Nevertheless, this is not an issue, but like the unwashed shrills
squawking that the end of Social Security is nigh, RSS is far from being
dead. The issue is that ignorant (maybe I should say 'stupid') people
did not bother to implement the spec properly in their RSS reader code.
I'm not talking about the RSS spec, but the HTML spec. This is a simple
two step process (credit
Charles Miller):
When you first pull your RSS feed, store the values you get for
Last-modified(
= A) and ETag(=
B).
If the RSS feed has not been updated since you last polled, you will
get a 304:
Not Modified in response, but no RSS feed (because it has not
changed, duh).
It's like in The Army, you know--The Great Prince issues commands,
founds states, vests families with fiefs. Inferior people should not be
employed (creating broken RSS readers).
So what will this mean to the Mac gaming market in the long
run? Unless GameSpy changes its tune, Mac gaming companies will be
forced to provide Mac to Mac networking only.
How many MPOGs can you run if you're limited to Mac-only (and you're
assuming they all on at the same time, playing the same game).
I can jump on Battle Net and get my Starcraft fix in any time of the
week and there are always lots of games (although more eastern
hemisphere guys are on when it's after midnight in the states)--and that
game is almost seven years old! This is because there are lots of people
who like to play. Compare that to a Mac game that might sell a few
hundred thousand units. The numbers just aren't there.
Sorry MacHeads. Your days of playing MPOGs are dwindling.
So they've slacked off, then. Maybe they'll get back up to 120-hour weeks (~ 18 hours/day for 6 days, then you get a short sunday of 12 hours if you're good) when crunch time comes, um... next week. When's this thing going to be released, in 6 months?
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$500wk $1500 month
Note the key phrase no impression guarantee. How many clickthroughs does it take for her to get paid? Answer: zero. How many clickthroughs should the advertiser expect? Answer: zero. Advertisers still pay her $500 every week, because they know there is value in brand recognition with the people who visit her site.
And if you want to get technical, shouldn't the "agreement" be
that the user will click on ads? Simply looking at them does not help
the provider one bit.
You're assuming the point of advertising is to make you click.
Strangely, many "new economy" ad execs sold their wares the same way.
"Yeah, the users will CLICK and GO to your WEBSITE and BUY THINGS!!!11
ON THE SPOT!!!!111"
Bzzzt! Wrong, Slick.
The point of advertising is (say it with me) brand
recognition. You aren't going to buy a Coke* on line when you
get thirsty, but if all the sites you visit regularly have a Coke
banner, the next time you're in the MiniMart, you might just say, "Hmmm,
if I get a Coke then some hottie will hang off me, and there will be
dancing and music and lots of sweat!" Then you fork over your dollars
for one.
Why do you think there are billboards, and they are successful (in
terms of getting companies to pay Viacomm and ClearChannel)? Because
they build that brand recognition, not because you are going to run out
that minute and buy a Hummer. Why are there ads in magazines? You gonna
"click" on one of those, hah? Why does your 1 hour TeeVee show have 40
minutes of "content" (to be very generous) and 20 minutes of ads? You
can't buy anything on the spot, so why are they trying to hawk "Hot
Pockets"?
Now, it is possible for advertising to adapt to the web, but that
won't happen until the ad execs actually figure out why and how the web
works. I've sat in enough advert planning meetings (the "token" tech
guy) to permanently lose all feeling below my neck due to lack of
oxygen, and I can tell you that they don't get it yet. Maybe the current
generation needs to die. I dunno.
*Yes, we're all aware that you can buy your dork-related goods on-line by clicking on the
ads. We're talking about the average person here, who isn't interested
in a new case, binary clock, or t-shirt that says, "Got Root? [please get
me a girlfriend]".
More of a libertarian, really, which increases my credibility.
In what way? By your naievté?
Oh, right. By the fact that the Libertarian plank is "government is corrupt and evil, and corporations are good and benign, therefore we need to deregulate all corps and then we can sue them if they go bad"? Sure, that will stop corps from taking shortcuts to make a profit. Oh, and if the company gets caught, they won't use their economic/legal power to reorganize into a sue-proof company, because only government is evil, right?
Sen. Carona: ~ Again, I don't understand why you all are so threatened by [the bill], but from a careful look at the lobbyists in this room that are representing Microsoft, and all of you here representing proprietary software companies which -- let's face it, that's where the big money is, it's not in Open Source it's in proprietary -- it's rather transparent as to why [the senators who are against the bill] all feel so threatened by this language [of the bill].
All elected officials care about is getting reelected. To do that takes cash and guess where that comes from?
The margins on PCs are so low that Big Blue doesn't see any future in it. The cost of designing a new line causes that margin to shrink even more.
Part of IBM is smart; they're getting out of the hardware business and morphing into a service provider, where they can make big $$$. The stupid part of IBM (the mini/mainframe side) is still trying to charge $200k for an AS/400 --- sorry, "iServer" --- that is comparable to a $5k HP Linux box.
