This looks like it could be really useful in the long run. I hope that it will let me avoid mixing so much PHP with Javascript for widget/form stuff. Anything to make that mixed code easier to read is a blessing. I'll be using the toolkit right away.
On a side note, does anyone see any security problems with the code so far? That's my only real worry. Also, should someone build some DB classes and hooks into this for an all-in-one type of addition. PHP can begin to be an include mess after a while (see previous statment about readable code), which I'd like to avoid.
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Damn! That's one long article! 30 pages on legal size paper with 1/4" margins (I printed as a PDF for my Palm PDA - say that 10 times fast). I'll be back on Saturday, after I've RTFA to post some comments. See you all then!
Anyone who posts in the next hour or so that claims to have RTFA either just skimmed it or is lying. Happy reading!
I've read the 20 claims. None of them contradict the idea that any news site's weather report could meet any and all of these claims....(proceeds to itemized list of claims)
Throw in some PERL and you've got Slashcode. Technically, the PERL just generates HTML, so in effect, it's HTML to the end user anyway. How's that for striking close to home.
will lose many of the bells and whistles that are standard on AOL, such as its instant messaging software and chat rooms
I find it interesting that they are pulling AIM out. When they bought Netscape, the bundled AIM into every version of the browser installer download (yes, even the venerable 2.0 version comes with AIM). So are they actually removing the AIM installer from the Netscape installer or are they going to charge a fee for activating AIM?
Welcome to the USA. That'll be $32.65 for an airline debarking pass. Now that that's out of the way, it'll be $428.63 for us to give you luggage. What do you mean it's "your" luggage? Then you shouldn't have given it to us - $428.63 please. Fine then. Your arrival will cost you the same amount as the airline ticket you purchased to get here. C'mon... pay up. You don't want to face the deportation fees do you? Those will go onto your credit report. Is that one of those backward "euro style" single payor cell phones there? Who pays for the other portion of the call? Only one person pays? I'm sorry. That phone won't work here. There is a Cingular kiosk where you may purchase a new and fully financia... er... functional phone at the end of the corridor. Now, which corporate logos do you wish to endorse and evangilize during your stay?
Warning: if you have no idea what you are doing, don't even attempt any of this stuff. You could be killed and I'm not responsible. If you don't have any experience as an electrician, then get someone who does. Soldering Iron Required.
First, get an external CD-ROM drive. Get one that fits your needs and can function as a stand-alond CD player. I have a Panasonic PCMCIA one, which just happens to show up on the listing when I looked. If you want a single enclosure solution, you can build some sort of cradle for the portable CD drive to peek out of the top of your case via a hole. Be sure to leave enough area for the drive's door to open, but keep it snug enough to use weather stripping from your local hardware store to keep the dust or (ack!) liquids out. Plan this carefuly and do some research.
Now grab yourself some kind of amplifier or powered speakers (recommended). If you're really good, you got yourself a kit and added that to your custom case - advanced users only!
Just plug the headphone out of your CD drive into whatever you are using as an amplifier. Since you may want to use your computer's sound card for MP3s and such, get whatever kind of audio adapter you need to plug both the headphone from the CD drive and the sound card audio out into the amplifier/speakers. The ideal way to do this would be with a passive mixer which could lead to more case modding as well.
If you got a PCMCIA drive, then whatever computer you use should have the appropriate hardware if it's a laptop - make sure. USB may be better, but get whatever you like. This leaves it wide open for you to use any computer you wish.
The disadvantage of this idea is having three different things that want to be plugged into a wall. Don't go splicing electrical cables unless you have worked professionally as an electrician and can build out a transformer circuit.
Another disadvantage is that it could end up taking more space than you would like. That department's up to you. I don't have plans or anything, but I would probably make some kind of "flattish" enclosure with the motherboard to one side and the drives and else on the other. I don't think I would use any of the peripheral slots on the motherboard (all in one). You'll have to find a slim power supply, which may not be easy.
