No, because the innerHTML method doesn't work with XML (and XHTML is a form of XML). I'm assuming that your sending the proper XHTML mime type and everything.
Ever though of the GCC? Sure there are other C compilers, but none as widely used and supported on various architectures as that one. Also what about Emacs? I've never really used the beast myself but I know there are many geeks who would weep and wail if that disappeared.
Technically you are correct. However, when people speak of evolution, 90 percent of the time what they really mean is 'progressive evolution'. Progressive evolution is that bastard of a theory that tries to use evolution to prove that age old myth we call 'progress'.
Also, I consider the whole "good governance" mantra a cop-out.
From my limited experience growing up in the Phillipines this is actually a real problem. Outside of the capital city, Manila, the governments to almost nothing. Even the ambulances are just used to drive officials who don't want to have to wait in traffic. The last president, Joseph Estrada, was an ex-movie actor who made Bush Jr. look like Einstine. I remember watching this dialogue in the morning news one day:
News Reportor: Sir, what's your favourite colour?
Estrada: Fushia.
News Reportor: Uhh, how do you spell that?
Estrada: r-i-d.
in the end they found out he was stealling all sorts of money, then the people had a coup and finally got him out of there. Fortunatly the current president, GMA, is a pretty sensible lady.
The underlying problem here is the lack of eduaction that pervades the country. The whole Estrada debacle was a pretty obvious sign of that. A million cheap laptops with internet connectons is just what is needed. Once the public is somewhat informed about things they can demand politicians with some degree of intelligence.
I think the big problem is the DMCA. Because their taking a DRM-encumbered version of the media and freeing it up so that it can be used elsewhere (by the purchaser). It should be Fair Use, except that the DMCA doesn't allow for Fair Use. And if you do this by yourself, your still breaking the law. That's why distros don't ship with libdvdcss as it's illegal software in most parts of the world.
I don't think there's any law that swings one way or the other. Modern society steriotypes men as drunken buffoons (a la Homer Simpson, et al) and many of them strive to fall into that steriotype (it's not hard). Women on the other hand are told that their supposed to be liberated from the male dominance in our society, they must take control of their destiny and all that jazz, so the tend to turn out smarter. The current gender situation is a rather sad irony that after all that womens lib. and stuff that went on last century.
Of course I'm speaking in generalizations here. I figure that the actual individuals that make up society are a bit saner.
The only reason people get in a tizzy over things like this is that they believe their language should be "pure".
That's not quite it. Some people are like that, but the majority of us realise that a language exists in order to allow us to communicate with each other. When languages change rapidly, that hurts the usefulness of that language. There are also various other trends that degrade a language to. For example the word 'charity' use to mean some thing like 'an unconditional and pure (often divine) love'; however, over the last century it has changed to mean 'giving alms' and what used to be charity is now amiguouly refered to as 'love'.
Languages change, and much of that change is nessicary as new ideas emerge. But change, just for the sake of change and lazyness is bad, because it hinders communication.
Because the reason that people go into one field or another is only partly due to their skills and intelligence. Feeling accepted as a person (and not just 'OMG!!1! it's a girl') and camaraderie is really important as well.
Personally, if it has just been skills and such I probably would still be in pure math. But I enjoy computers more because of the social aspects (chatting on IRC, posting on slashot, mailing lists) and the people here are generally pretty intelligent and interesting to read. I'm an introvert, but that doesn't mean I'm dull or completely self-absorbed.
I suspect that you are right and that most web service providers will not want to use up resources with users downloading web service source. So, I suspect that the market will cause any such projects to diminish in popularity. The important thing to note is that the FSF is not forcing this notion of distribution on any project using the GPLv3.
FUD, the GPL says that you may charge a reasonable amount the source code. Free as in speech does not mean free as in beer.
This 'bible-thumper' characher that keeps on popping up on slashdot seems to have about the same effect as the word 'terrorist' on just about any non-geek website. Use it in a derogatory manner, and you almost assured at least one insightful modding, at the expense of actual insight. (Yeah, I know this is slashdot and I should expect anything better from a website where posts about Bill Gates' penis get 'insightful').
