I see a lot of this revisionism as pandering to the religious right
Spoken like a true liberal. This bullshit isn't from the religious right, it's from the politically-correct left—the same people as the ones who'll punish a kid for pointing a chicken leg—the ones who have declared acting like a boy instead of a good little girl to be a disease (ADD), to be treated with disapproval and drugs. You know—the "it takes a village to raise a child" bunch?
—One difference between conservatives and liberals is that conservatives know they are conservative; liberals think themselves moderate—
Right. Kyocera and Novell, both of whom have large patent staffs of their own, lack the resources or the will to check on Microsoft's claims. We on Slashdot, however, have the wisdom to see through this ploy.
ES4 is backwards compatible, what the hell are you talking about
The specification is backwards compatible. That any implementation will be bug-free backwards compatible in any short time-scale is highly unlikely; there are too many feature changes. This is an example of the difference between philosophy and engineering.
There's a parallel in C/C++. We still have first-class C compilers in use even though most C++ compilers will handle straight C quite nicely. No one in the C development community would have been foolish enough to shred their C compilers the day after the first C++ compiler became available.
Eich is acting the ass. Not just because he attacks Wilson personally and Microsoft generally without addressing Wilson's concerns, but because he's ignoring (or ignorant of) engineering rule #2: Make Before Break.
From what I've seen of it, ES4 is pretty good. But Wilson is right: It's too big a departure and should be introduced as a new language (C/C++ anyone?). That assures we don't break a lot of web sites while ES4 stabilizes. The various Javascript instances, with no new features—only bug fixes and performance enhancements—will become rock-solid for those who don't need ES4 capability. Years from now, when all the backward compatibility bugs have been excised from ES4, we can retire Javascript. But not a moment sooner.
I installed Tealscript on my Tungsten E2 and, after fiddling with the options for a few minutes, I had Graffiti working the way it should. I have my old Pilot back!
Indeed. To my mind, the Tungsten is a giant step backward. It's particularly stupid that Graffiti is what made the pilot in the first place but in the Tungsten they put Graffiti 2, which is slow, unreliable and hyper-sensitive to small timing variations. I really hope they fired the idiot who thought that was a good idea.
With the Visor and Graffiti, I could take notes continuously without looking at the screen (great for meetings). With the Tungsten and Graffiti 2, I have to keep checking that it read what I wrote or that it hasn't interpreted an "i" as "l." or vice versa. I've never figured out how to get it to consistently read an "r" or an "h". The original Graffiti was fast and sure. Graffiti 2 is so bad that I'll probably be looking for something with one of those moronic little keyboards as my next PDA. I know that is really slumming in technological backwaters, but I don't see much choice.
The latest of those times was three weeks ago. Is there a new release I don't know about?
I'd like OO to do what I need it to do as well as MS Office does; I'm about to add a system and it would be nice to save the high cost of buying a whole new suite from Microsoft. Of course, I'd still have to buy Visio.
Maybe someone could explain to the sorority girls that the difference between a jock and a nerd is that nerds read the manual. A nerd may have a problem getting the girl, but he won't have any trouble keeping her.
Pay no attention to the neanderthalers who want you to regress to some text processing application.
Word is ideal for tech documentation, as it gives you the tools to do better-than-good typography, as well as to easily enhance the text with illustrations and inclusions—to create documentation that's tuned for the reader, not the writer.
I'm assuming you know how to set up suitable styles. For the rest, you have more than cut and paste as an option. Keep in mind that you can embed just about any file as an object linked to the file (Insert|Object|Create from File) so that any changes to the file are automagically sync'd in the document. This can be a log file, a Visio diagram, or an Excel spreadsheet—anything it takes to clearly describe what you're doing. If your life is really interesting, there are also compound documents to play with.
I spend my days (and some nights) developing technical documents. I cannot conceive of using a lesser tool. I've played some with Open Office, but it isn't there yet.
