Funny, I don't recall JSP templates scanning for javascript and rejecting them. How is this ROR's problem? You get the same thing in JSP, ASP.NET, PHP, and anything that lets you substitute values from the environment.
Oh look, the shell lets me type rm -rf. I better stop shell programming.
The tutorials are sloppy. This doesn't mean Rails is.
> Notice that Slashdot is written in Perl, with nearly all dynamic pages.
I would not be holding up slashdot as an example... Anyway, the pages are spit out to a squid cache that's refreshed on change. That's a good way to design a blog or CMS, but I wouldn't try it for the inventory parts of e-commerce (should work fine for the product descriptions though).
... and found people reading the FA and having rational discourse on the various interpretations and implications of the proposal! What is slashdot coming to?!
Although someone could run Win+OO.o+Gimp, it is probably about as likely as building a cart with square wheels. Anything is possible, that does not mean anyone is going to do it.
I do. Office has gotten way too expensive, so OO.o it is. I only use gimp for feathered cropping anyway, though I suppose I may be using it more for texture editing now that I'm getting into Blender (also runs like a dream on Windows)
I'd hate to be stuck with gimp for professional color processes though. But it's better than paint.
Slowly. It's a cerebral sort of game, with very little micromanagement even possible. You're clicking around and adjusting orders and targets pretty much constantly, and that action doesn't let up, but you don't zip across the map and blow up his ships in a few seconds.
You spend a lot of time maneuvering large capital ships, attacking beamward for your ion frigates, and broadsides for the really big ships. The fighters are practically gnats next to them and mostly fight amongst themselves. Their worlds intersect in that the fighters can still easily blow up resource collectors, and they defend against the fairly maneuverable salvage corvettes that can outright steal even the biggest capital ships if you let them attach. Arr, avast!
You won't get starcraft type of speed out of this game, and it really tests your situational awareness skills more than any amount of precise micromanaged clicking.
Homeworld was *almost* really 3d. Your ships always righted themselves to a a plane, courses were set relative to an immobile reference plane, and the camera stopped at the 90 degree north and south poles of the virtual sphere.
Admittedly it made things slightly easier in an otherwise diabolically hard game, and the other concepts of the game were more like starblazers or robotech space opera and not "pure" sci-fi (stuff like constant thrust = constant velocity) but it felt limiting in that you always had a sense of "up" and "down" that it would have been nice to lose for that true deep space feel. Still an incredible game overall.
What I loved about homeworld is that the action felt fast and furious when zoomed in, but majestic and balletic zoomed out... going from Battlestar Galactica to Master and Commander with a few clicks of the mousewheel.
And they released the source? Did not know that. Boo ya.
Yes, yes, fitt's law is all nice and good and that... but top menus makes the foreground application modal. Everyone who's used the wrong app's menu when using a mac in school, raise your hand. If you wish to access the menu of an application that's not foreground, you have to focus it then head to the top. God forbid you're a focus-follows-mouse user (which admittedly is a small poweruser niche).
Maybe the answer is to simply support both, and have app-specific menus appear and disappear when you activate a "show menu" window decoration, or tap the alt key or something, and just remember the setting. I hate to say "make it a preference", as it's a copout for design, but this really does seem to demand one.
There's also more radical notions like pie menus, but they have their own problems..
Every single app I use seems has a "plugin" architecture. Add a couple hooks to your program, it's plug-in. Use DLL imports from multiple DLL's, plug-in. Design a whole modularity architecture, it's still "plug in". Support external config files that change a few presets... freakin "plug in".
Component, package, library, expansion, whatever... Maybe eclipse has a standard registration and callback architecture, maybe it's a message bus, maybe it's an agent blackboard system, maybe it's AOPAlliance-style interceptors. Who knows, it's just got freaking plug-ins.
I'm not asking for precise architectural details, just something to differentiate it from the term used by every kiddie who slaps together a template engine in PHP.
Sure, you can render text on CRT with colour fringes "as if" it were to be painted to a digital LCD's pixel geometry, but since the stripes aren't addressable it is impossible do any better than simple antialiasing.
They're not "addressable" on an LCD either. Trinitrons are striped just like LCD's. Subpixel AA changes the color of surrounding pixels to darken the bars nearest the text, and doesn't require "digital addressability", whatever the hell that is. The digital connection just makes it so that the signal has no chance of "bleeding" the fringies over another pixel if the dotclock is ever so slightly off. If you think the DVI connection addresses the dots individually, you better read up a little more.
> This technology cannot work with CRTs, it is only possible with digital LCDs. A good reason why you should never buy an LCD without DVI.
You are incorrect. The quality is just slightly better with DVI, but it won't remove the color fringies (it can't, the fringies ARE the subpixel AA at work). Trinitron monitors also do subpixel AA quite nicely.
KDE has subpixel AA for fonts (ClearType is a trademark). Maybe it's a 3.4 thing, but I could swear I saw it in 3.3.
What would be nice is if I could turn it off for particular apps, in either Windows or KDE. Web browsing looks very nice, but the fonts I use in emacs look like ass, as does a terminal window showing white on black.
