Gas prices are as much, if not more, a state problem than federal. I paid $2.149 for gas this weekend in NJ. Across the border, in PA, it was $2.309 or more. Across yet another border, in NY (second-highest state gas taxes in the US, IIRC), upwards of $2.50 in places.
Fire whoever wrote the specs too. The programmer may have been following specs to the letter and didn't understand fully how the end user would be using it.
And the UI designers. They may have made it too easy to cause such an error.
And the testers. They didn't catch it.
And someone in management. It's entirely possible that one or more above did raise a red flag that something could go wrong, but was overruled.
Even if you do manage to report fradulent auctions, it's not worth the time you spent. I chased one around for most of a Saturday a couple years ago and never got anything beyond automated responses from eBay's reporting system.
ROTS was the first film I saw in a theater since last October...and we went to the matinee. Our evening shows are US$8.75 I think, and that's just too high IMO when you figure in 2 tickets (self + wife) and the crap snacks they have there.
As others have noted, you don't always need OOP. That OO exists is not a requirement that one uses it to solve every problem presented. Handling input from an HTML form and storing it to a database doesn't really need OO, does it?
MDS (Multi-Displacement System - the technology behind Chrysler's Hemi cylinder shutoff) is only in Hemi-powered cars & the Grand Cherokee right now, despite it being the same engine as is in Ram trucks and Durango SUVs.
MDS is coming to the truck lines in another year or two.
Stern's ratings may be sliding (and I agree, it's due to the FCC and KROCK's lawyers and Tom Chiusano getting overly paranoid about the whole deal), but stations who have LOST Stern are even worse off.
One local affiliate is owned by Citadel, who quit Stern earlier this year. They went from being #2 in the morning to #14. In less than 6 months.
Haven't decided yet if I'll follow him to Sirius. The money is the issue for me.
Execs want all this stuff to impress people with their high-tech toys and the "he must be important, look at this stuff" factor. Will he ever understand how to use it (both the operation of the equipment, and effective application of it)? Likely not.
I think I've been in maybe 2 video conferences over the span of 6 years that were better than a plain telephone conference call. The video usually adds nothing, or even detracts. We don't even attempt to integrate computers into the process, it'd just be more confusion (we tried to add a VGA feed once to a video conference, it did not end well, we ended up having the remote site refere to paper handouts of the PPT I'd made).
Keep it real simple. Wasting 30 minutes of an hour-long meeting making the electronics work right is no way to run things.
About 2 1/2 years ago, I was on a "maintenance" team, basically keeping things running. The team was about a dozen people, 3 of which (myself included) were the "web team."
One of us spent 80% of his time supporting one subsidiary. The other spent 80% of her time supporting another subsidiary, plus the intranet website (not apps, just the site). I picked up the rest. For a goodly portion of the year, we were doing OK. We rotated a pager amongst the 3 of us, weekly. Mildly stressed, but not bad. We managed it.
Then Thanksgiving came around. The other guy in the group announced he was going for training the first 2 weeks of December, after which point he'd be in a different section of IT. Our manager had given him the opportunity to make this leap, and didn't offer it to anyone else. Once those 2 weeks were over, he was on vacation for the rest of the year, then off to his new assignment. So now we're down to 2 people on the pager.
At the end of that first week, the young woman on the team tendered her 2 weeks' notice. She'd told me it was coming about 2 weeks before that, but I wasn't to say anything to anyone. Mentally, she was "checked out" already.
Which left just me as the web person on this support team. The first business day after the 2nd person left the company, we had massive layoffs. I'm talking 1/3 of the IT department massive.
Later that week, the shit really hit the fan. Pager going off 4-5 times a day. 2-3 times a night. Systems breaking left and right. I scrambled gluing things back together. Wrestled for hours trying to figure out how to fix things that were left undocumented by people who were no longer with the company. My micro-managing boss somehow had no clue this was all going on. Never offered to find help for me. Never backfilled these two positions that were left empty.
And remember, this was the holiday season. Plus year-end craziness at the office. Lots of people taking time off, heightened awareness of any system downtime. I wasn't sleeping well, my body was responding in a very violent way to the stress, I was lashing out at people in a bad way, and generally not doing well. I don't recall how much time I took for Xmas vacation but I know I had leftover vacation time at the end of the year. How could I take vacation? There was no one else covering! Even on the days I was "on vacation" I carried that pager and was responding to problems.
In the final days of the calendar year, I spent every day asking myself "why don't I just walk out? They are abusing me, and I'm taking it." The answer was "this city is dead, there are few if any jobs I could get into. A stack of bills I couldn't cover while being out of work for more than a month. They have me by the balls and they know it."
After about 7 weeks of this torture (mid-January), I finally got up the nerve to say to my boss "um...can you please get someone to take this pager for me?" Yes, I had to build up the nerve to do it. Any sign of weakness would ruin you with her.
