I noticed the same thing on my bill. Another reason for the demand is the crap production quality of the boxes (Scientific Atlanta, I believe) themselves. I'm on my 4th HD DVR because the boxes just die. The HD boxes are supposed to be higher quality then the regular DVR's, but I went through five of the regular units before switching to the HD version.
The reason for "invite only" is because when Google first debuted Analytics, the sheer number of requests was too much. I managed to get in during that first round. only to see the new accounts and the ability to measure additional websites disabled within a day.
It does a nice job of tying in with AdSense, as well as giving demographic information, such as referrer information.
In order to measure a site, the webmaster needs to embed some javascript within the page. If you don't want to be tracked, add "http://www.google-analytics.com/* to Ad-block.
Oh, and Google Analytics is really URCHIN Tracker's return to market after Google bought them out.
It's not a Star Trek explanation until you see statements such as "reversing the polarity" or "low-yield tachyon burst". Or a red-shirted ensign gets killed on the planet's surface.
As I see it, RSS is useful for delivery of content that is in an article form, much like submissions on/.. But in order for RSS to be more widespread, it needs to be seen as much more than a news/article delivery system. Microsoft has attempted to do this with Simple Sharing Extensions, which allows for the multi-direction syndication of content. Read the FAQ. Where I work, I wrote a reporting system that was to automatically deliver hourly stats on employee performance on an hourly basis to managers on the last working day of the month. Since the aggregation of data that the report utilized was submitted by a number of people, I just wrote up a quick web interface for them to submit their data with. On the hour, I had a cronjob recreate the RSS feed with the new data included and voila, instant report. Since it was delivered via RSS, it was a trivial matter of using XSL to export results to other formats such as text/html/etc.
You shouldn't need to write anything - you just need to get the hardware and time to install subversion and bugzilla Oh, I agree, both packages are superb. I used cvs for versioning and my little homebrew for bug-tracking. It was a rather pathetic system - no multi-user support, limited assignment ability, no reporting, - but it worked for me to be able to record what I needed to know so I could work. It was more for my own personal use to keep track of things than for any sort of professional wide-spread use. Mainly to record bugs/issues that were reported to me that I had to investigate and fix. Given the option, I would have much rather used something else, something a bit more robust.
I was in the same position, since I was the only developer for small internal applications, my superiors wouldn't allow any sort of bugtracking or versioning software, since it was seen as a waste of time and money (even if the software was free). I didn't really care until my code started getting changed by other people - other people (I won't use the word developer since I was really the only coder) that thought they knew what they were doing. I started off by changing permissions on directories so that no one else had access. But the permissions would be reset by the admins so that the files could be edited. Then I started making daily archives and hashing them, and it worked for a while, but was a hassle. So I started keeping detailed records of time spent fixing the changes. During our weekly team meetings, I started revealing just how much time was spent fixing other code changes. The changes stopped for a while, but resumed. So one day, I "accidently" lost the entire codebase. And preached that versioning software would have allowed me to pick up where the loss happened.
As for bug tracking, I had to write my own system that was hosted locally (via an illicit install of cygwin/apache/mysql/php), just to track them. One day, my boss accidently saw it and thought it was the greatest thing since slided bread and wanted everyone to use it. I quickly got rid of it off the work machine, but soon we had bug tracking software and my boss was praised by her superiors for her innovative thinking.
On the exam, the professor had put a bonus question, stated simply "Write a single syntactically correct assembler command." The kid sitting next to me had finished fairly early, and I noticed he was spending a lot of time on the bonus question. He gets up, turns the test in, and leaves. The professor picks up his test to look it over, gets to the bonus question and starts to chuckle. He announces to the class that he's changing the bonus question, from the above to "Write assembly to crash a computer."
