We live under an increasingly socialistic government.
Excuse me? We live under a decreasingly socialist and increasingly industro-capitalist government. Socialism means that there are checks and balances to keep the rich from becoming increasingly so at the expense of the poor. Last time I checked, wealth in this country was becoming increasingly concentrated in fewer hands.
Doesn't sound much like socialism to me.
So kindly crawl back under your rock. Or at least learn what the hell socialism really means. Preferably before you make an ignoramus of yourself once more with statements like the one above.
I like tech, I have a tan, I'm married (and "got some" just last night), and I despise AOL. I don't watch local TV news, either. I can tell you from personal experience -- having worked in local broadcast journalism for eight years -- that it sucks from both ends (the mediocre are the ones who advance, because they appeal to the suits and marketing noids who live only to suck up to sponsors -- the good ones invariably grow weary of trying to put out a quality product in the face of opposition from the aforementioned suckups). Come to think of it, I don't watch national TV news, either.
All I said was that on my hardware, Linux runs faster and more reliably than anything else I've tried (Win95, WinNT, Linux, Be, Solaris x86, OS/2), okay? Currently I dual-boot Win95 (NT doesn't like my hardware very much) with MSIE 4/5 and Red Hat 5.1 -- I need IE for testing, and my two authoring apps of choice (Dreamweaver and Flash) aren't available for Linux, and I'm not all that great with Linux, anyway, I started using it mainly because I need to know my way around *nix webservers. I admit I also had some ideological motivations (I support the idea of open source, and I also spend a lot of my spare time testing Mozilla builds), but they aren't my only motivations. I doubt that'll change anytime soon.
So far as programming goes, my current languages of choice are JavaScript and Java (I'm still not very good with Perl), but I try to keep my mind and my options open.
And, as always, YMMV -- use whatever works best for you and enables you to feed your cats and make your car payments.
Shux, under win95, I have oodles of files (thanks to MSIE4 and 5) that identify themselves as being Win98 and Win2000 components. And even a few that ID themselves as being NT 4 components (Goddess only knows where they came from...).
Speaking of MSIE5 -- yeah, I installed it all right -- and discovered to my amazement and delight that there are numerous pages at microsoft.com that are broken when viewed with it!:-)
Go spend $10,000 on PC hardware. Then run Solaris x86 vs Linux.
Fine. Send me a check for ten grand and I will.
I thought one of the reasons to use Linux was so you didn't have to spend huge amounts of cash on hardware to get a fast and reliable machine. Guess I was wrong.
Agreed -- don't give this moron/troll/whatever the satisfaction... Respond briefly, and politely! to his editor and cc: to a couple of advertisers. But don't send any response to directly to him. Let him hear about it from his boss(es) instead.;-)
So far, they've got a BBS, a few very general articles, and a few links. It looks like there are some other sections planned that are still under development.
Okay, so it's not a whole lot to write home about just yet. But/. wasn't built in a day, either.;-)
Give it a few weeks, maybe it'll turn out to be something worthwhile. It also might help if some folks would contribute stuff to it.
CSS did not "die in the nursery" -- what a crock. It's being used on plenty of sites. Sure, none of the current implementations are 100% complete, but there's still a lot of it that will work in NS 4 and IE 4/5. As for XSL -- as yet, there's no XSL standard.
CSS implementation is still incomplete in IE 5, despite the fact that MS has a patent on the technology and trumpets it as "its baby"! In going from IE4 to IE5, MS has broken its own (still non-standard!) DOM. A number of properties that most developers considered essential in 4 are unsupported in 5. XSL in my view is about as useful as fins on a hamster. XML + CSS + JavaScript provides as much functionality as anybody's likely to need for the foreseeable future. But -- oops -- wait a minute -- Microsoft's XML implementation is also non-standard. D'oh!
Must I remind you that all this wonderful MSIE 5 stuff is basically Windows-only? MS is still playing its same old, tired game... In case you haven't heard, Office 2000, IE 5, and Windows 2000 are very tightly bound together -- you can't use Office 2K to its full potential without having to use all three. IT folks are already starting to complain about this (see recent piece at InfoWorld).
