I was not comparing the quality of the differences, just commenting on how easy it is to train people to "like" something different. I agree that we are talking about two different ends of the spectrum when comparing faster frame-rate and higher compression.
I also agree that "like" is very subjective, and some people like crap (from my subjective viewpoint that is).
Hypercard has lots of bastard kids, no one cares
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HyperNext, HyperStudio, LiveCode, and SuperCard are all available and based on the Hypercard model, which is at least mentioned in passing in the article (but not the post, above). When I RTFA, I noted the author states: "All of (the programs based on the Hypercard model) are failures for the same reason: they insist on being more capable, more complexity-laden than HyperCard". Wow, adding more features and making programs more capable makes them a failure? Uh, no. In fact, Hyperstudio is really just an updated clone of Hypercard with lots of color and multimedia features added. The fact is that the Hypercard model had its place as an education tool, but was not that useful for most applications. The article, and the person who posted it here are not really talking about Hypercard, their rant is more a platform to spread conspiracy theories and Apple bashing, which is fine, enjoy yourself, but call it what it is.
I am more and more convinced that the type of people who are on Facebook, let alone those who actually will use messages, are not the types to know or be savvy enough for torrents and similar activities
if you want to communicate with your relatives and certain friends, you end up with a Facebook and/or Twitter account, regardless of how "savvy" you are.
Our hardware failure rate is so low it is really not a factor. I have G4, G5, and Intel based machines all coexisting on one network, and as machines get replaced, the old Macs becomes a hand-me-down to a public access lab or "no budget" department because the damn Mac's just will not die. Cloning software such as Superduper, and system migration tools built into OS X make migration and imaging very easy. Web services all done in Drupal and hosted externally. We don't do CAD, but we are doing inhouse video and audio, no problem. We do groups and permissions on our Appleshare server, also no problem.
What IT department? We are a 90% Mac based non-profit (12 million/yr, 100 employees), I am assistant director, and do IT work as a sideline due to personal experience. Everything works, servers, anti virus and backup centrally controlled, all servers and workstations mirrored, back up on and off site via Crashplan, volume licensing covers compliance. Users are pretty much self sufficient on Macs. End of story.
This wasn't a troll, and neither is this. I'm actually curious. How many mods are not Judeo-Christian?
If 80% of the US is of Christian faith, with the majority of the remaining 20% of the Jewish faith, you would think that post deserves at least a mod +1 Funny...
According to the 2008 demographics collected by one of the most conservative private Christian colleges around (Trinity), almost 25% of the US is NOT Christian, with over 15% of this group in my personal segment, "Agnostic or Atheist", (those of Jewish faith are about 1.2% of total). Your 80/20 percentages are not only misleading, they are also just plain wrong.
Encryption and a whole host of other requirements are now the law in California for any non-profit, local gov or other agency using state funds and that has any personal data anywhere on their systems. This could be something as innocent as the address block in a letter you typed to one person, does not have to mean the "database."
I agree, even civil damages for fraud would be difficult. We don't have current law to cover this.
This is why, when you watch/read stock market analysis, all brokers ALWAYS disclose whether they own the stock they are providing advice on, lawmakers passed a "full disclosure" law, to provide transparency and prevent manipulation of the market.
Perhaps we need additions to Fed. regulations to cover disclosures by business employees on their own products and services. (not saying that they cannot do reviews, just that they must provide DISCLOSURE of their connection and potential conflict of interest)
check out Crashplan, does continuous incremental local and offsite backup, you and a friend each back up to the others machine (each add an external HD or whatever), has ability to schedule and limit bandwidth use, cross platform, encrypted, blah blah. best part is there is a free license for personal use, up to 10 machines. They also have a service they sell for backing up to their servers, but that sounds expensive. I am testing free version (prior to buying commercial ver.) at my non-profit where I work, so far so good. One week of backups, w/ tested selective restores, no problems yet.
"Conflict of Interest" is not a criminal offense. You might have a civil case for fraud, but I doubt seriously if any criminal charges would ever be filed, let alone upheld in a court.
