You have this the wrong way round. IE 7 has actually gotten better at rendering. Its breaking things because the dodgy hacks that had to be put into code to get it working right with IE 6 (rightly) no longer work.
We've had a couple of things "break" in our office, and had the webmaster go through the old code. I stopped counting the times I heard him tell people on the telephone "well, yes, it shouldn't have worked in the first place."
Microsoft got themselves into this hole, and now they are realising that IE 7 needs to dig itself out from the problems they caused.
I graduated with a First Class Masters, so I am not *exactly* in the same position as you. I managed to find a job, as did most of my friends, quite quickly. However, your carpet-bomb approach has come up with jack, and you should have found a job by now. I am expecting you are doing something wrong.
First place to start is the resume. Is it eye-catching? If it's not, it's in the trash. You can Google for resumes, and some people have good-looking ones (especially graphic designers, but don't use graphics in yours!). Don't fall into the trap of copying other people's structure either. I suggest a Personal Profile, bullet-point list of achievements, and then your education at the bottom (your degree isn't too hot, you've got it, but they're looking for what you learnt from it, and that's what you are giving further up)
Does it tell them who you are? You have no work experience, which really hurts you, but what did you do at school? Think about what they are looking for. Have you been a team leader? Give an example when you had to communicate something effectively (written or verbal). Do you have teamwork experience? These are the things that your degree isn't necessarily going to prove you have, and separate the wheat from the chaff. You need to let them know.
The second place to look is who are you sending it to? Is it targetted? If you just send a CV to IBM, it's going in the bin. Don't just send it with a cover letter and cross your fingers. Actually apply to a position that exists. You'll need to apply for a position where you are suitable. You probably aren't going to get a graduate job with the big companies, look smaller. Look for grad programs, sure, but also look for small-time positions at universities, IT support for schools or small businesses.
The third thing to look at is definitely that experience problem. Get a job, doing *anything*. Even retail will help, show you can manage your time effectively, communicate with customers to help find what they want (requirements elicitation is a great way of wording that!) There is no job which will not help you resume (apart from stripper). I would suggest looking at recruitment agencies; there are usually temp programming jobs in cities that need a Java or.NET guy for a month or two to help out with a project; and they generally aren't that picky (if you were a stunning recruit, you would already be in full-time employment!)
I hope this helps. I also hope this seems very obvious to you, and this is what you have been doing already;) Good luck! Persistence is the key! (and it really seems you have that in bucket-loads!)
I think you are right, but I would go further. I don't believe Gmail has ever been quirky and limited. I think it has been a largely successful, and determined, attempt to change the email storage paradigm, and Mossberg is scared of change.
Fact: Searching with Gmail is quicker than sorting stuff into folders. Fact: Conversation view makes it much more obvious the flow of communication between participants. Fact: Labels are folders, if you want that to be true.
The only thing it doesn't have is drag-and-drop, and this seriously seems to be Mossberg's sticking point. "It doesn't work exactly like Microsoft Outlook! Yahoo Mail! does its best to provide a half-assed implementation of it, so it is the winner!"
If you want a desktop-like application... perhaps it is better to use a desktop application? Just a thought.
The conversation view, at least, is a step in the right direction that many would be wise to emulate. I am disappointed Apple didn't try to get this into Mail.app for OS X 10.5. Gmail is a great web-interface, and is still, in my mind, the best webmail that money can, or in Gmail's case, cannot, buy.
This very much depends on how we want to talk about "publishing" and how the judge wants to read the UK law. As far as I am aware, placing something on a web page is publishing, where it is read is the locality, and each time it is read it is considered to be published (including web caches and the like).
A good analogy: If I make a UK-banned book in France, I cannot sell it in my bookshop in the UK.
The New York Times has the same problem; by letting people read the stuff from the UK, it is falling foul of UK laws. They must have some form of presence in the UK which could be brought before a judge, and hence why the NYT are understandably wary.
If you are going to be in an international business, you have to respect international laws, and understand that the Internet is not the Wild West of extraterritorial unchallengeable space that some made it out to be in the early days.
