So if someone says, "I'll only use FireFox if it works on this one Web site," and this "one Web site" requires IE. You would tell them, what?
(a) Use IE (b) Use FireFox but ban the Web site (perhaps not plausible, especially if it's work related)
I would choose (c) Use FireFox with the User Agent Switcher. Yes, a short term solution, as you put it, but, dammit, the user just wants to have the site work with the browser they'd like to use. Yes, your idea is best for the long run, but my grandpa doesn't care about the long run - he just wants the "Internet to work."
The DHTML or whatever is used to give the advanced editing features of Exchange 2000 web mail, msn hotmail, yahoo mail, and the geocities web site editor don't work in Firebird; If they did my sister, my mom and many other web users would never use IE again
One solution is to download and install the User Agent Switcher Extension. You can then have FireBird/Fox/Mozilla send the IE 6.0 User Agent string.
Another extension that was a requisite for me to move from IE to FireBird/Fox was the GoogleBar, which emulates the Google Toolbar for IE. (They also have ones to mimic MSN and Yahoo! toolbar, IIRC.)
Any academic who can write such that people who haven't studied the field for 15 years will understand will probably get labelled as a "hack" or "completely without merit" and some other unsavory adjectives, regardless of the quality of their other work.
Such attitudes are as old as science itself. Followers of Pythagorean believed that scientific understanding was only suitable for the intelligent, so much to the point that they knowingly hid information from the "non-elite." For example, the espoused that every number could be written as a ratio of two integers, but when they discovered the square root of two was irrational, they kept this discovery a secret. Same thing when discovering the fifth perfect solid (the dodecahedron), since they thought each of the first four perfect solids corresponded to one of the four elements of Earth (wind, fire, earth, light). (At least this is what I recall reading in Sagan's Cosmos... might have misquoted or maybe Carl was makin' it up as he went along...)
I wonder if the Korean grocer is the first son of the first son. My fiancee is Korean, and from my understanding the first son of the first son, as an adult, is fiscally responsible for his immediate and extended family. That means if his dad needs money, he doles it out; if his brother needs cash, it's his responsibility; etc. So I wager the first son of the first son typically takes a very button-down, conservative job.
He's an unemployed guy working in his apartment writing PHP Web pages for brouchure-ware type sites. What liability suits should he be concerned with?
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Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned, A sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour, Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars. It's a hundred thousand light years side to side. It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick, But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide. We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point. We go 'round every two hundred million years, And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whizz As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know, Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth, And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
If the game was around for 25 years before the great depression (in whatever form/fashion/name) and wasn't known for dick and then the great depression hits and all of a sudden it's a smashing success, THAT PROVES MY POINT.
I disagree. I could invent a neat product today, but if it didn't get applicable funding and marketing for twenty years, it might be that long before it becomes a commonplace in the home. If you read the article I linked to in the grandparent - you have read it, no? - you'd see that the "inventor" of Monopoly didn't have his success until a family member of the Paker family, who ran the Parker Bros. game company, happened to play it and recommend it to the higher-ups at Parker Bros. Had this person not had the chance opportunity to play Darrow's Monopoly, the game might never have become big. Likewise, had Parker Bros. had a chance to pimp this game in the 1910s, perhaps it would have become big then instead.
People always want to play games where they accumulate wealth, regardless of the country's economic situation.
Monopoly was invented 25 years prior. Read the article - it's was created to demonstrate the benefits of a particular land tax system the game's creator was in favor of...
Check out http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa121997.htm. It discusses the interesting history of the game Monopoly. Yes, Monopoly's success made it's "inventor" Charles Darrow a millionaire, but a quite similar game, titled Landlord, was invented nearly 20 years prior.
CEO's Martial Duties Outsourced to Mexican Groundkeeper GROSSE POINTE, MI--As part of the ongoing trend toward replacing U.S. workers with foreign labor, the marital duties of United Carborundum CEO Howard Reinhardt have been outsourced to his Mexican groundskeeper, industry sources revealed Monday.
