The auxiliary search box on Firefox has the advantage of allowing you to select from many different search tools. And add some new ones. I use the dictionary, Wikipedia, and IMDB from time-to-time, whereas more of my Google searches are from my customized Google start page.
However, that feature could probably be integrated with the address bar.
Dvorak has got to love all this attention
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I like the guy. He's a little wacky, sure. But he's smarter than most of you think. However, I haven't read him much since he was an OS/2 columnist. It's entirely possible you are all correct.
It's pretty ironic though, that all these people who hate him so much are driving his popularity far better than any fans do./. sure does promote a lot of his articles.
From the first sentence: "The closer to the metal you can get while programming, the faster your program will compile..." WTF? How fast a language compiles has nothing to do with the so-called myth, whcih is that low-level languages allow a good programmer to produce programs that run faster. They may well compile faster (and they probably retain that advantage), but that's beside the point.
Oddly enough, he proceeds to jump back on track and discuss optimization techniques and levels, most of which is OK. But he berates Java for implementing arrays (that's supposed to be an advantage over C and C++, which don't), and ignores the advantages of managed memory provided by a virtual machine.
Did the country move out of eastern Europe? to where, one wonders. Or is it no longer a country? Haven't heard of any new communist regimes absorbing anyone lately.
Maybe you should rethink your pigeonholing. The point of the article is the government paying lobbying organizations. I don't care what they're lobbying for, that is outrageous. It has nothing to do with one's position on copyright.
Yep. I don't know if these companies are stupid enough to actually pursue this, but it would be an disaster of biblical proportion for both. Which is why I'd love to see it happen.
I can't see the slightest of business reasons to merge. Where are you going to get any synergy or economies of scale? Microsoft is way too big already (for its own good, much less the rest of us). They should be thinking about spin-offs, not acquisitions.
than bloggers who bold up random phrases on every line of their article? Well, actually there are plenty, but it comes close to destroying the impact of a well-written and informative article.
But what is with the summary on/.? It's a mess of misspellings, misquotes, and other mistakes. (How that's for alliteration?) If you like the article enough to submit it, could you please quote it correctly?
In the article, the author calculated that Windows develoeprs averaged 1000 lines of code per year. The summary statement of 5000 lines isn't sensible, since no period is mentioned, and wrong because it was compared to the average annual rate.
And learn the difference between "to" and "too" for crying out loud. The article got it right. If you like the article enough to post it on/., seems like you would want to avoid making it sound stupid.
You have a point. Since the previous ways they tried to affect people's actions were completely ineffective, I guess the new way would be technically just as effective.
The resistance to the metric system is one of the best things America's ever done. The utility of a measurement system is in having units that can easily be visualized, mentally manipulated, and are appropriate to the things being measured.
It's long past time for metric fans to quit bragging about how easy it is to convert centimeters to kilometers. Who cares? How often does anyone need to do that? And what's the point? Why not just stick to the basic meter, liter, and gram without the greek prefixes? Since all metric units are artificial, why have more than one?
Furthermore, there's this new thing called a calculator that makes converting angstroms to parsecs quite simple if you've a mind to.
The metric system is just as silly as the ten-day week.
Why was this piece of crap published, and why was it put on/.? It's 97% content-free. It asserts that Yankee group did a survey, and purports to tell us what some of the conclusions are. As mentioned by previous commenters, the statements cited (from the survey, in the article) are nonsense. There's also no mention of how to find the original report, or a clue as to the methods and procedures used, size of the sample, how measurements were made, or how they reached the conclusions.
It should also be mentioned that surveys are generally for getting a handle on opinions. If you want to determine facts, then you would typically run some controlled tests. Smells like a pile of horseshit to me.
Here's the entire article:
By Gregg Keizer TechWeb.com Mon Jun 5, 8:21 PM ET
Windows 2003 Server is a more reliable server operating system than Linux, a research firm said Monday. ADVERTISEMENT
According to the Yankee Group's annual server reliability survey, only Unix-based operating systems such as HP-UX and Sun Solaris 10 beat Windows on uptime. Windows 2003 Server, in fact, led the popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux with nearly 20 percent more annual uptime.
