Actually, if the site doesn't respond, the browser hitting the site will never see the html containing the url of the hit counter, so the counter will never be incremented.
The only reason this counter is getting incremented is because people are hitting the mirrored version of the pages on mirrordot.org which displays the same counter at the bottom.
I'd hate to have our inside geek joke be revealed to the world. It's always been sort of a secret code, if you knew what it meant, then you belonged to the tribe. Now every avid moviegoer in the world will know what it means.
..that the use of cell phones while driving should not be outlawed. From TFA: when 18- to-25-year-olds were placed in a driving simulator and talked on a cellular phone, they reacted to brake lights from a car in front of them as slowly as 65- to 74-year-olds who were not using a cell phone.
If these elderly people are allowed to drive with these reaction times, then young people using cell phones should be allowed to drive if they have equal reaction times. Also from TFA: ...elderly drivers using a cell phone aren't any more of a hazard to themselves and others than young drivers... more experience and a tendency to take fewer risks helped negate any additional danger.
So elderly drivers should be allowed to use cell phones as well.
Obligatory Good Morning Vietnam: "Excuse me sir, seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT, because if it leaks to the VC, you could end up an MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP."
"But it looks like the film is not a complete bastardization of Adams' work."
Since the original radio scripts were substantially different from the books, and the books were substantially different than the TV special, there really hasn't been any single consistent version of the story line.
Actually, since incessant change is the only thing that is consistent, the only way to not bastardize the spirit of the original story is to substantially change it.
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Foreshadowing
Can't get enough foreshadowing? Feel cheated because there wasn't a scene in Attack of the Clones where someone says "You're a pretty good Moff, Tarkin, but you're not quite a grand Moff"? Well, you're going to be happy with Episode III, because our sources inform us that there's going to be plenty more of the awkward, forced foreshadowing that filled the first two prequels! Check out this preview:
"Golly, no one will ever make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs!"
"If I ever have a son, I'd like him to have my lightsaber when he's old enough. But not to use against me!"
"In local news, Mos Eisley has moved up to second-most wretched hive of scum and villany."
"Okay, me and the rest of the Bothans will be back soon with the information! Don't worry, we won't die!"
"Call me Ben. Obi-Wan is a name I hope not to hear again in a long time. A long time."
"These new 'Scout Walkers' can handle anything you throw at them. Except wood of course."
"Your voice is kind of whiny and reedy for a Sith Lord, Anakin. Can't you get a voice coach or something?"
"Jedi Master Windu's bravery and wisdom will be remembered for, oh, 27 years, tops."
"Aren't the Skywalker twins cute? And such sexual tension between them!"
"Let's remove R2's jet rockets and put in some sort of teddy bear zapping device instead."
There are two very good open source IDEs for Java, NetBeans and Eclipse (I personally prefer Eclipse).
If you're teaching beginners how to program, Java is simpler anyway. You don't have to understand memory allocation and pointers because it's all taken care of for you. Also you can write non-object-oriented programs to start with by making all functions static.
This way you can start with very simple programs and work your way up to introducing more advanced concepts, like object-oriented, or memory allocation etc.
If you insist on learning with C/C++, I would lobby with the executives at a company like Borland. They usually have the power to throw a few copies your way, as long as they're convinced that it is a philanthropic effort (it makes them look good).
...why is this any less rational than the "greater fool" theory in the stock market? When speculators buy stock for the sole purpose of trying to sell it on an upswing to a higher bidder, they're no longer relying on the underlying fundamentals of the company, or even the 'realness' of the company. It would make no difference to the speculator if the underlying company was completely fictional.
Larry Ellison even (as a joke) created a fictional company to this effect in '99, heyidiot.com, but it was removed because people were asking where they could buy the fictional stock, knowing it was fictional. Here's a synopsis
The guy that bought this island is no more or less guilty than a speculator of stocks, or for that matter a speculator of any product (tulips come to mind).
... get a direct merchant account with a credit card processor. I used Authorize.net and it worked just fine. Of course you need a merchant bank account, a Duns & Bradstreet number etc. Spend the few grand it will take to get a programmer to write your own code to interface with the processor's API. I wrote the layer to talk to Authorize.net's API in less than a week.
Have the user enter his CC info on YOUR site, don't redirect him to the merchant site. This has the added bonus that you can save the CC numbers, so you can give the user one-click shopping next time (but better check Amazon's "patent" first). Then use your own interface to talk to the processor's API and authorize the credit card. If the processor happens to be down, store the transaction in a temporary DB table and tell the user the order has been accepted. Then later when the processor comes back up, authorize the CC. If it doesn't authorize correctly send the user an email saying there was a problem with the CC.
