Personally, I think anybody who uses a free service as part of their way of doing business has a screw loose. You are putting your business at the mercy of an organization that has no contractual reason to support you
FTFY.
If you have information that is to precious to lose, don't depend on a free service. Do it yourself or at least have the common sense to make the other party contractually obligated.
If you you are making an interactive or dynamic site, having good semantic markup is essential, and in any case, you'll have to peek at the source to wire it up. If you have to peek at it, why not just write it yourself?
Once you learn your text editor well (I prefer subliime text 2) you can probably code faster than the design tools anyway. The only thing I might want a design tool for is simply for finding the color scheme I want.
Same goes for 3d photos, the future is likely to use more stereo photography so take a picture with 2 cameras next to each other of the same type. I use two iphones and tap the shutters simultanously a few times to see if I can get a match.
Stereo photography has been around for a very long time, and you can even get consumer digital cameras now that have two lenses and take 3d pictures and movies that can be played on 3d tvs. My dad has been a fan of 3d long before the current trend - I grew up in the 80's looking at 3d pictures through special viewers. And of course, last time I saw him, he was holding a 3d digital camera...
Shooting a 'movie' in 48fps is like shaking a dreamer awake and shouting in their face, "The dream is over!!"
This is how I felt when I first saw Star Wars on a big HD screen... It suddenly looks like bad actors sitting inside a cheap set saying cheesy lines. The increased detail took away the ability of the imagination to add the depth to the scene, and left it with something far more shallow.
For once I wash I had done the more common slashdot action and NOT read the article. How do people manage to become lawyers while maintaining the maturity of a preteen girl? (and by that I reference the ability to hold a meaningless grudge and carry it out to all kinds of extremes)
And don't forget that the initial "7 hour" battery life is also BS if you're doing anything more demanding than staring at a static web page with the screen at minimum brightness.
And that's probably part of my problem - I am a web application developer and use the heck out of my systems. Server class stuff, development, editors, email, browsers... graphics programs.. virtual machines... That sucks a battery down fast.
I love my first gen MBP, it has served me well. But it has gone through 3 batteries, and I need to order another one now. (They bulge out and die)
The nearest Apple store is an hour and a half away. If I can't order an inexpensive battery and replace it myself, then.... I'm not going to buy the laptop. So long Apple. Great product, until you you started screwing us.
Yeah, that was such a racist statement to begin with. "'How much we are under-representing people who are intolerant and therefore unlikely to vote for Obama is an open question". I get so sick of "reverse deiscrimination". But there's nothing reverse about it; reverse discrimination is discrimination.
That story doesn't ask or answer the question: Was there more business coming in after the Facebook ads?
They just asked if the people coming in the door were there because of Facebook.
Which one is more important?
Opportunity cost. Even if enough people came in to break even on the cost of the Facebook ads, if the sampling of people indicated they heard about the place on the radio, it would be more cost effective to move the money over to the radio. This is why it is important to survey your customers from time to time to find what demographic they are.
I once owned an ISP that put up a large ad in the pre-show slides at the movie theatre. It worked great for a year, as shown by the survey on our signup form. However, after a year went by, it seems that we had either exhausted that demographic, or the slides were broken (the few movies I went to seemed to support the latter). We shifted that advertising money elsewhere.
I'll go with the business owner's research on this one.
Not really. It has long been known that there's a glass ceiling for *any* technical skill (programmer, chemist, etc.), and that the only way to rise above a certain level is to switch to management.
If you can't do it, teach. If you can't teach, get into management. If you can't manage, run for office.:D
You think that any two bit network or systems engineer wouldn't be able to pick up on weirdness in network traffic or processes running from/on the machine phoning home to the FBI? Any company worth its salt that accepts a server or hardware back from anybody proceeds to rebuild it from scratch.
This server already has a record of having an anonymous remailer on it, what makes you think the operators know all this?
Not to mention a very real situation: 911 calls. My mother-in-law is a dispatcher, and she routinely has to call telcos to get information, such as when someone dials 911 from a mobile phone but is unable to talk... They can get emergency contact info, gps, triangulation, whatever... and they have a paper quest form that they can file after the fact. One of those time where bureaucracy falls behind the need to act fast.
Dispatchers need to be able to get information FAST.
This is the single biggest reason why macs upgrade fast. Apple doesn't overprice their upgrades, and they do a terrific job of advertising them. It makes it much more palatable to upgrade than the budget killer that MS drops on us every so often.
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The problem is the air inside the bag - it can have condensation issues too.
Personally, I think anybody who uses a free service as part of their way of doing business has a screw loose.
You are putting your business at the mercy of an organization that has no contractual reason to support you
FTFY.
If you have information that is to precious to lose, don't depend on a free service. Do it yourself or at least have the common sense to make the other party contractually obligated.
This. "DOM structure matters"
If you you are making an interactive or dynamic site, having good semantic markup is essential, and in any case, you'll have to peek at the source to wire it up. If you have to peek at it, why not just write it yourself?
