I still don't see much of a benefit on doing that, you mean that i don't need to instantiate the class to be an object? (ie. no $something = new Class;)
I used a fairly complex OO orientated data structure on my browser game (something like 3-4 A4 pages long just the objects alone), and never needed anything more than more dimensions into the goddamn OO support in PHP >_ i worked around it by doing 2 different Object trees and using a pointer variable to the second one:)
Perfect timing for interview like this for me, i'm just building my first PBX system ever, and it ain't gonna be small:) I'm actually quite overwhelmed about that task, hopefulyl i get by fine:)
Uh, yes it seems normal to me after i checked that doc. I've never needed something like that.
so i've used Object->Function:)
and yes, i would define that "obscure thing in PHP" as that was the first occurence ever i've seen:: used in PHP. and believe me when i say i've read A LOT of PHP code from many different coders & open source projects.
all i can say: WTF is this? Has all wise people suddenly disappeared? Where has the philosophy of KISS disappeared? namely: Keep It Simple, Stupid!
WASP seems far from simple, let's take this example: Request::getParameter('Add') != null wtf? Why can't one do $_POST['Add'] != null? What format even is Something::Something ??
TaskWrapper?
What's so bad with plain Modular Design + Smarty?
I can do easily with it after building the init scripts (transfearable from project to project) something like this with 8 lines or so. namely if ($_POST['Add'] != null && $_POST['Job]' != null) {
$Job = Validate($_POST['Job'], 'string');//my own function
DoQuery("INSERT INTO 'todo' VALUES('', 'Job', '" . timestamp() . "')");// again here is my own functions } ?? Note that is untested code etc. and probably wrong:) I could bet that WASP doesn't have such an good documentation too, making it harder to development. Why do we need PEAR objects for everynew project? etc.
You can do hell of a fast code with standard PHP too, tested dozens of times that ain't even hard if you just remember KISS.
Now, could someone make me see the PRO side of using WASP for example? In my eyes, all WASP does is adds complexity, which NEVER is good. You need to KISS it, make it easy to maintain, easy to debug, easy to read etc.
You have to work on some massive things before you realize that, complexity ain't the way to go. (My browser game, over 14k lines of PHP code initially... cutting it down a lot at this dev period on it, while increasing features... all thanks to KISS philosophy... Oh yeah, you can cut most loops of queries straight at the MySQL query, making your code even shorter and more fault tolerant...;) so remember KISS)
Now, what I AM talking about is that the computers world use 1,024 as 1KILO, not 1,000. Now that's the marketing factor, inexperienced people expect to see 80Gb hdd, what do they get? Roughly 74,5Gb.
Now the rest of the computer world usees 1,024. Now tell me marketing has nothing to do with that?
16 Gigabits is 2 Gigabytes, 2 Gigabytes as in a bit under 3 CDs capacity (700mb ones). So Vista won't fit into one of those, but the price is good, and they are small.
Let's not forget that 2Gb is twice as much as before on a chip like that, and they are really small, consume very little electricity, and you can slam like 100 of these on the same space as 1 regular hdd, altho the costs won't be anywhere near the same pricing.
And look at the price, cheaper than what i've seen 1Gb Flash chips selling!
2Gb(Gigabytes) doesn't sound much, but having 2Gb in my digital camera... Huh, i can go REALLY wild with it, and it'll take ages to fill;) "Now, where are you GIrls!... " >;D
I'm really sorry for forgetting to interpret this! I was quite tired and sleepy when i posted this one.. Oh and never forget the "Marketing Factor", that 1Kilo is 1000 instead of 1024. I don't know does this affect Flash drives but i bet they do.
But damn it's nice to see your posting on slashdot first thing at the morning:)
Being small wasn't exactly my point, but the type. Re-read the post, you'll see the explanation, hugest thing is: Input
You can feel from brake pedal when your tires are about to lock, you can feel from steering wheel when you are on edge of understeering (front tires can't get enough grip to make that sharp turn) etc.
Input is the biggest thing, next is that you need a big scale. RC Car controllers do give quite a big steering range, but the gas range is way too short, but then again index finger can't handle much longer.
RC Car gas/brake control is really bad:: your finger won't ever get as accurate for acceleration as leg. I don't know why, but that's how it is. On a 1:1 car you can control about double the "steps" (yes, there in fact are steps, even tho you cannot recognize there would be) than with rc car controller, and that's common knowledge for rc car racers (atleast here).
RC Car controller is perfect for what it's made for: RC Cars;) from a RC Car you really can't get any input, neither can you drag with you huge & cumbersome steering devices. But i wouldn't go change 1:1 steering system too radically.
Oh yeah, many gets rid of power steering even to get more precise & stronger input and get more resistance from steering. Brake boosters are left intact, because you still will feel very well how it's reacting.
I race with RC cars too, and i find the controls really bad for precise control. Now, it has nothing to do that i wouldn't be capable of that, in fact, i'm very competent with a RC car.
