Why would you install an end-user runtime environment on a webserver?
Unless...you didn't understand what is being discussed here?
Sure, Adobe sells Flex Data Services for the server side of a Flex/Apollo application, but it just talks XML with data sources. We use Rails as the data source for a Flex app we are developing. Just for instance.
Apollo is basically Flex without a browser and it's actually kind of cool. Is it appropriate for everything? Of course not. But I think it does have it's niche.
I think an important thing to note here is that Rails is an web application framework for the Ruby programming language whereas PHP is just a programming language (with a few framework-ish features like session management).
You could see similar productivity benefits by using a good PHP framework. The difference is that Rails is a fantasic framework and most of PHP's frameworks are mediocre. Part of this has to do with some of the language features that Ruby offers enabling Rails to be simpler to use and yet more powerful at the same time.
Personally, I love Rails and I really hope that one of the recent PHP5 frameworks gets up to the point where it is comparable. If it doesn't though, I won't feel too bad leaving PHP (mostly) behind me.
This has been the subject of extensive case law and precedent over the years. Ultimately it is decided by a jury if the case makes it that far.
Here's some elucidating info:
The Supreme Court later extended its so-called Sullivan rule to cover "public figures," meaning individuals who are not in public office but who are still newsworthy because of their prominence in the public eye. Over the years, American courts have ruled that this category includes celebrities in the entertainment field, well-known writers, athletes, and others who often attract attention in the media.
And some futher explanation of 'public figures':
The concept of the "public figure" is broader than celebrities and politicians. A person can become an "involuntary public figure" as the result of publicity, even though that person did not want or invite the public attention. For example, people accused of high profile crimes may be unable to pursue actions for defamation even after their innocence is established, on the basis that the notoriety associated with the case and the accusations against them turned them into involuntary public figures.
A person can also become a "limited public figure" by engaging in actions which generate publicity within a narrow area of interest. For example, a woman named Terry Rakolta was offended by the Fox Television show, Married With Children, and wrote letters to the show's advertisers to try to get them to stop their support for the show. As a result of her actions, Ms. Rakolta became the target of jokes in a wide variety of settings. As these jokes remained within the confines of her public conduct, typically making fun of her as being prudish or censorious, they were protected by Ms. Rakolta's status as a "limited public figure".
I think in this case, Mr. Thompson is certainly a 'limited public figure' and as such would have a much higher burden of proof in a libel or slander case.
Harassment however is a whole other can of worms.
What law/rule/statute would it be breaking to make/wear/sell a t-shirt that said 'I hate John Smith'?
None as far as I know. (IANAL) However you might be treading on thinner ice if you walked around with a t-shirt that said "John Smith murders kittens." or "John Smith is a homosexual."
Things were a bit different when I submitted this story on Friday morning. At that point, all the council had done was reccomend the project be cancelled. The times has since rewritten their story to reflect more recent developments.
Ah yes, I couldn't really remember. Yeah QT would be nice... or...you know...not streaming.:) How about a nice downloadable MPG of the entire episode? My tax dollars did help pay for this thing right?
Another great PHP5 book that has been out for about a year now is George Schlossnagle's Advanced PHP Programming. I went out and bought it after hearing a couple of his talks last year and I'd say that chapter-for-chapter it is the most valuable/useful PHP Programming book I have ever seen. (Disclaimer: I haven't seen PHP 5 Power Programming yet.)
If you want to learn about scaling a PHP application and making use of the new features in PHP5, I would heartily recommend buying George's book. Just check out the table of contents for an idea of what all is covered. I've especially appreciated the information about documentation generation, unit testing, and exception handling.
Go to the Iceberg drive-in while they are in season. You most certainly can get Walla Walla Sweet Onion Rings here in town. Not that this is anywhere near to on-topic mind you.:)
Actually, since another company bought up the Iridium sattelite fleet at a bargain price, they are doing much more than reflect sunlight. Anybody can go buy an Iridium phone for a little over a grand and purchase either prepaid minutes or subscribe to a monthly plan.
