Re:Maybe not declining, but simply changing
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Spam is Dead
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A lot of the spam that reaches me today shows the message as a picture instead of text and I have not yet figured out why thunderbird will display those pictures, since I disabled this.
If it's like the spam I've received, the picture is displayed because it is an attached image, not a remote one. Thunderbird displays attached images in the preview pane -- you can tell it's an attached image and not part of an HTML body by the horizontal line above the image, or simply looking at the message source (ctrl-U).
I like this idea -- having the ability to filter on foes (or by specific users, preferably) gives the comment hijackers a way to not see stories by those people that annoy them. If they continue to whine about it in the comments, people can simply reply that they can filter them out if they don't like it.
Write short, orthogonal functions and you'll see your need for heavy commenting go away along with the need for long variable names.
How do you learn to do this? What makes a function orthogonal? I see a lot of professional code with very logical, small functions; but I always end up with many longer functions in my code.. I guess there's no substitute for experience..
I'm not sure which of the responses to reply to.. at first, I was a bit offended that my post was modded Troll, as I didn't intend my post as trolling or flamebait. Seeing the replies, however, I think I myself would mod my parent post as flamebait! Yikes -- that'll teach me to consider my audience I guess!
Anyway, many of the replies to mine state something like, "You're trying to use God to fill in scientific gaps! No fair, that's faith! Unprovable! Non-scientific! You can't do that!".
But my post wasn't simply trying to state that I believe God is the answer to Inflation and that scientists shouldn't even attempt to figure out the physical mechanics of it, 'cuz "God did it!".
What I found ironic in the article is that the Inflation hypothesis points quite directly to a powerful phenomenon capable of violating our laws of physics, and yet no-one mention the obvious truth that "sheesh, if this theory's right, the only thing that can currently explain such a thing would be God's direct action!"
There's no argument there, that's not flamebait or trolling, it's simply true! The scientists themselves are the ones saying, "this is completely impossible by the known laws of the universe", which is the same as saying, "The only way to explain this currently is by God's hand". I was only noting that they chose the former statement, and that that's the "in" thing these days, even if the scientist him/herself believes in God.
Well, no surprise to see this moderated into oblivion on/., but I actually thought the same thing when I read the article.. it's actually quite humorous to those of us who believe in an intelligent creator of the universe to read a statement from scientists like
You can solve the horizon problem by having the universe expand ultra-fast for a time, just after the big bang, blowing up by a factor of 1050 in 10-33 seconds. But is that just wishful thinking? "Inflation would be an explanation if it occurred," says University of Cambridge astronomer Martin Rees. The trouble is that no one knows what could have made that happen.
I mean, laugh all you want, but who's the one applying Occam's razor here, the creationist or the Big Bang'er? I find it curious that so many scientists will stare at such evidence, come up with a hypothesis that basically says "huh, looks like some huge unknown thing not bound by physical laws threw the universe together in an instant" and not even mention the obvious solution -- I suppose it's not popular to believe in God (or even the possibility of one!) these days.
On Windows XP at least, there was absolutely no visible difference between the two 'a's; this lead to one heck of a convincing spoof, and is why it was such big news. After all, most users are Windows users..
You must not have the nForce2 MB I do, because I have yet to find a distribution that even came close to working out of the box on mine. It's to the point that I've given up Linux on my desktop, and I'm not even a Linux newbie..
Even 2.6x kernel'd Gentoo fails to compile several core packages on my ASUS nForce2 MB.. I give up, I've never seen such horrible hardware support for any chipset, especially after said chipset has been out for years and years. Linux is wonderful when it works.. but when I have to spend 20 hours with APIC, X, sound, and network issues every time I install it, it makes Windows look better and better..
Don't forget that many people don't bother to vote in states where the outcome is already known (Before you flame me, yes, I still vote though my state always votes the same as I do). If we did not have an electoral vote system then you can't assume the number of votes would be the same.
That's halarious, because most right wingers (myself included -- thanks for the abuse; that's what you get from "Thinking" too much I guess) think that it's the liberals that get out and vote and the right wingers that sit at home imagining everything's going fine, no action needed.. I suppose the truth is, there's all kinds in all camps..
Hmm.. upon googling, the top link sent me to a microsoft documentation piece telling me how to set the default save format (Pretty tough; Tools->Options->Save->"Save Word files as" drop box). Works like a charm in my MS office XP (2002) install. You can even use the System Policy Editor to set it organization wide. So I guess we've got All we need to break the Office monopoly.. woo hoo! Or not..
Bah, what a cop out. If "we" won't accept criticisms similar to our own, we have no right to criticize in the first place..
