Open developemet platform that costs nothing to develope in (IE dosen't require a Apple computer or money to get development liceneses) and a open application store that is available across carriers and phones.
Both of thse are available through the Android and will kill off the Iphone. Not this year, or next year but as the platform for the OS and development takes off the Iphones controled app store that is only available on the Iphone will get killed off, and the Android will take over in popularity. Apple had their chance and they dropped the ball, and Google wont make the same mistakes.
How many games are created outside of the base gamer market stactics that succeed. I'm gussing very few. This isn't a racial issue or hardely even something that sould use any type of social science since its all based on what market will make the most money. Young white males are the largest group that buy games in the US. If you made games that had an ugly and smart woman with half naked guys everywhere trying to solve quests the game would fail. But if you change the character into a monkey boom! No racial/social/cultural comparisioin. Same goes for a game made in Japan. If a game was released in Japan where the main character was Latino or Native American doing something relating to their culture it would most likely in every case fail.
If you are a game company and can make a game for 10 million white kids or 1 million black kids which one do you think is going to be made? Its not social/racial/culteral/etc its about money.
I am a content provider myself and run roughly 100 different sites. And I can tell you from my experience that sites that use pop ups these days are not ligament websites you would want too allow popups from.
Sure there are plenty of websites that use popups correctly and are useful but the majority of these are popups that the user initialize by clicking on a link, not random popups that are not user controled meaning ads.
There are plenty of technologies that people can utalize to make useful and helpful "popup" windows like litebox/thickbox that still allow publishers and content providers the ability to show content in a new window while not losing focus on the main page.
Popup blockers are a good thing, and adding an incontinence popup warning defaeats the purpose of blocking popup windows. If a user didn't click on something to initialize a popup window then they shouldn't be seeing popups.
I think people are misunderstanding the level of work many of these people do and are assuming these people might be doing simple work that they themselves could do but without the attitude.
I have known many developers though the years but have only known 2 who fit into the category of absurdly good developers. These guys were not just very good developers who could just be replaced with ok or good developers with no attitude. These were guys who made the companies. The ones who did make millions for the business and were capable of doing work that no one else was capable of doing. Were not talking about fancy or creative coding; were talking about coding that only a few people in the world can do.
"f there is no documentation, the answer to the question, "Is it ready?" is "No."
You seriously believe this? Management or marketing could care less about documentation. To them documentation is something that might make your job easier or faster or make you more productive but has no value on the release of a product.
Management: So is the project done?
Developer: No, everything is done besides documentation.
Management: So its done? We can use the product?
Developer: No, like I said we still need to add documentation...
Management: So it done then.
I am not saying that documentation is not important; its as important as the code you write. But when it comes to a missing a deadline for a product release simply because your documentation management will not care (or understand) why they can't release a product because of the need of documentation.
There are entire websites (which are very big and popular) that focus on misleading information like this. Everything from product reviews, to blog post reviews, creating fake user accounts, selling traffic and so on.
Sites like digital point have thousands of people just waiting too help you scam people into buying your products, sites or services. It makes trying too do online business a pain.
I am running the latest version of Sins, have all updates up to the latest version, plus a couple of mod and maps and I have yet to pay for it, all their updates are located on all the gaming file sites.
Saying their download system is like DRM is just plain silly. If anything its more of a great convience to have all your needed downloads in one place. Also to play online against other players requires you to have a paid for version.
Why not just use gmail for your domain. Its pretty simple to setup and allows you to use gmail as your main email provider while still using your own domain (and managing your own email accounts).
It works great, and is more reliable then any service I have used (own mail servers, work servers, free service). There are also all ready gmail for your domain for the blackberry and Iphone.
I have been seeing these companies trying to put IT on the spot with these random tests as interviews and I find it degrading and a little insulting.
I will very happily take on a 24-48 hour project to show my abilities to complete a simple or complicated task within a set timeline but I have refused many job interviews/jobs because of their desire to see if I can do these types of "quizzes".
A good IT interviewer should have no problem judging a persons abilities by simply asking good or proper questions dealing with subjects with what ever language/project they will be working on. You can get a much better degree of undstanding of what someones abilities are this way then having them site down and solve riddles or showing work.
