According to that article posted recently about Facebook's master password being 'Chuck Norris', the project is indeed a compiled PHP that goes by the name of HyperPHP, or HPHP. It will supposedly lower the load on the servers by 80% and speed up things 5x, according to the unnamed source in the original blog post.
Instead of passing the buck and bitching about others, why don't YOU make a direct competitor for DirectX? I'm fed up with asshats like you trying to push others around. GP's post was fair enough, but your post is just being reactionary. In fact you're the problem here.
Forget about the dead; that chipper, gloating tone that those little "tales" always have, is an insult to the living. It rubs me the wrong way and is the main reason why the Darwin Awards annoy me.
And to think their refusal to validate the UN resolution against Iraq because of doubts about the intelligence (which was the direct cause for all the vitriol against the French in the past few years like the "Freedom Fries") turned out to be *completely justified*. Who's the funny guy now?
The Republic of the Seven United Provinces (currently known as The Netherlands) was recognized as an independent nation in 1648 already. Get off your high horse. (Before that, the Republic of Rome, etc.) Insightful my ass.
Wow, you just went out and said it. For your information, the preferred nomenclature is American Ponte of African Descent, or maybe Pontifex Maximus in keeping with the whole ego thing.
So basically, boys(n) = 1 - (n - 1) / 2 for all natural numbers? So 100 boys are actually -48.5 boys?
No, wait... if one boy is a boy, and two boys are half a boy, and three boys are zero, then the value of a boy must be zero! Reminds me about that nursery rhyme about sticks and snails and puppy dog tails...
I installed the Super Server flavor of the Firebird database some weeks ago at work. Came in a FirebirdSS.tar.gz package and was referred to in the docs as the 'SS' (as opposed to the 'CS', or classic server). I swear, the initial reaction in Holland, where I'm located, is immediately on the Schutsstaffel. When some crazy loon committed suicide some months ago by driving his Suzuki Swift into the crowds at the Queen's Day parade, media were quick to point out that the guy might have been a right radical, given the "SS" of his car. Okay, that's obviously nonsense, but that's the knee-jerk reaction to the abbreviation SS here. (Or to NSB, which is why the Dutch national skating federation (formerly known as... ) changed its name to *Royal* national skating etc (or KNSB) straight after the war:-)
That's basically BREIN's argument, and that's why the courts are now involved to form a legal opinion. The Pirate Bay may have been convicted for lesser crimes, but I doubt Swedish jurisprudence carries much weight in Holland.
No; servers who "publish" the material are illegal, but clients who access the material are not. It's like the Dutch marihuana regulations: growing is illegal, but posession for private use is not. This allows the government to go after the big cartels who run distribution networks (talking both drugs and music piracy here), but leaves joe average alone. As we Dutch say with a little rhyme, "don't ask how it's possible, but benefit from it".
A small difference with, say, the USA is that downloading music and films is legal in the Netherlands, but uploading is not. So even if BREIN's assertion that FTD is aiding and abetting downloading is correct, that does not in itself mean that anything illegal is going on. In fact, the reason FTD is suing BREIN is because they are fed up with the slander against them; BREIN has publically accused them of illegal behavior, and now FTD wants to get a legal ruling that tells them to go piss up a rope.
When I first became interested in Linux around 2005 or so and wanted to find out more about it, one of the first sites I tried was linux.com. (Hey, why not, I learnt about distros a little while later.) What a mess it was. The new site is a lot better, but I still don't think it has the portal quality that a site with the standing of "linux.com" needs. Where is the elevator pitch about what Linux is, where is the explanation of the ways it's similar to Windows and the ways it's not? Instead we get press releases from the Linux Foundation. Think of the other 95% of the world when you're scaping linux.com, guys.
Benson's Law is actually independent of the number base used. It wouldn't be much of a mathematical property if it wasn't. No matter how you convert a number, you will always see the same bias.
...some idiot plowed deliberately through the crowd at a Queen's Day rally in an apparent attempt to commit suicide and take the Royal family with him. Seven people died. Since this was live on national TV, there is surreal broadcast-quality footage that makes it look like some bad movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Vs-9tfkX0
First thing in my mind when I read this post.//Dutch.
From my time in Moldova with native students, all they want is to join up with the rest of Europe and get the show on the road. They're really frustrated at "the Man". There's the Romanians who don't want to reunite the countries (since Moldova is poorer), the Russians who keep feeding the border conflict with Transnistria (fascinating read about that tin pot narco/weapons state: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria ), there's the EU that doesn't even want to consider Moldova as long as there's an unsolved border conflict, there's the communists in power, and so on. Doesn't surprise me much that they're going the same way as the Orange Revolution in Ukraine -- which was much the same circumstances.
