... by design. Thus, I presume, the use of the word 'Rails'.
You want a DB-driven site that hooks into a single DB for all its tables? You got it.
You want a site that hooks/controls multiple DBs, or want to stray too far from the paradigm? Not so much.
If your project is contained mostly or entirely within the Rails Venn diagram, you'll be happy. Otherwise, not so much.
(I looked into it for a site that would manage large #s of XML files, and found that going outside the one-DB-per-site model was very unfriendly, but then again, IANARP..:p)
US unemployment rate is below 5% (4.7% nonfarm as of April 2006 BLS report) .
What's the comparable unemployment rate in Austria, France, Germany, the rest of Europe?
When the law restricts your ability to fire, you don't hire as much or as quickly. Therefore fewer jobs, therefore higher unemployment. TANSTAAFL. Luckily with the declining birthrate, there'll be plenty of jobs still left.. For white people...
And it'll suck especially bad for jobs that can be done over fiber-optic cable. Once high-quality videoconferencing becomes cheap, interoperable and ubiquitous, look for the market to become even _more_ efficient.
component (YPrPb) != composite.. There aren't any component input PCI cards except for the aformentioned SDI adapters or >$2000 professional capture boxes. If there were, there'd be MythTV boxes that could handle HD over digital cable boxes.
There's a couple Yamahas that can upconvert analog video into HDMI 480p, and the RX-V2600 can upconvert any analog video to 1080i, though the Denons have full documentation of their RS-232 control ports online...
How else did PS2 beat Dreamcast then, at least based on initial title availability? PSX compatibility I guess... (and now that GTA isn't Sony-exclusive for any period of time, it's gonna be interesting)
(and the new tiny PS2 makes a nice ancillary DVD player, good enough for me not to have to buy another cheapo one for the bedroom)..
What about the XBox, PS2, DVD changer with component outputs... If the display doesn't have a good internal scaler for component in (480i digital), then you're stuck with SDI cards that can handle component input, and those are pretty expensive last time I looked (let alone HD-SDI cards)...
Once your component sources proliferate, the flexibility of a good external processor becomes pretty obvious... Though I am too lazy to use such a beast as a switchbox, I'd prefer to have a receiver that can do an adequate job of internally upconverting to component (or DVI) out then passing that signal to an inline processor and out to the display device (some receivers even have DVI/HDMI in and can pass those signals unmodified out so they can be complete video switches).
OTOH, one of these somewhat moots the point, though I'd have to see how well its internal line processor works (it's all objective)...
Why is it with every story like this, there's a steady contingent of people who post, "Pffft! Well, that powers the country for one billionth of a second! Nice try, losers!"
When _hasn't_ there been assholes?
"Ug, forget about that round thing, you might get your foot caught under it!" "Ug, stop smacking those stones together, warm light belongs to the gods!"
I wanna plug all my stuff into it so it all gets processed up to 1080p. My games, my tuners, my component DVD changer.
Hell, if it even has a single component in that will do the line processing for a receiver whose internal video switch upconverts to its component out (or do passthru as appropriate) so that it all goes into the line processor and then into the set at 1080p, it would be good.
XBox 360 costs $399, how much will will you pay if you want to add on the HD-DVD drive? I would think it would cost at least $200 dollars.
But what if I don't want either Bluray or HD-DVD because of draconian DRM, what if I'd rather just upconvert until the market gets its head out of its ass? Yeah it might be awhile, but Faroudja can do some magical shit with their line processors...
... discontinuing classic Illuminati in favor of a fucking CCG... I mean yeah, the new groups and art are nice, but I'll take the original. Of course, being SJG, they eventually figured out their mistake and corrected it.. Eventually... And I still can't buy a classic set with the deluxe plastic money chips that I had in my old deluxe set (which I gave to a friend, how unIlluminati I know, but he needed it more).
(And how wicked would an Illuminati/Cthulhu MMO be, I'm thinking pretty bloody..)
Capitalism either directly invests in research on cancer and "anti-death" drugs via pharmaceutical company R&D, or it indirectly does via tax dollars going to public universities and government agencies.
Capitalism is the soil in which all other things grow. It is the most effective tool for generating wealth that the world has ever known. History has invalidated all other known forms of economic organization, at this point they are fantasies verging on religions (Communism is at this point a Faith-Based system).
I believe that the current economic differences between the former eastern block and the rest of europe will slowly diminish.
If that means the French and German economies begin to look more like Estonia's or Ireland's, then that's good. Otherwise, I don't expect the Eastern Europeans to put up with it for long. I think they'll continue to miss good opportunities to shut up.
