Wrote a Web Service in PHP using the native SOAP interface and a friend sitting next to me on another machine consumed in with a.NET client with no problems for Arrays or other SOAP types. I do find it a little flaky that I have to define a Record and Recordset just to pass an associative array. It would also be nice if the buit in SOAP server generated WSDLs for you. NuSAOP can, so you can cheat and copy the NuSOAP WSDL to use with SOAP statically.
I use SciTe because it is simple, fast, cross platform, configurable and lightweight. It also handles syntax highlighting for every language you can imagine and code pletion for several (including PHP). I also added simple extenions to use Tidy for cleaning up and indenting HTML and XML files. For PHP indenting, astyle works great. Other developers I work with prefer different indenting styles and astyle lets me switch back on the fly.
If you are looking a Eclipse (more overhead than I prefer) you should also look at hyperModel along with the XML plugins. Only free GUI Schema borwser/editor I've found.
Actually, IMDB is starting to suck too. Already you have to be a member to do stuff you could do for free. But I di like the little icons in search box though.
I used TVTome to regularly is was downright painfull when TV.com bought them out. Things that used to take three or four clicks were taking thirty clicks. Especially annoying is that their listings are alphabetic and paginated. So if you eant to find say, "lost" you have to page through a ton of pages to find it. Not to mention the cooler TVTome consent is gone - Bloopers and highlights.
The only version that will matter is the version that vendors like Dell, HP and IBM install. All the rest will be niche.
As a side note, I installed SuSe 10.0 RC1 yesterday on a brand new Dell Latitude D810 and had everything but the NVidia driver working in short order. Slight problem with the firmware binary package for the Centrino WLAN card not being installed, but other than that pretty smooth. I tried SUPER SuSe first and though it had the same WLAN problem it was faster than hell. Much more responsive. Would be nice to be able to search through packages available on the install CD, post install. Also, the wrong kernel-sources packages was included with the RC1 version. I posted the few bugs I noticed.
Look out Microsoft. New Linux distros are at about the Windows 2000 level of ease of use and catching up quickly.
I actually don't see it as unrealistic. Compared to the complexist of a computer, spearkers are trivial. And unlike computers, the need for constant reinvention isn't there. Bose has proven that.
It always is a calculated risk. According to Wikipedia, the 1953 storm surge was 3.36 eters or about 11 feet. The storm that nailed New Orleans produced a 30 foot storm surge, the largest in recorded US history. But I do think we need to advance levee design a few hundred years.
The outward expansion to areas linke Markham is a pretty typical. City center expands, matures and decays. Outlying areas become more attractive so other centers are developed. City, hopefully, begins redevelopment efforts to keep what business is left and attract new business. In the end, Toronto is on the water and will be redeveloped at a faster pace. But pitting place A vs place B really doesn't make sense. There is plenty of commerce to go around. I'm make you a deal - round up all the liberals and we'll ship them to Detroit. We'll bait them along with a trail of tax reciepts like breadcrumbs. They couldn't possibly screw things up worse. I live in Florida now so I couldn't care less.
60% of what I make is going to support other people, other agendas, or straight into corrupt pockets.
Shit, I thought I was doing well. You are in the 60% tax bracket? I thought the highest tax bracket was 35%. That means you live somewhere you state, country and or city taxes equal > 25%. Holy crap.
That is exactly the shortsighted approach that has gotten urban areas into trouble in the past. Very rarely does it pan out. Bribing businesses with lower taxes and "supplementing education budgets" with gambling revenue are two of the biggest crackpipes politicians are smoking. Sure it sounds good in the press but at best you are platering cracks in a craking dam. Does it even make economic sense that a business would entirely base its location off of taxes? Doesn't make sense for many businesses. Rememebr that the economic equations may have lower taxes on one side but the other factors I mentioned (increased costs for transportation, labor and utilities not to mentioned distance from customers) on the other side of the scale. Maybe for some narrow wedge of the economy for unskilled manufacturing and most of theose jobs have gone to the third world.
Can't say I'd see this as a bad thing. In the long run cities are attractive to business for many reasons: proximity to customers, proximity to workforce, proxility to transportation hubs. If a business can forgo all of these benefits and still improve economically, then I'd say they don't belong in a city. The vast majorty of Canadian and US businesses are service based and the aforementioned benefits are important considerations. In the short term, sure it will effect tax revenue and unemployment. In the long run it will equal out as people move closer to the new business locations. Shortsighted politicians will do stupid things that negativley affect the economy in the short and long term by bribing businesses with lower taxes. That, my friend is a lose-lose. Then you never get the business tax and the citizens still pay higher property tax.
I guess we'd have to see numbers but I would think that because the business tax from the city would more than compensate. I think the problems would arise in areas where businesses don't exist. (i.e. rural areas). That is also a problem today and in most cases the country, state and federal governments supplement the tax base.
Property/land tax is another issue. If eliminated it would tend to make people hold onto property longer and for larger tracts of land to be owned by fewer individuals. Land would become a "store of value" even more than it is today. Perhaps some sort of property tax system like they have in the Bahamas that only taxes large land holdings.
