I've used both PHP and Perl for web development. I'd discourage mixing PHP and Perl in the same script, it's not necessary. Sure, it can be done, but just because it can be done doesn't necessarily make it a good idea. It will make your website harder to maintain, because whoever is going to maintain your website in the future will need to know both perl and PHP (granted, they are relatively similar languages).
There is a clearly defined functional separation in this case, though. It would seem to me that you want to do your web stuff in PHP and your images in Perl. Write your image scripts in perl then; There's nothing wrong with generating in PHP. Perl people will be able to maintain your image scripts, PHP people will be able to maintain your web scripts.
I'll probably get modded -1, hippy for this but I've noticed that every time a great invention is made in the US, it is considered important that it can *also* be used for war. Whereas if something is invented in Europe, it's more in the lines of "it will help the environment and/or developing countries". What's up with the war fixation people?
> I an wondering what those of you on Slashdot think about web development as a job,
> and what professions they think would be both stable and challenging to consider?"
Rock star. (gotta have dreams right?)
Power Extreme!!!
Seriously now.
FTA: "Now military scientists have realised the massive potential for secret military missions."
That's a pity and a shame.
I'm sorry to inform you that you were misinformed. The recipe he submitted is in fact for mascarpone.
Ricotta is italian for "recooked". Ricotta cheese is made by recooking the leftover whey of a previous batch of cheese, helping the remaining milk protein in there to clog together. This recooking, as you may notice, does not happen in the submitted recipe.
This is one of the wonderful things about cheese: although the ingredients and basic procedure are mostly the same, variations in the preparation method lead to dramatically different cheeses.
> losing $HOME is far more serious than losing system files.
I would have to disagree. It is much, much easier to (backup and) recover $HOME with the appropriate precautions than to tune an OS for optimal performance.
On my machine, an automatic, periodic backup is made of $HOME by a cron job to my other disk (which requires root access). With only userland privileges, no virus will be able to get to that backup. Restoring a backup is as simple as a tar xvfz/path/to/backup. Capital damage: 5 minutes to restore the backup, and up to 1 day of lost work, worst case- And that's because I have this backup run only made once per day.
Even if the virus sets your house on fire and misplaces your granny's teeth, I guess that pretty much solves the virus problem then, doesn't it?
Now compare that to the damage that a virus that has root/admin privileges can do- hosing your entire system. I wish you good luck restoring *that* in 5 minutes.
captchas discriminate against the blind... which is why audio captchas exist as an alternative. Of course, those discriminate against the deaf. Hm. I guess it is time for audiovisual captchas for people who are both deaf and blind.
> The answer is actaully quite obvious from an evolutionary perspective. If evolution happens between generations, then what came before the first chicken egg had to be a non-chicken. Thus the egg came first.
I wholeheartedly agree, *but*.
Some people might argue that an egg laid by a non-chicken isn't a chicken egg, thus saying that the chicken came first.
The problem is that the question is flawed. No matter how much scientific research you put in it, you can have two different answers. It goes something like this:
A: "What came first, the egg or the chicken?" B: "Eggs, obviously- dinosaurs existed long before chickens"
A: "No, I mean a chicken egg" B: "Define 'chicken egg'. Is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken or an egg from which a chicken is hatched?"
A1: "A chicken egg is an egg laid by a chicken" B1: "In that case, chickens were first - because the first chicken wasn't hatched from a chicken egg. You *did* mean a chicken egg, right?"
A2: "A chicken egg is an egg from which a chicken is hatched" B2: "In that case, the egg was first"
What's wrong with this? Rich people are actually good for the economy, while poor people are a liability. It's only fair that society would favour rich people.
BZZZZZZZZZT - WRONG. It is all about distribution of wealth.
The rich have power to decide where the money of the poor must flow. They (banks, insurance companies etc) take money from the poor by raising high interest on loans etc, making the rich richer and the poor poorer- effectively *causing* poverty. This is a very desireable situation for them because more people will need loans.
If you're saying the poor are to blame for this, you're either happily ignorant middle-class or your rich daddy never told you where the money came from.
...likewise, skeletal structure alone doesn't determine shape of the soft tissue involved in speech (such as the larynx). In criminal investigation, there are huge problems involved in determining, for instance, the exact shape of the nose. These can only be guesstimated. As assumptions need to be made, this whole thing is going to be wildly inaccurate.
Also, although modeling the entire physics of the head is definitely a Very Advanced form of speech synthesis, you'd need to model the exact movements of all organs involved in the speech system to even get a natural-sounding result. Sure, speech synthesis technology is improving, and kudos to the scientists working on this, they're doing groundbreaking work - But I call bull on them saying that the resulting speech will sound like Leonardo.
So far I've only seen posts in the line of "what for?" "it's not needed" and complaints about the ethical aspect. It's very easy to complain about the ethical side of things when you have your business well settled, but in developing countries, mere survival may be more important than that.
When clean water is not always at hand, diseases such as dysentery are easy to catch. Although this rice is no cure, it can help prevent the loss of fluids associated with this disease and help save lives.
So, what are these ethical issues you were referring to again?
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The question is why not kill pirated copies of Windows?
Because a pirated copy of windows does MS more good than a legal alternative OS?
Okay, so slashdot doesn't properly replace brackets. That sentence ought to have been "There's nothing wrong with generating in PHP".
I've used both PHP and Perl for web development. I'd discourage mixing PHP and Perl in the same script, it's not necessary. Sure, it can be done, but just because it can be done doesn't necessarily make it a good idea. It will make your website harder to maintain, because whoever is going to maintain your website in the future will need to know both perl and PHP (granted, they are relatively similar languages).
