Uh, people learn in different ways. One way is visually. Sure, to you seeing something might be redunant if you can read it, but there are some people in the world who don't work like you do, and need to see it to fully grasp a concept. Not all visual delivery systems on the web are a waste.
"No spyware, system crashes, viruses, less spam, less advertising."
Okay.
Spyware and viruses: these are only lacking in the *nix environment because the user CAN'T install them automagically. This problem is solved in windows by not using IE or Outlook, or just teaching your users to Just Say No.
System crashes: use win2k or xp. i use xp, every day at home and work, and I never have a problem. Sometime certain apps flake out, but the os always recovers without a restart.
spam and advertising: again, i don't see how the os factors into this at all. the first one relates directly to your email address. changing os's isn't going to suddenly reduce the spam in your inbox. and advertising...i can only assume you are talking about pop-ups. well, as i said above, just don't use IE, and there isn't a problem.
Do you honestly think that Mr. Kofi Annan knows the first thing about WiFi computing with laptops?
People that high up don't think logistics, they think ideas, and let the people below them work out the details. I am sure he wasn't thinking "This is my way to get in the good graces of Bill Gates!!! Third World Countries...Windows 0wnz j00!!!" More than likely it was "It would be cool for all these countries to have wireless laptops" with absolutely 0 knowledge on the details of such an idea.
And one of the advantages of flash is that it has multiple, mature authoring environments. sure, all of them cost something, but its not like the only way to develop flash is to put money into Macromedia's wallet.
the people i work for have no problem in spending a bit of money here so that i can develop flash-type stuff in a proven, stable environment whose output can be viewed by over 90% of the browsers out there.
Uh, you are taking one person's comment about IE as what all web developers think. sorry, but that would be incorrect.
As with Flash, a website that doesn't work in all browsers is the developer's fault. Many of us believe in using things such as flash correctly, and coding to standards. don't assume one voice speaks for all.
So make one. The file format is open. Figure it out and make an open source, free Flash development suite that can work in windows and linux. make everyone happy.
you haven't seen the picture of someone actually holding this device. this thing, folded up, is smaller than the person's hand that is holding it. and as you can show the screen while it is closed by turning it around and closing it, it can be as small, or maybe smaller, than a normal pda.
i doubt she is a web designer. more than likely she edits exsisting pages or creates new from a template.
sigh...this is what makes it difficult to be a web designer these days. the term has been used incorrectly to describe people who aren't doing web design, but web content development. which, 90% of the time, results in ugly ass pages. the result of which is most tech-savvy peeps have no respect for those of us who actually design attractive, compliant, and user-friendly websites.
which is why i call myself a web developer, even though developing code is less than 30% of what i do during the day. at least it keeps me out of the "secretary with frontpage" category that "web designer" has become.
depending on what version of windows he is using, you can set the IE icon to open the browser of your choice.
So, if you can, set the IE icon to open mozilla. also, get the mozilla skin that looks just like IE. probably won't notice the difference, he will just think it is a new version of ie.
you know, i have never done the math on that quote, but it doesn't seem to work. After the first part (400b stars, 1 out of 1m have planets) I come up with 400,000. So the next part ends up with a number less than one. Now I am no science guy, but I can hold my own when needed. Anyone want to point out my mistake?
No, they mean it will tkae three months for your number to get distributed once you sign up, not than a new business doesn't have to worry about it for three months. If you sign up now, and a new company starts up five months later, your number will not be added to their call lists.
Flash is an open format...there are many non-Macromedia apps that can create Flash files. In fact, Adobe even had a full featured compeditor to the Flash application before it decided to throw its weight behind SVG. Flash supports database-driven content fairly easily, and has for a long time. Flash can parse XML files fairly easily. XML is pretty easy to manipulate and generate, but creating the type of animations you see with Flash in SVG is a pain. And contrary to popular belief, there are more reasons to use Flash than to make toons or annoying ads. Example: I imported a two minute, 126MB avi that I created for a project into Flash. I added some custom controls for the video, as well as some "Pop-Up Video" points to highlight certain moments in the video. The Flash file came out to be no more than 7MB large. That's still big for dial-up users, but the video would have been impossible to present to them in the original avi format.
I am not saying SVG doesn't have it's points. But don't knock Flash. I hate to burst your bubble, but Flash is far from dead.
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That would increase costs to the company. Take a department store. They can mass produce a sign for a certain item without any worries. Because sales tax can be different all the way to the county level, the company now has to make signs for every variation of price.
I suppose they could just print out signs with an average price, and take a hit in certain areas, and make a much larger profit margin in others. It might balance out in some areas, but possibly not in others. And if you are a consumer in one of those higher profit margin areas, then you are getting screwed as well. It would work, but I don't think anyone would be too terribly happy with it
a) There're no sheep left after the war between humans and machines, presumably;
Not to be too terribly anal, but it doesn't matter that there are no sheep left after the war. The machines aren't taking current humans and putting them in power packs, they are growing them from scratch. Assumably, they could grow sheep, goats, Anna Nicole Smith...just about any mindless animal and not have to worry about control. It would seem that there is another reason why the have to use humans, and I am pretty sure I have it figured out...
BECAUSE IF THEY USED ANYTHING ELSE, NO ONE WOULD CARE, AND THEY WOULDN'T HAVE A MOVIE.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end? This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.
Good try, but wrong. That's a dropped call. The dialer is dialing a certain number of numbers based on a lot of math, knowing that when it connects it should have an agent available. Machines are not perfect however, so sometimes it makes a connection with a human but doesn't have an agent to put the call to. So it just sits there for a moment, then hangs up. The percentage of these calls on any good dialer is usually 5% of the total connections made, and most dialers are able to change that setting to higher or lower, depending on how much you want your agents to be idle (lower % dropped calls = more idle time between calls for agents, because the dialer is dialing less numbers to prevent drops).
The dialer is dialing a certain number of calls based upon how quickly the agents are coming available. If you keep an agent on the phone for longer than a few seconds, the dialer recognizes this and drops them from the number of agents that will be available.
After all, they are trying to sell you something. The dialer has to be able to compensate for long calls, because I doubt any agent can sell you something in the time it takes someone else to hang up.
And just so you know I am not talking out of my ass, I used to be an admin on a dialer, so I do have some experience with this.
Actually, there is such a thing. I can't remember the name off hand, but I can remember one of my music professors in college telling me about it. Basically, certain people perceive different colors when different pitches are played. So in effect you can actually see the notes, and consequently can tune based on what you are seeing. Pretty sweet.
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I highly doubt that the SEC is failing to notice a story of this magnitude.
Unless the SEC doesn't read slashdot.
Uh, people learn in different ways. One way is visually. Sure, to you seeing something might be redunant if you can read it, but there are some people in the world who don't work like you do, and need to see it to fully grasp a concept. Not all visual delivery systems on the web are a waste.
"No spyware, system crashes, viruses, less spam, less advertising."
Okay.
Spyware and viruses: these are only lacking in the *nix environment because the user CAN'T install them automagically. This problem is solved in windows by not using IE or Outlook, or just teaching your users to Just Say No.
System crashes: use win2k or xp. i use xp, every day at home and work, and I never have a problem. Sometime certain apps flake out, but the os always recovers without a restart.
spam and advertising: again, i don't see how the os factors into this at all. the first one relates directly to your email address. changing os's isn't going to suddenly reduce the spam in your inbox. and advertising...i can only assume you are talking about pop-ups. well, as i said above, just don't use IE, and there isn't a problem.
Unless you open up a search window, and search for *band name*.mp3 in your mp3 folder. Then just move the results.
Do you honestly think that Mr. Kofi Annan knows the first thing about WiFi computing with laptops?
People that high up don't think logistics, they think ideas, and let the people below them work out the details. I am sure he wasn't thinking "This is my way to get in the good graces of Bill Gates!!! Third World Countries...Windows 0wnz j00!!!" More than likely it was "It would be cool for all these countries to have wireless laptops" with absolutely 0 knowledge on the details of such an idea.
And one of the advantages of flash is that it has multiple, mature authoring environments. sure, all of them cost something, but its not like the only way to develop flash is to put money into Macromedia's wallet.
the people i work for have no problem in spending a bit of money here so that i can develop flash-type stuff in a proven, stable environment whose output can be viewed by over 90% of the browsers out there.
Uh, you are taking one person's comment about IE as what all web developers think. sorry, but that would be incorrect.
As with Flash, a website that doesn't work in all browsers is the developer's fault. Many of us believe in using things such as flash correctly, and coding to standards. don't assume one voice speaks for all.
So make one. The file format is open. Figure it out and make an open source, free Flash development suite that can work in windows and linux. make everyone happy.
or maybe it is just easier to complain about it.
So blame the developer, don't blame the tool.
you haven't seen the picture of someone actually holding this device. this thing, folded up, is smaller than the person's hand that is holding it. and as you can show the screen while it is closed by turning it around and closing it, it can be as small, or maybe smaller, than a normal pda.
i doubt she is a web designer. more than likely she edits exsisting pages or creates new from a template.
sigh...this is what makes it difficult to be a web designer these days. the term has been used incorrectly to describe people who aren't doing web design, but web content development. which, 90% of the time, results in ugly ass pages. the result of which is most tech-savvy peeps have no respect for those of us who actually design attractive, compliant, and user-friendly websites.
which is why i call myself a web developer, even though developing code is less than 30% of what i do during the day. at least it keeps me out of the "secretary with frontpage" category that "web designer" has become.
depending on what version of windows he is using, you can set the IE icon to open the browser of your choice.
So, if you can, set the IE icon to open mozilla. also, get the mozilla skin that looks just like IE. probably won't notice the difference, he will just think it is a new version of ie.
And then proceeded to realize his oversight, turn is company around on a dime, and now has a large slice of that internet pie.
Just because he discounts it now doesn't mean he can turn around and dominate it later.
you know, i have never done the math on that quote, but it doesn't seem to work. After the first part (400b stars, 1 out of 1m have planets) I come up with 400,000. So the next part ends up with a number less than one. Now I am no science guy, but I can hold my own when needed. Anyone want to point out my mistake?
No, they mean it will tkae three months for your number to get distributed once you sign up, not than a new business doesn't have to worry about it for three months. If you sign up now, and a new company starts up five months later, your number will not be added to their call lists.
You know, they are damned if they do, damned if they don't.
If they do try to make it better, everyone complains that it is a conspiracy to thwart the *nix people.
If they don't, everyone complains that they are living in the past and that the *nix filesystems are better.
Flash is an open format...there are many non-Macromedia apps that can create Flash files. In fact, Adobe even had a full featured compeditor to the Flash application before it decided to throw its weight behind SVG. Flash supports database-driven content fairly easily, and has for a long time. Flash can parse XML files fairly easily. XML is pretty easy to manipulate and generate, but creating the type of animations you see with Flash in SVG is a pain. And contrary to popular belief, there are more reasons to use Flash than to make toons or annoying ads. Example: I imported a two minute, 126MB avi that I created for a project into Flash. I added some custom controls for the video, as well as some "Pop-Up Video" points to highlight certain moments in the video. The Flash file came out to be no more than 7MB large. That's still big for dial-up users, but the video would have been impossible to present to them in the original avi format.
I am not saying SVG doesn't have it's points. But don't knock Flash. I hate to burst your bubble, but Flash is far from dead.
That would increase costs to the company. Take a department store. They can mass produce a sign for a certain item without any worries. Because sales tax can be different all the way to the county level, the company now has to make signs for every variation of price.
I suppose they could just print out signs with an average price, and take a hit in certain areas, and make a much larger profit margin in others. It might balance out in some areas, but possibly not in others. And if you are a consumer in one of those higher profit margin areas, then you are getting screwed as well. It would work, but I don't think anyone would be too terribly happy with it
Mod this dude up.
Open Source projects do this same sort of thing, and it's okay because it is in the noble quest of Open Software.
Microsoft does it, and suddenly it's bad, just because they want to make a buck from it.
Pot, meet Kettle.
How about they figure out how to get gas down from 2.50 a pop...
Move. Where I live we are at 1.29 for the cheap stuff.
a) There're no sheep left after the war between humans and machines, presumably;
Not to be too terribly anal, but it doesn't matter that there are no sheep left after the war. The machines aren't taking current humans and putting them in power packs, they are growing them from scratch. Assumably, they could grow sheep, goats, Anna Nicole Smith...just about any mindless animal and not have to worry about control. It would seem that there is another reason why the have to use humans, and I am pretty sure I have it figured out...
BECAUSE IF THEY USED ANYTHING ELSE, NO ONE WOULD CARE, AND THEY WOULDN'T HAVE A MOVIE.
Have a nice day!
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end? This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.
Good try, but wrong. That's a dropped call. The dialer is dialing a certain number of numbers based on a lot of math, knowing that when it connects it should have an agent available. Machines are not perfect however, so sometimes it makes a connection with a human but doesn't have an agent to put the call to. So it just sits there for a moment, then hangs up. The percentage of these calls on any good dialer is usually 5% of the total connections made, and most dialers are able to change that setting to higher or lower, depending on how much you want your agents to be idle (lower % dropped calls = more idle time between calls for agents, because the dialer is dialing less numbers to prevent drops).
That's a little incorrect.
The dialer is dialing a certain number of calls based upon how quickly the agents are coming available. If you keep an agent on the phone for longer than a few seconds, the dialer recognizes this and drops them from the number of agents that will be available.
After all, they are trying to sell you something. The dialer has to be able to compensate for long calls, because I doubt any agent can sell you something in the time it takes someone else to hang up.
And just so you know I am not talking out of my ass, I used to be an admin on a dialer, so I do have some experience with this.
Actually, there is such a thing. I can't remember the name off hand, but I can remember one of my music professors in college telling me about it. Basically, certain people perceive different colors when different pitches are played. So in effect you can actually see the notes, and consequently can tune based on what you are seeing. Pretty sweet.
...I thought I would never pay for an mp3.
Technically, you didn't pay for an mp3. You paid for a AAC. Hope that makes your day a little brighter!