As with all economics related to energy, we're not factoring any of the environmental costs in. So a hybrid might cost more, or it might be saving thousands of dollars. Without factoring in things like pollution, and destructive weather caused by climate change it's really hard to know.
Exactly, this is in fact your government being MORE efficient. I'm betting that the power to run Google maps was a lot cheaper than it would cost to power a truck driving around town.
Bravo to this city government for saving the tax payers money!
You'd think that there would be massive caveats around an op-ed like this from a paper that did a series on the Pentagon Papers. While the NYT did most of the main work, the Post had their own series too.
Then again, conservatives have shown a sever aversion to both history and consistency.
But can you prove it would be drastic? Because until you have "convincing evidence" based on a valid experiment that cap and trade would be drastic, I won't believe it.
This isn't an issue of Fox News paying more for their servers. That's a fair way to improve infrastructure.
The fear is that without Net Neutrality there will be pay-for-play. Let's use something less politically involved so that it's easier to look at the real issue. MySpace has lost a lot of market share to Facebook, so they decide to pay AT&T 'x' amount to make sure that Facebook doesn't load well for their users. Perhaps they block a style sheet so the site becomes visually unusable. It's basically an ISP protection racket.
There's a substantial difference between fair (upgrading servers, buying more bandwidth, etc.), and unfair (paying to cripple competition).
And remember you shouldn't get up in the politics of whether you like Fox News or not. If you happen to like Fox News just imagine MSNBC does this to Fox on your internet connection.
Well they believe Obama is a socialist, that ACORN is primarily an institution for providing tax advice to pimps, and that lowering taxes increases tax revenue no matter how low the taxes go.
I'm surprised they didn't say to choose Ubuntu if you wanted to be compatible with Windows pre-7 and Macs. Windows 7 is pretty much only compatible with Windows 7. Open Office has better compatibility with Office than the latest Office. Wine has better compatibility with old Windows programs in many cases than Windows 7. And Ubuntu has better hardware compatibility than Windows 7.
But Windows 7 is the most compatible with Windows 7. So they've got that right.
Right, but that's only if I'm exposing the hash, correct? My implementation takes the password, encodes it on the server and does a db lookup. The actual md5 hash is not reported to the user or stored in a cookie.
But the problem isn't success/failure. It's differences of timing in failure, that tell how successful you were. It's basically like that old game of mastermind, but rather than colored pegs you're getting different times for your failure message.
I hate this kind of announcement because it usually ends up that they found a hack in a revesion Bozo's poorly constructed library from 5 years ago, but I like this kind of announcement because it makes me consider my security.
I'm using a PHP OpenID library that's using md5 for comparison in the database. I don't really see how that would be feasible, since even if you were cycling through characters you need all characters to make the hash which mysql is making its string comparison based on.
Actually, I've never worked as a developer at a company with over 250 employees, so I do generally get to choose the criteria. If the criteria has to be something an HR person can screen for, I'd ask for the candidate to point at a software project they created from scratch, and if they don't have one to submit one.
I'd be pretty dubious of a PHP programmer with a cert. You probably just want to know if they can think. To that end programming exercises are good. Just give them a fairly simple task and 2 hours or so. For LAMP, I'd probably just ask them to build a simple CRUD contact management app. Just ask for FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME, and EMAIL. Allow them to install tools they need.
This tests that they can:
1) Create a table 2) Create a web page 3) Know the proper times to GET and POST 4) Know SQL syntax and how to used prepared statements for SQL injection attacks 5) Filter their variables
And bonus points for:
1) Install PEAR or other 3rd party libraries for database abstraction, templating, etc. 2) Write unit tests. 3) Use Ajax properly for all operations.
Exactly. If you're really into gold it's probably a good sign you've never visited a part of the world with a thriving black market. Money is money because people accept it. It doesn't matter how much you believe gold will save you in an apocalypse, if in the apocalypse everyone decides to keep using USD because it's easier to transport and people accept it.