Gosh, I hope not. What with their 21st century tax mechanisms, high literacy and technology adoption, I think the Baltics, Poland, and much of the rest of Eastern Europe are leapfrogging Central and Western Europe. Why would you open a new business anywhere in Europe outside the east or Ireland? Folks in France, the UK or Germany are not _that_ much better (nor are Americans, to be honest), and any skills you can't find locally just acquire them via fiber optics and conference cams... I wonder if the tax schemes of Croatia are nice and flat, Dubrovnik would be a _great_ place to live and work I'd think...
Better yet, they can take part in Euroland while remaining far more attractive for business investment (and, thus, jobs).
Wouldn't the ironing be delicious if "East Germany" were to secede again, but this time in order to go 21st-century capitalist (flat tax, low corporate tax) and join the Eastern European economy?
Luckily they can still remember the true face of socialism, and what havoc it can wreak, though perhaps in a couple of generations they too will transform into ignorant ingrates...
I'm as big a fan of free markets as the next guy, but telecom is _not_ a free market. There is necessary management of public assets (rights to utility poles and municipal infrastructure) that will always require regulation of some sort or another (and thus provide an opportunity for corru^H^H^H^H^Hlobbying). So until the day comes when it's all unregulated wireless, the legitimate fairness concerns of the public deserve primacy.
BTW, for a look at the early days of unregulated wiring, check this out.. or this.. Downtown NY was covered in all these lines at first, which would of course break in winter and cause safety issues...
I remember my "superior" Atari-Lynx, can you belive it? 16-bit, 4096 colors and games that would beat the living sh*t out every competitor around at the time, but it FLOPPED! Why? It drained the batteries after 1.5 hours, people simply didnt use it.
I tend to think the size worked against it as well, as it was tragically released between the fashions of parachute pants and cargo pants, which are the only pants with pockets large enough for either the skateboard or the stereo chunk varieties. And yeah, that screen was as luscious as it was thirsty.
(I had both, along with Warbirds, Bill & Ted, Klax, Rampage and like 15 other games:p)
(and the DS Lite looks like what the Lynx (c|sh)oulda been, down to the 'one cart for all'..)
I still think that magic in that novel is so much part of the basic fabric of its world, and yet people are so recognizably realistic (whether human, faery, or 'other') that this qualifies it to be more of a counterfactual historical novel (along the lines of Turtledove).
And you're more likely to find Jonathan Lethem not in a fantasy or scifi section since the fantasy does not define the narrative, it only informs it.
Perhaps you're right, that the mere presence of magic means it's a fantasy, like how the mere presence of a time machine would make it science fiction, but I still feel that the book transcends its genre, and would be palatable to a larger audience that would balk if it were compared to some of the standards of that genre.
Reading the finalist listing though, I've seen that there is the damn fine novel 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell' by Susanna Clarke. Very amazing book, superbly written, it even has annotations in essay style, definitely a contender which I recommend to anyone interested in reading a good novel and as a fantasy genre initiation (though I would never define it as 'fantasy').
Agreed, great book, and it's not so much a fantasy as a normal story with a counterfactual history that involves the presence of magic within the real world. What I really love about it is that it puts you in this world with a rich history that happens to involve magic, and it builds a whole English myth that impacts events like the Napoleonic Wars. I'd recommend it to folks even if they weren't into stuff like Elric, Dragonlance, etc.. 'cuz it's really not that type of story. It's more of a Georgian-era drama/tragedy that assumes the presence of magic as it would assume the presence of, say, gunpowder or steam power.
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Anyplace to get one of those old-skewl brickfones (or even better, a 2-piece with battery), but using somewhat modern multi-band GSM?
Preferably with a nice simple VFD.. It'd be better of course if it were modern-engineered but retro-styled, so you could use all that volume for more Li-Ion space, larger antennas, etc.
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... by design. Thus, I presume, the use of the word 'Rails'.
:p)
You want a DB-driven site that hooks into a single DB for all its tables? You got it.
You want a site that hooks/controls multiple DBs, or want to stray too far from the paradigm? Not so much.
If your project is contained mostly or entirely within the Rails Venn diagram, you'll be happy. Otherwise, not so much.
(I looked into it for a site that would manage large #s of XML files, and found that going outside the one-DB-per-site model was very unfriendly, but then again, IANARP..
US unemployment rate is below 5% (4.7% nonfarm as of April 2006 BLS report) .
