Not a very good rebuttal: Configuration: "We have to recompile to change the background color". Ah, so the answer to this is, rewrite all of Yahoo, so they can easily change the background color. How hard would it really be to refactor this? (For that matter, how often do they change the background color of Yahoo?)
Perhaps they are suggesting their current app isn't modular enough. How hard is to to refactor a large C app every time a small change is needed to the front end? It's a pain in the arse (coming from someone who has done this for a large C based web site)
Maintainence: As God as my witness, their newly written PHP code will still have more bugs in it 5 years from now than your Y code does today.
Depends how well designed their scripting language is, but remember that with PHP there are a wealth of tried and tested libraries to choose from (eg ADODB). Also with all the PHP developer mailing lists it will be a lot quicker to check if there is a bug in the script or the language itself.
Performance: Their own tests show that their technologies are capable of performing as well as PHP.
Their site is currently comparable... but the site isn't going to switch overnight. If they are planning to take a year to change all the code over, how much faster will PHP be in a years time? They will get that performance boost without their own internal software team having to write/optimise/debug a competitor to PHP as well as maintaining the scripts written in that language.
Iteroperability: Oh yes, PHP plugs into everything. You don't even have to write code. Just put a MySql machine in the same room as your PHP code, and dynamic web pages will emenate. GS[]SARCASM
Have you seen the list of databases that ADODB supports? And gee, I didn't even have to write any code... I just stuck MySQL on my box and within minutes dynamic web pages were emanating.
Personnel: "No one has Yahoo script on their resume". When was the last time you hired someone because they knew a language? Employees are a multi-year investment. Learning a computer language is a weekend investment.
LMAO!!! I would go to the opposite extreme and say that most of the people I've seen hired have been hired exclusively on their knowledge and experience of a specific language. Learning a language is not a weekend investment. You need to learn all the libraries, the specific quirks of the language, the tools that are best suited to that language, how the debugger works best for that language, performance trade-offs in how much OO should be used, and many other factors that only come with hands-on experience.
I thought I read somewhere that you can do pass by refrence in PHP but I haven't been able to find that link.
Well typing "search by reference" into the search box on php.net gives this. The excellent PHP documentation is a great benefit.
I've worked on large sites with companies that use either Java or PHP. For rapid development and pure web play apps PHP is simply amazing. I have a low end box here serving up over 900 web driven DB backed sites (around 100GB/month) and it's rock solid. The idea of using PHP for a complex app gives me the shivers though. For instance if you try and access a variable that doesn't exist, eg mis-typing a variable name, it just passes on a null value and carries on as though nothing has happened.
I think both Java and PHP are very well designed for their jobs. If it's a web app, I wouldn't hesitate to use PHP. If it's 90%+ web, then it's worth looking at using PHP and interfacing it to the remaining 10% written in another language. For complex apps Java appears to be the way to go. Even if it requires expensive hardware to run on, a £20k server is only the same price as paying for an extra programmer needed to maintain a mass of sphagetti PHP code.
There is no relationship between Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation beyond the fact that Bill Gates started both organizations and practically runs both.
That's like saying I'm no relationship to my brother, other than that we have the same parents. Where do you think the cash for the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation originally comes from?
That's a pretty good description of the state of UK politics. A little off-topic, but to fill in a bit extra for our American cousins: Labour used to be the far left, ie _very_ socialist. Fiveeight is right in that the Conservatives were the reason Labour got in '97, but I should add that it was also because Labour refused to commit to anything; how can you criticise the policies of a party that doesn't have any?
It had a 'progressive' leader Tony Blair. Once safely in power, Blair kicked out the socialist old-guard that helped him into power and pulled in mostly people the same as himself. He's slightly right of centre. Over the years he's become more Conservative (capital C) than the Conservatives. This put the Conservatives in a quandry, and split the party. They've spend more time fighting each other than fighting Labour, with half of them wanting to push further right to try and differentiate themselves from Labour, and the other half wanting to push the other way and seem more caring.
The important thing is that we have a strong civil service which, whilst in theory under the control of the government ministers, pretty much runs the country autonomously. They are not corrupt and fairly resistant to commercial lobbying. They also listen to the people (at least the DTI certainly does) and are the reason we are unlikely to see anything like software patents or the DMCA here. Also the basis for one of the funniest TV series.:-)
It doesn't sound any more expensive than the disposable batteries I use for my mp3 player. Bear in mind that the laptop will probably spend 95% of its time docked and not using the fuel cell.
