I hear this alot and I don't get it. I find PHP code very legible. In fact, I find every language that I have a good knowledge of to be quite legible.
Now if I have a lower level of knowledge of a language I often have trouble reading it, but that's usually because I didn't know that syntax X could be used to accomplish the task, I always used syntax Y. This happens to me alot in Perl, I can make it do alot, but since I'm not as familar with it, there are always ways I don't know to accomplish the tasks.
Of course this assumes the author is a somewhat reasonable individual, knows to use the proper control structures and the like.
So I genuinely ask, what is it about the syntax of this language that gets people? Is it too many curly braces or what?
They also have a tendency to way overprice some items. I was needing an ATX power supply a while back and didn't want to wait for delivery so I checked them. They wanted $40 for a generic CompUSA branded one. I can get one online for $11 including shipping! In fact I can get a name brand one for no more than $20. For $40 I'd be expecting a super-quiet one myself.
I can't say this is surprising, or that I'd hold it against them. You want an item which probably isn't a big seller for them, therefore high stocking costs. You also want an item which most purchasers probably can't afford to wait for... I would wonder how many people go to CompUSA/BestBuy/CircuitCity to purchase a power supply for a machine they're building, much more likely they're replacing one in a borked machine.... perfect time for a big markup. I'd say gouge, but given the convenience of no shipping on a power supply, it seems pretty fair to me.
Not all of them, just the ones which fire on their own volition, and when doing so mark friendlies as enemies. It's just a realm where the term false positive is not something I want to be blaming a computer for, if you don't know, then tell a human you don't know, let them figure it out.
I agree with you about webscraping, but what evidence do you have that those two pages are?
Many companies sell templates, this could be a case of that, and many companies hire out, perhaps they hired out to the same guy and he wanted to save a few bucks, or maybe I'm completely wrong and it's pure theft, I dunno.
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The point is still to sell the service not matter how you approach it.
It isn't absolutely necessary, and depending on the law in question, your method may be completely valid.
But something like Apple not paying the taxes, I'd say if they don't come out and say, "we're not paying because we disagree with said law", that this is not a valid approach to challenging the law.
Perhaps valid is the wrong word, in a case like this I would say cowardly approach.
Great... this makes me much more pleased about my IBM t41 which is in the mail.
Now, any geeks around Chicago wanna help me get setup? Everytime I install linux on a laptop I only get it 90% correct, and manage to completely bork it based on the other 10% about 6 months down the road.
I would feel pretty confident that it's an error in some part of their distribution/quality control... maybe something as simple as a barcode incorrectly put into the database or something of that sort.
Like the previous poster, I can't imagine a good reason to just throw in an extra processor.
Or you could not be so nationalistic and read the post as it was written... "If we'd channeled all the cash that the world..." This was a comment on humanity, not whichever paranoid country you hail from.
In regards to the parent, I think the comment is still suspect, though I would hope it's true, but times of war have consistently resulted in great scientific progress... bigger the war, bigger the progress, perhaps that's just a money issue, but I'm not completely sure. Depressing, and a superficial description, but I believe it's accurate.
From talking to croupier's roulette is supposedly the one game where the dealer can directly affect the outcome without resorting to cheating.
No idea if this is true or not, but it's what they told me. Basically stating that they know the timing of the wheel and how hard they throw the ball, and that they can never pick what # it will land on, but that can at least pick a corner of the wheel.... which of course with the appropriate bets is a huge advantage.
It's pretty much a fact, counting cards, in a fair game, puts it to the players advantage.
The more high cards in the deck, the better advantage for the player... I'll let you run the math all you want as it isn't the point of my post.
The reason counting isn't such a big deal is because in the average 6 deck shoe, there are approximately 2 decks out of play... in other words, there are 104 cards out of the 312 that you'll never see. And since the benefits of counting are only really evident towards the end of the shoe, you can see why counting just doesn't help all that much.
If you'd like some other evidence shy of running of the math, realize that spanish 21 takes all the 10s out of the deck to maximize the house advantage.
That would be a pretty odd assumption since I mentioned they were developer workstations.
