I like to at least *know* someone is calling when they call. If it's important (like I'm expecting a call from a client), I can pull into a gas station and call them back. If the damn thing is off, I might not know they called for 45 minutes or more. I'm not going to answer it while driving, but I at least want to hear it ring.
"it's really fun when a stoned pilot decides to visit your BBQ by crashing in your yard." <p> Yeah. Because no one's ever driven an SUV into a BBQ or through the front of someone's house. Exactly how much "fitness to drive" regulation is there on cars? <p> Consider that the average SUV probably weighs 2 - 2.5 <b>tons</b> vs the maximum for a plane under this license: 1,320 pounds or just over half a ton. An SUV is going to plenty more damage. <p> Also consider that a "stoned" driver or pilot is already operating outside the regulation. Like with a lot of things, if it's already illegal, and people are doing it anyway, either the law needs to be changed or enforcement needs to be stepped up. You don't need additional regulation. <p> P.S. How exactly do you kill a bunch of people without it being "serious"?;)
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I've found that it's a general rule that a given genre's fans are way more restrictive than the artists themselves in what they consider great music.
I've found that those who are least impressed with tabbed browsing are also those who rarely have that many apps/windows open. I currently have 21 windows open and sitting in my task bar and only 1 of those is Mozilla (which has 8 tabs open). ALT-Tabbing through 21 windows is a huge pain and 29 would be worse. Similarly, I already run a double-height task bar to be able to see what's running and even that can occasionally fill up.
I personally like the fact that my "web browsing" task is wrapped up in a single entry in my task bar as is my "text editing" (text editor with 19 files open right now), my email, etc. This actually embodies the purpose of a "task" bar in my mind.
I am and said so. Dish advertises their pay-per-view service as "Dish on Demand", when it's little more than a couple of dozen 24 hour movie channels that only run one movie in a given day.
If you read my comment, I said "On Dish (which is what I have)". The parent comment said that it was everywhere, including Dish. As I'm a subscriber to that service, I used that service to explain why on demand is a misnomer for their service, given that they call it "Dish on Demand". As I don't have digital cable, I wasn't *trying* to speak for all potential television services.
As cheap as $2? Where are you buying blank DVD's? Depending on quality, places like Meritline.com are selling DVD-R's for under $0.40 each in 100 or 200 unit spindles.
But that's not really on demand (despite the marketing). On Dish (what I've got), those channels are just restricted channels that show the same movie 24 hours a day. You still have to start watching them at the time they start. Granted, it's fairly convenient that the same movie starts every half hour or so on one or more channels, but it's still not on demand.
Real video on demand is the ability to choose any movie from a library like Netflix has and start watching it at the exact moment I want to. Or, for example, say I want to watch a particular episode of the Simpsons from season 5. HBO On Demand on digital cable comes closer with the ability to watch older episodes of Sopranos, etc. However, it's still very limited.
Mine? No. The tons of people that get completely locked down when another./er shows up and blocks everything? Yes. The simple reality is that lots of people are starting to block absolutely everything in order to prevent infection.
Besides, if the app is a simple one, but needs to be secure, avoiding sending packets at all is a good thing and avoiding having to install a web server makes for a simpler install.
That's how I'm emulating it. Onsubmit, the form's action value gets used as the processing script and it reads in the form object, making a name=value, ini-style file. The javascript then executes the appropriate script and waits for the script to finish. It then reads in the output of the script and acts on it. I thought that that process would be ridiculously slow, but it's just as fast as any web app. My goal was to make it as "web-like" as possible, while eliminating the web server. It's not the only way to skin this highly inappropriate cat. Basically, you just need a communication layer between your HTML/Javascript and your PHP. I used the lowest common denominator, the filesystem, since both Javascript(through COM in HTA) and PHP can access it easily.
Well, on my blog, when I came up with this, I called it another Frankenstein project that I did because I could, not because it's a good idea.