If you're using Mozilla, or the recently-released Phoenix (highly recommended), you can also accomplish your browsing style by right-clicking the links and selecting "open in new tab".
Even easier is just to click on the link with the middle mouse button, which will open the link in a new tab in the background. You can just scroll down the page middle-clicking on any links you want to read later, and not disturb the flow of what you are reading. Makes for a very addictive style of surfing. You can also middle-click on any tab to instantly make it go away.
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By right-clicking on an image, you can select "block images from this server" and further images will not be loaded from this site, saving you annoying advertisements and download-times.
I would love to be able to try out this feature, unfortunately using Privoxy I've not been able to see any banner ads to block. Also blocks the banner ad at the top of/. without removing all the other graphics. Deals with tracking cookies for you too. Highly recommended.
I love Gentoo, and the way I can just "emerge update world" to update every package on my system automatically. No dependency hell. It's definately desktop only at the moment, but hopefully in the future there will be different levels of update. Eg "emerge update STABLE apache" and "emerge update BETA evolution", etc.
Feel free, I explained badly. I didn't mean literally a capacitor you find in Maplins. I meant in general terms some short term storage medium which I was hoping someone else would fill in.
I ask again: where are these commercial fuel cells?
Personally I'm looking forwards to one of these, though if you want to see where a lot of them are being used then the Ballard web site is a good place to start.
How long does it take to build up mass in a new technology?
The good thing about hydrogen is that it can be easily extracted from a number of sources and in a number of different ways. I've even seen a "hydrogen gas station in a box" for sale, where all you provide is water and electricity. This means a much lower barrier to building infrastructure, as opposed to a power source that is geographically limited and has to be securely transported.
I'm going to be using a Zimmer frame before these babies are parked at the mall in large numbers.
If you are in your 50s then probably. It will be at least 30 years (imho) before fuel cell cars start to outnumber petrol cars, and that's with governments taxing the hell out of petrol and imposing highly punative emissions fines. That's fine though, as we are stuck on this planet for a long time to come yet.
* Mozilla - I never use. Way too slow. Takes around 30 secs to open up a browser window first time. Still slow after that on my machine * K-Meleon - used to use this instead of IE when (a) I wanted something fast and (b) on sites that crash IE (quite a few on my machine). It loads first time in the same time as a preloaded IE. Lightening fast * Phoenix - definately replacement for above. Loads around 10secs first time but after that it's instantaneous (as opposed to IE still taking around 4 secs each new window).
I'll be gradually moving all my bookmarks from IE to Phoenix and using that for all my browsing, keeping IE for testing the sites I work on and the occasional site that Phoenix doesn't render (if I ever find one). I am *very* impressed with Phoenix.
a fuel cell's output is limited by the membrane capacity: the ability to produce high peaks for short periods is missing
Can't you just put a large capacitor in series with it to solve that problem?
[fuel cell problems] world supply of platinum limited, high temperatures needed for high efficiencies, corrosive media, thermal management, carbon monoxide and dioxide poisoning
Membranes are getting cheaper and cheaper as the technology progresses. Not sure what you mean about the last one, the only output of a fuel cell is pure water. The high temperatures can easily be dealt with... there are even small fuel cells that run laptops these days.
seem always on the verge of being solved but never getting there
Well commercial fuel cells have been around for a while. My local swimming pool has been powered by fuel cell for the last couple of years. I'm tempted to buy a domestic one for my next house. GM has promised mass production of fuel cell cars for 2008.
The last time I read an article on the future of fuel cells was the dead wood version of Scientific American in 1999. I'm not aware of any real breakthroughs since.
The easiest way to crack encyption is to avoid cracking the encryption and attack the installation or the people using the encryption.
By using a strong secure encrypted link, you are moving the points of attack to areas under your control. It also much reduces opportunist attacks as the attacker will have to take some physical risk (for example, as you mention after, bugging a keyboard) as opposed to passively sitting in a public place and plucking bits out of the air.
or you use "lead pipe" cryptanalysis- you hit the guy over the head until he tells you his password.
It's "rubber hose" cryptanalysis; just as painful but leaves far less evidence of torture after they finally release you.
This system looks good; but don't assume that its going to be 100% secure.
