If you happen to be green, vegan, non-mainstream media watcher/reader, you might have heard, that animal farming causes more CO2 than all the cars on this planet. Also it causes a significant amount of pollution, and uses a lot of water and energy.
Do I know exact numbers? No,
Question: how is this not getting addressed at all, ever, and how is transportation energy/cost/pollution always taking the publicity? Is it because the above facts are not facts/true, or is it because of something else, like politics/lobbying/etc?
I do not mean this as flamebait, I am really just baffled by this happening. And yes, I am a tree-hugger in many ways..
I wonder why it makes you wonder about the worst IT in film history. I personally really enjoyed the narrated part of the movie and what was said there sounded logical use of simple tools to data-mine a few lame-written public school pages.
To answer your question: all the graphical hacking/cracking scenes in Hackers, Swordfish, and the mentioned Independence Day are some of the lamest I seem to remember.
Even though I am a William Gibson fan, I would add Johnny Mnemonic's final hacking scene, with the digital Johnny copying himself, while swimming along the dolphin (Jones) in the matrix. While it depicted a virtual world that might exists at one point, the "hacking" would probably go a different route even in graphical/avatar UIs of the future.
Since in the fractional reserve money system (standard in our society) everything comes in the form of a loan that carries an interest and it immediately creates debt, $1!=$1...
Based on this, any large corporation's books must have equations where 1=1+x, where x>0... In other words, the world should see what calculates what and how in their system. And why we are at it, let's bring in a few banks for fun, let them explain how their software crunches the numbers...
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I think that is what people want. Easy accessible gaming, a few hours a week maybe. No time for more for most.
I think there are hard games that took days/weeks to beat, but it really depends on what you want. I almost only play FPS and except a few that had good single player, I only play online.
A game that I remember playing for LONG, and left a good impression was the last MGS... took forever to beat, and I was lucky enough and had time to play it.
Also look at Japanese titles. The guys over there must like challenge, and some of the games are just unplayably hard. Then again, this is from 6 years ago when I had the chance to try a bunch of import games. BTW MGS is a Japanese title.... that explains the full DL-Blue Ray disk and the length of the game.
Hmm, interesting. I do not own a 4, only the first and the 3gs. I picked up the 4 and almost dropped it on the spot.
I am not however surprised, that it might actually be better to hold, then the 3gs.
I got around the docking like this ; at the office I just use a cable.. no problem with that.
At home I dock the phone into an ihome to charge. Since we have a 3gs, a 2G, ipod mini, ipod nano I simply removed the dock adapter, so anything fits in there now. Since the ihome is on a tall piece of furniture, there is no accidental hitting, that might damage the phone or the docking. You have to dock it carefully, but it works fine.
Not sure what cases are there for the 4, I am not planning on a new phone for at least 2 years.... In reality I make 3-5 calls a week, so it is more like a gadget for me than an actual phone.
On the contrary, most modern "technologies and the progress" (whatever this might mean to him) have a strong technological (and logical) foundation, explanation, and their existence (virtual or real) can be verified, proven explained and reproduced. Given, that you care to get the details.
A lot of things in religions writings are not possible to prove, their existence is "anecdotal" at best. And if you care about the details and try to prove any of them, well, then there you go down the rabbit-hole.
Evolution and global warming is a hoax anyway.
My take on this? Well, buddhism does not encourage greed, never started a holy war and accepts the existence of a ghost (gods) world without caring too much about it. Builds on the promise of a good afterlife without threatening with endless horror, not forcing anyone to do anything really. It is self centered in a way without hurting community... It teaches you not to kill things (others or living creatures) too. It is a view of a thinker, a clever one, maybe more than one.
Then again, just a few thoughts, it is not my intention to offend anyone religious....
Shocking news... metal covered glass breaks easier than the one surrounded with thick plastic.
Look at the 3G/3GS, and compare it to the first iPhone (on which I saw some broken screens) and the iPhone 4....
I think the new design looks spectacular, still I would 100x prefer my 3GS with the 4's features than the actual 4.
I actually think, that a iPhone 4 with the plastic bumper is still more vulnerable to side impacts than a 3G/GS without a protector.
Just my 2c...