"It was time for a change," said Reinhardt's wife Melanie, who has been married to the CEO for 17 years and has conducted her sexual business almost exclusively with him since 1984. "While I was generally satisfied with the level of servicing that I received under Howard, it was my feeling that a younger, more aggressive hand on the tiller might bring some new ideas into play. No matter how mutually satisfying the old deal was, its time had passed." Read on...
But how much would we be paying per kilo-watt of energy produced? Simply stated - this is not yet economically feasible. If it is, then start doing this and you'll become a billionaire!
Very well, but do there exist 50 sites in the US that have suitable light-fall in areas rural enough that they won't infringe upon current residents? I'm not claiming to have the answers, I'm just vocificating that a switch to solar power is not as easy, affordable, or plausible as some would like to make it sound.
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It's been a while since high school physics, but isn't there a loss in the energy when transmitting electricty over long distances? That is, it wouldn't be plausible to build one huge-ass power plant in the middle of the US and have it serve as a power source for all of North America. If this assumption is correct then it's quite clear why we can't just appropriate the bottom half of New Mexico for one giant solar cell.
I don't think it's the university's responsibility to teach their CS students the architectural layout of a motherboard. These things change over time. When I was in undergrad for the hardware class, we used a standard hardware book (Patterson and Hennessey, IIRC), and the book then was about five years out of date with the hardware they had pictures of and were discussing (might have been an outdated version at the time, don't recall).
What is needed, is to have students with an enthusiasm for computers. I think the dot com boom rushed in a lot of people who "learned computers" because they wanted a good job, not because they liked computers. A good computer scientist will know where the RAM is in a motherboard - namely, what sticks of RAM look like - not because he will have had a class where they had to assemble a computer from scratch, but because in his personal interest he's taken the time to upgrade his memory, or to build a computer from the ground up, or to just take the damn case off to see what it looks like inside. Personally, I did all of these things back in my high school days, and the good computer scientists I've met at both my undergrad and grad schools did the same.
While I think it important the universities teach both theoretical and concrete concepts, I think it the hallmark of a good student to take an interest in the concepts outside of class. A university can only provide so much information - the rest is up to the student to hunt out himself.
In searching for that great tragedy which soiled my youth, I regret to inform that I have yet to find one. I regret not having had an emotionally cataclysmic event as a youth because it would serve quite nicely as a launching point for poetry, polemics, and novellas. I wasn't abused or neglected, no one close passed on; I have yet to commit a grave crime; I have never seen a dead body or an alarming calamidy. So what, then, am I suppose to turn my artistic interests to? Turkey famers? Tacos? My disparagingly low self-esteem? Granted, these provide for immediate amusement but lack any real substance or worth. So I turn my talent to useless abstractions dealing with insignificant topics: Tchaikovsky, nipples, and the Macerena. If I could only com pose an essay of magnificent artistic beauty; if I could but provide a virtual insight into my subconscious psyche. Only then could I justify the immense time I spend recording my thoughts, wants, desires, and pains.
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
I don't understand your sig. What, exactly, is wrong with being a turkey farmer?
It's a line from a poem I wrote back a few years ago.
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer.
Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
I would try also to take out a few of those damn turkeys with me.
My bony, middle finger fully extended;
a crude, yet effective, homemade explosive strapped to my nude body;
running wildly around those demonic birds;
cursing Tyson with all my wordly might.
That's how I'd depart this world if I were a turkey farmer.
Here's a picture from my street at 11:00 AM from back in late October. Orangish-brownish, although I think this had more to do with the San Diego wildfires burning 10 miles away moreso than weather fronts.;-)
Oh yes, the handwriting technology of the Newton. Reminds me of a Simpsons scene. Kearney tell Jimbo to make a note to beat up Martin on his Newton.
