You know, new solutions are most often patched old ones.
Should Google just throw away their many years of research, and start from scratch?
I find this trust-based approach interesting, but I wonder how it's gonna work for smaller sites (Which the few trusted seeds will not ever link to), but I guess the smaller sites don't really have a problem as it is, because only specific search-terms are targeted.
There's also the problem of allowing new websites into the game, but I guess that's for the Google developers to figure out.:)
Maybe it's not a constructive comment, but it gives a taste of the public (or at least geek) opinion.
I'm the owner of a company developing a (sucessful) product to manage content on a website (A CMS). - This product is heavy on JavaScript usage, and laso uses ActiveX for several things. - We've been thinking a lot about several things who would be easier and faster to develop in Flash rather than DHTML, but how can I professionally tell people to download a RUNTIME for viewing content, when it comes bundled with third party software, that I myself disapprove of, and find annoying? - The answer is; I can't.
I use Windows, and I have Flash installed myself - This is not enough for me to uninstall it, but this just seem like shady business practice, and depending on the reaction from Macromedia on this issue I can't see myself upgrading it, or recommend others to upgrade it.
I have this theory, that all these really silly patents won't be used in court, but used for the Microsoft "Get the facts" campaign...
What I mean is that this patent will probably never ever end up in court, but it will most certainly end up in a "Linux violates 953292493294 patents" statistic.
I know you meant this to be fun, but really - I'm selfemployed and when I'm out at meetings, I meet SO unbelievable many persons who's either the boss in the companies IT department or is Senior Developer of Buzzword Management - all of which got a bazillion certificates on their businesscards, but when you talk with them they know diddly-squat about anything IT-related.
An example was a meeting I had some days ago (about a website), and we talked about iframes, and each and every time he called it "frameworks" and when we talked about URLs, he insisted on saying UNIQUE RESOURCE LOCATOR (yes, he almost shouted it everytime, hence the caps) - that may not seem too weird if you're english-speaking, but considering we're danish, it was pretty obvious he was hoping for the "wow"-effect.
If you are a descent programmer, the languages don't matter. After you learn a few you pick up new ones quickly. You use the best ones for the job. Sometimes four languages is better than one. Sometimes not. Knowing which to pick separates you from the code monkeys.
Everytime I read this I think "Bullshit"... This might work when you're just hobby-programming, but real projects in real workplaces are mostly done in ONE language... I don't do half my app in Ruby when the rest is in PHP because it would be faster/easier/more fun. I stick to PHP because that way there's consistency, and if I decide to go find a new job, the person taking over for me will still be able to read the source.
Funny, I've tried this in Internet Explorer 6.0 and Mozilla 1.7, but I could only get it to "work" in Mozilla.
In Internet Explorer I pressed "With popup-blocker" (Google Toolbar) and up came Citibank, then I pressed the Fraudulent E-Mail button, and up came CitiBanks popupwindow, first when I closed the popupwindow the "This was hijacked" window appeared (as if triggered by the window.onclose function) but that does not strike me as a gigantic security-hole.
Of course the issue in itself is scary, but I'm confident the Mozilla team will have a patch out in no time.
This should probably serve as a reminder to webmasters out there, that if you want users to trust content you provide in popup-windows eg. for creditcard payments, you should provide the address-bar, and if the creditcard processing takes place on another server, explain to the customer before he clicks "pay by creditcard" why the window will load from another server.
"Demo Discs (XBox Magazine) Don't Play - I wish I was joking about this, but here's the solution. Boil the disc for 20 seconds (or less). It actually works. I've tried it, and I swear on my life it works...[snip]"
I can realise how it might work, but I really have to wonder what was the motivation behind the guy who first discovered the procedure. "YOU STUPID CD, WORK OR I SHALL BOIL THEE!"
What I don't get about MMORPGS (I play City of Heroes right now) is that they charge 10-15$ a month, and they excuse that payment with "adding new content, etc." - So why, are most new content almost always in expansions, which costs about the price of another new game, and not in the monthly updates.
