A growing share of the job and consumer market have e-mail as preferred or sole communication method - or at least for the initial trigger. I'm willing to bet that 20% will continue to evaporate.
The summary seems to imply that if you've never sent an e-mail there is something wrong with you or you fail at life.
Without e-mail you would depend on and pay for an agent for the most trivial purchases. You have the inability to book your own e-tickets for flights and events, to even consider thousands of useful on-line retailers for your shopping. Telephone and paper support for some of these tasks are being reduced and might not even exist for new businesses.
So you are failing to adopt. Your ways will eventually become extinct. You do not take advantage of decades of progress.
On the other hand, the Amish are still alive. And there are still some uncontacted bronze-age tribes in the Amazon. Most of those tribes are nearly extinct though, so in the long-run it's just not in your best interest to ignore change.
Entirely feasible, at my old job we made overlay applications for television shows (sms voting, chat, for example) and the "bug detection" you described was exactly how to decide whether the application should be active or not, when no playlist was available.
Old folks know the value of time. Teens just love to waste time, until they realise how important it is.
Nonsense.
First of all, people have always used adverts to get up for a drink, walk the dog, visit the loo. The difference from TFA is that younger people tend to have more friends and gadgets that might need attention or are available to insure the advertising slots are not a waste of time.
When old folks are complaining about teenagers "playing" with their phones during dinner or some family meeting, this is what really is happening: the young person is simply continuing his/her daily social life. The old person is grumpy because the event probably is a major part of their social life and they feel left out. That is why they want to skip adverts: they have nothing left to do during them. Young people are far more likely to have someone they can text/chat/ring/MSN and so on.
Also don't forget the "television as background music" part. This has actually also always been the case (when hoovering,cleaning or ironing, for example). Again here it is simply more likely that younger people are able to combine such tasks with television because they tend to live in smaller rooms/studios/flats.
I'm seriously waiting for the first music CD to come out with adverts between each track.
I doubt it. Download sales increasingly popular and will they eventually completely overtake compact disc sales. Also, music is no longer the sole (or even the primary) form of income for artists: the real money is in merchandise, live performances, making appearances as a brand at events (and in.. adverts, ironically).
Ad Age hypothesizes that younger viewers 'just pay attention to other media when the ads are on TV or, worse yet, perhaps the TV is just "background music"...'
How was this an unexpected result? People have always used advert slots to get up for a drink, walk the dog, visit the loo and so on. Younger viewers simply have more distractions (friends, choirs) and more gadgets (mobiles, computers, consoles) that might need attention, or could provide the necessary distraction during the interruption.
And using television as background music isn't exactly new either.. anyone who has ever hoovered or ironed can vouch for that. The difference between young and old is quite simple here as well: younger people tend to live in smaller houses (think of a studios) where it's more likely primary tasks are nearby a television set.
Look, Yahoo, I don't know who you think is using this software, but 99.999% of the people using this outside of you guys do not have 'server farms'.
Actually, 99.999% of websites probably do not run on a dedicated server but on a shared host - most of them using some sort of cluster solution. Which is precisely why ETags won't work unless you turn off the server defaults so you can generate your own using server-independent data.
They think normal websites should be using CDNs? Are they on drugs?
Stop dissing Yahoo. They wrote their guide for high-performance web sites, not normal web sites.
And a CDN actually is a very good idea. Using one (even if you start by just using a virtual host or S3 for static data) separates application logic from content. That's never a bad thing - it makes it a whole lot easier to optimise dynamic and static content differently regardless of whether you are using Yahoo's suggestions or others.
But instead of talking about the technological solutions, the lawyers fly half way across the world to meet with their clients. In fact, nowhere in the article is encryption even mentioned. Is it possible that lawyers don't even know about PGP?"
Most of them probably don't. Those who do probably have figured out they get paid anyway and prefer lunch in SF and spending the weekend in Miami.
I'd rather chat with friends and peers in person than over PGP.
