Hosted solution (you put a bit of javascript in every page, trivial if you are using some sort of templating system).
Don't have to deal with web logs, always updated in real time, AMAZING functionality. Just pricey. our company found most of the open source or cheaper ones to be a bit lacking in functionality...just depends on your needs.
Yes, unfortunately from a Legal standpoint this reporting is liable under both state (not sure of CA laws) and federal laws... but if the district is smart they will not try and charge the reporter;-)
Almost all the new features in that review (minus the "anti-phishing" functionality) are duplicates of things already done by firefox (tabs, customizable search box in the top right, etc).
You fail to see the point; you need to view *all* people as POTENTIAL customers. You or you company can choose to cater to only a subset of users (and this subset it now based on what browser they choose to use, not based on market segment or geographical location, etc).
Feel free not to care about non-ie or non-windows users; if that is a business decision your company chooses to make (and I would harbor a guess that the People In Charge don't know that they are actually making that decision), then best of luck to you.
Technology choices should not get in the way of increasing your business; if you stick to an all-IE or nothing strategy, then they are.
What if I don't have a Window's operating system? I can't use your application.
Maybe you can get away with using ActiveX for some internal applications where you can mandate what browser a user uses, but if you audience is outside what you can control, you both alienate and lose customers who do not use IE.
It's typically not a good practice to force a user to jump through hoops to try and use your application if you want to generate new business and keep existing clients.
It's going forward that this is important...if you are designing a new site today, it might be worth your while to try and represent the data semantically. Just as real web designers no longer design with nested tables *shudder* and use CSS to seperate out presentation logic from content, so too will people start going even deeper, into making their "web data" into "web information.
This is not about arguing over a set of standards over the ontology of how the data should be represented; this is about thinking forward as to how to better design web sites to get their information across in more ways than just a human reading the text on the screen.
The Internet is used for things other than businesses, or have you forgotten that? The concept of a Semantic Web has huge implications for many reseach projects, as a way to get better "information" out of all the "data" that is available on the internet today.
Although it would be nice, no one is mandating or asking every website out there to mark up all their pages semantically. But if you want your information to be shared, a good way to start is to mark it up semantically so that more and better information can be gleaned from it.
Check out QuASM (Question Answering using Semi-Stuctured Meta-data)...we used similiar processes and approaches to getting "answers" out of a large (40 TB) collection of.gov,.edu,.org web pages. The demo page is no longer available (we completed work on this in 2002) but you can checkout the paper at ACM:
As someone who switched from EE to CS, take my advice: do what you enjoy. I could have easily(relatively speaking) gotten my EE degree, but I didn't enjoy that type of work as much as I do designing software. You only live once; so do something you enjoy rather than something that is going to pay you more money.
i think it's neat! i like how the new messages with a short summary fade in for a second and then fade out. very unbotrusive and gives me a better idea of what the messages is than a web browser window saying "Gmail (1)".
I think mr_mulder needs to stop living in the past!
You are incorrect. In the U.S. no company can set a price that a reseller must sell a product at. What happens in this case is that the price apple sells the iPod to the stores is so high, that in order to make any margin off of the sale, the resellers can't go below $399 (say for the 20 GB player). no one sells it for more because they would lose the sale to another reseller.
I think the title of this article is incorrect, as this project isn't about courseware in the e-learning sense of the word, but rather an open messageboard system with a slightly different paradigm.
I don't care what OEM system you have in your car - it will never sound as good as it would with an aftermarket system. Just as a compaq presario will never be as good as a custom made machine, mass produced == cheap.
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Hosted solution (you put a bit of javascript in every page, trivial if you are using some sort of templating system).
Don't have to deal with web logs, always updated in real time, AMAZING functionality. Just pricey. our company found most of the open source or cheaper ones to be a bit lacking in functionality...just depends on your needs.
