If your boss is so controlling that he won't even let you hear things without his permission, there is no way he will ever listen to your input on anything that matters. It's time to find another job.
I don't think many of the people who commented here have actually used AJAX.
One person's complaint was "Explain to me how creating more HTTP requests by using AJAX is going to decrease your database load."
The answer is two part: 1) It decreases overall load & bandwidth used by reducing the number of full pages sent. Not having to re-render a page significantly reduces the number of queries required; 2) It reduces database load in particular by running a greater number of low-load/complexity queries, instead of a lesser number of high-load/complexity queries (joins).
I've never personally had my Norton or Avast prevent me from doing any AJAX.
In fact, I've never even heard of this, and I've done a lot of AJAX and a lot of cross-browser testing.
It's "just another request" as far as the browser is concerned.
Are you talking about the flag Internet Explorer raises when you use AJAX to request "off site" content? (i.e., using AJAX to request data from a domain different from the one on which the javascript is hosted).
There is a *very* simple workaround for this.
The solution is to route remote AJAX requests through a local request forwarder.
All it does is receive your AJAX request, and forward the request.
You get the result back via your request forwarder.
Voila!
I can't even believe this is being brought up. Of course it's important! Without having defined standards, the browser implementors have nothing to work towards. Remember the blink tag? That's what happens when you don't have standards! Remember ActiveX & how you can't run Windows Update using Firefox? That's what happens when you don't follow standards. It's infuriating. If we're ever going to make our jobs & lives easier, we need to get more people on the W3C bandwagon! (and I need to finally buck-up and finish making my homepage compliant)
By buddy recently started a Canadian job search aggregator so he could make some adwords cash. It caches postings from the "Big 3" Canadian job sites -- Workopolis, Monster, and Hotjobs, and searches them all at once, aggregating all results into a single set of listings sorted by date posted. Check it out at JobBlender.com.
Excuse me? "Illegal peer-to-peer network file sharing" ??? The last time I checked, p2p was *completely* legal. It's the unauthorized sharing of copyrighted files that is illegal, not the technology for sharing them. Jeepers. They should at least mind their Ps and Qs.
All you need to do is explain the metaphors.
It's called a "Desktop" because it's like the top of an actual physical desk, which is the work environment most of our parents are familiar with.
Windows Explorer isn't named as well as the old "File Manager" from 3.1 was, but you can say that each Drive is really like a filing cabinet... and folders are like folders... and the internet is like a library with URL & IPs taking the place of Dewey Decimals.
Take it back to the Old School, yo.
When you have a little money, you spend it on an affordable mp3 player and get the music for free.
When you have more money, you save up and get an ipod (or receive one as a gift), and then get the music for free.
When your time is worth a lot of money, you probably have a good amount of disposable income and not a lot of time to spend wondering which mp3 player is the best VALUE and what filesharing network you can find your favourite music on. This results in the purchase of "the best" player (as per other people's opinions) and the purchasing of songs (minimal time spent searching).
People with more money spend more money.
Furthermore, $0.99/track is a lot to people with lower incomes, and a little to people with higher incomes. Do the math.
Google is a terrorist organization. Their plot is to systematically (subversively) destroy the IT Sector by employing all the best talent. They'll have a *monopoly* on intellect! You want smarts? You gotta pay da Google. You'll never be able to pry the Scientists from their clutches... They hypnotically keep them there by way of shiny trinkets, coin, and free gourmet meals... No one can escape. We're all going to have dumb workers. We'll never succeed. Google must be stopped! They hate our freedom!
First, using a "web accelerator" will NOT speed up your computer and turn it into a Thin Client. It will make things get to your computer faster, but if you don't have the juice to render it, it's still a no go.
Second, it is technically impossible for Google to pre-render Flash and pass it on to you. Flash isn't "server-side" -- it's done by your computer, which needs to be fat enough to run it.
Third, Yahoo's music service is priced well, but they're still misleading. They say "1 million songs" for $6.99/month, but that's to have them streamed to you, not downloaded. You can only download a handfull of tracks per month. Booo!
Fourth, why didn't Cringley (or anyone for that matter) ask if/when Google will try to buy Yahoo?
