This sounds exactly like what those windows boxes get turned into when it turns into a spam zombie. Or maybe this is what the next level of spam zombie will look like. It boots itself! It runs without a physical operator! It loads its own OS! It does stuff when you're not there!
I just had a week of training with the author...
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Learning PHP 5
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... At Big Nerd Ranch, and it was awesome. If you like the book and you want more personal training, they're talking about doing this PHP5 bootcamp again in about 5 months. It's held at a fantastic retreat setting in georgia, so it's fairly free from distraction. If you've tried to find PHP training, you know this is an unserviced market largely, so if/when they offer this class again, jump on it fast.
I've been about 3 years into self-taught programming with books, open source examples, and trial and lots of errors up until a couple of weeks ago. Now I've got a pretty good grasp on the mechanics of object oriented programming in PHP5, Pear, and the new XML stuff. David Sklar does a great job at teaching the concepts and practical implementation of the concepts.
I was fortunate enough to be able to migrate my customer facing server to php5 a couple of days ago, so I'm able to benefit from all the new stuff I learned just over a week ago. It's been very cool.
For more information on this, I would suggest checking out the following K5 Diary entry: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/8/2/121046/0201
That article linked provides no references... references for claims are the only way you can establish credibility. What are their references? There were none listed.
No iSync? No Upgrade! For purely political reasons, the fine people at Mark/Space have had to sit on their "Missing Sync for hiptop" solution which worked in beta because t-mobile decided not to do PIM Sync... so.. I'll keep mine going as long as I can, but.. it'll be a treo next time, probably.
I just checked 12 of the newly added albums in iTunes, several from the big 5... None of them have song prices of over $0.99. What the hell is everyone complaining about? It's rumor at this point.
Hey if Mariah Carey wants to charge $1.25 for her crappy song, and Mr. Scruff wants to charge $0.99, well, I'm gonna go buy that Mr. Scruff track.
I think it's insane to assume that every artist is going to want to slow down the uptake rate of people using this new distribution mechanism by raising the price. Maybe the big 5 will raise their prices, but... I seriously doubt Apple will make everyone else do the same thing.
They'll more likely move to a Cafepress.com model where there's an overhead price, and you can charge whatever above the overhead. If you want to sell stuff cheap, you might sell more. If you're greedy, you might drive away business.
It uses DRAM memory to store data instead of spinning platter hard drives, giving an access time of just 20 microseconds.' It still does use platter-based drives but it's a cool idea anyway.
<jon stewart> Whaaaaaa? </jon stewart> How can you use DRAM instead of platters but still be platter based?
Oh, yes. Now I understand. Way to be crystal clear there. I know the formula, (submit well written story with exacting details that clearly illustrate the point minus "well written" and minus "with exacting deatils that clearly illustrate the point"), and yet... I keep taking the bait.
Wordpress is an excellent php-based blogging utility with "Blog by email" that has numerous modifications available. One of which is the ability to attach photos to your email, and have them posted automatically. YMMV, but I'm having some success.
seriously, other companies are charging institutions for the privelege of offering their draconian DRM laiden music services. iTunes on campus was announced this morning, and it's free for your school! ask your administrators to please sign up for it!
Like Asimov and Clarke, Niven has a major failing as an author - he can come up with astounding technical details, and then wrap them with a story that's for shit. Niven's obviously done *amazing* research into stuff, and invented whole civilisations and past histories like Tolkein would be proud of, but the story (which basically means things happening to people and how people react) could be any trash novel from anywhere.
I can't wait to read your refreshingly novel novel. Where can I go pick it up?
So far as I can tell, the trick with open source code is in the knowledge of how to implement and utilize it for your company's needs, then explain the cost/benefit ratio to your boss. "hey, look what we can do, and it's free."
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This sounds exactly like what those windows boxes get turned into when it turns into a spam zombie. Or maybe this is what the next level of spam zombie will look like. It boots itself! It runs without a physical operator! It loads its own OS! It does stuff when you're not there!
Huh. How about them apples.
