The last time I checked, most of the free hosting sites had problems unique to free hosting:
Free hosts banned scripting languages "for security reasons", instead requiring pages to be static HTML, offering server-side includes at the most. Even those few free hosts at the time that offered PHP did not offer a database.
[...] If you were faced with these problems, which again are unique to free hosting, how would you work around them?
If you are in the sorry position of being unable to find $5 a month for hosting, I would suggest writing your demonstration application using HTML 5 and JavaScript. No scripting support needed on the server, and your database is client-side. People have written entire Wiki applications that way.
Saying you can do surgery full time with only the experience and training you got in medical school is really misplaced. If you say you enjoy doing surgery and being a doctor, then surely you must do some of it simply as a "hobby".
WordPerfect lost its dominant position for one reason - their own miscalculation. In the early 90s, WordPerfect didn't think that the Windows 3.x craze would catch on, and they didn't put their development efforts fully into the Windows product.
And then later, they decided it wasn't important to have cross-platform capability for your word processor, so they killed the Mac version after the 1996 release. So every company that had both Mac and Windows users and wanted to edit documents was pretty much forced to migrate to Word, even if 95% of their users were running Windows.
Because by going by OS, you HAVE to include, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad.
No, you don't. Just like you don't HAVE to include HP's printers that run Android, or the MP3 players that run Android, or the e-readers that run Android, or the Sony TVs that run Android.
Sure, you can replace the firmware with something unsupported by the vendor that implements IPv6. But let's be realistic here, the average Internet user isn't going to be doing that. So the statement that any router with recent firmware will support IPv6, remains sadly untrue.
Any home router that uses Linux has had IPv6-capability since kernel 2.1.8.
You might think that, but sadly it's not true. I had a WRT-54GS running Linux 2.4.x, and it had no support for IPv6 whatsoever, even running the latest Linksys firmware.
Exactly. I don't run Windows, so MakeMKV is my only option, and who knows what it'll cost when it's out of beta. Plus there's the pain of repacking the MKV files into MPEG-4 for each rip.
Two important pluses for DVD that you didn't mention:
1. I can rip it. Blu-ray is still hard to rip.
2. I can easily get a region-free drive and player. I'm still not seeing cheap region-free Blu-ray players.
So even though I do have an HDTV, and do see the quality difference, and do have the money to buy Blu-ray rather than DVD... I still buy DVD in preference, because of Blu-ray's DRM. Way to go, movie studios.
Well yes, but Google should not be judging a site's quality as such, they should be indexing the web.
Google isn't judging your site's quality. They're ranking it based on how the rest of the web judges your site's quality. If nobody thinks you're worth linking to, your rank is poor; if everyone links to you as the definitive source, your rank is high.
Yeah, the problem with GIMP isn't the floating windows.
The problems are:
1. The floating windows continue to float on top of everything else even when GIMP drops down the window stack and they become useless. 2. You can't lift other windows above GIMP's floating windows, no matter how hard you try. 3. Clicking one of GIMP's floating windows doesn't bring GIMP to the front of the window stack. 4. Clicking the main GIMP window doesn't bring the floating windows to the front.
You can fix some of these problems by changing the window hints under Window Management. If you set the toolbox and docks to "normal window" or "utility window", they no longer hog screen estate; you can raise other windows above them. However, the third and fourth problems still apply.
Seriously, how hard is it to make all GIMP's windows behave as a single unit, but not actually have them be one window? Wouldn't that make everyone happy?
Yeah. First they called it dumb terminals, then diskless workstations, then network computing, then thin clients, then cloud computing. Same idea, they just dress it up with new technological clothing and trot it out again every decade or so.
If you want to find out what the hell he's talking about, it's in his books -- "Computer Lib / Dream Machines" and "Literary Machines". Unfortunately they're rather hard to find. There's a summary here,
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The last time I checked, most of the free hosting sites had problems unique to free hosting:
[...]
If you were faced with these problems, which again are unique to free hosting, how would you work around them?
If you are in the sorry position of being unable to find $5 a month for hosting, I would suggest writing your demonstration application using HTML 5 and JavaScript. No scripting support needed on the server, and your database is client-side. People have written entire Wiki applications that way.
Saying you can do surgery full time with only the experience and training you got in medical school is really misplaced. If you say you enjoy doing surgery and being a doctor, then surely you must do some of it simply as a "hobby".
Well, if you're a gynecologist...
How primitive. Don't they have an app for that?
Why would I use three different client types for different communications when one covers them all?