My former employer (*cough* National City Bank *cough*) actually builds in a 3% raise into EVERY department's annual budget that can only be used on annual raises. Now, that doesn't mean everyone will get a 3% raise. Better still, the chance you will recieve a raise is tied to an annual evaluation where each department is graded on a bell-curve. It's official policy that is kept hush-hush (small print in the Employee Handbook). Most departments do not use the portion of their budget for raises, despite being reserved for raises. If raises are given, its usually given as a cost-of-living raise. Unless you're a manager, then you get a big raise.
IIRC, it wasn't a law but a condition of the FTC for the merger of AOL and Time Warner. There was a/. article not long ago about this condition being repealed by the FTC. So it doesn't apply to Yahoo!.
The Polish have never gotten the full recognition they deserved for their work. Not even by the British government. The extent of credit goes to a small monument at Bletchley Park that gives the history of the Polish contribution to the efforts to break Enigma. The Polish had begun to work on breaking Enigma almost soon after it was invented in Germany and when it was used for monetary transactions. Bletchley Park was years behind Poland and did not even have a model of the machine before Poland smuggled the devices and notes to England. If you ever visit Bletchley Park (and I recommend you do, its a great museum now, complete with the remake of Colossus, which was built to crack a 20 rotor Enigma machine) the monument is over by what was once the mansion stables. In fact, such things even went so far as to prevent the Polish from joining in celebritory parades and marches after war.
I just got my bill today, how timely. I'm paying $44.95/month for internet access for 1 IP addy. But what Time Warner doesn't know about my network can't hurt me yet.
If I was still in school (UAkron), Time Warner has some deal where students get it for $20/month.
Have you looked into the Flash Communication Server from Macromedia? We use it here at the Univ of Akron for some minor teleconferencing and it works great. Since the Flash player is available for many platforms, it seems to be a good idea. There's no hardware needed except a server to put it on (which right now is Windows only) and mics/cameras for the clients. The stress on the server with a dozen concurrent video and audio, including some over wireless connections, was negligible. With the computers over 100mbs connection and wireless at 11mbs shared, the video and audio quality was great. Even over dial-up, the quality was impressive. The FCS comes with sample teleconferencing and whiteboard examples, so you could easily modify it to suit your purposes.
Actually, with Macromedia releasing the Flash Communication Server, developers can create panel presentations, guestbooks, and even live audio/video conferencing all by drag-n-drop. Combine this with near-seemless integration with Cold Fusion MX they have a pretty solid setup. Here's the FlashCom setup running on our server: http://130.101.224.9/flashcom/applications/samples.html All in all, FlashCom has brought about a lot of power to the Flash line.
The reason that they have a Canadian sing "God Bless America" is because then then have a bunch of Americans singing along to "Star Spangled Banner" whose music happens to be an old British drinking song, "To Anacreon in Heaven,". So having foreigners sing other peoples songs is just a new tradition. Next Superbowl...a Russian trying to sing and dance the macarena.
Don't most EULA's have some clause about lawsuits, usually mentioning something along the lines of filing in a certain county or state (in the US)? One would think you can stipulate that anyone filing suit with regards to the site must do it in a court in a certain state/province/county/country/anything. I suppose it would be possible to add that to a website under a Terms of Service page that takes effect upon viewing anything on the site.
Since this is something I do on a daily basis at work, allow me to go over some of the things I do to make sure a web site is accessible. First of all, layout of a page is important. Framesets are poorly implemented in text-only browsers and screen readers. Things are getting better, but they're not perfect yet. Standards. I really can't stress this enough. My experience has taught me that following the government's Section 508 and W3C's Accessibility standards offer the widest range of compatibility with accessibility software. Additionally, using XHTML 1.0 Transitional works better than strict or HTML 4.01. Although it seems logical to follow these rules, there are a lot of websites that still use tables for layout (hell on a screen reader) or forget image alt tags. Despite following these, I do miss a lot. My preference for writing web pages is to use NotePad (I'm sorry, the whole office runs Windows and I am not allowed to use Linux/Unix) to write my pages. None of that FrontPage or DreamWeaver or WYSIWYG stuff for me. FrontPage seems to take joy in proprietary tags, DreamWeaver has plug-ins available for accessibility but they are lacking. To cover for my own lapses when authoring, I turn to a number of tools. Running EVERY page through W3C's various validators is very helpful. Although all that gets me is standard's compliant page, its less work later when I use a text browser and screen reader. Along those lines, I check every page in Lynx (yippee for cygwin) and JAWS. Both are very helpful in making them all accessible. Perhaps the greatest tool at my disposal is an actual blind person. She has been instrumental in learning how to create accessible pages. Sticking to the standards just doesn't always cut it. All in all, it has really become second nature to write HTML that is accessible. Once one gets in the groove of things, its very easy. In conclusion, writing accessible code depends a lot on adhering to standards, but writing logically and cleanly does a world of wonder towards making clean HTML code.
