Back in the day, I owned a Micromoog, this thing was so analog, that internal crossover effects itself could create new sound effects!
My old man owned a copy of Switched on Bach when I was little, and I loved Walter (later Wendy) Carlos' interpretations.
As I grew up learning the piano, then getting to love electronics and later computing, the Micromoog was in my electronics lab right beside the soldering iron, so I could riff while I worked. I got it as a cast off gift from a musician when I repaired his new synthesizer.
While the micro is now long gone (experimented on to death by my brother and I), synthesizers still hold a special place, and I own a Yamaha DX7 to this day, which is still awesome.
Rob Moog will be missed by this programmer dearly.
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It doesn't take a lot of imagination to realise just how this could revolutionise the Web experience. Drag and drop products into a shopping cart. Drag the shopping cart to the checkout icon. Moving money around bank accounts in some integrated internet banking application. The possibilities are huge.
I'd really hate having to do the above. What would be better and smarter (IMHO), is to:
click on the "Add to Cart" button
AJAX adds the product to the card without refreshing the page.
It seems to me that AJAX works worderfully in limited cases that gets rid of the annoying browser refresh problem.
Expect to see flooding the internets(tm) over the next few months annoying over-use of AJAX in every single way that programmers can -- even if they don't need to.
Then I guess you never heard about using database driven sessions. The way how you've designed that bad boy, it would'nt scale in any language.
Here's what we do:
8 Apache Webservers
3 Million pageviews per day
Distributed PHP sessioning (Postgresql based)
PHP module
Postgresql (no worries with MySQL write locks)
Scaling? We add new machines in the mix, tell our load balancer about the new machines, and we've scaled linearly. A machine goes down? The load balancer redirects to another machine and the session continues without a beat.
Bottleneck? The database, but then you throw big iron at that.
Look, the web is stateless, if applications are designed from the get-go realizing that fact, heck, you can get a shell script sitting in cgi-bin to scale with your server pool.
There's absolutely nothing in PHP that inherently causes it not to scale. Sure, other languages have easier and sometines better features built in, but if you're already using PHP, implementing those features are usually worth the few programming hours of effort instead of switching to another language/platform.
It was heart stoppingly beautiful with an excellent storyline that carried right to the end. As usual, the animator inhabited lush, realistic backgrounds with denizens that came straight out of fantasy -- that were not so lushly drawn. The backgrounds though lovely, were still not a match for the sheer color that was exhibited in Spirited Away.
It was just achingly beautiful, and if you love the "Spirited Away" score, then you will also love the "Howl's moving Castle score. Clearly the same musicians must be at work here.
The downside was Billy Crystal's voice that sort of took the scenes with it a little over the top and pulled the movie out of the fantasy land into our world of mundanes (similar to what happened to Shrek 2). However, the animators always pulled us back into that strange and wonderful land, but sometimes there was this tug of war. Imagine watching Lord of the Rings with Gimli having a Brooklyn accent!
The theatre was packed and the audience was mostly adult, and well engaged (well, this is New York). My girlfriend and I were having a little spat before the movie but it was all forgotten by the time it ended.
Maybe Joe Six-Pack likes the over-the-top voicing by comedians but I don't. Perhaps he should take a cue from Christian Bale who played Howl in an understated and totally believable way that fit the story perfectly.
It's not worth a hill of beans. Single user calendars are usually worth the time to talk about. Shareable calendars are. And that's what the Open Source world is seriously missing.
My shop recently switched over to Exchange from a sweet Qmail/vpopmail toaster setup, solely because we wanted the shared calendar. The exchange server hiccups every few days, but its worth it for the shared tasks.
When, oh, when, is someone going to code a decent exchange replacement that does not require over 100 RPM's to install?
There's a pretty good effort underway to create a PHP framework that works like Rails. Its over at Cake and is surprisingly robust and mature.
They use the exact same Javascript library that is used in Rails as well: Prototype.
Rails is pretty decent. I guess the only issue is performance... you pretty much have to count out your typical web hosting account and have your own server. Mod_ruby pretty much takes care of the performance issues and it installed without incident in my Apache 2.xx web server with PHP 5.
Like many other people here, I realized that the whole Rails paradigm is great for new schemas and sites and will not fit well into my old crufty database schemas.
Which is why I don't use stock Debian. For the world weary: 8.0.3 is out.
I mean, including Postgresql 7.4.7 as a badge of pride? Sure, its good and all, but if you have Firefox 1.0.4, then one would thing a leap to PG 8.0 would not be that big of a deal.
It seems that more and more of everything is sync'd with this. My clock radio at home auto-updates, clock on the wall, the cellphones, my Linux and Mac PC's and cable box.
This technology has really come a long way and is deeply embedded within our lives. Especially if you consider that before the atomic clock, time varied considerably between different locales.
