JavaScript is okay, and very useful since it's the only option for cross-platform active scripting anyway. But for the back end stuff, there's a lot more choice than just PHP.
Again, I'm not saying that there aren't good PHP developers, I'm just saying that you are much more likely to find bad ones than good ones. I expect there are a lot of people out there for whom PHP is their first and only programming language, and it really wouldn't inspire me to hear that.
Hmm okay actually having read the article and not just looking at the picture, the results are more interesting, but I'd also like to know what happened if they tried the same thing with the left phone rather than the right. It could be something as simple as the phone gets warmer, increasing the rate of chemical reactions on that side of the brain.
It doesn't look like they even used a control group of people doing nothing, people just talking, people talking with the phone on the other side of their head, etc. From the pics all you can tell is that basically a lot of the brain is more active after an hour on the phone, not just the spot next to the antenna. Why are researchers so clueless?
If they had to learn to write full scripts then they'd at least have to put more effort into understanding how it all works, rather than just copying and pasting stuff they find in tutorials. There's nothing wrong with looking at tutorials and examples of course, but things like them having multiple copies of the exact same script in different directories is an indicator that they have no idea how it all really works..
You do get the same problem with other languages too, people just copy and pasting and hoping for the best, asking people for the direct solutions on messageboards etc.. but I'm saying that IMO there are far more people doing that with inline stuff like PHP and JavaScript than other languages.
I liked Shaun of the Dead, and will play Left 4 Dead, but they're zombies, so it's okay. But I won't play Silent Hill or Watch the Hills Have Eyes. I have better things to do with my life than watch horrible things happen to people.
My thoughts exactly. I enjoyed the Silent Hill movie okay actually, but things like The Hills Have Eyes just looked sadistic for the sake of being sadistic. I don't get how anyone but goth vampire wannabee types can enjoy that kind of thing. I can be a very morbid person sometimes, and probably wouldn't even be too shocked by the stuff I'd see in that movie, but I simply wouldn't find it entertaining.
It doesn't even have to recognise individual faces, just recognising any body being in the chair, and lock if that body leaves the viewable area or gets beyond a certain distance. You'd notice anyone else sitting down in your chair at that point.. and like I said I think it would be nice as a backup option for if you forget to lock your screen. Similar to putting a 1 minute screensaver delay or something, but better because you can still not use the computer for a while (say if you're working with paper, or reading something onscreen) as long as you're sitting at your desk.
It's not that it's "wrong", it just says a lot about the "programmer", and would make me want to ask furthermore questions before hiring. I'd rather a developer knew how their cut'n'pasted code was working, and how to fix it if it's buggy.
That's not the point. The point is that those who set the bar so low probably aren't interested in learning how to code well. The guys who redesigned our website have for some reason put their downloaded email script in 4 different places rather than just have it in one place and change the URL..
I learned to write web apps in PHP at Uni, but just because it's easy doesn't make it good. I read it encourages poor habits in terms of the security of your apps, so I decided to look at other options. I didn't look very thoroughly as I settled on Perl, which I knew to be a good multi-purpose scripting language.. but I probably should have gone with Python as it seems to be growing while Perl declines.. even Ruby would have been okay, I didn't realise it was meant for more than just web coding when everyone was making a big deal about "Ruby on Rails".
If it was only responsible for locking rather than unlocking, and it locked within seconds of you standing up, then it would be pretty effective I'd think. You can detect depth of a sort simply by the size of the body, but we may all have 3D webcams in a few years anyway.. depends whether the fad turns out not to be a fad this time.
Plus, I would probably still hit ctrl-alt-l when leaving my desk anyway, this would just be a backup measure.
I think some kind of body/facial recognition software with a webcam might be a nice cheap way to do it. Whenever the program detects that the user has left their chair, lock the session.
No shit, but seriously how hard would it be to switch? It would be even less hassle for me to go to another social networking site than it was when switching my main person email from Hotmail to Gmail. AOL, MySpace, Bebo, lots of sites have had users that have then moved on to newer and shinier things. I'd be happy to stick with Facebook for the foreseeable future, but if everyone switched to something else, I wouldn't hold any sentimental attachment; I'd switch immediately.
They currently have real value, but as Smidge was pointing out, this "value" is highly volatile. Google provides a variety of services that aren't that easy to duplicate.. but the content on Facebook is all user generated. Pretty much any web developer could make a social networking site. He may have to hire staff to help him scale up the back end to handle hundreds of thousands of users, but overall it's nothing particularly special in the technical dept. Twitter is probably best positioned to take it down if they added the ability to have private tweets among groups (maybe they already do that?).. and longer messages of course.
Skill as in reactions and aiming vs strategy as in player positioning.. it was still possible to be an okay player on Counter-Strike on a 56k modem vs guys on Broadband, but really the only way to win was by being clever about your positioning, and making good use of your headphones and ability to shoot through solid objects:p I've never used TOR, but I'd think it would add at least 50-100ms to your ping
In nature there's no right to keep your idea to yourself
Of course there's nothing forcing you to give your ideas to other people either, so rights or not, many people are keeping their ideas to themself. I think you mean that in nature, nothing can stop someone copying your idea if they find out about it.
However, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (1st season) ranks as my favourite series, good combination of sci-fi, politics, philosophy and action.
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JavaScript is okay, and very useful since it's the only option for cross-platform active scripting anyway. But for the back end stuff, there's a lot more choice than just PHP.
Again, I'm not saying that there aren't good PHP developers, I'm just saying that you are much more likely to find bad ones than good ones. I expect there are a lot of people out there for whom PHP is their first and only programming language, and it really wouldn't inspire me to hear that.
