...as opposed to what? JS that isn't integrated...? I knew someone would complain. A rose by any other string of characters...
The uppercase 'A' should be enough of a hint as to why I went with that particular label:) - No? Since when is 25,000 lines small...?
For the grammar goons among us:
applet ['aplit ] noun - Computing A very small application, esp. a utility program performing one or a few simple functions.
And a utility program it was. Put up to accomplish a temporary (9 month), semi-automated process of data gathering, consolidation and PDF summary reporting via email...yes, 25k lines is nuts. Would I ever do it again? Not likely. And if you think this was crazy, you should have seen the process it replaced.
In this case it was easy enough to do, which meant we were providing the reports that senior management needed right away, giving us time to relax and build a proper & full scale SQL replacement. In the end, the recipients never knew when we migrated from the stop-gap to the final - all of the routine post-deployment feature requests went in and were tested long before it went public, with bonuses all around:) Thank you JavaScript!!!
it remains the most broadly available scripting language for Web development.
As someone who has written applets with over 25,000 lines, I can easily agree. Out of the roughly two dozen languages (scripting, etc.) that I know, JS has been a cornerstone of both simple and solid applets and the quick & dirty prototype. Let's hope the future agrees:)
"It's entertaining, but also scary, as many of us could fall victim to some or all of them."
Wow - entertaining, scary AND the possibility of victimization! All this story needs is some popcorn and gratuitous sex!!!
For the record - the story is neither entertaining nor scary, and just because you're stupid enough to fall prey doesn't mean the general population is in the same boat.
I was working in Japan, near Tokyo, for a company that manufactured medical imaging equipment - MRI, CT etc. At one point I had to create a small team to work on technical documentation, which found us setting up several PC's with Windows. One of the people I had on the team was a Chinese gentleman, who had left China where he was a college professor.
One day, his computer had a typical Windows lock-up & bluescreen and he asked me for help. As the box rebooted, I held down the keys that let you bypass the initial splash screens and go right to the desktop. He was surprised and I asked why? He said he didn't imagine you could avoid the splash screens if you wished and I told him, sure, why not...they don't do anything but advertise MS Windows. He thought for a moment and then smiled and said "Ah...brainwashing!"
I had to laugh, of course. After all, who better to cut to the truth of why those screens were there, than someone who had left his homeland in an effort to avoid a lifetime of such treatment.
MS is for MS...never customers. This has always been the situation and one many of us are not comfortable accepting.
Other reasons:
- MS makes a habit of rewriting history (Gates did not write DOS, etc).
- Investing in MS is risking having your own money used against you in the marketplace.
Have you EVER shot at a fish in a barrel? Two times? With an elephant gun? At point blank range? In their shiny little slimy head?
Word to the wise. I'm here to tell you that you only need to do this once to appreciate the benefit of a good barrel when fish shooting. I mean, unless you have some pretty large fish (especially in the head area), and a pretty small caliber weapon, you are at risk of not only offing the fish, but you are also liable to put an NRA certified water-draining hole in your barrel. Now me, I use fish-shooting barrels from the Ukraine, and I've never had an issue with water stained carpets.
Try explaining it to your significant other when they get home. "Have you been discharging weapons inside the apartment, again...?" - "Don't we recall what happened when you put the dartboard up on the wall at the end of the hall and shot at it with your new Glock? That little-bitty bullet went thru the dart board and the wall and all four of your alpaca sweaters hanging up on that end of the closet...right?"
You're not alone in your speculation. Leave it to an MS troll to slant non-news away from a non-event.
It is more that IE7 by default is put on the backburner in terms of any kind of update activity, simply because it has only been out a month. Doesn't mean it is clean, and certainly doesn't mean anything significant, by any means.
I'm willing to give MS a month breather, but I'm not willing to give a pass to the clean story, at all.
>'Though there is one problem,how does one etching business gain over the other?'
That question is rooted in a traditional business model, which is what this type of business is trying to not be.
Instead of thinking that competition is part of the business plan by default, why not think cooperation instead. If your shop uptown gets a large order that it can't handle and meet the delivery date, you hand off the excess production to another shop downtown.
If you can't afford to pay for a promotion, contact other shops and ask if they want to share the cost and the publicity.
