Comment: Re:Probably lost the sale, too! (Score 1) 339
How many Superjet 100s crashed on the first few take offs? 0. There had been 90 successful flights as early as 2009, let alone now.
Comment: Re:Probably lost the sale, too! (Score 2) 339
This wasn't the first flight of this aircraft either, that was ~2008, and even on the day in question it had already done one.
Comment: Re:what? use OLPC to teach repair? (Score 1) 60
The point is not to teach computer repair per se, but to ensure that users are able to repair their OLPC and thus save maintenance costs for the program as they don't have to sent someone out.
Australia's ISPs Speak Out Against Filtering 262
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Soulskill
from the is-it-possible-to-import-an-isp dept.
from the is-it-possible-to-import-an-isp dept.
daria42 writes "The leaders of three of Australia's largest internet service providers — Telstra Media's Justin Milne, iiNet's Michael Malone and Internode's Simon Hackett — have, in video interviews with ZDNet.com.au over the past few months, detailed technical, legal and ethical reasons why ISP-level filtering won't work. Critics of the policy also say that users will have no way to know what's being filtered."
Comment: Re:ISP throttling (Score 1) 198
... which would allow the user to detect that they're being throttled.
Which would mean Google's objectives are fulfilled ;)
Which would mean Google's objectives are fulfilled
Comment: Re:Either way... (Score 1) 521
You must have missed the browser wars then.
anyone?
anyone?
Software companies sues popular Australian forum-> 3
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Pugzly
Pugzly writes "In a recent announcement on the Whirlpool front page, it appears that accounting software maker 2clix is sueing the founder of the forums as the founder "allowed statements 'relating to the Plaintiff and its software product that are both false and malicious' to be published on the Whirlpool forums."
Hopefully sanity will prevail, but it is the legal system..."
Link to Original Source
Hopefully sanity will prevail, but it is the legal system..."
Link to Original Source
Comment: Re:depends on the scope of the project (Score 3, Insightful) 72
No no no no no.
Whether you're working in a team or working by yourself: Use Subversion Anyway. Or svk. Or Darcs. Any reputable revision control system will kick the pants out of any ad-hoc solution you come up with. Revision control should be automatic and easy. The value of being able to easily merge changesets alone is reason enough for any non-trivial project. Keeping track of branches for experimental/delicate changes, tagging releases, LOG MESSAGES for all your changes - all of these things, use them, learn to love them. It's a bitch to get in the habit, but when you do it's absolutely worth it.
It's taken me over seven years to truly learn the worth of version control. These days I'd dare not live without it. It really is that good. Honest!
Journal: RAILS!
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krumms
Oh. My. God.
Ruby on Rails.
I just started playing around with it tonight
Wow.
Admittedly at the moment it's just a toy application. But at the very least, Ruby on Rails has earned it's place in my heart as a rapid prototyping tool.
Journal: Welcome to Political Troll Opt-Out
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PoliticalTrollOptOut
Slashdot is full of political trolls. These are people who advocate political ideas dishonestly and disrespectfully, and abuse and insult users who question or threaten their (often dubious) worldview. We cannot help the deficiencies in America's educational system, nor can we force people to have morals or civility, nor can we stop them from abusing the moderation system, and (this being America) we would fight to the death to defend their right to speak their mind (no matter how depraved th