I needed one which didn't use a database, but only flatfiles. It took me a while to find them but
here is what I've found: CafeRSS
The one I'm using rigth now. Really easy. OnyxRSS
More powerful, uses the XML parsing fetures of PHP Rippy
Another one, I just don't know.
Have fun!
quake74
Maybe it's because the NYT actually has *good* articles written by *professional* journalists, as opposed to certain web sites were the same article is published twice on the front page, or where editors do not spell/grammar check. And by the way, "It's even waterproof!"
He is totally rigth. My suggestion is that Slashdot should mirror the story. For example, instead of linking to the.uk.org web page, it could provide a link to one of the comments which contain the text of the article.
What's happening? Nobody is posting? Where are the witty remarks? The 'last week we hated that company cause it's closing all independent radio stations while we love it this week cause it's doing something cool'?
Linux has started to become the platform of choice for extremely complex and involved multimedia production, powering enormous render farms and video storage RAID arrays, yet still, Linux falls on its face for mundane day-to-day productivity work.
What? I really don't understand that 'yet'.
The problem is that
'easier' doesn't mean that it can be done faster!
I'd rather work for months trying to solve a hard problem than working the same amount of time solving
a (easier) boring problem. You can call it ego if you want.
My favorite app (not in the exibition) which generates art is
Webcollage.
It's a perl script which collects images at random from the web and pastes them together. It's my xscreensaver default and I am always amazed by
how FEW pr0n images it shows (last one, a couple of months ago).
The participants could have just been scoring on "this is different to the unencoded track, therefore it must be worse".
Well, I don't see anything wrong with that. That is EXACTLY what the were supposed to judge. It is not a contest about what sounds better, it's a contest about which codec reproduces the source more faithfully (in the sense of Hi(gh)Fi(delity)).
The more different from the source, the worse.
OK, I'm missing something. I thought that people complained of being disadvantaged (sorry for my english) because Microsoft can integrate Word (et similia) in Windows much better that other companies can since it has access to the full API's. I guess it's not a problem to open the standard file open dialog but I though that was not the point.
I clearly remeber reading about employees working for companies which developed programs for Windows complaining about having to go (phisically) to Microsoft to get the documentation they needed.
Now that you mention, I don't think VMWare cares about API's, since it only emulates the hardware but not the software. I think the guys working on Wine have this, so called, 'API problem'.
Well, if you expnad this thought, it's kinda hard to separate KDE from Konqueror right now. It's both the file manager and the browser. Yes, you can use Mozilla, but the same thing is and was true for Windows.
I understand that neither Apple nor KDE are in a monopoly position nor they are trying to enforce that, but my point is that adding applications to the OS is not 'bad'. The 'bad' thing Microsoft did was closing their API!
As other people said, because you might want to support MandrakeSoft, because it's not the only 'freebie' you get with the silver membership, because you actually *don't know* how much is StarOffice gonna cost in stores.
quake74
The debate about the usability and usefulness of Flash is nothing new. Check the Flash Usability Contest at the link
http://www.webword.com/flashusability.html
I liked the fact that the guy stepped up the plate and used his own money to cover the bet.
Surprisingly enough, there WAS a winner.
Quake74
As far as I understand, the EULA just says that you need to own a copy of a Microsoft operating system to use WMP. It doesn't forbid you to use it under any operationg systems. Since the vast majority of people who wants to use WMP already own a version of Windows, I don't see why the EULA is a problem...
Quake74
I must disagree. "Pi" is more about numerology than about math and it NOT worth checking out. Actually, avoid it at all costs. The impression I've got is that it tries way too hard to be cool.
I am in math grad school right now and I've never seen anybody doing anything like that. But Beautiful Mind is in the same category. I haven't seen it but I still laugh when I imagine my game theory prof's head on the well-build body of Russel Crowe.
Anyway, you don't have to make math LOOK cool. MATH *IS* COOL!
Thanks Adam. No, I did not bother to read the whole page since I'll never enter the contest. The original post was a just a joke. I actually thought that the 5 CD were the uncompressed pages. That should make sense since it shouldn't be too hard to get a 50:1 compression rate on text files like to web pages.
The code and data may be downloaded from our web site:
http://research.google.com/contest/prog-contest- sa mple.tar - (!!)57M(!!)
... yada yada yada...
If you prefer, we will mail you the code and data on a set of (!!)five(!!) CDs. E-mail your request for CDs, including a postal address, to programming-contest@google.com.
Let's see... 57 Mb/5 CD is 11.4Mb per CD.
Heck, how small are those cd!?
