I'd either stay away from the Perl shop, or join up and try to convert them to another platform. It will come back to haunt you in a few years when you have to support a mess of spaghetti.
Perl is a great language for lots of things, but as someone with lots of experience with Perl, Ruby, Java, PHP,.Net, and even C for enterprise web applications, I would say Perl is far from an ideal choice for enterprise apps today.
True, it is possible to write great apps in Perl. It's also great for simple small quick apps. But it's difficult to impossible to keep code clean as the app grows to a larger scale (think above the 100,000 LOC mark). It also has a very poor object model for encapsulation.
Personally, I am a big Ruby fan nowadays for web apps. A very close second on my list is Java.
I was expecting/hoping to find an article on how to download my GMail while preserving my labels (treating them as folders).
What I got was a tutorial on how to use POP in Mutt.
What does this article even have to do with GMail, other than it happened to be the person's POP server?
GMail's POP access is basically useless IMO. Until they get IMAP I will continue with my current scheme, whereby I send all email to GMail, and forward it to my own IMAP server as well. Then I can read my email with an IMAP client when at home and work, and with GMail when on the road.
I don't want to be a pessimist, but I hope they also plan for a way to bring it back down in a hurry if it has some unpredictable side-effect. Like some kind of auto-destruct mechanism or something.
OK, first of all, they didn't find legs. They found fins. The dolphin has two extra seemingly useless fins toward it's rear, in the same approximate location it would have legs when it walked on land.
So, freak mutation causing bringing up of ancient traits encoded in dolphin DNA? Or maybe just freak mutation in general?
I mean, we've all seen the pictures of people born without legs and arms. Are you trying to tell me this is a bringing up of DNA from when we were "ball mammals", who rolled around the earth?!?!
Sometimes a mutation (or defect, whatever) is just a mutation.
And yes, I do believe 100% in evolution (to me it's not something to believe in,it's fact, you can observe it happen in our lifetime in insects). But I don't think finding one example of a mutation can prove or disprove anything about dolphin ancestory.
OR Sony could have just not tried to rape the general public for once with a proprietary Sony standard, and supported HD-DVD, thus having all the major players backing one media.
It would have been better for the consumers, better for the 3rd party manufacturers. We have yet to see if it would have been better for Sony ornot, but I firmly believe they are going to regret the whole Blu-ray fiasco.
Widescreen DVDs have the actual frames at 720x480 pixels. If you have a DVD player hooked up to an HDTV you will see all of those 720 pixels, nothing is interpolated (unless you play on a 1080p display of course).
There is a big difference between that and the Wii which will only evrr be able to output 480 pixels.
I think the future is either WiFi-based communications, or EDGE-network communications. I already stream my music from my home server to my PDA via EDGE (HP PDA with Bluetooth dialup to my cell phone). It works great and I have instant access to gigs of music (and limited video).
I realize that I am in the minority here, but everyone who checks out my system loves it and asks how they can do it.
I don't want to know how you do it, that seems trivial. I want to know how you afford it.
Around here GPRS/EDGE data costs $60 for a measly 25 MB. That'd be good for about what, 30 songs at 56kbps maybe?
Do you realize you are ranting to someone who runs Linux exclusively both at home and at work and hasn't bought a Microsoft product in 7+ years either directly or indirectly?
Just because I disagree with Google doesn't make me a Microsoft fan boy.
It's two clicks away. It's not rocket science to pick Google as your default, it is simple and much easier than any previous version of IE. And trying to argue that they for some reason should *ship* Google as the default is like arguing that Firefox should ship MSN as the default.
The "wait for boot" argument is null and void as of about 3-4 years ago when all computers started shipping with decent ACPI support.
You're computer can suspend to memory and wake from suspend in under 5 seconds each. While suspended it uses almost 0 wattage. So it's more like 10 seconds a day + 30 days a month is 5 minutes of time, not an hour.
This is not my experience at all lately. It was slow about 3 months ago, but have you tried it recently? I use it because its actually faster than google.
Did you even take 3 seconds to click on the Frappr link in my post? I guess not.
That is unfortunate for you, but actually yahoo's zoom is better. Why? Because when you get to a certain level of detail it doesn't use sat imagery... it actually uses higher-def aerial photography.
Umm... same as Google.
Once again, you sound like a google fan-boy. Google's "search this map" thing isn't great either. Case-in-point: yesterday I was over Kansas City, searching for the Sprint Corportation. Although it was labeled "Sprint Corportation", and on my current map, did google find it? Nope. Not under any variation. Yahoo did.
We could sit here all day finding examples and counter-examples of querys that fail on both. My point is that on average, Google's local search is more accurate than Yahoo!, and it also provides the locations of the objects with a better interface in my opinion.
