They put an ex-Microsoftie in charge of a consumer electronics company. I'd laugh if it wasn't such a tragedy.
QT will be taken out and shot as soon as possible. Here's how it will happen: Microsoft will offer Nokia a Business Development Agreement which lets Nokia get discounts off the price they pay for operating system licences. The discounts will be related to Nokia doing one of a number of 'entirely voluntary' (hence not illegally coerced) things. Things like enhancing QT in some way to make it compatible with some pointless and unused feature of Windows PhoneOS. After a few of these it will be cheaper to just kill QT.
>> The integer value of var on success, or 0 on failure. Empty arrays and objects return 0, non-empty arrays and objects return 1.
I certainly do not use intval ever in inline code - I use my own class method that will throw an exception if I'm trying to take the intval of something which is not the string representation of an integer.
Good God, they could at least have made intval() return FALSE on failure but not 0!!!
Pray tell, are the words "thy" and "thigh" the same? Nope.
Reminds me of the story of a professor of linguistics lecturing his class on the double-negative. He has just finished informing the class that it was fascinating to observe that the double-positive does not exist in any language, when someone at the back could be heard to say "yeah, yeah".
There are some thermal advantages to this sort of interconnect. Since it keeps the wirelength short it means the drivers don't have to be so powerful. Hence a fair amount less heat will be generated. Driving any amount of capacitance at GHz speeds wastes shed-loads of power.
Average power dissipated = V*V * f * C
So reducing V obviously makes a big difference (hence partly why operating voltages of ICs decrease with frequency), but getting C down will help also.
"The virtualized server has the same memory available to it (2G) as the native server (which implies that the physical machine running VMware has more memory)."
It might "imply" it, but they fail to tell us how much memory the physical machine actually did have. Or whether VMware was set up to assign the memory in one block. Coz if not, yes, you guessed it, it's swap time again.
1) As others have pointed out, they should be running on ESX to get best performance. 2) Physical machine was a dual-proc. How many processors did they assign to the VM? 3) Physical machine had 2GB memory. They assigned 2GB to the VM!! Vmware will take 256MB of this for itself, so that 2GB visible to Windows will be being swapped. 4) How many disks did the physical machine have, and what was on them? If e.g. the physical machine had two disks, the VM should have been given two disk files, with each file being placed on a different physical spindle.
Go to Wikipedia (for example) and look up the definition. Then tell me you understand it.
See? Not a hope that a concept which includes 'collaborative working groups' as part of its definition can ever succeed.
I mean these are the people which gave us HTML and CSS, god help us.
Meaning is derived by humans from the interaction between data, knowledge and dialogue. What the semantic web will give us is:
1) Data 2) Limited knowledge to the extent that common, sufficiently rich models of relationships, taxonomies and ontologies are applied to the data. 3) No dialogue. When Google can say 'hello Mr www.fountainofallknowledge.com. I see you have a page called... which is marked up as being about Mini Coopers. I'm looking for stuff about 1964 Cooper S inlet manifold modifications. This page looks like it might be interesting to my client, but quite a lot of people get confused between the different models of SU carburettor which were used that year. Does this page refer to the model with the No.4 Red needle or not?'
And get a sensible reply.
Which it understands.
Then I'll be interested. Until then all it will be is tagging but with a poncy name and a load of spurious academic nonsense being spouted around it to make it sound exciting.
I'm surprised at the number of negative posts I've seen already.
This is actually a good thing. HTML forms are badly broken at every level, as anyone who has actually tried to build a decent UI with them will know.
I have been using the draft specification for a while to produce forms in my software and it is useful because it lets me write code (PHP) which produces XFORMS XML, without worrying about how it will look. I then pass the XML through a transform and end up with good old html. Because the actual layout is produced by a transform, I can let my designers choose which transform they want to use to get the kind of prettiness they like. I can get complex layout, with sexy results, without having to write hideous html or wrangle with the cruft that is CSS each time.
That's just the layout side of things. The three-level model give me much more control over adding scripting behaviours (Javascript), abstracting the form control out into PHP classes etc. etc.
