In this film we hope to show how not to be seen. This is "Hello World" by Mr. E. R. Bradshaw of Cambridge, MA. It can not be seen. Now I am going to ask the code to stand up. "Hello World," will you stand up please.
This demonstrates the value of not being seen.
Late Cretaceous tropical honeybees preserved in amber are almost identical to their modern relatives, she says. If no modern tropical honeybee could have survived years in the dark and cold without the flowering plants they lived off of, Kozisek reasoned, something must be amiss with the nuclear winter theory.
The argument is not necessarily that the event directly killed honeybees (although the article also talks about honeybees' limited tolerance for cold temperatures). Basically, the idea is that flowering plants could not have survived through the event. Without flowering plants, bees would no longer have a purpose to their existence and would be plunged into a state of desperate ennui. No, wait, I mean they would starve. Yeah, starve.
the author merely shows his (or her, i haven't bothered to check, thus i can safely use "his") ignorance of the language by an assinine attempt at 'equality'.
Actually, using the feminine pronoun to refer to a generic person has been common practice in the academic world for many years.
The English language--like many languages--is unable to refer to a generic person (or a group of people) in a gender-neutral way. Using feminine pronouns is a way of calling attention to this inadequacy of language. Notice how it calls you up short?
(I'll answer the question for home audio, not pro audio, because Bose makes home audio equipment.)
There is no predominate brand, but here are a few that are generally highly-regarded and reasonably priced:
Paradigm
Magnepan
Martan Logan
NHT
And two brands that audio snobs might look down on, but actually produce a few decent speakers:
Polk
Infinity
In particular, the Polk RTi28/RTi38 is considered one of the best low-priced speaker sets around. I think you can get a pair for $200 or so, and a center channel (for home theater) for $150. Great sound and great construction. I have run the Polk RT series for about 5 years, and I've been happy with them (though I now have the itch for something in the $1000+ range...).
Hope this helps.
Well, I regret that you are not a moderator.:) I know HTTP is not a program, but whatever web server is running (e.g. Apache) is going to be a significant part of the workload if the server is facing massive amounts of traffic. Nothing like a database (at least in terms of CPU overhead), but non-database-driven sites get slashdotted too.
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Are you really recommending C for web programming (which is 95% of PHP's use)? Unless you're writing Amazon.com, you will spend FAR too long programming and receive little perceivable benefit. PHP is perfect for most web programming; a shopping cart doesn't need to be uber-efficient. Few web apps peg the processor on their server. And if they do, it is not going to be PHP code that will do it -- it will be database or HTTP.
Not saying that C isn't a great language for some things, but it is not a great language for rapid development of complex web applications.:)
I have to say, as cool as this is, that I can't see it gaining wide acceptance. Remember the Dvorak keyboard layout? It is clearly better than QWERTY, but very few people use it. People don't want to learn new keyboarding skills.
The only way I could see it gaining widespread use is via Palm-style devices. There you have a market where people are willing to try things other than a QWERTY keyboard. Maybe it could then move from the palmtop platform to the desktop.
These stats may be interesting, maybe not. They are for a small farm equipment manufacturer in the midwest, so they are fairly representitive of a non-techie crowd.
IE 6.0: 73.2% IE 5.5: 6.6% IE 5.0: 6.1% NN 6.+: 1.6% NN 4.7: 1.0% Mozilla: 3.7% Safari: 1.6%
And 12 hits from Konqueror! Props to the unix-geek farmers!
...not cost effective because a script kiddie can't do it? So are businesses getting ripped off if they have professional web developers build their website instead of a script kiddie?
I don't under stand how "costs more than a script kiddie" translates into "not cost effective". Anyone who develops websites for a living can write standards-compliant code for the same (or less!) than non-compliant code.
You're definately right when you say that Stephenson is a step below Pynchon when it comes to innovation, importance, etc. I don't disagree there, and maybe my previous post should have been more carefully worded.
What I disagree with is the suggestion that Stephenson writes airport thrillers. Having read Pynchon--and never a Star Trek novel, thank you, other Anonymous Coward:)--I fimly believe that Stephenson is a good writer. Good like John Updike? No. But in another league altogther than Tom Clancy, John Grisham, Michael Crichton, and other "airport thirllers". Especially his most recent stuff--Cryptonomicon represents a definately step forward in Stephenson's abilities.
Question: would you call Tolkien an "airport thriller" author?
You're totally right. And Virgil ripped off Homer, Michelangelo ripped off Donatello, Mozart ripped off Hayden, and Pynchon ripped off Joyce.
To say someone ripped off someone else because they can write a well-crafted, stylistically innovative, and compelling book that is INFLUENCED by someone else is ridiculous.
You have often been compared to authors like William Gibson and Thomas Pynchon. How much did these authors influence your writing? Who else do you draw upon? Do you get sick of being called "Pynchon Lite" or "Gibson-esque"?
