From what little I've seen of wordpress it seems to break the number one rule of web pages since 1992 and is full of absolute links, thus removing portablity and making it difficult to test before deploying. Is it all like that or did I just stumble upon a part written by an idiot?
I just moved a wordpress installation from one domain to another. It's a two step process, and everything works without problem. (1) In the admin, you change the Wordpress and website address URL. Updating this results in an error because it expects another URL. (2) Move the installation to the new domain and/or rename the folder. It could be that a plugin stores an absolute path, but it isn't supposed to do that. Some plugins use file paths, but they will probably warn if that path is no longer available.
I felt I needed a dose of stupidity, so I tuned into one of the news channels to see what they were saying about this case. After they were done with their character assassination of Edward Snowden (as if it has anything to do with the NSA's spying), they decided to apply some brilliant logic to the situation: Since Snowden is so clearly a dirty traitor and can't be trusted, we should all trust the guys from the NSA to do what's right. Evidently, if one person cannot be trusted, you must trust the secretive guy who is in direct opposition to the other guy...
And this comes from the people who claim to want small government. Yeah, okay. Small government... unless we think something will help stop the terrorists, and in that case, the government should do whatever it wants and violate the constitution as it wants!
The US (and many other nations like France and the UK) have done this for ages. The enemy of your enemy. Remember the Iran-Iraq war in the 80s? Afghanistan - Russia back then as well? This created the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan that turned evil later on. It's stupid opportunistic policy, it's a problem for later. When news channels broadcast this kind of logic, it's only because many people want to hear this. These are the news channels that don't bring news, but that feed the fear, by request of the people who fear, just to be reassured.
I still have a bunch of them; every so often I fire them up and program them in ODT. After programming them in assembler (or raw octal), every other instruction set seems irregular. Putting MOV -(PC), -(PC) at the top of memory and executing it was always fun....
Please explain why it was fun! I know the PDP-11 was still around in 1986, and I have probably worked with it for an assembler assignment once. I do remember being in the terminal room, but that's about it.
You'd be surprised, this may work, provided you use Limburger or some other very aromatic kind of cheese.
If you hide your cheese in Limburger, you will have no social life anymore. That simply means: no data to hide - problem solved.
(And I am from Limburg and my father loved that cheese and when he tried to "hide" a piece in the fridge (like in Tupperware) it was an awful smell for us kids!)
In Soviet Russia, the government hacks you! In the United States however it's not hacking anymore, because the law says all channels are open for Big Brother, and hacking de-facto does not exist anymore. How about that?
An interesting parallel would be people in the US who allow seditious comments harmful to public order in China (or so they'll say) to be posted on their websites, which are then accessed by Chinese people. Will China now feel a whole lot happier about arresting Americans for this should they go anywhere where China has enough influence, or have their flights diverted? Or, indeed, just accuse Americans of stuff to keep them out or stop them selling stuff there.
For Americans this does not apply. EU citizens probably not as well. It will result in too much (international) political problems for the Chinese. But take an average Zambesian guy, and he might be not so lucky.
An outbreak of common sense. I can scarcely believe my eyes.
Now to see if it holds.
And all under the guise of two things: Either "Terrorism" (makes you think who really won, doesn't it?), or "won't someone think of the children" (as if THIS case will magically remove ALL child porn from the internet).
Fear nothing but fear itself...
Where is the leader who can make this clear? Where is the leader who can offer hope?
Considering that IBM is actually getting datacenters+software+customers+sales people+support organization, this is a much better deal than, say, Instagram or many of the other recent "Cloud" deals. This is an actual cloud provider, with actual hardware and sales. Looks like Big Blue is getting serious about switching to being a service provider instead of a hardware provider.
You're right that this is probably a better deal than buying Instagram. You're a little late with noticing that Big Blue is serious about services compared to hardware. That's their main interest for the past 10 or maybe 15 years. Since the PC debacle they completely transformed from hardware to services.
> Assange's knee-jerk reaction is to presume the worst, and hidden, motives for anything related to American interests and motives.
Why the fuck are you Americans so paranoid? You have all the guns you want, a massive military yet you're still so utterly shit scared that everyone's out to get you.
You turn things around. They have guns because they are scared. The scared-thing doesn't go away if they have the most of the most powerful guns. It's the same with rich people. Once they have all this money they are scared shit that they will lose it once in the future.
Forget the plans to replace the park (the last remaining public park with trees in the city) with yet another shopping mall. That's all the protesters want! It's all over real estate developers wanting to bulldoze a park.