Now certainly, the prices of airtime and equipment will keep the general public from adopting this, but the ability to make a phone call from anywhere on the planet is very valuable to some people. Think about people who sail across the ocean, or who's job sends them to lots of remote places.
The original Iridium company probably overestimated the market for their product, but now that another company was able to get into the business at a greatly reduced expense, it seems like a useful and viable business model to me.
Also, the cost of sending up this *one* communications sattelite for broadband is tremendously cheaper than the cost of putting up the *72* sattelite constellation that Iridium uses (66 active plus 6 in-orbit backups).
A kind of slick way to test your existing code and applications is to do a little -fu in your apache.conf and set it up so you have two instances of Apache running on different ports but using the same DocumentRoot. One instance running the PHP4 module and one the PHP5 module. I've got this set up on my Gentoo dev server with PHP5 running over port 8080. Just add an:8080 to the URL and your page is running through PHP5, I've found it quite useful for playing around and testing. If anyone wants more details just e-mail me. And if you're not using Apache, you can probably set up a similar thing, but I can't really help you there.
For an excellent (and TV friendly) look at the porn industry in general, including the decency crackdown that was set to begin shortly before 9/11 happened and we developed 'other priorities' (namely supressing civil liberties it seems, but that's neither here nor there...), take a look at PBS/Frontline's "American Porn" which is available to watch for free here:
As a schism from the Seventh Day Adventists they had no religious prohibition on armament.
I'm not sure what exactly this is supposed to mean. While clearly, the Davidians had no qualms about owning and promoting guns, that is certainly not the official viewpoint of the Seventh-Day Adventist church.
Here are a few official statements from the SDA church on related topics:
Ultimately however, it is an individuals choice, and gun ownership and use is not really a big issue in the church. As far as I know, nobody has ever been "disfellowshiped" (kind of the SDA version of excommunication) solely because they owned or used a gun. A majority of Adventists serving in the military do, in fact, serve in combat roles. Here is an excellent historical overview of Adventists in the military.
I'm sure you didn't intend that little parenthetical statement to be insensitive, but the 12 million member SDA church are a little sensitive about being so closely associated by the media to a radical sect of a few thousand at best.
(The Branch Davidians are technically an offshoot of the Shepherd's Rod movement which was founded by an ex-SDA in the 1930s, however it is true that Koresh himself and a majority of the members of his "congregation" were former SDA members. But in the end, Koresh was just a charasmatic wacko who convinced people to accept his twisted interpretations of biblical texts.)
Yeah, cause we totally have no idea where this top secret facility is or what it looks like. If Space Imaging has these kinds of pictures of it, I imagine the NSA was double checking the equations on the Chinese engineers' clipboards.
the cliche "write write write" is indeed good advice. But then you need to edit edit edit.
I really have to agree with you here and toss in my own cliche:
"There is no good writing, only good rewriting."
Sure, you have to "write write write" to get all your ideas down; then you should spend twice as much time on rewriting as you did on the writing.
This guy seems to think that "games journalism" won't be any good until it's primary target audience is 45-year-old, unmarried female high-school literature teachers. If you are writing about video games, right now your primary target audience is middle-class males ages 16-29. Deal. I fit in that target audience and I couldn't read his series past the second page. If he writes all of his "journalism" with the same style, I can't really imagine him being successful.
He's as boring as Alan Greenspan reciting federal tax law to a group of librarians in Farson, Wyoming.
I was able to find this document (PDF warning) that doesn't speak about volume, but does tell exactly what each Fab does and on what process. Fabrication of logic products (which I assume to mean processors and such) is done at the following facilities:
Fab 22 - Chandler, Arizona Fab 12 - Chandler, Arizona D2 - Santa Clara, California Fab 10/14 - Leixlip, Ireland Fab 24 (under construction) - Leixlib, Ireland Fab 8 - Jerusalem, Israel Fab 18 - Qiryat Gat, Israel Fab 17 - Hudson, Massachusetts Fab 11 - Hudson, Massachusetts Fab 11X - Rio Rancho, New Mexico D1C - Hillsboro, Oregon Fab 20 - Hillsboro, Oregon
Like I said, it doesn't say anything about volume, but about 1/3 of their logic fabrication facilities are international.
