So what if they had problems with non-Microsoft browsers in the past or not; the author tries to draw a correlation but it's irrelevant. The author is just acting stupid I'm afraid to say.
Ahem. As the author, I'd like to state for the record: I'm not acting.:)
Will anyone who isn't currently using MSIE6 use MSIE7 on this news?
Yes, sort of. I have to run IE for a handful of brain-dead web sites (including several banks and my company's intranet) that malfunction under a standards-compliant browser. So I'll use IE7 when it comes out -- but Opera will still be my browser of choice.
Your sig, at the moment: "Computer Scientists can count to 1024 on their fingers" (non-mutant, non-mutilatated, human computer scientists)
I've taught my kids how to count on their fingers in binary, though they're happy enough to count to 0x0F (using just four of the 10 available bits). 0x02, of course, is their favorite number, where the pointer finger is the LSB.
But even using all the available bits, I can only count up to 1023 (1+2+4+8+16+32+64+128+256+512). Although I guess I could use my tongue as an overflow bit.:)
OTOH, but maybe the glass is half full. Personally, based on his positive mention, I'd then copy-and-paste the 'PHP and MySQL Web Development' and 'XML 1.1 Bible' books into the BN search.
Somehow I always end up going through this process when buying a book online. YMMV.
I guess I was being overly cynical (I'm having that kind of day). One of my criteria for buying a product or service online is that I need to find at least one good result on a Google search for "[product_name] sucks". I learn more by reading what people don't like about a product than I do from what they like. Most of the time, the things that irritate someone else aren't a big deal to me (noisy fan? non-intuitive interface? bring it on!) and I pull the trigger on the deal.
This seems to work for eBay sellers, too. If they haven't received any complaints, either they're a nice guy (like me, still at 100% with 85 reviews) or they've bulked up with shills. If they've scored a negative like "YOURE SHIPPING CSST IS TO HIGH F-----", I count that as a point in their favor. The one time I've gotten burned on eBay ($40 worth of never-delivered indie-release Dixie Chicks CDs) was by a 100% Positive seller with tons of feedback.
Michael, a web programmer, February 7, 2006, Almost worthless. Based on the title, one might presume that Myer and Marini wrote the book for people who are already familiar with PHP and XML and want to learn some advanced techniques for combining them. What he gets instead are long (relative to the book itself), superficial introductions to PHP and XML and tiny, trivial examples of their combination. Everything in the book is common sense to someone who already knows PHP and XML. What the book teaches to beginners, however, is effectively useless for its superficiality, so I'd discourage anyone, especially beginners, from reading this book, even if he receives it for free. Time also is too valuable to waste on this book. Read 'PHP and MySQL Web Development' by Luke Welling and Laura Thompson and 'XML 1.1 Bible' by Elliotte Rusty Harold. One can visit SitePoint's web site to find a list of their titles and then return to a vendor site to read product reviews. SitePoint books are generally sub-par. This book is no exception.
Somewhere, someone at bn.com is shaking their head, wondering if this "reader reviews" thing is all that good a deal after all.
(FWIW: I think the book looks like just what I need, with my n00b level of knowledge of PHP and XML but with hopes to put them together myself, if I can just find the right feed.)
In January of last year, iBill was purchased by Interactive Brand Development for $23.5 million. On Monday, IBD's stock closed at 8 cents a share in over-the-counter trading.
8 cents a share? Nowhere to go but up! Time to call my broker*.
At the very least, their certificate will look good on the wall, next to the one from Enron. Maybe really good -- or really bad -- depending on which of their subsidiaries did the artwork. According to the Yahoo Finance link, "IBD also owns a library of original cartoon cel art (including He-Man, She-Ra, and Flash Gordon) [and] a 35% stake in Penthouse publisher Penthouse Media Group."
Hentai RPGs have zero gameplay. Most of them don't even care if you can't read Japanese, just keep clicking until you see the scene you want. If they'd put more work into it, they could easily sell an English version.
So I guess the new rule for me is, don't ever say anything at all about anything. Ever...ever.
Seriously, welcome to the Real World. In college, perhaps, you were encouraged to speak your mind and be free like a little birdie. Big difference: you *paid* to go to college. Within limits, you could do what you want. Things are different when you're the one receiving the money. Within limits, you have to do what *they* want.
