One solution that gives you a dynamic website with the advantages of a database and server-side scripting is to precompile your site to static HTML - you update it by recompiling more HTML. It can be done fairly transparently, with all the actual precompiling happening via automatic scripts. Obviously you can't have a user-login-based site work effectively this way, but for a site of modest dynamics (such as a blog, product catalog, or even some message boards), pre-compiling to HTML can be a real benefit. You can also precompile pieces of pages, although the benefits are less because includes require a certain amount of backend processing (unless they are slurped in from the front end using DHTML or whatever).
Most people use the web, send email, and word process. I know it's common in Slashdot to talk about your week-long 3D rendering sessions, but the number of people who do that is extremely small. Seriously, I spent some years visiting houses and fixing computers and maybe one person in all those people did stuff with video. I told him to upgrade his RAM from 256 to 512. The point is that one of these basic laptops is ideal for what people really do with their computers, and hardware bloat is just as serious as software bloat (because it makes irrational demands on batteries and heat disposal). Hell, 99% of what I do with a PC can be done on an OLPC. On a related note, Vista was created mostly to give Americans a distorted picture of the hardware they needed to live out their pathetic computational lives, lives that would be satisfied on a Pentium MMX running Windows 98.
I read lots of articles about this trial but what are the facts, and most importantly, how did the RIAA obtain information on this citizen? How did they get access to her hard drive? What did she do to make herself vulnerable. Most of the literature about these sorts of cases write about how the defendant "downloaded" and that was their crime, but isn't the truth that the RIAA can only take action against people who make files available for download? If I download a file from an RIAA server, it might be that I'm doing something legitimate with it, like using it to make 30 second samples or testing to see if a file made available violates copyright. So isn't the crime here the "providing of files?"
mmm, impressive, and i'm sure there are many ladies who swing from your jock. i do most of my work in a text editor. it color codes based on language, but it seems to run fine on 300 MHz machines, although i actually do most of my work on a single core athlon 64
You'd be surprised the sad old machines in which I've seen brand new copies of Norton 360, etc. It's not just that that kills their performance though - it's also all the spyware that is on there anyway!
I'm a computer-using professional, (a web developer, actually) and I haven't bought a computer in years (who needs to? a five year old Pentium IV does everything anyone needs a computer to do!). So I was amazed back in July when a friend and I went to a Circuit City and then Best Buy on a "cheapest laptop we can walk out with" quest. XP was already gone and the pimply-faced Nerd Patrol/Geek Squad/FireDog/CatFucker people all told us that installing XP on these computers was impossible. They said they'd tried and it couldn't be done. I remember wondering if perhaps this was the end of the Microsoft Universe, since there was no way we'd be getting a Vista computer. The only use for multiple cores and 4 gigs of RAM is if 80% of your CPU cycles are given over to DRM and Norton 360.
sorry that's only a five pack -- only enough for two end points, a passive repeater and a spare. i use the old model of the wrt54g linksys router, the one with 16 megs of flash ram. it can hold that sveasoft router software for all the really wacky fun stuff. also - you can boost the power using that firmware, although people differ on how clean the resulting signal is (and whether it's an ethical thing to broadcast).
If you have line of sight to someone with broadband (even if it's from your roof or high in a tree) you can get a good WiFi signal with a 24 dB dish (~$60) - I've used them to easily get SSIDs on consumer-grade routers in stranger's houses two miles away (I assume there were a few walls in the way). One assumes the connection could be made much better if both sides of it uses these dishes. These dishes will even work through a little foliage if it's not too thick. You just need to get to know any line-of-sight neighbors so a connection with their network can be on the up and up. You can even agree to install broadband at a suitable site in exchange for access.
Republicans empathize with things that cannot experience:
Terry Schiavo, embryonic humans, corporations ("legal people"), etc.
Democrats empathize with things that can:
Poor people, endangered species, illegal aliens, minorities, etc.
How will machines empathize? With other machines? Will they hold funerals for crashed hard drives and insist that the information doesn't just disappear but instead goes to a great archive in the sky? Who knows?
