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there's probably not any Trich on my desk. Or E coli
Sure there is. That is, unless you never wipe your ass, which is not very probable even on Slashdot.
Then again, I don't worry about my desk. How is my immune system supposed to work if it never gets anything for training? There is a good reason why allergies spread like an epidemic nowadays. Ask old people whether they knew anyone who was allergic, say, 40 years ago.
Maybe I should switch to WPA instead of WEP and give that a try. Then again, everything is up and running...
Up and running, and ridiculously crackable. Seriously, it takes seconds to get into your network, and there are LOTS of script kiddie tools available. Do yourself the favor and upgrade to WPA. Where I lived last year there weren't even more than 5 computers in reach of my D-Link (working-class district, almost no computers) and even there I had someone in my network when I still used WEP. I didn't care too much as it was clear who it was, and putting the goatse.exe on his Windoze box and printing out some of his p0rn while he was at work was great fun. But where I live now (downtown), I wouldn't touch WEP with a ten foot pole.
I don't know about your keychain problem, for me saving passwords for wireless networks without broadcast SSIDs works just fine. But XP "just works"? You must be kidding. XP doesn't even do WPA out of the box, you have to install shitty "tools" which come with the wireless adapters just because XP only has WEP (a.k.a. 0wn3d-in-30-seconds).
That said, I must say that the easiest wireless install I performed was on my Linux box, followed by the Powerbook I'm typing this from. Plug in adapter, select network, select WPA, enter passphrase, enjoy. I set up XP for quite a number of people (neighbors, relatives, etc.), but it just makes me go MEH every time.
I'm neither a vi nor emacs zealot, but this list really made me yawn - apart from the undo branches (which are cool but unnecessary if you do any CVS or SVN (which you do in *any* professional environment)) these features are something that about *any* editor I've encountered in the last years has.
I ACK the power of vi and emacs, but I wouldn't have thought that auto-completion and especially bracket highlighting would be something new and great...
P.O. box, local bank, lockable desk drawer at work, relatives... there are LOTS of possibilities.
Of course you will always encrypt such a backup. I would for sure. Adding a USB thingy, either bootable or with Cygwin, for recovery through a certificate and a passphrase (two-factor auth), and you're set.
Not very convenient, I must admit (takes time to setup), but once you're done, it will just work.
I wonder... if she wrote a book in it, would she use one cell per paragraph, page, or chapter?
Aw, make that image go away from my mind. *shudder*
Just want to mention that I regularly get sent pictures for use in ads and brochures... in Word. They call them "Word images", accordingly. "Hey, I just sent you a Word image of the diagram you asked for."
Greatest thing I've ever seen was a complete user's manual for an online media (think ad-booking) software, 32 pages, with illustrations and screenshots, completely built in...
Excel. I *was* impressed. I have seen a lot, but this was genuinely special.
Seems as if for a secretary with Excel, everything looks like a table.
They even advertise it over here in Germany (in the 3.something range, don't ask me for the exact conditions, I suppose it's rather short-term). I've just bought a house, and my loan is at 4.27% (calculated by dividing the complete sum I pay over the years by the money I received). If someone were to offer in writing an investment with guaranteed 6%, I'd immediately run to the bank and get as much as I can even if I'd have to pay the 5% the LIBOR suggests. You know, after all even only 1% of a million EUR is something.;)
A safe investment is an investment which *guarantees* a certain return. Those are mostly in the 1-2% range. If someone actually guaranteed me 6-8% annually, I'd be off to the bank *immediately*, borrow some million EUR (rates are around 3-4% here at the moment) for one year and invest it all. Rinse, repeat. Ka-CHING...
My whole family is plagued with more or less severe psoriasis, inherited by my grandfather's side. If yours is of the more severe kind (as I assume if you want to try anything new immediately), I suggest moving to the seaside as a start. This has improved the situation *very much* for all of us who are plagued with it. I am one of the happy ones who's not so severely affected, but even for my grandfather, the plaques pretty much disappeared. IIRC it has something to do with the saltiness of the air. In case you haven't yet, give it a try, and if only you spend a holiday there to see if it helps, two or three weeks should show a significant improvement already.
