If you were drinking coffee/eating lunch, having a cig, not washing your hands, and then rubbing your hands over a 6" wide portion of your "brand new" car, btw, that cost you about $1000, instead of the average $15000, for several weeks, i'm sure it would have discoloration as well.
proprietary - Of, relating to, or suggestive of a proprietor or to proprietors as a group: had proprietary rights; behaved with a proprietary air in his friend's house.
Proprietary doesn't mean that other people can't use it. It means that the specification is not an open standard, and must be licensed to be used.
Is it just me, or could this be a plausible marketing ploy? Sony wants the biggest install base of the PS3 as possible to make some money, and have better market penetration than the 360 or Wii. What if they're releasing a high priced player closer to the window of the launch of the PS3 on purpose? If you had your choice between a box that did Blu Ray for $1000, or a box that did Blu Ray + lots of other stuff, for $600, a lot of non-elitist consumers are going to go with the cheaper bargain. It's entirely possible that sony is releasing an over priced blu ray player now (btw, $1000? I can get a HD-DVD drive for under $200!), to increase adoption of the ps3 by the "I love HD, but my pocket book hates it" crowd.
I ran through the update this morning, xbox works fine, no brick in my living room. The update was applied really quickly, too. I believe I had to wait about 20-30 seconds, from hitting the power button, until I could start playing again.
I'd done some research and I would like to think I know what i'm talking about. I did a study of the hardware in most consoles, and their average lifespan. According to the twelve theorem, which states the following:
Twelve.
I am lead to believe that the answer to your question is: twelve.
I don't know if it's still an issue, but I remember something about sqlite having problem with blobs that were any larger than about a megabyte. I could be wrong, but if that's the case, that would definitely be a problem with that system.
Before anyone comments, I didn't read the article. However, most likely, the reason for "15 pages" instead of one, is because they would be displaying "15 pages with ads" instead of one, which would be potentially more ad revenue.
That said, I hate it when they're broken up like that too.
We're not seeing the kind of dramatic growth we should given the surge in sales of iPods and other MP3 players.
I'm not sure this logic really plays out. To use an iPod, the average user needs to install iTunes. iTunes has built in functionality to import any audio cd you wish. So what, if I buy an iPod, i'm forced to re-purchase all of my music via iTMS instead of importing it?
Did CD sales skyrocket when discman's were first launched?
Agreed.
I'd never tried skype before this week. I have an msn account, and and icq account. I mentioned Skype to a few friends that use MSN, and they'd never even heard of it. Both ends of the spectrum exist.
Those boxes still need a subscription, even if it's piggy backed on the main subscription. I know, that with bell, each additional reciever in a home costs an extra $5, or something similar. I'm sure if someone from the company was giving a quote on their numbers, they'd at least know that fact.
Will we end up eventually paying (or stealing) all of our future programming?
The fact of the matter is, there's probably a lot more of us right now that steal our programming than pay for it, anyway. There was a statistic from Bell Canada given that they had sold 8million + satalitte recieves. In the same statement, they aknowledged that they had ~3million subscribers. Are the other boxes packed up in an attic waiting for a magical day? Nope.
That doesn't even begin to cover the number of people who have "free" cable in their homes. As well as the number of people who download episodes of whatever it is they watch.
For the most part, entertainment is stolen. It doesn't mean it's not profitable still, and doesn't mean that those people are ripping anyone off. I wouldn't pay to see certain movies, but I would download them if someone wanted to watch it at my place. Is anyone losing money? Nope, becaue I simply wouldn't have watched it.
I know there's 5000 counterarguments to that statement, but it's true. People download so much music and video because it's readily available, not because they enjoy stealing.
The concept, if delivered properly, would deliver web based groupware (we know, it already exists), with the centralized documents (also aware that it exists), along with cross-platform document editing (exists, again), without installing any new applications (a new one!).
While it's got a lot of "wow" factor, none of it is really revolutionary, but people seem to flock to anything Google puts their name on.
I was implying that the server-side portion of things shouldn't be mixed with the client side of things. That basically means, not mixing your PHP throughout your html/js.
I fully agree that folks will work with all three, but they shoudl never work with more than one at a time.
Oh and all the compilers (read browsers) give completely different results because they are buggy.
Your browser is most definitely not comparable to a compiler, especially in the case of PHP. PHP is interpreted on the server side, and you never see what was scripted. I "compiles" what could best be compared to a bytecode, that your browser executes, in a semi-standard way.
It's like a java app, in a way. What gets delivered to the user is the same (the bytecode), but theres slightly different widgets (rendering quirks). (Just to put this out there, I don't know if that's actually the case, I just assumed it would be)
By the way, anyone who's a good "programmer" would not mix html and javascript up in their PHP. Always separate logic from presentation.
