This will be remembered in the textbooks as one of the biggest discoveries in human history
No it won't, because water is a fairly common molecular arrangement. Electricty, atomic power, Earth being round, these are things that qualify as the biggest discoveries. In 10 years this particular incident of the rover will be forgotten, and in 100 years, the rover itself will be a historical footnote. How much do textbooks cover the Apollo program other than #11 and #13?
Less than 100 years ago, people believed that Mars had canals full of water. Then with better optics people realized that no, those trenches, causing an extreme belief swing the other way - that Mars must be bone dry, any water having long since evaporated. Of course that ignores the polar ice caps which spectrography can easily identify.
We've finally come into direct contact with H20 on Mars' surface rather than simply remote identification. While a milestone, it's a pretty damn tiny one. It will not be remembered in textbooks. Look how results of the Venus expeditions of the 70s are now glossed over.
The test was performed using an 8 mile stretch of two dedicated carpool lanes in the middle of the freeway. The lanes normally switch directions based on morning/evening commuter traffic and are completely isolated from merging traffic. The tests were never performed with public traffic on the lanes. So although it was performed on a highway, it might as well have been a private closed track. I used to drive home from school during the tests and could see them putting obstacles in the lanes and running cars 2-3 feet apart at 60+ mph.
You can still see the magnets that were set in the concrete every 1-2 feet to indicate the center of the traffic lanes. If I remember correctly, it required about $150k of sensors and electronics per car.
I believe what the grandparent poster meant was not having WINE on OSX (that's readily available as you pointed out) but having a project that provides the Carbon/Cocoa/Aqua API for other POSIX systems like the WINE project reverse engineered the Windows API.
The idea (like with WINE) is to get some of the nifty OSX-only apps running on Linux or BSD. Theoretically it could be easier than building WINE and have less compatibility issues.
For a book like this, probably not. End-user UI and administration hasn't changed substantially between 1.5rc1 and 1.5.3. If you're a developer however, yes, various API changes have been made. But this book isn't for developers, it's for non-technical day-to-day admins of a basic site with relatively standard needs.
You're absolutely right. But the grandparent poster complained that many Joomla plugins are pay to use, but then pointed to Drupal being an appropriate model of only listing GPL listings in their extension directory. I was merely expressing that Joomla is pushing the GPL-only route as well.
Actually the Joomla team has come to the decision that any extensions of Joomla (except for templates and bridges to other packages) should be GPL, and indicate as such in the extensions directory.
1.5 was a major rewrite of the Joomla/mambo core and the emphasis moving forward is GPL v2. Of course older extensions are still listed (and flagged as commercial where appropriate) for legacy purposes, but moving forward should have a significant shift towards availability of GPL plugins.
My own plugins are now GPL after I rewrote them for the new Joomla 1.5 codebase. Not all of them are public releases, but the ones that are, are listed in the Joomla extension directory and clearly flagged as GPL
As the Senior Web Developer, I've been tasked with interviewing and hiring my team.
It's been extremely difficult finding candidates because for website design and development, there is an extremely high ratio of signal to noise in quality candidates.
I've only been able to find 3 people worth interviewing after posting a junior position on several job boards and with several staffing agencies. And we're using an extremely common platform and set of services.
Anyone who's fired up design mode in Dreamweaver thinks they're a qualified developer. And anyone who's created something in Flash thinks they're a qualified designer.
And the talented people who are easy to find, are frequently only interested in freelance work because they want the flexibility.
As for actually switching your development stack, it's doable. Don't try to switch existing clients and projects, instead setup your new stack and only put new projects on it. There will be a learning curve, but if the end results show a significant improvement, it will be well worth it. Don't try to force in-progress projects, or old projects onto the new stack. Once you've done some work with the new stack, how feasible migrations are will become better apparent.
