Well in that case, the data is worth $38b and the convenience of having electronic copies is worth $200k. If the paper copies had been completely lost you can bet the liability would have been more than $200k
RAM is designed to provide faster access to data than from disc. If you have RAM not being used, then you're probably losing efficiency (loading things from disc which could be in RAM. Firefox should be able to ask for as much RAM as it needs, up to the maximum available. It's up to the OS to a) allocate the free memory it can spare and b) ask an application to free up memory if the memory is needed for something more immediate.
What it seems Firefox does is mismanage and lose track of the RAM it asks for, so it ends up swapping a lot more in and out of the hard drive and fails to free up some of its own memory.
Just using a lot of RAM isn't a bad idea at all, in fact that's the point of RAM
Yes. Apollo apps will usually be backed by server side code in the same way as AJAX (shudder) applications need the server code in the backend to do the work. Think of that paradigm, but with much nicer (visually) and easier to develop GUIs than pure Javascript+[insert JS library of choice]
However, Apollo apps will have a local data store which can be accessed by the app, if that's what you meant.
Technically correct, but I've met some of the Apollo developers and the team are predominantly former Macromedia employees. Flex and Apollo are both originally Macromedia ideas. Adobe have (so far) done little to change how existing Macromedia projects continue, the main work has been on sharing resources and working on complementary products
Lets say I get a job as a shoesalesmen claiming to have a high school diploma instead of a GED and then work my way up to management and am finally instrumental in growing the store into a multi-million dollar chain. Who the hell cares that I lied about some insignificant and unimportant piece of paper? My results are what matter. A degree is a notation at the bottom of your resume that you get as a reward for kissing pompous professor tail for several years not an award of merit.
Or for another example. If a recruit lies about his age to join the military. While in the military forrest carries his fallen comrades out of the jungle and danger and thereby saves 20 lives. Afterward he is awarded a medal of honor for his actions. Would you support an effort to strip the man of the medal he earned with merit because he fibbed on the paperwork to get the opportunity to show that merit?
I'm going to pass on your second example, because as far as I know, most armies don't have a limit to numbers of recruits.
However, do you think your first man should get a job over someone else who has done the work to earn a magic "bit of paper"? If you assume that at the point of employment, two people have the same potential for future achievement, would you take someone with a great bit of paper over someone with an average bit of paper? (Yes, there are always other factors, but often they cancel each other out) Would you still take the same great bit of paper over the average bit of paper if the great bit of paper didn't actually exist?
Disclaimer: I'm not native english, so excuse my grammar/spelling.
I don't get this statement from page 2:
Crashes and lockups on Vista are few and far between.
...and in the next paragraph...
Is Vista more stable that XP? Hard to tell as I don't have a lot of problems with XP but I do feel that Vista is on the whole more robust.
"Few and far between" means that he's experienced more than one lockup on his system since Vista was officially released. He does not have a lot of problems but frequently have crashes? It is quite sad to think that the author of the article is so used to having lockups/BSOD that he feels it is a normal thing to experience. Is this what every day operation will be like for most people?
Few = not many
Far between = a long time between ocurrances
So, there haven't been many crashes in 19 months and they've been a long time apart from each other
There are four access levels, not one, and an installer can specify which one it neds to use. The UAC popups should get developers writing correct manifest files pretty quickly.
In addition to that, should a non-priviledged program try to write to the Program Files directory, Vista will instead show the application access to a subdirectory of the current user's Application Data folder
I already moderated in this thread, but I'll cancel it out to reply to this.
Windows installers can ask for the level of access they need. If an installer doesn't request an access level (as most don't) then the default is to assume it needs maximum access. This is so that Vista can install XP/2000 etc apps are still able to install.
It's a good thing that Vista shows an annoying box if no level is set in the manifest, because hopefully it will mean developers write installers that only ask for the access level they need.
All very nice and interesting, but the subject of the debate is based in England, and therefore nullifies most of your legal details (although not the general assuptions)
Stuffing a whole site's styling into one CSS file is bad form, if vastly different styles are used on different pages then the differing bits should be in separate CSS files and linked to only from the relevant pages. Of course, this also give the freedom for common CSS to be included on every page.
CSS files, being less frequently updated than web pages, can be cached and don't need to be redownloaded every page visit, unlike the equivalent table code
So, 'massive CSS files' isn't a valid argument against CSS
By Post-and-Redirect, GP meant at an HTTP level, rather than a Javascript/"HTML META" level. Using the correct standard and doing it with HTTP does NOT break the back button.
And I think, although I'm not sure, that the unique ID was supposed to suggest something within the application, in which case displaying "You have already submitted this payment" is trivial.
I must know a completely different type of student to you. The students I know all get the "extra discounted" version available from all good P2P networks.
When I was involved in student TV we made sure our copy was legal, but outside of that I don't know anyone at uni who paid for video editing software
Our company (of web developers) is currently 1/2 Mac, 1/3 Windows and 1/6 Linux, and we're looking at moving to all-Mac for our PHP and Rails development.
