The first example in the Slashdot blurb would be the functionality of an editor or IDE, not a language. I can actually see this as being handy; especially if you are working with a bunch of other curly-brace-positioning zealots. The second example just looks stupid though.
I use XML for some things and it is very useful in some cases, however, I find it more a pain than it's worth in most situations.
XML has its uses and has its place, but I don't think this is it.
I don't recall reading where this guy was forcing his software on anybody. Also, just because you create something and give it away doesn't make you an indentured servant, which is what a lot of the "it's not good enough" whiners seem to think.
It's one thing to go directly to the developer and offer constructive criticism. I have no problems with that. It is quite another to bitch and moan on Slashdot.
Finally, in my opinion the main reason open source software hasn't killed its proprietary counterparts already is that people just aren't interested in really using their computers to their fullest. It takes knowledge and effort to do so and most people just aren't interested in putting forth the effort. That's okay though. Isn't it nice that we all have a choice?
That small sentence is probably the wisest thing I've ever read on Slashdot.
I can't count the number of stories I've read where someone has created a program that the whole world can download and use for free and half the people posting on Slashdot whinge about it (too many choices; can't compete with Microsoft; Y.A.L.D., hard to install; too many windows; blah, blah, blah).
People don't compare the open source or free software gift presented to them with the nothing they would have had otherwise, but rather pick it apart as if somehow they were entitled to the donor's labor as if they had paid the developer and he/she failed to meet their expectations and ran away with their money. I'd hate to have to buy Christmas or birthday presents for these people.
What happened to showing a little gratitude for a gift, even if it wasn't exactly what you wanted?
Btw, $400 today is IMHO more than $400 1987 as far as high-tech-gadgets are concerned.
I see what you mean, but the point was people's ability, or lack thereof, to afford $400.00 for a device like that, and therefore its never being widely accepted. $400.00 is certainly an easier price to pay nowdays that it was in 1987 even though it is a more ridiculous price nowdays than back then considering that you can buy a whole computer system for less than that.
I don't think they will fix patent law, they will just do what the company I work for is currently doing; patenting ground-breaking concepts like sitting in a chair to write code.
This part is off-topic, but doesn't that picture of Larry Ellison that is floating around in Slashdot's banner ads look like the evil professor in Real Genius whose house is destroyed by popcorn?
I wish people would think about what they are saying before they try to rip somebody a new orifice.
MD players came out in the mid to late 80s. MD Players don't hold any more songs than cassette tapes and the quality of sound is similar to a cassette.
How an MD player with the limited capabilities of a $40 Sony Walkman, costing $400 in 1987 is in any way comparable to an iPod, which can hold thousands of songs, can be used as an external hard drive, and is $400.00 in the year 2004, is entirely beyond me.
I never said that MD blanks weren't available. I said that America tried to market MDs like regular CDs; unlike Japan where they were marketed as a means to rent music CDs and copy them; a better solution to the cassette tape. I never saw an artists produced MD in Japan (although they may have existed).
Your MD history is incorrect. MP3s weren't popular until the mid to late 90s, and they didn't gain widespread use until Napster came out. MDs were available in the U.S. back in the mid to late 80s. They had 10 years to catch on but never did because of cost and poor marketing.
I think you are on to something. A lot of the cool gadgets that I grew accustom to in Japan, purchased, and brought back to America just didn't make sense here. I ended up boxing most of the stuff up.
A lot of their technology solves issues that exist in their culture or environment, but may not exist elsewhere. Most of the gadgets centered around the collection and distribution of business cards fit into this category, I think.
I think, more than anything, it is a matter of cost. I remember when MD Players first came out in Japan. Everybody had one. They had MD Car Stereos, MD Walkmans, MD portable stereos, and MD breakfast cereal.
You could also go down to any number of rental stores and rent CDs and buy blank MD discs to record them on (now THAT would never go over in the US). Most people did this because it was cheaper than buying the CD for $25 - $30.