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With all this talk of encryption and compression being a good idea, I had to chime in. It would be crucial in the process to know when encryption is occuring. If encryption occurs before compression the wouldn't the compression rate be low? Stated differently, good encryption shouldn't be able to be compressed too much. (http://www.hifn.com/docs/a/The-First-Book-of-Comp ression-and-Encryption.pdf)
Wow doesn't cover it. I got to see a midnight showing (on the 20th but, hey, it was free). And it was phenomenal. Everything was as I pictured it. The balrog was just perfect. The coolest thing was seeing Legolas quick-draw 3 or 4 arrows, and stab an orc in the eye with an error and then shooting that same arrow (didya notice that the backround wasn't moving fast meaning he really can move that fast!). And Gimli's fighting style, throwing two battle axes before drawing flourentine axes to cleave! All in all, I have only one bad thing to say about the movie and that's that I have to wait until next December to catch The Two Towers!
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I noticed the same thing on my bill. Another reason for the demand is the crap production quality of the boxes (Scientific Atlanta, I believe) themselves. I'm on my 4th HD DVR because the boxes just die. The HD boxes are supposed to be higher quality then the regular DVR's, but I went through five of the regular units before switching to the HD version.
Too bad you don't suffer from Three Stooges Syndrome. Then all the diseases would cancel out. Even a few undiscovered ones.
The reason for "invite only" is because when Google first debuted Analytics, the sheer number of requests was too much. I managed to get in during that first round. only to see the new accounts and the ability to measure additional websites disabled within a day.
It does a nice job of tying in with AdSense, as well as giving demographic information, such as referrer information.
In order to measure a site, the webmaster needs to embed some javascript within the page. If you don't want to be tracked, add "http://www.google-analytics.com/* to Ad-block.
Oh, and Google Analytics is really URCHIN Tracker's return to market after Google bought them out.
It's not a Star Trek explanation until you see statements such as "reversing the polarity" or "low-yield tachyon burst". Or a red-shirted ensign gets killed on the planet's surface.
As I see it, RSS is useful for delivery of content that is in an article form, much like submissions on /.. But in order for RSS to be more widespread, it needs to be seen as much more than a news/article delivery system.
Microsoft has attempted to do this with Simple Sharing Extensions, which allows for the multi-direction syndication of content. Read the FAQ.
Where I work, I wrote a reporting system that was to automatically deliver hourly stats on employee performance on an hourly basis to managers on the last working day of the month. Since the aggregation of data that the report utilized was submitted by a number of people, I just wrote up a quick web interface for them to submit their data with. On the hour, I had a cronjob recreate the RSS feed with the new data included and voila, instant report.
Since it was delivered via RSS, it was a trivial matter of using XSL to export results to other formats such as text/html/etc.
You shouldn't need to write anything - you just need to get the hardware and time to install subversion and bugzilla
Oh, I agree, both packages are superb. I used cvs for versioning and my little homebrew for bug-tracking. It was a rather pathetic system - no multi-user support, limited assignment ability, no reporting, - but it worked for me to be able to record what I needed to know so I could work. It was more for my own personal use to keep track of things than for any sort of professional wide-spread use. Mainly to record bugs/issues that were reported to me that I had to investigate and fix.
