There are so many "Get me a portal, quick" / "I want to create a CMS that will make me rich" websites based on PHP based solutions that this exercise becomes obviously very important. It's surprising how many of such websites are severly insecure.
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'Using Windows machine for development' and 'Windows development' are two different things, my dear friend ! For example, he might be using a platform independent language IDE (Bloated with plugins / tools for his specific development requirements) on Windows, which doesn't necessarily mean 'Windows development'. So, I would say that the parent's comment about 'safely assuming Windows development' was more sensible than your high-schoolish 'Uhhh.. Obviouslyyyyy' comment.
I am not a big fan of the "I am a Mac" ads. Being a Linux user, I don't care that much about OS X or Windows based PCs. So perhaps my opinion is unbiased.
I think that these ads might offend Windows users instead of getting them to switch to the cool side. These ads do not show the strength of Macs. These focus more on insulting Windows based PCs.
Moreover, don't know why, but I've always felt that any company that really has superior products doesn't have to attack the competition this way. In fact, through these ads, Apple has lost a little respect in my eyes, if nothing else.
ps. I know that writing something against Apple might not go very well with my Karma, though:-(
From Intel: High-K Material is a material that can replace silicon dioxide as a gate dielectric. It has good insulating properties and also creates high capacitance (hence the term "high-k") between the gate and the channel. Both of these are desirable properties for high performance transistors. "k" (actually the Greek letter kappa) is an engineering term for the ability of a material to hold electric charge. Think of a sponge. It can hold a lot of water. Wood can hold some but not as much. Glass can't hold any at all. Similarly, some materials can store charge better than others, hence have a higher "k" value. Also, because high-k materials can be thicker than silicon dioxide, while retaining the same desirable properties, they greatly reduce leakage.
Interestingly enough, the action would turn out to be good for http://www.seclists.org/ too as thousands of people are going to check that website after reading this story on Slashdot (I know I did).
I didn't agree or disagree with calling the Kerala government communist. Anyway, according to wikipedia, a communist state is a term used by many political scientists to describe a form of government in which the state operates under a one-party system and declares allegiance to Marxism-Leninism or a derivative thereof. Communist states may have several legal political parties, but the Communist Party is constitutionally guaranteed a dominant role in government. Consequently, the institutions of the state and of the Communist Party become intimately entwined.
The government in Kerala is elected by the public. Even a government dominated by communists cannot impose a truly communist state. Private enterprise exists in Kerala, which could not in a communist system. And the state government does not control the economy the way it would in a communist system. People can democratically remove the government in elections and choose a non-communist government. Because of all these reasons, I thought it was important to make this distinction clear.
You didn't specify what kind of batteries the camera takes. But I'll assume it is AA.
I think the obvious choice will be some high capacity NiMH batteries. Now-a-days we have a wide choice of cells ranging from 1500 to 2700mAh. Obviously, higher capacity means longer run time.
Okay, here goes my karma.. but dude, CALM DOWN !! It's not like I've kidnapped your kid for ransom or something.
The post above mine was talking about how "education" is the only answer to solving the misery in the third-world, not free food or free service for sanitation. And although I agree to his points about education, I don't think that OLPC is a synonym to "education" (YET, at least). And although I definitely approve (Not that it matters) and appreciate the OLPC concept, that does not mean that I think that OLPC is the best way to provide education at this point and time.
It's like saying that although drinking soda is better than not drinking any liquid at all, but it's still not as good as drinking water.
I agree completely. Although I am still not sure if I'll be as convinced by your statements if I replace "education" with "laptops".
What I am trying to say is that although education is certainly the only way to solve the problems in the third-world, I am still not sure if OLPC is the best way to provide that education.
If I remember correctly, Google will manage the free 300-kilobits-per-second Wi-Fi service, EarthLink will offer the faster premium service (1mbps and above), and Motorola and Tropos will provide the hardware / software for the mesh with the wireless service running at 2.4GHz and the mesh backbone at 5.8GHz
Like others said already.. First of all, Falcon allows MySQL to not be as dependent on InnoDB as it is right now. When Oracle got hold of InnoDB, people had serious doubts about MySQL's future. For a solution like MySQL, it's always good to have competing (Even if similar) engines for it's own survival / growth.