Yes, init 6 is counter-intuitive. I remember that it actually did confuse me a bit the first time I heard of it. Does that mean we need to remove or change it? Nah, let 'em use `shutdown -r` or `alias restart="init 6"`. But just don't be an apologist for Linux, it just makes "us" look hypocritical.
I have the same exact motherboard, and I've given up running Linux on it. I've tried multiple versions of Redhat, Mandrake, Debian, and Gentoo on and off over the past year or so, and I've concluded it's just not worth it. The closest I ever came to having a semi-usable box was when I had sound & network both running *at the same time*.. woo hoo! Ugh.. it's just not worth my time.
XP's not *that* bad that I'd suffer through the constant headaches of getting this dumb expensive MB to work in linux. And don't bother giving me advice -- I've spent more hours with Google, nforce2 forums, etc., than anyone should have to over one crummy piece of equipment. </rant>
Um, you know that pesky "bible" thing? It kinda takes away the need for making up what God did, as He already bothered to tell us what He did at creation in it..
Umm hate to brake this to you, but its not questionable at all.
Um, Mr. Scientist, if a supposed "scientific theory" is not questionable, doesn't that make it more of a philosophy/religion?
I thought we were *supposed* to question our working knowledge. Weren't we supposed to learn something from our previous scientific embarassments that they taught us about in school? You know, the whole "Earth is round, woops, we were wrong", and "Earth orbits the sun, not vice versa", etc? Perhaps I misunderstood.
I think many of we geeks have taken a lackluster stance on the browser issue; I know I have. I think it's time that all of us actively influence all of those that we support to move to an alternate browser.
In my estimation, almost every computer is supported by an IT geek at some point, and if every geek converted as many computers as possible, we could really make a dent in these stats.
Unfortunately, I think it's practically impossible to motivate IT people as a whole to action. We're all so self-motivated and anti-groupthink (not to mention a touch of laziness in many of us), that I think our inaction will continue to support Microsoft's stronghold for some time to come. c'est la vie..
Re:Author seems to live in a vacuum
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On PHP and Scaling
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· Score: 4, Informative
Um, this is an article about scaling, and therefore performance. Mentioning Smarty in such context is almost off-topic;-)
Personally, I find the lighter weight Savant to be a better choice, since it's straight PHP (No syntax to learn either -- bonus!). That removes the need for Smarty's "compile into php" step entirely, which has giving me MUCH better performance than when I was using Smarty. IMHO&experience, at least.
(And if you want caching, it can be done at the PHP engine level rather than in your templating engine -- see any of the PHP accellerators out there)
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A lot of the spam that reaches me today shows the message as a picture instead of text and I have not yet figured out why thunderbird will display those pictures, since I disabled this.
If it's like the spam I've received, the picture is displayed because it is an attached image, not a remote one. Thunderbird displays attached images in the preview pane -- you can tell it's an attached image and not part of an HTML body by the horizontal line above the image, or simply looking at the message source (ctrl-U).
I like this idea -- having the ability to filter on foes (or by specific users, preferably) gives the comment hijackers a way to not see stories by those people that annoy them. If they continue to whine about it in the comments, people can simply reply that they can filter them out if they don't like it.
Write short, orthogonal functions and you'll see your need for heavy commenting go away along with the need for long variable names.
How do you learn to do this? What makes a function orthogonal? I see a lot of professional code with very logical, small functions; but I always end up with many longer functions in my code.. I guess there's no substitute for experience..
I'm not sure which of the responses to reply to.. at first, I was a bit offended that my post was modded Troll, as I didn't intend my post as trolling or flamebait. Seeing the replies, however, I think I myself would mod my parent post as flamebait! Yikes -- that'll teach me to consider my audience I guess!
Anyway, many of the replies to mine state something like, "You're trying to use God to fill in scientific gaps! No fair, that's faith! Unprovable! Non-scientific! You can't do that!".
But my post wasn't simply trying to state that I believe God is the answer to Inflation and that scientists shouldn't even attempt to figure out the physical mechanics of it, 'cuz "God did it!".
What I found ironic in the article is that the Inflation hypothesis points quite directly to a powerful phenomenon capable of violating our laws of physics, and yet no-one mention the obvious truth that "sheesh, if this theory's right, the only thing that can currently explain such a thing would be God's direct action!"
There's no argument there, that's not flamebait or trolling, it's simply true! The scientists themselves are the ones saying, "this is completely impossible by the known laws of the universe", which is the same as saying, "The only way to explain this currently is by God's hand". I was only noting that they chose the former statement, and that that's the "in" thing these days, even if the scientist him/herself believes in God.
On Windows XP at least, there was absolutely no visible difference between the two 'a's; this lead to one heck of a convincing spoof, and is why it was such big news. After all, most users are Windows users..
