Re: [PHP] php books

2012-04-10 Thread Kirk Bailey
A good tip, thank you. The php cookbook just arrived today, and this weekend I will be doing some cooking. On 4/10/2012 4:22 PM, Govinda wrote: Revisiting said dead horse, it's interesting there is no clear consensus of opinion about what is the best book to use to learn php. Generally, you g

Re: [PHP] php books

2012-04-10 Thread Govinda
> Revisiting said dead horse, it's interesting there is no clear consensus of > opinion about what is the best book to use to learn php. Generally, you get > several people chiming in talking about the website. Now the website is the > bomb indeed, BUT IT'S NOT A BOUND BOOK! So that's a terrifi

Re: [PHP] php books

2012-04-08 Thread Jason Pruim
On Apr 8, 2012, at 9:15 PM, Jason Pruim wrote: > > > On Apr 8, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Kirk Bailey wrote: > >> Revisiting said dead horse, it's interesting there is no clear consensus of >> opinion about what is the best book to use to learn php. Generally, you get >> several people chiming in

Re: [PHP] php books

2012-04-08 Thread Jason Pruim
On Apr 8, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Kirk Bailey wrote: > Revisiting said dead horse, it's interesting there is no clear consensus of > opinion about what is the best book to use to learn php. Generally, you get > several people chiming in talking about the website. Now the website is the > bomb ind

[PHP] php books

2012-04-08 Thread Kirk Bailey
Revisiting said dead horse, it's interesting there is no clear consensus of opinion about what is the best book to use to learn php. Generally, you get several people chiming in talking about the website. Now the website is the bomb indeed, BUT IT'S NOT A BOUND BOOK! So that's a terrific answe

Re: [PHP] Books on PHP guts

2011-08-30 Thread Daniel Brown
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 13:19, Larry Garfield wrote: > Hi folks.  I'm not looking to write new PHP extensions per se, but am > looking to better grok the guts of PHP itself.  (That's a first step on the > way to writing new extensions, though.  Gateway drug!)  I'm especially > interested in the me

[PHP] Books on PHP guts

2011-08-30 Thread Larry Garfield
Hi folks. I'm not looking to write new PHP extensions per se, but am looking to better grok the guts of PHP itself. (That's a first step on the way to writing new extensions, though. Gateway drug!) I'm especially interested in the memory/performance implications of various techniques. Are

[PHP] Books about RESTFul Web Services & APIs

2010-06-29 Thread Juan Marcelo Rodriguez Monti
Hi guys, Do you know some good books about RESTful Web Services / API's using PHP?. Also, if you know some website where I could find papers, pdf's and articles about this topic would be useful, too. I saw the documentation about this topics is not so easy to find. Best, Juan -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] books for php

2008-04-08 Thread Casey
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Daniel Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Jason Pruim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You mean that books are supposed to have stuff other then pictures? Well > > hot damn Learn something new everyday! > > Some programm

Re: [PHP] books for php

2008-04-08 Thread Wolf
Daniel Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Jason Pruim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You mean that books are supposed to have stuff other then pictures? Well > > hot damn Learn something new everyday! > > Some programming books, such as guides to

Re: [PHP] books for php

2008-04-08 Thread Daniel Brown
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Jason Pruim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You mean that books are supposed to have stuff other then pictures? Well > hot damn Learn something new everyday! Some programming books, such as guides to Windows source code, have pictures. http://www.pi

Re: [PHP] books for php

2008-04-08 Thread Jason Pruim
On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:28 AM, news.php.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which are the good books for learning php? Try to choose one that has pages, some (if not all) of those should contain words forming sentences, and particularly those f

Re: [PHP] books for php

2008-04-08 Thread Daniel Brown
http://marc.info/?w=2&r=1&s=php+books&q=t http://search.gmane.org/?query=php+books&group=gmane.comp.php.general http://www.google.com/search?q=php+books http://www.faqs.org/docs/jargon/S/STFW.html From http://php.net/mailinglists :

[PHP] books for php

2008-04-08 Thread news.php.net
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Re: [PHP] Re: PHP Books - A poll of sorts

