He also forgot one other part of basic PR: the need to change the name of your product slightly enough to confuse everyone for at least three weeks (a la Firebird). I would suggest changing 'Chandler' to 'Chandlar' around release candidate 2.
What the fuck is it with Americans and their "I need a gun to shoot intruders in my home" crap. No where else in the whole fucking world do people say shit like this.
Um, that's a pretty naive statement, unless when you say "world" you mean "(most of) the Western world".
As for an answer to your question, I'm sure it has everything to do with how the country came to be. And it is probably perpetuated by the (perceived?) ineffectiveness of the police.
Case and point: My ex-girlfriend had a stalker. It was very serious. She would be followed nearly anywhere she went and would often be confronted by him (and it would end with him knocking her around quite a bit). Her nose was broken many times. She got the restraining orders. And every six months she had to pay her lawyer to come back into court with her to try to get the thing renewed. After a few weeks waiting for a decision, it would be renewed and promptly ignored by the stalker. The cops said they could do nothing because there wasn't enough evidence and nothing "serious enough" had happened. Meanwhile, she doesn't want to leave the house.
Finally, something "serious enough" did happen. So, the police began to give a shit. However, since she was always confronted when she was alone, there still was not enough evidence (her word against his). All they could do was try to scare him into taking a plea. They needed more. The plan? Have her make herself seem vulnerable, with the police near-by, and hope that he comes and attacks her. Mind you, the police have to wait until she gets attacked (I do not know the details of the restraining orders, so I'm not sure why this was so).
I understand the legalities behind it all. I don't need a lecture on why the police have to wait for evidence. I get it. That's not the issue.
But, when one is powerless against an attacker and the police fail to protect, many people decide they need to be able to protect themselves.
The big problem with porn is that it is a caricature of the real thing - ie. sex with a live person. Porn is to sex as a roadrunner cartoon is to real life. Both exaggerate and distort; they don't represent or characterize.
Try turning on the news.
This has nothing to do with anything inherent in pornography, and everything to do with of what an entertainment industry (including news) consists. If this is a reason to discount pornography, then it is a reason to discount other forms of entertainment/news as well.
There are plenty of CMSs out there that produce static html files as their output. MovableType, as much as I hate to plug them, is one. There are others.
There is nothing inherent to CMSs that cause this CPU hit you are talking about. Certain CMSs are designed for highly-dynamic sites where MovableType's 'rebuilding' method would become annoying, and others are designed for sites that still need the benefits of a central CMS but are more static. And then there are still more than combine aspects of both, like Wordpress with the Staticize plugin.
Unfortunately the slowness isn't necessarily WINE's fault. When we installed the latest update to DWMX at my old job (it might not be the latest available), it became horribly slow. Especially when switching from another application to DWMX. We saw similar reports of this on the intarweb.
You are falling prey to a confirmation bias. You can't simply try it once and assume you're safe. It exploits a race condition. See other comments above from people who had to try it 10 or 12 times in order to get it to work.
Things like confirmation dialogs are good. Things like form validate is WRONG - the backend should do that, not the client.
I'll give you a moment to pull your head out.
Alright, then. Actually, it is not "WRONG" to validate forms on the client-side. It is oh-so-very right.
Validation on client side and validation on server side are not mutually exclusive, and I have never understood why some people assume it is (where does that come from?). Do both. Validate on the client side for the benefit of the client (no need to submit a series of requests to the server just to know about errors that need fixing). Validate on the server side for the benefit of your database (in case Javascript is disabled on the client).
Oh, and make sure your javascript is separated from your markup (please don't add the onsubmit handler directly in your markup. add it with javascript) and style (e.g., css).
One, I keep a tightly-knit friends-list, and sadly enough, those people would not read my journal regularly if it were not on Livejournal. On LJ, it's just a matter of opening up the "friends page" and seeing all of your friends' entries at once. Handy and keeps you and your buddies close, even if you rarely have the chance to really chat or talk.
I don't get it. You think this is unique to LJ? Do a goodle on RSS aggregators. LJ's friends page is inferior for the reason you mention: it can only aggregate other LJs.
Certainly, most people find child pornography horrible, but you'll have to excuse me if I find your condemnation and personal desire for removal of certain content on freenet the exact reason freenet exists.
