And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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§ ita § - May 26, 2005 2:54:26 pm PDT #3132 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Is there anything special to know about an array of objects? I have a function that returns them, but when I try and use a method on the elements (either like $photos[2]->tag() or by assigning $photo[2] to $photo) I get the "Call to a member function on a non-object" error.

But when I do a print_r on either the single variable or the array, it reports them as objects. I even defined $photo as new Photo before the assignment.


DCJensen - May 26, 2005 3:27:39 pm PDT #3133 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

I think it's a matter of the DVDs being quicker and easier to produce, and the fact that Tiger is meant for newer machines.

Maybe they figure to add a CD-based installer after the initial thrust.

There was also a lot of complaining when Apple and Microsoft both went to the CD as default install media.


DXMachina - May 26, 2005 5:20:50 pm PDT #3134 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

But when they did go CD, Microsoft gave folks the option to get Win95 and Office 95 on floppies. Dozens of floppies. (Yes, I have done floppy based installations of both.)

I got more and more pissed as each new Mac we bought obsoleted another perfectly serviceable peripheral.


meara - May 26, 2005 6:09:42 pm PDT #3135 of 10003

I'm annoyed that my Mac can't use the little tiny weirdly shaped CDs, cause I have one or two things that came with stuff, that I'd really love to put on my computer and can't (OK, it's the Nursing Drug Guide 2005, but still!)


NoiseDesign - May 26, 2005 6:46:42 pm PDT #3136 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

It occurs to me that if you're baking a cassette, you can only rescue the stuff on one side. The other side will be ruined after the first pass.

This didn't happen to cassettes. This was with professional open reel tape that was made in the 70's.


Jon B. - May 26, 2005 8:03:07 pm PDT #3137 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

The article Tommyrot originally linked to [link] refers to cassettes. And I've definitely had cassettes that made that mechanical squealy sound talked about in the article.


Eddie - May 26, 2005 8:12:32 pm PDT #3138 of 10003
Your tag here.

Is there anything special to know about an array of objects?

ita, let me preface this by saying I'm weak on OOP in PHP, however this [link] may give a hint.

I suspect where you're getting messed up is the assigning the object by reference lines (note the &new):

$personObj[] = &new Person("andrew", "22", "male"); 

HTH


§ ita § - May 27, 2005 5:17:39 am PDT #3139 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'll fiddle around with the code and see if that works -- thanks, Eddie.


Jessica - May 27, 2005 10:06:08 am PDT #3140 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I don't know if this is a Mac thing or a Mac-Firefox thing, but for some reason, I can't tab-enter to post anymore. Hitting tab takes me to the Search box, and even if I keep hitting it, it never seems to land on the Post button. Is there a setting I can change to fix this, or am I stuck using the mouse to post?


Jessica - May 27, 2005 1:54:48 pm PDT #3141 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

One more -- I frelled something in my Firefox profile, but I can't figure out how to create a new one. This is what the Mozilla help site says:

On Linux or Mac, start Firefox with the the -profilemanager switch, e.g. ./firefox -profilemanager (this assumes that you're in the firefox directory).

Can someone translate that into English for me?