I remember playing ZZT on an old DOS 3.0 box. It was my first programming experience - being a kid, being able to do some programming inside of a game was very, very cool. I had no idea that ZZT was still alive. I think I'm going to go order myself a copy. (o:
Was still blamed on the US government? Nope, sorry. In some circles, the US is still being blamed for HIV. It was created for the express purpose of killing black people, or so they claim.
Where is my ticket off of this planet? The people are crazy.
China worried about safety of U.S. debt. As of January 2009, China is the owner of the largest share of our debt, if Wikipedia is to be believed. I didn't look for articles on other countries; I'm sure you can find some on your own.
I wouldn't call it a landslide. 54% for Obama, 46% for McCain (rounded results), for the popular vote. A small fraction for everyone else.
What bothers me is the discrepancy between the popular vote and the electoral vote. The electoral votes: 68% for Obama, 32% for McCain.
This isn't the first election in which the electoral votes have bothered me. I understand why it was done in the early years of the country: They didn't have the communication abilities that we have today, so it wasn't reasonable to have every vote counted. Delegates were sent instead, representing a portion of the population.
These days, I think it is perfectly reasonable for the electoral college to be removed completely.
My "vegetarian" sister and her child say that they refuse to eat meat, then they will turn around and gobble down a fish or some shrimp. Whenever I ask them what the difference is between a beef steak and a salmon steak, they never can come up with a satisfactory answer. I only get, "Well it's too much to think about! We need our protein!" and other similar lame excuses. I've been told by these "caring and intellectual" people, however, that animals like fish experience it "differently".
Of course animals other than humans feel pain. I'm certain that plants have some sort of pain system. After all - how else would they know that they have been hurt so that the healing process can begin? And how different can pain be? Perhaps their sensitivity to pain is GREATER than ours, they just have fewer options to do something about it so there isn't as drastic a reaction as you might find in a human.
Every meat eater I know thinks along the lines of, "Yeah, they can feel pain, that's why we kill them quickly." That's a lot more sensible as far as I'm concerned. A lot of these "But I'll Eat Fish!" vegetarian people are giant hypocrites.
Maybe you have a ton more applications open than I do at a time, but I keep everything maximized on screen and I have my taskbar on the right side of my screen, vertical. It is WAY better than the horizontal menu at the bottom where all of the buttons get squished to the point of being unusable.
I have tried virtual desktop environments before, and they just didn't add any value to me. That's just my experience though.
Whoever is designing the interfaces at Microsoft seems to be living in a fantasy world where functionality is irrelevant and the only thing that matters is "wow".
Or they are stuck in the same position that I am: A board of directors and high-level managers that don't understand functionality and usability, and only sees the 'wow' factor. The product that I work on every day has a slew of usability issues that I would like to fix and/or change, but I cannot, because the upper-level people are too focused on the shiny/flashy crap instead of concentrating on the core product.
Makes me sad. But what can I say - they cut the paycheck, I don't, and the people buying this product are mostly other high-level management types, not technical people or even end-users. So I guess it all works out in the end - except for the poor people that have to use the crap I work on.
Pornography has always been at the forefront of technology. VHS, DVD, they were the first to really start using DRM on video content, too. A quick search on Google for 'porn technology' will give you lots of articles on the subject.
I hadn't heard of Sumatra before so I thought I would give it a try.
Works as advertised - starts up fast, pages quickly. I love it. Very minimal on the features, but if you're like me and just need to read PDFs, it works wonderfully. Thanks!
So, the standard way of programatically querying databases, which is easier than building and escaping your own queries, and which makes you completely immune to SQL injection, is generally unavailable in a very popular combination of website technologies?
Repton, you missed the part about the mysqli extension. A lot of functionality in PHP have been moved out into extensions. Enabling them is as easy as modifying the.ini file.
I know that the poster above you was whining about it not being available on servers, but to be honest, I've never run into any (credible, reliable) hosting service that doesn't already have it enabled.
And hell - if it is something that is good to have, why pick a host that doesn't have it?
apparently magic pixies will simply drop the new schools out of the sky in exchange for our money.
And apparently, magic pixies will simply open up their checkbooks and give you trillions of dollars in taxes, too.
Maybe I'm different than the rest of you, but if I worked for it, I would like to keep it. I'm sick of being taxed out of 50% of everything I earn, so that it can be given to someone who doesn't deserve it.
Don't believe me?
Remember: Your taxes are more than income tax.
Here are some other things you are taxed on: Gasoline. Food. Clothing. Property. Investments. Cigarettes. Beer and Wine. TVs. Cars. Telecom taxes.