I don't know why Google would show penises and not clitorises, but if you think that the public is more offended by women's genitalia than men's, you are a raving idiot. Just watch television. I have seen full frontal nudity many times on television. Not once have I ever seen full frontal nudity of a man on television. Go to the movies. you will see plenty of full frontal nudity of women in R rated movies. You won't get a single shot of a penis until you go to X. You view that women's genitalia is considered more acceptable than men's is patently wrong.
If a guy grabs all the dangling bits, and tucks them between his legs, leaving only a triangle of hair, and takes a photo, THEN you can try and make your comparison of the female and male photos/ratings. Or more to the point, if the girl is spread wide open, then it would be on a par with the full frontal nude male. Not wrong at all, but thanks for trying.
As for breasts? You do have a bit of a point. It does seem absurd that flashing an A cup boob is a crime if you are a woman, while flashing a C cup isn't if you are a man. I am rational enough to understand though that this misguided law comes from the fact that women use their breasts as sexual organs far more frequently than men do. I think is safe to assume that you are fully aware of this fact.
Actually, I think that most women might feel that men are the ones that "use," ie. objectify and sexualize, a women's breasts.
As for breast feeding in public... If it is illegal to show your breasts, then it should apply equally across the board. If you addressed it at that level, I could support you. But, claiming that it is "SIMPLY A BABY EATING" is disingenuous at best. If you want to claim that it is just a bathroom issue, then you could get a lot more support by suggesting that places like malls install breast feeding rooms. It's not that hard. I've seen them, and they have always been far more comfortable and clean that the common areas.
In California, it is NOT illegal, quite the opposite, nursing is a protected activity under state law, interfering with a nursing mother is the illegal activity. I am all for businesses and other public facilities that put in feeding rooms, family bathrooms with changing tables, and lots of other appropriate facilities, but I do not believe that they all should be forced to do so. If there is no reasonable alternative, then the baby has as much right to "eat at the table" as you do. Frankly most women I know really appreciate feeding rooms and the like for nursing mothers, they don't want to be a spectacle, or cause a scene, they just want to take care of their baby!
Look, you can get offended that people don't want to see your wife's tits. Personal, I do, and would love for you to post a link where I and anybody else that wants to see them can go and get a look at them, but then I'm also not offended by blow jobs. That doesn't mean I don't understand when other people don't want to see be getting one, or even seem my penis when it doesn't have someones mouth attached to it.
As for the "It is NOT sexual", that is unfortunately not always true. It is pretty common for women to continue to breast feed for their own physical enjoyment. For some reason no one is arresting these women for child molestation, and they are often encouraged by people with "authority". Of course, appropriate age and reasons for breast feeding, whether in public or private, is kind of a different topic, but since you made the claim that it is not sexual as an absolute statement, you brought it into this discussion.
Wow, what do I say. You DON'T HAVE TO LOOK you know. Virtually always, the nursing mother will be sitting with, sometimes with a cloth over her shoulder in a pretense of privacy, in the booth in the back in the corner in the dark, figuratively speaking, and it is not that hard to just not look. Try it, it may help you deal with your issues.
If you set your Google SafeSearch filter on "strict filtering" and search for clitoris, you get zero returns.
But if you try a Google SafeSearch "strict filtering" search for penis, you get...
33,000,000 returns.
That's because "clitoris" is on Google's list of naughty words which are never, ever "safe." Penis is just fine, however. http://tr.im/2tee (susiebright.blogs.com)
This double standard continues through many body part images. It would seem in today's morality, Men's breasts are totally acceptable, and can be published in photos and videos completely uncovered. Womens breasts however, are dirty and must be covered, even when feeding a child..
Several folks have posted comments to the effect to "take it to the bathroom" for breastfeeding mothers. Don't know about anybody else, but my wife is NOT feeding my son in the bathroom. Do you go to a stall in the bathroom for every meal you eat in public? (please don't tell me if you do). Nobody in my family is being forced to eat in the bathroom, including my nursing son.
If you don't like an infant's method of eating, you have personal problems, and should see someone about it. It is NOT sexual, it is NOT dirty, it is NOT something that needs to be done behind closed doors, it is SIMPLY A BABY EATING. jeesh. Grow up.