I'm emulating POST because I'm not sending the data to any web server anywhere. Rather, I'm taking the data in the form and passing it to an arbitrary commandline. In this case, it's "php-cli.exe formprocessor.php", which receives the contents of the fake POST. If it was HTA->web server, it wouldn't be any different than a normal web app. However, this gives you completely local PHP apps without having to open a single port in any firewall, while still retaining the HTML form method of building forms. It's a complete hybrid.
I do an *awful* lot of commandline scripting and have an experimental demo of doing PHP with HTA's as a GUI, giving you PHP without a web server, but with a GUI and still using HTML as the GUI language. It's actually pretty slick. You can build HTML forms that are processed by PHP scripts just like they would going through a web server, but run on the commandline instead. It emulates POST and I'm working on emulating XML-RPC next. I'm calling it PHUI (PHP HTA UI) toolkit.
I'm in St. Paul, MN. I do live on a busy street, but I've seen this lots of places.
Funnily enough, I know of someone who was refinishing their kitchen floor and put the dining room set on the front lawn to make room. A couple of hours later someone came to the door and looked kind of sheepish. Apparently, they'd taken the whole set, gotten a few blocks away and thought that maybe there might be a real reason for it all sitting out and turned around to return it. Otherwise, they'd have gone off with it.
Set it on the curb. People take even the stuff I intend to leave for the trash removal people. Last week, I put out a box that had nothing but old manuals (for things like calculators, refrigerators, etc.), a pile of old floppy discs and a 2GB hard drive that you couldn't see from the top. I put it out there for trash removal and someone stopped and grabbed the box.
Never underestimate allowing theft as a disposal method. If you don't own a house or access to a busy street, consider leaving it on the trunk of your car while in the mall.
I actually don't even have to put a price tag on it or wait until dark. I just haul it into the front yard or near the curb and it's gone within 2 hours. I'm amazed at the crap I've gotten rid of that way. The funny thing is that the people who take it are *always* grinning ear to ear, like they just won the freaking lottery. I figure if I can make someone's day and get rid of it, it's a 2 way win.
You could easily add it to Squid. Use one of the external handlers to "filter" URL's. Just always return "true" and pass the URL on to the AI script. I've got one partially finished that will check if the requested URL has ever been visited before, and if not, add it to my list of sites to be categorized for filtering. Similar concept, but I'm using it for site blocking rather than searching.
I've always operated on similar principles, both at work and at home. In general, I give my attention to people in order of how much effort they exerted to be talking to me. So, in person trumps phone which trumps IM or email, etc. If you're standing in person in my office and the phone rings, I will NOT answer it. However, I'm amazed how many people will answer the phone when I'm in the middle of talking to them, even if they don't know who it is. I've always hated that.
I've always considered this principle to be common courtesy.
Actually, even if you're not a student or teacher, you can legally buy Office 2003 Basic (just Word, Excel and Outlook, which is all most people need) for about $135 at all kinds of places online.
Without question, I'd rather have my pay reduced. See, if my $100 telecom costs are paid and I just don't get that $100, I also don't pay 33% in taxes, which means I didn't have to take $150 out of my gross check to pay the same $100 bill. With the difference, I've got $50 gross more a month in my check. Same thing with bus passes and any other "benefit" that could conceivably be legitimately paid by an employer. Even if I still have to pay for it, if it can be paid with pre-tax dollars, it's like knocking 33% off the price.
Every April, I want to run around and stamp that into people's foreheads as they are so desperately trying to spend on stuff they don't even want just to get the tax deduction. Worst of all, it seems like the accountants are egging them on the whole time.
That's cool because you actually know why you're doing it. I just see this so often where people have no clue what's going on and do things like, "We don't need to generate thumbnails, we'll just scale the 6 megapixel raw camera image in the gallery." and proceed to put 40 "thumbnails" on a page.
PLEASE don't "scale" images with the IMG tag's height and width. You're still forcing visitors to download the full 1200x1600 image and 4x more data than necessary. This is the cause of way too many 3MB web pages with nothing but a few diagrams on them.
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I like to at least *know* someone is calling when they call. If it's important (like I'm expecting a call from a client), I can pull into a gas station and call them back. If the damn thing is off, I might not know they called for 45 minutes or more. I'm not going to answer it while driving, but I at least want to hear it ring.