Do you drive on roads? Do you expect the fires consuming your house to be extinguished? Did you go to a public school? Do you expect Uncle Sam to keep Osama bin Butthead from blowing up your shopping mall? Somebody has to pay the folks who drive firetrucks, teach kids, pave roads, fix bridges, fight wars for oil, tap your phone, read your mail, sniff your baggage for marijuana, and look through your packages for primo Israeli ecstasy. That's 30% you won't spend on a stupid quad-core Pentium or an unnecessarily large SUV.
so then we privatize to make it all better because the free market fucking rocks, and then we get Halliburton, Black Water Security, and corporatocracy, a proto-fascist condition that leads to a Chile-style dictatorship of the wealthy.
Oh yeah, I suppose you think our privatized medical system is "the very best on the planet." What fucking planet do you live on?
We don't pay enough taxes in this country. Taxes are part of your contract for living in a civilized society. Everyone always bitches about their taxes but then when a hurricane wipes out their house and they have no insurance - waaaaa! You want Uncle Sam to fix your boo-boo. I'd gladly pay more taxes to have a completely socialized medical system in this country and not to have to keep a sterile surgical suite and surgical implements to reattach my own limbs next to my power tools.
if iPhone was truly open I'd buy it as a PDA - i have no interest in using it as a phone. i like the touch screen interface and wifi - it would replace my laptop. but im not buying something that commits me to thousands of dollars worth of business to AT&T, a known monopolist (who, like the liquid metal terminator in T2, has reconstituted itself from its fragments).
I know, republicans aren't evil. They only ACT that way. i know, republicans helped cnn and foxnews by making a war, and they helped those in armament factories by increasing defense spending. they also helped some people with large inheritances avoid paying taxes. But seriously, when was the last time a republican did anything that did any large group of people any long term good?
Those of us who have blogs but have not been paid are urged to create hyperlinks around the term "People Ready Business" with a href of http://goatse.cz/.
The problem with attacks on Darwinian science is that they are done from the perspective of someone who accepts an ancient text as flawless received wisdom. Such a person assumes that we in the scientific community also accept our received wisdom (The Origin of Species, for example) as flawless. But no, we realize that Darwin didn't have all the facts or all that many fossils, that science builds upon the shoulders of giants instead of believing that all of reality was revealed at some point in the distant past. Darwinism looks at nature and sees it performing the scientific method (experiments, paradigm abandonment, etc.) to achieve its ends, even as it itself undergoes these forces. I wrote about this at length here:
To make CO2 sequestration work, it would have to use extremely tiny amounts of energy - both to build and to operate the equipment. Otherwise it defeats the purpose - the reason we have a CO2 problem in the first place is because of all the energy we use. This article reads like a press release for the company in that it has no caveats such as how much energy this tech uses. My guess is that the answer is "a lot."
Dude you said "cambrian" - there was a cambrian explosion too and perhaps that's what you mean. But here we're talking about the Cretaceous, 65 Million years ago instead of 600 Million years ago.
When I go to do a search on my computer, I'm comforted by that little doggy. I wish Google would follow Microsoft's example and replace the little box to type in a search query with an animated animal, something with more limbs for going out on those internets and finding stuff.
What do you suppose happens to your identity when a dotcom with DBs full of identities are crashing and burning? If there's a chance to patch things up by selling those identities, let me tell you, I've worked for people who would have done so gladly. None of you ever joined Collegeclub.com, did you?
How about the fact that you can't change ids on the fly? Or that referring to an object by ID returns one whose name is the ID you're looking for? These two bugs alone are responsible for the loss of two days of my life. Will Microsoft be giving those back to me with this release (which I can't install because I run a pirated copy of XP).
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One solution that gives you a dynamic website with the advantages of a database and server-side scripting is to precompile your site to static HTML - you update it by recompiling more HTML. It can be done fairly transparently, with all the actual precompiling happening via automatic scripts. Obviously you can't have a user-login-based site work effectively this way, but for a site of modest dynamics (such as a blog, product catalog, or even some message boards), pre-compiling to HTML can be a real benefit. You can also precompile pieces of pages, although the benefits are less because includes require a certain amount of backend processing (unless they are slurped in from the front end using DHTML or whatever).
