Perl is a modern scripting language. Just because it's not "fresh" or has a fancy marketing scheme doesn't take away from its power & greatness.
A lot of the newer/Web2.0 stuff is simply javascript on top of existing web services, which can be written in anything, including Perl.
I guess the bottom line is that it's a great language and I enjoy writing my web applications in it because I know it so well and it's not limiting at all.
That reminds me -- does anyone remember when IE 4 came out and they offered a Midnight Madness promotion? The release would be available at midnight and the first million folks would get a free t-shirt.
Well, I don't have an iPod (nor need one, really), but when the Mac Mini came out, it just fit for my wife's computer (a dying WinMe Dell Dimension). So she switched (albeit a forced switch;)) and while there was a lot of initial frustrations (mini rant: Quicken for Mac != Quicken for Windows -- it's like the Quicken folks know they don't have to compete against M$ Money, so they don't try), she admitted yesterday that she loves her Mac.
So put me down as an example of Apple innovation moreso than the iPod as a instigator to switch.
I'm not sure this (SURBL) is very well implemented, though. I get a few false positives b/c my DNS flakes out or something and then non-BL'd sites are reported. Bug report here.
There should be some sort of audited disclaimer that e-commerce sites publish on what happens after the transaction has been submitted. SSL is only superficial... what happens beneath is the real proof in the pudding, so to speak.
I mean, does it fire off an email to a receptionist to process the card (leaving your card exposed) or something more secure (like processing the transaction directly and storing only a reference number that could be used for void/credits, if need be).
Spoken as a person without kids, I bet. If so, your opinion WILL change. If not, I hope that you've got a sensible partner that's helping raise your kid(s) and protecting them from you throwing them to the wolves.
We aren't talking about changing heaven and earth - that's already being changed for us by the popular media and what-not. We're talking about providing a safe haven for them to grow up in. You may say "Why? They'll be exposed to it sooner or later." and that's true. It's just that it's better to protect them in this time of moral and value formulation now so that later, when they're exposed to it, they know the difference between right and wrong.
There's another class of evilness that doesn't involve startup and that's BHO's (or Browser Helper Objects), which come into play when IE is started and have full access to the computer.
Looking at the text of the Senate bill (S.2192), I don't see anything that mentions copyright. Rather, it's about patents.
Reading the Wired article talks about HR4077 and S2237. So where did H.R.2391 and S.2192 come in?
Actually, now that I'm digging some more, it looks like H.R.2391 got padded w/ that piracy mess. Actually, it looks like they trojan-horsed it, where they took the patent bill and stripped the copy out and put in that mess. So if the Senate version passed, does it have to go through re-voting in the Senate, given that the House has dramatically changed the bill?
Just want to make sure I tell my representative the right bill. If I'm confused, I'm thinking they might be, too. Of course, they've been at this game for a while longer than I have.
Looks like I need to write my H.R. dude (instead of my Senate dudes).
Well, I'm strictly defining marriage the way I see it, as a religious ceremony. I'm not sure how the whole license thing got involved, though my guess is when public safety became a concern with marrying within a family (and the genetic problems that would ensue), genetic disorders and/or venereal diseases.
I'm also not sure why Bush (or Kerry) are opposed to Gay Marriage exactly, but they both define marriage as an act between one man and one woman.
Any subsequent rights afforded to a married couple (i.e. hospital visitation, estates, adoption, etc) should be afforded to any couple and if a church does not want to marry a same-sex couple, there should be other avenues available (civil unions, etc). But where I draw the line is having the state or country tell my church they have to marry someone, contrary to its own belief system.
It's a slippery slope, for sure.. I'd be interested to hear your response on other marriage arrangements, too (i.e. polygamy, adult/child, adult/animal).
You are looking at it one way, but in another, marriage is not a right, it's a religious ceremony. Each religion should have the freedom to decide who can or cannot participate.
You're probably right, but once you emerse yourself in the book, you begin to believe it possible. The situation with Mount St. Helens was that there was some build-up of gases underneath a dome, which the terrorists used 4 cruise missiles to plunge into (the same spot of weakness) one after another, with delayed detonations. After the fourth one, it hit the explosive gases and prompted the eruption.
I was reading the latest book from Patrick Robinson (Scimitar SL-2) and the gist of the book is that terrorists are going around exploding cruise missles (from a nuclear sub) into volcanoes, making them erupt, causing terror/destruction, etc and they first warmed up with making Mount Saint Helens erupt. Their end-goal was to erupt some island volcano (Cumbre Vieja) out in the North Atlantic, causing huge tsunamis to wipe out the entire East Coast of the US, plus some in the UK/Europe, too.
The descriptions of the tsunamis were incredible (I know it's a fiction book, but still...): 100 ft. high waves travelling at high speeds, one after another. Sure, some buildings may survive one of those, but several?
Good book, but had to give it back to the library before I could finish it.
I noticed this with godaddy.com... I sent in an e-mail asking them if they were going to pick it up and let us add TXT records. We'll see if they respond.
Even the big dog, Network Solutions, looks like they don't allow you to add TXT records.
Might be helpful if a lot more people started to ask.:)
Yeah, that's the other one I was thinking about, but the negative part of this is that it eats up my precious real-estate with yet another toolbar (is that too picky?;)). It looks like it has improved since I last played with it (last time, it just saved form data from one particular form so you can reload it -- this time, it looks like you can make the form fields context to nothing), so I'm gonna give it another shot.
