One other thing I'd recommend, if you chose the PHP route. Use PHPlib. It does a lot to help clean up a few rough edges around PHP, like:
Database Abstraction - Write code that can work with a number of SQL backends: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle & OCI8, ODBC, mSQL and Sybase are supported.
Sessions - Added session support to PHP3. Somewhat obsoleted now that PHP4 has sessions; I believe a compatibility layer for PHP4 sessions is in the works.
Authentication & Permissions - Much more flexible than HTTP authentication.
Templates - PHPlib has it's own template class, similar in concept to FastTemplates.
Object Oriented convenience classes for tables and forms.
More that I can't think of right now...
It's written to take advantage of PHP OOP as well, so the code is more maintainable.
Does anyone ever actually pay attention to the movie?? Despite the title, Queen Amidala stated that she recieved her position by democratic election, which seems to me to be the main point of contention. In fact, if anything, the point of Star Wars seems to be that, while a good despot may be the best form of government (in Lucas's opinion), a bad despot would definitely be the worst. The only difference between the two is the adjective.
Pardon my ignorance, but where exactly do they portray overclockers as "people trying to steal from Intel and other computer manufacturers"? I don't see it anywhere. On the whole, I thought it was a decent article on the subject, considering the source. But yes, I'd agree that there's more to the reasons for overclocking than bragging rights and gaming, certainly.
Disclaimer: I was/am a member of the Boy Scouts, with the rank of eagle.
What's interesting that information like this gets moderated up to "Interesting," and without any facts to back it up. First off, The BSA was founded in 1910 (before WW1 or 2!) by Robert Baden-Powell and William D. Boyce. It was based on the British Military system (yes, even the uniforms), and has been adapted into what you see today
Mozilla can support plenty of DHTML features (possibly more than IE?), however, Netscape Communicator's "DHTML" is incompatible with Mozilla's, since Mozilla uses the W3C DOM (Document Object Model) standard for DHTML instead of the proprietary "Layers" method that Netscape Communicator used. Thus many pages that take advantage of Communicator's "DHTML" don't work. The upside to all of this is that it should be easier to write DHTML that works both in IE and Mozilla without having to resort to browser detection.
Why should you download the latest Mozilla milestone? Don't say for personal use... it is still in a testing phase. You have to remember that the developers are counting on your input. Pour over the little details and give them feedback. Some of the crash bugs need to be endured - don't go screaming back to I.E. Hot off the press builds (nightlies) should probably stay with the developers, however, who have more Grits to deal with the situation. Down to the last milestone, you have to think like a tester, not an end user. Your feedback is important to the Mozilla team. Pants off to them... er whoops;) Hats off.
Yes, Bluth was a Disney animator originally, but he left Disney while they were working on The Fox and the Hound due to artistic constraints. You can find a lot of information about Bluth here and here.
I've worked with Python a little before and this is one of the first things that bit me. AFAIK, it parses tab-indents and space-indents differently and thus Python won't parse code with mixed tabs and spaces as indents.
Birds Of a Feather (BOF) (From the saying "Birds of a feather flock together") An informal discussion group, scheduled on a conference program or formed ad hoc, to consider a specific issue or subject. It is not clear where or when this term originated, but it is now associated with the USENIX conferences for Unix techies and was already established there by 1984. It was used earlier than that at DECUS conferences and is reported to have been common at SHARE meetings as far back as the early 1960s.
I've gotta put in a plug for a filter that I'm fond of: The Proxomitron. It is Win32 only (unfortunately; if you use a different platform, Junkbusters is probably the way to go), is much more user-friendly than JunkBusters, and probably just about as configurable. Since it is a proxying filter, it works with all browsers. Hey, it's even skinnable.:)
One of the main reasons Linux/Open Source Software is so lauded is because of the extensive Internet-based support available for it via mailing lists and IRC. Perhaps it would be better for them to adopt this kind of support model for their games. Hire some people, get them familiar with the Linux version of the game, and let them loose on IRC. Encourage community support from other users.
You'd still need to make it clear that phone support isn't available, but it's probably better than no support at all. Even just providing a support forum where people can ask other users questions (without having to hire anybody to give official answers) would be better than no support at all.
I, as well as a number of other people, I'd wager, think that a breakup of Microsoft could actually be more harmful by replacing a large monopoly with a number of smaller ones (ala AT&T and the Baby Bells). Yet from what I read, it seems that that is what they are going for.
My question is, do you think it will be more likely that this will result in a breakup (if it results in anything), or some other action. If so, what?
The arrival of the first Christian computer action game opens a whole new chapter in the never-ending struggle between technology and the self-proclaimed forces of morality.
Really? I wasn't aware that technology and morality were mutualy exclusive goals. Surely you can use technology for good.
