I, too, am a web developer and my workflow is similar to yours with respect to Photoshop. I really like the power HTML/CSS provides (especially with CSS3 transitions) when creating GUIs. Designing them in the traditional ways seems somewhat backwards when I switch gears to native development. While I know you're a web guy, check out QML if you're interesting in making some native applications. I wouldn't recommend it for enterprise level projects, but for "app" grade projects it's interesting.
If you take a step back, isn't any system devised by man? I don't consider mathematics invented by man, the explanations yes, but I think the facts are truths found in natural the world.
The thing is, the presumption with eugenics is that you know which genes are good or bad.... They would still make a value judgement in deciding what traits are desirable or not, and there's no plausible reason we should defer to that.
Good and bad are moral arguments, with genes there are desirable and undesirable traits. I'll give you a real scenario. Both parents were (unknown) carriers for cystic fibrosis, and after their daughter was born it was apparent she wasn't well. There are tests for this, if I understand your reasoning its undesirable and immoral to deem this trait anything other than beneficial. To this person it is all they've ever known, but compared to their peers their life is different will most likely be shorter. Interesting, when we do it with animals it's A Good Thing(tm). To highlight this, look at the impact of dogs throughout history, many breeds exist because of desired traits. Similar breeding exists in beef production and egg producing chickens, poultry production using birds bred for larger breasts etc. Do you abstain from pet ownership, meat, and dairy products on moral grounds and look upon all those who do not as "bad"? Why is seeking out potential mates with extreme genetic disorders "good"?
If you let yourself do transparently selfish and hypocritical stuff like making value judgments on other people's genes
We do it all the time, why are certain physical features found attractive? It's not crazy talk to consider someone from Brazil if you're into asses. If you like blue eyes, perhaps Northern Europeans are more your flavor? Not to say skin deep valuations aren't without their flaws, say the morning after you've been to a club...
Eugenics and nazism are fundamentally related
Eugenics and selective breeding have been around longer than Nazism. Human tribalism existed (and continues to thrive) since time began, and despite our best efforts there is no escaping human nature.
He's Canadian and likes to bash religion but believes in Aliens (something which there is no proof, hence, belief.) I think a more compelling argument would be how effective American media is at influencing opinion both foreign and domestic.
Nice absolute. Not all command lines are created equal, look at the abortion that is PowerShell but at least Windows has ls. Off of the top top of my head: how about copying files in a directory, let's say files/photos/resumes/songs/logs organized by first and last name delimited with a space, and you want all of the Bs. It's clumsy at best with the GUI. How about renaming all of them to replace the spaces with an underscore? Its not like anyone manages music collections... with specific regard to admin tasks, command line is a heck of a lot easier (admin level prompt, type command(s)) than navigating to the desired tool, loading it up, navigating the wizard/menus, selecting tasks (repeating).
You just have to pay for that solution.
The proposed solution doesn't sound easier in comparison. First you need to go to a website, then buy something, (possibly)download it, install/deploy it, (possibly)configure it, create/customize the scripts, test it and finally do it. How is that easier than typing something? It's an immense benefit to become familiar with tools one uses daily, especially when you're charging for your time. Good engineering revolves around efficiency, less moving parts means less potential to go wrong. In addition now your credentials are available in multiple places. Call me old fashioned but requiring people to know what they're doing without depending upon 3rd party software to do their job shouldn't be considered 'hard' but something that comes with the territory.
Barring physical disabilities, do you not use Google because typing things is hard?
FYI a former client of mine with IE 7 and 8 just migrated to Hotmail
And the reason he most likely migrated to Google in the first place was the incredible, for the time, free storage. If you recall up until Google entered the scene space was ridiculously limited looking back.
That my friend is lost revenue regardless if you feel it is a shitty browser.
Both of these companies offer free storage in exchange for displaying ads based on the contents of your mail. To be fair it's more than just what I feel. If its such an awesome browser more people would use it. Competition is a good thing, and the market has surpassed this variant of IE.
If you want to target corporations you have to play by their rules.
Which is why Google is making headway with their collaborative offerings like Google Apps for Business. Not a fit for everyone, but some organizations have made the jump. Beats exchange licensing fees.
After 2020 we can move to HTML 5 when Windows 7 gets EOL with a standards compliant browser like what IE 10 is now (doesn't suck!!!)
How can you be so sure it doesn't suck when it hasn't even been released yet? Developers may make use of HTML5 now, not everything needs local storage and webgl, svg etc. What's neat about the HTML5 doc type is it degrades gracefully. Web development has many faces since the client software varies and taking things like mobile and desktop browser resolutions into consideration is important for good designs. Part of a successful project involves understanding your target audience. Well designed sites/applications can cater to the least common denominators as well as the high end.
You can argue technical facts until you are blue in the face.