Do you eat everything with a spork, or does your kitchen have a cutlery drawer?
Do you do all your maintenance with a Leatherman, or do you have screwdrivers, pliers, wire strippers, etc?
And that's why I use TeX.
WordPerfect lost its dominant position for one reason - their own miscalculation. In the early 90s, WordPerfect didn't think that the Windows 3.x craze would catch on, and they didn't put their development efforts fully into the Windows product.
And then later, they decided it wasn't important to have cross-platform capability for your word processor, so they killed the Mac version after the 1996 release. So every company that had both Mac and Windows users and wanted to edit documents was pretty much forced to migrate to Word, even if 95% of their users were running Windows.
http://www.keepassx.org/
I haven't seen any sales figures for the Galaxy and Xoom, perhaps you could link to them?
ASUS Eeepad. T-Mobile G-Pad.
Laugh while you can, iPad fanboys.
Actually, SUVs *are* technically trucks. That's why they don't have to meet the CAFE emissions standards for cars.
Well, if you had read the article, you'd know that it's trucks we're talking about, not cars.
15mph deceleration in 0.68 seconds may be plausible for a car, but I think it's a bit optimistic for a truck.
There's no single model of Windows laptop that's outselling the MacBook. So I guess Windows is a dismal failure in the market, right?
Because by going by OS, you HAVE to include, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad.
No, you don't. Just like you don't HAVE to include HP's printers that run Android, or the MP3 players that run Android, or the e-readers that run Android, or the Sony TVs that run Android.
Even if it doesn't, the iPad is going to face serious competition from the latest Android 3 tablets this summer.
Because the only thing I have that'll play MKV files is my laptop. Whereas MPEG-4 will play on PS3, AppleTV, laptop, phone, etc etc.
Sure, you can replace the firmware with something unsupported by the vendor that implements IPv6. But let's be realistic here, the average Internet user isn't going to be doing that. So the statement that any router with recent firmware will support IPv6, remains sadly untrue.
Any home router that uses Linux has had IPv6-capability since kernel 2.1.8.
You might think that, but sadly it's not true. I had a WRT-54GS running Linux 2.4.x, and it had no support for IPv6 whatsoever, even running the latest Linksys firmware.
Exactly. I don't run Windows, so MakeMKV is my only option, and who knows what it'll cost when it's out of beta. Plus there's the pain of repacking the MKV files into MPEG-4 for each rip.
Two important pluses for DVD that you didn't mention:
1. I can rip it. Blu-ray is still hard to rip.
2. I can easily get a region-free drive and player. I'm still not seeing cheap region-free Blu-ray players.
So even though I do have an HDTV, and do see the quality difference, and do have the money to buy Blu-ray rather than DVD... I still buy DVD in preference, because of Blu-ray's DRM. Way to go, movie studios.
(That said, I rent Blu-ray.)
I wonder what the best solution would be?
IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration...
Well yes, but Google should not be judging a site's quality as such, they should be indexing the web.
Google isn't judging your site's quality. They're ranking it based on how the rest of the web judges your site's quality. If nobody thinks you're worth linking to, your rank is poor; if everyone links to you as the definitive source, your rank is high.
Yeah, the problem with GIMP isn't the floating windows.
The problems are:
1. The floating windows continue to float on top of everything else even when GIMP drops down the window stack and they become useless.
2. You can't lift other windows above GIMP's floating windows, no matter how hard you try.
3. Clicking one of GIMP's floating windows doesn't bring GIMP to the front of the window stack.
4. Clicking the main GIMP window doesn't bring the floating windows to the front.
You can fix some of these problems by changing the window hints under Window Management. If you set the toolbox and docks to "normal window" or "utility window", they no longer hog screen estate; you can raise other windows above them. However, the third and fourth problems still apply.
Seriously, how hard is it to make all GIMP's windows behave as a single unit, but not actually have them be one window? Wouldn't that make everyone happy?
Yeah. First they called it dumb terminals, then diskless workstations, then network computing, then thin clients, then cloud computing. Same idea, they just dress it up with new technological clothing and trot it out again every decade or so.
It made the world's worst email program seem like the world's worst text editor?
Saying that Lotus Notes is the world's worst e-mail program is a bit like saying that an overclocked Athlon PC is the world's worst toaster.
If you want to find out what the hell he's talking about, it's in his books -- "Computer Lib / Dream Machines" and "Literary Machines". Unfortunately they're rather hard to find. There's a summary here,