I find disturbing that quality standards should be tested on uneducated random people. Obviously they can't distinguish between MP3 and FLAC. They also cannot tell the difference between Brahms and Mahler. However this doesn't mean that we can now ditch Mahler symphonies in favor of Brahms'.
i claim that root knowledge/insight/technology that enables a new period is developed out of luck.
And you are wrong. Capitalism has transformed the casual scientific and technological research into a full scale industry. Scientifical and technological progress is now explicit goal of our economy. The middle ages were stagnant BECAUSE their economy was not based on scientifical and techonological evolution, the contrary in fact.
I guess it would be better to build a sustainable economy on this planet. Of course people that feel that our wondrous Earth is just a ball of rock are invited to leave.
I use them both and because of your comment now I'm checking my RAM usage: 711MiB of my 2GiB. This is with Eclipse, VMWare running an XP instance, plus others common utilities: Firefox, Pidgin, Liferea, etc. I'm running Ubuntu. Something makes me think you're on Windows Vista.
Darwinism implies an ideology adhering to one man's dictates, like Marxism, says Safina
Yes that's correct. Nonetheless there is a reason one still refers to "Marxism": While biologists accepted Darwin's fundamental discoveries and built on them, social and economic sciences spent the last century trying to refute Marx's theories. Theories that do represent a good model to understand our society.
You're missing the point. The day Microsoft sues Samba and wins in court, distros just stop distributing it as it is not vital to the majority of Linux users.
If we base our apps and frameworks on Mono, the Microsoft sues and wins, we're totally screwed.
Got it?
The day Google Apps will be full of ads or will ask you for a subscription fee, I'll pay for a video of you trying to export your documents one by one after the announce that the export feature will be removed in 24 hours.
The ability to browse the filesystem! It seems strange but the lack of a filesystem browser is a major drawback of iTunes and iTunes-like players (songbird, banshee). This is because mp3s don't always come perfectly tagged and people like to organize them in folders. This is the classical elephant in the room.
Everybody talks about some kind of political change... but nobody seems to get that political institutions are the way they are for a reason. You cannot change them at will. They evolve together with (or slightly after) the structure of economy. Political problems can be fixed only by changing today's economic system AKA capitalism.
No seriously, my advice is: Don't follow the "recipes", don't cut & paste code. Always have the REFERENCE docs open and get a real sense of APIs you will be using and their potential. That'll make you a better programmer.
The web server:
web.myapp.com
The database:
db.myapp.com
The backend for editors:
edit.myapp.com
And then again they can all point to same physical machine. DNS should abstract away the IP numbers, not just replace them.
in a year or two, as this ports mature, Windows and OSX are going to be flooded with KDE free software: Amarok music player, Gwenview image viewer, Digikam photo manager, Kopete instant messenger, and many many more.
I think this is exciting news but probably a bit scary for commercial ISVs...
So why don't we speed up program installation? Maybe with sandboxing. Image if a web page could link an "executable XML" that would reference native programs for various platforms: the.exe on Windows, the.app on OSX, a repository and package name on Debian (and derivatives) and so on. We could blur the lines between the desktop and the Web.
User supplied content can be easily fixed. First, the user-entered markup is NOT the website markup. It can be BBcode or it can be a subset of HTML. In any case it has to be validated, fixed and converted before being output.
People not doing this cannot be called web developers.
Ubuntu and Linspire made a deal to bring Click and Run technology to Ubuntu. How this patent pact with Microsoft affects the relationship between Ubuntu and Linspire?
Let the distros worry about packaging issues (deb, rpm, tar.gz...) then they can tailor it for themselves from the tar.gz or however you pack up the binary (I'm guessing it's gonna be closed source)
Simonetta, you're missing something important here: What makes rich countries rich? Money is just a number, the real value is in productive work. the "poor sections of the Earth" are those able to work and produce. They will only have to gain if they don't have to give back the bigger slice to foreign investors.
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I find disturbing that quality standards should be tested on uneducated random people. Obviously they can't distinguish between MP3 and FLAC. They also cannot tell the difference between Brahms and Mahler. However this doesn't mean that we can now ditch Mahler symphonies in favor of Brahms'.