Given the option, I would have much rather used something else, something a bit more robust.
I was in the same position, since I was the only developer for small internal applications, my superiors wouldn't allow any sort of bugtracking or versioning software, since it was seen as a waste of time and money (even if the software was free).
I didn't really care until my code started getting changed by other people - other people (I won't use the word developer since I was really the only coder) that thought they knew what they were doing.
I started off by changing permissions on directories so that no one else had access. But the permissions would be reset by the admins so that the files could be edited. Then I started making daily archives and hashing them, and it worked for a while, but was a hassle. So I started keeping detailed records of time spent fixing the changes. During our weekly team meetings, I started revealing just how much time was spent fixing other code changes. The changes stopped for a while, but resumed.
So one day, I "accidently" lost the entire codebase. And preached that versioning software would have allowed me to pick up where the loss happened.
As for bug tracking, I had to write my own system that was hosted locally (via an illicit install of cygwin/apache/mysql/php), just to track them. One day, my boss accidently saw it and thought it was the greatest thing since slided bread and wanted everyone to use it. I quickly got rid of it off the work machine, but soon we had bug tracking software and my boss was praised by her superiors for her innovative thinking.
On the exam, the professor had put a bonus question, stated simply "Write a single syntactically correct assembler command." The kid sitting next to me had finished fairly early, and I noticed he was spending a lot of time on the bonus question. He gets up, turns the test in, and leaves. The professor picks up his test to look it over, gets to the bonus question and starts to chuckle.
He announces to the class that he's changing the bonus question, from the above to "Write assembly to crash a computer."
My former employer (*cough* National City Bank *cough*) actually builds in a 3% raise into EVERY department's annual budget that can only be used on annual raises. Now, that doesn't mean everyone will get a 3% raise. Better still, the chance you will recieve a raise is tied to an annual evaluation where each department is graded on a bell-curve. It's official policy that is kept hush-hush (small print in the Employee Handbook).
Most departments do not use the portion of their budget for raises, despite being reserved for raises. If raises are given, its usually given as a cost-of-living raise. Unless you're a manager, then you get a big raise.
Should have gotten in on the beta, best $70 for a two year membership I ever spent.
Especially for such an awesome game!
IIRC, it wasn't a law but a condition of the FTC for the merger of AOL and Time Warner. There was a /. article not long ago about this condition being repealed by the FTC.
So it doesn't apply to Yahoo!.
The Polish have never gotten the full recognition they deserved for their work. Not even by the British government. The extent of credit goes to a small monument at Bletchley Park that gives the history of the Polish contribution to the efforts to break Enigma. The Polish had begun to work on breaking Enigma almost soon after it was invented in Germany and when it was used for monetary transactions. Bletchley Park was years behind Poland and did not even have a model of the machine before Poland smuggled the devices and notes to England.
If you ever visit Bletchley Park (and I recommend you do, its a great museum now, complete with the remake of Colossus, which was built to crack a 20 rotor Enigma machine) the monument is over by what was once the mansion stables.
In fact, such things even went so far as to prevent the Polish from joining in celebritory parades and marches after war.
I just got my bill today, how timely.
I'm paying $44.95/month for internet access for 1 IP addy. But what Time Warner doesn't know about my network can't hurt me yet.
If I was still in school (UAkron), Time Warner has some deal where students get it for $20/month.
Have you looked into the Flash Communication Server from Macromedia? We use it here at the Univ of Akron for some minor teleconferencing and it works great. Since the Flash player is available for many platforms, it seems to be a good idea. There's no hardware needed except a server to put it on (which right now is Windows only) and mics/cameras for the clients.
The stress on the server with a dozen concurrent video and audio, including some over wireless connections, was negligible. With the computers over 100mbs connection and wireless at 11mbs shared, the video and audio quality was great. Even over dial-up, the quality was impressive.