I'm guessing that your bible-thumper is one of those characters who thinks they know a lot about Christian Scriptures but really doesn't. I've seen these kind of people before, and yeah, they can be annoying; but their numbers pale in comparison to the number of people who think they know a lot about science and philosophy, but really don't. Have you ever started to get into a conversation about Plato with someone who says they read all sorts of philosophy stuff only to watch there eyes glaze over when you start to talk about his famous cave analogy. These kinds of people are a dime a dozen (hell, I've acted like that sometimes too) and it's not suprising that a few of them end up in Christian circles.
The comments made about these so called bible-thumpers are strictly ad hominem and it's unfortunate to see them so much among the educated people here who really ought to know better.
Definitly true. Another thing that our society really undervalues is silence. It's kind of interesting to watch how crazy people go after a couple of seconds of silence.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure something is messed up with those stats. Django on linux with lighthttpd and postgres can do about 200/sec for a regular dynamic page. In know Django is really fast, but I don't think it's that fast.
I can't remember where I read those stats, there's a link to somewhere on the Django website.
Another big part is that you have to do special things to a file to make it executable. You can't click on a file and have it run arbitrary code unless the file has explicite permision to do so. In windows (and maybe OSX to) files can execute code based on their file extensions alone.
That's not what he said at all. Cory Doctow's writeup was pretty sparse and lame, but you should really read Mark Pilgrim and Tim Bray's articles as they shed a whole lot of light on the issue. For Mark, the biggest thing was Mail.app changing everthing from mbox to it's own proprietary format. He then spent hours trying to recover a lifelong stach of email. There were many other problems along the same lines as well. Both Mark and Tim are definitly geeks, and I don't know what your definition of an alpha geek is, but they should be fairly close.
In a way, it's too bad that Mohammad wasn't around when Christ was walking the holy land. If the Prophet of Islam had met Christ, they would probably have formed one relgion instead of two.
I don't think so. To Mohammad, Jesus's statements that he was the 'Son of God', 'one with the Father', and that he could forgive sins (something only God could do) would have been blasphemous and outrageous. A modern parellel to Jesus would be something like guy with a PhD who hung out with sleezy people and proclaimed to the the second incarnation of Christ. We'd send him straight to a hospital for 'special' people. Mohammad's message was a lot more acceptable and apart from his numerous wives he lived a fairly normal life. There's a reason Jesus was crucified and Mohammad was not.
Have you read The Idiot (by Dostoyevksy I believe) or just about anything that Blake wrote. I won't say that experience is bad, but I think the control-freek mentality that drives it sometimes is wrong. We want know everything, to be like God, and that is our Fall. As the Green Lady in Perelandra (by C.S. Lewis) said "to take the good you wanted and not the good that was given to you".
So the idea here is that since modern man has perverted and screwed up everything on his own planet, he might as well go and repeat the process on another? Also given our history with other men with different features and skin colour - I'd hate to see what would happen if we met any alien life.
Better yet, get involved in the development of the standard and put your ideas on the table along with everyone else's.
They did. That's part of they tragity. They helped developed CSS and were really with it -- until they achieved their monopoly. You'll notice web standards development was going pretty swiftly until about 2001 and then pretty much everything stopped. A bit here and there, but nothing significant. If you don;t believe me go look at the w3c recs. Cris Wilson's name is on a good number of them.
FYI: Rhythmbox, AmaroK, and Banshee seem to be plenty good replacements for iTunes, and they don't have the overhead and weirdishness that XUL stuff comes with. Banshee is still in alpha or beta, but the other two are stable enough.
Now we go into our graphical program to convert it, and open a file manager, and select something, and then encode it. Now it is easily 2x time.
Yes, but you've also made it accessible to 200 times as many people who don't know how to use python. (Also you script was way oversimplified and if you wanted to only do selected items in a folder, it's a bit of a problem.
I don't like it either, but there are reasons behind it. The fact is that as a rule, upper and middle class white people are a lot less likely to bomb and airplane than a disenfanchised Arab. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with people from the Middle East. It's really unfortunate that the whole lot has to suffer for the actions of the few. I also really dislike the way that 'nice-looking' people get treated better than those who are not so well to do (I'm usually in the second catagory), but that's life. The sooner we get that chip off our shoulder the better off we'll be.
Windows may not do autorun, but it does have some terrible interface bugs that make it difficult for users to tell what is safe and what is not. First is the ability for files to automatically execute code based on they're names (the file extention more specifially). The second is that by default it hides this critical piece of information by default. I also allows executble files to assign themself icons. So I can create an I love you.exe file with an MS Word logo and 99.9% of users won't be able to tell the difference.
