It's cool and all, but why are the Japanese so hell bent on building robots? I understand they are concerned about the drop in the labor force due to lower birth rates, but do they hate immigrants that much? The chinese and koreans are nice folks:)
As for the cute android - well, if I was Japanese, I think I'd rather date a real gal from Shanghai than than that thing:)
CSS and the box rendering model is biased towards displaying web documents. But when you're working on web applications, the box model is a pain in the ass to deal with.
It's very hard to get a fluid layout in CSS that allows for dynamic content, resizable pages, and scalable fonts. Increase the font size on some of these slick CSS pages sometime and you'll see what I mean. Tables are way easier to do, without weird/buggy/unexpected behavior. CSS needs a more flexible grid-based layout, IMHO
I understand a big marketing push when you create a new brand/product. But afterwards, is it really necessary to advertise so much for established products? I.e. Coke and Pepsi. I drink Coke because I like it's taste, but I like Diet Pepsi when I drink diet since it tastes better than Diet Coke. Advertising these makes no difference to me for these products. The new Pepsi One stuff, sure, I understand the need to market it.
Yes, I'm a young and arrogant bastard - but it seems all the folks I know with 'carpal', low-back problems, stress disorders, etc. complaints are either:
a bunch of whiners who exagerate the smallest of aches and pains for pity/attention/etc.
a bunch of phoneys trying to milk the system
Yes - of course - these are real problems that some folks really suffer with, but I think that the actual occurances are very small. Seeing how rough up life is in say, Vietnam, I don't see how American office workers could make it in the real world outside of their air-conditioned office.
It's sort of like the handicapped parking spots everywhere - I can't remember the last time I saw someone wheelchair-bound park in one, can you?
and then as has happened in other fields - Western bleeding hearts set out to save the world via job-killing regulations at home, and then other countries (who could give a rat's ass about the environment) eat our lunch with cheaper products/services, ala China.
BTW, is anyone else amazed at how much fucking money it takes to have a half-way decent existence in tech-heavy areas? I mean seriously, even renting a moderately okay 3br in the Silicon Valley costs like $2300/month.
To keep your rent below 40% of your takehome pay, you need to be making 70 grand a year after taxes, so like 100 grand gross.
And heaven help you want to want actually buy a place...
So yeah, you're damn tootin' I'd hop on to a higher-paying, more successful company under these circumstances..
Retranslate this as: "Some companies bitch about some other companies who are paying more than they want to pay their own employees, employees leave, and outsourcing to India doesn't work that well. MBAs have to double their prozac dose to cope."
"Bob" and I have been married for two years. When we first married, I moved into the home he had been living in for quite some time. The problem? He gave his parents a key to the house, and they are accustomed to using it whenever they wish. I need some advice -- Northern Belle
Dear Belle,
ARR! ARRR! Ordbøkene er utarbeidde ved Seksjon for leksikografi og målføregransking på Nynorskordboka er gitt ut på Det Norske Samlaget!!!!!
I agree. On a related topic - I was recently at a psychology lecture at a U.C. where the research presented showed that animation and interactive diagrams were only useful for people who already possessed good spatial abilities. The people who had poor spatial abilities did not benefit from interactive animations anymore than reading text descriptions. I.e. it helped the people who don't really need it. This is interesting, since interactive media is usually touted as a way of compensating for people with low spatialization capabilities.
I'm sure security is much tighter now, but the SLC-6 area of Vandenberg is one of my favorite places in the world to visit. Beautiful landscape (when there's no fog), cold-war era buildings, old lighthouses, a huge space launch complex, etc. and not a soul around. Very peaceful, I loved hiking and exploring around there.
"Over the years their prices have risen out of sync with target client business revenue, activity, and need not to mention the changing economic scene. "
You mean like, say, real estate?
That shit worries me more than the price of enterprise apps.
I'm interested in this because it's the first major tech-strike I've personally heard of. The US slashbots always talk about how we should unionize, etc. to improve our lot, so I'm rather interested in the outcome of this. I have my doubts this will help - but, hey, you never know.
Well, what's to stop a private party from launching a missile at it, and blowing the shit out of the sky?
For that matter, who says a private party can't make their own colony on Mars/etc where slavery, child prostitution, et al bad earth things, are legal? And call themselves King of Olympus Mons, and nuke anyone/earth government who comes near them?
Seems that's human history, people move on and do their own thing - so if someone launches an exterrestrial Nike ad, I can blast it if I can reach it. Who/what has the authority to say it's wrong?
"And for those webmasters who use advertising to survive, may the Force be with you. I understand the bargain you make, and I will still read your sites, and if you find a particularly clever and targeted ad, why I might even view it. It's a complicated issue."