And you are wrong. Capitalism has transformed the casual scientific and technological research into a full scale industry. Scientifical and technological progress is now explicit goal of our economy. The middle ages were stagnant BECAUSE their economy was not based on scientifical and techonological evolution, the contrary in fact.
I guess it would be better to build a sustainable economy on this planet. Of course people that feel that our wondrous Earth is just a ball of rock are invited to leave.
I use them both and because of your comment now I'm checking my RAM usage: 711MiB of my 2GiB. This is with Eclipse, VMWare running an XP instance, plus others common utilities: Firefox, Pidgin, Liferea, etc. I'm running Ubuntu. Something makes me think you're on Windows Vista.
Darwinism implies an ideology adhering to one man's dictates, like Marxism, says Safina
Yes that's correct. Nonetheless there is a reason one still refers to "Marxism": While biologists accepted Darwin's fundamental discoveries and built on them, social and economic sciences spent the last century trying to refute Marx's theories. Theories that do represent a good model to understand our society.
You're missing the point. The day Microsoft sues Samba and wins in court, distros just stop distributing it as it is not vital to the majority of Linux users. If we base our apps and frameworks on Mono, the Microsoft sues and wins, we're totally screwed. Got it?
Why can't everyone microblog on its own frigging server?
You mean ONE button
The day Google Apps will be full of ads or will ask you for a subscription fee, I'll pay for a video of you trying to export your documents one by one after the announce that the export feature will be removed in 24 hours.
The ability to browse the filesystem! It seems strange but the lack of a filesystem browser is a major drawback of iTunes and iTunes-like players (songbird, banshee). This is because mp3s don't always come perfectly tagged and people like to organize them in folders. This is the classical elephant in the room.
Everybody talks about some kind of political change... but nobody seems to get that political institutions are the way they are for a reason. You cannot change them at will. They evolve together with (or slightly after) the structure of economy. Political problems can be fixed only by changing today's economic system AKA capitalism.
No seriously, my advice is: Don't follow the "recipes", don't cut & paste code. Always have the REFERENCE docs open and get a real sense of APIs you will be using and their potential. That'll make you a better programmer.
in the screenshot!
Well, the ultimate CSS reference is obviously the spec itself: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
The wiki says there is no FULLTEXT support. TFA says no Prepared statements and no query cache. How is this supposed to be good for a web application?
The web server: web.myapp.com The database: db.myapp.com The backend for editors: edit.myapp.com And then again they can all point to same physical machine. DNS should abstract away the IP numbers, not just replace them.
in a year or two, as this ports mature, Windows and OSX are going to be flooded with KDE free software: Amarok music player, Gwenview image viewer, Digikam photo manager, Kopete instant messenger, and many many more. I think this is exciting news but probably a bit scary for commercial ISVs...
PHP does not belong to that list.
So why don't we speed up program installation? Maybe with sandboxing. Image if a web page could link an "executable XML" that would reference native programs for various platforms: the .exe on Windows, the .app on OSX, a repository and package name on Debian (and derivatives) and so on. We could blur the lines between the desktop and the Web.
User supplied content can be easily fixed. First, the user-entered markup is NOT the website markup. It can be BBcode or it can be a subset of HTML. In any case it has to be validated, fixed and converted before being output.
People not doing this cannot be called web developers.
This is NOT a branded OpenOffice! This is a completely different software based on the Eclipse Platform.
Ubuntu and Linspire made a deal to bring Click and Run technology to Ubuntu. How this patent pact with Microsoft affects the relationship between Ubuntu and Linspire?
The Adobe Flash player cannot be redistributed.
Simonetta, you're missing something important here: What makes rich countries rich? Money is just a number, the real value is in productive work. the "poor sections of the Earth" are those able to work and produce. They will only have to gain if they don't have to give back the bigger slice to foreign investors.
:)
Btw nice name, same as my mother
The parent is not offtopic! I think the moderators didn't get the joke about the Flying Spaghetti Monster religion.