A lot of folks are providing good advice about contracts, and rates and the like, but the process of costing out a large web development job, or even a smaller one, is not black and white. The client frequently does NOT know what they want, does NOT have the content to fill the site, and does NOT appreciate the programming effort required to achieve the objectives set out. In order to provide a quote you can live with, you need to provide quotes on phases of work, with each phase feeding the next quote.
Out of frustration with the inevitable question, how much will it cost me to make a web site, I developed a process I called the 3 Cs of web site development, to stimulate a meaningful conversation between myself and the client.
New Web Site Development Process - the Three Cs: Conceptualization - Content Development - Construction
The development of a professional web site is a complex process, and is a great deal more involved than just programming. I recommend that when a web developer works with a client, they both consider the three 3 Cs of initial web site development: Conceptualization, Content Development, and Construction. (In addition, after a web site is developed, there are also maintenance and update issues to consider.)
Conceptualization The first phase, Conceptualization, is often overlooked. However, you should consider this to be the most important of the three phases and the one that will most affect the quality and effectiveness of all development efforts that come after. In this phase, a client may give you a complete site concept diagram, technically feasible, well organized, and annotated (blue moon kind of rare) or you may find yourself in a situation with clients and their staff needing to be interviewed, current marketing and informational materials to be reviewed, and target market(s) to be identified, in order to suggest a new site design (all of this takes time and costs money). The end deliverable of this phase should be the flowchart or storyboard that the client approves. This flowchart will identify the structure of the new site, the degree of interactivity desired, and provides a summary of the content intended for each page. The development of this site flowchart is something you should be able to provide a quote for, after an initial consult with a prospective client.
Content Development The second phase, Content Development, involves identifying or creating the text, photos, graphics, sounds, video, and other various media that will be included in the site. Some of the text may have already been drafted by the client, or it may involve all original writing. Photos may already exist and can be scanned, or a photographer may be required. There may be audio/video recording or digitizing or a variety of other content-related activities to produce the actual final content for the pages to be developed. The end deliverable in this phase is the actual text and graphics, and all other media required for inclusion into the web site. Lack of content from the business client is a common problem that holds up new web site development projects. Separating this phase of the web site development into itâ(TM)s own activity helps the client understand their choices, they can provide you with the text, photos, videos, etc, or they can pay you to develop them, but content does not develop itself, it is a billable activity. Once you have the flowchart, developed in phase one, you can go thought the content needed, as shown on the flowchart, and note who is providing it, you or the client. Once this exercise is complete, you can provide a quote for your portion of the service for this phase two activity, Content Development.
Construction Finally, in the third phase, Construction, the web site will need to be built (programmed) using the flowchart or storyboard as the "blueprint" and the text and graphics and other media as the content of the various pages created. There may be a whole variety of different technologies required to achieve the cl
Correlation is not causation. Was your son-in-law-to-be applying for jobs before he graduated?.
as a matter of fact, he was aggressively looking for a better paying job in his field before he graduated, due to the low wage his first IT job was paying him, he just did not get the interest. Only when he had degree, coupled with his experience, was he able to find a decent job, and rather quickly too.
ie. "Correlation was causational". (at least here in the USA it was.)
You may find a job without a degree, but expect to be offered half or less of what a person with a degree would get. My son-in-law "to be" worked as IT mgr for non-profit for several years while going to college and getting degree, and was almost instantly able to land a job making three times as much with full benefits as soon as he graduated and started applying w/degree in hand, (got job in Solar panel manufacturing/installation industry, an industry that seems to be holding it's own in the recession).
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Synthahol.
I was not comparing the quality of the differences, just commenting on how easy it is to train people to "like" something different. I agree that we are talking about two different ends of the spectrum when comparing faster frame-rate and higher compression.
I also agree that "like" is very subjective, and some people like crap (from my subjective viewpoint that is).