JUST LET THEM HAVE THE PARK!
GIve them a finger, and they'll take an arm! A real dictator cannot give in. They stepped on his penis, now he needs to show his power. He doesn't give shit about that park. Democracy is just like a busline for him. I don't remember the proper quote, cannot find it, but it's all about playing along till the right station comes along. Hopefully the Turkish people realize that it's still possible to throw him out?!
Those who haven't read The Dying Earth series, or Jack Vance's later Lyonesse series really are missing a treat. It isn't for no reason that in 2006 his fans published a meticulously copy-edited 44-volume edition of his works, usually selling for over $3500. (There are cheaper editions, of course.)
About a year or two ago I looked for EPUB ebooks from him, but couldn't find them. For him a bit late, but not for me: jackvance.com/ebooks/shop/. No DRM, and a good price. I think I will start reading again!:-) And thanks for the Gene Wolf tip!
People who ignore the rules rule the world, because it's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission. Learn from this, kids: Life is not about following the rules, it's about what you can get away with.
Try that in Singapore with pot.
Well with pot, you shouldn't get away with (in Singapore)! You should smoke it!
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
It's not my quote, but Ghandi's, and it perfectly fits the current digital age. It's not the things that go well and without effort that make you, but it's the mistakes that make a difference, if you learn from them at least. And if you don't, well they make a difference as well of course, but not for the better.
On the other hand, online mistakes maybe follow you along. If you can handle them at a later age, it might be no different than now. Pictures are another thing however. They make an impression that is not easily forgotten.
In your contract, you should have acceptance tests specified. The contractor that hires you should test and approve the product. If it's not what they want, contains bugs, or is not as specified by them, they should not accept. When they have accepted the product, they should pay for bugs. You should agree about this before starting.
For now, fix those bugs, and think of it as a good and valuable lesson.
God, it brings back memories: an 8086 with 256k of RAM, 8 1/2" floppies....
Using / as the main way of navigating spreadsheets...
1-2-3 you gave me my start, not just in spreadsheets, but in computers. Thank you and goodbye, old friend.
Sniff.
I remember SuperCalc, on my SuperBrain... CP/M, 64KB RAM, monochrome, two 160KB floppies, and one of them could fit the OS, Wordstar, Supercalc, DBase II and many other programs on it. And thank god for double sided floppies which required flipping of course. Yeah flipping floppies those were the days!;-)
Do you understand how most parliamentary governments work? Parties dedicated to individual themes come together and form larger coalitions. Unlike in countries with a two-party system, parties aren't under pressure to be all things to all people.
...enviromental degradation...
The Greens are usually seen as a natural partner for The Pirate Party in any coalition.
Parties dedicated to individual themes - we call the one issue parties. These parties have one or two key things they want to achieve. Having two or three of these parties is not a big problem, but many small parties like this completely lock up the system, because it becomes impossible to get a coalition. It's always trading. When I support you here, you support my one issue. Only problem here is when these issues conflict, apart from the time it takes to get everyone together. And then one party threatens to leave the "party", essentially holding the rest hostage.
It's the way it works, it's democracy in the 21st century, but it's not working to create a better place to live.
And the truth is, meat actually isn't all that expensive. If it were, maybe there would be pressure for this or other "extreme measures", but as it farming techology keeps improving at a much faster rate than demand for meat. In real terms, meat is cheaper now than at any point in human history, and we should be proud of that.
More and more people in India and China alone earn more and more money and want to eat more meat. They are not big meat eaters like in the US, they simply cannot afford it, but they can afford a little bit more. And because they are so many, they take up a increasing part of the market. For each cow we can produce 10x the food in weat and corn etc. The result is that for every cow we lose 10x the food production in other products, so we lose 90% of production capacity. I don't know of any method that can handle this.
Well, happiness and smartness are quite mutually exclusive.
No kidding. I'd love to see a study about whether there's a connection between depression and high IQ.
"It has been thought in the past that there is a correlation between giftedness and depression or suicide. This has generally not been proven." (Source)
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From what little I've seen of wordpress it seems to break the number one rule of web pages since 1992 and is full of absolute links, thus removing portablity and making it difficult to test before deploying. Is it all like that or did I just stumble upon a part written by an idiot?
I just moved a wordpress installation from one domain to another. It's a two step process, and everything works without problem. (1) In the admin, you change the Wordpress and website address URL. Updating this results in an error because it expects another URL. (2) Move the installation to the new domain and/or rename the folder. It could be that a plugin stores an absolute path, but it isn't supposed to do that. Some plugins use file paths, but they will probably warn if that path is no longer available.
