Since HBO refuses to allow me to view any of their content on any 3rd party service such as iTMS until AFTER the DVD release, I have no other choice.
Sure, it may "technically" be wrong, but since HBO wants to try to fuck me in the ass with HBO Go, which requires servitude to Comcast or other greedy cable operators, I see them as trying to force me to buy products from companies I refuse to buy from -- which is a form of extortion -- and as such need to push back against their greed and cronyism.
I HBO were to remove the requirement for the Comcast ass-rape to access HBO GO and offer it at a reasonable price level (say $50/month) then HBO would get my money. But they've made it clear they are staunchly anti net-neutrality and will not participate in a free and open media market where the consumer can decide how and where to access media content legally.
This is nothing new it's long been known that in SV investors especially early stage ones want their money back with a profit IN MONTHS -- NOT IN YEARS. And this isn't just the culture of Silicon Valley, it's common around all of the United States -- a country of self-entitled cry babies who think the world owes them a living and who value material wealth and fame above all else but who want to put in fuck all effort to get it -- a country who's debts now greatly exceed it's entire GDP, a nation that has been staring down the gun of economic collapse for 20+ years and hasn't done anything about it while putting itself under in more debt.
We've seen the loss of "Risk Takers" before -- listen to Frank Zappa's complaints about the modern Music Industry run by self-entitled kids who grew up on the music put out by the Risk Takers "who know" what music will sell and effectively take no or as few risks as possible while taking as much money from the artists and consumers as possible. This is nothing new -- we have words for it: self-entitlement, egotism, apathy and greed.
Look at the modern Bankers over on Wall Street who are motivated mainly by the pursuit of one upping their peers in the Wealth Segment and are willing to screw over millions of Americans in order to say they made a few million more this year than Joe over at XYZ Hedgefunds.
Look at Congress -- the Ring Masters of this Circus who for years have prosecuted "Inside Traders" and passed laws against that while doing themselves it as a matter of course for years -- and not one single mention of criminal charges for people like Pelosi who got caught red handed making fortunes from insider trades and instead just excuse it as acceptable behavior that might not be ok after all.
And look at the American Citizen, sitting there able to do nothing while the value of his shitty little Dollar drops year after year, his bankers and his own government are blatantly and openly lying and stealing from him -- and he clings to his gun saying "he can at least defend himself from them if it comes to that" -- ignoring the fact that the bankers with their government cronies have enough guns to quickly turn any citizens revolt with their tiny pea shooters into a grease stain in short order -- but every Congressional session has new talk of attempts to enact laws to outlaw or further restrict ownership of peashooters -- just be on the safe side, it is after all best not to take risks.
Frankly -- it's unsustainable -- we're just getting to the point now that the condition is so bad and the symptoms are so endemic that if the USA were a cancer patient, the doctors would no longer consider this patient a person as much as a massive tumor.
If the predictions of the Pentigon, MIT and others all pointing to a critical level of climate change and economic collapse all within the next 10 to 15 years are anywhere near correct, we seem to be setting ourselves up for a very glorious fall.
America needs an serious attitude correction -- unfortunately it will take a very painful and drawn out lesson for the "Average American Way of Thinking" and thus, the American Identity to be changed. And most likely if anything majorly bad did happen, such as the loss of the Eastern Seaboard to the oceans and the loss of large parts of the World Economy, those in power would quickly swoop in to take more power -- ie: The Military Industrial Complex turning into a Martial State.
I am highly mobile and also carry my laptop and tablet in my briefcase. However, I chose the sturdiest, most versatile briefcase I could find. At 7.5lbs empty, it weighs nearly 20lbs with my gear in it and is not something a thief could easily run off with. The leather it's comprised of is 1/8" thick and has only 3 seams, and being leather, keeps the contents at a moderate temperature, which is excellent for electronics which may be heat sensitive.
My laptop, tablet and cell phone are all Apple products, which have the "FInd my Mac" feature allowing the devices to be located whenever they access a network. While not an anti-theft tool, the "Find my iPhone" and "Find my iPad" features have been shown to be quite useful in recovering lost and stolen iDevices. The "Find my Mac" feature is more questionable since most Macbook Pro users with even a hint of a clue will have their user accounts secured, meaning there is likely no way to associate the computer with your iCloud account even if a user logs in via the Guest Account. But if your briefcase is stolen with your iPad in it, the chances are pretty good that you can recover your iPad and briefcase. However, you'd be better off not placing your briefcase in a position where it could be stolen. If I were more paranoid, I would likely buy a GPS or RF transponder to stash in the deep recesses of my briefcase so that I could recover it regardless of net connectivity.
