Lots of comments on here about pot and kettle and prostitution being illegal and imoral.
Personally, I can't stand people who put down sex trade workers, but don't save any derrision for the Johns. If you think prostitutes are low-lifes, then quit paying them.
Well, ignoring the fact that you obviously don't know what I have and have not tried-
I'm certainly willing to admit that I just haven't wrapped my brain around how to use tagging to do what I want. I like the idea of being able to throw multiple catagories at something, because that is the problem with hierarchies. In real life, things live in multiple places. On the other hand, you have 268 tags. That seems a bit unwieldy. I guess if they're yours, maybe it's different. Cloud view helps too. It all does make more sense when I see someone else's utilization of it.
Um, but what are bundles, if not a one layer of hierarchy? If you have one, why not many? I guess I see definate advantages, but I'm not sure I'm sold yet.
Maybe what we need to add to tagging is meta-tagging:-)
Or maybe I'm missing something, but I like to store my bookmarks in multiply nested folders. Yahoo, Google, del.ici.us (or however you spell it) only let you catagorize things one level down. You can tag a link as 'funny' or put it in the 'funny' folder, but if you have 20 'funny' links, you can't split them into say, 'visit daily' and 'visit weekly', or 'political' and 'general' or 'cartoons' and 'satire'.
So I wrote my own. Ajaxed. You can re-arrange by dragging folders into folder to your heart's content. You can share some sets with other people, and keep some sets private. You can even make sets editable by other people. I'm working on import/export.
I'm just waiting for someone to offer me $30m for it.
Hm, I have Azureus running 24x7- weeks at a time, with no problem. I don't really need all the big fancy charts and graphs, but being able to individually throttle things is nice.
Ajax is as accessible as any other form of Javascript
True- perhaps it's just a new level of required understanding. Most of the web still hasn't caught up with really making things ADA. The people who make Web 1.0 sites ADA will probably make Web 2.0 sites complient as well- at least in as much as it makes sense. It doesn't make a lot of sense for google maps.
I recently saw a page that had a graphic with the company contact info in it (address, phone etc) and the alt tag was "Company Contact Info Image".
The way the web is designed is precisely what causes one of the problems that Ajax solves.
Sure, and your example of comment moderation is a good one. Also things like Java applets to create context sensitive dropdowns. Pick a country, and the region dropdown contains the regions for that country, e.g. No need for the bloat of a java applet just for that.
As for being careful with DB updates- I didn't phrase that very well. Like ADA, it's just something that people should be thinking about now, but many aren't. Any web designer who understands why you cannot rely on client side validation alone won't have a problem. More concrete example- I'm doing a project for myself in ASP.NET. ASP.NET Forms authentication is great, and takes care of all the 'you have to be logged in to see this page' stuff. But it doesn' take care of a specially crafted web service call hitting my DB, and in my case doing a delete. It's not an impossible problem, but if I were careless, it would be a big hole.
There's also an example in Pragmatic Ajax (beta book, print version coming out soon) of a google pre-fetch system hitting every link on a page to pre-load, and some of those links were ajax GET requests that deleted from the DB. Web site eating spiders!
That's true, but you seem to be looking at the worst examples of Ajax and assuming that all Ajax must necessarily be like that.
No, I think Ajax is very cool, and am building an app of my own with it now. And I'm looking at how it can fit into and enhance projects I'm working on. But the parent asked if there were any downsides, or if it was 'win-win'. So, in pointing out the potential losses, I perhaps sounded more negative than I really am.
Every ajax 'hello world' example out there is cross browser. That exact same piece of code is reproduced in dozens of articles, perhaps thousands if you want to venture that deeply into Google's search results.
- it doesn't work the way the web is designed, as page->page->page, which can create problems. You can't page-page
- you have to be very careful if you ajax app is making changes to the DB, not just reading
- 'win-win' doesn't really fit. It's another tool, and like any tool it can be used in the wrong place. The risk is that as 'the' thing, it's going to be used everywhere, even a lot of places where it really doesn't make sense. Kind of like companies putting dumb Flash animations all over their pages just to show they can.
