You do not need canvas objects unless you want applet like animations and motions similiar to your phone. What IE 8 lacks is a decent javascript engine. It still is the same as IE 6 with minor tweeks and ajax needs special code just for old IE.
HTML 5 is too early and the css is not compatible as different standards between webkit, trident, and gecko. I would love to see corporate software use standards but face the facts it will alienate them as many are spending millions just to upgrade to IE 8 from IE 6. You are telling htem to throw out that investment they just made for IE 10?? I don't think so!
It most surely not free! You are taking millions and BS with fights tooth and nail from the finance and accounting deparmtnets who prefer to see the share price go up rather than take a risk supporting a browswer that already works fine!
Worse intranet software only works on IE 8. Some used to Firefox 3.6 certified, but not anymore. You can thank Mozilla for the 6 week release cycle for that thank you very much! THese companies are liable if it breaks. SO only IE is supported for payrolls ADP app, or siebel's crapware 2012 edition. These intranet software optimized for iE 6 still work fine and are deployed in organizations all over the world.
I knew people who graudated when I did in 2009 who still work at call centers since no one will hire htem without experience first.
I am an exchange consultant. Let me tell you. You can't learn that on yoru own or in a computer science program where they teach you calculus instead. You need to know active directory, the quirks of all the versions of Windows, Outlook, AD, Scheme settings, and other garbage. One bad move can take down your whole active directory!
This is why they pay big bucks to bring a consultant in as your $14 an hour $27,000 a year help desk jockey witth that computer science degree had no clue you were supposed to raise your domain first!... of course he probably didn't know about the prep tools you are supposed to run first and not even a tape backup can help. Just a flush of the whole Acitive Directory Scheme.
I am just one small scope of an enterprise but this is what employers want. You need training afterwards by a consultant company for a month or two to learn this and of course years of experience know AD. CS == IT jobs by the way.
Thats all people care about. Some HR departments will only use a checklist with CS degree if they are a very large company. But CS graduates are often unemployed after graduation due to the lack of experience in hard times.
What IT needs is someone to fix shit. Not talk about mathmatical models when the server goes down.
If you want to get those nice jobs my advice is to pimp yourself out contracting for 2 years. The work is hard and the pay is mediocre at best but your contacts get HUGE afterwards when your non compete agreement ends and you can make bank. After that only hte most beaucratic companies will weed you out on that piece of paper.
Java is here to stay in the corporate desktop. Manpower, Kronos, and a half dozen other intranet apps use it. Almost all banks require it for the finance and accounting departments. I am not talking of just checking money in a portal. I am talking about sophisticated lines of credit and finance analysis apps that need to use security exploits to communicate to excel for them.
Because of this require ancient insecure versions. Some still only work in java 1.4 in XP. THis is the biggest pain. If the software worked in all versions of modern java that a sys admin could update without worrying about compatility.
As someone pointed out in the last story it is the IE 6 that wont go away, or at least the Cobol of the 21st century.
Every banking site requires it so it can wrap win32 com objects like excel spreadsheets for lines of credit reportsthat can be cut and pasted using security holes from 1.4.1 or some ancient version. So java is used to activeX like functionality with no security controls and is a requirement for anyone in finance. Some support java 6 but have to include some security holes so they can access windows dlls for the accountants.
Manpower and Kronos for clocking employees in and out also use Java. Java is still the most widely used language in the world if you check any website.
The irritating thing is not that Oracle wont fix java and should be liable, but rather apps and banking sites require such ancient versions of it that only work with XP and are filled with 30 or more security holes.
Many of these accountant laptops just get re-imaged on a weekly basis from infections. These same accountants only look at the cost of upgrading and not the productivity loss.
I hate Apple. Their business practices are much worse than Microsoft these days by far. But, package management is one thing they got right. You download it and point and click! Gee so inferior..deb files have dependency problems as well. For example, try downloading the flash.deb from adobe's website on an older distribution? It wont run. There are other requirements that your distro may or may not support it.
MacOSX beat Linux fair and square for a desktop OS. I have a disdain for Ubuntu from bad experiences and I am a FreeBSD/CentOS guy for server use. It just is not designed for desktop usage and people who say otherwise need to leave their moms basement.
As an amature web developer I have to say please upgrade to 7. Ancient IE is really really bad and you have no clue how many of these XP users do not know nor care what a browser is and think that blue E with IE 7 is the internet and only internet.
We can kill flash and move on with life like html 5 applets like we see on our phones but can't put on the web for desktops because of the 50% of the XP users who use ancient IE.
