In case you are illiterate, I provided a solution using both IE and Firefox/Mozilla. I based the solution on a technology that appeared *1st* in IE and also works in Mozilla, with a simple wrapper. I did NOT exclude Firefox, which is my primary browser, specifically because I am entirely aware of what freaking year it is and what the cutting edge technology is.
However, until you provide an RBL translator for IE (see, the RBL wrapper that enables HTC's on Mozilla *already exists* and is free), my solution covers the full 94.5% you list, while any RBL solution excludes 28.4% on your site and as much as 95% on other sites.
Have fun in your cutting edge utopia, I'll stick to providing solutions that work in the real world, while at the same time leveraging cutting edge stuff.
That's where the whole concept of whatever the Constitution doesn't cover is left to the states. That principle was hotly debated and held as a pretty high ideal in early American history. Eventually, the lightning rod issue for the sovereignty of the individual states became slavery. However, while that wasn't the only "states rights" issue being argued in the 1860's, it ended up being the one that effectively ended the era of individual states being left to regulate themselves on issues not addressed directly by the Constitution by virtue of the end result of the American Civil War.
Because of the obvious issues surrounding slavery itself, the federal vs. state issue often takes a back seat when discussing that era. I think that, had the slavery issue been settled in any other way than war (like the southern states outlawing it on their own), the federal vs. state discussion would have shaped the United States in a very different way. There are quite a few scholars who say that slavery would have likely ended for economic and outright moral outrage within a few decades without the war, it's an interesting area of speculation.
We're seeing a resurfacing of this concept with things like gay marriage, medical marijuana, assisted suicide, stem cell research, ten commandments in local government buildings (you thought I was only going to address "liberal" issues didn't you?:) ), etc. with individual states making things legal in their state that all of the rest still have illegal. The end up battling the federal jurisdiction in the Supreme Court, but it's a related tension to the one that goes back to the very founding of this country.
However, that demise still mystifies me. How can a site that is *nothing but ads people voluntarily watch* fail? They were running the very same ads that the advertisers were paying huge dollars to air on television, oftentimes aired to an empty couch. Yet, this site couldn't figure out how to make money with people voluntarily downloading commercials.
In general, no one believes anyone on either extreme. The problem is the huge chasm between "every download is a lost sale" and "every download leads to an extra sale". That gray area is where all of the fighting is.
I use it quite a bit with PHP on Windows. The scripts I use the most are my X-to-PDF convertors for DOC, HTML, XLS, etc. I also use it to do invoices, etc. easily.
I rewrote PHPTriad, securing the default password for root and did so 3 years ago. The new product is Sokkit. However, Sourceforge won't let me take PHPTriad down, point to the new commercial version or in any way indicate the project has been shut down.
The only reason I left it alone in the old PHPTriad package was that was how MySQL themselves ship the setup. The official MYSQL binaries have (unless it's changed very recently) *no* password on the root account unless you deliberately go and change it.
Even today, I get constant complaints because I secure the root account, even though I ask them to supply the password.
I rewrote PHPTriad, securing the default password for root and did so 3 years ago. The new product is Sokkit. However, Sourceforge won't let me take PHPTriad down, point to the new commercial version or in any way indicate the project has been shut down.
The only reason I left it alone in the old PHPTriad package was that was how MySQL themselves ship the setup. The official MYSQL binaries have (unless it's changed very recently) *no* password on the root account unless you deliberately go and change it.
Even today, I get constant complaints because I secure the root account, even though I ask them to supply the password.
Then do you also sign the receipt with "please see id"? Because, given the ease with which many state ID cards are forged, checking the name on the card with the name on some sort of ID is less of an indication that the card is owned by the presenter than if the already signed card is signed in the same way as the presenter signs.
If I steal your wallet and the cards are signed "please see id", all I need to do is print out a quick fake ID with your name, but my signature of your name and my picture and unless someone's good at checking out of state ID's, no one will even notice. If your wallet is full of signed cards, I have to risk signing in front of the cashier and having it look nothing like the back.
The flip side of pretty much every cardholder agreement is that unless the card is signed, it's not even valid. So, technically, the merchant should be entirely refusing the transaction for all of the "see id" crowd.
