Be that as it may, the problem you're describing is not a problem of the technology, but of the currently limited userbase. GGP seemed to be describing problems pertaining the technical and architectural nature of Ruby on Rails.
Deploying Rails can be very difficult and you can face a lot of issues that you would never face for PHP.
Would you like to elaborate a bit on that? I know a bit about PHP but I have no experience with Ruby on Rails and I'm kinda curious what these issues would be.
You fool! Can't you see kdawson is just an evil ploy by CmdrTaco to become more popular! By contrast, his submissions seem like an insightful breeze.
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You can't prove anything beyond any doubt possible. You can try pretty hard to disprove a theory and fail, but that still doesn't mean that a theory is correct, it just means it's exceedingly improbably that the theory is wrong.
But religion's not much help there either. Just look at the crusades, sectarian violence in Iraq and the tensions between India and Pakistan. GGP stated that on of the merits of religion is that it imposes certain values. Assuming this is a good thing - which is a far stretch given some of the values which are an important part of religions - religions clearly don't do a good job of maintaining those values.
A good IDE can be a useful tool with huge productivity benefits. I'm not saying that knowledge of the underlying language is not important but saying IDEs are irrelevant is like saying there's no need for a carpenter to know how to properly operate a drill.
Be careful what you ask for - you might just end up with a 32 hour workweek getting 80% of the pay and end up browsing slashdot in your own time. Anyway, I think you're wrong. There is no intrinsic reason why 40 hours a week would be too much and 32 hours just enough. Smart employers (like mine, I'm typing this from work) don't mind some personal browsing and just care about the job getting done.
[...] don't know the difference between UK (England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland), Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), and England (a catch all, that normally means whatever combination of the above countries happens to be convienient at the time).
Your commit would have some merit if the democrats hadn't been vocal on this issue about this for the last couple of years but they have been. You can hardly blame them for being ignored by the white house.
Airbags are only useful in a very narrow range of impact speeds. If the impact speed is low enough, you don't need them, but over 70MPH they don't tend to make much of a difference. Coincidentally, this is the range in which most car crashes happen. But for airline crashes, it's an entirely different story. Furthermore, the airbag mechanism is rather bulky, which means less room for passengers.
The only highways which have trajectory control are the A12 between Utrecht and Woerden and the A2 between Utrecht and Amsterdam. There are also mobile systems, but they are only employed on provincial roads in Flevoland. So this company probably got its information somewhere else, possibly in violation of the rules of conduct put forward by the College Bescherming Persoonsgegevens (the authority for protection of personal data).
There definitely is no system for automatic billing in the netherlands yet, although there are plans to introduce such a system. Most speeding cameras only record the license plate only when the maximum speed is exceeded. The only exception are trajectory control systems, which monitor the average speed over a stretch of road. For this purpose the license plate is recorded on entry and exit of the monitored stretch. I'm not certain whether this information is actually stored.
Additionally, in some large cities there are experiments where licence plates are recorded and are automatically cross-checked for fraud charges, unpaid fines and arrest warrents. If one of these checks raises a red flag, the owner of the car is pulled to the side of the road for a chat with the police.
Then maybe I have a different idea of 'proper english' than you. English pronunciation in the southern part of Europe is sometimes nearly incomprehensible, while it's much better in northern countries like Germany, the Netherlands and Germany. Coincidentally, in these countries all movies are subtitled (although the Germans sometimes dub television series). Of course, education also is an important factor. But exposure to native speakers by television or film surely is one of the reasons why many Dutch are near-fluent in English. Of course, it also helps nobody speaks Dutch:)
I hope not! There's nothing as annoying as downloading a movie to find out it's the french or spanish version. By the way, the very reason many spanish don't *speak* english while they can read and write it perfectly well is because they dub everything (badly, by the way). Watch the english version. It's way more enjoyable anyway.
As you apparently are unaware, algae live in the sea. So 34000km2 of land mass is of little help when it comes to growing algae. On the other hand, more than half of the Netherlands are below sea level, so in a couple of years the Netherlands could take care of about half of all aviation CO2 emissions.
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Be that as it may, the problem you're describing is not a problem of the technology, but of the currently limited userbase. GGP seemed to be describing problems pertaining the technical and architectural nature of Ruby on Rails.
Deploying Rails can be very difficult and you can face a lot of issues that you would never face for PHP.
Would you like to elaborate a bit on that? I know a bit about PHP but I have no experience with Ruby on Rails and I'm kinda curious what these issues would be.
You fool! Can't you see kdawson is just an evil ploy by CmdrTaco to become more popular! By contrast, his submissions seem like an insightful breeze.
You can't prove anything beyond any doubt possible. You can try pretty hard to disprove a theory and fail, but that still doesn't mean that a theory is correct, it just means it's exceedingly improbably that the theory is wrong.
