Why is our only choice for PHP a Rails copycat some guy baked up in his spare time? Why not Symfony, an enterprise-ready PHP5 framework that you can develop just as rapidly with, yet has documentation, a support community and real-world usage behind it? You know, the framework that Yahoo! Bookmarks runs on.
Drexel University doesn't have the most well-known computer science program, but they still teach these foundations to students. All CS majors have to take two terms of System Architecture, which involves studying how computer hardware works at the lowest possible level, culminating in designing fully capable processors in VHDL and running simple programs on them (written by hand in binary into memory, from assembly code you also write yourself). Nobody graduates with a CS degree without knowing *exactly* how that code you write ends up being translated to instructions and how those instructions run on the CPU. Nobody graduates with a CS degree without creating a simple language and building a fully capable interpreter for that language with variables, loops, functions, recursion, etc. And nobody graduates with a CS degree without learning high level OOP software design.
I've taken three courses at Drexel University that were offered as "class optional" with podcasts of the lectures posted within 10 minutes of the end of every class. Monday and Wednesday new lectures were posted, and Friday assigned homework problems were worked out. If you didn't know how to do one of the problems, you could go in on Friday only to ask questions and have the professor step through it with you. If you were OK with everything, you could watch all 3 lectures a week on your own time.
Relatively difficult courses (organic chem 2-3?) and the online format worked fine for me.
Slightly tech-slanted web stats service W3Counter has public global stats showing a rise in Firefox usage to nearly 25% right now.
After being on Digg twice in a two-day period, I aggregated browser statistics from the over 30,000 unique visitors arriving at the linked page, and came up with these statistics:
1 Firefox 1.5 58%
2 Internet Explorer 6.0 24%
3 Opera 9.0 3%
4 Firefox 1.0 3%
5 Internet Explorer 7.0 2%
6 Mozilla 1.8 1%
7 Mozilla 1.7 1%
8 Opera 8.5 1%
9 Internet Explorer 5.5 1%
10 Safari 2.0 1%
Just shows that the global warming "issue" isn't as black and white as Gore would like you to think. The polar caps are actually *growing* this year, as they have been recently, not shrinking. The video clips of chunks of glaciers shearing off are because they're being pushed further out to sea as the ice mass becomes larger, not smaller.
Trademarks are specific to an industry. O'Reilly trademarked it for conferences, because they've been holding a conference called the Web 2.0 Conference for some time now. They used that trademark to stop another company from... no, not using web 2.0 on their website, but holding a different conference with web 2.0 in the name. This is the proper use of trademarks, O'reilly had the brand first, and they haven't gone after anyone for using the term in any other context.
I have to admit, I chose Drexel U in part because of the fully wireless campus (which it claims to be the first university to ever have, just as it was the first university to require every student to own their own PC [apples at the time]).
I don't think Bush has won yet. Kerry has gotten some good advice from the new campaign team and Clinton, and they're all telling him to ramp it up and start talking about the domestic issues instead of Vietnam. His latest website entries and commercials are about domestic issues instead of the war, so if he can ramp it up, he has a chance of coming back.
I think the debates will help as well. Bush really didn't live up to the promises he made 4 years ago for economy, employment, healthcare, or education. If Kerry debates it right he can make himself look a lot better to more than 50% of Americans that don't really know his plan now. Bush will probably try to push for only two debates instead of three (Clinton did it, so the democrats would have a hard time saying anything about that), hopefully we'll see three.
I have kept in my collection for the past few years only one floppy disk, a Windows 98 Emergency Disk with a couple extra tools on it, which I used to boot computers in order to install Windows from non-bootable CDs. I lent that disk out to someone down the hall in my college dorm while helping to diagnose a corrupt hard drive, and he never returned it.
Fast forward to last week when I wanted to install Windows on a screenless laptop (I had stepped on it about two years ago) which had previously been running Mandrake Linux. Not having the floppy, and not having a bootable version of the Win XP install CD, I had no way of running the install program. I searched the house to find that I truly no longer own any floppy disks. I also searched Google and couldn't find a simple bootable DOS CD image I could burn.
Does anyone know where I can find such a thing for future emergencies? I currently don't have a single bootable CD except Mandrake and Redhat install CDs, and I'd like a DOS alternative as well for setting up Windows systems without a floppy.