Personally, I think the law is a good one, and America would be right to think about adopting it (see: JonBenet case - "The parents did it!" "The guy in Thailand did it!" Actual court of law: "there is no proof", and every single jury member who read this prejudicial stuff has potentially been perverted)
What games were they playing? I mean, Second Life, or Warcraft? Having a lowly Mac, I have reguarly partaken in the latter, where I have been called a "fag", "n**ga" and other wonderful terms.
Is it because they pick their slurs at random that they cross boundaries, rather than singling out a particular minority?
All I meant was by "pro-corporte" was desicions being taken that are in the interests of the company, and not the users. These two do not necessarily mix. See: Microsoft.
We're talking about *commercial* APIs guys: a mass transfer of hundreds/thousands of megabytes of data a day to a competitor's site. The personal API keys are fine for doing little cool things on user's desktops, but do not allow such intensive work specifically so someone can poach your customers.
I understand Stewart's reluctance, but I think people on his team have got it right, Flickr has to step up and say "We are the best, and we are going to prove it." Locking customers into your site is the sort of pro-corporate anti-user image that Flickr avoided, and won them such goodwill.
Personally, I think Flickr is still the best. It's clean, it does things well. Zooomr is OK, but it's a complete carbon copy, with some pointless added bits.
GamePolitics took a very selective quote, and that is to their detriment.
TFA actually says, right afterwards:
"Then again, when I was a kid, I had plenty of non-educational alternatives, from junk TV to sandlot baseball. Yet my mother dragged me to the library every week, so I ended up with books all around me all the time."
His argument isn't that video games have replaced reading. He's just saying that they are the flavour of the decade for avoiding reading. He's just rallying parents to force their children to read more than they do.
His problem is he treats it as an either/or proposition. You either read, or you do something non-educational. The first problem is that English is not necessarily an indicator of intelligence (although an important one), and as GP points out, you learn other skills from play. The second problem is that I played a lot of video games as a kid, and I have great English skills. You have to read. That's a given, but reading doesn't necessarily fight for time with other activities. I read in school, and I read before I went to bed. Reading was either forced on me by others, or the only viable solution for the environment.
All that we need is for parents to get TVs out of bedrooms and books in there instead. I think the literacy level will improve quite a bit.
Yes, this is a criminal offence (in the normal reading of the Act, I make a post further up about the different readings): it was unauthorised usage of the computer you mail-bombed, whether you meant to do it or not. You might get a lesser sentence if you can show it was just negligence rather than maliciousness.
The case was never closed: the CPS appealed for an intepretation of the law from a higher court. They are saying it *was* a crime when it was perpatrated.
They aren't retroactively convicting anyone: it's an ongoing case. The judge said the defendant had "nothing to answer for", and the CPS disagreed (as have the Court of Appeal).
Well yes, and therein lies the rub. The law states, quite categorically, that you are misusing computer equipment if it is "unauthorised use". The problem is where you define "unauthorized". Most people take it to mean that unauthorised is doing anything that would anger/damage the person who owns the machine. This means that if you work as a sysadmin, and delete all the files on the network, despire the fact you had the *capability* to do it, you stepped over the boundary into *unauthorised* use, because destroying the company's data in its entireity was not what your employer wanted.
What the magistrate said, was that if the email server is open, or indeed a web server is open, then that is authorising others to use it. While the letter of the law certainly allows that opinion, that isn't how the Computer Misuse Act has tradionally been read (which has been the above reading), and it's what the High Court sent back when they said to consider the point of view of the employer.
So whereas a Slashdotting is not a crime, because each user had a legitimate reason for using the web server for finding information that the owner had made public, DDoSing a web server is, because you are not using the bandwidth for the authorised use of reading web sites, you are using it for the unauthorised use of preventing others accessing the resource.
In the UK, you can be retried for the same offence if there is "new and compelling evidence" (usually DNA samples), or if the case was never fully closed, as here. The CPS appealed the case after the ruling, saying that the magistrate read the law wrongly, which sends it up the chain for review. If High Court had said, "Nah, it was a fair call", then the case would be closed and he could no longer be tried again. However, the High Court has sent it back for further review. IANAL so I don't know why the High Court itself doesn't make the decision, and I don't know what happens if the magistrate decides the same way again.
Such stuff happens infrequently, but is sometimes reported on the news.
