Nice thing about/. is that one can learn something new. Before, I had the mistaken notion that Ajax was simply concerned with using XMLHttpRequest to avoid large HTTP transactions and page reloads. Now, I realize this has to involve DOM to make it useful. However, it does not require XML, or XHTML, to work. If you use JSON you can eliminate XML and still have Ajax (eventhough XML is implied in the name).
If you will kindly confirm this understanding of Ajax, I can safely store the new rule away in the dusty recesses of my mind.
I just finished my underground shelter yesterday. It had food, cable internet, food, cable and sat TV, food, PS2, food, games, food, a bed, food, etc. I ordered a special computer. What shall I do with all these preps...
I guess I could just seclude myself, eat, sit at the computer, play games, watch TV. Actually, nothing has changed.
I'm having a hard time with this. I get the feeling this is a case of "If we (i.e., M$ employees) build it, they will come." Since ohloh has been slashdotted, I cannot tell if this is just a freshmeat knockoff (with a little sourceforge and krugle thrown in).
The site is intended as a way for first-time OSS users to 'get their feet wet' before diving into the large community of open source projects out there.
I got as far the frontpage (hehe), and I think newbies will be afraid to stick their feet in much less dive-in.
Sorry, but I may not be seeing clearly through these suspicious eyes of mine. If so, my apologies to the ohloh folks. Also, welcome and aloha.
Uh oh. Something new to play with. I had not heard of AutoHotkey. Since it is a fork of AutoKey, you can bet I'm going to spend some time with it as it will likely be worth the time.
Thanks for the tip.
BTW: I didn't mention one feature of AutoIT we have been enjoying of late. With the geewiz factor, we have been impressing co-workers and bosses. The ability to change the speed at which things happens allows us to show them a slowly automated version of some complex task they were accustommed to doing. The think it's great. Then we max the speed and show 'em again. Blows 'em away every time. We now have roughly 80% of the non-tech people within two buildings of our office, asking us to implement solutions for them.
I'm hopeless and should quit IT. When I read your last sentence...
IT is just a vehicle to delivering faster, and more effective business drivers.
I visualized IT as a minivan delivering the likes of Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Little E, etc. to their retirement assignments: Driving business executives around.
Sorry, but I bingo'd before page 3 and had to stop reading.
Bottom line is diversify your portfolio of skills. Pick one or more of the math, engineering, financial, public speaking, etc. skills and you will have a better chance in the future.
We use AutoIT extensively (http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/). It was originally developed to help with this sort of task, but now it is an extensive Windows, open-source scripting language. I prefer using it from Python via COM interface. We've been able to quickly solve emergent, repetitive IT tasks with this tool.
am happy that I finally know what will be in my computer 5 years from now, when I swap out my pentium III based system. Us poor folk at least get to enjoy the anticipation longer.
The article is a moderately interesting and loooooong account of how to tweak a growth law based on observations that the previous law does not explain history well enough. For those among us who have fortunes depending on this (let's see a raise of hands, please), it may be very important. But for the rest of us it really doesn't matter much. My concern is that/. may take Nlog(N) seconds longer to load (where N=number of posts), not whether CmdrTaco will make a bazillion instead of a gazillion next year.
Wikipedia, for example, would still be very useful even if it had zero links to external sites...
Yeah, but what if there were no incoming links -- HTTP_REFERRER and HUMAN_EYE links? All of those links give Wikipedia its value. If there were no readers, there would be no value.
...the company's revenue from advertisements through Google's AdSense syndication program fell by more than 80 percent...
I'm curious if they are still making a profit on AdSense syndication. If so, then the lawsuit seems even more ridiculous to me. It's like saying, "I could be making $10,000 off of you, but because I can't maintain an interesting website, I'm only making $2,000. I think I'll sue you for the rest."
You are joking aren't you? Or do you mean to say, "Make it so that shareholders will punish themSELVES," because that's who would really be punished. In fact, the shareholders (and company employees) already stand to lose some because of the greed of the executives.
This is evidence of the deep reliance we have on computers. Yeah, I know there aren't too many people who would argue that we don't rely on computers heavily in today's world, but 8 companies and 34 states... Whew! A lot of risk (for conspirators) and a lot of ?anger? (for the victims). I don't think any doubt remains that memory chips are a commodity vital to our society.
You are unquestionably correct in that the quality of a child's learning is the parent's responsibility. That is why giving the parent choices is vital. The same applies to the quality of socialization -- It is the parent's responsibility. The parent may not want her child to be socialized in the PS environment, and she should have that choice.
Every time the socialization argument comes up (in regard to homeschooling), I wonder what civilized people did to socialize their children before the advent of public school. Was the world full of socially incompetent people before public schooling came to the rescue? I think not.