An interesting exercise is to take all of your spending for a month, and break it all down into taxes and non-taxes. You'll crap yourself, I promise.
We're getting raped enough with the taxes. Much like the schools, the government has more than enough money. The problem is a lack of accountability and wasteful spending - neither of which you are getting with the new administration.
Oh, don't get me wrong. You didn't have it with the last administration either. I'm not playing sides here, I'm just pointing it out.
More spending is going to help in any case. Neither will socialism - and make no mistake about it, America is no longer a capitalist nation. That era is now over, thanks to Congress.
I can attest to this. I have used PHP for some rather complex tasks on the command line. I have also used it for writing daemons.
Why?
It allows me to use libraries that already exist in the systems I am writing the scripts for. That's a huge bonus right there - no need to re-implement, and then maintain, a second set of libraries to duplicate functionality in another language.
Works for me. I'm not sure why so many other people have problems. PHP isn't the best language for everything (I wouldn't use it for desktop development as an example), but it is a great language for web development, and being able to use it on the command line is a bonus.
I was wondering the same thing. I'm pretty certain that, some days, the editors here at Slashdot are too busy having Obamagasms to realize that you can't blame Bush or the Republicans for every government ill.
I know, and that's rather sad - but, from this crowd, it is to be expected. Oh well. Wouldn't be the first time I've been attacked by R. M. "Stalin" and his groupies. (o;
What made Ultima Online successful? It was not your run of the mill RPG. It had near total character freedom. You could be a warrior one day, mage the next.
This is one of the reasons I enjoy Eve Online. Any character can, in time, learn to do anything in the game. You're not stuck in a certain linear path of progression. I have been playing this game for a year and a half so far, and there are still tons of things that I haven't done. This, after vowing never to pay a monthly fee to play a game. (o;
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Watching violence and porn could reduce violent crime and rape
I remember playing ZZT on an old DOS 3.0 box. It was my first programming experience - being a kid, being able to do some programming inside of a game was very, very cool. I had no idea that ZZT was still alive. I think I'm going to go order myself a copy. (o:
Was still blamed on the US government? Nope, sorry. In some circles, the US is still being blamed for HIV. It was created for the express purpose of killing black people, or so they claim.
Where is my ticket off of this planet? The people are crazy.
It is original because now Apple is doing it.
China worried about safety of U.S. debt. As of January 2009, China is the owner of the largest share of our debt, if Wikipedia is to be believed. I didn't look for articles on other countries; I'm sure you can find some on your own.
C'mon guys, where's that 'haha' tag that you so eagerly slap on to similar articles about Windows, hm?
This is where you lost me. I'm not quite sure how you went from "copyright is bad" to "copying and distributing someone else's product is a right".
Not a troll - would just like you to expound on this. Everything in front of that is pretty decent, really.
I wouldn't call it a landslide. 54% for Obama, 46% for McCain (rounded results), for the popular vote. A small fraction for everyone else.
What bothers me is the discrepancy between the popular vote and the electoral vote. The electoral votes: 68% for Obama, 32% for McCain.
This isn't the first election in which the electoral votes have bothered me. I understand why it was done in the early years of the country: They didn't have the communication abilities that we have today, so it wasn't reasonable to have every vote counted. Delegates were sent instead, representing a portion of the population.
These days, I think it is perfectly reasonable for the electoral college to be removed completely.
My "vegetarian" sister and her child say that they refuse to eat meat, then they will turn around and gobble down a fish or some shrimp. Whenever I ask them what the difference is between a beef steak and a salmon steak, they never can come up with a satisfactory answer. I only get, "Well it's too much to think about! We need our protein!" and other similar lame excuses. I've been told by these "caring and intellectual" people, however, that animals like fish experience it "differently".
Of course animals other than humans feel pain. I'm certain that plants have some sort of pain system. After all - how else would they know that they have been hurt so that the healing process can begin? And how different can pain be? Perhaps their sensitivity to pain is GREATER than ours, they just have fewer options to do something about it so there isn't as drastic a reaction as you might find in a human.
Every meat eater I know thinks along the lines of, "Yeah, they can feel pain, that's why we kill them quickly." That's a lot more sensible as far as I'm concerned. A lot of these "But I'll Eat Fish!" vegetarian people are giant hypocrites.
Maybe you have a ton more applications open than I do at a time, but I keep everything maximized on screen and I have my taskbar on the right side of my screen, vertical. It is WAY better than the horizontal menu at the bottom where all of the buttons get squished to the point of being unusable.
