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You seem to be quite prejudiced yourself, considering that you think "Southern Americans" means anywhere in the United States. Maybe you meant Uruguay or some other American country that's BELOW the equator? Or perhaps it was SouthernNorthern Americans you were referring to?
I totally agree. As far as I can tell, a total of 6 administrators were used for the entire sample. 3 for Windows, 3 for Linux (SuSE, by the way). In statistics, we didn't take any large-scale research seriously unless the sample was at least 1/10th of a percent of the estimated audience. If there are 300 million people in the US (actual is approx 295 mil.), and 1 in 300 are system admins (1 million total), then 1/10th of 1% gives us a sample of 1000 administrators. Reverse calculations using 6 administrators gives us a sample size that represents 6000 people, or.00002% of the population.
A larger sample size would be required for me to be able to make a switch based on facts (if i was a sysadmin). With 3 for each OS, you could've randomly chosen 3 really bright Windows admins and 3 relatively stupid SuSE admins. Great. A 47-page research paper doesn't do a thing if the data it's standing on is flawed in some way. It's especially misleading to have so many aggregations and averages with such a small sample. Changing a single administrator's numbers in the slightest could change the overall percentage.
Just from curiosity, I wonder which flavor of Linux administrators are actually using most?
In other news, an 11-year old boy from Michigan killed a classmate when he became enraged and performed his level 4 limit break, Omnislash.
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I really agree with point #2. Most of my life I've been able to just gloss over education and still do just fine. I was entered in my HS senior yearbook as answering "Sleeping through class and still making A's" to the question of what I liked best about school. The thing is, while I was making A's, I didn't actually learn anything and I did tend to expect things to just work out (which they often did).
The challenges came when I started realizing that I wanted to do better for myself when I got to college. Yeah, sure, I could be a pretty good B or A- student, but I wanted to do better than that. I purposely stuck myself in hard classes, challenged myself at work, learned apart from study time and had some teachers that recognized that I needed to be challenged, not left alone.
That would be when I started facing adversity and not just having good grades handed to me. Now, in the real world, I have real deadlines and a good boss that knows when to be tough so that I get on my game if I start slacking (of course, I'm posting on/. right now...). It's taught me firsthand about Edison's quote about genius being 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
In school, I think it's good to make EVERY kid fight hard for what they want. Force people to work hard, or else fail. If people have to be held behind, then so be it. I think it's better that people learn from having failed then not learn and having education handed to them on a platter.
I think it's great to have honors classes, as well as special ed, but I really think that every student should probably be challenged more than they are, either by making the levels themselves harder, or by bumping students up a level. Granted, this implies that the harder levels are better, but that's what we're hoping anyway.
Easy solution...uninstall AIM. If you have friends that won't switch to a better instant messenger, maybe they're too stupid to be your friends.
How about an instant messenger that doesn't have constantly flashing ads, has preferences that actually get saved and doesn't constantly get spammed by bots (AOL's or not). MSN Messenger and Google Talk work quite well for me.
ATLAS is Microsoft's attempt to compete for some of the attention AJAX is receiving by integrating AJAX calls into.NET code.
Here's the history for AJAX:
Microsoft creates Outlook Web Access and uses iframes to transfer data back and forth without having to refresh
In an attempt to make OWA better, the Outlook team develops an ActiveX control (called XMLHTTP) that can be called to send and receive data without refreshing. The ActiveX control is then integrated into IE.
To offer support for what would eventually be called AJAX, Opera, Netscape, Mozilla, Safari, etc. build in support for an object called the XMLHTTPRequest.
As browser support spread, web developers began using the XMLHTTPRequest and Microsoft's XMLHTTP ActiveX control in conjunction with other Javascript capabilities to develop speedy, applications, most notably Google Suggest, GMail and Google Maps
A lot of people(like me) think they're cool 'cause they don't have to refresh their page to send and receive data.
Microsoft pops back into the game in an attempt to integrate AJAX techniques into.NET web applications. Good idea, but it's a little late. They should have started development about a year ago.
Glad to know that SSB3 will be coming out, and that it'll be online. IT'S ABOUT TIME, NINTENDO. I was hoping that SSBM would be online, but obviously it isn't...so sad.