Or to misapply the meme: In college, you owned a Sony. In Corporate [America|Japan], SONY own YOU!
Now I can imagine a kid yelling I T0TALLY UZ3D U N00B!!!!!11 but why?
Mod parent up. When I saw the one-liner headline on the Slashdot main page, my first thought was, "Damn, I just figured out the proper usage of 'pwnxxored' and now I've got to start all over again?" I feel so u53d.
From TFA: "So while you might think it is coming from cousin Alice, most likely cousin Alice is not going to send you something that says 'Hey look at these pictures with naked people.' So that should be your first clue that a virus is propagating and you'd be well served to call cousin Alice to let her know that she is [unknowingly] sending out this type of e-mail," Sergile said.
Mr. Sergile, you obviously haven't met my cousin Alice.
Dr. Foo: "To prove there is life on a far-off planet would be difficult," Dr Dominik told the BBC News website. "How can we prove there is life on a distant planet when we have problems seeing if there is life on Mars?"
Mr. Bar: Whomever said that hopefully isn't a scientist and/or working on this project.
Indeed. Unfortunately: "Dr Martin Dominik from the University of St Andrews is a co-leader of the PLANET collaboration, one of the microlensing networks used to detect the new planet." Crap.
Frankly, if signs of life on a planet are as scarce as those on Mars, I think it's safe to declare it "dead". If there's no macroscopic life at all, not even a bacterial culture's worth, then it's about as dead as dead can be.
I'm excited about new planets, though, because I'm hoping one of these days they'll run the light through a spectrometer and find unexpected amounts of life-supporting stuff.
There are now government programs that are going through cutting back these huge trees. The effects have been amazing. Not only have the rivers started flowing more water, but the native plant life is bouncing back and some of South Africa's unemployed are getting jobs and training.
Unfortunately for the environment in other areas of the world, they're getting training in the subject of "cutting down big trees".
PC Magazine, 5/21/2002: "...optional support for 802.11b and a reasonable price make the Intel PRO/Wireless 5000 802.11a Access Point worthy of consideration if you want to be an early adopter of 802.11a."
C|Net, 7/31/2002: "With its simultaneous support of 802.11a and 802.11b, the Intel Pro/Wireless 5000 LAN dual access point is well suited to open office areas packed with wireless PCs."
2002 price: $449 list according to PC Magazine, $649 according to C|Net.
I got mine from an outfit called surpluscomputers.com for four bucks a piece. Plus $12 shipping. Here's a link to the product if it's still in stock (it is now, but probably won't be after the Slashdotters hit it).
The moral of the story: compatibility with the next standard is fine and dandy, but in three or four years, you're going to look back and either laugh, cry, or hurl.
Thanks for the link. I live in Daddy Longlegs country and have played with them since I was a kid, but never heard anything like this until my teenage daughter's boyfriend "informed" me of the "fact" within the past year. Unfortunately, simply showing him the evidence probably won't do anything to sway his views. Remember, folks: Hire a teenager, while they still know everything!
Your statement comes across as awfully nostalgic for an utter failure of an economic system that resulted in literally millions of deaths by starvation alone - let alone the way it gave totalitarianism a really simple way to dupe useful idiots
I'll try not to complain about your utter lack of actually reading my post. What I want to know is this:
1) I know how to dupe a useful story. Just submit it to Slashdot late at night. But how do you dupe a useful idiot?
2) Where can I find these "useful idiots", anyway? Enquiring minds want to know! I bet their names start with "Anonymous" and end with "Coward".
From TFA: "One lady walked up to the kiosk, and I told her to enter her floor number, and she said, 'That's ridiculous,' " said Tim Mooney, Fujitec's west regional vice president, who was in Seattle for the launch.
The real-world functionality of this system should be an interesting battle between computer-simulated idealism and human greed. Ideally, everyone will be happy if their overall travel time decreases. But in reality, each one of the riders wants to have the fastest possible time all to himself, to heck with averages. The easiest way to game the system might be to simply enter your floor number over and over, to fool the computer into thinking there's an increased demand for that floor. Voila, private elevator!
It's almost like a test case for the collapse of communism. If everyone simply gave according to their abilities and received according to their needs, everyone would get to work sooner. But as soon as one guy punches his floor a dozen times and gets his private car delivered, the whole darned thing breaks down.