Windows 7 is different but does have some improvements. Instant search is sweet and so are saved searches. I love just hitting the Windows key and typing wo for word and enter. No mouse interaction at all. Secure is a huge improvement too and it is faster on 6 core or more cpus too. I like aero also. It is not a bad OS and I like Win 7 more than XP.
I will take a mediocre cpu with a kick ass GPU than the other way around. Sure I have an under clocked phenom II at just 2.6ghz but with my ATI 7870 I plan to get it will blow away an icore7 extreme with the HD 4000 graphics by several hundred percent!
GPU is where it is at with games. Just like with Windows an SSD makes a bigger difference than a faster CPU booting up.;
Lets hope it fades soon. When XP gets EOL my hope is that web developers will drop IE 8 support so we can use HTML 5. Even IE 9 supports an ok section of it and will be auto updated to 10 with Windows Update unlike past releases.
Correction "Each tab in IE 9 and Chrome spawns a different process that can be delegated to the CPU".... not GPU. Also notice I failed to mention Firefox with this. It does support web workers with more than 1 cpu but it is just one big bloated process the last time I looked if you do not use html 5.
CPU more for browsers. Each tab in IE 9 and Chrome spawns a different process that can be delegated to the GPU. I know I get flamed for this but only IE 9 uses GPU acceleration fully while you have to turn on the extra options in config:flags in Chrome thanks to legacy XP support. DirectX11 will accelerate more canvas items which is why IE 9 was never back ported to XP.
AJAX is CPU dependent too so you made a great investment upgrading your turn of the century system. Flash does use some acceleration but only in Windows and MACOSX. Games almost everything but logic goes to the GPU in comparison. Hell even the polygon phsyics is moving to the GPU!
When IE 8 the last basticle of ancient browsers because less popular we will see webworkers in html 5 which enables elements in html and javascript use more cores rather than one core/process per tab today. Then your 8-core system will truly shine when you have 30+ tabs open.
Have you ever been unemployed before? Have you lost your wife over it? Have you had to move back in with your parents in your 30s because 12/hr is all employers now think you are worth in this new economy disregarding your previous salary? Have you ever been forced to work 70 hours a week with 2 jobs so you can pay off your student loans and not starve yourself or family with 2 crappy jobs?
That realty is how what 40 to 50% of Americans live. Underemployment and unemployment is about 20% if you use the U3 statistics before CLinton took office!
Sorry to burst your bubble but in this economy anyone who lived like that such as myself is thrilled to be working again and will be happy to do it if you do not feel you are good enough. I made a decent living before the economy crashed and lost my whole damn life and years trying to get it back. There are millions like me and when the economy improves then yes I will tell your boss to shove it. But you can not expect people who feel 50k a year for merely 60 hours a week of work is not paradise when you work 80 hours a week for 23k a year. H1B1 visa holders will gladly work these hours too.
I am not saying I agree with this but it is life and what I agreed to work for when I signed up for my consulting gig. I get paid by the hour so working a million hours for 2 years until I can prove myself will be the norm. It is time to re-adjust and accept that in this economy this will be the norm. When the economy and only if it improves will you be in a position to tell me and your boss to fuck ourselves.
Technically all contractors are kind of temporary employees are they not? Yes, they are used to save money but sometimes they make sense. The stuff I do my employer over chaged 125% what I get paid. If the customer wants to get ripped off that is their problem. My benefit is because of the bad economy I took crappy jobs for 3 years so I am unemployable for anything outside answering phones for a few dollars an hour over minimum wage. I build contacts and in 2 years I get my life back and make a hell of a lot.... ok not 6 figures but fairly decent.
The client who over pays uses them for temporary projects and they get to find out who si a good worker. If you got fired and screwed over with references it is a great way to prove yourself and the client typically overpays anyway for this priveldge so no hard feelings either way.
Milatary would be the worst! They would go all crazy and are used to getting justice by force. Watching and just filtering without having any power is not something police or military deal with well
I've never done the job, but I can assure you that goatse is the very least of the what the internet has to offer in terms of disturbing images. Honestly, from what I hear about these jobs, the only people who can last long term and probably psychopathic to some degree or another: i.e. they have little to no empathy for others.
After goatse and 2girl1cup you can see almost anything nasty and it makes you gag or gives you a laugh watching other people watch it. Seeing a kitten scream as it is murdered in a microwave would make feel... well indescrible. Angry too as I would want that bastard kid to rot in a prison cell and report it to the Society for the prevention of cruality to animals as well as want to call the FBI to get those raping kids.
I do not see how any sane person would not go crazy or get pyschologically messed up. Everyone has some empathy and a video showing suffering would certainly trigger this.