"AJAX" was invented during a marketing meeting to refer to a set of technologies that some sales rep was trying sell, at least as I have heard it
One of the key AJAX distinctions is that, like REST, there is nothing to sell; it uses ordinary web tools. Whatever the source, it wasn't anyone trying to market a product. A book, maybe.
To boil this down, CSIRO invented the schemes to make 802.11n work.
No. CSIRO invented the schemes. IEEE members developed 802.11N using the schemes, believing CSIRO would cooperate. If that had ever been in doubt, the standard would have been developed along different lines, avoiding CSIRO's patents.
Whether this is a misunderstanding or a ploy by CSIRO will eventually be clear, but to suggest that the companies supporting the standard are trying to cheat CSIRO out of royalties it deserves is either naive or disingenuous.
"Had we failed to update the service automatically, users would not have been able to successfully check for updates and, in turn, users would not have had updates installed automatically or received expected notifications."
I read this three or four times trying to make some sense of it and got a screaming headache for my effort.
Fortunately, I keep the AU and BITS services disabled until and unless I need them. This hasn't happened since last February and that's the date on the WU files. Every so often I get frantic dialog boxes, but I drop them in the bit bucket. In spite of the lack of patching, XP continues to run flawlessly for me.
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It remains that three times negligible remains negligible.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" applies to all claims, including those that handily advance socialist causes.
Welcome to Canada
This is the country that read 1984 and decided it was a reference manual.
Maryland—Welcome to Canada!
I see a lot of this revisionism as pandering to the religious right
Spoken like a true liberal. This bullshit isn't from the religious right, it's from the politically-correct left—the same people as the ones who'll punish a kid for pointing a chicken leg—the ones who have declared acting like a boy instead of a good little girl to be a disease (ADD), to be treated with disapproval and drugs. You know—the "it takes a village to raise a child" bunch?
—One difference between conservatives and liberals is that conservatives know they are conservative; liberals think themselves moderate—
Right. Kyocera and Novell, both of whom have large patent staffs of their own, lack the resources or the will to check on Microsoft's claims. We on Slashdot, however, have the wisdom to see through this ploy.
(chuckle)
ES4 is backwards compatible, what the hell are you talking about
The specification is backwards compatible. That any implementation will be bug-free backwards compatible in any short time-scale is highly unlikely; there are too many feature changes. This is an example of the difference between philosophy and engineering.
There's a parallel in C/C++. We still have first-class C compilers in use even though most C++ compilers will handle straight C quite nicely. No one in the C development community would have been foolish enough to shred their C compilers the day after the first C++ compiler became available.
Eich is acting the ass. Not just because he attacks Wilson personally and Microsoft generally without addressing Wilson's concerns, but because he's ignoring (or ignorant of) engineering rule #2: Make Before Break.
From what I've seen of it, ES4 is pretty good. But Wilson is right: It's too big a departure and should be introduced as a new language (C/C++ anyone?). That assures we don't break a lot of web sites while ES4 stabilizes. The various Javascript instances, with no new features—only bug fixes and performance enhancements—will become rock-solid for those who don't need ES4 capability. Years from now, when all the backward compatibility bugs have been excised from ES4, we can retire Javascript. But not a moment sooner.
Am I allowed a "YEE HAW!"?
I installed Tealscript on my Tungsten E2 and, after fiddling with the options for a few minutes, I had Graffiti working the way it should. I have my old Pilot back!
Many thanks to Steve for the tip.
I just bought Tealscript. I hope you're right.
Indeed. To my mind, the Tungsten is a giant step backward. It's particularly stupid that Graffiti is what made the pilot in the first place but in the Tungsten they put Graffiti 2, which is slow, unreliable and hyper-sensitive to small timing variations. I really hope they fired the idiot who thought that was a good idea.