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I forgot to mention, that of particular note, is the last paragraph:
"In fact, I'm blaming the AAF for a wide-range of habits espoused by supposedly "creative people." I'll bet it's responsible for tattoos, piercings, and the wide-spread adoption of the phrase "no worries." In fact, I believe that most of today's societal ills can be either indirectly or directly attributed to Apple. Widespread hearing loss? Blame the iPod. Carpal tunnel? Blame the Newton."
This is so insane that it seems he's trying to hint that the rest of the article was just a troll as well. He also links to a piece he wrote where he thought Boot Camp was pretty sweet. I don't know what he's trying to pull, but I'm sure his advertisers are happy.
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"Seriously, why does this guy care so much?"
Apparently he's noticed that John C. Dvorak's trolling puts the hit count through the roof. Only makes sense to start using the rest of the magazine's brand to start trolling as well.
He's obviously got some sort of logic malfunction, his arguments are both bizarre and full of emotive language. It's professional trolling.
I too, was one of the A9 crew. I loved having web results/image results/wikipedia all in one search. When Windows Live came up, I switched Google back. Now they've abandoned Google completely, and you can't search for web-wide images (from *anyone*) at all anymore.
I tried to live with Windows Live search, although it's results weren't so great. But the loss of image results as well was a deal-breaker.
A9 has lost it's edge in some bizarre powerplay. They should have been shouting about their service, and instead you got there by accident from IMDb or Amazon. Now I have to go back to Google, and it's oh-so-bland results.
It would need to have liberal usage of that content: tag, I think, for maximum and extremely prejudiced insertion of OMG, PONIESzz!11 and CUTTTEEEEEEEE everywhere.
That statistic is BS. Sure, I watch girls play games all the time. They play Sudoku, Solitare, FreeCell. They like puzzle games, and that's cool. But it's almost always going to be on a casual basis.
Being casual does not make you that bothered. I ride bicycles, but I don't want to be a bicycle engineer. I would even say I love cars, but I don't care about their engines past how loud they are and how fast they can go. That's a casual relationship too.
Why would girls who play Sudoku care in any way shape or form about programming Sudoku games?
We can run around these circles all day about why girls play games or why they don't, why they program or why they don't, but the end result is the same. Unless someone can fundamentally change the nature of programming, or indeed, development, they aren't going to do it.
I have stopped caring about how many girls play games or how many girls develop games. It's not a big deal.
The article, sadly, doesn't push on finding out why people were carrying around laptops full of sensitive information.
Why did they need it? "Oh, I'll just download an Excel file of every students personal details so I can make that Powerpoint presentation I want!" Why weren't they using some method of protecting the student's data at all? If I had access to data like that, I would only expect to get it on-demand from a server across a secure VPN with a tough password (SecurID perhaps).
I don't understand why you would want such information downloaded unless you were going to do something malicious. Could someone explain to me why these people were just walking out the doors with entire databases in their rucksacks?
I had heard bad stories about the IT provision at Warwick (particuarly their Resnet service), but didn't realise it was that bad.
Here at Bristol, I've worked for our Resnet over the summer, which is housed along with the IT guys. Security is absolutely paramount, and even for little Resnet projects, we would sit down for a couple of hours for a threat assessment (SQL injection, what happens if a dictionary attack succeeds, could we place exponential back-off on the login page).
That said, the physical security wasn't paid proper attention and some guys just broke in and stole thousands of pounds worth of rackmount computers from the machine room. Obviously they knew that the good stuff was down there, so they must have had some intelligence, but it should not have been so easy to get it. That's all changed now. You'd be lucky to get out with anything now.
It's great how the article makes it appear LucasArts doesn't own any IP past Star Wars, and glosses over LucasArts's history of making games on new IP after new IP.
They have a huge non-Star Wars catalogue.
The fact is, they don't care. The suits came in, the creativity went out, and that was the end of LucasArts. They stopped caring about the games they created and the customers they insulted.
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You have this the wrong way round. IE 7 has actually gotten better at rendering. Its breaking things because the dodgy hacks that had to be put into code to get it working right with IE 6 (rightly) no longer work.
We've had a couple of things "break" in our office, and had the webmaster go through the old code. I stopped counting the times I heard him tell people on the telephone "well, yes, it shouldn't have worked in the first place."
Microsoft got themselves into this hole, and now they are realising that IE 7 needs to dig itself out from the problems they caused.
