I am not a Michael Moore fan, but he should be lauded for the action. Hopefully others will follow Mr. Moore's lead and take a stand for freedom of speech.
Every time you visit a website, there is the potential to track what you looked at and how long you stayed there. From this data, all sorts of extrapolations can be made.
This is happening to all of us every day, it's just not as obviously creepy as a fed following you around in an adult bookstore.
While Free6.com included a notice warning that the posting of “child pornography or other illegal material” would be reported to “local authorities,” Burdick had site administrators add a line noting that, “Free6.com may disclose these communications to the authorities at its discretion.”
Site says to stop posting inappropriate, illegal material. Site warns that it will report such content to authorities. Site acts on threat.
Silverlight 1 was awful, but now Silverlight 4 is pretty good. I've been developing web applications for over ten years professionally. As I mentioned in a previous post there are a lot of things you can so in SL that you can't do very well in either Flash or HTML5. Your comment shows that you are pretty disconnected from reality and not privy to what corporate customers and end users are really looking to see in web applications these days.
That isn't correct. You can write native code for WP7. I am not sure where that rumor got started. Even so, there are probably a handful of situations that benefit from native code like games, audio processing, and other graphics intensive applications. There is going to be little or no benefit from native code in most other apps.
Having written both Android and iPhone apps, I can tell you which platform I prefer to develop for. Apple's toolchain is less than awful. Additionally, I doubt the fact that the applications were written in Obj-C had any effect on the performance of the app.
Uh, Java is Open Source,.net is server-side (except for Silverlight of course) and Flash does undermine standardization as well. What's your point again?
Sorry, OP is right..NET is not "server-side". You are thinking of ASP.NET..NET is very similar to Java in a number of ways, in fact it runs on a number of different platforms. There is even a version of.NET designed to run on ARM micros.
Regarding standardization, we just had a client come to us with a pretty nice AJAX application and told us to rebuild it in Silverlight. See the client realizes that it's the user experience that's the most important, not the tech that the app is built with. Simply put, there are things that we can so in Silverllight right now that just can't be done well in HTML5 or even Flash. Conversely, there are apps that will work better in Flash and or HTML 5 than Silverlight.
Also I could build the same application in HTM5, Flash and Silverlight. Dollars to donuts, with either Flash or SL, it's going to be more maintainable than HTML5. I am working on an AJAX project right and have done many, so my previous comment is based on personal development experiences.
While Android and Apple have a strong foothold in mobile, the game can change really fast. Five years ago Android didn't even exist. Now as you say it's a strong player. Palm is dead. RIM was once a powerhouse and now is languishing. I heard similar comments comments about XBOX when it was launched a number of years ago, now it is quite a successful console.
Now MS has a captive audience of gamers that are interested in the integration between XBox and Windows Mobile 7. Whether you like the Windows 7 experience or not (I haven't used it personally), it offers something different than what's out there now. Only a fool would count them out of the game.
They're not getting any money from the govt. They are getting a tax break. The company says it's going to invest $150m in the park. This will be good for KY. That being said, It's a stupid idea and isn't likely to be that successful, but this doesn't mean that Kentucky should shun the investment if they don't have better options are available.
The main problem is that after eating turkey, potatoes, squash dressing, pies, more pies that the optimal freedom of movement required for a good romp is going to be quite impeded.
It probably means you just didn't train your dog properly. I never owned a dog or cat that wasn't housebroken. That being said, the cats I've had were worse in that regard. When you'd go away for extended periods of time and have neighbors or friends take care of the pets, they'd get pissed and urinate in the corners.
These jackasses know no bounds. Somehow a debt collector got my number thinking I was someone else and wouldn't top calling. Finally I had the phone company block the number because they wouldn't stop calling.
So your three geek friends decided to join you? That's great.
Rude, snarky comments aside, I'd be really surprised If I could convince ANY of my friends to do this, no one seems to be that concerned about Facebook and privacy issues.
I think it depends on the geographic location too. No enterprises here use PHP for their sites or applications. Everything here is either Java or.NET..NET is definitely on the rise too. Companies love the fact that they can take their existing.NET knowledge and apply it to the Web, Desktop, RIA, Mobile, etc.
Makes sense. With the explosion of the web and internet, where do you think most of the jobs are? EVERY company needs to be on the web, and many companies need custom software for internal or external use.
You're asking the wrong question. The question you're asking should be: What kind of work do I want to do? Find a company whose products and work you like, and submit your resume. Then, be open to learning whatever language they use on the job.
You should also try.NET before you make up your mind, I had similar reservations as you but actually enjoyed working with the language. That and my skill set commands a pretty decent salary these days.
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I am not a Michael Moore fan, but he should be lauded for the action. Hopefully others will follow Mr. Moore's lead and take a stand for freedom of speech.
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Every time you visit a website, there is the potential to track what you looked at and how long you stayed there. From this data, all sorts of extrapolations can be made.
