Besides, why use Perl with MySQL when PHP exists? Isn't PHP designed around MySQL? I haven't used it, but it can't possibly be as painful as Perl.
One time for kicks I wrote a small bulletin-board engine in Perl+MySQL. A few years later I re-wrote it from scratch with JSP/Servlets+MySQL. Guess which took an order of magnitude less development time?:-)
Well, if all you are doing is downloading, and you're not making your downloads available for upload, will this software catch you? Is the MPAA going after downloaders or just uploaders?
When I use P2P, I leech. Not because I'm a bad person, but because I don't particularly feel like being sued. I do make copyright-free material available for downloadm though.
This is not a recommended pattern. Once an instance of Slut is created, the same instance is used for every call. Thus, *every* Geek object is going to be using the *same* instance of Slut, and you could end up... um... unprotected from any bugs that exist in the other Geeks. That is, unless you're real careful about shielding your code, and vigilant about unit testing.
Remember when tech experts said that paper was going to disappear, and everything was going to be electronic? With notebooks and PDAs and TabletPCs and so forth, why would we want anything on paper?
And yet, still, most people will print out and keep a hard copy of anything of length that they want to read or hold on to.
Star Wars movies are becoming like a horrific accident scene. Terrifying and excruciatingly painful, yet we feel compelled to watch. I'd like to do a survey:
1. What percentage of geeks expect to see EpIII? 2. Of those going to see EpIII, what percentage expect it to be anything other than a suckfest?
Anticipated answers:
1. 95% 2. 1%
If GL makes VII-IX, you KNOW everyone is going to go. How can he pass up the chance to make that much money on what amounts to another 9 years of playing with cool toys without any need to work on boring stuff like sympathetic characters or realistic dialog?
14 Windows systems, whose interface is a bore, 11 DOS OSes, from the days of yore. 11 systems scattered across the sundry lands, 7 real-time systems, in mission-critical hands.
Three OSes for those who teach, and those who will to learn, Three for the Big Blue Demon, from which he could not earn. Three of the Small Red Demon, plus one for the Penguin Tux, One for desktop publishers, whose software costs big bucks.
One OS to rule them all, one OS to find them, One OS to emulate them all, and on the hard drive bind them. In the land of G5, where the cycles fly...
There is one way to prevent digital copying. Require that anything that can process a digital media signal (hardware or software) be enclosed in a black box in which the only access to the signal is with a valid decryption key, and the only output is analog. Then you make "reverse engineering" of any such device illegal.
This, of course, makes Linux illegal. Unless all access to hard drives and similar hardware is enclosed in a closed-source, black-box interface layer. The effective end of open source.
I'm hoping the electronics industry will never go for it, but considering the recent news about Phoenix ditching BIOS in favor of "Trusted Computing," that hope is rapidly fading.
We need to do something before the right to hack stuff is completely taken away.
I wonder how many others (than me) are seriously considering moving to debian
Installed Slack 9.1 on all my boxen over the weekend. Well, ok, my wife did a lot of the installs. Slack is up to Kernel 2.4.22 and Gnome 2.4 out of the box. Check it out!
Whether there is one legal department for all of Microsoft, or separate ones for each division of the company, this is the department that is in charge of keeping track of things like trademarks. Domain names fall into this category. They are most likely the ones to blame for this oversight.
This is a US and Canada story. I notice it has the USA topic/icon, but not a Canada topic/icon. Is there a topic icon for Canada? What should the Canada icon look like?
-The Canadian flag?
-A maple leaf?
-A Mountie hat?
-A hockey stick/puck?
-Celine Dion's head?
I would argue far more so. I think the Clinton administration busted the myth of the 'tax and spend liberal Democrat' pretty well...
Ehem. Clinton was BY NO MEANS a "liberal Democrat." He was a centrist... I would go so far as to call him a center-right Democrat. Cases in point:
-NAFTA
-"Most Favored" trade status for China
-Military action in Bosnia, Somalia
-Keeping the openly gay out of the military (don't ask, don't tell)
(I could think of many, many more if I had the time)
What I meant was it seems to sell pretty well being called Wi-Fi.
Very true, but I bet you the "Wi-Fi" name is causing more confusion than sales. I mean, to me, it sounds like something that I plug into my stereo. Usually, they just revert to the tried-and-true "Ethernet" name for clarity:
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The Microsoft charity licensing is pretty nice. The non-profit I do IT for can get Office XP Pro at $62/seat.
Of course, these days, what with OO.o, Mozilla Mail, Trillian, Gimp, etc, there is becoming less and less of a need to purchase commercial software.
