The criteria for enterprise-readiness is stability and security, NOT complexity. Complexity comes from the programmer, not from the language. Unless you have to tie in with other systems like Java of course (you would use JSP in that case), I don't see any limiting factor that would keep PHP from being used in your definition of enterprise use (financial, mission critical stuff).
My point is, Yahoo is a big website / service and the stability and security of the language it is built on is as important as any financial use (although i admit you have more to lose with a banking system going down than Yahoo going down, I've never seen PHP doing funny things like BSODs)
PS. I forgot to put <shameless plug> tags around my shameless plug in my initial post, sorry about that
is the prime enterprise use example (although they still use legacy, prepritary web programming based on C, all their new developments are run on PHP and BSD, correct me if i'm wrong)
I worked in a small shop, the web app isn't mission critical stuff like banking, but it wasn't "brainless dump data from Mysql". I was lucky that my boss was totally not picky about languages, as long as it gets the job done. But if I have anyone I work with that doubts the power and simplicity of PHP, Yahoo would be my example.
And so far, developing on the so called LAMP platform, I love PHP and would use it for any and all web development. It can be used as a quick hack (an argument always used against PHP btw, that it's only good for a quick hack and not for professional use), OR you can code it like a pro with objects et al. I was not impressed by Mysql however, it is by no means stable (this is v 4.0.13), but that's another topic.
not bad Verisign. Only 3 hours before "fuck verisign" now return no results. I hope their customer service is that quick.
Cool. Where's my roll-up OLED screen?
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I remembered reading about magnetic ram 5 years ago in Scientific American. Cool it's finally coming (soon enough) to a store near us.
Next item on my wish list is giant, cheap, space-efficient, superior performing OLED or similar display technologies. Hope that comes to a store near me as well;)
you are stagerringly absurd. How can you control something that's open source? If they wanted to impose control, they would replace MS stuff with their own, goverment controlled, "proprietary" software.
By using open source, China is free of foreign economic and techological control. You are right in the "despots" aspect though. It is about controlling China by their own hands.
I'm not a fan of DRM, but I also understand that it's an effective way to protect artists' rights to their creation.
My summary of the current state of the music industry's problems:
1. Unavailability of legit, paid services that's superior to the free, "pirate" p2p networks (Apple's music store is pretty close though)
2. Angry users that used to buy CD's, but no longer in disgust of the RIAA's inability to adapt
So the question: In light of these 2 highlight problems, how should DRM be used to protect the "future" music industry, while giving enough freedom to the users so the current style of pirate p2p networks would lose their appeal? ie. What is your idea of a profitable music service, that is superior to the p2p networks as to be viable?
** My $.02 below **
My idea of an ideal legit service would be to let users download whole, sample songs that are DRMed, and when users pay for individual songs they want, they get 100% DRM-free songs over ultra-fast connections (faster than what you can over pirate p2p anyway). There would also be forums and chatrooms where users can talk about music between themselves, and also with the artists. (think IRC), while other, currently unofficial channels (like fanclubs / sites) can be used as official advertising avenues.
My rationale is that when you provide easy to access, DRM-free songs, people will get them even if they have to pay for them (at a very low price perhaps in order to compete with the free p2p networks) And when you embrace your fans and extend the "services" they create (and not extinguish them lol), you can profit.
PS. I made a search engine for IRC and Torrents, everyone's favorite p2p networks. So plz be aware of the many grains of salt
Winxp takes more ram, but is faster due to more caching.
Apps can crash in Winxp, but seldom the whole system (which is the case in Win98). If your Winxp box crashes twice a day then you got a driver / hardware problem.
You can customize Winxp to be Win98-like to be more usable, ONLY because you are used to 98. The reverse isn't true (you can't customize 98 to be like xp w/o serious hacking). For example, the icon draggin in the start menu as you mentioned. And the LAN browser is better in my opinion (direct links to shared folders are faster)
For a complete new user, I believe xp would be the more usable system. And it has the customizability, which M$ has learned from Linux (which u said u use)
first, i use Linux on my server. I've been using Winxp for 2 years however (ever since it came out) and despite my hate of M$ as a company, I must say Winxp was a BIG improvement in stability and usability over Win98 let's say.