Perhaps you only mean a struggle between the people who crusade for enforced morality (which I would admit is hypocritical), who also seem to be technophobes, and technology, but it really is difficult to tell.
I agree with the idea that we need something to "filter" out the onslaught of information and technology, but in my mind, handing this power over to someone else is distasteful, at least without extensive customizability and privacy. Which is hard balance to reach, but necessary, since you'll probably want to keep adverts, which are generally useless, out. Otherwise this could be a a marketers' dream come true.
What might be better is something on your personal computer, something with the AI necessary to interpret and sift out all the gems from the sand. I've already got something that does some of the rudiments of this already: a proxy filter, dutifully disabling animated ads, and fixing annoying mistakes in HTML. This sort of thing could grow into something that actively pulls the information you need for you, finding things that you might miss, and screening stuff you don't want, and refining its searches by learning your preferences. The idea isn't new; people have been looking at making a true Personal Digital Assistant for a while now.
The problem that I see is that if this were to be set up improperly, it could easily become similar to the "labeling" stuff that has been seen on YRO. The catch is to make it so that it does not actually restrict the free flow of information, just that individuals will be able to get the stuff that they need, and not be bothered by the stuff that they don't.
I dunno, it sounds more like this proves that the enginneers who wrote the program are more creative than Marketing people. Which seems obvious to me, of course...:)
Pleading the fifth is a response that can be given in court when asked to testify against oneself. It refers to the fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states:
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
In other words, he believes answering will jeopardize his relationship with MTV.
Slashdot Mirror
Finally some sanity among the PHP-bashing!
One other thing I'd recommend, if you chose the PHP route. Use PHPlib. It does a lot to help clean up a few rough edges around PHP, like:
- Database Abstraction - Write code that can work with a number of SQL backends: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle & OCI8, ODBC, mSQL and Sybase are supported.
- Sessions - Added session support to PHP3. Somewhat obsoleted now that PHP4 has sessions; I believe a compatibility layer for PHP4 sessions is in the works.
- Authentication & Permissions - Much more flexible than HTTP authentication.
- Templates - PHPlib has it's own template class, similar in concept to FastTemplates.
- Object Oriented convenience classes for tables and forms.
- More that I can't think of right now...
It's written to take advantage of PHP OOP as well, so the code is more maintainable.My $.02...
Does anyone ever actually pay attention to the movie?? Despite the title, Queen Amidala stated that she recieved her position by democratic election , which seems to me to be the main point of contention. In fact, if anything, the point of Star Wars seems to be that, while a good despot may be the best form of government (in Lucas's opinion), a bad despot would definitely be the worst. The only difference between the two is the adjective.
Pardon my ignorance, but where exactly do they portray overclockers as "people trying to steal from Intel and other computer manufacturers"? I don't see it anywhere. On the whole, I thought it was a decent article on the subject, considering the source. But yes, I'd agree that there's more to the reasons for overclocking than bragging rights and gaming, certainly.
Disclaimer: I was/am a member of the Boy Scouts, with the rank of eagle.
What's interesting that information like this gets moderated up to "Interesting," and without any facts to back it up. First off, The BSA was founded in 1910 (before WW1 or 2!) by Robert Baden-Powell and William D. Boyce. It was based on the British Military system (yes, even the uniforms), and has been adapted into what you see today
Information on Boy Scouts: /index.htm
http://www.scouting.org/factsheets/0 2-503.html
http://members.aol.com/randywoo/bsah is/b-p.htm
http://users.aol.com/randywoo/bsahis
Information on Hitler Youth:
http://www.cord.edu/homepages/amm orris/paper.html
http://youth.net/memories/hypermail/0 554.html
Google Search: hitler youth
Mozilla can support plenty of DHTML features (possibly more than IE?), however, Netscape Communicator's "DHTML" is incompatible with Mozilla's, since Mozilla uses the W3C DOM (Document Object Model) standard for DHTML instead of the proprietary "Layers" method that Netscape Communicator used. Thus many pages that take advantage of Communicator's "DHTML" don't work. The upside to all of this is that it should be easier to write DHTML that works both in IE and Mozilla without having to resort to browser detection.
Why should you download the latest Mozilla milestone? ;) Hats off.
Don't say for personal use... it is still in a testing phase.
You have to remember that the developers are counting on your input.
Pour over the little details and give them feedback.
Some of the crash bugs need to be endured - don't go screaming back to I.E.
Hot off the press builds (nightlies) should probably stay with the developers, however, who have more
Grits to deal with the situation.
Down to the last milestone, you have to think like a tester, not an end user.
Your feedback is important to the Mozilla team.
Pants off to them... er whoops
Yes, Bluth was a Disney animator originally, but he left Disney while they were working on The Fox and the Hound due to artistic constraints. You can find a lot of information about Bluth here and here.
