The stuff in this book is so simple that php.net and mysql.com would be better resources. I'll tell you what: if you can find me a book that tell me how to do proper database result caching in PHP/MySQL then I'll be impressed.
As it is now I end up writing a DB caching class for each app I write because I have to customize it so much to get any speed benefit (since you can't do any real caching). One method will not work on another app very well, depending on the number and types of queries.
IMO, Zend is holding PHP back. By crippling the language it forces you to buy the Zend Performance Suite to get good performance on an enterprise app. Unfortunately, this same crippling also makes making that enterprise app difficult and is why Java is better in the first place.
I hate doing "me too" posts, but gawd was that T-3 trailer horrible. The new Terminator is a woman and my favourite line from Arnie is, "She'll be back". Talk about lame.
"they get mindshare by having a Windows desktop displayed. That is worth something."
No, that's worth everything. I'd rather that everyone paid for Windows and then used Linux. Market share is more powerful for Microsoft than sales of their OS.
I'm pretty sure that with Citrix all the clients need software licenses as well. At least I think they do for MS apps. This should mean that there will be no licensing problems, assuming that the licenses used with Citrix can be used as local installations.
I don't believe that Nintendo-the-good would slap a silly new case on a GB and make no technological changes. Clearly, this is all-new technology. Probably 256-bit, or something.
But you fail to realize that the majority of ad-related decision makers are marketing people, who are inherently evil and stupid (I know, my boss is one).
My boss, for instance, is annoyed that we don't constantly have a popup on our site. Myself and the editor have resisted constantly, but eventually we're either going to have to come up with a better idea or give in. The problem with our ideas is that they aren't intrusive. Why do they need to be intrusive?
Well, we need to make money even though we're just the web site for a larger company that makes tons of money. Right now the site costs about $400,000/year to run and brings in about $350,000 almost entirely through advertising. Somehow we have to get advertisers to cough up at least $50,000 more per year and advertisers wan't views and clicks.
Unfortunately, the web makes it very easy to track exactly which response viewers have to ads, so the ads are held accountable for what kind of response they get. TV, on the other hand, has no reliable form of accountability for ad productiveness, so advertisers rely on incorrect aggregate data from Neilson (or another company) to determine how successful their ad is.
I just recently ran the installation script that comes with Knoppix. It's by far the easiest way to install Linux, and it's Debian to boot! The hardest decision was the partitioning, which would give a noob trouble, but I had the whole thing done from CD boot to Debian boot in under 30 minutes. While I don't think that the mandrake install is harder than the XP install, Knoppix beats them both.
Considering this, I hope that a Slashdot editor pulls the story or replaces the text with something explaining what happened. I work for a respected online news site and know all about journalistic integrity. Anybody can take a stand and not pull a story, but a real journalist knows when they've been burned and will swallow their pride and pull their story when they have to.
Editors, if the rest of the Slashdot crowd gets behind me, please replace this story with an explanation of what happened. Comments should be left intact.
A human from 5000 years ago probably couldn't grasp the concept of differential calculus, either. "Intelligence" in this context is as much about learning as capacity.
It's a good thing none of their CDs play on PCs or this might be bad.
I saw Nemesis on Wednesday night
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Critics Pan Nemesis
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· Score: 3, Informative
I was at a preview screening at Toronto's Paramount theater. Nemesis is not a great movie, but it's not bad.
There are at least 3 parts to this movie that are outright stupid. The whole audience actually laughed out loud at times. Other than that, it's a decent movie. I just don't think it lives up to the series. I'd rather have spent my 2 hours watching a couple TNG episodes instead.
Dude, this is the largest owner and provider of communication lines in Canada and likely one of the largest in the world. I know that they're not going to put their corporate web site on an OC-48 with a google-like server farm, but it's still just a little amusing to see a large corporate entity that conrols millions of TBs of bandwidth get/.ed.
This took place at Toronto's Union Station, which I walk through every day. Bell also has Internet phones mounted in place of regular phones in a few places there.