With the Visor and Graffiti, I could take notes continuously without looking at the screen (great for meetings). With the Tungsten and Graffiti 2, I have to keep checking that it read what I wrote or that it hasn't interpreted an "i" as "l." or vice versa. I've never figured out how to get it to consistently read an "r" or an "h". The original Graffiti was fast and sure. Graffiti 2 is so bad that I'll probably be looking for something with one of those moronic little keyboards as my next PDA. I know that is really slumming in technological backwaters, but I don't see much choice.
I thought that I was a pretty good proposal writer, but this guy has me nearly speechless with awe! I bow to the Master.
The latest of those times was three weeks ago. Is there a new release I don't know about?
I'd like OO to do what I need it to do as well as MS Office does; I'm about to add a system and it would be nice to save the high cost of buying a whole new suite from Microsoft. Of course, I'd still have to buy Visio.
Maybe someone could explain to the sorority girls that the difference between a jock and a nerd is that nerds read the manual. A nerd may have a problem getting the girl, but he won't have any trouble keeping her.
Now read the rest of what I posted.
"Ajax" was coined by Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path, a consulting and training company. He was trying to describe what Google was doing.
Pay no attention to the neanderthalers who want you to regress to some text processing application.
Word is ideal for tech documentation, as it gives you the tools to do better-than-good typography, as well as to easily enhance the text with illustrations and inclusions—to create documentation that's tuned for the reader, not the writer.
I'm assuming you know how to set up suitable styles. For the rest, you have more than cut and paste as an option. Keep in mind that you can embed just about any file as an object linked to the file (Insert|Object|Create from File) so that any changes to the file are automagically sync'd in the document. This can be a log file, a Visio diagram, or an Excel spreadsheet—anything it takes to clearly describe what you're doing. If your life is really interesting, there are also compound documents to play with.
I spend my days (and some nights) developing technical documents. I cannot conceive of using a lesser tool. I've played some with Open Office, but it isn't there yet.
"AJAX" was invented during a marketing meeting to refer to a set of technologies that some sales rep was trying sell, at least as I have heard it
One of the key AJAX distinctions is that, like REST, there is nothing to sell; it uses ordinary web tools. Whatever the source, it wasn't anyone trying to market a product. A book, maybe.
To boil this down, CSIRO invented the schemes to make 802.11n work.
No. CSIRO invented the schemes. IEEE members developed 802.11N using the schemes, believing CSIRO would cooperate. If that had ever been in doubt, the standard would have been developed along different lines, avoiding CSIRO's patents.
Whether this is a misunderstanding or a ploy by CSIRO will eventually be clear, but to suggest that the companies supporting the standard are trying to cheat CSIRO out of royalties it deserves is either naive or disingenuous.
You re-install the operating system from the original media, configure your network connection, run Windows Update, and let MS do the work for you.
"Had we failed to update the service automatically, users would not have been able to successfully check for updates and, in turn, users would not have had updates installed automatically or received expected notifications."
I read this three or four times trying to make some sense of it and got a screaming headache for my effort.
Fortunately, I keep the AU and BITS services disabled until and unless I need them. This hasn't happened since last February and that's the date on the WU files. Every so often I get frantic dialog boxes, but I drop them in the bit bucket. In spite of the lack of patching, XP continues to run flawlessly for me.
When the demand for equality of results overtakes the demand for equal opportunity, we call it Creeping Socialism.
If y'all want to see where you're headed, take a close look at Canada, where mediocrity is a civil responsibility.
Interesting that what's at issue here is enhanced powers given to the Bush administration by a Democratic Congress.
I'm astonished anyone can stop laughing long enough to discuss it at all.
You can't think out of the box
Communism isn't thinking out of the box. It's an old box that's well-identified as one of history's sorriest losers—along with its adherents.
Is this really so hard to understand?
Not if your name is Mao Tse Tung.
We call this game "See What You Made Me Do". It's no more convincing from Shuttleworth than it is from my nine-year-old grandson.