I've worked with Python a little before and this is one of the first things that bit me. AFAIK, it parses tab-indents and space-indents differently and thus Python won't parse code with mixed tabs and spaces as indents.
FOLDOC Illuminates: http://www.instantweb.com/~foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query =bof
1. Birds Of a Feather.
2. Boring Old Fart.
Birds Of a Feather
(BOF) (From the saying "Birds of a feather flock together") An informal discussion group, scheduled on a conference program or formed ad hoc, to consider a specific issue or subject. It is not clear where or when this term originated, but it is now associated with the USENIX conferences for Unix techies and was already established there by 1984. It was used earlier than that at DECUS conferences and is reported to have been common at SHARE meetings as far back as the early 1960s.
I've gotta put in a plug for a filter that I'm fond of: The Proxomitron. It is Win32 only (unfortunately; if you use a different platform, Junkbusters is probably the way to go), is much more user-friendly than JunkBusters, and probably just about as configurable. Since it is a proxying filter, it works with all browsers. Hey, it's even skinnable. :)
I don't remember the exact ingredients either, but I'm pretty sure that they included "mechanically seperated poultry product."
Mmmmm...
What's that? I'm from the US, so (obviously) I've never heard of it before.
It's a joke. This is what my junk proxy filter returns:
GET / HTTP/1.0Accept: */*
Referer: http://www.2600.com/
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
If-None-Match: "7bcce-250-386d3c91"
Host: www.2600.com
Pragma: no-cache
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 04:04:00 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix)
ETag: "7bcce-250-386d3c91"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 592
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
It would have returned an HTTP Error of 500 for an internal server eror.
You can find PHPSlash here: http://phplib.netuse.de/download/index.php3
Be aware that it is pre-alpha software (v 0.5.2). A website will exist at phpslash.org, but it is not there yet.
No less cheesy than the 90% (or whatever it is) of Gnome apps seem to start with "G" or "Gn" :)
One of the main reasons Linux/Open Source Software is so lauded is because of the extensive Internet-based support available for it via mailing lists and IRC. Perhaps it would be better for them to adopt this kind of support model for their games. Hire some people, get them familiar with the Linux version of the game, and let them loose on IRC. Encourage community support from other users.
You'd still need to make it clear that phone support isn't available, but it's probably better than no support at all. Even just providing a support forum where people can ask other users questions (without having to hire anybody to give official answers) would be better than no support at all.
I, as well as a number of other people, I'd wager, think that a breakup of Microsoft could actually be more harmful by replacing a large monopoly with a number of smaller ones (ala AT&T and the Baby Bells). Yet from what I read, it seems that that is what they are going for.
My question is, do you think it will be more likely that this will result in a breakup (if it results in anything), or some other action. If so, what?
I dunno, the spam from people selling e-mail address lists on CD always get me... :)
Funny as usual... keep it up!
That's probably because Hotwired owns Hotbot, and Hotwired was recently bought and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Lycos.
The arrival of the first Christian computer action game opens a whole new chapter in the never-ending struggle between technology and the self-proclaimed forces of morality.
Really? I wasn't aware that technology and morality were mutualy exclusive goals. Surely you can use technology for good.
Perhaps you only mean a struggle between the people who crusade for enforced morality (which I would admit is hypocritical), who also seem to be technophobes, and technology, but it really is difficult to tell.
I agree with the idea that we need something to "filter" out the onslaught of information and technology, but in my mind, handing this power over to someone else is distasteful, at least without extensive customizability and privacy. Which is hard balance to reach, but necessary, since you'll probably want to keep adverts, which are generally useless, out. Otherwise this could be a a marketers' dream come true.
What might be better is something on your personal computer, something with the AI necessary to interpret and sift out all the gems from the sand. I've already got something that does some of the rudiments of this already: a proxy filter, dutifully disabling animated ads, and fixing annoying mistakes in HTML. This sort of thing could grow into something that actively pulls the information you need for you, finding things that you might miss, and screening stuff you don't want, and refining its searches by learning your preferences. The idea isn't new; people have been looking at making a true Personal Digital Assistant for a while now.
The problem that I see is that if this were to be set up improperly, it could easily become similar to the "labeling" stuff that has been seen on YRO. The catch is to make it so that it does not actually restrict the free flow of information, just that individuals will be able to get the stuff that they need, and not be bothered by the stuff that they don't.
As to whether I think that's fair or not is another matter.
I dunno, it sounds more like this proves that the enginneers who wrote the program are more creative than Marketing people. Which seems obvious to me, of course... :)
What about The Secret of NIMH? Now that would be something.
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
In other words, he believes answering will jeopardize his relationship with MTV.
Man, that was dry.