I felt I needed a dose of stupidity, so I tuned into one of the news channels to see what they were saying about this case. After they were done with their character assassination of Edward Snowden (as if it has anything to do with the NSA's spying), they decided to apply some brilliant logic to the situation: Since Snowden is so clearly a dirty traitor and can't be trusted, we should all trust the guys from the NSA to do what's right. Evidently, if one person cannot be trusted, you must trust the secretive guy who is in direct opposition to the other guy...
And this comes from the people who claim to want small government. Yeah, okay. Small government... unless we think something will help stop the terrorists, and in that case, the government should do whatever it wants and violate the constitution as it wants!
The US (and many other nations like France and the UK) have done this for ages. The enemy of your enemy. Remember the Iran-Iraq war in the 80s? Afghanistan - Russia back then as well? This created the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan that turned evil later on. It's stupid opportunistic policy, it's a problem for later. When news channels broadcast this kind of logic, it's only because many people want to hear this. These are the news channels that don't bring news, but that feed the fear, by request of the people who fear, just to be reassured.
I still have a bunch of them; every so often I fire them up and program them in ODT. After programming them in assembler (or raw octal), every other instruction set seems irregular. Putting MOV -(PC), -(PC) at the top of memory and executing it was always fun....
Please explain why it was fun! I know the PDP-11 was still around in 1986, and I have probably worked with it for an assembler assignment once. I do remember being in the terminal room, but that's about it.
You'd be surprised, this may work, provided you use Limburger or some other very aromatic kind of cheese.
If you hide your cheese in Limburger, you will have no social life anymore. That simply means: no data to hide - problem solved.
(And I am from Limburg and my father loved that cheese and when he tried to "hide" a piece in the fridge (like in Tupperware) it was an awful smell for us kids!)
In Soviet Russia, the government hacks you! In the United States however it's not hacking anymore, because the law says all channels are open for Big Brother, and hacking de-facto does not exist anymore. How about that?
An interesting parallel would be people in the US who allow seditious comments harmful to public order in China (or so they'll say) to be posted on their websites, which are then accessed by Chinese people. Will China now feel a whole lot happier about arresting Americans for this should they go anywhere where China has enough influence, or have their flights diverted? Or, indeed, just accuse Americans of stuff to keep them out or stop them selling stuff there.
For Americans this does not apply. EU citizens probably not as well. It will result in too much (international) political problems for the Chinese. But take an average Zambesian guy, and he might be not so lucky.
An outbreak of common sense. I can scarcely believe my eyes.
Now to see if it holds.
And all under the guise of two things: Either "Terrorism" (makes you think who really won, doesn't it?), or "won't someone think of the children" (as if THIS case will magically remove ALL child porn from the internet).
Fear nothing but fear itself...
Where is the leader who can make this clear? Where is the leader who can offer hope?
Holy shit, yeah, you're right - it's totally impossible to strip out the XML tags and be left with readable plain text content!
I bet nobody could ever decode it!
Well we could of course describe the entire Windows 95 OS, Office 95 and even Mac OS 8 or something in an XML CDATA tag.
Considering that IBM is actually getting datacenters+software+customers+sales people+support organization, this is a much better deal than, say, Instagram or many of the other recent "Cloud" deals. This is an actual cloud provider, with actual hardware and sales. Looks like Big Blue is getting serious about switching to being a service provider instead of a hardware provider.
You're right that this is probably a better deal than buying Instagram. You're a little late with noticing that Big Blue is serious about services compared to hardware. That's their main interest for the past 10 or maybe 15 years. Since the PC debacle they completely transformed from hardware to services.
> Assange's knee-jerk reaction is to presume the worst, and hidden, motives for anything related to American interests and motives.
Why the fuck are you Americans so paranoid? You have all the guns you want, a massive military yet you're still so utterly shit scared that everyone's out to get you.
You turn things around. They have guns because they are scared. The scared-thing doesn't go away if they have the most of the most powerful guns. It's the same with rich people. Once they have all this money they are scared shit that they will lose it once in the future.
Forget the plans to replace the park (the last remaining public park with trees in the city) with yet another shopping mall. That's all the protesters want! It's all over real estate developers wanting to bulldoze a park.
JUST LET THEM HAVE THE PARK!
GIve them a finger, and they'll take an arm! A real dictator cannot give in. They stepped on his penis, now he needs to show his power. He doesn't give shit about that park. Democracy is just like a busline for him. I don't remember the proper quote, cannot find it, but it's all about playing along till the right station comes along. Hopefully the Turkish people realize that it's still possible to throw him out?!
