Yeah, I hate to admit it, but release management hasn't been the PHP developers' strength lately. I think 5.1.0 might have been the biggest screwup, where, after I think 7 release candidates, somebody committed new code a few days before the final release that created a builtin class named 'Date'. The thousands of people that used the PEAR class named 'Date' weren't too happy. In an amusing twist of irony, the developer that committed the code was a staunch opponent of adding namespaces to PHP.
I usually hate to comment on moderation, but I don't quite see how this is flamebait. Nobody in their right mind has used register_globals for several years now (well, anybody that knew what they were doing never used them at all, but some of us were still newbies back then). It really is a giant bug just waiting to happen.
I can't speak specifically about performance problems, since I know pretty much nothing about the engine itself, but anyone that doesn't think PHP has consistency issues doesn't use the language enough. There's some pretty serious inconsistency in function naming, though that's pretty much limited to functions that have been in the language for several major versions (array and string functions especially). PHP5 is a huge improvement over older versions, but it would still be nice to be able to completely get rid of all of the mistakes that were made in PHP3. And yes, I do write PHP code professionally, and I think it's a very good language, but you'd have to be delusional or inexperienced not to recognize its problems. Every language has its positives and negatives.
saying "she could have just logged off" is no more logical then saying that a IRL rape victum could have "just ran away..."
I've never played Second Life, so I could be mistaken here, but do other players actually have the ability to physically prevent you from disconnecting, turning off your computer, and walking away from your desk?
Their bizarre scheme for managing status is horrible and so confusing (and in the betas I've used, outright broken) that I've just stopped setting my status to away at all
Seems like a user error to me, because it works fine on both Windows and KDE for me. I think it's a much more sane scheme than Kopete has, where you have to set a message and an away status separately.
First of all, I did elect for my child not to attend the scripture session, and my child attended anyway, at least until she spouted off some offensive catholic dogma and I rang the school and put in a 'special order' to ensure she no longer attended that.
And that makes you better than the parents that force their children to attend religious classes against their will because...?
Considering the fire was on/under the Longfellow Bridge in Boston, which the MBTA red line goes across, I would assume that's the subway that got disrupted. If a fire in Boston can interrupt subway service in New York, that'd be a pretty impressive fire.
Last I checked, IE's XMLHTTPRequest object (or whatever they called the ActiveX object in IE6) sends requests to the server and receives responses back just fine. What noticeable improvements do they plan on making, or are they just falling into the trap of using "AJAX" to mean any JavaScript/DHTML?
I knew that C# isn't the only language that runs on.Net, but I've been trying really hard to forget that VB exists, and those are the two languages that most people think of with.Net.
I actually really like C# as a language, but I'm one of those people that thinks strict typing makes programming easier. I started a port of an IRC bot I wrote several years ago, but haven't worked on it lately. It ran from a shell and seemed to work fine (at least as well as it did on Windows, anyway) on Mono.
No, it's Anthony's profile. He created it. It just happens to be about Obama.
And uses Obama's name for the account. I believe that's the key that allowed the campaign to take control of the account. If the account was AnthonyThinksObamaIsGreat instead of BarackObama, the campaign may not have had a case.
The campaign, with the help of Myspace, have seized control of the profile without my consent, and are using it to refer traffic to a new profile they created.
So the Obama campaign did create their own site, then took control of the page in question and use it to redirect traffic. I would guess that means the only thing that was really "stolen" was the account name.
As a gross oversimplification, compare C#/.Net with Java. I may be wrong on any/all of this, since I haven't done a lot of work with either, so feel free to correct me.
I think a lot of confusion comes from the fact that different parts are commonly referred to by the same name, and the parts that share names are different between C#/.Net and Java. Hopefully I haven't just confused you even more.
So instead of plugging my phone into a wall, I can plug my phone into a box that I set on top of a table that's plugged into a wall.
Not being a real electronics geek, I can only guess at this, but I think it wouldn't be "plugging your phone into a box" but "plugging a small box into your phone." Take a look at the one-use rapid phone chargers on the market now. The adapter for this wireless charger would be about the same size, maybe even smaller since it doesn't need to carry an actual battery.
Yeah, and why can the government tell me how old the people I marry have to be?
Because six-year-olds don't have the mental capacity to understand what marriage really means
And I totally hear you on the substances thing. Storing highly radioactive material in your garage should SO be legal.
