Apple is just SO obnoxious about this... How much freakin' harder could they make it?
Apple _is_ obnoxious about it. When I click a link to download quicktime, I expect quicktime and not itunes+quicktime.
Your google search point is baloney too. If I want to find quicktime, I would type "quicktime" in the freaking search bar-- why would I think to type "standalone" unless I read it in slashdot? Since when is quicktime taken to connote quicktime+iTunes BY DEFAULT??
My time is valuable. My task was to get quicktime.
But in a way, you are right, if I had bothered to read all of marketing copy on the page, I would have seen "quicktime standalone" in a bullet-list with other items such as "features", "FAQ", "learn more about quicktime pro".
So, yeah, for people with the luxury of time to pore over marketing copy, I guess it obvious how to get the standalone version.
Clicking on the download takes me to a place where it says "QuickTime" and "Free download". It then proceeds to download itunes+quicktime-- for me, it is very annoying to have something you don't want "bundled with" your download.
I don't care if a standalone exists, if they bury it in some corner of the website. I should be able to get this sofware quickly and with no fuss and minimal reading. They are repeating the mistakes of Realplayer.
Real player has really wore out the good-will of its users. It is now a pretty good player, but for years they annoyed the hell out of everyone that downloaded from them.
You know...
* having to click through and read 10 webpages to get to the free realplayer whose link was always hidden in a corner somewhere. What were they thinking? That users would accidently click on the non-free version and then give up and just pay for it?
* Nag screens, annoying forms, when installing-- no real player, you will never fucking get my home phone number.
* Remember the instability and the crashes...
Sadly, I see some traits like this in iTunes. Recently, I had wanted to download JUST QUICKTIME. I was rudely surprised that I can't do that anymore. I HAVE TO download iTunes+quicktime-- whether I want iTunes or not. Screw that. It looks like iTunes has failed to learn the hard lessons of Real Player.
If an employee wants to screw up his employer, there are 1001 ways to do that-- with or without involving IT staff or systems.
There is nothing new here except that more and more companies are treating their employees as disposable temps that can be dropped simply to increase share price. It is not surprising that in today's enviroments employees are more likely to feel they need revenge.
Security lapses happen for a reason. Instead of attempting the sisphian task of "locking down" all systems, perhaps companies should address the root causes that incentivise their employees to behave badly.
I really like some of the new online calendar projects out there. They have a nice slick interfaces and allow you to share events with others, create personal rss-feeds, and there are hacks for convienent bookmarklets on browser for event entry.
The one I am using now is new and is called 30boxes.com. Very nice interface, very good features. However, if google implememented something similar, I would switch to google. They are more likely to continue to exist in the forseeable future and that helps me to put more trust investment into a calendar run by them.
Its all very simple: if you are paid below your worth, look for an employer that will pay what you are worth. If you can't find one then adjust your concept of what you are worth.
Because it works. It is simple. It gets the job done fast.
It works most effectively for smallish one-off projects and, I admit, there are better tools to use for anything that requires a software engineering effort, but VB fills a lot of needs.
The "sister" language, VBA, is ideal for vendors who want to provide rich, user-accessible scripting interface to their hardware or software products.
Best to leave marketing to the professionals. Geeks don't understand it and never will. If a full page ad in the NYTimes is what they need, then by all means, bless them.
However, the thing that will kill firefox more effectively than anything else is if it loses its repuation as a stable and quick browser. The more frequent crashes since 1.0.7 have started a little buzz of criticism. The most important thing mozilla should do NOW is to address the instability problems quickly and completely.
Put the geeks to work on that. Put the biz-dev-marketing people to work on NYTimes.
I feel sorry for all the trees that have to be cut down needlessly so that developers can try to keep up with the latest crappy technology that will obsolete in less than 2 years.
On the bright side, at least its under 300 pages long.
I think the idea is NOT to make so-called "average joes" into programmers like today's programmers by giving them a copy of intelli-j or whatever.
The thing to do is to have really good tools that allow domain experts to "program" for their needs, and thus take out the middle man-- you, the grumpy "rigorously-thinking" programmer.
Honestly, I can't believe the arrogance of some of the comments I read on here. Some of you asshats think you are god's gift of logic to the world.
I don't have as bleak a view, however. The web-app crap that is today's fad will eventually be replaced by better and cleaner technology.
Its just a question of how many years developers have to suffer through the pain of consecutive "frameworks" that seem to be coming out at a rate of one per week. None of these frameworks give a damn about addressing developer productivity.
Anyways, in the not too distant future, I look forward to making a living unplugging old ugly j2ee apps and replacing them much better apps developed in a fraction of the time.
Yes, of course, its not surprising that the RFID chip itself can be incredibly small. What most commentators are missing is that YOU STILL NEED AN ANTENNA to access the thing.
A "long-range" (> few inches) RFID tag needs a relatively large area antenna, like the size of a business card.
