Wow, hit Slashdot for the first time today and surprise surprise, its the daily MS bitching thread.
I challenge everyone to take 80% of the time they spend complaining about Microsoft and devote it to something else such as contributing to an OSS project.
It's not "hypocritical" to shoot for standards-compliant markup, and neglect quirky pieces of software that ignore the standards.
Yeah, but NONE of the major browsers are fully CSS2 compliant. So, yes, while IE is the worst of the bunch, dropping IE does not mean that you are writing the range of fully standards-compliant markup. In the end, you're still limited to only using the stuff which happenes to be supported by the browsers you are targeting.
So while IE is the worst, the others are still dirty. Just not so much.
I see no quote from Wynne related to testing. Did he really say this, or is CNN just twisting the truth by tossing in the word "testing"
From reading his quotes, it appears that he thinks we should not use non-lethal weapons on the battlefield unless we are willing to use them at home. That implies, to me at least, that we should only use non-lethal weapons if we think they are safe enough to use in the US. In other words, the non-lethal weapons are really non-lethal. If we're claiming something is "non-lethal" then we back up that claim with domestic use.
Is this not a good thing?
By using them on ourselves, that adds some assurance that the military won't use untested non-lethal weapons on foreign citizens. That means that we are really testing these things before we use them in real situations on real people because we're using them on ourselves first. And if their use can stand up to the sue-happy US laywers, their use will be more accepted in combat situations overseas.
This crap about using US citizens as guinea pigs is bogus.
"To contact BetonSports Customer Service please call toll free 1-866-481-3057. You may also send email requests to:
customer_service@betonsports.com
Customer Service hours are Monday to Friday, 10am - 10pm EST. "
Hmm, looks like a US number and a US timezone there. May be UK based, but they are definitely targeting business to the US
Yeah, I really don't get it either. The little buttons appear even if there is no useful action to take. If the text is expanded, or whatever its doing, you can still click the little page icon. Doing so, it jumps to some other location, then jumps back to somewhere close to where you were, could be the same line, could be a few lines off. If you hit a few lines off, the technology has successfully disoriented you and has given you no way to get back to where you were before.
I guess if the team's goal was to create something which is even more of a navigation nightmare than Flash, well, then, They're Winner!
As well, improvements in computer hardware, GPUs in particular, will start to make the cheesy character graphics that WoW uses seem old.
From what I've heard, Blizzard has already planned for this. At some point in the future, they'll update their graphics engine along with the graphical content of the game (skins and stuff).
Blizzard has been really lax in adding new content, and fixing bugs
You're kidding, right? They pump out new content every 2 months or so. Plus, you're being picky over minor bugs. Because of the high quality of their product, you're holding them to a much higher standard, which is understandable, but really, compare bugs in WoW to bugs in any other game.
It wasn't the whole of the Government or the DoD, but your particular customer who made the decision. There is no government mandate to use only Windows Server 2003 as opposed to Linux. I've been involved in multiple DoD project which used mostly open source software and have had no complaints.
This is just a case of failing to sell a solution to a customer. Familiarity is a huge issue for non-techies that software developers sometimes overlook. Your customer didn't give a squat about OSS, they were just worried about having an unfamiliar or difficult to use system.
but you make the point for low taxes and very little government involvement in any part of our lives
What a great idea. The world wide web (created by a multi-government funded organization) and the internet (created by a government funded organization) are seriously useless to society. Global communication is overrated. That includes the global telecommunication network (more munti-government funding in its lifetime, such as Morse's 30k government grant for the US telegraph network).
Heck, since we canned that, let's look at those eyesore highways, more government clutter. Who needs to travel anyway?
With the breakdown in travel and communication, there is no need for government anymore, so we can just live in communes and grow our own organic veggies powered by happy sunshine and vegetarian hippie poop.
peace
but while everybody is shitting their pants waiting for Bush to leave office in '08
If all the people who cared enough to have an opinion actually cared enough to vote, this wouldn't have been an issue.
unless I have a better choice than a douche versus a turd, which seemed to be all that was being offered in the presidential elections the last few years......Yes, it's likely to be more local
Pretty much anyone who ends up in the White House had to win a smaller local election. You won't get better choices at the top unless you focus on the botton where you have more choice and more of a say.
