It's not fatalism. It's a fact. There's nothing sadder and ultimately more useless than a clueless fanboy for a fucking *software project*. At least if you knew what you were talking about you'd have some credibility. But you're a self-confessed "non-programmer" evangelist. Why would anyone listen to you? I'm guessing you're not an interface designer either, or an ergonomics expert. Maybe people like you are the reason Mozilla has such piss-poor market-share, and we all have to endure bollixy sites that break in anything other than IE. Maybe it's your fault.
Oh, and I'm not British, you idiot. And my teeth are to die for. And I do get it regularly, from a 36D'd member of the opposite sex, a former gymnast in fact. So nyah.
I evangalize mozilla.org and 2 of the binaries they've produced: mozilla browser and phoenix browser.
And may I just complement you on the wonderful job that you're doing. With people like you fighting the good fight, it may achieve double-digit market share sometime this century!
Anyone planning to go to this probably knows already, but Brian King is giving a talk on Mozilla in Trinity College Dublin tonight. More details at http://netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0203/mozilla.php
The way things are going in the US, I wouldn't be surprised if those were in the offing anyway, though they'll probably be called Happiness Bracelets or Freedom Rings or something.
There should be a swear jar for people who say "this isn't the we're looking for. Move along." Either that or it should be legal to hit them in the face.
Losers. There's no all-pervading cultural reference that controls *my* destiny.
Funnily enough, I went to get visa photos today, and the photographer was very reluctant to give me the negatives as well (which I need coz Canada's changed its rules post 9/11), until I crossed her palm with a tenner. Which I thought was pretty reasonable.
I don't think the original poster's analogy holds, though. The source code for a photo is surely the information required to produce it, which is the scene, camera settings, darkroom/lab settings, etc, as well as the skill of the protographer. Information on how to take photographs is readily available, (though the./configure stage is a bit long, fnar). It's more like buying a non-free-software product, agreeing to the licence, and then trying to insist that you have rights to infinite-user versions on all possible platforms.
If you get 403s, try clearing your BBC cookies and going via the front page, answering yes to the are you from the uk question. Worked for me.
I doubt it was slashdot wot done it too, more likely someone fucked up file or CMS permissions and hasn't noticed coz of said cookie being set to "yes" on all BBC boxes.
That's pretty much what we paid the two contractors we got in for said project, maybe a little less. In this day and age that's a decent competitive rate.
It's just not the same. I occasionally try decaf in restaurants and such, but it only makes me nostalgic for the buzz.
Actually, I did have a cup of coffee in Paris a couple of weeks back (I ordered it by accident due to my crap french), and one weak cafe au lait had me gibbering like an idiot for the rest of the day (during which I saw a Cray II and Foucalt's Pendulum!).
Why skimp when the potential returns are so high? Case in point: our company spent 25k from Nov01 to Feb02 developing a new software product for a relatively niche market. It's so far made them over half a million, without too much of a marketing push, and can probably make twice that again before we have to consider any further development work beyond bugfixes.
Bearing that in mind, budgets on the order of 15-30 grand for even small projects (which ultimately this was) are pretty easy to justify, and quotes for smaller amounts make people worried ( and often rightly so).
I gave up a few months ago, and my net productivity has gone up since I don't make as many moon-wired mistakes. Also, I now have a healthy prostate again. I haven't noticed any schlong effects per se, but I'm also exercising regularly, which is doing wonders for general endurance.
The real downside for me is missing coffee when I eat out, and walking past the place with the really nice cappuchinos every bloody day.
Next up, biting my nails, then possibly red meat or alcohol!
I used to draw pictures of nekkid women and sell them to my hornier schoolmates. This predated the Interweb and was in possibly the most backward part of Ireland, so I had a monopoly on the blurry porn industry. It was great.
Considering that the USA and the rest of the world lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation from pretty much the fifties to the dismantling of the USSR, you're letting this pissant terrorist threat thing get to ye far more than it should. It's hard not to wonder if you aren't in fact just being cynically manipulated to distract you from the ridiculous amount of domestic problems your current administration is causing and/or ignoring.
It's about time you got over it, either built a Ground Zero memorial park or used the space for buildings, stopped beating up on random eastern countries, implemented decent accounting laws, and returned to being the arrogant but lovable bunch of tech-obsessed golden boys that we all remember from the 90s.
And ratify Kyoto already - have you seen the weather lately? Can't you take a hint?
The PR team responsible for the upcoming adaptation of Solaris awoke to find hundreds of nubile young men and women throwing money and drugs at them, found out that they'd won the Nobel Prize For Just Being You, and bankrupted Vegas in a 24-hour solid winning streak. .
That's what the server-side application is for. If you're going to write a client-side app, why use something as convoluted as Javascript and a browser?
And don't give me any guff about cross-platform compatibility. A), javascript doesn't have it, and B) most js-heavy systems are intranet-based and targeted at a set browser+platform combination anyway. And even ignoring A and B, Java would be the better choice.
client-server, presentation-application, it's not rocket science.
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Really? I refer you to your signature.
"Waah, slashdot is out to get me, michael hates me, all is ruin, Go Mozilla!"
It's not fatalism. It's a fact. There's nothing sadder and ultimately more useless than a clueless fanboy for a fucking *software project*. At least if you knew what you were talking about you'd have some credibility. But you're a self-confessed "non-programmer" evangelist. Why would anyone listen to you? I'm guessing you're not an interface designer either, or an ergonomics expert. Maybe people like you are the reason Mozilla has such piss-poor market-share, and we all have to endure bollixy sites that break in anything other than IE. Maybe it's your fault.