I share a house with 9 people and have comcast internet. Everyone in the house is on at least some bit each day with nearly everyone knowing how to stream video/music online as well as games and such.
250g might be good enough for a person, but it sure isn't good enough for a house/apartment with more then 1 or 2 people living in it.
I was worried that I would need to buy a PS3 for this game alone. Since I don't know anyone who has bought a ps3 (they all have 360's and wii's) I was worried this would be the time to have to buy one.
This is great news for people who enjoy the FF games, but do not enjoy having to fork over so much money to play 1 or 2 games they might enjoy.
There is very little you can do other then point out how it's illegal (if it is in your country) and or how it is morally wrong; which as it sounds isn't a problem with your employer. Since he was all ready signed up for their mailing list specifically to undermine any sales/services etc they might have to offer this is just another way for them to try taking business away from them.
Contact your ISP and ask them what their policy about sending spam which will most likely be that they do not allow it, and tell the boss that the ISP will cut service if you try it. As long as he will lose money it might keep him from going though with it.
Get a server over at serverbeach.com or some place simular. You can get linux servers with plesk for roughly $70 per month and up.
Both cpanel and plesk allow you to allow automatic account creation, meaning people can sign up on your site and have accounts created for them, auto billing, etc. You can setup different packages i.e. more bandwidth, disk space, domain names and so on.
Also with these systems it makes it very simple to manage your server. I only host my own sites and use plesk because of how easy it is to manage dns, email, domains, etc. Well worth the 10-20 bucks amonth for the plesk license.
Personally I would rather have to scroll vertically to view more lines of code then have to scroll horizontally to view code that expands out past the side of the screen.
There are dozens of hot keys you can use to scroll up or down though code, but very few that let you scroll left to right. Thats the main reason why I buy 17inch wide screen laptops.
This is what happens when you let an ISP service also become a very large and controling media outlet.
Comcast wants to make money off of the ISP service, their media services and any access to media (mostly make money off of others media) in one way or another.
I can see how they would want to make money off the ISP side and the media side, but when they want to control media though control of their ISP business they are crossing a line which I'm sure they will be fully allowed to.
If they are allowed to start controling p2p service like they will be allowed to control how not only how people access the internet though their network but what they access it will be yet another step towards them controling nearly every aspect of what you see when you use them as an ISP provider.
If you haven't seen the original version of the first ghost in the shell then you should find a copy of it and watch it. The SAC mini series is great; but the surreal feeling you are talking about from stand alone complex is minimal when compared to the full original movie:)
The article was written well but they guy didn't touch on what people will be doing with these sub domain names that is bad as well as how the SEO industry works. So I'll try to touch on this a bit..edu domain names are considered a cash cow in the SEO/link selling industry. On many of the link exchange and link selling sites if someone is selling links on.edu domains you can see the monthly costs for a link on one of these sites sell for sometimes hundreds of dollars. Thankfully.edu links are very rare, but sometimes people get access to posting links on these domains; don't ask me how but I'm guessing it happens through bad practices.
But why do people care so much about getting links on.edu domains? Well most search engines assume that anything connected with a.edu domain is very relevant to what ever topic you have on the domain, and links going out of the domain are very relevant as well to the subject matter. Normally.edu domains will get very high page rank (google ranking) and will show up very fast and get a top listing with very little content or back linking. This means seo, link sellers, and blog spammers will try to take advantage of this as quickly as possible. I checked some of the biggest link selling/blog spamming sites and thankfully a link to this blog site has not shown up, but I'm sure now it will very quickly.
I don't know why they want to re-do the first book in the dune series. We have the one lynch came up with, and Peter Berg has all ready done the first dune book for the sci-fi channel.
Why would Peter Berg want to direct the same book twice? Seems silly to me.
O and to any hardcore dune fans; if you havn't read sandworms of dune yet do not read it. It will make you angry and comes off like they want to come up with the worst way possible to end the series.
If the Afghanistan goverment follows through with the request then it will prove that the Afghanistan goverment is supporting the taliban.
