Last time I checked, few people raised sharks as opposed to cows, hens and ducks, and most cows, hens and ducks were not members endangered species (endangered ducks species supposedly being protected, hunters not caring the least about it but that's kind of another issue)
I think GP was referring to the tendency of the UK as thinking themselves fully independant, not working towards any kind of unified European Union (as in staying out of the Euro thing) and exclusively following their own agenda (as in, even more than the other members of the UE).
I'd like to have my phone be a constant or voice activated recorder.
Not constant (it doesn't have the memory for that), probably not voice activated (unless you meant 'activated via a voice command'), but my cell already does voice recording.
My mp3 player does voice-activated recording though.
Cell phones are ALL ABOUT SUBSCRIPTION and PAY PER USE services. The only reason why you have a camera on your cell phone is so you either pay a monthly service charge to allow x number of pictures/kilobytes to be transmitted for free, OR you pay $.10 - $.20 for each picture sent. Same with text messaging, same with video on a cell phone, same with music on a cell phone. These features are not added to benefit mankind, but to drive up your cell phone bills and make the phone companies more money.
You're confusing cell phone makers and content carriers.
The carriers don't get much from high tech phones (except when they can make you pay through the nose for 3G/EDGE), but the cell phone makers do, and the interrest of the makers ain't always those of the providers. For example: check the latest Nokia phones, they have half a dozen phones (already for sale or soon-to-be) with WIFI (802.11 b, g or i/e/g). WIFI, do you think that's a good thing for access providers? And you can already run Skype on some of their Series60 for god's sake !
Some people are already planning applications where your phone would use VoIP over EDGE/3G when there is no other option and would automatically switch to WIFI when in range of a hotspot !
Or #!/path/to/python, or #!/path/to/ruby. Your point?
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Can RoR do that? (Honest question, I'm a PHP guy, but have heard a lot about RoR)
That's not RoR itself, it's the Ruby ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) called ActiveRecord, which is a subproject of RoR and a separate package (but since RoR depends on it, installing Rails via gems installs ActiveRecord as well).
AR is much sexier than what I see of PEAR DB_Table too, because it really abstracts the database level: you don't insert or update a whateveritis, you save a record (and you don't use hacky arrays and have to retrieve an ID, you just create an object of the good class with the data you need and you're done), you don't select records, you find them (yes, the role is the same, but the semantics of the action are different and the readability is much improved).
And Rails provides a console allowing you to hack around your database in CLI to do tests or whatever you want to.
Re:OO PHP 5 == Java Lite (and slightly broken) ??
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And types don't even flee the field at runtime (as Java's types do), they're not here to being with.
technically there is nothing python can do that php can't
Turing-completeness also states that, technically, there is nothing Python can do that Whitespace can't. That doesn't mean you have to use Whitespace..
Not enforcing Object Oriented programming is actually a very good thing, one of the few good things in PHP5.
Giving the option to use OOP (with a good object system, which PHP doesn't have) is good, forcing it on the poor user and preventing him to write as much as a line of code outside of a damn class is stupid, and is a god damn failure of both Java and C#.
While OOP is a good idea for some problem, others are better solved using more imperative or functional styles. That's why I much prefer Ruby or Python to Java: while they have great object models, they don't try to beat you with an ugly stick if you don't wrap every damn thing in a useless class that is only here because the language absolutely forbids you from doing otherwise.
But, Turion 64 on a desktop, not quite so fast, if performance is important to you, why go to all the trouble to install a mobile CPU?
One word.
Silence.
Having that damn box stop buzzing whatever the situation is, and be it winter or summer, not hearing it, shutting it up altogether while keeping acceptable (or even good) performances.
Not even knowing whether the computer is on or off without watching the leds.
Silence in a computer, it's an endless quest, and it's addictive. Once you start lowering the noise of your computer, realizing that it doesn't have to sound like a damn helicopter or a jet engine at take-off, you start wanting more, you start wanting it to never bother you any more.
Gosh, it's even in TFA's website name. Silent PC Review.
And there is an additional bonus if you're in some high-temp zone (at least during summer): the computer doesn't make more noise during summer, or still manages to run fine when regular desktop chips would start throttling down or go apeshit.
Bernsein's complete recordings of Gustav Mahler for Deutsche Grammophon, $47.98 plus $35.99 plus $39.98 for a total of $123.95 (yes, that's my latest purchase).
You HAD to bring that one up eh? You just HAD to give them new ideas ! Congratulation, thanks to you CD players will be deemed illegal starting tomorrow !
I can't, but I can perfectly imagine a gecko-based browser running on the DS on the other hand.
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You don't really think they're merely recompiling mainstream Opera to run it on this kind of platform are you?
Opera, Opera for Mobiles and Opera for Devices (which is DS' opera) are different products, only the core (the rendering engine) is cross-platform, just as Gecko (Firefox' rendering engine) is completely cross-platform but not necessarily the interface itself.
I'm not a heavy user indeed, I barely leave it open for a single day at a time, with 3 to 50 tabs loaded in (and random surges of 20 tabs in a click when I open some of my bookmark folders).
And something like 40 extensions loaded in, i think.