Totally OT: Moldova has the BEST wine and the CRAZIEST Nightclubs. Gotta believe me on that one;-)
I believe that we (us netizens right now) will be remembered as the root users of the internet, the place where the buck stops, the people alive at 0 A.D. if you will. Sort of like us surfing to web.archive.org to check out sites from 1995, only people in 2500 will be checking us out and tracking us down. Perhaps even celebrities may come of it, unknown in our time. In 20 years people will have all of today's internet on an USB stick (or obviously some other far more advanced replacement) and this whole data retention thing won't be an issue. We're here to stay, from now on we're switched on. Cheers.
I live in Europe and hate the French just as much as anyone, but you have to admit that their stance on the Iraq war was both reasonable and correct. Why the grudge? Cling to talking points much?
In short: they suck. They are aimed toward natural text. You can type special symbols on them, but usually it's torturous.
Speed of composition is another issue. Your speed of coding is not limited by the IO of the keyboard or the speed with which you type, but by the speed at which you think. Which is also something to keep in mind with chorded keyboards: you may type fast, but can your thinking keep up? Anyway, for coding you're probably better off with a qwerty keyboard and some fancy substitution macros for your text editor.
Industrial designer or architect, depending on whether you want to design either the props or the stage of everyday life. Seriously, both are interesting, creative and fun, require an analytic mind without rubbing it in, and can be mixed with their more "serious" sister disciplines (mechanical engineering and civil engineering, respectively) at will. You have all the benefits of being able to "geek out" with the technical fundamentals, while you also have the whole human factors side. I'm an industrial design student and I find it a really well rounded field for us geeks.
It's a bit worrying that the creationist movement is starting to raise its head in Europe as well. It's not that it's new, it's that previously only US creationists were bold, loud and revered enough to take science on headfirst and actually win. It used to be that we west-Europeans, including the creationists, took it as self-evident that creationist beliefs were just that, beliefs, and hence confined to the private sphere. But from the looks of it, our fundies are getting audacious and trying to manufacture the same kind of "controversy" here. Meh, did these people not learn about the Enlightenment? Do they not care? I guess that's why we cannot have nice things.
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According to that article posted recently about Facebook's master password being 'Chuck Norris', the project is indeed a compiled PHP that goes by the name of HyperPHP, or HPHP. It will supposedly lower the load on the servers by 80% and speed up things 5x, according to the unnamed source in the original blog post.
Instead of passing the buck and bitching about others, why don't YOU make a direct competitor for DirectX? I'm fed up with asshats like you trying to push others around. GP's post was fair enough, but your post is just being reactionary. In fact you're the problem here.
Forget about the dead; that chipper, gloating tone that those little "tales" always have, is an insult to the living. It rubs me the wrong way and is the main reason why the Darwin Awards annoy me.
And to think their refusal to validate the UN resolution against Iraq because of doubts about the intelligence (which was the direct cause for all the vitriol against the French in the past few years like the "Freedom Fries") turned out to be *completely justified*. Who's the funny guy now?
The Republic of the Seven United Provinces (currently known as The Netherlands) was recognized as an independent nation in 1648 already. Get off your high horse. (Before that, the Republic of Rome, etc.) Insightful my ass.
Wow, you just went out and said it. For your information, the preferred nomenclature is American Ponte of African Descent, or maybe Pontifex Maximus in keeping with the whole ego thing.
So basically, boys(n) = 1 - (n - 1) / 2 for all natural numbers? So 100 boys are actually -48.5 boys?
No, wait... if one boy is a boy, and two boys are half a boy, and three boys are zero, then the value of a boy must be zero! Reminds me about that nursery rhyme about sticks and snails and puppy dog tails...
I installed the Super Server flavor of the Firebird database some weeks ago at work. Came in a FirebirdSS.tar.gz package and was referred to in the docs as the 'SS' (as opposed to the 'CS', or classic server). I swear, the initial reaction in Holland, where I'm located, is immediately on the Schutsstaffel. When some crazy loon committed suicide some months ago by driving his Suzuki Swift into the crowds at the Queen's Day parade, media were quick to point out that the guy might have been a right radical, given the "SS" of his car. Okay, that's obviously nonsense, but that's the knee-jerk reaction to the abbreviation SS here. (Or to NSB, which is why the Dutch national skating federation (formerly known as... ) changed its name to *Royal* national skating etc (or KNSB) straight after the war :-)
That's basically BREIN's argument, and that's why the courts are now involved to form a legal opinion. The Pirate Bay may have been convicted for lesser crimes, but I doubt Swedish jurisprudence carries much weight in Holland.