But really, do they really expect the goverment to basicaly turn off a standard and important utility in their country? Why not turn off electricity so they can't see the lights on in taliban members houses?
As a web publisher I could see how this would benefit me as I only display ad's specific to what my sites are about. The problem lies with all the spam content sites that normally draw traffic from non-spam content sites.
People click on ad's displayed on a site mainly because of how the ad is displayed; mainly though good ad placement, or relevent content. Just because it was displayed on a half dozen other sites the person may have visited dosen't mean they should receive some of the payment. The fact that a user DIDN'T click on the ad on the other sites should infact punish the publishers as their ad's are aparently not specific to their customers visitiing the sites.
I've been a web developer for about 12 years now, and have worked with.net, asp, php, CGI and so on over the years.
From my expierence of learning new languages and techniques as well as teaching others who are new to web development with such techiques as AJAX; learning off a full blown app with all the bells and whistles all ready added makes it difficult and even more challanging. Many times the code can be misleading and often confusing (most AJAX code I have worked with has been a nightmare) and can often lead to most people not learning but instead simply doing copy/paste of code snippets and simply relying on the fact of "this piece of code works with this form, it will work on this form also" type of mentality of programming.
Don't get me wrong; I am a firm believer that the best way to learn how to program is by trying pre-existing apps that are around to get your feet wet and to see things in action which many of the chapters in the book touch on (authenicating users, user logins) but for many people who are getting into programming IMO planning and designing and application frameworks are not the type of thing anyone should focus on first. How can you start to learn about designing a web application if you have had hardly any expierence with the language itself. And even more so with PHP as this is the gateway drug; er language many people are starting off with in their first step into programming.
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Its very simple to come up with a Iphone killer.
Open developemet platform that costs nothing to develope in (IE dosen't require a Apple computer or money to get development liceneses) and a open application store that is available across carriers and phones.
Both of thse are available through the Android and will kill off the Iphone. Not this year, or next year but as the platform for the OS and development takes off the Iphones controled app store that is only available on the Iphone will get killed off, and the Android will take over in popularity. Apple had their chance and they dropped the ball, and Google wont make the same mistakes.
How many games are created outside of the base gamer market stactics that succeed. I'm gussing very few. This isn't a racial issue or hardely even something that sould use any type of social science since its all based on what market will make the most money. Young white males are the largest group that buy games in the US. If you made games that had an ugly and smart woman with half naked guys everywhere trying to solve quests the game would fail. But if you change the character into a monkey boom! No racial/social/cultural comparisioin. Same goes for a game made in Japan. If a game was released in Japan where the main character was Latino or Native American doing something relating to their culture it would most likely in every case fail.
If you are a game company and can make a game for 10 million white kids or 1 million black kids which one do you think is going to be made? Its not social/racial/culteral/etc its about money.
I am a content provider myself and run roughly 100 different sites. And I can tell you from my experience that sites that use pop ups these days are not ligament websites you would want too allow popups from.
Sure there are plenty of websites that use popups correctly and are useful but the majority of these are popups that the user initialize by clicking on a link, not random popups that are not user controled meaning ads.
There are plenty of technologies that people can utalize to make useful and helpful "popup" windows like litebox/thickbox that still allow publishers and content providers the ability to show content in a new window while not losing focus on the main page.
Popup blockers are a good thing, and adding an incontinence popup warning defaeats the purpose of blocking popup windows. If a user didn't click on something to initialize a popup window then they shouldn't be seeing popups.
The querystrings/all the get prams are still being passed, there just passed in a "visually" pleasant way for the user.
All the data is still there meaning mod_rewrite dosen't help with the "bandwidth" issue at all. It just looks pretty.
I think people are misunderstanding the level of work many of these people do and are assuming these people might be doing simple work that they themselves could do but without the attitude.
I have known many developers though the years but have only known 2 who fit into the category of absurdly good developers. These guys were not just very good developers who could just be replaced with ok or good developers with no attitude. These were guys who made the companies. The ones who did make millions for the business and were capable of doing work that no one else was capable of doing. Were not talking about fancy or creative coding; were talking about coding that only a few people in the world can do.
