We signed up for zip.ca's "1 DVD at a time" plan for $10.99/month, and get all the good HBO shows we never had time for, one season at a time, so when we feel like vegging out, we'll watch as many episodes as we want. Plus, the selection of movies blows away anything that Blockbuster has -- especially horror, documentaries, and classics if you're into that sort of thing.
They're also really good about replacing scratched discs; the replacements don't count against your quota either.
(hint: if you *tell* them that you shipped it back, they'll send you the new one; we immediately say we're shipping it back the day we receive it, so by the time we're done watching a season a few days later, we have a new DVD in our greedy little mitts).
Or they could roll-out FireFox (with NoScript) as the default browser using Group Policy with FireMotion's FireFox MSI and create shortcuts on the desktop with a target of "iexplore http://your.wretched.old.internal.app.com/". More security, same ol' craptastic IE6 "experience" for your internal apps.
I don't understand the point of this entire exercise. Where did he think the truck was going, on a Ferris Bueller-esque "joy ride" across the country?
He had his dates mixed up as well: movers were scheduled to come in at 8am on the 5th, Best Buy was open at 10am on the 5th, and after buying the phone, he says the movers are coming the next morning, which would would've been the 6th.
I don't have an iPhone, but would it get a signal while packed in a cardboard box while in a fully-enclosed metal container?
I'm too lazy to Google it, but if the language is so arcane and simplistic, wouldn't it be worthwhile to write a COBOL code generator so you can write code in something that doesn't suck? I realize that code generators are not always as expressive and/or sometimes don't follow conventions of said generated language, but getting 90% of the job done has to be better than trying to lure some old codgers out of their kid's basement right?
WEDJE is similar to the innerHTML method above except it creates what is effectively a cross-platform, cross-browser defer, enabling your script to load and execute asynchronously across all environments. We write out a div with javascript, then we create a script element with javascript, and then we append the script element to the div, again with javascript.
By linking elements together in this way, browsers appear to completely decouple the loading and execution of our attached javascript from the loading and execution of the original document, which is exactly what weâ(TM)re looking for.
Their example/demo worked in Chrome 2.x, and FF3.5 for me:
Making an assumption here, but perhaps Open Office's release of two major versions during the project's lifecycle may have something to do with the delay.
If I was running this show, I'd have uber-time blocked off for compatibility testing to make sure key stakeholders (see, "important people with important spreadsheets") were happy, even if that meant delaying roll-out for the next major OOo release.
Licensing and maintenance will bleed my customers dry.
I serve the exact same demographic (Microsoft Small Business Server clients, 2-50 users) and completely disagree with you: BES is simple to setup* and requires zero maintenance. Licensing fees? Blackberry Professional Software comes with one free license; software is free, each additional license is $95; BPS also comes with one free support incident (although I've never needed it in my 12-15 BES/BPS setups). Sure, you need a higher data plan if you plan on using BES, but that's the same for any device where you're going to be synching email, calendars, tasks, etc. wirelessly.
* When we first started setting BES/BPS up a few years ago, the Blackberry docs were convoluted and obtuse but I've since found (and re-written) my own setup guide; we can all bang out a BES install and sync 5 users in under 2 hours (including download time); takes one bounce of the server. Not exactly "painful".
and take a page from sales: do customer satisfaction surveys... short, 5-10 questions tops, conducted via telephone by your helpdesk staff. People rarely have the guts to put someone (or their peers) down in person. They'd much rather do it anonymously or through email (preferably indirectly through a manager or two). Have the helpdesk smile while they're on the phone (yes, you really can tell if someone is really smiling over the phone), make sure the questions are light and to your benefit, with no techno-babble, and a simple 4-choice value for each one. Order pizza afterwards and have a pow-wow with your survey callers and get a feel for how it went. Thank them, promise nothing, and submit your (guaranteed) high scores in a pretty PDF to your overlords. ??? Bonus.
I'm nitpicking, but the Mosquito was not that kind of a plane -- it excelled in many roles, but dogfighting was not one of them (and with their superior ceiling, speed, and armament, it didn't matter).
There should be mandatory computer safety training, at some level: municipal/government in the form of standardized aptitude testing, or probably even better, required credit(s) in post secondary education.
Depending on how you're developing your site and/or Web application, having a guy or gal that can take the designer's design mockup (usually still in.PSD format) and properly interpret it into clean HTML and CSS wireframes is a godsend for the Web Developers.
There's a lot of finesse involved in doing this right: you need to make sure it works in all browsers, that the page size isn't too large, and that it stretches and scrolls and wraps in all the right places. And no, Dreamweaver still doesn't cut it, so it takes quite a bit of skill and experience to do it right.
