browsers with poor CSS support aka Internet Exploder. Almost always, if somebody is complaining about how difficult CSS is, it's related to the time they had to waste getting something to render properly in IE. Now we're blessed with IE8 which contains it's own bastardized versions of IE8-6 and IE8-7 which I've found have inconsistencies with their native IE6 and IE7 counterparts. Oh the humanity!
I've ran into numerous web workers who still prefer to use tables. Often times they are either beginners or workers who grew up with table-based layouts. I guess I'm in the 'middle generation' of web designers who only suffered a couples years with tables and moved on.
Oh how soon we forget. I think people in NY are a bit more sensitive to the topic than the rest of the country/world when it comes to planes flying low and they have every reason to be. Anybody consider that current office workers somehow knew or were related to the victims of 9/11?
Yahoo originally bought Geocities for something like 3-5 billion dollars. Why not sell it to another company. Yahoo could perhaps avoid having to lay off another 700 people if they made a few million dollars on it.
I'm aware of lookup tables. I meant rules that might be even more complex than a simple lookup table. Either way, I wouldn't claim to be a good programmer, I'm a good designer : )
Anybody have any idea how this type of infection happens? I.e does a user simply visit the site, and without any sort of prompt automatically downloads a file that runs amok or does the user actually have to invoke something once on the site to download this?
My job title is Web Designer which is what I prefer to be called. My duties include mocking up the website, converting that design to html+css+javascript and a few other duties.
We have a guy who writes most of our back-end code who prefers to be called a web developer. His job duties usually involve asp.net, sql and some minor html knowledge.
You can even take that a step further and say that those users that pirated the software when younger will ask to legally use the software while at work. That's why Adobe's getting paid for my copy of Fireworks, which I prefer over Photoshop at my workplace.
Isn't it about time to fire all the IE developers responsible for the Trident rendering engine and just use another open source rendering engine? I mean if they're going to go through all the trouble of incorporating the other engines in IE why even bother developing Trident anymore?
Anybody think any of these sites are actually illegal, i.e child porn sites? I clicked on a few links and I'm wondering if the FBI will be breaking down my doors in a few weeks.
Maybe, it's just me but I haven't enjoyed the Sci-Fi channel since I was a kid in the 90's back when it used to be more of a horror movie channel. I hardly watch it anymore as I don't find anything interesting on it. I thought tech-tv was good for awhile but that got merged and sucks as well now.
I seriously doubt IE will have the majority of the market share by the time IE9 comes out. Many of the web usage reports out there are showing that Firefox is at 20% or higher and that Safari is around 5% or so.
I would also argue that a lot more 'dumb consumers' (people like my parents) are buying Macs now to be trendy which will help IEs market share drop.
Also has anyone used IE8 yet and tested sites out on it? I've used it and it rendering engine is pretty terrible, even when set in emulate IE7 mode which then introduces a complete new set of rendering bugs.
Has anybody seen some of the garbage code that wysiwyg editors produce? It makes me want to cry after spending countless hours making my sites validate only to see some no talent ass clown start modifying pages in a wysiwyg with all kinds of invalid code. I will admit that Dreamweaver can also product this kind of code in it's design view but at least it has a decent code view.
About a month ago I changed my profile picture on Facebook. A week later I removed it and chose another picture. Out of curiosity I copied the URL to my picture to see how long it would sit on Facebook's server. It's now been several weeks later and the picture remains on their server. Just something to remember when you post a picture to their site.
I suspect the same is true if you delete a comment. They probably just flag the comment in the database.
From: Steve Ballmer Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 6:07 AM Subject: Realigning Resources and Reducing Costs
In response to the realities of a deteriorating economy, we're taking important steps to realign Microsoft's business. I want to tell you about what we're doing and why.
Today we announced second quarter revenue of $16.6 billion. This number is an increase of just 2 percent compared with the second quarter of last year and it is approximately $900 million below our earlier expectations.
The fact that we are growing at all during the worst recession in two generations reflects our strong business fundamentals and is a testament to your hard work. Our products provide great value to our customers. Our financial position is solid. We have made long-term investments that continue to pay off.
But it is also clear that we are not immune to the effects of the economy. Consumers and businesses have reined in spending, which is affecting PC shipments and IT expenditures.
Our response to this environment must combine a commitment to long-term investments in innovation with prompt action to reduce our costs.
During the second quarter we started down the right path. As the economy deteriorated, we acted quickly. As a result, we reduced operating expenses during the quarter by $600 million. I appreciate the agility you have shown in enabling us to achieve this result.
Now we need to do more. We must make adjustments to ensure that our investments are tightly aligned with current and future revenue opportunities. The current environment requires that we continue to increase our efficiency.
