Well, Android became significantly more webOS-like when google poached him from Palm. I hope it continues that trend. I'm very sad that webOS is essentially dead now. The multi-tasking elements of webOS are far superior to that of Android and iOS.
Nothing will ever get me to subscribe to cable again guys. Sell me your content in some sane way on the internet and I'll pay, but never a cable subscription.
Bingo. I will gladly pay a reasonable fee for the content that i actually want, but I'm never EVER going to pay $90/month (over a thousand dollars a year!) again for a load of crap reality shows that I will never watch. The whole channel bundle idea is horrible and should die as soon as possible.
I'm going to call bullshit on this story, but if it is true, I will have to cancel my hulu plus subscription. I'll rely on netflix, and, I guess, the network websites for new/recent episodes.
Yeah, not really sure he's obscure. He's critically acclaimed and beloved by most other authors, but maybe less widely read than some of the bigger names. Certainly nobody has ever made a movie of any of his works.
A note on Wolfe: the quality varies widely from one novel to the next. Some of his novels tend toward mystery, and these I've found to be the least successful. The highest quality are "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", "The Book of the New Sun", and just about any of his short stories. They are brilliant pieces of literature, and not just in the Science Fiction category. I found "The Book of the Long Sun", and "The Book of the Short Sun" to be rather more mundane, but still OK reads. I really liked the Latro series, but these are a challenging read, and I understand how many would not really care for them. The Knight and The Wizard are good fantasy, and have some incredible moments (loved the stacked planes of existence concept). The quality of the single novels is really hit and miss. Of his recent works, I liked "Pirate Freedom", but did not care for "An Evil Guest".
And sadly, it is his only novel. I understand it took his editor many years of prodding to get him to actually finish it. I'm so glad he did, but so bummed he did not attempt any other works.
I liked all the series (especially "End of Time"), but "Gloriana" was the best single Moorcock novel I've read. It's a little fucked up, and in this case, I think that's a good thing.
I'm not sure about that. I read this series, too, and I had the same opinion. Too close to Tolkien for me to really appreciate them on their own merit, but just not nearly as good.
I actually enjoyed the fact that the protagonist was an anti-hero, but I just found these books too tedious, too much a rip-off of the general flow of Tolkien. I read them all the way through, and by the time I got to the end, my only thought was, "man, I wish I had read 'The Lord of the Rings' again instead.
Also, Wolfe's short stories (there are a number of collections). In particular, "The island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories". Yes, that title is correct. In that collection, "The Death of Doctor Island" is one of the finest short stories I've ever read.
Also on Wolfe, this is not science fiction or fantasy, but "Peace" is a brilliant novel.
Joomla is great for the "my site looks identical to yours" group of rapid deployment. But when you want to do really fancy or different things (menu navigation in a 2X4 grid) suddenly it's a major pita. Plus converting a customers HTML site to a Joomla site is a raging pain in the butt.
I don't follow this at all. All a Joomla template is is an HTML page with a few PHP calls inserted to load content. It's really easy to convert HTML to a Joomla template. That's part of the development process for every Joomla website I do.
Yay! You may take this with a grain of salt, since I'm a Pre owner, but I think that WebOS is the best UI when comparing it with Android and iPhoneOS. The "card" concept is excellent, and so beautifully implemented. iPhoneOS is pretty good, but the lack of multi-tasking is a deal killer for me. IMO, even the newest versions of Android look unpolished. I do wish I had access to more good apps in WebOS, though.
How about not a single example, but a statistically significant number of kids? I don't think the turnaround would be 20-30 years, either. More like until the next election cycle when this is exposed for the waste of taxpayer money that it is.
Same here. My BP is regularly in the range of 90/50. I NEED salt to avoid episodes of lightheadedness when I stand up quickly or run up stairs. What is this bill? Karma-whoring at the legislative level?
I always hate those posts on car sites when a new electric car is introduced that say the thing is ugly. That's really not the point. It's supposed to be about the new energy technology.
However, in this case, I have to agree with you. What is the point of the odd styling? That thing is hideous. Why didn't they just make it look like normal bike? What's with the women's-style frame? I'm pretty sure that the largest market for this kind of thing will be younger males.
I have to agree (and I'm an asterisk administrator). If you have POTS lines, the best way to utilize them is with an old school analog phone. There is no combination that is more reliable, and if you have a good phone and your phone lines don't suck, the sound quality will be excellent. Connecting old school POTS lines to VoIP PBXs or even older digital phone systems is very often problematic. If you want to use a modern phone system, use (more) modern phone lines: BRI, PRI, or just go with direct VoIP connections.
Not really. Statscounter, for all its bias and flaws, shows that most of the IE6 users are in Africa and China. North America, and especially Europe have far fewer IE users, and very few IE6 users.