It's much easier to argue with facts, and technical facts are relevant when you're working on technical things. It explains why things aren't working between browsers due to lack of standards support by the developers.
If it is a cost it wont get adopted PERIOD!
How was the project approved in the first place? The logic is baffling if they think the longer they wait to upgrade that it will become cheaper.
It works fine, it is what the PHB bet his reputation on that he feels you are ruining on these apps
If it works fine they wouldn't have anything to worry about.
Are you telling the CFO at these big wig companies that there $5,000,0000 upgrade they just blew from IE 6 to IE 8 that they need to do it again?! Didn't we upgrade last year??
I'm not telling them that, their own bone headed decisions to target IE8 (IE8 came out 3 years ago, 3 years is a long time for websites to go without a change). The fact remains if they made an actual backend separated from the front end they wouldn't be experiencing nearly as many issues and separation isn't a new concept. Done in by their own greed.
Not business and these intranet developers only target IE 8 because it is the universal browser that works with XP and WIndows 7.
IE8 support is the current least common denominator but its an ever shrinking target. At least it supports media queries, you need a god awful shim to get something like that frankensteined into IE7 and its ilk.
Therefore, Office 365 is here to stay because Google things HTML 5 is cool.
More people than Google think HTML5 is cool with good reason (working locally, SVG support, canvas etc.) Like it or hate it the web is cross platform and in the real world not everything revolves around Google and Microsoft. We've seen what Microsoft is capable of with browser tech and their vision, and that's responsible for much of the pain.
FYI firefox does not have adm nor admx files so it is out of the question.
Is that so, how can this be? It still can be controlled via AD, unlike Chrome, and displays stuff better than IE (save for maybe the most recent incarnation which isn't released yet and doesn't count).
First off do not tell 90% of corps who standardize on IE 6, 7, and 8 to go hell! Google docs is absolutely useless. Not even IE 8 which is the defecto standard for every single Intranet app in existence. I could see dropping IE 6 (that itself will cost business). Corps must use IE only as it is the only one with group policy, active directory, mass deployment, and a slow release cycle. Before the IE haters mod me down, ask yourselves why aren't you writing extensions to Firefox and Chrome for these features?
Also GoogleDocs is a glorified wordpad in functionality but with sharing....Office 365 has more features, integrates with the MS ecosystem, and supports older versions of IE where upgrading is out of the question and would cost more than savings with free Google Docs.
The internet is just a glorified PC experience with sharing. Microsoft missed the bus once before.
Google needs to:
So they can be just like MS? How is MS strategy working now: their browsers are behind the curve in many respects. Behind the curve is becoming Microsoft's strong suit in many areas. This is valid criticism, not to discount their innovation in other areas (Kinect, Metro, C# etc.)
Support ancient versions of IE.
Why not just have them use a LTS version of Firefox since it supports AD? IE for the shit apps, FF for everything else. If you want legacy software support, you pay for it like everyone else, and looks like the price is increasing. With IE its a pity these proprietary browsers have such shite standards support, maybe if these companies didn't paint themselves into a corner with brittle applications, developed most likely by the lowest bidder (it's low cost for a reason), they'd not be in the boat they're in now. I think it's time to change the mantra 'Nobody was fired for picking a Microsoft solution' since its the managers who are ultimately responsible for these shit sandwich mission critical systems with no exit strategy which have the company by the balls. If you are incompetent enough to be unable to upgrade the views to a system, you're doing it wrong. If it's a boondoggle then have the heads of those responsible, otherwise you will not encourage change, nothing is a motivator like self preservation.
Ancient software is typically bad idea. Old browsers need to go away for one simple reason: they're security nightmares.
With $500,000 worth of ancient apps that browser is not going away!
Support is dwindling. Vacuum tubes still exist after all...
XP users are stuck at IE 8 not to mention IE 8 is targeted for WIndows 7 users as well as it is the universal browser that works with both operating systems.
XP users are overdue for an upgrade, they're 3 versions behind now. I'd say Firefox is arguably the universal desktop browser since it runs on most platforms. A good lesson out of the last decade is standards, screw the 'one true platform.'
Which is not particularly helpful if all the lawyers charge prices an individual worker can't possibly afford, the cops are indistinguishable from corporate security, and the judge is the boss's best buddy at the country club.
Your argument boils down to "No they can't, corruption!" Lawyers can work probono, public defenders do this. Not to mention that never before has it been easier to document things and distribute them to a world wide audience. Sounds like a conflict of interest and there are mechanisms to deal with that as well.
This was pretty much the norm in the pre-union days, and is becoming the norm again as unions have less and less power.
The corruption stems deeper than unions, and their hands aren't clean either looking at how much union management makes in many cases, and defending (arguably) worthless members. Our legal system provides an advantage to those with money, this has nothing to do with union power, and is nothing new. Unions seem to do a lot more harm than good now-a-days, especially politically since they're directly contributing to political campaigns using tax dollars in some cases. Unions aren't a panacea, how are the Hostess workers faring this Christmas?