Wow that's pretty bad logic. The parent said "if it was perfect it would be released now", not "unless its perfect it won't be released". Big difference.
Look at the OP for the entire context: Lets all remember that this is still Beta code. It's not suppossed to be perfect. If it was perfect it would be released now.
He's saying that it's not supposed to be perfect because it's still Beta code, implying that the release code is supposed to be perfect.
I should have quoted the whole thing.
Bingo! You've just proven that the incompetence spreads beyond MySpace.
The problem with the semantic web movement is this: You have the web guys from the W3C who got famous by building kinda crappy, but effective technology (HTTP, HTML, etc...) going goo goo gah gah over PhD Ontologists from the AI community. They team up and build these great things that the average person (including the people who think they are really really smart, like the Slashdot editors), has no chance in hell of using effectively. What'll happen, is that eventually there will be useful Semantic content and Intelligent Agents doing great things, but that work will be done by a select few. The unwashed masses will still be the domain of Google.
Excuse me? The shuttle must be one of the most redundantly-instrumented efforts ever built and they don't know what's leaking?
Obviously not. I guess some rogue foam disabled the giant blinking "HYDRAZINE LEAK" and "NITROGEN LEAK" signs, so they're lost up there. You better call NASA and tell em what's what.
Slashdot Mirror
It happened when Firefox became mainstream. According to geek rule A45-124.7 Firefox must now be considered evil.
And 100% of the 45-year-old+ crowd still lives in their mom's basement.
And mom still pays the bills which accounts for the high number of women.
Poor guy...
Yeah, first they cut Wil's scene, and now this.
What a shame.
sure is jealous of the computer.
condoms
But hardly a feature one would expect in a geek wallet
Americans winning the Nobel Peace Prize...
Americans win it 20% of the time.
you can get the 256MB version for $87
Read the reviews.
but it will hardly ever produce the best possible solution.
So.... the human brain which isn't the best possbile solution because of evolution, will produce the best possible solution?
Wow, hit Slashdot for the first time today and surprise surprise, its the daily MS bitching thread.
I challenge everyone to take 80% of the time they spend complaining about Microsoft and devote it to something else such as contributing to an OSS project.
When will they learn?
...crickets...
It's not "hypocritical" to shoot for standards-compliant markup, and neglect quirky pieces of software that ignore the standards.
Yeah, but NONE of the major browsers are fully CSS2 compliant. So, yes, while IE is the worst of the bunch, dropping IE does not mean that you are writing the range of fully standards-compliant markup. In the end, you're still limited to only using the stuff which happenes to be supported by the browsers you are targeting.
So while IE is the worst, the others are still dirty. Just not so much.
I see no quote from Wynne related to testing. Did he really say this, or is CNN just twisting the truth by tossing in the word "testing"
From reading his quotes, it appears that he thinks we should not use non-lethal weapons on the battlefield unless we are willing to use them at home. That implies, to me at least, that we should only use non-lethal weapons if we think they are safe enough to use in the US. In other words, the non-lethal weapons are really non-lethal. If we're claiming something is "non-lethal" then we back up that claim with domestic use.
Is this not a good thing?
By using them on ourselves, that adds some assurance that the military won't use untested non-lethal weapons on foreign citizens. That means that we are really testing these things before we use them in real situations on real people because we're using them on ourselves first. And if their use can stand up to the sue-happy US laywers, their use will be more accepted in combat situations overseas.
This crap about using US citizens as guinea pigs is bogus.
Well, if I had my way, we'd see a singing Tom AND he would be played by Shatner.
Such a missed opportunity.