But religion's not much help there either. Just look at the crusades, sectarian violence in Iraq and the tensions between India and Pakistan. GGP stated that on of the merits of religion is that it imposes certain values. Assuming this is a good thing - which is a far stretch given some of the values which are an important part of religions - religions clearly don't do a good job of maintaining those values.
A good IDE can be a useful tool with huge productivity benefits. I'm not saying that knowledge of the underlying language is not important but saying IDEs are irrelevant is like saying there's no need for a carpenter to know how to properly operate a drill.
Both Eclipse and Visual Studio are a mess; programming doesn't need to be that complicated.
I really hope you do didn't work on the software that's used by my bank or my local nuclear power station.
Be careful what you ask for - you might just end up with a 32 hour workweek getting 80% of the pay and end up browsing slashdot in your own time. Anyway, I think you're wrong. There is no intrinsic reason why 40 hours a week would be too much and 32 hours just enough. Smart employers (like mine, I'm typing this from work) don't mind some personal browsing and just care about the job getting done.
No problem the system is also equipped with the AutoFrame (TM) option. With one click, it can insert the word 'Mohammed' into any phone conversation.
[...] don't know the difference between UK (England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland), Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), and England (a catch all, that normally means whatever combination of the above countries happens to be convienient at the time).
I guess you're not from England?
Your commit would have some merit if the democrats hadn't been vocal on this issue about this for the last couple of years but they have been. You can hardly blame them for being ignored by the white house.
Har har, in the Netherlands we get' em two weeks late so we are OK :)
Airbags are only useful in a very narrow range of impact speeds. If the impact speed is low enough, you don't need them, but over 70MPH they don't tend to make much of a difference. Coincidentally, this is the range in which most car crashes happen. But for airline crashes, it's an entirely different story. Furthermore, the airbag mechanism is rather bulky, which means less room for passengers.
The only highways which have trajectory control are the A12 between Utrecht and Woerden and the A2 between Utrecht and Amsterdam. There are also mobile systems, but they are only employed on provincial roads in Flevoland. So this company probably got its information somewhere else, possibly in violation of the rules of conduct put forward by the College Bescherming Persoonsgegevens (the authority for protection of personal data).
There definitely is no system for automatic billing in the netherlands yet, although there are plans to introduce such a system. Most speeding cameras only record the license plate only when the maximum speed is exceeded. The only exception are trajectory control systems, which monitor the average speed over a stretch of road. For this purpose the license plate is recorded on entry and exit of the monitored stretch. I'm not certain whether this information is actually stored.
Additionally, in some large cities there are experiments where licence plates are recorded and are automatically cross-checked for fraud charges, unpaid fines and arrest warrents. If one of these checks raises a red flag, the owner of the car is pulled to the side of the road for a chat with the police.
The larger address does allow for autoconfiguration. Apparently DHCP is not doing a good job at it.
Is it really necessary to spoil what is a very informative comment with racist slur?
Then maybe I have a different idea of 'proper english' than you. English pronunciation in the southern part of Europe is sometimes nearly incomprehensible, while it's much better in northern countries like Germany, the Netherlands and Germany. Coincidentally, in these countries all movies are subtitled (although the Germans sometimes dub television series). Of course, education also is an important factor. But exposure to native speakers by television or film surely is one of the reasons why many Dutch are near-fluent in English. Of course, it also helps nobody speaks Dutch :)
I hope not! There's nothing as annoying as downloading a movie to find out it's the french or spanish version. By the way, the very reason many spanish don't *speak* english while they can read and write it perfectly well is because they dub everything (badly, by the way). Watch the english version. It's way more enjoyable anyway.
Ah, a lecture in privacy from our enlightened friends from the far east :P
I'm sorry, I just didn't know that slashdot is accessible throught he great firewall of China.
But even if you paid in cash for your pre-paid cell phone, you're not safe. Safer than a subscription based service maybe but:
The numbers you call can be linked back to you
The bank notes can be traced back to your account, if you got them from an ATM or bank teller.
The location of the phone can still be tracked, so once they do link the phone to your person, your whereabaouts are still known.
By being a country that has signed the Geneva convention, like the US, Afghanistand and Iraq.
Maybe this is why: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details? url=slashdot.org
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details? url=digg.com
As you apparently are unaware, algae live in the sea. So 34000km2 of land mass is of little help when it comes to growing algae. On the other hand, more than half of the Netherlands are below sea level, so in a couple of years the Netherlands could take care of about half of all aviation CO2 emissions.
I accidentally moderated your comment flamebait, so I'm replying to undo it.
If you reply, do so only to what I explicitly wrote. If I didn't write it, don't assume or infer it.
You gun-toting marxist redneck zealot astroturfers make me sick!