I've never used one of these Internet phones, but they're basically a regular phone with a larger colour LCD display, keyboard and laptop-like pointing device. It's a pretty cool idea, but I've never seen anybody use it and I wonder if very many people would pay for wireless Internet access in a train station where 99% of the people don't wait long for a train during rush hour.
Also of note, Bell's ISP, Sympatico, has stand-alone pay per minute Internet access terminals in the station. Why would Bell compete with itself on so many levels?
Even if they trust the studies, they still don't want this happening. The record companies want predictable sales and if many people are finding new artists on the web, sales become unpredictable.
At the moment, a record company knows what and how much will sell based on marketing and payola. Britney Spears will sell a lot because she has huge marketing and is payola backed to get her songs and videos played. What would happen if the next Spears album came out and no one knew about it, like what happens with most artists? Surely it wouldn't sell very well.
If the average teenybopper music buyer didn't have intelligence equal to that of driveway asphalt maybe we'd have a better music industry.
You are renting your cable modem. If you went out and paid $200 (or however much they are) for one and are still being charged this $5 then you have a legitimate complaint.
"I vote we deal with this when it's actually an issue"
Well, a giant asteroid is already on a collision course with Earth. We don't know where it is or when it will arrive. When exactly does this become an issue?
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The Last Comdex?
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· Score: 5, Interesting
My dad took me to my first Comdex many years ago. He had received free tickets as a business owner. When we got there my sometimes air-headed dad examined the ticket package, ripped off the "unimportant" parts of the paper, and threw the pieces in the garbage. Taking what he thought were the tickets up to the ticket collecter, we then found out that he had thrown out the ticket and kept the advertising crap that came with it.
"No problem," the nice lady said, "I'll get you new tickets."
I'll venture a guess and say that tickets weren't how they made money. Once the tech downturn hit I'm sure their booth revenue went way down. This doesn't surprise me one bit.
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The stuff in this book is so simple that php.net and mysql.com would be better resources. I'll tell you what: if you can find me a book that tell me how to do proper database result caching in PHP/MySQL then I'll be impressed.
As it is now I end up writing a DB caching class for each app I write because I have to customize it so much to get any speed benefit (since you can't do any real caching). One method will not work on another app very well, depending on the number and types of queries.
IMO, Zend is holding PHP back. By crippling the language it forces you to buy the Zend Performance Suite to get good performance on an enterprise app. Unfortunately, this same crippling also makes making that enterprise app difficult and is why Java is better in the first place.
I hate doing "me too" posts, but gawd was that T-3 trailer horrible. The new Terminator is a woman and my favourite line from Arnie is, "She'll be back". Talk about lame.
"they get mindshare by having a Windows desktop displayed. That is worth something."
No, that's worth everything. I'd rather that everyone paid for Windows and then used Linux. Market share is more powerful for Microsoft than sales of their OS.
I'm pretty sure that with Citrix all the clients need software licenses as well. At least I think they do for MS apps. This should mean that there will be no licensing problems, assuming that the licenses used with Citrix can be used as local installations.
I don't believe that Nintendo-the-good would slap a silly new case on a GB and make no technological changes. Clearly, this is all-new technology. Probably 256-bit, or something.
For a second I thought that the headline read "Murphy's Law Disputed". I was going to argue it bitterly.
We must foil is plans!
But you fail to realize that the majority of ad-related decision makers are marketing people, who are inherently evil and stupid (I know, my boss is one).
My boss, for instance, is annoyed that we don't constantly have a popup on our site. Myself and the editor have resisted constantly, but eventually we're either going to have to come up with a better idea or give in. The problem with our ideas is that they aren't intrusive. Why do they need to be intrusive?
Well, we need to make money even though we're just the web site for a larger company that makes tons of money. Right now the site costs about $400,000/year to run and brings in about $350,000 almost entirely through advertising. Somehow we have to get advertisers to cough up at least $50,000 more per year and advertisers wan't views and clicks.
Unfortunately, the web makes it very easy to track exactly which response viewers have to ads, so the ads are held accountable for what kind of response they get. TV, on the other hand, has no reliable form of accountability for ad productiveness, so advertisers rely on incorrect aggregate data from Neilson (or another company) to determine how successful their ad is.
