Yeah, immigration is the one big X factor. In fact, most of Europe and Canada would be shrinking in size towards (eventual) extinction if it weren't for immigration.
Yes, they're running other stuff, too, but PHP as well in a big way.
Not saying that Java's not important, but PHP is probably going to become more prevalent in large websites simply because garage tinkerers often start in PHP, the site becomes big, and they're still on PHP.
I'm also not saying anybody should run banking on PHP (please don't do that), but for serving up webpages? Yeah.
Does anybody have a link for a security cookbook that covers this and other security topics while taking in to account the latest developments re: MD5 and friends, cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and other problems of the web-based app age?
Yeah, don't get me wrong. Even the middle of the pack for various categories of frameworks/libraries are far superior to hand-rolled stuff that we all used back in the day.
The second part of my point is that it might actually be a good idea for larger organizations to actually have one person just devoted to testing new frameworks instead of devs having to guess on the applicability of a package for their company based on the its homepage.
What's funny is some of the pictures in Iran-related coverage seemed to show an LCD with the Windows XP Funskool theme.
The lesson for me from that is even if you emphatically hate a country's (the "Great Satan's") foreign policy, Windows is such a drug that nobody can desist from it.
There are so many CMSs, frameworks, Javascript libraries, DBs (even open source), and other parts of the stack that you could have one person in the company just devoted solely to trying to keep up, and be able to provide advice when a team is considering implementing something or another.
It's hard to think that you'd be using the "best-of-breed" if you don't even know what's available.
1. Works for Slashdot. Basically it depends on whether people feel the site is a community as well as a business.
2. For people who have something to say, and want to say it to a lot of people (millions), free is a good price. Yeah, you're not getting paid, but you're not paying anything either.
Could the Afghanistan war could have been averted simply by giving the Taliban rulers free stuff in exchange for giving up their overstaying guests, OBL's crew?
This. I have the version pinned to 5.0.342.7 beta in Ubuntu. I think that was a good version. They're adding more and more cruft in Chromium (which I haven't pinned), and also taking stuff away which was useful (the Go button, the separate Page and Application menus).
I'm doubtful about the integrated Flash or PDF reader.
AFAIK, all keystrokes in the omnibar are sent to Google. Ever type the first few characters of a popular website into Chrome (on a fresh installation, no import of bookmarks)? Chrome fills in the rest because it's asking Google (pseudocode) SELECT * FROM domains WHERE LEFT_STR(domain,3)='nyt' ORDER BY hits LIMIT 1, thus giving you 'nytimes.com'.
But the thing with brackets is programmers have a huge set of tools created which are based on brackets. For example, pass over a bracket, and the matching bracket gets highlighted. Jedit even shows you the text of the matching line. Highly useful.
You can collapse and expand blocks, as well.
Second gripe: For a language that prides itself of removing superfluous dreck (brackets, semicolons), it's amazing that you have to manually pass along the current object ("self"). Bothersome both for high-school newbs and professional programmers.
Please don't say you can create a macro to automatically insert "self" for all of your functions. Because most editors also have macros for semicolons and brackets as well.
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Amazing. From Internet to transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, education, it seems the US is in a bad way.
Yeah, immigration is the one big X factor. In fact, most of Europe and Canada would be shrinking in size towards (eventual) extinction if it weren't for immigration.
Has anyone thought of putting regen brakes on trains?
It's doubtful the US will ever have a billion people.
Fertility is going down in just about every country.
Once it comes below replacement rate (2.1 or so), the population is going to quickly stop increasing.
The US rate is 2.05.
Speaking of which: is there any reason why they have to buy an entire satellite?
Why not just buy transmission time or couple of transponders on the (or a) satellite?
Sounds like you know a lot about satellites.
Can I ask: When you look at footprint maps, some seem to perfectly cover the borders of various countries (or continents). How do they do that?
Shouldn't footprints be circular in shape?
Well, Facebook and Yahoo. Those are pretty big.
Yes, they're running other stuff, too, but PHP as well in a big way.
Not saying that Java's not important, but PHP is probably going to become more prevalent in large websites simply because garage tinkerers often start in PHP, the site becomes big, and they're still on PHP.
I'm also not saying anybody should run banking on PHP (please don't do that), but for serving up webpages? Yeah.
Does anybody have a link for a security cookbook that covers this and other security topics while taking in to account the latest developments re: MD5 and friends, cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and other problems of the web-based app age?
