There is one very funny bit in that link, where he asks Rasmus to "escalate" the issue.
Yeah, I chuckled at that part too.
I liked how the wikipedia link was given instead of an explanation of who Rasmus was. I doubt the person read it though.....then again, maybe that's why he didn't reply further.
The PHP manual doesn't say that it will return 0, it says that it will return a formatted version of the $number input. When that input variable isn't a float as the function expects, exactly what is the function supposed to return?
Just because someone has been successfully writing bad code for years is not a good reason for the maintaners of the language to enable him to write bad code. The changes were available for testing long before the final version was released. He could have spoken up during the RC phase, but he didn't. He should have tested his code against the RC version and started fixing issues in his code before the final release. Instead, he just installed the new release and started bitching.
Go ahead and send the link. They'll read that bug report and say to themselves "Why was he sending an empty string to number_format? What did he expect?"
And they will realize that they've been doing it right all along.
What's the point, if not to build a device to enable human powered flight? Do we consider hovering for 50 seconds "flight"? Maybe the contest goal is satisfied by brief hovering, but I wouldn't be content to work on this project just to win a prize.
You, sir, obviously don't have much experience in cycling.
I quit racing 10 years ago when the road scraped half of my face off. I woke up 2 days later and had no inclination to race again. I did learn an important lesson - the lightest forks are not necessarily the best. Weight be damned, I now only ride on the strongest forks I can find.
Maybe it's a difference in riding styles.... I never liked the feel of recumbent. I use my hands/arms to pull my stroke down when I need the extra power as I described (brace to use the full power of the legs)
When and if they ever have a successful flight of this device - I certainly hope they reconsider the hand crank. The pilot is going to need a way to control the craft - and traditionally that's done with hand controls.
A bit too solid, and the angles are all wrong (for the rider).
Putting the rider in a reclined position, he's unable to use his body weight against the pedals. Using his arms,he's unable to brace his body to use the full power of his legs (by far more powerful than arms), and by using fixed gearing - the cyclist and the craft reaches max-rpm quickly. Adding gearing would allow the rider to get the rotors spinning with relative ease, then increase the rpm of the rotors by switching gears.
I say: 1. eliminate hand pedaling 2. put the rider upright 3. make it an 18 speed
I was brought on board to manage the server and network infrastructure. Then the tech support guy quit. So I started giving high level tech support. Shortly after that, the guy who climbed the radio towers quit. When a tower went down due to lightning strike - I donned the climbing harness and up I went. A while after that - one of the guys who did installs quit. So I did several installs per week to catch up the remaining installer. The owner promised a few websites to his buddies - so I ended up building those.
It seemed like the owner would pile another responsibility on my plate every so often - like a boiling frog, I didn't really notice until it was just plain overwhelming.
When I finally quit - so did everyone else.... I gave notice, everyone else just quit on my last day. That day is still satisfying to think about.
While a valid aspect of organic farming, you miss one of the key reasons many choose to go organic - food quality.
While it's possible using "conventional" farming methods to get a lot of yield, what is the nutritional value of the yield - what about the flavor?
Try this when you have some time - get some tomatos from your local grocery store - then get some from a local organic grower. My personal experience is that the grocery store tomatos remind me of eating water balloons while organic tomatos are an explosion of flavor. I haven't done the research to prove this, but I would be willing to believe that the nutritional value of the store bought tomatos is very low when compared to organically grown tomatos.
I don't buy tomatos from the store - 10 plants in my garden supply all that I need and more.
That's a problem though. If the brake is the throttle override, then what is the brake override?
The obvious solution is to have 2 throttles, and 2 brake pedals. So you can have a brake override throttle, and a brake override throttle override brake.... Maybe they could put them on the passengers side. While they're at it, they may as well include a steering override on the passengers side too. Throw in some turn-signal overrides, wiper overrides, headlight overrides, hazard overrides.....
And just so we can throw another beauracracy into the mix - the whole system can be certified by the FAA.
Once, in an interview, I went through a marathon process of several managers and supervisors.
