Well... there are many other ways: for example, just holding our entire hand in the air could mean 242.
It's all a matter of interpretation...
Dutch railways has the same (beta)
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For more than a year now there has been a (beta-phase) phone-number where a voice recognition program tells you the best available train-connection between two cities, at a given time.
It's nice to realize that they've made an attempt to recognize polite customers: words like "please" are ignored.
Integration. I suppose this goes with the first point, but as a web designer it's an important one for me...I want to build payment handling into my PHP-generated web page, not send the user to an external site.
That's all very well... but specifically 'integrated' payment methods you can not really trust. Even if you trust the PSP, who can garantuee it is the PSP, and not the merchant who put a (fake) logo and fill-in boxes in the HTML?
That's exactly why Payment Service Providers want full control over your browser.
The points made in this book (as read in the review) make good sense... but are nother spectacular in my view. Use underlined words for links, use graphics wisely...
There are many websites owners who should definately give this book a try I'd say. But than again, it they don't have the good common sense to use the nice default 'a href' tags but instead try to make thing look fancy with abusing stylesheets and Flash (!), you might think that this is exactly something they don't have...
As many posters wrote before, using current technology it is completely impossible to re-create this kind of animals.
But even it is possible, what kind of world would it start to live in?
It would be alone, unless many other pieces of DNA are recovered
It's natural habitat has dramatically changed -- it's basically not there anymore, would also have to be 're-created'
But the biggest point: we can't even save other 'trivial' species from extinction, as the 'regular' tiger, many many birds, etc.
I think it would be more important, for now, to save what we still have.
The fact that CVS is open... really does make a difference.
I totally agree on that -- in my opinion this is a very important advantage of using CVS. You will be able to control many aspects of the whole developing cycle.
It is for example pretty straight-forward to implement a lock/unlock policy (like SourceSafe does) using a few scripts on the server (they come with the cvs-distribution). Combined with, say WinCVS and a few client-side scripts, you will be able to get a pretty good imitation of the system SourceSafe uses. Might even help you with your binary files, as there won't be any merging anymore (although the database will get pretty big quickly).
Using CVS will give you a very good feeling: on the one hand the freedom to be able to rewrite parts of your clientside software if necessary, on the other hand a very big user-base who already did this, on the gripping hand you'll probably don't need this as the client are really getting better and better (http://www.cvsgui.org, http://www.cvsgui.org/TortoiseCVS/index.html).
Well -- I am afraid there <i>is</i> an answer to your question, but it's not a nice one: management/customer. When the company you work for is sold for example, and the new company decides to do it 'the Microsoft way'. Or a new, big customer demands you to rewrite your existing software using 'Microsoft standards', and you just need the money/can't afford to loose the customer...
These reasons, not convincing as they are for a developer, can be put together under the name 'real world'...
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Of course, we would all love to be working in a open source world, with open standards, competition in implementation, not in standards, but that's (still) a dream we'll have to fight for...
I assume this 10$ discount wouldn't make a huge difference for many people deciding to buy or not buy. However, Microsoft makes a more 'friendly' impression offering a license like this one. I think there are many people who actually don't mind paying for licenses, and they would get a good feeling: 'wow, I just saved 10 dollar!'. So it's a matter of customer friendliness, not so much as anti-piracy policy.
The things the poor Aussies do to get to London:) It must be rather hard living down there.
Only kidding of course. But I think it's a cool academical experiment: put a rocket into space and spend weeks trying to find out whether it actually worked...:)
Oh yes -- those could old times:) I was first called a 'hacker' when I found out how to break into somebody's password protected filemanager (simple hitting Ctrl-C inside the menu-shell was enough):))
Maybe I'm ill-informed then, but it looks like there are really only a few certificate roots world-wide. If Thawte is really a sub-division of Versign, this would reduce the number of roots even further. Would be cool if there would be a free -- but trustable -- root as well. Maybe an institution like SourceForge could provide this as a service!
So realism and gameplay don't necessarily go hand in hand. You have to allow some "cheats", like static enemy placement, which then ruins the value of the application as a training tool.
I think it's fair to say that this is because fundamentally war isn't fun at all. I agree that to create a game it shouldn't be to realistic: nobody who's sane would actually like to be in a war.
It's one of the most precious things of living in Western Europe or the States: the fact that there's been (hardly) any war in our countries for many years. Let's have our thoughts sometimes with the people who are not so lucky, and always realize that the (fun) games we play have nothing to do with the real life in some places.
Of course it is news! MySQL is cool, and for many many Open Source developers it's THE database to use, and 4.0.0 is supposed to bring quite nice new features.
"too much time on their hands" is a comment which has been made for the whole Open Source movement a lot of times. But it's nice to develop software, it's nice to make Open Source and it's nice to read on Slashdot about new versions of tools we use.
Actually my point was that it matters quite a lot which N you use when looking at the top-N, just like you are writing. Using N=10: US is biggest. Using N=5, Europe is biggest.
Statistics...;) Obviously looking at only some place names where hubs are located doesn't give good indications about "internet traffic" -- bandwith, from where to where etc are also important.
The Dutch post organization isn't very high tech, but they did have a nice gimmick: pure silver stamps, see here. It will be the last stamp issued in guilders.
[quote] the top interregional hubs connecting between continents were New York, London, Amsterdam, Paris, SF, Tokyo, Washington DC, Miami, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, in that order. So the Internet is still fairly U.S.-centric... [/quote]
Out of the top 5 interregional hubs 4 are based in West-Europe. So the internet is still fairly Europe-centric...:)
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Well... there are many other ways: for example, just holding our entire hand in the air could mean 242.