Lastly, no mention of Flickr? I think Google messed up when they let that puppy slip through their fingers and be purchased by Yahoo. Picasa? Puh-lease-a.
It was *ages* ago that i donned the ForteVR helmet and played Duke Nukem 3D on a Pentium 120Mhz. 3D accelerator cards weren't around yet. 3D sound cards weren't around yet. LCDs were low resolution, low refresh -- no wonder it made us sick as dogs!
The helmet had a serial connection to the PC! I'm waiting for LucasArts to pave the way by bundling a bluetooth wireless force-feedback lightsabre and helmet with some future incarnation of Jedi Knight. You *know* we'd all buy one, even if it was *expensive*.
Cedar Point's Top Thrill Dragster is only 38 feet shorter (420ft) and 8mph slower. I'm willing to live with that just to be able to go on all their other awesome rides in the same day. I went about a month ago and *LOVED* the Millennium Force, The Raptor (hanging from the tracks), their stand-up coaster, The Magnum 200 XL, The Gemini, and a bunch of others. Can't beat it for the sheer volume of coasters. I also like that they called TTD a "Dragster", which is closer to what it is than "Rollercoaster".
I was thinking about something like this for video activists who frequently have their tapes/discs confiscated by the cops.
It'd be great if they had PocketPCs with webcams that were operating in a baxterian sort of way such that the video they were taking was simultaneously being recorded to the storage of other activists/media within wifi range.
You could have wifi NAS (network storage) in vehicles and apartments surrounding the demonstration area, as well as on ipod-level storage in future wifi enabled pocketpcs. 3G cameraphones with hard drives might provide another simpler option, if they could be networked together in a p2p fashion.
The cops might be able to confiscate my webcam and pocketpc, but my recordings (and proof) would be elsewhere in the aether.
This is hilarious. In order to play their DRM music on your iPod, they tell you to pirate the music you've purchased from them! Lucky for them, fair use is still ok.
"To transfer MSN-downloaded music to an iPod, you need to first create a CD with the music, and then you need to import that CD into iTunes."
Psychologically speaking, pink is close to the colour red. Red means "stop", not "go".
I bet that if he changed the background color to green that people's response times would get faster (at least for North Americans).
i actually read the "holodeck" part of the science behind star trek book and they pretty much described it working this way. tiles.
the only problem i have is that in a recent episode of voyager, one of the crew did a holodeck flying thing where they were lying down and floating.
I don't think tiles can make you float.:(
It could be that this guy is comparing apples and oranges.
Digital/virtual interfaces have affordances that physical ones do not -- such as the ability to magically replace one folder/drawer with another one. That this can not physically be done with a real drawer is the reason we do not do it.
Here's an interesting tidbit: I've never owned a real desk that had drawers. Nor have I owned a filing cabinet. I've grown up with the "Desktop Metaphor" being the only desktop I've ever known. It's not a metaphor for me -- it's the real thing. The only thing. Having to open my drawers in separate windows would annoy the living hell out of me!
It would annoy me as much as "opening My Music from the panel, opening the appriopriate album folder and double-clicking a file icon" just to play a song. They're called ID3 tags, and they organize your files for you so that you never have to clickety-click through all your nested folders.
Also, maybe it's easy to keep your files organized if you have 1 work computer and 1 home computer, and you keep your data completely separated. I, on the other hand, work from home. I have a laptop, 2 desktops, and a server. I use them all for both work and fun. I am a part-time college teacher, a freelance web developer, sometimes a writer, a blogger, and I have a lot of research interests, not to mention 300 GB of media files. It's difficult to organize all of this into "shallow structures" without having a GABILLION files in each folder.
First: If you read the EULA before you checked the box, you'd know about how they're going to use the info. So, it's not an invasion of your privacy. You told them they could do it! You 'signed the contract'.
Second: They're not trying to hide what they're doing AT ALL. They should be commended for that. It's stated right there on the main page.
Third: You should know by now that privacy doesn't exist. If you need to hide something, don't hide it on a cheapass server owned by someone else. Get your own co-located box and encrypt your mofo-email! PGP, baby. Or get a Hushmail account.
Fourth: It really is a genius revenue model. Minimally invasive. Text-ads are acceptable. Unlike Hotmail & Yahoo, Gmail won't have any annoying banner ads or pop-ups. That is awesome.
