How many HTML coderz do we need on the market. There are plenty of people who can pick up Frontpage and do that. When I think of web development, I think of companies that demand dynamic, database, multi-tiered sites. I think of companies paying big bucks to CS grads for the back end and Design majors for the front end. This isn't the 1990's anymore...
Yeah, but what are you getting for $40? 512kbps? 1MBps? Surely the extra $20 would be worth 8MBps!! I think it would... I pay $55 for 1MBps in Wisconsin.
"Windows makes you go on a mad hunt through menus and folders and options to find the dialogue box that lets you make any such change"
If you want to change a file association, you can just Right-Click in Windows 2k and select "Open With...". If you are using Windows 9x, you can Control-Right-Click and select "Open With...". Then, choose your application and "Always use this program to open these files."
If that's difficult, perhaps the author should use a different OS...
I don't think it's a matter of people not realizing its potential as much as politicans not agreeing what "full funding" means. Where do we draw the line between necessity and waste? Apparently, NASA wants to expand on what is necessary and continue to explore what is possible. I like space experimentation, so all the power to them...
Perhaps that's what society says it has to be, but I feel bad paying for and attending classes I'll never use. Of course, the piece of paper I get in return I'll need to get a job, but other than that I feel like every day here is another day of missed opportunity. Think of how much money is lost by not working full time? Think of the career advancement I could accomplish in 4 years? Think of the relevant technologies I could be diving into if I could use the time I spend on school on them?
Granted, I will get a degree out of this. But it jsut seems like you could kill two birds with one stone - give me the bachelor's degree and give me something I can use at the same time.
Another question might be - why does society value a Liberal Arts education so much? If it didn't, I don't think you'd need a degree to get an entry level job.
>> This is what Linux needs, a good known cert. It needs to have it's holders know enough to be dangerous.
I agree. Now clueless business owners who heard that "Linux is free" will hire Linux+ people to try it in their business. After all, he/she is certified and knows what he/she is doing, right?
The first time the shit hits the fan, the business decides Linux is too immature and difficult to maintain for his/her business. This may be true for his/her business, but you can't necessarily expect a Linux+ certified person be able to administer Linux effectively.
However, I think it is good in showing that you have an open mind and are willing to "do what it takes" to learn other technologies as needed, rather than relying on your University education that taught you VB and Windows is all you ever need...
What if you are James Dremel, and your company is Dremel Toyota, and you want to make a web site. Sorry dremel.com is taken. dremel.net and dremel.org don't make sense for a business. Sorry, dremelauto.com and mydremel.com, and godremel.com, and dremeltoyota.com are already taken. What do you do? welcome-to-dremel-auto.com? How about dremel.biz?
Also, most ORGanization sites might be informational, but most INFOrmational sites aren't necessarily organizations. I know I was looking to put up a specific product news site awhile back. I couldn't find a good.COM name (even though I'm wasn't commercial), yet I was just ONE guy hardly falling under the category of ORGanization...
What astonishes me is how LONG it took to implement them. What the hell took so long?!
Isn't everything on the net about information?
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Yeah, which is why a lot of sites don't belong on a dot com. Are half of the news sites y'all visit ORGanizations or COMmercial companies? Do they support the NETwork infrastructure?
I think they were created for two reasons:
1. To increase sales for registrars.
2. To help people find shorter names for their web sites.
Have you tried to search for a.com domain lately? Everything, and I mean everything, is taken.
You think the Internet has just now taken the step from mostly academic to largely commercial? Where have you been? The new TLDs change nothing, other than there will be more domains (sort of) so that people don't have to buy my-company-incorporated-123.com to host their site (ehh, that sites prolly taken already too).
Ok, it won't make it easy, since most of the dictionary is probably sold already anyway, but it will help.
I don't like the idea of Yahoo! owning everything. It makes it too easy to do unfair trade practices.
What if they decided free auction payments would only apply to Yahoo auctions, and not eBay? I personally like PayPal, and I want it to stay free, although it seems they raise the bar more and more every year.