We've been able to add a "Live Search" to This food and nutrition database search that is extremely responsive (Swish++ used on the back end to conduct searches).
We've also used it over at celebrity flicker for when visitors add tags to celebrity images, bookmark images to their account, and add comments to the discussion. It allowed us to make an interface that did not break the back button functionality while doing significant activity on the current page.
The guys over at JPSPAN are to be commended for their work on an easy to use library that works well with PHP.
... getting the wife to vacuum. Or worse, having the wife order you to vacuum.
Seriously, have you seen the ads for this thing? It clearly would not work well in most settings at all. Until the days of Larry Niven's "housecleaner pets" (read: A gift from Earth), these devices are just barely proof of concept.
Remembered I was travelling once and heard a great classical piece on NPR. I would have died to know what the title was and it is forever lost to my imagination. Would have been great to source it, as the announcer just cavalierly skipped introducing the title.
This service is just great for those one time uses.
Tags are a great way to organize pictures and other objects as well. Whether its porn, celebrities, or the soon to be launched cityflicker.com
Sure, you could go to google's image search, but where else can you easily see, for instance, celebrity nipples or this category?
Just looking at an object, and seeing other tags at the same time is extremely addictive. You can quickly jump to and fro within this kind of taxanomy with little effort. With certain experiments, we've seen a user stickyness not noticed before. And using RSS to monitor a tag is a great way to keep updated on content that you're really interested in.
While http://flickr.com/>flickr.com fantastic, it is pretty generic, I suspect we'll all see a large group of sites dedicated to tagging almost anything (books, products) that are more specific and open to finding a small but vocal niche of people.
Yup. I wish you had gotten some time to play with it too. That way you could have posted a reasonable review instead of a disappointing paragraph or so.
Yes, but soot and other particulate matter from diesel fuels will kill ya. Diesel give great mileage, and excellent torque, but abysmal pick-up-and-go.
This was purely done for diversification and making a buck.
Lets see... If I were Michael Dell and I wanted to get Linux in some of my boxen, Dell's acquisition department would be doing this instead of my personal investment arm. Besides, Microsoft would never allow it.
Who knows... perhaps Billy G has some of those debentures himself.
While virii can be a little bit of a problem, I've never got any.
What I have gotten regularly though is spam text messages. On a HTML enabled phone (Treo), the messages are sophisticated enough so that you can click through on a URL to bring up your tiny browser.
... Your all morons! If Apple came out with this design everyone would be raving at how genious the design is. The truth is, it looks far better than any console out now, has a very slick contemporary look to it and will look nicely in the living room home theater setup...
The above quote was taken from the article's site. He kinda has a point too...
If you ever lived in Florida, then you know that its one of those states that is so thoroughly corporate that residents don't have too many options than to toe the line of conformity.
All the building codes, regulations, and sundry laws seem to favor corporations above everything else.
Its one of those places you'll find scammers, shady SEO consultants and search engines, and yes... spammers.
I believe that when a person criticizes someone for something, they should have a plausible alternative in mind. Otherwise they are just whining.
So what's wrong with critizing for criticism's sake? There's no need to have a plausable alternative. Criticism helps us decide is something is good or bad.
It certainly helps you save the 10 bucks to go see a sucky movie. And you can always ignore the critics anyway.
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My old man owned a copy of Switched on Bach when I was little, and I loved Walter (later Wendy) Carlos' interpretations.
As I grew up learning the piano, then getting to love electronics and later computing, the Micromoog was in my electronics lab right beside the soldering iron, so I could riff while I worked. I got it as a cast off gift from a musician when I repaired his new synthesizer.
While the micro is now long gone (experimented on to death by my brother and I), synthesizers still hold a special place, and I own a Yamaha DX7 to this day, which is still awesome.
Rob Moog will be missed by this programmer dearly.
- click on the "Add to Cart" button
- AJAX adds the product to the card without refreshing the page.
It seems to me that AJAX works worderfully in limited cases that gets rid of the annoying browser refresh problem.Expect to see flooding the internets(tm) over the next few months annoying over-use of AJAX in every single way that programmers can -- even if they don't need to.
Well, what you do it roll back your database transaction. In this case, you don't want PHP doing that stuff.
Then I guess you never heard about using database driven sessions. The way how you've designed that bad boy, it would'nt scale in any language.
Here's what we do:
- 8 Apache Webservers
- 3 Million pageviews per day
- Distributed PHP sessioning (Postgresql based)
- PHP module
- Postgresql (no worries with MySQL write locks)
Scaling? We add new machines in the mix, tell our load balancer about the new machines, and we've scaled linearly. A machine goes down? The load balancer redirects to another machine and the session continues without a beat.Bottleneck? The database, but then you throw big iron at that.
Look, the web is stateless, if applications are designed from the get-go realizing that fact, heck, you can get a shell script sitting in cgi-bin to scale with your server pool.
