We'll see how much you "don't care" when they institute the draft to get the manpower needed for all these wars. In the 60s no one cared about Vietnam either until it was white middle-classed kids that were being sent off to war.
I'm by no means a PHP expert (I prefer Perl, but hey to each their own), but I've been helping my g/f learn PHP and have been trying to instill good coding practices, such as parameter binding in SQL. I found this to be a pain in the ass in PHP, so maybe I'm missing something.
Currently, I am only using MDB2, but to bind both integer and string parameters to an SQL query (ie. a user table with user_id and first_name), you have to actually pass an array describing the types of each argument, and then pass an array to the execute(). Making that first array of 'integer' and/or 'string' is the part I'm referring to being a pain in the ass, since I'm used to that being done automatically for me in Perl (or Java for that matter). Can PHP do that for me in any way? Maybe using another library?
In Perl, it's actually easier and clearer (IMHO) to use parameter binding in your queries, but in PHP with that extra array, this becomes extremely cumbersome for large tables. It's not that surprising to me a lot of developers end up embedding the parameters right in the string rather than doing it The Right Way because of this... which of course leaves them wide open for injection attacks....
though like I said, maybe I'm missing something here...
I've been running it in Parallels for just over a week now. They post new builds daily, and its really simple to just bzcat | dd them to the Parallels harddisk image, and then boot.
For fun, try running multiple vms to get show how the neighbourhood view and shared apps work.
The 'activities' (apps) are still buggy, but I keep seeing improvements in each daily build; so much so that I've become addicted to trying out the new image every day.
When Vinyl people refer to 'tactile' they are mostly referring to the fact that they can play it back and manipulate it physically while it's playing on the record player, unlike CDs, casettes, mp3s, etc. This is key to being a decent DJ (pitch bending, scratching, backspinning, beat-matching)
Yes, there are CDJ players (and Final Scratch) that emulate the platter, but they don't quite live up their analog ancestors.
Right, but this is not our fault. It is the music industry's own incompetence ensuring that the money doesn't get distributed fairly, but the money IS there.
But that's the point in the article. In Canada, people like you ARE compensating the industry through the levy imposed on blank media and mp3 devices.
I used to hate the idea of them getting money from me this way, but recently I've discovered that I too don't buy many cds anymore. Instead, I got to many live shows/concerts of artists I've only been able to discover through p2p. I recently upgraded to an expensive large mp3 player and I know they're getting a nice chunk of that money. Seems to me (and the article) they are being fairly compensated, so why sue?
According to the official scoreboard the top 3 are Moscow, St. Petersburg and Waterloo (all ranked with same amount of solved questions). Shanghai placed 4th, but they're the champions?
"Computer games dont affect kids. if pac-man affected us, we would all be running around in dark warehouses, munching on magic pills, dancing to repetitive electronic music."
-stolen from somewhere
you're thinking of the Billboard Music Awards.. Grammys are kinda like the Oscars.. buncha old out of touch record associates masturbating^Wvoting to decide who wins
Maybe they will actually create the much coveted "Stupid Spoiled Whore" video playset featured in a recent south park episode. comes with video camera, night-vision filter, play money, losable cellphone, and sixteen hits of exstacy. All the kids will love it!
You can simply add another 'installation source' to YaST2 (grab a mirror from suse.com), and then you can easily install gcc and every other package that was missing by the 9.1 personal install
I picked up one of the FVD-C1 cams yesterday and noticed the speed with USB as well. However it was only when I was importing clips directly into iMovie. When I copied directly from the drive, the speeds were definately USB2.0 (~.5mb/sec)
I've had to use XP at work for a few months when I started a new job back in march. This was the first time I had used windows since about 2000... I discovered the virtual desktops and x-windows style mouse over stuff with TweakUI and Power Tools, but they are NOT like their X11 counterparts.
The virtual desktops are limited to 4 max (can you even change it at all?), and its very slugish switching desktops. The manager routinely forgets the display order of the windows, and when an app from another desktops has a dialog, I have to spend 5 minutes hunting it down because its fairly random where it appears. Other windows will also randomly resize themselves to no size (not minimized), and focus for inputting text in apps also seems to randomly dissappear from time to time. And try moving a window to another desktop.. you cant.. you have to enable the 'shared taskbar', then go to the desktop you want to move it, then click on it in the taskbar to bring it back up, and then disable 'shared taskbar' again.. icky stuff..
