it failed to open a file, which means the file is gone or not readable. wtf is up with this story? i dont even think they realized it was a joke when they posted it, and the article is gone immediately? pretty lame.
in other MMORPG's people have dummy "mule" characters that only exist to hold items and whatnot, while there's nothing wrong with that, it makes things a little less realistic. with only one character, you can focus on actually developing that character, and playing the game, not inventory management. (and other things.... IANAMMORPGP)
duh, they're closed source and proprietary, duh, if you have a problem, have fun getting nvidia to fix it. duh, if you cant tell the problem with closed source drivers, then, duh, you're an idiot.
How could you be active in a discussion that includes people from around the world?
What does this new system give us that we don't already have?
fair enough, but..
Before the internet, how would you get non-local news?
you know, the world didnt go straight from horse & buggy to the internet, there WAS a world before the internet! remember TV news? newspapers? magazines? hello???
I don't believe he stated that he intentionally broke it in IE. It sounds to me like he found something neat in CSS, decided to do it, then found out that it didn't work so well in IE. So what?
On my site, I use CSS:after,:before,:first-letter,:first-line, and:first-child selectors, which currently only work in Mozilla, but so what?? IE has an incomplete CSS implementation. I enjoy web design, doing [x]html, and CSS alot. I enjoy using the newest techniques, while still using standards compliant code. If IE is broken, and displays my correctly coded page wrong - I don't care. Get a better browser.
BTW - neither site fails to work in IE, only some visual effects are missing - hardly a big deal. You go to a website for information - right?
and one last btw - the navigation bar at right works in mozilla, but is mysteriously gone in IE, but it *should* work in IE, i need to get around to fixing that. ho hum.
I won't have to waste time going to a rank amateur's web site.
one of the inconsistent functions you described is strstr(). most functions that search for something in a string (like ereg* and preg*) have the arguments set up so that the needle is first, haystack last. so you get used to using them like this('findthis', $inhere), but then with strstr you go strstr($whyisthisfirst, 'wtf that makes no sense')
just my own little two cents, keep in mind i like php and i love doing all kinds of neat shit with it like this and these and this.
i've played with perl a tiny bit, and while there are things i like about it (=~ comes to mind, also the general shortness of functions and constructs versus php's long_ass_function_names() like parent post mentioned), it does feel very strange - and i question the usefulness (to me). i can pretty much do anything in php that i can think of, the language doesnt hold me back very much or at all. i can write shell scripts in it too - of course people say "no no!! php is for webpages!!", but it's as fast as anything else, and i'm familiar with it so i can be very productive.
i actually forgot 2 things (i knew i was forgetting them i just couldnt remember what they were)
don't use crappy email providers: hotmail, etc, will give you spam. i fully recommend myrealbox.com, it is run by novell, absolutely will not spam you, and just has that "they give a crap about you" aura.
either dont open questionable email, or use a text reader such as mutt, pine or the like. opening up those html pages and images and whatnot lets the spammer know you've looked at it, and obviously thats not a good thing.
Same here, i get *maybe* one email a day, and thats usually from a mailing list or something.
i only recently got a couple spams on my "real" email account (the one i run myself), my yahoo account i dont check for weeks or months on end (its one of those spam catching accounts for registering places, etc.) and my email at myrealbox.com never gets spammed.
i have never done any sort of spam blocking/filtering/etc.
here are some tips in case you dont know them already:
don't put your email address anywhere that web crawlers can find it. change s's to $'s, insert little [REMOVETHIS]'s, whatever. just dont put the real addy there, and make sure you obscure the domain name (they can still mail to jackass@ or webmaster@yourdomain and it'll get to someone). any text files, etc, that have even a remote possibility of leaking onto the net (it happens, you dont even need to be famous, there are tons of blah.net/~someuser/ listings with all kinds of interesting files in them on the net...) irc logs, mailing lists!!!, etc. if your address gets on the net, you will be spammed.
use a junk address for registrations/etc that might send you junk. common sense.
andeuh.....thats about it! so, to recap, do type your real user@host email address, anywhere!, and don't sign up for shady stuff with a good email address. man, this sounds so easy, why is it people have such a hard time...
It is a blazingly fast browser and is quick to startup, too. Amazing!
were you compensated for this post?
i honestly dont see the 'blazing' speed of phoenix, i tried it on my p233, and on my duron 1.3ghz, and neither time did it feel very much faster than mozilla. i did notice a huge speed boost from 1.0->1.1 on the p233.
the startup time i can believe though, but i leave my browser open all the time, doesnt everyone?;)
agreed. none of them are any faster for me in browsing speed (and thats where it matters, i leave mozilla open for days if not weeks at a time), and i never have to wonder if feature xyz is supported.
agreed that the story in 8 did suck ass, but drawing magic and junctioning was addictive as hell!! thats the only reason i played the game so much. also just the environmental *vibe* of the game was kinda neat.
9 was absolutely horrid. again, the environments were pretty cool, but the characters were idiots (8's were too), and the story was boring.
7 was the last great FF, in the sense that you actually got to know the characters well, and you LIKED the characters. 4 & 6 are absolute classics and fall under the same category. (i've probably played 6 more than any other game ever)
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i dont respect companies that release software that borders on being viral.