There is a clearly defined functional separation in this case, though. It would seem to me that you want to do your web stuff in PHP and your images in Perl. Write your image scripts in perl then; There's nothing wrong with generating in PHP. Perl people will be able to maintain your image scripts, PHP people will be able to maintain your web scripts.
DNF will not be out this year.
I'll probably get modded -1, hippy for this but I've noticed that every time a great invention is made in the US, it is considered important that it can *also* be used for war. Whereas if something is invented in Europe, it's more in the lines of "it will help the environment and/or developing countries". What's up with the war fixation people?
> I an wondering what those of you on Slashdot think about web development as a job, > and what professions they think would be both stable and challenging to consider?" Rock star. (gotta have dreams right?)
That thing is real??!!
Power Extreme!!! Seriously now. FTA: "Now military scientists have realised the massive potential for secret military missions." That's a pity and a shame.
I've got a better idea than robotic vehicles. What about not being at war all the time?
Thank you for not mentioning Kraft. And cheese in the same sentence.
I'm sorry to inform you that you were misinformed. The recipe he submitted is in fact for mascarpone.
Ricotta is italian for "recooked". Ricotta cheese is made by recooking the leftover whey of a previous batch of cheese, helping the remaining milk protein in there to clog together. This recooking, as you may notice, does not happen in the submitted recipe.
This is one of the wonderful things about cheese: although the ingredients and basic procedure are mostly the same, variations in the preparation method lead to dramatically different cheeses.
This is by far the best cheese making page I've ever come across on the net.
I feel a Darwin Award coming up.
This would work perfectly - if no directv employees have internet accounts at home.
The stockholders (and I am one) are getting restless.
SELL!! SELL!!!
> losing $HOME is far more serious than losing system files.
/path/to/backup. Capital damage: 5 minutes to restore the backup, and up to 1 day of lost work, worst case- And that's because I have this backup run only made once per day.
I would have to disagree. It is much, much easier to (backup and) recover $HOME with the appropriate precautions than to tune an OS for optimal performance.
On my machine, an automatic, periodic backup is made of $HOME by a cron job to my other disk (which requires root access). With only userland privileges, no virus will be able to get to that backup. Restoring a backup is as simple as a tar xvfz
Even if the virus sets your house on fire and misplaces your granny's teeth, I guess that pretty much solves the virus problem then, doesn't it?
Now compare that to the damage that a virus that has root/admin privileges can do- hosing
your entire system. I wish you good luck restoring *that* in 5 minutes.
captchas discriminate against the blind ... which is why audio captchas exist as an alternative. Of course, those discriminate against the deaf. Hm. I guess it is time for audiovisual captchas for people who are both deaf and blind.
> The answer is actaully quite obvious from an evolutionary perspective. If evolution happens between generations, then what came before the first chicken egg had to be a non-chicken. Thus the egg came first.
I wholeheartedly agree, *but*.
Some people might argue that an egg laid by a non-chicken isn't a chicken egg, thus saying that the chicken came first.
The problem is that the question is flawed. No matter how much scientific research you put in it, you can have two different answers. It goes something like this:
A: "What came first, the egg or the chicken?"
B: "Eggs, obviously- dinosaurs existed long before chickens"
A: "No, I mean a chicken egg"
B: "Define 'chicken egg'. Is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken or an egg from which a chicken is hatched?"
A1: "A chicken egg is an egg laid by a chicken"
B1: "In that case, chickens were first - because the first chicken wasn't hatched from a chicken egg. You *did* mean a chicken egg, right?"
A2: "A chicken egg is an egg from which a chicken is hatched"
B2: "In that case, the egg was first"
Everyone knows building straw houses is a bad idea, 'cause of the big bad wolf and all...
What's wrong with this? Rich people are actually good for the economy, while poor people are a liability. It's only fair that society would favour rich people.
BZZZZZZZZZT - WRONG. It is all about distribution of wealth.
The rich have power to decide where the money of the poor must flow. They (banks, insurance companies etc) take money from the poor by raising high interest on loans etc, making the rich richer and the poor poorer- effectively *causing* poverty. This is a very desireable situation for them because more people will need loans.
If you're saying the poor are to blame for this, you're either happily ignorant middle-class or your rich daddy never told you where the money came from.
Cylons no. But it *does* detect any conceiled weapons they're carrying...
...likewise, skeletal structure alone doesn't determine shape of the soft tissue involved in speech (such as the larynx). In criminal investigation, there are huge problems involved in determining, for instance, the exact shape of the nose. These can only be guesstimated. As assumptions need to be made, this whole thing is going to be wildly inaccurate. Also, although modeling the entire physics of the head is definitely a Very Advanced form of speech synthesis, you'd need to model the exact movements of all organs involved in the speech system to even get a natural-sounding result. Sure, speech synthesis technology is improving, and kudos to the scientists working on this, they're doing groundbreaking work - But I call bull on them saying that the resulting speech will sound like Leonardo.
Something like this: The Audio Scream of Death?
This difference in time of recovery can well mean the difference between life and death.
So far I've only seen posts in the line of "what for?" "it's not needed" and complaints about the ethical aspect. It's very easy to complain about the ethical side of things when you have your business well settled, but in developing countries, mere survival may be more important than that.
When clean water is not always at hand, diseases such as dysentery are easy to catch. Although this rice is no cure, it can help prevent the loss of fluids associated with this disease and help save lives.
So, what are these ethical issues you were referring to again?