An other factor : if you have big hands, you can much more easily drop small objects. The 4 felt tiny compared to my in-case (actual brand of the case) covered 3GS. Every time I hold a 3GS without the cover I have the feeling that I am about to drop, it is so slim and shiny/slippery.
Apple keyboards on laptops are the exact same (ok, almost) replica of their full-size keyboards. That is not to say it would help your RSI, just to say, that when using a full-size key, it is not needed to switch.
I find the LARGE pointing surface pretty ergonomic on the laptop, it is possible to thumb-operate if you are willing to learn it.
My take on this issu is the following : I have been waiting for a good laptop-like keyboard for the desktop as I find them easier to type on. Then came the apple aluminum keyboard, then the wireless one.
I would really like to see a split keyboard of the same style, but that does not really exist (yet), so what I figured, is that when I will have too much time (never??) I would get 2 wireless ones, and interconnect them (or just cover the middle part, ending up with 2 halves of the wireless ones....
To help your problem really: I use now a logitech trackball and an apple keyboard. When seat height and other ergonomics are set correctly I have no pain/discomfort even after 10+ hour working/hacking/tinkering/surfing sessions.
Then again, this post is biased towards apple, you can get a TON of split windows keys, and if you have a serious wrist injury history, you should just carry around a MS split keyboard... they are pretty good quality and are really ergonomic (strange words from an apple lover eh?)
you should have a dev, testing (staging??), pre-prod and prod environment.
Pre-prod should be the same as prod (same hardware, net, everything). In large environments developers have access to only dev, everything else is deployed by middleware ops....
this model was used in both a 24-7 manufacturing environment and bank I supported..... where I develop now, I have access to everything, but my role is somewhat special, I am involved in server related planning and deployment too to some extent....
Epassporte gives you an ATM card and a Virtual card (not many though, only one). They allow different deposit methods, and are accepted pretty much everywhere.
Using a complex CMS system to learn to code, is like learning how to turn a wrench on the space shuttle.
Sorry, first read a book on programming (I am serious if you are a non-tech that is lesson one). Then a good idea would be to learn at least a basics, data structures, operators, iterators, etc..... Then make something really simple, that has a little bit of everything.
But all that aside; I do not understand the concept of a non-techie programming. It is like a life guard who never cared about swimming. If you start programming you will become a techie to a certain level at least, otherwise you won't be programming.
I know people who copy-paste large amount of code and then try to do simple things, then they are stuck because they do not understand what they used. They use the visual editors and jump into OOP without knowing the basics. That is what you can accomplish to run at a complex CMS without knowing the basics.
Then again, I am not saying go with Assembler, LISP or something you never use again. PHP is a good choice for web, but if you want to learn how to write a threaded application, a tcp server or client, and in fact anything that would run on a server or desktop, PERL or even C would be a better choice to learn.
+1... exclusively multiplayer. I spend enough time ALONE in front of the computer and played hundreds of games, many of which I did not finish out of frustration of bugs, too hard or too easy gameplay.
I think developers should focus on Rainbow Six or Ghost Recon -type cooperative gameplay. It is missing from all new games.
I think developers should also focus on putting features back into games they removed in the last few years because of consoles. When in a game you can play sniper and cannot lay down on the floor, then something just stinks. Do not get me wrong, the new Battlefield is a lot of fun. But Battlefield 2 was a real battlefield, because you could fly anything, drive anything, and play in 64 player massive battles. Now that is 32 (or 24??) in a room, and many things are soooooo limited (e.g. sniping without a prone position??)...
I honestly got to the point where I do not care. With 4 Gigs and a Core 2 Duo I am perfectly fine, running OS X. I can run editors, edit basic videos (they can take long, but I run a render once a week maybe at night). I can browse, look at HD videos, music and on my PC I can play games (that is a 2 core, some older SLI Nvidia, and most games run just fine).
When even games run OK on a Core 2 Duo, and all my work applications, why look at i5, i7? I have colleagues, who questioned my purchase of a Macbook pro 13'' (Core 2 Duo up to today), and I realized, that I had no urge to get anything faster AT ALL, but prefer a better battery life, and a smaller laptop (apple i5/i7 are 15/17 inch, Core 2 duo is 13 inches).