Not to offend you, but I think you don't get what GTA is about. The "sex sells" part is definitely there, but frankly the point about GTA is that they give you a world you can wreck all you like, run around doing 'crook stuff' and let off some steam doing so. "Rockstar Games" definitely has the notion of letting you feel like one - and to be honest, it's quite amusing to see yourself in slow motion, cinema aesthetics, sniping drug dealers and blowing up their whole ship.
Rockstar's games are like movies where you play the main character, and they're great fun at that. The sex might be there, but IMHO it's not an essential part, just adding to the whole atmosphere. Actually I find that the people my age (30+) enjoy the GTA series more than the teenagers and young adults I know, exactly because of the movie feeling of the series. You know, sex isn't that much of a topic if you regularly do it, and to most people I know, the sex parts of the GTA series are mildly amusing at best.
As for the hot coffee part - in my opinion as a programmer that's just an easter egg. I have lost track of all of those I left in my own projects over the decades. And a game without easter eggs just isn't complete.
I'm not trolling, but for almost everyone I know who uses Windows, it wouldn't really make any difference anymore. Most have a popup fest, either because of ad/spyware, worms, or browser bugs, whatever. For them it would be a few more popups, but they wouldn't have to crack/pirate Windows and have a legitimate copy instead.
In your example, your salary is declining, because the value in dollars is constant while the value of a dollar is declining (inflation). Generally, as your skills and experience increase, your salary will follow.
Not at all. Actually virtually everyone I talk to these days is complaining about the decline in salaries. Taxes go up significantly for years now (at least here in Germany, YMMV), salary rises are mostly unheard of, and those that get into the media are in the 1-3% area, by far not enough to outweigh inflation and taxes. The opposite is true for *many* people nowadays - work contracts are changed in huge numbers to contain more working hours for the same salary, both in the private and the public sectors. Public service just went from 40 hours to up to 48 hours per week at the same salary - the last rise from 38 to 40 hours was only two years ago.
No, I don't buy it. Salaries are declining massively, and the number of people working in badly-paid jobs increases. You in the US are already in the situation where many "normal folk" have to work several shit-jobs just to be able to earn the minimum needed to eat and not sleep under a bridge. And it's getting worse. As you have a degree and therefore would know different people, the effect might just not be as visible to you. It's rather visible to everyone I know. Fair enough, I only know around 10 people with a degree, and the above tends to not apply to them as much as to the 'working' people I know.
Inflation causes wage increases, and the people who benefit the most from that are the people that work the most, which are "the rich" and the middle class.
Actually I believe that it's the working class who works most, 60 hours per week aren't uncommon, both in Germany and in the US, with the worst work/pay ratio of the whole population. A CEO might as well work 60+ hours/week, but with a *much* higher pay.
I remember reading an article that stated that in Germany there's more creation of value through interest than through work (production and services). This means that more money goes to the upper class in form of interest than to the other classes through their work. As it's the other classes who pay those interests, there's a steady and growing money stream from the "poorer" majority to the upper class. As this is an accelerating process (geometrical growth works for the rich), we can expect social problems few decades into the future.
Inflation is a problem, but it's far from "rampant".
Even if the real inflation rate in the US is 10% (most international estimates hover around 15%), it's pretty massive. The only reason the bubble doesn't burst is that the USD is the reference currency for many global transactions. Once this changes, e.g. because of the OPEC nations switching to EUR as their standard currency, the shit will hit the fan rather hard. There are many economists over here who suggest that it was Iraq's strive to change the currency for all oil deals from USD to EUR which lead to Iraq's invasion by the USA. If Iraq had changed, other countries might have followed. That would hit the US economy royally.
Mind you, I'm not anti-USA, I'm just interested in global economics - and I frankly don't understand why the rest of the world still relies on the USD while your government prints as much as it sees fit while there's a HUGE and growing trade deficit. (Not that the Euro is a hard currency, either. We had better kept our Deutsche Mark, at least that was a currency valued on the value of production and service and not some arbitrary, easy-to-manipulate process. But I digress.)
Thanks a lot for the reading recommendations, I'll check out federalreserve.gov and get something from Sowell in the university library.:)
I'm genuinely interesting in getting a good understanding of all this. Mind continuing the discussion?
