The fact remains that ingenuity is worthless. If it had value, people would be willing to pay for it. I've never heard of anyone willing to exchange money for ingenuity. We instead pay for time. A resource in limited supply.
The Internet has made general education obsolete. You can learn so much more with a quick search than you could ever hope to in a classroom. Now the question: Why are only 40% of our students smart enough to realize that?;)
It's not going well. A headline off Google News, dated November 12th, 2006, states: "Iraq's civil war claims 135 more lives". Granted, Titor did say "American civil war". But with America's occupation in Iraq, it could be considered America. And perhaps in the future Iraq becomes part of the US, thus interpreted as America in the future?
All jobs are based on exploitation. You might work a desk job where your employer is exploiting your knowledge. Or you might do physical labour where your employer is exploiting your energy. Or you might work in porn where the employer is exploiting your abilities to perform in that role. They all exploit equally, and it's up to you to decide which form of exploitation best suits your preferences and abilities.
If you don't live in a 250k+ population city and you don't have satellite radio, it is -very- difficult to find out about new bands that don't fall into the categories of "Rap / Hip-Hop" or "Emo"
I find the opposite to be true. I live on a farm, out in the middle of nowhere. We've got radio stations that will play just about everything you could ever imagine. On the other hand I often take trips to a city of 4 million and I can never find anything on the radio that's not your generic top 40.
That said, as much as I dislike it, MySpace seems to be the place to find new music. I've been introduced to several great bands that I would have never heard of otherwise.
I agree. I don't own a printer. I don't see any reason why I'd ever want to print anything out. I don't create any pen and paper documents. The computer does a better job at that too. The only time I have anything to do with paper is if someone else gives that paper to me. And quite frankly, that's better served by electronic methods as well.
Paper really has no redeeming qualities. It's hard to manage, it's hard to read, it's hard to transport, etc., etc. I really don't understand why anyone would prefer it over the electronic equivalent. Especially when they're using electronic devices to create the paper document in the first place.
There are several songs on MySpace that I'd like to listen to offline, or just to avoid the oh-so-awful MySpace player, that aren't readily available through any other means.
A designer's job is to design to the medium. This requires that they have a working knowledge of HTML/CSS/related technologies. Just like a print designer must have a working understanding of paper. You don't expect the print-press operator have the designer's animated GIF run on paper.
do you keep your bills in your mailbox after the postman has delivered them? No
If there was a mailbox that could sort mail by date, what has been read, and also allow for full content searches then yes, I would most definitely keep my mail in my mailbox. Why wouldn't you? Your bill pile can't compete with that.
A clean inbox gains you nothing unless your e-mail software has problems to begin with.
The backups are most likely done via ZFS snapshots.
Snapshots
As ZFS does not overwrite data in place, taking a snapshot simply means not releasing the blocks used by the old version of the data. This has the advantage that snapshots can be taken very quickly and that they are space efficient as they share unchanged data with the file system. Writable snapshots, called clones, can be created, resulting in two independent file systems that share a set of blocks. As changes are made, file system blocks diverge but common blocks are only held once, no matter how many clones exist.
It is a very simplistic view to consider that you will have control of all uses of the database, and will be the one who defines what happens and when. It is typical for your application to be just one of several that use a particular database.
Typical, perhaps, but it's not the Rails way. Your database should be exposed via a web service API, such as that provided by the forthcoming ActiveResource, if other applications need to access the data. Anything less means that you're repeating your business logic.
And of course, if ActiveRecord isn't the right tool for the job, use something else. Perhaps Og is more up your alley?
Not at all, it's entirely implicit. As your application runs through the tests, the missing methods will raise an exception. It's no different than removing a method that exists right in the model.
Database schemas don't just change at random. To do it the Rails way you even have to write a Ruby script (a migration) to upgrade the database. If you've gone to all that trouble, surely you'll be able to figure out what needs to change in the application.
Your tests (you are writing tests, aren't you?) will already catch any problems that arise from changing the schema. Unless of course your production database just changes at random. In which case you've got way bigger problems.
The main downfall I see is the tight coupling to the relational database
Your models don't have to inherit from ActiveRecord. They could just as easily be an interface to a flat text file or a RPC. As long as you maintain the same interfaces, the application won't even know the difference.
But a relational database is almost always the right tool for the kind of application Rails is designed for, so it seems logical that it is most predominant.
My personal experience sounds quite similar. Perhaps the grandparent is local to me it's a local phenomenon? Or, perhaps it's a sign of a larger trend?
Ruby has been around for a long time. It was released over ten years ago.
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Why is CSS such a pain compared to other languages?
