Interesting. Any one of those four apps would be useful for generating forms from existing databases. You could almost get to a (really fugly) blog using AppGini, although using the wizard to make something that makes RSS feeds would be a bit of a pain.
I'd love to see what happens when you try to edit an application generated using one of these tools with Dreamweaver (to make it pretty), and then tried to change the functionality of the app using the original tool.
Most people WANT Google to link to them, and even pay Google for the privilege. Why is this different?
Many news web sites are not treated as profit centers, but as expenses. I know of a number of smaller papers (circulation < 250,000) that see 90 per cent of web traffic come from Google, which is next to useless for their readership numbers and local advertising. The lucky ones use Google ads to pay for the bandwidth used by random Google visitors, the others are SOL.
<bias>As someone who runs the IT for a weekly community paper in addition to my day job, I'm currently trying various methods of reducing the Google effect to less than its current (and steadily increasing by 5-10% per month) 4.5 Mb/s of bandwidth usage for hits from Google search results. It's not really a cost center for us, but I would like to use the bandwidth for faster e-mail attachment downloads and such...
Macromedia/Adobe Dreamweaver has *limited* support for what you describe (table views [kind of], forms, db updates, page layout, and maybe cookies). You still won't be able to design digg.com with zero understanding of how PHP and web apps work though, regardless of how good the tool is.
Also, your understanding of databases and interfaces needs to be more sophisticated than building a contact manager in MS Access...
The situation you describe is preferable to the implied opposite, where they respond to any accusation in 24 hours but take a week to respond to an emerging threat.
... if Spybot is going to bring legal action they should have a copy of the knowledgebase article and they should have presented it with their accusation.
To have an internally consistent position, they should not. Making and distributing copies of the libel works against a lawsuit's intended effect of curing that libel.
Tickle Me Norton is reading the Sheryl Crow golden shower pictures on my hard drive!
Seriously though, the structure of the anti-spyware market is not necessarily weighted in anyone's favour. This potential libel/QC issue is not on its own unfair competition since SSD and anyone else in the game are free and able to make the same claims about competing products and companies.
Also, consider the audience: Ghost is used mostly by IT-literate people who would be able to research and verify the competing claims. This isn't a case of popups that pretend to be from the operating system advising that a computer may be running too slow.
No need for reboots of the keyboard - it would obviously be driven from the computer, the keyboard won't need to know anything about what it's showing.
Which would make it less than optimal for configuring bootup or installing operating systems. It would/should have at least enough programming on board to be a generic qwerty (or other) keyboard.
Believe it or not, kid, millions of systems shipped with Windows 95 and 4MB of RAM.
Don't be so hard on that person. Their comment, and the dozens of others like it in this discussion, provide good indicators of when their posters joined the world of computers./recalls fond memories of installing OSR2 on fleets of SX 33s with 8 MB of RAM...
Is it illegal for me to walk into a resturant that refuses to serve me with many of my friends and sit down until we are all served?
Tresspass, if you've been told to leave and refuse to do so. Creating a public disturbance and assault are also possibilities depending on how you and your friends behave.
Would you read 40 inches about the new bill, or the random violence victim? Would most readers read 40 inches about _every_ new ordinance or tragedy? When it happens to you, *it* is important, probably the most important thing to you at the moment. *It* doesn't matter as much to the rest of us.
have glaring omissions
Not every detail is important to a good enough retelling of the story, and not every detail is as important as you think it is. A good interview should tease out most of the salient details, but not all of them will be used. In most cases, it's safe to not to include details that are not repeated by at least one other source (if it's important to the story, more than one source involved in the story will think so).
will most likely be inaccurate
Well, yes. It's impossible to capture and reproduce every detail. But most stories will capture the essential elements of the story that most people will care to read about. You may have done something about which you're personally proud in connection to the primary subject of the story, but unless your special act is essential to the substance of the story or affects someone else, it should be ignored because few readers will care.
Also, a reported fact or perspective is not wrong for the sole reason that you disagree with the person speaking it, or the position for which it advocates. Everything except happy news would be inaccurate or wrong if the sufficient condition is that someone disagrees.
if not flat out wrong.
You did not mention if you exercised your right to reply. Most editors and writers are more than receptive to provably legitimate and non-tantrum-based concerns.
At least with with wikipedia I can change the mistakes when I see them.
