It'll do, however OOP isn't the only programming paradigm that people use with PHP. I know quite a few people that use PHP for its functional programming abilities. (Just making conversation, not knocking OOP)
It'd be great if variables, functions, classes, and constants could be defined in their own namespaces. For really big projects, it's too easy for names to collide in the global namespace. An annoying workaround has always been to make names unique by prepending them with something.
I'm sure this is how the show went: Cruise> Ellen, Ellen, I've never agreed with Yahoo, ever. Before I was a Scientologist I never agreed with Yahoo. And when i started studying the history of psychiatry, I understood more and more why I didn't believe in Yahoo.
Ellen> But Tom.. Cruise> Ellen, Ellen. As far as the Dashboard thing is, look. You gotta understand, I really care about the Dashboard. I-- I think here's a-- a-- a wonderful and talented piece of software. And-- I wanna see it do well. And I know that-- Yahoo -- is a pseudo science. I KNOW THE HISTORY OF YAHOO! YOU DON'T!
I'm currently writing a research paper on the newly OSI certified Adaptive Public License (APL). Here are some of the points that I thought were interesting. (IANAL by the way)
As a template license, it contains no corporate proper names, so it is usable by others without modification.
The initial contributor sets the jurisdiction.
Patent rights transfer is optional.
Allows any licensee to enforce the license and go after violators. Therefore, you don't need to collect all the copyrights of the contributors' code before going after violators, which is nice.
There are clear distribution obligations.
There is an explicit definition of independent module. Therefore you can combine code under multiple licenses without contamination, as long as they are independent modules.
I think the APL as a template license helps address license proliferation problems that have been plaguing the OSI. Hopefully, the Adaptive Public License becomes one of the top-tier recommended licenses.
I was watching Lou Dobbs on CNN, and he was discussing how disturbing it was that China has a government policy to become the world leader in biotech, high tech etc. They want to be world leader in everything.
So, I guess if you want to become a world leader, you have to be #1 in everything including being #1 in spamming. Nations will tremble at their might.
As electric/hybrid cars and such become more popular, they introduce new risks to rescue crews in the event of a crash. A lot of fire departments are needing new training to respond to car accidents involving electric cars, as the risk of electrocution is very real. This article briefly describes the new risks.
Just use the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause and ban bic pens, and scissors! I'm sure this follows the spirit of the law, and totally what the legislators intended the DMCA for. Enforcement of this ban should be pretty easy as well...
"Our users should have confidence that as long as they're running the latest browser with all the latest security fixes, they will have the most powerful and secure browsing experience." - Microsoft group product manager for Internet Explorer
Yes they should have this powerful secure browser.... funny funny. Maybe they're talking about FireFox 1.0.
There was an article on slashdot a while ago about retooling slashdot with XHTML. A pretty good read that summarizes the benefits of XHTML/CSS. The cost savings pretty interesting too:
*Savings per day without caching the CSS files: ~3.15 GB bandwidth * Savings per day with caching the CSS files: ~14 GB bandwidth
Most Slashdot visitors would have the CSS file cached, so we could ballpark the daily savings at ~10 GB bandwidth. A high volume of bandwidth from an ISP could be anywhere from $1 - $5 cost per GB of transfer, but let's calculate it at $1 per GB for an entire year. For this example, the total yearly savings for Slashdot would be: $3,650 USD!
I have a hard time seeing fans cheering on their favourite mathlete. Could you imagine the 'math' highlights of the day on ESPN or something?
"Today we witnessed the biggest upset in math history. Mr.Robert at the last minute pulled out a proof that he was working on during the half time break, and won it for the team! That's right Larry, what an exciting conclusion to the 2004 Math Bowl! I haven't seen proofs like that since my university years Dave. Now onto a word from our sponsors."
At last! We can break the tyranny of CowboyNeal! We can finally unplug from slashdot and be fr.... what's that? It's back up? Okay nevermind... back to the powerplant people, nothing to see here!
I think Starbucks can increase their revenue by following Monkey Island 4's lead. They should open a Starbuccaneer's which caters to today's modern pirates (y'arr). They could offer free p2p services inside which will allow mighty pirates to steal games, movies, and music!
Screenshots of the Starbuccaneer's concepts available here and here.
I'm sure Starbucks can buy the licence to use Starbuccaneer's pretty easily.