2007-08-15 Thread jekillen
On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:28 AM, David Powers wrote: Jay Blanchard wrote: If there was a best practices book would you buy it? I write books on PHP aimed at the beginner/intermediate level, and have a considerable collection of PHP books written by others. Two relatively recent books that

[PHP] Re: PHP Books - A poll of sorts

2007-08-15 Thread Man-wai Chang To Die
> We all have our favorite PHP books and resources but there is one tome > that seems to be missing from the group...a "best practices" book. We PHP, being server-side, is not difficult. I think the client-side stuff deserves some books (DOM, Javascript, CSS, XHTML, XML, ) if

[PHP] Re: PHP Books - A poll of sorts

2007-08-15 Thread David Powers
Jay Blanchard wrote: If there was a best practices book would you buy it? I write books on PHP aimed at the beginner/intermediate level, and have a considerable collection of PHP books written by others. Two relatively recent books that struck me as being important are "Pro PHP Securit

Re: [PHP] PHP Books - A poll of sorts

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Lynch
On Sun, August 12, 2007 8:52 pm, Jay Blanchard wrote: > Evening all! (at least it is evening here in Texas) > > We all have our favorite PHP books and resources but there is one tome > that seems to be missing from the group...a "best practices" book. We > all have our pre

Re: [PHP] PHP Books - A poll of sorts

2007-08-13 Thread tedd
At 8:06 PM -0700 8/12/07, Janet Valade wrote: Jay Blanchard wrote: If there was a best practices book would you buy it? I would buy it. But, I buy tons of books. Janet Same here. In college, if I didn't have time to read something I Xeroxed it -- now I just buy the book. :-) Cheers,

Re: [PHP] PHP Books - A poll of sorts

2007-08-13 Thread tedd
At 8:52 PM -0500 8/12/07, Jay Blanchard wrote: Evening all! (at least it is evening here in Texas) We all have our favorite PHP books and resources but there is one tome that seems to be missing from the group...a "best practices" book. We all have our preferences for what we

Re: [PHP] PHP Books - A poll of sorts

2007-08-12 Thread Paul Scott
On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 20:52 -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote: > If there was a best practices book would you buy it? (I am showing > complete disregard for the thread on copyright infringement v. theft.) > Or do you rely on other sources like this list, articles, etc to derive > your own set of practice

Re: [PHP] PHP Books - A poll of sorts

2007-08-12 Thread Janet Valade
Jay Blanchard wrote: Evening all! (at least it is evening here in Texas) We all have our favorite PHP books and resources but there is one tome that seems to be missing from the group...a "best practices" book. We all have our preferences for what we call best practices and it see

Re: [PHP] PHP Books - A poll of sorts

2007-08-12 Thread Larry Garfield
jump at it as I feel I'm already using "good enough practices". On Sunday 12 August 2007, Jay Blanchard wrote: > Evening all! (at least it is evening here in Texas) > > We all have our favorite PHP books and resources but there is one tome > that seems to be missing fro

Re: [PHP] PHP Books - A poll of sorts

2007-08-12 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 20:52 -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote: > Evening all! (at least it is evening here in Texas) > > We all have our favorite PHP books and resources but there is one tome > that seems to be missing from the group...a "best practices" book. We > all have ou

[PHP] PHP Books - A poll of sorts

2007-08-12 Thread Jay Blanchard
Evening all! (at least it is evening here in Texas) We all have our favorite PHP books and resources but there is one tome that seems to be missing from the group...a "best practices" book. We all have our preferences for what we call best practices and it seems at this stage in the l

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-08-01 Thread Ryan A
> Can't please everyone all of the time. Maybe you > didn't get the joke :B > Certainly it had be ROFLMFAO. Well..., to each his own :) Have a nice day! R -- - The faulty interface lies between the chair and the keyboard. - Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster! - Smile, everyone lo

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-08-01 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 04:29 -0700, Ryan A wrote: > > > > Some light humour: > > > > http://www.unm.edu/~humanism/socvsjes.htm > > > > Cheers, > > Rob. > > > Hey, > > I usually find your humour postings pretty funny but > didnt find that in the least bit funny... :( Can't please everyone a