This is happening to all of us every day, it's just not as obviously creepy as a fed following you around in an adult bookstore.
While Free6.com included a notice warning that the posting of “child pornography or other illegal material” would be reported to “local authorities,” Burdick had site administrators add a line noting that, “Free6.com may disclose these communications to the authorities at its discretion.”
Site says to stop posting inappropriate, illegal material. Site warns that it will report such content to authorities. Site acts on threat.
how about it boys?
Doesn't every government do this, if they can?
Silverlight 1 was awful, but now Silverlight 4 is pretty good. I've been developing web applications for over ten years professionally. As I mentioned in a previous post there are a lot of things you can so in SL that you can't do very well in either Flash or HTML5. Your comment shows that you are pretty disconnected from reality and not privy to what corporate customers and end users are really looking to see in web applications these days.
Not true. We're using Silverlight and C# to build WP7 apps. You have the option of using C or C++ as well.
That isn't correct. You can write native code for WP7. I am not sure where that rumor got started. Even so, there are probably a handful of situations that benefit from native code like games, audio processing, and other graphics intensive applications. There is going to be little or no benefit from native code in most other apps.
Having written both Android and iPhone apps, I can tell you which platform I prefer to develop for. Apple's toolchain is less than awful. Additionally, I doubt the fact that the applications were written in Obj-C had any effect on the performance of the app.
Uh, Java is Open Source, .net is server-side (except for Silverlight of course) and Flash does undermine standardization as well. What's your point again?
Sorry, OP is right. .NET is not "server-side". You are thinking of ASP .NET. .NET is very similar to Java in a number of ways, in fact it runs on a number of different platforms. There is even a version of .NET designed to run on ARM micros.
Regarding standardization, we just had a client come to us with a pretty nice AJAX application and told us to rebuild it in Silverlight. See the client realizes that it's the user experience that's the most important, not the tech that the app is built with. Simply put, there are things that we can so in Silverllight right now that just can't be done well in HTML5 or even Flash. Conversely, there are apps that will work better in Flash and or HTML 5 than Silverlight.
Also I could build the same application in HTM5, Flash and Silverlight. Dollars to donuts, with either Flash or SL, it's going to be more maintainable than HTML5. I am working on an AJAX project right and have done many, so my previous comment is based on personal development experiences.
While Android and Apple have a strong foothold in mobile, the game can change really fast. Five years ago Android didn't even exist. Now as you say it's a strong player. Palm is dead. RIM was once a powerhouse and now is languishing. I heard similar comments comments about XBOX when it was launched a number of years ago, now it is quite a successful console.
Now MS has a captive audience of gamers that are interested in the integration between XBox and Windows Mobile 7. Whether you like the Windows 7 experience or not (I haven't used it personally), it offers something different than what's out there now. Only a fool would count them out of the game.
They're not getting any money from the govt. They are getting a tax break. The company says it's going to invest $150m in the park. This will be good for KY. That being said, It's a stupid idea and isn't likely to be that successful, but this doesn't mean that Kentucky should shun the investment if they don't have better options are available.
+1 insightful
This is why I like ya, BadAnalogyGuy.
The main problem is that after eating turkey, potatoes, squash dressing, pies, more pies that the optimal freedom of movement required for a good romp is going to be quite impeded.
It probably means you just didn't train your dog properly. I never owned a dog or cat that wasn't housebroken. That being said, the cats I've had were worse in that regard. When you'd go away for extended periods of time and have neighbors or friends take care of the pets, they'd get pissed and urinate in the corners.
I don't think anyone really believes they are originals, I think they're perfectly happy paying less for a knock off.
Or better yet have someone else do it, rather than end up in jail. It is an appropriate and justified response to OP's issue.
These jackasses know no bounds. Somehow a debt collector got my number thinking I was someone else and wouldn't top calling. Finally I had the phone company block the number because they wouldn't stop calling.
So your three geek friends decided to join you? That's great.
Rude, snarky comments aside, I'd be really surprised If I could convince ANY of my friends to do this, no one seems to be that concerned about Facebook and privacy issues.
I think it depends on the geographic location too. No enterprises here use PHP for their sites or applications. Everything here is either Java or .NET. .NET is definitely on the rise too. Companies love the fact that they can take their existing .NET knowledge and apply it to the Web, Desktop, RIA, Mobile, etc.
Makes sense. With the explosion of the web and internet, where do you think most of the jobs are? EVERY company needs to be on the web, and many companies need custom software for internal or external use.
You're asking the wrong question. The question you're asking should be: What kind of work do I want to do? Find a company whose products and work you like, and submit your resume. Then, be open to learning whatever language they use on the job. You should also try .NET before you make up your mind, I had similar reservations as you but actually enjoyed working with the language. That and my skill set commands a pretty decent salary these days.
Conifers?
You must be new here.