I think if webmasters and ad creators would put a little thought into making ads look nice and not saturating a page with too many of them, I would have no problems with them, just as I have no problems with ads in magazines. If they blink, move rapidly, garish colors, etc. or heaven-forbid popup I'll ignore/block them in a heartbeat. Some ads (like IBM's flash ads come to mind) are well-designed, interesting, and aren't bad at all.
I know the margins are small, but for goodness sakes use some common sense and get someone with some artistic talent to do this stuff...
"Couple that with the fact that the vast majority of people do not take a lot of sick days each year and you have me scratching my head and wondering what drugs that HR person was on when she told me 30% and expected me to accept it like it was a given."
This is is not a political troll, but do keep in mind that our our great politicians have caused a lot of problems in this area. Take California for example, where the workman's comp costs have skyrocketted, and then everyone marvels at why companies are willing to pay $30/hr to illegal aliens for tile setters - no Social Security and or workman's comp.
So if we make $75K a year, how much is the company really paying? A lot more than that it seems.
I'm not saying these programs are all bad, but do keep in mind that they're not free lunch either - which something I wish the bleeding-hearts would think of when they vote for this stuff (i.e. our wives:S
Back to your comment, are there "hidden" costs to hiring you full-time you aren't considering? I'm guessing there are.
"In the scheme of industries which have suffered, you folks in IT have little to complain about. Ask an engineer from the 1970's what life was like after the Apollo missions ceased."
I met a guy in the mid 90s who was once an engineer in the Apollo program. What was he doing? He was a cemetary plot dealer, I was buying one for a family member. Kind of poetic, from the theme of this article.
I really wish everyone who bad-mouths Wal-Mart would actually stop shopping there. None of this pussy-footing around of "oh, it's just some T-shirts", or "hey, I've got kids, life's expensive enough", etc. I haven't set foot in a Wal-Mart in life 3 years after I found out what they were doing to America, and I'd hardly call myself an activist.
I've got bills too, and while it would be nice to save a few bucks, I fucking refuse to shop there..
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It's cool and all, but why are the Japanese so hell bent on building robots? I understand they are concerned about the drop in the labor force due to lower birth rates, but do they hate immigrants that much? The chinese and koreans are nice folks :)
:)
As for the cute android - well, if I was Japanese, I think I'd rather date a real gal from Shanghai than than that thing
CSS and the box rendering model is biased towards displaying web documents. But when you're working on web applications, the box model is a pain in the ass to deal with.
It's very hard to get a fluid layout in CSS that allows for dynamic content, resizable pages, and scalable fonts. Increase the font size on some of these slick CSS pages sometime and you'll see what I mean. Tables are way easier to do, without weird/buggy/unexpected behavior. CSS needs a more flexible grid-based layout, IMHO
I'm just being silly.
Hey, aren't you the guy who wrote the Necronomicon??? jk
Actually you're right - I switched almost entirely to Diet Pepsi a while back to drop a few pounds, and drinking Coke is pretty rough now.
I understand a big marketing push when you create a new brand/product. But afterwards, is it really necessary to advertise so much for established products? I.e. Coke and Pepsi. I drink Coke because I like it's taste, but I like Diet Pepsi when I drink diet since it tastes better than Diet Coke. Advertising these makes no difference to me for these products. The new Pepsi One stuff, sure, I understand the need to market it.
I've never understood this, please enlighten me.
How can we pass new legislation!!!!@$#$ How can we legislate human nature@!#Q#^&%
Yes, I'm a young and arrogant bastard - but it seems all the folks I know with 'carpal', low-back problems, stress disorders, etc. complaints are either:
a bunch of whiners who exagerate the smallest of aches and pains for pity/attention/etc.
a bunch of phoneys trying to milk the system
Yes - of course - these are real problems that some folks really suffer with, but I think that the actual occurances are very small. Seeing how rough up life is in say, Vietnam, I don't see how American office workers could make it in the real world outside of their air-conditioned office.
It's sort of like the handicapped parking spots everywhere - I can't remember the last time I saw someone wheelchair-bound park in one, can you?
and then as has happened in other fields - Western bleeding hearts set out to save the world via job-killing regulations at home, and then other countries (who could give a rat's ass about the environment) eat our lunch with cheaper products/services, ala China.
The path to hell is paved with good intentions..
BTW, is anyone else amazed at how much fucking money it takes to have a half-way decent existence in tech-heavy areas? I mean seriously, even renting a moderately okay 3br in the Silicon Valley costs like $2300/month.
To keep your rent below 40% of your takehome pay, you need to be making 70 grand a year after taxes, so like 100 grand gross.
And heaven help you want to want actually buy a place...
So yeah, you're damn tootin' I'd hop on to a higher-paying, more successful company under these circumstances..
Retranslate this as:
"Some companies bitch about some other companies who are paying more than they want to pay their own employees, employees leave, and outsourcing to India doesn't work that well. MBAs have to double their prozac dose to cope."
