True, but I bought my PS3 primarily for Blu-ray. Yeah, I play a game every now and then, but I'd say that my ratio of movie watching to game playing is probably 3 to 1.
When people ask me about what Blu-ray player to get, I tell them to get the PS3. It cost just marginally more than a (decent) standalone player but it has the ability to play games, surf the net, etc. Even if you don't think you'll use those features that often I still think it is worth it in terms of how future-proof the system is. I mean, Sony is going to be pushing/updating the system for at least the next few years. I don't think you'll see that same level of support for some stand-alone player...the manufacturer would rather have you buy yet another player that "now has feature X", whereas Sony will keep the PS3 relevant due to the fact that it does more than just play movies, and that the greater the number of PS3's shipped the larger the potential for game-developers to target the platform which leads to more licensing revenue.
So to recap, I get your point. But don't underestimate the PS3 as actually being purchased as (more or less) a standalone player as well.
So it would seem obvious that you should just paint the airplane to look like a cat. That way when the birds look over their shoulder, they think they see a cat sneaking up on them and they evade as quickly as possible.
I get your underlying point, but wine has more subjective values (wine enthusiasts would debate this though) that come into play whereas CPUs have more quantifiable comparisons. That said, for both CPUs and wine I would think that most of the people who are buying "high end" products they are a little more discerning about their purchases.
The way I approach IE6 is to get it to an "acceptable" level of usability but not go out of my way to make it look as good as say the latest Firefox. For instance, I don't put any PNG transparency hacks, etc.
At my site, ~40% of my traffic is Firefox, ~30% is IE of which ~5% is IE6 (or below...all grouped together). FWIW, I used the YUI as a reference design for my layout and using BrowserShots nearly every browsers handles the layout (more or less) correctly.
8-way powerstrip of these things as nicely load-balanced web frontends
That is a very interesting idea indeed...a grand total of $830 ($30 for the powerstrip). However, other than the novelty and space savings, how would the efficiency of these things compare to a pair of "tranditional" low powered/cheap web servers ($400 each) in terms of both $/throughput and $/watt?
It would allow for easy/cheap capacity planning. $100 for an extra node in your webserver cluster...guess this would be a poor mans implementation of blade servers.
I'm asking for opinions as to what is the (current) best alternative? I am currently (literally...which is actually the reason I looked specifically at this article) working on putting in reCAPTCHA for my site because I figured I'd wait to annoy my users until bots started hitting it...which they started doing a few days ago. I've now had ~50 or so bot accounts get signed up. Although they haven't responded to my confirmation email (and aren't able to login) it is really annoying and each account causes a few emails to bounce.
Anyway, I'm genuinely interested in what people have done for small scale sites. I figure when/if my site starts really growing the solution will change. That said, I'd prefer something simple and easy to implement and I can move to more sophisticated solutions when the need arises.
Just curious, but is it possible to run an X86 emulator on an ARM processor? If so, could they not compile the base OS for ARM, then in the transition period run "legacy" applications under emulation? I understand the major performance hit, but sometimes something is better than nothing at least until applications are ported?
Granted this is pertaining to a more Windows related question, but wouldn't this also be the case if you had to deal with binary blobs for linux?
I hope I'm not making too ignorant of a question/statement...
Well, I'd use Drupal because that is what I've worked with. I've taken the time to wrap my brain around how it does things (which is no minor feat). That said even for some mildly complex situations I never had to actually get down to the PHP layer (although I did a few times just to see how it actually worked).
But to answer your question. I was looking at this exact same question and I guess you can see which one I chose. I honestly don't remember all of the criteria that went into the decision, but I know I found some great tutorials that outlined one of the major pieces of functionality that we were wanting...so that was more or less what sealed the deal. I'd imagine that most people will have worked extensively with one or the other, so the answers you get will be slightly biased, but if anyone has moderate experience with both I'd love to hear an honest comparison.
I regularly check my site to make sure that is compliant. Even though I'm in a rapid development mode at the time, when I do find errors they get top priority to fix. Its a mindset that developers either embrace or ignore. Validation errors usually fall into two categories. First is just markup errors (ie. an input element not in a fieldset) the other it is not properly escaping user input. The first requires some conscious decisions about how you want to markup your site, the second is just improving your method of filtering user input. If you just stay on top of either of those scenarios on a regular basis they are both relatively easy to fix. My point is that having a non-validating site is either apathy, ignorance or laziness. I'd like to know which one of those aspects is the reason/. doesn't validate.
