Give me free college just like the African Americans and Latinos and Single Moms and Sudanese and pretty much everyone who isn't a white male/female with no kids...
I wish freebies worked by skin-color, but it doesn't. Black male here, from the boomerang generation, since our futures are being inflated away from ever increasing amounts of fiat money. Sorry but if your family is in certain tax-brackets you don't get free anything, hence my nice 100k student loan bill for trying to be a productive citizen in society..("Be cool stay in school right... " and I graduated fortunately and will pay it back quickly, because staying at mama's house while making 6figs [pre-tax and pre-inflation] never seemed any wiser )
Point is...these things we're seeing are no longer color based and you and I as the working people have more in common now than at any other time in history, some elite scum bags are raping us and the question is, what are we gonna do about it.
Black guy hopeful Obama meant change but he voted for this crap and I'm voting Barr on this one point.
Don't tell me this had to be done, we already infused the meltdown earlier this year with 200bil we already infused 600bil into wall street last week, now another 850 bil...common sense people.
Something needs to be done, that comes from the people, ALL of US. Divide and Conquer, they've won for the time being.
Great Movie. Completely entertaining for a two and a half to three hour forray into the world of Gotham City.
Batman's growl/deep/devil voice really was a sore point for me. I just don't ever remember bruce wayne's voice changing when he's Batman to Hellraiser's...Anyways Bruce Wayne was crafty/scientific/methodical about his missions. A true crime solver as well as crime fighter. I'd go as far as to say a stud Ninja MacGuyver. Not using yacht boats with russian dance girls, or flying into his parties with 3 women on his arm. I love CB as an actor (American Psycho, Harsh Times) it just seems they made Bruce Wayne a bad Tony Stark(Iron Man).
It has been a learning curve to get IIS and PHP to love each other, but it is very doable. The running as CGI only constraint is just a myth, as i've been fine running as ISAPI on IIS6 for 1.5 years now. IIS has lagged Apache in some very nice features (mod_rewrite for instance...) and should play catch up to Apache on a lot of functionallity with the new IIS release.
Facebook Gen guy here... It's not all bad. Some people actually use these sites for what they're for. Keeping in touch with friends, lost acquaintances, or what have you.
BUT it is really like HS all over again. Gossip, Gossip, omg did you know this happend with this person, because of this news feed. Its really something else. Go out, you here myspace, myspace, or hey I've seen you on Facebook in the background. Amazing. Call me looney but it really seems these sites make people feel relevant or something all over again because they have access to people's business. I for one do not want or ever plan on living in my house with the front door open all the time, so I do make sure to keep my private business off the Internet, and well private..for me. It's all really weird.
Why any web developer or widget creator out there who would limit their WEB audience because they favor 1 API over another baffles me. There are several large networks out there moving to open up even more of their audiences to us, so why do I care if one API uses JSON, FBML(its cute but I stay with tried and true HTML on that one), XML, ATOM feeds, and etc. At the end of the day Open Social strikes at proprietary web platforms and allows a widget/web application developer to focus on marketing and spreading their wares instead of worrying about keeping up with multiple web platforms to develop for.
You are correct. Ajax used where appropriate is soley to give a better user experience and present data to the user more intuitively than clicking everwhere to get it. To the parent, some of us 12 yr olds that are grown now(24) and use the tools available DO understand this.
Score 1 for this. I wonder is anyone else out there using (Windows, IIS, MySQL, PHP5) in production servers? It's a little unorthodoxed but Me knows Windoze. Also, I hear about all the licensing issues and costs associated with running windows over linux and etc., and I'm wondering what about when you rent from a hosting provider who has to worry about the licensing costs and all that jazz and all you have to do is admin and deploy your applications. Granted if the business gets serious you'll likely want to start hosting your own dedicated servers, but I also figure since there are so many linux web/database server deployments out there the transition should be minimally painful. Adding this fastCGI enhancement should make that even easier. We'll see if we get there.
Of course it sounds stupid, its the stuff of a younger generation where everyone and their mom has a myspace page and loves to be "social" online. 24 years here. Programmer as a profession. It's part of the forefront of creative development for new utilities and functions on the web. The major players and functions have been for the most part established. The only thing left is to bring together all those established and great ideas on the web together in new ways not thought about by the originals. "Mashing Up" is just one means of doing that. I wonder about how I'll be when people are moving back to off-line localized apps for more speed, reliability, and privacy when i'm near 50. I'll be like "What the hell is this Personal DataMan everyone wants..."
I'd also like to add the fact that a lot of these facebook apps and people complaining about the platform and documentation need to ask themselves 3 questions.