A "near-field" tag can have an antenna that is a few millimeters wide, but then your reader has to be very close-- almost touching.
We use stand-up meetings in my workgroup every morning. The meetings are useful because it starts the day with everyone on the same page. By standing up, we discourage long-winded discussions and get to the point faster.
They all look like they've just been hit in the back of the head with a bean bag, you know, a blank expression stare-into-space-look just before losing consciousness.
For J2EE projects: mostly wrong (10%) * Most of the time, not (10%) * few of the people (10%) = 1/1000
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I'm not surprised. Developers are getting sick of spending months and years of their lives writing overcomplicated inspid CRUD apps using "marketecture" j2ee bullshit.
"The Pragmatic Programmer" is the best book about programming that I have read recently--- an infinately better read than the constant stream of pretentious 900 page "j2ee architect" drivel that passes for computer literature these days.
Okay, so if I use bitcomet to download legit material (ie linux iso's), what does this mean for me? If I use bitcomet to download copyrighted material (ie "Space 1999" episodes), what does this mean for me?
The more complex something is, the more bugs you get, the more careful developers have to be, the more time they spend struggling with inspid issues, the less productive they are.
They were taken off the air by the FCC, very rudely, and fined a lot of money. Ironically, the biggest problem the FCC has with "micro-radio" (pirate radio) is that they do not conform to the rules for "public service". Of course the whole purpose of pirate radio is to provide a public service, one that is definately NOT provided by the boring commercial radio stations. In the case of radio carson, they played music that would not be touched by any station except WRCT: Drum and bass. In the 90's everyone was dying to hear it, but it was not played on commercial radio because it was not released on big labels with music videos and all that crap.
Perhaps now the FCC will loosen their death grip on the FM bands and allow REAL people to make their own stations.
A desktop email client is NOT the "killer app" that hindering linux acceptance to the desktop for NON-enterprise environment.
There is a very real difference between personal and enterprise desktops.
It really is a good idea to use web-based email clients for virtually all personal users. For enterprise users, you may need interoperability and certain features like calendar, but even so, linux apps are closing the gap in that area quickly.
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Apple is just SO obnoxious about this... How much freakin' harder could they make it?
Apple _is_ obnoxious about it. When I click a link to download quicktime, I expect quicktime and not itunes+quicktime.
Your google search point is baloney too. If I want to find quicktime, I would type "quicktime" in the freaking search bar-- why would I think to type "standalone" unless I read it in slashdot? Since when is quicktime taken to connote quicktime+iTunes BY DEFAULT??
My time is valuable. My task was to get quicktime.
But in a way, you are right, if I had bothered to read all of marketing copy on the page, I would have seen "quicktime standalone" in a bullet-list with other items such as "features", "FAQ", "learn more about quicktime pro".
So, yeah, for people with the luxury of time to pore over marketing copy, I guess it obvious how to get the standalone version.
Congratulations. You _found_ the standalone player. You have proven that the standalone exists.
I admit that I just went to the apple website. Clicked on "Quicktime" and was brought to here... http://www.apple.com/quicktime/win.html
Clicking on the download takes me to a place where it says "QuickTime" and "Free download". It then proceeds to download itunes+quicktime-- for me, it is very annoying to have something you don't want "bundled with" your download.
I don't care if a standalone exists, if they bury it in some corner of the website. I should be able to get this sofware quickly and with no fuss and minimal reading. They are repeating the mistakes of Realplayer.
Real player has really wore out the good-will of its users. It is now a pretty good player, but for years they annoyed the hell out of everyone that downloaded from them.
You know...
* having to click through and read 10 webpages to get to the free realplayer whose link was always hidden in a corner somewhere. What were they thinking? That users would accidently click on the non-free version and then give up and just pay for it?
* Nag screens, annoying forms, when installing-- no real player, you will never fucking get my home phone number.
* Remember the instability and the crashes...
Sadly, I see some traits like this in iTunes. Recently, I had wanted to download JUST QUICKTIME. I was rudely surprised that I can't do that anymore. I HAVE TO download iTunes+quicktime-- whether I want iTunes or not. Screw that. It looks like iTunes has failed to learn the hard lessons of Real Player.
If an employee wants to screw up his employer, there are 1001 ways to do that-- with or without involving IT staff or systems.
There is nothing new here except that more and more companies are treating their employees as disposable temps that can be dropped simply to increase share price. It is not surprising that in today's enviroments employees are more likely to feel they need revenge.
Security lapses happen for a reason. Instead of attempting the sisphian task of "locking down" all systems, perhaps companies should address the root causes that incentivise their employees to behave badly.
I really like some of the new online calendar projects out there. They have a nice slick interfaces and allow you to share events with others, create personal rss-feeds, and there are hacks for convienent bookmarklets on browser for event entry.
The one I am using now is new and is called 30boxes.com. Very nice interface, very good features. However, if google implememented something similar, I would switch to google. They are more likely to continue to exist in the forseeable future and that helps me to put more trust investment into a calendar run by them.