Now, where comes this feeling of bad controls? Because i race REAL 1:1 CARs too.
I can't imagine how horrible it would be to control a big car with the small "steering wheel" of a RC car controller, and using my index finger to use throttle and brake... YIKES!
First of all, with 1:1 cars, you NEED to apply both brake & gas at the sametime, you NEED VERY precise control, while still maintaining good speed of controlling. What we have now, achieves all this, and can be modified to user preferences too. Change steering wheel to smaller or larger, hell, if you are good with mechanics you can make your pwoer steering more powerfull & faster too, tho i prefer having NO power steering as then i will lose INPUT from my steering wheel.
Now, fly by wire things are really bad in car, i've driven a car which had no feeling whatsoever on gas & brake (Seat Ibiza), and i must say it was horrible & hard to drive. Then again a car with copper clutch, about what some people say simply cannot be driven on the streets, i found easy to use, good resistance & input to my leg made it easy. Now, this same car had 420WHP too.
Now think about 420WHP, lightweight sportscar, which is RWD, and accidental full acceleration for example during taking a turn, it's gonna be one HELL OF A SPIN! even when i have all the good controls, i find myself taking it very carefully when pressing gas on a turn, making sure that the sudden turbo kick won't take me.
I even find NFS games which are the heaven of aids in control inputs to be way easier & better with a good steering wheel & pedals, with a lot better lap times. Oh yeah, i made a multitude of world records in NFS:U (not the sequel), and with keyboard, gamepad or joystick i couldn't do that. (except drifting mode in NFS:U, which is the worst piece of crap when it comes to realism)
I know one guy who plays LFS (Live For Speed, racing simulation) with a joystick, he's fast, damn fast, but then again, he also prefers steering wheel & pedals, even he drives near to world record times with a joystick. He's like glued to my steering wheel & pedals when i let him x)
And i'm not alone in that opinion here, by far. Just ask anyone who has seriously competed with 1:1 cars, or in any motorsports.
Infact, a friend installed W95 on a 386. Now, it was slow as hell, but it worked on it. Not useable tho.
On 468, i've seen plenty of times W95 been somewhat useable.
and, they were not testing webserver stuff, but desktop. Get real.
Oh yeah, WXP by default has a limit that it wouldn't install on sub-500mhz and 128mb ram, if i remember correctly. But it can be put into a machine like that, installs, and with some modifications, you infact CAN USE it. Just use Litestep, Astonshell or similar, disable many of the newer innecessary services etc. and there you go.
Oh yeah, w2k infact was faster on my old K6-2 550Mhz, 128mb ram (or was it 256mb...) than W98. Now, think about that.
Humans are lazy, the reason we do anything at all is partly to lazyness. We have 2 drives IMO: Surviving, and making everything comfortable;D
Because we want to be comfortable, we work to get things to make us more comfortable;)
That aside, i've been doing an framework for PHP projects, to make me able to roll out and do a project a lot faster! There is no GUI, no "development tools", it's essentially a bunch of libs, functions, includes etc. Uses Smarty etc. Currently, a browser based game i've done is based on it, on the new version which is still in development, and when it starts to be finished, i bring back from that to the framework some of the libs made, and make it finally public, under GPL.
The basic idea is that, you start a new project, good, copy my framework, setup database. now let's see what do we need? Ok, we need news, let's insert the article object to our frontpage, on frontpage, limit it to view only Press Releases. Goto template, insert a include for articles(short form) to put news here.
What else? User management, registration & sessions. All ready in, make them publicly viewable. We need forums? Ok, let's use the commenting on articles code this way (just a couple options) and we've got ourselves basic forums. Next? URL Rewriting, whupsi doo, it's already in and works even without mod_rewrite in form of articles.php/Name_Of_Article/1.htm
Multi-paged articles? Insert one if here, and put a link here.
It's a breeze, and all the code is so easy to read (coder helping me with the browser game, adapted to it within minutes), uses Smarty templating etc. check the project out at http://framework.artichost.net/
It's a rapid development environment, but not the usual way. You HAVE to be somewhat good with PHP, mediocre will do. No stupid assistance, everything is fast. But what we bring to the coder is to make his/her work easier & faster, a lot easier & faster.
Infact, macs working on different architecture has EVERYTHING to do with that everyone grandma doesn't use it:
- How can they get a Mac if there is no where in sale Macs, or no 2nd hand macs available? Everywhere you go they sell x86, you have to KNOW the store where you can get a mac from
Who said anything about Linux desktop being particularly hard? I know i didn't. What did i say, it is not as easy to use.
Now, you cannot be possibly serious telling me that Linux as desktop, KDE nor Gnome, would be on top of the line in the easy of use, if that's the case, who did a lobotomy to you? and i am not talking about familiriaty.
Oh yeah, and 90% of us, it's just common knowledge that Linux or any *NIX system is harder to use as desktop. Then we have Linux zealots, very loud ones indeed, along with commies on that rest of 10% etc.