I've done quite a bit of both ASP and PHP. Both languages are pretty good for web development, and in a lot of ways they're comparable. However, PHP5 moves PHP in the right direction, especially in terms of object orientation and XML. And personally I think.NET moves ASP in the wrong direction.
In terms of moving from one to the other, you could probably move to intermediate PHP proficiency quickly, with just a good PHP book and a few projects to build. The two languages have very little in common syntactically, but on a conceptual level they are similar.
If you know Javascript or C or (especially) Perl, and you work freelance / your boss doesn't care / you don't care what your boss says, then I say go for it.
They each have their place... But doesn't it seem like they're converging? MySQL used to be the "fast" one, great for reads but not writes, while PostgreSQL was the "advanced" one with transactions, views, subselects, etc. But now PostgreSQL is getting faster, and MySQL has transactions and subselects, with views and stored procedures on the way?
So what separates PostgreSQL from MySQL these days?
To an extent, maybe, but it doesn't take that long to become "fluent" enough in PHP to do database work. PHP 5 has pretty nice MySQL and PostgreSQL connection functions that make working with databases relatively simple.
Learning MySQL and PHP together is actually a great way to go, IMHO. Especially if you have some basic knowledge of C-syntax (C, Java, Javascript, Perl) and database concepts (basic SQL). Each program is only marginally useful without the other, and each can be learned quickly.
Because I'm interested (not trying to pick a fight), what is more complicated when creating valid XHTML? Here is all I can think of:
1. Doctype. There are three acceptable doctypes that can be cut-and-pasted, and the difference between these is pretty straightforward. 2. Valid code. You have to close tags, and you can't place tags out of context (e.g. a <li> tag outside of a list).
What am I missing?
The reason I ask is that I find XHTML/CSS to be simpler than the "old way" of coding. Nested tables? rowspan=3 colspan=2? <br><br><br><br> to move text down? Spacer gifs?
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Ingres has a discussion of that at http://www3.ca.com/Files/IndustryAnalystReports/bb _ingres.pdf.
Surprisingly balanced (though a little slanted). Reads like a realistic strategy document: "How can we compete with MySQL? Oracle? SQL Server?"
In this film we hope to show how not to be seen. This is "Hello World" by Mr. E. R. Bradshaw of Cambridge, MA. It can not be seen. Now I am going to ask the code to stand up. "Hello World," will you stand up please. This demonstrates the value of not being seen.
From the article:
Late Cretaceous tropical honeybees preserved in amber are almost identical to their modern relatives, she says. If no modern tropical honeybee could have survived years in the dark and cold without the flowering plants they lived off of, Kozisek reasoned, something must be amiss with the nuclear winter theory.
The argument is not necessarily that the event directly killed honeybees (although the article also talks about honeybees' limited tolerance for cold temperatures). Basically, the idea is that flowering plants could not have survived through the event. Without flowering plants, bees would no longer have a purpose to their existence and would be plunged into a state of desperate ennui. No, wait, I mean they would starve. Yeah, starve.
the author merely shows his (or her, i haven't bothered to check, thus i can safely use "his") ignorance of the language by an assinine attempt at 'equality'.
Actually, using the feminine pronoun to refer to a generic person has been common practice in the academic world for many years.
The English language--like many languages--is unable to refer to a generic person (or a group of people) in a gender-neutral way. Using feminine pronouns is a way of calling attention to this inadequacy of language. Notice how it calls you up short?
Why so angry, pchan-?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=128628&cid=107 34831
Dang, forgot the line breaks. :)
(I'll answer the question for home audio, not pro audio, because Bose makes home audio equipment.) There is no predominate brand, but here are a few that are generally highly-regarded and reasonably priced: Paradigm Magnepan Martan Logan NHT And two brands that audio snobs might look down on, but actually produce a few decent speakers: Polk Infinity In particular, the Polk RTi28/RTi38 is considered one of the best low-priced speaker sets around. I think you can get a pair for $200 or so, and a center channel (for home theater) for $150. Great sound and great construction. I have run the Polk RT series for about 5 years, and I've been happy with them (though I now have the itch for something in the $1000+ range...). Hope this helps.
Well, I regret that you are not a moderator. :) I know HTTP is not a program, but whatever web server is running (e.g. Apache) is going to be a significant part of the workload if the server is facing massive amounts of traffic. Nothing like a database (at least in terms of CPU overhead), but non-database-driven sites get slashdotted too.
Are you really recommending C for web programming (which is 95% of PHP's use)? Unless you're writing Amazon.com, you will spend FAR too long programming and receive little perceivable benefit. PHP is perfect for most web programming; a shopping cart doesn't need to be uber-efficient. Few web apps peg the processor on their server. And if they do, it is not going to be PHP code that will do it -- it will be database or HTTP.
:)
Not saying that C isn't a great language for some things, but it is not a great language for rapid development of complex web applications.