Hard to seeit. Traveling folk will buy food and gas and I'd think that would be be disproportioatly better for the locality. Most tax revenue issues arise from having too many people live in too small a place to support -big cities. What kind of areas are you thinking of?
I'm pro flat-tax too. I like the idea of a consumption tax though. Say 10% across the board for all businesses and companeis, no exemptions. I like that better than incoem taxes because it puts the power to save in the individual's hands. Consume less therefore pay fewer taxes. Plus it makes tax collecting much simpler because it puts the onus on businesse's in both cases to collect the taxes. Mr. Smith in Podunk Alaska shouldn't be having to sift through tax code every year. The burden on the government would me much. much simpler and easier to enforce.
As far as my assertion about the anti-tax attitude, find me one popular citizen's group that espouses a rational pro-tax platform (aside from flat tax schemes that don't really address the issue directly).
The best home stereo setups I've personally heard were all Bose. I had a audiophile room-mate once who dumped a ton of money into supposedly one of the best setups (this was 15 years ago) and it sounded like shit. OTOH, I've been to numerous homes and even one trailer that had simple Bose setups that sounded awesome. How the hell do they get such great sound from such tiny speakers? I've purched four "package" home autio solutiuons over the least decade (Kenwood, Sony ot name two) and I was less that impressed wit hany of them. I did hack together a decent solution with a 20 YO Poineer AMP and Reciever once that I bought at a garage sale. Within the next month I'm moving into a new house I just built and I want decent home entertainment setups. I have three spaces I want to wire: a cathedral ceilinged great room, a large master bedroom and an outside lanai. But $3000 per space is out of the question. So is having a bunch of bigass speaker boxes to trip over.
QActually, my solution would be to cut federal taxes and raise local taxes but that is nearly impossible where the prevailing additude is "all taxes are bad". So a realistic solution would be for state politicians to push through higher state and local taxes and start fighting federal taxes. Of course those policticnas would anso have to be less corrupt and the only way I see of achieving that is to run government live a business and give them salaries that would ensure that their interrests and the state's interrests were one in the same. Right now politicians use their political clout to get rich and the outcomes are often not in the public's best interest.
Before you climb up on the "Eurpoe does it better" high horse please remember that:
The likely scenario for a natural catastrophe in the Netherlands is much less than that for New Orleans due to historical hurricanes and tropical storm patterns. Protecting agaisnt a CAT4 or CAT5 hurricane is cost prohibitive in many instances.
The Netherlands have four times the population of Lousisana (16.4 mil vs 4 mil) and a fraction of coastal area to protect (451KM compared to Louisiana's 15000 miles).
The Netherlands has only recently had to deal as a Federal member in the EU. Give it 200 years and see where your tax dollars are being routed to.
Over the last century most of the tax revenue has been pushed from the local level to the federal level. In part due to really bad local corruption (Louisiana has a notably bad record). So yes, the Federal government is getting a big chunk of the pie but it does little good at the local level.
I'm trying to reverse it using AviSynth but keep getting an error that says "filter graph manager won't talk to me". I think it may have to be a missing audio layer or an unsupported audio codec.
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Wrote a Web Service in PHP using the native SOAP interface and a friend sitting next to me on another machine consumed in with a .NET client with no problems for Arrays or other SOAP types. I do find it a little flaky that I have to define a Record and Recordset just to pass an associative array. It would also be nice if the buit in SOAP server generated WSDLs for you. NuSAOP can, so you can cheat and copy the NuSOAP WSDL to use with SOAP statically.
If you are looking a Eclipse (more overhead than I prefer) you should also look at hyperModel along with the XML plugins. Only free GUI Schema borwser/editor I've found.
Actually, IMDB is starting to suck too. Already you have to be a member to do stuff you could do for free. But I di like the little icons in search box though.
I used TVTome to regularly is was downright painfull when TV.com bought them out. Things that used to take three or four clicks were taking thirty clicks. Especially annoying is that their listings are alphabetic and paginated. So if you eant to find say, "lost" you have to page through a ton of pages to find it. Not to mention the cooler TVTome consent is gone - Bloopers and highlights.
One reason why Modders on Slashdot suck. This is not a troll but a valid retort to a half-baked rant.
The only version that will matter is the version that vendors like Dell, HP and IBM install. All the rest will be niche.
As a side note, I installed SuSe 10.0 RC1 yesterday on a brand new Dell Latitude D810 and had everything but the NVidia driver working in short order. Slight problem with the firmware binary package for the Centrino WLAN card not being installed, but other than that pretty smooth. I tried SUPER SuSe first and though it had the same WLAN problem it was faster than hell. Much more responsive. Would be nice to be able to search through packages available on the install CD, post install. Also, the wrong kernel-sources packages was included with the RC1 version. I posted the few bugs I noticed.
Look out Microsoft. New Linux distros are at about the Windows 2000 level of ease of use and catching up quickly.
When will it stop!
Ever wonder is this fantastical stuff is an attempt to distract from their current manned mission problems?
Maybe if all that money wasn't going to the Big Dig there would have been enough left over for New Orleans.