Oh, and I'm not British, you idiot. And my teeth are to die for. And I do get it regularly, from a 36D'd member of the opposite sex, a former gymnast in fact. So nyah.
I don't think I have any royal Danish blood, no.
Keep replying, you're sure to come up with a witty remark sooner or later. Well, that or a line from Hamlet.
And may I just complement you on the wonderful job that you're doing. With people like you fighting the good fight, it may achieve double-digit market share sometime this century!
Tosser.
Anyone planning to go to this probably knows already, but Brian King is giving a talk on Mozilla in Trinity College Dublin tonight. More details at http://netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0203/mozilla.php
The last thing the world needs is non-programmers evangelising programming tools.
would be for a pair of parentheses () with a zigzag line down the middle, like a closed beartrap viewed from above.
"One for you, one for me. One for you..."
One way or another, today's young go-getters are going to end up high on meths. Oh the canadian irony.
"They look like *vending machines*."
Yes, she can verbalise astericks.
The way things are going in the US, I wouldn't be surprised if those were in the offing anyway, though they'll probably be called Happiness Bracelets or Freedom Rings or something.
There should be a swear jar for people who say "this isn't the we're looking for. Move along." Either that or it should be legal to hit them in the face.
Losers. There's no all-pervading cultural reference that controls *my* destiny.
Funnily enough, I went to get visa photos today, and the photographer was very reluctant to give me the negatives as well (which I need coz Canada's changed its rules post 9/11), until I crossed her palm with a tenner. Which I thought was pretty reasonable.
./configure stage is a bit long, fnar). It's more like buying a non-free-software product, agreeing to the licence, and then trying to insist that you have rights to infinite-user versions on all possible platforms.
I don't think the original poster's analogy holds, though. The source code for a photo is surely the information required to produce it, which is the scene, camera settings, darkroom/lab settings, etc, as well as the skill of the protographer. Information on how to take photographs is readily available, (though the
If you get 403s, try clearing your BBC cookies and going via the front page, answering yes to the are you from the uk question. Worked for me.
I doubt it was slashdot wot done it too, more likely someone fucked up file or CMS permissions and hasn't noticed coz of said cookie being set to "yes" on all BBC boxes.
That's pretty much what we paid the two contractors we got in for said project, maybe a little less. In this day and age that's a decent competitive rate.
It's just not the same. I occasionally try decaf in restaurants and such, but it only makes me nostalgic for the buzz.
Actually, I did have a cup of coffee in Paris a couple of weeks back (I ordered it by accident due to my crap french), and one weak cafe au lait had me gibbering like an idiot for the rest of the day (during which I saw a Cray II and Foucalt's Pendulum!).
Why skimp when the potential returns are so high? Case in point: our company spent 25k from Nov01 to Feb02 developing a new software product for a relatively niche market. It's so far made them over half a million, without too much of a marketing push, and can probably make twice that again before we have to consider any further development work beyond bugfixes.
Bearing that in mind, budgets on the order of 15-30 grand for even small projects (which ultimately this was) are pretty easy to justify, and quotes for smaller amounts make people worried ( and often rightly so).
I gave up a few months ago, and my net productivity has gone up since I don't make as many moon-wired mistakes. Also, I now have a healthy prostate again. I haven't noticed any schlong effects per se, but I'm also exercising regularly, which is doing wonders for general endurance.
The real downside for me is missing coffee when I eat out, and walking past the place with the really nice cappuchinos every bloody day.
Next up, biting my nails, then possibly red meat or alcohol!
I used to draw pictures of nekkid women and sell them to my hornier schoolmates. This predated the Interweb and was in possibly the most backward part of Ireland, so I had a monopoly on the blurry porn industry. It was great.
It's only flamebait if you refuse to engage with it on any other level.
Considering that the USA and the rest of the world lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation from
pretty much the fifties to the dismantling of the USSR, you're letting this pissant terrorist threat thing get to ye far more than it should. It's hard not to wonder if you aren't in fact just being cynically manipulated to distract you from the ridiculous amount of domestic problems your current administration is causing and/or ignoring.
It's about time you got over it, either built a Ground Zero memorial park or used the space for buildings, stopped beating up on random eastern countries, implemented decent accounting laws, and returned to being the arrogant but lovable bunch of tech-obsessed golden boys that we all remember from the 90s.
And ratify Kyoto already - have you seen the weather lately? Can't you take a hint?
The PR team responsible for the upcoming adaptation of Solaris awoke to find hundreds of nubile young men and women throwing money and drugs at them, found out that they'd won the Nobel Prize For Just Being You, and bankrupted Vegas in a 24-hour solid winning streak.
.
Wooh, go the americans, we can call each other or send text messages, let's all write sociology papers!
Yawn goes the rest of the developed world, another fucking sms spam.
So hungry goes the developing world, and am surrounded by landmines.
That's what the server-side application is for. If you're going to write a client-side app, why use something as convoluted as Javascript and a browser?
And don't give me any guff about cross-platform compatibility. A), javascript doesn't have it, and B) most js-heavy systems are intranet-based and targeted at a set browser+platform combination anyway. And even ignoring A and B, Java would be the better choice.
client-server, presentation-application, it's not rocket science.