I don't have anything against linux. Infact, i use it daily, on multiple different computers, and 'just happen' to be a sysadmin responsible for quite a few servers (didn't bother to check my "homepage"?)
Why Mac ain't the dominating thing is whole another story all together... Never heard of such a thing Macs work on different architecture?;)
Infact, i doubt that. What grandmas need? Browser, Office, anything else? Very little, and there are apps for that.
Now computers they use? Basic, all device drivers exist.
Only thing which might be problematic for them is the support for digital cameras, but how many of grandmas use digital cameras? Printing works AFAIK quite well in linux.
Why then they don't use Linux? It's harder to use, the UI isn't as good.
For example, my mom only needs browser really from her computer, but she still prefers windows over linux (i made her use linux in the past)
oh yeah, and grandmas aren't worried of the technical stuff: someone always handles it for them
Now the difference between Gnu/Linux people and MS is that MS concentrates into making an complete package, which is targeted to a very wide range of users, from grandma to power users. This is not an easy task, and definately, things like UI design, graphics etc. are a MUST for a system like, a 'soundtrack' is just extension of that.
Lets not forget the fact that microsoft just does happen to be the leader of UI design, and push it always further.
Oh yeah, and i'm not denying that there wouldn't be things many of/. readers won't like, infact HATE, but that's just because we are not the MAIN audience.
Now, basicly what you are saying that looks & feel is worth zero, nada, zilch. You pick your wife like that too? >;D
Also, don't forget the fact that many times Linux/Open-Source software is lightyears behind in UI design. UI is not just nice graphics etc. It's a combination of many things, and the bottomline is usability. Why don't we see many grandmas using linux?;)
Oh yeah, and perhaps lack of sophisticated easy to use GUIs in Linux makes it powerfull for power users like you and me, in various tasks.
Oh yeah, you need windows which works very well on slow machines? Now, it's just matter of customization! You possibly can't deny you cannot modify windows enough to make it WAY more lightweight, ie. use Litestep/Astonshell/Darkstep or some other shell replacement, replace IE with Opera / Firefox (firefox is too bloated imo), then replace WMP with Media Player Classic(or old version of Media Player), VLC or some other lightweight tool. use for listening to music old version of winamp, 2.95 found from oldversions.com (2.95 imo is still the best, it's lightweight, stabile, and does everything a app like that should, nothing more, nothing less. 5.x is just WAY too blaoted, even with high end machine it seems to be lagging badly). Anything else? Oh yeah, to take that even further, stop some of the unnecessary services from windows, check your startup programs. When Vista comes out, don't use the new filesystem(WinFS was it?), it's damn heavy, but use NTFS, or even FAT32(even lighter for resources).
Now sooner than you notice, you have a lightweight system.
I know, as i've installed & made WXP Pro work efficiently on slower machines than it should even install! (WXP atleast initially had a restriction of no installing on under 500Mhz machines and was it 256mb ram or 128mb ram) Oh yeah, and we've even got W95 to run on a 386 (don't try this at home kids! Boot up takes hours alone, or something!)
Windows isn't inefficient, in fact, qutie controversary: it just makes use of the power for the good of the user, in UI & features. and just as an example, atleast on my machine, Ubuntu takes MUCH longer to boot than WXP. (Athlon 2700+, 1gig Ram)
Let's create a host server for this setup of lots of virtual servers, they want to mangle, they'll get to mangle!
Now, give them all their own "systems", which is the standard system, ALMOST, except some files are fetched from there for services like HTTPd etc.
Now, to make it work, with little effort to administration: on every boot it's a fresh copy out of a image, overwriting all EXCEPT their home directory.
Now, add to the mix an interface to do NFS/SMBFS/XFS or anything alike, hell even FTP if that's enough, to easily add perms to some files and/or directories etc. store these configs of their virtual servers so they will be up & running again always.
I'd use somekind of network storage server/device for those home dirs & configs + logs(naturally, track those bastards!)
Also, don't allow network services on those virtual servers, ie. have them on 10.0.0.0 network so they don't get routed outside. Route all traffic to these thru separate box and sniff all data going in & out, so it's easy to find abuse, have a script checking special cases (someone running nmap? HELL NO!). and to make it easy to track user's doings, don't allow SSH, only telnet;)
Now, they broke their system? Just reboot it, have an interface to easily reboot their systems (max once per hour or so)
It's simple, it's effective, it's stable for production servers, what else you need? Oh yeah, someone comes bitching, well... you are the BOFH afterall, close their virt server;)
This has been aroudn for sometime now, i remember when i first time stumbled upon milliondollarhomepage.com, it was rather empty etc. There's been stories for sometime now about this website, nothing new here...
$100 for 10pixels... That's expensive! I even thought about getting pixels, but the price was too much for a silly experiment... damn, i should have cashed out probably, seeing that they get tons of traffic right now from everywhere!
PHP actually is quite good even when it comes to high volume & complex stuff.
