Fuck any platform where the vendor must approve content. (In this case that means fuck Apple, which immediately means I get modded up and down until the fanboi zealots are the only ones modding and I end up with a -1).
We've seen open platforms dwindle in past years. PC gaming is in decline. Most consoles need all manner of hack and mod to run home brew content. Hell even GPS APIs (like TomToms) have been discontinued on newer models. We've gone from a society of tinkerers where the best idea wins to an increasingly IP law based profit model that stiffles innovation.
Hell I don't even understand why objectionable content needs to be censored like this. For the most part don't buy it if you're offended. For the truely heinous stuff like that shake a baby to death iPhone app that was in the news lately, existing laws should be brought to bear if applicable....and you know what? I say this knowing that I fucking can't stand NIN music. As far as I'm concerned the only thing close to being any good they ever did was Closer, and that sold more on novelty and shock factor (and as a shagging song) than anything else.
Becuase you then lose all your pre-15 market due to having uncensored material available on your device.. It's business sense to moderate the content on your device as they go hand in hand when it comes to product acceptance.
Now Trent has publicly stated the reason for it's rejection, does that not break Apple's NDA rules on "don't talk about rejection"? Will Apple throw more PR petrol on themselves by fighting Trent with a lawsuit instead of trying to let the embers die out?
Is anyone really surprised with another Apple rejection on dubious grounds? Perhaps the real message is that Apple design their products for good church going people who would rather vote Democrat than see anything with a little adult content. The way I see it, is that there are a LOT more "adult" users who would rather have the choice of content, even if they wouldn't consume it themselves. This means that Apple are seemingly intentionally cutting themselves off from that spending power.
We complain rightly about government treating us like children, making our decisions for us with little right of reply, yet it seems if you stick a flashy interface on it and apply some PR brainwashing it's all good and dandy.
For the Apple fanbois, feel free to mod me down for speaking ill of the almighty......the power of Jobs compels thee.
Wasn't apple lambasted for allowing a "Baby Shaking" app into the App Store? What church going crowd appreciates that again??
Having just come off some publicity for being a little too liberal on their app approval I'm sure they're just knee jerking and Trent gets the shit-end of the stick.
I understand the argument, CSS is presentation, HTML is a description or holder of data.. Tables for tabular data becuase it descibes it, CSS for layouts and position becuase it presents it.. But honestly, choose the best solution for the situation. IF you've got a designer that can put your three page static marketing site up in a table layout in 2 hours, I say problem solved. It pays to understand the technology, but also pays to use common sense in decision making for breaking the rules.
This rant was funded by the many, many, many purist idealists that have argued this point in the past.
I couldn't agree more, cheating is cheating and it definitely warps the value of work from non-cheaters.
I'm just trying to muddy the black and white line that says: oh, my software says you plagiarized 55% of your paper and therefore you get a fail. The only reason I ask this is because it's not always "morons" that do this, there are very competent people doing this simply because they've chosen to allocate time elsewhere, or out of laziness I suppose.
I would guess that even if software could accurately determine the plagiarized value of a paper, professors would still want to assess the situation themselves. The software is a tool rather than judge/jury/executioner.
What generally happens once the plagiarism is detected; are these students failed or disciplined?
Is plagiarism enough of a misdemeanour to warrant expulsion? There are many facets to the educational systems but I believe the main priority is to educate. Would a student who could prove proficiency in his studies but is incredibly lazy (I know _many_ people like this for some reason) be eligible for failure or expulsion for turning in a paper that ranked to high for plagiarism testing?
While I don't have anything against taking the time to make your app accessible if you need to hit that market, it would be nice if there were 3rd party additions for the client browser that kept pace with the app technologies.
I don't think it's fair to blame AJAX and other schemes for lack of accessibility. Accessibility tools need to keep up with the technology. Web developers should be able to specialize in web technology, and accessibility tool developers in their niche.
There is a very real threat and people are justifiably concerned.
Brett
No there isn't. It's one of those once-in-a-lifetime events. I could be worried about an elevator car falling 20 stories and killing me in the fall, or being hit by lightning. Either of those are more likely than a repeat of 9/11. Vigilance against threat is one thing. To focus on one event to the point where it affects your work is excessive. There's no reason to worry specifically that any random jet is going to crash in to your building. That's just fearmongering.