It's only used for the key exchange. You can always break or brute force (given enough computing power) the symmetric algorithm that then uses this key for encryption.
I had all kinds of weird problems when I installed Gentoo, but the #gentoo gang on IRC helped me knock them down one by one. Fantastic online support. Now also a Gentoo addict.
... is a reason I'll be sticking with Galeon. Such a well thought-out browser. Kudos to the developers.
Phillip.
An XML module that has surely been missed...
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There is a PHP extension called XMLDOC (not a very good name, I know). It seems fast, though not yet tested under load, but its main advantage is its simple API.
I wrote it for a client but it never got used, hence I made it public and freely available. I haven't had a chance to get on the PHP developers list and try and get it incorporated into the standard distro, but if enough people try it, like it, and email me... then I am prepared to put some effort into getting it put in place.
... I spent 8 months job hunting after my company shut down their facility here. I finally did get a job, but I had to take a 20% pay cut, and the benefits are almost non-existent.
The market value of the programmer sky-rocketed through the boom, and then plunged again through the crash. Despite our own individual ideas of what we are worth, you are only worth what someone is prepared to pay. You made the same mistake as my (highly talented and skilled) friend made... wanting only to continue 'upwards' when the ground had dropped suddenly from under your feet. Which is natural enough.
Their meaning of qualified is that you have to have 3 (or more) years of job experience using the exact tools and programming environment that they are using.
That's what a company *always* wants. They were only prepared to take a risk on those less qualified before because during the boom skilled personnel were scarce on the ground. There is oft a big difference between what a company wants and what they are finally prepared to accept.
Pity the worker who spent their work time doing their job instead of looking for the latest technologies so they could pad their resume.
Some of us consider keeping up with the latest technology being part of our job. I could counter that maybe you should have been more forward-sighted.
It's very simple. Companies don't want to train people, because the less you know, the less mobile you are.
It's probably more complex than that. A balancing act of training you up to be as effective as you can be in your role, without making you so skilled as to be an attractive target for headhunters.
You seem to take a very 'establishment' view of the tech market. I'm not saying anything in your post is wrong, it's just that currently we techies don't have any trade union or assured rights. You have to sell yourself and your skills (or carefully pick new ones to learn) in a competative market. And one of the tough rules is that in a free market a lot of the toughest competition comes from abroad.
Don't feel sorry for yourself, just pick yourself up off the ground and keep building up that skillset for the next boom. I bet even with your 20% paycut you are still on way more than the national average.
Probably wouldn't help much with _todays_ technology. The air powered vehicles are deliberately *very* light and the solar panels you can buy at the moment tend to be a little heavy (hence will reduce the already marginally acceptable speed). There is work being done on solar cells (afaicr) that are so thin they can almost be painted on. That will certainly help, though it depends obviously on cost.
That's not much different from the $125 figure I quoted which I took from their web site. You missed the entire point of my post, which is that you have to take into account the inordinate amount of time it would take to organise and burn all those CDs (hence the cost of paying someone $5/hour to do it pushing the price ott).
and a good deal more reliable than RAID-1 (which is not ever to be trusted as a fucking backup solution. I've seen fucked up IDE controllers torch everything attached to them more often than I've seen hard drives die on their own).
I initially misread the article title as "ISO selling characters" which made me think that for $30 I could get my own special character added to Unicode. Damn! That would actually have been useful to me.
I thought the same thing. As a taxpayers we have forked out a hell of a lot to have the Euro sign added, $30 sounded like a bargain. How about the-artist-formally-known-as-Prince buying a character with that little squiggle that he (still?) calls himself so he can actually sign his emails? Actually I'm glad we misread, or we'd end up with our emails being stuffed with 'cute' smilies.
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I picked phemplate because it's fast and has a nice syntax. It does have its limitations though.
Phillip.
Not a very good rebuttal:
Configuration: "We have to recompile to change the background color". Ah, so the answer to this is, rewrite all of Yahoo, so they can easily change the background color. How hard would it really be to refactor this? (For that matter, how often do they change the background color of Yahoo?)
Perhaps they are suggesting their current app isn't modular enough. How hard is to to refactor a large C app every time a small change is needed to the front end? It's a pain in the arse (coming from someone who has done this for a large C based web site)
Maintainence: As God as my witness, their newly written PHP code will still have more bugs in it 5 years from now than your Y code does today.
