Yet PHP continues to be used by some of the most popular sites. Why is that?
I think because PHP *is* easy and approachable, and so when some guy has an idea for something he just starts building it. He doesn't have to hire a Java programmer at $80K a year to tell him how his idea is not going to work.
Whoever they are, they don't post much to slashdot.
That's not true. With every Macworld Expo there's always some wit who weeps over the demise of the Mac sub-notebook. Now we've got one, the other folks--sub-notebook haters--come out.
This was about the first thing that struck me when I read the article - it really doesn't sound like a good working environment to me.
Eh. Some people thrive in it. I notice you didn't invent the iPhone.
When you're a company that more or less defines "inventive", ordinary management is not what you want. Recall Apple from the '90s--hordes of identical spec-bumped boxes with the (very) occasional bright spot like the Newton. But they had "professional" management!
Apple used to charge a licensing fee for Firewire. It wasn't much, a buck or two, but that annoys people. Dunno if they still do.
USB is really useful for keyboards and mice, very convenient for little flash drives that don't need the full meal deal of Firewire. Ubiquity made USB more popular. Firewire is still popular on higher-end machines, and still cheap to add via expansion slots.
He wants to view all of his content - even his legally obtained DRM content - anywhere in his house. Its exactly like expecting to place a TV or radio anywhere in the house and being allowed to watch and listen to the same channels.
Ahh. Well, I guess I'm not following the problem completely. Plus, since I only really have one TV where things are watched, it's not an issue that I can relate to.
But quite worth asking somebody who already knows how to do it for some tips and maybe a lesson or two. Arc welding isn't like juggling. Lots of things can go badly wrong.
It's a free add-in to their service. For every buck per month you spend you get an hour of streaming. It may not be cheap, but since their standard mail service is already worth the money I spend, the Watch Now is a pleasant bonus.
It probably isn't even superior to their snal-mail variant and possibly not even much better in terms of delivery speed.
It would be better if the library were more robust, but the speed is fine. It starts in a few seconds.
Anything Netflix is offering over the web I can also stream around the house if I want to.
I don't know what you mean here, but it reminds me of the folks who say "I can just torrent whatever I want." Maybe, but I'm not interested in maintaining multiple gigabytes of video files, and torrents are hideously slow for things that are not widely popular. Netflix trades "free" for excellent service and breadth of offerings. It's like a massive hard drive with high latency. Since movies arrive in a timely fashion I'm rarely waiting for stuff, and on the off chance I want something now now now, and assuming it's offered on Watch Now, that option is available.
I dunno, maybe it's just because I have no vested interest in screwing the MPAA or whatever. The few bucks I give to Netflix every month is more than repaid in the service they provide without any streaming.
On kids' DVDs no less. They're tugging at your pants, "I wanna watch Belle and Beast!" You're trying to skip through FBI warnings and whatnot, they're slowing having a meltdown.
I think the CyberHome DVD player my sister has ($30 from RadioShack *last Christmas*) is superior to my Pioneer. Hers has an Autoplay feature that automatically skips ahead to the biggest chunk of video and starts playing. Which is, usually, the movie. Right now I'm thinking of ripping the kiddie DVDs and re-burning them as simple one-track discs.
Olympic athletes are already waaaaaaaay outside the main flow of humanity; why not set them free, and then take advantage of what they generate?
I don't think the world really care if we get a quintuple Salchow with a half-twist and tri-colored flames shooting out of the skater's ass. Well, okay, the world would care, but the world can't do anything with it.
I'm not getting involved with any of this. I'm holding out for Rails on Rails. You don't have to write any code, you just submit a bid and the project is finished.
I'm talking about the lawmaking process, not counting from the day on which one side started killing the other. That you don't get the distinction is telling.
The real/perceived bit has nothing to do with it. It's the politicization that's the trouble. That you immediately leapt to provide examples of atrocities instead of a rebuttal reminds me a great deal of the kinds of arguments going on with regards to Saddam and his torture chambers and rape rooms.
