I have a better solution, only allow services/products to be sold in the United States that are produced in accordance with US environmental and occupational regulations (including paying workers at least comparable to our minimum wage.) With this approach there would be no need to enforce our laws in other countries, just put controls locally over American and international corporations. Let Nike employ children for 18 hour days or dump waste in the rivers, they just won't be able to sell their goods over here.
Given the amount of corporate cheating in the US (price fixing, industry agreements, shared lobbyists, etc.) it should be obvious that we don't have a free market, but rather a rigged race to the bottom. If corporations are allowed to continue to move work overseas to avoid government controls, jobs will continue to be lost. As unemployment (or underemployment) rises, who is going to have money to buy their goods and services???
Those of you who claim this will all balance out are right. Unfortunately, it will balance out at the bottom. US labor (skilled or otherwise) will be attractive to corporations when we are willing to work 18+ hour days with no job security or health benefits. Want to see the so-called "Free Market" in action? Check out the brutal competition in places like Thailand.
And to those of you who claim that we just need to "adapt" as we did to the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs - why don't you go ahead and name some jobs that are safe from eventual outsourcing. Corporations have proven that they are willing to outsource any position that is economically feasible. The only jobs that appear safe (at least in the short term) are service jobs. It's just too bad that a service economy can't support itself.
Wake up, the current situation is not natural or healthy. It's also not a case of one country over another, but rather the have's versus the have-not's. And don't flatter yourself, if you're don't own a 100 foot yacht (registered off-shore to avoid US taxes, of course) you're a have-not.
Maybe you should watch some CSPAN and see how your representatives are voting. Contrary to uniformed opinion, not all our politicians are alike, and not all are evil.
Don't judge politicians by their marketing campaigns or their opponent's. Judge them by how they vote on the issues that matter to you.
I'm always amazed to see people praise or loathe certain politicians, without even knowing their voting record.
Its amazing how much companies can save when they no longer have to worry about environmental regulations, fair labor laws, or living wages.
A free market based on fair competition, and guided by reasonable safty, environmental, and employment laws is a wonderful thing.
A free market with no controls is a race to the bottom.
We, my friends, are in a race to the bottom.
To those who say we should try to compete with India, China, and Mexico, WAKE UP! To compete with those countries we would have to have to degrade our quality of life to match theirs. Do you want to be like one of the vast majority of Indians living in squalor? Do you want to have your children making fireworks all day and all night, blowing themselves up, like in China?
I would like to see the wealth of the world shared with more countries than just the few who have it now. But lowering our standards, and allowing our businesses to farm out work to third-world nations is not the way. It's time to realize that the corporations, with their bought politicians, are raping and pillaging the US middle class. We need legislation requiring that any business dealing in the US adhere to certain base environmental, human-rights, and fair labor standards.
The RIAA has filed at least 871 subpoenas in US District Court in Washington this month...
So let me get this straight- we pay for the court, and the judge, and untold thousands in legal fees, so that the richer-than-God RIAA can file 871 subpoenas in ONE month explicitly for the purposes of harrassing and litigating against US?
Not to be snide, but small to mid-size businesses in the US often don't ship oversees because of the hassles and liabilities of foreign transactions. God knows its getting tough enough just to deal with the tax and commerce laws, and shipping for 50 states, never mind hundreds of countries.
I highly doubt all small Hungarian businesses are selling to the US.
The timing on this release isn't a coincidence...
It seems Balmer just got back from a stint as the Iraqi Information Minister.
Corporations are not running Open Source software! The Open Source programmers, those bastards, are committing suicide, and we are encouraging them! Their stomachs are roasting in Windows hell!
The database abstraction things that I've seen posted everywhere seem to be far more complex than they really need to be - or maybe I simply don't have a use for their complexity - I have a roughly 100 or so line PHP file that has several functions for referring to any SQL capable database, and to make it work with a different database software (re: mSQL vs. mySQL vs. pgSQL), just change three or so lines at the top of the file, and that changes the functions that are called, and it works with the new database, provided that the SQL is compatible. (yes, I know SQL is supposed to be a standard, but if you've ever migrated from mSQL to mySQL, you know that's not the case)
Unless you're building extremly simple database back-ended apps, or jury-rigging dynamic function calls, you are probably using database specific functions (i.e. mysql_(...)) repeatedly in your code. What happens when you want to port your app over to a more powerful database (like PostgreSQL)? Answer: you have to change you function calls. PEAR's DB abstraction layer takes care of this for you by giving you generic DB function calls. In addition PEAR provides highly sophisticated functions that take care of a lot of minor (or not so minor) details such as freeing-up resources. PEAR DB also allows you to pinpoint how you receive data back from the DB, and has incredibly useful functions for populating associative arrays with DB data.
