Do you think I'm a German? I'm not, although I do have significant German ancestry.
Do you think I'm a Serbian? I'm not.
Do you think I have some interest in the German national team? I don't.
Do you think I have some interest in the Serbian national team? I don't.
Do you think I have some interest in the World Cup as a whole? The only match I've watched in full was last Saturday's between ENG and USA; I haven't even turned on a TV to display a GER match in the background.
Do you think I understand German? I identified "nicht" and "war" as words in the German language, but I couldn't recall the meaning of the phrase "nicht war". It's not great that I couldn't figure it out without computer translation, but it's ultimately insignificant. To quote the postmodern philosopher Jules Winnfield: "English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?"
I've found documentation coming out of Google to be somewhat weak. The docs for GWT, for example, are lacking in some areas - they don't even have complete Javadoc coverage AFAIK.
And using Google to look for GWT information isn't always useful, as it returns a lot of pages that no longer apply to the latest version of GWT. I also get lots of results for old Java documentation - look up anything in the Java libraries, and the results from Sun will probably be for Java 1.5 or 1.4.2 or even earlier, not Java 1.6.
Not really a good server. No out of band/remote management, no I/O expansion, no 3.5" hard disks, no decent Ethernet controller (just nVidia), no more than 8 GB RAM (and only two slots for DDR3 SODIMMs), no quad core CPUs or CPUs with extended/nested page tables/I/O virtualization/encryption instructions.
One can buy a much more capable retail desktop PC for the same cost, or order a server from HP or Dell, or build something with many of those features.
You'd think that preventing SQL injection attacks was difficult. Basically don't allow multiple queries per request on your db and filter out semi-colons (or replace them with "") from post/get vars.
This doesn't solve the problem (of generating query strings with data inline); it just prevents anything bad from happening. The correct solution is via prepared or parameterized statements, which do not rely on string replacements.
If this problem has been fixed "since, like, for ever (2001?)" then why the hell does it still keep happening even in, like, 2010?
Ignorance and poor tools.
Java has had parameterized prepared statements since 1997 when the JDBC API was released as part of Java 1.1, for example. And that same API applies to any database with a JDBC driver.
PHP, on the other hand, didn't even get a standard database abstraction layer until 2005 with the release of PHP 5.1 - way too late.
The developer culture around SQL, where the majority of tutorials, cookbook methods, forum support groups, "expert" examples, etc. reinforce doing SQL the insecure way. It may not be current practice, but you can't rewrite the decades of bad advice still out there and being indexed, referred to, taught in introductory classes by uninterested tutors, and used by people who think infosec is analogous to physical security.
This is not what I've seen using.NET and Java. Is such poor practice limited to PHP/MySQL?
Verizon has always favored call quality over data service though, that's why they stuck with CDMA and even took so long to convert to digital.
Cellco Partnership dba Verizon Wireless (result of a merger) didn't even come into existence until after almost all carriers switched to some digital technology. One of the companies (PrimeCo) was CDMA from its launch.
But what I was getting at is that there's an avid community around the Pandora.
There can't be much of a community for a device that no one owns.
I'm sure there are such communities for Android, but their work is diluted by fart soundboards and programmers putting out junk to see if it sells for $1.
The prevalence of poor-quality software on major platforms hasn't prevented developers from making quality software.
...local numbers where I am, or even number portability. If I want to use Google Voice, I'm stuck with a number in the same area code but long distance, or a number technically "local" but in a different geographical area code.
It's not that my local area code is full; other VoIP wholesalers do have local numbers in the correct area code.
A 120 Hz display provides a better result for 24 fps input (from film sources) than will a 60 Hz display. With 120 Hz, each frame is displayed for 1000/24 ms instead of varying between 1000/30 ms and 1000/20 ms on a 60 Hz display.
He works in a hospital, why would they have a marketing department?