All the troll/flamebait moderators must be without power.
Someone already pointed out that the Opeterons are fabricated at the Fab30 in Dresden. AFAIK, AMD has no fabs in China and I'm not aware that they even do assembly there.
But the most farciful (Note to grammer Nazi's: Yes I did just make up that word.) statement is your post is this one:
What would stop them from putting data-wrangling code into the Opteron chips?
So even if the Opteron was fabbed in China, you think that the Chinese James Bond is just going to slip in an entirely new chip design into the assembly line and none of the automated or manual microscopic inspections each chip undergoes is going to notice that there are an extra 25,000 transistors over there and these other 30,000 transistors are in the wrong place?
And as another person pointed out, Intel does very little manufactering in the USA these days. At least AMD has a fab in Texas. I couldn't find any info on Intel's fab locations quickly, but I don't recall that they have a large scale one in the USA anymore, but that's complete guestimating.
You sound as bad as the lady at work that thinks buying Microsoft is her patriotic duty!
I first read about this a couple days ago at work in Infoworld or Infomation Week, or one of those free magazines. Anyway, I'm pretty sure the article there said it would also play MP3s which would make sense. Now it's not going to compare with an iPod for storage anytime soon, but with a couple dozen songs on an SD card it could be fun.
I already have a Clie but since I've been thinking about getting a GBA SP and a MP3 player, this thing really caught my eye. Anyway, glad the story got posted, I'm 2 for 9 now!
If he plans on running Windows (which it sounded like) Deep Freeze should solve the software installing problem. Won't prevent them from installing a hardware based keyboard tap though.
I'm gonna make this as clear as possible: NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER BUY ETHERNET CABLES WITH BOOTS.
Just a note, but most of the boots that I've encountered can be slid back away from the connector using a little elbow grease. I've found the boots to be a PITA sometimes as well, but it's also a PITA to have lots of RJ45 plugs with the little tabby thingy broken off because you were sure that the cable would come free if you just pulled a little harder.;)
So I guess personnally, I wouldn't be as unequivocal in my avoidance of boots. I have a bag of boots around here somewhere so I can put them on cables (even on just one end) if I think it's going to be helpful...
Since the state-controlled banks in South Korea seem to be willing to perpetually forgive, extend, or renegotiate Hynix's tremendously large debt burden, the USA (and EU) are only protecting their companies from unfair competition. The South Korean government is basically subsidizing Hynix through their banks. The headline is somewhat misleading because this tariff (if I understand it correctly) only effects Hynix's products, not all South Korean memory manufacturers (if there are any others) and certainly this doesn't effect Taiwanese manufacturers.
Also, many of the applications for Palm are specifically written for 160x160 pixels and will look absolutely horrible on a 320x320 screen. TopGun SSH is one of many examples.
I don't know about in PalmOS 5 but in my OS4 based N610C you can turn off HiRes Assist for specific applications and it looks just like it would on a 160x160 (color in my case) display. I too was bugged by this "problem" until I found out how to fix it. I'm assuming that the OS5 based Clie's have a similar feature.
If you are planning to charge an admission fee (which it kind of sounded like you were) you should also require participants to agree to some ground rules. A verbal agreement might be sufficient but I would consider having them sign something at the time they pay their admission fee.
Basically you just need to establish what is acceptable and more importantly, what won't be tolerated and will get you thrown out. Things like cheating in games, rampant piracy, or conduct that is disruptive to another player (like bashing them over the head with your keyboard because you are angry at them for camping) should probably be prohibited by the agreement.
You might also what to establish under what circumstances (if any) a refund will be given.
Depending on the size of the gathering and the amount of money you are investing, you may want to consult with a lawyer about this agreement or at least try to find something boilerplate that you can adapt. The purpose of the agreement is to give yourself prior justification for the unfortunate possibility of having to kick someone out of your event.