When I returned to America, however, nobody was using MD players, even though they were available. The problem, I think, was the cost. MD players were around $400 dollars at the time. Nobody in America would spend $400 for a portable Walkman type device, so MD players never caught on. Couple that with the fact that America tried to sell MD versions of commercial CDs instead of just selling the blanks so people could copy CDs; which is what was done in Japan.
I think this is the case with a lot of the tech gadgets that you can buy over in Japan. The cost of these items is always too high for the American market so Americans won't buy the stuff. Therefore, nobody bothers importing it anymore.
The market is also different in Japan. You can do things there that you can't do here, so some of the gadgets just don't make sense in America (MD players being one example).
I don't believe this is true any more than it is in America.
I lived in Japan for several years (about 45 minutes away from Akihabara, which was nice) and most people I knew lived in their own apartments. Of course, I knew people who lived with their parents too, but that was not the status quo.
But then we'd simply have the same discussion over sharp rocks or spiked clubs. Guns are irrelevant. What we need to get over is the widespread desire to mame or kill each other. Until you achieve that, it is pointless to discuss ridding the world of any specific weapon.
The Kyoto protocol is something that any right-thinking sovereign nation would and should avoid like the plague.
I'm all for being clean and being worthy stewards of the Earth and all, but the US can come up with their own plans for doing so (and do by the way). It makes no sense at all to proffer up even the smallest amount of our sovereignty to a global treaty such as this one.
Thank all that is good our elections worked out the way they did or the US would be signing this document of idiocy.
No it wasn't. The Florida votes were tallied several times and not one of those times did Algore come out on top (in spite of his attempts to bring focus to "dimpled chads").
I've looked, and I don't see what you're seeing. If you have information that the rest of us don't, please feel free to post it, links, etc. Otherwise, you just appear to be another political hack.
Why is there "no doubt" that we are partially responsible?
The problem I have with the whole global warming issues is that there are scientists who have an agenda to start with so they tend to see what they want to see and come to their own desired conclusion; that humans are the scum of the Earth and are ruining this planet.
On the other hand, there are scientists who have a different agenda (to prove the first scientists wrong) and they eventually arrive at the conclusion they sought after; that the first scientists are intellectual panty-waists.
I have read a lot of bantering on both sides of the fence, but really haven't seen anything diffinitive from either side.
Of course, humans are responsible for pollution, but according to records, pollution is less now where I live than in was in the early 1900s when everybody burned coal for heat; in spite of the fact that the population has increased exponentially since then. So, although the air is cleaner today, the temperature is higher here than it was back then.
What effect does human pollution have on global warming? I don't know. People smarter than me are at odds on the issue though, so until it becomes scientific fact instead of political power-mongering, I guess I simply don't care.
But that isn't the point. The point is that humans didn't cause those changes any more than we are causing the current ones. How many people survived or didn't survive is irrelevant really.
In Japanese, the name is gojira, which is half gorira (Gorilla) and half kujira (Whale), so if anything, they have taken the Gorilla out of Godzilla, which leaves us with a quirky movie about a whale that fights other mutants over Tokyo and millions of screaming Japanese people.
I've always wanted to try OS X to see if I'd like it, but I've always thought buying a Mac was an expensive way to "test drive" OS X, and thus have never done so. $50.00 on the otherhand is quite reasonable, I think. Perhaps I'll finally give OS X a try.
And he did go to the U.N., and the U.N., having economic ties with Saddam, didn't want business and therefore their cashflow interrupted so they wouldn't support him, remember? And then Bush told them to go probe themselves anally and went in to remove Saddam from power anyway.
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The first example in the Slashdot blurb would be the functionality of an editor or IDE, not a language. I can actually see this as being handy; especially if you are working with a bunch of other curly-brace-positioning zealots. The second example just looks stupid though.
I use XML for some things and it is very useful in some cases, however, I find it more a pain than it's worth in most situations.
XML has its uses and has its place, but I don't think this is it.