You are attributing malice to Ron Paul's vote where certainly none exists. That you would throw him overboard for that one vote, when you likely don't even understand his rationale, tells me you are an unclear thinker and probably never supported him in the first place. But if the Sudanese genocide is so important to you, why don't you go on over there and do something about it? I bet you do business every day with a company that either directly or indirectly earns a profit from Sudan.
Politicization of anything has unforeseen consequences. Also, I don't know about the divestment bill, but the declaration of genocide bill was rushed through to the floor. That kind of law-making is dangerous. Today it's genocide, real or perceived. Tomorrow it's terrorism, real or perceived. Next week it's racism, real or perceived. All of these things are terrible. Nobody wants to support such things. But making laws at break-neck speed introduces a lot of bad ideas that are hard to correct. And it doesn't help when people like yourself assign bad motives to people who do not see eye-to-eye with you on political issues.
I've seen numbers anywhere from 5 to 12 billion dollars a week. It's hard to calculate exactly because there's a mess of hidden costs--medical and the like.
I use it a lot with a Macbook. It has a detachable mouse area that clips underneath. I never use it, but it's there in case I want to, and it's completely unobtrusive. Reasonably comfortable, considering the inherent unergonomic properties of a laptop. As it happens, the little legs on the top that are supposed to help hold the laptop in place just prop the Macbook up a bit which helps keep it cool.
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Sure, and those are all valid complaints.
Yet PHP continues to be used by some of the most popular sites. Why is that?
I think because PHP *is* easy and approachable, and so when some guy has an idea for something he just starts building it. He doesn't have to hire a Java programmer at $80K a year to tell him how his idea is not going to work.
That's not true. With every Macworld Expo there's always some wit who weeps over the demise of the Mac sub-notebook. Now we've got one, the other folks--sub-notebook haters--come out.
I guess that's why so many people do it incorrectly now. The teachers gave up.
They should use the money to institute a new required course--Apostrophes for Idiots.
Probably they'd have to spell it "Apostrophe's for Idiot's", otherwise nobody would know what it i's.
Eh. Some people thrive in it. I notice you didn't invent the iPhone.
When you're a company that more or less defines "inventive", ordinary management is not what you want. Recall Apple from the '90s--hordes of identical spec-bumped boxes with the (very) occasional bright spot like the Newton. But they had "professional" management!
Dell's support service is about to go from "bad" to "dead".
Firewire chips are more expensive.
Apple used to charge a licensing fee for Firewire. It wasn't much, a buck or two, but that annoys people. Dunno if they still do.
USB is really useful for keyboards and mice, very convenient for little flash drives that don't need the full meal deal of Firewire. Ubiquity made USB more popular. Firewire is still popular on higher-end machines, and still cheap to add via expansion slots.
What do you mean? Are there Web sites that have SQL in their code? Of course.
Ahh. Well, I guess I'm not following the problem completely. Plus, since I only really have one TV where things are watched, it's not an issue that I can relate to.
But quite worth asking somebody who already knows how to do it for some tips and maybe a lesson or two. Arc welding isn't like juggling. Lots of things can go badly wrong.
It probably isn't even that cheap.
It's a free add-in to their service. For every buck per month you spend you get an hour of streaming. It may not be cheap, but since their standard mail service is already worth the money I spend, the Watch Now is a pleasant bonus.
It probably isn't even superior to their snal-mail variant and possibly not even much better in terms of delivery speed.
It would be better if the library were more robust, but the speed is fine. It starts in a few seconds.
Anything Netflix is offering over the web I can also stream around the house if I want to.
I don't know what you mean here, but it reminds me of the folks who say "I can just torrent whatever I want." Maybe, but I'm not interested in maintaining multiple gigabytes of video files, and torrents are hideously slow for things that are not widely popular. Netflix trades "free" for excellent service and breadth of offerings. It's like a massive hard drive with high latency. Since movies arrive in a timely fashion I'm rarely waiting for stuff, and on the off chance I want something now now now, and assuming it's offered on Watch Now, that option is available.