Think about how many database hits a user could perform in a very short space of time: (user enters something, (database hit) backspace (database hit) types another letter (database hit))
If you had RTFA, you would know that this isn't at all how the code works. The state of the textbox is polled every n milliseconds using setTimeout() and, if a request to google needs to be made, it is made. The implication here is that even if I type 30 characters really fast, there could be as few as one request made to google. A very smart solution, if you ask me.
Stealing? It's not stealing. That's ridiculous. I can display or not display and download or not download anything I want on public website. I'm not stealing by deciding I don't want to display ads.
What it will do is simple economics. Adblock software causes the average value of an impression (a download) to decrease, because it is only actually being displayed a certain percentage of the time. Therefore, the price of an impression will fall.
Of course, that doesn't matter that Opera won't support Adblock, because such advertising is is breathing its last breath anyway. The market wants what the market wants. Advertising like this offers less benefit than cost to the user, so it was doomed from day one.
This is nice, but the implication that this is evidence that a default install of linux fares better than a default install of Windows is silly. While I'm sure that is the case, this isn't supporting evidence. I hate to continue the broken record of the if-linux-were-as-popular-as-windows-there-would-be -more-$attack-out-there mantra we're all sick of hearing, but in this case it directly applies.
If you accept economic theory, it is in fact government intervention that reduces everyone's standard of living. This can be proven by elementary supply and demand graphs and imposing a price floor or ceiling. In each case the quantity of a good sold decreases.
Of course there must be some intervention to disrupt monopolies and such. But, I don't know of any party which disagrees with that need.
I am not a lawyer, but as I understand it is illegal for your landlord to prohibit the installation of hardware for such services. I believe it has to do with keeping the cable companies from having a monopoly over such living situations.
I read this information on either the Dish Network or DirecTV website when I was looking into it. I had already given them my location, so I suppose it could be based on state laws.
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He also forgot one other part of basic PR: the need to change the name of your product slightly enough to confuse everyone for at least three weeks (a la Firebird). I would suggest changing 'Chandler' to 'Chandlar' around release candidate 2.
What the fuck is it with Americans and their "I need a gun to shoot intruders in my home" crap. No where else in the whole fucking world do people say shit like this.
Um, that's a pretty naive statement, unless when you say "world" you mean "(most of) the Western world".
As for an answer to your question, I'm sure it has everything to do with how the country came to be. And it is probably perpetuated by the (perceived?) ineffectiveness of the police.
Case and point: My ex-girlfriend had a stalker. It was very serious. She would be followed nearly anywhere she went and would often be confronted by him (and it would end with him knocking her around quite a bit). Her nose was broken many times. She got the restraining orders. And every six months she had to pay her lawyer to come back into court with her to try to get the thing renewed. After a few weeks waiting for a decision, it would be renewed and promptly ignored by the stalker. The cops said they could do nothing because there wasn't enough evidence and nothing "serious enough" had happened. Meanwhile, she doesn't want to leave the house.
Finally, something "serious enough" did happen. So, the police began to give a shit. However, since she was always confronted when she was alone, there still was not enough evidence (her word against his). All they could do was try to scare him into taking a plea. They needed more. The plan? Have her make herself seem vulnerable, with the police near-by, and hope that he comes and attacks her. Mind you, the police have to wait until she gets attacked (I do not know the details of the restraining orders, so I'm not sure why this was so).
I understand the legalities behind it all. I don't need a lecture on why the police have to wait for evidence. I get it. That's not the issue.
But, when one is powerless against an attacker and the police fail to protect, many people decide they need to be able to protect themselves.
The second coming is why the porn industry needs higher capacity DVDs.
(Sorry.)
The big problem with porn is that it is a caricature of the real thing - ie. sex with a live person. Porn is to sex as a roadrunner cartoon is to real life. Both exaggerate and distort; they don't represent or characterize.
Try turning on the news.
This has nothing to do with anything inherent in pornography, and everything to do with of what an entertainment industry (including news) consists. If this is a reason to discount pornography, then it is a reason to discount other forms of entertainment/news as well.
One side likes the higher capacity of Blu-ray...
Porn industry... size matters... there's a joke in there somewhere.
Sounds like somebody got their first bandwidth bill.
Ouch. Good thing they weren't slashdotted.
There are plenty of CMSs out there that produce static html files as their output. MovableType, as much as I hate to plug them, is one. There are others.
There is nothing inherent to CMSs that cause this CPU hit you are talking about. Certain CMSs are designed for highly-dynamic sites where MovableType's 'rebuilding' method would become annoying, and others are designed for sites that still need the benefits of a central CMS but are more static. And then there are still more than combine aspects of both, like Wordpress with the Staticize plugin.