Just my 2c. Rendering, crunching happens on server in my world, browsing, and needed apps work just fine on the older ones for me:)
OK, so this is useless panic making. Seems like the media has no war or tragedy to work on.
But the question is: can you really get anything out of these sounds? High? Relaxation? Weight loss, meditation?
Thinking of how a DJ (psy trance, goa) or a band (any kind, style) can move a crowd through moods, well, music and sounds can change your moods. But do binaural sounds do anything?
Well, to my wife's dislike, I loaded some up, and I found them relaxing, some of them actually scary (they relax you, then shock you with some sudden harsh effect)...
If this is going to be forbidden, then well, let's also go after Hendrix, psy and goa trance, all psychedelic rock music as well, because these can change your mood and cause a natural high in seconds when listened to "correctly" .
Maybe I worked sometimes around bad people, who chose bad advertising methods (I have never sent SPAM out, or worked SPAM machines), but this is just so old news, like saying:
"Robbers are now using stolen cars", or "thieves are stealing credit card numbers"
Either way, when it comes to spamming, the linked domain is mostly a throw-away one, and that is not even the problem. The problem is, the IP that sends the mail. At least for the weak/poor, who cannot build/pay for a botnet mailer. You can however always find a provider with a set of Foreign IPs (the last spam haven I heard of was Romania). Machine hosted in the US, port 80 for the legit site (after the spam "promo site") is a US IP, the spam goes out from Romanian IPs, and the throw-away address points there too. Complain comes, domain is thrown, new IP, new domain, main site claims, the spam was from an advertiser, and their account is gone.
SOOO EASY... and so impossible to do anything with.
FYI I do not work on/with anything like this, near this or for this.
Do not get me wrong, I hope no one got hurt and that there is no serious damage. I also understand that it can be frightening for the ones not used to this.
But.... since I moved to Costa Rica, I am completely used to 5-6 quakes... Yes, there are places where I do not want to be in one, some mountain roads and villages were leveled 2 years ago, but in our house I barely even move when it starts shaking. At least every 3 weeks there is a smaller one you feel, and just get used to it.
Honestly here a 5.something is considered a no event. Even though after each 5+ the news channel brings on the local vulcanologists, they usually tell the strength, location, depth, and report, that in a store some glasses fell off the shelf. Then commercial and then you go back to whatever you did before. Actually it is not a bad thing, the country has 5+ active volcanoes, some of which are pretty alarming nowadays.... The closest volcano is a 20-25 minute mountain ride (on a fast dirtbike and an ok rider). The next one is like 60 kilometers. 2 are recently smoking, bubbling, and throwing some ashes. And then there is this SPA place, where you sit in a thermal river (with different streams having different temps), and if the gods of weather permits, you can enjoy a pina colada in the hot pool , feeling the rumble and seeing the mountain puke red lava:).... OKOK... too much detail.
Anyways, some alarmists suggest, that volcanic activity is increasing nowadays, with stronger quakes and misbehaving volcanoes. Maybe people just watch too much 2012 movies.... never bothered really searching for data on this one....
Yeah... Well, actually with WebKit you can write your own browser in an afternoon. Create a yahoo widget (or Dashboard project, or probably Google Gadget or Windows... whatever they are called), drop a canvas on it, define a web page container (which essentially loads an instance of a complete render engine. Just direct this whole mess to a URL and it will display just fine. Or: pull the content, modify it as you want, then throw it at the webkit... or dump it out... or.... does not matter.
You created your own browser. Of course you can go with C, Perl, using curl or sockets.
Seems you do not even need the possibility to compile a binary (Perl, PHP are all interpreted), and with the right lib an idiot can write his/her own browser in an afternoon. So do I./sarcasm
Just like Greasemonkey modifies web content, Safari offers and alternate view you can use when navigating to a page.
I, for one welcome innovation such as this one.
Arms race? You still go to the page, you still see the banners and the page structure (not missing an ad), THEN you can click on the "READER" in the address bar and bring up the reader interface.
I welcome the idea of reading an actual article without blinking SHIT all over the place, but then again, the blinking SHIT is there, so if you are interested in it, you can click on an ad.