I like these options using anagrams, they can just scramble the letters on the logos:
For Thunderbird:
Dr Ruth in bed
Red Bird Hunt
Inbred Hut Dr
For Firefox:
Fife XOR
Offer IX
FIFO Rex
Your post must the worst grammar/spelling I've ever seen posted here. Thanks for the early morning laugh...
Aw, come'on give a poor guy a break..
Dear Viking Landers,
"Bob" and I have been married for two years. When we first married, I moved into the home he had been living in for quite some time. The problem? He gave his parents a key to the house, and they are accustomed to using it whenever they wish. I need some advice
-- Northern Belle
Dear Belle,
ARR! ARRR! Ordbøkene er utarbeidde ved Seksjon for leksikografi og målføregransking på Nynorskordboka er gitt ut på Det Norske Samlaget!!!!!
I agree. On a related topic - I was recently at a psychology lecture at a U.C. where the research presented showed that animation and interactive diagrams were only useful for people who already possessed good spatial abilities. The people who had poor spatial abilities did not benefit from interactive animations anymore than reading text descriptions. I.e. it helped the people who don't really need it. This is interesting, since interactive media is usually touted as a way of compensating for people with low spatialization capabilities.
I'm sure security is much tighter now, but the SLC-6 area of Vandenberg is one of my favorite places in the world to visit. Beautiful landscape (when there's no fog), cold-war era buildings, old lighthouses, a huge space launch complex, etc. and not a soul around. Very peaceful, I loved hiking and exploring around there.
Yeah, I think people have a hard time separating what they want to believe from what they have a reason to believe.
Sure, life is certainly a lot more interesting thinking that magic, esp, ufos, auras, etc are real..
that doesn't make it so though, sorry.
On topic BTW, if anyone has vivid evidence of aliens, that does not involve hypnosis therapy, and other hocus pocus, please forward the info.
"Over the years their prices have risen out of sync with target client business revenue, activity, and need not to mention the changing economic scene. "
You mean like, say, real estate?
That shit worries me more than the price of enterprise apps.
I'm interested in this because it's the first major tech-strike I've personally heard of. The US slashbots always talk about how we should unionize, etc. to improve our lot, so I'm rather interested in the outcome of this. I have my doubts this will help - but, hey, you never know.
Well, what's to stop a private party from launching a missile at it, and blowing the shit out of the sky?
/earth government who comes near them?
For that matter, who says a private party can't make their own colony on Mars/etc where slavery, child prostitution, et al bad earth things, are legal? And call themselves King of Olympus Mons, and nuke anyone
Seems that's human history, people move on and do their own thing - so if someone launches an exterrestrial Nike ad, I can blast it if I can reach it. Who/what has the authority to say it's wrong?
"And for those webmasters who use advertising to survive, may the Force be with you. I understand the bargain you make, and I will still read your sites, and if you find a particularly clever and targeted ad, why I might even view it. It's a complicated issue."
I think if webmasters and ad creators would put a little thought into making ads look nice and not saturating a page with too many of them, I would have no problems with them, just as I have no problems with ads in magazines. If they blink, move rapidly, garish colors, etc. or heaven-forbid popup I'll ignore/block them in a heartbeat. Some ads (like IBM's flash ads come to mind) are well-designed, interesting, and aren't bad at all.
I know the margins are small, but for goodness sakes use some common sense and get someone with some artistic talent to do this stuff...
"Couple that with the fact that the vast majority of people do not take a lot of sick days each year and you have me scratching my head and wondering what drugs that HR person was on when she told me 30% and expected me to accept it like it was a given."
:S
This is is not a political troll, but do keep in mind that our our great politicians have caused a lot of problems in this area. Take California for example, where the workman's comp costs have skyrocketted, and then everyone marvels at why companies are willing to pay $30/hr to illegal aliens for tile setters - no Social Security and or workman's comp.
So if we make $75K a year, how much is the company really paying? A lot more than that it seems.
I'm not saying these programs are all bad, but do keep in mind that they're not free lunch either - which something I wish the bleeding-hearts would think of when they vote for this stuff (i.e. our wives
Back to your comment, are there "hidden" costs to hiring you full-time you aren't considering? I'm guessing there are.
"In the scheme of industries which have suffered, you folks in IT have little to complain about. Ask an engineer from the 1970's what life was like after the Apollo missions ceased."
I met a guy in the mid 90s who was once an engineer in the Apollo program. What was he doing? He was a cemetary plot dealer, I was buying one for a family member. Kind of poetic, from the theme of this article.
I really wish everyone who bad-mouths Wal-Mart would actually stop shopping there. None of this pussy-footing around of "oh, it's just some T-shirts", or "hey, I've got kids, life's expensive enough", etc. I haven't set foot in a Wal-Mart in life 3 years after I found out what they were doing to America, and I'd hardly call myself an activist.
I've got bills too, and while it would be nice to save a few bucks, I fucking refuse to shop there..