When I worked in retail, I often didn't check the ID (because I'd already checked it for a given customer 3-4 times before and have a pretty good memory) and occasionally would get yelled at with the exact argument you mention, i.e. the store in violation of their merchant agreement. They didn't like it when I threw the fact that they were also in violation each and every time we even ran the card through our store.
While a nice thought, it's not really as safe as you'd like to believe. More than once already, I've seen a site pop up an XPI installer asking for permission. In one of those cases, someone else was at the keyboard and just clicked without missing a beat. Didn't read it or anything. Any browser with any sort of extension mechanism is vulnerable to people just OK'ing whatever they're asked and allowing the installation.
But, but, but, but if I quietly ignore the thread, I won't get my "Pedantic Linux Geek" merit badge. Once I get that one, Susie, this girl in my homeroom, promised she'd go to the movies with me.
While not exactly the greatest movie ever put down on acetate, the movie "Payback" with Mel Gibson features a wierd phone trend. Every single phone in the movie, including those in the cars, is an old, black Bell rotary dial phone.
That's what I do and use Gmail as an archive of what I've said. It's offsite and password protected, but easily fetched and searched when someone "quotes" me.
You had better be prepared to offer some solution other than Thunderbird for integrated calendaring, tasks/to do's and coordinated resource scheduling because, while I love Thunderbird and use it for much of my email, I still use Outlook for my *work* because, and I've said this before, Outlook is NOT an email client.
Rather, it's a personal organization suite that happens to contain an email component. It cannot be replaced with something that is only an email client.
*That's* the problem I remember from earlier setups. Basically, you have to *install* it as an administrator so that it can *run* as a non-administrator.
That's a problem for users in a corporate environment where they aren't authorized to create users on their workstations.
I actually use SQLite in a lot of places that people use MySQL. A lot of the time, data that's shoved into MySQL would work just fine in a flat file of some sort (i.e. it's in a single table and doesn't change much). However, SQL is a nice way to find things and doesn't requires writing your own parser for your new data format. SQLite basically gives you a single file that's your database and SQL to interface with it. Since the database is self-contained, it can be moved around, easily backed up and replaced/upgraded, etc. It can be included with the web application without having to do an SQL dump, etc.
For those that haven't seen it, there's a guy who's done something similar with MetaL, his meta programming language in XML that generates several existing languages out of it.
Median salary for a massage therapist in the US is $2,385/month.
Incidentally, a full-time chef for an institution is $1,510/month. And, a chauffer costs $1,540/month.
In short, you can add a full-time massage therapist, chef and chauffer to your payroll for under $65,000/yr. I know there have been more than one project that would have been far better off ditching a developer and replacing them with those 3 instead.
Right. However, if you're going to attack the fundamentalists, do so with the *real* flaws in the Bible, not this nitpicky stuff.
If you were to criticize government spending, you'd aim for the biggest wastes, not the fact that the guy at your local town hall triple staples everything. Is triple stapling technically a waste of spending? Yes. Is it a useful cricicism in the face of multi-million dollar wastes? Absolutely not.
The whole pi = 3 thing is just stupid since *most* ancient documents didn't exactly use decimal precision in their math.
Sorry, my bad. I declared the diameter as an int and not as a float.
While I'm a Deist who doesn't defend the Bible, this one is just a stupid criticism. Given that a "cubit" is the length of a man's forearm from finger to elbow, we're not exactly talking about a uniform measurement. I pretty much guarantee that the difference between "cubits" renders the decimal rounding moot.
It's not like decimal math exists in the Bible or most non-mathematical documents from the era.
If you're going to criticize a document, at least attack it's biggest flaws first. This one's so far down on the list as to be pointless to even bring up.
"I like how Apple suggests on their Macmini page that programmers should get one and a KVM switch, and put it on top of their PC. "
That's pretty much the first thing I thought when I heard about this thing. I don't have room in my existing setup for another full-blown PC, but this thing could be tucked just about anywhere and give me another platform for working.
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In case you are illiterate, I provided a solution using both IE and Firefox/Mozilla. I based the solution on a technology that appeared *1st* in IE and also works in Mozilla, with a simple wrapper. I did NOT exclude Firefox, which is my primary browser, specifically because I am entirely aware of what freaking year it is and what the cutting edge technology is.