I know, as i've done it, a MMOG, 100% Pure PHP. In fact, that's the first big project i did with PHP, and it performed AMAZINGLY well, and i were back then very weak developer indeed. The code was full of intended IF clauses, hardcoded stuff, mixed up layout & functionality etc. and unoptimized mysql tables...
Even then, it performed really well, never have i had anything even close to performance problems, i did have some problems which seemed like performance problem but indeed were not but a bug in the code, causing it at a first glance to look like performance problem. (Nope, it was not an infinite loop).
Even the battle ticker was done with PHP, like i said 100% PHP. It consisted of multiple dimensions of objects inside of each other, loading all stuff first to memory, then running the calculations, then saving all that. Even when i used per ship simulation, not as whole simulation(large bunches of ships at a time), it performed with a 1.3Ghz Thunderbird for battles of over 500k ships, faster than when the next tick was to occur. Of course, 500k ships was not by far enough, as it was initially built for having MASSIVE fleets (really late on the game, millions of ships per player for players who bought mainly little ships), but still it would have performed upto somewhere midgame in the early days well enough. needless to say i changed it to calculate large bunches to be capable of running hundreds upon hundreds of battles simultaneously.
We are currently enhancing the code base, changing the structure to have completely separate templating and functionality parts and easier extensibility (getting rid of all hard code, and changing to dynamic), optimizing on the run everything. We are getting way better performance now also, as most of the loops has been gotten rid of by doing better mysql queries (getting data from multiple tables according to some criteria, and then just passing that to templating, Smarty btw, instead of gathering that data with N+1 queries).
You heavily underestimate PHP's performance, like so many else. But most underestimates it because, they don't know jack about optimizing PHP and getting the most performance out of it.
Now, im not saying it's the most performing out there, by far, naturally C/C++ is faster, and anything which compiles to native code. But compared to Java... I'd say PHP is helluva lot faster than Java/servlets... Java is bloated badly imo. Oh yeah, and you can do desktop apps with PHP too, and it's already an old concept. (i for one ventured into a little seeing would it be possible with PHP back in 2001, but it has been realized for masses via PHP-GTK lately)
It is very dangerous in fact, the limit for life danger is 5days no sleep. I've done 4days 16hours myself, then i fall asleep after multiple coffeine tablets, couple energy drinks, and couple other energy pills (guarana or some herb based like that).
Now, 20days without sleep:: Who the fuck can even do that? oO;
What raises eBay fraud amounts? Paypal, Paypal and Paypal!
with eBay, i've mostly had good experience altho, but then again i get only stuff there is not much demand for AKA not good for fraudsters. I acquired only mainly specific style clothing, and mainly pants only. These are very low demand items, there is only few to choose from at any given time.
From about 10 purchases i had these: 1 Fraud -- never got my money back (no answer ever from neither paypal, ebay, and their dispution never worked) ^^ Was really bad!
Doesn't matter much: 2 Product not upto specs -- these were clothes. one pants came with unbelievably BAD smell, like glue or something, and one time a shirt had this someting brown on neck area which is i ahven't still gotten rid of completely. also small ones, buttons missing etc. for clothes advertised as new, or like new, that's odd, right?
With paypal, i got hosting orders, 70-80% were frauds. Paypal also took away the 5$ for the verification which NEVER worked! and i never got that money back nor an answer from Paypal!
using eBay kind of forces you to use Paypal. Paypal is the way worst service EVER! I must say that most of my experience with eBay has been good, but with Paypal most of bad, so i'm not suprised of these 'news'.
with eBay, i wouldn't touch any high price electronics with a 5meter long stick anymore! The only time i was going to acquire some higher price electronics from there was a Cerwin Vega car amplifier, i paid, item never arrived, i never got my cash back.
Paypal is the promised land for scammers & fraudsters! Their fraud prevention etc. is inexisting, even they say they have, you can be assured that they won't care. I tried reporting fraudulent orders i got to Paypal: I never got ANY answer at all, until the real account owner contacted them, then with a small chance, i'd say about 50% chances that Paypal actually does something. Fortunately: the worst never happened to me, i had some high amount payments in the past (web design project payments), so perhaps they noticed that i'm more valuable to them in the THEIR long term (1year or so) than the pennies i had extra on my paypal account on the largest fraud. Just look at http://www.paypalsucks.com/
and yes, i understand that big services will always get some 'high noise' complaints, but those complaints are VERY bad sounding and tip of the iceberg on that website. All are true in atleast one point: they don't have anykind of customer support.
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I still don't see much of a benefit on doing that, you mean that i don't need to instantiate the class to be an object? (ie. no $something = new Class;)
:)
I used a fairly complex OO orientated data structure on my browser game (something like 3-4 A4 pages long just the objects alone), and never needed anything more than more dimensions into the goddamn OO support in PHP >_ i worked around it by doing 2 different Object trees and using a pointer variable to the second one
Perfect timing for interview like this for me, i'm just building my first PBX system ever, and it ain't gonna be small :) :)
I'm actually quite overwhelmed about that task, hopefulyl i get by fine
Uh, yes it seems normal to me after i checked that doc.
