that this system would work to stop marijuana smuggling across the Canadian border too... with all the mountains and trees. Hahahaha.
There's a pretty easy way to stop that, and that's to legalize growing it in the U.S. It practically is already because the Justice Department has made it their lowest priority.
Well, hey, this popup form works in IE8! Sorry. Where was I? Ah, yes. Looking at it pretty closely you can see that they are pretty smart over at Zend. PHP has almost as many trained followers worldwide as the most viable competitor, ASP and the.NET framework. C# is pretty decent but.NET framework is quite good for what it is (free as in money, not dumb). And the Visual Studio integration is the best IDE.
Now before you get your panties in a bunch, I'm trying to be realistic here about the options for a modern developer making web-based applications. I program mostly in PHP now, on a Mac, hosted on CentOS servers running a kernel that I compiled. I am not a windows fan, but there is simply not a competitor.
Now, looking at Zend, you're starting to see a possible competitor:
Windows has.NET, We have Zend Framework They have IE/Sharepoint Services, We have Zend Platform or whatever they call it now They have Visual Studio, we have Eclipse.
I forsee PHP6 as a step back from trying to include so much crap in the standard libraries. I mean, you're only doing a major version release every 5 years so your standard libraries are not going to be updated enough to stay with current tech. So the focus will be on syntax and less on library functions. That's what frameworks are for! I mean, why mess with strstr and 20-30 lines of if else when you can use Zend_Filter, chain objects together, this is the modern age!
If they can get it running a little faster, clean up the syntax and the consistency (as others have mentioned) and try to build some cohesion between all the competing frameworks out there and I think it could be a.NET crusher. Because you don't have to have Windows servers to run it. Which means 50% less cost per server (in software). Traditionally that's been made up with Sysadmin Hours but I don't think that'll be happening too much longer.. Anyway, my erratic 2 cents.
I've gotten a lot of CAT6 cables from monoprice.com and they are cheaper and better than I could make myself. They are seriously the cheapest place I have ever seen by a long long margin.
Yeah, but so what? The "capitalists" are the ones paying for most of the government. And they are doing it so that they can provide you will all the luxuries you enjoy every day. If everyone in the US suddenly got a clue and cut back, you can rest assured they would be out of there faster than hell. But right now, we want stuff and we want it cheap, and therefore the government helps them out as much as possible. Everyone KNOWS, it just isn't talked about a lot in public. But it has done a LOT for America. Now, yes, it's starting to look like the tail is wagging the dog a little. That's why they are trying to increase the size of government again, to hopefully curtail that by sucking up all of the capital into slow moving bureaucracy. But that's the cycle, that's how the country is set up, and really how markets naturally function. America is simply the pinnacle of it due to the unprecendented freedoms we have here. Now, with all the freedom flowing around the world (possibly militarily imposed), since we've figured out it kinda works, you're seeing global enterprises. This is a period of great change for the country and the world. But the move towards globalism--and the conquering of countries to develop new markets--is not new, correct.
I was bitten by a C# bug and now I can spin.NETs. However, my arch-nemesis is Doctor Oct-Torvalds, who has eight tentacle arms powered by a small open-source nuclear reactor.
Maybe he was the one who impregnated the octo-mom...
Yeah, the university I worked at did some government work and actually used a mechanically isolated power system. Basically they had a big motor (or several, actually) and it was directly connected to a generator (with a flywheel I think). This meant a totally independent power loop as inside the building, and the flywheel smoothed out any spikes. Obviously not highly efficient, but a good way to decouple for security and safety purposes.
This is much more than a novelty. It can verify with a high level of certainty that something is an original document (provided you trust the signature database). The uses in the legal profession are innumerable.
Also there's the noise generator, also known as the creative mind. If you count senses as basically a signal generator (IE: eyes generate a signal based on the light levels, ears generate a signal, etc.) then the creative mind is definitely one as well. Too many people think of the senses as the sense itself plus the filtering system of the brain (and the recording and cataloging sections as well). Looking at them as a package prevents one from seeing that the filtering, recording and cataloging systems work independently of the actual senses. In reality, your entire nervous system is one sense, with various adapters (eyes, ears, etc) connected to it. But because of the massive capabilities of the adaptors, other, unseen capabilities are often ignored. Like all systems that carry signals, the nervous system is subject to noise, interference, and other unintended signals. The filtering and cataloging systems in the brain can be put to work on this noise, and literally create something (a new thought) out of nothing (noise). For lack of a better way to label it, this is the creative mind, where inspiration comes from. Likewise, the processes can also be used to sense characteristics of the adapters that may not be their primary purpose. The ear, for instance, is designed to sense air pressure, but it can also help with balance because the air pressure adapter is also affected by gravity. I think a lot of the brain/sense structure is misunderstood simply because we go our entire lives only believing there are 5 senses and not seeing the true nature of ourselves. I think that is where you were going with your comment, just wanted to finish the thought.
