What if one of these workers really does give a 'best effort' attempt at helping, say, 6 months from now, but screws something up? Will they be held liable?
I have nearly quit bothering to try to support any 'new' things that come out from food places - anything I *like* will end up getting pulled anyway. I'm still bitter over the scrapping of the McDLT. The McDonald's Chicken Strips? Gone. Wendy's breakfast stuff? Liked them - gone. Wendy's super bar? Gone. I suspect the Taco Bell gorditas will go within 6 months of me developing a regular taste for them. It's a shame, because I want to support innovation, but the larger companies don't seem to be able to commit to things long term any more. Yes, the McDLT was... 5 years? That's about the longest I've ever seen any variation from a menu core last.
Why did it take 100+ years for people to think "Hey, read up on something at home, and we'll talk about it and work through problems in class tomorrow"? Actually, that sounds a lot like many smaller university classes I had. Wondering why this is suddenly capturing everyone's imagination. It's pretty obvious, but then again, many ideas are obvious yet don't catch on.
Was going to mention this as well - I remember seeing a system like this in the UK in 1997, and it was pretty impressive. I think it may have been Tesco or Sainsbury's, but same idea. Not sure why it's taken 15 years to get this to America.
Wow... you *only* get upgrade licenses for Windows 7. They are *still* only/manly targeting people who are already Windows shops. So on top of this I still need to go out and buy Windows desktop licenses if I don't already have them. In this otherwise all-inclusive bundle (really, it looks nice in some respects) I still need to spend more money. Just include full licenses (read - non-upgrade licenses). This seems to prove that MS is still too inward-looking and not really interested in reaching people who aren't already using Windows on a regular basis.
The most risk averse institutions likely will also be most able to afford higher costs for continued ipv4 living, perpetuating the situation for far longer than most people will think feasible.
People calling looking for help because they can't get on their bank's web site anymore. (java out of date, OS issue, NOT browser) Or they bough software that says it can't install. (not enough memory or OS too old) Or they have a special piece of hardware that broke, bought a replacement, and the newer software it came with won't run on their OS.
Well, at that point, it's not really a case of "it still works fine" - it's demonstrably broken. In many cases there may be workarounds, but it's just the start of a continual exercise in finding workarounds as time marches on.
I do not think that people prefer the user experience of the iphone over similar phones, most people haven't tried multiple phones.
People tried multiple phones for *years* before the iPhone, then ran to it in droves when it came out.
I personally think that most people would like droid just as much as the iPhone, if not more so.
Huh? I might be getting one for development purposes, but it's simply not as smooth an experience as the iPhone. I'm talking specifically about touching and sliding stuff, moving between screens, etc. The basic UI stuff. The droid and other android devices I've tried are all slightly to very jerky and delayed in their response to touch. I was aggravated after about 10 seconds using one, and likely would have been even before the iPhone.
There were/are no light, small, big screened devices at bestbuy that allowed you to do email / web
There are now archos 5 tablets at bestbuys near my house, but last I looked, they weren't *on* and able to be played with or touched.
O/T rant: Not sure what Apple's doing, perhaps other than simple insistence, but Apple products displayed at bestbuys (do they do other retailers too?) always are displayed and positioned to be attractive and enticing. Products *on* and usable with real screens and apps, not stuck-on plastic scratchy pictures of what some artist wants you to think the phone/mp3 player *might* look like after you plunk down hundreds of dollars. And Apple laptops and desktops are just *running* - again, without lame "buy our geek squad support" wallpapers and 'click to see lame videos about which MS apps come bundled with generi-brand X desktop' apps running on 30 screens at the same time all lined up and down store aisles.
In general, I'm not sure why letting people *try out* the product in question before plopping down $500-$1000 is such a distasteful concept to retailers. It seems to work well for Apple.
So *why* was/is Apple in charge of the Java implementation for Mac? I don't buy the 'too much resources' argument I've heard. If your entire company is about Java (changing your stock symbol to JAVA for goodness' sake!) why cede control of implementation on a major developer platform (or one which could become a major developer platform)?
At least currently, if you own a Mac computer, you are free to write, use, sell or give away applications with zero involvement from Apple other than your initial purchase. If you own a Zune or WinMo phone, you're required to interact with MS to do some of those things.
You (for all practical purposes) need to use their tools to write an app. But, AFAIK, you do not need their permission to distribute an app.
"Covered businesses range from neighborhood dry cleaners to Fortune 100 companies, but the law stipulates that the program be appropriate to the size and resources of the business."
