Daniel0

That doesn't make sense. Did you read the topic before replying anyway?

How is that not real advantages? Anyway, it just shows that you are pretty much ignorant about all this. If you want to talk Windows, we can do that. You mentioned Windows Update yourself. Other new things include speech recognition for physically impaired people, parental controls for, well... parents, instant feedback searching, and several other things. Shadow Copy for file rollbacks, Security has been greatly improved as well. For instance the BitLocker encryption for full-disk encryption, outbound protection in the firewall, IE runs sandboxed, and programs are by default running as unprivileged users. There is also support for IPv6. Overall the kernel was improved. The UI was also improved. The "Favorite Links" pane and breadcrumbed directory path makes for faster navigation. There have been a lot of kernel level enhancements as well, and boot time is generally faster. The networking center is far superior to XP's network management capabilities as well. Windows 7 brings further enhancements, especially in regards to HCI and performance/stability. Maybe you would want to educate yourself before making statements like that. This was just (a tiny bit of) Windows. Linux and OS X have seen considerate improvements over the years as well. Well, FF3, besides being faster, has numerous improvements over FF2. For instance, I have over a thousand bookmarks, and the improved support for that is invaluable to me. Access via address bar, tagging, etc. Both IE8 and FF3 have speed improvements, security improvements and support a wider range of standards overall, which enables creative people (i.e. not you apparently) to use the web in an increasingly innovative manner. XHR, one of the most widely applied techniques on modern web pages, was born in relation to the first browser war, which was largely a feature race. Just to give an example. Tab isolation in Chrome and IE8 improves stability and security. I don't know about IE, but Chrome gives RAM back a tab process uses when you close it. Firefox could really use something like this. You may have had your browser open for several days straight and even closing all tabs won't give you the RAM back. You will have to close it back entirely. It turns out that it's easier to manage the RAM in a multi-process browser because each tab has it's own memory namespace. No, not really. It's because you fail to see that progression is a graduating process. Rarely is it because of major breakthroughs. Had there been no competition, then there would be no incentive to improve your current product. Why would you? It works just fine as-is. Well, a lot of creative people have created addons to Firefox that I use often or even on a daily basis for instance. Firebug, Firecookie, FirePHP, YSlow, Xmarks, Adblock Plus, IETab, Better GMail 2, Better GReader, Better Privacy, Customize Google, Download Helper, DownThemAll!, FaviconizeTab, Live HTTP Headers, NoScript, Status-bar Scientific calculator, StumbleUpon, Tamper Data, Textarea Cache, User Agent Switcher, Web Developer Toolbar. Moreover, the other day Firefox used up 850 MB memory. I would certainly think that's where there could be made improvements for instance. As for web innovation. Have you taken a look at Google Wave or maybe Opera Unite?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc

I don't know. Why would you need anything else than a horse wagon? I mean, it takes you from A to B... You know what? Screw the 18th-19th century industrialism. We should have never progressed past growing crops by manual labor. It worked just fine for thousands of years after all. Now get back to the field, peasant, or off your head goes. Print out this page, store it somewhere safe where it won't get lost or forgotten. Now look at your above statement in 20 years and see if it holds up. Or maybe just compare state of the art technology from 20 years to even mid range modern technology. Better yet, don't upgrade anything on your computer for the next 20 years. If your computer breaks, get one with the specs you have now. How about late 90s computer games? Take the most graphically advanced game from back then. At that time you would be like "dude, this looks amazing", but install it today and you will think "this looks like a piece of shit".

It's not pointless at all. Competition spurs innovation and rapid improvements. It ensures that nobody is dragging their feet. Microsoft didn't bother fixing their browser until someone started posing a serious threat to their market share.

Well, an offline website would be redundant. That's for sure. I'd go with an online one as well.

I think that's an excellent analogy.

No worries. I think you used [pre]. I didn't even know that was a valid bbcode. It didn't wrap at the end of the line, so it resulted in horizontal scrolling.

ImageMagick has nothing to do with PHP. Installing ImageMagick has no effect on PHP. You'll need to install the PECL extension as well.