If you use php, and a roun robin server, you should have no trouble. Use sessions, store session data in a central DB. Store all critical data in session variables. Voila, round-robin load balancing working with server side web apps.
All OS's have their issues. Plenty of them. I'm tired of people singling out MicroSoft as the be all and end all of bad software producers. Sure, they're not perfect, but no one is.
What I was saying, was that people will slag them for this update, but if I did the *exact* same thing about any flavour of Linux, someone will come to it's defence, or cry foul play.
This is just the same as the User/Root-Approah Microsoft plans - too lat, as always!
Do any of you believe in better late than never? Honestly, people bitch that Microsoft does nothing about security, if they attempt, they're flamed for a "poor attempt". Even now, they're trying to up security in XP, and 2000 users cry that it's too late. My sweet jesus guys, at least there's an effort somewhere. 2000 is pretty well EOL'd, I don't think it's their major worry right now.
Yeah, i'll get flamed for saying that it's not their major worry, and most likely for even backing them, but i'm sick of reading this horse shit.
Let's turn the tables for a minute. I tried installing Mandrake 10 on my laptop a year (maybe year and a half now?) ago. I couldn't get my WiFi to work regardless of how much tweaking I did, what "hack" I tried to implement. There wasn't a driver to be found. I switched to winXP on my laptop because of this, and i'll run XP on my laptop now, until I get a new one, at which point in time, I can't say that i'll try and get my WiFi working again. Are there efforts to fix it? Sure. But i've waiting a year and a half for them. You can offer wifi, but I think it's too late, i've moved on.
I'd bet five dollars that someone will say that it's either a completely different situation, or that I didn't look hard enough. I'd be told to cut the developers a break, at least they're trying, right? I just hate when people play favourites. I'm going to shut up now.
It doesn't cost extra money, if you have coders that at least half knowledgable on the subject. I think people stay away from it because people *say* it costs more money. Writing something from scratch, it shouldn't take any more time to work across browsers.
I'll admit that porting an existing web-layout/javascript to work in multiple browsers can be time consuming, and a pain in the ass. But ground up shouldn't cost you anything extra.
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If you were drinking coffee/eating lunch, having a cig, not washing your hands, and then rubbing your hands over a 6" wide portion of your "brand new" car, btw, that cost you about $1000, instead of the average $15000, for several weeks, i'm sure it would have discoloration as well.
proprietary - Of, relating to, or suggestive of a proprietor or to proprietors as a group: had proprietary rights; behaved with a proprietary air in his friend's house.
Proprietary doesn't mean that other people can't use it. It means that the specification is not an open standard, and must be licensed to be used.
Is it just me, or could this be a plausible marketing ploy? Sony wants the biggest install base of the PS3 as possible to make some money, and have better market penetration than the 360 or Wii. What if they're releasing a high priced player closer to the window of the launch of the PS3 on purpose? If you had your choice between a box that did Blu Ray for $1000, or a box that did Blu Ray + lots of other stuff, for $600, a lot of non-elitist consumers are going to go with the cheaper bargain. It's entirely possible that sony is releasing an over priced blu ray player now (btw, $1000? I can get a HD-DVD drive for under $200!), to increase adoption of the ps3 by the "I love HD, but my pocket book hates it" crowd.
I ran through the update this morning, xbox works fine, no brick in my living room. The update was applied really quickly, too. I believe I had to wait about 20-30 seconds, from hitting the power button, until I could start playing again.
I'd done some research and I would like to think I know what i'm talking about. I did a study of the hardware in most consoles, and their average lifespan. According to the twelve theorem, which states the following:
Twelve.
I am lead to believe that the answer to your question is: twelve.
I don't know if it's still an issue, but I remember something about sqlite having problem with blobs that were any larger than about a megabyte. I could be wrong, but if that's the case, that would definitely be a problem with that system.
For the sake of knowledge, you *don't* need the extension.
On the way out my arse!
You're Canadian!
Thankfully, http://www.jesusdance.com/ is still safe & sound.
Before anyone comments, I didn't read the article. However, most likely, the reason for "15 pages" instead of one, is because they would be displaying "15 pages with ads" instead of one, which would be potentially more ad revenue.
That said, I hate it when they're broken up like that too.
Did CD sales skyrocket when discman's were first launched?
Doesn't make sense to me.
Agreed.
I'd never tried skype before this week. I have an msn account, and and icq account. I mentioned Skype to a few friends that use MSN, and they'd never even heard of it. Both ends of the spectrum exist.
Very well played. I take my hat off to you, sir.