No, inflation is very good for any debtor. If you owe $1000 at 5%, and inflation is 10%, then the debtor actually makes money in the transaction.
Not true. It depends on how rich you are. Let me illustrate:
Let's say I make $1000 per month, constantly, and need to spend $600 for rent, food, etc. I have a monthly obligation to the bank of $300. Inflation hits. I still have to pay the $300, while my daily life gets more expensive because of the inflation. For most of the working population, that will probably mean that the higher fixed costs at some point cut into the money which is needed to repay the debt. This is more of a problem, the poorer you are. And it's not rich people who need debts, they've got enough money. It's the poorer part of the population who needs debts. So it can be assumed that inflation very much is a problem for the majority of people who get depts.
I believe that the USA are in for a big surprise if they don't stop their rampant inflation. I remember reading that after 9/11, more money was being printed *daily* than *existed* globally in 197something. The only reason the public doesn't notice is how the GDP is calculated in the USA. It's artificially being held constant by using a changing "shopping basket" as the basis of the calculation. That same article calculated the 'real' GDP to be around 10 or 15%, but I frankly can't remember anymore, that was some years ago.
Anyway, the whole money system as it exists today will ultimately crash. The interesting questions are: When will this happen? and What comes next?
Ah, I'd so much love to explore this further, but I can't afford studying anymore, I've got wife, kids and house to sustain. If you have some recommended reading on this, preferably online, I'd like to see if my theories are *that* much far off.
Gah, fuck that. You can learn the templating language easily, you already *are* a coder and understand concepts like loops and conditionals which usually are miracles to any designer I met.
The designer doesn't *have* to learn the templating language, don't be so lazy. Just let the designer do his thing and add the templating stuff later. As a tradeoff, tell him that he'll be goatse-ized if he removes your code from the HTML when he makes modifications to the design. Problem solved.
As for alternating row backgrounds - I've never needed Zope, but it's easy enough with PHP + smarty, so I suppose it's as easy in Zope.
To reply to the AS itself - if it's not a quick hack-up, by all means separate logic and presentation. It's the only way of ensuring you can work on all things at once. And remember, looking for that tiny snippet of PHP in a GoLive-created pile of shit HTML just sucks balls. So don't do it.;)
they've made it visible, they've alerted their members and the media, and this is still going to happen. Oops. It looks like the market heard about it and didn't care.
No, the market didn't hear about it - most people who use AOL aren't EFF members and don't follow online media which cover this. I doubt that more than a tiny fraction of AOL users heard about this.
But I don't think it matters anyway. E-mail is dead. It's just that the corpse is so huge we don't see it. E-mail just isn't very useful anymore, and it's getting worse *quick*. When I went online 11 years ago, I checked if I had mail. Today I check my spam for mail. This has the side effect that you never can tell whether your mail arrived at the recipient, and the perceived value of e-mail approaches zero for many people.
The necessary redesign of e-mail won't happen. It would need incorporating accountability into the network layer to really keep the spammers out, and that won't happen because of the perceived 'loss of anonymity' which contradicts the spirit of openness the fathers of the Internet had in mind when they built the net as we know it. Not that you can have any real anonymity online anyway. But let's face it, we would rather deal with a spam rate of 99% than add accountability to the net.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on accountability - when do fellow slashbots think it will come, if ever? It sure would be a huge step, and I'm undecided whether it would be good or bad.
Hey Tom, it's called Templates and it exists since the first Dreamweaver betas I used. You didn't have to open all pages to change them right from the start.
You're right however, scripting beats it all. Dreamweaver is very nice for prototyping and mock-ups for clients, though. Build some stuff from Photoshop template, add some behaviours and show to the client. (Insert obligatory PROFIT!!11! joke here --> . )
Actually German law doesn't give a shit about the license, as far as legal action is concerned. If someone sues the German Wikipedia Foundation because of the contents of Wikipedia, it WILL go to court, because the content IS on the site for which the German Wikipedia Foundation is the admin-c.
Of course they can then try to use the GFDL or whatever is used as a defense, but whether that will be successful is a completely different story. Germany has a pretty sad record on Internet-related trials.