It's really not that bad once you get on to it. It would be nice if it could do math to calculate positions/sizes/etc., and supported multiple backgrounds for a single element, ala Safari. But all in all, it's poor browser support that really makes CSS difficult.
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The fact remains that ingenuity is worthless. If it had value, people would be willing to pay for it. I've never heard of anyone willing to exchange money for ingenuity. We instead pay for time. A resource in limited supply.
It could be better, but it's not that bad:
The Internet has made general education obsolete. You can learn so much more with a quick search than you could ever hope to in a classroom. Now the question: Why are only 40% of our students smart enough to realize that? ;)
It's not going well. A headline off Google News, dated November 12th, 2006, states: "Iraq's civil war claims 135 more lives". Granted, Titor did say "American civil war". But with America's occupation in Iraq, it could be considered America. And perhaps in the future Iraq becomes part of the US, thus interpreted as America in the future?
All jobs are based on exploitation. You might work a desk job where your employer is exploiting your knowledge. Or you might do physical labour where your employer is exploiting your energy. Or you might work in porn where the employer is exploiting your abilities to perform in that role. They all exploit equally, and it's up to you to decide which form of exploitation best suits your preferences and abilities.
Have you seen the state of farming in Canada? We'll be lucky if we're farming at all in a few years.
Tiger for Intel. The PPC version doesn't not include this feature.
I find the opposite to be true. I live on a farm, out in the middle of nowhere. We've got radio stations that will play just about everything you could ever imagine. On the other hand I often take trips to a city of 4 million and I can never find anything on the radio that's not your generic top 40.
That said, as much as I dislike it, MySpace seems to be the place to find new music. I've been introduced to several great bands that I would have never heard of otherwise.
GPL software is property of the author. Does that mean that GPL software is proprietary?
What's so horrible about PDF exactly? It's good enough to be used in the OS X graphics system of all places.
Acrobat is horrible, but that has no more to do with PDF than Internet Explorer has to do with HTML.
I agree. I don't own a printer. I don't see any reason why I'd ever want to print anything out. I don't create any pen and paper documents. The computer does a better job at that too. The only time I have anything to do with paper is if someone else gives that paper to me. And quite frankly, that's better served by electronic methods as well.
Paper really has no redeeming qualities. It's hard to manage, it's hard to read, it's hard to transport, etc., etc. I really don't understand why anyone would prefer it over the electronic equivalent. Especially when they're using electronic devices to create the paper document in the first place.
Hey, me too! Even IE used the blue globe back in the day.
I close all of the windows often, but leave the application running all the time.
There are several songs on MySpace that I'd like to listen to offline, or just to avoid the oh-so-awful MySpace player, that aren't readily available through any other means.
A designer's job is to design to the medium. This requires that they have a working knowledge of HTML/CSS/related technologies. Just like a print designer must have a working understanding of paper. You don't expect the print-press operator have the designer's animated GIF run on paper.
If there was a mailbox that could sort mail by date, what has been read, and also allow for full content searches then yes, I would most definitely keep my mail in my mailbox. Why wouldn't you? Your bill pile can't compete with that.
A clean inbox gains you nothing unless your e-mail software has problems to begin with.
Typical, perhaps, but it's not the Rails way. Your database should be exposed via a web service API, such as that provided by the forthcoming ActiveResource, if other applications need to access the data. Anything less means that you're repeating your business logic.
And of course, if ActiveRecord isn't the right tool for the job, use something else. Perhaps Og is more up your alley?
Not at all, it's entirely implicit. As your application runs through the tests, the missing methods will raise an exception. It's no different than removing a method that exists right in the model.
Database schemas don't just change at random. To do it the Rails way you even have to write a Ruby script (a migration) to upgrade the database. If you've gone to all that trouble, surely you'll be able to figure out what needs to change in the application.
Your tests (you are writing tests, aren't you?) will already catch any problems that arise from changing the schema. Unless of course your production database just changes at random. In which case you've got way bigger problems.
Your models don't have to inherit from ActiveRecord. They could just as easily be an interface to a flat text file or a RPC. As long as you maintain the same interfaces, the application won't even know the difference.
But a relational database is almost always the right tool for the kind of application Rails is designed for, so it seems logical that it is most predominant.
You're right about ActionPack. The other parts of Rails are extremely useful in just about every domain.
My personal experience sounds quite similar. Perhaps the grandparent is local to me it's a local phenomenon? Or, perhaps it's a sign of a larger trend?
Ruby has been around for a long time. It was released over ten years ago.
It's really not that bad once you get on to it. It would be nice if it could do math to calculate positions/sizes/etc., and supported multiple backgrounds for a single element, ala Safari. But all in all, it's poor browser support that really makes CSS difficult.