The problem is that this is a *government* requiring the use of software from a convicted monopolist to in order to interface with said government online, and that's fundamentally different from simply not being able to run the latest and greatest game binary.
So wouldn't it make sense to simply mail them a big old wad of Monopoly money and be done with it?
Our students are all adults (snide comments aside) and are mostly industrial workers, i.e. welders, pipefitters, engineers, etc. 95% of them make substantially more than I do.
I'm not saying I disagree with anything you said, only that people are not quite as universally honest as some of us would like to think.
It's a commonly known fact that people are largely incapable of proofreading their own work, as the mind is great at filling in the blanks and correcting things as it interprets them.
I've also discovered over the years that if you want a good proofreader, find someone who speaks English as a second language. They tend to read every single word, and this allows them to see mistakes that others would simply scan right over. Of course, by that logic, your boss should be proofing your code.
Yeah, the Ph.D. is a great degree and allows you to get all sorts of prestigous, high paying jobs, but for less time and money you could get a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree *and* an Associates Degree in a totally unrelated field.
The intention was a joke, but if someone called it a troll, I guess I couldn't really prove otherwise.
I'm a standards freak who codes all HTML and CSS by hand (although I do let BBEdit do all the tedious monkey work of updating relative URLs, image sizes, etc.). I did briefly flirt, many years ago, with Javascript browser sniffing to send NS or IE versions of a page, and more recently I have used sniffing to feed different style sheets to work around some MSIE bugs. But other than that, totally 100% pure compliant code in five of the six web sites I maintain, and the more recent ones use CSS-based layout rather than TABLEs.
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Yeah, but there's an ActiveX control that can account for these things and once you do that, everything should look exactly like the mockup I did in Photoshop.
I almost left work early as a result of this.
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I'm sitting here staring at the text on the download page, and I'd swear I'm seeing something not unlike JPEG artifacts around the bold text, except that I'm sure it's not a graphic. Eventually I realized there's a faint vertical band image behind some of the text, and that my vision wasn't going all screwy. If making users question their eyesight is one of the great new features they offer, then, uhh, yeah. That's not cool.
No, I've not used any of the software in question. Not Google Video, not DVD Jon's workaround, not.NET. It was this little thing I like to call <fingerquotes>a joke</fingerquotes>. See, I found it ironic that you could use a little bit of.NET code to get around the-- oh, nevermind.
Okay, trip over or fall into. Happy now, Captain Pedantic?
I started to make a crack about the lack of anything higher than a shadow being a sure indicator that you're in Kansas, but then I figured perhaps Ohio would be more appropriate, and then thought about Oklahoma, and finally realized that the eastern half of North Carolina in which I currently reside is about as flat as those places so I just dropped it.
The guy who did most of the icons for the new Qt Tools is one of us. He's a pretty cool dude, once you get past the ego and the constant attempts at world domination.
I have been unable to find examples of 3D buildings - anyone else have luck?
My town is littered with them. In fact, I'm sitting in one right now. They should be pretty easy to spot; a good rule of thumb is that if something is tall enough to trip over, it's 3D.
I agree with you fully on every point above. I haven't carried any of those obnoxious little "loyalty cards" on my keychain for years, and simply refuse to buy the products for which I would be charged more. I've got two grocery stores across the street from each other. If Harris Teeter requires the use of a "loyalty card" to pay the real price for steaks this week, I'll buy them at Lowe's Foods (most of my grocery trips involve hitting both stores anyway). If both stores require the use of a "loyalty card" to pay regular price for steaks that week, then I'll have fish for dinner.
Coupons don't offend me nearly as much, but neither do I use them.
I think we agree on 98% of this stuff. The only area where we differ is whether or not it is "ethically" appropriate to take one's business to WalMart instead. I contend that it's not, because although it's nice that they don't use those particular tactics, everything else about their business practices far outweighs the marketing games that other stores play.
But all that aside, I commend you for voting with your feet and your wallet. Of the small minority of people who do bitch about these things, the vast majority of *them* just lay there and take it anyway.
I was so with you on the the virtues of customer service (especially about the card bullshit) until you suggested that taking your business to WalMart was the answer. I understand where you're coming from, but find that to be so very short sighted. Following this to its logical (although not necessarily inevitable) conclusion, when there's only WalMart, how high a priority do you expect customer service to be?
No, you were right about that meaning of the word; it's more of a double entendré kind of thing.
See, sometimes the Swedish Chef would discard an ingredient because it had quite clearly gone bad at least twenty years prior, but then Ms. Piggy and her sycophants would accuse him of simply not liking said ingredient.
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The problem is that this is a *government* requiring the use of software from a convicted monopolist to in order to interface with said government online, and that's fundamentally different from simply not being able to run the latest and greatest game binary.
So wouldn't it make sense to simply mail them a big old wad of Monopoly money and be done with it?
Holy shit, I think I'm Amish!
We'll continue to make do with 50K/sec. upload speeds.
This would allow Apple to circumvent the cellular carriers who have so far balked at carrying the iTunes-enabled mobile phone
Odd statement, considering that phones which interoperate with iTunes have already been spotted in the wild.