I thought slashdotters were geeky -- you're saying "run lots of conduit in case you need a multi-room audio system". That's sooo old school! If you're a geek, you probably have all your audio in digital format. And if you have fat CAT or phibre, that's all you need to have all the audio and video (divx) in as many rooms as you like! Down with analog, which requires 1 cable per channel! Viva la Digital! Many channels (via packet streaming love) on the same cable! Woohoo!
Furthermore, why no mention of 802.11x? Surely that's one of the simpler routes that's been popularized in the last 2 years. It doesn't require conduit, or laying wire -- and is easily upgradeable without tearing your house apart. Things are only going to get better.
Nikola Tesla developed *wireless electricity* in 1900, and perfected it in 1904. He was able to illuminate lightbulbs around the world using a single power source in New York. Unfortunately, he couldn't get funding to roll it out nationally because there was no way to meter usage (and because it would upset the international power balance).
well... shit. Maybe we can call it a 'redeye', or 'webanus'. Maybe those terms aren't copyrighted yet. Is MS going to force obscenity just to avoid copyrighted terms? And who owns the copyright on the word copyright? Hmm...
That's what this is.
I recently moved from my unlimited high-speed connection in Toronto to a pay-per-minute dial-up account in Croatia (the fastest/cheapest account available).
I pay through the nose and I'm lucky if I get 56kbps. FMV ads will kick my ass. They will make the internet a sad place.
Lets start a WEBRING that only allows sites opposed to FMV & pop-up ads to join. Everyone else can just Badger Badger Badger...
If iPods were still 15GB, *maybe* it would kill the iPod. But really, a 20GB harddrive?:P Boooo. It should have a 60. Still, I want one. Form factor is pretty sexy, a la Palm Tungstens. Shit, running MS OneNote on this would rock. So phat it makes the tablet pc look fat, and redundant.
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If your boss is so controlling that he won't even let you hear things without his permission, there is no way he will ever listen to your input on anything that matters. It's time to find another job.
I don't think many of the people who commented here have actually used AJAX. One person's complaint was "Explain to me how creating more HTTP requests by using AJAX is going to decrease your database load." The answer is two part: 1) It decreases overall load & bandwidth used by reducing the number of full pages sent. Not having to re-render a page significantly reduces the number of queries required; 2) It reduces database load in particular by running a greater number of low-load/complexity queries, instead of a lesser number of high-load/complexity queries (joins). I've never personally had my Norton or Avast prevent me from doing any AJAX. In fact, I've never even heard of this, and I've done a lot of AJAX and a lot of cross-browser testing. It's "just another request" as far as the browser is concerned. Are you talking about the flag Internet Explorer raises when you use AJAX to request "off site" content? (i.e., using AJAX to request data from a domain different from the one on which the javascript is hosted). There is a *very* simple workaround for this. The solution is to route remote AJAX requests through a local request forwarder. All it does is receive your AJAX request, and forward the request. You get the result back via your request forwarder. Voila!
I can't even believe this is being brought up. Of course it's important! Without having defined standards, the browser implementors have nothing to work towards. Remember the blink tag? That's what happens when you don't have standards! Remember ActiveX & how you can't run Windows Update using Firefox? That's what happens when you don't follow standards. It's infuriating. If we're ever going to make our jobs & lives easier, we need to get more people on the W3C bandwagon! (and I need to finally buck-up and finish making my homepage compliant)
By buddy recently started a Canadian job search aggregator so he could make some adwords cash. It caches postings from the "Big 3" Canadian job sites -- Workopolis, Monster, and Hotjobs, and searches them all at once, aggregating all results into a single set of listings sorted by date posted. Check it out at JobBlender.com.
Excuse me? "Illegal peer-to-peer network file sharing" ??? The last time I checked, p2p was *completely* legal. It's the unauthorized sharing of copyrighted files that is illegal, not the technology for sharing them. Jeepers. They should at least mind their Ps and Qs.
All you need to do is explain the metaphors.
It's called a "Desktop" because it's like the top of an actual physical desk, which is the work environment most of our parents are familiar with.
