The important point, to me at least, is this is what Google are claiming. Therefore it is impossible for Google to offer a $20 per month fee to not aggregate and sell your data: if they cannot identify what data is being generated by you, they cannot guarantee they are not aggregating and selling it. To do so would either force them to identify individuals specifically, or force them to admit they already can.
When I used to work in-office, when anyone was under pressure to hit a deadline they'd tend to come in early - not for the extra hours but because they could achieve so much more without people coming up to their desks to ask them questions they should have sent in an email or filed a bug (so as not to arbitrarily distract the coder, who after politely listening would always say "file a bug" - but they never learn).
Eventually I began working from my new home 400kms from the office - and I found my productivity at an all-time high. As part of the deal (to placate my managers manager) I had to be in-office for a week out of every calendar month at my own expense (easily offset by cheaper cost of living 400kms from the city). While it was fun to catch up with people my productivity would always nose-dive. I would attend dozens more meetings than I would ordinarily be phone-conferenced in on, none of them particularly relevant to my work and they'd drag on forever. People would constantly be at my desk asking questions they somehow managed to file a bug for or hit me up on Messenger when I wasn't in the office. Office life seemed completely unproductive for anyone who was there to write code.
Now it looks like I may have to quit my job, as my managers managers managers manager has decided everyone needs to work in the office all the time, and I'm not relocating my family 400kms from the countryside to the city. You may have heard of the company. Her loss. Sadly, my loss too.
Agree with everything this AC is saying. Additionally, the only real non-aesthetic difference is that Google doesn't simultaneously load the page in the background, unscrollable under a semi-transparent layer. That counted as a pageview and was chargable to any advertisers on the page, but the page was pretty much unviewable and unusable - so users were not genuinely consuming content nor advertising. This would have been frustrating for advertisers as they'd still be paying for this pagecount, and frustrating for website owners as a full page of assets were being downloaded without being usable, wasting their bandwidth.
The new design improves *everything* for *every* party. It's not at all a perfect solution, but it's definitely not a step to be complaining about.
The only solution that immediately comes to mind is that pressing the "full size" button (or whatever it's now labelled) could open the fullsize image in a new tab while opening the full page in the current tab.
It's a song contest where the public (anyone in the world) can vote for any song (released anywhere in the world) so long as that song was first released in the 12 months prior to start of voting. The station does not nominate songs or pick winners, they simply count votes.
The metric is that the Triple J Hottest 100 competition consistently receives the largest number of people voting for a competition of this kind anywhere in the world.
Are you sick? It isn't a joke, it actually happened - someones baby was taken and killed by a native dog. Hardy-fucking-har.
Honestly, the freaks you meet on the Internet:-(
so if my company operates internationally (which it does), do I have to have.com.au just because that's where the head office is based? It has the unfortunate effect of making my business look geographically specific, which it isn't.
I think a non-country specific TLD range is still required. What's so great about political borders anyway?
browsing on my Android phone, the maindevice.com site gave a javascript-style alert claiming I'm the 1st Android visitor and prize-winner or some such nonsense, giving me only an OK button - which redirected me to some awful probably malware-infested Android-specific website. Which also means I couldn't read TFA.
Way to go guys.
I don't actually play facebook games, but I'll definitely be signing up for this. DS9 has always been to me the one series most obviously suited to becoming an MMO - I can't wait to see what you guys come up with, and knowing that you guys are genuine fans is unexpected but awesome news.
Q. Did it cause any problems on set that you were such a Star Trek virgin?
A. I'm not an aficionado. There were little hiccups here and there when some people were offended I didn't quite understand the back story. It's incredibly important to them, so some of them would think directing this one, you surely should know it all. But god almighty, I wasn't going to look at 178 episodes. Ultimately, it wasn't a problem. My intention was since I was a virgin to it all, I wanted to make a movie that stands alone and doesn't rest on all the past history.
No power? Australia, 1975: Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is dismissed by Governor-General Sir John Kerr. Kerr then appoints the *Leader of the Opposition* Malcolm Fraser as temporary Prime Minister. Malcolm Fraser retains the position of Prime Minister for nearly 8 years.
