I just don't see what possible value that studying three-legged dogs to bring to the table. How to help leg-challenged horses?
How about as fodder for jokes?...
This traveling salesman is _way_ out in the hills and approaches a farmer to try to
sell his wares. He notices a three legged pig hopping around in the front yard and
asks the farmer about it.
"That's no ordinary pig!" exclaims the farmer. "That pig is smart! We all owe our lives
to that thar pig! Why, last winter we wuz all asleep and a spark from the fireplace
caught the cabin on fire, and we would've all burned up. But that pig squeeled and
beat on the front porch to wake us up and saved all our lives! And last sprang my
son wuz a swimmin in the pond and took a cramp and woulda drown, but that thar
pig come a runnin to the back fourty where I was a plowin and drug me by the
overalls til I saw him and saved his life again!"
"Wow, but what happened to his leg?" asked the salesman.
"We owe it all to that pig! Why, it wouldn't be right to just eat him all at once!"
Web server log entries from the past 8-9 years show 95% of the attempted break-ins originating from China. They've been checking the locks on the doors and windows for along time.
But, when I suggest that we simply block all IPs from that part of the world (I usually added a course explicative that conveyed that they could make sex with themselves), management says no.
I'm a full-blooded capitalist and believe in the power of a free market and society, but this is ethics, pure and simple.
If I were Google, I'd be spinning off large team of people to start working on hacking into anything in the PRC they can find. If the "Law of the Land" condones computer breaking-and-entering then, by God, full steam ahead!
Captialism works because it rewards people for their efforts and creativity, not because of their NEED. Some will make more than others -- not all men are created equal. But greed? No.
Now the internet operators will have to make everyone pay more for high speed internet access because they're forced by the rule of guns and "laws" to provide access to those who can't afford it but need it.
How about sitting in a temporary trailer, in a parking lot, in Miami, in the summer, right in front of the door that had a spring not an automatic closer so the damn thing would bang everytime it closed, with people coming in and out constantly just because they liked our printer.
The only consolation was the Cuban coffee shop next door. Now THAT I miss!
1) Sorry, but programmers ARE developers. Graphic artists and architects are users. To say otherwise is a slap in the face of developers, including me.
2) Programmers...er...developers don't pick a development platform simply because it's new. That's a user-thing. If fact, we don't pick a OS...our employer does. And guess what they're probably using?
3) Mac marketing as been brilliant but that's not a reason to buy a computer. In fact, one could say that the Mac could have been the "cow that got killed" if it hadn't been for the i*.
4) Vista ain't bad as long as you have the right hardware. I know...I've been developing on it for over a year.
5) Apple's market share for web and graphics designers is not based on the OS simplicity but on history -- they were the first ones to market with hardware and software that seemed made for publishing and image processing.
I'm almost at one of those "No, I won't fix your computer" moments.
If asked (or arm-twisted), which AV vendor would you recommend?
At some point in time, each seems to move to the "front of the line" in terms of quality and performance...then some update comes along and...boom...either or both go into the crapper.
Nope! I do! I do!
When you have to sing the national anthem at hockey and baseball games....it kinda goes with the territory.
"Oh Canada, our home and native land.
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise
the true north strong and free...."
Ok...you can find the rest of it online somewhere.
Dave in Florida.
Actually, the best lesson is going straight into code maintenance. You can learn a lot just by looking at others good/bad examples. Have a mentor available so he/she can point to which is which just so you don't get confused.
If you left without telling anyone about this, then I'd call it a hacking.
But the problem is, it's your word against theirs.
Send them an email telling them that you gave instructions to so-and-so before leaving about the watchdog configuration, that you are still receiving these messages, that you don't want to and never have wanted to receive these messages, and to change this at their earliest convenience.
Now it's documented and you're off the hook.
It's a reasonable approach...if your product is not being selected on purely political, unethical, or illegal reasons.
But, govts like businesses pick software for more than just technically functional reasons. They pick whatever will most effectively allow people, inside the organization and out, to work together.
Try sending someone, anyone an OpenOffice document and see what happens. You'll get either a response of 1) "what the hell is a ODT file?" or 2) "I know what this is but I don't have time to deal with it..resend as a DOC".
If OpenOffice would allow users to set Office document types as the default file format, users can deal with incompatibilities, and can put up with a crappy database product...it might work (it might support the default doc type already...I used OO for a while but don't remember if it supported this).
If Microsoft hadn't won this effort, we'd all be talking about Lotus-Everywhere or OfficePerfect or something similar.
"most if not all content management systems (CMSs) lack native e-commerce capabilities."
Wrong.
We just started a large development project using KenticoCMS and, while we don't need it, it comes with e-commerce built-in.
If support for e-com is anything like the rest of the framework, I'd say it's outstanding. We've been beating up on Kentico for almost two months and haven't run into any bear traps yet.
.Net 3.5 compatible, full API, web and VS development environments, and good support.
It's not open source but still reasonably priced (~$5K US).
Very impressive.
And...no...I don't work for them.:)
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If you're a n00b...Fine.
If you're someone who codes for a living...the books are idiotic and really not that funny. I'm interested in learning, not being entertained. I find myself about every third page wanting to scream "JUST TELL ME WHAT THE F!#K I NEED TO KNOW!".
But...then again...that's just my opinion.
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Plain and simple.
He said "Wang"!...snort, snort, snort...
I just don't see what possible value that studying three-legged dogs to bring to the table. How to help leg-challenged horses?
How about as fodder for jokes?...