I've used this method for switching web development stacks several times. From plain old HTML, to ASP/IIS, to PHP/Apache, to Object-oriented PHP, and finally to an OSS CMS that we like. Old sites are only migrated to a new stack if we are redoing the design or functionality as a new project. Otherwise we just deal with the old and focus on making the new the best we can.
Holy shit, do the editors even read the articles anymore?
The submission is just a blatant ripoff of the gizmodo article it links to, which in turn is incredibly vague and sensationalist without any real content whatsoever.
If/. isn't playing the digg game, then what the hell are the editors actually doing with their time?
The majority of games are of the puzzle/Tetris variety. Bejeweled was far more popular (in terms of users, and hours played) than the top-rated FPS, and I'd guess that MS Solitaire comes pretty close behind it.
$24.6 million/km is the cost to build in China. Labor and materials are much much much cheaper there, not to mention overhead costs like safety inspections and engineering are substantially cheaper as well.
The cost of light rail systems in the US is around $35 million/ mile or $29 million/ km. Mag-lev will be substantially more expensive. You can't take the estimated Chinese cost for a new high tech solution, compare it to the real cost of a low-tech American solution and say that the new high-tech solution would be cheaper.
So, well, don't be too quick to dismiss the concept. I'm sure some people will find it hilarious to flip pancakes with the wiimote, and stir in a pot with it.
I connect to the internet through: A MacPro dual-booting XP64 and OSX A MacBook Pro dual-booting XP and OSX (with a Parallels virtual machine for good measure) A Treo 700p An Apple Mini running OSX A HTPC with Windows MCE plus an assortment of servers and secondary machines I need to utilize as part of my job requirements
Does this make me 1 or the Internet users? 5? 7? more?
Because of the activation process, I would wager that every single iPhone user also uses a desktop or laptop computer to connect to the Internet as well, which skews the numbers. If by "users" they mean "devices" then a.11~.12% figure corresponds. If they actually mean people, not devices, then the.12% figure is probably way off base.
And make my Media Center or MythTV one of those boxes as well.
Just getting Netflix listings on Media Center requires a 3rd party html app that fakes the http calls made by Netflix' RSS features. Why can't Netflix take a little bit of time and write an installable app to do this that would integrate nicely into existing products?
Funny, I was just in an Apple store before Christmas to buy a gift. All I had to do was walk up to one of the employees standing around (no visible check out counter or line). I asked for the item I wanted. He went to the stockroom to retrieve it, swiped my credit card on a handheld POS and then went to a counter to retrieve a printed receipt for me. I was in and out of the store in under 2 minutes and there were easily over 60 customers during prime Chrismtas shopping hours. When I got home, there was a copy of the receipt in my email.
Or of course because you need someone to learn a certain skillset and you don't have anyone in house (or who has the time) to teach them that skillset.
Small Privately held company (less than 100 employees)
IT or technology-related issues are not the core of the business
Doing mostly architecture, we have a lot of experience w/ HVAC, but our HVAC consultants can't answer because they don't do server rooms, and the contractors need an answer.
A consultant to pick the right HVAC unit will cost as much as the HVAC unit itself
We don't need someone to tell us if we need 2.5million BTUs vs. 4.5million BTUs, we need just a general figure of 30,000 BTUs vs. 300,000 BTUs.
I said this was a small server room... probably no more than 3-4 racks of equipment will ever be in it. This isn't a datacenter and we don't run client services off of them, it's the machines needed to run our company during business hours.
Sheesh, get a grip and understand scope. I need to stick at least 25, and up to 60 machines in a closed room and want to know how much AC I need. I don't need a high-end HVAC consultant experienced in data centers for that, just like I wouldn't call up SAP just because I need to track timecards.
Actually this brings up an interesting point of discussion for me at least. Our office is doing a remodel and I'm specifying a small server room (finally!) and the contractors are asking what AC unit(s) we need. Is there a general rule for figuring out how many BTUs of cooling you need for a given wattage of power supplies?
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Now could someone please trademark Web 2.0 so we won't have to hear that stupid buzzword either?