Are you serious? Do you think that MySql for a developer is equivalent to wrench for a mechanic?
What about people who develop device drivers? What about people who write the kernel? I can go on and on for fields that have just no need / use for MySql or any other database. Not everybody in this world is doing *exactly* what you are doing.
I think the first objective for all the Open Source teams should be to stop duplication. A lot of our resources are wasted in getting features ported from other applications and (Even worse) redoing features on different applications (Because of underlying differences). I know that one of the strengths of Open Source is to have "choices", but some of these choices are just plain silly. I am not asking for these choices to go away completely. But there should be at least some sort of coherence between different alternatives (They already have some coherence, thanks to the Kernel.. but we need to see a lot more of the same in more higher level applications too)
Imagine how much more work could be done to a package manager if every distro was using the same. Imagine how good OpenOffice and KOffice could have been if there were not 200 other Open Source alternatives. I am glad to hear about efforts to unify KDE and Gnome. We need to focus on something similar for a lot of other applications too. And this should be one of the top most priorities for Redhat, Novell, Ubuntu/Debian teams.
I can understand how this material can make an item stealthy from radars and all. This material can be used to bend / deflect the rays so that they never return to the radar. But the same concept does not an invisibility cloak make. If a cloak deflects light, then the human eye will see a missing spot (Because, unlike the radar, an eye would see everything else around the cloak).
So, for a cloak to be invisible, we need it to pass light from the other end of the cloak. For this, the cloak would need to know the geometrical shape that it has currently, absorb light coming from one end, and forward it to a light emitting object on the other end of the cloak. The problem then will be that the cloak would need to know where the "eye" is to be able to map back and front ends correctly.
This might be a good place to ask this question. The only Java EE 5 text that I have with me is the Java EE 5 Tutorial. Is there any other (More detailed, better written) book on the same topic that Slashdot readers can recommend?
I understand that. But my point is that you can't say that GWT is an alternative to Atlas. The reason is that you can't decide if your solution should be Atlas based or GWT based. You first have to decide if your solution will be.NET based or J2EE based. And then you choose the best tool available for that technology.
GWT is not an alternative to.NET. Java EE is an alternative to.NET. GWT is a tool that you might want to use once you have already decided that you want to use a Java based solution instead of a.NET based solution.
Well, for one, the Javascripts produced by this tool are nowhere as simple and easy to understand as the ones written by the Javascript expert (Sitting in the next cubicle) who understands the product better. And how do you debug a problem now? First you'll have to find the problem in the automatically produced Javascript, then find out how that relates to your Java files that were used to produce the Javascript. What if the tool has a bug? It'll take you a very long time realizing that. Then, most of the times it's much more difficult to maintain a solution which depends on a framework producing files for you at compile time. And finally, how do you deal with mixing some manually written Javascripts with some GWT produced Javascripts?
I am sure web-tier people can come up with more technical problems that they see in GWT based solutions.
I mostly work on business layer / mediation tier, and have never been too good with the web tier. So GWT, at first, looked like a god-send to me. But after implementing my first GWT based test-solution, I realized that maintaining a GWT based solution will be many folds more difficult than a traditional Javascript based solution. So, my personal opinion is that although GWT is good for personal projects, it still needs to prove itself for professional development.
The biggest service-provider companies from India (Like Infosys and Wipro) started getting outsourced projects from US in early 80s (1983 and 1980 respectively.. although I might be wrong about the exact years). So that means, more than two decades of outsourcing. How many more years do you need to realize that there is no other country in this world that can replace India so easily. India has a huge English speaking population; the labor is very cheap there; People adore Maths and kids getting good grades aren't treated as nerds; People know from childhood that Engineering and Medicine are the only two sure-shot in-fields to study etc etc. You can't find something like that (At that scale) in any other country.
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There are so many "Get me a portal, quick" / "I want to create a CMS that will make me rich" websites based on PHP based solutions that this exercise becomes obviously very important. It's surprising how many of such websites are severly insecure.