Unfortunately the slowness isn't necessarily WINE's fault. When we installed the latest update to DWMX at my old job (it might not be the latest available), it became horribly slow. Especially when switching from another application to DWMX. We saw similar reports of this on the intarweb.
This was on WindowsXP by the way.
Welcome to humor. It might take a day or two for you to become sufficiently acclimated.
You are falling prey to a confirmation bias. You can't simply try it once and assume you're safe. It exploits a race condition. See other comments above from people who had to try it 10 or 12 times in order to get it to work.
Things like confirmation dialogs are good. Things like form validate is WRONG - the backend should do that, not the client.
I'll give you a moment to pull your head out.
Alright, then. Actually, it is not "WRONG" to validate forms on the client-side. It is oh-so-very right.
Validation on client side and validation on server side are not mutually exclusive, and I have never understood why some people assume it is (where does that come from?). Do both. Validate on the client side for the benefit of the client (no need to submit a series of requests to the server just to know about errors that need fixing). Validate on the server side for the benefit of your database (in case Javascript is disabled on the client).
Oh, and make sure your javascript is separated from your markup (please don't add the onsubmit handler directly in your markup. add it with javascript) and style (e.g., css).
One, I keep a tightly-knit friends-list, and sadly enough, those people would not read my journal regularly if it were not on Livejournal. On LJ, it's just a matter of opening up the "friends page" and seeing all of your friends' entries at once. Handy and keeps you and your buddies close, even if you rarely have the chance to really chat or talk.
I don't get it. You think this is unique to LJ? Do a goodle on RSS aggregators. LJ's friends page is inferior for the reason you mention: it can only aggregate other LJs.
little else will change for the end user.
Oh, except for that whole loss-of-rights-to-one's-soul thing, right?
I thought we were talking about typical comment moderation trends on slashdot...
Certainly, most people find child pornography horrible, but you'll have to excuse me if I find your condemnation and personal desire for removal of certain content on freenet the exact reason freenet exists.
Indeed, there seems to be a relevant FAQ: I don't want my node to be used to harbor child porn, offensive content or terrorism. What can I do?
If you had RTFA, you would know that this isn't at all how the code works. The state of the textbox is polled every n milliseconds using setTimeout() and, if a request to google needs to be made, it is made. The implication here is that even if I type 30 characters really fast, there could be as few as one request made to google. A very smart solution, if you ask me.
Stealing? It's not stealing. That's ridiculous. I can display or not display and download or not download anything I want on public website. I'm not stealing by deciding I don't want to display ads.
What it will do is simple economics. Adblock software causes the average value of an impression (a download) to decrease, because it is only actually being displayed a certain percentage of the time. Therefore, the price of an impression will fall.
Of course, that doesn't matter that Opera won't support Adblock, because such advertising is is breathing its last breath anyway. The market wants what the market wants. Advertising like this offers less benefit than cost to the user, so it was doomed from day one.
This is nice, but the implication that this is evidence that a default install of linux fares better than a default install of Windows is silly. While I'm sure that is the case, this isn't supporting evidence. I hate to continue the broken record of the if-linux-were-as-popular-as-windows-there-would-be -more-$attack-out-there mantra we're all sick of hearing, but in this case it directly applies.
If you accept economic theory, it is in fact government intervention that reduces everyone's standard of living. This can be proven by elementary supply and demand graphs and imposing a price floor or ceiling. In each case the quantity of a good sold decreases. Of course there must be some intervention to disrupt monopolies and such. But, I don't know of any party which disagrees with that need.
Yes, Java developers will be pleased... because they'll stick with Java. PHP is destroying its niche by trying to go the Java-ish OO route.
Anyone have information on how PHP5 handles code written for PHP4 and below? And, just to be clear, I'm talking about first-hand knowledge.
Thanks,
I am not a lawyer, but as I understand it is illegal for your landlord to prohibit the installation of hardware for such services. I believe it has to do with keeping the cable companies from having a monopoly over such living situations.
I read this information on either the Dish Network or DirecTV website when I was looking into it. I had already given them my location, so I suppose it could be based on state laws.
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Note to self: free karma to those who compliment features of the slashdot site.
Look, man, I don't want to call you an idiot for not recognizing the humor...
... but I really don't know many synonyms for the word.
Score:0, Troll
So much for commentary on how similar PHP5 looks to Java.