I don't give a rat's ass about your hardware, your massive ego or hardware in general. All I know is that on my hardware, Linux works much easier than XP and everything shows up automatically. If that fact causes you offense, perhaps you should just accept that Windows' hardware support is not superior for all configurations - especially out-of-the-box.
Under Linux, all this stuff Just Works. There's no driver discs, downloads or scouring Google for answers - it all shows up automatically. Under XP, there's plenty of all three for the exact same hardware. For an OS that's supposedly "easy enough for grandma" and "ready for the desktop", that's a headache I don't need.
And to be called a "dummy" by a Windows user for being unable to sort this out easily is sheer hypocrisy.
I can attest to this first-hand. I took my old Linux box, formatted it to XP and tried to give it to my parents. In the process, I discovered that XP couldn't find SATA hard drives so I had to replace them with IDE. My onboard gigabit ethernet card only runs at 10 Base-T speeds with the driver I found (and Windows' built-in driver tool can't find a better one). The onboard AC97 sound card didn't work at all so I had to add a sound card. Oh, and the older scanner they were using has no XP-compatible drivers whatsoever from the manufacturer (though it works perfectly under SANE) so that needed replacing too.
Perhaps Vista will be better. But these days, in my experience, Linux's hardware support is far superior to XP's.
The PS3 is important for Blu-Ray because it will account for a large proportion of the short and medium term installed base. If the PS3 fails to sell well then HD-DVD players will probably start to outsell Blu-Ray players.
The PS3 might get Blu-Ray into a lot of homes, but it's going to fail as a video format if that's the dominant disc player. The non-gamer crowd isn't going to buy or use a PS3 purely to play Blu-Ray discs; they want a dedicated set-top Blu-Ray player that isn't overly complicated. Without that large installed base of movie customers, Blu-Ray will quickly turn into the next UMD.
With so few PS3s available, third-party developers who've invested huge sums of money into programming and assets aren't going to have the patience for Sony to crank out enough hardware to make PS3-exclusive titles profitable. So, I'd expect a lot of big titles to have X-Box360 and Wii ports - which will hinder Sony's ability to dominate this generation of consoles as those other consoles become more appealing.
Is there any reason to care about Fedora now that we have CentOS?
Yes. Many of CentOS's packages are of older versions than Fedora's. Python 2.3 instead of 2.4, GCC 3 instead of GCC 4, a 2.6.9 kernel, etc. If older (and presumably more stable) software is what you're interested in, go for CentOS. But for something a bit more recent, I'll stick with Fedora.
As for going down in bitrate... um... if the 256kbps audio is INDISTINGUISHABLE from the original... it might as well be the original.
And what about going up in bitrate? Or switching to a different codec?
128kbit CBR MP3 used to be good enough for everybody and "indistinguishable from the original." Then it was 192kbit VBR mp3. Now it's m4a. What will it be next year? When will the next big lossy audio player roll around with an even better psychoacoustic model? Who knows, but I'm sure there'll be one.
FLAC means never having to re-rip my CDs. No matter what the next big lossy format is, I'll be ready for it. Considering that hard drives cost about $.50/gigabyte and I can fit about 3 losslessly-encoded albums per gigabyte, I opt to store them as-is and avoid throwing away data until I need to transcode my music for portables and so forth.
The parameters are encoded according to the types the scripting language is using. I'm no Perl expert, but Python's DBI uses something similar:
>>> db_cursor.execute("update User set name = %s where (user_id = %s)",["foo",10])
In this case, Python knows "foo" is a string and 10 is an integer and so it encodes both of them the way the database expects before submitting the query. If the "foo" string contained single quotes or other SQL-hostile characters, they'd all be properly escaped automatically.
I use parameterized SQL queries so the notion of having to check/escape something as simple as single quotes hadn't occured to me. I was thinking more along the lines of ensuring user entries match the necessary encoding and maximum length. For instance, if my web forms want UTF-8 encoded output, is the user sending me UTF-8 encoded data? Or if I want the name field to be a maximum of 50 chars in the database, does the encoded string fit?
A little automated input fuzzing doesn't hurt, either.
In short, trusting the client (i.e. the web browser) to not send bad values - either through the INPUT tag's maxlength attribute, JavaScript scrubbing or whatever - is entirely the wrong way to go. The web script must check all user input for validity along with properly escaping everything from the database that's getting sent back via HTML.
I've written a small PNG encoder and found that for 1 and 4-bit grayscale images, PNG routinely trounces GIF. I expect a 4-bit palette color PNG would yield similar results. PNG's method of cramming multiple pixels per byte prior to compression seems to be much more effective than GIF judging by the file sizes - though I admit I've yet to take a hard look at GIF to discover exactly why.