Yeah, when I was a kid. But if I'd had Super Mario Bros. I probably wouldn't have. They're perhaps a little too far to the other end of the spectrum. It was less frustrating to plan out my own Infocom game (that I never built) than to play one.
Video Games and TV are the same. Video Games may require more creativity than TV, but it's substantially less than anything else. I'm a programmer by trade and I program and write plays in my free time. Video Games are a more active vegging than watching TV, but they're still something I do when I've burned out my creative capacity for the night, not something that uses that capacity.
I've used Windows development tools. They are the most advanced tools for writing Windows software. I write software that's consumed by Windows users, but not Window software. There's no reason for me to write Windows software now. Windows software takes out 15-20% of my market (and if we're talking about more tech savvy users or mobile users or certain cities it can be even more).
I have embedded Linux hardware boxes that speak to Linux web servers that can serve modern web standards to any browser that degrades nicely. I can clone my virtual linux instances to add more capacity for handling requests. I know you can do these things with Windows, but they were late to market with them, and they cost a lot, and frankly why bother learning that? Windows hosting is more expensive and harder to find, it's not worth the effort.
I don't want tech that works on Windows. I want tech that resides on a server somewhere and has a Windows, and Mac, and Linux client so that no matter what computer I'm on I have access to my data. So yeah, I might use a Microsoft development product to write a Windows client for my product that runs anywhere. But I'm not going to restrict myself to only Windows users.
IE9 is 2-4 years behind. Windows Mobile is 2-4 years behind. It's the platforms that are behind. So even if the tools are up to date for the platform, they're still targeting platforms that are behind, and thus are behind.
Why don't you go look at BestBuy or Amazon's Windows software collection and come back to me. I saw 324 Windows software packages on BestBuy.com, many of which are duplicates like Quicken 2010 Cost More Edition and Windows 7 Incompatible Edition.
Compare that to 200,000+ apps in Apple's store and 10,000+ in Android's app store. You can also look at the number of games available for Wii, 360, and PS3. Just because Windows is the biggest install base doesn't mean it's the biggest seller for applications anymore. And considering the number of Windows users who use Chrome or Firefox. Windows/IE isn't even a given anymore.
"HTML5? Who gives a crap about HTML5 at this point for anything other than video streaming?"
People writing webapps targeting Android, iPhones, iPod touch, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. I've been programming using HTML5 constructs such as the database layer, offline caching, and CSS 3 support for years as have a lot of other people.
Sure, but why would I want to use Windows Phone or IE9 when I can use an iPhone, Android Device, Chromium or Firefox today? Back to my original comment. They are too slow. Firefox 4 is coming out and they haven't released a competitor to Firefox 3.
Shouldn't there be a statute of limitations? This is possibly one of the globally best known Australian songs of all time. The riff is completely obvious, and it's taken them 20 years to get around to suing?
Well, I'm glad you're happy with it. I guess all I was trying to point out was that the future wasn't Windows. Sure there'll still be a large market for desktop apps, but it's not where users and the industry are going. I think ultimately most developers aren't interested in investing time and energy in learning technologies that aren't related to where the industry is going. That's where my original COBOL analogy came in. There are still tons of servers running COBOL. There's still tons of money to be made in that space. But if you asked on Slashdot why the cool kids weren't learning COBOL these days, people would point and laugh. Microsoft tech is the new COBOL. It's the past.
I'll admit that I don't use.Net that much, but how exactly could they be more advanced than their competition if they're targeting a browser that's 4 years behind the competition?
I'm sure they're the most advanced for Windows programming. But, I haven't written code targeting Windows for years, and I don't know any programmers doing so. Fewer and fewer businesses are interested in paying a lot of money for tools that lock them into not being able to deliver a product to 15-20% of the market.
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As with all economics related to energy, we're not factoring any of the environmental costs in. So a hybrid might cost more, or it might be saving thousands of dollars. Without factoring in things like pollution, and destructive weather caused by climate change it's really hard to know.