...are people who died from Twitter Recursive Downtime Syndrome (TRDS). More or less when Twitter goes down, they want to tweet about Twitter being down, when they realized how that makes them feel they want to tweet that, after about the third or fourth round of that, well it isn't pretty.
Its all about talking to people in terms they can understand/relate to. For instance, if you are talking to an accountant, then give this scenario about filing (their personal) taxes:
Would you rather give it to a company that would have one (unnamed) "professional" prepare and send it, but you nor anyone else could look at the final document submitted.
OR
Would you like to give it to an entire group of professionals who will all take a look at it, discuss and then allow you to see what they did and even ask questions as to why they chose the decisions they made. Afterwards, you would still not be obligated to use it.
Sometimes even the most basic "computer" analogies will go over non-techie's heads, so you have to find a way to adapt the reason(s) you personally user OSS to their "mindset."
nearly everybody has seen a vagina up close once, and I mean really up close.
I was about to say something stupid and ask why you said "nearly everybody" but then I realized "oh yeah, c-sections" and then I realized that it is possible for some of the people here to have actually never had any contact with a vagina whatsoever.
As a side note, when you are being forced through the vagina in a natural birth, are you even capable of "looking" at that point?
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True, but I bought my PS3 primarily for Blu-ray. Yeah, I play a game every now and then, but I'd say that my ratio of movie watching to game playing is probably 3 to 1.
When people ask me about what Blu-ray player to get, I tell them to get the PS3. It cost just marginally more than a (decent) standalone player but it has the ability to play games, surf the net, etc. Even if you don't think you'll use those features that often I still think it is worth it in terms of how future-proof the system is. I mean, Sony is going to be pushing/updating the system for at least the next few years. I don't think you'll see that same level of support for some stand-alone player...the manufacturer would rather have you buy yet another player that "now has feature X", whereas Sony will keep the PS3 relevant due to the fact that it does more than just play movies, and that the greater the number of PS3's shipped the larger the potential for game-developers to target the platform which leads to more licensing revenue.
So to recap, I get your point. But don't underestimate the PS3 as actually being purchased as (more or less) a standalone player as well.
What are birds afraid of? Cats.
So it would seem obvious that you should just paint the airplane to look like a cat. That way when the birds look over their shoulder, they think they see a cat sneaking up on them and they evade as quickly as possible.
So CPUs are sort of like wine?
I get your underlying point, but wine has more subjective values (wine enthusiasts would debate this though) that come into play whereas CPUs have more quantifiable comparisons. That said, for both CPUs and wine I would think that most of the people who are buying "high end" products they are a little more discerning about their purchases.
The way I approach IE6 is to get it to an "acceptable" level of usability but not go out of my way to make it look as good as say the latest Firefox. For instance, I don't put any PNG transparency hacks, etc.
At my site, ~40% of my traffic is Firefox, ~30% is IE of which ~5% is IE6 (or below...all grouped together). FWIW, I used the YUI as a reference design for my layout and using BrowserShots nearly every browsers handles the layout (more or less) correctly.
8-way powerstrip of these things as nicely load-balanced web frontends
That is a very interesting idea indeed...a grand total of $830 ($30 for the powerstrip). However, other than the novelty and space savings, how would the efficiency of these things compare to a pair of "tranditional" low powered/cheap web servers ($400 each) in terms of both $/throughput and $/watt?
It would allow for easy/cheap capacity planning. $100 for an extra node in your webserver cluster...guess this would be a poor mans implementation of blade servers.
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debian
Really, if we distill this sentence just a little more, we'll be able to sell it as "Premium Distilled Comments"
Only on /. could this comment be moderated "Insightful" which as disturbing as it is, I guess is true...
Human sacrifice is only necessary if you're installing Gentoo.
There, fixed that for you...
I'm asking for opinions as to what is the (current) best alternative? I am currently (literally...which is actually the reason I looked specifically at this article) working on putting in reCAPTCHA for my site because I figured I'd wait to annoy my users until bots started hitting it...which they started doing a few days ago. I've now had ~50 or so bot accounts get signed up. Although they haven't responded to my confirmation email (and aren't able to login) it is really annoying and each account causes a few emails to bounce.