Most people use the web, send email, and word process. I know it's common in Slashdot to talk about your week-long 3D rendering sessions, but the number of people who do that is extremely small. Seriously, I spent some years visiting houses and fixing computers and maybe one person in all those people did stuff with video. I told him to upgrade his RAM from 256 to 512. The point is that one of these basic laptops is ideal for what people really do with their computers, and hardware bloat is just as serious as software bloat (because it makes irrational demands on batteries and heat disposal). Hell, 99% of what I do with a PC can be done on an OLPC. On a related note, Vista was created mostly to give Americans a distorted picture of the hardware they needed to live out their pathetic computational lives, lives that would be satisfied on a Pentium MMX running Windows 98.
I read lots of articles about this trial but what are the facts, and most importantly, how did the RIAA obtain information on this citizen? How did they get access to her hard drive? What did she do to make herself vulnerable. Most of the literature about these sorts of cases write about how the defendant "downloaded" and that was their crime, but isn't the truth that the RIAA can only take action against people who make files available for download? If I download a file from an RIAA server, it might be that I'm doing something legitimate with it, like using it to make 30 second samples or testing to see if a file made available violates copyright. So isn't the crime here the "providing of files?"
mmm, impressive, and i'm sure there are many ladies who swing from your jock. i do most of my work in a text editor. it color codes based on language, but it seems to run fine on 300 MHz machines, although i actually do most of my work on a single core athlon 64
You'd be surprised the sad old machines in which I've seen brand new copies of Norton 360, etc. It's not just that that kills their performance though - it's also all the spyware that is on there anyway!
I'm a computer-using professional, (a web developer, actually) and I haven't bought a computer in years (who needs to? a five year old Pentium IV does everything anyone needs a computer to do!). So I was amazed back in July when a friend and I went to a Circuit City and then Best Buy on a "cheapest laptop we can walk out with" quest. XP was already gone and the pimply-faced Nerd Patrol/Geek Squad/FireDog/CatFucker people all told us that installing XP on these computers was impossible. They said they'd tried and it couldn't be done. I remember wondering if perhaps this was the end of the Microsoft Universe, since there was no way we'd be getting a Vista computer. The only use for multiple cores and 4 gigs of RAM is if 80% of your CPU cycles are given over to DRM and Norton 360.
sorry that's only a five pack -- only enough for two end points, a passive repeater and a spare. i use the old model of the wrt54g linksys router, the one with 16 megs of flash ram. it can hold that sveasoft router software for all the really wacky fun stuff. also - you can boost the power using that firmware, although people differ on how clean the resulting signal is (and whether it's an ethical thing to broadcast).
here's a link to an ebay sale of ten of the dishes i use - buy 'em now for $250! Ebay you could outfit two endpoints and four passive repeaters with that gear - surely enough to get up and over a mountain. here's cringely with his passive repeater: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2002/pulpit_20020207_000721.html you can see my 24db mounted on an antenna rotator in the last pic on this page: http://www.asecular.com/index.php?051105 and read about it here: http://www.asecular.com/index.php?050319
If you have line of sight to someone with broadband (even if it's from your roof or high in a tree) you can get a good WiFi signal with a 24 dB dish (~$60) - I've used them to easily get SSIDs on consumer-grade routers in stranger's houses two miles away (I assume there were a few walls in the way). One assumes the connection could be made much better if both sides of it uses these dishes. These dishes will even work through a little foliage if it's not too thick. You just need to get to know any line-of-sight neighbors so a connection with their network can be on the up and up. You can even agree to install broadband at a suitable site in exchange for access.
Republicans empathize with things that cannot experience:
Terry Schiavo, embryonic humans, corporations ("legal people"), etc.
Democrats empathize with things that can:
Poor people, endangered species, illegal aliens, minorities, etc.