I have tried virtual desktop environments before, and they just didn't add any value to me. That's just my experience though.
Or they are stuck in the same position that I am: A board of directors and high-level managers that don't understand functionality and usability, and only sees the 'wow' factor. The product that I work on every day has a slew of usability issues that I would like to fix and/or change, but I cannot, because the upper-level people are too focused on the shiny/flashy crap instead of concentrating on the core product.
Makes me sad. But what can I say - they cut the paycheck, I don't, and the people buying this product are mostly other high-level management types, not technical people or even end-users. So I guess it all works out in the end - except for the poor people that have to use the crap I work on.
Sorry guys. (o:
Pornography has always been at the forefront of technology. VHS, DVD, they were the first to really start using DRM on video content, too. A quick search on Google for 'porn technology' will give you lots of articles on the subject.
I hadn't heard of Sumatra before so I thought I would give it a try.
Works as advertised - starts up fast, pages quickly. I love it. Very minimal on the features, but if you're like me and just need to read PDFs, it works wonderfully. Thanks!
So, the standard way of programatically querying databases, which is easier than building and escaping your own queries, and which makes you completely immune to SQL injection, is generally unavailable in a very popular combination of website technologies?
Repton, you missed the part about the mysqli extension. A lot of functionality in PHP have been moved out into extensions. Enabling them is as easy as modifying the .ini file.
I know that the poster above you was whining about it not being available on servers, but to be honest, I've never run into any (credible, reliable) hosting service that doesn't already have it enabled.
And hell - if it is something that is good to have, why pick a host that doesn't have it?
And apparently, magic pixies will simply open up their checkbooks and give you trillions of dollars in taxes, too.
Maybe I'm different than the rest of you, but if I worked for it, I would like to keep it. I'm sick of being taxed out of 50% of everything I earn, so that it can be given to someone who doesn't deserve it.
Don't believe me?
Remember: Your taxes are more than income tax.
Here are some other things you are taxed on: Gasoline. Food. Clothing. Property. Investments. Cigarettes. Beer and Wine. TVs. Cars. Telecom taxes.
An interesting exercise is to take all of your spending for a month, and break it all down into taxes and non-taxes. You'll crap yourself, I promise.
We're getting raped enough with the taxes. Much like the schools, the government has more than enough money. The problem is a lack of accountability and wasteful spending - neither of which you are getting with the new administration.
Oh, don't get me wrong. You didn't have it with the last administration either. I'm not playing sides here, I'm just pointing it out.
More spending is going to help in any case. Neither will socialism - and make no mistake about it, America is no longer a capitalist nation. That era is now over, thanks to Congress.
What's up with that?
I can attest to this. I have used PHP for some rather complex tasks on the command line. I have also used it for writing daemons.
Why?
It allows me to use libraries that already exist in the systems I am writing the scripts for. That's a huge bonus right there - no need to re-implement, and then maintain, a second set of libraries to duplicate functionality in another language.
Works for me. I'm not sure why so many other people have problems. PHP isn't the best language for everything (I wouldn't use it for desktop development as an example), but it is a great language for web development, and being able to use it on the command line is a bonus.
I agree - these Obama stories are pretty stupid. I'm proposing the tag 'obamagasm' for stories like this in the future.
For the services that they provide...
I'd say that it is quite remarkable.
I was wondering the same thing. I'm pretty certain that, some days, the editors here at Slashdot are too busy having Obamagasms to realize that you can't blame Bush or the Republicans for every government ill.
Not sure what the parent is modded as funny. It isn't funny at all.
I know, and that's rather sad - but, from this crowd, it is to be expected. Oh well. Wouldn't be the first time I've been attacked by R. M. "Stalin" and his groupies. (o;
What made Ultima Online successful? It was not your run of the mill RPG. It had near total character freedom. You could be a warrior one day, mage the next.
This is one of the reasons I enjoy Eve Online. Any character can, in time, learn to do anything in the game. You're not stuck in a certain linear path of progression. I have been playing this game for a year and a half so far, and there are still tons of things that I haven't done. This, after vowing never to pay a monthly fee to play a game. (o;
A package manager? Okay. Sure.
Microsoft then makes a Microsoft Package Manager, and distributes it with Windows.
Next thing you know, some company goes, "zomg! Microsoft is so evil, they're not including MY package manager! I'm going to sue! Waaaaah!"
Then what? Seriously, when does it stop?
I bought a Zen V Plus over a year ago, and I am very happy with the product. I'd like to thank Anything But iPod for the recommendation.