A site that makes 'thousands of dollars per hour' definitely justifies the nominal cost to build a robust, in-house solution. The solution above oughta get you through the holiday season.
I'm tasting the pencil eraser made from these shrooms right now, and it does taste pretty good. Hey wait, this isn't a pencil at all, it's a giant kangaroo...
and getting rid of the cheesy jokes in the remake will completely lose the spirit of the original. Like when he saws off his own hand which has become possessed, and traps it under a bucket. Weighs down the bucket with a stack of books, the top of which is Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms".
Re:Netscape backed by firefox??
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Mozilla was the original code name coined by the Netscape team for the very first Netscape browser. Since Andreesen had left the Mosaic team at NCSA at University of Illinois to start Netscape, he decided to call it Mozilla, or "Mosaic killer", like Godzilla.
Later when it came time to release it they decided a better name for marketing would be Netscape 1.0.
Why these are practically useful? The second article says they're used for astronomy etc. but it doesn't tell you why they're useful.
Say you have a Golomb ruler that's 100cm long. It has a bunch of scattered marks on it, and it can measure any number up to 100cm, if you want to take the time to figure out which two marks will yield the measurement you need. Wouldn't it just be easier to put 100 marks on the ruler, each 1cm apart?
Is there some situation in which creating the ruler is easy but putting marks on it is hard, so you want to minimize the number of marks? I'm having a hard time seeing the usefulness of this.
You have a valid point. However, the risk of someone decompiling and then doing something illegal (taking out the need for registration key, making slight modifications and then re-selling it) far outweighs the risk of losing the source. Any halfway competent developer has source control, disaster recovery etc.
If you're depending on the ability to decompile the binary as a contingency plan if you lose the source, you really don't deserve to be doing software development.
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You've misunderstood. Java obfuscation is an automated process done with a third-party tool that rearranges Java BYTECODE, not source code. The idea being that someone that tries to decompile the BYTECODE will get a bunch of spaghetti. It doesn't take any extra time or energy by the developer, just 5 seconds to run the tool on your.class files.
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Actually, if the site doesn't respond, the browser hitting the site will never see the html containing the url of the hit counter, so the counter will never be incremented.
The only reason this counter is getting incremented is because people are hitting the mirrored version of the pages on mirrordot.org which displays the same counter at the bottom.
I'd hate to have our inside geek joke be revealed to the world. It's always been sort of a secret code, if you knew what it meant, then you belonged to the tribe. Now every avid moviegoer in the world will know what it means.
It's a finite state machine, but still a very cool little project.
I think there's an ATM Machine near the TCBY Yogurt (incidentally, most TCBY shops I've seen actually have storefronts that say 'TCBY Yogurt')
...depending on which printer they're using!
..that the use of cell phones while driving should not be outlawed. From TFA:
...elderly drivers using a cell phone aren't any more of a hazard to themselves and others than young drivers... more experience and a tendency to take fewer risks helped negate any additional danger.
when 18- to-25-year-olds were placed in a driving simulator and talked on a cellular phone, they reacted to brake lights from a car in front of them as slowly as 65- to 74-year-olds who were not using a cell phone.
If these elderly people are allowed to drive with these reaction times, then young people using cell phones should be allowed to drive if they have equal reaction times. Also from TFA:
So elderly drivers should be allowed to use cell phones as well.
Obligatory Good Morning Vietnam:
"Excuse me sir, seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT, because if it leaks to the VC, you could end up an MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP."
Since the original radio scripts were substantially different from the books, and the books were substantially different than the TV special, there really hasn't been any single consistent version of the story line.
Actually, since incessant change is the only thing that is consistent, the only way to not bastardize the spirit of the original story is to substantially change it.
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Foreshadowing
Can't get enough foreshadowing? Feel cheated because there wasn't a scene in Attack of the Clones where someone says "You're a pretty good Moff, Tarkin, but you're not quite a grand Moff"? Well, you're going to be happy with Episode III, because our sources inform us that there's going to be plenty more of the awkward, forced foreshadowing that filled the first two prequels! Check out this preview:
"Golly, no one will ever make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs!"
"If I ever have a son, I'd like him to have my lightsaber when he's old enough. But not to use against me!"
"In local news, Mos Eisley has moved up to second-most wretched hive of scum and villany."
"Okay, me and the rest of the Bothans will be back soon with the information! Don't worry, we won't die!"
"Call me Ben. Obi-Wan is a name I hope not to hear again in a long time. A long time."
"These new 'Scout Walkers' can handle anything you throw at them. Except wood of course."
"Your voice is kind of whiny and reedy for a Sith Lord, Anakin. Can't you get a voice coach or something?"