:)
:: used in PHP. and believe me when i say i've read A LOT of PHP code from many different coders & open source projects.
I've never needed something like that.
so i've used Object->Function
and yes, i would define that "obscure thing in PHP" as that was the first occurence ever i've seen
all i can say: WTF is this?
//my own function // again here is my own functions :)
;) so remember KISS)
Has all wise people suddenly disappeared?
Where has the philosophy of KISS disappeared? namely: Keep It Simple, Stupid!
WASP seems far from simple, let's take this example:
Request::getParameter('Add') != null
wtf? Why can't one do $_POST['Add'] != null?
What format even is Something::Something ??
TaskWrapper?
What's so bad with plain Modular Design + Smarty?
I can do easily with it after building the init scripts (transfearable from project to project) something like this with 8 lines or so.
namely
if ($_POST['Add'] != null && $_POST['Job]' != null) {
$Job = Validate($_POST['Job'], 'string');
DoQuery("INSERT INTO 'todo' VALUES('', 'Job', '" . timestamp() . "')");
}
??
Note that is untested code etc. and probably wrong
I could bet that WASP doesn't have such an good documentation too, making it harder to development.
Why do we need PEAR objects for everynew project? etc.
You can do hell of a fast code with standard PHP too, tested dozens of times that ain't even hard if you just remember KISS.
Now, i've done a browser game (http://www.paradox-online.net/ ) with PHP, also i'm working on a framework (http://framework.artichost.net/ ) and game will be using it in future as the basis. So i know what i'm talking about.
Now, could someone make me see the PRO side of using WASP for example?
In my eyes, all WASP does is adds complexity, which NEVER is good. You need to KISS it, make it easy to maintain, easy to debug, easy to read etc.
You have to work on some massive things before you realize that, complexity ain't the way to go. (My browser game, over 14k lines of PHP code initially... cutting it down a lot at this dev period on it, while increasing features... all thanks to KISS philosophy... Oh yeah, you can cut most loops of queries straight at the MySQL query, making your code even shorter and more fault tolerant...
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Now, what I AM talking about is that the computers world use 1,024 as 1KILO, not 1,000. Now that's the marketing factor, inexperienced people expect to see 80Gb hdd, what do they get? Roughly 74,5Gb.
Now the rest of the computer world usees 1,024. Now tell me marketing has nothing to do with that?
16 Gigabits is 2 Gigabytes, 2 Gigabytes as in a bit under 3 CDs capacity (700mb ones).
So Vista won't fit into one of those, but the price is good, and they are small.
Let's not forget that 2Gb is twice as much as before on a chip like that, and they are really small, consume very little electricity, and you can slam like 100 of these on the same space as 1 regular hdd, altho the costs won't be anywhere near the same pricing.
;) ... " >;D
And look at the price, cheaper than what i've seen 1Gb Flash chips selling!
2Gb(Gigabytes) doesn't sound much, but having 2Gb in my digital camera... Huh, i can go REALLY wild with it, and it'll take ages to fill
"Now, where are you GIrls!
I'm really sorry for forgetting to interpret this! I was quite tired and sleepy when i posted this one..
:)
Oh and never forget the "Marketing Factor", that 1Kilo is 1000 instead of 1024. I don't know does this affect Flash drives but i bet they do.
But damn it's nice to see your posting on slashdot first thing at the morning
Being small wasn't exactly my point, but the type.
:: your finger won't ever get as accurate for acceleration as leg. I don't know why, but that's how it is. On a 1:1 car you can control about double the "steps" (yes, there in fact are steps, even tho you cannot recognize there would be) than with rc car controller, and that's common knowledge for rc car racers (atleast here).
;) from a RC Car you really can't get any input, neither can you drag with you huge & cumbersome steering devices. But i wouldn't go change 1:1 steering system too radically.
Re-read the post, you'll see the explanation, hugest thing is: Input
You can feel from brake pedal when your tires are about to lock, you can feel from steering wheel when you are on edge of understeering (front tires can't get enough grip to make that sharp turn) etc.
Input is the biggest thing, next is that you need a big scale. RC Car controllers do give quite a big steering range, but the gas range
is way too short, but then again index finger can't handle much longer.
RC Car gas/brake control is really bad
RC Car controller is perfect for what it's made for: RC Cars
Oh yeah, many gets rid of power steering even to get more precise & stronger input and get more resistance from steering. Brake boosters are left intact, because you still will feel very well how it's reacting.
I race with RC cars too, and i find the controls really bad for precise control.
Now, it has nothing to do that i wouldn't be capable of that, in fact, i'm very competent with a RC car.
Now, where comes this feeling of bad controls?
Because i race REAL 1:1 CARs too.
I can't imagine how horrible it would be to control a big car with the small "steering wheel" of a RC car controller, and using my index
finger to use throttle and brake... YIKES!