> I'm surprised you had the patience to determine that there are 44 pages.
Goodness no, I don't. There was a dropdown menu that lists all the pages, most of them repeating the same info for different OS versions. 44 of 'em, covered with green ad-linky goodness. I suppose going directly to the page makes it a little less of a chore, but it's still one of the worst designs I've ever seen. I normally have a policy of blocking only the most annoying ads and sponsored links weren't in that category... until today.
Putting http://text.burstnet.com/* into adblock makes for a slightly less annoying experience, but there's also the fact that it's 44 freaking pages long. Probably getting paid by the site hit or something.
Do yourself a favor, give this content-lite article a miss. Make a small partition with ntfsresize, put a fixed pagefile on that partition alone. Works on every single version of windows and it's zero maintenance. Tah-dah.
> The only way to fix it is to completely delete (deactivate) the page file, then do a defrag, then re-create the page file (several reboots involved).
Hardly, unless you're so short on space that you can't fit a copy of the largest fragment. Do a normal defrag, run pagedefrag (from sysinternals), and reboot. Once. Or get a defragger that will do the pagefile -- have it do the registry files and MFT while you're at it. O&O defrag's pretty good, but just about anything is better than the piece of garbage defragger in windows.
Hell, the web wasn't born til 1992 (no I don't care if you want to correct me, unless you worked at CERN). As if the date weren't a clear enough troll.
Bah, I even posted my "php ?> sucks" response to that troll.
I've been using PHP for about 12 years, or to be exact, since 1990. It is one of the best scripting languages I have ever encountered. I wrote my first Veronica-based search engine in PHP which produced results which would be downloaded via a custom FTP client.
$why_php_sucks = "this ?> is why"
Let's see, what else... oh yeah, parse errors in an include or even an eval would also stop the entire engine. I hope the parser in PHP5 isn't so gimpy.
It appears that Bruce Perens and his staff have now embraced PHP and decided to extend it with the strong-typed classed existent in Perl.
What on earth makes you think Bruce Perens had to do with it?
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Funny, I don't recall JSP templates scanning for javascript and rejecting them. How is this ROR's problem? You get the same thing in JSP, ASP.NET, PHP, and anything that lets you substitute values from the environment.
Oh look, the shell lets me type rm -rf. I better stop shell programming.
The tutorials are sloppy. This doesn't mean Rails is.
> Notice that Slashdot is written in Perl, with nearly all dynamic pages.
I would not be holding up slashdot as an example... Anyway, the pages are spit out to a squid cache that's refreshed on change. That's a good way to design a blog or CMS, but I wouldn't try it for the inventory parts of e-commerce (should work fine for the product descriptions though).
What about if your data comes from a stored procedure?
Granted, it's kind of painful in java O-R mappings too (I admit much ignorance of Hibernate however), but they are possible.
... and found people reading the FA and having rational discourse on the various interpretations and implications of the proposal! What is slashdot coming to?!
Although someone could run Win+OO.o+Gimp, it is probably about as likely as building a cart with square wheels. Anything is possible, that does not mean anyone is going to do it.
I do. Office has gotten way too expensive, so OO.o it is. I only use gimp for feathered cropping anyway, though I suppose I may be using it more for texture editing now that I'm getting into Blender (also runs like a dream on Windows)
I'd hate to be stuck with gimp for professional color processes though. But it's better than paint.
There's only one 'n' in Tanhauser. It's a reference to Wagner.
> Uh huh, how does it PLAY?
Slowly. It's a cerebral sort of game, with very little micromanagement even possible. You're clicking around and adjusting orders and targets pretty much constantly, and that action doesn't let up, but you don't zip across the map and blow up his ships in a few seconds.
You spend a lot of time maneuvering large capital ships, attacking beamward for your ion frigates, and broadsides for the really big ships. The fighters are practically gnats next to them and mostly fight amongst themselves. Their worlds intersect in that the fighters can still easily blow up resource collectors, and they defend against the fairly maneuverable salvage corvettes that can outright steal even the biggest capital ships if you let them attach. Arr, avast!
You won't get starcraft type of speed out of this game, and it really tests your situational awareness skills more than any amount of precise micromanaged clicking.
Homeworld was *almost* really 3d. Your ships always righted themselves to a a plane, courses were set relative to an immobile reference plane, and the camera stopped at the 90 degree north and south poles of the virtual sphere.
... going from Battlestar Galactica to Master and Commander with a few clicks of the mousewheel.
Admittedly it made things slightly easier in an otherwise diabolically hard game, and the other concepts of the game were more like starblazers or robotech space opera and not "pure" sci-fi (stuff like constant thrust = constant velocity) but it felt limiting in that you always had a sense of "up" and "down" that it would have been nice to lose for that true deep space feel. Still an incredible game overall.
What I loved about homeworld is that the action felt fast and furious when zoomed in, but majestic and balletic zoomed out
And they released the source? Did not know that. Boo ya.
Yes, yes, fitt's law is all nice and good and that ... but top menus makes the foreground application modal. Everyone who's used the wrong app's menu when using a mac in school, raise your hand. If you wish to access the menu of an application that's not foreground, you have to focus it then head to the top. God forbid you're a focus-follows-mouse user (which admittedly is a small poweruser niche).