Please note that I don't defend it - hell, I've been burnt by it as well. But Germany isn't the US. If you have links or content on your site someone sues you for, you're most probably in for some HUGE cock in your ass. And yes, that's *really* even for links. Ask Stefan Münz, he's got some nice tales to tell about that.
*lol* Remember to use 90212 in forms that check for zip code validity. Plus: since SiteFinder my e-mail address is info@verisign.com and YES, send me ALL of your information material, please!;)
Actually, this is quite true and I cannot possibly decide whether it's funny or sad, so I'll resort to saying that at least it's remarkably *useful*. If you happen to like wearing goatse, tubgirl or lemonparty shirts at work, that is.
You're correct about laws of physics. As we all know, however, time is relative and it's well possible to imagine ETs with FTL technology also can manipulate their relative time, so that they have years to think about our countermeasures simply by adjusting their "timeframe". They wouldn't have to be so terribly advanced (apart from the FTL stuff, obviously) then as they'd literally have all time of the world to do to us as they please.
Then again, Quantum theory tells us that there are parallel universes where this already happened and like, you know, stuff. Hawking said so, so it must be true. It definitely provides a *lot* of food for thought.
Actually I found the opposite to be true - if Access is the answer, somebody has asked the wrong questions. We have lots of clients for whom we replaced existing Access processes because they find it performs poorly when you put it under real load - and most of those came to us because they found that they had to hunt down heisenbugs with every update of Access and MSSQL.
Please note that I blame the latter on the 'developers' who built the processes, not the software. I haven't been using Access much, but from what I have seen, it seems to be a good tool in the hands of someone who knows what he's doing. So the clients are rather switching from a 'have the secretary click together the logic' approach to an 'hire real developers for real-world stuff' approach.
(I've seen many *really* mindboggingly slow things, however, but this might as well result from bad practices, stupid code or any combination of the two.)
The bottom line is, among our clients are many global players and none of those would touch any solution with a ten foot pole if they include Access anywhere. Most have well-engineered in-house software, we are just helping them in adding web accessible interfaces. It always strikes me as funny that they have great in-house developers but need external help with web applications.
So, now we're as OT as we could be, but I wanted to add another perspective. And yes, I am aware that my experience probably isn't very representative.
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Sure there is. That is, unless you never wipe your ass, which is not very probable even on Slashdot.
Then again, I don't worry about my desk. How is my immune system supposed to work if it never gets anything for training? There is a good reason why allergies spread like an epidemic nowadays. Ask old people whether they knew anyone who was allergic, say, 40 years ago.
Up and running, and ridiculously crackable. Seriously, it takes seconds to get into your network, and there are LOTS of script kiddie tools available. Do yourself the favor and upgrade to WPA. Where I lived last year there weren't even more than 5 computers in reach of my D-Link (working-class district, almost no computers) and even there I had someone in my network when I still used WEP. I didn't care too much as it was clear who it was, and putting the goatse.exe on his Windoze box and printing out some of his p0rn while he was at work was great fun. But where I live now (downtown), I wouldn't touch WEP with a ten foot pole.
I don't know about your keychain problem, for me saving passwords for wireless networks without broadcast SSIDs works just fine. But XP "just works"? You must be kidding. XP doesn't even do WPA out of the box, you have to install shitty "tools" which come with the wireless adapters just because XP only has WEP (a.k.a. 0wn3d-in-30-seconds).
That said, I must say that the easiest wireless install I performed was on my Linux box, followed by the Powerbook I'm typing this from. Plug in adapter, select network, select WPA, enter passphrase, enjoy. I set up XP for quite a number of people (neighbors, relatives, etc.), but it just makes me go MEH every time.
So, this article talks about the following "cool" features:
* on-the-fly spellchecker
* bracket highlighting
* keyword auto-completion
* tabs
* undo branches
I'm neither a vi nor emacs zealot, but this list really made me yawn - apart from the undo branches (which are cool but unnecessary if you do any CVS or SVN (which you do in *any* professional environment)) these features are something that about *any* editor I've encountered in the last years has.