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One reason could be the amount of built-in features. The last time I tried image manipulation with mod_perl the script required more include lines alone than the total lines of code in the equivalent PHP script. Even the Perl guru at work had to admit that mod_perl has some disadvantages when you're looking for a platform and not just a language. (use Image::JPEG::ohNoNotTheVersionInCPANWhichDidntCompileAnyway, use GD::ButSomeObscureDownloadBecauseOfADependencyFromHell)
(Don't get me wrong, I don't hate Perl as a language.)
When the cell phone is operating on full power, it is highly likely to interfere with the plane's navigation systems.
That's bull. If there was any potential danger from mobile phones, they would not even allow them on board. I cannot take [insert whatever they banned where you live] in my hand luggage anymore, but they simply ask me to turn of my phone? Can't be all that dangerous then.
Sack him? It's a politician. The best we Europeans can do next time is not vote for.. oh wait, the Commission isn't a democratically elected body.
1. Sign international treaties as minister of a European country. 2. Call this activity a "Commission". 3. Have control over 2/3rd over European law effectively bypassing those pesky democratic decisions made by member states. 4. Sell out. 5. PROFIT!!!
Looks like we can end the profit meme here, someone cracked it for us.
Why is it that the US and Israel are the only two states one cannot criticise without being labelled "anti-american" or "anti-semitic"?
Frame of reference. A lot of states (but also cultures and religions) tend to consider criticism as anti-whatever-they-are, or at least think of different opinions as extreme because their own beliefs are (the only) legitimate ones.
Obviously such a straightforwarded bias would be easy to spot, but fact remains is that if you don't know the algorithm, you won't know why you were dismissed. Not that it's much different from dealing with real persons though, sure they say "we found a candidate with better credentials" but how sure can you be they didn't really mean "who's not a stoner/kite/woman/whatever" ?
I don't get it. No matter what age-group/gender combination you think of, even combined with geodata and occupation/education levels, this doesn't even come close to identifying individuals. Unless you actually believe "a male farmer in his 30s in the Shanghai region" or "a female grandmother in the suburbs of Houston" is significantly detailed.
It makes more sense to worry about accidently getting linked to personal details left in instant messaging, e-mail, community profiles and/or conversations.
Another part of that argument is the simple fact that each human being has individual talents (or lack thereof).
Maybe it's absurd that extravagant celebrities make a living flaunting their nipples at parties, but I doubt we'd be much better off if Paris Hilton was educating kids in Africa or performing brain surgery. People who work at NASA/ESA simply work in a field that matches their competence and interests and forcing them to do something they'd absolutely suck at wouldn't exactly solve world problems either.
No, of course not. Trademarks purposefully apply only to a certain field of operation. This whole article is about the bleeding obvious and could as well have said "gee, did you know there's a Mario Pizza in other states as well?".
Oh, please, she's 17. In most Western countries "kids" (I prefer adolescents) at this age can do at least one out of driving, drinking, or intercourse. And in most Western countries people who are 17 do have some sort of job to give them a bit of extra cash to spend on precisely these sort of things (I hear "low on credit, but I get paid then and then so I can top up again" all the time).
(Even if you are talking about younger teenagers, your argument is moot. Here in Europe most people get a mobile phone around 12 and pay for their pre-paid plans from their allowance. As a matter of fact, I'd like to think that such a setup actually promotes financial responsibility.)
I can fiddle with white space, unallocated disk blocks, executables (since they are not likely to be executed from backup nor examined closely), whatever.
If you're truly lucky the source data is in XML, with its extensibility by definition. Almost makes me wonder if data tempering was the true force behind its development and adoption.:-)
Even addslashes() shouldn't be used, it is a hack now replaced by mysql_real_escape_string, pg_escape_string and friends. Addslashes doesn't escape everything that should be, nor does it take character encodings into account.
Moderation, and making things optional. Keep content and interactivity alive with Javascript disabled and chances are that whatever you're doing with "Web 2.0" is not ruining your design.