Yes... We can all change your position if we disagree with it./ex print hack
No one pays attention to the bottom, on-line or in print. Short attention spans mean that most people don't read beyond the first few paragraphs and ignore the bottom of the swordchucks.
My iBook G3 had a total of seven different logic boards replaced under recall before I pointed out that repair parts and labour had cost Apple in excess of $5000. The computer was promptly replaced with an iBook G4.
If keyboarding is the rate-limiting step of a programming process, I would seriously question the quality of code coming out of that process.
Even if a programmer creates 360 non-trivial lines of code in an 8 hour day (extraordinarily high), filling each line with typed code, that's a maximum of one typed character per second.
It won't, unless it provides some extraordinary benefit that makes re-learning how to input data worth while. Not only that, but it also has to provide that benefit to the vast majority of potential users to overcome the network effect of the standard QWERTY layout.
A non-RSI un-tethered keyboard that does intelligent auto-correction with bayesian user intent recognition could do the trick. Maybe.
Windows 2003 installs by default as you describe (except that the auto-update is turned on). Figuring out how to enable audio and DirectX the first time was annoying, but not having to deconfigure the teletubbies theme or the safetys on Explorer saves time. It's also closer to instant on than XP, with about 3 seconds between the end of POST and pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del to log in on my Athlon 2400+ (versus about 8 seconds on XP SP2).
Unfortunately, Windows 2003 is a bit expensive for a desktop operating system, and you need access to Windows XP device drivers for any consumer device that you wouldn't normally find on a server (such as scanners, modems, etc.).
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Interesting. Any one of those four apps would be useful for generating forms from existing databases. You could almost get to a (really fugly) blog using AppGini, although using the wizard to make something that makes RSS feeds would be a bit of a pain.
I'd love to see what happens when you try to edit an application generated using one of these tools with Dreamweaver (to make it pretty), and then tried to change the functionality of the app using the original tool.
Most people WANT Google to link to them, and even pay Google for the privilege. Why is this different?
Many news web sites are not treated as profit centers, but as expenses. I know of a number of smaller papers (circulation < 250,000) that see 90 per cent of web traffic come from Google, which is next to useless for their readership numbers and local advertising. The lucky ones use Google ads to pay for the bandwidth used by random Google visitors, the others are SOL.
<bias>As someone who runs the IT for a weekly community paper in addition to my day job, I'm currently trying various methods of reducing the Google effect to less than its current (and steadily increasing by 5-10% per month) 4.5 Mb/s of bandwidth usage for hits from Google search results. It's not really a cost center for us, but I would like to use the bandwidth for faster e-mail attachment downloads and such...
Macromedia/Adobe Dreamweaver has *limited* support for what you describe (table views [kind of], forms, db updates, page layout, and maybe cookies). You still won't be able to design digg.com with zero understanding of how PHP and web apps work though, regardless of how good the tool is.
Also, your understanding of databases and interfaces needs to be more sophisticated than building a contact manager in MS Access...
The situation you describe is preferable to the implied opposite, where they respond to any accusation in 24 hours but take a week to respond to an emerging threat.
... if Spybot is going to bring legal action they should have a copy of the knowledgebase article and they should have presented it with their accusation.
To have an internally consistent position, they should not. Making and distributing copies of the libel works against a lawsuit's intended effect of curing that libel.
Oh, come now. If you're going old school,
Tickle Me Norton is reading the Sheryl Crow golden shower pictures on my hard drive!
Seriously though, the structure of the anti-spyware market is not necessarily weighted in anyone's favour. This potential libel/QC issue is not on its own unfair competition since SSD and anyone else in the game are free and able to make the same claims about competing products and companies.
Also, consider the audience: Ghost is used mostly by IT-literate people who would be able to research and verify the competing claims. This isn't a case of popups that pretend to be from the operating system advising that a computer may be running too slow.
Great marketing work would explain the lack of being sued into the ground for copyright/TM infringement, and the lack of product stock....
I'll wait for a keyboard on which I can implement something that looks like the LCARS interface...
No need for reboots of the keyboard - it would obviously be driven from the computer, the keyboard won't need to know anything about what it's showing.
Which would make it less than optimal for configuring bootup or installing operating systems. It would/should have at least enough programming on board to be a generic qwerty (or other) keyboard.
I've not known an operating system that smelled but half as much as its user. Perhaps you've neglected to make clean.
Believe it or not, kid, millions of systems shipped with Windows 95 and 4MB of RAM.