Monolithic, interlocking, "use all if you use any" application suites are going the way of the dodo. Developers much prefer interoperability, modularity, and standards compliance. So do enlightened customers. Netscape/Mozilla has figured this out. Microsoft hasn't.
When will you end the U.S. Government's current Most Antidemocratic Undertaking, namely, the War On Drugs?"
If I posted that question to AlG2K's Town Hall page along with my home email addy and zipcode, just how long do you think it would be before someone wearing a badge showed up at my door to investigate? Or perhaps that should be rephrased as, "Do you think it would take (a) weeks (b) hours (c) minutes for someone with a badge to show up at my door to investigate?"
(For the record, I have NO illegal drugs in my possession at this time and am not fscking likely to at any point in the near future.)
Okay, I actually kinda like the guy, even if he does manage to look like he has a stick up his hiney most of the time. He DID write a pretty good book on the environment, and I thought his "Virtual Earth", "EarthCam" or whatever the heck he called it called it was pretty cool. He's not quite my ideal candidate, but he's NOT Son-O-Bush or Jack Kemp by a longshot (half a clue is better than none, I say), he's from my state of residence, and he even invited my grandma to his annual barbeque this year.;-) Besides, let's say I wrote him a fancy-pants DHTML/Flash/Java front end for his site and he actually used the thing -- [warning: gratuitous political jab ahead] -- I doubt the Republicans would be able to do anything with my code, anyhow. At least he's making some attempt to get into the spirit of the thing, isn't he? Although I sincerely hope Tipper won't have any more bright ideas about what lyrics musicians should and should not be using... If you want to nitpick, yeah he should probably call it a Community Source or Open Content Initiative or something like that. But what the heck? Political campaigns aren't meant to be taken all that seriously anyhow -- why do you think they call their organizations "parties"?
M3/Win32, which ran perfectly well yesterday, crashes on start (apprunner.exe and viewer.exe). The 03-20 Win32 build seems pretty solid, though, and I can receive email with its version of Messenger. Still can't send, tho (it says it's sending, but apparently doesn't) -- time to muck around with the prefs file some more, maybe.
You know, the really sad thing about that article (and what Tux was really crying about) is that someone could have made good use out of that 486/66 that the author so stupidly abused to the point of destruction, and that computer could have made someone's life better. That is the thing that made me think the author was a complete and utter idiot.
I dunno, it sounded like she's a typical user -- and the box did last 6 years, after all. I suppose your idea of "proper use" is to keep the box tighly wrapped in several layers of plastic and safely unplugged? Let's face it, stuff happens -- hard drives blow guts, keyboards wear out, monitor screens get burnt. The box died. It wasn't her fault. Lighten up.
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Doesn't sound much like socialism to me.
So kindly crawl back under your rock. Or at least learn what the hell socialism really means. Preferably before you make an ignoramus of yourself once more with statements like the one above.
Thank you.
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Oh yeah, I read /. (obviously).
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"But OUR spam is GOOD spam."
Yeah, right.
NO SPAMS IS GOOD SPAMS. Period.
I get enough crap in my mailboxes from companies I actually do business with as it is.
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All I said was that on my hardware, Linux runs faster and more reliably than anything else I've tried (Win95, WinNT, Linux, Be, Solaris x86, OS/2), okay? Currently I dual-boot Win95 (NT doesn't like my hardware very much) with MSIE 4/5 and Red Hat 5.1 -- I need IE for testing, and my two authoring apps of choice (Dreamweaver and Flash) aren't available for Linux, and I'm not all that great with Linux, anyway, I started using it mainly because I need to know my way around *nix webservers. I admit I also had some ideological motivations (I support the idea of open source, and I also spend a lot of my spare time testing Mozilla builds), but they aren't my only motivations. I doubt that'll change anytime soon.
So far as programming goes, my current languages of choice are JavaScript and Java (I'm still not very good with Perl), but I try to keep my mind and my options open.
And, as always, YMMV -- use whatever works best for you and enables you to feed your cats and make your car payments.
