Because we're taking about a 128-character character set here, where are you planning on storing your tokens, and what characters are you going to remove from the character set? Is it worth it to have the word "and" take up 1 character if you lose a punctuation mark?
Obviously, it would also not be backward compatible with older phones.
Given the explosive growth of uploading videos and people watching them, what other new understandings and popular misconceptions will be proven or disproved due to this emerging media?
I'm not exactly sure what your point is, but keep in mind that millions of people also use Windows servers. While Netcraft confirms that Apache is the most popular server (which is not to say that all Apache servers are running Linux), it does report that there are over 67 million Microsoft-based servers out there.
Devices like the G1 from T-mobile and Nokia internet tablets, which are not bought for having Linux, but rather for the functionality they provide, should probably not be listed under Linux.
That's probably exactly why they aren't listed under Linux. Android is right behind Java ME.
Windows 87.90%
Mac 9.73%
Linux 1.02%
iPhone 0.55%
iPod Touch 0.15%
Java ME 0.07%
Android 0.07%
Symbian 0.06%
Windows Mobile 0.05%
Playstation 0.05%
BlackBerry 0.03%
FreeBSD 0.02%
Palm 0.02%
Nintendo Wii 0.01%
SunOS 0.01%
BREW 0.00%
OpenBSD 0.00%
OpenVMS 0.00%
HP-UX 0.00%
SCO 0.00%
SCP 0.00%
AIX 0.00%
NetBSD 0.00%
Web TV 0.00%
Nintendo DS 0.00%
Have they corrected for the fact that Linux users are more likely to be able to use a variety of ad blocking and filtering tools, and thus may not be showing up in their statistics?
How exactly do you think they should correct for that? Just give Linux more market share?
How many studies have come out that estimate the percentage of Linux users who mask their identity while browsing? It's been my experience that people using Linux want to advertise that fact wherever they can, including user agent strings. If they are solely depending on advertising for this then that's one issue (they would be measuring the usage share among users who view ads), but it would make a lot more sense to use a non-advertisting network, like they allude to in their "About Our Market Share Statistics" summary.
We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of live stats customers. The data is compiled from approximately 160 million visitors per month. The information published is an aggregate of the data from this network of hosted website statistics.
That sounds like they have customers using their analytics software, and they collect information from them. They probably also collect information from their survey software. In fact, I don't see much of advertising services at all. One of the data points they collect is search engine referrals, they can't get that data if they only track requests that are made for ads. A request for an ad served up on a page does not include information about the search terms that were used to reach the parent page.
If C, K, or F matters, then that info would be part of the variable name.
outsideTempC
outsideTempF
outsideTempK
It still comes down to choosing good, descriptive variable names, regardless of whether it's an unsigned int or a null-terminated string.
Good Hungarian notation does exactly that, actually. Check out Apps Hungarian, which encodes the semantic type of the data, rather than the language-level data type.
Good variable naming doesn't require anything extra. A variable name of "outsideTemp" does not require any other information to know what the purpose is. If it's a string, then cast it to an integer before you use it if you need to. You don't need an "unsafe" variable and a "safe" variable, or an integer version and a string version, assuming the language allows for a variable to be redefined.
Just because the major version number changed doesn't automatically mean this isn't a critical update. Most Windows users will only install IE8 because it's marked as critical, not because they have any clue about what's going on.
This is about Microsoft abusing the concept of "critical" to further their own agenda
While I would agree with that for applications like Outlook or WMP, I do not agree that pushing users to upgrade from IE6 or IE7 is simply to further Microsoft's agenda. I see it more as them being embarrassed about the lack of security in previous versions and want to get people to use a better version. Saying they're only doing this to further their own agenda is misinformed. In fact, I would even go further to agree with Microsoft that upgrading from IE6 or IE7 to IE8 *is* critical. They issue "critical" patches for IE all the time, this is really no different. This contains critical architecture improvements, in addition to whatever features they want to throw in (the features aren't the critical part, the security is). Just because the major version number changed doesn't automatically mean this isn't a critical update.
I want the IE6 usage numbers to fall as quickly as possible, regardless of whether or not people knew enough to install IE8 themselves. Most Windows users will only install IE8 because it's marked as critical, not because they have any clue about what's going on.
On a side point, isn't IE8 still in beta? Or have they upgraded it to RC
It's been Final for quite some time. Which doesn't help your credibility much.