It seems like they really do mean just about everyone. Within a year we'll start seeing stories about how part-time small business people doing exactly what you described are the new source of major data breaches, because their Excel files and whatnot are being stolen via trojans and viruses. And the data security industry will push for more laws and expensive software to remedy the situation. Just a cynical hunch...
Would having a password on a spreadsheet file constitute enough 'security'?
What constitutes a 'business'? And how does this affect companies that might be using any one of the myriad of forums or blogging software in addition to their core "enterprise" software? Pretty much every blog or forum software out there keeps PII in plaintext format, and they're in use by many large companies.
From the article:
"Covered businesses range from neighborhood dry cleaners to Fortune 100 companies, but the law stipulates that the program be appropriate to the size and resources of the business."
So, they really do mean pretty much all businesses - anyone conducting any business online, it seems. Should I start turning in every business that doesn't SSL encrypt their 'contact us' forms? After all, someone from MA might use that form.
Really... never understood it. I get the idea of working 'cheap' to gain experience, and I understand volunteering. I also have offered to work at some places for a short time (week or so) to get a feel for the place. But I've never understood applying to ask to be considered to be approved to then go spend months of my life working for a company which is in the business of making a profit. I guess I never travelled in those sorts of circles where unpaid internships led to high-paying positions of immense money and power, which is why so many people would be lining up to do them.
If anyone would care to engage in some unpaid internships for me, let me know.
PDO has been around for years, and offers standardized escaping and binding for all the major db platforms. If you're stuck with an "old PHP ways" host, they probably are still using PHP4 and have register_globals set to on - IOW, time to move to a modern host. Just like you wouldn't stick with a Java host only offering 1.3 or 1.4, it's time to vote with your wallet and move to modern hosting operations.
Then perhaps you're very fortunate. While not common, I have seen them often enough to know what the grandparent was referring to. Typically I see them with issues around networking. If there's a DNS issue or wireless networking issue, you will almost inevitably see a message about "ask your system administrator xxxxx".
In my previous post, I'd meant to say "grandparent", rather than parent (your post). Still, given my position, I'm always happy to hear about Grails adoption successes.:)
Rails popularized a lot of ideas that have since been adopted/adapted by many other frameworks, including Grails. I'm not sure many people could argue that "convention over configuration" has overall been a *bad* thing for web development, especially in the Java world.
I think the parent possibly could have used JRuby for Rails, getting to stay on the JVM platform they were already comfortable with. But perhaps when they considered it JRuby wasn't as mature as they needed it to be.
Even for someone without a lot of Java experience, Grails can be very productive. I prefer the 'domain first' approach Grails allows, rather than the 'database first' which Rails promotes. There's no 'right' answer, but I prefer the Grails way. I've had my fair share of headaches with Grails over the last couple of years, but I'm typically more productive with it than other platforms on many/most types of projects.
I've got some high hopes for Rails 3, from what I've heard from my Ruby-lovin' friends. There's apparently been a lot of refactoring at various levels, so speed and resource handling should be much improved. I'm expecting some backwards compatibility breakage, but I've nothing to base that on other than speculation - major version numbers are the best time to do those sorts of changes, if any are required.
PHP is an example of a scripted language. The computer or browser reads the program like a script, from top to bottom, and executes it in that order: anything you declare at the bottom cannot be referenced at the top.
This was true in PHP3, but since PHP4, even declaring functions at the bottom of a file, they were still available at the start of a file execution. Everything got compiled in to an intermediate stage before execution.
They're a meta character, and the meaning can be changed later.
* If I'm hitting the tab key and it's inserting X spaces, and I hit the key once too many times, I have to hit delete X times instead of just once.
* If the code is reused in a new environment where everyone wants their indentation levels at 4 spaces instead of 2 or 3 or 8, you have to reformat a lot of code manually. If tabs are used, remap the sizing of the tab character and you're done.
* The tab character itself has some semantic meaning - indent. The space is a word and symbol separator. Use an indentation character when you want to indicate indentation.
I'm finding that I'm buying slightly more kindle books than paper books these days (not a huge number, but still more), and part of that is due to price. Many new titles on Kindle are $9.99 - I can spend a bit more and get a paper version which I'll enjoy more, or can send to the library or a friend or whatever. I'm finding some kindle books that are only a few bucks ($3-$5) which strike my fancy, and I buy them for that price. Easier than heading to the store, often to pay *more* than the $5ish ebook cost. For me, $4.99 and under is a good price point for most ebooks, as it takes away most considerations for determining if something is "worth it" or not.
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What if one of these workers really does give a 'best effort' attempt at helping, say, 6 months from now, but screws something up? Will they be held liable?