RE: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-08-01 Thread Chris Boget
> > > Some light humour: > > > http://www.unm.edu/~humanism/socvsjes.htm > > I usually find your humour postings pretty funny but didnt find that > > in the least bit funny... :( > Can't please everyone all of the time. Maybe you didn't get the joke :B > Certainly it had be ROFLMFAO. Holy cr

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-08-01 Thread Ryan A
> > Some light humour: > > http://www.unm.edu/~humanism/socvsjes.htm > > Cheers, > Rob. Hey, I usually find your humour postings pretty funny but didnt find that in the least bit funny... :( Cheers! R -- - The faulty interface lies between the chair and the keyboard. - Creativity

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 14:29 -0700, Ryan A wrote: > Hey! > > > > Sorry, couldnt resist, no offense meant ;) > > > > None taken. My beliefs are my beliefs and yours are > > yours > > Yep, and what I said was in jest, and you took it in > jest.End of discussion between us :) > > Am just replying t

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread tedd
At 9:21 AM -0500 7/31/07, Larry Garfield wrote: Disclaimer: Yes, I was raised by a pair of college history professors. :-) Ahhh, that explains it. Cheers, tedd PS: I'm done. -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread Tijnema
On 8/1/07, David Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Larry Garfield wrote: > > If a plumber fixes your toilet, he gets paid once. > > A plumber came recently to fix our hot water system. It took him less > than one hour. He got paid about $100. > > > If a writer writes a book, he gets paid n times,

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread David Powers
Larry Garfield wrote: If a plumber fixes your toilet, he gets paid once. A plumber came recently to fix our hot water system. It took him less than one hour. He got paid about $100. If a writer writes a book, he gets paid n times, where n is a (hopefully for him) ever-increasing number.

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread Ryan A
Hey! > > Sorry, couldnt resist, no offense meant ;) > > None taken. My beliefs are my beliefs and yours are > yours Yep, and what I said was in jest, and you took it in jest.End of discussion between us :) Am just replying to anyone else who's reading this, please lets not fork this into a god

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread Stut
Ryan A wrote: Yes, but that's why it's called faith. My point was that it makes no sense to try and prove or demonstrate anything using God because the existance of God itself cannot be proven or demonstrated. Stut, There will be a demonstration of god's existance in a little while, plea

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread Ryan A
> >>You have a right to your belief, but that doesn't > make your belief right. > > > >This works both ways. > > Oh yeah, well my dad can beat up your dad. Well, get both your dads together coz my dad can beat both of them up. Reasoning, I'm pretty young compared to most of you guys so my dad i

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread Ryan A
> > Yes, but that's why it's called faith. > > My point was that it makes no sense to try and prove > or demonstrate > anything using God because the existance of God > itself cannot be proven > or demonstrated. Stut, There will be a demonstration of god's existance in a little while, pleas

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread Ryan A
--- Crayon Shin Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 30 July 2007 23:49, tedd wrote: > > > The opposite of BUYING is STEALING > > I think you meant SELLING. > Actually to make things easier just lets add a "NOT" eg: The opposite of BUYING is NOT BUYING Ok, I admit it, am bored and c

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 22:21, Larry Garfield wrote: > "Commercial publication" didn't exist as a concept until after the > invention of the printing press, which is when copyright was invented > in order to protect the business of the publishers. Presumably you're talking about Europe, because i

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 21:37, tedd wrote: > Extortion? Are you saying that anyone who owes a copyright is > obtaining money through force or threats? That sounds strange. Wow, it seems you haven't heard of the RIAA and their racketeering. -- Crayon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread Larry Garfield
On Tuesday 31 July 2007, tedd wrote: > At 7:28 PM -0500 7/30/07, Larry Garfield wrote: > >On Monday 30 July 2007, tedd wrote: > > > What about descendants of the author? When anyone dies, their > >> > >> descendants have a rightful claim on their parent's assets -- it been > >> that way since th