However, what happens if your briefcase is stolen with your laptop and tablet in it and they can not be recovered? Fortunately, iCloud helps alleviate this -- but only for app data and iTMS purchases. For my Document data and Software projects, I use an AWS Micro instance with Gitolite, which aside from allowing me to share and stage my development projects with other developers, it allows me to sync my entire Documents folder to the server. And being Git, it's easy to add certain files and directories to my.gitignore. To me at least, AWS Micro instance is the ideal remote backup solution since you can image your instance, effectively making a backup of the backup, it's on the cloud, so you can back up from anywhere you have a net connection and a Micro instance is free for the first year, $15.00/month after that, which is pretty cost effective.
So to sum it up for the tl;dnr crowd: Get a hefty, durable briefcase that will both protect your gear and hinder theft Buy products that enable tracking in case of loss/theft Get a serious backup solution and use it
If you already have practical experience, school is a waste of time and money. You want to increase your potential employability and/or income? Then create an App, publish it to iTMS, Google Play and Amazon.
There's many ways to monetize apps, but even if it's just a free app with no ads, you can put it on your resume and link to it.
Don't know Objective-C or Java or the Mobile APIs/SDKs? No problem in fact, in most cases it's more practical for a lone developer or small software shops not to use native code. You can create cross-platform Native Apps for iOS and Android with either HTML5/JS with Titanium or PhoneGap or with AS3/MXML with Flash Builder 4.6.
This is part of an international research effort, including schools like Carnegie-Mellon in the US. However, due to the lower costs of photonic qubits in China, it only makes sense to have the majority of experiments carried out over there.
More importantly, the records they found at the site indicate that the Mayans viewed the calendar as CYCLICAL and just like our Bad Girls of Linux Wall Calendar, the world doesn't end when the last day of the Calendar is reached.
Notably absent was the Thirteenth Crystal Skull and ancient UFO instruction manual.
Considering the Patriot Act was already drafted prior to 9/11, and that they went to far as to keep it secret and only allow lawmakers to read it under a declaration of secrecy shows that the Abuse of Citizens is the plan.
The war on Drugs, Terror et al are just code names for the War on the Constitution. Constitutional Rights are an inconvenient obstruction to increased Power of the State and must be removed.
I am a fat ass American techie know it all and I REFUSE to be bullied by Microsoft into PAYING MORE for a discounted machine instead of paying the full price upfront! This is nothing but GREEDY PROFITEERING AND A SCAM!!!! I want a $99.00 XBox and Kinect AND NO CONTRACT!!! I AlSO WANT FREE HEALTH CARE AND FREE RENT! I DESERVE IT!!! I AM LIBERTARIAN!!! RRRRWWWWAAAAAARRR!!!!
Look -- you give in order to get. MS is a business out to make a profit and they are offering a reasonable deal for people who can't afford the full cost out of pocket. Yes, like many things the seemingly too good to be true deal has deferred costs and that aren't obvious at a glance. But, in this case we're talking about tens of dollars extra over the course of a couple years, hardly a huge issue and I think worth it to those who this program was made for. Let's see -- pay a little extra cash over a couple year period, or not have an XBox at all?
I think those that have a problem with this don't have a problem with MS as much as they do with themselves.
ICBMs are NOT stealthy, have limited range, can not be refueled and are limited to 1 payload. Also, they were used for nukes, not conventional ordinance.
I like the idea of a UAV bomber. However, I think it should be a scaled up Predator that can be refueled and rearmed by flying into a specially equipped C-17 instead of this hybrid style of bomber they have proposed.
So you are denying that the astronomers who captured these photons with their telescope have a frame of reference? Saying the duration of travel a photon experiences is imaterial because the photon has no awareness is saying that there is no sound if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it. We all know that it *must* have interacted with the atmosphere and made a sound -- regardless of anyone being there to hear it. As such, the light traveled at the speed it always travels, we happen to observe it at 12.7 Billion years by our frame of reference.
Trying to "blow peoples" minds with relativity doesn't really work when it relies on the person discounting their own existence. We observed it, therefore our frame of reference is the only one that matters.