"it's really fun when a stoned pilot decides to visit your BBQ by crashing in your yard." ;)
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Yeah. Because no one's ever driven an SUV into a BBQ or through the front of someone's house. Exactly how much "fitness to drive" regulation is there on cars?
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Consider that the average SUV probably weighs 2 - 2.5 <b>tons</b> vs the maximum for a plane under this license: 1,320 pounds or just over half a ton. An SUV is going to plenty more damage.
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Also consider that a "stoned" driver or pilot is already operating outside the regulation. Like with a lot of things, if it's already illegal, and people are doing it anyway, either the law needs to be changed or enforcement needs to be stepped up. You don't need additional regulation.
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P.S. How exactly do you kill a bunch of people without it being "serious"?
I've found that it's a general rule that a given genre's fans are way more restrictive than the artists themselves in what they consider great music.
Elvis is living in a nursing home fighting soul-sucking mummies with a black guy who thinks he's JFK.
I've found that those who are least impressed with tabbed browsing are also those who rarely have that many apps/windows open. I currently have 21 windows open and sitting in my task bar and only 1 of those is Mozilla (which has 8 tabs open). ALT-Tabbing through 21 windows is a huge pain and 29 would be worse. Similarly, I already run a double-height task bar to be able to see what's running and even that can occasionally fill up.
I personally like the fact that my "web browsing" task is wrapped up in a single entry in my task bar as is my "text editing" (text editor with 19 files open right now), my email, etc. This actually embodies the purpose of a "task" bar in my mind.
I am and said so. Dish advertises their pay-per-view service as "Dish on Demand", when it's little more than a couple of dozen 24 hour movie channels that only run one movie in a given day.
If you read my comment, I said "On Dish (which is what I have)". The parent comment said that it was everywhere, including Dish. As I'm a subscriber to that service, I used that service to explain why on demand is a misnomer for their service, given that they call it "Dish on Demand". As I don't have digital cable, I wasn't *trying* to speak for all potential television services.
As cheap as $2? Where are you buying blank DVD's? Depending on quality, places like Meritline.com are selling DVD-R's for under $0.40 each in 100 or 200 unit spindles.
But that's not really on demand (despite the marketing). On Dish (what I've got), those channels are just restricted channels that show the same movie 24 hours a day. You still have to start watching them at the time they start. Granted, it's fairly convenient that the same movie starts every half hour or so on one or more channels, but it's still not on demand.
Real video on demand is the ability to choose any movie from a library like Netflix has and start watching it at the exact moment I want to. Or, for example, say I want to watch a particular episode of the Simpsons from season 5. HBO On Demand on digital cable comes closer with the ability to watch older episodes of Sopranos, etc. However, it's still very limited.
Mine? No. The tons of people that get completely locked down when another ./er shows up and blocks everything? Yes. The simple reality is that lots of people are starting to block absolutely everything in order to prevent infection.
Besides, if the app is a simple one, but needs to be secure, avoiding sending packets at all is a good thing and avoiding having to install a web server makes for a simpler install.
That's how I'm emulating it. Onsubmit, the form's action value gets used as the processing script and it reads in the form object, making a name=value, ini-style file. The javascript then executes the appropriate script and waits for the script to finish. It then reads in the output of the script and acts on it. I thought that that process would be ridiculously slow, but it's just as fast as any web app. My goal was to make it as "web-like" as possible, while eliminating the web server. It's not the only way to skin this highly inappropriate cat. Basically, you just need a communication layer between your HTML/Javascript and your PHP. I used the lowest common denominator, the filesystem, since both Javascript(through COM in HTA) and PHP can access it easily.
Well, on my blog, when I came up with this, I called it another Frankenstein project that I did because I could, not because it's a good idea.
I'm emulating POST because I'm not sending the data to any web server anywhere. Rather, I'm taking the data in the form and passing it to an arbitrary commandline. In this case, it's "php-cli.exe formprocessor.php", which receives the contents of the fake POST. If it was HTA->web server, it wouldn't be any different than a normal web app. However, this gives you completely local PHP apps without having to open a single port in any firewall, while still retaining the HTML form method of building forms. It's a complete hybrid.
