Then there's the fact that bits aren't even stored as bits really. All current drives use (E)PRML which is (Enhanced) Partial Response Maximum Likelihood. What this means is bits aren't encoded as a high-low state or FM wave or any of that. They are written using flux reversals, but the level is not carefully controlled, it can't be. So when you read the data the drive actually looks at an analogue wave. It encodes the partial response it gets, and then finds the maximumly likely pattern that matches.
I doubt this is true. The disk would have to be spinning at 88 mph in order to activate the flux capacitor, and the power brick would need to supply 1.21 gigawatts to the drive, which exceeds the capacity of even the most tricked-out gaming PC. I think you'd better check your science, my friend.
It was actually 100% out of context. You may believe it with all of your heart, and any word of phrase may send you into a rage of self-righteous indignation that leaves you posting furious comments on message boards, but the article wasn't about that at all. Not even a little tiny bit. And insults, well, they're really the only refuge for the ignorant, aren't they?
How is it relevant that a president chooses to lecture kids on avoiding distractions when he knows nothing about those distractions? Are you high??? Yes this story wasn't about passing a law. So what? He's the president and he's involved in law-making you gimboid.
First, they were adults, college graduates. And distractions are distractions, no matter what form they come in, whether it be an XBox or posting shit on Slashdot. It's a safe assumption to say that everyone has been distracted at some point, and that distractions can be black holes that suck away time from useful and productive activities, what Stephen Covey called "the thick of thin things." And though Obama singled out a few certain devices, and admitted to not using them himself, his remarks were general in nature and really can be applied to anything in one's life that sucks time away from the truly important things. And as to your logical fallacy: Just because one of the powers of the president is to propose new legislature (which he does at certain times and to a joint session of Congress directly, not at commencement addresses at universities), it doesn't mean every word from his mouth is a proposal for new legislature.
On being high and knowing nothing about the laws you pass: if Obama wanted to pass a law, say, making a certain type of narcotic illegal, in your world he'd actually need to be a user of said drug to propose such a bill? And would every member of the House and Senate also need to be using this drug in order to ratify this bill? And suppose Obama wanted to pass a bill to help curtail global warming. Would he first need to become a scientist? Would all of the House and Senate also need to become scientists? Do you realize how stupid you sound?
It should be illegal for any politician to pass laws about things he has no fucking idea about.
Agreed. Likewise, it should be illegal to post a rant based on false assumptions derived as a result of not actually reading the fucking article. Obama wasn't suggesting legislation - he was addressing a graduating class and warning them to stay focused on what's important, and to not become distracted by the incessant and mostly inane chatter of mass media, which is all too easily delivered by said devices. In other words, he was suggesting "...not getting hassled, not getting hustled, keepin' your head above water, and making a wave when you can."
Right on, and that is precisely the problem we have right now: most of the citizens do not care. People are not just unaware of the issues facing America and what their government is doing; they seem not to care about any of it at all.
I don't think I'm alone here in my curiosity in seeing the research methods you used and data you gathered that have led you to this bold conclusion. Because surely you didn't just extrapolate from your own assumptions and conjectures based on the few, statistically speaking, persons you know, and surely you must have actual numbers supporting the word "most" in your claim. Is it 80%? 90%? Please do share your research and findings with us.
I'm not a particular fan or foe of PHP (it's a tool that can get a certain class of jobs done), but I should point a few things out...
PHP is basically JSP with plain Java SE on it, and a rather poor version of that approach that this. It's perfectly suited for Joe's Burgers 4 page website, but when something more 'advanced' is needed, PHP just doesn't cut it.
Agreed. If you have the second most popularwebsite in the world serving over 400 billion dynamically generated page views per month from a backend of over 30,000 servers, you absolutely do not want to rely on PHP to serve those pages for you.
Does PHP offers anything like that? Does the standard PHP library already comes with an MVC framework? Is unicode already natively supported? Is there any name spacing support? Is there..
Those aren't real problems unless they are actively preventing you from developing your website, which is probably only the case about 2% of the time. The other 98% of the time you never need consider them.
And I can produce results a hundred times as fast by using Java EE/Java/JBoss AS than with Django/Python and surely PHP. I'm not sure what this proves though... Also, don't forget that hacking together stuff and throwing it out is nice when you're 16 and in high school, but in the real world maintainability, correctness, stability, scalability, etc etc all count and in the end are way more important than just the ability to get some prototype like code out of the door, that 'usually-works-but-breaks-down-every-tuesday-when-it-rains'.
You sound like you did very well in school, and maybe even graduated at the top of you CS class. You also sound like you may have little real world experience. If you're in the bowels of some large corporate IT department where even your boss forgot you existed, you may have the time to plan everything, consider all of the potential problems, and do everything perfectly right the first time through, but it's more likely that either your boss or someone above him will see the cost of you spending six months planning something that will be perfect as way more expensive than just spending three weeks delivering something that is good enough. And this isn't even considering that you may have competition in the marketplace, competition that will put you under if you spend all your time planning while they are delivering actual products.