First of all, Yahoo! Maps is flash based and doesn't even work properly across all platforms. Only recently has it started working in Linux. 64 bit? Forget it.
Secondly, even on the platforms where it does work, it is HORRENDOUSLY SLOW compared to Google Maps. This is easy to see if you use it in an application that has lots of way points on it, like Frappr. As an example take the Kopete People page. After it *eventually* loads - when I try to zoom in on an area, Frappr pretty much barfs all over itself, leaving the waypoints where they were and not updating them properly at all. This is on an Athlon XP 2800 - not the newest machine but something that should be able to cruise through a web based maps application!
Also, the maps on yahoo! maps are just plain ugly at a lot of zoom levels, and they don't have anywhere near as much sat. imagery at the deep zoom in levels (my city is totally missing, it's all there on Google).
Oh and lastly, the "search this map" function in yahoo! maps is a joke and hardly works at all.
First of all, Yahoo! Maps is flash based and doesn't even work properly across all platforms. Only recently has it started working in Linux. 64 bit? Forget it.
Secondly, even on the platforms where it does work, it is HORRENDOUSLY SLOW compared to Google Maps. This is easy to see if you use it in an application that has lots of way points on it, like Frappr. As an example take the Kopete People page. After it *eventually* loads - when I try to zoom in on an area, Frappr pretty much barfs all over itself, leaving the waypoints where they were and not updating them properly at all. This is on an Athlon XP 2800 - not the newest machine but something that should be able to cruise through a web based maps application!
Also, the maps on yahoo! maps are just plain ugly at a lot of zoom levels, and they don't have anywhere near as much sat. imagery at the deep zoom in levels (my city is totally missing, it's all there on Google).
Oh and lastly, the "search this map" function in yahoo! maps is a joke and hardly works at all.
PS if you want traffic maps on Google just go to here
After trying to tune SpamAssassin to work well for months, and being unimpressed by the hit/miss rate, I tok to forwarding all of my incoming email to GMail. I then forward all my email from GMail that is not spam back to my other account:0
I find this way I get 99.95% accuracy - things that GMail misses as spam, my local SpamAssassin catches. As a side bonus I have GMail's awesome interface to read my mail when on the road (much better than the Squirrel Mail I was using, and still better than RoundCube).
This brings up another point - I don't know why Google doesn't add IMAP connectivity to GMail, soyou could use it's interface to read email from other hosts. I don't see why their ad technology would not work with this scheme.
buying and selling stocks works the same way - you only pay the tax when the money is exchanged for the stocks (when they are bought or sold). You don't pay tax ever time a stock goes up, you only pay when you sell it.
Why should online money (Linden dollars) be any different?
If I were these people though, I would be arguing that the income should count as a capital gain, not as business income. It's more like a capital gain than running a business.
A far more effective ad would be one which shows a potential employer giving a high school student/recent graduate a job interview. After the interview is over, cut to him doing a Google search for the applicant's name, and him going to the MySpace website. Then cut to him throwing his resume i the trash.
Seriously, I really fear for these kids putting so much of their lives online. They're going to regret it in 3-5 years when they graduate and find out they can't get a decent job because everyone knows all the nasty little things about their life no one should know.
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.... argue money. That always gets people interested.
Do you realize that an average 300+ watt machine running 24/7 costs you about $15-$20 a month in electricity?
If you don't believe me get a power usage meter.
You're basically paying $20 a month for the privilege of contributing to Folding@home or whatever. You're trying to say that money wouldn't do more good being given to your local food bank or something?
RTFA - it says (hell even the summary says) you *can* send your co=ordinates to the other phone, not that the other phone can get them without your wanting to.
Then again, anywhere with E911 service this is usually already enabled. But you can usually disable it on the handset if you want.
which continues to offer new, inexpensive phones. And will it appear in the United States? For that to happen, Reith says, Motorola will have to find a willing service provider or agree to sell its product alongside no-name brands at drugstores.
Looks like you'll be haviong to go to eBay or GSM Importers for these phones.
Yeah but that would be a big PITA.... imagine how much simpler it could be if you could click the "line button" on your pencil, click one point, then drag the pencil around while you hold the button, visualizing the 3-D line in your goggles!
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I'd either stay away from the Perl shop, or join up and try to convert them to another platform. It will come back to haunt you in a few years when you have to support a mess of spaghetti.
.Net, and even C for enterprise web applications, I would say Perl is far from an ideal choice for enterprise apps today.
Perl is a great language for lots of things, but as someone with lots of experience with Perl, Ruby, Java, PHP,
True, it is possible to write great apps in Perl. It's also great for simple small quick apps. But it's difficult to impossible to keep code clean as the app grows to a larger scale (think above the 100,000 LOC mark). It also has a very poor object model for encapsulation.