In that case, you might be surprised by the speed of IE8. Look up some benchmarks. Seems to be a little difficult to find non-beta benchmarks, but take this for what it's worth.
Anyway, I don't use IE6 for the same reason I don't use Opera 7 and Firefox 1. If speed is your concern, and you're using IE6, you've chosen the single worst performing browser in common use today.
Your own personal prejudices aside, IE8 is also critical to me. I'm a web developer, I want as many people to stop using previous versions of IE as possible. You might see a corporate conspiracy, but I've been waiting for this day for a long time.
Why IE6 though? I can understand needing to use IE for some sites, there are just some poorly-written sites out there that require it, but why version 6? IE6 is, what, 8 years old at this point? Are you still using Firefox 1? Because Firefox 1 is about 3 years younger than IE6 is.
I'm like you, I use Opera almost exclusively for normal browsing, and I use Firefox and Chrome extensively for development tasks. I do have IE8 loaded though, version 8 is simply in another league from all other versions of IE (even though it still lags the other majors - which should tell you something about IE6).
I just don't see a need to ever use IE6 for anything, when you have a choice. If you can install and use IE8 instead, do it, you won't regret it. In addition to the features that "normal" people would use, the IE8 developer tools are years ahead of anything available for IE7 (which might be expected, although not necessarily from Microsoft).
No one's asking you to place unconditional trust in a politician, that's a strawman argument. Recalls and impeachments are there for a reason. I don't know what you studied growing up, but the party system is *not* in place to protect the public from anything. The party system exists to allow one candidate to ride on the coattails of his previous "colleague". If you think the party system is there for your protection, then you're a lot more naive then you claim. Whether you like it or not, when you vote for a politician you *do* place trust in that person, if you think they violated your trust then you can move to have them replaced. A politician is under no obligation at all to vote along party lines. If that's the way it was supposed to be, then we would have 2 people running the government, and you vote for whichever side matches your beliefs the closest. The entire notion that the political beliefs of 300 million people can be split into one of two categories is completely ridiculous. People don't vote for someone like Ron Paul because they like what the Republican party is doing, it's because they like what Ron Paul is doing. That's the way it should be, vote for a specific person because you like what that specific person is doing, not because of what color tie they show up wearing. If a politician like Specter changes parties and does *not* get replaced, then that should tell you something about the people who voted him in.
Oh, and the reason that members of the "Independent" party, or any other non-mainstream party, do not get elected is because the entirety of media coverage before an election is split between 2 parties. Everything is red vs. blue. How many candidates ran in the last presidential election? No less than 5. How many debates did you see televised that included more than 2 candidates?
If you want a really fast free database that supports fulltext indexing, and you don't need transactions, MyISAM in the engine to use.
That's exactly what I thought for a while. Then I built a system where many, many people were using it all at once and figured out that MyISAM has another "feature" that InnoDB doesn't: full table locking. It locks an entire table when running queries on it. When I've got a table that holds 400k records for a total of 90k users, and many of them are trying to access or update at the same time, MyISAM's table locking is a deal-breaker. InnoDB implements row-level locking instead. MyISAM is great for smaller hobbyist things, but it's terrible for concurrent access on large data sets. I would open the process list in phpMyAdmin and see 30 or 40 queries in the queue waiting for one to finish. So if your data set is small enough that MyISAM can handle it, then it's also going to be small enough for InnoDB to operate on it quickly, at least as quickly as MyISAM. I don't see any reason to use MyISAM when InnoDB is an option.
I'm not trying to get into the politics of which engine is better to use, but InnoDB walks all over MyISAM in the real-world performance area, unless you're building yourself a shopping list or something similar.
It's not a question of who owns it, it's obvious that Sun owns it. They bought it, they own it. That's not the issue. The issue is that the license that it's distributed under allows anyone to use and modify it, it doesn't matter who owns it. Sun owns it, everyone else can use and modify it, what's the question?
What? So we're only interested in protecting remote machines now? Don't bother protecting machines that someone might have physical access to, because if you can use the keyboard, there's absolutely no security involved whatsoever.
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Because we're taking about a 128-character character set here, where are you planning on storing your tokens, and what characters are you going to remove from the character set? Is it worth it to have the word "and" take up 1 character if you lose a punctuation mark?
Obviously, it would also not be backward compatible with older phones.
displaying ads is a perfectly acceptable revenue model.