First of all, with 1:1 cars, you NEED to apply both brake & gas at the sametime, you NEED VERY precise control, while still maintaining good speed of controlling. What we have now, achieves all this, and can be modified to user preferences too.
Change steering wheel to smaller or larger, hell, if you are good with mechanics you can make your pwoer steering more powerfull & faster too, tho i prefer having NO power steering as then i will lose INPUT from my steering wheel.
Now, fly by wire things are really bad in car, i've driven a car which had no feeling whatsoever on gas & brake (Seat Ibiza), and i must
say it was horrible & hard to drive. Then again a car with copper clutch, about what some people say simply cannot be driven on the
streets, i found easy to use, good resistance & input to my leg made it easy. Now, this same car had 420WHP too.
Now think about 420WHP, lightweight sportscar, which is RWD, and accidental full acceleration for example during taking a turn, it's
gonna be one HELL OF A SPIN! even when i have all the good controls, i find myself taking it very carefully when pressing gas on a turn,
making sure that the sudden turbo kick won't take me.
I even find NFS games which are the heaven of aids in control inputs to be way easier & better with a good steering wheel & pedals, with a lot better lap times. Oh yeah, i made a multitude of world records in NFS:U (not the sequel), and with keyboard, gamepad or joystick i couldn't do that. (except drifting mode in NFS:U, which is the worst piece of crap when it comes to realism)
I know one guy who plays LFS (Live For Speed, racing simulation) with a joystick, he's fast, damn fast, but then again, he also prefers steering wheel & pedals, even he drives near to world record times with a joystick. He's like glued to my steering wheel & pedals when i let him x)
And i'm not alone in that opinion here, by far. Just ask anyone who has seriously competed with 1:1 cars, or in any motorsports.
Infact, a friend installed W95 on a 386.
Now, it was slow as hell, but it worked on it. Not useable tho.
On 468, i've seen plenty of times W95 been somewhat useable.
and, they were not testing webserver stuff, but desktop. Get real.
Oh yeah, WXP by default has a limit that it wouldn't install on sub-500mhz and 128mb ram, if i remember correctly.
But it can be put into a machine like that, installs, and with some modifications, you infact CAN USE it.
Just use Litestep, Astonshell or similar, disable many of the newer innecessary services etc. and there you go.
Oh yeah, w2k infact was faster on my old K6-2 550Mhz, 128mb ram (or was it 256mb...) than W98. Now, think about that.
Humans are lazy, the reason we do anything at all is partly to lazyness. ;D
;)
We have 2 drives IMO: Surviving, and making everything comfortable
Because we want to be comfortable, we work to get things to make us more comfortable
That aside, i've been doing an framework for PHP projects, to make me able to roll out and do a project a lot faster!
There is no GUI, no "development tools", it's essentially a bunch of libs, functions, includes etc. Uses Smarty etc.
Currently, a browser based game i've done is based on it, on the new version which is still in development, and when it
starts to be finished, i bring back from that to the framework some of the libs made, and make it finally public, under GPL.
The basic idea is that, you start a new project, good, copy my framework, setup database. now let's see what do we need?
Ok, we need news, let's insert the article object to our frontpage, on frontpage, limit it to view only Press Releases.
Goto template, insert a include for articles(short form) to put news here.
What else? User management, registration & sessions. All ready in, make them publicly viewable.
We need forums? Ok, let's use the commenting on articles code this way (just a couple options) and we've got ourselves
basic forums.
Next? URL Rewriting, whupsi doo, it's already in and works even without mod_rewrite in form of articles.php/Name_Of_Article/1.htm
Multi-paged articles? Insert one if here, and put a link here.
It's a breeze, and all the code is so easy to read (coder helping me with the browser game, adapted to it within minutes),
uses Smarty templating etc. check the project out at http://framework.artichost.net/
It's a rapid development environment, but not the usual way. You HAVE to be somewhat good with PHP, mediocre will do.
No stupid assistance, everything is fast. But what we bring to the coder is to make his/her work easier & faster, a lot
easier & faster.
Amen! x)
Infact, macs working on different architecture has EVERYTHING to do with that everyone grandma doesn't use it:
- How can they get a Mac if there is no where in sale Macs, or no 2nd hand macs available? Everywhere you go they sell x86, you have to KNOW the store where you can get a mac from
Who said anything about Linux desktop being particularly hard? I know i didn't. What did i say, it is not as easy to use.
Now, you cannot be possibly serious telling me that Linux as desktop, KDE nor Gnome, would be on top of the line in the easy of use, if that's the case, who did a lobotomy to you?
and i am not talking about familiriaty.
Oh yeah, and 90% of us, it's just common knowledge that Linux or any *NIX system is harder to use as desktop. Then we have Linux zealots, very loud ones indeed, along with commies on that rest of 10% etc.
I don't have anything against linux.
;)
Infact, i use it daily, on multiple different computers, and 'just happen' to be a sysadmin responsible for quite a few servers (didn't bother to check my "homepage"?)