So something like this: RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html?$ $1.php [NC,QSA] That'll rewrite both .htm and .html to .php.

You might also want to use the QSA flag to "transfer" the query string as well.

Lol... just found this: http://kilianvalkhof.com/ie8fun/ Hmm... the Google Ad on this page says "Get Google Chrome - A free web browser built for speed, stability and security"

Maybe you could give us some higher level requirements as well (not necessarily still in steps of 1)? As you see with the function I proposed, it look fine (IMO) on lower levels, but it turned out to quickly get out of hand as x grew.

Actually, maybe that's not a very good function. 1,000,000 exp would then be level 17. I don't know how hard you want to make or how much exp you hand out, but it's a bit high. You can try to tinker with the function yourself perhaps.

Maybe a function like this: [tex]f(x) = \mbox{floor}\left( \left(\frac{\log_{10}\left(\frac{x}{200}\right)}{0.3}\right)^{1.12} \right)+1[/tex] Or in php: function getLevel($exp) { return floor(pow(log10($exp) / 200, 1.12)) + 1; } That function will grow as in the attached graph. It will not be the same numbers as you requested, but the levels would be like this: Level 2: 400 Level 3: 722 Level 4: 1263 Level 5: 2165 Level 6: 3660 Level 7: 6119 Level 8: 10135 [attachment deleted by admin]

Maybe what you're looking for is a function that grows logarithmically? Logarithmic growth "decreases" as the independent variable grows. Or rather, the derivative decreases if you know calculus. What this practically means in your case is that higher levels would need more exp to level up than lower levels would. I assume that's the kind of behavior your looking for. I've attached a graph to give you an idea of how logarithmic growth is. Specifically, that graphed function is the natural logarithm. I've also attached a graph of the function you're using now. It's essentially linear. The numbers you posted in your first post can, with good approximation, be both linear, quadratic, exponential and power growth (probably others as well, I stopped checking after that), so it's a bit difficult giving you a good formula without knowing more about it. [attachment deleted by admin]

It has to be type="submit" A button is just that, a button. It doesn't have any default behavior.

Hmm... the refresh thing seems to have gone away. I updated my graphics drivers yesterday. Maybe that fixed it. I'm not sure why that would have anything to do with it though.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/get-the-facts/browser-comparison.aspx Oh okay, if you say so... Here is a comparison of me and everybody else: [/td]DanielEverybody else Is humanxx Smartx Intelligentx Awesomex Cleverx I swear it's true and I'm totally unbiased.

What kind of skills do you have?

FYI, .NET is a framework, not a language.

Besides, you could easily create your own function that has the behavior you want: function cpsort(array $array) { sort($array); return $array; } $e = array(3,1,4,1,5,9); $k = cpsort($e);

Time to upgrade. The latest OS that used DOS was Windows Me.

You don't necessarily need a particular kind of math if you just want to do general programming, but the ability to think abstractly about a problem will help you. Maybe see this post. Maybe "advanced math" was the wrong term. You at least want to be sure you're confident with math and that you know something else besides elementary math. If you want to do something like computer science you would need advanced math though. You can probably jump right into it without knowing anything. I did, but it really took a long time being at least decent this way (decent by the standards I hold now - when I was younger and just started out I probably pretty quickly found myself good, but I wasn't). You can get something done very quickly in PHP without very much knowledge, and I suppose that is what makes it so difficult. The problem is just that if you don't know anything, you will have no idea of what is good and what is bad to do. If you don't know any common attack vectors people will use, you will have no idea of how to protect yourself from them, or even that you're vulnerable to them in the first place (see this tutorial for a primer on security). Don't be afraid to use the manual. It's quite well written, and it often contains notes about best practice.

It matches as long as it can and as long as you don't stop the chain. So www.mydomain.com/test/154534 matches the first rule, and it becomes www.mydomain.com/index.php?id=test/154534, which doesn't match any further rules. You can switch the rules around and add [L] to the one with "test", or you can limit the regex in the current first one.