My last interview was with Ana (...sigh...) - quite possibly the hottest woman I've ever known - if not ever seen. The interview went normally (for me - blatant truth has always been the best course of action for me) - and when it was apparently over I was asked "Do you have any questions for me?"
Perhaps that was the wrong question to ask a person who had only recently got over the agony that is divorce. I answered with the most pressing question on my mind - "Would you like to go out to dinner?"
Unfortunately, she wasn't wearing her wedding ring that day, or I wouldn't have asked (really, that's just tacky). After a very hot blush, she explained her marital status and I became a little embarrassed. She said she was flattered...
That job was great for a little over a year until the company moved to Korea and I moved to Texas. Ana's assistant Christina was quite possibly the second hottest women I've ever known - or seen. The scenery was incredible!
and a user-replaceable battery.... and a capability to run apps that aren't approved by apple (caveat is that a developer can create an app that is installable on 100 devices without going through the app store...for $99 a year, or for a greater cost with an enterprise license - unlimited devices - I suppose that means buying approval for $99 or more)
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There is one very funny bit in that link, where he asks Rasmus to "escalate" the issue.
Yeah, I chuckled at that part too.
I liked how the wikipedia link was given instead of an explanation of who Rasmus was. I doubt the person read it though.....then again, maybe that's why he didn't reply further.
The PHP manual doesn't say that it will return 0, it says that it will return a formatted version of the $number input. When that input variable isn't a float as the function expects, exactly what is the function supposed to return?
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.number-format.php
string number_format ( float $number , int $decimals = 0 , string $dec_point = '.' , string $thousands_sep = ',' )
Maybe it should cause a fatal error because the input did not meet the criteria, would that be better?
Just because someone has been successfully writing bad code for years is not a good reason for the maintaners of the language to enable him to write bad code. The changes were available for testing long before the final version was released. He could have spoken up during the RC phase, but he didn't. He should have tested his code against the RC version and started fixing issues in his code before the final release. Instead, he just installed the new release and started bitching.
Go ahead and send the link. They'll read that bug report and say to themselves "Why was he sending an empty string to number_format? What did he expect?"
And they will realize that they've been doing it right all along.
What's the point, if not to build a device to enable human powered flight? Do we consider hovering for 50 seconds "flight"? Maybe the contest goal is satisfied by brief hovering, but I wouldn't be content to work on this project just to win a prize.
You, sir, obviously don't have much experience in cycling.
I quit racing 10 years ago when the road scraped half of my face off. I woke up 2 days later and had no inclination to race again. I did learn an important lesson - the lightest forks are not necessarily the best. Weight be damned, I now only ride on the strongest forks I can find.
Maybe it's a difference in riding styles.... I never liked the feel of recumbent. I use my hands/arms to pull my stroke down when I need the extra power as I described (brace to use the full power of the legs)
When and if they ever have a successful flight of this device - I certainly hope they reconsider the hand crank. The pilot is going to need a way to control the craft - and traditionally that's done with hand controls.
A bit too solid, and the angles are all wrong (for the rider).
Putting the rider in a reclined position, he's unable to use his body weight against the pedals. Using his arms,he's unable to brace his body to use the full power of his legs (by far more powerful than arms), and by using fixed gearing - the cyclist and the craft reaches max-rpm quickly. Adding gearing would allow the rider to get the rotors spinning with relative ease, then increase the rpm of the rotors by switching gears.
I say:
1. eliminate hand pedaling
2. put the rider upright
3. make it an 18 speed
They're hosted by RackSpace
Obviously, they have the opportunity to clean their url.
http://google/
This gives them the opportunity to move the query string to the sub domain position, like:
http://docs.google/
http://adsense.google/
http://reader.google/
With some DNS wild cards, they could even move variables to sub domains.
That sounds like a job I recently quit.
I was brought on board to manage the server and network infrastructure. Then the tech support guy quit. So I started giving high level tech support. Shortly after that, the guy who climbed the radio towers quit. When a tower went down due to lightning strike - I donned the climbing harness and up I went. A while after that - one of the guys who did installs quit. So I did several installs per week to catch up the remaining installer. The owner promised a few websites to his buddies - so I ended up building those.