Again, IANAL so maybe I'm completely wrong here, but if it were me I would at least investigate this kind of stuff and I'm guessing that this angle is easy to overlook when planning for an event like this.
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Why would you install an end-user runtime environment on a webserver?
Unless...you didn't understand what is being discussed here?
Sure, Adobe sells Flex Data Services for the server side of a Flex/Apollo application, but it just talks XML with data sources. We use Rails as the data source for a Flex app we are developing. Just for instance.
Apollo is basically Flex without a browser and it's actually kind of cool. Is it appropriate for everything? Of course not. But I think it does have it's niche.
I think an important thing to note here is that Rails is an web application framework for the Ruby programming language whereas PHP is just a programming language (with a few framework-ish features like session management).
You could see similar productivity benefits by using a good PHP framework. The difference is that Rails is a fantasic framework and most of PHP's frameworks are mediocre. Part of this has to do with some of the language features that Ruby offers enabling Rails to be simpler to use and yet more powerful at the same time.
Personally, I love Rails and I really hope that one of the recent PHP5 frameworks gets up to the point where it is comparable. If it doesn't though, I won't feel too bad leaving PHP (mostly) behind me.
This has been the subject of extensive case law and precedent over the years. Ultimately it is decided by a jury if the case makes it that far.
Here's some elucidating info:
And some futher explanation of 'public figures':
I think in this case, Mr. Thompson is certainly a 'limited public figure' and as such would have a much higher burden of proof in a libel or slander case.
Harassment however is a whole other can of worms.
What law/rule/statute would it be breaking to make/wear/sell a t-shirt that said 'I hate John Smith'?
None as far as I know. (IANAL) However you might be treading on thinner ice if you walked around with a t-shirt that said "John Smith murders kittens." or "John Smith is a homosexual."
Things were a bit different when I submitted this story on Friday morning. At that point, all the council had done was reccomend the project be cancelled. The times has since rewritten their story to reflect more recent developments.
Oh well, c'est la vie.
Ah yes, I couldn't really remember. Yeah QT would be nice... or...you know...not streaming. :) How about a nice downloadable MPG of the entire episode? My tax dollars did help pay for this thing right?
:)
Oh well...
Frontline did an excellent episode on the current state of the music industry... (Seem's like I've mentioned it before, but it's been a while...)
You can watch it online if you can view QuickTime or WMV streams...
Another great PHP5 book that has been out for about a year now is George Schlossnagle's Advanced PHP Programming. I went out and bought it after hearing a couple of his talks last year and I'd say that chapter-for-chapter it is the most valuable/useful PHP Programming book I have ever seen. (Disclaimer: I haven't seen PHP 5 Power Programming yet.)
If you want to learn about scaling a PHP application and making use of the new features in PHP5, I would heartily recommend buying George's book. Just check out the table of contents for an idea of what all is covered. I've especially appreciated the information about documentation generation, unit testing, and exception handling.
Send me an e-mail next time you come over (if ever). We can show you the sights. (Yes, both of them!)
Go to the Iceberg drive-in while they are in season. You most certainly can get Walla Walla Sweet Onion Rings here in town. Not that this is anywhere near to on-topic mind you. :)
Actually, since another company bought up the Iridium sattelite fleet at a bargain price, they are doing much more than reflect sunlight. Anybody can go buy an Iridium phone for a little over a grand and purchase either prepaid minutes or subscribe to a monthly plan.
Now certainly, the prices of airtime and equipment will keep the general public from adopting this, but the ability to make a phone call from anywhere on the planet is very valuable to some people. Think about people who sail across the ocean, or who's job sends them to lots of remote places.
The original Iridium company probably overestimated the market for their product, but now that another company was able to get into the business at a greatly reduced expense, it seems like a useful and viable business model to me.
Also, the cost of sending up this *one* communications sattelite for broadband is tremendously cheaper than the cost of putting up the *72* sattelite constellation that Iridium uses (66 active plus 6 in-orbit backups).