If you need extra labor/staff for the next two weeks, ask your neighbor shops if they have a qualified employee they would be able to loan out.
By reading that article (burn job de' jour), and most of the comments here so far, you'd think iTMS only sells music. Man - talk about tunnel vision.
...it doesn't. Movies, TV shows etc . are also part of the menu, so much so, that some are wondering how much longer Apple can call it the 'iT Music Store'.
Ok, so for the sake of whatever, we'll ignore the other digital fares for a moment, and talk about music sales out of the iTMS. Check the calendar...what, a dozen days from now and Santa will do his fear-factored chimney drop, right? All those USD$79.00 2G iPod Shuffles that are being stuffed into stockings as we speak, along with untold tens of thousands of other iPods & iMacs, are going to come online all at once. The bounce for the iTMS will not be trivial, in any case, easily echoing well into 2007 - perhaps just in time for the iTV, iPhone & wIdescreen iPod to hit the shelves and then...bamn...another bounce.
Collapsing - give me a break. The only thing collapsing is the patience of Apple's shell-shocked competitors, as they try to endure being dragged around the town square behind a team of slathering wild horses...again.
Friend of mine uses:
X-10 devices
Panasonic IP cameras (steerable)
Airport base stations
Mac G4 (OS X)
The software that actually controls the cameras is a commercial package which puts up an internet server - you log into it, and you can check individual cameras, positioning them at will; check multiple cameras with the images tiled; check archived videos; capture a live stream and play it back at various speeds, etc..
He can then use the internet and his Blackberry to log on and live view any of the cameras around his home.
For real security, he uses a local home security contractor, which responds when various alarms detect certain issues, etc.
Lucky day! And you used factorials and everything. I am NOT worthy, honestly. Sorry, but this is a bit overwhelming - I have to take a moment..pinch myself & make sure I'm not dreaming.
Wait until I tell the guys on the loading dock! Those drop-outs are going to be green with envy all thru the night shift. Am I good or what!!?? I hooked one for the books this time:)
The data-heavy stuff was not in the article, it's from the submitter and I have no idea where he got it from.
Really? Is it that hard to make the connection?
Ok, since it appears to be a bit too much of a stretch for you, I'll connect the dots and make it simple - you'll still have to do a bit of thinking, but I believe in you, or I wouldn't waste time helping to prop you up. Clear your mind and let things come into focus. You can do it - don't let me down!
The article and the submitter are both from the same PPT marketing ploy.
What I can't figure out, however, is where the hell are you from? What did I ever do to you? Did you miss another promotion? Someone steal your favorite wastebasket? What? Holidays got you down? Another price hike on cheap wine-in-a-box...those bastards!
I'm here for you, whatever your particular tragedy is. Don't worry about me - I can take it. Keep thrashing until all the demons run away.
Oh, and thanks for taking a run at me, really. As dull of an effort it was, I'm flattered nonetheless.
The software giant fights off more than 100,000 attacks every month, protecting their data-heavy internal network from the paws of your average script kiddie.
If MS is using the routine fuzzy-math they tend to throw out when attempting to make the company seem more powerful and dominating than is backed up by reality, the '100,000 attacks' could be 99,999 pieces of spam email and one ping-flood.
See, this is how MS routinely tries to brainwash Joe and Jane consumer. Toss out a statistic that is impossible to verify, along with just enough verbal imagery to impress non-tech savvy spenders and you're on your way to profitsville!
'data-heavy internal network...' That is some pretty shiny bull-shit, by the way...data-heavy! As opposed to what? I can see those steel grey towering industrial strength routers, embedded into solid concrete bunkers, laced with 50 cm MIL spec reinforcing bar that is tied deep in bedrock, far below the cavernous data centers the brave MS engineers toil without end to feed, with miles and miles of 1 meter thick ethernet cables, snaking like giant blood veins, throbbing quietly as the beast that is MS R&D works around the clock for the good of mankind.