I can run my box for a week at least, and have only seen BSOD once or twice which were due to hardware.
IDE's to make programming a language easier is always a good thing. Vector graphics client is still dominated by Flash, but demand for more widespread SVG clients will occur when there are apps for it.
HTML pasted from the Spec, judge for yourself how it looks:
9.6 Example #1
dSVG sample behavior: focus - with added attributes focusGroup and focus Content of file: dsvg:focus, dsvg:setTransform, dsvg:setAttribute, dsvg:setStyle, (added attributes dsvg:focus, dsvg:focusGroup) The dsvg:focusGroup attribute adds the ability to store the ID of similar type elements that are assigned to that group. Default focus can be given to an element (red circle above) by adding the dsvg:focus attribute to that element.
The red, blue, green circles are part of the focusGroup. The orange circle is not. Click on the red, green and blue circles to set focus. Hover over the 'red', 'green' and 'blue' text elements to set focus.
red blue green orange
Hovering the mouse over the 'text' element with id="blueText causes the behaviors within the second 'focus' element to be run. When the first 'setStyle' behavior is run, its 'value' attribute, which is equal to:
%(textGroup@elementID)@cdata%
resolves to:
%blueText@cdata%
which then further resolves to:
blue
9.7 Example #2
Pushing the button will run the 'alert' behavior. Its 'message' attribute, which is equal to:
I'll paraphrase a comment that was said before, don't remember where i read it:
"We've been building bridges for thousands of years, but only started writing software for a few decades."
To combat increasing bugs in increasingly complex software, we need better tools. From the low level (more reliable memory handling) to the high level (more abstraction to reduce human programming errors) in software languages and compilers.
You can't expect to build the Golden Gate with shovels, without expecting it to fall apart do you? (no, i'm not a terrorist)
Cheating-Death (C-D) is an anti-cheat system which includes both a server and client. Unlike HLGuard, which is a server-side only anti-cheat, C-D offers more protection by blocking the cheats themselves before the player joins the server.
While in optional mode, players are checked for a running C-D client and will rename the player if they don't have C-D currently installed and running. For optimal protection against cheaters, servers can be configured to only allow players running the C-D client.
Unfortunately, the C-D anti-cheat system is incompatible with VAC secured MODs. As of v2.2.0, C-D can work with VAC supported MODs as long as VAC is disabled. Otherwise, C-D will shutdown if VAC is detected.
Less technical users used MS DOS for over half a decade when Apple and others were available as alternative
Because they don't know any better.
The first search-engines like Yahoo put more and more eyecande (and advertisments) on their sites - and Google wiped the floor with them by providing the simplest search engine interface possible with absolutely no eye-candy, just a white page.
What Google gives is a clean and usable interface. What Yahoo did was ad investation. I don't call ads "eye candy"... Actually, I kinda like the colorful Google logo;)
That said, I don't see how smooth scrolling can "get in the way" of anything. If you want to associate eye candy with usability, than smooth scrolling adds to usability, not the contrary. Smooth scrolling, when it works, lets you comfortably read text while scrolling with the mouse wheel.
Smooth scroll is not bloat or "eye candy", it's a usability feature.
It is true the p2p model and architectures such as FreeNet is ideally better in everyway the Internet ultimately represents, the fact that the "website" is distributed throughtout such a network is a big no to busisness. Imagine the web applications along with all the data that make up Yahoo is "freely" distributed in all parts of the p2p network. Free as in beer.
I see FreeNet has appeal to things persoanal and academic, but the p2p model is not for business. Unless you can think of another 3-steps way to Profit....
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why don't you post as a real person so ppl can mod you -1 redundant?
I agree that PHP is a template engine that's perfectly suitable for portals like Yahoo, but calling Yahoo not an enterprise is silly.
Say it with me: Enterprise means big companies with a lot of cash to burn and a lot to lose.
I think the comparison is not so much in the scope of the languages / platforms, but on the utility of them to develop web sites / services?
The criteria for enterprise-readiness is stability and security, NOT complexity. Complexity comes from the programmer, not from the language. Unless you have to tie in with other systems like Java of course (you would use JSP in that case), I don't see any limiting factor that would keep PHP from being used in your definition of enterprise use (financial, mission critical stuff).