One time for kicks I wrote a small bulletin-board engine in Perl+MySQL. A few years later I re-wrote it from scratch with JSP/Servlets+MySQL. Guess which took an order of magnitude less development time? :-)
HA! Not if Novell has anything to say about it! IPX/SPX 4 EVER!!!!
Oh, wait, Novell doesn't have anything to say about it.
Professional litigators have friends? ;-)
Well, if all you are doing is downloading, and you're not making your downloads available for upload, will this software catch you? Is the MPAA going after downloaders or just uploaders?
When I use P2P, I leech. Not because I'm a bad person, but because I don't particularly feel like being sued. I do make copyright-free material available for downloadm though.
I get around the problem by tightly coupling myself to a FEMALE. What I sacrifice in reusability I gain in stability.
This is not a recommended pattern. Once an instance of Slut is created, the same instance is used for every call. Thus, *every* Geek object is going to be using the *same* instance of Slut, and you could end up... um... unprotected from any bugs that exist in the other Geeks. That is, unless you're real careful about shielding your code, and vigilant about unit testing.
I would much rather use a Factory pattern.
subliminal CDs listen to YOU!
It is my theory that the Euro itself was an April Fool's joke from 1999 gone horribly, horribly wrong.
It was called "C".
Remember when tech experts said that paper was going to disappear, and everything was going to be electronic? With notebooks and PDAs and TabletPCs and so forth, why would we want anything on paper?
And yet, still, most people will print out and keep a hard copy of anything of length that they want to read or hold on to.
Look at all of the newer technologies today that are:
1. Easier to read
2. Easier to code
3. Object-oriented
4. Facilitate MVC-type architecture
With Python, PHP, J2EE, and so forth, why is Perl still around?
Disney is dying.
Star Wars movies are becoming like a horrific accident scene. Terrifying and excruciatingly painful, yet we feel compelled to watch. I'd like to do a survey:
1. What percentage of geeks expect to see EpIII?
2. Of those going to see EpIII, what percentage expect it to be anything other than a suckfest?
Anticipated answers:
1. 95%
2. 1%
If GL makes VII-IX, you KNOW everyone is going to go. How can he pass up the chance to make that much money on what amounts to another 9 years of playing with cool toys without any need to work on boring stuff like sympathetic characters or realistic dialog?
14 Windows systems, whose interface is a bore,
11 DOS OSes, from the days of yore.
11 systems scattered across the sundry lands,
7 real-time systems, in mission-critical hands.
Three OSes for those who teach, and those who will to learn,
Three for the Big Blue Demon, from which he could not earn.
Three of the Small Red Demon, plus one for the Penguin Tux,
One for desktop publishers, whose software costs big bucks.
One OS to rule them all, one OS to find them,
One OS to emulate them all, and on the hard drive bind them.
In the land of G5, where the cycles fly...
This, of course, makes Linux illegal. Unless all access to hard drives and similar hardware is enclosed in a closed-source, black-box interface layer. The effective end of open source.
I'm hoping the electronics industry will never go for it, but considering the recent news about Phoenix ditching BIOS in favor of "Trusted Computing," that hope is rapidly fading.
We need to do something before the right to hack stuff is completely taken away.
Damn, that was funny.
Installed Slack 9.1 on all my boxen over the weekend. Well, ok, my wife did a lot of the installs. Slack is up to Kernel 2.4.22 and Gnome 2.4 out of the box. Check it out!
Seriously, this review belongs in the "It's funny, laugh" department.
Although the impending RHL EOL is not all that "funny" to me....
Solaris????
...that *BSD isn't dying. 30% of presidential candidates use it, after all!
Whether there is one legal department for all of Microsoft, or separate ones for each division of the company, this is the department that is in charge of keeping track of things like trademarks. Domain names fall into this category. They are most likely the ones to blame for this oversight.
-The Canadian flag?
-A maple leaf?
-A Mountie hat?
-A hockey stick/puck?
-Celine Dion's head?
Any other ideas?
Ehem. Clinton was BY NO MEANS a "liberal Democrat." He was a centrist... I would go so far as to call him a center-right Democrat. Cases in point:
-NAFTA
-"Most Favored" trade status for China
-Military action in Bosnia, Somalia
-Keeping the openly gay out of the military (don't ask, don't tell)
(I could think of many, many more if I had the time)
Very true, but I bet you the "Wi-Fi" name is causing more confusion than sales. I mean, to me, it sounds like something that I plug into my stereo. Usually, they just revert to the tried-and-true "Ethernet" name for clarity:
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.asp?EDC=2 82320