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread tedd
At 1:50 PM +0100 7/31/07, Stut wrote: tedd wrote: Yes, but that's why it's called faith. My point was that it makes no sense to try and prove or demonstrate anything using God because the existance of God itself cannot be proven or demonstrated. -Stut I wasn't trying to prove anything u

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 08:42 -0400, tedd wrote: > At 3:44 PM -0400 7/30/07, Robert Cummings wrote: > >On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 15:33 -0400, tedd wrote: > >> At 8:23 PM +0100 7/30/07, Stut wrote: > >> >tedd wrote: > >> >>At 2:30 PM -0400 7/30/07, Robert Cummings wrote: > >> >>>Ownership is an illusi

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread tedd
At 7:28 PM -0500 7/30/07, Larry Garfield wrote: On Monday 30 July 2007, tedd wrote: > What about descendants of the author? When anyone dies, their descendants have a rightful claim on their parent's assets -- it been that way since the dawn of mankind. Do you think you know better than the

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread Stut
tedd wrote: At 8:53 PM +0100 7/30/07, Stut wrote: tedd wrote: > >Don't expect that only one living > >entity can envision such a permutation. Don't expect anyone with our limitations to be capable to determine the truth of that statement. The phone was independently envisioned by two di

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread tedd
At 8:53 PM +0100 7/30/07, Stut wrote: tedd wrote: > >Don't expect that only one living > >entity can envision such a permutation. Don't expect anyone with our limitations to be capable to determine the truth of that statement. The phone was independently envisioned by two distinct humans

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread tedd
At 3:44 PM -0400 7/30/07, Robert Cummings wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 15:33 -0400, tedd wrote: At 8:23 PM +0100 7/30/07, Stut wrote: >tedd wrote: >>At 2:30 PM -0400 7/30/07, Robert Cummings wrote: >>>Ownership is an illusion... What you have may be taken away at anytime >>>by the state (be

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 02:45, tedd wrote: > Well, when I *use* my neighbor's car without his authorization it's > called "stealing" If your intention was not to keep the car on a permenant basis then you would probably be prosecuted for joyriding rather than stealing. > >How? Nobody is not bei

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 02:08, tedd wrote: > No, if you want something that you don't have -- you have three > choices: a) go without; b) BUY it; c) STEAL it. Rubbish. You can borrow, lease, hire purchase, rent, and there are probably other options as well. -- Crayon -- PHP General Mailing L

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online? - ENOUGH ALREADY

2007-07-30 Thread Tijnema
d its attachments and notify us immediately. > > -Original Message- > > From: Larry Garfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2007 10:28 AM > > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online? > >

[PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online? - ENOUGH ALREADY

2007-07-30 Thread Chris Aitken
From: Larry Garfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2007 10:28 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online? > > On Monday 30 July 2007, tedd wrote: > > > Our entire legal system is built on allowing (granting per

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Larry Garfield
On Monday 30 July 2007, tedd wrote: > Our entire legal system is built on allowing (granting permission) > certain actions and not allowing (not granting permission) other > actions. > > You do not have permission to steal. And if someone has not granted > you the permission to use their whatever

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Tijnema
On 7/31/07, Larry Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 30 July 2007, David Powers wrote: > > Larry Garfield wrote: > > > copyright infringement is NOT "taking something > > > without paying for it". Copyright infringement is duplicating "an > > > expression of an idea that is fixed in a

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Larry Garfield
On Monday 30 July 2007, David Powers wrote: > Larry Garfield wrote: > > copyright infringement is NOT "taking something > > without paying for it". Copyright infringement is duplicating "an > > expression of an idea that is fixed in a medium" without the permission > > of the copyright holder. Mo

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 15:44 -0400, tedd wrote: > > > >Don't expect that only one living > > > >entity can envision such a permutation. > >> > >> Don't expect anyone with our limitations to be capable to determine > >> the truth of that statement. > > > >The phone was independently envisioned by

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Stut
tedd wrote: > >Don't expect that only one living > >entity can envision such a permutation. Don't expect anyone with our limitations to be capable to determine the truth of that statement. The phone was independently envisioned by two distinct humans at the same time. The same is true of