This illustrates the economic DOWNSIDE of low unemployment. Employment works just like any other aspect in an economy. It is subject to supply and demand (and unexpected shortages). Think of it as a market for talent. When unemployment is low (typically under around 7%), employers are not afforded a good selection of workers at the prices they are willing to pay. This causes a salary bubble at first, as employers bid to get as much of the available talent as possible. Eventually prices get too high because only the most cash-rich employers can afford to hire anyone.
Now, unfortunately, and this has happened throughout American- and World-history, the employers simply went abroad to different employement markets (with higher unemployment) to find talent. In America it has been more common to allow more immigration during boom times to increase the available labor pool (and thus "raise" unemployment, but only in the lowest tier of jobs).
The opposite becomes true when unemployment gets too high. There are too many applicants so employers can "sell" a job for much less than before. A good natural rate for a stable economy is around 7%. This means there is an adequate applicant pool for growing businesses, it affords businesses good choice in available applicants, and it provides enough of a pad during boom times to prevent a salary bubble. It may sound bad, but really it's good for the economy. Unemployment just means how many people are available to start a new job at any given time. It does not mean there are 20-30 million people "out of work". The vast majority will find jobs; it's simply a RATE of people that happen to be out of a job at any given instant.
Duplicity, a clever backup tool, has let you use Gmail boxes for a storage engine for a while now. I'm sure they are just taking the next logical step. Of course, you can assume that they will probably index your files in some way, even if it isn't made public.
I'd like my filesystem to come with a fast way to backup incrementally without having to read all the metadata. Like a lightweight journal, a changelog only. I know Veritas and Tivoli have had journalling services that poll the filesystem for changes for a while. Would it be so hard to break the journals up into a few parts so I only have to look at changed files when I'm backing up incrementally. Or do they already do this?
I don't see that happening anytime soon. Depression-era Germany was quite overcrowded, had no money, no land, no food and a crappy government that was still in shambles after a monarchy-created war a few decades before. The monarchy is gone now, so we don't have to worry about a WWI, and the people of this country have their needs met enough by the free market that they will not support a fascist (ie: corporatist) government. Hitler was only in power for about what, 5 years? WWII was about the German corporations more than it's figurehead leader (although yes, he was a madman). It was a pretty clean war at, the U.S. may have gotten behind Germany if it weren't for Pearl Harbor. What happened in the later years was disgusting but that was not the cause.
That's because typically Cable (or Sat) channels are contracted to carriers over a calendar year. So, at midnight on Jan 1st, some channels are added and some dropped. You probably will notice new channels and a few missing ones if you look close.
I don't care what they did in the past, that is not justification to keep them in existance now when they are more administration than science. I specifically said I am FOR government space programs, just not NASA. A new organization needs to be built. Right now they are still using a military model which is outmoded in today's world. We will fall behind the newer space programs of India and China for no other reason than people wanting to keep their jobs, which is not a good reason. If you fired everyone and started a new program, they would all get their jobs back at more pay because there would be less waste.
To launch a small craft takes the same amount of paperwork that the Apollo mission did, simply because it's there. It can cost over $250M to launch a small sat whereas Russia can do it for $10M with an old ICBM design. Look at the Space Shuttle, which is a perfect example of NASA failure. It was supposed to be able to go up, come back, recycle and go up again very quickly. Turns out it's so complicated to launch and land that it takes $1B and 8-10 weeks to get it ready to go! With that $1B you could launch 100! missile-type rockets! Even if you lost 50% you would still be WAY ahead. Why do we, as taxpayers put up with this?
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that this system would work to stop marijuana smuggling across the Canadian border too... with all the mountains and trees. Hahahaha.
There's a pretty easy way to stop that, and that's to legalize growing it in the U.S. It practically is already because the Justice Department has made it their lowest priority.
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Well, hey, this popup form works in IE8! Sorry. Where was I? Ah, yes. Looking at it pretty closely you can see that they are pretty smart over at Zend. PHP has almost as many trained followers worldwide as the most viable competitor, ASP and the .NET framework. C# is pretty decent but .NET framework is quite good for what it is (free as in money, not dumb). And the Visual Studio integration is the best IDE.