My wife (among others) won't play Smash Bros. with me. I've been playing for 4 years now, so noobs generally don't do to well...I've been playing 1-on-3 team for a challenge lately:) However, she doesn't mind me playing video games--as long as I don't pay more attention to them then to her;)
It sounds like your idea of real code is "spending 5 hours getting an array of checkboxes to work". Why should someone's first dive into programming have them trying to run everything out of a message loop? Give the kid a chance to have some fun, succeed in creating something and learn a few basics before you force him into COBOL.
The problem here doesn't have so much to do with VS as it does the mentality of any given programmer. VS provides you with a WYSIWYG interface which does most of the connecting of elements, events and properties for you, without ever touching the code. THAT'S A GOOD THING. If the user doesn't have any experience with programming, they'll probably stop there and will have what amounts to a bunch of disorganized components in a form. When it comes to IDE's, the program can only be as good as the programmer. Sure, it'll provide necessary hints and make code/program/solution development quicker or better, but unless the programmer knows what's happening, they're going to create some BS program.
Most would laugh at someone who tried to create a decent web page in FrontPage and it looks like a turd. Why? Because most people who use FrontPage usually don't touch the markup and can only get to a certain level. Once again, the output is only as good as the programmer (or developer, whatever). If the web developer knows good practices like using CSS, external files and correct markup, the website will probably look good or better. The same goes for programmers and VS--if the programmer doesn't know the difference between a function and their mom, they'll only go so far (and they probably have other issues too).
Don't blame someone's bad coding job on the IDE. It can't force you to adopt shoddy programming practices unless you didn't know any in the first place.
As long as Smash Bros 3 (or whatever it would be called) comes out for the Revolution, I'll be buying it. I still avidly play SSBM for the GC--it's probably the most replayable game ever made. Other than Contra.
That's probably the dumbest thing I've heard all day. When I go through the alphabet, i don't say the letter "G" with a hard sound. Gmail is the letter "G", then the word "mail".
This is somewhat of a different case, but I have a DVD player that only supports DTS sound, and not Dolby Digital (it's on old one). There are plenty of DVD players out there now that support both, so it probably won't be a big deal if both Blu-ray and HD-DVD end up being widely available publically. Someone will just come along and make a player that supports both and make tons of money.
My guess goes towards Blu-ray being the winner because it sounds cooler. Not that I care, but think of Americans...everyone's obsessed with having something that sounds/looks cool, versus being powerful or functional. They'll vote Blu-ray.
To specify, middle-clicking means clicking on a link by depressing the mouse wheel. Built into opera, not into firefox.
Also, Adblock is one of the extensions that I do like about Firefox. There aren't a whole lot of other ones that I've found useful enough (or at least not buggy).
Finally, I don't see what difference whether or not Firefox or Opera is open source makes. The point is that you're using a product that someone made. As for extensions, other than Adblock, I haven't found a Firefox extension that Opera didn't already have the functionality for built in.
I don't defrag regularly. Opera starts in about 2 seconds. Firefox is often slower than IE.
I like Firefox, I really do. It's just not complete. It's come a long way, but it's still far from being a final product, regardless of what the kind folks at Mozilla say.
I know this is kind of old now, but I'm responding anyway. Yes, Dallas housing prices are pretty low, but it also depends on where you want to live, and what you want to live in. You don't get hardly ANY land in Dallas in your house. I'm not sure how much you get in Phoenix, but it's probably more than here, which takes a good portion of that $720k out.
Also, there are some other things here which cost quite a bit more than they should. Sales tax is pretty high at 8.25%. Gas prices are relatively high--currently $3.00. Don't forget property taxes. I can go on.
The information Salary.com gave is probably off by a bit, but maybe not so much as you're suggesting by your numbers. Thing is, Phoenix and Dallas are relatively comparable, where New York and Phoenix are not. That's the point of the numbers.
I'll have to respectfully disagree with your argument that Firefox is faster than Opera. In some respects and configurations, maybe, but generally Opera performs faster when rendering content, running scripts and starting up.
On my machine, Firefox takes up to 8 seconds to start, while Opera starts within 3 seconds. Also, although this isn't technically meritable, Opera feels faster because of keystroke commands, mouse gestures and quick tab switching/handling. Every extension for Firefox that I've found feels clunky and requires too much precision for mouse gestures.
Firefox may win on customizability simply because it supports extensions, but really, I haven't found all that many extensions that are useful, or aren't just to provide functionality that I thought should've been included in the base program. Why should there be an extension for mouse gestures, tabbed browsing and middle-click functionality? Opera has this ready to go on install.