"killed their php" ?
it failed to open a file, which means the file is gone or not readable. wtf is up with this story? i dont even think they realized it was a joke when they posted it, and the article is gone immediately? pretty lame.
ok i just realized i totally fucked it up by forgetting to switch to plain ol' text and creating a run on sentence. >=|
POS apps are rarely on internet capable machines Internet Explorer? ;-)
php4 is pretty good at cli stuff. if you know php well, and dont know perl or python well, you can still make useful shell scripts easily.
in other MMORPG's people have dummy "mule" characters that only exist to hold items and whatnot, while there's nothing wrong with that, it makes things a little less realistic. with only one character, you can focus on actually developing that character, and playing the game, not inventory management. (and other things.... IANAMMORPGP)
duh, they're closed source and proprietary, duh, if you have a problem, have fun getting nvidia to fix it. duh, if you cant tell the problem with closed source drivers, then, duh, you're an idiot.
modded funny...but its the truth ;)
What does this new system give us that we don't already have?
fair enough, but..
Before the internet, how would you get non-local news?
you know, the world didnt go straight from horse & buggy to the internet, there WAS a world before the internet! remember TV news? newspapers? magazines? hello???
On my site, I use CSS :after, :before, :first-letter, :first-line, and :first-child selectors, which currently only work in Mozilla, but so what?? IE has an incomplete CSS implementation. I enjoy web design, doing [x]html, and CSS alot. I enjoy using the newest techniques, while still using standards compliant code. If IE is broken, and displays my correctly coded page wrong - I don't care. Get a better browser.
BTW - neither site fails to work in IE, only some visual effects are missing - hardly a big deal. You go to a website for information - right?
and one last btw - the navigation bar at right works in mozilla, but is mysteriously gone in IE, but it *should* work in IE, i need to get around to fixing that. ho hum.
I won't have to waste time going to a rank amateur's web site.
i'm sure he's crying.
one of the inconsistent functions you described is strstr(). most functions that search for something in a string (like ereg* and preg*) have the arguments set up so that the needle is first, haystack last. so you get used to using them like this('findthis', $inhere), but then with strstr you go strstr($whyisthisfirst, 'wtf that makes no sense')
just my own little two cents, keep in mind i like php and i love doing all kinds of neat shit with it like this and these and this.
i've played with perl a tiny bit, and while there are things i like about it (=~ comes to mind, also the general shortness of functions and constructs versus php's long_ass_function_names() like parent post mentioned), it does feel very strange - and i question the usefulness (to me). i can pretty much do anything in php that i can think of, the language doesnt hold me back very much or at all. i can write shell scripts in it too - of course people say "no no!! php is for webpages!!", but it's as fast as anything else, and i'm familiar with it so i can be very productive.
didnt know that, although how long will it be until the spammers start using reverse psychology on your reverse psychology? ;)
i actually forgot 2 things (i knew i was forgetting them i just couldnt remember what they were)
ok, i'm pretty sure thats all of them now ;)
Same here, i get *maybe* one email a day, and thats usually from a mailing list or something.
i only recently got a couple spams on my "real" email account (the one i run myself), my yahoo account i dont check for weeks or months on end (its one of those spam catching accounts for registering places, etc.) and my email at myrealbox.com never gets spammed.
i have never done any sort of spam blocking/filtering/etc.
here are some tips in case you dont know them already:
andeuh.....thats about it! so, to recap, do type your real user@host email address, anywhere!, and don't sign up for shady stuff with a good email address. man, this sounds so easy, why is it people have such a hard time...
wathing giblets fly all over....is that a reference to eating, or a reference to porn?
feeding a troll? looks like you're just feeding a joke, and making a fool of yourself ;-)
chill out man!
They oughtta think about applying these optimizations to their webserver!
Seriously though, this story JUST appeared and still their website is taking a minute so far to load..
seems questionable....
farmer....dairy..makes sense!
farmer....derry?
hm, and it already performed worse than the 'dying' BSD's.
Just thought i'd help a brother out, it's actually "dairy-o" (the o is just for fun i guess), not derio. Hope this helps.
were you compensated for this post?
i honestly dont see the 'blazing' speed of phoenix, i tried it on my p233, and on my duron 1.3ghz, and neither time did it feel very much faster than mozilla. i did notice a huge speed boost from 1.0->1.1 on the p233.
the startup time i can believe though, but i leave my browser open all the time, doesnt everyone? ;)
will steve ballmer be there!!??
i can picture all of the AC's scurrying to open up ~/text/bsd-is-dead.html to begin pasting away.
agreed. none of them are any faster for me in browsing speed (and thats where it matters, i leave mozilla open for days if not weeks at a time), and i never have to wonder if feature xyz is supported.
:)
accept no imitations!
agreed that the story in 8 did suck ass, but drawing magic and junctioning was addictive as hell!! thats the only reason i played the game so much. also just the environmental *vibe* of the game was kinda neat.
9 was absolutely horrid. again, the environments were pretty cool, but the characters were idiots (8's were too), and the story was boring.
7 was the last great FF, in the sense that you actually got to know the characters well, and you LIKED the characters. 4 & 6 are absolute classics and fall under the same category. (i've probably played 6 more than any other game ever)