With experience, most of the good ones move either up or down the stack, depending on their interest/strengths, but we wouldn't have been able to complete several large client projects without our "HTML/CSS/JS/UI/stuck-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place guy".
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With so many practice areas, the one-lawyer-fits-all strategy is not going to work: anyone who *doesn't* say something along the lines of "that's not my area of expertise; you should go and talk to " is most likely exactly the kind of person you *don't* want working on your case.
And lets not forget that with *nix core systems, you're only a.conf file or two away from fixing something: a text file or two you can safely cp to a.bak file before continuing, you can pastebin to an IRC channel for help, a text file or two you can easily restore from backup should you make a mess of it. For the inexperienced, setting up your system from the shell may have taken longer than some DoEverything(TM) Wizard, but that extra time will reap many rewards of knowledge and satisfaction of understanding what just happened.
You're not hunting for one-off or "hidden" tools on various Kit CDs; you're not trudging through a vastly undocumented registry; you're not wrestling with EXMERGE on huge, monolithic data objects when you're InfoStore won't mount; you're not sweating it out when a DCPROMO goes wrong and your DC doesn't authenticate anymore; you're not endlessly rebooting your servers with each patch you apply.
Open source and *nix systems aren't always easy either, but the transparency in the community, the source, and the implementation makes life alot easier when things go wrong.
the groups who actually bring you the releases (fairlight, razor1911, etc.) take what they do very seriously, and besides the occasional false positive (ahem, AVG), wouldn't dream of including malware in the releases; they have rules of engagement that they follow very closely and would be ridiculed in IRC and publicly lambasted in NFOs for years.
eDonkey and LimeWire downloading is the equivalent of walking into a dark alley in the Bronx with a sign asking "Any crack for sale?"
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We signed up for zip.ca's "1 DVD at a time" plan for $10.99/month, and get all the good HBO shows we never had time for, one season at a time, so when we feel like vegging out, we'll watch as many episodes as we want. Plus, the selection of movies blows away anything that Blockbuster has -- especially horror, documentaries, and classics if you're into that sort of thing.
They're also really good about replacing scratched discs; the replacements don't count against your quota either.
(hint: if you *tell* them that you shipped it back, they'll send you the new one; we immediately say we're shipping it back the day we receive it, so by the time we're done watching a season a few days later, we have a new DVD in our greedy little mitts).
Or they could roll-out FireFox (with NoScript) as the default browser using Group Policy with FireMotion's FireFox MSI and create shortcuts on the desktop with a target of "iexplore http://your.wretched.old.internal.app.com/".
More security, same ol' craptastic IE6 "experience" for your internal apps.
what will happen to co-op?
I don't understand the point of this entire exercise. Where did he think the truck was going, on a Ferris Bueller-esque "joy ride" across the country?
He had his dates mixed up as well: movers were scheduled to come in at 8am on the 5th, Best Buy was open at 10am on the 5th, and after buying the phone, he says the movers are coming the next morning, which would would've been the 6th.
I don't have an iPhone, but would it get a signal while packed in a cardboard box while in a fully-enclosed metal container?
I'm too lazy to Google it, but if the language is so arcane and simplistic, wouldn't it be worthwhile to write a COBOL code generator so you can write code in something that doesn't suck? I realize that code generators are not always as expressive and/or sometimes don't follow conventions of said generated language, but getting 90% of the job done has to be better than trying to lure some old codgers out of their kid's basement right?
Perhaps it was their passion about automotive engineering that has driven them to succeed and be considered "such talented people"?
Looks promising; found this in a link from TFA:
Their example/demo worked in Chrome 2.x, and FF3.5 for me:
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2007/06/widget-deployment-with-wedje
Making an assumption here, but perhaps Open Office's release of two major versions during the project's lifecycle may have something to do with the delay.
If I was running this show, I'd have uber-time blocked off for compatibility testing to make sure key stakeholders (see, "important people with important spreadsheets") were happy, even if that meant delaying roll-out for the next major OOo release.
I get the odd call from a Postini client who's been on mxtoolbox.com, crying, "why am I blacklisted? zomg!". SORBS == idiots.
I don't mind when I'm on my desktop, but on my eeepc, fat-finger-follies ensue.
They're both highly-customizable -- you can restrict the toolbar to the same subset of tags permitted on /.
And would it kill them to put in a WYSIWYG toolbar (tinyMCE, fckeditor, etc.)?