Exactly, this is in fact your government being MORE efficient. I'm betting that the power to run Google maps was a lot cheaper than it would cost to power a truck driving around town.
Bravo to this city government for saving the tax payers money!
You'd think that there would be massive caveats around an op-ed like this from a paper that did a series on the Pentagon Papers. While the NYT did most of the main work, the Post had their own series too.
Then again, conservatives have shown a sever aversion to both history and consistency.
But can you prove it would be drastic? Because until you have "convincing evidence" based on a valid experiment that cap and trade would be drastic, I won't believe it.
This isn't an issue of Fox News paying more for their servers. That's a fair way to improve infrastructure.
The fear is that without Net Neutrality there will be pay-for-play. Let's use something less politically involved so that it's easier to look at the real issue. MySpace has lost a lot of market share to Facebook, so they decide to pay AT&T 'x' amount to make sure that Facebook doesn't load well for their users. Perhaps they block a style sheet so the site becomes visually unusable. It's basically an ISP protection racket.
There's a substantial difference between fair (upgrading servers, buying more bandwidth, etc.), and unfair (paying to cripple competition).
And remember you shouldn't get up in the politics of whether you like Fox News or not. If you happen to like Fox News just imagine MSNBC does this to Fox on your internet connection.
Well they believe Obama is a socialist, that ACORN is primarily an institution for providing tax advice to pimps, and that lowering taxes increases tax revenue no matter how low the taxes go.
So yes. Yes I do.
I'm surprised they didn't say to choose Ubuntu if you wanted to be compatible with Windows pre-7 and Macs. Windows 7 is pretty much only compatible with Windows 7. Open Office has better compatibility with Office than the latest Office. Wine has better compatibility with old Windows programs in many cases than Windows 7. And Ubuntu has better hardware compatibility than Windows 7.
But Windows 7 is the most compatible with Windows 7. So they've got that right.
Right, but that's only if I'm exposing the hash, correct? My implementation takes the password, encodes it on the server and does a db lookup. The actual md5 hash is not reported to the user or stored in a cookie.
But the problem isn't success/failure. It's differences of timing in failure, that tell how successful you were. It's basically like that old game of mastermind, but rather than colored pegs you're getting different times for your failure message.
But in that case the user is supplying the hash, right?
I hate this kind of announcement because it usually ends up that they found a hack in a revesion Bozo's poorly constructed library from 5 years ago, but I like this kind of announcement because it makes me consider my security.
I'm using a PHP OpenID library that's using md5 for comparison in the database. I don't really see how that would be feasible, since even if you were cycling through characters you need all characters to make the hash which mysql is making its string comparison based on.
Or am I missing something?
Actually, I've never worked as a developer at a company with over 250 employees, so I do generally get to choose the criteria. If the criteria has to be something an HR person can screen for, I'd ask for the candidate to point at a software project they created from scratch, and if they don't have one to submit one.
I'd be pretty dubious of a PHP programmer with a cert. You probably just want to know if they can think. To that end programming exercises are good. Just give them a fairly simple task and 2 hours or so. For LAMP, I'd probably just ask them to build a simple CRUD contact management app. Just ask for FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME, and EMAIL. Allow them to install tools they need.
This tests that they can:
1) Create a table
2) Create a web page
3) Know the proper times to GET and POST
4) Know SQL syntax and how to used prepared statements for SQL injection attacks
5) Filter their variables
And bonus points for:
1) Install PEAR or other 3rd party libraries for database abstraction, templating, etc.
2) Write unit tests.
3) Use Ajax properly for all operations.
Exactly. If you're really into gold it's probably a good sign you've never visited a part of the world with a thriving black market. Money is money because people accept it. It doesn't matter how much you believe gold will save you in an apocalypse, if in the apocalypse everyone decides to keep using USD because it's easier to transport and people accept it.
