You can't move a joystick and repeatedly press your thumb on a top button as efficiently as you can move the stick with one hand and slap the button with your other hand.
Yeah, and from the sound of things, he shouldn't have much trouble slapping the button with his stump.
This is not a legal argument you are making, but a "what I think it should be" argument, and those don't usually hold up so well in court.
When dealing with crazy laws the Judge usually sides with "what is the intent of the law".
I'd say the intent of this law is to prevent people from seeing naked people in public. Since no one saw her naked in public, she didn't break the spirit of the law.
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No matter how much the browser will do, you still need to validate the entered information at the server.
True, but that's no reason not to validate at the client. It's much easier to let the client pop open the little warning dialog letting the user know that they screwed up the date for example.
It's the whole user-friendliness part that makes form building such a pain in the butt. You basically have to build each form twice. The initial form, and then an error-version of the form which lists what they screwed up, and pre-fills in all the stuff they didn't screw up so they can fix it.
What we do now is such a horrible hack.
So for user-friendliness, client-side validation.. then on the server side we just do a quick validation and if there are any errors, it's because the client is trying to break us, and we just spit out a warning page that says "error".. no need to be friendly.
xforms is indeed intriguing and anyone developing a complicated web tool could find this technology a godsend. However from what I've seen, it's extremely complicated (on the scale of p3p) and difficult to use.
Interesting cause I just picked up and started to play through Zelda: Ocarina of Time again.
Don't forget Majora's Mask.. most original concept I've ever seen. The world ends in 3 days, you relive those 3 days over and over again until you beat the game.
How is RFI suppression handled in these clear plastic cases?
I dunno, how does Apple do it on the G4 Cube? It's clear plastic, and there isn't any wire mesh or anything.
I'm thinking that RFI suppression isn't nearly a big a deal as it used to be. Everyone I know runs their computers with the cases open, no one has problems with radio or TV reception.
Yeah, I'm curious too. I got 4 GC games (mariokart, prince of persia, metal arms, and ssx3) my wife said that she had a hell of a time finding mariokart, prince of persia, and metal arms.. they were sold out everywhere she went.
MySQL STILL doesn't support subqueries in a production version.
4.x is a production version. His analogy is perfectly valid, people are complaining about mysql 3.x when 4.x implements most of what they were complaining about.
I guess I could be considered a professional dba since I use sql very heavily for my job.
I like mysql. It is quick and powerful and get's the job done. Sure it'd be nice to have triggers and store procedures, but the lack of them doesn't make it unusable. Any DBA who refuses to work with MySQL is an elitist moron.
I think postgres is better than mysql, but I also think that mysql's Full Text search is far superior than anything offered by Oracle or MS. MySql's caching works extremely well as well.
Apple charges 99 cents a song, and 9.99 for most albums. This is, to me and most people, a fair price.
I'd be willing to bet that Apple spends a lot more hosting quicktime trailers for free than selling aacs online. Seems to me that Apple is perfectly willing to spend money on bandwidth without a clear business plan.
Apple charges 99 cents a song, and 9.99 for most albums. This is, to me and most people, a fair price.
It's not a fair price to me, and that's the point. I can go to Zia's and pick up pretty much any album for $7.99 used. Even though the CD is used, it's better quality than iTunes, and I can rip it to high quality OGGs.
Even new CDs are only $12.. and looking at my collection I don't think there's a single album I own that has "only one good song on it". Perhaps iTunes is perfect for people who listen to top 40 crap and only buy singles.. but it sucks for people who are into bands that produce good albums.
With iTunes you're locked into the iPod, with the other stores you're locked into DRM-supporting WMA portables. Considering that there are probably at least as many iPod owners as all WMA/DRM-supporting devices combined, I don't think it much matters.
So vendor lock-in is OK as long as the vendor has a monopoly?
in all fairness, your minidisc player a) doesn't power a harddrive, flash memory, an LCD, backlight, and the electronics that go with it.
Dunno about which minidisk players you've used, but mine powers a spinning disc, an lcd, a backlight and all the electronics that go with it. You saying that powering flash memory is what makes the iPod so much more complicated?
GTK runs on Windows and OSX as well.. I'm using PAN and The Gimp under XP just fine. GTK is by no means lacking in tools and several GUI IDE's support it.
Hell, you can write PHP GTK apps.. I can't think of anything more RAD.
Finally, Mono and gConf have nothing to do with GTK... Mono is a separate project altogether, and gConf is part of GNOME.
But hey, if you want to lie your ass off and get modded up for it.. be my guest.
Yeah, I like GConf from a UI point of view, but how is it implemented "under the hood"? I heard MS are moving away from having the registry as one big clunky file and I just hope the gnome folk have had the forethought to do it right from the start.
I'd say they did, instead of one big clunky file.. gconf's backend is stored as multiple xml files.
He did install Quicktime at the same time, which if corrupted could have caused kernel panics.
You gotta love software design that makes your kernel crash if the movie playback library has problems. Kind of like making a web browser part of the OS.
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You can't move a joystick and repeatedly press your thumb on a top button as efficiently as you can move the stick with one hand and slap the button with your other hand.
Yeah, and from the sound of things, he shouldn't have much trouble slapping the button with his stump.
This is not a legal argument you are making, but a "what I think it should be" argument, and those don't usually hold up so well in court.
When dealing with crazy laws the Judge usually sides with "what is the intent of the law".
I'd say the intent of this law is to prevent people from seeing naked people in public. Since no one saw her naked in public, she didn't break the spirit of the law.
No matter how much the browser will do, you still need to validate the entered information at the server.
