pornographers will be given even more opportunities to flood our homes, libraries and society with pornography through the.xxx domain.
Wouldn't it be easier to filter if it was all in one TLD? The Family Research Council seems to think.xxx somehow gives porn sites more disk space or something.
I can say confidently that public education in my country sucks.
I know this is a popular sentiment in the media and many/. folks will probably agree, but what makes you so certain that public school is so bad for the average student?
I don't disagree, I'm just wondering what facts this is based on. I've been employing student assistants at a state university for 10 years and they certainly don't seem any less prepared today than they did when I started here. Obviously my experience is not statistically significant, but it makes me wonder.
Despite its title, the book clearly does not tell the reader how to do everything with PHP and MySQL.
Darn marketing double-speak, gets you every time!
One strength that this book has over many similar ones is that the author explains up front how to install PHP and MySQL... This is critical, because many programmers will find that the most challenging aspects of getting started with PHP and MySQL, are simply getting them installed and working
/sigh/ Practically every beginner PHP/MySQL book I've looked at describes installation in some depth. Quite often too much depth for my taste.
When did we all get together and decide that watching TV was a *good* thing?
If you can't afford a D->A converter you really don't need to be spending all your time in front of the television. Go take courses at a community college, read, play with the kids, whatever, just do something worth spending your life on.
I have a pretty nice television which is used entirely for playing video games with my son and viewing DVDs. Give that spectrum (bandwidth!) to someone who will make mobile Internet access more affordable.
The pace of work is so much slower than at a typical job. Makes life a whole lot easier when you're already busting your ass over your studies and class projects.
In general expect less pay, above average benefits, loads of politics, and people coasting through the last few years till retirement. Always over estimate time requirements - unlike in the real world they won't kill a project because it takes forever, they just whine a lot.
8 years of getting paid for hanging out on Slas^h^h^h^hcampus and counting...
With the Tweel's injection-molded spokes, those characteristics are no longer linked - a point of particular excitement to an engineer like Mr. Thompson because of the potential it holds for improving handling response. The spokes can be engineered to give the Tweel five times as much lateral stiffness as current pneumatic tires without any loss of ride comfort.
Obviously they're going to fix things like the open sidewall and the noise issues. Once they get the bugs worked out it should make for cars with higher performance and greater safety.
Too bad it will take forever to reach the consumer market.
While I don't think ICANN does a particularly good job of it, _someone_ needs to manage the namespace. The real question is what sort of structure that entity should have, whether it should be elected routinely, etc.
Other than the number of units currently available - 200,000 - I don't see why people are so hot to get one right away. There are a couple of nice looking racing games but other than that it's a pretty pathetic lineup.
I'm supporting users in a medical environment with Dragon 7. Getting the right microphones made all the difference. We went from an average 96% to 98-99% efficiency just by spending ~$200 on Sennheiser headset microphones and Andrea USB sound pods from these folks.
Not affiliated, just a happy user - thanks for getting the MDs off my back!
My relatively graphics heavy site averages about 3 million hits a month and I pay $100/year for hosting. This guy was clearly trying to get a huge payoff for something he promised to do for free.
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If anyone needs hosting, Lunarpages rocks.
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Well, I have some experience here. My mom ran windows for the last 3 years. She doesn't know computers, but that's what her DELL had on it. She has been it with virii and recently some adware that prominently displayed itself on her desktop.
I think your mother is the exception.
My mother experienced exactly the same thing. I told her about the options - she could have a better OS or she could have a reinstall every year or two. She bought a new Dell and life is good again.
Honestly, I was a little worried that she would pick the Linux option because I knew I would have to support her through the transition. I spent 15 minutes hooking up her new computer and gave her a USB keychain drive to transfer her files over with and haven't gotten a helpdesk call from her since then.
Lest you think my mom is the exceptional one, I work with several dozen well educated, computer literate people who make the same decision every 3 years or so.
This year will see Linux finally crack the lucrative desktop market as more commercial software vendors tool up and cash in on the operating system and kernel developers improve graphical interface integration says cult hero and Linux founder Linus Torvalds.
Yes, Linux is a suitable desktop replacement. I still don't see a significant number of people making the switch. What is the motivation for the average user who has invested time in learning Windows to switch?
Aside from impoverished goverments in third world countries (California anyone?) are the masses going to bother learning something new when what they have tends to meet their needs?
where would all that money that Bush just announced he's giving NASA go?
All that money? Seems to me that the Bush space strategy is going to cost NASA more than he's giving them.
U.S. President George W. Bushs new space exploration strategy will be paid for over the next several years with $1 billion in new funding for NASA and $11 billion that will be shifted from other agency programs, according to congressional sources.
I can't speak to the Mac compatability since I don't have any, but getting LaCie external drives to work on PCs is an exercise in frustration.
My shop picked up one of their external firewire tape drives for backing up a win2k server. Spent a couple days trying to get it to work with any of several backup software packages. Called them and was told that it's only supported with one backup program on Win2k.
Swapped it (they wouldn't refund our money) for an external firewire DVD burner. The DVD burner works most of the time but it's extremely slow and the system (we've tried it on several) occasionally decides it doesn't exist.
Slashdot Mirror
Recently a guy (sup blairerickson) on a forum I frequent
sup blairerickson, gonna hose your server now...