1. Does your app provide a meaningful way to supplement a user's experience without unnecessary clutter, or spammy behavior?
2. Does said app provide a means to interact with the Facebook community and user's in a unique way that enhances certain facebook functionalities, or brings all new functions that weren't previously available to Facebook?
3. And finally, does your app provide something meaningful to the online community as a whole outside of Facebook?
The Facebook API should provide a way to leverage and virally spread your apps and ideas to people across their community and the web as a whole. It's a beneficial tool in a large pool of beneficial tools on the web to market your creations. Furthermore, appreciate their openness while providing constructive criticism. Hey they could be blocking our widgets and apps like MySpace has been recently. (I have noticed since the Facebook Platform was announced, MySpace has let widgets play a little more freely it seems;) )
Have fun.
Tony G. Audio Messages Online
Disclaimer:While not an F8 attendee, I've been developing against their API since October.
I'm one of those aforementioned "young engineers" who was one of "The few young men sired by engineers are all-too-aware of what you've done to their fathers and they'll be better off going into real estate or moving out to a little plot of land in the country living an eco-friendly subsistence lifestyle." (Dad is an Electrical Engineer for Defense contractors). The parent post is very right. Yes things were hard. Dad got laid off a couple times from cuts in defense spending.
The message from him and from the behavior of these places he worked for, was always be your own boss. Hell in school they emphasize so much now how you're going to get screwed, there's no loyalty, and basically you better have your wits about you and multiple plans if you want to succeed consistently in the cut throat world of corporations. I entered college in fall 2001. A CS major. I went all the way to 500 level courses and switched to IT between sophomore and junior year (MIS). Reason being dad was always like, "you don't want to be the worker bee your whole life and have other's take credit for your sweat." the message always was be your own boss, understand you're a liability and not an asset to the big man, and take control of your destiny. My dad's 80 - 100 hour weeks and underpay are all a testament to that.
A buddy of mine just got laid of as well and only was out 10 months in the working world. He's an Industrial Engineer. Moral is us youngins are privy enough to the position we're in as being disposable in the working world. The ones who are intelligent enough to see that will always be looking to get the experience needed to make better moves, not waste their time working for someone for crap wages and broken promises, and crazy hours(a person shouldn't let their employer punk them like that IMHO).
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Give me free college just like the African Americans and Latinos and Single Moms and Sudanese and pretty much everyone who isn't a white male/female with no kids...
I wish freebies worked by skin-color, but it doesn't. Black male here, from the boomerang generation, since our futures are being inflated away from ever increasing amounts of fiat money. Sorry but if your family is in certain tax-brackets you don't get free anything, hence my nice 100k student loan bill for trying to be a productive citizen in society..("Be cool stay in school right... " and I graduated fortunately and will pay it back quickly, because staying at mama's house while making 6figs [pre-tax and pre-inflation] never seemed any wiser )
Point is...these things we're seeing are no longer color based and you and I as the working people have more in common now than at any other time in history, some elite scum bags are raping us and the question is, what are we gonna do about it.
Black guy hopeful Obama meant change but he voted for this crap and I'm voting Barr on this one point.
Don't tell me this had to be done, we already infused the meltdown earlier this year with 200bil we already infused 600bil into wall street last week, now another 850 bil...common sense people. Something needs to be done, that comes from the people, ALL of US. Divide and Conquer, they've won for the time being.
Great Movie. Completely entertaining for a two and a half to three hour forray into the world of Gotham City. Batman's growl/deep/devil voice really was a sore point for me. I just don't ever remember bruce wayne's voice changing when he's Batman to Hellraiser's...Anyways Bruce Wayne was crafty/scientific/methodical about his missions. A true crime solver as well as crime fighter. I'd go as far as to say a stud Ninja MacGuyver. Not using yacht boats with russian dance girls, or flying into his parties with 3 women on his arm. I love CB as an actor (American Psycho, Harsh Times) it just seems they made Bruce Wayne a bad Tony Stark(Iron Man).
It has been a learning curve to get IIS and PHP to love each other, but it is very doable. The running as CGI only constraint is just a myth, as i've been fine running as ISAPI on IIS6 for 1.5 years now. IIS has lagged Apache in some very nice features (mod_rewrite for instance...) and should play catch up to Apache on a lot of functionallity with the new IIS release.
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http://www.regularjen.com/archives/2007/06/25/evidently-facebook-owns-me/
Facebook Gen guy here... It's not all bad. Some people actually use these sites for what they're for. Keeping in touch with friends, lost acquaintances, or what have you.