Jimbo writes, "Beat up Martin" and the Newton turns it into "Eat up
Martha." Kearney then says "bah!" and chucks the Newton, which hits
Martin in the head.
People chastise paper as being error-prone (hanging chads), and complain about e-voting as being buggy and/or insecure, adopting a closed-source model, and not being open to audits. However, both paper and e-voting have their benefits - paper voting leaves a very nice paper trail, while e-voting streamlines the process and is less error-prone (so say the makers of these devices).
The solution is not to get rid of one entirely, but rather to use both. That is, what we should have is an electronic machine that you vote on, a touch screen or whatnot. When you've made your vote, it prints out on a piece of paper your decisions. This gives the voter a chance to review their decisions to make sure everything is hunky dorey. If they are satisfied, they simply drop the paper in a slot and leave the voting booth.
Now, the votes can be auto-tallied by the computer system. If there needs to be a recount, there's a paper trail. Why is this hybrid approach not an option?
can be found at http://weblogs.asp.net/. It's an aggregate of.NET developer blogs, many of whom are at the PDC. Lots of pictures, reviews of speaches/demos/presentations/etc. Worth checking out, I prefer the reviews from in the trenches, like this one or this one, rather than the standard Yahoo/Reuters/media crap.
What if Jeff Probst really thinks Purina is the bomb and wants to tell everyone about it? Nothing wrong with that, right? And if that's honestly, truly how he feels, then what's the big deal with Purina paying him as thanks for his convictions?
That is, if someone says they really like the product(s) of the company they work for, do you assume they really do like the product(s) or do you think that they're views are motivated solely by their income?
Notepad, notepad, notepad. Okay, I use text editors that are a little more featured, but how would you go through the compile step?
Tools like VS.NET make the compile step easy (go to the Build menu, choose Build Solution), but all that really does is call the command-line compilers. You can compile from the command line too. Alternatively, you can create a single ASP.NET Web page with a server-side script block and the needed class will be auto-generated and compiled the first time the ASP.NET Web page is visited.
I'll grant you VS.NET is bloaty, but you can use a plethora of other tools if you like: DreamWeaver, any ol' text editor, or a ASP.NET-specific editor free from Microsoft that can fit on a floppy - Web Matrix....proprietary HTML
HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0 standards are proprietary? Most people think the w3c's standards to be "open."
...and a complete inability to separate content from code
??? You can have your visual HTML elements in one file and your code in a completely separate file. Isn't this the very definition of code and content separability?
I agree with a number of your points if you are talking about classic ASP, but not ASP.NET.
I think it depends on the application being created. Dynamic type systems are useful when building small Web applications, but for big ones composed of multiple tiers of business and data objects, ones that utilize legacy components, Web services, and such? Not a chance.
When whipping up a script, dynamic typing is nice. When building a complex, interwoven system, especially with interconnected components being developed by different groups/developers, it can make debugging and readability a nightmare.
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(a) Use IE
(b) Use FireFox but ban the Web site (perhaps not plausible, especially if it's work related)
I would choose (c) Use FireFox with the User Agent Switcher. Yes, a short term solution, as you put it, but, dammit, the user just wants to have the site work with the browser they'd like to use. Yes, your idea is best for the long run, but my grandpa doesn't care about the long run - he just wants the "Internet to work."
One solution is to download and install the User Agent Switcher Extension. You can then have FireBird/Fox/Mozilla send the IE 6.0 User Agent string.
Another extension that was a requisite for me to move from IE to FireBird/Fox was the GoogleBar, which emulates the Google Toolbar for IE. (They also have ones to mimic MSN and Yahoo! toolbar, IIRC.)