The photons haven't experienced 12.7 billion years of travel - they just left
Implying the photons were teleported straight to the lens of the Subaru Telescope. Unless you can show that those photons somehow violated or evaded the constant "c", you can damn well bet your ass those photons have experienced a duration of travel at the speed of light from their point of radiation to our planet's present position.
The modern Democratic Party has seen to it that they can walk in and take the entire West Coast without much of a peep from anyone. Maybe the Gangs can fight back while suburbia relocates to the Nike labor camps.
Not sure where you're getting your numbers, but within the last 5 years China has started spending about 1/3 as much as us. In fact, there was some hubbub in the media about the Pentagon getting their jimmies rustled when China substantially beefed up production and we weren't able to match their increase. Granted, we still outspend them 3 to 1, but it's no longer the 10 to 1 ratio you are quoting.
By leveraging Node.js you can write web services and client-side presentation with standard html and javascript. Can't think of another language that allows you to write a server and client with the same language with as much ease. Also, the level of entry is very low, a teenager can quickly get up to speed and you don't need exotic tools or have to endure an elaborate setup, you can create all the code in a simple text editor and installing Node.js is very straightforward. Plus, Node.js has a package manager which provides a plethora of add-on modules that you can access from the commandline and in your node.js environment.
Which has MORE MODULES and a more coherent development community, commandline tools like RAKE that are actually useful and not just have assed scripts put in as an afterthought, an honest to god DBAL/ORM that works as advertised, in fact it works so well people complain it results in coders that have no clue about how a database works, because they are so abstracted from it to the point it becomes almost a magical blackbox to them.
Oh and Ruby isn't constantly pulling the plug on releases -- major PHP5 feature rollback? PHP6 falls on it's face? -- Seriously WTF is wrong with the core PHP team?
Frankly, I spent years doing PHP development and it is clear they have lost their way and such, they have lost me as a developer. Now days I evangelize RoR for startups looking for a scalable solution
Here's an exercise:
Create an HTML5 website with mobile web version and REST based API accepting and sending both XML and JSON using OAuth for remote authentication. You must support user registration, profile editing with photo uploading with thumbnail generation, a session model for secure sign-in from a web form (for non-api users), a secured content model for shared postings of mixed media (text, photos and video) that only allows edits by the creator, and we want automatic detection of mobile users and to have them stay in the same domain as the non-mobile users, but be given a mobile-friendly UI. You have 1 day -- it doesn't have to look pretty, but it has to be 100% feature complete and work 100%.
If you're doing this with PHP+Zend (or any other PHP framework) you might as well just quit now -- You'll get smoked by RoR. In fact, I'd confidently say you can't get this done in a week with PHP+Zend, another framework might enable that though.
Of course Osama bin Laden doesn't care -- he's dead. But I can only imagine all the intel regarding locations, plans and correspondence has helped the US in their efforts against the surviving leaders of al-Qaeda.
So yes, not encrypting the files and having those files now in the hands of their enemy does make a difference.
I suspect it to be more a case of your needs being as simplistic and basic as the Gimps feature set. Because PS blows Gimp out of the water in features and the differences in UI are not all that vast. So if you had any substantial amount of work beyond basic scaling, cropping and simple filtering, you'd have switched in a heart beat.
Considering that it's an event that's estimated to occur once every hundred thousand years per galaxy, I'd say it's rare. The fact that they watched over 100,000 galaxies, and got 1 per year as estimated does not diminish the sheer volume of galaxies watched nor decrease the rarity of the event.
I wish I could ENEMY LIST you, you mutherfucker If we do have civil war in the 2020-2030 timeframe, it would be my honor and privilege to kill you in iron sights to defend my liberties against Totalitarian Oppression.
Excuse me -- so your point is that the GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO WAGE WAR ON PRIVATE CITIZENS AND REPEAL THE CONSTITUTION FOR THE 'WAR ON TERROR' to keep us free?
Fuck you -- fuck you to hell. There was a little axiom I learned by my asshole step-father when I was a kid it went like this: "Work Smarter Not Harder". My Entire point was the the Terrorists won by making us LESS FREE. That is the entire point of Terrorism. TO INCITE TERROR.
Sorry that bit was lost upon you before you went all crusader. And to be quite honest, there IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CRUSADER AND A JIHADIST. So like I said -- get stuffed you ignorant baboon.