Or to put it another way, in Soviet Russia, Elevator calls YOU!
If the process could be adapted to work on developing cells and attach only to cancer cells it could help speed detection and make it easier to see cancerous cells during surgery. The obvious benefit would be with melonomia. If after a treatment cancerous moles would change color it'd make detection possible without biopsies and help see if it was spreading.
Amazing. 113 comments, 19 ranked +3 or above, and this is the only freaking one with a science-to-humor ratio of greater than 1.
No wonder I'm a subscriber. Marge, get me my blacklight and my hardhat! We're having bacon tonight!
From the article: "The companion proved to be less than two-tenths of an arcsecond from Polaris... At the system's distance of 430 light-years, that translates into a separation of about 2 billion miles."
I did a little googling, and found that Neptune's orbit is just over 2 billion miles from the Sun. So for reference, Hubble has directly imaged two distant objects that could fit inside our own solar system.
I think they could have gotten more "Oomph!" from their press release if they'd mentioned this fact. Also, they may have wanted to measure the distance in a standard publicity unit, such as roundtrip NY-LA distances ("A little over 350,000 round-trips from New York to Los Angeles").
an interesting thing i read about somalia was the quality and efficiency of their cellular networks. It seems that due to lack of government intervention, companies are able to set up the network how and with the equipment they want...
"Can you hear me now? Good! Say, why do I hear gunfire? Can you hear me now? Hello? Hello?"
Moral of the story: It doesn't do a helluvalot of good to have a good signal, if you're dead.
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So what if they had problems with non-Microsoft browsers in the past or not; the author tries to draw a correlation but it's irrelevant. The author is just acting stupid I'm afraid to say.
:)
Ahem. As the author, I'd like to state for the record: I'm not acting.
Will anyone who isn't currently using MSIE6 use MSIE7 on this news?
Yes, sort of. I have to run IE for a handful of brain-dead web sites (including several banks and my company's intranet) that malfunction under a standards-compliant browser. So I'll use IE7 when it comes out -- but Opera will still be my browser of choice.
Your sig, at the moment:
:)
"Computer Scientists can count to 1024 on their fingers" (non-mutant, non-mutilatated, human computer scientists)
I've taught my kids how to count on their fingers in binary, though they're happy enough to count to 0x0F (using just four of the 10 available bits). 0x02, of course, is their favorite number, where the pointer finger is the LSB.
But even using all the available bits, I can only count up to 1023 (1+2+4+8+16+32+64+128+256+512). Although I guess I could use my tongue as an overflow bit.
OTOH, but maybe the glass is half full. Personally, based on his positive mention, I'd then copy-and-paste the 'PHP and MySQL Web Development' and 'XML 1.1 Bible' books into the BN search.
Somehow I always end up going through this process when buying a book online. YMMV.
I guess I was being overly cynical (I'm having that kind of day). One of my criteria for buying a product or service online is that I need to find at least one good result on a Google search for "[product_name] sucks". I learn more by reading what people don't like about a product than I do from what they like. Most of the time, the things that irritate someone else aren't a big deal to me (noisy fan? non-intuitive interface? bring it on!) and I pull the trigger on the deal.
This seems to work for eBay sellers, too. If they haven't received any complaints, either they're a nice guy (like me, still at 100% with 85 reviews) or they've bulked up with shills. If they've scored a negative like "YOURE SHIPPING CSST IS TO HIGH F-----", I count that as a point in their favor. The one time I've gotten burned on eBay ($40 worth of never-delivered indie-release Dixie Chicks CDs) was by a 100% Positive seller with tons of feedback.
From the bn.com reviews, a contrarian view:
Michael, a web programmer, February 7, 2006,
Almost worthless.
Based on the title, one might presume that Myer and Marini wrote the book for people who are already familiar with PHP and XML and want to learn some advanced techniques for combining them. What he gets instead are long (relative to the book itself), superficial introductions to PHP and XML and tiny, trivial examples of their combination. Everything in the book is common sense to someone who already knows PHP and XML. What the book teaches to beginners, however, is effectively useless for its superficiality, so I'd discourage anyone, especially beginners, from reading this book, even if he receives it for free. Time also is too valuable to waste on this book. Read 'PHP and MySQL Web Development' by Luke Welling and Laura Thompson and 'XML 1.1 Bible' by Elliotte Rusty Harold. One can visit SitePoint's web site to find a list of their titles and then return to a vendor site to read product reviews. SitePoint books are generally sub-par. This book is no exception.
