Lot 49: Greg Beaver's blog - Comments

Greg Beaver: What do "Batman, the Dark Knight" and Barack Obama have in common?

nospam@example.com (Greg Beaver) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:18:23 -0700

Hi Joe, What far-left crap? Let's separate fact from opinion for a second: fact: 1) torture has been used by the U.S. government under the Bush administration 2) torture was used as a campaign platform publicly by most of the Republican nominees for president (McCain notably absent) 3) fear of terrorism and being strong on national security was a primary campaign platform by Bush, with insistence by figures such as Dick Cheney that Al Qaeda wanted John Kerry to be elected, and that Democrats supported terrorists in principle. 4) there is a marked increase in movies portraying terrorism and using terrorists 5) the last Batman movie with the Joker never once used "terrorist" to describe him, even though his actions resulted in just as many deaths opinion: 1) Rational thought has not been important to American voters for a long time 2) Obama's message of hope is a direct extreme opposite to fear, and when used for its emotional value only, is the same thing: an irrational urge that is an attempt to escape fear. 3) The only way to handle fear reliably and triumph is to address it head on, recognize the actual problems to be solved and evaluate candidate plans to solve them. In other words, the issues matter more than the emotions. Do you see any mention of far-left ideals such as taking down corporations, re-distributing income, etc.? If you have any real reaction, feel free to stop back, this childish knee-jerk crap is precisely the problem with American voters. Label me "far left" if you like, but it just ain't the truth. By the way, I'm not the only one to notice this parallel, check out these links: http://www.military.com/entertainment/movies/movie-news/batman-political-knight http://washingtonindependent.com/view/batmans-dark-knight http://www.upi.com/news/issueoftheday/2008/07/28/Analysis_Dark_Knights_political_power/UPI-40971217276755/ Of course, none of them seem to make the connection that hope can be the extreme opposite of fear and how that helps to explain why so many Barack Obama supporters could not name a single accomplishment of the man even as they supported him almost religiously. I do not subscribe to the theory of so many other bloggers that any of these characters map to any of Bush, McCain, Obama, or even Hilliary (one post claimed Hillary was Two-Face, something I find patently ridiculous).

joe: What do "Batman, the Dark Knight" and Barack Obama have in common?

nospam@example.com (joe) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:57:19 -0700

wow... i can't believe you subscribe to far-out left crap.

plastik cerrahi: Is anything working in PEAR?

nospam@example.com (plastik cerrahi) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:00:35 -0700

PEAR is very powerfull OOP library for Php, I think everybody get use pear.

Andrew : PHP_ParserGenerator and PHP_LexerGenerator

nospam@example.com (Andrew ) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:23:37 -0700

Thanks for that example. It was helpful even in German! I was having trouble figuring out if the lexer and parser somehow shared token constants, or if I needed to do it manually. $this->token = Parser::TOK_CONST; is just what I needed.

Dan: php|tek PEAR/phar/Pyrus talk slides

nospam@example.com (Dan) — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:49:56 -0700

Hi, Greg, Well, I understand that write permissions really danger in web applications. I plan to use phars as tar-packages-libraries in basically (not web-executable). This is a very suitable alternative for set_include. How about performance in this case? My library in phar will extracted once or per-request? Of course, that creating phar and include phar will be in separated processes. But I would like to keep phars not only in filesystem but in memory or database for later using. This requires at least two basic approaches: - copy phar.tar from alternative storage to temp-file-storage - include 'phar:///temp/storage/lib.phar.tar' or another: - create stream-wrapper for phar that can load phar from memory, string or db - include 'mywrapper:///memstorage/lib.phar.tar'

Greg Beaver: php|tek PEAR/phar/Pyrus talk slides

nospam@example.com (Greg Beaver) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:34:31 -0700

Hi Dan, Phar only works with file-based storage for several reasons. Although streams could be supported relatively easily, this could introduce an unnecessary security risk. For instance: Phar is explicitly enabled to work with only local files, remote is never supported. It's really not good to use a dynamically created phar in the same process, you should only ever use one that was created separately.

dan: php|tek PEAR/phar/Pyrus talk slides

nospam@example.com (dan) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:07:43 -0700

Hi Greg! Thanks for this info about phar and nice extension. I've started for testing and usage phar. Is it possible to use phar with non-file-based storage? For example: $a = new Phar('any_storage://package.phar.tar'); and also in includes or need real file for reading and includes? Only temp-files way? If it possible and not very slow please add such features that allow work with alternative storages such as memory, string, custom(for DB) and so on

Chris D: Macbook Pro lives up to expectations

nospam@example.com (Chris D) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:29:33 -0700

Hope you sprang for an AppleCare warranty. Worth every penny when your logic board craps out 6 months after the regular waranty expires.

Bertrand: Macbook Pro lives up to expectations

nospam@example.com (Bertrand) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:04:45 -0700

Welcome if you need help don't hesitate go ask.

Davey Shafik: Macbook Pro lives up to expectations

nospam@example.com (Davey Shafik) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:31:41 -0700

Congrats on the residency; that's great! - Davey P.S. One of us. One of us. One of us!

Brett: Macbook Pro lives up to expectations

nospam@example.com (Brett) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:14:57 -0700

In no time at all you'll start wearing black turtlenecks with jeans and discover arrogance regarding computers you never knew you had. Welcome to the other side. ...and congratulations on the residency!

Martin B: Setting up your own PEAR channel with Chiara_PEAR_Server - the official way

nospam@example.com (Martin B) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:35:58 -0700

Hi, I'm not sure how running these pear command will install the Chiara_PEAR_Server into one specific domain on my server? We host several domain and I'd like to setup a pear channel on only one of them. How can I do that? Thanks

halfdan: PHP namespaces become much better (Derick take note)

nospam@example.com (halfdan) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:52:21 -0700

That's crap. The double colons in the class scope refer to a statically called function. Introducing a new seperator wouldn't make sense at all, because relationship between namespace and class is also static.

Eric Lim: Setting up your own PEAR channel with Chiara_PEAR_Server - the official way

nospam@example.com (Eric Lim) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:07:44 -0700

I still can't get through the post installation. It stops at the db installation with the following message: DB_DataObject Error: Unable to load schema for database and table (turn debugging up to 5 for full error message) Anyone has come across this?

rajee: Do you develop a website? It is infinitely better to synchronize live and development sites using the PEAR Installer

nospam@example.com (rajee) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:42:11 -0700