What's the comparable unemployment rate in Austria, France, Germany, the rest of Europe?
When the law restricts your ability to fire, you don't hire as much or as quickly. Therefore fewer jobs, therefore higher unemployment. TANSTAAFL. Luckily with the declining birthrate, there'll be plenty of jobs still left.. For white people...
And it'll suck especially bad for jobs that can be done over fiber-optic cable. Once high-quality videoconferencing becomes cheap, interoperable and ubiquitous, look for the market to become even _more_ efficient.
component (YPrPb) != composite.. There aren't any component input PCI cards except for the aformentioned SDI adapters or >$2000 professional capture boxes. If there were, there'd be MythTV boxes that could handle HD over digital cable boxes.
There's a couple Yamahas that can upconvert analog video into HDMI 480p, and the RX-V2600 can upconvert any analog video to 1080i, though the Denons have full documentation of their RS-232 control ports online...
WE ARN'T BUYING THE PS2 TO PLAY DVDS
How else did PS2 beat Dreamcast then, at least based on initial title availability? PSX compatibility I guess... (and now that GTA isn't Sony-exclusive for any period of time, it's gonna be interesting)
(and the new tiny PS2 makes a nice ancillary DVD player, good enough for me not to have to buy another cheapo one for the bedroom)..
What about the XBox, PS2, DVD changer with component outputs... If the display doesn't have a good internal scaler for component in (480i digital), then you're stuck with SDI cards that can handle component input, and those are pretty expensive last time I looked (let alone HD-SDI cards)...
Once your component sources proliferate, the flexibility of a good external processor becomes pretty obvious... Though I am too lazy to use such a beast as a switchbox, I'd prefer to have a receiver that can do an adequate job of internally upconverting to component (or DVI) out then passing that signal to an inline processor and out to the display device (some receivers even have DVI/HDMI in and can pass those signals unmodified out so they can be complete video switches).
OTOH, one of these somewhat moots the point, though I'd have to see how well its internal line processor works (it's all objective)...
Why is it with every story like this, there's a steady contingent of people who post, "Pffft! Well, that powers the country for one billionth of a second! Nice try, losers!"
When _hasn't_ there been assholes?
"Ug, forget about that round thing, you might get your foot caught under it!"
"Ug, stop smacking those stones together, warm light belongs to the gods!"
How many inputs does that box have?
I wanna plug all my stuff into it so it all gets processed up to 1080p. My games, my tuners, my component DVD changer.
Hell, if it even has a single component in that will do the line processing for a receiver whose internal video switch upconverts to its component out (or do passthru as appropriate) so that it all goes into the line processor and then into the set at 1080p, it would be good.
Err, Buffalo did, and they cost just about the same as D-Link..?
And the CompUSA brand wireless routers also support WDS, and they are $50 (with 1 $30 rebate per household last time I checked)?
Sorry, D-Link is just lazy suck.
... for me to abandon dlink because they're too cheap to put WDS in their wireless routers.
XBox 360 costs $399, how much will will you pay if you want to add on the HD-DVD drive? I would think it would cost at least $200 dollars.
But what if I don't want either Bluray or HD-DVD because of draconian DRM, what if I'd rather just upconvert until the market gets its head out of its ass? Yeah it might be awhile, but Faroudja can do some magical shit with their line processors...
... discontinuing classic Illuminati in favor of a fucking CCG... I mean yeah, the new groups and art are nice, but I'll take the original. Of course, being SJG, they eventually figured out their mistake and corrected it.. Eventually... And I still can't buy a classic set with the deluxe plastic money chips that I had in my old deluxe set (which I gave to a friend, how unIlluminati I know, but he needed it more).
(And how wicked would an Illuminati/Cthulhu MMO be, I'm thinking pretty bloody..)
Capitalism either directly invests in research on cancer and "anti-death" drugs via pharmaceutical company R&D, or it indirectly does via tax dollars going to public universities and government agencies.
Capitalism is the soil in which all other things grow. It is the most effective tool for generating wealth that the world has ever known. History has invalidated all other known forms of economic organization, at this point they are fantasies verging on religions (Communism is at this point a Faith-Based system).
Stop worrying and learn to love Capitalism.
I believe that the current economic differences between the former eastern block and the rest of europe will slowly diminish.
If that means the French and German economies begin to look more like Estonia's or Ireland's, then that's good. Otherwise, I don't expect the Eastern Europeans to put up with it for long. I think they'll continue to miss good opportunities to shut up.