I have nearly quit bothering to try to support any 'new' things that come out from food places - anything I *like* will end up getting pulled anyway. I'm still bitter over the scrapping of the McDLT. The McDonald's Chicken Strips? Gone. Wendy's breakfast stuff? Liked them - gone. Wendy's super bar? Gone. I suspect the Taco Bell gorditas will go within 6 months of me developing a regular taste for them. It's a shame, because I want to support innovation, but the larger companies don't seem to be able to commit to things long term any more. Yes, the McDLT was... 5 years? That's about the longest I've ever seen any variation from a menu core last.
Why did it take 100+ years for people to think "Hey, read up on something at home, and we'll talk about it and work through problems in class tomorrow"? Actually, that sounds a lot like many smaller university classes I had. Wondering why this is suddenly capturing everyone's imagination. It's pretty obvious, but then again, many ideas are obvious yet don't catch on.
maybe we could just have 50 state laws instead? :)
Was going to mention this as well - I remember seeing a system like this in the UK in 1997, and it was pretty impressive. I think it may have been Tesco or Sainsbury's, but same idea. Not sure why it's taken 15 years to get this to America.
Wow... you *only* get upgrade licenses for Windows 7. They are *still* only/manly targeting people who are already Windows shops. So on top of this I still need to go out and buy Windows desktop licenses if I don't already have them. In this otherwise all-inclusive bundle (really, it looks nice in some respects) I still need to spend more money. Just include full licenses (read - non-upgrade licenses). This seems to prove that MS is still too inward-looking and not really interested in reaching people who aren't already using Windows on a regular basis.
The most risk averse institutions likely will also be most able to afford higher costs for continued ipv4 living, perpetuating the situation for far longer than most people will think feasible.
People calling looking for help because they can't get on their bank's web site anymore. (java out of date, OS issue, NOT browser) Or they bough software that says it can't install. (not enough memory or OS too old) Or they have a special piece of hardware that broke, bought a replacement, and the newer software it came with won't run on their OS.
Well, at that point, it's not really a case of "it still works fine" - it's demonstrably broken. In many cases there may be workarounds, but it's just the start of a continual exercise in finding workarounds as time marches on.
I do not think that people prefer the user experience of the iphone over similar phones, most people haven't tried multiple phones.
People tried multiple phones for *years* before the iPhone, then ran to it in droves when it came out.
I personally think that most people would like droid just as much as the iPhone, if not more so.
Huh? I might be getting one for development purposes, but it's simply not as smooth an experience as the iPhone. I'm talking specifically about touching and sliding stuff, moving between screens, etc. The basic UI stuff. The droid and other android devices I've tried are all slightly to very jerky and delayed in their response to touch. I was aggravated after about 10 seconds using one, and likely would have been even before the iPhone.
There were/are no light, small, big screened devices at bestbuy that allowed you to do email / web
There are now archos 5 tablets at bestbuys near my house, but last I looked, they weren't *on* and able to be played with or touched.
O/T rant: Not sure what Apple's doing, perhaps other than simple insistence, but Apple products displayed at bestbuys (do they do other retailers too?) always are displayed and positioned to be attractive and enticing. Products *on* and usable with real screens and apps, not stuck-on plastic scratchy pictures of what some artist wants you to think the phone/mp3 player *might* look like after you plunk down hundreds of dollars. And Apple laptops and desktops are just *running* - again, without lame "buy our geek squad support" wallpapers and 'click to see lame videos about which MS apps come bundled with generi-brand X desktop' apps running on 30 screens at the same time all lined up and down store aisles.
In general, I'm not sure why letting people *try out* the product in question before plopping down $500-$1000 is such a distasteful concept to retailers. It seems to work well for Apple.
So *why* was/is Apple in charge of the Java implementation for Mac? I don't buy the 'too much resources' argument I've heard. If your entire company is about Java (changing your stock symbol to JAVA for goodness' sake!) why cede control of implementation on a major developer platform (or one which could become a major developer platform)?
At least currently, if you own a Mac computer, you are free to write, use, sell or give away applications with zero involvement from Apple other than your initial purchase. If you own a Zune or WinMo phone, you're required to interact with MS to do some of those things.
You (for all practical purposes) need to use their tools to write an app.
But, AFAIK, you do not need their permission to distribute an app.
"Covered businesses range from neighborhood dry cleaners to Fortune 100 companies, but the law stipulates that the program be appropriate to the size and resources of the business."
It seems like they really do mean just about everyone. Within a year we'll start seeing stories about how part-time small business people doing exactly what you described are the new source of major data breaches, because their Excel files and whatnot are being stolen via trojans and viruses. And the data security industry will push for more laws and expensive software to remedy the situation. Just a cynical hunch...