Ya, but can I view xhamster porn on my phone without flash? No. You are missing the point as webmasters wont switch because bandwidth costs go up and piracy of videos will be more rampant. So they will keep flash.... lets not even go there about how many still use IE 8 or god forbid an earlier browser and plan to keep it that way for 5 to 10 years. Corps just blew billions upgrading to IE 8 and they sure as hell wont SWITCH until 2020. Flash is the only way to reach them for the next 10 years.
Not practical if you are deploying many of these things.
The newer win32 versions at least have hardware acceleration support that greatly alleviates these problems on newer machines. Newer non linux machines sigh. I hate flash with a passion. Many apps require it unfortunately as h.264 runs much better with html 5 on these. Flash unfortunately will be here for a very very long time much like IE. Never quite goes away.
Part of a good teacher is to keep students limited attention span engaged. It is not a video but rather Lexia Lab includes rewards using audio and visual ques. For example if the student selects certain phoenix vowels a basketball heads towards a hoop. If he or she gets another one right it scores and more points or gained.
Lexia lab uses JavaFX if I recall and is an excellent tool to test students as I think it is cruel to have someone study for 6.5 hours straight. I mean come on? Were your lectures in college that long? At least this gets a student interested in learning.
If you want to play a video you go get a dvd and a TV from the library. That is lazy but can be interesting for a few things too teach history or science while the student gets a break from busy work.
Don't look at fecking videos during school time; they are a stupid distraction. Read text, write text, debug programs, plot graphs. For that purpose, all you need is 128MB of RAM.
Pretty hard as many edutainment programs for children integrate sound and audio. They use flash and javaFX and are probably switching to h.264. The codecs include flash.
The last 2 districts work fine with Apple without the AD stuff.
IPads can't be managed either and what I do not like about tablets is they do not have keyboards to teach kids typing nor do they have office suite software like OpenOffice or MS Office.
I wonder if the school can lock the ipads to prevent students from playing angry birds? With the linux netbooks it is simple to manage for simple tasks. Just do not give out the root password:-) I bet you could use NFS and Samba to have student IDs like they do with the macs but no one needs to bother.
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... referring to HTML 5 canvas objects. Not HTML 4 elements.
You do not need canvas objects unless you want applet like animations and motions similiar to your phone. What IE 8 lacks is a decent javascript engine. It still is the same as IE 6 with minor tweeks and ajax needs special code just for old IE.
HTML 5 is too early and the css is not compatible as different standards between webkit, trident, and gecko. I would love to see corporate software use standards but face the facts it will alienate them as many are spending millions just to upgrade to IE 8 from IE 6. You are telling htem to throw out that investment they just made for IE 10?? I don't think so!
It most surely not free! You are taking millions and BS with fights tooth and nail from the finance and accounting deparmtnets who prefer to see the share price go up rather than take a risk supporting a browswer that already works fine!
Worse intranet software only works on IE 8. Some used to Firefox 3.6 certified, but not anymore. You can thank Mozilla for the 6 week release cycle for that thank you very much! THese companies are liable if it breaks. SO only IE is supported for payrolls ADP app, or siebel's crapware 2012 edition. These intranet software optimized for iE 6 still work fine and are deployed in organizations all over the world.
It is not the same like your computer at home.
The furniture better not have rounded corners!
I knew people who graudated when I did in 2009 who still work at call centers since no one will hire htem without experience first.
I am an exchange consultant. Let me tell you. You can't learn that on yoru own or in a computer science program where they teach you calculus instead. You need to know active directory, the quirks of all the versions of Windows, Outlook, AD, Scheme settings, and other garbage. One bad move can take down your whole active directory!
This is why they pay big bucks to bring a consultant in as your $14 an hour $27,000 a year help desk jockey witth that computer science degree had no clue you were supposed to raise your domain first! ... of course he probably didn't know about the prep tools you are supposed to run first and not even a tape backup can help. Just a flush of the whole Acitive Directory Scheme.
I am just one small scope of an enterprise but this is what employers want. You need training afterwards by a consultant company for a month or two to learn this and of course years of experience know AD. CS == IT jobs by the way.
Thats all people care about. Some HR departments will only use a checklist with CS degree if they are a very large company. But CS graduates are often unemployed after graduation due to the lack of experience in hard times.
What IT needs is someone to fix shit. Not talk about mathmatical models when the server goes down.
If you want to get those nice jobs my advice is to pimp yourself out contracting for 2 years. The work is hard and the pay is mediocre at best but your contacts get HUGE afterwards when your non compete agreement ends and you can make bank. After that only hte most beaucratic companies will weed you out on that piece of paper.
