It can, but if you're building web apps instead of web sites with a little custom functionality it will make your life needlessly difficult.http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/2227209/ask-slashdot-one-framework-to-rule-them-all#
It's more subtle than that. The Dutch schoolmaster CIO only has two pieces of software to choose from, one of which is a bunch of outdated Windows desktop apps that are terrible to work with and the one TFA is about, which is a fairly decent set of web apps that unfortunately have never worked on anything but windows (first they used all sorts of ActiveX components, now it's a bunch of Silverlight crap, apparently).
So there really is very little the schoolmaster CIO can do, and given the lack of options, he probably made the best possible choice.
Technically speaking, Drupal 6 does not have elements like "Left Column" and "Right Column". If you base your themes on the Zen base theme, you can have whatever "column" you want. I'm assuming (I'm not a themer with in depth knowledge on the subject) this is because Drupal 6, too, has a notion of regions.
There's probably a lot you can learn from this book that will still be applicable to Drupal 7 (the differences aren't huge).
That said, I don't see why they didn't just do a quick rewrite to incorporate the main changes and slap a Drupal 7 title on the book, the way they did with the Pro Drupal Development book.
Hahaha... and it takes them over half a year to form a government, if at all...
Yes, Belgium isn't the best example, but his point stands. Only it's better to substitute the Netherlands for Belgium to make it.
In the Netherlands it really works this way: multiple parties have to form a majority government and this, in theory at least (in practice "politicking" screws it up), allows for multiple points of view to be represented.
In Belgium it only works like this on the regional level (Flanders, Wallonia). On the national level parties from both regions have to be represented in government. Preferrably governments consist of similar parties from both regions, so for example it'll be made up of Flemish socialists, Wallonian socialists, Flemish liberals and Wallonian liberals.
The problem is that the supposedly similar parties from both regions may not at all have the same viewpoints. This is what caused the coalition forming after the last election to go wrong: the Flemish Christian Democrats were elected on a ticket that would give further autonomy to Flanders. The Wallonian Christian Democrats are hell bent on preventing that (as it would put an end to federal support for economically backwards Wallonia).
"H-Tags" is SEO speak. Self-appointed SEO experts still don't know that simply having worthwile content will get you a decent Google ranking but they are starting to figure out that putting "important" things between "H-tags" is a good thing to do.
With all sorts of ridiculous results (fifty H1 elements on a page) as a result.
It depends. Professional hacks like Haydn and Mozart cannot possibly have been passionate about the hours upon hours of symphonies and string quartets they had to churn out for their patrons (Haydn wrote more than ninety symphonies and an even larger number of string quartets - though he is possibly the most extreme example of a composition hack). At the same time a lot of what they wrote for money is now considered to be exemplary of the European music tradition.
At the same time, I think you're generally right. Of the 20th century writers, I feel the amateur Franz Kafka has stood the test of time much better than his contemporary (a professional starved artist) James Joyce. At the very least I feel his work has a lot more to say about the human condition in the 20th century than that of his rarefied contemporaries, whose work fell out of public favor as soon as the people who grew up with them and who worked in trend setting English departments the world over went into retirement.
It depends on your perspective, I guess. Here in Europe most "literature" (which I'll take to mean all writing that isn't factory produced entertainment like romance novels and the like) is subsidized, meaning the authors don't really care about an audience. They go to writing classes or somesuch where they learn that they should "write about what they know" but where they don't learn that "writing about what you know" means that Jane Austen was a great writer because she took "what she knew" (poor vicar daughters looking to get married) and turned it into comedies of human follies. Instead, they seem to think the world needs hundreds upon hundreds of flimsy novels about pale middle class boys and girls in college trying to write novels. Sales figures say they're wrong. Unfortunately, between Dan Brown and themselves there's little left so the audience that used to read decently written novels has taken to watching soap operas instead.
I haven't read a decent new European author in ages. Except for Amelie Nothomb - she's a fantastic story teller. And the two books of Arto Paasolina I've read are quite entertaining (in a good way). Don't know whether he's been translated into English.
