Don't give the Japanese too much credit: in dates the year used is often the year of the emperor's reign. For instance, this year (2011) is Heisei 23, whereas I was born in Showa 38 (1963). This is still extremely common, although they recognize our system of years as well.
Almost as horrible as their "system" of numbering houses and naming streets (i.e. most streets have no names, and houses are sometimes numbered based on when they were built, not on their location).
It's REALLY hard to answer that without knowing what the website does. For simply presenting content, WordPress is fast and easy. If you want to link to other databases, use complex logic, etc., Drupal lets you create custom modules that can do anything, but still fit within the CMS framework.
My question is why the review for a Drupal 6 book when Drupal 7 was just released. I know that version 6 will be around for a long time (certainly on several websites I maintain), but I would be willing to bet that Drupal 7 has enough architectural/visual changes to make this book much less useful.
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Not too hard to go to the publisher's website and find it:
Yes, I'm pretty sure Jim Butterworth died a few years ago. I know someone in the C64 scene (it still exists!) and he spent a fair amount of time with Jim attending C64 conferences.
Yes, I prized my Transactor magazines and ISA. So much great information, presented cleanly and with a desire to share.
If you look at traffic jams in Japan at the beginning and end of major holidays (New Year's, Golden Week, O-bon), the expressways around Tokyo usually have jams this long or longer. In the August 5-18 O-Bon holiday, they reported jams of more than 10 km occurring 596 times.
That's what you get when you give most of the people in the country holidays at the same time.
And what is wrong with expressing my doubts? Because this guy is going up against two large, aggressive, and dangerous organizations, does that mean that everything he says is the truth and must be accepted as such?
If a cyclist (take, oh, Floyd Landis as an example) strenuously denies using performance-enhancing drugs, is it unfair of me to think that maybe he is?
I'm not sure if you are referring to me as GPP, but if so you are somehow understanding
"I'm not saying that he doesn't suffer from these, but hearing it makes me roll my eyes and wonder if it's not just a sympathy act."
as me stating a fact. (Well, the me rolling my eyes and wondering is a fact, but I don't think that's what you meant.)
And are you saying that claims of anxiety and panic attacks can be conclusively proven or disproven? I'm pretty sure that, given enough incentive, you or I could display the appropriate symptoms, at least enough to fool some doctors.
It's like back pain. We KNOW that some people fake it to go on disability, because occasionally they will get caught running marathons, etc. Not that all do.
He suffers from anxiety, depression and panic attacks? Exactly what people claim when they are suing for ridiculous amounts of money. Utterly impossible to prove or disprove, and plenty of doctors will probably accept a nice fee to testify either way.
I'm not saying that he doesn't suffer from these, but hearing it makes me roll my eyes and wonder if it's not just a sympathy act.
In Japan, any foreigners must carry either their passports or, if they are resident aliens with visas, their gaikokujin shomeisho cards at all times. All foreigners are fingerprinted when they enter the country, too.
Plus, of course, that you have 21 movies taking up 50GB, or less than 2.5GB per movie. Either the movies are short, or they are being compressed to hell. So you are also getting low quality! Way to go Paramount, show the industry how to think outside the box and make it attractive!
So:
$140 for a 500GB drive (about twice the cost of buying one retail) 1 movie viewable, with the other 20 unlockable if you pay over the market price for second-rate movies that are several years old -- and all have DRM All movies have been compressed to hell, so don't bother watching on a large screen unless you're a fan of compression artifacts If you care about the extra content on a DVD, don't bother, because it isn't there
...because the alternative is a ravenous beast that feeds on the sick to generate monstrous profits. Socialized medicine has been shown to work* in countries all over the world. I (a non-American) don't have to worry that changing jobs will mean a loss of health insurance, nor that a catastrophic illness/injury will make my family paupers.
*work in the sense that decent healthcare is enjoyed by all residents of a country, instead of having superb care for the rich, generally adequate for the middle class, little or none for the working poor.
From what I've seen (lived there for 7 years and married one of them), Japanese do indeed believe this blood type stuff. I was giving blood last month and saw a pamphlet that had the text you quoted. I just assumed that it was a goofy "would you believe..." kind of thing.
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Don't give the Japanese too much credit: in dates the year used is often the year of the emperor's reign. For instance, this year (2011) is Heisei 23, whereas I was born in Showa 38 (1963). This is still extremely common, although they recognize our system of years as well.
Almost as horrible as their "system" of numbering houses and naming streets (i.e. most streets have no names, and houses are sometimes numbered based on when they were built, not on their location).
And the book is out of stock at amazon.com, and doesn't exist at amazon.ca. How am I supposed to buy it again?
As I recall, the BBC was going to wipe the tapes for the Monty Python TV show, so that they could be reused, but Terry Gilliam bought them.