My suggestion for funding Open Source is to stick a huge PayPal "donate to this project" button at the top of each sourceforge page, and beg. I've seen it work soooo many times, it's amazing.
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Why is our only choice for PHP a Rails copycat some guy baked up in his spare time? Why not Symfony, an enterprise-ready PHP5 framework that you can develop just as rapidly with, yet has documentation, a support community and real-world usage behind it? You know, the framework that Yahoo! Bookmarks runs on.
How's it look?
Drexel University doesn't have the most well-known computer science program, but they still teach these foundations to students. All CS majors have to take two terms of System Architecture, which involves studying how computer hardware works at the lowest possible level, culminating in designing fully capable processors in VHDL and running simple programs on them (written by hand in binary into memory, from assembly code you also write yourself). Nobody graduates with a CS degree without knowing *exactly* how that code you write ends up being translated to instructions and how those instructions run on the CPU. Nobody graduates with a CS degree without creating a simple language and building a fully capable interpreter for that language with variables, loops, functions, recursion, etc. And nobody graduates with a CS degree without learning high level OOP software design.
I've taken three courses at Drexel University that were offered as "class optional" with podcasts of the lectures posted within 10 minutes of the end of every class. Monday and Wednesday new lectures were posted, and Friday assigned homework problems were worked out. If you didn't know how to do one of the problems, you could go in on Friday only to ask questions and have the professor step through it with you. If you were OK with everything, you could watch all 3 lectures a week on your own time. Relatively difficult courses (organic chem 2-3?) and the online format worked fine for me.
Just shows that the global warming "issue" isn't as black and white as Gore would like you to think. The polar caps are actually *growing* this year, as they have been recently, not shrinking. The video clips of chunks of glaciers shearing off are because they're being pushed further out to sea as the ice mass becomes larger, not smaller.
MS thinks it can run a search engine as well as Google, when their servers can't handle a little Slashdotting? "Server too busy"
The site's intermittently up and down for me. Wow, I haven't seen the Netscape icon on Slashdot in a while.
Trademarks are specific to an industry. O'Reilly trademarked it for conferences, because they've been holding a conference called the Web 2.0 Conference for some time now. They used that trademark to stop another company from... no, not using web 2.0 on their website, but holding a different conference with web 2.0 in the name. This is the proper use of trademarks, O'reilly had the brand first, and they haven't gone after anyone for using the term in any other context.
I have to admit, I chose Drexel U in part because of the fully wireless campus (which it claims to be the first university to ever have, just as it was the first university to require every student to own their own PC [apples at the time]).
Why? Because it's real money! Spend that on a couple shares of Google instead.
I don't think Bush has won yet. Kerry has gotten some good advice from the new campaign team and Clinton, and they're all telling him to ramp it up and start talking about the domestic issues instead of Vietnam. His latest website entries and commercials are about domestic issues instead of the war, so if he can ramp it up, he has a chance of coming back. I think the debates will help as well. Bush really didn't live up to the promises he made 4 years ago for economy, employment, healthcare, or education. If Kerry debates it right he can make himself look a lot better to more than 50% of Americans that don't really know his plan now. Bush will probably try to push for only two debates instead of three (Clinton did it, so the democrats would have a hard time saying anything about that), hopefully we'll see three.
I have kept in my collection for the past few years only one floppy disk, a Windows 98 Emergency Disk with a couple extra tools on it, which I used to boot computers in order to install Windows from non-bootable CDs. I lent that disk out to someone down the hall in my college dorm while helping to diagnose a corrupt hard drive, and he never returned it.
Fast forward to last week when I wanted to install Windows on a screenless laptop (I had stepped on it about two years ago) which had previously been running Mandrake Linux. Not having the floppy, and not having a bootable version of the Win XP install CD, I had no way of running the install program. I searched the house to find that I truly no longer own any floppy disks. I also searched Google and couldn't find a simple bootable DOS CD image I could burn.
Does anyone know where I can find such a thing for future emergencies? I currently don't have a single bootable CD except Mandrake and Redhat install CDs, and I'd like a DOS alternative as well for setting up Windows systems without a floppy.
My suggestion for funding Open Source is to stick a huge PayPal "donate to this project" button at the top of each sourceforge page, and beg. I've seen it work soooo many times, it's amazing. [b]Dan Grossman[/b] http://www.websitegoodies.com