No; servers who "publish" the material are illegal, but clients who access the material are not. It's like the Dutch marihuana regulations: growing is illegal, but posession for private use is not. This allows the government to go after the big cartels who run distribution networks (talking both drugs and music piracy here), but leaves joe average alone. As we Dutch say with a little rhyme, "don't ask how it's possible, but benefit from it".
A small difference with, say, the USA is that downloading music and films is legal in the Netherlands, but uploading is not. So even if BREIN's assertion that FTD is aiding and abetting downloading is correct, that does not in itself mean that anything illegal is going on. In fact, the reason FTD is suing BREIN is because they are fed up with the slander against them; BREIN has publically accused them of illegal behavior, and now FTD wants to get a legal ruling that tells them to go piss up a rope.
When I first became interested in Linux around 2005 or so and wanted to find out more about it, one of the first sites I tried was linux.com. (Hey, why not, I learnt about distros a little while later.) What a mess it was. The new site is a lot better, but I still don't think it has the portal quality that a site with the standing of "linux.com" needs. Where is the elevator pitch about what Linux is, where is the explanation of the ways it's similar to Windows and the ways it's not? Instead we get press releases from the Linux Foundation. Think of the other 95% of the world when you're scaping linux.com, guys.
Benson's Law is actually independent of the number base used. It wouldn't be much of a mathematical property if it wasn't. No matter how you convert a number, you will always see the same bias.
Because I'm going to hell anyway, here's a better clip with the street-level point of view. First time I saw this, my blood drew cold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cg5oVVGilM
...some idiot plowed deliberately through the crowd at a Queen's Day rally in an apparent attempt to commit suicide and take the Royal family with him. Seven people died. Since this was live on national TV, there is surreal broadcast-quality footage that makes it look like some bad movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Vs-9tfkX0
First thing in my mind when I read this post. //Dutch.
Oh, US and Canada only. Never mind then.
From my time in Moldova with native students, all they want is to join up with the rest of Europe and get the show on the road. They're really frustrated at "the Man". There's the Romanians who don't want to reunite the countries (since Moldova is poorer), the Russians who keep feeding the border conflict with Transnistria (fascinating read about that tin pot narco/weapons state: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria ), there's the EU that doesn't even want to consider Moldova as long as there's an unsolved border conflict, there's the communists in power, and so on. Doesn't surprise me much that they're going the same way as the Orange Revolution in Ukraine -- which was much the same circumstances.
Totally OT: Moldova has the BEST wine and the CRAZIEST Nightclubs. Gotta believe me on that one ;-)
I believe that we (us netizens right now) will be remembered as the root users of the internet, the place where the buck stops, the people alive at 0 A.D. if you will. Sort of like us surfing to web.archive.org to check out sites from 1995, only people in 2500 will be checking us out and tracking us down. Perhaps even celebrities may come of it, unknown in our time. In 20 years people will have all of today's internet on an USB stick (or obviously some other far more advanced replacement) and this whole data retention thing won't be an issue. We're here to stay, from now on we're switched on. Cheers.
Oh come on. Remember Napoleon?
I live in Europe and hate the French just as much as anyone, but you have to admit that their stance on the Iraq war was both reasonable and correct. Why the grudge? Cling to talking points much?
In short: they suck. They are aimed toward natural text. You can type special symbols on them, but usually it's torturous.
Speed of composition is another issue. Your speed of coding is not limited by the IO of the keyboard or the speed with which you type, but by the speed at which you think. Which is also something to keep in mind with chorded keyboards: you may type fast, but can your thinking keep up? Anyway, for coding you're probably better off with a qwerty keyboard and some fancy substitution macros for your text editor.
Industrial designer or architect, depending on whether you want to design either the props or the stage of everyday life. Seriously, both are interesting, creative and fun, require an analytic mind without rubbing it in, and can be mixed with their more "serious" sister disciplines (mechanical engineering and civil engineering, respectively) at will. You have all the benefits of being able to "geek out" with the technical fundamentals, while you also have the whole human factors side. I'm an industrial design student and I find it a really well rounded field for us geeks.
RMS, is that you?
"An anonymous reader writes ..." ...and then:
"Read below for the rest of cdog40's review"
Gero Hutter is the new Gutter Hero! :-)
It's a bit worrying that the creationist movement is starting to raise its head in Europe as well. It's not that it's new, it's that previously only US creationists were bold, loud and revered enough to take science on headfirst and actually win. It used to be that we west-Europeans, including the creationists, took it as self-evident that creationist beliefs were just that, beliefs, and hence confined to the private sphere. But from the looks of it, our fundies are getting audacious and trying to manufacture the same kind of "controversy" here. Meh, did these people not learn about the Enlightenment? Do they not care? I guess that's why we cannot have nice things.