I serve the exact same demographic (Microsoft Small Business Server clients, 2-50 users) and completely disagree with you: BES is simple to setup* and requires zero maintenance. Licensing fees? Blackberry Professional Software comes with one free license; software is free, each additional license is $95; BPS also comes with one free support incident (although I've never needed it in my 12-15 BES/BPS setups).
Sure, you need a higher data plan if you plan on using BES, but that's the same for any device where you're going to be synching email, calendars, tasks, etc. wirelessly.
* When we first started setting BES/BPS up a few years ago, the Blackberry docs were convoluted and obtuse but I've since found (and re-written) my own setup guide; we can all bang out a BES install and sync 5 users in under 2 hours (including download time); takes one bounce of the server. Not exactly "painful".
and take a page from sales: do customer satisfaction surveys... short, 5-10 questions tops, conducted via telephone by your helpdesk staff. People rarely have the guts to put someone (or their peers) down in person. They'd much rather do it anonymously or through email (preferably indirectly through a manager or two).
Have the helpdesk smile while they're on the phone (yes, you really can tell if someone is really smiling over the phone), make sure the questions are light and to your benefit, with no techno-babble, and a simple 4-choice value for each one. Order pizza afterwards and have a pow-wow with your survey callers and get a feel for how it went. Thank them, promise nothing, and submit your (guaranteed) high scores in a pretty PDF to your overlords.
???
Bonus.
I'm nitpicking, but the Mosquito was not that kind of a plane -- it excelled in many roles, but dogfighting was not one of them (and with their superior ceiling, speed, and armament, it didn't matter).
Are you thinking of the Corsair?
There should be mandatory computer safety training, at some level: municipal/government in the form of standardized aptitude testing, or probably even better, required credit(s) in post secondary education.
The Wiis also top the resale charts on Craigslist, Kijiji, etc. once the novelty wears off and they discover there's very few games worth buying.
Depending on how you're developing your site and/or Web application, having a guy or gal that can take the designer's design mockup (usually still in .PSD format) and properly interpret it into clean HTML and CSS wireframes is a godsend for the Web Developers.
There's a lot of finesse involved in doing this right: you need to make sure it works in all browsers, that the page size isn't too large, and that it stretches and scrolls and wraps in all the right places. And no, Dreamweaver still doesn't cut it, so it takes quite a bit of skill and experience to do it right.
With experience, most of the good ones move either up or down the stack, depending on their interest/strengths, but we wouldn't have been able to complete several large client projects without our "HTML/CSS/JS/UI/stuck-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place guy".
See, here's where you're wrong: Joomla makes it incredibly easy to grant full editing access to anyone visiting your site!
How?
With hundreds of essential 3rd-party modules! These action-packed add-ons feature high-quality and easy-to-use SQL injection exploits, empowering your visitors to take full control and do whatever they want to your site.
Now that's usability!
I can do incredibly stupid things to my virtual boxen knowing that I can just roll back to a snapshot and smile.
rm -rf /var/www/myjoomlasite
The core's not the problem, but the 3rd-party add-ons can hurt you badly.
Check out http://milw0rm.com/ and do a quick search for Joomla and see why.
With so many practice areas, the one-lawyer-fits-all strategy is not going to work: anyone who *doesn't* say something along the lines of "that's not my area of expertise; you should go and talk to " is most likely exactly the kind of person you *don't* want working on your case.
How do you get Hulu.com in Canada?
And lets not forget that with *nix core systems, you're only a .conf file or two away from fixing something: a text file or two you can safely cp to a .bak file before continuing, you can pastebin to an IRC channel for help, a text file or two you can easily restore from backup should you make a mess of it. For the inexperienced, setting up your system from the shell may have taken longer than some DoEverything(TM) Wizard, but that extra time will reap many rewards of knowledge and satisfaction of understanding what just happened.
You're not hunting for one-off or "hidden" tools on various Kit CDs; you're not trudging through a vastly undocumented registry; you're not wrestling with EXMERGE on huge, monolithic data objects when you're InfoStore won't mount; you're not sweating it out when a DCPROMO goes wrong and your DC doesn't authenticate anymore; you're not endlessly rebooting your servers with each patch you apply.
Open source and *nix systems aren't always easy either, but the transparency in the community, the source, and the implementation makes life alot easier when things go wrong.
the groups who actually bring you the releases (fairlight, razor1911, etc.) take what they do very seriously, and besides the occasional false positive (ahem, AVG), wouldn't dream of including malware in the releases; they have rules of engagement that they follow very closely and would be ridiculed in IRC and publicly lambasted in NFOs for years.
eDonkey and LimeWire downloading is the equivalent of walking into a dark alley in the Bronx with a sign asking "Any crack for sale?"