Um, yeah, and when a bunch of workers get together to protect their interests, it's called a "union."
Um, yeah, I work in an industry that doesn't have a union, software never has, and we're not subject to beatings. Not to say they don't happen, but it's not like it's "You can be them if they're not in a union!" How does that work? Are these union workers who will be beaten, as you claim, working in prisons? Or perhaps Police Officers? Many things have changed over the last 100 years, much of what we have today stems from their efforts. However, there are many examples of systemic problems involving unproductive members which need to be addressed if they want to remain competitive.
Yes. And if you don't think that, then you need to read some history.
If you're beaten physically there are laws to deal with that and there are plenty of lawyers out there. Frankly, if someone does that to me I'm not going to simply take it - if someone beat your wife at work would you simply shrug? There are more workers than potential bullies, and there are laws. Until the law comes, it's up to you.
Absolutely. Murder and killing mean different things. Do you consider it murder when you use poison to manage pests? Do you not use hand sanitizer or antibiotics since you consider all killing murder? It helps if you understand the meaning of words.
If you use a gun for target practice, you are not using it for it's intended purpose.
Ridiculous. You sound like one of those people who wants to make the internet like TV. Internet is just for consuming!
I can paint a car with a logo and put it on top of a building to be the sign for a drive-through restaurant, and I am "using" the car, but not for its intended purpose.
I didn't realize there was a list of authorized uses for vehicles. That's like claiming if you don't use your car for driving to and from work, you're not using it right? Hilarious. Guess those people who use them to tow boats, remove stumps, race them, collect them are doing it wrong. Heaven forbid people have multiple purpose devices. Do you escort anyone out of your home for using a salad fork for their main course?
The intended purpose of a gun is to kill.
The intended purpose of living beings is to procreate. If you're not doing that like rabbits, you're not doing it right? Back to the topic, better start outlawing flare guns! Anyone with a boat or emergency kit is now a killer waiting to strike!
However, killing is one of (not the only) the primary purposes of a gun. You cannot say the same of a computer.
Depends on the computer, unless targeting systems don't count as computers. Stabbing and cutting are the primary functions of knives. Some of the less than or non lethal uses of guns include: bean bags, tear gas, rubber bullets, flares. Projectile launchers aren't all bad, everyone seems to like fireworks shows which are essentially cannons. As with any tool it has a purpose, and intent factors in.
Follow the can spam laws and ya have nothing to worry about.
An associate of mine created an email delivery system which many companies use and one of their larger clients sends out about 25million messages a day to their opt-in lists (it's a newsletter). There are users who opt-in and then mark the message as spam (forgetting they signed up, or perhaps even mis-clicked). This does happen. What then? As a company you're following the rules...
Typically you don't need to taser the hell out of someone to escort them from the premises.
Typically you speak the language of the land you're in if you want to avoid problems. Typically people don't buy that many iphones. Typically you leave when asked to do so when on private property. Did you know it's illegal to remain on property when you're no longer welcome? Or do laws only apply to residents who speak the language and are male?
Specifically when it's a woman. You might call me old fashioned or sexist here, but where I'm from we get taught not to use violence against women.
So women are equal but not when it comes to assault (with or without a weapon), battery, murder? How about when women hit you in the face and hop a counter to further attack you? Double standard much? Hypothetically in order to conquer the south the only thing that's needed is to have an army full of women, then? *puffs pipe* Interesting theory!
Did you know that even restraining someone is considered violence, so if we follow your lead even an officer restraining someone is violent, and a no-no. How do you propose to even arrest women? Maybe you can create an all female gang and live a life of ease, assuming you ask nicely of course!
As all my apps are free, that's not a concern for me. I financially benefit from Google's (far) cheaper rates.
One of the points you raised was why. I provided a valid reason: the App store generates more revenue than Google Play. That said, I'm glad to hear that you make your applications available free of charge. There is a market for pay apps, and if that's the route you're going Apple seems to be an arguably better bet. A successful developer understands requirements. Depending on what hardware the majority of your target market uses, if a significant number of them use Apple, it may make sense to target them - just as you're doing with your App with respect to Android and Google Play. Not every business can afford to ignore 15%+ of a market (especially true with respect to Browser market share). In America a significant number of iDevices exist, and to ignore that market segment is a mistake.
For example, the company I work at develops apps (targeting both platforms) for the health care industry and over 3/4 of our clients' audience use iPhones. The apps are given away by our clients, too. My medical insurance company does something similar and I'm able to look at blood work (among other things), usually the same day, on my phone. They released the iPhone version about 6 months ahead of the Android, here is an interesting article about why iOS is initially targeted instead of Android.