And yes, I click on ads when they are worth clicking on, but I am completely sick of people masking google and other ads as contextual links. They barely take you to a page related to most documents.
Ask for it. If some BS answer comes up, tell them, that they are saving on others' salaries, and that saving could benefit the ones taking over extras.
Either way, if you cannot ask for a raise for more work at a company, what kind of future are you expecting there? I guess you do not want to retire from there, because you would be making the same $$ in a management role with a title that does not match.
Of course, if you are feeding a family where jobs are scarce, you should just suck it up and wait for something better.
However, asking for a raise is not a bad thing in the eyes of most management, if they know you work a lot and do it well.
REZ... yeah.. bought it on XBL, then got the red ring of dead... then got a ps3, and almost after 2 years, there is still no REZ....
I do not play any regular arcade stuff (do not play at all on ps3 anymore at all), but REZ would make me turn the console on. Would be nice to have more tracks and places to explore, but what was there in the original is more than any other "musical shooter" offered ever since.
Stored procedures CAN help with this issue. Not making parameters optional at the end, serializing data, using magic quotes etc... etc.....are all small things you can make your sites safer with....
Also QUERY LANGUAGE.... allows you to run queries. It is the badly written web app (or webserver) that allows the queries to be executed, it is not SQL's fault, wether it is Oracle (sql), MySWL or M$ Sql.....
Well, maybe if most people would not have gotten the "not available in your country or region", most people would have ordered online. I wanted one, and I am happy I did not: I tried a colleague's Nexus one, and found to phone to be... well.. not satisfactory...
While Android is a cool thing, after an iPhone all HTC phones feel like cheap plasticky toys. And do not even get me started on the touch screen.
I am in the search for a 850Mhz HSDPA Android phone for some time and haven't found a unit that even remotely challenges the iPhone's quality. Maybe when idroidproject advances a little I can have my 2G running Android....
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If you happen to be green, vegan, non-mainstream media watcher/reader, you might have heard, that animal farming causes more CO2 than all the cars on this planet. Also it causes a significant amount of pollution, and uses a lot of water and energy.
Do I know exact numbers? No,
Question: how is this not getting addressed at all, ever, and how is transportation energy/cost/pollution always taking the publicity? Is it because the above facts are not facts/true, or is it because of something else, like politics/lobbying/etc?
I do not mean this as flamebait, I am really just baffled by this happening. And yes, I am a tree-hugger in many ways..
I wonder why it makes you wonder about the worst IT in film history. I personally really enjoyed the narrated part of the movie and what was said there sounded logical use of simple tools to data-mine a few lame-written public school pages.
To answer your question: all the graphical hacking/cracking scenes in Hackers, Swordfish, and the mentioned Independence Day are some of the lamest I seem to remember.
Even though I am a William Gibson fan, I would add Johnny Mnemonic's final hacking scene, with the digital Johnny copying himself, while swimming along the dolphin (Jones) in the matrix. While it depicted a virtual world that might exists at one point, the "hacking" would probably go a different route even in graphical/avatar UIs of the future.
Since in the fractional reserve money system (standard in our society) everything comes in the form of a loan that carries an interest and it immediately creates debt, $1!=$1...
Based on this, any large corporation's books must have equations where 1=1+x, where x>0 ... ...
In other words, the world should see what calculates what and how in their system. And why we are at it, let's bring in a few banks for fun, let them explain how their software crunches the numbers
This message has been approved by the pinkie-swear guild.
I think that is what people want. Easy accessible gaming, a few hours a week maybe. No time for more for most.
I think there are hard games that took days/weeks to beat, but it really depends on what you want. I almost only play FPS and except a few that had good single player, I only play online.
A game that I remember playing for LONG, and left a good impression was the last MGS ... took forever to beat, and I was lucky enough and had time to play it.
Also look at Japanese titles. The guys over there must like challenge, and some of the games are just unplayably hard. Then again, this is from 6 years ago when I had the chance to try a bunch of import games. BTW MGS is a Japanese title .... that explains the full DL-Blue Ray disk and the length of the game.
Hmm, interesting. I do not own a 4, only the first and the 3gs. I picked up the 4 and almost dropped it on the spot.
I am not however surprised, that it might actually be better to hold, then the 3gs.