True, but that's no reason not to validate at the client. It's much easier to let the client pop open the little warning dialog letting the user know that they screwed up the date for example.
It's the whole user-friendliness part that makes form building such a pain in the butt. You basically have to build each form twice. The initial form, and then an error-version of the form which lists what they screwed up, and pre-fills in all the stuff they didn't screw up so they can fix it.
What we do now is such a horrible hack.
So for user-friendliness, client-side validation.. then on the server side we just do a quick validation and if there are any errors, it's because the client is trying to break us, and we just spit out a warning page that says "error".. no need to be friendly.
xforms is indeed intriguing and anyone developing a complicated web tool could find this technology a godsend. However from what I've seen, it's extremely complicated (on the scale of p3p) and difficult to use.
You're an idiot. Save points in games have nothing to do with console versus PC.. it has everything to do with the decisions of the producer.
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time uses savepoints on the PC version.
Interesting cause I just picked up and started to play through Zelda: Ocarina of Time again.
Don't forget Majora's Mask.. most original concept I've ever seen. The world ends in 3 days, you relive those 3 days over and over again until you beat the game.
How is RFI suppression handled in these clear plastic cases?
I dunno, how does Apple do it on the G4 Cube? It's clear plastic, and there isn't any wire mesh or anything.
I'm thinking that RFI suppression isn't nearly a big a deal as it used to be. Everyone I know runs their computers with the cases open, no one has problems with radio or TV reception.
Yeah, I'm curious too. I got 4 GC games (mariokart, prince of persia, metal arms, and ssx3) my wife said that she had a hell of a time finding mariokart, prince of persia, and metal arms.. they were sold out everywhere she went.
The Nintendo Generation has grown up. It is harder for them to get together with friends on a regular basis. They have kids, houses, and spouses.
That's precisely why the gamecube is so badass. You can play games *with* your kids and your spouse.
MySQL STILL doesn't support subqueries in a production version.
4.x is a production version. His analogy is perfectly valid, people are complaining about mysql 3.x when 4.x implements most of what they were complaining about.
I guess I could be considered a professional dba since I use sql very heavily for my job.
I like mysql. It is quick and powerful and get's the job done. Sure it'd be nice to have triggers and store procedures, but the lack of them doesn't make it unusable. Any DBA who refuses to work with MySQL is an elitist moron.
I think postgres is better than mysql, but I also think that mysql's Full Text search is far superior than anything offered by Oracle or MS. MySql's caching works extremely well as well.
The fact that you used big O notation and referenced a bubble sort tells me you're still in school.
The fact that you think that MySQL doesn't support transations tells me you haven't used it in a while.
doh, bad cut and paste buffer.. the quote was supposed to be about Apple spending money on hosting and bandwidth. Oh well.
Apple charges 99 cents a song, and 9.99 for most albums. This is, to me and most people, a fair price.
I'd be willing to bet that Apple spends a lot more hosting quicktime trailers for free than selling aacs online. Seems to me that Apple is perfectly willing to spend money on bandwidth without a clear business plan.
Apple charges 99 cents a song, and 9.99 for most albums. This is, to me and most people, a fair price.
It's not a fair price to me, and that's the point. I can go to Zia's and pick up pretty much any album for $7.99 used. Even though the CD is used, it's better quality than iTunes, and I can rip it to high quality OGGs.
Even new CDs are only $12.. and looking at my collection I don't think there's a single album I own that has "only one good song on it". Perhaps iTunes is perfect for people who listen to top 40 crap and only buy singles.. but it sucks for people who are into bands that produce good albums.
With iTunes you're locked into the iPod, with the other stores you're locked into DRM-supporting WMA portables. Considering that there are probably at least as many iPod owners as all WMA/DRM-supporting devices combined, I don't think it much matters.
So vendor lock-in is OK as long as the vendor has a monopoly?
Except that Postal 2 is a horrible game with way-too-long loadtimes.
Take away the peeing and exploding anthrax cow-heads and you have a boring, repetative game that takes forever to load.
in all fairness, your minidisc player a) doesn't power a harddrive, flash memory, an LCD, backlight, and the electronics that go with it.
Dunno about which minidisk players you've used, but mine powers a spinning disc, an lcd, a backlight and all the electronics that go with it. You saying that powering flash memory is what makes the iPod so much more complicated?
Probably because the Gnome Foundation has a hell of a lot of developer and financial backing. Compared with.. um.. er.. The Kompany.
Well everything you said is a lie.
GTK runs on Windows and OSX as well.. I'm using PAN and The Gimp under XP just fine. GTK is by no means lacking in tools and several GUI IDE's support it.
Hell, you can write PHP GTK apps.. I can't think of anything more RAD.
Finally, Mono and gConf have nothing to do with GTK... Mono is a separate project altogether, and gConf is part of GNOME.
But hey, if you want to lie your ass off and get modded up for it.. be my guest.
Yeah, I like GConf from a UI point of view, but how is it implemented "under the hood"? I heard MS are moving away from having the registry as one big clunky file and I just hope the gnome folk have had the forethought to do it right from the start.
I'd say they did, instead of one big clunky file.. gconf's backend is stored as multiple xml files.
Yeah, a co-worker's 2 year old iBook's battery life went from 1 hour to 1:30..
man laptop batteries are pathetic.
He did install Quicktime at the same time, which if corrupted could have caused kernel panics.
You gotta love software design that makes your kernel crash if the movie playback library has problems. Kind of like making a web browser part of the OS.
Wonder when that changed. In the early 90s in CA it was 15 for learner's permit, 16 for license.
Do you use milk or creamer with this cereal?