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread tedd
> >Don't expect that only one living > >entity can envision such a permutation. Don't expect anyone with our limitations to be capable to determine the truth of that statement. The phone was independently envisioned by two distinct humans at the same time. The same is true of calculus. So

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 15:33 -0400, tedd wrote: > At 8:23 PM +0100 7/30/07, Stut wrote: > >tedd wrote: > >>At 2:30 PM -0400 7/30/07, Robert Cummings wrote: > >>>Ownership is an illusion... What you have may be taken away at anytime > >>>by the state (be it your own state or a victorious state that j

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 20:35 +0100, Stut wrote: > Robert Cummings wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 20:23 +0100, Stut wrote: > >> tedd wrote: > >>> At 2:30 PM -0400 7/30/07, Robert Cummings wrote: > Ownership is an illusion... What you have may be taken away at anytime > by the state (be it

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Stut
Robert Cummings wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 20:23 +0100, Stut wrote: tedd wrote: At 2:30 PM -0400 7/30/07, Robert Cummings wrote: Ownership is an illusion... What you have may be taken away at anytime by the state (be it your own state or a victorious state that just subjugated your previous

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 20:23 +0100, Stut wrote: > tedd wrote: > > At 2:30 PM -0400 7/30/07, Robert Cummings wrote: > >> Ownership is an illusion... What you have may be taken away at anytime > >> by the state (be it your own state or a victorious state that just > >> subjugated your previous state).

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread tedd
At 8:23 PM +0100 7/30/07, Stut wrote: tedd wrote: At 2:30 PM -0400 7/30/07, Robert Cummings wrote: Ownership is an illusion... What you have may be taken away at anytime by the state (be it your own state or a victorious state that just subjugated your previous state). But illusion all we hav

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 15:06 -0400, tedd wrote: > At 2:30 PM -0400 7/30/07, Robert Cummings wrote: > >On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:08 -0400, tedd wrote: > >> At 12:50 AM +0800 7/31/07, Crayon Shin Chan > > > > "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and > > unto God the things that

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread tedd
At 7:37 PM +0100 7/30/07, Stut wrote: Crayon Shin Chan wrote: On Monday 30 July 2007 23:49, tedd wrote: The opposite of BUYING is STEALING I think you meant SELLING. I think he meant alternative not opposite. I'd laugh for years if someone tried to defend the position that stealing is the

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Stut
tedd wrote: At 2:30 PM -0400 7/30/07, Robert Cummings wrote: Ownership is an illusion... What you have may be taken away at anytime by the state (be it your own state or a victorious state that just subjugated your previous state). But illusion all we have. There is no truth in perception. T

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread tedd
At 2:30 PM -0400 7/30/07, Robert Cummings wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:08 -0400, tedd wrote: At 12:50 AM +0800 7/31/07, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: >On Monday 30 July 2007 23:49, tedd wrote: > >> The opposite of BUYING is STEALING > >I think you meant SELLING. > >-- >Crayon Crayon:

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread tedd
At 5:43 PM +0100 7/30/07, Stut wrote: Copyright exists to prevent unauthorised *usage* of material. It does not exist to prevent the unauthorised taking of instances of that material - that's what the laws regarding theft are for. Well, when I *use* my neighbor's car without his authorization

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread tedd
At 5:46 PM +0100 7/30/07, Stut wrote: tedd wrote: But, the importance here is one of euphemism. Calling the act of stealing something more palatable, such as copyright infringement, simply makes it easier to do. Conversely, calling the act of copyright infringement something less palatable,

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Stut
tedd wrote: At 5:46 PM +0100 7/30/07, Stut wrote: tedd wrote: But, the importance here is one of euphemism. Calling the act of stealing something more palatable, such as copyright infringement, simply makes it easier to do. Conversely, calling the act of copyright infringement something les

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Stut
Crayon Shin Chan wrote: On Monday 30 July 2007 23:49, tedd wrote: The opposite of BUYING is STEALING I think you meant SELLING. I think he meant alternative not opposite. I'd laugh for years if someone tried to defend the position that stealing is the opposite of buying. Then I'd send the