"f there is no documentation, the answer to the question, "Is it ready?" is "No."
You seriously believe this? Management or marketing could care less about documentation. To them documentation is something that might make your job easier or faster or make you more productive but has no value on the release of a product.
Management: So is the project done?
Developer: No, everything is done besides documentation.
Management: So its done? We can use the product?
Developer: No, like I said we still need to add documentation...
Management: So it done then.
I am not saying that documentation is not important; its as important as the code you write. But when it comes to a missing a deadline for a product release simply because your documentation management will not care (or understand) why they can't release a product because of the need of documentation.
There are entire websites (which are very big and popular) that focus on misleading information like this. Everything from product reviews, to blog post reviews, creating fake user accounts, selling traffic and so on.
Sites like digital point have thousands of people just waiting too help you scam people into buying your products, sites or services. It makes trying too do online business a pain.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
I am running the latest version of Sins, have all updates up to the latest version, plus a couple of mod and maps and I have yet to pay for it, all their updates are located on all the gaming file sites.
Saying their download system is like DRM is just plain silly. If anything its more of a great convience to have all your needed downloads in one place. Also to play online against other players requires you to have a paid for version.
Why not just use gmail for your domain. Its pretty simple to setup and allows you to use gmail as your main email provider while still using your own domain (and managing your own email accounts).
It works great, and is more reliable then any service I have used (own mail servers, work servers, free service). There are also all ready gmail for your domain for the blackberry and Iphone.
I have been seeing these companies trying to put IT on the spot with these random tests as interviews and I find it degrading and a little insulting.
I will very happily take on a 24-48 hour project to show my abilities to complete a simple or complicated task within a set timeline but I have refused many job interviews/jobs because of their desire to see if I can do these types of "quizzes".
A good IT interviewer should have no problem judging a persons abilities by simply asking good or proper questions dealing with subjects with what ever language/project they will be working on. You can get a much better degree of undstanding of what someones abilities are this way then having them site down and solve riddles or showing work.
I share a house with 9 people and have comcast internet. Everyone in the house is on at least some bit each day with nearly everyone knowing how to stream video/music online as well as games and such.
250g might be good enough for a person, but it sure isn't good enough for a house/apartment with more then 1 or 2 people living in it.
The first thing that came to mind was gumstix for me as well. Having owned a gumstix "rig" a 2 inch square computer seems fairly large.
I was worried that I would need to buy a PS3 for this game alone. Since I don't know anyone who has bought a ps3 (they all have 360's and wii's) I was worried this would be the time to have to buy one.
This is great news for people who enjoy the FF games, but do not enjoy having to fork over so much money to play 1 or 2 games they might enjoy.
There is very little you can do other then point out how it's illegal (if it is in your country) and or how it is morally wrong; which as it sounds isn't a problem with your employer. Since he was all ready signed up for their mailing list specifically to undermine any sales/services etc they might have to offer this is just another way for them to try taking business away from them.
Contact your ISP and ask them what their policy about sending spam which will most likely be that they do not allow it, and tell the boss that the ISP will cut service if you try it. As long as he will lose money it might keep him from going though with it.
Get a server over at serverbeach.com or some place simular. You can get linux servers with plesk for roughly $70 per month and up.
Both cpanel and plesk allow you to allow automatic account creation, meaning people can sign up on your site and have accounts created for them, auto billing, etc. You can setup different packages i.e. more bandwidth, disk space, domain names and so on.
Also with these systems it makes it very simple to manage your server. I only host my own sites and use plesk because of how easy it is to manage dns, email, domains, etc. Well worth the 10-20 bucks amonth for the plesk license.
Personally I would rather have to scroll vertically to view more lines of code then have to scroll horizontally to view code that expands out past the side of the screen.
There are dozens of hot keys you can use to scroll up or down though code, but very few that let you scroll left to right. Thats the main reason why I buy 17inch wide screen laptops.
I agree. Most likely the focus will be on big explosions, a car chase and I'm sure a love story thrown in for no reason.