To paraphrase Pavlov, you simply have not been sufficiently trained yet, give it time:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/03/11/153205/young-people-prefer-sizzle-sounds-of-mp3-format
HyperNext, HyperStudio, LiveCode, and SuperCard are all available and based on the Hypercard model, which is at least mentioned in passing in the article (but not the post, above). When I RTFA, I noted the author states: "All of (the programs based on the Hypercard model) are failures for the same reason: they insist on being more capable, more complexity-laden than HyperCard". Wow, adding more features and making programs more capable makes them a failure? Uh, no. In fact, Hyperstudio is really just an updated clone of Hypercard with lots of color and multimedia features added. The fact is that the Hypercard model had its place as an education tool, but was not that useful for most applications. The article, and the person who posted it here are not really talking about Hypercard, their rant is more a platform to spread conspiracy theories and Apple bashing, which is fine, enjoy yourself, but call it what it is.
Tuxpaint (open source, free)
I also think I would turn it into a hackintosh with a copy of OS X.
I am more and more convinced that the type of people who are on Facebook, let alone those who actually will use messages, are not the types to know or be savvy enough for torrents and similar activities
if you want to communicate with your relatives and certain friends, you end up with a Facebook and/or Twitter account, regardless of how "savvy" you are.
So servers for spammers, hackers, torrents, porn, & gambling sites all have safe haven in Chile now?
Our hardware failure rate is so low it is really not a factor. I have G4, G5, and Intel based machines all coexisting on one network, and as machines get replaced, the old Macs becomes a hand-me-down to a public access lab or "no budget" department because the damn Mac's just will not die. Cloning software such as Superduper, and system migration tools built into OS X make migration and imaging very easy. Web services all done in Drupal and hosted externally. We don't do CAD, but we are doing inhouse video and audio, no problem. We do groups and permissions on our Appleshare server, also no problem.
What IT department? We are a 90% Mac based non-profit (12 million/yr, 100 employees), I am assistant director, and do IT work as a sideline due to personal experience. Everything works, servers, anti virus and backup centrally controlled, all servers and workstations mirrored, back up on and off site via Crashplan, volume licensing covers compliance. Users are pretty much self sufficient on Macs. End of story.
"How did you get in Rococo, you don't have a key."
"No only half a key. I had to split it with the sound effects man"
That is what I said, the best teacher had to be able to do both.
The best teacher can not only "teach", they can also "do"
christians practice ritualistic cannibalism every sunday, body of christ, blood of christ, etc.
This wasn't a troll, and neither is this. I'm actually curious. How many mods are not Judeo-Christian?
If 80% of the US is of Christian faith, with the majority of the remaining 20% of the Jewish faith, you would think that post deserves at least a mod +1 Funny...
According to the 2008 demographics collected by one of the most conservative private Christian colleges around (Trinity), almost 25% of the US is NOT Christian, with over 15% of this group in my personal segment, "Agnostic or Atheist", (those of Jewish faith are about 1.2% of total). Your 80/20 percentages are not only misleading, they are also just plain wrong.
source: http://tr.im/jH4c (trincoll.edu)
Encryption and a whole host of other requirements are now the law in California for any non-profit, local gov or other agency using state funds and that has any personal data anywhere on their systems. This could be something as innocent as the address block in a letter you typed to one person, does not have to mean the "database."
http://www.documents.dgs.ca.gov/osp/sam/mmemos/MM08_11.pdf
I agree, even civil damages for fraud would be difficult. We don't have current law to cover this.
This is why, when you watch/read stock market analysis, all brokers ALWAYS disclose whether they own the stock they are providing advice on, lawmakers passed a "full disclosure" law, to provide transparency and prevent manipulation of the market.
Perhaps we need additions to Fed. regulations to cover disclosures by business employees on their own products and services. (not saying that they cannot do reviews, just that they must provide DISCLOSURE of their connection and potential conflict of interest)
check out Crashplan, does continuous incremental local and offsite backup, you and a friend each back up to the others machine (each add an external HD or whatever), has ability to schedule and limit bandwidth use, cross platform, encrypted, blah blah. best part is there is a free license for personal use, up to 10 machines. They also have a service they sell for backing up to their servers, but that sounds expensive. I am testing free version (prior to buying commercial ver.) at my non-profit where I work, so far so good. One week of backups, w/ tested selective restores, no problems yet.
