A friend of mine graduated with two degrees (a double major in CS/Math, and another separate degree in Chemistry) in two years. While certainly impressive, not unprecedented.
Just for reference, I have been a professional web developer.
On the one hand, yes, clients spending that kind of dough want things to look a certain way. The easiest way is to use image-based, fixed pixel layouts, etc. However, that is not the best way to do it, for the reasons cited previously in this thread. Usually that may be the only way to do it within budget, therefore making it the appropriate way, but from my experience, the only reason that doing it in a 'fixed' way versus a flexible way is because the designers just don't know how to do it correctly, not because it is that much harder. What should be happening is that "professional web development firms" should be explaining to customers that indeed they ought to spend the extra few design hours it would cost them to make sure that their site looks great (or at least degrades gracefully) so that their new site looks good to everyone, instead of just them.
Too many "professional web developers" are print graphic artists who get some web development tool like Dreamweaver and think that makes them a web designer/artist. Bzzt. Web sites, except for the most basic, are living, breathing entities that get *used*, not just looked at, by both the owners and the visitors. Granted, some $250k sites are just big advertisements, but even designing navigation between a bunch of static web pages isn't the job of a graphic artist -- you need usability to make it worthwhile.
This is indeed one area where Apple lags behind Microsoft. Microsoft has the ability to not just disappoint on each and every anniversary of their founding, but most of the days in between as well.
Funny because a piece of software that's just a glorified "cat" (and a little of "ls") has evolved into something so complex and powerful that it makes sense to use it as platform for other kinds of software.
Shipping supplies from the USPS state very clearly that they're the property of the USPS. The first time you order a shipment of boxes from the USPS, they make you sign something saying that you acknowledge this fact and that those supplies are indeed only for the purpose of sending stuff by means of USPS.
I had thought Fedex and UPS did the same, but I just examined a couple Fedex medium boxes we had laying around here and they don't say anything of the sort.
Even old-timey phone companies are in love with VoIP, and many mainstream carriers are moving (or at least looking to move) their internal phone networks to VoIP for all their customers. What this means is that even if you and your phone buddy both have plain old analog telephone service, there's a non-trivial chance that your conversation might be carried as VoIP part or most of the way.
Gotta love it. He's saying "they're not as good as everyone thinks they are because they support something we don't! And we have to call ourselves 'Internet Explorer' too!".
I don't have anything against Opera and what he's saying is valid, but it is also kinda funny.
Great, I'll be able to run WINE and therefore run many Windows programs fairly well under OSX. However, what about the other way? There might very well be something similar to run Mac programs under Windows.
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A friend of mine graduated with two degrees (a double major in CS/Math, and another separate degree in Chemistry) in two years. While certainly impressive, not unprecedented.
Just for reference, I have been a professional web developer.
On the one hand, yes, clients spending that kind of dough want things to look a certain way. The easiest way is to use image-based, fixed pixel layouts, etc. However, that is not the best way to do it, for the reasons cited previously in this thread. Usually that may be the only way to do it within budget, therefore making it the appropriate way, but from my experience, the only reason that doing it in a 'fixed' way versus a flexible way is because the designers just don't know how to do it correctly, not because it is that much harder. What should be happening is that "professional web development firms" should be explaining to customers that indeed they ought to spend the extra few design hours it would cost them to make sure that their site looks great (or at least degrades gracefully) so that their new site looks good to everyone, instead of just them.
Too many "professional web developers" are print graphic artists who get some web development tool like Dreamweaver and think that makes them a web designer/artist. Bzzt. Web sites, except for the most basic, are living, breathing entities that get *used*, not just looked at, by both the owners and the visitors. Granted, some $250k sites are just big advertisements, but even designing navigation between a bunch of static web pages isn't the job of a graphic artist -- you need usability to make it worthwhile.
Sure it is being done poorly -- how many times has the /. effect actually had a positive impact?
That is not true. The LVM-42w2 (42") and LVM-37w3 (37") both have one HDMI and two DVI with HDCP.
This is indeed one area where Apple lags behind Microsoft. Microsoft has the ability to not just disappoint on each and every anniversary of their founding, but most of the days in between as well.
Just stop going.
Bizarre? No. Funny? Yes.
Funny because a piece of software that's just a glorified "cat" (and a little of "ls") has evolved into something so complex and powerful that it makes sense to use it as platform for other kinds of software.
So I noticed mod_smtpd in there.
Is there some corollary to the well known quote like "Every daemon attempts to expand until it can schlep mail" that I'm not aware of?
They'll probably start donating a bunch of cash to cancer research. I truely wouldn't be surprised if they did it, too.
Though I can't see them setting up "caancer.google.com".
They took his BeBox? Inhumane they are!
Boy these people piss me off.
Don't get me wrong, I dislike ESR as much as the next guy, but even I have to admit his response is hilarious.
Oh absolutely. If they're used boxes, I'm pretty sure they're considered fair game. At least a reasonable person would think so.
Shipping supplies from the USPS state very clearly that they're the property of the USPS. The first time you order a shipment of boxes from the USPS, they make you sign something saying that you acknowledge this fact and that those supplies are indeed only for the purpose of sending stuff by means of USPS.
I had thought Fedex and UPS did the same, but I just examined a couple Fedex medium boxes we had laying around here and they don't say anything of the sort.
Now all they have to do is make the button-bar underneath the touchpad on the PowerBooks be touch sensitive to allow for multibutton there too.
Even old-timey phone companies are in love with VoIP, and many mainstream carriers are moving (or at least looking to move) their internal phone networks to VoIP for all their customers. What this means is that even if you and your phone buddy both have plain old analog telephone service, there's a non-trivial chance that your conversation might be carried as VoIP part or most of the way.
One of the pages that'll come up includes:
Gotta love it. He's saying "they're not as good as everyone thinks they are because they support something we don't! And we have to call ourselves 'Internet Explorer' too!".
I don't have anything against Opera and what he's saying is valid, but it is also kinda funny.
Great, I'll be able to run WINE and therefore run many Windows programs fairly well under OSX. However, what about the other way? There might very well be something similar to run Mac programs under Windows.
Yeah, apparently they didn't learn anything from the Osborne Executive fiasco/failure.
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Well, almost.
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...2005 for some OSs is circa 1996 BeOS.
...welcome our new many.version.levels.over.lor.ds.
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