The rest - well, most of it - is self indulgent drivel.
(Michael Chabon's "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" seemed pretty interesting, btw. It's on my "to read" list as we speak.)
Interestingly, a Dutch journalist thought the same as you. He actually went back into some newspaper archives to determine whether that was actually true. What he found was that fifty years ago, yes, paragraphs were longer (and contained fewer typos) but they were still typically journalese (ie. shoddily written, probably because there was a deadline to meet) and filled with wordy nonsense and weasel words. The articles he looked at may have been wordier and more elaborate, but they were certainly not better written or even, once you put in the effort to understand them, insightful at all.
Now I'm not an expert on the history of American journalism by any stretch of the imagination but the few examples I've seen of mid-20th century American newspaper writing have, without exception, been unnecessarily wordy and convoluted as well.
Maybe the reduced attention span of the internet is finally teaching (wannabe) journalists to finally do some proper writing.
Movies about Hollywood are, however, rare when compared to the sheer number of books about writing books or, at the very least, writers.
It's this sort of postmodern navel gazing that has done more to kill off the audience for fiction (people who like to read a well written, well thought out novel every now and then) than the internet or any other technological development.
Perhaps you should sit down and have a face-to-face talk with those half-dozen or so Azureus users.
No, maybe you should. Anecdotal evidence (hell, who bothers to measure these things?) suggests computers with Azureus running in the background slow down quite significantly. Of course with modern computers offering so much more performance than most people really need, it's not really a problem but that doesn't mean Java applications do not demand a seriously larger share of system resources than comparable applications written in other languages.
During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the idea was less irrational than you might think. Then president Soekarno not only was uncannily friendly to China and the Soviets (scary!), he also had this megalomaniac idea that the entire region should be united into one humongous country that would include Malaysia, the Philippines and even Madagascar (based on some weird idea of shared ethnicity).
In the end all that came of it was the inclusion of the western half of New Guinea into Indonesia (thanks in no small part to the US and Australia - great thinking there, guys!), but at one point in time the threat posed by Indonesia was very real.
Esperanto, while an amusing intellectual excercise, is just as flawed a base language as English is. The reason is that it combines syntactical constructs and vocabulary elements from a (limited!) number of Indo-European languages only. This makes it easy to learn for speakers of English, French, Greek or Polish, but for a native speaker of Chinese (for instance) it's just as alien and strange as German or Russian.
. Rice isn't as important as you think. It's a staple of Asian meals, but they don't eat a big plate of rice and a little bit of meat and vegetables on the side. Rice is always there, but it's not the primary component of the meal. You're always eating plenty of meats and vegetables to go along with it
Wrong. The average asian meal does indeed consist of as much rice as you're going to get, and then some highly flavored side dishes thrown in to give it some taste.
The other points you make are quite valid, btw, but I just couldn't let this one slide;-)
There's a simple designers rule that goes: for paper, use sans-serif for titles, serif for main text, for the web it's the other way around.
If you do some basic experimenting, you'll find this is true.
Verdana is a pretty good font, btw, because, like serif fonts, it helps guide your eyes along the text (it's very wide), yet it avoids the problems associated with reading serif fonts off a screen (clutter).
How is it we spend hours discussing what a shame it is the rest of the world can't see Linux as more than an inexpensive desktop (OpenOffice, Mozilla, Evolution, GIMP), but with audio we demand a Pro-tools shoe-in before even looking at what might be available beyond the usual multi-track models. Must we _always_ reinvent the wheel?
Inexpensive desktop apps in the audio realm (for creating audio, that is) would be
a CoolEdit/SoundForge replacement - we have those: Audacity or Sweep, take your pick
a Buzz replacement - nope
alternatively (much more useful, IMHO): a Fruityloops/FLStudio replacement - nope
What we do have is some hard disk recording apps that probably will get the job done in 90% of the cases where on the Windows side you'd use a (warezed, probably) copy of CuBase, some seriously good modular software synths (SpiralSynthModular - yum!) and some miscellaneous software that isn't really all that useful. Yes, there's PD and CSound as well, but those also exist for Windows and most musicians don't use them - they're academic playthings.
