But, you have a built in discrimination routine that allows you to hit the filter and get JavaScript only if that's what you are looking for.
The human brain is wonderful.
In the.NET section, it divides up C#, VB.NET, C++, and ASP.NET. Never mind that ASP.NET can have code-behind of just about any of the.NET languages. But, I really don't need the site to microfilter for me, I might just miss something else I'm looking for.
It's already been done. Planet Source Code does this already, and it's been around for ages. You can find code examples and complete projects.
Then for projects in the.NET set there are a number of online translators that do C#VB.NET. Very good for moving code between different types of projects.
Now, something that would be truely useful would be a service that would do translations from a wider variety languages.
But, you do know that there are those who don't like to have their Gods mocked, and those are the most dangerous of Followers. Beware the religious zealot.
Two minutes after applying GPL3 to OpenSolaris, Richard M. Stallman, pseudoprophet of the New Religion, exercising a deeply buried clause in GPL3, took control of the company.
"My version of reality, trumps yours," he stated, "And my version of Freedom is better for you, so, we have deprecated all other forms of freedom. The sooner you learn to accept that, the sooner we release you from your bonds. Now take your medicine."
President-For-Life of Cuba, Fidel "I'm-still-alive-dammit-don't-unplug-that" Castro called to congratulate the new CEO.
Close; it's actually called Public Domain, but the GP post lost me at "holy war cum Jihad." That must be something like "wind cum Flatus" or "ice cum Frozen Water."
God, I love these little land mines. Then you subscribe to the American/western/over-simplified-for-the-mass-medi a-consumers definition of the word "jihad": "holy war"? It does not.
Anyone who thinks the Kyoto accords were only about reducing greenhouse emissions needs to really look into the politics behind it. Most of the nations that signed it didn't have significant emissions to begin with.
Kyoto were as much to do about limiting industrial capitalism as they were about the environment.
The loons on the far side of this discussion don't want middle ground, or alternative views expressed. To them, this is fact, no theory. They recast opposing arguments into the most extreme, and then reattribute them. A lie told long enough...
Global warming, climate change, etc. is happening. The causes are up for debate.
This sentence gets recast by the loons as: "There is no global warming. And I'm going to keep driving my SUV."
Fast swings in climate have happened in the past. Mini ice ages have occured.
Can we live cleaner? Yes. Can we, and should we, cut back on emmissions? Yes. Will this slow climate change? Thats the question and the problem. There are those who are seriously concerned, there are those who have spotted an issue to divide to attain some other socio-political agenda, and there are those who have other motives. But, none of them will be around to see the results if we all enact Kyoto personnally. They count on the immediacy of current weather and short public attention spans to cement their ideas and create histeria.
Meanwhile, all the energy and voter good-will that could be used to cure human contolable ills, gets spent by the Sky-is-Falling crowd.
If we use that energy to educate, feed, medically treat the world's poor and disadvantaged populations. They will rise in living standard, contribute more, live cleaner locally, thus improve their living standard, contibute more...you get the picture. Or, we can spend a lot of limited voter energy and good-will on issues they can't control. It's a limited resource and we are squandering it, and the pooor and needy in the world are paying the cost.
I'm going to skip DRM. It's an ad nauseum discussion.
I've watched the arguments on the GPL 3 and it seems like what some of the louder voices are saying is, "GPL is all about freedom. Our version of freedom." It smacks of the voices from ages past that yell, "Heretic!"
To draw upon the analogy of religion, and those watching the discussion know that the movement, FOSS, GPL, OS flavors and distributions, has become a religious discussion, and in some circles holy war cum Jihad:
We are told that early settlers in America were seeking to protect themselves from religious persecution back in merry old England. The Puritans (now there's a tolerant sounding moniker) decided to place an ocean between them and the State sponsered religion. So, what happened when other religious groups started to arrive in the "new" world? Suddenly, those freedom lovers didn't like some of the newer religions that were springing up. "You have freedom of religion," they would say, "As long as you pick ours." (read: "You're either with us or against us.")
This is what is happening in the world of GPL 3, when looking in from the sidelines. GPL 3 are the silky bonds that when all is said and done, could bind us tighter than any EULA developed by Microsoft. A license that grants absolute freedom to the users, and follow on developers and integrators would place absolutely NO restriction on implementations.
Maybe its time to drop the zealots and their Prophet, the Grand Ayatollah Stallman, and create the Truly Open and Free License of All Choices (TOFLAC).