I graduated with a First Class Masters, so I am not *exactly* in the same position as you. I managed to find a job, as did most of my friends, quite quickly. However, your carpet-bomb approach has come up with jack, and you should have found a job by now. I am expecting you are doing something wrong.
.NET guy for a month or two to help out with a project; and they generally aren't that picky (if you were a stunning recruit, you would already be in full-time employment!)
;) Good luck! Persistence is the key! (and it really seems you have that in bucket-loads!)
First place to start is the resume. Is it eye-catching? If it's not, it's in the trash. You can Google for resumes, and some people have good-looking ones (especially graphic designers, but don't use graphics in yours!). Don't fall into the trap of copying other people's structure either. I suggest a Personal Profile, bullet-point list of achievements, and then your education at the bottom (your degree isn't too hot, you've got it, but they're looking for what you learnt from it, and that's what you are giving further up)
Does it tell them who you are? You have no work experience, which really hurts you, but what did you do at school? Think about what they are looking for. Have you been a team leader? Give an example when you had to communicate something effectively (written or verbal). Do you have teamwork experience? These are the things that your degree isn't necessarily going to prove you have, and separate the wheat from the chaff. You need to let them know.
The second place to look is who are you sending it to? Is it targetted? If you just send a CV to IBM, it's going in the bin. Don't just send it with a cover letter and cross your fingers. Actually apply to a position that exists. You'll need to apply for a position where you are suitable. You probably aren't going to get a graduate job with the big companies, look smaller. Look for grad programs, sure, but also look for small-time positions at universities, IT support for schools or small businesses.
The third thing to look at is definitely that experience problem. Get a job, doing *anything*. Even retail will help, show you can manage your time effectively, communicate with customers to help find what they want (requirements elicitation is a great way of wording that!) There is no job which will not help you resume (apart from stripper). I would suggest looking at recruitment agencies; there are usually temp programming jobs in cities that need a Java or
I hope this helps. I also hope this seems very obvious to you, and this is what you have been doing already
I think you are right, but I would go further. I don't believe Gmail has ever been quirky and limited. I think it has been a largely successful, and determined, attempt to change the email storage paradigm, and Mossberg is scared of change.
Fact: Searching with Gmail is quicker than sorting stuff into folders.
Fact: Conversation view makes it much more obvious the flow of communication between participants.
Fact: Labels are folders, if you want that to be true.
The only thing it doesn't have is drag-and-drop, and this seriously seems to be Mossberg's sticking point. "It doesn't work exactly like Microsoft Outlook! Yahoo Mail! does its best to provide a half-assed implementation of it, so it is the winner!"
If you want a desktop-like application... perhaps it is better to use a desktop application? Just a thought.
The conversation view, at least, is a step in the right direction that many would be wise to emulate. I am disappointed Apple didn't try to get this into Mail.app for OS X 10.5. Gmail is a great web-interface, and is still, in my mind, the best webmail that money can, or in Gmail's case, cannot, buy.
Who are we, then (according to your logic), to publish stories about human rights atrocities in China?
You are aware that pretty much every US web business with any presence in China does just that?
This very much depends on how we want to talk about "publishing" and how the judge wants to read the UK law. As far as I am aware, placing something on a web page is publishing, where it is read is the locality, and each time it is read it is considered to be published (including web caches and the like).
A good analogy: If I make a UK-banned book in France, I cannot sell it in my bookshop in the UK.
The New York Times has the same problem; by letting people read the stuff from the UK, it is falling foul of UK laws. They must have some form of presence in the UK which could be brought before a judge, and hence why the NYT are understandably wary.
If you are going to be in an international business, you have to respect international laws, and understand that the Internet is not the Wild West of extraterritorial unchallengeable space that some made it out to be in the early days.
Personally, I think the law is a good one, and America would be right to think about adopting it (see: JonBenet case - "The parents did it!" "The guy in Thailand did it!" Actual court of law: "there is no proof", and every single jury member who read this prejudicial stuff has potentially been perverted)
What games were they playing? I mean, Second Life, or Warcraft? Having a lowly Mac, I have reguarly partaken in the latter, where I have been called a "fag", "n**ga" and other wonderful terms.