Talk about double standards. I remember 7 years ago or so when all the talk was how the DoD and analysts had predicted something like this would happen, and how no one did anything about it. Now people are judged for fearing a recurrence of that event when 95% of the situation has been realized (tall building, major city, low flying jet, military 'escorts', world turmoil).
Don't compare this to lightening.. if you're not concerned about being hit by lightening when say, you're on the golf course in the middle of a wide open fairway holding your 7iron and you see lightening near by, well, you're a fool
Most people become terrified upon entering situations where both death and helplessness are present, like being fired at by an individual with a gun when you have none. This is nothing to be ashamed of, this is just being human. You might be a superman capable of charging across the room and kung-fuing the gun out of a madman's hand, and I'm glad for you that you are, but don't heap disdain on those that have frozen in such situations.
Of course they're supermen.. in writing. These people on the plane, or in schools, are not military. They've no reason to believe their efforts will not be completely solo and they'll die for it. They don't know each other or have any trust that one will back the other. It's not just fear, it's unknowing. It's easy to look back and say: there was only one gunman. But when your watching the clock tick by in math class and gunfire rings out, you don't immediately get a situation report of the attack.. Furthermore, the most dangerous situation for anyone
Lets hope these guys are seriously considering the future. Bandwidth usage is going up and will continue to go up. 44 gigs in a week may be more than the _typical_ user on their service but that will change as more services are provided over the net. (Game downloads, HD movie downloads, TV downloads, etc) These things all exist already but I would guess their usage will become heavily mainstream within the next 10.
It's high time "unlimited" meant unlimited. ISP's are getting away with too much for too little.
I will NOT take my tin foil hat off, not even for a moment. ALL ARTICLES that include video game subject matter are written by people wanting to make gaming a deadly sin, it's a fact.
duh.
How about joggers. I hear they also have a chemical addiction to their "habit". The difference of coarse is that, generally, people seem to think jogging is more acceptable and beneficial than playing video games.
There is a double standard on entertainment, regardless of addiction or habitual profiling. The key word in TFA is "video games", oh no, Timmy is wanting to entertain himself in a way we don't believe is constructive at all..
In all fairness, it totally depends on the purpose of the website. While the "designers designing for designers" is not completely untrue, I think it's unfair to lump it all together. If you have a blog or news website, you should do everything you can to accommodate that function. But if you have something like online office services (such as google documents), I think some web2.0 becomes quite handy at bridging that desktop feeling.
As usual it's about common sense. Craigslist (at least to me) looks like what I envision classified ads looking at when you land on the website. It's familiar. Familiar almost always wins.
I dunno. My problem here is that I highly doubt anyone cared to double check their investment first. This is the classic "oh shit, the bank machine says I have 100k instead of 10, quick, withdraw".
In no way am I suggesting this isn't a mistake on Zecco's part. But people have a responsibility with their monies, and if you log into your online investment management system and see a number that clearly isn't right, you have a responsibility to take appropriate action. That action is not: WOO HOO LETS TRADE BEFORE WE'RE CAUGHT.
This is likely a loss for everyone. Zecco may have pushed some monetary loss onto the clients, but this media is a blow to their PR and I'm sure they sucked up some losses too.
There needs to be more regulation on how services are advertised in general. It's pretty retarded to say "unlimited" service when in fact it's nothing of the sort. You should not be required to learn what "unlimited" means in the scope of that contract. Companies should be responsible foe literal terminology.
Hopefully you don't mind your boss being younger than you? For the most part this probably isn't to bad, however you'll have more 'life experience' likely, this plays a role in the real world. As if you won't at some point think: "What does he know, I could be his father":)
Some people simply believe their life is a gift and they should do everything they can to live on. Not really a bad idea, I can certaintly relate to that more than resigning. Besides, I pay a lot of taxes and likely will for some time, I wanna suck away a few bucks in medical hardware before I go.
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Fuck any platform where the vendor must approve content. (In this case that means fuck Apple, which immediately means I get modded up and down until the fanboi zealots are the only ones modding and I end up with a -1).