Audio on Linux right now is where it was on Windows seven or eight years ago - tons of fairly cool toys, but nothing to tie it all together. Think of it as just minutes before the "everyone is a musician" computer music revolution, but not quite there yet.
I use Slackware for servers at work and for play at home. I can have great fun doing low level sound design with PD on Linux, fool around with the excellent modular softsynth SpiralSynthModular, edit the recorded output of PD and SSM in Sweep (or Audacity, if that's your thing - I prefer Sweep), but I've yet to find an app that makes creating music as uncomplicated and enjoyable as FLStudio.
So unfortunately I still spend *way* to much time in Windows:(
I'm not sure non geeks should be intimately familiar with the inner workings of a computer - you'll rarely (if ever) need to deal with binary math or transistors.
Knowing a simple programming language would probably beneficial - it (hopefully) instills a sense of "a computer will do anything you tell it to do", which most people lack.
Perhaps a basic course in databases would be useful as well to teach kids how to structure data and query it in meaningful ways (which is a pet peeve of mine - when I was working temp jobs, it was nearly always something stupid having to do with manually figuring out something based on database print outs that could've been figured out in five minutes simply by passing a decent query to the db).
The Licensee has no permission to sell, licence, give-away and/or distribute the VST PlugIn Interface technology or parts of it in anyway, on any medium, including the Internet, to any other person, including sub-licensors of the Licensee or companies where the Licensee has any involvement. This includes re-working this specification, or reverse-engineering any products based upon this specification.
Still, I suppose they could ask Steinberg for permission to port the SDK to Linux.
Nope, they can simply grab the source from some public page on Steinberg's website and use it. All Steinberg demands is that you give them credit for using their VST technology.
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It can, but if you're building web apps instead of web sites with a little custom functionality it will make your life needlessly difficult.http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/2227209/ask-slashdot-one-framework-to-rule-them-all#
It's more subtle than that. The Dutch schoolmaster CIO only has two pieces of software to choose from, one of which is a bunch of outdated Windows desktop apps that are terrible to work with and the one TFA is about, which is a fairly decent set of web apps that unfortunately have never worked on anything but windows (first they used all sorts of ActiveX components, now it's a bunch of Silverlight crap, apparently). So there really is very little the schoolmaster CIO can do, and given the lack of options, he probably made the best possible choice.
Technically speaking, Drupal 6 does not have elements like "Left Column" and "Right Column". If you base your themes on the Zen base theme, you can have whatever "column" you want. I'm assuming (I'm not a themer with in depth knowledge on the subject) this is because Drupal 6, too, has a notion of regions. There's probably a lot you can learn from this book that will still be applicable to Drupal 7 (the differences aren't huge). That said, I don't see why they didn't just do a quick rewrite to incorporate the main changes and slap a Drupal 7 title on the book, the way they did with the Pro Drupal Development book.
Hahaha... and it takes them over half a year to form a government, if at all... Yes, Belgium isn't the best example, but his point stands. Only it's better to substitute the Netherlands for Belgium to make it. In the Netherlands it really works this way: multiple parties have to form a majority government and this, in theory at least (in practice "politicking" screws it up), allows for multiple points of view to be represented. In Belgium it only works like this on the regional level (Flanders, Wallonia). On the national level parties from both regions have to be represented in government. Preferrably governments consist of similar parties from both regions, so for example it'll be made up of Flemish socialists, Wallonian socialists, Flemish liberals and Wallonian liberals. The problem is that the supposedly similar parties from both regions may not at all have the same viewpoints. This is what caused the coalition forming after the last election to go wrong: the Flemish Christian Democrats were elected on a ticket that would give further autonomy to Flanders. The Wallonian Christian Democrats are hell bent on preventing that (as it would put an end to federal support for economically backwards Wallonia).