A kind of slick way to test your existing code and applications is to do a little -fu in your apache.conf and set it up so you have two instances of Apache running on different ports but using the same DocumentRoot. One instance running the PHP4 module and one the PHP5 module. I've got this set up on my Gentoo dev server with PHP5 running over port 8080. Just add an :8080 to the URL and your page is running through PHP5, I've found it quite useful for playing around and testing. If anyone wants more details just e-mail me. And if you're not using Apache, you can probably set up a similar thing, but I can't really help you there.
For an excellent (and TV friendly) look at the porn industry in general, including the decency crackdown that was set to begin shortly before 9/11 happened and we developed 'other priorities' (namely supressing civil liberties it seems, but that's neither here nor there...), take a look at PBS/Frontline's "American Porn" which is available to watch for free here:
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/por
They have it in Quicktime and Real formats.
As a schism from the Seventh Day Adventists they had no religious prohibition on armament.
I'm not sure what exactly this is supposed to mean. While clearly, the Davidians had no qualms about owning and promoting guns, that is certainly not the official viewpoint of the Seventh-Day Adventist church.
Here are a few official statements from the SDA church on related topics:
Assault Weapons
Peace
Call for peace
Ultimately however, it is an individuals choice, and gun ownership and use is not really a big issue in the church. As far as I know, nobody has ever been "disfellowshiped" (kind of the SDA version of excommunication) solely because they owned or used a gun. A majority of Adventists serving in the military do, in fact, serve in combat roles. Here is an excellent historical overview of Adventists in the military.
I'm sure you didn't intend that little parenthetical statement to be insensitive, but the 12 million member SDA church are a little sensitive about being so closely associated by the media to a radical sect of a few thousand at best.
(The Branch Davidians are technically an offshoot of the Shepherd's Rod movement which was founded by an ex-SDA in the 1930s, however it is true that Koresh himself and a majority of the members of his "congregation" were former SDA members. But in the end, Koresh was just a charasmatic wacko who convinced people to accept his twisted interpretations of biblical texts.)
Yeah, cause we totally have no idea where this top secret facility is or what it looks like. If Space Imaging has these kinds of pictures of it, I imagine the NSA was double checking the equations on the Chinese engineers' clipboards.
pgAdmin II is somewhat similar.
And pgAdmin III just reached beta and is purported to be quite a bit better (than II).
the cliche "write write write" is indeed good advice. But then you need to edit edit edit.
I really have to agree with you here and toss in my own cliche:
"There is no good writing, only good rewriting."
Sure, you have to "write write write" to get all your ideas down; then you should spend twice as much time on rewriting as you did on the writing.
This guy seems to think that "games journalism" won't be any good until it's primary target audience is 45-year-old, unmarried female high-school literature teachers. If you are writing about video games, right now your primary target audience is middle-class males ages 16-29. Deal. I fit in that target audience and I couldn't read his series past the second page. If he writes all of his "journalism" with the same style, I can't really imagine him being successful.
He's as boring as Alan Greenspan reciting federal tax law to a group of librarians in Farson, Wyoming.
I was able to find this document (PDF warning) that doesn't speak about volume, but does tell exactly what each Fab does and on what process. Fabrication of logic products (which I assume to mean processors and such) is done at the following facilities:
Fab 22 - Chandler, Arizona
Fab 12 - Chandler, Arizona
D2 - Santa Clara, California
Fab 10/14 - Leixlip, Ireland
Fab 24 (under construction) - Leixlib, Ireland
Fab 8 - Jerusalem, Israel
Fab 18 - Qiryat Gat, Israel
Fab 17 - Hudson, Massachusetts
Fab 11 - Hudson, Massachusetts
Fab 11X - Rio Rancho, New Mexico
D1C - Hillsboro, Oregon
Fab 20 - Hillsboro, Oregon
Like I said, it doesn't say anything about volume, but about 1/3 of their logic fabrication facilities are international.
Interesting stuff.
All the troll/flamebait moderators must be without power.
Someone already pointed out that the Opeterons are fabricated at the Fab30 in Dresden. AFAIK, AMD has no fabs in China and I'm not aware that they even do assembly there.