We've seen open platforms dwindle in past years. PC gaming is in decline. Most consoles need all manner of hack and mod to run home brew content. Hell even GPS APIs (like TomToms) have been discontinued on newer models. We've gone from a society of tinkerers where the best idea wins to an increasingly IP law based profit model that stiffles innovation.
Hell I don't even understand why objectionable content needs to be censored like this. For the most part don't buy it if you're offended. For the truely heinous stuff like that shake a baby to death iPhone app that was in the news lately, existing laws should be brought to bear if applicable. ...and you know what? I say this knowing that I fucking can't stand NIN music. As far as I'm concerned the only thing close to being any good they ever did was Closer, and that sold more on novelty and shock factor (and as a shagging song) than anything else.
Becuase you then lose all your pre-15 market due to having uncensored material available on your device.. It's business sense to moderate the content on your device as they go hand in hand when it comes to product acceptance.
Now Trent has publicly stated the reason for it's rejection, does that not break Apple's NDA rules on "don't talk about rejection"? Will Apple throw more PR petrol on themselves by fighting Trent with a lawsuit instead of trying to let the embers die out? Is anyone really surprised with another Apple rejection on dubious grounds? Perhaps the real message is that Apple design their products for good church going people who would rather vote Democrat than see anything with a little adult content. The way I see it, is that there are a LOT more "adult" users who would rather have the choice of content, even if they wouldn't consume it themselves. This means that Apple are seemingly intentionally cutting themselves off from that spending power. We complain rightly about government treating us like children, making our decisions for us with little right of reply, yet it seems if you stick a flashy interface on it and apply some PR brainwashing it's all good and dandy. For the Apple fanbois, feel free to mod me down for speaking ill of the almighty......the power of Jobs compels thee.
Wasn't apple lambasted for allowing a "Baby Shaking" app into the App Store? What church going crowd appreciates that again?? Having just come off some publicity for being a little too liberal on their app approval I'm sure they're just knee jerking and Trent gets the shit-end of the stick.
Do you not get enough attention at work?
I understand the argument, CSS is presentation, HTML is a description or holder of data.. Tables for tabular data becuase it descibes it, CSS for layouts and position becuase it presents it.. But honestly, choose the best solution for the situation. IF you've got a designer that can put your three page static marketing site up in a table layout in 2 hours, I say problem solved. It pays to understand the technology, but also pays to use common sense in decision making for breaking the rules.
This rant was funded by the many, many, many purist idealists that have argued this point in the past.
It's cheaper to just take your glasses off, IMO.
I couldn't agree more, cheating is cheating and it definitely warps the value of work from non-cheaters.
I'm just trying to muddy the black and white line that says: oh, my software says you plagiarized 55% of your paper and therefore you get a fail. The only reason I ask this is because it's not always "morons" that do this, there are very competent people doing this simply because they've chosen to allocate time elsewhere, or out of laziness I suppose.
I would guess that even if software could accurately determine the plagiarized value of a paper, professors would still want to assess the situation themselves. The software is a tool rather than judge/jury/executioner.
What generally happens once the plagiarism is detected; are these students failed or disciplined?
Is plagiarism enough of a misdemeanour to warrant expulsion? There are many facets to the educational systems but I believe the main priority is to educate. Would a student who could prove proficiency in his studies but is incredibly lazy (I know _many_ people like this for some reason) be eligible for failure or expulsion for turning in a paper that ranked to high for plagiarism testing?
Create vanilla install images that include java and use those to image the rest !
While I don't have anything against taking the time to make your app accessible if you need to hit that market, it would be nice if there were 3rd party additions for the client browser that kept pace with the app technologies.
I don't think it's fair to blame AJAX and other schemes for lack of accessibility. Accessibility tools need to keep up with the technology. Web developers should be able to specialize in web technology, and accessibility tool developers in their niche.
There is a very real threat and people are justifiably concerned.
Brett
No there isn't. It's one of those once-in-a-lifetime events. I could be worried about an elevator car falling 20 stories and killing me in the fall, or being hit by lightning. Either of those are more likely than a repeat of 9/11. Vigilance against threat is one thing. To focus on one event to the point where it affects your work is excessive. There's no reason to worry specifically that any random jet is going to crash in to your building. That's just fearmongering.