I dunno, maybe it's just because I have no vested interest in screwing the MPAA or whatever. The few bucks I give to Netflix every month is more than repaid in the service they provide without any streaming.
I understood it and still found it childish, tacky, and depressingly out of touch with reality
Really? I thought it was hilarious. It was clearly a snark. You take things too seriously and should probably switch to boxers.
On kids' DVDs no less. They're tugging at your pants, "I wanna watch Belle and Beast!" You're trying to skip through FBI warnings and whatnot, they're slowing having a meltdown.
I think the CyberHome DVD player my sister has ($30 from RadioShack *last Christmas*) is superior to my Pioneer. Hers has an Autoplay feature that automatically skips ahead to the biggest chunk of video and starts playing. Which is, usually, the movie. Right now I'm thinking of ripping the kiddie DVDs and re-burning them as simple one-track discs.
Olympic athletes are already waaaaaaaay outside the main flow of humanity; why not set them free, and then take advantage of what they generate?
I don't think the world really care if we get a quintuple Salchow with a half-twist and tri-colored flames shooting out of the skater's ass. Well, okay, the world would care, but the world can't do anything with it.
Ahh, you don't know anything about Instapundit, then.
Two wrongs do make a right, so long as the "right" person gets the wrong. Which is the "right" person? Well, you'll have to as Glenn Reynolds.
Good domain registrars:
Gandi.net
DynDNS.org
Not the cheapest, but both are Good Folks(TM).
Do you see the AJAX? No? But it's there. The language takes care of it for you. So why does it have to be difficult?
Did you notice what you just said? "Learn a new language so you don't have to learn a new language."
BTW that reminds me a lot of ColdFusion. Where's ColdFusion these days? Rapidly becoming irrelevant.
I'm not getting involved with any of this. I'm holding out for Rails on Rails. You don't have to write any code, you just submit a bid and the project is finished.
It's truly sad that our society has not accepted a behavior that is present in almost all animal species. What has that got to do with anything?
I'm talking about the lawmaking process, not counting from the day on which one side started killing the other. That you don't get the distinction is telling.
The real/perceived bit has nothing to do with it. It's the politicization that's the trouble. That you immediately leapt to provide examples of atrocities instead of a rebuttal reminds me a great deal of the kinds of arguments going on with regards to Saddam and his torture chambers and rape rooms.
You are attributing malice to Ron Paul's vote where certainly none exists. That you would throw him overboard for that one vote, when you likely don't even understand his rationale, tells me you are an unclear thinker and probably never supported him in the first place. But if the Sudanese genocide is so important to you, why don't you go on over there and do something about it? I bet you do business every day with a company that either directly or indirectly earns a profit from Sudan.
So he's wrong because he doesn't sound good?
Politicization of anything has unforeseen consequences. Also, I don't know about the divestment bill, but the declaration of genocide bill was rushed through to the floor. That kind of law-making is dangerous. Today it's genocide, real or perceived. Tomorrow it's terrorism, real or perceived. Next week it's racism, real or perceived. All of these things are terrible. Nobody wants to support such things. But making laws at break-neck speed introduces a lot of bad ideas that are hard to correct. And it doesn't help when people like yourself assign bad motives to people who do not see eye-to-eye with you on political issues.
Did you just use Asimov's Laws of Robots to prove a point?
Jesus Fucking Christ.
I've seen numbers anywhere from 5 to 12 billion dollars a week. It's hard to calculate exactly because there's a mess of hidden costs--medical and the like.
Can't find it at Sharper Image, so a Dillard's link.
I use it a lot with a Macbook. It has a detachable mouse area that clips underneath. I never use it, but it's there in case I want to, and it's completely unobtrusive. Reasonably comfortable, considering the inherent unergonomic properties of a laptop. As it happens, the little legs on the top that are supposed to help hold the laptop in place just prop the Macbook up a bit which helps keep it cool.
Recommended.
How many of their billion+ people can afford their stuff?
Few.
Right now.
That can change very fast.