Depends how well designed their scripting language is, but remember that with PHP there are a wealth of tried and tested libraries to choose from (eg ADODB). Also with all the PHP developer mailing lists it will be a lot quicker to check if there is a bug in the script or the language itself.
Performance: Their own tests show that their technologies are capable of performing as well as PHP.
Their site is currently comparable... but the site isn't going to switch overnight. If they are planning to take a year to change all the code over, how much faster will PHP be in a years time? They will get that performance boost without their own internal software team having to write/optimise/debug a competitor to PHP as well as maintaining the scripts written in that language.
Iteroperability: Oh yes, PHP plugs into everything. You don't even have to write code. Just put a MySql machine in the same room as your PHP code, and dynamic web pages will emenate. GS[]SARCASM
Have you seen the list of databases that ADODB supports? And gee, I didn't even have to write any code... I just stuck MySQL on my box and within minutes dynamic web pages were emanating.
Personnel: "No one has Yahoo script on their resume". When was the last time you hired someone because they knew a language? Employees are a multi-year investment. Learning a computer language is a weekend investment.
LMAO!!! I would go to the opposite extreme and say that most of the people I've seen hired have been hired exclusively on their knowledge and experience of a specific language. Learning a language is not a weekend investment. You need to learn all the libraries, the specific quirks of the language, the tools that are best suited to that language, how the debugger works best for that language, performance trade-offs in how much OO should be used, and many other factors that only come with hands-on experience.
Phillip.
I thought I read somewhere that you can do pass by refrence in PHP but I haven't been able to find that link.
Well typing "search by reference" into the search box on php.net gives this. The excellent PHP documentation is a great benefit.
I've worked on large sites with companies that use either Java or PHP. For rapid development and pure web play apps PHP is simply amazing. I have a low end box here serving up over 900 web driven DB backed sites (around 100GB/month) and it's rock solid. The idea of using PHP for a complex app gives me the shivers though. For instance if you try and access a variable that doesn't exist, eg mis-typing a variable name, it just passes on a null value and carries on as though nothing has happened.
I think both Java and PHP are very well designed for their jobs. If it's a web app, I wouldn't hesitate to use PHP. If it's 90%+ web, then it's worth looking at using PHP and interfacing it to the remaining 10% written in another language. For complex apps Java appears to be the way to go. Even if it requires expensive hardware to run on, a £20k server is only the same price as paying for an extra programmer needed to maintain a mass of sphagetti PHP code.
Phillip.
There is no relationship between Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation beyond the fact that Bill Gates started both organizations and practically runs both.
That's like saying I'm no relationship to my brother, other than that we have the same parents. Where do you think the cash for the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation originally comes from?
Phillip.
That's a pretty good description of the state of UK politics. A little off-topic, but to fill in a bit extra for our American cousins: Labour used to be the far left, ie _very_ socialist. Fiveeight is right in that the Conservatives were the reason Labour got in '97, but I should add that it was also because Labour refused to commit to anything; how can you criticise the policies of a party that doesn't have any?
:-)
It had a 'progressive' leader Tony Blair. Once safely in power, Blair kicked out the socialist old-guard that helped him into power and pulled in mostly people the same as himself. He's slightly right of centre. Over the years he's become more Conservative (capital C) than the Conservatives. This put the Conservatives in a quandry, and split the party. They've spend more time fighting each other than fighting Labour, with half of them wanting to push further right to try and differentiate themselves from Labour, and the other half wanting to push the other way and seem more caring.
The important thing is that we have a strong civil service which, whilst in theory under the control of the government ministers, pretty much runs the country autonomously. They are not corrupt and fairly resistant to commercial lobbying. They also listen to the people (at least the DTI certainly does) and are the reason we are unlikely to see anything like software patents or the DMCA here. Also the basis for one of the funniest TV series.
Phillip.
It doesn't sound any more expensive than the disposable batteries I use for my mp3 player. Bear in mind that the laptop will probably spend 95% of its time docked and not using the fuel cell.
Phillip.
If you're using Mozilla, or the recently-released Phoenix (highly recommended), you can also accomplish your browsing style by right-clicking the links and selecting "open in new tab".
Even easier is just to click on the link with the middle mouse button, which will open the link in a new tab in the background. You can just scroll down the page middle-clicking on any links you want to read later, and not disturb the flow of what you are reading. Makes for a very addictive style of surfing. You can also middle-click on any tab to instantly make it go away.