With all that said, even with all the advances Opera has made, there is still an occasional site that doesn't work as I expect. Usually, that's due to bad code, and the browser lets you report a site problem anyway.
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Corrected.
I know the Firefox fanboys won't care, but Opera opens the proof of concept page without a DoS.
Yes, I realize that saying this makes me an Opera fanboy.
You seem to be quite prejudiced yourself, considering that you think "Southern Americans" means anywhere in the United States. Maybe you meant Uruguay or some other American country that's BELOW the equator? Or perhaps it was SouthernNorthern Americans you were referring to?
I totally agree. As far as I can tell, a total of 6 administrators were used for the entire sample. 3 for Windows, 3 for Linux (SuSE, by the way). In statistics, we didn't take any large-scale research seriously unless the sample was at least 1/10th of a percent of the estimated audience. If there are 300 million people in the US (actual is approx 295 mil.), and 1 in 300 are system admins (1 million total), then 1/10th of 1% gives us a sample of 1000 administrators. Reverse calculations using 6 administrators gives us a sample size that represents 6000 people, or .00002% of the population.
A larger sample size would be required for me to be able to make a switch based on facts (if i was a sysadmin). With 3 for each OS, you could've randomly chosen 3 really bright Windows admins and 3 relatively stupid SuSE admins. Great. A 47-page research paper doesn't do a thing if the data it's standing on is flawed in some way. It's especially misleading to have so many aggregations and averages with such a small sample. Changing a single administrator's numbers in the slightest could change the overall percentage.
Just from curiosity, I wonder which flavor of Linux administrators are actually using most?
Mine was "Throw A Tantrum If I Don't Win". I was 8.
In other news, an 11-year old boy from Michigan killed a classmate when he became enraged and performed his level 4 limit break, Omnislash.
I really agree with point #2. Most of my life I've been able to just gloss over education and still do just fine. I was entered in my HS senior yearbook as answering "Sleeping through class and still making A's" to the question of what I liked best about school. The thing is, while I was making A's, I didn't actually learn anything and I did tend to expect things to just work out (which they often did).
The challenges came when I started realizing that I wanted to do better for myself when I got to college. Yeah, sure, I could be a pretty good B or A- student, but I wanted to do better than that. I purposely stuck myself in hard classes, challenged myself at work, learned apart from study time and had some teachers that recognized that I needed to be challenged, not left alone.
That would be when I started facing adversity and not just having good grades handed to me. Now, in the real world, I have real deadlines and a good boss that knows when to be tough so that I get on my game if I start slacking (of course, I'm posting on /. right now...). It's taught me firsthand about Edison's quote about genius being 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
In school, I think it's good to make EVERY kid fight hard for what they want. Force people to work hard, or else fail. If people have to be held behind, then so be it. I think it's better that people learn from having failed then not learn and having education handed to them on a platter.
I think it's great to have honors classes, as well as special ed, but I really think that every student should probably be challenged more than they are, either by making the levels themselves harder, or by bumping students up a level. Granted, this implies that the harder levels are better, but that's what we're hoping anyway.
"The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy. It's just that I just don't care."
Easy solution...uninstall AIM. If you have friends that won't switch to a better instant messenger, maybe they're too stupid to be your friends.
How about an instant messenger that doesn't have constantly flashing ads, has preferences that actually get saved and doesn't constantly get spammed by bots (AOL's or not). MSN Messenger and Google Talk work quite well for me.
Now I can finally get that soundtrack to Blades of Steel! I've been waiting for 17 years now...
Wow, I feel like I just got out of a meeting at work.
that's the point. i don't need your approval anyway.
ATLAS is Microsoft's attempt to compete for some of the attention AJAX is receiving by integrating AJAX calls into .NET code.
Here's the history for AJAX:
Glad to know that SSB3 will be coming out, and that it'll be online. IT'S ABOUT TIME, NINTENDO. I was hoping that SSBM would be online, but obviously it isn't...so sad.
My wife (among others) won't play Smash Bros. with me. I've been playing for 4 years now, so noobs generally don't do to well...I've been playing 1-on-3 team for a challenge lately :) However, she doesn't mind me playing video games--as long as I don't pay more attention to them then to her ;)
It sounds like your idea of real code is "spending 5 hours getting an array of checkboxes to work". Why should someone's first dive into programming have them trying to run everything out of a message loop? Give the kid a chance to have some fun, succeed in creating something and learn a few basics before you force him into COBOL.