"I'd like to provide it to the State, free of charge"
"I plan on selling it to other police agencies for a fee"
"If you don't agree, I'll sell it to other agencies for a fee. Then, when the State wants it, I'll sell you a license."
Profit
God bless MLK, I got the day off.
I work as a contractor for the DOD. A few years ago, a government employee did that. He was the boss of the shop, developed a cool DB system. Quit. Opened his shop, sold his system. Profit.
A few years ago, a buddy of mine, at Cal Tech, had come up with a revolutionary approach to a mathmatical issue. I won't go into it, because I didn't know enough, even then, to know why it was revolutionary.
He published, was hailed as a revolutionary thinker, and as it was said, if his discovery proved out, would blow the doors off of some sort of area of math.
Anyway, 6 months later, his revolutionary approach was reclassified as wrong. He couldn't continue. He said something about CT not being open enough.
I think if a school is hailed as more revolutionary, it basically means that they are tolerant of being wrong on occassion, thus opening the door to more truly revolutionary discoveries.
Oh, he's applying his skills at Intel. Layouts, routings, and stuff if I understood him.
What the Hell? This gets modded "flamebait". You know, recently, I've noticed moderators are just mod-puking and not even reading the posts. The poster was making a sarcastic comment that the moderator obviously thought was a serious post.
They think they have problems? Slashdot them, melt their server, get their hoster to kick them. That pales next to being relagated to Googles 3rd page of results.
A schoolboard rules that global warming is a "mere" scientific theory.
Actually, I live in the Seattle area:
What they ruled on was that it was a scientific theory with more than one side to the story and that "An Inconvenient Truth" was not a dispassionate, non-partisan, objective look at the science involved. They were also concerned that none of the producers and Al Gore were scientists, and that showing it in a class without context would be a disservice to students.
It was widely misreported, probably helped by the fact that the most vocal opponent to the film being shown is a nut-job zealot parent, and the fact that Seattle PeePee, uh, P-I ran an editorial as news and the fact that local right-wing radio really went ape-shit. But, that doesn't mean we have to get the reporting wrong here. Wait, this is/., I'm sorry, go about your business.
Wait, Nancy Pelosi is speaker of the House of the U.S. Congress.
Democrats are in control.
Rosie O'Donnell is getting major support in the media for her war against Donald Trump.
Steve Jobs got an illegal dump of stock options and the media and geeks have given him a free walk because other corporate scum said he didn't know. If Steve Jobs was running Enron and the same thing happened, what would geeks have said?
Microsoft MVP's, techies, and users of Vista are saying it sucks.
Bezo's is finally flying the Delta Clipper.
How can it possibly be getting closer to Doomsday?
Does this mean Duke Nukem Forever is closer to release?
Does this mean George Lucas is getting ready to release his Double Secret Special Editions?
Is Battlestar Galactica getting ready to be canceled?
Is William Shatner releasing his covers of Green Day?
Are the Seahawks actually going to take us all the way, and not leave us on the front porch on prom night with just half a copped feel?
Wow, closer to doomsday. You got to love George Bush and the Republican Do-Gooders. Maybe their whole drive is to hasten the Second Coming and start of the "Kingdom of Heaven"? (Can I choose a different Universe?)
So/. is now a third rate knock off of a third rate rumor web site?
What Lucas project is in the works that needs an older Solo? B.S.
But, the bigger thing is, why is/. doing entertainment rumor? Now, if this were a real story and something was coming out of it, maybe. But, please, is there nothing? What about the Apple options cover-up, or are we not thinking Jobs is just more corporate scum? He's getting a pass because other Corporate scum say he "didn't know"?
but every excuse that I've heard about new plants of other kinds is simply that the new modern plants are simply too expensive
One of the reasons why they are expensive are the requirements that government has placed on new building because the "vocal nuts" of other ilk have demanded it.
The cost of impact studies, forced regulatory fees, etc. were designed by the lobbyists to slow or prevent newer units.
A coal burning power plant pumps out a huge amount of pollution. Someone designs a smoke stack that is cleaner. The power company wants to tear down the old smoke stack, but, regulations, impact studies (not only for pollution, but habitat, and others) make building a new smoke stack almost impossible. The result is: The company keeps the older dirty smoke stack. This is an actual scenario faced by a lot of power companies right now. Thus, the vocal nuts and their not-too-bright legislators (both sides of the aisle) have made the situation worse.