I don't recall reading where this guy was forcing his software on anybody. Also, just because you create something and give it away doesn't make you an indentured servant, which is what a lot of the "it's not good enough" whiners seem to think.
It's one thing to go directly to the developer and offer constructive criticism. I have no problems with that. It is quite another to bitch and moan on Slashdot.
Finally, in my opinion the main reason open source software hasn't killed its proprietary counterparts already is that people just aren't interested in really using their computers to their fullest. It takes knowledge and effort to do so and most people just aren't interested in putting forth the effort. That's okay though. Isn't it nice that we all have a choice?
It is a gift people, treat it as such...
That small sentence is probably the wisest thing I've ever read on Slashdot.
I can't count the number of stories I've read where someone has created a program that the whole world can download and use for free and half the people posting on Slashdot whinge about it (too many choices; can't compete with Microsoft; Y.A.L.D., hard to install; too many windows; blah, blah, blah).
People don't compare the open source or free software gift presented to them with the nothing they would have had otherwise, but rather pick it apart as if somehow they were entitled to the donor's labor as if they had paid the developer and he/she failed to meet their expectations and ran away with their money. I'd hate to have to buy Christmas or birthday presents for these people.
What happened to showing a little gratitude for a gift, even if it wasn't exactly what you wanted?
Btw, $400 today is IMHO more than $400 1987 as far as high-tech-gadgets are concerned.
I see what you mean, but the point was people's ability, or lack thereof, to afford $400.00 for a device like that, and therefore its never being widely accepted. $400.00 is certainly an easier price to pay nowdays that it was in 1987 even though it is a more ridiculous price nowdays than back then considering that you can buy a whole computer system for less than that.
Anyway, this is off the mark of my original post.
I don't think they will fix patent law, they will just do what the company I work for is currently doing; patenting ground-breaking concepts like sitting in a chair to write code.
This part is off-topic, but doesn't that picture of Larry Ellison that is floating around in Slashdot's banner ads look like the evil professor in Real Genius whose house is destroyed by popcorn?
MDs weren't regulated in the 80s when they first came out. You could copy whatever you wanted on to them.
I understand and agree with your point in the here and now though.
That was my point. My capitalized THAT was supposed to convey your message.
I wish people would think about what they are saying before they try to rip somebody a new orifice.
MD players came out in the mid to late 80s. MD Players don't hold any more songs than cassette tapes and the quality of sound is similar to a cassette.
How an MD player with the limited capabilities of a $40 Sony Walkman, costing $400 in 1987 is in any way comparable to an iPod, which can hold thousands of songs, can be used as an external hard drive, and is $400.00 in the year 2004, is entirely beyond me.
I never said that MD blanks weren't available. I said that America tried to market MDs like regular CDs; unlike Japan where they were marketed as a means to rent music CDs and copy them; a better solution to the cassette tape. I never saw an artists produced MD in Japan (although they may have existed).
Your MD history is incorrect. MP3s weren't popular until the mid to late 90s, and they didn't gain widespread use until Napster came out. MDs were available in the U.S. back in the mid to late 80s. They had 10 years to catch on but never did because of cost and poor marketing.
You can get 80 Minute MDs too.
I think you are on to something. A lot of the cool gadgets that I grew accustom to in Japan, purchased, and brought back to America just didn't make sense here. I ended up boxing most of the stuff up.
A lot of their technology solves issues that exist in their culture or environment, but may not exist elsewhere. Most of the gadgets centered around the collection and distribution of business cards fit into this category, I think.
I think, more than anything, it is a matter of cost. I remember when MD Players first came out in Japan. Everybody had one. They had MD Car Stereos, MD Walkmans, MD portable stereos, and MD breakfast cereal.
You could also go down to any number of rental stores and rent CDs and buy blank MD discs to record them on (now THAT would never go over in the US). Most people did this because it was cheaper than buying the CD for $25 - $30.