The command line can be very intuitive - more so than clicking in this huge graphics-rich, slow and cumbersome administrative UI.
It can also be intimidating, look at setting a bunch of video encoder settings sometime. At the end of the day, they're tools to assist with getting your work done. The more familiar you are with your tools, the more effective you'll be and that benefits everyone (company, client etc.)
Sure, you might have to do some RTFMing and have a clue, but a sysadmin should know how the system works and be willing to RTFM anyhow.
Oh, please. Take your hand off your dick, stop masturbating to the CLI, put your pants up and realize that CLI doesn't suit for e.g. creating visually-consumed content, for managing audio-visual content, for design work and so on and so forth.
Are you aware this is a discussion about servers? Do you think Youtube converted all those videos with an army of people using video editing software or was it done using command line utilities? Do you think photos which are resized on websites are done using people with image manipulation software? Where is the mythic MySpace and Facebook farms of employees who handle the near instantaneous resizes? Why would they use command line utilities if they're so terrible, in your opinion?
Do you know that video encoding and manipulation (think resizing, watermarking, generating keyframe snapshots, and applying filters) is done by software which is command line controlled? What about comparing scenes output with different compression settings? Sure these can be done by a warm body, if it needs to be done with any frequency there is a reason why computers are involved, automation. Command line and client software that support macros are a means to that end. Automating a GUI on a server is not the ideal way to do these things especially if its internet facing.
I have to disagree with this. GUIs are not the end-all-be-all of computing by any means, but they have their uses. I would be loathe to edit graphics using a CLI, for example, other than the most routine rotation, scaling, etc.
Fine and dandy if you're operating on a workstation, if you're doing this on a server (which is the focus of this conversation) you're doing it wrong. Command line graphic manipulation is mature and powerful, although not nearly as intuitive as using a GUI. It's worth it in the long run if you're offering services to users that depend on re-sizing photos, watermarking, and related asset generation rather than depending on someone for photoshop macros. Unless you want to argue that Facebook employs an army of photoshop monkeys with stellar performance...
They don't care about ill-will because gamers have shown time and again that they are totally spineless and will accept any abuse dished out by game companies.
Perhaps it has more to do with people who've grown accustomed with these things being the norm? An analog to the situation in the states with the TSA and air travel. It is the new norm and for a new generation it is all they've known. Don't forget to buy the DLC, kid.
My only grip about many games, legit or pirated, is that stupid stupid stupid MOFO dickfucks, who still think people run on 1024x768 or 1280x1024 screens, but are TOO dumb, or TOO POOR, to even know that every one has a 16:9 tv , at 1366x768 or 1920x.
While not representative of the gaming community as a whole, the Steam hardware survey has some interesting figures. Note the fragmentation.
Hey Game coders, how about you just use the same res as what the desktop has. Get a clue bozos.
That's a great suggestion, as long as everyone has enough horsepower. Desktop and 3d application requirements performance vary considerably and this may be why developers are conservative.
You dont have to test for all 1 million resolution combinations, just 4:3 and 16:9 and 2:1 and smart auto adjusting for everything else.
If you look at the Steam hardware survey you'll notice the variety of resolutions that're encountered out in the wild. If things are designed properly display elements should scale, however, budgets aren't infinite nor are timelines. In many instances display devices are queried for supported display modes, it's not a list hard coded by the developer.
How are apps installed? I am under the impression it is via iTunes store and that is it.
You are able to browse the store and install apps directly on your device, this functionality includes updating the OS as well. Itunes on the desktop acts as a sync and backup but is not a requirement to install or update software.
And yes, the engineers who made Dropbox may not be techies,
In your opinion, who do you think writes software? Would you consider these people technical, why not?
And yes, the engineers who made Dropbox may not be techies, if techies are the ones who whine on/. instead of solving the problem.
Posting to/. makes you a techie? That's about as descriptive of a label as being a member of Anonymous. Since you're posting here you must be a techie too by your own definition since you're not solving any problems with your post (its arguably whining) right? Or are you referring to the other poster who can't decide if he wants NAS, FTP, Dropbox, or Cloud hosting and makes a dubious claim about these being in the tens of thousands to setup. Are you aware that these items fill different roles?
Nice email address btw, did you get that when you became a techie?
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I, too, am a web developer and my workflow is similar to yours with respect to Photoshop. I really like the power HTML/CSS provides (especially with CSS3 transitions) when creating GUIs. Designing them in the traditional ways seems somewhat backwards when I switch gears to native development. While I know you're a web guy, check out QML if you're interesting in making some native applications. I wouldn't recommend it for enterprise level projects, but for "app" grade projects it's interesting.
Because eugenics is inherently corrupt.
If you take a step back, isn't any system devised by man? I don't consider mathematics invented by man, the explanations yes, but I think the facts are truths found in natural the world.