(Remember: Elected officials are not the brightest. If they were, they'd be making more money as lawyers, doctors, business men and women. They got into politics because they like the public stage. Never trust a single politician to be smart, bright, trustworthy, or to have anything but their own interest in mind. If Al Gore, George Bush, or Ted Kennedy jump on a bandwagon, or push an idea, its not because they believe it, its because they think they can get enough people to give them more money, votes, and power.)
Here in the US we don't reprocess our spent fuel, because it costs more to reprocess that to just make new.
Actually, we don't reprocess it because there are some very serious special interest groups that have been very vocal and have blocked almost every attempt to build updated, new reactors and processing plants. Leaving us in a much more dangerous position than if they hadn't sounded off.
There are certain political movements that end up causing more harm, in the end, than the particular topic they are protesting. The no-nuclear-power crowd is one of them.
Three Mile Island is an example of how the system actually works to protect.
Chern...churn...that Ukraine power plant is an example of how the system fails.
The U.S. has exactly 0 old-Soviet designed power plants in operation.
Question: How many modern nuclear power plants are in France and Japan?
Question: Who leads the world in modern nuclear power plants?
It ain't the U.S. The U.S. has exactly 0 modern power plants in production. The U.S. has some of the most polluting oil and coal burning plants because the vocal nut jobs won't let us build modern plants of any kind.
Question: What major, technological leading power in the world has the most at-risk power production scheme?
Judging from all the email I get asking me to help move millions of dollars out of Africa, I think Africans have enough computers. I think they need more financial advisors to help them move that money.
I've run into many wild-eyed loons. I'm an ex-cop, and have seen self-proclaimed saviors of many flavors, be they heavenly salvation to techno salvation. I guess I'm tired of the whole evangelical thing. Funny, I'm my companies SharePoint evangelist.
What's really funny is that there are staunch Stallman supporters who really can't open their minds to criticism of their hero. It's almost as if his evangelism has turned somewhat cultish.
Has anyone thought of writing on the subject of The Cult of Stallmanism? There is something to say about the possiblity of commercial value. How would he fare to an open examination of his message and style?
Slashdot Mirror
But, you have a built in discrimination routine that allows you to hit the filter and get JavaScript only if that's what you are looking for.
The human brain is wonderful.
In the .NET section, it divides up C#, VB.NET, C++, and ASP.NET. Never mind that ASP.NET can have code-behind of just about any of the .NET languages. But, I really don't need the site to microfilter for me, I might just miss something else I'm looking for.
It's already been done. Planet Source Code does this already, and it's been around for ages. You can find code examples and complete projects.
Then for projects in the .NET set there are a number of online translators that do C#VB.NET. Very good for moving code between different types of projects.
Now, something that would be truely useful would be a service that would do translations from a wider variety languages.
I will accept your moderations.
But, you do know that there are those who don't like to have their Gods mocked, and those are the most dangerous of Followers. Beware the religious zealot.
Stallman Takes Control of Sun
Two minutes after applying GPL3 to OpenSolaris, Richard M. Stallman, pseudoprophet of the New Religion, exercising a deeply buried clause in GPL3, took control of the company.
"My version of reality, trumps yours," he stated, "And my version of Freedom is better for you, so, we have deprecated all other forms of freedom. The sooner you learn to accept that, the sooner we release you from your bonds. Now take your medicine."
President-For-Life of Cuba, Fidel "I'm-still-alive-dammit-don't-unplug-that" Castro called to congratulate the new CEO.
With apologies to Graeme Edge and the Moody Blues:
Black thing, billowing, bursting forth with the power of 10 Billion butterfly farts, man with his flaming fire...The government decides that a web site with significant traffic and using Government subsidized telecom should also institute the FD?
God, I love these little land mines. Then you subscribe to the American/western/over-simplified-for-the-mass-medi a-consumers definition of the word "jihad": "holy war"? It does not.
Kyoto were as much to do about limiting industrial capitalism as they were about the environment.
The loons on the far side of this discussion don't want middle ground, or alternative views expressed. To them, this is fact, no theory. They recast opposing arguments into the most extreme, and then reattribute them. A lie told long enough...
Global warming, climate change, etc. is happening. The causes are up for debate.
This sentence gets recast by the loons as: "There is no global warming. And I'm going to keep driving my SUV."
Fast swings in climate have happened in the past. Mini ice ages have occured.