Is it because they pick their slurs at random that they cross boundaries, rather than singling out a particular minority?
All I meant was by "pro-corporte" was desicions being taken that are in the interests of the company, and not the users. These two do not necessarily mix. See: Microsoft.
We're talking about *commercial* APIs guys: a mass transfer of hundreds/thousands of megabytes of data a day to a competitor's site. The personal API keys are fine for doing little cool things on user's desktops, but do not allow such intensive work specifically so someone can poach your customers.
I understand Stewart's reluctance, but I think people on his team have got it right, Flickr has to step up and say "We are the best, and we are going to prove it." Locking customers into your site is the sort of pro-corporate anti-user image that Flickr avoided, and won them such goodwill.
Personally, I think Flickr is still the best. It's clean, it does things well. Zooomr is OK, but it's a complete carbon copy, with some pointless added bits.
GamePolitics took a very selective quote, and that is to their detriment.
TFA actually says, right afterwards:
"Then again, when I was a kid, I had plenty of non-educational alternatives, from junk TV to sandlot baseball. Yet my mother dragged me to the library every week, so I ended up with books all around me all the time."
His argument isn't that video games have replaced reading. He's just saying that they are the flavour of the decade for avoiding reading. He's just rallying parents to force their children to read more than they do.
His problem is he treats it as an either/or proposition. You either read, or you do something non-educational. The first problem is that English is not necessarily an indicator of intelligence (although an important one), and as GP points out, you learn other skills from play. The second problem is that I played a lot of video games as a kid, and I have great English skills. You have to read. That's a given, but reading doesn't necessarily fight for time with other activities. I read in school, and I read before I went to bed. Reading was either forced on me by others, or the only viable solution for the environment.
All that we need is for parents to get TVs out of bedrooms and books in there instead. I think the literacy level will improve quite a bit.
Yes, this is a criminal offence (in the normal reading of the Act, I make a post further up about the different readings): it was unauthorised usage of the computer you mail-bombed, whether you meant to do it or not. You might get a lesser sentence if you can show it was just negligence rather than maliciousness.
Wikipedia helps here.
The case was never closed: the CPS appealed for an intepretation of the law from a higher court. They are saying it *was* a crime when it was perpatrated.
They aren't retroactively convicting anyone: it's an ongoing case. The judge said the defendant had "nothing to answer for", and the CPS disagreed (as have the Court of Appeal).
Well yes, and therein lies the rub. The law states, quite categorically, that you are misusing computer equipment if it is "unauthorised use". The problem is where you define "unauthorized". Most people take it to mean that unauthorised is doing anything that would anger/damage the person who owns the machine. This means that if you work as a sysadmin, and delete all the files on the network, despire the fact you had the *capability* to do it, you stepped over the boundary into *unauthorised* use, because destroying the company's data in its entireity was not what your employer wanted.
What the magistrate said, was that if the email server is open, or indeed a web server is open, then that is authorising others to use it. While the letter of the law certainly allows that opinion, that isn't how the Computer Misuse Act has tradionally been read (which has been the above reading), and it's what the High Court sent back when they said to consider the point of view of the employer.
So whereas a Slashdotting is not a crime, because each user had a legitimate reason for using the web server for finding information that the owner had made public, DDoSing a web server is, because you are not using the bandwidth for the authorised use of reading web sites, you are using it for the unauthorised use of preventing others accessing the resource.
I expect this guy will be convicted.
In the UK, you can be retried for the same offence if there is "new and compelling evidence" (usually DNA samples), or if the case was never fully closed, as here. The CPS appealed the case after the ruling, saying that the magistrate read the law wrongly, which sends it up the chain for review. If High Court had said, "Nah, it was a fair call", then the case would be closed and he could no longer be tried again. However, the High Court has sent it back for further review. IANAL so I don't know why the High Court itself doesn't make the decision, and I don't know what happens if the magistrate decides the same way again.
Such stuff happens infrequently, but is sometimes reported on the news.
I forgot to mention, that of particular note, is the last paragraph:
"In fact, I'm blaming the AAF for a wide-range of habits espoused by supposedly "creative people." I'll bet it's responsible for tattoos, piercings, and the wide-spread adoption of the phrase "no worries." In fact, I believe that most of today's societal ills can be either indirectly or directly attributed to Apple. Widespread hearing loss? Blame the iPod. Carpal tunnel? Blame the Newton."