My point is, Yahoo is a big website / service and the stability and security of the language it is built on is as important as any financial use (although i admit you have more to lose with a banking system going down than Yahoo going down, I've never seen PHP doing funny things like BSODs)
PS. I forgot to put <shameless plug> tags around my shameless plug in my initial post, sorry about that
is the prime enterprise use example (although they still use legacy, prepritary web programming based on C, all their new developments are run on PHP and BSD, correct me if i'm wrong)
I worked in a small shop, the web app isn't mission critical stuff like banking, but it wasn't "brainless dump data from Mysql". I was lucky that my boss was totally not picky about languages, as long as it gets the job done. But if I have anyone I work with that doubts the power and simplicity of PHP, Yahoo would be my example.
And so far, developing on the so called LAMP platform, I love PHP and would use it for any and all web development. It can be used as a quick hack (an argument always used against PHP btw, that it's only good for a quick hack and not for professional use), OR you can code it like a pro with objects et al. I was not impressed by Mysql however, it is by no means stable (this is v 4.0.13), but that's another topic.
My sig is my personal pet project using PHP
not bad Verisign. Only 3 hours before "fuck verisign" now return no results. I hope their customer service is that quick.
I remembered reading about magnetic ram 5 years ago in Scientific American. Cool it's finally coming (soon enough) to a store near us.
;)
Next item on my wish list is giant, cheap, space-efficient, superior performing OLED or similar display technologies. Hope that comes to a store near me as well
to help out ppl like this poor family? and the rest going to themselves like you said?
EFF can also give legal aid to all those getting sued. Perhaps a special legal fund for this as well?
mod me redundant, and you admit you say this everyday ;)
mostly for colleges in BC, Canada right now, but I see no reason why this can't be extended to other colleges.
not ideas behind making the software, but ideas IN the software. What you are refering to is methodologies and software languages.
you are stagerringly absurd. How can you control something that's open source? If they wanted to impose control, they would replace MS stuff with their own, goverment controlled, "proprietary" software.
By using open source, China is free of foreign economic and techological control. You are right in the "despots" aspect though. It is about controlling China by their own hands.
we all know pigs (spam) and ducks are cute, innocent animals.
I'm not a fan of DRM, but I also understand that it's an effective way to protect artists' rights to their creation.
My summary of the current state of the music industry's problems:
1. Unavailability of legit, paid services that's superior to the free, "pirate" p2p networks (Apple's music store is pretty close though)
2. Angry users that used to buy CD's, but no longer in disgust of the RIAA's inability to adapt
So the question: In light of these 2 highlight problems, how should DRM be used to protect the "future" music industry, while giving enough freedom to the users so the current style of pirate p2p networks would lose their appeal? ie. What is your idea of a profitable music service, that is superior to the p2p networks as to be viable?
** My $.02 below **
My idea of an ideal legit service would be to let users download whole, sample songs that are DRMed, and when users pay for individual songs they want, they get 100% DRM-free songs over ultra-fast connections (faster than what you can over pirate p2p anyway). There would also be forums and chatrooms where users can talk about music between themselves, and also with the artists. (think IRC), while other, currently unofficial channels (like fanclubs / sites) can be used as official advertising avenues.
My rationale is that when you provide easy to access, DRM-free songs, people will get them even if they have to pay for them (at a very low price perhaps in order to compete with the free p2p networks) And when you embrace your fans and extend the "services" they create (and not extinguish them lol), you can profit.
PS. I made a search engine for IRC and Torrents, everyone's favorite p2p networks. So plz be aware of the many grains of salt
Winxp takes more ram, but is faster due to more caching.
Apps can crash in Winxp, but seldom the whole system (which is the case in Win98). If your Winxp box crashes twice a day then you got a driver / hardware problem.
You can customize Winxp to be Win98-like to be more usable, ONLY because you are used to 98. The reverse isn't true (you can't customize 98 to be like xp w/o serious hacking). For example, the icon draggin in the start menu as you mentioned. And the LAN browser is better in my opinion (direct links to shared folders are faster)
For a complete new user, I believe xp would be the more usable system. And it has the customizability, which M$ has learned from Linux (which u said u use)
first, i use Linux on my server. I've been using Winxp for 2 years however (ever since it came out) and despite my hate of M$ as a company, I must say Winxp was a BIG improvement in stability and usability over Win98 let's say.