The current incarnation of the whole machine goes for about 1800$ (with 3.2GhZ chips), I'm not so dissapointed in that. I'm not saying it would be where I'd put my pennies if I were buying a machine at home, but for a corporation who needs stability and uniformity in an MS Windows environment, I just don't see a clear "they made the wrong choice" argument.
You know, I'm sitting here reading this and nodding my head, remembering the King's Quest games on my Apple IIe, and some adventure game about music that shipped with a Soundblaster card I bought back in the early nineties.
Then I remembered, I was between 7 and 12 years old...
But then again I'm a bit behind on the adventure games these last few years, so maybe it really has gotten that bad.
No, I don't think anyone confused kilograms for pounds.
The page you linked to lists features and specs as though they were search criteria... yours fails the 7 pound and the 1.5 inch high criteria. It also has no port replicator is not a modular design, and it is apparently not suited for the enterprise or healthcare markets.
My situation is an apartment setup such that there is no real desk/work area. There's the counter, the kitchen table, and a little table by the couch/tv.
Now, if I needed this kind of power/screen real-estate, it would make sense to me, it's never going to leave the apartment, but it's a nice computer that I can work on where I want within my apartment, and put in the closet when company comes over.
I also have other requirments which have lead me to a different purchase, but my point is simply to provide an example for your point.
I disagree. I'm running a Windows XP workstation with dual 2.4 GHz Xeons, and I'm not at all disappointed... neither are the 50 or 60 other developers surrounding me which are running on the same boxes.
What exactly would be our grounds for dissapointment?
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I hear this alot and I don't get it. I find PHP code very legible. In fact, I find every language that I have a good knowledge of to be quite legible.
Now if I have a lower level of knowledge of a language I often have trouble reading it, but that's usually because I didn't know that syntax X could be used to accomplish the task, I always used syntax Y. This happens to me alot in Perl, I can make it do alot, but since I'm not as familar with it, there are always ways I don't know to accomplish the tasks.
Of course this assumes the author is a somewhat reasonable individual, knows to use the proper control structures and the like.
So I genuinely ask, what is it about the syntax of this language that gets people? Is it too many curly braces or what?
Or you can use the Pear library and add most of that abstraction to PHP.
Just as you can not use those libraries in ASP.NET (I assume you can just force it to output HTML code, no?)
My belief, abstraction is beautiful, when it's an option.
They also have a tendency to way overprice some items. I was needing an ATX power supply a while back and didn't want to wait for delivery so I checked them. They wanted $40 for a generic CompUSA branded one. I can get one online for $11 including shipping! In fact I can get a name brand one for no more than $20. For $40 I'd be expecting a super-quiet one myself.
I can't say this is surprising, or that I'd hold it against them. You want an item which probably isn't a big seller for them, therefore high stocking costs. You also want an item which most purchasers probably can't afford to wait for... I would wonder how many people go to CompUSA/BestBuy/CircuitCity to purchase a power supply for a machine they're building, much more likely they're replacing one in a borked machine.... perfect time for a big markup. I'd say gouge, but given the convenience of no shipping on a power supply, it seems pretty fair to me.
Not all of them, just the ones which fire on their own volition, and when doing so mark friendlies as enemies. It's just a realm where the term false positive is not something I want to be blaming a computer for, if you don't know, then tell a human you don't know, let them figure it out.
You mean it was 13 for 10... it shot down more than it was supposed to, namely friendly planes.
I agree with you about webscraping, but what evidence do you have that those two pages are?
Many companies sell templates, this could be a case of that, and many companies hire out, perhaps they hired out to the same guy and he wanted to save a few bucks, or maybe I'm completely wrong and it's pure theft, I dunno.
Consider for a moment
The point is still to sell the service not matter how you approach it.
It isn't absolutely necessary, and depending on the law in question, your method may be completely valid.
But something like Apple not paying the taxes, I'd say if they don't come out and say, "we're not paying because we disagree with said law", that this is not a valid approach to challenging the law.
Perhaps valid is the wrong word, in a case like this I would say cowardly approach.