I used to be nice and let my money sit in my PayPal account to earn them interest to "thank them for their free service." Now I was forced to convert to a Premium account and pay around 3% on each transaction because I bought something that was over $100. Blah! So now I quickly transfer my money to my bank account and pay their damn 3% charge.
You should be lucky they even allow you to graduate. The last time I protested about the curriculum a certain administrative person pulled me into his office and threatened that "any teacher who didn't want me in his/her class could come to him and make it happen". I read that as, "we can prevent you from graduating if we don't like you".
Why sue a student, who has no money, when you could just threaten to take away his/her degree. I bet the person would cough it up real quick. It works for our shady University. Apparently "for the students" has different meaning in Wisconsin.
If you're not sure whether the University sensors student speech, read the school newspaper sometime. I hear people bitch about things they hate hear, yet I open the newspaper to see people regurgitating the same point of view as the school. Student run newspaper? To laugh!
I hope Star Trek doesn't turn into a typical prime time show like Friends or Will & Grace. Why did they make Bakula the captain? To draw an audience that normally doesn't watch? If so, what else do they have planned? I thought Star Trek made stars - it didn't hire them...
Yeah, but the more standardized instituions are on their ID system, the easier it is for Big Bro to look up personal information. Just think of a truely wired world where Family Video, the library, radio shack, etc. all used the same ID numbers. The FBI could get a search warrant for any database that had your ID in it. They could know everything you have done at any time... Right now, lots of places use their own ID. I know Family Video uses phone numbers as their ID number, and I bet Radio Shack does too. The phone company uses a composite key consisting of a combination of your phone number and some other numbers.
I value my privacy. I have no reason to be tracked down right now, but I like to think I could disappear if I wanted to.
Just think of how much easier it will be to solve certain crimes in the future. Our faces will be tracked at book stores and other retail stores alike, our prints will be taken at air ports, and we'll be tracked by bloated databases.
Defense lawyers of the future will be fighting the results of SQL queries instead of forensic evidence.
Agreed. I'm sure it will be free like commercial versions of Linux are free - give them the software and charge for support. There, of course, is nothing wrong with that, however, I doubt it will be completely "free" like he suggests. After all, Oracle support isn't exactly cheap either I'm sure.
I think you're right about Oracle - you might get the best performance out of Oracle, but most companioes can settle for "second best" just to save thousands of dollars. Besides, there development tools are trash. If you want good dev tools, go with SQL Server. If you want good performance at an more affordable price, how about DB2 or Postgres?
If there is any indication about their mentality, Oracle Developer is it. What a pile of donkey crap. I'd rather use Lotus Notes (okay, not really).
Some of you people pick on Micheal for his arguably poor choice of the word "nifty", but then makes jokes about how "cool" it is resembling a Sim City game. That seems far worse in taste than Micheal's inadvertant choice in words.
Besides, I think the thought and effort the artist put into the map to help us visualize this disaster was pretty nifty...
What version of Windows are you running? All of these BSOD jokes flying around... Win2k rarely ever blue screens, if ever on correctly configured systems (ie, systems that don't have garbage for components). I will admit, however, the required rebooting still needs to be worked on...
I dunno, Tomcat's configuration is horrible and I couldn't get it to run as a service on Windows, which is worthless. JRun has a very simple configuration interface, works well, and doesn't require editing of cryptic text files. They also have a free version available for development.
So should I buy a blue-tooth transmitter in addition to the 802.11b hub I already have in my house? Sure, 802.11b might be more than I need, but my house is already 802.11b ready...
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How many HTML coderz do we need on the market. There are plenty of people who can pick up Frontpage and do that. When I think of web development, I think of companies that demand dynamic, database, multi-tiered sites. I think of companies paying big bucks to CS grads for the back end and Design majors for the front end. This isn't the 1990's anymore...
Yeah, but what are you getting for $40? 512kbps? 1MBps? Surely the extra $20 would be worth 8MBps!! I think it would... I pay $55 for 1MBps in Wisconsin.