You should look up "planned obsolescence". That's exactly how it works (albeit not on a yearly cycle).
The reviewer complains about the author's dialect, and then writes:
> ...it's a difficult nut to crack aside.
It's REALLY hard to answer that without knowing what the website does. For simply presenting content, WordPress is fast and easy. If you want to link to other databases, use complex logic, etc., Drupal lets you create custom modules that can do anything, but still fit within the CMS framework.
My question is why the review for a Drupal 6 book when Drupal 7 was just released. I know that version 6 will be around for a long time (certainly on several websites I maintain), but I would be willing to bet that Drupal 7 has enough architectural/visual changes to make this book much less useful.
Not too hard to go to the publisher's website and find it:
http://apress.com/ecommerce/cart?act=add&bid=1469
Yes, I'm pretty sure Jim Butterworth died a few years ago. I know someone in the C64 scene (it still exists!) and he spent a fair amount of time with Jim attending C64 conferences.
Yes, I prized my Transactor magazines and ISA. So much great information, presented cleanly and with a desire to share.
If you look at traffic jams in Japan at the beginning and end of major holidays (New Year's, Golden Week, O-bon), the expressways around Tokyo usually have jams this long or longer. In the August 5-18 O-Bon holiday, they reported jams of more than 10 km occurring 596 times.
That's what you get when you give most of the people in the country holidays at the same time.
And what is wrong with expressing my doubts? Because this guy is going up against two large, aggressive, and dangerous organizations, does that mean that everything he says is the truth and must be accepted as such?
If a cyclist (take, oh, Floyd Landis as an example) strenuously denies using performance-enhancing drugs, is it unfair of me to think that maybe he is?
I'm not sure if you are referring to me as GPP, but if so you are somehow understanding
"I'm not saying that he doesn't suffer from these, but hearing it makes me roll my eyes and wonder if it's not just a sympathy act."
as me stating a fact. (Well, the me rolling my eyes and wondering is a fact, but I don't think that's what you meant.)
And are you saying that claims of anxiety and panic attacks can be conclusively proven or disproven? I'm pretty sure that, given enough incentive, you or I could display the appropriate symptoms, at least enough to fool some doctors.
It's like back pain. We KNOW that some people fake it to go on disability, because occasionally they will get caught running marathons, etc. Not that all do.
He suffers from anxiety, depression and panic attacks? Exactly what people claim when they are suing for ridiculous amounts of money. Utterly impossible to prove or disprove, and plenty of doctors will probably accept a nice fee to testify either way.
I'm not saying that he doesn't suffer from these, but hearing it makes me roll my eyes and wonder if it's not just a sympathy act.
You mean that Harvard is about $30,000 (actually $33,696) for one year. I'm not sure if Cambridge is GBP3,000 for one year or for the degree.
So I guess the mongooses (mongeese?) I saw in Zimbabwe were tourists?
In Japan, any foreigners must carry either their passports or, if they are resident aliens with visas, their gaikokujin shomeisho cards at all times. All foreigners are fingerprinted when they enter the country, too.
Plus, of course, that you have 21 movies taking up 50GB, or less than 2.5GB per movie. Either the movies are short, or they are being compressed to hell. So you are also getting low quality! Way to go Paramount, show the industry how to think outside the box and make it attractive!
So:
$140 for a 500GB drive (about twice the cost of buying one retail)
1 movie viewable, with the other 20 unlockable if you pay over the market price for second-rate movies that are several years old -- and all have DRM
All movies have been compressed to hell, so don't bother watching on a large screen unless you're a fan of compression artifacts
If you care about the extra content on a DVD, don't bother, because it isn't there
Actually, VB was released before Delphi (1991 vs. 1995). Delphi blew VB and others away in terms of capabilities and speed.
...shame on ... won't get fooled again!
...because the alternative is a ravenous beast that feeds on the sick to generate monstrous profits. Socialized medicine has been shown to work* in countries all over the world. I (a non-American) don't have to worry that changing jobs will mean a loss of health insurance, nor that a catastrophic illness/injury will make my family paupers.
*work in the sense that decent healthcare is enjoyed by all residents of a country, instead of having superb care for the rich, generally adequate for the middle class, little or none for the working poor.
But it was too late, he had already checked in code with that goddamned "Hungarian Notation", right?
And the last AM transmitter in my area closed down last year.
I know the head of the local CBS branch, and because she spent several years in the U.K., she's not able to donate.
From what I've seen (lived there for 7 years and married one of them), Japanese do indeed believe this blood type stuff. I was giving blood last month and saw a pamphlet that had the text you quoted. I just assumed that it was a goofy "would you believe..." kind of thing.
Barley has always been my least favourite grain anyway.
covering something used fully...