I don't think they're claiming copyright. They do say 'intellectual property' but don't say what area. It's not patent, and I don't think it could be trademark- so I don't know what exact area they're going for.
"commercially exploit the identities and statistical profiles"
MLB may actually have a leg to stand on here. If I were to print and sell my own baseball cards, I'd lose the case in court.
I can take a picture of a player at a game, and share it with my friends, no problem. I could also keep track of a particular player's stats and work them to my hearts content for my own purpose.
I think MLB is saying that the 'statistical profile' is akin to a picture of the player. It's all part of the player profile that under US law anyway, isn't public domain.
Key here is 'commercially exploit'. That's the difference between licensing to a Fantasy Sports league, and Joe Schmoe who memorizes every swing ever made by
Caveat: I don't pay attention to baseball, so I could be talking out of my ass.
But I did catch an MLB 'copyright notice' when channel surfing durring the last World Series (which only ever seems to have American Teams in it, no?) It sounded like they were saying that it was illegal to even discuss games without MLB's explicit permission. So my co-workers who spend half an hour a day yacking about the previous day's games are all in copyright violation? And now possibly even more so if they talk a few stats? Or at least, MLB would like to think they have that much power.
Can someone please explain what the second 'it' in the second sentence refers to?
Joe Brockmeier and I have teamed up in a story on NewsForge to point out how the mainstream and trade press misrepresent the annual summary of vulnerabilities from US-CERT. They're doing it again this year to make it appear as if it is more secure than UNIX/Linux.
If the intro isn't clear, why bother reading the article?
Rational Unified Process really is the way to go. There are other processes out there besides RUP and Waterfall. RUP is pretty heavy for a small shop. The principle that your initial design won't be perfect, great. RUP to the letter is an awful lot of overhead. I'm by no means suggesting you go XP and forget the design. That's worse. But find a middle road.
A WAL-MART Worker may donate money from their paycheck to the CRITICAL NEED FUND, a program to aid other employees in times of crisis, like a fire or tornado. In 2004, WAL-MART Employees gave OVER $5 MILLION to help fellow workers. The Walton Family gave $6,000
The WALTON FAMILY Has Given LESS THAN 1% of Their Wealth to Charity. Bill Gates has given 58%
A few years ago Paul Allen parked his ship at Santa Barbara for a week. He spent his evenings flying around over the city in his helicopter. Fucking annoying noise. If he's got that much money, why doesn't he buy Blue Thunder?
Because by this time of year most of us need a break. Just like it helps to have a couple of days off every week. I personally don't really care if it's Saturday and Sunday, or Tueseday and Wednesday. The more you get upset by it, the more the break will do you good.
I for one am getting sick and tired of folks who claim to know Java/C#/Whatever, but who are trapped in the specifics of that particular language and have no understanding about the underlying concepts.
Who are driven by all the HR people who say "Must have 5+ years of Java/C#/Whatever" because they don't know how to ask for "Can see a factory pattern when it hits them in the face".
C#, because you are a Linux type. If you said you were a Microsoft type, I'd say Java. The OO skills you hopefully will learn will cary from one to the other, so from that sense it doesn't really matter.
But if the point is to learn, then you will learn more by pushing yourself more, and that means not only in techincal ways, but 'religious' ways. People who don't know anything about X but talk about how much better Y is than X have very little credibility. You're better off being the person who can discuss when/why/how Y is better than X, and X better than Y.
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Lots of comments on here about pot and kettle and prostitution being illegal and imoral.
Personally, I can't stand people who put down sex trade workers, but don't save any derrision for the Johns. If you think prostitutes are low-lifes, then quit paying them.