"It was created by a consortium of many different companies"
Incorrect, sorry - Blu-ray technology was 'created' in Sony labs, by Sony engineers, using Sony R&D budget monies and the Japanese 'Bullet Train Development Concept', that says why make the next leap a measly 10% over the existing level, just to keep you in the game, when a 200% jump means a whole new game... with the field, ball, rules, cheerleaders, refs, players AND winning trophy firmly in your grasp, since there are no competitors even in the same league.
After which, Sony called a campfire meeting of friends, and then the BD consortium was formed. Roughly 170 companies have lined up to date, or so they say.
"...especially considering that it recently announced the availability of videogames for its iPod through its iTunes store"
I know I get all tingley when I think about playing 'Pong' & '2-D Centipede in My Pants' on my iPod...ohhhhhhhh....ahhhhhh! Start of a revolution, that! Look out PS3! U 'pwned!!
Respects..?? The CNET site is still littered with active email links to Kim - let's talk about that if you want to worry over respect or lack thereof.
Besides, the guy's claim to fame is a 24 month history of being paid to write about MP3 players. In terms of respect, how does that rate? Is the Gov. supposed to run flags at the capitol at 1/2 mast for a week or commission a wall of dead iPods on the mall, or what? You want/. to go dark for 24 hours, is that it?
Sorry, but you may need to re-calibrate your respect meter.
Pay attention now...this is really pretty simple, but we don't want any slip-ups!
Book backlot at Universal Studios. Same one as last time, since some of the original moonscape props are still there - minimum, oh, say 90 days out to do it.
Schedule several hundred yards of dry beach sand and 1/4" cobble for delivery weeks 1 thru 3.
Inform all staff that primary shooting will be done after sundown.
Find those guys that pulled this stunt off last time!
Everybody understand? Good, now go! It's Oscar time!!!
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'integrated JavaScript code'
...as opposed to what? JS that isn't integrated...? I knew someone would complain. A rose by any other string of characters...
:) - No? Since when is 25,000 lines small...?
:) Thank you JavaScript!!!
The uppercase 'A' should be enough of a hint as to why I went with that particular label
For the grammar goons among us:
applet ['aplit ] noun - Computing A very small application, esp. a utility program performing one or a few simple functions.
And a utility program it was. Put up to accomplish a temporary (9 month), semi-automated process of data gathering, consolidation and PDF summary reporting via email...yes, 25k lines is nuts. Would I ever do it again? Not likely. And if you think this was crazy, you should have seen the process it replaced.
In this case it was easy enough to do, which meant we were providing the reports that senior management needed right away, giving us time to relax and build a proper & full scale SQL replacement. In the end, the recipients never knew when we migrated from the stop-gap to the final - all of the routine post-deployment feature requests went in and were tested long before it went public, with bonuses all around
it remains the most broadly available scripting language for Web development.
:)
As someone who has written applets with over 25,000 lines, I can easily agree. Out of the roughly two dozen languages (scripting, etc.) that I know, JS has been a cornerstone of both simple and solid applets and the quick & dirty prototype. Let's hope the future agrees
"It's entertaining, but also scary, as many of us could fall victim to some or all of them."
Wow - entertaining, scary AND the possibility of victimization! All this story needs is some popcorn and gratuitous sex!!!
For the record - the story is neither entertaining nor scary, and just because you're stupid enough to fall prey doesn't mean the general population is in the same boat.
I was working in Japan, near Tokyo, for a company that manufactured medical imaging equipment - MRI, CT etc. At one point I had to create a small team to work on technical documentation, which found us setting up several PC's with Windows. One of the people I had on the team was a Chinese gentleman, who had left China where he was a college professor.
One day, his computer had a typical Windows lock-up & bluescreen and he asked me for help. As the box rebooted, I held down the keys that let you bypass the initial splash screens and go right to the desktop. He was surprised and I asked why? He said he didn't imagine you could avoid the splash screens if you wished and I told him, sure, why not...they don't do anything but advertise MS Windows. He thought for a moment and then smiled and said "Ah...brainwashing!"
I had to laugh, of course. After all, who better to cut to the truth of why those screens were there, than someone who had left his homeland in an effort to avoid a lifetime of such treatment.
MS is for MS...never customers. This has always been the situation and one many of us are not comfortable accepting.
Other reasons:
- MS makes a habit of rewriting history (Gates did not write DOS, etc).