The summary quote is misleading. Before I actually read the article, I envisioned hordes of children sitting in front of computers operating some sort of computer based training s/w. If you read the article, the children are not just sitting in front of a computer. There is an entire support structure built around virtualizing the important aspects of their learning experience. The support structure starts with a parent who cares and continues with curricula, equipment, supplies, and facilities provided by the city's education system.
I know that homeschooling works, and works well, because my daughter is homeschooled. She scores very high on achievement tests. She is so socialized (outside of public school), we have to sometimes limit her socializing in order to spend non-educational time with her. When she started high school level curricula, we associated ourselves with an umbrella school for advise, transcripting, focused tutoring, etc. This took some of the anxiety off of us when we started considering college prep issues.
This Chicago effort appears to merge the homeschooling concept with oversight by the city's education system. This closely parallels what we have found to be a very successful combination.
After considering it (briefly), I'm not switching. Debian has been good to me over countless installs and with 8 systems currently living productive, healthy lives (including two gui desktop Xandros systems).
I should have been clear that I was joking about the name change not making much difference -- to me, at least. AFAIK, SuSE has a faithful following based on technical and aesthetic attributes of the distro, not the name. This name-changing exercise is a result of the misdirected priorities typical of the corporate marketing.
paralysed man who can control control [sic] computer and robot arm using electrodes implanted in his brain.
Today's paralytic is tomorrow's cyborg. Children, be careful of whom you make fun.
Disclaimer: I personally advocate restraint in fun-making for "goodness sake" and not for fear of future retaliation. But there are those who think it cute to make fun of people with disabilities. Hopefully, a cyborg will eventually teach them that such behavior is not acceptable.
"350 million accounts" -- As in Y accounts + M accounts = 350 million total? If so, the number of users involved could be significantly lower, since many users may have both. A more telling measure of the market share would be in terms of users, not accounts.
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Nice thing about /. is that one can learn something new. Before, I had the mistaken notion that Ajax was simply concerned with using XMLHttpRequest to avoid large HTTP transactions and page reloads. Now, I realize this has to involve DOM to make it useful. However, it does not require XML, or XHTML, to work. If you use JSON you can eliminate XML and still have Ajax (eventhough XML is implied in the name).
If you will kindly confirm this understanding of Ajax, I can safely store the new rule away in the dusty recesses of my mind.
Ajax uses a combination of XML, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, and DOM.
Is it me, or does the scope of Ajax seem to be expanding?
I just finished my underground shelter yesterday. It had food, cable internet, food, cable and sat TV, food, PS2, food, games, food, a bed, food, etc. I ordered a special computer. What shall I do with all these preps...
I guess I could just seclude myself, eat, sit at the computer, play games, watch TV. Actually, nothing has changed.
I'm having a hard time with this. I get the feeling this is a case of "If we (i.e., M$ employees) build it, they will come." Since ohloh has been slashdotted, I cannot tell if this is just a freshmeat knockoff (with a little sourceforge and krugle thrown in).
The site is intended as a way for first-time OSS users to 'get their feet wet' before diving into the large community of open source projects out there.
I got as far the frontpage (hehe), and I think newbies will be afraid to stick their feet in much less dive-in.
Sorry, but I may not be seeing clearly through these suspicious eyes of mine. If so, my apologies to the ohloh folks. Also, welcome and aloha.
Uh oh. Something new to play with. I had not heard of AutoHotkey. Since it is a fork of AutoKey, you can bet I'm going to spend some time with it as it will likely be worth the time.
Thanks for the tip.
BTW: I didn't mention one feature of AutoIT we have been enjoying of late. With the geewiz factor, we have been impressing co-workers and bosses. The ability to change the speed at which things happens allows us to show them a slowly automated version of some complex task they were accustommed to doing. The think it's great. Then we max the speed and show 'em again. Blows 'em away every time. We now have roughly 80% of the non-tech people within two buildings of our office, asking us to implement solutions for them.
I'm hopeless and should quit IT. When I read your last sentence ...
IT is just a vehicle to delivering faster, and more effective business drivers.
I visualized IT as a minivan delivering the likes of Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Little E, etc. to their retirement assignments: Driving business executives around.
It's bedtime kiddies.
Sorry, but I bingo'd before page 3 and had to stop reading.
Bottom line is diversify your portfolio of skills. Pick one or more of the math, engineering, financial, public speaking, etc. skills and you will have a better chance in the future.
We use AutoIT extensively (http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/). It was originally developed to help with this sort of task, but now it is an extensive Windows, open-source scripting language. I prefer using it from Python via COM interface. We've been able to quickly solve emergent, repetitive IT tasks with this tool.
am happy that I finally know what will be in my computer 5 years from now, when I swap out my pentium III based system. Us poor folk at least get to enjoy the anticipation longer.
