My "oh deity, this stuff is awesome" moment was when I started to learn AmigaDOS way back when on an Amiga 500. We'd had a C64 for years before but I never did anything other than games on it. The Amiga was the same for me for a year, then Commodore User (or Commodore Amiga User as it renamed itself as later) started running AmigaDOS tutorials, and I was hooked.
BBSes were another great one, though the phonebills were a shock.
HP used to promote their printer-head-in-cartridge system for years because, honestly, it was a great idea - instead of having to repair your printer every year or two because the print head had worn out you got a "free" print head change every time you changed cartridges. I honestly thought their way of doing this was better than the rest. This turnabout is just plain dumb IMHO, it'll make cartridges cheaper but the printers themselves will be of lesser quality, meaning when they start having print head problems people will just replace the entire printer.
Does this have anything to do with Apple's migration to Intel hardware, Intel's plans to release hardware DRM in next year's CPUs, and the new h.264 compression scheme that's in Quicktime 7 that's supposed to make visually-high-quality downloadable movies more of a reality? Sounds like an aweful coincidence if you ask me.
Science doesn't "tell you" anything. People do tests and discover results.
More to the point, if the tests can be used to sell something then usually you'll hear about it, otherwise it gets printed in some journal or other and disappears forever.
I can't remember a time when there were so many titles coming up that couldn't comfortably be slotted into established categories. Its been like that for the past two+ decades since commercial computer/video game development. Its the same as everything, the ebb and flow of the universe, there's lots of innovation & improvement for a while, then things get dull for a while, then back to more innovation. In the 80's there was nothing to compare against, so it was even more innovative then.
I did this in 2003 for a CMS+ecommerse system I did for a company. You had Smarty templates which had things like {productstr1} in them. The text strings were referenced by language and string ID, and if the string didn't have a specific version for your language it defaulted to English. This string was loaded from the database in a preparse plugin and was cached in a per-language directory. It worked ok, a bit kludgy but sufficient to get the job done.
One of the surprising apsects of autism is the number of people who have had dramatic recovering from it by chelating metals out of their body - quite surprising indeed.
Damien
Re:Woah, i downloaded this like....8hrs ago
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After a quick play around with it, there didnt seem to be any noticable diffrence in encoded quality but the file size did drop a bit
Therefore if you still have e.g. 700 meg to fill you can increase the quality settings to get a better picture, methinks that may be part of what they were after. DMF sounds like their main new feature this time around.
Apple bought into the AIM deal (Apple, IBM, Motorola) for producing the PowerPC, they let it slip for a few years but the G5 was supposed to remedy all of that. Nowe we know that the G5's problems were too great and to stay competitive they had to do something, even something as rash as a complete platform migration.
Don't write to prospective employers, call them. Research each one you are interested in, find out who would be the hiring manager for a position you are interested in and contact them directly.
People are overly sensitive to junk mail these days, especially managers, so unless you are willing to take the time to research it properly you're going to go nowhere.
Forget about code semantics, focus instead on application development theory and techniques, application frameworks, design patterns, etc.
I personally develop in both ColdFusion and PHP along with the Fusebox framework, and have just started using the fantastic FuseBuilder tool for the design stage. The using the Fusebox Lifecycle Process (FLiP) and a design tool that works with it (FuseBuilder) ensure that clients get what they want, no hassle, no "but it should be blue with green buttons". I can't promote FuseBuilder enough, it has become the bread and butter of both my day-job and side consulting.
Maybe they want to start selling music videos and movie trailers? Or maybe even entire movies? Maybe this is part of the alleged reason behind the Mini Mac, to create a cheap platform for playing online movies? Their new Quicktime & codec are supposed to be able to produce higher quality movies at a lower bandwidth requirements than competitors.
Slashdot Mirror
Ireland, which as just about always had some of the most expensive telecommunications services in Europe.
Damien
http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/07/nt-60-longhor n-technology-hasta-la.html
Damien
My "oh deity, this stuff is awesome" moment was when I started to learn AmigaDOS way back when on an Amiga 500. We'd had a C64 for years before but I never did anything other than games on it. The Amiga was the same for me for a year, then Commodore User (or Commodore Amiga User as it renamed itself as later) started running AmigaDOS tutorials, and I was hooked.
BBSes were another great one, though the phonebills were a shock.
Damien
VBA is the standard scripting language in Microsoft-land, or use Python with the Win32 stuff.
Damien
I see one problem with this: how is the audio transmitted to have each person listening to two different things?
Damien
HP used to promote their printer-head-in-cartridge system for years because, honestly, it was a great idea - instead of having to repair your printer every year or two because the print head had worn out you got a "free" print head change every time you changed cartridges. I honestly thought their way of doing this was better than the rest. This turnabout is just plain dumb IMHO, it'll make cartridges cheaper but the printers themselves will be of lesser quality, meaning when they start having print head problems people will just replace the entire printer.
