it generated both nick and mtv (which, hate them if you will are media juggernauts), as well as on-demand (the pay-per-view most americans get in their home).
Though really, do 5-minute clips of the show threaten Comedy Central's revenue model, or help it?
Hurt I would say. Being that if you're not paying your cable subscription fees, you have to buy this content via your cell phone or iTunes. I don't really think Comedy Central is relying on viral marketing for their shows. Everyone I know that watches it on YouTube watches it because they like the stuff and don't want to pay for cable.
So yes, those people ARE, threatening Comedy Central's revenue model. (You'd be surprised by the amount of money post-television sales make up for certain department in television networks.)
Comedy Central is owned by MTV Networks (who also own Spike, VH1, Nickelodeon and CMT [along with their associated digital and spin-off channels]) who is, in turn, owned by Viacom, who are, in turn "owned" (via the ownership of voting stock) by Sumner Redstone/National Amusements.
And while Google's stock price may be at $475.20/share, their market cap is only 1.44 billion compared to Viacom's 2.44 billion.
(It's a SQL injection waiting to happen, what if I load this page with u="0;drop table users;"?)
Well, one would hope that the READ access you've given to the user you're connecting to the SQL DB with doesn't have the ability to run DROP TABLE.
It's about access control too.
I mean I agree with you on the fact that SQL injection attacks are easier in PHP, but lets face it, you can also design any language to be vunerable. PHP just makes it a little easier by not requiring some sort of connection library (and, in fact, not promoting one either)
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I have to agree with this. Django, while underdocumented (again though, thanks to Mr. Spolsky's Law of Leaky Abstractions needing to go through the source to learn how something works is acutally a pretty good learning metaphore) is really the framework Rails should have been. Dynamically compiled models, complete decouplization from it's separate components (don't like the template system? use something else! or just write HTML to the output. or XML. or whatever), and thanks to the recent branch merge, a lack of "magic" which helps when you're trying to figure out why something didn't work when it was supposed to "just work."
plus, the built in admin interface is super easy fgor getting stuff started, and while it does have some drawbacks, is still a pretty solid freebee that just doesn't exist anywhere else.
and lastly I don't want to have to run another server. mod_ruby doesn't work correctly, and i'm already running apache2. i just run mod_python and don't have to worry about proxy requests or lighttpd configuration (or the problem with high loads and lighttpd/fastcgi interaction).
In my experience (working in large PHP driven shops) the people writing PHP didn't necessarily have a comp sci background. They don't care (and most don't even know) wahat a first-class object is, why they would even want namespaces, strong typing or 64 integers. In fact, adding them to the language makes it in accessible to them, so they'll just stick with php 4, which "works for me."
I mean, in a fundamental sort of way, yes PHP is broken, but in a useable sort of scripting language way, PHP 4 isn't broken. And if it ain't broke, then don't try to fix it.
i think you mean viacom. parent of: mtv vh1 nickelodeon bet cbs upn paramount pictures simon and shuster comedy central spike tv cmt national amuesment themeparks infinity broadcasting (howard stern's soon to be former company) king world media (television production company)
i know i'm probably forgetting a few things, but that's pretty much the scope of it.
no disney. no abc. although disney does own abc.
just not related to viacom in any way shape or form.
Honestly Parappa The Rapper has to be one of the most innovative games I've ever seen.
People are always jerking off over Miyamoto and his innovativeness (which is immense) but here we have an exclusive game for a platform that isn't Nintendo that doesn't follow the traditional video game path (sports, killing, simulation).
Not only that but Greenblat's artwork is amazing, and they way they were able to animate the characters and coordinate the music and the motion is beyond amazing.
Stop hating on it because you have no rhythm and couldn't beat your four year old cousin, and recogize what an amazing game it really is/was.
I actually just got back from Nextel's developer conference (Miami Beach!! Beats the heck out of New York)...and yes. You can control pretty much all the aspects of the i860 via the interfaces in the J2ME dev kit. They've provided access to everything, including the call APIs. You should be able to get dev stuff from Nextel or Motorola's iDEN site.
