates resentful or to make Microsoft partners happy. It was a business decision. They think it will help them for their specific need. If Mac OSX would have been more helpful to their business they would have chosen it instead, or Atari OS or whatever. So what if they had problems with non-Microsoft browsers in the past or not; the author tries to draw a correlation but it's irrelevant. The author is just acting stupid I'm afraid to say. I mean, the issue is very interesting in and of itself, but I want to see mature discussion. Let's not put Go Daddy down because we prefer apples over oranges. I would rather see mature discussion about the switch. Indeed the good posts are already coming in ...
From the other perspective, if Microsoft has for years gotten away with providing the same binaries to all users and its popularity has not decreased because of it, I cannot see why precompiled binaries on any platform would make a difference to the end-user. Yes, they do make a difference to the developer, administrator, etc. but if it makes a difference for one developer and no difference to 100 end-users, why not just keep it precompiled. I know ... speed, feature bloat, security, etc. but from the end-user perspective it means jack-sh**.
Maybe out of work but would have a hay-day being owned by a Slashdotter on crack!
Well, that kind of depends on your perspective now doesn't it. How about "driving on the lefthand-side side of the road instead of the of the righthand-side of the road of which I am accustomed." There. Politically correct and squeaky clean now.
You don't just find yourself part of a tech establishment. It's a decision. You're not tied to the OSS project such that you have no choice to be scooped up (unless an agreement is signed). You can always quit too. Rather, I think it's hard not to become part of a money-making machine with a steady paycheque if you've been working on a successful open-source project for a while. I can see the mindset could easily change from "well, I've put in my time and done good for the OSS community", to aftwards "I deserve to reap some rewards". It's rare that anybody gives up an opportunity that deals with money. We all need money to live.
I thought the fuel cell technology was much more promising than 8 hours. That's still less than three times longer compared with my standard laptop battery. Or is the main point that it's refillable/reusable?
As long as he doesn't accidentally take a divot out of the space station or slice it and put it thorugh a solar panel ..
Deja-vu?
Instead of pretending that people don't perceive Linux as a good enough desktop, why not just improve the Linux desktop? I mean, if Linux is usuable to users, then users will start using it. Period. I find the whole "Linux as a desktop is good" skew a bit of a twist on reality. It's like the article (Bacon) wants Linux to be a better desktop system and figures if it covers it's ears and keeps repeating the mantra it will just magically happen. Good open-source doesn't just happen. It takes hard work.
Um, every format is going to be obsolete in the future.
* If you're searching for a job, the site includes results found in newsgroups too like tor.jobs, in addition to the jobs posted directly to the site.
* Job alerts can be created to notify you about potential matches for what you're looking for (is also intgrated with newsgroup feature).
* Some social networking (buddy groups) allowing you to seek and post jobs within the group.
* Can fax out your resume from the site.
* Can create notes to associate with contacts, job postings, etc.
It's been very useful to me.
Courageous, but unfortunately it's a two-way street. Likewise Open Source's nightmare cannot go away because they are the companies with huge resources at their disposal, and will continue to make acquisitions.
People from both sides have to get it into their heads that the two sides (Darwinism vs. Creationism) are not necessarily diametrically opposed. As time progresses, the theories either get solidified, modified, or trashed. There's still a lot of time to figure out these things, and definitely no need to throw one side or the other out of the picture anytime soon.
Also free VB.NET and C# compilers by downloading the Microsoft .NET Runtime SDK. (Only Visual Studio IDE costs $)
Combine Microsoft's free C# compiler and tools with the Open Source Sharp Develop IDE and you have a free C# development environment. Nice.
Thanks.
Um, Can anybody say "XBOX"?
What is Microsoft's advertising revenue? I see many M$ adverts all around, but have yet to remember seeing the competition advertising. I think I don't want more M$ advertising thank you very much. Funny how they're doing such a good job of it without paying attention whatsoever!
This blog article is screwed. I stopped reading at this point. Next Slashdot article please ...
Soon the total comments on this Slashdot article will read "666 of Total#". Too conincidental. We have a problem!
We get stuck in little boxes and like the things the way they used to be. That's human. However times change. Doesn't mean it's wrong. Doesn't mean it's right. Just means it's changing.