In my annual review, she had the audacity to tell me "oh, you seem tired all the time, and stress out too easily." It wasn't even worth fighting her - it would do nothing but make me look even worse, and she wasn't my boss anymore anyway. That year I spent under her thumb set me back by 2 years professionally, and I think I'm still paying for it today, 2 1/2 years later.
6 months into that year, I started a job search which continues today. In the 2 years I've been searching, I've received 3 offers, all of which I've had to turn down. One was with a startup demanding 6 and 7 day weeks, minimum 10 hour days. With plans to get married shortly after taking the job, that wasn't going to happen. The next, they couldn't approach my salary requirements and wanted to 1099 me when they should have been hiring (I now realize, after some research, that they were trying to avoid the IRS and other stuff that goes along with having real employees). And the last was another
I really hope those who are paying MSRP or higher are doing it for the environmental/political "statement" rather than foolishly thinking it'll save them money.
They could get a nicely loaded Civic or Corolla, drive it well past the payments are finished, and still have spent less on car + fuel than if they'd bought the Prius. It takes a looong time for the Prius to pay for itself in saved fuel costs alone (when compared to a similar conventionally-powered vehicle, like the Civic or Corolla noted previously). A friend calculated it at something like 200,000 miles a few years ago.
Because the small guy actually cares about the product, has passion around it, enjoys the work, and wants to put out something that makes him look good. He's also far more likely to "dogfood" the application, so it has to work for him before anyone else.
Huge companies like AOL (this is a generalization!) only care about the bottom line, and the passion & interest for the product isn't nearly as strong at the level of the developers. They aren't building something they believe in, they're building what they're paid to build. Add in "too many chiefs, not enough indians" (basically, every mid-level manager and marketdroid has to get their word in and impose their will) and the end result is bloated garbage.
Neither ASP nor ASP.NET are "compiled into" the web server itself - requests for ASP files are passed to ASP.DLL and ASPX is handled by the ASP.NET worker process. Both can be removed from the IIS configuration if desired, I'm pretty sure, using the same mechanism by which one installs the PHP processor (DLL) into IIS.
My employer's former CEO and COO kept less than 2MB in their mailboxes from what I understand. The reason? So there was no trail of anything, no record of any possible wrongdoing on their part, etc.
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Gas prices are as much, if not more, a state problem than federal. I paid $2.149 for gas this weekend in NJ. Across the border, in PA, it was $2.309 or more. Across yet another border, in NY (second-highest state gas taxes in the US, IIRC), upwards of $2.50 in places.
You mean Federal Pound Me In The Ass Prison?
And the people who keep asking "what about Tim Berners-Lee?" seem to be forgetting Vannevar Bush.
Fire whoever wrote the specs too. The programmer may have been following specs to the letter and didn't understand fully how the end user would be using it.
And the UI designers. They may have made it too easy to cause such an error.
And the testers. They didn't catch it.
And someone in management. It's entirely possible that one or more above did raise a red flag that something could go wrong, but was overruled.
Even if you do manage to report fradulent auctions, it's not worth the time you spent. I chased one around for most of a Saturday a couple years ago and never got anything beyond automated responses from eBay's reporting system.
I've seen plenty of sites that tell me "This site requires Netscape, IE or Opera. Please upgrade."
It's really just terrible bad browser sniffing combined with myopic or just plain cluless web "masters".
Prices broke $10 in NYC last year, IIRC.
ROTS was the first film I saw in a theater since last October...and we went to the matinee. Our evening shows are US$8.75 I think, and that's just too high IMO when you figure in 2 tickets (self + wife) and the crap snacks they have there.
And communication improves, as people move into actual conversations where clear understanding is reached in minutes, not days or weeks of email.
As others have noted, you don't always need OOP. That OO exists is not a requirement that one uses it to solve every problem presented. Handling input from an HTML form and storing it to a database doesn't really need OO, does it?
MDS (Multi-Displacement System - the technology behind Chrysler's Hemi cylinder shutoff) is only in Hemi-powered cars & the Grand Cherokee right now, despite it being the same engine as is in Ram trucks and Durango SUVs.
MDS is coming to the truck lines in another year or two.
Stern's ratings may be sliding (and I agree, it's due to the FCC and KROCK's lawyers and Tom Chiusano getting overly paranoid about the whole deal), but stations who have LOST Stern are even worse off.
One local affiliate is owned by Citadel, who quit Stern earlier this year. They went from being #2 in the morning to #14. In less than 6 months.
Haven't decided yet if I'll follow him to Sirius. The money is the issue for me.
Local building codes might have something to say about that.
Execs want all this stuff to impress people with their high-tech toys and the "he must be important, look at this stuff" factor. Will he ever understand how to use it (both the operation of the equipment, and effective application of it)? Likely not.
I think I've been in maybe 2 video conferences over the span of 6 years that were better than a plain telephone conference call. The video usually adds nothing, or even detracts. We don't even attempt to integrate computers into the process, it'd just be more confusion (we tried to add a VGA feed once to a video conference, it did not end well, we ended up having the remote site refere to paper handouts of the PPT I'd made).