Can you give a little more detail about this (which supplier, any problems you had, etc.)? A friend's old G4 PowerBook has a dead battery, and Apple wants over $100 for a new one.
they can't tell the difference between lossless and lossy at a reasonable compression, either
bragging about buying $5000 speakers makes you look like someone used lossy compression on your brain
the average listener can tell the difference between having a conversation with a real person about music versus listening to an insecure nerd trying to one-up everyone.
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You should also switch to a better dictionary.
They should have watched this video first.
Why not? Even Myspace Tom has a Facebook page.
<aolmode min_year="1993" max_year="2005">Me too!</aolmode>
I doubt this is true. The disk would have to be spinning at 88 mph in order to activate the flux capacitor, and the power brick would need to supply 1.21 gigawatts to the drive, which exceeds the capacity of even the most tricked-out gaming PC. I think you'd better check your science, my friend.
Everyone does, if you keep going.
You know what's really obvious? Using the phrase "Captain Obvious."
You can always use GlimmerBlocker, which has the advantage of working with any browser.
And by that you mean, the only friend you have, you, records everything with something sophisticated? You know they all hate you, right?
About 12 million football fields worth.
Well, someone has to keep us entertained.
It was actually 100% out of context. You may believe it with all of your heart, and any word of phrase may send you into a rage of self-righteous indignation that leaves you posting furious comments on message boards, but the article wasn't about that at all. Not even a little tiny bit. And insults, well, they're really the only refuge for the ignorant, aren't they?
First, they were adults, college graduates. And distractions are distractions, no matter what form they come in, whether it be an XBox or posting shit on Slashdot. It's a safe assumption to say that everyone has been distracted at some point, and that distractions can be black holes that suck away time from useful and productive activities, what Stephen Covey called "the thick of thin things." And though Obama singled out a few certain devices, and admitted to not using them himself, his remarks were general in nature and really can be applied to anything in one's life that sucks time away from the truly important things. And as to your logical fallacy: Just because one of the powers of the president is to propose new legislature (which he does at certain times and to a joint session of Congress directly, not at commencement addresses at universities), it doesn't mean every word from his mouth is a proposal for new legislature.
On being high and knowing nothing about the laws you pass: if Obama wanted to pass a law, say, making a certain type of narcotic illegal, in your world he'd actually need to be a user of said drug to propose such a bill? And would every member of the House and Senate also need to be using this drug in order to ratify this bill? And suppose Obama wanted to pass a bill to help curtail global warming. Would he first need to become a scientist? Would all of the House and Senate also need to become scientists? Do you realize how stupid you sound?
Agreed. Likewise, it should be illegal to post a rant based on false assumptions derived as a result of not actually reading the fucking article. Obama wasn't suggesting legislation - he was addressing a graduating class and warning them to stay focused on what's important, and to not become distracted by the incessant and mostly inane chatter of mass media, which is all too easily delivered by said devices. In other words, he was suggesting "...not getting hassled, not getting hustled, keepin' your head above water, and making a wave when you can."
I don't think I'm alone here in my curiosity in seeing the research methods you used and data you gathered that have led you to this bold conclusion. Because surely you didn't just extrapolate from your own assumptions and conjectures based on the few, statistically speaking, persons you know, and surely you must have actual numbers supporting the word "most" in your claim. Is it 80%? 90%? Please do share your research and findings with us.
Louis: Looking good, Billy Ray!
Billy Ray: Feeling good, Louis!
double *yawn* I have a negative account number that's also an irrational number. I receive messages from the future.
While you're driving?
Here in the US we call those people "Republicans."
I'm not a particular fan or foe of PHP (it's a tool that can get a certain class of jobs done), but I should point a few things out...
Agreed. If you have the second most popular website in the world serving over 400 billion dynamically generated page views per month from a backend of over 30,000 servers, you absolutely do not want to rely on PHP to serve those pages for you.
Those aren't real problems unless they are actively preventing you from developing your website, which is probably only the case about 2% of the time. The other 98% of the time you never need consider them.
You sound like you did very well in school, and maybe even graduated at the top of you CS class. You also sound like you may have little real world experience. If you're in the bowels of some large corporate IT department where even your boss forgot you existed, you may have the time to plan everything, consider all of the potential problems, and do everything perfectly right the first time through, but it's more likely that either your boss or someone above him will see the cost of you spending six months planning something that will be perfect as way more expensive than just spending three weeks delivering something that is good enough. And this isn't even considering that you may have competition in the marketplace, competition that will put you under if you spend all your time planning while they are delivering actual products.
Can you give a little more detail about this (which supplier, any problems you had, etc.)? A friend's old G4 PowerBook has a dead battery, and Apple wants over $100 for a new one.
We didn't have the rituals. Instead we had weird Uncle Eddie. The kids all loved his little "magic trick."
Other things audiophiles don't take into account:
Fixed that for you...
You mistyped "very few" as "some."