I'm an asterisk administrator for several systems. I try to keep them up-to-date with the latest versions that patch security flaws, but I can't always get them updated immediately. The easy answer is to just not allow SIP or IAX (or MGCP, SCCP, etc) access from the entire internet. I firewall off those ports except to certain locations that require access to them.
One big question I have, though, is what about all those appliance-type IP-PBX's from the old-school vendors like Panasonic and Toshiba? I would wager that the vast majority of those are NEVER updated after installation. Surely they are subject to many of the same security flaws that Asterisk's SIP stack are. I know that at least one of Asterisk's security advisories was for a fundamental flaw in the SIP protocol. All SIP-capable PBX's would be vulnerable to this. Are Panasonic and Toshiba just not talking openly about this?
Fortunately, I am my own boss, and I would never do that. Oy! After a few early mistakes, I decided that I would not take on any jobs where there is not a clear path to completion and payment.
Tablizer, it's a trap! Get outta there!
I was a Sysadmin and later IT director for almost 10 years. I, too, got really tired of the thankless work, staying up all night fixing broken stuff and having nobody even notice; having people literally yell at me because the copier had another paper jam. I quit life as an employee, and started my own IT support company. That wasn't a whole lot better, and when I started getting requests for websites, I jumped at the chance. I had to learn SQL, but I had most of the requirement of a CS degree, so I already knew C/C++. It was a short jump to PHP and Perl, and I had to brush up on HTML/CSS/Javascript a little. Since I've gotten better at SQL, I've taken on some DBA work, too.
The people I work with as a developer actually seem to appreciate what I do, and I'm no longer the on-call IT dude. I do still fill in the gaps with IT work, but it's getting less and less frequent, and I couldn't be happier about that. Good riddance to IT work. I'm much more suited to development. Maybe it would work for you, too.
Word. I've been waiting for so many years for real typography on the web. Firefox just got support for @font-face, IE and Safari have had it for quite a while, and Opera support is forthcoming. If webkit supports it, why doesn't Chrome? Maybe google ditched this feature for some extra rendering speed? Please add it in, Google! We need real typography on the web!
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Well, Android became significantly more webOS-like when google poached him from Palm. I hope it continues that trend. I'm very sad that webOS is essentially dead now. The multi-tasking elements of webOS are far superior to that of Android and iOS.
I like the Charles Ives quote that I will paraphrase here that those that can't handle dissonance are wussies.
Nothing will ever get me to subscribe to cable again guys. Sell me your content in some sane way on the internet and I'll pay, but never a cable subscription.
Bingo. I will gladly pay a reasonable fee for the content that i actually want, but I'm never EVER going to pay $90/month (over a thousand dollars a year!) again for a load of crap reality shows that I will never watch. The whole channel bundle idea is horrible and should die as soon as possible.
I'm going to call bullshit on this story, but if it is true, I will have to cancel my hulu plus subscription. I'll rely on netflix, and, I guess, the network websites for new/recent episodes.
This might explain why I'm insane.
Yeah, not really sure he's obscure. He's critically acclaimed and beloved by most other authors, but maybe less widely read than some of the bigger names. Certainly nobody has ever made a movie of any of his works. A note on Wolfe: the quality varies widely from one novel to the next. Some of his novels tend toward mystery, and these I've found to be the least successful. The highest quality are "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", "The Book of the New Sun", and just about any of his short stories. They are brilliant pieces of literature, and not just in the Science Fiction category. I found "The Book of the Long Sun", and "The Book of the Short Sun" to be rather more mundane, but still OK reads. I really liked the Latro series, but these are a challenging read, and I understand how many would not really care for them. The Knight and The Wizard are good fantasy, and have some incredible moments (loved the stacked planes of existence concept). The quality of the single novels is really hit and miss. Of his recent works, I liked "Pirate Freedom", but did not care for "An Evil Guest".
And sadly, it is his only novel. I understand it took his editor many years of prodding to get him to actually finish it. I'm so glad he did, but so bummed he did not attempt any other works.
I liked all the series (especially "End of Time"), but "Gloriana" was the best single Moorcock novel I've read. It's a little fucked up, and in this case, I think that's a good thing.
I'm not sure about that. I read this series, too, and I had the same opinion. Too close to Tolkien for me to really appreciate them on their own merit, but just not nearly as good.
I actually enjoyed the fact that the protagonist was an anti-hero, but I just found these books too tedious, too much a rip-off of the general flow of Tolkien. I read them all the way through, and by the time I got to the end, my only thought was, "man, I wish I had read 'The Lord of the Rings' again instead.