Acceptable to who, the people making the revenue?
Given the explosive growth of uploading videos and people watching them, what other new understandings and popular misconceptions will be proven or disproved due to this emerging media?
.. they want their "emerging media" back.
On the left, go for Operating Systems (not the trend), or click a specific month to see the totals for that month.
I'm not exactly sure what your point is, but keep in mind that millions of people also use Windows servers. While Netcraft confirms that Apache is the most popular server (which is not to say that all Apache servers are running Linux), it does report that there are over 67 million Microsoft-based servers out there.
Devices like the G1 from T-mobile and Nokia internet tablets, which are not bought for having Linux, but rather for the functionality they provide, should probably not be listed under Linux.
That's probably exactly why they aren't listed under Linux. Android is right behind Java ME.
Windows 87.90%
Mac 9.73%
Linux 1.02%
iPhone 0.55%
iPod Touch 0.15%
Java ME 0.07%
Android 0.07%
Symbian 0.06%
Windows Mobile 0.05%
Playstation 0.05%
BlackBerry 0.03%
FreeBSD 0.02%
Palm 0.02%
Nintendo Wii 0.01%
SunOS 0.01%
BREW 0.00%
OpenBSD 0.00%
OpenVMS 0.00%
HP-UX 0.00%
SCO 0.00%
SCP 0.00%
AIX 0.00%
NetBSD 0.00%
Web TV 0.00%
Nintendo DS 0.00%
Have they corrected for the fact that Linux users are more likely to be able to use a variety of ad blocking and filtering tools, and thus may not be showing up in their statistics?
How exactly do you think they should correct for that? Just give Linux more market share?
How many studies have come out that estimate the percentage of Linux users who mask their identity while browsing? It's been my experience that people using Linux want to advertise that fact wherever they can, including user agent strings. If they are solely depending on advertising for this then that's one issue (they would be measuring the usage share among users who view ads), but it would make a lot more sense to use a non-advertisting network, like they allude to in their "About Our Market Share Statistics" summary.
We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of live stats customers. The data is compiled from approximately 160 million visitors per month. The information published is an aggregate of the data from this network of hosted website statistics.
That sounds like they have customers using their analytics software, and they collect information from them. They probably also collect information from their survey software. In fact, I don't see much of advertising services at all. One of the data points they collect is search engine referrals, they can't get that data if they only track requests that are made for ads. A request for an ad served up on a page does not include information about the search terms that were used to reach the parent page.
C, K or F? Hope it's obvious everywhere!
If C, K, or F matters, then that info would be part of the variable name. outsideTempC outsideTempF outsideTempK It still comes down to choosing good, descriptive variable names, regardless of whether it's an unsigned int or a null-terminated string.
Good Hungarian notation does exactly that, actually. Check out Apps Hungarian, which encodes the semantic type of the data, rather than the language-level data type.
Good variable naming doesn't require anything extra. A variable name of "outsideTemp" does not require any other information to know what the purpose is. If it's a string, then cast it to an integer before you use it if you need to. You don't need an "unsafe" variable and a "safe" variable, or an integer version and a string version, assuming the language allows for a variable to be redefined.
Just because the major version number changed doesn't automatically mean this isn't a critical update. Most Windows users will only install IE8 because it's marked as critical, not because they have any clue about what's going on.
This is about Microsoft abusing the concept of "critical" to further their own agenda
While I would agree with that for applications like Outlook or WMP, I do not agree that pushing users to upgrade from IE6 or IE7 is simply to further Microsoft's agenda. I see it more as them being embarrassed about the lack of security in previous versions and want to get people to use a better version. Saying they're only doing this to further their own agenda is misinformed. In fact, I would even go further to agree with Microsoft that upgrading from IE6 or IE7 to IE8 *is* critical. They issue "critical" patches for IE all the time, this is really no different. This contains critical architecture improvements, in addition to whatever features they want to throw in (the features aren't the critical part, the security is). Just because the major version number changed doesn't automatically mean this isn't a critical update.
I want the IE6 usage numbers to fall as quickly as possible, regardless of whether or not people knew enough to install IE8 themselves. Most Windows users will only install IE8 because it's marked as critical, not because they have any clue about what's going on.
On a side point, isn't IE8 still in beta? Or have they upgraded it to RC
It's been Final for quite some time. Which doesn't help your credibility much.