And what most people don't even realise: it's actually the easiest way! Don't write a completely new interface in AJAX, instead just call existing pages with an additional xml=1 parameter. The target page still does whatever you want it to do on the server-side, with the only difference that it sends back the XML (or encoded innerHTML stuff or whatever) instead of an entire page.
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A growing share of the job and consumer market have e-mail as preferred or sole communication method - or at least for the initial trigger. I'm willing to bet that 20% will continue to evaporate.
Without e-mail you would depend on and pay for an agent for the most trivial purchases. You have the inability to book your own e-tickets for flights and events, to even consider thousands of useful on-line retailers for your shopping. Telephone and paper support for some of these tasks are being reduced and might not even exist for new businesses.
So you are failing to adopt. Your ways will eventually become extinct. You do not take advantage of decades of progress.
On the other hand, the Amish are still alive. And there are still some uncontacted bronze-age tribes in the Amazon. Most of those tribes are nearly extinct though, so in the long-run it's just not in your best interest to ignore change.
Entirely feasible, at my old job we made overlay applications for television shows (sms voting, chat, for example) and the "bug detection" you described was exactly how to decide whether the application should be active or not, when no playlist was available.
Nonsense.
First of all, people have always used adverts to get up for a drink, walk the dog, visit the loo. The difference from TFA is that younger people tend to have more friends and gadgets that might need attention or are available to insure the advertising slots are not a waste of time.
When old folks are complaining about teenagers "playing" with their phones during dinner or some family meeting, this is what really is happening: the young person is simply continuing his/her daily social life. The old person is grumpy because the event probably is a major part of their social life and they feel left out. That is why they want to skip adverts: they have nothing left to do during them. Young people are far more likely to have someone they can text/chat/ring/MSN and so on.
Also don't forget the "television as background music" part. This has actually also always been the case (when hoovering,cleaning or ironing, for example). Again here it is simply more likely that younger people are able to combine such tasks with television because they tend to live in smaller rooms/studios/flats.
I'm with the teenagers on this one.
I doubt it. Download sales increasingly popular and will they eventually completely overtake compact disc sales. Also, music is no longer the sole (or even the primary) form of income for artists: the real money is in merchandise, live performances, making appearances as a brand at events (and in.. adverts, ironically).
How was this an unexpected result? People have always used advert slots to get up for a drink, walk the dog, visit the loo and so on. Younger viewers simply have more distractions (friends, choirs) and more gadgets (mobiles, computers, consoles) that might need attention, or could provide the necessary distraction during the interruption.
And using television as background music isn't exactly new either.. anyone who has ever hoovered or ironed can vouch for that. The difference between young and old is quite simple here as well: younger people tend to live in smaller houses (think of a studios) where it's more likely primary tasks are nearby a television set.
Secondly, why is the private sector "efficient"?
Because it allows you to utilise the ideas, labour and capital of the entire population and not just the part supposed to be involved with government.
Actually, 99.999% of websites probably do not run on a dedicated server but on a shared host - most of them using some sort of cluster solution. Which is precisely why ETags won't work unless you turn off the server defaults so you can generate your own using server-independent data.
Stop dissing Yahoo. They wrote their guide for high-performance web sites, not normal web sites.
And a CDN actually is a very good idea. Using one (even if you start by just using a virtual host or S3 for static data) separates application logic from content. That's never a bad thing - it makes it a whole lot easier to optimise dynamic and static content differently regardless of whether you are using Yahoo's suggestions or others.
Most of them probably don't. Those who do probably have figured out they get paid anyway and prefer lunch in SF and spending the weekend in Miami.
I'd rather chat with friends and peers in person than over PGP.
One reason could be the amount of built-in features. The last time I tried image manipulation with mod_perl the script required more include lines alone than the total lines of code in the equivalent PHP script. Even the Perl guru at work had to admit that mod_perl has some disadvantages when you're looking for a platform and not just a language. (use Image::JPEG::ohNoNotTheVersionInCPANWhichDidntCompileAnyway, use GD::ButSomeObscureDownloadBecauseOfADependencyFromHell)
(Don't get me wrong, I don't hate Perl as a language.)