Also, Wolfe's short stories (there are a number of collections). In particular, "The island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories". Yes, that title is correct. In that collection, "The Death of Doctor Island" is one of the finest short stories I've ever read. Also on Wolfe, this is not science fiction or fantasy, but "Peace" is a brilliant novel.
Also: Jack of Shadows. (Despite the title, not related to the Amber series.) It's a short little thing, but the best Zelazny, IMO.
Why on earth would you want Android on a webOS device? The hardware is ancient. It's the OS that's good.
I don't follow this at all. All a Joomla template is is an HTML page with a few PHP calls inserted to load content. It's really easy to convert HTML to a Joomla template. That's part of the development process for every Joomla website I do.
Yay! You may take this with a grain of salt, since I'm a Pre owner, but I think that WebOS is the best UI when comparing it with Android and iPhoneOS. The "card" concept is excellent, and so beautifully implemented. iPhoneOS is pretty good, but the lack of multi-tasking is a deal killer for me. IMO, even the newest versions of Android look unpolished. I do wish I had access to more good apps in WebOS, though.
How about not a single example, but a statistically significant number of kids? I don't think the turnaround would be 20-30 years, either. More like until the next election cycle when this is exposed for the waste of taxpayer money that it is.
Not to be to 4chan-ish, but is anyone here a kid in Florida?
If so, figure out what IBM's criteria are, set youself up as an at-risk kid by doing some of those criteria, and then lead a normal law-abiding life.
If IBM's data and results turn out to be crap, nobody will want to use this service.
Same here. My BP is regularly in the range of 90/50. I NEED salt to avoid episodes of lightheadedness when I stand up quickly or run up stairs. What is this bill? Karma-whoring at the legislative level?
I always hate those posts on car sites when a new electric car is introduced that say the thing is ugly. That's really not the point. It's supposed to be about the new energy technology. However, in this case, I have to agree with you. What is the point of the odd styling? That thing is hideous. Why didn't they just make it look like normal bike? What's with the women's-style frame? I'm pretty sure that the largest market for this kind of thing will be younger males.
I have to agree (and I'm an asterisk administrator). If you have POTS lines, the best way to utilize them is with an old school analog phone. There is no combination that is more reliable, and if you have a good phone and your phone lines don't suck, the sound quality will be excellent. Connecting old school POTS lines to VoIP PBXs or even older digital phone systems is very often problematic. If you want to use a modern phone system, use (more) modern phone lines: BRI, PRI, or just go with direct VoIP connections.
Not really. Statscounter, for all its bias and flaws, shows that most of the IE6 users are in Africa and China. North America, and especially Europe have far fewer IE users, and very few IE6 users.
I'm an asterisk administrator for several systems. I try to keep them up-to-date with the latest versions that patch security flaws, but I can't always get them updated immediately. The easy answer is to just not allow SIP or IAX (or MGCP, SCCP, etc) access from the entire internet. I firewall off those ports except to certain locations that require access to them.
One big question I have, though, is what about all those appliance-type IP-PBX's from the old-school vendors like Panasonic and Toshiba? I would wager that the vast majority of those are NEVER updated after installation. Surely they are subject to many of the same security flaws that Asterisk's SIP stack are. I know that at least one of Asterisk's security advisories was for a fundamental flaw in the SIP protocol. All SIP-capable PBX's would be vulnerable to this. Are Panasonic and Toshiba just not talking openly about this?
Fortunately, I am my own boss, and I would never do that. Oy! After a few early mistakes, I decided that I would not take on any jobs where there is not a clear path to completion and payment. Tablizer, it's a trap! Get outta there!
I was a Sysadmin and later IT director for almost 10 years. I, too, got really tired of the thankless work, staying up all night fixing broken stuff and having nobody even notice; having people literally yell at me because the copier had another paper jam. I quit life as an employee, and started my own IT support company. That wasn't a whole lot better, and when I started getting requests for websites, I jumped at the chance. I had to learn SQL, but I had most of the requirement of a CS degree, so I already knew C/C++. It was a short jump to PHP and Perl, and I had to brush up on HTML/CSS/Javascript a little. Since I've gotten better at SQL, I've taken on some DBA work, too. The people I work with as a developer actually seem to appreciate what I do, and I'm no longer the on-call IT dude. I do still fill in the gaps with IT work, but it's getting less and less frequent, and I couldn't be happier about that. Good riddance to IT work. I'm much more suited to development. Maybe it would work for you, too.
Word. I've been waiting for so many years for real typography on the web. Firefox just got support for @font-face, IE and Safari have had it for quite a while, and Opera support is forthcoming. If webkit supports it, why doesn't Chrome? Maybe google ditched this feature for some extra rendering speed? Please add it in, Google! We need real typography on the web!
Hmm... maybe this is all a secret plot by frustrated web developers trying to rid the world of IE6.
In which case: Go Mydoom!