It's great. Very well-written and well-organized, and covers all the things I need as I work through my first real DHTML application (a fairly substantial one). It's a solid reference -- and includes lots of good platform-specific gotchas -- but it also has some great prose that's worth reading.
I also bought Goodman's JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook and it's excellent as well. I refer to it for ideas quite often.
I recommend both books highly. Nice job by Mr. Goodman.
One billion spam email a day, just through AOL. Gosh.
I figure I get about 425,000 a day myself at this point (er, give or take). It's at the point where it's getting painful to go through my SpamAssassin "caughtspam" folder. But there are still enough false positives (really, one is enough) that I can't send the whole thing to/dev/null.
Meanwhile, I'm accruing a great collection of classic spam subject lines. Some examples (all real):
Ada is, in fact, a really great language. It's not really that complex (though Ada compilers are) or clever; in fact, it reads more naturally than most languages I've used. (and much more naturally than most perl -- talk about cleverness.)
I attribute Ada's glorious failure to a few things, and none of them are the language itself:
It was developed by the gov't. Nobody likes the gov't.
The compilers are, like I said, really hard to write. So it took a long time for them to get implemented right, and there sure weren't any free (or even "affordable") ones for a long time.
And the big one: no standard set of class libraries. No Java-like API, no STL, nothing. If you wanted a linked list you had to write it yourself. The Java API is half the reason that Java is so great to work with, and IMO has a lot to do with the language's success.
I really liked programming in Ada. I hated it at first (coming from being a C hacker in college) but in hindsight, it's the only language I've used that left me a better programmer.
Why does everyone on/. make this argument? It might be true for hit-single pop, but not the rest of the musical world. There's tons of examples of records with solid signal:noise ratios. Some popular examples, off the top of my head: Radiohead, System Of A Down, Massive Attack, The Hives, Deftones, Chevelle, Portishead, PJ Harvey, on and on.
If you only wanted 2 tracks, you're a radio victim.
It's interesting to see people saying "the increased bandwidth isn't useful for most people". For me, 802.11a doesn't have enough bandwidth. I have a home recording studio I often move big audio files (gigs, sometimes) around my LAN. That's slow even on 100mbit ethernet! And for a more ordinary application, just copying a newly-ripped CD as mp3's over to my file server could be faster -- it sure ain't instantaneous now.
LAN bandwidth is important enough to me that, upon buying a new house a few months ago, I pulled cat5e into all the rooms rather than going wireless. It was a pain in the ass but I'm hoping that gigabit switches will come down in price soon so I can go gigabit at home. All the current gigabit products are obviously meant for big office backbones, not home usage. I guess I am alone...
Not to push the whole thing too far, but if I was going stealth, I'd post a followup like that one... look, he searched Google! Slashdot cred! Must be one of us!
Well... people have transmitted audio over MIDI via SDS SDS. Yeah, it's virtually useless because MIDI's transfer rate is awful, but it works -- I've used it.
If I'm understanding the Gibson thing right, the neat part is not that you can have digital output straight from your guitar; it's that you can replace analog snakes with ethernet cables between the stage and the FOH mixer. I suppose that's cool... but OTOH sound guys know how to troubleshoot and repair analog problems; knowing what to do with yer ethernet is hosed is a different story.
But hey, if they can simply replace MIDI that'd be a pleasant step forward (though Yamaha's mLAN hasn't managed to do it yet).
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I also bought Goodman's JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook and it's excellent as well. I refer to it for ideas quite often.
I recommend both books highly. Nice job by Mr. Goodman.
You miss pointer arithmetic? Good god. I imagine you also miss coredumps and painful debugging sessions?
Wow, another DRI reunion tour? Any original members on board this time?
I figure I get about 425,000 a day myself at this point (er, give or take). It's at the point where it's getting painful to go through my SpamAssassin "caughtspam" folder. But there are still enough false positives (really, one is enough) that I can't send the whole thing to /dev/null.
Meanwhile, I'm accruing a great collection of classic spam subject lines. Some examples (all real):
- "I don't need your social security number yet"
- "this mom loves to stick hot dogs up her cooch"
- "Pill to Increase Your Ejaculation by 581%"
- "i am not perfect but i suck c0ck"
- "I got revenge by fucking! Here's proof
:)"
- "Mission: To fuck as many mothers as I can!"
- "Fucking Machines! 13IN,
.5HP, 350RPM"
- "Your slut wife boss need some action!"
- "#1 COLON CLEANSER! SEE PROOF"
- "Maybe your pets dream of intercourse with you"
Mmmm, society at its finest.I attribute Ada's glorious failure to a few things, and none of them are the language itself:
- It was developed by the gov't. Nobody likes the gov't.
- The compilers are, like I said, really hard to write. So it took a long time for them to get implemented right, and there sure weren't any free (or even "affordable") ones for a long time.
- And the big one: no standard set of class libraries. No Java-like API, no STL, nothing. If you wanted a linked list you had to write it yourself. The Java API is half the reason that Java is so great to work with, and IMO has a lot to do with the language's success.
I really liked programming in Ada. I hated it at first (coming from being a C hacker in college) but in hindsight, it's the only language I've used that left me a better programmer.Why does everyone on /. make this argument? It might be true for hit-single pop, but not the rest of the musical world. There's tons of examples of records with solid signal:noise ratios. Some popular examples, off the top of my head: Radiohead, System Of A Down, Massive Attack, The Hives, Deftones, Chevelle, Portishead, PJ Harvey, on and on.
If you only wanted 2 tracks, you're a radio victim.
LAN bandwidth is important enough to me that, upon buying a new house a few months ago, I pulled cat5e into all the rooms rather than going wireless. It was a pain in the ass but I'm hoping that gigabit switches will come down in price soon so I can go gigabit at home. All the current gigabit products are obviously meant for big office backbones, not home usage. I guess I am alone...
Not to push the whole thing too far, but if I was going stealth, I'd post a followup like that one... look, he searched Google! Slashdot cred! Must be one of us!
If I'm understanding the Gibson thing right, the neat part is not that you can have digital output straight from your guitar; it's that you can replace analog snakes with ethernet cables between the stage and the FOH mixer. I suppose that's cool... but OTOH sound guys know how to troubleshoot and repair analog problems; knowing what to do with yer ethernet is hosed is a different story.
But hey, if they can simply replace MIDI that'd be a pleasant step forward (though Yamaha's mLAN hasn't managed to do it yet).