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:08 -0400, tedd wrote: > At 12:50 AM +0800 7/31/07, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: > >On Monday 30 July 2007 23:49, tedd wrote: > > > >> The opposite of BUYING is STEALING > > > >I think you meant SELLING. > > > >-- > >Crayon > > Crayon: > > No, if you want something that you do

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread carlton . whitehead
with this ridiculous, unhelpful, off-topic nonsense." Regards, Carlton Whitehead - Original Message - From: "tedd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Crayon Shin Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 2:08:51 PM (GMT-0500) Ame

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread tedd
At 12:50 AM +0800 7/31/07, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: On Monday 30 July 2007 23:49, tedd wrote: The opposite of BUYING is STEALING I think you meant SELLING. -- Crayon Crayon: No, if you want something that you don't have -- you have three choices: a) go without; b) BUY it; c) STEAL it.

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Monday 30 July 2007 23:49, tedd wrote: > The opposite of BUYING is STEALING I think you meant SELLING. -- Crayon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread tedd
At 3:14 PM +0100 7/30/07, Stut wrote: This conversation is getting pointless guys. The argument being had is about whether copyright infringement should be called stealing or theft. Personally I don't believe it should, but going back and forth on a public mailing list is not going to do anyone

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Stut
tedd wrote: But, the importance here is one of euphemism. Calling the act of stealing something more palatable, such as copyright infringement, simply makes it easier to do. Conversely, calling the act of copyright infringement something less palatable, such as stealing, simply makes it hard

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Stut
tedd wrote: At 8:50 PM -0500 7/29/07, Larry Garfield wrote: If copyright infringement were "taking something without paying for it", then anyone who's ever installed PHP is guilty of copyright infringement unless they sent Rasmus a check. That is, of course, nonsense. No, it's not nonsense

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread David Powers
Stut wrote: This conversation is getting pointless guys. I agree that it's going round in circles, and is best left alone. * Nobody thinks copyright infringement is a good thing and nobody is denying that it causes harm to every layer of the commercial chain that exists to create and publish

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread tedd
At 8:50 PM -0500 7/29/07, Larry Garfield wrote: You can call whatever you want anything you want, but that doesn't make it true. For instance, no, copyright infringement is NOT "taking something without paying for it". Copyright infringement is duplicating "an expression of an idea that is fixe

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread Stut
David Powers wrote: When somebody distributes copies of my eBooks to others, they break the terms of the licence. They also deprive me of income, as do bit torrent sites that assist in that distribution. It might not be stealing in a strict legal sense, but it results in financial harm to me. S

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread David Powers
Larry Garfield wrote: copyright infringement is NOT "taking something without paying for it". Copyright infringement is duplicating "an expression of an idea that is fixed in a medium" without the permission of the copyright holder. Money doesn't enter into it. If the licence under which th

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-29 Thread Larry Garfield
On Sunday 29 July 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 29/07/07, Larry Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Something can be illegal without it being theft. The idea that "if > > it's not theft then it must be OK" is the bullshit argument that I am > > pointing out as bullshit. > > That's a valid p

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-29 Thread Tom Ray [Lists]
Really, I had expected more mature commentary from the adults on this list. So did I. I expect adults to display morality and values. Really? Have you hung out with many computer geeks? Oh..wait..morality..I thought you said maturity. Pardon me. :) -- PHP General Mailing List (htt

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 29/07/07, Larry Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Something can be illegal without it being theft. The idea that "if it's > not theft then it must be OK" is the bullshit argument that I am pointing out > as bullshit. That's a valid point, but you are playing lawyer's games. "It's not th

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-28 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, July 27, 2007 6:28 pm, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Friday 27 July 2007, Richard Lynch wrote: > If "indirectly affecting the market so that prices change" counts as > stealing, > then Coke and Pepsi build their business models around stealing from > each > other. > > Apache/PHP/MySQL are then