Yeah, when I was a kid. But if I'd had Super Mario Bros. I probably wouldn't have. They're perhaps a little too far to the other end of the spectrum. It was less frustrating to plan out my own Infocom game (that I never built) than to play one.
Really? Because I find even foreign art house movies which may require total attention and thought, don't rival a creative endeavor in the least.
What is something on TV or in a video game you would categorize as requiring actual creative work to follow?
Video Games and TV are the same. Video Games may require more creativity than TV, but it's substantially less than anything else. I'm a programmer by trade and I program and write plays in my free time. Video Games are a more active vegging than watching TV, but they're still something I do when I've burned out my creative capacity for the night, not something that uses that capacity.
I've used Windows development tools. They are the most advanced tools for writing Windows software. I write software that's consumed by Windows users, but not Window software. There's no reason for me to write Windows software now. Windows software takes out 15-20% of my market (and if we're talking about more tech savvy users or mobile users or certain cities it can be even more).
I have embedded Linux hardware boxes that speak to Linux web servers that can serve modern web standards to any browser that degrades nicely. I can clone my virtual linux instances to add more capacity for handling requests. I know you can do these things with Windows, but they were late to market with them, and they cost a lot, and frankly why bother learning that? Windows hosting is more expensive and harder to find, it's not worth the effort.
I don't want tech that works on Windows. I want tech that resides on a server somewhere and has a Windows, and Mac, and Linux client so that no matter what computer I'm on I have access to my data. So yeah, I might use a Microsoft development product to write a Windows client for my product that runs anywhere. But I'm not going to restrict myself to only Windows users.
IE9 is 2-4 years behind. Windows Mobile is 2-4 years behind. It's the platforms that are behind. So even if the tools are up to date for the platform, they're still targeting platforms that are behind, and thus are behind.
Why don't you go look at BestBuy or Amazon's Windows software collection and come back to me. I saw 324 Windows software packages on BestBuy.com, many of which are duplicates like Quicken 2010 Cost More Edition and Windows 7 Incompatible Edition.
Compare that to 200,000+ apps in Apple's store and 10,000+ in Android's app store. You can also look at the number of games available for Wii, 360, and PS3. Just because Windows is the biggest install base doesn't mean it's the biggest seller for applications anymore. And considering the number of Windows users who use Chrome or Firefox. Windows/IE isn't even a given anymore.
"HTML5? Who gives a crap about HTML5 at this point for anything other than video streaming?"
People writing webapps targeting Android, iPhones, iPod touch, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. I've been programming using HTML5 constructs such as the database layer, offline caching, and CSS 3 support for years as have a lot of other people.
Sure, but why would I want to use Windows Phone or IE9 when I can use an iPhone, Android Device, Chromium or Firefox today? Back to my original comment. They are too slow. Firefox 4 is coming out and they haven't released a competitor to Firefox 3.
Shouldn't there be a statute of limitations? This is possibly one of the globally best known Australian songs of all time. The riff is completely obvious, and it's taken them 20 years to get around to suing?
Well, I'm glad you're happy with it. I guess all I was trying to point out was that the future wasn't Windows. Sure there'll still be a large market for desktop apps, but it's not where users and the industry are going. I think ultimately most developers aren't interested in investing time and energy in learning technologies that aren't related to where the industry is going.
That's where my original COBOL analogy came in. There are still tons of servers running COBOL. There's still tons of money to be made in that space. But if you asked on Slashdot why the cool kids weren't learning COBOL these days, people would point and laugh. Microsoft tech is the new COBOL. It's the past.
The problem is how does one "shield" plants without drastically affecting their environment?
I'll admit that I don't use .Net that much, but how exactly could they be more advanced than their competition if they're targeting a browser that's 4 years behind the competition?
I'm sure they're the most advanced for Windows programming. But, I haven't written code targeting Windows for years, and I don't know any programmers doing so. Fewer and fewer businesses are interested in paying a lot of money for tools that lock them into not being able to deliver a product to 15-20% of the market.