On a broader note, said Yankee analyst Laura DiDio, the major server operating systems all have a "high degree of reliability," and have showed marked improvement in the last 3 to 5 years.
On average, individual enterprise Windows, Linux, and Unix servers experienced 3 to 5 failures per server per year in 2005, generating 10 to 19.5 hours of annual downtime for each server.
But standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Linux distributions from "niche" open source vendors, are offline more and longer than either Windows or Unix competitors, the survey said. The reason: the scarcity of Linux and open source documentation.
The Yankee Group made a point of stressing that the survey was not sponsored or supported by any server OS maker.
The only thing you can count on is that more and more money will be wasted on returning less and less of value.
Actually, have the CIA, NSA, etc. yet produced anything of value? Note: do not count useful intelligence ignored because the president was asleep, drunk, or just dumb as shit.
A good point. Analogies are so much fun, it's hard not to take them too far.
Another thing, engineers design their buildings/bridges/etc. to withstand known threats, or specific levels of specific threats (i.e. a "100-year flood"). And failure to meet those specifications can sometimes be life-threatening.
Software rarely has such well-defined requirements, or consequences. However, security requirements are rapidly becoming more evident, and consequences are rapidly becoming more dire (e.g. "identity theft").
I think software customers will get what they want. That is, what they are willing to pay for. CEOs and executive management in general are just now learning the consequences of crappy software. Things are changing. Regulation, as always, will not help the problem.
The weanies in marketing have determined that 4 levels of numbers look most business-like. Fewer seem lightweight, more seem ultra-geeky. Oracle is 75% a marketing company you know.
Ha! I think you do not quite understand what a tax is.
A tax is where the government demands some money from you. Often, they just take it, but if you have the ability to block the taking, doing so will get you fined, jailed, or imprisoned.
What part of the above has anything to do with service or benefit of any kind to you?
What is predictable is how pompous critics come pouring out of the woodwork (ok, that's a crappy cliche) when a book gets really popular. "The Da Vinci Code" is a good book for light reading. It has interesting pseudo-history, a convoluted plot, and a very fast pace. I enjoyed it immensely.
I don't, however, think it is great literature, and I think the character development was pretty thin. No reason that should cause such a hue and cry. Again, it's enjoyable for what it is.
The Catholics are annoyed because the book accuses the Vatican of perpetrating a hoax for the past ~1680 years. The more people that read or watch it, the bigger the accusation becomes. So they have a valid self-interest in suppressing the story (even though it's impossible).
I don't mean that in the sense that if you showed up to Mr. Iwata's mansion and asked him for a loan, bits of you would be found in the feces of his guard dogs the next day. I mean, that's true, but that's not the point.
First of all, tricking people into buying things before they're ready to is nothing but sleazy. Sure, lots of businesses do that. But it hardly deserves a patent. In any case, I think that amazon.com actually means it as a convenience feature. I'd never use 1-click myself, but I suppose some people must, or it would just disappear. You have to activate it to use it.
Second, like software patents, business method patents are ridiculous (clue: please observe and memorize the correct spelling of ridiculous). They're like patenting the route you take to work, or something you made with your Lego. There is no benefit to granting patents in these areas. I doubt the holders get their money's worth for the fees, and defense costs for them.
I agree. It seems to me that the proposed designs are merely cosmetic, and hardly innovative cosmetics at that. To echo a previous poster re fonts: the only common theme is shrunken font sizes. That may be what people think looks cool, but believe it or not, most of us are here for the content, i.e. the text, not to admire the "look".
I am very tired of seeing news/commentary pages with huge swaths of white space, massive left and right columns of junk, and 6-8pt text in a 2" wide column down the middle.
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Excellent summary. I can only add "...and I'm a pretentious ass who thinks he's quite clever." To the first sentence of the summary.
This whole "SEO" stuff is the equivalent of street hustlers trying to sell you a "Rolex" for $9.95.
The auxiliary search box on Firefox has the advantage of allowing you to select from many different search tools. And add some new ones. I use the dictionary, Wikipedia, and IMDB from time-to-time, whereas more of my Google searches are from my customized Google start page.
