You are quite correct. If you are a web coder for say, Amazon.com it isn't going to fly to tell IE users to F-off.
Perhaps though, including an additional banner at the top of the site that tells IE users that their browser doesn't support web standards, and suggests a few open source alternatives is a viable and less heavy handed approach.
I have found that most uneducated computer users will make good decisions if you give them a simple to understand explaination.
I'm sure that this will get drowned out by people yelling the name of their favorite language without explaining why it might be good to solve your paticular problem, but you might look at asp.net. You can use any dot net language to build the asp pages, so the actual language that you pick is sort of moot, but IIS has some interesting features designed to make building a scalable web farm simple. That was one of your major criteria, right? Be sure to look up what Apache has to offer there too, since it is as much a part of PHP as asp is connected with dot net.
Personally, I find asp.net to be a mixed bag. It's pretty good, but there are still a lot of things that could be improved on.
The incredible surge of patent applications, especially in the software and internet business method arena, is just crushing them
Hire me, I'll singlehandedly be able to do fifty times the workload that any current examiner does in the software and internet businuess division.
DENIED!
DENIED!
DENIED!
DENIED!
DENIED!
I can stamp 'Denided' on patent requests faster than lawyers can write them up. I might even bother to read one or two before I reject it, just for laughs...
Me and several of my friends won't buy any new tvs until they sort out this whole format mess. I could go out and buy some 5k monstrosity that is bigger than god's ego, but I refuse to deal with the fallout of a bunch of coporate idiots that can't compromise.
It's ramifications could extend well beyond assisting with finding bodies.
What are you talking about, this is a brilliant idea. See, when the terrorists attack and blow up a bunch of people, you use the tags...wait, the tags aren't bomb proof? That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of!
Today, sherif deputies in California unleashed a country wide 'Pringles can ring' bust, raiding over 22 seven-elevin stores. They managed to confinscate over 133 cans of Pringles before they had to cease activities. Apparently the commando-style raids all went smoothly, but an unnamed source in the sherrif's department stated the raids ceased because , 'We were full'.
This whole thread is about a humorous troll (I rtfa. Yeah, I know that is verboten here...), so in the spirit of the author's PDF, I offer you a cheeky response:
They ALWAYS lock up the browser and force a ctrl-alt-del to shut it down.
You might be correct, as it was the individual who broke the non-compete contract. (Which, by the way, is probably somewhat hypocritical to ask an employee to sign when you aren't giving them a contract for employment. If you want to play the 'no obligation here' game, why shouldn't the employee play also?)
However, there is one UNBREAKABLE rule that every lawyer follows in tort cases: Never sue a poor person. period.
Now, who do you suppose has more money, the ex-employee, or Google?
Sounds like you were just a good salesman convincing people to get what they didn't need.
Quite the opposite. I didn't give a damn about selling anyone anything. CHIMPUSA pays a timy pittance comission back to sales people, but only when they sell a service plan with a system, and I would NEVER try to push crap like that on people. I just tried to be helpful, and answer questions that they had.
When I speak of cheap computers, I was speaking of the 'Packard Bell' type systems. This stuff had the lowest performance point on the hardware curve, highly propritary, packed with cheap hardware, and about a 10% return rate due to various failures. As soon as you wanted to upgrade anything to beable to do something other than word processing with MS works, you discovered it couldn't be upgraded or cost more that a new computer to upgrade. Dell isn't too bad, but CHIMPUSA never carried them back then.
Personally, I never buy any prebuilt desktop systems, as they are all shit when you compare it with a home built system using name brand hardware. I have never had any problems with home built systems, and I still have several from the 90's that are going strong.
The device seems only "good enough" to prevent me from giving my annual ticket to my friend so he can get a free day at one of the parks.
Now Disney's parks have a lot of visitors each year, but how much can they be losing per pass that is 'loaned' out like this? Or, rather, is the ammount that they make by preventing pass sharing greater than or at least equal to the cost to deploy such a system?
We have a lot of IT folk here, someone correct me if I'm wrong on my guesses, but I'm going to put the price tag on a system like this to be well over six figures annually. Several IT folk to run the servers, software & hardware, training for the booth monkeys, some sort of service contract with someone to maintain and replace scanners, etc. Are there that many passholders with friends?
Anyone who doesn't care, which is going to be a lot of people.
I disagree. And here is why: I worked at CHIMPUSA while in college, and I saw a lot of stupid, clueless people come through the doors. Most people appreciate quality, but are so uneducated about computers that they don't know what makes for a 'quality' computer. When they figure out what is good and what is junk, most will go for the higher quality machine. People tend to make good decisions when they have some solid facts.