I guess if you're stuck with your Cobol program (Do you even have the source? No?), then you can take it like a man.
Products need to be delivered to government and private-sector customers "with a new level of security and risk management already built in."
This, from the guy who had one of his agents exposed, her life endangered, and then this guy couldn't be bothered to flog the investigators to a) start an investigation, and b) find and punish the perp(s)?
The national press, including United Press International (UPI), were excluded from [the press conference], at Mr. Tenet's request, organizers said.
Thank you for your opinion, sir. We'll give it the attention it deserves. Now where did I put that pesky trashcan?
The day you support a livable minimum wage (~ $15US/hr + COLA), raising public school education standards (and teachers' pay) to within top ten % of the world, effecting affordable health care (and preventative care) for every citizen, making sure everyone can get three squares/day, provding safe drinking water, affordable day care, etc., etc., then I'll agree that we don't need to have abortions (except in the case of the mother's health) any more.
You have a USB mouse, no? Just get a cheap-ass USB hub ($0.99 at Fry's when they have a sale) Plug in your dongle and you're done
Okay, suppose you work for IngSoc, and you really can't risk it, but you really, really want to surf the light fantastic. Get yourself a cheap-ass laptop (try retro box or ebay), get a t-mobile card and their cellular service (about $30/month, but it is all yours), and you're golden.
Also expect that once the Fundies get Roe v. Wade overturned, the affluent will simply hop a plane to a more civilized country (such as Canada or Mexico) to terminate their pregnancies.
The poor will simply suck it up, but that's what they get for being poor in Jebusland.
I'm glad to see that one other devloper on the planet is using source control, but you really need to upgrade. Seriously, not even MS uses VSS anymore---it is the most unstable, feature-scarce, POS source control there is.
The best part about SVN over VSS is that you don't need to worry about exclusive locks. If one programmer (or yourself) checks out something and makes changes, you can still check out a pristine copy, make changes, and then everyone can check back in (last one in has to do a merge) without worry.
On a dev team of more than one, invariably someone will leave something checked out and then take a vacation. With VSS you're pretty much screwed, but with more advanced source control this is no longer an issue.
Add an autorun.inf to fire up firefox.exe (with command-line switches -- see the first link's discussion) automatically upon insert and you're good to go.
Your Honda S2000 gets---at best---1/3 the MPG the "Beer Can" does, and puts out an equivalent amount of additional pollutants. Oh, but that's okay, because "it goes fast and has lots of power."
I'm sure you could care less about pollution because it is "somewhere else," it "doesn't really affect me," or that it "will cause me to pay more taxes" to prevent.
Think about that when you take your next breath: you get more carbon in each cough because some kiddie wanted to go faster with more power to prove how much of a man he was to the other kiddies. Oh, while you're at it, have a glass of water.
I'd like to see some kind of source for your claim that "tens of millions" of people will be using OO 'next year'.
Based upon the OO team's utter failure at building a usable UI (for the most important segment---the average, non-technical user who has been using MSO), I highly doubt there are that many people using it.
Baring that, you have to wait for the person to go on vacation,
People like that do not take vacation, because they do not see the value in it. On one team I managed, we had three people like that. Midway through the year, they still hadn't scheduled or taken any. I realized they were pushing themselves way too hard and getting too wrapped up in the day-to-day stuff---and lowering their productivity. Sometimes you come up with better approaches if you stop thinking about the problem every day.
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Let's never speak of this again.
-- NASA
Close enough to be a dupe? You Decide.
Nevertheless, this is not an issue, but like the unwashed shrills squawking that the end of Social Security is nigh, RSS is far from being dead. The issue is that ignorant (maybe I should say 'stupid') people did not bother to implement the spec properly in their RSS reader code. I'm not talking about the RSS spec, but the HTML spec. This is a simple two step process (credit Charles Miller):
If the RSS feed has not been updated since you last polled, you will get a 304: Not Modified in response, but no RSS feed (because it has not changed, duh).
It's like in The Army, you know--The Great Prince issues commands, founds states, vests families with fiefs. Inferior people should not be employed (creating broken RSS readers).
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How many MPOGs can you run if you're limited to Mac-only (and you're assuming they all on at the same time, playing the same game).
I can jump on Battle Net and get my Starcraft fix in any time of the week and there are always lots of games (although more eastern hemisphere guys are on when it's after midnight in the states)--and that game is almost seven years old! This is because there are lots of people who like to play. Compare that to a Mac game that might sell a few hundred thousand units. The numbers just aren't there.
Sorry MacHeads. Your days of playing MPOGs are dwindling.
Better to get canned before you charge up your credit cards for the holidays.
So they've slacked off, then. Maybe they'll get back up to 120-hour weeks (~ 18 hours/day for 6 days, then you get a short sunday of 12 hours if you're good) when crunch time comes, um... next week. When's this thing going to be released, in 6 months?