Such attitudes are as old as science itself. Followers of Pythagorean believed that scientific understanding was only suitable for the intelligent, so much to the point that they knowingly hid information from the "non-elite." For example, the espoused that every number could be written as a ratio of two integers, but when they discovered the square root of two was irrational, they kept this discovery a secret. Same thing when discovering the fifth perfect solid (the dodecahedron), since they thought each of the first four perfect solids corresponded to one of the four elements of Earth (wind, fire, earth, light). (At least this is what I recall reading in Sagan's Cosmos... might have misquoted or maybe Carl was makin' it up as he went along...)
I wonder if the Korean grocer is the first son of the first son. My fiancee is Korean, and from my understanding the first son of the first son, as an adult, is fiscally responsible for his immediate and extended family. That means if his dad needs money, he doles it out; if his brother needs cash, it's his responsibility; etc. So I wager the first son of the first son typically takes a very button-down, conservative job.
He's an unemployed guy working in his apartment writing PHP Web pages for brouchure-ware type sites. What liability suits should he be concerned with?
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
I disagree. I could invent a neat product today, but if it didn't get applicable funding and marketing for twenty years, it might be that long before it becomes a commonplace in the home. If you read the article I linked to in the grandparent - you have read it, no? - you'd see that the "inventor" of Monopoly didn't have his success until a family member of the Paker family, who ran the Parker Bros. game company, happened to play it and recommend it to the higher-ups at Parker Bros. Had this person not had the chance opportunity to play Darrow's Monopoly, the game might never have become big. Likewise, had Parker Bros. had a chance to pimp this game in the 1910s, perhaps it would have become big then instead.
People always want to play games where they accumulate wealth, regardless of the country's economic situation.
Monopoly was invented 25 years prior. Read the article - it's was created to demonstrate the benefits of a particular land tax system the game's creator was in favor of...
Check out http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa121997 .htm. It discusses the interesting history of the game Monopoly. Yes, Monopoly's success made it's "inventor" Charles Darrow a millionaire, but a quite similar game, titled Landlord, was invented nearly 20 years prior.
GROSSE POINTE, MI--As part of the ongoing trend toward replacing U.S. workers with foreign labor, the marital duties of United Carborundum CEO Howard Reinhardt have been outsourced to his Mexican groundskeeper, industry sources revealed Monday.
"It was time for a change," said Reinhardt's wife Melanie, who has been married to the CEO for 17 years and has conducted her sexual business almost exclusively with him since 1984. "While I was generally satisfied with the level of servicing that I received under Howard, it was my feeling that a younger, more aggressive hand on the tiller might bring some new ideas into play. No matter how mutually satisfying the old deal was, its time had passed."
Read on...
But how much would we be paying per kilo-watt of energy produced? Simply stated - this is not yet economically feasible. If it is, then start doing this and you'll become a billionaire!
Very well, but do there exist 50 sites in the US that have suitable light-fall in areas rural enough that they won't infringe upon current residents? I'm not claiming to have the answers, I'm just vocificating that a switch to solar power is not as easy, affordable, or plausible as some would like to make it sound.
It's been a while since high school physics, but isn't there a loss in the energy when transmitting electricty over long distances? That is, it wouldn't be plausible to build one huge-ass power plant in the middle of the US and have it serve as a power source for all of North America. If this assumption is correct then it's quite clear why we can't just appropriate the bottom half of New Mexico for one giant solar cell.
What is needed, is to have students with an enthusiasm for computers. I think the dot com boom rushed in a lot of people who "learned computers" because they wanted a good job, not because they liked computers. A good computer scientist will know where the RAM is in a motherboard - namely, what sticks of RAM look like - not because he will have had a class where they had to assemble a computer from scratch, but because in his personal interest he's taken the time to upgrade his memory, or to build a computer from the ground up, or to just take the damn case off to see what it looks like inside. Personally, I did all of these things back in my high school days, and the good computer scientists I've met at both my undergrad and grad schools did the same.
While I think it important the universities teach both theoretical and concrete concepts, I think it the hallmark of a good student to take an interest in the concepts outside of class. A university can only provide so much information - the rest is up to the student to hunt out himself.
