Oh no, it's not just a name. In an aptly parallel article, we see that the prune folks found this out years ago.
"After some 10 years of falling sales, the dark wrinkly processed fruit best known for its laxative properties is being re-marketed as a vitamin-rich snack for busy people on the go."
After complaining of the burning eyes thing, I was recently diagnosed with "dry eyes" by an opthamologist. Apparently while using a computer, you tend to blink up to 5 times less often. So regardless of the color of your editor, try to blink more.
You can also use a product like this, which works great. The site has more on Dry Eyes.
"freeing us from the tedium" implies that we are now at liberty to use our minds for big and better (or at least different) things - but what are these things, for the average person?. As the article mentions, "the less you use of your memory, the poorer it becomes".
I can accept that relying on your gadgets for this data may not be a bad thing, if someone can enumerate the advances each person can make by not having to remember it.
Until then, I'm of the camp that it's not the import of the data that matters, but rather the act of using your mind to remember it.
I have one machine running XP/Linux dual boot. Linux boots fine, but _every time_ I boot into XP, it will BSOD on bootup, reboot, and if I select XP at that point it boots into the Safe Mode selection screen. I select "normal boot" then it boots up ok.
Also, on a separate machine (a dell which came with XP) I've had it BSOD on me while I was trying to get a wireless network card to work.
Overall, though, I agree that XP is a lot more stable than past releases.
FWIW, I've seen a lot of these "it costs 10x what a tivo costs" posts, and I keep thinking: how many people are actually building a mythtv box from scratch? I'm currently putting together a mythtv system mostly from old parts from various other machines. All I plan to buy is an MPEG encoder card (I'm eyeing the new Hauppauge 150 for $70). Then I'll have an AMD 1.4ghz, 512 ram, 240 gig system mythtv system for $70.
Based on the fairly minimal system requirements to get one up and running, it seems to me a lot of people will be using used parts instead of new.
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PHP is usually run as a apache mod or sometimes, as a cgi. Because of this, it cannot store session state or cache inside of its process (since the process is either apache httpd, or the cgi, which terminates at the end of a page run). To get around this, any session variables get serialized and stored to disk at the end of each run, then un-serialized at the beginning of the request.
If it ever really gets off the ground, this project plans to change that.
As specified on their page, "Our intended customer is someone who uses Phoenix (or another non mozilla.exe browser)". I use Pheonix on both linux and windows. In linux, I use Kmail but in windows, I dread having to use Outlook Express so I'm almost forced to have a copy of Mozilla installed, just to use the mail. And it's always a bummer to wait for that monster to load just to check my mail.
If speedups from Mozilla Mail -> Minotaur are as good as Mozilla -> Phoenix, then I think this is a good thing.
While "the one and true answer" may be seperation of content vs application, that doesn't mean PHP is not a choice as a language.
See the Roadsend PHP SiteManager Project (http://www.roadsend.com/siteManager), an Open Source library that allows just this.
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Geez, and they got it upside-down. How embarrassing.
Oh no, it's not just a name. In an aptly parallel article, we see that the prune folks found this out years ago.
"After some 10 years of falling sales, the dark wrinkly processed fruit best known for its laxative properties is being re-marketed as a vitamin-rich snack for busy people on the go."
Yeah, I think it fits.
After complaining of the burning eyes thing, I was recently diagnosed with "dry eyes" by an opthamologist. Apparently while using a computer, you tend to blink up to 5 times less often. So regardless of the color of your editor, try to blink more.
You can also use a product like this, which works great. The site has more on Dry Eyes.
"freeing us from the tedium" implies that we are now at liberty to use our minds for big and better (or at least different) things - but what are these things, for the average person?. As the article mentions, "the less you use of your memory, the poorer it becomes".
I can accept that relying on your gadgets for this data may not be a bad thing, if someone can enumerate the advances each person can make by not having to remember it.
Until then, I'm of the camp that it's not the import of the data that matters, but rather the act of using your mind to remember it.
I have one machine running XP/Linux dual boot. Linux boots fine, but _every time_ I boot into XP, it will BSOD on bootup, reboot, and if I select XP at that point it boots into the Safe Mode selection screen. I select "normal boot" then it boots up ok.
Also, on a separate machine (a dell which came with XP) I've had it BSOD on me while I was trying to get a wireless network card to work.
Overall, though, I agree that XP is a lot more stable than past releases.
FWIW, I've seen a lot of these "it costs 10x what a tivo costs" posts, and I keep thinking: how many people are actually building a mythtv box from scratch? I'm currently putting together a mythtv system mostly from old parts from various other machines. All I plan to buy is an MPEG encoder card (I'm eyeing the new Hauppauge 150 for $70). Then I'll have an AMD 1.4ghz, 512 ram, 240 gig system mythtv system for $70.
Based on the fairly minimal system requirements to get one up and running, it seems to me a lot of people will be using used parts instead of new.
If it ever really gets off the ground, this project plans to change that.
As specified on their page, "Our intended customer is someone who uses Phoenix (or another non mozilla.exe browser)". I use Pheonix on both linux and windows. In linux, I use Kmail but in windows, I dread having to use Outlook Express so I'm almost forced to have a copy of Mozilla installed, just to use the mail. And it's always a bummer to wait for that monster to load just to check my mail.
If speedups from Mozilla Mail -> Minotaur are as good as Mozilla -> Phoenix, then I think this is a good thing.
While "the one and true answer" may be seperation of content vs application, that doesn't mean PHP is not a choice as a language. See the Roadsend PHP SiteManager Project (http://www.roadsend.com/siteManager), an Open Source library that allows just this.