It's a pretty nice phone to. You're supposed to be able to activate download apps via an iFUN transaction (buying a J2ME app via the wap deck, as from cellmania, for example) and not having to open the download apps J2ME app manually, but I haven't seen that operate yet.
Look out for the i930 thought -- it's an MS "smartphone"
The fact that HTTP is stateless is one of the reasons that Apache and the kin scale so effectively. The instant they're done dealing with the request, they cna do something else without thinking about the consquences. Why do I need state on my personal homesite? I don't. Let your application logic deal with state. Let the protocol deal with data transmission period.
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it generated both nick and mtv (which, hate them if you will are media juggernauts), as well as on-demand (the pay-per-view most americans get in their home).
that's pretty successful if you ask me...
Hurt I would say. Being that if you're not paying your cable subscription fees, you have to buy this content via your cell phone or iTunes. I don't really think Comedy Central is relying on viral marketing for their shows. Everyone I know that watches it on YouTube watches it because they like the stuff and don't want to pay for cable.
So yes, those people ARE, threatening Comedy Central's revenue model. (You'd be surprised by the amount of money post-television sales make up for certain department in television networks.)
Actually no.
Comedy Central is owned by MTV Networks (who also own Spike, VH1, Nickelodeon and CMT [along with their associated digital and spin-off channels]) who is, in turn, owned by Viacom, who are, in turn "owned" (via the ownership of voting stock) by Sumner Redstone/National Amusements.
And while Google's stock price may be at $475.20/share, their market cap is only 1.44 billion compared to Viacom's 2.44 billion.
(It's a SQL injection waiting to happen, what if I load this page with u="0;drop table users;"?)
Well, one would hope that the READ access you've given to the user you're connecting to the SQL DB with doesn't have the ability to run DROP TABLE.
It's about access control too.
I mean I agree with you on the fact that SQL injection attacks are easier in PHP, but lets face it, you can also design any language to be vunerable. PHP just makes it a little easier by not requiring some sort of connection library (and, in fact, not promoting one either)
I have to agree with this. Django, while underdocumented (again though, thanks to Mr. Spolsky's Law of Leaky Abstractions needing to go through the source to learn how something works is acutally a pretty good learning metaphore) is really the framework Rails should have been. Dynamically compiled models, complete decouplization from it's separate components (don't like the template system? use something else! or just write HTML to the output. or XML. or whatever), and thanks to the recent branch merge, a lack of "magic" which helps when you're trying to figure out why something didn't work when it was supposed to "just work."
plus, the built in admin interface is super easy fgor getting stuff started, and while it does have some drawbacks, is still a pretty solid freebee that just doesn't exist anywhere else.
and lastly I don't want to have to run another server. mod_ruby doesn't work correctly, and i'm already running apache2. i just run mod_python and don't have to worry about proxy requests or lighttpd configuration (or the problem with high loads and lighttpd/fastcgi interaction).
Honestly. I support free open source , free non-open source, whatever software.
But when it comes down to it, I want my computer to be useable to the extent in which it is.
Does having a non-open source driver hurt linux's ability to continue serving as foss system?
No.
Does it make my nice new video card work?
Yes.
Where is the problem? Nothing is and will ever be a utopia -- it's nice to try, but sometimes you have to accept the realities of life.
I think you're missing his point.
In my experience (working in large PHP driven shops) the people writing PHP didn't necessarily have a comp sci background. They don't care (and most don't even know) wahat a first-class object is, why they would even want namespaces, strong typing or 64 integers. In fact, adding them to the language makes it in accessible to them, so they'll just stick with php 4, which "works for me."
I mean, in a fundamental sort of way, yes PHP is broken, but in a useable sort of scripting language way, PHP 4 isn't broken. And if it ain't broke, then don't try to fix it.
Use SVN and then use TRAC.