This is so insane that it seems he's trying to hint that the rest of the article was just a troll as well. He also links to a piece he wrote where he thought Boot Camp was pretty sweet. I don't know what he's trying to pull, but I'm sure his advertisers are happy.
"Seriously, why does this guy care so much?"
Apparently he's noticed that John C. Dvorak's trolling puts the hit count through the roof. Only makes sense to start using the rest of the magazine's brand to start trolling as well.
He's obviously got some sort of logic malfunction, his arguments are both bizarre and full of emotive language. It's professional trolling.
I think there is this belief among Windows users that uninstallers uninstall all the things they install.
These people are deluded. All the files are just *hidden* in folders you'd never guess.
I too, was one of the A9 crew. I loved having web results/image results/wikipedia all in one search. When Windows Live came up, I switched Google back. Now they've abandoned Google completely, and you can't search for web-wide images (from *anyone*) at all anymore.
I tried to live with Windows Live search, although it's results weren't so great. But the loss of image results as well was a deal-breaker.
A9 has lost it's edge in some bizarre powerplay. They should have been shouting about their service, and instead you got there by accident from IMDb or Amazon. Now I have to go back to Google, and it's oh-so-bland results.
*sigh*
It would need to have liberal usage of that content: tag, I think, for maximum and extremely prejudiced insertion of OMG, PONIESzz!11 and CUTTTEEEEEEEE everywhere.
That statistic is BS. Sure, I watch girls play games all the time. They play Sudoku, Solitare, FreeCell. They like puzzle games, and that's cool. But it's almost always going to be on a casual basis.
Being casual does not make you that bothered. I ride bicycles, but I don't want to be a bicycle engineer. I would even say I love cars, but I don't care about their engines past how loud they are and how fast they can go. That's a casual relationship too.
Why would girls who play Sudoku care in any way shape or form about programming Sudoku games?
We can run around these circles all day about why girls play games or why they don't, why they program or why they don't, but the end result is the same. Unless someone can fundamentally change the nature of programming, or indeed, development, they aren't going to do it.
I have stopped caring about how many girls play games or how many girls develop games. It's not a big deal.
Wonderful, thanks for that rjune :) I couldn't think of a legit reason to have SSNs, and it seems there isn't!
The article, sadly, doesn't push on finding out why people were carrying around laptops full of sensitive information.
Why did they need it? "Oh, I'll just download an Excel file of every students personal details so I can make that Powerpoint presentation I want!" Why weren't they using some method of protecting the student's data at all? If I had access to data like that, I would only expect to get it on-demand from a server across a secure VPN with a tough password (SecurID perhaps).
I don't understand why you would want such information downloaded unless you were going to do something malicious. Could someone explain to me why these people were just walking out the doors with entire databases in their rucksacks?
That's ridiculous.
I had heard bad stories about the IT provision at Warwick (particuarly their Resnet service), but didn't realise it was that bad.
Here at Bristol, I've worked for our Resnet over the summer, which is housed along with the IT guys. Security is absolutely paramount, and even for little Resnet projects, we would sit down for a couple of hours for a threat assessment (SQL injection, what happens if a dictionary attack succeeds, could we place exponential back-off on the login page).
That said, the physical security wasn't paid proper attention and some guys just broke in and stole thousands of pounds worth of rackmount computers from the machine room. Obviously they knew that the good stuff was down there, so they must have had some intelligence, but it should not have been so easy to get it. That's all changed now. You'd be lucky to get out with anything now.
Sadly, that's utterly wishful thinking.
Every Windows program has such amazing self-importance that it is WAY MORE INTERESTING than whatever you were doing.
Sheets on Mac OS X are used more sparingly, I'd like to see an option to disable its focus stealing as well.
Sadly for Windows users: that's a hell of a lot more likely.
It's great how the article makes it appear LucasArts doesn't own any IP past Star Wars, and glosses over LucasArts's history of making games on new IP after new IP.
They have a huge non-Star Wars catalogue.
The fact is, they don't care. The suits came in, the creativity went out, and that was the end of LucasArts. They stopped caring about the games they created and the customers they insulted.
It won't recover.