As part of the process of adjustments, we will eliminate up to 5,000 positions in R&D, marketing, sales, finance, LCA, HR, and IT over the next 18 months, of which 1,400 will occur today. We'll also open new positions to support key investment areas during this same period of time. Our net headcount in these functions will decline by 2,000 to 3,000 over the next 18 months. In addition, our workforce in support, consulting, operations, billing, manufacturing, and data center operations will continue to change in direct response to customer needs.
Our leaders all have specific goals to manage costs prudently and thoughtfully. They have the flexibility to adjust the size of their teams so they are appropriately matched to revenue potential, to add headcount where they need to increase investments in order to ensure future success, and to drive efficiency.
To increase efficiency, we're taking a series of aggressive steps. We'll cut travel expenditures 20 percent and make significant reductions in spending on vendors and contingent staff. We've scaled back Puget Sound campus expansion and reduced marketing budgets. We'll also reduce costs by eliminating merit increases for FY10 that would have taken effect in September of this calendar year.
Each of these steps will be difficult. Our priority remains doing right by our customers and our employees. For employees who are directly affected, I know this will be a difficult time for you and I want to assure you that we will provide help and support during this transition. We have established an outplacement center in the Puget Sound region and we'll provide outplacement services in many other locations to help you find new jobs. Some of you may find jobs internally. For those who don't, we will also offer severance pay and other benefits.
The decision to eliminate jobs is a very difficult one. Our people are the foundation of everything we have achieved and we place the highest value on the commitment and hard work that you have dedicated to building this company. But we believe these job eliminations are crucial to our ability to adjust the company's cost structure so that we have the resources to drive future profitable growth. I encourage you to attend tomorrow's Town Hall at 9am PST in Cafe 34 or watch the Webcast.
While this is the most challenging economic climate
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You are correct, although not the mere mention of Germany but the mention of Nazis.
browsers with poor CSS support aka Internet Exploder. Almost always, if somebody is complaining about how difficult CSS is, it's related to the time they had to waste getting something to render properly in IE. Now we're blessed with IE8 which contains it's own bastardized versions of IE8-6 and IE8-7 which I've found have inconsistencies with their native IE6 and IE7 counterparts. Oh the humanity!
I've ran into numerous web workers who still prefer to use tables. Often times they are either beginners or workers who grew up with table-based layouts. I guess I'm in the 'middle generation' of web designers who only suffered a couples years with tables and moved on.
Oh how soon we forget. I think people in NY are a bit more sensitive to the topic than the rest of the country/world when it comes to planes flying low and they have every reason to be. Anybody consider that current office workers somehow knew or were related to the victims of 9/11?
From whitehouse.gov img alt="DCSIMG" id="DCSIMG" width="1" height="1" src="http://statse.webtrendslive.com/dcs0l9nq800000ctek411lue6_2c8b/njs.gif?dcsuri=/nojavascript&WT.js=No&DCS.dcscfg=1&WT.tv=8.6.0"
Yahoo originally bought Geocities for something like 3-5 billion dollars. Why not sell it to another company. Yahoo could perhaps avoid having to lay off another 700 people if they made a few million dollars on it.
I'm aware of lookup tables. I meant rules that might be even more complex than a simple lookup table. Either way, I wouldn't claim to be a good programmer, I'm a good designer : )
Anybody have any idea how this type of infection happens? I.e does a user simply visit the site, and without any sort of prompt automatically downloads a file that runs amok or does the user actually have to invoke something once on the site to download this?
It's about as confusing as england+britain+united kingdom if you ask me.
...would it cost me to buy one of these things?
As a programmer, I'm already scared of all of endless if then else statements that will needed to be created for the madness.
I believe Wisconsin recently enacted taxes for online sales. Unfortunately I live in Wisconsin.
Agreed. YouTube is similar to the web browser because neither really make any money for their respective companies.
My job title is Web Designer which is what I prefer to be called. My duties include mocking up the website, converting that design to html+css+javascript and a few other duties.
We have a guy who writes most of our back-end code who prefers to be called a web developer. His job duties usually involve asp.net, sql and some minor html knowledge.
You can even take that a step further and say that those users that pirated the software when younger will ask to legally use the software while at work. That's why Adobe's getting paid for my copy of Fireworks, which I prefer over Photoshop at my workplace.
Isn't it about time to fire all the IE developers responsible for the Trident rendering engine and just use another open source rendering engine? I mean if they're going to go through all the trouble of incorporating the other engines in IE why even bother developing Trident anymore?
Anybody think any of these sites are actually illegal, i.e child porn sites? I clicked on a few links and I'm wondering if the FBI will be breaking down my doors in a few weeks.