The thing is, the presumption with eugenics is that you know which genes are good or bad. ... They would still make a value judgement in deciding what traits are desirable or not, and there's no plausible reason we should defer to that.
Good and bad are moral arguments, with genes there are desirable and undesirable traits. I'll give you a real scenario. Both parents were (unknown) carriers for cystic fibrosis, and after their daughter was born it was apparent she wasn't well. There are tests for this, if I understand your reasoning its undesirable and immoral to deem this trait anything other than beneficial. To this person it is all they've ever known, but compared to their peers their life is different will most likely be shorter. Interesting, when we do it with animals it's A Good Thing(tm). To highlight this, look at the impact of dogs throughout history, many breeds exist because of desired traits. Similar breeding exists in beef production and egg producing chickens, poultry production using birds bred for larger breasts etc. Do you abstain from pet ownership, meat, and dairy products on moral grounds and look upon all those who do not as "bad"? Why is seeking out potential mates with extreme genetic disorders "good"?
If you let yourself do transparently selfish and hypocritical stuff like making value judgments on other people's genes
We do it all the time, why are certain physical features found attractive? It's not crazy talk to consider someone from Brazil if you're into asses. If you like blue eyes, perhaps Northern Europeans are more your flavor? Not to say skin deep valuations aren't without their flaws, say the morning after you've been to a club...
Eugenics and nazism are fundamentally related
Eugenics and selective breeding have been around longer than Nazism. Human tribalism existed (and continues to thrive) since time began, and despite our best efforts there is no escaping human nature.
He's Canadian and likes to bash religion but believes in Aliens (something which there is no proof, hence, belief.) I think a more compelling argument would be how effective American media is at influencing opinion both foreign and domestic.
Maybe you could type N-Central into google and educate yourself.
Do you have a N-Central GUI recommendation for creating the query?
Anything in a command line is not "easy".
Nice absolute. Not all command lines are created equal, look at the abortion that is PowerShell but at least Windows has ls. Off of the top top of my head: how about copying files in a directory, let's say files/photos/resumes/songs/logs organized by first and last name delimited with a space, and you want all of the Bs. It's clumsy at best with the GUI. How about renaming all of them to replace the spaces with an underscore? Its not like anyone manages music collections... with specific regard to admin tasks, command line is a heck of a lot easier (admin level prompt, type command(s)) than navigating to the desired tool, loading it up, navigating the wizard/menus, selecting tasks (repeating).
You just have to pay for that solution.
The proposed solution doesn't sound easier in comparison. First you need to go to a website, then buy something, (possibly)download it, install/deploy it, (possibly)configure it, create/customize the scripts, test it and finally do it. How is that easier than typing something? It's an immense benefit to become familiar with tools one uses daily, especially when you're charging for your time. Good engineering revolves around efficiency, less moving parts means less potential to go wrong. In addition now your credentials are available in multiple places. Call me old fashioned but requiring people to know what they're doing without depending upon 3rd party software to do their job shouldn't be considered 'hard' but something that comes with the territory.
Barring physical disabilities, do you not use Google because typing things is hard?
FYI a former client of mine with IE 7 and 8 just migrated to Hotmail
And the reason he most likely migrated to Google in the first place was the incredible, for the time, free storage. If you recall up until Google entered the scene space was ridiculously limited looking back.
That my friend is lost revenue regardless if you feel it is a shitty browser.
Both of these companies offer free storage in exchange for displaying ads based on the contents of your mail. To be fair it's more than just what I feel. If its such an awesome browser more people would use it. Competition is a good thing, and the market has surpassed this variant of IE.
If you want to target corporations you have to play by their rules.
Which is why Google is making headway with their collaborative offerings like Google Apps for Business. Not a fit for everyone, but some organizations have made the jump. Beats exchange licensing fees.
After 2020 we can move to HTML 5 when Windows 7 gets EOL with a standards compliant browser like what IE 10 is now (doesn't suck!!!)
How can you be so sure it doesn't suck when it hasn't even been released yet? Developers may make use of HTML5 now, not everything needs local storage and webgl, svg etc. What's neat about the HTML5 doc type is it degrades gracefully. Web development has many faces since the client software varies and taking things like mobile and desktop browser resolutions into consideration is important for good designs. Part of a successful project involves understanding your target audience. Well designed sites/applications can cater to the least common denominators as well as the high end.
You can argue technical facts until you are blue in the face.
It's much easier to argue with facts, and technical facts are relevant when you're working on technical things. It explains why things aren't working between browsers due to lack of standards support by the developers.
If it is a cost it wont get adopted PERIOD!
How was the project approved in the first place? The logic is baffling if they think the longer they wait to upgrade that it will become cheaper.
It works fine, it is what the PHB bet his reputation on that he feels you are ruining on these apps
If it works fine they wouldn't have anything to worry about.