We can wage war on the terrorists WITHOUT GIVING UP OUR LIBERTIES. Sorry you fail to see that bit of reality and instead embrace the ideals of TOTALITARIANISM and wish to preach that.
The fact is, we created the Taliban, Oliver North warned us of Osama bin Laden and we knew of 9/11 BEFORE IT HAPPENED and LET IT HAPPEN -- just like the Nazi's blew up their own radio tower, but this time, there was a threat -- we just let it pass to enact laws we already had drafted that could not be disclosed until passed that were supposed to be temporary but are damned as hell permanant and we know it.
Jefferson's time has come: we need a new revolution 200+ years over due -- but the middle class doesn't have the balls. However, if the economy keeps going the way it's going, we might just get one. The Pentagon and other think tanks already predict 2020-2030 time frame the point of total global economic collapse that will make 2007 look like a burp.
They already saw all this coming -- you think the talk of New World Order, the Dual Kennedy Assassinations (killing the Kennedy Dynasty), the Bush Dynasty, The Patriot Act, Bush I's talk of repealing the Constitution for the 'WAR ON DRUGS' and Jeb Bush's talk with ROMNEY for the VP SLOT are all just coincidence?
Natural Selection is alive and well in the 21st century. If anything, mankind's crowning achievement is the creation of a vast variety of new and innovative ways to remove ourselves from the gene pool. Darwin would be proud
I cut the cable 3 years ago to go with OTA Digital TV + TIVO, Netflix with iTMS subscriptions for the shows like Daily+Colbert that fell through the cracks. Considering I get the shows you offer with ads in HD over the air WITHOUT CABLE gives me no reason to use your service, especially now that you've joined the Cable TV Cabal -- which is predicted to start charging $200/month in the years ahead.
Nothing, not even an Obama Mandate REQUIRING me to buy from a Federally Sanctioned Media Provider will ever get me to pay a dime to Comcast, AT&T, Verizon or their ILK.
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Since HBO refuses to allow me to view any of their content on any 3rd party service such as iTMS until AFTER the DVD release, I have no other choice.
Sure, it may "technically" be wrong, but since HBO wants to try to fuck me in the ass with HBO Go, which requires servitude to Comcast or other greedy cable operators, I see them as trying to force me to buy products from companies I refuse to buy from -- which is a form of extortion -- and as such need to push back against their greed and cronyism.
I HBO were to remove the requirement for the Comcast ass-rape to access HBO GO and offer it at a reasonable price level (say $50/month) then HBO would get my money. But they've made it clear they are staunchly anti net-neutrality and will not participate in a free and open media market where the consumer can decide how and where to access media content legally.
This is nothing new it's long been known that in SV investors especially early stage ones want their money back with a profit IN MONTHS -- NOT IN YEARS. And this isn't just the culture of Silicon Valley, it's common around all of the United States -- a country of self-entitled cry babies who think the world owes them a living and who value material wealth and fame above all else but who want to put in fuck all effort to get it -- a country who's debts now greatly exceed it's entire GDP, a nation that has been staring down the gun of economic collapse for 20+ years and hasn't done anything about it while putting itself under in more debt.
We've seen the loss of "Risk Takers" before -- listen to Frank Zappa's complaints about the modern Music Industry run by self-entitled kids who grew up on the music put out by the Risk Takers "who know" what music will sell and effectively take no or as few risks as possible while taking as much money from the artists and consumers as possible. This is nothing new -- we have words for it: self-entitlement, egotism, apathy and greed.
Look at the modern Bankers over on Wall Street who are motivated mainly by the pursuit of one upping their peers in the Wealth Segment and are willing to screw over millions of Americans in order to say they made a few million more this year than Joe over at XYZ Hedgefunds.
Look at Congress -- the Ring Masters of this Circus who for years have prosecuted "Inside Traders" and passed laws against that while doing themselves it as a matter of course for years -- and not one single mention of criminal charges for people like Pelosi who got caught red handed making fortunes from insider trades and instead just excuse it as acceptable behavior that might not be ok after all.
And look at the American Citizen, sitting there able to do nothing while the value of his shitty little Dollar drops year after year, his bankers and his own government are blatantly and openly lying and stealing from him -- and he clings to his gun saying "he can at least defend himself from them if it comes to that" -- ignoring the fact that the bankers with their government cronies have enough guns to quickly turn any citizens revolt with their tiny pea shooters into a grease stain in short order -- but every Congressional session has new talk of attempts to enact laws to outlaw or further restrict ownership of peashooters -- just be on the safe side, it is after all best not to take risks.