'Using Windows machine for development' and 'Windows development' are two different things, my dear friend ! For example, he might be using a platform independent language IDE (Bloated with plugins / tools for his specific development requirements) on Windows, which doesn't necessarily mean 'Windows development'. So, I would say that the parent's comment about 'safely assuming Windows development' was more sensible than your high-schoolish 'Uhhh .. Obviouslyyyyy' comment.
I am not a big fan of the "I am a Mac" ads. Being a Linux user, I don't care that much about OS X or Windows based PCs. So perhaps my opinion is unbiased.
:-(
I think that these ads might offend Windows users instead of getting them to switch to the cool side. These ads do not show the strength of Macs. These focus more on insulting Windows based PCs.
Moreover, don't know why, but I've always felt that any company that really has superior products doesn't have to attack the competition this way. In fact, through these ads, Apple has lost a little respect in my eyes, if nothing else.
ps. I know that writing something against Apple might not go very well with my Karma, though
From Intel: High-K Material is a material that can replace silicon dioxide as a gate dielectric. It has good insulating properties and also creates high capacitance (hence the term "high-k") between the gate and the channel. Both of these are desirable properties for high performance transistors. "k" (actually the Greek letter kappa) is an engineering term for the ability of a material to hold electric charge. Think of a sponge. It can hold a lot of water. Wood can hold some but not as much. Glass can't hold any at all. Similarly, some materials can store charge better than others, hence have a higher "k" value. Also, because high-k materials can be thicker than silicon dioxide, while retaining the same desirable properties, they greatly reduce leakage.
The way AMD and Intel are improving the processor speed is very impressive. I/O speed is going to become an even clearer bottleneck now.
Interestingly enough, the action would turn out to be good for http://www.seclists.org/ too as thousands of people are going to check that website after reading this story on Slashdot (I know I did).
I didn't agree or disagree with calling the Kerala government communist. Anyway, according to wikipedia, a communist state is a term used by many political scientists to describe a form of government in which the state operates under a one-party system and declares allegiance to Marxism-Leninism or a derivative thereof. Communist states may have several legal political parties, but the Communist Party is constitutionally guaranteed a dominant role in government. Consequently, the institutions of the state and of the Communist Party become intimately entwined.
The government in Kerala is elected by the public. Even a government dominated by communists cannot impose a truly communist state. Private enterprise exists in Kerala, which could not in a communist system. And the state government does not control the economy the way it would in a communist system. People can democratically remove the government in elections and choose a non-communist government. Because of all these reasons, I thought it was important to make this distinction clear.
Just to make it clear, India is a democracy. In fact, India is world's largest democracy. The government in Kerala is also chosen democratically.
When people say "Communist government of Kerala", they actually mean a democratically chosen government which is influenced by some Marxist concepts.
You didn't specify what kind of batteries the camera takes. But I'll assume it is AA.
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I think the obvious choice will be some high capacity NiMH batteries. Now-a-days we have a wide choice of cells ranging from 1500 to 2700mAh. Obviously, higher capacity means longer run time.
You can find more info here: http://www.steves-digicams.com/nimh_batteries.htm
Okay, here goes my karma .. but dude, CALM DOWN !! It's not like I've kidnapped your kid for ransom or something.
The post above mine was talking about how "education" is the only answer to solving the misery in the third-world, not free food or free service for sanitation. And although I agree to his points about education, I don't think that OLPC is a synonym to "education" (YET, at least). And although I definitely approve (Not that it matters) and appreciate the OLPC concept, that does not mean that I think that OLPC is the best way to provide education at this point and time.
It's like saying that although drinking soda is better than not drinking any liquid at all, but it's still not as good as drinking water.
I agree completely. Although I am still not sure if I'll be as convinced by your statements if I replace "education" with "laptops".
What I am trying to say is that although education is certainly the only way to solve the problems in the third-world, I am still not sure if OLPC is the best way to provide that education.
I never knew that there was really a Dracula castle in Transylvania, Romania. I am a bit scared now :-(
If I remember correctly, Google will manage the free 300-kilobits-per-second Wi-Fi service, EarthLink will offer the faster premium service (1mbps and above), and Motorola and Tropos will provide the hardware / software for the mesh with the wireless service running at 2.4GHz and the mesh backbone at 5.8GHz
Like others said already .. First of all, Falcon allows MySQL to not be as dependent on InnoDB as it is right now. When Oracle got hold of InnoDB, people had serious doubts about MySQL's future. For a solution like MySQL, it's always good to have competing (Even if similar) engines for it's own survival / growth.