- Investing in MS is risking having your own money used against you in the marketplace.
pseudocode
Have you EVER shot at a fish in a barrel? Two times? With an elephant gun? At point blank range? In their shiny little slimy head?
Word to the wise. I'm here to tell you that you only need to do this once to appreciate the benefit of a good barrel when fish shooting. I mean, unless you have some pretty large fish (especially in the head area), and a pretty small caliber weapon, you are at risk of not only offing the fish, but you are also liable to put an NRA certified water-draining hole in your barrel. Now me, I use fish-shooting barrels from the Ukraine, and I've never had an issue with water stained carpets.
Try explaining it to your significant other when they get home. "Have you been discharging weapons inside the apartment, again...?" - "Don't we recall what happened when you put the dartboard up on the wall at the end of the hall and shot at it with your new Glock? That little-bitty bullet went thru the dart board and the wall and all four of your alpaca sweaters hanging up on that end of the closet...right?"
"...and may result in communication disruptions."
A disruption in communications can mean only one thing...invasion!
You're not alone in your speculation. Leave it to an MS troll to slant non-news away from a non-event.
It is more that IE7 by default is put on the backburner in terms of any kind of update activity, simply because it has only been out a month. Doesn't mean it is clean, and certainly doesn't mean anything significant, by any means.
I'm willing to give MS a month breather, but I'm not willing to give a pass to the clean story, at all.
>'Though there is one problem,how does one etching business gain over the other?'
That question is rooted in a traditional business model, which is what this type of business is trying to not be.
Instead of thinking that competition is part of the business plan by default, why not think cooperation instead. If your shop uptown gets a large order that it can't handle and meet the delivery date, you hand off the excess production to another shop downtown.
If you can't afford to pay for a promotion, contact other shops and ask if they want to share the cost and the publicity.
If you need extra labor/staff for the next two weeks, ask your neighbor shops if they have a qualified employee they would be able to loan out.
"...as good a place as any to start", she said.
There, see - didn't take long at all to flip that one.
...'iTunes Store' - yep, much better, since of course, when I hear or read the word 'Tunes', the first thing I think of is 'Blade - The Series' :)
Must be a slow news day in the UK, I guess...
...it doesn't. Movies, TV shows etc . are also part of the menu, so much so, that some are wondering how much longer Apple can call it the 'iT Music Store'.
By reading that article (burn job de' jour), and most of the comments here so far, you'd think iTMS only sells music. Man - talk about tunnel vision.
Ok, so for the sake of whatever, we'll ignore the other digital fares for a moment, and talk about music sales out of the iTMS. Check the calendar...what, a dozen days from now and Santa will do his fear-factored chimney drop, right? All those USD$79.00 2G iPod Shuffles that are being stuffed into stockings as we speak, along with untold tens of thousands of other iPods & iMacs, are going to come online all at once. The bounce for the iTMS will not be trivial, in any case, easily echoing well into 2007 - perhaps just in time for the iTV, iPhone & wIdescreen iPod to hit the shelves and then...bamn...another bounce.
Collapsing - give me a break. The only thing collapsing is the patience of Apple's shell-shocked competitors, as they try to endure being dragged around the town square behind a team of slathering wild horses...again.
"octopi and squids"? :-) Sorry, still incorrect.
...deers? No... 'deer'
"octopi and squid"
As in just fell out of the tree of evolution?
...bah....
Those critter are most likely checking out the mini-subs and shaking their heads and thinking "Oh, look! A new species!"
Got MILK?!
> Radar (which is an acronym of Range and Finder, by the way)
Not. Sorry...
The word/acronym Radar means: RADio detecting And Ranging.
Friend of mine uses:
X-10 devices
Panasonic IP cameras (steerable)
Airport base stations
Mac G4 (OS X)
The software that actually controls the cameras is a commercial package which puts up an internet server - you log into it, and you can check individual cameras, positioning them at will; check multiple cameras with the images tiled; check archived videos; capture a live stream and play it back at various speeds, etc..
He can then use the internet and his Blackberry to log on and live view any of the cameras around his home.
For real security, he uses a local home security contractor, which responds when various alarms detect certain issues, etc.
A UNIX, sorry, I mean 'unix' admin.