I ACK the power of vi and emacs, but I wouldn't have thought that auto-completion and especially bracket highlighting would be something new and great...
P.O. box, local bank, lockable desk drawer at work, relatives... there are LOTS of possibilities.
Of course you will always encrypt such a backup. I would for sure. Adding a USB thingy, either bootable or with Cygwin, for recovery through a certificate and a passphrase (two-factor auth), and you're set.
Not very convenient, I must admit (takes time to setup), but once you're done, it will just work.
I wonder... if she wrote a book in it, would she use one cell per paragraph, page, or chapter?
Aw, make that image go away from my mind. *shudder*
Just want to mention that I regularly get sent pictures for use in ads and brochures... in Word. They call them "Word images", accordingly. "Hey, I just sent you a Word image of the diagram you asked for."
Thanks Bill. Thanks indeed.
Greatest thing I've ever seen was a complete user's manual for an online media (think ad-booking) software, 32 pages, with illustrations and screenshots, completely built in...
Excel. I *was* impressed. I have seen a lot, but this was genuinely special.
Seems as if for a secretary with Excel, everything looks like a table.
They even advertise it over here in Germany (in the 3.something range, don't ask me for the exact conditions, I suppose it's rather short-term). I've just bought a house, and my loan is at 4.27% (calculated by dividing the complete sum I pay over the years by the money I received). If someone were to offer in writing an investment with guaranteed 6%, I'd immediately run to the bank and get as much as I can even if I'd have to pay the 5% the LIBOR suggests. You know, after all even only 1% of a million EUR is something. ;)
A safe investment is an investment which *guarantees* a certain return. Those are mostly in the 1-2% range. If someone actually guaranteed me 6-8% annually, I'd be off to the bank *immediately*, borrow some million EUR (rates are around 3-4% here at the moment) for one year and invest it all. Rinse, repeat. Ka-CHING...
My whole family is plagued with more or less severe psoriasis, inherited by my grandfather's side. If yours is of the more severe kind (as I assume if you want to try anything new immediately), I suggest moving to the seaside as a start. This has improved the situation *very much* for all of us who are plagued with it. I am one of the happy ones who's not so severely affected, but even for my grandfather, the plaques pretty much disappeared. IIRC it has something to do with the saltiness of the air. In case you haven't yet, give it a try, and if only you spend a holiday there to see if it helps, two or three weeks should show a significant improvement already.
Not to offend you, but I think you don't get what GTA is about. The "sex sells" part is definitely there, but frankly the point about GTA is that they give you a world you can wreck all you like, run around doing 'crook stuff' and let off some steam doing so. "Rockstar Games" definitely has the notion of letting you feel like one - and to be honest, it's quite amusing to see yourself in slow motion, cinema aesthetics, sniping drug dealers and blowing up their whole ship.
Rockstar's games are like movies where you play the main character, and they're great fun at that. The sex might be there, but IMHO it's not an essential part, just adding to the whole atmosphere. Actually I find that the people my age (30+) enjoy the GTA series more than the teenagers and young adults I know, exactly because of the movie feeling of the series. You know, sex isn't that much of a topic if you regularly do it, and to most people I know, the sex parts of the GTA series are mildly amusing at best.
As for the hot coffee part - in my opinion as a programmer that's just an easter egg. I have lost track of all of those I left in my own projects over the decades. And a game without easter eggs just isn't complete.
I'm not trolling, but for almost everyone I know who uses Windows, it wouldn't really make any difference anymore. Most have a popup fest, either because of ad/spyware, worms, or browser bugs, whatever. For them it would be a few more popups, but they wouldn't have to crack/pirate Windows and have a legitimate copy instead.
Not at all. Actually virtually everyone I talk to these days is complaining about the decline in salaries. Taxes go up significantly for years now (at least here in Germany, YMMV), salary rises are mostly unheard of, and those that get into the media are in the 1-3% area, by far not enough to outweigh inflation and taxes. The opposite is true for *many* people nowadays - work contracts are changed in huge numbers to contain more working hours for the same salary, both in the private and the public sectors. Public service just went from 40 hours to up to 48 hours per week at the same salary - the last rise from 38 to 40 hours was only two years ago.