Personally, I am a big Ruby fan nowadays for web apps. A very close second on my list is Java.
Just my $0.02
It is far more likely that the reason this is in the report is the authour is a thesaurus junkie.
I was expecting/hoping to find an article on how to download my GMail while preserving my labels (treating them as folders).
What I got was a tutorial on how to use POP in Mutt.
What does this article even have to do with GMail, other than it happened to be the person's POP server?
GMail's POP access is basically useless IMO. Until they get IMAP I will continue with my current scheme, whereby I send all email to GMail, and forward it to my own IMAP server as well. Then I can read my email with an IMAP client when at home and work, and with GMail when on the road.
I don't want to be a pessimist, but I hope they also plan for a way to bring it back down in a hurry if it has some unpredictable side-effect. Like some kind of auto-destruct mechanism or something.
OK, first of all, they didn't find legs. They found fins. The dolphin has two extra seemingly useless fins toward it's rear, in the same approximate location it would have legs when it walked on land.
So, freak mutation causing bringing up of ancient traits encoded in dolphin DNA? Or maybe just freak mutation in general?
I mean, we've all seen the pictures of people born without legs and arms. Are you trying to tell me this is a bringing up of DNA from when we were "ball mammals", who rolled around the earth?!?!
Sometimes a mutation (or defect, whatever) is just a mutation.
And yes, I do believe 100% in evolution (to me it's not something to believe in,it's fact, you can observe it happen in our lifetime in insects). But I don't think finding one example of a mutation can prove or disprove anything about dolphin ancestory.
Is it just me or did Fox News sensor the leg by blurring it out?????
That isn't the water..
The Tsunami led to way more deaths than the WTC attacks did. Yet it received far to little press and nowhere near enough aid.
OR Sony could have just not tried to rape the general public for once with a proprietary Sony standard, and supported HD-DVD, thus having all the major players backing one media.
It would have been better for the consumers, better for the 3rd party manufacturers. We have yet to see if it would have been better for Sony ornot, but I firmly believe they are going to regret the whole Blu-ray fiasco.
Widescreen DVDs have the actual frames at 720x480 pixels. If you have a DVD player hooked up to an HDTV you will see all of those 720 pixels, nothing is interpolated (unless you play on a 1080p display of course).
There is a big difference between that and the Wii which will only evrr be able to output 480 pixels.
I think the future is either WiFi-based communications, or EDGE-network communications. I already stream my music from my home server to my PDA via EDGE (HP PDA with Bluetooth dialup to my cell phone). It works great and I have instant access to gigs of music (and limited video).
I realize that I am in the minority here, but everyone who checks out my system loves it and asks how they can do it.
I don't want to know how you do it, that seems trivial. I want to know how you afford it.
Around here GPRS/EDGE data costs $60 for a measly 25 MB. That'd be good for about what, 30 songs at 56kbps maybe?
Wouldn't last me one commute.
Do you realize you are ranting to someone who runs Linux exclusively both at home and at work and hasn't bought a Microsoft product in 7+ years either directly or indirectly?
Just because I disagree with Google doesn't make me a Microsoft fan boy.
It's two clicks away. It's not rocket science to pick Google as your default, it is simple and much easier than any previous version of IE. And trying to argue that they for some reason should *ship* Google as the default is like arguing that Firefox should ship MSN as the default.
The "wait for boot" argument is null and void as of about 3-4 years ago when all computers started shipping with decent ACPI support.
You're computer can suspend to memory and wake from suspend in under 5 seconds each. While suspended it uses almost 0 wattage. So it's more like 10 seconds a day + 30 days a month is 5 minutes of time, not an hour.
Any modern computer with ACPI can wake from suspend in under 5 seconds.
Are you really trying to tell me you can't wait *** 5 seconds *** ???
I'd hate to see you with a laptop.
This is not my experience at all lately. It was slow about 3 months ago, but have you tried it recently? I use it because its actually faster than google.
Did you even take 3 seconds to click on the Frappr link in my post? I guess not.
That is unfortunate for you, but actually yahoo's zoom is better. Why? Because when you get to a certain level of detail it doesn't use sat imagery... it actually uses higher-def aerial photography.
Umm... same as Google.
Once again, you sound like a google fan-boy. Google's "search this map" thing isn't great either. Case-in-point: yesterday I was over Kansas City, searching for the Sprint Corportation. Although it was labeled "Sprint Corportation", and on my current map, did google find it? Nope. Not under any variation. Yahoo did.
We could sit here all day finding examples and counter-examples of querys that fail on both. My point is that on average, Google's local search is more accurate than Yahoo!, and it also provides the locations of the objects with a better interface in my opinion.