I deduct that, given the precision requirements, transporters (and replicators) will be reality before time travel.
That's bull. If there was any potential danger from mobile phones, they would not even allow them on board. I cannot take [insert whatever they banned where you live] in my hand luggage anymore, but they simply ask me to turn of my phone? Can't be all that dangerous then.
Sack him? It's a politician. The best we Europeans can do next time is not vote for.. oh wait, the Commission isn't a democratically elected body.
1. Sign international treaties as minister of a European country.
2. Call this activity a "Commission".
3. Have control over 2/3rd over European law effectively bypassing those pesky democratic decisions made by member states.
4. Sell out.
5. PROFIT!!!
Looks like we can end the profit meme here, someone cracked it for us.
So would I, but that's idle hope when it comes to Reuters.
Frame of reference. A lot of states (but also cultures and religions) tend to consider criticism as anti-whatever-they-are, or at least think of different opinions as extreme because their own beliefs are (the only) legitimate ones.
Obviously such a straightforwarded bias would be easy to spot, but fact remains is that if you don't know the algorithm, you won't know why you were dismissed. Not that it's much different from dealing with real persons though, sure they say "we found a candidate with better credentials" but how sure can you be they didn't really mean "who's not a stoner/kite/woman/whatever" ?
I don't get it. No matter what age-group/gender combination you think of, even combined with geodata and occupation/education levels, this doesn't even come close to identifying individuals. Unless you actually believe "a male farmer in his 30s in the Shanghai region" or "a female grandmother in the suburbs of Houston" is significantly detailed.
It makes more sense to worry about accidently getting linked to personal details left in instant messaging, e-mail, community profiles and/or conversations.
Another part of that argument is the simple fact that each human being has individual talents (or lack thereof).
Maybe it's absurd that extravagant celebrities make a living flaunting their nipples at parties, but I doubt we'd be much better off if Paris Hilton was educating kids in Africa or performing brain surgery. People who work at NASA/ESA simply work in a field that matches their competence and interests and forcing them to do something they'd absolutely suck at wouldn't exactly solve world problems either.
No, of course not. Trademarks purposefully apply only to a certain field of operation. This whole article is about the bleeding obvious and could as well have said "gee, did you know there's a Mario Pizza in other states as well?".
Oh, please, she's 17. In most Western countries "kids" (I prefer adolescents) at this age can do at least one out of driving, drinking, or intercourse. And in most Western countries people who are 17 do have some sort of job to give them a bit of extra cash to spend on precisely these sort of things (I hear "low on credit, but I get paid then and then so I can top up again" all the time).
(Even if you are talking about younger teenagers, your argument is moot. Here in Europe most people get a mobile phone around 12 and pay for their pre-paid plans from their allowance. As a matter of fact, I'd like to think that such a setup actually promotes financial responsibility.)
Plans with unlimited GPRS access exist in Europe as well, although most teenagers here are on pre-paid and not on a subscription plan.
If you're truly lucky the source data is in XML, with its extensibility by definition. Almost makes me wonder if data tempering was the true force behind its development and adoption.
Even addslashes() shouldn't be used, it is a hack now replaced by mysql_real_escape_string, pg_escape_string and friends. Addslashes doesn't escape everything that should be, nor does it take character encodings into account.
Or one teaching proper English perhaps!
Moderation, and making things optional. Keep content and interactivity alive with Javascript disabled and chances are that whatever you're doing with "Web 2.0" is not ruining your design.
And what most people don't even realise: it's actually the easiest way! Don't write a completely new interface in AJAX, instead just call existing pages with an additional xml=1 parameter. The target page still does whatever you want it to do on the server-side, with the only difference that it sends back the XML (or encoded innerHTML stuff or whatever) instead of an entire page.