Once you learn your text editor well (I prefer subliime text 2) you can probably code faster than the design tools anyway. The only thing I might want a design tool for is simply for finding the color scheme I want.
Same goes for 3d photos, the future is likely to use more stereo photography so take a picture with 2 cameras next to each other of the same type. I use two iphones and tap the shutters simultanously a few times to see if I can get a match.
Stereo photography has been around for a very long time, and you can even get consumer digital cameras now that have two lenses and take 3d pictures and movies that can be played on 3d tvs. My dad has been a fan of 3d long before the current trend - I grew up in the 80's looking at 3d pictures through special viewers. And of course, last time I saw him, he was holding a 3d digital camera...
Shooting a 'movie' in 48fps is like shaking a dreamer awake and shouting in their face, "The dream is over!!"
This is how I felt when I first saw Star Wars on a big HD screen... It suddenly looks like bad actors sitting inside a cheap set saying cheesy lines. The increased detail took away the ability of the imagination to add the depth to the scene, and left it with something far more shallow.
Given the fact that they gave a Nobel to Obama, I think the measurement of Nobels granted as a metric is rather suspect.
For once I wash I had done the more common slashdot action and NOT read the article. How do people manage to become lawyers while maintaining the maturity of a preteen girl? (and by that I reference the ability to hold a meaningless grudge and carry it out to all kinds of extremes)
Yeah, stuff happens. Stop whining, people.
Yeah, anyone who has actually had formal music training should know that. Maybe that explains the current state of music. :(
And don't forget that the initial "7 hour" battery life is also BS if you're doing anything more demanding than staring at a static web page with the screen at minimum brightness.
And that's probably part of my problem - I am a web application developer and use the heck out of my systems. Server class stuff, development, editors, email, browsers... graphics programs.. virtual machines... That sucks a battery down fast.
I love my first gen MBP, it has served me well. But it has gone through 3 batteries, and I need to order another one now. (They bulge out and die)
The nearest Apple store is an hour and a half away. If I can't order an inexpensive battery and replace it myself, then.... I'm not going to buy the laptop. So long Apple. Great product, until you you started screwing us.
Yeah, that was such a racist statement to begin with. "'How much we are under-representing people who are intolerant and therefore unlikely to vote for Obama is an open question". I get so sick of "reverse deiscrimination". But there's nothing reverse about it; reverse discrimination is discrimination.
Just speak a little too loudly off phone: "Hey Fred, you got the FBI trace running on this call? 1 minute? I can keep him on for that long..."
That story doesn't ask or answer the question: Was there more business coming in after the Facebook ads?
They just asked if the people coming in the door were there because of Facebook.
Which one is more important?
Opportunity cost. Even if enough people came in to break even on the cost of the Facebook ads, if the sampling of people indicated they heard about the place on the radio, it would be more cost effective to move the money over to the radio. This is why it is important to survey your customers from time to time to find what demographic they are.
I once owned an ISP that put up a large ad in the pre-show slides at the movie theatre. It worked great for a year, as shown by the survey on our signup form. However, after a year went by, it seems that we had either exhausted that demographic, or the slides were broken (the few movies I went to seemed to support the latter). We shifted that advertising money elsewhere.
I'll go with the business owner's research on this one.
Why would you mount the toddler to the ceiling?
And the lights were off, and the stairs were broken!
You're also making Facebook just a little bit less valuable to your friends (who can't use it to contact you anymore)
... and nothing of value was lost.... ;)
I guess you assume that Americans are salvage barbarians
Well, I suppose our recycling efforts need some work, but I don't think our salvage yards are barbaric...
Not really. It has long been known that there's a glass ceiling for *any* technical skill (programmer, chemist, etc.), and that the only way to rise above a certain level is to switch to management.
If you can't do it, teach. If you can't teach, get into management. If you can't manage, run for office. :D
You think that any two bit network or systems engineer wouldn't be able to pick up on weirdness in network traffic or processes running from/on the machine phoning home to the FBI? Any company worth its salt that accepts a server or hardware back from anybody proceeds to rebuild it from scratch.
This server already has a record of having an anonymous remailer on it, what makes you think the operators know all this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark
Not to mention a very real situation: 911 calls. My mother-in-law is a dispatcher, and she routinely has to call telcos to get information, such as when someone dials 911 from a mobile phone but is unable to talk... They can get emergency contact info, gps, triangulation, whatever... and they have a paper quest form that they can file after the fact. One of those time where bureaucracy falls behind the need to act fast.
Dispatchers need to be able to get information FAST.
10.6 for existing Intel Mac owners was $25.
This is the single biggest reason why macs upgrade fast. Apple doesn't overprice their upgrades, and they do a terrific job of advertising them. It makes it much more palatable to upgrade than the budget killer that MS drops on us every so often.
You must be new here...
No, not really. Of course, compared to your number I am new,
And yet the old "You must be new here" joke whooshed right over your head.
Get off the lawn, all of ya!
The record was recently broken: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/9112031/Paper-aeroplane-throw-in-US-sets-new-world-record.html