Windows Explorer isn't named as well as the old "File Manager" from 3.1 was, but you can say that each Drive is really like a filing cabinet... and folders are like folders... and the internet is like a library with URL & IPs taking the place of Dewey Decimals.
Take it back to the Old School, yo.
When you have a little money, you spend it on an affordable mp3 player and get the music for free.
When you have more money, you save up and get an ipod (or receive one as a gift), and then get the music for free.
When your time is worth a lot of money, you probably have a good amount of disposable income and not a lot of time to spend wondering which mp3 player is the best VALUE and what filesharing network you can find your favourite music on. This results in the purchase of "the best" player (as per other people's opinions) and the purchasing of songs (minimal time spent searching).
People with more money spend more money.
Furthermore, $0.99/track is a lot to people with lower incomes, and a little to people with higher incomes. Do the math.
This is just silly. If you bought, and you scratched it, it's your problem, not Apple's. Buy a frickin' Nano-tube for crying out loud!
Google is a terrorist organization. Their plot is to systematically (subversively) destroy the IT Sector by employing all the best talent. They'll have a *monopoly* on intellect! You want smarts? You gotta pay da Google. You'll never be able to pry the Scientists from their clutches... They hypnotically keep them there by way of shiny trinkets, coin, and free gourmet meals... No one can escape. We're all going to have dumb workers. We'll never succeed. Google must be stopped! They hate our freedom!
First, using a "web accelerator" will NOT speed up your computer and turn it into a Thin Client. It will make things get to your computer faster, but if you don't have the juice to render it, it's still a no go.
Second, it is technically impossible for Google to pre-render Flash and pass it on to you. Flash isn't "server-side" -- it's done by your computer, which needs to be fat enough to run it.
Third, Yahoo's music service is priced well, but they're still misleading. They say "1 million songs" for $6.99/month, but that's to have them streamed to you, not downloaded. You can only download a handfull of tracks per month. Booo!
Fourth, why didn't Cringley (or anyone for that matter) ask if/when Google will try to buy Yahoo?
Lastly, no mention of Flickr? I think Google messed up when they let that puppy slip through their fingers and be purchased by Yahoo. Picasa? Puh-lease-a.
It was *ages* ago that i donned the ForteVR helmet and played Duke Nukem 3D on a Pentium 120Mhz. 3D accelerator cards weren't around yet. 3D sound cards weren't around yet. LCDs were low resolution, low refresh -- no wonder it made us sick as dogs! The helmet had a serial connection to the PC! I'm waiting for LucasArts to pave the way by bundling a bluetooth wireless force-feedback lightsabre and helmet with some future incarnation of Jedi Knight. You *know* we'd all buy one, even if it was *expensive*.
Cedar Point's Top Thrill Dragster is only 38 feet shorter (420ft) and 8mph slower. I'm willing to live with that just to be able to go on all their other awesome rides in the same day. I went about a month ago and *LOVED* the Millennium Force, The Raptor (hanging from the tracks), their stand-up coaster, The Magnum 200 XL, The Gemini, and a bunch of others. Can't beat it for the sheer volume of coasters. I also like that they called TTD a "Dragster", which is closer to what it is than "Rollercoaster".
I was thinking about something like this for video activists who frequently have their tapes/discs confiscated by the cops. It'd be great if they had PocketPCs with webcams that were operating in a baxterian sort of way such that the video they were taking was simultaneously being recorded to the storage of other activists/media within wifi range. You could have wifi NAS (network storage) in vehicles and apartments surrounding the demonstration area, as well as on ipod-level storage in future wifi enabled pocketpcs. 3G cameraphones with hard drives might provide another simpler option, if they could be networked together in a p2p fashion. The cops might be able to confiscate my webcam and pocketpc, but my recordings (and proof) would be elsewhere in the aether.
This is hilarious. In order to play their DRM music on your iPod, they tell you to pirate the music you've purchased from them! Lucky for them, fair use is still ok. "To transfer MSN-downloaded music to an iPod, you need to first create a CD with the music, and then you need to import that CD into iTunes."