However, I will mention this, there is a small segment of the shopping population that didn't care anything about quality at all and bought the cheapest POS in the store. They wanted to spend as little as possible, and they didn't care what they got. I'd put them at perhaps 10% of the market, though.
I think Linux's failure to capture the desktop (so far!) is partially a result of people not understanding why it might be better. Stuff like auto-bundeled DMR might add another argument for open-sores software.
But the real question is: will he actually spend 25 years in jail? That's doubtful.
Now there is an iteresting question. I think that you have to do at least 1/3 of your sentince before you can be put up for parole. He's something like 65 now, so when he gets out, he will be past his seventies.
I think the judge only gave him 25 years because of his age. There is a fair chance he will die in prison.
It is going to suck. While Stephen can crank out a dud once in awhile, Michael Bay taints almost everything he touches. The guy is truly a hack.
Here, go look at the movies he has done:
http://allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:203853
Everything but 'The Rock' was abysmal, and even that one wasn't amazing. I already have images of Optimus Prime trying to land jetfire on a asteroid to blow it up, while bumblebee goes apeshit and starts killing autobots in the background. I mean, Jesus, this was the guy that made a bad movie about Pearl Harbor.
China has been doing a lot of posturing about space lately. Personally, I think it's just the comunist party making an attempt at trying to look like they are a competent government rather than the pack of stupid greedy thugs that they are.
However, I just had an interesting thought. Isn't this sort of a dual use bit of research? While diverting comets and such is a grand and generous bit of science, wouldn't the ability to drop a fifty ton chunk of rock on your enemy's capitol be quite a weapon? A 'Star Wars' missile defense systems would be useless, and it would make the third generation MIRV cruse missile nukes that we have look like fire crackers. There is even a plausable deniablility factor, if you just want to fuck with someone. ("We are very sorry about the the rock that leveled Washington, but these things happen...")
MY GOD, WE HAVE A GAP IN OUR AERSONAL OF GIANT SPACE ROCKS!
So individual choices might have more of an effect than you think. I remember an interview with an industry exec where he explained that his children (I think) had cystic fibrosis, and that gave him perspective that inspired him to push for new and better drugs.
People keep cynically pointing out that you can make more money by simply treating symptoms rather than curing a disease, but that is a simplistic model that doesn't take into account a free market.
Suppose you make AIDS maintenance medications that keep people alive. Your lead researcher comes to you and says that he has discovered a medication that may cure AIDS completely. Do you research it? Hell yes, because if you don't your competition eventually will. And while the market might dry up for AIDS treatment, there is money to be made in the cure. Anyone who doesn't keep up with the market WILL wither and die. Just look at what happened to buggy makers, or what is currently happening with the **AA companies.
The ESRB itself is agnostic about what kids are playing at what age - they just want to make sure that no one goes home and is surprised by what they've purchased. If this report is true, that's one hell of a surprise.
Dum de dum....lets see, here is a patch I have found that says it unlocks graphic sex games in GTA, lets install it and see what happens...OMFG! THERE ARE GRAPHIC SEX GAMES IN GTA NOW! I NEVER EXPECTED THAT! *faints*
If you listen to a player like marty friedman, he really makes effective emotional use...
Wait...did I hear you say 'marty friedman', and 'emotional' in the same sentince?
Old Marty is quite a player, and had cranked out some catchy tunes with mr. mustane and on his own, but I haven't hear anyone anyone ever describe his playing as 'emotional'...
Sure, this robot can play Hendrix, but can it have an egomanical fit because there wern't enough lights on him for the solo, punch a reporter for taking his picture, drink a fifth of JD, suck up five gs worth of coke faster than a hoover, throw a tv out a window and top it all off by throwing up on a nekkid groupie?
It will be a long time before a robot can replace a guitarist, my friend.
I compliment your excellent education, in that you used an outside source to back up you primary thesis. I also compliment you in citing said source.
Unfortunately, I just appended the wikipedia entry to say that dasunt (249686) of Slashdot is a poopyhead.
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You are quite correct. If you are a web coder for say, Amazon.com it isn't going to fly to tell IE users to F-off.
Perhaps though, including an additional banner at the top of the site that tells IE users that their browser doesn't support web standards, and suggests a few open source alternatives is a viable and less heavy handed approach.
I have found that most uneducated computer users will make good decisions if you give them a simple to understand explaination.
