I'd love to get some names of your graphic designers - the ones I am forced to work with, while great artists, are completely non web-savy. (In the last 2 weeks not only have I been asked what a.png file is, but a.gif as well.) Alas, I am not the chooser of who I have to work with in this regard.
I agree about CSS being the best and the worst - fantastic idea, poor implementation. If I can keep the CSS simple, then I can get great results: look good, easy to maintain & update. My experience is that programmers tend to like simplification (inheritance, reuse, etc.) and that graphic artists favor uniqueness and exceptions. In theory, CSS is a way to bring uniqueness to a standardized base - in practice, it breaks too easily.
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...Since then the programmers have taken over....
As a programmer, I would like to distance myself from that - it's the graphic artists who have messed everything up. People who are insistant about they want this font here and that font there and this needs to be 2 pixels to the left but that needs to be mint yellow... The people that want it to "look nice" rather than to work are the culprits!!
Since locking people up for violent crimes isn't solving the problem, I guess that a better approach would be to reclassify things like armed robbery and murder as DMCA violations - then we'd have the full weight of the RIAA on our side for a change...
Most people, at least in the US, are already paying the "small price for admission" for the amount of bandwidth they want to consume (I am anyway) - so I don't think we are in the unrestricted commons scenario you mention.
I would expect in actuality we would be seeing something like a 60-70% increase in speed. A company like Intel would probably estimate conservatively so as to not over-hype a new product.
Exactly - I've actually had the best luck with hiring programmers that don't have a CS degree but rather came to it after trying something else. It is easy to teach a motivated new hire skills. For network admin types, however, I've had better luck with people with related degrees.
In all cases, attitude and personality will probably weigh heavier than degrees and certifications.
Maybe in this case the outcome is good, but I wonder what if the patents were good? I don't think that pressure was applied to the USPTO because it isn't issuing good patents, it was pressured because it was issuing inconvenient patents.
I don't know - I can't tell if the checks and balances in the system are working or broken.
Will the USPTO learn the lesson to issue better patents, or will they learn the lesson to check with congress before they issue a patent?
No problem - I wondered if it might be that, but sadly with the way things are now, I know too many people where such a statement is their earnest belief and I just couldn't take the chance!
I think it goes a bit too far. I don't like fair use rights restricted by draconian and invastive technology, and yet I believe there is a legitimate need for copyright law (main thing that I believe is broken now is the "limited time" aspect).
It seems to me that an open source DRM solution, rather than closed an proprietary, might be a way to achieve some kind of fair balance.
Wadle became interested in the concept while studying lightning coming from the ground, "which led him to believe that there's some type of power emanating from earth, which led him to trees," Lagadinos said.
Not that that chain of reasoning inspires any confidence what-so-ever in me, the free power apparently comes from the ground, not the sky...
Unless the "trees" he is talking about only have a couple branches at the top and really long, ropey leaves that seem to go to another "tree" just like it...
I don't look at who submitted either. And I haven't really noticed all the hubub and conspiracy theories about this... So to me, I think that means that/. is working well enough as is - I read the summaries, read the articles I find interesting, check out the high-points of the comments for good ones, respond occassionaly.
Perhaps a method of rating articles would be of value. But not so much as the current mod points, but something like the personal ratings you see at Amazon.com and Netflix - I rate the stories that I find interesting, then database magic happens, and I get a list of "recommended" stories that other people who seemed to like what I like also liked.
But regardless,/. continues to be a daily visit for me - great site, good job and thanks to all involved!
What about the attempted bomb plant on the New York underground last week? Didn't hear about it? That's because the suspected perpetrators were arrested a year ago before they even considered planning it. Or maybe they wouldn't.
They were arrested because the might have thought about perhaps committing a crime in the future? That's a different interpretation of "innocent until proven guilty" than I usually have.
How much liberty are you willing to sacrifice for the sake of security? I think old Ben Franklin had something to say along those lines...
But realistically, would we want our computers as "safe" as our cars? There is a tradeoff. Modern car engines are a lot harder to tinker with and self-service. Moding your exhaust system for a nice rumble sound is illegal. Many of us on/. take the computer equivalent of these sorts of mods for granted.
We don't like the idea of the "general purpose" computer disappearing but I don't think we can have "safe as cars" computers without severe restrictions on a person's ability to do whatever they want with their PC.