In that case, you might be surprised by the speed of IE8. Look up some benchmarks. Seems to be a little difficult to find non-beta benchmarks, but take this for what it's worth.
Anyway, I don't use IE6 for the same reason I don't use Opera 7 and Firefox 1. If speed is your concern, and you're using IE6, you've chosen the single worst performing browser in common use today.
Your own personal prejudices aside, IE8 is also critical to me. I'm a web developer, I want as many people to stop using previous versions of IE as possible. You might see a corporate conspiracy, but I've been waiting for this day for a long time.
Why IE6 though? I can understand needing to use IE for some sites, there are just some poorly-written sites out there that require it, but why version 6? IE6 is, what, 8 years old at this point? Are you still using Firefox 1? Because Firefox 1 is about 3 years younger than IE6 is.
I'm like you, I use Opera almost exclusively for normal browsing, and I use Firefox and Chrome extensively for development tasks. I do have IE8 loaded though, version 8 is simply in another league from all other versions of IE (even though it still lags the other majors - which should tell you something about IE6).
I just don't see a need to ever use IE6 for anything, when you have a choice. If you can install and use IE8 instead, do it, you won't regret it. In addition to the features that "normal" people would use, the IE8 developer tools are years ahead of anything available for IE7 (which might be expected, although not necessarily from Microsoft).
No one's asking you to place unconditional trust in a politician, that's a strawman argument. Recalls and impeachments are there for a reason. I don't know what you studied growing up, but the party system is *not* in place to protect the public from anything. The party system exists to allow one candidate to ride on the coattails of his previous "colleague". If you think the party system is there for your protection, then you're a lot more naive then you claim. Whether you like it or not, when you vote for a politician you *do* place trust in that person, if you think they violated your trust then you can move to have them replaced. A politician is under no obligation at all to vote along party lines. If that's the way it was supposed to be, then we would have 2 people running the government, and you vote for whichever side matches your beliefs the closest. The entire notion that the political beliefs of 300 million people can be split into one of two categories is completely ridiculous. People don't vote for someone like Ron Paul because they like what the Republican party is doing, it's because they like what Ron Paul is doing. That's the way it should be, vote for a specific person because you like what that specific person is doing, not because of what color tie they show up wearing. If a politician like Specter changes parties and does *not* get replaced, then that should tell you something about the people who voted him in.
Oh, and the reason that members of the "Independent" party, or any other non-mainstream party, do not get elected is because the entirety of media coverage before an election is split between 2 parties. Everything is red vs. blue. How many candidates ran in the last presidential election? No less than 5. How many debates did you see televised that included more than 2 candidates?
If you want a really fast free database that supports fulltext indexing, and you don't need transactions, MyISAM in the engine to use.
That's exactly what I thought for a while. Then I built a system where many, many people were using it all at once and figured out that MyISAM has another "feature" that InnoDB doesn't: full table locking. It locks an entire table when running queries on it. When I've got a table that holds 400k records for a total of 90k users, and many of them are trying to access or update at the same time, MyISAM's table locking is a deal-breaker. InnoDB implements row-level locking instead. MyISAM is great for smaller hobbyist things, but it's terrible for concurrent access on large data sets. I would open the process list in phpMyAdmin and see 30 or 40 queries in the queue waiting for one to finish. So if your data set is small enough that MyISAM can handle it, then it's also going to be small enough for InnoDB to operate on it quickly, at least as quickly as MyISAM. I don't see any reason to use MyISAM when InnoDB is an option. I'm not trying to get into the politics of which engine is better to use, but InnoDB walks all over MyISAM in the real-world performance area, unless you're building yourself a shopping list or something similar.
It's not a question of who owns it, it's obvious that Sun owns it. They bought it, they own it. That's not the issue. The issue is that the license that it's distributed under allows anyone to use and modify it, it doesn't matter who owns it. Sun owns it, everyone else can use and modify it, what's the question?
What? So we're only interested in protecting remote machines now? Don't bother protecting machines that someone might have physical access to, because if you can use the keyboard, there's absolutely no security involved whatsoever.
That's a good question, I'm not sure I've got an answer to that. I guess I can immediately go around telling people they must be new here.
And apparently I'm posting anonymously again. I'm not sure how that happened, it says I'm still logged in. Anyway...
Now you've done it, Ray. After years and years of lurking around, I've finally decided on an appropriate username.