However, that feature could probably be integrated with the address bar.
I like the guy. He's a little wacky, sure. But he's smarter than most of you think. However, I haven't read him much since he was an OS/2 columnist. It's entirely possible you are all correct.
/. sure does promote a lot of his articles.
It's pretty ironic though, that all these people who hate him so much are driving his popularity far better than any fans do.
From the first sentence: "The closer to the metal you can get while programming, the faster your program will compile..." WTF? How fast a language compiles has nothing to do with the so-called myth, whcih is that low-level languages allow a good programmer to produce programs that run faster. They may well compile faster (and they probably retain that advantage), but that's beside the point.
Oddly enough, he proceeds to jump back on track and discuss optimization techniques and levels, most of which is OK. But he berates Java for implementing arrays (that's supposed to be an advantage over C and C++, which don't), and ignores the advantages of managed memory provided by a virtual machine.
C. Needs more work.
(yes, that's a pitiful pun.)
Really? Name one.
I don't consider the extra burden on big businesses to be a drawback.
"ex-eastern European country". Hmmm...
Did the country move out of eastern Europe? to where, one wonders.
Or is it no longer a country? Haven't heard of any new communist regimes absorbing anyone lately.
Yeah, that's great.
If you're 17.
And have a lot more money than you need.
Maybe you should rethink your pigeonholing. The point of the article is the government paying lobbying organizations. I don't care what they're lobbying for, that is outrageous. It has nothing to do with one's position on copyright.
Yep. I don't know if these companies are stupid enough to actually pursue this, but it would be an disaster of biblical proportion for both. Which is why I'd love to see it happen.
I can't see the slightest of business reasons to merge. Where are you going to get any synergy or economies of scale? Microsoft is way too big already (for its own good, much less the rest of us). They should be thinking about spin-offs, not acquisitions.
Cool, thanks... but I suppose it would kill the good s as well as the bad s.
than bloggers who bold up random phrases on every line of their article? Well, actually there are plenty, but it comes close to destroying the impact of a well-written and informative article.
/.? It's a mess of misspellings, misquotes, and other mistakes. (How that's for alliteration?) If you like the article enough to submit it, could you please quote it correctly?
/., seems like you would want to avoid making it sound stupid.
But what is with the summary on
In the article, the author calculated that Windows develoeprs averaged 1000 lines of code per year. The summary statement of 5000 lines isn't sensible, since no period is mentioned, and wrong because it was compared to the average annual rate.
And learn the difference between "to" and "too" for crying out loud. The article got it right. If you like the article enough to post it on
You have a point. Since the previous ways they tried to affect people's actions were completely ineffective, I guess the new way would be technically just as effective.
The resistance to the metric system is one of the best things America's ever done. The utility of a measurement system is in having units that can easily be visualized, mentally manipulated, and are appropriate to the things being measured.
It's long past time for metric fans to quit bragging about how easy it is to convert centimeters to kilometers. Who cares? How often does anyone need to do that? And what's the point? Why not just stick to the basic meter, liter, and gram without the greek prefixes? Since all metric units are artificial, why have more than one?
Furthermore, there's this new thing called a calculator that makes converting angstroms to parsecs quite simple if you've a mind to.
The metric system is just as silly as the ten-day week.
Why was this piece of crap published, and why was it put on /.? It's 97% content-free. It asserts that Yankee group did a survey, and purports to tell us what some of the conclusions are. As mentioned by previous commenters, the statements cited (from the survey, in the article) are nonsense. There's also no mention of how to find the original report, or a clue as to the methods and procedures used, size of the sample, how measurements were made, or how they reached the conclusions.
It should also be mentioned that surveys are generally for getting a handle on opinions. If you want to determine facts, then you would typically run some controlled tests. Smells like a pile of horseshit to me.
Here's the entire article:
By Gregg Keizer
TechWeb.com Mon Jun 5, 8:21 PM ET
Windows 2003 Server is a more reliable server operating system than
Linux, a research firm said Monday.
ADVERTISEMENT
According to the Yankee Group's annual server reliability survey, only
Unix-based operating systems such as HP-UX and Sun Solaris 10 beat Windows on uptime. Windows 2003 Server, in fact, led the popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux with nearly 20 percent more annual uptime.