Hmm okay actually having read the article and not just looking at the picture, the results are more interesting, but I'd also like to know what happened if they tried the same thing with the left phone rather than the right. It could be something as simple as the phone gets warmer, increasing the rate of chemical reactions on that side of the brain.
It doesn't look like they even used a control group of people doing nothing, people just talking, people talking with the phone on the other side of their head, etc. From the pics all you can tell is that basically a lot of the brain is more active after an hour on the phone, not just the spot next to the antenna. Why are researchers so clueless?
Damn, all that mobile phone stimulation has fried your speech center! Burn all phones! Or just text instead!
If they had to learn to write full scripts then they'd at least have to put more effort into understanding how it all works, rather than just copying and pasting stuff they find in tutorials. There's nothing wrong with looking at tutorials and examples of course, but things like them having multiple copies of the exact same script in different directories is an indicator that they have no idea how it all really works..
You do get the same problem with other languages too, people just copy and pasting and hoping for the best, asking people for the direct solutions on messageboards etc.. but I'm saying that IMO there are far more people doing that with inline stuff like PHP and JavaScript than other languages.
I liked Shaun of the Dead, and will play Left 4 Dead, but they're zombies, so it's okay. But I won't play Silent Hill or Watch the Hills Have Eyes. I have better things to do with my life than watch horrible things happen to people.
My thoughts exactly. I enjoyed the Silent Hill movie okay actually, but things like The Hills Have Eyes just looked sadistic for the sake of being sadistic. I don't get how anyone but goth vampire wannabee types can enjoy that kind of thing. I can be a very morbid person sometimes, and probably wouldn't even be too shocked by the stuff I'd see in that movie, but I simply wouldn't find it entertaining.
It doesn't even have to recognise individual faces, just recognising any body being in the chair, and lock if that body leaves the viewable area or gets beyond a certain distance. You'd notice anyone else sitting down in your chair at that point.. and like I said I think it would be nice as a backup option for if you forget to lock your screen. Similar to putting a 1 minute screensaver delay or something, but better because you can still not use the computer for a while (say if you're working with paper, or reading something onscreen) as long as you're sitting at your desk.
It's not that it's "wrong", it just says a lot about the "programmer", and would make me want to ask furthermore questions before hiring. I'd rather a developer knew how their cut'n'pasted code was working, and how to fix it if it's buggy.
That's not the point. The point is that those who set the bar so low probably aren't interested in learning how to code well. The guys who redesigned our website have for some reason put their downloaded email script in 4 different places rather than just have it in one place and change the URL..
I learned to write web apps in PHP at Uni, but just because it's easy doesn't make it good. I read it encourages poor habits in terms of the security of your apps, so I decided to look at other options. I didn't look very thoroughly as I settled on Perl, which I knew to be a good multi-purpose scripting language.. but I probably should have gone with Python as it seems to be growing while Perl declines.. even Ruby would have been okay, I didn't realise it was meant for more than just web coding when everyone was making a big deal about "Ruby on Rails".
More like they never fucking comment their motherfucking code.
My thinking exactly. Anyone who writes in PHP probably is using it because it's the easiest option..
If it was only responsible for locking rather than unlocking, and it locked within seconds of you standing up, then it would be pretty effective I'd think. You can detect depth of a sort simply by the size of the body, but we may all have 3D webcams in a few years anyway.. depends whether the fad turns out not to be a fad this time.
Plus, I would probably still hit ctrl-alt-l when leaving my desk anyway, this would just be a backup measure.
I think some kind of body/facial recognition software with a webcam might be a nice cheap way to do it. Whenever the program detects that the user has left their chair, lock the session.
I wrote Linus
We don't actually know that it's going to be "bad" yet though.. I really want to see what they come up with.
My [censored] is getting ridiculously long.
All those penis enlargement ads are good for something at last
No shit, but seriously how hard would it be to switch? It would be even less hassle for me to go to another social networking site than it was when switching my main person email from Hotmail to Gmail. AOL, MySpace, Bebo, lots of sites have had users that have then moved on to newer and shinier things. I'd be happy to stick with Facebook for the foreseeable future, but if everyone switched to something else, I wouldn't hold any sentimental attachment; I'd switch immediately.
They currently have real value, but as Smidge was pointing out, this "value" is highly volatile. Google provides a variety of services that aren't that easy to duplicate.. but the content on Facebook is all user generated. Pretty much any web developer could make a social networking site. He may have to hire staff to help him scale up the back end to handle hundreds of thousands of users, but overall it's nothing particularly special in the technical dept. Twitter is probably best positioned to take it down if they added the ability to have private tweets among groups (maybe they already do that?).. and longer messages of course.
Skill as in reactions and aiming vs strategy as in player positioning.. it was still possible to be an okay player on Counter-Strike on a 56k modem vs guys on Broadband, but really the only way to win was by being clever about your positioning, and making good use of your headphones and ability to shoot through solid objects :p I've never used TOR, but I'd think it would add at least 50-100ms to your ping
Useless for games which require skill over strategy though.
I was exaggerating somewhat. If all you like to play is strategy games then it would be fine.
Gaming over TOR? You'd be better off playing Correspondence Chess via snail mail.
Maybe later the website will load and I'll be able to actually read the article.
Try coming back around 8AM 'Nam time.
In nature there's no right to keep your idea to yourself
Of course there's nothing forcing you to give your ideas to other people either, so rights or not, many people are keeping their ideas to themself. I think you mean that in nature, nothing can stop someone copying your idea if they find out about it.
Totally forgot about that show, good choice.
However, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (1st season) ranks as my favourite series, good combination of sci-fi, politics, philosophy and action.