No, I don't buy it. Salaries are declining massively, and the number of people working in badly-paid jobs increases. You in the US are already in the situation where many "normal folk" have to work several shit-jobs just to be able to earn the minimum needed to eat and not sleep under a bridge. And it's getting worse. As you have a degree and therefore would know different people, the effect might just not be as visible to you. It's rather visible to everyone I know. Fair enough, I only know around 10 people with a degree, and the above tends to not apply to them as much as to the 'working' people I know.
Actually I believe that it's the working class who works most, 60 hours per week aren't uncommon, both in Germany and in the US, with the worst work/pay ratio of the whole population. A CEO might as well work 60+ hours/week, but with a *much* higher pay.
I remember reading an article that stated that in Germany there's more creation of value through interest than through work (production and services). This means that more money goes to the upper class in form of interest than to the other classes through their work. As it's the other classes who pay those interests, there's a steady and growing money stream from the "poorer" majority to the upper class. As this is an accelerating process (geometrical growth works for the rich), we can expect social problems few decades into the future.
Even if the real inflation rate in the US is 10% (most international estimates hover around 15%), it's pretty massive. The only reason the bubble doesn't burst is that the USD is the reference currency for many global transactions. Once this changes, e.g. because of the OPEC nations switching to EUR as their standard currency, the shit will hit the fan rather hard. There are many economists over here who suggest that it was Iraq's strive to change the currency for all oil deals from USD to EUR which lead to Iraq's invasion by the USA. If Iraq had changed, other countries might have followed. That would hit the US economy royally.
Mind you, I'm not anti-USA, I'm just interested in global economics - and I frankly don't understand why the rest of the world still relies on the USD while your government prints as much as it sees fit while there's a HUGE and growing trade deficit. (Not that the Euro is a hard currency, either. We had better kept our Deutsche Mark, at least that was a currency valued on the value of production and service and not some arbitrary, easy-to-manipulate process. But I digress.)
Thanks a lot for the reading recommendations, I'll check out federalreserve.gov and get something from Sowell in the university library.
I'm genuinely interesting in getting a good understanding of all this. Mind continuing the discussion?
Not true. It depends on how rich you are. Let me illustrate:
Let's say I make $1000 per month, constantly, and need to spend $600 for rent, food, etc. I have a monthly obligation to the bank of $300. Inflation hits. I still have to pay the $300, while my daily life gets more expensive because of the inflation. For most of the working population, that will probably mean that the higher fixed costs at some point cut into the money which is needed to repay the debt. This is more of a problem, the poorer you are. And it's not rich people who need debts, they've got enough money. It's the poorer part of the population who needs debts. So it can be assumed that inflation very much is a problem for the majority of people who get depts.
I believe that the USA are in for a big surprise if they don't stop their rampant inflation. I remember reading that after 9/11, more money was being printed *daily* than *existed* globally in 197something. The only reason the public doesn't notice is how the GDP is calculated in the USA. It's artificially being held constant by using a changing "shopping basket" as the basis of the calculation. That same article calculated the 'real' GDP to be around 10 or 15%, but I frankly can't remember anymore, that was some years ago.
Anyway, the whole money system as it exists today will ultimately crash. The interesting questions are: When will this happen? and What comes next?
Ah, I'd so much love to explore this further, but I can't afford studying anymore, I've got wife, kids and house to sustain. If you have some recommended reading on this, preferably online, I'd like to see if my theories are *that* much far off.
Gah, fuck that. You can learn the templating language easily, you already *are* a coder and understand concepts like loops and conditionals which usually are miracles to any designer I met.
;)
The designer doesn't *have* to learn the templating language, don't be so lazy. Just let the designer do his thing and add the templating stuff later. As a tradeoff, tell him that he'll be goatse-ized if he removes your code from the HTML when he makes modifications to the design. Problem solved.
As for alternating row backgrounds - I've never needed Zope, but it's easy enough with PHP + smarty, so I suppose it's as easy in Zope.
To reply to the AS itself - if it's not a quick hack-up, by all means separate logic and presentation. It's the only way of ensuring you can work on all things at once. And remember, looking for that tiny snippet of PHP in a GoLive-created pile of shit HTML just sucks balls. So don't do it.