If you're gaining energy from the wind, the wind's speed is going to decrease by some percent, right?
Has anybody figured out what kind of impact that would have on ocean or other ecosystems?
I guess that would have weather impacts, too.
Yeah, don't get me wrong. Even the middle of the pack for various categories of frameworks/libraries are far superior to hand-rolled stuff that we all used back in the day.
The second part of my point is that it might actually be a good idea for larger organizations to actually have one person just devoted to testing new frameworks instead of devs having to guess on the applicability of a package for their company based on the its homepage.
What's funny is some of the pictures in Iran-related coverage seemed to show an LCD with the Windows XP Funskool theme.
The lesson for me from that is even if you emphatically hate a country's (the "Great Satan's") foreign policy, Windows is such a drug that nobody can desist from it.
There are so many CMSs, frameworks, Javascript libraries, DBs (even open source), and other parts of the stack that you could have one person in the company just devoted solely to trying to keep up, and be able to provide advice when a team is considering implementing something or another.
It's hard to think that you'd be using the "best-of-breed" if you don't even know what's available.
Anybody want to post a quick-fix to avoid turn off AutoRun in Ubuntu?
That brings up the problematic situation that some societies will not have the right to free speech, and will practice FGM on little girls.
And there's nothing that can really to be said against it.
Strangely, even the liberal atmosphere of rights in which the philosophy of rights as constructs emerged itself comes into question.
1. Works for Slashdot. Basically it depends on whether people feel the site is a community as well as a business.
2. For people who have something to say, and want to say it to a lot of people (millions), free is a good price. Yeah, you're not getting paid, but you're not paying anything either.
The reason for all those liberties is that someone, somewhere, sometime, was vigilant in either having them recognized, or conserving them.
So when people talk about kill switches, they're just being vigilant, thereby preserving those liberties.
And if the President isn't going to (or shouldn't) kill the Internet, why bring it up at all (as some Senators did)?
Don't forget Joe Lieberman killed Wikileaks' access to the Internet with just a phone call.
Just when you thought Huff Post couldn't get any worse.
What's funny is that AOLnews actually looks like a professional news site, like Politics Daily. Huffington Post looks like a carnival side show.
Could the Afghanistan war could have been averted simply by giving the Taliban rulers free stuff in exchange for giving up their overstaying guests, OBL's crew?
I think it's not that you're obligated to provide Internet access (though social democracies like in Scandinavia do believe that).
It's more that you can't (or ought not) restrict Internet access (privately paid for).
So are do you argue that there should not be natural rights (I realize your post wasn't normative) since there are no sky fairies?
Or the reverse? There are no rights without sky fairies, therefore we should believe in some or another $DEITY.
Also, since you seem to be Phil major, is the above line of reasoning basically Nietzsche's, or have there been other developments before or after?
Good in a sense, but I guess just having a sat phone will be enough to send you to a dark prison somewhere.
It's nice that the newer generation of sat phones seem to vaguely resemble cell phones, though.
You don't understand.
Old busted == op-ed
LSB new hotness == /opt/ed
This. I have the version pinned to 5.0.342.7 beta in Ubuntu. I think that was a good version. They're adding more and more cruft in Chromium (which I haven't pinned), and also taking stuff away which was useful (the Go button, the separate Page and Application menus).
I'm doubtful about the integrated Flash or PDF reader.
AFAIK, all keystrokes in the omnibar are sent to Google. Ever type the first few characters of a popular website into Chrome (on a fresh installation, no import of bookmarks)? Chrome fills in the rest because it's asking Google (pseudocode) SELECT * FROM domains WHERE LEFT_STR(domain,3)='nyt' ORDER BY hits LIMIT 1, thus giving you 'nytimes.com'.
OK, I suppose.
But the thing with brackets is programmers have a huge set of tools created which are based on brackets. For example, pass over a bracket, and the matching bracket gets highlighted. Jedit even shows you the text of the matching line. Highly useful.
You can collapse and expand blocks, as well.
Second gripe: For a language that prides itself of removing superfluous dreck (brackets, semicolons), it's amazing that you have to manually pass along the current object ("self"). Bothersome both for high-school newbs and professional programmers.
Please don't say you can create a macro to automatically insert "self" for all of your functions. Because most editors also have macros for semicolons and brackets as well.