Yes, but if people buy no consoles and no games, Sony will be much worse off than if everyone runs out and buys a PS3 with only a few games. It's foolish to think that buying Sony's product will somehow drive the company out of business, no matter how much of a loss is involved per console.
They're selling at a loss to gain market share. Once it gets enough market share, the developers will hop on board. Once the developers are on board, everyone will want to buy a PS3. The only way the PS3 will not succeed is if it doesn't get sufficient market share. Buying lots of them, even just to leave them collecting dust on a shelf, will still make it more attractive to developers.
The "else" block is run when the try/except block returns normally and without a continue, break or return statement. Everything in the else block isn't covered by the try/except, which helps one avoid accidentally catching exceptions you're not looking for.
The aging TR47 transfer doesn't compare well to either of the official releases. But don't take my word for it, compare the screenshots for yourself. Only the lovingly crafted X0 project has any hope of matching LucasFilm's release - and that's nowhere near ready for release.
You've obviously never heard of ARP. It is a well established protocol still used today. In fact it is very easy to use.
You appear to be confused. ARP is part of the ethernet/IP bridge. Your computer works with ARP to get its packets through your router and back again, but that translation is meaningless to the rest of the internet.
A web server only handles TCP/IP connections from web browsers and IPv4 packets do not contain a MAC address of any kind.
MAC addresses don't get sent over IPv4 and vanish from packets as soon as they leave the subnet. A web server gets a connection to {its IP}:80 from {your IP}:{client port} By sending HTTP packets back to that port, NAT will forward the HTTP data along to your machine inside the subnet.
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That's a limitation of the filesystem the drive is formatted with. If you're willing to sacrifice some cross-platform portability, you should be able to format the drive as NTFS, ext3 or some other filesystem that's not so limited.
Phoenix Wright is a Capcom title which continues to get small re-release production runs to cover demand. The second in the series is due for release in "Q1 2007".
You're correct; no modern search engine uses meta tags for anything anymore. TFA doesn't mention meta tags either which makes me wonder how they got in the headline.
First of all, until Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island this game was questionable "Mario canon", once Shy Guys started showing up in Yoshi's Island did this game truly become part of the series (in terms of mechanics, etc.). Until then, NONE of the Mario games shared any of the mechanics from SMB2/SMBUSA, this includes the differences in the characters.
Unbreakable background platforms (seen in this image) are taken directly from SMB2, so that's one mechanic that carried forward right away. In addition, the bright colors and Super Mario sprite design went straight into SMB3 which lends credence to the speculation that Doki Doki Panic was meant to be a Mario title right from the start.
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Read the FAQ. Python's garbage collector does check for cyclical references, just not as frequently (unless you tell it to via the gc module).
Your ad hominem is touching.
I don't give a rat's ass about your hardware, your massive ego or hardware in general. All I know is that on my hardware, Linux works much easier than XP and everything shows up automatically. If that fact causes you offense, perhaps you should just accept that Windows' hardware support is not superior for all configurations - especially out-of-the-box.
Thanks for the laugh.
Under Linux, all this stuff Just Works. There's no driver discs, downloads or scouring Google for answers - it all shows up automatically. Under XP, there's plenty of all three for the exact same hardware. For an OS that's supposedly "easy enough for grandma" and "ready for the desktop", that's a headache I don't need.
And to be called a "dummy" by a Windows user for being unable to sort this out easily is sheer hypocrisy.
I can attest to this first-hand. I took my old Linux box, formatted it to XP and tried to give it to my parents. In the process, I discovered that XP couldn't find SATA hard drives so I had to replace them with IDE. My onboard gigabit ethernet card only runs at 10 Base-T speeds with the driver I found (and Windows' built-in driver tool can't find a better one). The onboard AC97 sound card didn't work at all so I had to add a sound card. Oh, and the older scanner they were using has no XP-compatible drivers whatsoever from the manufacturer (though it works perfectly under SANE) so that needed replacing too.
Perhaps Vista will be better. But these days, in my experience, Linux's hardware support is far superior to XP's.
The PS3 might get Blu-Ray into a lot of homes, but it's going to fail as a video format if that's the dominant disc player. The non-gamer crowd isn't going to buy or use a PS3 purely to play Blu-Ray discs; they want a dedicated set-top Blu-Ray player that isn't overly complicated. Without that large installed base of movie customers, Blu-Ray will quickly turn into the next UMD.
With so few PS3s available, third-party developers who've invested huge sums of money into programming and assets aren't going to have the patience for Sony to crank out enough hardware to make PS3-exclusive titles profitable. So, I'd expect a lot of big titles to have X-Box360 and Wii ports - which will hinder Sony's ability to dominate this generation of consoles as those other consoles become more appealing.