If you don't understand why html forms are broken, I suggest you start playing with Xforms. Once you grok it you won't look back. When I first came across Xforms, I thought "great, loads of complexity for no good reason" too.
Hmm. If your motherboard gets fried by static through the serial port, it's because it isn't grounded properly. Hence sue Dell, not Palm. Unless of course you're being paid by someone else to bring this bogus lawsuit against Palm.
Maybe we can get together and sue memory manufacturers for defective memory modules causing static damage to motherboards on installation.
Or maybe they should be suing the US govt, after all they are the ones responsible for the US's pathetic domestic electrical connector standards. How many bets these Dells were just plugged in with a two-pin plug? Hence no ground return path.
Basically, get any HP corporate PC. Vectra or Kayak. They are silent. Our Vei8 boxes are so quiet you can't even hear them if you put your ear on the box. Better than my sister's G4.
Of course, my box is a Compaq and is noisy as hell. Plus, I can't get the bastard to run Quake2. (Any clues for a Presario 5831??)
We have the same problem. All our web guys use Windows so that they can use Dreamweaver, Flash tools etc and of course to check sites in IE.
Of course you are right, if you have some really hairy Javascript to debug, you need to do it in the Netscape Javascript Debugger - the MS one is the biggest pile of toss on the planet. Now why can't Netscape release it for Linux?
Anyway, my solution is to run VMWare - yes, it costs dosh, but it more than pays for itself over having to have a separate Win box.
One option you could try, is to set up one big VMWare server and have everyone who needs Windows connect to it.
Or a Citrix box. Or something else that can serve Windows over the network.
I do tend to agree that using Dreamweaver and suchlike is fine for beginners, but once you really start doing twiddly bits, you have to get in and edit the code by hand, so you might as well write it by hand from the start. YMMV.
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Any shares you have in Nokia.
They put an ex-Microsoftie in charge of a consumer electronics company. I'd laugh if it wasn't such a tragedy.
QT will be taken out and shot as soon as possible. Here's how it will happen: Microsoft will offer Nokia a Business Development Agreement which lets Nokia get discounts off the price they pay for operating system licences. The discounts will be related to Nokia doing one of a number of 'entirely voluntary' (hence not illegally coerced) things. Things like enhancing QT in some way to make it compatible with some pointless and unused feature of Windows PhoneOS. After a few of these it will be cheaper to just kill QT.
Then KDE will be screwed.
Any guesses how long Symbian will last?
"Significantly, Kingston is revealed as simply a vendor that re-marks other people's chips in its own packaging"
And that is a surprise because? Of course that's what Kingston does - they don't own any fabs.
You're joking right? From the php docs:
>> Return Values
>> The integer value of var on success, or 0 on failure. Empty arrays and objects return 0, non-empty arrays and objects return 1.
I certainly do not use intval ever in inline code - I use my own class method that will throw an exception if I'm trying to take the intval of something which is not the string representation of an integer.
Good God, they could at least have made intval() return FALSE on failure but not 0!!!
Nonsense.
Look up 'Nested-set model'.
If you are a linguist you have a way to go.
Pray tell, are the words "thy" and "thigh" the same? Nope.
Reminds me of the story of a professor of linguistics lecturing his class on the double-negative. He has just finished informing the class that it was fascinating to observe that the double-positive does not exist in any language, when someone at the back could be heard to say "yeah, yeah".
There are some thermal advantages to this sort of interconnect. Since it keeps the wirelength short it means the drivers don't have to be so powerful. Hence a fair amount less heat will be generated. Driving any amount of capacitance at GHz speeds wastes shed-loads of power.
Average power dissipated = V*V * f * C
So reducing V obviously makes a big difference (hence partly why operating voltages of ICs decrease with frequency), but getting C down will help also.
I did read the article:
"The virtualized server has the same memory available to it (2G) as the native server (which implies that the physical machine running VMware has more memory)."
It might "imply" it, but they fail to tell us how much memory the physical machine actually did have. Or whether VMware was set up to assign the memory in one block. Coz if not, yes, you guessed it, it's swap time again.