Can we live cleaner? Yes. Can we, and should we, cut back on emmissions? Yes. Will this slow climate change? Thats the question and the problem. There are those who are seriously concerned, there are those who have spotted an issue to divide to attain some other socio-political agenda, and there are those who have other motives. But, none of them will be around to see the results if we all enact Kyoto personnally. They count on the immediacy of current weather and short public attention spans to cement their ideas and create histeria.
Meanwhile, all the energy and voter good-will that could be used to cure human contolable ills, gets spent by the Sky-is-Falling crowd.
If we use that energy to educate, feed, medically treat the world's poor and disadvantaged populations. They will rise in living standard, contribute more, live cleaner locally, thus improve their living standard, contibute more...you get the picture. Or, we can spend a lot of limited voter energy and good-will on issues they can't control. It's a limited resource and we are squandering it, and the pooor and needy in the world are paying the cost.
I'm going to skip DRM. It's an ad nauseum discussion.
I've watched the arguments on the GPL 3 and it seems like what some of the louder voices are saying is, "GPL is all about freedom. Our version of freedom." It smacks of the voices from ages past that yell, "Heretic!"
To draw upon the analogy of religion, and those watching the discussion know that the movement, FOSS, GPL, OS flavors and distributions, has become a religious discussion, and in some circles holy war cum Jihad:
We are told that early settlers in America were seeking to protect themselves from religious persecution back in merry old England. The Puritans (now there's a tolerant sounding moniker) decided to place an ocean between them and the State sponsered religion. So, what happened when other religious groups started to arrive in the "new" world? Suddenly, those freedom lovers didn't like some of the newer religions that were springing up. "You have freedom of religion," they would say, "As long as you pick ours." (read: "You're either with us or against us.")
This is what is happening in the world of GPL 3, when looking in from the sidelines. GPL 3 are the silky bonds that when all is said and done, could bind us tighter than any EULA developed by Microsoft. A license that grants absolute freedom to the users, and follow on developers and integrators would place absolutely NO restriction on implementations.
Maybe its time to drop the zealots and their Prophet, the Grand Ayatollah Stallman, and create the Truly Open and Free License of All Choices (TOFLAC).
Actually, try it like this: (The American Way)
God bless MLK, I got the day off.
I work as a contractor for the DOD. A few years ago, a government employee did that. He was the boss of the shop, developed a cool DB system. Quit. Opened his shop, sold his system. Profit.
A few years ago, a buddy of mine, at Cal Tech, had come up with a revolutionary approach to a mathmatical issue. I won't go into it, because I didn't know enough, even then, to know why it was revolutionary.
He published, was hailed as a revolutionary thinker, and as it was said, if his discovery proved out, would blow the doors off of some sort of area of math.
Anyway, 6 months later, his revolutionary approach was reclassified as wrong. He couldn't continue. He said something about CT not being open enough.
I think if a school is hailed as more revolutionary, it basically means that they are tolerant of being wrong on occassion, thus opening the door to more truly revolutionary discoveries.
Oh, he's applying his skills at Intel. Layouts, routings, and stuff if I understood him.
What the Hell? This gets modded "flamebait". You know, recently, I've noticed moderators are just mod-puking and not even reading the posts. The poster was making a sarcastic comment that the moderator obviously thought was a serious post.
I love this idea, but for some reason, I keep seeing a self drive airstream trailer heading down the road.
Seriously, plug in is dead, fuel cell or other self-contained has to be the future. And hybrid has to be the past.
OFFTOPIC?
That would rip a hole in that space time continuum thingy and totally destroy that doomsday clock contraption.
Hey, if you destroy the doomsday clock, does that kill every Christian?
They think they have problems? Slashdot them, melt their server, get their hoster to kick them. That pales next to being relagated to Googles 3rd page of results.
:) Someone didn't read the whole post before he knee-jerked himself into a moderation. Or, was I successful in offending everyone?
The post is decidedly anti-
Actually, I live in the Seattle area:
What they ruled on was that it was a scientific theory with more than one side to the story and that "An Inconvenient Truth" was not a dispassionate, non-partisan, objective look at the science involved. They were also concerned that none of the producers and Al Gore were scientists, and that showing it in a class without context would be a disservice to students.
It was widely misreported, probably helped by the fact that the most vocal opponent to the film being shown is a nut-job zealot parent, and the fact that Seattle PeePee, uh, P-I ran an editorial as news and the fact that local right-wing radio really went ape-shit. But, that doesn't mean we have to get the reporting wrong here. Wait, this is /., I'm sorry, go about your business.
