ad 3) I know it's hard to unterstand if you're thinking differently, but PHP is strongly typed. It's so strong it's changed by PHP itself to match the value.
And the other think is we're using HTTP. PHP is written for Webapps. That's why it sees everything like HTTP or HTML: as string. Thus it doesn't matter if a number is in an int or a string. The only think that matters for your validation is that it only has digits in it (like with is_numeric()).
You have just described a weakly typed language.
ad 4) You mean... like cron jobs?
No. Cron jobs are not running continuously (or whenever there's an event that needs handling), and are not in the same process space as your application.
I don't see you working with PHP often enough to be able to argue.
I was actually getting quite annoyed by this last night. Most of the torrent listing sites don't give much information on what each torrent is. I was trying to downoad some free (hopefully legal) information, but most of the available torrents were merely pdf'd printouts of someone else's website or scanned pamphlet with a PDF advertizement for a casino shoved in. Rather like spam, this just increases the noise to signal ratio. I'd rather not waste my bandwidth sharing an ad for a lottery scam with the world.
It's actually not that hard, provided you know aproximately how big your partitions were, and you've not changed the virtual layout of the drive (which I did). Most hard drives come in a default virtual configuration of the number of cylenders, heads, and sectors that is not the same as the physical layout. Theoretically, you might be able to improve the accuracy of the scheduler by changing this to the physical layout.
Don't.
If you lose the partition table it will default back to the virtual layout, and your filesystems will be somewhat messed up (partition boundaries may not line up with cylender boundaries, etc). This will lead to some lost data.
I got a 486 DX2/66 to run at 50 (1x50), 66 (2x33), 75 (3x25), 99 (3x33), 100 (4x25), 100 (2x50), and 132 (3x33) MHz. The hard-drive controller died permanently when I tried for 150 (3x50). The only extra cooling I did was polishing the top of the CPU and bottom of the heatsink with jeweler's rouge and applying a little thermal grease.
Down-clocking it to 50MHz (while upping the bus speed) actually made it faster than at 66MHz, but the modem and sound card (both PCI) didn't work.
While burning a CD in an IDE CDRW on Fedora Core 1, about 15 minutes before having to go catch a ferry to an important meeting at work...
Hmm... I need to copy this data to my USB keyfob
$mount/dev/sda
mount: device not found or not a valid filesystem weird... it's not formatted
$mkdosfs/dev/sda This is taking longer than I expected...
Hey... the light on my keyfob isn't on, but the hard-drive light is... (flip to annother VT)
$lsmod ...
ide-scsi ... Oh Shit! (reach for power switch at back of computer)
The amazing thing is that after lots work, I managed to re-construct the home partition enough to save most of my data changed since the previous backup. As I'd over-written the partition table, this involved grepping the block device for "ReIsEr34" so I could find the block a certain number of sectors in from the beginning of the partition (16, I think, but I don't remember), then useing this information to re-build the partition table.
In a system connected to the grid you shouldn't really need batteries. Whenever you have excess power from wind or sun, you sell it back to the grid. Every Watt/Hour from wind or sun is one less Watt/Hour that needs to come from other sources. This means the coal fired plant can be throttled back, or the Hydroelectric Dam can be closed, allowing the resevoir to rise for a calm, cloudy day.
I don't see any big parties (... NDP) doing this, and that might be because they have realized that this doesn't win votes.
Actually, I talked to Jack Layton about this last year. The NDP doesn't have a policy on this because most of the executive didn't understand the issues in time to bring a motion to the last national convention. Without a motion passing at a national convention it can't be party policy. It can be constituency association or caucus policy, but not party policy. I forwarded him some information and contacts in the Ottawa civil service.
Subsequently, there was brief mention of Open Source and Intellectual Property issues in their election platform booklet. Few people read those booklets though; most just listen to sound-bites on Canwest/Global.
I've also talked to Jean Crowder about open source. She uses open source software almost exclusively, and wants to develop a policy on Open Source and intellectual property issues.
The Options (someone from the UK please confirm this) are the Labour party (Blair's party, who are conservatives in the clothes of progressives) and the Conservative party (who are conservatives). There is no major progressive party now that the Labour party has been co-opted.
Party representatives are allowed to touch the Ballots???
Here in Canada, the only people allowed to touch the Ballots are the Deputy Returning Officer (who is sworn to be non-partisan) and the Voter. The DRO isn't allowed to touch the voter list, that's the Poll Clerk's job.
The scrutineers and the candidate's representative (who oversees the scrutineers for their party) aren't allowed to touch anything. They also aren't allowed to talk about politics or have any signs or material which might identify their party etc. asside from their scrutineer badge (which has their name and party).
The election before last, I went up to the table to vote and the Poll Clerk, DRO, and scrutineer were telling me who to vote for. They turned absolutely white when right after putting my ballot in the box I walked over to the candidate's rep (for a different party) handed him my paperwork and got my scrutineer badge. They stopped telling people how to vote after that (I was assigned to their table).
I mean, if they licensed it for free distribution, what would prevent some half-baked Chinese knock off from mass producing the wireless chipset reference design, burning the for-profit's "free" firmware, and selling for a huge profit?
And this would hurt the chipset manufacturer how? The knock-off company would still have to buy the chips from them. That's why they make reference designs.. so other companies can know how to make knock-offs.
Typical to automatically assume the word citizen refers to American Citizens. The wording is a little off, but it is pretty clear they are referring to Canadian Citizens working for US-Owned corperations.
The privacy commissioner was referring to Canadian citizens living in BC. The provincial government wants to out-source all medical services plan data to a subsidiary of an american defence contractor. Because we have mandatory health coverage, every resident of BC has an MSP record. That's 4 million Canadian Citizens whose medical records could be demanded by a foreign intelligence service without a warrant issued by a Canadian judge.