Why Mac ain't the dominating thing is whole another story all together... Never heard of such a thing Macs work on different architecture?
Infact, i doubt that.
What grandmas need?
Browser, Office, anything else? Very little, and there are apps for that.
Now computers they use? Basic, all device drivers exist.
Only thing which might be problematic for them is the support for digital cameras, but how many of grandmas use digital cameras?
Printing works AFAIK quite well in linux.
Why then they don't use Linux? It's harder to use, the UI isn't as good.
For example, my mom only needs browser really from her computer, but she still prefers windows over linux (i made her use linux in the past)
oh yeah, and grandmas aren't worried of the technical stuff: someone always handles it for them
Next silly explanation please
Now the difference between Gnu/Linux people and MS is that MS concentrates into making an complete package, which is targeted to a very
/. readers won't like, infact HATE, but that's just because we are not the MAIN audience.
;)
wide range of users, from grandma to power users. This is not an easy task, and definately, things like UI design, graphics etc. are a
MUST for a system like, a 'soundtrack' is just extension of that.
Lets not forget the fact that microsoft just does happen to be the leader of UI design, and push it always further.
Oh yeah, and i'm not denying that there wouldn't be things many of
Now, basicly what you are saying that looks & feel is worth zero, nada, zilch. You pick your wife like that too? >;D
Also, don't forget the fact that many times Linux/Open-Source software is lightyears behind in UI design.
UI is not just nice graphics etc. It's a combination of many things, and the bottomline is usability. Why don't we see many grandmas using linux?
Oh yeah, and perhaps lack of sophisticated easy to use GUIs in Linux makes it powerfull for power users like you and me, in various
tasks.
Oh yeah, you need windows which works very well on slow machines?
Now, it's just matter of customization! You possibly can't deny you cannot modify windows enough to make it WAY more lightweight,
ie. use Litestep/Astonshell/Darkstep or some other shell replacement, replace IE with Opera / Firefox (firefox is too bloated imo), then
replace WMP with Media Player Classic(or old version of Media Player), VLC or some other lightweight tool.
use for listening to music old version of winamp, 2.95 found from oldversions.com (2.95 imo is still the best, it's lightweight, stabile, and does everything a app like that should, nothing more, nothing less. 5.x is just WAY too blaoted, even with high end machine
it seems to be lagging badly).
Anything else?
Oh yeah, to take that even further, stop some of the unnecessary services from windows, check your startup programs.
When Vista comes out, don't use the new filesystem(WinFS was it?), it's damn heavy, but use NTFS, or even FAT32(even lighter for resources).
Now sooner than you notice, you have a lightweight system.
I know, as i've installed & made WXP Pro work efficiently on slower machines than it should even install! (WXP atleast initially had
a restriction of no installing on under 500Mhz machines and was it 256mb ram or 128mb ram)
Oh yeah, and we've even got W95 to run on a 386 (don't try this at home kids! Boot up takes hours alone, or something!)
Windows isn't inefficient, in fact, qutie controversary: it just makes use of the power for the good of the user, in UI & features.
and just as an example, atleast on my machine, Ubuntu takes MUCH longer to boot than WXP. (Athlon 2700+, 1gig Ram)
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http://sven.gimp.org.nyud.net:8090/gimp-2.2.10-sp
and to the full page:
http://www.gimp.org.nyud.net:8090/contest/
i also put the image to here:
http://www.artichost.net/gimp-2.2.10-splash-conte
A NAZI BOX!
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Let's create a host server for this setup of lots of virtual servers, they want to mangle, they'll get to mangle!
Now, give them all their own "systems", which is the standard system, ALMOST, except some files are fetched from there for services like HTTPd etc.
Now, to make it work, with little effort to administration: on every boot it's a fresh copy out of a image, overwriting all EXCEPT their home directory.
Now, add to the mix an interface to do NFS/SMBFS/XFS or anything alike, hell even FTP if that's enough, to easily add perms to some files and/or directories etc. store these configs of their virtual servers so they will be up & running again always.
I'd use somekind of network storage server/device for those home dirs & configs + logs(naturally, track those bastards!)
Also, don't allow network services on those virtual servers, ie. have them on 10.0.0.0 network so they don't get routed outside.
Route all traffic to these thru separate box and sniff all data going in & out, so it's easy to find abuse, have a script checking
special cases (someone running nmap? HELL NO!). and to make it easy to track user's doings, don't allow SSH, only telnet
Now, they broke their system? Just reboot it, have an interface to easily reboot their systems (max once per hour or so)
It's simple, it's effective, it's stable for production servers, what else you need?
Oh yeah, someone comes bitching, well... you are the BOFH afterall, close their virt server
as a side note: i made this all up as i went on
This has been aroudn for sometime now, i remember when i first time stumbled upon milliondollarhomepage.com, it was rather empty etc.
There's been stories for sometime now about this website, nothing new here...
$100 for 10pixels... That's expensive!