There's absolutely nothing in PHP that inherently causes it not to scale. Sure, other languages have easier and sometines better features built in, but if you're already using PHP, implementing those features are usually worth the few programming hours of effort instead of switching to another language/platform.
It was just achingly beautiful, and if you love the "Spirited Away" score, then you will also love the "Howl's moving Castle score. Clearly the same musicians must be at work here.
The downside was Billy Crystal's voice that sort of took the scenes with it a little over the top and pulled the movie out of the fantasy land into our world of mundanes (similar to what happened to Shrek 2). However, the animators always pulled us back into that strange and wonderful land, but sometimes there was this tug of war. Imagine watching Lord of the Rings with Gimli having a Brooklyn accent!
The theatre was packed and the audience was mostly adult, and well engaged (well, this is New York). My girlfriend and I were having a little spat before the movie but it was all forgotten by the time it ended.
Maybe Joe Six-Pack likes the over-the-top voicing by comedians but I don't. Perhaps he should take a cue from Christian Bale who played Howl in an understated and totally believable way that fit the story perfectly.
My shop recently switched over to Exchange from a sweet Qmail/vpopmail toaster setup, solely because we wanted the shared calendar. The exchange server hiccups every few days, but its worth it for the shared tasks.
When, oh, when, is someone going to code a decent exchange replacement that does not require over 100 RPM's to install?
They use the exact same Javascript library that is used in Rails as well: Prototype.
Rails is pretty decent. I guess the only issue is performance... you pretty much have to count out your typical web hosting account and have your own server. Mod_ruby pretty much takes care of the performance issues and it installed without incident in my Apache 2.xx web server with PHP 5.
Like many other people here, I realized that the whole Rails paradigm is great for new schemas and sites and will not fit well into my old crufty database schemas.
I mean, including Postgresql 7.4.7 as a badge of pride? Sure, its good and all, but if you have Firefox 1.0.4, then one would thing a leap to PG 8.0 would not be that big of a deal.
It seems that more and more of everything is sync'd with this. My clock radio at home auto-updates, clock on the wall, the cellphones, my Linux and Mac PC's and cable box.
Only thing left are the clocks with a single AA battery on the wall, and at some point they are going to use the pervasive WWVB time signal that is broadcast from Colorado and operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology
This technology has really come a long way and is deeply embedded within our lives. Especially if you consider that before the atomic clock, time varied considerably between different locales.
Switching to a trackball helped, but the callus built up over years of using a standard movable mouse just keeps on growing and growing...
Wonder who he could be taking a cue from? Is Carl Rove advising Microsoft in the fine art of the "favourable crowd"?
We've been able to add a "Live Search" to This food and nutrition database search that is extremely responsive (Swish++ used on the back end to conduct searches).
We've also used it over at celebrity flicker for when visitors add tags to celebrity images, bookmark images to their account, and add comments to the discussion. It allowed us to make an interface that did not break the back button functionality while doing significant activity on the current page.
The guys over at JPSPAN are to be commended for their work on an easy to use library that works well with PHP.
Seriously, have you seen the ads for this thing? It clearly would not work well in most settings at all. Until the days of Larry Niven's "housecleaner pets" (read: A gift from Earth), these devices are just barely proof of concept.
This service is just great for those one time uses.
Sure, you could go to google's image search, but where else can you easily see, for instance, celebrity nipples or this category?
Just looking at an object, and seeing other tags at the same time is extremely addictive. You can quickly jump to and fro within this kind of taxanomy with little effort. With certain experiments, we've seen a user stickyness not noticed before. And using RSS to monitor a tag is a great way to keep updated on content that you're really interested in.
While http://flickr.com/>flickr.com fantastic, it is pretty generic, I suspect we'll all see a large group of sites dedicated to tagging almost anything (books, products) that are more specific and open to finding a small but vocal niche of people.
Next time at least take some pictures.
Lets see... If I were Michael Dell and I wanted to get Linux in some of my boxen, Dell's acquisition department would be doing this instead of my personal investment arm. Besides, Microsoft would never allow it.
Who knows... perhaps Billy G has some of those debentures himself.
What I have gotten regularly though is spam text messages. On a HTML enabled phone (Treo), the messages are sophisticated enough so that you can click through on a URL to bring up your tiny browser.
Oh, I forgot the results were skewed.
All the building codes, regulations, and sundry laws seem to favor corporations above everything else. Its one of those places you'll find scammers, shady SEO consultants and search engines, and yes... spammers.
So what's wrong with critizing for criticism's sake? There's no need to have a plausable alternative. Criticism helps us decide is something is good or bad.
It certainly helps you save the 10 bucks to go see a sucky movie. And you can always ignore the critics anyway.
Here's disney's formula
- annoying animal sidekick
- fast paced animation
- slapstick humor
- no matter how historical the theme, bring it up to date with some uncalled for topical humor
Sigh...