"H-Tags" is SEO speak. Self-appointed SEO experts still don't know that simply having worthwile content will get you a decent Google ranking but they are starting to figure out that putting "important" things between "H-tags" is a good thing to do.
With all sorts of ridiculous results (fifty H1 elements on a page) as a result.
It depends. Professional hacks like Haydn and Mozart cannot possibly have been passionate about the hours upon hours of symphonies and string quartets they had to churn out for their patrons (Haydn wrote more than ninety symphonies and an even larger number of string quartets - though he is possibly the most extreme example of a composition hack). At the same time a lot of what they wrote for money is now considered to be exemplary of the European music tradition. At the same time, I think you're generally right. Of the 20th century writers, I feel the amateur Franz Kafka has stood the test of time much better than his contemporary (a professional starved artist) James Joyce. At the very least I feel his work has a lot more to say about the human condition in the 20th century than that of his rarefied contemporaries, whose work fell out of public favor as soon as the people who grew up with them and who worked in trend setting English departments the world over went into retirement.
It depends on your perspective, I guess. Here in Europe most "literature" (which I'll take to mean all writing that isn't factory produced entertainment like romance novels and the like) is subsidized, meaning the authors don't really care about an audience. They go to writing classes or somesuch where they learn that they should "write about what they know" but where they don't learn that "writing about what you know" means that Jane Austen was a great writer because she took "what she knew" (poor vicar daughters looking to get married) and turned it into comedies of human follies. Instead, they seem to think the world needs hundreds upon hundreds of flimsy novels about pale middle class boys and girls in college trying to write novels. Sales figures say they're wrong. Unfortunately, between Dan Brown and themselves there's little left so the audience that used to read decently written novels has taken to watching soap operas instead. I haven't read a decent new European author in ages. Except for Amelie Nothomb - she's a fantastic story teller. And the two books of Arto Paasolina I've read are quite entertaining (in a good way). Don't know whether he's been translated into English. The rest - well, most of it - is self indulgent drivel. (Michael Chabon's "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" seemed pretty interesting, btw. It's on my "to read" list as we speak.)
Interestingly, a Dutch journalist thought the same as you. He actually went back into some newspaper archives to determine whether that was actually true. What he found was that fifty years ago, yes, paragraphs were longer (and contained fewer typos) but they were still typically journalese (ie. shoddily written, probably because there was a deadline to meet) and filled with wordy nonsense and weasel words. The articles he looked at may have been wordier and more elaborate, but they were certainly not better written or even, once you put in the effort to understand them, insightful at all. Now I'm not an expert on the history of American journalism by any stretch of the imagination but the few examples I've seen of mid-20th century American newspaper writing have, without exception, been unnecessarily wordy and convoluted as well. Maybe the reduced attention span of the internet is finally teaching (wannabe) journalists to finally do some proper writing.
Movies about Hollywood are, however, rare when compared to the sheer number of books about writing books or, at the very least, writers. It's this sort of postmodern navel gazing that has done more to kill off the audience for fiction (people who like to read a well written, well thought out novel every now and then) than the internet or any other technological development.
"het mens" is een correcte, zij het ouderwetse, aanduiding voor een onvriendelijke oude vrouw.
Perhaps you should sit down and have a face-to-face talk with those half-dozen or so Azureus users. No, maybe you should. Anecdotal evidence (hell, who bothers to measure these things?) suggests computers with Azureus running in the background slow down quite significantly. Of course with modern computers offering so much more performance than most people really need, it's not really a problem but that doesn't mean Java applications do not demand a seriously larger share of system resources than comparable applications written in other languages.
YMMV, but what worked for me was to replace the (default, IIRC)
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
with:
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_THROUGHPUT
in my smb.conf It's not blazingly fast, but before I did that, I got 100 byte / sec connection speeds and worse.