Well, go to betonsports.com
"To contact BetonSports Customer Service please call toll free 1-866-481-3057. You may also send email requests to:
customer_service@betonsports.com
Customer Service hours are Monday to Friday, 10am - 10pm EST. "
Hmm, looks like a US number and a US timezone there. May be UK based, but they are definitely targeting business to the US
Yeah, I really don't get it either. The little buttons appear even if there is no useful action to take. If the text is expanded, or whatever its doing, you can still click the little page icon. Doing so, it jumps to some other location, then jumps back to somewhere close to where you were, could be the same line, could be a few lines off. If you hit a few lines off, the technology has successfully disoriented you and has given you no way to get back to where you were before.
I guess if the team's goal was to create something which is even more of a navigation nightmare than Flash, well, then, They're Winner!
As well, improvements in computer hardware, GPUs in particular, will start to make the cheesy character graphics that WoW uses seem old.
From what I've heard, Blizzard has already planned for this. At some point in the future, they'll update their graphics engine along with the graphical content of the game (skins and stuff).
Blizzard has been really lax in adding new content, and fixing bugs
You're kidding, right? They pump out new content every 2 months or so. Plus, you're being picky over minor bugs. Because of the high quality of their product, you're holding them to a much higher standard, which is understandable, but really, compare bugs in WoW to bugs in any other game.
It wasn't the whole of the Government or the DoD, but your particular customer who made the decision. There is no government mandate to use only Windows Server 2003 as opposed to Linux. I've been involved in multiple DoD project which used mostly open source software and have had no complaints.
This is just a case of failing to sell a solution to a customer. Familiarity is a huge issue for non-techies that software developers sometimes overlook. Your customer didn't give a squat about OSS, they were just worried about having an unfamiliar or difficult to use system.
Hush man, he was on a roll
but you make the point for low taxes and very little government involvement in any part of our lives
What a great idea. The world wide web (created by a multi-government funded organization) and the internet (created by a government funded organization) are seriously useless to society. Global communication is overrated. That includes the global telecommunication network (more munti-government funding in its lifetime, such as Morse's 30k government grant for the US telegraph network).
Heck, since we canned that, let's look at those eyesore highways, more government clutter. Who needs to travel anyway?
With the breakdown in travel and communication, there is no need for government anymore, so we can just live in communes and grow our own organic veggies powered by happy sunshine and vegetarian hippie poop.
peace
Many different vendors make DBMS services that speak SQL.... What product is this talking about?
I'm not sure, but the few dozen or so references to "SQL Server 2005" makes me believe it's talking about SQL Server 2005.
I could be wrong though.
but while everybody is shitting their pants waiting for Bush to leave office in '08
If all the people who cared enough to have an opinion actually cared enough to vote, this wouldn't have been an issue.
unless I have a better choice than a douche versus a turd, which seemed to be all that was being offered in the presidential elections the last few years......Yes, it's likely to be more local
Pretty much anyone who ends up in the White House had to win a smaller local election. You won't get better choices at the top unless you focus on the botton where you have more choice and more of a say.
Wow that's pretty bad logic. The parent said "if it was perfect it would be released now", not "unless its perfect it won't be released". Big difference.
Look at the OP for the entire context:
Lets all remember that this is still Beta code. It's not suppossed to be perfect. If it was perfect it would be released now.
He's saying that it's not supposed to be perfect because it's still Beta code, implying that the release code is supposed to be perfect.
I should have quoted the whole thing.
Bingo! You've just proven that the incompetence spreads beyond MySpace.
The problem with the semantic web movement is this: You have the web guys from the W3C who got famous by building kinda crappy, but effective technology (HTTP, HTML, etc...) going goo goo gah gah over PhD Ontologists from the AI community. They team up and build these great things that the average person (including the people who think they are really really smart, like the Slashdot editors), has no chance in hell of using effectively. What'll happen, is that eventually there will be useful Semantic content and Intelligent Agents doing great things, but that work will be done by a select few. The unwashed masses will still be the domain of Google.
If it was perfect it would be released now.
If that's the criteria, then no complex piece of software would ever be released.
Excuse me? The shuttle must be one of the most redundantly-instrumented efforts ever built and they don't know what's leaking?
Obviously not. I guess some rogue foam disabled the giant blinking "HYDRAZINE LEAK" and "NITROGEN LEAK" signs, so they're lost up there. You better call NASA and tell em what's what.