Now before you get your panties in a bunch, I'm trying to be realistic here about the options for a modern developer making web-based applications. I program mostly in PHP now, on a Mac, hosted on CentOS servers running a kernel that I compiled. I am not a windows fan, but there is simply not a competitor.
Now, looking at Zend, you're starting to see a possible competitor:
Windows has .NET, We have Zend Framework
They have IE/Sharepoint Services, We have Zend Platform or whatever they call it now
They have Visual Studio, we have Eclipse.
I forsee PHP6 as a step back from trying to include so much crap in the standard libraries. I mean, you're only doing a major version release every 5 years so your standard libraries are not going to be updated enough to stay with current tech. So the focus will be on syntax and less on library functions. That's what frameworks are for! I mean, why mess with strstr and 20-30 lines of if else when you can use Zend_Filter, chain objects together, this is the modern age!
If they can get it running a little faster, clean up the syntax and the consistency (as others have mentioned) and try to build some cohesion between all the competing frameworks out there and I think it could be a .NET crusher. Because you don't have to have Windows servers to run it. Which means 50% less cost per server (in software). Traditionally that's been made up with Sysadmin Hours but I don't think that'll be happening too much longer.. Anyway, my erratic 2 cents.
I've gotten a lot of CAT6 cables from monoprice.com and they are cheaper and better than I could make myself. They are seriously the cheapest place I have ever seen by a long long margin.
Sorry, you can't listen to this Motzart because we own it.
Yeah, this article was mistagged. No "itsatrap" ;)
Isn't this a job for the military police?
Yeah, but so what? The "capitalists" are the ones paying for most of the government. And they are doing it so that they can provide you will all the luxuries you enjoy every day. If everyone in the US suddenly got a clue and cut back, you can rest assured they would be out of there faster than hell. But right now, we want stuff and we want it cheap, and therefore the government helps them out as much as possible. Everyone KNOWS, it just isn't talked about a lot in public. But it has done a LOT for America. Now, yes, it's starting to look like the tail is wagging the dog a little. That's why they are trying to increase the size of government again, to hopefully curtail that by sucking up all of the capital into slow moving bureaucracy. But that's the cycle, that's how the country is set up, and really how markets naturally function. America is simply the pinnacle of it due to the unprecendented freedoms we have here. Now, with all the freedom flowing around the world (possibly militarily imposed), since we've figured out it kinda works, you're seeing global enterprises. This is a period of great change for the country and the world. But the move towards globalism--and the conquering of countries to develop new markets--is not new, correct.
And where does one get the time to read this book, exactly?
That's where the SPEED part comes in. You cut out sleep, you see.
Sorry dude, you have to wait for kernel 2.8 for the joy and beauty modules that will enable your desktop product to have those attributes.
I was bitten by a C# bug and now I can spin .NETs. However, my arch-nemesis is Doctor Oct-Torvalds, who has eight tentacle arms powered by a small open-source nuclear reactor.
Maybe he was the one who impregnated the octo-mom...
Yeah, the university I worked at did some government work and actually used a mechanically isolated power system. Basically they had a big motor (or several, actually) and it was directly connected to a generator (with a flywheel I think). This meant a totally independent power loop as inside the building, and the flywheel smoothed out any spikes. Obviously not highly efficient, but a good way to decouple for security and safety purposes.
This is much more than a novelty. It can verify with a high level of certainty that something is an original document (provided you trust the signature database). The uses in the legal profession are innumerable.
Also there's the noise generator, also known as the creative mind. If you count senses as basically a signal generator (IE: eyes generate a signal based on the light levels, ears generate a signal, etc.) then the creative mind is definitely one as well. Too many people think of the senses as the sense itself plus the filtering system of the brain (and the recording and cataloging sections as well). Looking at them as a package prevents one from seeing that the filtering, recording and cataloging systems work independently of the actual senses. In reality, your entire nervous system is one sense, with various adapters (eyes, ears, etc) connected to it. But because of the massive capabilities of the adaptors, other, unseen capabilities are often ignored. Like all systems that carry signals, the nervous system is subject to noise, interference, and other unintended signals. The filtering and cataloging systems in the brain can be put to work on this noise, and literally create something (a new thought) out of nothing (noise). For lack of a better way to label it, this is the creative mind, where inspiration comes from. Likewise, the processes can also be used to sense characteristics of the adapters that may not be their primary purpose. The ear, for instance, is designed to sense air pressure, but it can also help with balance because the air pressure adapter is also affected by gravity. I think a lot of the brain/sense structure is misunderstood simply because we go our entire lives only believing there are 5 senses and not seeing the true nature of ourselves. I think that is where you were going with your comment, just wanted to finish the thought.
