Does anybody have any idea of the context in which this statement was made? That seems pretty relevant as it could completely change the meaning of the statement, or offer qualifiers or something.
Outside of the Slashdot readership and security experts, nobody cares about things like this. That is the only conclusion I can draw. Hole after hole has been found in IIS/SQL Server/etc and people continue to use it. The blurb says that MS knew about the bug since July and did nothing about it.
I'm not trying to imply that Linux is bug-free by any means, however I think it's rather interesting that despite the bugs, holes (everybody remember NSA_KEY ?), etc., it doesn't really stop anybody from using IIS.
I (usually) live in NYC and have heard nothing but bad things about BA's Infospeed DSL service. Everything from constant downtime to paying for 256 kbps and only getting 128 max.
Time Warner's Road Runner is $40/month, you get the modem for free, and there is NO service contract. After the first week, when we realized we had a faulty modem (and the nice TWC guys came and swapped it for a new one for free the next day) it has gone down maybe 4 times, and this is since like May or June. I usually top out around 300 kbps but I once downloaded an ISO at 600. For my money, Cable is just way better.
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A lot of places pay people for being one of the top players on the server. I don't see anybody saying that "football players shouldn't train as hard as they do, it's just a game." So what, even if it's just a game, it's still nice to win.
My girlfriend and I got cable modem w/2 IPs & a 10 Mbps hub. I don't know if that's geek enough for you but it was good enough for us. File sharing, print sharing, shared internet.
The next step is the linksys cable/dsl router thingy that lets u do away w/ the 2nd ip address. Also We were thinking of getting a cobalt qube as a more efficient file server (no reason for us both to have the same 3 gigs of mp3s, you know). Fortunately she has a drop ceiling so running the cable was a snap. well, mostly.
With Metallica's recent actions, the Napster mess as well as lame stuff like doing the Artist Direct ads & Mission Impossible soundtrack, I wonder if they care at all about the image they project. I know this has been mentioned many times before but they have completely done in their underground fanbase and now are likely only listened to by the backstreet boys crowd.
Then again I even still listen to the old stuff (bought before the napster fiasco, of course.). Metallica & an orchestra? Give me a fucking break.
I had a Fleet card and *they* automatically cancelled my card and fedexed me anew one. I had forgotten that I had even had an account with CD universe.
But I agree with you about the other hassles, the autobilling, etc. My EZ pass was on the card among other htings.
I thought of the dispoasble credit card thing about a month before reading about amex's idea on slashdot. The problem I found with it is that you would want to sell them at a place like 7-11, but with that much cash-equivalent laying around, the store is just begging to get robbed. 100 $50 or $100 cards is a lot of moolah in a pretty small space. I think less that $50 would be sort of useless, as would these cards for expensife electronics, unless shops implement the ability to accept multiple cc#s for a single purchase, which I doubt they'd want to do (10 cc#s as opposed to 1 are 10 times more chance for the transaction to be canceled, etc).
More money than a standalone mp3 player. Brilliant. Haven't they had these things for a while now anyway? I thought I saw them about two weeks ago, maybe not this brand.
yes, I know that, but stuffit is not known as a web-standard cross-platform file format. No, I don't know what is, but a gz or zip would not have been so hard anyway.
Yes, phpbuilder is "the other site" I used when learning PHP. As I said in another post, the PHP docs are possibly PHP's greatest feature (all would-be php programmers bookmark http://www.php.net/manual/ now).
And as you say, online resources are really all you need with PHP. Whereas with Perl I had to buy two books and needed a lot of supplemental help online (installing dbi, etc).
For me, at least, the advantage of PHP, by far, is its documentation. Any question, I go to php.net and there is the answer. Their function definitions are all yummy. Also the built-in db access is much easier than using/installing DBI if you're brand new at this (as I was when learning php). I find the documentation at www.perl.com to be quite poor. Perldoc is good, but nothing can compare to http://www.php.net/manual/ imnsho.
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I'm not trying to imply that Linux is bug-free by any means, however I think it's rather interesting that despite the bugs, holes (everybody remember NSA_KEY ?), etc., it doesn't really stop anybody from using IIS.
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Time Warner's Road Runner is $40/month, you get the modem for free, and there is NO service contract. After the first week, when we realized we had a faulty modem (and the nice TWC guys came and swapped it for a new one for free the next day) it has gone down maybe 4 times, and this is since like May or June. I usually top out around 300 kbps but I once downloaded an ISO at 600. For my money, Cable is just way better.
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Dartmouth is still a college.
Yay, somebody besides a dartmouth student knows this!
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And you probably wonder why you keep respawning every 10 seconds or so like clockwork.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
I have been using strafe jumping for months, I just never heard of the term.
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"Look, it writes the script FOR us! Hey, hit reload again... AWESOME!!
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The next step is the linksys cable/dsl router thingy that lets u do away w/ the 2nd ip address. Also We were thinking of getting a cobalt qube as a more efficient file server (no reason for us both to have the same 3 gigs of mp3s, you know). Fortunately she has a drop ceiling so running the cable was a snap. well, mostly.
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Then again I even still listen to the old stuff (bought before the napster fiasco, of course.). Metallica & an orchestra? Give me a fucking break.
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But I agree with you about the other hassles, the autobilling, etc. My EZ pass was on the card among other htings.
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And as you say, online resources are really all you need with PHP. Whereas with Perl I had to buy two books and needed a lot of supplemental help online (installing dbi, etc).
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