BUT it is really like HS all over again. Gossip, Gossip, omg did you know this happend with this person, because of this news feed. Its really something else. Go out, you here myspace, myspace, or hey I've seen you on Facebook in the background. Amazing. Call me looney but it really seems these sites make people feel relevant or something all over again because they have access to people's business. I for one do not want or ever plan on living in my house with the front door open all the time, so I do make sure to keep my private business off the Internet, and well private..for me. It's all really weird.
Why any web developer or widget creator out there who would limit their WEB audience because they favor 1 API over another baffles me. There are several large networks out there moving to open up even more of their audiences to us, so why do I care if one API uses JSON, FBML(its cute but I stay with tried and true HTML on that one), XML, ATOM feeds, and etc. At the end of the day Open Social strikes at proprietary web platforms and allows a widget/web application developer to focus on marketing and spreading their wares instead of worrying about keeping up with multiple web platforms to develop for.
You are correct. Ajax used where appropriate is soley to give a better user experience and present data to the user more intuitively than clicking everwhere to get it. To the parent, some of us 12 yr olds that are grown now(24) and use the tools available DO understand this.
Score 1 for this. I wonder is anyone else out there using (Windows, IIS, MySQL, PHP5) in production servers? It's a little unorthodoxed but Me knows Windoze. Also, I hear about all the licensing issues and costs associated with running windows over linux and etc., and I'm wondering what about when you rent from a hosting provider who has to worry about the licensing costs and all that jazz and all you have to do is admin and deploy your applications. Granted if the business gets serious you'll likely want to start hosting your own dedicated servers, but I also figure since there are so many linux web/database server deployments out there the transition should be minimally painful. Adding this fastCGI enhancement should make that even easier. We'll see if we get there.
Those Java applets make great voice recorders too....Audio Messages Online
Of course it sounds stupid, its the stuff of a younger generation where everyone and their mom has a myspace page and loves to be "social" online. 24 years here. Programmer as a profession. It's part of the forefront of creative development for new utilities and functions on the web. The major players and functions have been for the most part established. The only thing left is to bring together all those established and great ideas on the web together in new ways not thought about by the originals. "Mashing Up" is just one means of doing that. I wonder about how I'll be when people are moving back to off-line localized apps for more speed, reliability, and privacy when i'm near 50. I'll be like "What the hell is this Personal DataMan everyone wants..."
The Parent hit it right on the head.
I'd also like to add the fact that a lot of these facebook apps and people complaining about the platform and documentation need to ask themselves 3 questions.
1. Does your app provide a meaningful way to supplement a user's experience without unnecessary clutter, or spammy behavior?
2. Does said app provide a means to interact with the Facebook community and user's in a unique way that enhances certain facebook functionalities, or brings all new functions that weren't previously available to Facebook?
3. And finally, does your app provide something meaningful to the online community as a whole outside of Facebook?
The Facebook API should provide a way to leverage and virally spread your apps and ideas to people across their community and the web as a whole. It's a beneficial tool in a large pool of beneficial tools on the web to market your creations. Furthermore, appreciate their openness while providing constructive criticism. Hey they could be blocking our widgets and apps like MySpace has been recently. (I have noticed since the Facebook Platform was announced, MySpace has let widgets play a little more freely it seems ;) )
Have fun.
Tony G.
Audio Messages Online
Disclaimer:While not an F8 attendee, I've been developing against their API since October.
I'm one of those aforementioned "young engineers" who was one of "The few young men sired by engineers are all-too-aware of what you've done to their fathers and they'll be better off going into real estate or moving out to a little plot of land in the country living an eco-friendly subsistence lifestyle." (Dad is an Electrical Engineer for Defense contractors). The parent post is very right. Yes things were hard. Dad got laid off a couple times from cuts in defense spending.
The message from him and from the behavior of these places he worked for, was always be your own boss. Hell in school they emphasize so much now how you're going to get screwed, there's no loyalty, and basically you better have your wits about you and multiple plans if you want to succeed consistently in the cut throat world of corporations. I entered college in fall 2001. A CS major. I went all the way to 500 level courses and switched to IT between sophomore and junior year (MIS). Reason being dad was always like, "you don't want to be the worker bee your whole life and have other's take credit for your sweat." the message always was be your own boss, understand you're a liability and not an asset to the big man, and take control of your destiny. My dad's 80 - 100 hour weeks and underpay are all a testament to that.
A buddy of mine just got laid of as well and only was out 10 months in the working world. He's an Industrial Engineer. Moral is us youngins are privy enough to the position we're in as being disposable in the working world. The ones who are intelligent enough to see that will always be looking to get the experience needed to make better moves, not waste their time working for someone for crap wages and broken promises, and crazy hours(a person shouldn't let their employer punk them like that IMHO).