(Even in the US, I assume it's the insurance and drug companies that do all the marketing, and the government that does the public awareness stuff.)
One hospital here uses electronic outdoor billboards to advertise their emergency room wait times. (I have no idea if they are real wait times, but the times do change every time I drive by.)
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I don't get it - what is this supposed to mean?
I've found documentation coming out of Google to be somewhat weak. The docs for GWT, for example, are lacking in some areas - they don't even have complete Javadoc coverage AFAIK.
And using Google to look for GWT information isn't always useful, as it returns a lot of pages that no longer apply to the latest version of GWT. I also get lots of results for old Java documentation - look up anything in the Java libraries, and the results from Sun will probably be for Java 1.5 or 1.4.2 or even earlier, not Java 1.6.
A very large company, actually.
And quite successfully cashing in, too.
Not really a good server. No out of band/remote management, no I/O expansion, no 3.5" hard disks, no decent Ethernet controller (just nVidia), no more than 8 GB RAM (and only two slots for DDR3 SODIMMs), no quad core CPUs or CPUs with extended/nested page tables/I/O virtualization/encryption instructions.
One can buy a much more capable retail desktop PC for the same cost, or order a server from HP or Dell, or build something with many of those features.
This doesn't solve the problem (of generating query strings with data inline); it just prevents anything bad from happening. The correct solution is via prepared or parameterized statements, which do not rely on string replacements.
Ignorance and poor tools.
Java has had parameterized prepared statements since 1997 when the JDBC API was released as part of Java 1.1, for example.
And that same API applies to any database with a JDBC driver.
PHP, on the other hand, didn't even get a standard database abstraction layer until 2005 with the release of PHP 5.1 - way too late.
This is not what I've seen using .NET and Java. Is such poor practice limited to PHP/MySQL?
I don't think there are many MySQL users that would have even considered talking to an Oracle sales representative.
Java has namespaces and the standard library uses them. Obvious troll is obvious.
Cellco Partnership dba Verizon Wireless (result of a merger) didn't even come into existence until after almost all carriers switched to some digital technology. One of the companies (PrimeCo) was CDMA from its launch.
Just get a constitutional amendment put on the ballot. It worked for the smoking ban and introducing casino gambling.
There can't be much of a community for a device that no one owns.
The prevalence of poor-quality software on major platforms hasn't prevented developers from making quality software.
There are millions of Android devices already sold as well as thousands of apps/games. What does the Pandora have? Emulators..?
The Incredible screen is 3.7" vs. 4.3" for the Pandora. Both have 800x480 resolution...
And no, the Incredible does not have a keyboard.
Nintendo DS is not pocketable. The DS Lite is, uncomfortably.
Touch screen and motion controls.
Of course, touch screens aren't that useful when playing (probably pirated) games in emulators.
I don't carry a game controller because I play touchscreen games on my touchscreen phone.
Pandora is certainly not pocketable.
it's bigger than a fat Nintendo DS. A Nintendo DS Lite doesn't fit in my pockets comfortably.
The device itself fits in a pocket comfortably. Not the game controller.
The Droid Incredible appears to be more powerful while weighing half as much and fitting in a pocket comfortably. Just add a game controller...
...local numbers where I am, or even number portability. If I want to use Google Voice, I'm stuck with a number in the same area code but long distance, or a number technically "local" but in a different geographical area code.
It's not that my local area code is full; other VoIP wholesalers do have local numbers in the correct area code.
I like frame interpolation. But the feature can be turned off for those who do not.
A 120 Hz display provides a better result for 24 fps input (from film sources) than will a 60 Hz display. With 120 Hz, each frame is displayed for 1000/24 ms instead of varying between 1000/30 ms and 1000/20 ms on a 60 Hz display.
One hospital here uses electronic outdoor billboards to advertise their emergency room wait times. (I have no idea if they are real wait times, but the times do change every time I drive by.)
The original pre-RFC HTTP states that a response is an HTML message.