Slashdot Mirror
I needed one which didn't use a database, but only flatfiles. It took me a while to find them but here is what I've found:
CafeRSS The one I'm using rigth now. Really easy.
OnyxRSS More powerful, uses the XML parsing fetures of PHP
Rippy Another one, I just don't know.
Have fun!
quake74
Maybe it's because the NYT actually has *good* articles written by *professional* journalists, as opposed to certain web sites were the same article is published twice on the front page, or where editors do not spell/grammar check. And by the way, "It's even waterproof!"
quake74
He is totally rigth. My suggestion is that Slashdot should mirror the story. For example, instead of linking to the .uk.org web page, it could provide a link to one of the comments which contain the text of the article.
quake74
So, what is that? Your private server or what? ;)
quake74
Not for me ;) Which RPM repository are you using? I can't seem to find it on texstar, plf, cooker or the mandrake club....
quake74
What's happening? Nobody is posting? Where are the witty remarks? The 'last week we hated that company cause it's closing all independent radio stations while we love it this week cause it's doing something cool'?
quake74
What? I really don't understand that 'yet'. The problem is that 'easier' doesn't mean that it can be done faster! I'd rather work for months trying to solve a hard problem than working the same amount of time solving a (easier) boring problem. You can call it ego if you want.
quake74
My favorite app (not in the exibition) which generates art is Webcollage. It's a perl script which collects images at random from the web and pastes them together. It's my xscreensaver default and I am always amazed by how FEW pr0n images it shows (last one, a couple of months ago).
quake74
The participants could have just been scoring on "this is different to the unencoded track, therefore it must be worse".
Well, I don't see anything wrong with that. That is EXACTLY what the were supposed to judge. It is not a contest about what sounds better, it's a contest about which codec reproduces the source more faithfully (in the sense of Hi(gh)Fi(delity)). The more different from the source, the worse.
quake74OK, I'm missing something. I thought that people complained of being disadvantaged (sorry for my english) because Microsoft can integrate Word (et similia) in Windows much better that other companies can since it has access to the full API's. I guess it's not a problem to open the standard file open dialog but I though that was not the point.
I clearly remeber reading about employees working for companies which developed programs for Windows complaining about having to go (phisically) to Microsoft to get the documentation they needed.
Now that you mention, I don't think VMWare cares about API's, since it only emulates the hardware but not the software. I think the guys working on Wine have this, so called, 'API problem'.
quake74
Well, if you expnad this thought, it's kinda hard to separate KDE from Konqueror right now. It's both the file manager and the browser. Yes, you can use Mozilla, but the same thing is and was true for Windows.
I understand that neither Apple nor KDE are in a monopoly position nor they are trying to enforce that, but my point is that adding applications to the OS is not 'bad'. The 'bad' thing Microsoft did was closing their API!
quake74
As other people said, because you might want to support MandrakeSoft, because it's not the only 'freebie' you get with the silver membership, because you actually *don't know* how much is StarOffice gonna cost in stores. quake74
The debate about the usability and usefulness of Flash is nothing new. Check the Flash Usability Contest at the link http://www.webword.com/flashusability.html I liked the fact that the guy stepped up the plate and used his own money to cover the bet. Surprisingly enough, there WAS a winner. Quake74
As far as I understand, the EULA just says that you need to own a copy of a Microsoft operating system to use WMP. It doesn't forbid you to use it under any operationg systems. Since the vast majority of people who wants to use WMP already own a version of Windows, I don't see why the EULA is a problem... Quake74
I must disagree. "Pi" is more about numerology than about math and it NOT worth checking out. Actually, avoid it at all costs. The impression I've got is that it tries way too hard to be cool. I am in math grad school right now and I've never seen anybody doing anything like that. But Beautiful Mind is in the same category. I haven't seen it but I still laugh when I imagine my game theory prof's head on the well-build body of Russel Crowe. Anyway, you don't have to make math LOOK cool. MATH *IS* COOL!
Thanks Adam. No, I did not bother to read the whole page since I'll never enter the contest. The original post was a just a joke. I actually thought that the 5 CD were the uncompressed pages. That should make sense since it shouldn't be too hard to get a 50:1 compression rate on text files like to web pages.
From the Contest Rules web page
- sa mple.tar - (!!)57M(!!)
...
... 57 Mb /5 CD is 11.4Mb per CD.
The code and data may be downloaded from our web site:
http://research.google.com/contest/prog-contest
... yada yada yada
If you prefer, we will mail you the code and data on a set of (!!)five(!!) CDs. E-mail your request for CDs, including a postal address, to programming-contest@google.com.
Let's see
Heck, how small are those cd!?