As for the focus-follows mouse stuff, it's ALMOST the same. But, I suspect this is tacked on like the virtual desktops are, and because of that I get the occasional weirdness where I have to click to raise/focus a window.
And then there's alt+tab... once again.. ALMOST the same, but not quite. If you have a systray app running (like say a jvm icon), the alt+tab shows that in the tasklist even though its not really an app with a window.. so I have to press alt+tab twice every time to move to one app.
So glad the company finally switched me over to their kde-build:)
yeah it did repel the force.. that was how the empire could grow clones so fast (because the force influence on clones is what made them mad if you grew them too fast)
dammit im a star wars nerd.. well of the books anyways..
Bzzzt! No laws to outlaw your thoughts. AND, no laws telling you what you cannot write. Hmmm. WTF do you mean?
I meant thoughts as in ways of solving common software problems, and write as in write code or music.
As another poster pointed out, you want it both ways. 'Free' (others) music, but protected (yours) code.
you missed my point.. Free evertything (including my code), but we dont live in a world like that., So it is better to have GPL (or other opens source licences) which at least protects what I choose to release under it.
I would say that what slashbots say and want are not necessarily contradictory, but rather hint towards a different ideal regarding intellectual property.
If we MUST live with idiotic laws saying what we can and cannot think/write (ie. ridiculous copyrights, software patents), then yes, at least we have the GPL protecting our work from exploitation.
On the other hand, in a world with no such laws, ideas should/would be free and open (including Music) for everyone, and supporting p2p sharing just re-inforces that.
GPL == necessary for current fscked up world P2P Sharing == ideal of what world should be
I'm not so sure this is necessary in X. I make use of Virtual Desktops to organize my applications, so my taskbar never gets cluttered... when I'm in OSX I sometimes get frustrated by the dock only behaving like a dock, thankfully expose coupled with wsmanager makes it work
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We'll see how much you "don't care" when they institute the draft to get the manpower needed for all these wars. In the 60s no one cared about Vietnam either until it was white middle-classed kids that were being sent off to war.
I'm by no means a PHP expert (I prefer Perl, but hey to each their own), but I've been helping my g/f learn PHP and have been trying to instill good coding practices, such as parameter binding in SQL. I found this to be a pain in the ass in PHP, so maybe I'm missing something.
Currently, I am only using MDB2, but to bind both integer and string parameters to an SQL query (ie. a user table with user_id and first_name), you have to actually pass an array describing the types of each argument, and then pass an array to the execute(). Making that first array of 'integer' and/or 'string' is the part I'm referring to being a pain in the ass, since I'm used to that being done automatically for me in Perl (or Java for that matter). Can PHP do that for me in any way? Maybe using another library?
In Perl, it's actually easier and clearer (IMHO) to use parameter binding in your queries, but in PHP with that extra array, this becomes extremely cumbersome for large tables. It's not that surprising to me a lot of developers end up embedding the parameters right in the string rather than doing it The Right Way because of this... which of course leaves them wide open for injection attacks....
though like I said, maybe I'm missing something here...
I've been running it in Parallels for just over a week now. They post new builds daily, and its really simple to just bzcat | dd them to the Parallels harddisk image, and then boot.
For fun, try running multiple vms to get show how the neighbourhood view and shared apps work.
The 'activities' (apps) are still buggy, but I keep seeing improvements in each daily build; so much so that I've become addicted to trying out the new image every day.
When Vinyl people refer to 'tactile' they are mostly referring to the fact that they can play it back and manipulate it physically while it's playing on the record player, unlike CDs, casettes, mp3s, etc. This is key to being a decent DJ (pitch bending, scratching, backspinning, beat-matching)
Yes, there are CDJ players (and Final Scratch) that emulate the platter, but they don't quite live up their analog ancestors.
bah.. streaming is SOOooo 20th century. Podcasts baby! (in AAC)
http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/
No Windows Media required
fork with more features (including mac intel support) Virtue Desktops
Right, but this is not our fault. It is the music industry's own incompetence ensuring that the money doesn't get distributed fairly, but the money IS there.
But that's the point in the article. In Canada, people like you ARE compensating the industry through the levy imposed on blank media and mp3 devices.
I used to hate the idea of them getting money from me this way, but recently I've discovered that I too don't buy many cds anymore. Instead, I got to many live shows/concerts of artists I've only been able to discover through p2p. I recently upgraded to an expensive large mp3 player and I know they're getting a nice chunk of that money. Seems to me (and the article) they are being fairly compensated, so why sue?