It's all a matter of interpretation...
For more than a year now there has been a (beta-phase) phone-number where a voice recognition program tells you the best available train-connection between two cities, at a given time.
It's nice to realize that they've made an attempt to recognize polite customers: words like "please" are ignored.
Integration. I suppose this goes with the first point, but as a web designer it's an important one for me...I want to build payment handling into my PHP-generated web page, not send the user to an external site.
That's all very well... but specifically 'integrated' payment methods you can not really trust. Even if you trust the PSP, who can garantuee it is the PSP, and not the merchant who put a (fake) logo and fill-in boxes in the HTML?
That's exactly why Payment Service Providers want full control over your browser.
The points made in this book (as read in the review) make good sense... but are nother spectacular in my view. Use underlined words for links, use graphics wisely...
There are many websites owners who should definately give this book a try I'd say. But than again, it they don't have the good common sense to use the nice default 'a href' tags but instead try to make thing look fancy with abusing stylesheets and Flash (!), you might think that this is exactly something they don't have...
Well... might not be the nr.1 most useful invention ever, but it certainly looks nice. At least you'll always see 'where your windows are'...
But even it is possible, what kind of world would it start to live in?
It would be alone, unless many other pieces of DNA are recovered
It's natural habitat has dramatically changed -- it's basically not there anymore, would also have to be 're-created'
But the biggest point: we can't even save other 'trivial' species from extinction, as the 'regular' tiger, many many birds, etc. I think it would be more important, for now, to save what we still have.
The fact that CVS is open ... really does make a difference.
I totally agree on that -- in my opinion this is a very important advantage of using CVS. You will be able to control many aspects of the whole developing cycle.
It is for example pretty straight-forward to implement a lock/unlock policy (like SourceSafe does) using a few scripts on the server (they come with the cvs-distribution). Combined with, say WinCVS and a few client-side scripts, you will be able to get a pretty good imitation of the system SourceSafe uses. Might even help you with your binary files, as there won't be any merging anymore (although the database will get pretty big quickly).
Using CVS will give you a very good feeling: on the one hand the freedom to be able to rewrite parts of your clientside software if necessary, on the other hand a very big user-base who already did this, on the gripping hand you'll probably don't need this as the client are really getting better and better (http://www.cvsgui.org, http://www.cvsgui.org/TortoiseCVS/index.html).
Well -- I am afraid there <i>is</i> an answer to your question, but it's not a nice one: management/customer. When the company you work for is sold for example, and the new company decides to do it 'the Microsoft way'. Or a new, big customer demands you to rewrite your existing software using 'Microsoft standards', and you just need the money/can't afford to loose the customer...
These reasons, not convincing as they are for a developer, can be put together under the name 'real world'...
<br>
Of course, we would all love to be working in a open source world, with open standards, competition in implementation, not in standards, but that's (still) a dream we'll have to fight for...
I assume this 10$ discount wouldn't make a huge difference for many people deciding to buy or not buy. However, Microsoft makes a more 'friendly' impression offering a license like this one. I think there are many people who actually don't mind paying for licenses, and they would get a good feeling: 'wow, I just saved 10 dollar!'. So it's a matter of customer friendliness, not so much as anti-piracy policy.
The things the poor Aussies do to get to London :) It must be rather hard living down there.
:)
Only kidding of course. But I think it's a cool academical experiment: put a rocket into space and spend weeks trying to find out whether it actually worked...
Oh yes -- those could old times :) I was first called a 'hacker' when I found out how to break into somebody's password protected filemanager (simple hitting Ctrl-C inside the menu-shell was enough) :))
Maybe I'm ill-informed then, but it looks like there are really only a few certificate roots world-wide. If Thawte is really a sub-division of Versign, this would reduce the number of roots even further. Would be cool if there would be a free -- but trustable -- root as well. Maybe an institution like SourceForge could provide this as a service!
So realism and gameplay don't necessarily go hand in hand. You have to allow some "cheats", like static enemy placement, which then ruins the value of the application as a training tool.
I think it's fair to say that this is because fundamentally war isn't fun at all. I agree that to create a game it shouldn't be to realistic: nobody who's sane would actually like to be in a war.
It's one of the most precious things of living in Western Europe or the States: the fact that there's been (hardly) any war in our countries for many years. Let's have our thoughts sometimes with the people who are not so lucky, and always realize that the (fun) games we play have nothing to do with the real life in some places.
Of course it is news! MySQL is cool, and for many many Open Source developers it's THE database to use, and 4.0.0 is supposed to bring quite nice new features.
"too much time on their hands" is a comment which has been made for the whole Open Source movement a lot of times. But it's nice to develop software, it's nice to make Open Source and it's nice to read on Slashdot about new versions of tools we use.
Actually my point was that it matters quite a lot which N you use when looking at the top-N, just like you are writing. Using N=10: US is biggest. Using N=5, Europe is biggest.
;) Obviously looking at only some place names where hubs are located doesn't give good indications about "internet traffic" -- bandwith, from where to where etc are also important.
Statistics...
The Dutch post organization isn't very high tech, but they did have a nice gimmick: pure silver stamps, see here. It will be the last stamp issued in guilders.
It's 'value' is 12.75 guilders (5.80 euro).
Yes, I know... SF is not in West-Europe. Sorry.
[quote] the top interregional hubs connecting between continents were New York, London, Amsterdam, Paris, SF, Tokyo, Washington DC, Miami, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, in that order. So the Internet is still fairly U.S.-centric... [/quote]
:)
Out of the top 5 interregional hubs 4 are based in West-Europe. So the internet is still fairly Europe-centric...