I would guess that the restricted substances being referred to are things like alcohol and marijuana. Drugs that have the potential to directly harm only yourself are slightly different from materials that can be an immediate danger to everyone in a 10-mile radius.
And why should the government stop two consenting adults from murdering someone? What's wrong with a bit of mindless homicide every now and then?
If the person being killed is one of those two consenting adults, that's generally referred to as assisted suicide, and there's been a large amount of debate about that. If it's someone else being murdered, they aren't exactly consenting, are they?
I press the button on the front of my DVD drive and it ejected the CD just fine, albeit after a 5-10 second delay. I guess the behavior on either your or my system is a bug somewhere. Hopefully it's yours, because I'd be annoyed if it gets "fixed" on mine.
But the fact is, to suggest, albeit indirectly, that Ubuntu is always about command line operations is disingenuous and possibly a little trolly.
I don't see anyone saying that Ubuntu (as in the developers/Canonical/whatever) wants to be all about shell commands, and I certainly don't see anyone saying that doing something always requires a shell. The point being made is that historically (not as much now, but there are still a few from the old school around) a lot of people here on Slashdot, on IRC, and on message boards have given solutions that are just one or two simple shell commands. While using a couple shell commands isn't very difficult, especially for those of us that have plenty of experience using shells, it isn't the ideal solution for an operating system that wants to be user-friendly for the general population. If it can be done with a couple simple shell commands, there should be a GUI for it. Ubuntu is certainly a great system (I installed Kubuntu 7.04 last weekend, and I've only had a couple significant problems), but it isn't perfect. People that have problems and suggest improvements should be listened to respectfully, not shouted down as clueless idiots.
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Yeah, I hate to admit it, but release management hasn't been the PHP developers' strength lately. I think 5.1.0 might have been the biggest screwup, where, after I think 7 release candidates, somebody committed new code a few days before the final release that created a builtin class named 'Date'. The thousands of people that used the PEAR class named 'Date' weren't too happy. In an amusing twist of irony, the developer that committed the code was a staunch opponent of adding namespaces to PHP.
I usually hate to comment on moderation, but I don't quite see how this is flamebait. Nobody in their right mind has used register_globals for several years now (well, anybody that knew what they were doing never used them at all, but some of us were still newbies back then). It really is a giant bug just waiting to happen.
I can't speak specifically about performance problems, since I know pretty much nothing about the engine itself, but anyone that doesn't think PHP has consistency issues doesn't use the language enough. There's some pretty serious inconsistency in function naming, though that's pretty much limited to functions that have been in the language for several major versions (array and string functions especially). PHP5 is a huge improvement over older versions, but it would still be nice to be able to completely get rid of all of the mistakes that were made in PHP3. And yes, I do write PHP code professionally, and I think it's a very good language, but you'd have to be delusional or inexperienced not to recognize its problems. Every language has its positives and negatives.
You mean they changed the protocol icons between the 2.0 betas and the final 2.0 release? Please tell me there's a way to change them back.
Considering the fire was on/under the Longfellow Bridge in Boston, which the MBTA red line goes across, I would assume that's the subway that got disrupted. If a fire in Boston can interrupt subway service in New York, that'd be a pretty impressive fire.
I knew that C# isn't the only language that runs on .Net, but I've been trying really hard to forget that VB exists, and those are the two languages that most people think of with .Net.
I actually really like C# as a language, but I'm one of those people that thinks strict typing makes programming easier. I started a port of an IRC bot I wrote several years ago, but haven't worked on it lately. It ran from a shell and seemed to work fine (at least as well as it did on Windows, anyway) on Mono.
As a gross oversimplification, compare C#/.Net with Java. I may be wrong on any/all of this, since I haven't done a lot of work with either, so feel free to correct me.
.Net / Java .Net / JVM
Programming language: C# / Java
Class library:
Virtual Machine:
I think a lot of confusion comes from the fact that different parts are commonly referred to by the same name, and the parts that share names are different between C#/.Net and Java. Hopefully I haven't just confused you even more.
We do? I sure don't. Wish I did though.
Same with my Oral-B. It took me a while to figure out how it charged without any metal contacts.
Would that be Mortal Kombat?
Oh, wait, it isn't Kubuntu, is it?
I press the button on the front of my DVD drive and it ejected the CD just fine, albeit after a 5-10 second delay. I guess the behavior on either your or my system is a bug somewhere. Hopefully it's yours, because I'd be annoyed if it gets "fixed" on mine.