Urban warfare is a mode of fighting that has haunted armies for a couple hundred years now
Actually, urban warfare has haunted armies since the days Sun Tzu. Hence his famous quote:
"The worst policy is to attack cities. Attack cities only when there is no alternative."
--Sun Tzu, The Art of War
It's also interesting to see how military doctrine has fundamentally changed since world war 2. During WW2, civilians were legitimate military targets. The best way to take an enemy city was to bomb it to heck, and move your troops in to mop up. On another tangent, it's also interesting to see how the media has changed the way war is fought. The media can massively influence the public's opinion of a war. I'm reminded by a quote that went like, "If CNN was around during WW2, the allies would have lost." Nations just don't have the stomach for casulties when the media reports on the losses.
I think the key to a popular plain text formats is the marketing. We need some new sexy acronymn for CSV and promote it everywhere on the net. Maybe we should repackage CSV as... I don't know.... the RAM file format! And we'll start building RAM databases, and promise a lot of intangible things because of this file format. Do we have any marketing people here at slashdot that can help us with this?
Is it just me or is this just more XML hype? The fact that their system uses XML doesn't actually add any new functionality. They could have chosen anything else really... as long as the systems communicated with the same ontology and language.
I'm scared to fathom the possibilities of PHBs reading this story's headline, and calling up a meeting with all the programmers. He'll announce: from this day forward, our organization will program everything in XML to increase efficiency, enhance synergy, and become more competitive in the market place, while increasing our return on investment! Meanwhile all the programmers look stunned or they're smacking their foreheads.
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Well, the results are in, and what an exciting election that was! The Canadian Culture Minister, Hélène Chalifour Scherrer has been readily defeated. The results for this particular riding is available here.
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Can Games Make You Cry? Uhhh... yeah, have you tried playing Star Wars Galaxies?
It'll do, however OOP isn't the only programming paradigm that people use with PHP. I know quite a few people that use PHP for its functional programming abilities. (Just making conversation, not knocking OOP)
It'd be great if variables, functions, classes, and constants could be defined in their own namespaces. For really big projects, it's too easy for names to collide in the global namespace. An annoying workaround has always been to make names unique by prepending them with something.
I'm sure this is how the show went:
Cruise> Ellen, Ellen, I've never agreed with Yahoo, ever. Before I was a Scientologist I never agreed with Yahoo. And when i started studying the history of psychiatry, I understood more and more why I didn't believe in Yahoo.
Ellen> But Tom..
Cruise> Ellen, Ellen. As far as the Dashboard thing is, look. You gotta understand, I really care about the Dashboard. I-- I think here's a-- a-- a wonderful and talented piece of software. And-- I wanna see it do well. And I know that-- Yahoo -- is a pseudo science. I KNOW THE HISTORY OF YAHOO! YOU DON'T!
- As a template license, it contains no corporate proper names, so it is usable by others without modification.
- The initial contributor sets the jurisdiction.
- Patent rights transfer is optional.
- Allows any licensee to enforce the license and go after violators. Therefore, you don't need to collect all the copyrights of the contributors' code before going after violators, which is nice.
- There are clear distribution obligations.
-
There is an explicit definition of independent module. Therefore you can combine code under multiple licenses without contamination, as long as they are independent modules.
I think the APL as a template license helps address license proliferation problems that have been plaguing the OSI. Hopefully, the Adaptive Public License becomes one of the top-tier recommended licenses.http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apl1.0.php
I was watching Lou Dobbs on CNN, and he was discussing how disturbing it was that China has a government policy to become the world leader in biotech, high tech etc. They want to be world leader in everything. So, I guess if you want to become a world leader, you have to be #1 in everything including being #1 in spamming. Nations will tremble at their might.
Queue the phase 1, phase 2, phase 3 profit jokes...
Funny comic from Penny Arcade today about CounterStrike, here's the link.
I argue that P2P applications are the killer app for broadband. What do you think eats up bandwidth these days besides a savage slashdotting?
As electric/hybrid cars and such become more popular, they introduce new risks to rescue crews in the event of a crash. A lot of fire departments are needing new training to respond to car accidents involving electric cars, as the risk of electrocution is very real. This article briefly describes the new risks.
I almost think I'd prefer the title 'Star Wars: Episode 2, P2P VS The Clones' rather than 'Attack of the Clones.'
Padawan 2 Padawan VS The Clones!