How will machines empathize? With other machines? Will they hold funerals for crashed hard drives and insist that the information doesn't just disappear but instead goes to a great archive in the sky? Who knows?
it used to be here http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://spies.com/~gus /musings/aug96.htm
and before that it was here
http://atlas.comet.net/~gus/musings/aug96.htm
which might predate the wayback machine
Seriously, check it out: July 31st, 1996: http://asecular.com/musings/aug96. and the day before yesterday: http://asecular.com/index.php?070713
Do you drive on roads? Do you expect the fires consuming your house to be extinguished? Did you go to a public school? Do you expect Uncle Sam to keep Osama bin Butthead from blowing up your shopping mall? Somebody has to pay the folks who drive firetrucks, teach kids, pave roads, fix bridges, fight wars for oil, tap your phone, read your mail, sniff your baggage for marijuana, and look through your packages for primo Israeli ecstasy. That's 30% you won't spend on a stupid quad-core Pentium or an unnecessarily large SUV.
so then we privatize to make it all better because the free market fucking rocks, and then we get Halliburton, Black Water Security, and corporatocracy, a proto-fascist condition that leads to a Chile-style dictatorship of the wealthy. Oh yeah, I suppose you think our privatized medical system is "the very best on the planet." What fucking planet do you live on?
We don't pay enough taxes in this country. Taxes are part of your contract for living in a civilized society. Everyone always bitches about their taxes but then when a hurricane wipes out their house and they have no insurance - waaaaa! You want Uncle Sam to fix your boo-boo. I'd gladly pay more taxes to have a completely socialized medical system in this country and not to have to keep a sterile surgical suite and surgical implements to reattach my own limbs next to my power tools.
if iPhone was truly open I'd buy it as a PDA - i have no interest in using it as a phone. i like the touch screen interface and wifi - it would replace my laptop. but im not buying something that commits me to thousands of dollars worth of business to AT&T, a known monopolist (who, like the liquid metal terminator in T2, has reconstituted itself from its fragments).
I know, republicans aren't evil. They only ACT that way. i know, republicans helped cnn and foxnews by making a war, and they helped those in armament factories by increasing defense spending. they also helped some people with large inheritances avoid paying taxes. But seriously, when was the last time a republican did anything that did any large group of people any long term good?
Those of us who have blogs but have not been paid are urged to create hyperlinks around the term "People Ready Business" with a href of http://goatse.cz/.
The problem with attacks on Darwinian science is that they are done from the perspective of someone who accepts an ancient text as flawless received wisdom. Such a person assumes that we in the scientific community also accept our received wisdom (The Origin of Species, for example) as flawless. But no, we realize that Darwin didn't have all the facts or all that many fossils, that science builds upon the shoulders of giants instead of believing that all of reality was revealed at some point in the distant past. Darwinism looks at nature and sees it performing the scientific method (experiments, paradigm abandonment, etc.) to achieve its ends, even as it itself undergoes these forces. I wrote about this at length here:
the Authoritarian Model of Information Value
To make CO2 sequestration work, it would have to use extremely tiny amounts of energy - both to build and to operate the equipment. Otherwise it defeats the purpose - the reason we have a CO2 problem in the first place is because of all the energy we use. This article reads like a press release for the company in that it has no caveats such as how much energy this tech uses. My guess is that the answer is "a lot."
Dude you said "cambrian" - there was a cambrian explosion too and perhaps that's what you mean. But here we're talking about the Cretaceous, 65 Million years ago instead of 600 Million years ago.
When I go to do a search on my computer, I'm comforted by that little doggy. I wish Google would follow Microsoft's example and replace the little box to type in a search query with an animated animal, something with more limbs for going out on those internets and finding stuff.
What do you suppose happens to your identity when a dotcom with DBs full of identities are crashing and burning? If there's a chance to patch things up by selling those identities, let me tell you, I've worked for people who would have done so gladly. None of you ever joined Collegeclub.com, did you?
boo hoo for everyone then, because this shit is broken for people who paid for their dumpy os as well!
How about the fact that you can't change ids on the fly? Or that referring to an object by ID returns one whose name is the ID you're looking for? These two bugs alone are responsible for the loss of two days of my life. Will Microsoft be giving those back to me with this release (which I can't install because I run a pirated copy of XP).