Very good point. There's absolutely no reason to not provide a keyboard interface to re-order modules. Drag and drop makes no sense to a blind user, but re-ordering the linear content sure does. Unfortunately, sometimes it takes a lawsuit to get anything done in this country. http://news.com.com/Blind+patrons+sue+Target+for+s ite+inaccessibility/2100-1030_3-6038123.html/
Yah, I miss mine if for nothing other than nostalgia. Whopping 16K! For the longest time the only cartridge I had was Star Raiders.
Reminds me of a Dice ad that wanted "UML Experience using Visio".
Kind of like asking for a poet who can use Word.
Well, ignoring the fact that you obviously don't know what I have and have not tried-
:-)
I'm certainly willing to admit that I just haven't wrapped my brain around how to use tagging to do what I want. I like the idea of being able to throw multiple catagories at something, because that is the problem with hierarchies. In real life, things live in multiple places. On the other hand, you have 268 tags. That seems a bit unwieldy. I guess if they're yours, maybe it's different. Cloud view helps too. It all does make more sense when I see someone else's utilization of it.
Um, but what are bundles, if not a one layer of hierarchy? If you have one, why not many? I guess I see definate advantages, but I'm not sure I'm sold yet.
Maybe what we need to add to tagging is meta-tagging
Or maybe I'm missing something, but I like to store my bookmarks in multiply nested folders. Yahoo, Google, del.ici.us (or however you spell it) only let you catagorize things one level down. You can tag a link as 'funny' or put it in the 'funny' folder, but if you have 20 'funny' links, you can't split them into say, 'visit daily' and 'visit weekly', or 'political' and 'general' or 'cartoons' and 'satire'.
So I wrote my own. Ajaxed. You can re-arrange by dragging folders into folder to your heart's content. You can share some sets with other people, and keep some sets private. You can even make sets editable by other people. I'm working on import/export.
I'm just waiting for someone to offer me $30m for it.
And no, it would NOT survive a slashdot.
Let's see. Saying someone smells like cow dung, or removing a fact someone else says about you. Which of those is a violation of the 1st amendment?
Hm, I have Azureus running 24x7- weeks at a time, with no problem. I don't really need all the big fancy charts and graphs, but being able to individually throttle things is nice.
Ajax is as accessible as any other form of Javascript
True- perhaps it's just a new level of required understanding. Most of the web still hasn't caught up with really making things ADA. The people who make Web 1.0 sites ADA will probably make Web 2.0 sites complient as well- at least in as much as it makes sense. It doesn't make a lot of sense for google maps.
I recently saw a page that had a graphic with the company contact info in it (address, phone etc) and the alt tag was "Company Contact Info Image".
The way the web is designed is precisely what causes one of the problems that Ajax solves.
Sure, and your example of comment moderation is a good one. Also things like Java applets to create context sensitive dropdowns. Pick a country, and the region dropdown contains the regions for that country, e.g. No need for the bloat of a java applet just for that.
As for being careful with DB updates- I didn't phrase that very well. Like ADA, it's just something that people should be thinking about now, but many aren't. Any web designer who understands why you cannot rely on client side validation alone won't have a problem. More concrete example- I'm doing a project for myself in ASP.NET. ASP.NET Forms authentication is great, and takes care of all the 'you have to be logged in to see this page' stuff. But it doesn' take care of a specially crafted web service call hitting my DB, and in my case doing a delete. It's not an impossible problem, but if I were careless, it would be a big hole.
There's also an example in Pragmatic Ajax (beta book, print version coming out soon) of a google pre-fetch system hitting every link on a page to pre-load, and some of those links were ajax GET requests that deleted from the DB. Web site eating spiders!
That's true, but you seem to be looking at the worst examples of Ajax and assuming that all Ajax must necessarily be like that.
No, I think Ajax is very cool, and am building an app of my own with it now. And I'm looking at how it can fit into and enhance projects I'm working on. But the parent asked if there were any downsides, or if it was 'win-win'. So, in pointing out the potential losses, I perhaps sounded more negative than I really am.
Every ajax 'hello world' example out there is cross browser. That exact same piece of code is reproduced in dozens of articles, perhaps thousands if you want to venture that deeply into Google's search results.