To me it just seems like a sort of inflation, just like when DVD came out and the manufacturers promised that it would be cheaper than VHS because it was a lot cheaper to manufacture. Then when customers are hooked, you suck them dry.
Nothing special, just "Webbug" images, which spamfilters such as SpamAssasin (in the default setting) adds point to as more likely to be spam, so using DidTheyReadIt users mail is more likely to end up in a spamfolder than any other type of mail.
On another note, I find it's walking on the thin red line of immoral behavior, and I know here in Denmark there've been several companies who've got bad publicity because of using said method.
So you're telling me that the first library test which took 20 seconds, involved looking in a card index, fetching the book and looking it up? Or did he have the relevant book in front of him already? - That strikes me a bit as cheating, otherwise I'd say it would take longer than 20 seconds just getting the book and opening it.
Sun has done a huge effort, trying to make people open their eyes (Perhaps a little too much, with McNealy alienating most people with his comments), and they never had any serious backing by the OSS crowd. Damn shame that they've had to fold, and damn shame that people are now complaining that they've "given up on their principles" - Geez... Why didn't people support those principles in the first place?
Most contracts have some paragraph in it that can be bend to fit that description.
Is it IT-related to train your own replacement to do eg. programming? I guess it is.
Still sucks to be asked, but at least it gives you some months of "extra-pay" and you can probably get a recommendation from your boss, if you don't burn bridges.
How would it force everyone else to have "ungainly" UIs? If they can't directly copy the iPod interaction design then *GASP* they would instead have to innovate and come up with a new and perhaps better way of going about playing music on a portable device. Imagine that...
There's some parts that works fine.
The problem is that they're just not patenting the "iPod way" they're patenting b-tree's (with artist and albums) too.
Maybe someone CAN innovate and make a better interface, but in order for it to work, needs to use some patented technology.
Imagine how the desktop would look today if someone patented the mouse or the keyboard.
- Would you still say that it would be easy for someone to innovate their way out of it?
I've worked with a girlfriend in "software development" - One man company, she acted as a sales(wo)man.
The problem is that when everything goes great, there's no problems, but if she suddenly decides to go shopping instead of working, you can't help but have negative thoughts about it ("Why doesn't she put in as much work as I do?"), and ultimately those thoughts will affect the normal relationship too, you can't just seperate those 2 things.
Also I were put in a situation where my (ex)girlfriend told me she found some new customers, just to make me happy, because I was feeling depressed one day, and I later found out that she had not even talked to them.
Of course this is more of a trust issue, but I found that mixing business and pleasure on a full-time scale, was definately not the way to go for me.
I would say, that it's probably unlikely that they wouldn't change the wording (Except if it's a huge (read: unflexible) place), since it costs lots of $$$ and time to find the right employee, and they would have to go through the process again. And if the new wording hits the original meaning with the contract better than the old one, there certainly shouldn't be a problem. (Disclaimer: I'm from Denmark, where we have those kind contracts too, but employers ain't made of stone)
But it all comes down to you deciding what to accept beforehand.
- You certainly won't be rejected just for asking if the wording can be changed, so it's probably all up to you.
Actually they ripped of several phonesex companies, so they managed quite fine;)
I find it really fascinating that the older brother learned to program in a lot of languages while blind, it must take an awful lot of time, if every error has to be machine-read, and if the error isn't really that saying ("parse error on line 10").
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Internally, it must have been april the 1st :D
Slashdot Sets Value Of Original Windows: $1
You know, new solutions are most often patched old ones.
:)
Should Google just throw away their many years of research, and start from scratch?
I find this trust-based approach interesting, but I wonder how it's gonna work for smaller sites (Which the few trusted seeds will not ever link to), but I guess the smaller sites don't really have a problem as it is, because only specific search-terms are targeted.
There's also the problem of allowing new websites into the game, but I guess that's for the Google developers to figure out.
Maybe it's not a constructive comment, but it gives a taste of the public (or at least geek) opinion.