No, prosecuted. That is conflict of interest.
"Conflict of Interest" is not a criminal offense. You might have a civil case for fraud, but I doubt seriously if any criminal charges would ever be filed, let alone upheld in a court.
I don't know why Google would show penises and not clitorises, but if you think that the public is more offended by women's genitalia than men's, you are a raving idiot. Just watch television. I have seen full frontal nudity many times on television. Not once have I ever seen full frontal nudity of a man on television. Go to the movies. you will see plenty of full frontal nudity of women in R rated movies. You won't get a single shot of a penis until you go to X. You view that women's genitalia is considered more acceptable than men's is patently wrong.
If a guy grabs all the dangling bits, and tucks them between his legs, leaving only a triangle of hair, and takes a photo, THEN you can try and make your comparison of the female and male photos/ratings. Or more to the point, if the girl is spread wide open, then it would be on a par with the full frontal nude male. Not wrong at all, but thanks for trying.
As for breasts? You do have a bit of a point. It does seem absurd that flashing an A cup boob is a crime if you are a woman, while flashing a C cup isn't if you are a man. I am rational enough to understand though that this misguided law comes from the fact that women use their breasts as sexual organs far more frequently than men do. I think is safe to assume that you are fully aware of this fact.
Actually, I think that most women might feel that men are the ones that "use," ie. objectify and sexualize, a women's breasts.
As for breast feeding in public... If it is illegal to show your breasts, then it should apply equally across the board. If you addressed it at that level, I could support you. But, claiming that it is "SIMPLY A BABY EATING" is disingenuous at best. If you want to claim that it is just a bathroom issue, then you could get a lot more support by suggesting that places like malls install breast feeding rooms. It's not that hard. I've seen them, and they have always been far more comfortable and clean that the common areas.
In California, it is NOT illegal, quite the opposite, nursing is a protected activity under state law, interfering with a nursing mother is the illegal activity. I am all for businesses and other public facilities that put in feeding rooms, family bathrooms with changing tables, and lots of other appropriate facilities, but I do not believe that they all should be forced to do so. If there is no reasonable alternative, then the baby has as much right to "eat at the table" as you do. Frankly most women I know really appreciate feeding rooms and the like for nursing mothers, they don't want to be a spectacle, or cause a scene, they just want to take care of their baby!
Look, you can get offended that people don't want to see your wife's tits. Personal, I do, and would love for you to post a link where I and anybody else that wants to see them can go and get a look at them, but then I'm also not offended by blow jobs. That doesn't mean I don't understand when other people don't want to see be getting one, or even seem my penis when it doesn't have someones mouth attached to it.
As for the "It is NOT sexual", that is unfortunately not always true. It is pretty common for women to continue to breast feed for their own physical enjoyment. For some reason no one is arresting these women for child molestation, and they are often encouraged by people with "authority". Of course, appropriate age and reasons for breast feeding, whether in public or private, is kind of a different topic, but since you made the claim that it is not sexual as an absolute statement, you brought it into this discussion.
Wow, what do I say. You DON'T HAVE TO LOOK you know. Virtually always, the nursing mother will be sitting with, sometimes with a cloth over her shoulder in a pretense of privacy, in the booth in the back in the corner in the dark, figuratively speaking, and it is not that hard to just not look. Try it, it may help you deal with your issues.
If you set your Google SafeSearch filter on "strict filtering" and search for clitoris, you get zero returns.
But if you try a Google SafeSearch "strict filtering" search for penis, you get...
33,000,000 returns.
That's because "clitoris" is on Google's list of naughty words which are never, ever "safe." Penis is just fine, however. http://tr.im/2tee (susiebright.blogs.com)
This double standard continues through many body part images. It would seem in today's morality, Men's breasts are totally acceptable, and can be published in photos and videos completely uncovered. Womens breasts however, are dirty and must be covered, even when feeding a child..
Several folks have posted comments to the effect to "take it to the bathroom" for breastfeeding mothers. Don't know about anybody else, but my wife is NOT feeding my son in the bathroom. Do you go to a stall in the bathroom for every meal you eat in public? (please don't tell me if you do). Nobody in my family is being forced to eat in the bathroom, including my nursing son.