The problem here doesn't have so much to do with VS as it does the mentality of any given programmer. VS provides you with a WYSIWYG interface which does most of the connecting of elements, events and properties for you, without ever touching the code. THAT'S A GOOD THING. If the user doesn't have any experience with programming, they'll probably stop there and will have what amounts to a bunch of disorganized components in a form. When it comes to IDE's, the program can only be as good as the programmer. Sure, it'll provide necessary hints and make code/program/solution development quicker or better, but unless the programmer knows what's happening, they're going to create some BS program.
Most would laugh at someone who tried to create a decent web page in FrontPage and it looks like a turd. Why? Because most people who use FrontPage usually don't touch the markup and can only get to a certain level. Once again, the output is only as good as the programmer (or developer, whatever). If the web developer knows good practices like using CSS, external files and correct markup, the website will probably look good or better. The same goes for programmers and VS--if the programmer doesn't know the difference between a function and their mom, they'll only go so far (and they probably have other issues too).
Don't blame someone's bad coding job on the IDE. It can't force you to adopt shoddy programming practices unless you didn't know any in the first place.
As long as Smash Bros 3 (or whatever it would be called) comes out for the Revolution, I'll be buying it. I still avidly play SSBM for the GC--it's probably the most replayable game ever made. Other than Contra.
What if, 500 years from now, a comet that is currently unknown to us crashes into Venus and changes its orbit...
Sounds like someone played a little too much FF7...
That's probably the dumbest thing I've heard all day. When I go through the alphabet, i don't say the letter "G" with a hard sound. Gmail is the letter "G", then the word "mail".
This is somewhat of a different case, but I have a DVD player that only supports DTS sound, and not Dolby Digital (it's on old one). There are plenty of DVD players out there now that support both, so it probably won't be a big deal if both Blu-ray and HD-DVD end up being widely available publically. Someone will just come along and make a player that supports both and make tons of money.
My guess goes towards Blu-ray being the winner because it sounds cooler. Not that I care, but think of Americans...everyone's obsessed with having something that sounds/looks cool, versus being powerful or functional. They'll vote Blu-ray.
To specify, middle-clicking means clicking on a link by depressing the mouse wheel. Built into opera, not into firefox.
Also, Adblock is one of the extensions that I do like about Firefox. There aren't a whole lot of other ones that I've found useful enough (or at least not buggy).
Finally, I don't see what difference whether or not Firefox or Opera is open source makes. The point is that you're using a product that someone made. As for extensions, other than Adblock, I haven't found a Firefox extension that Opera didn't already have the functionality for built in.
I don't defrag regularly. Opera starts in about 2 seconds. Firefox is often slower than IE.
I like Firefox, I really do. It's just not complete. It's come a long way, but it's still far from being a final product, regardless of what the kind folks at Mozilla say.
I know this is kind of old now, but I'm responding anyway. Yes, Dallas housing prices are pretty low, but it also depends on where you want to live, and what you want to live in. You don't get hardly ANY land in Dallas in your house. I'm not sure how much you get in Phoenix, but it's probably more than here, which takes a good portion of that $720k out.
Also, there are some other things here which cost quite a bit more than they should. Sales tax is pretty high at 8.25%. Gas prices are relatively high--currently $3.00. Don't forget property taxes. I can go on.
The information Salary.com gave is probably off by a bit, but maybe not so much as you're suggesting by your numbers. Thing is, Phoenix and Dallas are relatively comparable, where New York and Phoenix are not. That's the point of the numbers.
I'll have to respectfully disagree with your argument that Firefox is faster than Opera. In some respects and configurations, maybe, but generally Opera performs faster when rendering content, running scripts and starting up.
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On my machine, Firefox takes up to 8 seconds to start, while Opera starts within 3 seconds. Also, although this isn't technically meritable, Opera feels faster because of keystroke commands, mouse gestures and quick tab switching/handling. Every extension for Firefox that I've found feels clunky and requires too much precision for mouse gestures.
Firefox may win on customizability simply because it supports extensions, but really, I haven't found all that many extensions that are useful, or aren't just to provide functionality that I thought should've been included in the base program. Why should there be an extension for mouse gestures, tabbed browsing and middle-click functionality? Opera has this ready to go on install.
With all that said, even with all the advances Opera has made, there is still an occasional site that doesn't work as I expect. Usually, that's due to bad code, and the browser lets you report a site problem anyway.
If you don't like the way it looks, the Opera Community site has about 40 skins you can try out.
Enjoy