Are you telling the CFO at these big wig companies that there $5,000,0000 upgrade they just blew from IE 6 to IE 8 that they need to do it again?! Didn't we upgrade last year??
I'm not telling them that, their own bone headed decisions to target IE8 (IE8 came out 3 years ago, 3 years is a long time for websites to go without a change). The fact remains if they made an actual backend separated from the front end they wouldn't be experiencing nearly as many issues and separation isn't a new concept. Done in by their own greed.
Not business and these intranet developers only target IE 8 because it is the universal browser that works with XP and WIndows 7.
IE8 support is the current least common denominator but its an ever shrinking target. At least it supports media queries, you need a god awful shim to get something like that frankensteined into IE7 and its ilk.
Therefore, Office 365 is here to stay because Google things HTML 5 is cool.
More people than Google think HTML5 is cool with good reason (working locally, SVG support, canvas etc.) Like it or hate it the web is cross platform and in the real world not everything revolves around Google and Microsoft. We've seen what Microsoft is capable of with browser tech and their vision, and that's responsible for much of the pain.
FYI firefox does not have adm nor admx files so it is out of the question.
Is that so, how can this be? It still can be controlled via AD, unlike Chrome, and displays stuff better than IE (save for maybe the most recent incarnation which isn't released yet and doesn't count).
First off do not tell 90% of corps who standardize on IE 6, 7, and 8 to go hell! Google docs is absolutely useless. Not even IE 8 which is the defecto standard for every single Intranet app in existence. I could see dropping IE 6 (that itself will cost business). Corps must use IE only as it is the only one with group policy, active directory, mass deployment, and a slow release cycle. Before the IE haters mod me down, ask yourselves why aren't you writing extensions to Firefox and Chrome for these features?
Defecto standard? Ain't that the truth. IE9 and lower are now legacy. IE7 is declining in use and is increasingly not worth supporting for many companies. Facebook dropped support for it in 2011. As of November Google dropped support for IE8. Supporting IE8 does have its merits but its now 2 versions behind the current offering, not to mention the partial CSS 2.1 support.
Also GoogleDocs is a glorified wordpad in functionality but with sharing. ...Office 365 has more features, integrates with the MS ecosystem, and supports older versions of IE where upgrading is out of the question and would cost more than savings with free Google Docs.
The internet is just a glorified PC experience with sharing. Microsoft missed the bus once before.
Google needs to:
So they can be just like MS? How is MS strategy working now: their browsers are behind the curve in many respects. Behind the curve is becoming Microsoft's strong suit in many areas. This is valid criticism, not to discount their innovation in other areas (Kinect, Metro, C# etc.)
Support ancient versions of IE.
Why not just have them use a LTS version of Firefox since it supports AD? IE for the shit apps, FF for everything else. If you want legacy software support, you pay for it like everyone else, and looks like the price is increasing. With IE its a pity these proprietary browsers have such shite standards support, maybe if these companies didn't paint themselves into a corner with brittle applications, developed most likely by the lowest bidder (it's low cost for a reason), they'd not be in the boat they're in now. I think it's time to change the mantra 'Nobody was fired for picking a Microsoft solution' since its the managers who are ultimately responsible for these shit sandwich mission critical systems with no exit strategy which have the company by the balls. If you are incompetent enough to be unable to upgrade the views to a system, you're doing it wrong. If it's a boondoggle then have the heads of those responsible, otherwise you will not encourage change, nothing is a motivator like self preservation.
Ancient software is typically bad idea. Old browsers need to go away for one simple reason: they're security nightmares.
With $500,000 worth of ancient apps that browser is not going away!
Support is dwindling. Vacuum tubes still exist after all...
XP users are stuck at IE 8 not to mention IE 8 is targeted for WIndows 7 users as well as it is the universal browser that works with both operating systems.
XP users are overdue for an upgrade, they're 3 versions behind now. I'd say Firefox is arguably the universal desktop browser since it runs on most platforms. A good lesson out of the last decade is standards, screw the 'one true platform.'
Which is not particularly helpful if all the lawyers charge prices an individual worker can't possibly afford, the cops are indistinguishable from corporate security, and the judge is the boss's best buddy at the country club.
Your argument boils down to "No they can't, corruption!" Lawyers can work probono, public defenders do this. Not to mention that never before has it been easier to document things and distribute them to a world wide audience. Sounds like a conflict of interest and there are mechanisms to deal with that as well.
This was pretty much the norm in the pre-union days, and is becoming the norm again as unions have less and less power.
The corruption stems deeper than unions, and their hands aren't clean either looking at how much union management makes in many cases, and defending (arguably) worthless members. Our legal system provides an advantage to those with money, this has nothing to do with union power, and is nothing new. Unions seem to do a lot more harm than good now-a-days, especially politically since they're directly contributing to political campaigns using tax dollars in some cases. Unions aren't a panacea, how are the Hostess workers faring this Christmas?
