'Two wars that continue to occupy 150,000 troops and tie up a quarter of our defense budget; a bloated homeland-security apparatus that has at times pushed the bounds of civil liberty; soaring oil prices partially attributable to the global war on bin Laden's terrorist network; and a chunk of our mounting national debt.'
yeah us crazy liberals kinda said that would happen. but hey what do we know? hindsight is 20/20 and we're going to keep driving into the future using the rear view mirror.
it may be that the majority of training providers are garbage, hence the sentiment that training is useless. if useful training were more prevalent than not, wouldn't you see more comments in favor? i took a class on android development, but it was good for theory only. the anonymous coward above is right: if you don't have a use for a technology then just reading about it, or watching a demo, isn't going to turn on any lightbulbs for you. training doesn't show you what to do when things go wrong (the most valuable kind of knowledge btw), just how to make a simple use case go right. in the end, training sessions don't do much more than pique the interest of the few who are willing to apply the new tech themselves -- they don't replace hours of search engine joyriding to find out how to make the pos work how you want it to. going to training does not make you proficient at the subject.
oh gee i don't know maybe it's the Google Analytics accounts running, or jQuery being used to make the UI of that blog appealing, or - hey - i don't know gee maybe it's a bunch of stuff that DEVELOPERS know how to use and YOU DON'T.
in order to do one simple trick with jQuery, such as animating hidden elements into visibility, you have to load the whole base jQuery library. might have known that if you knew what the fuck you were talking about. would it lower the page size to strip out what you need from the library? sure. would it be faster for the developer, and therefore more profitable, to the site owner? no, it wouldn't.
quit your whining and get off dial-up, you should count yourself lucky you have something so stupid to complain about. i bet you complain that your dentist has to put his/her hands in your mouth too. mouthbreather.
Instead of users just consuming content, users create content (the comments that news organizations want to farm) and providers consume this content, which is attributed to the user. Users consumer other users' content via the providers, and produce more content in response. At that point providers don't even have to be accurate, they just have to consume the most popular content creators.
Which is exactly how journalism has worked since we got rid of (i.e., started ignoring) that annoying little FAIR Act. Who cares if it's accurate? It sells ads! It's what the White House wants you to hear! It's not like we're working with indelible ink -- the internet might as well be written in pencil, the way we go back and change stuff many times a day, a la 1984. Hell, if it weren't for the comments, I might not even know that the news story I'm reading was changed 5 times before I read it once.
Then again it doesn't matter because the ads will have me forget anything ever happened before the next interruption in my distraction-driven life (soon to be repeated and forgotten). Thank god that other article says Twitter doesn't provide a substantial source of links to news sites. That's exactly what it will be like when we start treating user comments like they're relevant to the news stories.
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'Two wars that continue to occupy 150,000 troops and tie up a quarter of our defense budget; a bloated homeland-security apparatus that has at times pushed the bounds of civil liberty; soaring oil prices partially attributable to the global war on bin Laden's terrorist network; and a chunk of our mounting national debt.'
yeah us crazy liberals kinda said that would happen. but hey what do we know? hindsight is 20/20 and we're going to keep driving into the future using the rear view mirror.
anyone who insists that moving a finger to switch your windows is quicker than glancing over at a second screen is severely detached from reality.
i'm not looking that word up, asshole.
you seriously think any one of the Ps in PHP stands for Python? i'll give you a hint: the first P stands for PHP.
no. stfu.
i wondered the same thing. cmdrtaco get over yourself.
it may be that the majority of training providers are garbage, hence the sentiment that training is useless. if useful training were more prevalent than not, wouldn't you see more comments in favor? i took a class on android development, but it was good for theory only. the anonymous coward above is right: if you don't have a use for a technology then just reading about it, or watching a demo, isn't going to turn on any lightbulbs for you. training doesn't show you what to do when things go wrong (the most valuable kind of knowledge btw), just how to make a simple use case go right. in the end, training sessions don't do much more than pique the interest of the few who are willing to apply the new tech themselves -- they don't replace hours of search engine joyriding to find out how to make the pos work how you want it to. going to training does not make you proficient at the subject.
oh gee i don't know maybe it's the Google Analytics accounts running, or jQuery being used to make the UI of that blog appealing, or - hey - i don't know gee maybe it's a bunch of stuff that DEVELOPERS know how to use and YOU DON'T.
in order to do one simple trick with jQuery, such as animating hidden elements into visibility, you have to load the whole base jQuery library. might have known that if you knew what the fuck you were talking about. would it lower the page size to strip out what you need from the library? sure. would it be faster for the developer, and therefore more profitable, to the site owner? no, it wouldn't.
quit your whining and get off dial-up, you should count yourself lucky you have something so stupid to complain about. i bet you complain that your dentist has to put his/her hands in your mouth too. mouthbreather.
"The problem with being better than everyone is that people tend to think you're pretentious."
Let's exercise IoC in regards to content!
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/orbital-content/
Instead of users just consuming content, users create content (the comments that news organizations want to farm) and providers consume this content, which is attributed to the user. Users consumer other users' content via the providers, and produce more content in response. At that point providers don't even have to be accurate, they just have to consume the most popular content creators.
Which is exactly how journalism has worked since we got rid of (i.e., started ignoring) that annoying little FAIR Act. Who cares if it's accurate? It sells ads! It's what the White House wants you to hear! It's not like we're working with indelible ink -- the internet might as well be written in pencil, the way we go back and change stuff many times a day, a la 1984. Hell, if it weren't for the comments, I might not even know that the news story I'm reading was changed 5 times before I read it once.
Then again it doesn't matter because the ads will have me forget anything ever happened before the next interruption in my distraction-driven life (soon to be repeated and forgotten). Thank god that other article says Twitter doesn't provide a substantial source of links to news sites. That's exactly what it will be like when we start treating user comments like they're relevant to the news stories.