Depends entirely on circumstance but I'd always prefer to use something like HTML::Mason with mod_perl (damn me and my frameworks) as it does certain things really nicely, like caching and allowing easy templating. The "training of employees" things only applies to companies where they have not hired peopel with specific skills. Even then Zope is not that hard to learn, although the documentation is the worst I have ever encountered for such a serious project.
It hasn't screwed the UK over, I am not sure it will cost 5 million US jobs at all. And it would definitely help long-term with the environment regardless of what China did.
Are you joking or something? Frameworks provide a way to save time in development and maintenance of medium-to-large projects by providing facilitis that programmers will find useful. Zope's acquisition feature is very handy for me to write templated websites whle keeping my application logic separate from my HTML. When I have non-programmers editing the HTML (which I do) this is really handy. Zope gives me a web interface to use to get to all this code. This means my non-programmer has an easier time of it.
But we'll all be equally screwed by not paying the environmental problem any attention. So what's it to be?
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What a list. I'm lucky enough to own 15 of these, plus a few more besides (Yamaha's attempt at a DX7/MSX hybrid, Camputers Lynx) but if people (sorry UK only) want to see this stuff closer up they can visit the computer museum at Bletchley.
The end of the article says this: "South Korea's top mobile carrier, SK Telecom, said it would introduce 10-megapixel camera phones produced by Samsung by the end of this year."
If this isn't a mistake then this is quite a staggering rate of change in camera phones.
OK that's fine. So we've got a hard drive that has 16MB of cache with an interface that has a max throughput of 3Gb/s... does it really matter? We're talking about such a small amount of cache memory here. And to fill that cache will always require a very very slow disk read. Do we really get any significant performance increase? There must be some sort of improvements in the works for the moving parts of a hard drive surely?
I was going to mod you up funny, but then I realised that in fact this is Slashdot, and thus that sort of error would be right at home! However it's still a funny post....
Oh yo've not noticed that this doesn't run using electricity have you? Solar powered water pumps use electric motors currently. This doesn't. The only moving "part" is the fluid....
Er, the research that has gone into this thermofluidic pump is *absolutely new*. You cannot find a pump of this nature anywhere else. Tom has developed something entirely new, so give it a chance.
The X-15 flew hundreds of flights. It had a restartable throttlable engine and was done with the absolute cutting edge of technology. The reaction control system that SpaceShipOne uses was designed and first built for the X-15. There is no doubt that SpaceShipOne has significant improvements - no space suit (the Mercury programme suits were developed from the X-15 suits, that is how cutting edge it was), innovative "feather" action to fall back to Earth, passengers...it is clearly the superior craft although it is not the technology leader that the X-15 was. So if you want to compare costs then consider what was being done at the time.
This takes nothing away from Scaled Composites who are rightly recognised as having done a terrific job and well done to them.
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Depends entirely on circumstance but I'd always prefer to use something like HTML::Mason with mod_perl (damn me and my frameworks) as it does certain things really nicely, like caching and allowing easy templating.
The "training of employees" things only applies to companies where they have not hired peopel with specific skills.
Even then Zope is not that hard to learn, although the documentation is the worst I have ever encountered for such a serious project.
It hasn't screwed the UK over, I am not sure it will cost 5 million US jobs at all.
And it would definitely help long-term with the environment regardless of what China did.
I guess someone really does build custom CMSes for every job they do...
I bet your customers love you spending lots of time building custom PHP CMSes each job you do.
Are you joking or something?
Frameworks provide a way to save time in development and maintenance of medium-to-large projects by providing facilitis that programmers will find useful.
Zope's acquisition feature is very handy for me to write templated websites whle keeping my application logic separate from my HTML.
When I have non-programmers editing the HTML (which I do) this is really handy.
Zope gives me a web interface to use to get to all this code. This means my non-programmer has an easier time of it.
But we'll all be equally screwed by not paying the environmental problem any attention.
So what's it to be?
What a list. I'm lucky enough to own 15 of these, plus a few more besides (Yamaha's attempt at a DX7/MSX hybrid, Camputers Lynx) but if people (sorry UK only) want to see this stuff closer up they can visit the computer museum at Bletchley.
I think a 3-headed goat will be born to farmer in Wisconsin.
One is a reasonable explanation of how we got to be here though, and the other is not. Which one is which is left as an exercise for the reader.
Indeed, as in the Mitnick case, one idiot *did* do it...
The original was targetted at children. This explains the ewoks.
You were just younger then so it was OK.
We can do that too. We're multi-talented.
Works great until someone seens your screen. :)
No it isn't! I run Mozilla on XP and it's nowhere near that!
And people accuse Microsoft of producing bloatware!
That's a shameful statistic really.
Thank you. You have convinced me Blu-Ray is the way forward.
The end of the article says this:
"South Korea's top mobile carrier, SK Telecom, said it would introduce 10-megapixel camera phones produced by Samsung by the end of this year." If this isn't a mistake then this is quite a staggering rate of change in camera phones.
Is this not too far away then?
OK that's fine. So we've got a hard drive that has 16MB of cache with an interface that has a max throughput of 3Gb/s ... does it really matter?
We're talking about such a small amount of cache memory here. And to fill that cache will always require a very very slow disk read. Do we really get any significant performance increase?
There must be some sort of improvements in the works for the moving parts of a hard drive surely?
So what technology is going to be able to produce this sort of throughput from a harddrive?
I was going to mod you up funny, but then I realised that in fact this is Slashdot, and thus that sort of error would be right at home!
However it's still a funny post....
Oh yo've not noticed that this doesn't run using electricity have you?
Solar powered water pumps use electric motors currently.
This doesn't.
The only moving "part" is the fluid....
Er, the research that has gone into this thermofluidic pump is *absolutely new*. You cannot find a pump of this nature anywhere else. Tom has developed something entirely new, so give it a chance.
Well we'll all be a lot more wise after tonight!
The X-15 flew hundreds of flights.
It had a restartable throttlable engine and was done with the absolute cutting edge of technology.
The reaction control system that SpaceShipOne uses was designed and first built for the X-15.
There is no doubt that SpaceShipOne has significant improvements - no space suit (the Mercury programme suits were developed from the X-15 suits, that is how cutting edge it was), innovative "feather" action to fall back to Earth, passengers...it is clearly the superior craft although it is not the technology leader that the X-15 was.
So if you want to compare costs then consider what was being done at the time.
This takes nothing away from Scaled Composites who are rightly recognised as having done a terrific job and well done to them.