I'm the owner of a company developing a (sucessful) product to manage content on a website (A CMS). - This product is heavy on JavaScript usage, and laso uses ActiveX for several things. - We've been thinking a lot about several things who would be easier and faster to develop in Flash rather than DHTML, but how can I professionally tell people to download a RUNTIME for viewing content, when it comes bundled with third party software, that I myself disapprove of, and find annoying? - The answer is; I can't.
I use Windows, and I have Flash installed myself - This is not enough for me to uninstall it, but this just seem like shady business practice, and depending on the reaction from Macromedia on this issue I can't see myself upgrading it, or recommend others to upgrade it.
"Google said it was surprised"
Nooo, it can talk, and it's got emotions... Run away!
I have this theory, that all these really silly patents won't be used in court, but used for the Microsoft "Get the facts" campaign...
What I mean is that this patent will probably never ever end up in court, but it will most certainly end up in a "Linux violates 953292493294 patents" statistic.
I know you meant this to be fun, but really - I'm selfemployed and when I'm out at meetings, I meet SO unbelievable many persons who's either the boss in the companies IT department or is Senior Developer of Buzzword Management - all of which got a bazillion certificates on their businesscards, but when you talk with them they know diddly-squat about anything IT-related.
An example was a meeting I had some days ago (about a website), and we talked about iframes, and each and every time he called it "frameworks" and when we talked about URLs, he insisted on saying UNIQUE RESOURCE LOCATOR (yes, he almost shouted it everytime, hence the caps) - that may not seem too weird if you're english-speaking, but considering we're danish, it was pretty obvious he was hoping for the "wow"-effect.
If you are a descent programmer, the languages don't matter. After you learn a few you pick up new ones quickly. You use the best ones for the job. Sometimes four languages is better than one. Sometimes not. Knowing which to pick separates you from the code monkeys.
Everytime I read this I think "Bullshit"... This might work when you're just hobby-programming, but real projects in real workplaces are mostly done in ONE language... I don't do half my app in Ruby when the rest is in PHP because it would be faster/easier/more fun. I stick to PHP because that way there's consistency, and if I decide to go find a new job, the person taking over for me will still be able to read the source.
Funny, I've tried this in Internet Explorer 6.0 and Mozilla 1.7, but I could only get it to "work" in Mozilla.
In Internet Explorer I pressed "With popup-blocker" (Google Toolbar) and up came Citibank, then I pressed the Fraudulent E-Mail button, and up came CitiBanks popupwindow, first when I closed the popupwindow the "This was hijacked" window appeared (as if triggered by the window.onclose function) but that does not strike me as a gigantic security-hole.
Of course the issue in itself is scary, but I'm confident the Mozilla team will have a patch out in no time.
This should probably serve as a reminder to webmasters out there, that if you want users to trust content you provide in popup-windows eg. for creditcard payments, you should provide the address-bar, and if the creditcard processing takes place on another server, explain to the customer before he clicks "pay by creditcard" why the window will load from another server.
I really like one of his suggestions:
"Demo Discs (XBox Magazine) Don't Play - I wish I was joking about this, but here's the solution. Boil the disc for 20 seconds (or less). It actually works. I've tried it, and I swear on my life it works...[snip]"
I can realise how it might work, but I really have to wonder what was the motivation behind the guy who first discovered the procedure.
"YOU STUPID CD, WORK OR I SHALL BOIL THEE!"
He was a good Superman, but Dean Cain in Lois & Clark was even better.
That comment, really must be a good example that drinking and posting isn't a good mix.
Try out these searches on Google:
- users filetype:mdb
- admin filetype:mdb
- config filetype:inc
Lots and lots of people is reckless with their data.The last expansion?
What I don't get about MMORPGS (I play City of Heroes right now) is that they charge 10-15$ a month, and they excuse that payment with "adding new content, etc." - So why, are most new content almost always in expansions, which costs about the price of another new game, and not in the monthly updates.
To me it just seems like a sort of inflation, just like when DVD came out and the manufacturers promised that it would be cheaper than VHS because it was a lot cheaper to manufacture. Then when customers are hooked, you suck them dry.
Nothing special, just "Webbug" images, which spamfilters such as SpamAssasin (in the default setting) adds point to as more likely to be spam, so using DidTheyReadIt users mail is more likely to end up in a spamfolder than any other type of mail.
On another note, I find it's walking on the thin red line of immoral behavior, and I know here in Denmark there've been several companies who've got bad publicity because of using said method.
Opening: $16.75
Closing: $53.20
Yes, I pulled those numbers out of my *ss, exactly as everyone else will.
So you're telling me that the first library test which took 20 seconds, involved looking in a card index, fetching the book and looking it up? Or did he have the relevant book in front of him already? - That strikes me a bit as cheating, otherwise I'd say it would take longer than 20 seconds just getting the book and opening it.
Except when every café has a hotspot, and it doesn't generate extra business, then it's just an added monthly cost, and has to be paid somehow.
Really Really funny pictures (if you're a geek).
Now to make this post a bit more relevant, I give you my pathetic try on a fun quote for a screenshot.
Market prices really plummeted to an all time low, when city council decided that it would be nice with a huge pool of lave in the town square
If I had mod points they would have been yours.
Sun has done a huge effort, trying to make people open their eyes (Perhaps a little too much, with McNealy alienating most people with his comments), and they never had any serious backing by the OSS crowd. Damn shame that they've had to fold, and damn shame that people are now complaining that they've "given up on their principles" - Geez... Why didn't people support those principles in the first place?
If you can't walk the walk, don't talk the talk
We really need a "in-your-face" moderation option ;)
Most contracts have some paragraph in it that can be bend to fit that description.
Is it IT-related to train your own replacement to do eg. programming? I guess it is.
Still sucks to be asked, but at least it gives you some months of "extra-pay" and you can probably get a recommendation from your boss, if you don't burn bridges.
How would it force everyone else to have "ungainly" UIs? If they can't directly copy the iPod interaction design then *GASP* they would instead have to innovate and come up with a new and perhaps better way of going about playing music on a portable device. Imagine that...
There's some parts that works fine.
The problem is that they're just not patenting the "iPod way" they're patenting b-tree's (with artist and albums) too.
Maybe someone CAN innovate and make a better interface, but in order for it to work, needs to use some patented technology.
Imagine how the desktop would look today if someone patented the mouse or the keyboard.
- Would you still say that it would be easy for someone to innovate their way out of it?
I've worked with a girlfriend in "software development" - One man company, she acted as a sales(wo)man.
The problem is that when everything goes great, there's no problems, but if she suddenly decides to go shopping instead of working, you can't help but have negative thoughts about it ("Why doesn't she put in as much work as I do?"), and ultimately those thoughts will affect the normal relationship too, you can't just seperate those 2 things.
Also I were put in a situation where my (ex)girlfriend told me she found some new customers, just to make me happy, because I was feeling depressed one day, and I later found out that she had not even talked to them.
Of course this is more of a trust issue, but I found that mixing business and pleasure on a full-time scale, was definately not the way to go for me.
I would say, that it's probably unlikely that they wouldn't change the wording (Except if it's a huge (read: unflexible) place), since it costs lots of $$$ and time to find the right employee, and they would have to go through the process again. And if the new wording hits the original meaning with the contract better than the old one, there certainly shouldn't be a problem. (Disclaimer: I'm from Denmark, where we have those kind contracts too, but employers ain't made of stone)
But it all comes down to you deciding what to accept beforehand.
- You certainly won't be rejected just for asking if the wording can be changed, so it's probably all up to you.
Actually they ripped of several phonesex companies, so they managed quite fine ;)
I find it really fascinating that the older brother learned to program in a lot of languages while blind, it must take an awful lot of time, if every error has to be machine-read, and if the error isn't really that saying ("parse error on line 10").