Microsoft isn't following standards? I'm the rest of the slashdot community is just as surprised as I am. I mean, microsoft is a company we've come to trust, to do no evil, to side with the consumer and the technical community at large. I'm sure this is just an honest mistake, one we will not see again.
It's the same reason they use linux in the first place that they don't support linux-desktop users.
To save money.
For most companies, linux is too small of market to be worth devoting development time to. As companies follow in IBM's and AMD's footsteps, though, I think linux support will continue to increase, but I doubt it will ever match Windows and OS X levels.
I work in the Superlab (server testing) at IBM and part of the job is slacking off. We go through testing cycles and sometimes we're slammed, and sometimes we have nothing to do. Even when we do have something to do, 20% of it is setting stuff up and the other 80% is waiting on what we set up to finish running. I try to make good use of my down time, reading pertinent materials, writing useful scripts, but there's only so much one can do. Is it really all that terrible I read slashdot while I wait for a server to reboot 500 times?
All cells in the human body reproduce. Heart cells definitely reproduce. IIRC (and I probably don't) even neurons reproduce, just at an extremely slow rate (70 years to divide?)
The packages in pkgsrc don't always compile on slackware. I'd guess 1 out of 3 packages are broken. I know this because I've tried several times to run pkgsrc on slackware. If you want to run a simple, straightforward, slackware-like distro with source based package management, I suggest Lunar Linux.
There have been lots of stories of google doing... questionable things lately and this is refreshing and welcome, reminiscent of the good ol' google days.
You know there are two parts to kismet? The kismet server and the kismet UI. The default UI is ncurses based, but you can get qt, gtk, and even web based interfaces.
One thing you missed though. And no I didn't read the wikipedia page. The way I have always heard it, it is "an infinite number of monkeys typing for an infinite amount of time". Please adjust your math accordingly for my sake.:D
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but this actually sounds fairly cool and useful, assuming they don't destroy it with licensing and royalties. The standard barcode system has been around for a long time and some improvements could be made. I am more comfortable with barcodes with denser information than RFID tags.
This could be particularly useful for libraries, most of which depend on standard barcodes for cataloging books--more information could be stored actually on the book's barcode rather than relying on big databases.
Someone tag this article flamebait because hoo-boy are the trolls going to be coming out of the woodwork for this.
My prediction, around 200 comments along the lines of "You don't have to update constantly and still get the 2% performance increase from those 72 hours of compiling!!!1!!one"
I am not saying all the other closing tags should be done away with, I am saying the option to use a shortcut should be available. I acknowledge that all major browsers would have to support this before developers could begin using it.
I do not get this. Would this really work? This relies on the people making links to use the NSFW tag or the guys making content to use it. Frankly, I don't see it ever being used properly.
On a side note, if one wants to add to the html tag collection, how about a universal close tag for the last opened tag, </>. Just so we don't have to type </b> </a> </img> </i>, etc. so much.
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Double negatives are for chumps. ;)
Hail 64bit, savior to Unix.
Okay, carry on.
Microsoft isn't following standards? I'm the rest of the slashdot community is just as surprised as I am. I mean, microsoft is a company we've come to trust, to do no evil, to side with the consumer and the technical community at large. I'm sure this is just an honest mistake, one we will not see again.
*incoherent wheezing and laughter*
It's the same reason they use linux in the first place that they don't support linux-desktop users.
To save money.
For most companies, linux is too small of market to be worth devoting development time to. As companies follow in IBM's and AMD's footsteps, though, I think linux support will continue to increase, but I doubt it will ever match Windows and OS X levels.
I would mod you insightful had I not squandered my points modding anonymous cowards +1, funny.
(Kidding... or am I?)
6. ???
7. Profit.
If I had mod points I'd struggle between modding this AC insightful and funny.
I work in the Superlab (server testing) at IBM and part of the job is slacking off. We go through testing cycles and sometimes we're slammed, and sometimes we have nothing to do. Even when we do have something to do, 20% of it is setting stuff up and the other 80% is waiting on what we set up to finish running. I try to make good use of my down time, reading pertinent materials, writing useful scripts, but there's only so much one can do. Is it really all that terrible I read slashdot while I wait for a server to reboot 500 times?
All cells in the human body reproduce. Heart cells definitely reproduce. IIRC (and I probably don't) even neurons reproduce, just at an extremely slow rate (70 years to divide?)
Exactly. I've been modded redundant a ridiculous number of times. The mods are on crack. (And I bet I get modded off topic of this, karma be damned.)
forway? is that a word?
Did he mean foray? I'm honestly not trying to be a smartass. If forway is a word please share the definition. I like learning new words.
The packages in pkgsrc don't always compile on slackware. I'd guess 1 out of 3 packages are broken. I know this because I've tried several times to run pkgsrc on slackware. If you want to run a simple, straightforward, slackware-like distro with source based package management, I suggest Lunar Linux.
Wow, /. readers read way too much into stuff.
There have been lots of stories of google doing... questionable things lately and this is refreshing and welcome, reminiscent of the good ol' google days.
How very unevil of google. Hm....
You know there are two parts to kismet? The kismet server and the kismet UI. The default UI is ncurses based, but you can get qt, gtk, and even web based interfaces.
Defined by who?
should be:
Defined by whom?
Yeah, I know.... Stupid pet peeve....
So light intensity is measured in candles, will a universal metric for measuring processing power be named 'pencils'?
haha.. wait.. I have a website with poetry on it..
_
One thing you missed though. And no I didn't read the wikipedia page. The way I have always heard it, it is "an infinite number of monkeys typing for an infinite amount of time". Please adjust your math accordingly for my sake. :D
I don't think microsoft will ever admit what it hears from it's customers.
They certainly won't admit to what they've heard from me.
Realize that software is not a patentable innovation.
The use of patents has seriously gotten ridiculous and has made me lose faith in the US Patent Office.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but this actually sounds fairly cool and useful, assuming they don't destroy it with licensing and royalties. The standard barcode system has been around for a long time and some improvements could be made. I am more comfortable with barcodes with denser information than RFID tags. This could be particularly useful for libraries, most of which depend on standard barcodes for cataloging books--more information could be stored actually on the book's barcode rather than relying on big databases.
May I introduce everyone to
;)
http://google.com/ig
It's been done, chi
Someone tag this article flamebait because hoo-boy are the trolls going to be coming out of the woodwork for this. My prediction, around 200 comments along the lines of "You don't have to update constantly and still get the 2% performance increase from those 72 hours of compiling!!!1!!one"
I am not saying all the other closing tags should be done away with, I am saying the option to use a shortcut should be available. I acknowledge that all major browsers would have to support this before developers could begin using it.
I do not get this. Would this really work? This relies on the people making links to use the NSFW tag or the guys making content to use it. Frankly, I don't see it ever being used properly.
On a side note, if one wants to add to the html tag collection, how about a universal close tag for the last opened tag, </>. Just so we don't have to type </b> </a> </img> </i>, etc. so much.