I have to say, as cool as this is, that I can't see it gaining wide acceptance. Remember the Dvorak keyboard layout? It is clearly better than QWERTY, but very few people use it. People don't want to learn new keyboarding skills.
The only way I could see it gaining widespread use is via Palm-style devices. There you have a market where people are willing to try things other than a QWERTY keyboard. Maybe it could then move from the palmtop platform to the desktop.
These stats may be interesting, maybe not. They are for a small farm equipment manufacturer in the midwest, so they are fairly representitive of a non-techie crowd.
IE 6.0: 73.2%
IE 5.5: 6.6%
IE 5.0: 6.1%
NN 6.+: 1.6%
NN 4.7: 1.0%
Mozilla: 3.7%
Safari: 1.6%
And 12 hits from Konqueror! Props to the unix-geek farmers!
...not cost effective because a script kiddie can't do it? So are businesses getting ripped off if they have professional web developers build their website instead of a script kiddie? I don't under stand how "costs more than a script kiddie" translates into "not cost effective". Anyone who develops websites for a living can write standards-compliant code for the same (or less!) than non-compliant code.
I guess the above post was supposed to be humorous, but I'll answer anyway. :)
Macs make up about 2-3% of the browser market. This share is split between IE 5.2 (no longer supported), Safari (default on new Macs), and Mozilla.
Mozilla (Firefox, Firebird, etc) probably has 5-10% of the market share.
I run a browser stats page that might be helpful: it is at http://www.theoblique.com/pub/browser-stats.html
So if we can just get some 8088 machines in [Republican | Democratic] counties, we should be set... :)
if (($current_vote_time - $previous_vote_time) > 2) {
$my_election->cast_vote($candidate);
} else {
print ("Didn't I see you here earlier?\n");
}
You're definately right when you say that Stephenson is a step below Pynchon when it comes to innovation, importance, etc. I don't disagree there, and maybe my previous post should have been more carefully worded.
:)--I fimly believe that Stephenson is a good writer. Good like John Updike? No. But in another league altogther than Tom Clancy, John Grisham, Michael Crichton, and other "airport thirllers". Especially his most recent stuff--Cryptonomicon represents a definately step forward in Stephenson's abilities.
What I disagree with is the suggestion that Stephenson writes airport thrillers. Having read Pynchon--and never a Star Trek novel, thank you, other Anonymous Coward
Question: would you call Tolkien an "airport thriller" author?
You're totally right. And Virgil ripped off Homer, Michelangelo ripped off Donatello, Mozart ripped off Hayden, and Pynchon ripped off Joyce.
To say someone ripped off someone else because they can write a well-crafted, stylistically innovative, and compelling book that is INFLUENCED by someone else is ridiculous.
You have often been compared to authors like William Gibson and Thomas Pynchon. How much did these authors influence your writing? Who else do you draw upon? Do you get sick of being called "Pynchon Lite" or "Gibson-esque"?
Any reason to stick with PHP4 other than hosting compatibility?
What would motivate you to switch?
.NET moves ASP in the wrong direction.
I've done quite a bit of both ASP and PHP. Both languages are pretty good for web development, and in a lot of ways they're comparable. However, PHP5 moves PHP in the right direction, especially in terms of object orientation and XML. And personally I think
In terms of moving from one to the other, you could probably move to intermediate PHP proficiency quickly, with just a good PHP book and a few projects to build. The two languages have very little in common syntactically, but on a conceptual level they are similar.
If you know Javascript or C or (especially) Perl, and you work freelance / your boss doesn't care / you don't care what your boss says, then I say go for it.
They each have their place... But doesn't it seem like they're converging? MySQL used to be the "fast" one, great for reads but not writes, while PostgreSQL was the "advanced" one with transactions, views, subselects, etc. But now PostgreSQL is getting faster, and MySQL has transactions and subselects, with views and stored procedures on the way?
So what separates PostgreSQL from MySQL these days?
To an extent, maybe, but it doesn't take that long to become "fluent" enough in PHP to do database work. PHP 5 has pretty nice MySQL and PostgreSQL connection functions that make working with databases relatively simple.
Learning MySQL and PHP together is actually a great way to go, IMHO. Especially if you have some basic knowledge of C-syntax (C, Java, Javascript, Perl) and database concepts (basic SQL). Each program is only marginally useful without the other, and each can be learned quickly.
5vvee+!
Don't forget doctypes! Browsers render different doctypes (or lack thereof) differently.
Because I'm interested (not trying to pick a fight), what is more complicated when creating valid XHTML? Here is all I can think of:
1. Doctype. There are three acceptable doctypes that can be cut-and-pasted, and the difference between these is pretty straightforward.
2. Valid code. You have to close tags, and you can't place tags out of context (e.g. a <li> tag outside of a list).
What am I missing?
The reason I ask is that I find XHTML/CSS to be simpler than the "old way" of coding. Nested tables? rowspan=3 colspan=2? <br><br><br><br> to move text down? Spacer gifs?