Talk about double standards. I remember 7 years ago or so when all the talk was how the DoD and analysts had predicted something like this would happen, and how no one did anything about it. Now people are judged for fearing a recurrence of that event when 95% of the situation has been realized (tall building, major city, low flying jet, military 'escorts', world turmoil).
Don't compare this to lightening.. if you're not concerned about being hit by lightening when say, you're on the golf course in the middle of a wide open fairway holding your 7iron and you see lightening near by, well, you're a fool
Sorry cutoff... Furthermore the most dangerous situation for any defender is when the attacker is willing and planning on dying for his attack.
Most people become terrified upon entering situations where both death and helplessness are present, like being fired at by an individual with a gun when you have none. This is nothing to be ashamed of, this is just being human. You might be a superman capable of charging across the room and kung-fuing the gun out of a madman's hand, and I'm glad for you that you are, but don't heap disdain on those that have frozen in such situations.
Of course they're supermen.. in writing. These people on the plane, or in schools, are not military. They've no reason to believe their efforts will not be completely solo and they'll die for it. They don't know each other or have any trust that one will back the other. It's not just fear, it's unknowing. It's easy to look back and say: there was only one gunman. But when your watching the clock tick by in math class and gunfire rings out, you don't immediately get a situation report of the attack.. Furthermore, the most dangerous situation for anyone
"We are a bunch" of ignorant armchair critics.
Lets hope these guys are seriously considering the future. Bandwidth usage is going up and will continue to go up. 44 gigs in a week may be more than the _typical_ user on their service but that will change as more services are provided over the net. (Game downloads, HD movie downloads, TV downloads, etc) These things all exist already but I would guess their usage will become heavily mainstream within the next 10. It's high time "unlimited" meant unlimited. ISP's are getting away with too much for too little.
I will NOT take my tin foil hat off, not even for a moment. ALL ARTICLES that include video game subject matter are written by people wanting to make gaming a deadly sin, it's a fact. duh.
How about joggers. I hear they also have a chemical addiction to their "habit". The difference of coarse is that, generally, people seem to think jogging is more acceptable and beneficial than playing video games. There is a double standard on entertainment, regardless of addiction or habitual profiling. The key word in TFA is "video games", oh no, Timmy is wanting to entertain himself in a way we don't believe is constructive at all..
Yep, I've heard that before..
I think some people are quite surprised when they find out thier favorite car company is in bed with their "competitor". Mazda and ford ring a bell..
In all fairness, it totally depends on the purpose of the website. While the "designers designing for designers" is not completely untrue, I think it's unfair to lump it all together. If you have a blog or news website, you should do everything you can to accommodate that function. But if you have something like online office services (such as google documents), I think some web2.0 becomes quite handy at bridging that desktop feeling. As usual it's about common sense. Craigslist (at least to me) looks like what I envision classified ads looking at when you land on the website. It's familiar. Familiar almost always wins.
Those frozen wastelands in Siberia hold down enormous pockets of methane that, when released, _could_ have serious impacts on the global system.
I dunno. My problem here is that I highly doubt anyone cared to double check their investment first. This is the classic "oh shit, the bank machine says I have 100k instead of 10, quick, withdraw". In no way am I suggesting this isn't a mistake on Zecco's part. But people have a responsibility with their monies, and if you log into your online investment management system and see a number that clearly isn't right, you have a responsibility to take appropriate action. That action is not: WOO HOO LETS TRADE BEFORE WE'RE CAUGHT. This is likely a loss for everyone. Zecco may have pushed some monetary loss onto the clients, but this media is a blow to their PR and I'm sure they sucked up some losses too.
Actually contains nimble special agents with a directive of compromising the US recovery process ! This was no failure, run !
There needs to be more regulation on how services are advertised in general. It's pretty retarded to say "unlimited" service when in fact it's nothing of the sort. You should not be required to learn what "unlimited" means in the scope of that contract. Companies should be responsible foe literal terminology.
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Hopefully you don't mind your boss being younger than you? For the most part this probably isn't to bad, however you'll have more 'life experience' likely, this plays a role in the real world. As if you won't at some point think: "What does he know, I could be his father" :)
Some people simply believe their life is a gift and they should do everything they can to live on. Not really a bad idea, I can certaintly relate to that more than resigning. Besides, I pay a lot of taxes and likely will for some time, I wanna suck away a few bucks in medical hardware before I go.