I find twitter unusable - seemingly every account I'm interested in reading - say for service announcements from my hosting provider - is filled with replies to other users, conversations I'm not a part of. Every single line is
@ someuser - Some text totally out of context @ someuser - Some text totally out of context @ someuser - Some text totally out of context
It's like being in a room with someone whose supposed to be making an announcement but are actually on their mobile phone - not interesting and terribly annoying. Maybe I'm missing some option to turn that irrelevant waste off, but they've already lost me because of it.
We should be able to mark the original article as "Troll" or "Flamebait"... I can never remember which means what, but then what do I know? I just do HTML.
Wow - never before have I seen this community turn on it's own so quickly and with such contempt.
It's a despicable attitude I've sadly experienced most of my professional life - because yes, we who code HTML, CSS and Javascript ARE professionals. I do not design. I do not use dreamweaver or frontpage to generate code for me, I hand code with a text editor. I've been in full time well paid employment in this career since 1997, and I'm sick of Engineers vowing that, although we're in the engineering department, we are not in fact worthy of the title or anything approaching it. Lumping us in with the User Interface Design people is an insult to both parties: we code and have an analytical mindset, they design and have an artistic mindset. Some people try to do both jobs at once, rarely with excellence in both fields.
I'm sure many of you started off doing a little HTML markup, got bored and moved on, but that doesn't mean it should be beneath your contempt - frankly most engineers I've worked with do pretty piss-poor HTML/CSS/Javascript with no regards for standards, semantic markup, cross-browser compatibility, accessibility, gracefully degradation... nor do they see the value when you try and explain, as it's "just html".
Consider this for a moment. Most programmers, engineers, what have you, only have to code at any one time on any one platform, most often on a server they have built themselves. Those who do HTML/CSS/Javascript have no such luxury, the platform is completely out of our control and yet we must make our code run on anything.
At the very, very least our code has to run on OSX Safari, OSX Opera, OSX Firefox, Windows XP IE6, Windows XP IE7, Windows XP IE8, Windows XP Opera, Windows XP Firefox, Windows XP Chrome, Windows Vista IE7, Windows Vista IE8, Windows Vista Opera, Windows Vista Firefox, Windows Vista Chrome... that's 14 platforms, totally ignoring many Windows platforms, Linux, the upcoming Windows 7, all mobile devices, and the many blind readers on all platforms for the vision impaired who rely on our professional attitude to allow them to access the internet at all.
This aside we also have to ensure our code is as small as possible - dialup and slow satellite connections is a reality for a large amount of the browsing population (rural Australia for instance), and they rely on us not to bloat our code by using Dreamweaver and other web-for-idiots programs.
If a new browser came out tomorrow unannounced and captured the popular imagination if only briefly, we have to support that too (hello Chrome, no-one told us you were coming). We are totally at the mercy of the whims of those who build browsers (we stick to standards, but will they?) and the general public who choose which browser to use (hello all you IE6 users). So don't sneer at me, my job is hard, my job is stimulating, my job is rewarding and most of all my job is necessary.
The slashdot communities abuse aside, my job title has varied between Web Developer and Front-End Engineer, and admittedly there is some trouble formulating a 100% accurate title for the job I do - that's because the job is complex and wide-ranging, often encompassing QA and SEO as well.
Personally I prefer Front-End Engineer. Sure you can pick it to death and prove me wrong, but there are very few job titles that are immune from such obsessive scrutiny. Funny how it's always the HTML/CSS/Javascript crowd who come up for such harsh analysis.
No, I didn't have a lot of time on my hands - it was very occasional work sporadically put in over a 2 year period, with all photos being taken only in November. Novermber 1999, November 2000 and November 2001. I don't know why.
Yes, I have a girlfriend, but no, it doesn't do anything for her!
It was great fun making it - it gave me a reason to buy my first digital camera and gave me some challenges in setting up shots (some blue-tack required) and lighting them consistantly (as I'm no photographer), plus of course the opportunity to write some textual descriptions that amused me.
If it raises a laugh: excellent. If it raises me some cash through my Amazon links: pretty good. If it raises your manhood: slightly worrying.