Keep it real simple. Wasting 30 minutes of an hour-long meeting making the electronics work right is no way to run things.
Don't forget Bite my frozen metal ass.
About 2 1/2 years ago, I was on a "maintenance" team, basically keeping things running. The team was about a dozen people, 3 of which (myself included) were the "web team."
One of us spent 80% of his time supporting one subsidiary. The other spent 80% of her time supporting another subsidiary, plus the intranet website (not apps, just the site). I picked up the rest. For a goodly portion of the year, we were doing OK. We rotated a pager amongst the 3 of us, weekly. Mildly stressed, but not bad. We managed it.
Then Thanksgiving came around. The other guy in the group announced he was going for training the first 2 weeks of December, after which point he'd be in a different section of IT. Our manager had given him the opportunity to make this leap, and didn't offer it to anyone else. Once those 2 weeks were over, he was on vacation for the rest of the year, then off to his new assignment. So now we're down to 2 people on the pager.
At the end of that first week, the young woman on the team tendered her 2 weeks' notice. She'd told me it was coming about 2 weeks before that, but I wasn't to say anything to anyone. Mentally, she was "checked out" already.
Which left just me as the web person on this support team. The first business day after the 2nd person left the company, we had massive layoffs. I'm talking 1/3 of the IT department massive.
Later that week, the shit really hit the fan. Pager going off 4-5 times a day. 2-3 times a night. Systems breaking left and right. I scrambled gluing things back together. Wrestled for hours trying to figure out how to fix things that were left undocumented by people who were no longer with the company. My micro-managing boss somehow had no clue this was all going on. Never offered to find help for me. Never backfilled these two positions that were left empty.
And remember, this was the holiday season. Plus year-end craziness at the office. Lots of people taking time off, heightened awareness of any system downtime. I wasn't sleeping well, my body was responding in a very violent way to the stress, I was lashing out at people in a bad way, and generally not doing well. I don't recall how much time I took for Xmas vacation but I know I had leftover vacation time at the end of the year. How could I take vacation? There was no one else covering! Even on the days I was "on vacation" I carried that pager and was responding to problems.
In the final days of the calendar year, I spent every day asking myself "why don't I just walk out? They are abusing me, and I'm taking it." The answer was "this city is dead, there are few if any jobs I could get into. A stack of bills I couldn't cover while being out of work for more than a month. They have me by the balls and they know it."
After about 7 weeks of this torture (mid-January), I finally got up the nerve to say to my boss "um...can you please get someone to take this pager for me?" Yes, I had to build up the nerve to do it. Any sign of weakness would ruin you with her.
In my annual review, she had the audacity to tell me "oh, you seem tired all the time, and stress out too easily." It wasn't even worth fighting her - it would do nothing but make me look even worse, and she wasn't my boss anymore anyway. That year I spent under her thumb set me back by 2 years professionally, and I think I'm still paying for it today, 2 1/2 years later.
6 months into that year, I started a job search which continues today. In the 2 years I've been searching, I've received 3 offers, all of which I've had to turn down. One was with a startup demanding 6 and 7 day weeks, minimum 10 hour days. With plans to get married shortly after taking the job, that wasn't going to happen. The next, they couldn't approach my salary requirements and wanted to 1099 me when they should have been hiring (I now realize, after some research, that they were trying to avoid the IRS and other stuff that goes along with having real employees). And the last was another
But what would that do to network utilization? It'd be easy to double the load on the network with each login.
I really hope those who are paying MSRP or higher are doing it for the environmental/political "statement" rather than foolishly thinking it'll save them money.
They could get a nicely loaded Civic or Corolla, drive it well past the payments are finished, and still have spent less on car + fuel than if they'd bought the Prius. It takes a looong time for the Prius to pay for itself in saved fuel costs alone (when compared to a similar conventionally-powered vehicle, like the Civic or Corolla noted previously). A friend calculated it at something like 200,000 miles a few years ago.
Lotus Notes has been giving a red pop-up box on killer errors since 4.x (1999 or earlier), maybe longer.
Because the small guy actually cares about the product, has passion around it, enjoys the work, and wants to put out something that makes him look good. He's also far more likely to "dogfood" the application, so it has to work for him before anyone else.
Huge companies like AOL (this is a generalization!) only care about the bottom line, and the passion & interest for the product isn't nearly as strong at the level of the developers. They aren't building something they believe in, they're building what they're paid to build. Add in "too many chiefs, not enough indians" (basically, every mid-level manager and marketdroid has to get their word in and impose their will) and the end result is bloated garbage.
Neither ASP nor ASP.NET are "compiled into" the web server itself - requests for ASP files are passed to ASP.DLL and ASPX is handled by the ASP.NET worker process. Both can be removed from the IIS configuration if desired, I'm pretty sure, using the same mechanism by which one installs the PHP processor (DLL) into IIS.
My employer's former CEO and COO kept less than 2MB in their mailboxes from what I understand. The reason? So there was no trail of anything, no record of any possible wrongdoing on their part, etc.
Unlike Keanu's ego.