IT's a wiki!
It's a source browser (with color highlighting)
It's a ticket tracking system (can import bugzilla, or be turned off)
It's a floor wax!
It's a dessert topping
(well, not the last two).
But it's pretty awesome, INSANELY easy to set up, and pretty slick/easy to use.
actually, i know this is a joke, but it's wrong.
the government can breach any IP law, trademark, patent etc it likes.
it's the government. (no really, it's written into the patent law statutes)
But when I run nslookup it tells me it's obsolete so how can I trust the data it gives me?
Which begs the question -- why is NSLOOKUP OBSLETE? dig gives you WAY too much info sometimes.
i think you mean viacom. parent of:
mtv
vh1
nickelodeon
bet
cbs
upn
paramount pictures
simon and shuster
comedy central
spike tv
cmt
national amuesment themeparks
infinity broadcasting (howard stern's soon to be former company)
king world media (television production company)
i know i'm probably forgetting a few things, but that's pretty much the scope of it.
no disney. no abc. although disney does own abc.
just not related to viacom in any way shape or form.
Actually, he should have said ECMAScript, which is what is referred to as JavaScript.
It's standardized and accepted by the ECMA (European Computer Manufacturor's Association)
Standard 262
And the W3C provides a binding specification for it: for example
So, yeah, it very much is an accepted internet standard.
Honestly Parappa The Rapper has to be one of the most innovative games I've ever seen.
People are always jerking off over Miyamoto and his innovativeness (which is immense) but here we have an exclusive game for a platform that isn't Nintendo that doesn't follow the traditional video game path (sports, killing, simulation).
Not only that but Greenblat's artwork is amazing, and they way they were able to animate the characters and coordinate the music and the motion is beyond amazing.
Stop hating on it because you have no rhythm and couldn't beat your four year old cousin, and recogize what an amazing game it really is/was.
if you'd bothered to look at the URLs you'll noticed he used The Corel Content Distribution Network.
His server isn't really doing anything.
And these things only happened in the past year, so triple that!
i wasn't even with a hooker today!
And you haven't sued them why?
3 years? My Yahoo launched in 1997.
That's 8 years by my reconing.
I mean, yeah, Google is pretty cool, but man, people really gotta get off their jock.
sounds like "you're" a non-english speaker stuck in english-speaking land.
you're = you are.
your = you own (possessive)
even better.
paying 2.99 for a "real music" ringtone (ie: actual audio, not midi) which is about 14-40 seconds worth of music.
when you can just buy the song off iTunes in FULL and better quality for $.99
and yes, i work for a ringtone company.
I actually just got back from Nextel's developer conference (Miami Beach!! Beats the heck out of New York)...and yes. You can control pretty much all the aspects of the i860 via the interfaces in the J2ME dev kit. They've provided access to everything, including the call APIs. You should be able to get dev stuff from Nextel or Motorola's iDEN site.
It's a pretty nice phone to. You're supposed to be able to activate download apps via an iFUN transaction (buying a J2ME app via the wap deck, as from cellmania, for example) and not having to open the download apps J2ME app manually, but I haven't seen that operate yet.
Look out for the i930 thought -- it's an MS "smartphone"
Looks like crap.
The fact that HTTP is stateless is one of the reasons that Apache and the kin scale so effectively. The instant they're done dealing with the request, they cna do something else without thinking about the consquences. Why do I need state on my personal homesite? I don't. Let your application logic deal with state. Let the protocol deal with data transmission period.
funny i live in nyc now, but i miss hi-fi after a night of drinking at the middle east...
Safari has nearly no developer tools, which makes it a clear no go on web development, where as firebird has:
PHN Toolbar
JavaScript Console
DOM Viewer
Venkman
UserAgent Toolbar
MyCroft search plug-ins (PHP documentation at a cmd-k)
Colorized view source
Safari is awesome, as long as you don't want to do development in it.
And for those of us not familar on our northeast geography, that's on Nantucket.