Or challenged
But not ignored without any acknowledgement of challenge, or at least a statement saying you disagree with the law.
Great... this makes me much more pleased about my IBM t41 which is in the mail.
Now, any geeks around Chicago wanna help me get setup? Everytime I install linux on a laptop I only get it 90% correct, and manage to completely bork it based on the other 10% about 6 months down the road.
I would feel pretty confident that it's an error in some part of their distribution/quality control... maybe something as simple as a barcode incorrectly put into the database or something of that sort.
Like the previous poster, I can't imagine a good reason to just throw in an extra processor.
Or you could not be so nationalistic and read the post as it was written... "If we'd channeled all the cash that the world..." This was a comment on humanity, not whichever paranoid country you hail from.
In regards to the parent, I think the comment is still suspect, though I would hope it's true, but times of war have consistently resulted in great scientific progress... bigger the war, bigger the progress, perhaps that's just a money issue, but I'm not completely sure. Depressing, and a superficial description, but I believe it's accurate.
GMC and Chevy... but point taken.
From talking to croupier's roulette is supposedly the one game where the dealer can directly affect the outcome without resorting to cheating.
No idea if this is true or not, but it's what they told me. Basically stating that they know the timing of the wheel and how hard they throw the ball, and that they can never pick what # it will land on, but that can at least pick a corner of the wheel.... which of course with the appropriate bets is a huge advantage.
It's pretty much a fact, counting cards, in a fair game, puts it to the players advantage.
The more high cards in the deck, the better advantage for the player... I'll let you run the math all you want as it isn't the point of my post.
The reason counting isn't such a big deal is because in the average 6 deck shoe, there are approximately 2 decks out of play... in other words, there are 104 cards out of the 312 that you'll never see. And since the benefits of counting are only really evident towards the end of the shoe, you can see why counting just doesn't help all that much.
If you'd like some other evidence shy of running of the math, realize that spanish 21 takes all the 10s out of the deck to maximize the house advantage.
I'd wager he's talking about using an iPOD in windows.... from everything I've seen it's a hassle and a half.
Personally I went the iRiver iHP route and couldn't be happier.
No, but I was reminded of the Simspson's parody of The Prisoner when they popped the bubble.
This comment comes from a linux intermediate, but from what I've seen so far, it's helping out quite a bit for those with laptops.
That would be a pretty odd assumption since I mentioned they were developer workstations.
The current incarnation of the whole machine goes for about 1800$ (with 3.2GhZ chips), I'm not so dissapointed in that. I'm not saying it would be where I'd put my pennies if I were buying a machine at home, but for a corporation who needs stability and uniformity in an MS Windows environment, I just don't see a clear "they made the wrong choice" argument.
You know, I'm sitting here reading this and nodding my head, remembering the King's Quest games on my Apple IIe, and some adventure game about music that shipped with a Soundblaster card I bought back in the early nineties.
Then I remembered, I was between 7 and 12 years old...
But then again I'm a bit behind on the adventure games these last few years, so maybe it really has gotten that bad.
No, I don't think anyone confused kilograms for pounds.
The page you linked to lists features and specs as though they were search criteria... yours fails the 7 pound and the 1.5 inch high criteria. It also has no port replicator is not a modular design, and it is apparently not suited for the enterprise or healthcare markets.
What a crappy page.
Couldn't agree more.
My situation is an apartment setup such that there is no real desk/work area. There's the counter, the kitchen table, and a little table by the couch/tv.
Now, if I needed this kind of power/screen real-estate, it would make sense to me, it's never going to leave the apartment, but it's a nice computer that I can work on where I want within my apartment, and put in the closet when company comes over.
I also have other requirments which have lead me to a different purchase, but my point is simply to provide an example for your point.
I disagree. I'm running a Windows XP workstation with dual 2.4 GHz Xeons, and I'm not at all disappointed... neither are the 50 or 60 other developers surrounding me which are running on the same boxes.
What exactly would be our grounds for dissapointment?
Unless you're major league baseball. In that case you're exempt and price fixing is completely legal.