Java is here to stay in the corporate desktop. Manpower, Kronos, and a half dozen other intranet apps use it. Almost all banks require it for the finance and accounting departments. I am not talking of just checking money in a portal. I am talking about sophisticated lines of credit and finance analysis apps that need to use security exploits to communicate to excel for them.
Because of this require ancient insecure versions. Some still only work in java 1.4 in XP. THis is the biggest pain. If the software worked in all versions of modern java that a sys admin could update without worrying about compatility.
As someone pointed out in the last story it is the IE 6 that wont go away, or at least the Cobol of the 21st century.
Every banking site requires it so it can wrap win32 com objects like excel spreadsheets for lines of credit reportsthat can be cut and pasted using security holes from 1.4.1 or some ancient version. So java is used to activeX like functionality with no security controls and is a requirement for anyone in finance. Some support java 6 but have to include some security holes so they can access windows dlls for the accountants.
Manpower and Kronos for clocking employees in and out also use Java. Java is still the most widely used language in the world if you check any website.
The irritating thing is not that Oracle wont fix java and should be liable, but rather apps and banking sites require such ancient versions of it that only work with XP and are filled with 30 or more security holes.
Many of these accountant laptops just get re-imaged on a weekly basis from infections. These same accountants only look at the cost of upgrading and not the productivity loss.
I hate Apple. Their business practices are much worse than Microsoft these days by far. But, package management is one thing they got right. You download it and point and click! Gee so inferior. .deb files have dependency problems as well. For example, try downloading the flash .deb from adobe's website on an older distribution? It wont run. There are other requirements that your distro may or may not support it.
MacOSX beat Linux fair and square for a desktop OS. I have a disdain for Ubuntu from bad experiences and I am a FreeBSD/CentOS guy for server use. It just is not designed for desktop usage and people who say otherwise need to leave their moms basement.
As an amature web developer I have to say please upgrade to 7. Ancient IE is really really bad and you have no clue how many of these XP users do not know nor care what a browser is and think that blue E with IE 7 is the internet and only internet.
We can kill flash and move on with life like html 5 applets like we see on our phones but can't put on the web for desktops because of the 50% of the XP users who use ancient IE.
Windows 7 is different but does have some improvements. Instant search is sweet and so are saved searches. I love just hitting the Windows key and typing wo for word and enter. No mouse interaction at all. Secure is a huge improvement too and it is faster on 6 core or more cpus too. I like aero also. It is not a bad OS and I like Win 7 more than XP.
I will take a mediocre cpu with a kick ass GPU than the other way around. Sure I have an under clocked phenom II at just 2.6ghz but with my ATI 7870 I plan to get it will blow away an icore7 extreme with the HD 4000 graphics by several hundred percent!
GPU is where it is at with games. Just like with Windows an SSD makes a bigger difference than a faster CPU booting up.;
Lets hope it fades soon. When XP gets EOL my hope is that web developers will drop IE 8 support so we can use HTML 5. Even IE 9 supports an ok section of it and will be auto updated to 10 with Windows Update unlike past releases.
Correction "Each tab in IE 9 and Chrome spawns a different process that can be delegated to the CPU". ... not GPU. Also notice I failed to mention Firefox with this. It does support web workers with more than 1 cpu but it is just one big bloated process the last time I looked if you do not use html 5.
CPU more for browsers. Each tab in IE 9 and Chrome spawns a different process that can be delegated to the GPU. I know I get flamed for this but only IE 9 uses GPU acceleration fully while you have to turn on the extra options in config:flags in Chrome thanks to legacy XP support. DirectX11 will accelerate more canvas items which is why IE 9 was never back ported to XP.
AJAX is CPU dependent too so you made a great investment upgrading your turn of the century system. Flash does use some acceleration but only in Windows and MACOSX. Games almost everything but logic goes to the GPU in comparison. Hell even the polygon phsyics is moving to the GPU!
When IE 8 the last basticle of ancient browsers because less popular we will see webworkers in html 5 which enables elements in html and javascript use more cores rather than one core/process per tab today. Then your 8-core system will truly shine when you have 30+ tabs open.
More than both of us combined :-(
I disagree. It looks like he made it in 30 seconds. And earned the right for a reference on his free internship at Microsoft
Have you ever been unemployed before? Have you lost your wife over it? Have you had to move back in with your parents in your 30s because 12/hr is all employers now think you are worth in this new economy disregarding your previous salary? Have you ever been forced to work 70 hours a week with 2 jobs so you can pay off your student loans and not starve yourself or family with 2 crappy jobs?