/recalls fond memories of installing OSR2 on fleets of SX 33s with 8 MB of RAM...
Don't be so hard on that person. Their comment, and the dozens of others like it in this discussion, provide good indicators of when their posters joined the world of computers.
Is it illegal for me to walk into a resturant that refuses to serve me with many of my friends and sit down until we are all served?
Tresspass, if you've been told to leave and refuse to do so. Creating a public disturbance and assault are also possibilities depending on how you and your friends behave.
I would pick OSX, QNX, in that order.
The summaries in the article, and the one it links, are more messed than not.
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One alert that lists six different vulnerabilities for Windows:
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-229A.h
Another alert that lists two (or three) different vulnerabilities:
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-180A.h
An alert that only summarizes previous vulnerabilities, but lists no new ones:
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-102A.h
An alert that covers a product for three operating systems, and includes Linux by name:
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-224A.h
Counting alerts as a measure of vulnerabilities in operating systems is illegitimate since there is no fixed relationship between the two.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=swo rdchucks
A hypothetical weapon where two swords joined by a chain...
<=sword=}-----chain-----{=sword=>
Every time I have used it, it has been very accurate.
But how do you know? Do you verify sources?
the resulting write up will be too brief
/ex print hack
Would you read 40 inches about the new bill, or the random violence victim? Would most readers read 40 inches about _every_ new ordinance or tragedy? When it happens to you, *it* is important, probably the most important thing to you at the moment. *It* doesn't matter as much to the rest of us.
have glaring omissions
Not every detail is important to a good enough retelling of the story, and not every detail is as important as you think it is. A good interview should tease out most of the salient details, but not all of them will be used. In most cases, it's safe to not to include details that are not repeated by at least one other source (if it's important to the story, more than one source involved in the story will think so).
will most likely be inaccurate
Well, yes. It's impossible to capture and reproduce every detail. But most stories will capture the essential elements of the story that most people will care to read about. You may have done something about which you're personally proud in connection to the primary subject of the story, but unless your special act is essential to the substance of the story or affects someone else, it should be ignored because few readers will care.
Also, a reported fact or perspective is not wrong for the sole reason that you disagree with the person speaking it, or the position for which it advocates. Everything except happy news would be inaccurate or wrong if the sufficient condition is that someone disagrees.
if not flat out wrong.
You did not mention if you exercised your right to reply. Most editors and writers are more than receptive to provably legitimate and non-tantrum-based concerns.
At least with with wikipedia I can change the mistakes when I see them.
Yes... We can all change your position if we disagree with it.
No one pays attention to the bottom, on-line or in print. Short attention spans mean that most people don't read beyond the first few paragraphs and ignore the bottom of the swordchucks.
My iBook G3 had a total of seven different logic boards replaced under recall before I pointed out that repair parts and labour had cost Apple in excess of $5000. The computer was promptly replaced with an iBook G4.
The placebo effect is like when those make-believe bulletproof vests stop real bullets.
If we had one of those placebos, we would be very close to solving every physics problem on the list.
If keyboarding is the rate-limiting step of a programming process, I would seriously question the quality of code coming out of that process.
Even if a programmer creates 360 non-trivial lines of code in an 8 hour day (extraordinarily high), filling each line with typed code, that's a maximum of one typed character per second.
It won't, unless it provides some extraordinary benefit that makes re-learning how to input data worth while. Not only that, but it also has to provide that benefit to the vast majority of potential users to overcome the network effect of the standard QWERTY layout.
A non-RSI un-tethered keyboard that does intelligent auto-correction with bayesian user intent recognition could do the trick. Maybe.
Windows 2003 installs by default as you describe (except that the auto-update is turned on). Figuring out how to enable audio and DirectX the first time was annoying, but not having to deconfigure the teletubbies theme or the safetys on Explorer saves time. It's also closer to instant on than XP, with about 3 seconds between the end of POST and pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del to log in on my Athlon 2400+ (versus about 8 seconds on XP SP2).
Unfortunately, Windows 2003 is a bit expensive for a desktop operating system, and you need access to Windows XP device drivers for any consumer device that you wouldn't normally find on a server (such as scanners, modems, etc.).
The handful of Windows newbies you speak of have had no access to pre-installed IE Mac since OS X 10.2, which was more than two years ago.
The day that prosecutors, not plaintiffs, bring a libel suit would be a grim day indeed.