Just my 2 cents. Sounds like an interesting project. Good luck!
As someone who had a four year relationship end earlier this week, I can personally attest to the similarities to physical pain. A very timely peice for me... hrmph.
I remember that. Ironically, the reason that Parliament (originally The Parliaments) became Funkadelic, P-Funk and The P-Funk All Stars was a contract dispute with Revilot, a record label, over the name The Parliaments. Once again, Clinton is ahead of his time.
"Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time
For y'all have knocked her up.
I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe
I was not offended
For I knew I had to rise above it all
Or drown in my own shit.
" - George Clinton, Maggot Brain
Of course this is just the supply attempting to meet the demand for people who are deseperate need of thicker penises, more viciodin, and larger breasts.
Mid-way transgenders strung out on vicodin is a very scary thing. Definitely someone that I don't want to meet.
I mean, where else is little Cindy going to go for that latest Brittney Spears record?
You know, you just made me think of an interesting scenario. Imagine if artists couldn't or wouldn't be tied to a particular label by exclusive contract anymore. Brittany Spears could then release a couple of albums on different labels. Little Cindy would have more choice and so would the artist.
I know that it's a weird idea and probably has a million holes that can be punched through it, but it's still interesting to think about. I can easily see someone like Prince embracing such a scheme.
There's a solution we invented down here in Texas involving guns, tars and feathers and truckloads of dynamite.
Don't forget rope. You can't hang someone or draw and quarter them without rope. Rope is the vigilante's duct tape. It's good for everything. Especially spammers...
Speed and better transparency. Dedicating hardware to a process will usually relieve resources used by the system as well. Think of it like the advances in graphics. It used to be that OpenGL was rendered by software for most Windows NT users. I remember getting GLQuake to run at 12.5 frames per second and being stoked. Then along came the dedicated hardware (to the consumer at least). Suddenly 12.5 FPS was a joke and new and shiny features were added/enabled (GLQ runs at 300+ FPS on my GF2 card now and has blended shadows, colored lighting and fog).
I believe that this architecture may do the same for virtualization and make it truly reasonable to run real-time apps under multiple OSs without the hickups of today. I could then theoretically run Apache/POP3/DNS on the very same box as Active Directory/SQL Server/.Net without many problems - great for a small test environment. Eventually, the hardware might become small/portable and you could start to think of hand-held devices with multiple operating systems or functionalities. The manufacturing and testing industries would love such a device.
>>>Now when are readers of/. going to get story modding rights so we can remove this stuff from the front page?
When you pay for it, of course
(offtopic)I've offered many corrections, but so far none have been taken. It seems we pay to do what other folks do at/., blow hot air. Oh, and avoid some ads, see the articles early and get the special hidden features. I'm not saying that the subscription isn't worth it, just that error checking the "mysterious future" never seems to pan out.
By a coffee shop (unnamed Sacramento based wannabe Starbucks chain) that claimed that I just didn't fit in since I was wearing goth t-shirts and slacks to work (they said I was too bizarre - no kidding), just like the rest of the crew. As it turned out, they were trying to change their image and I was made into an example since I didn't get along with a supervisor that well. About 3 months later, they implemented a dress code. Imagine the look on my face back in 1989 (before the major coffee corporations and coffee shop dress codes or uniforms) when they told me I was being fired from a coffee shop for dressing strangely. Not only that, but I was being 86ed from the place because they were trying a new policy of not serving recent ex-employees - 86ed for 6 months! That's like firing a Tower employee for having peircings! Like firing a musician for getting stoned! Like firing an engineer for being a recluse!
I actually revelled in it because everyone else that worked there seemed to have to struggle to escape the lame jobs they had. Some languished for years there. I went on to play with computers and escape the coffee grind. Thanks Larva Corp.!
All a bunch of strawman arguments and meaningless drivel
Why thank you for this bold and revealing insight, Mr. Coward... Or do you prefered to be called Anonymous.