Its all very simple: if you are paid below your worth, look for an employer that will pay what you are worth. If you can't find one then adjust your concept of what you are worth.
There. One could even make a flowchart of that.
Why do people use it?
Because it works. It is simple. It gets the job done fast.
It works most effectively for smallish one-off projects and, I admit, there are better tools to use for anything that requires a software engineering effort, but VB fills a lot of needs.
The "sister" language, VBA, is ideal for vendors who want to provide rich, user-accessible scripting interface to their hardware or software products.
Best to leave marketing to the professionals. Geeks don't understand it and never will. If a full page ad in the NYTimes is what they need, then by all means, bless them.
However, the thing that will kill firefox more effectively than anything else is if it loses its repuation as a stable and quick browser. The more frequent crashes since 1.0.7 have started a little buzz of criticism. The most important thing mozilla should do NOW is to address the instability problems quickly and completely.
Put the geeks to work on that. Put the biz-dev-marketing people to work on NYTimes.
Romance novels...?
Yeah, but at least some people get off on romance novels. The same cannot be said for the computer-book-du-jour.
I feel sorry for all the trees that have to be cut down needlessly so that developers can try to keep up with the latest crappy technology that will obsolete in less than 2 years.
On the bright side, at least its under 300 pages long.
I think the idea is NOT to make so-called "average joes" into programmers like today's programmers by giving them a copy of intelli-j or whatever.
The thing to do is to have really good tools that allow domain experts to "program" for their needs, and thus take out the middle man-- you, the grumpy "rigorously-thinking" programmer.
Honestly, I can't believe the arrogance of some of the comments I read on here. Some of you asshats think you are god's gift of logic to the world.
Indeed.
I don't have as bleak a view, however. The web-app crap that is today's fad will eventually be replaced by better and cleaner technology.
Its just a question of how many years developers have to suffer through the pain of consecutive "frameworks" that seem to be coming out at a rate of one per week. None of these frameworks give a damn about addressing developer productivity.
Anyways, in the not too distant future, I look forward to making a living unplugging old ugly j2ee apps and replacing them much better apps developed in a fraction of the time.
Yes, of course, its not surprising that the RFID chip itself can be incredibly small. What most commentators are missing is that YOU STILL NEED AN ANTENNA to access the thing.
A "long-range" (> few inches) RFID tag needs a relatively large area antenna, like the size of a business card.
A "near-field" tag can have an antenna that is a few millimeters wide, but then your reader has to be very close-- almost touching.
We use stand-up meetings in my workgroup every morning. The meetings are useful because it starts the day with everyone on the same page. By standing up, we discourage long-winded discussions and get to the point faster.
It works for us.
Don't try to get her off of nethack.
Just break up with her.
Life is too short, move on.
Its like being at a party and realizing all the cool people left.
They all look like they've just been hit in the back of the head with a bean bag, you know, a blank expression stare-into-space-look just before losing consciousness.
.... compared to j2ee, that's pretty good.
For J2EE projects:
mostly wrong (10%) * Most of the time, not (10%) * few of the people (10%) = 1/1000
I'm not surprised. Developers are getting sick of spending months and years of their lives writing overcomplicated inspid CRUD apps using "marketecture" j2ee bullshit.
I second that!
m as/interview.tss?bandwidth=dsl/
"The Pragmatic Programmer" is the best book about programming that I have read recently--- an infinately better read than the constant stream of pretentious 900 page "j2ee architect" drivel that passes for computer literature these days.
Here is a nice interview with one of the authors...
http://www.theserverside.com/talks/videos/DaveTho
Okay,
so if I use bitcomet to download legit material (ie linux iso's), what does this mean for me?
If I use bitcomet to download copyrighted material (ie "Space 1999" episodes), what does this mean for me?
Some things are easier to mess up than others.
The more complex something is, the more bugs you get, the more careful developers have to be, the more time they spend struggling with inspid issues, the less productive they are.
Hey, I remember radio carson!
They were taken off the air by the FCC, very rudely, and fined a lot of money. Ironically, the biggest problem the FCC has with "micro-radio" (pirate radio) is that they do not conform to the rules for "public service". Of course the whole purpose of pirate radio is to provide a public service, one that is definately NOT provided by the boring commercial radio stations. In the case of radio carson, they played music that would not be touched by any station except WRCT: Drum and bass. In the 90's everyone was dying to hear it, but it was not played on commercial radio because it was not released on big labels with music videos and all that crap.
Perhaps now the FCC will loosen their death grip on the FM bands and allow REAL people to make their own stations.
A desktop email client is NOT the "killer app" that hindering linux acceptance to the desktop for NON-enterprise environment.
There is a very real difference between personal and enterprise desktops.
It really is a good idea to use web-based email clients for virtually all personal users. For enterprise users, you may need interoperability and certain features like calendar, but even so, linux apps are closing the gap in that area quickly.