In searching for that great tragedy which soiled my youth, I regret to inform that I have yet to find one. I regret not having had an emotionally cataclysmic event as a youth because it would serve quite nicely as a launching point for poetry, polemics, and novellas. I wasn't abused or neglected, no one close passed on; I have yet to commit a grave crime; I have never seen a dead body or an alarming calamidy. So what, then, am I suppose to turn my artistic interests to? Turkey famers? Tacos? My disparagingly low self-esteem? Granted, these provide for immediate amusement but lack any real substance or worth. So I turn my talent to useless abstractions dealing with insignificant topics: Tchaikovsky, nipples, and the Macerena. If I could only com pose an essay of magnificent artistic beauty; if I could but provide a virtual insight into my subconscious psyche. Only then could I justify the immense time I spend recording my thoughts, wants, desires, and pains.
It's a line from a poem I wrote back a few years ago.
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer.
Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
I would try also to take out a few of those damn turkeys with me.
My bony, middle finger fully extended;
a crude, yet effective, homemade explosive strapped to my nude body;
running wildly around those demonic birds;
cursing Tyson with all my wordly might.
That's how I'd depart this world if I were a turkey farmer.
Here's a picture from my street at 11:00 AM from back in late October. Orangish-brownish, although I think this had more to do with the San Diego wildfires burning 10 miles away moreso than weather fronts. ;-)
Oh yes, the handwriting technology of the Newton. Reminds me of a Simpsons scene. Kearney tell Jimbo to make a note to beat up Martin on his Newton. Jimbo writes, "Beat up Martin" and the Newton turns it into "Eat up Martha." Kearney then says "bah!" and chucks the Newton, which hits Martin in the head.
The solution is not to get rid of one entirely, but rather to use both. That is, what we should have is an electronic machine that you vote on, a touch screen or whatnot. When you've made your vote, it prints out on a piece of paper your decisions. This gives the voter a chance to review their decisions to make sure everything is hunky dorey. If they are satisfied, they simply drop the paper in a slot and leave the voting booth.
Now, the votes can be auto-tallied by the computer system. If there needs to be a recount, there's a paper trail. Why is this hybrid approach not an option?
Linux has a higher TCO than Windows.
can be found at http://weblogs.asp.net/. It's an aggregate of .NET developer blogs, many of whom are at the PDC. Lots of pictures, reviews of speaches/demos/presentations/etc. Worth checking out, I prefer the reviews from in the trenches, like this one or this one, rather than the standard Yahoo/Reuters/media crap.
That is, if someone says they really like the product(s) of the company they work for, do you assume they really do like the product(s) or do you think that they're views are motivated solely by their income?
Tools like VS.NET make the compile step easy (go to the Build menu, choose Build Solution), but all that really does is call the command-line compilers. You can compile from the command line too. Alternatively, you can create a single ASP.NET Web page with a server-side script block and the needed class will be auto-generated and compiled the first time the ASP.NET Web page is visited.
In the HTML page you do:
Then, in your code-behind class, you simply create an event handler for the page's Load event, and then bind some database results to the DataGrid:
Would you be interested in an email conversation about it?
Sure, if you'd like, you can see my email address on this post.
I generally object to a bloaty IDE
I'll grant you VS.NET is bloaty, but you can use a plethora of other tools if you like: DreamWeaver, any ol' text editor, or a ASP.NET-specific editor free from Microsoft that can fit on a floppy - Web Matrix....proprietary HTML
HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0 standards are proprietary? Most people think the w3c's standards to be "open."
??? You can have your visual HTML elements in one file and your code in a completely separate file. Isn't this the very definition of code and content separability?
I agree with a number of your points if you are talking about classic ASP, but not ASP.NET.
When whipping up a script, dynamic typing is nice. When building a complex, interwoven system, especially with interconnected components being developed by different groups/developers, it can make debugging and readability a nightmare.