However, until you provide an RBL translator for IE (see, the RBL wrapper that enables HTC's on Mozilla *already exists* and is free), my solution covers the full 94.5% you list, while any RBL solution excludes 28.4% on your site and as much as 95% on other sites.
Have fun in your cutting edge utopia, I'll stick to providing solutions that work in the real world, while at the same time leveraging cutting edge stuff.
That's where the whole concept of whatever the Constitution doesn't cover is left to the states. That principle was hotly debated and held as a pretty high ideal in early American history. Eventually, the lightning rod issue for the sovereignty of the individual states became slavery. However, while that wasn't the only "states rights" issue being argued in the 1860's, it ended up being the one that effectively ended the era of individual states being left to regulate themselves on issues not addressed directly by the Constitution by virtue of the end result of the American Civil War.
:) ), etc. with individual states making things legal in their state that all of the rest still have illegal. The end up battling the federal jurisdiction in the Supreme Court, but it's a related tension to the one that goes back to the very founding of this country.
Because of the obvious issues surrounding slavery itself, the federal vs. state issue often takes a back seat when discussing that era. I think that, had the slavery issue been settled in any other way than war (like the southern states outlawing it on their own), the federal vs. state discussion would have shaped the United States in a very different way. There are quite a few scholars who say that slavery would have likely ended for economic and outright moral outrage within a few decades without the war, it's an interesting area of speculation.
We're seeing a resurfacing of this concept with things like gay marriage, medical marijuana, assisted suicide, stem cell research, ten commandments in local government buildings (you thought I was only going to address "liberal" issues didn't you?
However, that demise still mystifies me. How can a site that is *nothing but ads people voluntarily watch* fail? They were running the very same ads that the advertisers were paying huge dollars to air on television, oftentimes aired to an empty couch. Yet, this site couldn't figure out how to make money with people voluntarily downloading commercials.
In general, no one believes anyone on either extreme. The problem is the huge chasm between "every download is a lost sale" and "every download leads to an extra sale". That gray area is where all of the fighting is.
I use it quite a bit with PHP on Windows. The scripts I use the most are my X-to-PDF convertors for DOC, HTML, XLS, etc. I also use it to do invoices, etc. easily.
Email me and I'll send you some sample code.
The only reason I left it alone in the old PHPTriad package was that was how MySQL themselves ship the setup. The official MYSQL binaries have (unless it's changed very recently) *no* password on the root account unless you deliberately go and change it.
Even today, I get constant complaints because I secure the root account, even though I ask them to supply the password.
I rewrote PHPTriad, securing the default password for root and did so 3 years ago. The new product is Sokkit. However, Sourceforge won't let me take PHPTriad down, point to the new commercial version or in any way indicate the project has been shut down.
The only reason I left it alone in the old PHPTriad package was that was how MySQL themselves ship the setup. The official MYSQL binaries have (unless it's changed very recently) *no* password on the root account unless you deliberately go and change it.
Even today, I get constant complaints because I secure the root account, even though I ask them to supply the password.
Then do you also sign the receipt with "please see id"? Because, given the ease with which many state ID cards are forged, checking the name on the card with the name on some sort of ID is less of an indication that the card is owned by the presenter than if the already signed card is signed in the same way as the presenter signs.
If I steal your wallet and the cards are signed "please see id", all I need to do is print out a quick fake ID with your name, but my signature of your name and my picture and unless someone's good at checking out of state ID's, no one will even notice. If your wallet is full of signed cards, I have to risk signing in front of the cashier and having it look nothing like the back.
The flip side of pretty much every cardholder agreement is that unless the card is signed, it's not even valid. So, technically, the merchant should be entirely refusing the transaction for all of the "see id" crowd.
When I worked in retail, I often didn't check the ID (because I'd already checked it for a given customer 3-4 times before and have a pretty good memory) and occasionally would get yelled at with the exact argument you mention, i.e. the store in violation of their merchant agreement. They didn't like it when I threw the fact that they were also in violation each and every time we even ran the card through our store.