The FCS comes with sample teleconferencing and whiteboard examples, so you could easily modify it to suit your purposes.
Actually, with Macromedia releasing the Flash Communication Server, developers can create panel presentations, guestbooks, and even live audio/video conferencing all by drag-n-drop. Combine this with near-seemless integration with Cold Fusion MX they have a pretty solid setup. Here's the FlashCom setup running on our server: http://130.101.224.9/flashcom/applications/samples .html
All in all, FlashCom has brought about a lot of power to the Flash line.
The reason that they have a Canadian sing "God Bless America" is because then then have a bunch of Americans singing along to "Star Spangled Banner" whose music happens to be an old British drinking song, "To Anacreon in Heaven,".
So having foreigners sing other peoples songs is just a new tradition. Next Superbowl...a Russian trying to sing and dance the macarena.
Don't most EULA's have some clause about lawsuits, usually mentioning something along the lines of filing in a certain county or state (in the US)? One would think you can stipulate that anyone filing suit with regards to the site must do it in a court in a certain state/province/county/country/anything. I suppose it would be possible to add that to a website under a Terms of Service page that takes effect upon viewing anything on the site.
Since this is something I do on a daily basis at work, allow me to go over some of the things I do to make sure a web site is accessible.
First of all, layout of a page is important. Framesets are poorly implemented in text-only browsers and screen readers. Things are getting better, but they're not perfect yet.
Standards. I really can't stress this enough. My experience has taught me that following the government's Section 508 and W3C's Accessibility standards offer the widest range of compatibility with accessibility software. Additionally, using XHTML 1.0 Transitional works better than strict or HTML 4.01. Although it seems logical to follow these rules, there are a lot of websites that still use tables for layout (hell on a screen reader) or forget image alt tags. Despite following these, I do miss a lot.
My preference for writing web pages is to use NotePad (I'm sorry, the whole office runs Windows and I am not allowed to use Linux/Unix) to write my pages. None of that FrontPage or DreamWeaver or WYSIWYG stuff for me. FrontPage seems to take joy in proprietary tags, DreamWeaver has plug-ins available for accessibility but they are lacking.
To cover for my own lapses when authoring, I turn to a number of tools. Running EVERY page through W3C's various validators is very helpful. Although all that gets me is standard's compliant page, its less work later when I use a text browser and screen reader. Along those lines, I check every page in Lynx (yippee for cygwin) and JAWS. Both are very helpful in making them all accessible.
Perhaps the greatest tool at my disposal is an actual blind person. She has been instrumental in learning how to create accessible pages. Sticking to the standards just doesn't always cut it.
All in all, it has really become second nature to write HTML that is accessible. Once one gets in the groove of things, its very easy.
In conclusion, writing accessible code depends a lot on adhering to standards, but writing logically and cleanly does a world of wonder towards making clean HTML code.
With all this talk of encryption and compression being a good idea, I had to chime in. It would be crucial in the process to know when encryption is occuring. If encryption occurs before compression the wouldn't the compression rate be low? Stated differently, good encryption shouldn't be able to be compressed too much. (http://www.hifn.com/docs/a/The-First-Book-of-Comp ression-and-Encryption.pdf)
You could use SMIL which is a Real Player extension that would allow you to create Powerpoint-like presentations.
Oh yeah, and Liv Tyler is yummy with elf ears (with incidentally are made of gelatin - perfect for nibbling)
Wow doesn't cover it. I got to see a midnight showing (on the 20th but, hey, it was free). And it was phenomenal. Everything was as I pictured it. The balrog was just perfect. The coolest thing was seeing Legolas quick-draw 3 or 4 arrows, and stab an orc in the eye with an error and then shooting that same arrow (didya notice that the backround wasn't moving fast meaning he really can move that fast!). And Gimli's fighting style, throwing two battle axes before drawing flourentine axes to cleave! All in all, I have only one bad thing to say about the movie and that's that I have to wait until next December to catch The Two Towers!