When I returned to America, however, nobody was using MD players, even though they were available. The problem, I think, was the cost. MD players were around $400 dollars at the time. Nobody in America would spend $400 for a portable Walkman type device, so MD players never caught on. Couple that with the fact that America tried to sell MD versions of commercial CDs instead of just selling the blanks so people could copy CDs; which is what was done in Japan.
I think this is the case with a lot of the tech gadgets that you can buy over in Japan. The cost of these items is always too high for the American market so Americans won't buy the stuff. Therefore, nobody bothers importing it anymore.
The market is also different in Japan. You can do things there that you can't do here, so some of the gadgets just don't make sense in America (MD players being one example).
I don't believe this is true any more than it is in America.
I lived in Japan for several years (about 45 minutes away from Akihabara, which was nice) and most people I knew lived in their own apartments. Of course, I knew people who lived with their parents too, but that was not the status quo.
But then we'd simply have the same discussion over sharp rocks or spiked clubs. Guns are irrelevant. What we need to get over is the widespread desire to mame or kill each other. Until you achieve that, it is pointless to discuss ridding the world of any specific weapon.
I read that over and over again to make sure I didn't spell anything wrong and what do you know, I missed one. Damn!
And we all no that Slashdot needs some great asses.
The Kyoto protocol is something that any right-thinking sovereign nation would and should avoid like the plague.
I'm all for being clean and being worthy stewards of the Earth and all, but the US can come up with their own plans for doing so (and do by the way). It makes no sense at all to proffer up even the smallest amount of our sovereignty to a global treaty such as this one.
Thank all that is good our elections worked out the way they did or the US would be signing this document of idiocy.
No it wasn't. The Florida votes were tallied several times and not one of those times did Algore come out on top (in spite of his attempts to bring focus to "dimpled chads").
Thus, Bush won fair and square.
I've looked, and I don't see what you're seeing. If you have information that the rest of us don't, please feel free to post it, links, etc. Otherwise, you just appear to be another political hack.
Why is there "no doubt" that we are partially responsible?
The problem I have with the whole global warming issues is that there are scientists who have an agenda to start with so they tend to see what they want to see and come to their own desired conclusion; that humans are the scum of the Earth and are ruining this planet.
On the other hand, there are scientists who have a different agenda (to prove the first scientists wrong) and they eventually arrive at the conclusion they sought after; that the first scientists are intellectual panty-waists.
I have read a lot of bantering on both sides of the fence, but really haven't seen anything diffinitive from either side.
Of course, humans are responsible for pollution, but according to records, pollution is less now where I live than in was in the early 1900s when everybody burned coal for heat; in spite of the fact that the population has increased exponentially since then. So, although the air is cleaner today, the temperature is higher here than it was back then.
What effect does human pollution have on global warming? I don't know. People smarter than me are at odds on the issue though, so until it becomes scientific fact instead of political power-mongering, I guess I simply don't care.
[3] Listen to the consensus of scientists, instead of looking at the bible and declaring "Nope, there's no global warming going on here".
So, would that be in the New Testament or the Old?
But that isn't the point. The point is that humans didn't cause those changes any more than we are causing the current ones. How many people survived or didn't survive is irrelevant really.
In Japanese, the name is gojira, which is half gorira (Gorilla) and half kujira (Whale), so if anything, they have taken the Gorilla out of Godzilla, which leaves us with a quirky movie about a whale that fights other mutants over Tokyo and millions of screaming Japanese people.
I've always wanted to try OS X to see if I'd like it, but I've always thought buying a Mac was an expensive way to "test drive" OS X, and thus have never done so. $50.00 on the otherhand is quite reasonable, I think. Perhaps I'll finally give OS X a try.
Yes, I would.
And he did go to the U.N., and the U.N., having economic ties with Saddam, didn't want business and therefore their cashflow interrupted so they wouldn't support him, remember? And then Bush told them to go probe themselves anally and went in to remove Saddam from power anyway.