So get off your whiny ass and propose an alternative solution
The fisrt steps of an intelligent solution are fact finding and asking questions based on the given data. I admit that my question was a bit pointed, but it was asked in the spirit of holding the folks that made the promises of those men's heads accountable for their war drumming. I'm actually pretty politically active and work for a company with an active lobbyist (usually on the side of the greater good). You, on the other hand, won't even give an assumed name to post with so we can track your views. Feel free to go read the history of my comments. You'll probably find that I'm not the whiner that you speak of. If not, then it's your opinion and you are more than welcomed to it.
You bring up some very good points. I think that the major concern isn't the streamlining of procedure as much as how it effects due process. My major distrust of it is the slam dunk way in which it was enacted without any real debate.
As for the NYT, I don't even think they would make any good type of hat, so I'll just consider them complete asses:) I don't think they have any control of the case now that the FBI is involved though. Just like the Adobe/Skyklarov (sp?) DMCA case, once the enforcement genie is out of the bottle, it's hard as hell to get it to go back in.
Other than holding a bunch of foreign nationals in Cuba without being charged with crimes, investigate Paypal and prosecute one domestic terrorist, has the USA PATRIOT Act (goddawful acronym) been used for anti-terrorism efforts at all? How has this helped us track down Osama? How about Saddam? How about busting up just one real terrorist cell? It would seem that it's abused more than it is properly used. Another Act to illustrate how we Americans deal with a problem by applying our ideas to other problems instead.
All of those so called represntatives up on capitol hill that pushed this thing through should be ashamed of this abomination they have helped create. The only thing it's done to my patriotism is weaken it.
This reminds me of what we used to do when I worked retail. Page your target that they had a call on line 9 or 10. We had a phone system with 8 lines. It's best when you can see them grab a phone and look at it like it's not real. We had one guy that asked a manager if the one in the manager's office was line 10 and another guy who fell for the joke for years - we would give him time to forget, but it always worked. A related practical joke was to call Compaq tech support and page someone to the "64 minutes remaining" hold message. Some folks would sit there and wait. If they did, you could walk up and social engineer yourself some more fun.
To the same people: This game is still in early beta. I bet they haven't gotten much beyond the graphics working yet (it's not even a 0.5 version, so not even 1/2 way done). If you want to see them get it right, then go contribute to the project. I probably will.
When an open source project is this young, it's all what you make of it.
This is bound to be one hell of an interesting debate. I hope they at least do an archive webcast of it. It doesn't look like they're doing a live one.
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On a side note, does anyone see any security problems with the code so far? That's my only real worry. Also, should someone build some DB classes and hooks into this for an all-in-one type of addition. PHP can begin to be an include mess after a while (see previous statment about readable code), which I'd like to avoid.
Anyone who posts in the next hour or so that claims to have RTFA either just skimmed it or is lying. Happy reading!
Welcome to the USA. That'll be $32.65 for an airline debarking pass. Now that that's out of the way, it'll be $428.63 for us to give you luggage. What do you mean it's "your" luggage? Then you shouldn't have given it to us - $428.63 please. Fine then. Your arrival will cost you the same amount as the airline ticket you purchased to get here. C'mon... pay up. You don't want to face the deportation fees do you? Those will go onto your credit report. Is that one of those backward "euro style" single payor cell phones there? Who pays for the other portion of the call? Only one person pays? I'm sorry. That phone won't work here. There is a Cingular kiosk where you may purchase a new and fully financia... er... functional phone at the end of the corridor. Now, which corporate logos do you wish to endorse and evangilize during your stay?
First, get an external CD-ROM drive. Get one that fits your needs and can function as a stand-alond CD player. I have a Panasonic PCMCIA one, which just happens to show up on the listing when I looked. If you want a single enclosure solution, you can build some sort of cradle for the portable CD drive to peek out of the top of your case via a hole. Be sure to leave enough area for the drive's door to open, but keep it snug enough to use weather stripping from your local hardware store to keep the dust or (ack!) liquids out. Plan this carefuly and do some research.