Our designers, interestingly, mostly use Windows as they both Photoshop the page designs and then build the pages. Which means they need to be using (mainly) Firefox and then (for finishing touches) IE.
I don't know how the developers you know work, and it's probably completely different to us. But in any case, I try not to generalise my situation to the world
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Nothing.
Slashdot's robots.txt tells search engines to ignore comments.pl
...um... really, really fast. 20 years just passed while you blinked. And that's if you're able to stop accurately enough for it only to be 20 years
All good points, but you've forgotten the big conditional:
Which is a completely nonsensical restriction
Well in that case, the data is worth $38b and the convenience of having electronic copies is worth $200k. If the paper copies had been completely lost you can bet the liability would have been more than $200k
Yes, and the counter-point is... so what?
RAM is designed to provide faster access to data than from disc. If you have RAM not being used, then you're probably losing efficiency (loading things from disc which could be in RAM. Firefox should be able to ask for as much RAM as it needs, up to the maximum available. It's up to the OS to a) allocate the free memory it can spare and b) ask an application to free up memory if the memory is needed for something more immediate.
What it seems Firefox does is mismanage and lose track of the RAM it asks for, so it ends up swapping a lot more in and out of the hard drive and fails to free up some of its own memory.
Just using a lot of RAM isn't a bad idea at all, in fact that's the point of RAM
Yes. Apollo apps will usually be backed by server side code in the same way as AJAX (shudder) applications need the server code in the backend to do the work. Think of that paradigm, but with much nicer (visually) and easier to develop GUIs than pure Javascript+[insert JS library of choice] However, Apollo apps will have a local data store which can be accessed by the app, if that's what you meant.
Technically correct, but I've met some of the Apollo developers and the team are predominantly former Macromedia employees. Flex and Apollo are both originally Macromedia ideas. Adobe have (so far) done little to change how existing Macromedia projects continue, the main work has been on sharing resources and working on complementary products
I'm going to pass on your second example, because as far as I know, most armies don't have a limit to numbers of recruits.
However, do you think your first man should get a job over someone else who has done the work to earn a magic "bit of paper"? If you assume that at the point of employment, two people have the same potential for future achievement, would you take someone with a great bit of paper over someone with an average bit of paper? (Yes, there are always other factors, but often they cancel each other out) Would you still take the same great bit of paper over the average bit of paper if the great bit of paper didn't actually exist?
It's not really a troll, a troll is designed to draw a hostile reaction.
There are four access levels, not one, and an installer can specify which one it neds to use. The UAC popups should get developers writing correct manifest files pretty quickly.
In addition to that, should a non-priviledged program try to write to the Program Files directory, Vista will instead show the application access to a subdirectory of the current user's Application Data folder
It's fine.
If you crash, just close all your windows and open them again. You'll find your car running again in no time
Challenge accepted. Challenge completed retrospectively for the last week and a half since I got Vista
I already moderated in this thread, but I'll cancel it out to reply to this.
Windows installers can ask for the level of access they need. If an installer doesn't request an access level (as most don't) then the default is to assume it needs maximum access. This is so that Vista can install XP/2000 etc apps are still able to install.
It's a good thing that Vista shows an annoying box if no level is set in the manifest, because hopefully it will mean developers write installers that only ask for the access level they need.
All very nice and interesting, but the subject of the debate is based in England, and therefore nullifies most of your legal details (although not the general assuptions)
We'll just have to hope that they never create a .ing TLD
- Stuffing a whole site's styling into one CSS file is bad form, if vastly different styles are used on different pages then the differing bits should be in separate CSS files and linked to only from the relevant pages. Of course, this also give the freedom for common CSS to be included on every page.
- CSS files, being less frequently updated than web pages, can be cached and don't need to be redownloaded every page visit, unlike the equivalent table code
So, 'massive CSS files' isn't a valid argument against CSSNo, the difference is that Dell get paid to install third-party apps onto a Windows install.
By Post-and-Redirect, GP meant at an HTTP level, rather than a Javascript/"HTML META" level. Using the correct standard and doing it with HTTP does NOT break the back button. And I think, although I'm not sure, that the unique ID was supposed to suggest something within the application, in which case displaying "You have already submitted this payment" is trivial.
I must know a completely different type of student to you. The students I know all get the "extra discounted" version available from all good P2P networks. When I was involved in student TV we made sure our copy was legal, but outside of that I don't know anyone at uni who paid for video editing software
I agree with your comments, but a 405 (Method Not Allowed) HTTP status code would be an ideal choice rather than 403
Ok, nothing there, but below...
Unfortunately Slashdot's robots.txt stops google looking at links on article pages
Which Google have you been looking at?
Our company (of web developers) is currently 1/2 Mac, 1/3 Windows and 1/6 Linux, and we're looking at moving to all-Mac for our PHP and Rails development.
Our designers, interestingly, mostly use Windows as they both Photoshop the page designs and then build the pages. Which means they need to be using (mainly) Firefox and then (for finishing touches) IE.
I don't know how the developers you know work, and it's probably completely different to us. But in any case, I try not to generalise my situation to the world