I hope that the commercial Linux distro makers and Apple are listening.
I hope the USB manufacturers remember that it was Apple's decision to switch their hardware from serial to USB that led to the popularity of USB in the first place. If not, we always have Firewire, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Ethernet to move our files.
Instead of closing Windows, I prefer to let them pile up. It freaks out Windows people, but it works for me. As I write, Eclipse, Mail, Preview, and a couple other browser windows are all visible behind this current browser window.
If I want something to 'go away' I Hide it with Command-H.
With their parkas, and their sled-dogs, and their iPods with special iPod taxes.
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I don't see any part of the article addressing how PHP can benefit the developer facing real issues of large scale web development (such as the need for caching systems on high volume websites, or the maintence challenge of larger code bases on complex sites).
The article doesn't mention it, but Smarty is an excellent PHP library that implements, among other things, caching. I have used it extensively with excellent results.
3. USB video cameras, like the ubiquitous Logitech QuickCam, just don't work (well) and Apple seems to have put blocks into place to refuse iChat AV from working with anything but their iSight hardware product. (I exaggerate a little bit here, but not much.)
You know what else doesn't work? Serial-port cameras! Of course, Firewire cameras are plug and play, but that fact doesn't make your point, does it?
It's convenient that the first instance of e-mail "bugging" resulting in action is against a terrorist.
Is it convenient, or does it make perfect sense? Email, which we all know is completely insecure, is monitored until they find something worthy. Some terrorists turn up, and they are arrested.
Basically, since it stopped a terrorist, it completely validated this breach of privacy.
Stay away from the number 2. I work for a company with a 2 in the name, and it is just this side of impossible to spell it to people over the phone. The same would go for 4 too.
The article is an excellent investigation into the problems of our aging power grids, and draws insightful parallels to the internet.
Unfortunately, The Economist winds up the article with a startling and unjustified leap to the belief that a big-government socialist mega-project is the answer to all of our energy problems. And this in spite of the fact that all of the arguments in the article, especially those that compare the power grid to the internet, point to a smart network of small, local power suppliers as the promising, internet-inspired answer.
Frank Herbert's Dune had a pair of characters who communicated via their own personal language of mumbles and sighs. That's the first thing I thought of when I read the article.
As a Canadian who reads newspapers, my initial reaction was to blame the Liberal Government 100%, and assume complete innocence on the part of Hewlett-Packard. Whatever HP has done in the past, they have got to be saints compared to the extreme corruption in the Canadian government.
As soon as you find someone who starts talking to you about directional audio cables, you must do two things: discount anything else they have ever said to you, and laugh in their faces. While it may seem, to the uninformed, that music 'flows' from the CD / record player out to the speakers, we must always remember that speakers are AC. Alternating current is required to make the speaker cones move in and out.
The real problem is that with all that back and forth motion, the electrons can get very very tired. I recommend that everyone with directional cables should only play their scratchy old LPs for a few minutes each day, lest the electrons in their very expensive cables succumb to extreme fatigue. Come to think of it, the Golden Ear crowd better buy replacements for all their cables once a month -- just in case!
Firewire camcorders are plug and play on Macs, in all sorts of applications from iMovie to iChat AV, and many many freeware applications like EyeToy. Of course, this information isn't the least bit helpful to someone with a USB camcorder, but to anyone who is looking at purchasing a camcorder, get one with Firewire!
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I hope that the commercial Linux distro makers and Apple are listening.
I hope the USB manufacturers remember that it was Apple's decision to switch their hardware from serial to USB that led to the popularity of USB in the first place. If not, we always have Firewire, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Ethernet to move our files.
Instead of closing Windows, I prefer to let them pile up. It freaks out Windows people, but it works for me. As I write, Eclipse, Mail, Preview, and a couple other browser windows are all visible behind this current browser window.
If I want something to 'go away' I Hide it with Command-H.
Blame Mac-Using Canada!
With their parkas, and their sled-dogs, and their iPods with special iPod taxes.