Circular references are bitches, and some circular references are not well done enough to handle some edge case (one of the prime example is the IE6 engine when you register events via the events interface and not the on* functions, you generate circular references between two different object layers and IE6 gets unable to reclaim anything)
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Last time I checked, few people raised sharks as opposed to cows, hens and ducks, and most cows, hens and ducks were not members endangered species (endangered ducks species supposedly being protected, hunters not caring the least about it but that's kind of another issue)
I think GP was referring to the tendency of the UK as thinking themselves fully independant, not working towards any kind of unified European Union (as in staying out of the Euro thing) and exclusively following their own agenda (as in, even more than the other members of the UE).
Not constant (it doesn't have the memory for that), probably not voice activated (unless you meant 'activated via a voice command'), but my cell already does voice recording.
My mp3 player does voice-activated recording though.
You're confusing cell phone makers and content carriers.
The carriers don't get much from high tech phones (except when they can make you pay through the nose for 3G/EDGE), but the cell phone makers do, and the interrest of the makers ain't always those of the providers. For example: check the latest Nokia phones, they have half a dozen phones (already for sale or soon-to-be) with WIFI (802.11 b, g or i/e/g). WIFI, do you think that's a good thing for access providers? And you can already run Skype on some of their Series60 for god's sake !
Some people are already planning applications where your phone would use VoIP over EDGE/3G when there is no other option and would automatically switch to WIFI when in range of a hotspot !
On average, most modern lossless compressors yield a 50% file size reduction, a 500Mb CD would yield a 250Mb archive.
Even though I rip my albums to FLAC files, my weaboo animu folder still takes the bulk of my data archives.
1. You don't set the bitrate in OGG,you only set the quality, that alone marks you as a troll
2. Every single blind test out there at every possible quality against mp3 files of equivalent bitrates (both CBR and VBR) concludes otherwise.
Or #!/path/to/python, or #!/path/to/ruby. Your point?
That's not RoR itself, it's the Ruby ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) called ActiveRecord, which is a subproject of RoR and a separate package (but since RoR depends on it, installing Rails via gems installs ActiveRecord as well).
AR is much sexier than what I see of PEAR DB_Table too, because it really abstracts the database level: you don't insert or update a whateveritis, you save a record (and you don't use hacky arrays and have to retrieve an ID, you just create an object of the good class with the data you need and you're done), you don't select records, you find them (yes, the role is the same, but the semantics of the action are different and the readability is much improved).
And Rails provides a console allowing you to hack around your database in CLI to do tests or whatever you want to.
And types don't even flee the field at runtime (as Java's types do), they're not here to being with.
Please, sir, don't EVER write any ORM.
If it doesn't, then it's not a better language.
To quote Alan Perlis,
Really, no.
Turing-completeness also states that, technically, there is nothing Python can do that Whitespace can't. That doesn't mean you have to use Whitespace..
Not enforcing Object Oriented programming is actually a very good thing, one of the few good things in PHP5.
Giving the option to use OOP (with a good object system, which PHP doesn't have) is good, forcing it on the poor user and preventing him to write as much as a line of code outside of a damn class is stupid, and is a god damn failure of both Java and C#.
While OOP is a good idea for some problem, others are better solved using more imperative or functional styles. That's why I much prefer Ruby or Python to Java: while they have great object models, they don't try to beat you with an ugly stick if you don't wrap every damn thing in a useless class that is only here because the language absolutely forbids you from doing otherwise.
One word.
Silence.
Having that damn box stop buzzing whatever the situation is, and be it winter or summer, not hearing it, shutting it up altogether while keeping acceptable (or even good) performances.
Not even knowing whether the computer is on or off without watching the leds.
Silence in a computer, it's an endless quest, and it's addictive. Once you start lowering the noise of your computer, realizing that it doesn't have to sound like a damn helicopter or a jet engine at take-off, you start wanting more, you start wanting it to never bother you any more.
Gosh, it's even in TFA's website name. Silent PC Review.
And there is an additional bonus if you're in some high-temp zone (at least during summer): the computer doesn't make more noise during summer, or still manages to run fine when regular desktop chips would start throttling down or go apeshit.
FYI, unless you're talking about a Zalman Reserator (or maybe a 9500) Zalman rads ain't good enough for a truly silent box.
Bernsein's complete recordings of Gustav Mahler for Deutsche Grammophon, $47.98 plus $35.99 plus $39.98 for a total of $123.95 (yes, that's my latest purchase).
Affordable? moar liek exploitable amirite?
You HAD to bring that one up eh? You just HAD to give them new ideas ! Congratulation, thanks to you CD players will be deemed illegal starting tomorrow !
Don't you enjoy screwing your girl? (assuming you have one)
Enjoyment = screwage, the more screwage the more enjoyment !
To take it up the ass, more or less
And enjoy it, too.
Except you're wrong, gecko is on par with Opera's rendering engine
I can't, but I can perfectly imagine a gecko-based browser running on the DS on the other hand.
You don't really think they're merely recompiling mainstream Opera to run it on this kind of platform are you?
Opera, Opera for Mobiles and Opera for Devices (which is DS' opera) are different products, only the core (the rendering engine) is cross-platform, just as Gecko (Firefox' rendering engine) is completely cross-platform but not necessarily the interface itself.
I'm not a heavy user indeed, I barely leave it open for a single day at a time, with 3 to 50 tabs loaded in (and random surges of 20 tabs in a click when I open some of my bookmark folders).
And something like 40 extensions loaded in, i think.
Circular references are bitches, and some circular references are not well done enough to handle some edge case (one of the prime example is the IE6 engine when you register events via the events interface and not the on* functions, you generate circular references between two different object layers and IE6 gets unable to reclaim anything)