Unless, of course, we figure out how to implement RCF 3514
My first instinct is to agree with this - but then I get thinking longer term... I know there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. For years I've been reading online news rather than buying a newspaper. I depend on the Internet for a lot of things, and the only money I pay directly for it is my monthly DSL/ISP fee. They don't give a kickback to any publishers!
Assuming that all the dumb publishers fuck off and die, how will the reports get paid? Will advertising really magically pay for everything? I think a lot of publishers and other businesses have seen an Internet as a necessity to stay in their primary business, but when the primary business becomes delivering content over the Internet, how do they pay the bills? Will the free ride be over? Will be have to start paying for things!?!
The postage would be minor to the costs of the design of the mailings and whatnot. I could easily see a couple of (unsupervised) developers spending a kajillion dollars arguing about fonts and/or which particular shade of blue to use.
But anyway, I have only heard of Aperture through my interest in photography and not really that much.
I like the idea of going back to the Moon, I like the idea of contests to get people interested - but this seems a bit absurd. The old Apollo program brought enough regolith back - when they started training astronauts in field geology is when they started getting the good stuff.
How about a contest with a little bit more realistic mission profile?
Whether you belive in creationism or God- you would think that serving God requires us to take care of what God blessed us with.
I would like to think that but there is no commandment to be a good steward! They expect the earth to be destroyed in "the rapture" and they think that will be a good thing!
I don't know if they have a "clear advantage" - NetFlix has a lot of name recognition and customer loyalty. My experience has been great, as have the experiences of everyone I know - very easy to use and excellent customer service. "NetFlix" is practically synonomous with "on-line DVD rental".
A contender has a lot to accomplish to get to that level I think.
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I'd love to get some names of your graphic designers - the ones I am forced to work with, while great artists, are completely non web-savy. (In the last 2 weeks not only have I been asked what a .png file is, but a .gif as well.) Alas, I am not the chooser of who I have to work with in this regard.
I agree about CSS being the best and the worst - fantastic idea, poor implementation. If I can keep the CSS simple, then I can get great results: look good, easy to maintain & update. My experience is that programmers tend to like simplification (inheritance, reuse, etc.) and that graphic artists favor uniqueness and exceptions. In theory, CSS is a way to bring uniqueness to a standardized base - in practice, it breaks too easily.
...Since then the programmers have taken over. ...
As a programmer, I would like to distance myself from that - it's the graphic artists who have messed everything up. People who are insistant about they want this font here and that font there and this needs to be 2 pixels to the left but that needs to be mint yellow... The people that want it to "look nice" rather than to work are the culprits!!
Since locking people up for violent crimes isn't solving the problem, I guess that a better approach would be to reclassify things like armed robbery and murder as DMCA violations - then we'd have the full weight of the RIAA on our side for a change...
Most people, at least in the US, are already paying the "small price for admission" for the amount of bandwidth they want to consume (I am anyway) - so I don't think we are in the unrestricted commons scenario you mention.
I would expect in actuality we would be seeing something like a 60-70% increase in speed. A company like Intel would probably estimate conservatively so as to not over-hype a new product.
Exactly - I've actually had the best luck with hiring programmers that don't have a CS degree but rather came to it after trying something else. It is easy to teach a motivated new hire skills. For network admin types, however, I've had better luck with people with related degrees.
In all cases, attitude and personality will probably weigh heavier than degrees and certifications.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond.
Maybe in this case the outcome is good, but I wonder what if the patents were good? I don't think that pressure was applied to the USPTO because it isn't issuing good patents, it was pressured because it was issuing inconvenient patents.
I don't know - I can't tell if the checks and balances in the system are working or broken.
Will the USPTO learn the lesson to issue better patents, or will they learn the lesson to check with congress before they issue a patent?
No problem - I wondered if it might be that, but sadly with the way things are now, I know too many people where such a statement is their earnest belief and I just couldn't take the chance!
Reporting a crime is not irresponsible - it shows that maybe there is hope we are still living in a democracy and still have some liberties.
I think it goes a bit too far. I don't like fair use rights restricted by draconian and invastive technology, and yet I believe there is a legitimate need for copyright law (main thing that I believe is broken now is the "limited time" aspect).