"Windows makes you go on a mad hunt through menus and folders and options to find the dialogue box that lets you make any such change"
If you want to change a file association, you can just Right-Click in Windows 2k and select "Open With...". If you are using Windows 9x, you can Control-Right-Click and select "Open With...". Then, choose your application and "Always use this program to open these files."
If that's difficult, perhaps the author should use a different OS...
I don't think it's a matter of people not realizing its potential as much as politicans not agreeing what "full funding" means. Where do we draw the line between necessity and waste? Apparently, NASA wants to expand on what is necessary and continue to explore what is possible. I like space experimentation, so all the power to them...
SafeWeb offers annonymous browsing too...
yeah, good point :P
I don't think it should be capitalized though since it's not a proper noun.
Websters says that it's e-mail. Oxford English Dictionary spells it both ways (e-mail and email).
I personally like 'e-mail', since phonetically 'email' could be pronounced EH-mail.
Perhaps that's what society says it has to be, but I feel bad paying for and attending classes I'll never use. Of course, the piece of paper I get in return I'll need to get a job, but other than that I feel like every day here is another day of missed opportunity. Think of how much money is lost by not working full time? Think of the career advancement I could accomplish in 4 years? Think of the relevant technologies I could be diving into if I could use the time I spend on school on them?
Granted, I will get a degree out of this. But it jsut seems like you could kill two birds with one stone - give me the bachelor's degree and give me something I can use at the same time.
Another question might be - why does society value a Liberal Arts education so much? If it didn't, I don't think you'd need a degree to get an entry level job.
>> This is what Linux needs, a good known cert. It needs to have it's holders know enough to be dangerous.
I agree. Now clueless business owners who heard that "Linux is free" will hire Linux+ people to try it in their business. After all, he/she is certified and knows what he/she is doing, right?
The first time the shit hits the fan, the business decides Linux is too immature and difficult to maintain for his/her business. This may be true for his/her business, but you can't necessarily expect a Linux+ certified person be able to administer Linux effectively.
However, I think it is good in showing that you have an open mind and are willing to "do what it takes" to learn other technologies as needed, rather than relying on your University education that taught you VB and Windows is all you ever need...
What if you are James Dremel, and your company is Dremel Toyota, and you want to make a web site. Sorry dremel.com is taken. dremel.net and dremel.org don't make sense for a business. Sorry, dremelauto.com and mydremel.com, and godremel.com, and dremeltoyota.com are already taken. What do you do? welcome-to-dremel-auto.com? How about dremel.biz?
.COM name (even though I'm wasn't commercial), yet I was just ONE guy hardly falling under the category of ORGanization...
Also, most ORGanization sites might be informational, but most INFOrmational sites aren't necessarily organizations. I know I was looking to put up a specific product news site awhile back. I couldn't find a good
What astonishes me is how LONG it took to implement them. What the hell took so long?!
Yeah, which is why a lot of sites don't belong on a dot com. Are half of the news sites y'all visit ORGanizations or COMmercial companies? Do they support the NETwork infrastructure?
.com domain lately? Everything, and I mean everything, is taken.
I think they were created for two reasons:
1. To increase sales for registrars.
2. To help people find shorter names for their web sites.
Have you tried to search for a
No offense, but just who do you think you are talking to here? :)
.kewl domains either. They're fake.
I would hope the average Slashdot community member would know that. Then again, I've seen some wierd posts that could disprove that theory.
Don't buy
You think the Internet has just now taken the step from mostly academic to largely commercial? Where have you been? The new TLDs change nothing, other than there will be more domains (sort of) so that people don't have to buy my-company-incorporated-123.com to host their site (ehh, that sites prolly taken already too).
Ok, it won't make it easy, since most of the dictionary is probably sold already anyway, but it will help.
eBay had tremendous growth before PayPal, and if PayPal didn't exist, their next-best competitor would take over...
Perhaps you were referring to the idea, which they pioneered (well, the "free" service anyway when other companies charged a ton).
I don't like the idea of Yahoo! owning everything. It makes it too easy to do unfair trade practices.
What if they decided free auction payments would only apply to Yahoo auctions, and not eBay? I personally like PayPal, and I want it to stay free, although it seems they raise the bar more and more every year.