I can see what's next: Regenerative bumpers that recharge your car whenever you get in a wreck. GET ON IT MIT!
Interesting you should mention fossil fuels as there's a strong correlation between earthquakes and oil extraction (and other mining activities)..
This illustrates the economic DOWNSIDE of low unemployment. Employment works just like any other aspect in an economy. It is subject to supply and demand (and unexpected shortages). Think of it as a market for talent. When unemployment is low (typically under around 7%), employers are not afforded a good selection of workers at the prices they are willing to pay. This causes a salary bubble at first, as employers bid to get as much of the available talent as possible. Eventually prices get too high because only the most cash-rich employers can afford to hire anyone.
Now, unfortunately, and this has happened throughout American- and World-history, the employers simply went abroad to different employement markets (with higher unemployment) to find talent. In America it has been more common to allow more immigration during boom times to increase the available labor pool (and thus "raise" unemployment, but only in the lowest tier of jobs).
The opposite becomes true when unemployment gets too high. There are too many applicants so employers can "sell" a job for much less than before. A good natural rate for a stable economy is around 7%. This means there is an adequate applicant pool for growing businesses, it affords businesses good choice in available applicants, and it provides enough of a pad during boom times to prevent a salary bubble. It may sound bad, but really it's good for the economy. Unemployment just means how many people are available to start a new job at any given time. It does not mean there are 20-30 million people "out of work". The vast majority will find jobs; it's simply a RATE of people that happen to be out of a job at any given instant.
Duplicity, a clever backup tool, has let you use Gmail boxes for a storage engine for a while now. I'm sure they are just taking the next logical step. Of course, you can assume that they will probably index your files in some way, even if it isn't made public.
Haha, my bad.
I've been catting ssh public keys >> into authorized_keys a lot lately..
I'd like my filesystem to come with a fast way to backup incrementally without having to read all the metadata. Like a lightweight journal, a changelog only. I know Veritas and Tivoli have had journalling services that poll the filesystem for changes for a while. Would it be so hard to break the journals up into a few parts so I only have to look at changed files when I'm backing up incrementally. Or do they already do this?
Easy:
cat "216.34.181.45 slashdot.org" >>
Any other questions?
I don't see that happening anytime soon. Depression-era Germany was quite overcrowded, had no money, no land, no food and a crappy government that was still in shambles after a monarchy-created war a few decades before. The monarchy is gone now, so we don't have to worry about a WWI, and the people of this country have their needs met enough by the free market that they will not support a fascist (ie: corporatist) government. Hitler was only in power for about what, 5 years? WWII was about the German corporations more than it's figurehead leader (although yes, he was a madman). It was a pretty clean war at, the U.S. may have gotten behind Germany if it weren't for Pearl Harbor. What happened in the later years was disgusting but that was not the cause.
If anime has taught me anything, Steve Jobs should be back to work in no time with a huge rack.
Well, that explains the tittiesloveappletech tag on the other Apple story today.
That's because typically Cable (or Sat) channels are contracted to carriers over a calendar year. So, at midnight on Jan 1st, some channels are added and some dropped. You probably will notice new channels and a few missing ones if you look close.
I don't care what they did in the past, that is not justification to keep them in existance now when they are more administration than science. I specifically said I am FOR government space programs, just not NASA. A new organization needs to be built. Right now they are still using a military model which is outmoded in today's world. We will fall behind the newer space programs of India and China for no other reason than people wanting to keep their jobs, which is not a good reason. If you fired everyone and started a new program, they would all get their jobs back at more pay because there would be less waste.
To launch a small craft takes the same amount of paperwork that the Apollo mission did, simply because it's there. It can cost over $250M to launch a small sat whereas Russia can do it for $10M with an old ICBM design. Look at the Space Shuttle, which is a perfect example of NASA failure. It was supposed to be able to go up, come back, recycle and go up again very quickly. Turns out it's so complicated to launch and land that it takes $1B and 8-10 weeks to get it ready to go! With that $1B you could launch 100! missile-type rockets! Even if you lost 50% you would still be WAY ahead. Why do we, as taxpayers put up with this?