This is what happens when you let an ISP service also become a very large and controling media outlet.
Comcast wants to make money off of the ISP service, their media services and any access to media (mostly make money off of others media) in one way or another.
I can see how they would want to make money off the ISP side and the media side, but when they want to control media though control of their ISP business they are crossing a line which I'm sure they will be fully allowed to.
If they are allowed to start controling p2p service like they will be allowed to control how not only how people access the internet though their network but what they access it will be yet another step towards them controling nearly every aspect of what you see when you use them as an ISP provider.
If you haven't seen the original version of the first ghost in the shell then you should find a copy of it and watch it. The SAC mini series is great; but the surreal feeling you are talking about from stand alone complex is minimal when compared to the full original movie :)
Another amazing anime story line that will be destroyed with American directors dumbing it down to be a blockbuster hit.
I don't expect this to be a good thing in anyway. A great example would be what hollywood did to the aeon flux comic book / cartoon.
The article was written well but they guy didn't touch on what people will be doing with these sub domain names that is bad as well as how the SEO industry works. So I'll try to touch on this a bit. .edu domain names are considered a cash cow in the SEO/link selling industry. On many of the link exchange and link selling sites if someone is selling links on .edu domains you can see the monthly costs for a link on one of these sites sell for sometimes hundreds of dollars. Thankfully .edu links are very rare, but sometimes people get access to posting links on these domains; don't ask me how but I'm guessing it happens through bad practices.
.edu domains? Well most search engines assume that anything connected with a .edu domain is very relevant to what ever topic you have on the domain, and links going out of the domain are very relevant as well to the subject matter. Normally .edu domains will get very high page rank (google ranking) and will show up very fast and get a top listing with very little content or back linking. This means seo, link sellers, and blog spammers will try to take advantage of this as quickly as possible. I checked some of the biggest link selling/blog spamming sites and thankfully a link to this blog site has not shown up, but I'm sure now it will very quickly.
But why do people care so much about getting links on
I don't know why they want to re-do the first book in the dune series. We have the one lynch came up with, and Peter Berg has all ready done the first dune book for the sci-fi channel.
Why would Peter Berg want to direct the same book twice? Seems silly to me.
O and to any hardcore dune fans; if you havn't read sandworms of dune yet do not read it. It will make you angry and comes off like they want to come up with the worst way possible to end the series.
If the Afghanistan goverment follows through with the request then it will prove that the Afghanistan goverment is supporting the taliban.
But really, do they really expect the goverment to basicaly turn off a standard and important utility in their country? Why not turn off electricity so they can't see the lights on in taliban members houses?
As a web publisher I could see how this would benefit me as I only display ad's specific to what my sites are about. The problem lies with all the spam content sites that normally draw traffic from non-spam content sites.
People click on ad's displayed on a site mainly because of how the ad is displayed; mainly though good ad placement, or relevent content. Just because it was displayed on a half dozen other sites the person may have visited dosen't mean they should receive some of the payment. The fact that a user DIDN'T click on the ad on the other sites should infact punish the publishers as their ad's are aparently not specific to their customers visitiing the sites.
I've been a web developer for about 12 years now, and have worked with .net, asp, php, CGI and so on over the years.
From my expierence of learning new languages and techniques as well as teaching others who are new to web development with such techiques as AJAX; learning off a full blown app with all the bells and whistles all ready added makes it difficult and even more challanging. Many times the code can be misleading and often confusing (most AJAX code I have worked with has been a nightmare) and can often lead to most people not learning but instead simply doing copy/paste of code snippets and simply relying on the fact of "this piece of code works with this form, it will work on this form also" type of mentality of programming.
Don't get me wrong; I am a firm believer that the best way to learn how to program is by trying pre-existing apps that are around to get your feet wet and to see things in action which many of the chapters in the book touch on (authenicating users, user logins) but for many people who are getting into programming IMO planning and designing and application frameworks are not the type of thing anyone should focus on first. How can you start to learn about designing a web application if you have had hardly any expierence with the language itself. And even more so with PHP as this is the gateway drug; er language many people are starting off with in their first step into programming.