I even thought about getting pixels, but the price was too much for a silly experiment... damn, i should have cashed out probably, seeing
that they get tons of traffic right now from everywhere!
Here's coral cache link: http://www.rojakpot.com.nyud.net:8090/showarticle. aspx?artno=4&pgno=0 for those who do not bother to edit the URL manually :)
PHP actually is quite good even when it comes to high volume & complex stuff.
I know, as i've done it, a MMOG, 100% Pure PHP.
In fact, that's the first big project i did with PHP, and it performed AMAZINGLY well, and i were back then very weak developer indeed.
The code was full of intended IF clauses, hardcoded stuff, mixed up layout & functionality etc.
and unoptimized mysql tables...
Even then, it performed really well, never have i had anything even close to performance problems, i did have some problems which seemed like performance problem but indeed were not but a bug in the code, causing it at a first glance to look like performance problem. (Nope, it was not an infinite loop).
Even the battle ticker was done with PHP, like i said 100% PHP. It consisted of multiple dimensions of objects inside of each other, loading all stuff first to memory, then running the calculations, then saving all that.
Even when i used per ship simulation, not as whole simulation(large bunches of ships at a time), it performed with a 1.3Ghz Thunderbird for battles of over 500k ships, faster than when the next tick was to occur.
Of course, 500k ships was not by far enough, as it was initially built for having MASSIVE fleets (really late on the game, millions of ships per player for players who bought mainly little ships), but still it would have performed upto somewhere midgame in the early days well enough. needless to say i changed it to calculate large bunches to be capable of running hundreds upon hundreds of battles simultaneously.
We are currently enhancing the code base, changing the structure to have completely separate templating and functionality parts and easier extensibility (getting rid of all hard code, and changing to dynamic), optimizing on the run everything. We are getting way better performance now also, as most of the loops has been gotten rid of by doing better mysql queries (getting data from multiple tables according to some criteria, and then just passing that to templating, Smarty btw, instead of gathering that data with N+1 queries).
You heavily underestimate PHP's performance, like so many else. But most underestimates it because, they don't know jack about optimizing PHP and getting the most performance out of it.
Now, im not saying it's the most performing out there, by far, naturally C/C++ is faster, and anything which compiles to native code.
But compared to Java... I'd say PHP is helluva lot faster than Java/servlets... Java is bloated badly imo.
Oh yeah, and you can do desktop apps with PHP too, and it's already an old concept.
(i for one ventured into a little seeing would it be possible with PHP back in 2001, but it has been realized for masses via PHP-GTK
lately)
Oh yeah, and the game in question is: Paradox Online, http://www.paradox-online.net/
It is very dangerous in fact, the limit for life danger is 5days no sleep.
:: Who the fuck can even do that? oO;
I've done 4days 16hours myself, then i fall asleep after multiple coffeine tablets, couple energy drinks, and couple other energy pills (guarana or some herb based like that).
Now, 20days without sleep
What raises eBay fraud amounts? Paypal, Paypal and Paypal!
with eBay, i've mostly had good experience altho, but then again i get only stuff there is not much demand for AKA not good for fraudsters. I acquired only mainly specific style clothing, and mainly pants only. These are very low demand items, there is only few to choose from at any given time.
From about 10 purchases i had these:
1 Fraud -- never got my money back (no answer ever from neither paypal, ebay, and their dispution never worked)
^^ Was really bad!
Doesn't matter much:
2 Product not upto specs -- these were clothes. one pants came with unbelievably BAD smell, like glue or something, and one time a shirt had this someting brown on neck area which is i ahven't still gotten rid of completely. also small ones, buttons missing etc. for clothes advertised as new, or like new, that's odd, right?
With paypal, i got hosting orders, 70-80% were frauds. Paypal also took away the 5$ for the verification which NEVER worked! and i never got that money back nor an answer from Paypal!
using eBay kind of forces you to use Paypal. Paypal is the way worst service EVER!
I must say that most of my experience with eBay has been good, but with Paypal most of bad, so i'm not suprised of these 'news'.
with eBay, i wouldn't touch any high price electronics with a 5meter long stick anymore!
The only time i was going to acquire some higher price electronics from there was a Cerwin Vega car amplifier, i paid, item never arrived, i never got my cash back.
Paypal is the promised land for scammers & fraudsters! Their fraud prevention etc. is inexisting, even they say they have, you can be assured that they won't care.
I tried reporting fraudulent orders i got to Paypal: I never got ANY answer at all, until the real account owner contacted them, then
with a small chance, i'd say about 50% chances that Paypal actually does something.
Fortunately: the worst never happened to me, i had some high amount payments in the past (web design project payments), so perhaps they
noticed that i'm more valuable to them in the THEIR long term (1year or so) than the pennies i had extra on my paypal account on the
largest fraud.
Just look at http://www.paypalsucks.com/
and yes, i understand that big services will always get some 'high noise' complaints, but those complaints are VERY bad sounding and
tip of the iceberg on that website. All are true in atleast one point: they don't have anykind of customer support.