So yes, this is partly the fault of the users, but it is primarly a user interface bug — and a bad one at that.
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No, because the innerHTML method doesn't work with XML (and XHTML is a form of XML). I'm assuming that your sending the proper XHTML mime type and everything.
Ever though of the GCC? Sure there are other C compilers, but none as widely used and supported on various architectures as that one. Also what about Emacs? I've never really used the beast myself but I know there are many geeks who would weep and wail if that disappeared.
Technically you are correct. However, when people speak of evolution, 90 percent of the time what they really mean is 'progressive evolution'. Progressive evolution is that bastard of a theory that tries to use evolution to prove that age old myth we call 'progress'.
Works with XHTML.
From my limited experience growing up in the Phillipines this is actually a real problem. Outside of the capital city, Manila, the governments to almost nothing. Even the ambulances are just used to drive officials who don't want to have to wait in traffic. The last president, Joseph Estrada, was an ex-movie actor who made Bush Jr. look like Einstine. I remember watching this dialogue in the morning news one day:
News Reportor: Sir, what's your favourite colour?
Estrada: Fushia.
News Reportor: Uhh, how do you spell that?
Estrada: r-i-d.
in the end they found out he was stealling all sorts of money, then the people had a coup and finally got him out of there. Fortunatly the current president, GMA, is a pretty sensible lady.
The underlying problem here is the lack of eduaction that pervades the country. The whole Estrada debacle was a pretty obvious sign of that. A million cheap laptops with internet connectons is just what is needed. Once the public is somewhat informed about things they can demand politicians with some degree of intelligence.
I think the big problem is the DMCA. Because their taking a DRM-encumbered version of the media and freeing it up so that it can be used elsewhere (by the purchaser). It should be Fair Use, except that the DMCA doesn't allow for Fair Use. And if you do this by yourself, your still breaking the law. That's why distros don't ship with libdvdcss as it's illegal software in most parts of the world.
I don't think there's any law that swings one way or the other. Modern society steriotypes men as drunken buffoons (a la Homer Simpson, et al) and many of them strive to fall into that steriotype (it's not hard). Women on the other hand are told that their supposed to be liberated from the male dominance in our society, they must take control of their destiny and all that jazz, so the tend to turn out smarter. The current gender situation is a rather sad irony that after all that womens lib. and stuff that went on last century.
Of course I'm speaking in generalizations here. I figure that the actual individuals that make up society are a bit saner.
That's not quite it. Some people are like that, but the majority of us realise that a language exists in order to allow us to communicate with each other. When languages change rapidly, that hurts the usefulness of that language. There are also various other trends that degrade a language to. For example the word 'charity' use to mean some thing like 'an unconditional and pure (often divine) love'; however, over the last century it has changed to mean 'giving alms' and what used to be charity is now amiguouly refered to as 'love'.
Languages change, and much of that change is nessicary as new ideas emerge. But change, just for the sake of change and lazyness is bad, because it hinders communication.
Because the reason that people go into one field or another is only partly due to their skills and intelligence. Feeling accepted as a person (and not just 'OMG!!1! it's a girl') and camaraderie is really important as well.
Personally, if it has just been skills and such I probably would still be in pure math. But I enjoy computers more because of the social aspects (chatting on IRC, posting on slashot, mailing lists) and the people here are generally pretty intelligent and interesting to read. I'm an introvert, but that doesn't mean I'm dull or completely self-absorbed.
FUD, the GPL says that you may charge a reasonable amount the source code. Free as in speech does not mean free as in beer.
This 'bible-thumper' characher that keeps on popping up on slashdot seems to have about the same effect as the word 'terrorist' on just about any non-geek website. Use it in a derogatory manner, and you almost assured at least one insightful modding, at the expense of actual insight. (Yeah, I know this is slashdot and I should expect anything better from a website where posts about Bill Gates' penis get 'insightful').
I'm guessing that your bible-thumper is one of those characters who thinks they know a lot about Christian Scriptures but really doesn't. I've seen these kind of people before, and yeah, they can be annoying; but their numbers pale in comparison to the number of people who think they know a lot about science and philosophy, but really don't. Have you ever started to get into a conversation about Plato with someone who says they read all sorts of philosophy stuff only to watch there eyes glaze over when you start to talk about his famous cave analogy. These kinds of people are a dime a dozen (hell, I've acted like that sometimes too) and it's not suprising that a few of them end up in Christian circles.