During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the idea was less irrational than you might think. Then president Soekarno not only was uncannily friendly to China and the Soviets (scary!), he also had this megalomaniac idea that the entire region should be united into one humongous country that would include Malaysia, the Philippines and even Madagascar (based on some weird idea of shared ethnicity). In the end all that came of it was the inclusion of the western half of New Guinea into Indonesia (thanks in no small part to the US and Australia - great thinking there, guys!), but at one point in time the threat posed by Indonesia was very real.
Kudos for the Candide reference!
Esperanto, while an amusing intellectual excercise, is just as flawed a base language as English is. The reason is that it combines syntactical constructs and vocabulary elements from a (limited!) number of Indo-European languages only. This makes it easy to learn for speakers of English, French, Greek or Polish, but for a native speaker of Chinese (for instance) it's just as alien and strange as German or Russian.
. Rice isn't as important as you think. It's a staple of Asian meals, but they don't eat a big plate of rice and a little bit of meat and vegetables on the side. Rice is always there, but it's not the primary component of the meal. You're always eating plenty of meats and vegetables to go along with it
;-)
Wrong. The average asian meal does indeed consist of as much rice as you're going to get, and then some highly flavored side dishes thrown in to give it some taste. The other points you make are quite valid, btw, but I just couldn't let this one slide
Give CSS a try.
Deleting "non DOS partitions" works just fine.
There's a simple designers rule that goes: for paper, use sans-serif for titles, serif for main text, for the web it's the other way around. If you do some basic experimenting, you'll find this is true. Verdana is a pretty good font, btw, because, like serif fonts, it helps guide your eyes along the text (it's very wide), yet it avoids the problems associated with reading serif fonts off a screen (clutter).
Inexpensive desktop apps in the audio realm (for creating audio, that is) would be
- a CoolEdit/SoundForge replacement - we have those: Audacity or Sweep, take your pick
- a Buzz replacement - nope
- alternatively (much more useful, IMHO): a Fruityloops/FLStudio replacement - nope
What we do have is some hard disk recording apps that probably will get the job done in 90% of the cases where on the Windows side you'd use a (warezed, probably) copy of CuBase, some seriously good modular software synths (SpiralSynthModular - yum!) and some miscellaneous software that isn't really all that useful. Yes, there's PD and CSound as well, but those also exist for Windows and most musicians don't use them - they're academic playthings.Audio on Linux right now is where it was on Windows seven or eight years ago - tons of fairly cool toys, but nothing to tie it all together. Think of it as just minutes before the "everyone is a musician" computer music revolution, but not quite there yet.
I use Slackware for servers at work and for play at home. I can have great fun doing low level sound design with PD on Linux, fool around with the excellent modular softsynth SpiralSynthModular, edit the recorded output of PD and SSM in Sweep (or Audacity, if that's your thing - I prefer Sweep), but I've yet to find an app that makes creating music as uncomplicated and enjoyable as FLStudio.
:(
So unfortunately I still spend *way* to much time in Windows
I'm not sure non geeks should be intimately familiar with the inner workings of a computer - you'll rarely (if ever) need to deal with binary math or transistors. Knowing a simple programming language would probably beneficial - it (hopefully) instills a sense of "a computer will do anything you tell it to do", which most people lack. Perhaps a basic course in databases would be useful as well to teach kids how to structure data and query it in meaningful ways (which is a pet peeve of mine - when I was working temp jobs, it was nearly always something stupid having to do with manually figuring out something based on database print outs that could've been figured out in five minutes simply by passing a decent query to the db).
I've been trying unsuccessfully to install Ardour on Slackware for literally YEARS.
Take a look here.
My bad. I hadn't read the VST License Agreement in a while. It states
The Licensee has no permission to sell, licence, give-away and/or distribute the VST PlugIn Interface technology or parts of it in anyway, on any medium, including the Internet, to any other person, including sub-licensors of the Licensee or companies where the Licensee has any involvement. This includes re-working this specification, or reverse-engineering any products based upon this specification.
Still, I suppose they could ask Steinberg for permission to port the SDK to Linux.
Nope, they can simply grab the source from some public page on Steinberg's website and use it. All Steinberg demands is that you give them credit for using their VST technology.