According to the official scoreboard the top 3 are Moscow, St. Petersburg and Waterloo (all ranked with same amount of solved questions). Shanghai placed 4th, but they're the champions?
anyone else find the name 'headmouse extreme' a litle odd?
"Computer games dont affect kids. if pac-man affected us, we would all be running around in dark warehouses, munching on magic pills, dancing to repetitive electronic music."
-stolen from somewhere
you're thinking of the Billboard Music Awards.. Grammys are kinda like the Oscars.. buncha old out of touch record associates masturbating^Wvoting to decide who wins
dude its all about hacking on code all day with pounding techno from your ipod.. zen-like state of oneness with the code
Maybe they will actually create the much coveted "Stupid Spoiled Whore" video playset featured in a recent south park episode. comes with video camera, night-vision filter, play money, losable cellphone, and sixteen hits of exstacy. All the kids will love it!
and a new cliche is born.. fark would be proud
I've been starting to use GIMF (google it mother fucker).. has a nice ring to it.. GIMF!
You can simply add another 'installation source' to YaST2 (grab a mirror from suse.com), and then you can easily install gcc and every other package that was missing by the 9.1 personal install
Hmmm I think I wrote this before I had enough morning caffeine.. You're right of course..
ahh much better
I picked up one of the FVD-C1 cams yesterday and noticed the speed with USB as well. However it was only when I was importing clips directly into iMovie. When I copied directly from the drive, the speeds were definately USB2.0 (~.5mb/sec)
I've had to use XP at work for a few months when I started a new job back in march. This was the first time I had used windows since about 2000... I discovered the virtual desktops and x-windows style mouse over stuff with TweakUI and Power Tools, but they are NOT like their X11 counterparts.
The virtual desktops are limited to 4 max (can you even change it at all?), and its very slugish switching desktops. The manager routinely forgets the display order of the windows, and when an app from another desktops has a dialog, I have to spend 5 minutes hunting it down because its fairly random where it appears. Other windows will also randomly resize themselves to no size (not minimized), and focus for inputting text in apps also seems to randomly dissappear from time to time. And try moving a window to another desktop.. you cant.. you have to enable the 'shared taskbar', then go to the desktop you want to move it, then click on it in the taskbar to bring it back up, and then disable 'shared taskbar' again.. icky stuff..
As for the focus-follows mouse stuff, it's ALMOST the same. But, I suspect this is tacked on like the virtual desktops are, and because of that I get the occasional weirdness where I have to click to raise/focus a window.
And then there's alt+tab... once again.. ALMOST the same, but not quite. If you have a systray app running (like say a jvm icon), the alt+tab shows that in the tasklist even though its not really an app with a window.. so I have to press alt+tab twice every time to move to one app.
So glad the company finally switched me over to their kde-build:)
yeah it did repel the force.. that was how the empire could grow clones so fast (because the force influence on clones is what made them mad if you grew them too fast)
dammit im a star wars nerd.. well of the books anyways..
Bzzzt! No laws to outlaw your thoughts. AND, no laws telling you what you cannot write. Hmmm. WTF do you mean?
I meant thoughts as in ways of solving common software problems, and write as in write code or music.
As another poster pointed out, you want it both ways. 'Free' (others) music, but protected (yours) code.
you missed my point.. Free evertything (including my code), but we dont live in a world like that., So it is better to have GPL (or other opens source licences) which at least protects what I choose to release under it.
I would say that what slashbots say and want are not necessarily contradictory, but rather hint towards a different ideal regarding intellectual property.
If we MUST live with idiotic laws saying what we can and cannot think/write (ie. ridiculous copyrights, software patents), then yes, at least we have the GPL protecting our work from exploitation.
On the other hand, in a world with no such laws, ideas should/would be free and open (including Music) for everyone, and supporting p2p sharing just re-inforces that.
GPL == necessary for current fscked up world
P2P Sharing == ideal of what world should be
doesn't seem contradictory to me.
I'm not so sure this is necessary in X. I make use of Virtual Desktops to organize my applications, so my taskbar never gets cluttered... when I'm in OSX I sometimes get frustrated by the dock only behaving like a dock, thankfully expose coupled with wsmanager makes it work
fido also has a neat unlimited GRPS (56k) package for $50CDN/month.. im usin that now to post from work with my laptop :)