I was also surprised to not see it on the list, seeing as there were so many niche languages listed.
It gets a lot of flack for being "old" or "irrelevant". I use a modern framework and have found it is faster, more stable and works better than many of the new fad languages.
You may be correct, unfortunately I do not have pictures up unto the impact itself to completely verify.
That being said the pictures I have are during totality, so the image was adjusted for the darker moon, but the meteor (or whatever it was I saw) came from the left, so it would have been more illuminated.
But looking back at some of my totality pictures I am able to see the meteor approach the moon before the impact.
I dismissed it at first as just a background star until I heard about the meteor, I can clearly see it moving towards the moon, and can make out the shape a bit.
Just wait until Comcast or some other major sp(c)ammer gets their grubby mitts on this. Expect to get phone calls every day as they want to sell you the latest and greatest crap you don't want.
Need to get your internet fixed? Why pay a worker in a call center $0.03/hour to take your call when you can just have duplex do it?
Keep in mind, that if you order 3-4 items, at most you can save 10% and that is assuming you keep everything. So people wanting to get 20% off will always order at least 5 items, and will be more inclined to keep at least 5.
There are several different phases involved in loading a web page. The first is how long it takes for the site to actually send the response to your request. If it takes 5 seconds to request index.php, there is not anything the browser can do to fix this. Caching and optimizing code will help, unfortunately most sites are build on a CMS (ie wordpress), and most designers / admin do not know how to optimize this properly. If this is slow it is usually either bad code, or trying to store entirely too much stuff in the database. Some, very poorly designed, sites will also make remote calls to external servers, this is painfully slow.
After the html is sent to the browser, the browser will start the rendering process. This involves loading all CSS and Javascript files referenced in the html. Old logic was to move the javascript to the footer to ensure they load after the main content is loaded. Unfortunately, with new browsers this does not matter. They will delay rendering of the content until all javascript is loaded on a site. This is to avoid information being moved around on the screen when files are finally loaded.
Hopefully, most designers will move their expensive javascript functions to a $(document).ready function but that only speeds the page display up after the javascript files have been loaded. Beyond that the best thing that designers can do for javascript heavy sites is defer the loading of their javascript. This allows the html to render before attempting to load javascript. Not all libraries support this, namely jquery, by default. But it will help speed up the time from the request to the time something is displayed on the screen.
With all of these methods, the time that it takes to completely load and render all content on the page will be about the same. But, from the users point of view, the page will appear to be loading faster.
Waze, now owned by Google, has already had popup ads and promoted pins for awhile. While the ads are a bit annoying, they only show when you are stopped. The pins really do not make much of a difference.
So many servers run ancient versions of popular CMS packages and then wonder why their server constantly gets hacked. Heaven forbid they are running WHMCS on a box with other websites (quickest way to get rooted).
It got so bad for us here, I had to write a script to scan customer servers just to find all of the outdated packages. It amazes me to read some of the reports, seeing sites running decade old software is not uncommon.
Still is a battle to get people to actually update their sites once they have been notified about running old software.
I have to agree with you there, it does look like a fluke.
China is the reason that laws like these exist, knock-offs are a huge business for them. If you can make a product that looks like a fluke people may buy it just because they expect it to be a fluke.
My all time favorite catch was when we noticed one of the IPs in an attack was from Microsoft's corporate office. Needless to say they were probably running IE.
The real problem is normal users that do not really know what is happening on their computers and really do not care. It always brings me back to images of windows users with 20 different toolbars loaded in to IE.
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I was also surprised to not see it on the list, seeing as there were so many niche languages listed.
It gets a lot of flack for being "old" or "irrelevant". I use a modern framework and have found it is faster, more stable and works better than many of the new fad languages.
You may be correct, unfortunately I do not have pictures up unto the impact itself to completely verify.
That being said the pictures I have are during totality, so the image was adjusted for the darker moon, but the meteor (or whatever it was I saw) came from the left, so it would have been more illuminated.