Not true, GMail preserves the original headers when it forwards.
First of all, Yahoo! Maps is flash based and doesn't even work properly across all platforms. Only recently has it started working in Linux. 64 bit? Forget it.
Secondly, even on the platforms where it does work, it is HORRENDOUSLY SLOW compared to Google Maps. This is easy to see if you use it in an application that has lots of way points on it, like Frappr. As an example take the Kopete People page. After it *eventually* loads - when I try to zoom in on an area, Frappr pretty much barfs all over itself, leaving the waypoints where they were and not updating them properly at all. This is on an Athlon XP 2800 - not the newest machine but something that should be able to cruise through a web based maps application!
Also, the maps on yahoo! maps are just plain ugly at a lot of zoom levels, and they don't have anywhere near as much sat. imagery at the deep zoom in levels (my city is totally missing, it's all there on Google).
Oh and lastly, the "search this map" function in yahoo! maps is a joke and hardly works at all.
First of all, Yahoo! Maps is flash based and doesn't even work properly across all platforms. Only recently has it started working in Linux. 64 bit? Forget it.
Secondly, even on the platforms where it does work, it is HORRENDOUSLY SLOW compared to Google Maps. This is easy to see if you use it in an application that has lots of way points on it, like Frappr. As an example take the Kopete People page. After it *eventually* loads - when I try to zoom in on an area, Frappr pretty much barfs all over itself, leaving the waypoints where they were and not updating them properly at all. This is on an Athlon XP 2800 - not the newest machine but something that should be able to cruise through a web based maps application!
Also, the maps on yahoo! maps are just plain ugly at a lot of zoom levels, and they don't have anywhere near as much sat. imagery at the deep zoom in levels (my city is totally missing, it's all there on Google).
Oh and lastly, the "search this map" function in yahoo! maps is a joke and hardly works at all.
PS if you want traffic maps on Google just go to here
After trying to tune SpamAssassin to work well for months, and being unimpressed by the hit/miss rate, I tok to forwarding all of my incoming email to GMail. I then forward all my email from GMail that is not spam back to my other account :0
I find this way I get 99.95% accuracy - things that GMail misses as spam, my local SpamAssassin catches. As a side bonus I have GMail's awesome interface to read my mail when on the road (much better than the Squirrel Mail I was using, and still better than RoundCube).
This brings up another point - I don't know why Google doesn't add IMAP connectivity to GMail, soyou could use it's interface to read email from other hosts. I don't see why their ad technology would not work with this scheme.
buying and selling stocks works the same way - you only pay the tax when the money is exchanged for the stocks (when they are bought or sold). You don't pay tax ever time a stock goes up, you only pay when you sell it.
Why should online money (Linden dollars) be any different?
If I were these people though, I would be arguing that the income should count as a capital gain, not as business income. It's more like a capital gain than running a business.
A far more effective ad would be one which shows a potential employer giving a high school student/recent graduate a job interview. After the interview is over, cut to him doing a Google search for the applicant's name, and him going to the MySpace website. Then cut to him throwing his resume i the trash.
Seriously, I really fear for these kids putting so much of their lives online. They're going to regret it in 3-5 years when they graduate and find out they can't get a decent job because everyone knows all the nasty little things about their life no one should know.
.... argue money. That always gets people interested.
Do you realize that an average 300+ watt machine running 24/7 costs you about $15-$20 a month in electricity?
If you don't believe me get a power usage meter.
You're basically paying $20 a month for the privilege of contributing to Folding@home or whatever. You're trying to say that money wouldn't do more good being given to your local food bank or something?
No thanks.
RTFA - it says (hell even the summary says) you *can* send your co=ordinates to the other phone, not that the other phone can get them without your wanting to.
Then again, anywhere with E911 service this is usually already enabled. But you can usually disable it on the handset if you want.
I don't really know what Google is ranting about. Google is 2 clicks away as the default search engine in IE7.
I perfectly understand why Microsoft doesn't want to show a stupid "Pick your default search engine" dialog box at startup - that would be stupid.
Really, this is one issue I don't agree with Google on.
Now, if there comes to light something in Vista that, for example, prevents Google Desktop from being installed, then I would be very upset.
which continues to offer new, inexpensive phones. And will it appear in the United States? For that to happen, Reith says, Motorola will have to find a willing service provider or agree to sell its product alongside no-name brands at drugstores.
Looks like you'll be haviong to go to eBay or GSM Importers for these phones.
Yeah but that would be a big PITA.... imagine how much simpler it could be if you could click the "line button" on your pencil, click one point, then drag the pencil around while you hold the button, visualizing the 3-D line in your goggles!
Think of it like a 3-D paint program.