This traveling salesman is _way_ out in the hills and approaches a farmer to try to sell his wares. He notices a three legged pig hopping around in the front yard and asks the farmer about it. "That's no ordinary pig!" exclaims the farmer. "That pig is smart! We all owe our lives to that thar pig! Why, last winter we wuz all asleep and a spark from the fireplace caught the cabin on fire, and we would've all burned up. But that pig squeeled and beat on the front porch to wake us up and saved all our lives! And last sprang my son wuz a swimmin in the pond and took a cramp and woulda drown, but that thar pig come a runnin to the back fourty where I was a plowin and drug me by the overalls til I saw him and saved his life again!" "Wow, but what happened to his leg?" asked the salesman. "We owe it all to that pig! Why, it wouldn't be right to just eat him all at once!"
'nuf said.
Web server log entries from the past 8-9 years show 95% of the attempted break-ins originating from China. They've been checking the locks on the doors and windows for along time. But, when I suggest that we simply block all IPs from that part of the world (I usually added a course explicative that conveyed that they could make sex with themselves), management says no. I'm a full-blooded capitalist and believe in the power of a free market and society, but this is ethics, pure and simple. If I were Google, I'd be spinning off large team of people to start working on hacking into anything in the PRC they can find. If the "Law of the Land" condones computer breaking-and-entering then, by God, full steam ahead!
It's secure. It's online. It stores more than just passwords. And it's free. 'nuf said.
Captialism works because it rewards people for their efforts and creativity, not because of their NEED. Some will make more than others -- not all men are created equal. But greed? No. Now the internet operators will have to make everyone pay more for high speed internet access because they're forced by the rule of guns and "laws" to provide access to those who can't afford it but need it.
The needs of the people outweigh the rewards of hard work and creative output.
Where have I heard this crapola before?
How about sitting in a temporary trailer, in a parking lot, in Miami, in the summer, right in front of the door that had a spring not an automatic closer so the damn thing would bang everytime it closed, with people coming in and out constantly just because they liked our printer. The only consolation was the Cuban coffee shop next door. Now THAT I miss!
...or...to quote Ron White..."You can't fix stupid."
1) Sorry, but programmers ARE developers. Graphic artists and architects are users. To say otherwise is a slap in the face of developers, including me.
2) Programmers...er...developers don't pick a development platform simply because it's new. That's a user-thing. If fact, we don't pick a OS...our employer does. And guess what they're probably using?
3) Mac marketing as been brilliant but that's not a reason to buy a computer. In fact, one could say that the Mac could have been the "cow that got killed" if it hadn't been for the i*.
4) Vista ain't bad as long as you have the right hardware. I know...I've been developing on it for over a year.
5) Apple's market share for web and graphics designers is not based on the OS simplicity but on history -- they were the first ones to market with hardware and software that seemed made for publishing and image processing.
I'm almost at one of those "No, I won't fix your computer" moments.
If asked (or arm-twisted), which AV vendor would you recommend?
At some point in time, each seems to move to the "front of the line" in terms of quality and performance...then some update comes along and...boom...either or both go into the crapper.
Suggestions?
Perfect. Reminds me of the Despair t-shirt: "More people read this t-shirt than your blog."
Nope! I do! I do! When you have to sing the national anthem at hockey and baseball games....it kinda goes with the territory. "Oh Canada, our home and native land. True patriot love in all thy sons command. With glowing hearts we see thee rise the true north strong and free...." Ok...you can find the rest of it online somewhere. Dave in Florida.
Actually, the best lesson is going straight into code maintenance. You can learn a lot just by looking at others good/bad examples. Have a mentor available so he/she can point to which is which just so you don't get confused.
If you left without telling anyone about this, then I'd call it a hacking. But the problem is, it's your word against theirs. Send them an email telling them that you gave instructions to so-and-so before leaving about the watchdog configuration, that you are still receiving these messages, that you don't want to and never have wanted to receive these messages, and to change this at their earliest convenience. Now it's documented and you're off the hook.
...take your battle to the legal playing fields.
It's a reasonable approach...if your product is not being selected on purely political, unethical, or illegal reasons.
But, govts like businesses pick software for more than just technically functional reasons. They pick whatever will most effectively allow people, inside the organization and out, to work together.
Try sending someone, anyone an OpenOffice document and see what happens. You'll get either a response of 1) "what the hell is a ODT file?" or 2) "I know what this is but I don't have time to deal with it..resend as a DOC".
If OpenOffice would allow users to set Office document types as the default file format, users can deal with incompatibilities, and can put up with a crappy database product...it might work (it might support the default doc type already...I used OO for a while but don't remember if it supported this).
If Microsoft hadn't won this effort, we'd all be talking about Lotus-Everywhere or OfficePerfect or something similar.
So paying IBM is better because?......
Wrong George. George Carlin. At least, I think. Whether it was his originally, you'd have to ask him...oh...wait...nevermind.
"most if not all content management systems (CMSs) lack native e-commerce capabilities."
Wrong.
We just started a large development project using KenticoCMS and, while we don't need it, it comes with e-commerce built-in.
If support for e-com is anything like the rest of the framework, I'd say it's outstanding. We've been beating up on Kentico for almost two months and haven't run into any bear traps yet.
.Net 3.5 compatible, full API, web and VS development environments, and good support.
It's not open source but still reasonably priced (~$5K US).
Very impressive.
And...no...I don't work for them. :)
If you're a n00b...Fine. If you're someone who codes for a living...the books are idiotic and really not that funny. I'm interested in learning, not being entertained. I find myself about every third page wanting to scream "JUST TELL ME WHAT THE F!#K I NEED TO KNOW!". But...then again...that's just my opinion.