Frankly -- it's unsustainable -- we're just getting to the point now that the condition is so bad and the symptoms are so endemic that if the USA were a cancer patient, the doctors would no longer consider this patient a person as much as a massive tumor.
If the predictions of the Pentigon, MIT and others all pointing to a critical level of climate change and economic collapse all within the next 10 to 15 years are anywhere near correct, we seem to be setting ourselves up for a very glorious fall.
America needs an serious attitude correction -- unfortunately it will take a very painful and drawn out lesson for the "Average American Way of Thinking" and thus, the American Identity to be changed. And most likely if anything majorly bad did happen, such as the loss of the Eastern Seaboard to the oceans and the loss of large parts of the World Economy, those in power would quickly swoop in to take more power -- ie: The Military Industrial Complex turning into a Martial State.
I am highly mobile and also carry my laptop and tablet in my briefcase. However, I chose the sturdiest, most versatile briefcase I could find. At 7.5lbs empty, it weighs nearly 20lbs with my gear in it and is not something a thief could easily run off with. The leather it's comprised of is 1/8" thick and has only 3 seams, and being leather, keeps the contents at a moderate temperature, which is excellent for electronics which may be heat sensitive.
My laptop, tablet and cell phone are all Apple products, which have the "FInd my Mac" feature allowing the devices to be located whenever they access a network. While not an anti-theft tool, the "Find my iPhone" and "Find my iPad" features have been shown to be quite useful in recovering lost and stolen iDevices. The "Find my Mac" feature is more questionable since most Macbook Pro users with even a hint of a clue will have their user accounts secured, meaning there is likely no way to associate the computer with your iCloud account even if a user logs in via the Guest Account. But if your briefcase is stolen with your iPad in it, the chances are pretty good that you can recover your iPad and briefcase. However, you'd be better off not placing your briefcase in a position where it could be stolen. If I were more paranoid, I would likely buy a GPS or RF transponder to stash in the deep recesses of my briefcase so that I could recover it regardless of net connectivity.
However, what happens if your briefcase is stolen with your laptop and tablet in it and they can not be recovered? Fortunately, iCloud helps alleviate this -- but only for app data and iTMS purchases. For my Document data and Software projects, I use an AWS Micro instance with Gitolite, which aside from allowing me to share and stage my development projects with other developers, it allows me to sync my entire Documents folder to the server. And being Git, it's easy to add certain files and directories to my .gitignore. To me at least, AWS Micro instance is the ideal remote backup solution since you can image your instance, effectively making a backup of the backup, it's on the cloud, so you can back up from anywhere you have a net connection and a Micro instance is free for the first year, $15.00/month after that, which is pretty cost effective.
So to sum it up for the tl;dnr crowd:
Get a hefty, durable briefcase that will both protect your gear and hinder theft
Buy products that enable tracking in case of loss/theft
Get a serious backup solution and use it
If you already have practical experience, school is a waste of time and money. You want to increase your potential employability and/or income? Then create an App, publish it to iTMS, Google Play and Amazon.
There's many ways to monetize apps, but even if it's just a free app with no ads, you can put it on your resume and link to it.
Don't know Objective-C or Java or the Mobile APIs/SDKs? No problem in fact, in most cases it's more practical for a lone developer or small software shops not to use native code. You can create cross-platform Native Apps for iOS and Android with either HTML5/JS with Titanium or PhoneGap or with AS3/MXML with Flash Builder 4.6.
This is part of an international research effort, including schools like Carnegie-Mellon in the US. However, due to the lower costs of photonic qubits in China, it only makes sense to have the majority of experiments carried out over there.
Those silly Dutch. Don't they know that the more stitches, the less riches?
No wonder everyone thinks they're weird.
More importantly, the records they found at the site indicate that the Mayans viewed the calendar as CYCLICAL and just like our Bad Girls of Linux Wall Calendar, the world doesn't end when the last day of the Calendar is reached.
Notably absent was the Thirteenth Crystal Skull and ancient UFO instruction manual.
In the 80's they told us that Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
So I think that sufficiently covers it.