I do an *awful* lot of commandline scripting and have an experimental demo of doing PHP with HTA's as a GUI, giving you PHP without a web server, but with a GUI and still using HTML as the GUI language. It's actually pretty slick. You can build HTML forms that are processed by PHP scripts just like they would going through a web server, but run on the commandline instead. It emulates POST and I'm working on emulating XML-RPC next. I'm calling it PHUI (PHP HTA UI) toolkit.
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If you use Windows and want to put your executable under GPL (the mmcache DLL has to be distributed with it), you can use PriadoBlender< /a>. It isn't technically compiling it, but you end up with a standalone EXE and the PHP code isn't in plain text. I'm currently working on a version of Priadoblender that uses the Bcompiler extension instead, which will remove the GPL requirement.
I'm in St. Paul, MN. I do live on a busy street, but I've seen this lots of places.
Funnily enough, I know of someone who was refinishing their kitchen floor and put the dining room set on the front lawn to make room. A couple of hours later someone came to the door and looked kind of sheepish. Apparently, they'd taken the whole set, gotten a few blocks away and thought that maybe there might be a real reason for it all sitting out and turned around to return it. Otherwise, they'd have gone off with it.
Set it on the curb. People take even the stuff I intend to leave for the trash removal people. Last week, I put out a box that had nothing but old manuals (for things like calculators, refrigerators, etc.), a pile of old floppy discs and a 2GB hard drive that you couldn't see from the top. I put it out there for trash removal and someone stopped and grabbed the box.
Never underestimate allowing theft as a disposal method. If you don't own a house or access to a busy street, consider leaving it on the trunk of your car while in the mall.
I actually don't even have to put a price tag on it or wait until dark. I just haul it into the front yard or near the curb and it's gone within 2 hours. I'm amazed at the crap I've gotten rid of that way. The funny thing is that the people who take it are *always* grinning ear to ear, like they just won the freaking lottery. I figure if I can make someone's day and get rid of it, it's a 2 way win.
You could easily add it to Squid. Use one of the external handlers to "filter" URL's. Just always return "true" and pass the URL on to the AI script. I've got one partially finished that will check if the requested URL has ever been visited before, and if not, add it to my list of sites to be categorized for filtering. Similar concept, but I'm using it for site blocking rather than searching.
I've always operated on similar principles, both at work and at home. In general, I give my attention to people in order of how much effort they exerted to be talking to me. So, in person trumps phone which trumps IM or email, etc. If you're standing in person in my office and the phone rings, I will NOT answer it. However, I'm amazed how many people will answer the phone when I'm in the middle of talking to them, even if they don't know who it is. I've always hated that.
I've always considered this principle to be common courtesy.
Actually, even if you're not a student or teacher, you can legally buy Office 2003 Basic (just Word, Excel and Outlook, which is all most people need) for about $135 at all kinds of places online.
Without question, I'd rather have my pay reduced. See, if my $100 telecom costs are paid and I just don't get that $100, I also don't pay 33% in taxes, which means I didn't have to take $150 out of my gross check to pay the same $100 bill. With the difference, I've got $50 gross more a month in my check. Same thing with bus passes and any other "benefit" that could conceivably be legitimately paid by an employer. Even if I still have to pay for it, if it can be paid with pre-tax dollars, it's like knocking 33% off the price.
"Spend a dollar to earn $.35"
Every April, I want to run around and stamp that into people's foreheads as they are so desperately trying to spend on stuff they don't even want just to get the tax deduction. Worst of all, it seems like the accountants are egging them on the whole time.
That's cool because you actually know why you're doing it. I just see this so often where people have no clue what's going on and do things like, "We don't need to generate thumbnails, we'll just scale the 6 megapixel raw camera image in the gallery." and proceed to put 40 "thumbnails" on a page.
PLEASE don't "scale" images with the IMG tag's height and width. You're still forcing visitors to download the full 1200x1600 image and 4x more data than necessary. This is the cause of way too many 3MB web pages with nothing but a few diagrams on them.