I got around the docking like this ; at the office I just use a cable.. no problem with that.
At home I dock the phone into an ihome to charge. Since we have a 3gs, a 2G, ipod mini, ipod nano I simply removed the dock adapter, so anything fits in there now. Since the ihome is on a tall piece of furniture, there is no accidental hitting, that might damage the phone or the docking. You have to dock it carefully, but it works fine.
Not sure what cases are there for the 4, I am not planning on a new phone for at least 2 years.... In reality I make 3-5 calls a week, so it is more like a gadget for me than an actual phone.
On the contrary, most modern "technologies and the progress" (whatever this might mean to him) have a strong technological (and logical) foundation, explanation, and their existence (virtual or real) can be verified, proven explained and reproduced. Given, that you care to get the details.
A lot of things in religions writings are not possible to prove, their existence is "anecdotal" at best. And if you care about the details and try to prove any of them, well, then there you go down the rabbit-hole.
Evolution and global warming is a hoax anyway.
My take on this? Well, buddhism does not encourage greed, never started a holy war and accepts the existence of a ghost (gods) world without caring too much about it. Builds on the promise of a good afterlife without threatening with endless horror, not forcing anyone to do anything really. It is self centered in a way without hurting community... It teaches you not to kill things (others or living creatures) too. It is a view of a thinker, a clever one, maybe more than one.
Then again, just a few thoughts, it is not my intention to offend anyone religious ....
Shocking news ... metal covered glass breaks easier than the one surrounded with thick plastic.
Look at the 3G/3GS, and compare it to the first iPhone (on which I saw some broken screens) and the iPhone 4....
I think the new design looks spectacular, still I would 100x prefer my 3GS with the 4's features than the actual 4.
I actually think, that a iPhone 4 with the plastic bumper is still more vulnerable to side impacts than a 3G/GS without a protector.
Just my 2c ...
An other factor : if you have big hands, you can much more easily drop small objects. The 4 felt tiny compared to my in-case (actual brand of the case) covered 3GS. Every time I hold a 3GS without the cover I have the feeling that I am about to drop, it is so slim and shiny/slippery.
Apple keyboards on laptops are the exact same (ok, almost) replica of their full-size keyboards. That is not to say it would help your RSI, just to say, that when using a full-size key, it is not needed to switch.
I find the LARGE pointing surface pretty ergonomic on the laptop, it is possible to thumb-operate if you are willing to learn it.
My take on this issu is the following : I have been waiting for a good laptop-like keyboard for the desktop as I find them easier to type on. Then came the apple aluminum keyboard, then the wireless one.
I would really like to see a split keyboard of the same style, but that does not really exist (yet), so what I figured, is that when I will have too much time (never??) I would get 2 wireless ones, and interconnect them (or just cover the middle part, ending up with 2 halves of the wireless ones ....
To help your problem really: I use now a logitech trackball and an apple keyboard. When seat height and other ergonomics are set correctly I have no pain/discomfort even after 10+ hour working/hacking/tinkering/surfing sessions.
Then again, this post is biased towards apple, you can get a TON of split windows keys, and if you have a serious wrist injury history, you should just carry around a MS split keyboard ... they are pretty good quality and are really ergonomic (strange words from an apple lover eh?)
you should have a dev, testing (staging??), pre-prod and prod environment.
Pre-prod should be the same as prod (same hardware, net, everything). In large environments developers have access to only dev, everything else is deployed by middleware ops ....
this model was used in both a 24-7 manufacturing environment and bank I supported..... where I develop now, I have access to everything, but my role is somewhat special, I am involved in server related planning and deployment too to some extent....
Epassporte gives you an ATM card and a Virtual card (not many though, only one). They allow different deposit methods, and are accepted pretty much everywhere.
Hope this helps
Using a complex CMS system to learn to code, is like learning how to turn a wrench on the space shuttle.
Sorry, first read a book on programming (I am serious if you are a non-tech that is lesson one).
Then a good idea would be to learn at least a basics, data structures, operators, iterators, etc..... Then make something really simple, that has a little bit of everything.
But all that aside; I do not understand the concept of a non-techie programming. It is like a life guard who never cared about swimming. If you start programming you will become a techie to a certain level at least, otherwise you won't be programming.