Sure. Here you go.
No, the market didn't hear about it - most people who use AOL aren't EFF members and don't follow online media which cover this. I doubt that more than a tiny fraction of AOL users heard about this.
But I don't think it matters anyway. E-mail is dead. It's just that the corpse is so huge we don't see it. E-mail just isn't very useful anymore, and it's getting worse *quick*. When I went online 11 years ago, I checked if I had mail. Today I check my spam for mail. This has the side effect that you never can tell whether your mail arrived at the recipient, and the perceived value of e-mail approaches zero for many people.
The necessary redesign of e-mail won't happen. It would need incorporating accountability into the network layer to really keep the spammers out, and that won't happen because of the perceived 'loss of anonymity' which contradicts the spirit of openness the fathers of the Internet had in mind when they built the net as we know it. Not that you can have any real anonymity online anyway. But let's face it, we would rather deal with a spam rate of 99% than add accountability to the net.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on accountability - when do fellow slashbots think it will come, if ever? It sure would be a huge step, and I'm undecided whether it would be good or bad.
Hey Tom, it's called Templates and it exists since the first Dreamweaver betas I used. You didn't have to open all pages to change them right from the start.
You're right however, scripting beats it all. Dreamweaver is very nice for prototyping and mock-ups for clients, though. Build some stuff from Photoshop template, add some behaviours and show to the client. (Insert obligatory PROFIT!!11! joke here --> . )
Actually German law doesn't give a shit about the license, as far as legal action is concerned. If someone sues the German Wikipedia Foundation because of the contents of Wikipedia, it WILL go to court, because the content IS on the site for which the German Wikipedia Foundation is the admin-c.
Of course they can then try to use the GFDL or whatever is used as a defense, but whether that will be successful is a completely different story. Germany has a pretty sad record on Internet-related trials.
Please note that I don't defend it - hell, I've been burnt by it as well. But Germany isn't the US. If you have links or content on your site someone sues you for, you're most probably in for some HUGE cock in your ass. And yes, that's *really* even for links. Ask Stefan Münz, he's got some nice tales to tell about that.
*lol* Remember to use 90212 in forms that check for zip code validity. Plus: since SiteFinder my e-mail address is info@verisign.com and YES, send me ALL of your information material, please! ;)
Actually, this is quite true and I cannot possibly decide whether it's funny or sad, so I'll resort to saying that at least it's remarkably *useful*. If you happen to like wearing goatse, tubgirl or lemonparty shirts at work, that is.
You're correct about laws of physics. As we all know, however, time is relative and it's well possible to imagine ETs with FTL technology also can manipulate their relative time, so that they have years to think about our countermeasures simply by adjusting their "timeframe". They wouldn't have to be so terribly advanced (apart from the FTL stuff, obviously) then as they'd literally have all time of the world to do to us as they please.
Then again, Quantum theory tells us that there are parallel universes where this already happened and like, you know, stuff. Hawking said so, so it must be true. It definitely provides a *lot* of food for thought.
I have an iBong, and I must say that I *do* think different when I use it.
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Actually I found the opposite to be true - if Access is the answer, somebody has asked the wrong questions. We have lots of clients for whom we replaced existing Access processes because they find it performs poorly when you put it under real load - and most of those came to us because they found that they had to hunt down heisenbugs with every update of Access and MSSQL.
Please note that I blame the latter on the 'developers' who built the processes, not the software. I haven't been using Access much, but from what I have seen, it seems to be a good tool in the hands of someone who knows what he's doing. So the clients are rather switching from a 'have the secretary click together the logic' approach to an 'hire real developers for real-world stuff' approach.
(I've seen many *really* mindboggingly slow things, however, but this might as well result from bad practices, stupid code or any combination of the two.)
The bottom line is, among our clients are many global players and none of those would touch any solution with a ten foot pole if they include Access anywhere. Most have well-engineered in-house software, we are just helping them in adding web accessible interfaces. It always strikes me as funny that they have great in-house developers but need external help with web applications.
So, now we're as OT as we could be, but I wanted to add another perspective. And yes, I am aware that my experience probably isn't very representative.