The article is a moderately interesting and loooooong account of how to tweak a growth law based on observations that the previous law does not explain history well enough. For those among us who have fortunes depending on this (let's see a raise of hands, please), it may be very important. But for the rest of us it really doesn't matter much. My concern is that /. may take Nlog(N) seconds longer to load (where N=number of posts), not whether CmdrTaco will make a bazillion instead of a gazillion next year.
Wikipedia, for example, would still be very useful even if it had zero links to external sites...
Yeah, but what if there were no incoming links -- HTTP_REFERRER and HUMAN_EYE links? All of those links give Wikipedia its value. If there were no readers, there would be no value.
...the company's revenue from advertisements through Google's AdSense syndication program fell by more than 80 percent...
I'm curious if they are still making a profit on AdSense syndication. If so, then the lawsuit seems even more ridiculous to me. It's like saying, "I could be making $10,000 off of you, but because I can't maintain an interesting website, I'm only making $2,000. I think I'll sue you for the rest."
Make it so that shareholders will punish them...
You are joking aren't you? Or do you mean to say, "Make it so that shareholders will punish themSELVES," because that's who would really be punished. In fact, the shareholders (and company employees) already stand to lose some because of the greed of the executives.
This is evidence of the deep reliance we have on computers. Yeah, I know there aren't too many people who would argue that we don't rely on computers heavily in today's world, but 8 companies and 34 states... Whew! A lot of risk (for conspirators) and a lot of ?anger? (for the victims). I don't think any doubt remains that memory chips are a commodity vital to our society.
You are unquestionably correct in that the quality of a child's learning is the parent's responsibility. That is why giving the parent choices is vital. The same applies to the quality of socialization -- It is the parent's responsibility. The parent may not want her child to be socialized in the PS environment, and she should have that choice.
Every time the socialization argument comes up (in regard to homeschooling), I wonder what civilized people did to socialize their children before the advent of public school. Was the world full of socially incompetent people before public schooling came to the rescue? I think not.
The summary quote is misleading. Before I actually read the article, I envisioned hordes of children sitting in front of computers operating some sort of computer based training s/w. If you read the article, the children are not just sitting in front of a computer. There is an entire support structure built around virtualizing the important aspects of their learning experience. The support structure starts with a parent who cares and continues with curricula, equipment, supplies, and facilities provided by the city's education system.
I know that homeschooling works, and works well, because my daughter is homeschooled. She scores very high on achievement tests. She is so socialized (outside of public school), we have to sometimes limit her socializing in order to spend non-educational time with her. When she started high school level curricula, we associated ourselves with an umbrella school for advise, transcripting, focused tutoring, etc. This took some of the anxiety off of us when we started considering college prep issues.
This Chicago effort appears to merge the homeschooling concept with oversight by the city's education system. This closely parallels what we have found to be a very successful combination.
After considering it (briefly), I'm not switching. Debian has been good to me over countless installs and with 8 systems currently living productive, healthy lives (including two gui desktop Xandros systems).
I should have been clear that I was joking about the name change not making much difference -- to me, at least. AFAIK, SuSE has a faithful following based on technical and aesthetic attributes of the distro, not the name. This name-changing exercise is a result of the misdirected priorities typical of the corporate marketing.
paralysed man who can control control [sic] computer and robot arm using electrodes implanted in his brain.
Today's paralytic is tomorrow's cyborg. Children, be careful of whom you make fun.
Disclaimer: I personally advocate restraint in fun-making for "goodness sake" and not for fear of future retaliation. But there are those who think it cute to make fun of people with disabilities. Hopefully, a cyborg will eventually teach them that such behavior is not acceptable.
We'll implement first name changes with Alpha 3 starting directly after
... time passes ...
Alpha 2 and will have a fully renamed distribution with Beta 1 in Nov.
Is it just me or is the above wording confusing?
Alpha 3 => open [i.e., first name]
Alpha 4
Beta 1 => openSUSE [i.e., full name]
I now feel better about my decision to consider possibly maybe eventually switching to openSuSE.
Until the rootkit named "Roadblock" emerges, then the war is over ...
Oh wait, this is not about Robot Wars. Sorry.
The biggest difference is that security guards will be more likely to maintain their sanity.
Jumpy, spazzed, feds from a nightmarish barrage of images 6 hours a day.
"350 million accounts" -- As in Y accounts + M accounts = 350 million total? If so, the number of users involved could be significantly lower, since many users may have both. A more telling measure of the market share would be in terms of users, not accounts.
since computers have been spewing out viruses for a long time. Viruses cause colds, not bacteria. I could be wrong, but I don't think so.