The comments made about these so called bible-thumpers are strictly ad hominem and it's unfortunate to see them so much among the educated people here who really ought to know better.
Definitly true. Another thing that our society really undervalues is silence. It's kind of interesting to watch how crazy people go after a couple of seconds of silence.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure something is messed up with those stats. Django on linux with lighthttpd and postgres can do about 200/sec for a regular dynamic page. In know Django is really fast, but I don't think it's that fast.
I can't remember where I read those stats, there's a link to somewhere on the Django website.
I thought the original quote was "let them eat cake"? Or did I miss something.
Another big part is that you have to do special things to a file to make it executable. You can't click on a file and have it run arbitrary code unless the file has explicite permision to do so. In windows (and maybe OSX to) files can execute code based on their file extensions alone.
That's not what he said at all. Cory Doctow's writeup was pretty sparse and lame, but you should really read Mark Pilgrim and Tim Bray's articles as they shed a whole lot of light on the issue. For Mark, the biggest thing was Mail.app changing everthing from mbox to it's own proprietary format. He then spent hours trying to recover a lifelong stach of email. There were many other problems along the same lines as well. Both Mark and Tim are definitly geeks, and I don't know what your definition of an alpha geek is, but they should be fairly close.
I don't think so. To Mohammad, Jesus's statements that he was the 'Son of God', 'one with the Father', and that he could forgive sins (something only God could do) would have been blasphemous and outrageous. A modern parellel to Jesus would be something like guy with a PhD who hung out with sleezy people and proclaimed to the the second incarnation of Christ. We'd send him straight to a hospital for 'special' people. Mohammad's message was a lot more acceptable and apart from his numerous wives he lived a fairly normal life. There's a reason Jesus was crucified and Mohammad was not.
Have you read The Idiot (by Dostoyevksy I believe) or just about anything that Blake wrote. I won't say that experience is bad, but I think the control-freek mentality that drives it sometimes is wrong. We want know everything, to be like God, and that is our Fall. As the Green Lady in Perelandra (by C.S. Lewis) said "to take the good you wanted and not the good that was given to you".
So the idea here is that since modern man has perverted and screwed up everything on his own planet, he might as well go and repeat the process on another? Also given our history with other men with different features and skin colour - I'd hate to see what would happen if we met any alien life.
I think "look, don't touch" is better for now.
They did. That's part of they tragity. They helped developed CSS and were really with it -- until they achieved their monopoly. You'll notice web standards development was going pretty swiftly until about 2001 and then pretty much everything stopped. A bit here and there, but nothing significant. If you don;t believe me go look at the w3c recs. Cris Wilson's name is on a good number of them.
Judging by the proportions of most of the kids here in Canada and the US; I figure that moving is rather rare activity for most of them.
FYI: Rhythmbox, AmaroK, and Banshee seem to be plenty good replacements for iTunes, and they don't have the overhead and weirdishness that XUL stuff comes with. Banshee is still in alpha or beta, but the other two are stable enough.
Yes, but you've also made it accessible to 200 times as many people who don't know how to use python. (Also you script was way oversimplified and if you wanted to only do selected items in a folder, it's a bit of a problem.
I don't like it either, but there are reasons behind it. The fact is that as a rule, upper and middle class white people are a lot less likely to bomb and airplane than a disenfanchised Arab. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with people from the Middle East. It's really unfortunate that the whole lot has to suffer for the actions of the few. I also really dislike the way that 'nice-looking' people get treated better than those who are not so well to do (I'm usually in the second catagory), but that's life. The sooner we get that chip off our shoulder the better off we'll be.
Windows may not do autorun, but it does have some terrible interface bugs that make it difficult for users to tell what is safe and what is not. First is the ability for files to automatically execute code based on they're names (the file extention more specifially). The second is that by default it hides this critical piece of information by default. I also allows executble files to assign themself icons. So I can create an I love you.exe file with an MS Word logo and 99.9% of users won't be able to tell the difference.
So yes, this is partly the fault of the users, but it is primarly a user interface bug — and a bad one at that.