That realty is how what 40 to 50% of Americans live. Underemployment and unemployment is about 20% if you use the U3 statistics before CLinton took office!
Sorry to burst your bubble but in this economy anyone who lived like that such as myself is thrilled to be working again and will be happy to do it if you do not feel you are good enough. I made a decent living before the economy crashed and lost my whole damn life and years trying to get it back. There are millions like me and when the economy improves then yes I will tell your boss to shove it. But you can not expect people who feel 50k a year for merely 60 hours a week of work is not paradise when you work 80 hours a week for 23k a year. H1B1 visa holders will gladly work these hours too.
I am not saying I agree with this but it is life and what I agreed to work for when I signed up for my consulting gig. I get paid by the hour so working a million hours for 2 years until I can prove myself will be the norm. It is time to re-adjust and accept that in this economy this will be the norm. When the economy and only if it improves will you be in a position to tell me and your boss to fuck ourselves.
What is wrong with that?
Technically all contractors are kind of temporary employees are they not? Yes, they are used to save money but sometimes they make sense. The stuff I do my employer over chaged 125% what I get paid. If the customer wants to get ripped off that is their problem. My benefit is because of the bad economy I took crappy jobs for 3 years so I am unemployable for anything outside answering phones for a few dollars an hour over minimum wage. I build contacts and in 2 years I get my life back and make a hell of a lot. ... ok not 6 figures but fairly decent.
The client who over pays uses them for temporary projects and they get to find out who si a good worker. If you got fired and screwed over with references it is a great way to prove yourself and the client typically overpays anyway for this priveldge so no hard feelings either way.
Milatary would be the worst! They would go all crazy and are used to getting justice by force. Watching and just filtering without having any power is not something police or military deal with well
I've never done the job, but I can assure you that goatse is the very least of the what the internet has to offer in terms of disturbing images. Honestly, from what I hear about these jobs, the only people who can last long term and probably psychopathic to some degree or another: i.e. they have little to no empathy for others.
After goatse and 2girl1cup you can see almost anything nasty and it makes you gag or gives you a laugh watching other people watch it. Seeing a kitten scream as it is murdered in a microwave would make feel ... well indescrible. Angry too as I would want that bastard kid to rot in a prison cell and report it to the Society for the prevention of cruality to animals as well as want to call the FBI to get those raping kids.
I do not see how any sane person would not go crazy or get pyschologically messed up. Everyone has some empathy and a video showing suffering would certainly trigger this.
Ya, but can I view xhamster porn on my phone without flash? No. You are missing the point as webmasters wont switch because bandwidth costs go up and piracy of videos will be more rampant. So they will keep flash. ... lets not even go there about how many still use IE 8 or god forbid an earlier browser and plan to keep it that way for 5 to 10 years. Corps just blew billions upgrading to IE 8 and they sure as hell wont SWITCH until 2020. Flash is the only way to reach them for the next 10 years.
In all seriousness no website will ever adopt WebGL for that reason. Who wants to cut off 40% of their market!
Not practical if you are deploying many of these things.
The newer win32 versions at least have hardware acceleration support that greatly alleviates these problems on newer machines. Newer non linux machines sigh. I hate flash with a passion. Many apps require it unfortunately as h.264 runs much better with html 5 on these. Flash unfortunately will be here for a very very long time much like IE. Never quite goes away.
Part of a good teacher is to keep students limited attention span engaged. It is not a video but rather Lexia Lab includes rewards using audio and visual ques. For example if the student selects certain phoenix vowels a basketball heads towards a hoop. If he or she gets another one right it scores and more points or gained.
Lexia lab uses JavaFX if I recall and is an excellent tool to test students as I think it is cruel to have someone study for 6.5 hours straight. I mean come on? Were your lectures in college that long? At least this gets a student interested in learning.
If you want to play a video you go get a dvd and a TV from the library. That is lazy but can be interesting for a few things too teach history or science while the student gets a break from busy work.
Don't look at fecking videos during school time; they are a stupid distraction. Read text, write text, debug programs, plot graphs. For that purpose, all you need is 128MB of RAM.
Pretty hard as many edutainment programs for children integrate sound and audio. They use flash and javaFX and are probably switching to h.264. The codecs include flash.
The last 2 districts work fine with Apple without the AD stuff.
IPads can't be managed either and what I do not like about tablets is they do not have keyboards to teach kids typing nor do they have office suite software like OpenOffice or MS Office.
I wonder if the school can lock the ipads to prevent students from playing angry birds? With the linux netbooks it is simple to manage for simple tasks. Just do not give out the root password :-) I bet you could use NFS and Samba to have student IDs like they do with the macs but no one needs to bother.