It seems to me that an open source DRM solution, rather than closed an proprietary, might be a way to achieve some kind of fair balance.
From TFA:
Wadle became interested in the concept while studying lightning coming from the ground, "which led him to believe that there's some type of power emanating from earth, which led him to trees," Lagadinos said.
Not that that chain of reasoning inspires any confidence what-so-ever in me, the free power apparently comes from the ground, not the sky...
Unless the "trees" he is talking about only have a couple branches at the top and really long, ropey leaves that seem to go to another "tree" just like it...
I don't look at who submitted either. And I haven't really noticed all the hubub and conspiracy theories about this... So to me, I think that means that /. is working well enough as is - I read the summaries, read the articles I find interesting, check out the high-points of the comments for good ones, respond occassionaly.
/. continues to be a daily visit for me - great site, good job and thanks to all involved!
Perhaps a method of rating articles would be of value. But not so much as the current mod points, but something like the personal ratings you see at Amazon.com and Netflix - I rate the stories that I find interesting, then database magic happens, and I get a list of "recommended" stories that other people who seemed to like what I like also liked.
But regardless,
What about the attempted bomb plant on the New York underground last week? Didn't hear about it? That's because the suspected perpetrators were arrested a year ago before they even considered planning it. Or maybe they wouldn't.
They were arrested because the might have thought about perhaps committing a crime in the future? That's a different interpretation of "innocent until proven guilty" than I usually have.
How much liberty are you willing to sacrifice for the sake of security? I think old Ben Franklin had something to say along those lines...
But realistically, would we want our computers as "safe" as our cars? There is a tradeoff. Modern car engines are a lot harder to tinker with and self-service. Moding your exhaust system for a nice rumble sound is illegal. Many of us on /. take the computer equivalent of these sorts of mods for granted.
We don't like the idea of the "general purpose" computer disappearing but I don't think we can have "safe as cars" computers without severe restrictions on a person's ability to do whatever they want with their PC.
Unless, of course, we figure out how to implement RCF 3514
My first instinct is to agree with this - but then I get thinking longer term... I know there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. For years I've been reading online news rather than buying a newspaper. I depend on the Internet for a lot of things, and the only money I pay directly for it is my monthly DSL/ISP fee. They don't give a kickback to any publishers!
Assuming that all the dumb publishers fuck off and die, how will the reports get paid? Will advertising really magically pay for everything? I think a lot of publishers and other businesses have seen an Internet as a necessity to stay in their primary business, but when the primary business becomes delivering content over the Internet, how do they pay the bills? Will the free ride be over? Will be have to start paying for things!?!
The postage would be minor to the costs of the design of the mailings and whatnot. I could easily see a couple of (unsupervised) developers spending a kajillion dollars arguing about fonts and/or which particular shade of blue to use.
But anyway, I have only heard of Aperture through my interest in photography and not really that much.
Because true conservatives and true liberals care about individual rights.
I hope you get modded up "insightful" for that. I totally agree but have never seen it put so succinctly. Thanks!
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Er, well, that's what I get for not RingTFA. I was thinking why all the regolith, why only 30 minutes? It all makes sense now.
I like the idea of going back to the Moon, I like the idea of contests to get people interested - but this seems a bit absurd. The old Apollo program brought enough regolith back - when they started training astronauts in field geology is when they started getting the good stuff.
How about a contest with a little bit more realistic mission profile?
Whether you belive in creationism or God- you would think that serving God requires us to take care of what God blessed us with.
I would like to think that but there is no commandment to be a good steward! They expect the earth to be destroyed in "the rapture" and they think that will be a good thing!
Bill Moyers had some insightful comments about it: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1206-10.htm
Yeah, well, he's totally right about the skiing!
P0rn sites don't trick everybody to their sites - they just try to trick people looking for p0rn to their particular p0rn site.
.xxx TLD, the p0rn industry will continue to make loads of money.
I am sure that no matter what the bush administration does or does not do about the
I don't know if they have a "clear advantage" - NetFlix has a lot of name recognition and customer loyalty. My experience has been great, as have the experiences of everyone I know - very easy to use and excellent customer service. "NetFlix" is practically synonomous with "on-line DVD rental".
A contender has a lot to accomplish to get to that level I think.