No it won't, because water is a fairly common molecular arrangement. Electricty, atomic power, Earth being round, these are things that qualify as the biggest discoveries. In 10 years this particular incident of the rover will be forgotten, and in 100 years, the rover itself will be a historical footnote. How much do textbooks cover the Apollo program other than #11 and #13?
Less than 100 years ago, people believed that Mars had canals full of water. Then with better optics people realized that no, those trenches, causing an extreme belief swing the other way - that Mars must be bone dry, any water having long since evaporated. Of course that ignores the polar ice caps which spectrography can easily identify.
We've finally come into direct contact with H20 on Mars' surface rather than simply remote identification. While a milestone, it's a pretty damn tiny one. It will not be remembered in textbooks. Look how results of the Venus expeditions of the 70s are now glossed over.
Web 1.0 and IRC beat it out. No need to blame the current crop of AJAX websites. Other than filesharing and spam, Usenet has been dead for a while.
The test was performed using an 8 mile stretch of two dedicated carpool lanes in the middle of the freeway. The lanes normally switch directions based on morning/evening commuter traffic and are completely isolated from merging traffic. The tests were never performed with public traffic on the lanes. So although it was performed on a highway, it might as well have been a private closed track. I used to drive home from school during the tests and could see them putting obstacles in the lanes and running cars 2-3 feet apart at 60+ mph.
You can still see the magnets that were set in the concrete every 1-2 feet to indicate the center of the traffic lanes. If I remember correctly, it required about $150k of sensors and electronics per car.
I believe what the grandparent poster meant was not having WINE on OSX (that's readily available as you pointed out) but having a project that provides the Carbon/Cocoa/Aqua API for other POSIX systems like the WINE project reverse engineered the Windows API.
The idea (like with WINE) is to get some of the nifty OSX-only apps running on Linux or BSD. Theoretically it could be easier than building WINE and have less compatibility issues.
The ones that took out the World Trade center did. Which is what makes all the ID checks and the National ID card scheme such a joke.
For a book like this, probably not. End-user UI and administration hasn't changed substantially between 1.5rc1 and 1.5.3. If you're a developer however, yes, various API changes have been made. But this book isn't for developers, it's for non-technical day-to-day admins of a basic site with relatively standard needs.
GPL != Free of cost.
You're absolutely right. But the grandparent poster complained that many Joomla plugins are pay to use, but then pointed to Drupal being an appropriate model of only listing GPL listings in their extension directory. I was merely expressing that Joomla is pushing the GPL-only route as well.
Actually the Joomla team has come to the decision that any extensions of Joomla (except for templates and bridges to other packages) should be GPL, and indicate as such in the extensions directory.
1.5 was a major rewrite of the Joomla/mambo core and the emphasis moving forward is GPL v2. Of course older extensions are still listed (and flagged as commercial where appropriate) for legacy purposes, but moving forward should have a significant shift towards availability of GPL plugins.
My own plugins are now GPL after I rewrote them for the new Joomla 1.5 codebase. Not all of them are public releases, but the ones that are, are listed in the Joomla extension directory and clearly flagged as GPL
As the Senior Web Developer, I've been tasked with interviewing and hiring my team.
It's been extremely difficult finding candidates because for website design and development, there is an extremely high ratio of signal to noise in quality candidates.
I've only been able to find 3 people worth interviewing after posting a junior position on several job boards and with several staffing agencies. And we're using an extremely common platform and set of services.
Anyone who's fired up design mode in Dreamweaver thinks they're a qualified developer. And anyone who's created something in Flash thinks they're a qualified designer.
And the talented people who are easy to find, are frequently only interested in freelance work because they want the flexibility.
As for actually switching your development stack, it's doable. Don't try to switch existing clients and projects, instead setup your new stack and only put new projects on it. There will be a learning curve, but if the end results show a significant improvement, it will be well worth it. Don't try to force in-progress projects, or old projects onto the new stack. Once you've done some work with the new stack, how feasible migrations are will become better apparent.
