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That alone does not make him the owner of the scripts. Yes, that is usually the agreement reached between the contractor and the client, but there is nothing that makes him the owner by default. I've worked in several jobs where the company was paid for work, and the resulting product remained in the company's ownership.

For starters, your algorithm is logically flawed. Regardless of your level of expertise in the technology, you're going to have precious few projects that only take one day. (With an average of one day per project, your expertise would be 100%) And if I were in an interview and was asked that question, I would ask the interviewer the basis they wanted me to use for my calculation. If I were to just answer the question, I would say somewhere around 80%, due to the fact that I occasionally need to reference the manual for syntax, etc. I realize that this does not indicate "expertise" at all, but if they want me to use inaccurate or nonexistent metrics, then I guess I can play along.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html Look in the list of MEncoder Frontends for one that works under Windows and you're on your way. My guess is that there won't be any, but it never hurts to look. I'm a fan of dvd::rip, myself, but it requires perl and a whole bunch of stuff that would suck to set up on a non-unix machine.

The newest version of your favorite free office suite has been officially released by the good folks at OpenOffice.org. The only new things that I've noticed so far are the implementation of Tango-themed icons and a very good extension system, but that's only after fifteen minutes of use. If anybody discovers any new-and-improved features, please post them here - we'd love to know what's been added or fixed. Please be net-friendly and use your favorite bittorrent client to download it. You can get the torrent file for your architecture and platform here.

Since phpmailer is released under the LGPL, you can release any application which uses phpmailer under a different license. However, if you modify phpmailer, you can't release your modified phpmailer under a license other than the LGPL or the GPL.

While there are numerous others, published documents and personal journals are two very simple things that have proven ownership of original work time and time again.

Ah, I see. Yeah, it's their client. And on the off-chance that when you say "I was asking which client", you actually want to know what client they used, you could check to see if the X-Mailer header is there. (I don't really think that's what you were asking, but just in case.)

It's always fun explaining them to people. Me: "PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor." Them: "And what does that PHP stand for?" Me: "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor." Them: "???" My sister's initials spell her first name - Mary. (She has two middle names.)

It's just part of the email, it's not really anything special. When the person replied to your email, the email client quoted your message, inserted that text, and put the cursor down below it, so it was all ready for the user to type. It's just as if the user had typed that personally.

As far as I know, there isn't any rule to determining the gender (or absence of gender) of any given noun, you just have to memorize them. There are usually general rules as to how to spell feminine, masculine, and neuter nouns, but there are usually (always?) exceptions. Ah, the fun little quirks of language and grammar.

I didn't know that. Thanks.

It's a difficult concept for people whose languages don't have that particular feature, so don't feel too bad. In many languages, certain nouns are assigned a gender, regardless of whether or not the object of interest actually has a gender, and often the noun's gender doesn't always make sense. A few examples: In French, "The car" translates to "la voiture", but "the boat" translates to "le bateau". Notice the different prefixes - "car" is feminine, where "boat" is masculine. But here's the tricky part: The car we're speaking of is not male, it can't be. The word is masculine. To give you an idea of what I mean, in French, "the person" translates to "la personne", even if the person of interest is not female. The word is prefixed with "la", so the word is in the feminine sense, but it makes no implications as to the gender of the person. The person could very well be a man. It works the same way in German. (Many others as well, but I can only say Spanish for sure.) The "die" prefix is assigned to certain nouns, and the "der" prefix is assigned to others. "The tree", for example, is "der baum", so it's masculine, but "the cat" is "die katze", so it's feminine. And where "the car", in French, was feminine, it is "das auto" in German, and has no gender. In reality, the tree has no gender, and the cat could well be a male, but the words are always prefixed the same. I'm sorry for offending you. I didn't mean to. I should probably let her speak for herself, but I'm fairly certain you didn't offend her - it appears that she realized that it was possible that you simply didn't understand. And as a side note: I didn't know those translations off of the top of my head. The babelfish is awesome.

Shape related thing? After doing a bit more research into the origin of the "tradition", I think I may have been mistaken. As it turns out, all sailing vessels are traditionally referred to as "she", but it's common for sailors and captains to refer to vessels not their own in the masculine sense. I'm not exactly sure where I heard that submarines are masculine. And apparently ships are referred to in the feminine sense because it costs so much to keep them "in paint and powder".

Well, technically, you could call a ship an "it" and it would be grammatically correct - but yes, it's very often considered impolite to refer to a ship or boat as anything but female. And a bit of trivia: As ships and boats are female, submarines are male.

Well, I wasn't really being sarcastic. Stack traces are very helpful when you're dealing with multi-layered applications.

Whoa... I want stack traces. I might just have to check out this xdebug.

Oh, that's quite probable, it's been known to happen. And I never thought I'd say this, but I just realized that grammar and languages interest me a lot. I guess I owe my fifth grade Language Arts teacher an apology.

Gentlemen, there are ways to say the same things more civilly. bilis_money: He wasn't aware that PHP is used by many very profitable companies, but that's no reason to get upset. At one point, I didn't know that PHP was perfectly capable of making money, either, but it's just something you have to learn. Instead of arguing, let's just try to educate him, shall we?

I'm afraid verbs and adjectives can't be plural. Yes, a word ending in "s" or "es" often indicates a plural, but only in the case of nouns. The word "plural" means, roughly, "two or more." The phrase "he walks" doesn't necessarily mean that the person is walking multiple times, although it's possible. I give you a few examples to show what I mean: "He walks to the park." In this sentence, "walks" is a verb. It's telling you what the subject of the sentence, "he", is doing. "He goes for walks." In this sentence, "walks" is a noun. It means that the subject of the sentence walks multiple times. Sorry if I'm telling you things you already know... does it clarify anything, or was this post rather pointless? (I won't be offended if it was, just say so. )

Yes, to both of them. Yahoo uses PHP, as well as MySQL, and all of the Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wiktionary, etc.) use a free (free as in both freedom and free beer) program called MediaWiki, which is written in PHP.

Children, children. This is unnecessary. This thread is locked. An open letter to everybody: Just because someone says something that you disagree with doesn't mean that you have to respond, and it especially doesn't mean that you have to argue with them.

No, for two reasons: 1) If you don't know what you're doing, you can destroy or disable your system very easily. It's very easy to make a typo and ruin your system even if you do know what you're doing. 2) If the active session were to be hijacked, either by technical or social engineering, you don't want the user logged in to be able to compromise the system. Your proposed "solution" would defeat the purpose, and I don't even think you can create a user with the same permissions as root. The root user has complete control over every single file, regardless of the permissions set on the file, and I'm fairly sure that's built into the Unix security system. When you need elevated privileges, you can use the "su" command to switch to the root account temporarily (on most distributions, you need to be in the 'wheel' group), or use sudo to execute a single command as a particular user. (By default, it executes commands as root.) One of the most basic rules of Unix administration: Never leave a root session open for any longer than necessary.

A few that I can think of: cough plough (Pronounced the same as, and can be used instead of, plow.) thought

Run these commands: $ echo "wonderful" Just in case, the dollar sign isn't to be included in the command. It simply marks the end of the bash prompt. If your output looks like this, then proceed: $ echo "wonderful" wonderful Create a file called "test", without the quotes: #!/bin/bash echo "wonderful" Run these commands: $ chmod +x test $ ./test And now see if you get the results you expected.

One of two things has happened: You're not using the right file, or you're not uploading the right file. Make sure that you're editing the right file, saving it, uploading it to the server (if you're indeed uploading the file), and then running the right file.