If you don't like an infant's method of eating, you have personal problems, and should see someone about it. It is NOT sexual, it is NOT dirty, it is NOT something that needs to be done behind closed doors, it is SIMPLY A BABY EATING. jeesh. Grow up.
A lot of folks are providing good advice about contracts, and rates and the like, but the process of costing out a large web development job, or even a smaller one, is not black and white. The client frequently does NOT know what they want, does NOT have the content to fill the site, and does NOT appreciate the programming effort required to achieve the objectives set out. In order to provide a quote you can live with, you need to provide quotes on phases of work, with each phase feeding the next quote.
Out of frustration with the inevitable question, how much will it cost me to make a web site, I developed a process I called the 3 Cs of web site development, to stimulate a meaningful conversation between myself and the client.
New Web Site Development Process - the Three Cs:
Conceptualization - Content Development - Construction
The development of a professional web site is a complex process, and is a great deal more involved than just programming. I recommend that when a web developer works with a client, they both consider the three 3 Cs of initial web site development: Conceptualization, Content Development, and Construction. (In addition, after a web site is developed, there are also maintenance and update issues to consider.)
Conceptualization
The first phase, Conceptualization, is often overlooked. However, you should consider this to be the most important of the three phases and the one that will most affect the quality and effectiveness of all development efforts that come after. In this phase, a client may give you a complete site concept diagram, technically feasible, well organized, and annotated (blue moon kind of rare) or you may find yourself in a situation with clients and their staff needing to be interviewed, current marketing and informational materials to be reviewed, and target market(s) to be identified, in order to suggest a new site design (all of this takes time and costs money). The end deliverable of this phase should be the flowchart or storyboard that the client approves. This flowchart will identify the structure of the new site, the degree of interactivity desired, and provides a summary of the content intended for each page. The development of this site flowchart is something you should be able to provide a quote for, after an initial consult with a prospective client.
Content Development
The second phase, Content Development, involves identifying or creating the text, photos, graphics, sounds, video, and other various media that will be included in the site. Some of the text may have already been drafted by the client, or it may involve all original writing. Photos may already exist and can be scanned, or a photographer may be required. There may be audio/video recording or digitizing or a variety of other content-related activities to produce the actual final content for the pages to be developed. The end deliverable in this phase is the actual text and graphics, and all other media required for inclusion into the web site. Lack of content from the business client is a common problem that holds up new web site development projects. Separating this phase of the web site development into itâ(TM)s own activity helps the client understand their choices, they can provide you with the text, photos, videos, etc, or they can pay you to develop them, but content does not develop itself, it is a billable activity. Once you have the flowchart, developed in phase one, you can go thought the content needed, as shown on the flowchart, and note who is providing it, you or the client. Once this exercise is complete, you can provide a quote for your portion of the service for this phase two activity, Content Development.
Construction
Finally, in the third phase, Construction, the web site will need to be built (programmed) using the flowchart or storyboard as the "blueprint" and the text and graphics and other media as the content of the various pages created. There may be a whole variety of different technologies required to achieve the cl
Correlation is not causation. Was your son-in-law-to-be applying for jobs before he graduated? .
as a matter of fact, he was aggressively looking for a better paying job in his field before he graduated, due to the low wage his first IT job was paying him, he just did not get the interest. Only when he had degree, coupled with his experience, was he able to find a decent job, and rather quickly too.
ie. "Correlation was causational". (at least here in the USA it was.)
You may find a job without a degree, but expect to be offered half or less of what a person with a degree would get. My son-in-law "to be" worked as IT mgr for non-profit for several years while going to college and getting degree, and was almost instantly able to land a job making three times as much with full benefits as soon as he graduated and started applying w/degree in hand, (got job in Solar panel manufacturing/installation industry, an industry that seems to be holding it's own in the recession).
Short answer is "yes, you need a degree"
If the world is becoming a 'global village', who is the village idiot?
you can pretty much find one under every Bush...
By that logic, every time a space shuttle lands it becomes a meteorite.
Not unless it started as an asteroid... but nice try.