Have you ever read Nostradamus? Predicting that we'll use computers more in the future would make you far more prescient than he ever was.
This has lead to people who are alive today that predate automobiles.
I think seat belts may have had something to do with that phenomenon.
Our students are all adults (snide comments aside) and are mostly industrial workers, i.e. welders, pipefitters, engineers, etc. 95% of them make substantially more than I do.
I'm not saying I disagree with anything you said, only that people are not quite as universally honest as some of us would like to think.
Where I work we provide coffee for our students at fifty cents a cup. We get ~20% compliance on a good day.
It's a commonly known fact that people are largely incapable of proofreading their own work, as the mind is great at filling in the blanks and correcting things as it interprets them.
I've also discovered over the years that if you want a good proofreader, find someone who speaks English as a second language. They tend to read every single word, and this allows them to see mistakes that others would simply scan right over. Of course, by that logic, your boss should be proofing your code.
raised quite a ruckus on message boards from here to fark
Wait, wait... from here all the way to FARK?
That far? Really?
Wow.
Yeah, the Ph.D. is a great degree and allows you to get all sorts of prestigous, high paying jobs, but for less time and money you could get a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree *and* an Associates Degree in a totally unrelated field.
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
(sorry, couldn't resist.)
This is a troll or a joke, right?
The intention was a joke, but if someone called it a troll, I guess I couldn't really prove otherwise.
I'm a standards freak who codes all HTML and CSS by hand (although I do let BBEdit do all the tedious monkey work of updating relative URLs, image sizes, etc.). I did briefly flirt, many years ago, with Javascript browser sniffing to send NS or IE versions of a page, and more recently I have used sniffing to feed different style sheets to work around some MSIE bugs. But other than that, totally 100% pure compliant code in five of the six web sites I maintain, and the more recent ones use CSS-based layout rather than TABLEs.
Yeah, but there's an ActiveX control that can account for these things and once you do that, everything should look exactly like the mockup I did in Photoshop.
I'm sitting here staring at the text on the download page, and I'd swear I'm seeing something not unlike JPEG artifacts around the bold text, except that I'm sure it's not a graphic. Eventually I realized there's a faint vertical band image behind some of the text, and that my vision wasn't going all screwy. If making users question their eyesight is one of the great new features they offer, then, uhh, yeah. That's not cool.
No, I've not used any of the software in question. Not Google Video, not DVD Jon's workaround, not .NET. It was this little thing I like to call <fingerquotes>a joke</fingerquotes>. See, I found it ironic that you could use a little bit of .NET code to get around the-- oh, nevermind.
Of course, you'll need to be locked into .NET to do so.
Yay.
Uhh, good sir, could you please put the shackles back on? My ankles are getting cold. Thank you.
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Hmm. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen the two of them together...
Guess that leaves out my home state of Florida.
Okay, trip over or fall into. Happy now, Captain Pedantic?
I started to make a crack about the lack of anything higher than a shadow being a sure indicator that you're in Kansas, but then I figured perhaps Ohio would be more appropriate, and then thought about Oklahoma, and finally realized that the eastern half of North Carolina in which I currently reside is about as flat as those places so I just dropped it.
The guy who did most of the icons for the new Qt Tools is one of us. He's a pretty cool dude, once you get past the ego and the constant attempts at world domination.
I have been unable to find examples of 3D buildings - anyone else have luck?
My town is littered with them. In fact, I'm sitting in one right now. They should be pretty easy to spot; a good rule of thumb is that if something is tall enough to trip over, it's 3D.
I agree with you fully on every point above. I haven't carried any of those obnoxious little "loyalty cards" on my keychain for years, and simply refuse to buy the products for which I would be charged more. I've got two grocery stores across the street from each other. If Harris Teeter requires the use of a "loyalty card" to pay the real price for steaks this week, I'll buy them at Lowe's Foods (most of my grocery trips involve hitting both stores anyway). If both stores require the use of a "loyalty card" to pay regular price for steaks that week, then I'll have fish for dinner.
Coupons don't offend me nearly as much, but neither do I use them.
I think we agree on 98% of this stuff. The only area where we differ is whether or not it is "ethically" appropriate to take one's business to WalMart instead. I contend that it's not, because although it's nice that they don't use those particular tactics, everything else about their business practices far outweighs the marketing games that other stores play.
But all that aside, I commend you for voting with your feet and your wallet. Of the small minority of people who do bitch about these things, the vast majority of *them* just lay there and take it anyway.
I was so with you on the the virtues of customer service (especially about the card bullshit) until you suggested that taking your business to WalMart was the answer. I understand where you're coming from, but find that to be so very short sighted. Following this to its logical (although not necessarily inevitable) conclusion, when there's only WalMart, how high a priority do you expect customer service to be?
No, you were right about that meaning of the word; it's more of a double entendré kind of thing.
See, sometimes the Swedish Chef would discard an ingredient because it had quite clearly gone bad at least twenty years prior, but then Ms. Piggy and her sycophants would accuse him of simply not liking said ingredient.