By clearly, I mean with a DSLR attached to a 5" telescope.
I doubt I would have seen anything otherwise.
But looking back at some of my totality pictures I am able to see the meteor approach the moon before the impact.
I dismissed it at first as just a background star until I heard about the meteor, I can clearly see it moving towards the moon, and can make out the shape a bit.
Really cool, was not expecting that.
It was always:
Don't, be evil.
If they open up corporate naming, I suspect this will not be far behind.
Just wait until Comcast or some other major sp(c)ammer gets their grubby mitts on this.
Expect to get phone calls every day as they want to sell you the latest and greatest crap you don't want.
Need to get your internet fixed? Why pay a worker in a call center $0.03/hour to take your call when you can just have duplex do it?
Keep in mind, that if you order 3-4 items, at most you can save 10% and that is assuming you keep everything.
So people wanting to get 20% off will always order at least 5 items, and will be more inclined to keep at least 5.
There are several different phases involved in loading a web page. The first is how long it takes for the site to actually send the response to your request. If it takes 5 seconds to request index.php, there is not anything the browser can do to fix this. Caching and optimizing code will help, unfortunately most sites are build on a CMS (ie wordpress), and most designers / admin do not know how to optimize this properly. If this is slow it is usually either bad code, or trying to store entirely too much stuff in the database. Some, very poorly designed, sites will also make remote calls to external servers, this is painfully slow.
After the html is sent to the browser, the browser will start the rendering process. This involves loading all CSS and Javascript files referenced in the html. Old logic was to move the javascript to the footer to ensure they load after the main content is loaded. Unfortunately, with new browsers this does not matter. They will delay rendering of the content until all javascript is loaded on a site. This is to avoid information being moved around on the screen when files are finally loaded.
Hopefully, most designers will move their expensive javascript functions to a $(document).ready function but that only speeds the page display up after the javascript files have been loaded. Beyond that the best thing that designers can do for javascript heavy sites is defer the loading of their javascript. This allows the html to render before attempting to load javascript. Not all libraries support this, namely jquery, by default. But it will help speed up the time from the request to the time something is displayed on the screen.
With all of these methods, the time that it takes to completely load and render all content on the page will be about the same. But, from the users point of view, the page will appear to be loading faster.
Waze, now owned by Google, has already had popup ads and promoted pins for awhile.
While the ads are a bit annoying, they only show when you are stopped.
The pins really do not make much of a difference.
So many servers run ancient versions of popular CMS packages and then wonder why their server constantly gets hacked.
Heaven forbid they are running WHMCS on a box with other websites (quickest way to get rooted).
It got so bad for us here, I had to write a script to scan customer servers just to find all of the outdated packages.
It amazes me to read some of the reports, seeing sites running decade old software is not uncommon.
Still is a battle to get people to actually update their sites once they have been notified about running old software.
There is actually a space before sbin, best to use the -f flag to be sure you really get rid of it.
I have to agree with you there, it does look like a fluke.
China is the reason that laws like these exist, knock-offs are a huge business for them. If you can make a product that looks like a fluke people may buy it just because they expect it to be a fluke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit_consumer_goods
Not a huge fan of Phishing though...
My guess is that it is a ploy by the Chineese government to force the works to be removed from the App Store.
If they requested directly to have the works removed they would get denied, but if they claim infringement towards the author they can get traction.
... they would transition to providing shows I actually want to watch, and in a timely manner.
My all time favorite catch was when we noticed one of the IPs in an attack was from Microsoft's corporate office.
Needless to say they were probably running IE.
I agree, when I look in to spam on servers I do notice quite a bit coming from residential ISPs.
Hate to see what these computers are being used for that we are not seeing.
The real problem is normal users that do not really know what is happening on their computers and really do not care.
It always brings me back to images of windows users with 20 different toolbars loaded in to IE.