I can run my box for a week at least, and have only seen BSOD once or twice which were due to hardware.
unpolished and unbalanced, i know.
i'm just saying it "pioneered" this hybrid concept, in a game that's at least fun and playable.
It's basically "Starcraft in action".
PS. v.2 is coming out on July 31
IDE's to make programming a language easier is always a good thing. Vector graphics client is still dominated by Flash, but demand for more widespread SVG clients will occur when there are apps for it.
HTML pasted from the Spec, judge for yourself how it looks:
9.6 Example #1
dSVG sample behavior: focus - with added attributes focusGroup and focus
Content of file: dsvg:focus, dsvg:setTransform, dsvg:setAttribute, dsvg:setStyle, (added attributes dsvg:focus, dsvg:focusGroup)
The dsvg:focusGroup attribute adds the ability to store the ID of similar type elements that are assigned to that group.
Default focus can be given to an element (red circle above) by adding the dsvg:focus attribute to that element.
The red, blue, green circles are part of the focusGroup. The orange circle is not.
Click on the red, green and blue circles to set focus.
Hover over the 'red', 'green' and 'blue' text elements to set focus.
red
blue
green
orange
Hovering the mouse over the 'text' element with id="blueText causes the behaviors within the second 'focus' element to be run. When the first 'setStyle' behavior is run, its 'value' attribute, which is equal to:
%(textGroup@elementID)@cdata%
resolves to:
%blueText@cdata%
which then further resolves to:
blue
9.7 Example #2
Pushing the button will run the 'alert' behavior. Its 'message' attribute, which is equal to:
message= "%button1@label+ ' button ' + if(button1@selected == 'false' , 'is selected', 'is not selected')
which resolves to:
"button1@label + ' button ' + if( false , 'is selected', 'is not selected')
which further resolves to:
Evaluate button is selected
no way. windows dominance is what they want and NEED, making money off a platform other than windoze is the last thing they want.
they r likely going to bundle it in a selling product like Exchange / outlook, then kill off any support for *nix.
... 2003
Live action expansion pack (tm)
I'll paraphrase a comment that was said before, don't remember where i read it:
"We've been building bridges for thousands of years, but only started writing software for a few decades."
To combat increasing bugs in increasingly complex software, we need better tools. From the low level (more reliable memory handling) to the high level (more abstraction to reduce human programming errors) in software languages and compilers.
You can't expect to build the Golden Gate with shovels, without expecting it to fall apart do you? (no, i'm not a terrorist)
While in optional mode, players are checked for a running C-D client and will rename the player if they don't have C-D currently installed and running. For optimal protection against cheaters, servers can be configured to only allow players running the C-D client.
Unfortunately, the C-D anti-cheat system is incompatible with VAC secured MODs. As of v2.2.0, C-D can work with VAC supported MODs as long as VAC is disabled. Otherwise, C-D will shutdown if VAC is detected.
patents are bad. Slashdot is good.
And what are these popups? I don't see any. All I read is slashdot.
Less technical users used MS DOS for over half a decade when Apple and others were available as alternative
Because they don't know any better.
The first search-engines like Yahoo put more and more eyecande (and advertisments) on their sites - and Google wiped the floor with them by providing the simplest search engine interface possible with absolutely no eye-candy, just a white page.
What Google gives is a clean and usable interface. What Yahoo did was ad investation. I don't call ads "eye candy"... Actually, I kinda like the colorful Google logo ;)
That said, I don't see how smooth scrolling can "get in the way" of anything. If you want to associate eye candy with usability, than smooth scrolling adds to usability, not the contrary. Smooth scrolling, when it works, lets you comfortably read text while scrolling with the mouse wheel.
Smooth scroll is not bloat or "eye candy", it's a usability feature.It is true the p2p model and architectures such as FreeNet is ideally better in everyway the Internet ultimately represents, the fact that the "website" is distributed throughtout such a network is a big no to busisness. Imagine the web applications along with all the data that make up Yahoo is "freely" distributed in all parts of the p2p network. Free as in beer. I see FreeNet has appeal to things persoanal and academic, but the p2p model is not for business. Unless you can think of another 3-steps way to Profit....