Um, yeah, and when a bunch of workers get together to protect their interests, it's called a "union."
Um, yeah, I work in an industry that doesn't have a union, software never has, and we're not subject to beatings. Not to say they don't happen, but it's not like it's "You can be them if they're not in a union!" How does that work? Are these union workers who will be beaten, as you claim, working in prisons? Or perhaps Police Officers? Many things have changed over the last 100 years, much of what we have today stems from their efforts. However, there are many examples of systemic problems involving unproductive members which need to be addressed if they want to remain competitive.
Yes. And if you don't think that, then you need to read some history.
If you're beaten physically there are laws to deal with that and there are plenty of lawyers out there. Frankly, if someone does that to me I'm not going to simply take it - if someone beat your wife at work would you simply shrug? There are more workers than potential bullies, and there are laws. Until the law comes, it's up to you.
Guns amplify the problem like no other tool in existence does.
So yeah easy access and possession of guns IS THE FUCKING PROBLEM.
Gun homicides in the US ~ 9000/year (2010).
AIDS deaths a year, 17,000/year
2009 vehicle accident deaths 33,808/year.
Smoking releated deaths 440,000/year.
Cardiovascular diseases kill 2,140 a day or ~800,000/year.
Sure looks like guns make the lions share of the killing.
Absolutely. Murder and killing mean different things. Do you consider it murder when you use poison to manage pests? Do you not use hand sanitizer or antibiotics since you consider all killing murder? It helps if you understand the meaning of words.
If you use a gun for target practice, you are not using it for it's intended purpose.
Ridiculous. You sound like one of those people who wants to make the internet like TV. Internet is just for consuming!
I can paint a car with a logo and put it on top of a building to be the sign for a drive-through restaurant, and I am "using" the car, but not for its intended purpose.
I didn't realize there was a list of authorized uses for vehicles. That's like claiming if you don't use your car for driving to and from work, you're not using it right? Hilarious. Guess those people who use them to tow boats, remove stumps, race them, collect them are doing it wrong. Heaven forbid people have multiple purpose devices. Do you escort anyone out of your home for using a salad fork for their main course?
The intended purpose of a gun is to kill.
The intended purpose of living beings is to procreate. If you're not doing that like rabbits, you're not doing it right? Back to the topic, better start outlawing flare guns! Anyone with a boat or emergency kit is now a killer waiting to strike!
However, killing is one of (not the only) the primary purposes of a gun. You cannot say the same of a computer.
Depends on the computer, unless targeting systems don't count as computers. Stabbing and cutting are the primary functions of knives. Some of the less than or non lethal uses of guns include: bean bags, tear gas, rubber bullets, flares. Projectile launchers aren't all bad, everyone seems to like fireworks shows which are essentially cannons. As with any tool it has a purpose, and intent factors in.
Follow the can spam laws and ya have nothing to worry about.
An associate of mine created an email delivery system which many companies use and one of their larger clients sends out about 25million messages a day to their opt-in lists (it's a newsletter). There are users who opt-in and then mark the message as spam (forgetting they signed up, or perhaps even mis-clicked). This does happen. What then? As a company you're following the rules...
Typically you don't need to taser the hell out of someone to escort them from the premises.
Typically you speak the language of the land you're in if you want to avoid problems. Typically people don't buy that many iphones. Typically you leave when asked to do so when on private property. Did you know it's illegal to remain on property when you're no longer welcome? Or do laws only apply to residents who speak the language and are male?
Specifically when it's a woman. You might call me old fashioned or sexist here, but where I'm from we get taught not to use violence against women.
So women are equal but not when it comes to assault (with or without a weapon), battery, murder? How about when women hit you in the face and hop a counter to further attack you? Double standard much? Hypothetically in order to conquer the south the only thing that's needed is to have an army full of women, then? *puffs pipe* Interesting theory!
Did you know that even restraining someone is considered violence, so if we follow your lead even an officer restraining someone is violent, and a no-no. How do you propose to even arrest women? Maybe you can create an all female gang and live a life of ease, assuming you ask nicely of course!
As all my apps are free, that's not a concern for me. I financially benefit from Google's (far) cheaper rates.
One of the points you raised was why. I provided a valid reason: the App store generates more revenue than Google Play. That said, I'm glad to hear that you make your applications available free of charge. There is a market for pay apps, and if that's the route you're going Apple seems to be an arguably better bet. A successful developer understands requirements. Depending on what hardware the majority of your target market uses, if a significant number of them use Apple, it may make sense to target them - just as you're doing with your App with respect to Android and Google Play. Not every business can afford to ignore 15%+ of a market (especially true with respect to Browser market share). In America a significant number of iDevices exist, and to ignore that market segment is a mistake.