Those boxes still need a subscription, even if it's piggy backed on the main subscription. I know, that with bell, each additional reciever in a home costs an extra $5, or something similar. I'm sure if someone from the company was giving a quote on their numbers, they'd at least know that fact.
Will we end up eventually paying (or stealing) all of our future programming?
The fact of the matter is, there's probably a lot more of us right now that steal our programming than pay for it, anyway. There was a statistic from Bell Canada given that they had sold 8million + satalitte recieves. In the same statement, they aknowledged that they had ~3million subscribers. Are the other boxes packed up in an attic waiting for a magical day? Nope. That doesn't even begin to cover the number of people who have "free" cable in their homes. As well as the number of people who download episodes of whatever it is they watch. For the most part, entertainment is stolen. It doesn't mean it's not profitable still, and doesn't mean that those people are ripping anyone off. I wouldn't pay to see certain movies, but I would download them if someone wanted to watch it at my place. Is anyone losing money? Nope, becaue I simply wouldn't have watched it. I know there's 5000 counterarguments to that statement, but it's true. People download so much music and video because it's readily available, not because they enjoy stealing.
The concept, if delivered properly, would deliver web based groupware (we know, it already exists), with the centralized documents (also aware that it exists), along with cross-platform document editing (exists, again), without installing any new applications (a new one!). While it's got a lot of "wow" factor, none of it is really revolutionary, but people seem to flock to anything Google puts their name on.
I was implying that the server-side portion of things shouldn't be mixed with the client side of things. That basically means, not mixing your PHP throughout your html/js. I fully agree that folks will work with all three, but they shoudl never work with more than one at a time.
Oh lord, i'm feeding the troll...
Oh and all the compilers (read browsers) give completely different results because they are buggy.
Your browser is most definitely not comparable to a compiler, especially in the case of PHP. PHP is interpreted on the server side, and you never see what was scripted. I "compiles" what could best be compared to a bytecode, that your browser executes, in a semi-standard way.
It's like a java app, in a way. What gets delivered to the user is the same (the bytecode), but theres slightly different widgets (rendering quirks). (Just to put this out there, I don't know if that's actually the case, I just assumed it would be)
By the way, anyone who's a good "programmer" would not mix html and javascript up in their PHP. Always separate logic from presentation.
Whew, it's a great thing that no one does that for OSS at all, eh?
I had the same problem this week. I can alsmot guarantee that in the end, your problem was placement of a script tag.
If you use php, and a roun robin server, you should have no trouble. Use sessions, store session data in a central DB. Store all critical data in session variables. Voila, round-robin load balancing working with server side web apps.
Exactly what I was getting at :)
All OS's have their issues. Plenty of them. I'm tired of people singling out MicroSoft as the be all and end all of bad software producers. Sure, they're not perfect, but no one is.
What I was saying, was that people will slag them for this update, but if I did the *exact* same thing about any flavour of Linux, someone will come to it's defence, or cry foul play.
This is just the same as the User/Root-Approah Microsoft plans - too lat, as always!
Do any of you believe in better late than never? Honestly, people bitch that Microsoft does nothing about security, if they attempt, they're flamed for a "poor attempt". Even now, they're trying to up security in XP, and 2000 users cry that it's too late. My sweet jesus guys, at least there's an effort somewhere. 2000 is pretty well EOL'd, I don't think it's their major worry right now.
Yeah, i'll get flamed for saying that it's not their major worry, and most likely for even backing them, but i'm sick of reading this horse shit.
Let's turn the tables for a minute. I tried installing Mandrake 10 on my laptop a year (maybe year and a half now?) ago. I couldn't get my WiFi to work regardless of how much tweaking I did, what "hack" I tried to implement. There wasn't a driver to be found. I switched to winXP on my laptop because of this, and i'll run XP on my laptop now, until I get a new one, at which point in time, I can't say that i'll try and get my WiFi working again. Are there efforts to fix it? Sure. But i've waiting a year and a half for them. You can offer wifi, but I think it's too late, i've moved on.
I'd bet five dollars that someone will say that it's either a completely different situation, or that I didn't look hard enough. I'd be told to cut the developers a break, at least they're trying, right? I just hate when people play favourites. I'm going to shut up now.
It doesn't cost extra money, if you have coders that at least half knowledgable on the subject. I think people stay away from it because people *say* it costs more money. Writing something from scratch, it shouldn't take any more time to work across browsers. I'll admit that porting an existing web-layout/javascript to work in multiple browsers can be time consuming, and a pain in the ass. But ground up shouldn't cost you anything extra.
Some folks are already on top of this, using the macmini *as* the pvr. http://www.centerstageproject.com/