Harder to crack into a box if its off though :-)
bam
Yes, unfortunately from a Legal standpoint this reporting is liable under both state (not sure of CA laws) and federal laws... but if the district is smart they will not try and charge the reporter ;-)
I think I just expected more from a new release of IE... To me, this should be called IE 6.1 ... but i guess thats not a good name to market ;-)
Almost all the new features in that review (minus the "anti-phishing" functionality) are duplicates of things already done by firefox (tabs, customizable search box in the top right, etc).
You fail to see the point; you need to view *all* people as POTENTIAL customers. You or you company can choose to cater to only a subset of users (and this subset it now based on what browser they choose to use, not based on market segment or geographical location, etc).
Feel free not to care about non-ie or non-windows users; if that is a business decision your company chooses to make (and I would harbor a guess that the People In Charge don't know that they are actually making that decision), then best of luck to you.
Technology choices should not get in the way of increasing your business; if you stick to an all-IE or nothing strategy, then they are.
What if I don't have a Window's operating system? I can't use your application.
Maybe you can get away with using ActiveX for some internal applications where you can mandate what browser a user uses, but if you audience is outside what you can control, you both alienate and lose customers who do not use IE.
It's typically not a good practice to force a user to jump through hoops to try and use your application if you want to generate new business and keep existing clients.
or use standard ECMAScript (Javascript) to do the same thing minus the security holes of ActiveX.
:-)
It's usually a bad idea to make something proprietary a standard
It's going forward that this is important...if you are designing a new site today, it might be worth your while to try and represent the data semantically. Just as real web designers no longer design with nested tables *shudder* and use CSS to seperate out presentation logic from content, so too will people start going even deeper, into making their "web data" into "web information.
This is not about arguing over a set of standards over the ontology of how the data should be represented; this is about thinking forward as to how to better design web sites to get their information across in more ways than just a human reading the text on the screen.
The Internet is used for things other than businesses, or have you forgotten that? The concept of a Semantic Web has huge implications for many reseach projects, as a way to get better "information" out of all the "data" that is available on the internet today.
Although it would be nice, no one is mandating or asking every website out there to mark up all their pages semantically. But if you want your information to be shared, a good way to start is to mark it up semantically so that more and better information can be gleaned from it.
Check out QuASM (Question Answering using Semi-Stuctured Meta-data)...we used similiar processes and approaches to getting "answers" out of a large (40 TB) collection of .gov, .edu, .org web pages. The demo page is no longer available (we completed work on this in 2002) but you can checkout the paper at ACM:
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It was a really interesting project to be a part of!
Go UMass!
As someone who switched from EE to CS, take my advice: do what you enjoy. I could have easily(relatively speaking) gotten my EE degree, but I didn't enjoy that type of work as much as I do designing software. You only live once; so do something you enjoy rather than something that is going to pay you more money.
I decided to send them a copy of the Bill of Rights...I think it really exercises my point succintly
i think it's neat! i like how the new messages with a short summary fade in for a second and then fade out. very unbotrusive and gives me a better idea of what the messages is than a web browser window saying "Gmail (1)".
I think mr_mulder needs to stop living in the past!
You are incorrect. In the U.S. no company can set a price that a reseller must sell a product at. What happens in this case is that the price apple sells the iPod to the stores is so high, that in order to make any margin off of the sale, the resellers can't go below $399 (say for the 20 GB player). no one sells it for more because they would lose the sale to another reseller.
The have a reprensative democracy, just as we do.
Answer me this: how does fording a river cause me to break my leg, my wife to get dysentary, and suzy my daughter to die of syphilis?!
also a wagon tongue
Redundant, but hey too much data is never a bad thing.
Everything in our office (Bedford, MA) is running fine.
Completely Laughing My Ass Off right now
The bullet is enoooormous! there is no escaping.
its only easy if you already know how to do it
I think the title of this article is incorrect, as this project isn't about courseware in the e-learning sense of the word, but rather an open messageboard system with a slightly different paradigm.
I think you mean soccer, 'mate'.
I don't care what OEM system you have in your car - it will never sound as good as it would with an aftermarket system. Just as a compaq presario will never be as good as a custom made machine, mass produced == cheap.