Are you serious? Do you think that MySql for a developer is equivalent to wrench for a mechanic? What about people who develop device drivers? What about people who write the kernel? I can go on and on for fields that have just no need / use for MySql or any other database. Not everybody in this world is doing *exactly* what you are doing.
I hope a user smart enough to notice and use the phishing feature of IE, would be smart enough to use Firefox instead
I think the first objective for all the Open Source teams should be to stop duplication. A lot of our resources are wasted in getting features ported from other applications and (Even worse) redoing features on different applications (Because of underlying differences). I know that one of the strengths of Open Source is to have "choices", but some of these choices are just plain silly. I am not asking for these choices to go away completely. But there should be at least some sort of coherence between different alternatives (They already have some coherence, thanks to the Kernel .. but we need to see a lot more of the same in more higher level applications too)
Imagine how much more work could be done to a package manager if every distro was using the same. Imagine how good OpenOffice and KOffice could have been if there were not 200 other Open Source alternatives. I am glad to hear about efforts to unify KDE and Gnome. We need to focus on something similar for a lot of other applications too. And this should be one of the top most priorities for Redhat, Novell, Ubuntu/Debian teams.
I can understand how this material can make an item stealthy from radars and all. This material can be used to bend / deflect the rays so that they never return to the radar. But the same concept does not an invisibility cloak make. If a cloak deflects light, then the human eye will see a missing spot (Because, unlike the radar, an eye would see everything else around the cloak).
So, for a cloak to be invisible, we need it to pass light from the other end of the cloak. For this, the cloak would need to know the geometrical shape that it has currently, absorb light coming from one end, and forward it to a light emitting object on the other end of the cloak. The problem then will be that the cloak would need to know where the "eye" is to be able to map back and front ends correctly.
Am I talking non-sense here?
This might be a good place to ask this question. The only Java EE 5 text that I have with me is the Java EE 5 Tutorial. Is there any other (More detailed, better written) book on the same topic that Slashdot readers can recommend?
I understand that. But my point is that you can't say that GWT is an alternative to Atlas. The reason is that you can't decide if your solution should be Atlas based or GWT based. You first have to decide if your solution will be .NET based or J2EE based. And then you choose the best tool available for that technology.
GWT is not an alternative to .NET. Java EE is an alternative to .NET. GWT is a tool that you might want to use once you have already decided that you want to use a Java based solution instead of a .NET based solution.
Well, for one, the Javascripts produced by this tool are nowhere as simple and easy to understand as the ones written by the Javascript expert (Sitting in the next cubicle) who understands the product better. And how do you debug a problem now? First you'll have to find the problem in the automatically produced Javascript, then find out how that relates to your Java files that were used to produce the Javascript. What if the tool has a bug? It'll take you a very long time realizing that. Then, most of the times it's much more difficult to maintain a solution which depends on a framework producing files for you at compile time. And finally, how do you deal with mixing some manually written Javascripts with some GWT produced Javascripts? I am sure web-tier people can come up with more technical problems that they see in GWT based solutions.
I mostly work on business layer / mediation tier, and have never been too good with the web tier. So GWT, at first, looked like a god-send to me. But after implementing my first GWT based test-solution, I realized that maintaining a GWT based solution will be many folds more difficult than a traditional Javascript based solution. So, my personal opinion is that although GWT is good for personal projects, it still needs to prove itself for professional development.
The biggest service-provider companies from India (Like Infosys and Wipro) started getting outsourced projects from US in early 80s (1983 and 1980 respectively .. although I might be wrong about the exact years). So that means, more than two decades of outsourcing. How many more years do you need to realize that there is no other country in this world that can replace India so easily. India has a huge English speaking population; the labor is very cheap there; People adore Maths and kids getting good grades aren't treated as nerds; People know from childhood that Engineering and Medicine are the only two sure-shot in-fields to study etc etc. You can't find something like that (At that scale) in any other country.
No, they can not do that. You need to read about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust/