Feel free to treat your employees like wage slaves. I'm sure they work extra hard for you all the time, since they feel that you value and trust their work. I noticed that you posted one hour 5 minutes apart. Even assuming you posted comment #1 immediately after your 3:02 PM lunch break starts, your second post was one hour, 5 minutes later. You stole five minutes from the company, just like I stole the two minutes from you that it took to read my post. No, you can't have it back, asshole.
Here, here! No wonder everyone thinks programmers are whiny little geeks. Can you imagine? An entire community has sprung up around such esoteric issues as C++ standards compliance.
Hey, nerds: cut out the whining. It's making it harder for me to feed my kids. And get laid, so I can make more kids. Please mod parent up.
Start buying records. Big, black, beautiful records. You might want to warn your friends, because soon you'll start planning trips to cities in other states, including hotel stays, just for record shopping. You'll start spending weekends "flipping stacks". Beats the shit out of crouching in front of your computer for hours on end, burning worthless CDs. Plus, records are usually
%12.9 profit margin is fucking huge. If you can point to a modern industry in which a company would complain about profits like that, I will eat my words. Not even Microsoft makes %13 profit. Just like any other company, they could easily squeak by selling their product at less than half the cost, if they didn't feel the need to hand their executives and bloated marketing staff seven figures. Long will it be before I weep for Penguin.
In the "Instrument" video (now on DVD too), Ian explains the motivations for the cheap shows, no T-shirts, etc. IIRC, it was something like "If we continue to make art, people are going to want to hear and see us doing it. That is secondary to us making it, so we will make as little money from it as possible in order to have as much control as we can over how that all happens"
What you used to have was a bootleg t-shirt. Sorry, but it's true. That's why the "This is not a Fugazi T-Shirt" T-shirt came out, because Fugazi threatened to sue the bootlegger.
"Discussion" my ass. The RIAA has figured out what every other big bizness slimeball has known for years: just legislate your business model down the throats of Americans. What's to discuss?
Here! Here! If there are any Slashdotters that like their rock hard and fresh, Fugazi is a must-hear. Every album they make gets better year after year after year. They don't sell T-shirts. At all. They charge $6 for shows, and if the venue won't do a $6 show, they pick another venue. They have sold 100s of 1000s of records, and still drive their own van. Genius! Former members of Minor Threat hate the Industry, and are breaking it from the inside.
All a programmer needs to know these days to polish his resume is to [...] keep boning up on idiot languages like VB and Java.
There are more VB programmers than programmers in any other language on Earth. Just because it doesn't have operator overloading doesn't make it an "idiot language". You'll notice that the trend in computing is towards more BASIC-style languages, not obfuscated C-type syntax spaghetti. Note also that VB was one of the very first languages that allowed non-professionals to write object code.
Both VB and Java are behind several DoD projects, and are the impetus for many newer languages, like C#.
If those mailboxes are the targets of dictionary spam attacks, and I was the multi-billion dollar company behind those domains, I would make it so that those mailboxes were no longer the target of dictionary spam attacks. In fact, those companies beginning to use those addresses for business may be the first step in destroying spam as an industry.
I'm suprised that they had to migrate back. Since the Conglomerate was using custom software, why didn't they throw some of their umpteen gazillion dollars at the software, and make it work? If the email system is bulletproofed and refined, the benefits could be passed on to AOL's customers, increasing value for the service. It's sad to see them bail out so quickly on eating their own dog food.
Where do you get the idea that 99% of the people want to open links in new windows? I almost never do.
On many sites (Fark.com, Slashdot) this is indeed the case. On a site that's basically a list of links to other sites, a site that encourages people to check several links each time they visit, it would be stupid to commandeer the main browser window for a linked page when the user most likely wants to stay on the page they're visiting.
It just makes common sense. After examining the usage habits of your target audience, you make the site work for them. If that doesn't work for you, go elsewhere. Since you're most likely looking for free, you'd probably be doing the site in question a favor.
The "target=" attribute is there for a reason.
I certainly don't want new windows forced on me because some marketing type wants to keep me on their site.
That marketing type is just doing their job. The web is all growned up now, and usability for your core audience is more important than keeping everyone happy.
It takes a special kind of stupid to not understand the whole point of hypertext. Congratulations, fuckwit, you have that stupid!
Note that I am not the original poster, but who decided that every link is supposed to open in the same window? Why should someone have to use an alternate means of navigation when the site's designers should know that 99 times out of 100, the user wants to open the link in a new window? Do you think it's cool to ignore your user base when designing a site?
While we're at it, it takes a special kind of petty to post a comment like that in reference to something so trivial. Maybe you should go back to floodposting goatse.cx links until you can play nice.
The Paypal links would be for people to contribute themselves. People already can find out where to send checks, there's a million websites that do that. What we do is keep track of a rep's tech voting record, and allow people to reward them directly. Keep in mind, I'm pretty sure you can't make out payments to a rep, only his/her "campaign fund".
Of course, one could say we should sue all the record labels because the move to digital format itself is what's making piracy so easy.:)
No shit. The Biz got together and decided they could rape the consumer even more if they found a way to distribute music on $.05 discs. "With CD burners costing thousands, no one will ever be able to pirate music, except by taping it, and tapes are of lower audio quality. No one will ever settle for that!"
They have nothing to blame but the current lack of creative quality of modern music, and the death of vinyl. I steal as much music as I can.
Time to put your money where your mouth is. Contact me at the email address listed above (coincidentally using the same spam-fighting scheme), and pony up $25 to register the domain. Hosting is free on doteasy.com. We can figure out how to divide the work later.
What about PayPal buttons next to each representitive, linking directly to their campaign funds?
I always wondered why anyone would trust EBay auctioneers with large amounts of money. I mean, it gets to a point where a few negative feedbacks aren't going to make up for loss of any serious dough. Anyone else have scam stories?
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News flash:
You're a fucker.
Feel free to treat your employees like wage slaves. I'm sure they work extra hard for you all the time, since they feel that you value and trust their work. I noticed that you posted one hour 5 minutes apart. Even assuming you posted comment #1 immediately after your 3:02 PM lunch break starts, your second post was one hour, 5 minutes later. You stole five minutes from the company, just like I stole the two minutes from you that it took to read my post. No, you can't have it back, asshole.
Get a different job then dork
Here, here! No wonder everyone thinks programmers are whiny little geeks. Can you imagine? An entire community has sprung up around such esoteric issues as C++ standards compliance.
Hey, nerds: cut out the whining. It's making it harder for me to feed my kids. And get laid, so I can make more kids. Please mod parent up.
Start buying records. Big, black, beautiful records. You might want to warn your friends, because soon you'll start planning trips to cities in other states, including hotel stays, just for record shopping. You'll start spending weekends "flipping stacks". Beats the shit out of crouching in front of your computer for hours on end, burning worthless CDs. Plus, records are usually
Jesus Fucking Christ. I am eating words as we speak. Shit, I'm getting into the software business NOW.
%12.9 profit margin is fucking huge. If you can point to a modern industry in which a company would complain about profits like that, I will eat my words. Not even Microsoft makes %13 profit. Just like any other company, they could easily squeak by selling their product at less than half the cost, if they didn't feel the need to hand their executives and bloated marketing staff seven figures. Long will it be before I weep for Penguin.
In the "Instrument" video (now on DVD too), Ian explains the motivations for the cheap shows, no T-shirts, etc. IIRC, it was something like "If we continue to make art, people are going to want to hear and see us doing it. That is secondary to us making it, so we will make as little money from it as possible in order to have as much control as we can over how that all happens"
In fact, I used to have one.
What you used to have was a bootleg t-shirt. Sorry, but it's true. That's why the "This is not a Fugazi T-Shirt" T-shirt came out, because Fugazi threatened to sue the bootlegger.
And, yes, she is a fox.
If she's a lawyer, more like a snake. No offense.
"Discussion" my ass. The RIAA has figured out what every other big bizness slimeball has known for years: just legislate your business model down the throats of Americans. What's to discuss?
Here! Here! If there are any Slashdotters that like their rock hard and fresh, Fugazi is a must-hear. Every album they make gets better year after year after year. They don't sell T-shirts. At all. They charge $6 for shows, and if the venue won't do a $6 show, they pick another venue. They have sold 100s of 1000s of records, and still drive their own van. Genius! Former members of Minor Threat hate the Industry, and are breaking it from the inside.