Would having a password on a spreadsheet file constitute enough 'security'?
What constitutes a 'business'? And how does this affect companies that might be using any one of the myriad of forums or blogging software in addition to their core "enterprise" software? Pretty much every blog or forum software out there keeps PII in plaintext format, and they're in use by many large companies.
From the article:
"Covered businesses range from neighborhood dry cleaners to Fortune 100 companies, but the law stipulates that the program be appropriate to the size and resources of the business."
So, they really do mean pretty much all businesses - anyone conducting any business online, it seems. Should I start turning in every business that doesn't SSL encrypt their 'contact us' forms? After all, someone from MA might use that form.
so I guess only people unsavvy enough to use MACs will have their addresses recorded! Whew!
Really... never understood it. I get the idea of working 'cheap' to gain experience, and I understand volunteering. I also have offered to work at some places for a short time (week or so) to get a feel for the place. But I've never understood applying to ask to be considered to be approved to then go spend months of my life working for a company which is in the business of making a profit. I guess I never travelled in those sorts of circles where unpaid internships led to high-paying positions of immense money and power, which is why so many people would be lining up to do them.
If anyone would care to engage in some unpaid internships for me, let me know.
From the Digg blog - http://about.digg.com/node/564
"And if that doesn't sound like a big enough challenge, we're replacing most of our infrastructure components and moving away from LAMP."
Cassandra Linux Apache PHP?
PDO has been around for years, and offers standardized escaping and binding for all the major db platforms. If you're stuck with an "old PHP ways" host, they probably are still using PHP4 and have register_globals set to on - IOW, time to move to a modern host. Just like you wouldn't stick with a Java host only offering 1.3 or 1.4, it's time to vote with your wallet and move to modern hosting operations.
Wish I had mod points to give you for that one :)
Then perhaps you're very fortunate. While not common, I have seen them often enough to know what the grandparent was referring to. Typically I see them with issues around networking. If there's a DNS issue or wireless networking issue, you will almost inevitably see a message about "ask your system administrator xxxxx".
In my previous post, I'd meant to say "grandparent", rather than parent (your post). Still, given my position, I'm always happy to hear about Grails adoption successes. :)
Rails popularized a lot of ideas that have since been adopted/adapted by many other frameworks, including Grails. I'm not sure many people could argue that "convention over configuration" has overall been a *bad* thing for web development, especially in the Java world.
I think the parent possibly could have used JRuby for Rails, getting to stay on the JVM platform they were already comfortable with. But perhaps when they considered it JRuby wasn't as mature as they needed it to be.
Even for someone without a lot of Java experience, Grails can be very productive. I prefer the 'domain first' approach Grails allows, rather than the 'database first' which Rails promotes. There's no 'right' answer, but I prefer the Grails way. I've had my fair share of headaches with Grails over the last couple of years, but I'm typically more productive with it than other platforms on many/most types of projects.
I've got some high hopes for Rails 3, from what I've heard from my Ruby-lovin' friends. There's apparently been a lot of refactoring at various levels, so speed and resource handling should be much improved. I'm expecting some backwards compatibility breakage, but I've nothing to base that on other than speculation - major version numbers are the best time to do those sorts of changes, if any are required.
PHP is an example of a scripted language. The computer or browser reads the program like a script, from top to bottom, and executes it in that order: anything you declare at the bottom cannot be referenced at the top.
This was true in PHP3, but since PHP4, even declaring functions at the bottom of a file, they were still available at the start of a file execution. Everything got compiled in to an intermediate stage before execution.
84/100 *IS* a fraction!
They're a meta character, and the meaning can be changed later.
* If I'm hitting the tab key and it's inserting X spaces, and I hit the key once too many times, I have to hit delete X times instead of just once.
* If the code is reused in a new environment where everyone wants their indentation levels at 4 spaces instead of 2 or 3 or 8, you have to reformat a lot of code manually. If tabs are used, remap the sizing of the tab character and you're done.
* The tab character itself has some semantic meaning - indent. The space is a word and symbol separator. Use an indentation character when you want to indicate indentation.
I'm finding that I'm buying slightly more kindle books than paper books these days (not a huge number, but still more), and part of that is due to price. Many new titles on Kindle are $9.99 - I can spend a bit more and get a paper version which I'll enjoy more, or can send to the library or a friend or whatever. I'm finding some kindle books that are only a few bucks ($3-$5) which strike my fancy, and I buy them for that price. Easier than heading to the store, often to pay *more* than the $5ish ebook cost. For me, $4.99 and under is a good price point for most ebooks, as it takes away most considerations for determining if something is "worth it" or not.