Now grab yourself some kind of amplifier or powered speakers (recommended). If you're really good, you got yourself a kit and added that to your custom case - advanced users only!
Just plug the headphone out of your CD drive into whatever you are using as an amplifier. Since you may want to use your computer's sound card for MP3s and such, get whatever kind of audio adapter you need to plug both the headphone from the CD drive and the sound card audio out into the amplifier/speakers. The ideal way to do this would be with a passive mixer which could lead to more case modding as well.
If you got a PCMCIA drive, then whatever computer you use should have the appropriate hardware if it's a laptop - make sure. USB may be better, but get whatever you like. This leaves it wide open for you to use any computer you wish.
The disadvantage of this idea is having three different things that want to be plugged into a wall. Don't go splicing electrical cables unless you have worked professionally as an electrician and can build out a transformer circuit.
Another disadvantage is that it could end up taking more space than you would like. That department's up to you. I don't have plans or anything, but I would probably make some kind of "flattish" enclosure with the motherboard to one side and the drives and else on the other. I don't think I would use any of the peripheral slots on the motherboard (all in one). You'll have to find a slim power supply, which may not be easy.
Just my 2 cents. Sounds like an interesting project. Good luck!
As someone who had a four year relationship end earlier this week, I can personally attest to the similarities to physical pain. A very timely peice for me... hrmph.
"Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time
For y'all have knocked her up.
I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe
I was not offended
For I knew I had to rise above it all
Or drown in my own shit. "
- George Clinton, Maggot Brain
I know that it's a weird idea and probably has a million holes that can be punched through it, but it's still interesting to think about. I can easily see someone like Prince embracing such a scheme.
I believe that this architecture may do the same for virtualization and make it truly reasonable to run real-time apps under multiple OSs without the hickups of today. I could then theoretically run Apache/POP3/DNS on the very same box as Active Directory/SQL Server/.Net without many problems - great for a small test environment. Eventually, the hardware might become small/portable and you could start to think of hand-held devices with multiple operating systems or functionalities. The manufacturing and testing industries would love such a device.
0: "Hi, My name's 0 and I'm a recovering datum."
Crowd: "Hi 0."
I actually revelled in it because everyone else that worked there seemed to have to struggle to escape the lame jobs they had. Some languished for years there. I went on to play with computers and escape the coffee grind. Thanks Larva Corp.!
That's spooky. We posted that at the same exact time. What else are they putting in that ink?
Printer ink/toner. 'Nuff said.
As for the NYT, I don't even think they would make any good type of hat, so I'll just consider them complete asses :) I don't think they have any control of the case now that the FBI is involved though. Just like the Adobe/Skyklarov (sp?) DMCA case, once the enforcement genie is out of the bottle, it's hard as hell to get it to go back in.
All of those so called represntatives up on capitol hill that pushed this thing through should be ashamed of this abomination they have helped create. The only thing it's done to my patriotism is weaken it.
This reminds me of what we used to do when I worked retail. Page your target that they had a call on line 9 or 10. We had a phone system with 8 lines. It's best when you can see them grab a phone and look at it like it's not real. We had one guy that asked a manager if the one in the manager's office was line 10 and another guy who fell for the joke for years - we would give him time to forget, but it always worked. A related practical joke was to call Compaq tech support and page someone to the "64 minutes remaining" hold message. Some folks would sit there and wait. If they did, you could walk up and social engineer yourself some more fun.
When an open source project is this young, it's all what you make of it.
This is bound to be one hell of an interesting debate. I hope they at least do an archive webcast of it. It doesn't look like they're doing a live one.
Alex Trebek: No, I'm sorry we can't accept that answer as it wasn't in the form of a question. Subtract $1000 from your score.
If I didn't point that out, my grandmother - the avid Jeapordy! fan - would be doing cartwheels in her grave.