Nice pics while they lasted!
pornographers will be given even more opportunities to flood our homes, libraries and society with pornography through the .xxx domain.
.xxx somehow gives porn sites more disk space or something.
Wouldn't it be easier to filter if it was all in one TLD? The Family Research Council seems to think
Why exactly would a space station in orbit about Jupiter have increased gravity?
Sorry, I just had to ask...
I can say confidently that public education in my country sucks.
/. folks will probably agree, but what makes you so certain that public school is so bad for the average student?
I know this is a popular sentiment in the media and many
I don't disagree, I'm just wondering what facts this is based on. I've been employing student assistants at a state university for 10 years and they certainly don't seem any less prepared today than they did when I started here. Obviously my experience is not statistically significant, but it makes me wonder.
Despite its title, the book clearly does not tell the reader how to do everything with PHP and MySQL.
... This is critical, because many programmers will find that the most challenging aspects of getting started with PHP and MySQL, are simply getting them installed and working
/sigh/ Practically every beginner PHP/MySQL book I've looked at describes installation in some depth. Quite often too much depth for my taste.
Darn marketing double-speak, gets you every time!
One strength that this book has over many similar ones is that the author explains up front how to install PHP and MySQL
When did we all get together and decide that watching TV was a *good* thing?
If you can't afford a D->A converter you really don't need to be spending all your time in front of the television. Go take courses at a community college, read, play with the kids, whatever, just do something worth spending your life on.
I have a pretty nice television which is used entirely for playing video games with my son and viewing DVDs. Give that spectrum (bandwidth!) to someone who will make mobile Internet access more affordable.
The pace of work is so much slower than at a typical job. Makes life a whole lot easier when you're already busting your ass over your studies and class projects.
In general expect less pay, above average benefits, loads of politics, and people coasting through the last few years till retirement. Always over estimate time requirements - unlike in the real world they won't kill a project because it takes forever, they just whine a lot.
8 years of getting paid for hanging out on Slas^h^h^h^hcampus and counting...
Obviously they're going to fix things like the open sidewall and the noise issues. Once they get the bugs worked out it should make for cars with higher performance and greater safety.
Too bad it will take forever to reach the consumer market.
I had to rt-click->view image before they would show. Hotlinking issue of some sort?
Someone mod parent up - I have no points...
While I don't think ICANN does a particularly good job of it, _someone_ needs to manage the namespace. The real question is what sort of structure that entity should have, whether it should be elected routinely, etc.
Other than the number of units currently available - 200,000 - I don't see why people are so hot to get one right away. There are a couple of nice looking racing games but other than that it's a pretty pathetic lineup.
I'm supporting users in a medical environment with Dragon 7. Getting the right microphones made all the difference. We went from an average 96% to 98-99% efficiency just by spending ~$200 on Sennheiser headset microphones and Andrea USB sound pods from these folks.
Not affiliated, just a happy user - thanks for getting the MDs off my back!
My relatively graphics heavy site averages about 3 million hits a month and I pay $100/year for hosting. This guy was clearly trying to get a huge payoff for something he promised to do for free.
[plug]
If anyone needs hosting, Lunarpages rocks.
[/plug]
Well, I have some experience here. My mom ran windows for the last 3 years. She doesn't know computers, but that's what her DELL had on it. She has been it with virii and recently some adware that prominently displayed itself on her desktop.
I think your mother is the exception.
My mother experienced exactly the same thing. I told her about the options - she could have a better OS or she could have a reinstall every year or two. She bought a new Dell and life is good again.
Honestly, I was a little worried that she would pick the Linux option because I knew I would have to support her through the transition. I spent 15 minutes hooking up her new computer and gave her a USB keychain drive to transfer her files over with and haven't gotten a helpdesk call from her since then.
Lest you think my mom is the exceptional one, I work with several dozen well educated, computer literate people who make the same decision every 3 years or so.
This year will see Linux finally crack the lucrative desktop market as more commercial software vendors tool up and cash in on the operating system and kernel developers improve graphical interface integration says cult hero and Linux founder Linus Torvalds.
Yes, Linux is a suitable desktop replacement. I still don't see a significant number of people making the switch. What is the motivation for the average user who has invested time in learning Windows to switch?
Aside from impoverished goverments in third world countries (California anyone?) are the masses going to bother learning something new when what they have tends to meet their needs?
where would all that money that Bush just announced he's giving NASA go?
All that money? Seems to me that the Bush space strategy is going to cost NASA more than he's giving them.
U.S. President George W. Bushs new space exploration strategy will be paid for over the next several years with $1 billion in new funding for NASA and $11 billion that will be shifted from other agency programs, according to congressional sources.
I can't speak to the Mac compatability since I don't have any, but getting LaCie external drives to work on PCs is an exercise in frustration.
My shop picked up one of their external firewire tape drives for backing up a win2k server. Spent a couple days trying to get it to work with any of several backup software packages. Called them and was told that it's only supported with one backup program on Win2k.
Swapped it (they wouldn't refund our money) for an external firewire DVD burner. The DVD burner works most of the time but it's extremely slow and the system (we've tried it on several) occasionally decides it doesn't exist.
With some of the Nerf gun modifications on NerfHaven that's not too unlikely.
Some users have reported problems getting Nerf guns onto airplanes.