- it's not very ADA complient
- it doesn't work the way the web is designed, as page->page->page, which can create problems. You can't page-page
- you have to be very careful if you ajax app is making changes to the DB, not just reading
- 'win-win' doesn't really fit. It's another tool, and like any tool it can be used in the wrong place. The risk is that as 'the' thing, it's going to be used everywhere, even a lot of places where it really doesn't make sense. Kind of like companies putting dumb Flash animations all over their pages just to show they can.
There were Apple ][ Viruses (Viri?) out before that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Cloner/ e.g.
I don't think they're claiming copyright. They do say 'intellectual property' but don't say what area.
It's not patent, and I don't think it could be trademark- so I don't know what exact area they're going for.
"commercially exploit the identities and statistical profiles"
MLB may actually have a leg to stand on here. If I were to print and sell my own baseball cards, I'd lose the case in court.
I can take a picture of a player at a game, and share it with my friends, no problem.
I could also keep track of a particular player's stats and work them to my hearts content for my own purpose.
I think MLB is saying that the 'statistical profile' is akin to a picture of the player. It's all part of the player profile that under US law anyway, isn't public domain.
Key here is 'commercially exploit'. That's the difference between licensing to a Fantasy Sports league, and Joe Schmoe who memorizes every swing ever made by
Caveat: I don't pay attention to baseball, so I could be talking out of my ass.
But I did catch an MLB 'copyright notice' when channel surfing durring the last World Series (which only ever seems to have American Teams in it, no?) It sounded like they were saying that it was illegal to even discuss games without MLB's explicit permission. So my co-workers who spend half an hour a day yacking about the previous day's games are all in copyright violation? And now possibly even more so if they talk a few stats? Or at least, MLB would like to think they have that much power.
If the intro isn't clear, why bother reading the article?
But pretty empty from a technical point of view. I don't feel like I have any more knowledge after reading it.
"5+ years 'C' programming experience in any applicable language"
Rational Unified Process really is the way to go. There are other processes out there besides RUP and Waterfall. RUP is pretty heavy for a small shop. The principle that your initial design won't be perfect, great. RUP to the letter is an awful lot of overhead. I'm by no means suggesting you go XP and forget the design. That's worse. But find a middle road.
It might help to mention that you are in Canada, and whether you are willing to sponsor visas.
Let's keep the evil in perspective:
From: http://www.walmartmovie.com/facts.php/
A WAL-MART Worker may donate money from their paycheck to the CRITICAL NEED FUND, a program to aid other employees in times of crisis, like a fire or tornado.
In 2004, WAL-MART Employees gave OVER $5 MILLION to help fellow workers. The Walton Family gave $6,000
The WALTON FAMILY Has Given LESS THAN 1% of Their Wealth to Charity. Bill Gates has given 58%
A few years ago Paul Allen parked his ship at Santa Barbara for a week. He spent his evenings flying around over the city in his helicopter. Fucking annoying noise. If he's got that much money, why doesn't he buy Blue Thunder?
Because by this time of year most of us need a break. Just like it helps to have a couple of days off every week. I personally don't really care if it's Saturday and Sunday, or Tueseday and Wednesday. The more you get upset by it, the more the break will do you good.
I for one am getting sick and tired of folks who claim to know Java/C#/Whatever, but who are trapped in the specifics of that particular language and have no understanding about the underlying concepts.
Who are driven by all the HR people who say "Must have 5+ years of Java/C#/Whatever" because they don't know how to ask for "Can see a factory pattern when it hits them in the face".
C#, because you are a Linux type. If you said you were a Microsoft type, I'd say Java. The OO skills you hopefully will learn will cary from one to the other, so from that sense it doesn't really matter.
But if the point is to learn, then you will learn more by pushing yourself more, and that means not only in techincal ways, but 'religious' ways. People who don't know anything about X but talk about how much better Y is than X have very little credibility. You're better off being the person who can discuss when/why/how Y is better than X, and X better than Y.