Wow, cool; it's CTRL-1, CTRL-2, etc.. on Windows (at least for me! :-)).
You must not have the nForce2 MB I do, because I have yet to find a distribution that even came close to working out of the box on mine. It's to the point that I've given up Linux on my desktop, and I'm not even a Linux newbie..
Even 2.6x kernel'd Gentoo fails to compile several core packages on my ASUS nForce2 MB.. I give up, I've never seen such horrible hardware support for any chipset, especially after said chipset has been out for years and years. Linux is wonderful when it works.. but when I have to spend 20 hours with APIC, X, sound, and network issues every time I install it, it makes Windows look better and better..
Don't forget that many people don't bother to vote in states where the outcome is already known (Before you flame me, yes, I still vote though my state always votes the same as I do). If we did not have an electoral vote system then you can't assume the number of votes would be the same.
That's halarious, because most right wingers (myself included -- thanks for the abuse; that's what you get from "Thinking" too much I guess) think that it's the liberals that get out and vote and the right wingers that sit at home imagining everything's going fine, no action needed.. I suppose the truth is, there's all kinds in all camps..
Hmm.. upon googling, the top link sent me to a microsoft documentation piece telling me how to set the default save format (Pretty tough; Tools->Options->Save->"Save Word files as" drop box). Works like a charm in my MS office XP (2002) install. You can even use the System Policy Editor to set it organization wide. So I guess we've got All we need to break the Office monopoly.. woo hoo! Or not..
Bah, what a cop out. If "we" won't accept criticisms similar to our own, we have no right to criticize in the first place..
Yes, init 6 is counter-intuitive. I remember that it actually did confuse me a bit the first time I heard of it. Does that mean we need to remove or change it? Nah, let 'em use `shutdown -r` or `alias restart="init 6"`. But just don't be an apologist for Linux, it just makes "us" look hypocritical.
... in Japan? ;)
I have the same exact motherboard, and I've given up running Linux on it. I've tried multiple versions of Redhat, Mandrake, Debian, and Gentoo on and off over the past year or so, and I've concluded it's just not worth it. The closest I ever came to having a semi-usable box was when I had sound & network both running *at the same time*.. woo hoo! Ugh.. it's just not worth my time.
XP's not *that* bad that I'd suffer through the constant headaches of getting this dumb expensive MB to work in linux. And don't bother giving me advice -- I've spent more hours with Google, nforce2 forums, etc., than anyone should have to over one crummy piece of equipment. </rant>
Well, strangly enough I don't have to guess at that either..
2 Timothy 3:16a -- All Scripture is given by inspiration of God
Also cool is this little SPF tester to tell you if you got it setup right.
There's a copy here if you're having trouble getting to the article.
Um, you know that pesky "bible" thing? It kinda takes away the need for making up what God did, as He already bothered to tell us what He did at creation in it..
Come now, don't pretend that there are no arguments against evolution.
Umm hate to brake this to you, but its not questionable at all.
Um, Mr. Scientist, if a supposed "scientific theory" is not questionable, doesn't that make it more of a philosophy/religion?
I thought we were *supposed* to question our working knowledge. Weren't we supposed to learn something from our previous scientific embarassments that they taught us about in school? You know, the whole "Earth is round, woops, we were wrong", and "Earth orbits the sun, not vice versa", etc? Perhaps I misunderstood.
Signed,
-Confused
It's funny; laugh.
You missed the obvious:
com@com.com - 20,200
(And I don't count the sibling post saying "@example.com" wins.. that's not an email address, it's a domain.. google doesn't even use the @...)
I think many of we geeks have taken a lackluster stance on the browser issue; I know I have. I think it's time that all of us actively influence all of those that we support to move to an alternate browser.
In my estimation, almost every computer is supported by an IT geek at some point, and if every geek converted as many computers as possible, we could really make a dent in these stats.
Unfortunately, I think it's practically impossible to motivate IT people as a whole to action. We're all so self-motivated and anti-groupthink (not to mention a touch of laziness in many of us), that I think our inaction will continue to support Microsoft's stronghold for some time to come. c'est la vie..
Um, this is an article about scaling, and therefore performance. Mentioning Smarty in such context is almost off-topic ;-)
Personally, I find the lighter weight Savant to be a better choice, since it's straight PHP (No syntax to learn either -- bonus!). That removes the need for Smarty's "compile into php"
step entirely, which has giving me MUCH better performance than when I was using Smarty. IMHO&experience, at least.
(And if you want caching, it can be done at the PHP engine level rather than in your templating engine -- see any of the PHP accellerators out there)
Although I can't [or "haven't", or "don't want to" -- ed] read the article . . ., I won't let that stop me from . . .
You don't have to actually state that here, it's already implied for you.