Making money on the web is tough.
I just recently ran the installation script that comes with Knoppix. It's by far the easiest way to install Linux, and it's Debian to boot! The hardest decision was the partitioning, which would give a noob trouble, but I had the whole thing done from CD boot to Debian boot in under 30 minutes. While I don't think that the mandrake install is harder than the XP install, Knoppix beats them both.
Considering this, I hope that a Slashdot editor pulls the story or replaces the text with something explaining what happened. I work for a respected online news site and know all about journalistic integrity. Anybody can take a stand and not pull a story, but a real journalist knows when they've been burned and will swallow their pride and pull their story when they have to.
Editors, if the rest of the Slashdot crowd gets behind me, please replace this story with an explanation of what happened. Comments should be left intact.
A human from 5000 years ago probably couldn't grasp the concept of differential calculus, either. "Intelligence" in this context is as much about learning as capacity.
It's a good thing none of their CDs play on PCs or this might be bad.
I was at a preview screening at Toronto's Paramount theater. Nemesis is not a great movie, but it's not bad.
There are at least 3 parts to this movie that are outright stupid. The whole audience actually laughed out loud at times. Other than that, it's a decent movie. I just don't think it lives up to the series. I'd rather have spent my 2 hours watching a couple TNG episodes instead.
Dude, this is the largest owner and provider of communication lines in Canada and likely one of the largest in the world. I know that they're not going to put their corporate web site on an OC-48 with a google-like server farm, but it's still just a little amusing to see a large corporate entity that conrols millions of TBs of bandwidth get /.ed.
This took place at Toronto's Union Station, which I walk through every day. Bell also has Internet phones mounted in place of regular phones in a few places there.
I've never used one of these Internet phones, but they're basically a regular phone with a larger colour LCD display, keyboard and laptop-like pointing device. It's a pretty cool idea, but I've never seen anybody use it and I wonder if very many people would pay for wireless Internet access in a train station where 99% of the people don't wait long for a train during rush hour.
Also of note, Bell's ISP, Sympatico, has stand-alone pay per minute Internet access terminals in the station. Why would Bell compete with itself on so many levels?
Why was this modded as Insightful? It's funny, people, F-U-N-something-something.
Even if they trust the studies, they still don't want this happening. The record companies want predictable sales and if many people are finding new artists on the web, sales become unpredictable.
At the moment, a record company knows what and how much will sell based on marketing and payola. Britney Spears will sell a lot because she has huge marketing and is payola backed to get her songs and videos played. What would happen if the next Spears album came out and no one knew about it, like what happens with most artists? Surely it wouldn't sell very well.
If the average teenybopper music buyer didn't have intelligence equal to that of driveway asphalt maybe we'd have a better music industry.
At a quick glance I swear that it looked like the headline read: "Advances in Decentralized Beer Networks"
I was thinking, "The geeks have really gone too far this time."
That'll teach me not to hit 'reply' while drunk. *hic*
"I hit refresh continuously"
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Are you trying to
You are renting your cable modem. If you went out and paid $200 (or however much they are) for one and are still being charged this $5 then you have a legitimate complaint.
If an asteroid hits a Taco Bell target and nobody is left alive to give out free tacos, is it still a good marketing decision?
"I vote we deal with this when it's actually an issue"
Well, a giant asteroid is already on a collision course with Earth. We don't know where it is or when it will arrive. When exactly does this become an issue?
My dad took me to my first Comdex many years ago. He had received free tickets as a business owner. When we got there my sometimes air-headed dad examined the ticket package, ripped off the "unimportant" parts of the paper, and threw the pieces in the garbage. Taking what he thought were the tickets up to the ticket collecter, we then found out that he had thrown out the ticket and kept the advertising crap that came with it.
"No problem," the nice lady said, "I'll get you new tickets."
I'll venture a guess and say that tickets weren't how they made money. Once the tech downturn hit I'm sure their booth revenue went way down. This doesn't surprise me one bit.
I lucked out. Imagine my last name was McDonald? I wouldn't be able to refer to anything in the possessive!