On a broader note, said Yankee analyst Laura DiDio, the major server operating systems all have a "high degree of reliability," and have showed marked improvement in the last 3 to 5 years.
On average, individual enterprise Windows, Linux, and Unix servers experienced 3 to 5 failures per server per year in 2005, generating 10 to 19.5 hours of annual downtime for each server.
But standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Linux distributions from "niche" open source vendors, are offline more and longer than either Windows or Unix competitors, the survey said. The reason: the scarcity of Linux and open source documentation.
The Yankee Group made a point of stressing that the survey was not sponsored or supported by any server OS maker.
First, your analysis of the incompetence of the national "intelligence" community is very good.
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Second, your recommendation that this be fixed is disturbing.
How about we just do away with the whole pile of crap. For more on the dismal state of affairs, see http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt1
The only thing you can count on is that more and more money will be wasted on returning less and less of value.
Actually, have the CIA, NSA, etc. yet produced anything of value? Note: do not count useful intelligence ignored because the president was asleep, drunk, or just dumb as shit.
A good point. Analogies are so much fun, it's hard not to take them too far.
Another thing, engineers design their buildings/bridges/etc. to withstand known threats, or specific levels of specific threats (i.e. a "100-year flood"). And failure to meet those specifications can sometimes be life-threatening.
Software rarely has such well-defined requirements, or consequences. However, security requirements are rapidly becoming more evident, and consequences are rapidly becoming more dire (e.g. "identity theft").
I think software customers will get what they want. That is, what they are willing to pay for. CEOs and executive management in general are just now learning the consequences of crappy software. Things are changing. Regulation, as always, will not help the problem.
The weanies in marketing have determined that 4 levels of numbers look most business-like. Fewer seem lightweight, more seem ultra-geeky. Oracle is 75% a marketing company you know.
Sorry, those are classified. You don't want the terrorists to know what we're doing to catch them, you know.
Ha! I think you do not quite understand what a tax is.
A tax is where the government demands some money from you. Often, they just take it, but if you have the ability to block the taking, doing so will get you fined, jailed, or imprisoned.
What part of the above has anything to do with service or benefit of any kind to you?
What is predictable is how pompous critics come pouring out of the woodwork (ok, that's a crappy cliche) when a book gets really popular. "The Da Vinci Code" is a good book for light reading. It has interesting pseudo-history, a convoluted plot, and a very fast pace. I enjoyed it immensely.
I don't, however, think it is great literature, and I think the character development was pretty thin. No reason that should cause such a hue and cry. Again, it's enjoyable for what it is.
The Catholics are annoyed because the book accuses the Vatican of perpetrating a hoax for the past ~1680 years. The more people that read or watch it, the bigger the accusation becomes. So they have a valid self-interest in suppressing the story (even though it's impossible).
Awesome!
+5 Interesting?
First of all, tricking people into buying things before they're ready to is nothing but sleazy. Sure, lots of businesses do that. But it hardly deserves a patent. In any case, I think that amazon.com actually means it as a convenience feature. I'd never use 1-click myself, but I suppose some people must, or it would just disappear. You have to activate it to use it.
Second, like software patents, business method patents are ridiculous (clue: please observe and memorize the correct spelling of ridiculous). They're like patenting the route you take to work, or something you made with your Lego. There is no benefit to granting patents in these areas. I doubt the holders get their money's worth for the fees, and defense costs for them.
The really scary thing is that a typical pro-union socialist Democrat thinks that passing a law banning something actually stops it.
I agree. It seems to me that the proposed designs are merely cosmetic, and hardly innovative cosmetics at that. To echo a previous poster re fonts: the only common theme is shrunken font sizes. That may be what people think looks cool, but believe it or not, most of us are here for the content, i.e. the text, not to admire the "look".
/. the way it is.
I am very tired of seeing news/commentary pages with huge swaths of white space, massive left and right columns of junk, and 6-8pt text in a 2" wide column down the middle.
I'm perfectly happy with
How about user-selectable stylesheets?