Ummm..... you have to understand the context of the joke. A while back, there was a slashdot article about Sony touting its new high tech copy protection stuff for its CDs. Ironically, this copy protection was circumvented by a humble felt marker pen. So, there was a joke on slashdot that Sony would use the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause to ban felt markers. My comments above is to poke fun at these cases.
Loosen up dude! It's funny... laugh.
Just use the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause and ban bic pens, and scissors! I'm sure this follows the spirit of the law, and totally what the legislators intended the DMCA for. Enforcement of this ban should be pretty easy as well...
More like geeks have responded with a furious slashdotting of their servers. Enjoy the server bill!
"Our users should have confidence that as long as they're running the latest browser with all the latest security fixes, they will have the most powerful and secure browsing experience." - Microsoft group product manager for Internet Explorer
.... funny funny. Maybe they're talking about FireFox 1.0.
Yes they should have this powerful secure browser
It's scary to think that this individual remote control has more computer power than the on-board computer of the Apollo spacecraft back in the day.
Omicron Persei 8 PUNY HUMANS! I AM LRRR, Bah, this is a CowboyNeal heavy episode of slashdot today anyways....
There was an article on slashdot a while ago about retooling slashdot with XHTML. A pretty good read that summarizes the benefits of XHTML/CSS. The cost savings pretty interesting too:
*Savings per day without caching the CSS files: ~3.15 GB bandwidth
* Savings per day with caching the CSS files: ~14 GB bandwidth
Most Slashdot visitors would have the CSS file cached, so we could ballpark the daily savings at ~10 GB bandwidth. A high volume of bandwidth from an ISP could be anywhere from $1 - $5 cost per GB of transfer, but let's calculate it at $1 per GB for an entire year. For this example, the total yearly savings for Slashdot would be: $3,650 USD!
I have a hard time seeing fans cheering on their favourite mathlete. Could you imagine the 'math' highlights of the day on ESPN or something?
"Today we witnessed the biggest upset in math history. Mr.Robert at the last minute pulled out a proof that he was working on during the half time break, and won it for the team! That's right Larry, what an exciting conclusion to the 2004 Math Bowl! I haven't seen proofs like that since my university years Dave. Now onto a word from our sponsors."
... I rest my case.
At last! We can break the tyranny of CowboyNeal! We can finally unplug from slashdot and be fr.... what's that? It's back up? Okay nevermind... back to the powerplant people, nothing to see here!
I think Starbucks can increase their revenue by following Monkey Island 4's lead. They should open a Starbuccaneer's which caters to today's modern pirates (y'arr). They could offer free p2p services inside which will allow mighty pirates to steal games, movies, and music!
Screenshots of the Starbuccaneer's concepts available here and here.
I'm sure Starbucks can buy the licence to use Starbuccaneer's pretty easily.
Urban warfare is a mode of fighting that has haunted armies for a couple hundred years now
Actually, urban warfare has haunted armies since the days Sun Tzu. Hence his famous quote:
"The worst policy is to attack cities. Attack cities only when there is no alternative." --Sun Tzu, The Art of War
It's also interesting to see how military doctrine has fundamentally changed since world war 2. During WW2, civilians were legitimate military targets. The best way to take an enemy city was to bomb it to heck, and move your troops in to mop up. On another tangent, it's also interesting to see how the media has changed the way war is fought. The media can massively influence the public's opinion of a war. I'm reminded by a quote that went like, "If CNN was around during WW2, the allies would have lost." Nations just don't have the stomach for casulties when the media reports on the losses.
I think the key to a popular plain text formats is the marketing. We need some new sexy acronymn for CSV and promote it everywhere on the net. Maybe we should repackage CSV as... I don't know.... the RAM file format! And we'll start building RAM databases, and promise a lot of intangible things because of this file format. Do we have any marketing people here at slashdot that can help us with this?
Is it just me or is this just more XML hype? The fact that their system uses XML doesn't actually add any new functionality. They could have chosen anything else really... as long as the systems communicated with the same ontology and language.
I'm scared to fathom the possibilities of PHBs reading this story's headline, and calling up a meeting with all the programmers. He'll announce: from this day forward, our organization will program everything in XML to increase efficiency, enhance synergy, and become more competitive in the market place, while increasing our return on investment! Meanwhile all the programmers look stunned or they're smacking their foreheads.
Well, the results are in, and what an exciting election that was! The Canadian Culture Minister, Hélène Chalifour Scherrer has been readily defeated. The results for this particular riding is available here.