I'm sure that this will get drowned out by people yelling the name of their favorite language without explaining why it might be good to solve your paticular problem, but you might look at asp.net. You can use any dot net language to build the asp pages, so the actual language that you pick is sort of moot, but IIS has some interesting features designed to make building a scalable web farm simple. That was one of your major criteria, right? Be sure to look up what Apache has to offer there too, since it is as much a part of PHP as asp is connected with dot net.
Personally, I find asp.net to be a mixed bag. It's pretty good, but there are still a lot of things that could be improved on.
The incredible surge of patent applications, especially in the software and internet business method arena, is just crushing them
Hire me, I'll singlehandedly be able to do fifty times the workload that any current examiner does in the software and internet businuess division.
DENIED!
DENIED!
DENIED!
DENIED!
DENIED!
I can stamp 'Denided' on patent requests faster than lawyers can write them up. I might even bother to read one or two before I reject it, just for laughs...
Me and several of my friends won't buy any new tvs until they sort out this whole format mess. I could go out and buy some 5k monstrosity that is bigger than god's ego, but I refuse to deal with the fallout of a bunch of coporate idiots that can't compromise.
Their loss.
It's ramifications could extend well beyond assisting with finding bodies.
What are you talking about, this is a brilliant idea. See, when the terrorists attack and blow up a bunch of people, you use the tags...wait, the tags aren't bomb proof? That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of!
Nah, it makes him 'Old Skool'.
Peace between MS an tha 'NIX, YO.
dit...dit...dit...
Today, sherif deputies in California unleashed a country wide 'Pringles can ring' bust, raiding over 22 seven-elevin stores. They managed to confinscate over 133 cans of Pringles before they had to cease activities. Apparently the commando-style raids all went smoothly, but an unnamed source in the sherrif's department stated the raids ceased because , 'We were full'.
"Apple's campus missing? I had not scheduled phase 3 of the plant to begin until November. SMITHERS, you idiot, we have tipped our hand again!"
This whole thread is about a humorous troll (I rtfa. Yeah, I know that is verboten here...), so in the spirit of the author's PDF, I offer you a cheeky response:
They ALWAYS lock up the browser and force a ctrl-alt-del to shut it down.
Not if you use a good OS, like Windows. (ducks)
You might be correct, as it was the individual who broke the non-compete contract. (Which, by the way, is probably somewhat hypocritical to ask an employee to sign when you aren't giving them a contract for employment. If you want to play the 'no obligation here' game, why shouldn't the employee play also?)
However, there is one UNBREAKABLE rule that every lawyer follows in tort cases: Never sue a poor person. period.
Now, who do you suppose has more money, the ex-employee, or Google?
Intentionally assisting him? As in, giving him a job?
It's worse than that, I understand that money was involved. You know, like a paycheck, or as we like to call it in the MS slander department, a BRIBE!
You could try exchanging porno links to one another, that seems to be the way nerds bond. Just a thought.
You are sooooo right, and if you handn't posted as an AC, I would have sent you this sweet link, called goatse.cx, to cement our friendship.
... I have plenty of karma to burn, and this looks to have been posted to start a huge flame war. Why fight fate?
1. Windows is teh bestest, like EVER!
2. Unix is ok, you get good at typing...
3. Linux stole from SCO!
I will now invite retorts. (ducks)
Sounds like you were just a good salesman convincing people to get what they didn't need.
Quite the opposite. I didn't give a damn about selling anyone anything. CHIMPUSA pays a timy pittance comission back to sales people, but only when they sell a service plan with a system, and I would NEVER try to push crap like that on people. I just tried to be helpful, and answer questions that they had.
When I speak of cheap computers, I was speaking of the 'Packard Bell' type systems. This stuff had the lowest performance point on the hardware curve, highly propritary, packed with cheap hardware, and about a 10% return rate due to various failures. As soon as you wanted to upgrade anything to beable to do something other than word processing with MS works, you discovered it couldn't be upgraded or cost more that a new computer to upgrade. Dell isn't too bad, but CHIMPUSA never carried them back then.
Personally, I never buy any prebuilt desktop systems, as they are all shit when you compare it with a home built system using name brand hardware. I have never had any problems with home built systems, and I still have several from the 90's that are going strong.
The device seems only "good enough" to prevent me from giving my annual ticket to my friend so he can get a free day at one of the parks.
Now Disney's parks have a lot of visitors each year, but how much can they be losing per pass that is 'loaned' out like this? Or, rather, is the ammount that they make by preventing pass sharing greater than or at least equal to the cost to deploy such a system?
We have a lot of IT folk here, someone correct me if I'm wrong on my guesses, but I'm going to put the price tag on a system like this to be well over six figures annually. Several IT folk to run the servers, software & hardware, training for the booth monkeys, some sort of service contract with someone to maintain and replace scanners, etc. Are there that many passholders with friends?
