Comment Re:And Yet... (Score 4, Informative) 29
You certainly can!
Visit your repo page +"/compare" to setup the revisions you want to diff.
Or just construct the url:
Comment Re:And Linux does too (Score 2) 519
rm -rf
done.
Comment Re:too bad (Score 2) 252
You do know your audience.
Comment Re:Well, duh. (Score 5, Informative) 520
I think that would be a kibigram.
Comment Re:Can they switch us over to metric, please? (Score 2) 64
Pffft.
And Liberia, and Myanmar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metric_system_adoption_map.svg
Comment Re:sharks with lasers (Score 4, Interesting) 396
Or another way to make it more fun - Godlike!
http://github.com/gunn/godlike
Plays a sound when you acheive 100% test passing rate. The default sound is the Unreal Tournament voice: GODLIKE, but you have as other sound options: headshot, killingspree, perfect, supreme_victory, ultrakill, flag_capture, and frag.
Alternatives To Paypal's Virtual Credit Card Service? 242
An anonymous reader writes "Paypal has quietly killed the Paypal plugin and the related virtual-card service. The service generated on-the-fly, one-time-use credit card numbers. When I called in and inquired about the service, I was told that the service has been discontinued, but may be relaunching something similar depending on interest. They are treating inquiries as a sort of petition, taking down names and contact info. The forums seem to be a lost cause, as no Paypal reps have replied to the numerous posts regarding virtual cards being discontinued. Does anyone know of a good alternative source of one-time-use credit card numbers?"
Why Are Video Game Movies So Awful? 385
An article at CNN discusses why big screen interpretations of video games, even successful ones, often fail to succeed at the box office. Quoting:
"The problem with successfully adapting video games into hit Hollywood spin-offs may lie in the way in which stories for both mediums are designed and implemented. Game makers chasing the dream of playing George Lucas or Steven Spielberg will always strive to coax human emotion and convincing drama from increasingly photorealistic virtual elements. The Hollywood machine, in its endless chase for big bucks, can't help but exploit the latest hit interactive outing, often failing to realize it's often a specific gameplay mechanic, psychological meme or technical feature that makes the title so compelling. Both sides may very well continue to look down in disdain on the work that the opposite is doing, which can doom any collaborative efforts. But where the two roads truly diverge is in the way stories are fundamentally told. Films offer a single, linear tale that's open to individual interpretation, whereas games are meant to be experienced differently and in a multitude of ways by every player."
On a related note, reader OrangeMonkey11 points out that an 8-minute short has showed up online that appears part of a pitch for a potential Mortal Kombat reboot movie. Hit the link below to take a look.
Scientist Uses Nanodots To Create 4Tb Storage Chip 207
arcticstoat writes "Solid state disks could soon catch up with mechanical hard drives in terms of cost and capacity, thanks to a new data-packed chip developed by a scientist at the University of North Carolina. Using a uniform array of 10nm nanodots, each of which represents a single bit, Dr. Jay Narayan created a data density of 1 terabit per square centimeter. The end result was a 4cm2 chip that holds 4Tb of data (512GB), but the university says that the nanodots could have a diameter of just 6nm, enabling an even greater data density. The university explains that the nanodots are 'made of single, defect-free crystals, creating magnetic sensors that are integrated directly into a silicon electronic chip.' Dr. Narayan says he expects the technology overtaking traditional solid state disk technology within the next five years."
FSF Response To Steve Jobs's Letter 572
boilednut writes "Steve Jobs's recent missive on the deficiencies of Adobe's Flash is still reverberating around the Internet. In this editorial, John Sullivan of the Free Software Foundation responds, arguing that Apple is presenting users with a false choice between Adobe's proprietary software and Apple's walled garden."
Comment Re:Apple and Rails (Score 1) 197
Hello.
Seeing as rails was not released publicly till July 2004 this is does not surprise me.
Seriously though, 5 years is a very long time for an open source project which has grown to have over a thousand people contribute code to it.
Perhaps with the release of rails 3, with its particular emphasis on modularity and configurability, it would be a good time to re-evaluate?
Also, I read you post and found no know-it-all reference.
Comment Re:The documentation for Ruby on Rails is horrible (Score 1) 197
Excellent documentation, good official tutorials:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/
One of the goals of rails 3 is indeed a solid public api.
In fact because of rails' goal to be more modular / customisable the public api is going to constitute the only communication between rails' components.
Comment Re:Apple and Rails (Score 3, Informative) 197
ActiveRecord::Base.pluralize_table_names = false
simple.
Comment Re:I think everyone would agree here... (Score 3, Insightful) 197
Not true.
Model.find_by_sql sqlstring
or even more primitively:
ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute( sqlstring )
Easy. Although you really shouldn't have to use it if you understand relations properly.
Also note that rails 3 is going to have Arel, an Object-Oriented interpretation of the Relational Algebra. It is a mathematical model for representing “queries” on data. It understanding relations this fundamentally means it can optimise easily.
Have a look at:
http://magicscalingsprinkles.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/why-i-wrote-arel/
Comment Re:why? (Score 2, Informative) 580
Well the command line would be one good way.
If you want a GUI gnome-schedule looks good too.
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