Error reporting? Is there something wrong with the built in error reporting?
This statement indicates that you have little experience with pinpoint error control. PEAR's error class gives developers the ability to precisely define how errors within specific functions or classes are handled, without having to resort to line after line of custom error handling code (or maybe you don't handle/check errors...?)
Because PEAR is a class in itself it allows a developer to inherit all its functionality with no additional code. PEAR is an extremely useful tool for object-oriented PHP. Perhaps your applications are so simple that they do not require this approach. If so, you really shouldn't consider yourself informed and experienced enough to post definitively on this issue. If your applications are larger, and you are not using OOP, than you are developing poor applications, plain and simple. Perhaps you should stick to Dreamweaver and MS Frontpage for your web design.
PEAR has flaws, but overall it is an extremly useful and time-saving extension to PHP. It is a shame that someone with no knowledge (by your own admission) on this subject feels compelled to post raw FUD for other uninformed and inexperienced readers.
P.S. If you're not simply trolling, and wish to prove your decency as an open-minded developer, try the following sites to get some information on PEAR. I will be more than happy to help you with your progress in PHP and forgive your initial outburst.
PEAR provides, among other things, a great collection of libraries for database abstraction and error reporting. I use the beta all the time and have had success.
Doesn't sound like you bothered to read any documentation before you posted...just like a lot of the self-professed Perl-lovers also posting anti-PHP messages. Hating languages you know nothing about doesn't make you much of a developer.
Most of the books he's edited have more notes from him than from his father, which makes them pretty much unreadable. Hell, Lays and Lost Tales are about 75% C. Tolkien.
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I have a better solution, only allow services/products to be sold in the United States that are produced in accordance with US environmental and occupational regulations (including paying workers at least comparable to our minimum wage.) With this approach there would be no need to enforce our laws in other countries, just put controls locally over American and international corporations. Let Nike employ children for 18 hour days or dump waste in the rivers, they just won't be able to sell their goods over here.
Given the amount of corporate cheating in the US (price fixing, industry agreements, shared lobbyists, etc.) it should be obvious that we don't have a free market, but rather a rigged race to the bottom. If corporations are allowed to continue to move work overseas to avoid government controls, jobs will continue to be lost. As unemployment (or underemployment) rises, who is going to have money to buy their goods and services???
Those of you who claim this will all balance out are right. Unfortunately, it will balance out at the bottom. US labor (skilled or otherwise) will be attractive to corporations when we are willing to work 18+ hour days with no job security or health benefits. Want to see the so-called "Free Market" in action? Check out the brutal competition in places like Thailand.
And to those of you who claim that we just need to "adapt" as we did to the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs - why don't you go ahead and name some jobs that are safe from eventual outsourcing. Corporations have proven that they are willing to outsource any position that is economically feasible. The only jobs that appear safe (at least in the short term) are service jobs. It's just too bad that a service economy can't support itself.
Wake up, the current situation is not natural or healthy. It's also not a case of one country over another, but rather the have's versus the have-not's. And don't flatter yourself, if you're don't own a 100 foot yacht (registered off-shore to avoid US taxes, of course) you're a have-not.
Apparently no one told Adolph Olivernipples that the amnesty was only for US citizens.
Anyone complaining about PHP, without being familiar with PEAR, is a troll.
Think about it - would you bash Tcl, and then say you don't know Tk?
Get educated or STFU.
If I were you, I would definitely switch banks.
I'd rather keep my money in a dirty sack buried in my backyard, than have Microsoft systems managing it.
This was moderated "overrated"...WTF???
Smoke on, moderators! Smoke on!
I'm guessing the first time you sent an API Guide to a customer was also the last.