I used to be nice and let my money sit in my PayPal account to earn them interest to "thank them for their free service." Now I was forced to convert to a Premium account and pay around 3% on each transaction because I bought something that was over $100. Blah! So now I quickly transfer my money to my bank account and pay their damn 3% charge.
Attach GPS transmitters to space debris? Once you find the debris, why not clean it up :)
If they know where the debris is to tag it, how come they don't know where it is before it hits something?
Also, although I am no expert, this sounds as feasible as keeping inventory of a wheat field.
It seems more feasible to advance our radar technology and evolve computers to track and keep tabs on potential collisions with unknown objects...
You should be lucky they even allow you to graduate. The last time I protested about the curriculum a certain administrative person pulled me into his office and threatened that "any teacher who didn't want me in his/her class could come to him and make it happen". I read that as, "we can prevent you from graduating if we don't like you".
Why sue a student, who has no money, when you could just threaten to take away his/her degree. I bet the person would cough it up real quick. It works for our shady University. Apparently "for the students" has different meaning in Wisconsin.
If you're not sure whether the University sensors student speech, read the school newspaper sometime. I hear people bitch about things they hate hear, yet I open the newspaper to see people regurgitating the same point of view as the school. Student run newspaper? To laugh!
I hope Star Trek doesn't turn into a typical prime time show like Friends or Will & Grace. Why did they make Bakula the captain? To draw an audience that normally doesn't watch? If so, what else do they have planned? I thought Star Trek made stars - it didn't hire them...
Yeah, but the more standardized instituions are on their ID system, the easier it is for Big Bro to look up personal information. Just think of a truely wired world where Family Video, the library, radio shack, etc. all used the same ID numbers. The FBI could get a search warrant for any database that had your ID in it. They could know everything you have done at any time... Right now, lots of places use their own ID. I know Family Video uses phone numbers as their ID number, and I bet Radio Shack does too. The phone company uses a composite key consisting of a combination of your phone number and some other numbers.
I value my privacy. I have no reason to be tracked down right now, but I like to think I could disappear if I wanted to.
Just think of how much easier it will be to solve certain crimes in the future. Our faces will be tracked at book stores and other retail stores alike, our prints will be taken at air ports, and we'll be tracked by bloated databases.
Defense lawyers of the future will be fighting the results of SQL queries instead of forensic evidence.
Perhaps I'm in the wrong field...
Agreed. I'm sure it will be free like commercial versions of Linux are free - give them the software and charge for support. There, of course, is nothing wrong with that, however, I doubt it will be completely "free" like he suggests. After all, Oracle support isn't exactly cheap either I'm sure.
I think you're right about Oracle - you might get the best performance out of Oracle, but most companioes can settle for "second best" just to save thousands of dollars. Besides, there development tools are trash. If you want good dev tools, go with SQL Server. If you want good performance at an more affordable price, how about DB2 or Postgres?
If there is any indication about their mentality, Oracle Developer is it. What a pile of donkey crap. I'd rather use Lotus Notes (okay, not really).
Some of you people pick on Micheal for his arguably poor choice of the word "nifty", but then makes jokes about how "cool" it is resembling a Sim City game. That seems far worse in taste than Micheal's inadvertant choice in words.
Besides, I think the thought and effort the artist put into the map to help us visualize this disaster was pretty nifty...
What version of Windows are you running? All of these BSOD jokes flying around... Win2k rarely ever blue screens, if ever on correctly configured systems (ie, systems that don't have garbage for components). I will admit, however, the required rebooting still needs to be worked on...
I dunno, Tomcat's configuration is horrible and I couldn't get it to run as a service on Windows, which is worthless. JRun has a very simple configuration interface, works well, and doesn't require editing of cryptic text files. They also have a free version available for development.
IMO, Simplicity isn't necessarily a bad thing...
So should I buy a blue-tooth transmitter in addition to the 802.11b hub I already have in my house? Sure, 802.11b might be more than I need, but my house is already 802.11b ready...