Anyone who doesn't care, which is going to be a lot of people.
I disagree. And here is why: I worked at CHIMPUSA while in college, and I saw a lot of stupid, clueless people come through the doors. Most people appreciate quality, but are so uneducated about computers that they don't know what makes for a 'quality' computer. When they figure out what is good and what is junk, most will go for the higher quality machine. People tend to make good decisions when they have some solid facts.
However, I will mention this, there is a small segment of the shopping population that didn't care anything about quality at all and bought the cheapest POS in the store. They wanted to spend as little as possible, and they didn't care what they got. I'd put them at perhaps 10% of the market, though.
I think Linux's failure to capture the desktop (so far!) is partially a result of people not understanding why it might be better. Stuff like auto-bundeled DMR might add another argument for open-sores software.
But the real question is: will he actually spend 25 years in jail? That's doubtful.
Now there is an iteresting question. I think that you have to do at least 1/3 of your sentince before you can be put up for parole. He's something like 65 now, so when he gets out, he will be past his seventies.
I think the judge only gave him 25 years because of his age. There is a fair chance he will die in prison.
It is going to suck. While Stephen can crank out a dud once in awhile, Michael Bay taints almost everything he touches. The guy is truly a hack. Here, go look at the movies he has done: http://allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:203853
Everything but 'The Rock' was abysmal, and even that one wasn't amazing. I already have images of Optimus Prime trying to land jetfire on a asteroid to blow it up, while bumblebee goes apeshit and starts killing autobots in the background. I mean, Jesus, this was the guy that made a bad movie about Pearl Harbor.
It's going to suck...
China has been doing a lot of posturing about space lately. Personally, I think it's just the comunist party making an attempt at trying to look like they are a competent government rather than the pack of stupid greedy thugs that they are.
However, I just had an interesting thought. Isn't this sort of a dual use bit of research? While diverting comets and such is a grand and generous bit of science, wouldn't the ability to drop a fifty ton chunk of rock on your enemy's capitol be quite a weapon? A 'Star Wars' missile defense systems would be useless, and it would make the third generation MIRV cruse missile nukes that we have look like fire crackers. There is even a plausable deniablility factor, if you just want to fuck with someone. ("We are very sorry about the the rock that leveled Washington, but these things happen...")
MY GOD, WE HAVE A GAP IN OUR AERSONAL OF GIANT SPACE ROCKS!
So individual choices might have more of an effect than you think. I remember an interview with an industry exec where he explained that his children (I think) had cystic fibrosis, and that gave him perspective that inspired him to push for new and better drugs.
People keep cynically pointing out that you can make more money by simply treating symptoms rather than curing a disease, but that is a simplistic model that doesn't take into account a free market.
Suppose you make AIDS maintenance medications that keep people alive. Your lead researcher comes to you and says that he has discovered a medication that may cure AIDS completely. Do you research it? Hell yes, because if you don't your competition eventually will. And while the market might dry up for AIDS treatment, there is money to be made in the cure. Anyone who doesn't keep up with the market WILL wither and die. Just look at what happened to buggy makers, or what is currently happening with the **AA companies.
The ESRB itself is agnostic about what kids are playing at what age - they just want to make sure that no one goes home and is surprised by what they've purchased. If this report is true, that's one hell of a surprise.
Dum de dum....lets see, here is a patch I have found that says it unlocks graphic sex games in GTA, lets install it and see what happens...OMFG! THERE ARE GRAPHIC SEX GAMES IN GTA NOW! I NEVER EXPECTED THAT! *faints*
If you listen to a player like marty friedman, he really makes effective emotional use...
Wait...did I hear you say 'marty friedman', and 'emotional' in the same sentince?
Old Marty is quite a player, and had cranked out some catchy tunes with mr. mustane and on his own, but I haven't hear anyone anyone ever describe his playing as 'emotional'...
NO MORE DRUGS FOR THIS MAN!
Sure, this robot can play Hendrix, but can it have an egomanical fit because there wern't enough lights on him for the solo, punch a reporter for taking his picture, drink a fifth of JD, suck up five gs worth of coke faster than a hoover, throw a tv out a window and top it all off by throwing up on a nekkid groupie?
It will be a long time before a robot can replace a guitarist, my friend.
If you run more electricity through them, do they work faster?
Lets let wikipedia rebutt this:
I compliment your excellent education, in that you used an outside source to back up you primary thesis. I also compliment you in citing said source. Unfortunately, I just appended the wikipedia entry to say that dasunt (249686) of Slashdot is a poopyhead.