You must mean Sperminator 3!
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I still don't understand how those cyborg chix were going to destroy the human race by tossing everyone's salad
I now inform you that you and your interpretation of RFID are too far from reality.
Another Big Brother system conceived by a criminal.
I think its time for Congress to shut down the Department of Homeland Security, nevermind just TIA.
Who's the fuckwad that modded this "off-topic"? Maybe you should check to see if the parent post was "on-topic".
Or, better yet, fuck off entirely.
Maybe you should watch some CSPAN and see how your representatives are voting. Contrary to uniformed opinion, not all our politicians are alike, and not all are evil.
Don't judge politicians by their marketing campaigns or their opponent's. Judge them by how they vote on the issues that matter to you.
I'm always amazed to see people praise or loathe certain politicians, without even knowing their voting record.
Its amazing how much companies can save when they no longer have to worry about environmental regulations, fair labor laws, or living wages.
A free market based on fair competition, and guided by reasonable safty, environmental, and employment laws is a wonderful thing.
A free market with no controls is a race to the bottom.
We, my friends, are in a race to the bottom.
To those who say we should try to compete with India, China, and Mexico, WAKE UP! To compete with those countries we would have to have to degrade our quality of life to match theirs. Do you want to be like one of the vast majority of Indians living in squalor? Do you want to have your children making fireworks all day and all night, blowing themselves up, like in China?
I would like to see the wealth of the world shared with more countries than just the few who have it now. But lowering our standards, and allowing our businesses to farm out work to third-world nations is not the way. It's time to realize that the corporations, with their bought politicians, are raping and pillaging the US middle class. We need legislation requiring that any business dealing in the US adhere to certain base environmental, human-rights, and fair labor standards.
What a great legal system we have here!
Where are all the Hungarian ecommerce sites?
Not to be snide, but small to mid-size businesses in the US often don't ship oversees because of the hassles and liabilities of foreign transactions. God knows its getting tough enough just to deal with the tax and commerce laws, and shipping for 50 states, never mind hundreds of countries.
I highly doubt all small Hungarian businesses are selling to the US.
it wasn't Jar-Jar.
There's a piece of American history we'd all like to forget.
The timing on this release isn't a coincidence...
It seems Balmer just got back from a stint as the Iraqi Information Minister.
Corporations are not running Open Source software! The Open Source programmers, those bastards, are committing suicide, and we are encouraging them! Their stomachs are roasting in Windows hell!
Wow, with that big brain, you must get all the ladies...
Yeah, you ass - IT'S CALLED JOGGING!!!!
That's probable just because you're ignorant!
Because PEAR is a class in itself it allows a developer to inherit all its functionality with no additional code. PEAR is an extremely useful tool for object-oriented PHP. Perhaps your applications are so simple that they do not require this approach. If so, you really shouldn't consider yourself informed and experienced enough to post definitively on this issue. If your applications are larger, and you are not using OOP, than you are developing poor applications, plain and simple. Perhaps you should stick to Dreamweaver and MS Frontpage for your web design.
PEAR has flaws, but overall it is an extremly useful and time-saving extension to PHP. It is a shame that someone with no knowledge (by your own admission) on this subject feels compelled to post raw FUD for other uninformed and inexperienced readers.
P.S. If you're not simply trolling, and wish to prove your decency as an open-minded developer, try the following sites to get some information on PEAR. I will be more than happy to help you with your progress in PHP and forgive your initial outburst.
You missed something alright...
PEAR provides, among other things, a great collection of libraries for database abstraction and error reporting. I use the beta all the time and have had success.
Doesn't sound like you bothered to read any documentation before you posted...just like a lot of the self-professed Perl-lovers also posting anti-PHP messages. Hating languages you know nothing about doesn't make you much of a developer.
Christopher Tolkien is a whore.
Most of the books he's edited have more notes from him than from his father, which makes them pretty much unreadable. Hell, Lays and Lost Tales are about 75% C. Tolkien.
Also, the editors should start by spell checking their website. If the site is any indication, this could be a very hard-to-read magazine.
You don't need Acrobat to create PDFs.
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I may hate PDFs, but I doubt any Microsoft alternative is going to be better. They aren't exactly open source.