Ahh, then those websites are running a failed business model and need to die or figure out how to work the web.
A great example of how websites can leverage advertisers is Wonkette. Her advertising policy reads
Note the key phrase no impression guarantee . How many clickthroughs does it take for her to get paid? Answer: zero. How many clickthroughs should the advertiser expect? Answer: zero. Advertisers still pay her $500 every week, because they know there is value in brand recognition with the people who visit her site.You're assuming the point of advertising is to make you click. Strangely, many "new economy" ad execs sold their wares the same way. "Yeah, the users will CLICK and GO to your WEBSITE and BUY THINGS!!!11 ON THE SPOT!!!!111"
Bzzzt! Wrong, Slick.
The point of advertising is (say it with me) brand recognition. You aren't going to buy a Coke* on line when you get thirsty, but if all the sites you visit regularly have a Coke banner, the next time you're in the MiniMart, you might just say, "Hmmm, if I get a Coke then some hottie will hang off me, and there will be dancing and music and lots of sweat!" Then you fork over your dollars for one.
Why do you think there are billboards, and they are successful (in terms of getting companies to pay Viacomm and ClearChannel)? Because they build that brand recognition, not because you are going to run out that minute and buy a Hummer. Why are there ads in magazines? You gonna "click" on one of those, hah? Why does your 1 hour TeeVee show have 40 minutes of "content" (to be very generous) and 20 minutes of ads? You can't buy anything on the spot, so why are they trying to hawk "Hot Pockets"?
Now, it is possible for advertising to adapt to the web, but that won't happen until the ad execs actually figure out why and how the web works. I've sat in enough advert planning meetings (the "token" tech guy) to permanently lose all feeling below my neck due to lack of oxygen, and I can tell you that they don't get it yet. Maybe the current generation needs to die. I dunno.
*Yes, we're all aware that you can buy your dork-related goods on-line by clicking on the ads. We're talking about the average person here, who isn't interested in a new case, binary clock, or t-shirt that says, "Got Root? [please get me a girlfriend]".
Oh, right. By the fact that the Libertarian plank is "government is corrupt and evil, and corporations are good and benign, therefore we need to deregulate all corps and then we can sue them if they go bad"? Sure, that will stop corps from taking shortcuts to make a profit. Oh, and if the company gets caught, they won't use their economic/legal power to reorganize into a sue-proof company, because only government is evil, right?
Let me quote from an exchange from a hearing on Texas' SB 1579 (the Open-Source bill):
All elected officials care about is getting reelected. To do that takes cash and guess where that comes from?
Part of IBM is smart; they're getting out of the hardware business and morphing into a service provider, where they can make big $$$. The stupid part of IBM (the mini/mainframe side) is still trying to charge $200k for an AS/400 --- sorry, "iServer" --- that is comparable to a $5k HP Linux box.
I guess if you're stuck with your Cobol program (Do you even have the source? No?), then you can take it like a man.
Thank you for your opinion, sir. We'll give it the attention it deserves.
Now where did I put that pesky trashcan?
Way to go, Crackerbarrel
Until then, you're Pro-birth, not Pro-life.
Okay, suppose you work for IngSoc, and you really can't risk it, but you really, really want to surf the light fantastic. Get yourself a cheap-ass laptop (try retro box or ebay), get a t-mobile card and their cellular service (about $30/month, but it is all yours), and you're golden.
The poor will simply suck it up, but that's what they get for being poor in Jebusland.
Do some PVCS (sorry, whatever Merant, er, Serena is calling it now) and get your checkbook out, baby!
I'm glad to see that one other devloper on the planet is using source control, but you really need to upgrade. Seriously, not even MS uses VSS anymore---it is the most unstable, feature-scarce, POS source control there is.
May I suggest Subversion/Tortoise?
The best part about SVN over VSS is that you don't need to worry about exclusive locks. If one programmer (or yourself) checks out something and makes changes, you can still check out a pristine copy, make changes, and then everyone can check back in (last one in has to do a merge) without worry.
On a dev team of more than one, invariably someone will leave something checked out and then take a vacation. With VSS you're pretty much screwed, but with more advanced source control this is no longer an issue.
Mo' money, mo' money, mo' money!
You're thinking of HIPAA.
Sox stands for Sarbanes-Oxley Act. It applies to every publicly-traded US company.
Add an autorun.inf to fire up firefox.exe (with command-line switches -- see the first link's discussion) automatically upon insert and you're good to go.
I'm sure you could care less about pollution because it is "somewhere else," it "doesn't really affect me," or that it "will cause me to pay more taxes" to prevent.
Think about that when you take your next breath: you get more carbon in each cough because some kiddie wanted to go faster with more power to prove how much of a man he was to the other kiddies. Oh, while you're at it, have a glass of water.
Based upon the OO team's utter failure at building a usable UI (for the most important segment---the average, non-technical user who has been using MSO), I highly doubt there are that many people using it.