:)
Hey, everybody! Look!! A 'unix admin'!
Lucky day! And you used factorials and everything. I am NOT worthy, honestly. Sorry, but this is a bit overwhelming - I have to take a moment..pinch myself & make sure I'm not dreaming.
Wait until I tell the guys on the loading dock! Those drop-outs are going to be green with envy all thru the night shift. Am I good or what!!?? I hooked one for the books this time
The data-heavy stuff was not in the article, it's from the submitter and I have no idea where he got it from.
Really? Is it that hard to make the connection?
Ok, since it appears to be a bit too much of a stretch for you, I'll connect the dots and make it simple - you'll still have to do a bit of thinking, but I believe in you, or I wouldn't waste time helping to prop you up. Clear your mind and let things come into focus. You can do it - don't let me down!
The article and the submitter are both from the same PPT marketing ploy.
What I can't figure out, however, is where the hell are you from? What did I ever do to you? Did you miss another promotion? Someone steal your favorite wastebasket? What? Holidays got you down? Another price hike on cheap wine-in-a-box...those bastards!
I'm here for you, whatever your particular tragedy is. Don't worry about me - I can take it. Keep thrashing until all the demons run away.
Oh, and thanks for taking a run at me, really. As dull of an effort it was, I'm flattered nonetheless.
The software giant fights off more than 100,000 attacks every month, protecting their data-heavy internal network from the paws of your average script kiddie.
If MS is using the routine fuzzy-math they tend to throw out when attempting to make the company seem more powerful and dominating than is backed up by reality, the '100,000 attacks' could be 99,999 pieces of spam email and one ping-flood.
See, this is how MS routinely tries to brainwash Joe and Jane consumer. Toss out a statistic that is impossible to verify, along with just enough verbal imagery to impress non-tech savvy spenders and you're on your way to profitsville!
'data-heavy internal network...' That is some pretty shiny bull-shit, by the way...data-heavy! As opposed to what? I can see those steel grey towering industrial strength routers, embedded into solid concrete bunkers, laced with 50 cm MIL spec reinforcing bar that is tied deep in bedrock, far below the cavernous data centers the brave MS engineers toil without end to feed, with miles and miles of 1 meter thick ethernet cables, snaking like giant blood veins, throbbing quietly as the beast that is MS R&D works around the clock for the good of mankind.
Makes me proud to be an American, I 'tell ya!
Time out...
"It was created by a consortium of many different companies"
Incorrect, sorry - Blu-ray technology was 'created' in Sony labs, by Sony engineers, using Sony R&D budget monies and the Japanese 'Bullet Train Development Concept', that says why make the next leap a measly 10% over the existing level, just to keep you in the game, when a 200% jump means a whole new game... with the field, ball, rules, cheerleaders, refs, players AND winning trophy firmly in your grasp, since there are no competitors even in the same league.
After which, Sony called a campfire meeting of friends, and then the BD consortium was formed. Roughly 170 companies have lined up to date, or so they say.
"...especially considering that it recently announced the availability of videogames for its iPod through its iTunes store"
I know I get all tingley when I think about playing 'Pong' & '2-D Centipede in My Pants' on my iPod...ohhhhhhhh....ahhhhhh! Start of a revolution, that! Look out PS3! U 'pwned!!
James Kim dies;
/. to go dark for 24 hours, is that it?
Respects..?? The CNET site is still littered with active email links to Kim - let's talk about that if you want to worry over respect or lack thereof.
Besides, the guy's claim to fame is a 24 month history of being paid to write about MP3 players. In terms of respect, how does that rate? Is the Gov. supposed to run flags at the capitol at 1/2 mast for a week or commission a wall of dead iPods on the mall, or what? You want
Sorry, but you may need to re-calibrate your respect meter.
..of crap. 15 seconds my ass.
:)
When you've lived in San Francisco and/or Tokyo as I have, you move without thinking.
And if that means climbing over you to get to the exit, then buddy you better duck, 'cause I'm coming thru
Apple has apparently slipped 802.11n into some of the currently shipping machines via buffed up Airport cards - gotta love stealth upgrades, eh? :)
Everybody understand? Good, now go! It's Oscar time!!!