Yes. Many of CentOS's packages are of older versions than Fedora's. Python 2.3 instead of 2.4, GCC 3 instead of GCC 4, a 2.6.9 kernel, etc. If older (and presumably more stable) software is what you're interested in, go for CentOS. But for something a bit more recent, I'll stick with Fedora.
The "new car smell" is simply a side effect of all the plastics involved in its construction airing out. It doesn't really come in a can.
And what about going up in bitrate? Or switching to a different codec?
128kbit CBR MP3 used to be good enough for everybody and "indistinguishable from the original." Then it was 192kbit VBR mp3. Now it's m4a. What will it be next year? When will the next big lossy audio player roll around with an even better psychoacoustic model? Who knows, but I'm sure there'll be one.
FLAC means never having to re-rip my CDs. No matter what the next big lossy format is, I'll be ready for it. Considering that hard drives cost about $.50/gigabyte and I can fit about 3 losslessly-encoded albums per gigabyte, I opt to store them as-is and avoid throwing away data until I need to transcode my music for portables and so forth.
Once Windows Updates automatically installs IE7 to my Fedora Core system, I'll consider giving it a try.
I use parameterized SQL queries so the notion of having to check/escape something as simple as single quotes hadn't occured to me. I was thinking more along the lines of ensuring user entries match the necessary encoding and maximum length. For instance, if my web forms want UTF-8 encoded output, is the user sending me UTF-8 encoded data? Or if I want the name field to be a maximum of 50 chars in the database, does the encoded string fit?
A little automated input fuzzing doesn't hurt, either.
In short, trusting the client (i.e. the web browser) to not send bad values - either through the INPUT tag's maxlength attribute, JavaScript scrubbing or whatever - is entirely the wrong way to go. The web script must check all user input for validity along with properly escaping everything from the database that's getting sent back via HTML.
In the version I have (1.1.4.3), the only "sites" NoScript doesn't allow the removal of are "about:neterror", "chrome:" and "resource:".
I've written a small PNG encoder and found that for 1 and 4-bit grayscale images, PNG routinely trounces GIF. I expect a 4-bit palette color PNG would yield similar results. PNG's method of cramming multiple pixels per byte prior to compression seems to be much more effective than GIF judging by the file sizes - though I admit I've yet to take a hard look at GIF to discover exactly why.
Yes, but if people buy no consoles and no games, Sony will be much worse off than if everyone runs out and buys a PS3 with only a few games. It's foolish to think that buying Sony's product will somehow drive the company out of business, no matter how much of a loss is involved per console.
They're selling at a loss to gain market share. Once it gets enough market share, the developers will hop on board. Once the developers are on board, everyone will want to buy a PS3. The only way the PS3 will not succeed is if it doesn't get sufficient market share. Buying lots of them, even just to leave them collecting dust on a shelf, will still make it more attractive to developers.
The "else" block is run when the try/except block returns normally and without a continue, break or return statement. Everything in the else block isn't covered by the try/except, which helps one avoid accidentally catching exceptions you're not looking for.
The aging TR47 transfer doesn't compare well to either of the official releases. But don't take my word for it, compare the screenshots for yourself. Only the lovingly crafted X0 project has any hope of matching LucasFilm's release - and that's nowhere near ready for release.
You appear to be confused. ARP is part of the ethernet/IP bridge. Your computer works with ARP to get its packets through your router and back again, but that translation is meaningless to the rest of the internet.
A web server only handles TCP/IP connections from web browsers and IPv4 packets do not contain a MAC address of any kind.
MAC addresses don't get sent over IPv4 and vanish from packets as soon as they leave the subnet. A web server gets a connection to {its IP}:80 from {your IP}:{client port} By sending HTTP packets back to that port, NAT will forward the HTTP data along to your machine inside the subnet.
That's a limitation of the filesystem the drive is formatted with. If you're willing to sacrifice some cross-platform portability, you should be able to format the drive as NTFS, ext3 or some other filesystem that's not so limited.
Phoenix Wright is a Capcom title which continues to get small re-release production runs to cover demand. The second in the series is due for release in "Q1 2007".
You're correct; no modern search engine uses meta tags for anything anymore. TFA doesn't mention meta tags either which makes me wonder how they got in the headline.
Unbreakable background platforms (seen in this image) are taken directly from SMB2, so that's one mechanic that carried forward right away. In addition, the bright colors and Super Mario sprite design went straight into SMB3 which lends credence to the speculation that Doki Doki Panic was meant to be a Mario title right from the start.