Considering the Patriot Act was already drafted prior to 9/11, and that they went to far as to keep it secret and only allow lawmakers to read it under a declaration of secrecy shows that the Abuse of Citizens is the plan.
The war on Drugs, Terror et al are just code names for the War on the Constitution.
Constitutional Rights are an inconvenient obstruction to increased Power of the State and must be removed.
I am a fat ass American techie know it all and I REFUSE to be bullied by Microsoft into PAYING MORE for a discounted machine instead of paying the full price upfront! This is nothing but GREEDY PROFITEERING AND A SCAM!!!! I want a $99.00 XBox and Kinect AND NO CONTRACT!!! I AlSO WANT FREE HEALTH CARE AND FREE RENT! I DESERVE IT!!! I AM LIBERTARIAN!!! RRRRWWWWAAAAAARRR!!!!
Look -- you give in order to get. MS is a business out to make a profit and they are offering a reasonable deal for people who can't afford the full cost out of pocket. Yes, like many things the seemingly too good to be true deal has deferred costs and that aren't obvious at a glance. But, in this case we're talking about tens of dollars extra over the course of a couple years, hardly a huge issue and I think worth it to those who this program was made for. Let's see -- pay a little extra cash over a couple year period, or not have an XBox at all?
I think those that have a problem with this don't have a problem with MS as much as they do with themselves.
ICBMs are NOT stealthy, have limited range, can not be refueled and are limited to 1 payload.
Also, they were used for nukes, not conventional ordinance.
I like the idea of a UAV bomber. However, I think it should be a scaled up Predator that can be refueled and rearmed by flying into a specially equipped C-17 instead of this hybrid style of bomber they have proposed.
So you are denying that the astronomers who captured these photons with their telescope have a frame of reference?
Saying the duration of travel a photon experiences is imaterial because the photon has no awareness is saying that there is no sound if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it. We all know that it *must* have interacted with the atmosphere and made a sound -- regardless of anyone being there to hear it. As such, the light traveled at the speed it always travels, we happen to observe it at 12.7 Billion years by our frame of reference.
Trying to "blow peoples" minds with relativity doesn't really work when it relies on the person discounting their own existence. We observed it, therefore our frame of reference is the only one that matters.
The photons haven't experienced 12.7 billion years of travel - they just left
Implying the photons were teleported straight to the lens of the Subaru Telescope. Unless you can show that those photons somehow violated or evaded the constant "c", you can damn well bet your ass those photons have experienced a duration of travel at the speed of light from their point of radiation to our planet's present position.
The modern Democratic Party has seen to it that they can walk in and take the entire West Coast without much of a peep from anyone. Maybe the Gangs can fight back while suburbia relocates to the Nike labor camps.
Not sure where you're getting your numbers, but within the last 5 years China has started spending about 1/3 as much as us.
In fact, there was some hubbub in the media about the Pentagon getting their jimmies rustled when China substantially beefed up production and we weren't able to match their increase. Granted, we still outspend them 3 to 1, but it's no longer the 10 to 1 ratio you are quoting.
I should add that by using tools like Phonegap, you can quickly write apps for iOS and Android devices using HTML and Javascript.
By leveraging Node.js you can write web services and client-side presentation with standard html and javascript. Can't think of another language that allows you to write a server and client with the same language with as much ease. Also, the level of entry is very low, a teenager can quickly get up to speed and you don't need exotic tools or have to endure an elaborate setup, you can create all the code in a simple text editor and installing Node.js is very straightforward. Plus, Node.js has a package manager which provides a plethora of add-on modules that you can access from the commandline and in your node.js environment.
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You can say the same thing about Ruby on Rails
Which has MORE MODULES and a more coherent development community, commandline tools like RAKE that are actually useful and not just have assed scripts put in as an afterthought, an honest to god DBAL/ORM that works as advertised, in fact it works so well people complain it results in coders that have no clue about how a database works, because they are so abstracted from it to the point it becomes almost a magical blackbox to them.
Oh and Ruby isn't constantly pulling the plug on releases -- major PHP5 feature rollback? PHP6 falls on it's face? -- Seriously WTF is wrong with the core PHP team?
Frankly, I spent years doing PHP development and it is clear they have lost their way and such, they have lost me as a developer.