... At Big Nerd Ranch, and it was awesome. If you like the book and you want more personal training, they're talking about doing this PHP5 bootcamp again in about 5 months. It's held at a fantastic retreat setting in georgia, so it's fairly free from distraction. If you've tried to find PHP training, you know this is an unserviced market largely, so if/when they offer this class again, jump on it fast.
I've been about 3 years into self-taught programming with books, open source examples, and trial and lots of errors up until a couple of weeks ago. Now I've got a pretty good grasp on the mechanics of object oriented programming in PHP5, Pear, and the new XML stuff. David Sklar does a great job at teaching the concepts and practical implementation of the concepts.
I was fortunate enough to be able to migrate my customer facing server to php5 a couple of days ago, so I'm able to benefit from all the new stuff I learned just over a week ago. It's been very cool.
Ok, I'll bite. Why is the Databases icon a wheelbarrow?
Would you rather it be a bucket?
Don't forget platform agnostic phpwiki... which is also open source.
For more information on this, I would suggest checking out the following K5 Diary entry: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/8/2/121046/0201
That article linked provides no references... references for claims are the only way you can establish credibility. What are their references? There were none listed.
I'd like to place my order for a Number 3 hull, please...
No iSync? No Upgrade! For purely political reasons, the fine people at Mark/Space have had to sit on their "Missing Sync for hiptop" solution which worked in beta because t-mobile decided not to do PIM Sync... so.. I'll keep mine going as long as I can, but.. it'll be a treo next time, probably.
Hey if Mariah Carey wants to charge $1.25 for her crappy song, and Mr. Scruff wants to charge $0.99, well, I'm gonna go buy that Mr. Scruff track.
I think it's insane to assume that every artist is going to want to slow down the uptake rate of people using this new distribution mechanism by raising the price. Maybe the big 5 will raise their prices, but... I seriously doubt Apple will make everyone else do the same thing.
They'll more likely move to a Cafepress.com model where there's an overhead price, and you can charge whatever above the overhead. If you want to sell stuff cheap, you might sell more. If you're greedy, you might drive away business.
It uses DRAM memory to store data instead of spinning platter hard drives, giving an access time of just 20 microseconds.' It still does use platter-based drives but it's a cool idea anyway.
<jon stewart> Whaaaaaa? </jon stewart> How can you use DRAM instead of platters but still be platter based?
Oh, yes. Now I understand. Way to be crystal clear there. I know the formula, (submit well written story with exacting details that clearly illustrate the point minus "well written" and minus "with exacting deatils that clearly illustrate the point"), and yet... I keep taking the bait.
and let me beat you to the punchline:
(Score: -1 Duh)
Wordpress
is an excellent php-based blogging utility with "Blog by email" that has numerous modifications available. One of which is the ability to attach photos to your email, and have them posted automatically. YMMV, but I'm having some success.
a new Pepsi/iTunes promotion - 95 Million free songs by the end of the quarter! /ha ha
seriously, other companies are charging institutions for the privelege of offering their draconian DRM laiden music services. iTunes on campus was announced this morning, and it's free for your school! ask your administrators to please sign up for it!
It's free.
;)
I've seen a demo of that, but.. I was unimpressed. There's no documentation, either.
moron.
obviously that won't work, idiot.
sheesh.
purchases.. on the internet?
That page incorrectly tries to load WMP for an MPG file. here is the link directly to the MPG file:
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http://www.transrapid.de/real/mpeg/TR_TVE_en.mp
God: Good news! Your toaster is on fire!
Ah, see, all this talk about religion... now you're all engulfed in flames of your own!
Like Asimov and Clarke, Niven has a major failing as an author - he can come up with astounding technical details, and then wrap them with a story that's for shit. Niven's obviously done *amazing* research into stuff, and invented whole civilisations and past histories like Tolkein would be proud of, but the story (which basically means things happening to people and how people react) could be any trash novel from anywhere.
I can't wait to read your refreshingly novel novel. Where can I go pick it up?
I thought the idea was to be wireless? How does needing to touch things together compete with Bluetooth, a wireless data transfer technology?
So far as I can tell, the trick with open source code is in the knowledge of how to implement and utilize it for your company's needs, then explain the cost/benefit ratio to your boss. "hey, look what we can do, and it's free."