Hahaha, only 642 validator warnings for this page along. I would have to agree with you.
Maybe, it's just me but I haven't enjoyed the Sci-Fi channel since I was a kid in the 90's back when it used to be more of a horror movie channel. I hardly watch it anymore as I don't find anything interesting on it. I thought tech-tv was good for awhile but that got merged and sucks as well now.
Believe me, I am a validation nazi so the problems is with Microsoft.
Why not email yourself a .zip file of portable firefox. If there's a will, there's a way.
I seriously doubt IE will have the majority of the market share by the time IE9 comes out. Many of the web usage reports out there are showing that Firefox is at 20% or higher and that Safari is around 5% or so.
I would also argue that a lot more 'dumb consumers' (people like my parents) are buying Macs now to be trendy which will help IEs market share drop.
Also has anyone used IE8 yet and tested sites out on it? I've used it and it rendering engine is pretty terrible, even when set in emulate IE7 mode which then introduces a complete new set of rendering bugs.
Has anybody seen some of the garbage code that wysiwyg editors produce? It makes me want to cry after spending countless hours making my sites validate only to see some no talent ass clown start modifying pages in a wysiwyg with all kinds of invalid code. I will admit that Dreamweaver can also product this kind of code in it's design view but at least it has a decent code view.
About a month ago I changed my profile picture on Facebook. A week later I removed it and chose another picture. Out of curiosity I copied the URL to my picture to see how long it would sit on Facebook's server. It's now been several weeks later and the picture remains on their server. Just something to remember when you post a picture to their site. I suspect the same is true if you delete a comment. They probably just flag the comment in the database.
I just did this the other day and found one of my sticks had 1000+ errors on it.
From: Steve Ballmer Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 6:07 AM Subject: Realigning Resources and Reducing Costs
In response to the realities of a deteriorating economy, we're taking important steps to realign Microsoft's business. I want to tell you about what we're doing and why.
Today we announced second quarter revenue of $16.6 billion. This number is an increase of just 2 percent compared with the second quarter of last year and it is approximately $900 million below our earlier expectations.
The fact that we are growing at all during the worst recession in two generations reflects our strong business fundamentals and is a testament to your hard work. Our products provide great value to our customers. Our financial position is solid. We have made long-term investments that continue to pay off.
But it is also clear that we are not immune to the effects of the economy. Consumers and businesses have reined in spending, which is affecting PC shipments and IT expenditures.
Our response to this environment must combine a commitment to long-term investments in innovation with prompt action to reduce our costs.
During the second quarter we started down the right path. As the economy deteriorated, we acted quickly. As a result, we reduced operating expenses during the quarter by $600 million. I appreciate the agility you have shown in enabling us to achieve this result.
Now we need to do more. We must make adjustments to ensure that our investments are tightly aligned with current and future revenue opportunities. The current environment requires that we continue to increase our efficiency.
As part of the process of adjustments, we will eliminate up to 5,000 positions in R&D, marketing, sales, finance, LCA, HR, and IT over the next 18 months, of which 1,400 will occur today. We'll also open new positions to support key investment areas during this same period of time. Our net headcount in these functions will decline by 2,000 to 3,000 over the next 18 months. In addition, our workforce in support, consulting, operations, billing, manufacturing, and data center operations will continue to change in direct response to customer needs.
Our leaders all have specific goals to manage costs prudently and thoughtfully. They have the flexibility to adjust the size of their teams so they are appropriately matched to revenue potential, to add headcount where they need to increase investments in order to ensure future success, and to drive efficiency.
To increase efficiency, we're taking a series of aggressive steps. We'll cut travel expenditures 20 percent and make significant reductions in spending on vendors and contingent staff. We've scaled back Puget Sound campus expansion and reduced marketing budgets. We'll also reduce costs by eliminating merit increases for FY10 that would have taken effect in September of this calendar year.
Each of these steps will be difficult. Our priority remains doing right by our customers and our employees. For employees who are directly affected, I know this will be a difficult time for you and I want to assure you that we will provide help and support during this transition. We have established an outplacement center in the Puget Sound region and we'll provide outplacement services in many other locations to help you find new jobs. Some of you may find jobs internally. For those who don't, we will also offer severance pay and other benefits.
The decision to eliminate jobs is a very difficult one. Our people are the foundation of everything we have achieved and we place the highest value on the commitment and hard work that you have dedicated to building this company. But we believe these job eliminations are crucial to our ability to adjust the company's cost structure so that we have the resources to drive future profitable growth. I encourage you to attend tomorrow's Town Hall at 9am PST in Cafe 34 or watch the Webcast.
While this is the most challenging economic climate