Anyway, I'm genuinely interested in what people have done for small scale sites. I figure when/if my site starts really growing the solution will change. That said, I'd prefer something simple and easy to implement and I can move to more sophisticated solutions when the need arises.
Just curious, but is it possible to run an X86 emulator on an ARM processor? If so, could they not compile the base OS for ARM, then in the transition period run "legacy" applications under emulation? I understand the major performance hit, but sometimes something is better than nothing at least until applications are ported?
Granted this is pertaining to a more Windows related question, but wouldn't this also be the case if you had to deal with binary blobs for linux?
I hope I'm not making too ignorant of a question/statement...
Well, I'd use Drupal because that is what I've worked with. I've taken the time to wrap my brain around how it does things (which is no minor feat). That said even for some mildly complex situations I never had to actually get down to the PHP layer (although I did a few times just to see how it actually worked).
But to answer your question. I was looking at this exact same question and I guess you can see which one I chose. I honestly don't remember all of the criteria that went into the decision, but I know I found some great tutorials that outlined one of the major pieces of functionality that we were wanting...so that was more or less what sealed the deal. I'd imagine that most people will have worked extensively with one or the other, so the answers you get will be slightly biased, but if anyone has moderate experience with both I'd love to hear an honest comparison.
Of all the users in my family, none knows how to download an alternative browser like firefox
Then you've obviously failed at parenting (by /. standards). This is especially disturbing coming from someone who's username is commodore64_love
I often think that Greenpeace would prefer that we humans died off and left the planet to nature...
Maybe they should lead by example?
I regularly check my site to make sure that is compliant. Even though I'm in a rapid development mode at the time, when I do find errors they get top priority to fix. Its a mindset that developers either embrace or ignore. Validation errors usually fall into two categories. First is just markup errors (ie. an input element not in a fieldset) the other it is not properly escaping user input. The first requires some conscious decisions about how you want to markup your site, the second is just improving your method of filtering user input. If you just stay on top of either of those scenarios on a regular basis they are both relatively easy to fix. My point is that having a non-validating site is either apathy, ignorance or laziness. I'd like to know which one of those aspects is the reason /. doesn't validate.
...are people who died from Twitter Recursive Downtime Syndrome (TRDS). More or less when Twitter goes down, they want to tweet about Twitter being down, when they realized how that makes them feel they want to tweet that, after about the third or fourth round of that, well it isn't pretty.
Yes, no laptop is complete until it has nipples.
rather poor choice of words, don't you think?
You and your facts and figures. Please don't let sumdumass talk to some dumb ass in Congress else this will never get gov't funding!
Perhaps because, um, it can read the book aloud to them?
Thats like buying a Ferrari for air conditioning.
Sorry to the people who I moderated earlier...
I just realized...isn't this somewhat of a straw man argument in that why would a blind person even buy a Kindle in the first place?
Its all about talking to people in terms they can understand/relate to. For instance, if you are talking to an accountant, then give this scenario about filing (their personal) taxes:
Would you rather give it to a company that would have one (unnamed) "professional" prepare and send it, but you nor anyone else could look at the final document submitted.
OR
Would you like to give it to an entire group of professionals who will all take a look at it, discuss and then allow you to see what they did and even ask questions as to why they chose the decisions they made. Afterwards, you would still not be obligated to use it.
Sometimes even the most basic "computer" analogies will go over non-techie's heads, so you have to find a way to adapt the reason(s) you personally user OSS to their "mindset."
It's a perfect UMPC for me, a really "mobile" PC, smaller than my wallet, actually.
You must have a george constanza wallet. I'll be impressed when they get a really "mobile" PC smaller than my wallet.
nearly everybody has seen a vagina up close once, and I mean really up close.
I was about to say something stupid and ask why you said "nearly everybody" but then I realized "oh yeah, c-sections" and then I realized that it is possible for some of the people here to have actually never had any contact with a vagina whatsoever.
As a side note, when you are being forced through the vagina in a natural birth, are you even capable of "looking" at that point?
http://www.lulu.com/content/2417903
Full disclosure, I am the "author".