While a nice thought, it's not really as safe as you'd like to believe. More than once already, I've seen a site pop up an XPI installer asking for permission. In one of those cases, someone else was at the keyboard and just clicked without missing a beat. Didn't read it or anything. Any browser with any sort of extension mechanism is vulnerable to people just OK'ing whatever they're asked and allowing the installation.
But, but, but, but if I quietly ignore the thread, I won't get my "Pedantic Linux Geek" merit badge. Once I get that one, Susie, this girl in my homeroom, promised she'd go to the movies with me.
While not exactly the greatest movie ever put down on acetate, the movie "Payback" with Mel Gibson features a wierd phone trend. Every single phone in the movie, including those in the cars, is an old, black Bell rotary dial phone.
Right, because we always define the situation by the minority rather than the 90%. Let me know when you've arrived here in reality.
That's what I do and use Gmail as an archive of what I've said. It's offsite and password protected, but easily fetched and searched when someone "quotes" me.
You had better be prepared to offer some solution other than Thunderbird for integrated calendaring, tasks/to do's and coordinated resource scheduling because, while I love Thunderbird and use it for much of my email, I still use Outlook for my *work* because, and I've said this before, Outlook is NOT an email client.
Rather, it's a personal organization suite that happens to contain an email component. It cannot be replaced with something that is only an email client.
*That's* the problem I remember from earlier setups. Basically, you have to *install* it as an administrator so that it can *run* as a non-administrator.
That's a problem for users in a corporate environment where they aren't authorized to create users on their workstations.
For IE, it's easy. For Mozilla, you'll need the RBL compatibility layer from the guy who did the IE7 hack a while back.
You create an HTC file that transforms all "a" tags. You can entirely replace them, swap attributes, etc. easily.
"yet that never made the news... "
It was all over NPR and in my newspaper. Maybe you need to check out more news sources.
I actually use SQLite in a lot of places that people use MySQL. A lot of the time, data that's shoved into MySQL would work just fine in a flat file of some sort (i.e. it's in a single table and doesn't change much). However, SQL is a nice way to find things and doesn't requires writing your own parser for your new data format. SQLite basically gives you a single file that's your database and SQL to interface with it. Since the database is self-contained, it can be moved around, easily backed up and replaced/upgraded, etc. It can be included with the web application without having to do an SQL dump, etc.
Does the Windows version still require running as an administrator?
For those that haven't seen it, there's a guy who's done something similar with MetaL, his meta programming language in XML that generates several existing languages out of it.
http://www.meta-language.net/
Median salary for a massage therapist in the US is $2,385/month.
Incidentally, a full-time chef for an institution is $1,510/month. And, a chauffer costs $1,540/month.
In short, you can add a full-time massage therapist, chef and chauffer to your payroll for under $65,000/yr. I know there have been more than one project that would have been far better off ditching a developer and replacing them with those 3 instead.
Right. However, if you're going to attack the fundamentalists, do so with the *real* flaws in the Bible, not this nitpicky stuff.
If you were to criticize government spending, you'd aim for the biggest wastes, not the fact that the guy at your local town hall triple staples everything. Is triple stapling technically a waste of spending? Yes. Is it a useful cricicism in the face of multi-million dollar wastes? Absolutely not.
The whole pi = 3 thing is just stupid since *most* ancient documents didn't exactly use decimal precision in their math.
Sorry, my bad. I declared the diameter as an int and not as a float.
While I'm a Deist who doesn't defend the Bible, this one is just a stupid criticism. Given that a "cubit" is the length of a man's forearm from finger to elbow, we're not exactly talking about a uniform measurement. I pretty much guarantee that the difference between "cubits" renders the decimal rounding moot.
It's not like decimal math exists in the Bible or most non-mathematical documents from the era.
If you're going to criticize a document, at least attack it's biggest flaws first. This one's so far down on the list as to be pointless to even bring up.
"I like how Apple suggests on their Macmini page that programmers should get one and a KVM switch, and put it on top of their PC. "
That's pretty much the first thing I thought when I heard about this thing. I don't have room in my existing setup for another full-blown PC, but this thing could be tucked just about anywhere and give me another platform for working.