Speaking of MSIE5 -- yeah, I installed it all right -- and discovered to my amazement and delight that there are numerous pages at microsoft.com that are broken when viewed with it! :-)
Go, Mighty Lizard, go! :-)
I thought one of the reasons to use Linux was so you didn't have to spend huge amounts of cash on hardware to get a fast and reliable machine. Guess I was wrong.
Hardware bigots suck.
Is it just me, or has the amount of FUDmeistering and general anti-anything-open mayhem gone up on /. over the last few weeks?
BTW, editorial email addies are available here.
In answer to your question -- they're targeting newbies, as in "people who don't know this stuff already", okay?
Get a grip.
Okay, so it's not a whole lot to write home about just yet. But /. wasn't built in a day, either. ;-)
Give it a few weeks, maybe it'll turn out to be something worthwhile. It also might help if some folks would contribute stuff to it.
CSS implementation is still incomplete in IE 5, despite the fact that MS has a patent on the technology and trumpets it as "its baby"! In going from IE4 to IE5, MS has broken its own (still non-standard!) DOM. A number of properties that most developers considered essential in 4 are unsupported in 5. XSL in my view is about as useful as fins on a hamster. XML + CSS + JavaScript provides as much functionality as anybody's likely to need for the foreseeable future. But -- oops -- wait a minute -- Microsoft's XML implementation is also non-standard. D'oh!
Must I remind you that all this wonderful MSIE 5 stuff is basically Windows-only? MS is still playing its same old, tired game... In case you haven't heard, Office 2000, IE 5, and Windows 2000 are very tightly bound together -- you can't use Office 2K to its full potential without having to use all three. IT folks are already starting to complain about this (see recent piece at InfoWorld).
Monolithic, interlocking, "use all if you use any" application suites are going the way of the dodo. Developers much prefer interoperability, modularity, and standards compliance. So do enlightened customers. Netscape/Mozilla has figured this out. Microsoft hasn't.
As for the actual topic... MS? Open Source? Cut me a break... yarrrrrrgh....
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When will you end the U.S. Government's current Most Antidemocratic Undertaking, namely, the War On Drugs?"
If I posted that question to AlG2K's Town Hall page along with my home email addy and zipcode, just how long do you think it would be before someone wearing a badge showed up at my door to investigate? Or perhaps that should be rephrased as, "Do you think it would take (a) weeks (b) hours (c) minutes for someone with a badge to show up at my door to investigate?"
(For the record, I have NO illegal drugs in my possession at this time and am not fscking likely to at any point in the near future.)
Just asking...
They've evidently changed it, then -- when I read the story a few minutes ago, it attributed the remark to "An anonymous reader."
Wow, the great ZDNET actually corrected a mistake! Of course, if they did that to all of Jesse Berst's columns, they'd lose 2/3 of their content... ;-)
Okay, I actually kinda like the guy, even if he does manage to look like he has a stick up his hiney most of the time. He DID write a pretty good book on the environment, and I thought his "Virtual Earth", "EarthCam" or whatever the heck he called it called it was pretty cool. He's not quite my ideal candidate, but he's NOT Son-O-Bush or Jack Kemp by a longshot (half a clue is better than none, I say), he's from my state of residence, and he even invited my grandma to his annual barbeque this year. ;-) Besides, let's say I wrote him a fancy-pants DHTML/Flash/Java front end for his site and he actually used the thing -- [warning: gratuitous political jab ahead] -- I doubt the Republicans would be able to do anything with my code, anyhow. At least he's making some attempt to get into the spirit of the thing, isn't he? Although I sincerely hope Tipper won't have any more bright ideas about what lyrics musicians should and should not be using... If you want to nitpick, yeah he should probably call it a Community Source or Open Content Initiative or something like that. But what the heck? Political campaigns aren't meant to be taken all that seriously anyhow -- why do you think they call their organizations "parties"?
Check the source yourself.
Check the source yourself.
Wheeee!
Previous subject should have read: "Flight Simulator in Office?"
(I don't use Excel for anything else, so I figure I might as well have some fun with it, right?)
P.S. -- The expression is "Hear, hear!"
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