Gosh, I hope not. What with their 21st century tax mechanisms, high literacy and technology adoption, I think the Baltics, Poland, and much of the rest of Eastern Europe are leapfrogging Central and Western Europe. Why would you open a new business anywhere in Europe outside the east or Ireland? Folks in France, the UK or Germany are not _that_ much better (nor are Americans, to be honest), and any skills you can't find locally just acquire them via fiber optics and conference cams... I wonder if the tax schemes of Croatia are nice and flat, Dubrovnik would be a _great_ place to live and work I'd think...
Better yet, they can take part in Euroland while remaining far more attractive for business investment (and, thus, jobs).
Wouldn't the ironing be delicious if "East Germany" were to secede again, but this time in order to go 21st-century capitalist (flat tax, low corporate tax) and join the Eastern European economy?
Luckily they can still remember the true face of socialism, and what havoc it can wreak, though perhaps in a couple of generations they too will transform into ignorant ingrates...
... I mean a FPS?? WTF?
SR really needed to be a 3rd person RPG, like KOTOR or WoW...
(TLA overload! 601!! 601!!!!)
Hear hear.
I'm as big a fan of free markets as the next guy, but telecom is _not_ a free market. There is necessary management of public assets (rights to utility poles and municipal infrastructure) that will always require regulation of some sort or another (and thus provide an opportunity for corru^H^H^H^H^Hlobbying). So until the day comes when it's all unregulated wireless, the legitimate fairness concerns of the public deserve primacy.
BTW, for a look at the early days of unregulated wiring, check this out.. or this.. Downtown NY was covered in all these lines at first, which would of course break in winter and cause safety issues...
As long as they find a way to sneak in a line by a dopey sounding guy saying "Ready to Serve", I'll be happy.
Daylight's burning!
3.2.5 of course! On an RS/6000 7015-990..
Oh wait, that was 1996.. Gotta lay off the nutrasweet...
I remember my "superior" Atari-Lynx, can you belive it? 16-bit, 4096 colors and games that would beat the living sh*t out every competitor around at the time, but it FLOPPED! Why? It drained the batteries after 1.5 hours, people simply didnt use it.
:p)
I tend to think the size worked against it as well, as it was tragically released between the fashions of parachute pants and cargo pants, which are the only pants with pockets large enough for either the skateboard or the stereo chunk varieties. And yeah, that screen was as luscious as it was thirsty.
(I had both, along with Warbirds, Bill & Ted, Klax, Rampage and like 15 other games
(and the DS Lite looks like what the Lynx (c|sh)oulda been, down to the 'one cart for all'..)
Oh, that's right, it's inOr should I use env, but env isn't installed by default on AIX...
I still think that magic in that novel is so much part of the basic fabric of its world, and yet people are so recognizably realistic (whether human, faery, or 'other') that this qualifies it to be more of a counterfactual historical novel (along the lines of Turtledove).
And you're more likely to find Jonathan Lethem not in a fantasy or scifi section since the fantasy does not define the narrative, it only informs it.
Perhaps you're right, that the mere presence of magic means it's a fantasy, like how the mere presence of a time machine would make it science fiction, but I still feel that the book transcends its genre, and would be palatable to a larger audience that would balk if it were compared to some of the standards of that genre.
... When did Perl get demoted to 'etc'?
Jes' curious...
Unfortunately, ASCII strips the sarcasm bit..
(I wonder if one of the UTF encodings restores it?)
Reading the finalist listing though, I've seen that there is the damn fine novel 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell' by Susanna Clarke. Very amazing book, superbly written, it even has annotations in essay style, definitely a contender which I recommend to anyone interested in reading a good novel and as a fantasy genre initiation (though I would never define it as 'fantasy').
Agreed, great book, and it's not so much a fantasy as a normal story with a counterfactual history that involves the presence of magic within the real world. What I really love about it is that it puts you in this world with a rich history that happens to involve magic, and it builds a whole English myth that impacts events like the Napoleonic Wars. I'd recommend it to folks even if they weren't into stuff like Elric, Dragonlance, etc.. 'cuz it's really not that type of story. It's more of a Georgian-era drama/tragedy that assumes the presence of magic as it would assume the presence of, say, gunpowder or steam power.
Anyplace to get one of those old-skewl brickfones (or even better, a 2-piece with battery), but using somewhat modern multi-band GSM?
Preferably with a nice simple VFD.. It'd be better of course if it were modern-engineered but retro-styled, so you could use all that volume for more Li-Ion space, larger antennas, etc.