The US is the most fucked up, they totally ignore their allocated.us TLD and use.com for any piece-of-shit website as if.com were their TLD. Fucking retards.
I don't know about anywhere else, but here in the UK TiVo charge a 10 pound monthly subscription fee, which put me right off.
All I want to do is record programs without the use of extras (videos and recordable DVDs), so I don't see the need to pay a monthly subscription to do that. I don't need it to predict what I want to watch: I'm perfectly capable of reading through the free weekly TV listings in newspapers, teletext, etc.
I love google to bits, but it has one terrible, terrible flaw. Phrase searching on google is pants, especially if you're trying to do exact phrase searching.
Search for, using the quotes,: "the king and i".
Google, trying to be clever, removes "and" and "i" because they are common words. Nothing on The King and I in the top 10.
All Google needs is an option to do an exact phrase search. Most search engines use "" marks to enclose exact phrases, but google oddly does not. If the want to stay this way and still allow us to use the utterly vital exact phrase search facility, why not do what http://www.alltheweb.com/ do, and have that as an option next to the search box?
Google is still my number one, but it really needs to sort this glaring oversight out.
But the robots have no vested interest in killing the humans (except those very,very few that are woken up and pop back in to the matrix every now and again) - they want them to live for as long as possible so they can generate power from their bodies. I doubt they'd install kill-switches in any newborn - they probably wish they could get around the death-by-thinking-I'm-dead psycological problem that seems to afflict the humans.
Ah right. I was thinking people were, for some unexplained idiotic rebranding reason, having trouble spelling 'Warner'. At least I'm dumb enough to admit it too:-)
Not only has this been done before, but its been reported on slashdot. Next!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/17/003820 5&mode=thread
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1 344000/1344344.stm
Slashdot Mirror
The important point, to me at least, is this is what Google are claiming. Therefore it is impossible for Google to offer a $20 per month fee to not aggregate and sell your data: if they cannot identify what data is being generated by you, they cannot guarantee they are not aggregating and selling it. To do so would either force them to identify individuals specifically, or force them to admit they already can.
When I used to work in-office, when anyone was under pressure to hit a deadline they'd tend to come in early - not for the extra hours but because they could achieve so much more without people coming up to their desks to ask them questions they should have sent in an email or filed a bug (so as not to arbitrarily distract the coder, who after politely listening would always say "file a bug" - but they never learn).
Eventually I began working from my new home 400kms from the office - and I found my productivity at an all-time high. As part of the deal (to placate my managers manager) I had to be in-office for a week out of every calendar month at my own expense (easily offset by cheaper cost of living 400kms from the city). While it was fun to catch up with people my productivity would always nose-dive. I would attend dozens more meetings than I would ordinarily be phone-conferenced in on, none of them particularly relevant to my work and they'd drag on forever. People would constantly be at my desk asking questions they somehow managed to file a bug for or hit me up on Messenger when I wasn't in the office. Office life seemed completely unproductive for anyone who was there to write code.
Now it looks like I may have to quit my job, as my managers managers managers manager has decided everyone needs to work in the office all the time, and I'm not relocating my family 400kms from the countryside to the city. You may have heard of the company. Her loss. Sadly, my loss too.
Agree with everything this AC is saying. Additionally, the only real non-aesthetic difference is that Google doesn't simultaneously load the page in the background, unscrollable under a semi-transparent layer. That counted as a pageview and was chargable to any advertisers on the page, but the page was pretty much unviewable and unusable - so users were not genuinely consuming content nor advertising. This would have been frustrating for advertisers as they'd still be paying for this pagecount, and frustrating for website owners as a full page of assets were being downloaded without being usable, wasting their bandwidth. The new design improves *everything* for *every* party. It's not at all a perfect solution, but it's definitely not a step to be complaining about. The only solution that immediately comes to mind is that pressing the "full size" button (or whatever it's now labelled) could open the fullsize image in a new tab while opening the full page in the current tab.
I lost The Game.
dammit now I have too! That was 3 months easily - restart the clock...