According to this story the provincial government is going to outsource anyways.
This is so important to understand, I'm going to re-post it above the discussion about bin Laden's tape.
This story (and this summary) really should be front-page material
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You have just described a weakly typed language.
No. Cron jobs are not running continuously (or whenever there's an event that needs handling), and are not in the same process space as your application.
You must not be looking. I use PHP most days.
I was actually getting quite annoyed by this last night. Most of the torrent listing sites don't give much information on what each torrent is. I was trying to downoad some free (hopefully legal) information, but most of the available torrents were merely pdf'd printouts of someone else's website or scanned pamphlet with a PDF advertizement for a casino shoved in. Rather like spam, this just increases the noise to signal ratio. I'd rather not waste my bandwidth sharing an ad for a lottery scam with the world.
It's actually not that hard, provided you know aproximately how big your partitions were, and you've not changed the virtual layout of the drive (which I did). Most hard drives come in a default virtual configuration of the number of cylenders, heads, and sectors that is not the same as the physical layout. Theoretically, you might be able to improve the accuracy of the scheduler by changing this to the physical layout.
Don't.
If you lose the partition table it will default back to the virtual layout, and your filesystems will be somewhat messed up (partition boundaries may not line up with cylender boundaries, etc). This will lead to some lost data.
I got a 486 DX2/66 to run at 50 (1x50), 66 (2x33), 75 (3x25), 99 (3x33), 100 (4x25), 100 (2x50), and 132 (3x33) MHz. The hard-drive controller died permanently when I tried for 150 (3x50). The only extra cooling I did was polishing the top of the CPU and bottom of the heatsink with jeweler's rouge and applying a little thermal grease.
Down-clocking it to 50MHz (while upping the bus speed) actually made it faster than at 66MHz, but the modem and sound card (both PCI) didn't work.
While burning a CD in an IDE CDRW on Fedora Core 1, about 15 minutes before having to go catch a ferry to an important meeting at work...
The amazing thing is that after lots work, I managed to re-construct the home partition enough to save most of my data changed since the previous backup. As I'd over-written the partition table, this involved grepping the block device for "ReIsEr34" so I could find the block a certain number of sectors in from the beginning of the partition (16, I think, but I don't remember), then useing this information to re-build the partition table.
Wind
In a system connected to the grid you shouldn't really need batteries. Whenever you have excess power from wind or sun, you sell it back to the grid. Every Watt/Hour from wind or sun is one less Watt/Hour that needs to come from other sources. This means the coal fired plant can be throttled back, or the Hydroelectric Dam can be closed, allowing the resevoir to rise for a calm, cloudy day.
The Power of Nightmares
w00t
The Votes are counted at the polling station.
Or maybe you need to type really fast to be able to analyse the system before the evidence is deleted.
Actually, I talked to Jack Layton about this last year. The NDP doesn't have a policy on this because most of the executive didn't understand the issues in time to bring a motion to the last national convention. Without a motion passing at a national convention it can't be party policy. It can be constituency association or caucus policy, but not party policy. I forwarded him some information and contacts in the Ottawa civil service.
Subsequently, there was brief mention of Open Source and Intellectual Property issues in their election platform booklet. Few people read those booklets though; most just listen to sound-bites on Canwest/Global.
I've also talked to Jean Crowder about open source. She uses open source software almost exclusively, and wants to develop a policy on Open Source and intellectual property issues.
I will not discuss it because of your obvious liberal bias. Shut up.
Just shut up. Shut up. Cut the mike.
Followed by looking up old plans for fallout shelters.
The Power of Nightmares. Find it on your favourite P2P network.
The Options (someone from the UK please confirm this) are the Labour party (Blair's party, who are conservatives in the clothes of progressives) and the Conservative party (who are conservatives). There is no major progressive party now that the Labour party has been co-opted.
I'd encourage everyone to download (from your favourite torrent site or P2P) and view the 3 part BBC Documentary "The Power of Nightmares".
(Episode 3 isn't out yet.)
Please tell that to the the BC Provincial Government!
Party representatives are allowed to touch the Ballots???
Here in Canada, the only people allowed to touch the Ballots are the Deputy Returning Officer (who is sworn to be non-partisan) and the Voter. The DRO isn't allowed to touch the voter list, that's the Poll Clerk's job.
The scrutineers and the candidate's representative (who oversees the scrutineers for their party) aren't allowed to touch anything. They also aren't allowed to talk about politics or have any signs or material which might identify their party etc. asside from their scrutineer badge (which has their name and party).
The election before last, I went up to the table to vote and the Poll Clerk, DRO, and scrutineer were telling me who to vote for. They turned absolutely white when right after putting my ballot in the box I walked over to the candidate's rep (for a different party) handed him my paperwork and got my scrutineer badge. They stopped telling people how to vote after that (I was assigned to their table).
I didn't think it was funny at all.
And this would hurt the chipset manufacturer how? The knock-off company would still have to buy the chips from them. That's why they make reference designs .. so other companies can know how to make knock-offs.
I'm not sure what the US trailers for it say, but the Canadian trailers say something like:
and
Remember what happened the year after the 1860 election.
The privacy commissioner was referring to Canadian citizens living in BC. The provincial government wants to out-source all medical services plan data to a subsidiary of an american defence contractor. Because we have mandatory health coverage, every resident of BC has an MSP record. That's 4 million Canadian Citizens whose medical records could be demanded by a foreign intelligence service without a warrant issued by a Canadian judge.
According to this story the provincial government is going to outsource anyways.
This is so important to understand, I'm going to re-post it above the discussion about bin Laden's tape.
This story (and this summary) really should be front-page material