I've used this method for switching web development stacks several times. From plain old HTML, to ASP/IIS, to PHP/Apache, to Object-oriented PHP, and finally to an OSS CMS that we like. Old sites are only migrated to a new stack if we are redoing the design or functionality as a new project. Otherwise we just deal with the old and focus on making the new the best we can.
Holy shit, do the editors even read the articles anymore?
/. isn't playing the digg game, then what the hell are the editors actually doing with their time?
The submission is just a blatant ripoff of the gizmodo article it links to, which in turn is incredibly vague and sensationalist without any real content whatsoever.
If
Not true.
The majority of games are of the puzzle/Tetris variety. Bejeweled was far more popular (in terms of users, and hours played) than the top-rated FPS, and I'd guess that MS Solitaire comes pretty close behind it.
Wrong Wrong Wrong.
/km is the cost to build in China. Labor and materials are much much much cheaper there, not to mention overhead costs like safety inspections and engineering are substantially cheaper as well.
$24.6 million
The cost of light rail systems in the US is around $35 million/ mile or $29 million/ km. Mag-lev will be substantially more expensive. You can't take the estimated Chinese cost for a new high tech solution, compare it to the real cost of a low-tech American solution and say that the new high-tech solution would be cheaper.
Unfortunately they'll only be able to make one incredibly small movement ever 6 hours or so.
but how many spammers have that type of resource?
Botnets.
They already did... it's called Cooking Mamma
But even those numbers have problems.
.11~.12% figure corresponds. If they actually mean people, not devices, then the .12% figure is probably way off base.
I connect to the internet through:
A MacPro dual-booting XP64 and OSX
A MacBook Pro dual-booting XP and OSX (with a Parallels virtual machine for good measure)
A Treo 700p
An Apple Mini running OSX
A HTPC with Windows MCE
plus an assortment of servers and secondary machines I need to utilize as part of my job requirements
Does this make me 1 or the Internet users? 5? 7? more?
Because of the activation process, I would wager that every single iPhone user also uses a desktop or laptop computer to connect to the Internet as well, which skews the numbers. If by "users" they mean "devices" then a
And make my Media Center or MythTV one of those boxes as well.
Just getting Netflix listings on Media Center requires a 3rd party html app that fakes the http calls made by Netflix' RSS features. Why can't Netflix take a little bit of time and write an installable app to do this that would integrate nicely into existing products?
Funny, I was just in an Apple store before Christmas to buy a gift. All I had to do was walk up to one of the employees standing around (no visible check out counter or line). I asked for the item I wanted. He went to the stockroom to retrieve it, swiped my credit card on a handheld POS and then went to a counter to retrieve a printed receipt for me. I was in and out of the store in under 2 minutes and there were easily over 60 customers during prime Chrismtas shopping hours. When I got home, there was a copy of the receipt in my email.
Or of course because you need someone to learn a certain skillset and you don't have anyone in house (or who has the time) to teach them that skillset.
Some hosting providers already do this. See for example, MediaTemple's Grid Servers
but just because Vonage and AOL rolled over, it doesn't mean that Apple will
Except of course that Apple is one of the few entities to actually license Amazon's One-Click patent.
Sheesh, get a grip and understand scope. I need to stick at least 25, and up to 60 machines in a closed room and want to know how much AC I need. I don't need a high-end HVAC consultant experienced in data centers for that, just like I wouldn't call up SAP just because I need to track timecards.
Actually this brings up an interesting point of discussion for me at least. Our office is doing a remodel and I'm specifying a small server room (finally!) and the contractors are asking what AC unit(s) we need. Is there a general rule for figuring out how many BTUs of cooling you need for a given wattage of power supplies?
Give EMS SQL Manager for MySQL a try. It's proprietary, but it's a tool I'm more than willing to pay for.