ALL DOCUMENT IDS MUST BE UNIQUE UNSIGNED NON-ZERO INTEGER NUMBERS (32-BIT OR 64-BIT, DEPENDING ON BUILD TIME SETTINGS).
If this requirement is not met, different bad things can happen. For instance, Sphinx can crash with an internal assertion while indexing; or produce strange results when searching due to conflicting IDs. Also, a 1000-pound gorilla might eventually come out of your display and start throwing barrels at you. You’ve been warned.
Remember this post? Where I outed myself as a lover of books? A person who loves the weight and the smell and the turning of pages? Welp, now I’m considering breaking down and turning in my chips for an e-reader. Does anyone own a Kindle or a Nook and have any words of wisdom? Is one better than the other? I’m leaning towards the Kindle. Kind of wish I knew when the Kindle 3 was being released, though. I always seem to be the person who waits and waits to buy a fun new gadget only to have them release a new one as soon as I swipe my credit card.
You don’t need to “turn in your chips” once you buy an e-reader. You can still read books too.
I do both and although I have those absent-minded moments where I reach to turn the page on my Kindle or go to highlight a word in a book to see its definition it works out fine. :-)
Oh, and the answer to “buyer’s remorse” is to not “wait and wait”. As soon as you decide you want it and you’re happy you can spare the money, go and buy it. :-)
A dealer of curiosities
Amazing (to me (but I’m into that sort of thing)) photos of China taken in the 1870s.
but ultimately there is one very important point that is too often overlooked: at no point did film stop doing well all the things it has always done well
I love film. (via David R Munson)
FilmDev has now hit 500 recipes!
And by the time I got around to doing a screenshot for this post another 22 had been added.
This is all great news.
I was never really sure if the site would take off so seeing people join and add recipes on an almost daily basis please me greatly.
Since I did the new version of the site in November 2008 it’s been a pretty consistent upwards growth.
As we get more and more data added to the site the next steps are for me to think about better ways to allow people to compare results for different developer combinations.
Not much for me to say other than long may it continue!
nrbd:
Assuming this is necessary is a Bill Gates fallacy: assuming that the general public has the same demands and priorities as geeks like us.
I have an iPhone and a MacBook, and I recently sold my Dell Mini 9 netbook. I thought, as a geek, that there was a hole to be filled between Real Computer Tasks like coding and Photoshopping, and Tiny Mobile Tasks like checking Twitter and email and little games. There, in fact, is a hole there. It’s called go outside, and/or talk to real people in person.
I managed to figure out there was no “hole” that a netbook would fit in without buying one. Go me, I suppose.
There is one company I’m waiting for a tablet from: Apple. It’s not because I love everything they do, but because they won’t launch a product without describing a use case. It might be obscure and irrelevant to me (like the Apple TV), but at least it’s part of the sales pitch. Unsurprisingly, tech-led products like the JooJoo lack that entirely, which is why I wouldn’t buy one even if it was only $200.
How about this as a use-case.
Attach it to the wall by the front door so I can see how my trains are running and if I need my umbrella as I leave the house in the morning.
Not saying I’d pay $500 for one but it’s certainly something I’ve considered building for my own use.