Phillip.
You can see the BBC coverage here.
Phillip.
By right-clicking on an image, you can select "block images from this server" and further images will not be loaded from this site, saving you annoying advertisements and download-times.
/. without removing all the other graphics. Deals with tracking cookies for you too. Highly recommended.
I would love to be able to try out this feature, unfortunately using Privoxy I've not been able to see any banner ads to block. Also blocks the banner ad at the top of
Phillip.
I love Gentoo, and the way I can just "emerge update world" to update every package on my system automatically. No dependency hell. It's definately desktop only at the moment, but hopefully in the future there will be different levels of update. Eg "emerge update STABLE apache" and "emerge update BETA evolution", etc.
Phillip.
Sorry if this sounds a bit sharp
Feel free, I explained badly. I didn't mean literally a capacitor you find in Maplins. I meant in general terms some short term storage medium which I was hoping someone else would fill in.
I ask again: where are these commercial fuel cells?
Personally I'm looking forwards to one of these, though if you want to see where a lot of them are being used then the Ballard web site is a good place to start.
How long does it take to build up mass in a new technology?
The good thing about hydrogen is that it can be easily extracted from a number of sources and in a number of different ways. I've even seen a "hydrogen gas station in a box" for sale, where all you provide is water and electricity. This means a much lower barrier to building infrastructure, as opposed to a power source that is geographically limited and has to be securely transported.
I'm going to be using a Zimmer frame before these babies are parked at the mall in large numbers.
If you are in your 50s then probably. It will be at least 30 years (imho) before fuel cell cars start to outnumber petrol cars, and that's with governments taxing the hell out of petrol and imposing highly punative emissions fines. That's fine though, as we are stuck on this planet for a long time to come yet.
Phillip.
I have a number of different browsers installed:
* Mozilla - I never use. Way too slow. Takes around 30 secs to open up a browser window first time. Still slow after that on my machine
* K-Meleon - used to use this instead of IE when (a) I wanted something fast and (b) on sites that crash IE (quite a few on my machine). It loads first time in the same time as a preloaded IE. Lightening fast
* Phoenix - definately replacement for above. Loads around 10secs first time but after that it's instantaneous (as opposed to IE still taking around 4 secs each new window).
I'll be gradually moving all my bookmarks from IE to Phoenix and using that for all my browsing, keeping IE for testing the sites I work on and the occasional site that Phoenix doesn't render (if I ever find one). I am *very* impressed with Phoenix.
Phillip.
For me, it's about being able to use something approximate to my fav Galeon on my work Win XP box :-)
Phillip.
If you're close enough to TOUCH the person... why not just give a business card or TALK to the person???
If you went around the room reciting your 2048bit public key to everybody, you would find a large space rapidly growing around you.
Phillip.
a fuel cell's output is limited by the membrane capacity: the ability to produce high peaks for short periods is missing
Can't you just put a large capacitor in series with it to solve that problem?
[fuel cell problems] world supply of platinum limited, high temperatures needed for high efficiencies, corrosive media, thermal management, carbon monoxide and dioxide poisoning
Membranes are getting cheaper and cheaper as the technology progresses. Not sure what you mean about the last one, the only output of a fuel cell is pure water. The high temperatures can easily be dealt with... there are even small fuel cells that run laptops these days.
seem always on the verge of being solved but never getting there
Well commercial fuel cells have been around for a while. My local swimming pool has been powered by fuel cell for the last couple of years. I'm tempted to buy a domestic one for my next house. GM has promised mass production of fuel cell cars for 2008.
The last time I read an article on the future of fuel cells was the dead wood version of Scientific American in 1999. I'm not aware of any real breakthroughs since.
Where HAVE you been??? Even if you only read Slashdot you would see articles about fuel cells in laptops (plus obigatory dup), Sci American 2002 about GM, Wired article about GM $1bn bet, and more. Fuel cells are a big deal today.
Phillip.
The easiest way to crack encyption is to avoid cracking the encryption and attack the installation or the people using the encryption.
By using a strong secure encrypted link, you are moving the points of attack to areas under your control. It also much reduces opportunist attacks as the attacker will have to take some physical risk (for example, as you mention after, bugging a keyboard) as opposed to passively sitting in a public place and plucking bits out of the air.
or you use "lead pipe" cryptanalysis- you hit the guy over the head until he tells you his password.
