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Well, I recently came across something pretty impressive. A guy who plays a few very known songs on ... plastic tubes made out of PVC material. I have to say, pretty impressive to create such instrument and get the right tones out of it. Watch it yourself <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0pbRKfqX8Q?fs=1&hl=nl_NL"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0pbRKfqX8Q?fs=1&hl=nl_NL" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>

Pretty informative post, I'm wondering though, how far or how extended can these profilers go? I have never used one myself, but it leaves me with questions... to how it will present the results exactly. But I guess I'll find out when I really need them.

Other, I really like the MyBB if it comes to selecting a pre-made non custom package, you need to do some workarounds to prevent spam signups though(I've tested this, bots will only be able to sign up, but they can't post on a default installation). But I really like the structure, code base, and so forth of the package. Plugins are also available, however, a lot less than SMF or PHPBBs choice. However, MyBB is more of a complex forum, not only admin wise, but just overall, it's rather complex. PS: If I may believe A_B XenForo should be a quite good package as well, but I have never used this one myself.

No, that's not what I meant, and I think the others didn't mean that either. It would be separated, in other words, if you don't have enough posts, you can't reply to threads in the newbie category that aren't yours, unless you are assigned to a group of helpers. The only disadvantage when using this system is that you can't reply even if you know the answer unless you belong to the specific group that helps these people in need. The system will always have some problems, what problems will depend on the implementation of the system, sadly enough. A mix of various criteria will be needed to keep the board open as much as possible. Go purely by ranks, and you'll get what you said, Go solely by a specific group, and only those in the specified group will be able to reply.

Seen every episode too many times to be good, then again, it was on every weekday since the show first started airing here. Now you can't watch it anymore, but I'm pretty sure one channel of sbs will re-air it soon enough once they have an opening again. I don't really have a favourite character, I just loved how all characters fitted in so well together. It's kinda sad they didn't make more episodes :( It's a very very good show, but I wouldn't be able to say it's my best, there are just too many other that I like as well. Great era of television shows though. Can't be said of all shows on the air right now.

The easiest way to have something like this is create a new integer field (tinyint(1)) in the main user table, with a good database design, this doesn't hurt at all. If you only have two options (vampire or werewolf, it sounds a lot like .. a true or false ;) a tiny int field can hold a 0 or 1 too. Thats the database part ... In you code you just use if($user['char']) { //do stuff if true } .. quite easy to do, you just need to remember what you named it. No need for extra databases, tables, or whatsoever, just 1 field which hardly takes up any space ;) and no conversion is needed from one type to another as php can handle 0/1s by default.

Signed up for CE when mdshare asked :P

I'll tell the short story once more, mdshare can confirm this as he's also was a secretary in a past life on TornCity. Torncity came out in beta around 2003, while it was growing more and more people wanted someting simular but many couldn't make it. At that point Mono Country was made, through reverse engineering techniques. This resulted in a game that had the same theme and gameplay, later they decided to release that engine, hence MCC which means Mono Country Code. Poor quality of code is mainly the experience, proper time management and bad reverse engineering. End of story, TC isn't an engine, it's a hardcode game, also with bad quality code, at least in my days :)

This isn't much of "cheating", it's just using a different method to link more as one css stylesheet. As second remark, you're doing it wrong :o you need to link your newly created css stylesheet, because else, you'll always end up with only the css of the style.css file. The css import will import the css of the file into the other css section. Saying that the import will take the specified file as main source isn't right either, it just imports the css of that file into the requesting file. as 3rd note, the last 4 lines could be done in less letters, which results in again smaller files. A {text-decoration: none; color: #000; font-size: 28;} A:hover {text-decoration: underline; color: #bdebde;} I'm not saying you have to do it like that, but that will result in a shorter file again, and that seems to be your main concern with this topic. Oh v4 browsers will not care about the import and just ingore it, but that doesn't matter anymore since we're long pas that era.

if only the comic were true :P

I think BGF's idea is probably the best one to implement and work out, combine that with lilliths latest post and we have ourselves a new section on the forum which is rather easy to control.

