I had this issue with my Windows Mobile 5 phone a couple of years back, with the worst part being that it would cause the whole "phone" part of the phone to fail entirely (but not obviously); when I got fed up and called support, they said "just reboot the phone once a day and you'll be fine". That's the fucking fix, seriously?
He seems like he would be a pretty cool guy. When my wife was living in Santa Cruz, she had an absolutely shitty twenty-first birthday. So she's sitting outside crying, with her sister consoling her, when Clint drives by and gives her a big smile and a wave; it helped make her day a spot brighter.
So Cisco should open their firewall and router OS and be encouraging people to make their own ASA appliances, lest businesses get screwed by the tight integration of Cisco's software and hardware?
And... neither the iPod nor the iPhone were "opening salvos", they were entries into market battles that were at least a year old.
Seconding this, and surprised that no one else has mentioned it yet. Nessus is a great, comprehensive external security tool with relatively easy-to-understand results.
Yeah, validating inputs and all of that is good, but it's ultimately useless if your version of Apache has a mod enabled that allows easy hijacking of the webserver itself, or if your OS is leaving other ports and protocols exposed as attack vectors.
Care to cite any specific examples? Are you sure that it's not just because it's easier to test on one or two standard browsers and have an official fallback of "oh, that's unsupported on $x"? A lot of time spent on quirksmode.org has taught me that things are pretty stable across the platforms, with the notable exceptions being older versions of IE and Opera.
I would guess that running WoW has taught them a few things about getting their networking code incredibly polished. As above:
"We had a test last Monday on the beta realm where we had 350 people fighting at once, which was a tremendous feat for us, because it was, on the server-side, completely lag-free."
Technically, it has properties which could make it analogous to a highly viscous liquid but because of its mechanical properties and the fact that it's a rigid material, it's widely considered to be an amorphous solid.
Old windows aren't "slowly melting", that look is a byproduct of old glassmaking procedures, where it was formed in large disks which were of uneven thickness.
There was a big piece on him in the last issue of Wired, and this is spot on. He said that one of the troubles with parodying today's music market is you no longer have the icons like Michael Jackson or Madonna with hits that stay on the charts for months at a time. Instead, you have one the one hand people like Kevin Federline and Jessica Simpson, who are already kind of self-parodies, and on the other hand the biggest top forty hits only stay on the charts for a handful of weeks. This makes releasing a parody in a timely fashion a lot more important.
Aside from needlessly attacking my reading comprehension, you make a good point. I guess I take "needing authorization" for granted; I've only gotten a smattering of things off of the iTMS.
Way to put everything but the relevant bit in bold. The statement pertains specifically to services and products that "entail the ongoing involvement of Apple", which music does not.
Anyhow, I found it interesting that as of March 2007, the city of Portland requires "all residential garbage and recycling haulers in Portland to use B20 (20 percent biodiesel blend fuel)," which is the blend that the city has been using in all of its own diesel vehicles since 2004.
I don't know if this applies to the commercial garbage haulers as well, though.
The "or else it won't" that ends the summary really bugged me. If you're going to urge people to look at something, you should at least stand by your premise for more than a sentence! Or don't.
Actually, all that I've read on mod_php indicates that it scales linearly with Apache (which scales pretty damn well).
In any case, it's always about using the best tool for the job. PHP has great strengths in general string manipulation, an amazing little date/time conversion library, and solid session and database support. That encompasses a lot of what web apps need without any design pattern wankery.
Subversion is garbage, of the "at least it's not CVS" variety. There are at least some ten or twenty distributed version control systems out there, at least one of which has got to work well for you. If you're working on a project with a lot of other people, having your merge diffs available right in your editor is pretty handy.
"I have a keyboard shortcut to run unit tests!" Great, but I'm comfortable on the commandline. Let me switch between my editor and terminal easily, and I'll run unit tests, run a development server, and anything else I feel like. Working with a tool like EMMA integrated with IDEA, you can actually see on a line-by-line basis what lines of code are actually being tested by your unit tests, and see a breakdown in your file listing of what your test coverage is. Pretty useful, if you ask me.