Somewhere, someone at bn.com is shaking their head, wondering if this "reader reviews" thing is all that good a deal after all.
(FWIW: I think the book looks like just what I need, with my n00b level of knowledge of PHP and XML but with hopes to put them together myself, if I can just find the right feed.)
In January of last year, iBill was purchased by Interactive Brand Development for $23.5 million. On Monday, IBD's stock closed at 8 cents a share in over-the-counter trading.
8 cents a share? Nowhere to go but up! Time to call my broker*.
At the very least, their certificate will look good on the wall, next to the one from Enron. Maybe really good -- or really bad -- depending on which of their subsidiaries did the artwork. According to the Yahoo Finance link, "IBD also owns a library of original cartoon cel art (including He-Man, She-Ra, and Flash Gordon) [and] a 35% stake in Penthouse publisher Penthouse Media Group."
*Disclaimer: I don't have a broker.
Hentai RPGs have zero gameplay. Most of them don't even care if you can't read Japanese, just keep clicking until you see the scene you want. If they'd put more work into it, they could easily sell an English version.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
No Katamari listed in the top 100 Japanese games? Outrageous! We are most displeased!
Where was cousin Ace? Playing Animal Crossing (#43)?
We have no idea what you are talking about.
So I guess the new rule for me is, don't ever say anything at all about anything. Ever...ever.
Seriously, welcome to the Real World. In college, perhaps, you were encouraged to speak your mind and be free like a little birdie. Big difference: you *paid* to go to college. Within limits, you could do what you want. Things are different when you're the one receiving the money. Within limits, you have to do what *they* want.
Or to misapply the meme: In college, you owned a Sony. In Corporate [America|Japan], SONY own YOU!
Now I can imagine a kid yelling I T0TALLY UZ3D U N00B!!!!!11 but why?
Mod parent up. When I saw the one-liner headline on the Slashdot main page, my first thought was, "Damn, I just figured out the proper usage of 'pwnxxored' and now I've got to start all over again?" I feel so u53d.
From TFA:
"So while you might think it is coming from cousin Alice, most likely cousin Alice is not going to send you something that says 'Hey look at these pictures with naked people.' So that should be your first clue that a virus is propagating and you'd be well served to call cousin Alice to let her know that she is [unknowingly] sending out this type of e-mail," Sergile said.
Mr. Sergile, you obviously haven't met my cousin Alice.
Dr. Foo: "To prove there is life on a far-off planet would be difficult," Dr Dominik told the BBC News website. "How can we prove there is life on a distant planet when we have problems seeing if there is life on Mars?"
Mr. Bar: Whomever said that hopefully isn't a scientist and/or working on this project.
Indeed. Unfortunately: "Dr Martin Dominik from the University of St Andrews is a co-leader of the PLANET collaboration, one of the microlensing networks used to detect the new planet." Crap.
Frankly, if signs of life on a planet are as scarce as those on Mars, I think it's safe to declare it "dead". If there's no macroscopic life at all, not even a bacterial culture's worth, then it's about as dead as dead can be.
I'm excited about new planets, though, because I'm hoping one of these days they'll run the light through a spectrometer and find unexpected amounts of life-supporting stuff.
You're right, and I should have picked that up. Still, getting through the crust would still be an amazing accomplishment.
Don't feel bad. I hear that the sort of dig you suggested will be possible soon with the appropriate advances in materials science.
or the O-S-C-A-R M-A-Y-E-R commercials teaching me how to spell my first word B-O-L-O-N-G-A.
In an early variation of targeted advertising, possibly by region, my Oscar Mayer ads taught me B-O-L-O-G-N-A.
There are now government programs that are going through cutting back these huge trees. The effects have been amazing. Not only have the rivers started flowing more water, but the native plant life is bouncing back and some of South Africa's unemployed are getting jobs and training.
Unfortunately for the environment in other areas of the world, they're getting training in the subject of "cutting down big trees".
Sitting beside me now are four new-in-box Intel Pro/Wireless 5000 wireless access points.
PC Magazine, 5/21/2002:
"...optional support for 802.11b and a reasonable price make the Intel PRO/Wireless 5000 802.11a Access Point worthy of consideration if you want to be an early adopter of 802.11a."