I know people who copy-paste large amount of code and then try to do simple things, then they are stuck because they do not understand what they used. They use the visual editors and jump into OOP without knowing the basics. That is what you can accomplish to run at a complex CMS without knowing the basics.
Then again, I am not saying go with Assembler, LISP or something you never use again. PHP is a good choice for web, but if you want to learn how to write a threaded application, a tcp server or client, and in fact anything that would run on a server or desktop, PERL or even C would be a better choice to learn.
Just my 2c
+1 ... exclusively multiplayer. I spend enough time ALONE in front of the computer and played hundreds of games, many of which I did not finish out of frustration of bugs, too hard or too easy gameplay.
I think developers should focus on Rainbow Six or Ghost Recon -type cooperative gameplay. It is missing from all new games.
I think developers should also focus on putting features back into games they removed in the last few years because of consoles. When in a game you can play sniper and cannot lay down on the floor, then something just stinks. Do not get me wrong, the new Battlefield is a lot of fun. But Battlefield 2 was a real battlefield, because you could fly anything, drive anything, and play in 64 player massive battles. Now that is 32 (or 24??) in a room, and many things are soooooo limited (e.g. sniping without a prone position??) ...
Just my 2c
I honestly got to the point where I do not care. With 4 Gigs and a Core 2 Duo I am perfectly fine, running OS X. I can run editors, edit basic videos (they can take long, but I run a render once a week maybe at night). I can browse, look at HD videos, music and on my PC I can play games (that is a 2 core, some older SLI Nvidia, and most games run just fine).
When even games run OK on a Core 2 Duo, and all my work applications, why look at i5, i7? I have colleagues, who questioned my purchase of a Macbook pro 13'' (Core 2 Duo up to today), and I realized, that I had no urge to get anything faster AT ALL, but prefer a better battery life, and a smaller laptop (apple i5/i7 are 15/17 inch, Core 2 duo is 13 inches).
Just my 2c. Rendering, crunching happens on server in my world, browsing, and needed apps work just fine on the older ones for me :)
OK, so this is useless panic making. Seems like the media has no war or tragedy to work on.
But the question is: can you really get anything out of these sounds? High? Relaxation? Weight loss, meditation?
Thinking of how a DJ (psy trance, goa) or a band (any kind, style) can move a crowd through moods, well, music and sounds can change your moods. But do binaural sounds do anything?
Well, to my wife's dislike, I loaded some up, and I found them relaxing, some of them actually scary (they relax you, then shock you with some sudden harsh effect)...
If this is going to be forbidden, then well, let's also go after Hendrix, psy and goa trance, all psychedelic rock music as well, because these can change your mood and cause a natural high in seconds when listened to "correctly" .
just my 2c ...
Maybe I worked sometimes around bad people, who chose bad advertising methods (I have never sent SPAM out, or worked SPAM machines), but this is just so old news, like saying:
"Robbers are now using stolen cars",
or
"thieves are stealing credit card numbers"
Either way, when it comes to spamming, the linked domain is mostly a throw-away one, and that is not even the problem. The problem is, the IP that sends the mail. At least for the weak/poor, who cannot build/pay for a botnet mailer. You can however always find a provider with a set of Foreign IPs (the last spam haven I heard of was Romania). Machine hosted in the US, port 80 for the legit site (after the spam "promo site") is a US IP, the spam goes out from Romanian IPs, and the throw-away address points there too. Complain comes, domain is thrown, new IP, new domain, main site claims, the spam was from an advertiser, and their account is gone.
SOOO EASY ... and so impossible to do anything with.
FYI I do not work on/with anything like this, near this or for this.
Do not get me wrong, I hope no one got hurt and that there is no serious damage. I also understand that it can be frightening for the ones not used to this.
But .... since I moved to Costa Rica, I am completely used to 5-6 quakes... Yes, there are places where I do not want to be in one, some mountain roads and villages were leveled 2 years ago, but in our house I barely even move when it starts shaking. At least every 3 weeks there is a smaller one you feel, and just get used to it.