Psychologically speaking, pink is close to the colour red. Red means "stop", not "go". I bet that if he changed the background color to green that people's response times would get faster (at least for North Americans).
i actually read the "holodeck" part of the science behind star trek book and they pretty much described it working this way. tiles. the only problem i have is that in a recent episode of voyager, one of the crew did a holodeck flying thing where they were lying down and floating. I don't think tiles can make you float. :(
It could be that this guy is comparing apples and oranges.
Digital/virtual interfaces have affordances that physical ones do not -- such as the ability to magically replace one folder/drawer with another one. That this can not physically be done with a real drawer is the reason we do not do it.
Here's an interesting tidbit: I've never owned a real desk that had drawers. Nor have I owned a filing cabinet. I've grown up with the "Desktop Metaphor" being the only desktop I've ever known. It's not a metaphor for me -- it's the real thing. The only thing. Having to open my drawers in separate windows would annoy the living hell out of me!
It would annoy me as much as "opening My Music from the panel, opening the appriopriate album folder and double-clicking a file icon" just to play a song. They're called ID3 tags, and they organize your files for you so that you never have to clickety-click through all your nested folders.
Also, maybe it's easy to keep your files organized if you have 1 work computer and 1 home computer, and you keep your data completely separated. I, on the other hand, work from home. I have a laptop, 2 desktops, and a server. I use them all for both work and fun. I am a part-time college teacher, a freelance web developer, sometimes a writer, a blogger, and I have a lot of research interests, not to mention 300 GB of media files. It's difficult to organize all of this into "shallow structures" without having a GABILLION files in each folder.
Just my $0.50
>>"Innovative... hey, turn all your web pages into slide shows today!"
Yeah, except Opera 7.x already does that.
Boo hoo!
Somebody call the whaaaaambulance!
First: If you read the EULA before you checked the box, you'd know about how they're going to use the info. So, it's not an invasion of your privacy. You told them they could do it! You 'signed the contract'.
Second: They're not trying to hide what they're doing AT ALL. They should be commended for that. It's stated right there on the main page.
Third: You should know by now that privacy doesn't exist. If you need to hide something, don't hide it on a cheapass server owned by someone else. Get your own co-located box and encrypt your mofo-email! PGP, baby. Or get a Hushmail account.
Fourth: It really is a genius revenue model. Minimally invasive. Text-ads are acceptable. Unlike Hotmail & Yahoo, Gmail won't have any annoying banner ads or pop-ups. That is awesome.
I thought slashdotters were geeky -- you're saying "run lots of conduit in case you need a multi-room audio system". That's sooo old school! If you're a geek, you probably have all your audio in digital format. And if you have fat CAT or phibre, that's all you need to have all the audio and video (divx) in as many rooms as you like! Down with analog, which requires 1 cable per channel! Viva la Digital! Many channels (via packet streaming love) on the same cable! Woohoo!
Furthermore, why no mention of 802.11x? Surely that's one of the simpler routes that's been popularized in the last 2 years. It doesn't require conduit, or laying wire -- and is easily upgradeable without tearing your house apart. Things are only going to get better.
Nikola Tesla developed *wireless electricity* in 1900, and perfected it in 1904. He was able to illuminate lightbulbs around the world using a single power source in New York. Unfortunately, he couldn't get funding to roll it out nationally because there was no way to meter usage (and because it would upset the international power balance).
Systems analysis & design is about logic, and knowing how technologies work together (with people, and other technologies). It's pretty great :)
well... shit. Maybe we can call it a 'redeye', or 'webanus'. Maybe those terms aren't copyrighted yet. Is MS going to force obscenity just to avoid copyrighted terms? And who owns the copyright on the word copyright? Hmm...
That's what this is.
I recently moved from my unlimited high-speed connection in Toronto to a pay-per-minute dial-up account in Croatia (the fastest/cheapest account available).
I pay through the nose and I'm lucky if I get 56kbps. FMV ads will kick my ass. They will make the internet a sad place.
Lets start a WEBRING that only allows sites opposed to FMV & pop-up ads to join. Everyone else can just Badger Badger Badger...
If iPods were still 15GB, *maybe* it would kill the iPod. But really, a 20GB harddrive? :P Boooo. It should have a 60. Still, I want one. Form factor is pretty sexy, a la Palm Tungstens. Shit, running MS OneNote on this would rock. So phat it makes the tablet pc look fat, and redundant.