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-28 Thread Larry Garfield
On Saturday 28 July 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 28/07/07, tedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On 28/07/07, Larry Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> If "indirectly affecting the market so that prices change" counts > > >>as stealing, > > >> then Coke and Pepsi build their business model

[PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 28/07/07, tedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 28/07/07, Larry Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If "indirectly affecting the market so that prices change" counts > >>as stealing, > >> then Coke and Pepsi build their business models around stealing from each > >> other. > >> > >> Apa

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 28/07/07, Larry Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If "indirectly affecting the market so that prices change" counts as stealing, > then Coke and Pepsi build their business models around stealing from each > other. > > Apache/PHP/MySQL are then "stealing actual money" from Microsoft, because

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-27 Thread Larry Garfield
On Friday 27 July 2007, Richard Lynch wrote: > > Understood. I simply want to lay to rest the idea that piracy is > > "somehow OK" because it's getting back at the big boys, who "can > > afford > > it anyway". Piracy also hits hard-working individuals, to whom the > > loss > > of income usually do

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-27 Thread Ryan A
Hey, > They simply jack up the price for honest folk. > > You're only stealing, yes, Larry, actual money :-), > from hard-working > individuals who pay MORE for their legit copy when > you pirate. > > That is the end effect. > > That is why it really IS theft. Since this has been done to death

Re: Re[2]: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 27/07/07, David Robley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Of course, one should not forgot Debbie Does DocType... > > > I guess that would have an opening scene with dialog something like: > > "I hope you don't mind me sharing memory while you are processing an array" > as the processor flicks g

Re: Re[2]: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-27 Thread David Robley
Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 24/07/07, Ryan A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Php Fiction? Rasmus's List? Codin' in the Rain? >> >> LOL! That was good! Thanks needed that! >> >> > > Of course, one should not forgot Debbie Does DocType... > > Dotan Cohen > Now you owe me a new keyboard that isn't

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 27/07/07, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Piracy does not hurt the big boys in the least bit. > > They simply jack up the price for honest folk. > > You're only stealing, yes, Larry, actual money :-), from hard-working > individuals who pay MORE for their legit copy when you pirate.

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-26 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, July 25, 2007 5:15 am, David Powers wrote: > Richard Lynch wrote: >> At no point did I intend to sound unsympathetic to your plight! >> >> I only wanted to make it clear that 99.9% of musicians are in >> the >> same boat with you, despite what you read in the newspapers. > > Understood.

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-26 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, July 23, 2007 4:41 am, Sancar Saran wrote: > Those publishers ripping the authors then they blame the pirates... > > Real steal was %95 of book prices Do feel free to start your own publishing company and print up some books at prices you consider more fair. -- Some people have a "gi

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-26 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, July 23, 2007 6:00 am, David Powers wrote: > The Harry Potter books have sold an estimated 325 million copies. Even > if the author gets only 10 cents a book, that adds up to $32.5 > million. > I'm sure she gets a lot more than 10 cents a book, but it's the number > of books sold that makes

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-26 Thread Tijnema
On 7/26/07, Stut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Man-wai Chang wrote: > You could open a sample book in bookstores, scan the chapters to > decide whether you are gonna buy it. Not even slightly relevant, but it made me think of this (seemingly neverending) thread. http://xkcd.com/294/ -Stut Haha

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-26 Thread Stut
Man-wai Chang wrote: You could open a sample book in bookstores, scan the chapters to decide whether you are gonna buy it. Not even slightly relevant, but it made me think of this (seemingly neverending) thread. http://xkcd.com/294/ -Stut -- http://stut.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (h

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-26 Thread Tijnema
On 7/26/07, Daniel Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/26/07, Tijnema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/26/07, Stut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Man-wai Chang wrote: > > > You could open a sample book in bookstores, scan the chapters to > > > decide whether you are gonna buy it. > > > > Not e

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-26 Thread Daniel Brown
On 7/26/07, Tijnema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/26/07, Stut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Man-wai Chang wrote: > > You could open a sample book in bookstores, scan the chapters to > > decide whether you are gonna buy it. > > Not even slightly relevant, but it made me think of this (seemingly >

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