It's a song contest where the public (anyone in the world) can vote for any song (released anywhere in the world) so long as that song was first released in the 12 months prior to start of voting. The station does not nominate songs or pick winners, they simply count votes. The metric is that the Triple J Hottest 100 competition consistently receives the largest number of people voting for a competition of this kind anywhere in the world.
Are you sick? It isn't a joke, it actually happened - someones baby was taken and killed by a native dog. Hardy-fucking-har. Honestly, the freaks you meet on the Internet :-(
Total bug-nuts trippy stuff like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QGbsNIZ-uo
http://www.my.yahoo.com/ - although I doubt it'll have a gmail interface, just a ymail one.
so if my company operates internationally (which it does), do I have to have .com.au just because that's where the head office is based? It has the unfortunate effect of making my business look geographically specific, which it isn't.
I think a non-country specific TLD range is still required. What's so great about political borders anyway?
browsing on my Android phone, the maindevice.com site gave a javascript-style alert claiming I'm the 1st Android visitor and prize-winner or some such nonsense, giving me only an OK button - which redirected me to some awful probably malware-infested Android-specific website. Which also means I couldn't read TFA. Way to go guys.
I don't actually play facebook games, but I'll definitely be signing up for this. DS9 has always been to me the one series most obviously suited to becoming an MMO - I can't wait to see what you guys come up with, and knowing that you guys are genuine fans is unexpected but awesome news.
Director Stuart Baird was a self-claimed Star Trek virgin who had never even watched a single episode of "The Next Generation".
From an interview with Stuart Baird himself:
Q. Did it cause any problems on set that you were such a Star Trek virgin?
A. I'm not an aficionado. There were little hiccups here and there when some people were offended I didn't quite understand the back story. It's incredibly important to them, so some of them would think directing this one, you surely should know it all. But god almighty, I wasn't going to look at 178 episodes. Ultimately, it wasn't a problem. My intention was since I was a virgin to it all, I wanted to make a movie that stands alone and doesn't rest on all the past history.
How ironic that "Accessibility is the major topic of chapter 14" and "it is somewhat hard to read".
No power? Australia, 1975: Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is dismissed by Governor-General Sir John Kerr. Kerr then appoints the *Leader of the Opposition* Malcolm Fraser as temporary Prime Minister. Malcolm Fraser retains the position of Prime Minister for nearly 8 years.
I find twitter unusable - seemingly every account I'm interested in reading - say for service announcements from my hosting provider - is filled with replies to other users, conversations I'm not a part of. Every single line is
@ someuser - Some text totally out of context
@ someuser - Some text totally out of context
@ someuser - Some text totally out of context
It's like being in a room with someone whose supposed to be making an announcement but are actually on their mobile phone - not interesting and terribly annoying.
Maybe I'm missing some option to turn that irrelevant waste off, but they've already lost me because of it.
Seriously, what kind of reaction was expected?
We should be able to mark the original article as "Troll" or "Flamebait"... I can never remember which means what, but then what do I know? I just do HTML.
Wow - never before have I seen this community turn on it's own so quickly and with such contempt.
It's a despicable attitude I've sadly experienced most of my professional life - because yes, we who code HTML, CSS and Javascript ARE professionals. I do not design. I do not use dreamweaver or frontpage to generate code for me, I hand code with a text editor. I've been in full time well paid employment in this career since 1997, and I'm sick of Engineers vowing that, although we're in the engineering department, we are not in fact worthy of the title or anything approaching it. Lumping us in with the User Interface Design people is an insult to both parties: we code and have an analytical mindset, they design and have an artistic mindset. Some people try to do both jobs at once, rarely with excellence in both fields.
I'm sure many of you started off doing a little HTML markup, got bored and moved on, but that doesn't mean it should be beneath your contempt - frankly most engineers I've worked with do pretty piss-poor HTML/CSS/Javascript with no regards for standards, semantic markup, cross-browser compatibility, accessibility, gracefully degradation... nor do they see the value when you try and explain, as it's "just html".
