... Quite possibly because trying to build a rich user interface in a web browser is a stupid idea....
Stupid as it may seem, it's the most rapid way to do it. You have a whole buch of stuff built into the browser that you would have to write on your own desktop application.
... it saves you from having to learn or work with Javascript at all...
WTF! You can write server side code but don't know how to do the basic javascript stuff.
Although nothing to do with each other, java and javascript both have c-based syntaxes, they both have all the usual stuff like, err..., loops and objects and stuff. The only learning curve is the class hierarchy and that's easily accessible on the web.
However, I agree that there's no point in using javascript for the sake of it, especially if you are trying to write accessible sites. And trying to write javascript/ajax sites that degrade cleanly? Too much effort for most websites that have accessibility as a goal. Much easier to make the site work without it.
... Thou shalt not post to Slashdot on the sabbath...
... unless thou firstly count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Post of Slashdot towards thy foe...
... Was there ever more than one company operating buses?...
Yes, after de-regulation there were hundereds (literally) and that came with it's own problems. (Try finding the times of buses to your destination when a 100 companies all have there own separate timetables/routes)
I stand by my assertion that the transport system is not there to make a profit. The people/companies transporting the goods are, but not the system.
Public transport will be the main way that people will have to travel in the future when fuel becomes scarcer, as less fuel is used per person. We will have to get used to it, so let's make the best of it.
... Tactics like the ones you describe work - the first time...
Well, here in the UK it has worked almost every time and we now have, more or less, a private monopoly of the buses.
Before, we had a public monopoly and, at the very least, we could vote out the government/local authority if we didn't like the way things were run.
Now we have a private monopoly over which we have no control and cannot change for the very reason that the government allowed the free market un-fettered access.
The transport system is not there to make a profit, it is there to transport people/goods around the country. Whenever there is a conflict between those two things, private companies opt for profit because the shareholders demand that they do. The smaller routes loose out and smaller town economies go down the shoot.
The transport system is the blood flow of the country (with the communication being the nervous system). They are essential to allow free movement of goods/people/information.
The government should not be in charge of what is transported (unless it is illegal drugs or something) but they should be in charge of the system itself.
... over time you'll have different bus companies competing over the same or similar lines on both quality and price...
Except you get a large bus company running buses for free a few minutes ahead of the usual buses, waiting till the smaller local company goes out of business, then they reduce their service and increase the price to higher than before. Then they do that in every town.
Then what happens is the public sector has to jump in and subsidise the large company to run the routes that the smaller one did anyway.
The same happens with trains. I saw a "Number Crunch" in private eye that ran along the lines of:
Subsidy to First Rail 2005/2006: 25M pounds
First Rail payment to shareholders 2005/2006: 25M pounds
Assuming that he has root access(his salary was around $150,000 and his role was sysadmin and troubleshooter), if he changes his root password then disables everyone else's then the system is officially b*gg*rr*d until he divulges the password.
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Stupid as it may seem, it's the most rapid way to do it. You have a whole buch of stuff built into the browser that you would have to write on your own desktop application.
WTF! You can write server side code but don't know how to do the basic javascript stuff.
Although nothing to do with each other, java and javascript both have c-based syntaxes, they both have all the usual stuff like, err..., loops and objects and stuff. The only learning curve is the class hierarchy and that's easily accessible on the web.
However, I agree that there's no point in using javascript for the sake of it, especially if you are trying to write accessible sites. And trying to write javascript/ajax sites that degrade cleanly? Too much effort for most websites that have accessibility as a goal. Much easier to make the site work without it.
Ahh, but SSD's will consume less power.
Can I get a +1 backOnTopic please :-)
Sorry, I must be new here.
Eh?!?
Sorry I don't mean to be cheeky. I would just genuinly like an explanation.
I always assumed that the speed of light in a vacuum is 186,282.397 miles per second and the light slowed down in anything other than a vacuum.
Wikipedia appears to back me up on this one.
Surely this means that when the light travels back into a vacuum, the speed increases?
instant acceleration(if such a thing exists) is still acceleration.
There, fixed that for ya!
It's boxes all the way down
Well, they do say there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Therefore it speeds up (ahem, accelerates) when it comes back out.
Har-de-har-har!
I mod myself down for that one.
I can't remember the quote exactly, but Tariq Ali, talking about Iraq, said something like:
Dang, why did I call the directory that? And on the public webserver too. Doh!!!
+5 Coffee on new suit funny
I'm a polytheist you insensitive clod!
Yes, after de-regulation there were hundereds (literally) and that came with it's own problems. (Try finding the times of buses to your destination when a 100 companies all have there own separate timetables/routes)
I stand by my assertion that the transport system is not there to make a profit. The people/companies transporting the goods are, but not the system.
Public transport will be the main way that people will have to travel in the future when fuel becomes scarcer, as less fuel is used per person. We will have to get used to it, so let's make the best of it.
Well, here in the UK it has worked almost every time and we now have, more or less, a private monopoly of the buses.
Before, we had a public monopoly and, at the very least, we could vote out the government/local authority if we didn't like the way things were run.
Now we have a private monopoly over which we have no control and cannot change for the very reason that the government allowed the free market un-fettered access.
The transport system is not there to make a profit, it is there to transport people/goods around the country. Whenever there is a conflict between those two things, private companies opt for profit because the shareholders demand that they do. The smaller routes loose out and smaller town economies go down the shoot.
The transport system is the blood flow of the country (with the communication being the nervous system). They are essential to allow free movement of goods/people/information.
The government should not be in charge of what is transported (unless it is illegal drugs or something) but they should be in charge of the system itself.
Can you restore the system from a backup without any of the admin passwords (and presmably no root access either)?
Except you get a large bus company running buses for free a few minutes ahead of the usual buses, waiting till the smaller local company goes out of business, then they reduce their service and increase the price to higher than before. Then they do that in every town.
Then what happens is the public sector has to jump in and subsidise the large company to run the routes that the smaller one did anyway.
The same happens with trains. I saw a "Number Crunch" in private eye that ran along the lines of:
Assuming that he has root access(his salary was around $150,000 and his role was sysadmin and troubleshooter), if he changes his root password then disables everyone else's then the system is officially b*gg*rr*d until he divulges the password.
They won't even install AVG/Spybot/Comodo or some other free combo.
Yes! Iinstall a firewall and just watch the log file. Your machine is probably scanned around once every 20 seconds by some botnet or other.
Don't know the numbers but I suspect that "progressive development" is interspersed with many smaller "Eureka moments".