It seemed like the owner would pile another responsibility on my plate every so often - like a boiling frog, I didn't really notice until it was just plain overwhelming.
When I finally quit - so did everyone else.... I gave notice, everyone else just quit on my last day. That day is still satisfying to think about.
Unless you don't intend to keep the promise..... Wait... that's politicians - nevermind.
Annnnnnnd usually much lower shelf life.
Not in my experience - in fact, exactly the opposite.
While a valid aspect of organic farming, you miss one of the key reasons many choose to go organic - food quality.
While it's possible using "conventional" farming methods to get a lot of yield, what is the nutritional value of the yield - what about the flavor?
Try this when you have some time - get some tomatos from your local grocery store - then get some from a local organic grower. My personal experience is that the grocery store tomatos remind me of eating water balloons while organic tomatos are an explosion of flavor. I haven't done the research to prove this, but I would be willing to believe that the nutritional value of the store bought tomatos is very low when compared to organically grown tomatos.
I don't buy tomatos from the store - 10 plants in my garden supply all that I need and more.
Yeah, I have a suggestion... Learn to use linux properly.
Thank Budda someone said it!
7 characters alpha - that's terrible. Bruteforce can find that in seconds, no dictionary needed.
That's a problem though. If the brake is the throttle override, then what is the brake override?
The obvious solution is to have 2 throttles, and 2 brake pedals. So you can have a brake override throttle, and a brake override throttle override brake.... Maybe they could put them on the passengers side. While they're at it, they may as well include a steering override on the passengers side too. Throw in some turn-signal overrides, wiper overrides, headlight overrides, hazard overrides.....
And just so we can throw another beauracracy into the mix - the whole system can be certified by the FAA.
I call second seat!
Once, in an interview, I went through a marathon process of several managers and supervisors.
My last interview was with Ana (...sigh...) - quite possibly the hottest woman I've ever known - if not ever seen. The interview went normally (for me - blatant truth has always been the best course of action for me) - and when it was apparently over I was asked "Do you have any questions for me?"
Perhaps that was the wrong question to ask a person who had only recently got over the agony that is divorce. I answered with the most pressing question on my mind - "Would you like to go out to dinner?"
Unfortunately, she wasn't wearing her wedding ring that day, or I wouldn't have asked (really, that's just tacky). After a very hot blush, she explained her marital status and I became a little embarrassed. She said she was flattered...
That job was great for a little over a year until the company moved to Korea and I moved to Texas. Ana's assistant Christina was quite possibly the second hottest women I've ever known - or seen. The scenery was incredible!
yaaaaay
The sweat, blood and tears of overworked Chinese college interns isn't cheap you know.
Uh...yes it is.
It might bother you more to think that the gloves they've been using all day on other peoples junk is now about to rub on your junk.
The gloves are there to protect the TSA personnel, not you.
Apple wouldn't allow apps which access the UDID onto their store.
Apple has removed UUID from the public API starting in iOS 5. The problem is that Apple has already allowed apps which use UUID into their store.
It's still possible to read the wireless MAC address, so identifying individual iPads and users is still possible.
Can you remember the last piece of technology hardware you had which outlived its warranty?
Every ThinkPad I've ever owned (currently on #5).
As in, the bottom of the barrel.
They will know all of your dirty secrets because even if you don't spill, your friends will.
Yet it still lacks 4G or a MicroSD slot.
and a user-replaceable battery....
and a capability to run apps that aren't approved by apple (caveat is that a developer can create an app that is installable on 100 devices without going through the app store...for $99 a year, or for a greater cost with an enterprise license - unlimited devices - I suppose that means buying approval for $99 or more)
My brother, sister-in-law, and 2 nephews are each on their 4th iPhone. That's 12 iPhones sitting in a drawer.
His statement has resonates true to me... just saying...
Though their Volt car seems like a decent idea; not sure why it isn't selling better?
Some people have an aversion to vehicles that have been reported to "burst into flames".