But the most farciful (Note to grammer Nazi's: Yes I did just make up that word.) statement is your post is this one:
What would stop them from putting data-wrangling code into the Opteron chips?
So even if the Opteron was fabbed in China, you think that the Chinese James Bond is just going to slip in an entirely new chip design into the assembly line and none of the automated or manual microscopic inspections each chip undergoes is going to notice that there are an extra 25,000 transistors over there and these other 30,000 transistors are in the wrong place?
And as another person pointed out, Intel does very little manufactering in the USA these days. At least AMD has a fab in Texas. I couldn't find any info on Intel's fab locations quickly, but I don't recall that they have a large scale one in the USA anymore, but that's complete guestimating.
You sound as bad as the lady at work that thinks buying Microsoft is her patriotic duty!
I first read about this a couple days ago at work in Infoworld or Infomation Week, or one of those free magazines. Anyway, I'm pretty sure the article there said it would also play MP3s which would make sense. Now it's not going to compare with an iPod for storage anytime soon, but with a couple dozen songs on an SD card it could be fun.
I already have a Clie but since I've been thinking about getting a GBA SP and a MP3 player, this thing really caught my eye. Anyway, glad the story got posted, I'm 2 for 9 now!
If he plans on running Windows (which it sounded like) Deep Freeze should solve the software installing problem. Won't prevent them from installing a hardware based keyboard tap though.
I'm gonna make this as clear as possible:
;)
NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER BUY ETHERNET CABLES WITH BOOTS.
Just a note, but most of the boots that I've encountered can be slid back away from the connector using a little elbow grease. I've found the boots to be a PITA sometimes as well, but it's also a PITA to have lots of RJ45 plugs with the little tabby thingy broken off because you were sure that the cable would come free if you just pulled a little harder.
So I guess personnally, I wouldn't be as unequivocal in my avoidance of boots. I have a bag of boots around here somewhere so I can put them on cables (even on just one end) if I think it's going to be helpful...
If my Mac emits smoke and kernel panics at the same time, I know I can get resolution to both problems by calling Apple.
:)
I imagine that in that case, there is really only one problem to be solved.
Since the state-controlled banks in South Korea seem to be willing to perpetually forgive, extend, or renegotiate Hynix's tremendously large debt burden, the USA (and EU) are only protecting their companies from unfair competition. The South Korean government is basically subsidizing Hynix through their banks. The headline is somewhat misleading because this tariff (if I understand it correctly) only effects Hynix's products, not all South Korean memory manufacturers (if there are any others) and certainly this doesn't effect Taiwanese manufacturers.
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Here's a couple links to Hynix's most recent multi-billion dollar bailout.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002Dec/wbc2002
Also, many of the applications for Palm are specifically written for 160x160 pixels and will look absolutely horrible on a 320x320 screen. TopGun SSH is one of many examples.
I don't know about in PalmOS 5 but in my OS4 based N610C you can turn off HiRes Assist for specific applications and it looks just like it would on a 160x160 (color in my case) display. I too was bugged by this "problem" until I found out how to fix it. I'm assuming that the OS5 based Clie's have a similar feature.
-Sokie
If you are planning to charge an admission fee (which it kind of sounded like you were) you should also require participants to agree to some ground rules. A verbal agreement might be sufficient but I would consider having them sign something at the time they pay their admission fee.
Basically you just need to establish what is acceptable and more importantly, what won't be tolerated and will get you thrown out. Things like cheating in games, rampant piracy, or conduct that is disruptive to another player (like bashing them over the head with your keyboard because you are angry at them for camping) should probably be prohibited by the agreement.
You might also what to establish under what circumstances (if any) a refund will be given.
Depending on the size of the gathering and the amount of money you are investing, you may want to consult with a lawyer about this agreement or at least try to find something boilerplate that you can adapt. The purpose of the agreement is to give yourself prior justification for the unfortunate possibility of having to kick someone out of your event.
Again, IANAL so maybe I'm completely wrong here, but if it were me I would at least investigate this kind of stuff and I'm guessing that this angle is easy to overlook when planning for an event like this.