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Comment Web dll Hell (Score 1) 431

by ZoOnI on Friday January 30, 2009 @06:17AM (#26664221) Attached to: The Case Against Web Apps

OS dll hell, where developers had a party on operating system files. One developer would enhance an OS file replacing it with his/her cool extensions needed by their application. The next set of developers would extend the same OS file breaking the other applications needed extensions. With modern programming languages / OS developers inherit functionality and extend it making a new file, so the issue has been reduced.

I installed Google toolbar on Vista the other day to get my favorite site search tool and it broke internet explorer. Fortunately add/remove programs let me remove Google toolbar and my browser started to work again. My guess is Google compromised a file needed by windows for the browser to work.

Now if Google can't make an installer smart enough to detect my OS/browser to not install the browser plug-in or it wasn't tested properly, then when all the small software shops start making web plug-ins the consumer has no guarantee anything will work.

So how is this any worse than a windows application. If a non driver related windows program causes a dll problem and breaks another program the worst case scenario is a few programs are down. If a web application breaks my browser then every web application I run is down.

Comment Re:News Flash!!! (Score 1) 635

by ZoOnI on Sunday November 25, 2007 @11:42PM (#21475255) Attached to: Creationists Violating Copyright

Discovery Institute smears Discovery Institute. News now on slashdot.

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If you ignore the fact that the Discovery Institute (DI) is a company that duplicated and distributed the content you may have a case to slam slashdot. If they took the content "as is" and used it as an educational device you may also have a case. The reality is DI the company took copyrighted content ripped out the copyright notice, renamed, edited and duplicated it for a profit. Despite the fact the DI is a non profit organization they still receive money from various sources to pay for its business expenses and content creation so indirectly this video is part of a commercial venture and therefore profit. At the vary least this is plagiarism, one of the worst things you can do in the academic environment.

Submission + - Dell Polls PC Users on Favorite Linux Varieties

Submitted by

narramissic

on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @01:44PM

narramissic writes: "In response to overwhelming user demand for Linux, Dell has posted a survey on its company blog that asks 'PC users to choose between Linux flavors such as Fedora and Ubuntu, and to pick more general choices such as notebooks versus desktops, high-end models versus value models and telephone-based support versus community-based support.' Votes will be collected through March 23, and Dell plans to use the feedback to begin selling Linux-based consumer PCs. How's that for getting what you asked for?"

Why Exercise Boosts Brainpower 331

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @01:27PM from the muscle-head dept.

aditi sends us a report from Reuters on research indicating that exercise boosts brainpower by building new brain cells in a brain region linked with memory and memory loss. Quoting: "Tests on mice showed they grew new brain cells in a brain region called the dentate gyrus, a part of the hippocampus that is known to be affected in the age-related memory decline that begins around age 30 for most humans. Researchers used magnetic resonance imaging scans to help document the process in mice — and then used MRIs to look at the brains of people before and after exercise. They found the same patterns, which suggests that people also grow new brain cells when they exercise."

Submission + - NASA create 3D movie of Mars surface

Submitted by

Matthew Sparkes

on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @01:11PM

Matthew Sparkes writes: "NASA have created virtual flyovers of two Mars rover landing sites using 3D imagery from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The images were made using the most powerful camera ever sent to another planet, MRO's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE). The three-dimensional information is obtained by taking pairs of images from slightly different vantage points as the spacecraft orbits the Red Planet."

Journal Journal: The moral basis of Libertarianism 25

Journal by Profane MuthaFucka on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @12:51PM

My last project at work almost kicked my ass, but it has ended and finally I have time to write some shit and piss off some conservatives again. Of course, all of the people who actually understand what I've written in my journal in the past (that's everyone but Pudge) would know that it's all rhetoric. I'm not going to explain the moral systems already discussed here, but you should go back and try to understand those. The ideas I'm explaining here are deep, and they are meta-ideas.

Linux Starts to Find Home on Desktops 364

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @12:43PM from the baby-penguin-steps dept.

WSJdpatton writes "The much-hyped notion that Linux would be a viable alternative to Windows to run desktop and notebook PCs for corporate users seemed dead on arrival a few years ago. But the idea is showing some new vital signs as companies look for cheaper alternatives to Microsoft products. The Wall Street Journal outlines several firms that are reaping savings and stability on their workplace desktops by rolling out Linux distributions. 'Auto maker PSA Peugeot Citroën last month said it will start using Linux on 20,000 of its workers' PCs. Novell Inc., which sells a version of Linux and is supplying it to Peugeot, says it has recently signed up several large U.S. financial institutions that are installing Linux on some employee PCs. Sales of Linux PCs are showing a really nice uptick at Novell, says Ronald Hovsepian, chief executive of Novell.' Not everyone is a convert, though. 'The State of Illinois recently consolidated its IT systems onto Microsoft software -- and has no interest in using Linux, says Paul Campbell, director of the state's Central Management Services department. "We don't have time for science projects in state government," he says.'"

Journal Journal: U.S. cartoons drawn in North Korea 7

Journal by smooth wombat on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @12:42PM

In what can only be considered something only to be discussed in the dark, smoke-filled rooms of some far off country, several cartoons which were run in the U.S. had parts of them made in North Korea, including The Lion King.

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