Maybe the answer is to simply support both, and have app-specific menus appear and disappear when you activate a "show menu" window decoration, or tap the alt key or something, and just remember the setting. I hate to say "make it a preference", as it's a copout for design, but this really does seem to demand one.
There's also more radical notions like pie menus, but they have their own problems..
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Me: amb
Every single app I use seems has a "plugin" architecture. Add a couple hooks to your program, it's plug-in. Use DLL imports from multiple DLL's, plug-in. Design a whole modularity architecture, it's still "plug in". Support external config files that change a few presets ... freakin "plug in".
... Maybe eclipse has a standard registration and callback architecture, maybe it's a message bus, maybe it's an agent blackboard system, maybe it's AOPAlliance-style interceptors. Who knows, it's just got freaking plug-ins.
Component, package, library, expansion, whatever
I'm not asking for precise architectural details, just something to differentiate it from the term used by every kiddie who slaps together a template engine in PHP.
That's not what use cases are for. Use cases are the "assert" statement of design, i.e. after all that code, does it manage to do this?
> How terribly difficult would it be to add a url checker
These are paid editors who can't be bothered to read their own website. The problem is not technological, and doesn't require a technological fix.
Sure, you can render text on CRT with colour fringes "as if" it were to be painted to a digital LCD's pixel geometry, but since the stripes aren't addressable it is impossible do any better than simple antialiasing.
They're not "addressable" on an LCD either. Trinitrons are striped just like LCD's. Subpixel AA changes the color of surrounding pixels to darken the bars nearest the text, and doesn't require "digital addressability", whatever the hell that is. The digital connection just makes it so that the signal has no chance of "bleeding" the fringies over another pixel if the dotclock is ever so slightly off. If you think the DVI connection addresses the dots individually, you better read up a little more.
At which point Apple names them in a Lick and Feel lawsuit.
> This technology cannot work with CRTs, it is only possible with digital LCDs. A good reason why you should never buy an LCD without DVI.
You are incorrect. The quality is just slightly better with DVI, but it won't remove the color fringies (it can't, the fringies ARE the subpixel AA at work). Trinitron monitors also do subpixel AA quite nicely.
> Damn it, when will they have cleartype fonts.
KDE has subpixel AA for fonts (ClearType is a trademark). Maybe it's a 3.4 thing, but I could swear I saw it in 3.3.
What would be nice is if I could turn it off for particular apps, in either Windows or KDE. Web browsing looks very nice, but the fonts I use in emacs look like ass, as does a terminal window showing white on black.
> I'm surprised you had the patience to determine that there are 44 pages.
... until today.
Goodness no, I don't. There was a dropdown menu that lists all the pages, most of them repeating the same info for different OS versions. 44 of 'em, covered with green ad-linky goodness. I suppose going directly to the page makes it a little less of a chore, but it's still one of the worst designs I've ever seen. I normally have a policy of blocking only the most annoying ads and sponsored links weren't in that category
> Does it work on 98SE ?
No, but qtparted will. Use it from the System Rescue CD (JFGI)
Putting http://text.burstnet.com/* into adblock makes for a slightly less annoying experience, but there's also the fact that it's 44 freaking pages long. Probably getting paid by the site hit or something.
Do yourself a favor, give this content-lite article a miss. Make a small partition with ntfsresize, put a fixed pagefile on that partition alone. Works on every single version of windows and it's zero maintenance. Tah-dah.
> The only way to fix it is to completely delete (deactivate) the page file, then do a defrag, then re-create the page file (several reboots involved).
Hardly, unless you're so short on space that you can't fit a copy of the largest fragment. Do a normal defrag, run pagedefrag (from sysinternals), and reboot. Once. Or get a defragger that will do the pagefile -- have it do the registry files and MFT while you're at it. O&O defrag's pretty good, but just about anything is better than the piece of garbage defragger in windows.
This is a good example of why there should be some laws allowing the public to seize IP from companies to prevent it's abuse.
... it's not the cure to AIDS, it's a game. It's their property.
jesus spin-fuck christ
Hey, I don't think you're making the best use of your house. I think I'll take it from you.
> Are you getting payed to pimp this garbage?
In fact, they are. Notice the affiliate links on all book reviews. Used to be Amazon, but BN apparently pays them more now.
Hell, the web wasn't born til 1992 (no I don't care if you want to correct me, unless you worked at CERN). As if the date weren't a clear enough troll.
Bah, I even posted my "php ?> sucks" response to that troll.
I've been using PHP for about 12 years, or to be exact, since 1990. It is one of the best scripting languages I have ever encountered. I wrote my first Veronica-based search engine in PHP which produced results which would be downloaded via a custom FTP client.
... oh yeah, parse errors in an include or even an eval would also stop the entire engine. I hope the parser in PHP5 isn't so gimpy.
$why_php_sucks = "this ?> is why"
Let's see, what else
It appears that Bruce Perens and his staff have now embraced PHP and decided to extend it with the strong-typed classed existent in Perl.
What on earth makes you think Bruce Perens had to do with it?