For example, the company I work at develops apps (targeting both platforms) for the health care industry and over 3/4 of our clients' audience use iPhones. The apps are given away by our clients, too. My medical insurance company does something similar and I'm able to look at blood work (among other things), usually the same day, on my phone. They released the iPhone version about 6 months ahead of the Android, here is an interesting article about why iOS is initially targeted instead of Android.
Why, oh why would you choose to do that when you could have your apps on Google Play for free?
One reason is that there is a significant difference in revenue between the two stores.
The command line can be very intuitive - more so than clicking in this huge graphics-rich, slow and cumbersome administrative UI.
It can also be intimidating, look at setting a bunch of video encoder settings sometime. At the end of the day, they're tools to assist with getting your work done. The more familiar you are with your tools, the more effective you'll be and that benefits everyone (company, client etc.)
Sure, you might have to do some RTFMing and have a clue, but a sysadmin should know how the system works and be willing to RTFM anyhow.
Absolutely.
Oh, please. Take your hand off your dick, stop masturbating to the CLI, put your pants up and realize that CLI doesn't suit for e.g. creating visually-consumed content, for managing audio-visual content, for design work and so on and so forth.
Are you aware this is a discussion about servers? Do you think Youtube converted all those videos with an army of people using video editing software or was it done using command line utilities? Do you think photos which are resized on websites are done using people with image manipulation software? Where is the mythic MySpace and Facebook farms of employees who handle the near instantaneous resizes? Why would they use command line utilities if they're so terrible, in your opinion?
Do you know that video encoding and manipulation (think resizing, watermarking, generating keyframe snapshots, and applying filters) is done by software which is command line controlled? What about comparing scenes output with different compression settings? Sure these can be done by a warm body, if it needs to be done with any frequency there is a reason why computers are involved, automation. Command line and client software that support macros are a means to that end. Automating a GUI on a server is not the ideal way to do these things especially if its internet facing.
I have to disagree with this. GUIs are not the end-all-be-all of computing by any means, but they have their uses. I would be loathe to edit graphics using a CLI, for example, other than the most routine rotation, scaling, etc.
Fine and dandy if you're operating on a workstation, if you're doing this on a server (which is the focus of this conversation) you're doing it wrong. Command line graphic manipulation is mature and powerful, although not nearly as intuitive as using a GUI. It's worth it in the long run if you're offering services to users that depend on re-sizing photos, watermarking, and related asset generation rather than depending on someone for photoshop macros. Unless you want to argue that Facebook employs an army of photoshop monkeys with stellar performance...
They don't care about ill-will because gamers have shown time and again that they are totally spineless and will accept any abuse dished out by game companies.
Perhaps it has more to do with people who've grown accustomed with these things being the norm? An analog to the situation in the states with the TSA and air travel. It is the new norm and for a new generation it is all they've known. Don't forget to buy the DLC, kid.
My only grip about many games, legit or pirated, is that stupid stupid stupid MOFO dickfucks, who still think people run on 1024x768 or 1280x1024 screens, but are TOO dumb, or TOO POOR, to even know that every one has a 16:9 tv , at 1366x768 or 1920x.
While not representative of the gaming community as a whole, the Steam hardware survey has some interesting figures. Note the fragmentation.
Hey Game coders, how about you just use the same res as what the desktop has. Get a clue bozos.
That's a great suggestion, as long as everyone has enough horsepower. Desktop and 3d application requirements performance vary considerably and this may be why developers are conservative.
You dont have to test for all 1 million resolution combinations, just 4:3 and 16:9 and 2:1 and smart auto adjusting for everything else.
If you look at the Steam hardware survey you'll notice the variety of resolutions that're encountered out in the wild. If things are designed properly display elements should scale, however, budgets aren't infinite nor are timelines. In many instances display devices are queried for supported display modes, it's not a list hard coded by the developer.
How are apps installed? I am under the impression it is via iTunes store and that is it.
You are able to browse the store and install apps directly on your device, this functionality includes updating the OS as well. Itunes on the desktop acts as a sync and backup but is not a requirement to install or update software.
And yes, the engineers who made Dropbox may not be techies,
In your opinion, who do you think writes software? Would you consider these people technical, why not?
And yes, the engineers who made Dropbox may not be techies, if techies are the ones who whine on /. instead of solving the problem.
Posting to /. makes you a techie? That's about as descriptive of a label as being a member of Anonymous. Since you're posting here you must be a techie too by your own definition since you're not solving any problems with your post (its arguably whining) right? Or are you referring to the other poster who can't decide if he wants NAS, FTP, Dropbox, or Cloud hosting and makes a dubious claim about these being in the tens of thousands to setup. Are you aware that these items fill different roles?
Nice email address btw, did you get that when you became a techie?