Erm, "That criminal may be a... an arms trafficker," ?!
Guess who's the largest arms trafficker in the world? Yeah, the US! All facilitated by the Feds.
As for the rest of the rogue's gallery, if you want to argue that preventing those crimes is an absolute value, then you should also be arguing that there be one government "minder" for every citizen.
What, you're merely promoting wiretapping, and not direct government surveillance (minders)? So you're in favor of child molestation?
Well, it might be a slashvertisement, but I was able to learn about a tech stack which might come in handy. Also, is it only a slashvertisement when someone writes an article about a small company vs. a large corp?
This is a tangent, but it's funny to me how what are called the "moderate Arab states" have been the most repressive, either socio-religiously (Saudi Arabia), or politically (Jordan and the Persian Gulf states).
Sadly, a lot of different factors combined to destroy the only multi-cultural democracy in the Middle East: Lebanon.
The problem with Nokia's WP7 plan is that it still ignores the reason for its decline in the US: failing to hook up with carriers. If they sell $500 phones with WP7, US consumers will continue to spurn it preferring to get "free" phones, and pay monthly.
Yeah, it's stupid, but the carriers have forced that situation in the US. But Nokia could have tied up with carriers with any OS.
Are you using content_access anywhere? My experience with ACLs was that it runs like a dog (for popular sites), to the point where totally loads up the (beefy) server.
Talk about stupid. Elop is a dunce, but what of the board?
OK, forget the natural geek anti-MS reaction.
Just think about basic business sense: you don't deprecate your existing platform at the same time you don't have anything at all on your promised future platforms (WP7 and possibly Meego).
Back last autumn, Nokia had promised that it had finally gotten its platform house in order:
-S40 for dirt-cheap phones. No apps anyway, so it doesn't matter for developers. -Symbian for feature phones. -And Meego for advanced phones and devices.
But devs would only have to use one platform (Qt) to target both Symbian and Meego. Oh, and Qt will also run on Win/Mac/Lin. Icing on top.
That's a story. And after all the bungling, it looked like devs and users would forgive Nokia, and give it another shot.
But now, it changes the platform story once again. No stability. No trust. And no reason why users and devs shouldn't abandon Nokia for Android.
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Erm, "That criminal may be a ... an arms trafficker," ?!
Guess who's the largest arms trafficker in the world? Yeah, the US! All facilitated by the Feds.
As for the rest of the rogue's gallery, if you want to argue that preventing those crimes is an absolute value, then you should also be arguing that there be one government "minder" for every citizen.
What, you're merely promoting wiretapping, and not direct government surveillance (minders)? So you're in favor of child molestation?
Is there any point to Disqus other than to slow comments down?
"My Other ./ ID Is 2 Digits."
Well, it might be a slashvertisement, but I was able to learn about a tech stack which might come in handy. Also, is it only a slashvertisement when someone writes an article about a small company vs. a large corp?
No kidding. When will they learn there's no money in moose futures?
This is a tangent, but it's funny to me how what are called the "moderate Arab states" have been the most repressive, either socio-religiously (Saudi Arabia), or politically (Jordan and the Persian Gulf states).
Sadly, a lot of different factors combined to destroy the only multi-cultural democracy in the Middle East: Lebanon.
The problem with Nokia's WP7 plan is that it still ignores the reason for its decline in the US: failing to hook up with carriers. If they sell $500 phones with WP7, US consumers will continue to spurn it preferring to get "free" phones, and pay monthly.
Yeah, it's stupid, but the carriers have forced that situation in the US. But Nokia could have tied up with carriers with any OS.
Well, plan A (Win7) has lost the shareholders 20% of value.
If you're just going to throw up some content with ads for a few $$, you'd be better advised to go with WordPress.
WordPress out of the box is far more featureful than Drupal out-of-box.
Granted, you can add (then configure) a huge bunch of Drupal modules to get the same functionality, but your goal is just adding content, right?
Oh, and WordPress handles both blog entries (chronological content), and pages at a specified URL (like /about, /contact, etc.)
And WP has far more (and nicer) themes (free and paid) than Drupal.
WordPress is better, easier, lighter than Drupal:
Why Drupal Devs Should Fear WordPress
WordPress is Better, Drupal Devs Take Note
>You can *of course* do anything
Well, there's a difference between you *can* do anything, and the ability to do it within time/money/server resources limits.
It's like saying, "Could you program a Visio clone on Linux?" The answer is both yes and no.
Is only Cake's MVC ancient? Or also the other PHP frameworks? Is there a better way of MVC?
And is, say, Symfony, better?
Also, re: UI- you're able to use Smarty or something else for templating in Cake. Is that not sufficient?
Are you using content_access anywhere? My experience with ACLs was that it runs like a dog (for popular sites), to the point where totally loads up the (beefy) server.
Well, I have mod points, and I also browse Slashdot without Javascript (and moderate, too, without problem). Just a data point.
a unique username on every site:
head /dev/urandom | md5sum
Longer posts on Twitter
Text version of Flickr
CSS support in Lynx
Cheap Oracle licensing
And WP7 is not a race to the bottom? Besides, what about apps?
Meego is just amazing how long they've been talking about it, and not delivered. How long does it take to polish up a UI?
Before that, they could have polished up Maemo as a great (and differentiated) smartphone platform.
Just one big blunder after another, even having huge advantages (first mover, most phones sold, free maps, free music).
Great comment.
A century year old company. A national treasure for Finland.
All gutted for the short-term personal gain of a handful of people plus Microsoft.
On to Android.
Preach it, brother.
Talk about stupid. Elop is a dunce, but what of the board?
OK, forget the natural geek anti-MS reaction.
Just think about basic business sense: you don't deprecate your existing platform at the same time you don't have anything at all on your promised future platforms (WP7 and possibly Meego).
>no, they didn't
How I wish you were right.
http://www.google.com/search?q=nokia+drops+free+music
OK, so the excuses are:
-the labels
-consumers didn't show interest
-the dog ate my homework
But basically it just goes all back to lack of follow through, lack of marketing, dropping the ball.
Actually, interestingly, it was afterwards.
At that time I thought that Elop wasn't an MSBot, and actually had a good plan suited to Nokia's history and situation.
I can't find a link at the moment because "Qt Nokia" just brings up the latest developments.
Nokia's also dropped the free music on Ovi, which was a great differentiator.
Anybody have an easy solution for this?
Or even a hacky Linuxy solution?
I know that VLC can record mms streams, but Livestation doesn't seem to expose the mms address.
Download the Livestation desktop app. There are more channels than just the ones shown on the website. Some NY/LA local channels, too.
Livestation's not at critical mass yet, but it's nice for some uses.
Back last autumn, Nokia had promised that it had finally gotten its platform house in order:
-S40 for dirt-cheap phones. No apps anyway, so it doesn't matter for developers.
-Symbian for feature phones.
-And Meego for advanced phones and devices.
But devs would only have to use one platform (Qt) to target both Symbian and Meego. Oh, and Qt will also run on Win/Mac/Lin. Icing on top.
That's a story. And after all the bungling, it looked like devs and users would forgive Nokia, and give it another shot.
But now, it changes the platform story once again. No stability. No trust. And no reason why users and devs shouldn't abandon Nokia for Android.
Suleiman meeting with the protesters ?
Yeah, Centos is useless for websites/webapps.
Does anyone have an informed opinion/anecdotes on Ubuntu Server (not desktop) vs. Debian (of whatever flavor) for websites/webapps ?
LTS vs. the latest?