C|Net, 7/31/2002:
"With its simultaneous support of 802.11a and 802.11b, the Intel Pro/Wireless 5000 LAN dual access point is well suited to open office areas packed with wireless PCs."
2002 price: $449 list according to PC Magazine, $649 according to C|Net.
I got mine from an outfit called surpluscomputers.com for four bucks a piece. Plus $12 shipping. Here's a link to the product if it's still in stock (it is now, but probably won't be after the Slashdotters hit it).
The moral of the story: compatibility with the next standard is fine and dandy, but in three or four years, you're going to look back and either laugh, cry, or hurl.
Foo: Aren't those deadly, but only aren't because their fangs are too small to pierece the skin?
Bar: Nope just another urban legend
Thanks for the link. I live in Daddy Longlegs country and have played with them since I was a kid, but never heard anything like this until my teenage daughter's boyfriend "informed" me of the "fact" within the past year. Unfortunately, simply showing him the evidence probably won't do anything to sway his views. Remember, folks: Hire a teenager, while they still know everything!
Lead-lined clay? How last millennium. Nowadays, we use Uranium Bowls. Isn't that red Fiestaware just divine?
1) The actual word "dupe" does not mean duplicate. Look it up...
2) Are you useful?
1) I knew that, I was just being an idiot.
2) Oops.
I'm staying in the Marquee as I write this
Wow, the place is so full, they're making people sleep in the hotel's sign! I wonder if it has an elevator...
Your statement comes across as awfully nostalgic for an utter failure of an economic system that resulted in literally millions of deaths by starvation alone - let alone the way it gave totalitarianism a really simple way to dupe useful idiots
I'll try not to complain about your utter lack of actually reading my post. What I want to know is this:
1) I know how to dupe a useful story. Just submit it to Slashdot late at night. But how do you dupe a useful idiot?
2) Where can I find these "useful idiots", anyway? Enquiring minds want to know! I bet their names start with "Anonymous" and end with "Coward".
From TFA:
"One lady walked up to the kiosk, and I told her to enter her floor number, and she said, 'That's ridiculous,' " said Tim Mooney, Fujitec's west regional vice president, who was in Seattle for the launch.
The real-world functionality of this system should be an interesting battle between computer-simulated idealism and human greed. Ideally, everyone will be happy if their overall travel time decreases. But in reality, each one of the riders wants to have the fastest possible time all to himself, to heck with averages. The easiest way to game the system might be to simply enter your floor number over and over, to fool the computer into thinking there's an increased demand for that floor. Voila, private elevator!
It's almost like a test case for the collapse of communism. If everyone simply gave according to their abilities and received according to their needs, everyone would get to work sooner. But as soon as one guy punches his floor a dozen times and gets his private car delivered, the whole darned thing breaks down.
Or to put it another way, in Soviet Russia, Elevator calls YOU!
If the process could be adapted to work on developing cells and attach only to cancer cells it could help speed detection and make it easier to see cancerous cells during surgery. The obvious benefit would be with melonomia. If after a treatment cancerous moles would change color it'd make detection possible without biopsies and help see if it was spreading.
Amazing. 113 comments, 19 ranked +3 or above, and this is the only freaking one with a science-to-humor ratio of greater than 1.
No wonder I'm a subscriber. Marge, get me my blacklight and my hardhat! We're having bacon tonight!
From the article: "The companion proved to be less than two-tenths of an arcsecond from Polaris... At the system's distance of 430 light-years, that translates into a separation of about 2 billion miles."
I did a little googling, and found that Neptune's orbit is just over 2 billion miles from the Sun. So for reference, Hubble has directly imaged two distant objects that could fit inside our own solar system.
I think they could have gotten more "Oomph!" from their press release if they'd mentioned this fact. Also, they may have wanted to measure the distance in a standard publicity unit, such as roundtrip NY-LA distances ("A little over 350,000 round-trips from New York to Los Angeles").
an interesting thing i read about somalia was the quality and efficiency of their cellular networks. It seems that due to lack of government intervention, companies are able to set up the network how and with the equipment they want...
"Can you hear me now? Good! Say, why do I hear gunfire? Can you hear me now? Hello? Hello?"
Moral of the story: It doesn't do a helluvalot of good to have a good signal, if you're dead.