Honestly here a 5.something is considered a no event. Even though after each 5+ the news channel brings on the local vulcanologists, they usually tell the strength, location, depth, and report, that in a store some glasses fell off the shelf. Then commercial and then you go back to whatever you did before. Actually it is not a bad thing, the country has 5+ active volcanoes, some of which are pretty alarming nowadays.... The closest volcano is a 20-25 minute mountain ride (on a fast dirtbike and an ok rider). The next one is like 60 kilometers. 2 are recently smoking, bubbling, and throwing some ashes. And then there is this SPA place, where you sit in a thermal river (with different streams having different temps), and if the gods of weather permits, you can enjoy a pina colada in the hot pool , feeling the rumble and seeing the mountain puke red lava :) .... OKOK ... too much detail.
Anyways, some alarmists suggest, that volcanic activity is increasing nowadays, with stronger quakes and misbehaving volcanoes. Maybe people just watch too much 2012 movies.... never bothered really searching for data on this one ....
Yeah... Well, actually with WebKit you can write your own browser in an afternoon. Create a yahoo widget (or Dashboard project, or probably Google Gadget or Windows ... whatever they are called), drop a canvas on it, define a web page container (which essentially loads an instance of a complete render engine. Just direct this whole mess to a URL and it will display just fine. Or: pull the content, modify it as you want, then throw it at the webkit ... or dump it out ... or .... does not matter.
You created your own browser. Of course you can go with C, Perl, using curl or sockets.
Seems you do not even need the possibility to compile a binary (Perl, PHP are all interpreted), and with the right lib an idiot can write his/her own browser in an afternoon. So do I. /sarcasm
I do not think they try to force anything.
Just like Greasemonkey modifies web content, Safari offers and alternate view you can use when navigating to a page.
I, for one welcome innovation such as this one.
Arms race? You still go to the page, you still see the banners and the page structure (not missing an ad), THEN you can click on the "READER" in the address bar and bring up the reader interface.
I welcome the idea of reading an actual article without blinking SHIT all over the place, but then again, the blinking SHIT is there, so if you are interested in it, you can click on an ad.
And yes, I click on ads when they are worth clicking on, but I am completely sick of people masking google and other ads as contextual links. They barely take you to a page related to most documents.
yeah ..... i just got a backup bike... now I am only using that one .....
that must have gotten me confused :)
Sounds easy, but sometimes it can be hard.
Ask for it. If some BS answer comes up, tell them, that they are saving on others' salaries, and that saving could benefit the ones taking over extras.
Either way, if you cannot ask for a raise for more work at a company, what kind of future are you expecting there? I guess you do not want to retire from there, because you would be making the same $$ in a management role with a title that does not match.
Of course, if you are feeding a family where jobs are scarce, you should just suck it up and wait for something better.
However, asking for a raise is not a bad thing in the eyes of most management, if they know you work a lot and do it well.
Just my 2c.....
REZ ... yeah .. bought it on XBL, then got the red ring of dead... then got a ps3, and almost after 2 years, there is still no REZ ....
I do not play any regular arcade stuff (do not play at all on ps3 anymore at all), but REZ would make me turn the console on. Would be nice to have more tracks and places to explore, but what was there in the original is more than any other "musical shooter" offered ever since.
did it ever cross your mind, to upgrade one ps3, and have otheros on the other... that way you could play and have otheros :O
Stored procedures CAN help with this issue. Not making parameters optional at the end, serializing data, using magic quotes etc... etc... ..are all small things you can make your sites safer with....
Also QUERY LANGUAGE .... allows you to run queries. It is the badly written web app (or webserver) that allows the queries to be executed, it is not SQL's fault, wether it is Oracle (sql), MySWL or M$ Sql .....
thanks ... i mentioned though, that i am not so fond of the HTC quality :)
Well, maybe if most people would not have gotten the "not available in your country or region", most people would have ordered online. I wanted one, and I am happy I did not: I tried a colleague's Nexus one, and found to phone to be ... well .. not satisfactory...
While Android is a cool thing, after an iPhone all HTC phones feel like cheap plasticky toys. And do not even get me started on the touch screen.
I am in the search for a 850Mhz HSDPA Android phone for some time and haven't found a unit that even remotely challenges the iPhone's quality. Maybe when idroidproject advances a little I can have my 2G running Android....