Consider this for a moment. Most programmers, engineers, what have you, only have to code at any one time on any one platform, most often on a server they have built themselves. Those who do HTML/CSS/Javascript have no such luxury, the platform is completely out of our control and yet we must make our code run on anything.
At the very, very least our code has to run on OSX Safari, OSX Opera, OSX Firefox, Windows XP IE6, Windows XP IE7, Windows XP IE8, Windows XP Opera, Windows XP Firefox, Windows XP Chrome, Windows Vista IE7, Windows Vista IE8, Windows Vista Opera, Windows Vista Firefox, Windows Vista Chrome... that's 14 platforms, totally ignoring many Windows platforms, Linux, the upcoming Windows 7, all mobile devices, and the many blind readers on all platforms for the vision impaired who rely on our professional attitude to allow them to access the internet at all.
This aside we also have to ensure our code is as small as possible - dialup and slow satellite connections is a reality for a large amount of the browsing population (rural Australia for instance), and they rely on us not to bloat our code by using Dreamweaver and other web-for-idiots programs.
If a new browser came out tomorrow unannounced and captured the popular imagination if only briefly, we have to support that too (hello Chrome, no-one told us you were coming). We are totally at the mercy of the whims of those who build browsers (we stick to standards, but will they?) and the general public who choose which browser to use (hello all you IE6 users). So don't sneer at me, my job is hard, my job is stimulating, my job is rewarding and most of all my job is necessary.
The slashdot communities abuse aside, my job title has varied between Web Developer and Front-End Engineer, and admittedly there is some trouble formulating a 100% accurate title for the job I do - that's because the job is complex and wide-ranging, often encompassing QA and SEO as well.
Personally I prefer Front-End Engineer. Sure you can pick it to death and prove me wrong, but there are very few job titles that are immune from such obsessive scrutiny. Funny how it's always the HTML/CSS/Javascript crowd who come up for such harsh analysis.
One of my sites made it to slashdot!
No, I didn't have a lot of time on my hands - it was very occasional work sporadically put in over a 2 year period, with all photos being taken only in November. Novermber 1999, November 2000 and November 2001. I don't know why.
Yes, I have a girlfriend, but no, it doesn't do anything for her!
It was great fun making it - it gave me a reason to buy my first digital camera and gave me some challenges in setting up shots (some blue-tack required) and lighting them consistantly (as I'm no photographer), plus of course the opportunity to write some textual descriptions that amused me.
If it raises a laugh: excellent.
If it raises me some cash through my Amazon links: pretty good.
If it raises your manhood: slightly worrying.
The US is the most fucked up, they totally ignore their allocated .us TLD and use .com for any piece-of-shit website as if .com were their TLD. Fucking retards.
All I want to do is record programs without the use of extras (videos and recordable DVDs), so I don't see the need to pay a monthly subscription to do that. I don't need it to predict what I want to watch: I'm perfectly capable of reading through the free weekly TV listings in newspapers, teletext, etc.
Search for, using the quotes,: "the king and i".
Google, trying to be clever, removes "and" and "i" because they are common words. Nothing on The King and I in the top 10.
Force the issue by using '+' signs: "the king +and +i" but its ignoring the 'the', so: "+the +king +and +I" - but no, it still ignores it.
All Google needs is an option to do an exact phrase search. Most search engines use "" marks to enclose exact phrases, but google oddly does not. If the want to stay this way and still allow us to use the utterly vital exact phrase search facility, why not do what http://www.alltheweb.com/ do, and have that as an option next to the search box?
Google is still my number one, but it really needs to sort this glaring oversight out.
But the robots have no vested interest in killing the humans (except those very,very few that are woken up and pop back in to the matrix every now and again) - they want them to live for as long as possible so they can generate power from their bodies. I doubt they'd install kill-switches in any newborn - they probably wish they could get around the death-by-thinking-I'm-dead psycological problem that seems to afflict the humans.
Ah right. I was thinking people were, for some unexplained idiotic rebranding reason, having trouble spelling 'Warner'. At least I'm dumb enough to admit it too :-)
slashdot.org
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Not only has this been done before, but its been reported on slashdot. Next! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/17/003820 5&mode=thread
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1 344000/1344344.stm