I'm still working on IP5
Yeah you should do that before upgrading to IE6.
Germany, Japan, Luxemburg and Belgium are above 3%. So that means the US is at least 7th or lower, because I didn't check all countries.
Those who haven't read The Dying Earth series, or Jack Vance's later Lyonesse series really are missing a treat. It isn't for no reason that in 2006 his fans published a meticulously copy-edited 44-volume edition of his works, usually selling for over $3500. (There are cheaper editions, of course.)
About a year or two ago I looked for EPUB ebooks from him, but couldn't find them. For him a bit late, but not for me: jackvance.com/ebooks/shop/. No DRM, and a good price. I think I will start reading again! :-) And thanks for the Gene Wolf tip!
Vagrant is a wrapper for Virtualbox and VMWare Workstation that accelerates the deployment of development environments.
http://www.vagrantup.com/
Please tell a bit more about when and in what situations you would want to use this instead of a plain Virtualbox VM.
People who ignore the rules rule the world, because it's easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission. Learn from this, kids: Life is not about following the rules, it's about what you can get away with.
Try that in Singapore with pot.
Well with pot, you shouldn't get away with (in Singapore)! You should smoke it!
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
It's not my quote, but Ghandi's, and it perfectly fits the current digital age. It's not the things that go well and without effort that make you, but it's the mistakes that make a difference, if you learn from them at least. And if you don't, well they make a difference as well of course, but not for the better.
On the other hand, online mistakes maybe follow you along. If you can handle them at a later age, it might be no different than now. Pictures are another thing however. They make an impression that is not easily forgotten.
In your contract, you should have acceptance tests specified. The contractor that hires you should test and approve the product. If it's not what they want, contains bugs, or is not as specified by them, they should not accept. When they have accepted the product, they should pay for bugs. You should agree about this before starting.
For now, fix those bugs, and think of it as a good and valuable lesson.
God, it brings back memories: an 8086 with 256k of RAM, 8 1/2" floppies....
Using / as the main way of navigating spreadsheets...
1-2-3 you gave me my start, not just in spreadsheets, but in computers. Thank you and goodbye, old friend.
Sniff.
I remember SuperCalc, on my SuperBrain... CP/M, 64KB RAM, monochrome, two 160KB floppies, and one of them could fit the OS, Wordstar, Supercalc, DBase II and many other programs on it. And thank god for double sided floppies which required flipping of course. Yeah flipping floppies those were the days! ;-)
Do you understand how most parliamentary governments work? Parties dedicated to individual themes come together and form larger coalitions. Unlike in countries with a two-party system, parties aren't under pressure to be all things to all people.
The Greens are usually seen as a natural partner for The Pirate Party in any coalition.
Parties dedicated to individual themes - we call the one issue parties. These parties have one or two key things they want to achieve. Having two or three of these parties is not a big problem, but many small parties like this completely lock up the system, because it becomes impossible to get a coalition. It's always trading. When I support you here, you support my one issue. Only problem here is when these issues conflict, apart from the time it takes to get everyone together. And then one party threatens to leave the "party", essentially holding the rest hostage.
It's the way it works, it's democracy in the 21st century, but it's not working to create a better place to live.
Higher voltage? I thought it was just higher current.
No it could actually be higher voltage, 5V (or 5.25) compared to 4.8 or something like that.
And the truth is, meat actually isn't all that expensive. If it were, maybe there would be pressure for this or other "extreme measures", but as it farming techology keeps improving at a much faster rate than demand for meat. In real terms, meat is cheaper now than at any point in human history, and we should be proud of that.
More and more people in India and China alone earn more and more money and want to eat more meat. They are not big meat eaters like in the US, they simply cannot afford it, but they can afford a little bit more. And because they are so many, they take up a increasing part of the market. For each cow we can produce 10x the food in weat and corn etc. The result is that for every cow we lose 10x the food production in other products, so we lose 90% of production capacity. I don't know of any method that can handle this.
Well, happiness and smartness are quite mutually exclusive.
No kidding. I'd love to see a study about whether there's a connection between depression and high IQ.
"It has been thought in the past that there is a correlation between giftedness and depression or suicide. This has generally not been proven." (Source)
Yeah he'd have an "ammonia leak" in his pants.....
Being Howard Wolowitz, yellow stains in your pants can be pretty cool!
Why is a build management tool doing exposed in the internet?
What's the point of building automation if you have to be in the building to use it?
Automation of course!