The article doesn't mention it, but Smarty is an excellent PHP library that implements, among other things, caching. I have used it extensively with excellent results.
There are also about a dozen Mac LC 475s scattered around that room.
...replace the CD drive.
3. USB video cameras, like the ubiquitous Logitech QuickCam, just don't work (well) and Apple seems to have put blocks into place to refuse iChat AV from working with anything but their iSight hardware product. (I exaggerate a little bit here, but not much.)
You know what else doesn't work? Serial-port cameras! Of course, Firewire cameras are plug and play, but that fact doesn't make your point, does it?
Real is a lot more annoying than Microsoft.
Why settle for an imitator when you can have the original?
I say choose whichever one is better.
It's convenient that the first instance of e-mail "bugging" resulting in action is against a terrorist.
Is it convenient, or does it make perfect sense? Email, which we all know is completely insecure, is monitored until they find something worthy. Some terrorists turn up, and they are arrested.
Basically, since it stopped a terrorist, it completely validated this breach of privacy.
Exactly.
I'm not sure which part is worse, email monitoring (sure, they SAY it's passive...) or the terrorist activities.
You're not sure? I am. Terrorism is worse than reading someone else's email.
Stay away from the number 2. I work for a company with a 2 in the name, and it is just this side of impossible to spell it to people over the phone. The same would go for 4 too.
What I think is the best feature of Google is that they cater to their end-user, not their financial backers.
What I like best about Google is that they realize that taking care of their end-users is the best way to satisfy their financial backers.
The article is an excellent investigation into the problems of our aging power grids, and draws insightful parallels to the internet.
Unfortunately, The Economist winds up the article with a startling and unjustified leap to the belief that a big-government socialist mega-project is the answer to all of our energy problems. And this in spite of the fact that all of the arguments in the article, especially those that compare the power grid to the internet, point to a smart network of small, local power suppliers as the promising, internet-inspired answer.
You don't need to find the article on it -- just read the article from the original post. It talks about that very system.
I think that the original John Maynard Keynes quote is the best: "In the long run, we're all dead."
More Keynes quotes.
Frank Herbert's Dune had a pair of characters who communicated via their own personal language of mumbles and sighs. That's the first thing I thought of when I read the article.
Yeah, sometimes when the collar on my shirt bumps up against my sub-vocal microphone, I make typos too.
Ha ha! Just kidding! I don't wear shirts with collars.
As a Canadian who reads newspapers, my initial reaction was to blame the Liberal Government 100%, and assume complete innocence on the part of Hewlett-Packard. Whatever HP has done in the past, they have got to be saints compared to the extreme corruption in the Canadian government.
Damn Liberals, I hate those bastards!
two brand new Lexus
Don't you mean Lexi?
What do you mean by that? What's "so very Ayn Rand"?
pay out the nose for single directional cable
Ha ha ha! I love the directional cable talk!
As soon as you find someone who starts talking to you about directional audio cables, you must do two things: discount anything else they have ever said to you, and laugh in their faces. While it may seem, to the uninformed, that music 'flows' from the CD / record player out to the speakers, we must always remember that speakers are AC. Alternating current is required to make the speaker cones move in and out.
The real problem is that with all that back and forth motion, the electrons can get very very tired. I recommend that everyone with directional cables should only play their scratchy old LPs for a few minutes each day, lest the electrons in their very expensive cables succumb to extreme fatigue. Come to think of it, the Golden Ear crowd better buy replacements for all their cables once a month -- just in case!
Firewire camcorders are plug and play on Macs, in all sorts of applications from iMovie to iChat AV, and many many freeware applications like EyeToy. Of course, this information isn't the least bit helpful to someone with a USB camcorder, but to anyone who is looking at purchasing a camcorder, get one with Firewire!
Wouldn't it be easier to bring Linux to Rome?
Also I am not drinking soda. I am drinking water.
Pepsi is 99% water, so I figure that's close enough.