Is something like Safari's or Google's AutoFill form feature. Yes, there are some plug-ins (WebDeveloper has an Enable Auto-Completion, but I can't get it to work) that do this, but not as suavely as the aforementioned products.
Something that caches form field names and commonly used values and at a push of a button or keystroke, it fills out all of the form based on what the most popular values that are cached for the field names.
with my ReplayTV unit a lot... drives me nuts when the dialogue lags. Usually, it's hardly noticeable, but once, it got about 5 seconds behind. That's a lot when it comes to video, as the camera moves to the next character, you're hearing the voice of the last character shown.
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Perl is a modern scripting language. Just because it's not "fresh" or has a fancy marketing scheme doesn't take away from its power & greatness. A lot of the newer/Web2.0 stuff is simply javascript on top of existing web services, which can be written in anything, including Perl. I guess the bottom line is that it's a great language and I enjoy writing my web applications in it because I know it so well and it's not limiting at all.
is the lawyers are getting $275mil and then everyone else gets a buck. ;)
Actually - they put a tennis ball can lid (you know, the kind that you have to pop & peel?) over the heat button to curtail that.
Some other Firefox extensions: Send text (of webpage) to phone and the suggest technology in the firefox search bar.
Rainlender. Small, compact, configurable, and has some synchronization stuff, too.
Kinda like what happened to Ghosts of Pasha, thanks to a recent mission by ImprovEverywhere.
Never got my t-shirt ...
So put me down as an example of Apple innovation moreso than the iPod as a instigator to switch.
I'm not sure this (SURBL) is very well implemented, though. I get a few false positives b/c my DNS flakes out or something and then non-BL'd sites are reported. Bug report here.
I mean, does it fire off an email to a receptionist to process the card (leaving your card exposed) or something more secure (like processing the transaction directly and storing only a reference number that could be used for void/credits, if need be).
Where's the cream pie guy when you need him? ;)
We aren't talking about changing heaven and earth - that's already being changed for us by the popular media and what-not. We're talking about providing a safe haven for them to grow up in. You may say "Why? They'll be exposed to it sooner or later." and that's true. It's just that it's better to protect them in this time of moral and value formulation now so that later, when they're exposed to it, they know the difference between right and wrong.
There's another class of evilness that doesn't involve startup and that's BHO's (or Browser Helper Objects), which come into play when IE is started and have full access to the computer.
Reading the Wired article talks about HR4077 and S2237. So where did H.R.2391 and S.2192 come in?
Actually, now that I'm digging some more, it looks like H.R.2391 got padded w/ that piracy mess. Actually, it looks like they trojan-horsed it, where they took the patent bill and stripped the copy out and put in that mess. So if the Senate version passed, does it have to go through re-voting in the Senate, given that the House has dramatically changed the bill?
Just want to make sure I tell my representative the right bill. If I'm confused, I'm thinking they might be, too. Of course, they've been at this game for a while longer than I have.
Looks like I need to write my H.R. dude (instead of my Senate dudes).
I'm also not sure why Bush (or Kerry) are opposed to Gay Marriage exactly, but they both define marriage as an act between one man and one woman.
Any subsequent rights afforded to a married couple (i.e. hospital visitation, estates, adoption, etc) should be afforded to any couple and if a church does not want to marry a same-sex couple, there should be other avenues available (civil unions, etc). But where I draw the line is having the state or country tell my church they have to marry someone, contrary to its own belief system.
It's a slippery slope, for sure .. I'd be interested to hear your response on other marriage arrangements, too (i.e. polygamy, adult/child, adult/animal).
You are looking at it one way, but in another, marriage is not a right, it's a religious ceremony. Each religion should have the freedom to decide who can or cannot participate.
With a microdrive... looks pretty cool and ranges from 1 hour to 4 hours, depending on your quality setting.
You're probably right, but once you emerse yourself in the book, you begin to believe it possible. The situation with Mount St. Helens was that there was some build-up of gases underneath a dome, which the terrorists used 4 cruise missiles to plunge into (the same spot of weakness) one after another, with delayed detonations. After the fourth one, it hit the explosive gases and prompted the eruption.
The descriptions of the tsunamis were incredible (I know it's a fiction book, but still...): 100 ft. high waves travelling at high speeds, one after another. Sure, some buildings may survive one of those, but several?
Good book, but had to give it back to the library before I could finish it.
Even the big dog, Network Solutions, looks like they don't allow you to add TXT records.
Might be helpful if a lot more people started to ask. :)
Thanks, data64!
Is something like Safari's or Google's AutoFill form feature. Yes, there are some plug-ins (WebDeveloper has an Enable Auto-Completion, but I can't get it to work) that do this, but not as suavely as the aforementioned products. Something that caches form field names and commonly used values and at a push of a button or keystroke, it fills out all of the form based on what the most popular values that are cached for the field names.
It was all fueled by the kinetic energy of the underwater drummers. ;)
with my ReplayTV unit a lot ... drives me nuts when the dialogue lags. Usually, it's hardly noticeable, but once, it got about 5 seconds behind. That's a lot when it comes to video, as the camera moves to the next character, you're hearing the voice of the last character shown.