Wait, Nancy Pelosi is speaker of the House of the U.S. Congress.
Democrats are in control.
Rosie O'Donnell is getting major support in the media for her war against Donald Trump.
Steve Jobs got an illegal dump of stock options and the media and geeks have given him a free walk because other corporate scum said he didn't know. If Steve Jobs was running Enron and the same thing happened, what would geeks have said?
Microsoft MVP's, techies, and users of Vista are saying it sucks.
Bezo's is finally flying the Delta Clipper.
How can it possibly be getting closer to Doomsday?
Does this mean Duke Nukem Forever is closer to release?
Does this mean George Lucas is getting ready to release his Double Secret Special Editions?
Is Battlestar Galactica getting ready to be canceled?
Is William Shatner releasing his covers of Green Day?
Are the Seahawks actually going to take us all the way, and not leave us on the front porch on prom night with just half a copped feel?
Wow, closer to doomsday. You got to love George Bush and the Republican Do-Gooders. Maybe their whole drive is to hasten the Second Coming and start of the "Kingdom of Heaven"? (Can I choose a different Universe?)
Go ahead, classify this post.
There is more science in "science fiction" than there is in anything Al Gore says. Al Gore, the "Inconvenient Fiction". (And, just plain annoying.)
So /. is now a third rate knock off of a third rate rumor web site?
What Lucas project is in the works that needs an older Solo? B.S.
But, the bigger thing is, why is /. doing entertainment rumor? Now, if this were a real story and something was coming out of it, maybe. But, please, is there nothing? What about the Apple options cover-up, or are we not thinking Jobs is just more corporate scum? He's getting a pass because other Corporate scum say he "didn't know"?
One of the reasons why they are expensive are the requirements that government has placed on new building because the "vocal nuts" of other ilk have demanded it.
The cost of impact studies, forced regulatory fees, etc. were designed by the lobbyists to slow or prevent newer units.
A coal burning power plant pumps out a huge amount of pollution. Someone designs a smoke stack that is cleaner. The power company wants to tear down the old smoke stack, but, regulations, impact studies (not only for pollution, but habitat, and others) make building a new smoke stack almost impossible. The result is: The company keeps the older dirty smoke stack. This is an actual scenario faced by a lot of power companies right now. Thus, the vocal nuts and their not-too-bright legislators (both sides of the aisle) have made the situation worse.
(Remember: Elected officials are not the brightest. If they were, they'd be making more money as lawyers, doctors, business men and women. They got into politics because they like the public stage. Never trust a single politician to be smart, bright, trustworthy, or to have anything but their own interest in mind. If Al Gore, George Bush, or Ted Kennedy jump on a bandwagon, or push an idea, its not because they believe it, its because they think they can get enough people to give them more money, votes, and power.)
Actually, we don't reprocess it because there are some very serious special interest groups that have been very vocal and have blocked almost every attempt to build updated, new reactors and processing plants. Leaving us in a much more dangerous position than if they hadn't sounded off.
There are certain political movements that end up causing more harm, in the end, than the particular topic they are protesting. The no-nuclear-power crowd is one of them.
Three Mile Island is an example of how the system actually works to protect.
Chern...churn...that Ukraine power plant is an example of how the system fails.
The U.S. has exactly 0 old-Soviet designed power plants in operation.
Question: How many modern nuclear power plants are in France and Japan?
Question: Who leads the world in modern nuclear power plants?
It ain't the U.S. The U.S. has exactly 0 modern power plants in production. The U.S. has some of the most polluting oil and coal burning plants because the vocal nut jobs won't let us build modern plants of any kind.
Question: What major, technological leading power in the world has the most at-risk power production scheme?
Judging from all the email I get asking me to help move millions of dollars out of Africa, I think Africans have enough computers. I think they need more financial advisors to help them move that money.
I've run into many wild-eyed loons. I'm an ex-cop, and have seen self-proclaimed saviors of many flavors, be they heavenly salvation to techno salvation. I guess I'm tired of the whole evangelical thing. Funny, I'm my companies SharePoint evangelist.
What's really funny is that there are staunch Stallman supporters who really can't open their minds to criticism of their hero. It's almost as if his evangelism has turned somewhat cultish.
Has anyone thought of writing on the subject of The Cult of Stallmanism? There is something to say about the possiblity of commercial value. How would he fare to an open examination of his message and style?
Wish I had the time to write it.
I wish I had my mod points from this morning.
Quoting any Pesci character should be an automatic +5.