I actually don't see it as unrealistic. Compared to the complexist of a computer, spearkers are trivial. And unlike computers, the need for constant reinvention isn't there. Bose has proven that.
It always is a calculated risk. According to Wikipedia, the 1953 storm surge was 3.36 eters or about 11 feet. The storm that nailed New Orleans produced a 30 foot storm surge, the largest in recorded US history. But I do think we need to advance levee design a few hundred years.
The outward expansion to areas linke Markham is a pretty typical. City center expands, matures and decays. Outlying areas become more attractive so other centers are developed. City, hopefully, begins redevelopment efforts to keep what business is left and attract new business. In the end, Toronto is on the water and will be redeveloped at a faster pace. But pitting place A vs place B really doesn't make sense. There is plenty of commerce to go around. I'm make you a deal - round up all the liberals and we'll ship them to Detroit. We'll bait them along with a trail of tax reciepts like breadcrumbs. They couldn't possibly screw things up worse. I live in Florida now so I couldn't care less.
Three kids, maxed 401K and a huge mortgage and no state income tax. Thanks for paying all the taxes.
Shit, I thought I was doing well. You are in the 60% tax bracket? I thought the highest tax bracket was 35%. That means you live somewhere you state, country and or city taxes equal > 25%. Holy crap.
That is exactly the shortsighted approach that has gotten urban areas into trouble in the past. Very rarely does it pan out. Bribing businesses with lower taxes and "supplementing education budgets" with gambling revenue are two of the biggest crackpipes politicians are smoking. Sure it sounds good in the press but at best you are platering cracks in a craking dam. Does it even make economic sense that a business would entirely base its location off of taxes? Doesn't make sense for many businesses. Rememebr that the economic equations may have lower taxes on one side but the other factors I mentioned (increased costs for transportation, labor and utilities not to mentioned distance from customers) on the other side of the scale. Maybe for some narrow wedge of the economy for unskilled manufacturing and most of theose jobs have gone to the third world.
Can't say I'd see this as a bad thing. In the long run cities are attractive to business for many reasons: proximity to customers, proximity to workforce, proxility to transportation hubs. If a business can forgo all of these benefits and still improve economically, then I'd say they don't belong in a city. The vast majorty of Canadian and US businesses are service based and the aforementioned benefits are important considerations. In the short term, sure it will effect tax revenue and unemployment. In the long run it will equal out as people move closer to the new business locations. Shortsighted politicians will do stupid things that negativley affect the economy in the short and long term by bribing businesses with lower taxes. That, my friend is a lose-lose. Then you never get the business tax and the citizens still pay higher property tax.
Property/land tax is another issue. If eliminated it would tend to make people hold onto property longer and for larger tracts of land to be owned by fewer individuals. Land would become a "store of value" even more than it is today. Perhaps some sort of property tax system like they have in the Bahamas that only taxes large land holdings.
Hard to seeit. Traveling folk will buy food and gas and I'd think that would be be disproportioatly better for the locality. Most tax revenue issues arise from having too many people live in too small a place to support -big cities. What kind of areas are you thinking of?
As far as my assertion about the anti-tax attitude, find me one popular citizen's group that espouses a rational pro-tax platform (aside from flat tax schemes that don't really address the issue directly).
The best home stereo setups I've personally heard were all Bose. I had a audiophile room-mate once who dumped a ton of money into supposedly one of the best setups (this was 15 years ago) and it sounded like shit. OTOH, I've been to numerous homes and even one trailer that had simple Bose setups that sounded awesome. How the hell do they get such great sound from such tiny speakers? I've purched four "package" home autio solutiuons over the least decade (Kenwood, Sony ot name two) and I was less that impressed wit hany of them. I did hack together a decent solution with a 20 YO Poineer AMP and Reciever once that I bought at a garage sale. Within the next month I'm moving into a new house I just built and I want decent home entertainment setups. I have three spaces I want to wire: a cathedral ceilinged great room, a large master bedroom and an outside lanai. But $3000 per space is out of the question. So is having a bunch of bigass speaker boxes to trip over.
QActually, my solution would be to cut federal taxes and raise local taxes but that is nearly impossible where the prevailing additude is "all taxes are bad". So a realistic solution would be for state politicians to push through higher state and local taxes and start fighting federal taxes. Of course those policticnas would anso have to be less corrupt and the only way I see of achieving that is to run government live a business and give them salaries that would ensure that their interrests and the state's interrests were one in the same. Right now politicians use their political clout to get rich and the outcomes are often not in the public's best interest.
Over the last century most of the tax revenue has been pushed from the local level to the federal level. In part due to really bad local corruption (Louisiana has a notably bad record). So yes, the Federal government is getting a big chunk of the pie but it does little good at the local level.
I could, but what would I learn?
I'm trying to reverse it using AviSynth but keep getting an error that says "filter graph manager won't talk to me". I think it may have to be a missing audio layer or an unsupported audio codec.
a=DirectShowSource("mdis_depart.mpeg", fps=25,seek=true,audio=false)
return Reverse(a)