"Jedi Master Windu's bravery and wisdom will be remembered for, oh, 27 years, tops."
"Aren't the Skywalker twins cute? And such sexual tension between them!"
"Let's remove R2's jet rockets and put in some sort of teddy bear zapping device instead."
"Well, that's it. There's no hope."
I wonder if Colin Powell's exodus is not unrelated to this.
The punishment for distributing Miss Congeniality, legally or illegally, should be death.
There are two very good open source IDEs for Java, NetBeans and Eclipse (I personally prefer Eclipse).
If you're teaching beginners how to program, Java is simpler anyway. You don't have to understand memory allocation and pointers because it's all taken care of for you. Also you can write non-object-oriented programs to start with by making all functions static.
This way you can start with very simple programs and work your way up to introducing more advanced concepts, like object-oriented, or memory allocation etc.
If you insist on learning with C/C++, I would lobby with the executives at a company like Borland. They usually have the power to throw a few copies your way, as long as they're convinced that it is a philanthropic effort (it makes them look good).
Larry Ellison even (as a joke) created a fictional company to this effect in '99, heyidiot.com, but it was removed because people were asking where they could buy the fictional stock, knowing it was fictional. Here's a synopsis
The guy that bought this island is no more or less guilty than a speculator of stocks, or for that matter a speculator of any product (tulips come to mind).
... get a direct merchant account with a credit card processor. I used Authorize.net and it worked just fine. Of course you need a merchant bank account, a Duns & Bradstreet number etc. Spend the few grand it will take to get a programmer to write your own code to interface with the processor's API. I wrote the layer to talk to Authorize.net's API in less than a week.
Have the user enter his CC info on YOUR site, don't redirect him to the merchant site. This has the added bonus that you can save the CC numbers, so you can give the user one-click shopping next time (but better check Amazon's "patent" first). Then use your own interface to talk to the processor's API and authorize the credit card. If the processor happens to be down, store the transaction in a temporary DB table and tell the user the order has been accepted. Then later when the processor comes back up, authorize the CC. If it doesn't authorize correctly send the user an email saying there was a problem with the CC.
A site that makes 'thousands of dollars per hour' definitely justifies the nominal cost to build a robust, in-house solution. The solution above oughta get you through the holiday season.
I'm tasting the pencil eraser made from these shrooms right now, and it does taste pretty good. Hey wait, this isn't a pencil at all, it's a giant kangaroo...
and getting rid of the cheesy jokes in the remake will completely lose the spirit of the original. Like when he saws off his own hand which has become possessed, and traps it under a bucket. Weighs down the bucket with a stack of books, the top of which is Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms".
Mozilla was the original code name coined by the Netscape team for the very first Netscape browser. Since Andreesen had left the Mosaic team at NCSA at University of Illinois to start Netscape, he decided to call it Mozilla, or "Mosaic killer", like Godzilla.
Later when it came time to release it they decided a better name for marketing would be Netscape 1.0.
Instead of giving a laptop for Christmas, I decided to give an Etch-A-Sketch. It's just as useful; here's a short how-to guide:
How do I turn my Etch-A-Sketch off?
Pick it up and shake it.
What's the shortcut for Undo?
Pick it up and shake it.
How do I create a New Document window?
Pick it up and shake it.
How do I set the background and foreground to the same color?
Pick it up and shake it.
What is the proper procedure for rebooting my Etch-A-Sketch?
Pick it up and shake it.
How do I delete a document on my Etch-A-Sketch?
Pick it up and shake it.
How do I save my Etch-A-Sketch document?
Don't shake it.
Say you have a Golomb ruler that's 100cm long. It has a bunch of scattered marks on it, and it can measure any number up to 100cm, if you want to take the time to figure out which two marks will yield the measurement you need. Wouldn't it just be easier to put 100 marks on the ruler, each 1cm apart?
Is there some situation in which creating the ruler is easy but putting marks on it is hard, so you want to minimize the number of marks? I'm having a hard time seeing the usefulness of this.
You have a valid point. However, the risk of someone decompiling and then doing something illegal (taking out the need for registration key, making slight modifications and then re-selling it) far outweighs the risk of losing the source. Any halfway competent developer has source control, disaster recovery etc. If you're depending on the ability to decompile the binary as a contingency plan if you lose the source, you really don't deserve to be doing software development.
You've misunderstood. Java obfuscation is an automated process done with a third-party tool that rearranges Java BYTECODE, not source code. The idea being that someone that tries to decompile the BYTECODE will get a bunch of spaghetti. It doesn't take any extra time or energy by the developer, just 5 seconds to run the tool on your .class files.