Damien
Does this have anything to do with Apple's migration to Intel hardware, Intel's plans to release hardware DRM in next year's CPUs, and the new h.264 compression scheme that's in Quicktime 7 that's supposed to make visually-high-quality downloadable movies more of a reality? Sounds like an aweful coincidence if you ask me.
Damien
Many fishes contain vitamin D, sardines, mackerels, salmon... + you don't get skin cancer.
Except that fish contain high levels of mercury which is also pretty serious.
Damien
Science doesn't "tell you" anything. People do tests and discover results.
More to the point, if the tests can be used to sell something then usually you'll hear about it, otherwise it gets printed in some journal or other and disappears forever.
Damien
What about the ISPs that provide all those alt.warez newsgroups, will they be held accountable?
I can't remember a time when there were so many titles coming up that couldn't comfortably be slotted into established categories.
Its been like that for the past two+ decades since commercial computer/video game development. Its the same as everything, the ebb and flow of the universe, there's lots of innovation & improvement for a while, then things get dull for a while, then back to more innovation. In the 80's there was nothing to compare against, so it was even more innovative then.
Damien
I did this in 2003 for a CMS+ecommerse system I did for a company. You had Smarty templates which had things like {productstr1} in them. The text strings were referenced by language and string ID, and if the string didn't have a specific version for your language it defaulted to English. This string was loaded from the database in a preparse plugin and was cached in a per-language directory. It worked ok, a bit kludgy but sufficient to get the job done.
Damien
One of the surprising apsects of autism is the number of people who have had dramatic recovering from it by chelating metals out of their body - quite surprising indeed.
Damien
Damien
You can get decent camcorders (Panasonic PV-53) off ebay for $100, why bother with this POS?
Apple bought into the AIM deal (Apple, IBM, Motorola) for producing the PowerPC, they let it slip for a few years but the G5 was supposed to remedy all of that. Nowe we know that the G5's problems were too great and to stay competitive they had to do something, even something as rash as a complete platform migration.
So don't be too harsh on Apple, they tried.
Damien
Don't write to prospective employers, call them. Research each one you are interested in, find out who would be the hiring manager for a position you are interested in and contact them directly.
People are overly sensitive to junk mail these days, especially managers, so unless you are willing to take the time to research it properly you're going to go nowhere.
Damien
Forget about code semantics, focus instead on application development theory and techniques, application frameworks, design patterns, etc.
I personally develop in both ColdFusion and PHP along with the Fusebox framework, and have just started using the fantastic FuseBuilder tool for the design stage. The using the Fusebox Lifecycle Process (FLiP) and a design tool that works with it (FuseBuilder) ensure that clients get what they want, no hassle, no "but it should be blue with green buttons". I can't promote FuseBuilder enough, it has become the bread and butter of both my day-job and side consulting.
Damien
TikiWiki has added many things over the years that could help with this.
Beyond that, maybe start with e.g. Horde and work from there?
Damien
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sto nk
I guess you could say its the British equivelant to "da bomb".
Comedy Relief had whole theme about it years ago, including a song by two British comedians. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sto3.htm has even more.
Damien
Maybe they want to start selling music videos and movie trailers? Or maybe even entire movies? Maybe this is part of the alleged reason behind the Mini Mac, to create a cheap platform for playing online movies? Their new Quicktime & codec are supposed to be able to produce higher quality movies at a lower bandwidth requirements than competitors.
Damien
Rather, it should be...
/> />
<!--- block Mozilla Web Accelerator --->
<cfif structKeyExists(cgi, 'HTTP_X_MOZ')>
<cfif cgi.HTTP_X_MOZ EQ 'prefetch'>
<cfheader statuscode="403" statustext="Google Web Accelerator requests are forbidden."
<cfabort
</cfif>
</cfif>
Small typo on the second variable name. Doh!
Damien
CFML:
/> />
<!--- block Mozilla Web Accelerator --->
<cfif structKeyExists(cgi, 'HTTP_X_MOZ')>
<cfif cgi.HTTP_X.MOZ EQ 'prefetch'>
<cfheader statuscode="403" statustext="Google Web Accelerator requests are forbidden."
<cfabort
</cfif>
</cfif>
Damien
Here's some code to add to your web pages to block GWA. This will leave static media alone, which is fine.
] ))
PHP:
if(array_key_exists($_SERVER['HTTP_X_MOZ'
{
if(strtoupper($_SERVER['HTTP_X_MOZ']) == 'prefetch')
{
header("HTTP/1.x 403 Forbidden");
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1");
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache,
must-revalidate");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0",
FALSE);
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header('Accept-Ranges:');
exit();
}
}
CFML:
Damien
Forgot to preview...
/dev/random > /dev/life
cat <
Damien