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I had this issue with my Windows Mobile 5 phone a couple of years back, with the worst part being that it would cause the whole "phone" part of the phone to fail entirely (but not obviously); when I got fed up and called support, they said "just reboot the phone once a day and you'll be fine". That's the fucking fix, seriously?
You wouldn't hire an ex prostitute to teach your children would you?
Well, that depends... Is she hot?
He seems like he would be a pretty cool guy. When my wife was living in Santa Cruz, she had an absolutely shitty twenty-first birthday. So she's sitting outside crying, with her sister consoling her, when Clint drives by and gives her a big smile and a wave; it helped make her day a spot brighter.
So Cisco should open their firewall and router OS and be encouraging people to make their own ASA appliances, lest businesses get screwed by the tight integration of Cisco's software and hardware?
And... neither the iPod nor the iPhone were "opening salvos", they were entries into market battles that were at least a year old.
"And I know I'm not the only one who does this."
At least, that's what we would all like you to think...
Seconding this, and surprised that no one else has mentioned it yet. Nessus is a great, comprehensive external security tool with relatively easy-to-understand results.
Yeah, validating inputs and all of that is good, but it's ultimately useless if your version of Apache has a mod enabled that allows easy hijacking of the webserver itself, or if your OS is leaving other ports and protocols exposed as attack vectors.
Care to cite any specific examples? Are you sure that it's not just because it's easier to test on one or two standard browsers and have an official fallback of "oh, that's unsupported on $x"? A lot of time spent on quirksmode.org has taught me that things are pretty stable across the platforms, with the notable exceptions being older versions of IE and Opera.
How many 10year old devices are you using?
The trusty solar-powered calculator comes to mind...
I came into this thread for the snark, but I stayed for the insight.
I would guess that running WoW has taught them a few things about getting their networking code incredibly polished. As above:
"We had a test last Monday on the beta realm where we had 350 people fighting at once, which was a tremendous feat for us, because it was, on the server-side, completely lag-free."
Homogenic, perhaps?
Technically, it has properties which could make it analogous to a highly viscous liquid but because of its mechanical properties and the fact that it's a rigid material, it's widely considered to be an amorphous solid.
Old windows aren't "slowly melting", that look is a byproduct of old glassmaking procedures, where it was formed in large disks which were of uneven thickness.
There was a big piece on him in the last issue of Wired, and this is spot on. He said that one of the troubles with parodying today's music market is you no longer have the icons like Michael Jackson or Madonna with hits that stay on the charts for months at a time. Instead, you have one the one hand people like Kevin Federline and Jessica Simpson, who are already kind of self-parodies, and on the other hand the biggest top forty hits only stay on the charts for a handful of weeks. This makes releasing a parody in a timely fashion a lot more important.
Aside from needlessly attacking my reading comprehension, you make a good point. I guess I take "needing authorization" for granted; I've only gotten a smattering of things off of the iTMS.
Way to put everything but the relevant bit in bold. The statement pertains specifically to services and products that "entail the ongoing involvement of Apple", which music does not.
Also, the illegal drugs would show you are willing to violate the law when you deem to better for you...
But isn't that what Batman has been trying to teach us? Law != morality.
Classist much?
Anyhow, I found it interesting that as of March 2007, the city of Portland requires "all residential garbage and recycling haulers in Portland to use B20 (20 percent biodiesel blend fuel)," which is the blend that the city has been using in all of its own diesel vehicles since 2004.
I don't know if this applies to the commercial garbage haulers as well, though.
The "or else it won't" that ends the summary really bugged me. If you're going to urge people to look at something, you should at least stand by your premise for more than a sentence! Or don't.
Actually, all that I've read on mod_php indicates that it scales linearly with Apache (which scales pretty damn well). In any case, it's always about using the best tool for the job. PHP has great strengths in general string manipulation, an amazing little date/time conversion library, and solid session and database support. That encompasses a lot of what web apps need without any design pattern wankery.
Relatedly, there was a good article from Coding Horror yesterday about the proper uses for XML.
Lighten up, Francis.
If the tradeoff is getting ripped off on SMS or having to deal with the landline telcos, it's a small price to pay.
What actually happened is far better than the movie.
Ah, you were there?
Because our accounts of what "actually happened" are a little vague. Now, if you could just set some things straight in the Wikipedia entry...