Now days I evangelize RoR for startups looking for a scalable solution
Here's an exercise:
Create an HTML5 website with mobile web version and REST based API accepting and sending both XML and JSON using OAuth for remote authentication. You must support user registration, profile editing with photo uploading with thumbnail generation, a session model for secure sign-in from a web form (for non-api users), a secured content model for shared postings of mixed media (text, photos and video) that only allows edits by the creator, and we want automatic detection of mobile users and to have them stay in the same domain as the non-mobile users, but be given a mobile-friendly UI. You have 1 day -- it doesn't have to look pretty, but it has to be 100% feature complete and work 100%.
If you're doing this with PHP+Zend (or any other PHP framework) you might as well just quit now -- You'll get smoked by RoR.
In fact, I'd confidently say you can't get this done in a week with PHP+Zend, another framework might enable that though.
Of course Osama bin Laden doesn't care -- he's dead. But I can only imagine all the intel regarding locations, plans and correspondence has helped the US in their efforts against the surviving leaders of al-Qaeda.
So yes, not encrypting the files and having those files now in the hands of their enemy does make a difference.
I suspect it to be more a case of your needs being as simplistic and basic as the Gimps feature set. Because PS blows Gimp out of the water in features and the differences in UI are not all that vast. So if you had any substantial amount of work beyond basic scaling, cropping and simple filtering, you'd have switched in a heart beat.
Considering that it's an event that's estimated to occur once every hundred thousand years per galaxy, I'd say it's rare. The fact that they watched over 100,000 galaxies, and got 1 per year as estimated does not diminish the sheer volume of galaxies watched nor decrease the rarity of the event.
I wish I could ENEMY LIST you, you mutherfucker If we do have civil war in the 2020-2030 timeframe, it would be my honor and privilege to kill you in iron sights to defend my liberties against Totalitarian Oppression.
Excuse me -- so your point is that the GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO WAGE WAR ON PRIVATE CITIZENS AND REPEAL THE CONSTITUTION FOR THE 'WAR ON TERROR' to keep us free?
Fuck you -- fuck you to hell.
There was a little axiom I learned by my asshole step-father when I was a kid it went like this: "Work Smarter Not Harder".
My Entire point was the the Terrorists won by making us LESS FREE.
That is the entire point of Terrorism. TO INCITE TERROR.
Sorry that bit was lost upon you before you went all crusader.
And to be quite honest, there IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CRUSADER AND A JIHADIST.
So like I said -- get stuffed you ignorant baboon.
We can wage war on the terrorists WITHOUT GIVING UP OUR LIBERTIES.
Sorry you fail to see that bit of reality and instead embrace the ideals of TOTALITARIANISM and wish to preach that.
The fact is, we created the Taliban, Oliver North warned us of Osama bin Laden and we knew of 9/11 BEFORE IT HAPPENED and LET IT HAPPEN -- just like the Nazi's blew up their own radio tower, but this time, there was a threat -- we just let it pass to enact laws we already had drafted that could not be disclosed until passed that were supposed to be temporary but are damned as hell permanant and we know it.
Jefferson's time has come: we need a new revolution 200+ years over due -- but the middle class doesn't have the balls.
However, if the economy keeps going the way it's going, we might just get one. The Pentagon and other think tanks already predict 2020-2030 time frame the point of total global economic collapse that will make 2007 look like a burp.
They already saw all this coming -- you think the talk of New World Order, the Dual Kennedy Assassinations (killing the Kennedy Dynasty), the Bush Dynasty, The Patriot Act, Bush I's talk of repealing the Constitution for the 'WAR ON DRUGS' and Jeb Bush's talk with ROMNEY for the VP SLOT are all just coincidence?
JUST HOW F'ING IGNORANT ARE YOU?
Natural Selection is alive and well in the 21st century.
If anything, mankind's crowning achievement is the creation of a vast variety of new and innovative ways to remove ourselves from the gene pool.
Darwin would be proud
Sorry Hulu, but you can go get stuffed.
I cut the cable 3 years ago to go with OTA Digital TV + TIVO, Netflix with iTMS subscriptions for the shows like Daily+Colbert that fell through the cracks.
Considering I get the shows you offer with ads in HD over the air WITHOUT CABLE gives me no reason to use your service, especially now that you've joined the Cable TV Cabal -- which is predicted to start charging $200/month in the years ahead.
Nothing, not even an Obama Mandate REQUIRING me to buy from a Federally Sanctioned Media Provider will ever get me to pay a dime to Comcast, AT&T, Verizon or their ILK.