With my increasing frustration with TiVo's performance (recording shows I've already seen), not even an attempt at trying to do something about cut off shows, zero innovation in their series 2 product and apparently not that much more in series 3... "TiVo To Go" will be the headline of my next blog post.
At this point, why continue paying $12.95 if I can get only slightly more inferior products for about half that from the cable company?
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Perhaps that's your perception, but the thing is that DHH was a PHP developer that grew frustrated with the language's limitations and kitchen sink attitude. The lack of configuration is not an indication that it's made for Java devs; any non-Java dev will perceive the low amount of config as normal. Rails just lets Java devs see how unnatural the huge loads of configuration settings were.
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You should start hanging out with more intelligent PHP developers. There's a difference between a developer and a PHP tinkerer. MVC is not a hard concept to understand.
They should know that based on previous decisions, ICANN doesn't need no stinking government agencies to make stupid, badly thought out decisions.
I mean, really. psah.
I don't claim to have all the details, but...
Repeat after me: DVD+R is not neccesarily DVD-VIDEO.
What if they had a movie file, sitting on a data DVD, using a high-end codec, at high resolutions, that was shown? They were showing a trailer, not a full movie...a high resolution trailer would easily fit on a DVD+R.
Considering 4 to 5 children are born every second, are you saying that only 0.37% of the population consists of suckers?...have you looked around lately?
Uhmm... dude.
You know that it's not Groenig that's stopping the show, right? Creators are usually not in full control of their creations.
Also, your post is way funnier when read in Fry's voice in my head. You kind of sound like him.
"Improved Abstraction — We've eliminated almost all direct SQL queries from the code and moved them to functions and classes that make the entire program more consistent."
granted, no clue why they didn't eliminate all direct queries alltogether ("almost?" what you do you mean, "almost"?) but it's a damn good start towards db independence. a basic blog engine shouldn't be using any non-standard SQL calls anyway so support for Postgres should be easy at this point.
emphasis on should, though. The glass is half empty in my world.
It's sad. I've been using editors for 7+ years (including BBEdit) and I can't for the live of me picture this. I Guess undoing is on a level of subconcious action for me that I don't even notice the differences - I just undo and my mind switches back on when I see the code at the point I want it undone to.
I'm not sure if I can understand the single step undo issue -
the way it works on my end, i type something, undo undoes the last thing i did, which was a keystroke. undo again, another keystroke disappears. how would undo know what else to do at this point?
I guess I'd be more upset if copy/paste wasnt undone with a single undo. which it is. and that makes total sense, since paste is a single keystroke.
Not open source, so I guess it doesn't answer the original posters question (not uncommon on ask slashdot, I know)... But so darn good it's made me ditch BBedit, SubEthaEdit and whateverOtherEditIForgot for this baby.
Text collapsing, autocomplete, and as a Sign that $DIETY loves us, an amazing snippet system.
Emphasis on the was part.
IE5/Mac was a great browser when all you had was Netscape 4. Then again, Netscape 4 makes poop look like gold, so that's not that much to start with.
At the time, IE5/Mac had rendering qualities and CSS support that outdid it's equivalent on Windows. Meanwhile, newer versions came out of pretty much everything (Mozilla grew up, Safari started up, IE/Win grew into IE6) - and the IE5/Mac team didn't do diddly-squat.
That is why, in this age of Ajax and good clean CSS - IE5/Mac is now a stinker. It's unstable, unpredictable... obsolete.
Let. it. die.
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With my increasing frustration with TiVo's performance (recording shows I've already seen), not even an attempt at trying to do something about cut off shows, zero innovation in their series 2 product and apparently not that much more in series 3... "TiVo To Go" will be the headline of my next blog post. At this point, why continue paying $12.95 if I can get only slightly more inferior products for about half that from the cable company?
Perhaps that's your perception, but the thing is that DHH was a PHP developer that grew frustrated with the language's limitations and kitchen sink attitude. The lack of configuration is not an indication that it's made for Java devs; any non-Java dev will perceive the low amount of config as normal. Rails just lets Java devs see how unnatural the huge loads of configuration settings were.
You should start hanging out with more intelligent PHP developers. There's a difference between a developer and a PHP tinkerer. MVC is not a hard concept to understand.
Valid markup does not guarantee anything, just as invalid markup could render perfectly on any browser since Netscape 3.
Validation is a good start, but building sites "properly" with infrastructure and semantics in mind is the only way to "get it right".
Plus, Opera doesn't render as well as some other browsers.
They should know that based on previous decisions, ICANN doesn't need no stinking government agencies to make stupid, badly thought out decisions. I mean, really. psah.
I don't claim to have all the details, but... Repeat after me: DVD+R is not neccesarily DVD-VIDEO. What if they had a movie file, sitting on a data DVD, using a high-end codec, at high resolutions, that was shown? They were showing a trailer, not a full movie...a high resolution trailer would easily fit on a DVD+R.
Considering 4 to 5 children are born every second, are you saying that only 0.37% of the population consists of suckers? ...have you looked around lately?
Could be worse. Could be rubyists. Them folk is rabid, I tell ya.
For some reason I watch the show every week, and got it's agonizing. I wish they'd cancel it RIGHT NOW and not wait till 2008.
Also makes you wonder how the FBI would listen to a foreign company...
I resent that statement. ...I'm using a pre-release MacBook Pro, thank you very much.
Uhmm... dude. You know that it's not Groenig that's stopping the show, right? Creators are usually not in full control of their creations. Also, your post is way funnier when read in Fry's voice in my head. You kind of sound like him.
Or you could read the F.A.
"Improved Abstraction — We've eliminated almost all direct SQL queries from the code and moved them to functions and classes that make the entire program more consistent."
granted, no clue why they didn't eliminate all direct queries alltogether ("almost?" what you do you mean, "almost"?) but it's a damn good start towards db independence. a basic blog engine shouldn't be using any non-standard SQL calls anyway so support for Postgres should be easy at this point.
emphasis on should, though. The glass is half empty in my world.
It's sad. I've been using editors for 7+ years (including BBEdit) and I can't for the live of me picture this. I Guess undoing is on a level of subconcious action for me that I don't even notice the differences - I just undo and my mind switches back on when I see the code at the point I want it undone to.
Or I'm just stupid. entirely possible.
I'm not sure if I can understand the single step undo issue - the way it works on my end, i type something, undo undoes the last thing i did, which was a keystroke. undo again, another keystroke disappears. how would undo know what else to do at this point? I guess I'd be more upset if copy/paste wasnt undone with a single undo. which it is. and that makes total sense, since paste is a single keystroke.
Not open source, so I guess it doesn't answer the original posters question (not uncommon on ask slashdot, I know)... But so darn good it's made me ditch BBedit, SubEthaEdit and whateverOtherEditIForgot for this baby. Text collapsing, autocomplete, and as a Sign that $DIETY loves us, an amazing snippet system.
Emphasis on the was part. IE5/Mac was a great browser when all you had was Netscape 4. Then again, Netscape 4 makes poop look like gold, so that's not that much to start with. At the time, IE5/Mac had rendering qualities and CSS support that outdid it's equivalent on Windows. Meanwhile, newer versions came out of pretty much everything (Mozilla grew up, Safari started up, IE/Win grew into IE6) - and the IE5/Mac team didn't do diddly-squat. That is why, in this age of Ajax and good clean CSS - IE5/Mac is now a stinker. It's unstable, unpredictable... obsolete. Let. it. die.
C# a work of the devil? Uhm. Mono anyone?
Informative blurbs? you must be new here.