My impression of a Korean playing an online game:
h , right, and like...o rean:GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!O GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOOOOOOO!
Gamer1:so, uh blah blah blah
Korean:GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO!!
gAMER2:Yea
Korean:GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGGOGOGOGOGOGOGO!
K
Korean:GOGOGOGOGOG
All a programmer needs to know these days to polish his resume is to [...] keep boning up on idiot languages like VB and Java.
There are more VB programmers than programmers in any other language on Earth. Just because it doesn't have operator overloading doesn't make it an "idiot language". You'll notice that the trend in computing is towards more BASIC-style languages, not obfuscated C-type syntax spaghetti. Note also that VB was one of the very first languages that allowed non-professionals to write object code.
Both VB and Java are behind several DoD projects, and are the impetus for many newer languages, like C#.
If those mailboxes are the targets of dictionary spam attacks, and I was the multi-billion dollar company behind those domains, I would make it so that those mailboxes were no longer the target of dictionary spam attacks. In fact, those companies beginning to use those addresses for business may be the first step in destroying spam as an industry.
I'm suprised that they had to migrate back. Since the Conglomerate was using custom software, why didn't they throw some of their umpteen gazillion dollars at the software, and make it work? If the email system is bulletproofed and refined, the benefits could be passed on to AOL's customers, increasing value for the service. It's sad to see them bail out so quickly on eating their own dog food.
Stoner!
In my experience, these terms are interchangeable. In the East, they call it QA. In the West, they call it QC.
Heh. Too late now.
Not quite. Check out McSweeneys to find out where the best new lit in the world is coming from.
Where do you get the idea that 99% of the people want to open links in new windows? I almost never do.
On many sites (Fark.com, Slashdot) this is indeed the case. On a site that's basically a list of links to other sites, a site that encourages people to check several links each time they visit, it would be stupid to commandeer the main browser window for a linked page when the user most likely wants to stay on the page they're visiting.
It just makes common sense. After examining the usage habits of your target audience, you make the site work for them. If that doesn't work for you, go elsewhere. Since you're most likely looking for free, you'd probably be doing the site in question a favor.
The "target=" attribute is there for a reason.
I certainly don't want new windows forced on me because some marketing type wants to keep me on their site.
That marketing type is just doing their job. The web is all growned up now, and usability for your core audience is more important than keeping everyone happy.
It takes a special kind of stupid to not understand the whole point of hypertext. Congratulations, fuckwit, you have that stupid!
Note that I am not the original poster, but who decided that every link is supposed to open in the same window? Why should someone have to use an alternate means of navigation when the site's designers should know that 99 times out of 100, the user wants to open the link in a new window? Do you think it's cool to ignore your user base when designing a site?
While we're at it, it takes a special kind of petty to post a comment like that in reference to something so trivial. Maybe you should go back to floodposting goatse.cx links until you can play nice.
The Paypal links would be for people to contribute themselves. People already can find out where to send checks, there's a million websites that do that. What we do is keep track of a rep's tech voting record, and allow people to reward them directly. Keep in mind, I'm pretty sure you can't make out payments to a rep, only his/her "campaign fund".
What if there's a security hole/bug that was prevalent in the CLR? All the languages that use the CLR would be affected.
Yeah, but then, when that bug is fixed, all the... oh, wait. (Light goes on above head)
Of course, one could say we should sue all the record labels because the move to digital format itself is what's making piracy so easy. :)
No shit. The Biz got together and decided they could rape the consumer even more if they found a way to distribute music on $.05 discs. "With CD burners costing thousands, no one will ever be able to pirate music, except by taping it, and tapes are of lower audio quality. No one will ever settle for that!"
They have nothing to blame but the current lack of creative quality of modern music, and the death of vinyl. I steal as much music as I can.
Well, Mr. Community,
Time to put your money where your mouth is. Contact me at the email address listed above (coincidentally using the same spam-fighting scheme), and pony up $25 to register the domain. Hosting is free on doteasy.com. We can figure out how to divide the work later.
What about PayPal buttons next to each representitive, linking directly to their campaign funds?
Anyone else with me?
a la OS9
I always wondered why anyone would trust EBay auctioneers with large amounts of money. I mean, it gets to a point where a few negative feedbacks aren't going to make up for loss of any serious dough. Anyone else have scam stories?