^^He did, bad Jordan, and I agree with a_bertrand! The previous version was just so much better, you could see right away in what topic the post was made, which had quite some benefits you lost now too. I suggest we switch back

Good ones! xkcd sometimes has good strips, sometimes they just suck, but these just hit the nail on the head :P

While I really like this idea, as it might get more interaction with the less knowledgeable people on certain topics, it also has many gray areas. If not enough thought is being put in this idea, it will just fail and probably even lock down the whole forum.. My remarks: You can't classify people on the amount of posts they have, some make 10 posts a day, but it's all about the quality of a post that matters. You can't classify people on the day they have registered, some new people might know more then 80% of the people here. This system will not increase moderation load as it's just part of the rest of the forum which needs as much moderation. What will you allow in the newbies forum and what will you post in there? As you can't make a newbie forum for everything as you'll just double the amount of forum boards?   My suggestions: Work with an alternative classification system NEXT to the current ranking systems in place, in other words, level, postcount, days registered, it all doesn't matter. Create a new rating system where people that have posted on the thread could give ratings, but only to those that have actually made a post on the thread, so no 'friend favours" from outside. Make the "newbies" forum attractive and put it somewhere at the top OR give newbie topics a different background color (I think it's blue and white now, say make it green, or yellow) so people notice it's a different kind of topic, yet in the correct place. People could skip it, or look into it to give a decent reply.. Well that's just what popped up in my mind when I read this :)

that is indeed a lot :o but I have to say, it took very long, but it's the best result I have seen at this point :D

My oh my that I forgot the vampire diaries tv show :o Elena, but especially Katherina is so evil, oh I like that one! :D

Could be made, we will just need more details though!

Well, earlier on the day in chat this topic came across, of course there were some differences. So I thought why not try to involve more people in this topic.. Simple topic basically, tell us who, and maybe why, you like the most! I think Kate Beckinsale is the best :D She has two characters I enjoyed, one as Selene in underworld another in Van Helsing as Anna, overall an actress I enjoy, and hey, she is rather pretty too :P I wonder who else will be named as there is quite some media around..

Please learn to post in the correct forum board, thank you. Topic moved

Well I don't know, but that would really show a comparison in both their own environments. I just don't feel like this is a proper test on the same level.

Something I actually knew without doing a test ... but I would rather see how these test perform during a real "compatible" test. In other words, php served via apache and the output on a webpage, same with C# but then via aspx & iis ;). That's what I actually meant, not just a console test

C# is surely a good language, and it offers a lot just like PHP does. However php is "more open" than C# is. C# is backed by Microsoft where php doesn't have 1 single huge rich company behind it ... which clearly is a benefit. Also, for the whole application in C#/aspx you used 86 lines versus 52 in the PHP ! You either count all of them or none of them. You say you had to write html/js in the code part, well you could have avoided that if you used an object or whatever if you just used <?= $var ?> and thus separating the basic code from the presentation, it's all on how you want to do it. And yes C# has benefits by being a top language that will be changed to byte code whereas php is straight to the bottom .. you can see that by the colouring of the text.   One last thing I really have to mention! Create both applications using a simple text editor with syntax highlighting. C#/aspx, and all languages that can be used via Visual Studio benefit So so sooo much of Visual Studio as it really is one of the best in existence to this day. If only php has an IDE up to par with Visual Studio, it would be so great, some like Komodo & PhpDesigner are coming close but are still not what it could be. Again, such a neat "trick" or business move by Microsoft to provide the whole framework with scuh and awesome IDE.   EDIT: C# looks cleaner indeed, but that's just the developer, I have seen ugly unreadable C# as well. it just takes a bit more effort in php.

Very good post, and I mostly argee however I have a few points to note as well.. *) C# without aspx won't work at all, you need aspx to serve the webpages. *) You are also comparing php versus a whole framework basically. php can do what aspx does. The thing is, .net framework is that much more so it can handle c# ajax components and what else, it's all bundled in one pretty nice framework. *) PHP and sorts are in my eyes, stll easier to install, especially on linux machines *) (proper- no drag & drop) learning curve all together is easier on the PHP side *) .net side can become expensive, it doesn't have too though.   You can do this in perfectly fine in PHP as well, even in one file if you wanted. Also, remember that there are some good existing frameworks for PHP, like CodeIgniter, Zend, Symphony, ... which help a lot during development

I'll keep it simple: Validation: no Keeping yourself to one standard for one whole project : yes Honestly I personally don't validate my end results either, but if I specify a xhtml doctype, I want that all other files and tags and such live up to the same standard, but in another project I may use a html 4 transitional. So I guess I'm in a 3rd group? Not caring much about validation, but keeping 1 "standard" all over the place and not throwing a mix of html elements in a file.

check line 24 as well, a change is needed there as well .. foreach($crimes as $v)