There's quite a lot wrong with their setup.
1) As others have pointed out, they should be running on ESX to get best performance.
2) Physical machine was a dual-proc. How many processors did they assign to the VM?
3) Physical machine had 2GB memory. They assigned 2GB to the VM!! Vmware will take 256MB of this
for itself, so that 2GB visible to Windows will be being swapped.
4) How many disks did the physical machine have, and what was on them?
If e.g. the physical machine had two disks, the VM should have been given two disk files, with each file being placed on a different physical spindle.
You get the picture.
Go to Wikipedia (for example) and look up the definition. Then tell me you understand it.
... which is marked up as being about Mini Coopers. I'm looking for stuff about 1964 Cooper S inlet manifold modifications. This page looks like it might be interesting to my client, but quite a lot of people get confused between the different models of SU carburettor which were used that year. Does this page refer to the model with the No.4 Red needle or not?'
See? Not a hope that a concept which includes 'collaborative working groups' as part of its definition can ever succeed.
I mean these are the people which gave us HTML and CSS, god help us.
Meaning is derived by humans from the interaction between data, knowledge and dialogue. What the semantic web will give us is:
1) Data
2) Limited knowledge to the extent that common, sufficiently rich models of relationships, taxonomies and ontologies are applied to the data.
3) No dialogue. When Google can say 'hello Mr www.fountainofallknowledge.com. I see you have a page called
And get a sensible reply.
Which it understands.
Then I'll be interested. Until then all it will be is tagging but with a poncy name and a load of spurious academic nonsense being spouted around it to make it sound exciting.
I'm surprised at the number of negative posts I've seen already.
This is actually a good thing. HTML forms are badly broken at every level, as anyone who has actually tried to build a decent UI with them will know.
I have been using the draft specification for a while to produce forms in my software and it is useful because it lets me write code (PHP) which produces XFORMS XML, without worrying about how it will look. I then pass the XML through a transform and end up with good old html. Because the actual layout is produced by a transform, I can let my designers choose which transform they want to use to get the kind of prettiness they like. I can get complex layout, with sexy results, without having to write hideous html or wrangle with the cruft that is CSS each time.
That's just the layout side of things. The three-level model give me much more control over adding scripting behaviours (Javascript), abstracting the form control out into PHP classes etc. etc.
If you don't understand why html forms are broken, I suggest you start playing with Xforms. Once you grok it you won't look back. When I first came across Xforms, I thought "great, loads of complexity for no good reason" too.
Hmm. If your motherboard gets fried by static through the serial port, it's because it isn't grounded properly. Hence sue Dell, not Palm. Unless of course you're being paid by someone else to bring this bogus lawsuit against Palm.
Maybe we can get together and sue memory manufacturers for defective memory modules causing static damage to motherboards on installation.
Or maybe they should be suing the US govt, after all they are the ones responsible for the US's pathetic domestic electrical connector standards. How many bets these Dells were just plugged in with a two-pin plug? Hence no ground return path.
Basically, get any HP corporate PC. Vectra or Kayak. They are silent. Our Vei8 boxes are so quiet you can't even hear them if you put your ear on the box. Better than my sister's G4. Of course, my box is a Compaq and is noisy as hell. Plus, I can't get the bastard to run Quake2. (Any clues for a Presario 5831??)
We have the same problem. All our web guys use Windows so that they can use Dreamweaver, Flash tools etc and of course to check sites in IE.
Of course you are right, if you have some really hairy Javascript to debug, you need to do it in the Netscape Javascript Debugger - the MS one is the biggest pile of toss on the planet. Now why can't Netscape release it for Linux? Anyway, my solution is to run VMWare - yes, it costs dosh, but it more than pays for itself over having to have a separate Win box. One option you could try, is to set up one big VMWare server and have everyone who needs Windows connect to it. Or a Citrix box. Or something else that can serve Windows over the network. I do tend to agree that using Dreamweaver and suchlike is fine for beginners, but once you really start doing twiddly bits, you have to get in and edit the code by hand, so you might as well write it by hand from the start. YMMV.