It's "rubber hose" cryptanalysis; just as painful but leaves far less evidence of torture after they finally release you.
This system looks good; but don't assume that its going to be 100% secure.
It's only used for the key exchange. You can always break or brute force (given enough computing power) the symmetric algorithm that then uses this key for encryption.
Phillip.
I had all kinds of weird problems when I installed Gentoo, but the #gentoo gang on IRC helped me knock them down one by one. Fantastic online support. Now also a Gentoo addict.
Phillip.
... is a reason I'll be sticking with Galeon. Such a well thought-out browser. Kudos to the developers.
Phillip.
Eg take example config file:The code to change the IP is:Here is an example guestbook and its source.
I wrote it for a client but it never got used, hence I made it public and freely available. I haven't had a chance to get on the PHP developers list and try and get it incorporated into the standard distro, but if enough people try it, like it, and email me... then I am prepared to put some effort into getting it put in place.
Phillip.
... I spent 8 months job hunting after my company shut down their facility here. I finally did get a job, but I had to take a 20% pay cut, and the benefits are almost non-existent.
The market value of the programmer sky-rocketed through the boom, and then plunged again through the crash. Despite our own individual ideas of what we are worth, you are only worth what someone is prepared to pay. You made the same mistake as my (highly talented and skilled) friend made... wanting only to continue 'upwards' when the ground had dropped suddenly from under your feet. Which is natural enough.
Their meaning of qualified is that you have to have 3 (or more) years of job experience using the exact tools and programming environment that they are using.
That's what a company *always* wants. They were only prepared to take a risk on those less qualified before because during the boom skilled personnel were scarce on the ground. There is oft a big difference between what a company wants and what they are finally prepared to accept.
Pity the worker who spent their work time doing their job instead of looking for the latest technologies so they could pad their resume.
Some of us consider keeping up with the latest technology being part of our job. I could counter that maybe you should have been more forward-sighted.
It's very simple. Companies don't want to train people, because the less you know, the less mobile you are.
It's probably more complex than that. A balancing act of training you up to be as effective as you can be in your role, without making you so skilled as to be an attractive target for headhunters.
You seem to take a very 'establishment' view of the tech market. I'm not saying anything in your post is wrong, it's just that currently we techies don't have any trade union or assured rights. You have to sell yourself and your skills (or carefully pick new ones to learn) in a competative market. And one of the tough rules is that in a free market a lot of the toughest competition comes from abroad.
Don't feel sorry for yourself, just pick yourself up off the ground and keep building up that skillset for the next boom. I bet even with your 20% paycut you are still on way more than the national average.
Phillip.
I would be happy to pay for HL a second time if it gave me a native Linux HL engine that works with CS.
Phillip.
Probably wouldn't help much with _todays_ technology. The air powered vehicles are deliberately *very* light and the solar panels you can buy at the moment tend to be a little heavy (hence will reduce the already marginally acceptable speed). There is work being done on solar cells (afaicr) that are so thin they can almost be painted on. That will certainly help, though it depends obviously on cost.
Phillip.
So quit trying to make GM out to be the bad guy.
After that little "think with your pocket, the health of others be damned" rant, you make yourself out to be an ideal alternative target...
Phillip.
Bad math. [snip calcs] So. 229 CD-Rs at $91.60
That's not much different from the $125 figure I quoted which I took from their web site. You missed the entire point of my post, which is that you have to take into account the inordinate amount of time it would take to organise and burn all those CDs (hence the cost of paying someone $5/hour to do it pushing the price ott).
and a good deal more reliable than RAID-1 (which is not ever to be trusted as a fucking backup solution. I've seen fucked up IDE controllers torch everything attached to them more often than I've seen hard drives die on their own).
Thanks for the warning!
Phillip.
I initially misread the article title as "ISO selling characters" which made me think that for $30 I could get my own special character added to Unicode. Damn! That would actually have been useful to me.
I thought the same thing. As a taxpayers we have forked out a hell of a lot to have the Euro sign added, $30 sounded like a bargain. How about the-artist-formally-known-as-Prince buying a character with that little squiggle that he (still?) calls himself so he can actually sign his emails? Actually I'm glad we misread, or we'd end up with our emails being stuffed with 'cute' smilies.
Phillip.